I would suggest C and C++, since those are rather dominant languages today that won't be going away in the near future. Perl is also a strong language that is starting to get commonly used for many different things... from simplifying complicated tasks to running IRC daemons.
Maybe this will increase RedHat's profit, which was/in rather of a slump, increasing jobs to the Research Triangle Park area (where RedHat is based) in NC.
"They said the body was in such good condition that pores in the skin looked normal, and even the eyeballs were preserved behind lids frozen open. A sample taken from his intestine last year led scientists to conclude that his last meal included meat -- likely an alpine goat, whose bones were found nearby -- wheat, plants and plums."
It's just amazing how preserved this man was from the freezing temperatures of the Alps. That iceman looked better than some of those egyptian mummies you see on the Discovery Channel.;)
I wonder if the people packeting actually understand that what they're doing hurts buisnesses, sucks up money, and wastes time (on the ISP's part). It's more than the IRC'ers being temporarily restricted from chatting.
Debian has several different package archives. The current 3, potato, woody, and sid all contain different packages that all are 'n sync.' Potato contains all stable packages, and alot of testing gets a package into the stable section. Woody is the testing section; Woody will be the next stable update. A little more testing goes into this. SID is unstable, and unstable is always unstable. There are sometimes broken package dependancies, broken packages that break the whole system, and lots of bugs. Debian warns you up front about SIDs unstability.
Does urpmi have different archives of RPMs? I don't think so, but I may be wrong. If not, there's another point that goes to apt.
Debian's apt system is a great idea that Apple could use. Of course it wouldn't work like apt, but the general idea would still be there.
Apt will update all of the packages you currently have on your Linux system. It won't change the configuration files unless a change is needed, whereupon it will only change the part that _needs_ to be changed.
I know that Linux and Mac OS are pretty different, but a system similar to Debian's could be implemented for upgrades.
This thing must have some sort of radar, whether it be infrared or whatever (it might have been in the article? I don't know.) and I'm sure someone will come up with some sort of stealth technology to fool the machine. (Unless, of course, there's a camera on it)
Those HAM radios can reach further than 0-50 miles. One time I picked up a HAM radio operator in Florida from NC on a walke-talkie (heh.). At first she didn't beleive I was on a walkie-talkie and kept changing her frequency, then changing back. But she eventaully added me to her chart.
... if this thing is powered by IBM's self-policing and self-healing computer server.:) I can't even beleive that NASA was still monitoring signals for the pioneer to reply, you think they would've stopped after that long.
Think about domains. By the time half of us got interested in buying a domain, all the obvious words or abbreveations/letter combonations where already taken by bigger companies (or just someone else). I think the same will occur here: someone will scoop up all the radio spectrum available before anyone else even has a chance to.
Well, the internet was supposedly a great place for gathering information all with ease. Now people step in and start restricting us from this information. Great job.
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I found some surprising egrep results from the linux source code. Here you go:
Linus Torvalds used...
fuck 11 times, or 9% of the time
shit 31 times, or 26% of the time
bitch 12 times, or 10% of the time
ass 10 times, or about 8.5% of the time
bastard two times, or about 1.7% of the time
dick one time, or about 0.8% of the time
hell 50 times, or 42.7% of the time
Total swear words used: 117
A few examples:
"/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Remember: "Different name, same old buggy as shit hardware." */"
"/usr/src/linux/net/core/netfilter.c:/* James M doesn't say fuck enough. */"
"/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/process.c:/* fuck me plenty */" (this one's my favorite, hah.)
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Even tohugh this may sound rather pointless, I believe it's policy for all "athletes" in the olympics to get a drug test.
I would suggest C and C++, since those are rather dominant languages today that won't be going away in the near future. Perl is also a strong language that is starting to get commonly used for many different things... from simplifying complicated tasks to running IRC daemons.
Maybe this will increase RedHat's profit, which was/in rather of a slump, increasing jobs to the Research Triangle Park area (where RedHat is based) in NC.
"They said the body was in such good condition that pores in the skin looked normal, and even the eyeballs were preserved behind lids frozen open. A sample taken from his intestine last year led scientists to conclude that his last meal included meat -- likely an alpine goat, whose bones were found nearby -- wheat, plants and plums."
;)
It's just amazing how preserved this man was from the freezing temperatures of the Alps. That iceman looked better than some of those egyptian mummies you see on the Discovery Channel.
The things you mentioned have already been implemented in EFnet's hybrid7 ircd (which is currently still in beta).
I wonder if the people packeting actually understand that what they're doing hurts buisnesses, sucks up money, and wastes time (on the ISP's part). It's more than the IRC'ers being temporarily restricted from chatting.
Debian has several different package archives. The current 3, potato, woody, and sid all contain different packages that all are 'n sync.' Potato contains all stable packages, and alot of testing gets a package into the stable section. Woody is the testing section; Woody will be the next stable update. A little more testing goes into this. SID is unstable, and unstable is always unstable. There are sometimes broken package dependancies, broken packages that break the whole system, and lots of bugs. Debian warns you up front about SIDs unstability. Does urpmi have different archives of RPMs? I don't think so, but I may be wrong. If not, there's another point that goes to apt.
Debian's apt system is a great idea that Apple could use. Of course it wouldn't work like apt, but the general idea would still be there.
Apt will update all of the packages you currently have on your Linux system. It won't change the configuration files unless a change is needed, whereupon it will only change the part that _needs_ to be changed.
I know that Linux and Mac OS are pretty different, but a system similar to Debian's could be implemented for upgrades.
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What if someone with one cracked 100mbit box from Japan just happened to ping -f old granny's pacemaker? Then what?
Well, the first one looked just as stupid anyways, so I saved a bit of pocket cash myself ;)
Maybe this will stop the IRC spammers trying to get me to download "Scary Movie" off their home ftp daemon.
This thing must have some sort of radar, whether it be infrared or whatever (it might have been in the article? I don't know.) and I'm sure someone will come up with some sort of stealth technology to fool the machine. (Unless, of course, there's a camera on it)
Those HAM radios can reach further than 0-50 miles. One time I picked up a HAM radio operator in Florida from NC on a walke-talkie (heh.). At first she didn't beleive I was on a walkie-talkie and kept changing her frequency, then changing back. But she eventaully added me to her chart.
... if this thing is powered by IBM's self-policing and self-healing computer server. :) I can't even beleive that NASA was still monitoring signals for the pioneer to reply, you think they would've stopped after that long.
The same thing could happen to me since Time Warner and AOL have merged: my cable could become "AOL Cable." *Gasp*
First it was self-policing servers, and now it's self-healing! Looks like IBM is thinking.
Well, mine is. I run Debian Linux.. now I hope I don't get free trial copies of Windows ME in the mail.
What they are proposing is like saying "A child can not be named 'Timothy' because this was the name of Timothy McVeigh".
It's as if saying you can't own your own name.. after all, it is your right, isn't it?
Yeah, let's hope this thing doesn't accidently come in contact with a Chinese hot-dogging fight pilot and clip it's wings.
:/
Oh, but wait.. this thing is crossing the Atlantic
That sounds reasonable.. but I still can't beleive a wing wouldn't get severed or something in an ocean storm :P
Think about domains. By the time half of us got interested in buying a domain, all the obvious words or abbreveations/letter combonations where already taken by bigger companies (or just someone else). I think the same will occur here: someone will scoop up all the radio spectrum available before anyone else even has a chance to.
Doesn't that seem like a waste of money? Providing computers for LAN events? But again, that's pretty nifty :)
Well, the internet was supposedly a great place for gathering information all with ease. Now people step in and start restricting us from this information. Great job.
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I found some surprising egrep results from the linux source code. Here you go: Linus Torvalds used...
/* Remember: "Different name, same old buggy as shit hardware." */" /* James M doesn't say fuck enough. */" /* fuck me plenty */" (this one's my favorite, hah.)
;)
fuck 11 times, or 9% of the time
shit 31 times, or 26% of the time
bitch 12 times, or 10% of the time
ass 10 times, or about 8.5% of the time
bastard two times, or about 1.7% of the time
dick one time, or about 0.8% of the time
hell 50 times, or 42.7% of the time
Total swear words used: 117
A few examples:
"/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/sunhme.c:
"/usr/src/linux/net/core/netfilter.c:
"/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/process.c:
Pretty neat results
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Since when does some sort of technology not have a bug/vulnerability or just not be reliable at all? Self-policing woudn't be very reliable, IMHO.