Re:Emacs Turned Me Into a Real Programmer
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Yes, but it was not vim.
Re:Emacs Turned Me Into a Real Programmer
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GNU Emacs 21
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If I'm just programming within Linux I use whatever calls itself "vi" on my box, whether that is Vim or Elvis or whatnot. Every now and then I do pull out emacs though. When I need the power. Usually these days I just want something quick and simple
Ditto. I use vi whenever i just want to browse a file, or make some minor changes to a file, or createa 4 liner shell script, while I happen to be in the same directory. For any serious programming I use emacs.
I had one collegue though, who could not work without his old MS editor. I don't know where he got it, but I believe it was something that came from an old version of NT, or maybe some editor that came with an ide. I really don't know. I had never heard of it before, or after. It looked like vi with colors. Even though all our software only ran on unix, this guy would ftp the work in progress to his windows box, and ftp back when it was time to compile. It really drove me nuts.
The SLA guarantees a 99.999% uptime or your money back Let me see, 99.999% uptime on a windows system. That translates to 4 minutes and 12 seconds downtime per year. I don't know about you guys, but on this planet that's not what I call a credible proposition. On windows, that' more like winning the lottery. I surely hope somebody in that meeting had the sense to laugh.
Agreed. The Wired article is a poor excuse of an article. Not just is he trying to grab attention by bold statements such as "the [desktop] war is over, Microsoft won", he also manages to get the simplest things wrong. As someone who'd been an editor at a Red Hat web site, and someone who is paid to write a Linux article for Wired, one should expect a certain level of knowledge. He states that Linux is 10 years old and was written from scratch by Linus.
Call me a nitpick, but Linus started by hacking on minix, which came with full source code in Andrew S Tannenbaum's text book "Operating systems".
A great book, and the perfect christmas gift to young geeks who decide they want to write a unix like operating system for PC's.
Fulfillment of this plan was through PeoplePC Hm, I thought it was HP. Maybe I'm wrong, or you tried to be funny. Or you did not try to be funny, but are just a moron, or my memory is bad, and I'm the moron.
"Honey, the stereo died again, we can't seem to keep anything working around here anymore..."
Fade in scary music. Pan to Fentium, the little chipster busying reading BOFH. clickety-click.
Pan to vacuum cleaner. See the new mexican jumping bean robots disappearing up the tube. Pan to the TV set, where the volume is at full, on channel 3.5, with Barney singing a duo with HAL.
The problem is that the people who share a fat pipe with their neighburhood now has the role of an ISP.
One day you'll find out that your neighbur has been running scams and posting child pornography, and one day FBI knocks on your door.
To prepare for that situation, you must either show logs proving that it's your neighbur and not you that's behind it. Or maybe allow FBI to monitor your system over time to suss out who's behind it all.
If you choose not to keep such logs, you may be the one being throwed in jail, or at the very least get your equipment confiscated and your ISP connection closed.
So you'll have to choose between acting as big brother over your neighbur, or risk taking the blame for other people's crimes.
I guess even a worm writer wants to use the 'Net. Building self-termination into a worm seems like an oddly moral thing to do, however closer
examination will probably reveal the author was concerned about the worm making the net completely unusable.
Or as someone else pointed out, it's to stop the infected host from broadcasting "My owner is a moron, please FIX ME!". If the worm writers main goal was to gather an arsenal of computer slaves, then a wormicide would be the thing to do. When the worm stops spreading the security gurus go away, the press stops spreading panic, and the script kiddies can quietly move in and gorge themself on an unprecedented number of slaves. Now why they'd want to run their advanced skript-kiddie-software on such a lame OS beats me, but then again, I probably don't like their music either.
Seems like RIAA is going through evolution at a fast pace. First they knew nothing. Then digital happened, and they still knew nothing. Then the net and digital and p2p happened, but this time they were prepared, armed to the teeth with DMCA.
Then they tried out misc. tecnhological speed bumps, which all turned out to be trash, and when that was revealed, they tried to extort dr felten. And when he yelled "foul", they somehow managed to backpedal in a way that got felten's suit thrown out of court. bastards.
And now they've evolved into script kiddies. I guess the goal justifies the means. However, they're still as dumb as brick. In the aftermath of September 11., the hawks have tightened things so that hacking is considered terrorism.
Cool. Finally there is no need to go through expensive lawsuits to stunt these goons. All we have to do is wrap up the evidence, and hand them over to the feds.
Extortion, cyberterrorism, sounds like a mob thing to me. Time for a grand jury to put these people away.
In the case of Linux, you can't except if you paid for it. For Windows, you should write off what you paid. And then write off 50% of the value of the perfectly fine computer it was installed on. After installing Windows, it's now a sad pile of dysfunctional junk. Consider it "the cost of doing business with uncle Bill".
Re:The reach of the internet ... How this started
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Surry bub too, you're obviously wrong.
The poster was doctored BEFORE the fact. The photos are genuine, and there are 2 versions of the poster. Obviously, a jokster (possibly j-roen) put together the doctored collage. Then the print shop in Bangladesh does a google search for the bin-laden collage, and ends up with the doctored one without noticing.
It's a perfect hack. I'd give the guy a medal. Now all these angry demonstrators have been parading their idol as a homosexual alcoholic, both things very, very bad according to most islam, and especially for Taliban.
I would think that Microsoft would want to get out of their leadership position in enabling virus attacks and making them so painful
Well, the time is about ripe. I think not only the SW, but also the accompanying viruses and worms were made in Redmond. MS used these "tools" to track down and identify users not paying the proper licences. Now that they have served their purpose, and MS is moving over to a pay-by-the-minute licencing model, they don't need those
"tools" anymore.
I can see that they may get IIS fixed, but I am not sure how they are going to deal with VB. VB is a dangerous smurf in sheeps clothing.
Posting benchmarks results is a flamebait? Feel free to feel as sick as you want. Puke all over the place as far as I am conserned. It's well deserved. Bwhuaa.
Not sure about that. Not all geeks and hackers fit a stereotype and share the same good tastes. Some even like C&W music, even rap, blech. Only a juvenile hacker with poor taste would like Nsync, but I am sure the nsync and cd ripping populations have some overlap.
This is why it's important that it's compatible. Everyone needs to be able to access everyone else's calendar for this to work. Outlook, despite its faults, does this very nicely. No it doesn't. Outlook is compatible only with outlook. You can do all you want plus more with a free thing called WebCalendar. It works with every friggin web browser, not just a handful of braindead windows boxes.
If a company has made themself dependent on the MS platform for the sake of email and Calendar, I most seriously doubt their judgement and competence.
At least give a +1 funny point for the visuals of an ant parade. It may be a flame, but not a flamebait. The flamebait belongs to the parent post, where he specifies what answers would be acceptable to his rhetorical question. That's just a huge invitation for a snide comment.
I was the baitee, not the baiter.
Anyways, I don't care, I've got karma to burn. But this is definitely proof that there is no such thing as a slashdot-moderators-love-linux-and-hate-MS conspiracy. It is rather the other way round. A bunch of MS zealots with moderator points to burn.
Their only problem is that there isn't enough moderator points in the universe to defend MS.
The TRUTH.. not our typical "MS Just Sucks". Sorry to rain on your ant parade but:
The truth is MS Just Sucks. You answered your own question. Besides that, it is in MS interest to make it hard for anyone to interoperate. So, they not only suck, but they suck for a purpose, namely to pick your pockets.
HP has done that before. For a long time, after they bought Apollo, they had two flavors of HPUX, one for the 700-series (workstations) and one for the 800 series (servers).
In addition HP had a "business" legacy OS (name escapes me, ME? ME/MX someting like that.
DEC still has OSF/1/True64/DecUnix/ VMS/OpenVMS, NT for Alpha etc.
To a certain degree the two server families, are competing in the same market space, on new projects that is. The really large customers who already have made their pick will need their existing investment protected. I should think it will take 5-10 years to completely phase out one of these OS's. And in doing so HP will alienate their existing customers.
Trying to merge them into a single O/S sounds like the kind of project that would kill the company.
Anyone remember how Sybase was the 800# gorilla in the Database market, and then they released Sybase 10.0? HP will do a blunder of the same magnitude if they try to merge the products.
I have been a very happy customer of both these vendors, but this merger makes no sense to me. They can't merge the products, and they're too similar to make any sense as a product lineup. They need to maintain each of the platforms anyways. I think Carly Fiorentina have committed a major blunder, and 5 years down the road it is going to be mentioned as the classical "how not to do M&A". Teh company is putting itself in a position where they'll be screwed no matter what they do. Consolidate and alienate existing customers? Not consolidate, and try to market competing, almost identical products?
At a crucial time, while there are still 4 major players in the high-end UNIX market, HP has given itself a handicap they can never recover from. Fiorentina is continuing the legacy of Lucent, where they buy first and think later.
This is not unusual for special-purpose professional software, where the customer is still important enough to have a say in the contract.
The last phase of a sale is the legal departments of the buyer and seller working out the contract. The contract covers how the software must perform, what kind of support you get, size of penalties if software or patches are delivered late. How the parties may break the contract. It is even usual to have a clause about escrow. A third party keeps the source code in escrow, so that the customer receives the source code if the seller fails to honor the support agreements or goes out of business.
When you buy a shrink wrapped software package, the contract is one-sided, and somehow Microsoft is able to do that even against the largest corporations. That's why it's called a monopoly. These large organisations are hostages of Microsoft, and must pay whichever price is asked.
They don't even have the guts to challenge MS contracts, since anything that hurts Microsoft may eventually hurt the quality of a product that they depend on.
2 to 3 people for each flight, but most likely 2. Most likely checked in with false ids to make it harder to trace their origins. Probably also had bought tickets at different times, and for different part of the plane. One of the terrorists, or possible all of them, in case any of them were hurt or killed during the operation, have received basic pilot training, just enough to steer it at target.
Smuggling in firearms would have been too risky. But there are 1000's of ways to kill a person without the use of firearms. Piece of string, poison, martial arts techniques... You can't spot a black belt in karate with x-rays
It appears that they are trying to hide their identities, so the whole operation might have been done in silence, to avoid any conversation being stored on the flight recording box.
They might even have worn masks or makeup during checkin to make it harder to identofy them from airport securoty tapes.
Good idea. A legal DoS would work perfectly. The big ones do it all the time, and the reason they do, is that there is no legislation against frivolous suits in this country. Maybe it's time to use the flaws in the legal system to do some good for once. Just be careful so that there is no risk of being charged with perjury.
In most European countries, if you sue and lose, you normally have to pay for the other party's legal expenses.
Write Disnay and say you will boycott all their products. Also write them and say that if this law passes, you will dedicate your time to undermine Disney profits.
You will set up picket lines at the local movie theatre.
You will call your cable provider and unsubscribe to all Disney channels.
You will submit reader letters and articles to the print press.
You will call the IRS as a whistleblower, claiming that Disney is committing tax fraud.
You will harrass Disney executuves by starting fake rumors about sex scandals, tax fraud, securities fraud.
Keep it up, and they may admit that the constitution has some merits after all.
Slashdot Mirror
That would rock.
Yes, but it was not vim.
Ditto. I use vi whenever i just want to browse a file, or make some minor changes to a file, or createa 4 liner shell script, while I happen to be in the same directory. For any serious programming I use emacs.
I had one collegue though, who could not work without his old MS editor. I don't know where he got it, but I believe it was something that came from an old version of NT, or maybe some editor that came with an ide. I really don't know. I had never heard of it before, or after. It looked like vi with colors. Even though all our software only ran on unix, this guy would ftp the work in progress to his windows box, and ftp back when it was time to compile. It really drove me nuts.
The SLA guarantees a 99.999% uptime or your money back
Let me see, 99.999% uptime on a windows system. That translates to 4 minutes and 12 seconds downtime per year. I don't know about you guys, but on this planet that's not what I call a credible proposition. On windows, that' more like winning the lottery. I surely hope somebody in that meeting had the sense to laugh.
Agreed. The Wired article is a poor excuse of an article. Not just is he trying to grab attention by bold statements such as "the [desktop] war is over, Microsoft won", he also manages to get the simplest things wrong. As someone who'd been an editor at a Red Hat web site, and someone who is paid to write a Linux article for Wired, one should expect a certain level of knowledge. He states that Linux is 10 years old and was written from scratch by Linus.
Call me a nitpick, but Linus started by hacking on minix, which came with full source code in Andrew S Tannenbaum's text book "Operating systems".
A great book, and the perfect christmas gift to young geeks who decide they want to write a unix like operating system for PC's.
Fulfillment of this plan was through PeoplePC
Hm, I thought it was HP. Maybe I'm wrong, or you tried to be funny. Or you did not try to be funny, but are just a moron, or my memory is bad, and I'm the moron.
If so, you may get something hackable. On the other hand if you ever posted as AC or was a bad boy, all you'll get is a lump of coal.
"Honey, the stereo died again, we can't seem to keep anything working around here anymore..."
Fade in scary music. Pan to Fentium, the little chipster busying reading BOFH. clickety-click.
Pan to vacuum cleaner. See the new mexican jumping bean robots disappearing up the tube. Pan to the TV set, where the volume is at full, on channel 3.5, with Barney singing a duo with HAL.
The problem is that the people who share a fat pipe with their neighburhood now has the role of an ISP.
One day you'll find out that your neighbur has been running scams and posting child pornography, and one day FBI knocks on your door.
To prepare for that situation, you must either show logs proving that it's your neighbur and not you that's behind it. Or maybe allow FBI to monitor your system over time to suss out who's behind it all.
If you choose not to keep such logs, you may be the one being throwed in jail, or at the very least get your equipment confiscated and your ISP connection closed.
So you'll have to choose between acting as big brother over your neighbur, or risk taking the blame for other people's crimes.
I guess even a worm writer wants to use the 'Net. Building self-termination into a worm seems like an oddly moral thing to do, however closer
examination will probably reveal the author was concerned about the worm making the net completely unusable.
Or as someone else pointed out, it's to stop the infected host from broadcasting "My owner is a moron, please FIX ME!". If the worm writers main goal was to gather an arsenal of computer slaves, then a wormicide would be the thing to do. When the worm stops spreading the security gurus go away, the press stops spreading panic, and the script kiddies can quietly move in and gorge themself on an unprecedented number of slaves. Now why they'd want to run their advanced skript-kiddie-software on such a lame OS beats me, but then again, I probably don't like their music either.
but other than typographical errors
(which can be easily found and fixed), there should be no *logical* bugs.
How 'bout this piece of java:
int clash;
...
public void setClash( int c1ash ){
this.clash=clash;
}
Will compile just fine, but will never be discovered unless you have good unit tests.
Seems like RIAA is going through evolution at a fast pace. First they knew nothing. Then digital happened, and they still knew nothing. Then the net and digital and p2p happened, but this time they were prepared, armed to the teeth with DMCA.
Then they tried out misc. tecnhological speed bumps, which all turned out to be trash, and when that was revealed, they tried to extort dr felten. And when he yelled "foul", they somehow managed to backpedal in a way that got felten's suit thrown out of court. bastards.
And now they've evolved into script kiddies. I guess the goal justifies the means. However, they're still as dumb as brick. In the aftermath of September 11., the hawks have tightened things so that hacking is considered terrorism.
Cool. Finally there is no need to go through expensive lawsuits to stunt these goons. All we have to do is wrap up the evidence, and hand them over to the feds.
Extortion, cyberterrorism, sounds like a mob thing to me. Time for a grand jury to put these people away.
In the case of Linux, you can't except if you paid for it. For Windows, you should write off what you paid. And then write off 50% of the value of the perfectly fine computer it was installed on. After installing Windows, it's now a sad pile of dysfunctional junk. Consider it "the cost of doing business with uncle Bill".
The poster was doctored BEFORE the fact. The photos are genuine, and there are 2 versions of the poster. Obviously, a jokster (possibly j-roen) put together the doctored collage. Then the print shop in Bangladesh does a google search for the bin-laden collage, and ends up with the doctored one without noticing.
It's a perfect hack. I'd give the guy a medal. Now all these angry demonstrators have been parading their idol as a homosexual alcoholic, both things very, very bad according to most islam, and especially for Taliban.
I would think that Microsoft would want to get out of their leadership position in enabling virus attacks and making them so painful
Well, the time is about ripe. I think not only the SW, but also the accompanying viruses and worms were made in Redmond. MS used these "tools" to track down and identify users not paying the proper licences. Now that they have served their purpose, and MS is moving over to a pay-by-the-minute licencing model, they don't need those
"tools" anymore.
I can see that they may get IIS fixed, but I am not sure how they are going to deal with VB. VB is a dangerous smurf in sheeps clothing.
Posting benchmarks results is a flamebait? Feel free to feel as sick as you want. Puke all over the place as far as I am conserned. It's well deserved. Bwhuaa.
Not sure about that. Not all geeks and hackers fit a stereotype and share the same good tastes. Some even like C&W music, even rap, blech. Only a juvenile hacker with poor taste would like Nsync, but I am sure the nsync and cd ripping populations have some overlap.
This is why it's important that it's compatible. Everyone needs to be able to access everyone else's calendar for this to work. Outlook, despite its faults, does this very nicely.
No it doesn't. Outlook is compatible only with outlook. You can do all you want plus more with a free thing called WebCalendar. It works with every friggin web browser, not just a handful of braindead windows boxes.
If a company has made themself dependent on the MS platform for the sake of email and Calendar, I most seriously doubt their judgement and competence.
At least give a +1 funny point for the visuals of an ant parade. It may be a flame, but not a flamebait. The flamebait belongs to the parent post, where he specifies what answers would be acceptable to his rhetorical question. That's just a huge invitation for a snide comment.
I was the baitee, not the baiter.
Anyways, I don't care, I've got karma to burn. But this is definitely proof that there is no such thing as a slashdot-moderators-love-linux-and-hate-MS conspiracy. It is rather the other way round. A bunch of MS zealots with moderator points to burn.
Their only problem is that there isn't enough moderator points in the universe to defend MS.
The TRUTH .. not our typical "MS Just Sucks".
Sorry to rain on your ant parade but:
The truth is MS Just Sucks. You answered your own question. Besides that, it is in MS interest to make it hard for anyone to interoperate. So, they not only suck, but they suck for a purpose, namely to pick your pockets.
HP has done that before. For a long time, after they bought Apollo, they had two flavors of HPUX, one for the 700-series (workstations) and one for the 800 series (servers).
In addition HP had a "business" legacy OS (name escapes me, ME? ME/MX someting like that.
DEC still has OSF/1/True64/DecUnix/ VMS/OpenVMS, NT for Alpha etc.
To a certain degree the two server families, are competing in the same market space, on new projects that is. The really large customers who already have made their pick will need their existing investment protected. I should think it will take 5-10 years to completely phase out one of these OS's. And in doing so HP will alienate their existing customers.
Trying to merge them into a single O/S sounds like the kind of project that would kill the company.
Anyone remember how Sybase was the 800# gorilla in the Database market, and then they released Sybase 10.0? HP will do a blunder of the same magnitude if they try to merge the products.
I have been a very happy customer of both these vendors, but this merger makes no sense to me. They can't merge the products, and they're too similar to make any sense as a product lineup. They need to maintain each of the platforms anyways. I think Carly Fiorentina have committed a major blunder, and 5 years down the road it is going to be mentioned as the classical "how not to do M&A". Teh company is putting itself in a position where they'll be screwed no matter what they do. Consolidate and alienate existing customers? Not consolidate, and try to market competing, almost identical products?
At a crucial time, while there are still 4 major players in the high-end UNIX market, HP has given itself a handicap they can never recover from. Fiorentina is continuing the legacy of Lucent, where they buy first and think later.
The last phase of a sale is the legal departments of the buyer and seller working out the contract. The contract covers how the software must perform, what kind of support you get, size of penalties if software or patches are delivered late. How the parties may break the contract. It is even usual to have a clause about escrow. A third party keeps the source code in escrow, so that the customer receives the source code if the seller fails to honor the support agreements or goes out of business.
When you buy a shrink wrapped software package, the contract is one-sided, and somehow Microsoft is able to do that even against the largest corporations. That's why it's called a monopoly. These large organisations are hostages of Microsoft, and must pay whichever price is asked.
They don't even have the guts to challenge MS contracts, since anything that hurts Microsoft may eventually hurt the quality of a product that they depend on.
No weapons were involved.
... You can't spot a black belt in karate with x-rays
2 to 3 people for each flight, but most likely 2. Most likely checked in with false ids to make it harder to trace their origins. Probably also had bought tickets at different times, and for different part of the plane. One of the terrorists, or possible all of them, in case any of them were hurt or killed during the operation, have received basic pilot training, just enough to steer it at target.
Smuggling in firearms would have been too risky. But there are 1000's of ways to kill a person without the use of firearms. Piece of string, poison, martial arts techniques
It appears that they are trying to hide their identities, so the whole operation might have been done in silence, to avoid any conversation being stored on the flight recording box.
They might even have worn masks or makeup during checkin to make it harder to identofy them from airport securoty tapes.
Good idea. A legal DoS would work perfectly. The big ones do it all the time, and the reason they do, is that there is no legislation against frivolous suits in this country. Maybe it's time to use the flaws in the legal system to do some good for once. Just be careful so that there is no risk of being charged with perjury.
In most European countries, if you sue and lose, you normally have to pay for the other party's legal expenses.
Write Disnay and say you will boycott all their products. Also write them and say that if this law passes, you will dedicate your time to undermine Disney profits.
You will set up picket lines at the local movie theatre.
You will call your cable provider and unsubscribe to all Disney channels.
You will submit reader letters and articles to the print press.
You will call the IRS as a whistleblower, claiming that Disney is committing tax fraud.
You will harrass Disney executuves by starting fake rumors about sex scandals, tax fraud, securities fraud.
Keep it up, and they may admit that the constitution has some merits after all.