This takes me back to memories of cassette drives and, later, floppy based WordStar and masm, writing x86 text-mode programs. Remember when an "API" was loading registers and calling interrupts? As I write this on my Thinkpad A21p, I realize just how far we have come. How many people remember how cool it was to finally be able to type in upper AND lower case?
My uncle gave me this book as a Christmas present in the mid '80s or so when I was trying to get out of academia and get a real job. This book is the foundation of my programming career. It's not just about C, but about programming hardware in a generic fashion. Few people remember that C was originally touted as a platform-neutral language. Borland and Microsoft destroyed that promise (flaimbait) I've kept the book so that my own children can learn from it (hopefully at an earlier age than me)
I have a dsl connection on a nat'ed lan. I used to pay a lot of attention to my logs from ipchains/iptables and report obvious intruders (12345, etc) I've since stopped for the most part. If they keep at it for a long time, and they are local, I'll try to hire them as babysitters for my kids -- that'll teach 'em. I do still log troubles from.edu's because I think they would like to know. Otherwise, I figure since they haven't gotten past my firewall, and haven't gotten into my private lan, I'm ok and they will get busted by somebody else if they go too far.
Just my three cents.
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I had another laptop handy hooked up to the home lan just in case I needed another browser. But, the test didn't even go full-screen on my computer. I could have had as many url's opened as I needed. But, I didn't need any of it. The questions were really basic. You nailed it: awt/Swing questions galore.
BTW, erfoley == entity relationship foley?
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The consulting company I applied to just made me take an online apptitude test concerning J2EE. First of all, I hate tests. I'm too old for anything harder than "Millionaire". But this one really sucked. Not only were some of the possible answers ambiguous, it suffered from all of the same things that email and websites do -- poor spelling, improper punctuation, and bad grammar. That is arguably not a horrible thing when writing in English; but, when writing in a programming language, especially when that language is case-sensitive, it is absolutely unacceptable. I did not answer two of the questions because of the typo's in the code that would have prevented compilation (javax.swing.Jframe, for example).I won't have to take summer school or anything like that, but it might cost me a dollar or two an hour.
It really wasn't that long ago that scientists were persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church. Some may argue that it continues to do so to this day. But back when, if you said that the Earth revolved around the Sun, you were a heretic. And, when The Church declared people to be heretics, it was fair game to go after them in the eyes of the fearful public.
Now, I have always felt that organized religion was the most effective method of mind control, with the bonus of making a profit. But, now I see that organized religion was nothing more than a precursor to the corporations that are now controlling the masses, and making huge profits. The corporations are the ones now declaring people as heretics, by calling them hackers. These same corporations dictate what science is suitable for publication using the same fear techniques the Church used: fear of persecution. Ok, this time it is lawyers instead of torture. But, I don't see that much difference, really.
My question is: Who will be the next Martin Luther?
Don't use ftp! If it's anonymous access you want, just use apache. If it's account based access, by all means DON'T use ftp -- can you say clear-text authentication? It seems like I'm always hearing something security related concerning ftp usage. Whether it be the daemons, the clients, the firewall, it is always something. I wish the major clients (including gozilla) would support sftp. Maybe they do, but I missed it.
This so-called "foundation" does have a decent point. A company's privacy policy is only as good as the company itself. When a business goes belly-up and the bankruptcy court sells its assets (collected data included), who enforces the original privacy policy? Nobody. I think this would be a good place for some legislation
It is more important what data is collected than what data is given out. So long as it isn't collected, it can't be sold.
So, I applaud Tivo for not personally identifying the data at the point of collection. If they go belly-up, they can't be forced to sell data they don't have.
Did anybody else watch this show on msnbc? It had several computer industry biggies, one of them being AOL. AOL was asked if they would open up AIM and they successfully skirted giving a real answer saying that they allowed anyone to access it (with their software only).
So, why now are they now "openning" up ICQ? I'm sure they have some truly dark, deliciously evil plan...
..The only thing I like about ICQ is the mail.wav "swoosh" sound
This could be the real problem. You program the RUF for the long haul (at 50mph) stopping, or slowing down every few minutes for someone leave the train -- I'm not quite sure how that will work. All of a sudden, you realize that you just can't hold it any longer and you must piss. You are fumbling with the controls, trying to locate the closest public bathroom on the computer nav screen to no avail. You see billboards going by advertising beer and waterfalls. Your eyes fill with water and, well, you have a mess.
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but I don't think the point of this research directly relates to transmission of data over fibre. I see it more as an improved interface between the optical and electrical world that has potential to be much more efficient. My reason for thinking this way has to do with the paragraph in the Nature article:
But the light-emitting devices needed to do this can't be built into silicon circuits. They rely on semiconducting materials that don't sit comfortably on silicon chips, and so they have to be mounted separately in the awkward hybrid technology 'optoelectronics'. The physical separation of light emitters and electronic circuitry is a bottleneck to further miniaturization, and so to greater processing power and speed.
Nor do I see this applying to flat-panel display technology, or electronic paper for that matter.
Then again, having been married for over 10 years, I know that I'm almost never right about anything.
I understand that 2600 is synonymous with hacking. However, I think they get undue attention, and in many cases, undue persecution.
I really don't care whether it is legal or illegal to link to or carry contraband binary files on your site. The point is that it is too late to stop decss. I have found copies of decss all over the place. Some sites have it kind of hidden in non-obviously named directories. For example, check out ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/web/html-util/decss
Where is Henry David Thoreau when you need him! The government that governs least, governs best
I had just gotten my system all up on 2.4.1 from 2.2.x. What an experience it was getting the dsl/pppoe, iptables and nat all switched over. I saw the new 2.4.2 last night and was kind of pissed, wondering if 2.4.3 would be out before I got this one installed! But, I had my system patched and running in about an hour. It was rather pleasant knowing I had a kernel running just 2 1/2 hours after the thing was released.
My dsl line is provided by SWBell, but my isp is a local company. I have not experienced any downtime in the 8 months since I got the line installed. For me, like everyone else it seems, the installation was the biggest hassle.
PPPoE is a snap under Linux - I use the following:
1) ipchains for sharing the line via NAT, and firewalling.
2) Roaring Penguin's pppoe implementation configured for auto-reconnect.
3) TZO to map the dynamic ip to a domain.
Roaring Penguin's pppoe implementation lets me use the scripts in/etc/ppp to automate notifications of ip changes to tzo. Before I upgraded to kernel 2.2.16 and was (sadly) forced to reboot, my uptime was at 60 days and during that time, I had no interruption to my dsl service other than the 12 hour reconnects forced on my by either my isp, or swbell (probably my isp). No big deal, really, as it only takes 20 seconds on average to re-establish a connection and this is automated.
One note, at first I decided to use a 3c509 card instead of the d-link that came with my dsl modem. I had strange disconnects during heavy transfers. After putting in the cheapo d-link, I had a stable connection. New Linux drivers for the 3com cards are available, but I have not had the time or inclination to check them out.
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This takes me back to memories of cassette drives and, later, floppy based WordStar and masm, writing x86 text-mode programs. Remember when an "API" was loading registers and calling interrupts? As I write this on my Thinkpad A21p, I realize just how far we have come. How many people remember how cool it was to finally be able to type in upper AND lower case?
I'm running redhat 7.1 on my thinkpad a21p without a problem. The 1600x1200 is truly awesome.
My uncle gave me this book as a Christmas present in the mid '80s or so when I was trying to get out of academia and get a real job. This book is the foundation of my programming career. It's not just about C, but about programming hardware in a generic fashion. Few people remember that C was originally touted as a platform-neutral language. Borland and Microsoft destroyed that promise (flaimbait) I've kept the book so that my own children can learn from it (hopefully at an earlier age than me)
I have a dsl connection on a nat'ed lan. I used to pay a lot of attention to my logs from ipchains/iptables and report obvious intruders (12345, etc) I've since stopped for the most part. If they keep at it for a long time, and they are local, I'll try to hire them as babysitters for my kids -- that'll teach 'em. I do still log troubles from .edu's because I think they would like to know. Otherwise, I figure since they haven't gotten past my firewall, and haven't gotten into my private lan, I'm ok and they will get busted by somebody else if they go too far.
Just my three cents.
I had another laptop handy hooked up to the home lan just in case I needed another browser. But, the test didn't even go full-screen on my computer. I could have had as many url's opened as I needed. But, I didn't need any of it. The questions were really basic. You nailed it: awt/Swing questions galore. BTW, erfoley == entity relationship foley?
The consulting company I applied to just made me take an online apptitude test concerning J2EE. First of all, I hate tests. I'm too old for anything harder than "Millionaire". But this one really sucked. Not only were some of the possible answers ambiguous, it suffered from all of the same things that email and websites do -- poor spelling, improper punctuation, and bad grammar. That is arguably not a horrible thing when writing in English; but, when writing in a programming language, especially when that language is case-sensitive, it is absolutely unacceptable. I did not answer two of the questions because of the typo's in the code that would have prevented compilation (javax.swing.Jframe, for example).I won't have to take summer school or anything like that, but it might cost me a dollar or two an hour.
I have to ask... Is code sporking acceptable to M$?
Marge! We need more strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate ice cream!
I offer my appologies; but, I didn't mean to belittle torture.
IANAL -- my wife is. That is why I equated lawyers to torture ;)
It really wasn't that long ago that scientists were persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church. Some may argue that it continues to do so to this day. But back when, if you said that the Earth revolved around the Sun, you were a heretic. And, when The Church declared people to be heretics, it was fair game to go after them in the eyes of the fearful public.
Now, I have always felt that organized religion was the most effective method of mind control, with the bonus of making a profit. But, now I see that organized religion was nothing more than a precursor to the corporations that are now controlling the masses, and making huge profits. The corporations are the ones now declaring people as heretics, by calling them hackers. These same corporations dictate what science is suitable for publication using the same fear techniques the Church used: fear of persecution. Ok, this time it is lawyers instead of torture. But, I don't see that much difference, really.
My question is: Who will be the next Martin Luther?
Thanks, I'm feeling much better now.
Last time I checked, photons moved. As a matter of fact, they were moving along at a pretty darn fast rate.
Don't use ftp! If it's anonymous access you want, just use apache. If it's account based access, by all means DON'T use ftp -- can you say clear-text authentication? It seems like I'm always hearing something security related concerning ftp usage. Whether it be the daemons, the clients, the firewall, it is always something. I wish the major clients (including gozilla) would support sftp. Maybe they do, but I missed it.
Once again, I fail miserable in an attempt at humor.
This so-called "foundation" does have a decent point. A company's privacy policy is only as good as the company itself. When a business goes belly-up and the bankruptcy court sells its assets (collected data included), who enforces the original privacy policy? Nobody. I think this would be a good place for some legislation
It is more important what data is collected than what data is given out. So long as it isn't collected, it can't be sold.
So, I applaud Tivo for not personally identifying the data at the point of collection. If they go belly-up, they can't be forced to sell data they don't have.
Everything I've read about this OS seems like a step in the right direction.
Now, if Apple would only be a little kinder and gentler about opening up their hardware. I grow tired of "All my Macs are belong to Apple"
Did anybody else watch this show on msnbc? It had several computer industry biggies, one of them being AOL. AOL was asked if they would open up AIM and they successfully skirted giving a real answer saying that they allowed anyone to access it (with their software only).
..The only thing I like about ICQ is the mail.wav "swoosh" sound
So, why now are they now "openning" up ICQ? I'm sure they have some truly dark, deliciously evil plan...
This could be the real problem. You program the RUF for the long haul (at 50mph) stopping, or slowing down every few minutes for someone leave the train -- I'm not quite sure how that will work. All of a sudden, you realize that you just can't hold it any longer and you must piss. You are fumbling with the controls, trying to locate the closest public bathroom on the computer nav screen to no avail. You see billboards going by advertising beer and waterfalls. Your eyes fill with water and, well, you have a mess.
Nor do I see this applying to flat-panel display technology, or electronic paper for that matter.
Then again, having been married for over 10 years, I know that I'm almost never right about anything.
I understand that 2600 is synonymous with hacking. However, I think they get undue attention, and in many cases, undue persecution.
I really don't care whether it is legal or illegal to link to or carry contraband binary files on your site. The point is that it is too late to stop decss. I have found copies of decss all over the place. Some sites have it kind of hidden in non-obviously named directories. For example, check out ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/web/html-util/decss
Where is Henry David Thoreau when you need him! The government that governs least, governs best
I had just gotten my system all up on 2.4.1 from 2.2.x. What an experience it was getting the dsl/pppoe, iptables and nat all switched over. I saw the new 2.4.2 last night and was kind of pissed, wondering if 2.4.3 would be out before I got this one installed! But, I had my system patched and running in about an hour. It was rather pleasant knowing I had a kernel running just 2 1/2 hours after the thing was released.
My dsl line is provided by SWBell, but my isp is a local company. I have not experienced any downtime in the 8 months since I got the line installed. For me, like everyone else it seems, the installation was the biggest hassle.
/etc/ppp to automate notifications of ip changes to tzo. Before I upgraded to kernel 2.2.16 and was (sadly) forced to reboot, my uptime was at 60 days and during that time, I had no interruption to my dsl service other than the 12 hour reconnects forced on my by either my isp, or swbell (probably my isp). No big deal, really, as it only takes 20 seconds on average to re-establish a connection and this is automated.
PPPoE is a snap under Linux - I use the following:
1) ipchains for sharing the line via NAT, and firewalling.
2) Roaring Penguin's pppoe implementation configured for auto-reconnect.
3) TZO to map the dynamic ip to a domain.
Roaring Penguin's pppoe implementation lets me use the scripts in
One note, at first I decided to use a 3c509 card instead of the d-link that came with my dsl modem. I had strange disconnects during heavy transfers. After putting in the cheapo d-link, I had a stable connection. New Linux drivers for the 3com cards are available, but I have not had the time or inclination to check them out.