You have obvoisly never had to sit through a CS class where the prof drones on about how great java is becouse it takes care of memory mangment for you. They claim that there are 'no pointers' but if I have to allocate it its gdamn pointer no matter what the call it.
exceptions are for pussies. Return codes should be enough, and as a programmer I can decided to ignore or deal with a return code. Exceptions are nothing more then return code that force you to deal with them. How many times have you seen a java app bomb becouse an unhanled 'null pointer exception' the best part is if you talk to a professor Java doesnt have pointers, it only has 'refernces'. Its a crappy language made by non programmer quasi-intellectuals about how they 'think' programmers should work. If people dont understand memory manamgment the solution is not to hide memory manamgent in the language but instead educate the programmers. Lowering the bar just gets us shitloads of shit java applets.
This guy knows nothing of what he speaks. The open group owns the Unix trademark. SCO claims to own the source and rights, but thats disputed by Novell the previous owner.
Rumors on drudgereport and other shakey sites say the movie is being rated nc-17 for 'puppet sex'. Now thats just awsome, marrionette pr0n has got to be a new frontier. Lets see if they cut it out or down for a R. The uncut directors edition DVD is going to F'ing kick ass.
MS has always done a better job of locking up fileformats then protocols. Samba is a better set of smb utiltiles then most windows platforms. So we can expect other FOSS to take hold as the server first, then a shortly after things like Koffice and OpenOffice will be able be ported to the new servers, and finally we can break the MS lockin!
You dont want to use a stun gun, those look like guns and make the people that carry guns very nervous. Its much better to get a 35mm camera with a the biggest flash you can stick on it and make it still look beliveable. Then simply solder two leads around the bulb, disconnecting at least one from the bulb. Now simply charge, and take a photo, its a hellof a stun gun, and most people wont give you double look. In reality you dont even need the camera, but it makes you look alot more beliveable. And if you have the camera you can snap photos of the people going insane when the machines break.
I have also been thinking about this storage problem for a while. From what I can see, the 3ware raid card witha pile of cage mounted SATA drives for hot swap access seems like the way to go. A good raid 5 configuration should protect you against any hardware failure. The key is to have a few spare drives to pop in if one failes. Raid Arrays can often surive the single failure, but a cluster of failures and your hosed. But alas this only protects you from hardware failure, and in my experiance user or software failure happen more often. To protect against software failure Im looking at setuping FS snapshots, using snapshot backups are great, they relive most user fialures. I once had to support 10000 users with homes in NFS. Backup requests due to user error were killing support times. The tape drives were burning up as they were running 100% either doing the nights backups or restores for some moron that 'dont know how the file was deleted'. Our fix was to use snapshots in each users home.snapshot/weekly daily hourly. NetAPP filers supply a similar functionality. With this we went from about 10 restores a day to 0 for 8 months. So once you get your raid card in, the next thing is to install an OS that keeps good FS snapshots, and cron the hell out if it. Count on enough space to lock down all the data after Major changes. This poor mans revision contorol can really save you as its enforced by the OS, and not some user space magic, as much as we all love CVS. Bot Linux and many *BSD's support Snapshots.
jebus, this is a waste of tech. Why invent things to keep the dead tree format alive? Take all the money and time and just digitize all the books. Plug in terminal and let people read all the books at will. Hell for the ammount of money it costs to buy dead trees, ship and store them you could just print on demand DVD's and save money in the end. Using Tech to keep us in the 15th century is just lame.
The Mexican Bar association is investing in devlopment and financing of prosthetic replacement arms. "We expect to to need many, many new arms in the future." -- Jose Oryo Horchata Conchita Banana Pepe Don Diego Vasquese
allowing the Cell providers to report service outages is stupid anways. Do you really trust them to be prompt, about the only thing you can count on the phone company to do is send you a bill, often, and cram it when ever possible. What would stop an indepent group from gathering their own data and publishing it? It would take a few guys lets call them uhmmmm a CELL. This Cell would buy Cell Phones, most likly from diffiernt carries and monitor them for outages and other service changes. The CELL would not need strong central authority, really just an out of band form of communication, which it could be reached by just about anyone. About the only thing left is funding of the CELL. So CELL signs up as a as a non-profit and recieves donations (tax deductable) to monitor the telephone network and post changes including outages to a publiclly available forum, I like news groups, but hey Im old school. So in the end you get a situtation where the average joe that doesnt care about blowing somthing just notices that his cell phone isnt working and would like to know why but DHS says 'no', but the terrorist quickly and directly know there is an outage of the cell networks and thus should start any attacks that have been prepaired. Hm.. good plan DHS, I see why you guys work for.gov and not a.com
I havnt seen anyone talking about it, but I think the new watermarking is less subtle then you think. I have seen several screeners (not cams) recently on P2P networks where there are siloutes of people getting up and moving around. These silutes are brief but dont appear to be real, but rather part of the image (again these where not CAM's but TS and TCs) The image usally is much to large, and it perfectly black, no reflection of ambient light as you would expect of a shot of a person getting up infront of a camera or soemthing. I went to a few movies in the theater and again I saw these. They are usally towrads the end of a sceane, and are carefully placed away from the action. I belive that the studios are plcaeing these siloutes as watermarks, and when you think about it its a good idea and will be difficult to beat. First the a image of a person getting up and moving around can be changed sliglty to encode exactly the print of a film. Second they can place the images in severalplaces in a film. Third they would be hard to remove, we can try and reconstruct them out with some video editing, or we can ditch the frames, either solution would be deteciable after annalysis. Finally most peoples brians tune out this information, your mind see it, diassocaites it from the movie, and then its removed. Sort of like how low frame rate cartoons can still appear to be smooth. I would be intrested if anyone else has been able to detect these. Really I havnt been ablt to *PROVE* it at any theater as I dont have pause and rewind there, but many I have been able to prove it from many screeners found on the net.
bah, they can have the power button patent. I would just like to see who ever patented the reset button for laptop lax the fees a bit, its been years since I had a laptop with a reset button. And holding the power button while I conplate the meaning of life sucks.
and Timmy and Mikey have been here much less and approved a much smaller fraction of submitions. By percenetage the numbers are even more dramatic. We need a Timmy and Mikey filter.
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Have you seen the new Archos AV500? Its arm just like the zaurus, should be run openzuarus roms with a few hacks. but it has an 40GB drive.. and soon a 80Gb drive. Supports TV caputer and mpeg4 (D)encoding. Now that rocks. It doesnt have the keyboard, but for an 80Gb drive with a full running linux system Ill suffer the keyboard. Im just waitng for a full mandrake arm port now that would rock!
I got some stuff in the fridge that has been there for mm.. a while.. It has some stuff growing in it... it may have mutated... sshh did you hear something? CHEEZE IT they are on to us!
Jebus, Sun what are you? Hardware company? Software company? Or just the worlds most successful ponzi scheme? Sun wants to be the software/services company becouse they see IBM making the transformation and making cash doing it. MickySoft makes tons of money on software in fact enough money on winBlows and Office to pay for all their other loosing projects; and yes they are loosing. Its amazing how sun claims to be a friend of open source yet understand it so little. The Bull is out of the chute, the lunatics are running the hospital. Open source is here to stay. Free Software ( and yes I use the terms interchangbly) will drive down software costs to nothing. Thus the only thing people will spend money on are Hardware, and Services. Hmmm.. what does IBM sell? Hardware and Services? Jebus. What sun needs to do is start selling the best hardware possible and turn that into smaller services deals. Of course they are tied to SPARC, which is a nice chip, but development moves like a glaciaer on Ludes compared to the X86 platform. Now with both intel and AMD kicking into 64 bit chips SPARC is loosing its last edge. Hardware will not be free, suns software has never been that good, if they dont smarten up fast they are going to be just another footnote in this great valley.
Jebus, this guy just doenst get it does he. The damn thing is published in PDF, thats like one degree of seperation from ink and dead trees. Then all his refernces are to ink and dead trees, why not write it in HTML, and then use LINKS to the refernces. I mean damn I might want to read the refences and make sure that his interpratation is correct. This shut up and trust me so call journalism must die. We need to have new standards that force people to publish in HTML, and use links when refering to anything else. Until we get editors that think computers are something other then expesnive typewriters journalism will be locked into 1950isms
Many ISP's do silly things like block port 80 access they say, port 80 is a server, your not a buisness account you dont get to use port 80. Whats the differnce between that and running QoS so that Vonage gets slammed but other (selected) systems get better quailty? I would say not much. There are two things. First it will start an arms race which will could go one of two ways. The providers getting slammed will allow you to configure around these things aka port blocking, switching ports, protocol inspection protocol obsufcation. The other way this could go is that vonage and the other implenent their protocols to be so similar that the ISP cant tell the differnce , there is a end user win, in that this would almost insure better interoprability. Thats how the Companys will react, and as we can see its an arms race the ISP's will loose at. Customers and endusers like me will just choose a ISP like speakeasy that doesnt play any of these games, and let the unwashed masses go to earthlinke and be punished for it. The good news is that good isps that dont take part in this payloa will offer better services, and thus customers will seek them out, they will even be able to charge more which will help compenstate for the payloa. In the end this just a short sided, Bad Idea(tm) from a worse marketing deparment. Who ever came up with it should be shot, and we should move on.
Every Geek that has ever gotten any in a dorm started the evening with 'can you fix my computer?' its like a Frat boy hearing a girl proclaim 'Im so DRUNK!' sort of like droping blood in the water of a shark tank. Ahh, the dorms, the best 8 years of my life.
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You have obvoisly never had to sit through a CS class where the prof drones on about how great java is becouse it takes care of memory mangment for you. They claim that there are 'no pointers' but if I have to allocate it its gdamn pointer no matter what the call it.
exceptions are for pussies. Return codes should be enough, and as a programmer I can decided to ignore or deal with a return code. Exceptions are nothing more then return code that force you to deal with them. How many times have you seen a java app bomb becouse an unhanled 'null pointer exception' the best part is if you talk to a professor Java doesnt have pointers, it only has 'refernces'. Its a crappy language made by non programmer quasi-intellectuals about how they 'think' programmers should work. If people dont understand memory manamgment the solution is not to hide memory manamgent in the language but instead educate the programmers. Lowering the bar just gets us shitloads of shit java applets.
This guy knows nothing of what he speaks. The open group owns the Unix trademark. SCO claims to own the source and rights, but thats disputed by Novell the previous owner.
Rumors on drudgereport and other shakey sites say the movie is being rated nc-17 for 'puppet sex'. Now thats just awsome, marrionette pr0n has got to be a new frontier. Lets see if they cut it out or down for a R. The uncut directors edition DVD is going to F'ing kick ass.
MS has always done a better job of locking up fileformats then protocols. Samba is a better set of smb utiltiles then most windows platforms. So we can expect other FOSS to take hold as the server first, then a shortly after things like Koffice and OpenOffice will be able be ported to the new servers, and finally we can break the MS lockin!
Personally Im holding out for the disney laptop, all the krad 1337 haxors will have one at next years defcon.
You dont want to use a stun gun, those look like guns and make the people that carry guns very nervous. Its much better to get a 35mm camera with a the biggest flash you can stick on it and make it still look beliveable. Then simply solder two leads around the bulb, disconnecting at least one from the bulb. Now simply charge, and take a photo, its a hellof a stun gun, and most people wont give you double look. In reality you dont even need the camera, but it makes you look alot more beliveable. And if you have the camera you can snap photos of the people going insane when the machines break.
I have also been thinking about this storage problem for a while. From what I can see, the 3ware raid card witha pile of cage mounted SATA drives for hot swap access seems like the way to go. A good raid 5 configuration should protect you against any hardware failure. The key is to have a few spare drives to pop in if one failes. Raid Arrays can often surive the single failure, but a cluster of failures and your hosed. But alas this only protects you from hardware failure, and in my experiance user or software failure happen more often. To protect against software failure Im looking at setuping FS snapshots, using snapshot backups are great, they relive most user fialures. I once had to support 10000 users with homes in NFS. Backup requests due to user error were killing support times. The tape drives were burning up as they were running 100% either doing the nights backups or restores for some moron that 'dont know how the file was deleted'. Our fix was to use snapshots in each users home .snapshot/weekly daily hourly. NetAPP filers supply a similar functionality. With this we went from about 10 restores a day to 0 for 8 months. So once you get your raid card in, the next thing is to install an OS that keeps good FS snapshots, and cron the hell out if it. Count on enough space to lock down all the data after Major changes. This poor mans revision contorol can really save you as its enforced by the OS, and not some user space magic, as much as we all love CVS. Bot Linux and many *BSD's support Snapshots.
jebus, this is a waste of tech. Why invent things to keep the dead tree format alive? Take all the money and time and just digitize all the books. Plug in terminal and let people read all the books at will. Hell for the ammount of money it costs to buy dead trees, ship and store them you could just print on demand DVD's and save money in the end. Using Tech to keep us in the 15th century is just lame.
Sweat is caught in catch pockets from which you can drink, and NOW eat!...mm romen.
The Mexican Bar association is investing in devlopment and financing of prosthetic replacement arms. "We expect to to need many, many new arms in the future."
-- Jose Oryo Horchata Conchita Banana Pepe Don Diego Vasquese
allowing the Cell providers to report service outages is stupid anways. Do you really trust them to be prompt, about the only thing you can count on the phone company to do is send you a bill, often, and cram it when ever possible. What would stop an indepent group from gathering their own data and publishing it? It would take a few guys lets call them uhmmmm a CELL. This Cell would buy Cell Phones, most likly from diffiernt carries and monitor them for outages and other service changes. The CELL would not need strong central authority, really just an out of band form of communication, which it could be reached by just about anyone. About the only thing left is funding of the CELL. So CELL signs up as a as a non-profit and recieves donations (tax deductable) to monitor the telephone network and post changes including outages to a publiclly available forum, I like news groups, but hey Im old school. So in the end you get a situtation where the average joe that doesnt care about blowing somthing just notices that his cell phone isnt working and would like to know why but DHS says 'no', but the terrorist quickly and directly know there is an outage of the cell networks and thus should start any attacks that have been prepaired. Hm.. good plan DHS, I see why you guys work for .gov and not a .com
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I havnt seen anyone talking about it, but I think the new watermarking is less subtle then you think. I have seen several screeners (not cams) recently on P2P networks where there are siloutes of people getting up and moving around. These silutes are brief but dont appear to be real, but rather part of the image (again these where not CAM's but TS and TCs) The image usally is much to large, and it perfectly black, no reflection of ambient light as you would expect of a shot of a person getting up infront of a camera or soemthing. I went to a few movies in the theater and again I saw these. They are usally towrads the end of a sceane, and are carefully placed away from the action. I belive that the studios are plcaeing these siloutes as watermarks, and when you think about it its a good idea and will be difficult to beat. First the a image of a person getting up and moving around can be changed sliglty to encode exactly the print of a film. Second they can place the images in severalplaces in a film. Third they would be hard to remove, we can try and reconstruct them out with some video editing, or we can ditch the frames, either solution would be deteciable after annalysis. Finally most peoples brians tune out this information, your mind see it, diassocaites it from the movie, and then its removed. Sort of like how low frame rate cartoons can still appear to be smooth. I would be intrested if anyone else has been able to detect these. Really I havnt been ablt to *PROVE* it at any theater as I dont have pause and rewind there, but many I have been able to prove it from many screeners found on the net.
bah, they can have the power button patent. I would just like to see who ever patented the reset button for laptop lax the fees a bit, its been years since I had a laptop with a reset button. And holding the power button while I conplate the meaning of life sucks.
and Timmy and Mikey have been here much less and approved a much smaller fraction of submitions. By percenetage the numbers are even more dramatic. We need a Timmy and Mikey filter.
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Have you seen the new Archos AV500? Its arm just like the zaurus, should be run openzuarus roms with a few hacks. but it has an 40GB drive.. and soon a 80Gb drive. Supports TV caputer and mpeg4 (D)encoding. Now that rocks. It doesnt have the keyboard, but for an 80Gb drive with a full running linux system Ill suffer the keyboard. Im just waitng for a full mandrake arm port now that would rock!
I got some stuff in the fridge that has been there for mm.. a while.. It has some stuff growing in it... it may have mutated...
sshh did you hear something?
CHEEZE IT they are on to us!
Jebus, Sun what are you? Hardware company? Software company? Or just the worlds most successful ponzi scheme? Sun wants to be the software/services company becouse they see IBM making the transformation and making cash doing it. MickySoft makes tons of money on software in fact enough money on winBlows and Office to pay for all their other loosing projects; and yes they are loosing. Its amazing how sun claims to be a friend of open source yet understand it so little. The Bull is out of the chute, the lunatics are running the hospital. Open source is here to stay. Free Software ( and yes I use the terms interchangbly) will drive down software costs to nothing. Thus the only thing people will spend money on are Hardware, and Services. Hmmm.. what does IBM sell? Hardware and Services? Jebus. What sun needs to do is start selling the best hardware possible and turn that into smaller services deals. Of course they are tied to SPARC, which is a nice chip, but development moves like a glaciaer on Ludes compared to the X86 platform. Now with both intel and AMD kicking into 64 bit chips SPARC is loosing its last edge. Hardware will not be free, suns software has never been that good, if they dont smarten up fast they are going to be just another footnote in this great valley.
Jebus, this guy just doenst get it does he. The damn thing is published in PDF, thats like one degree of seperation from ink and dead trees. Then all his refernces are to ink and dead trees, why not write it in HTML, and then use LINKS to the refernces. I mean damn I might want to read the refences and make sure that his interpratation is correct. This shut up and trust me so call journalism must die. We need to have new standards that force people to publish in HTML, and use links when refering to anything else. Until we get editors that think computers are something other then expesnive typewriters journalism will be locked into 1950isms
Many ISP's do silly things like block port 80 access they say, port 80 is a server, your not a buisness account you dont get to use port 80. Whats the differnce between that and running QoS so that Vonage gets slammed but other (selected) systems get better quailty? I would say not much. There are two things. First it will start an arms race which will could go one of two ways. The providers getting slammed will allow you to configure around these things aka port blocking, switching ports, protocol inspection protocol obsufcation. The other way this could go is that vonage and the other implenent their protocols to be so similar that the ISP cant tell the differnce , there is a end user win, in that this would almost insure better interoprability. Thats how the Companys will react, and as we can see its an arms race the ISP's will loose at. Customers and endusers like me will just choose a ISP like speakeasy that doesnt play any of these games, and let the unwashed masses go to earthlinke and be punished for it. The good news is that good isps that dont take part in this payloa will offer better services, and thus customers will seek them out, they will even be able to charge more which will help compenstate for the payloa. In the end this just a short sided, Bad Idea(tm) from a worse marketing deparment. Who ever came up with it should be shot, and we should move on.
JEBUS timmy you need to learn a new word other then your name, thats DUPE. Now back to your chair you short bus rider!
Every Geek that has ever gotten any in a dorm started the evening with 'can you fix my computer?' its like a Frat boy hearing a girl proclaim 'Im so DRUNK!' sort of like droping blood in the water of a shark tank. Ahh, the dorms, the best 8 years of my life.