Oh please... Fedora Core is *AN UNSUPPORTED OS*. After 6 months you *MUST* upgrade or risk using an OS that has no more security updates made for it. This is great for desktop users. For systems administrators, responsible for real *SERVERS* it sucks big time. No sysadmin in their right mind is going to use an OS that they have to upgrade every 6-9 months. Oh and we're sure as hell not going to pay for an OS (RHEL) when there are still free and *SUPPORTED* distributions (Debian) out there just begging for our support.
Unless these devices have a big power source (for amplification) or big antennas (or both) I'm not sure how they can get accurate tracking. GPS signals are pretty faint and do not penetrate very far through things like houses.
Jealousy, that's what it is. Women have those goofy magazine quizzes, so us geeks "gotta" go out and come up with something to quiz ourselves against. "Is your project doomed to failure?", "How to drive your project manager wild.", "The 25 code tricks that get your regression testers revving.", "Lose 25 lines of code a week in three easy steps." and my personal favorite, "Are you good at passing the buck? Take our quiz to find out!".
I ended up getting an interview from a recruiter who was trolling through our LUG. The first step was the resume stuff. Then I got a call and had to answer three technical questions. The recruiter knew nothing about the questions, just that she needed to ask them. She also had some generic answers to let her know if I was on the right track. If I remember them correctly, the three questions where:
1. What is 2^10 equal to.
2. How would you write a C program to determine if your stack grew up or down.
3. What's the fastest way imaginable to hash ungodly quantities of data (paraphrased by me).
You had to get two out of three correct. I got credit for 2.5 out of 3 (apparently you get partial credit). This lead to a followup phone interview by an honest to goodness Google engineer.
During the followup phone interview you have to be in a room away from any form of computer. They are serious about this. Any hint of clicking on a keyboard, or suspicious delays while you input data, will get you eliminated. The questions he asked me were pretty open ended, such as, "How would you use DNS to speed up queries to a website.". I nailed all of the questions nicely except for a stupidly easy programming question. The question was "Write a C program that takes two sorted arrays and combines them into a single sorted array.". I made a stupid mistake that I realized only after I got off the phone. Apparently that was all it took to get me eliminated. (One answer, that isn't terribly efficient would be to simply combine the arrays into one array and do a basic bubble sort on it.)
I guess they're only looking for the stellar performers, of which apparently, I am not. For a week or so after I was notified, I was feeling a bit down. It is definitely a blow to ones ego, but I cannot blame them. I think I got a fair shot. I wish them nothing but the best.
I'm participating in that very program and at least for us, there are no paper diaries. We signed a document that allowed Neilsen to utilize the data TiVo downloads from our recorder on a nightly basis. The reason I agreed to this violation of my privacy is that it allows me to have a direct impact on the shows that I like.
I say let 'em. If the best Microsoft can do is bite at the ankles of the big dogs, they won't last in this area. That being said, eventually Microsoft will surpass Google, if only because they have an infinite amount of resources to throw at the problem, if google ever stops to rest on their "laurels".
Who cares about overpromising, I'd be excited to see something original for once. With a few exceptions (Sims; and even that's changing) the only thing that ever comes out these days is FPS games.
Mr. Stephenson, I've read nearly everything you've written and enjoyed my time engrossed in your books. One thing has always bugged me about Cryptonomicon though. Why was the ending so poorly written? It has always seemed to me, like you decided it was time to end the story and just threw something together as quickly as possible.
I would love to hear the true story behind why the ending was written the way it was.
I am very sorry to hear this. I give my condolences to Hans's close friends and family. I did not know him personally, however any loss of an OSS contributor is a great loss (*). Thank you Hans!
-Chuck
(*) For those suffering from a lack of perspective: Yes, any death is a great loss to someone.
Just installed Debian Sarge on our x235 eServer. Woody (Stable) wouldn't install smoothly (we could have forced it), but Sarge went in slick as snot.
As for support, I'll take care of the OS etc. We aren't running any IBM apps. Just a small document imaging system that supports their software on Debian and RedHat.
Why did I choose Debian? We used to be a 100% RedHat shop. Once they priced themselves out of the market, we went Debian and haven't looked back since. It was amazing to see how easy the migrations went. (Yes, I'm aware the the various RHEL rebuilds. Even after using RedHat for 6 years, I like Debian better after 6 months).
As long as IBM is *ONLY* supporting the hardware, you shouldn't have much trouble maintaining the support contract. Sure, IBM can claim they can't diagnose the hardware problem because you don't have a supported OS on the box, but I'd claim bullshit. 99% of the hardware on the box has some sort of BIOS or pre-boot configuration screen.
I'd be interested to see how these faster drives improve the various file formats. Stuff like ext2/3, ReiserFS, XFS etc have never been run at those speeds by a large population of people. New features can be implemented and I'm sure a race condition or two will be revealed somewhere.
Google for a company named "Long Term Capital". They predicted the market once and did a pretty darn good job of it too. Basically an investment guru figured out how to put together a team of Nobel prize winning economists and some other experts, to build a tool that was successful in predicting markets.
Unfortunately the market then took a random turn and they nearly lost everything. They had so much capital in certain markets that if they had pulled out, they would have collapsed the markets. They had to be bailed out by a cadre of investment bankers.
In the end all it made was an interesting PBS special and nothing more...
However, I bid good luck to anyone embarking on such a journey. Perhaps you will succeed where others have failed!
No one has ever been able to accuse me of being a Microsoft apologist. I've thrown my fair share of vitriol their way, but I always said what I felt was justified based on their actions.
In this case, I have to congratulate Microsoft. Yeah, I said it... They deserve a pat on the back for finally realizing, at least in this one instance, that it doesn't pay to release crap software. I doubt this is the beginning of a trend or anything, but for this they deserve a pat on the back.
This is great! Now can we finally buy one of these f00king things? Or must we be constantly taunted with these advances only available as prototypes to large multi-national corporations and well financed government labs...
It would be foolish to turn off the habeas checking in spamassassin, or otherwise filter out based on the habeas mark for 2 reasons:
1) Habeas has shown a commitment to actually *EXPEND* The resources to go after spammers. If you dimish the value of the habeas mark by filtering out email with their mark in it, then they have nothing to protect. I personally don't have time to go after spammers. Anyone who has a proven track record of winning against spammers (which habeas has) should be encouraged!
2) There is a large number of users who have added the habeas mark to their e-mail headers based on the assumption that it was a protected mark that would ensure their mail *WASN'T* filtered out. If you start filtering on that mark you *WILL* falsely filter out a lot of legitimate mail.
A previous poster named Mehu, posted an excellent solution to the problem if you're using spamassassin:
"So, rather than just add a score of 0 for HABEAS_SWE, I figured I'd give them a chance & added the following to my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, which takes care of the current rash:
body PHARMAWHAREHOUSE/pharmawharehouse.biz/
describe PHARMAWHAREHOUSE Link to pharmawharehouse.biz
body PHARMACOURT/pharmacourt.biz/
describe PHARMACOURT Link to pharmacourt.biz
body VALUEPOINTMEDS/valuepointmeds.biz/
describe VALUEPOINTMEDS Link to valuepointmeds.biz
Looking through my mail, it turns out some of my valid mail actually does contain those headers (would never have noticed them), and a few spams, even w/ the haiku headers, have been blocked by HABEAS_VIOLATOR (RBL: Has Habeas warrant mark and on Infringer List), so the company does appear to be doing its job.."
Yeah, it's wrong. It's incredibly wrong. IMHO, due to human nature though, this is just one of those steps that has to be taken to reach the enlightened state of tolerance. Like many other posters have noted, for all our faults, the US is light years ahead of *most* of the rest of the world when it comes to racial tolerance (that does not mean we're *PERFECT*).
Once again, IMHO, I believe we're all racist to some degree. Yeah, every stinkin' one of us. That doesn't mean jack though. All that matters is what you do with that racism. Much like mildew, shining light on it (IE talking, sharing feelings, etc) makes it go away.
I believe it's OK to be intimidated and scared of someone from another race. You shouldn't deny your feelings. Just don't let those feelings turn into anger or somehow let you justify treating them as less than a human being. You don't have to like people, but you *DO* have to treat them as you would like to be treated. It's your perogative if you want to remain ignorant...
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Oh please... Fedora Core is *AN UNSUPPORTED OS*. After 6 months you *MUST* upgrade or risk using an OS that has no more security updates made for it. This is great for desktop users. For systems administrators, responsible for real *SERVERS* it sucks big time. No sysadmin in their right mind is going to use an OS that they have to upgrade every 6-9 months. Oh and we're sure as hell not going to pay for an OS (RHEL) when there are still free and *SUPPORTED* distributions (Debian) out there just begging for our support.
Unless these devices have a big power source (for amplification) or big antennas (or both) I'm not sure how they can get accurate tracking. GPS signals are pretty faint and do not penetrate very far through things like houses.
"No one fucks with de Nash!"
For the homor impaired, check here.
"considering that it's 500 patents out of 40,000, you've got a really strange definition of "most.""
And how many of those 40,000 patents are still active? Taking that into account, it probably *IS* a big deal.
Please include all pr0n comments here.
Jealousy, that's what it is. Women have those goofy magazine quizzes, so us geeks "gotta" go out and come up with something to quiz ourselves against. "Is your project doomed to failure?", "How to drive your project manager wild.", "The 25 code tricks that get your regression testers revving.", "Lose 25 lines of code a week in three easy steps." and my personal favorite, "Are you good at passing the buck? Take our quiz to find out!".
Yeah, I got karma...
I ended up getting an interview from a recruiter who was trolling through our LUG. The first step was the resume stuff. Then I got a call and had to answer three technical questions. The recruiter knew nothing about the questions, just that she needed to ask them. She also had some generic answers to let her know if I was on the right track. If I remember them correctly, the three questions where:
1. What is 2^10 equal to.
2. How would you write a C program to determine if your stack grew up or down.
3. What's the fastest way imaginable to hash ungodly quantities of data (paraphrased by me).
You had to get two out of three correct. I got credit for 2.5 out of 3 (apparently you get partial credit). This lead to a followup phone interview by an honest to goodness Google engineer.
During the followup phone interview you have to be in a room away from any form of computer. They are serious about this. Any hint of clicking on a keyboard, or suspicious delays while you input data, will get you eliminated. The questions he asked me were pretty open ended, such as, "How would you use DNS to speed up queries to a website.". I nailed all of the questions nicely except for a stupidly easy programming question. The question was "Write a C program that takes two sorted arrays and combines them into a single sorted array.". I made a stupid mistake that I realized only after I got off the phone. Apparently that was all it took to get me eliminated. (One answer, that isn't terribly efficient would be to simply combine the arrays into one array and do a basic bubble sort on it.)
I guess they're only looking for the stellar performers, of which apparently, I am not. For a week or so after I was notified, I was feeling a bit down. It is definitely a blow to ones ego, but I cannot blame them. I think I got a fair shot. I wish them nothing but the best.
I'm participating in that very program and at least for us, there are no paper diaries. We signed a document that allowed Neilsen to utilize the data TiVo downloads from our recorder on a nightly basis. The reason I agreed to this violation of my privacy is that it allows me to have a direct impact on the shows that I like.
I say let 'em. If the best Microsoft can do is bite at the ankles of the big dogs, they won't last in this area. That being said, eventually Microsoft will surpass Google, if only because they have an infinite amount of resources to throw at the problem, if google ever stops to rest on their "laurels".
Who cares about overpromising, I'd be excited to see something original for once. With a few exceptions (Sims; and even that's changing) the only thing that ever comes out these days is FPS games.
Mr. Stephenson, I've read nearly everything you've written and enjoyed my time engrossed in your books. One thing has always bugged me about Cryptonomicon though. Why was the ending so poorly written? It has always seemed to me, like you decided it was time to end the story and just threw something together as quickly as possible.
I would love to hear the true story behind why the ending was written the way it was.
Thank you,
-Chuck
Whooboy, had to look at that Buck name twice there.
Welcome to tongue-wag-theatre! Go ahead ya self-rightous bastahd, I got plenty of karma to burn...
I am very sorry to hear this. I give my condolences to Hans's close friends and family. I did not know him personally, however any loss of an OSS contributor is a great loss (*). Thank you Hans!
-Chuck
(*) For those suffering from a lack of perspective: Yes, any death is a great loss to someone.
Not to toot my own horn or anything ;) Chris Negus and I wrote a book on just this topic called "Linux Toys". Check it out if you're interested.
Just installed Debian Sarge on our x235 eServer. Woody (Stable) wouldn't install smoothly (we could have forced it), but Sarge went in slick as snot.
As for support, I'll take care of the OS etc. We aren't running any IBM apps. Just a small document imaging system that supports their software on Debian and RedHat.
Why did I choose Debian? We used to be a 100% RedHat shop. Once they priced themselves out of the market, we went Debian and haven't looked back since. It was amazing to see how easy the migrations went. (Yes, I'm aware the the various RHEL rebuilds. Even after using RedHat for 6 years, I like Debian better after 6 months).
As long as IBM is *ONLY* supporting the hardware, you shouldn't have much trouble maintaining the support contract. Sure, IBM can claim they can't diagnose the hardware problem because you don't have a supported OS on the box, but I'd claim bullshit. 99% of the hardware on the box has some sort of BIOS or pre-boot configuration screen.
I'd be interested to see how these faster drives improve the various file formats. Stuff like ext2/3, ReiserFS, XFS etc have never been run at those speeds by a large population of people. New features can be implemented and I'm sure a race condition or two will be revealed somewhere.
Google for a company named "Long Term Capital". They predicted the market once and did a pretty darn good job of it too. Basically an investment guru figured out how to put together a team of Nobel prize winning economists and some other experts, to build a tool that was successful in predicting markets.
Unfortunately the market then took a random turn and they nearly lost everything. They had so much capital in certain markets that if they had pulled out, they would have collapsed the markets. They had to be bailed out by a cadre of investment bankers.
In the end all it made was an interesting PBS special and nothing more...
However, I bid good luck to anyone embarking on such a journey. Perhaps you will succeed where others have failed!
Heh, perhaps you didn't see the irony in my original comment then ;)
-Chuck
No one has ever been able to accuse me of being a Microsoft apologist. I've thrown my fair share of vitriol their way, but I always said what I felt was justified based on their actions.
In this case, I have to congratulate Microsoft. Yeah, I said it... They deserve a pat on the back for finally realizing, at least in this one instance, that it doesn't pay to release crap software. I doubt this is the beginning of a trend or anything, but for this they deserve a pat on the back.
This is great! Now can we finally buy one of these f00king things? Or must we be constantly taunted with these advances only available as prototypes to large multi-national corporations and well financed government labs...
Strange... I always thought advertising was what those top 40 stations did all along. Silly me...
So I read the entire article and then I realized... the joke's on us...
"Incorrect. This spam was the first to reach my site bearing any Habeas mark."
Are you saying that since you haven't actually seen a legitimate use of the HABEAS mark, then there are no legitimate users of the mark?
-Chuck
It would be foolish to turn off the habeas checking in spamassassin, or otherwise filter out based on the habeas mark for 2 reasons:
/pharmawharehouse.biz/
/pharmacourt.biz/
/valuepointmeds.biz/
1) Habeas has shown a commitment to actually *EXPEND* The resources to go after spammers. If you dimish the value of the habeas mark by filtering out email with their mark in it, then they have nothing to protect. I personally don't have time to go after spammers. Anyone who has a proven track record of winning against spammers (which habeas has) should be encouraged!
2) There is a large number of users who have added the habeas mark to their e-mail headers based on the assumption that it was a protected mark that would ensure their mail *WASN'T* filtered out. If you start filtering on that mark you *WILL* falsely filter out a lot of legitimate mail.
A previous poster named Mehu, posted an excellent solution to the problem if you're using spamassassin:
"So, rather than just add a score of 0 for HABEAS_SWE, I figured I'd give them a chance & added the following to my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs, which takes care of the current rash:
body PHARMAWHAREHOUSE
describe PHARMAWHAREHOUSE Link to pharmawharehouse.biz
body PHARMACOURT
describe PHARMACOURT Link to pharmacourt.biz
body VALUEPOINTMEDS
describe VALUEPOINTMEDS Link to valuepointmeds.biz
score PHARMAWHAREHOUSE 10
score PHARMACOURT 10
score VALUEPOINTMEDS 10
Looking through my mail, it turns out some of my valid mail actually does contain those headers (would never have noticed them), and a few spams, even w/ the haiku headers, have been blocked by HABEAS_VIOLATOR (RBL: Has Habeas warrant mark and on Infringer List), so the company does appear to be doing its job.."
-Chuck
Yeah, it's wrong. It's incredibly wrong. IMHO, due to human nature though, this is just one of those steps that has to be taken to reach the enlightened state of tolerance. Like many other posters have noted, for all our faults, the US is light years ahead of *most* of the rest of the world when it comes to racial tolerance (that does not mean we're *PERFECT*).
Once again, IMHO, I believe we're all racist to some degree. Yeah, every stinkin' one of us. That doesn't mean jack though. All that matters is what you do with that racism. Much like mildew, shining light on it (IE talking, sharing feelings, etc) makes it go away.
I believe it's OK to be intimidated and scared of someone from another race. You shouldn't deny your feelings. Just don't let those feelings turn into anger or somehow let you justify treating them as less than a human being. You don't have to like people, but you *DO* have to treat them as you would like to be treated. It's your perogative if you want to remain ignorant...