I find it sad that someone would want to make a career out of being a spy, but snoopy, witch-hunting applications and services really seem to be taking off lately.
If you don't want people surfing for porn at work, either catch them at their desk or put up a proxy server they can't get through -- don't snoop over the contents of their browser cache or track all of their online movements. Nobody likes a narc.
OK, a hacker is a computer programmer -- they are more 31337 than those who breach network/system security ("crackers"). Crackers are a much smarter and creative lot than those who deface websites, so those folks are called "script kiddies".
At some point, you just have to give up and accept multiple definitions. What do you call a person who does not break security measures and writes "cracks" to uncripple certain software titles? How many derogatory terms are there for white people other than "cracker"?
A "true" hacker can call themselves a "hacker" all day if they want, but don't be surprised if someone gets the wrong idea. When I came in to work in a good mood, I could have run around in the office telling everyone that I was "gay", but again, there's the problem of someone getting the wrong idea.
First of all, I though that the LSB was already managing a standard on filesystem layout.
Second, I don't see it particularly important to internationalize this layout. What kind of ugly precedent would this set? If I wrote a program for a German-language compiler, would my code have to read:
wenn (foo != foobar) { schreib ("foo und foobar sein anders.\n"); }
As it is, UN*X is pretty far removed from English, anyway. Don't mess with/etc...
I think that's the point -- Katz can't use his IP w/o permission, and there is no way for him to even ask for it.
I certainly wouldn't want him to use my comments, but since I have never contributed anything constructive to his articles, it won't make any difference. I'll certainly make a point NOT TO in the future...
Another advantage is that free, naturally occurring oxygen you get on Earth. I couldn't hold my breath nearly as long as those guys on the Hubble.
I met my new friend Jimbo at the bar just the other night, and he was one of the guys who worked on the telescope up in space. He had to quit after he got sick of hilding his breath for a couple of years. He says it was hard work because it was really hot in space, and the sun was BRIGHT GREEN. The sky soaks up the blue and makes the sun look yellow. I like my friend Jimbo -- he's so smart.
Any science related to the subject of "creation" requires a certain amount of faith and a great deal of patience. Theologians haven't gotten too far over the past few millennia, but astronomers have (comparatively) made significantly more progress in just a few centuries!
The only reason it was discovered was because he opened up the casing to put on an aftermarket cooling device. MAYBE he just likes to keep his processor cold, but I have little doubt that the intent was anything other than overclocking the processor. It strikes me ironic that he's complaining about getting a pre-overclocked processor.
I won't dispute the fact that remarked processors sold at a markup (and without disclosure) are wrong. I'd be pissed, but I'd probably find it just a bit funny. Are the margins between a 650 and a 700 so huge that it's worth spending the time to do the soldering and remarking the processor?
Let FireWire kill itself. USB 2.0 is good enough for most serial applications.
Anything more demanding should be using SCSI anyway. With minimal to none CPU utilization, 80MB/s or better worth of bandwidth is pretty damn good, even if it isn't as much throughput as many core routers can handle, but that's an apples and oranges comparison.
An NT machine with decent hardware and a stock configuration simply isn't going to BSOD. I would be willing to use it in a critical life support environment, provided the HW configuration had been proven reliable. I had an early Athlon/Irongate system that couldn't run NT or W2K for shit, then traded it for a PII/iBX and have had nearly a month of uptime, which would be longer had I not opted to install a second video card for multiple displays, something XFree86 can't even handle.
There must be a million different protocols/standards for cable modems -- how the hell will this thing work? Would it even be compliant with the cable company's TOS?
Besides, my Cisco 675 DSL router already does most of this...:b
"Mhz only has any validity as a benchmark within an architecture"
"You want to share CPU benchmarks on something like this, talk about SPECint and SPECfp. Not Mhz."
I have to agree with (1), but (2) is a bit more iffy -- you need to look at the architecture and the platform in use. In 1994, I was using a Pentium 90 with 16MB RAM, and Windows 3.1 was screamingly fast. I now have three machines ranging from PII350/64MB/Win98 to Athlon 500/192MB/Linux and none of them are anywhere near as fast. There are tons of other variables, too -- how well does Processor 1 vs. Processor 2 scale in an N-way configuration? How much memory bandwidth is available? How well can the underlying OS make those resources available?
Of course, I'm comparing apples and oranges. Regardless of the stats you use for comparison, it's all benchmarketing.
If there isn't an RPM/DEB/whatever, what am I supposed to do? I downloaded and installed SSH from source not too long ago -- am I supposed to understand every line of C, or should I just hope that it isn't malicious? I haven't read any of the kernel source on my system, nor the source for any of the packages that were installed along with it, either.
If OSS really is for the masses, there will have to be a certain amount of faith and trust in the software provider, especially since everything is installed and compiled by root, which may or may not be someone with the skills to read a novel, much less code.
It seems as though upon boot-up, the user is presented with a logon window not dissimilar to that in NT, xdm, etc.). As it turns out, if you press Ctrl-Alt-Del, a message pops up saying:
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That's funny, I always saw GPL software as Marxism, and Windows/proprietary as the exemplification of capitalism.
I believe that Marx said that his philosophy would only be applicable after capitalism/industrialism had reached its peak (and it sure wansn't in Russia). Maybe in this little slice of a rapidly growing economy, that time may be near!
You want flat, you want pretty, you want interactivity, you want it all to be big and bright? Use LSD, not LCD.
LSD is paper thin, and projects beautiful imagery of a fantasy world across your whole field of vision. Forget about thick "panels", kludgey technology like this 38" screen, or cumbersome technology like heavy headsets -- all you need is LSD, and I think it might be cheaper.
That's very informative. Make sure you post with "HTML Formatted" instead of "Plain Old Text" or "Extrans", and write pure HTML (inluding <P> for new paragraphs) -- like Linux, the Slash engine is written to be "perfect", not accommodating.
I think this "milliard" thing should go. It's so much easier to think of Bill "The Billionaire" Gates, instead of Bill "The Milliardaire" Gates. I recall from my four years of German that they also use the logic above -- I guess I just hadn't realized that it was more common than that.
I object strongly to the obvious astronomical turn this article has already taken. Why do we never hear about the good things in space, like Hale-Bopp's wonderful collision in 1998?
first of all, this should be moderated as informative.
I'd also like to add that RAMBUS isn't an open technology -- you're free to make all the RIMMs you want, as long as Rambus Inc. gets a royalty. I was under the impression that everyone had learned from the ongoing FireWire fiasco that royalty-based consumer technologies don't get adopted.
I understand their motivation for earning some kind of money for all of their R&D, but RAMBUS has failed to provide either a compelling reason for most of the world to drop SDRAM and switch to RDRAM -- the price doesn't match the performance.
There may be a place for RDRAM at the high end, but with the memory requirements for current machines, I'll be damned if I go back to paying more than US $1/MB for RAM, much less $8...
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If you don't want people surfing for porn at work, either catch them at their desk or put up a proxy server they can't get through -- don't snoop over the contents of their browser cache or track all of their online movements. Nobody likes a narc.
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OK, a hacker is a computer programmer -- they are more 31337 than those who breach network/system security ("crackers"). Crackers are a much smarter and creative lot than those who deface websites, so those folks are called "script kiddies".
At some point, you just have to give up and accept multiple definitions. What do you call a person who does not break security measures and writes "cracks" to uncripple certain software titles? How many derogatory terms are there for white people other than "cracker"?
A "true" hacker can call themselves a "hacker" all day if they want, but don't be surprised if someone gets the wrong idea. When I came in to work in a good mood, I could have run around in the office telling everyone that I was "gay", but again, there's the problem of someone getting the wrong idea.
Give it up, and get over it. Thank you.
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Second, I don't see it particularly important to internationalize this layout. What kind of ugly precedent would this set? If I wrote a program for a German-language compiler, would my code have to read:
wenn (foo != foobar) {
schreib ("foo und foobar sein anders.\n");
}
As it is, UN*X is pretty far removed from English, anyway. Don't mess with /etc...
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I certainly wouldn't want him to use my comments, but since I have never contributed anything constructive to his articles, it won't make any difference. I'll certainly make a point NOT TO in the future...
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I met my new friend Jimbo at the bar just the other night, and he was one of the guys who worked on the telescope up in space. He had to quit after he got sick of hilding his breath for a couple of years. He says it was hard work because it was really hot in space, and the sun was BRIGHT GREEN. The sky soaks up the blue and makes the sun look yellow. I like my friend Jimbo -- he's so smart.
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I won't dispute the fact that remarked processors sold at a markup (and without disclosure) are wrong. I'd be pissed, but I'd probably find it just a bit funny. Are the margins between a 650 and a 700 so huge that it's worth spending the time to do the soldering and remarking the processor?
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Anything more demanding should be using SCSI anyway. With minimal to none CPU utilization, 80MB/s or better worth of bandwidth is pretty damn good, even if it isn't as much throughput as many core routers can handle, but that's an apples and oranges comparison.
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Besides, my Cisco 675 DSL router already does most of this... :b
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I have to agree with (1), but (2) is a bit more iffy -- you need to look at the architecture and the platform in use. In 1994, I was using a Pentium 90 with 16MB RAM, and Windows 3.1 was screamingly fast. I now have three machines ranging from PII350/64MB/Win98 to Athlon 500/192MB/Linux and none of them are anywhere near as fast. There are tons of other variables, too -- how well does Processor 1 vs. Processor 2 scale in an N-way configuration? How much memory bandwidth is available? How well can the underlying OS make those resources available?
Of course, I'm comparing apples and oranges. Regardless of the stats you use for comparison, it's all benchmarketing.
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If OSS really is for the masses, there will have to be a certain amount of faith and trust in the software provider, especially since everything is installed and compiled by root, which may or may not be someone with the skills to read a novel, much less code.
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The list goes on, but that's enough for now..
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This is according to Ars Technica:
It seems as though upon boot-up, the user is presented with a logon window not dissimilar to that in NT, xdm, etc.). As it turns out, if you press Ctrl-Alt-Del, a message pops up saying:
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I believe that Marx said that his philosophy would only be applicable after capitalism/industrialism had reached its peak (and it sure wansn't in Russia). Maybe in this little slice of a rapidly growing economy, that time may be near!
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LSD is paper thin, and projects beautiful imagery of a fantasy world across your whole field of vision. Forget about thick "panels", kludgey technology like this 38" screen, or cumbersome technology like heavy headsets -- all you need is LSD, and I think it might be cheaper.
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I think this "milliard" thing should go. It's so much easier to think of Bill "The Billionaire" Gates, instead of Bill "The Milliardaire" Gates. I recall from my four years of German that they also use the logic above -- I guess I just hadn't realized that it was more common than that.
I s'pose I'm being noise instead of signal, so...
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I object strongly to the obvious astronomical turn this article has already taken. Why do we never hear about the good things in space, like Hale-Bopp's wonderful collision in 1998?
Yours etc.,
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I'd also like to add that RAMBUS isn't an open technology -- you're free to make all the RIMMs you want, as long as Rambus Inc. gets a royalty. I was under the impression that everyone had learned from the ongoing FireWire fiasco that royalty-based consumer technologies don't get adopted.
I understand their motivation for earning some kind of money for all of their R&D, but RAMBUS has failed to provide either a compelling reason for most of the world to drop SDRAM and switch to RDRAM -- the price doesn't match the performance.
There may be a place for RDRAM at the high end, but with the memory requirements for current machines, I'll be damned if I go back to paying more than US $1/MB for RAM, much less $8...
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Uptime is more important than security, huh? *shrug*
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