Very few spams actually use a replay as a response. Usually they want you to visit a website and fills something out. How are you goign to automate that? What if the URL is in a image? What if they want you to call?
with a web browser:./configure make sudo make install
That assumes that you have all the correct build dependencies. It also assumes that the default build options are what you want.
And it is certainly not ideal to have unmanaged software on your system. Packages are much easier to manage/update if you can get them. I'd much rather have Firefox 2.0 ship with a distribution as a stock package than a cutting edge kernel version. I usually replace the kernel with my own anyway.
Kernels have a lot more options that you have to consider
Presumably you are compiling a custom kernel because you WANT to consider those options and change the distribution's defaults (e.g., turn on realtime). Otherwise there would be little point in getting a slightly newer kernel. If you want an easy kernel build, you could just take the configuration from your currently running kernel and change the one thing you want to change (turn on real-time in this case). Making a kernel.deb package on Ubuntu or Debian isn't any more difficult than./configure; make install. It is something like:
zcat/boot/-config.gz >.config make oldconfig make-kpkg- --revision=1.0.custom kernel_image
I guess lanuchd didn't do exactly what the Ubuntu people wanted.
-matthew
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Yes, I'd rather have the 2.6.18 kernel in my distribution (like in FC6), than Firefox 2.0. It's a little easier for me to install a web browser than a kernel.
Unless you can get a package for Firefox 2.0, it isn't necessarily easier to install a browser. More people care about having Firefox 2.0 than a real-time kernel, by far. So you are in the minority.
Every time I see one of these "Learn Language X in Your Spare Time" book reviews, I wonder, "Why another language?" Advancement of languages is good, and "new" languages like Ruby are great, but how many programming languages are we as a community going to produce? Like text editors, it would be better to focus on fewer targets and add features than keep coming up with new "my toolbox grew so big I created a compiler for it" languages.
"Because different people prefer different text editors" would be the obvious answer to your question(s). Another possibility would be that some people want more control over how a text editor evolves, so they start their own. I imagine the same goes for languages. Some languages are better for different applications. I thought all this was pretty obvious.
There are, after all, fairly straightforward ways to secure data against the admins (assuming they don't actually install spyware, which is a separate subject.) There are also ways to arrange secure key recovery so that the records can be recovered if Something Happens to the exec, but no one person can do it (say, three board members and an outside law firm.)
Depends on the software used to access the data. If it is just some excel files or you have a custom application where you control how data is stored, you can do things like encrypt the database. But if you buy some off them shelf application that doesn't implement much security beyond authenticating users, any admin with access to the filesystem has access to all your data. So it isn't always straightforward.
Oh, I have a great idea. If they ever start making wide use of this technology in public places (I'm looking at you, England), all you need to do is smile all the time. Chances are that if you are matched with someone, it will be someone happy, and therefore, probably not a criminal (how many criminals smile for their mugshot?)
Before I moved to Oregon, I was itchin' to move abroad. As many others have mentioned, Austria is quite attractive. When I was backpacking around Europe a few years ago, I was SOO tempted to take a job at the hostel in Salzburg and just stay. I speak some German. So that would have made it easier. But I chickened out.
Canada is another option, but it doesn't really seem all that different than the US.
Now that I have moved to Oregon (Portland) from Chicago, things have changed. I have no desire to leave the US other than for travel. I've found the perfect mix of urban livign and the Great Outdoors. I think that is what I was really looking for while I was living in Chicago. It wasn't a cultural or political problem. I just needed to get outdoors more... lush old growth forests and all that.
It also helps that Portland is pretty liberal. It also has a healthy Open Source community. I live like 10 miles from Linus Torvalds.:-)
Preventing programs and drivers from tampering with internal OS structures is not security through obscurity any more than preventing people on the internet from accessing your computer directly (firewall) is security through obscurity.
Doesn't matter how tarnished it is. As long as it ships with every Windows machine, it will remain the dominant browser for Windows users. "Switchers" will always be in the minority if only because most people simply don't care about what browser they use as long as it renders the pages they want to view.
What really ticks me off in "modern" MMORPGs is the carebear attitude towards the players. Why don't they just hand out everything to everyone?
Or better yet, just sell it for real money. It would save people a lot of time and it would make Blizzard money. It is a win-win situation. Well, the only people who might lose out are the poor people in 3rd world countries currently being paid to generate game stuffs.
I really wish it was out on Software Update already. That, in my opinion, was the best new feature in Firefox 1.5, and many more software programs should adopt it.
A few of the OS X apps that i use have an autoupdate feature. Textmate and Adium are two big ones. Oh, and iTunes, of course.
Yes, you can run Visual Studio.Net (2003 and 2005) in paralels and in vmware (with XP). As for cross-platform apps, using this tool, probably easiest to use MVC (Model, View, Controller) with.Net and winforms on windows, mono + gtk# in linux, and mono + cocoa# in mac. That's if you want to use VS.Net as a base for the windows side. It's not a bad development model, and mono is breaking a lot of ground in the various distros now.
I wish more developers would take a very modulular MVC approach when doing cross platform development. Unfortunately it is too tempting to just find some generic API like Qt that is cross platform. The problem with that is that you lose out of platform specific integrations and features.
Also, by the way, aren't encapsulation and modularity two of the first things a CS student learns? It seems reasonable to me that he could have written the core of the program in cross-platform C++ and then have written two interfaces, one in Cocoa and one in.NET.
Sounds like they used QT. So it was all C++. As an OSX user though, i'd probably rather a program come with a native Objective-C/Interface Builder GUI and just use a common C++ core like you say. Although I don't know how well Objective-C interfaces with C++. I know Objective-C and plain ol' C mix well, but I'd be curious about C++.
Entitled: Memoirs of a Bystander: Visual Studio.NET development on OS X w/ Parallels. Well, perhaps this is meaningful to someone who is a programmer. Pretty much incoherent to everyone else.
Nope, no meaning to programmers either. Especially since the article had nothing to do with programming. The fact that he was running VS.NET was actually inconsequential. It could have been any demaning Windows applications that he just had to run on his Mac...
As a guy who once worked in a VS.NET/X-Tools shop (the app had both a Win32 and a Mac version), it's kind of cool to see someone using both IDE's on one box w/o having to reboot to switch between 'em.
Running 2 IDEs isn't the challenge. Parallels has been out for a while and now there is VMWare Beta. I'd be surprised if you COULDN'T run VS.NET in virtualization.
I'd actually be interested in hearing how you managed to get a project to build in both XCode and VS.NET. I mean, just the lanaguage barrier alone would be a problem. I mean, you have Objective-C/Java for XCode and C++/C#/VB in VS.NET. Were they different code bases, or what? That is the kind of thing I wish this article talked about. Just running Parallels on a MacBook is uninteresting.
A good job of talking about developing for different environments?? The guy ran Paralells. The article had almost nothing to do with developing anything. He just happened to be running VS.NET in virtualization. Big f'n deal. Lame and pointless.
I think the probem is that it is an aging program and a lot of the world content is entrenched in outdated methods and technologies. From what I understand, the SL developers WANT to improve the graphics and physics and all that, but to do it right would require breaking a lot of things. And long time users don't want that. Perhaps Linden Labs should consider starting a whole new world (Second Life 2? Third Life?) with a new client and new servers that would run parallel to Second Life until it could gain enough momentum to have everyone make the jump. Otherwise, I think Second Life is just going to fizzle out and some newer, more modern virtual world will take its place.
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Very few spams actually use a replay as a response. Usually they want you to visit a website and fills something out. How are you goign to automate that? What if the URL is in a image? What if they want you to call?
-matthew
That assumes that you have all the correct build dependencies. It also assumes that the default build options are what you want.
And it is certainly not ideal to have unmanaged software on your system. Packages are much easier to manage/update if you can get them. I'd much rather have Firefox 2.0 ship with a distribution as a stock package than a cutting edge kernel version. I usually replace the kernel with my own anyway.
Presumably you are compiling a custom kernel because you WANT to consider those options and change the distribution's defaults (e.g., turn on realtime). Otherwise there would be little point in getting a slightly newer kernel. If you want an easy kernel build, you could just take the configuration from your currently running kernel and change the one thing you want to change (turn on real-time in this case). Making a kernel
zcat
make oldconfig
make-kpkg- --revision=1.0.custom kernel_image
-matthew
Here is one (admittedly short) answer: http://lwn.net/Articles/198201/
I guess lanuchd didn't do exactly what the Ubuntu people wanted.
-matthew
Unless you can get a package for Firefox 2.0, it isn't necessarily easier to install a browser. More people care about having Firefox 2.0 than a real-time kernel, by far. So you are in the minority.
-matthew
Well, duh, that is Detroit. I hope you don't take that as representative of the US.
What differences should I notice going from Seattle to Vancouver?
-matthew
"Because different people prefer different text editors" would be the obvious answer to your question(s). Another possibility would be that some people want more control over how a text editor evolves, so they start their own. I imagine the same goes for languages. Some languages are better for different applications. I thought all this was pretty obvious.
-matthew
And a very broad definition of "messaging." Sounds more like a mobile "YouTube" to me.
-matthew
Depends on the software used to access the data. If it is just some excel files or you have a custom application where you control how data is stored, you can do things like encrypt the database. But if you buy some off them shelf application that doesn't implement much security beyond authenticating users, any admin with access to the filesystem has access to all your data. So it isn't always straightforward.
-matthew
Hot damn, you are clever.
-matthew
Oh, I have a great idea. If they ever start making wide use of this technology in public places (I'm looking at you, England), all you need to do is smile all the time. Chances are that if you are matched with someone, it will be someone happy, and therefore, probably not a criminal (how many criminals smile for their mugshot?)
-matthew
But how are you going to convince Shrek to rob a bank?
-matthew
Before I moved to Oregon, I was itchin' to move abroad. As many others have mentioned, Austria is quite attractive. When I was backpacking around Europe a few years ago, I was SOO tempted to take a job at the hostel in Salzburg and just stay. I speak some German. So that would have made it easier. But I chickened out.
:-)
Canada is another option, but it doesn't really seem all that different than the US.
Now that I have moved to Oregon (Portland) from Chicago, things have changed. I have no desire to leave the US other than for travel. I've found the perfect mix of urban livign and the Great Outdoors. I think that is what I was really looking for while I was living in Chicago. It wasn't a cultural or political problem. I just needed to get outdoors more... lush old growth forests and all that.
It also helps that Portland is pretty liberal. It also has a healthy Open Source community. I live like 10 miles from Linus Torvalds.
-matthew
Preventing programs and drivers from tampering with internal OS structures is not security through obscurity any more than preventing people on the internet from accessing your computer directly (firewall) is security through obscurity.
-matthew
Doesn't matter how tarnished it is. As long as it ships with every Windows machine, it will remain the dominant browser for Windows users. "Switchers" will always be in the minority if only because most people simply don't care about what browser they use as long as it renders the pages they want to view.
-matthew
Or better yet, just sell it for real money. It would save people a lot of time and it would make Blizzard money. It is a win-win situation. Well, the only people who might lose out are the poor people in 3rd world countries currently being paid to generate game stuffs.
-matthew
A few of the OS X apps that i use have an autoupdate feature. Textmate and Adium are two big ones. Oh, and iTunes, of course.
-matthew
I wish more developers would take a very modulular MVC approach when doing cross platform development. Unfortunately it is too tempting to just find some generic API like Qt that is cross platform. The problem with that is that you lose out of platform specific integrations and features.
-matthew
Sounds like they used QT. So it was all C++. As an OSX user though, i'd probably rather a program come with a native Objective-C/Interface Builder GUI and just use a common C++ core like you say. Although I don't know how well Objective-C interfaces with C++. I know Objective-C and plain ol' C mix well, but I'd be curious about C++.
-matthew
Ah, QT. So the app wasn't native Cocoa. Shame, really. Mind if I ask what app this was/is? Would I know it?
-matthew
Nope, no meaning to programmers either. Especially since the article had nothing to do with programming. The fact that he was running VS.NET was actually inconsequential. It could have been any demaning Windows applications that he just had to run on his Mac...
-matthew
Running 2 IDEs isn't the challenge. Parallels has been out for a while and now there is VMWare Beta. I'd be surprised if you COULDN'T run VS.NET in virtualization.
I'd actually be interested in hearing how you managed to get a project to build in both XCode and VS.NET. I mean, just the lanaguage barrier alone would be a problem. I mean, you have Objective-C/Java for XCode and C++/C#/VB in VS.NET. Were they different code bases, or what? That is the kind of thing I wish this article talked about. Just running Parallels on a MacBook is uninteresting.
-matthew
A good job of talking about developing for different environments?? The guy ran Paralells. The article had almost nothing to do with developing anything. He just happened to be running VS.NET in virtualization. Big f'n deal. Lame and pointless.
-matthew
You seem to imply that there is such thing as an A-rate pr0n narrative.
-matthew
Hey, at least the condom will protect him should the stroking lead to other things.
-matthew
I think the probem is that it is an aging program and a lot of the world content is entrenched in outdated methods and technologies. From what I understand, the SL developers WANT to improve the graphics and physics and all that, but to do it right would require breaking a lot of things. And long time users don't want that. Perhaps Linden Labs should consider starting a whole new world (Second Life 2? Third Life?) with a new client and new servers that would run parallel to Second Life until it could gain enough momentum to have everyone make the jump. Otherwise, I think Second Life is just going to fizzle out and some newer, more modern virtual world will take its place.
-matthew