I think the current filesystem paradigm is due for replacement (I don't know who invented but it's probably *at least* 35 years old) but with a relational database? This is already an aging data storage model.
Storage is storage and there is no reason to differentiate between filesystem and database. But we could use an object store. Or an object-oriented database if that's any different. Build in document management / version control. CVS as your file system? There are so many possibilities if you are prepared to rewrite this sub-system anyway...
Very simple. As soon as SCO tells the world exactly what pieces of code in the linux kernel they are claiming ownership of, they will be removed and re-written by an army of open of open source developers. SCO immediately loses ownership as soon as it tells people what it claims to own. It's a bit like Schrodinger's cat, except that even if it's alive when it comes out of the box, we immediately kill it anyway.
I have just got this book and was in fact planning to review it here myself... This is a good and accurate account of what the book does in my opinion - bar the mix-up in version numbers that several have noted. It is very much a reference work, and reads like it was written by a committee. (Six authors listed in fact.) It's a suitable book for any Java programmer who wants to learn the J2ME platform.
So if I take that to it's illogical conclusion, we should attack every country that hasn't conclusively proved that it doesn't have WMD's? The premise of going to war was that there was *solid evidence* that Iraq *did have* WMD's. This solid evidence has now disappeared in a puff of pixie dust and Donald Rumsfeld is saying, "We may never find WMD's" now.
I was always under the impression that going to war was a solution only to be used under the most compelling and immediate of causes.
One of the biggest things I like about modern PC's is that they're just like lego. You can buy the motherboard, CPU, sound card, video card, etc... you want, stick them all together, and hey presto! It works! And more importantly it gives me choice.
Motherboards should have nothing on them except lots of slots. I like my computers modular.
I don't know about that... I was working on a website recently at a new media company that used lots of Macs, and used IE as their main browser. I was doing a lot of javascript for them and I found a bunch of different ways to crash ie on mac with javascript.
Our biggest stability problems were with IE on Mac.
I read the first page of this and it sounds like, "If I had my own Linux distro I would make it something other than Linux." In fact he almost says this explicitly on the third page, where he suggests that if he had the VC he would work from a BSD for licensing reasons.
Seriously I think a Linux has a lot of flaws, due largely to the fact that it has grown organically over the last ten years or so. But if you want to shake everything up, change standards etc. don't call it Linux call it "MyOS" or "MyBSD" or something.
I would love to do an operating system from scratch, if only I had 10 years and the support of thousands of developers around the world...
"Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 7 years!"
Is exactly the quote from the home page of openbsd.org. The express it in that way in recognition of the fact that there can be holes that are not remote.
If a local user can hack the system to gain privileges above those explicitly assigned by the system administrator that would be a hole that was not remote.
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I did try setting this up with a version of Mozilla not too long ago (1.2, 1.3beta ?) using symlinks as a lot of people here suggested. It didn't work for me on Windows 2000, something to do with the fact that fact that Windoze needs to append a '.lnk' suffix to all it's symlinks I think... It may be fixed now. If anybody *is* doing exactly this I'd be interested to know exactly what versions of email client and OS's you are using.
I am currently contracting in the UK, which means I am constantly looking for work in the current climate.
I've noticed, from subscriptions to services like jobserve and gojobsite that there is a recent and fast-growing demand for J2ME games developers for Java-enabled phones and PDAs.
They all seem to ask for about a year's experience in J2ME, evidence that you have written games before and that you are, 'passionate about games development.'
I don't know if this one or a small group of companies or if it's lots of small start-ups. Anyone know anything more about this?
Are we sure it's not a hoax?
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Google turned up the following page for the chip that is meant ot be the webserver.
It describes the chip as an arithmetic controller engine, but the datasheet requires paid registration. Could this chip actually serve web pages?
I confess I don't know enough to judge.
Umm.. I hope you don't think I was advocating revolution, as I was holding that up as a possible penalty for *not* addressing these problems now. I'm interested in your assertion that the 'existing system' 'was specifically designed' to solve these problems however. Capitalism (as defined by Adam Smith) wasn't designed, it's a product of human nature and and a free market. Corporatism is more of an emergent phenomenon than a system. I'm guessing the system your referring to is democracy, which is the only system you have mentioned that was defined. I would like to posit, however, that democracy has manifestly not prevented massive economic injustices in many times and places, and is due for examination as a political system. Just because we've failed to come up with a better system so far doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying.
OK, This post deservedly got a lot of laughs, but the point that there is a lot of anger over the current direction of corporatism and capitalism. The rising gap between rich and poor in so many countries is significant - in the past it has always preceded civil unrest and eventually revolution.
Communism is a failed experiment, but what people forget is that the problems it was trying to solve were real. And they're still with us.
I think this is because a lot of the systems that do the donkey work of transaction processing and electronic money-moving are big old legacy batch-processing applications on big old irons. The cost of updating these systems (and the organisations that maintain them) would probably be horrific. I'm guessing that the value - in terms of profit - for the banks that would have to do it, rpobably just doesn't make it worth it.
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I bought a Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PCG-C1VN in the states) a couple of years ago, and I would now advise people never to get a PC with a 16x9 form factor screen. The screen is only 8 inches so the only really useable resolution is 1024x480. An awful lot of applications don't fit on this from top to bottom, and using a text editor, IDE or even surfing the web is very frustrating because you can view so few lines of text at a time. (Very painful if you're trying to write code!) Having to continually right click on the taskbar and use the keyboard to move windows up to get at the buttons at the bottom of some app (because your mouse stops at the top of the screen) will very quickly drive you mad. If you're going to extend the screen on a workstation you probably want to make it taller, not wider. If the screen was big enough to use at about 1280x768 it might not be so bad. But I still wouldn't consider wide-screen an advantage for anything but watching movies. I believe it's a 15 inch screen, so I'm really not sure how good it would be.
First marriage of FPS and RTS
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I'm sure someone will correct me, but this is, to my knowledge, the first time someone has combined RTS and FPS styles in this manner - where someone is essentially playing a RTS game and others are playing a FPS game. A friend suggesed exactly this idea, only he wanted to put a civilisation-style turn-based layer over the top again. Only, of course, he never actually did anything about it...
I think that attitude - and I totally agree with it BTW - is the best indication of what the music industry giants have done to their marketplace.
People see these media giants as pirates holding their monopoly by any means available, and the law as just another tool they use to do this.
Consequently they no longer respect the law.
I also think that breaking the law is a valid and effective means of protest. I smoke marijuana too:-)
-- By having people goto public locations with private booths, each persons privacy can be garranteed because there are people there whose job it is to ensure it. --
You could actually have this and online voting as well - online voting doesn't have to mean from any internet-connected computer at all.
If you voted 'online' at a polling booth terminal, you could gain enormous efficiencies over today's system involving so many bits of paper.
And a digital certificate might be something you take on disk, card or some other medium to a public terminal, but again not use from just anywhere on the internet.
This would encourage users not to experiment and find new ways of doing tasks, if everytime you tried something new a sysad came round to ask you what you were doing.
Actually no. Your gas and air probably wouldn't be sufficiently mixed to make a good fuel-air bomb (or you wouldn't be able to asphyxiate people!)
In fact the IRA blew up a large gasometer in norther england (I don't know the actual capacity, and all I've been able to find is picture of similar-looking one.) They didn't get an explosion, just a fireball, as the gas only burnt at the edges of the bubble.
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I think the current filesystem paradigm is due for replacement (I don't know who invented but it's probably *at least* 35 years old) but with a relational database? This is already an aging data storage model.
Storage is storage and there is no reason to differentiate between filesystem and database. But we could use an object store. Or an object-oriented database if that's any different. Build in document management / version control.
CVS as your file system? There are so many possibilities if you are prepared to rewrite this sub-system anyway...
Very simple. As soon as SCO tells the world exactly what pieces of code in the linux kernel they are claiming ownership of, they will be removed and re-written by an army of open of open source developers. SCO immediately loses ownership as soon as it tells people what it claims to own.
It's a bit like Schrodinger's cat, except that even if it's alive when it comes out of the box, we immediately kill it anyway.
I have just got this book and was in fact planning to review it here myself... This is a good and accurate account of what the book does in my opinion - bar the mix-up in version numbers that several have noted.
It is very much a reference work, and reads like it was written by a committee. (Six authors listed in fact.)
It's a suitable book for any Java programmer who wants to learn the J2ME platform.
So if I take that to it's illogical conclusion, we should attack every country that hasn't conclusively proved that it doesn't have WMD's? The premise of going to war was that there was *solid evidence* that Iraq *did have* WMD's.
This solid evidence has now disappeared in a puff of pixie dust and Donald Rumsfeld is saying, "We may never find WMD's" now.
I was always under the impression that going to war was a solution only to be used under the most compelling and immediate of causes.
I can't see the contradiction you mention. I think you may have simply mis-read his post, which you spent so much time critiquing...
One of the biggest things I like about modern PC's is that they're just like lego. You can buy the motherboard, CPU, sound card, video card, etc... you want, stick them all together, and hey presto! It works! And more importantly it gives me choice.
Motherboards should have nothing on them except lots of slots. I like my computers modular.
Isn't this called Java?
I don't know about that... I was working on a website recently at a new media company that used lots of Macs, and used IE as their main browser. I was doing a lot of javascript for them and I found a bunch of different ways to crash ie on mac with javascript.
Our biggest stability problems were with IE on Mac.
I read the first page of this and it sounds like,
"If I had my own Linux distro I would make it something other than Linux."
In fact he almost says this explicitly on the third page, where he suggests that if he had the VC he would work from a BSD for licensing reasons.
Seriously I think a Linux has a lot of flaws, due largely to the fact that it has grown organically over the last ten years or so. But if you want to shake everything up, change standards etc. don't call it Linux call it "MyOS" or "MyBSD" or something.
I would love to do an operating system from scratch, if only I had 10 years and the support of thousands of developers around the world...
Is exactly the quote from the home page of openbsd.org. The express it in that way in recognition of the fact that there can be holes that are not remote.
If a local user can hack the system to gain privileges above those explicitly assigned by the system administrator that would be a hole that was not remote.
Mod this post up - informative
I did try setting this up with a version of Mozilla not too long ago (1.2, 1.3beta ?) using symlinks as a lot of people here suggested. It didn't work for me on Windows 2000, something to do with the fact that fact that Windoze needs to append a '.lnk' suffix to all it's symlinks I think... It may be fixed now. If anybody *is* doing exactly this I'd be interested to know exactly what versions of email client and OS's you are using.
I want to be able to put my mail on a shared FAT32 drive, and have access to my email seamlessly whether I boot up in Windows or Linux
I've noticed, from subscriptions to services like jobserve and gojobsite that there is a recent and fast-growing demand for J2ME games developers for Java-enabled phones and PDAs.
They all seem to ask for about a year's experience in J2ME, evidence that you have written games before and that you are, 'passionate about games development.'
I don't know if this one or a small group of companies or if it's lots of small start-ups. Anyone know anything more about this?
http://www.chipdocs.com/pndecoder/datasheets/FAIR/ ACE1101VMT8.html
It describes the chip as an arithmetic controller engine, but the datasheet requires paid registration. Could this chip actually serve web pages?
I confess I don't know enough to judge.
Umm.. I hope you don't think I was advocating revolution, as I was holding that up as a possible penalty for *not* addressing these problems now.
I'm interested in your assertion that the 'existing system' 'was specifically designed' to solve these problems however.
Capitalism (as defined by Adam Smith) wasn't designed, it's a product of human nature and and a free market. Corporatism is more of an emergent phenomenon than a system.
I'm guessing the system your referring to is democracy, which is the only system you have mentioned that was defined.
I would like to posit, however, that democracy has manifestly not prevented massive economic injustices in many times and places, and is due for examination as a political system.
Just because we've failed to come up with a better system so far doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying.
OK, This post deservedly got a lot of laughs, but the point that there is a lot of anger over the current direction of corporatism and capitalism.
The rising gap between rich and poor in so many countries is significant - in the past it has always preceded civil unrest and eventually revolution.
Communism is a failed experiment, but what people forget is that the problems it was trying to solve were real. And they're still with us.
I think this is because a lot of the systems that do the donkey work of transaction processing and electronic money-moving are big old legacy batch-processing applications on big old irons.
The cost of updating these systems (and the organisations that maintain them) would probably be horrific. I'm guessing that the value - in terms of profit - for the banks that would have to do it, rpobably just doesn't make it worth it.
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I bought a Sony VAIO PCG-C1VE (PCG-C1VN in the states) a couple of years ago, and I would now advise people never to get a PC with a 16x9 form factor screen.
The screen is only 8 inches so the only really useable resolution is 1024x480. An awful lot of applications don't fit on this from top to bottom, and using a text editor, IDE or even surfing the web is very frustrating because you can view so few lines of text at a time. (Very painful if you're trying to write code!)
Having to continually right click on the taskbar and use the keyboard to move windows up to get at the buttons at the bottom of some app (because your mouse stops at the top of the screen) will very quickly drive you mad.
If you're going to extend the screen on a workstation you probably want to make it taller, not wider.
If the screen was big enough to use at about 1280x768 it might not be so bad. But I still wouldn't consider wide-screen an advantage for anything but watching movies.
I believe it's a 15 inch screen, so I'm really not sure how good it would be.
I'm sure someone will correct me, but this is, to my knowledge, the first time someone has combined RTS and FPS styles in this manner - where someone is essentially playing a RTS game and others are playing a FPS game.
A friend suggesed exactly this idea, only he wanted to put a civilisation-style turn-based layer over the top again. Only, of course, he never actually did anything about it...
People see these media giants as pirates holding their monopoly by any means available, and the law as just another tool they use to do this.
Consequently they no longer respect the law.
I also think that breaking the law is a valid and effective means of protest. I smoke marijuana too :-)
You could actually have this and online voting as well - online voting doesn't have to mean from any internet-connected computer at all.
If you voted 'online' at a polling booth terminal, you could gain enormous efficiencies over today's system involving so many bits of paper.
And a digital certificate might be something you take on disk, card or some other medium to a public terminal, but again not use from just anywhere on the internet.
This would encourage users not to experiment and find new ways of doing tasks, if everytime you tried something new a sysad came round to ask you what you were doing.
Actually no. Your gas and air probably wouldn't be sufficiently mixed to make a good fuel-air bomb (or you wouldn't be able to asphyxiate people!)
In fact the IRA blew up a large gasometer in norther england (I don't know the actual capacity, and all I've been able to find is picture of similar-looking one.) They didn't get an explosion, just a fireball, as the gas only burnt at the edges of the bubble.