A lot of people are complaining about backups, if I had such a system, I would have no conventional backup plan, such as to tap or CD. I would RAID/mirror the heck out of my disk arrays and put them in a huge fire resistance/magnetic resistance cage.
It is illegal, just look at cellphones, I am sure all their laws apply. You can buy a cellphone, clone it, but still be charged! It was all wireless, even scanning for ESN is a crime...
I see software development as solving a mathematics problem, Can you estimate the length of time it would take for you to solve a problem? prove a theorem? I don't think so. Hence no! The problem is that many people are still reinventing the wheel. It is very hard to imagine that 99.9999% of the software that will be written tomorrow are revolutionary. They are nothing more than evolutionary, thus they should be grab libraries/routines for a good chunk of 80% of the code and tie it together. But such doesn't happen...
Must every Linux distribution be for the mass?
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Why must every linux distribution be for the mass, and if it is not designed for the mass or stops heading towards that direction, it is labeled as dead or fading away? I am a geek, not your average internet geek. I dislike Redhate for the same reason I dislike MSWindows, made for the mass. The same reason I loved slackware is the same reason I like netbsd/openbsd. It kind of defines my geekiness, not most people use it, it might be more painful to others but it is more exciting for me. I do not think Slackware is dying or is fading away cuz it is not trying to appeal to the mass. For the hardcore geeks, it will always be a favorite. I only run 2 linux distributions, slackware & SuSE. Just my 2 cents.:-)
what is up with someone always saying YOU CAN CHOOSE TO USE IT OR NOT. Microsoft is shady, fuck you can use it or not, YOU WILL BE FORCED TO USE IT IF YOU LIKE OR NOT.
i don't know about you, but i walk around 3 miles in an hour, the average american might walk 1-2 since most of you are out of shape, but those of us in 3rd world countries are so used to walking that we walk fast. if it is a day's walk away, let's call that 8-10 hours. That is around 24-30 miles.
hell no! muscle cars reminds me of the big giant computers of the 60's and 70's such as ENIAC, PDP, and even modem MAINFRAMES. I am a geek, and I enjoy technological advances, that is why I stay away from V8 cars, I rather have an 4 banger which is like a laptop, then turbo or supercharger the hell out of it. There is nothing like whooping v8 alikes like mustang GT and some vettes in a tricked out turbo car like eagle talon on 1st gen probe GT. they are more complex cuz of all the computer system, but likewise more fun! would you rather hack a PDP-11 or a MIPS4300? would you rather use MSDOS or VxOS?
There is SuSE Linux for Solaris, and we all know that SuSE is a great company.;) So, there is support for those who need it. Personally, I can't ever run Linux on my Sparc, I choose to run Solaris, and if it is a very slow machine like my IPX, I run something funky like NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Agreed, you are dumb! Read the damn article, the device doesn't degrade network by flooding, instead, it does so by perhaps making you lose every nth packet, causing duplicate packets, adding time delays, etc. Did you even freaking read the article? This is a must have for anyone who is running a real network. Try this in a real network with firewall and IDS deployed, they will not notice, no logs or alarms setting off, real life simulation. Sheesh, some people are dumb, people like you.
Read it again, because you obviously miss the fucking point, so you STFU!
"In the case of the former, it had to do with the lengthy wait users had endured before gaining access to the binary version of Ximian-brand Gnome."
How is this a troll? Gnome was supposed to make life easier, you think compiling binary is making life easier?
"Now. Wait a minute here. Gnome was started because the Free Software Foundation ("information wants to be free") got itself in high moral dudgeon over the fact that an independently developed (meaning, no one kissed Richard M. Stallman's, uh, ring) desktop, KDE, was being produced under terms that no user could find objectionable but that the Free Software Foundation found insufficiently "free," based upon its made-up definition of the word. "
Now now, don't fucking deny this, this is dame true and why Gnome exists, because of QT. Don't even trip!
You are the idiot, you need to learn how to comprehend what you read!
A lot of people are calling the article a troll, and didn't even finish reading it. For you people, I scream a big STFU! Have you donated money to FSF? Stand up if you have and speak, else sit the F down and STFU! When I donate money, I wanna know what it is being used for. Listen, we can flame MS or closed source all we want, but in order for opensource/freesoftware movement to be worthwhile, We ought to be honest to ourselves. Why are you people calling the article a troll? Elaborate
you are wrong, i never put any of my personal info for webmail, yahoo. but when it comes to physically free stuff, you need to give them your real address to send it to!
The arguments I have seen so far are 100% bullshit, you can only convince a fellow geek with that. Is building a car engine an expression? Is a CPU an expression? Afterall a CPU is designed with a programming language like Verilog/VHDL? All those are engineering, especially to outsiders, they see no expression to that. I am a programmer, and I understand what you people mean by expression from the geeks point of view, but slow down, that is not going to sell to anyone else. With anything that is an expression, you use it to express yourself! People can express themselves with writing, music, painting,
dancing! The closest I personally have come to expressing my self with code is via
writing "demos (computer generated artworks, ie: real time fractals, etc,), and povray.
The closest we have is the links below, and it will only begin to sell more when a lot of people begin to use these. Take java libaries for example, it is a documentation, show the court javadocs, that entire documentation was generated from java source code!!!!
Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html
This is an expression!
Go to:
http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/
This is an expression!
Now, there is also WEB,
http://www.literateprogramming.com/
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.h tm l
"The philosophy behind WEB is that an experienced system programmer, who wants to provide the best possible documentation of his or her software products, needs two things simultaneously: a language like TeX for formatting, and a language like C for programming. Neither type of language can provide the best documentation by itself; but when both are appropriately combined, we obtain a system that is much more useful than either language separately." -Donald Knuth
[08/09/1999] Lee Wittenberg adapts the string class described by Stroustrup to demonstrate the use of CWEB for C++ programming.
Example of code and documentation in one.
http://www.literateprogramming.com/string.w
The web is free! Is slashdot not free? Is hotmail/yahoo not free? Is google not free? Oh wait, we want physical stuff? puhlez! Is cnn.com not free? once I got cnn.com I cancelled my cable. Talk about free stuff, that is free $15 a month in my wallet. The web is mostly free for most things that I am after, information! I mean, what do we want? free breakfast? Shit, without the net, I got free samples via junk mail, I discard any free sample I get, likewise all those free web thingy pissed me off, and I am glad that they are gone. Cuz guess who gets them, little kids and adults who don't know better, giving out their entire information to whoever for free stuff? What is up with people and free stuff? My friend said if McD gave free fries for a sample of DNA, that many people will line up, I am beginning to believe that is true.
what makes this scary is that they could sell it to other stores! Imagine if you shoplifted at kmart, but then you get banned at walmart, sears, etc,etc...
if you hadn't put your disclaimer, i do mark you as a troll. those 8000 boxes are automatically administered, via monitoring software. i don't know what they use, but there are programs to do that. Also, google doesn't go in and maintain those boxes every day, perhaps once a month or once in two months, they pull out all boxes that are down/giving trouble and replace it barely boxes, all they have to do is tell the box what index range to pulldown and store, i bet everything is very automated. Anyway, for what google is doing, you have to check where they are coming from, they need I/O! Are you not impressed when you search google and get a reply in 0.01 second? I am! Please don't compare with hotmail, google has never been down! hotmail on the other hand, ahem, ahem...
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A lot of people are complaining about backups, if I had such a system, I would have no conventional backup plan, such as to tap or CD. I would RAID/mirror the heck out of my disk arrays and put them in a huge fire resistance/magnetic resistance cage.
It is illegal, just look at cellphones, I am sure all their laws apply. You can buy a cellphone, clone it, but still be charged! It was all wireless, even scanning for ESN is a crime...
I see software development as solving a mathematics problem, Can you estimate the length of time it would take for you to solve a problem? prove a theorem? I don't think so. Hence no! The problem is that many people are still reinventing the wheel. It is very hard to imagine that 99.9999% of the software that will be written tomorrow are revolutionary. They are nothing more than evolutionary, thus they should be grab libraries/routines for a good chunk of 80% of the code and tie it together. But such doesn't happen...
Why must every linux distribution be for the mass, and if it is not designed for the mass or stops heading towards that direction, it is labeled as dead or fading away? I am a geek, not your average internet geek. I dislike Redhate for the same reason I dislike MSWindows, made for the mass. The same reason I loved slackware is the same reason I like netbsd/openbsd. It kind of defines my geekiness, not most people use it, it might be more painful to others but it is more exciting for me. I do not think Slackware is dying or is fading away cuz it is not trying to appeal to the mass. For the hardcore geeks, it will always be a favorite. I only run 2 linux distributions, slackware & SuSE. Just my 2 cents. :-)
what is up with someone always saying YOU CAN CHOOSE TO USE IT OR NOT. Microsoft is shady, fuck you can use it or not, YOU WILL BE FORCED TO USE IT IF YOU LIKE OR NOT.
the problem with starting such a site, is that if the author visits US, they still might face charges, ie; the case of the eBook Russian programmer.
i don't know about you, but i walk around 3 miles in an hour, the average american might walk 1-2 since most of you are out of shape, but those of us in 3rd world countries are so used to walking that we walk fast. if it is a day's walk away, let's call that 8-10 hours. That is around 24-30 miles.
hell no! muscle cars reminds me of the big giant computers of the 60's and 70's such as ENIAC, PDP, and even modem MAINFRAMES. I am a geek, and I enjoy technological advances, that is why I stay away from V8 cars, I rather have an 4 banger which is like a laptop, then turbo or supercharger the hell out of it. There is nothing like whooping v8 alikes like mustang GT and some vettes in a tricked out turbo car like eagle talon on 1st gen probe GT. they are more complex cuz of all the computer system, but likewise more fun! would you rather hack a PDP-11 or a MIPS4300? would you rather use MSDOS or VxOS?
Isn't it funny how a lot of new devices are now available in Africa before US, yet we say they are behind in technology.
What we need is to organize the keypad such that the most frequently used letters are first.
More news
A plane crashed into the pentagon!
I don't even know what to say but to RIP. It is very sad when peope die young. :-( Fuck death
if 50% of the drivers on the road used the override button, lots of paper work will be generated that no one can be prosecuted!
What kind of programming process do the slashcode guys use? XP? something else, I am curious.
There is SuSE Linux for Solaris, and we all know that SuSE is a great company. ;) So, there is support for those who need it. Personally, I can't ever run Linux on my Sparc, I choose to run Solaris, and if it is a very slow machine like my IPX, I run something funky like NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Agreed, you are dumb! Read the damn article, the device doesn't degrade network by flooding, instead, it does so by perhaps making you lose every nth packet, causing duplicate packets, adding time delays, etc. Did you even freaking read the article? This is a must have for anyone who is running a real network. Try this in a real network with firewall and IDS deployed, they will not notice, no logs or alarms setting off, real life simulation. Sheesh, some people are dumb, people like you.
Read it again, because you obviously miss the fucking point, so you STFU!
"In the case of the former, it had to do with the lengthy wait users had endured before gaining access to the binary version of Ximian-brand Gnome."
How is this a troll? Gnome was supposed to make life easier, you think compiling binary is making life easier?
"Now. Wait a minute here. Gnome was started because the Free Software Foundation ("information wants to be free") got itself in high moral dudgeon over the fact that an independently developed (meaning, no one kissed Richard M. Stallman's, uh, ring) desktop, KDE, was being produced under terms that no user could find objectionable but that the Free Software Foundation found insufficiently "free," based upon its made-up definition of the word. "
Now now, don't fucking deny this, this is dame true and why Gnome exists, because of QT. Don't even trip!
You are the idiot, you need to learn how to comprehend what you read!
A lot of people are calling the article a troll, and didn't even finish reading it. For you people, I scream a big STFU! Have you donated money to FSF? Stand up if you have and speak, else sit the F down and STFU! When I donate money, I wanna know what it is being used for. Listen, we can flame MS or closed source all we want, but in order for opensource/freesoftware movement to be worthwhile, We ought to be honest to ourselves. Why are you people calling the article a troll? Elaborate
you are wrong, i never put any of my personal info for webmail, yahoo. but when it comes to physically free stuff, you need to give them your real address to send it to!
The arguments I have seen so far are 100% bullshit, you can only convince a fellow geek with that. Is building a car engine an expression? Is a CPU an expression? Afterall a CPU is designed with a programming language like Verilog/VHDL? All those are engineering, especially to outsiders, they see no expression to that. I am a programmer, and I understand what you people mean by expression from the geeks point of view, but slow down, that is not going to sell to anyone else. With anything that is an expression, you use it to express yourself! People can express themselves with writing, music, painting,
h tm l
dancing! The closest I personally have come to expressing my self with code is via
writing "demos (computer generated artworks, ie: real time fractals, etc,), and povray.
The closest we have is the links below, and it will only begin to sell more when a lot of people begin to use these. Take java libaries for example, it is a documentation, show the court javadocs, that entire documentation was generated from java source code!!!!
Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html
This is an expression!
Go to:
http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/
This is an expression!
Now, there is also WEB,
http://www.literateprogramming.com/
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.
"The philosophy behind WEB is that an experienced system programmer, who wants to provide the best possible documentation of his or her software products, needs two things simultaneously: a language like TeX for formatting, and a language like C for programming. Neither type of language can provide the best documentation by itself; but when both are appropriately combined, we obtain a system that is much more useful than either language separately." -Donald Knuth
[08/09/1999] Lee Wittenberg adapts the string class described by Stroustrup to demonstrate the use of CWEB for C++ programming.
Example of code and documentation in one.
http://www.literateprogramming.com/string.w
The web is free! Is slashdot not free? Is hotmail/yahoo not free? Is google not free? Oh wait, we want physical stuff? puhlez! Is cnn.com not free? once I got cnn.com I cancelled my cable. Talk about free stuff, that is free $15 a month in my wallet. The web is mostly free for most things that I am after, information! I mean, what do we want? free breakfast? Shit, without the net, I got free samples via junk mail, I discard any free sample I get, likewise all those free web thingy pissed me off, and I am glad that they are gone. Cuz guess who gets them, little kids and adults who don't know better, giving out their entire information to whoever for free stuff? What is up with people and free stuff? My friend said if McD gave free fries for a sample of DNA, that many people will line up, I am beginning to believe that is true.
i honestly use up my 900 minutes a month, and i don't feel like i use it at all, it is only 30 minutes of talking a day.
what makes this scary is that they could sell it to other stores! Imagine if you shoplifted at kmart, but then you get banned at walmart, sears, etc,etc...
if you hadn't put your disclaimer, i do mark you as a troll. those 8000 boxes are automatically administered, via monitoring software. i don't know what they use, but there are programs to do that. Also, google doesn't go in and maintain those boxes every day, perhaps once a month or once in two months, they pull out all boxes that are down/giving trouble and replace it barely boxes, all they have to do is tell the box what index range to pulldown and store, i bet everything is very automated. Anyway, for what google is doing, you have to check where they are coming from, they need I/O! Are you not impressed when you search google and get a reply in 0.01 second? I am! Please don't compare with hotmail, google has never been down! hotmail on the other hand, ahem, ahem...
4 copies of Microsoft Windows 2100.