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I'm sick of all the hype about searching. This is very typical in a University setting; hey the Google kids got rich on searching. Let's make a search thing!
And P2P is irritating. Here is my comment: it's a dumb idea, guys. I think I'll infect the P2P database with my spamvertising. Great idea, indeed.
Well, if the whole machine has to be thrown away due to stink, then just throwing away the HDs is a good deal, right? If you can save something, you've won.
The difference between Windows and Linux is that the Linux people admit to problems like that. Windows doesn't say anything; so you assume it can't happen.
Wrong. That's not what the expression is referring to. Security through obscurity in that case would be, instead of writing "Password: " as a password prompt, you wrote "Square root of nine: ". You're obscuring the fact that the program wants a password.
Obscuring the login token is obviously necessary for it to work. Hence, it doesn't fall into the category of "security through obscurity".
It's pretty good. I couldn't get around it in Windows after they blocked real mode programs. Before that I had to crack the BIOS password and then boot Knoppix, then delete key files. And sometimes the fucker still came back.
So from my independent analysis, I'd say DeepFreeze is good. I haven't done any code-tracing, though, so I don't know if some buffer overflow would ruin the whole thing. It wouldn't surprise me, though.
I guess I'm just used to the GNU utils. I tried to do a cp -a/dir/dir2 in OS X and it didn't recognize the -a option. Apparently -dpR is the same, but I didn't know that until I did an info cp on my GNU system.
As for getopt_long, it is really convenient for non-shell-script tasks. I mostly like the auto-completion. I like to be able to type:
tar --check-l --tot --blo
when i mean
tar --check-links --total --block-number
That's obviously a random example, but I still enjoy that functionality.
I like all the features, myself, and I like the license. That's why I use GNU/Linux and not OpenBSD (although I am planning of pulling out the good features of GNU/Linux and putting them in OpenBSD because OpenBSD is just very very cool).
Yeah but that's a real hack. Take screen shot, clip, add shadow, do Gaussian blur, display. That is slow locally and unreasonable remotely. Fortunately now it's done efficiently.
You're right about eye candy. For me, it doesn't matter. Yes, I like the eye candy on my Powerbook. I bought the thing so I could have OSX*. But I also like my GNOME desktop equally. They both have strengths and weaknesses (although i couldn't name any weaknesses of OSX or GNOME... both are just great as far as I'm concerned).
I like exposé, though. That is really innovation at it's best. They dropped the tired windowlist/taskbar/tabbed-browsing paradigm and invented something just as effective (dock + exposé). I definitely like the innovation in OS X, which is why I use it. I'm tired of the blatant Windows copying of GNOME and KDE. It's really getting irritating. Windows is not a good model. It's BAD. Familiar yes, but good, no.
Now that I think about it, I think XFCE+eyecandy is the next great Linux desktop. A new file manager, and we have a UNIX-y (non bloated) desktop for the masses.
Anyway, sorry about ranting about this. I'm way off-topic now, so I'll stop. Gnite:)
* I picked a Powerbook over a Thinkpad for the following reasons:
1) I didn't want to maintain another Linux box. I wanted the thing to just work whenever I wanted to do something. The other day, we wanted to watch something on TV. I plugged the svideo cable in, wired up the audio, and pressed play in mplayer. Everything went as planned.
2) I needed UNIX. IBM seems to happily proclaim "IBM recommends Microsoft Windows XP." I didn't want to pay the M$ tax (there would no way I would be caught dead owning an XP system, sorry)."
3) iCal. Apple's iLife apps are great. iCal is the first calendar program I've liked. Evolution, gnome-pim, kde-pim, jpilot, etc. iCal sync'd with my iPod and Tungsten|E with no effort. Plus it's pretty.
4) Features. For a thinkpad of the same price, I would get a slower processor, and crappy graphics. With the Powerbook I got a Radeon 9700, Gigabit Ethernet, DVI/S-video/composite out, Firewire 400 and 800, etc. Not to mention the beautiful screen and backlit keyboard.
5) OS X. What other OS lets you install a plugin so that I have emacs keybindings in every program? I mean real emacs, like C-t, or C-f + C-b, etc.
I have nothing bad to say about US cellular. Sure every other person on earth has the same exact phone as me, but the monthly rate is good. So is their service; they called me about 2 weeks after i bought the plan to see if I had any questions. That was pretty thoughtful (a waste of my time, but I have to give them credit for caring). Also the sales droid there was very honest about everything, and even advised me that some of the competitors had better plans.
All in all, a very nice bunch of people to deal with; and the service is fine (in downtown chicago where I live everyone has great service, though).
Actually, I think that (minus the G5) my 15" Al Book is a better machine than the new iMac. Nearly 4 hours of battery life, very light and portable, firewire 800, radeon 9700, etc.
That's the way it should be; the iMac is much less expensive:)
He's saying a bit gets flipped somewhere far away. Maybe an "i++" got interpreted as an "i+=0" because a cosmic ray hit the memory (or the memory was overheating).
This is not a human error, it's a computer error. (Which was programmed by humans that could have erred, but you know what I mean. It's not the cashier's fault.)
Those security tag detectors aren't fake. I remember walking into Shit-mart once when my new jacket set the thing off. I was in fifth grade but was treated like I was some serial killer. "How did you steal that little kid?"
They didn't seem to understand that there are other stores in the world. I bought it somewhere else and they didn't take the tag out!!
Anyway, I won't set foot in a walmart to this day. I didn't need that abuse then and I'm not going to risk it again. Morons.
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I'm sick of all the hype about searching. This is very typical in a University setting; hey the Google kids got rich on searching. Let's make a search thing!
And P2P is irritating. Here is my comment: it's a dumb idea, guys. I think I'll infect the P2P database with my spamvertising. Great idea, indeed.
Meh, why worry about someone else when you can worry about yourself. I don't agree, but it's something to think about.
Nuclear weapons were a huge problem in 1805 when Gauss discovered the factorization step leading to the FFT. Oh wait, no they weren't :)
I thought it was a good post.
Exactly. Had you not been aware of the .0001% risk, you would not have cared. Now you do.
Ignorance is bliss.
> Bad idea. Don't go here.
Well, if the whole machine has to be thrown away due to stink, then just throwing away the HDs is a good deal, right? If you can save something, you've won.
The difference between Windows and Linux is that the Linux people admit to problems like that. Windows doesn't say anything; so you assume it can't happen.
:)
Just goes to show you that ignorance is bliss
I don't even want to see it. But I think I'll download it anyway... just to be an ass :)
Wrong. That's not what the expression is referring to. Security through obscurity in that case would be, instead of writing "Password: " as a password prompt, you wrote "Square root of nine: ". You're obscuring the fact that the program wants a password.
Obscuring the login token is obviously necessary for it to work. Hence, it doesn't fall into the category of "security through obscurity".
It's pretty good. I couldn't get around it in Windows after they blocked real mode programs. Before that I had to crack the BIOS password and then boot Knoppix, then delete key files. And sometimes the fucker still came back.
So from my independent analysis, I'd say DeepFreeze is good. I haven't done any code-tracing, though, so I don't know if some buffer overflow would ruin the whole thing. It wouldn't surprise me, though.
Closed source is what it is.
I guess I'm just used to the GNU utils. I tried to do a cp -a /dir /dir2 in OS X and it didn't recognize the -a option. Apparently -dpR is the same, but I didn't know that until I did an info cp on my GNU system.
As for getopt_long, it is really convenient for non-shell-script tasks. I mostly like the auto-completion. I like to be able to type:
tar --check-l --tot --blo
when i mean
tar --check-links --total --block-number
That's obviously a random example, but I still enjoy that functionality.
I like all the features, myself, and I like the license. That's why I use GNU/Linux and not OpenBSD (although I am planning of pulling out the good features of GNU/Linux and putting them in OpenBSD because OpenBSD is just very very cool).
ut2004 has good sound... it even uses the open-source OpenAL to render it
Yeah but that's a real hack. Take screen shot, clip, add shadow, do Gaussian blur, display. That is slow locally and unreasonable remotely. Fortunately now it's done efficiently.
You're right about eye candy. For me, it doesn't matter. Yes, I like the eye candy on my Powerbook. I bought the thing so I could have OSX*. But I also like my GNOME desktop equally. They both have strengths and weaknesses (although i couldn't name any weaknesses of OSX or GNOME... both are just great as far as I'm concerned).
:)
:)
I like exposé, though. That is really innovation at it's best. They dropped the tired windowlist/taskbar/tabbed-browsing paradigm and invented something just as effective (dock + exposé). I definitely like the innovation in OS X, which is why I use it. I'm tired of the blatant Windows copying of GNOME and KDE. It's really getting irritating. Windows is not a good model. It's BAD. Familiar yes, but good, no.
Now that I think about it, I think XFCE+eyecandy is the next great Linux desktop. A new file manager, and we have a UNIX-y (non bloated) desktop for the masses.
Anyway, sorry about ranting about this. I'm way off-topic now, so I'll stop. Gnite
* I picked a Powerbook over a Thinkpad for the following reasons:
1) I didn't want to maintain another Linux box. I wanted the thing to just work whenever I wanted to do something. The other day, we wanted to watch something on TV. I plugged the svideo cable in, wired up the audio, and pressed play in mplayer. Everything went as planned.
2) I needed UNIX. IBM seems to happily proclaim "IBM recommends Microsoft Windows XP." I didn't want to pay the M$ tax (there would no way I would be caught dead owning an XP system, sorry)."
3) iCal. Apple's iLife apps are great. iCal is the first calendar program I've liked. Evolution, gnome-pim, kde-pim, jpilot, etc. iCal sync'd with my iPod and Tungsten|E with no effort. Plus it's pretty.
4) Features. For a thinkpad of the same price, I would get a slower processor, and crappy graphics. With the Powerbook I got a Radeon 9700, Gigabit Ethernet, DVI/S-video/composite out, Firewire 400 and 800, etc. Not to mention the beautiful screen and backlit keyboard.
5) OS X. What other OS lets you install a plugin so that I have emacs keybindings in every program? I mean real emacs, like C-t, or C-f + C-b, etc.
Ok, now I'm really on a rant. ttfn
> ask, I will tell you how
how?
Yup, he should of hit preview :) English is hard...
I have nothing bad to say about US cellular. Sure every other person on earth has the same exact phone as me, but the monthly rate is good. So is their service; they called me about 2 weeks after i bought the plan to see if I had any questions. That was pretty thoughtful (a waste of my time, but I have to give them credit for caring). Also the sales droid there was very honest about everything, and even advised me that some of the competitors had better plans.
All in all, a very nice bunch of people to deal with; and the service is fine (in downtown chicago where I live everyone has great service, though).
> What, exactly, is it about the GNU utils that make them so much better than BSD's?
getopt
no it would be fear.com.com. Too bad news.com.com already owns the .com.com domain name X_X
My Powerbook has a much better GPU.
:)
Actually, I think that (minus the G5) my 15" Al Book is a better machine than the new iMac. Nearly 4 hours of battery life, very light and portable, firewire 800, radeon 9700, etc.
That's the way it should be; the iMac is much less expensive
gee you mean you can modify the article when you cut-n-paste it to slashdot?
point of sale, not piece of shit. It's IBM equipment, which is usually pretty good :)
He's saying a bit gets flipped somewhere far away. Maybe an "i++" got interpreted as an "i+=0" because a cosmic ray hit the memory (or the memory was overheating).
This is not a human error, it's a computer error. (Which was programmed by humans that could have erred, but you know what I mean. It's not the cashier's fault.)
Those security tag detectors aren't fake. I remember walking into Shit-mart once when my new jacket set the thing off. I was in fifth grade but was treated like I was some serial killer. "How did you steal that little kid?"
They didn't seem to understand that there are other stores in the world. I bought it somewhere else and they didn't take the tag out!!
Anyway, I won't set foot in a walmart to this day. I didn't need that abuse then and I'm not going to risk it again. Morons.