Keep in mind that your losing all your files is a lot different than hosing the entire system. The virus that affected me (say from doing something silly like running an email attachment) does not affect other users of my system. (My wife and kids use my system too. Their data would remain secure.) Finally the *spread* of the virus would be hampered because the virus could only do what *I* can do, so binding arbritary ports, hijacking the web server, infecting critical system library components, is just not possible. The virus may still spread, but it is limited as to the infection vectors available to it.
Actually this could work. Instead of mapping a name to a number, map the person's personal number to a actual service number. The service number would, of course, not be confused with the personal number. It would have a different format, be out-of-band, or whatever.
So this means that we could write a "blocked list editor" to allow end-users to update the list of blocked URLs. First thing we'd need to do is figure out how to read that list of URLs. Hmmm. How about that? Any Lawyers out there?
Q: What do you call the man who graduated last in his class at medical school?
A: Doctor.
Back on topic. I suppose this is important to those of us who get all worked up about titles. A title has a requirement. A prince is born to the title. An engineer must goto (don't you hate those gotos) school and pass tests. A programmer must be hired to the position. This has very little to do with the ability of the person with the title but gives the rest of us some warm fuzzy feeling that all is OK in the world. Even if it isn't.
Me? I'm a programmer. I studied EE for a year at school but got bored and decided that these new computer things were more fun so I dropped out. That was twenty years ago. Still no degree, no engineer title, but I'm doing just fine, thank you very much.
Years ago I bought a CP/M system complete with a 30MB 14" hard disc at a computer show consignment table. I couldn't get it to boot up but I was able to poke around on the disc by writing and reading directly to the controller. I discovered some erased files and one was the previous owner's resume, a developer for Pickles and Trout. So....I called him up and he helped me get it working. He was suprised I found his deleted resume and I assured him I'd wipe it as soon as I got it working. That drive also had the source to most of their CP/M development. It made for some fun reading, pre-DMCA, of course.
Secondly, Money may be a piss poor way to judge people but its the best we currently have.
It may be the best way you have, but I think a lot of people have found better ways to judge people. For example, leaving the world a better place than when you arrived. Or even, making life easier for others--like this gift of software does for so many admins.
I once got a job at a bank because when they asked if I knew anything about accounting. I answered "debits to the window, credits to the door." It's the punch line to an accounting joke I happened to remember; they laughed and I was hired.
Yea, humor is important.
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I paid about $300 for my IMSAI when I first bought it. It was all the money I had so it took months before I could buy a memory board for it and actually do something with it (like blink the lights).
The mother board has 22 slots. That meant I had to solder 2,200 connections for the sockets. Whew! Of course there was none of that surface mount stuff so it really wasn't so hard, just tedious.
When I had another $500 I bought a floppy drive and controler board. The 8 inch single-side double-density drive held a whopping 300K of storage. The Jade controller I built had a 4 MHz Z80 chip on it. The Main CPU was a 2MHz 8080A. It seemed weird to have a better processor on the disk controller than as the main CPU.
I had to build a custom clock circuit to run a serial port at 55 baud so I could interface to my old Teletype model 20 (Baudot machine). But man, it felt great to key in some instructions and watch a big piece of hardware start hammering away and shake the table it was on. I wrote drivers to convert ASCIIBaudot so I could actually use the TTY as a terminal.
God, I miss that. I wish I had room to set up that old thing. Not sure what I'd do with it, but I really loved it.
For those of you who don't know what good this type of thing can be: it provided a machine which was completely understandable, required understanding to build and use, and therefore provided training on how every little bit of a computer worked. That training wasn't available in school unless you went to someplace like MIT or Cal Tech. The only computer classes available at my college at that time (1973) were a few Cobol classes in the Business school.
In a very real sense, we were all kernel hackers then. And yes, it was fun.
Of course he deserves credit. He did all this and more. What people object to is that it appears that he insists on *taking* credit. (I think he just wants to get the word out and is a bit the fanatic about it.)
When I speak to people about Linux, if they know about Free Software, I call it Linux. If they don't, and it's important to the discussion, I call it GNU/Linux. And then I explain the FSF involvement and the importance of the GPL and so on. But sometimes some dude just want's to know why my screen doesn't look like all the other screens he's seen so I say "Oh, it's Linux."
What timing. We had NEC send us this very same monitor to demo for a month. Several of us are checking it out. The guy before me had it for a few days and decided he'd better not keep using it or he'll get too used to having it and won't ever be able to give it back. He loved it and now he's back to his 18" LCD monitor. I'm five days into a review of this thing and have mixed feeling about it.
I also have been using an 18" NEC LCD monitor until now and am impressed with the huge size of this thing. While the previous user used it on Windows 2000, I'm using it on XFree86 4. I like the amount of real estate it gives me to work with on the screen, but I noticed that it makes the bad fonts I have look even worse. (I don't have the antialiasing setup yet.)
I also, like the reviewer, noticed the abundance of dead pixels on the screen. A quick count shows fifteen I see without really hunting around. I kept trying to wipe them off until I realised that they wern't dust specks, duh:). I hope that this is not a QC problem, but just a beat-up demo problem. I think the dead pixels are a real negative.
Would I recommend it? Sure, if you've got the money to burn and find one with good pixels. Will I buy one for my personal system? Not anytime soon. Would I prefer to keep this to my current 18" LCD? No. The 18" is just fine for me. Plus, I'm planning to add a second monitor and Xinerama for the extra real estate.
We're ordering some of these for our network guys, though. For them, the extra space on the screen will allow them to better visualize the network status. I don't think the programming staff (me) will be getting any soon.
No kidding. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be able to afford having a company owe me $350,000. That's a lot of money to not have. I think I'd be living on the street after the first 5k.
I used to work with a guy who just finished serving hard time because he killed a man he caught in bed with his wife. He used a sawed-off shotgun. The court figured that the only reason to have a sawed-off shotgun is to kill a person so he was convicted of 1st degree murder (with intent) instead of 3rd degree (spur-of-the-moment).
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Keep in mind that your losing all your files is a lot different than hosing the entire system. The virus that affected me (say from doing something silly like running an email attachment) does not affect other users of my system. (My wife and kids use my system too. Their data would remain secure.) Finally the *spread* of the virus would be hampered because the virus could only do what *I* can do, so binding arbritary ports, hijacking the web server, infecting critical system library components, is just not possible. The virus may still spread, but it is limited as to the infection vectors available to it.
Hunt the Wumpus. On a G.E. 210 mainframe. Played on the Freiden Flex-o-writer which was the console printer.
Of course, later I had Hunt the Wumpus on my very own IMSAI CP/M system....
MS degrees? Microsoft has degrees? Cool.
Why not point it at whitehouse.gov, they're used to it.
Heh heh. He said Black Hole.
Actually this could work. Instead of mapping a name to a number, map the person's personal number to a actual service number. The service number would, of course, not be confused with the personal number. It would have a different format, be out-of-band, or whatever.
...story scientists who cracked SARS' genetic code...
Good thing they did this in Canada; here in the U.S. they'd be arrested for DMCA violations!
So this means that we could write a "blocked list editor" to allow end-users to update the list of blocked URLs. First thing we'd need to do is figure out how to read that list of URLs. Hmmm. How about that? Any Lawyers out there?
Q: What do you call the man who graduated last in his class at medical school?
A: Doctor.
Back on topic. I suppose this is important to those of us who get all worked up about titles. A title has a requirement. A prince is born to the title. An engineer must goto (don't you hate those gotos) school and pass tests. A programmer must be hired to the position. This has very little to do with the ability of the person with the title but gives the rest of us some warm fuzzy feeling that all is OK in the world. Even if it isn't.
Me? I'm a programmer. I studied EE for a year at school but got bored and decided that these new computer things were more fun so I dropped out. That was twenty years ago. Still no degree, no engineer title, but I'm doing just fine, thank you very much.
OK guys, now's your chance to set up a Linux firewall to protect those poor, insecure little NT boxen. Get to work. It's what I'm going to do.
Yeah, and imagine a Beowolf cluster of these!
They've fixed it. The new-and-improved Starbuck!
Check out the picture here
Years ago I bought a CP/M system complete with a 30MB 14" hard disc at a computer show consignment table. I couldn't get it to boot up but I was able to poke around on the disc by writing and reading directly to the controller. I discovered some erased files and one was the previous owner's resume, a developer for Pickles and Trout. So....I called him up and he helped me get it working. He was suprised I found his deleted resume and I assured him I'd wipe it as soon as I got it working. That drive also had the source to most of their CP/M development. It made for some fun reading, pre-DMCA, of course.
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It may be the best way you have, but I think a lot of people have found better ways to judge people. For example, leaving the world a better place than when you arrived. Or even, making life easier for others--like this gift of software does for so many admins.
If you've ever seen a properly run NT network, you'd be amazed.
<troll> Yes, I would. </troll>
I suppose the problem is that there are few properly run NT networks.
I once got a job at a bank because when they asked if I knew anything about accounting. I answered "debits to the window, credits to the door." It's the punch line to an accounting joke I happened to remember; they laughed and I was hired.
Yea, humor is important.
I paid about $300 for my IMSAI when I first bought it. It was all the money I had so it took months before I could buy a memory board for it and actually do something with it (like blink the lights).
The mother board has 22 slots. That meant I had to solder 2,200 connections for the sockets. Whew! Of course there was none of that surface mount stuff so it really wasn't so hard, just tedious.
When I had another $500 I bought a floppy drive and controler board. The 8 inch single-side double-density drive held a whopping 300K of storage. The Jade controller I built had a 4 MHz Z80 chip on it. The Main CPU was a 2MHz 8080A. It seemed weird to have a better processor on the disk controller than as the main CPU.
I had to build a custom clock circuit to run a serial port at 55 baud so I could interface to my old Teletype model 20 (Baudot machine). But man, it felt great to key in some instructions and watch a big piece of hardware start hammering away and shake the table it was on. I wrote drivers to convert ASCIIBaudot so I could actually use the TTY as a terminal.
God, I miss that. I wish I had room to set up that old thing. Not sure what I'd do with it, but I really loved it.
For those of you who don't know what good this type of thing can be: it provided a machine which was completely understandable, required understanding to build and use, and therefore provided training on how every little bit of a computer worked. That training wasn't available in school unless you went to someplace like MIT or Cal Tech. The only computer classes available at my college at that time (1973) were a few Cobol classes in the Business school.
In a very real sense, we were all kernel hackers then. And yes, it was fun.
Of course he deserves credit. He did all this and more. What people object to is that it appears that he insists on *taking* credit. (I think he just wants to get the word out and is a bit the fanatic about it.)
When I speak to people about Linux, if they know about Free Software, I call it Linux. If they don't, and it's important to the discussion, I call it GNU/Linux. And then I explain the FSF involvement and the importance of the GPL and so on. But sometimes some dude just want's to know why my screen doesn't look like all the other screens he's seen so I say "Oh, it's Linux."
If he's interested, I'll go from there.
What timing. We had NEC send us this very same monitor to demo for a month. Several of us are checking it out. The guy before me had it for a few days and decided he'd better not keep using it or he'll get too used to having it and won't ever be able to give it back. He loved it and now he's back to his 18" LCD monitor. I'm five days into a review of this thing and have mixed feeling about it.
:). I hope that this is not a QC problem, but just a beat-up demo problem. I think the dead pixels are a real negative.
I also have been using an 18" NEC LCD monitor until now and am impressed with the huge size of this thing. While the previous user used it on Windows 2000, I'm using it on XFree86 4. I like the amount of real estate it gives me to work with on the screen, but I noticed that it makes the bad fonts I have look even worse. (I don't have the antialiasing setup yet.)
I also, like the reviewer, noticed the abundance of dead pixels on the screen. A quick count shows fifteen I see without really hunting around. I kept trying to wipe them off until I realised that they wern't dust specks, duh
Would I recommend it? Sure, if you've got the money to burn and find one with good pixels. Will I buy one for my personal system? Not anytime soon. Would I prefer to keep this to my current 18" LCD? No. The 18" is just fine for me. Plus, I'm planning to add a second monitor and Xinerama for the extra real estate.
We're ordering some of these for our network guys, though. For them, the extra space on the screen will allow them to better visualize the network status. I don't think the programming staff (me) will be getting any soon.
And that's fine with me.
And in fact, just owning them is illegal.
Me too!
No you're not. That was exactly my thought.
"OK, kid, what's it going to be, the wrist or the stupid little watch? Now hold still or it's really going to hurt."
Snip. Bye bye kid. Bye bye hi-tech watch.
And what's more. If you see one of these on a kid, his parents probably aren't around--prime target.
Damn, I gotta stop thinking like this...
No kidding. I can't even imagine what it would be like to be able to afford having a company owe me $350,000. That's a lot of money to not have. I think I'd be living on the street after the first 5k.
I used to work with a guy who just finished serving hard time because he killed a man he caught in bed with his wife. He used a sawed-off shotgun. The court figured that the only reason to have a sawed-off shotgun is to kill a person so he was convicted of 1st degree murder (with intent) instead of 3rd degree (spur-of-the-moment).
Yea, intent is important.