The new logo definately isn't cool. Come on people, Open source projects aren't selling products. They don't have to appeal to brain dead managers.
Open Source is about creating free for all solutions for problems. Everyone's problems, not just your bosses.
I think that, considering the nature of the project, a wrong logo was chosen. It's lame and NOT cool. It also isn't playful in any way. This is something I'd expect from microsoft or redhat, not from a bsd OS. Very dissapointed, to say the least...
Unfortunately I live in Holland. However a good feed for dutch channels is http://madcat.student.utwente.nl/rss/. This also includes BBC1 & 2.
If you're interested in tv listings you should also check out the xmltv project (http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/). It grabs tv listings over the internet and parses them into xml format. Processing these xml files into rss is trivial if you can code a bit.
warez the warez?
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If you check out google you can get some pretty good (unofficial) bittorrent rss feeds (*cough* suprnova *cough*).
Also what I find cool are rss feeds of tv listings.
Two other feeds I check out regularly that aren't mentioned here are Packet storm & Tomshardware.
Hhmmmm....You'd figure somebody would have made this lame remark already.
But seriously, a good project for learning a language depends on the language itself and the problems you yourself face. You're not gonna write a simple 3d engine in python and you're not gonna write a log parser in C (actually you could, but that wouldn't be the easiest/quickest solution).
Just pick something trivial that bugs you at any given moment that's the right job for the language.
Even better would be to just watermark the game. If watermarks were put in arbitrary places, there would be no way (read, a small chance) that a time crippled cracker could get all of them. After all, if the release takes too long it's not zero day any more.
Of course, any one of the programmers can grep the watermark code out of the game, but if you can't trust your programmers, then who can you trust?
Amen. Why protect yourself with a woven quilt when you can coccoon yourself in a fortress.
OpenBSD/pf as firewall with mcafee/firefox loaded on all clients. Also mcafee antivirus on all windows boxes. All mail on freebsd box, trough spam assasin and delivered to clients via imap.
All outward connections via encrypted protocols wherever possible, mail fetched via ssh tunnel.
Like I always like to say : More crypto, more crypto, more crypto;)
Amen. There's nothing worse than going to uni and having a teacher treating you like a little kid. It's best to be open with people. As long as they're not disrupting your class what they do with time they paid for is their own business if you ask me.
While going the movies is getting outrageously expensive (10 euro's for a ticket here in holland, ridiculous!), going to the cinema is more than just seeing a movie.
Sure, you can watch it at home (A VERY decent projector & home theater can be gotten for about $8.000 these days) with full cinema quality. Especially if you live alone and don't have any kids running around or other idiots yapping about. You can watch a movie in beter than cinema quality and not have to be annoyed by phones going off and such.
On the other hand, you usually also go to the movies to get out of the house. Especially if you're a geek, you probably don't get out much anyway, as most computing based activities take place at home or at work. Also, it's more fun to take a chick to the movies than bring her to your living room.....
While it is outrageous, and if the movie's decent you WILL end up downloading it or buying it on dvd, there is still to substitute for the cinema. Getting out of the house and watching something with other people isn't the same as sitting in your living room alone at 3 in the morning watching the latest flick you got of bittorrent.
Amen. The best thing (and imho only reason to use Java instead of C++) about a java app is that it can run on any platform. The wordt thing about a java ap p is that it can run on any platform.
The above makes the libraries and interfaces klunky and ugly. Also, it is not always a must that an application has to be able to run on many platforms. In this case it is far better to use tried & trusted C as it's quiker and gives you a better feeling coding in (My opinion).
I totally understand what you mean. Once you have to start using UML diagrams and have to work out other people's design the work can get.........dull. Especially when all you're doing is coding the Nth update for some dull application that you can't brag to your friends about as cool.
My advice : Become a network administrator. This way you get get to fiddle around with networks at work & still have enough enthousiasm to code something cool at night. Also, if you pick the right job and have got your network running efficiently you can squeeze in a few hours of coding our projects each day at work.
Another option is to become a freelance web developer. Pick the right projects and you too can have a 4 day weekend to code in;)
While gnome & kde is getting heavier, nobody is forcing you to use them! It's only logical that the more functionality you get (80% of which most people never use) the more it drags your system down.
The beautiful thing about linux (and BSD for that matter) is that you can chose what you want to use and how you want to use it. You don't like KDE, install fluxbox. You'll have the snappiest machine on the block.
I can already hear people bitching : "But fluxbox is not as user friendly as kde". For these people I have one thing to say:
Linux isn't meant to hold your hand with whatever you do. Nor will it ever. That's the beauty of an open source os, if you want to learn to use it properly you have to learn about it.
While this is a nice hack, for the same price you can get a kiss dvd player which can already play divxs/mp3s/mp3 streams/mpgs etc. over your network.
Also an added disadvatage is that you use a video card's tv out. This means that you don't get a full widescreen output to your TV.
While I still think the slimp3 thins is really cool for what it does (play mp3s), it's still WAY to expensive. Maybe if the thing was $50 cheaper and properly supperted video the price would be worth it.
I have about 40 gigs of music streamed via gnump3d, and it works like a charm, assuming of course your upstream can handle it.
Beware though, if you have a crappy upstream you will need to compress your mp3s in real time. This takes quite a lot of processing power (My P2-350 server can't quite keep up).
Another choice is of course an iPOD. Not that expensive these days, and you don't have to worry about bandwidth.
The easiest way to start a community driven site with little or no cost is to write it yourself. If however you have absolutely no technical skill, I would say your best bet would be to start the site with a couple of people that do.
You supply the content, they supply the expertise, you split the profits 50/50.
Getting a web design bureau to write a decent, SECURE system will cost you an arm and a leg. Don't just go with the cheapest estimate, most web design companies don't know jack poop about security or proper programming.
If you must start alone, two systems I reccomand are drupal and movable type. Nice and clean & decently coded.
Boss getting you down for the umpteenth time ? Afraid of getting fired and replaced by some numnuts that can't tie his own shoes ? Tired of comparing your life to office space ?
The answer to all your problems is to become a freelancer. Work for who you want when you want. Play your cards right and you could earn in 2 days what you would otherwise earn in a week (netto after taxes, expenses etc. etc.). Just 2 days to maintain your standard of living. This means 5 day weekend if there isn't much work that month;)
Otherwise, if you feel like you're going to be fired then find a new job and leave BEFORE you're fired. If you output good work there's no reason you should suffer for someone else's (*cough* managements *cough*) incompetence.
I use Multikabel. From february (new pricing) I'll be paying 43,- for 1546 down/360 up kb/s. The provider I have is pretty good and noted speeds are frequently reached. They also don't bitch about my bittorent downloading habits;)
When a project doesn't fit a certain need or the quality of it is not up to date somebody forks a new tree.
If we're lucky the old (crappy) program dies. Therefore it's a sort of evolution : The fittest survive.
If the base project is not crappy it of course continues to live. If however the fork filles a certain niche both base & fork live side by side togther. This not only gives us more choice, but also results in programs better suited to your needs.
The above of course does not happen in open development models. The programs are based on the (usually rigid/outdated/out of sense with reality) ideas of management.
Only problem with forks is:
1) Lot's of time money spent on project 2) Better fork comes out 3) NO PROFIT!!!!
If you work from home that means you can work your own hours. In my last job (Oh I miss it SO) I used to telecommute and only get to the office about once a month.
Advantage of this was that I could work when I wanted. This can improve the quality of your life SO much. If you're really bored then go out after working say 4 hours and spend a couple of hours in the gym.
Go to a cafe with your laptop and work there. Visit a friend. Go catch a movie. You can even play all day and work all night if you want to.
Telecommuting is only what you make of it. It'll only work for you if you learn to think "out of the box". I mean 95% of the time you're not missing ANYTHING at the office. It's your life. Make it as interesting as you want to.
When it comes to being tidy I like to stick to a few simple rules:
1) If it's broke don't fix it. Throw the bugger away. If you haven't found time until to to fix that broken xt you never will. It's just there collecting dust.
2) If you have ten of em, throw nine away. I myself had loads of cool (working) xts but let's fact it people : those are TOTALLY useless. You are NEVER going to use them, even if you could find old arcane network card's to hook em up to your network.
3) If it's not new in box and you have at least 2 other computers that supply the same function THROW THEM AWAY. It's not like you're gonna sit there with 4 386's alle used at the same time as serial terminals. 1 is more than enough.
4) Throw away all those crappy cover cds (winzip 5.x anyone ?)/old useless warez (You are NOT gonna install windows 95 my friend) / old books (No, a reference to borland C++ 4 is NOT handy in this day and age).
5) Throw away your old print outs. I used to have literally HUNDREDS of these. I used to print everything I came across over the internet for further reading. After a while you know at least 75% of those papers by heart, at least 80% of them are outdated by six months & at least 20% of them are totally useless to you. Dump em. They're history. If you have to keep them store the originals on your server. It shouldn't be more than a couple of 100 MBs.
Do the above and you'll find you have a lot more closet space that can be nicely filled with your current (useful) hardware/books. I know throwing away things is HARD, especially when they're really cool (my wonderful XTs) or have a special personal relevance to you (O that first motherboard I fried) but you HAVE to. These things only hold you back. You'll feel better when you do, TRUST me.
BTW If you have something really cool in prestine condition then (especially if you have the original box/diskettes/manuals) for the love of god DON'T THROW IT AWAY. Give it away to a computer museum or at least sell it to a retro computing store or over ebay. Then at least someone else can enjoy it as much as you did and you'll have a bit of mullah left over so you can soften your sadness by getting that spanking new laptop you've always wanten:>
The only way to REALLY lose weight (and keep it away) is to excersize daily. 1,5 hours a day at your local gym of running and weights until you lose the weight. After that just going once or twice a week should suffice. If you have a decent metabolism you should be able to keep eating and drinking what you want (except for the beer, alcohol makes you sleepy).
The first step is the hardest but once you've made excersize a regular part of your week you get used to it.
Anybody with 2 eyes and a bit of imagination can walk around their local city or town and find sensitive area's to blow up. Unless the US governement plans on poking everybodys eyes out that comes to the US this sort of childish nonsense won't help.
All it is doing by classifiying stuff like this, besides being a nuisance is bringing us that much closer to 1984. If this guy was to have posted his paper on the internet he could have been detained the rest of life without trial according to the current laws. This is a scary proposition.
When will everybody learn that security through obscurity DOESN'T WORK. This for the simple fact that nobody has the power the keep everything abscure. You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all the time. The only people you are hurting with this are your own civilians. Terrorists will find out stuff to blow up one way or another.
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Go back to just before the printing press was invented. Voila. it is now possible to have read every single book ever written in the western world.
I thought I was the only one reading the replies.
The new logo definately isn't cool. Come on people, Open source projects aren't selling products. They don't have to appeal to brain dead managers.
Open Source is about creating free for all solutions for problems. Everyone's problems, not just your bosses.
I think that, considering the nature of the project, a wrong logo was chosen. It's lame and NOT cool. It also isn't playful in any way. This is something I'd expect from microsoft or redhat, not from a bsd OS. Very dissapointed, to say the least...
Unfortunately I live in Holland. However a good feed for dutch channels is http://madcat.student.utwente.nl/rss/. This also includes BBC1 & 2.
If you're interested in tv listings you should also check out the xmltv project (http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/). It grabs tv listings over the internet and parses them into xml format. Processing these xml files into rss is trivial if you can code a bit.
If you check out google you can get some pretty good (unofficial) bittorrent rss feeds (*cough* suprnova *cough*).
Also what I find cool are rss feeds of tv listings.
Two other feeds I check out regularly that aren't mentioned here are Packet storm & Tomshardware.
Hhmmmm....You'd figure somebody would have made this lame remark already.
But seriously, a good project for learning a language depends on the language itself and the problems you yourself face. You're not gonna write a simple 3d engine in python and you're not gonna write a log parser in C (actually you could, but that wouldn't be the easiest/quickest solution).
Just pick something trivial that bugs you at any given moment that's the right job for the language.
Even better would be to just watermark the game. If watermarks were put in arbitrary places, there would be no way (read, a small chance) that a time crippled cracker could get all of them. After all, if the release takes too long it's not zero day any more.
Of course, any one of the programmers can grep the watermark code out of the game, but if you can't trust your programmers, then who can you trust?
Amen. Why protect yourself with a woven quilt when you can coccoon yourself in a fortress.
;)
OpenBSD/pf as firewall with mcafee/firefox loaded on all clients. Also mcafee antivirus on all windows boxes. All mail on freebsd box, trough spam assasin and delivered to clients via imap.
All outward connections via encrypted protocols wherever possible, mail fetched via ssh tunnel.
Like I always like to say : More crypto, more crypto, more crypto
Amen. There's nothing worse than going to uni and having a teacher treating you like a little kid. It's best to be open with people. As long as they're not disrupting your class what they do with time they paid for is their own business if you ask me.
While going the movies is getting outrageously expensive (10 euro's for a ticket here in holland, ridiculous!), going to the cinema is more than just seeing a movie.
Sure, you can watch it at home (A VERY decent projector & home theater can be gotten for about $8.000 these days) with full cinema quality. Especially if you live alone and don't have any kids running around or other idiots yapping about. You can watch a movie in beter than cinema quality and not have to be annoyed by phones going off and such.
On the other hand, you usually also go to the movies to get out of the house. Especially if you're a geek, you probably don't get out much anyway, as most computing based activities take place at home or at work. Also, it's more fun to take a chick to the movies than bring her to your living room.....
While it is outrageous, and if the movie's decent you WILL end up downloading it or buying it on dvd, there is still to substitute for the cinema. Getting out of the house and watching something with other people isn't the same as sitting in your living room alone at 3 in the morning watching the latest flick you got of bittorrent.
Amen. The best thing (and imho only reason to use Java instead of C++) about a java app is that it can run on any platform. The wordt thing about a java ap p is that it can run on any platform.
The above makes the libraries and interfaces klunky and ugly. Also, it is not always a must that an application has to be able to run on many platforms. In this case it is far better to use tried & trusted C as it's quiker and gives you a better feeling coding in (My opinion).
Hello, she paid 850 bucks to get it fixed!!! Anyone stupid enough to use an oudated OS without patches and without a firewall deserve's what they get!
I totally understand what you mean. Once you have to start using UML diagrams and have to work out other people's design the work can get.........dull. Especially when all you're doing is coding the Nth update for some dull application that you can't brag to your friends about as cool.
;)
My advice : Become a network administrator. This way you get get to fiddle around with networks at work & still have enough enthousiasm to code something cool at night. Also, if you pick the right job and have got your network running efficiently you can squeeze in a few hours of coding our projects each day at work.
Another option is to become a freelance web developer. Pick the right projects and you too can have a 4 day weekend to code in
Just my $0,02
While gnome & kde is getting heavier, nobody is forcing you to use them! It's only logical that the more functionality you get (80% of which most people never use) the more it drags your system down.
:
The beautiful thing about linux (and BSD for that matter) is that you can chose what you want to use and how you want to use it. You don't like KDE, install fluxbox. You'll have the snappiest machine on the block.
I can already hear people bitching : "But fluxbox is not as user friendly as kde". For these people I have one thing to say
Linux isn't meant to hold your hand with whatever you do. Nor will it ever. That's the beauty of an open source os, if you want to learn to use it properly you have to learn about it.
Try watching the stand without a break. After a few hours you wanna send Mother Abagaile to Abu Ghairib.
;)
THAT seperates the men from the boys
While this is a nice hack, for the same price you can get a kiss dvd player which can already play divxs/mp3s/mp3 streams/mpgs etc. over your network.
Also an added disadvatage is that you use a video card's tv out. This means that you don't get a full widescreen output to your TV.
While I still think the slimp3 thins is really cool for what it does (play mp3s), it's still WAY to expensive. Maybe if the thing was $50 cheaper and properly supperted video the price would be worth it.
I have about 40 gigs of music streamed via gnump3d, and it works like a charm, assuming of course your upstream can handle it.
Beware though, if you have a crappy upstream you will need to compress your mp3s in real time. This takes quite a lot of processing power (My P2-350 server can't quite keep up).
Another choice is of course an iPOD. Not that expensive these days, and you don't have to worry about bandwidth.
The easiest way to start a community driven site with little or no cost is to write it yourself. If however you have absolutely no technical skill, I would say your best bet would be to start the site with a couple of people that do.
You supply the content, they supply the expertise, you split the profits 50/50.
Getting a web design bureau to write a decent, SECURE system will cost you an arm and a leg. Don't just go with the cheapest estimate, most web design companies don't know jack poop about security or proper programming.
If you must start alone, two systems I reccomand are drupal and movable type. Nice and clean & decently coded.
Boss getting you down for the umpteenth time ? Afraid of getting fired and replaced by some numnuts that can't tie his own shoes ? Tired of comparing your life to office space ?
;)
The answer to all your problems is to become a freelancer. Work for who you want when you want. Play your cards right and you could earn in 2 days what you would otherwise earn in a week (netto after taxes, expenses etc. etc.). Just 2 days to maintain your standard of living. This means 5 day weekend if there isn't much work that month
Otherwise, if you feel like you're going to be fired then find a new job and leave BEFORE you're fired. If you output good work there's no reason you should suffer for someone else's (*cough* managements *cough*) incompetence.
I use Multikabel. From february (new pricing) I'll be paying 43,- for 1546 down/360 up kb/s. The provider I have is pretty good and noted speeds are frequently reached. They also don't bitch about my bittorent downloading habits ;)
Forking is usually a blessing. Think about it :
:
When a project doesn't fit a certain need or the quality of it is not up to date somebody forks a new tree.
If we're lucky the old (crappy) program dies. Therefore it's a sort of evolution : The fittest survive.
If the base project is not crappy it of course continues to live. If however the fork filles a certain niche both base & fork live side by side togther. This not only gives us more choice, but also results in programs better suited to your needs.
The above of course does not happen in open development models. The programs are based on the (usually rigid/outdated/out of sense with reality) ideas of management.
Only problem with forks is
1) Lot's of time money spent on project
2) Better fork comes out
3) NO PROFIT!!!!
If you work from home that means you can work your own hours. In my last job (Oh I miss it SO) I used to telecommute and only get to the office about once a month.
Advantage of this was that I could work when I wanted. This can improve the quality of your life SO much. If you're really bored then go out after working say 4 hours and spend a couple of hours in the gym.
Go to a cafe with your laptop and work there. Visit a friend. Go catch a movie. You can even play all day and work all night if you want to.
Telecommuting is only what you make of it. It'll only work for you if you learn to think "out of the box". I mean 95% of the time you're not missing ANYTHING at the office. It's your life. Make it as interesting as you want to.
When it comes to being tidy I like to stick to a few simple rules :
/old useless warez (You are NOT gonna install windows 95 my friend) / old books (No, a reference to borland C++ 4 is NOT handy in this day and age).
:>
1) If it's broke don't fix it. Throw the bugger away. If you haven't found time until to to fix that broken xt you never will. It's just there collecting dust.
2) If you have ten of em, throw nine away. I myself had loads of cool (working) xts but let's fact it people : those are TOTALLY useless. You are NEVER going to use them, even if you could find old arcane network card's to hook em up to your network.
3) If it's not new in box and you have at least 2 other computers that supply the same function THROW THEM AWAY. It's not like you're gonna sit there with 4 386's alle used at the same time as serial terminals. 1 is more than enough.
4) Throw away all those crappy cover cds (winzip 5.x anyone ?)
5) Throw away your old print outs. I used to have literally HUNDREDS of these. I used to print everything I came across over the internet for further reading. After a while you know at least 75% of those papers by heart, at least 80% of them are outdated by six months & at least 20% of them are totally useless to you. Dump em. They're history. If you have to keep them store the originals on your server. It shouldn't be more than a couple of 100 MBs.
Do the above and you'll find you have a lot more closet space that can be nicely filled with your current (useful) hardware/books. I know throwing away things is HARD, especially when they're really cool (my wonderful XTs) or have a special personal relevance to you (O that first motherboard I fried) but you HAVE to. These things only hold you back. You'll feel better when you do, TRUST me.
BTW If you have something really cool in prestine condition then (especially if you have the original box/diskettes/manuals) for the love of god DON'T THROW IT AWAY. Give it away to a computer museum or at least sell it to a retro computing store or over ebay. Then at least someone else can enjoy it as much as you did and you'll have a bit of mullah left over so you can soften your sadness by getting that spanking new laptop you've always wanten
The only way to REALLY lose weight (and keep it away) is to excersize daily. 1,5 hours a day at your local gym of running and weights until you lose the weight. After that just going once or twice a week should suffice. If you have a decent metabolism you should be able to keep eating and drinking what you want (except for the beer, alcohol makes you sleepy).
The first step is the hardest but once you've made excersize a regular part of your week you get used to it.
Hallo!!!
Anybody with 2 eyes and a bit of imagination can walk around their local city or town and find sensitive area's to blow up. Unless the US governement plans on poking everybodys eyes out that comes to the US this sort of childish nonsense won't help.
All it is doing by classifiying stuff like this, besides being a nuisance is bringing us that much closer to 1984. If this guy was to have posted his paper on the internet he could have been detained the rest of life without trial according to the current laws. This is a scary proposition.
When will everybody learn that security through obscurity DOESN'T WORK. This for the simple fact that nobody has the power the keep everything abscure. You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all the time. The only people you are hurting with this are your own civilians. Terrorists will find out stuff to blow up one way or another.
Just what the world needs, another VB programmer. The should be giving visual c++ out for free.