Let's start here: Google is based on pagerank, which is based on what YOU and everyone else links to! It is a popularity ranking system in the purest sense! Repost once you have reviewed the absolute basic thirty second summary of how pagerank works.
WikiSearch (or something like it). Long term we need an open peer-reviewed crawling and serving mechanism as bad as we need free OSs and browsers. How this is developed or funded I am not sure, maybe it will be the next breakthrough in P2P that obviates the need for the massive datacenter.
Until there is a free and open search engine, you are beholden to whatever these firms wish to do.
yes but annoying building linux for those devices strips out 90% of the code, so it is not an issue. by the same token you can run linux on an ipod (which is not powerful enough to decode ogg) once you isolate the 1% of code actually needed. this guy wants a general solution. as i said, there is one - fvwm1.
If you insist on running five year old hardware, just run ten year old code on it (early fvwm, xterm, xclock, etc) and go your way. There isn't going to be a version of GNOME or KDE optimized for Pentium systems with 64MB of RAM. EVER. So stop waiting for it. If you can't afford $400 for a new P4 system, you're on your own.
My anecdotal observations is that these "architect" types bring a halo but thats about it. The people who are putting the rubber to the road at all of the companies is the guy who doesn't blog, doesn't market himself as a "brand", and isn't concerned about the title "architect". Its the guy who goes through the hypothesize->code->test->repeat cycle for weeks on end, with an emphasis on step 2.
Their ownership started out as 2%, went down slightly due to some stock sales, but still over 1% I believe. This is stated in documents of both companies.
I have found a great way to emulate this in X is to create N virtual screens, fire up any terminal (xterm, gnometerminal) maximized to fill the screen, pick a big font, and go. This gives you the console look with X cut and paste, which for better or for worse I rely on.
I haven't checked but are they still using google tech for half those services?
some ISP's have partnerships with Yahoo and set the users homepage to Yahoo... and we all know how the average user doesn't even know how to change their homepage to something they actually want.
If this was the case for google.com, would you say the same thing? Why would someone want google.com to be their homepage? There's nothing there. You might as well have a blank page. Don't you people do anything on the internet but search?
Its true that unused packages are just likely "taking up space", but on Fedora they are also in your RPM database, so commands like rpm -qa will take longer (I know, not a big deal). There is the off chance that something you are unaware of could contain spyware. Once again, unlikely in most linux software, almost impossible in a Fedora distro binary, but why take chances? If its gone you know for sure it will not bother you. Since you didn't need it, no loss.
In any case regardless of the OS I think its good practice to remove all unused code.
not sure about ntpd, but rhnsd does connect to the network and is turned on by default if i recall.
Even modern linux distros need to be sanitized
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Look at all of the software and services running on a modern linux distro - FC3 for example. I have spent a great deal of time shutting off everything I really don't need and erasing piles of useless rpms installed by the distro (its 2005 - I don't need talk). Any software you don't use or services you do not need are just potential security holes.
When Gerstner joined the company there was serious talk of breaking it up and selling off the components to...whoever. Now it is the dominant systems company (again).
I don't think many of the posters understand the there are serious attempts to put DRM in the BIOS. They will care when their computer refuses to play MP3 files (or any non-DRM format).
I've always wondered why people do this...I never have, and I have never had any issue with the drones that post the exits, they just let me pass. What is it they are in fact checking - that I didn't put some gum in my bag between the cash register and the door? Am I letting them verify that I am not a crook? Should I assume I am a crook unless they swipe my reciept with a pink marker?
YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SHOW YOUR RECEIPT TO FRY'S EMPLOYEES POST PURCHASE.
A decent number of them are marked BROKEN. The usefulness of ports is overrated. Gentoo has superior coverage in portage.
To be fair, 5.x has been botched
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It has taken the FreeBSD team literally years to get 5.x to an acceptable stage, which is reminiscent of the 3.x issues. Contrary to popular myth, FreeBSD goes through sustained periods in which the latest release is a very weak product.
Also, the development is getting very political, this also scares off people.
People keep saying this like a firm must adopt paperware and processware in order to survive. Yet many of America's most effective organizations (for example, Google, Lockheed skunkworks, elite military units) pride themselves on being unconventional, not tied to a procedure, and results driven. Face it, process is for the mediocore.
Look at the great products you swear by every day (e.g. iPod, Google, etc) and think of how many more years you would be waiting for these if the firms in question used your approach.
3.Make it incredibly hard (and let people know it will be) to change
People end up associating themselves with key elements of the process, not the product or the customer. Team members end up literally thinking they will be rewarded in the market if they satisfy the process.
Its useful to note that these practices only take root at organizations with lots of money to waste...money generated by a small group of kick-ass people who probably ignored anything process-oriented and just delivered.
Simple as that, if you want to have a project that is well documented with proper testing regression suites and sign-off documents at all levels, go with CMM or Six Smegma. If you want to make a boatload of money, get a few wicked smart people, promise to also make them rich, and cut away all bullshit that keeps the rubber off of the road. See: Google. Yahoo. etc all the companies where people have made more cash than you can imagine.
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Let's start here: Google is based on pagerank, which is based on what YOU and everyone else links to! It is a popularity ranking system in the purest sense! Repost once you have reviewed the absolute basic thirty second summary of how pagerank works.
the engine would be peer reviewed, not the sites. Peer review of the engine would prevent socially unacceptable modifications.
Until there is a free and open search engine, you are beholden to whatever these firms wish to do.
yes but annoying building linux for those devices strips out 90% of the code, so it is not an issue. by the same token you can run linux on an ipod (which is not powerful enough to decode ogg) once you isolate the 1% of code actually needed. this guy wants a general solution. as i said, there is one - fvwm1.
If you insist on running five year old hardware, just run ten year old code on it (early fvwm, xterm, xclock, etc) and go your way. There isn't going to be a version of GNOME or KDE optimized for Pentium systems with 64MB of RAM. EVER. So stop waiting for it. If you can't afford $400 for a new P4 system, you're on your own.
My anecdotal observations is that these "architect" types bring a halo but thats about it. The people who are putting the rubber to the road at all of the companies is the guy who doesn't blog, doesn't market himself as a "brand", and isn't concerned about the title "architect". Its the guy who goes through the hypothesize->code->test->repeat cycle for weeks on end, with an emphasis on step 2.
They owned 2% of GOOG when it went public and have been happily selling the shares at ridiculously inflated prices.
Their ownership started out as 2%, went down slightly due to some stock sales, but still over 1% I believe. This is stated in documents of both companies.
The obligatory Google fanboy post whenever Yahoo is mentioned is as about as insightful as BSD Is Dying.
I have found a great way to emulate this in X is to create N virtual screens, fire up any terminal (xterm, gnometerminal) maximized to fill the screen, pick a big font, and go. This gives you the console look with X cut and paste, which for better or for worse I rely on.
some ISP's have partnerships with Yahoo and set the users homepage to Yahoo... and we all know how the average user doesn't even know how to change their homepage to something they actually want.
If this was the case for google.com, would you say the same thing? Why would someone want google.com to be their homepage? There's nothing there. You might as well have a blank page. Don't you people do anything on the internet but search?
In any case regardless of the OS I think its good practice to remove all unused code.
not sure about ntpd, but rhnsd does connect to the network and is turned on by default if i recall.
Look at all of the software and services running on a modern linux distro - FC3 for example. I have spent a great deal of time shutting off everything I really don't need and erasing piles of useless rpms installed by the distro (its 2005 - I don't need talk). Any software you don't use or services you do not need are just potential security holes.
Also please avoid the use of the phrase "by definition".
When Gerstner joined the company there was serious talk of breaking it up and selling off the components to...whoever. Now it is the dominant systems company (again).
I don't think many of the posters understand the there are serious attempts to put DRM in the BIOS. They will care when their computer refuses to play MP3 files (or any non-DRM format).
YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SHOW YOUR RECEIPT TO FRY'S EMPLOYEES POST PURCHASE.
A decent number of them are marked BROKEN. The usefulness of ports is overrated. Gentoo has superior coverage in portage.
Also, the development is getting very political, this also scares off people.
People keep saying this like a firm must adopt paperware and processware in order to survive. Yet many of America's most effective organizations (for example, Google, Lockheed skunkworks, elite military units) pride themselves on being unconventional, not tied to a procedure, and results driven. Face it, process is for the mediocore.
3.Make it incredibly hard (and let people know it will be) to change
Yup, that says Government money to me.
Its useful to note that these practices only take root at organizations with lots of money to waste...money generated by a small group of kick-ass people who probably ignored anything process-oriented and just delivered.
Simple as that, if you want to have a project that is well documented with proper testing regression suites and sign-off documents at all levels, go with CMM or Six Smegma. If you want to make a boatload of money, get a few wicked smart people, promise to also make them rich, and cut away all bullshit that keeps the rubber off of the road. See: Google. Yahoo. etc all the companies where people have made more cash than you can imagine.
Thats the step missing from almost every methodology I have bothered with - this is the point where we actually do shit instead of talking about it.