I'm not sure if their deaths were all that "horrific" - in all likelihood, it happened so fast that they never had time to realize what was happening before they were dead.
Escapade is much faster and easier at doing quick projects like this, and it's also free. We've even got a compiler for it that compiles down to an ELF executable (Linux and FreeBSD only at the moment). The compiler is in alpha, Escapade itself is beta, but it's been well shaken out and is fater than PHP and Perl without all the bloat. If you embedded BASIC into HTML, it would sort of look like Escapade. It's also under active development, and new stuff is added every day. I use it all the time to throw quick web-based apps together. Click here for more info.
J. who? Did you notice that nowhere on the site does it list *anything* he's done, just lists of "awards" and such. Awards for what? If I had invented the internet or any such thing, I'd be hollering about it to high heaven on my web site... oh, wait a minute, Al Gore already beat me to it!
Back when we were first throwing drivers left and right into the kernel (1992), someone brought up the point that Linux itself might be vulnerable to IP claims if it weren't developed "clean room" style. At that time it was thought that Sun would be the most likely threat, but a message was floated amongst the kernel and application developers, asking anyone who had worked on Sys III/V code or kernel code for anyone else, and I don't remember anyone raising their hand. I worked for Sun during that timeframe, but did not have access to the SunOS or Solaris source.
Of course, this could all be a desperate ploy by SCO to get cash in the door, but they want to leak it via the rumor mill, to gauge how well it would go over. Credits to Navy beans that, when they get inundated with bad press, they claim that it wasn't a consideration, plausible deniability, all that jazz.
Back when we were first throwing drivers left and right into the kernel (1992), someone brought up the point that Linux itself might be vulnerable to IP claims if it weren't developed "clean room" style. At that time it was thought that Sun would be the most likely threat, but a message was floated amongst the kernel and application developers, asking anyone who had worked on Sys III/V code or kernel code for anyone else, and I don't remember anyone raising their hand. I worked for Sun during that timeframe, but did not have access to the SunOS or Solaris source.
Of course, this could all be a desperate ploy by SCO to get cash in the door, but they want to leak it via the rumor mill, to gauge how well it would go over. Credits to Navy beans that, when they get inundated with bad press, they claim that it wasn't a consideration, plausible deniability, all that jazz.
Quite a bit, actually. This reads like a topical treatment by someone who really doesn't know the subject. For example he mentions whitelisting, but in the solutions section, completely ignoring the fact that there are already solutions, both commercial and open source, that use whitelisting, blacklisting, and greylisting. In fact, I wrote one about 6 months ago for a client, and they are quite happy about it, it affords them complete spam protection.
Your whole post is complete nonsense from beginning to end. First, the FCC doesn't care about ERP from 802.11b, just power output. There is absolutely no way you're going to get hurt pushing 100 mw out an antenna, even a parabolic dish. Second, making your own antennas to radiate RF can be illegal, or not, depending on the service. Third, digital ham radio is so far behind the times it's a joke. 1200 baud packet is still all the rage in most places - it's like people still think it's some sort of miracle that digital signals go over RF. And don't even get me started on HF packet - the fastest is 2400 baud, and that's only with Pactor III - everyone else is passing traffic at 300 baud. Fourth, you forgot about the "no encryption" and "no business" restrictions on ham radio, which makes it useless for most people in these sorts of circumstances.
I replaced 5 planned DHCP/DNS servers running Windows NT ($35K) with Linux running on 5 old 486 DX2/66-16M RAM boxes ($0). We ran them headless, turned them on and forgot about them. TCO = $0. No maintenance, no training, none of that other overhead/underfoot cost. My boss was *very* pleased.
"In my opinion this is completely nasty, but it's all clearly in the EULA that you must agree to before it installs the software."
And this makes it all OK, huh? Does that mean that if I get your OK before I shoot you in the head, that it's OK to kill you? How idiotic is that attitude? Sheesh.
Pactor III is supposed to give 2400 baud throughput, at least that's what SCS claims. I've seen their charts, and Pactor blows Clover and PSK31 out of the water in terms of speed.
They're using PPP to establish a TCP/IP connection over HF. While it's a solution, it's not the best solution - using UUCP and eliminating the overhead of PPP and TCP/IP is a much better, more robust, and higher throughput solution for store-and-forward applications. Been there, done that.
Exactly! For those who have never done such a thing, just think they know how it's done, you don't run a site off the generator. You use the generator to charge the batteries that power the inverters or whatever - it's *far* cheaper that way, and you don't have to run the generators for long - just long enough to bring the batteries back up.
The reason why is necause the Slashdot editors ovbiously wait until the story is submitted by someone they know, or something with a cool-sounding handle, then they publish it. To hell with being first - it's all about being a favorite son.
No, it's not weird - it's stupid. It's the same thinking that gets people to believe that Perl and PHP are the best things since sliced bread, when the reality is, Perl and PHP are completely unsuitable for 75% of the programming projects out there. But it's a commonly-accepted theme in this industry that "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." What is perfectly acceptable in the IT field - that of having just one or two tools in your toolbox - is completely unacceptable in almost every other field of craftsmanship. Would you hire a carpenter whose toolbox only contained a hammer and a saw? Or an electrician who only had a pair of dykes and a roll of electrical tape?
The only problem I've had with PostgreSQL is that it is a royal pain in the ass to get to meta data - getting a list of tables in a database, or getting a list of fields in a table is so hard it's fucking insane. With MySQL, all I have to do is "show tables" or "show columns in tablename".
Oh... I thought this was going to be one of those "Spielberg begged Lucas to share some of his crack with him, but Lucas refused". Muat've been that "Crack found on Space Shuttle" story that got me going.:)
Since it's not in the contract, it's not prohibited to disconnect it, and there's only so many places to hide a GPS receiver with or without a cell phone or wireless modem for communications (if so equipped), the receiver has to be able to see the sky, so it shouldn't be too tough to find.
"Hey, I was checking the oil/loading the trunk/finding my dropped M&M under the seat, and I saw this thing, black box or something, and it wasn't on the wiring diagrams of the car, and hey, how do I know it's not a bomb or something that terrorists planted in my car, so I disconnected it, yeah." Paranoia isn't against any law that I know of, and disconnecting something that's in the car and not in the contract can't be breaking the contract, can it? So, screw 'em;)
I rent the car, I bring it back to them, why should they care what happens in between as long as I bring it back in the same condition that I got it?
And this is hot stuff? I did something similar back in 1997, except it was for the FBI, not the drug lords, and it was probably some of the simplest code I'd ever written. The large machines are because of the amount of data, not because it's complicated coding.
And why is this such a big deal? A friend and I did this 10 years ago - if we didn't log into our Linux boxes for 7 days, it would automatically send out email to everyone we knew, asking us to log in. After 14 days, it would automatically email our digital wills out to affected parties.
This, of course, assumes someone doesn't come along and unplug your machine shortly after you die, but if it's on a dedicated or shared box that wouldn't be a problem.
Where can I get a deal like that? I go out, commit a bunch of crimes, and when I get caught, I cut a deal to get off the hook in exchange for my promise that "I won't ever do it again."
What kind of idiots do the SEC have investigating this stuff, anyway? Criminals don't respect the law - that's why we call them criminals. Why should anyone believe a liar, someone who has already committed crimes?
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Bullshit. Under Bush, NASA funding has actually INCREASED. Clinton cut, cut, cut.
Do your homework before you spout off about something you obviously know nothing about.
I'm not sure if their deaths were all that "horrific" - in all likelihood, it happened so fast that they never had time to realize what was happening before they were dead.
Sounds like rsync to me. Why reinvent the wheel?
Escapade is much faster and easier at doing quick projects like this, and it's also free. We've even got a compiler for it that compiles down to an ELF executable (Linux and FreeBSD only at the moment). The compiler is in alpha, Escapade itself is beta, but it's been well shaken out and is fater than PHP and Perl without all the bloat. If you embedded BASIC into HTML, it would sort of look like Escapade. It's also under active development, and new stuff is added every day. I use it all the time to throw quick web-based apps together. Click here for more info.
J. who? Did you notice that nowhere on the site does it list *anything* he's done, just lists of "awards" and such. Awards for what? If I had invented the internet or any such thing, I'd be hollering about it to high heaven on my web site ... oh, wait a minute, Al Gore already beat me to it!
Smells like BS to me...
Back when we were first throwing drivers left and right into the kernel (1992), someone brought up the point that Linux itself might be vulnerable to IP claims if it weren't developed "clean room" style. At that time it was thought that Sun would be the most likely threat, but a message was floated amongst the kernel and application developers, asking anyone who had worked on Sys III/V code or kernel code for anyone else, and I don't remember anyone raising their hand. I worked for Sun during that timeframe, but did not have access to the SunOS or Solaris source.
Of course, this could all be a desperate ploy by SCO to get cash in the door, but they want to leak it via the rumor mill, to gauge how well it would go over. Credits to Navy beans that, when they get inundated with bad press, they claim that it wasn't a consideration, plausible deniability, all that jazz.
Back when we were first throwing drivers left and right into the kernel (1992), someone brought up the point that Linux itself might be vulnerable to IP claims if it weren't developed "clean room" style. At that time it was thought that Sun would be the most likely threat, but a message was floated amongst the kernel and application developers, asking anyone who had worked on Sys III/V code or kernel code for anyone else, and I don't remember anyone raising their hand. I worked for Sun during that timeframe, but did not have access to the SunOS or Solaris source.
Of course, this could all be a desperate ploy by SCO to get cash in the door, but they want to leak it via the rumor mill, to gauge how well it would go over. Credits to Navy beans that, when they get inundated with bad press, they claim that it wasn't a consideration, plausible deniability, all that jazz.
Quite a bit, actually. This reads like a topical treatment by someone who really doesn't know the subject. For example he mentions whitelisting, but in the solutions section, completely ignoring the fact that there are already solutions, both commercial and open source, that use whitelisting, blacklisting, and greylisting. In fact, I wrote one about 6 months ago for a client, and they are quite happy about it, it affords them complete spam protection.
This is so f**king cool ... hmmm .. maybe I'll learn Java now ... it would be cool to have your phone itself go out and check your email for you ;)
Your whole post is complete nonsense from beginning to end. First, the FCC doesn't care about ERP from 802.11b, just power output. There is absolutely no way you're going to get hurt pushing 100 mw out an antenna, even a parabolic dish. Second, making your own antennas to radiate RF can be illegal, or not, depending on the service. Third, digital ham radio is so far behind the times it's a joke. 1200 baud packet is still all the rage in most places - it's like people still think it's some sort of miracle that digital signals go over RF. And don't even get me started on HF packet - the fastest is 2400 baud, and that's only with Pactor III - everyone else is passing traffic at 300 baud. Fourth, you forgot about the "no encryption" and "no business" restrictions on ham radio, which makes it useless for most people in these sorts of circumstances.
I replaced 5 planned DHCP/DNS servers running Windows NT ($35K) with Linux running on 5 old 486 DX2/66-16M RAM boxes ($0). We ran them headless, turned them on and forgot about them. TCO = $0. No maintenance, no training, none of that other overhead/underfoot cost. My boss was *very* pleased.
"In my opinion this is completely nasty, but it's all clearly in the EULA that you must agree to before it installs the software."
And this makes it all OK, huh? Does that mean that if I get your OK before I shoot you in the head, that it's OK to kill you? How idiotic is that attitude? Sheesh.
Pactor III is supposed to give 2400 baud throughput, at least that's what SCS claims. I've seen their charts, and Pactor blows Clover and PSK31 out of the water in terms of speed.
They're using PPP to establish a TCP/IP connection over HF. While it's a solution, it's not the best solution - using UUCP and eliminating the overhead of PPP and TCP/IP is a much better, more robust, and higher throughput solution for store-and-forward applications. Been there, done that.
Exactly! For those who have never done such a thing, just think they know how it's done, you don't run a site off the generator. You use the generator to charge the batteries that power the inverters or whatever - it's *far* cheaper that way, and you don't have to run the generators for long - just long enough to bring the batteries back up.
The reason why is necause the Slashdot editors ovbiously wait until the story is submitted by someone they know, or something with a cool-sounding handle, then they publish it. To hell with being first - it's all about being a favorite son.
No, it's not weird - it's stupid. It's the same thinking that gets people to believe that Perl and PHP are the best things since sliced bread, when the reality is, Perl and PHP are completely unsuitable for 75% of the programming projects out there. But it's a commonly-accepted theme in this industry that "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." What is perfectly acceptable in the IT field - that of having just one or two tools in your toolbox - is completely unacceptable in almost every other field of craftsmanship. Would you hire a carpenter whose toolbox only contained a hammer and a saw? Or an electrician who only had a pair of dykes and a roll of electrical tape?
The only problem I've had with PostgreSQL is that it is a royal pain in the ass to get to meta data - getting a list of tables in a database, or getting a list of fields in a table is so hard it's fucking insane. With MySQL, all I have to do is "show tables" or "show columns in tablename".
Oh ... I thought this was going to be one of those "Spielberg begged Lucas to share some of his crack with him, but Lucas refused". Muat've been that "Crack found on Space Shuttle" story that got me going. :)
Since it's not in the contract, it's not prohibited to disconnect it, and there's only so many places to hide a GPS receiver with or without a cell phone or wireless modem for communications (if so equipped), the receiver has to be able to see the sky, so it shouldn't be too tough to find.
;)
"Hey, I was checking the oil/loading the trunk/finding my dropped M&M under the seat, and I saw this thing, black box or something, and it wasn't on the wiring diagrams of the car, and hey, how do I know it's not a bomb or something that terrorists planted in my car, so I disconnected it, yeah." Paranoia isn't against any law that I know of, and disconnecting something that's in the car and not in the contract can't be breaking the contract, can it? So, screw 'em
I rent the car, I bring it back to them, why should they care what happens in between as long as I bring it back in the same condition that I got it?
And this is hot stuff? I did something similar back in 1997, except it was for the FBI, not the drug lords, and it was probably some of the simplest code I'd ever written. The large machines are because of the amount of data, not because it's complicated coding.
And why is this such a big deal? A friend and I did this 10 years ago - if we didn't log into our Linux boxes for 7 days, it would automatically send out email to everyone we knew, asking us to log in. After 14 days, it would automatically email our digital wills out to affected parties.
This, of course, assumes someone doesn't come along and unplug your machine shortly after you die, but if it's on a dedicated or shared box that wouldn't be a problem.
The folks at Slashdot must not have anything better to do. This is OLD news - at least a year old.
Where can I get a deal like that? I go out, commit a bunch of crimes, and when I get caught, I cut a deal to get off the hook in exchange for my promise that "I won't ever do it again."
What kind of idiots do the SEC have investigating this stuff, anyway? Criminals don't respect the law - that's why we call them criminals. Why should anyone believe a liar, someone who has already committed crimes?