Doom on all Systems? I thought this was an article on thinsg like Windows, DOS 4, the Empire Monkey B Virus (you know you remember it), HTML Email and other bad things.
We all do relalize, that if the security of the notary is compromised, it is easy to generate digital signatures. What makes it worse, is if the key is secretly compromised (i.e. downloaded)
If they are from various distributors (dell, ibm), they can easily be batched and moved around so the hardware is homogeneous enough that support would be minimal.
Depends on how you think of it. You are thinking, ok, 1million broken installations. But, you should really think of it on a per site basis. If a school has 1000 computers... identical computers, if something doesn't work, its more likely not to work across the entire batch than just one. Linux does have a good diverse driver set, but in this case, it has to support a single set (disk, video, sound, etc).
Problems will more likely be either stupid tech support questions, i.e. "How do I add a user" or more complicated ones that involve 1 single server, and a single client. Once you know how to set up both, you can duplicate the product as many times as you want. Whether or not people will duplicate in an intelligent manner is a different kettle of fish, but its not hard even by doing fresh installs.
I do agree, its a lot of sites to support. Just not as many as 1M (1m? heh)
The powersupply fan is always easy to replace with quiter ones. Its a matter of knowing how to wire in a new one, no? I remember when my powersupply fan flat out died, just bought a new one, opened 'er up and put in a new fan. Just a matter of knowing what you are doing...
Perhaps the otehr BSD's do this, but I never use them. I like the fact that the package management, via/usr/ports and pkg_add puts all non-core, not part of the distribution in/usr/local.
Either that or for big things,/usr/www,/usr/java,/usr X11R6. My path rarely grows as that happens very rarely taht a new/usr dir is added.
What I like best is if I just rm -r the/usr/local dir, all my installs on the base system are gone. I have a clean system again. with RPM, it screws up a bit, which I'm not too happy about, in terms of removing packages. A good rm -rf works wonders:)
Since everyone is bashing the concept, I'll gladly take the stance accepting it.
If you write the core of the program in C/C++, the part that's slower or extreemely common and then let the rest be implemented in say, Perl or PHP (or some other script language) you have the benefits of higher maintainability with quick and easy development.
Take any perl program and port it to C, it might be a little harder. Imagine how much more of a hassle a BBS (or slashcode) would be if written only in C.
Now imagine the same program written only as perl. You don't get the beneifits of speed (lets not assume mod_perl:)).
Now what if the core parts of slashcode were written in C and less complex or higher maintained parts were written in Perl, you get the best of both worlds. This is how shell programming almost works, no? You write the simple logic which would be a pain to write in C to use C programs that do other things well.
It adds the complexity of knowing 2 languages, but if both lanugages are not bad languages (don't dare pick on perl:P ) no one should have a problem learning them. One shouldn't use more than 2. SQL and regexp are acceptable since they are very limited, but adding a third or fourth into the mix only adds complexity as it takes away either from quick development or maintainability.
And I'd like to remember to stop putting paragraph marks in my paragraphs when using "Plain Old Text" since \n's get turned into p-marks as well and are then interpreted. *sigh*
Honestly, I want things to get back to normal.
I mean real normal.
I'd like to not pass by "Ground Zero" and feel an instant of depression, I want cnn to stop showing only things about this war. I'm tired of wondering where anthrax will strike next..
I want to be employed again and be able to buy my brother (+ sis in law) that DVD player I promised. Not like he twisted my arm about it, I offered since I know he'd like it. I'd like to buy myself a beer after playing v-ball like I used to all the time.
I'd like for the economy to be in a good state. Is it being inflated right now? Maybe it is. I'd like the economy to be in the state it was last year, without all the hype and silly IPO's.
Being of the unemployed status, not having a job, being a bum until my next job is found all i have time to do is read, program, play v-ball and what not. Its not because I'm not looking, its because the first week, I did most of what I could and now doing incremental searches, following up and what not, takes 2 hours a day. At least now, with this OSS, I can show employers that I do have the potential with another project I'm working on.
I'll give myself another month or two before I take any job I can find..
Search freshmeat for http tunnel. You can do some sick stuff, tunnelling ssh via http to your home machine to do a proxy. Thank God this doesn't require that much CPU for it:)
If people were paying attn to Nintendo, they might have known the systems, as the slashdot title suggests, were on sale a little earlier in some places. Two of my friends got one. One got one off of a voucher, found out they had extra since no one was asking, and told me and another friend. He got one, I'm gonna wait a little while when I can afford it.
Its really not that hard, especially with 2d data, per my post. And even if you do table joins, you can represent the joined data with XML to represent which tables which data came from and which did not.
tsk tsk, remember Nintendo isn't that much of a newcomer. It has over a decade of fans and players. They also have prior contracts and sequels the can do for a little while longer. Look and Mario, Luigi, Zelda, Pokemon (lord help me) and other popular characters that Nintendo that has as household names.
I'd say the cube and ps2 are on the level, except the ps2 has been out a little longer while nintendo corp has a good history going. After all, the ps2 and dreamcast didn't make the n64 go away or anywhere and vice versa. Sega just couldn't keep up a good fanbase nor release a good set of games. Well, at least not like it did in the old days:)
Having worked with representing just the table layouts in XML, its really not that hard to represent say, a NxM set of data. That's always been easy, its a 2d table. It winds up being a very shallow xml document, no more than say 3 levels: root node, node representing the data record, node representing an entry in the record.
You are 100% right, in that we should discard relational db's. Objects are a little more natural for a representation in XML. If an object contains objects, even if they are of the same type, ala trees, its a more natural representation than a 2d table.
Talk about FUD. Suing over interfaces has been known for a long time. I know 2 companies on the web battling it out right now just because they are competitors but one has a patent. Look at MS vs Apple, Apple vs Xerox (I swear there was a case). Don't make something so general so specific.
Also think of the confussion it causes when two products look identical. It should let the opensource community do this and not allow companies to do it? What's the insentive?
As for the one-click thing, please. They debuted one-click, so what. They are using, or at least were, using a technology. Don't pick on their website just 'cause they licensed a technology from another company that has a patent on it. What's cheaper, lisencing or going to court? Pick on Amazon for creating such a stupid patent.
And as for the cube-NDA contract issue, please. Gimme a friggin' break. So what if Apple likes to hide their new products until they are ready to do it the way they want. The employee signed a contract that he won't leak information from Apple. What if a competitor such as Dell caught wind and released something just as cool, but earlier. Great, Apple would get shafted 'cause of some ass employee who can't play nice.
As for the BSD crack you made, they are using opensource software and giving back the modified version, Darwin for free. Don't be an ingrate and say "Well, a patent (mind you invalid) exists, they get people to stop mimicing their interface verbatim, use OSS and recontribute while making their OS even more stable than before, so apple reeks." statement. Maybe we should step all over Apple and hack QuickTime, which uses a kick ass codec and try our best to drive the company into the ground.
You've just spread extreemist FUD about a company protecting its rights. piss me off...
Well, you use primes in encryption for instance in PKI. Dsa signatures use them too. So it is useful, though not as helpful as say, the cure for cancer.
wrong, filters work only in reverse. you can only filter in, not out. so filtering this comment on the english dictionary would work since all words used here are in there. or something like that.:)
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Doom on all Systems? I thought this was an article on thinsg like Windows, DOS 4, the Empire Monkey B Virus (you know you remember it), HTML Email and other bad things.
We all do relalize, that if the security of the notary is compromised, it is easy to generate digital signatures. What makes it worse, is if the key is secretly compromised (i.e. downloaded)
If they are from various distributors (dell, ibm), they can easily be batched and moved around so the hardware is homogeneous enough that support would be minimal.
Cool until people hurt themselves or others. I hope there is staff to test and evaulate the equpitment before it gets to the 'launch site'
Depends on how you think of it. You are thinking, ok, 1million broken installations. But, you should really think of it on a per site basis. If a school has 1000 computers... identical computers, if something doesn't work, its more likely not to work across the entire batch than just one. Linux does have a good diverse driver set, but in this case, it has to support a single set (disk, video, sound, etc).
Problems will more likely be either stupid tech support questions, i.e. "How do I add a user" or more complicated ones that involve 1 single server, and a single client. Once you know how to set up both, you can duplicate the product as many times as you want. Whether or not people will duplicate in an intelligent manner is a different kettle of fish, but its not hard even by doing fresh installs.
I do agree, its a lot of sites to support. Just not as many as 1M (1m? heh)
The powersupply fan is always easy to replace with quiter ones. Its a matter of knowing how to wire in a new one, no? I remember when my powersupply fan flat out died, just bought a new one, opened 'er up and put in a new fan. Just a matter of knowing what you are doing...
Perhaps the otehr BSD's do this, but I never use them. I like the fact that the package management, via /usr/ports and pkg_add puts all non-core, not part of the distribution in /usr/local.
/usr/www, /usr/java, /usr X11R6. My path rarely grows as that happens very rarely taht a new /usr dir is added.
/usr/local dir, all my installs on the base system are gone. I have a clean system again. with RPM, it screws up a bit, which I'm not too happy about, in terms of removing packages. A good rm -rf works wonders :)
Either that or for big things,
What I like best is if I just rm -r the
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If you write the core of the program in C/C++, the part that's slower or extreemely common and then let the rest be implemented in say, Perl or PHP (or some other script language) you have the benefits of higher maintainability with quick and easy development.
Take any perl program and port it to C, it might be a little harder. Imagine how much more of a hassle a BBS (or slashcode) would be if written only in C.
Now imagine the same program written only as perl. You don't get the beneifits of speed (lets not assume mod_perl
Now what if the core parts of slashcode were written in C and less complex or higher maintained parts were written in Perl, you get the best of both worlds. This is how shell programming almost works, no? You write the simple logic which would be a pain to write in C to use C programs that do other things well.
It adds the complexity of knowing 2 languages, but if both lanugages are not bad languages (don't dare pick on perl
And I'd like to remember to stop putting paragraph marks in my paragraphs when using "Plain Old Text" since \n's get turned into p-marks as well and are then interpreted. *sigh*
I mean real normal.
I'd like to not pass by "Ground Zero" and feel an instant of depression, I want cnn to stop showing only things about this war. I'm tired of wondering where anthrax will strike next..
I want to be employed again and be able to buy my brother (+ sis in law) that DVD player I promised. Not like he twisted my arm about it, I offered since I know he'd like it. I'd like to buy myself a beer after playing v-ball like I used to all the time.
I'd like for the economy to be in a good state. Is it being inflated right now? Maybe it is. I'd like the economy to be in the state it was last year, without all the hype and silly IPO's.
I want peace for the World... and Peace of mind.
I'll give myself another month or two before I take any job I can find..
Evil prophet! :)
Search freshmeat for http tunnel. You can do some sick stuff, tunnelling ssh via http to your home machine to do a proxy. Thank God this doesn't require that much CPU for it :)
If people were paying attn to Nintendo, they might have known the systems, as the slashdot title suggests, were on sale a little earlier in some places. Two of my friends got one. One got one off of a voucher, found out they had extra since no one was asking, and told me and another friend. He got one, I'm gonna wait a little while when I can afford it.
Its really not that hard, especially with 2d data, per my post. And even if you do table joins, you can represent the joined data with XML to represent which tables which data came from and which did not.
I'd say the cube and ps2 are on the level, except the ps2 has been out a little longer while nintendo corp has a good history going. After all, the ps2 and dreamcast didn't make the n64 go away or anywhere and vice versa. Sega just couldn't keep up a good fanbase nor release a good set of games. Well, at least not like it did in the old days
You are 100% right, in that we should discard relational db's. Objects are a little more natural for a representation in XML. If an object contains objects, even if they are of the same type, ala trees, its a more natural representation than a 2d table.
heh, some people are fleeing their countires for other reasons. (snicker)
if(!shape->put())
though i know of people who bitch about things like (in perl)
if(!$x=)
{
Also think of the confussion it causes when two products look identical. It should let the opensource community do this and not allow companies to do it? What's the insentive?
As for the one-click thing, please. They debuted one-click, so what. They are using, or at least were, using a technology. Don't pick on their website just 'cause they licensed a technology from another company that has a patent on it. What's cheaper, lisencing or going to court? Pick on Amazon for creating such a stupid patent.
And as for the cube-NDA contract issue, please. Gimme a friggin' break. So what if Apple likes to hide their new products until they are ready to do it the way they want. The employee signed a contract that he won't leak information from Apple. What if a competitor such as Dell caught wind and released something just as cool, but earlier. Great, Apple would get shafted 'cause of some ass employee who can't play nice.
As for the BSD crack you made, they are using opensource software and giving back the modified version, Darwin for free. Don't be an ingrate and say "Well, a patent (mind you invalid) exists, they get people to stop mimicing their interface verbatim, use OSS and recontribute while making their OS even more stable than before, so apple reeks." statement. Maybe we should step all over Apple and hack QuickTime, which uses a kick ass codec and try our best to drive the company into the ground.
You've just spread extreemist FUD about a company protecting its rights. piss me off...
Simulated nothing, they are using UPS. :)
Well, you use primes in encryption for instance in PKI. Dsa signatures use them too. So it is useful, though not as helpful as say, the cure for cancer.
Its for the sake of the OpenBSD channel you know, keeping everyone safe by letting no one in ;) (/joke)
wrong, filters work only in reverse. you can only filter in, not out. so filtering this comment on the english dictionary would work since all words used here are in there. or something like that. :)
You realize this is entirely inaccurate since all files needed for compiling are also stored on ftp.freebsd.org, right?
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