I'm confused here, maybe you can explain this a little more.
You're saying that you could possibly be held responsible for an 'insecure' computer on the network. Fair enough.
But what can a cracker do with this machine? Surely they can only be used to crack other 'insecure' computers. I don't see how a law holding the owner of the cracked machine responsible works here.
Imagine the situation. Someone gets their computer cracked. They go to the police and say 'this computer cracked my computer'. However, it then turns out that the machine that the attack was launched from was cracked too. I can't see how the owner of the machine that the attack was lauched from can be held accountable for an insecure machihe and the person who made their complaint to the police can't.
This is not better than dragging twelve year olds into court. The twelve
year old broke the law. I, who am not breaking the law, just want to
listen to the damn music I've bought. On my Mac. On my Linux
machine. On my XBox. None of which it seems I will be able to do.
I don't suddenly see why I, a law abiding person, should be
penalised just because of that twelve year old's actions.
All this is hoo-ha. Sony are trying to push a crappy product onto us. The rights and wrongs aside, it's much worse than the CDs used to be.
Or at the very least, when I try connecting to my svn server over https it still says "The Finder cannot complete the operation some data in "url" could not be read or written (Error code -36)"
Is there anything for Mac OS X that lets you run virtual machines on it like VMWare does? I'm not talking about emulating x86 stuff, but just letting me boot - say - a PPC Linux distribution in a window under Mac OS X, running on the native processor and capturing interrupts.
Kids like to do things. We don't program to learn how to program - I learnt because I wanted to write a game.
Today is where the web is at. So it's a good place for a kid to learn how to program.
In another post I suggested installing Perl (as simple as double clicking a downloaded file) and then installing the template toolkit from ppm (one command line command) as that gives kids a little tool with a very simple programming language that they can use to make a website....and then they can get onto something complicated as itself Perl later on.
Agreed. Though I suggested Perl, but then I would.
The important thing as you imply, is that both these languages you can just pick up and go with. You don't have to worry about 'int main(char argc char[][] argv)' and all that...the kid can just start up straight away.
Oh...you missed out 'powerful' when listing python's good points. I remember BASIC - I could make the screen draw a pretty picture. Python is powerful enough to produce something like bittorrent.
On a side note, I've tried playing with AppleScript, but I haven't found any really good documentation - at least not any that discusses how AppleScript can be used in Mac OS X (there's a lot of stuff that says 'well, this used to work in Mac OS 9'.)
One thing I remember from being a kid learning to program is how I read and reread the BASIC manual for my Amstrad CPC. Where's the guide for AppleScript that explains how all this works? Actually, forget the kids...I'd love to find this for myself.
Maybe then I'd get round to taking advantage of all the cool Perl Mac modules that pudge keeps releasing.
We might not have programming langauges on the machines by default, but thanks to open source installing languages from the net is quick and simple.
Installing Perl's as simple as downloading the msi from Activestate and double clicking it, and then clicking the standard 'yep, install me' stuff. I assume that Python and stuff is that easy on windows too (I've never had to install it on Win32)
Perl comes with lots of documentation, and it's as simple as writting a program and typing 'perl program_name' to run it. This is important as a kid - quick feedback. Something that's hard with languages like C and Java...and most importantly you don't need things main procedures and other fluff.
Of course, many people are going to suggest that even Perl's too complicated and contains too many punctuation marks for a beginner. I'd suggest then that they install the template toolkit with ppm (one command from the command line.) Then they can use that little programming langauges to make web pages really easily. Kids want to create things worthwhile (not just learn programming to print "hello world",) and learning how to create web pages with the Template Toolkit's a great way to get started.
Right, let the "I hate Perl, it ate my hampster" trolling begin.
dwim means "Do What I Mean". It's a common Perl phrase. Similar, but subtly different, is dtrt (Do The Right Thing). Both phrases essentially mean "Perl will do what a programmer who's familiar with other Perl rules would reasoably expect Perl to do with respect to this syntax".
Oh, I agree with you on getting Ruby to run on Parrot. It'd be great if we could have ruby calling python calling java all on the same VM.
Shouldn't it be YAPC::NA::Canada and YAPC::NA::US?
Oh who cares about the name...cheap flights to Florida from London and back is what we really need. god, I don't ask you for much (apart from the occasional iBook) - but a cheap flight would be nice.
Well, as the duely elected leader of London Perl Mongers...Oh, wait, wrong London...let's try that again;-)
I remember people were saying that about London UK not so many years ago. That was back in 2000. Then my fellow London.pm members got their act together and organised one! And that was YAPC::Europe, and the rest is history as they like to say.
Of course, they got help from YAS. YAS is Yet Another Society designed to help people, amongst other things, set up their own conferences.
So, if there's no conference near you...why not try and hold your own? From what I saw, it wasn't easy, but everyone I know that was involved had a hell of a lot of fun.
No, thinking about it more, I supose it doesn't...I guess I always thought of it as autocompletion, and while "completing what you type" makes sense then "inserting it before you type" makes less so... but I guess you could get used to it really quickly.
We'd have to reverse email addresses too. Oooh, Would that mean that I'd want to write:
com.twoshortplanks@fowler.mark
How Bajorian.
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IMHO it makes more sense to specify the most specific section of the domain first, as the general bit can be assumed.
For example, I have a default domain of twoshortplanks.com. This means I can type "http://zen" into my browser and it looks up "zen.twoshortplanks.com". Where is is most useful is for things like "mail". When I move around I DHCP and that sets the default domain completion for my DNS, meaning when I'm at home I can get "mail.twoshortplanks.com" when I look up "mail" and when I'm other places like work I get "mail.otherplace.com". Very handy.
Engergis have done the same thing in the UK for years. The thin 'wire' spanning the top of pylon to pylon instead of hanging from the arms is a bunch of fiber.
It's the so called 'last mile' that's the problem in most cases, getting the data from the fibre points at the terminus of the pylon grid to the place (i.e. the office/home) which is the hard (and expensive) bit.
The card in the picture looks like a normal Lucent/Buffalo card. Adding an extra antenna requires you not to remove the card, but to simply plug one into the mini-socket that you can uncover by removing a tiny dust cover in the middle of the exposed block.
I've got a big 'lightsabre' type antenna plugged into my Airport at home (which also uses a lucent card.) I had to prise the nice Apple case off to do that (It now looks considerably less well designed;-) ). At least with the reviewed router there's no unscrewing or removing of pannels to do something similar
"But a PVR only duplicates the functions of a VCR; it doesn't provide any truly new-and-exciting, can't-live-without-it functions."
Pausing and rewinding live TV is good example. I hate the culture that means that TV is so important that you can't be interrupted incase you miss anything. Ever had those "What was that they said?" moments? Where no-one heard the critical bit of dialog because someone was asking if anyone wanted a cup of tea? Well, I don't
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I'm confused here, maybe you can explain this a little more. You're saying that you could possibly be held responsible for an 'insecure' computer on the network. Fair enough. But what can a cracker do with this machine? Surely they can only be used to crack other 'insecure' computers. I don't see how a law holding the owner of the cracked machine responsible works here. Imagine the situation. Someone gets their computer cracked. They go to the police and say 'this computer cracked my computer'. However, it then turns out that the machine that the attack was launched from was cracked too. I can't see how the owner of the machine that the attack was lauched from can be held accountable for an insecure machihe and the person who made their complaint to the police can't.
I don't suddenly see why I, a law abiding person, should be penalised just because of that twelve year old's actions.
All this is hoo-ha. Sony are trying to push a crappy product onto us. The rights and wrongs aside, it's much worse than the CDs used to be.
Do you have the same problems when running X11 in full screen mode?
Hope that helps.
Nerds like the Simpsons.
Nope
Or at the very least, when I try connecting to my svn server over https it still says "The Finder cannot complete the operation some data in "url" could not be read or written (Error code -36)"
The *whole* *point* of the A but on the end was it was the second ship.
Is there anything for Mac OS X that lets you run virtual machines on it like VMWare does? I'm not talking about emulating x86 stuff, but just letting me boot - say - a PPC Linux distribution in a window under Mac OS X, running on the native processor and capturing interrupts.
http://www.ponie.org/
Today is where the web is at. So it's a good place for a kid to learn how to program.
In another post I suggested installing Perl (as simple as double clicking a downloaded file) and then installing the template toolkit from ppm (one command line command) as that gives kids a little tool with a very simple programming language that they can use to make a website....and then they can get onto something complicated as itself Perl later on.
- It requires you to compile it
- It requires you to create classes rather than just jumping right in
- It has type checking (which normally is a good thing, but isn't flexible for kids)
This being said, it's not a bad first real programming language. It was the first language I learnt after BASIC, and it taught me a lot.Anychance you can point us at the source or a PAR archive?
The important thing as you imply, is that both these languages you can just pick up and go with. You don't have to worry about 'int main(char argc char[][] argv)' and all that...the kid can just start up straight away.
Oh...you missed out 'powerful' when listing python's good points. I remember BASIC - I could make the screen draw a pretty picture. Python is powerful enough to produce something like bittorrent.
Hey, today's kids have it made!
One thing I remember from being a kid learning to program is how I read and reread the BASIC manual for my Amstrad CPC. Where's the guide for AppleScript that explains how all this works? Actually, forget the kids...I'd love to find this for myself.
Maybe then I'd get round to taking advantage of all the cool Perl Mac modules that pudge keeps releasing.
Installing Perl's as simple as downloading the msi from Activestate and double clicking it, and then clicking the standard 'yep, install me' stuff. I assume that Python and stuff is that easy on windows too (I've never had to install it on Win32)
Perl comes with lots of documentation, and it's as simple as writting a program and typing 'perl program_name' to run it. This is important as a kid - quick feedback. Something that's hard with languages like C and Java...and most importantly you don't need things main procedures and other fluff.
Of course, many people are going to suggest that even Perl's too complicated and contains too many punctuation marks for a beginner. I'd suggest then that they install the template toolkit with ppm (one command from the command line.) Then they can use that little programming langauges to make web pages really easily. Kids want to create things worthwhile (not just learn programming to print "hello world",) and learning how to create web pages with the Template Toolkit's a great way to get started.
Right, let the "I hate Perl, it ate my hampster" trolling begin.
I'd be nice if they put perl 5.8.1 on there too. Perl developers are fed up using the dog old 5.6.0 they ship in Jaguar.
Oh, I agree with you on getting Ruby to run on Parrot. It'd be great if we could have ruby calling python calling java all on the same VM.
Oh who cares about the name...cheap flights to Florida from London and back is what we really need. god, I don't ask you for much (apart from the occasional iBook) - but a cheap flight would be nice.
I remember people were saying that about London UK not so many years ago. That was back in 2000. Then my fellow London.pm members got their act together and organised one! And that was YAPC::Europe, and the rest is history as they like to say.
Of course, they got help from YAS. YAS is Yet Another Society designed to help people, amongst other things, set up their own conferences.
So, if there's no conference near you...why not try and hold your own? From what I saw, it wasn't easy, but everyone I know that was involved had a hell of a lot of fun.
We'd have to reverse email addresses too. Oooh, Would that mean that I'd want to write:
How Bajorian.
For example, I have a default domain of twoshortplanks.com. This means I can type "http://zen" into my browser and it looks up "zen.twoshortplanks.com". Where is is most useful is for things like "mail". When I move around I DHCP and that sets the default domain completion for my DNS, meaning when I'm at home I can get "mail.twoshortplanks.com" when I look up "mail" and when I'm other places like work I get "mail.otherplace.com". Very handy.
It's the so called 'last mile' that's the problem in most cases, getting the data from the fibre points at the terminus of the pylon grid to the place (i.e. the office/home) which is the hard (and expensive) bit.
I've got a big 'lightsabre' type antenna plugged into my Airport at home (which also uses a lucent card.) I had to prise the nice Apple case off to do that (It now looks considerably less well designed ;-) ). At least with the reviewed router there's no unscrewing or removing of pannels to do something similar
I am sorry if my comments have somehow offended you in a way that has escaped my attention, and you feel the need to insult me.
Pausing and rewinding live TV is good example. I hate the culture that means that TV is so important that you can't be interrupted incase you miss anything. Ever had those "What was that they said?" moments? Where no-one heard the critical bit of dialog because someone was asking if anyone wanted a cup of tea? Well, I don't