Yeah, I am pretty "geeky" I suppose you would say. In my opinion UserFriendly suffers from.......not being funny!! Not at all!! Yeah, I can appreciate net and linux jokes; when they are funny. Am I alone in this? Surely I cannot be the only intelligent person who thinks that the strip sucks?
BTW, to even mention Bloom County in the same breath(no pun intended>:) as UserFriendly is desecrating the memory of a truly brilliant work.
Clearly the author is a talented programmer. Not only that he is such an expert on Lisp that he wrote books on it. Co-incidentally he wrote some popular software in the languagfe he is an expert in. The lesson here is that your startup will succeed if you have someone working for you who is such an expert on a language he has written books on that language. You know, I bet Randal Schwartz writes excellent software in perl. Funny how that works, isn't it?
2-3 pounds is absolutely nothing when you consider that a full canteen of water weighs about that much. Having spent some time in uniform having to carry all manner of things on my person across all sorts of terraine I can say that 2-3 is *nothing*. What counts most is how awkward these things are and if they can be assimilated into the rest of your equipment. As an aside, my understanding is that the batteries for stinger missiles are both heavy and awkward so maybe these things can be of use in more than 1 application. I don't know too much about stinger missiles though, I was a medic.>:)
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rather, network applications should be written securely. Sorry, but my belief is that if you are running a daemon that is susceptible to exploit that it is far better to patch it and/or install a secure alternative(ie. SSH vs telnet) than to spend half your day being paranoid over kidz running some dumb script. I was the network admin for an ISP for three years and not once were we broken into. I detected a multiplicity of pathetic attempts, however, all were obviously lame attempts at classic exploits. My opinion is that the real crackers will only spend their efforts on targets of either political(including "glory" targets such as M$) or financial. By safeguarding against glaring holes you should never have a problem. Never. Not once.
forgive the pun >:). BTW, when I asked aol to let me open source devlop their abandoned java im client they turned me down. I still have the, heh heh, decompiled source files though if anyone is interested.
For anybody in the know if you want Sun hardware and a good price you go to an outfit like Rave(www.rave.com) and buy Sun OEM hardware cheap.
I wonder, however, if this is a harbinger of Sun looking to discontinue its OEM sales to places like Rave? I sure hope not, Rave puts Sun to shame when it comes to support and customer service.
>Whatever change you make to the license to suit your taste, you would probably regret if you were to think more about it.
Yeah, The part where I offer non-exclusive commercial use licenses(for $$) sure has me staying up nights. >:)
Certainly no-one is arguing that the GPL is not a restrictive license. As most people here know it is , in fact, extra-ordinarily restrictive. I personally have always been a bit scared of overly restrictive licenses and when I release software I right I am sure to use not only a BSD style license but my own language which specifies what I consider fair use. In that, I think the solution lies. Why not tailor the GPL or BSD style licenses to you personal tastes and check out their legality with your local friendly law student or lawyer? Where is freedom of choice ? I don't like being told what to do. Not by Bill Gates, RMS, or anybody else that wants to tell me how to practise my craft.
I used to work for an ISP as a Network Admin. I was told by our legal representation that ISPs are views legally as content providers(eg. Hustler Magazine publishing) and not as distributors (magazine stand). IANAL but this is what a lawyer with a lot of technical expertise told me. Of course, it makes no sense but that is where the precedent is and, from this article, appears to still be. Anyone have the money to mount a challenge?
Also, these fricking people are using GET for sending sensitive data to a cgi, specifically, my password!!
Check it out(note to kidz: my password is not really XXXXXXX )
This is the login URL
http://services.google.com/cgi-bin/deja/maillogi n. py?userid=myusername&password=XXXXXXX&submit=Login .
This is a far from good sign. >:( .
WTF?
I'd love to comment more than that but I cannot log in and access my deja account information. >:( .
I can't believe that there are people posting to slashdot that this acquisition is a good thing. I thought/.ers had an aversion to big companies swallowing up the little guys? Maybe they just thought that until the Andover acquisition >:) .
Get a Mac (I'd name some other cheap PPC boxes, but there aren't any!)
Or you can get a new("uncirculated" or refurb) clone(mac clones were discontinued 2 yrs ago due to Steve Jobs pulling the plug on licensing). I have, for example, a umax c600 running linuxppc R5(or whatever the release is called now) just snazzily. One thing to consider is that you won't be able to get G3 or G4 without buying and additional upgrade card which is something I have yet to investigate. I'm not sure if there is a support issue with third party processors from NewerTechnologies or Sonnet.
My last two jobs(both within the past twelve months) disappeared due to financial losses incurred by the start of the bubble deflating. After the second ride to the bottom I started feeling like a jinx. Hmmm, maybe I *am* a jinx. Anyone wanna short my cuurent employer?
Why not mimic the general Usenet Hierarchy for TLDs? For example,.alt,.comp, etc. These tld's would have wide recognition and represent what they have logically corresponded to for years.
As the constitution is written each congressional district sends an independantly elected elector to the electoral college. What exists now in most states(Maine is one state that is true to the letter of the Constitution) is a perversion of the founding fathers original intent. By simply implementing the great big functional spec that is the Constitution all will be well.
You know, I'm pissed about this. I've used the treasure-trove to occasionally help with a school assignment. This is no small thing seeing as I'm a grad student in mathematics. Can't any intrepid/. admins work their pull with Andover to get a mirror of the pulled site up?
I am horrified at the suggestion that anyone not planning on voting should vote Nader. Do so only if you support Nader's platform!! Although Nader has no hope of winning it would be reprehensible to show false support for his platform. I suggest anyone wishing to cast a vote should vote their conscience. Personally I think I'll be going with the constitution party this go round (http://www.constitutionparty.com). Also, finding a political party that matched your views is easy!! In fact, you can try this handy political party matchmaker form. http://www.3pc.net/matchmaker/index.html .
You know, I watched the 3rd presidential debate via live webcast from cnn.com. What is all this crap about "New" and "Old" media? "Dead" Politics?
I would think that Ted Turner would represent "Old" Media to Katz and yet he's taking the lead with making the current political process acessible via new technology? Hey Katz, do you have a clue? Do you do any research? Here is a suggestion, in order to achieve credibility take about two years off from bothering the good readers of/. and learn about what you are writing.
I woulld attribute this page of "suggestions" not to malice but to mere stupidity and shortsitedness of the author. Of course he didn't consider a free OS to be installed by the customer of the "naked PC". The author is simply an idiot.
It seems like all the responses to my original post missed the point that I was trying to make. Here it is again but slower.
Apple has nothing to gain by making a decision based on idealology. Apple had either two choices
1.) license
2.) get sued by amazon trying to protect their patent.
Since Apple dooesn't want to be sued(who does?) which would cost them money the chose option 2.
Furthermore as a publicly held company Apple has a responsibility to its shareholders which it must zealously act upon which is to minimize financial liabilities. While RMS's teen-aged fan club on/. does not understand simple business practices(hence the abyssmal failure of all companies who attemtp to profit on "open ource" software) Apple does.
Thus the bottom line(pun intended) is that/. geeks should code, sysadmin, and all that jazz and leave the business decisions to people that know what they are talking about.
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Yeah, I am pretty "geeky" I suppose you would say. In my opinion UserFriendly suffers from.......not being funny!! Not at all!! Yeah, I can appreciate net and linux jokes; when they are funny. Am I alone in this? Surely I cannot be the only intelligent person who thinks that the strip sucks?
BTW, to even mention Bloom County in the same breath(no pun intended>:) as UserFriendly is desecrating the memory of a truly brilliant work.
Probaly more than a co-incedence that he uses the name Orwell Helicopter Corporation's in his otherwise littany of technological prognostications.
Clearly the author is a talented programmer. Not only that he is such an expert on Lisp that he wrote books on it. Co-incidentally he wrote some popular software in the languagfe he is an expert in. The lesson here is that your startup will succeed if you have someone working for you who is such an expert on a language he has written books on that language. You know, I bet Randal Schwartz writes excellent software in perl. Funny how that works, isn't it?
2-3 pounds is absolutely nothing when you consider that a full canteen of water weighs about that much. Having spent some time in uniform having to carry all manner of things on my person across all sorts of terraine I can say that 2-3 is *nothing*. What counts most is how awkward these things are and if they can be assimilated into the rest of your equipment. As an aside, my understanding is that the batteries for stinger missiles are both heavy and awkward so maybe these things can be of use in more than 1 application. I don't know too much about stinger missiles though, I was a medic.>:)
rather, network applications should be written securely. Sorry, but my belief is that if you are running a daemon that is susceptible to exploit that it is far better to patch it and/or install a secure alternative(ie. SSH vs telnet) than to spend half your day being paranoid over kidz running some dumb script. I was the network admin for an ISP for three years and not once were we broken into. I detected a multiplicity of pathetic attempts, however, all were obviously lame attempts at classic exploits. My opinion is that the real crackers will only spend their efforts on targets of either political(including "glory" targets such as M$) or financial. By safeguarding against glaring holes you should never have a problem. Never. Not once.
no, I am referring to the abandoned client which was a full java app, not the crapulence quick buddy thingy.
forgive the pun >:). BTW, when I asked aol to let me open source devlop their abandoned java im client they turned me down. I still have the, heh heh, decompiled source files though if anyone is interested.
for someone to explain the history behind the use of "apt" and "woody" and "potatato"?
Courier font, size 11. Nothing beats a "typewriter" font!!
For anybody in the know if you want Sun hardware and a good price you go to an outfit like Rave(www.rave.com) and buy Sun OEM hardware cheap.
I wonder, however, if this is a harbinger of Sun looking to discontinue its OEM sales to places like Rave? I sure hope not, Rave puts Sun to shame when it comes to support and customer service.
>Whatever change you make to the license to suit your taste, you would probably regret if you were to think more about it. Yeah, The part where I offer non-exclusive commercial use licenses(for $$) sure has me staying up nights. >:)
Certainly no-one is arguing that the GPL is not a restrictive license. As most people here know it is , in fact, extra-ordinarily restrictive. I personally have always been a bit scared of overly restrictive licenses and when I release software I right I am sure to use not only a BSD style license but my own language which specifies what I consider fair use. In that, I think the solution lies. Why not tailor the GPL or BSD style licenses to you personal tastes and check out their legality with your local friendly law student or lawyer? Where is freedom of choice ? I don't like being told what to do. Not by Bill Gates, RMS, or anybody else that wants to tell me how to practise my craft.
I used to work for an ISP as a Network Admin. I was told by our legal representation that ISPs are views legally as content providers(eg. Hustler Magazine publishing) and not as distributors (magazine stand). IANAL but this is what a lawyer with a lot of technical expertise told me. Of course, it makes no sense but that is where the precedent is and, from this article, appears to still be. Anyone have the money to mount a challenge?
Moron, how would you like your password stored in plaintext in log files all across the internet. Get a clue kidz.......
Also, these fricking people are using GET for sending sensitive data to a cgi, specifically, my password!!i n. py?userid=myusername&password=XXXXXXX&submit=Login .
Check it out(note to kidz: my password is not really XXXXXXX )
This is the login URL
http://services.google.com/cgi-bin/deja/maillog
This is a far from good sign. >:( .
WTF? /.ers had an aversion to big companies swallowing up the little guys? Maybe they just thought that until the Andover acquisition >:) .
I'd love to comment more than that but I cannot log in and access my deja account information. >:( .
I can't believe that there are people posting to slashdot that this acquisition is a good thing. I thought
Get a Mac (I'd name some other cheap PPC boxes, but there aren't any!) Or you can get a new("uncirculated" or refurb) clone(mac clones were discontinued 2 yrs ago due to Steve Jobs pulling the plug on licensing). I have, for example, a umax c600 running linuxppc R5(or whatever the release is called now) just snazzily. One thing to consider is that you won't be able to get G3 or G4 without buying and additional upgrade card which is something I have yet to investigate. I'm not sure if there is a support issue with third party processors from NewerTechnologies or Sonnet.
My last two jobs(both within the past twelve months) disappeared due to financial losses incurred by the start of the bubble deflating. After the second ride to the bottom I started feeling like a jinx. Hmmm, maybe I *am* a jinx. Anyone wanna short my cuurent employer?
Why not mimic the general Usenet Hierarchy for TLDs? For example, .alt, .comp, etc. These tld's would have wide recognition and represent what they have logically corresponded to for years.
As the constitution is written each congressional district sends an independantly elected elector to the electoral college. What exists now in most states(Maine is one state that is true to the letter of the Constitution) is a perversion of the founding fathers original intent. By simply implementing the great big functional spec that is the Constitution all will be well.
You know, I'm pissed about this. I've used the treasure-trove to occasionally help with a school assignment. This is no small thing seeing as I'm a grad student in mathematics. Can't any intrepid /. admins work their pull with Andover to get a mirror of the pulled site up?
I am horrified at the suggestion that anyone not planning on voting should vote Nader. Do so only if you support Nader's platform!! Although Nader has no hope of winning it would be reprehensible to show false support for his platform. I suggest anyone wishing to cast a vote should vote their conscience. Personally I think I'll be going with the constitution party this go round (http://www.constitutionparty.com). Also, finding a political party that matched your views is easy!! In fact, you can try this handy political party matchmaker form. http://www.3pc.net/matchmaker/index.html .
You know, I watched the 3rd presidential debate via live webcast from cnn.com. What is all this crap about "New" and "Old" media? "Dead" Politics? I would think that Ted Turner would represent "Old" Media to Katz and yet he's taking the lead with making the current political process acessible via new technology? Hey Katz, do you have a clue? Do you do any research? Here is a suggestion, in order to achieve credibility take about two years off from bothering the good readers of /. and learn about what you are writing.
I woulld attribute this page of "suggestions" not to malice but to mere stupidity and shortsitedness of the author. Of course he didn't consider a free OS to be installed by the customer of the "naked PC". The author is simply an idiot.
It seems like all the responses to my original post missed the point that I was trying to make. Here it is again but slower. Apple has nothing to gain by making a decision based on idealology. Apple had either two choices 1.) license 2.) get sued by amazon trying to protect their patent. Since Apple dooesn't want to be sued(who does?) which would cost them money the chose option 2. Furthermore as a publicly held company Apple has a responsibility to its shareholders which it must zealously act upon which is to minimize financial liabilities. While RMS's teen-aged fan club on /. does not understand simple business practices(hence the abyssmal failure of all companies who attemtp to profit on "open ource" software) Apple does.
Thus the bottom line(pun intended) is that /. geeks should code, sysadmin, and all that jazz and leave the business decisions to people that know what they are talking about.