"If Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists and dilettantes."
Good.
Who really cares if the people who just put the fancy labels on it go out of business?
... when OSX only needs to support one platform, and that platform is more or less under their control. Also, can you do a dual boot OS X machine? If you want to take over the entire disk, most linux distros can do that just as easily.
And I will believe it compiles and RUNS BSD apps with the same ease as everything else when I see it for myself.
Just as a disclaimer - I'm bashing the article, not OS X, which I think has great potential if they see it through.
Fundamental mode is a basic circuits concept, and is the fastest possible design for any specific set of functional components.
The only problem is that race conditions are a pain in the butt to solve, but surely computers can design these things these days.
Why would it matter?
UDP is connectionless, so you only need one socket, and then just keep track of who your nearest peers are in your own data structures.
An 'actual' hacker as you put it probably would have no more use for M$ source than as a curiosity and a playtoy. And some damned fine bragging rights.
It'd be funny if the hackers modified Outlook(express?) to not be vulnerable to the same hack that killed M$ in the first place, and email it back to them.... har!
I had a problem for an entire month with uptimes on the net of no more tha a half-hour at a time.
Each time I called (about 15 times) they walked me through the "Network neighbourhood dynamic->static" lecture, after my curt comment of, "Lemme boot to Windoze first".
After a month, and THREE separate onsite techs, they finally realized that their wiring was dead. And when I contacted billing to get the time refunded, they charged me DOUBLE for the time I was down cuz the person missed the - sign.
Oh yeah, the systematic portscans by "excite @home" were fun too.
I don't know what system you're using, but for me, I use TD Access Web to do all my web banking for Toronto Dominion, and I haven't booted to Windows in months!!!!
Netscape 4.73 128bit for Linux. But I presume anything that'll do heavy encryption should suffice.
This is leaps and bounds above TD's old system which was a Windows application that dialed up through a modem, which they used about a year and a half ago if I remember correctly. I love TD Access Web!!!
Agreed. There's nothing that says overkill like using LICQ to send strongly-encrypted packets to the person in the next cubicle. I love that sort of thin.
Hmmm I wonder if the managers two or three levels up realize the guys at the bottom can sniff just as easily as the IT department:)
So you give people who have no idea how to make a decent linux/kde app, and let them churn out half-baked apps by the thousands!
Did nobody notice that the quality of most of the VB apps made on the net tend to reflect the time put into making them? Sure there are good ones, but the bad ones are VERY much that.
From how I read the article, it looks like it is just an attachment with extra information in it to provide a richer version of the same email.
While I'm as Anti-MS as any/.er, and this format seems pretty bloody stupid ("Winmail.dat"??? Login and path information???), I figure it'll be mostly harmless, since the plaintext will always make it through, so let the OL users have their toys.
So a great many boxes are getting DDoS tools installed on them these days. How does this indicate in any way that Internet Armageddon in on it's way? So they take down Yahoo for a day or something... it'd take one hell of an organized attack to bring down more than a few sites...
THIS is a genre that is long overdue for some serious work.
Think, think what you could do with a Megaman game on a PC! Megaman X3 was pretty decent, but then they came out with 7 (or was it 8) oriented to the kids. Some fancy sound, but most importantly, gameplay.
Even 1-on-1 fighting games, as dead as THAT genre is... people often forget that all this 3d accel hardware is just fancy 2d effects and polygons. Think, some motion blurs on a few 99-hit combos, or a few alpha transparencies.
Anyone know if there are some other terms of service of relevance they changed?
Ever since they threw up this new Excite @Home, I've been getting hits on my firewall on port 119 from authorized-scan.security.home.net. Not that I particularly care - an entry or two every few hours in my syslog from the SYNs... but what would they be looking for on the news port??
Don't you ever see those $10 "CD-ROM Classics" games at Future Shop? You get all the best games from those! Yay Relentless! Yay Wing Commander 2!
But still, I see particular advantage in distributing Dune II for free - it's the basis from which the entire Command and Conquer series came from (down the the same sound effects and everything!). This stuff is like free promo for the company!
Unless there are new laws I'm not aware of, as far as I understand it (and I have studied this recently), by definition, trade secrets are NOT protected by law. A trade secret protected by law is a patent, or a copyright. And in either case it's not a secret anymore. That's the big thing they say about trade secrets in any intellectual property couse - trade secrets are up to you to keep secret, and if you need legal protection, you have to use a patent, a registered industrial design (which would have covered Apple in this case), a trademark, or a copyright. But then Apple couldn't surprize anyone, so it'd defeat the point.
Though with all the lawsuits these days, who knows, there's probably a precedent somewhere. But for the most part it's probably just scare tactics.
I seriously doubt Microsoft will develop it. But if they do release it to standards organizaitons as stated, there's no reason why somebody else can't.
So, if I understand correctly, if somebody implemented it properly for [insert your favourite *NIX here] [insert your favourite processor here], not only could you write and compile code for C#, but if it's not compiled native right away, you could actually use Windows apps on other platforms.
Of course that assumes that they don't take advantage of any native code. Damn, sneaky!
Come now, for all the hype, is it much more than a glorified packet sniffer? I guess we don't know for sure until we get details, but in the end, odds are that it just sniffs for SMTP and a few web email providers.
Hell, me, and half the world's script kiddies are probably sniffing you right now! And a doubt a single one of those people are discarding information from anyone else on your subnet either!
Admittedly, my high school (from which I graduated last year) was a hole. However, we for awhile had a great teacher, and some people did do quite well by that class.
Not everyone is interested. Sorry. There will be a good portion of the class who will complain about anything you do.
Let students do things on their own - those who have some experience, give them some lesser admin rights, let them download and just PLAY with a new compiler. They will be able to guide you to some new things as well.
Don't teach out of a textbook! Know the stuff better than the students, and guide them yourselves.
Yes, I have real ideas. Open-ended projects are good. Make a HOMEPAGE for instance, including finding a place to host, and making it as spectacular as you can. If it's a programming-oriented course, perhaps some simple games. Spend half the time each class teaching concepts, then let them try and apply them to a project.
One other note - I know it's hard, but if you have hardware, let some kids with the serious interest do some admin. In my second-to-last year in high school, I rolled out a new lab the school was building (which me, and the teacher, pronounced dead cuz of the recalled hardware, but they transferred him and used it anyways, but by then I'd not associate with the department anyways)
Amen to that. Simple school trick for all of you though (as I was there no so many years ago) - befriend the most computer-literate teacher in the school. Help him out, even offer to help set up the new lab they're building, or roll out a new program or something. Once you got the green light from someone that the admin knows is tech-savvy, you'll be respected highly for your abilities instead of mistrusted. Anyone with any skill that's young these days tends to be grouped with the script kiddies, which is a shame. Cuz give it a few years, and people will be throwing money at you for the exact same skills.
I have no idea whether or not that the scheme will work on the basis of honesty, or the basis of the desire to see the story complete.
I think the biggest achievement is the fact that it's only costing $1. Come on, what PRINTED book are you going to get, new, for a buck? Come now, it's one hell of a bargain. Sure, you could get it free, but a buck for a chance at the end of the story? It's as charitable a donation as putting money in the big plastic guide dogs at the mall.
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"If Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists and dilettantes." Good. Who really cares if the people who just put the fancy labels on it go out of business?
copy the .config file from the source directory of your old kernel.
then run: make oldconfig
And I will believe it compiles and RUNS BSD apps with the same ease as everything else when I see it for myself.
Just as a disclaimer - I'm bashing the article, not OS X, which I think has great potential if they see it through.
Fundamental mode is a basic circuits concept, and is the fastest possible design for any specific set of functional components. The only problem is that race conditions are a pain in the butt to solve, but surely computers can design these things these days.
Why would it matter? UDP is connectionless, so you only need one socket, and then just keep track of who your nearest peers are in your own data structures.
Haw. It'd solve the wave of denial of service problems for sure.
It'd be funny if the hackers modified Outlook(express?) to not be vulnerable to the same hack that killed M$ in the first place, and email it back to them.... har!
After a month, and THREE separate onsite techs, they finally realized that their wiring was dead. And when I contacted billing to get the time refunded, they charged me DOUBLE for the time I was down cuz the person missed the - sign. Oh yeah, the systematic portscans by "excite @home" were fun too.
I don't know what system you're using, but for me, I use TD Access Web to do all my web banking for Toronto Dominion, and I haven't booted to Windows in months!!!! Netscape 4.73 128bit for Linux. But I presume anything that'll do heavy encryption should suffice. This is leaps and bounds above TD's old system which was a Windows application that dialed up through a modem, which they used about a year and a half ago if I remember correctly. I love TD Access Web!!!
This seems pointless from a technological perspective, but think of the recycling potential for the bulkier Game Boys they were selling years ago :)
Hmmm I wonder if the managers two or three levels up realize the guys at the bottom can sniff just as easily as the IT department :)
So you give people who have no idea how to make a decent linux/kde app, and let them churn out half-baked apps by the thousands!
Did nobody notice that the quality of most of the VB apps made on the net tend to reflect the time put into making them? Sure there are good ones, but the bad ones are VERY much that.
From how I read the article, it looks like it is just an attachment with extra information in it to provide a richer version of the same email. While I'm as Anti-MS as any /.er, and this format seems pretty bloody stupid ("Winmail.dat"??? Login and path information???), I figure it'll be mostly harmless, since the plaintext will always make it through, so let the OL users have their toys.
So a great many boxes are getting DDoS tools installed on them these days. How does this indicate in any way that Internet Armageddon in on it's way? So they take down Yahoo for a day or something... it'd take one hell of an organized attack to bring down more than a few sites...
Think, think what you could do with a Megaman game on a PC! Megaman X3 was pretty decent, but then they came out with 7 (or was it 8) oriented to the kids. Some fancy sound, but most importantly, gameplay. Even 1-on-1 fighting games, as dead as THAT genre is... people often forget that all this 3d accel hardware is just fancy 2d effects and polygons. Think, some motion blurs on a few 99-hit combos, or a few alpha transparencies.
Ever since they threw up this new Excite @Home, I've been getting hits on my firewall on port 119 from authorized-scan.security.home.net. Not that I particularly care - an entry or two every few hours in my syslog from the SYNs... but what would they be looking for on the news port??
But still, I see particular advantage in distributing Dune II for free - it's the basis from which the entire Command and Conquer series came from (down the the same sound effects and everything!). This stuff is like free promo for the company!
Every search that has freeplanet keywords in it responds with a 65k ping to www.freeplanet.com
Of course spoof the source address. Anonymity works two ways.
Perhaps it's different in the States than here in the frozen North.
Though with all the lawsuits these days, who knows, there's probably a precedent somewhere. But for the most part it's probably just scare tactics.
So, if I understand correctly, if somebody implemented it properly for [insert your favourite *NIX here] [insert your favourite processor here], not only could you write and compile code for C#, but if it's not compiled native right away, you could actually use Windows apps on other platforms.
Of course that assumes that they don't take advantage of any native code. Damn, sneaky!
Hell, me, and half the world's script kiddies are probably sniffing you right now! And a doubt a single one of those people are discarding information from anyone else on your subnet either!
- Not everyone is interested. Sorry. There will be a good portion of the class who will complain about anything you do.
- Let students do things on their own - those who have some experience, give them some lesser admin rights, let them download and just PLAY with a new compiler. They will be able to guide you to some new things as well.
- Don't teach out of a textbook! Know the stuff better than the students, and guide them yourselves.
- Yes, I have real ideas. Open-ended projects are good. Make a HOMEPAGE for instance, including finding a place to host, and making it as spectacular as you can. If it's a programming-oriented course, perhaps some simple games. Spend half the time each class teaching concepts, then let them try and apply them to a project.
One other note - I know it's hard, but if you have hardware, let some kids with the serious interest do some admin. In my second-to-last year in high school, I rolled out a new lab the school was building (which me, and the teacher, pronounced dead cuz of the recalled hardware, but they transferred him and used it anyways, but by then I'd not associate with the department anyways)Amen to that. Simple school trick for all of you though (as I was there no so many years ago) - befriend the most computer-literate teacher in the school. Help him out, even offer to help set up the new lab they're building, or roll out a new program or something. Once you got the green light from someone that the admin knows is tech-savvy, you'll be respected highly for your abilities instead of mistrusted. Anyone with any skill that's young these days tends to be grouped with the script kiddies, which is a shame. Cuz give it a few years, and people will be throwing money at you for the exact same skills.
I think the biggest achievement is the fact that it's only costing $1. Come on, what PRINTED book are you going to get, new, for a buck? Come now, it's one hell of a bargain. Sure, you could get it free, but a buck for a chance at the end of the story? It's as charitable a donation as putting money in the big plastic guide dogs at the mall.