Parent is correct - mod up. Khosla was the first CEO too. I'm not sure if "The idea of Sun was hatched in 1982" is correct, I think it was certainly before 82.
I think there's no question there - the new authors on the scene are superb, particularly the Brits. I love the work of Reynolds and Banks is achieving GrandMaster status.
I don't seriously believe that the culture of NASA will change as a result of this report. Feynman noticed all of these issues and made sure that he met the engineers alone, without any management, when he needed to find out the real answers.
It didn't change since then, it's not going to change now.
"When QuakeWorld came out online, the community was huge and teeming with people," said Mr. Ray, referring to a first-person maze game that was popular in the mid-1990's. "
It always strikes me as rather strange when people use the "MDK" to describe Mandrake... it reminds me of Kurt gliding around and taking sniping head shots:)
Al.
You need to talk to your IT department - a lot of this stuff can be done with MITs Kerberos V5 which is an excellent open source solution - it's been around for years and is quite robust and secure. It's one of the backends that LDAP and other directory services are using nowadays.
The AC below was a bit crass in his criticism of your post, but he does have a point - you obviously do not have any clue about what you're talking about here.
Sun did not "take away" the free version - they renamed it OpenOffice, and I'm sure that with a little effort, even you can manage to find that online.
Secondly, they were very open about the entire Star Office saga - there are numerous articles in news archives about how it was not being adopted by businesses *precisely because it was free*. Once they branched off the free version, they were able to start charging (and even then, they charge minuscule amounts compared to other office suites). Where did you get this "high price" from?
The AC below is wrong about one thing - you are not a typical Linux "hippie" - they at least are generally more well informed than you obviously are.
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I did this, and still got offered the job. Found out that he previously worked in another national branch of the last company *I* had worked for.
Also found a pet project of his on sourceforge (via his old work email addr), and had learned a bit about that which helped too.
In a normal hetrogenous environment (as 99% of n/ws are), you're going to be dealing with software and hardware from many different vendors.
It is possible (if not probably) that the interaction of these components will create security holes for an attacker to exploit. Which vendor do you blame? They may all be working as designed. Do you blame your low-paid network guys? Do you spend hundreds of thousands to hire external consultants? Can you blame (and sue) them if your network is breached?
What about default configurations of software? What if the default configuration is insecure, but the documentation describes how to secure it?
I have my own thoughts on these issues, I'd like to see what the general consensus is here.
Btw, if you're looking for a secure OS, try XTS 300 STOP.
I'm not interested in philosophical digressions as to what is and is not user-friendly.
I'm looking for something that my dad can use. Pretty simple, and you'll probably argue that any distro could be used for this purpose, once it's set up correctly.
And you're dead right. But I don't want to spend hours configuring $RELATIONS machines (I already do enough tech-support in my spare time).
Here's something that sounds like it will work out of the box, and is uncluttered and simple enough for Windoze users to use.
FYI Ireland overtook the US to become the worldsbiggestsoftware exporter in 1999, and was top in 2001... so do enjoy your laugh at the expense of this poor technologically-backward country...:-)
Remember, God created whiskey to stop us ruling the world.
Linux chooses to be an engineer. He refuses to just accept what it thrown at him. He wants explanations and reasoning as to
WHY a patch should be included.
And then when you provide both explanations and reasoning your patch gets ignored. I would certainly find that quite frustrating.
It's a fine masterpiece of artwork on Linus' desk.
Lets get this straight: we're not talking art here, we're talking about a software engineering project where the project manager is denying his status ("I am an engineer"), and refusing to let anyone help in a significant way.
The current system is bad: you can't keep dropping important patches like at present, and no "star" or "tree" delegation will work - something has to be done about it. I think he's going to have to start trusting one or 2 other people to integrate.
Yeah, I used a kneeling chair for a couple of years, am going to get a new one shortly. I found it very very good, my back felt great and I wasn't as tired. My back is especially important as I am a front-row player[*] (prop actually, it's a position where your back gets a lot of pressure), so I had to be very careful with it.
I had 2 problems with the chairs:
1. Your shins can get a lot of weight on them sometimes depending on the way you have it angled, try to get it 35% shins, 65% ass: that's a lot mroe[**] comfortable:)
2. The crossbar with wheels on the back of my chair broke off after about 2 years of use. It was a relatively cheap chair, wooden with 2 index-finger sized pins holding the bar on - they snapped through the wood holding them (ok, so I am a prop, but a small one)...
Cheers,
Al.
Link: http://www.sitincomfort.com/kneechairs.html
* The game is "rugby", for all you white-skinned bearded people - think of it as American football for real men;)
** I bet I'm not the only person with alias mroe='more' in their rc:)
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... (and films?)
It's kind of a question of imagination, and how much you like to be told about the authors vision before creating your own.
I am one of the latter[1] non-graphical novel fans, though I wouldn't go as far as to say I hate them. I read a book to enjoy imagining the characters and setting, what they look and sound like etc. It's one of the reasons I never spent much time playing either of the Discworld games, the voices particularly clashed with my own imagined versions, and I didn't think that they did them justice.
It also applies particularly to films: I abhor seeing the film of a good book and then reading it afterward - at least when you read it beforehand and are then disappointed with the film you can also bring out the old cliques, and can re-read the book without fear of being disappointed:) I pity anyone who watches the Lord of The Rings and then decided to read the book for the first time! That said, I'm really looking forward to it.:)
1. Latter, as in the 2nd type mentioned in his review.
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I'm guessing you didn't mean that to be Funny (despite some Funny moderation).
This is a classic example of security versus usability.
The policies in place should be well thought out and flexible. It's administration, not rocket science.
User implies that this is not the "owner" of the machine, therefore does not imply any rights.
Administrator is the owner (unless you start talking obscure semantics)
If my OS did as you said, then that is a violation of my right to control what appears on my own desktop.
"The Pragmatic Programmer" is a pretty good read for the technical side of things, and introduces good habits. I'd have a look at that if I were you.
Parent is correct - mod up. Khosla was the first CEO too. I'm not sure if "The idea of Sun was hatched in 1982" is correct, I think it was certainly before 82.
I think there's no question there - the new authors on the scene are superb, particularly the Brits. I love the work of Reynolds and Banks is achieving GrandMaster status.
The problem is the genre is obviously to blame.
Al.
It didn't change since then, it's not going to change now.
It's a what now??
Al.
It always strikes me as rather strange when people use the "MDK" to describe Mandrake... it reminds me of Kurt gliding around and taking sniping head shots :)
Al.
Al.
The AC below was a bit crass in his criticism of your post, but he does have a point - you obviously do not have any clue about what you're talking about here.
Sun did not "take away" the free version - they renamed it OpenOffice, and I'm sure that with a little effort, even you can manage to find that online.
Secondly, they were very open about the entire Star Office saga - there are numerous articles in news archives about how it was not being adopted by businesses *precisely because it was free*. Once they branched off the free version, they were able to start charging (and even then, they charge minuscule amounts compared to other office suites). Where did you get this "high price" from?
The AC below is wrong about one thing - you are not a typical Linux "hippie" - they at least are generally more well informed than you obviously are.
I did this, and still got offered the job. Found out that he previously worked in another national branch of the last company *I* had worked for.
Also found a pet project of his on sourceforge (via his old work email addr), and had learned a bit about that which helped too.
YMMV!
Al.
Hehe. You just left out the "Dumb Americans." sign-off.
Al.
Al.
In a normal hetrogenous environment (as 99% of n/ws are), you're going to be dealing with software and hardware from many different vendors.
It is possible (if not probably) that the interaction of these components will create security holes for an attacker to exploit. Which vendor do you blame? They may all be working as designed. Do you blame your low-paid network guys? Do you spend hundreds of thousands to hire external consultants? Can you blame (and sue) them if your network is breached?
What about default configurations of software? What if the default configuration is insecure, but the documentation describes how to secure it?
I have my own thoughts on these issues, I'd like to see what the general consensus is here.
Btw, if you're looking for a secure OS, try XTS 300 STOP.
The EPL makes interesting reading.
I'm not interested in philosophical digressions as to what is and is not user-friendly.
I'm looking for something that my dad can use. Pretty simple, and you'll probably argue that any distro could be used for this purpose, once it's set up correctly.
And you're dead right. But I don't want to spend hours configuring $RELATIONS machines (I already do enough tech-support in my spare time).
Here's something that sounds like it will work out of the box, and is uncluttered and simple enough for Windoze users to use.
This could be it.
My 0.02.
Al.
But really, "why are we interested?"?
FYI Ireland overtook the US to become the worlds biggest software exporter in 1999, and was top in 2001... so do enjoy your laugh at the expense of this poor technologically-backward country... :-)
Remember, God created whiskey to stop us ruling the world.
It's Lent, and we're off the drink...
Al.
Be Aware of Delaware!
Al.
I hope you've tried the Irish version of the Black Russian:
:)
:)
vodka (20%), tia maria/kahlua(20%), some coke(50%) and the important bit: top it off with some Guinness (10%) to put a nice head on it and taste
Hmm, think I'll go for one of those tonight
Does this post disqualify me?
Al.
Al.
The deadline for sending in applications is Monday 28th January 2002.
That's unfortunate timing, need to /. these things quicker in future :)
Maybe if you can get enough /.ers interested and write to them (quickly) you might be able to extend it a week or so.
The application procedure is pretty cool :-)
Al.
It's Barsoom...
Al.
And then when you provide both explanations and reasoning your patch gets ignored. I would certainly find that quite frustrating.
It's a fine masterpiece of artwork on Linus' desk.
Lets get this straight: we're not talking art here, we're talking about a software engineering project where the project manager is denying his status ("I am an engineer"), and refusing to let anyone help in a significant way.
The current system is bad: you can't keep dropping important patches like at present, and no "star" or "tree" delegation will work - something has to be done about it. I think he's going to have to start trusting one or 2 other people to integrate.
Al.
Yeah, I used a kneeling chair for a couple of years, am going to get a new one shortly. I found it very very good, my back felt great and I wasn't as tired. My back is especially important as I am a front-row player[*] (prop actually, it's a position where your back gets a lot of pressure), so I had to be very careful with it.
:)
;)
:)
I had 2 problems with the chairs:
1. Your shins can get a lot of weight on them sometimes depending on the way you have it angled, try to get it 35% shins, 65% ass: that's a lot mroe[**] comfortable
2. The crossbar with wheels on the back of my chair broke off after about 2 years of use. It was a relatively cheap chair, wooden with 2 index-finger sized pins holding the bar on - they snapped through the wood holding them (ok, so I am a prop, but a small one)...
Cheers,
Al.
Link: http://www.sitincomfort.com/kneechairs.html
* The game is "rugby", for all you white-skinned bearded people - think of it as American football for real men
** I bet I'm not the only person with alias mroe='more' in their rc
... (and films?)
:) I pity anyone who watches the Lord of The Rings and then decided to read the book for the first time! That said, I'm really looking forward to it. :)
It's kind of a question of imagination, and how much you like to be told about the authors vision before creating your own.
I am one of the latter[1] non-graphical novel fans, though I wouldn't go as far as to say I hate them. I read a book to enjoy imagining the characters and setting, what they look and sound like etc. It's one of the reasons I never spent much time playing either of the Discworld games, the voices particularly clashed with my own imagined versions, and I didn't think that they did them justice.
It also applies particularly to films: I abhor seeing the film of a good book and then reading it afterward - at least when you read it beforehand and are then disappointed with the film you can also bring out the old cliques, and can re-read the book without fear of being disappointed
1. Latter, as in the 2nd type mentioned in his review.