I wish I had access to this when that darn RedHat "Ramen" worm hit us. There's some invaluable tricks here for finding out exactly what an intruder has done. The use of RPM to compare checksums of original files vs. current files is particularly ingenious. I tried to do something similar with "find", but apparently some root kits actually mess with files date stamps, making things more difficult. All in all, good stuff to know.
A project like this is perfect for unifying the disparate Linux GUI user interfaces. If we:
ditched X11
standardize on one of GTK/GNOME, or QT/KDE
write a human-interface guidelines document and put in place a board for review
We could actually have a system with a user interface as consistent as those of Apple and Windows.
Just a thought. Unfortunately it means ditching miles of code written for the widget toolkit not used, but that's par for the course when building standards.
In the "Any other condition on board which may lead to the spread of disease" field, they put TBD!!! They convieniently don't say anything about the killer micro-organisms that they brought back. Oh wait that was a Michael Crichton story.
with their "Human Interface Guidelines" document. Call this a troll or flamebait or whatever, but the fact remains that Apple spends good money on making sure that their software is usable.
Usability testing is an important, and highly overlooked aspect of software design. Perhaps this wouldn't even be an issue if we allocated some of our development resources to this highly specialized skill.
Unfortunately, many programmers don't seem to care. I can't count on both hands how many times a programmer at another firm has told me something to the effect that they don't understand colors or graphics. This is entirely obvious when looking at the GUIs that these firms produce. A monkey who calls himself an HTML "designer" doesn't qualify as a usability expert either. There are actually people that are trained in this kind of work, though they are few and far between. Perhaps the real answer lies in colleges. If we teach 'em early on that a product stands a much greater chance for success with good usability, perhaps more students would be interested in the field.
This is going to make releasing software for conforming distributions sooo much easier. It will be especially cool if RPM and apt-get support this structure.
This is the first I've heard about this and I think it is amazing that MS can be this facist. This essentially assumes everyone is guilty, and then contacts MS to verify that they're not. In the article, dude goes to great lengths to describe how convienient and easy activation will be, but glosses over the individual rights argument entirely.
Problem is any "standard" naming system can be sniffed and circumvented! Any alternate names would have to be *way* different and not detectable by a simple regular expression. "*Metallica" finds both "Metalica" and "napMetalica".
It's AWT, not AWE. It stands for Abstract Window Toolkit. Second, the AWT doesn't suck, as long as you know what you are doing. I have created some visually beautiful apps, using AWT alone. They also worked great on Linux, Solaris, and MacOS:-P
I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. I would also like expand a little on this point and say that this is the best example of how MS "embrace and extend" tactic is anti-competitive. Java developers who use Visual J++ exclusively may not even realize that they've used proprietary extensions. If the functionality contained in an applet is crucial, users of their site cannot access it if they use any browser other than IE. They violated Suns license agreement when they did this, and were punished for it (well OK they settled), so it never became an issue in the anti-trust lawsuit.
This situation really pisses me off because it could well mean the death of Java applets. I've heard all the arguments about how applets suck, but I'd rather see a functional applet on a web page over a useless Flash animation any day.
This is good news, except that I would like to see QT (and GTK) peer implementations for the Java AWT. Currently, the blackdown Java implementation uses Motif, so apps built with it tend to be ugly. I know one can use JFC (swing) and use a prettier look and feel, but I'd much rather have a native widget that looks, responds, and acts like whatever desktop environment I have installed.
I can't wait to mount the princess in my root file system!
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Missionaries have had a lot of success translating the Bible into all sorts of native languages
The kama sutra has also been translated into "all sorts of native languages". Does that make it a good means of communication with an alien species? Of course not. They're not human, so learning about sex between humans is meaningless in their context. So how, exactly do you think that the bible is any different? It is a human invention entirely centered in a human context. Mathematics, as the article hints at, is a much more solid means of communication because logic and math are fundamental to intelligence.
just to have the honor of implementing Mesa based drivers for this beast. Everyone else seems to have the attitude "don't waste your money", but I'm a geek. I want to figure out how it works, and make it scream on my OS of choice. It would be neat to implement GL vertex position, lighting, and normals transformations in the hardware vertex shader mentioned in the article.
Remember that article last week on Neverwinter Nights? Those guys seemed to suggest that porting wasn't all that hard, since they used OpenGL for all graphics drawing, and I can't imagine a good reason for using any libraries other than ANSI for game logic. I have some experience porting apps from Linux to Windows, and it's really not all that hard. The toughest part is making a build system that works well on both platforms.
when someone else has probably had the same problem you have. Just a quick search on google usually does the trick. I have spent nearly as much as dude mentions (US $1000) on video games, not on cheats, hint books, etc. and I have never once ran into a tough puzzle that couldn't be resolved by a quick web search.
If these parody sites were just a little more creative, they wouldn't need to deal with this kind of BS. Check out indenture.ac (formerly known as bigtimeconsulting.com) for a great example.
It was the RedHat
"ramen" worm that made me switch. I switched to FreeBSD 4.0. Other than the hastle of copying over 3GB files, it went very smoothly. I think he's right about the speed. Remote sessions seem much faster now. OK enough advocacy already.
I just don't see how an OS-less computer would somehow make things easier for users, when every app would be allowed to have whatever interface it wanted.
I agree. It would make the computer in gereral much harder to use. Why do you think there is currently such a buzz around technologies like KDE and Gnome? It's because they attempt to unify the disparate interfaces that plague open source applications.
Perhaps he means one could build a sort of "lite" OS that simplified file access, application installing and launching, and still provide consistency in the user interface, but this just seems like the "thin" clients that so far have failed miserably.
Funny how Ballmer calls unix a "phenomenon". The fact that DOS stole its' best ideas from Unix, is undeniable. Windows is just a shell for DOS, so I guess that would make Windows itself a "wannabe phenomenon"
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I wish I had access to this when that darn RedHat "Ramen" worm hit us. There's some invaluable tricks here for finding out exactly what an intruder has done. The use of RPM to compare checksums of original files vs. current files is particularly ingenious. I tried to do something similar with "find", but apparently some root kits actually mess with files date stamps, making things more difficult. All in all, good stuff to know.
- ditched X11
- standardize on one of GTK/GNOME, or QT/KDE
- write a human-interface guidelines document and put in place a board for review
We could actually have a system with a user interface as consistent as those of Apple and Windows.Just a thought. Unfortunately it means ditching miles of code written for the widget toolkit not used, but that's par for the course when building standards.
In the "Any other condition on board which may lead to the spread of disease" field, they put TBD!!! They convieniently don't say anything about the killer micro-organisms that they brought back. Oh wait that was a Michael Crichton story.
with their "Human Interface Guidelines" document. Call this a troll or flamebait or whatever, but the fact remains that Apple spends good money on making sure that their software is usable.
Usability testing is an important, and highly overlooked aspect of software design. Perhaps this wouldn't even be an issue if we allocated some of our development resources to this highly specialized skill.
Unfortunately, many programmers don't seem to care. I can't count on both hands how many times a programmer at another firm has told me something to the effect that they don't understand colors or graphics. This is entirely obvious when looking at the GUIs that these firms produce. A monkey who calls himself an HTML "designer" doesn't qualify as a usability expert either. There are actually people that are trained in this kind of work, though they are few and far between. Perhaps the real answer lies in colleges. If we teach 'em early on that a product stands a much greater chance for success with good usability, perhaps more students would be interested in the field.
Just my 2 cents.This is going to make releasing software for conforming distributions sooo much easier. It will be especially cool if RPM and apt-get support this structure.
This is the first I've heard about this and I think it is amazing that MS can be this facist. This essentially assumes everyone is guilty, and then contacts MS to verify that they're not. In the article, dude goes to great lengths to describe how convienient and easy activation will be, but glosses over the individual rights argument entirely.
Problem is any "standard" naming system can be sniffed and circumvented! Any alternate names would have to be *way* different and not detectable by a simple regular expression. "*Metallica" finds both "Metalica" and "napMetalica".
and re-instate the mission to Pluto!
It's AWT, not AWE. It stands for Abstract Window Toolkit. Second, the AWT doesn't suck, as long as you know what you are doing. I have created some visually beautiful apps, using AWT alone. They also worked great on Linux, Solaris, and MacOS :-P
If you don't believe me, I'll send screenshots!
I can't wait to have a 10x8 foot monitor! I'll scare the heck out of my neighbors with life-size Q3A!
I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. I would also like expand a little on this point and say that this is the best example of how MS "embrace and extend" tactic is anti-competitive. Java developers who use Visual J++ exclusively may not even realize that they've used proprietary extensions. If the functionality contained in an applet is crucial, users of their site cannot access it if they use any browser other than IE. They violated Suns license agreement when they did this, and were punished for it (well OK they settled), so it never became an issue in the anti-trust lawsuit.
This situation really pisses me off because it could well mean the death of Java applets. I've heard all the arguments about how applets suck, but I'd rather see a functional applet on a web page over a useless Flash animation any day.
This is good news, except that I would like to see QT (and GTK) peer implementations for the Java AWT. Currently, the blackdown Java implementation uses Motif, so apps built with it tend to be ugly. I know one can use JFC (swing) and use a prettier look and feel, but I'd much rather have a native widget that looks, responds, and acts like whatever desktop environment I have installed.
Just my 2 pennies.I can't wait to mount the princess in my root file system!
just to have the honor of implementing Mesa based drivers for this beast. Everyone else seems to have the attitude "don't waste your money", but I'm a geek. I want to figure out how it works, and make it scream on my OS of choice. It would be neat to implement GL vertex position, lighting, and normals transformations in the hardware vertex shader mentioned in the article.
Remember that article last week on Neverwinter Nights? Those guys seemed to suggest that porting wasn't all that hard, since they used OpenGL for all graphics drawing, and I can't imagine a good reason for using any libraries other than ANSI for game logic. I have some experience porting apps from Linux to Windows, and it's really not all that hard. The toughest part is making a build system that works well on both platforms.
when someone else has probably had the same problem you have. Just a quick search on google usually does the trick. I have spent nearly as much as dude mentions (US $1000) on video games, not on cheats, hint books, etc. and I have never once ran into a tough puzzle that couldn't be resolved by a quick web search.
Ok sorry I jumped. I was modded -1 Troll at first, but there are apparently some sensible moderators out thers.
Damn the moderators around here are way too serious. That was a joke in case you couldn't read between the lines.
According to FOX we didn't even go to the moon, so what makes you think airplanes can fly above the atmosphere?
"TV said that?!" -- Homer Simpson
If these parody sites were just a little more creative, they wouldn't need to deal with this kind of BS. Check out indenture.ac (formerly known as bigtimeconsulting.com) for a great example.
It was the RedHat "ramen" worm that made me switch. I switched to FreeBSD 4.0. Other than the hastle of copying over 3GB files, it went very smoothly. I think he's right about the speed. Remote sessions seem much faster now. OK enough advocacy already.
I agree. It would make the computer in gereral much harder to use. Why do you think there is currently such a buzz around technologies like KDE and Gnome? It's because they attempt to unify the disparate interfaces that plague open source applications.
Perhaps he means one could build a sort of "lite" OS that simplified file access, application installing and launching, and still provide consistency in the user interface, but this just seems like the "thin" clients that so far have failed miserably.
Funny how Ballmer calls unix a "phenomenon". The fact that DOS stole its' best ideas from Unix, is undeniable. Windows is just a shell for DOS, so I guess that would make Windows itself a "wannabe phenomenon"
indenture.ac formerly known as "bigtimeconsulting.com" is a wonderful parody of Accenture, from an insider in the know.