Oh and what is so advantageous of a video blog? My reading is way faster than the blogger would talk and if anyone wants to put images or video showing something (a picture is worth 100k words, apparently), they can easily place a picture or a link.
So I have just caught up with the new technology of blogging through my mobile phone and now there is something new that I have to adapt to?
Seriously, I see blogging a bit like writting a diary. Somehow doing it in video doesn't fit in my braincells. Video blogging is something completely new I guess. Something that might totally change the meaning of bogging (probably making it worse, cause making professional videos ir much harder than making professional writing IMHO)
Well, my corporate anthem goes something like this:
Oh, I'm a C programmer and I'm OK,
I muck with structs and indexes all day,
And when they work I shout HOORAY!
Oh, I'm a C programmer and I'm OK.
I tend to put it in nearly all of my programs and whenever someone reads the source you can usually hear them burst into laughter.
I do not know who wrote this poem, but I would like to thank them:) This poem is just too fantastic as it combines Monty Python, C and silliness...
God bless the poets...
Well, the country I'm talking about is the country I'm living in and that is Lithuania. It's not a dictatorship or anything. These kind of laws do not apply at the state level, they are only issued at the municipal level, so in the city I live in (Kaunas) there used to be a law that prohibits children under the age of 14 to be on the street alone after 11PM. If the police sees that, the parent gets fined. I don't really know if they are still using this,m but this was in effect a few years ago. I don't know if anyone was fined, but the legislation existed.
This might be troll/offtopic, whatever, but while reading this, a very weird and interesting thought struck me...
Why is it neccessary to suit the internet for children needs? Was the internet designed to be used only for children so we have to ban anything that is not children appropriate?
Banning content that is not appropriate for children would be very difficult to police (I'd say impossible, but who am I to know?). Would it be just simpler to ban children using the internet without the aid of the guardian or parent. Sort of shift the whole issue to the other side. I know some countries have a law that states that children can't be on the street at night alone without parent or guardian. And that makes mush more effective and easier than just plainly making streets at night kid-safe.
When I was at school, we also used to have such tricks to find out passwords. It was amazingly low security: we managed to get ALL (that's right, ALL - ftp, web server access, administrator for the WinNT server, bios bootup passwords, you name it. We even had the passwords for the server that had our grades in, but we couldn't use it because it was in the teacher's room). The way we did it was to look at our admin typing his normal (not admin account) password (btw, it was as simple as "sony"). on his account there was a plain text file with the list of all passwords. It was even named something like passwords.txt.
Of couse he probably kept all the passwords there because they were cryptic and difficult to remember. That's why he chose to remembe only one password from his own account. Of course, I informed him about our "discovery" and he has changed his account password, but i remember that some of the passwords we discovered that day were valid even after a year has passed. Obviously noone bothered to change them.
This shows some points such as:
there are too many passwords to remember and the more difficult they are, the lesser they are secure as people will choose other options as sticking post-it notes or having password lists in a simple text file.
there are a lot of admins (especially at schools, etc), that are still not aware of the possibility that someone might get the passwords. (sort of a "god, we are an elementary school, so who's going to hack us?" attitude)
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My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused form saving universes
So does his mean that if a company that registers a domain name (let's say "bigcorp.com") can deny other poeple from having a domain name that is made up of the letters of the "bigcorp.com" domain so that ibgcorp.com, bgicorp.com, and all the other anagrams would be illegal to use for a company selling similar services or products to bigcorp?
That would explain why RSI is not a very big deal in Lithuania (see my previous post #19): we do not have a very developed law system that would allow to make lawsuits, so, there is no incentive to pretend that RSI is a widespread thing.
Well, i do not know what the fuss was about. It seems that the only people that were worried with this kind of thing came from developed countries, and here in Lithuania noone seems to care. I don't even know if there is a direct translation for RSI in Lithuanian. Maybe it is just because we have other more important problems.
What about all other diseases that cows seemed to have been suffering from recently? What about foot and mouth disease? What about mad cow disease?
But then again this could be a good opportunity for a heavily struck beef industry, cause after all this foot and mouth hype noone wants to eat beef anymore.
I think this raises the issue of all (ok, not *all* but *most*) software development made on the other side of the pond. All the programming is done in USA and we, poor European countries don't get the share. I mean, if you look at open source (and in fact any programs) they will be done in English, with no (or little) non-English documentation and for English users. That is one of the major problems that needs to be solved to make open source programs popular in other non-English speaking countries. So, this meeting in Europe could raise at least some of these issues and it would be very useful.
I have been using Storm Linux (Debian based, developed by Stormix) it does have a very pretty boot screen but at the same time it has a very nice embedded boot messages window. Very pretty and very informative. Not scary.
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Oh and what is so advantageous of a video blog? My reading is way faster than the blogger would talk and if anyone wants to put images or video showing something (a picture is worth 100k words, apparently), they can easily place a picture or a link.
So I have just caught up with the new technology of blogging through my mobile phone and now there is something new that I have to adapt to?
Seriously, I see blogging a bit like writting a diary. Somehow doing it in video doesn't fit in my braincells. Video blogging is something completely new I guess. Something that might totally change the meaning of bogging (probably making it worse, cause making professional videos ir much harder than making professional writing IMHO)
Well, my corporate anthem goes something like this: Oh, I'm a C programmer and I'm OK, I muck with structs and indexes all day, And when they work I shout HOORAY! Oh, I'm a C programmer and I'm OK. I tend to put it in nearly all of my programs and whenever someone reads the source you can usually hear them burst into laughter. I do not know who wrote this poem, but I would like to thank them :) This poem is just too fantastic as it combines Monty Python, C and silliness...
God bless the poets...
Well, the country I'm talking about is the country I'm living in and that is Lithuania. It's not a dictatorship or anything. These kind of laws do not apply at the state level, they are only issued at the municipal level, so in the city I live in (Kaunas) there used to be a law that prohibits children under the age of 14 to be on the street alone after 11PM. If the police sees that, the parent gets fined. I don't really know if they are still using this,m but this was in effect a few years ago. I don't know if anyone was fined, but the legislation existed.
This might be troll/offtopic, whatever, but while reading this, a very weird and interesting thought struck me...
Why is it neccessary to suit the internet for children needs? Was the internet designed to be used only for children so we have to ban anything that is not children appropriate?
Banning content that is not appropriate for children would be very difficult to police (I'd say impossible, but who am I to know?). Would it be just simpler to ban children using the internet without the aid of the guardian or parent. Sort of shift the whole issue to the other side. I know some countries have a law that states that children can't be on the street at night alone without parent or guardian. And that makes mush more effective and easier than just plainly making streets at night kid-safe.
Just a thought.
Of couse he probably kept all the passwords there because they were cryptic and difficult to remember. That's why he chose to remembe only one password from his own account. Of course, I informed him about our "discovery" and he has changed his account password, but i remember that some of the passwords we discovered that day were valid even after a year has passed. Obviously noone bothered to change them.
This shows some points such as:
------------- My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused form saving universes
Speed doesn't kill... the collision does.
So does his mean that if a company that registers a domain name (let's say "bigcorp.com") can deny other poeple from having a domain name that is made up of the letters of the "bigcorp.com" domain so that ibgcorp.com, bgicorp.com, and all the other anagrams would be illegal to use for a company selling similar services or products to bigcorp?
That would explain why RSI is not a very big deal in Lithuania (see my previous post #19): we do not have a very developed law system that would allow to make lawsuits, so, there is no incentive to pretend that RSI is a widespread thing.
Well, i do not know what the fuss was about. It seems that the only people that were worried with this kind of thing came from developed countries, and here in Lithuania noone seems to care. I don't even know if there is a direct translation for RSI in Lithuanian. Maybe it is just because we have other more important problems.
But then again this could be a good opportunity for a heavily struck beef industry, cause after all this foot and mouth hype noone wants to eat beef anymore.
I think this raises the issue of all (ok, not *all* but *most*) software development made on the other side of the pond. All the programming is done in USA and we, poor European countries don't get the share. I mean, if you look at open source (and in fact any programs) they will be done in English, with no (or little) non-English documentation and for English users. That is one of the major problems that needs to be solved to make open source programs popular in other non-English speaking countries. So, this meeting in Europe could raise at least some of these issues and it would be very useful.
I have been using Storm Linux (Debian based, developed by Stormix) it does have a very pretty boot screen but at the same time it has a very nice embedded boot messages window. Very pretty and very informative. Not scary.