I have to ask what your expectations are and be realistic.
As an employer actively recruiting IT staff at the moment, rare in the current job market I know, and I have a choice between a recent uni-graduate and someone with 15 yrs experience who I can hire for almost the same wages because so many skilled IT staff have been laid off and need to pay their mortgage. For me the choice is obvious, I don't care about the age factor.
However I also interview many many people who think they deserve to get the same remuneration they got from their high-flying finance job and wonder why they are still jobless after two years.
I used to work for GAME many many years ago in their digital division. We had the developers, network infrastructure, industry clout (at the time) and the strategy to create Steam before Steam even existed. We were incredibly motivated to do this, basically it was why we'd all been hired. We all knew digital distribution was the future.
In the end the then board decided "forget the internet, we ship boxes". The entire digital team was disbanded and moved to other departments. Just one of many, many mistakes they made but from my personal perspective a bloody huge one!
Believe it or not, most major software vendors have licenses and policies in place (e.g., Microsoft) to allow sensitive institutions (governments, defense contractors, etc) access to their source code. The primary reason is actually the opposite of what you say. Customers such as the Indian government want to be able to see what's actually in the code before they agree to buy and install it on their own systems and network.
Yes, this explanation is valid and almost certainly the main reason why this happens. But the fact that any institution can then exploit any bugs they do find is hardly something that can be ignored.
<deep breath>Let's keep this/. related while I try to calm down from the state of induced rage I've been in from hearing the constant use of the work "Hack" in the UK media the past week when talking about using the default pin code for a mobile networks voicemail system. THAT'S NOT A %£^%£"%" HACK!!!! </deep breath>
Okay, I feel better for getting that off my chest.
I remember playing the original and you pretty much nailed how I feel about it. What did these people expect? The second coming of Jesus in game form?
I was personally offended more by Crysis 2 that promised so much and then delivered nothing, screwing the user in the process. While DNF promised nothing but a juvenile story, script & gameplay and guess what, that's exactly what you get. This was never meant to be a AAA class game and I honestly laughed and had fun playing it. Frankly I feel like telling everyone to grow up and learn to just switch off their forebrains and enjoy some sick childish humor.
How can you steal something when Redhat make it available for free? You pay for Redhat if you want support and their management tools. They probably consider CentOS a loss leader, a lot of their business is likely "won" by converting sysadmins from the free distro.
1) Cheap tower server + your favourite unix distro + software RAID + many, many cheap 2TB drives.
2) Standalone NAS device. Everyone so far seems to recommend different makes so I'll carry on the trend and suggest Thecus. Just slot in the drives and you're ready. Install the SSH module and you also have a Linux server too.
Even if this is completely unrelated to the SyFy series, Singer is not a small name in the movie business. So if it gets more people interested enough to watch the TV show, I can't say it's a bad thing.
If you can afford it then I can highly recommend one of the Thecus N5200 series (~$800-1000 for the chassis + extra for the HDD's). Small, scaleable, self-contained with very good performance and features.
Best of all it runs Linux with available GPL source code. There are plenty of homegrown addons so you can add support for ssh, rsync and even torrent directly to the server.
Being a sci-fi nut myself, along with most of/. readers at a guess, I have to admit that while I appreciate the film it never blew my away when I first saw it - good but not great.
I blame the "Citizen Kane" affect, i.e I only got around to watching the 'great work' after first seeing so many films that were based upon the original, that when I did finally see it with high expectations I was underwhelmed and like "Oh I've seen this before". Sure this may of spoiled my enjoyment, but even so I never had that "wow" moment when watching Blade Runner, even the newer versions. Compare that with a film like 2001 or Alien, I could watch those again today and still be amazed.
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Everytime an article like this appears saying "IRC is bad, mmmkay" I find it funny how that largest network in the world is almost never mentioned, almost like it's not a *real* IRC network. In my mind, DALnet is one of the networks that accually has one of the lowest noise ratios around. Quakenet, the current leader in usercount, raises questions with me. Their usercount rose very fast, and I wonder about their userbase. I personally know only -one- person who uses quakenet. You mention DALnet, Undernet or EFnet and people identify much more readily.
People seem to forget QuakeNet has always had a no warez, pr0n or other real IRC content policy years before DalNET or others did the same. It was started by a few Gamers who wanted someone stable to chat without netsplits caused by the latest kiddie attacks. Most small networks start this way.
Sure DALnet, Undernet or EFnet get all the notarity but a simple policy of creating a safe, clean IRC network where people can actually chat actually seems to be more popular.
If it's like fedora 1 you need all the iso's. minimal install STILL requires like 30mbs off of disc 3. There is plenty of room for everything and then some on disc1 but due to poor structuring and layout of the cd's.
Thats totally incorrect. Fedora Core 1 minimum install only requires disc 1. I should know, I just built several servers that way this week!
Well this guy definetely seems to have the right idea. C is lean and mean, C++ is OO but way to complex. Didn't one of the K&R guys say that in any decent C program 90% of the C syntax could be used, while in a C++ program its only 10%?
Speaking from personal experience, I find it much easier to write good, clean, portable & efficient code in C. I find that coding in C++ tends to produce worse performance (guess the compilers have more to worry about which effects optimization). Also each C++ compiler tends to implement the C++ language in its own unique way and I spend more time working around those quirks aand the C++ syntax than actually writing useful code!:)
Just picking the really useful stuff from C++ and improving on the missing features from C would produce a language that I could see myself using all the time. A bit more higher level functionality to C can hardly be a bad thing.
So when can we expect the Linux Kernel in D then?;p
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I have to ask what your expectations are and be realistic.
As an employer actively recruiting IT staff at the moment, rare in the current job market I know, and I have a choice between a recent uni-graduate and someone with 15 yrs experience who I can hire for almost the same wages because so many skilled IT staff have been laid off and need to pay their mortgage. For me the choice is obvious, I don't care about the age factor.
However I also interview many many people who think they deserve to get the same remuneration they got from their high-flying finance job and wonder why they are still jobless after two years.
I used to work for GAME many many years ago in their digital division. We had the developers, network infrastructure, industry clout (at the time) and the strategy to create Steam before Steam even existed. We were incredibly motivated to do this, basically it was why we'd all been hired. We all knew digital distribution was the future.
In the end the then board decided "forget the internet, we ship boxes". The entire digital team was disbanded and moved to other departments. Just one of many, many mistakes they made but from my personal perspective a bloody huge one!
Believe it or not, most major software vendors have licenses and policies in place (e.g., Microsoft) to allow sensitive institutions (governments, defense contractors, etc) access to their source code. The primary reason is actually the opposite of what you say. Customers such as the Indian government want to be able to see what's actually in the code before they agree to buy and install it on their own systems and network.
Yes, this explanation is valid and almost certainly the main reason why this happens. But the fact that any institution can then exploit any bugs they do find is hardly something that can be ignored.
.. to the soundtrack of Jonny Cash singing "Ring of Fire"
That's sad to hear. Farewell KR->R;
<deep breath>Let's keep this /. related while I try to calm down from the state of induced rage I've been in from hearing the constant use of the work "Hack" in the UK media the past week when talking about using the default pin code for a mobile networks voicemail system. THAT'S NOT A %£^%£"%" HACK!!!! </deep breath>
Okay, I feel better for getting that off my chest.
I remember playing the original and you pretty much nailed how I feel about it. What did these people expect? The second coming of Jesus in game form?
I was personally offended more by Crysis 2 that promised so much and then delivered nothing, screwing the user in the process. While DNF promised nothing but a juvenile story, script & gameplay and guess what, that's exactly what you get. This was never meant to be a AAA class game and I honestly laughed and had fun playing it. Frankly I feel like telling everyone to grow up and learn to just switch off their forebrains and enjoy some sick childish humor.
How can you steal something when Redhat make it available for free? You pay for Redhat if you want support and their management tools. They probably consider CentOS a loss leader, a lot of their business is likely "won" by converting sysadmins from the free distro.
Angry Birds
1) Cheap tower server + your favourite unix distro + software RAID + many, many cheap 2TB drives.
2) Standalone NAS device. Everyone so far seems to recommend different makes so I'll carry on the trend and suggest Thecus. Just slot in the drives and you're ready. Install the SSH module and you also have a Linux server too.
So was I the only one who crossed their legs while reading the story?
Cool video but probably not as impressive when you don't load from the page cache and add network latency and overloaded webservers to the mix.
I know we joke about "World Robot Domination" but why do we seem to be trying to get there as fast as possible!?
Even if this is completely unrelated to the SyFy series, Singer is not a small name in the movie business. So if it gets more people interested enough to watch the TV show, I can't say it's a bad thing.
You forgot the most important change of all.
They added support for "goto".
This is Slashdot, we like to laugh at and feel superior to all the peons who install bad software.
Normally it starts with "Win" and ends with "Doze".
My personal server gets a few more mails than the poster.
# of SPAM Week Ending
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If you can afford it then I can highly recommend one of the Thecus N5200 series (~$800-1000 for the chassis + extra for the HDD's). Small, scaleable, self-contained with very good performance and features.
Five drive bays, USB, FTP, Samba, iSCSI
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10 & multiple combinations of both.
Best of all it runs Linux with available GPL source code. There are plenty of homegrown addons so you can add support for ssh, rsync and even torrent directly to the server.
Being a sci-fi nut myself, along with most of /. readers at a guess, I have to admit that while I appreciate the film it never blew my away when I first saw it - good but not great.
I blame the "Citizen Kane" affect, i.e I only got around to watching the 'great work' after first seeing so many films that were based upon the original, that when I did finally see it with high expectations I was underwhelmed and like "Oh I've seen this before". Sure this may of spoiled my enjoyment, but even so I never had that "wow" moment when watching Blade Runner, even the newer versions. Compare that with a film like 2001 or Alien, I could watch those again today and still be amazed.
So how come the home of Olive oil, Italy, has one of the highest infection rates in Europe? http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/hiv-aids/hiv-aid s-infection-rate-by-country-europe-and-the-new-ind ependent-states/
Everytime an article like this appears saying "IRC is bad, mmmkay" I find it funny how that largest network in the world is almost never mentioned, almost like it's not a *real* IRC network.
u akeNet&point=years That looks more like a constant growth rate to me and thats real users, not large bot nets. They even analyse the user base client versions (http://www.quakenet.org/news.php?item=190) and bots make up a very very small percentage.
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In my mind, DALnet is one of the networks that accually has one of the lowest noise ratios around. Quakenet, the current leader in usercount, raises questions with me. Their usercount rose very fast, and I wonder about their userbase. I personally know only -one- person who uses quakenet. You mention DALnet, Undernet or EFnet and people identify much more readily.
People seem to forget QuakeNet has always had a no warez, pr0n or other real IRC content policy years before DalNET or others did the same. It was started by a few Gamers who wanted someone stable to chat without netsplits caused by the latest kiddie attacks. Most small networks start this way.
QuakeNet has hardly grown "very fast" as the stats show: http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=Q
Sure DALnet, Undernet or EFnet get all the notarity but a simple policy of creating a safe, clean IRC network where people can actually chat actually seems to be more popular.
Go figure
It's a know bug as they kept the internal version number at 0.9 so they didn't break lots of extentions.
If it's like fedora 1 you need all the iso's. minimal install STILL requires like 30mbs off of disc 3. There is plenty of room for everything and then some on disc1 but due to poor structuring and layout of the cd's.
Thats totally incorrect. Fedora Core 1 minimum install only requires disc 1. I should know, I just built several servers that way this week!
Well the intel compiler *is free* for non-commercial use, just check out http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/c 50/linux/form1_noncom.htm
Also at present the P4 support for gcc is pathetic so the Intel compiler is the only option you have if you want to optimize for that CPU.
Well this guy definetely seems to have the right idea. C is lean and mean, C++ is OO but way to complex. Didn't one of the K&R guys say that in any decent C program 90% of the C syntax could be used, while in a C++ program its only 10%?
:)
;p
Speaking from personal experience, I find it much easier to write good, clean, portable & efficient code in C. I find that coding in C++ tends to produce worse performance (guess the compilers have more to worry about which effects optimization). Also each C++ compiler tends to implement the C++ language in its own unique way and I spend more time working around those quirks aand the C++ syntax than actually writing useful code!
Just picking the really useful stuff from C++ and improving on the missing features from C would produce a language that I could see myself using all the time. A bit more higher level functionality to C can hardly be a bad thing.
So when can we expect the Linux Kernel in D then?