"Are the Linux-NTFS developers admitting that Apple can do things that they themselves are too dumb to figure out? "
In other words, getting help on a project or, heaven forbid, allowing someone develop a project down a path you didn't originally intend, is a sign of stupidity? Should every coder be so filled with hubris that they should actively deny access to code by others in case they look 'dumb'?
This whole 'you only use GPL because you are selfish' nonsense really gets on my nerves, although not quite as much as closed-source advocates. A software world in which everyone can wantonly hide, close or subvert software because there is nothing to stop them is inevitable without some kind of protection.
The fact is, and this may come as a shock, not everybody is a lovely, cuddly person who only wants the best for the world. In fact, most people are money grabbing, self-satisfying, low-morality morons who'll make a quick buck of you as fast as they can and screw you in the process.
But of course, that's fine. By stopping them you only stand to make yourself look stupid, right?
Um, not at all. Just open a Konqueror window and type 'media:/' into the address bar and there you go. One thing I particularly like in KDE that has not yet appeared in Gnome (if I have time I might add it) is a volumn applet for the kicker. As soon as I plug in my camera, USB stick, whatever, an icon appears on the kicker for it so I can mount, unmount, browse, view properties...
Unfortunately, an accidental connection to earth with a make-shift fuse usually _doesn't_ have many ohms at all and, as someone else has already pointed out, where the electricity don't get you, the flash and the heat will.
12 volts... doesn't sound much. Try disconnecting the live wire from the ignition switch and touch it. Go on.
When somebody broke into my car and tried hotwiring it, they touched the housing with that wire. The metal casing was charred. It might not last long, but there's enough current to give you a jump in a car battery.
"My mom knew how to wire a fuse. I know how to screw in one. My kid knows how to throw a circuit breaker. Wich one of us would be more likely to be able to get a car moving when there is no replacement fuse available?"
The same one who is liable to seriously shock themselves or cause a later problem once the vehicle is in motion? Remember, kids: Can != Should
I'm in the UK, and no it's not common. At my current job I do 08:00 - 4:30, so it's 7.5 hours of work + 1 hour lunch (tea breaks aren't counted).
The week before I quit the other, hellish company, the MD told everyone that he expected nothing less than a 60/40 work life balance from every employee. Even if you are generous and don't take the 56 hours of sleep every week into consideration, that's still 67 of your 112 waking hours at work, or 11.2 hours a day (oh yes, did I mention that he expected everyone to work saturdays too?)
Of course, European Working directives say that anything over 47 hours a week is illegal without the employee's voluntarily waiving their rights. The bad news is that certain managing directors will threaten people with the sack if they _don't_ waive that right, and with the job market the way it is and mortgages needing paying... it's not pretty.
The good news is that 32 of the technical staff left over a period of 18 months, and the company has had to seriously re-evaluate it's policies. They're still draconian, and I would never work there again, but they're improving. For example, 45 hours is now the minimum work week, and the 'core hours' have been reduced to 09:00-18:00.
"One day, because i hated that job so much, i left early (granted early=6:30, 8:30-6:30). I started doing it every day. One day, as i was leaving my manager stopped me and said 'i noticed you've been leaving at 6:30' (he dare not say 'early'!). I told him, matter of factly, that tonight i was meeting a friend and had to get ready. I made no excuses for the other nights. After that he learned to have more respect for the time i was in the office."
Once, because I hated my job so much, I started leaving after working my contractually agreed hours (8:30 - 6:00). The HR manager didn't ask why I was leaving early; he started formal proceedings to have me fired. There was all kinds of bulls**t in his supposed 'performance report' that had clearly been made up long ago to get rid of 'troublesome' employees, ranging from "sometimes takes up to 1 hour for lunch" to "occassionally arrives a minute late and fails to recompense the company" (Seriously, I kid you not).
Fortunately, the whole thing fell flat because I was rescued by my department manager who I was good friends with. If it hadn't been for him helping me out I would have been fired from my job for doing what I was contractually obliged to do. That would have invalidated my home and contents insurance, I wouldn't have been able to claim on my redundancy insurance, and I would probably have lost my house. Getting fired (as opposed to being made redundant) is a SERIOUS business.
The moral of this story? Some companies are beyond respect. When I left I kept it a complete secret. Nobody knew until after I had handed in my notice and told that I would not be expected to work my notice. I was gone within 5 minutes, and I had to phone a friend in the company to bring my personal belongings to the pub.
If they're that bad, get out, but DON'T TELL THEM YOU'RE DOING IT.
"I've not figured out how to extract the actual updated driver (*.inf file) from the executable"
Run `file ` and the output should contain either 'zip' or 'cab' somewhere in the description. All the wifi drivers I have used ndiswrapper with require cabextract to get the files out.
I completely agree, though - ndiswrapper is nothing more than a crutch until something decent is done. I know that the acx1XX drivers are coming along very well and even got my horrendous D-Link DWL-650+ to work, but I've had problems with other supposedly suppord cards with prism chipsets.
"Then the person would have to have an easily guessable local admin user/pass combo"
You mean like:
Username: Administrator Password:
Surely nobody would do that, would they? I mean, it's not like it's the default on just about every preinstalled XP machine ever is it?
Saying that something isn't a security risk just because it's unlikely doesn't stop it being a security risk. Or are you one of the crowd who think that obscurity == security?
I personally wouldn't use the UK driving tests as an example, I failed my last one because I forgot a signal (on a set of traffic lines I've NEVER seen anyone signal on in 4 bloody years and every other time I've taken it, I've never been marked down for it) and being on the line while reverse parking (even though I was ready to correct it and he told me not to). They really do look to fail you for every minor thing.
That's less a symptom of the driving test, and more a symptom of the type of people who would voluntarily choose to be a driving examiner:-)
I have always thought that modern learner cars allow the pupil to get away with far too much. When I learned the car had ABS, power steering and fuel injection. Now they even come with parking sensors! Being able to drive in a car that does everything for you is great, until it doesn't. Then you're screwed.
My last car was a Citroen AX - carburettor engine, manual choke, no ABS, no power steering, no parking sensors - nothing. Car before that? 1986 VW Polo - that didn't even have servo assisted brakes (PUMP THAT PEDAL!)!. Did I ever crash them? Spin them? Lose control in a skid? No. Why not? Because I learned how to drive, not just how to work the controls. I was well aware of the limits of both the car and myself. If I pushed, it would let me. And I'd be the one suffering.
One of the rules of the driving test in the UK is that the driver MUST be in control of the vehicle at all times. So, let people have their electronics, their gizmos and their gadgets, but don't let them into the toy cupboard until they've proven that can go without.
"Miami officials seized 900 allegedly phony laptops valued at $700,000. "Maybe it's a laptop, an MP3 player, or a component like a DVD drive--anything in the digital world can be counterfeited," says Therese Randazzo, a U.S. Customs Service counterfeiting expert.'"
His final sentence could have read "anything in the world can be counterfeited." without losing any meaning what-so-ever, considering that the items in question are real, tangible goods. The throwing in of the word 'digital' just seems intent on dragging the debate into software or media piracy...
The novelty here is it's done with the self-timer. Of course with my family, they'd all wander off after the first flash, leaving two shots of people milling about!
My Finepix S5100 supports various 'multiple image' modes (top three, bottom three, continuous burst), and they all work with or without the self-timer. Top three + 10 second self-timer results in exactly this behaviour. This camera was available in 2004, and, AFAIK, its predecessors could do it too. Maybe the innovation is assigning a 'one-click' way to access this feature. I dunno...
I do find, though, that sometimes the 2nd and 3rd shots have peoples mouths open, part-way through saying "Has it taken yet?":)
The rendering engine maketh not the browser. As I recall, Galeon was first with tabs, and Firefox is more expandable than either of the other two through the extensions. The point you've made is that there a loads of good open source browsers:)
I mainly use screen when one of these conditions is true:
*) I don't want my session to die if the terminal HUPs (flaky net connection, etc) *) I am doing something that will take a while and I want to detach it to get rid of an essentially redundant window *) I want more than one terminal in a window on a low resource machine - Konsole and gnome-terminal are monster apps compared to xterm and aterm
On my highly over-specced desktop machine I use gnome-terminal unless one of those conditions exists, purely because I can't be bothered to reconfigure gnome to use a different terminal.
Of course you know the problem with gets(). That's why you'd use fgets(), like this:
fgets(s, ?, stdin);
where ? is replaced with the size of the buffer. Oh wait... how much memory did we allocate to the buffer?
Smart-ass answers to apparently smart-ass questions just make you look silly. It wasn't a smart-ass question about gets(), you just assumed it was. That's as telling about your attitude as it is about your ability to detect bugs in code.
But when I tried to do a query like this: SELECT * FROM foo where bar NOT IN (SELECT blib from wheee) - MySQL advised me that it "didn't do" "NOT IN" queries. I tried to work around it, but after trying all the JOINs I could, it just didn't seem like something that I could get round.
select foo.* from foo left join wheee on foo.bar = wheee.blib where wheee.blib is null
That's one left join, in case you were wondering, not 'all the joins I can think of'.
My point? You're hardly in a position to make statements about the relative benefits of RDBMSs if you don't know how a left join works!
PowerPoint. It's a bit of a kludge to use it for non-presentational purposes, but I've seen it frequently used as a poor-man's Adobe Illustrator.
In that case, recommend OOo Draw or Inkscape. It's a much more capable drawing app that PowerPoint, because that's what it was designed for. There's no point using a tool that's "a bit of a kludge" when there are much better tools available for free.
The only feature that I really miss, though, is Track Changes
Um... Edit -> Changes -> Record ?? It has change highlighting, accept/reject and the ability to show or hide the recorded changes. Available in 1.1 as well as 2.
From TFA: I've personally never used these new programs seriously, but from the looks of it they could all be useful except for Draw. I haven't yet been able to discern what exactly you're supposed to be able to do with it that warrants its existence.
You're supposed to be able to draw with it? It's a generic vector drawing app with some really cool features, and it's great for creating small diagrams or illustrations.
I suppose in a comparison with MS Office it is a bit out of place because MS Office has NO drawing capabilities worth speaking of, but just because MS Office can't do it doesn't make it worthless...
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I love the sentiment in this sentence:
"Are the Linux-NTFS developers admitting that Apple can do things that they themselves are too dumb to figure out? "
In other words, getting help on a project or, heaven forbid, allowing someone develop a project down a path you didn't originally intend, is a sign of stupidity? Should every coder be so filled with hubris that they should actively deny access to code by others in case they look 'dumb'?
This whole 'you only use GPL because you are selfish' nonsense really gets on my nerves, although not quite as much as closed-source advocates. A software world in which everyone can wantonly hide, close or subvert software because there is nothing to stop them is inevitable without some kind of protection.
The fact is, and this may come as a shock, not everybody is a lovely, cuddly person who only wants the best for the world. In fact, most people are money grabbing, self-satisfying, low-morality morons who'll make a quick buck of you as fast as they can and screw you in the process.
But of course, that's fine. By stopping them you only stand to make yourself look stupid, right?
Um, not at all. Just open a Konqueror window and type 'media:/' into the address bar and there you go. One thing I particularly like in KDE that has not yet appeared in Gnome (if I have time I might add it) is a volumn applet for the kicker. As soon as I plug in my camera, USB stick, whatever, an icon appears on the kicker for it so I can mount, unmount, browse, view properties ...
The new Sony Ericsson W range (W for Walkman) allow you to turn off the phone part so that you can just use the media player, etc.
Mod me offtopic if you like, but I just want to say that my next project WILL include a DLL called omgwtf32.dll
Unfortunately, an accidental connection to earth with a make-shift fuse usually _doesn't_ have many ohms at all and, as someone else has already pointed out, where the electricity don't get you, the flash and the heat will.
12 volts ... doesn't sound much. Try disconnecting the live wire from the ignition switch and touch it. Go on.
When somebody broke into my car and tried hotwiring it, they touched the housing with that wire. The metal casing was charred. It might not last long, but there's enough current to give you a jump in a car battery.
But then, you'd know that, being a smart arse.
"My mom knew how to wire a fuse. I know how to screw in one. My kid knows how to throw a circuit breaker. Wich one of us would be more likely to be able to get a car moving when there is no replacement fuse available?"
The same one who is liable to seriously shock themselves or cause a later problem once the vehicle is in motion? Remember, kids: Can != Should
I'm in the UK, and no it's not common. At my current job I do 08:00 - 4:30, so it's 7.5 hours of work + 1 hour lunch (tea breaks aren't counted).
... it's not pretty.
The week before I quit the other, hellish company, the MD told everyone that he expected nothing less than a 60/40 work life balance from every employee. Even if you are generous and don't take the 56 hours of sleep every week into consideration, that's still 67 of your 112 waking hours at work, or 11.2 hours a day (oh yes, did I mention that he expected everyone to work saturdays too?)
Of course, European Working directives say that anything over 47 hours a week is illegal without the employee's voluntarily waiving their rights. The bad news is that certain managing directors will threaten people with the sack if they _don't_ waive that right, and with the job market the way it is and mortgages needing paying
The good news is that 32 of the technical staff left over a period of 18 months, and the company has had to seriously re-evaluate it's policies. They're still draconian, and I would never work there again, but they're improving. For example, 45 hours is now the minimum work week, and the 'core hours' have been reduced to 09:00-18:00.
Bad feeling? Me? You betcha.
"One day, because i hated that job so much, i left early (granted early=6:30, 8:30-6:30). I started doing it every day. One day, as i was leaving my manager stopped me and said 'i noticed you've been leaving at 6:30' (he dare not say 'early'!). I told him, matter of factly, that tonight i was meeting a friend and had to get ready. I made no excuses for the other nights. After that he learned to have more respect for the time i was in the office."
Once, because I hated my job so much, I started leaving after working my contractually agreed hours (8:30 - 6:00). The HR manager didn't ask why I was leaving early; he started formal proceedings to have me fired. There was all kinds of bulls**t in his supposed 'performance report' that had clearly been made up long ago to get rid of 'troublesome' employees, ranging from "sometimes takes up to 1 hour for lunch" to "occassionally arrives a minute late and fails to recompense the company" (Seriously, I kid you not).
Fortunately, the whole thing fell flat because I was rescued by my department manager who I was good friends with. If it hadn't been for him helping me out I would have been fired from my job for doing what I was contractually obliged to do. That would have invalidated my home and contents insurance, I wouldn't have been able to claim on my redundancy insurance, and I would probably have lost my house. Getting fired (as opposed to being made redundant) is a SERIOUS business.
The moral of this story? Some companies are beyond respect. When I left I kept it a complete secret. Nobody knew until after I had handed in my notice and told that I would not be expected to work my notice. I was gone within 5 minutes, and I had to phone a friend in the company to bring my personal belongings to the pub.
If they're that bad, get out, but DON'T TELL THEM YOU'RE DOING IT.
"I've not figured out how to extract the actual updated driver (*.inf file) from the executable"
Run `file ` and the output should contain either 'zip' or 'cab' somewhere in the description. All the wifi drivers I have used ndiswrapper with require cabextract to get the files out.
I completely agree, though - ndiswrapper is nothing more than a crutch until something decent is done. I know that the acx1XX drivers are coming along very well and even got my horrendous D-Link DWL-650+ to work, but I've had problems with other supposedly suppord cards with prism chipsets.
"Then the person would have to have an easily guessable local admin user/pass combo"
You mean like:
Username: Administrator
Password:
Surely nobody would do that, would they? I mean, it's not like it's the default on just about every preinstalled XP machine ever is it?
Saying that something isn't a security risk just because it's unlikely doesn't stop it being a security risk. Or are you one of the crowd who think that obscurity == security?
I personally wouldn't use the UK driving tests as an example, I failed my last one because I forgot a signal (on a set of traffic lines I've NEVER seen anyone signal on in 4 bloody years and every other time I've taken it, I've never been marked down for it) and being on the line while reverse parking (even though I was ready to correct it and he told me not to). They really do look to fail you for every minor thing.
:-)
That's less a symptom of the driving test, and more a symptom of the type of people who would voluntarily choose to be a driving examiner
I have always thought that modern learner cars allow the pupil to get away with far too much. When I learned the car had ABS, power steering and fuel injection. Now they even come with parking sensors! Being able to drive in a car that does everything for you is great, until it doesn't. Then you're screwed.
My last car was a Citroen AX - carburettor engine, manual choke, no ABS, no power steering, no parking sensors - nothing. Car before that? 1986 VW Polo - that didn't even have servo assisted brakes (PUMP THAT PEDAL!)!. Did I ever crash them? Spin them? Lose control in a skid? No. Why not? Because I learned how to drive, not just how to work the controls. I was well aware of the limits of both the car and myself. If I pushed, it would let me. And I'd be the one suffering.
One of the rules of the driving test in the UK is that the driver MUST be in control of the vehicle at all times. So, let people have their electronics, their gizmos and their gadgets, but don't let them into the toy cupboard until they've proven that can go without.
How many people think that this is "A Bad Thing(tm)", and yet continue to use AudioScrobbler? ;-)
"Miami officials seized 900 allegedly phony laptops valued at $700,000. "Maybe it's a laptop, an MP3 player, or a component like a DVD drive--anything in the digital world can be counterfeited," says Therese Randazzo, a U.S. Customs Service counterfeiting expert.'"
...
His final sentence could have read "anything in the world can be counterfeited." without losing any meaning what-so-ever, considering that the items in question are real, tangible goods. The throwing in of the word 'digital' just seems intent on dragging the debate into software or media piracy
Hmmm ... an excuse to buy that shiny new powerbook I've been drooling over ...
*holds hands up mr burns style*
Eeeexcellent
Well, I personally find the sony-ericsson T630 a very capable phone WRT phone-computer integration.
:)
Ah, but can it play MP3s? I happen to know that it can't
On the other hand, I'm still struggling to sync my K750i with Evolution using Multisync - it _sometimes_ works. Bah.
The novelty here is it's done with the self-timer. Of course with my family, they'd all wander off after the first flash, leaving two shots of people milling about!
...
:)
My Finepix S5100 supports various 'multiple image' modes (top three, bottom three, continuous burst), and they all work with or without the self-timer. Top three + 10 second self-timer results in exactly this behaviour. This camera was available in 2004, and, AFAIK, its predecessors could do it too. Maybe the innovation is assigning a 'one-click' way to access this feature. I dunno
I do find, though, that sometimes the 2nd and 3rd shots have peoples mouths open, part-way through saying "Has it taken yet?"
so if I were to play billiards, I'd need a table big enough for 10^15 balls? +1 for the cue ball, of course.
The rendering engine maketh not the browser. As I recall, Galeon was first with tabs, and Firefox is more expandable than either of the other two through the extensions. The point you've made is that there a loads of good open source browsers :)
I mainly use screen when one of these conditions is true:
*) I don't want my session to die if the terminal HUPs (flaky net connection, etc)
*) I am doing something that will take a while and I want to detach it to get rid of an essentially redundant window
*) I want more than one terminal in a window on a low resource machine - Konsole and gnome-terminal are monster apps compared to xterm and aterm
On my highly over-specced desktop machine I use gnome-terminal unless one of those conditions exists, purely because I can't be bothered to reconfigure gnome to use a different terminal.
Of course you know the problem with gets(). That's why you'd use fgets(), like this:
... how much memory did we allocate to the buffer?
fgets(s, ?, stdin);
where ? is replaced with the size of the buffer. Oh wait
Smart-ass answers to apparently smart-ass questions just make you look silly. It wasn't a smart-ass question about gets(), you just assumed it was. That's as telling about your attitude as it is about your ability to detect bugs in code.
But when I tried to do a query like this: SELECT * FROM foo where bar NOT IN (SELECT blib from wheee) - MySQL advised me that it "didn't do" "NOT IN" queries. I tried to work around it, but after trying all the JOINs I could, it just didn't seem like something that I could get round.
select foo.* from foo left join wheee on foo.bar = wheee.blib where wheee.blib is null
That's one left join, in case you were wondering, not 'all the joins I can think of'.
My point? You're hardly in a position to make statements about the relative benefits of RDBMSs if you don't know how a left join works!
PowerPoint. It's a bit of a kludge to use it for non-presentational purposes, but I've seen it frequently used as a poor-man's Adobe Illustrator.
In that case, recommend OOo Draw or Inkscape. It's a much more capable drawing app that PowerPoint, because that's what it was designed for. There's no point using a tool that's "a bit of a kludge" when there are much better tools available for free.
The only feature that I really miss, though, is Track Changes
... Edit -> Changes -> Record ?? It has change highlighting, accept/reject and the ability to show or hide the recorded changes. Available in 1.1 as well as 2.
...
Um
From TFA: I've personally never used these new programs seriously, but from the looks of it they could all be useful except for Draw. I haven't yet been able to discern what exactly you're supposed to be able to do with it that warrants its existence.
You're supposed to be able to draw with it? It's a generic vector drawing app with some really cool features, and it's great for creating small diagrams or illustrations.
I suppose in a comparison with MS Office it is a bit out of place because MS Office has NO drawing capabilities worth speaking of, but just because MS Office can't do it doesn't make it worthless