Well, it's from the Greek le/og (same root as "logos"), but it's a verb form; it means "I speak" or "I bind together" or "I relate". The plural (we speak etc.) would be "legomen". Meanwhile, the phrase "leggo my eggo" (if spelled "legomai ego") means "I talk to myself". If we were to assume it was a badly-anglicized Greek-based noun, the plural would be either legoi or legoe.
In a practical sense, I expect that this is quite similar to one of the roles the Supreme Court has in American politics.
The US Senate wasn't elected for about 150 years. In theory it allowed Senators to be immune from political pressures and the public passions of the moment. In practice, as political parties in the US got more powerful the Senators became pawns of the state parties.
Still, I have to say the Lords have been doing Good Things for the most part lately, and maybe there's nothing inherently wrong with having a brake in place against the public mood of the day. God knows we could have used one in the US over the past 5 years or so...
In my day, we had to get up in the morning at 12 o'clock at night, half an hour before we went to bed. We worked 28 hours a day down mill and paid twelvepence a week for the privilege. And when we got home, mum and dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah".
And you try telling that to the young people today, and they won't believe you.
They're probably going to try and make it at least partially incompatible with itself, too.
MS Office is already incompatible with itself. Have you ever tried to open an old (say, '97) file in Office 2003? Ironically enough, Open Office is more compatible with old MS Office formats than modern MS Office is -- that's why my company has to use OOo, because we get a LOT of documents from people who are still using 10-year-old software.
Many union factories require that all blue collar workers are part of the union, but in "right to work" states, these policies are outlawed. Hence the term "right to work(without joining the union)".
Ha! I bet you think the "Patriot Act" encourages "Patriotism" too, huh? That may have been the basis of right to work laws a few decades ago, but as far as I've seen every "right to work" law now means "at-will employment". So you might as well call them "right to be fired for no reason" states.
Next we have USE flags. These do strike me as an insanely useful thing. But I have one niggling little doubt: I suspect they only work for code that supports it. e.g. project foo has optional support for libbar. If the upstream/original code doesn't have a feature marked as optional I don't imagine the Gentoo people would rework it to strip it out.
Yes and no. It's really more dependent on the Gentoo maintainer than on the upstream. Most "big" projects also include a patchset (generally small stuff like where config files go; sometimes big changes to the codebase). These will generally have fairly rich USE flags. And it's not simply disabling things; in some cases it's adding whole subsystems (like SASL for sendmail, or the postgres backend for named). But anyways, some maintainers will add a lot of USE flags to their ebuild and others won't.
Finally the merging of configuration files in/etc seems useful. But I wonder if this is the correct approach. My distribution of choice, Debian, already does its utmost to preserve all configuration file changes automagically. I find it hard to understand what Gentoo does differently which makes it better.
Part of it comes from the fact that/etc/foo.conf might be altered by both libfoo and gtk-foo. The utility dispatch-conf diffs the two packages' foo.confs to let you merge their conf files. I think the best thing Gentoo does in/etc is the utility rc-update. It's the most sane init/runlevel interface I know.
Seriously. It's become so watered-down it's useless as a description. Every jackass and his dog thinks he needs an "enterprise-level" solution. WTF does it really mean?
If "Enterprise" means "I'm so stupid I'm willing to overpay for a product or 'solution' [which just means 'product you keep paying for every quarter']", then, yes, Linux is very much ready for enterprise setups because it's actually pretty easy to get people to overpay for Linux-based enterprise-level solutions rather than just hire competent IT staff in the first place to implement something.
At my shop, senior management gets the worst file server, switch, and traffic shaping policy. They don't need much, IT-wise, and they've never complained.
Actually it mostly means what we now call Spain and south asia. At its height (9th and 10th centuries AD) Anadlus was the most advanced culture on earth.
Well, from what I know of conventional thermodynamics... some quantity of mass must have been converted to energy.
Eh... not exactly. Matter stores a *lot* of potential energy in the form of the 4 "fundamental" forces.
Like in a nuclear explosion, it's not that matter is being converted to energy. It's that the weak nuclear force being stored by some atoms is being released when the atom splits. So, this could be the weak or the strong force (or conceivably EM but I doubt it, given its strength) being released in some as-yet-unknown way.
Also, when the high temperature was achieved, the Z machine was releasing more energy than was originally put in, something that usually occurs only in nuclear reactions.
Gee, that's not big or anything. Makes sense to put that as an afterthought 4 paragraphs down...
VB is badly OO and confuses the language and the library too much.
VB is badly OO and OO is a bad paradigm to first learn to program in (and those two wrongs don't make a right).
VB ties you down to using Windows, and Windows is a bad environment to learn to program in.
VB does memory management the wrong way from a learning perspective. Rather than specifying allocators and destructors when neccessary you simply let objects fall out of scope.
VB does not have first-class functions and cannot fake them: function manipulation and functional paradigms (whether direct or through hacks to fake it like function pointers or true reflection) is crucial to learning to program well and should be started as early as possible.
VB teaches bad, verbose naming and programming habits.
Good beginners languages are:
Logo (still the best)
Scheme
Forth
Ruby
Python
These all allow you to do basic, functionally-oriented programming and then "graduate", if need be, to large-scale OO stuff.
I would say Common Lisp is the best, but if you start programming using Lisp you'll never truly appreciate it because you assume all languages are that well-designed.
Well... ssh isn't for the server's security, really. It's for the client's security. SSH means if Alice connects to Bob, she can be sure that all the traffic from that connection actually came from Bob, and vice versa. They can also both be confident that Eve, who is also on the network, can't read what they are saying to each other. There's nothing about ssh that keeps Alice from doing something mean to Bob, or vice versa.
SSH does not change the parameters of trust between the two hosts. It just limits the trust questions to those two hosts and no others.
Look at it this way: if you send me a signed and encrypted email containing a recipe, I can be confident that the email came from you and was not altered in transit or read by a third party. That says nothing about whether the recipe will be tasty or poisonous; I still have to have some reason to trust your cooking skills. SSH lets you trust that what was said was actually said, not that what was said is in itself trustworthy.
And I assume the cookie can be reconstructed based on the remote IP and the known key? I guess that makes sense, so any flood attack would have to compromise the key sequence. Could be an interesting attack to work on.
The server still has to compute and store the cookie (caveat: I have no idea how computation / storage intensive the cookie is; I'm mostly speaking theoretically here). So, what happens if I forge INIT blocks from 10 IP addresses? 100? 1000? If this raises the bar of forged INITs required to DOS, great, but it doesn't seem right to say it's immune from the analogous attack to the SYN flood (ie, in either case you can consume server resources while hiding your true IP address). It's just that now the question is how long until the cookie buffer / ring / heap / whatever gets full rather than how long before too many connections get allocated.
And what does the SCTP stack do if I send it an unsolicited stage 2, stage 3, or stage 4 message from the handshake? Or sent an unsolicited SCTP FIN?
Elizabethan English is modern English. Middle English is from about 800AD to about 1400AD (roughly, post-Beowulf to Chaucer). Old English is before that.
The article mentions engineers and producers, with the latter getting offers about half as much as the former. Can someone explain the difference between these two jobs?
Watch this movie some time. Anne Heche and Dennis Leary are engineers. Dustin Hoffman and Robert DiNero are producers. The script is very pro-producer, so bear that in mind. But it's the best explanation I've seen of what a producer really does.
I was smoking the "going for a funny post" weed. But it's true that baselayout doesn't include inetd or xinetd, and installing a net-aware server like apache does not depend on inetd unless you include that as a USE flag.
Personally I'm fine with that because I'd rather have apache, etc., listening themselves on the port then introduce an extra layer that will one day break. YMMV.
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Well, it's from the Greek le/og (same root as "logos"), but it's a verb form; it means "I speak" or "I bind together" or "I relate". The plural (we speak etc.) would be "legomen". Meanwhile, the phrase "leggo my eggo" (if spelled "legomai ego") means "I talk to myself". If we were to assume it was a badly-anglicized Greek-based noun, the plural would be either legoi or legoe.
The US Senate wasn't elected for about 150 years. In theory it allowed Senators to be immune from political pressures and the public passions of the moment. In practice, as political parties in the US got more powerful the Senators became pawns of the state parties.
Still, I have to say the Lords have been doing Good Things for the most part lately, and maybe there's nothing inherently wrong with having a brake in place against the public mood of the day. God knows we could have used one in the US over the past 5 years or so...
In my day, we had to get up in the morning at 12 o'clock at night, half an hour before we went to bed. We worked 28 hours a day down mill and paid twelvepence a week for the privilege. And when we got home, mum and dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah".
And you try telling that to the young people today, and they won't believe you.
TripMaster Monkey, where are you?...
MS Office is already incompatible with itself. Have you ever tried to open an old (say, '97) file in Office 2003? Ironically enough, Open Office is more compatible with old MS Office formats than modern MS Office is -- that's why my company has to use OOo, because we get a LOT of documents from people who are still using 10-year-old software.
Ha! I bet you think the "Patriot Act" encourages "Patriotism" too, huh? That may have been the basis of right to work laws a few decades ago, but as far as I've seen every "right to work" law now means "at-will employment". So you might as well call them "right to be fired for no reason" states.
*shrug* not me. Find me a comparable product with table inheretance and I'll consider it. Until I see one, the other DB's are pretty much lacking.
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Yes and no. It's really more dependent on the Gentoo maintainer than on the upstream. Most "big" projects also include a patchset (generally small stuff like where config files go; sometimes big changes to the codebase). These will generally have fairly rich USE flags. And it's not simply disabling things; in some cases it's adding whole subsystems (like SASL for sendmail, or the postgres backend for named). But anyways, some maintainers will add a lot of USE flags to their ebuild and others won't.
Part of it comes from the fact that /etc/foo.conf might be altered by both libfoo and gtk-foo. The utility dispatch-conf diffs the two packages' foo.confs to let you merge their conf files. I think the best thing Gentoo does in /etc is the utility rc-update. It's the most sane init/runlevel interface I know.
Seriously. It's become so watered-down it's useless as a description. Every jackass and his dog thinks he needs an "enterprise-level" solution. WTF does it really mean?
If "Enterprise" means "I'm so stupid I'm willing to overpay for a product or 'solution' [which just means 'product you keep paying for every quarter']", then, yes, Linux is very much ready for enterprise setups because it's actually pretty easy to get people to overpay for Linux-based enterprise-level solutions rather than just hire competent IT staff in the first place to implement something.
eh?
At my shop, senior management gets the worst file server, switch, and traffic shaping policy. They don't need much, IT-wise, and they've never complained.
Actually it mostly means what we now call Spain and south asia. At its height (9th and 10th centuries AD) Anadlus was the most advanced culture on earth.
Yes. It is. Full stop.
Free software ships When It Is Ready. That's why it's better.
Chris: Or, 6 to the 23rd joules per liter.
Bodie: That's hotter than the sun!
Eh... not exactly. Matter stores a *lot* of potential energy in the form of the 4 "fundamental" forces.
Like in a nuclear explosion, it's not that matter is being converted to energy. It's that the weak nuclear force being stored by some atoms is being released when the atom splits. So, this could be the weak or the strong force (or conceivably EM but I doubt it, given its strength) being released in some as-yet-unknown way.
Gee, that's not big or anything. Makes sense to put that as an afterthought 4 paragraphs down...
Sorry to self-reply, but other good options are:
This question is wrong in so many ways...
Good beginners languages are:
- Logo (still the best)
- Scheme
- Forth
- Ruby
- Python
These all allow you to do basic, functionally-oriented programming and then "graduate", if need be, to large-scale OO stuff.I would say Common Lisp is the best, but if you start programming using Lisp you'll never truly appreciate it because you assume all languages are that well-designed.
Well... ssh isn't for the server's security, really. It's for the client's security. SSH means if Alice connects to Bob, she can be sure that all the traffic from that connection actually came from Bob, and vice versa. They can also both be confident that Eve, who is also on the network, can't read what they are saying to each other. There's nothing about ssh that keeps Alice from doing something mean to Bob, or vice versa.
SSH does not change the parameters of trust between the two hosts. It just limits the trust questions to those two hosts and no others.
Look at it this way: if you send me a signed and encrypted email containing a recipe, I can be confident that the email came from you and was not altered in transit or read by a third party. That says nothing about whether the recipe will be tasty or poisonous; I still have to have some reason to trust your cooking skills. SSH lets you trust that what was said was actually said, not that what was said is in itself trustworthy.
And I assume the cookie can be reconstructed based on the remote IP and the known key? I guess that makes sense, so any flood attack would have to compromise the key sequence. Could be an interesting attack to work on.
The server still has to compute and store the cookie (caveat: I have no idea how computation / storage intensive the cookie is; I'm mostly speaking theoretically here). So, what happens if I forge INIT blocks from 10 IP addresses? 100? 1000? If this raises the bar of forged INITs required to DOS, great, but it doesn't seem right to say it's immune from the analogous attack to the SYN flood (ie, in either case you can consume server resources while hiding your true IP address). It's just that now the question is how long until the cookie buffer / ring / heap / whatever gets full rather than how long before too many connections get allocated.
And what does the SCTP stack do if I send it an unsolicited stage 2, stage 3, or stage 4 message from the handshake? Or sent an unsolicited SCTP FIN?
The word "antichrist" appears 0 times in the book of Revelations.
"Antichrist" appears only in John's epistles and it's in the plural -- "antichrists" are people who deny Jesus's messianic status.
Elizabethan English is modern English. Middle English is from about 800AD to about 1400AD (roughly, post-Beowulf to Chaucer). Old English is before that.
Watch this movie some time. Anne Heche and Dennis Leary are engineers. Dustin Hoffman and Robert DiNero are producers. The script is very pro-producer, so bear that in mind. But it's the best explanation I've seen of what a producer really does.
I was smoking the "going for a funny post" weed. But it's true that baselayout doesn't include inetd or xinetd, and installing a net-aware server like apache does not depend on inetd unless you include that as a USE flag.
Personally I'm fine with that because I'd rather have apache, etc., listening themselves on the port then introduce an extra layer that will one day break. YMMV.