I see that a lot of people here are confused and posting questions for Bjarne Stroustrup. This is not a slashdot interview where people post questions for the guru and the editors pick the top 5 for the interviewee to answer. This is an interview that was done by an external website and not interviews.slashdot.org.
It would be nice if the distros would lay out thier filesystems in a standard way like FreeBSD does.
The base goes in/bin,/sbin for essentials, and/usr/bin,/usr/sbin for non-essentials, but very handy to have binaries that are in the base system.
Under/usr we have src for the source to the base system. No dumb symlinks like linux->linux-2.4.whatever. just/usr/src/sys for the kernel.
all of the applications installed via the FreeBSD ports collection that are not part of the base go into/usr/local by default.
Everything is always easy to find. If I don't know where soemthing is, I can just guess 9 times out of 10, or use hier(7) (the man page that describes beautifully the hierarchy of the filesystem) to figure out where it's supposed to be.
I read and enjoyed the paper, but I was disturbed by one thing. The author(s) kept bringing up the fact that the system was coded in C++ - an "unsafe" language, then suggested that the system should be written in Java or C#.
I've always thought that the only thing that made C++ "unsafe" was unsafe programming and design principles, something that, according to the paper, the Diebold system is littered with.
The bottom line is that the authors should not have bothered to evangelize Java and C# and instead focused more on how they could have made the C++ code "safe". If the primary flaw is design, then no language could save this code from the pits of insecurity.
When I was a kid you would have Superfriends, The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, GI-JOE, and the Transformers.
I enjoyed some of those shows and still do, but todays saturday morning cartoon lineup seems more like a forum for training in political correctness. Cartoons used to be just fun and games, not a way to feed our kids bullshit with a shovel.
It's up to the family to teach values, not cartoons. Period. I don't want my kid to learn her morals from a TV producer and screenwriter.
An independant source confirmed today that the famous editor of Slashdot.org, Rod "CmdrTaco" Malda has got his act together and stated merging his dulpicate stories. Malda is quoted as saying "I'm not as think as you drunk I am" when asked how he could be so forgetful in his posting of duplicate stories.
Other internet sources also confirmed that bandwidth usage declined by 59% after the dupes were merged. This decline has been dubbed "The Reverse/. Effect".
Probably the most underrated movie of 1995. David Caruso is fresh from his stint with NYPD blue, and Nick Cage does a great job playing a bad guy here.
Hmm... Lets see... a huge distributor of PC hardware makes a decree that UNIX is dead.
Many of us know that the PC platform is unpopular as a hardware environment for commercial unices.
Could it be that Dell's CIO is really saying "The hardware that runs UNIX, such as SPARC, for example, is dead. Buy a PC with Windows or Linux and never have to worry about having obsolete hardware."
Give me a break. I'm sure that you can tell that the poster was making an attempt at humor, and not trying to justify the use of psychedelics as an evolutionary mechanism.
If you can't tell that he was joking, then you must have a pretty shoddy understanding of human behavior.
The only thing that school prepares you for is to get an entry level job where you can gain the experience to write reliable software.
School will get you up to speed on new terms and concepts, but the only thing that will make you better at writing good code is to read good code, write your own code and compare it to the good code, notice the difference, and adjust your approach until your code is "good".
You can use a JDBC driver to get at the data to. It's much easier to set up than ODBC.
You can also export your data to CSV text, or use flat file databses such as xbase.
In fact, I just finished making a java app that converts old foxpro data into CSV, then I merge the data into a form letter and can print labels from the data source.
Everything is there, and easy to set up. The only thing missing is good documentation, IMHO.
In order to be an effective social engineer, you have to become a different person in order to successfully complete an objective.
What kind of person did you have to become in order to survive physically, mentally, and emotionally in prison?
How did you deal emotionally with solitary?
Were you able to use your skills to get along better with other inmates and the guards?
I agree. A healthy dose of scepticism is needed here. First of all, if the RIAA really *did* want to infect the p2p networks with a worm, they would make GOBBLES sign a non disclosure agreement.
Could this be FUD straight from the RIAA to scare people into not running p2p apps? Is it a rumor started by GOBBLES to create a stir against the RIAA, or is it legit?
Who cares? I'm gonna fire up my gnutella client and share open source software until the day that p2p is illegal.
The person modeling the watch will be Christopher Walken.
I've had this watch up my ass for 3 years while my buddy Bill here has been waiting for the right time to unveil this prototype. The amazng thing is that you can almost still see the display.
One reason that many people know how to use/program/manage Linux by now is not that it is Open Source.
How do you know this? If Linux was not open source, kernel development and source auditing by programmers around the world would not be possible.
Really, if you ask alot of the early kernel developers, I think that they would tell you that the reason that linux is so popular today is that it is completely open source. If Linux was made closed source, IMHO the project would have never left the stack of floppies on Linus' desk.
If open source does not matter, then why isn't everyone using Sun's free version of Solaris X86? Solaris is a fine, enterprise-quality OS, but the free version does not have the popularity that Linux enjoys. If you are correct about giving software away for free, then why arent there more stories on/. about Solaris x86?
While I think that your ideas of an OS that provides an easier user interface, IMHO, you are a bit off.
The kernel _should_ implement more technical things like processes and filesystems, leaving the interface into this data up to the programmer that writes the abstraction that lives above the filesystem and process layer.
Just to set the record straight, I use whatever language that I think will be the best tool for the job.
Larry, my question to you is why should I use PERL over Python for system administration? Why should I use PERL over PHP for web content? What do you think that PERL is best suited for?
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I'll bite on this one. I guess you've never heard of Yahoo or Hotmail. Both have used FreeBSD for web serving.
Obviously, you've been hiding behind OS/2 boxes all these years. It's a shame that you don't get out more.
I see that a lot of people here are confused and posting questions for Bjarne Stroustrup. This is not a slashdot interview where people post questions for the guru and the editors pick the top 5 for the interviewee to answer. This is an interview that was done by an external website and not interviews.slashdot.org.
VirtualDub is in my opinion, one of the finest pieces of free digital video editing software for the win32 platform.
To my knowledge, nothing on linux even comes close to it.
FileZilla is a nice little open source FTP client. Beats the crap outta WSFTP.
It would be nice if the distros would lay out thier filesystems in a standard way like FreeBSD does.
/bin,/sbin for essentials, and /usr/bin, /usr/sbin for non-essentials, but very handy to have binaries that are in the base system.
/usr we have src for the source to the base system. No dumb symlinks like linux->linux-2.4.whatever. just /usr/src/sys for the kernel.
/usr/local by default.
The base goes in
Under
all of the applications installed via the FreeBSD ports collection that are not part of the base go into
Everything is always easy to find. If I don't know where soemthing is, I can just guess 9 times out of 10, or use hier(7) (the man page that describes beautifully the hierarchy of the filesystem) to figure out where it's supposed to be.
I read and enjoyed the paper, but I was disturbed by one thing. The author(s) kept bringing up the fact that the system was coded in C++ - an "unsafe" language, then suggested that the system should be written in Java or C#.
I've always thought that the only thing that made C++ "unsafe" was unsafe programming and design principles, something that, according to the paper, the Diebold system is littered with.
The bottom line is that the authors should not have bothered to evangelize Java and C# and instead focused more on how they could have made the C++ code "safe". If the primary flaw is design, then no language could save this code from the pits of insecurity.
When I was a kid you would have Superfriends, The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, GI-JOE, and the Transformers.
I enjoyed some of those shows and still do, but todays saturday morning cartoon lineup seems more like a forum for training in political correctness. Cartoons used to be just fun and games, not a way to feed our kids bullshit with a shovel.
It's up to the family to teach values, not cartoons. Period. I don't want my kid to learn her morals from a TV producer and screenwriter.
That's why cartoons today suck.
CmdrTaco's Dulpicate stories Merged
/. Effect".
An independant source confirmed today that the famous editor of Slashdot.org, Rod "CmdrTaco" Malda has got his act together and stated merging his dulpicate stories. Malda is quoted as saying "I'm not as think as you drunk I am" when asked how he could be so forgetful in his posting of duplicate stories.
Other internet sources also confirmed that bandwidth usage declined by 59% after the dupes were merged. This decline has been dubbed "The Reverse
Probably the most underrated movie of 1995. David Caruso is fresh from his stint with NYPD blue, and Nick Cage does a great job playing a bad guy here.
Hmm... Lets see... a huge distributor of PC hardware makes a decree that UNIX is dead.
Many of us know that the PC platform is unpopular as a hardware environment for commercial unices.
Could it be that Dell's CIO is really saying "The hardware that runs UNIX, such as SPARC, for example, is dead. Buy a PC with Windows or Linux and never have to worry about having obsolete hardware."
That's what I read between the lines anyway.
Give me a break. I'm sure that you can tell that the poster was making an attempt at humor, and not trying to justify the use of psychedelics as an evolutionary mechanism.
If you can't tell that he was joking, then you must have a pretty shoddy understanding of human behavior.
And not to mention the hidden levels that you could find by getting stuck in a door and moving your controller up, and then down repeatedly.
One could literally get lost for hours in the hidden levels.
The only thing that school prepares you for is to get an entry level job where you can gain the experience to write reliable software.
School will get you up to speed on new terms and concepts, but the only thing that will make you better at writing good code is to read good code, write your own code and compare it to the good code, notice the difference, and adjust your approach until your code is "good".
You can use a JDBC driver to get at the data to. It's much easier to set up than ODBC.
You can also export your data to CSV text, or use flat file databses such as xbase.
In fact, I just finished making a java app that converts old foxpro data into CSV, then I merge the data into a form letter and can print labels from the data source.
Everything is there, and easy to set up. The only thing missing is good documentation, IMHO.
Thanks. I found while contemplating /dev/zero
Seems like they are trying to piss in the pool to drive everyone away.
No, but it will make you a million dollars and attract women effortlessly through the power of irresistable pheromones.
In order to be an effective social engineer, you have to become a different person in order to successfully complete an objective. What kind of person did you have to become in order to survive physically, mentally, and emotionally in prison? How did you deal emotionally with solitary? Were you able to use your skills to get along better with other inmates and the guards?
I agree. A healthy dose of scepticism is needed here. First of all, if the RIAA really *did* want to infect the p2p networks with a worm, they would make GOBBLES sign a non disclosure agreement.
Could this be FUD straight from the RIAA to scare people into not running p2p apps? Is it a rumor started by GOBBLES to create a stir against the RIAA, or is it legit?
Who cares? I'm gonna fire up my gnutella client and share open source software until the day that p2p is illegal.
The person modeling the watch will be Christopher Walken.
I've had this watch up my ass for 3 years while my buddy Bill here has been waiting for the right time to unveil this prototype. The amazng thing is that you can almost still see the display.
They should not have taken his red stapler...
One reason that many people know how to use/program/manage Linux by now is not that it is Open Source.
/. about Solaris x86?
How do you know this? If Linux was not open source, kernel development and source auditing by programmers around the world would not be possible.
Really, if you ask alot of the early kernel developers, I think that they would tell you that the reason that linux is so popular today is that it is completely open source. If Linux was made closed source, IMHO the project would have never left the stack of floppies on Linus' desk.
If open source does not matter, then why isn't everyone using Sun's free version of Solaris X86? Solaris is a fine, enterprise-quality OS, but the free version does not have the popularity that Linux enjoys. If you are correct about giving software away for free, then why arent there more stories on
"Apple is trying to "close the operating system to tweakers"
If I were in charge I wouldn't let them damn, dirty meth-heads use my OS either!
While I think that your ideas of an OS that provides an easier user interface, IMHO, you are a bit off.
The kernel _should_ implement more technical things like processes and filesystems, leaving the interface into this data up to the programmer that writes the abstraction that lives above the filesystem and process layer.
Business Expenses = Tax Deductions
Just to set the record straight, I use whatever language that I think will be the best tool for the job.
Larry, my question to you is why should I use PERL over Python for system administration? Why should I use PERL over PHP for web content? What do you think that PERL is best suited for?