In regards to running Linux on that portion of the zone, there might be something to do with the fact that a majority of traffic that comes through NGWorldStats comes from a certain game whose developers provide a Linux version of, and run Apache on their own site.
But so what? If Microsoft looks at a little GPL'd code (which I'm sure they have) what's the problem? As long as they don't use any of it verbatim, and write their own (mostly messy, mostly crashing) code, what do we have to worry about? I'm sure most of us have looked at GPL'd code for ideas, but not copied them simply due to not wanting to go through the procedure of releasing our source everytime we release a build/lack of documentation in the original source (although, the second really isn't a GPL issue:) ).
I don't know about this "schools own your work" stuff, but at Sarah Lawrence all the students "owned" their own code.
I GPL'd my sDES project last year, with the assistance of a teacher. sDES stands for "simplified DES" -- it's DES with only an 8-bit key. Not terribly secure, but a good exercise (plus, it worked equally well with binaries as it did with data files, something that apparently was hard to do). I think it's still on Freshmeat somewhere.
These apply because they already have bad acting:):
- Resident Evil ("Why don't you pick the lock? After all, Jill, you are the master of lockpicking.")
- Red Alert 2 (unless Keri Werher comes onto the screen in a bikini and says absolutely nothing for 90 minutes)
- Anything related to that "Someone set us up the bomb" game that mainstream media has milked to death
- Super Mario Advance (Great game, but the voices will go down as the most annoying in gaming history. Toad dying [a 4 sec sound bite] is pretty funny, though.)
- StarCraft (Another great game, but come on. The animated cut scenes were good but the scriptwriter must've been playing with his Thesaurus in Word. "Zeratul, you and Tassadar must reach the clandestine notion of the terran outer worldly spacial realm. Only then can you fix my ancient crystal rotary watch..." etc, etc.)
Bad? That's an understatement. Nearly *all* of my friends (in every discipline, not just computers) who have graduated in the past month have found NO work whatsoever. Right now I'm temping at my former high school in my town, but calls to Yahoo, Microsoft, Dell, Compaq, HP, eBay, etc. have all gone unanswered. In the local classifieds, there's less than 10 IT jobs a week, and most are silly things which either require less technical skill (teaching children) or skills techies don't generally have (fixing computers at Pantone -- and doing artist work).
I never thought I'd be doing data entry after my BA in Computer Science, but here I am. I'm just hoping ONE company gives me a call for a decent IT job.
What I found unusual was that even though Roger Ebert said the ending had a "turning, brilliant climax" the ending itself was actually really weak. You pretty much know halfway through how it's going to end, and the movie doesn't really excite in that sense.
I thought some of the characters were more memorable than the actual plot, and the guy who blows stuff up is one of the funniest Disney characters in a long time. My favorite part is when he's describing his childhood: "My parents worked in a flower store. We had to make those little flowers people wore to proms. And they'd come in and say 'This doesn't match my dress!' But then, one day, I saw a gas explosion across the street. No more Chinese laundry. I had found my calling."
The time period (it's supposed to be 1920-30) also leads to a few weird instances. Not with the technology (which you can let go in a flick), but the montage of characters, who are suprisingly mixed for a "undersea crew" of the 1920's. There's a black doctor, and even a noticable female Spanish mechanic. Didn't know political correctness was ripe back then.:)
Finally, I was more than a little confused by the movie's rating: PG. I wracked my brain and couldn't think of any previous Disney feature cartoons that were rated anything other than G (I know a few of the live-action movies are automatically PG and above). What was really strange is that the violence was no worse than some previous Disney cartoons. Most villians die in their flicks (Oliver & Company had a car hit by a train, The Great Mouse Detective had the villian fall from Big Ben), but there wasn't one kid in the theater even remotely perturbed by the explosions (presumably with people in them). I remember more kids crying when Bambi died (which was rated G).
Overall, it's a pretty good flick. Definitely "matinee" material, but if you have kids you really can't go wrong (lines like: "I have the four basic food groups: Bacon, Grease, Whiskey, and Lard" are for the adults). Also, very much different than most Disney animated films (not a musical, only action) so catch the anime-like goodness while they're free to copy it.:)
I taught a few classes for senior citizens as part of a senior high school project. A couple of things I learned (from myself teaching and watching other students try):
* Provide as little information as required to get the users to access the internet. You don't have to go into the notion of "servers" and "clients", and you certainly shouldn't mention "way back mainstays" like FTP and Gopher. The users just need to know there are "computers out there" that are sharing information, and some of this information is available to look at. That's it.
* Metaphors help, but you got to use the right ones. I found the best one I tried (and got most people to instantly understand web browsers) is that these are like pages in a book. You can go back, flipping through the pages of the "internet book" using the Back button, and you can go forward through the pages using the Forward button. Any time you see the hand and can click the mouse, that's like reading a new page you haven't seen before.
* Email addresses confuse the hell out of people until you explain that it's almost exactly the same as real-life addresses on envelops. The part before the @ sign is the person you want to send it to, and the part after is their "street number and city". Again, don't get too caught up in metaphors, but basic, solid ones certainly work.
Slightly offtopic, but I wanted to throw this small piece of information in to digest: I have a friend interning at BMG, and she said the majority of people there really have absolutely nothing against free music distribution, including the (almost now completely defunct) Napster. I couldn't completely understand her vague comments about this, but apparently a few people in her office actually have Napster on their machines (or at least are listening to music all the time:) ).
The whole "Major 5 - Napster" dealie was apparently initiated by the Major 5 a long time ago, but she doesn't feel like "Napster has anything left". All the labels are concerned with, according to her, is "making sure the employees have enough money for bread on the table". She's generally against people who have tons of money (like CEO's) but many of the lesser workers there, including her immediate boss which she liked, were fired.
Compression formats mean absolutely *nothing*. Bitrate performance means absolutely *nothing*. If this was the case, WMA would have beat MP3 out more than a year ago.
The point in all of this is that if a new MP3 standard is raised, with mass media participation, it will supercede the previous MP3 standard and give better audio quality at a lower bandwidth cost to all. Try as I might, I've never even heard of "Ogg Vorbis" (it's like all those naysayers that say "Amiga" had such a "wonderful GUI", when only a small percentage played with it -- whatever), but if you asked the average teenager on the street, most would identify the term "MP3". And if they noticed their MP3's taking up less room (perhaps after a download on the scale of Napster) they would be much happier.
Why do Linux freaks (myself included) argue for this stat, when clearly what we need is a more solid "desktop machine" stat? Linux is growing as a server, but pales in comparison to Windows (and a lesser degree, DOS) on the desktop. What are the numbers for that?
I only have a BA, but I can honestly tell you that the market seems to stink universally right now. Currently, I'm doing temp work ("mindlessly add up the numbers" an old Onion article said -- until it became my reality). I've even been for a job that I'm "overqualified" with my resume being what it is -- but noone wants to hire an IT person for 6-12 months.
I've also applied for places like Yahoo, HP, Compaq, eBay and even MS, and have not even heard a response yet. I'll keep people posted though. These are my dream jobs. I only need one to tell me yes to walk away estatic.
Unfortunately, most Linux users "don't care what OS is pre-installed on their machines". Keyword: unfortunately. Because if that's where the number is coming from (which is perfectly reasonable to assume, and personally reasonable to continue to assume will happen) then Linux fans should demand their OS on their Dell and IBM desktop machines (yes, these configurations exist).
As for me, I could really care less what the numbers say. I'm not a Linux zealot, but I do use it half the time on my laptop (the other half of the time is spent in Windows 2000). Both serve my needs. Of the two remaining machines in the house, one runs Windows 2000 (for the kids' games -- they tried Linux and didn't like the lack of games) the other is a Mac running Mac OS X (which is a fun experiment but rather slow).
On one hand, I totally admire you. On the other hand, I wonder what it sounds like at singles bars when you say to women "you know, I can grind my own telescope mirror".:)
The math involved is a little weird. 300 dpi for black and white printing, while "about 1/3", or 80 dpi, for color printing. I'm wondering how they got the "about" from. If you have 3 color pixels for every 1 black and white pixel, you should have closer to 100 dpi. Then I was wondering if the placement of the pixels would dramatically affect the numbers, etc.
Not logical. There is no reason for a single program to be opening and closing a single port 50 times in one second, even in HTTP. If the program needs more data (e.g. video streaming) it'll request that the port stay open.
By the way, I would think scanning ports that have nothing to do with web, ftp, telnet, etc. should be considered illegal (unless its your own box).
"How am I supposed to know that you've got a public FTP server running? Or a website? Or a mail address? By checking of course."
Big problem. People usually check more ports than the common ones for web and ftp. They check ones that have no reasonable reason to be carrying any kind of data the user wishes to share.
Not reading the article, I can quickly say that there are two very different definitions of port scanning. Port scanning of your own systems on a network to check for vulnerabilities is good. Port scanning other systems in bad.
Unfortunately the former happens much more than the latter, and even if it didn't, law mixes the two definitions together. (Although, as a side note, I always wondered if white-hat hackers try to break into their neighbors apartments for their "safety".:) )
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But so what? If Microsoft looks at a little GPL'd code (which I'm sure they have) what's the problem? As long as they don't use any of it verbatim, and write their own (mostly messy, mostly crashing) code, what do we have to worry about? I'm sure most of us have looked at GPL'd code for ideas, but not copied them simply due to not wanting to go through the procedure of releasing our source everytime we release a build/lack of documentation in the original source (although, the second really isn't a GPL issue :) ).
...they break even totally (make up all the losses?) Never mind. If it was Amazon it'd take forever. :)
I GPL'd my sDES project last year, with the assistance of a teacher. sDES stands for "simplified DES" -- it's DES with only an 8-bit key. Not terribly secure, but a good exercise (plus, it worked equally well with binaries as it did with data files, something that apparently was hard to do). I think it's still on Freshmeat somewhere.
I thought this ZDNet article was much more interesting.
- Resident Evil ("Why don't you pick the lock? After all, Jill, you are the master of lockpicking.")
- Red Alert 2 (unless Keri Werher comes onto the screen in a bikini and says absolutely nothing for 90 minutes)
- Anything related to that "Someone set us up the bomb" game that mainstream media has milked to death
- Super Mario Advance (Great game, but the voices will go down as the most annoying in gaming history. Toad dying [a 4 sec sound bite] is pretty funny, though.)
- StarCraft (Another great game, but come on. The animated cut scenes were good but the scriptwriter must've been playing with his Thesaurus in Word. "Zeratul, you and Tassadar must reach the clandestine notion of the terran outer worldly spacial realm. Only then can you fix my ancient crystal rotary watch..." etc, etc.)
BS's weren't available at my school (Sarah Lawrence). It was definitely liberal arts, and everyone earned BA's.
Bad? That's an understatement. Nearly *all* of my friends (in every discipline, not just computers) who have graduated in the past month have found NO work whatsoever. Right now I'm temping at my former high school in my town, but calls to Yahoo, Microsoft, Dell, Compaq, HP, eBay, etc. have all gone unanswered. In the local classifieds, there's less than 10 IT jobs a week, and most are silly things which either require less technical skill (teaching children) or skills techies don't generally have (fixing computers at Pantone -- and doing artist work).
I never thought I'd be doing data entry after my BA in Computer Science, but here I am. I'm just hoping ONE company gives me a call for a decent IT job.
What I found unusual was that even though Roger Ebert said the ending had a "turning, brilliant climax" the ending itself was actually really weak. You pretty much know halfway through how it's going to end, and the movie doesn't really excite in that sense.
I thought some of the characters were more memorable than the actual plot, and the guy who blows stuff up is one of the funniest Disney characters in a long time. My favorite part is when he's describing his childhood: "My parents worked in a flower store. We had to make those little flowers people wore to proms. And they'd come in and say 'This doesn't match my dress!' But then, one day, I saw a gas explosion across the street. No more Chinese laundry. I had found my calling."
The time period (it's supposed to be 1920-30) also leads to a few weird instances. Not with the technology (which you can let go in a flick), but the montage of characters, who are suprisingly mixed for a "undersea crew" of the 1920's. There's a black doctor, and even a noticable female Spanish mechanic. Didn't know political correctness was ripe back then. :)
Finally, I was more than a little confused by the movie's rating: PG. I wracked my brain and couldn't think of any previous Disney feature cartoons that were rated anything other than G (I know a few of the live-action movies are automatically PG and above). What was really strange is that the violence was no worse than some previous Disney cartoons. Most villians die in their flicks (Oliver & Company had a car hit by a train, The Great Mouse Detective had the villian fall from Big Ben), but there wasn't one kid in the theater even remotely perturbed by the explosions (presumably with people in them). I remember more kids crying when Bambi died (which was rated G).
Overall, it's a pretty good flick. Definitely "matinee" material, but if you have kids you really can't go wrong (lines like: "I have the four basic food groups: Bacon, Grease, Whiskey, and Lard" are for the adults). Also, very much different than most Disney animated films (not a musical, only action) so catch the anime-like goodness while they're free to copy it. :)
* Provide as little information as required to get the users to access the internet. You don't have to go into the notion of "servers" and "clients", and you certainly shouldn't mention "way back mainstays" like FTP and Gopher. The users just need to know there are "computers out there" that are sharing information, and some of this information is available to look at. That's it.
* Metaphors help, but you got to use the right ones. I found the best one I tried (and got most people to instantly understand web browsers) is that these are like pages in a book. You can go back, flipping through the pages of the "internet book" using the Back button, and you can go forward through the pages using the Forward button. Any time you see the hand and can click the mouse, that's like reading a new page you haven't seen before.
* Email addresses confuse the hell out of people until you explain that it's almost exactly the same as real-life addresses on envelops. The part before the @ sign is the person you want to send it to, and the part after is their "street number and city". Again, don't get too caught up in metaphors, but basic, solid ones certainly work.
Good luck.
If it was French, wouldn't it be pronounced "deaux"? :)
...with two t's. Don't make the same mistake again. :)
The whole "Major 5 - Napster" dealie was apparently initiated by the Major 5 a long time ago, but she doesn't feel like "Napster has anything left". All the labels are concerned with, according to her, is "making sure the employees have enough money for bread on the table". She's generally against people who have tons of money (like CEO's) but many of the lesser workers there, including her immediate boss which she liked, were fired.
The point in all of this is that if a new MP3 standard is raised, with mass media participation, it will supercede the previous MP3 standard and give better audio quality at a lower bandwidth cost to all. Try as I might, I've never even heard of "Ogg Vorbis" (it's like all those naysayers that say "Amiga" had such a "wonderful GUI", when only a small percentage played with it -- whatever), but if you asked the average teenager on the street, most would identify the term "MP3". And if they noticed their MP3's taking up less room (perhaps after a download on the scale of Napster) they would be much happier.
Why do Linux freaks (myself included) argue for this stat, when clearly what we need is a more solid "desktop machine" stat? Linux is growing as a server, but pales in comparison to Windows (and a lesser degree, DOS) on the desktop. What are the numbers for that?
Nice, clean interface with gentle curves. Pretty sweet. Did the original Amiga GUI have curves like that?
I've also applied for places like Yahoo, HP, Compaq, eBay and even MS, and have not even heard a response yet. I'll keep people posted though. These are my dream jobs. I only need one to tell me yes to walk away estatic.
As for me, I could really care less what the numbers say. I'm not a Linux zealot, but I do use it half the time on my laptop (the other half of the time is spent in Windows 2000). Both serve my needs. Of the two remaining machines in the house, one runs Windows 2000 (for the kids' games -- they tried Linux and didn't like the lack of games) the other is a Mac running Mac OS X (which is a fun experiment but rather slow).
On one hand, I totally admire you. On the other hand, I wonder what it sounds like at singles bars when you say to women "you know, I can grind my own telescope mirror". :)
The math involved is a little weird. 300 dpi for black and white printing, while "about 1/3", or 80 dpi, for color printing. I'm wondering how they got the "about" from. If you have 3 color pixels for every 1 black and white pixel, you should have closer to 100 dpi. Then I was wondering if the placement of the pixels would dramatically affect the numbers, etc.
Personally, I would find it funny to find one with the missle still inside it. :)
I agree. A majority of the ports should be considered "worthless" to people not running web servers, ftp servers, etc.
As I said before, the "law" should identify all the commonly used ports (80, etc.) and designate them as scannable. Any others should not be.
By the way, I would think scanning ports that have nothing to do with web, ftp, telnet, etc. should be considered illegal (unless its your own box).
Big problem. People usually check more ports than the common ones for web and ftp. They check ones that have no reasonable reason to be carrying any kind of data the user wishes to share.
Unfortunately the former happens much more than the latter, and even if it didn't, law mixes the two definitions together. (Although, as a side note, I always wondered if white-hat hackers try to break into their neighbors apartments for their "safety". :) )