I don't care too much about binary compatibility - if some structures change, recompile the driver and finished. What I really hate is that there are maintainers who satisfy their oversized egos by searching and applying yet another source level API change just to break out of kernel drivers.
In the long run, these people damage Linux massively, yet they don't care because they feel sooo good after they created another pile of useless work for the bad bad guys at nvidia.
The frame control that contains the MAC header in an 802.11 packet is always unencrypted. So the list of MAC addresses is available at once, before key cracking.
Since my employer moved to a new location, I know what warm office means. The windows don't reflect any sun, instead of that black, punctured plastic jalousies are available. This results in up to 35C during summer time, and 25C in the winter if and only if we open windows partially. North side of the building might be colder whenever heating fails.
May the people who created the study should come here so that they can do something more productive. But in the end they start producing hot air, heating the building even more;-)
The problem is that todays politicians are not public's representatives anymore - in fact they support the companies that have helped them during election or give them another pay beside their already quite huge daily allowance.
However, stupid public elects those people again and again. So what do you expect?
There has been the first picture phone that could be tricked into dialing 0190-numbers (in Germany, numbers where the receiver gets money from the caller) without user intervention just by a SMS message.
Now that these phones give any software the ability to use the phone fuctions, when are we to expect the first virus that spreads via multimedia messaging and automatically calls a number in a far away country outside of any jurisdiction?
Or even better, let the CIA & co. make your phone call back so that you pay for being eavesdropped and watched by the nice little camera.
The last congress election has been a big victory for the republican party. So face it, most of your citizens either want to be surveilled, have unregulated capitalism or are too dumb to care about it.
It's the same thing here in Germany. Our established parties lie to us all the time, and while people are not happy, all they do is electing them again and again.
So, we all get the politicians we deserve. Simple, fact;-(
Now one thing that wonders me again and again is that people really think XML will make all data exchangeable. Face it, XML is nothing more then a container, as is.AVI or even tar archives.
The interesting question is, what is inside the container? Well documented, or even standardized data or just one huge CDATA chunk?
XML can be useful if you want to create software that needs to exchange data with someone else because you don't have much discussion about encapsulation, support under most operating systems and there is a big chance that even the data transfer just uses port 80. Beyond that XML is just a buzzword - but I must admit, a long living one.
Well - so you have your small company, one internet connection, one subnet and your system starts IP hopping on that subnet. How braindead.
If you own multiple connections to the internet in more than one country and could switch between them, it would be more interesting. But different RTTs and switchover times will kill you then.
you can change the unprivileged ports used for outgoing TCP and UDP connections via/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range to something else then 1024. I use something between 25000 and 30000. Than use ipchains to filter any packets you don't want in.
I've done this setup with my dial on demand connection, and I get at least one unwelcome packet for most times I am logged in.
I've been doing some Baan programming on my former job, and I've never seen such a collection of spaghetti code full of side effects.
Variables of a session (that's what a window, it's scripts etc are called in Baan) are often set from an include file which is shared with many other sessions. So if you have to change something at this place, you'll never know, if another session includes this file and will fail at the next compilation attempt.
Many developers told me that they spent up to 30% of their time in finding workarounds because the run time environment does not behave as documented.
Not to mention the crappy report tool that is not even able to create a interpretable error when compilation failes.
IMHO Baan is a piece of software at the end of its lifetime. Don't bother about making it open source or not, just let it die.
WAP is definitely not very well designed. There are good ideas, but not a single one is implemented 100%.
-You have a -tag to go back one page, but not several -You have variables, but can only set them within anchors, prevs. No chance to change a variable when actually *entering* a page -You cannot send postfields to an image -There is no standard for a WAP browser to report its display size to the server - which would be very useful for dynamic charts or other images that can automatically resize to fill a page. - -
Not counting the millions of bugs most WAP browsers have in their implementation of the WAP caching model. You have the alternative of either implementing many workarounds or completely disabling the cache - guess which way most page writers choose.
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I don't care too much about binary compatibility - if some structures change, recompile the driver and finished. What I really hate is that there are maintainers who satisfy their oversized egos by searching and applying yet another source level API change just to break out of kernel drivers.
In the long run, these people damage Linux massively, yet they don't care because they feel sooo good after they created another pile of useless work for the bad bad guys at nvidia.
The frame control that contains the MAC header in an 802.11 packet is always unencrypted. So the list of MAC addresses is available at once, before key cracking.
Since my employer moved to a new location, I know what warm office means. The windows don't reflect any sun, instead of that black, punctured plastic jalousies are available. This results in up to 35C during summer time, and 25C in the winter if and only if we open windows partially. North side of the building might be colder whenever heating fails.
;-)
May the people who created the study should come here so that they can do something more productive. But in the end they start producing hot air, heating the building even more
And what is going to happen this year? The same politicians will be elected again. So actually we get what the majority deserves.
The problem is that todays politicians are not public's representatives anymore - in fact they support the companies that have helped them during election or give them another pay beside their already quite huge daily allowance.
However, stupid public elects those people again and again. So what do you expect?
There has been the first picture phone that could be tricked into dialing 0190-numbers (in Germany, numbers where the receiver gets money from the caller) without user intervention just by a SMS message.
Now that these phones give any software the ability to use the phone fuctions, when are we to expect the first virus that spreads via multimedia messaging and automatically calls a number in a far away country outside of any jurisdiction?
Or even better, let the CIA & co. make your phone call back so that you pay for being eavesdropped and watched by the nice little camera.
The last thing I need is one of these phones...
The last congress election has been a big victory for the republican party. So face it, most of your citizens either want to be surveilled, have unregulated capitalism or are too dumb to care about it.
;-(
It's the same thing here in Germany. Our established parties lie to us all the time, and while people are not happy, all they do is electing them again and again.
So, we all get the politicians we deserve. Simple, fact
Now one thing that wonders me again and again is that people really think XML will make all data exchangeable. Face it, XML is nothing more then a container, as is .AVI or even tar archives.
The interesting question is, what is inside the container? Well documented, or even standardized data or just one huge CDATA chunk?
XML can be useful if you want to create software that needs to exchange data with someone else because you don't have much discussion about encapsulation, support under most operating systems and there is a big chance that even the data transfer just uses port 80. Beyond that XML is just a buzzword - but I must admit, a long living one.
Switching doesn't alter the packets
So the US energy consumption is all good for economy and everybody who thinks different is a fucking terrorist and should be bombed off this planet!
Well - so you have your small company, one internet connection, one subnet and your system starts IP hopping on that subnet. How braindead.
If you own multiple connections to the internet in more than one country and could switch between them, it would be more interesting. But different RTTs and switchover times will kill you then.
Sounds simply useless...
Yeah - and the funny thing is that ex-Amiga-people (light this crary Dr. Peter Kittel) are working for Be. To bad they did not learn from the past...
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/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range to something else then 1024. I use something between 25000 and 30000. Than use ipchains to filter any packets you don't want in.
you can change the unprivileged ports used for outgoing TCP and UDP connections via
I've done this setup with my dial on demand connection, and I get at least one unwelcome packet for most times I am logged in.
I've been doing some Baan programming on my former job, and I've never seen such a collection of spaghetti code full of side effects.
Variables of a session (that's what a window, it's scripts etc are called in Baan) are often set from an include file which is shared with many other sessions. So if you have to change something at this place, you'll never know, if another session includes this file and will fail at the next compilation attempt.
Many developers told me that they spent up to 30% of their time in finding workarounds because the run time environment does not behave as documented.
Not to mention the crappy report tool that is not even able to create a interpretable error when compilation failes.
IMHO Baan is a piece of software at the end of its lifetime. Don't bother about making it open source or not, just let it die.
WAP is definitely not very well designed. There are good ideas, but not a single one is implemented 100%.
-You have a -tag to go back one page, but not several
-You have variables, but can only set them within anchors, prevs. No chance to change a variable when actually *entering* a page
-You cannot send postfields to an image
-There is no standard for a WAP browser to report its display size to the server - which would be very useful for dynamic charts or other images that can automatically resize to fill a page.
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Not counting the millions of bugs most WAP browsers have in their implementation of the WAP caching model. You have the alternative of either implementing many workarounds or completely disabling the cache - guess which way most page writers choose.
In short: WAP sux.