My friends and I got to do something very similar to this. We designed the Mead High School web site by setting up our own linux box and designing the site in php with an SQL backend. Not only that, but we were able to allow students to view their grades from home (with the proper authentication) and have news articles updated easily by teachers. We are now in the process of finding some freshmen to train. Every once in a while, we will run a counterstrike server on the linux box and have a LAN party at school.
I just copied "g mcdonalds big mac rat found inside" into my address bar in Opera 6.0 for linux and got the google results immediately. It looks like the default behavior in Opera is to do a google search if it can't do a DNS lookup. I like using Opera, but I wish it were open source. Since I have a 56k modem, Opera is definitely the best browser for me, since I only have to download a 2 meg dynamicly linked binary instead of tens of megs rpms.
I've always wanted a license (and if I ever write anything worth distributing I might try drafting it) that requires derivatives to release my source it its original form but does not require them to release thier modifications.
There is such a license: the BSD license. You can use BSD licensed code, and you only need to provide a little copyright recognition of the author. It is somewhat interesting that Microsoft has recognition of FreeBSD code in its products such as Windows 2000 and XP. Your idea of a perfect license gives companies a huge advantage compared to the open source communuty. They get code, but never give code back to the community with your model.
The transistor. Without it, we'd be stuck with vacuum tubes. The transistor revolutionized the world by creating the information age. We can credit Edison for the wasteful incandescent buld and a wax phonograph, but how many people use those now? Flourescent lights were invented not long after the incandescent bulb, and not by Edison.
The radio. The radio finally allowed communication across long distances without a wire. It revolutionized warfare and entertainment.
The Turing machine. While not a physical machine, it was Alan Turing's amazing machine that changed the world. The first definition of a computer, soon followed by crude mechanical and vacuum tube devices (which were built by Turing & his team)
To summarize, Edison was not such a great inventor. There were dozens of others who have affected our lives in much more powerful ways. Marconi, Tesla, Turing. Edison actually silenced these inventors using his fame and political clout.
Therefore, I propose that we create an AI for the sole purpose of writing all our code so that we no longer have to suffer through gaping security holes introduced every time a human writes code.
Wouldn't the AI be flawed and therefore, write flawed code? Code is art and science combined. You need to think analytically, and you need to be creative.
Most and nearly all DoS attacks come from hacked *nix boxes. Want to talk about clogging up the internet? Theres a much more important example.
I'm afraid you are just plain wrong. Most DoS attacks are from hacked windows 9x/ME boxes, which have been taken over by script kiddies with trojans. In fact, sites sych as yahoo, grc.com, ebay, and amazon.com have been taken down for up to 2 hours by script kiddies using hacked windows 9x boxes.
Bombs have many useful purposes. They are common in mining, large construction projects, and demolition.
All you have to do to make a bombs is get a bunch of Ammonium Nitrate (aka NH4NO3 or fertilizer) and ignite it.
Though your purpose if right, your action is flawed. Will your bomb-instruction-banning amendment stop chemistry from being taught?
Wait a minute, that means that not only did Windows and Linux have the same problem, but Windows got patched first.
Oh Noooooo!
We programmers must be getting soft, not fixing a kernel bug that has been around for 2 years. (as you can see, I think the OS is responsible for stopping memory used by AGP devices from being cacheble, not the CPU or mobo)
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I'm aware that different processor architectures perform differently at the same clock speed, but I'd like to see some hard numbers on this. People repeat the 30% and "one third" numbers a lot, and I'd like to know where they come from.
Mac processors are RISC, unlike the CISC x86s. RISC is much more efficient. I recommend this site, which will answer most of your questions: http://www.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/comp_aps/ciscrisc.ht ml
A 1.5Ghz G5 would make a 1.5Ghz PIV seem like a turtle on exlax.
Which is exactly why I would want one! Where was I comparing clock speed? Macs and x86s are on a different playing field in terms of mhz. A Mac does about 1/3 more work per cycle than an x86. Mac OS X is also more efficient than windows, which allows Macs to get away with slow CPU speeds except for in the high-end market. (such as 3d rendering, etc.)
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Bah, you know what I mean: Until a 1.5Ghz G5 is being sold by Apple, they won't get me as part of thier market share.
That better? I really sould use that preview button.
Apple has done a great job with design, ease-of-use, and bus speed. The only problems they have are slow CPU speeds and SMP solutions that are too costly.
Until Apple makes a 1.5Ghz G5, they won't get me as part of thier market share. They look pretty and have blazingly fast hard drives, but the cpu limits the capabilites of the Mac.
So your argument is that no one else in the U.S. government, besides military personel, should do their jobs until "the war on terror" is over?
Where did you get that from? I'm saying that the main priority of the US Government right now is to protect its citizens from terrorism and find those responsible for it. If we are truly serious about finding and arresting those responsible for terrorism, then we should devote all our resources to the job. We shouldn't waste time and money to stop the Ukraine from making CD-Rs that lack serial numbers.
Shouldn't the government be concerned about things other than piracy in these times? How is putting trade restrictions on the Ukraine going to help protect people from terrorism? It seems to be YAWT$ (Yet Another Waste of Tax Dollars)
The only real question for OWL is money, and the only one for the solar foci probe other than money, is the controversy surrounding placing a nuclear reactor in orbit.
Ah! It's so simple. All we need is money!
With the budget cuts at NASA, I don't think either one of these ideas will take off. (no pun intended)
The IFAPA president's point is a good one, but it does not change the fact that a thick, locked door would very likely have prevented at least one or more of the cockpit hijackings that occurred on Sept. 11th, if not all four.
Ok, pretend I'm a terrorist. You are the pilot. I start executing passengers every 5 minutes until you open the door. If you leave a terrorist in a cabin full of hostages, he can make you do whatever he wants. Heavy doors can only slow him down.
Did you even READ the article? According to it, the average uptime of over 1500 Windows 2000 boxes are only 200 hours. Win2k doesn't give the BSOD, it just locks up. I couldn't even get it to install on one of my computers.
One of my linux boxes had an uptime of 480 days until the uptime value overflowed and went back to 0.
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My friends and I got to do something very similar to this. We designed the Mead High School web site by setting up our own linux box and designing the site in php with an SQL backend. Not only that, but we were able to allow students to view their grades from home (with the proper authentication) and have news articles updated easily by teachers. We are now in the process of finding some freshmen to train. Every once in a while, we will run a counterstrike server on the linux box and have a LAN party at school.
D/\ Gooberguy
Kuro5hin allows users to moderate stories and comments. It's a little more democratic than /.
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I just copied "g mcdonalds big mac rat found inside" into my address bar in Opera 6.0 for linux and got the google results immediately. It looks like the default behavior in Opera is to do a google search if it can't do a DNS lookup. I like using Opera, but I wish it were open source. Since I have a 56k modem, Opera is definitely the best browser for me, since I only have to download a 2 meg dynamicly linked binary instead of tens of megs rpms.
D/\ Gooberguy
Wow, you even sound like a lawyer. /. but not doing their job in the real world?
Why is it that we like lawyers posting on
D/\ Gooberguy
I've always wanted a license (and if I ever write anything worth distributing I might try drafting it) that requires derivatives to release my source it its original form but does not require them to release thier modifications.
There is such a license: the BSD license. You can use BSD licensed code, and you only need to provide a little copyright recognition of the author. It is somewhat interesting that Microsoft has recognition of FreeBSD code in its products such as Windows 2000 and XP. Your idea of a perfect license gives companies a huge advantage compared to the open source communuty. They get code, but never give code back to the community with your model.
D/\ Gooberguy
The transistor. Without it, we'd be stuck with vacuum tubes. The transistor revolutionized the world by creating the information age. We can credit Edison for the wasteful incandescent buld and a wax phonograph, but how many people use those now? Flourescent lights were invented not long after the incandescent bulb, and not by Edison.
The radio. The radio finally allowed communication across long distances without a wire. It revolutionized warfare and entertainment.
The Turing machine. While not a physical machine, it was Alan Turing's amazing machine that changed the world. The first definition of a computer, soon followed by crude mechanical and vacuum tube devices (which were built by Turing & his team)
To summarize, Edison was not such a great inventor. There were dozens of others who have affected our lives in much more powerful ways. Marconi, Tesla, Turing. Edison actually silenced these inventors using his fame and political clout.
Just my 2 cents.
D/\ Gooberguy
So if I want fast Perl 6 support in apache, I'll have to compile it with mod_parrot? It just doesn't sound as cool. ^_^
D/\ Gooberguy
Therefore, I propose that we create an AI for the sole purpose of writing all our code so that we no longer have to suffer through gaping security holes introduced every time a human writes code.
Wouldn't the AI be flawed and therefore, write flawed code? Code is art and science combined. You need to think analytically, and you need to be creative.
D/\ Gooberguy
Most and nearly all DoS attacks come from hacked *nix boxes. Want to talk about clogging up the internet? Theres a much more important example.
I'm afraid you are just plain wrong. Most DoS attacks are from hacked windows 9x/ME boxes, which have been taken over by script kiddies with trojans. In fact, sites sych as yahoo, grc.com, ebay, and amazon.com have been taken down for up to 2 hours by script kiddies using hacked windows 9x boxes.
D/\ Gooberguy
Bombs have many useful purposes. They are common in mining, large construction projects, and demolition. All you have to do to make a bombs is get a bunch of Ammonium Nitrate (aka NH4NO3 or fertilizer) and ignite it. Though your purpose if right, your action is flawed. Will your bomb-instruction-banning amendment stop chemistry from being taught?
D/\ Gooberguy
Wait a minute, that means that not only did Windows and Linux have the same problem, but Windows got patched first.
Oh Noooooo!
We programmers must be getting soft, not fixing a kernel bug that has been around for 2 years. (as you can see, I think the OS is responsible for stopping memory used by AGP devices from being cacheble, not the CPU or mobo)
D/\ Gooberguy
I'm aware that different processor architectures perform differently at the same clock speed, but I'd like to see some hard numbers on this. People repeat the 30% and "one third" numbers a lot, and I'd like to know where they come from.
t ml
Mac processors are RISC, unlike the CISC x86s. RISC is much more efficient. I recommend this site, which will answer most of your questions: http://www.gcn.ou.edu/~jahern/comp_aps/ciscrisc.h
d/\ Gooberguy
A 1.5Ghz G5 would make a 1.5Ghz PIV seem like a turtle on exlax.
Which is exactly why I would want one! Where was I comparing clock speed? Macs and x86s are on a different playing field in terms of mhz. A Mac does about 1/3 more work per cycle than an x86. Mac OS X is also more efficient than windows, which allows Macs to get away with slow CPU speeds except for in the high-end market. (such as 3d rendering, etc.)
D/\ Gooberguy
Bah, you know what I mean: Until a 1.5Ghz G5 is being sold by Apple, they won't get me as part of thier market share.
That better? I really sould use that preview button.
D/\ Gooberguy
Apple has done a great job with design, ease-of-use, and bus speed. The only problems they have are slow CPU speeds and SMP solutions that are too costly.
Until Apple makes a 1.5Ghz G5, they won't get me as part of thier market share. They look pretty and have blazingly fast hard drives, but the cpu limits the capabilites of the Mac.
D/\ Gooberguy
Could you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
I really get tired of people who say that.
D/\ Gooberguy
Supposedly the patent is "method and apparatus utilizing bond identifiers executed upon accessing of an endo-dynamic information node."
WTF does that mean?
D/\ Gooberguy
So your argument is that no one else in the U.S. government, besides military personel, should do their jobs until "the war on terror" is over?
Where did you get that from? I'm saying that the main priority of the US Government right now is to protect its citizens from terrorism and find those responsible for it. If we are truly serious about finding and arresting those responsible for terrorism, then we should devote all our resources to the job. We shouldn't waste time and money to stop the Ukraine from making CD-Rs that lack serial numbers.
D/\ Gooberguy
Shouldn't the government be concerned about things other than piracy in these times? How is putting trade restrictions on the Ukraine going to help protect people from terrorism? It seems to be YAWT$ (Yet Another Waste of Tax Dollars)
D/\ Gooberguy
The only real question for OWL is money, and the only one for the solar foci probe other than money, is the controversy surrounding placing a nuclear reactor in orbit.
Ah! It's so simple. All we need is money!
With the budget cuts at NASA, I don't think either one of these ideas will take off. (no pun intended)
D/\ Gooberguy
It's already getting slashdotted. How many hit do you want to give them? I almost feel sorry for them now that they are down from a /.ing
D/\ Gooberguy
Yes, but what if one of the .2% of the times it messed up were in calculating the average?
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I'm suprised that this wasn't on the front page.
D/\ Gooberguy
The IFAPA president's point is a good one, but it does not change the fact that a thick, locked door would very likely have prevented at least one or more of the cockpit hijackings that occurred on Sept. 11th, if not all four.
Ok, pretend I'm a terrorist. You are the pilot. I start executing passengers every 5 minutes until you open the door. If you leave a terrorist in a cabin full of hostages, he can make you do whatever he wants. Heavy doors can only slow him down.
D/\ Gooberguy
Did you even READ the article? According to it, the average uptime of over 1500 Windows 2000 boxes are only 200 hours. Win2k doesn't give the BSOD, it just locks up. I couldn't even get it to install on one of my computers.
One of my linux boxes had an uptime of 480 days until the uptime value overflowed and went back to 0.
D/\ Gooberguy