Once you sign up your thumb, you just swipe your thumb and youre logged in. With further swipes, you can make it remember passwords to various websites and the likes.
So get a complex password, and put it in a piece of paper in your wallet. Then use the thumb device to 'remember' it and just use your thumb. Its faster than typing the password, and breaking it is currently hard (not enough hacker culture knowledge out there to break it quickly).
My friend spent a little while yesterday trying to break it and failed. I dont know why he even tried.
IBM has standard PC keyboards with the scanner built in. I'm getting one of those for my desktop, its addictive!
The guy's story sounds like he was working on a broken robot. Even if the robot followed Asimov's laws, it could only follow asimov's laws if it functioned well. This sounds more like a mishap than death at the hands of a robot.
And whats this about moral problems regarding sexbots? Noone is questioning the ethics of motorized dildos which are sexbots.
Question: Where Should One Go for Unix/Linux Training? Answer: to your computer.
UNIX cannot be learnt by: Chapter 1: ls, cd, mkdir, rmdir, chmod Chapter 2: ps, dmesg, netstat Chapter 3: sendmail, c libraries Chapter 4: Dev API Chapter 5: Advanced Appendix A: Commands Appendix B: Versions Appendix C: Ethics, privacy, other shit.
To learn UNIX, get a copy on a media, get a computer and set targets. Heres how I was trying to learn all about HP-UX:
Chapter 1: Buy an HP9000 workstation on ebay, and download test OS Chapter 2: Download sample Domino and Oracle. Chapter 3: Install and configure Domino and Oracle. Chapter 4: Skim through the cert requirements, read up a little and give the damn exam. Appendix A: How to use google Appendix B: How to use google groups Appendix C: How to find time for it all
So honestly, if youre not hands-on, you dont know it. You cant read how to ride a bike. Some people read about how to fly and airplane, but you dont get pilotage from a book.
What company is that anyway, and do they have openings?
Theres a difference. A computer is quite general. A console is very specialized.
Take a console. Or router. Or PDA. And run an OS that is quite manageable by the user. Add modular programs that you can add and run from the device, all kinds of programs. And you have what is commonly known as a 'computer'.
Now take a PC. Either run a special compilation of QNX or strip down Windows or Linux so only one app is run, or one group of preset apps. Take away the keyboard/mouse if theyre not used. Youve got a terminal/kiosk/console/router/server/PBX. I know where your definition of a computer comes from, but the general use refers to a general and flexible computer.
Mod parent up. He understands economics the way anyone complaining of outsourcing doesnt.
The whole world buys American products. America doesnt buy the world's products by using certain types of laws... In time those countries would want things to be fair and implement their own laws. Thus, for the sake of trade, America has to gradually remove the laws and allow trade to flourish, only to stay in the game.
Its like I have big guns, pointing at others, asking them to buy my products. But I wont buy their products. This can only go on for so long. Microsoft sells to the world, isnt it fair for them to hire from the world too? This is probably more true with IBM.
There are outsourcing companies on those regions which aim just to get contracts signed, and focus much less on who they hire. The cultural and timezone differences will always exist, but I've known tonnes of worthless techies involved in the outsourcing business. The better ones just find their way out, head for the west themselves and find work.
Sure. Let the vendor be liable. For what is paid for the software.
Hows this, vendor will pay back the price of the software if the bugs are too much. Software = $0 support = $500 per month. The vendor will really be a front for OSS communities.
So if vendors are made liable, Microsoft will go bankrupt, while developers of Linux et al will pay back exactly what they received for the product in the first place.
Forget speakeasy bonded T1, you can bond your standard DSL lines through an OpenBSD firewall using CARP. Read also about VRRP and (HSRP and GLBP) for cisco solutions. They add not only redundancy but also load balancing, and recovery is real fast as opposed to something like RIP2. You can also use OSPF but careful, OpenOSPFD and zebra dont provide load balancing and redundancy of default routes. IOS does.
I say spend your budget on additional lines instead of cisco smartnet.
I suppose it is a tough design. It should be copied for other rovers which should be sent to other planets. I know the design will have to change alot for Mercury, Venus and others, but it would be nice to send a pair of rovers to each planet every several years and keep data streaming back. Thats more productive per dollar than sending people up there.
Very useful this connection will be since Pakistan implements a 700ms latency to all Internet connections so Paktel maintains a telecom monopoly. Thats the reason why you dont find gamers from Pakistan online.
Not to mention many things in IT have been promised since 1997, none properly implemented, if at all. As a Pakistani I'm HIGHLY skeptical.
So I started easy. I built a network of various types after scavenging old 386s.
Next I wanted various networks. Here at home I have a pile of FDDI, ATM, arcnet, tokenring switches, most of which I have setup and know well (except ATM). I also have a pile of ultrasparcs, an hpux workstation, an rs6000 too. I need to know all UNIX. At least be familiar with them all. I NEED an s390 (zseries) and missed a $500 zseries server on ebay 3 years ago for which I'm still kicking myself. I dont have a 600V power supply anyway, and I'll have to play with an AS400 first anyway.
So I realize and understand your requirements. The answer is setting rediculous goals. For me it was setting up the latest Oracle on each of the UNIX machines, interconnected with each type of network. Just GETTING to this goal taught me a heck lot although I never reached it.
Anyway I'm busy with work these days. Its a good job with lots of challenges. Tonight I have to setup two openbsd machines with CARP so that the two unreliable wireless connections (layer 3) can be made more reliable between two buildings. I dont have a budget for cisco routers to do the same, so I have to research learn and improvise.
If youre after web technologies, just setup a webserver and run a java app, a php webmail and portal, a ruby app and slashcode (to learn perl). Youll run into problems. Then youll have to debug it. That will force you to understand it and sift through it.
Of course you'll have to have a rudimentary understanding of these technologies first. Just build a basic php webpage accessing a mysql server on your computer.
I've personally always sought simpler phones, and I know damn well I'm not alone. I just want a basic phone that is tough, has awesome battery life (even at the expense of size, at least 5 hrs talk time) does voicemail and sms and has a contact list. Thats all. OK I can make do without sms if the quality is good enough and I get 5 hrs out of it. Reception has to be good too. Lastly it doesnt hurt if the high quality product is cheap enough too.
I've tried using the web interface on my phones, tried adding special java apps. I hate it. I dont want it even. I've been considering getting a blackberry to use the features that I actually have on my cell, but the data transfer fees of the blackberry are too high for me.
But phonemakers are not listening yet, and I have to charge my phone every night.
I agree with you. I'm from Pakistan and would like to meet ONE person of the 14% who buys software legally. There arent even that many branded computers out there that came with a legal Windows XP.
However they wont BUY the software. Its way too expensive for what it is in Pakistani currency. Implement sophisticated authentication mechanisms to prevent piracy and watch Linux boom. I'd like to see that happen. Less software will be pirated, and even less will be bought.
I'd probably continue to use eBay until someone comes around with something equivalent and non-MS. Google will probably try. And if theres something plausible I'll jump ship real fast.
And should I ever sell anything I'll list it both places, just to raise the profile of the competitor system against a MS system.
Think of an implant that burns glucose in the blood and either remotely powers gadgets or keeps you extra warm. Just the burning calories part will make people rich. How about breast implants that will burn your calories for you to produce extra body heat?
I did notice Sun's desktop being similar to Ubuntu (gotta be the GNOME thing). So Sun wants a nicer desktop and Ubuntu will get more corporate weight. Dont forget its a free software distro so Sun cant OWN it, or mess with it. Only improve it for themselves.
I dont know but I suspect a fresh install will be followed by updates of 5 products online which will take 2 hours, and 4 restarts. The restarts will be paced apart equally so the techie cant go do something else in the meantime, and an intern will be required to stare at the monitor and yawn all day between keystrokes of Tab Tab Space.
"It's a breakthrough. We've added another item to be updated and handled regularly."
A bigger breakthrough will be someone writing complete opensource drivers for nvidia which works. nvidia will have to release or maintain opensource drivers to keep their quality high, and that will start the requisite chain reaction.
Theres a difference. A hybrid is a pollutant. It may be fertile and mate with either type. That pollutes the gene pool of one of these species. We dont want that.
So next time you find a hybrid, or differing pairs copulating, make sure you shoot.
It WAS an issue for me when I switched to opera as soon as it became free. It was all nice and fast until it froze the entire browser if a page in one tab wasnt loading. Its a bug. It was enough to make me switch back to firefox about a week ago.
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Once you sign up your thumb, you just swipe your thumb and youre logged in. With further swipes, you can make it remember passwords to various websites and the likes.
So get a complex password, and put it in a piece of paper in your wallet. Then use the thumb device to 'remember' it and just use your thumb. Its faster than typing the password, and breaking it is currently hard (not enough hacker culture knowledge out there to break it quickly).
My friend spent a little while yesterday trying to break it and failed. I dont know why he even tried.
IBM has standard PC keyboards with the scanner built in. I'm getting one of those for my desktop, its addictive!
The guy's story sounds like he was working on a broken robot. Even if the robot followed Asimov's laws, it could only follow asimov's laws if it functioned well. This sounds more like a mishap than death at the hands of a robot.
And whats this about moral problems regarding sexbots? Noone is questioning the ethics of motorized dildos which are sexbots.
Question: Where Should One Go for Unix/Linux Training?
Answer: to your computer.
UNIX cannot be learnt by:
Chapter 1: ls, cd, mkdir, rmdir, chmod
Chapter 2: ps, dmesg, netstat
Chapter 3: sendmail, c libraries
Chapter 4: Dev API
Chapter 5: Advanced
Appendix A: Commands
Appendix B: Versions
Appendix C: Ethics, privacy, other shit.
To learn UNIX, get a copy on a media, get a computer and set targets.
Heres how I was trying to learn all about HP-UX:
Chapter 1: Buy an HP9000 workstation on ebay, and download test OS
Chapter 2: Download sample Domino and Oracle.
Chapter 3: Install and configure Domino and Oracle.
Chapter 4: Skim through the cert requirements, read up a little and give the damn exam.
Appendix A: How to use google
Appendix B: How to use google groups
Appendix C: How to find time for it all
So honestly, if youre not hands-on, you dont know it. You cant read how to ride a bike. Some people read about how to fly and airplane, but you dont get pilotage from a book.
What company is that anyway, and do they have openings?
Theres a difference. A computer is quite general. A console is very specialized.
Take a console. Or router. Or PDA. And run an OS that is quite manageable by the user.
Add modular programs that you can add and run from the device, all kinds of programs. And you have what is commonly known as a 'computer'.
Now take a PC. Either run a special compilation of QNX or strip down Windows or Linux so only one app is run, or one group of preset apps. Take away the keyboard/mouse if theyre not used. Youve got a terminal/kiosk/console/router/server/PBX. I know where your definition of a computer comes from, but the general use refers to a general and flexible computer.
Mod parent up. He understands economics the way anyone complaining of outsourcing doesnt.
The whole world buys American products. America doesnt buy the world's products by using certain types of laws... In time those countries would want things to be fair and implement their own laws. Thus, for the sake of trade, America has to gradually remove the laws and allow trade to flourish, only to stay in the game.
Its like I have big guns, pointing at others, asking them to buy my products. But I wont buy their products. This can only go on for so long. Microsoft sells to the world, isnt it fair for them to hire from the world too? This is probably more true with IBM.
I agree.
I'm not from India, I'm from Pakistan. But...
There are outsourcing companies on those regions which aim just to get contracts signed, and focus much less on who they hire. The cultural and timezone differences will always exist, but I've known tonnes of worthless techies involved in the outsourcing business. The better ones just find their way out, head for the west themselves and find work.
Documentation that can be typed by an HR-assistant co-op summer student?
The skills requirement for ctrl-x ctrl-z are low
Sure. Let the vendor be liable. For what is paid for the software.
Hows this, vendor will pay back the price of the software if the bugs are too much. Software = $0 support = $500 per month. The vendor will really be a front for OSS communities.
So if vendors are made liable, Microsoft will go bankrupt, while developers of Linux et al will pay back exactly what they received for the product in the first place.
"in order to enjoy the high-end features of next-generation GPUs, gamers will need to adopt Vista"
Should read, in order to enjoy the high-end features of next-generation GPUs, gamers will need to start using OpenGL.
Hmm. I visited using slashdot.com. Maybe I'm at the wrong website.
But so are you!!
Forget speakeasy bonded T1, you can bond your standard DSL lines through an OpenBSD firewall using CARP. Read also about VRRP and (HSRP and GLBP) for cisco solutions. They add not only redundancy but also load balancing, and recovery is real fast as opposed to something like RIP2. You can also use OSPF but careful, OpenOSPFD and zebra dont provide load balancing and redundancy of default routes. IOS does.
I say spend your budget on additional lines instead of cisco smartnet.
I suppose it is a tough design. It should be copied for other rovers which should be sent to other planets. I know the design will have to change alot for Mercury, Venus and others, but it would be nice to send a pair of rovers to each planet every several years and keep data streaming back. Thats more productive per dollar than sending people up there.
Very useful this connection will be since Pakistan implements a 700ms latency to all Internet connections so Paktel maintains a telecom monopoly. Thats the reason why you dont find gamers from Pakistan online.
Not to mention many things in IT have been promised since 1997, none properly implemented, if at all. As a Pakistani I'm HIGHLY skeptical.
I can relate to that. I wanted that too.
So I started easy. I built a network of various types after scavenging old 386s.
Next I wanted various networks. Here at home I have a pile of FDDI, ATM, arcnet, tokenring switches, most of which I have setup and know well (except ATM). I also have a pile of ultrasparcs, an hpux workstation, an rs6000 too. I need to know all UNIX. At least be familiar with them all. I NEED an s390 (zseries) and missed a $500 zseries server on ebay 3 years ago for which I'm still kicking myself. I dont have a 600V power supply anyway, and I'll have to play with an AS400 first anyway.
So I realize and understand your requirements. The answer is setting rediculous goals. For me it was setting up the latest Oracle on each of the UNIX machines, interconnected with each type of network. Just GETTING to this goal taught me a heck lot although I never reached it.
Anyway I'm busy with work these days. Its a good job with lots of challenges. Tonight I have to setup two openbsd machines with CARP so that the two unreliable wireless connections (layer 3) can be made more reliable between two buildings. I dont have a budget for cisco routers to do the same, so I have to research learn and improvise.
If youre after web technologies, just setup a webserver and run a java app, a php webmail and portal, a ruby app and slashcode (to learn perl). Youll run into problems. Then youll have to debug it. That will force you to understand it and sift through it.
Of course you'll have to have a rudimentary understanding of these technologies first. Just build a basic php webpage accessing a mysql server on your computer.
I've personally always sought simpler phones, and I know damn well I'm not alone. I just want a basic phone that is tough, has awesome battery life (even at the expense of size, at least 5 hrs talk time) does voicemail and sms and has a contact list. Thats all. OK I can make do without sms if the quality is good enough and I get 5 hrs out of it. Reception has to be good too. Lastly it doesnt hurt if the high quality product is cheap enough too.
I've tried using the web interface on my phones, tried adding special java apps. I hate it. I dont want it even. I've been considering getting a blackberry to use the features that I actually have on my cell, but the data transfer fees of the blackberry are too high for me.
But phonemakers are not listening yet, and I have to charge my phone every night.
I agree with you. I'm from Pakistan and would like to meet ONE person of the 14% who buys software legally. There arent even that many branded computers out there that came with a legal Windows XP.
However they wont BUY the software. Its way too expensive for what it is in Pakistani currency. Implement sophisticated authentication mechanisms to prevent piracy and watch Linux boom. I'd like to see that happen. Less software will be pirated, and even less will be bought.
So this means I can take off the sunscreen and glasses now?
I'd probably continue to use eBay until someone comes around with something equivalent and non-MS. Google will probably try. And if theres something plausible I'll jump ship real fast.
And should I ever sell anything I'll list it both places, just to raise the profile of the competitor system against a MS system.
She didnt disappear. Shes either dead or alive I'm not sure.
Even better. Think Big.
Think of an implant that burns glucose in the blood and either remotely powers gadgets or keeps you extra warm. Just the burning calories part will make people rich. How about breast implants that will burn your calories for you to produce extra body heat?
Driver bad.
Amerikaaner: I get a blue screen
Indian: Sir he wants you scream
Chinese: *@*#%!^($#@%(*!&
Rural Chinese: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!"
As a non Ubuntu user, I'm happy.
I did notice Sun's desktop being similar to Ubuntu (gotta be the GNOME thing). So Sun wants a nicer desktop and Ubuntu will get more corporate weight. Dont forget its a free software distro so Sun cant OWN it, or mess with it. Only improve it for themselves.
I dont know but I suspect a fresh install will be followed by updates of 5 products online which will take 2 hours, and 4 restarts. The restarts will be paced apart equally so the techie cant go do something else in the meantime, and an intern will be required to stare at the monitor and yawn all day between keystrokes of Tab Tab Space.
"It's a breakthrough. We've added another item to be updated and handled regularly."
A bigger breakthrough will be someone writing complete opensource drivers for nvidia which works. nvidia will have to release or maintain opensource drivers to keep their quality high, and that will start the requisite chain reaction.
Theres a difference. A hybrid is a pollutant. It may be fertile and mate with either type. That pollutes the gene pool of one of these species. We dont want that.
So next time you find a hybrid, or differing pairs copulating, make sure you shoot.
It WAS an issue for me when I switched to opera as soon as it became free. It was all nice and fast until it froze the entire browser if a page in one tab wasnt loading. Its a bug. It was enough to make me switch back to firefox about a week ago.