I've been using an iBook for a year now and I can tell you, it will be a downer after a while. I'm a software developer (java, perl) and I initially bought the box to be a test bed for an app. When I first got the the box, it was great. I enjoyed the novelty of a different OS. After a while though, I began to realize just how slow the 800MHZ iBook was in comparison to my other boxen (IBM Thinkpad R32 w/XP Pro, and Compaq Evo 1500 w/Suse 9. If I had it to do all over again, I would buy a Powerbook. I use the Eclipse IDE for my Java work and it allows me to build, and test my work on all three platforms easily, but for now, I'll just use my little iBook for testing only. I still love it though.
Just a word to say about this subject. As a network admin with multiple WAN connections, supporting 3 data warehouses I don't have time to explore every vulnerability to the OS's I'm required to support. What I have learned about Code Red is that I don't have time not to explore every vulnerability to the OS's I'm required to support. I need full disclosure. I need the information so I can build my own little Perl scripts that I can enable to test prior to more refined testing tools being fielded. I'm lucky. I'm one of 2 NetAdmins here and we share responsibillity and authority over our systems. I'm the coder of the NetAdmins and I believe in my own ability to test exploits. I didn't do that with Directory Traversal, or with the Indexing Service vulnerabilities in NT, 2K and I'm paying the price for that.
Tell us everything. Give us data.
I know that I may be unique in my perspective. I'm a Net Admin with a programming background. It's to my company's detriment that I didn't exercise my talents quickly enough to test my systems and find out what server was vulnerable and to what degree. I applied the hotfixes as soon as they were available, but on one server they evidently did not take. I didn't find out until 20 July 2001 when I was out of town on business. If I had applied the fixes, and then tested the servers to see if the vulnerability still remained, I could have been spared embarassment. Shame on me.
The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie
Learning Perl
Learning Python
DNS and Bind
TCP/IP Networking by Craig Hunt
Programming Windows fifth Edition by Charles Petzold
This will give you a foundation upon which a great library could be built. This will get you into Unix or Windows (not meaning to snub Mac Fans, I just don't know any good books). It will also give you 1 programming language to do anything well and 2 programming languages capable of doing anything well in fewer lines of code.
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I've got to go to work today, here's a cool contest, maybe I should call in sick? Work all day today and tonight.
No good economic reason to use Ruby, I use perl. When I want to OO, I can OO. Most of the time, I don't have the time to plan for OO. OO programs without sufficient thought put in them are a bear to maintain and use. When OO programs have had sufficient thought put in them, they work great! Most of time, I only have time to crank out a simple procedural program with functions I have reused since I started with Perl 3 years ago. Why learn a new language that won't really count as a resume builder? That's the only reason I learned Java, C++ and Visual Basic. Now that I work at the system level, I need only C, SQL and Perl.
I work for a DoD contractor. We build datawarehouses. We play with BETA's. We are a real company that makes a profit. You don't know what the hell you are talking about...
The man took descriptive clauses to a new and glorious level. He made my mind pitch forward and backward and my imagination whirl. I'm 38 and feeling a little fragile just now. When Ginsberg and Burroughs died I felt the same damn way.
For your argument "All day, on the subway, at lunch, in meetings, you can hear people commiserating over their latest crash or virus. But they never blame Microsoft. They never say "I'm not going to use MS products." Why?
Because they don't even know that other options exist, for the most part.
Why? Because MS is a monopoly. "
You're dead wrong. They don't know other options exist because they are lazy. They could use other options if they wished but they won't take the time to look for them.
If Microsoft is a monopoly, (and I think they are), it is because the lazy, stupid public have allowed it to be that way. It is a lot of work to use something besides a MS product to get your work done. Let's say I have to produce a document that will be emailed to my customers. I can either produce that doc in Word or StarOffice in Word format. Otherwise my customers won't be able to read it. I've been doing gateways and firewalls out of old '486's and Pentiums for 5 years now. I could do that with windows 98, but I've chosen Linux. It's cheaper and really a little less work to do it that way. Learning Linux was a lot of work for me. I didn't start my computing career in Unix, I started with DOS. I didn't make the conversion overnight. It took a lot of work and study on my own time, without getting paid, but I did it anyway. I didn't begin to profit from that work for 2 years after I started. Most of the folks that have to use a computer to get their work done, don't want to invest that amount of time just to LEARN something. Microsoft is monopolistic in it's business practices not for the same reasons that Standard Oil was a monopoly, but for the simple reason that most users are fscking lazy.
Gotta agree to a point. The only prob I have with I.E. is that when it crashes, Win98 Crashes. When I'm surfing I'm using Netscape. I.E. 5 is faster than Netscape, but I'll take reliability any day.
As far as Netscape, AOL references are concerned; They have a right to make money. They give away their browser. What's there to complain about?
7 Months ago I became the head of a department of programmers and assorted geeks. This didn't mean that I had to give up my programming completely, just add some management responsibilities. I'm operating at a higher level of stress that I have in some years (like when I was a C newbie). At the height of my stress a couple of weeks ago I splurged and bought a new Mountain Bike. I was stuck on a highly technical problem and could not find any solution other than coding. For two weeks I have ridden the bike every day. I was even lucky enough to have a little rain and get a chance to ride in the mud and muck. I've fallen down, ran into trees, and rubbed Icy Hot on my legs almost every night before bed. I'm 37 years old and I've been coding for 15 years. This has been the most productive thing I've done in my career. After I finish this post I'll be finishing my draft proposal for a new application to my boss (Open Source of Course). I've also coded my way through the the prototype of the application. This works for me. Find your own solution, but let me suggest exercise.
I just finished reading the Wave America Web site. I noticed their little "pledge, creed etc...) "This is my school, my space. I want it to be a safe place. I know that violence prevention begins with me. So that's why to this promise I agree. I will... Resolve conflicts peacefully. Talk about problems openly. Treat others with respect. Walk away from a fight. Take all threats and warning signs seriously. Talk to a parent, counselor or other adult about my concerns." Here is my Rifleman's Creed I recited as a Marine Corps Recruit. "THIS IS MY RIFLE There are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life. My rifle, without me is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than any enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will.... My rifle and myself know that what counts in this war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit... My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weakness, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will... Before God I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but Peace........................" I'm a little disturbed by this. Nothing against the rifleman's creed. It's used in USMC Basic to instill a certain value system in young persons who are being trained to kill on command. I can't get away from the Hitler Youth angle of Wave America. Are we trying to do the same thing with our kids. Who defines normal, well adjusted, dangerous? Wave America is not the sign of a normal well adjusted country. It's 1920's Germany all over again.
If a robot could be spriritual, then perhaps it could screw up it's sprirituality by forming an organized religion. Would it emulate Christianity and worship it's creator, or would it take more of a zen turn and seek enlightenment? It should be an interesting turn to see what really happens.
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I've been using an iBook for a year now and I can tell you, it will be a downer after a while. I'm a software developer (java, perl) and I initially bought the box to be a test bed for an app. When I first got the the box, it was great. I enjoyed the novelty of a different OS. After a while though, I began to realize just how slow the 800MHZ iBook was in comparison to my other boxen (IBM Thinkpad R32 w/XP Pro, and Compaq Evo 1500 w/Suse 9. If I had it to do all over again, I would buy a Powerbook. I use the Eclipse IDE for my Java work and it allows me to build, and test my work on all three platforms easily, but for now, I'll just use my little iBook for testing only. I still love it though.
Just a word to say about this subject. As a network admin with multiple WAN connections, supporting 3 data warehouses I don't have time to explore every vulnerability to the OS's I'm required to support. What I have learned about Code Red is that I don't have time not to explore every vulnerability to the OS's I'm required to support. I need full disclosure. I need the information so I can build my own little Perl scripts that I can enable to test prior to more refined testing tools being fielded. I'm lucky. I'm one of 2 NetAdmins here and we share responsibillity and authority over our systems. I'm the coder of the NetAdmins and I believe in my own ability to test exploits. I didn't do that with Directory Traversal, or with the Indexing Service vulnerabilities in NT, 2K and I'm paying the price for that. Tell us everything. Give us data. I know that I may be unique in my perspective. I'm a Net Admin with a programming background. It's to my company's detriment that I didn't exercise my talents quickly enough to test my systems and find out what server was vulnerable and to what degree. I applied the hotfixes as soon as they were available, but on one server they evidently did not take. I didn't find out until 20 July 2001 when I was out of town on business. If I had applied the fixes, and then tested the servers to see if the vulnerability still remained, I could have been spared embarassment. Shame on me.
- The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie
- Learning Perl
- Learning Python
- DNS and Bind
- TCP/IP Networking by Craig Hunt
- Programming Windows fifth Edition by Charles Petzold
This will give you a foundation upon which a great library could be built. This will get you into Unix or Windows (not meaning to snub Mac Fans, I just don't know any good books). It will also give you 1 programming language to do anything well and 2 programming languages capable of doing anything well in fewer lines of code.No good economic reason to use Ruby, I use perl. When I want to OO, I can OO. Most of the time, I don't have the time to plan for OO. OO programs without sufficient thought put in them are a bear to maintain and use. When OO programs have had sufficient thought put in them, they work great! Most of time, I only have time to crank out a simple procedural program with functions I have reused since I started with Perl 3 years ago. Why learn a new language that won't really count as a resume builder? That's the only reason I learned Java, C++ and Visual Basic. Now that I work at the system level, I need only C, SQL and Perl.
I work for a DoD contractor. We build datawarehouses. We play with BETA's. We are a real company that makes a profit. You don't know what the hell you are talking about...
It's called Perl. It works, it's mature, and it runs on nearly any platform.
The man took descriptive clauses to a new and glorious level. He made my mind pitch forward and backward and my imagination whirl. I'm 38 and feeling a little fragile just now. When Ginsberg and Burroughs died I felt the same damn way.
He would not know how...
For your argument "All day, on the subway, at lunch, in meetings, you can hear people commiserating over their latest crash or virus. But they never blame Microsoft. They never say "I'm not going to use MS products." Why? Because they don't even know that other options exist, for the most part. Why? Because MS is a monopoly. " You're dead wrong. They don't know other options exist because they are lazy. They could use other options if they wished but they won't take the time to look for them. If Microsoft is a monopoly, (and I think they are), it is because the lazy, stupid public have allowed it to be that way. It is a lot of work to use something besides a MS product to get your work done. Let's say I have to produce a document that will be emailed to my customers. I can either produce that doc in Word or StarOffice in Word format. Otherwise my customers won't be able to read it. I've been doing gateways and firewalls out of old '486's and Pentiums for 5 years now. I could do that with windows 98, but I've chosen Linux. It's cheaper and really a little less work to do it that way. Learning Linux was a lot of work for me. I didn't start my computing career in Unix, I started with DOS. I didn't make the conversion overnight. It took a lot of work and study on my own time, without getting paid, but I did it anyway. I didn't begin to profit from that work for 2 years after I started. Most of the folks that have to use a computer to get their work done, don't want to invest that amount of time just to LEARN something. Microsoft is monopolistic in it's business practices not for the same reasons that Standard Oil was a monopoly, but for the simple reason that most users are fscking lazy.
Gotta agree to a point. The only prob I have with I.E. is that when it crashes, Win98 Crashes. When I'm surfing I'm using Netscape.
I.E. 5 is faster than Netscape, but I'll take reliability any day. As far as Netscape, AOL references are concerned; They have a right to make money. They give away their browser. What's there to complain about?
7 Months ago I became the head of a department of programmers and assorted geeks. This didn't mean that I had to give up my programming completely, just add some management responsibilities. I'm operating at a higher level of stress that I have in some years (like when I was a C newbie). At the height of my stress a couple of weeks ago I splurged and bought a new Mountain Bike. I was stuck on a highly technical problem and could not find any solution other than coding. For two weeks I have ridden the bike every day. I was even lucky enough to have a little rain and get a chance to ride in the mud and muck. I've fallen down, ran into trees, and rubbed Icy Hot on my legs almost every night before bed. I'm 37 years old and I've been coding for 15 years. This has been the most productive thing I've done in my career. After I finish this post I'll be finishing my draft proposal for a new application to my boss (Open Source of Course). I've also coded my way through the the prototype of the application. This works for me. Find your own solution, but let me suggest exercise.
I just finished reading the Wave America Web site. I noticed their little "pledge, creed etc...) "This is my school, my space. I want it to be a safe place. I know that violence prevention begins with me. So that's why to this promise I agree. I will... Resolve conflicts peacefully. Talk about problems openly. Treat others with respect. Walk away from a fight. Take all threats and warning signs seriously. Talk to a parent, counselor or other adult about my concerns." Here is my Rifleman's Creed I recited as a Marine Corps Recruit. "THIS IS MY RIFLE There are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life. My rifle, without me is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than any enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will.... My rifle and myself know that what counts in this war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit... My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weakness, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will... Before God I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but Peace........................" I'm a little disturbed by this. Nothing against the rifleman's creed. It's used in USMC Basic to instill a certain value system in young persons who are being trained to kill on command. I can't get away from the Hitler Youth angle of Wave America. Are we trying to do the same thing with our kids. Who defines normal, well adjusted, dangerous? Wave America is not the sign of a normal well adjusted country. It's 1920's Germany all over again.
If a robot could be spriritual, then perhaps it could screw up it's sprirituality by forming an organized religion. Would it emulate Christianity and worship it's creator, or would it take more of a zen turn and seek enlightenment? It should be an interesting turn to see what really happens.