Or better yet, why don't they make freedos images that you can just write to a floppy? I can see the reason for not moving to some different os because the bios flash program would need to be rewritten. However, considering there is a free version of dos that doesnt need royalty payments, i would think they would be able to provide floppy images.
Check out these. They have a selection of bootdisks for different purposes. Unfortunately, you do need windows to make them as they come in some dinky VB exe that writes to the floppy instead of a raw image. Anyway, make one and make a few copies and you should be fine for a while.
The debian compromise really bothered me when it happened because I never heard about any security hole (related to the compromise) in the Linux kernel before it happened. Suppose MT and anyone else looking at the patch didn't realise it was exploitable... since when is an easy DOS (ie crash) not a security problem? If you can take out a machine that is providing some sort of security to other machines or even simply services to other machines, it *is* a security problem.
I would venture to say that any bug that can be used to cause a DOS is a security problem. (assuming its not in some little used driver for some ancient '90 hardware or something)
First of all, why was the parent modded up funny? Maybe I'm just humor impaired, but I didn't get the joke.
Second, the reason you think Solaris on sparc is slow is that you've never used a new powerful sun machine. You probably have experience on Ultra5's or something. I've done some work on these and they are by no means slow. Horribly expensive, but not slow. Also note, that these are included in Sun's "entry-level server" section.
I don't really find that surprising at all. Most people I know already have a fair amount invested in CD playing equipment. So, instead of spending more money, they just burn a bunch of CD's. Seems reasonable to me.
I actually like cubicles. I think it makes for a much more lively work environment (nerf breaks every once in a while come to mind). And when you do need to ask a question of one of your coworkers, it's much easier (especially if they group you by who you work closest with).
Seriously, why do you need an office? Can't concentrate with the mindless chatter from next door? Get some headphones. Concerned about your boss seeing you reading slashdot? Don't read slashdot.
BTW, if you guys can all work for days without talking to anyone (I seriously doubt this), why aren't you all working from home? I know if I didn't have to talk to anyone I would be.
Hmm, come to think of it I have some wierd habits while surfing too. When I'm traveling my path of websites, I picture them on a 2d plane with distance in between. CNN on the left, linuxtoday in the lower middle, etc. Anyone else do this?
I think that this could work in conjunction with certain kinds of filtering software. For example, a lot of filtering software will create a rating for a webpage based on the number of "questionable" word counts. If the rating is above a threshold, the page will be blocked. Unfornately, this blocks a lot of decent pages and this is the kind of situation where a whitelist would come in handy.
Actually, the article says that the root DNS attacks weren't very sophisticated at all. They used simple ping flooding and apparently stopped abruptly after 1 hour (to allude law enforcement). Fortunately, to actually have an effect on a significant portion of the internet population, the attacks would have to have continued for much longer due to caching.
I'm really curious how "The October attacks showed a greater level of sophistication" than past attacks? As far as I can tell the attacker just had a bunch of cracked boxes with decent pipes to the internet and started a ping -f on all of them.
I don't think any Linux games have sold well... or at least not the ones ported by Loki. I just went to Microcenter in Cambridge, MA today and bought both Myth II and Railroad Tycoon 2 for 1.99 a piece. If anyone's in the Boston area and wants some cheap, professional games for Linux, go to microcenter. They still have about 10 or 15 copies of each left.
It's sort of unfortunate that Loki went under because they did port the games well. From what I've heard, it was more mismanagement and bad decisions. They might have been able to stay alive if they had made better business decisions.
I don't think the lack of adoption of Linux has anything to do with ease of use or even software. Look at the two main markets:
Home users: These users buy computers from stores or online (Dell, etc.) that already have Windows preinstalled. Where is the incentive to use a different operating system? I think that penetration in this market has to come from oem's making the extra cost of Windows perfectly clear (add Windows = +$$$). The lack of software is still sort of the problem, but I think this mainly comes down to games (we need companies to start doing real dual releases... still pissed that I bought NWN and it's still not available for Linux). Home users don't need all the features of MS Office (StarOffice would be fine).
Business users: What businesses run is basically dictated by management. I think that Linux is actually making progress in this market because management essentially cares about the bottom line above all else. Linux is simply cheaper. Again, it has nothing to do with ease of use/applications with the big exception of groupware (although I read the the german government was commissioning work on this). People will claim that they need MS Office, but in reality if the whole company switches than there really is no need. Maybe one or 2 copies for interoperability with outside sources, but StarOffice seems to open most MS documents fine.
I'm always surprised at how many people think they can get a job by just browsing monster.com or whatever. I haven't met anyone who got a job through monster.com, but I've met a lot of people who've tried.
In my experience, the only and I mean only way to get a job is to already know someone in the company. Quite simply, if you send your resume directly to a company with no references in side, most likely it won't even be read and you certainly won't get an interview. You *have* to know someone. This is also good because especially in the tech. industry the person you know will usually get a bonus for "finding" you.
Like the poster above said, hopefully you did internships and didn't slack off. Call people you know (even relatives) and see if they have any leads.
Out of the people who recommend Knuth's the Art of Computer Programming, how many have actually read any book in that series? Or even 1/4 of any book in that series? 1%?
Not that they are bad books. I actually enjoy reading them and I'm working my way through the first one. The only problem is I can only get through about 5 pages before falling asleep (reading before I go to bed). Also, a suggestion if you're planning on reading any of these: keep a pad of paper and pencil nearby.
Oh, also for people who want slightly lighter reading, but still good. Check out Algorithms in C or Algorithms in C++ by Sedgewick. Very good books (same book different languages) and very easy to read. Also, I believe this guy and his coauther were students of Knuth at Stanford.
And by the way, 70 gigs of mp3's aint shit. There's a guy on Kazaa with something like 600 gigs of divx movie files. Read a story about him once, apparently he's the guy behind something like 60% of all movie transfers through Kazaa.
Well, 70 gigs of mp3s translates into about 24,000 songs if one assumes 3 meg songs. 600 gigs of divx's translates into about 925 movies if one assumes 650 meg divx's. I would say the 70 gigs of mp3s is more impressive
If you are using IDE drives, regardless of what solution your try to use, disable write caching. Even when mounting an IDE drive with the sync option, it may lie about when writes complete if the cache is being used (IDE drives do this for better performance numbers, SCSI drives don't do this).
You're willing to pay for the ability to download pirated software and copyrighted media, but you won't actually pay for that material directly? Seriously, I know there's a lot of legit stuff on usenet, but if you really need more than a gigabyte a month then you're stealing.
The real problem with this particular bug (which I was bitten by too) is that the bug was marked as normal severity when instead it should have been release critical, since the packages could not be installed. If the maintainer wasn't going to fix it in the 2 week time period before packages move to woody from sid, he should have atleast marked it release critical so it wouldn't be moved.
Robert Duffy: Well wearing a gun and owning a gun are two very different things and neither of them have to do with any game in my opinion. The only countries I have ever seen citizens wearing guns are ones where it was illegal. I don't think to date I have seen a citizen wearing a firearm in public here in the US.
"Case in point, bug 99344 [mozilla.org]. The Mozilla team has known about this one for at least six months, yet the bug still lives. Now it is unlikely the fix will be made before 1.0. The project managers are being pressured to "back burner" bugs like this one to ship the product."
You think that's bad. The other day while setting up IMAP in Mozilla I kept on having this problem with sending messages to the Trash mailbox on the IMAP server. Turns out Mozilla does respect the NAMESPACE extension or whatever it is. More importantly, they've (Mozilla/Netscape) known about the bug for more than 2 years and it still hasn't been fixed. Anyway, that keeps me from using Mail/News in Mozilla. Maybe for 1.0...
From my experience, the most important thing you can have is a personal reference at the company you are trying to get a job with. Let me explain.
I don't have a degree and have had a very difficult time getting a job. My friends with degrees have had just as difficult time finding a job. The job market is tight right now and basically no matter what's on your resume it's going to be hard to find a job.
However, if you know someone in the company at the very least you will get an interview (try sending resumes to various companies and see how many get back to you) which is a big step and more than likely you will get a good recommendation from someone the hiring person knows. I can't stress the personal reference bit enough. All the jobs I've gotten comes from knowing someone in the company (except the bookstore job but that was not computer-related and only $7.25 an hour).
So, my suggestion: contact everyone you've previously worked with and find out where they're working. Ask them if the company is hiring and even if they aren't contact them again in a few months. Things change quite quickly in the job market.
Finally, good luck and I suggest at some point you get a degree anyway. Pay scales are often based on degrees. I plan to get mine starting next year.
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Or better yet, why don't they make freedos images that you can just write to a floppy? I can see the reason for not moving to some different os because the bios flash program would need to be rewritten. However, considering there is a free version of dos that doesnt need royalty payments, i would think they would be able to provide floppy images.
Check out these. They have a selection of bootdisks for different purposes. Unfortunately, you do need windows to make them as they come in some dinky VB exe that writes to the floppy instead of a raw image. Anyway, make one and make a few copies and you should be fine for a while.
The debian compromise really bothered me when it happened because I never heard about any security hole (related to the compromise) in the Linux kernel before it happened. Suppose MT and anyone else looking at the patch didn't realise it was exploitable... since when is an easy DOS (ie crash) not a security problem? If you can take out a machine that is providing some sort of security to other machines or even simply services to other machines, it *is* a security problem.
I would venture to say that any bug that can be used to cause a DOS is a security problem. (assuming its not in some little used driver for some ancient '90 hardware or something)
First of all, why was the parent modded up funny? Maybe I'm just humor impaired, but I didn't get the joke.
Second, the reason you think Solaris on sparc is slow is that you've never used a new powerful sun machine. You probably have experience on Ultra5's or something. I've done some work on these and they are by no means slow. Horribly expensive, but not slow. Also note, that these are included in Sun's "entry-level server" section.
I don't really find that surprising at all. Most people I know already have a fair amount invested in CD playing equipment. So, instead of spending more money, they just burn a bunch of CD's. Seems reasonable to me.
Friend of mine knows the guy who runs it and says he's good. Pretty good prices and FreeBSD machines. towardex
I actually like cubicles. I think it makes for a much more lively work environment (nerf breaks every once in a while come to mind). And when you do need to ask a question of one of your coworkers, it's much easier (especially if they group you by who you work closest with).
Seriously, why do you need an office? Can't concentrate with the mindless chatter from next door? Get some headphones. Concerned about your boss seeing you reading slashdot? Don't read slashdot.
BTW, if you guys can all work for days without talking to anyone (I seriously doubt this), why aren't you all working from home? I know if I didn't have to talk to anyone I would be.
I have a definite list and surprisingly an order too (anyone else do this compulsively?)
1.) CNN
2.) LinuxToday
3.) OSnews
4.) KernelTrap
5.) Yahoo! Mail - Only including this because it's in my list.
6.) ExtremeTech
7.) AnandTech
8.) Tom's Hardware
9.) 2cpu
10.) Slashdot - Last because it takes the longest.
Hmm, come to think of it I have some wierd habits while surfing too. When I'm traveling my path of websites, I picture them on a 2d plane with distance in between. CNN on the left, linuxtoday in the lower middle, etc. Anyone else do this?
I think that this could work in conjunction with certain kinds of filtering software. For example, a lot of filtering software will create a rating for a webpage based on the number of "questionable" word counts. If the rating is above a threshold, the page will be blocked. Unfornately, this blocks a lot of decent pages and this is the kind of situation where a whitelist would come in handy.
Actually, the article says that the root DNS attacks weren't very sophisticated at all. They used simple ping flooding and apparently stopped abruptly after 1 hour (to allude law enforcement). Fortunately, to actually have an effect on a significant portion of the internet population, the attacks would have to have continued for much longer due to caching.
I'm really curious how "The October attacks showed a greater level of sophistication" than past attacks? As far as I can tell the attacker just had a bunch of cracked boxes with decent pipes to the internet and started a ping -f on all of them.
I don't think any Linux games have sold well... or at least not the ones ported by Loki. I just went to Microcenter in Cambridge, MA today and bought both Myth II and Railroad Tycoon 2 for 1.99 a piece. If anyone's in the Boston area and wants some cheap, professional games for Linux, go to microcenter. They still have about 10 or 15 copies of each left.
It's sort of unfortunate that Loki went under because they did port the games well. From what I've heard, it was more mismanagement and bad decisions. They might have been able to stay alive if they had made better business decisions.
I don't think the lack of adoption of Linux has anything to do with ease of use or even software. Look at the two main markets:
Home users: These users buy computers from stores or online (Dell, etc.) that already have Windows preinstalled. Where is the incentive to use a different operating system? I think that penetration in this market has to come from oem's making the extra cost of Windows perfectly clear (add Windows = +$$$). The lack of software is still sort of the problem, but I think this mainly comes down to games (we need companies to start doing real dual releases... still pissed that I bought NWN and it's still not available for Linux). Home users don't need all the features of MS Office (StarOffice would be fine).
Business users: What businesses run is basically dictated by management. I think that Linux is actually making progress in this market because management essentially cares about the bottom line above all else. Linux is simply cheaper. Again, it has nothing to do with ease of use/applications with the big exception of groupware (although I read the the german government was commissioning work on this). People will claim that they need MS Office, but in reality if the whole company switches than there really is no need. Maybe one or 2 copies for interoperability with outside sources, but StarOffice seems to open most MS documents fine.
...at least according to this page.
Just make sure you don't get the one from Microsoft. I hear it's bloated.
I'm always surprised at how many people think they can get a job by just browsing monster.com or whatever. I haven't met anyone who got a job through monster.com, but I've met a lot of people who've tried.
In my experience, the only and I mean only way to get a job is to already know someone in the company. Quite simply, if you send your resume directly to a company with no references in side, most likely it won't even be read and you certainly won't get an interview. You *have* to know someone. This is also good because especially in the tech. industry the person you know will usually get a bonus for "finding" you.
Like the poster above said, hopefully you did internships and didn't slack off. Call people you know (even relatives) and see if they have any leads.
Out of the people who recommend Knuth's the Art of Computer Programming, how many have actually read any book in that series? Or even 1/4 of any book in that series? 1%?
Not that they are bad books. I actually enjoy reading them and I'm working my way through the first one. The only problem is I can only get through about 5 pages before falling asleep (reading before I go to bed). Also, a suggestion if you're planning on reading any of these: keep a pad of paper and pencil nearby.
Oh, also for people who want slightly lighter reading, but still good. Check out Algorithms in C or Algorithms in C++ by Sedgewick. Very good books (same book different languages) and very easy to read. Also, I believe this guy and his coauther were students of Knuth at Stanford.
Well, 70 gigs of mp3s translates into about 24,000 songs if one assumes 3 meg songs. 600 gigs of divx's translates into about 925 movies if one assumes 650 meg divx's. I would say the 70 gigs of mp3s is more impressive
If you are using IDE drives, regardless of what solution your try to use, disable write caching. Even when mounting an IDE drive with the sync option, it may lie about when writes complete if the cache is being used (IDE drives do this for better performance numbers, SCSI drives don't do this).
Check out the High-Availability Linux Project. There's a lot of info in the site and links to much more.
You're willing to pay for the ability to download pirated software and copyrighted media, but you won't actually pay for that material directly? Seriously, I know there's a lot of legit stuff on usenet, but if you really need more than a gigabyte a month then you're stealing.
The real problem with this particular bug (which I was bitten by too) is that the bug was marked as normal severity when instead it should have been release critical, since the packages could not be installed. If the maintainer wasn't going to fix it in the 2 week time period before packages move to woody from sid, he should have atleast marked it release critical so it wouldn't be moved.
Robert Duffy: Well wearing a gun and owning a gun are two very different things and neither of them have to do with any game in my opinion. The only countries I have ever seen citizens wearing guns are ones where it was illegal. I don't think to date I have seen a citizen wearing a firearm in public here in the US.
Obviously this guy's never been to the midwest.
I take it you never used BeOS? Did exactly what you are trying to do. Wish Be was still around...
"Case in point, bug 99344 [mozilla.org]. The Mozilla team has known about this one for at least six months, yet the bug still lives. Now it is unlikely the fix will be made before 1.0. The project managers are being pressured to "back burner" bugs like this one to ship the product."
You think that's bad. The other day while setting up IMAP in Mozilla I kept on having this problem with sending messages to the Trash mailbox on the IMAP server. Turns out Mozilla does respect the NAMESPACE extension or whatever it is. More importantly, they've (Mozilla/Netscape) known about the bug for more than 2 years and it still hasn't been fixed. Anyway, that keeps me from using Mail/News in Mozilla. Maybe for 1.0...
From my experience, the most important thing you can have is a personal reference at the company you are trying to get a job with. Let me explain.
I don't have a degree and have had a very difficult time getting a job. My friends with degrees have had just as difficult time finding a job. The job market is tight right now and basically no matter what's on your resume it's going to be hard to find a job.
However, if you know someone in the company at the very least you will get an interview (try sending resumes to various companies and see how many get back to you) which is a big step and more than likely you will get a good recommendation from someone the hiring person knows. I can't stress the personal reference bit enough. All the jobs I've gotten comes from knowing someone in the company (except the bookstore job but that was not computer-related and only $7.25 an hour).
So, my suggestion: contact everyone you've previously worked with and find out where they're working. Ask them if the company is hiring and even if they aren't contact them again in a few months. Things change quite quickly in the job market.
Finally, good luck and I suggest at some point you get a degree anyway. Pay scales are often based on degrees. I plan to get mine starting next year.