"Lots of single women I talk to who haven't found anyone yet say the quality really drops off -- and they cite immaturity of the man as the reason. Past the mid 30s, you either get the permanent single guys hopping from one club to another on the weekend or the unmarryable."
Send the ladies to me...
I should be viable alternative for most women, but I have never encountered an attractive woman who does not suddenly find a partner somewhere , just after she met me. Some girls even dump their boyfriends and find a new one that I've never heard of, while dating me.... I have no idea what it is about me that makes women suddenly fall in love with just about anyone except me, but the statistics are insane.
You might think I'm boring, stupid or unhealthy but I'm clever, quite funny, well educated (there are companies who could hire special troops to kidnap me within 48 hours if they knew about my skill and knowledge), sporty and....unfortunately, disliked for reasons I don't really know. Anyway, I'm just above 30 (although most people think I'm still in my twenties) and I am lost in a strange world where everyone else seems to get a nice career, a girlfriend/wife and a pleasant future.
Make sure that you can analyze the software properly and break it down to well defined functions/modules/whatever-your-abstraction-is
Implement hardware modules for corresponding inputs/outputs but make sure that you do not use an automatic tool. For hardware, you can often do things very differently since you have different ways to implement things and may use state machines, memories and logic in different ways.
For each module, check hardware and software implementation against each other using CBMC or some other software which can actually verify that your implementation is, if not correct, at least equally bad as the implementation in the other domain.
(Since I'm posting as a Depressive Cyborg, you might be able to figure out what (SW/HW) made me a Cyborg and what made me Depressive....)
Since 1970, the "unix base" (concept, design & philosophy) has been project-forked into lots and lots of different operating systems. Today it's totally f***ed up. It seems like every project HAS to be split up just because each and everyone know exactly how things should work. A neat example: If anyone claims that insert-your-preferred-OS-here is the best OS, a flame war is started. (Windows vs Linux, FreeBSD vs Linux or whatever...)
Who cares if OS X is a real UNIX!!!??? It's probably just like all other unices or unixclones; always a little different.
When I think of all different BSDs, Linux dists and other unices, clones or not; only one thing come to mind: All kernels in all unix systems have the fork() system call but there has never existed any merge() system call, so people probably don't know what "merge" means.
What I would like to see is a MERGE between a few free unixclones: First of all, there should be a strict definition of supported processor arch-s. (There's always NetBSD for the odd people;) For example, let's say that a "merged free unix" uses a Linux kernel, GNU compiler and mostly BSD userland&ports. What if all critical components have been controlled and verified by the OpenBSD code auditing team? That's quite ok, right? If this sounds good, why the hell do people use different Linux dists, complain about their design and then start building their own?!!???
(I bet that BSD people would like to kill me because I proposed a Linux kernel and that Linux people would like to kill me because I mentioned ports instead of rpms or debs. See? Where's the "unixclone standard"? "Linux Standard Base"? Don't think so...) Listen to my desperate plea: MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERGE!!
My computer has been running./configure for a total of 2 months.
I know what it's like. First, you need to be
a little paranoid and/or depressed. When
people notice, they're going to harass you
over and over again. Eventually, you'll turn into
a cold creep, without any feelings or any respect
to human value or life.
My philosophy is: Simplicity, Efficiency, Versatility, Security, Privacy
If there's anyone else out there who think he/she might have the same idea, please let me know.:)
Think about it for five seconds..........ready?
Ok, then we'll have a look at a weird weakness and strength of UNIX.
UNIX has always existed in many flavors, it started out with AT&T/BSD AFAIK.
Later, companies got licenses for creating their own type of UNIX, which resulted in hp-ux, irix, aix, xenix, sco unix, etc etc
What happens when a lot of people learn to use slightly different versions of an OS?
They get used to a certain environment ("look&feel") and therefore they prefer that
specific unix variant.
However, free systems are of course often very welcome. BSD has a long tradition and should be counted as a true UNIX. Linux has never claimed
to be "true UNIX", only UNIX-like...AFAIK.
(For you idiots out there, Linux is the KERNEL of a GNU/Linux system, and GNU was meant to become a true, free UNIX.)
IMHO, the problem is that most people
using unix have different backgrounds and experiences. Let's say "Toby C. Hacker" (get it? to-be c hacker) started out with Digital Unix. After a while he got interested in the system itself and found a *BSD system with source code. (yeah!:)
Mr. Hacker early finds out that Digital Unix had some nifty features that BSD hasn't.
Later, when having a closer look, he realizes that
the basic design of BSD is actually quite different; as a matter of fact it seems to be quite stupid. (!)
What should Mr. Hacker do now? Of course he builds another free unix system! With the look&feel of Digital Unix but with lot of source from BSD. After months of hard work, he has accomplished his goal, to have a "perfect unix", extended with the features he wanted.
Let's say Mr. Hacker has done a great job and other people also like his system. Then, someone
might install "Mr. Hacker's original ultraunix".
What will happen when "Born-Toby C. Hacker" downloads that unix and start playing with it?
He will tune it, try other unixes and finally
come up with his own "super unix".
*SIGH*
Why do you think there are so many different (and bad) Linux "distributions"?
It seems like everyone making a distribution, or a unix system overall, believe "they're right and know how things should be".
But, as we all know, the few distributions/unix-systems which are both mainstream *and* useful are those which started out early and haven't been f***ed up by layers of stupidity.
The result is that good systems that are liked by many people will survive. That's the strength.
The weakness is that there will always be alternatives, and sometimes there will be really stormy fork-offs which splits the community.
Now I've said enough stupid things to get flamed to hell. Anyway, thanks for listening.
If all programs and users (!) were optimized for computers, there would be no need for a faster CPU. Trust me, with a round-robin scheduler in
your head, it's possible to do a good work on
a 486.
Business wants control because of money whereas hackers want control because it is their natural way of handling things. I know this is an odd comparison, but I want to point out that the latter group is in charge here.
I'm "not" always wrong, so I put an extra "not" in each sentence.
This is interesting. Nearly *ALL* floppy based systems/distributions are built around the Linux kernel. I hope there are people out there trying
to use other kernels (obsd?, fbsd?, hurd?, comma^H^H^H^H^H)
BTW, if anyone out there is going to hack a special kernel for floppy systems, let me know.:)
When I close my eyes, there's a rootprompt in the upper left corner
I would make all of them generate weird key combinations and modify some open-source tetris. Then I could play tetris on my third monitor (yes, triple-head system) while the rest of my brain/cpu/io-systems could read/.
My database says that my database says that my database says....
Optical display is preferred. Visual cortex
stimulation is very complicated and will probably
not be good enough for text-information transfer.
Early tests on cats showed that a computing
intensive system could read neuro-signals
and interprete them into a blurry picture.
The brain can handle a blurry picture and figure
out what it's supposed to look like.
But what do you do if you have blurry text?
Information gets lost...
1. Linux user knows: reset button is not dangerous
2. Linux user is helping winblows user doing something
3. Winblows hangs...
4. Frustrated Linux user push reset button without even thinking about Ctrl-Alt-Del (!)
5. scandisk will chew the 30 GB disk until next weekend
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"Lots of single women I talk to who haven't found anyone yet say the quality really drops off -- and they cite immaturity of the man as the reason. Past the mid 30s, you either get the permanent single guys hopping from one club to another on the weekend or the unmarryable."
Send the ladies to me...
I should be viable alternative for most women, but I have never encountered an attractive woman who does not suddenly find a partner somewhere , just after she met me. Some girls even dump their boyfriends and find a new one that I've never heard of, while dating me....
I have no idea what it is about me that makes women suddenly fall in love with just about anyone except me, but the statistics are insane.
You might think I'm boring, stupid or unhealthy but I'm clever, quite funny, well educated (there are companies who could hire special troops to kidnap me within 48 hours if they knew about my skill and knowledge), sporty and....unfortunately, disliked for reasons I don't really know. Anyway, I'm just above 30 (although most people think I'm still in my twenties) and I am lost in a strange world where everyone else seems to get a nice career, a girlfriend/wife and a pleasant future.
Maybe my problem is more common than I think?
Go fetch your Amiga and build the converter required (?) to show off your demo at the huge TV set...
Once people are getting used to have multiple 40'' monitors, office furniture business will race into the sky...
Make sure that you can analyze the software properly and break it down to well defined functions/modules/whatever-your-abstraction-is
Implement hardware modules for corresponding inputs/outputs but make sure that you do not use an automatic tool. For hardware, you can often
do things very differently since you have different ways to implement things and may use state machines, memories and logic in different ways.
For each module, check hardware and software implementation against each other using CBMC or some other software which can actually verify that your implementation is, if not correct, at least equally bad as the implementation in the other domain.
(Since I'm posting as a Depressive Cyborg, you might be able to figure out what (SW/HW) made me a Cyborg and what made me Depressive....)
...that FreeBSD is a mature, stable, organized, reliable and good OS. I think he or she is right.
Dependency check: Life -> needs FreeBSD&Coffee
Since 1970, the "unix base" (concept, design & philosophy) has been project-forked into lots and lots of different operating systems. Today it's totally f***ed up. It seems like every project HAS to be split up just because each and everyone know exactly how things should work.
;)
./configure for a total of 2 months.
A neat example: If anyone claims that insert-your-preferred-OS-here is the best OS, a flame war is started. (Windows vs Linux, FreeBSD vs Linux or whatever...)
Who cares if OS X is a real UNIX!!!???
It's probably just like all other unices or unixclones; always a little different.
When I think of all different BSDs, Linux dists and other unices, clones or not; only one thing come to mind: All kernels in all unix systems have the fork() system call but there has never existed any merge() system call, so people probably don't know what "merge" means.
What I would like to see is a MERGE between a few free unixclones:
First of all, there should be a strict definition of supported processor arch-s. (There's always NetBSD for the odd people
For example, let's say that a "merged free unix" uses a Linux kernel, GNU compiler and mostly BSD userland&ports. What if all critical components have been controlled and verified by the OpenBSD code auditing team? That's quite ok, right? If this sounds good, why the hell do people use different Linux dists, complain about their design and then start building their own?!!???
(I bet that BSD people would like to kill me because I proposed a Linux kernel and that Linux people would like to kill me because I mentioned ports instead of rpms or debs. See? Where's the "unixclone standard"? "Linux Standard Base"? Don't think so...)
Listen to my desperate plea: MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERGE!!
My computer has been running
I know what it's like. First, you need to be a little paranoid and/or depressed. When people notice, they're going to harass you over and over again. Eventually, you'll turn into a cold creep, without any feelings or any respect to human value or life.
I regret I never killed anyone.
I hope NASA starts up a new program which has as its' ultimate goal to send a (dead) whale in orbit.
Score -1, Bameflait.
You're right, but I don't agree. ;)
:)
My philosophy is: Simplicity, Efficiency, Versatility, Security, Privacy
If there's anyone else out there who think he/she might have the same idea, please let me know.
So, this turned into a *BSD vs. Linux conflict?
:)
Think about it for five seconds..........ready?
Ok, then we'll have a look at a weird weakness and strength of UNIX.
UNIX has always existed in many flavors, it started out with AT&T/BSD AFAIK.
Later, companies got licenses for creating their own type of UNIX, which resulted in hp-ux, irix, aix, xenix, sco unix, etc etc
What happens when a lot of people learn to use slightly different versions of an OS?
They get used to a certain environment ("look&feel") and therefore they prefer that specific unix variant.
However, free systems are of course often very welcome. BSD has a long tradition and should be counted as a true UNIX. Linux has never claimed to be "true UNIX", only UNIX-like...AFAIK.
(For you idiots out there, Linux is the KERNEL of a GNU/Linux system, and GNU was meant to become a true, free UNIX.)
IMHO, the problem is that most people using unix have different backgrounds and experiences. Let's say "Toby C. Hacker" (get it? to-be c hacker) started out with Digital Unix. After a while he got interested in the system itself and found a *BSD system with source code. (yeah!
Mr. Hacker early finds out that Digital Unix had some nifty features that BSD hasn't.
Later, when having a closer look, he realizes that the basic design of BSD is actually quite different; as a matter of fact it seems to be quite stupid. (!)
What should Mr. Hacker do now? Of course he builds another free unix system! With the look&feel of Digital Unix but with lot of source from BSD. After months of hard work, he has accomplished his goal, to have a "perfect unix", extended with the features he wanted.
Let's say Mr. Hacker has done a great job and other people also like his system. Then, someone might install "Mr. Hacker's original ultraunix". What will happen when "Born-Toby C. Hacker" downloads that unix and start playing with it? He will tune it, try other unixes and finally come up with his own "super unix".
*SIGH*
Why do you think there are so many different (and bad) Linux "distributions"?
It seems like everyone making a distribution, or a unix system overall, believe "they're right and know how things should be".
But, as we all know, the few distributions/unix-systems which are both mainstream *and* useful are those which started out early and haven't been f***ed up by layers of stupidity.
The result is that good systems that are liked by many people will survive. That's the strength. The weakness is that there will always be alternatives, and sometimes there will be really stormy fork-offs which splits the community.
Now I've said enough stupid things to get flamed to hell. Anyway, thanks for listening.
If all programs and users (!) were optimized for computers, there would be no need for a faster CPU. Trust me, with a round-robin scheduler in your head, it's possible to do a good work on a 486.
I like computers because they like me.
Business wants control because of money whereas hackers want control because it is their natural way of handling things. I know this is an odd comparison, but I want to point out that the latter group is in charge here.
I'm "not" always wrong, so I put an extra "not" in each sentence.
I'd rather have a half keyboard than a button-bloated joypad. Typing speed is mostly a result of practice!
The philosophy of a depressive cyborg is: Simplicity, Efficiency, Versatility, Security, Privacy
This is interesting. Nearly *ALL* floppy based systems/distributions are built around the Linux kernel. I hope there are people out there trying to use other kernels (obsd?, fbsd?, hurd?, comma^H^H^H^H^H)
:)
BTW, if anyone out there is going to hack a special kernel for floppy systems, let me know.
When I close my eyes, there's a rootprompt in the upper left corner
I would make all of them generate weird key combinations and modify some open-source tetris. Then I could play tetris on my third monitor (yes, triple-head system) while the rest of my brain/cpu/io-systems could read /.
My database says that my database says that my database says....
I hear people talking about flash memories, zip drives, network, CD-RW and minidiscs.
WHAT WE NEED IS A NEW STANDARD, OK!!??
If the LS120 superdisk was less expensive, then it would probably become defacto standard since it's compatible with older floppy formats.
I can carry 0.25 kb in my head but I do use floppies.
Optical display is preferred. Visual cortex stimulation is very complicated and will probably
not be good enough for text-information transfer.
Early tests on cats showed that a computing intensive system could read neuro-signals
and interprete them into a blurry picture.
The brain can handle a blurry picture and figure out what it's supposed to look like.
But what do you do if you have blurry text?
Information gets lost...
I'm like "good RAM, bad CPU"
Ahh, now I know why all weird aliens and other creep are so slimy.
They just want the boss to stay away...right?
Every time I try to commit recursive suicide, my system hangs.
outside: No damned technical equipment hanging in a belt or anything.
inside: A person which is in very close contact with CPU and external memory through an yet unknown interface.
When a brain isn't enough for memorizing a lot of information or calculate something you wouldn't mind being a cyborg.
I have a 386 behind my left ear.
This filesystem might cause this problem:
1. Linux user knows: reset button is not dangerous
2. Linux user is helping winblows user doing something
3. Winblows hangs...
4. Frustrated Linux user push reset button without even thinking about Ctrl-Alt-Del (!)
5. scandisk will chew the 30 GB disk until next weekend
I am a fan of Marvin, Mozart and Nirvana.
Yeah, go on, buy another PC or upgrade.
But remember to give away your old computer if you don't need it!
True hackers aren't raised on windows-clicking but rather by raw access to inner workings of the "holy shrine".
Every time I try to commit recursive suicide, my system hangs...