If I write it, I have the authority to decide what to do with the software. The asinine notion that someone else controls what I own has been put forth to control everything from what I watch on TV to what I do with computer equipment I buy - I'm sure not going to accept it from RMS. Stallman must be on crack.
Looks like I'll be getting a 3670 for Christmas, complete with PCMCIA adapter, which will shortly thereafter be running Qt-Embedded:)
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It sounds like really bad advice to me.
That's because you missed the point.
It describes a million dot coms, most of which are dead by now.
Not at all.
The point the author was trying to make is, you don't hire a bunch of bright people, put them in a room, and then say, "here's this extremely detailed plan on how to get from point A to point B, written by people who haven't a clue but who were roommates in college, and we don't need your input, just execute this plan." I've seen CEOs of failed companies telling programmers how to write code. I saw this same CEO tell people "we're going to use Java and Perl for everything", not even considering if Java an Perl were appropriate for the task, and then telling people who questioned, "I hired you to execute the plan!" This sort of stupidity is what ruins companies.
Don't make the mistake of drawing up detailed, step-by-step plans, hiring bright people, and expecting them to "just execute the plan". If you want that, go hire people who used to work for McDonald's serving coffee. Instead, draw up general plans, then ask those bright people you just hired how to make it happen. That's what you hired them for, isn't it?
Yes, but customers can be stupid. They want things written in languages that they saw an article about in their latest management newsletters. [...] Some customers have valid reasons for wanting a specific language or technology. Some are just demanding the latest fad.
Oh... you mean, like Java?
C/C++ is inherently more portable than Java, runs a *lot* faster, is more mature, and has far less overhead.
The overwhelming problem that I have seen with Java is that developers tend to want the latest releases of stuff every time they change an app, fogetting (or not caring) that when you add features to an app that are in an updated library, every customer has to be upgraded - not with just the individual app, but with every library! Most Java programmers I've known tend to be inexperienced - rather than implement simple functionality their code, they lobby for upgrading. Bad for the customer, and the Java programmers learn nothing.
RMS claiming that he is the father of open source is like Linus Torvalds claiming he is the father of Linux. Sure, they've made contributions, but claiming that you are the father of anything diminishes the hard work of lots and lots of people who have written code. Of course, Linus has gone out of his way to acknowledge the thousands of people who have contributed to Linux - some in small ways, others in larger ways - but he hasn't tried to take all the credit himself -- just the opposite.
On the other hand, RMS seems to want to claim all the credit himself...
Nonsense. Alan is just trying to use his self-appointed "position" in the Linux community to grandstand and make a point. The problem is, his point holds no water whatsoever.
For someone who is supposedly so smart, he surely picked a stupid point to hang his hat on - censoring change logs becuse of the DMCA is just stupid.
Actually, no, it doesn't make sense to pay per-minute. Providers don't pay per-minute for access, why should we? They pay a flat rate for those DS3 trunks...
I hate to tell you, but AT&T had flat-rate wireless CDPD access 3 years ago. It was only 19.2, but it was about $55/month, all you could eat. Handy for downloading email in the bakground on my laptop.
Every UNIX box in places where they do daylight savings time should have their hardware clock set to UTC - resetting the clock for DST becomes a thing of the past. It's STANDARD time all over the world. Anyone who needs to deal with people over one time zone uses it - aviation, radio, even a lot of software that depends on computers being on the same time uses it. It's under the covers of a lot of software these days...
Hey, voice-over-IP is great! I signed up with Blue Kiwi - they offer flat rate long distance service anywhere in the "lower 48" for $35/month - no per-minute charges, no call restrictions. I've had them for several months, and have been amazed at the voice quality, especially when I found out it was all VoIP!
He didn't say "any sort of access", he specifically said "What I am looking for is a way to get highspeed Internet access into our division through either RF or microwave." No fiber, no DSL, none of that. Don't you idiots even read?
That being said, there was an article yesterday about folks in Maine doing exactly this sort of thing. I guess Cliff doesn't read, either...
So? Who is holding a gun to your head to use IIS - or for that matter, NT? There are a lot of web servers out there that run under NT - why pretend that IIS is the only game in town?
There are serious legal ramifications to shutting down someone else's server or turning off IIS. The was discussed in detail at the IWAR conference held in DC a couple of weeks ago.
That's because he wasn't the first one to come up with it. Try "Storming Heaven" by Dale Brown - the scnario is virtually identical to what actually happened.
Sorry, but BugZill's emailing features are in several commercial products - I was putting in "email on change" code in help desk apps I was writing back in 1998, so it's hardly a new or novel idea.
At SMI, our internal help desk also has "email on change" code - it even emails everyone a clickable link to go directly to the bug report.
And you could write all your code in assembly, it doesn't look that hard?
It is STUPID IN THE EXTREME to store textual data in anything other than the simplest text format you can get away with. Use the lowest common denominator, but I guess they don't teach that anymore in school, just "use the latest XYZ!" nonsense that's almost taken over this field.
If you want to use XML, fine, translate text to XML, but it is IDIOTIC to store it that way.
I originally wrote Escapade to take care of this sort of nonsense, and it morphed immediately into a generic server-side scripting language. But it still serves its purpose - *everything* is in a database, including rules, and adding rules to the database is as simple as clicking on "rules" in a particular email message, clicking on the particular rule you want for that particular message, and away you go. It's also browser-based, so I can read my email from anywhere. There's a C back-end process that does the hard work of putting email into the database and rule enforcement, auto-forwarding, auto-notification, etc. I've been using it for over 2 years, and while the back-end can be a little buggy at times, it works very well.
I get 700+ messages a day, and they are all automatically filtered, foldered, or thrown away - I only get to see the mportant stuff, the stuff that doesn't get filtered, about 30 a day.
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That's because you missed the point.
It describes a million dot coms, most of which are dead by now.
Not at all.
The point the author was trying to make is, you don't hire a bunch of bright people, put them in a room, and then say, "here's this extremely detailed plan on how to get from point A to point B, written by people who haven't a clue but who were roommates in college, and we don't need your input, just execute this plan." I've seen CEOs of failed companies telling programmers how to write code. I saw this same CEO tell people "we're going to use Java and Perl for everything", not even considering if Java an Perl were appropriate for the task, and then telling people who questioned, "I hired you to execute the plan!" This sort of stupidity is what ruins companies.
Don't make the mistake of drawing up detailed, step-by-step plans, hiring bright people, and expecting them to "just execute the plan". If you want that, go hire people who used to work for McDonald's serving coffee. Instead, draw up general plans, then ask those bright people you just hired how to make it happen. That's what you hired them for, isn't it?
As Barry Goldwater said, "Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue ... extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
Oh ... you mean, like Java?
C/C++ is inherently more portable than Java, runs a *lot* faster, is more mature, and has far less overhead.
The overwhelming problem that I have seen with Java is that developers tend to want the latest releases of stuff every time they change an app, fogetting (or not caring) that when you add features to an app that are in an updated library, every customer has to be upgraded - not with just the individual app, but with every library! Most Java programmers I've known tend to be inexperienced - rather than implement simple functionality their code, they lobby for upgrading. Bad for the customer, and the Java programmers learn nothing.
Why? Alan's ego is about as big as RMS's is...
RMS claiming that he is the father of open source is like Linus Torvalds claiming he is the father of Linux. Sure, they've made contributions, but claiming that you are the father of anything diminishes the hard work of lots and lots of people who have written code. Of course, Linus has gone out of his way to acknowledge the thousands of people who have contributed to Linux - some in small ways, others in larger ways - but he hasn't tried to take all the credit himself -- just the opposite.
On the other hand, RMS seems to want to claim all the credit himself...
Nonsense. Alan is just trying to use his self-appointed "position" in the Linux community to grandstand and make a point. The problem is, his point holds no water whatsoever.
For someone who is supposedly so smart, he surely picked a stupid point to hang his hat on - censoring change logs becuse of the DMCA is just stupid.
Actually, no, it doesn't make sense to pay per-minute. Providers don't pay per-minute for access, why should we? They pay a flat rate for those DS3 trunks...
I hate to tell you, but AT&T had flat-rate wireless CDPD access 3 years ago. It was only 19.2, but it was about $55/month, all you could eat. Handy for downloading email in the bakground on my laptop.
Look for N7EKG on the list of heard stations...I'm also on the ISS list, too
"A keyboard! How quaint!"
Every UNIX box in places where they do daylight savings time should have their hardware clock set to UTC - resetting the clock for DST becomes a thing of the past. It's STANDARD time all over the world. Anyone who needs to deal with people over one time zone uses it - aviation, radio, even a lot of software that depends on computers being on the same time uses it. It's under the covers of a lot of software these days...
Uh, there *is* - it's called UTC, and it's been around forever...
He didn't say "any sort of access", he specifically said "What I am looking for is a way to get highspeed Internet access into our division through either RF or microwave." No fiber, no DSL, none of that. Don't you idiots even read?
That being said, there was an article yesterday about folks in Maine doing exactly this sort of thing. I guess Cliff doesn't read, either...
You got that right!! Wow...what a hottie...
So? Who is holding a gun to your head to use IIS - or for that matter, NT? There are a lot of web servers out there that run under NT - why pretend that IIS is the only game in town?
We've had private, anonymous communications for quite some time now - it's called the US Mail.
There are serious legal ramifications to shutting down someone else's server or turning off IIS. The was discussed in detail at the IWAR conference held in DC a couple of weeks ago.
That's because he wasn't the first one to come up with it. Try "Storming Heaven" by Dale Brown - the scnario is virtually identical to what actually happened.
Sorry, but BugZill's emailing features are in several commercial products - I was putting in "email on change" code in help desk apps I was writing back in 1998, so it's hardly a new or novel idea.
At SMI, our internal help desk also has "email on change" code - it even emails everyone a clickable link to go directly to the bug report.
And you could write all your code in assembly, it doesn't look that hard?
It is STUPID IN THE EXTREME to store textual data in anything other than the simplest text format you can get away with. Use the lowest common denominator, but I guess they don't teach that anymore in school, just "use the latest XYZ!" nonsense that's almost taken over this field.
If you want to use XML, fine, translate text to XML, but it is IDIOTIC to store it that way.
What? Are you on crack? That's what Ethernet is for! Imagine, just plug this crossover cable to connect your two computers together ...
I originally wrote Escapade to take care of this sort of nonsense, and it morphed immediately into a generic server-side scripting language. But it still serves its purpose - *everything* is in a database, including rules, and adding rules to the database is as simple as clicking on "rules" in a particular email message, clicking on the particular rule you want for that particular message, and away you go. It's also browser-based, so I can read my email from anywhere. There's a C back-end process that does the hard work of putting email into the database and rule enforcement, auto-forwarding, auto-notification, etc. I've been using it for over 2 years, and while the back-end can be a little buggy at times, it works very well.
I get 700+ messages a day, and they are all automatically filtered, foldered, or thrown away - I only get to see the mportant stuff, the stuff that doesn't get filtered, about 30 a day.