i'd go with openBSD if you must go with a BSD but consider sticking with redhat. remember that its the admin who determines the security of the machine - the OS just provides the tools to do so. i'd choose linux over BSD any day if only because its what im familiar with (and something i *know* how to secure thru lots of experience). your security on your firewall depends on the firewalling rules you write more than anything else (since bad rules can have insecure machines inside your network compromised no matter what OS you run the firewall on). im happier with ipchains than BSD stuff anyway, so thats what i use.
go to rpm.org and get your head out of the sand. all the code is there along with a detail spec. RPM is NOT a proprietary scheme - its just a tar file with a specfile attached. i suppose you consider.deb file format to be proprietary too.
the point is that these were pioneering companies - wordperfect was VERY good in its day (before word squashed it). interbase/sybase were squashed by oracle and MS SQL server and access. photogenics - ive never heard too much about it but the amiga was crushed by the PC. jbuilder and delphi were an alternative to M$'s crappy VB (have you ever used an early version? i used the first two versions that came out). The point is that micro$hit destroyed all these perfectly viable companies and in general destroyed the commercial software market - another good reason for them to be broken into itty bitty pieces. we'd have a much healthier software market without M$.
its an optional filter. its not mandatory. in any event, it doesnt seem to be implemented yet..when i searched for linux video software several porno sites turned up.
perhaps you'd care to tell micro$hit to open the specs of D3D and release the source so linux developers *can* do the port instead of sitting here and whining. if the specs are not open, its irrelevant whether linux developers hate M$ or not. same with kerberos extensions.
this is blatantly false. For CANDU reactors, in the event of a loss of coolant, the normal cooling water would be lost from the main cooling system but core melting would normally be prevented by the action of the emergency core cooling systems. However, if the ECCS failed to act, melting of metallic components of the core and eventually of the uranium oxide fuel itself would probably occur. If the reactor fails to shut down or the decay heat removal systems fail, the core would melt a.k.a chernobyl. american reactors and CANDU reactors have very similar probabilities of failure (1 in 10000 per year).
you have to get a waiver if you work on it on company time...assuming you signed an NDA. but otherwise, youre right. get a waiver ang GPL the changes to your original program. it doesnt matter if you wrote it - just treat it like any other GPLed code.
EULA != GPL. have you bothered reading a EULA lately ? it allows the company to do virtually *anthing* to your machine, your data and whatever files are on your harddrive. EULAs *are* ridiculous and should be shot down. any other industry trying to pull this sort of thing would get hit with class action lawsuits in a day.
just use mozilla and set the preferences stuff to stop loading images from sites other than the site you visited. anyone else noticed this really kewl feature in mozilla ?
flash memory has a non standard interface..plus the flashing process requires a non multitasking OS like DOS ( protected mode has something to do with it i think ). its still relatively difficult for a virus to kill hardware but its slowly becoming more and more possible.
actually this guy used a non space in his name...very clever. http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=John +Carmack is the real carmack. not this dude.
and we will all be the worse off if these architectures die. the fact is that these architectures do things the *right* way..and sometimes the right way looses out to a quick and dirty hack (or mass production). besides competition is good - since when have you, as a/. reader, been against competition ? thats the only reason linux exists comapred to the dirty hack that is windoze.
yep. im going off to a trade show next week..but should be back. trade shows are a pain - specially when stuff breaks at the last minute. spent the last week hacking on the last minute bug fixes - ugh.
well..its the challenge of the thing. i hope you took the job.:) size of the box is fairly easy with a couple of cameras (write in C - all those tight loops help) and marking on the floor. dense packing algorithms are out there to fit boxes into other boxes and labels can be read with a barcode scanner mounted nearby - you'll get an ascii char stream.
MOTIF and the GTK are functionally identical. was this guy on crack or something ? The guys who wrote the GTK were familiar with MOTIF enough so that even i can see the similarities..and i dont have much MOTIF experience ( i worked with it for 3 years on an IRIX box with C ). heck i could pick up GTK programming in one day just sitting down and writing code and using the similarities of the event handling style of motif and gtk to set up a working application.
yup. i was here before the moderation started (actually there werent any real user accounts back then - everyone posted as ACs)...first there were selectable options (to lower the first posting to last - i.e. newest first), then there was the threading/flat options followed by moderation (which everyone opposed at first - it was also limited to a select few) then the nested, more moderation options, meta moderation and finally the current system.
this appears to be a simple derivative of the NPL. since the netscape public license is classified as an open source license, i'd say that this project is open source too. http://dmoz.org/license.html
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crap. just because you dont think laws will prevent the loss of privacy doesnt mean they actually wont. a good example is the UK data protection act which (although the UK is far from being remotely free compared to the US) guarantees strict behaviour from companies/government agencies who seek to collect personal data. You dont get great economic and technical benefits from a loss of privacy -- if anything, it exposes you to a lot of strangers and makes you vulnerable. we can have both -- a reasonable amount of privacy AND the benefits of free information flow if we fight any privacy destroying measures hard enough.
you missed Xenocide, which was one helluva book. it rounds off the series quite nicely..complete with accurate descriptions of travel near superluminal speed etc.
its fairly easy to measure objects with a camera given all the variables such as distance to object, camera focus etc. lots of universities are doing stuff on this - you might want to look at the webpages of the machine vision groups at most universities. object recognition and measurement is a well researched problem - just use existing algorithms, dont try to do a Ph.D.:) i believe cognex actually sells systems such as those..they also have fairly good info on the subject.
its fairly interesting that you didnt fight with him over your baby. most developers i know would have fought tooth and nail to throw the idiot off the project. anyway, if youre having troubl finding a job and you dont mind relocating, mail me. i'd be interested in getting someone with a good design philosophy if nothing else.
rewrite it from scratch. i had a project that i inherited (company had spent 4 years and 3 million dollars on - gone thru 4 development teams) and i rewrote it. in 4 months. works great..we're getting ready to rerelease it. i rewrote it in java so its cross platform too.
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i'd go with openBSD if you must go with a BSD but consider sticking with redhat. remember that its the admin who determines the security of the machine - the OS just provides the tools to do so. i'd choose linux over BSD any day if only because its what im familiar with (and something i *know* how to secure thru lots of experience). your security on your firewall depends on the firewalling rules you write more than anything else (since bad rules can have insecure machines inside your network compromised no matter what OS you run the firewall on). im happier with ipchains than BSD stuff anyway, so thats what i use.
go to rpm.org and get your head out of the sand. all the code is there along with a detail spec. RPM is NOT a proprietary scheme - its just a tar file with a specfile attached. i suppose you consider .deb file format to be proprietary too.
the point is that these were pioneering companies - wordperfect was VERY good in its day (before word squashed it). interbase/sybase were squashed by oracle and MS SQL server and access. photogenics - ive never heard too much about it but the amiga was crushed by the PC. jbuilder and delphi were an alternative to M$'s crappy VB (have you ever used an early version? i used the first two versions that came out). The point is that micro$hit destroyed all these perfectly viable companies and in general destroyed the commercial software market - another good reason for them to be broken into itty bitty pieces. we'd have a much healthier software market without M$.
umm...why not do both ??
its an optional filter. its not mandatory. in any event, it doesnt seem to be implemented yet..when i searched for linux video software several porno sites turned up.
perhaps you'd care to tell micro$hit to open the specs of D3D and release the source so linux developers *can* do the port instead of sitting here and whining. if the specs are not open, its irrelevant whether linux developers hate M$ or not. same with kerberos extensions.
this is blatantly false. For CANDU reactors, in the event of a loss of coolant, the normal cooling water would be lost from the main cooling system but core melting would normally be prevented by the action of the emergency core cooling systems. However, if the ECCS failed to act, melting of metallic components of the core and eventually of the uranium oxide fuel itself would probably occur. If the reactor fails to shut down or the decay heat removal systems fail, the core would melt a.k.a chernobyl. american reactors and CANDU reactors have very similar probabilities of failure (1 in 10000 per year).
you have to get a waiver if you work on it on company time...assuming you signed an NDA. but otherwise, youre right. get a waiver ang GPL the changes to your original program. it doesnt matter if you wrote it - just treat it like any other GPLed code.
EULA != GPL. have you bothered reading a EULA lately ? it allows the company to do virtually *anthing* to your machine, your data and whatever files are on your harddrive. EULAs *are* ridiculous and should be shot down. any other industry trying to pull this sort of thing would get hit with class action lawsuits in a day.
agreed. that paper was brilliant.l
see : http://www.genarts.com/karl/papers/siggraph91.htm
just use mozilla and set the preferences stuff to stop loading images from sites other than the site you visited. anyone else noticed this really kewl feature in mozilla ?
flash memory has a non standard interface..plus the flashing process requires a non multitasking OS like DOS ( protected mode has something to do with it i think ). its still relatively difficult for a virus to kill hardware but its slowly becoming more and more possible.
actually this guy used a non space in his name...very clever. http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=John +Carmack is the real carmack. not this dude.
and we will all be the worse off if these architectures die. the fact is that these architectures do things the *right* way..and sometimes the right way looses out to a quick and dirty hack (or mass production). besides competition is good - since when have you, as a /. reader, been against competition ? thats the only reason linux exists comapred to the dirty hack that is windoze.
yep. im going off to a trade show next week..but should be back. trade shows are a pain - specially when stuff breaks at the last minute. spent the last week hacking on the last minute bug fixes - ugh.
well..its the challenge of the thing. i hope you took the job. :) size of the box is fairly easy with a couple of cameras (write in C - all those tight loops help) and marking on the floor. dense packing algorithms are out there to fit boxes into other boxes and labels can be read with a barcode scanner mounted nearby - you'll get an ascii char stream.
MOTIF and the GTK are functionally identical. was this guy on crack or something ? The guys who wrote the GTK were familiar with MOTIF enough so that even i can see the similarities..and i dont have much MOTIF experience ( i worked with it for 3 years on an IRIX box with C ). heck i could pick up GTK programming in one day just sitting down and writing code and using the similarities of the event handling style of motif and gtk to set up a working application.
yup. i was here before the moderation started (actually there werent any real user accounts back then - everyone posted as ACs)...first there were selectable options (to lower the first posting to last - i.e. newest first), then there was the threading/flat options followed by moderation (which everyone opposed at first - it was also limited to a select few) then the nested, more moderation options, meta moderation and finally the current system.
heh. let me know how it works out.
this appears to be a simple derivative of the NPL. since the netscape public license is classified as an open source license, i'd say that this project is open source too. http://dmoz.org/license.html
crap. just because you dont think laws will prevent the loss of privacy doesnt mean they actually wont. a good example is the UK data protection act which (although the UK is far from being remotely free compared to the US) guarantees strict behaviour from companies/government agencies who seek to collect personal data. You dont get great economic and technical benefits from a loss of privacy -- if anything, it exposes you to a lot of strangers and makes you vulnerable. we can have both -- a reasonable amount of privacy AND the benefits of free information flow if we fight any privacy destroying measures hard enough.
you missed Xenocide, which was one helluva book. it rounds off the series quite nicely..complete with accurate descriptions of travel near superluminal speed etc.
its fairly easy to measure objects with a camera given all the variables such as distance to object, camera focus etc. lots of universities are doing stuff on this - you might want to look at the webpages of the machine vision groups at most universities. object recognition and measurement is a well researched problem - just use existing algorithms, dont try to do a Ph.D. :)
i believe cognex actually sells systems such as those..they also have fairly good info on the subject.
its fairly interesting that you didnt fight with him over your baby. most developers i know would have fought tooth and nail to throw the idiot off the project. anyway, if youre having troubl finding a job and you dont mind relocating, mail me. i'd be interested in getting someone with a good design philosophy if nothing else.
rewrite it from scratch. i had a project that i inherited (company had spent 4 years and 3 million dollars on - gone thru 4 development teams) and i rewrote it. in 4 months. works great..we're getting ready to rerelease it. i rewrote it in java so its cross platform too.