You have your living room choked full of this electronic goodnes and even dare to boast about it on the frontpage of/. ?! Think about all the starving ethiopian kids who could have been saved if you donated the money of the XBox to them instead of whining here how bad you have it when the wires tangle!
And why don't these guys work on something usefull for everyone, like Linux, instead of this useless piece of HurdBSDobscureInterestingProjectNotMainstreamNerdi ty?!
Sheesh...
(I'm drunk. I have Karma to burn. I hate Slashbots.)
I never actually considered coffee to be addictive untill I tried stopping. There was no actually any reason for me to stop drinking my coffee. I just noticed that sometimes I'm not drinking any coffee on weekends. So after one weekend when I was sick and didn't feel like smoking cigarettes or drinking coffee, I decided I would continue to not to drink coffee or smoke as long as it feels good. Monday: Slow day at work. Not much to do. Biting my fingernails and decide to buy a pack of chewing gum. I don't have to really concentrate on anything the whole day. Tuesday: I don't feel any real urge to smoke or drink coffee on the morning. I get to work and check my mail. Ah... Something to do. I put on my coding gloves, prepare my work area and check out latest sources. When I get to actually doing something, I just look at the code, scimming up and down, aimlessly poking around. I have to really force myself to write down on a post-it note what I am doing and follow my own instructions step-by-step to get that tiny change done. I feel a bit baffled. It should have taken 5 minutes to do the change, but the whole mess took me like 3 hours. Wednesday: I should be reviewing big hunk of code, build test it, verify the operation and pass it on. I end up just prodding around, never really rememberering for 5 minutes what I am doing. I don't have any kind of mental model of how I am accomplishing this. I usually never have any trouble. Everything just clicks to stack in my head and I understand what the code does just by looking at it. No go, have to step through in a debugger. I think I never quite 'got it', but it seemed to be 'good enough' and I passed it on. Thursday: Team bi-weekly meeting. I should prepare my work at hand for review, be attentive to what other people are telling and give a heads up of any issues I know might affect their work. This is the 'good kind' of meeting which are actually usefull. I forget to send my personal agenda to the meeting leader. I have no recollection what were the items of interest this time and I actually find people staring at me when I was supposed to present my material. I was all dazzled with my doodling to memo or something I didn't even notice immeaditely I was called to speak. I apologize, grope through of what I was doing, nothing usefull... I felt like people thought I was on drugs or something. And no wonder. I actually felt very odd. Everything was kinda foggy and I had a severe attention disorder problem. After the meeting I explained that I'm trying to quit smoking and coffee drinking. My withdrawal symptoms seemed very odd to them.
Just to prove my point (to myself), I grabbed a strong cup of coffee, bought a pack of cigarettes and went outside for 15 minutes. Smoked 2 cigarettes and drank the coffee. At first I felt terrible because of the sudden intake of so much stimulants, but after just maybe another 10 minutes I felt me again. Sharp, observative and ready to do some actual work again. I reviewed my work of the week and saw I had been very sloppy.
Nowadays I just accept my addiction and do my drugs to do my job. I still have those decaf weekends quite often thou.
So, it writes a bootloader, ramdisk loader scripts and a bare bones BSD image to the beginning of your disk, trashing the partitioning (not sure about the last bit. That's the impression I got).
Effective, yet mischievously evil.
Well. Uhoh.. I don't know what to think about this. I mean, it's kinda neat. It's called depenguinator to make clear it's going to get rid of your linux, butbut... I still think the way of operation is very crude and evil.
It says:
This code is beta-quality at best. Do not use this unless you know what you're doing.
I'd personally go as far as saying: Do not use this unless you are reallyreallyabsolutely sure you want to permanently destroy your current system.
I don't drive. Infact, I don't even have a drivers license.
Still I find this very disturbing. They don't even give examples where this would be usefull. They simply want control.
There is no way in hell they could implement it so that it wouldn't be by-passable. How long it takes for someone to hack the fuel injection system of a new controller chip? Then, the more dangerous area. How long does it takes someone to hack the signal to stop anyone they like? Govermental (not saying which goverment mind you) projects are notoriously craptaliciously implemented at best. They take the cheapest bidder to desing the system. Whee. Look ma, no hands. *presses the button to transmit the cloned signal captured from a cop stopping a car*
They just want to herd the cattle, as they see people. Why not simply regulate driving alltogether and improve on public transportation instead? Yes, Yes, I know public transportation isn't feasible everywhere. I live in Finland. We absolutely need cars to get around outside of the few cities.
Then the annoying stupid joke someone has already probably made: In Russia, Car drives YOU HAAA-FUCKING-HAA... Very funny.
And now that I got all worked up, I'll conclude with: No, it ain't gonna fly. There ought to be some smart people who will point out flaws in whatever desing they come up and send it back to board untill time stops. It's just too dangerous.
I have one toy-box which I use to test my stuff before I put the changes on my server. However, it takes me quite a while to sync it again with the server if I totally mess it up. So I'm still hesitant to try this all by my own. I'm currently running 2.4.23, but I am very interested about the cryptoloop and new scheduler.
So, to the point. Anyone have a link to describe how to install 2.6.0 to debian-stable?
I briefly tried it, and googled a bit, and got the impression that it isn't exactly trivial....
Don't know what meaning of the word are you searching for. So here's few:
kompensoida = compensate hyvittaa = compensate as in reimburse korvata = almost, but now quite, a synonym for hyvittaa. kumota = compensate as in neutralize
Yes, I sound like a troll. But just a question about you php coding style. Don't get offended please.
Do you actually use this way of putting php together in production system? I would prolly rip my hair off if I had to be a maintainer coder for this.
I mean, using printf or echo isn't that hard. I think it would maintain the readability of the code better than switching in and out of the php-parser for every write.
I actually ignored the first one, as it seemed boring. Then I continued reading this one and found it very interesting. ...I also noticed it was a dupe only after all these posts mentioning it.
Interestingly, Debian seems to be the first distro I haven't managed to break yet.
I'm not a Linux specialist, but I use it for my server (mail, http/https, ftp) and NAT needs. I have tried using Linux on my desktop many times, but there's always some game, utility or application I miss from any distro. Be it filesharing, MMORPG or (relatively) easy to use 3D modelling program. I don't want to boot all the time from OS to another to get what I need, so I just have one box for "my work" (Win2k) and another for "computers work" (Debian).
Oh yeah, back to the header topic. I also miraculously manage to f*ck up my systems by installing some weird package, wrong kernel or link a wrong lib. Always ending up reinstalling whole system rather than figuring out what I did wrong that time. Debian, hoever, has so nice packaging system (apt) and instructive comments in configuration files ("Don't go fucking with this or your gonna be reinstalling me") that I have now ran that box for over a year, only booting it 4 times. Always to install/remove hardware or to move the thing around.
Wait.. I actually already lost whatever point I might have had. Anyway. Cheers for Debian, Cheers for Win2K, cheers for Mandrake.
Yes 'real' platform. What is the use of these platforms, except to give training wheels to these new handless 'programmers' who can't handle memory management and probably often trip over their shoelaces like the drooling vegetables they are. (Shees, nice sentence)
And it's Nokia 7700 btw.
I'd say the J2ME is there just because it looks cool on the spec sheat. I won't hold my breath for anyone to come up with any feasible idea to use it.
The real OS (Symbian OS 7.0s) does exactly what it is supposed to do. It runs the apps on the die instead of emulating some other environment, hogging precious cpu cycles.
My SO was a telemarketer for a week, untill she could find a proper work.
The telemarketers aren't necessarily loathsome creeps. As my SO put it, most of them are actually people in a postition where they want to work, but have no education to do anything. Telemarketing firms hire anyone. The wage was 100% tied to results. No product sold = no paycheck.
Many of the people there actually seemed rather desperate.
>>>
Shit. It was only now that I read the first line on your post:/
Sorry, thought you were talking about the people.
Telemarketting firms are highly unethical, no doubt. They abuse both their cutstomer AND their employees.:(
A) Virus = Self replicating. I see you weren't around when they started calling these this. B) It doesn't need user interaction. It exploits certain IE iframe vulnerability to launch itself. It does show you a YES/NO dialog, but even if you click No, it will install itself silently.
Btw. I consider network replicating thingies worms, and those old ones which wrap executables or boot-sectors viruses. This one actually kinda wraps exe's because it hooks itself to be the executer for all apps. (I don't know exactly how this works, but apparently you can munge windows registry to tell it to launch something with something else)
The most efffective way to make a change is wide civil disobediance. Plus, in cases like this, you don't have to organize it. When masses do this, there just has to be something very wrong with the laws.
I have a clear concience. Here they put levy on just about any blank media. So it's a bit more expensive than it would normally be, but i'm very happy that I can record music on these. Still the artist gets paid, (local equivelant of) RIAA gets paid and so on.
Anyone thought of introducing levy's on media there on the other side of the pond?
Slashdot Mirror
Spiral wrap
Some JeesusTeippi might also help.
The brilliant minds who have no grasp of simple mechanical solutions....
(Yup, still have Karma to burn)
You have your living room choked full of this electronic goodnes and even dare to boast about it on the frontpage of /. ?!
i ty?!
Think about all the starving ethiopian kids who could have been saved if you donated the money of the XBox to them instead of whining here how bad you have it when the wires tangle!
And why don't these guys work on something usefull for everyone, like Linux, instead of this useless piece of HurdBSDobscureInterestingProjectNotMainstreamNerd
Sheesh...
(I'm drunk. I have Karma to burn. I hate Slashbots.)
I never actually considered coffee to be addictive untill I tried stopping. There was no actually any reason for me to stop drinking my coffee. I just noticed that sometimes I'm not drinking any coffee on weekends.
So after one weekend when I was sick and didn't feel like smoking cigarettes or drinking coffee, I decided I would continue to not to drink coffee or smoke as long as it feels good.
Monday: Slow day at work. Not much to do. Biting my fingernails and decide to buy a pack of chewing gum. I don't have to really concentrate on anything the whole day.
Tuesday: I don't feel any real urge to smoke or drink coffee on the morning. I get to work and check my mail. Ah... Something to do. I put on my coding gloves, prepare my work area and check out latest sources. When I get to actually doing something, I just look at the code, scimming up and down, aimlessly poking around. I have to really force myself to write down on a post-it note what I am doing and follow my own instructions step-by-step to get that tiny change done. I feel a bit baffled. It should have taken 5 minutes to do the change, but the whole mess took me like 3 hours.
Wednesday: I should be reviewing big hunk of code, build test it, verify the operation and pass it on. I end up just prodding around, never really rememberering for 5 minutes what I am doing. I don't have any kind of mental model of how I am accomplishing this. I usually never have any trouble. Everything just clicks to stack in my head and I understand what the code does just by looking at it. No go, have to step through in a debugger. I think I never quite 'got it', but it seemed to be 'good enough' and I passed it on.
Thursday: Team bi-weekly meeting. I should prepare my work at hand for review, be attentive to what other people are telling and give a heads up of any issues I know might affect their work. This is the 'good kind' of meeting which are actually usefull. I forget to send my personal agenda to the meeting leader. I have no recollection what were the items of interest this time and I actually find people staring at me when I was supposed to present my material. I was all dazzled with my doodling to memo or something I didn't even notice immeaditely I was called to speak. I apologize, grope through of what I was doing, nothing usefull... I felt like people thought I was on drugs or something. And no wonder. I actually felt very odd. Everything was kinda foggy and I had a severe attention disorder problem. After the meeting I explained that I'm trying to quit smoking and coffee drinking. My withdrawal symptoms seemed very odd to them.
Just to prove my point (to myself), I grabbed a strong cup of coffee, bought a pack of cigarettes and went outside for 15 minutes. Smoked 2 cigarettes and drank the coffee.
At first I felt terrible because of the sudden intake of so much stimulants, but after just maybe another 10 minutes I felt me again. Sharp, observative and ready to do some actual work again.
I reviewed my work of the week and saw I had been very sloppy.
Nowadays I just accept my addiction and do my drugs to do my job. I still have those decaf weekends quite often thou.
Effective, yet mischievously evil.
Well. Uhoh.. I don't know what to think about this. I mean, it's kinda neat. It's called depenguinator to make clear it's going to get rid of your linux, butbut...
I still think the way of operation is very crude and evil.
It says:
I'd personally go as far as saying:
Do not use this unless you are reallyreallyabsolutely sure you want to permanently destroy your current system.
This is absurd on so many levels.
I don't drive. Infact, I don't even have a drivers license.
Still I find this very disturbing. They don't even give examples where this would be usefull.
They simply want control.
There is no way in hell they could implement it so that it wouldn't be by-passable. How long it takes for someone to hack the fuel injection system of a new controller chip?
Then, the more dangerous area. How long does it takes someone to hack the signal to stop anyone they like?
Govermental (not saying which goverment mind you) projects are notoriously craptaliciously implemented at best. They take the cheapest bidder to desing the system.
Whee. Look ma, no hands.
*presses the button to transmit the cloned signal captured from a cop stopping a car*
They just want to herd the cattle, as they see people. Why not simply regulate driving alltogether and improve on public transportation instead?
Yes, Yes, I know public transportation isn't feasible everywhere. I live in Finland. We absolutely need cars to get around outside of the few cities.
Then the annoying stupid joke someone has already probably made: In Russia, Car drives YOU
HAAA-FUCKING-HAA... Very funny.
And now that I got all worked up, I'll conclude with: No, it ain't gonna fly. There ought to be some smart people who will point out flaws in whatever desing they come up and send it back to board untill time stops. It's just too dangerous.
Never?
(Moon is technically err.. moon?)
The restriction order says 'No No...', but her eyes says 'Yes Yes!'
*Stroking his Xena collectible*
I have one toy-box which I use to test my stuff before I put the changes on my server. However, it takes me quite a while to sync it again with the server if I totally mess it up. So I'm still hesitant to try this all by my own.
I'm currently running 2.4.23, but I am very interested about the cryptoloop and new scheduler.
So, to the point. Anyone have a link to describe how to install 2.6.0 to debian-stable?
I briefly tried it, and googled a bit, and got the impression that it isn't exactly trivial....
Oh Nohz!
Truely! A shocking revelation! =)
--insert wittier one liner to counter sarcastic remark which will be modded as flame bait--
Don't know what meaning of the word are you searching for. So here's few:
:)
kompensoida = compensate
hyvittaa = compensate as in reimburse
korvata = almost, but now quite, a synonym for hyvittaa.
kumota = compensate as in neutralize
have fun
Yes, I sound like a troll. But just a question about you php coding style. Don't get offended please.
Do you actually use this way of putting php together in production system?
I would prolly rip my hair off if I had to be a maintainer coder for this.
I mean, using printf or echo isn't that hard. I think it would maintain the readability of the code better than switching in and out of the php-parser for every write.
I actually ignored the first one, as it seemed boring. Then I continued reading this one and found it very interesting.
...I also noticed it was a dupe only after all these posts mentioning it.
:)
Go figure
Interestingly, Debian seems to be the first distro I haven't managed to break yet.
I'm not a Linux specialist, but I use it for my server (mail, http/https, ftp) and NAT needs.
I have tried using Linux on my desktop many times, but there's always some game, utility or application I miss from any distro. Be it filesharing, MMORPG or (relatively) easy to use 3D modelling program. I don't want to boot all the time from OS to another to get what I need, so I just have one box for "my work" (Win2k) and another for "computers work" (Debian).
Oh yeah, back to the header topic. I also miraculously manage to f*ck up my systems by installing some weird package, wrong kernel or link a wrong lib. Always ending up reinstalling whole system rather than figuring out what I did wrong that time.
Debian, hoever, has so nice packaging system (apt) and instructive comments in configuration files ("Don't go fucking with this or your gonna be reinstalling me") that I have now ran that box for over a year, only booting it 4 times. Always to install/remove hardware or to move the thing around.
Wait.. I actually already lost whatever point I might have had. Anyway. Cheers for Debian, Cheers for Win2K, cheers for Mandrake.
(Sorry, I'm just a tiny weeny bit drunk)
RoadRunner is on my cell phone's voice dial list. I just pick it up and say roadrunner.
:)
Hmm.. Wouldn't it be appropriate if you had to say: *meep! meep!*
Yes 'real' platform. What is the use of these platforms, except to give training wheels to these new handless 'programmers' who can't handle memory management and probably often trip over their shoelaces like the drooling vegetables they are.
(Shees, nice sentence)
And it's Nokia 7700 btw.
I'd say the J2ME is there just because it looks cool on the spec sheat. I won't hold my breath for anyone to come up with any feasible idea to use it.
The real OS (Symbian OS 7.0s) does exactly what it is supposed to do. It runs the apps on the die instead of emulating some other environment, hogging precious cpu cycles.
And if you had half-a-clue about mobile technologies, you would know that J2ME is just a middlet engine sitting on top of a real operating system.
Infact, atleast 7700 will have the J2ME engine integrated. Dunno about others.
(Java should die anyway. Fucked up technology.)
I have one here too. It's a proprietary IBM model. Couldn't find additional memory for it from the local 2hnd hand computer store.
:)
Making it to boot RedHat 6.x was interesting project
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ->
Only ssh updated.. What about SSL libs?
(using woody)
Peek at it here.
No. It's not playable. Just wanted to show it to my friends that I got the ansi colour scheme more or less done
In fact. The escape sequence parser sucks, as does the whole idea how I parse it through down onto the screen.
Already re-coded most of it.
Ha! Infidel!
I code LPC by whistling 300 baud carriage down the line, whilst eating cereals and picking my nose!
My SO was a telemarketer for a week, untill she could find a proper work.
:/
:(
The telemarketers aren't necessarily loathsome creeps. As my SO put it, most of them are actually people in a postition where they want to work, but have no education to do anything. Telemarketing firms hire anyone. The wage was 100% tied to results.
No product sold = no paycheck.
Many of the people there actually seemed rather desperate.
>>>
Shit. It was only now that I read the first line on your post
Sorry, thought you were talking about the people.
Telemarketting firms are highly unethical, no doubt. They abuse both their cutstomer AND their employees.
A) Virus = Self replicating. I see you weren't around when they started calling these this.
B) It doesn't need user interaction. It exploits certain IE iframe vulnerability to launch itself. It does show you a YES/NO dialog, but even if you click No, it will install itself silently.
Btw. I consider network replicating thingies worms, and those old ones which wrap executables or boot-sectors viruses. This one actually kinda wraps exe's because it hooks itself to be the executer for all apps. (I don't know exactly how this works, but apparently you can munge windows registry to tell it to launch something with something else)
..that pretends to be a fake Microsoft patch
:)
There's something patently wrong in this sentence, but I can't quite put my finger on it...
Maybe it just confuses me on so many levels
Yeah, but it looks stupid and in my opinion is just f*cking lame.
You must be an American lawyer ot something.
The most efffective way to make a change is wide civil disobediance. Plus, in cases like this, you don't have to organize it.
When masses do this, there just has to be something very wrong with the laws.
I have a clear concience. Here they put levy on just about any blank media. So it's a bit more expensive than it would normally be, but i'm very happy that I can record music on these. Still the artist gets paid, (local equivelant of) RIAA gets paid and so on.
Anyone thought of introducing levy's on media there on the other side of the pond?