Excuse me, I meant to say that since I had problems with GCC for Windows, not all Free Software is ROSY! Beware folks, you might run into some free software that is not ROSY!
I tried to compile your code with GCC for Windows software and it didn't work! Since I had problems with GCC for Windows, Free Software sucks! Besides, a commercial, compiled binary of this program would be more ethical because it would come with a warranty and I could blame you since it doesn't work! Then I could get my money back!
No, actually you can't distinguish sites based on their top level anymore. There is a pervasive attitude that.com namespace is more "valuable" in a virtual real estate sense than other top level domains. I guess it's kind of like physical real estate: your property value is lower if you live in a dump of a neighborhood and higher if you live on Boardwalk. The internet savvy Barry Ploegels of the world would rather be on the same TLD as amazon.com and yahoo.com than with some kind of Isle of Niue.nu trailer trash. I wouldn't be surprised if many people who were first introduced to web site addresses from television still aren't completely conscious of other top level domains besides dot-com. Doesn't that buzzword make you nauseous? It doesn't help that web browsers give preferential name completion to.com. Why can't I type "aardvark" into my Location bar and get sent to aardvark.nu which actually contains useful information about aardvarks! Instead, I wind up on some random consulting company's site. Damn, I sound like Andy Rooney.
Seriously, TLDs are totally unreliable when it comes to determining information about a site. Non profit organizations and non-US businesses have.coms. Dumb cam-girls who wouldn't know a router from an alarm clock have.nets. A guy I know who ran a textfile group called Radioactive Aardvark Dung (RAD) registered rad.edu (pretending to be the "Raleigh School of Art and Design") and used that domain for nearly two years before Internic figured out it was bogus. Others own domains on top levels located in Pacific islands that they can't locate on a map because manifest destiny minded people have already grabbed the.com,.net, and.org domains of nearly any string they would want.
While I'm ranting-- and since crazed Andy Rooney mode is on, I propose that the government establish some kind of Namespace Protection Agency. Our English word domain names are IN DANGER of extinction! Much like the great Sequoia groves of California and Amazon rain forests, businesses are now destroying the beauty of hierarchical categorization! The DNS tree, our Sequoia, once stood proud and balanced to give us O(log n) computational complexity in the worst case. Alas now it is but O(n)! (Proof is left as exercise to reader.)
Perhaps there is no way to encourage the use of more structured, discernible domain names. Perhaps we are doomed to a single business hoarding thousands of second level domain names, virtual-hosted and without useful content. We can at least try to protect the most valuable and precious strings in our namespace. Here's the plan: we give second-level.com domain rights of all English words to the government so that we may admire them from afar, much like a stroll through a National Park. Reservation of English words would protect their generic beauty from exploitation by namespace Forty-Niners! Domain names that could be purchased would be nonsense words or acronyms. There is but a finite set of English words, but the set of nonsense words or acronyms is infinite. I could sit here all day thinking of up domain names like "squiggledumpkins" and "frobozzbastica"! And no one would bid $100,000 on any of them! Perhaps then people might buy domain names for their intended purpose: to identify a network, not a product.
I looked at the algorithm used to determine how they collected the names of contributors. They grepped e-mail addresses, rcs ids, and copyright info from various files. I don't think that's the best way to draw any useful conclusions in regards to Open Source software. The only real conclusion found here is that Open Source projects include a lot of code written by other people. That's trivial. This study fails to make a distinction between an active contributor and someone whose code was simply borrowed. This is an important distinction to make! For instance, what if I were to take 1000 physics homework assignments and search for "F=ma" in them. I can't assume that the appearance of "F=ma" on your paper means that Newton helped you with your homework. I can only assume that you used Newton's second law of motion to help you solve the problem.
Similarly, if you wanted to determine who the most prolific scientific researcher is in a field, would you gather data by simply grepping for names in the texts of papers? No, you'll skew the data by counting the names who appear in the paper's "References" when you should just be counting the actual investigators who are listed as the authors of the paper!
I would like to see this study repeated but making the distinction between an active contributor to a project and someone whose code was simply included. Only then would a top-heavy distribution suggest anything meaningful in regards to OSS authorship.
If anyone has looked at the CODD algorithms/code and can show me if they used a more sophisicated method to filter out authors with no active involvement in a project, please post. It's a difficult problem to infer who actively and who passively contributed to a project with just a perl script.
If I found a way to convert full texts of arbitrary books to big decimal numbers, and it just so happens that Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet converted into the same number as a Metallica song, would Metallica thus own Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
It would be funnier if you happened to obtain the text of Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls", and typed:
# cat for_whom_the_bell_tolls.txt >/dev/sound
...then heard Hetfield wailing "TIME MARCHES ON" through the white noise.
scene.textfiles.com contains links to many active and inactive textfile groups. This site also regularly posts updates when groups release. So if you run a t-file group, submit your news there!
The nickname being used was mafiaboy, not [mafiaboy]. The brackets are convention used to notate private messages sent from the client user to someone else. Similarly, enclosing the nick in asterisks is used to notate private messages received from another user. And enclosing the nick in equal signs is used to notate DCC chat messages received from another user.
From the log: >>> icee [icee@dragon.ender.com] requested DCC CHAT from mafiaboy
If the nick were [mafiaboy] this line would read: >>> icee [icee@dragon.ender.com] requested DCC CHAT from [mafiaboy]
This has nothing to do with the incident mentioned in the article, but it's along the same lines.
You guys remember back in 1995 or 1996 when MTV used to have something called YACK Live? They had an IRC server up and you'd type in dumb comments along the vein of "SHOUT OUTS TO NEW ORLEANS BABY!!!!" Many of messages (filtered, of course) would then scroll in a textbox on the videos shown on the MTV Yack Live program.
I seem to remember hearing that r00t managed to crash the server, just after the textbox filled the message "R00T 0WNZ YOU!" several times.
Is this just an urban legend that I heard or did anyone see this happen on TV?
Katz attempted to break down the Internet into "continents". A continent, by definition, is a partition of the set of land mass on a planet. Partitions are disjoint subsets of a set. Disjoint means the intersection of two subsets is the empty set. In other words, a place in Africa cannot be a place in Asia, etc. Katz's "continents" could overlap. Slashdot could belong to InfoNet AND TechNet. Since there exists an element which belongs to the intersection of two of Katz's "continents", they are not partitions!
There are no special properties of Katz's stupid "continents" that make them worthy of being analogous to actual continents.
I wish there was a friggin' poll that suggested what college courses you'd force Jon Katz to take. I'd vote for Discrete Math.
Be the first person to speak up so the other students automatically associate you as the group leader.
Say "What do you guys think?"
Nod your head, but ignore whatever they are saying. This is an especially useful skill for those pursuing a career in management or administration.
Apply Divide + Conquer method. Suggest that "we" group "ourselves" so that "we" can "maximize" "our" "resources". I.e., figure out who had the best recollection of the head, the arms, etc. and have them built the parts separately.
Congratulations, you probably just got accepted into a bogus liberal arts school when you could've gone to engineering school to build bigger and more kickass robots.
Remark: Do not employ the assembly line method to construct the robot, lest you get sued by the heirs of Henry Ford for violating intellectual property rights.
For those of you not lucky enough to face the Lego challenge when applying for college... Here's the Algorithm To Beat the Standardized Tests (ACT):
Pay careful attention to rules of grammar, write outside of class.
Learn to read quickly and remember what you've read.
Pay attention in science class and approach problems logically.
Do your math homework.
Repeat 1-4 throughout secondary education career.
Utilise (1) for English test, (2) for Reading, (3) for Science Reasoning, and (4) for Mathematics.
Humor aside; I honestly don't know whether or not this admissions policy idea would be a good idea. It's not the effectiveness of the program that I doubt. I am just not convinced that it is fair to all personality types. Perhaps it would be worth testing to see if perhaps one of the Meyer-Briggs personality types is favored by the tests.
I did a little bit of research on the person mentioned in the article who innovated the program-- Deborah Bial. Apparently she previously worked on a program called "Posse" to help disadvantaged youths get into college and succeed (Click here for story). Now, a program called "Posse" reeks of liberal reform; the name alone makes me groan. But hey, if these programs work to help nurture students who will turn out to be more productive employees and community leaders, it's a good for our society and economy.
But again, I'm not convinced that the tests in an admissions environment are fair for all. Personally, I avoid "Let's get into groups and reach out to each other!" fluff like the plague. I'm fairly certain that's due to my more introverted personality and not a lack of ambition or initiative to succeed.
The CEO didn't necessarily say that the PC era is ending. The headline of the article was ".. CEO Says PC Era Ending". However, that's a headline, and there is no direct quote from him in the article that says anything as extreme as that.
Journalists (or editors) write headlines for stories and paraphrase for brevity. I should also note that journalists rarely have a clue when it comes to technology issues. Furthermore since their schooling does not usually include calculus, they might not understand the difference between first and second derivatives. In other words, when someone says that one area of the market's growth rate will be accelerating and another's may possibly be decelerating, then that does not necessarily mean that the area isn't going to continue to expand. It will just grow more slowly.
Legal documents, bank statements, bills, etc. would not only be before the prying eyes of the USPS, but untrusted nodes along the route between your computer and the USPS mail servers.
Let's not forget that while when we participate in e-commerce and do online banking, we're usually operating over an encrypted layer.
If the USPS is to take this idea seriously, they would have to encourage and provide support for encrypted POP3/IMAP and SMTP connections. Otherwise, all of your mail is at the hands of the 17-year old hacker-wannabe kids who tend to work at ISPs nowadays.
If this idea were taken seriously, it could encourage a more secure Internet. It could also expose your sensitive mail to people who really shouldn't be reading it.
I can't imagine this technology being any better than the Scratch 'n Sniff cards that came with the Infocom text adventure Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
I have been persecuted by the infamous Microsoft Proxy Server blocking my LAN as well. I have had success getting past this by linking my network applications to a library found in the 'dante' package (http://www.inet.no/dante/) If you'd like help, drop me an email.
Sometimes I wonder if journalists who comment on the sociology of the Internet realize that nearly everything they are saying has already been written about. Perhaps in the future tech journalism classes will require students to read textfiles, just as English curriculums usually require students to read the classics. I like to think of BBS and early Internet users as the "Ancient Greeks" of the electronic civilization.
I agree with you. Though I would also like to note that if the vote counts differed significantly with the results of appropriately conducted polls, it could possibly indicate overall election-outcome fraud. So in that respect, we wouldn't _totally_ be in the dark when it comes to detection. But you are right, investigating election fraud and recovering from it would be a nightmare because of the lack of physical evidence. It's much easier to manipulate electronic materials rather than physical materials.
Did the benchmarkers remember to add append="mem256M" to their lilo.conf? I know it sounds silly, but sometimes it horrifies me how many servers are running with only 64M of memory because configuring more memory isn't so obvious.
Or is 64M no longer the default upper limit of memory in the 2.2 kernels?
It baffles me that you'd have to go the extra step to add that line to detect extra memory in the first place. Can anyone provide an explanation?
Slashdot Mirror
Excuse me, I meant to say that since I had problems with GCC for Windows, not all Free Software is ROSY! Beware folks, you might run into some free software that is not ROSY!
I tried to compile your code with GCC for Windows software and it didn't work! Since I had problems with GCC for Windows, Free Software sucks! Besides, a commercial, compiled binary of this program would be more ethical because it would come with a warranty and I could blame you since it doesn't work! Then I could get my money back!
No, actually you can't distinguish sites based on their top level anymore. There is a pervasive attitude that .com namespace is more "valuable" in a virtual real estate sense than other top level domains. I guess it's kind of like physical real estate: your property value is lower if you live in a dump of a neighborhood and higher if you live on Boardwalk. The internet savvy Barry Ploegels of the world would rather be on the same TLD as amazon.com and yahoo.com than with some kind of Isle of Niue .nu trailer trash. I wouldn't be surprised if many people who were first introduced to web site addresses from television still aren't completely conscious of other top level domains besides dot-com. Doesn't that buzzword make you nauseous? It doesn't help that web browsers give preferential name completion to .com. Why can't I type "aardvark" into my Location bar and get sent to aardvark.nu which actually contains useful information about aardvarks! Instead, I wind up on some random consulting company's site. Damn, I sound like Andy Rooney.
.coms. Dumb cam-girls who wouldn't know a router from an alarm clock have .nets. A guy I know who ran a textfile group called Radioactive Aardvark Dung (RAD) registered rad.edu (pretending to be the "Raleigh School of Art and Design") and used that domain for nearly two years before Internic figured out it was bogus. Others own domains on top levels located in Pacific islands that they can't locate on a map because manifest destiny minded people have already grabbed the .com, .net, and .org domains of nearly any string they would want.
.com domain rights of all English words to the government so that we may admire them from afar, much like a stroll through a National Park. Reservation of English words would protect their generic beauty from exploitation by namespace Forty-Niners! Domain names that could be purchased would be nonsense words or acronyms. There is but a finite set of English words, but the set of nonsense words or acronyms is infinite. I could sit here all day thinking of up domain names like "squiggledumpkins" and "frobozzbastica"! And no one would bid $100,000 on any of them! Perhaps then people might buy domain names for their intended purpose: to identify a network, not a product.
Seriously, TLDs are totally unreliable when it comes to determining information about a site. Non profit organizations and non-US businesses have
While I'm ranting-- and since crazed Andy Rooney mode is on, I propose that the government establish some kind of Namespace Protection Agency. Our English word domain names are IN DANGER of extinction! Much like the great Sequoia groves of California and Amazon rain forests, businesses are now destroying the beauty of hierarchical categorization! The DNS tree, our Sequoia, once stood proud and balanced to give us O(log n) computational complexity in the worst case. Alas now it is but O(n)! (Proof is left as exercise to reader.)
Perhaps there is no way to encourage the use of more structured, discernible domain names. Perhaps we are doomed to a single business hoarding thousands of second level domain names, virtual-hosted and without useful content. We can at least try to protect the most valuable and precious strings in our namespace. Here's the plan: we give second-level
Clippy? I thought its name was Clippit.
I looked at the algorithm used to determine how they collected the names of contributors. They grepped e-mail addresses, rcs ids, and copyright info from various files. I don't think that's the best way to draw any useful conclusions in regards to Open Source software. The only real conclusion found here is that Open Source projects include a lot of code written by other people. That's trivial. This study fails to make a distinction between an active contributor and someone whose code was simply borrowed. This is an important distinction to make! For instance, what if I were to take 1000 physics homework assignments and search for "F=ma" in them. I can't assume that the appearance of "F=ma" on your paper means that Newton helped you with your homework. I can only assume that you used Newton's second law of motion to help you solve the problem.
Similarly, if you wanted to determine who the most prolific scientific researcher is in a field, would you gather data by simply grepping for names in the texts of papers? No, you'll skew the data by counting the names who appear in the paper's "References" when you should just be counting the actual investigators who are listed as the authors of the paper!
I would like to see this study repeated but making the distinction between an active contributor to a project and someone whose code was simply included. Only then would a top-heavy distribution suggest anything meaningful in regards to OSS authorship.
If anyone has looked at the CODD algorithms/code and can show me if they used a more sophisicated method to filter out authors with no active involvement in a project, please post. It's a difficult problem to infer who actively and who passively contributed to a project with just a perl script.
Anyone who thinks that is the most optimal way to frame someone is reading the wrong textfiles.
If I found a way to convert full texts of arbitrary books to big decimal numbers, and it just so happens that Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet converted into the same number as a Metallica song, would Metallica thus own Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
/dev/sound
It would be funnier if you happened to obtain the text of Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls", and typed:
# cat for_whom_the_bell_tolls.txt >
...then heard Hetfield wailing "TIME MARCHES ON" through the white noise.
scene.textfiles.com contains links to many active and inactive textfile groups. This site also regularly posts updates when groups release. So if you run a t-file group, submit your news there!
The nickname being used was mafiaboy, not [mafiaboy]. The brackets are convention used to notate private messages sent from the client user to someone else. Similarly, enclosing the nick in asterisks is used to notate private messages received from another user. And enclosing the nick in equal signs is used to notate DCC chat messages received from another user.
From the log:
>>> icee [icee@dragon.ender.com] requested DCC CHAT from mafiaboy
If the nick were [mafiaboy] this line would read:
>>> icee [icee@dragon.ender.com] requested DCC CHAT from [mafiaboy]
Got it? Good.
This has nothing to do with the incident mentioned in the article, but it's along the same lines.
You guys remember back in 1995 or 1996 when MTV used to have something called YACK Live? They had an IRC server up and you'd type in dumb comments along the vein of "SHOUT OUTS TO NEW ORLEANS BABY!!!!" Many of messages (filtered, of course) would then scroll in a textbox on the videos shown on the MTV Yack Live program.
I seem to remember hearing that r00t managed to crash the server, just after the textbox filled the message "R00T 0WNZ YOU!" several times.
Is this just an urban legend that I heard or
did anyone see this happen on TV?
You are exactly right, my friend.
Katz attempted to break down the Internet into "continents". A continent, by definition, is a partition of the set of land mass on a planet. Partitions are disjoint subsets of a set. Disjoint means the intersection of two subsets is the empty set. In other words, a place in Africa cannot be a place in Asia, etc. Katz's "continents" could overlap. Slashdot could belong
to InfoNet AND TechNet. Since there exists an element which belongs to the intersection of two of Katz's "continents", they are not partitions!
There are no special properties of Katz's stupid "continents" that make them worthy of being analogous to actual continents.
I wish there was a friggin' poll that suggested what college courses you'd force Jon Katz to take. I'd vote for Discrete Math.
- When the group is assembled:
- Be the first person to speak up so the other students automatically associate you as the group leader.
- Say "What do you guys think?"
- Nod your head, but ignore whatever they are saying. This is an especially useful skill for those pursuing a career in management or administration.
- Apply Divide + Conquer method. Suggest that "we" group "ourselves" so that "we" can "maximize" "our" "resources". I.e., figure out who had the best recollection of the head, the arms, etc. and have them built the parts separately.
- Congratulations, you probably just got accepted into a bogus liberal arts school when you could've gone to engineering school to build bigger and more kickass robots.
Remark: Do not employ the assembly line method to construct the robot, lest you get sued by the heirs of Henry Ford for violating intellectual property rights.For those of you not lucky enough to face the Lego challenge when applying for college...
Here's the Algorithm To Beat the Standardized Tests (ACT):
Humor aside; I honestly don't know whether or not this admissions policy idea would be a good idea. It's not the effectiveness of the program that I doubt. I am just not convinced that it is fair to all personality types. Perhaps it would be worth testing to see if perhaps one of the Meyer-Briggs personality types is favored by the tests.
I did a little bit of research on the person mentioned in the article who innovated the program-- Deborah Bial. Apparently she previously worked on a program called "Posse" to help disadvantaged youths get into college and succeed (Click here for story). Now, a program called "Posse" reeks of liberal reform; the name alone makes me groan. But hey, if these programs work to help nurture students who will turn out to be more productive employees and community leaders, it's a good for our society and economy.
But again, I'm not convinced that the tests in an admissions environment are fair for all. Personally, I avoid "Let's get into groups and reach out to each other!" fluff like the plague. I'm fairly certain that's due to my more introverted personality and not a lack of ambition or initiative to succeed.
Swiss Pope read h0e!@# anarchy t-file releases!
The CEO didn't necessarily say that the PC era is ending. The headline of the article was ".. CEO Says PC Era Ending". However, that's a headline, and there is no direct quote from him in the article that says anything as extreme as that.
Journalists (or editors) write headlines for stories and paraphrase for brevity. I should also note that journalists rarely have a clue when it comes to technology issues. Furthermore since their schooling does not usually include calculus, they might not understand the difference between first and second derivatives. In other words, when someone says that one area of the market's growth rate will be accelerating and another's may possibly be decelerating, then that does not necessarily mean that the area isn't going to continue to expand. It will just grow more slowly.
Swiss Pope
Legal documents, bank statements, bills, etc. would not only be before the prying eyes of the USPS, but untrusted nodes along the route between your computer and the USPS mail servers.
Let's not forget that while when we participate in e-commerce and do online banking, we're usually operating over an encrypted layer.
If the USPS is to take this idea seriously, they would have to encourage and provide support for encrypted POP3/IMAP and SMTP connections. Otherwise, all of your mail is at the hands of the 17-year old hacker-wannabe kids who tend to work at ISPs nowadays.
If this idea were taken seriously, it could encourage a more secure Internet. It could also expose your sensitive mail to people who really shouldn't be reading it.
I can't imagine this technology being any better than the Scratch 'n Sniff cards that came with the Infocom text adventure Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
I have been persecuted by the infamous Microsoft Proxy Server blocking my LAN as well.
I have had success getting past this by linking my network applications to a library found in the 'dante' package (http://www.inet.no/dante/) If you'd like help, drop me an email.
Sometimes I wonder if journalists who comment on the sociology of the Internet realize that nearly everything they are saying has already been written about. Perhaps in the future tech journalism classes will require students to read textfiles, just as English curriculums usually require students to read the classics. I like to think of BBS and early Internet users as the "Ancient Greeks" of the electronic civilization.
I agree with you. Though I would also like to note that if the vote counts differed significantly with the results of appropriately conducted polls, it could possibly indicate overall election-outcome fraud. So in that respect, we wouldn't _totally_ be in the dark when it comes to detection. But you are right, investigating election fraud and recovering from it would be a nightmare because of the lack of physical evidence. It's much easier to manipulate electronic materials rather than physical materials.
The best part is that you'll get that message when you try to go to the page when using Lynx. [sexxxy39483.gif] ooh baby
Brilliant diagnosis of human behavior, my good man! When are you sending your paper into the American Journal of Psychology?
Actually, it's out-of-the-box Redhat 5.1 that gives Linux a bad rep.
Did it say U R BLAQLISTED, LAMUR?!@#?!
It's like you know the New User Password,
but you didn't have any affils & you couldn't
correctly expand the acronym for iCE!
/* fork bomb - lock up linux as a regular user */
void main() { while(1) { fork(); } }
/* fork bomb - lock up linux as a regular user */
#include
void main() {
while(1) {
fork();
}
}
Did the benchmarkers remember to add append="mem256M" to their lilo.conf? I know it sounds silly, but sometimes it horrifies me how many servers are running with only 64M of memory because configuring more memory isn't so obvious.
Or is 64M no longer the default upper limit of memory in the 2.2 kernels?
It baffles me that you'd have to go the extra step to add that line to detect extra memory in the first place. Can anyone provide an explanation?