if no one ever bought anything from a cold-caller, if no one ever took those wal-mart coupons from the wednesday mailer to the store, and if no one _EVER_ responded to a spam email..
it would all just dissapear.
aint gonna happen. too many stupid people out there value saving a buck or two more than the collective freedom to be left the fuck alone.
throw your tv away, don't click on banner ads, and never say 'yes' to a salesperson.
Anyone here who has mudded or run a mud knows what EQ is about to find out - rules do not define reality.
If they want to stop ownership transfer, the only way they're gonna do it is by coding around it.
Also, I think it's very unfair to frame the article in terms of 'Sony' doing something. Do you REALLY think anyone from the parent corporation has a clue, or gives a shit, about what anyone's user name is?
No. This is the result of some pedantic fuckwad GM enforcing their idea of 'role-play' on the only people who define rp - the PLAYERS.
well, thanks.:) it was supposed to be funny, but i knew it would be moderated down when i wrote it - the chances of everyone who moderates having a sense of humor AND the ability to comprehend communal self-deprecation and ALSO having read the article and understanding that it sucks and is bullshit fluff that has no place occupying our desktops are far too slim.
much more likely is that some moron with a few points will be poking around and say.. i wonder what baha'i is? well, he said nazi, so i'll mod him down!
fucking idiot moderators. if a post confuses you, or if you haven't read, say, everything in question (because you're too busy getting your rocks off moderating people down) - well, you know where this is going.
-- blue, burning karma for jon 'the whole world is a nazi conspiracy' katz.
You're in such a hurry to do their work for them? The Open Source community has so many spare development cycles that we should waste them on every variation in hardware instead of developing innovative new software? I've got a better idea -- let the hardware vendors shoulder the burden of basic support for their devices. If they want a high-quality driver, they should be smart enough to release the basic driver as Open Source (and release specs) so that they get bugfixes
Just like everything else in the Open Source world, if the UDI kids make a better product, make enough drivers that are better than the native ones to make a difference, and etc, then the distros will start packaging UDI, and UDI will win.
It prolly won't happen. I think UDI will slip into a few places here and there, but, really, I have a hard time believing that any abstract interface can keep pace with the development of even one, much less many, operating systems. What happens to any sort of UDI filesystem when the VFS interface changes? (Not that such a thing exists, it's just what's on the top of my head.) What would happen if Linux, OBSD, and AIX all changed driver layers over a few months?
Also, it's easy to make a corrolary (someone get me a dictionary!) between UDI and Java. Java is the same sort of thing, an abstract interface to operating-system level operations. Wanna tell me how well java code works across OSes? How about how well it survives updates in the core interpreter? Saying that any abstraction system works just because it's an abstraction ignores the pretty much inevitable force of change - the abstraction itself is as much of a moving target as the operating systems on which it works. Change happens. Flexibility, in both the interpreter and the interpreted code, is what makes things good. Usually, it also makes things sloooooooooooooow. Slow device drivers for fast devices is a sucky idea.
Anyways, like I said before I started rambling, the users will prove it or sink it. Arguing about it on/. as though it's some sort of must-have is silly.:P
Well, I was gonna flame this as being "Yet Another Rapid Application Development Platform That Isn't," but, after looking over their FAQ, this looks as tho it might be genuine.
It's basically a framework that lets you write simple IO, interrupt handlers, etc, quickly, to test your card, and then write 'real' code to do the hard work.
So, it's cutting and pasting the reference driver, with a wizard.:P Yer gonna cut and paste it anyways, so, why not?:P
I will say, tho, that the cross-platform aspect only makes a minimum of sense to me. If the critical aspects have to be hand written anyways (and they do) then all the CP does is let you quickly write "does it respond correctly to bit X" kinda frameworks.
Might be cool for high-speed serial devices.. I wonder if USB support could be worked out with this? Hrrrrmm..
This kinda attitude seems prevalent across among the posts to this article and I find it somewhat annoying.
Shrug, then write something on the web page explaining that. Especially given today's atmosphere wrt BSDs, it's prolly a nice idea to spell out on which side of what fence you stand ahead of time. If it's open code and you welcome all comers and would like to see it pointed to all OSs, say so. If you're using FBSD for some technical superiority, say that.
If ya don't tell us who you are, what you do, and why, then ya can't complain when we make shit up at random.:P
Ah, come on, give me at least a little credit, here. Firstly, saying that something sucks isn't always a bad thing - some people might take that as constructive criticism - I did, at least, point out WHY I thought it sucked.
As for reading the site, yeah, I read the entire thing, and, like I said, it's mostly links that point to each other.
In pointing out that the web site is immature, I was more taking a stab at/. for posting this article. POSIX ACL deals are available for most OS'es, even tho POSIX acls do not exist as a standard (it was withdrawn for rampant suckage quite some time ago.)
Unless there's some secret project I don't know about, I hope these kids have a buttload of coders on board.. ACLs alone could take 18 months of serious coding..
Also, it doesn't really matter if they use FreeBSD or OBSD as a base - these are all extenstions. In other words, for B1, you're not going to be running sendmail anyways, so having your daemon code audited aint gonna matter that much.
I do wish they had started with OBSD, tho. They prolly chose FBSD because of personal loyalties to someone(s) on the FBSD project - or because of the opposite on the OBSD project.:P
I'm sure Theo will re-write everything they do, anyways.:P
Their web site sucks, it's just a bunch of links pointing to the same non-existant docs. This looks like something that someone started like, last thursday.:P
I installed it for the first time about 3 weeks ago, and I can't believe how much I love it. (I use linux as my workstation, and work on AIX, Solaris, etc.)
Everyone talks a lot about how secure it is, but that doesn't help anyone who actually wants to USE it. If you're wondering how useable it is, the answer is, "very!"
I would say its strengths, as far as a server OS, are:
1) Tiny, tiny footprint. Full server install w/out X windows is like 100 MB.
2) Nice, full man pages.
3) It comes with a ton of preconfigured firewall and gateway scripts, along with a ton of info on what they do.
4) It, by default, emails you every day with info on what's going on on your system. This is the type of thing most sysadmins spend their first four or five months writing for Slowaris/AIX/etc.
5) It has GREAT networking support. Tunnels, VPN, etc, etc are right there ready to rock from the word 'go.'
6) It really does only run a tiny set of services on startup. I think it starts with like, 6 processes, by default. That's a very nice base from which to build.
7) Ports rock my little world. They make life very, very nice.
On the downside:
1) The install is amazingly terrifying the first few times. If you don't know what partitions are, if you don't understand hard drive geometry, don't even bother with OBSD. Get FreeBSD and install it a few times first. It follows the same concepts, and has a more clear explanation of what's going on.
2) The filesystem sucks raw ass. Even mounted noatime and.. whatever else the other mount option is to make things faster..:P.. it's slow as hell.
That's pretty much the only bad things I'd say aobut it. I _love_ it as a firewall OS, and I might use it as a web server or something.. The FS performance scares me.
All in all, the article was lame, as far as explaining why anyone would use OBSD.:P
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we are living in the end times, and that all those who believe should begin preparing.
in the end times, when fun is free the lines will be long cuz hell's designed by walt disney a magic kingdom come
All the enlightened, open-minded, freedom-loving people would probably end up denounced as anarchists or kooks, while the more contented majority continues to digest reports about the dangers of the Internet.
Certainly not all of them - but what is the prevailing opinion of RMS? That he's a kook. And maybe he is, maybe unrestricted freedom and the protection thereof is just a kooky fuckin' idea. Do you have a problem with being denounced for the things in which you believe? I certainly do not. That's why they call em beliefs.
'm not kidding. I really don't see a lot of discontent out there, and what there is, often lies within relatively single-issue groups that as often as not hate each other's guts and likely will never unite. The NARAL, the NRA, and NORML, for instance, don't typically defend each other, and my suspicion is that the intersection between the three is close to nil.
Look, lawmaking at the whim of corporations is not a historically new thing. Sometimes it works, sometimes is does not. It is not, however, on the charter for this particular US of A. If we, the big we, all of us, choose to accept it as the status quo and move forward, then that's all there is to it - our ability to rebel through legal action will be gradually reduced to zero, and then the only alternative will be violent revolution. This is a repeating pattern of human history.
Do people really believe that everyone is out to be nice? Do we really think that the USA is going to be here forever? That representative democracy is the final and ultimate form of human self-government? Come on, wake up. It's far from over, and things will change.
And so the internet, as I said, may or may not become a catalyst - it takes less than you might think to sway the balance from passive acceptance to bloodthirsty revolution. Give us one hungry winter, and it's all over.
If the people that had started the American Revolution had done the things they did against the British government today in an effort to start over, they would either be against the wall with a blindfold on or rotting in prison.
They, uh, were up against the wall, as well as rotting in prison.
I'm not advocating random violence or anarchic revolution, but I do believe that if the laws do not reflect the will of the people, and can not be made to do so, then we do not live in any soft of a democracy, representative or otherwise, and it is time to re-examine our governmental organization.
I'm sure there aren't many people on/. who haven't thought about it - and if there are, no matter where you live, it's time to start.
Here in the US, at the very least, if everything does go wrong, we can always legally repeal laws that suck. Failing that, we can start killing people.
Will the internet be the catalyst for the next american revolution? The one where all the enlightened, open-minded, freedom loving people get real pissed off and say, "scrap this plutocratic bullshit festival, we're starting over!"
I hope so.
Here's to freedom, and to television, and to mp3s.
So I have like 4 old 8mm tape drives, and a bunch of sound cards. Can anyone see where this is going?
Does anyone know of a site where I might find information on encoding sound data directly to 8mm tape? I really think it could be done pretty easily - I just don't know if the transport mechanism on 8mm computer tape drives can hold up.
I was thinking that you could use local HDD to cache files you're working on, and sort of 'archive off' tracks as you aren't using them.
It's not hard to find a job - If you know what you're doing. I last re-meplyed myself about three months ago, and was getting 4-5 contacts a day over a 2 week period with 3 years of unix experience.
I dunno what the market is like for recent graduates.. It can't possibly be more difficult. My two best friends got geek jobs without CS degrees, and without any real work experience, and both for good money.
But, like everything else, it depends on where you are and who you know. We're all in NC, so the labor market is sweeeeet. I think any metropolitan area is going to have a need for plenty of geeks.
And, warm bodies with 'experience' are never hard to find, but experience (time on a job with a CS sort of title) is no real metric of ability. It all depends on the person - some people work for 10 years at a job and only pick up the minimum to get through it. It would take five of those people to do the work of one person with actual skill.
How do you deal with stability issues on the NT side of samba? For instance, I have the smb client running on a lot of machines here, because I don't control the NT servers for some departments, and need access to their shares. I have to re-mount those boxes every hew hours, and I'm sure it's because the NT boxes are dropping/resetting my connections, but it looks like instability in the client end. Do you have to deal with that sort of issue a lot, and, if so, have you guys ever considered rewriting the SMB server subsystem.. for NT?:P
Please reverse your recent decision to censor the reports on your software. You must understand that the world is changing, you cannot just issue vindictives and have them enforced - there are too many people to whom freedom of information is too important for injunction to work.
We are a global presence, and the laws of one nation do not reflect the values of all people.
At the least, take a moment to realize that protecting your "intellectual property" - the database of banned sites - is both an excersize in futility and a disservice to the customer. YOU do not set the values and mores of your customers, one size does not fit all. Give people the chance to override your decisions, give us the ability to choose with exact precision which sites we wish and do not wish our children to see. In short, publish your list.
You will find that all parties are happy, the people who disagree with you can simply override the default, the people who don't think you do enough can add or suggest new sites, and most customers will simply accept the default - and if the default is not really what they wanted, you are absolved - they have the site list, why have they not taken responsiblity upon themselves to look it over?
Send to 1201@loc.gov a message containing the name of the person making the submission, his or her title and organization (if the submission is on behalf of an organization), mailing address, telephone number, telefax number (if any) and e-mail address.
Efficeincy is beauty, efficeincy is art. Can you dig it? -- Clutch
They coulda just posted that in the body of the story, and not made us go thru three links.:P
If I had any moderator points.. hmm.. well, ok, if I moderated, cuz I'm sure I do have points, I'd moderate this up to 5, "It's a gorgeous saturday and I'm fucking blasted on 4X Espresso and you replied in a sort of funny way to my post."
everyone go buy all of Modest Mouse's CDs. they kick ass.
Apple, with clear logical thought and good reason, originally considered developing around a two or three button mouse, and wisely rejected that idea after watching a statistically significant number of novice users become confused by them. Macintosh "Power" users can buy aftermarket pointing devices with a wide number of button configurations -- and they get to define what those extra buttons do.
How many computers do you use? The idea that a person should be able to 'buy aftermarket items and configure them' is indicative of the notion that people will only use one computer, and that notion, especially in this day and age, is rapidly fading. I have a hard enough time just keeping my vim files in order from box to box, if I had to deal with different mouse layouts on each one, I would go nuts.
I say this with frightening regularity - ease of use is not the same as useability. Apples neeeeeeeds to understand that a low learning curve is, in the long run, detrimental to productivity, unless it is followed by an equally rich feature set.
Most licenses cover derivative works, and patches are usually derivative.
License is not copyright, however, so just because your work falls under a shared license does not mean you give up copyright to it. You may be asked to share that copyright, however. (See Apache Project)
A better question would have included the topic of binary plug-ins, which are sort of special case patches. In that case, you usually keep both license and copyright exclusive to the author.
There's plenty of info about this on the web, and it varies from project to project. There is no single answer for all licenses.
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if no one ever bought anything from a cold-caller, if no one ever took those wal-mart coupons from the wednesday mailer to the store, and if no one _EVER_ responded to a spam email..
it would all just dissapear.
aint gonna happen. too many stupid people out there value saving a buck or two more than the collective freedom to be left the fuck alone.
throw your tv away, don't click on banner ads, and never say 'yes' to a salesperson.
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blue
Anyone here who has mudded or run a mud knows what EQ is about to find out - rules do not define reality.
If they want to stop ownership transfer, the only way they're gonna do it is by coding around it.
Also, I think it's very unfair to frame the article in terms of 'Sony' doing something. Do you REALLY think anyone from the parent corporation has a clue, or gives a shit, about what anyone's user name is?
No. This is the result of some pedantic fuckwad GM enforcing their idea of 'role-play' on the only people who define rp - the PLAYERS.
Heh, same shit, bigger mud. Idiots.
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blue
well, thanks. :) it was supposed to be funny, but i knew it would be moderated down when i wrote it - the chances of everyone who moderates having a sense of humor AND the ability to comprehend communal self-deprecation and ALSO having read the article and understanding that it sucks and is bullshit fluff that has no place occupying our desktops are far too slim.
much more likely is that some moron with a few points will be poking around and say.. i wonder what baha'i is? well, he said nazi, so i'll mod him down!
fucking idiot moderators. if a post confuses you, or if you haven't read, say, everything in question (because you're too busy getting your rocks off moderating people down) - well, you know where this is going.
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blue, burning karma for jon 'the whole world is a nazi conspiracy' katz.
You're in such a hurry to do their work for them? The Open Source community has so
/. as though it's some sort of must-have is silly. :P
many spare development cycles that we should waste them on every variation in hardware instead of developing innovative new software? I've got a better idea -- let the hardware vendors shoulder the burden of basic support for their devices. If they want a high-quality driver, they should be smart enough to release the basic driver as Open
Source (and release specs) so that they get bugfixes
Just like everything else in the Open Source world, if the UDI kids make a better product, make enough drivers that are better than the native ones to make a difference, and etc, then the distros will start packaging UDI, and UDI will win.
It prolly won't happen. I think UDI will slip into a few places here and there, but, really, I have a hard time believing that any abstract interface can keep pace with the development of even one, much less many, operating systems. What happens to any sort of UDI filesystem when the VFS interface changes? (Not that such a thing exists, it's just what's on the top of my head.) What would happen if Linux, OBSD, and AIX all changed driver layers over a few months?
Also, it's easy to make a corrolary (someone get me a dictionary!) between UDI and Java. Java is the same sort of thing, an abstract interface to operating-system level operations. Wanna tell me how well java code works across OSes? How about how well it survives updates in the core interpreter? Saying that any abstraction system works just because it's an abstraction ignores the pretty much inevitable force of change - the abstraction itself is as much of a moving target as the operating systems on which it works. Change happens. Flexibility, in both the interpreter and the interpreted code, is what makes things good. Usually, it also makes things sloooooooooooooow. Slow device drivers for fast devices is a sucky idea.
Anyways, like I said before I started rambling, the users will prove it or sink it. Arguing about it on
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blue
Well, I was gonna flame this as being "Yet Another Rapid Application Development Platform That Isn't," but, after looking over their FAQ, this looks as tho it might be genuine.
:P Yer gonna cut and paste it anyways, so, why not? :P
:P
It's basically a framework that lets you write simple IO, interrupt handlers, etc, quickly, to test your card, and then write 'real' code to do the hard work.
So, it's cutting and pasting the reference driver, with a wizard.
I will say, tho, that the cross-platform aspect only makes a minimum of sense to me. If the critical aspects have to be hand written anyways (and they do) then all the CP does is let you quickly write "does it respond correctly to bit X" kinda frameworks.
Might be cool for high-speed serial devices.. I wonder if USB support could be worked out with this? Hrrrrmm..
I'll never know, because it runs under windows.
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blue
This kinda attitude seems prevalent across among the posts to this article and I find it somewhat annoying.
:P
Shrug, then write something on the web page explaining that. Especially given today's atmosphere wrt BSDs, it's prolly a nice idea to spell out on which side of what fence you stand ahead of time. If it's open code and you welcome all comers and would like to see it pointed to all OSs, say so. If you're using FBSD for some technical superiority, say that.
If ya don't tell us who you are, what you do, and why, then ya can't complain when we make shit up at random.
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blue
Ah, come on, give me at least a little credit, here. Firstly, saying that something sucks isn't always a bad thing - some people might take that as constructive criticism - I did, at least, point out WHY I thought it sucked.
/. for posting this article. POSIX ACL deals are available for most OS'es, even tho POSIX acls do not exist as a standard (it was withdrawn for rampant suckage quite some time ago.)
:P
As for reading the site, yeah, I read the entire thing, and, like I said, it's mostly links that point to each other.
In pointing out that the web site is immature, I was more taking a stab at
So there.
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blue
Unless there's some secret project I don't know about, I hope these kids have a buttload of coders on board.. ACLs alone could take 18 months of serious coding..
:P
:P
:P
Also, it doesn't really matter if they use FreeBSD or OBSD as a base - these are all extenstions. In other words, for B1, you're not going to be running sendmail anyways, so having your daemon code audited aint gonna matter that much.
I do wish they had started with OBSD, tho. They prolly chose FBSD because of personal loyalties to someone(s) on the FBSD project - or because of the opposite on the OBSD project.
I'm sure Theo will re-write everything they do, anyways.
Their web site sucks, it's just a bunch of links pointing to the same non-existant docs. This looks like something that someone started like, last thursday.
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blue
or weaknesses of OpenBSD.
:P .. it's slow as hell.
:P
I installed it for the first time about 3 weeks ago, and I can't believe how much I love it. (I use linux as my workstation, and work on AIX, Solaris, etc.)
Everyone talks a lot about how secure it is, but that doesn't help anyone who actually wants to USE it. If you're wondering how useable it is, the answer is, "very!"
I would say its strengths, as far as a server OS, are:
1) Tiny, tiny footprint. Full server install w/out X windows is like 100 MB.
2) Nice, full man pages.
3) It comes with a ton of preconfigured firewall and gateway scripts, along with a ton of info on what they do.
4) It, by default, emails you every day with info on what's going on on your system. This is the type of thing most sysadmins spend their first four or five months writing for Slowaris/AIX/etc.
5) It has GREAT networking support. Tunnels, VPN, etc, etc are right there ready to rock from the word 'go.'
6) It really does only run a tiny set of services on startup. I think it starts with like, 6 processes, by default. That's a very nice base from which to build.
7) Ports rock my little world. They make life very, very nice.
On the downside:
1) The install is amazingly terrifying the first few times. If you don't know what partitions are, if you don't understand hard drive geometry, don't even bother with OBSD. Get FreeBSD and install it a few times first. It follows the same concepts, and has a more clear explanation of what's going on.
2) The filesystem sucks raw ass. Even mounted noatime and.. whatever else the other mount option is to make things faster..
That's pretty much the only bad things I'd say aobut it. I _love_ it as a firewall OS, and I might use it as a web server or something.. The FS performance scares me.
All in all, the article was lame, as far as explaining why anyone would use OBSD.
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blue
we are living in the end times, and that all those who believe should begin preparing.
in the end times, when fun is free
the lines will be long
cuz hell's designed
by walt disney
a magic kingdom come
-clang, end times, from pol pot pie
but, being russian makes them cosmonuts, not astronuts.
:P
thanks.
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blue
Was a news-site version of 'first p0st, suckahz!,' but with less useful information.
What tripe. Anyone got an article with, I dunno, newsworthy details, in it?
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blue
All the enlightened, open-minded, freedom-loving people would probably end up denounced as anarchists or kooks, while the more contented majority continues to digest reports about the dangers of the Internet.
Certainly not all of them - but what is the prevailing opinion of RMS? That he's a kook. And maybe he is, maybe unrestricted freedom and the protection thereof is just a kooky fuckin' idea. Do you have a problem with being denounced for the things in which you believe? I certainly do not. That's why they call em beliefs.
'm not kidding. I really don't see a lot of discontent out there, and what there is, often
lies within relatively single-issue groups that as often as not hate each other's guts and likely will never unite. The NARAL, the NRA, and NORML, for instance, don't typically defend each other, and my suspicion is that the intersection between the three is close to nil.
Look, lawmaking at the whim of corporations is not a historically new thing. Sometimes it works, sometimes is does not. It is not, however, on the charter for this particular US of A. If we, the big we, all of us, choose to accept it as the status quo and move forward, then that's all there is to it - our ability to rebel through legal action will be gradually reduced to zero, and then the only alternative will be violent revolution. This is a repeating pattern of human history.
Do people really believe that everyone is out to be nice? Do we really think that the USA is going to be here forever? That representative democracy is the final and ultimate form of human self-government? Come on, wake up. It's far from over, and things will change.
And so the internet, as I said, may or may not become a catalyst - it takes less than you might think to sway the balance from passive acceptance to bloodthirsty revolution. Give us one hungry winter, and it's all over.
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blue
If the people that had started the American Revolution had done the things they did
against the British government today in an effort to start over, they would either be
against the wall with a blindfold on or rotting in prison.
They, uh, were up against the wall, as well as rotting in prison.
I'm not advocating random violence or anarchic revolution, but I do believe that if the laws do not reflect the will of the people, and can not be made to do so, then we do not live in any soft of a democracy, representative or otherwise, and it is time to re-examine our governmental organization.
I think that's a pretty simple concept.
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Blue
I'm sure there aren't many people on /. who haven't thought about it - and if there are, no matter where you live, it's time to start.
Here in the US, at the very least, if everything does go wrong, we can always legally repeal laws that suck. Failing that, we can start killing people.
Will the internet be the catalyst for the next american revolution? The one where all the enlightened, open-minded, freedom loving people get real pissed off and say, "scrap this plutocratic bullshit festival, we're starting over!"
I hope so.
Here's to freedom, and to television, and to mp3s.
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blue
So I have like 4 old 8mm tape drives, and a bunch of sound cards. Can anyone see where this is going?
Does anyone know of a site where I might find information on encoding sound data directly to 8mm tape? I really think it could be done pretty easily - I just don't know if the transport mechanism on 8mm computer tape drives can hold up.
I was thinking that you could use local HDD to cache files you're working on, and sort of 'archive off' tracks as you aren't using them.
Thoughts? Ideas? Anyone done this?
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It's not hard to find a job - If you know what you're doing. I last re-meplyed myself about three months ago, and was getting 4-5 contacts a day over a 2 week period with 3 years of unix experience.
:P
I dunno what the market is like for recent graduates.. It can't possibly be more difficult. My two best friends got geek jobs without CS degrees, and without any real work experience, and both for good money.
But, like everything else, it depends on where you are and who you know. We're all in NC, so the labor market is sweeeeet. I think any metropolitan area is going to have a need for plenty of geeks.
And, warm bodies with 'experience' are never hard to find, but experience (time on a job with a CS sort of title) is no real metric of ability. It all depends on the person - some people work for 10 years at a job and only pick up the minimum to get through it. It would take five of those people to do the work of one person with actual skill.
YMMV.
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blue
I have another one, too :P
:P
How do you deal with stability issues on the NT side of samba? For instance, I have the smb client running on a lot of machines here, because I don't control the NT servers for some departments, and need access to their shares. I have to re-mount those boxes every hew hours, and I'm sure it's because the NT boxes are dropping/resetting my connections, but it looks like instability in the client end. Do you have to deal with that sort of issue a lot, and, if so, have you guys ever considered rewriting the SMB server subsystem.. for NT?
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Heya!
Thanks so much for all your work. I'm sure you know how nice it is to be able to get rid of NT on as many boxes as possible.
My question is:
With linux slowly creeping in as a more ubiquitous platform, have you ever thought about adding open extenstions to SMB to enable new features?
Thanks,
Blue
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Please reverse your recent decision to censor the reports on your software. You must understand that the world is changing, you cannot just issue vindictives and have them enforced - there are too many people to whom freedom of information is too important for injunction to work.
We are a global presence, and the laws of one nation do not reflect the values of all people.
At the least, take a moment to realize that protecting your "intellectual property" - the database of banned sites - is both an excersize in futility and a disservice to the customer. YOU do not set the values and mores of your customers, one size does not fit all. Give people the chance to override your decisions, give us the ability to choose with exact precision which sites we wish and do not wish our children to see. In short, publish your list.
You will find that all parties are happy, the people who disagree with you can simply override the default, the people who don't think you do enough can add or suggest new sites, and most customers will simply accept the default - and if the default is not really what they wanted, you are absolved - they have the site list, why have they not taken responsiblity upon themselves to look it over?
Thank you,
Blue Lang
Send to 1201@loc.gov a message containing the name of the person making the submission, his or her title and organization (if the submission is on behalf of an organization), mailing address, telephone number, telefax number (if any) and e-mail address.
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Efficeincy is beauty, efficeincy is art. Can you dig it? -- Clutch
They coulda just posted that in the body of the story, and not made us go thru three links.
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blue
If I had any moderator points.. hmm.. well, ok, if I moderated, cuz I'm sure I do have points, I'd moderate this up to 5, "It's a gorgeous saturday and I'm fucking blasted on 4X Espresso and you replied in a sort of funny way to my post."
everyone go buy all of Modest Mouse's CDs. they kick ass.
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bloo
Apple, with clear logical thought and good reason, originally considered developing around a two or three button mouse, and wisely rejected that idea after watching a statistically significant number of novice users become confused by them. Macintosh "Power" users can buy aftermarket pointing devices with a wide number of button configurations -- and they get to define what those extra buttons do.
How many computers do you use? The idea that a person should be able to 'buy aftermarket items and configure them' is indicative of the notion that people will only use one computer, and that notion, especially in this day and age, is rapidly fading. I have a hard enough time just keeping my vim files in order from box to box, if I had to deal with different mouse layouts on each one, I would go nuts.
I say this with frightening regularity - ease of use is not the same as useability. Apples neeeeeeeds to understand that a low learning curve is, in the long run, detrimental to productivity, unless it is followed by an equally rich feature set.
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blue
Most licenses cover derivative works, and patches are usually derivative.
License is not copyright, however, so just because your work falls under a shared license does not mean you give up copyright to it. You may be asked to share that copyright, however. (See Apache Project)
A better question would have included the topic of binary plug-ins, which are sort of special case patches. In that case, you usually keep both license and copyright exclusive to the author.
There's plenty of info about this on the web, and it varies from project to project. There is no single answer for all licenses.
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blue
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