"... it could potentially starve us of the funds necessary for research and development, and therefore, developers will be less willing to take a risk on new and genre-diversifying titles."
Since when did publishing basic business strategy become news? Mark me for a Troll if you like, but I really am tired of these "analysts" telling us the obvious. If you can't make these connections for yourself, do yourself a favour and don't start a business on your own.
It also makes me laugh to read that "developers will be less willing to take a risk on new and genre-diversifying titles." I didn't realise more than a hand full were doing this? (How good is Psychonauts anyone?) The rest are like Hollywood producers: there is no art, just business.
Where I used to work we had an in-house program which was suid root which parsed the command line and executed, on behalf of the user, the correct underlying privileged commands or system calls. They could run
$ super mount-usb-drive
to get their thumb drive online, or
$ super web-only public_html
to change the group of their home page to www. Simple and safe.
Wow, it's my first time telling someone to read the article before asking questions. The first section of the first link says (and I quote):
13.1.1. Why use disk encryption?
File-oriented encryption tools like GnuPG are great for encrypting individual files, which can then be sent across untrusted networks as well as stored encrypted on disk. But sometimes they can be inconvenient, because the file must be decrypted each time it is to be used; this is especially cumbersome when you have a large collection of files to protect. Any time a security tool is cumbersome to use, there's a chance you'll forget to use it properly, leaving the files unprotected for the sake of convenience.
Worse, readable copies of the encrypted contents might still exist on the hard disk. Even if you overwrite these files (using rm -P) before unlinking them, your application software might make temporary copies you don't know about, or have been paged to swapspace - and even your hard disk might have silently remapped failing sectors with data still in them.
The solution is to simply never write the information unencrypted to the hard disk. Rather than taking a file-oriented approach to encryption, consider a block-oriented approach - a virtual hard disk, that looks just like a normal hard disk with normal filesystems, but which encrypts and decrypts each block on the way to and from the real disk.
I'm not one to remember details I consider useless but one of my friends is worse. He sat a final paper for a 3rd year electrical engineering course (effectively 3A) and thought that more than sufficient time was spent on prerequisite knowledge. Being a large school you normally don't know anyone in the exam room anyway. It turns out he was a day early and sat the 2B paper for which he passed the prior semester.
He won't remember dates, course codes, or even course titles. I encouraged him to collect the paper from the professor but he was afraid his grade would be embarrassing.
I don't watch a lot of American television and I was quite confused when, in Tommy Lee Goes To College, the producers blurred out some signs and t-shirts worn by the plebeans. Was this the effect of sponsorship to remove references to competitors? They couldn't all have been offensive (especially the billboards *grin*).
"Every fact in there must be considered partisan, written by someone with a conflict of interest."
You're a fool if you don't criticise everything you're told. Haven't you heard of the Scientific Revolution, studied Hamlet or read Voltaire? What are they teaching you in school these days?
"You may want to fill up your 44oz mug before sifting through this one, though."
Station operator> Do you want the 32oz or the large? Bill> How big is that large? Station operator> You're gonna wanna pull your truck up out back. I'm gonna go start the pump. Bill> Shit that sounds like a lot of coffee man. I don't know if I wanna be awake that long in Tennessee.
Sense and portability
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GCC 4.1 Released
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I was always angry with Sun touting Java(R)(TM)*** as portable when run-time environments were made available for only a small (albeit popular) set of architecture/operating system pairs. My Alpha running Debian at home and my Alpha running FreeBSD at work were left cold, lonely, and wanting Java; running a subset of Java applications with free software partial implementations. This is a triumph for FOSS.
I dislike the labelling of this worm as Linux/Slapper. The only platform identification is,
This worm spreads by exploiting web servers hosting vulnerable PHP/CGI scripts.
I also know that tomorrow a colleague will say something akin to, "Quit razzing my Windows platforms. Your precious Linux also has security problems." Grrrr...
"At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in," Ballmer said. "With the continuing onslaught of malware, viruses, phishing attacks and other kinds of Internet fraud, creating a more secure computing environment requires a concerted, long-term effort on the part of all technology companies, as well as customers and governments." - Steve Ballmer
Telex - one of the nicest dialers/terminal programs
It was nice. I used to dial-up, message, chat, and hook up a game of Doom 2 for which I would have to re-dial with SIRDOOM! Sydney had a large BBS called TIGA which ran MajorBBS and Game Connection: my first source for more than 2 player death match! It was even my first internet provider.
I work for a financial institution in Australia (as a consulant/contractor/slave) and the permanent staff were surveyed on their level of "happiness" in the workplace. The executive management of the company is genuinely concerned about their morale.
I was happily surprised and it is one of the nicest places I have worked. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, with respect to age, I'm quite young and learnt quickly to keep that to myself. When you impress them with your work quality and then your age is discussed it is not an issue.
I currently work with a data warehouse and while your purposes may differ, configuration of thses are similar. We have many transaction processing systems which feed the data warehouse with information. Ideally these systems would update the warehouse as they happen in the transaction systems instead of daily batch jobs; obviously a low-priority queueing mechanism so that increased load in the transaction system, network failures, etc., would not cause the transaction system to fail. I wish I worked with a warehouse that did this but depending on need this can be more difficult to configure and may not be a necessary effort.
The gentleman above is right on the mark: if you have 3 transaction systems (say T1 and T2) then the central server needs to be using artificial IDs of TnX (where n is the transaction systems artificial ID and X is the ID on that particular transaction system).
A Bachelor of Science award is written BSc (perhaps outside the USA). In Australia we also refer to BAs as Bachelors of Attendance (although this rule doesn't always hold true).
lead geek: (squeaky voice) Did he just call all geeks autistic?! second geek: (volitile squeak voice) Yeah! Get him! geek chorus: Get him! Get him! (Waves Star Wars dolls at offender) (Offender growls; Geeks run away)
Taking a year off worked perfectly for me. I actually enrolled in university, attended for a week, but then was offered more hours at work and I just knew I needed some time off study so I "dropped out" so to speak. One year later I enrolled in exactly the same thing as before and I'm now a 3rd year student and doing well.
Clearly your situation is very personal. Taking one year off to work and travel clearly will not lock you out of tertiary education. My advice is to take the time off only because you do not know what you want to study.
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It also makes me laugh to read that "developers will be less willing to take a risk on new and genre-diversifying titles." I didn't realise more than a hand full were doing this? (How good is Psychonauts anyone?) The rest are like Hollywood producers: there is no art, just business.
This story would be believable if it were told by a man.
Perhaps niche peripherals such as these will become popular if supported?
Many good reasons.
I'm not one to remember details I consider useless but one of my friends is worse. He sat a final paper for a 3rd year electrical engineering course (effectively 3A) and thought that more than sufficient time was spent on prerequisite knowledge. Being a large school you normally don't know anyone in the exam room anyway. It turns out he was a day early and sat the 2B paper for which he passed the prior semester.
He won't remember dates, course codes, or even course titles. I encouraged him to collect the paper from the professor but he was afraid his grade would be embarrassing.
I don't watch a lot of American television and I was quite confused when, in Tommy Lee Goes To College, the producers blurred out some signs and t-shirts worn by the plebeans. Was this the effect of sponsorship to remove references to competitors? They couldn't all have been offensive (especially the billboards *grin*).
Bill> How big is that large?
Station operator> You're gonna wanna pull your truck up out back. I'm gonna go start the pump.
Bill> Shit that sounds like a lot of coffee man. I don't know if I wanna be awake that long in Tennessee.
I was always angry with Sun touting Java(R)(TM)*** as portable when run-time environments were made available for only a small (albeit popular) set of architecture/operating system pairs. My Alpha running Debian at home and my Alpha running FreeBSD at work were left cold, lonely, and wanting Java; running a subset of Java applications with free software partial implementations. This is a triumph for FOSS.
Is this akin to Gmail's labels?
Telex - one of the nicest dialers/terminal programs
It was nice. I used to dial-up, message, chat, and hook up a game of Doom 2 for which I would have to re-dial with SIRDOOM! Sydney had a large BBS called TIGA which ran MajorBBS and Game Connection: my first source for more than 2 player death match! It was even my first internet provider.
I work for a financial institution in Australia (as a consulant/contractor/slave) and the permanent staff were surveyed on their level of "happiness" in the workplace. The executive management of the company is genuinely concerned about their morale.
I was happily surprised and it is one of the nicest places I have worked. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, with respect to age, I'm quite young and learnt quickly to keep that to myself. When you impress them with your work quality and then your age is discussed it is not an issue.
I currently work with a data warehouse and while your purposes may differ, configuration of thses are similar. We have many transaction processing systems which feed the data warehouse with information. Ideally these systems would update the warehouse as they happen in the transaction systems instead of daily batch jobs; obviously a low-priority queueing mechanism so that increased load in the transaction system, network failures, etc., would not cause the transaction system to fail. I wish I worked with a warehouse that did this but depending on need this can be more difficult to configure and may not be a necessary effort.
The gentleman above is right on the mark: if you have 3 transaction systems (say T1 and T2) then the central server needs to be using artificial IDs of TnX (where n is the transaction systems artificial ID and X is the ID on that particular transaction system).
What does NASA stand for?
Need Another Seven Astronauts
Excellent point!
"That I use Movable Type which won't be effected by this."
Please learn the difference.
I'm not.
A Bachelor of Science award is written BSc (perhaps outside the USA). In Australia we also refer to BAs as Bachelors of Attendance (although this rule doesn't always hold true).
lead geek: (squeaky voice) Did he just call all geeks autistic?!
second geek: (volitile squeak voice) Yeah! Get him!
geek chorus: Get him! Get him! (Waves Star Wars dolls at offender)
(Offender growls; Geeks run away)
what it would really mean if Microsoft would open-source their operating system.
Anyone, anyone who has programmed any part of an operating system would laugh their arse off.
Taking a year off worked perfectly for me. I actually enrolled in university, attended for a week, but then was offered more hours at work and I just knew I needed some time off study so I "dropped out" so to speak. One year later I enrolled in exactly the same thing as before and I'm now a 3rd year student and doing well.
Clearly your situation is very personal. Taking one year off to work and travel clearly will not lock you out of tertiary education. My advice is to take the time off only because you do not know what you want to study.