Why isn't anyone talking about ADs ?. They are the natural revenue for an online magazine ?. Or maybe advertisements bring in an unwanted commercial touch to this ?.
Of course ADs are not always that forthcoming. But I guess well placed book ads would be enough to solve this problem.
And lastly, why not pick a public sponsor ?. Someone like IBM could sponsor this whole thing without a dent in the budget. Or you could ask for the public to mirror it - if the bandwidth is the real issue (of course, nothing says "COOL" as much as a local mirror of IEEE at your Uni LAN).
> I'm interested to see where this'll go-- will ISPs absolutely choke 'bulk data' packets and drive folks into using older or fringe BT clients to get faster downloads?
Also already Layer7 Firewalls can classify and demote packets... but they are a lot more CPU expensive. If I were a sysadmin, this would run on all packets just to classify outbound traffic. (would be less expensive than a proxy, I think).
About Speed and ISPs. I don't know how often I say this. "What do you mean by FAST internet". I was talking with my sister and she was complaining how the asianet net connection was slower than the previous dialup. For my sister, "fast" internet means that Yahoo Mail shows up quickly. Being the gullible geek, I booted up the box with a knoppix I had handy and looked into the network. Ended up increasing positive DNS TTL - to get internet "FAST":).
Too costly to test would be the real meaning of it
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· Score: 4, Interesting
The article just says what everyone knew..
* code coverage != proper testing * clever inputs are needed to test * few programmers test concurrency
Ending with - "ECONOMY IN TESTING" (ever heard about "Good Enough Isn't")
Essentially apologetic about the lack of testing. Test driven development is not a philosophy, it's a way of doing. In a perfect company environment, you'll never be blamed for breaking someone's code - but in most places the idea is "he made me look bad". Peer reviews never work out properly. This is why FOSS is turning out more secure and clean code.
The point of terrorism is exactly that - terror !. Once people are afraid, they have essentially achieved their target. These people are not just "militants" - but terrorists.
Indian software industry is obsessed with Information security that it often does not expect an attack with a car bomb in the parking under ground. And Bangalore is a cosmopolitan city full of all kinds of people. You won't be watched by the entire crowd because you have a 3 inch beard.
Security is an illusion - but it is a precious illusion for those who keep it.
If you look at very successful FOSS projects, you'll see a comitted 3-5 member team which does pretty much everything for that project (projects like KDE or gnome don't classify as projects, they are meta-projects).
A project needs lots of users and around 3-4 x times the core team contributing bits and peices to keep it alive. Once that is reached, the project is pretty much self sustaining.
I feel that firefox has got a bit of elitism in their top level. Maybe those developers should take a look back into where THEY came from.
>InfiniBand, which is derived from its underlying concept of "infinite bandwidth," is a switched fabric interconnect technology for high-performance network devices that is common in a number of supercomputer clusters.
So that works only for supercomputer clusters ?.
Interestingly, the ChangeLog has some very small number of entries. The one I found most fun was:-
Randy Dunlap: o [ide] make 1-bit fields unsigned
I mean, other wise they would end up as "-1" or "0" (when you assume in code that "0" or "1" for 1 -bit fields). How did a sign-extension in the IDE (must be heavily used) be missed till version 2.6 ??. Typically, this looks like the average release - some bug fixes and a couple of big features which nobody (well almost nobody) would use on their boxes.
AMD demo'd their dual core x86 a year ago. Also from what I read, the Pentium extreme is NOT going to share the memory controller - which means unlike the AMD, we might need a new motherboard for the dual core ones (well, AMD promised that we wouldn't). So this is costlier, uglier and more power hungry.
All in all I see that Intel is going down unless they do something quick. And remember Competition is good for the Customer.
Back when knoppix came out - it was a curiousity. Mainly because most systems needed hours of configurations to get it working "the way I want it". Small things like hooking up a "fetchmail" before "postfix flush" or putting both into the if-up scripts. Morphix was the first step towards that (eg if you want to browse securely from a cyber-cafe - without any keyloggers peeking).
Now with lots of machines with 512 Mb and greater RAM, a LiveCD doesn't sound that bad. This unionfs thing clinches it - but the catch is still that if you change your machine, all this is lost. All that said, LiveCDs are here to stay (I think LiveDVDs might be just around the corner..)
"Linus has this bad habit of fixing security holes quietly," said Cox. "This is a bad idea as some people read all the kernel patches to find the security holes."
I wouldn't advertise my mistakes either... neither do the OpenBSD folks or any ego driven engineer:)
The article paints Linus as the typical Flawed Hero of contemporary literature. He's good and yet he's not perfect - at least that's what comes out of it for me. (and no digs on BitKeeper.. hmmm..)
As Gmail and Google Suggest has shown, client-side javascript is a VERY powerful and flexible tool (CGI::IRC takes my pick for the best javascript app). It truly shows why Microsoft had to kill off Netscape by seeding the internet with incompatible standards - essentially wasting man hours which could have gone into true innovation.
Google is our friend right now because favouring firefox would benifit their own shareholders by keeping Microsoft from introducing more divergent tandards. Whenever I think about Google as the Good Company, I am instantly reminded of a flash intro called EPIC 2014.
Google is good for FireFox now - and probably will remain good. The only question is about what we will have to pay (ie Free Software == open market for services). You see IBM playing the same card trying to commoditize software to knock Microsoft off the software market.
> Sun best get their act together and encourage active open development of their platform if they ever want to catch up to the momentum of Linux.
What might be good for Sun isn't always good for the community. Even with just "versions" (ok, distros) of Linux (mm.. GNU/Linux), running around - we're having "Debian Rocks" , "Gentoo Rocks", "Redhat sucks" kind of rants and splits in the community.
For the sake of Linux and Hurd - I guess Solaris has to fail (or be the NEW GNU/Solaris.. RMS left enough room for that)
There is really no way a wireless, battery powered handheld is cheaper than a desktop PC of the same capability (or even double the capability). This is really not a solution for the Third World.
Look at similar efforts going on in other parts of the world like IT@School in Kerala. They are expermenting with LTSP servers and thin clients - where small local firms have support contracts. (Hell !!.. they even sell GNU/Hurd cds). Also all the textbooks are available on PDF as well.
Pumping money into the third world will not solve its problems , neither will hitech handhelds. It's about awareness - a trickle down approach of feeding information. With the right political support (there's a government change soon for Kerala), it might actually work.
What ever you say about RMS - he does eat his own dog food. I heard about the pains the FreeBIOS team had in converting RMS's personal laptop to FreeBIOS sometime back. But all that said, I am NOT going to flash this thing onto my boxes. This is what I'll do -
You can help our campaign by buying AMD CPU chips and not buying Intel, and by publishing statements about what you're doing. Likewise, buy motherboards that support free BIOS.
According to the FreeBIOS website, Acer , Via and SiS support it . And it will probably see a LOT of Bochs in testing too. So I might opt for an Acer laptopt finally (it's cheap too)
> You're absolutely right!@ There's an array inside the iPod shuffle of about 150 artists that will take precedence over all other artists.
Back in late 2001, I wrote a simple program which learns which songs I press "Next(b)" before it completes. Finally after 8 weeks, I realized that I listen to
Eminem and other rap in the morning
Pop music later into the afternoon
Rock was for the 5-7 pm slots
After 10 , it was usually playing Enigma and instrumentals
Was quite different on a weekend with no music on saturdays and often slow Elvis songs on sunday afternoons... I would really love a portable player that understands this and plays accordingly (mpg321 + bash + grep works, but only when I start it properly).
I still found the output stacker on Winamp.com [yeah, slashdot it out of existence].
I don't listen to pop music (only Enigma, Eminem and a few others) - and I don't have the bandwidth to pull it off Napster. But how hard it is to really hook up something like Mp3 Recoder and do this with WMplayer (I record webcasts from clients).
Google is a REALLY dangerous tool against censorship. But that all said, you can't just supress information - Information wants to be free.
* Check the manufacturer’s website for a list of compatible hardware prior to choosing an OS.
I guess I always did that with Mac OS X...:)
Jokes aside, I bought (ie assembled at home) a PC which I picked off the hardware HOWTO. Ended up being a charm to get Linux working on it. I would like to call that Voting with your Money.
These days you should check TuxMobil or some other Linux site rather than just the hardware vendor's site for the compatibility from the wild.
As much as I agree on granting commit access to anyone worthy of it.. I absolutely do not like the XFree86 way of "We take only patches" kind of elite bastards (Linus comes close to pissing me off, but he manages to show the other side as well on a few good days).
Hopefully firefox will not go into that Elitist arena which blocks out young developers...
All that said, I had to work for 3 months almost full time to get commit access on what I work on . But we've had a guy who would steam roll the patch database with useless patches and report all kinds of pedantic bugs to pester us into giving commit access (and for his notice, that doesn't get you anywhere).
>Another good idea is to pull a couple hundred websites with Wget -r:)
Feels wierd replying to my own post... but I remembered something else that I had. A copy of the Google Programming contest data files. Get a whopping 16000 web pages in one shot from research.google.com.
(wish they'd gzipped it - but content-encoding: gzip works too)
After I saw Ctrl+Alt+Del's review , I pretty much knew what would happen in this game. Now they have elevator music played to keep people around ?. (I hope it's not britney-pop...)
Live audio with Shoutcast/Icecast is a great idea, but don't spoil my ping times with it (guess what *I* play).
>The entertainment industry has already lost once on this in District Court, and again at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
So this is the third attempt and one at the supreme court too.. When will these people give up ?. Of course the Betamax case clearly puts the distributors of the technology (which has clearly legal uses) out of the danger area.
They already have a date for the decision (July 2005), now if only they'd tell what decision they paid for:)
Btw, I typed "C ω" everywhere.. too bad it doesn't render even here..
I do have to say one thing about C-omega though, it might be faster as more compilers move this into concurrent code - but as of today I don't see any parallelized execution systems in.NET. Maybe the a multi CPU machine might extract better performance out of threads/whatever the compiler/JIT churns out.
Maybe MS imagines that anything that runs Longhorn will need dual CPU/cores:)
Firstly you can't type C easily in normal
ascii (unlike C/C++/C#/ etc..)
Eventhough it brings in some syntactic sugar, I suspect that most of it is just that and won't offer any better productivity. Nullable types wrapped into a union like looking thingy , anonymous structs which confuse the user in terms of code clarity.
All in all I'm less than impressed in this evolution of C-like languages. I prefer the path Python (more correctly Parrot) has taken rather than C
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So, in other words, be careful when you connect to an unfamiliar access point? Shouldn't people already be doing this?
Most people just click on the scan, pick a network and start working - especially when using a laptop. Of course the spoofer would not be using WEP. This is a combination of phishing with man in the middle.
The man in the middle is defeated by simple SSL authentication. However the phishing part of it, can replace the original website with something else (like forwarding to goatse.cx with a popup saying, "don't use my network" ?). WiFi routers are like ISPs without the security assurances, death to all who use "linksys" as the SSID !!. (or more practically - use those for your bittorrent needs).
Slashdot Mirror
Why isn't anyone talking about ADs ?. They are the natural revenue for an online magazine ?. Or maybe advertisements bring in an unwanted commercial touch to this ?.
Of course ADs are not always that forthcoming. But I guess well placed book ads would be enough to solve this problem.
And lastly, why not pick a public sponsor ?. Someone like IBM could sponsor this whole thing without a dent in the budget. Or you could ask for the public to mirror it - if the bandwidth is the real issue (of course, nothing says "COOL" as much as a local mirror of IEEE at your Uni LAN).
Also already Layer7 Firewalls can classify and demote packets... but they are a lot more CPU expensive. If I were a sysadmin, this would run on all packets just to classify outbound traffic. (would be less expensive than a proxy, I think).
About Speed and ISPs. I don't know how often I say this. "What do you mean by FAST internet". I was talking with my sister and she was complaining how the asianet net connection was slower than the previous dialup. For my sister, "fast" internet means that Yahoo Mail shows up quickly. Being the gullible geek, I booted up the box with a knoppix I had handy and looked into the network. Ended up increasing positive DNS TTL - to get internet "FAST" :).
The article just says what everyone knew ..
* code coverage != proper testing
* clever inputs are needed to test
* few programmers test concurrency
Ending with - "ECONOMY IN TESTING" (ever heard about "Good Enough Isn't")
Essentially apologetic about the lack of testing. Test driven development is not a philosophy, it's a way of doing. In a perfect company environment, you'll never be blamed for breaking someone's code - but in most places the idea is "he made me look bad". Peer reviews never work out properly. This is why FOSS is turning out more secure and clean code.
The point of terrorism is exactly that - terror !. Once people are afraid, they have essentially achieved their target. These people are not just "militants" - but terrorists.
Indian software industry is obsessed with Information security that it often does not expect an attack with a car bomb in the parking under ground. And Bangalore is a cosmopolitan city full of all kinds of people. You won't be watched by the entire crowd because you have a 3 inch beard.
Security is an illusion - but it is a precious illusion for those who keep it.
> because this isn't fun anymore.
Mmm... "Just for Fun !!"
If you look at very successful FOSS projects, you'll see a comitted 3-5 member team which does pretty much everything for that project (projects like KDE or gnome don't classify as projects, they are meta-projects).
A project needs lots of users and around 3-4 x times the core team contributing bits and peices to keep it alive. Once that is reached, the project is pretty much self sustaining.
I feel that firefox has got a bit of elitism in their top level. Maybe those developers should take a look back into where THEY came from.
>InfiniBand, which is derived from its underlying concept of "infinite bandwidth," is a switched fabric interconnect technology for high-performance network devices that is common in a number of supercomputer clusters.
So that works only for supercomputer clusters ?.Interestingly, the ChangeLog has some very small number of entries. The one I found most fun was:-
I mean, other wise they would end up as "-1" or "0" (when you assume in code that "0" or "1" for 1 -bit fields). How did a sign-extension in the IDE (must be heavily used) be missed till version 2.6 ??. Typically, this looks like the average release - some bug fixes and a couple of big features which nobody (well almost nobody) would use on their boxes.All in all I see that Intel is going down unless they do something quick. And remember Competition is good for the Customer.
Now with lots of machines with 512 Mb and greater RAM, a LiveCD doesn't sound that bad. This unionfs thing clinches it - but the catch is still that if you change your machine, all this is lost. All that said, LiveCDs are here to stay (I think LiveDVDs might be just around the corner ..)
"Linus has this bad habit of fixing security holes quietly," said Cox. "This is a bad idea as some people read all the kernel patches to find the security holes."
I wouldn't advertise my mistakes eitherThe article paints Linus as the typical Flawed Hero of contemporary literature. He's good and yet he's not perfect - at least that's what comes out of it for me. (and no digs on BitKeeper .. hmmm..)
Google is our friend right now because favouring firefox would benifit their own shareholders by keeping Microsoft from introducing more divergent tandards. Whenever I think about Google as the Good Company, I am instantly reminded of a flash intro called EPIC 2014.
Google is good for FireFox now - and probably will remain good. The only question is about what we will have to pay (ie Free Software == open market for services). You see IBM playing the same card trying to commoditize software to knock Microsoft off the software market.What might be good for Sun isn't always good for the community. Even with just "versions" (ok, distros) of Linux (mm.. GNU/Linux), running around - we're having "Debian Rocks" , "Gentoo Rocks", "Redhat sucks" kind of rants and splits in the community.
For the sake of Linux and Hurd - I guess Solaris has to fail (or be the NEW GNU/Solaris.. RMS left enough room for that)There is really no way a wireless, battery powered handheld is cheaper than a desktop PC of the same capability (or even double the capability). This is really not a solution for the Third World.
Look at similar efforts going on in other parts of the world like IT@School in Kerala. They are expermenting with LTSP servers and thin clients - where small local firms have support contracts. (Hell !!.. they even sell GNU/Hurd cds). Also all the textbooks are available on PDF as well.Pumping money into the third world will not solve its problems , neither will hitech handhelds. It's about awareness - a trickle down approach of feeding information. With the right political support (there's a government change soon for Kerala), it might actually work.
You can help our campaign by buying AMD CPU chips and not buying Intel, and by publishing statements about what you're doing. Likewise, buy motherboards that support free BIOS.
According to the FreeBIOS website, Acer , Via and SiS support it . And it will probably see a LOT of Bochs in testing too. So I might opt for an Acer laptopt finally (it's cheap too)> You're absolutely right!@ There's an array inside the iPod shuffle of about 150 artists that will take precedence over all other artists.
Back in late 2001, I wrote a simple program which learns which songs I press "Next(b)" before it completes. Finally after 8 weeks, I realized that I listen to- Eminem and other rap in the morning
- Pop music later into the afternoon
- Rock was for the 5-7 pm slots
- After 10 , it was usually playing Enigma and instrumentals
Was quite different on a weekend with no music on saturdays and often slow Elvis songs on sunday afternoonsI don't listen to pop music (only Enigma, Eminem and a few others) - and I don't have the bandwidth to pull it off Napster. But how hard it is to really hook up something like Mp3 Recoder and do this with WMplayer (I record webcasts from clients).
Google is a REALLY dangerous tool against censorship. But that all said, you can't just supress information - Information wants to be free.Jokes aside, I bought (ie assembled at home) a PC which I picked off the hardware HOWTO. Ended up being a charm to get Linux working on it. I would like to call that Voting with your Money.
These days you should check TuxMobil or some other Linux site rather than just the hardware vendor's site for the compatibility from the wild.As much as I agree on granting commit access to anyone worthy of it .. I absolutely do not like the XFree86 way of "We take only patches" kind of elite bastards (Linus comes close to pissing me off, but he manages to show the other side as well on a few good days).
:)
Hopefully firefox will not go into that Elitist arena which blocks out young developers...
All that said, I had to work for 3 months almost full time to get commit access on what I work on . But we've had a guy who would steam roll the patch database with useless patches and report all kinds of pedantic bugs to pester us into giving commit access (and for his notice, that doesn't get you anywhere).
A single strategy doesn't work for all types
At least it's better than Quake with punch cards
Feels wierd replying to my own post... but I remembered something else that I had. A copy of the Google Programming contest data files. Get a whopping 16000 web pages in one shot from research.google.com. (wish they'd gzipped it - but content-encoding: gzip works too)
Sadly, all those pages are fromAnother good idea is to pull a couple hundred websites with Wget -r :)
OF course, slashdot belongs in the "Broken HTML No-Css Table Mess" variety of HTML (just like they call Crushed Bean No-Froth Dark Latte - a coffee)Live audio with Shoutcast/Icecast is a great idea, but don't spoil my ping times with it (guess what *I* play).
So this is the third attempt and one at the supreme court too.. When will these people give up ?. Of course the Betamax case clearly puts the distributors of the technology (which has clearly legal uses) out of the danger area.
They already have a date for the decision (July 2005), now if only they'd tell what decision they paid forI do have to say one thing about C-omega though, it might be faster as more compilers move this into concurrent code - but as of today I don't see any parallelized execution systems in .NET. Maybe the a multi CPU machine might extract better performance out of threads/whatever the compiler/JIT churns out.
Maybe MS imagines that anything that runs Longhorn will need dual CPU/coresEventhough it brings in some syntactic sugar, I suspect that most of it is just that and won't offer any better productivity. Nullable types wrapped into a union like looking thingy , anonymous structs which confuse the user in terms of code clarity.
All in all I'm less than impressed in this evolution of C-like languages. I prefer the path Python (more correctly Parrot) has taken rather than CMost people just click on the scan, pick a network and start working - especially when using a laptop. Of course the spoofer would not be using WEP. This is a combination of phishing with man in the middle.
The man in the middle is defeated by simple SSL authentication. However the phishing part of it, can replace the original website with something else (like forwarding to goatse.cx with a popup saying, "don't use my network" ?). WiFi routers are like ISPs without the security assurances, death to all who use "linksys" as the SSID !!. (or more practically - use those for your bittorrent needs).