I used to religiously use tcsh, as well, because of it's very nice interactive feature set. But I always hated having to write my short little interactive scripts in csh syntax. And sometimes I was unable to do things (although tcsh is a little better than csh in that regard). I refused to use bash because of its vast incompatibilities with not just ksh, but even plain Bourne shell. Not to mention some interactive annoyances (My favorite example -- If I want to get a listing of all the files that match what I've type in so far, I can type Ctrl-D in both tcsh and zsh. In bash, I have to hit Tab twice. And the first one looks for a single matching file, but fails (which I already knew it would) and beeps at me. As if I've done something wrong. Aargh!) Then I found zsh. It truly is Nirvana. You should try switching. You'll have some minor trouble getting your aliases ported over and getting used to using Bourne/Korn syntax, but within a month, you'll love it.
Just to jump on the bandwagon, my favorite feature is that zsh will expand wildcards entered on the command line. So you can type ``rm -rf *'', then hit <Tab>, and go back and delete that one thing you want to leave.
I don't know a hell of a lot about the proposed authorization scheme, but it seems to me that if you have to get authorization every time you start such an app (which would make sense to me, coming from Microsoft's addled brain), then it would be easy for someone to DoS your copy of Office or whatever. All you'd need to do is flood a network with a load of NAKs (again, assuming stuff I know nothing about). Of course, it should be equally possible to fake the ACKs, but is a legitimate company going to know how to do this if its small, or be able to convince its management, if it's large, that this is the only way to get their copies of Word to work, even though its intentionally hacking Microsoft's security measures?
As for here, Play station 2So it operates Linux SONY computer entertainment(Sceinc. ) GPL(Part LGPLSo yes) So it is a page of signature motion in order for you to release. This As for page, freely phosphorus The ? you doing, it does not care.
Signature of 10,000 cases (getting together truly at the point in time when?) does get together, First 1st report SCE Inc. You do. After that you think according to situation, but in the world If signature 100,000 can be gathered, you want to end with you think, It does.
As for the one which you can approve to the gist below, the button which " signs " Please push.
Gist of this signature motion
The demand for SONY computer entertainment
The Linux which operates at play station 2 GPLOr LGPLWith you say Please release with the license.
2000 (Heisei 12) year March 4th, SONY computer entering ? From ? men To (or less SCEI) As for the Playstatio n2 (below P S2) which is sold, that the entering ? which is superior Men To performances and, Abundance of the software property which from the Playstation (1) is succeeded? Japan furthermore it is large in the world as the game machine for home Support is received.
Development environment and the test system of P S2 with the Linux structure It is done, With one for development P S2 with ICE environment also Linux environment activating It was known from relatively quick time. Various software which begin the Linux and the gcc Becoming something whose reliability is high by the fact that it is an open source ?, That vis-a-vis the development early unstable hardware The P S2 development person in charge of the SCEI that you adopt was a reason which is enough, Comment It became topic.
P when S2 you appraise, as the computer As for operational processing performance of 3 D graphics general foam/home u By comparison with the PC It is high you do not apply very, In the mass product effect which the consumer game machine has Depending, It has the cost performance which projects. For example with this especially, the distributed connected ? of 3 D graphics Client for ??, Visualization of physical model simulation, The kiosk terminal which is installed in the street corner, the for data exhibition room of the museum Terminal etc Effective utilization manner is expected with a wider use.
Presently, the software for P S2 Only the specific development company which concludes the SCEI and various permission contracts opening It is possible, it is limited, It is difficult for the general user which does not designate the development of P S2 as the raw industry to procure Is. But, the Linux and the gcc which become base of P S2 development environment Being an open source, the Linux which is already worked with P S2 exists ? especially You must observe.
As for the SCEI the Linux for P S2 (the open source ?? which is begun ) Concerning release, If it is something whose demand from the user is strong, examining release When it is good You think very favorablily. For the SCEI many developer ??? and the developer ??? In egg Because it becomes asset to open the gate door widely, is. Very now, potential of P S2 the ? which is 256% pulling the uninformed ? our Voice is gathered, It makes the waist lift where the SCEI is heavy is not or (^^)
People seem to forget that being a monopoly is not illegal. At all. Regardless, Microsoft was shown to be a monopoly, and that does not seem to be being called into question. What is illegal is using that power of monopoly in areas where your monopoly does not exist. That is why forcing people to use your browser, attacking Netscape, by using your power as an operating system monopoly is wrong. Which is why the arguments that Microsoft's ``relevant market'' is operating systems only serve to strengthen the government's case.
Boy, I don't know, but it sounds a lot like the Kurosawa movie Ikiru, an excellent (duh!) non-medieval film about a very similar subject. If that sounded interesting to you (as it does to me), you should probably check Ikiru out. Plug over. Sorry to waste your time.
Because there is an unhealthy preponderance of Anime content on Slashdot. I'll bet that there are as many comic book geeks out there (myself included), but there are never any stories on that subject. It's just another, IMO, poor editorial decision on the part of the editors of this site that their personal pecadillos force certain subjects down our throats. Obviously, I can ignore this if I want to, but shouldn't all news for nerds get included, not just news for Taco, et al.?
It reminds me of an old Usenet joke. There should only be two newsgroups: alt.stuff.i.like and alt.stuff.i.dont.like.
I think that it has to do with wanting to be independent, but really ending up just following a different bellwether. There are so many people out there that voice the fact that they want to be original, and just end up falling into a smaller-than-mainstream crowd, which is no better. In order to co-opt a thought from Evan Dorkin, one of my favorite people in my small follow-the-crowd mentality:
A crowd of long haired people at a Soundgarden concert: ``We are all expressing our individuality!''
A crowd of short haired people at a Soungarden concert after Chris Cornell cut his hair: ``We are still expressing our individuality!''
I understand your point, but I think that there is a large amount of lousy stuff imported. I used to work at a comic book shop, which (as most do) quickly devolved into a comic book/anime/RPG/trading card/SF-Fantasy book store. I felt that it was part of my responsibility to know at least a passable amount about all of the things that we sold. So I watched way more Anime than I ever wanted to. I saw a moderate amount of good stuff. I also (first-hand, mind you) saw a lot of really bad stuff. Given -- the voiceover work in those that were dubbed was horrendous, and I'm sure that colored my perspective. At the same time, I grew up watching poorly dubbed Anime. Speed Racer, Robotech, etc. And other poorly voice-acted work. Most of the late 60s Marvel cartoons come to mind. And the old Justice League cartoon. (As an adult, there's little funnier than imagining Ted Baxter out of the blue saying to Mary Richards: ``Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice...''. I giggle thinking about it.)
Anyway, we quickly became a haven for Anime geeks of all rationales. We were pretty much the only place in town. Before long, an Anime fan club popped up. Or maybe it existed before and became prominent. I don't really know. They started having screenings of every piece of Anime known to mankind. We were inundated by a load of idiots that could speak of nothing but the Anime they saw last night. If one could believe them, it was all the best thing ever. I had seen some of it, and the majority is awful.
I'm speaking from a film buff's point of view, to some extent. I'm not one, but I aspire to be. While, on occasion, the stories or possibly even dialogue (again, it's hard to tell due to the poor translations and acting) are good to excellent, the filmmaking aspects of it are almost always atrocious. I understand the tropes involved in, for example, speed lines (they existed for many years prior in manga and were adapted with some success to Anime), but just using the same ones over and over again for no reason or benefit is simply bad filmmaking. And so many other things about them are just so bad.
I'm not saying that I don't like the occasional thing that is simply bad. You'll occasionally find me listening to some really cheesy music, or watching horrible sitcoms. All of us have our perverse streaks. But I don't evangelize those things as being good.
Okay, obviously I'm not an anime nut. I've got no inherent problem with those who are. But it just seems to me that almost everyone who is falls into one category. Everything drawn on Japanese soil is excellent.
This is simply untrue. I'll be the first to admit that there is some true quality anime out there. Akira happens to be a first-rate sci-fi action movie. But the idea that simply because something happens to use the same tropes over and over does not necessarily mean that it's good. Face it, amine is simply a sub-sub-medium. Not a genre, even. It's part of animation which is part of motion pictures which is part of visual art. (Okay, maybe I'm stretching it a little, but you get my point.)
I do happen to be a comic book freak. I truly enjoy the (sub-sub-)medium. I think that it provides many interesting storytelling techniques. However, there is an assload of utter and complete shit out there. And you know what? It's probably the same percentage of crap as in any other medium. Including Anime.
Honestly, if Slashdot readers want to continue reading about anime stuff, I am hardly the one to tell them that they shouldn't. I just find it hard to believe that there are that many nominally forward-thinking individuals that can continue to be scammed into believing that it's all good. There's nothing that's all good. It almost makes me want to believe that people are fooling themselves into thinking that way because they've invested so much of their lives in it that they can't let go now. Not that that's much better a reason.
Anyway, I suppose that this is not the correct forum for this, but I keep seeing all the unadulterated gushing coming from this forum, and I felt that I had to put a different spin on it. Or something.
Well, aren't the implicit rules for reporting security bugs to report it to the vendor and give them a while to fix it and then report it to the community? If so, this is the same thing. If it were just a mailing list totally internal to ISC, say, their developers list, no one would know, and nothing else would be different. I'm sure that if the guys internal to ISC find a big hole, the first thing they try to do is fix it, not let every script kiddie out there know. Now they're just letting some external developers know as well; plus you might be able to be privy, too.
As to the matter of money == evil, I'll not argue, regardless of my stance, but simply point out that the development of BIND9 has already been ``funded'' by a large group of corporations. I don't think that that funding goes simply for disks to write the source to....;)
Maybe it was coincidence for you, but maybe it was deja vu for the other couple, and you and your friend were merely ancillary requirements for their situation.
Makes you think about existentialism in a whole new light, when it's someone else's existence you're talking about, huh?
According to the American Heritage dictionary, via Dictionary.com, an operating system is:
Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to employ it easily.
And according to this article, we need to get rid of the OS in order to increase usablility? Me thinks that there's some serious trolling going on. Confusing OS with UI again. <sigh>
Sure, if you don't want to worry about dealing with internet email. There's no replacement on the horizon (besides Dan Bernstein's QMTP, which won't succeed because of politics, at least partially), and, IIRC, Exchange can't really deal with multi-subnet IP networks with its internal protocols. I could be wrong about that point, though.
Even Netscape... can't keep up, via open source, with expensive protocols like XSL
Then why does Netscape 6 comply with more web standards than any of its competitors?
companies are happy to except vanilla products like Apache and qmail, which do something simple, but do it efficiently
First off, accept, not except.
Apache is neither vanilla nor particularly efficient. It has more plugins, Apache Group, and third-party, than you can shake a stick at. It's way more variegated than Netscape or IIS, which I assume are your comparisons. And qmail certainly does one simple thing efficiently (deliver and receive via SMTP), but it does a lot more than that. QMTP again comes to mind; also it's built in forwarding mechanisms, available to admin and common user, and many others.
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In addition to the advantages mentioned above, it fully supports accessing the same maildrop by multiple clients at the same time, which UW only partially does (the last time I looked, anyway). It also doesn't have the innumerable security problems that UW had forever that gave IMAP a bad name. You can send mail directly to a maildrop other than your inbox, if you set the permissions on it. You can even share your maildrops with other users on the same system with a nice ACL system. They've recently implemented a deliver-time filtering system (that I haven't used yet), which fixes the one drawback that it ever had.
You should definitely go with Cyrus if you think you will ever have the need to access your mail from multiple places.
SAGE, the System Administrators' Guild, has a salary survey that you can have emailed to you. Of course, it only counts salaries of SAs, but it might give a somewhat reasonable idea of how different regions in the world pay technology professionals.
Mmm. Me used to use MBone for streaming video before you were a sparkle in the milkman's eye, jackass.
Oddly, I was actually curious about what happened to it, thought that it might be relevant to the discussion, as it used to be a hotbed for developers dealing with streaming video.
Do people hang out waiting to find any excuse to flame? I think you need a new outlet for your rage. On the other hand, at least this is reasonably non-violent.
Ummm, how is a question regarding an Internet-based IP multicast backbone that was used to send streaming media (amongst other things, but that was a primary feature) offtopic to a post about streaming media?
Whatever happened to the MBone? I was never technically associated with it, but I did play with it while I was working at a major ISP/Internet backbone, and it was a great idea. But any web sites you find on it these days are either gone or terribly outdated.
If you're talking about the proof of age stuff, then you're certainly correct. However, I was talking about a more recent ruling (like 1-2 years ago) that actually makes it illegal to portray characters as being underage. And then, to cover their butts, producers make sure that anyone that looks like they might be underage specifically state that they're not in the context of the movie.
This seems to have made life tough for some of the starlets whose claim to fame was that they looked underage, like Little Cinderella, who you might know as the cocaine overdosing ``Lady Friend'' of Colonel James in Boogie Nights.
There was a ruling a while back that porn movies could not state (or imply, maybe?) that the characters in the movie were underage, regardless of the age of the performer. In fact, you'll see a lot of the young-looking perfomers explicitly stating their age (or some legal age) in the film, so as to avoid this ruling.
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I used to religiously use tcsh, as well, because of it's very nice interactive feature set. But I always hated having to write my short little interactive scripts in csh syntax. And sometimes I was unable to do things (although tcsh is a little better than csh in that regard). I refused to use bash because of its vast incompatibilities with not just ksh, but even plain Bourne shell. Not to mention some interactive annoyances (My favorite example -- If I want to get a listing of all the files that match what I've type in so far, I can type Ctrl-D in both tcsh and zsh. In bash, I have to hit Tab twice. And the first one looks for a single matching file, but fails (which I already knew it would) and beeps at me. As if I've done something wrong. Aargh!) Then I found zsh. It truly is Nirvana. You should try switching. You'll have some minor trouble getting your aliases ported over and getting used to using Bourne/Korn syntax, but within a month, you'll love it.
Just to jump on the bandwagon, my favorite feature is that zsh will expand wildcards entered on the command line.
So you can type ``rm -rf *'', then hit <Tab>, and go back and delete that one thing you want to leave.
I don't know a hell of a lot about the proposed authorization scheme, but it seems to me that if you have to get authorization every time you start such an app (which would make sense to me, coming from Microsoft's addled brain), then it would be easy for someone to DoS your copy of Office or whatever. All you'd need to do is flood a network with a load of NAKs (again, assuming stuff I know nothing about). Of course, it should be equally possible to fake the ACKs, but is a legitimate company going to know how to do this if its small, or be able to convince its management, if it's large, that this is the only way to get their copies of Word to work, even though its intentionally hacking Microsoft's security measures?
The Linux which operates with the Playstatio n2
Signature motion in order to have releasing
- Aim 10,000 people -
As for here, Play station 2So it operates Linux SONY computer entertainment(Sceinc. ) GPL(Part LGPLSo yes) So it is a page of signature motion in order for you to release. This As for page, freely phosphorus The ? you doing, it does not care.
Signature of 10,000 cases (getting together truly at the point in time when?) does get together, First 1st report SCE Inc. You do. After that you think according to situation, but in the world If signature 100,000 can be gathered, you want to end with you think, It does.
As for the one which you can approve to the gist below, the button which " signs " Please push. Gist of this signature motion
The demand for SONY computer entertainment
The Linux which operates at play station 2 GPLOr LGPLWith you say Please release with the license.
2000 (Heisei 12) year March 4th, SONY computer entering ? From ? men To (or less SCEI) As for the Playstatio n2 (below P S2) which is sold, that the entering ? which is superior Men To performances and, Abundance of the software property which from the Playstation (1) is succeeded? Japan furthermore it is large in the world as the game machine for home Support is received.
Development environment and the test system of P S2 with the Linux structure It is done, With one for development P S2 with ICE environment also Linux environment activating It was known from relatively quick time. Various software which begin the Linux and the gcc Becoming something whose reliability is high by the fact that it is an open source ?, That vis-a-vis the development early unstable hardware The P S2 development person in charge of the SCEI that you adopt was a reason which is enough, Comment It became topic.
P when S2 you appraise, as the computer As for operational processing performance of 3 D graphics general foam/home u By comparison with the PC It is high you do not apply very, In the mass product effect which the consumer game machine has Depending, It has the cost performance which projects. For example with this especially, the distributed connected ? of 3 D graphics Client for ??, Visualization of physical model simulation, The kiosk terminal which is installed in the street corner, the for data exhibition room of the museum Terminal etc Effective utilization manner is expected with a wider use.
Presently, the software for P S2 Only the specific development company which concludes the SCEI and various permission contracts opening It is possible, it is limited, It is difficult for the general user which does not designate the development of P S2 as the raw industry to procure Is. But, the Linux and the gcc which become base of P S2 development environment Being an open source, the Linux which is already worked with P S2 exists ? especially You must observe.
As for the SCEI the Linux for P S2 (the open source ?? which is begun ) Concerning release, If it is something whose demand from the user is strong, examining release When it is good You think very favorablily. For the SCEI many developer ??? and the developer ??? In egg Because it becomes asset to open the gate door widely, is. Very now, potential of P S2 the ? which is 256% pulling the uninformed ? our Voice is gathered, It makes the waist lift where the SCEI is heavy is not or (^^)
People seem to forget that being a monopoly is not illegal. At all. Regardless, Microsoft was shown to be a monopoly, and that does not seem to be being called into question. What is illegal is using that power of monopoly in areas where your monopoly does not exist. That is why forcing people to use your browser, attacking Netscape, by using your power as an operating system monopoly is wrong. Which is why the arguments that Microsoft's ``relevant market'' is operating systems only serve to strengthen the government's case.
Boy, I don't know, but it sounds a lot like the Kurosawa movie Ikiru , an excellent (duh!) non-medieval film about a very similar subject. If that sounded interesting to you (as it does to me), you should probably check Ikiru out. Plug over. Sorry to waste your time.
It reminds me of an old Usenet joke. There should only be two newsgroups: alt.stuff.i.like and alt.stuff.i.dont.like.
A crowd of long haired people at a Soundgarden concert: ``We are all expressing our individuality!''
A crowd of short haired people at a Soungarden concert after Chris Cornell cut his hair: ``We are still expressing our individuality!''
Anyway, we quickly became a haven for Anime geeks of all rationales. We were pretty much the only place in town. Before long, an Anime fan club popped up. Or maybe it existed before and became prominent. I don't really know. They started having screenings of every piece of Anime known to mankind. We were inundated by a load of idiots that could speak of nothing but the Anime they saw last night. If one could believe them, it was all the best thing ever. I had seen some of it, and the majority is awful.
I'm speaking from a film buff's point of view, to some extent. I'm not one, but I aspire to be. While, on occasion, the stories or possibly even dialogue (again, it's hard to tell due to the poor translations and acting) are good to excellent, the filmmaking aspects of it are almost always atrocious. I understand the tropes involved in, for example, speed lines (they existed for many years prior in manga and were adapted with some success to Anime), but just using the same ones over and over again for no reason or benefit is simply bad filmmaking. And so many other things about them are just so bad.
I'm not saying that I don't like the occasional thing that is simply bad. You'll occasionally find me listening to some really cheesy music, or watching horrible sitcoms. All of us have our perverse streaks. But I don't evangelize those things as being good.
This is simply untrue. I'll be the first to admit that there is some true quality anime out there. Akira happens to be a first-rate sci-fi action movie. But the idea that simply because something happens to use the same tropes over and over does not necessarily mean that it's good. Face it, amine is simply a sub-sub-medium. Not a genre, even. It's part of animation which is part of motion pictures which is part of visual art. (Okay, maybe I'm stretching it a little, but you get my point.)
I do happen to be a comic book freak. I truly enjoy the (sub-sub-)medium. I think that it provides many interesting storytelling techniques. However, there is an assload of utter and complete shit out there. And you know what? It's probably the same percentage of crap as in any other medium. Including Anime.
Honestly, if Slashdot readers want to continue reading about anime stuff, I am hardly the one to tell them that they shouldn't. I just find it hard to believe that there are that many nominally forward-thinking individuals that can continue to be scammed into believing that it's all good. There's nothing that's all good. It almost makes me want to believe that people are fooling themselves into thinking that way because they've invested so much of their lives in it that they can't let go now. Not that that's much better a reason.
Anyway, I suppose that this is not the correct forum for this, but I keep seeing all the unadulterated gushing coming from this forum, and I felt that I had to put a different spin on it. Or something.
Rant over. Sorry.
As to the matter of money == evil, I'll not argue, regardless of my stance, but simply point out that the development of BIND9 has already been ``funded'' by a large group of corporations. I don't think that that funding goes simply for disks to write the source to.... ;)
Makes you think about existentialism in a whole new light, when it's someone else's existence you're talking about, huh?
Does that leave anyone in the CDE X/Open world?
Apache is neither vanilla nor particularly efficient. It has more plugins, Apache Group, and third-party, than you can shake a stick at. It's way more variegated than Netscape or IIS, which I assume are your comparisons. And qmail certainly does one simple thing efficiently (deliver and receive via SMTP), but it does a lot more than that. QMTP again comes to mind; also it's built in forwarding mechanisms, available to admin and common user, and many others.
... are perl compilation errors.
In addition to the advantages mentioned above, it fully supports accessing the same maildrop by multiple clients at the same time, which UW only partially does (the last time I looked, anyway). It also doesn't have the innumerable security problems that UW had forever that gave IMAP a bad name. You can send mail directly to a maildrop other than your inbox, if you set the permissions on it. You can even share your maildrops with other users on the same system with a nice ACL system. They've recently implemented a deliver-time filtering system (that I haven't used yet), which fixes the one drawback that it ever had.
You should definitely go with Cyrus if you think you will ever have the need to access your mail from multiple places.
SAGE, the System Administrators' Guild, has a salary survey that you can have emailed to you. Of course, it only counts salaries of SAs, but it might give a somewhat reasonable idea of how different regions in the world pay technology professionals.
But, honestly, you did forget one of his best, Empire of the Sun.
Also, Kubrick put out some real stinkers, too. Eyes Wide Shut comes immediately to mind.
Oddly, I was actually curious about what happened to it, thought that it might be relevant to the discussion, as it used to be a hotbed for developers dealing with streaming video.
Do people hang out waiting to find any excuse to flame? I think you need a new outlet for your rage. On the other hand, at least this is reasonably non-violent.
Everyone else, sorry for the rant.
Ummm, how is a question regarding an Internet-based IP multicast backbone that was used to send streaming media (amongst other things, but that was a primary feature) offtopic to a post about streaming media?
Whatever happened to the MBone? I was never technically associated with it, but I did play with it while I was working at a major ISP/Internet backbone, and it was a great idea. But any web sites you find on it these days are either gone or terribly outdated.
But ... well ... you know.
This seems to have made life tough for some of the starlets whose claim to fame was that they looked underage, like Little Cinderella, who you might know as the cocaine overdosing ``Lady Friend'' of Colonel James in Boogie Nights.
There was a ruling a while back that porn movies could not state (or imply, maybe?) that the characters in the movie were underage, regardless of the age of the performer. In fact, you'll see a lot of the young-looking perfomers explicitly stating their age (or some legal age) in the film, so as to avoid this ruling.