... for anything important such as voting. I'm a programmer, I do that for a living I've *never* seen a software project that didn't include quick hacks, known vulnerabilities by the dev team,,a lazy programmer and a PHB.
The fact the matter is, EVERY software project has stuff like that.
I wouldn't trust a software (much less a closed source software) written by anyone (including NASA, govs, whatever) to do anything like this. And personally, I can't believe anyone who has worked in the industry would.
And that is, regardless of the project management techniques, reviews, whatever.
Linux From Scratch is a great idea that produced a great project that works great. I was really sad when I saw the server situation a few days ago and I hope someone will host it.
I agree that SF might be a good idea, but I'm kind of hoping things could stay the same : their own server with all their setups, great download speed and many mirrors.
Can't a university or even better yet a company like RedHat & cie. help those guys ? I mean, it can't be a bad thing to help such a project. Many (somewhat hardcore) geeks go to your site every day. That oughta be good traffic for someone somewhere.
But PLEASE, don't click the link if you don't need to. Do *NOT* slashdot a server that has limited bandwidth.
Here in Canada (at least where I live), the only way to get PVR functionnality is to get the satellite dish with the high-end receiver with pvr integrated.
As far as I know, this is the only way to get at. At 600$ canadian (ok, so it's about 25$ US) it's quite pricey and I hate to encourage a monopoly.
Hopefully this stuff will have lower prices soon...
I'm glad I read your post...I was feeling left out:) I completly agree with what you say. I think it's impossible to enjoy Buffy if you don't watch it consistently. The references to previous episodes are numerous (and often funny) and that's part of the reason why someone who watches once in a while won't enjoy it.
Once More With Feelings, while a stand-alone episode still has so many references that i'm sure it isn't as good if you haven't seen the rest. Buffy's death, her emotional status at that point, willow and tara, etc...
The ultimate proof that occasional watching won't do it is the many posts here that says the show has no dept, that it's a soap, etc...
If they only knew...it's about as un-soapish (whoa, new word !) as it can get.
Anyway, I'm glad i've seen every episodes from day 1. I know it's great show...everyone else is just missing something great. Hopefully, the dvds will help.
A few years ago, I installed Slackware on a spare box and thought it was a nice distro. As you said, this is really nice if you want to learn how your OS works rather than just using it.
I don't use it anymore because all of my boxes (including my server) are running linux from scratch which while being much longer to setup (especially the first time), it is the ultimate learning experience. Everything on my workstation was compiled manually by me, including the shell, the compiler, X, etc...
One good thing about slack and linuxfromscratch is that you *know* exactly what is installed on your machine.
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I agree with you. I don't have "Pro. Java Server Prog. J2EE Edition" although I do have "Pro. JSP 2nd ed.". Is it any good ? I really liked their JSP book and was wondering if this book offered anything really important once you know about java/jsp/servlet/javabean.
As for the author, I wouldn't be surprised:) They must have a hard time finding all those unknown authors everytime to publish a book.
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I have quite a few (computer-related) books at home and I mostly agree with you. O'Reilly and Wrox are usually quite good although it's important to note that they are quite different.
Of the 20-odd O'Reilly books that I have, most are quite good. The same applies to Wrox although Wrox's are usually more "tutorial-like" and as such better for a begineer. I feel the animals are usually more in depth and the writting is somewhat better (probably explained by the fact that there's 20 authors on a typicial Wrox book).
My only other complaint about Wrox is that it looks like they reduced the quality of the paper they use latelly.
All in all, both are goods and are my first choices except where there is some high quality hardcover available.
Bible books are a big no-go as is mostly everything that starts with "exceptionnal", "bible", "unleashed", "dummies", "whatever".
I buy a lot of computer-related books..usually something like 1 or 2 a month. For me, the e-books versus deadtree discussion books is a non issue. I can't stand ebooks. I really really prefer real books even if that means i'm going to be paying 2 times as much.
As for the subject, I'm interested in a lot of things. Mostly system programming & network admins. To me, what really matters is the content of the book. I really like those books with the animal on top:) I think that 4 out of 5 times, they are quite exceptionnal.
Oh yeah, and I really wish there was more good-quality books out there (like hardcovers) on subjects that really matters. The C++ reference gold edition by the author of C++ (can't spell it's name) is a good example of this.
And if you are from wrox, make smaller books and pay 1 or 2 authors to do them. These new books are much less interesting than they used to be. And 20-something authors on a book makes a book that`s hard to read with no continuity.
Ahhh...the good old time when "flashy" sites used to mean an HR tag, some cool javascript [heck, maybe a rollover effect in NS2] and PICTURES ! Yep, no more text-only web pages. Now we could have pictures. 1994-95...the year of the evil OS.
Ok, you're right....I may be pushing it a little. After all, was NS3 out back then ? What's really amusing is that look at most geocities web sites and they are STILL pretty much at that level.
Gotta love those pink background with animated gifs everywhere....
I'm kinda confused by this. I mean, I always said that I would pay to get music from the net (as in per-song fee) but I would never pay to rent a music on the net. This is not like a movie-rental business because when you rent a movie, you usually don't care to see it more than once or twice, but when you like a song, you're going to listen to it quite a lot.
They are probably going to fail with this plan and then come up with the usual excuse that the web is "not a good business place and blablabla".
Maybe one day someone will realise that with good ideas and a somewhat logic price-tag, the web CAN be a good place to sell stuff. It just isn't the "promised land" dot-coms seemed to think 3 years ago.
We know this. The question is, why don't THEY. I mean, you'd figure that with so many people working for these giants, at least a few of those executives or managers would have guessed it by now.
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So it seems/. is next. It seems like in order to view quality content (and buzz off if you feel/. isn't quality, then go elsewhere), we're gonna have to pay.
I don't mind paying for a site or two, but obviously, that's going to get readership down ALOT for most site. I wonder what will happend then....is the internet going to become literally an electronic version of what we can buy in stores ? I mean, there's always going to be personnal sites, but anything that contains "www.geocities.com" starts at -2 in my book.
...Bill Gates' son will be dead before the court agrees on something definitive for Microsoft. There's so many appeals of appeals of procedures that were basically just sub-appeals of some appeals of the real thing that it will never end.
This is getting ridiculous. This is clearly a flaw and in the way US's law-model was designed. If you have the money, you can go on and on and on as long as you want.
How is this going ot work ? They are going to "exchange researchs, and researchers". Big deal! A DDOS attack cannot be predicted so how are they going to help stupid sys admin who feel applying patches is "time-consuming" ?
Any OS can be targetted by a DDOS and a DDOS attack will always exist. You can't force a stupid kid to write a small program that will "only ping random servers, like 1billion time. That's it..."
You can "help" by teaching sys admins to apply patches when they come out and possibly by running a safer OS. (what's the name again ? pretty sure it ends with "ux".)
Anyway, i'm not sure this "alliance" is anything more than marketing. On the plus side, those other small cies (with mcafee) are going to see if they can resist a Distribute/.-attack.
Mozilla is my browser of choice (it's been ever since... 0.6 ?). These days, the latest build crashes MUCH less than IE on windows and best of all : it's pretty much compatible to every important standards out there. (still need better XSLT support)
A browser that is standards-compliant is very important because then we can create web sites and ignore those non-compliants browsers. When every web developper does this, everyone will be able to use the browser *they* like on whatever platform *they* like.
I'm up to the point where I use Mozilla most of the time on Windows (mostly at work : we are a *gulp* Microsoft-Devoted shop -- I'm working on that) and Mozilla all the time on Linux. I did try Konq. and I think it's a really nice browser.
As long as they're standards-compliant, any browser will do.
While i'm not quite convinced by the article, it seems to me that the result of the "test" was to be expected. If you spend your life playing "dumb" video games, you're not going to be the same as if you'd have spent 20 hours a week reading books or learning stuff.
What bothers me here is that the article seem to say that "video games are bad for your child because while they play it, they're not learning as fast as they could". That might be true, but I think a kid needs to do something else in life than reading and learning. When kids are playing cowboys outside with "normal" toys, are their brain working more ? Is this better for the kid ?
As with everything else, the best is to get a compromise between the "no games" and "games all the time".
I think that this is the article's biggest problem. It basically says something everybody knows. You just need to go with your logic.
For me, it crashes everytime I try to load a new chapter if i'm using anything else than "low configuration". I must run the game at 640x480 with no details or else it crashes all the time.
Even at that resolution, it crashes anyway from time to time. I do run win2000 on this box so it may be the problem, but it says windows 2000 compatible on the box. If it isn't compatible, it shouln't say so!
There seems to be a lot of people with problems with the game. It's weird since about 50% of gamers do experience crashes while the other 50% can play the game with no problem. I guess you fall in the second category.
What's bugging me is that I am WAY over the "recommenced" specs... Ah well, you're lucky if you were able to play !
I'm a really big fan of everything blizzard and War3 is something I can't wait to get my hands on. Still, I prefer that they release it 6 months late (or im this case, it's been like what, 2 years ?) and have a really stable game.
I've been playing max payne lately and while it is a great game, it's buggy as hell! They can take all the time they want, as long as they release it stable.
Anyway, blizzard is just like 3drealms : Release date ? What the hell is that ??? I think they've confused "release date" with "hype date". Can you say Duke4ever ?
It's quite difficult to say anything in this discussion without being redundant but I really want to say that the update is really good.
It seems to be quite solid except for a few request that takes some time (/.'ed ?). Congratulation on the great work. Now you just need to add those other 2 billions features that didn't make it in 2.2:)
As someone else already said, I think a skin system would be neat for the next update. (Who needs sleep anyway ?)
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... for anything important such as voting. I'm a programmer, I do that for a living I've *never* seen a software project that didn't include quick hacks, known vulnerabilities by the dev team, ,a lazy programmer and a PHB.
The fact the matter is, EVERY software project has stuff like that.
I wouldn't trust a software (much less a closed source software) written by anyone (including NASA, govs, whatever) to do anything like this. And personally, I can't believe anyone who has worked in the industry would.
And that is, regardless of the project management techniques, reviews, whatever.
Reading the mailing list, it appears that there's nothing confirmed so far. Let's hope its just a false rumour.
There's only one guy that says it its ISP has blocked all incoming SSH connection due to "several root level incidents".
One guy did say that there was a bug somewhere and that a patch existed...No one knows what patch or where it is though.
Let's hope to publish this one quickly before there's any ral damage done.
We finally found people who ACTUALLY do RTFA -- *and* the comments.
They should be considered role model for this place or something.
Fear them.
Linux From Scratch is a great idea that produced a great project that works great. I was really sad when I saw the server situation a few days ago and I hope someone will host it.
I agree that SF might be a good idea, but I'm kind of hoping things could stay the same : their own server with all their setups, great download speed and many mirrors.
Can't a university or even better yet a company like RedHat & cie. help those guys ? I mean, it can't be a bad thing to help such a project. Many (somewhat hardcore) geeks go to your site every day. That oughta be good traffic for someone somewhere.
But PLEASE, don't click the link if you don't need to. Do *NOT* slashdot a server that has limited bandwidth.
Here in Canada (at least where I live), the only way to get PVR functionnality is to get the satellite dish with the high-end receiver with pvr integrated.
As far as I know, this is the only way to get at. At 600$ canadian (ok, so it's about 25$ US) it's quite pricey and I hate to encourage a monopoly.
Hopefully this stuff will have lower prices soon...
I'd suggest Ars technica...it's a great place to ask questions and the search gives you access to a bunch of older questions.
Google is another good one of course.
I did it. With a scientific method and a few hours of play, I was able to solve the game of chess. Indeed, it seems I lose even when I play my best.
I'm glad I read your post...I was feeling left out :) I completly agree with what you say. I think it's impossible to enjoy Buffy if you don't watch it consistently. The references to previous episodes are numerous (and often funny) and that's part of the reason why someone who watches once in a while won't enjoy it.
Once More With Feelings, while a stand-alone episode still has so many references that i'm sure it isn't as good if you haven't seen the rest. Buffy's death, her emotional status at that point, willow and tara, etc...
The ultimate proof that occasional watching won't do it is the many posts here that says the show has no dept, that it's a soap, etc...
If they only knew...it's about as un-soapish (whoa, new word !) as it can get.
Anyway, I'm glad i've seen every episodes from day 1. I know it's great show...everyone else is just missing something great. Hopefully, the dvds will help.
A few years ago, I installed Slackware on a spare box and thought it was a nice distro. As you said, this is really nice if you want to learn how your OS works rather than just using it.
I don't use it anymore because all of my boxes (including my server) are running linux from scratch which while being much longer to setup (especially the first time), it is the ultimate learning experience. Everything on my workstation was compiled manually by me, including the shell, the compiler, X, etc...
One good thing about slack and linuxfromscratch is that you *know* exactly what is installed on your machine.
I agree with you. I don't have "Pro. Java Server Prog. J2EE Edition" although I do have "Pro. JSP 2nd ed.". Is it any good ? I really liked their JSP book and was wondering if this book offered anything really important once you know about java/jsp/servlet/javabean.
:) They must have a hard time finding all those unknown authors everytime to publish a book.
As for the author, I wouldn't be surprised
I have quite a few (computer-related) books at home and I mostly agree with you. O'Reilly and Wrox are usually quite good although it's important to note that they are quite different.
Of the 20-odd O'Reilly books that I have, most are quite good. The same applies to Wrox although Wrox's are usually more "tutorial-like" and as such better for a begineer. I feel the animals are usually more in depth and the writting is somewhat better (probably explained by the fact that there's 20 authors on a typicial Wrox book).
My only other complaint about Wrox is that it looks like they reduced the quality of the paper they use latelly.
All in all, both are goods and are my first choices except where there is some high quality hardcover available.
Bible books are a big no-go as is mostly everything that starts with "exceptionnal", "bible", "unleashed", "dummies", "whatever".
I buy a lot of computer-related books..usually something like 1 or 2 a month. For me, the e-books versus deadtree discussion books is a non issue. I can't stand ebooks. I really really prefer real books even if that means i'm going to be paying 2 times as much.
:) I think that 4 out of 5 times, they are quite exceptionnal.
As for the subject, I'm interested in a lot of things. Mostly system programming & network admins. To me, what really matters is the content of the book. I really like those books with the animal on top
Oh yeah, and I really wish there was more good-quality books out there (like hardcovers) on subjects that really matters. The C++ reference gold edition by the author of C++ (can't spell it's name) is a good example of this.
And if you are from wrox, make smaller books and pay 1 or 2 authors to do them. These new books are much less interesting than they used to be. And 20-something authors on a book makes a book that`s hard to read with no continuity.
"...and go to flashy sites"
Ahhh...the good old time when "flashy" sites used to mean an HR tag, some cool javascript [heck, maybe a rollover effect in NS2] and PICTURES ! Yep, no more text-only web pages. Now we could have pictures. 1994-95...the year of the evil OS.
Ok, you're right....I may be pushing it a little. After all, was NS3 out back then ? What's really amusing is that look at most geocities web sites and they are STILL pretty much at that level.
Gotta love those pink background with animated gifs everywhere....
I'm kinda confused by this. I mean, I always said that I would pay to get music from the net (as in per-song fee) but I would never pay to rent a music on the net. This is not like a movie-rental business because when you rent a movie, you usually don't care to see it more than once or twice, but when you like a song, you're going to listen to it quite a lot.
They are probably going to fail with this plan and then come up with the usual excuse that the web is "not a good business place and blablabla".
Maybe one day someone will realise that with good ideas and a somewhat logic price-tag, the web CAN be a good place to sell stuff. It just isn't the "promised land" dot-coms seemed to think 3 years ago.
We know this. The question is, why don't THEY. I mean, you'd figure that with so many people working for these giants, at least a few of those executives or managers would have guessed it by now.
So it seems /. is next. It seems like in order to view quality content (and buzz off if you feel /. isn't quality, then go elsewhere), we're gonna have to pay.
I don't mind paying for a site or two, but obviously, that's going to get readership down ALOT for most site. I wonder what will happend then....is the internet going to become literally an electronic version of what we can buy in stores ? I mean, there's always going to be personnal sites, but anything that contains "www.geocities.com" starts at -2 in my book.
Hopefully, the really good sites will survive.
...Bill Gates' son will be dead before the court agrees on something definitive for Microsoft. There's so many appeals of appeals of procedures that were basically just sub-appeals of some appeals of the real thing that it will never end.
This is getting ridiculous. This is clearly a flaw and in the way US's law-model was designed. If you have the money, you can go on and on and on as long as you want.
we might get a new design for the much-awaited xBox version of the blue screen. Hey, maybe there will be a nice animation !?
Can't wait...
DAMN...you do have a point. Well, OSes that end with "ux" are at least better than some other OSes that starts with W :)
Obviously, we're not going to name anything here.
How is this going ot work ? They are going to "exchange researchs, and researchers". Big deal! A DDOS attack cannot be predicted so how are they going to help stupid sys admin who feel applying patches is "time-consuming" ?
/.-attack.
Any OS can be targetted by a DDOS and a DDOS attack will always exist. You can't force a stupid kid to write a small program that will "only ping random servers, like 1billion time. That's it..."
You can "help" by teaching sys admins to apply patches when they come out and possibly by running a safer OS. (what's the name again ? pretty sure it ends with "ux".)
Anyway, i'm not sure this "alliance" is anything more than marketing. On the plus side, those other small cies (with mcafee) are going to see if they can resist a Distribute
Mozilla is my browser of choice (it's been ever since ... 0.6 ?). These days, the latest build crashes MUCH less than IE on windows and best of all : it's pretty much compatible to every important standards out there. (still need better XSLT support)
A browser that is standards-compliant is very important because then we can create web sites and ignore those non-compliants browsers. When every web developper does this, everyone will be able to use the browser *they* like on whatever platform *they* like.
I'm up to the point where I use Mozilla most of the time on Windows (mostly at work : we are a *gulp* Microsoft-Devoted shop -- I'm working on that) and Mozilla all the time on Linux. I did try Konq. and I think it's a really nice browser.
As long as they're standards-compliant, any browser will do.
While i'm not quite convinced by the article, it seems to me that the result of the "test" was to be expected. If you spend your life playing "dumb" video games, you're not going to be the same as if you'd have spent 20 hours a week reading books or learning stuff.
What bothers me here is that the article seem to say that "video games are bad for your child because while they play it, they're not learning as fast as they could". That might be true, but I think a kid needs to do something else in life than reading and learning. When kids are playing cowboys outside with "normal" toys, are their brain working more ? Is this better for the kid ?
As with everything else, the best is to get a compromise between the "no games" and "games all the time".
I think that this is the article's biggest problem. It basically says something everybody knows. You just need to go with your logic.
For me, it crashes everytime I try to load a new chapter if i'm using anything else than "low configuration". I must run the game at 640x480 with no details or else it crashes all the time.
... Ah well, you're lucky if you were able to play !
Even at that resolution, it crashes anyway from time to time. I do run win2000 on this box so it may be the problem, but it says windows 2000 compatible on the box. If it isn't compatible, it shouln't say so!
There seems to be a lot of people with problems with the game. It's weird since about 50% of gamers do experience crashes while the other 50% can play the game with no problem. I guess you fall in the second category.
What's bugging me is that I am WAY over the "recommenced" specs
I'm a really big fan of everything blizzard and War3 is something I can't wait to get my hands on. Still, I prefer that they release it 6 months late (or im this case, it's been like what, 2 years ?) and have a really stable game.
I've been playing max payne lately and while it is a great game, it's buggy as hell! They can take all the time they want, as long as they release it stable.
Anyway, blizzard is just like 3drealms : Release date ? What the hell is that ??? I think they've confused "release date" with "hype date". Can you say Duke4ever ?
It's quite difficult to say anything in this discussion without being redundant but I really want to say that the update is really good.
:)
It seems to be quite solid except for a few request that takes some time (/.'ed ?). Congratulation on the great work. Now you just need to add those other 2 billions features that didn't make it in 2.2
As someone else already said, I think a skin system would be neat for the next update. (Who needs sleep anyway ?)