Marcus Ranum gave an interesting talk on intrusion detection systems and security including physical threats at ALS last year. I'd also recommend secrets and lies by Schneier. It also takes an interesting look at physical security issues. As for crisis week the last one I can think of was Y2K but that wasn't really a mock up type thing. The only other crisis preparedness we were trained for was 'fire'.
_I_ treat everyone equally. Accept my humble appologies, I'm no servant to a king or queen. Whomever cranked your cynical knob up to 10 needs to take it down a notch or 8. I liken you attitude to someone who dosen't wanted to be treated well while lumbering that chip on your shoulder.
It's not like we Americans have ever done anything to help out Europe in times of need *ahem* WW2 *ahem*. It's one man not a giant invasion so, simmahdownow.
Can we not use UCITA to our advantage, claiming that we were nearly forced to purchase Windows under duress? I'm sure that wouldn't bode well with the DOJ. We had no choice at the time of purchase of a new system to say "I'd like that operating system you sell over there on the shelf instead, yes I'll pay for it." I'm not talking ordering out of a catalog I'm talking retail where a whole heap of computers get sold. (I build my own systems btw)
This is a compelling argument and one which can partly be addressed by supporting open source gpl technologies like ogg vorbis, which effect both Windows and non windows users. It's interesting to me that now sonic foundry is supporting vorbis in their music creation suite acid 3.0. Probably because it dosen't cost them anything to do but it will aid in the proliferation of ogg vorbis as a viable replacement to proprietary patented file formats (mp3). CPRM scares me deeply at the hardware level, I can only do what's in my power to not advise the purchase of anything that comes close to CPRM in hard disks etc.
We know what perl is good at, everything. We know what PHP is good at the WWW. What _is_ python good at? Maybe it just hasn't found it's niche? I don't mean to sound like I'm undermining the power of python I am sure it's very capable but where does it excel? What job makes python the right tool?
Might it have anything to do with suns prohibitive costs on hardware, when you weigh it out like that it's an e450 or a new car. Sure it's got I/O coming out of it's ears but I'd rather not have to refinance my house to get a "workgroup" server. I'm glad someone's supporting it though just in case I win the lotto or something.
There is an excellent p2p project sharing client for windows at groove.net from the people that did lotus notes. Sadly right now there is no linux client but the tech on display is pretty nice, it looks like a lot of it is in java so who knows maybe one day we'll see a linux client.
No single entity wins in this case, though one could argue that the RIAA does they had the opportunity to cash in (which is not what they're really after) on Napster and yet chose to squander that chance. The RIAA values control over money, well folks it's too late filesharing is not going to go away no matter what you do. You should have taken the money. Now you'll have a greater problem un-sanctioned un-controlable individuals sharing files. I'd wager to guess that when people involved with the riaa go home they fire up napster to check out $one_hit_wonder instead of buying a $16 album with one good song on it. You can't stop stuff like aimster, gnutella etc, unless you plan on wasting money knocking on doors across the country.
The spacecraft carries a gold plaque engraved with a message of goodwill and a map showing the Earth's location within the solar system.
I don't know how I feel about that. What if it crashes into someones house or car or something, do we really want a map that shows where it came from? Or worse we'll be known as planet "goodwill" and other civilizations will send their broken tv's, old matresses and assorted moth ridden clothing.
What type of cumulative effect on product and company does releasing code under the GPL present? Let's hope we take stuff like this and run with it else we may discourage other businesses from following suit.
Our goal is to achieve 100% compatibility and full performance for off-the-shelf games. Both applications need to be installed on a Windows partition and transfered over to a Linux partition manually, since Wine currently doesn't work with installers made with the latest version of InstallShield.
Perhaps someone should get cracking on the installer problem, it seems quite like chicken or the egg to me. If the goal is eliminating the windows environment shouldn't some effort be put into creating a method of install that does not rely on one having a windows machine|partition?
b) most of the contracts offerred to no-name artists were just short of "sell your soul" and/or "sell your soul and we own your life as an artist for the duration of the contract"
Agreed. You'd be utterley shocked to find out how many artists DON'T OWN thier music, and end up doing what ammounts to leasing their own music from the record company who owns their masters. This issue is not about music at all it's about how record companies can manifest control over listeners and creators. About 50 cents of the price of a cd goes to the artist, most make more touring and doing live events. Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to pay $50 a ticket for a concert?
Linux is impossible to crash I have never had a program crash on me in Linux If a program does crash in Linux
it is possible to jump to another virtual terminal and fix the program. Wait a tic...I thought you just said..
This is the best troll I've ever read. I've certainly had linux lock up on me like a crackwhore with tmj (a rare ocassion and usually my fault) and as for applications crashing they sure do although not all that often. This is someone who needs serious professional help to save him from his delusions linux is far from perfect but it's getting there. (note that the post is in alt.news.microsoft and is dated 1999/11/10)
Perhaps that's why Slashdot seems to have horrendous response times every once in a while.
Yeah that's debian's fault not apache, mysql, perl or the millions upon millions of/. users. Perhaps it's the Linux kernel, or perhaps we shouldn't be cracking on software which is essentially the same on all Linux distro's. By all means continue blabbering about how "j00r d1str0 sUkz" it's quite productive. -1 Flamebait
I'd have to agree with you and if I had mod points you'd get some. You'd think it would be impossible to get into that tunnel vision space where it's just you and the code and your caffinated softdrink of choice. I know it's possible in pairs it's like when $sports_team works so well together you'd swear they all knew what each other was thinking, ok abstract idea but same principle. Generally the coordination level would be higher between the two coders thus less time is spent on integration.
I think as one of those interesting side effects XP might help often solitary coders develop that little bit of extra diplomacy they might be averted to. Turning constructive critism type code reviews into less of a thing people would rather avoid. I'm positive this approach won't be easy for everyone to adapt to but I think it's one of those things that would quickly grow on you.
Being the industrious consumer that I am, I purchased 3 sticks. I was sent a confirmation email with the low low price of $9.99x3 plus shipping. Now, two days later they have canceled the deal stating they had been "incorrectly priced" the excuse being that "this error was caused by incorrect information
provided to us by Viking Components Inc."
I have since been compensated with an incredibly lame $15 gift certificate, which just about guarantees me buying something for more than $15 because, hey what can you get with $15? What kind of recourse do I have? Would this kind of thing be tolerated at a retail store? I recall getting a 50 stack of cdr's once from best buy for 4.99 because they were "incorrectly priced" but only because they cannot get out of selling a product for something other than the advertised price. It worries me that we have one set of rules for internet based commerce and another for the real world.
I reaped the benifits of paying attention, something which had amazon and viking been more mindful of would have avoided bad pr like this. Marinate on that for a bit and predict how well amazon will do in the future if this level of concern about it's customers and standards of quality assurance are continued. I'm not looking for a free lunch, I just Amazon and Viking to be held accountable and not sweep us under the gift certificate rug.Two days ago Amazon.com had an excellent deal on 256MB of ram, $9.99 in fact, so being the industrious consumer that I am, I purchased 3 sticks. I was sent a confirmation email with the low low price of $9.99x3 plus shipping. Now, two days later they have canceled the deal stating they had been "incorrectly priced" the excuse being that "this error was caused by incorrect information
provided to us by Viking Components Inc."
I have since been compensated with an incredibly lame $15 gift certificate, which just about guarantees me buying something for more than $15 because, hey what can you get with $15? What kind of recourse do I have? Would this kind of thing be tolerated at a retail store? I recall getting a 50 stack of cdr's once from best buy for 4.99 because they were "incorrectly priced" but only because they cannot get out of selling a product for something other than the advertised price. It worries me that we have one set of rules for internet based commerce and another for the real world.
I reaped the benifits of paying attention, something which had amazon and viking been more mindful of would have avoided bad pr like this. Marinate on that for a bit and predict how well amazon will do in the future if this level of concern about it's customers and standards of quality assurance are continued. I'm not looking for a free lunch, I just want Amazon and Viking to be held accountable and not sweep us under the gift certificate rug.
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Marcus Ranum gave an interesting talk on intrusion detection systems and security including physical threats at ALS last year. I'd also recommend secrets and lies by Schneier. It also takes an interesting look at physical security issues. As for crisis week the last one I can think of was Y2K but that wasn't really a mock up type thing. The only other crisis preparedness we were trained for was 'fire'.
_I_ treat everyone equally. Accept my humble appologies, I'm no servant to a king or queen. Whomever cranked your cynical knob up to 10 needs to take it down a notch or 8. I liken you attitude to someone who dosen't wanted to be treated well while lumbering that chip on your shoulder.
It's not like we Americans have ever done anything to help out Europe in times of need *ahem* WW2 *ahem*. It's one man not a giant invasion so, simmahdownow.
Can we not use UCITA to our advantage, claiming that we were nearly forced to purchase Windows under duress? I'm sure that wouldn't bode well with the DOJ. We had no choice at the time of purchase of a new system to say "I'd like that operating system you sell over there on the shelf instead, yes I'll pay for it." I'm not talking ordering out of a catalog I'm talking retail where a whole heap of computers get sold. (I build my own systems btw)
This is a compelling argument and one which can partly be addressed by supporting open source gpl technologies like ogg vorbis, which effect both Windows and non windows users. It's interesting to me that now sonic foundry is supporting vorbis in their music creation suite acid 3.0. Probably because it dosen't cost them anything to do but it will aid in the proliferation of ogg vorbis as a viable replacement to proprietary patented file formats (mp3). CPRM scares me deeply at the hardware level, I can only do what's in my power to not advise the purchase of anything that comes close to CPRM in hard disks etc.
Sort of reminds me of the LOTHAR sketches on Saturday night live, Loooothar of the hill people... Loooothar...
funny stuff
We know what perl is good at, everything. We know what PHP is good at the WWW. What _is_ python good at? Maybe it just hasn't found it's niche? I don't mean to sound like I'm undermining the power of python I am sure it's very capable but where does it excel? What job makes python the right tool?
Ironic don't you think? Slashcode.com got slashdotted.
Might it have anything to do with suns prohibitive costs on hardware, when you weigh it out like that it's an e450 or a new car. Sure it's got I/O coming out of it's ears but I'd rather not have to refinance my house to get a "workgroup" server. I'm glad someone's supporting it though just in case I win the lotto or something.
What changes if any would you make to the GPL to help support it's goals?
There is an excellent p2p project sharing client for windows at groove.net from the people that did lotus notes. Sadly right now there is no linux client but the tech on display is pretty nice, it looks like a lot of it is in java so who knows maybe one day we'll see a linux client.
No single entity wins in this case, though one could argue that the RIAA does they had the opportunity to cash in (which is not what they're really after) on Napster and yet chose to squander that chance. The RIAA values control over money, well folks it's too late filesharing is not going to go away no matter what you do. You should have taken the money. Now you'll have a greater problem un-sanctioned un-controlable individuals sharing files. I'd wager to guess that when people involved with the riaa go home they fire up napster to check out $one_hit_wonder instead of buying a $16 album with one good song on it. You can't stop stuff like aimster, gnutella etc, unless you plan on wasting money knocking on doors across the country.
The spacecraft carries a gold plaque engraved with a message of goodwill and a map showing the Earth's location within the solar system.
I don't know how I feel about that. What if it crashes into someones house or car or something, do we really want a map that shows where it came from? Or worse we'll be known as planet "goodwill" and other civilizations will send their broken tv's, old matresses and assorted moth ridden clothing.
I can immagine the LAN parties at SGI but only if I don't imagine the word "Open" or the letters "GL".
What type of cumulative effect on product and company does releasing code under the GPL present? Let's hope we take stuff like this and run with it else we may discourage other businesses from following suit.
Our goal is to achieve 100% compatibility and full performance for off-the-shelf games. Both applications need to be installed on a Windows partition and transfered over to a Linux partition manually, since Wine currently doesn't work with installers made with the latest version of InstallShield.
Perhaps someone should get cracking on the installer problem, it seems quite like chicken or the egg to me. If the goal is eliminating the windows environment shouldn't some effort be put into creating a method of install that does not rely on one having a windows machine|partition?
b) most of the contracts offerred to no-name artists were just short of "sell your soul" and/or "sell your soul and we own your life as an artist for the duration of the contract"
Agreed. You'd be utterley shocked to find out how many artists DON'T OWN thier music, and end up doing what ammounts to leasing their own music from the record company who owns their masters. This issue is not about music at all it's about how record companies can manifest control over listeners and creators. About 50 cents of the price of a cd goes to the artist, most make more touring and doing live events. Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to pay $50 a ticket for a concert?
My favorite quotes from Linux ROX Windows SUX
Linux is impossible to crash
I have never had a program crash on me in Linux
If a program does crash in Linux it is possible to jump to another virtual terminal and fix the program.
Wait a tic...I thought you just said..
This is the best troll I've ever read. I've certainly had linux lock up on me like a crackwhore with tmj (a rare ocassion and usually my fault) and as for applications crashing they sure do although not all that often. This is someone who needs serious professional help to save him from his delusions linux is far from perfect but it's getting there. (note that the post is in alt.news.microsoft and is dated 1999/11/10)
Never con a con man?
Someone tell Mr Cox that his a hat is not fashionable. (I'm speaking about his shirt of course)
Perhaps that's why Slashdot seems to have horrendous response times every once in a while.
/. users. Perhaps it's the Linux kernel, or perhaps we shouldn't be cracking on software which is essentially the same on all Linux distro's. By all means continue blabbering about how "j00r d1str0 sUkz" it's quite productive.
Yeah that's debian's fault not apache, mysql, perl or the millions upon millions of
-1 Flamebait
I'd have to agree with you and if I had mod points you'd get some. You'd think it would be impossible to get into that tunnel vision space where it's just you and the code and your caffinated softdrink of choice. I know it's possible in pairs it's like when $sports_team works so well together you'd swear they all knew what each other was thinking, ok abstract idea but same principle. Generally the coordination level would be higher between the two coders thus less time is spent on integration.
I think as one of those interesting side effects XP might help often solitary coders develop that little bit of extra diplomacy they might be averted to. Turning constructive critism type code reviews into less of a thing people would rather avoid. I'm positive this approach won't be easy for everyone to adapt to but I think it's one of those things that would quickly grow on you.
"Zone Coding" I smell buzzword!
Windows puts their minor patches in a box and sells them as upgrades aka windowsME.
Being the industrious consumer that I am, I purchased 3 sticks. I was sent a confirmation email with the low low price of $9.99x3 plus shipping. Now, two days later they have canceled the deal stating they had been "incorrectly priced" the excuse being that "this error was caused by incorrect information provided to us by Viking Components Inc."
I have since been compensated with an incredibly lame $15 gift certificate, which just about guarantees me buying something for more than $15 because, hey what can you get with $15? What kind of recourse do I have? Would this kind of thing be tolerated at a retail store? I recall getting a 50 stack of cdr's once from best buy for 4.99 because they were "incorrectly priced" but only because they cannot get out of selling a product for something other than the advertised price. It worries me that we have one set of rules for internet based commerce and another for the real world.
I reaped the benifits of paying attention, something which had amazon and viking been more mindful of would have avoided bad pr like this. Marinate on that for a bit and predict how well amazon will do in the future if this level of concern about it's customers and standards of quality assurance are continued. I'm not looking for a free lunch, I just Amazon and Viking to be held accountable and not sweep us under the gift certificate rug.Two days ago Amazon.com had an excellent deal on 256MB of ram, $9.99 in fact, so being the industrious consumer that I am, I purchased 3 sticks. I was sent a confirmation email with the low low price of $9.99x3 plus shipping. Now, two days later they have canceled the deal stating they had been "incorrectly priced" the excuse being that "this error was caused by incorrect information provided to us by Viking Components Inc."
I have since been compensated with an incredibly lame $15 gift certificate, which just about guarantees me buying something for more than $15 because, hey what can you get with $15? What kind of recourse do I have? Would this kind of thing be tolerated at a retail store? I recall getting a 50 stack of cdr's once from best buy for 4.99 because they were "incorrectly priced" but only because they cannot get out of selling a product for something other than the advertised price. It worries me that we have one set of rules for internet based commerce and another for the real world.
I reaped the benifits of paying attention, something which had amazon and viking been more mindful of would have avoided bad pr like this. Marinate on that for a bit and predict how well amazon will do in the future if this level of concern about it's customers and standards of quality assurance are continued. I'm not looking for a free lunch, I just want Amazon and Viking to be held accountable and not sweep us under the gift certificate rug.