... and thats different from a programmer responsible for 20,000 lines of java/C++ code that they did not originally write because of how?
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Why help the stupid ?
um... because as part of the IT staff its part of your job?
If the PHB is tech illiterate yet still insists on making blind purchase decisions, let the punk shoot himself in the foot. You can always find a better boss elsewhere, or save up and launch your own business with _your_ skills and computer savoir-faire. Just be loyal to your paycheck until opportunity comes knocking.
You let "the punk" shoot himself in the foot, and needlessly spend $100k and there goes any semblance of a good reference for your next job... talk about bridge burning. And save up and start your own company??? Yeah, lets everyone do that because of management's choice of operating system. My god the rhetoric of/. is getting insane.
If your boss can't tell the difference between a 2 million$ investment + tech training, and a 0$ investment + tech training, then you should just smile and cash your fat check because there is no salvation for such math flunkies.
its obviously a lot more complicated than that, don't you think? Or in your opinion is everone running win2003 server over BSD total morons? Theres a time and a place for everything, and if you ask me your zealotry will get you in some serious career trouble sooner or later. Best of luck, man.
"the one time I've had a problem with OpenBSD was when I accidentally killed the packet filtering program and left a vulnerable copy of Samba open to the outside world"
I'm no expert to unix, but is the author saying "I had trouble with OpenBSD that one time when I totally shut down my firewall and let the world openly explore my network by accident"
if this article is aimed at convincing the PHB's to embrace BSD over Linux, yeah, thats one comment that might have been okay not to fully disclose, while still keeping full journalistic integrity...
well its a damn shame that apple doesn't respect its customers like microsoft does (M$) (haha trolls i used the $ sign) and ensure BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY to all OS written since 1998, huh???
enjoy your overpriced mp3 players. really. best of luck.
Interesting that all you address is the risks to pay ratio. Without any further information, I'd have to say that you absolutely suck.
Do you feel that the US has a duty to Iraq now that we have unilaterally toppled their gov't against the will of the entire planet, and without good reason, thereby creating the largest tide of anti-americanism I have seen in my 28 years of life, and in doing so killed far more innocents than died on 9/11/2001 in the United States? Or hey, do you just want a quick buck?
I'd say off of your limited statement, you'd fall in to the later. If its pure money then I suspect you'll get exactly what's coming to you.
After more better reading, the above link is not the official project, but the MAC OS X version of XFree86 "recieves integral support from" xdarwin according to the docs...
once you mod chip it to run Linux, what apps can you run on it? Surely there's not binary compatability between x86 and XBox style architecture? I'd rather have a PC that can do everything that an XBox can rather than an XBox that can do a very limited amount of things that a PC can.
When an Indian worker's salary reaches 75% of the comparable American's.. guess what? Outsourcing will not make economic sense anymore.
you got that partway right. when an Indian worker's salary reaches 75% of the comparable American's.. outsourcing to India will not make economic sense
then employers will tear up their shallow roots from india and move on to the Czech Republic, and then from there who knows...
the second you download and run off your local device, you are already out of date. Buildings, landmarks, and populations will rise and fall over time. You look at why so many of the United State's cruise missiles hit civilian targets during the 1st gulf war based on your assumptions to confirm this.
sure its great if you have connectivity 1 month before you land in portugal to meet your friends, but who's going to keep that map current daily/monthly/annualy? You expect this to be a cheaper or more reliable service than GPS or related techs to be developed by non US interests in the coming years???
so you can run visual studio.net on it right? what about MS frontpage? Interdev? what about windows media player format movies? Linux can support Perl, Java, scripting languages... but so can Microsoft.
Microsoft OWNS web development. Sure, apache has the market share on servers, but the development platform for the www is microsoft. You can target your deployment environment and deal with deployment as you feel like it. With Linux, out of the box you are limited.
haha. Can you even imagine a PHB chmod-ing anything???
A secretary "running config in the directory"
a 60 year old retiree writing his or her own startup/shutdown shell scripts for an open source compiled binary?
what the hell are you thinking man???
This is not a troll at all- just pointing out that MS windows made security sacrifices to gain the simplicity that granted it market dominance. And given MS's warchest and capabilities, making windows more secure will be realized faster than making linux easier to use, in the same secure manner.
maybe you just adore chmodding things, but the business execs DON'T.
And then, just think of the collective BILLIONS of dollars companies already have invested in MS products, and the costs of retraining a workforce...
4 is not. Worms and viruses and (to a lesser extent) trojans are NOT distributed equally based upon marketshare.
I totally disagree. If you are a tiny software comapany interested in selling a desktop product, are you going to target NetBSD or OS/2 as your deployment environment? No. You target MS Windows, with a crazy majority on the desktop. Likewise, if you are a shit eating virus writer with limited resources looking to maximize damage, your mark will be the same- the leader in market share. Add open availability of the souce code to the mix, and then try to defend your position.
They propagate because of FLAWS in the SECURITY of the system. And Linux has a better security model than Windows.
Used to be the case, and to much less of an extent, still so. But the fact of the matter is that many win programmers still deploy and run as administrator. Up till win2k most programmers didn't have a choice; now its just out of lack of skill and general laziness. With MS's latest stance of putting out security patches that will break unsecure code, this behaviors' days are numbered...
yeah, I had a college roommate come home all wasted like and puke on his keyboard.
in a brilliant logic that I will never posess in such a drunken state, he fills the bathtub up, and drops the keyboard in. It sinks to the bottom in a predictable David Letterman "Will It Float" style.
the next morning, our other roommates' parents who were in town for the weekend look at a full bathtub with a keyboard at the bottom and laugh like hell.
after a day in the sun, the keyboard was good as new. And clean, too.
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at speeds "up to" 60 mph, its more like giving someone a motorcycle helmet to drive a motorcycle...
... and thats different from a programmer responsible for 20,000 lines of java/C++ code that they did not originally write because of how?
Why help the stupid ?
/. is getting insane.
um... because as part of the IT staff its part of your job?
If the PHB is tech illiterate yet still insists on making blind purchase decisions, let the punk shoot himself in the foot. You can always find a better boss elsewhere, or save up and launch your own business with _your_ skills and computer savoir-faire. Just be loyal to your paycheck until opportunity comes knocking.
You let "the punk" shoot himself in the foot, and needlessly spend $100k and there goes any semblance of a good reference for your next job... talk about bridge burning. And save up and start your own company??? Yeah, lets everyone do that because of management's choice of operating system. My god the rhetoric of
If your boss can't tell the difference between a 2 million$ investment + tech training, and a 0$ investment + tech training, then you should just smile and cash your fat check because there is no salvation for such math flunkies.
its obviously a lot more complicated than that, don't you think? Or in your opinion is everone running win2003 server over BSD total morons? Theres a time and a place for everything, and if you ask me your zealotry will get you in some serious career trouble sooner or later. Best of luck, man.
"the one time I've had a problem with OpenBSD was when I accidentally killed the packet filtering program and left a vulnerable copy of Samba open to the outside world"
I'm no expert to unix, but is the author saying "I had trouble with OpenBSD that one time when I totally shut down my firewall and let the world openly explore my network by accident"
if this article is aimed at convincing the PHB's to embrace BSD over Linux, yeah, thats one comment that might have been okay not to fully disclose, while still keeping full journalistic integrity...
$120 gets you MS Virtual PC 2004 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default .mspx
well its a damn shame that apple doesn't respect its customers like microsoft does (M$) (haha trolls i used the $ sign) and ensure BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY to all OS written since 1998, huh???
enjoy your overpriced mp3 players. really. best of luck.
interesting.
morality.Equals("flamebait") = True
Interesting that all you address is the risks to pay ratio. Without any further information, I'd have to say that you absolutely suck.
Do you feel that the US has a duty to Iraq now that we have unilaterally toppled their gov't against the will of the entire planet, and without good reason, thereby creating the largest tide of anti-americanism I have seen in my 28 years of life, and in doing so killed far more innocents than died on 9/11/2001 in the United States? Or hey, do you just want a quick buck?
I'd say off of your limited statement, you'd fall in to the later. If its pure money then I suspect you'll get exactly what's coming to you.
After more better reading, the above link is not the official project, but the MAC OS X version of XFree86 "recieves integral support from" xdarwin according to the docs...
aye,
this PDF led me to:
http://www.xdarwin.org/
you are correct sir.
interesting question! (to me at least :P)
Based on XFree86 4.3 for Panther, X11 for Mac OS X gives you a complete, rootless X11R6.6 implementation
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/
then its a good thing we don't cheer on virus writers... you ass.
lets all bow down to this guy 'cause he is a new generation dumbass virus writer. thats about on par with your dumb-ass racist rant from your webpage.
fyi- the buggy drivers you speak of became taxi drivers, bus drivers, truck drivers, train engineers etc.
your parent was more concerned about what happens to the millions world wide who would be affected once the production line becomes fully automated.
there's only so much room at the top for managers and only so much room in the middle for engineers. Whats to happen to the rest?
once you mod chip it to run Linux, what apps can you run on it? Surely there's not binary compatability between x86 and XBox style architecture? I'd rather have a PC that can do everything that an XBox can rather than an XBox that can do a very limited amount of things that a PC can.
Toutatis is about 2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide (4.6 by 2.4 kilometers).
So its probably closer in size to downtown Rose Bud, Arkansas (certainly excluding the busteling suburban Rose Bud outlying areas)
for those interested, this is a cool solaris resource too, as well as the software companion cd from sun.com:
http://www.sunfreeware.com/
When an Indian worker's salary reaches 75% of the comparable American's.. guess what? Outsourcing will not make economic sense anymore.
you got that partway right. when an Indian worker's salary reaches 75% of the comparable American's.. outsourcing to India will not make economic sense
then employers will tear up their shallow roots from india and move on to the Czech Republic, and then from there who knows...
the second you download and run off your local device, you are already out of date. Buildings, landmarks, and populations will rise and fall over time. You look at why so many of the United State's cruise missiles hit civilian targets during the 1st gulf war based on your assumptions to confirm this.
sure its great if you have connectivity 1 month before you land in portugal to meet your friends, but who's going to keep that map current daily/monthly/annualy? You expect this to be a cheaper or more reliable service than GPS or related techs to be developed by non US interests in the coming years???
so you can map gigs upon gigs of data... and still be vulnerable to the same deal- loss of connectivity.
Or you can accept the growth of techology, and the fact that the US military won't control technologies like GPS more than 10 years from now
so you can run visual studio.net on it right? what about MS frontpage? Interdev? what about windows media player format movies? Linux can support Perl, Java, scripting languages... but so can Microsoft.
Microsoft OWNS web development. Sure, apache has the market share on servers, but the development platform for the www is microsoft. You can target your deployment environment and deal with deployment as you feel like it. With Linux, out of the box you are limited.
As of late, we have been having quite a few network problems that can only really be resolved by sniffing packets
your answer will be defined based upon how you pose the question.
Obviously, ethereal is your answer. but if you read slashdot you already know that. I wonder if its really a packet sniffer that you need..
we have been having quite a few network problems that can only really be resolved by sniffing packets
like what exactly??? what kind of "network problems" are you having, and why do you think that packet sniffing is your savior???
my guess is you have some sort of DNS issue or the like... there's simply no enough info to diagnose your problem
which notation is nothing but an irritant when code is well-structured
which happens how many times when you buy software from anybody.
which happens how many times when your own development team is faced with insane deadlines and unrealistic specs.
Which happens how many times in the post dot com boom?
haha. Can you even imagine a PHB chmod-ing anything???
A secretary "running config in the directory"
a 60 year old retiree writing his or her own startup/shutdown shell scripts for an open source compiled binary?
what the hell are you thinking man???
This is not a troll at all- just pointing out that MS windows made security sacrifices to gain the simplicity that granted it market dominance. And given MS's warchest and capabilities, making windows more secure will be realized faster than making linux easier to use, in the same secure manner.
maybe you just adore chmodding things, but the business execs DON'T.
And then, just think of the collective BILLIONS of dollars companies already have invested in MS products, and the costs of retraining a workforce...
4 is not. Worms and viruses and (to a lesser extent) trojans are NOT distributed equally based upon marketshare.
I totally disagree. If you are a tiny software comapany interested in selling a desktop product, are you going to target NetBSD or OS/2 as your deployment environment? No. You target MS Windows, with a crazy majority on the desktop. Likewise, if you are a shit eating virus writer with limited resources looking to maximize damage, your mark will be the same- the leader in market share. Add open availability of the souce code to the mix, and then try to defend your position.
They propagate because of FLAWS in the SECURITY of the system. And Linux has a better security model than Windows.
Used to be the case, and to much less of an extent, still so. But the fact of the matter is that many win programmers still deploy and run as administrator. Up till win2k most programmers didn't have a choice; now its just out of lack of skill and general laziness. With MS's latest stance of putting out security patches that will break unsecure code, this behaviors' days are numbered...
yeah, I had a college roommate come home all wasted like and puke on his keyboard.
in a brilliant logic that I will never posess in such a drunken state, he fills the bathtub up, and drops the keyboard in. It sinks to the bottom in a predictable David Letterman "Will It Float" style.
the next morning, our other roommates' parents who were in town for the weekend look at a full bathtub with a keyboard at the bottom and laugh like hell.
after a day in the sun, the keyboard was good as new. And clean, too.