Accepting applications has long ceased to be a first come, first served business for landlords in markets like San Francisco, or Sydney, Australia. They accept all of the offers and then wait to see who will offer the highest rent. It's basically an auction, except you don't get to see what other people bid, so you have no idea if you're competitive of not.
I don't have a problem with this. It's awful, yes, but it's a symptom of skyrocketing rental prices, and actually at least you get to see what the current highest bid is.
but, but, but the web is the future for all applications! We'll all be running apps on the cloud from our thin clients! The network is the computer! etc etc!
Don't tell me they sold me a lie.
repeat with x = 1 to the number of words of tAnswer add the number of chars of word x of tAnswer to \ sAnswerCharacters repeat with y = 1 to the number of characters of word x \ of tAnswer put "letter" & x & y into tButtonName put "underline" & x & y into tUnderlineName put character y of word x of tAnswer into tCharacter put tCharacter & "Icon" into tImageName
set the cLetter of button tButtonName of group \ "Answer" to tCharacter set the icon of button tButtonName to the id of image tImageName of card "Image Store" set the visible of graphic tUnderlineName of group \ "Answer" to true end repeat end repeat
I wrote a multithreaded telnet talker without having to care about threads or mutexes or shared memory access or select() or poll() or whatnot. Some channels and a few goroutines, and it all works really, really nicely.
THe syntax is a little weird, sure, but after a day of coding in it, its fine. You get used to it, and I find it easier to pick up than say, haskell.
The biggest obstacle is learning it the first time. If you're smart, you then write a Makefile or shell script or whatever to the automate it for the next package.
Its Not That Hard (tm)
Really, I'm a lazy sysadmin, so I prefer the software does all the hard work, not me.:)
+1
also, use the package signing system to verify that the packages distributed to machines are really released.
use the package dependencies to pull in all the required packages for a given system.
If you do it right, all you need is an apt repository, and you type "apt-get install prod-foobar-system" and everything will be pulled in and installed. In the correct order.
I converted a site to this method (on Fedora Core many years ago) and we went from taking a day to build machines to 30 minutes.
1) Put the mac address in the kickstart server and assign the appropriate profile.
2) Boo the machine from the network
3) Watch it build. The profile for that machine would have the packages for the environment we were building listed.
4) Reboot. Machine would have the right IP and be completely configured and running.
It just works.
I think that got thrown out of court; rail and bus information is public domain. They're not obligated to provide it in an easily fetchable format, but it's perfectly ok to republish it as long as you make it clear that you're not the original source.
as far as the nics are concerned, its all just ethernet packets. There is no state to handle. The state is maintained by the guest OS, and is transferred when the OS memory is transferred.
Starships on Trek have been done. You can't do yet another one, without falling back onto the old formula. DS9 was good because it was a different formula, but even it got stale after a while.
Star Trek Academy would suck, please don't do that.
If Trek does come back, I'd like to see a show based on the idea of a (Culture reference here) "Special Circumstances" team, a group of top Starfleet specialists who are basically a special operations team that are show into dangerous situations, and with limited equipment and resources they need to resolve a serious problem that concerns the Federation.
Or something else. Just not yet another Enterprise.
Cochran : Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Stinky Britches" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Gerald Broflovski : Damn it!
Chef : What?
Gerald : He's using the Chewbacca defense!
Cochran : Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
The worst thing about this? 5,000,000 people who think they know what happened, posting "helpful" suggestions or analysis
"The problem is definitely spanning tree!"
or
"Back in 1998, we were running these HP switches right, and..."
or
"Did you try resetting the flanglewidget interface?!"
or
"I've seen this exact problem! You need to upgrade to v5.1!"
etc
Its not your network. It doesn't matter how much you think you know, you don't know the topology, or the systems involved. It'll be interesting to know what the ACTUAL reason was, when they figure it out. Assuming it isn't aliens.
So, here's a challenge.
Someone build the mother-of-all pringles can antennas and try and see if they can get a signal from the ISS wifi access point!:D
It's a good thing you don't get to speak for the rest of us.
Honestly, I am quite able to make up my own mind as to what I can read or look at. I don't need anyone making that determination for me.
As the great Frank Zappa once said, "There is no sound that you can make with your mouth, or word that will come out of your mouth, that is so powerful that it will make you go to hell", and in the same vein there is no image or word you can see or read that will 'sabotage your mind' against women and children. What you decide as content that 'leads to a depraved mind' might be classified by others as just simple harmless garbage which most people will just ignore and never seek out anyway.
It doesn't matter what kind of censorship they do, nobody can ever do a thorough job. There is simply too much garbage out there that would need to be filtered, and stuff will always slip through. Even the tests that showed they were blocking large amounts of legitimate content also showed that they were letting through some content that should have been blocked. So much of the truly abhorrent shit that they're wanting to block, child pornography, isn't even traded out in the open via the web anyway; it's traded via DCC on efnet or other IRC networks, or on private SSL secured boards that change IPs regularly.
One of the many stupid things about this is that given the above being true, the amount of money required to implement the government's plan will end up increasing our connectivity costs even more than they are today, for no discernible benefit.
So, in summary, whether or not you think censorship of the internet is a good idea or not, it's pointless because no matter what you do, you'll fail in your objectives, and end up just costing the public more money trying to force your morality on them.
http://www.sun.com/desktop/
Note, no high end Sparc workstations. No fanfare or trumpets. Just gone. One day you could order them, the next you couldn't.
It made me sad as my manager was thinking about kitting us developers out with some monster workstations for development.
I think NFS 4 fixes a lot of the problems around the security model, and brings it in line with the way SMB/AFP works. Having root on your local machine won't allow you to mount other people's home directories anymore:)
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Accepting applications has long ceased to be a first come, first served business for landlords in markets like San Francisco, or Sydney, Australia. They accept all of the offers and then wait to see who will offer the highest rent. It's basically an auction, except you don't get to see what other people bid, so you have no idea if you're competitive of not. I don't have a problem with this. It's awful, yes, but it's a symptom of skyrocketing rental prices, and actually at least you get to see what the current highest bid is.
but, but, but the web is the future for all applications! We'll all be running apps on the cloud from our thin clients! The network is the computer! etc etc! Don't tell me they sold me a lie.
it looks an awful lot like applescript to me;
repeat with x = 1 to the number of words of tAnswer
add the number of chars of word x of tAnswer to \
sAnswerCharacters
repeat with y = 1 to the number of characters of word x \
of tAnswer
put "letter" & x & y into tButtonName
put "underline" & x & y into tUnderlineName
put character y of word x of tAnswer into tCharacter
put tCharacter & "Icon" into tImageName
set the cLetter of button tButtonName of group \
"Answer" to tCharacter
set the icon of button tButtonName to the id
of image tImageName of card "Image Store"
set the visible of graphic tUnderlineName of group \
"Answer" to true
end repeat
end repeat
Actually it has some decent libraries already, at launch. See http://golang.org/pkg/
I wrote a multithreaded telnet talker without having to care about threads or mutexes or shared memory access or select() or poll() or whatnot. Some channels and a few goroutines, and it all works really, really nicely.
THe syntax is a little weird, sure, but after a day of coding in it, its fine. You get used to it, and I find it easier to pick up than say, haskell.
The biggest obstacle is learning it the first time. If you're smart, you then write a Makefile or shell script or whatever to the automate it for the next package. Its Not That Hard (tm) Really, I'm a lazy sysadmin, so I prefer the software does all the hard work, not me. :)
+1 also, use the package signing system to verify that the packages distributed to machines are really released. use the package dependencies to pull in all the required packages for a given system. If you do it right, all you need is an apt repository, and you type "apt-get install prod-foobar-system" and everything will be pulled in and installed. In the correct order. I converted a site to this method (on Fedora Core many years ago) and we went from taking a day to build machines to 30 minutes. 1) Put the mac address in the kickstart server and assign the appropriate profile. 2) Boo the machine from the network 3) Watch it build. The profile for that machine would have the packages for the environment we were building listed. 4) Reboot. Machine would have the right IP and be completely configured and running. It just works.
I think that got thrown out of court; rail and bus information is public domain. They're not obligated to provide it in an easily fetchable format, but it's perfectly ok to republish it as long as you make it clear that you're not the original source.
This struck me as incredibly funny.
as far as the nics are concerned, its all just ethernet packets. There is no state to handle. The state is maintained by the guest OS, and is transferred when the OS memory is transferred.
Starships on Trek have been done. You can't do yet another one, without falling back onto the old formula. DS9 was good because it was a different formula, but even it got stale after a while. Star Trek Academy would suck, please don't do that. If Trek does come back, I'd like to see a show based on the idea of a (Culture reference here) "Special Circumstances" team, a group of top Starfleet specialists who are basically a special operations team that are show into dangerous situations, and with limited equipment and resources they need to resolve a serious problem that concerns the Federation. Or something else. Just not yet another Enterprise.
Cochran : Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, Chef's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his client wrote "Stinky Britches" ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Gerald Broflovski : Damn it!
Chef : What?
Gerald : He's using the Chewbacca defense!
Cochran : Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
Where did I say we pay next to nothing?
There's a reason vendors dance to our tune. We pay well. They don't want to lose us under any circumstances.
Damn ACs. Posting behind anonimity, my reply will most likely be lost on him.
Where I am, vendors dance to our tune. Maybe it's because we're huge, but compared to the US we're tiny, but none of our vendors try that crap on us.
Jut the mere hint that we might think about going to a competitor, and they're scrabbling around on all fours, asking for forgiveness.
Don't agree to it in your contract and they have nothing on you? *shrug*
The worst thing about this? 5,000,000 people who think they know what happened, posting "helpful" suggestions or analysis
"The problem is definitely spanning tree!"
or
"Back in 1998, we were running these HP switches right, and ..."
or
"Did you try resetting the flanglewidget interface?!"
or
"I've seen this exact problem! You need to upgrade to v5.1!"
etc
Its not your network. It doesn't matter how much you think you know, you don't know the topology, or the systems involved. It'll be interesting to know what the ACTUAL reason was, when they figure it out. Assuming it isn't aliens.
asshat.
There wouldn't be a problem if they asked.
Microsoft just can't resist the urge to use it's position as the marketplace leader for desktop OSes to be a dick.
I'm a successful novelist, you insensitive clod ... ... oh wait.
So, here's a challenge. Someone build the mother-of-all pringles can antennas and try and see if they can get a signal from the ISS wifi access point! :D
How long did it take to coax that joke out?
It's a good thing you don't get to speak for the rest of us.
Honestly, I am quite able to make up my own mind as to what I can read or look at. I don't need anyone making that determination for me.
As the great Frank Zappa once said, "There is no sound that you can make with your mouth, or word that will come out of your mouth, that is so powerful that it will make you go to hell", and in the same vein there is no image or word you can see or read that will 'sabotage your mind' against women and children. What you decide as content that 'leads to a depraved mind' might be classified by others as just simple harmless garbage which most people will just ignore and never seek out anyway.
It doesn't matter what kind of censorship they do, nobody can ever do a thorough job. There is simply too much garbage out there that would need to be filtered, and stuff will always slip through. Even the tests that showed they were blocking large amounts of legitimate content also showed that they were letting through some content that should have been blocked. So much of the truly abhorrent shit that they're wanting to block, child pornography, isn't even traded out in the open via the web anyway; it's traded via DCC on efnet or other IRC networks, or on private SSL secured boards that change IPs regularly.
One of the many stupid things about this is that given the above being true, the amount of money required to implement the government's plan will end up increasing our connectivity costs even more than they are today, for no discernible benefit.
So, in summary, whether or not you think censorship of the internet is a good idea or not, it's pointless because no matter what you do, you'll fail in your objectives, and end up just costing the public more money trying to force your morality on them.
Should we be scrambling to figure this shit out now, or can it wait til everyone else gets the kinks worked out?
Let me introduce you to this amazing technology we have; batteries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage
http://www.sun.com/desktop/ Note, no high end Sparc workstations. No fanfare or trumpets. Just gone. One day you could order them, the next you couldn't. It made me sad as my manager was thinking about kitting us developers out with some monster workstations for development.
I think NFS 4 fixes a lot of the problems around the security model, and brings it in line with the way SMB/AFP works. Having root on your local machine won't allow you to mount other people's home directories anymore :)