When I was in college I had an old ultra-thin that did two things well - wireless networking and running rdesktop (and obviously X). Very nice and easy solution if you need to connect to a windows Box. I was able to use a 233 Mghz laptop to connect to my home PC and run things like MSDE, Matlab, etc.
If I'm not mistaken I had a Toshiba Portege. nice little machine - and super duper light.
As we outsource more and more, it is these types of positions that have to remain in house- make cheap offshore developers write all the code for some separate pieces of software and a few on-shore configuration management people make them all work together peacefully.
Won't this only work until someone recompiles any and all apps that have the ads in them? How long before packages appear with advertisement-less binaries?
We are one step closer! Technology is one step closer to eliminating that pesky need of ours for human contact.
Virtual friends... virtual drinking buddies... virtual eXtreme Programming. Your compiler gently tells you where your syntax errors are. Just like a friend should.
Email must be filed in a special format, and so must all IMs. There are many different IM messaging formats, so what you really have to do is be able to speak every protocol (or just any that your client might be using, which is still quite a few) out there and translate every message into the DB format. And of course you have to set up the database and make sure you don't run out of space, etc. It is quite daunting, if you think about it. Trillian logs might be good for you, but they are not for the NASD.
I have one of these and its pretty nice for Linux. The base config is 233 mghz 32 ram 4 gig HD. 2.5 video RAM. The thing weighs about 2.9 pounds and I am constantly asked how much it costs because it looks expensive. Has 2 PCMCIA slots for wirelress/network cards. Here's a current action and here's a past one. This thing is cheap and will definitely run your ssh, etc. I am running Slack 9 on it and its very nice. APM is supported so sleep/wake is almost instantenous. You can do some graphic stuff too, fvwm2 and opera and gaim run great on it for web browsing/emailing/IMing.
You didn't have to lose your history or anything. There's a perl script, found here that will migrate your stuff. It is quite nice, and works with revision histories and all. The vss2cvs.pl script will migrate your stuff and another script (don't remember which) will migrate your revision histories.
There is a similar joke with a different setting which offers a different ending. The setting is a company with women around. When the guy says "57" everyone gets all quiet and one person says "You shouldn't say things like that around women."
It's not NEARLY that much. The $15 price is not a 50% markup from what it costs to produce. There are distribution costs that you are forgetting. Making a CD is really not that expensive. It all depends on what kind of music and how much of their own recording the band does: you can record the whole thing in your apartment and just go to the studio to mix, which will lower your cost considerably. You can have your CD for about $4,000 probably. Why do your CDs cost $15? you are paying for the PR and everything... There's a whole pyramid of people between you and the artist. Also, 90% of bands never really make money so the remaining 10%, whose CDs you actually buy, have their CDs' prices jacked up.
Also, everything is getting cheaper. Things like mixing are moving towards being done on a less and less expensive PC. A Mac with ProTools can do a LOT these days.
I am also a senior at Poly and when I started, I knew exactly what it was like. I just came because they are paying most of my tuition... All you had to do was look online at USNews & World Report or a number of other sites/sources for college information. I'd say most schools are consistent in reputation/education and Poly has shown consistency as well - through the actions you speak of, as well as many others.
If you got into MIT and went to Poly, you shouldn't've gotten into MIT. If you went to Poly because you didn't get in anywhere else, why complain? You know you couldn't do better. Unless it was the money, in which case, feel better. Other people have college loans, you probably don't.
This is not good for them... MS is probably making schools sign agreements not to sell or provide Linux or something, thereby eliminating choice. This is what most of these agreements are about anyway... ever notice how some places only have Pepsi, and some only have Coke ? Fact is MS is making sure all CS people learn to code on and for MS software, rather than giving them a choice to code on and for other stuff. So while poeple who know they want XP may get it cheap, people who may want other stuff will never be able to get it and will be forced to try XP. This, of course, is a huge problem since if people don't learn Linux in college, they won't have much of a chance to learn it later on in life when they are used to something and have a lot less time. The popular distros should aggressively try to get shrink wrapped copies of Linux on school store shelves. Maybe when they will try, they will suddenly realize that the agreements schools sigend with a MS prohibit the school stores from selling it. Alas, then it will be too late. The whole problem with schools doing shady stuff to get cheap MS products for students is exactly that we don't know what the shady stuff is.
If you look at how programming languages and sofrware evolve, the errors just get higher level. For example, Java keeps you from having memory leaks and buffer overflows. But a bad coder is a bad coder and will write buggy software where the problems are on a different layer. They will just arrange your off-the-shelf components incorrectly.
With wherever there is still really low level C/assembly programming stuff going on, off the shelf just really isn't applicable so you still have the really low level pointer arithmetic problems.
As time goes on nothing really changes... it just evolves. So our bugs are just evolving.
It's all about connections. I too am about to graduate college but have little paranoia. During college because of friends and relatives I have managed to get 2+ years of experience (of course it wasn't most enjoyable doing full time work+ school) and made new friends while at it. If you are any good, you should not really have trouble. If you don't have connections and can't find a job: wait. If you have skills you earned in school, there are probably friends who are aware of them and will recommend you for a job where they work, since it's very unlikely that NONE of your friends got jobs. And of course you should also pester relatives. If you didn't impress any friends with your skills: perhaps you don't have any and shouldn't be working anyway.
If all else fails there's always grad school. A Master's degree is useful and educational. Or you can tool around at home on some of you rown ideas/open source/certification projects.
Wroks fine! Thanks for inspiring me to check- my check included paying my CC bill which is a good way to void interest. And I recommend Chase because I like their web interface... especially if you have a deposit account with them.
I think this is the first or one of the first times we hear of one of these small router/NAT devices having vulnerabilities. This one is not very serious as it will only crash the device rather than allow someone to gain access to the network, but both this and other devices may have holes that would allow hackers to gain access to home LANs.
This could be a serious problem in the coming future with these small routers/NATers being combined with wireless APs for everyone to use AIM from the couch. Great and all but people wiht these things are probably going to bother even less with security than they do now, thereby introducing a whole host of nastly little attacks.
This should be interesting to watch for.
The article mentions how they are cramming more space into existing form factors. I am guessing the 2.5" laptop HD standard. I would like to see them introduce new smaller form factors for ultra-portables.
Maybe they can finally cram an HD into a PDA? A 20 gig HD coupled with a Crusoe would make for a nifty phone/computer.
Much of parsing has to do with regular expressions, which, in, turn, deal with NFAs/DFAs. Most parsing, in the end, comes to these finite automata and has been on most schools' CS curriculi(sp?) for many many years.
Already reading Dostoyevsky's "Notes From The Dead House". Next after that - probably going to re-read "War and Peace". And of course this "Stocks Bonds Options Futures" book for my new job. But Dostoyevsky is better.
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When I was in college I had an old ultra-thin that did two things well - wireless networking and running rdesktop (and obviously X). Very nice and easy solution if you need to connect to a windows Box. I was able to use a 233 Mghz laptop to connect to my home PC and run things like MSDE, Matlab, etc. If I'm not mistaken I had a Toshiba Portege. nice little machine - and super duper light.
As we outsource more and more, it is these types of positions that have to remain in house- make cheap offshore developers write all the code for some separate pieces of software and a few on-shore configuration management people make them all work together peacefully.
Won't this only work until someone recompiles any and all apps that have the ads in them? How long before packages appear with advertisement-less binaries?
www.apache.org
http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5057691.html?tag=f d_top
We are one step closer! Technology is one step closer to eliminating that pesky need of ours for human contact.
Virtual friends... virtual drinking buddies... virtual eXtreme Programming. Your compiler gently tells you where your syntax errors are. Just like a friend should.
Isn't it great? 40% of my salary is going for Microsofot software! Awesome.
Email must be filed in a special format, and so must all IMs. There are many different IM messaging formats, so what you really have to do is be able to speak every protocol (or just any that your client might be using, which is still quite a few) out there and translate every message into the DB format. And of course you have to set up the database and make sure you don't run out of space, etc. It is quite daunting, if you think about it. Trillian logs might be good for you, but they are not for the NASD.
I have one of these and its pretty nice for Linux. The base config is 233 mghz 32 ram 4 gig HD. 2.5 video RAM. The thing weighs about 2.9 pounds and I am constantly asked how much it costs because it looks expensive. Has 2 PCMCIA slots for wirelress/network cards. Here's a current action and here's a past one. This thing is cheap and will definitely run your ssh, etc. I am running Slack 9 on it and its very nice. APM is supported so sleep/wake is almost instantenous. You can do some graphic stuff too, fvwm2 and opera and gaim run great on it for web browsing/emailing/IMing.
... because you never really know how loud a sunset can be.
You didn't have to lose your history or anything. There's a perl script, found here that will migrate your stuff. It is quite nice, and works with revision histories and all. The vss2cvs.pl script will migrate your stuff and another script (don't remember which) will migrate your revision histories.
There is a similar joke with a different setting which offers a different ending. The setting is a company with women around. When the guy says "57" everyone gets all quiet and one person says "You shouldn't say things like that around women."
c:\dos\ c:\dos\run run dos run
Also, everything is getting cheaper. Things like mixing are moving towards being done on a less and less expensive PC. A Mac with ProTools can do a LOT these days.
If you got into MIT and went to Poly, you shouldn't've gotten into MIT. If you went to Poly because you didn't get in anywhere else, why complain? You know you couldn't do better. Unless it was the money, in which case, feel better. Other people have college loans, you probably don't.
This is not good for them... MS is probably making schools sign agreements not to sell or provide Linux or something, thereby eliminating choice. This is what most of these agreements are about anyway... ever notice how some places only have Pepsi, and some only have Coke ? Fact is MS is making sure all CS people learn to code on and for MS software, rather than giving them a choice to code on and for other stuff. So while poeple who know they want XP may get it cheap, people who may want other stuff will never be able to get it and will be forced to try XP. This, of course, is a huge problem since if people don't learn Linux in college, they won't have much of a chance to learn it later on in life when they are used to something and have a lot less time. The popular distros should aggressively try to get shrink wrapped copies of Linux on school store shelves. Maybe when they will try, they will suddenly realize that the agreements schools sigend with a MS prohibit the school stores from selling it. Alas, then it will be too late. The whole problem with schools doing shady stuff to get cheap MS products for students is exactly that we don't know what the shady stuff is.
That pave the way for Linux on the desktop... It may be harder to set up but at least it doesn't go berserk on you.
If you look at how programming languages and sofrware evolve, the errors just get higher level. For example, Java keeps you from having memory leaks and buffer overflows. But a bad coder is a bad coder and will write buggy software where the problems are on a different layer. They will just arrange your off-the-shelf components incorrectly. With wherever there is still really low level C/assembly programming stuff going on, off the shelf just really isn't applicable so you still have the really low level pointer arithmetic problems. As time goes on nothing really changes... it just evolves. So our bugs are just evolving.
If all else fails there's always grad school. A Master's degree is useful and educational. Or you can tool around at home on some of you rown ideas/open source/certification projects.
Wroks fine! Thanks for inspiring me to check- my check included paying my CC bill which is a good way to void interest. And I recommend Chase because I like their web interface... especially if you have a deposit account with them.
I think this is the first or one of the first times we hear of one of these small router/NAT devices having vulnerabilities. This one is not very serious as it will only crash the device rather than allow someone to gain access to the network, but both this and other devices may have holes that would allow hackers to gain access to home LANs.
This could be a serious problem in the coming future with these small routers/NATers being combined with wireless APs for everyone to use AIM from the couch. Great and all but people wiht these things are probably going to bother even less with security than they do now, thereby introducing a whole host of nastly little attacks.
This should be interesting to watch for.
The article mentions how they are cramming more space into existing form factors. I am guessing the 2.5" laptop HD standard. I would like to see them introduce new smaller form factors for ultra-portables.
Maybe they can finally cram an HD into a PDA? A 20 gig HD coupled with a Crusoe would make for a nifty phone/computer.
Much of parsing has to do with regular expressions, which, in, turn, deal with NFAs/DFAs. Most parsing, in the end, comes to these finite automata and has been on most schools' CS curriculi(sp?) for many many years.
Already reading Dostoyevsky's "Notes From The Dead House". Next after that - probably going to re-read "War and Peace". And of course this "Stocks Bonds Options Futures" book for my new job. But Dostoyevsky is better.
Considering all the really really "dirty" stuff some of us keep on our hard drives.