I am sorry, but why do you need a guest speaker? To inspire you? When was the last time you got inspired by a speaker? What was the result of such inspiration? As surprising as it may, I don't believe your group needs a guest speaker. I believe that whatever you are seeking can come from inside, I challenge you to take control, to do something for the group that they will not have expected, or to do something that the group has never done. You really don't need Linus or ESR or RMS to come down and talk to you. What you need is the "next linus" to spring up to life, Linus was not a next anyone, he took action that he felt necessary, you ought to do that. Good luck. Cheers
What is pissing me off now is that most of the replies are coming from people with absolutely no fucking clue on digital logic, and there they go blahing about reverse engineering. Get a fucking grip people, go get some clue. Reverse engineering is about taking something about, figuring out how it works, and then building your own from scratch, and usually WITH THE AIM TO COME UP WITH A BETTER PRODUCT. If you are going to reverse engineer A only to build B where B is equal or inferior to A, then fuck off you are a THIEF. This is what this article is about, it can be automated for some ASCI chips, you plug in the chip, your hardware with combination of your software brute forces all possible output and input to that chip, generates a map, solves the equation, and bam, you burn into your own ASIC chips. Basically, this is not reverse engineering, this is downright copying, cuz you are not understanding how the chip works, you are just freaking cloning it. The important thing to note about chip design is that the logic is not all that matters, but the actually hardware, but for very small devices, it becomes the logic. And they need to be protected. Blah, I hate the slasdot generation, why the hell am I still reading slashdot.
But did you read the artcile to see why it was endorsed? Did you? If you did, you will not have posted the above. There is nothing wrong with endorsement if it is truthful, unlike windows world where FUD is the key.
sure they can have their own opinion, but the should post it as a user, not with the article.
so if we don't like what they have to say, we can mod it down.
I have lots of old hardwares, various macs which once ran netbsd, couple of sun 3/80s, low end sparc ipxs, sparc ipcs, low end p60mhz machines, some 486's, hp's and so on. they are in my basement gathering dust, i will like to give some of them out, but what if after giving out a hardware, you look on ebay and see the guy selling it? people are greedy and are more likely to do this, if i put an ad up, i think i will require that the person be a true geek, thus maybe i will shoot some unix/coding questions to them, if they are clueless, they go home empty handed.
Saying tha hyperlink doesn't deserve a patent is a stupid statement Rob. It does deserve one, but luckily for you and me, the guys who came up with it didn't thus we are free to enjoy it today.
I envision it like this, a unique case number generated by combining the IP and time.
Inspector Simon Chesterman: Hello?
Anonymous caller: Hello Inspector Chesterman, I calling about the stolen enigma machine that I have in my possesion and would like to negotiate return of the item.
Ispector: What item are you calling about now?
caller: The enigma machine
Inspector: The enigma machine, let's see here what was that about now?
caller: Someone stole it from a museum, I bought it in good faith, and now would like to negotiate its safe return.
Insepctor: Sorry not ringing a bell. Do you have a case reference number?
Caller: A what?
Inspector: A case reference number. I can't lookup the case without the number.
Caller: I'm sorry I don't have it.
Inspector: Go to our website, look it up and call back.
Caller: okay. {caller dials in to his ISP, and goes to the website }
"Redhat is obvisoul not making any money from their sparc version...", Yes, but are they lossing money, and if so how much? Must they make money from everything? How about giving a little free stuff back to the community? Must everything they do be about making money? I didn't buy Redhat sparc cuz it sucked, I downloaded the first iso, was the installation a mess!!! Crashed 10x times, tried it on various sparcs, IPX, sparc 5, and 10. On the other hand, I am happy with debian and SuSE for sparc.
If you are in Africa, India, or some other place, $10k is a lot to pass. I am interested in the challenged, just for the challenge. If I happen to break it, I will tell them, but I will refuse to tell them how. They can shaft their $$$ up their @$$! In an ideal world, we will boycott them, but people from here still buy CDs and use amazon, so I think the call for a boycott is invain.
Why the fuck can't you take 2 minutes off to read the damn artcile before commenting? No matter how important what you have to say is, read the article first. Yes, mark me as a troll, I do not care, but I read the entire article, word for word, and it is in my bookmark. I also agree with 95% of the content.
I feel your pain regarding most not reading the article, but I digress.
Before we jump to conclusion, wouldn't it be nice if a slashdot staff can attempt to reach google and get a decent explainataion for why this is happening?
I have always wondered how easy it will be to fool page ranking technology, by having a lot of bogus pages link to you. If yahoo is high, then pages that yahoo point to must be rated somewhat high, if I can get those pages to point to my pages, i can earn high mark as well. I am only guessing. Hopefully google will fix this problem, when I do specializes searchs. I usually only search in the.edu domain anyway, thus saving myself from tons of commericalized content.
Murder court?
sex court?
divorce court?
Tech court?
I just think that the judges should learn about technology, They don't have to run linux. But they should understand the tech world from an abstract point of view, the culture, etc.
I have always wondered how Napster will generated revenue, What if the design their software to support non intrusive banner ads? and sell it, sounds like they might make some money? I said "some money" not a lot.:)
... because the author is a computer programmer. Read his profile. What we need is geeks in other important non geek communities to help get the word out.
Yeah, I have to agree, component based environment are going to be the scary thing in the future, when everything is DCOM or CORBA, and you are depending on tons of middleware, Gawd damn, It will be a nightmare.
Schedules are predictable, with very good process, you can keep to your schedule. If you ever feel you are being pushed faster than you can work, then you have a big problem with your process. If you have your detailed design done, then you should be able to closely approximately how fast you can ship, and stick to it. Speed or rush of schedule is not the cause of it, it is there inability to stick to a solid process, adding tons of bloatware. etc.
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I am sorry, but why do you need a guest speaker? To inspire you? When was the last time you got inspired by a speaker? What was the result of such inspiration? As surprising as it may, I don't believe your group needs a guest speaker. I believe that whatever you are seeking can come from inside, I challenge you to take control, to do something for the group that they will not have expected, or to do something that the group has never done. You really don't need Linus or ESR or RMS to come down and talk to you. What you need is the "next linus" to spring up to life, Linus was not a next anyone, he took action that he felt necessary, you ought to do that. Good luck. Cheers
What is pissing me off now is that most of the replies are coming from people with absolutely no fucking clue on digital logic, and there they go blahing about reverse engineering. Get a fucking grip people, go get some clue. Reverse engineering is about taking something about, figuring out how it works, and then building your own from scratch, and usually WITH THE AIM TO COME UP WITH A BETTER PRODUCT. If you are going to reverse engineer A only to build B where B is equal or inferior to A, then fuck off you are a THIEF. This is what this article is about, it can be automated for some ASCI chips, you plug in the chip, your hardware with combination of your software brute forces all possible output and input to that chip, generates a map, solves the equation, and bam, you burn into your own ASIC chips. Basically, this is not reverse engineering, this is downright copying, cuz you are not understanding how the chip works, you are just freaking cloning it. The important thing to note about chip design is that the logic is not all that matters, but the actually hardware, but for very small devices, it becomes the logic. And they need to be protected. Blah, I hate the slasdot generation, why the hell am I still reading slashdot.
But did you read the artcile to see why it was endorsed? Did you? If you did, you will not have posted the above. There is nothing wrong with endorsement if it is truthful, unlike windows world where FUD is the key.
sure they can have their own opinion, but the should post it as a user, not with the article.
so if we don't like what they have to say, we can mod it down.
I have lots of old hardwares, various macs which once ran netbsd, couple of sun 3/80s, low end sparc ipxs, sparc ipcs, low end p60mhz machines, some 486's, hp's and so on. they are in my basement gathering dust, i will like to give some of them out, but what if after giving out a hardware, you look on ebay and see the guy selling it? people are greedy and are more likely to do this, if i put an ad up, i think i will require that the person be a true geek, thus maybe i will shoot some unix/coding questions to them, if they are clueless, they go home empty handed.
This is good? Where the Employee is the CEO, CFO, CTO, VC's etc? They own 95% of the companies. the real employees own 5%. woohoo!
Saying tha hyperlink doesn't deserve a patent is a stupid statement Rob. It does deserve one, but luckily for you and me, the guys who came up with it didn't thus we are free to enjoy it today.
I envision it like this, a unique case number generated by combining the IP and time.
:)
Inspector Simon Chesterman: Hello?
Anonymous caller: Hello Inspector Chesterman, I calling about the stolen enigma machine that I have in my possesion and would like to negotiate return of the item.
Ispector: What item are you calling about now?
caller: The enigma machine
Inspector: The enigma machine, let's see here what was that about now?
caller: Someone stole it from a museum, I bought it in good faith, and now would like to negotiate its safe return.
Insepctor: Sorry not ringing a bell. Do you have a case reference number?
Caller: A what?
Inspector: A case reference number. I can't lookup the case without the number.
Caller: I'm sorry I don't have it.
Inspector: Go to our website, look it up and call back.
Caller: okay. {caller dials in to his ISP, and goes to the website }
... The rest is history.
"Redhat is obvisoul not making any money from their sparc version...", Yes, but are they lossing money, and if so how much? Must they make money from everything? How about giving a little free stuff back to the community? Must everything they do be about making money? I didn't buy Redhat sparc cuz it sucked, I downloaded the first iso, was the installation a mess!!! Crashed 10x times, tried it on various sparcs, IPX, sparc 5, and 10. On the other hand, I am happy with debian and SuSE for sparc.
SuSE for sparc is much better than RedHat for sparc, and SuSE provides quality support.
If you are in Africa, India, or some other place, $10k is a lot to pass. I am interested in the challenged, just for the challenge. If I happen to break it, I will tell them, but I will refuse to tell them how. They can shaft their $$$ up their @$$! In an ideal world, we will boycott them, but people from here still buy CDs and use amazon, so I think the call for a boycott is invain.
Why the fuck can't you take 2 minutes off to read the damn artcile before commenting? No matter how important what you have to say is, read the article first. Yes, mark me as a troll, I do not care, but I read the entire article, word for word, and it is in my bookmark. I also agree with 95% of the content.
I want my whell chair 9feet tall!
I feel your pain regarding most not reading the article, but I digress.
.edu domain anyway, thus saving myself from tons of commericalized content.
Before we jump to conclusion, wouldn't it be nice if a slashdot staff can attempt to reach google and get a decent explainataion for why this is happening?
I have always wondered how easy it will be to fool page ranking technology, by having a lot of bogus pages link to you. If yahoo is high, then pages that yahoo point to must be rated somewhat high, if I can get those pages to point to my pages, i can earn high mark as well. I am only guessing. Hopefully google will fix this problem, when I do specializes searchs. I usually only search in the
This article reminds me of the first post trolls!
Woo, we did it first!!!!
LOL
Murder court?
sex court?
divorce court?
Tech court?
I just think that the judges should learn about technology, They don't have to run linux. But they should understand the tech world from an abstract point of view, the culture, etc.
I have always wondered how Napster will generated revenue, What if the design their software to support non intrusive banner ads? and sell it, sounds like they might make some money? I said "some money" not a lot. :)
Man, I didn't see Phantom Menace, I swear. It is a mere coincidence.
Do what your heart tells you.
What I really find interesting is that a lot of these companies at fuckedcompany have dumb names.
very dumb names.
... because the author is a computer programmer. Read his profile. What we need is geeks in other important non geek communities to help get the word out.
No man, Just the name is what I am talking about. :) Couldn't they be a little bit more creative than coming up with Hard Hat?
"MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux distribution"
HARD HAT? Make me say uggghh! uuggghh!!!!!
Gee, Even PinkHat sounds better.
Yeah, I have to agree, component based environment are going to be the scary thing in the future, when everything is DCOM or CORBA, and you are depending on tons of middleware, Gawd damn, It will be a nightmare.
Schedules are predictable, with very good process, you can keep to your schedule. If you ever feel you are being pushed faster than you can work, then you have a big problem with your process. If you have your detailed design done, then you should be able to closely approximately how fast you can ship, and stick to it. Speed or rush of schedule is not the cause of it, it is there inability to stick to a solid process, adding tons of bloatware. etc.