True enough, but when you can fire up the debugger just by clicking that icon there, next to the one that you click to run the code normally, there's more of an incentive to start playing with it.
If you have to go hunting around on freshmeat or google to find one in the fist place, or wade through dozens of pages of info/man pages to learn an obscure command line interface, printf()s or System.out.println()s start looking attractive. This is especially true when the bug has to be fixed now, so the client will stop shouting at the project manager, who in turn will stop breathing down your neck.
Indeed, and some of my work colleagues use emacs or vim + either makefiles or ant to develop in Java, despite having plenty of JBuilder 4 Professional licences. It's what they're used to, and to be honest, JBuilder is a bit of a cow, performance wise (we only have 450MHz P3s, but that's a moan for another thread)
I had never really used an IDE until I was persuaded to give JBuilder a go (other than relatively brief uses of Visual Interdev and VC++), and it's changed the way I work. If nothing else, being able to step through the code in the debugger, inspecting any variables I choose is wonderful, and a vast improvement on peppering the code with System.out.println()s.
Of course, as I develop code in Java on a machine running Linux that's going to be deployed on a server running Linux, I don't have to worry about cross-platform issues. However, I can't imagine that there's anything stopping you from developing fully portable code using an IDE, either. You'd just have to know what you were doing, which is true in any case.
Don't forget that as well as Kylix, JBuilder has been available for Linux since at least version 3. (Quitepossibly before that, too, but I came to it just as 3.5 was being released.)
True, it's almost 100% Java, so there wouldn't have been that much work invovled, but it's still very welcome - it meant that I (and about half my colleagues) could finally ditch Windows entirely at work.
I live in the UK, and our copyright laws are plenty comprehensive enough to cover this situation. In fact, we don't even have a fair use clause; technically, I am infringing every time I copy a CD to minidisc to listen to on my way in to work.
As for piracy in other countries, if copyright is ignored, what makes you think the licences will be honoured?
if both groups would work on ONE desktop then today we could be far ahead as we are today.
You're not a programmer, are you? I'm a programmer by trade, and have lead a number of projects, and believe me you cannot simply throw more and more people at a project to get it finished quicker.
Projects can only be broken down and parallelised so much. There comes a point where adding more people will cause it to take more time, not less.
Having outright ownership to the product entitles you to do with it whatever you want, up to and including making hundres of copies of the product (a PS2 game, in this case) and freely distributing it at no charge.
No it doesn't. That is already illegal under copyright law. The licences on software merely impose further restrictions on you, they are not the copyright holder's sole protection.
That is so true. My daughter is just over 2 years old, and has already managed to snap one CD in two.
Fortunately it was just a CD-R I'd used to ferry a couple of large downloads home from work (back before I had adsl), but it could've been much more expensive. I agree with the original poster - companies can't have it all their own way. If all we buy is a licence to use the contents of the disk (be it software, music, etc), then either replacements for damaged media should be free, or we should be able to make functional backup copies. Copy prevention on games, though, is becoming more and more common, at least judging from my modest collection.
The two-timing bitch - I thought we were happy! She always said she couldn't wait to see me again!
Cheers,
Tim
Re:Different Net uses
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The same of course goes for many othe communities on the net
And also, of course, of offline communities.
I used to live in North London, and a route I often took to and from home lead me past a number of annonymous looking establishments along the high street, all of which were members only "socail clubs". These are places where like-minded individuals can go, to chat, smoke, drink, play pool, whatever.
They are all for members only, and membership is presumably (I never checked) by invitation only.
The way I see it is that the net has only served to increase the popularity of this sort of thing, and to enable people who are not geographically close to each other to interact. It certainly didn't cause it to happen.
No, a terrorist probably wouldn't, but a hobbyist chemist might, just to see if they can.
Likewise, no a cracker probably wouldn't write a cracking tool/DoS tool/whatever unless they were intending for it to be used, but I might. Maybe I want to see what's involved, maybe I want to gain some sort of insight into how they're developed and how they work, the better to secure my own system(s). Hell, maybe I just have some time to kill, and can't think of anything better to do with it.
Knowledge should not be illegal. The use of that knowledge to the detriment of others is an entirely different matter, and should not be confused with the mere possesion of that knowledge.
auditing a site you have permission to audit from a remote location for instance
If someone is being paid to audit a site in this manner, I'd hope that they'd do a little more than just download a few randon hack scripts from the internet and run them.
Sure, that's what most of the real attackers will be doing, but if I were paying for an audit, I'd like it to be just a little more thorough and professional than that...
Cheers,
Tim
Re:Overworked, underpaid, essential... Uh. No.
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Overworked? Impossible - he's paid hourly.
So by that logic, it would be okay to fire a person if they couldn't keep up with a 20-hour working day?
You're confusing overworked with underpaid. "Overworked" means "having more work than you can be reasonably expected to complete in the time available". It has nothing to do with how much you're paid, or whether you're paid hourly or not.
I have to admit to taking the "lazy b*****d" approach to upgrading my system and applying security patches, especially with Windows - I tend to go for the one shot, "fix it all at once" approach. On the other hand, the most valuable data on the box in question are my saved game files, so I'm not that worried about hosing it occasionally;-)
or didn't take the 10 seconds to download and enable 128 bit on his computer
10 seconds?! I have a half-megabit adsl link at home, and Windows 2000 service pack 2 (yeah, I run windows for games, sosueme) took a lot longer than 10 seconds to download;-)
Seriously though, my first thought on seeing the story was that 128bit encryption is not only included in service pack 2, it's mandatory, and if you uninstall the service pack, you don't downgrade your level of encryption.
Really, this story is no different to all the ones about machines being rooted using exploits that have been patchable for ages. You can argue that a user shouldn't have to continually update and patch their system to stay safe, but they do. I shouldn't have to lock my house up when I leave it, but I do, because if I don't, I can't reasonably expect all my stuff to still be in it by the time I get back.
Not to mention that no-one in their right minds is going to bet the farm on starting up an online business/website without an air-tight business plan. Such business plans generally don't allow for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on one domain name, when another will do just as well.
Not only that, but in trademark-related domain name disputes, the trade mark holder generally wins. There's not a lot of money to be made in trying to sell, eg, f0rd.com to Ford anymore.
I am (well, was) a Physicist, and yes, a "liquid gas" is a liquid, in the same way that a "gaseous solid" is a gas.
I assume the original poster meant that it's composed of substances that are gaseous at STP (standard temperature and pressure, 1 (Earth) atmosphere and 20C iirc), but that are mostly liquid due to the pressure they're under.
Good job I'd just finished my lunch before reading the "liquid gas" comment, or things could've gotten very messy:-)
(No offence intended)
More importantly, there are plans being drawn up to send probes to Europa to look for eveidence of life, as it's one of the most likely candidates in the solar system.
If there is any bacteria on the galileo probe, then crashing it on Europa risks contaminating any samples that we do take, thus giving false positives. Not cool given the amount of time, effort and money that will go into such a mission. (Don't even get me started on what a blow it would be for science...)
Unless you use a journaling filesystem. From the man page:
CAUTION: Note that shred relies on a very important
assumption: that the filesystem overwrites data in place.
This is the traditional way to do things, but many modern
filesystem designs do not satisfy this assumption. The
following are examples of filesystems on which shred is
not effective:
* log-structured or journaled filesystems, such as those
supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, etc.)
There are a few other caveats, but that's the important one for me, given that I upgraded my machine at the weekend and only yesterday reinstalled Mandrake 8.1 with reiserfs for both my / and/home partitions...
LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and is basically a method of representing information in a tree-like structure.
For example, to represent the fact that I work for a company (let's call them Foo Inc) in the UK, you could write the following:
c=UK,ou=Foo Inc,cn=Tim Campbell
That identifies the object "Tim Campbell" in the organisational unit "Foo Inc" in the country "UK" (Sorry for any inaccuracaies and the general crapness of the example, it's been a long time since I messed with any LDAP stuff)
The only thing that I've used that uses LDAP is SiteServer, which uses it for the Personalisation and Membership service (which is why it's been such a long time:-) ).
To fully experience the Sharp USA site, you need to have Version 4 or above of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator Version 4.x. Download Internet Explorer
Attention Netscape 6 Users:
The Sharp-USA site uses DHTML and other advanced techniques supported by Netscape Version 4 and Internet Explorer Version 4 and above. We are in the process of upgrading so that Netscape Version 6 will be supported. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Cool your heels, friend, they're not forcing you to use IE, just to not use a gecko-based browser (or more likely, non-IE or NS4 browser) for the time being.
Of course, nearly everything's copyrighted (including a lot of GPL and other "free" code).
Re-read the GPL:
We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
distribute and/or modify the software.
All GPLed software is copyrighted - the GPL is a licence after all. The difference is that the GPL specifically gives people the right to distribute copies of the software themselves, provided they agree to some other restrictions (basicly that they must give the same rights to those that they give copies to).
I know I'm nitpicking, but this stuff is important:-)
1.) Well, each to their own - I admit that I've not played it much since completing the single player game, but then it keeps crashing on my machine...
2.) Fair enough, but for WC3, I'd take a two week holiday and shift my sleeping patterns to match;-)
3.) So make it available via a password/IP-protected download. No shipping, minimal bandwidth costs, and no greater risk of copying.
4.) What makes you think that there won't be copies of the beta up on warez sites within 24 hours of the first CDs being shipped anyway? Sure, Hong Kong, etc have bigger, more open piracy problems, but don't imagine that the US and Canada are piracy free.
Don't mind me, I'm just disappointed that the beta is closed to me:-(
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True enough, but when you can fire up the debugger just by clicking that icon there, next to the one that you click to run the code normally, there's more of an incentive to start playing with it.
If you have to go hunting around on freshmeat or google to find one in the fist place, or wade through dozens of pages of info/man pages to learn an obscure command line interface, printf()s or System.out.println()s start looking attractive. This is especially true when the bug has to be fixed now, so the client will stop shouting at the project manager, who in turn will stop breathing down your neck.
Cheers,
Tim
Indeed, and some of my work colleagues use emacs or vim + either makefiles or ant to develop in Java, despite having plenty of JBuilder 4 Professional licences. It's what they're used to, and to be honest, JBuilder is a bit of a cow, performance wise (we only have 450MHz P3s, but that's a moan for another thread)
I had never really used an IDE until I was persuaded to give JBuilder a go (other than relatively brief uses of Visual Interdev and VC++), and it's changed the way I work. If nothing else, being able to step through the code in the debugger, inspecting any variables I choose is wonderful, and a vast improvement on peppering the code with System.out.println()s.
Of course, as I develop code in Java on a machine running Linux that's going to be deployed on a server running Linux, I don't have to worry about cross-platform issues. However, I can't imagine that there's anything stopping you from developing fully portable code using an IDE, either. You'd just have to know what you were doing, which is true in any case.
Cheers,
Tim
Don't forget that as well as Kylix, JBuilder has been available for Linux since at least version 3. (Quitepossibly before that, too, but I came to it just as 3.5 was being released.)
True, it's almost 100% Java, so there wouldn't have been that much work invovled, but it's still very welcome - it meant that I (and about half my colleagues) could finally ditch Windows entirely at work.
Cheers,
Tim
From the story:
Looks like Borland is going to be releasing C++ for Linux
How much more related to Linux do you want?
Cheers,
Tim
I live in the UK, and our copyright laws are plenty comprehensive enough to cover this situation. In fact, we don't even have a fair use clause; technically, I am infringing every time I copy a CD to minidisc to listen to on my way in to work.
As for piracy in other countries, if copyright is ignored, what makes you think the licences will be honoured?
Cheers,
Tim
if both groups would work on ONE desktop then today we could be far ahead as we are today.
You're not a programmer, are you? I'm a programmer by trade, and have lead a number of projects, and believe me you cannot simply throw more and more people at a project to get it finished quicker.
Projects can only be broken down and parallelised so much. There comes a point where adding more people will cause it to take more time, not less.
Cheers,
Tim
Check out the time shown on the clock in this one: http://www.kde.org/screenshots/large/kde3-snapshot 3.jpg
:-)
I've worked on projects like that
Cheers,
Tim
Having outright ownership to the product entitles you to do with it whatever you want, up to and including making hundres of copies of the product (a PS2 game, in this case) and freely distributing it at no charge.
No it doesn't. That is already illegal under copyright law. The licences on software merely impose further restrictions on you, they are not the copyright holder's sole protection.
Cheers,
Tim
That is so true. My daughter is just over 2 years old, and has already managed to snap one CD in two.
Fortunately it was just a CD-R I'd used to ferry a couple of large downloads home from work (back before I had adsl), but it could've been much more expensive. I agree with the original poster - companies can't have it all their own way. If all we buy is a licence to use the contents of the disk (be it software, music, etc), then either replacements for damaged media should be free, or we should be able to make functional backup copies. Copy prevention on games, though, is becoming more and more common, at least judging from my modest collection.
Cheers,
Tim
Of course it bends light, all masses do so.
:-)
As it's only a book, though, I would challenge anyone to measure the effect it has on a passing light ray
</physics nerd>
Cheers,
Tim
What?!
No!!!
The two-timing bitch - I thought we were happy! She always said she couldn't wait to see me again!
Cheers,
Tim
The same of course goes for many othe communities on the net
And also, of course, of offline communities.
I used to live in North London, and a route I often took to and from home lead me past a number of annonymous looking establishments along the high street, all of which were members only "socail clubs". These are places where like-minded individuals can go, to chat, smoke, drink, play pool, whatever.
They are all for members only, and membership is presumably (I never checked) by invitation only.
The way I see it is that the net has only served to increase the popularity of this sort of thing, and to enable people who are not geographically close to each other to interact. It certainly didn't cause it to happen.
Cheers,
Tim
No, a terrorist probably wouldn't, but a hobbyist chemist might, just to see if they can.
Likewise, no a cracker probably wouldn't write a cracking tool/DoS tool/whatever unless they were intending for it to be used, but I might. Maybe I want to see what's involved, maybe I want to gain some sort of insight into how they're developed and how they work, the better to secure my own system(s). Hell, maybe I just have some time to kill, and can't think of anything better to do with it.
Knowledge should not be illegal. The use of that knowledge to the detriment of others is an entirely different matter, and should not be confused with the mere possesion of that knowledge.
Cheers,
Tim
auditing a site you have permission to audit from a remote location for instance
If someone is being paid to audit a site in this manner, I'd hope that they'd do a little more than just download a few randon hack scripts from the internet and run them.
Sure, that's what most of the real attackers will be doing, but if I were paying for an audit, I'd like it to be just a little more thorough and professional than that...
Cheers,
Tim
Overworked? Impossible - he's paid hourly.
So by that logic, it would be okay to fire a person if they couldn't keep up with a 20-hour working day?
You're confusing overworked with underpaid. "Overworked" means "having more work than you can be reasonably expected to complete in the time available". It has nothing to do with how much you're paid, or whether you're paid hourly or not.
Cheers,
Tim
Hehe - fair enough then :-)
;-)
I have to admit to taking the "lazy b*****d" approach to upgrading my system and applying security patches, especially with Windows - I tend to go for the one shot, "fix it all at once" approach. On the other hand, the most valuable data on the box in question are my saved game files, so I'm not that worried about hosing it occasionally
Cheers,
Tim
or didn't take the 10 seconds to download and enable 128 bit on his computer
;-)
10 seconds?! I have a half-megabit adsl link at home, and Windows 2000 service pack 2 (yeah, I run windows for games, sosueme) took a lot longer than 10 seconds to download
Seriously though, my first thought on seeing the story was that 128bit encryption is not only included in service pack 2, it's mandatory, and if you uninstall the service pack, you don't downgrade your level of encryption.
Really, this story is no different to all the ones about machines being rooted using exploits that have been patchable for ages. You can argue that a user shouldn't have to continually update and patch their system to stay safe, but they do. I shouldn't have to lock my house up when I leave it, but I do, because if I don't, I can't reasonably expect all my stuff to still be in it by the time I get back.
Cheers,
Tim
Not to mention that no-one in their right minds is going to bet the farm on starting up an online business/website without an air-tight business plan. Such business plans generally don't allow for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on one domain name, when another will do just as well.
Not only that, but in trademark-related domain name disputes, the trade mark holder generally wins. There's not a lot of money to be made in trying to sell, eg, f0rd.com to Ford anymore.
Cheers,
Tim
I am (well, was) a Physicist, and yes, a "liquid gas" is a liquid, in the same way that a "gaseous solid" is a gas.
:-)
I assume the original poster meant that it's composed of substances that are gaseous at STP (standard temperature and pressure, 1 (Earth) atmosphere and 20C iirc), but that are mostly liquid due to the pressure they're under.
Good job I'd just finished my lunch before reading the "liquid gas" comment, or things could've gotten very messy
(No offence intended)
Cheers,
Tim
More importantly, there are plans being drawn up to send probes to Europa to look for eveidence of life, as it's one of the most likely candidates in the solar system.
If there is any bacteria on the galileo probe, then crashing it on Europa risks contaminating any samples that we do take, thus giving false positives. Not cool given the amount of time, effort and money that will go into such a mission. (Don't even get me started on what a blow it would be for science...)
Cheers,
Tim
There are a few other caveats, but that's the important one for me, given that I upgraded my machine at the weekend and only yesterday reinstalled Mandrake 8.1 with reiserfs for both my / and
Cheers,
Tim
LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, and is basically a method of representing information in a tree-like structure.
:-) ).
For example, to represent the fact that I work for a company (let's call them Foo Inc) in the UK, you could write the following:
c=UK,ou=Foo Inc,cn=Tim Campbell
That identifies the object "Tim Campbell" in the organisational unit "Foo Inc" in the country "UK" (Sorry for any inaccuracaies and the general crapness of the example, it's been a long time since I messed with any LDAP stuff)
The only thing that I've used that uses LDAP is SiteServer, which uses it for the Personalisation and Membership service (which is why it's been such a long time
Cheers,
Tim
From the page I get:
To fully experience the Sharp USA site, you need to have Version 4 or above of Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator Version 4.x. Download Internet Explorer
Attention Netscape 6 Users:
The Sharp-USA site uses DHTML and other advanced techniques supported by Netscape Version 4 and Internet Explorer Version 4 and above. We are in the process of upgrading so that Netscape Version 6 will be supported. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Cool your heels, friend, they're not forcing you to use IE, just to not use a gecko-based browser (or more likely, non-IE or NS4 browser) for the time being.
Cheers,
Tim
Re-read the GPL:
All GPLed software is copyrighted - the GPL is a licence after all. The difference is that the GPL specifically gives people the right to distribute copies of the software themselves, provided they agree to some other restrictions (basicly that they must give the same rights to those that they give copies to).
I know I'm nitpicking, but this stuff is important
Cheers,
Tim
1.) Well, each to their own - I admit that I've not played it much since completing the single player game, but then it keeps crashing on my machine...
;-)
:-(
2.) Fair enough, but for WC3, I'd take a two week holiday and shift my sleeping patterns to match
3.) So make it available via a password/IP-protected download. No shipping, minimal bandwidth costs, and no greater risk of copying.
4.) What makes you think that there won't be copies of the beta up on warez sites within 24 hours of the first CDs being shipped anyway? Sure, Hong Kong, etc have bigger, more open piracy problems, but don't imagine that the US and Canada are piracy free.
Don't mind me, I'm just disappointed that the beta is closed to me
Cheers,
Tim