The language I could pop right back into, but could use some advice on good/affordable IDE.
http://www.xemacs.org what more do you need?;-)
If you want a *real* IDE, I'd check out IntelliJ's Idea product. It's a few hundred $$$. Lots of folks like Netbeans and IBM's Eclipse as well (sorry, no url to eclipse, but I'm sure you can find it). The latter 2 are opensource.
Which is most of the students at a primarily liberal arts college. Having been in college in the beginning of the net-boom before broadband, I have to say it was really a pain in the ass when the modem pools were all filled up with kids surfing when I had to log on to the CS machines to compile my homework.
I don't see how this is really an issue. They're not saying you can't download mp3s all night long, just that you have to pay for it so the rest of the student body doesn't have to absorb the cost. No different than charging you extra for getting a locker in the student center or a parking space on campus.
Circumventing these rules as you suggest is another example of a "tragedy of the commons". If you want to suck up all of the school's bandwidth to download britney spears videos then you should pay for it. Why should the rest of the starving college kids foot your
bill? Why do you think it's cool to screw over the rest of the student body? The other option is for the school to raise everybody's tuition to cover the costs, or to start nailing p2p users. Wouldn't you rather pay a few extra $$$?
Honestly, not a troll, but who cares? Is there really nothing more interesting going on today than news about a cartoon? How is this geeky or tech-oriented? Does this character write cobol or something?
Ok, but what does that have to do with Racism? Never said we weren't a bunch of war mongers who want to rule the world. Just that we're no more racist than Europeans. I personally was at the peace march in NYC waving my freak flag high!
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Didn't notice all the ships flying American flags coming from West Africa with people in chains... must have missed that. Coulda sworn they were all flying Dutch flags...
And that is the ONLY thing holding back the mac movement. They are still a lot more expensive than their inferior Intel-type brethren. They are better built, easier to use, friendlier, and more reliable. Now with OS-X they are easy to write code for and can be used as servers. The only thing holding me back is the price tag.
Anyone remember the fiasco when they tried to let other companies put out Mac Clones in the 80s?
Not true at all. In the summer there's a bar/munchies spot and movies. The "paid parties" are mostly in the non-sunbathing times of the year.
And also to correct a few comments up, it's actually 10 blocks north of the Empire State Bldg.
At first I said "this is a troll" his tone is completely condecending and it's pretty clear that his experience is limited to small to medium size projects. As often as programmers are hazed for being ignorant about OS issues and ignoring security, in my mind this guy is a sysadmin with a small amout of coding knowledge. If you've never written code that maxed out the CPU for hours, you've obviously never written any number crunching software (finance? data analysis?). If the OS sits around waiting all day for data to process why all the push for clustering and grid computing? Ok, fine, he has an opinion and wants to express it.
Then again, the issue he raises is completely valid, and security is a real problem. The.com boom (and the rise in computing of all kinds) created a huge imbalance in the supply/demand of programmers which allowed a huge number of incompetent people into important positions. As a technology consultant I met an incredible number of "tech lead" "senior architects" who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, yet they were responsible for designing multi-million $$$ systems. It is hugely important that the issues of security are impressed on these people. If this is what it takes to make a few people think the next time they release some new code without testing it for security holes, great. The world is a little bit better.
Then again, he's certainly no expert and there is nothing revolutionary in his article.
This would never float. First of all, a heavy user probably downloads 5GB of ads a day;-)
Think about it, could you imagine if they charged for your cable TV per hour watched? Everybody would switch to Dish. As long as there are multiple options available to you for connectivity, they have to stick with a flat rate price. Give it 10 years and there will be plenty of bandwidth to go around. Remember 300 baud?
I'm much more concerned about the big companies with social-political right wing agendas blocking access to sites they don't deem "appropriate" and/or competitor's sites.
They're actually having a big rally in Central Park today. And it's not just a "part" of the city, it's all over MY city!! I was walking around for lunch and they stuck the damn butterflies on every single subway entrance!
I personally think it's totally arrogant and in really bad taste. The rollerbladers in costume are funny. But stickers are really rude. It's hard enough keeping NYC clean.
Damn Left Coasters.;-)
Doesn't matter. You only need for it to crap out once to lose your job. I would never install anything on a production server without testing it first. It's just asking for trouble. Isn't that like the first rule of sysadm?
I think that was one of the funniest things I've ever read. Thanks! Now my co-workers are all looking at me like "ok, what was so funny? Get the fsck back to work!"
Dont' be so sure. I work as a software engineer on wall st. and I support a bunch of windows users. I'd love a stable and supported linux environment that would still allow me to run office/outlook/etc... and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Anyone who doesn't want to run windows apps on a linux machine has obviously never worked as a techie in a corporate environment (read: not sofware company).
If only I didn't have to use MS-Lookout and IE...
And given that security was probably not taken into consideration when creating the command structure it's probably optimized for bandwidth, not for obscurity. If security was taken into consideration it would be fairly easy to make it difficult (if virutally imposible) to crack. Odds are, however, that security was assumed to be inherent, and the command structure was designed in such a way that it would be very easy to decypher.
What?? I'm certainly no "New Wave" music fan, but how can you say there was never a New Wave music "scene"? And no cyberpunk scene? Just 'cuz you're not part of it doesn't mean it doesn't/didn't exist...
I assure you, there most certainly is a huge movement of 40 something year olds with bad 80s haircuts and crystals listening to new age music and hanging out at the organic supermarkets.
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what more do you need?
If you want a *real* IDE, I'd check out IntelliJ's Idea product. It's a few hundred $$$. Lots of folks like Netbeans and IBM's Eclipse as well (sorry, no url to eclipse, but I'm sure you can find it). The latter 2 are opensource.
Oooo.. I used to play Wumpus on a teletype @ school.. So much fun!
Yep. It's from Adventure. I remember it well...
I don't see how this is really an issue. They're not saying you can't download mp3s all night long, just that you have to pay for it so the rest of the student body doesn't have to absorb the cost. No different than charging you extra for getting a locker in the student center or a parking space on campus.
Circumventing these rules as you suggest is another example of a "tragedy of the commons". If you want to suck up all of the school's bandwidth to download britney spears videos then you should pay for it. Why should the rest of the starving college kids foot your bill? Why do you think it's cool to screw over the rest of the student body? The other option is for the school to raise everybody's tuition to cover the costs, or to start nailing p2p users. Wouldn't you rather pay a few extra $$$?
Japan-->Sushi...
My Bad I guess :-)
Honestly, not a troll, but who cares? Is there really nothing more interesting going on today than news about a cartoon? How is this geeky or tech-oriented? Does this character write cobol or something?
Ok, but what does that have to do with Racism? Never said we weren't a bunch of war mongers who want to rule the world. Just that we're no more racist than Europeans. I personally was at the peace march in NYC waving my freak flag high!
Didn't notice all the ships flying American flags coming from West Africa with people in chains... must have missed that. Coulda sworn they were all flying Dutch flags...
And that is the ONLY thing holding back the mac movement. They are still a lot more expensive than their inferior Intel-type brethren. They are better built, easier to use, friendlier, and more reliable. Now with OS-X they are easy to write code for and can be used as servers. The only thing holding me back is the price tag. Anyone remember the fiasco when they tried to let other companies put out Mac Clones in the 80s?
Shout-out from the 718!!! Fort Greene in Da House!!
Not true at all. In the summer there's a bar/munchies spot and movies. The "paid parties" are mostly in the non-sunbathing times of the year. And also to correct a few comments up, it's actually 10 blocks north of the Empire State Bldg.
Actually they use public transportation. Don't you know driving is the easiest way to get busted?
Bryant Park also has a great outdoor bar in the summertime, and the show old movies too. It's a great spot.
To take that a step further, it seems contradictory. Isn't Opensource code 3rd party? And since he's advocating opensource...
At first I said "this is a troll" his tone is completely condecending and it's pretty clear that his experience is limited to small to medium size projects. As often as programmers are hazed for being ignorant about OS issues and ignoring security, in my mind this guy is a sysadmin with a small amout of coding knowledge. If you've never written code that maxed out the CPU for hours, you've obviously never written any number crunching software (finance? data analysis?). If the OS sits around waiting all day for data to process why all the push for clustering and grid computing? Ok, fine, he has an opinion and wants to express it. Then again, the issue he raises is completely valid, and security is a real problem. The .com boom (and the rise in computing of all kinds) created a huge imbalance in the supply/demand of programmers which allowed a huge number of incompetent people into important positions. As a technology consultant I met an incredible number of "tech lead" "senior architects" who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, yet they were responsible for designing multi-million $$$ systems. It is hugely important that the issues of security are impressed on these people. If this is what it takes to make a few people think the next time they release some new code without testing it for security holes, great. The world is a little bit better.
Then again, he's certainly no expert and there is nothing revolutionary in his article.
This would never float. First of all, a heavy user probably downloads 5GB of ads a day ;-)
Think about it, could you imagine if they charged for your cable TV per hour watched? Everybody would switch to Dish. As long as there are multiple options available to you for connectivity, they have to stick with a flat rate price. Give it 10 years and there will be plenty of bandwidth to go around. Remember 300 baud?
I'm much more concerned about the big companies with social-political right wing agendas blocking access to sites they don't deem "appropriate" and/or competitor's sites.
They're actually having a big rally in Central Park today. And it's not just a "part" of the city, it's all over MY city!! I was walking around for lunch and they stuck the damn butterflies on every single subway entrance! I personally think it's totally arrogant and in really bad taste. The rollerbladers in costume are funny. But stickers are really rude. It's hard enough keeping NYC clean. Damn Left Coasters. ;-)
Um... no. It's a job. It used to be a hobby 'till I started getting paid ;-)
Doesn't matter. You only need for it to crap out once to lose your job. I would never install anything on a production server without testing it first. It's just asking for trouble. Isn't that like the first rule of sysadm?
I think that was one of the funniest things I've ever read. Thanks! Now my co-workers are all looking at me like "ok, what was so funny? Get the fsck back to work!"
I tried to read the article but a damn cellphone ad was blocking the article and I couldn't get it to close. Oh well.
Dont' be so sure. I work as a software engineer on wall st. and I support a bunch of windows users. I'd love a stable and supported linux environment that would still allow me to run office/outlook/etc... and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Anyone who doesn't want to run windows apps on a linux machine has obviously never worked as a techie in a corporate environment (read: not sofware company). If only I didn't have to use MS-Lookout and IE...
And given that security was probably not taken into consideration when creating the command structure it's probably optimized for bandwidth, not for obscurity. If security was taken into consideration it would be fairly easy to make it difficult (if virutally imposible) to crack. Odds are, however, that security was assumed to be inherent, and the command structure was designed in such a way that it would be very easy to decypher.
I assure you, there most certainly is a huge movement of 40 something year olds with bad 80s haircuts and crystals listening to new age music and hanging out at the organic supermarkets.