Cool. Show me (in C, no libraries allowed), how to retrieve the free space on a hard drive partition. Let's say the C app is running under Windows 2000, just to make it more specific. You know at some point java does have to bind to native methods. JNI is necessary at some point because this is a Virtual Machine. Also, in all the programs I've written, I haven't had a single problem with a user needing to look at the free disk space in their program (albeit, I haven't written any installers, jars rule all). Sure it can be kind of neat and all to see a number, but Exceptions work wonders. Although, I do agree, a Disk class or something similar would seem pretty logical.
I personally don't see Mr. Greenspun's point. Most kids straight out of college don't know jack about shit. I find java to be quite easy to use, and very intuitive. And it has an available toolset the size of Montanna, if one thing doesn't work then another will. With java you know you can get anything done. Its like the swiss army knife of programming languages. Granted.Net has most of these features except the availability of tools. But comparing it to a scripting language, bah humbug.
TLD = Top Level Domain =.com.net.org.edu.whatever . com is a domain. I don't see start of authority records for www.google.com either, just for google.com. You don't need SOA records for individual hosts (which is all this wildcard references), just for individual domains. Just FYI, SOA record for "com": Authoritative Server: a.gtld-servers.net
Responsible Person: nstld.verisign-grs.com
Zone Serial Number: 2003092101
Refresh Interval: 1800
Retry Interval: 900
Expire Interval: 604800
Minimum Time to Live: 86400
Yeah, I don't know why I said it was a CNAME record, I even looked it up earlier and saw that it returned an A record, my bad. But anyways domains are hierarchal, the domain.com exists and it is run by verisign. The wildcard in the.com zone is valid because it references a valid host. Otherwise show me in which RFC it says otherwise, and I will promptly shut up.
OK, you go ahead and set up all the DNS servers necessary to replace verisign as the.com TLD, then we'll go ahead and strip them of their position, and assign it to your servers. And then we'll get to watch the hell that follows as DNS servers are slow to update their root hints and so cannot resolve any.com addresses until everybody realizes whats going on. Weeeeeee!
I agree NXDOMAIN should be returned. But the RRs are valid, they point to the CNAME sitefinder.verisign.com. Its a real host with a real address, and your going to need a better argument than its not valid for those domains. The whole point of DNS is domain lookup using a hierarchy. Good or bad, they are TLD.com until some things get changed. Nuff said.
OK, so set up one DNS server locally. Simple configurations are available on the net. I just went through setting up BIND 9.2.2 server, it takes some reading but its not impossible. Took me a little less than a week (and thats just because I read through all of BINDs documentation, in addition to a couple of RFCs). Set your zones to be masters and have them notify slave servers in some Secondary DNS provider. Its not that hard really. www.dyndns.org is just one of many secondary dns providers (among other thing and they are 5x globally redundant too, I might add). You might want to look into it.
The real problem here is the fact that one-company is entrusted to run.com . TLDs should be replicated across mutually trusted servers in different companies. It is stupid to put all our eggs in one basket anyways. If we had at least three businesses replicating.com in their servers, and providing them as a public root server, then we could just kick out/ fine/ threaten rogue servers and our DNS queries would round robin to the other companies servers.
Also, its not like he is being forced to put it on his resume. He should make each resume he submits highlight the skills that that particular job role would require. Maybe this could help him land a certain job. Who knows.
University of Washington IMAP has known security holes (unless they recently patched it), Courier-IMAP and cyrus would probably work just fine, but as for me I'm just waiting for the James email server to finish their IMAP implementation. It is a nice, open, easy to use, non-*nix centric, and java based solution. Which supports java maillets which let you custom process each email on the server. Not to mention the fact that they have two different IMAP implementations already in CVS (all they have to do is adapt one of them which is in the process now). Just my two cents.
No, I just said it will require a more diverse set of programmers. Not more. I.e. instead of 8 java developers, you'd need 3 VB.net, 4 C#, 1 Perl.net. You understand now. And it would always require such a diverse set. And if you really get down to it, and look at the languages you will see that the dotnetization really just makes all the languages generic, and actually detracts from most of the original languages advantages anyways.
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You're premise is flawed. You act like.Net is some kind of miracle Rosetta stone. Far from it. If your going into a project that you want to be an all java project, you have the developers that don't know java, learn it. Now if you have a group of developers and they all know C, C++, Perl, Java, whatever and you want their project to be a.Net project. Then every single one of them is going to have to relearn their tools because they have to learn how to use the CLI in addition to their preferred language. And then after your project is complete, you have a hodge-podge, a patchwork quilt of a system in which you are eternally going to need each kind of developer on staff in order to make modifications. This is exactly the opposite situation with java, where standardization of language and libraries make bringing in new developers almost trivial..Netization might be touted as the end to all woes, but in the long run it can bring about many more woes than you ever knew you had. So what are the drawbacks to using java? People who don't know it have to learn it. Thats it.
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No Java has already been shoehorned in a long time ago. You just weren't paying attention. Also, just because the JCP goes slow, doesn't mean Java is stagnant. It means the JCP is slow. Trying look at jakarta.apache.org, and then tell me all this bs about stagnation and ill-suited purpose.
How the hell is this the first film to be released on the internet? I can point you to a couple bazillion films released on the internet. This is not news.
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Cool. Show me (in C, no libraries allowed), how to retrieve the free space on a hard drive partition. Let's say the C app is running under Windows 2000, just to make it more specific. You know at some point java does have to bind to native methods. JNI is necessary at some point because this is a Virtual Machine. Also, in all the programs I've written, I haven't had a single problem with a user needing to look at the free disk space in their program (albeit, I haven't written any installers, jars rule all). Sure it can be kind of neat and all to see a number, but Exceptions work wonders. Although, I do agree, a Disk class or something similar would seem pretty logical.
OK, point taken.
Yes, that is true. But while we are at why don't we just write everything for a Turing machine. I'll get the tape. Efficiency is everything.
You C programmers are one step above the end of the buffer.
Maybe its inside a function with parameters, which recursively calls itself, unconditionally.
Yeah, a problem with the teaching staff obviously. And a undergrad degree from MIT ain't gold.
I personally don't see Mr. Greenspun's point. Most kids straight out of college don't know jack about shit. I find java to be quite easy to use, and very intuitive. And it has an available toolset the size of Montanna, if one thing doesn't work then another will. With java you know you can get anything done. Its like the swiss army knife of programming languages. Granted .Net has most of these features except the availability of tools. But comparing it to a scripting language, bah humbug.
TLD = Top Level Domain = .com .net .org .edu .whatever . com is a domain. I don't see start of authority records for www.google.com either, just for google.com. You don't need SOA records for individual hosts (which is all this wildcard references), just for individual domains. Just FYI, SOA record for "com":
Authoritative Server: a.gtld-servers.net
Responsible Person: nstld.verisign-grs.com
Zone Serial Number: 2003092101
Refresh Interval: 1800
Retry Interval: 900
Expire Interval: 604800
Minimum Time to Live: 86400
Yeah, I don't know why I said it was a CNAME record, I even looked it up earlier and saw that it returned an A record, my bad. But anyways domains are hierarchal, the domain .com exists and it is run by verisign. The wildcard in the .com zone is valid because it references a valid host. Otherwise show me in which RFC it says otherwise, and I will promptly shut up.
This has been out for at least a few months now hasn't it?
OK, you go ahead and set up all the DNS servers necessary to replace verisign as the .com TLD, then we'll go ahead and strip them of their position, and assign it to your servers. And then we'll get to watch the hell that follows as DNS servers are slow to update their root hints and so cannot resolve any .com addresses until everybody realizes whats going on. Weeeeeee!
I agree NXDOMAIN should be returned. But the RRs are valid, they point to the CNAME sitefinder.verisign.com. Its a real host with a real address, and your going to need a better argument than its not valid for those domains. The whole point of DNS is domain lookup using a hierarchy. Good or bad, they are TLD .com until some things get changed. Nuff said.
OK, so set up one DNS server locally. Simple configurations are available on the net. I just went through setting up BIND 9.2.2 server, it takes some reading but its not impossible. Took me a little less than a week (and thats just because I read through all of BINDs documentation, in addition to a couple of RFCs). Set your zones to be masters and have them notify slave servers in some Secondary DNS provider. Its not that hard really. www.dyndns.org is just one of many secondary dns providers (among other thing and they are 5x globally redundant too, I might add). You might want to look into it.
The real problem here is the fact that one-company is entrusted to run .com . TLDs should be replicated across mutually trusted servers in different companies. It is stupid to put all our eggs in one basket anyways. If we had at least three businesses replicating .com in their servers, and providing them as a public root server, then we could just kick out/ fine/ threaten rogue servers and our DNS queries would round robin to the other companies servers.
The Stuttguart Neural Network Simulator has been available for free for a long time now.
Well, I get rejected email because I the reverse dns entry isn't there for my server. Thats why I am now having to set up my own DNS server.
Also, its not like he is being forced to put it on his resume. He should make each resume he submits highlight the skills that that particular job role would require. Maybe this could help him land a certain job. Who knows.
Did you notice that the borate ion shown on the slime page (the reproducible slime, not the slime of society page) is a swastika?
Factory factory = new ClientSideClassFactory(false);
factory.setHostContext(new SocketCustomStreamHostContext("somehost", 1235));
TestInterface ti = (TestInterface) af.lookup("Hello");
AltRMI in 3 lines!!!
Well, its damned easy on java if you use AltRMI.
University of Washington IMAP has known security holes (unless they recently patched it), Courier-IMAP and cyrus would probably work just fine, but as for me I'm just waiting for the James email server to finish their IMAP implementation. It is a nice, open, easy to use, non-*nix centric, and java based solution. Which supports java maillets which let you custom process each email on the server. Not to mention the fact that they have two different IMAP implementations already in CVS (all they have to do is adapt one of them which is in the process now). Just my two cents.
No, I just said it will require a more diverse set of programmers. Not more. I.e. instead of 8 java developers, you'd need 3 VB.net, 4 C#, 1 Perl.net. You understand now. And it would always require such a diverse set. And if you really get down to it, and look at the languages you will see that the dotnetization really just makes all the languages generic, and actually detracts from most of the original languages advantages anyways.
You're premise is flawed. You act like .Net is some kind of miracle Rosetta stone. Far from it. If your going into a project that you want to be an all java project, you have the developers that don't know java, learn it. Now if you have a group of developers and they all know C, C++, Perl, Java, whatever and you want their project to be a .Net project. Then every single one of them is going to have to relearn their tools because they have to learn how to use the CLI in addition to their preferred language. And then after your project is complete, you have a hodge-podge, a patchwork quilt of a system in which you are eternally going to need each kind of developer on staff in order to make modifications. This is exactly the opposite situation with java, where standardization of language and libraries make bringing in new developers almost trivial. .Netization might be touted as the end to all woes, but in the long run it can bring about many more woes than you ever knew you had. So what are the drawbacks to using java? People who don't know it have to learn it. Thats it.
No Java has already been shoehorned in a long time ago. You just weren't paying attention. Also, just because the JCP goes slow, doesn't mean Java is stagnant. It means the JCP is slow. Trying look at jakarta.apache.org, and then tell me all this bs about stagnation and ill-suited purpose.
How the hell is this the first film to be released on the internet? I can point you to a couple bazillion films released on the internet. This is not news.
OK, back to the subject of the article. Does anyone else find this discovery too good to be true? Is this thing real?