I am quite saddened that this new system will not be Debian-based. One of the little joys of my n900 is that it is Debian underneath. I cannot imagine that switching to a Fedora base will make anything better, and I expect it will make many things worse.
Any moron can take programming classes and pass. Nobody knows that you're the A+ ace who ran through the textbooks in half the time as the other students and then built an AI to write your homework for you. On paper you just like like J. Random Fuckup who squeaked by with 61% because he managed to bribe you to do his final for him. Knowing that there are a lot more of Mr. Fuckup than of you, presuming you are not him, why on earth would you expect a company to hire you?
I'll tell you why: Somebody knows you're a genius, that somebody works for that company, or is friends with its decision makers, and this person goes to them and says "You've got to hire this kid, he's a genius and will be well worth the investment."
You may be the wiz-kid that's going to make Knuth like like a dope, but until you produce a few thousand lines of brilliant code no one is really going to know it. There are a few proven strategies to make it over this hurdle--becoming a valuable contributer to a high profile open source project is a good way--but most of them are hard, or time consuming, or both. Knowing someone who can recommend you is by far the easiest method.
Of course, maybe you don't know anyone. If that's the case your options narrow and my next best recommendation would be: Get any IT job. Be a phone answerer, or an on site technician. Yeah, it sucks, but it lets you (occasionally) rub elbows with people who have the potential to recognize your genius. It also lets you (occasionally) rub elbows with problems that could be solved by writing a brilliant piece of software. If one day you see one and you write one, then maybe you'll be able to see it adopted. You know what that is? That's something that looks good on a resume: I produced some software in my spare time which went on to be adopted by the whole fucking company and now saves thousands of dollars in productivity every month. That tells a prospective employer that/this/ resume may be worth a callback, and even though HR wont know what that shit means it lets you add a bullet under "Experience"--which is good, because they often take that "15 years of.NET development" crap seriously.
I've been predicting for a couple of years now that most software will go this way, sooner or later. On the server side per-daemon jails are not unheard of and switching to per-daemon VMs seems like a logical isolation maneuver. Doing it for user apps presents considerably more challenge, but I expect it to happen. It will probably be Apple who does it first, since they have already embraced isolating all app resources (.app bundles) even if it's not yet a 100% solution.
Mark my words: Within 10 years double-clicking an icon to launch an app in its own VM will be normal. The system will eventually make it so seamless that your average user doesn't know that's what's going on; he'll just see a window as usual.
Better be careful with permissions and umask settings or your downloaded files won't be readable/writable by your regular user. Some kind of auto(or easy)-chown would really be ideal here.
I understand the value of SSO and all that stuff, but I can't say I'm an expert in the field. Can someone who knows something about SSO and OpenSSO give me an idea as to whether or not I should even care that OpenSSO has been killed?
Was it especially novel? Was it used by anybody? Did it work well? How does it compare to other, similar solutions? *Do we, the open source community, need this?*
I know this, which is why I asked. The article is on an American web site about a European event and has a submitter whose nationality is not known. I assumed, as an American, that tabled meant set aside... yet the summary was implying that something was being added. It took me, who is aware of the issue, a moment to catch the probable true meaning. Many people will be confused.
Novell really needs to ramp up their marketing, a la the Goldfish/David Bowie "Change" commercial. SuSE is a solid product with a much more mature configuration interface than RedHat, at much lower support contract fees.
I'm sorry, you must be new to Novell. They had a solid, superior product called Netware, too. Then they had a solid, superior product called NDS (and later called eDirectory). Then they had a solid, superior product called ZenWorks for Desktops. Every time they hit their mark on the technical, being as good as or better than the competition (and usually sooner to market) but then totally fail to market it, advertise it, and advocate it.
The history of Novell for the last decade and a half is a history of missed opportunities and ghastly fumbles.
Tron was a fine adventure, but to call it a good hacker movie is like calling Star Wars good science fiction. War Games, and to a certain extent Sneakers, portrayed thing realistically. I've never heard of a program kissing another program.
This is true but I think the degree to which computers are portrayed unrealistically is much greater then for most things.
Cars in movies are generally depicted with four tires, a steering wheel, windows, a radio, etc.. People are familiar with them so mistakes in this area are not common. Computers, however, are rarely depicted accurately. In the last decade or so the physical device has gotten better--mostly, though why all people need three 20+ inch LCDs is beyond me--but what's on the screen has remained very bad. It's almost as if no one cares to even *try* to make computers realistic, unlike most other cases where they try but get some of the facts wrong.
The person's themselves may be realistic in terms of age and profession, but nothing else is well treated. Movies continue to routinely portray unrealistic and nonsensical computer interactions and capabilities, which is particularly harmful to a depiction of a hacker.
I've seen software like that before. In one case, where the dongle was on a parallel port, we discovered that if you cornered the right support guy he'd tell you which registry key to set to the cryptographic hash from the device... and then you didn't need it.
It's only okay to give things away if you assign them to the public domain so that companies can take them and re-sell them with slight modifications for right and just capitalist profit.
There are some other nice things about solaris/opensolaris. Linux distributions could learn a lot about integration from looking at how solaris solves some of its problems. Not that they're perfect, but compared to Linux "throw everything in a big pile" distributions it's better.
This problem was solved--correctly--years ago, and by Sun no less! You want OpenFirmware, though sadly that Intel went all NIH and is pushing EFI for x86 instead, which is similar but not nearly as good.
I am not in the camp of CoR haters, but if you think this was a good Sci-Fi film you are out of your mind.
In the first place it's not Sci-Fi, it's action adventure. It may have a futuristic setting but futuristic is not the sole requirement of Sci-Fi! As an action adventure movie it's decent, but as a sequel to Pitch Black it sucks due to character butchery and cosmic mission creep (big time!) and small-universe syndrome. As Sci-Fi it sucks because it says almost nothing about science or society (in fact more is said about both of those things in your average James Bond movie).
Letting market forces deal with the bandwidth would be fine if there were any real broadband competition out there. Most people in the U.S. have two broadband choices, DSL through their telco or cable through their cableco. A few (very few) are lucky enough to have a third choice (like Fiber optic through FIOS or similar). With competition being so limited, their is little incentive to build up the system--particularly to rural areas where a user's only broadband option may be satellite (if you can even call that "broadband").
Or they're like me and have one choice: Cable. My telco provides dial up and nothing more. I pay $100/mo for 15Mbit down, most people pay about half for 7Mbit down. There is no faster service plan. There is no DSL or FIOS unless you live a few miles away.
The other choices are: broadband over the cellular network (capped at 5G a month) or satellite (high latency, also capped).
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I am quite saddened that this new system will not be Debian-based. One of the little joys of my n900 is that it is Debian underneath. I cannot imagine that switching to a Fedora base will make anything better, and I expect it will make many things worse.
Insert some appropriate joke here.
Any moron can take programming classes and pass. Nobody knows that you're the A+ ace who ran through the textbooks in half the time as the other students and then built an AI to write your homework for you. On paper you just like like J. Random Fuckup who squeaked by with 61% because he managed to bribe you to do his final for him. Knowing that there are a lot more of Mr. Fuckup than of you, presuming you are not him, why on earth would you expect a company to hire you?
I'll tell you why: Somebody knows you're a genius, that somebody works for that company, or is friends with its decision makers, and this person goes to them and says "You've got to hire this kid, he's a genius and will be well worth the investment."
You may be the wiz-kid that's going to make Knuth like like a dope, but until you produce a few thousand lines of brilliant code no one is really going to know it. There are a few proven strategies to make it over this hurdle--becoming a valuable contributer to a high profile open source project is a good way--but most of them are hard, or time consuming, or both. Knowing someone who can recommend you is by far the easiest method.
Of course, maybe you don't know anyone. If that's the case your options narrow and my next best recommendation would be: Get any IT job. Be a phone answerer, or an on site technician. Yeah, it sucks, but it lets you (occasionally) rub elbows with people who have the potential to recognize your genius. It also lets you (occasionally) rub elbows with problems that could be solved by writing a brilliant piece of software. If one day you see one and you write one, then maybe you'll be able to see it adopted. You know what that is? That's something that looks good on a resume: I produced some software in my spare time which went on to be adopted by the whole fucking company and now saves thousands of dollars in productivity every month. That tells a prospective employer that /this/ resume may be worth a callback, and even though HR wont know what that shit means it lets you add a bullet under "Experience"--which is good, because they often take that "15 years of .NET development" crap seriously.
...and in 5 years it will still be 5 years away. Welcome to AI research! Enjoy your stay.
I hope she has the equipment.
Wait, what kind of equipment?
My kingdom for mod points.
I've been predicting for a couple of years now that most software will go this way, sooner or later. On the server side per-daemon jails are not unheard of and switching to per-daemon VMs seems like a logical isolation maneuver. Doing it for user apps presents considerably more challenge, but I expect it to happen. It will probably be Apple who does it first, since they have already embraced isolating all app resources (.app bundles) even if it's not yet a 100% solution.
Mark my words: Within 10 years double-clicking an icon to launch an app in its own VM will be normal. The system will eventually make it so seamless that your average user doesn't know that's what's going on; he'll just see a window as usual.
Better be careful with permissions and umask settings or your downloaded files won't be readable/writable by your regular user. Some kind of auto(or easy)-chown would really be ideal here.
Do I need to care about this at all?
I understand the value of SSO and all that stuff, but I can't say I'm an expert in the field. Can someone who knows something about SSO and OpenSSO give me an idea as to whether or not I should even care that OpenSSO has been killed?
Was it especially novel? Was it used by anybody? Did it work well? How does it compare to other, similar solutions? *Do we, the open source community, need this?*
Probably about the same time all those advertisements started popping up.
Rigid conformity? Yes, it's clear you've never been to /b/
I know this, which is why I asked. The article is on an American web site about a European event and has a submitter whose nationality is not known. I assumed, as an American, that tabled meant set aside... yet the summary was implying that something was being added. It took me, who is aware of the issue, a moment to catch the probable true meaning. Many people will be confused.
A joint resolution has been tabled
Whose "tabled" is that? Is that "brought forward" or "set aside"?
Novell really needs to ramp up their marketing, a la the Goldfish/David Bowie "Change" commercial. SuSE is a solid product with a much more mature configuration interface than RedHat, at much lower support contract fees.
I'm sorry, you must be new to Novell. They had a solid, superior product called Netware, too. Then they had a solid, superior product called NDS (and later called eDirectory). Then they had a solid, superior product called ZenWorks for Desktops. Every time they hit their mark on the technical, being as good as or better than the competition (and usually sooner to market) but then totally fail to market it, advertise it, and advocate it.
The history of Novell for the last decade and a half is a history of missed opportunities and ghastly fumbles.
Perl DBI is pretty good about this, AFAICT. Of course it is only generic for some values of generic...
Tron was a fine adventure, but to call it a good hacker movie is like calling Star Wars good science fiction. War Games, and to a certain extent Sneakers, portrayed thing realistically. I've never heard of a program kissing another program.
In fact Sneakers is probably the best hacker movie to date. Wargames is certainly in the top five, too.
This is true but I think the degree to which computers are portrayed unrealistically is much greater then for most things.
Cars in movies are generally depicted with four tires, a steering wheel, windows, a radio, etc.. People are familiar with them so mistakes in this area are not common. Computers, however, are rarely depicted accurately. In the last decade or so the physical device has gotten better--mostly, though why all people need three 20+ inch LCDs is beyond me--but what's on the screen has remained very bad. It's almost as if no one cares to even *try* to make computers realistic, unlike most other cases where they try but get some of the facts wrong.
The person's themselves may be realistic in terms of age and profession, but nothing else is well treated. Movies continue to routinely portray unrealistic and nonsensical computer interactions and capabilities, which is particularly harmful to a depiction of a hacker.
I've seen software like that before. In one case, where the dongle was on a parallel port, we discovered that if you cornered the right support guy he'd tell you which registry key to set to the cryptographic hash from the device... and then you didn't need it.
It's only okay to give things away if you assign them to the public domain so that companies can take them and re-sell them with slight modifications for right and just capitalist profit.
There are some other nice things about solaris/opensolaris. Linux distributions could learn a lot about integration from looking at how solaris solves some of its problems. Not that they're perfect, but compared to Linux "throw everything in a big pile" distributions it's better.
And of course there's DTrace. too.
This problem was solved--correctly--years ago, and by Sun no less! You want OpenFirmware, though sadly that Intel went all NIH and is pushing EFI for x86 instead, which is similar but not nearly as good.
I am not in the camp of CoR haters, but if you think this was a good Sci-Fi film you are out of your mind.
In the first place it's not Sci-Fi, it's action adventure. It may have a futuristic setting but futuristic is not the sole requirement of Sci-Fi! As an action adventure movie it's decent, but as a sequel to Pitch Black it sucks due to character butchery and cosmic mission creep (big time!) and small-universe syndrome. As Sci-Fi it sucks because it says almost nothing about science or society (in fact more is said about both of those things in your average James Bond movie).
Letting market forces deal with the bandwidth would be fine if there were any real broadband competition out there. Most people in the U.S. have two broadband choices, DSL through their telco or cable through their cableco. A few (very few) are lucky enough to have a third choice (like Fiber optic through FIOS or similar). With competition being so limited, their is little incentive to build up the system--particularly to rural areas where a user's only broadband option may be satellite (if you can even call that "broadband").
Or they're like me and have one choice: Cable. My telco provides dial up and nothing more. I pay $100/mo for 15Mbit down, most people pay about half for 7Mbit down. There is no faster service plan. There is no DSL or FIOS unless you live a few miles away.
The other choices are: broadband over the cellular network (capped at 5G a month) or satellite (high latency, also capped).