I work for a supercomputer institute and am our resident grid/cloud junky. One of the reasons you might want to do this is to allow researchers to create virtual supercomputers on the supercomputer via advanced reservations for simulation runs. There's a variety of reasons that this can be useful. Some times software doesn't play nicely with other software on the system or requires specific versions of libraries (or even specific OSes). You may also want to test in an environment where you have control over the (virtualized) mpi stack so you can see how screwing around with it changes how your job runs. Having amazon EC2 compatibility on traditional clusters would be interesting as well.
Anyway, if you are interested in more, here's the globus (teragrid, open science grid, etc) project's entry into this arena:
I think you kind of missed his point. The goal isn't to end up with perfect kids. It's to end up with kids that can cope when life doesn't go the way they planned. You are absolutely correct that there is no formula to raise perfect (whatever that means) children, but you can definitely teach them how to deal with failure and rejection in a productive way. That might mean learning how to cope with being a single teenage parent, or trying to decide what to do with their life after failing to pass the bar exam. They may not end up with the life either they (or you) invisioned, but those kinds of lessons will help them to make the most of it and find success in unexpected places.
I've found that combofix alone isn't good enough to get rid of the latest ones. Even renaming it doesn't help. Anything that scans the disk gets killed. That includes combofix, rootkit revealer, hijackthis, malwarebytes, everything.
I ended up having to use a linux livecd to just get the system into a bootable state (quarantine all the dlls and exes in system32 newer than the infection date), but still had the rootkit to deal with.
I ended up using avenger to run a script to delete a compromised eventlog.dll and then used combofix to replace all of the windows dlls and clean up the remaing mess on the system that I missed with the linux livecd.
Things are getting pretty nasty. It won't be long before avenger is stopped and then it will be livecd only repair. A version of combofix bootable from a linux livecd would be a killer app though.
Planescape Torment is an amazing game if you take the time to immerse yourself in it and think about the messages it portrays. That should tell you enough to know that it was destined never to become a best seller. Personally I did actually buy it, but I doubt that piracy had anything to do with its lack of commercial success.
Bureaucratic cowards. The insipidity of their naming scheme offends me almost as much as their pandering for attention via pseudo democratic online polls.
First, please stop repeating the meme that information can be "stolen". It's copyright infringement.
Having said that, there are a couple of things you should consider:
1) You are not a lawyer, so don't pretend to be. The less the developers think about copyright issues the more the company can claim unintentional infringement if there is in fact a copyright violation. This is what audits and highly paid IP lawyers are for.
2) Small companies (such as the one you work for) may not be able to afford code audits, full time lawyers, etc, so you may not have the luxury of ignoring it (assuming you care about the company).
3) You might be making a mistake. Your project lead may have permission to use the code in question. Perhaps the code posted on the forum isn't the original and is missing the license statement (it could be BSD). Perhaps your project lead is actually the poster who put the code on the forum. Perhaps the code actually originated at your company and was leaked out. There are a lot of possibilities.
4) Is auditing your Project Lead's code part of your job? Is this something the company hired you to spend time doing, or did you decide to do it on your own? Will the company see it as you trying to save them from potential lawsuits, or as exceeding your authority and spending time doing something they didn't ask you to do?
Ultimately if you feel responsible for ensuring the legality of using the code, follow some of the other advice here and tell your management you found some of the project source code on the web. Given that you don't *know* that a copyright violation is taking place, leave it at that. If you feel further moral responsibility, do whatever you need to do to ease your conscience, but be ready to find another job if you have to. A lot of companies probably won't see this as being a very big deal.
Well, there are a number of possible explanations.
I imagine that radiohead fans probably associate with the band more than your users associate with you. Most users have no idea who wrote the software they use and really don't care. Music fans often seem to know and follow the lives of their favourite band members. It makes sense that more music fans may be willing to compensate a band vs software users compensating the developers.
Another possibility, and I have no idea if this is true as I have never used your software, is that perhaps people just don't find it worth while enough to contribute to its continued development.
Perhaps if you offered support and/or feature requests to paying customers you might be able to attract more income?
It's unfortunate that the author didn't mention the municipal wifi network that is being built in Minneapolis. So far service seems to be pretty good, and it helped rescue efforts when the 35w bridge collapsed here:
From wikipedia:
Cloud computing is a term used to describe applications that were developed to be rich internet applications. In the cloud computing paradigm software that is traditionally installed on personal computers is shifted or extended to be accessible via the internet. These "cloud applications" or "cloud apps" utilize massive data centers and powerful servers that host web applications and web services. They can be accessed by anyone with a suitable internet connection and a standard browser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
Because There are rumors that Orrin Hatch is one of the potential replacements:
...And there's also Orrin Hatch, the 73-year-old Utah Senator who stood alone among Senate Republicans in loudly defending Gonzales these past few months. Some believed Hatch, who long dreamed of a Supreme Court appointment, was angling to curry favor with the White House so that he might be tapped for a career-capping stint as A.G. if and when Gonzales stepped aside. http://www.observer.com/2007/king-dead-long-live-k ing
It sounds like you've gotten really burnt out on coding.
Certainly, don't work more hours than is reasonable given your family situation. Also, don't let work become your only purpose in life. Given those restrictions, do work that makes you happy. If your friend really is happy updating VB scripts more power to him. I think I would have a hard time finding meaning and purpose in a job like that. If I was doing it for 10 hours a week that might be a valid compromise, but otherwise no way.
Personally I went a different route. I work for a Supercomputer Institute at a University. The hours are reasonable, the pay is less than industry but enough. I do meaningful and interesting work. My skills are continually challenged and I'm constantly learning new things. It's not the path of least resistance like contracting for VB and.NET work, but the days fly by and I usually don't regret getting up in the morning. That has to count for something.
Screw that. Moore shouldn't have to pay any dues, because what he did shouldn't be a crime. Just because other people have been wrongfully punished doesn't mean he should have to be as well. Fair treatment and equal treatment are not the same thing. Personally I hope that he fights any charges the government brings and wins. The US should not be in the business of restricting the movements of its citizens.
I think perhaps that you've missed the point. Well... Actually, you haven't missed the point. The problem is that if the law is wrong, it should be repealed, rather than applied selectively. If it applies to me, it should apply to the president and his daughters as well. After all, he's one of the few people in this country that actually has influence over it.
Nite_Hawk
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There is a pretty clear line imho. If you are distributing the program, no matter if it's on a harddrive, embedded in a chip, on punch cards, encrypted, obfuscated, etc, it's still distributing the program. This is technically true if you send the program over the wire and they execute it on their local computer. On the other hand, if you are simply letting them remotely use a copy you have installed on your computer, then it technically is not as they are only sending input and output to and from the program.
And it is still ridiculous. Why do we need a federal copyright law on the books that covers anyone who recklessly causes or attempts to cause death with pirated software? Don't we already have crimes that cover recklessly causing or attempts to cause death? What makes doing so with pirated software so special? I would think accomplishing these tasks with a dull rusty hatchet is more deserving of an increased sentence than doing so with pirated software, but that's just me.
This is just a ludicrous attempt to tie piracy with more heinous crimes. It's like saying we should give life in prison for littering... with the intent to cause death by forest fire.
I was curious and happened to have an old package of "maruchan" ramen in my pantry. One package is 400 calories with 16g of fat, 8 of which are saturated fat. (FYI it is also 60% of your daily sodium intake!)
Anyway, you claim a gain of 35lbs over 6 months. That's ~183 days. According to wikipedia, 1lb of fat gain is roughly equal to an excess intake of 3500 calories, meaning that 122,500 calories of fat were gained over the 183 day period.
122,500 calories gained in fat / ~183 days = ~669 calories gained in fat per day. You are claiming a daily intake of only 400 calories from ramen. Clearly, your scenario violates the laws of physics.
Ha! The proper name for those are "suicide showers" and I've had my share of experiences with them. They are quite common in Central America. Normally they are relatively (relative compared to say, using Central American public transportation) safe, but if you are backpacking and staying in the more affordable travel lodgings, you can run into some pretty bad wiring jobs.
I was actually hanging up a bath towel on the shower curtain rod at one such establishment and hadn't realized that the rod was live. I got a nice jolt for about half a second but was able to let go of the towel. After recovering and briefly wondering what possessed me to stay in such places, I was forced to reason a way to remove my towel from said rod. I eventually settled on using a shampoo bottle to knock the towel down.
So in conclusion, I'd take the suicide shower over the public transportation perhaps 7 times out of 10.
It was about 10 years ago now that I accidently did an rm -rf. I was trying to delete a file in some subdirectory, probably in my home directory or something. What should have read as:
rm -rf/home/nh/file.foo
was actually typed as:
rm -rf / home/nh/file.foo
I managed to catch it just as it had finished destroying bin, dev, and most of etc. I actually tried rebuilding those directories by hand at the time, but it was more work than it was worth. This was on redhat 5 and the event that sparked me to install Debian for the first time.
Yeah, same here. No one was thinking back then that slashdot would end up so big. I think a lot of us that signed up after it was launched wish we would have done so right away when we first heard about it. Granted, it's really only for bragging rights.:) Man, all this discussion is making me nostalgic. #e, fvwm-xpm, afterstep, third eye...
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I work for a supercomputer institute and am our resident grid/cloud junky. One of the reasons you might want to do this is to allow researchers to create virtual supercomputers on the supercomputer via advanced reservations for simulation runs. There's a variety of reasons that this can be useful. Some times software doesn't play nicely with other software on the system or requires specific versions of libraries (or even specific OSes). You may also want to test in an environment where you have control over the (virtualized) mpi stack so you can see how screwing around with it changes how your job runs. Having amazon EC2 compatibility on traditional clusters would be interesting as well.
Anyway, if you are interested in more, here's the globus (teragrid, open science grid, etc) project's entry into this arena:
http://www.nimbusproject.org/
I think you kind of missed his point. The goal isn't to end up with perfect kids. It's to end up with kids that can cope when life doesn't go the way they planned. You are absolutely correct that there is no formula to raise perfect (whatever that means) children, but you can definitely teach them how to deal with failure and rejection in a productive way. That might mean learning how to cope with being a single teenage parent, or trying to decide what to do with their life after failing to pass the bar exam. They may not end up with the life either they (or you) invisioned, but those kinds of lessons will help them to make the most of it and find success in unexpected places.
I work for a University. I don't know a single person here that believes the constitution should no longer be taught in schools. You are a troll.
I've found that combofix alone isn't good enough to get rid of the latest ones. Even renaming it doesn't help. Anything that scans the disk gets killed. That includes combofix, rootkit revealer, hijackthis, malwarebytes, everything.
I ended up having to use a linux livecd to just get the system into a bootable state (quarantine all the dlls and exes in system32 newer than the infection date), but still had the rootkit to deal with.
I ended up using avenger to run a script to delete a compromised eventlog.dll and then used combofix to replace all of the windows dlls and clean up the remaing mess on the system that I missed with the linux livecd.
Things are getting pretty nasty. It won't be long before avenger is stopped and then it will be livecd only repair. A version of combofix bootable from a linux livecd would be a killer app though.
Planescape Torment is an amazing game if you take the time to immerse yourself in it and think about the messages it portrays. That should tell you enough to know that it was destined never to become a best seller. Personally I did actually buy it, but I doubt that piracy had anything to do with its lack of commercial success.
Bureaucratic cowards. The insipidity of their naming scheme offends me almost as much as their pandering for attention via pseudo democratic online polls.
"Do, or do not. there is no try."?
First, please stop repeating the meme that information can be "stolen". It's copyright infringement.
Having said that, there are a couple of things you should consider:
1) You are not a lawyer, so don't pretend to be. The less the developers think about copyright issues the more the company can claim unintentional infringement if there is in fact a copyright violation. This is what audits and highly paid IP lawyers are for.
2) Small companies (such as the one you work for) may not be able to afford code audits, full time lawyers, etc, so you may not have the luxury of ignoring it (assuming you care about the company).
3) You might be making a mistake. Your project lead may have permission to use the code in question. Perhaps the code posted on the forum isn't the original and is missing the license statement (it could be BSD). Perhaps your project lead is actually the poster who put the code on the forum. Perhaps the code actually originated at your company and was leaked out. There are a lot of possibilities.
4) Is auditing your Project Lead's code part of your job? Is this something the company hired you to spend time doing, or did you decide to do it on your own? Will the company see it as you trying to save them from potential lawsuits, or as exceeding your authority and spending time doing something they didn't ask you to do?
Ultimately if you feel responsible for ensuring the legality of using the code, follow some of the other advice here and tell your management you found some of the project source code on the web. Given that you don't *know* that a copyright violation is taking place, leave it at that. If you feel further moral responsibility, do whatever you need to do to ease your conscience, but be ready to find another job if you have to. A lot of companies probably won't see this as being a very big deal.
Well, there are a number of possible explanations.
I imagine that radiohead fans probably associate with the band more than your users associate with you. Most users have no idea who wrote the software they use and really don't care. Music fans often seem to know and follow the lives of their favourite band members. It makes sense that more music fans may be willing to compensate a band vs software users compensating the developers.
Another possibility, and I have no idea if this is true as I have never used your software, is that perhaps people just don't find it worth while enough to contribute to its continued development.
Perhaps if you offered support and/or feature requests to paying customers you might be able to attract more income?
It's unfortunate that the author didn't mention the municipal wifi network that is being built in Minneapolis. So far service seems to be pretty good, and it helped rescue efforts when the 35w bridge collapsed here:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/wireless-mobility/wifi-network-helped-minneapolis-deal-with-bridge-collapse.asp
Hi Rob,
What would you have done with your life had slashdot never taken off the way it did?
Nite_Hawk
...And there's also Orrin Hatch, the 73-year-old Utah Senator who stood alone among Senate Republicans in loudly defending Gonzales these past few months. Some believed Hatch, who long dreamed of a Supreme Court appointment, was angling to curry favor with the White House so that he might be tapped for a career-capping stint as A.G. if and when Gonzales stepped aside. http://www.observer.com/2007/king-dead-long-live-It sounds like you've gotten really burnt out on coding.
.NET work, but the days fly by and I usually don't regret getting up in the morning. That has to count for something.
Certainly, don't work more hours than is reasonable given your family situation. Also, don't let work become your only purpose in life. Given those restrictions, do work that makes you happy. If your friend really is happy updating VB scripts more power to him. I think I would have a hard time finding meaning and purpose in a job like that. If I was doing it for 10 hours a week that might be a valid compromise, but otherwise no way.
Personally I went a different route. I work for a Supercomputer Institute at a University. The hours are reasonable, the pay is less than industry but enough. I do meaningful and interesting work. My skills are continually challenged and I'm constantly learning new things. It's not the path of least resistance like contracting for VB and
Screw that. Moore shouldn't have to pay any dues, because what he did shouldn't be a crime. Just because other people have been wrongfully punished doesn't mean he should have to be as well. Fair treatment and equal treatment are not the same thing. Personally I hope that he fights any charges the government brings and wins. The US should not be in the business of restricting the movements of its citizens.
I think perhaps that you've missed the point. Well... Actually, you haven't missed the point. The problem is that if the law is wrong, it should be repealed, rather than applied selectively. If it applies to me, it should apply to the president and his daughters as well. After all, he's one of the few people in this country that actually has influence over it.
Nite_Hawk
There is a pretty clear line imho. If you are distributing the program, no matter if it's on a harddrive, embedded in a chip, on punch cards, encrypted, obfuscated, etc, it's still distributing the program. This is technically true if you send the program over the wire and they execute it on their local computer. On the other hand, if you are simply letting them remotely use a copy you have installed on your computer, then it technically is not as they are only sending input and output to and from the program.
And it is still ridiculous. Why do we need a federal copyright law on the books that covers anyone who recklessly causes or attempts to cause death with pirated software? Don't we already have crimes that cover recklessly causing or attempts to cause death? What makes doing so with pirated software so special? I would think accomplishing these tasks with a dull rusty hatchet is more deserving of an increased sentence than doing so with pirated software, but that's just me.
This is just a ludicrous attempt to tie piracy with more heinous crimes. It's like saying we should give life in prison for littering... with the intent to cause death by forest fire.
I was curious and happened to have an old package of "maruchan" ramen in my pantry. One package is 400 calories with 16g of fat, 8 of which are saturated fat. (FYI it is also 60% of your daily sodium intake!)
Anyway, you claim a gain of 35lbs over 6 months. That's ~183 days. According to wikipedia, 1lb of fat gain is roughly equal to an excess intake of 3500 calories, meaning that 122,500 calories of fat were gained over the 183 day period.
122,500 calories gained in fat / ~183 days = ~669 calories gained in fat per day. You are claiming a daily intake of only 400 calories from ramen. Clearly, your scenario violates the laws of physics.
Nite_Hawk
Ha! The proper name for those are "suicide showers" and I've had my share of experiences with them. They are quite common in Central America. Normally they are relatively (relative compared to say, using Central American public transportation) safe, but if you are backpacking and staying in the more affordable travel lodgings, you can run into some pretty bad wiring jobs.
I was actually hanging up a bath towel on the shower curtain rod at one such establishment and hadn't realized that the rod was live. I got a nice jolt for about half a second but was able to let go of the towel. After recovering and briefly wondering what possessed me to stay in such places, I was forced to reason a way to remove my towel from said rod. I eventually settled on using a shampoo bottle to knock the towel down.
So in conclusion, I'd take the suicide shower over the public transportation perhaps 7 times out of 10.
Get off my lawn!
"It's a turd from the catbox."
Uh oh, I think google is in league with the felines. Do you suddenly find yourself more active and attracted to cat urine?
Please mod the parent up. We'd like to get all the information we can.
Thanks,
Nite_Hawk
It was about 10 years ago now that I accidently did an rm -rf. I was trying to delete a file in some subdirectory, probably in my home directory or something. What should have read as:
/home/nh/file.foo
rm -rf
was actually typed as:
rm -rf / home/nh/file.foo
I managed to catch it just as it had finished destroying bin, dev, and most of etc. I actually tried rebuilding those directories by hand at the time, but it was more work than it was worth. This was on redhat 5 and the event that sparked me to install Debian for the first time.
Yeah, same here. No one was thinking back then that slashdot would end up so big. I think a lot of us that signed up after it was launched wish we would have done so right away when we first heard about it. Granted, it's really only for bragging rights. :) Man, all this discussion is making me nostalgic. #e, fvwm-xpm, afterstep, third eye...
Nite_Hawk