Musicians hate Napster because it lets people pirate their music? Shouldn't they really be saying, "I hate people that don't pay for my music"? Music was being pirated long before napster showed up, and if it goes away, people will still pirate music. They might as well say "I hate MP3s" or "I hate CDs". It's silly to think that if Napster disappeared, music piracy on the internet would go away. However, Napster is a great way for mainstream people to steal music -- no effort involved.
But they are using ASP to serve simple text pages. Now THAT'S funny.
Uh... ALL web pages are simple text pages. That's why it's called SERVER-side scripting -- the client only sees the result, which is plaintext. Or did you think because it didn't have a lot of pictures and forms and tables that that made it a 'simple' text page? Speaking of which, it's not a simple text page. There appear to be a couple of dynamic fields in it (the count of signatures, etc). And why retype a privacy policy over and over again when it can be dynamically inserted and updated with one function call in the web page? Besides, you can always put session-tracking code, or return-different-pages-for-different-browsers code in the page...
What was the point of posting this, exactly? Just to say.. "open source is the best development method, and although it sometimes seems like the communication methods it forces developers to use can be a problem, actually they are really good, all hail open source." It just seemed like an empty piece of propaganda.. Do we really need that?
And let's face it the setting for Dune was hardly convincing. There was a lack of background in some places, leaving the reader to guess what was going on a lot of the time, and some truly dire characterisations
Well, although anyone's judgement of a book is, obviously, highly subjective (did you read them all? Or just the first.. Because the third [or is it second] one kind of drags, but the rest are great).. anyway, I LIKE the fact that not everything is explained to me and I have to guess, and infer, and all I sometimes see is people's actions, not every though they're thinking. Makes the book more engaging that way -- instead of having every detail explained to you so you always know what's going on and can just skip over the "boring" parts, you actually have to read the entire book to understand it. Mind you, I enjoy books you can just skim over and read in an hour, but they're not going to have nearly as much of an effect on me as something like Dune. (Or books by Michael Swanwick... my new favorite author).
I like my books to be full of detailed, convincing characters who engage in wity, sharp conversations that make them sound like real people.
You want detailed characters that sound like real people, who are engaging in witty sharp conversations? Uhm... you can't have it both ways. You can have characters who spend the entire book dueling in terribly humorous and witty quotes, or you can have people that sound real.. The two are kind of mutually exclusive goals. (Paraphrased: real people don't talk that way!)
Although I don't like VB myself, I have seen or used plenty of goofy small apps that were written in VB. Everything from Sky Charts to conversion programs to those damn sheep that walk on your desktop. Nothing of any importance, but useful when you needed some bizzare little tool.
I have a feeling that none of these programs were written by anybody that you would want near your kernel code -- they weren't programmers as much as hobbyists. They had a vision of what they wanted, or just started banging on the keyboard, seeing what they could do. I know the sky chart program was written by an amatuer astronomer for himself. Maybe the sheep author just liked sheep.
Hrm.. hobbyists.. who had a vision of what they wanted.. and just did it.. gee, sounds like Linux users to me. Oh, I forgot, anyone who writes code on Linux right now is a highly trained computer-science professional with many years of experience in the field. Yessir, just look at freshmeat... Nothing but top-notch, professional-quality products. No idle hobbyists just writing a simple program to get the job done.
Well, I bothered to read the link in the hopes that it would shed some more light on this, but it doesn't say much more than what the posting here does. So who's going to distribute / publish Slackware? Will it still be Walnut Creek?
Three simple words: readable start-up scripts! Slackware doesn't use a silly configuration tool with umpteen configuration files to keep the settings... It has a limited number of start-up scripts which are pretty straight-forward, so that you can customize them easily at your situation.
Amen! Probably one of the things I hate the most about RedHat, and love about Slackware, is that I can actually manually edit my rc.d files, instead of trying to wade through a mess of millions of redirecting scripts trying to figure out whether or not a service will start.
To be fair, through, I was very impressed with the newest RedHat's installation procedure. But it's just not something that I, personally need. I prefer the text-based menus.
this is not only irresponsible, but sensationalistic on the part of cmdrtaco.
Well, I don't think Cmdrtaco posted it, but it's nothing new. Sensationalistic headlines, yellow journalism -- it's all about impressions, click-throughs, page views. People don't click on boring stories (I think I've seen this exact same report -- maybe even on slashdot -- a few weeks ago, it just didn't have the "busted for having l0phtcrack!" tag).
Squid captured top honors in cache hit ratios, but nothing else (AFAICT), showing that those "expensive, proprietary systems" also can be very well-tuned operating systems that eliminate traditional OS overhead for these numbers.
True, but the operating system that Squid was running on (and that's what you were talking about, the operating systems) was FreeBSD, which also runs the iMimic, which captured the highest hits/sec and reqs/sec per $1000. By a large margin. Interestingly enough, the only linux-based entry, the Swell-1000, didn't do very well. Which goes to show you that just because you have a good starting point, doesn't guarantee success.
And, of course, the amazingly expensive Cisco products probably (I don't know, just assuming) do a lot more than just cache -- and are probably a lot more reliable (MTBF) and redundant, which is important if your cache is a vital business component. (And if cache == internet access, then, well, it probably is).
bout that "killer caching proxy"... umm, with all that bandwidth, why would you need proxying anyway? by that time you're probably a backbone provider and don't need to worry about stuff like that. Caches are used by ISPs with a T1 or two or corporations to limit bandwidth.. not by super-sized ISPs
Uhm... you're kidding, right?
Did you ever think about how much of that bandwith your high speed clients (DSL, cable modem) can eat up? And how much of it is redundant? (i.e. cacheable)
The moral of the story is to go to Internet Options --> Security --> Custom Level on your IE browser and turn off ActiveX
Uh.. no.. The moral of the story is, when your browser pops a window up that says, "Would you like to install Some Piece of Software?" you say No. The article said people "trusted" the software because of Verisign. I'm sorry, but Verisign doesn't ensure that the software is safe. All they do is verify the IDENTITY of the publisher. Then you decide whether or not to trust that publisher.
I too use tera term pro with the ssh add on and it's great. the only problem I find with it is I can't use the ^c ^v cut and paste, you have to use the menus, but that's a minor quibble
Strangely enough, the Cut and Paste shortcut keys in Tera Term are... Alt-C, and Alt-V. Can be kind of confusing when you're switching back and forth cutting and pasting..
Personally, I prefer the flaming gay characters..
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I mean, who doesn't love playing Voldo in Soul Calibur and prancing around the ring, rendering your opponent helpless with laughter..?
Now..how many of you who think that if you bought a burrito because it had dilbert's face on it is stupid? If Emeril or Julia Child was on the wrapper, it would be different. Not fundamentally, but atleast relevant.
Emeril? Julia Child? Screw that! I want an Iron Chef-sponsored food I can buy..
It's also wrong in giving the book a 9 out of 10.. I know, subjective judgement. But River of Blue Fire is nowhere near as good as the first book. It mostly seems to be an exercise in the author saying, "well, it's a virtual world, so I can put them in whatever silly scenes I want to instead of actually going forward with the story." I stopped halfway through because it was getting so boring. Which is not to say I don't recommend it...
The Gartner Group seem to have taken the side of RMS in the Linux or GNU/Linux debate... "Only about 2% of the software on a Linux distribution is actually the Linux OS.."
Although the story is wrong (in that it says the penalty starts today), the penalty is announced today, and goes into effect 5 business days after announcement.
Well, maybe not good. But it's better than Redhat's Certification program. Why? Well, all you have do is it take the test ($100) at any Vue testing center (across the nation). This is in stark contrast to RedHat's method (at least when it was first introduced -- I'm sure it's been made friendlier since then. But basically it said: "give redhat a lot of money, and come to North Carolina"). Nothing against RedHat, but, well, this is a more "attainable" certification. And a lot of people see certifications as a good way to better their chances of getting a job. If nothing else, it can make up for your years of using linux at home, but not on the job. How can you have linux experience at work when there weren't many jobs until recently? Well, at least you can use your existing linux experience to make taking the test easy, and say "I'm certified" which is better than nothing.
All the dedicated help-desk people out there who read user friendly everyday, have the one strip that has "evolution of man" with telco exec at the bottom, helpdesk / tech support almost at the top, and sysadmin at the top (rootus rootus), that love to laugh at how stupid their callers are... don't ever realize that they're not that much smarter than the people who call them. All they have is 2 weeks of training (if that much), arrogance and a deluded self-opinion. (Face it: when you can be replaced off the street by someone who's never operated a computer before, you can't be THAT special)
Yes! First gangster rap, now... script kiddie rap. It will bring the community together. Some will laugh at it, some will find it inspirational... Anyone that doesn't understand it can excluded.. Dodgin' beowulf clusters..
The Melissa virus didn't exploit any security holes to do what it did. It exploited two things: user's willingness to blindly open documents and enable macros for them, and the power of Visual Basic for Applications.
Sure, there ARE security holes where no action by a user is required for the payload to go off, but as many people have pointed out, why bother? They're much more complicated to write, and you don't have be that sneaky. People will open documents, executable attachments, etc without thinking.
"Negligence in making a product safe to use"? Comparing software to cars? As long as we're talking about Melissa, let's do that. Microsoft (the car maker) enabled Person A to use his Word program (his car) to create destructive force that could be delievered to someone else's Word program (their car). Of course, they would have been safe, but they deliberately said, "Enable macros" (turn off my air bags).
Lastly.. could car makers do what Microsoft is/was doing and get away with it? How many alternatively-powered vehicles do you see in mass production? How many gas-powered? Why could that be?
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Musicians hate Napster because it lets people pirate their music? Shouldn't they really be saying, "I hate people that don't pay for my music"? Music was being pirated long before napster showed up, and if it goes away, people will still pirate music. They might as well say "I hate MP3s" or "I hate CDs". It's silly to think that if Napster disappeared, music piracy on the internet would go away. However, Napster is a great way for mainstream people to steal music -- no effort involved.
INTERNET EXPLORER 5.5 IN PARTICULAR WOULD OFTEN CRASH
Imagine that, beta software crashing...
But they are using ASP to serve simple text pages. Now THAT'S funny.
Uh... ALL web pages are simple text pages. That's why it's called SERVER-side scripting -- the client only sees the result, which is plaintext. Or did you think because it didn't have a lot of pictures and forms and tables that that made it a 'simple' text page? Speaking of which, it's not a simple text page. There appear to be a couple of dynamic fields in it (the count of signatures, etc). And why retype a privacy policy over and over again when it can be dynamically inserted and updated with one function call in the web page? Besides, you can always put session-tracking code, or return-different-pages-for-different-browsers code in the page...
What was the point of posting this, exactly? Just to say.. "open source is the best development method, and although it sometimes seems like the communication methods it forces developers to use can be a problem, actually they are really good, all hail open source." It just seemed like an empty piece of propaganda.. Do we really need that?
And let's face it the setting for Dune was hardly convincing. There was a lack of background in some places, leaving the reader to guess what was going on a lot of the time, and some truly dire characterisations
Well, although anyone's judgement of a book is, obviously, highly subjective (did you read them all? Or just the first.. Because the third [or is it second] one kind of drags, but the rest are great).. anyway, I LIKE the fact that not everything is explained to me and I have to guess, and infer, and all I sometimes see is people's actions, not every though they're thinking. Makes the book more engaging that way -- instead of having every detail explained to you so you always know what's going on and can just skip over the "boring" parts, you actually have to read the entire book to understand it. Mind you, I enjoy books you can just skim over and read in an hour, but they're not going to have nearly as much of an effect on me as something like Dune. (Or books by Michael Swanwick... my new favorite author).
I like my books to be full of detailed, convincing characters who engage in wity, sharp conversations that make them sound like real people.
You want detailed characters that sound like real people, who are engaging in witty sharp conversations? Uhm... you can't have it both ways. You can have characters who spend the entire book dueling in terribly humorous and witty quotes, or you can have people that sound real.. The two are kind of mutually exclusive goals. (Paraphrased: real people don't talk that way!)
Although I don't like VB myself, I have seen or used plenty of goofy small apps that were written in VB.
Everything from Sky Charts to conversion programs to those damn sheep that walk on your desktop. Nothing of
any importance, but useful when you needed some bizzare little tool.
I have a feeling that none of these programs were written by anybody that you would want near your kernel code
-- they weren't programmers as much as hobbyists. They had a vision of what they wanted, or just started banging
on the keyboard, seeing what they could do. I know the sky chart program was written by an amatuer astronomer
for himself. Maybe the sheep author just liked sheep.
Hrm.. hobbyists.. who had a vision of what they wanted.. and just did it.. gee, sounds like Linux users to me. Oh, I forgot, anyone who writes code on Linux right now is a highly trained computer-science professional with many years of experience in the field. Yessir, just look at freshmeat... Nothing but top-notch, professional-quality products. No idle hobbyists just writing a simple program to get the job done.
Well, I bothered to read the link in the hopes that it would shed some more light on this, but it doesn't say much more than what the posting here does. So who's going to distribute / publish Slackware? Will it still be Walnut Creek?
Three simple words: readable start-up scripts!
Slackware doesn't use a silly configuration tool with umpteen configuration files to keep the settings...
It has a limited number of start-up scripts which are pretty straight-forward, so that you can customize them easily at your situation.
Amen! Probably one of the things I hate the most about RedHat, and love about Slackware, is that I can actually manually edit my rc.d files, instead of trying to wade through a mess of millions of redirecting scripts trying to figure out whether or not a service will start.
To be fair, through, I was very impressed with the newest RedHat's installation procedure. But it's just not something that I, personally need. I prefer the text-based menus.
this is not only irresponsible, but sensationalistic on the part of cmdrtaco.
Well, I don't think Cmdrtaco posted it, but it's nothing new. Sensationalistic headlines, yellow journalism -- it's all about impressions, click-throughs, page views. People don't click on boring stories (I think I've seen this exact same report -- maybe even on slashdot -- a few weeks ago, it just didn't have the "busted for having l0phtcrack!" tag).
Squid captured top honors in cache hit ratios, but nothing else (AFAICT), showing that those "expensive, proprietary systems" also can be very
well-tuned operating systems that eliminate traditional OS overhead for these numbers.
True, but the operating system that Squid was running on (and that's what you were talking about, the operating systems) was FreeBSD, which also runs the iMimic, which captured the highest hits/sec and reqs/sec per $1000. By a large margin. Interestingly enough, the only linux-based entry, the Swell-1000, didn't do very well. Which goes to show you that just because you have a good starting point, doesn't guarantee success.
And, of course, the amazingly expensive Cisco products probably (I don't know, just assuming) do a lot more than just cache -- and are probably a lot more reliable (MTBF) and redundant, which is important if your cache is a vital business component. (And if cache == internet access, then, well, it probably is).
bout that "killer caching proxy"... umm, with all that bandwidth, why would you need proxying anyway?
by that time you're probably a backbone provider and don't need to worry about stuff like that. Caches are used by
ISPs with a T1 or two or corporations to limit bandwidth.. not by super-sized ISPs
Uhm... you're kidding, right?
Did you ever think about how much of that bandwith your high speed clients (DSL, cable modem) can eat up? And how much of it is redundant? (i.e. cacheable)
The moral of the story is to go to Internet Options --> Security --> Custom Level on your IE browser and turn off ActiveX
Uh.. no.. The moral of the story is, when your browser pops a window up that says, "Would you like to install Some Piece of Software?" you say No. The article said people "trusted" the software because of Verisign. I'm sorry, but Verisign doesn't ensure that the software is safe. All they do is verify the IDENTITY of the publisher. Then you decide whether or not to trust that publisher.
I too use tera term pro with the ssh add on and it's great. the only problem I find with it is I can't use the ^c ^v cut and paste, you have to use the menus, but that's a minor quibble
Strangely enough, the Cut and Paste shortcut keys in Tera Term are... Alt-C, and Alt-V. Can be kind of confusing when you're switching back and forth cutting and pasting..
I mean, who doesn't love playing Voldo in Soul Calibur and prancing around the ring, rendering your opponent helpless with laughter..?
There's already a much better book written, under the same name. Hackers, by Steven Levy.
Now..how many of you who think that if you bought a burrito because it had dilbert's face on it is stupid?
If Emeril or Julia Child was on the wrapper, it would be different. Not fundamentally, but atleast relevant.
Emeril? Julia Child? Screw that! I want an Iron Chef-sponsored food I can buy..
It's also wrong in giving the book a 9 out of 10.. I know, subjective judgement. But River of Blue Fire is nowhere near as good as the first book. It mostly seems to be an exercise in the author saying, "well, it's a virtual world, so I can put them in whatever silly scenes I want to instead of actually going forward with the story." I stopped halfway through because it was getting so boring. Which is not to say I don't recommend it...
The Gartner Group seem to have taken the side of RMS in the Linux or GNU/Linux debate... "Only about 2% of the software on a Linux distribution is actually the Linux OS.."
Oops.. what I meant to say was, of course, that it goes into effect 5 business days later if nothing changes.
Although the story is wrong (in that it says the penalty starts today), the penalty is announced today, and goes into effect 5 business days after announcement.
Well, maybe not good. But it's better than Redhat's Certification program. Why? Well, all you have do is it take the test ($100) at any Vue testing center (across the nation). This is in stark contrast to RedHat's method (at least when it was first introduced -- I'm sure it's been made friendlier since then. But basically it said: "give redhat a lot of money, and come to North Carolina"). Nothing against RedHat, but, well, this is a more "attainable" certification. And a lot of people see certifications as a good way to better their chances of getting a job. If nothing else, it can make up for your years of using linux at home, but not on the job. How can you have linux experience at work when there weren't many jobs until recently? Well, at least you can use your existing linux experience to make taking the test easy, and say "I'm certified" which is better than nothing.
All the dedicated help-desk people out there who read user friendly everyday, have the one strip that has "evolution of man" with telco exec at the bottom, helpdesk / tech support almost at the top, and sysadmin at the top (rootus rootus), that love to laugh at how stupid their callers are... don't ever realize that they're not that much smarter than the people who call them. All they have is 2 weeks of training (if that much), arrogance and a deluded self-opinion. (Face it: when you can be replaced off the street by someone who's never operated a computer before, you can't be THAT special)
I think that eToy should press for damages
Uh... what damages?
Yes! First gangster rap, now ... script kiddie rap. It will bring the community together. Some will laugh at it, some will find it inspirational... Anyone that doesn't understand it can excluded.. Dodgin' beowulf clusters..
The Melissa virus didn't exploit any security holes to do what it did. It exploited two things: user's willingness to blindly open documents and enable macros for them, and the power of Visual Basic for Applications.
Sure, there ARE security holes where no action by a user is required for the payload to go off, but as many people have pointed out, why bother? They're much more complicated to write, and you don't have be that sneaky. People will open documents, executable attachments, etc without thinking.
"Negligence in making a product safe to use"? Comparing software to cars? As long as we're talking about Melissa, let's do that. Microsoft (the car maker) enabled Person A to use his Word program (his car) to create destructive force that could be delievered to someone else's Word program (their car). Of course, they would have been safe, but they deliberately said, "Enable macros" (turn off my air bags).
Lastly.. could car makers do what Microsoft is/was doing and get away with it? How many alternatively-powered vehicles do you see in mass production? How many gas-powered? Why could that be?