The bytecode idea is a really good one, especially with the large (although shrinking) number of platforms you have to support these days, and the possible rise of VLIW processors on the horizon. I don't really like coding in Java all that much, though. Is anyone working on a compiler for another language that compiles to bytecode that will run on a JVM (rather than a internet-c or c# vm)?
Jython (Used to be JPython) does exactly that. Jython is a python intrepreter written in Java, that can compile your script into Java bytecode if you want. And, according to the preface of Programming Python, there's a company that's building yet another python compiler for the.NET framework.
Not to meantion that python is OO, and being Free Software will probably overtake Java in a couple years anyway.;=)
I got off EFnet when DALnet first came up with a real solution to these problems (I held founder status on #watertower when it was the biggest channel on DALnet, way back when), and never looked back. I'm not surprised that EFnet has been in a long slow decline ever since.
Yeah, they solved those issues alright. So much so that now you can't even join a channel unless you've registered your nick. Not to meantion that someone's probably already registered your nick and only gets on once a month to keep it, so you have to change your nick anyway. And trying to find anyone worth talking to in the sea of ASL questions, and offers of cybersex. If that's what I wanted I'd use AIM or ICQ.
EFnet's not about keeping a certain identity or hiding behind the protection of the opers. It's about having a place where clued people can idle during work/school and talk to other people in similer situations. It's just a place to kick back and shoot the shit occasonally with people who are a notch or two smarter than the average people on irc. The opers generally leave the users alone, and the users generally leave the opers alone, and things are good. As the original poster said, you lose something, so what? If that's your biggest concern EFnet is not for you.
Incidentally, EFnet did fix most of the problems with channel takeovers and nick colliding by adding timestampping. No longer can you ride splits for ops, or nick collide to get someone's nick. Hell, you can't even get ops on a split server anymore. The only tool left to the script kiddie is DoS attacks, which no network is immune to.
So yes, EFnet may not be the largest network anymore, and its population may be going down, but the level of clue hasn't gone down and seems to be rising for the most part.
Trying to land an IT job with just a Computer Science degree, but no experience seems to be impossible these days. To get a job, one must have experience... to get experience, one must have a job.
That's because companies are finally realizing that a degree in computer science is worthless. Those who like CS were studying it in high school, and by the time they get to college they know more than most the 3rd and 4th year CS students, and not wanting to wait to get to the good stuff they don't know yet, they decide to drop out and get a good job (Which was possible to do 6 months ago). Those that stay won't learn much (With a few exceptions) and in 4 years time will graduate with a shiny new CS degree, with the bubble having burst (like it did 4 months ago) and companies unwilling to hire, especially if you have no experiance.
True story:
A friend of mine works at a company near UC Davis, and had to interview 20-30 UC Davis students applying for a part time position. This campany makes network devices, so a resonable knowledge of networking was needed. Every single one of them was asked what a netmask is, and not a single one got it right. This was among a sample of students of all years.
So don't feel discouraged because you can't get a job with your shiny CS degree. You only have to proove yourself against the hordes of CS graduates with no clue.
I use the Dvorak layout on my keyboard, and that is a pretty good password protection scheme in an of itself! I'll use easy to remember words, like linuxrules, and convert them to the qwerty layout. So, linuxrules would be pglfbofpd; Plus, it freaks people out to start typing at the machine, so that is a pretty good protection mechanism!
Dvorak owns. I got a DvortyBoard which swithces between dvorak and qwerty. I just hit Dvorak lock, type my password as normal, and then turn dvorak back on. Of course, I'm screwed on a qwerty keyboard for 5 minutes or so while I remeber the translation.
I have to agree with Taco, if they gave this kind of service down at the DMV, they'd be picking up passed out folks left and right.
From this day forward all slashdot editors shall be known as Taco, reguardless of what their chosen moniker is. This measure will simplify things drastically. No longer will posters have to do the arduous task of scrolling back to the top of a page to see which editor posted a story. Afterall, most the editors don't bother to check what they're posting, why should the readers?
We give them a pretty basic test in their interview (write a function that can do some-trivial-task, taking these inputs and giving this output; you have 30 mins, a pad of paper and a pen. If you get the order of arguments to fgets() the wrong way around, don't worry too much, we look that stuff up as well sometimes, even when we're not under interview pressure) and then talk to them about it afterwards.
You're an idiot. You wouldn't hand a backhoe operator a shovel and tell them to dig a small hole to judge how well they'll operate a backhoe (Besides, that fiber is too far down to hit with a shovel). Neither should you hand a programmer pen and paper and tell them to code. Set them down at the devel environment, with access to all the man pages/language reference you normally have, and let them code. Forcing them to work in an unfamiler environment just because it's an interview is silly, and will probably lose you many qualified applicants. (How many months have you been looking, now?)
The TV industry is well aware of the leaks to the extent that sometimes wildfeeds for particularly important (cliffhangery) episodes will be delayed to just hours before the show is due to air to ensure the suspense.
Actually, if they really want to prevent premature viewing, they scramble the signal, with vidoecipher II if it's a poor station, or (more likely) with digicipher or mpeg encoding and sent on KU transponders. But usually, the only broadcast events to warrant such measures are major sporting events. Although both NBC and PBS are using a lot of digital transmissions nowadays. At one point PBS's plan was to go all digital, and when I left the industry 3 years ago they were well on their way. Luckily, PBS doesn't encrypt their signal, so it's just a matter of having a reciever capable of recieveing and decoding the mpeg2 stream. Now if only that were the case for nbc's feeds.....
does that mean i can format my drive by holding a lamp too it?
No, since they use sound waves to imprint the storage medium you get data corruption when the guy in the jeep drives by blasting the latest eminem garbage.
You just answered your own question, stop reinstalling everything every week, for Christ's sake:)
It's the easiest way to do upgrades. I make changes here, do some testing, and before applying the changes across the board I have to make sure they'll work under load. The only reliable way is to take a machine out of the cluster, do the new install on it (So that when we add machines we know they'll work) then after a few days of that machine not falling down, use an expect script to ssh to the remaining machines and do the upgrades in place. Eventually, I'll get something setup where the new install wget's some important settings from another machine, and at the same time sends it the ssh key, but that's not really what I want to have to setup. I was hoping someone would know of some obscure key management system that automatically propogated changes across the network, or would have a really nifty way to implement it without the lag or MITM issues.
I couldn't have made it through school without Doug's Barbeque, open until 3:00 AM most nights, 3600 San Pablo Blvd, Oakland. Not recommended for pasty white solitary geeks at 3:00 AM, due to its location under the freeway on the north edge of the seedier part of Oaktown. But worth it for the best ribs, fried chicken, roast lamb and slabs o'beef around.
Are you sure that's still there? I live at 48th and San Pablo in Emeryville, and I don't recall seeing anything to eat around 30th, nor does yp.yahoo.com list them. I'd love it if there was something more than giant burger open at 2am. Despite being the bay area, we have a severe lack of anything open late-night. Even the grocery stores and gas stations close by 11pm.
For anyone else in the east bay, where do you go late at night? I've spent two years in the area and still have yet to find anything decent/close open late at night (And you can forget about food.com, everything they list closed at 9pm).
And for anyone worried about how seedy oakland looks, it's really not that seedy. Sure, you have no troubles finding someone to sell you crack in a church's chicken box, or a hooker about any time of the night, but it's still a safe neighborhood. I've never had any qualms about walking through about any neighborhood at night, even when my skin is pasty white after 3 days of sitting in front of a terminal with the shades drawn.
Hahaha. Where I live, there's a stretch of 6-lane freeway headed out of town into the countryside. Almost always, the "fast" lane moves slowest, and the "slow" lane moves fastest, presumably because everyone thinks they belong in the fast lane. I usually drive in the middle lane, and use the "slow" lane for a passing lane.
I've noticed this in N. Cali too. The "fast" left lane usually moves about 65-70mph and the "slow" left lanes usually move 70-80mph. Actually, usually not the far right, as those are reserved for 55mph trucks, but one lane left of those trucks are people who pass at 80. This rule epsecially holds true (On a slower scale) during rush hour, where the far left lane creeps along at an average speed of 3mph and the more right lanes tend to hold an average of 8-10mph but with more stop and go (especially around exits).
Funny thing is, I never noticed such a phenominon when I lived in OR, where the highways are mostly 1 and 2 lane. In fact, before I went to CA, the biggest highway I drove on was mostly 3 with a small patch of 4 lane in Portland. Maybe this is limited to highways that are 4 lane and bigger?
In other states, the state income tax may be as low as 0% (Texas, Florda, Washington, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota) or the state sales tax may be lower.
Or you live in Oregon, where you have no sales tax.
Even brick and mortar banks have internal networks that must be secured. It's my understanding that these are very well secured indeed. What happens when these security-conscious organizations move their presence to the Internet?
Unfortunatly, these organizations don't generally keep very secure networks, at least not the smaller ones. A lot of them use Unisys servers, which while they're new enough to be atx and communicate via tcp, the interface to the machine is via their terminal editor on port 23 (Probably vt100, possibly tn3270). Combine this with communication between branches over 56k frame-relay, unencrypted, and you have the potential for sniffing large ammounts of financial data. Luckily, when this contract is up, there will be one fewer bank with such an insecure network (hint: Link encryption is your friend).
Maybe I'm just a purist, or a freak, but I've always liked DZXC. Every time I tried WASD, I kept hitting the E for 'forward' because my hands naturally tilt slightly inward when placed on a keybaord (especially when relying on armrests on a chair to cushion my war-worn elbows).
I do the same thing, so I just moved my config to ESDF. Leaves my left hand on the home row, which feels natural, and gives my pinky the use of not only control, shift, and tab (assuming you remap control to the correct position like I do) but also gives it easy use of q, a, and z. My typical config:
e - forward
d - backward
s - slide left
f - slide right
a - use item (Or special in q3f)
z - duck/crouch
space - jump
tab - scores (Or destroy supplystation in q3f)
control - changes from game to game
mouse1 - fire
mouse2 - next weapon
mouse3 - zoom (zoom/throw grenade in q3f)
I can then bind various functions to keys around those on the keyboard. For instance, in q3f (my latest obsession) I use w and r for priming gren1 and gren2, and then mouse3 to throw them, q is used for build sentry/upgrade/repair/refil when engineer, detonate pipes as grenadier, turn on radar as recon. x, c, v, and b are for setting various charges as grenadier. Comms are F1-F12. Using this setup I generally end up 3rd or 4th on the board (Unless I'm an engineer who's guarding a base that doesn't get attacked).
Is it just me or have they dropped in reliability? I mean, they were never perfect, but 10 years ago I could copy something onto floppy, carry it around for 20 minutes and as long as I avoiding obvious things like speakers it would be fine once I got to the destination.
Floppies have been going downhill. I had a single floppy disk I carried for 3 years of high school that finnally stopped working towards the end of my junior year. This was using it in the school's mac's (which ranged from 1-5 years old) and carrying it lose in my backpack (nothing to protect it). Just recently I had to connect two networks together for a 2 week period, so a bank could move their branch in steps, and I just threw together a couple machines and built EQL dialup routers (one dialin and one dialout). I decided to just use floppy disks as they had more than enough room for what I wanted to do. I ended up going through 20 floppy disks for the operation, as they would go bad after the 4th or 5th write. (dd'd gziped root images to the disk) This was writing them on a less than one year old floppy drive and reading in brand new floppy drives. The disks were a box of maxell's, bought brand new, and a box of sony's, also bought brand new.
- Browne fails to explain how a lot of people will survive in his vision. If wellfare system is taken off immediately, the country will no doubt be in chaos and violence. Simply put, some people will go out and rob if they don't have food in thier hands. This is more costly than wellfare.
Sure, initially it will be more costly, but if you only ever look at the short term results, you get a system, well, like we have now. Since the great depression American's have been electing leaders who are focusing only on the next election, and how they're going to get more votes, and not on what is going to work best for our country in the long run.
Currently, the majority of people on welfare are single women with children, most of whom have more children so they get more money from welfare. Is this what we need? People with no motivation to work, having children who will be raised with no motivation to work?
Personally, I would support giving someone a middle class income for life (Say, $25-$30k/yr) if they agree to get themself sterilized, not have it reversed, and have not yet had children. Use this instead of welfare. That way, the people too lazy to work will have removed themselves from the gene pool, and not propgated yet another generation of lazy children.
Sure, we'll lose a lot of great genes from artists and others who will use that $30k/yr to live as they choose, but I'd be willing to bet they'll leave other things to us that will be just as valuable.
Of course, I'd be more happy to see the Government off my back, which is why I'll be voting for browne in a couple weeks.
um...I watch the local news on cable every day else what would I watch it on?
Well, like many people, you could choose to pick it up via an antenna and not have to pay the cable company for what's free. Then again, I personally haven't watched any TV in over a month, and then it was just to see the two idiots debate.
It's a good thing I take several grams of Vitamin C daily along with other anti-oxidants, otherwise I might be facing a lawsuit from taco's lawyers for violating his patent.
While I appreciate the desire to avoid changing do we really want a release to be forced to maintain such functionality.
I see no problem with maintaining backward compatability as long as it's not holding back the forward progress. In this case, keeping support for libc5 (And even a.out libc4) binaries is simply a matter of keeping the libraries around, it doesn't stop someone from moving forward on libc6.
And for the guy who said it's holding back Linux the way that dos compatability is holding back Win2k, you need to stop smoking crack. Win2k still has a lot of legacy code in it because it HAS to have it to run. I don't see old libc5 code hanging around in glibc2 because the libc5 programs need it to run. In fact, the libc5 programs don't, and can go on happily using libc5 while libc6 gets broken all to hell.
FWIW too, Slackware 7.1 still includes a.out (libc4) binary support. From slakware/ a1/ diska1:
aoutlibs: a.out (libc4) shared libraries
aoutlibs:
aoutlibs: These shared libraries provide support for running Linux binaries
aoutlibs: compiled in the now obsolete a.out binary format. These libraries
aoutlibs: can be found in/usr/i386-slackware-linux-gnuaout/lib.
aoutlibs:
aoutlibs: Adds crt0.o, libvga.so.1.2.9, libdb.so.1.85.1, libc.so.4.7.6,
aoutlibs: libcurses.so.0.1.2, libm.so.4.6.27.
And how much extra cruft does this add to your install? About a meg, uncompressed.
As far as security and other mishmash goes, do the usual/etc/inetd.conf edit, and comment EVERYTHING out. Don't run ANY daemons on the clients (other than what is absolutely necessary for Coda).
I agree with the rest of your post (Although I would personally recommend qmail, but that's neither here nor there) but I'm curious what the point of running inetd when you have essentially a blank inetd.conf file. Why not just not run inetd and be done with it?
I had one of those legonds, and it ended up being the server for sysfail.org when that was still going, and then later my router. For what it was, it was a decent machine. Luckily, I was able to get a new bios for it while PB was still in business (cost me something like $80) so I could boot off the large 2.7gb maxtor my dad made the mistake of buying.
Ahh, reliving the old days of making crap hardware useful for something.....
Actually, the "regular," "dark," and "happy" order is a well established trilogy sequence.
Part one should be an introduce the characters, general purpose movie. It should be entertaining, and stand on its own in case the movie is not recieved well and you don't get the funding for parts two and three. For examples, see "Star Wars," "The Matrix," and "Back To The Future."
In part two, you continue on with the story, ending in the worst possible situation your protagonists can get into.
Finnally, you wrap it up with part three, where you get out of the part 2 situation and everyone lives happily ever after.
So far, I see no sign that Lucas is doing any different with ep1-3 than with ep4-6. If he doesn't end ep2 on a bad note, many people won't go see it ("Oh, that was a good `happy' movie. I guess all that's left for part 3 is for anakin to turn into darth vader and for luke and leigha to get born").
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Not to meantion that python is OO, and being Free Software will probably overtake Java in a couple years anyway. ;=)
EFnet's not about keeping a certain identity or hiding behind the protection of the opers. It's about having a place where clued people can idle during work/school and talk to other people in similer situations. It's just a place to kick back and shoot the shit occasonally with people who are a notch or two smarter than the average people on irc. The opers generally leave the users alone, and the users generally leave the opers alone, and things are good. As the original poster said, you lose something, so what? If that's your biggest concern EFnet is not for you.
Incidentally, EFnet did fix most of the problems with channel takeovers and nick colliding by adding timestampping. No longer can you ride splits for ops, or nick collide to get someone's nick. Hell, you can't even get ops on a split server anymore. The only tool left to the script kiddie is DoS attacks, which no network is immune to.
So yes, EFnet may not be the largest network anymore, and its population may be going down, but the level of clue hasn't gone down and seems to be rising for the most part.
True story:
A friend of mine works at a company near UC Davis, and had to interview 20-30 UC Davis students applying for a part time position. This campany makes network devices, so a resonable knowledge of networking was needed. Every single one of them was asked what a netmask is, and not a single one got it right. This was among a sample of students of all years.
So don't feel discouraged because you can't get a job with your shiny CS degree. You only have to proove yourself against the hordes of CS graduates with no clue.
For anyone else in the east bay, where do you go late at night? I've spent two years in the area and still have yet to find anything decent/close open late at night (And you can forget about food.com, everything they list closed at 9pm).
And for anyone worried about how seedy oakland looks, it's really not that seedy. Sure, you have no troubles finding someone to sell you crack in a church's chicken box, or a hooker about any time of the night, but it's still a safe neighborhood. I've never had any qualms about walking through about any neighborhood at night, even when my skin is pasty white after 3 days of sitting in front of a terminal with the shades drawn.
Funny thing is, I never noticed such a phenominon when I lived in OR, where the highways are mostly 1 and 2 lane. In fact, before I went to CA, the biggest highway I drove on was mostly 3 with a small patch of 4 lane in Portland. Maybe this is limited to highways that are 4 lane and bigger?
Or you live in Oregon, where you have no sales tax.
You lie, there's no way a windows box can be doing anything and stay up for a month.
I do the same thing, so I just moved my config to ESDF. Leaves my left hand on the home row, which feels natural, and gives my pinky the use of not only control, shift, and tab (assuming you remap control to the correct position like I do) but also gives it easy use of q, a, and z. My typical config:
e - forward
d - backward
s - slide left
f - slide right
a - use item (Or special in q3f)
z - duck/crouch
space - jump
tab - scores (Or destroy supplystation in q3f)
control - changes from game to game
mouse1 - fire
mouse2 - next weapon
mouse3 - zoom (zoom/throw grenade in q3f)
I can then bind various functions to keys around those on the keyboard. For instance, in q3f (my latest obsession) I use w and r for priming gren1 and gren2, and then mouse3 to throw them, q is used for build sentry/upgrade/repair/refil when engineer, detonate pipes as grenadier, turn on radar as recon. x, c, v, and b are for setting various charges as grenadier. Comms are F1-F12. Using this setup I generally end up 3rd or 4th on the board (Unless I'm an engineer who's guarding a base that doesn't get attacked).
Floppies have been going downhill. I had a single floppy disk I carried for 3 years of high school that finnally stopped working towards the end of my junior year. This was using it in the school's mac's (which ranged from 1-5 years old) and carrying it lose in my backpack (nothing to protect it). Just recently I had to connect two networks together for a 2 week period, so a bank could move their branch in steps, and I just threw together a couple machines and built EQL dialup routers (one dialin and one dialout). I decided to just use floppy disks as they had more than enough room for what I wanted to do. I ended up going through 20 floppy disks for the operation, as they would go bad after the 4th or 5th write. (dd'd gziped root images to the disk) This was writing them on a less than one year old floppy drive and reading in brand new floppy drives. The disks were a box of maxell's, bought brand new, and a box of sony's, also bought brand new.
Then again, maybe we're both just jinxed.
Sure, initially it will be more costly, but if you only ever look at the short term results, you get a system, well, like we have now. Since the great depression American's have been electing leaders who are focusing only on the next election, and how they're going to get more votes, and not on what is going to work best for our country in the long run.
Currently, the majority of people on welfare are single women with children, most of whom have more children so they get more money from welfare. Is this what we need? People with no motivation to work, having children who will be raised with no motivation to work?
Personally, I would support giving someone a middle class income for life (Say, $25-$30k/yr) if they agree to get themself sterilized, not have it reversed, and have not yet had children. Use this instead of welfare. That way, the people too lazy to work will have removed themselves from the gene pool, and not propgated yet another generation of lazy children.
Sure, we'll lose a lot of great genes from artists and others who will use that $30k/yr to live as they choose, but I'd be willing to bet they'll leave other things to us that will be just as valuable.
Of course, I'd be more happy to see the Government off my back, which is why I'll be voting for browne in a couple weeks.
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Well, like many people, you could choose to pick it up via an antenna and not have to pay the cable company for what's free. Then again, I personally haven't watched any TV in over a month, and then it was just to see the two idiots debate.
It's a good thing I take several grams of Vitamin C daily along with other anti-oxidants, otherwise I might be facing a lawsuit from taco's lawyers for violating his patent.
I see no problem with maintaining backward compatability as long as it's not holding back the forward progress. In this case, keeping support for libc5 (And even a.out libc4) binaries is simply a matter of keeping the libraries around, it doesn't stop someone from moving forward on libc6.
And for the guy who said it's holding back Linux the way that dos compatability is holding back Win2k, you need to stop smoking crack. Win2k still has a lot of legacy code in it because it HAS to have it to run. I don't see old libc5 code hanging around in glibc2 because the libc5 programs need it to run. In fact, the libc5 programs don't, and can go on happily using libc5 while libc6 gets broken all to hell.
FWIW too, Slackware 7.1 still includes a.out (libc4) binary support. From slakware/ a1/ diska1:
aoutlibs: a.out (libc4) shared libraries
aoutlibs:
aoutlibs: These shared libraries provide support for running Linux binaries
aoutlibs: compiled in the now obsolete a.out binary format. These libraries
aoutlibs: can be found in
aoutlibs:
aoutlibs: Adds crt0.o, libvga.so.1.2.9, libdb.so.1.85.1, libc.so.4.7.6,
aoutlibs: libcurses.so.0.1.2, libm.so.4.6.27.
And how much extra cruft does this add to your install? About a meg, uncompressed.
I agree with the rest of your post (Although I would personally recommend qmail, but that's neither here nor there) but I'm curious what the point of running inetd when you have essentially a blank inetd.conf file. Why not just not run inetd and be done with it?
Ahh, reliving the old days of making crap hardware useful for something.....
Actually, the "regular," "dark," and "happy" order is a well established trilogy sequence.
Part one should be an introduce the characters, general purpose movie. It should be entertaining, and stand on its own in case the movie is not recieved well and you don't get the funding for parts two and three. For examples, see "Star Wars," "The Matrix," and "Back To The Future."
In part two, you continue on with the story, ending in the worst possible situation your protagonists can get into.
Finnally, you wrap it up with part three, where you get out of the part 2 situation and everyone lives happily ever after.
So far, I see no sign that Lucas is doing any different with ep1-3 than with ep4-6. If he doesn't end ep2 on a bad note, many people won't go see it ("Oh, that was a good `happy' movie. I guess all that's left for part 3 is for anakin to turn into darth vader and for luke and leigha to get born").