I think you meant unintentional features, some popular operating systems support this (alas the current slashdot system does not). We'll be sure to fondly appreciate and notice these as they appear.
I don't know if it's emphasized clearly enough in the article, but Homestar Runner has commissioned a few homebrew 2600 coders to make their own game... Imagine the precedence that this could set, IMHO, this is along the same lines as the Counterstrike modders getting published by Sierra (err Valve?)..
Imagine... homebrew people getting paid for their hobby... I think that wired magazine's mention of this makes it a little more interesting: homebrew games are becoming available on a grander scale than just for those in the scene.
We have one of these at out work. The model.... *runs over to snap server*... well whatever. It's a 480 gb array. The thing is NOTORIOUS for crashing and losing data, comprable to using Windows 95 with a fat16 RAID. Yep, that bad. We used to rely on it for backups but we quickly learned a few *bad* lessons and moved it away from our hosted location. We have replaced it with an ATA-Boy which (thank god) has been running really smoothly since installation. The ATA-Boy in fact is a really impressive workhorse that performs via remote-raid better than the local SCSI drives (according to our intensive I/O benchmarks). I think ours is a 1TB model... imagine all of the pr0n... I digress.
I've seen a number of scattered reasons (above) for running coLinux but here is the scenario I have for using coLinux.
The need to run a linux Distribution from within a Windows box not the need to run Linux applications on a Windows box:
First I want to point out that cygwin will get you a secure shell, gcc, and a number of other biaries, as ported from Linux. But it will not natively behave the same way that Linux does. The primary difference I'm referring to is hardware support and native binary support. It is for this reason that Cygwin will never be as useful to the Linux world as other distributions are. (Contributions back to Linux from Cygwin are not practical.... [Mozilla aside, there are no other good examples of OSS projects where there is a large number of developers porting their software from a Cygwin environ back to Linux]). There are several interesting cases of Linux software being compiled for windows (Xine, Gaim, X, etc) but these programs are not sufficient to be considered a "linux distribution within windows" instead should be considered, Linux apps for windows.
Consider now, my personal usage example, I have had a Linux dist sitting idle on my drive because I sold my second box (power is expensive!), and I needed to develop in MFC (Direct X 9.0) for a course that I was taking (leave linux on one part, install XP on the other). Right now there are several applications and other things that I'm missing from when I had primarily booted Linux, but I can't move away from Windows and still continue my studies (and btw, dual-booting is not an option I'm eager to go back to [takes forever, and I always want that one windows or linux app when I'm in the wrong boot]). So, after this project matures, I will hopefully be able to mount my existing Linux partition, boot my kernel, and access my applications and settings as I left them before, without disturbing my continued study with MFC and Direct X.
A few final points:
1.) XP is not as unstable as everyone here seems to contend, I have had weeks of uptime on my computer at work, as has the other developer who works with me.
2.) Cygwin does not allow developers to comfortably develop Linux apps on windows, and is limited inherently by Windows (terminal width constrained to less than 72 characters, X Windows loads slowly, etc).
3.)There are a number of practical uses for virtual machines but the speed of these systems, their somewhat limited application (hardware) support, and the price of the software ($$$ you would pay a heck of a lot more for VMWare than for Windows XP, buddy) tends to leave something to be desired from that corner of the market.
In conclusion, yeah, coLinux may not change the world, and it may not even turn a few heads, but it certainly could be useful for a number of people such as myself who are looking to get a little bit more Linux out of their Windows boxes.
At spamarrest, we have a java applet that allows handicapped users to hear the word spoken.
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I second.. and third your statements. I've been working AS a (something like a) developer through college and the difference between younger and older developers is significant. Youger developers are still working out their development processes and are more prone to erroroneous and buggy code.
Older developers take longer to program because they have had the experience of developing code that is hard to revise and update.
College classes tend to teach students to develop in a "code and fix" mentality because the projects generally need to be finished over a period of weeks (days)...
The point is, regardless of what some PHB thinks, older developers are better than younger developers much like weathered veterans make better soldiers than rookies.
The central rationale for younger prorgammers tends to be that they'll have more "creative flair" or "instinct" for programming but the truth is that when programming "real" applications, the development lifecycle should be a refined and well developed process.
A final note, computer scientists (developers) are much akin to engineers. The only difference is that there is no certification or standard for what a developer is capable of (unlike the case for engineers [wait, not software engineers tho]).
Would you trust a junior engineer with a "real" engineering project? Of course not, and it shuld be the same with software developers, how many IBM fellows are under 25? How many AMD fellows are under 25?
Perhaps this stigma applies to the hiring policies of some (perhaps smaller) companies but in the end, skilled developers are probably going to have a better chance at getting and retaining development positions.
XFI is committed to building the world's largest and safest mobile wireless online community for children. I can just see it now, some developer walked into the executives office with a circle on a piece of paper...
But anyways, but what about me??? What about support for more advanced applications like gcc and perl. You never know when inspiration hits. Also with the nifty backlight on the GBA SP, this would be rather nice for coding on the shitter.... but then I'd need a bluetooth foldout keyboard for efficiency.....
The trick to getting your sblive to work is using the EMU10k drivers. You probably can insmod them if you're using the Mandrake kernel (it has all the modules compiled) or you can *gasp* rebuild your kernel with one from kernel.org...
THere's an open source tool that I just started playing with called Protux that just happens to be very similar to protools, but has a smooth keyboard and mouse interface. So... I guess the point of this post is that for $495 you can get the industry standard but for $0 you can get the "free" and "almost function complete-similar" tool that you could contribute $500 worth of work into to make better... IMHO a better deal:)
Perhaps we should get cracking on an encrypted proxy that is peer to peer now...
Filtering traffic that is encrypted is like getting a haystack full of needles of which only one or two are sharp;-)
Software such as Peekabooty would be efficient at getting just http secure, or PGP is great for email but encryping all packets and hiding your ips would be the comprehensive privacy solution to the problem of an all knowing sniffer.
The URL will tell you how close the nuclear waste will pass from your house. Something like one in five people will have nuclear waste within five miles of their home...
http://www.mapscience.com/
"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."
-- F. J. Raymond
At the University of Washington Bothell, we have a department Linux lab running redhat 7.2. Here is a link to the lab's homepage http://www.bothell.washington.edu/infosys/computer labs/linuxlab.html.
I actually am an assistant in the lab and have found out that the machines are relatively easy to support and that by using NIS and NFS they can be made to operate very cleanly. Students are given a hundred megs or so of space on the main server and since their home directories mount out of that their home on all of the machines is identical and all their documents are saved.
We have no file space problems and users can compile their own files in their own systems and over the course of the last quarter the lab's popularity has steadily incresed.
If you want any additional details on the lab feel free to email me.
If you can convince them that you're a student, you can travel super cheap through places like Student Universe.
IMHO:
The truth of the matter is that education is far more important to your development than is training. College is about learning how to learn and so if you're just doing the JIT (just in time) training stuff, then you will not be getting as enriching an experience, as much potential knowledge, or as viable ability in system administration.
Go to college;-) It's too fun to pass up and you'll probably be able to get more money in the long run for it.
***Statisticians predict that for every CS college graduate, 8 jobs are made (if you include the job that you yorurself get***
You also could install a service on a machine that runs linux to archive those shares. One like yerfit(http://yerf.sourceforge.net). There are several such programs out there.
I have two things to state based upon my first and gut reaction to the article.
1.) IMHO international law in such a case is ludicris! Imagine all the things that don't culturally click. Moral differences are strongly evident in the cultural histories. We as Americans used to strongly believe that white males are superior moral agents and all other iterations of our species are inferior casted patients who at best could only benefit from rights alike those that we (as the upstanding white males) alotted for ourselves. If we don't scoff away the silly practice of permitting such law that at worst could make libel on the internet illegal, we could have a sticky situation on our hands. Australia is a lesser powerful country, they can't enforce such laws, but imagine if China, a powerful country that outright censors the internet adopts such practices... Well that's all I have to say about that!
2.) All libertarians can agree on what John Stuart Mill would say to such legal practices. This is a blatant case of "sticks and stones" since there is never any REAL harm that is done by the practice of defamation on the internet. Unless we can direcly correlate the practice of libel on the internet with DIRECT and DISTINCT harm, we have no moral grounds for passing on such censorship.
I better stop before I go off the wall and make myself flamebait BUT! I must last add that some sort of protest, ban, etc. ought be practiced to prevent such measures of censorship from happening.
The interface of OS X is one of the most complained about aspects of it. OS 10.1 is actually going to tone down the interface significantly. The real benefits of the operating system are it's more deliberate UNIX core (os 6+ used a system V core) and thus is portability, stability, and power.
That damn genie effect is the most annoying thing ever, synonimous to flying cows as a transitional effect in powerpoints presentations.
On a side note. There is much more to sharing now! Check out http://www.yerfit.net we've interfaced samba to the web and this new method allows anyone to share files simply, even outside firewalls. MP3 will probably never die.
I'm an undergraduate developer at the University of Washington for a program that we call Catalyst and we develop tools that do all sorts of interesting things for distance learning. We have a remotely postable, editable tool called Peer Review for example that allows students and teachers to read and use eachothers work in a live and active environment. They can (for instance) put a comment on a word or paragraph that can then be viewed by other students and teachers and can be commented on further.
We are also developing tools that will hopefully integrate dynamic HTML and simple updates so that teachers who are away from the campus and their home computers can make updates to their websites and can administrate a course webpage easily and effectively. We also have another tool, EPost that allows teachers to use discussion boards in their course websites.
The addition of these tools allows teachers to make their classes more intersting and also will hopefully lead to courses that are educational and run from a remote location...
I also go to UW and well, I've heard nothing of this Nanotalkie stuff.
Can I use it with my Nokia cell phone?
Oh yeah, and my fraternity...
I'm a Sociology major.
(J/k steve-0)
We gotta represent UW. Moo post
Even if the card is delayed, I still believe that it is worth the wait. Voodoo will always be my practice primarily because I love the SDK for GLIDE. I pride in my bigotry towards 3DFX as they were the first big men on the playfield of true quality 3d graphics. Beyond their history as one of the first gamer's card manufactureres 3DFX has always had excellent support for their cards. I wouldn't be surprised if they released new banshee drivers. I'm more than willing to wait for a later release because I know that the card will first of all come with solid drivers, and secondly, if they take a long time to release, you know they won't dump the project like Sega did with all their systems. Power to the release team and 3DFX.
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>>Undoubtedly we'll see some bugs to pop up...
I think you meant unintentional features, some popular operating systems support this (alas the current slashdot system does not). We'll be sure to fondly appreciate and notice these as they appear.
I don't know if it's emphasized clearly enough in the article, but Homestar Runner has commissioned a few homebrew 2600 coders to make their own game... Imagine the precedence that this could set, IMHO, this is along the same lines as the Counterstrike modders getting published by Sierra (err Valve?)..
Imagine... homebrew people getting paid for their hobby... I think that wired magazine's mention of this makes it a little more interesting: homebrew games are becoming available on a grander scale than just for those in the scene.
Now I can set up a crontab and not bother going to get lunch on friday...
/home/method/pizzaparty -u ...
30 12 * * * 5
We have one of these at out work. The model .... *runs over to snap server* ... well whatever. It's a 480 gb array. The thing is NOTORIOUS for crashing and losing data, comprable to using Windows 95 with a fat16 RAID. Yep, that bad. We used to rely on it for backups but we quickly learned a few *bad* lessons and moved it away from our hosted location. We have replaced it with an ATA-Boy which (thank god) has been running really smoothly since installation. The ATA-Boy in fact is a really impressive workhorse that performs via remote-raid better than the local SCSI drives (according to our intensive I/O benchmarks). I think ours is a 1TB model... imagine all of the pr0n ... I digress.
I've seen a number of scattered reasons (above) for running coLinux but here is the scenario I have for using coLinux.
The need to run a linux Distribution from within a Windows box not the need to run Linux applications on a Windows box:
First I want to point out that cygwin will get you a secure shell, gcc, and a number of other biaries, as ported from Linux. But it will not natively behave the same way that Linux does. The primary difference I'm referring to is hardware support and native binary support. It is for this reason that Cygwin will never be as useful to the Linux world as other distributions are. (Contributions back to Linux from Cygwin are not practical.... [Mozilla aside, there are no other good examples of OSS projects where there is a large number of developers porting their software from a Cygwin environ back to Linux]). There are several interesting cases of Linux software being compiled for windows (Xine, Gaim, X, etc) but these programs are not sufficient to be considered a "linux distribution within windows" instead should be considered, Linux apps for windows.
Consider now, my personal usage example, I have had a Linux dist sitting idle on my drive because I sold my second box (power is expensive!), and I needed to develop in MFC (Direct X 9.0) for a course that I was taking (leave linux on one part, install XP on the other). Right now there are several applications and other things that I'm missing from when I had primarily booted Linux, but I can't move away from Windows and still continue my studies (and btw, dual-booting is not an option I'm eager to go back to [takes forever, and I always want that one windows or linux app when I'm in the wrong boot]). So, after this project matures, I will hopefully be able to mount my existing Linux partition, boot my kernel, and access my applications and settings as I left them before, without disturbing my continued study with MFC and Direct X.
A few final points:
1.) XP is not as unstable as everyone here seems to contend, I have had weeks of uptime on my computer at work, as has the other developer who works with me.
2.) Cygwin does not allow developers to comfortably develop Linux apps on windows, and is limited inherently by Windows (terminal width constrained to less than 72 characters, X Windows loads slowly, etc).
3.)There are a number of practical uses for virtual machines but the speed of these systems, their somewhat limited application (hardware) support, and the price of the software ($$$ you would pay a heck of a lot more for VMWare than for Windows XP, buddy) tends to leave something to be desired from that corner of the market.
In conclusion, yeah, coLinux may not change the world, and it may not even turn a few heads, but it certainly could be useful for a number of people such as myself who are looking to get a little bit more Linux out of their Windows boxes.
The price? $599-699 for preorders. That's cheaper than an AIBO...
At spamarrest, we have a java applet that allows handicapped users to hear the word spoken.
I second.. and third your statements. I've been working AS a (something like a) developer through college and the difference between younger and older developers is significant. Youger developers are still working out their development processes and are more prone to erroroneous and buggy code.
Older developers take longer to program because they have had the experience of developing code that is hard to revise and update.
College classes tend to teach students to develop in a "code and fix" mentality because the projects generally need to be finished over a period of weeks (days)...
The point is, regardless of what some PHB thinks, older developers are better than younger developers much like weathered veterans make better soldiers than rookies.
The central rationale for younger prorgammers tends to be that they'll have more "creative flair" or "instinct" for programming but the truth is that when programming "real" applications, the development lifecycle should be a refined and well developed process.
A final note, computer scientists (developers) are much akin to engineers. The only difference is that there is no certification or standard for what a developer is capable of (unlike the case for engineers [wait, not software engineers tho]).
Would you trust a junior engineer with a "real" engineering project? Of course not, and it shuld be the same with software developers, how many IBM fellows are under 25? How many AMD fellows are under 25?
Perhaps this stigma applies to the hiring policies of some (perhaps smaller) companies but in the end, skilled developers are probably going to have a better chance at getting and retaining development positions.
XFI is committed to building the world's largest and safest mobile wireless online community for children. I can just see it now, some developer walked into the executives office with a circle on a piece of paper...
But anyways, but what about me??? What about support for more advanced applications like gcc and perl. You never know when inspiration hits. Also with the nifty backlight on the GBA SP, this would be rather nice for coding on the shitter.... but then I'd need a bluetooth foldout keyboard for efficiency.....
The trick to getting your sblive to work is using the EMU10k drivers. You probably can insmod them if you're using the Mandrake kernel (it has all the modules compiled) or you can *gasp* rebuild your kernel with one from kernel.org...
THere's an open source tool that I just started playing with called Protux that just happens to be very similar to protools, but has a smooth keyboard and mouse interface. So... I guess the point of this post is that for $495 you can get the industry standard but for $0 you can get the "free" and "almost function complete-similar" tool that you could contribute $500 worth of work into to make better... IMHO a better deal :)
Perhaps we should get cracking on an encrypted proxy that is peer to peer now...
;-)
Filtering traffic that is encrypted is like getting a haystack full of needles of which only one or two are sharp
Software such as Peekabooty would be efficient at getting just http secure, or PGP is great for email but encryping all packets and hiding your ips would be the comprehensive privacy solution to the problem of an all knowing sniffer.
Check this out... Kinda interesting ya?
The URL will tell you how close the nuclear waste will pass from your house. Something like one in five people will have nuclear waste within five miles of their home...
http://www.mapscience.com/
"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."
-- F. J. Raymond
At the University of Washington Bothell, we have a department Linux lab running redhat 7.2. Here is a link to the lab's homepage http://www.bothell.washington.edu/infosys/computer labs/linuxlab.html.
I actually am an assistant in the lab and have found out that the machines are relatively easy to support and that by using NIS and NFS they can be made to operate very cleanly. Students are given a hundred megs or so of space on the main server and since their home directories mount out of that their home on all of the machines is identical and all their documents are saved.
We have no file space problems and users can compile their own files in their own systems and over the course of the last quarter the lab's popularity has steadily incresed.
If you want any additional details on the lab feel free to email me.
If you can convince them that you're a student, you can travel super cheap through places like Student Universe.
;-) It's too fun to pass up and you'll probably be able to get more money in the long run for it.
IMHO:
The truth of the matter is that education is far more important to your development than is training. College is about learning how to learn and so if you're just doing the JIT (just in time) training stuff, then you will not be getting as enriching an experience, as much potential knowledge, or as viable ability in system administration.
Go to college
***Statisticians predict that for every CS college graduate, 8 jobs are made (if you include the job that you yorurself get***
You also could install a service on a machine that runs linux to archive those shares. One like yerfit(http://yerf.sourceforge.net). There are several such programs out there.
I have two things to state based upon my first and gut reaction to the article.
1.) IMHO international law in such a case is ludicris! Imagine all the things that don't culturally click. Moral differences are strongly evident in the cultural histories. We as Americans used to strongly believe that white males are superior moral agents and all other iterations of our species are inferior casted patients who at best could only benefit from rights alike those that we (as the upstanding white males) alotted for ourselves. If we don't scoff away the silly practice of permitting such law that at worst could make libel on the internet illegal, we could have a sticky situation on our hands. Australia is a lesser powerful country, they can't enforce such laws, but imagine if China, a powerful country that outright censors the internet adopts such practices... Well that's all I have to say about that!
2.) All libertarians can agree on what John Stuart Mill would say to such legal practices. This is a blatant case of "sticks and stones" since there is never any REAL harm that is done by the practice of defamation on the internet. Unless we can direcly correlate the practice of libel on the internet with DIRECT and DISTINCT harm, we have no moral grounds for passing on such censorship.
I better stop before I go off the wall and make myself flamebait BUT! I must last add that some sort of protest, ban, etc. ought be practiced to prevent such measures of censorship from happening.
So this means it will be longer until the next starcraft too...
The interface of OS X is one of the most complained about aspects of it. OS 10.1 is actually going to tone down the interface significantly. The real benefits of the operating system are it's more deliberate UNIX core (os 6+ used a system V core) and thus is portability, stability, and power. That damn genie effect is the most annoying thing ever, synonimous to flying cows as a transitional effect in powerpoints presentations.
On a side note. There is much more to sharing now! Check out http://www.yerfit.net we've interfaced samba to the web and this new method allows anyone to share files simply, even outside firewalls. MP3 will probably never die.
I must say..... damn cool. I appologize for being lame but I just thought I'd acknowledge you...
I'm an undergraduate developer at the University of Washington for a program that we call Catalyst and we develop tools that do all sorts of interesting things for distance learning. We have a remotely postable, editable tool called Peer Review for example that allows students and teachers to read and use eachothers work in a live and active environment. They can (for instance) put a comment on a word or paragraph that can then be viewed by other students and teachers and can be commented on further.
We are also developing tools that will hopefully integrate dynamic HTML and simple updates so that teachers who are away from the campus and their home computers can make updates to their websites and can administrate a course webpage easily and effectively. We also have another tool, EPost that allows teachers to use discussion boards in their course websites.
The addition of these tools allows teachers to make their classes more intersting and also will hopefully lead to courses that are educational and run from a remote location...
I also go to UW and well, I've heard nothing of this Nanotalkie stuff. Can I use it with my Nokia cell phone? Oh yeah, and my fraternity... I'm a Sociology major. (J/k steve-0) We gotta represent UW. Moo post
Hopefully this will just be a much better done version of the episode 1 game. Imagine a Final fantasy style Star Wars RPG!!!!!! first post?
Even if the card is delayed, I still believe that it is worth the wait. Voodoo will always be my practice primarily because I love the SDK for GLIDE. I pride in my bigotry towards 3DFX as they were the first big men on the playfield of true quality 3d graphics. Beyond their history as one of the first gamer's card manufactureres 3DFX has always had excellent support for their cards. I wouldn't be surprised if they released new banshee drivers. I'm more than willing to wait for a later release because I know that the card will first of all come with solid drivers, and secondly, if they take a long time to release, you know they won't dump the project like Sega did with all their systems. Power to the release team and 3DFX.