Hmm well sort of.. it actually is build on the mach kernel which was a fork of bsd way back when.
Of course this is NET-BSD not BSD. FreeBSD I believe has had SMP support for a while now. FreeBSD is more like Darwin / Mac OS X than NetBSD. Also they are referring to the i386 which is way different from Mac which uses the motorola processor.
NetBSD runs on just about all processors out there, does Mac OS X? No and neither does FreeBSD. That is what the whole NetBSD project is about. Mac OS X is about a pretty gui on the foundations of UNIX / BSD. Kinda about time someone did what Mac did, but then again about a year before Apple announced their plans of OS X I suggested that someone put a nice GUI on UNIX. Guess what. They listened and now everyone is really taking to Mac.
I agree. I am glad and others should be that Redhat has chosen to GPL their installer and to give away their compilation of packages like they do (download it or get a cdrom from linuxcentral or some other soure).
I think people who may be against this 'unified look' have missed the point. They obviously are NEW to Linux. In the past there were and still are many many different window managers, blackbox, windowmaker, sawfish or mill, "E", wm2, kde, gnome, etc. The problem is that if you have a program writen for one of these then it would in the past look different depending on what window manager you were using. People complained about this! Now RH has found a way to make it so that it does not matter if you choose kde or gnome, but that their os config tools will look like they are 'native' in both. This is what people wanted years ago. For KDE and gnome to play nice. Now I can write a program thanks to thier work in gtk+, or gtk--, or qt and have it run in both kde and gnome and look okay under the theme.
What they have done does not stop you from installing your OWN theme does it? I think this is a good thing and not a bad thing cause now when I get RH 8 I can use the APPS of my chice and the wm of my choice and have things all look like they belong on the same desktop. Oh and don't think I wont change things cause its Linux, and YOU can.
WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!! BSD started out as an add onn to UNIX. From an article that is still hopefully here -> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,555451, 00.asp
"Here are the origins of BSD and the operating systems it has spawned. BSD stands for "Berkeley Software Distribution," the name first given to the University of California at Berkeley's own toolkit of enhancements for the UNIX operating system. Created by the students and faculty, BSD was not part of UNIX itself, which was created by Bell Labs. Rather, it was a widely distributed package of software enhancements for UNIX -- a supplement that made the operating system, which was originally strictly a research vehicle, useful in the real world"
It is therefore very much like UNIX but it is not UNIX.
I don't smoke pot either, and I have no problem with the use of it for medicinal purposes. I actually agree with your point of the FED gov stepping over the states right. That was kinda my point.
Actually the leash laws in SF are not a matter of park rules, but they are a matter of the health code.
Yes it was one widely publisized event, however there are many many more unpublisized. Also we are talking voice control over a dog. There were dog owners that said themselves that if a dog is going to do something it is going to do it no matter how many times you call it.
There is another case where a group of children were playing and the guy who was in charge of the kids asked someone to leaseh their dog. Instead the guy with the dog threw a ball into the group of children and one of the kids ended up being bitten by the dog and in the hospital. The owner of the dog then ran and took his dog. The police found him because the guy dropped his dog off at a friends house. The friend heard about the incident and called the police.
There are other cases that we do not hear about about people who take their kids to parks and the dogs knock over the kids, bit the kids and all sorts of other things happen.
There are places designated as dog walking parks, but they are underused. To me this would seem that we are going to put a priority on dogs over children. So SF would become a city for dog owners more than for people with children.
I was approched while eating by a dog a few days ago, and I was not even in a dog park, but in front of restaurant eating outside. I was sitting below a sign that said "ALL DOGS MUST BE ON A LEASE". This gods owner was inside eatting and the dog was outside with NO leash. This is the type of behavior that I see from dog owners today. When I was growing up people who wanted big dogs lived in the suburbs not cities so that they would have pletnty of places for their dogs to run.
no kidding... I guess I am amazed at what is going on in CA theses days.
In SF where a woman was killed in the hallway exiting her apartment, BY A DOG that was on a leash, there is now (today) a proposal to make ALL parks in SF off leash areas for owners of dogs. These are parks where almost all have signs now that say that they are NOT off leash areas. People do not obey the signs now, and kids have been bitten by dogs off leash. The law would be if you can control your dog by voice. How vague is that? What about health codes. Dogs urinating and defecating on the fields where children play. Hmm I'd have to wonder if that would spread some new diseases, like discentary.
In CA, gov GD is or has signed a bill that would make stem cell research leagal in CA from ANY source even though this is against the fed gov. Hmm how does that one work?
In CA there are places where it is legal to grow pot, even though it is against fed law. So the state says its okay, but the feds will come in and arrest you. So much for state laws.
So they pick linking to a web site the time to obey fed law.
Does any one else see a problem with the way the CA is acting in all these cases?
Personally I am worried about the US being so scared about loosing our freedoms that we let our federal and state goverments take them away from us one by one.
Yeah and then management always wonders why the product sucks and the developers stil can't figure out how to make life easier. At least that's what's happening where I work. Problem is usually solved if you have a good VP of Eng or DEv Team Lead that can speak up and not get fired and make people realize why things can or cannot happen and why the deadline will need to be extended.
that tells that that they need to upgrade their browser, but that does not guarantee that they will. Before mozilla was really stable I was using Netscape 4 adn told to get IE and just left the site as I could not see it.
SGI's IRIX is slowly going away. I'd have to disagree with your statement about them. I think that they are going to be dropping IRIX in the future. I also wonder if they are doing any development on IRIX or just supporting their existing client base.
Sun on the other hand will probably stay around for a while as will HP.
AIX is slowly going away.
Mac just released OS X.2 and while it is BSD and not really UNIX it is UNIX like enough to be considered something that is not going away. The other BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) will probably stay around as well because they are open source and someone will want them for something. They are all pretty good in one way or another.
Linux has a few more years to go before it 'stabalizes' into a less of a moving target. Code that worked on 2.0 may or may not work on 2.2 or 2.4. This lack of backward compatiblity is one of the big problems many people I have talked have with Linux. Which version do I port to and how much maintenace do I have to do. Then how do I support all the 'flavors'? What works on SuSE may or may not work on RedHat or Slackware or debian.
1) Linux needs to become and move 1 good package mangerment system. RPM is okay, but not good enough. It should be smart enought to get and resolve all dependancies from not only what is installed through rpm, but also what is not installed through rpm, much like BSD ports system works. Also one should be able to remove the package and its dependancies if they so desire without breaking the system. I think apt-get does this, but never used it. I know BSD system can.
2) GUI desktop. While KDE and GNOME are great in their own right, they really need to be only 1. End users don't care that much about the GUI as long as it is easy and User Friendly. Look at cell phones and pda these days. They are for the most part fairly easy to use. I really think the desktop as we know it will disappear in the not so distant future. It will become more user friendly. People wont program with a text editor they will have a gui that generates ALL the code for them. If they have a file they will describe the format of the file and the editor wil deal with the fopen(), fread(), structure declaration, and fclose() and all that crap for them efficiently. You'll get home touch the screen on the computer and it will get your mail or check your appointments. You will have the option of writing, or using an onscreen keyboard, or voice to enter in data. While I know that there are people here that love the command line, there are more that don't. Why do you think that we have GUI in the first place? So that people can do things easier.
How do you get the end user to upgrade their browsr?
Granted many people are using Winblows and IEEEEEEE or mozilla / netscape 6+, but there is still that percentage of people that are not, or will stay on Win 98 / NT 4 until they can no longer.
What about getting all the pages out in cyber space to upgrade to this standard????
Now the browsers will have to support 2 standards, the new one and the old ones, or have many pages just plain unviewable.
worse case scenerio, M$ building blows up, or there is an earthquake that destroys all of M$ offices in Seattle. They loose all of the source code. Then where will all the M$ users be? Scrabling to port and migrate to open formats that is where. It is a bad idea to have all 90% of the world using IE and Word and MS OS. Its like putting all the eggs in one basket.
Personally I now see no reason to use M$, I do everything at home under Linux and don't futz with my box that often. Last time I did any configuration chage was when 2.4.19 came out and that change was basically patch and make. Who really needs the 10 million features in word anyway?
we have this.. basically one of the guys I work with wrote it. It is basically like cvs only it locks files when you check them out. It also has a database where it stores what version was checked out and what was checked in and other such information like the comment and the date and who did the change. You can then use isql to view the info. Then I have a script that can diff 2 revisions. I am thinking that this would be useful to others and maybe seeing if we can sell this solution.
It is specifically for designing #d views of places. My friend used it to design models of a building and layouts of what the place would look like had they chose other buildings. It has furnature and you can reshape the furnature. It has textures so you can panel a room, paint it or whatever and you can then get snapshots of the rooms. They make more than one package and one may be right for you. It is worth a look. I know my friend like it a lot.
I almost forgot. They filed in 1999. ANY EMAIL program that does forwarding would be prior art to this. Hmm like when did Netscape add email to their product first? Oh that's right I was using Eudora back then. They had forwarding and reply in 1994. I think that consists of enough prior art. Who wants to go after them?
HMM when did rfc 821 come out? I was under the impression that this first claim was just the simple mail transport protocol in 'legal' mumbo jumbo.
Isn't this what happens when you send an email to your ISP and it FORWARDS that email to the next system and so on? This is called relaying or something.
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MAIL FROM me
RCPT TO someone@uspto.gov
DATA
Date: today
From: me
To: someone@uspto.gov
Subject: your a bunch of idiots
Need I say more?
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QUIT
Hmm wont this get 'relayed' / 'forwarded' to them ???
You forgot the most import programming quesion of all. It seems that everyone misses this as well.
6) How do you debug a program and come up with a solution that will work? It may seem easy at first, oh I use a debugger or I use print statements. That is all fine in a situation where you can use a debugger or print, but what about black box debugging? What about gl accounting bugs? Or bugs that are formula driven, where you know the formula is correct but one of the inputs is getting messed up.
additionally you couls ask
7) Can they 'read' code?
Anyone can learn syntax, and style and how to read a book, but not everyone knows how to debug "other peoples" code. Also not everyone has worked on a large application where what may seem like a small change may actually have major reprecussions.
I have seen this here before and have worked on several systems that use something like this.
You need to code a db layer. The db layer should handle all the interaction with each database. In one case we used our db layer against db2, oracle, sybase, and another one I think called vsam(?).
The way you would do this is you would have a function to update, delete and insert to each table, and also get and reads. This would get ALL the fields of a table or you could get fancy and find a way to specify the fields of the table.
Something like #include
dbget(usertable, key); or dbread(usertable, key);
Yes something that simeple works. It gets all the fields in the table. If however you don't mind using vargs then you could have it take an sprintf format of dbget(usertable, key, fieldname1, fieldname2) and then get only those fields. This to me would be idea.
Ideally you would have a data dictionary that would store ALL the info on every table and all the fields and their sizes and types. Then using this you could have a perl script or C/C++ program (I'd do a script language a it may be easier IMHO) to read the data dictionary and output the necessary table.dat files that the programmers can then include and generate the necessary sql for the insert, update, delete, etc of the table data, also it would generate the necessary C/C++ API calls like the dbget() fns and the dbread() fns.
This is what most places I have been to do. They way that you update or add means that you need to set the fields in the included table.dat file to what you want and then you call the dbupdate(table); function and it uses the dat data.
In these include files you would have structure declarations that would define the layout of each table. Then the programmer would just need to declare a structure userstable mytable; and then user the db functions. This gives much flexability.
I interviewed with this company and it may help. They are called globalenglish.com, and they help people in other countries learn english. It may be possible to use this service to help you learn to 'hear' so to speak.
The basic principal is that you say the word or sentance and then it plays it back for you and also tells weather you are right or wrong. It uses IBM viavoice technology and runs with IE under windowns only so if you are not using IE/Windows it may not work for you. It is also a pay service.
Alternatively you could get via voice or something like that and proactice speaking and seeing how well it gets your speach and then playing it back.
One more thing would be the radio or tv. Listen to others speak on talk tv/radio may help. Music is also supposed to be good therapy..
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Yes there have been cases against spammers and laws against spaming, however most of them center around things like, you must have a valid return email address. Unfortunately if the spammer is not in the US then there is little way of prosecuting them. I get spam all the time from people with the 'enlage your p****' and 'see cindy take it up the a**' or watch me and my friends do blah blah.. Personaly I'm kind offended by this stuff. I also want to know when and where I 'opted in' to recieve some of that crap.
I also think that there could probably be proven intent in the case of the spammer sending porn spam to a 7yo. There are cases where guys have been arrested for chatting with someone or being with someone that they 'thought' was old enough, so why not the spammer who 'thinks his audience is old enough'?
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" true paedophilia if you knew someone that had suffered the latter".
Actuallly I do know people who have been victims of pedophilia. Also spaming is not illegal (in hte US), nor is spam that ends up in a 7 year olds email box (see FBI comment), unfortunately. Oh and people have been arrested for talking to 7 yo on line through chat and email, which is really what I am talking about. These people have been charged with pedophelia related crimes. So why not the spammer?
For isa pnp devices there is always pnpdump. This outputs the pnp devices.
For other isa hardware dmesg is probably your best bet. If you compile a kernel with most isa drivers in it it would detect the isa card and should put in the/proc filesystem info on the card. In the case of none pnp isa cards you can look at the jumpers and see what irq they are at. If it is a sound card and it is an old soundblaster it is probably irq 5 or 7. NIC, are probably 7 or 11. Most older hardware may not have usb either so that may not be a concern. I'd probably take a boot floppy and a cd.
Oh and if you watch your computer boot up the screen that flashes for a second or two has ALL The info about your hardware. In fact just going into the bios will in many cases tell you your CPU speed , your hard drive size (use the detect harddrive option) and many other things.
I still say dmesg will tell you lots, even isa stuff.
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This guy is a butt head!
He uses other peoples systems to spread his crap. He forgets that all this spam clutters up many mail servers and screws people who have to pay for their time on line.
Legally speaking, sending a 7-year-old an e-mail advertising hardcore pornography might be a nuisance, but it's not a crime, said Timothy Healy, chief of the FBI's Internet Fraud Complaint Center, based in Fairmont, W.Va. "There's not much we can do," he said.
This is not a crime, but talking to a 7 year old on line is? Hmm to me this would be one step away from pedophilia(did I spell that right?). What is the difference is you unknowningly send a 7 year old an email that has a URL to a porn site and says things like watch 2 girls do f***, or see cindy take it up the a**, and pedophilia?
Personally if I was their ISP I'd ban them from using my service. I know some ISP's do that. Maybe what we need is a list and take this list to the ISP and get them to ban these people from getting online. No service to spamers is a policy that some already have, if there was a list of people (maybe what is on the.org website that I can't get to right now) then we'd have less spam.
I'm not sure about the rest of/. but I am tired of my mailbox filling up with spam. I do like my new filters though, much of it goes straight to the trash. I still wish my ISP would let me set up my own personal filter rules on their system. Just for my own mailbox, so that I could delete some of these spam messages like the ones that have korean character sets that automaticly go to my trash on my local machine. This would actually cut my spam downloads by about 70%.
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Of course this is NET-BSD not BSD. FreeBSD I believe has had SMP support for a while now. FreeBSD is more like Darwin / Mac OS X than NetBSD. Also they are referring to the i386 which is way different from Mac which uses the motorola processor.
NetBSD runs on just about all processors out there, does Mac OS X? No and neither does FreeBSD. That is what the whole NetBSD project is about. Mac OS X is about a pretty gui on the foundations of UNIX / BSD. Kinda about time someone did what Mac did, but then again about a year before Apple announced their plans of OS X I suggested that someone put a nice GUI on UNIX. Guess what. They listened and now everyone is really taking to Mac.
I think people who may be against this 'unified look' have missed the point. They obviously are NEW to Linux. In the past there were and still are many many different window managers, blackbox, windowmaker, sawfish or mill, "E", wm2, kde, gnome, etc. The problem is that if you have a program writen for one of these then it would in the past look different depending on what window manager you were using. People complained about this! Now RH has found a way to make it so that it does not matter if you choose kde or gnome, but that their os config tools will look like they are 'native' in both. This is what people wanted years ago. For KDE and gnome to play nice. Now I can write a program thanks to thier work in gtk+, or gtk--, or qt and have it run in both kde and gnome and look okay under the theme.
What they have done does not stop you from installing your OWN theme does it? I think this is a good thing and not a bad thing cause now when I get RH 8 I can use the APPS of my chice and the wm of my choice and have things all look like they belong on the same desktop. Oh and don't think I wont change things cause its Linux, and YOU can.
WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!! BSD started out as an add onn to UNIX. From an article that is still hopefully here -> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,555451, 00.asp
"Here are the origins of BSD and the operating systems it has spawned. BSD stands for "Berkeley Software Distribution," the name first given to the University of California at Berkeley's own toolkit of enhancements for the UNIX operating system. Created by the students and faculty, BSD was not part of UNIX itself, which was created by Bell Labs. Rather, it was a widely distributed package of software enhancements for UNIX -- a supplement that made the operating system, which was originally strictly a research vehicle, useful in the real world"
It is therefore very much like UNIX but it is not UNIX.
I don't smoke pot either, and I have no problem with the use of it for medicinal purposes. I actually agree with your point of the FED gov stepping over the states right. That was kinda my point.
Yes it was one widely publisized event, however there are many many more unpublisized. Also we are talking voice control over a dog. There were dog owners that said themselves that if a dog is going to do something it is going to do it no matter how many times you call it.
There is another case where a group of children were playing and the guy who was in charge of the kids asked someone to leaseh their dog. Instead the guy with the dog threw a ball into the group of children and one of the kids ended up being bitten by the dog and in the hospital. The owner of the dog then ran and took his dog. The police found him because the guy dropped his dog off at a friends house. The friend heard about the incident and called the police.
There are other cases that we do not hear about about people who take their kids to parks and the dogs knock over the kids, bit the kids and all sorts of other things happen.
There are places designated as dog walking parks, but they are underused. To me this would seem that we are going to put a priority on dogs over children. So SF would become a city for dog owners more than for people with children.
I was approched while eating by a dog a few days ago, and I was not even in a dog park, but in front of restaurant eating outside. I was sitting below a sign that said "ALL DOGS MUST BE ON A LEASE". This gods owner was inside eatting and the dog was outside with NO leash. This is the type of behavior that I see from dog owners today. When I was growing up people who wanted big dogs lived in the suburbs not cities so that they would have pletnty of places for their dogs to run.
In SF where a woman was killed in the hallway exiting her apartment, BY A DOG that was on a leash, there is now (today) a proposal to make ALL parks in SF off leash areas for owners of dogs. These are parks where almost all have signs now that say that they are NOT off leash areas. People do not obey the signs now, and kids have been bitten by dogs off leash. The law would be if you can control your dog by voice. How vague is that? What about health codes. Dogs urinating and defecating on the fields where children play. Hmm I'd have to wonder if that would spread some new diseases, like discentary.
In CA, gov GD is or has signed a bill that would make stem cell research leagal in CA from ANY source even though this is against the fed gov. Hmm how does that one work?
In CA there are places where it is legal to grow pot, even though it is against fed law. So the state says its okay, but the feds will come in and arrest you. So much for state laws.
So they pick linking to a web site the time to obey fed law.
Does any one else see a problem with the way the CA is acting in all these cases?
Personally I am worried about the US being so scared about loosing our freedoms that we let our federal and state goverments take them away from us one by one.
Yeah and then management always wonders why the product sucks and the developers stil can't figure out how to make life easier. At least that's what's happening where I work. Problem is usually solved if you have a good VP of Eng or DEv Team Lead that can speak up and not get fired and make people realize why things can or cannot happen and why the deadline will need to be extended.
that tells that that they need to upgrade their browser, but that does not guarantee that they will. Before mozilla was really stable I was using Netscape 4 adn told to get IE and just left the site as I could not see it.
Sun on the other hand will probably stay around for a while as will HP.
AIX is slowly going away.
Mac just released OS X.2 and while it is BSD and not really UNIX it is UNIX like enough to be considered something that is not going away. The other BSD (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) will probably stay around as well because they are open source and someone will want them for something. They are all pretty good in one way or another.
Linux has a few more years to go before it 'stabalizes' into a less of a moving target. Code that worked on 2.0 may or may not work on 2.2 or 2.4. This lack of backward compatiblity is one of the big problems many people I have talked have with Linux. Which version do I port to and how much maintenace do I have to do. Then how do I support all the 'flavors'? What works on SuSE may or may not work on RedHat or Slackware or debian.
1) Linux needs to become and move 1 good package mangerment system. RPM is okay, but not good enough. It should be smart enought to get and resolve all dependancies from not only what is installed through rpm, but also what is not installed through rpm, much like BSD ports system works. Also one should be able to remove the package and its dependancies if they so desire without breaking the system. I think apt-get does this, but never used it. I know BSD system can.
2) GUI desktop. While KDE and GNOME are great in their own right, they really need to be only 1. End users don't care that much about the GUI as long as it is easy and User Friendly. Look at cell phones and pda these days. They are for the most part fairly easy to use. I really think the desktop as we know it will disappear in the not so distant future. It will become more user friendly. People wont program with a text editor they will have a gui that generates ALL the code for them. If they have a file they will describe the format of the file and the editor wil deal with the fopen(), fread(), structure declaration, and fclose() and all that crap for them efficiently. You'll get home touch the screen on the computer and it will get your mail or check your appointments. You will have the option of writing, or using an onscreen keyboard, or voice to enter in data. While I know that there are people here that love the command line, there are more that don't. Why do you think that we have GUI in the first place? So that people can do things easier.
I'd say 5 years and we will see many changes.
Granted many people are using Winblows and IEEEEEEE or mozilla / netscape 6+, but there is still that percentage of people that are not, or will stay on Win 98 / NT 4 until they can no longer.
What about getting all the pages out in cyber space to upgrade to this standard????
Now the browsers will have to support 2 standards, the new one and the old ones, or have many pages just plain unviewable.
I'd give up paying for it
Personally I now see no reason to use M$, I do everything at home under Linux and don't futz with my box that often. Last time I did any configuration chage was when 2.4.19 came out and that change was basically patch and make. Who really needs the 10 million features in word anyway?
Should, but thanks to MS they can't. MS has made so many pripietary(sp) standards of their own, this is where things fail.
If he can convince Billy Gates and M$ to use more open standards then I think the rest will be easy.
we have this.. basically one of the guys I work with wrote it. It is basically like cvs only it locks files when you check them out. It also has a database where it stores what version was checked out and what was checked in and other such information like the comment and the date and who did the change. You can then use isql to view the info. Then I have a script that can diff 2 revisions. I am thinking that this would be useful to others and maybe seeing if we can sell this solution.
It is specifically for designing #d views of places. My friend used it to design models of a building and layouts of what the place would look like had they chose other buildings. It has furnature and you can reshape the furnature. It has textures so you can panel a room, paint it or whatever and you can then get snapshots of the rooms. They make more than one package and one may be right for you. It is worth a look. I know my friend like it a lot.
I almost forgot. They filed in 1999. ANY EMAIL program that does forwarding would be prior art to this. Hmm like when did Netscape add email to their product first? Oh that's right I was using Eudora back then. They had forwarding and reply in 1994. I think that consists of enough prior art. Who wants to go after them?
Isn't this what happens when you send an email to your ISP and it FORWARDS that email to the next system and so on? This is called relaying or something.
HELO slashdot
MAIL FROM me
RCPT TO someone@uspto.gov
DATA
Date: today
From: me
To: someone@uspto.gov
Subject: your a bunch of idiots
Need I say more?
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QUIT
Hmm wont this get 'relayed' / 'forwarded' to them ???
Gotta hate tech unaware people...
6) How do you debug a program and come up with a solution that will work? It may seem easy at first, oh I use a debugger or I use print statements. That is all fine in a situation where you can use a debugger or print, but what about black box debugging? What about gl accounting bugs? Or bugs that are formula driven, where you know the formula is correct but one of the inputs is getting messed up.
additionally you couls ask
7) Can they 'read' code?
Anyone can learn syntax, and style and how to read a book, but not everyone knows how to debug "other peoples" code. Also not everyone has worked on a large application where what may seem like a small change may actually have major reprecussions.
You need to code a db layer. The db layer should handle all the interaction with each database. In one case we used our db layer against db2, oracle, sybase, and another one I think called vsam(?).
The way you would do this is you would have a function to update, delete and insert to each table, and also get and reads. This would get ALL the fields of a table or you could get fancy and find a way to specify the fields of the table.
Something like #include
dbget(usertable, key); or dbread(usertable, key);
Yes something that simeple works. It gets all the fields in the table. If however you don't mind using vargs then you could have it take an sprintf format of dbget(usertable, key, fieldname1, fieldname2) and then get only those fields. This to me would be idea.
Ideally you would have a data dictionary that would store ALL the info on every table and all the fields and their sizes and types. Then using this you could have a perl script or C/C++ program (I'd do a script language a it may be easier IMHO) to read the data dictionary and output the necessary table.dat files that the programmers can then include and generate the necessary sql for the insert, update, delete, etc of the table data, also it would generate the necessary C/C++ API calls like the dbget() fns and the dbread() fns.
This is what most places I have been to do. They way that you update or add means that you need to set the fields in the included table.dat file to what you want and then you call the dbupdate(table); function and it uses the dat data.
In these include files you would have structure declarations that would define the layout of each table. Then the programmer would just need to declare a structure userstable mytable; and then user the db functions. This gives much flexability.
I hope this helps as a starting point.
the mvSIGMA-SQ - by matrox - http://www.matrix-vision.com/eindex.htm - it has 4 independant grabbers on one card.... hmm are you high?
The basic principal is that you say the word or sentance and then it plays it back for you and also tells weather you are right or wrong. It uses IBM viavoice technology and runs with IE under windowns only so if you are not using IE/Windows it may not work for you. It is also a pay service.
Alternatively you could get via voice or something like that and proactice speaking and seeing how well it gets your speach and then playing it back.
One more thing would be the radio or tv. Listen to others speak on talk tv/radio may help. Music is also supposed to be good therapy..
I also think that there could probably be proven intent in the case of the spammer sending porn spam to a 7yo. There are cases where guys have been arrested for chatting with someone or being with someone that they 'thought' was old enough, so why not the spammer who 'thinks his audience is old enough'?
Actuallly I do know people who have been victims of pedophilia. Also spaming is not illegal (in hte US), nor is spam that ends up in a 7 year olds email box (see FBI comment), unfortunately. Oh and people have been arrested for talking to 7 yo on line through chat and email, which is really what I am talking about. These people have been charged with pedophelia related crimes. So why not the spammer?
For other isa hardware dmesg is probably your best bet. If you compile a kernel with most isa drivers in it it would detect the isa card and should put in the /proc filesystem info on the card. In the case of none pnp isa cards you can look at the jumpers and see what irq they are at. If it is a sound card and it is an old soundblaster it is probably irq 5 or 7. NIC, are probably 7 or 11. Most older hardware may not have usb either so that may not be a concern. I'd probably take a boot floppy and a cd.
Oh and if you watch your computer boot up the screen that flashes for a second or two has ALL The info about your hardware. In fact just going into the bios will in many cases tell you your CPU speed , your hard drive size (use the detect harddrive option) and many other things.
I still say dmesg will tell you lots, even isa stuff.
He uses other peoples systems to spread his crap. He forgets that all this spam clutters up many mail servers and screws people who have to pay for their time on line.
This is not a crime, but talking to a 7 year old on line is? Hmm to me this would be one step away from pedophilia(did I spell that right?). What is the difference is you unknowningly send a 7 year old an email that has a URL to a porn site and says things like watch 2 girls do f***, or see cindy take it up the a**, and pedophilia?
Personally if I was their ISP I'd ban them from using my service. I know some ISP's do that. Maybe what we need is a list and take this list to the ISP and get them to ban these people from getting online. No service to spamers is a policy that some already have, if there was a list of people (maybe what is on the .org website that I can't get to right now) then we'd have less spam.
I'm not sure about the rest of /. but I am tired of my mailbox filling up with spam. I do like my new filters though, much of it goes straight to the trash. I still wish my ISP would let me set up my own personal filter rules on their system. Just for my own mailbox, so that I could delete some of these spam messages like the ones that have korean character sets that automaticly go to my trash on my local machine. This would actually cut my spam downloads by about 70%.