I was pretty sure Cash came in during Quake... so I found this page with old press releases, which unfortunately doesn't have the whole text, but only a headline: "JOHN CASH JOINS id SOFTWARE AS "NETWORK GUY" - Cash Brings his Networking Expertise to id's QUAKE".
I'm almost positive that Cash came in towards the end of the Quake project to work on the networking.
No, the first programmer Carmack hired was Michael Abrash. In fact, Abrash recently released the chapters pertaining to Quake from Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book on Blues News at this address.
Now if we could just convince Slashdot to get a real database (such as Oracle), we would be stylin'.
Note to Slashdot: Not to rag on MySQL, but you guys have grown way beyond it. You can afford a high-level database. Please consider using the right tool for the job. If an Open Source alternative comes down the pike that could handle the load, then change it. But in the meantime, please admit to yourselves that you need to switch. The lack of row-level locking is going to continue to bite you guys in the butt.
Maybe you could even keep older data online and wouldn't have to keep flushing it! [I assume that's done because of the performance limitations of MySQL].
Had my system been compromised by somebody in the phillipines, do you think I would have any recourse?
Er, that's because that would be a single system. If IBM -- and only IBM -- was affected, I doubt there would be this much fuss either. But we're talking about literally millions of systems affected.
Put it this way, a single murder gets a certain level of attention. But start blasting people and racking up a body count, well, I think that's going to get more attention.
Very, very few people in this community really care about hacker vs cracker. It's become one of those issues that is trendy to pull out when someone wants to establish their "hacker credentials". "Yeah, I really hate that the media uses cracker, too".
Please. This issue is dead. It always was dead. It always was a stupid issue.
Are stocks overvalued? Probably, which is why we had the "black week" a month ago.
But we are not living in 1929 when everyone was leveraged at 10x your money (i.e., for every dollar you invested, you where borrowing nine dollars).
These idiots have been writing these books for the last 10 years, and this guy is more of the same.
Crashes will happen. That is certain. But it is extremely unlikely that we will see the kind of environment we had in 1929. We simply have a much stronger economic foundation.
I should have made this more clear... I'm not suggesting using all of Sun's baggage (and all the licensing problems thereof), just using the core Java language with a logical interface to the [possibly expanded] core X11 primitives.
Back in the days when I did a lot of Motif development, I always thought that the biggest flaw in X was how simple type-in fields worked. It seemed like such a waste of network traffic and server (or client in X11 lingo) processing when all you were doing was typing in a field. This is primarily what makes X11 unsuitable over the Internet.
What I was thinking would be really cool is to embed a Java engine in X terminals, and allow Java-based widgets to be downloaded. Imagine if this was in the core X11 protocol, and it was a very general object interface. You do all sorts of very cool -- very network efficient -- things.
Note that this doesn't break the X11 concept of "presentation, not policy". Policy would still come from the client program. The Java widgets would still be tied to the client program.
Java is not everyone's favorite language, but I think this is exactly the sort of thing that Java would be perfect for, particularly the platform-independent nature.
You're talking about development environments, and I was talking about applications. Duh.
I prefer Unix as a development environment (although, I prefer using a real Unix -- Linux is not even close to the best version of Unix), but I also actually use computers to get work done.
That you are apparently so one-dimensional that you can't use computers for anything other than programming is not my fault.
Well, I think "useless" is a little strong. I wouldn't use babelfish for any sort nuanced translation, but if all you want is to get the gist of a new story, I think it's fairly useful.
I have not run Windows in a few years now could you tell me what all these awesome applications are that run on Windows now?
Oh, things like Photoshop, MS/Office, Visio, IE, Quicken, not to mention innumerable games. I could go on and on, but what's the point? The list of user apps that are superior under Linux is easier: uh, there are none.
I get what I need to get done in Linux.
I didn't say you "couldn't get things done", but heck, you could also cross the US on crutches blindfolded if you want.
Frankly, I don't choose to cripple myself by using inferior applications.
"But personally, I like having having applications with some power, and are not stripped down to the lowest common denominator of user."... Let me get this straight, this is your argument for using windows and outlook over linux? I must have missed something.
Of course. Or haven't you noticed that Linux's end-user apps are way inferior to everything in Windows?
I use Linux everyday as a server, but until it gets some decent applications, it's useless to me as a desktop OS. And believe me, I would *love* to have a Unix-based desktop OS. But I love appliations more.
Did I ever mention Linux ? I don't remember doing so.
It's irrelevent what you use. I used Linux as an example.
I'm running Netscape as my mail client.
Well, if you're a Netscape user, you've already decided to use garbage software. Regardless of anyone's opinion of Microsoft (and you don't know mine, despite your assumptions), Netscape is objectively garbage. Obviously, using decent software is not important to you.
In any case, as far as I know, Netscape also lets you execute e-mail attachments. It's only that the virus wasn't aimed at being able to read Netscape's address book that it didn't affect Netscape users.
would you care to produce the afore-mentioned affidavit stating the difference in productivity/virus damage ratio between Outlook and non-Outlook clients?
Har Har Har! Boy you got me -- what a burn. [not]
I guess it doesn't matter to you that your "point" has nothing to do with the subject at hand. You may have a promising career in politics ahead of you.
Franklin has been making devices like this for years. If they weren't the first to do it, I'd be surprised. I've never used one myself, but they've been around so long (10 years??) that their technology must be pretty mature.
They also have a ton of other cool PDA-form-factor devices. Definitely the gadget-geek should check them out.
Please explain why non-Outlook users weren't as badly effected,...
Duh, because Outlook is most of the market.
If Linux had more than 0.001% of the mainstream desktop market (note the phrasing), then Linux would have a decent e-mail reader. You don't seem to understand that a lot of users want to be able to execute attachments, and it's very convenient at times. It's only that Linux has no decent mailreaders that it's "protected".
Now, doubtless you will say something like, "well, see what power gets you?" or something. But personally, I like having having applications with some power, and are not stripped down to the lowest common denominator of user.
Now, that said, I think it would be wise for Microsoft to build in a few more protections against this sort of thing (and they have supposedly released a security patch for this). But you seem to think the solution is to "dumb down" the applications. I don't think that's the solution.
Sure, but that doesn't help in the case of a virus like "ILOVEYOU". All it would have to do is scan for e-mail addresses (from your address book), and start sending e-mails. That doesn't require root access.
Actually, you reminded me of something... I don't remember the source, but I heard once that Beta wasn't actually superior to VHS. The myth that Beta was so much better was put out by Sony marketing to justify the high licensing fees, and it gained a foothold in the public conciousness. Ever since then, the "Beta vs VHS" has been held up as the example of marketing winning over technology, which it actually wasn't.
Does anyone have anything definitive, rather than "I seem to remember that Beta was better...", which is what everyone remembers, but always without a source.:)
Slashdot Mirror
You can see the "ultrasound" of Romero's baby at thes e mirrors.
Warning: I think I'm safe in saying that it's looking like a mighty ugly baby. :)
Hopefully when we see the full deal, it'll look a lot better.
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I was pretty sure Cash came in during Quake... so I found this page with old press releases, which unfortunately doesn't have the whole text, but only a headline: "JOHN CASH JOINS id SOFTWARE AS "NETWORK GUY" - Cash Brings his Networking Expertise to id's QUAKE".
I'm almost positive that Cash came in towards the end of the Quake project to work on the networking.
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Well, Abrash precedes Cash... but on third thought, I think the first might've been Dave Taylor. :)
I'm not actually certain whether Taylor or Petersen came first.
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No, the first programmer Carmack hired was Michael Abrash. In fact, Abrash recently released the chapters pertaining to Quake from Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book on Blues News at this address.
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Cash moved from Nowhereville, Texas to Blizzard in Irvine, CA. Hook left and went to San Diego.
I'm sensing a pattern here... I think Id needs to move to So Cal. :)
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Hmmm; not up to TrollMastah standards, but a good try nevertheless.
Trollmastah: You are missed.
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Now if we could just convince Slashdot to get a real database (such as Oracle), we would be stylin'.
Note to Slashdot: Not to rag on MySQL, but you guys have grown way beyond it. You can afford a high-level database. Please consider using the right tool for the job. If an Open Source alternative comes down the pike that could handle the load, then change it. But in the meantime, please admit to yourselves that you need to switch. The lack of row-level locking is going to continue to bite you guys in the butt.
Maybe you could even keep older data online and wouldn't have to keep flushing it! [I assume that's done because of the performance limitations of MySQL].
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Some may be interested in comparisons of the major Open Source databases. This article at LinuxPlanet has some good information.
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Had my system been compromised by somebody in the phillipines, do you think I would have any recourse?
Er, that's because that would be a single system. If IBM -- and only IBM -- was affected, I doubt there would be this much fuss either. But we're talking about literally millions of systems affected.
Put it this way, a single murder gets a certain level of attention. But start blasting people and racking up a body count, well, I think that's going to get more attention.
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I meant, "Yeah, I really hate that the media uses hacker, too"... well, you know what I meant.
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Very, very few people in this community really care about hacker vs cracker. It's become one of those issues that is trendy to pull out when someone wants to establish their "hacker credentials". "Yeah, I really hate that the media uses cracker, too".
Please. This issue is dead. It always was dead. It always was a stupid issue.
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Are stocks overvalued? Probably, which is why we had the "black week" a month ago.
But we are not living in 1929 when everyone was leveraged at 10x your money (i.e., for every dollar you invested, you where borrowing nine dollars).
These idiots have been writing these books for the last 10 years, and this guy is more of the same.
Crashes will happen. That is certain. But it is extremely unlikely that we will see the kind of environment we had in 1929. We simply have a much stronger economic foundation.
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I should have made this more clear... I'm not suggesting using all of Sun's baggage (and all the licensing problems thereof), just using the core Java language with a logical interface to the [possibly expanded] core X11 primitives.
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Back in the days when I did a lot of Motif development, I always thought that the biggest flaw in X was how simple type-in fields worked. It seemed like such a waste of network traffic and server (or client in X11 lingo) processing when all you were doing was typing in a field. This is primarily what makes X11 unsuitable over the Internet.
What I was thinking would be really cool is to embed a Java engine in X terminals, and allow Java-based widgets to be downloaded. Imagine if this was in the core X11 protocol, and it was a very general object interface. You do all sorts of very cool -- very network efficient -- things.
Note that this doesn't break the X11 concept of "presentation, not policy". Policy would still come from the client program. The Java widgets would still be tied to the client program.
Java is not everyone's favorite language, but I think this is exactly the sort of thing that Java would be perfect for, particularly the platform-independent nature.
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You're talking about development environments, and I was talking about applications. Duh.
I prefer Unix as a development environment (although, I prefer using a real Unix -- Linux is not even close to the best version of Unix), but I also actually use computers to get work done.
That you are apparently so one-dimensional that you can't use computers for anything other than programming is not my fault.
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Well, I think "useless" is a little strong. I wouldn't use babelfish for any sort nuanced translation, but if all you want is to get the gist of a new story, I think it's fairly useful.
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I have not run Windows in a few years now could you tell me what all these awesome applications are that run on Windows now?
Oh, things like Photoshop, MS/Office, Visio, IE, Quicken, not to mention innumerable games. I could go on and on, but what's the point? The list of user apps that are superior under Linux is easier: uh, there are none.
I get what I need to get done in Linux.
I didn't say you "couldn't get things done", but heck, you could also cross the US on crutches blindfolded if you want.
Frankly, I don't choose to cripple myself by using inferior applications.
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"But personally, I like having having applications with some power, and are not stripped down to the lowest common denominator of user." ... Let me get this straight, this is your argument for using windows and outlook over linux? I must have missed something.
Of course. Or haven't you noticed that Linux's end-user apps are way inferior to everything in Windows?
I use Linux everyday as a server, but until it gets some decent applications, it's useless to me as a desktop OS. And believe me, I would *love* to have a Unix-based desktop OS. But I love appliations more.
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Did I ever mention Linux ? I don't remember doing so.
It's irrelevent what you use. I used Linux as an example.
I'm running Netscape as my mail client.
Well, if you're a Netscape user, you've already decided to use garbage software. Regardless of anyone's opinion of Microsoft (and you don't know mine, despite your assumptions), Netscape is objectively garbage. Obviously, using decent software is not important to you.
In any case, as far as I know, Netscape also lets you execute e-mail attachments. It's only that the virus wasn't aimed at being able to read Netscape's address book that it didn't affect Netscape users.
would you care to produce the afore-mentioned affidavit stating the difference in productivity/virus damage ratio between Outlook and non-Outlook clients?
Har Har Har! Boy you got me -- what a burn. [not]
I guess it doesn't matter to you that your "point" has nothing to do with the subject at hand. You may have a promising career in politics ahead of you.
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Franklin has been making devices like this for years. If they weren't the first to do it, I'd be surprised. I've never used one myself, but they've been around so long (10 years??) that their technology must be pretty mature.
They also have a ton of other cool PDA-form-factor devices. Definitely the gadget-geek should check them out.
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Please explain why non-Outlook users weren't as badly effected, ...
Duh, because Outlook is most of the market.
If Linux had more than 0.001% of the mainstream desktop market (note the phrasing), then Linux would have a decent e-mail reader. You don't seem to understand that a lot of users want to be able to execute attachments, and it's very convenient at times. It's only that Linux has no decent mailreaders that it's "protected".
Now, doubtless you will say something like, "well, see what power gets you?" or something. But personally, I like having having applications with some power, and are not stripped down to the lowest common denominator of user.
Now, that said, I think it would be wise for Microsoft to build in a few more protections against this sort of thing (and they have supposedly released a security patch for this). But you seem to think the solution is to "dumb down" the applications. I don't think that's the solution.
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Yeah, if I have glass windows in my house, and a burgler uses them to break into my house, it's my fault for not making my house secure enough, right?
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It's impossible to make a decent web page in 5K. :)
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Sure, but that doesn't help in the case of a virus like "ILOVEYOU". All it would have to do is scan for e-mail addresses (from your address book), and start sending e-mails. That doesn't require root access.
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Actually, you reminded me of something... I don't remember the source, but I heard once that Beta wasn't actually superior to VHS. The myth that Beta was so much better was put out by Sony marketing to justify the high licensing fees, and it gained a foothold in the public conciousness. Ever since then, the "Beta vs VHS" has been held up as the example of marketing winning over technology, which it actually wasn't.
Does anyone have anything definitive, rather than "I seem to remember that Beta was better...", which is what everyone remembers, but always without a source. :)
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