I thought the article was somewhat distasteful. It informs the traveller of tips on how to become paranoid, as opposed to tips on how to act once you already have a reason to be paranoid. Why are we worried about love letters and browsing history? If you are trying to keep the TSA from finding your "Al Qaeda 9ul3s" google searches, then that's little different than going to all that trouble just to keep them from seeing "I think sheep are sexy".
Anyway, I just don't like to see people spending all this time trying to find reasons to be secure and private just for the sake of being secure and private. dig?
I would add a coach and a shower, so you could ski or run to work, and take that critical 20-minute nap at 2:30. If you are the kind of employee that can't manage yourself with a coach nearby, then you probably aren't getting much work done in my office anyway. I'd also make the meeting room near the front on the ground floor, with a large window facing the street. It's better to be open aware of your surroundings than to be couped up in a cuby maze. cuby mazes suck.
I haven't seen very much truth in this thread. You can still do a stage 1 install. If it takes you ten days then you should be installing ubuntu. Installing gentoo is exactly as straight forward as a *base* linux install should be.
1) setup your partitions using *fdisk* 2) uncompress the base system binaries using *tar* 3) uncompress portage using *tar* 4) start building packages
What the heck is so hard about using tar and fdisk. If you can't use tar and fdisk you should get a mac. This is exactly as convenient as a user who wants control would want their install to be.
Hearing about software companies copying each other reminds me of the US (fill in office here) elections. The candidates spend shiteloads of money trying to convince everyone that they should be hired, and for presidential elections it goes in the millions. Shouldn't everyone be trying to find the best person for the job? Seems like multi-million dollar campaign ads are a bit selfish.
I agree, who cares who copied who? I want to buy and use the best computer out there. This is a topic for the companies in question to worry about while assessing their buisiness practices, not the customers in any respect. Software is knowledge of process, and you shouldn't restrict knowledge of process, says this open source developer.
I HOPE EVERY OS HAS KICK-ASS SEARCH FEATURES AND MEDIA ACCESS AND STUFF!!
Actually they might be worse that the current breed of closed source.
Guido Van Rossum works for google. I trust the BDFL.
- When Web Applications shut down you have nothing!
Are you saying they have more chance to b0rk you and your data than the guys that make you install binaries on your system? I say it's equal.
Are you then asserting that the web-based service providers somehow gain different morals because of their different architecture, or that they are less likley to write reliable code? I also say chances are equal to dealing with the guys writing the machine code.
- You dont have code to reverse engineer
no comment
- Hell, you don't even have the data with you
Where the heck is my outlook mailbox? It's hidden somewhere on my hard drive!! Oh wait, I don't use Outlook anymore...
- You have no idea what they do with your data!
Have you ever run regedit or written down a COM class id, or looked at SUN's java? All trashy non-sense if you ask me.
- Can we depend on their security?
Can you depend on Microsoft writing a secure operating system **HA HA HA HA HA!**
The world of free and open source stimulates and encourages learning. I have learned almost all of what I know from *reading* other peoples code, and *writing* my own code. First it was Olli Pavarian's WavFile class, then it was Rosegarden's use of QCanvas, now I'm getting paid to write new technologies that other people could benifit from, but won't because it's commercial code.
I've written Python bindings for ISC dhcpctl so a major local telephone company to do cable modem provisioning with Zope, but no one else can use it or learn from it's perfect examples for using the dhcpctl API because it will never be published. I am currently writing high-performance audio software for a major recording company using Qt, but no one will ever be able to learn how to write a crystal-clear, scalable block-grid or a dynamite wave display because my client is afraid to release it.
Writing good code is all about learning, and we all know that the best way to learn to program is to read other people's work, and try it out for yourself. If we want better code we need to see better code, and all the companies out there that choose to profit from hiding source code are not contributing. Instead, they are stopping a potentially fruitful branch of knowledge. It's ignorant, and it's wrong.
The funny part is that closed source people don't understand that they'll get better code with the open source model [insert buddhist golden-rule lesson here]. Good projects get good publicity, and community is invaluable. I think Microsoft would attest to that if you asked them how their beta-testing worked for them in the nineties.
Why is it that this doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling in the same that QObject(parent) does, yet I'm strangely compelled to take part in the public offering?
Actually, alaska wouldn't work too well, either. We'd rather remain in the limelight purley for our controversial use of natural resources. I don't think we could handle cultural (especially religious) problems, too.
bigger is not better, more is not more. A free domain exists when there is lots of competition, chanllenge, and ideas. We are not dealing with a company in which there are a limited number of employees to place on the "open source project", we are dealing with the world. We are not afraid of losing the help.
if you can get everything setup on a linux box, and not have to change anything, OR, every machine is networked (sounds so), then linux. otherwise windows.
Why can't malicious hacker-geniouses turn the spotlight towards spammers? it can't be that difficult to piss them off in some way? How about spamm- err... email DOS'ing em??
Anybody can sue anybody for anything at any time. That's America. Unfortunaltely, people in this country excersise that right more often then the should. On the other hand, it's just too bad that the RIAA is full of a bunch of greedy bastards.
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That's awesome. +1
I thought the article was somewhat distasteful. It informs the traveller of tips on how to become paranoid, as opposed to tips on how to act once you already have a reason to be paranoid. Why are we worried about love letters and browsing history? If you are trying to keep the TSA from finding your "Al Qaeda 9ul3s" google searches, then that's little different than going to all that trouble just to keep them from seeing "I think sheep are sexy".
Anyway, I just don't like to see people spending all this time trying to find reasons to be secure and private just for the sake of being secure and private. dig?
I would add a coach and a shower, so you could ski or run to work, and take that critical 20-minute nap at 2:30. If you are the kind of employee that can't manage yourself with a coach nearby, then you probably aren't getting much work done in my office anyway. I'd also make the meeting room near the front on the ground floor, with a large window facing the street. It's better to be open aware of your surroundings than to be couped up in a cuby maze. cuby mazes suck.
submit patches! I fyou can do it, just do it!
For anything that gets people off the couch - totally.
er.... a sign that said "Pull".
:)
It's early here
The first thing you have to do is get people to READ code! How many times have you pushed a door that had a big sign that said "Push"?
Go Python!
I haven't seen very much truth in this thread. You can still do a stage 1 install. If it takes you ten days then you should be installing ubuntu. Installing gentoo is exactly as straight forward as a *base* linux install should be.
1) setup your partitions using *fdisk*
2) uncompress the base system binaries using *tar*
3) uncompress portage using *tar*
4) start building packages
What the heck is so hard about using tar and fdisk. If you can't use tar and fdisk you should get a mac. This is exactly as convenient as a user who wants control would want their install to be.
if you can make your tool do anything it can't in order to do what *they* want you to do, you've found your tool.
I use emacs for python and C++. I use gdb for C++ and haven't needed a debugger for python in over two years.
Hearing about software companies copying each other reminds me of the US (fill in office here) elections. The candidates spend shiteloads of money trying to convince everyone that they should be hired, and for presidential elections it goes in the millions. Shouldn't everyone be trying to find the best person for the job? Seems like multi-million dollar campaign ads are a bit selfish.
I agree, who cares who copied who? I want to buy and use the best computer out there. This is a topic for the companies in question to worry about while assessing their buisiness practices, not the customers in any respect. Software is knowledge of process, and you shouldn't restrict knowledge of process, says this open source developer.
I HOPE EVERY OS HAS KICK-ASS SEARCH FEATURES AND MEDIA ACCESS AND STUFF!!
Actually they might be worse that the current breed of closed source.
Guido Van Rossum works for google. I trust the BDFL.
- When Web Applications shut down you have nothing!
Are you saying they have more chance to b0rk you and your data than the guys that make you install binaries on your system? I say it's equal.
Are you then asserting that the web-based service providers somehow gain different morals because of their different architecture, or that they are less likley to write reliable code? I also say chances are equal to dealing with the guys writing the machine code.
- You dont have code to reverse engineer
no comment
- Hell, you don't even have the data with you
Where the heck is my outlook mailbox? It's hidden somewhere on my hard drive!! Oh wait, I don't use Outlook anymore...
- You have no idea what they do with your data!
Have you ever run regedit or written down a COM class id, or looked at SUN's java? All trashy non-sense if you ask me.
- Can we depend on their security?
Can you depend on Microsoft writing a secure operating system **HA HA HA HA HA!**
The world of free and open source stimulates and encourages learning. I have learned almost all of what I know from *reading* other peoples code, and *writing* my own code. First it was Olli Pavarian's WavFile class, then it was Rosegarden's use of QCanvas, now I'm getting paid to write new technologies that other people could benifit from, but won't because it's commercial code.
I've written Python bindings for ISC dhcpctl so a major local telephone company to do cable modem provisioning with Zope, but no one else can use it or learn from it's perfect examples for using the dhcpctl API because it will never be published. I am currently writing high-performance audio software for a major recording company using Qt, but no one will ever be able to learn how to write a crystal-clear, scalable block-grid or a dynamite wave display because my client is afraid to release it.
Writing good code is all about learning, and we all know that the best way to learn to program is to read other people's work, and try it out for yourself. If we want better code we need to see better code, and all the companies out there that choose to profit from hiding source code are not contributing. Instead, they are stopping a potentially fruitful branch of knowledge. It's ignorant, and it's wrong.
The funny part is that closed source people don't understand that they'll get better code with the open source model [insert buddhist golden-rule lesson here]. Good projects get good publicity, and community is invaluable. I think Microsoft would attest to that if you asked them how their beta-testing worked for them in the nineties.
Why is it that this doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling in the same that QObject(parent) does, yet I'm strangely compelled to take part in the public offering?
Actually, alaska wouldn't work too well, either. We'd rather remain in the limelight purley for our controversial use of natural resources. I don't think we could handle cultural (especially religious) problems, too.
bigger is not better, more is not more. A free domain exists when there is lots of competition, chanllenge, and ideas. We are not dealing with a company in which there are a limited number of employees to place on the "open source project", we are dealing with the world. We are not afraid of losing the help.
Well, maybe find, grep and emacs :)
...but then I won't be able to spend 16 hours a day on my screen anymore. LCD's a great for that.
Excellent point. Water around the rock, around the rock...
firsty, firsty, firsty.....
Capitalism is not the force that will 'correct' the power of OSS. The power is inherent in the model itself.
W00t!
Excellent post.
if you can get everything setup on a linux box, and not have to change anything, OR, every machine is networked (sounds so), then linux. otherwise windows.
Why can't malicious hacker-geniouses turn the spotlight towards spammers? it can't be that difficult to piss them off in some way? How about spamm- err... email DOS'ing em??
+1 insightful
Anybody can sue anybody for anything at any time. That's America. Unfortunaltely, people in this country excersise that right more often then the should. On the other hand, it's just too bad that the RIAA is full of a bunch of greedy bastards.