I had a job doing tech support a few years back and when it was time for me to go home, my starter motor went out. I came back the next day with a new starter motor and installed it in the pouring rain. I walked into the building to return the wrench set to the sysadmin and clean up, at which time my supervisor asked me what I was doing there on my day off. I told him that I had to change the starter motor on my car and put in a new battery. His jaw dropped and he said, "You mean you can fix cars too!?!" For a couple of days he was going off about how I was able to fix my own car. To me its just another device. I guess its 'cause I was taking things apart and sometimes putting them back together from the time I could hold a screw driver.
... some of the motivation behind this technology. Imagine being able to 'easily' use the smart-card you may, or may not, have to purchase things on the web.
I think that the issue is not quality of software or availability as much as it is about linux being legitimized by Microsoft much the same way that they did when they created and trumpeted Office/IE for Mac. That would be the bigest blow to them. Because with the Mac, MacOS was not directly competing with them. MacOS runs on a different platform. Linux, on they other hand, runs on many platforms, including the one with which MS maintains its monopoly. They loose face and a lot of its power to keep customers clear or other offerings. Also, if it runs on linux, it would probably run on *BSD as well.
What ever would happen, it would piss them off. There aint nothin' more fun.
If the cubes you have are composed of the secional components of all shapes and sizes, then you can build a large cube (read: top, and sides) out of them with a small opening at the bottom to crawl through. It would be completely enclosed. You could put whatever lighing you wanted in there. It would be a cave. And if someone was going to bother you, it would have to be really important for them to want to crawl in there, especially if they had an expensive suit. I was going to do it at my last job but we all got laid off before we could build it.
So when you outlaw encryption and security reports, then only outlaws will use Windows? I dont think that a key logger would work to well on my linux box. I think that the intrusion detection system would catch it first and I doubt that pine or mutt would be able to execute the virus. I could install WINE... but wait, I dont run it as root. Shit. Linux users are always behind the curve.
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Im just not sure how practical it is.. well see..
If I could I would mod this up to Funny.
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The space advantage to hand-optimized asm is clear, but the cost in portability and time almost certainly outweighs it. I really don't see what this OS offers that Linux doesn't have.
I wonder, when linux 0.01 came out someone said: I really don't see what this OS offers that Minix doesn't have.
I am suprised that there isnt more attention being paid to the excess consumption of water. A sudden change in elctrolites could cause a person's cells to burst. Why arent there any warning labels on bottle water?
With that many registers, wouldn't it be better to let the compiler do the work since it should be able to optimize it quite well? Being an assembler programmer at heart, I know the necessity of getting down to the bare metal, but my experience was that I only needed to do it because the x86 arch had so few registers that I could, indeed, do it better than any compiler.
It was definately worth it. There were a few glitches as far as the animation goes, but being someone who knows how difficult some of it is, I can let it slide.
When I was talking to my roomate about it, I realized that there were things going on in the movie that I never even thought about because they were done so well. If I can sit through a movie that is completely computer generated and have to pinch myself every now and then to remind myself that it is indeed animated, then they did a really good job. I am looking forward to their next project.
At my last place of employment, the president decided to signup the company for one of the voluntary audits (he was an ex-MS man, so all hail the company). We read through some of the paperwork and brochures they sent. I remember one of my co-workers saying, "Doesn't Microsoft know they are not the Government?"
With GNUStep starting to mature what we could see in the future, perhaps, is a flood of MacOS X apps being ported to Linux/BSD. That would sound the bell for Microsoft. TKO.
Yes, all of us who have used it, or have a copy, should add ourselves to the list and tell them how much we paid for it. We'll give them a generous 50% of the total.
I am coming to believe that after many years of working in the computer field, working on an oil rig, or on a deep-sea trawler in the north Atlantic might be a bit safer. The dangers are understood, the safty regulations are in place and injuries are tangible.
We can do something about this kind of thing.
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This is and isnt a big issue. It is a big issue because it has become clear that organizations like the RIAA appear to have WAAAAYYY too much control over what we hear and how we listen to it. It is a big issue because we have handed them control. It is not a big issue, because, we as consumers, do not require music for our immediate survival.
How have we handed them control? We purchase the music from them. We listen to the radio stations they buy. I have a suggestion: Dont buy any more CDs, or tapes, or DVDs for a while. Go out to the park. Go see a local band, LIVE. Drop some money and start your own little recording studio with a Mac and a Tascam or Roland MultiTracker. Nobody has any more control over you than what you give to them. I dont like the RIAA or the MPAA, or Microsoft or oil companies; but there is something I can do about it, and if enough of us do something then, who knows what will happen?
Seems like OS X is opening up the door to a number of security problems. Even in the hands of an expert unix daemons can be a security risk simply by virtue of running; in the hands of regular users who doesnt want to, or cant, understand the importance...well...Uh, Oh! I work for someone who, in times past, put a webserver or two on a Mac because there were no processes to hack and no shell escapes to exploit. It is the beta, so I will wait and see, but I am still cringing...
From that description, the site that I work on is exactly the same. I use a browser that runs under X that accesses a server that runs a script that accesses a database and then displays the information. Interesting that Windows or Mac users would not be in violation. Though, I dont know what the patent is so I can look it up, now can I?
When my company moved into new a new space, I refused to work until I got a halogen lamp to put into the office. The pres wanted to put all the programming people in cubes out amongst the sales people and logistics people; and put the person scanning next to a window flooded with sunlight. Luckliy my immediate supervisor was an old-skool programmer type who understood the necessity of closed doors and minimal light.
Ideally, I would like a space in the basement with a good stereo, or my headphones, and a solitary lightbulb, and a large steel door. The powers that be dont seem to understand that productivity increases with fewer distractions. Even someome walking behind me bothers me.
I am still trying to get a better desk and chair.
Usually things like this are a case of the creator not being forced to use his own creation: Form before function. Sometimes it makes me want to go back to sweeping sidewalks for a living.
I could never understand the argument that suggests that if Sun completely opensources Java that somehow it will get out of control or 'polluted'. Perl is a good example of something completely open that anyone could run away with and 'pollute', yet has mantained true to form. in fact, perl scripts run on more platforms than java does, I would assume. It gives me the impression that Sun wants to maintain that 'Brand' recognition (i.e. Sun's Java). Such is the way of corporations. You would think that that would have learned.
Perl is used in PostgreSQL as a PL. They seemed to have managed to make it fairly secure. I would imagine it would be plausible to do the same thing with a web broswer.
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I had a job doing tech support a few years back and when it was time for me to go home, my starter motor went out. I came back the next day with a new starter motor and installed it in the pouring rain. I walked into the building to return the wrench set to the sysadmin and clean up, at which time my supervisor asked me what I was doing there on my day off. I told him that I had to change the starter motor on my car and put in a new battery. His jaw dropped and he said, "You mean you can fix cars too!?!" For a couple of days he was going off about how I was able to fix my own car. To me its just another device. I guess its 'cause I was taking things apart and sometimes putting them back together from the time I could hold a screw driver.
Where There's A Web, There's A Way
I think that the issue is not quality of software or availability as much as it is about linux being legitimized by Microsoft much the same way that they did when they created and trumpeted Office/IE for Mac. That would be the bigest blow to them. Because with the Mac, MacOS was not directly competing with them. MacOS runs on a different platform. Linux, on they other hand, runs on many platforms, including the one with which MS maintains its monopoly. They loose face and a lot of its power to keep customers clear or other offerings. Also, if it runs on linux, it would probably run on *BSD as well. What ever would happen, it would piss them off. There aint nothin' more fun.
If the cubes you have are composed of the secional components of all shapes and sizes, then you can build a large cube (read: top, and sides) out of them with a small opening at the bottom to crawl through. It would be completely enclosed. You could put whatever lighing you wanted in there. It would be a cave. And if someone was going to bother you, it would have to be really important for them to want to crawl in there, especially if they had an expensive suit. I was going to do it at my last job but we all got laid off before we could build it.
So when you outlaw encryption and security reports, then only outlaws will use Windows? I dont think that a key logger would work to well on my linux box. I think that the intrusion detection system would catch it first and I doubt that pine or mutt would be able to execute the virus. I could install WINE... but wait, I dont run it as root. Shit. Linux users are always behind the curve.
If I could I would mod this up to Funny.
I wonder, when linux 0.01 came out someone said:
I really don't see what this OS offers that Minix doesn't have.
I think thats all I have to say.
I am suprised that there isnt more attention being paid to the excess consumption of water. A sudden change in elctrolites could cause a person's cells to burst. Why arent there any warning labels on bottle water?
With that many registers, wouldn't it be better to let the compiler do the work since it should be able to optimize it quite well? Being an assembler programmer at heart, I know the necessity of getting down to the bare metal, but my experience was that I only needed to do it because the x86 arch had so few registers that I could, indeed, do it better than any compiler.
When I was talking to my roomate about it, I realized that there were things going on in the movie that I never even thought about because they were done so well. If I can sit through a movie that is completely computer generated and have to pinch myself every now and then to remind myself that it is indeed animated, then they did a really good job. I am looking forward to their next project.
At my last place of employment, the president decided to signup the company for one of the voluntary audits (he was an ex-MS man, so all hail the company). We read through some of the paperwork and brochures they sent. I remember one of my co-workers saying, "Doesn't Microsoft know they are not the Government?"
With GNUStep starting to mature what we could see in the future, perhaps, is a flood of MacOS X apps being ported to Linux/BSD. That would sound the bell for Microsoft. TKO.
Yes, all of us who have used it, or have a copy, should add ourselves to the list and tell them how much we paid for it. We'll give them a generous 50% of the total.
I am coming to believe that after many years of working in the computer field, working on an oil rig, or on a deep-sea trawler in the north Atlantic might be a bit safer. The dangers are understood, the safty regulations are in place and injuries are tangible.
How have we handed them control? We purchase the music from them. We listen to the radio stations they buy. I have a suggestion: Dont buy any more CDs, or tapes, or DVDs for a while. Go out to the park. Go see a local band, LIVE. Drop some money and start your own little recording studio with a Mac and a Tascam or Roland MultiTracker. Nobody has any more control over you than what you give to them. I dont like the RIAA or the MPAA, or Microsoft or oil companies; but there is something I can do about it, and if enough of us do something then, who knows what will happen?
You mean FTP, right?
Seems like OS X is opening up the door to a number of security problems. Even in the hands of an expert unix daemons can be a security risk simply by virtue of running; in the hands of regular users who doesnt want to, or cant, understand the importance...well...Uh, Oh! I work for someone who, in times past, put a webserver or two on a Mac because there were no processes to hack and no shell escapes to exploit. It is the beta, so I will wait and see, but I am still cringing...
From that description, the site that I work on is exactly the same. I use a browser that runs under X that accesses a server that runs a script that accesses a database and then displays the information. Interesting that Windows or Mac users would not be in violation. Though, I dont know what the patent is so I can look it up, now can I?
Ideally, I would like a space in the basement with a good stereo, or my headphones, and a solitary lightbulb, and a large steel door. The powers that be dont seem to understand that productivity increases with fewer distractions. Even someome walking behind me bothers me.
I am still trying to get a better desk and chair.
Usually things like this are a case of the creator not being forced to use his own creation: Form before function. Sometimes it makes me want to go back to sweeping sidewalks for a living.
I could never understand the argument that suggests that if Sun completely opensources Java that somehow it will get out of control or 'polluted'. Perl is a good example of something completely open that anyone could run away with and 'pollute', yet has mantained true to form. in fact, perl scripts run on more platforms than java does, I would assume. It gives me the impression that Sun wants to maintain that 'Brand' recognition (i.e. Sun's Java). Such is the way of corporations. You would think that that would have learned.
Hmmm... Would running this under virtual linux (a la S/390, User-mode Linux) make it possible to reverse engineer these binary-only drivers?
Perl is used in PostgreSQL as a PL. They seemed to have managed to make it fairly secure. I would imagine it would be plausible to do the same thing with a web broswer.