Where'd you go to school? I'm a first-year at Georgia Tech in the Computer-Engineering department, and so far what I've seen is that the CS and Cmp-E majors are EXPECTED to know a decent amount of information on unix. The introduction to computer course that everyone at the school is required to take, even has a unix "lab" everyone had to perform. Nothing administrative, but it's a place to start.
From usage to administration is a matter of what applications you know how to use in reality...maybe I've just been using unices so long that it all seems simple to me!:-)
Oh, I 100% agree! But, even there, the odds of a bank manager having the technical ability to do it, are not good. Not to mention if the act is performed you can almost immediately know who did it. Your suspect list is very minimal at worst.
If they had not told IBM about it ahead of time, I'd agree, it's negligent. But a year is plenty of time for IBM engineers (sad fact now that I think about it...i might be an intern at IBM this time next year...sorry off topic) to fix the problem. If they choose not to fix it (and I doubt that they were not warned that the informationw ould be released) they are the ones being negligent. Now, if IBM recieved no warning, I'd agree with you, it's negligent to say hey guess what! But, then again, more than just banks use this hardware....Alan Cox state "This is really military grade hardware...." I'm sure many large corp.'s use it, and the best way to let them know instead of just trying to call downa customer list is to say hey this exists, protect yourself. Also, it's a fairly easily blocked attacked until a fix is released. Which will hopefully be quick, as I just got a new Visa!;-)
Aye, but it's more than jsut working in a bank! You have to have physical access to the machine which is harder than one might think. Also you must have security access on the machine. Could this be obtained? Yes, but in reality, to do it you would have to be at a point where you had nothing to lose in life, and getting caught wouldn't matter, because chances are, you would be caught.
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Sounded pretty serious in context. Blah, I'm in a bad mood anyhow! Blasted chem exam at 8am tomorrow!:-) (I don't understand... I have to take the class, yet it's a pre-requisite or co-reqisiste for NOTHING I have to take later...no sense whatsoever...ah the joys of being a first year!:-)
Not true IMHO. By releasing it to the public, it forces IBM and the banks to fix the problem, or (hopefully) face public scrutiny and possibly a loss of customers. Hyping it up and not relasing the information will simply entice some hacker to repeat the crack him/herself. No one will no they did it until they bribe some bank manager to help him still the money...Not releasing the information is far more dangerous than releasing it. By releasing it, you know what is out ther eand what you have to protect against. Either way, it's a difficult crack to pull off, simply for access reasons...
See, this is the problem...no upgrade. IBM was notified about the problem a year ago, with no fix. In reality a firmware update should do it (I believe the card is capable of it...) but they've done nothing. They didn't say the banks didn't know they just didnt say they did. Also you have to have physical access to the machine with the chip in it to do it. That's alot of banks to notify also!
win 95 = no problem except for with most of my games, which is the sole reason I run any version of windows.
I have good, well known hardware. Simple issue is crappy driver support, and poor exception handling. The dxr3 driver crashes when I try to use it, takes the whole machine with it in a big BSOD. I'm fully aware of how to keep a system stable. I'm not a moron like our little friend who thinks that linux users are all freeloaders.
Hey dip shit, MS doesn't write drivers, hardware manufacturers do. I said my DXR 3 keeps crashing my box..but you're to fucking stupid to actually read that apparently.
It's called short-hand actually...of course i'm not intelligent so I don't know that!:-)
Hired escorts...try 18 year old girls...period expensive little things...take me here...take me there. Geez they'll empty your wallet faster than a an athlon xp or 2...
No, especially when you need physical access to the machine with the card to do it. What is immoral is spending a year lolly gagging around about it and not fixing it..IBM that is.
Define real os? hmm? Linux has unix roots, and unix is definitely one of the oldest operating systems in existence, so linux to me would definitely qualify as a real os. Also, linux user != freeloader. I pay out the butt for computer parts, cds, dvds, movie and concert tickets, food, tuition (yeah my mom and dad's $60k combined income ousted me from any scholarships...I only get student loans), insurance...God have mercy insurance, gas, software, women (can you say dating...it's expensive if you didn't know!), I pay taxes so real freeloaders can have lunch (note to such people...go get a job please...be productive, I'm sick of supporting you.) I use linux because it's stable, and it just works better. Heck, I can't get my dxr3 to NOT crash Win XP, however it works perfectly in linux...and the people who made the card wrote the windows drivers. Hrmm. I wonder why it crashes!
So, in conclusion, not only are you ignorant and a troll as your name states...you're just fucking stupid too.:-) Good day now!
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I assaulted his remarks, he insulted my intelligence. Big difference there.
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Due to the insulting nature of your remarks I won't even dignify you with a further response than this.
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With gcc and other compilers doing native code compiling of java (gcc does it cross-platform too!:-) Java can be plenty fast. Interpretted lanaguages are going to be slow by definition, particularly at load time...consume alot of memory too.
But, you are right, if one's interpretted java is fast, then they probably aren't using it correctly.
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An IDE has a higher learning curve than emacs? Are you insane? Okay, first off emacs is definitely bloated and definitely tries to do everything. Second, IDE=integrated development enviroment. Keyword there is integrated. Emacs...hmm text editor with prorgammer's extension's no? Third, heavy use of a mouse? maybe you have heard of this new concept called keyboard shortcuts, they'll save your life man! Fourth, I gave up learning Emacs, IDE's make much more sense to me and they're all similar enough that there is very little learning curve form one IDE to another in most cases. Took me just a few moments to figure out mos tof the stuff I needed to know in the first palce the first time I stepped into an IDE.
I'd disagree. A printf makes debugging a pain. Most programmers want the highest quality in the shortest amount of time and printf is not the way to get there. Torvalds doesn't use a debugger simply because he does use a frigen IDE, the man rarely even steps in X for God's sake!:-) An IDE with a well-designed debugger (such as the Borland ones IMHO anyhow) can make life easier. MAke me lazy? Perhaps, but I wonder how many bugs you could have avoided by stepping through your code and watching the variable's values or watching your registers rather than just seeing where it is crashing. You probably would have gotten through the debugging faster too. Maybe I'm ignorant...afterall I'm not a professional yet (student) but maybe I'm right...
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Slow is all in how you define slow...i've used jbuilder 5 and it's plenty fast for me! My friend is a developer at a company called Mapics (offshoot from IBM actually if I recall correctly...) and they are switching from smalltalk to java (in the middle of some projects no less..my friend had to help writea converter to convert as much smalltalk code to java as possible via automation, and they'd do what it didnt get right by hand...he said it was fun with a nice touch of sarcasm:-) but anyways ) they tried visual j++, jbuilder and several others and jbuilder was there developers choice for speed, ease of use et cetera.
He didn't ask why he isn't happy, he's asking for a solution to the monotony of his field. Honestly, every job comes with this problem, where you just stop loving what you do like you used to. Eventually though, something happens to bring back the joy. Sometimes a job change, in his case, being in school (as am I) generally just thinking about something else for a while does the trick. I've been there, I know, I got bored with it for a while too. So I concentrated on the other things I enjoyed...baseball, I used to love to play baseball (until I hurt my arm that is )-: , reading (you name it, classics, Tom Clancy, Sci-Fi)...I just went about my hobbies and limited my computer use to the stuff I had to use it for. After a month, I suddenly just missed it.
The joy never came from being on the bleeding edge, it was expressing my creativity, and trying to find a quicker way to implement an algorithm, or a more efficient way.
In the 80s an IBM or Apple engineer...sorry don't know which...walked into an electronics store and noticed they were selling a type of computer he had helped engineer and a young boy was writing some kind of program on it. He asked the kid what he was doing and he was trying to get the computer to achieve some rather dull pointless task in a certain number of seconds, the engineer simply informed him that the computer was not capable of it, and he knew this because he had helped design it. The boy simply said I think I'll keep trying. Before he left the engineer came back to the boy just in time to watch the boy disprove the engineer.
The point? He had a joy, not so much in what he was having the computer do, but, more so in how he could do it.
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Where'd you go to school? I'm a first-year at Georgia Tech in the Computer-Engineering department, and so far what I've seen is that the CS and Cmp-E majors are EXPECTED to know a decent amount of information on unix. The introduction to computer course that everyone at the school is required to take, even has a unix "lab" everyone had to perform. Nothing administrative, but it's a place to start. :-)
From usage to administration is a matter of what applications you know how to use in reality...maybe I've just been using unices so long that it all seems simple to me!
Oh, I 100% agree! But, even there, the odds of a bank manager having the technical ability to do it, are not good. Not to mention if the act is performed you can almost immediately know who did it. Your suspect list is very minimal at worst.
If they had not told IBM about it ahead of time, I'd agree, it's negligent. But a year is plenty of time for IBM engineers (sad fact now that I think about it...i might be an intern at IBM this time next year...sorry off topic) to fix the problem. If they choose not to fix it (and I doubt that they were not warned that the informationw ould be released) they are the ones being negligent. Now, if IBM recieved no warning, I'd agree with you, it's negligent to say hey guess what! But, then again, more than just banks use this hardware....Alan Cox state "This is really military grade hardware...." I'm sure many large corp.'s use it, and the best way to let them know instead of just trying to call downa customer list is to say hey this exists, protect yourself. Also, it's a fairly easily blocked attacked until a fix is released. Which will hopefully be quick, as I just got a new Visa! ;-)
No, quite the opposite, I think they WILL fix it now that it is in the open. That was my point, they didn't need to while no one else knew.
Aye, but it's more than jsut working in a bank! You have to have physical access to the machine which is harder than one might think. Also you must have security access on the machine. Could this be obtained? Yes, but in reality, to do it you would have to be at a point where you had nothing to lose in life, and getting caught wouldn't matter, because chances are, you would be caught.
Sounded pretty serious in context. Blah, I'm in a bad mood anyhow! Blasted chem exam at 8am tomorrow! :-) (I don't understand... I have to take the class, yet it's a pre-requisite or co-reqisiste for NOTHING I have to take later...no sense whatsoever...ah the joys of being a first year! :-)
Not true IMHO. By releasing it to the public, it forces IBM and the banks to fix the problem, or (hopefully) face public scrutiny and possibly a loss of customers. Hyping it up and not relasing the information will simply entice some hacker to repeat the crack him/herself. No one will no they did it until they bribe some bank manager to help him still the money...Not releasing the information is far more dangerous than releasing it. By releasing it, you know what is out ther eand what you have to protect against. Either way, it's a difficult crack to pull off, simply for access reasons...
See, this is the problem...no upgrade. IBM was notified about the problem a year ago, with no fix. In reality a firmware update should do it (I believe the card is capable of it...) but they've done nothing. They didn't say the banks didn't know they just didnt say they did. Also you have to have physical access to the machine with the chip in it to do it. That's alot of banks to notify also!
win 95 = no problem except for with most of my games, which is the sole reason I run any version of windows.
I have good, well known hardware. Simple issue is crappy driver support, and poor exception handling. The dxr3 driver crashes when I try to use it, takes the whole machine with it in a big BSOD. I'm fully aware of how to keep a system stable. I'm not a moron like our little friend who thinks that linux users are all freeloaders.
Hey dip shit, MS doesn't write drivers, hardware manufacturers do. I said my DXR 3 keeps crashing my box..but you're to fucking stupid to actually read that apparently.
It's called short-hand actually...of course i'm not intelligent so I don't know that! :-)
Hired escorts...try 18 year old girls...period expensive little things...take me here...take me there. Geez they'll empty your wallet faster than a an athlon xp or 2...
No, especially when you need physical access to the machine with the card to do it. What is immoral is spending a year lolly gagging around about it and not fixing it..IBM that is.
No, criminal negligence is know there is a problem, and not fixing it!
Bitch at them, and the FCC, something will eventually get done about your lack of service. Also...ALWAYS considering distance to CO when moving! :-)
Newnan,Ga has it that cheap and has for several years. Unless prices have been raised recently that is.
Define real os? hmm? Linux has unix roots, and unix is definitely one of the oldest operating systems in existence, so linux to me would definitely qualify as a real os. Also, linux user != freeloader. I pay out the butt for computer parts, cds, dvds, movie and concert tickets, food, tuition (yeah my mom and dad's $60k combined income ousted me from any scholarships...I only get student loans), insurance...God have mercy insurance, gas, software, women (can you say dating...it's expensive if you didn't know!), I pay taxes so real freeloaders can have lunch (note to such people...go get a job please...be productive, I'm sick of supporting you.) I use linux because it's stable, and it just works better. Heck, I can't get my dxr3 to NOT crash Win XP, however it works perfectly in linux...and the people who made the card wrote the windows drivers. Hrmm. I wonder why it crashes!
:-) Good day now!
So, in conclusion, not only are you ignorant and a troll as your name states...you're just fucking stupid too.
I assaulted his remarks, he insulted my intelligence. Big difference there.
Due to the insulting nature of your remarks I won't even dignify you with a further response than this.
But, you are right, if one's interpretted java is fast, then they probably aren't using it correctly.
An IDE has a higher learning curve than emacs? Are you insane? Okay, first off emacs is definitely bloated and definitely tries to do everything. Second, IDE=integrated development enviroment. Keyword there is integrated. Emacs...hmm text editor with prorgammer's extension's no? Third, heavy use of a mouse? maybe you have heard of this new concept called keyboard shortcuts, they'll save your life man! Fourth, I gave up learning Emacs, IDE's make much more sense to me and they're all similar enough that there is very little learning curve form one IDE to another in most cases. Took me just a few moments to figure out mos tof the stuff I needed to know in the first palce the first time I stepped into an IDE.
I'd disagree. A printf makes debugging a pain. Most programmers want the highest quality in the shortest amount of time and printf is not the way to get there. Torvalds doesn't use a debugger simply because he does use a frigen IDE, the man rarely even steps in X for God's sake! :-) An IDE with a well-designed debugger (such as the Borland ones IMHO anyhow) can make life easier. MAke me lazy? Perhaps, but I wonder how many bugs you could have avoided by stepping through your code and watching the variable's values or watching your registers rather than just seeing where it is crashing. You probably would have gotten through the debugging faster too. Maybe I'm ignorant...afterall I'm not a professional yet (student) but maybe I'm right...
Slow is all in how you define slow...i've used jbuilder 5 and it's plenty fast for me! My friend is a developer at a company called Mapics (offshoot from IBM actually if I recall correctly...) and they are switching from smalltalk to java (in the middle of some projects no less..my friend had to help writea converter to convert as much smalltalk code to java as possible via automation, and they'd do what it didnt get right by hand...he said it was fun with a nice touch of sarcasm :-) but anyways ) they tried visual j++, jbuilder and several others and jbuilder was there developers choice for speed, ease of use et cetera.
How completely hypocritical...must be extremely boring since you responded! :-)
Chris DiBona of course!
He didn't ask why he isn't happy, he's asking for a solution to the monotony of his field. Honestly, every job comes with this problem, where you just stop loving what you do like you used to. Eventually though, something happens to bring back the joy. Sometimes a job change, in his case, being in school (as am I) generally just thinking about something else for a while does the trick. I've been there, I know, I got bored with it for a while too. So I concentrated on the other things I enjoyed...baseball, I used to love to play baseball (until I hurt my arm that is )-: , reading (you name it, classics, Tom Clancy, Sci-Fi)...I just went about my hobbies and limited my computer use to the stuff I had to use it for. After a month, I suddenly just missed it.
The joy never came from being on the bleeding edge, it was expressing my creativity, and trying to find a quicker way to implement an algorithm, or a more efficient way.
In the 80s an IBM or Apple engineer...sorry don't know which...walked into an electronics store and noticed they were selling a type of computer he had helped engineer and a young boy was writing some kind of program on it. He asked the kid what he was doing and he was trying to get the computer to achieve some rather dull pointless task in a certain number of seconds, the engineer simply informed him that the computer was not capable of it, and he knew this because he had helped design it. The boy simply said I think I'll keep trying. Before he left the engineer came back to the boy just in time to watch the boy disprove the engineer.
The point? He had a joy, not so much in what he was having the computer do, but, more so in how he could do it.