You don't need to ask anyone permission, just show up and start helping out. If you check out the source code to the Apache HTTP Server (find out how at http://httpd.apache.org/dev/devnotes.html), you'll find 50 instances of the word "FIXME" in the source code (case insensitive search). Check out what the original author thought still needs fixing, and post a patch to dev@httpd.apache.org. Alternatively, you can look in the bug database and start picking low hanging fruit. Again, no permission needed. If your patches are good, they'll get committed. If they aren't, we'll tell you how you can improve.
You will find that every project has its own coding conventions, macros, libraries and idiosynchrasies. Real code will look very different from the examples and exercises you have worked with so far. You'll have to learn the particulars and become comfortable with each project you take on. This is a tedious and uncomfortable process, but it does tend to pay off.
You can't "buy" a membership in the Apache Software Foundation, and corporations cannot become members. As has beenbloggedelsewhere, El Reg has its terminology wrong on this one.
Microsoft has agreed to a platinum level sponsorship of the Apache Software Foundation. If you browse to the page, you'll see that the benefits of sponsoring, even at that level, consist of a logo and a press release.
You can't buy a membership in the ASF. The only way to influence the ASF is to show up and talk code. Anyone can join the mailinglists and start contributing patches, and everyone who contributes a substantial amount of code signs a license agreement to clear the IP. If folks contribute code of consistent quality, they become committers. As they show their interest in the project surpasses their day to day circumstances (like affiliation), they are invited to the Project Management Committee. Show that you have the interests of the foundation at heart, and you'll likely be invited to become a member and get to vote in board elections. That's how it works. Membership can be earned, but not bought.
-- Sander Temme - Member, Apache Software Foundation
1. How much was money worth in those days compared to today? Worth being determined not by the amount of worthless consumer junk you can buy, but by it's value versus common commodities.
There was a very interesting and somewhat disconcerting article in in the Harvard Magazine last year. Yes, families are earning more, but we're working more and harder for it, and running higher risks. The inflation-adjusted median income has actually gone down since the 1970s. Makes me want to whip out Quicken and stare at my financials.
Can I use Zune's great wifi capabilities to exchange MP3s with the onboard flight navigation system?
Well, anything with an antenna will have to remain in the off position for the duration of the flight, so your iPod has one step up over your Zune right there.
With Windows, I know that the step from 2000 to XP is significant because the names are way different. Similar with XP and Vista. But seriously, how can I expect something significant going from Tiger to Leopard?
Well, y'see, a Tiger's got stripes, see? And a Leopard's got spots. Very different.
Because it has an old Mac troll on the first page?
Anyhow, from the first page: "therefore you don't have as many security threats for other software as most of the people developing Linux probably sit at night writing up malicious code for windows!"
Methinks this gives the OSDL a good case to blow this guy out of the water.
>> Think about it; in what other field do we "educate" "users"?
> Cars.
> Guns.
Medicine. You go to med school, be a resident, etc.
Law. You have to pass the bar exam in every state you want to practice in.
There are many professions you can perform without any qualifications or licensing whatsoever. Anyone can write a book. Anyone can build a shed, or even a house. You'll have to meet electrical code requirements and (in California at least) earthquake safety standards, so you'll probably have to hire an engineer and an electrician to help you not build something dangerous.
I think the point is that it doesn't take any formal certification or hippocratic oath to write a program that opens a socket onto the 'net at large. In a similar fashion that the United States government doesn't allow cars on its public roads that don't meet certain safety standards, why would Earthlink and Comcast allow any old PC on their networks?
On the other hand, that would give these companies an excellent opportunity to weed out all those pesky linux and MacOSX users by only allowing well-patched Windows XP boxes on their nets, thereby squashing much of what makes the Internet so interesting. Never mind.
> Can't... Stop.... what? Bet you've never been to Turkey (nothing to do with Thanksgiving, you know) let alone a Turkish prison (not to be confused with a turkey farm).
I was referring to the insatiable urge to post the Airplane! quote. And yes, I have been to Turkey, my Arkadas, and have managed to avoid any run-ins with the Law.
> Forget about indemnification from Microsoft. You'll be lucky if Microsoft acknowledges any problems of any kind at all.
If you read the Ballmergram, you'll see that he talks not about software brokenness, but about patent lawsuit indemnification. He says that if you get sued over a patent violation in the Microsoftware you're using, Microsoft will pay for your lawyers. So he says. Says he.
>> I guess that ANYONE can write ANYTHING and still get it published!
> And there's your new job, post-programming : hacking up tech-BS for some newspaper.
That already exists: it's called "consulting" and is frequently used to supplement the retirement income of former industry experts.
I hate it when the mass media call it "identify theft." If someone impersonates me, he's not taking away my identity, he's committing fraud.
If someone assumes your identity and racks up credit card charges in your name, you lose your credit rating and good standing. I have no problem calling that 'theft'.
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Do holes in the 1.3.x line not get discovered anymore because everyone is busy with 2.0.x?
Many folks still run 1.3, and holes in that version tend to get fixed.
I mean, it's like "I transfer you 3 grand and then you mail me a password to a controller server", or something like that ? I guess you have to be mighty sure of the delivery of the goods to enter in such deals.
Not really, since I was using a stolen credit card anyway.
Could a translation find a Silicon Valley audience?
The big difference is that if you're disgruntled and disenfranchised in Silicon Valley, you can start your own company and get meetings with F2500 companies to talk about your product, without the need for having been in the right school or club.
This is IMHO one of the main things that differentiate the US from other countries.
I'm sure you filed at http://bugreporter.apple.com/. Nothing at Apple gets fixed without a bug report. Engineers at Apple actually have work to do (since they have bug reports to work on), so they can't be trusted to troll the/. posts to see what they should fix for the next release. Even if your bug reports get resolved as duplicate, it matters: they keep track of dupes to see which bugs cause the most pain.
Well, my first reaction to that story just has to be: "Doooooooooooooork!"
However, reading TFA, the following quote leaps out at me: A Microsoft spokesperson said: 'Security is a top priority for Microsoft, and we are committed to ensuring a safe and reliable computing experience for all of our customers. ' Yeah, right. Let them fix their installer first:
[sctemme@MonaLisa] Public $ ls -l/Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ X/ total 95736 drwxrwxrwx 8 sctemme admin 272 14 Nov 08:45 Clipart/ -rwxrwxrwx 1 sctemme admin 3738907 19 Oct 2001 Getting Started Book.pdf* -rwxrwxrwx 1 sctemme admin 0 19 Oct 2001 Icon?* -rwxrwxrwx 1 sctemme staff 4092548 3 Jul 2003 Microsoft Entourage* -rwxrwxrwx 1 sctemme staff 8441434 15 Aug 2003 Microsoft Excel* -rwxrwxrwx 1 sctemme staff 4944553 15 Aug 2003 Microsoft PowerPoint* -rwxrwxrwx 1 sctemme staff 10508000 2 Jul 2003 Microsoft Word* drwxrwxrwx 57 sctemme admin 1938 5 Mar 08:36 Office/ drwxrwxrwx 10 sctemme admin 340 4 Aug 2003 Read Me/ drwxrwxrwx 6 sctemme admin 204 4 Aug 2003 Shared Applications/ drwxrwxrwx 17 sctemme admin 578 21 Apr 22:07 Templates/ -rwxrwxrwx 1 sctemme admin 1640920 19 Oct 2001 Welcome*
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The site is running Apache on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and it looks like Drupal running on PHP. What more do you want?
You don't need to ask anyone permission, just show up and start helping out. If you check out the source code to the Apache HTTP Server (find out how at http://httpd.apache.org/dev/devnotes.html), you'll find 50 instances of the word "FIXME" in the source code (case insensitive search). Check out what the original author thought still needs fixing, and post a patch to dev@httpd.apache.org. Alternatively, you can look in the bug database and start picking low hanging fruit. Again, no permission needed. If your patches are good, they'll get committed. If they aren't, we'll tell you how you can improve.
You will find that every project has its own coding conventions, macros, libraries and idiosynchrasies. Real code will look very different from the examples and exercises you have worked with so far. You'll have to learn the particulars and become comfortable with each project you take on. This is a tedious and uncomfortable process, but it does tend to pay off.
You're taking their money, right? In that case, bend over and take it like a r0nc0.
Perhaps Saturday Night Live should consider this approach.
You can't "buy" a membership in the Apache Software Foundation, and corporations cannot become members. As has been blogged elsewhere, El Reg has its terminology wrong on this one.
Microsoft has agreed to a platinum level sponsorship of the Apache Software Foundation. If you browse to the page, you'll see that the benefits of sponsoring, even at that level, consist of a logo and a press release.
You can't buy a membership in the ASF. The only way to influence the ASF is to show up and talk code. Anyone can join the mailinglists and start contributing patches, and everyone who contributes a substantial amount of code signs a license agreement to clear the IP. If folks contribute code of consistent quality, they become committers. As they show their interest in the project surpasses their day to day circumstances (like affiliation), they are invited to the Project Management Committee. Show that you have the interests of the foundation at heart, and you'll likely be invited to become a member and get to vote in board elections. That's how it works. Membership can be earned, but not bought.
-- Sander Temme - Member, Apache Software Foundation
when you outsource your class assignments to India.
1. How much was money worth in those days compared to today? Worth being determined not by the amount of worthless consumer junk you can buy, but by it's value versus common commodities.
There was a very interesting and somewhat disconcerting article in in the Harvard Magazine last year. Yes, families are earning more, but we're working more and harder for it, and running higher risks. The inflation-adjusted median income has actually gone down since the 1970s. Makes me want to whip out Quicken and stare at my financials.
Can I use Zune's great wifi capabilities to exchange MP3s with the onboard flight navigation system?
Well, anything with an antenna will have to remain in the off position for the duration of the flight, so your iPod has one step up over your Zune right there.
With Windows, I know that the step from 2000 to XP is significant because the names are way different. Similar with XP and Vista. But seriously, how can I expect something significant going from Tiger to Leopard?
Well, y'see, a Tiger's got stripes, see? And a Leopard's got spots. Very different.
Because it has an old Mac troll on the first page?
Anyhow, from the first page: "therefore you don't have as many security threats for other software as most of the people developing Linux probably sit at night writing up malicious code for windows!"
Methinks this gives the OSDL a good case to blow this guy out of the water.
>> Think about it; in what other field do we "educate" "users"?
> Cars.
> Guns.
Medicine. You go to med school, be a resident, etc.
Law. You have to pass the bar exam in every state you want to practice in.
There are many professions you can perform without any qualifications or licensing whatsoever. Anyone can write a book. Anyone can build a shed, or even a house. You'll have to meet electrical code requirements and (in California at least) earthquake safety standards, so you'll probably have to hire an engineer and an electrician to help you not build something dangerous.
I think the point is that it doesn't take any formal certification or hippocratic oath to write a program that opens a socket onto the 'net at large. In a similar fashion that the United States government doesn't allow cars on its public roads that don't meet certain safety standards, why would Earthlink and Comcast allow any old PC on their networks?
On the other hand, that would give these companies an excellent opportunity to weed out all those pesky linux and MacOSX users by only allowing well-patched Windows XP boxes on their nets, thereby squashing much of what makes the Internet so interesting. Never mind.
> Can't ... Stop .... what? Bet you've never been to Turkey (nothing to do with Thanksgiving, you know) let alone a Turkish prison (not to be confused with a turkey farm).
I was referring to the insatiable urge to post the Airplane! quote. And yes, I have been to Turkey, my Arkadas, and have managed to avoid any run-ins with the Law.
Captain Oveur: Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?
Sorry...
> Forget about indemnification from Microsoft. You'll be lucky if Microsoft acknowledges any problems of any kind at all.
If you read the Ballmergram, you'll see that he talks not about software brokenness, but about patent lawsuit indemnification. He says that if you get sued over a patent violation in the Microsoftware you're using, Microsoft will pay for your lawyers. So he says. Says he.
>> I guess that ANYONE can write ANYTHING and still get it published!
> And there's your new job, post-programming : hacking up tech-BS for some newspaper.
That already exists: it's called "consulting" and is frequently used to supplement the retirement income of former industry experts.
I hate it when the mass media call it "identify theft." If someone impersonates me, he's not taking away my identity, he's committing fraud.
If someone assumes your identity and racks up credit card charges in your name, you lose your credit rating and good standing. I have no problem calling that 'theft'.
Do holes in the 1.3.x line not get discovered anymore because everyone is busy with 2.0.x?
Many folks still run 1.3, and holes in that version tend to get fixed.
I mean, it's like "I transfer you 3 grand and then you mail me a password to a controller server", or something like that ? I guess you have to be mighty sure of the delivery of the goods to enter in such deals.
Not really, since I was using a stolen credit card anyway.
If {the deal is a scam,it's real}, follow the money and bust the crook.
Except that said crook is probably outside their jurisdiction, and the deal amount is quite possibly below the FBI's radar.
Oh, and they may actually be doing this as we speak. They just might prefer us not to know.
... but apparently no longer a French ethic.
Could a translation find a Silicon Valley audience?
The big difference is that if you're disgruntled and disenfranchised in Silicon Valley, you can start your own company and get meetings with F2500 companies to talk about your product, without the need for having been in the right school or club.
This is IMHO one of the main things that differentiate the US from other countries.
Hah, apple doesn't need to hire astroturfers. they work for free!
Even better, we Mac users pay the big bucks to astroturf for Apple!
OK, back on topic now.
"Michelle" is one of the aliases that the computer personality in Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress goes by. Cute.
... Can we PLEASE Finally fix the HUGE bug...
/. posts to see what they should fix for the next release. Even if your bug reports get resolved as duplicate, it matters: they keep track of dupes to see which bugs cause the most pain.
I'm sure you filed at http://bugreporter.apple.com/. Nothing at Apple gets fixed without a bug report. Engineers at Apple actually have work to do (since they have bug reports to work on), so they can't be trusted to troll the
Report your bugs, people!
Uh, wrong. You can video chat between AIM and iChat, it's just audio that doesn't work right now...
Hm... dies for me after five minutes. The damn PC just stops sending video. Anybody else seen this?
However, reading TFA, the following quote leaps out at me: A Microsoft spokesperson said: 'Security is a top priority for Microsoft, and we are committed to ensuring a safe and reliable computing experience for all of our customers. ' Yeah, right. Let them fix their installer first:
That would be a default install.