I think that chilliware are taking a giant leap in bringing linux to the mainstream market. I am particularly interested in seeing their office suite and will definately try their distro out.
I have always said that Linux just isn't as accessible for desktop use as windows to the general public, this is a great leap towards that goal.
Sure Stallman might lay an egg over this, but for linux to reach the next level we need people who get PAYED for their PROGRAMS.
I would also like to thank Scott McDaniel for his comments and for clearing up the zdnet errata.
He gets my "Linux: Hero of the day award"
Previous "Linux, Hero of the Days." include:-
Linus Torvalds.
Tux.
Up to this point in human history conservationists have focused their attentions on saving the planet.
Whilst we don't have any real pristine wilderness areas with the possible exception of Antarctica (if you don't take into account the fact that it is sitting underneath a huge gapping hole in the ozone layer and it is melting at an alarming rate) we do still have other planets which humanity hasn't yet managed to destroy/pollute.
Is it possible that the conservationists psyche will move from "Save the Planet" to "Save the Solar System" in the not too distant future.
Are there any treaties preventing Canadians from sending up a bundle of PFCs to Mars or any other planet without consulting the rest of the world and then mass migrating? As man starts to leave this over populated over polluted wasteland we now call home and spreads to new outposts of civilization will there still be a conservationist movement watching over mankinds proliferation into the neighbouring planets?
The researcher first tried using a female locust to drive the platform, but even after hours of trying they could not get her to reverse park properly.
The male locust is a far more accomplished parker and driver but unfortunately he and the platform have been lost as he was to stubborn to ask for directions back to the lab.
They stole it in an effort to encrypt MP3 files so they cannot be mass distributed without due charges. In fact they are responsible for the sinking of the Kursk as they heard somewhere that submarines are the place to find them. Having disabled and boarded the Kursk they realised there was no enigma machine so they sank the sub to cover their tracks.
So they went to a museum following a tip-off by someone on IRC.
Stole the ENIGMA machine.
Hired a bunch of hackers to figure out how to utilise the ENIGMA technology.
Having realised that it is impossible to encrypt MP3 files successfully they are ransoming the device back to the museum to recover the bills of the contractors.
I think that humans should just get all of this ethics crap out of the way and start genetically engineering disease free superhumans as evolution is the ultimate goal of the human race and this is the fastest way to achieve it.
The only people that are afraid of this change are those who will be in the last generation of normal humans who will feel like they have been superseeded, so what.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, so go ahead and make some superhumans already. It is time for mankind to take the next big step. This is the first time in history we have a technology that can advance man to a new age and we are just sitting on it and arguing about whether it is a good or a bad thing. Ultimately it will be a good thing, like it or not.
Naturally I expect all the superhumans to be based on Claudia Schiffer with 0% conscience and 100% sex drive.
Maybe we could get rid of the Microsoft gene that seems to be apparent in 90% of the population, and is the single greatest hinderance to our evolution.
There was VB at the olympics as well.
In fact I saw a bunch of fosters workers wearing their official sponsors hats and shirts completely decked out in fosters apparel drinking VB:)
Thats one way to get yourself fired.
Funnily enough, Australians don't drink fosters.I am Australian and have lived/been to all of the major cities and regional centres and not once have I seen anyone (with the exception of a few tourists) drink fosters.
In fact most of the pubs in Sydney don't have it. Fosters was labeled as piss by Australians a long time ago, so they decided to spend a pretty penny on international marketing to get everyone else to drink it.
If you want a good Australian beer try Cascade Premium, and if you want the beer that we all drink get VB or XXXX. They won't win any competitions but they do the job, and don't completely taste like piss.
In regards to the wireless lan I am interested as too whether our FCC will nab them for it.
If anyone read that story and thought that it is a glamourous lifestyle and are considering doing chems please go and smack your head against a large solid object repeatedly until you realise how bad drugs are for you.
I had a bit of a problem for a while and whilst I was fortunate enough to lose those habits I know of quite a few people who I once considered friends who were not so lucky.
A good point the article raises is how a lot of stimulant users start taking sedatives and/or depressants to counteract the havoc wreaked on their diurnal cycles. This kind of tweaking your system is bad, and it makes you stupid and far lest effective at work, not to mention in bed (unless of course you are taking Viagra in the mix).
Drink coffee, drink beer, smoke an occasional cigarette or joint.
If you have to try chemicals then be sure that you have enough character to stop, because even if you don't die as a direct result of your addictions you will fuck yourself up in a lot of different ways.
It isn't the kind of lifestyle that you can maintain for a long period and not have detrimental repucussions in some areas of your life.
The wap devices that are currently available use the phone.com browser, unfortunately the feature set is poor and the phone OEMs like Nokia and Motorola just integrate it and think they have done all that is required.
Unfortunately rendering WML pages isn't enough, being able to interface with the pages is whats important to the user, remember the user do you?
All of the other trivialities like documentation and feature set are secondary to how the user feels whilst using it. Unfortunately current WAP devices don't make the grade.
IMAP might have a better feature set and better developer support, but I think that those who make the devices "user friendly" will obtain the market stranglehold.
Did anyone else notice Gabe Newells question regarding the targeting of the technology at broadband capable systems.
Maybe TF2 is already finished and they are just waiting for everyone to get Cable/xDSL so we can play it:)
Maybe whilst they are waiting they could port it to linux ?
As a programmer who has hacked about with OpenGL and as a gamer I would like to pledge my undying allegiance to John Carmack as IMNSHO he is a genius.
I just read this book last week.
I am not a security consultant, nor am I an uber cracker. I am a programmer who due to middle management mismanagement is often forced to worry about network security a lot more than I should, but I digress.
I found a lot of the major points were identical to many things I learnt at university and was dissappointed by the scare mongering that the author employed. I would assume that anyone who reads a book regarding advanced security policy implementations would be quite aware of all the shortcomings in a lot of organisations systems and thereby doesn't really need to be bombarded with anecdotal nightmare scenarios.
I am disappointed by some of the sensationalism which is being used by a lot of "security" books.
There is a new genre of books coming out, pop-tech. Books which are half based on sound technical information (albeit derived from academic channels) and popular culture semi-futurism/apocalyptic tea leave reading.
Whilst this book is on the softer end of that spectrum it still falls into the same band.
Having said that, a lot of good points are raised and it will jog your memory, but if you want a sounder perspective on security and encryption I suggest you go to your local university bookstore and get a book which was written by someone who doesn't run a company in the field and doesn't need to drum up business.
If you want the futuristic tea leave reading then perhaps asimov is more your thing;) Still can't get over the fact that he invented the satelitte.
This book is somewhat of a hybrid (as mentioned before it is by no means the worst offender but it is definately in the same cell block) please don't try to develop security policies for you organsation solely on this book. As the tea leaves will end up telling the truth.
From my understanding those cisco routers run on QNX, which is a POSIX compliant OS. As is Linux.
So the port should have been trivial.
I think that being able to run perl scripts on a router is a cool side effect of this hack though.
Or could you do it previously? Anyone?
When I saw the domain name my mind is so warped I read it as fucked company (company as in associates) and thought it might be the who's who of slashdot trolls:)
Models and metaphors exist primarily for one reason. That is to supplement the understanding of those of us who have limited spatial intelligence. (thats everyone except Linus and Carmack)
Inherently they influence our view of the world as no one (except for the aforementioned individuals) can possibly keep track of all the specifics of a problem/system.
"This way, by passing the anti-spam bill, members of Congress can say 'look what we did for you. We took care of this ugly spam thing, and we're going to tackle privacy for you next year.'" David Mclure.
Slashdot Mirror
The 1st time I saw the use of w00t was from one of the plan files at iD during the development of Quake 1, it could have been John Cash.
My $0.02
Dear Slashdot Editors,
Sharkyextremes hardware reviews are very poor please pimp anands, as they actually understand the tech a bit.
This is the 2nd absolutely useless SE article that has made it onto slashdot in the last week.
Cheers
I think that chilliware are taking a giant leap in bringing linux to the mainstream market. I am particularly interested in seeing their office suite and will definately try their distro out.
:-
I have always said that Linux just isn't as accessible for desktop use as windows to the general public, this is a great leap towards that goal.
Sure Stallman might lay an egg over this, but for linux to reach the next level we need people who get PAYED for their PROGRAMS.
I would also like to thank Scott McDaniel for his comments and for clearing up the zdnet errata.
He gets my "Linux: Hero of the day award"
Previous "Linux, Hero of the Days." include
Linus Torvalds.
Tux.
btw:- Please write a better linux chat client.
Well I guess Anonymous Cowards should "take the 5th" and not say anything.
Up to this point in human history conservationists have focused their attentions on saving the planet.
:)
Whilst we don't have any real pristine wilderness areas with the possible exception of Antarctica (if you don't take into account the fact that it is sitting underneath a huge gapping hole in the ozone layer and it is melting at an alarming rate) we do still have other planets which humanity hasn't yet managed to destroy/pollute.
Is it possible that the conservationists psyche will move from "Save the Planet" to "Save the Solar System" in the not too distant future.
Are there any treaties preventing Canadians from sending up a bundle of PFCs to Mars or any other planet without consulting the rest of the world and then mass migrating? As man starts to leave this over populated over polluted wasteland we now call home and spreads to new outposts of civilization will there still be a conservationist movement watching over mankinds proliferation into the neighbouring planets?
Sorry forgot to login for the A/C post
Yes a shared cache can actually be an excellent feature for multi-threaded apps that are using static cache data set.
BTW:- This chip or something similar it is the future of computing. Very cool indeed.
If you are dealing with a guy named LOWTAX you know that he won't be going to the government/feds/court anytime soon after you rip him off :)
j/k I love JEFF K! and somethingawful.com rox0rs your box0rs!
Someone should establish a site where webmasters can rate/view the merits/demerits of certain ad services.
The researcher first tried using a female locust to drive the platform, but even after hours of trying they could not get her to reverse park properly.
The male locust is a far more accomplished parker and driver but unfortunately he and the platform have been lost as he was to stubborn to ask for directions back to the lab.
They stole it in an effort to encrypt MP3 files so they cannot be mass distributed without due charges. In fact they are responsible for the sinking of the Kursk as they heard somewhere that submarines are the place to find them. Having disabled and boarded the Kursk they realised there was no enigma machine so they sank the sub to cover their tracks.
So they went to a museum following a tip-off by someone on IRC.
Stole the ENIGMA machine.
Hired a bunch of hackers to figure out how to utilise the ENIGMA technology.
Having realised that it is impossible to encrypt MP3 files successfully they are ransoming the device back to the museum to recover the bills of the contractors.
The truth is out there. You won't find it here.
pffft. My doctor couldn't even play Godot ;)
I think that humans should just get all of this ethics crap out of the way and start genetically engineering disease free superhumans as evolution is the ultimate goal of the human race and this is the fastest way to achieve it.
The only people that are afraid of this change are those who will be in the last generation of normal humans who will feel like they have been superseeded, so what.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, so go ahead and make some superhumans already. It is time for mankind to take the next big step. This is the first time in history we have a technology that can advance man to a new age and we are just sitting on it and arguing about whether it is a good or a bad thing. Ultimately it will be a good thing, like it or not.
Naturally I expect all the superhumans to be based on Claudia Schiffer with 0% conscience and 100% sex drive.
Maybe we could get rid of the Microsoft gene that seems to be apparent in 90% of the population, and is the single greatest hinderance to our evolution.
There was VB at the olympics as well. :)
In fact I saw a bunch of fosters workers wearing their official sponsors hats and shirts completely decked out in fosters apparel drinking VB
Thats one way to get yourself fired.
Funnily enough, Australians don't drink fosters.I am Australian and have lived/been to all of the major cities and regional centres and not once have I seen anyone (with the exception of a few tourists) drink fosters.
:)
In fact most of the pubs in Sydney don't have it. Fosters was labeled as piss by Australians a long time ago, so they decided to spend a pretty penny on international marketing to get everyone else to drink it.
If you want a good Australian beer try Cascade Premium, and if you want the beer that we all drink get VB or XXXX. They won't win any competitions but they do the job, and don't completely taste like piss.
In regards to the wireless lan I am interested as too whether our FCC will nab them for it.
Cheers
Now where did I leave the keys to my kangaroo?
Considering the games uses the Q3A engine is it unreasonable to expect a complete linux port, or unsupported linux binaries?
If anyone read that story and thought that it is a glamourous lifestyle and are considering doing chems please go and smack your head against a large solid object repeatedly until you realise how bad drugs are for you.
I had a bit of a problem for a while and whilst I was fortunate enough to lose those habits I know of quite a few people who I once considered friends who were not so lucky.
A good point the article raises is how a lot of stimulant users start taking sedatives and/or depressants to counteract the havoc wreaked on their diurnal cycles. This kind of tweaking your system is bad, and it makes you stupid and far lest effective at work, not to mention in bed (unless of course you are taking Viagra in the mix).
Drink coffee, drink beer, smoke an occasional cigarette or joint.
If you have to try chemicals then be sure that you have enough character to stop, because even if you don't die as a direct result of your addictions you will fuck yourself up in a lot of different ways.
It isn't the kind of lifestyle that you can maintain for a long period and not have detrimental repucussions in some areas of your life.
"Winners don't do drugs" - Linus Torvalds
/me lines up.
Is it true that the dark side is more powerful?
True it is, and the hours you work are less. Only when you wear a suit a true manager will you be.
The wap devices that are currently available use the phone.com browser, unfortunately the feature set is poor and the phone OEMs like Nokia and Motorola just integrate it and think they have done all that is required.
Unfortunately rendering WML pages isn't enough, being able to interface with the pages is whats important to the user, remember the user do you?
All of the other trivialities like documentation and feature set are secondary to how the user feels whilst using it. Unfortunately current WAP devices don't make the grade.
IMAP might have a better feature set and better developer support, but I think that those who make the devices "user friendly" will obtain the market stranglehold.
Did anyone else notice Gabe Newells question regarding the targeting of the technology at broadband capable systems. Maybe TF2 is already finished and they are just waiting for everyone to get Cable/xDSL so we can play it :)
Maybe whilst they are waiting they could port it to linux ?
As a programmer who has hacked about with OpenGL and as a gamer I would like to pledge my undying allegiance to John Carmack as IMNSHO he is a genius.
Nearly as clever as these guys http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/I just read this book last week.
;) Still can't get over the fact that he invented the satelitte.
I am not a security consultant, nor am I an uber cracker. I am a programmer who due to middle management mismanagement is often forced to worry about network security a lot more than I should, but I digress.
I found a lot of the major points were identical to many things I learnt at university and was dissappointed by the scare mongering that the author employed. I would assume that anyone who reads a book regarding advanced security policy implementations would be quite aware of all the shortcomings in a lot of organisations systems and thereby doesn't really need to be bombarded with anecdotal nightmare scenarios.
I am disappointed by some of the sensationalism which is being used by a lot of "security" books.
There is a new genre of books coming out, pop-tech. Books which are half based on sound technical information (albeit derived from academic channels) and popular culture semi-futurism/apocalyptic tea leave reading.
Whilst this book is on the softer end of that spectrum it still falls into the same band.
Having said that, a lot of good points are raised and it will jog your memory, but if you want a sounder perspective on security and encryption I suggest you go to your local university bookstore and get a book which was written by someone who doesn't run a company in the field and doesn't need to drum up business.
If you want the futuristic tea leave reading then perhaps asimov is more your thing
This book is somewhat of a hybrid (as mentioned before it is by no means the worst offender but it is definately in the same cell block) please don't try to develop security policies for you organsation solely on this book. As the tea leaves will end up telling the truth.
From my understanding those cisco routers run on QNX, which is a POSIX compliant OS. As is Linux.
So the port should have been trivial.
I think that being able to run perl scripts on a router is a cool side effect of this hack though.
Or could you do it previously? Anyone?
When I saw the domain name my mind is so warped I read it as fucked company (company as in associates) and thought it might be the who's who of slashdot trolls :)
Now there is an idea for a website!
Perhaps this is just an attempt to transmit "Single Female Lawyer" with better encoding :)
Models and metaphors exist primarily for one reason. That is to supplement the understanding of those of us who have limited spatial intelligence. (thats everyone except Linus and Carmack)
Inherently they influence our view of the world as no one (except for the aforementioned individuals) can possibly keep track of all the specifics of a problem/system.
"This way, by passing the anti-spam bill, members of Congress can say 'look what we did for you. We took care of this ugly spam thing, and we're going to tackle privacy for you next year.'" David Mclure.
Troy would be proud!