Perl6 gave the language dabblers an opportunity to experiment with new ideas and concepts. Take the best of perl5, but not be afraid to be wildly incompatible, and see where it goes.
However, while all the cool kids were doing stuff in perl6, the perl5 folks realized they could do really cool things in perl5 too, right now. Perl5 now has Moose, Plack (Stolen from Ruby's Rack), new web frameworks to match and even better those of ruby, python, and even PHP. Perl5's maintainers started to actually chase down long standing bugs, and actually kill off the things that have been giving deprecation warnings in perl5. There's even a Perl Foundation grant out for someone doing full-time perl5 bug triage + fixing. (And if you've seen Perl5's source, you'll know that's no small feat)
My company's work in perl5 pays my bills. Perl5 is not going anywhere anytime soon, so I'm confident we can continue to move forward with it. Perl6, now that it's becoming more and more usable will inspire the imagination of developers, and continue to evolve, and the perl5 folks will continue to cherry pick the nifty features they can backport into perl5.
It's a very exciting future for perl all around, and I'm happy to be on board.
In HS, when wee were doing matrices, I got bit by the 'show the work' requirement.
So I wrote a program onto the calculator (TI-85) That would 'show the work' that I could transcribe to my test.
*I* didn't consider it cheating, because If I could describe the algorithm to a computer in a programming language, I felt that I had sufficiently mastered it, and any additional assignments were simply busy work.
What's more telling is rather than defend their positions with facts, economic or otherwise, they are simply name-calling groups that are attacking them. "They're stupid because their ideas are stupid" Bonus points for using words like 'extremist' to label their opponents in there too.
Part of the strong-copyright groups problem is that they have been producing reports in their favor for years, and folks are finally coming around to realizing that those reports were wildly inaccurate, and skewed heavily in favor of their position.
The art of debate in politics and policy has been lost. No --- the art has simply been reduced to kindergarten-like school fights.
Google Chrome posted the highest maximum memory usage when all chrome.exe processes were summed, reaching 1.18 gigabytes, while Firefox posted the lowest maximum memory levels of 327.65 megabytes. This means Firefox used 73% less memory during peak periods.
Their methodology is flawed. The operating system will share identical unmodified memory pages between processes once in memory. So if they simply summed @ the total memory usage for each process, they could be counting the same piece of memory multiple times.
In Firefox, the single-process model makes it easy to measure the memory use of the process, but brings with it all it's flaws, (much easier to take out the whole session with a bad plugin)
Measuring memory usage of a multi-process application requires figuring out many pages are uniquely mapped amongst all processes, then summing that figure
TFA also mentions child pornography, which is fairly universally forbidden.
If your gonna be critical of the government, don't give them any other reason to attack you. It helps bolster your case of "I did nothing wrong" and "they're just trying to take me down"
Into my Car so I can get additional performance gagues + graphs. I have the Arduino board, and can solder things here and there, I've just never gotten around to it....
Funny -- Something almost exactly like that happened @ my datacenter last year. Some 'licensed' electrician accidentally shorted something in the main Power junction, which took the whole damn thing offline, generators, batteries and all. We were down 1+ hrs while they had to have the techs come on site to ensure that things were safe and online. Meanwhile, a small group of admins just outside w/ pitchforks (myself included) were waiting for the all clear to swarm the datacenter to get our equipment back online....
I still have some marginally useful PPC linux builds. FF won't release builds for PPC linux anymore, and iceweasel is way far behind, and to compile my own is rather... painful.
You can get flash for PPC MacOS, but not so much PPC Linux. Where's my 'full web' there?
It's possible, if you place the site in the 'Trusted Sites' security group.
One outfit I support has an app that receives orders online rather than fax/mail. The system simply serves up.doc invoices. That's all fine and dandy, except for the next part:
The system requires me to lower script security permissions, place the site in the trusted sites, and doesn't use https. On the open internet. All to run some vbsscript to force the.doc invoices to print. At least, that's the only function I spotted. I didn't run across the part that infects the system w/ malicious malware yet, but I know it's in there somewhere.
When the tech gave me these instructions on the phone, I asked him on the spot if they were concerned with this glaring infection vector. They didn't seem to care.
Of course, since a good majority of business comes through this customer, we shut up and use it:(
These High-Frequency trading systems require sub-second responses from the market servers. They're usually collocated in the same structure as the marketing servers, and firms pay handsomely for that kind of space and network access.
When that market closes, you don't want these machines trading overseas, the latency to reach those servers would negate the entire purpose of these machines.
I remember doing hacks like this to Mac applications -- back when they had resource + data forks. The resource forks contained all their sounds, graphics, icons, forms, etc. With ResEdit you could simply open up (most) applications and tweak them to your hearts content:)
Fail2ban or denyhosts activly target ssh. fail2ban includes rules for other services, but denyhosts includes a mechanism for sharing lists of your denied hosts w/ other admins, as well as using their ban lists to protect your ssh logins.
When I ask aptitude to install apache2, I get apache2. I don't get apache2, a download manager, and a toolbar in my firefox browser.
Heck, some packages even 'suggest' or 'reccomend' additional packages. But it's strictly OPT-IN.
It is a sad state of affairs that Windows users have to suffer through this crap. Microsoft should of stepped up to the bar and provided Operating System features that actually belong in the Operating system, namely, package + update management.
I did a internship @ A.T. Cross (high-end pens/gifts), when they were dabbling with 'modernizing' the company and introducing digital products. (that are all now discontinued)
They made a device that would let you write on a paper pad, but @ the same time capture (in Vector format no less) your pen strokes, and then download them to a PC.
As a result, I got to play with a few of those, and used one in college. The software had OCR capability, but was coded by IBM, and was clunky. By College though, I had switched to linux by my 1st year, and coulden't find a viable way of running it:(
My quick 'how it works assessment w/o tracing the code' is that it detects when you create a range of highlighted text, the inserts an invisible image with alt text @ the very end of the selection. It's not touching the clipboard, it's simply "altering" what you selected to copy @ the last second before the user copies it to the clipboard.
MS Is touting "this is not a VPN" (even in their marketing for this feature) -- but the parent is right, it's just an ipsec VPN that's initialized early in the boot up process.
I guess it's handy, most vpn clients I've seen are klunky things that have to run after login.
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If you read the ToS (for VZ Fios, Even Cox Cable has a similar provision) by agreeing to service, you authorize them to access your equipment.
See here: http://www.verizon.net/policies/popups/tos_popup.asp
Search for "Monitoring of Network Performance by Verizon"
I soooo wish there was more competition for broadband in the states :(
Perl did languish for a while.
Perl6 gave the language dabblers an opportunity to experiment with new ideas and concepts. Take the best of perl5, but not be afraid to be wildly incompatible, and see where it goes.
However, while all the cool kids were doing stuff in perl6, the perl5 folks realized they could do really cool things in perl5 too, right now. Perl5 now has Moose, Plack (Stolen from Ruby's Rack), new web frameworks to match and even better those of ruby, python, and even PHP. Perl5's maintainers started to actually chase down long standing bugs, and actually kill off the things that have been giving deprecation warnings in perl5. There's even a Perl Foundation grant out for someone doing full-time perl5 bug triage + fixing. (And if you've seen Perl5's source, you'll know that's no small feat)
My company's work in perl5 pays my bills. Perl5 is not going anywhere anytime soon, so I'm confident we can continue to move forward with it. Perl6, now that it's becoming more and more usable will inspire the imagination of developers, and continue to evolve, and the perl5 folks will continue to cherry pick the nifty features they can backport into perl5.
It's a very exciting future for perl all around, and I'm happy to be on board.
In HS, when wee were doing matrices, I got bit by the 'show the work' requirement.
So I wrote a program onto the calculator (TI-85) That would 'show the work' that I could transcribe to my test.
*I* didn't consider it cheating, because If I could describe the algorithm to a computer in a programming language, I felt that I had sufficiently mastered it, and any additional assignments were simply busy work.
What's more telling is rather than defend their positions with facts, economic or otherwise, they are simply name-calling groups that are attacking them. "They're stupid because their ideas are stupid" Bonus points for using words like 'extremist' to label their opponents in there too.
Part of the strong-copyright groups problem is that they have been producing reports in their favor for years, and folks are finally coming around to realizing that those reports were wildly inaccurate, and skewed heavily in favor of their position.
The art of debate in politics and policy has been lost. No --- the art has simply been reduced to kindergarten-like school fights.
From http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory:
Their methodology is flawed. The operating system will share identical unmodified memory pages between processes once in memory. So if they simply summed @ the total memory usage for each process, they could be counting the same piece of memory multiple times.
In Firefox, the single-process model makes it easy to measure the memory use of the process, but brings with it all it's flaws, (much easier to take out the whole session with a bad plugin)
Measuring memory usage of a multi-process application requires figuring out many pages are uniquely mapped amongst all processes, then summing that figure
What's broken then?
The Laws?
Or the Enforcement?
TFA also mentions child pornography, which is fairly universally forbidden.
If your gonna be critical of the government, don't give them any other reason to attack you. It helps bolster your case of "I did nothing wrong" and "they're just trying to take me down"
When I have the time, i've been meaning to try something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBDuino
Into my Car so I can get additional performance gagues + graphs. I have the Arduino board, and can solder things here and there, I've just never gotten around to it ....
Funny -- Something almost exactly like that happened @ my datacenter last year. Some 'licensed' electrician accidentally shorted something in the main Power junction, which took the whole damn thing offline, generators, batteries and all. We were down 1+ hrs while they had to have the techs come on site to ensure that things were safe and online. Meanwhile, a small group of admins just outside w/ pitchforks (myself included) were waiting for the all clear to swarm the datacenter to get our equipment back online ....
Heck, I'd settle for some PPC Linux love.
I still have some marginally useful PPC linux builds. FF won't release builds for PPC linux anymore, and iceweasel is way far behind, and to compile my own is rather ... painful.
You can get flash for PPC MacOS, but not so much PPC Linux. Where's my 'full web' there?
So what ... like 2-3 Core Switches?
Indeed. Spectacular doesn't always have to be environmentally catastrophic :)
They can, however, fail in fairly spectacular ways:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o
It's possible, if you place the site in the 'Trusted Sites' security group.
One outfit I support has an app that receives orders online rather than fax/mail. The system simply serves up .doc invoices. That's all fine and dandy, except for the next part:
The system requires me to lower script security permissions, place the site in the trusted sites, and doesn't use https. On the open internet. All to run some vbsscript to force the .doc invoices to print. At least, that's the only function I spotted. I didn't run across the part that infects the system w/ malicious malware yet, but I know it's in there somewhere.
When the tech gave me these instructions on the phone, I asked him on the spot if they were concerned with this glaring infection vector. They didn't seem to care.
Of course, since a good majority of business comes through this customer, we shut up and use it :(
These High-Frequency trading systems require sub-second responses from the market servers. They're usually collocated in the same structure as the marketing servers, and firms pay handsomely for that kind of space and network access.
When that market closes, you don't want these machines trading overseas, the latency to reach those servers would negate the entire purpose of these machines.
I remember doing hacks like this to Mac applications -- back when they had resource + data forks. The resource forks contained all their sounds, graphics, icons, forms, etc. With ResEdit you could simply open up (most) applications and tweak them to your hearts content :)
Fail2ban or denyhosts activly target ssh. fail2ban includes rules for other services, but denyhosts includes a mechanism for sharing lists of your denied hosts w/ other admins, as well as using their ban lists to protect your ssh logins.
When I ask aptitude to install apache2, I get apache2. I don't get apache2, a download manager, and a toolbar in my firefox browser.
Heck, some packages even 'suggest' or 'reccomend' additional packages. But it's strictly OPT-IN.
It is a sad state of affairs that Windows users have to suffer through this crap. Microsoft should of stepped up to the bar and provided Operating System features that actually belong in the Operating system, namely, package + update management.
I did a internship @ A.T. Cross (high-end pens/gifts), when they were dabbling with 'modernizing' the company and introducing digital products. (that are all now discontinued)
They made a device that would let you write on a paper pad, but @ the same time capture (in Vector format no less) your pen strokes, and then download them to a PC.
http://www.amazon.com/Cross-CrossPad-CP41001-01-Portable-Digital/dp/B00000K1R3
As a result, I got to play with a few of those, and used one in college. The software had OCR capability, but was coded by IBM, and was clunky. By College though, I had switched to linux by my 1st year, and coulden't find a viable way of running it :(
One System I've seen (Small high school system) kept track of the last borrower on an item, so that if it was damaged, they could find out who did it.
It wasn't an item in the primary menu, and you had to know the 'secret keystroke' to get to that screen.
My quick 'how it works assessment w/o tracing the code' is that it detects when you create a range of highlighted text, the inserts an invisible image with alt text @ the very end of the selection. It's not touching the clipboard, it's simply "altering" what you selected to copy @ the last second before the user copies it to the clipboard.
This has been true as far back as Windows 95. I used to use this trick in W95 to make it easier to get to certain resources in the windows system.
I read about this feature a few weeks ago.
MS Is touting "this is not a VPN" (even in their marketing for this feature) -- but the parent is right, it's just an ipsec VPN that's initialized early in the boot up process.
I guess it's handy, most vpn clients I've seen are klunky things that have to run after login.
on the feature comparison site it's labeled as "Over-the-Air software updates"
I don't really count that as a feature given Amazon's recent abuse of it.