"For embedded use, Linux must be ported to appropriate processors and modified to work in diskless, resource constrained, and custom hardware environments. Real-time performance capabilities are also often required."
Sweet jesus no! Not different processor architecures! Apparently this guy hasn't heard of Debian.
Sorry, I misinterpreted your comment. Personally, I still think the US has much more important things to worry about than getting back onto the moon or to Mars, but that's just my opinion.
And what about the over 12% of the population of the US that live under the poverty line? It's easy to say "That's $67 a year..." but in a country where poverty is a way of life for so many, how can you justify taking even more money away from people to give Bush a tribute to himself?
I was severely pissed last week when CBC Newsworld had a so-called "discussion" regarding music downloading and its effect on the recording industry. Their only guest was a copyright lawyer who (surprise, surprise) didn't mention the levy on blank recordable media collected in Canada, which goes as a free handout to the recording industry. What other industry get's to collect free money from the government on the chance that someone somewhere might do something illegal?? As if this isn't disgusting enough, the recording industry is pushing for a levy on internet access, which will again be given to the poor music industry. I can't believe they have the balls to demand that every internet user pay even if they have never downloaded a single illegal song.
I tried in vain to call in since the issue of the blank media levy was not addressed, and I hate the idea that uneducated people out there were watching that and possibly becoming sympathetic to the music industry.
If you're worried about price, why not look at other cheaper options? I have a Creative Zen which was much cheaper than an iPod, with considerably more storage. Also, the iRiver iHP-120 looks amazing. Check around for reviews, and you'll find that both of these products are held in high regard. Don't fall for the Apple hype!
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I find it disturbing that the RIAA is claiming it is acting on behalf of record labels that it doesn't even represent.
NPR radio has a story about several record labels (notably Fat Wreck Chords, one of my personal favs) that had to fight for years to get their names removed from the list of labels the RIAA claims to represent, since they do not want to be represented by them.
Did anyone else reading this article notice how yahoo is acting like verisign is being unjustly persecuted for sitefinder?
Launched September 15, Site Finder provides useful tools for Internet users who mistype a domain name or attempt to connect to a web site that doesn't exist.
The idea of smoothwall is really cool. Is there software like that that I could install on a Redhat 9 machine? I have a system which I want to use as both a workstation and my firewall. I really like the remote administration functions of smoothwall, so I'd like to use that on the Redhat box. I'm currently using Monmotha's IPTables script.
Damnit...I think my firewall is fucking me over. Oh well, I'm downloading from a mirror at 150kbps which is a decent speed for me. Thanks for the info though:)
Is it just me, or is the torrent EXTREMELY slow? I tried it and it didn't download at all for a while, went to 1kbps immediately...I'm just going to download the RPMs from a mirror with wget and throw them on CD.
The Dragonlance Chronicles are great too, written by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman (if I recall correctly). A wonderful series, it got me started on fantasy.
I agree that Jordan's "Wheel Of Time" is the ultimate though.
My first year of computer science there were 6 sections of our introductory Java course, at about 150 students each. This year, a fourth-year course required by every comp. sci. student had only 1 section and 160 students. Where did the approximately 740 other students go? They were the ones that enrolled because they thought computers were they way they would get rich, but when they found it wasn't a cakewalk they dropped out. Everyone that's left are the ones that are taking comp. sci. because they love it, not because they think it will make them shitloads of cash.
I guess my point is that just because there are less students enrolling doesn't mean there will be less graduates. There will be just as many students that take comp. sci. because it's what they want to do, and therefore just as many will graduate.
Get the Half-Life 2 teaser here as well! It's not as good as the Doom III vid, but it still looks wicked. Half-Life was probably the best FPS I've every played, and a lot of my friends agree, so my fingers are crossed for HL2 to rock just as much.
What he's doing isn't really data mining. Data mining is the process of discovering patterns in data which are not known ahead of time, such as the infamous "beer and diapers" correlation.
That said, I don't understand why the author is worried. I can't see how looking at publicly posted prices could be considered illegal.
Were there any prizes for this competition? Do the winners get money to continue development or anything? The page is down now, but when I got to scan over it earlier I didn't see anything.
...I've been looking for a summer job for a month and a half, and considering I almost have my Bachelor of Computer Science you'd think I could find something...hell no!
My only prospect told me they didn't have the money to take anyone on for the summer.
How the hell am I supposed to pay rent, let alone save enough for my outrageous tuition for next year if I have no options but flipping Big Macs??
But what about the same type of thing for my PC? Air filtering cases are generally crazy expensive...any cheap alternatives for filtering the air into my PC? Cat hair does short work of fans.
Interesting. You make snap judgement about the site yet you know absolutely nothing about it. It's not one guy, it's two. And let's see you do anything involving talent. Right, of course you can't.
So internal (i.e. resnet) usage continues unfettered? One person downloads The Two Towers and the whole school can get it. I don't see how the cap will make a huge difference in the long run.
...techniques for routers, operating systems (including Windows 2000/Pro and XP, Solaris, LINUX)...
I'm suprised that this (and other books like it) haven't been beaten down by the DMCA. I would have thought that giving specific information on hacking a Microsoft O/S would piss MS off, and I'm sure that there is at least one example in the book where the hacking involves decryption of some sort. Isn't that bypassing a security measure, and therefore against the DMCA, or does the DMCA only matter when the point of the attack is to duplicate a copyrighted work?
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Sweet jesus no! Not different processor architecures! Apparently this guy hasn't heard of Debian.
And real-time capabilities? How about the Real-time Application Interface
This guy simply sounds like he has a grudge against GNU and Linux.
Sorry, I misinterpreted your comment. Personally, I still think the US has much more important things to worry about than getting back onto the moon or to Mars, but that's just my opinion.
And what about the over 12% of the population of the US that live under the poverty line? It's easy to say "That's $67 a year..." but in a country where poverty is a way of life for so many, how can you justify taking even more money away from people to give Bush a tribute to himself?
http://gnomesupport.org/
I was severely pissed last week when CBC Newsworld had a so-called "discussion" regarding music downloading and its effect on the recording industry. Their only guest was a copyright lawyer who (surprise, surprise) didn't mention the levy on blank recordable media collected in Canada, which goes as a free handout to the recording industry. What other industry get's to collect free money from the government on the chance that someone somewhere might do something illegal?? As if this isn't disgusting enough, the recording industry is pushing for a levy on internet access, which will again be given to the poor music industry. I can't believe they have the balls to demand that every internet user pay even if they have never downloaded a single illegal song.
I tried in vain to call in since the issue of the blank media levy was not addressed, and I hate the idea that uneducated people out there were watching that and possibly becoming sympathetic to the music industry.
If you're worried about price, why not look at other cheaper options? I have a Creative Zen which was much cheaper than an iPod, with considerably more storage. Also, the iRiver iHP-120 looks amazing. Check around for reviews, and you'll find that both of these products are held in high regard. Don't fall for the Apple hype!
I find it disturbing that the RIAA is claiming it is acting on behalf of record labels that it doesn't even represent.
NPR radio has a story about several record labels (notably Fat Wreck Chords, one of my personal favs) that had to fight for years to get their names removed from the list of labels the RIAA claims to represent, since they do not want to be represented by them.
Good god...
The patched version is in the Gentoo portage tree already, so it's time to emerge -u world!
The idea of smoothwall is really cool. Is there software like that that I could install on a Redhat 9 machine? I have a system which I want to use as both a workstation and my firewall. I really like the remote administration functions of smoothwall, so I'd like to use that on the Redhat box. I'm currently using Monmotha's IPTables script.
Damnit...I think my firewall is fucking me over. Oh well, I'm downloading from a mirror at 150kbps which is a decent speed for me. Thanks for the info though :)
Is it just me, or is the torrent EXTREMELY slow? I tried it and it didn't download at all for a while, went to 1kbps immediately...I'm just going to download the RPMs from a mirror with wget and throw them on CD.
The Dragonlance Chronicles are great too, written by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman (if I recall correctly). A wonderful series, it got me started on fantasy.
I agree that Jordan's "Wheel Of Time" is the ultimate though.
My first year of computer science there were 6 sections of our introductory Java course, at about 150 students each. This year, a fourth-year course required by every comp. sci. student had only 1 section and 160 students. Where did the approximately 740 other students go? They were the ones that enrolled because they thought computers were they way they would get rich, but when they found it wasn't a cakewalk they dropped out. Everyone that's left are the ones that are taking comp. sci. because they love it, not because they think it will make them shitloads of cash.
I guess my point is that just because there are less students enrolling doesn't mean there will be less graduates. There will be just as many students that take comp. sci. because it's what they want to do, and therefore just as many will graduate.
Get the Half-Life 2 teaser here as well! It's not as good as the Doom III vid, but it still looks wicked. Half-Life was probably the best FPS I've every played, and a lot of my friends agree, so my fingers are crossed for HL2 to rock just as much.
What he's doing isn't really data mining. Data mining is the process of discovering patterns in data which are not known ahead of time, such as the infamous "beer and diapers" correlation.
That said, I don't understand why the author is worried. I can't see how looking at publicly posted prices could be considered illegal.
Were there any prizes for this competition? Do the winners get money to continue development or anything? The page is down now, but when I got to scan over it earlier I didn't see anything.
...I've been looking for a summer job for a month and a half, and considering I almost have my Bachelor of Computer Science you'd think I could find something...hell no!
My only prospect told me they didn't have the money to take anyone on for the summer.
How the hell am I supposed to pay rent, let alone save enough for my outrageous tuition for next year if I have no options but flipping Big Macs??
But what about the same type of thing for my PC? Air filtering cases are generally crazy expensive...any cheap alternatives for filtering the air into my PC? Cat hair does short work of fans.
Interesting. You make snap judgement about the site yet you know absolutely nothing about it. It's not one guy, it's two. And let's see you do anything involving talent. Right, of course you can't.
What program?
So internal (i.e. resnet) usage continues unfettered? One person downloads The Two Towers and the whole school can get it. I don't see how the cap will make a huge difference in the long run.
I'm suprised that this (and other books like it) haven't been beaten down by the DMCA. I would have thought that giving specific information on hacking a Microsoft O/S would piss MS off, and I'm sure that there is at least one example in the book where the hacking involves decryption of some sort. Isn't that bypassing a security measure, and therefore against the DMCA, or does the DMCA only matter when the point of the attack is to duplicate a copyrighted work?
Doesn't it seem a little backwards that a company doesn't want to see its product? Especially that much of it??