Having this view is proof that you are hardcore bridge and tunnel. The only people who have this view are from brooklyn,queens or new jersey. The view to have in manhattan is of central park and you won't have it for under 10 million.
Hell, about half of new applications for windows use the WebBrowser object for UI.
I'm not even talking about adding buttons,toolbars or whatever else to IE itself. All of this was added in IE 5.0, There must have been a rewrite to accomplish all this with a "venerable mess"
This happened to me recently, I was owed several thousand dollars back pay and was in posession of company equipment.
It seemed natural that I should just hold onto the equipment untill I got paid, or just sell it on eBay to recover lost income.
But then I mentioned this to a labor layer and he pointed out that witholding wages in the state of New York is prosecuted as misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $20,000.00 with a possibility of jail time!
You can also be awarded triple damages for witheld income.
So I sent back the equipment as quickly as possible and called the New York state attourney general, they were more than happy to help me.
Rappers have traditionaly made a big issue of bootlegging. There have been several rap songs about the selling of bootleg tapes (now cds).
For alot of the less well known rappers it seems that more bootleg tapes and cds are sold that legal ones here in NYC. There was recently an article on the front page of the times about drug dealers converting their drug operations to bootleging operations, there are higher profit margins, it is much less competitive and the penalties if caught are much less. Corner tape/cd sellers operate within plain view of police here in manhattan, and there are always crowds five deep to get the newest cds and movies for 5 bucks.
Going after napster users is just the logical extension of the fight rappers have always fought against pirating.
While taking a look at your travelogs I noticed that you seem to meet atractive women wherever you go. Can you tell me what you're secret is? Is it the fact that you have been a programmer since 1976 and "just say no to middleware", or is it the fact that you own a dog. I guess my question is, what do chicks dig more, dogs or code?
wow, where/when did you go to college? Nobody talks to the professor after class anymore, they silently indict him/her for being a eurocentric fascist. Nobody asks out a cute guy/girl, they drink a bunch of kamikazies and "hook up"
I have been working with coldfusion for about 4 months, every day, all day. As much as I feared coldfusion when I first started it hasn't been that painfull. I have a few minor gripes, you can't pass structures to custom tags, cfscript seems about half finished (no functions). These aren't that bad though, you can always pass WDDX to a custom tag and deserialize it. The biggest complaint I have isn't about coldfusion at all but access.
We are now looking towards migrating away from NT,IIS and access. Last time I glanced at php it seemed perfect except for a few problems (no DBI) but I'll have to take a serious look at zope.
I'm not an expert on this by any means but I took a few classes on japanese history in college. One of the more interesting ones was "japan through it's literature", The professor in this class claimed that females did commit seppuku but they tied their own ankles together first so their legs wouldn't spread.
I think there is a market for just about any portable prestiege type electronics. Here in new york not only does everyone you meet have a cell phone and a pager, but every kid under 10 has a fake cellphone and fake pager so they can pretend they are grownups or something. Its gotten to the point where several of my friends carry multiple cell phones and those motorola walkie talkies. Why would you want multiple cell phones? to avoid conversations like "how come you got the foo 9000, the bar 7109 is better", If you have both the foo and the bar its an instant one up!
The point is that not many people really need most of the electronics they buy, unless you are a doctor on call nobody really needs to contact you anywhere in the world at a moments notice. Most people don't really need a palm v, they could accomplish the same task with a notepad and a 25 cent bic pen. The same urge that compels people to buy the nokia 50001, the damn things play midi music instead of ring, have better graphics than my desktop and can be networked using their iR ports, is the same urge that will compell people to buy a cell phone with ultima online and everquest built in, just to say that they have it.
I messed with CP/M on the 128 a bit too. As far as i can remember there were always some problems with the 1541/1571 on the 128. Disks formatted in 128 mode didn't work right in 64 mode. Same with the 1581. I think commodore always had problems with disks, disks formatted on the amiga 500 external drive never worked at all. I still have my 128 cp/m manuals but I dont think I have the disks anymore.
I've had a barcode tatoo on my right forarm for over 3 years now. The reactions it gets are pretty funny, everything from "that is the coolest thing I have ever seen" to people being noticibly freaked out. Im getting a subdermal tracking implant next.
I've decided that I will only date women can kick my ass at quake DM and can recite the voiceovers from the theatrical realease of bladerunner. So far I havn't met any so I think I may have to settle for women who don't ask computer related questions and then get that glazed look in thier eyes when I answer. I may even have to settle for a woman who can plug in her own i-mac
This seems to be the case. I have a close friend at discovery and she is always talking about the BBC guys camped out at the discovery offices monopolizing the copy machines. They trade premiums too, I have more BBC america merchandise than discovery, In fact i'm wearing a BBC america t-shirt right now.
there is a product like this for win95/98 at www.3dtop.com. I havn't played with it in depth since It dosn't render full screen so can't really take advantave of 3dfx cards unless i used winglide and iv'e been too lazy to get it working. It dosn't look all that impressive yet but with various plugins you can load 3ds models as icons etc etc.
According to abrash's book and the article "the ego's at id" that was in wired just before quake 1 came out abrash was hired away from microsoft to begin with. Apparently with Carmacks shift to opengl Abrash felt his optimizing skills weren't needed and he's working now at microsoft optimizing some sort of voice recognition software.
From: Piotr Wilkin Subject: Linux kernel 2.2.x vulnerability/exploit
I'm sorry if this has been noticed before, but since I did't find anything in the archives, I post it here. There seems to be a bug in kernels 2.2.x (tested on 2.2.7 and 2.2.9), that causes them to panic when they are sent a large number of specific ICMP packages. I think the problem comes from the combination of the mangled header length (shorter or longer ihl's don't cause hangup) and the random ICMP packets (random type/subtype and source address) this program sends. Windows 9x and FreeBSD 3.0 seem to be unaffected.
[exploit code snipped, check www.geek-girl.com for it in the archive if you really need to know]
All this talk of sysadmin unions and certifications makes me think of apprenticeships. Think about it, it works well in other fields where a high degree of technique and hands on experience is needed and the current problem of people graduating from college or a certification course not knowing much of anything could be solved.
As a person with absolutly no real professional experience and only 3 years of college as a CS major I would welcome a 1-2 year job at low pay if I could learn something and guarentee career growth.
I'd like to say that I think that this is one of the most honest portraits of geeks I have ever seen since so much geek and hacker lore has been idealized to an incredible extent.
I've noticed on slashdot an internal geek schism developing over the self-definition of what it means to be a geek. In one respect I appreciate that your if your ideals are to be defined, its better to do it yourself than to have somebody else do it for you.
Some people find the definition of geek as used in this article offensive. They would like to present geeks as suits with a rebelious streak, highly-paid, highly-skilled workers who just happen to be a little offbeat. They would like to push the this stereotype of geekdom into the closet along with those 80's geek movies like wierd science and real genius. They don't like to see geeks portrayed as people who would take drugs,steal software and have poor houskeeping and social skills.
Do geeks take drugs? some people who would probably be considered geeks that took drugs were: Robert Heinlein. Paul Erdos. Richard Feynman (used ketamine). Probably the majority of the homebrew computer club had smoked a joint at one time or another (hey is california).
Do geeks steak software? In stephen levy's book _Hackers_ the fact that Bill Gates objects to people copying and distributing his software is presented as proof positive of how square Bill is.
Do geeks have poor social skills? Probably yes, If they had lives would anyone spend their college years hanging out with the TMRC or or spending days puzzling over the wiring in a PDP.
I'm not trying to say that geeks *MUST* be unkempt thieves, but there is at least some evidence that some geeks are. The point is, probably the same point that people have been trying to make for years in a much more coherent way, that there is no real geek archetype. The icons of geekdom are are not one-dimensional cardboard cutouts, they are not just stories. They had lives, they did drugs, they left dirty dishes in the sink, they stole software, they made mistakes. The portrait of the geek as a zen monk who worships at the alter of technology is a lie.
The only thing geeks have in common, and probably should have in common, is a passion for knowlege and understanding, using whatever means they need to get it, be it reverse-engineering MS products, or stealing software to mess with it, or using ketamine as Feynman did. It would be a shame if geeks put all this energy into understanding everything *except* other geeks.
I can't speak for the apple//e but the c64 *was* quite complex if you wanted to do anything more than load"*",8,1. Did you ever try to install a second 1541? you actually had to open it up and clip wires to get it to act as drive 9. Most, if not all, of the third party hardware was just *slightly* incompatible with the c64, leading to hard to track down errors. Installing a harddrive for the c64 was a *nightmare*. Plus since computers were not nearly as popular then as they are now you couldn't walk into any barnes and noble and pick up a book on the c64. Just a few months ago I found a book on programming the 64 that gave a list of all the addresses you could POKE to and what they would do, when I actualy operated a 64 those books were nowhere to be found. I'm not even going to mention the 128. The 128 actualy ran CPM if you wanted it to, I ordered CPM from commodore and got four 5 1/4 disks and a "digital reasearch CP/M system guide" that was over 2000 pages but it had *no* page numbers or index. I could'nt make heads or tails of cp/m at taht point, after all , I was about 11
You are right though, computers got more complex. The Amiga ( still my favorite machine) was a total mystery when it first shipped. I still have my amiga manuals, they are about as thick as the win98 manuals, they contained nothing more than a few "how to turn the computer on" chapters. The manuals totaly ignored CLI mode. Creating boot disks ( the amiga 500 had no harddrive), actualy getting hardware to work ( amigaOS was microkernel, all the device drivers were in userspace and distributed by the hardware manufacturer. As far as commodore was concerned, they didn't exist) was actualy quite hard to figure out. Two of the hardest things I think i've ever done involved amiga hardware. One was installing a 4 meg memory upgrade, this involved removing chips and modifying the amiga motherboard, contrast this to upgrading memory today. The other was installing a scsi harddrive for the amiga, this involved changing the jumpstart eprom and the amiga user port, contrast this to installing a harddrive today, its pretty much plug and play these days. BTW, there were various amiga unix packages back then that added all our favorite unix utils, like grep, to amiga CLI
Even load"*",8,1 is pretty complex compared to todays operating systems. About a half of all people I knew who owned c64's had load"*",8,1 and load"$",8,1 written on post-its near their computers. Even the most raw of newbies can remember ls.
Slashdot Mirror
Having this view is proof that you are hardcore bridge and tunnel. The only people who have this view are from brooklyn,queens or new jersey. The view to have in manhattan is of central park and you won't have it for under 10 million.
What are you talking about. IE is extensible,modular and very well documented.
WebBrwoser and HTML object reference
Hell, about half of new applications for windows use the WebBrowser object for UI.
I'm not even talking about adding buttons,toolbars or whatever else to IE itself.
All of this was added in IE 5.0, There must have been a rewrite to accomplish all this with a "venerable mess"
This happened to me recently, I was owed several thousand dollars back pay and was in posession of company equipment.
m l# hotline
t ml
It seemed natural that I should just hold onto the equipment untill I got paid, or just sell it on eBay to recover lost income.
But then I mentioned this to a labor layer and he pointed out that witholding wages in the state of New York is prosecuted as misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $20,000.00 with a possibility of jail time!
You can also be awarded triple damages for witheld income.
So I sent back the equipment as quickly as possible and called the New York state attourney general, they were more than happy to help me.
for the New York AG check out:
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/contact/addresses.ht
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/workplace/employer.h
New York City
120 Broadway
New York, New York 10271
(212) 416-8000
Don't forget, there are other options available if you are also shareholder
Not paying employees is a CRIME and is punished as such. This is really not a matter of small claims court.
m l# hotline
t ml
Contact the state attourey general, in New York state there is a fine and possible JAIL TIME for corporate officers who allow this!
You may also be able to recieve tripple damages!
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/contact/addresses.ht
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/workplace/employer.h
Rappers have traditionaly made a big issue of bootlegging. There have been several rap songs about the selling of bootleg tapes (now cds).
For alot of the less well known rappers it seems that more bootleg tapes and cds are sold that legal ones here in NYC. There was recently an article on the front page of the times about drug dealers converting their drug operations to bootleging operations, there are higher profit margins, it is much less competitive and the penalties if caught are much less. Corner tape/cd sellers operate within plain view of police here in manhattan, and there are always crowds five deep to get the newest cds and movies for 5 bucks.
Going after napster users is just the logical extension of the fight rappers have always fought against pirating.
While taking a look at your travelogs I noticed that you seem to meet atractive women wherever you go. Can you tell me what you're secret is? Is it the fact that you have been a programmer since 1976 and "just say no to middleware", or is it the fact that you own a dog. I guess my question is, what do chicks dig more, dogs or code?
wow, where/when did you go to college?
Nobody talks to the professor after class anymore, they silently indict him/her for being a eurocentric fascist. Nobody asks out a cute guy/girl, they drink a bunch of kamikazies and "hook up"
You just don't get the song. what is really ironic is that none of the things are ironic. So in fact, the song really is ironic!
to the world of adults where sometimes you have to dress appropriately.
I'm very interested in this too.
I have been working with coldfusion for about 4 months, every day, all day. As much as I feared coldfusion when I first started it hasn't been that painfull. I have a few minor gripes, you can't pass structures to custom tags, cfscript seems about half finished (no functions). These aren't that bad though, you can always pass WDDX to a custom tag and deserialize it. The biggest complaint I have isn't about coldfusion at all but access.
We are now looking towards migrating away from NT,IIS and access. Last time I glanced at php it seemed perfect except for a few problems (no DBI) but I'll have to take a serious look at zope.
I'm not an expert on this by any means but I took a few classes on japanese history in college. One of the more interesting ones was "japan through it's literature", The professor in this class claimed that females did commit seppuku but they tied their own ankles together first so their legs wouldn't spread.
I think there is a market for just about any portable prestiege type electronics. Here in new york not only does everyone you meet have a cell phone and a pager, but every kid under 10 has a fake cellphone and fake pager so they can pretend they are grownups or something. Its gotten to the point where several of my friends carry multiple cell phones and those motorola walkie talkies. Why would you want multiple cell phones? to avoid conversations like "how come you got the foo 9000, the bar 7109 is better", If you have both the foo and the bar its an instant one up!
The point is that not many people really need most of the electronics they buy, unless you are a doctor on call nobody really needs to contact you anywhere in the world at a moments notice. Most people don't really need a palm v, they could accomplish the same task with a notepad and a 25 cent bic pen. The same urge that compels people to buy the nokia 50001, the damn things play midi music instead of ring, have better graphics than my desktop and can be networked using their iR ports, is the same urge that will compell people to buy a cell phone with ultima online and everquest built in, just to say that they have it.
I messed with CP/M on the 128 a bit too. As far as i can remember there were always some problems with the 1541/1571 on the 128. Disks formatted in 128 mode didn't work right in 64 mode. Same with the 1581. I think commodore always had problems with disks, disks formatted on the amiga 500 external drive never worked at all.
I still have my 128 cp/m manuals but I dont think I have the disks anymore.
I've had a barcode tatoo on my right forarm for over 3 years now. The reactions it gets are pretty funny, everything from "that is the coolest thing I have ever seen" to people being noticibly freaked out. Im getting a subdermal tracking implant next.
I've decided that I will only date women can kick my ass at quake DM and can recite the voiceovers from the theatrical realease of bladerunner.
So far I havn't met any so I think I may have to settle for women who don't ask computer related questions and then get that glazed look in thier eyes when I answer. I may even have to settle for a woman who can plug in her own i-mac
This seems to be the case.
I have a close friend at discovery and she is always talking about the BBC guys camped out at the discovery offices monopolizing the copy machines. They trade premiums too, I have more BBC america merchandise than discovery, In fact i'm wearing a BBC america t-shirt right now.
there is a product like this for win95/98 at www.3dtop.com. I havn't played with it in depth since It dosn't render full screen so can't really take advantave of 3dfx cards unless i used winglide and iv'e been too lazy to get it working. It dosn't look all that impressive yet but with various plugins you can load 3ds models as icons etc etc.
According to abrash's book and the article "the ego's at id" that was in wired just before quake 1 came out abrash was hired away from microsoft to begin with. Apparently with Carmacks shift to opengl Abrash felt his optimizing skills weren't needed and he's working now at microsoft optimizing some sort of voice recognition software.
[snipped from bugtraq, dated jun 1]
From: Piotr Wilkin
Subject: Linux kernel 2.2.x vulnerability/exploit
I'm sorry if this has been noticed before, but since I did't find anything
in the archives, I post it here.
There seems to be a bug in kernels 2.2.x (tested on 2.2.7 and 2.2.9), that
causes them to panic when they are sent a large number of specific ICMP
packages. I think the problem comes from the combination of the mangled
header length (shorter or longer ihl's don't cause hangup) and the random
ICMP packets (random type/subtype and source address) this program sends.
Windows 9x and FreeBSD 3.0 seem to be unaffected.
[exploit code snipped, check www.geek-girl.com for it in the archive if you really need to know]
All this talk of sysadmin unions and certifications makes me think of apprenticeships.
Think about it, it works well in other fields where a high degree of technique and hands on experience is needed and the current problem of people graduating from college or a certification course not knowing much of anything could be solved.
As a person with absolutly no real professional experience and only 3 years of college as a CS major I would welcome a 1-2 year job at low pay if I could learn something and guarentee career growth.
I'd like to say that I think that this is one of the most honest portraits of geeks I have ever seen since so much geek and hacker lore has been idealized to an incredible extent.
,steal software and have poor houskeeping and social skills.
I've noticed on slashdot an internal geek schism developing over the self-definition of what it means to be a geek. In one respect I appreciate that your if your ideals are to be defined, its better to do it yourself than to have somebody else do it for you.
Some people find the definition of geek as used in this article offensive. They would like to present geeks as suits with a rebelious streak, highly-paid, highly-skilled workers who just happen to be a little offbeat. They would like to push the this stereotype of geekdom into the closet along with those 80's geek movies like wierd science and real genius. They don't like to see geeks portrayed as people who would take drugs
Do geeks take drugs?
some people who would probably be considered geeks that took drugs were:
Robert Heinlein.
Paul Erdos.
Richard Feynman (used ketamine).
Probably the majority of the homebrew computer club had smoked a joint at one time or another (hey is california).
Do geeks steak software?
In stephen levy's book _Hackers_ the fact that Bill Gates objects to people copying and distributing his software is presented as proof positive of how square Bill is.
Do geeks have poor social skills?
Probably yes, If they had lives would anyone spend their college years hanging out with the TMRC or or spending days puzzling over the wiring in a PDP.
I'm not trying to say that geeks *MUST* be unkempt thieves, but there is at least some evidence that some geeks are. The point is, probably the same point that people have been trying to make for years in a much more coherent way, that there is no real geek archetype. The icons of geekdom are are not one-dimensional cardboard cutouts, they are not just stories. They had lives, they did drugs, they left dirty dishes in the sink, they stole software, they made mistakes. The portrait of the geek as a zen monk who worships at the alter of technology is a lie.
The only thing geeks have in common, and probably should have in common, is a passion for knowlege and understanding, using whatever means they need to get it, be it reverse-engineering MS products, or stealing software to mess with it, or using ketamine as Feynman did. It would be a shame if geeks put all this energy into understanding everything *except* other geeks.
I can't speak for the apple //e but the c64 *was* quite complex if you wanted to do anything more than load"*",8,1. Did you ever try to install a second 1541? you actually had to open it up and clip wires to get it to act as drive 9. Most, if not all, of the third party hardware was just *slightly* incompatible with the c64, leading to hard to track down errors. Installing a harddrive for the c64 was a *nightmare*. Plus since computers were not nearly as popular then as they are now you couldn't walk into any barnes and noble and pick up a book on the c64. Just a few months ago I found a book on programming the 64 that gave a list of all the addresses you could POKE to and what they would do, when I actualy operated a 64 those books were nowhere to be found. I'm not even going to mention the 128. The 128 actualy ran CPM if you wanted it to, I ordered CPM from commodore and got four 5 1/4 disks and a "digital reasearch CP/M system guide" that was over 2000 pages but it had *no* page numbers or index. I could'nt make heads or tails of cp/m at taht point, after all , I was about 11
You are right though, computers got more complex. The Amiga ( still my favorite machine) was a total mystery when it first shipped. I still have my amiga manuals, they are about as thick as the win98 manuals, they contained nothing more than a few "how to turn the computer on" chapters. The manuals totaly ignored CLI mode. Creating boot disks ( the amiga 500 had no harddrive), actualy getting hardware to work ( amigaOS was microkernel, all the device drivers were in userspace and distributed by the hardware manufacturer. As far as commodore was concerned, they didn't exist) was actualy quite hard to figure out. Two of the hardest things I think i've ever done involved amiga hardware. One was installing a 4 meg memory upgrade, this involved removing chips and modifying the amiga motherboard, contrast this to upgrading memory today. The other was installing a scsi harddrive for the amiga, this involved changing the jumpstart eprom and the amiga user port, contrast this to installing a harddrive today, its pretty much plug and play these days. BTW, there were various amiga unix packages back then that added all our favorite unix utils, like grep, to amiga CLI
Even load"*",8,1 is pretty complex compared to todays operating systems. About a half of all people I knew who owned c64's had load"*",8,1 and load"$",8,1 written on post-its near their computers. Even the most raw of newbies can remember ls.