isn't this just the 'zero management' systems touted in the early '90's again?...boy, that was such a flaming success then, I'm strak raving frightened I might be obsoleted! EEEK!
At first, I was hesitant to take the leap, but after a few hours of playing on the iBook, I realized that beyond the geeky parts of the iBook, I love the user interface the mose. Sure, having a RISC-based UNIX is cool, that's why I bought my SPARCStation 20, but even better is a RISC-based UNIX with a pretty and application-rich GUI! WOO HOO!!!!
All you ney-sayers who haven't given it a whirl can blast me all you want, I'll still hold to the notion that OS X has beaten all the *NIXes at the desktop level. How well OS X will perform at the server level is outside the scope of my interest... I'll stick with OpenBSD for all my server needs, thanks.
1) your whole assessment about the foundations of freedom is completely off. 2) you're using/. as a soapbox by which you mold the opinions of/. kidz, shame on you.
I know this will get moderated down, but that's mostly because/. is group-think hell and because its redundant, but I have to get this out...
Basically, if you're responsible for stress testing software on an OS, you should at LEAST have a cursory understanding of the tools available on that OS... meaning, if you don't, how do you expect to really stress test these applications? If you didn't know applescript could do this, then you're stupid and you shouldn't be stress testing applications for anyone on any platform.
That said... moderators, mod me down.
"I'm getting moderated down for thinking differently than the rest of the k1dd13z..."
Well, I can safely say the Sioux Falls, SD meetup sucked. It was just me, and a friend who rode with me... frackin' great time!
Way to go to all the poser bastards who said they'd be there. YOU GUYS SUCK!
Geeks weren't meant for meeting face to face... why don't we have a/. irc meeting? See if we could get thousands of slashdot users in the same channel on the same server at the same time on the same day... that'd be nifty.
We have over 200 facilities in 26+ states, all of which are able to watch our Television channel. I don't have ANY clue how they accomplished this, but I know we have our own television studio, but beyond that I don't have a clue.
When I moved in to my new place close to a year ago, I went through the regular hassle of setting up my utilities. I was setting up my telephone service and was asked if I wanted the "anonymous call reject" feature. Not knowing what that was, I asked the sales person.
The reply I got piqued my interest... he said, "basically, it cuts in on unknown calls (i.e. those who's caller ID comes up as "Unknown") and plays a message to the effect of 'if you're a telemarketer, hang-up now, otherwise please enter your telephone number'."
They offered the service to me free for three months as a trial, so I said, Okay. Well, of course I forgot about it after the three months and it stayed on our account. After about six months, I had expected to begin getting unsolicited calls, but none came. NONE. I mean, I couldn't believe it. We've lived here for over a year and haven't gotten ANY unsolicited calls!
You don't need fancy legislation, or high-tech gizmos, just "anonymous call reject" from Qwest! (Do I sound like a commercial yet, or should I let my dirvel run on a bit longer? Okay, I'll stop.)
My sister and her husband have wireless cable, its kinda neat! They also have a cable modem on it!
My question is though, doesn't the bandwidth of the radio system not only limit the number of channels, but also the bandwidth reserved for the cable modem? What frequencies do these things run at?
I'm a little disappointed to see that fd linux didn't make it in to the review... fd linux (available from fdlinux.com) was created by a friend of mine (with a tidge of help from myself) to serve as a text-based replacement to any existing OS on a workstation -- it includes everything you need to work and play on-line. (in a text environment that is.)
The company I work for has deployed over 3,000 linux thin clients in 26 different states, and every one of them is managed by TWO people. Its scalable, CHEAP AS HELL, and INCREADBILY manageable. If you want more info, contact me via email.
Indeed, this is not a production script; it fails to check for tainted input, and furthermore provides for no malintent within the names of the files (a cross-site scripting bug could be to name a file to contain some wild-ass javascript, or something to that affect, thus causing the javascript to be embedded in the output of the script.)
Please note: this was not meant as a "use this in production, 'cause its 'super 31337", this was a, "very basic search engines are indeed this easy." Only an idiot would look at this and say, "he's suggesting we use THAT?!?" Neigh good sir, think again.
I think you're going to see a LOT more of this type of 'appliance' in the future... with the ever growing masses of information exploding off the desktops in every office around the country, we are quickly approaching critical mass -- we need better ways of tracking and managing data. I think Scott Adams mocks this as a "Knowledge Management" line of thinking, but its true.
I've dealt with this at the last three employers I've been at, and no one seems to have a good solution.
The CIA is using Northern Lights for their document managing, so is the FBI going to take up the Google-cross?
A few months ago, there was an article about LCD's on/., and the basic just of it was that the problem with conventional LCDs is packing the necessary wiring (etc.) to get to each pixel in to an adequately small and efficient (temperature) space. The problem with CRT's, though similar, is less significant, thus the continued disparigy between prices. Organic LCD's (again, discussed on/.) are the solution to the space/efficiency problems in LCD's, so if you ever see a 50" LCD for $400, it will be organic -- and those are a ways off.
It's got to be a pretty small group of people who are annoyed by Linus' in-ability to handle patches... specifically those writing the code! I'd think it pretty important to keep those folks happy, since without them our beloved little OS wouldn't progress as quickly as it does.
I visited Ybor city this January for the first time. I noticed (almost immediately) that there were survelence cameras on literally every corner of the down-town. I was with my wife and my folks (both of whom are lawyers) and we began discussing the merits of privacy invasion via survelance... the long and the short of it is, yes its an invasion, but it is quite possibly a necessary evil -- Ybor City has been know for being an incredibly tough place to live/work.
If you ever get a chance to go down there, I highly recommend eating at "La Columbia" and picking up a slew of cigars -- I would take out loans to buy the cigars they sell down there! -C
most viruses today are propogated via e-mail... there are plugins that will allow you to scan mail for viruses -- such as Virus Wall; thats what my organization uses, and it stops virtually 98% of the viruses that come in, the other 2% are picked up by McAfee VirusScan.
I'd suggest you look into implementing some solution like that prior to imposing your anti-virus policies on the university as a whole. Oh, and furthermore, what about folks who aren't using Windows on your network? What do they have to do? -C
Okay folks, lets think about this... why is napster dead? There are more than a hundred million people on the Internet, and how many of them do you suppose are so tech savvy that they will be capable of or willing to seek out an alternative to Napster? I think the vast majority of people out there (think of your neighbor in the dorms, or your Mom's friend, or whomever is the most technically inept person you know who manages to use Napster) would be willing to pay a small innocent fee on a per-song basis. Just because we/.'ers wouldn't (based -- in large part -- solely on philosophical objectsion) doesn't mean that Napster won't survive as a business entity. -C
Could you work around this by inserting low-level noise at the beginning or end of a song at the time of ripping? Unless the accoustic fingerprinting filters with a margin of error, you'd be able to alter the fingerprint (essentially its a checksum, right?) Well? -C
...lets not be so exclusive here (unless you've got your J.D. and have read the paper-work.)
Chances are good that he signed numerous documents ranging from non-competes to the corporate handbook, but the wording of each of those determines the legality of his actions to follow. -C
This is no joke, just read... I goto Barnes & Nobel, look for people who are in the computer department, but don't quite seem like they fit in, and start asking them questions. My experience has been quite interesting, for example: I have recieved three job offers, and met some of the most interesting people ever, just by striking up a conversation at B&N!
The first job offer was for contract programming in perl... a sweet gig, gave me some GREAT experience! The second job offer was to teach classes at a local Technical University on a part-time basis. And, the Third was to do web development for a local company. All three offers were solid, and I actually took two of them (not the teaching one, that's not much my style.)
There are also a number of things that you could do to get your name out there relatively cheaply:
get a website/domain dedicated just to your contract programming work
place an ad in the yellow pages under computer consulting
start going to local groups like: Java Users Group, Sertoma Club (don't know if that's local to this area or not, but it's a businessmens meeting), Chamber Of Commerce meetings (become a member of the CoC too!), etc...
put signs up on bulletin boards at the grocery store, post office, mall, etc.
talk to the local computer shops (not Best Buy or Circuit City for God's sake, we're talking the REAL computer shops) and you can use these guys to scope your competition too!
Learn more about business -- because regardless of how much you know about the technical matters, it won't mean shit if you cann't add value to your client's business processes.
...I do this quite a bit, so if you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me!
-C
Yes, a lot of us have done this over the years, and some of us continue... it's a fascinating thing to crawl around in God-knows-what under some building, I recommend everyone try it at least once!
If you're looking for more information, do a search on "urban exploration", or subscribe to the UE mailing list at www.urbanexplorers.net (yes, that was one of the links mentioned in the article, but this is a list I've been subscribing to for quite a while, it's got some interesting traffic!)
note:the subject of this message is vadding because that's the old-school/MIT name for this black art.
-C
...From a strictly business standpoint, I don't see how they can affoard to undercut the other CLECs like that! Our local fiber provider wants to charge us $4k/mo. for a DS-3 (T3)... how can they do that?
Isn't it interesting that IBM dropped their line-up of Cruso laptops a few months ago? Could IBM possibly be working on their own non-natively x86 processor?
It's a great time to be alive! -C
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isn't this just the 'zero management' systems touted in the early '90's again? ...boy, that was such a flaming success then, I'm strak raving frightened I might be obsoleted! EEEK!
-C
At first, I was hesitant to take the leap, but after a few hours of playing on the iBook, I realized that beyond the geeky parts of the iBook, I love the user interface the mose. Sure, having a RISC-based UNIX is cool, that's why I bought my SPARCStation 20, but even better is a RISC-based UNIX with a pretty and application-rich GUI! WOO HOO!!!!
All you ney-sayers who haven't given it a whirl can blast me all you want, I'll still hold to the notion that OS X has beaten all the *NIXes at the desktop level. How well OS X will perform at the server level is outside the scope of my interest... I'll stick with OpenBSD for all my server needs, thanks.
-C
1) your whole assessment about the foundations of freedom is completely off. /. as a soapbox by which you mold the opinions of /. kidz, shame on you.
2) you're using
yup, and you AC's suck. have a spine and let your name be known... don't hide behind the AC monicker.
you're a gear in the machine.
-C
I know this will get moderated down, but that's mostly because /. is group-think hell and because its redundant, but I have to get this out...
Basically, if you're responsible for stress testing software on an OS, you should at LEAST have a cursory understanding of the tools available on that OS... meaning, if you don't, how do you expect to really stress test these applications? If you didn't know applescript could do this, then you're stupid and you shouldn't be stress testing applications for anyone on any platform.
That said... moderators, mod me down.
"I'm getting moderated down for thinking differently than the rest of the k1dd13z..."
-C
Well, I can safely say the Sioux Falls, SD meetup sucked. It was just me, and a friend who rode with me... frackin' great time!
/. irc meeting? See if we could get thousands of slashdot users in the same channel on the same server at the same time on the same day... that'd be nifty.
Way to go to all the poser bastards who said they'd be there. YOU GUYS SUCK!
Geeks weren't meant for meeting face to face... why don't we have a
-C
We have over 200 facilities in 26+ states, all of which are able to watch our Television channel. I don't have ANY clue how they accomplished this, but I know we have our own television studio, but beyond that I don't have a clue.
When I moved in to my new place close to a year ago, I went through the regular hassle of setting up my utilities. I was setting up my telephone service and was asked if I wanted the "anonymous call reject" feature. Not knowing what that was, I asked the sales person.
The reply I got piqued my interest... he said, "basically, it cuts in on unknown calls (i.e. those who's caller ID comes up as "Unknown") and plays a message to the effect of 'if you're a telemarketer, hang-up now, otherwise please enter your telephone number'."
They offered the service to me free for three months as a trial, so I said, Okay. Well, of course I forgot about it after the three months and it stayed on our account. After about six months, I had expected to begin getting unsolicited calls, but none came. NONE. I mean, I couldn't believe it. We've lived here for over a year and haven't gotten ANY unsolicited calls!
You don't need fancy legislation, or high-tech gizmos, just "anonymous call reject" from Qwest! (Do I sound like a commercial yet, or should I let my dirvel run on a bit longer? Okay, I'll stop.)
My sister and her husband have wireless cable, its kinda neat! They also have a cable modem on it!
My question is though, doesn't the bandwidth of the radio system not only limit the number of channels, but also the bandwidth reserved for the cable modem? What frequencies do these things run at?
I'm a little disappointed to see that fd linux didn't make it in to the review... fd linux (available from fdlinux.com) was created by a friend of mine (with a tidge of help from myself) to serve as a text-based replacement to any existing OS on a workstation -- it includes everything you need to work and play on-line. (in a text environment that is.)
The company I work for has deployed over 3,000 linux thin clients in 26 different states, and every one of them is managed by TWO people. Its scalable, CHEAP AS HELL, and INCREADBILY manageable. If you want more info, contact me via email.
Indeed, this is not a production script; it fails to check for tainted input, and furthermore provides for no malintent within the names of the files (a cross-site scripting bug could be to name a file to contain some wild-ass javascript, or something to that affect, thus causing the javascript to be embedded in the output of the script.)
Please note: this was not meant as a "use this in production, 'cause its 'super 31337", this was a, "very basic search engines are indeed this easy." Only an idiot would look at this and say, "he's suggesting we use THAT?!?" Neigh good sir, think again.
Actually, this is like a 10-line script if you can use `grep`... something like...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
$query=param( 'q' );
$document_root = "/home/";
print "<html><body>";
foreach `grep $query $document_root`
{
print "<li>$_</li>\n";
}
print "</body></html>";
exit(0);
I think you're going to see a LOT more of this type of 'appliance' in the future... with the ever growing masses of information exploding off the desktops in every office around the country, we are quickly approaching critical mass -- we need better ways of tracking and managing data. I think Scott Adams mocks this as a "Knowledge Management" line of thinking, but its true.
I've dealt with this at the last three employers I've been at, and no one seems to have a good solution.
The CIA is using Northern Lights for their document managing, so is the FBI going to take up the Google-cross?
A few months ago, there was an article about LCD's on /., and the basic just of it was that the problem with conventional LCDs is packing the necessary wiring (etc.) to get to each pixel in to an adequately small and efficient (temperature) space. The problem with CRT's, though similar, is less significant, thus the continued disparigy between prices. Organic LCD's (again, discussed on /.) are the solution to the space/efficiency problems in LCD's, so if you ever see a 50" LCD for $400, it will be organic -- and those are a ways off.
It's got to be a pretty small group of people who are annoyed by Linus' in-ability to handle patches... specifically those writing the code! I'd think it pretty important to keep those folks happy, since without them our beloved little OS wouldn't progress as quickly as it does.
I visited Ybor city this January for the first time. I noticed (almost immediately) that there were survelence cameras on literally every corner of the down-town. I was with my wife and my folks (both of whom are lawyers) and we began discussing the merits of privacy invasion via survelance... the long and the short of it is, yes its an invasion, but it is quite possibly a necessary evil -- Ybor City has been know for being an incredibly tough place to live/work.
If you ever get a chance to go down there, I highly recommend eating at "La Columbia" and picking up a slew of cigars -- I would take out loans to buy the cigars they sell down there!
-C
most viruses today are propogated via e-mail... there are plugins that will allow you to scan mail for viruses -- such as Virus Wall; thats what my organization uses, and it stops virtually 98% of the viruses that come in, the other 2% are picked up by McAfee VirusScan.
I'd suggest you look into implementing some solution like that prior to imposing your anti-virus policies on the university as a whole. Oh, and furthermore, what about folks who aren't using Windows on your network? What do they have to do?
-C
Okay folks, lets think about this... why is napster dead? There are more than a hundred million people on the Internet, and how many of them do you suppose are so tech savvy that they will be capable of or willing to seek out an alternative to Napster? I think the vast majority of people out there (think of your neighbor in the dorms, or your Mom's friend, or whomever is the most technically inept person you know who manages to use Napster) would be willing to pay a small innocent fee on a per-song basis. Just because we /.'ers wouldn't (based -- in large part -- solely on philosophical objectsion) doesn't mean that Napster won't survive as a business entity.
-C
Could you work around this by inserting low-level noise at the beginning or end of a song at the time of ripping? Unless the accoustic fingerprinting filters with a margin of error, you'd be able to alter the fingerprint (essentially its a checksum, right?) Well?
-C
...lets not be so exclusive here (unless you've got your J.D. and have read the paper-work.)
Chances are good that he signed numerous documents ranging from non-competes to the corporate handbook, but the wording of each of those determines the legality of his actions to follow.
-C
The first job offer was for contract programming in perl... a sweet gig, gave me some GREAT experience! The second job offer was to teach classes at a local Technical University on a part-time basis. And, the Third was to do web development for a local company. All three offers were solid, and I actually took two of them (not the teaching one, that's not much my style.)
There are also a number of things that you could do to get your name out there relatively cheaply:
get a website/domain dedicated just to your contract programming work
place an ad in the yellow pages under computer consulting
start going to local groups like: Java Users Group, Sertoma Club (don't know if that's local to this area or not, but it's a businessmens meeting), Chamber Of Commerce meetings (become a member of the CoC too!), etc...
put signs up on bulletin boards at the grocery store, post office, mall, etc.
talk to the local computer shops (not Best Buy or Circuit City for God's sake, we're talking the REAL computer shops) and you can use these guys to scope your competition too!
Learn more about business -- because regardless of how much you know about the technical matters, it won't mean shit if you cann't add value to your client's business processes.
...I do this quite a bit, so if you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me!
-C
Yes, a lot of us have done this over the years, and some of us continue... it's a fascinating thing to crawl around in God-knows-what under some building, I recommend everyone try it at least once!
If you're looking for more information, do a search on "urban exploration", or subscribe to the UE mailing list at www.urbanexplorers.net (yes, that was one of the links mentioned in the article, but this is a list I've been subscribing to for quite a while, it's got some interesting traffic!)
note:the subject of this message is vadding because that's the old-school/MIT name for this black art.
-C
...From a strictly business standpoint, I don't see how they can affoard to undercut the other CLECs like that! Our local fiber provider wants to charge us $4k/mo. for a DS-3 (T3)... how can they do that?
Does anyone knoe more about the company?
-C
Isn't it interesting that IBM dropped their line-up of Cruso laptops a few months ago? Could IBM possibly be working on their own non-natively x86 processor? It's a great time to be alive!
-C