She simply presents an argument about the terrible state of security in software engineering and mentions that many in the field agree with her. To claim that this is lying with statistics is simply absurd and simply shows that it's not enough to merely read books, one should also understand them.
Then why mention it? I mean, if she had a strong valid point then why should she even mention a "my momma said the same thing" like argument? The so called "poll" is so obviously meaningless that it would only bring noise to the signal (if she ever had one).
Besides, the arguments presented here in other posts (e.g. Oracle's well known tendency to release security fixes quite sluggishly) are more than enough to convince me that her arguments have other agendas. Hence, she's trying to back them up with this "a lot of the chief security officers yada yada" bulls*it.
Seriously though, you comment says a hell of a lot more about your lack of expertise. Your terminology is incorrect and your approach is limited to GNU tar, while their's will also work across a large number of other unix systems.
Although your subject may accurate for some of the dumb asses posting fr!zt ps0ts and pounding way about padme's hot grits, I can still almost hear the surge of angry replies being typed by all the smart asses here.
Arse just is. Some keep it silly while others have moved both their brain halves down there.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. Wrongdoings should never be justified by gooddoings. It's like letting Red Cross organize gang rapes.
Playboy.com also mirrors Firefox, Thunderbird, Apache, FreeBSD, and CPAN. Playboy uses FOSS in it's operation and wants to give back to the community by providing mirrors.
While I appreciate what they're doing I can't help but think that providing mirrors is hardly the best way for them to "give back to the community". They have the rare possibility of providing us something that we'd appreciate even more than bandwidth, quite the opposite really, the lack of bands, strings and other forms of strategic clothing.
I heard of this new power system. Seems like a mix of AC and DC, to create the ultimate power form. AC *lightningbolt* DC was the name, and with a lightning bolt in the name, it has to strike you like thunder.
But I heard there were some side effects. Females got the gonnorrhea and men got stiffened, almost stone hard.
Am I the only one who eagerly opened up this thread to see how this relates to the Network Time Protocol? I went -1 and searched for it in vain. I for one am seriously tired of these new jack-ass companies starting to recycle already well established TLAs. What's next? "Sony faces TCP inc. in court over patent infringement"?
But the Big Win? With the above, it gets set as a shell var: $foo is also set to the directory, so you can do things like "cp $foo/*.baz." to good benefit. In addition, setting up this system is just a trivial matter of setting environment variables in your.profile.
I've used similar shell functions that utilize the environment, too, but on every occasion I've returned to my older scripts that write the same information to file(s). I've found it really practical if the dir aliases are a little less volatile, because it makes them accessible for numerous newer xterms, relogins after network interruptions and even portable using nfs, rsync or likes.
And since I'm guessing cdargs does just that I will have look at it or finally write a solid version of my own.
Just go ahead and admit it, they both suck for different reasons. We need a third player.
Patience young padawan. So far the biggest problems with OO have been the lacking features compared to the M$ Office aswell as interoperability with the M$ Office. We're obviously getting somewhere now that people start benchmarking and complaining about memory usage. Seriously, five years ago no one would've even bothered to check memory usage when comparing those products, there wasn't much to compare.
For the record, I'm not saying OO ain't bloated, so it seems, and perhaps there's been too much pressure to reach interoperability and feature richness, but it's too early to condem it. Time will tell wether their internal design is good or not. Can it be made faster/leaner/meaner without too much sweat and tears...
Couldn't some people just simply mirror the stuff elsewhere and go on from there?
I agree wholeheartedly that this is a sad thing to happen. Information source of wikipedia's kind should not be mixed with business. Moreover, I was under the impression that they had received quite good money from donations.
And if you want x86, why would you buy Intel? Currently AMD runs rings around them architecture-wise and at competitive prices. Intel's and Apple's future lies in vapour-laden marketing material.
I'm all for AMD, just about to purchase AMD based desktop box, but wasn't this discussion about laptops. I don't think Amd has anything comparable to pentium m for laptos, none that I'd know of anyway - the dothan is fast, cpu frequency scaling works like a charm (atleast in Linux) and most importantly it really doesn't suck much juice, which for me is everything in a laptop.
The HP nw8000 that I have has a 2nd battery in it's otherwise free 2nd multibay and it stays up about 8 hours and even more depending on screen brightness and what I do with it.
As the other poster pointed out. xargs has easily some problems with spaces.
I use 'for' in most such circumstances. e.g.
for x in * ; do mv "$x" "$x".bak ; done
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Bloody hell. I've been using openssh ever since it came out and quite a while the old Tatu Ylönen's ssh before that and type all those lengthy user@hostname.domainname.whatever: prefixes day in day out without knowing about those aliases.
The fact is that in OSS world one should, atleast once a month raise fingers from the keyboard and stop to think "What am I missing from my daily environment? Are stupid, repetetive or borings things that I do all too frequently?". The odds are that I could easily fix most of them swiftly and the ones that might require moderate amounts of work to happen it's quite likely that someone hast stumbled on those very same issues before me and fixed them. (and experience in *nix world teaches me that frequently the fix is quite brilliant)
For example, take a look at CL_DemoFilename() for some real "OMGWTFBBQ".
What planet are you from?
That's a totally normal way to perform zero-prefixed number printing in the absence of more elegant possibilites like '%04d'. And as such it's quite cleanly done.
How can you determine what the atmospheric temperature was thousands of years before writen records were kept?
Radiochemistry. For example,...
With this basic information (and some statistics and isotope chemistry) we can extract a temperature record from the ice on Greenland for the last 100,000 years. For Antarctica, a record going back 400,000 years has been reconstructed.
Absolutely!
And I think beyond that they can go waaaay back using sediment layers in the ocean floors. The relative percentages of certain plankton types have high correlation to average annual ocean temperature.
Not to mention how the Average Joe feels about this cheap labor is taking their jobs for the benefit of already rich stock holders. Government should take stand on issues like "companies downsizing themselves all the while being profitable already" and "moving factories abroad from regions of already high unemployment rate"...
You're obviously joking, but you forget that it's not notepads we use for writing code.
The banner comes with a mere key combination. Self explanatory in-code documentation (stating what the code does) is absolutely useless. The printf line gets written with 10 key presses (automated and cursor positioned printf aswell as word completion).
Added to that the speed of compilation, debugging and testing...
Slashdot Mirror
I for one am a little less than thrilled to pick up this "news item" when browsing linux.slashdot.org
She simply presents an argument about the terrible state of security in software engineering and mentions that many in the field agree with her. To claim that this is lying with statistics is simply absurd and simply shows that it's not enough to merely read books, one should also understand them.
Then why mention it?
I mean, if she had a strong valid point then why should she even mention a "my momma said the same thing" like argument?
The so called "poll" is so obviously meaningless that it would only bring noise to the signal (if she ever had one).
Besides, the arguments presented here in other posts (e.g. Oracle's well known tendency to release security fixes quite sluggishly) are more than enough to convince me that her arguments have other agendas. Hence, she's trying to back them up with this "a lot of the chief security officers yada yada" bulls*it.
They corrected the article. There were more flaws there earlier than there are now.
Seriously though, you comment says a hell of a lot more about your lack of expertise. Your terminology is incorrect and your approach is limited to GNU tar, while their's will also work across a large number of other unix systems.
that the author of this study might not belong the said 3% of computer litarates.
Although your subject may accurate for some of the dumb asses posting fr!zt ps0ts and pounding way about padme's hot grits, I can still almost hear the surge of angry replies being typed by all the smart asses here.
Arse just is. Some keep it silly while others have moved both their brain halves down there.
Also going off-topic, God can't renounce his omnipotence. It is part of his nature. That is, even for God there are limits and omnipotence ... [snip]
You just know it's april fools day when someone has modded that "Interesting".
That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. Wrongdoings should never be justified by gooddoings. It's like letting Red Cross organize gang rapes.
Playboy.com also mirrors Firefox, Thunderbird, Apache, FreeBSD, and CPAN. Playboy uses FOSS in it's operation and wants to give back to the community by providing mirrors.
While I appreciate what they're doing I can't help but think that providing mirrors is hardly the best way for them to "give back to the community". They have the rare possibility of providing us something that we'd appreciate even more than bandwidth, quite the opposite really, the lack of bands, strings and other forms of strategic clothing.
I heard of this new power system. Seems like a mix of AC and DC, to create the ultimate power form. AC *lightningbolt* DC was the name, and with a lightning bolt in the name, it has to strike you like thunder.
But I heard there were some side effects. Females got the gonnorrhea and men got stiffened, almost stone hard.
Am I the only one who eagerly opened up this thread to see how this relates to the Network Time Protocol?
I went -1 and searched for it in vain. I for one am seriously tired of these new jack-ass companies starting to recycle already well established TLAs. What's next? "Sony faces TCP inc. in court over patent infringement"?
In the thread Greg Stein says:
:)
And we have a couple other ideas on how to help the open source
community. We're working on it!
Does that mean google will add a sourceforge like source managament to their arsenal?
Somehow I'm not surprised...
Wonder what the future plans are?
p2p system? IM service? ntp servers? anon ftp servers? mirror of the entire current net? internet2?
Imagine the number of every day products which have "true" inventors without a cent to their name.
And without rightful recognition for that matters. Moreover, it goes beyond every day products, e.g. radio and motorized flight.
Funny thing, when Apple sued Microsoft they were told they could not protect the right because it was a common name.
Apple going after Windows for the use of a common name?
What next? Kernighan calling Ritchie a geek?
I define these functions in my shell .rc: ...
." to good benefit. In addition, setting up this system is just a trivial matter of setting environment variables in your .profile.
But the Big Win? With the above, it gets set as a shell var: $foo is also set to the directory, so you can do things like "cp $foo/*.baz
I've used similar shell functions that utilize the environment, too, but on every occasion I've returned to my older scripts that write the same information to file(s). I've found it really practical if the dir aliases are a little less volatile, because it makes them accessible for numerous newer xterms, relogins after network interruptions and even portable using nfs, rsync or likes.
And since I'm guessing cdargs does just that I will have look at it or finally write a solid version of my own.
Just go ahead and admit it, they both suck for different reasons. We need a third player.
Patience young padawan. So far the biggest problems with OO have been the lacking features compared to the M$ Office aswell as interoperability with the M$ Office. We're obviously getting somewhere now that people start benchmarking and complaining about memory usage. Seriously, five years ago no one would've even bothered to check memory usage when comparing those products, there wasn't much to compare.
For the record, I'm not saying OO ain't bloated, so it seems, and perhaps there's been too much pressure to reach interoperability and feature richness, but it's too early to condem it. Time will tell wether their internal design is good or not. Can it be made faster/leaner/meaner without too much sweat and tears...
Couldn't some people just simply mirror the stuff elsewhere and go on from there?
I agree wholeheartedly that this is a sad thing to happen. Information source of wikipedia's kind should not be mixed with business. Moreover, I was under the impression that they had received quite good money from donations.
And if you want x86, why would you buy Intel? Currently AMD runs rings around them architecture-wise and at competitive prices. Intel's and Apple's future lies in vapour-laden marketing material.
I'm all for AMD, just about to purchase AMD based desktop box, but wasn't this discussion about laptops. I don't think Amd has anything comparable to pentium m for laptos, none that I'd know of anyway - the dothan is fast, cpu frequency scaling works like a charm (atleast in Linux) and most importantly it really doesn't suck much juice, which for me is everything in a laptop.
The HP nw8000 that I have has a 2nd battery in it's otherwise free 2nd multibay and it stays up about 8 hours and even more depending on screen brightness and what I do with it.
If I was involved in a stand up shouting match with a colleague in the middle of the office, I'd expect to have some explaining to do.
Why should the email equivalent be any different?
Explaining and getting fired are two different things.
This whole thing sounds like an excuse to get rid of atleast one of them.
As the other poster pointed out. xargs has easily some problems with spaces.
I use 'for' in most such circumstances. e.g.
for x in * ; do mv "$x" "$x".bak ; done
Bloody hell. I've been using openssh ever since it came out and quite a while the old Tatu Ylönen's ssh before that and type all those lengthy user@hostname.domainname.whatever: prefixes day in day out without knowing about those aliases.
The fact is that in OSS world one should, atleast once a month raise fingers from the keyboard and stop to think "What am I missing from my daily environment? Are stupid, repetetive or borings things that I do all too frequently?". The odds are that I could easily fix most of them swiftly and the ones that might require moderate amounts of work to happen it's quite likely that someone hast stumbled on those very same issues before me and fixed them. (and experience in *nix world teaches me that frequently the fix is quite brilliant)
For example, take a look at CL_DemoFilename() for some real "OMGWTFBBQ".
What planet are you from?
That's a totally normal way to perform zero-prefixed number printing in the absence of more elegant possibilites like '%04d'.
And as such it's quite cleanly done.
How can you determine what the atmospheric temperature was thousands of years before writen records were kept?
...
Radiochemistry. For example,
With this basic information (and some statistics and isotope chemistry) we can extract a temperature record from the ice on Greenland for the last 100,000 years. For Antarctica, a record going back 400,000 years has been reconstructed.
Absolutely!
And I think beyond that they can go waaaay back using sediment layers in the ocean floors. The relative percentages of certain plankton types have high correlation to average annual ocean temperature.
Not to mention how the Average Joe feels about this cheap labor is taking their jobs for the benefit of already rich stock holders. Government should take stand on issues like "companies downsizing themselves all the while being profitable already" and "moving factories abroad from regions of already high unemployment rate" ...
You're obviously joking, but you forget that it's not notepads we use for writing code.
The banner comes with a mere key combination. Self explanatory in-code documentation (stating what the code does) is absolutely useless. The printf line gets written with 10 key presses (automated and cursor positioned printf aswell as word completion).
Added to that the speed of compilation, debugging and testing...