I've only read the abstract, but my first thought was that someone doing a web-based survey might pick up their guitar and figure out the correct answers...
Or the slightly bizarre, but believable trend for conservative US Presidential 2008 candidates to use IE... (although the reverse is not true for Democrats and FF)
Indeed... even BBC news is full of fluff these days - I don't need a specially filmed segment to tell me what an oil rig (or whatever) is. And what about all those tedious 1 hour reality programmes that go like this: "and after the break we see how Terry got on at the dentist" and then "before the break we saw how Terry tried to eat a toffee apple" - they could easily fit in 30mins.
Energize the community? To me it sounds like an unbelievably pointless waste of money. The failure to raise 250k probably reflects the community thinking much the same thing. Even assuming 250k were raised, I can think of dozens far more worthwhile open source projects that it could go towards.
Exactly, or something in the same vein but a bit more enlightened than burning an obscene amount of fuel just to go round in circles, for example a solar plane/car race or some kind of sailing sponsorship (much bigger penguins possible there).
Trac might be worth checking out, although I don't think it will handle inventory and time spent. Maybe it does - I'm just an end user on one project (bug reporting and feature requests) - what do I know?
Why do surveys always try to lump us into home or commercial users? There must be plenty of people using Linux in non-profit research, teaching, charities, etc.
They're quite pretty in my opinion, but having read this thread, I realised they are not anti-aliased and that's not easy to do in GD::Graph at the moment (while drawing the lines, at least - I just read there is a trick one can do with resampling a 4x image).
Also, there's a problem with the lines not really being the desired thickness perpendicular to the direction of the line...
Good point, I don't think they can do any indexing, but they can search a relatively small corpus in parallel over a stupidly large number of machines.
Just to clarify my original point... try searching for '@' in the PHP online manual, you'll get no matches (it filters out all non-alphanumeric characters I suppose). (If you knew to search for the phrase "at sign" it will actually bring back useful hits.)
Now at least Google lets us search for special characters in code (hopefully they can extend this to reference manuals soon).
At last we can use regexps and search on all the important characters between the alphanumerics! For example the prefixed '@' in PHP - very hard to figure out what this is, without reading the reference cover to cover. Now at least we can search the codebase and hope to see some useful comments preceding it, or figure out from context what's going on.
e.g. "@fopen file:.php"
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Or emacs vm mode which I found a bit less scary than gnus.
Under X11 it's a dream to use (multiple virtual folders, unfinished replies etc), and for remote access without X11 it's absolutely fine. I've used it for probably 10 years now (although I use Gmail every day for non-work stuff!). It's almost certainly only of interest to the seasoned emacs user though.
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I am so tired of all of these non-news blog entries...
Thanks for the Fentek link! Maybe you guys also know of good three button optical USB mice? Or a clickable scrollwheel with a nice light action so that doesn't get pressed by mistake when scrolling?
I quite like my Logitech Mouseman Traveler M-BJ79, but it doesn't seem to be available any more (except in Russia?), and I need another (full size) mouse at work.
I've even tried genetic programming and can't find a solution. However it's a needle-in-a-haystack problem (one correct solution, everything else is incorrect) so it's not well suited to an evolutionary algorithm (stepwise increases in fitness are not possible).
Doh! It's Haddon, not Hadden, and even though I swear I searched the entire thread for "game show" I missed this prior comment (which gives a bit more background). Sorry about that!
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I've only read the abstract, but my first thought was that someone doing a web-based survey might pick up their guitar and figure out the correct answers...
For more web-based music, see my sig.
At least with gmail - my laptop gets quite warm just sitting there polling home (probably because I have chat enabled).
Google used to be proud of being lightweight - now it is getting bloated with CPU hungry widgets.
Talking of meaningless statistics, how about this weekday/weekend analysis? (Is the blip on Fridays due to the alliteration?)
Or perhaps more interesting/informative is the trend in recent years...
Or the slightly bizarre, but believable trend for conservative US Presidential 2008 candidates to use IE... (although the reverse is not true for Democrats and FF)
Indeed... even BBC news is full of fluff these days - I don't need a specially filmed segment to tell me what an oil rig (or whatever) is. And what about all those tedious 1 hour reality programmes that go like this: "and after the break we see how Terry got on at the dentist" and then "before the break we saw how Terry tried to eat a toffee apple" - they could easily fit in 30mins.
After a quick google search to check your claim, I stand corrected... Mod parent up!
Energize the community? To me it sounds like an unbelievably pointless waste of money. The failure to raise 250k probably reflects the community thinking much the same thing. Even assuming 250k were raised, I can think of dozens far more worthwhile open source projects that it could go towards.
Exactly, or something in the same vein but a bit more enlightened than burning an obscene amount of fuel just to go round in circles, for example a solar plane/car race or some kind of sailing sponsorship (much bigger penguins possible there).
Indeed... the general crapness of websites and emergence of web 2.0 seem to be anti-correlated in recent years...
Trac might be worth checking out, although I don't think it will handle inventory and time spent. Maybe it does - I'm just an end user on one project (bug reporting and feature requests) - what do I know?
Why do surveys always try to lump us into home or commercial users? There must be plenty of people using Linux in non-profit research, teaching, charities, etc.
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Well, your mileage may vary, but you could try compare-stuff:
KDE vs Gnome
Fedora vs openSUSE
You get the idea... (I hope!)
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They're quite pretty in my opinion, but having read this thread, I realised they are not anti-aliased and that's not easy to do in GD::Graph at the moment (while drawing the lines, at least - I just read there is a trick one can do with resampling a 4x image).
Also, there's a problem with the lines not really being the desired thickness perpendicular to the direction of the line...
It was dead easy to get working though!
no bids yet, ho ho!
Good point, I don't think they can do any indexing, but they can search a relatively small corpus in parallel over a stupidly large number of machines.
I also had a quick search for backdoor.
:-)
Although presumably the first step in any security audit is
find package-foo-1.2.3 -type f | xargs grep -i backdoor
and sp3lling variants thereof. They are hardly going to be so well signposted though
Just to clarify my original point... try searching for '@' in the PHP online manual, you'll get no matches (it filters out all non-alphanumeric characters I suppose). (If you knew to search for the phrase "at sign" it will actually bring back useful hits.)
Now at least Google lets us search for special characters in code (hopefully they can extend this to reference manuals soon).
At last we can use regexps and search on all the important characters between the alphanumerics! For example the prefixed '@' in PHP - very hard to figure out what this is, without reading the reference cover to cover. Now at least we can search the codebase and hope to see some useful comments preceding it, or figure out from context what's going on.
e.g. "@fopen file:.php"
Or emacs vm mode which I found a bit less scary than gnus. Under X11 it's a dream to use (multiple virtual folders, unfinished replies etc), and for remote access without X11 it's absolutely fine. I've used it for probably 10 years now (although I use Gmail every day for non-work stuff!). It's almost certainly only of interest to the seasoned emacs user though.
I'm with you there.
You can change "insecure" any other word/phrase (and probably get completely contradictory results).
thanks for the suggestion Mr AC!
I quite like my Logitech Mouseman Traveler M-BJ79, but it doesn't seem to be available any more (except in Russia?), and I need another (full size) mouse at work.
thanks...
totally agree
I've even tried genetic programming and can't find a solution. However it's a needle-in-a-haystack problem (one correct solution, everything else is incorrect) so it's not well suited to an evolutionary algorithm (stepwise increases in fitness are not possible).
Doh! It's Haddon, not Hadden, and even though I swear I searched the entire thread for "game show" I missed this prior comment (which gives a bit more background). Sorry about that!