In fact, I have been almost exclusively Debian and have already made three $5 donations to them (each time I buy something related, for instance at Linux System Labs. And that even with any obligation at all to do it.
"Oh, I'm not feeling too well. Let's see what inside" *swallows camera* "Ok, now I see you, big evil piece of meat!! Where's the photon torpedo launch button on this thing ??!!"
Ok, let's get more technical. Audio CDs have a 288 -byte block size, for what I remember. But this is immaterial, as long as you know the right number.
Then you'd do:
I have done this countless times for data CDs./dev/hdd would read the raw image, not try to look up any partitions or anything like it. But of course, I could be terribly wrong.
However, Eyal Shavit of Midbar Tech claims, "We can stop all kinds of copying, even on domestic CD recorders."
If you have it, you can copy it! Or, as another poster put it, if you can hear it, you can copy it. Why do we suppose they have a magical way of stopping something like this:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/cdwriter bs=512
I am not against due copyright, but if I have an album, I want to be able to backup it!
How to backup the system would be one of the first questions, coupled with how to maintain the system up in general.
His views in security, how often and where he checks warnings would also give you an idea if he's willing to keep up to date with his tasks or just with his bank account:))
In fact, I agree with other posters that it's infinitely more valuable to have somebody that doesn't claim to know everything, but rather has an idea and knows where to look for it.
Really, for all advantages miniaturization, telecommunications and computers bring us, a disturbing trend is that these technological marvels are making us work more, not less!
A script for non-stop working goes like this:
You access your files remotely - now you can work anywhere you get an on-line terminal;
You transfer your work files to your notebook - you get to work wherever you can find a telephone / electrical outlet;
You upload everything to your PDA - works as soon as you get an 802.11 access point.
And there you are!! Pleae don't tell me it's just a matter of choice, that you can unplug the damned thing anytime, etc. You just can't! First you use it to check your emails, then you do something related to the mails you just read, pretty soon you'll be working at the beach or at the pub!
I'm sorry if this sounds anti-geek, but I for one never take my work files with me, exactly because I've an identical setup at home (except for the slower computer:| ) So I protect my quality of life by having no chance of doing things off duty.
Please consider if going out more, having some laughs with friends and doing some more exercise instead of looking at a small screen isn't worth leaving some of these geek toys behind. That's just my opinion, of course. But remember you can't upgrade your body as years pass.
Consider this: because somebody in anger throws an envelope, even an unglued, unstamped one, thru a window and it falls at your feet, do you have a right to open and read it? Of course not!!
The problem here, I'm afraid, has nothing to do with technology, computers or viruses, but with ethics!
Who moded this as redundant?! It's perfectly in tune with what libraries should be about: deeper research of subjects you are interested in.
I must admit that my first thought was "Just get a O'Reilly mirror", but that's clearly not the answer, lest you've got infinite budget. Good mathematics, computer philosophy (that includes GNU's papers!) and OS design books seem to be a much more reasonable choice.
Of course, more specialized libraries will want to keep their O'Reilly collection current!
Although being scared into OpenSource or FreeSoftware is not the best of worlds, it isn't a better or worse way of trying it! It's simply another chance we are given to demonstrate its model works.
If people will stay with it, probably they'll do so based in the experience they get, not because of external threats. If they leave it, it'll be because of its flaws, not of its cost.
Yes, I know nowadays everybody wants to cut their expenditure, but to businesses things are quite simpler: either the software works, even if in a fashion, or it doesn't. No reduced price tag can compensate failure to deliver the goods, IMHO.
It really amazes me how easily we./ers turn everything in a Micro$oft vs Linux discussion, nowadays!
As I started reading this article, I thought
Huh, I'm gonna say pine is fine, pico by itself sucks, emacs is cool
or something to that effect.
But, browsing further down, the words pine or pico where nowhere to be found! But shared source, Minix vs Linux, MS sucks were all too common.
I guess if was browsing highest scores first, it wouldn't be so noticeable, but from now on I suggest you try oldest first.
And don't get me wrong: I have used exclusively Linux for work/personal productivity since 1995. I agree with y'all that M$ sucks, Open Source/ Free Software is excellent and so on. Can't we just discuss something else, from time to time?
Really, I found the article informative to say the least, but to put Linux in a desktop comparison (this link) and compare Win/Mac in the server space, where Linux is at its best, is a little, ahem, biased, isn't it?
This may sound like a troll, but when I get at home after 9-11 hrs in front of a computer with a broadband connection, the last thing I want is to turn on my computer!
And for mail checking with pine (at the weekends), my narrowband connection will do perfectly.
Unfortunately, Law is one of the very few areas of human knowledge that is geographically dependent and must be dealt with by local experts; all the rest you can find on./! (With the appropriate disclaimers, of course!)
What about the programmer's humane work condition?
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Who is gonna code that beatiful "humane" interface in a single monolithic block? How we are supposed to add our own programs to it? What if the API changes?
No ready recipes really!! Just make me remeber why I don't like Windoze integrated GUI+OS: it's a crash waiting to happen!
Working as I do, a software engineer in a bioinformatics research institute, I can tell you that even at the frontier of research people have no clue as to how some things work, let alone how to change them.
As a computer vision expert, David Marr, said once, "the tools we have for describing nature are very weak." Notice he said describe, not understand or model!
For the while, we'd be happy to find that some genes can be used as markers of activity, without knowing the mechanism of that activity at all. IMHO, this fifty-year-forward vision of biotech has some orders of magnitude lacking...
I don't mean it's impossible, it's just the relations involved are much less straightforward than in software. And remember we didn't design it. To find the structure of our own spaghetti code is hard enough, to understand and improve nature's design over millions of years will be an immense task. But the task is ours to tackle!
Isn't this tying too much of the DB design into the application? And it pretty much precludes reusing a DB unless you have access to the source code, doesn't it?
In fact, having a fast link in front of us geeks is quite a temptation (I can try FP on Slahdot muuuuch faster:))
On the other hand, I almost never power up my computer at home on weekdays. And on the weekends, just a quick mail check and I can be out. (Really out, not to the fridge, sofa and TV!)
IMHO, doing everything computer-related at the office leaves much more time for reading, dancing, drinking beer when out of it.
The funniest of all is that I work in a bioinformatics research facility and my co-workers, all biologists, work much longer hours than I do and still praise my programming ability and speed to solve their problems:))
Although I'm no musician myself, I see this license could be a very useful tool for garage/starter bands. They could exchange ideas/lyrics/songs without being IP-scared, improving their learning of music and public acceptance.
At the same time, they'll probably be able to make themselves knownn by their target public much more easily, since this public will be able to search for their kind of music freely. Kind of a first contact, one might say.
Of course, if they became big and/or famous, they'll sign with one of the mainstream distributors.
After all, GPLing some code that you wrote as a kid doesn't mean you must make all of your work available under the GPL as well.
Re:Most sucessful robots don't have human qualitie
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The practical reason why to make robots like us is simple: it would be much easier for them to use the already existing tools (assuming they knew how, of course) than to provide robotic intelligence to every tool we have.
Even the simplest tools are made for use with our ergonomy, so making the robot adapt to them should be {cheaper, faster, better} than make the tools adapt to the robot, IMHO.
Slashdot Mirror
In fact, I have been almost exclusively Debian and have already made three $5 donations to them (each time I buy something related, for instance at Linux System Labs. And that even with any obligation at all to do it.
"Oh, I'm not feeling too well. Let's see what inside" *swallows camera* "Ok, now I see you, big evil piece of meat!! Where's the photon torpedo launch button on this thing ??!!"
cdrecord dev=0,0,0
I have done this countless times for data CDs. /dev/hdd would read the raw image, not try to look up any partitions or anything like it. But of course, I could be terribly wrong.
If you have it, you can copy it! Or, as another poster put it, if you can hear it, you can copy it. Why do we suppose they have a magical way of stopping something like this:
I am not against due copyright, but if I have an album, I want to be able to backup it!
here.
His views in security, how often and where he checks warnings would also give you an idea if he's willing to keep up to date with his tasks or just with his bank account :))
In fact, I agree with other posters that it's infinitely more valuable to have somebody that doesn't claim to know everything, but rather has an idea and knows where to look for it.
A script for non-stop working goes like this:
And there you are!! Pleae don't tell me it's just a matter of choice, that you can unplug the damned thing anytime, etc. You just can't! First you use it to check your emails, then you do something related to the mails you just read, pretty soon you'll be working at the beach or at the pub!
I'm sorry if this sounds anti-geek, but I for one never take my work files with me, exactly because I've an identical setup at home (except for the slower computer :| ) So I protect my quality of life by having no chance of doing things off duty.
Please consider if going out more, having some laughs with friends and doing some more exercise instead of looking at a small screen isn't worth leaving some of these geek toys behind. That's just my opinion, of course. But remember you can't upgrade your body as years pass.
The problem here, I'm afraid, has nothing to do with technology, computers or viruses, but with ethics!
I must admit that my first thought was "Just get a O'Reilly mirror", but that's clearly not the answer, lest you've got infinite budget. Good mathematics, computer philosophy (that includes GNU's papers!) and OS design books seem to be a much more reasonable choice.
Of course, more specialized libraries will want to keep their O'Reilly collection current!
At least more people will try it....
That's exactly the point!
Although being scared into OpenSource or FreeSoftware is not the best of worlds, it isn't a better or worse way of trying it! It's simply another chance we are given to demonstrate its model works.
If people will stay with it, probably they'll do so based in the experience they get, not because of external threats. If they leave it, it'll be because of its flaws, not of its cost.
Yes, I know nowadays everybody wants to cut their expenditure, but to businesses things are quite simpler: either the software works, even if in a fashion, or it doesn't. No reduced price tag can compensate failure to deliver the goods, IMHO.
The RIAA, the feds and just about world+dog will be searching for him! Nice distributed seeking, right?
Sure, for instance giving "special edition" tables with, say, IP numbers on them, for bidders.
Or maybe it's just that I woke up with the conspiracy bit on.
Do you think those things will be open source?
It really amazes me how easily we ./ers turn everything in a Micro$oft vs Linux discussion, nowadays!
As I started reading this article, I thought Huh, I'm gonna say pine is fine, pico by itself sucks, emacs is cool or something to that effect.
But, browsing further down, the words pine or pico where nowhere to be found! But shared source, Minix vs Linux, MS sucks were all too common.
I guess if was browsing highest scores first, it wouldn't be so noticeable, but from now on I suggest you try oldest first.
And don't get me wrong: I have used exclusively Linux for work/personal productivity since 1995. I agree with y'all that M$ sucks, Open Source/ Free Software is excellent and so on. Can't we just discuss something else, from time to time?
Really, I found the article informative to say the least, but to put Linux in a desktop comparison (this link) and compare Win/Mac in the server space, where Linux is at its best, is a little, ahem, biased, isn't it?
And for mail checking with pine (at the weekends), my narrowband connection will do perfectly.
It's just /. that spoils the picture... :))
Unfortunately, Law is one of the very few areas of human knowledge that is geographically dependent and must be dealt with by local experts; all the rest you can find on ./! (With the appropriate disclaimers, of course!)
No ready recipes really!! Just make me remeber why I don't like Windoze integrated GUI+OS: it's a crash waiting to happen!
Working as I do, a software engineer in a bioinformatics research institute, I can tell you that even at the frontier of research people have no clue as to how some things work, let alone how to change them.
As a computer vision expert, David Marr, said once, "the tools we have for describing nature are very weak." Notice he said describe, not understand or model! For the while, we'd be happy to find that some genes can be used as markers of activity, without knowing the mechanism of that activity at all. IMHO, this fifty-year-forward vision of biotech has some orders of magnitude lacking...
I don't mean it's impossible, it's just the relations involved are much less straightforward than in software. And remember we didn't design it. To find the structure of our own spaghetti code is hard enough, to understand and improve nature's design over millions of years will be an immense task. But the task is ours to tackle!
make DNAImage, anybody?
If you were a true BOFH, what better way to upgrade your servers than by showing your beancounters the small "deficiencies" of your current network?
Isn't this tying too much of the DB design into the application? And it pretty much precludes reusing a DB unless you have access to the source code, doesn't it?
On the other hand, I almost never power up my computer at home on weekdays. And on the weekends, just a quick mail check and I can be out. (Really out, not to the fridge, sofa and TV!)
IMHO, doing everything computer-related at the office leaves much more time for reading, dancing, drinking beer when out of it.
The funniest of all is that I work in a bioinformatics research facility and my co-workers, all biologists, work much longer hours than I do and still praise my programming ability and speed to solve their problems :))
but wouldn't another pool settle the matter?
At the same time, they'll probably be able to make themselves knownn by their target public much more easily, since this public will be able to search for their kind of music freely. Kind of a first contact, one might say.
Of course, if they became big and/or famous, they'll sign with one of the mainstream distributors.
After all, GPLing some code that you wrote as a kid doesn't mean you must make all of your work available under the GPL as well.
Even the simplest tools are made for use with our ergonomy, so making the robot adapt to them should be {cheaper, faster, better} than make the tools adapt to the robot, IMHO.