They should go after the guy who invented TCP/IP... No wait, get the guy who first thought of networking... No wait, the guy who first thought of computers, he is definately the guilty one!
It's not so much that the fire has gone away, but the success of the Apollo missions was largely due to the fact that there was a race going on between USA and USSR. That race fired the imagination and enthousiasm of a whole nation, creating a larger support for space missions. I think that it isn't NASA's fire that's extinguished, but the fire of the people and the nation How to make a sig without having an idea
Just try not to focus on it too much. Try and do something else for a while. Do you really want to program at the moment, or are you really not that interrested anymore? You should answer these questions first. But anyway, taking your mind of it worked for me! How to make a sig without having an idea
Now isn't that a nice and shiny example of how you *could* handle things?
Here is a band that puts the MP3's from it's latest album on the web as MP3's, including te lyrics (and very good music too, if you're into sympho! Just listen to ' The butterfly man'). How to make a sig without having an idea
Now isn't that a nice and shiny example of how you *could* handle things?
Here is a band that puts the MP3's from it's latest album on the web as MP3's, including te lyrics (and very good music too, if you're into sympho! Just listen to ' The butterfly man').
I somehow doubt that they have *any* talents to put to use. As another poster pointed out, the majority of those actions originate in jealousy & frustration. Maybe a nice punishment would be to tear their website down (if they have one). Although revenge is never the good option, maybe that's the only way for them to see the consequences of their actions. How to make a sig without having an idea
Had the same idea, but this morning I was reading a discussion that was filled with about 20 or 30 unreadable script-generated comments, and I could only read that page after reloading a couple of times. So I assume there was another DOS attack going on, especially because shortly afterwards the internal server errors started appearing again. Next time I looked the site was completely down, only showing the obituary. And I think it was going on a bit longer than just 3 days, last week I saw some of that crap too. How to make a sig without having an idea
Perhaps this is not such a bad idea; aren't most of the/. & K5 readers hackertypes. Setting up a site with the purpose of informing about these activities, and finding & exposing the culprits. With a bit of combined effort, this shouldn't be too difficult? How to make a sig without having an idea
No, you're wrong. It's not the amount of work that forced them to take the site down. The last three days you could see that the story queue and article comments were being flooded with garbage; due to the nature of the story queue (open construction), this is a bigger problem than it ever could be on/. And apart from that there where continuing DOS attacks - the site was difficult or impossible to reach, and lots of times you would get an 'internal server error'. So it's not a question of hard work, but it was more & more impossible to keep the site up. How to make a sig without having an idea
So now the system will actually *know* when I'm staring that stupid paperclip to death; I hope they will implement a new feature: when you stare madly at the paperclip, it will catch fire, and will be reduced to a pile of ashes! Kewl! How to make a sig without having an idea
Yeah please, let's make this into yet another 'voices from the hellmouth' discussion. If the kid did this in a (local) newspaper, or on a local cable, would he be arrested then? And would you also write an article about it? So please tell us mr. Katz: how is this different from the real world? How to make a sig without having an idea
I don't think that France should impose their laws & beliefs on sites in other countries. If they think they've got a problem, than they should solve the problem internally. So they should not try to let Yahoo take actions, but they should be a nice little country-wide Berlin firewall, that blocks all sites that France doesn't want it's citizens to see. Now that poses a problem for all French people, but not for the rest of the world. How to make a sig without having an idea
This all depends on the environment that you're working in. In the Shuttle example, we are talking about a machine to machine interface - therefore you *can* write software that is bugfree, just because you *can* get all the specs. It is therefore possible the write down all possible situations, and write and test your software on that. Working in user-software is completely different: a) the software *must* have a degree of flexibility b) Nobody knows what stupid things users can do, but you can't foresee all those stupidities! So in user-software the total number of possible error-situation is greater, and errors are largely unpredictable. Therefore this kind of software can *never* be 100% bugfree, no matter what methods you use! How to make a sig without having an idea
Ever been to Holland? It is a very small country, very crowded and rather heavily industrialized. So there are *lots* of towns and neighborhoods which are situated too close to possibly dangerous factories to be comfortable. Ever seen Rotterdam? The largest port in the world, with an enormous amount of chemical industry - talk about potential explosions! How to make a sig without having an idea
appearantly that's the case. It is a poor neighborhood, with cheap houses, most of them rented. The rate of change in that area can be quite large, so it's harder to keep track of single individuals. There's also lots of students renting rooms there (also subject to rapid changes), you've got illegals living there, people who are seeking asylum etc.. How to make a sig without having an idea
That's not just cynical, that's bad taste! With 'more information' I didn't mean any of the things you mentioned, I hate those things just as much as you. The problem at the moment is that nobody exactly knows who where living in that neighborhood; people are still missing relatives and friends who *could* still be living in that area. Thanx to the administrative chaos, nobody has any certainty about the total number of casualties. So nobody knows when to stop looking for survivors (or bodies), and I think that that's a bad thing. How to make a sig without having an idea
Like almost everything in life: it has it's pro's and con's.
This weekend in a town in Holland a fireworks factory exploded, resulting in 500 destroyed houses, more than 500 people injured, and an unknown amount of people killed. Up to now they found 17 bodies and lots of bodyparts, but there are still more than 200 persons missing. So they still have absolutely no idea of how many people actually died in the explosion; are all those 200 persons on the missing-list buried under the rubble?
This uncertainty is largely caused by the fact that there isn't a central administration database in Holland, so therefore it is very hard to find out where people are living at the moment. So in times of a disaster like this, more information on the whereabouts of people wouldn't be so bad. How to make a sig without having an idea
Don't worry, it's an unmanned spacecraft, we're still staying here;)
But uhm... we are socialists, so we stay home? What kind of an attitude is that, I mean this is not about running away, this is about exploring and discovering. Just why should we stay home, and be analy retentive and stare at our bellybuttons all day?
There's millions of things to see and discover (also on earth), so why not try?
It's in the human nature to be inquisitive and curious - that has *nothing* to do with being a socilialist, communist, militarist, non-conformist or any other form of -ist. How to make a sig without having an idea
Seriously, it depends on a few things: a) Type of software (if it is software we're talking about) Do you make a small program, or a business-wide ERP-system. I work in a company that does the latter, and systems like that need an awful lot of support. We support in the form of an helpdesk, implementation consultants and a rotation scheme of developers working on the helpdesk. All in all 5 to 6 people on a total of 20 (of which 11 developers)
b) Quality of support you want to deliver Support all the way, or do drive-by installations (stop the car, throw CD through window, drive off)
c) Supported process If it's a business-wide software system, that often means that companies can come to a halt if the software is not working; therefore you need lots of support.
d) Rate of change Does your software change a lot? If so, more support! How to make a sig without having an idea
I learned about a specific machine for that on a datawarehousing course i once was sent to *gasp*. At the moment I can't remember the name of that beast, but it was intended for running complete datawarehouses from RAM! (too a while to start up though, a bit like WinNT;)) I will try to find the name of the machine when I get home, I have some old documentation lying about. How to make a sig without having an idea
First of all: good plan! Second: I want a total immersion video game console, as used in Red Dwarf, including helmet, gloves and groin-socket! How to make a sig without having an idea
With less & less suits in the process, the changes are that 'bloatware' will more and more be a thing of the past; otoh, if all is left for the codes to decide, chances are that the software will be highly configureable, complex and without too much emphasis on an easy to use GUI. If you target your software on a large audience (a large luserbase), I think this not a good thing. For me as a coder it is not a problem, but it all depends on who you are targeting. How to make a sig without having an idea
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No no.. sue the guy (or girl) who created the guy who created mankind
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*Sigh*
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It's not so much that the fire has gone away, but the success of the Apollo missions was largely due to the fact that there was a race going on between USA and USSR. That race fired the imagination and enthousiasm of a whole nation, creating a larger support for space missions. I think that it isn't NASA's fire that's extinguished, but the fire of the people and the nation
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At least we can do some *proper* debugging!
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Just try not to focus on it too much. Try and do something else for a while. Do you really want to program at the moment, or are you really not that interrested anymore? You should answer these questions first. But anyway, taking your mind of it worked for me!
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here's a good way that bands could handle MP3's:
Arena homepage
Now isn't that a nice and shiny example of how you *could* handle things?
Here is a band that puts the MP3's from it's latest album on the web as MP3's, including te lyrics (and very good music too, if you're into sympho! Just listen to ' The butterfly man').
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Dear Lars,
here's another way that bands could handle MP3's:
The Arena homepage
Now isn't that a nice and shiny example of how you *could* handle things?
Here is a band that puts the MP3's from it's latest album on the web as MP3's, including te lyrics (and very good music too, if you're into sympho! Just listen to ' The butterfly man').
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I somehow doubt that they have *any* talents to put to use. As another poster pointed out, the majority of those actions originate in jealousy & frustration. Maybe a nice punishment would be to tear their website down (if they have one). Although revenge is never the good option, maybe that's the only way for them to see the consequences of their actions.
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Had the same idea, but this morning I was reading a discussion that was filled with about 20 or 30 unreadable script-generated comments, and I could only read that page after reloading a couple of times. So I assume there was another DOS attack going on, especially because shortly afterwards the internal server errors started appearing again. Next time I looked the site was completely down, only showing the obituary. And I think it was going on a bit longer than just 3 days, last week I saw some of that crap too.
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Perhaps this is not such a bad idea; aren't most of the /. & K5 readers hackertypes. Setting up a site with the purpose of informing about these activities, and finding & exposing the culprits. With a bit of combined effort, this shouldn't be too difficult?
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No, you're wrong. It's not the amount of work that forced them to take the site down. The last three days you could see that the story queue and article comments were being flooded with garbage; due to the nature of the story queue (open construction), this is a bigger problem than it ever could be on /. And apart from that there where continuing DOS attacks - the site was difficult or impossible to reach, and lots of times you would get an 'internal server error'. So it's not a question of hard work, but it was more & more impossible to keep the site up.
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Now I understand the true meaning of the term "Fly by wire" :-)
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So now the system will actually *know* when I'm staring that stupid paperclip to death; I hope they will implement a new feature: when you stare madly at the paperclip, it will catch fire, and will be reduced to a pile of ashes! Kewl!
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Yeah please, let's make this into yet another 'voices from the hellmouth' discussion. If the kid did this in a (local) newspaper, or on a local cable, would he be arrested then? And would you also write an article about it? So please tell us mr. Katz: how is this different from the real world?
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I don't think that France should impose their laws & beliefs on sites in other countries. If they think they've got a problem, than they should solve the problem internally. So they should not try to let Yahoo take actions, but they should be a nice little country-wide Berlin firewall, that blocks all sites that France doesn't want it's citizens to see. Now that poses a problem for all French people, but not for the rest of the world.
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This all depends on the environment that you're working in. In the Shuttle example, we are talking about a machine to machine interface - therefore you *can* write software that is bugfree, just because you *can* get all the specs. It is therefore possible the write down all possible situations, and write and test your software on that. Working in user-software is completely different: a) the software *must* have a degree of flexibility b) Nobody knows what stupid things users can do, but you can't foresee all those stupidities! So in user-software the total number of possible error-situation is greater, and errors are largely unpredictable. Therefore this kind of software can *never* be 100% bugfree, no matter what methods you use!
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Ever been to Holland? It is a very small country, very crowded and rather heavily industrialized. So there are *lots* of towns and neighborhoods which are situated too close to possibly dangerous factories to be comfortable. Ever seen Rotterdam? The largest port in the world, with an enormous amount of chemical industry - talk about potential explosions!
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appearantly that's the case. It is a poor neighborhood, with cheap houses, most of them rented. The rate of change in that area can be quite large, so it's harder to keep track of single individuals. There's also lots of students renting rooms there (also subject to rapid changes), you've got illegals living there, people who are seeking asylum etc..
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That's not just cynical, that's bad taste! With 'more information' I didn't mean any of the things you mentioned, I hate those things just as much as you. The problem at the moment is that nobody exactly knows who where living in that neighborhood; people are still missing relatives and friends who *could* still be living in that area. Thanx to the administrative chaos, nobody has any certainty about the total number of casualties. So nobody knows when to stop looking for survivors (or bodies), and I think that that's a bad thing.
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This weekend in a town in Holland a fireworks factory exploded, resulting in 500 destroyed houses, more than 500 people injured, and an unknown amount of people killed. Up to now they found 17 bodies and lots of bodyparts, but there are still more than 200 persons missing. So they still have absolutely no idea of how many people actually died in the explosion; are all those 200 persons on the missing-list buried under the rubble?
This uncertainty is largely caused by the fact that there isn't a central administration database in Holland, so therefore it is very hard to find out where people are living at the moment. So in times of a disaster like this, more information on the whereabouts of people wouldn't be so bad.
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But uhm... we are socialists, so we stay home? What kind of an attitude is that, I mean this is not about running away, this is about exploring and discovering. Just why should we stay home, and be analy retentive and stare at our bellybuttons all day?
There's millions of things to see and discover (also on earth), so why not try?
It's in the human nature to be inquisitive and curious - that has *nothing* to do with being a socilialist, communist, militarist, non-conformist or any other form of -ist.
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Seriously, it depends on a few things:
a) Type of software (if it is software we're talking about)
Do you make a small program, or a business-wide ERP-system. I work in a company that does the latter, and systems like that need an awful lot of support. We support in the form of an helpdesk, implementation consultants and a rotation scheme of developers working on the helpdesk. All in all 5 to 6 people on a total of 20 (of which 11 developers)
b) Quality of support you want to deliver
Support all the way, or do drive-by installations (stop the car, throw CD through window, drive off)
c) Supported process
If it's a business-wide software system, that often means that companies can come to a halt if the software is not working; therefore you need lots of support.
d) Rate of change
Does your software change a lot? If so, more support!
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I learned about a specific machine for that on a datawarehousing course i once was sent to *gasp*. At the moment I can't remember the name of that beast, but it was intended for running complete datawarehouses from RAM! (too a while to start up though, a bit like WinNT ;)) I will try to find the name of the machine when I get home, I have some old documentation lying about.
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First of all: good plan! Second: I want a total immersion video game console, as used in Red Dwarf, including helmet, gloves and groin-socket!
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With less & less suits in the process, the changes are that 'bloatware' will more and more be a thing of the past; otoh, if all is left for the codes to decide, chances are that the software will be highly configureable, complex and without too much emphasis on an easy to use GUI. If you target your software on a large audience (a large luserbase), I think this not a good thing. For me as a coder it is not a problem, but it all depends on who you are targeting.
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