If a program is licensed under the GNU GPL and it's distributed to the public, anyone can just use the source code, compile it, and re-distribute the same, exact product on App Stores for free -- completely legal. The only thing they may have to do is change copyrighted images/logos/etc. FOSS isn't about money, but freedom. You usually make money from support, maybe ads, etc. -- something else besides the product/code.
It seems odd to me that a recent/. article (read link in summary) also mentioned XOR style code that could identify the SQL Slammer perpetrator. It could just be coincidence... but the same guy that made this tojanized version of SSH could also be the same guy that made SQL Slammer. Both have an infatuation for XOR. Both Trojan and Slammer are sexual terms. SSH, SQL, and XOR are 3 letter-abbreviations. Conspiracy! 3^3^3=3! And it is the year 2013! OMGZ! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This was also posted by timothy. Arrest TIM O THY!
I was mainly asking because it's odd to me in this context. I assume that he's backspacing over the F word? I had never seen a/.er do this before...
And, my comment got modded up funny, not informative/interesting/etc. So the mod just thought I was a stupid n00bl3t -- which I am this time!
No Updater GUI: Not a big deal, since I always update with "sudo yum update." However, if you like the GUI, you now have to go to "Details" (it's in the Applications; you can also get to it from System Settings at the bottom). This is not intuitive at all. Of course, if there are updates, a popup will appear, but wonder if you close it and forget... I think they should have left the Updater GUI program -- unless they're only targeting super users now.
In the past, I have been a huge Fedora fanboy. Having had been on Fedora 15 for so long, I finally made the jump to Fedora 18 yesterday! I had no problems with the installer (setting up my custom partition scheme was definitely weird; for example, you have to type "/" to get a drop down of possible mount points, and/opt and/var are seemingly excluded from this drop down for no reason).
But oh my god, this release is a complete piece of SHIT. I'm not going to uninstall it because of how much hassle I went through (and this is my work PC), but damn, just damn. Having said this, they did fix some problems in F15, and it looks nicer, but the number of new problems outweighs the benefits. If you're thinking about upgrading, don't do it.
Some of the problems I had to deal with:
Software Installer: It's now called "Software" instead of "Add/Remove Packages" or whatever. I kept typing in "Add" trying to find it. This thing is the worst piece of shit in the whole installation. They decided to completely remove the X button, remove the ability to resize/reposition, and it's auto-fullscreen on the primary monitor. If you search "libreoffice" on 2 monitors, it expands to take up 1 and 1/3 of your monitors with no way for you to resize it. When I first installed Fedora, I selected a whole bunch of packages I wanted to install and clicked apply; didn't work or do a damn thing. I had to close it and go back in and just select and install a few at a time. What baffles the mind is that this worked on F15. Whoever broke this needs to GTFO.
System Tray: You know that nice thing in the bottom right of your screen that you think even the dumbest fool couldn't break? They broke it. You have to sit your cursor on the bottom right for about a minute just for it to come up. Rhythmbox/tomboy/clipit/autokey system tray is useless now. And yeah, you know when something crashes and you'll get the "Automatic Bug Report" icon in the system tray? There's no way to f/cking close it.
Tracker: This was a problem in F15 as well. Remove this POS! It churns up tons of CPU and eats all of my memory trying to cache my whole system. Fix this or delete it. And, BTW, you can't remove this because everything depends on it. You have to do "gnome-session-properties" and make sure that it doesn't autostart. Because I didn't feel like re-logging in, I then had to kill it through System Monitor. This is garbage.
Non-Obvious Application Menu: Yeah, I was in Nautilus file manager for a while trying to figure out how to get to preferences. Instead of a menu now, you have to right click on the app image in the top-left corner (next to Activities and before the Time/Date). This is more of user error, but it'd be nice to let a guy know.
Tooltip Background Color: If you use Eclipse at all, you'll notice that your background color is black when hovering over an item and seeing the Javadoc (text is black/dark purple, so unreadable). Yeah, I thought it was Eclipse's fault...nope. I had to go to/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc and change the tooltip_bg/fg_color to #f5f5b5/#000000. Let me change this in a convenient way next time...
Non-System Partitions: This isn't a big deal, but annoying. So I set up a few partitions just for general use during installation. I (in the wheel group) couldn't access them unless root. I had to change the umask in/etc/fstab for these.
That's all I can think of for now. Some of these problems are GNOME 3.6's. WTFITQA (Where the f/ck is the QA?)
echo "As previously reported on Slashdot, in November of last year, the city of Munich reported savings of over €10 million from its switch to Linux. Microsoft subsequently commissioned a study (conducted by HP) that found that, in fact, 'Munich would have saved €43.7 million if it had stuck with Microsoft.' Now, Microsoft has said it won't release the study, saying that '[it] was commissioned by Microsoft to HP Consulting for internal purposes only.'" | sed s/study/bullshit/g | sed s/internal/sexual/g
Or are they strings... I think the DB admins should make them integers, and when they overflow, the site should just be shutdown, or new users get wrapped to low UIDs and have shared accounts.
So eventually we won't need construction workers at all? As much as I hate to say it, with all of this technology we will have to merge into a communist-like country (like communist mixed with democracy). How else can people live if there are no actual jobs? And for technology maintenance, you really don't need that many people or requires too much schooling (even if it's not difficult).
This is actually a good idea, but I'd want a real piano keyboard. Because of the way our brains work and associative memory, it's actually pretty easy to remember a long composition compared to a long list of characters. Unfortunately, then there will be "music dictionary attacks" with the most popular music.
Eventually, when true Quantum computers emerge, we'll all be screwed anyway for at least offline documents. For online documents, you can at least limit the number of tries. In fact, even if you have a shit password (e.g., "changeme1234"), if the website limits the number of tries to 3 times a day, you're probably safe for at least a year or two.
Yes, I think Amy's is much better. However, nothing beats homemade soup. And really, soup is the easiest thing to make and lasts for a week or two... don't know why you'd buy it anymore.
For example, I could never view the C files in the Windows API. Maybe that's changed? I can view them at WINE now, but these are WINE's implementations for allowing Windows programs on Linux. Can I vew the Microsoft implementations for these methods as easily? In C#, can I vew the base library's code? (Not just the declarations.) I honestly don't know the answers here; that's why I'm asking. And yes, I can debug the assembly, but seeing the code at a library level in Java has really saved my ass at times (and one time I found a bug and reported it which actually got fixed somehow... that was back when Sun owned it though).
I won't go into all of the arguments for why I don't use MS-based languages. I probably shouldn't have brought it up because I don't wish to start a flamewar haha. For the above, all I'm saying is that I got burned, and at one point, I even gave them a 2nd chance. But now, for me, it's over with them.
A language has no speed. Compilers produce executables that vary in speed when compared to various compilers and compile flags.
I concede that this is true. If every language used the exact same compiler and produced the exact same optimized output, then we would never need to ask "which is faster?" When I said this, I was referring to the general idea -- which includes the compiler and output -- and for general applications -- non-specific to the web, etc. Maybe unfortunately, language (English) has evolved into using terms to umbrella the things related to it. So for this, I am wrong.
However, for the general purpose, is C faster than an object-oriented language? Polymorphism, decoupling, and cohesion generally produce slower output. For example, you have 8 classes for each separate, specific task and each class extends A, B, C, and so on. With today's compilers, this produces code that is slower than a straight procedural program. For every class, you must pass the "this" object and do a lookup of the functions/methods. These object-oriented ideas are good and are easier to read/maintain/etc., but with a cost. So for the average program in the wild, I think that C will be faster. As for templates, C has macros that would be the equivalent (which C++ can also do). There are other things too such as exceptions, etc., but I don't feel like writing all of this out.
And as for scripting languages that are or can be procedural, they of course usually don't produce machine code, and their compilers usually aren't as mature.
Lastly, for FORTRAN, it's faster for scientific/mathematical data that has a lot of arrays (for matrices), etc. However, for a GUI, it has shown to be slower.
So again, I go back to the title of this article and how I should have phrased my statement. In the 'real world' with today's compilers and the average programs made, C is generally faster. This is my opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
If a program is licensed under the GNU GPL and it's distributed to the public, anyone can just use the source code, compile it, and re-distribute the same, exact product on App Stores for free -- completely legal. The only thing they may have to do is change copyrighted images/logos/etc. FOSS isn't about money, but freedom. You usually make money from support, maybe ads, etc. -- something else besides the product/code.
How do you use a candy bar to navigate?
I'm pretty sure that Linux Distros' Package Management Systems are the best "App Stores" for FOSS developers, or is that just me?
Dude, you just got punk'd! You know Ashton Kutcher is in this, right?
It seems odd to me that a recent /. article (read link in summary) also mentioned XOR style code that could identify the SQL Slammer perpetrator. It could just be coincidence... but the same guy that made this tojanized version of SSH could also be the same guy that made SQL Slammer. Both have an infatuation for XOR. Both Trojan and Slammer are sexual terms. SSH, SQL, and XOR are 3 letter-abbreviations. Conspiracy! 3^3^3=3! And it is the year 2013! OMGZ! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This was also posted by timothy. Arrest TIM O THY!
If only the Internet Entities had invented an easy way to make that a clickable link... alas, I will never know what this Bitter Sweet Symphony is... woe is me... woe is me...
I was mainly asking because it's odd to me in this context. I assume that he's backspacing over the F word? I had never seen a /.er do this before...
And, my comment got modded up funny, not informative/interesting/etc. So the mod just thought I was a stupid n00bl3t -- which I am this time!
OK, I have to ask... What is ^H^H^H^H? Backspaces?
If we have a limited number of heartbeats, the trick is to stay as miserable as possible, so that the time will pass more slowly.
I knew pr0n would be the death of me!
For anyone curious, I fixed the system tray issue using this answer. (It's for Ubuntu, but works for Fedora.)
Another one I remembered:
No Updater GUI: Not a big deal, since I always update with "sudo yum update." However, if you like the GUI, you now have to go to "Details" (it's in the Applications; you can also get to it from System Settings at the bottom). This is not intuitive at all. Of course, if there are updates, a popup will appear, but wonder if you close it and forget... I think they should have left the Updater GUI program -- unless they're only targeting super users now.
But oh my god, this release is a complete piece of SHIT. I'm not going to uninstall it because of how much hassle I went through (and this is my work PC), but damn, just damn. Having said this, they did fix some problems in F15, and it looks nicer, but the number of new problems outweighs the benefits. If you're thinking about upgrading, don't do it.
Some of the problems I had to deal with:
That's all I can think of for now. Some of these problems are GNOME 3.6's. WTFITQA (Where the f/ck is the QA?)
echo "As previously reported on Slashdot, in November of last year, the city of Munich reported savings of over €10 million from its switch to Linux. Microsoft subsequently commissioned a study (conducted by HP) that found that, in fact, 'Munich would have saved €43.7 million if it had stuck with Microsoft.' Now, Microsoft has said it won't release the study, saying that '[it] was commissioned by Microsoft to HP Consulting for internal purposes only.'" | sed s/study/bullshit/g | sed s/internal/sexual/g
In the article, is this what they're referring to or is it another script file? https://eu.static.mega.co.nz/keygen.js
Or are they strings... I think the DB admins should make them integers, and when they overflow, the site should just be shutdown, or new users get wrapped to low UIDs and have shared accounts.
Show me the money! I love black people!
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So eventually we won't need construction workers at all? As much as I hate to say it, with all of this technology we will have to merge into a communist-like country (like communist mixed with democracy). How else can people live if there are no actual jobs? And for technology maintenance, you really don't need that many people or requires too much schooling (even if it's not difficult).
This is actually a good idea, but I'd want a real piano keyboard. Because of the way our brains work and associative memory, it's actually pretty easy to remember a long composition compared to a long list of characters. Unfortunately, then there will be "music dictionary attacks" with the most popular music.
Eventually, when true Quantum computers emerge, we'll all be screwed anyway for at least offline documents. For online documents, you can at least limit the number of tries. In fact, even if you have a shit password (e.g., "changeme1234"), if the website limits the number of tries to 3 times a day, you're probably safe for at least a year or two.
https://mega.co.nz/#developers
As far as their future (at bottom), it looks like they'll just be developing this for the browser, but the API appears to be fully open for developers.
Works fine for me on Opera.
Yes, I think Amy's is much better. However, nothing beats homemade soup. And really, soup is the easiest thing to make and lasts for a week or two... don't know why you'd buy it anymore.
http://s7.postimage.org/8dz5g30jv/Screenshot_1.png Anyone else getting this too?
For example, I could never view the C files in the Windows API. Maybe that's changed? I can view them at WINE now, but these are WINE's implementations for allowing Windows programs on Linux. Can I vew the Microsoft implementations for these methods as easily? In C#, can I vew the base library's code? (Not just the declarations.) I honestly don't know the answers here; that's why I'm asking. And yes, I can debug the assembly, but seeing the code at a library level in Java has really saved my ass at times (and one time I found a bug and reported it which actually got fixed somehow... that was back when Sun owned it though).
I won't go into all of the arguments for why I don't use MS-based languages. I probably shouldn't have brought it up because I don't wish to start a flamewar haha. For the above, all I'm saying is that I got burned, and at one point, I even gave them a 2nd chance. But now, for me, it's over with them.
A language has no speed. Compilers produce executables that vary in speed when compared to various compilers and compile flags.
I concede that this is true. If every language used the exact same compiler and produced the exact same optimized output, then we would never need to ask "which is faster?" When I said this, I was referring to the general idea -- which includes the compiler and output -- and for general applications -- non-specific to the web, etc. Maybe unfortunately, language (English) has evolved into using terms to umbrella the things related to it. So for this, I am wrong.
However, for the general purpose, is C faster than an object-oriented language? Polymorphism, decoupling, and cohesion generally produce slower output. For example, you have 8 classes for each separate, specific task and each class extends A, B, C, and so on. With today's compilers, this produces code that is slower than a straight procedural program. For every class, you must pass the "this" object and do a lookup of the functions/methods. These object-oriented ideas are good and are easier to read/maintain/etc., but with a cost. So for the average program in the wild, I think that C will be faster. As for templates, C has macros that would be the equivalent (which C++ can also do). There are other things too such as exceptions, etc., but I don't feel like writing all of this out.
And as for scripting languages that are or can be procedural, they of course usually don't produce machine code, and their compilers usually aren't as mature.
Lastly, for FORTRAN, it's faster for scientific/mathematical data that has a lot of arrays (for matrices), etc. However, for a GUI, it has shown to be slower.
So again, I go back to the title of this article and how I should have phrased my statement. In the 'real world' with today's compilers and the average programs made, C is generally faster. This is my opinion.