I pretty much *expect* people to have some sort of a college degree...and personally, at least a 4-year, and not from DeVry. If you don't, I immediately think "Why not?"
Do you at least ask "why not?" instead of just thining it? I don't have a degree. I spent 3 years in college and then ran out of money. A few months later, I found a new job and have been working at that job ever since.
I'm now the senior programmer and my job is in no danger of being outsourced. My job worked out so well, I turned down a 60k starting salary job offer at Intel.
I have the money to go back to school and finish my degree now, but I haven't really seen the point. My years of experience say far more about my abilities than a degree would.
My goal is to provide Linux with a platform for developers that they can and will enjoy.
Bravo. This is exactly what the goal for mono should be (and why I contributed some code myself).
There's a reason that so many programmers like languages like PHP, Python, and C#. It's because they run fairly fast, are easy to develop in, and have an extensive class library.
I can't stand the fact that there isn't a comprehensive C++ library other than the half-assed STL. I don't *want* my apps to have crazy dependencies. I don't want to say "in order to use this app, you must go download NoBinariesAvailable Crypto Library 0.2 and 10 others".
The only thing missing from C# right now is a little more speed. Get that and you have a wonderful programming environment.
Gaim'UI sucks big time : it has tons of windows opening for no reason
What are you talking about? It has windows opening because people are sending you IMs.
By default, Gaim puts all chats into one tabbed window now. So actually there are only 2 windows, your buddy list, and your chats.
Compare this with iChat, which does indeed have the worst UI of any IM client. (If someone sends you an IM, you get that little notification window that pops up, and stays *ABOVE* all other windows until you hit Reply). iChat also doesn't have tabbed chat windows.
When I bought my house, I was handed a stack of papers connected with the mortgage, asked to read them, and then sign. The banker did not hold my hand and explicitly tell me anything bad that could happen. It was entirely my responsibility to sit and read those papers.
The mortgage doesn't require it, but your realtor is required by law to go over the paperwork paragraph by paragraph with you.
It took me over an hour with my realtor just to do the paperwork when I bought my house. Each paragraph was explained, and then I had to initial.
My mortgage wasn't as bad, they sent me a bunch of paperwork in the mail, I signed and initialed, and mailed it back in.
In the default installation, have the installer create a tool to run the update from a random server chosen from a list of approved servers for the distro. Assign it to run at a random time, then repeat it weekly as a cron job called something obvious like weeklyupdate.
Fedora does this. It's not on by default (you need to symbolically link it into your rc.d) but it runs yum nightly to download and install updates.
Bridging is essential if you want Rendezvous to work properly between your wired and wireless machines.
Woah, what? Rendezvous won't route, but it'll pass through a switch no problem. My linksys 802.11b AP+4port switch handles rendezvous just fine between wireless and the guys plugged into the switch.
And now I'm wondering how long it will take before the protocol will be changed slightly to lock out this program...
I'm the one who discovered the AES key, it took me about 4 hours. Now that I know where to look, even if they change it, it won't take long to get the new key.
So the question is, how often does Apple want to break older versions of iTunes and force everyone to upgrade? The other question is, why would Apple want to do that in the first place?
Not really. I was impressed with the power of a good slashdotting until we made the slashdot frontpage a few weeks ago (we also made it to the frontpage a few years ago but at that time we were serving static htmls).
An article was pulled out of a mysql database, xsl transformed, sent to the webserver via SOAP and finally send about 150k of html and images to the user. Repeat 80,000 times over a 5 hour period.
This is hardly an impressive feat. I expected more, but it turns out that slashdot really only sends about 20-30k unique visitors to your site.
Yes, I used to be impressed with the power of a slashdotting, but now I realize that it's just the result of very crappy sites run on very crappy desktop machines pretending to be servers.
So, no, them withstanding a slashdot link isn't a good sign, it's the very least we can expect of a commercial entity.
the compromised user account is typically used to run a password decoding application called John the Ripper
What the hell? How OLD are these systems? A user account can't access view the shadow file, ergo there's nothing to run John the Ripper on.
This tells me they're running *very* early versions of linux (like slackware 3.2) and early versions of solaris (like sunos).. where the passwd file was viewable by everyone.
However from what I understand it was much much faster and more reliable than their Zip drives.
Yeah it is. I still have my old Jaz drive and a few Jaz disks. I even had NetBSD installed on one and used to boot my SparcStation2 off it. The drive and the media all still work perfectly.
- Always check your uptime. If it's better than the guy in your shop that's always preaching the benefits of BSD/Windows 2003 Server/Coco Puffs, then you have free rein to feel better than yourself.
Whaddya bet that MS changes their EULA to make running another OS concurrently a violation of said EULA? I can see that happening judging by their history.
That'd be dumb, since then they'd prevent xbox developers from doing work. It would prevent pocketpc developers from doing work.
If they made an exception for MS OSes, it'd be a very obvious anti-trust move.
Wozniak having developed a virtually identical font smoothing algorithm for the Apple II
That's not entirely true. The Apple ][c and ][gs used subpixel tricks to increase their horizontal resolution, but they never used it to antialias fonts. In fact, fonts on the ][gs looked worse because of this (you'd often see little purple and green pixels on the edges of your fonts when against a subpixel dithered background)
Darwin (the name of Apple's OS OS) is based on the FreeBSD kernel (version 5.x I think).
No, Darwin uses the Mach kernel, it's completely different from FreeBSD's kernel. FreeBSD uses a monolithic kernel, so does linux. Darwin uses a microkernel. Completely different designs.
The only OSes I know of that use a Mach microkernel are Tru64, GNU/Hurd (hah!), Darwin, and mkLinux.
See the Linus vs. Tanenbaum arguement for the pros and cons of microkernels.
It's just a lot harder to exploit all of these things on Mac OS X for numerous logistical, technical, and statistical reasons.
I predict that QuickTime will be the InternetExploder of OSX. It's installed on everyone's machine, it's very hard to remove, it doesn't verify input, it's not open source, it autoplays content on the web, it's a big black box waiting to be exploited.
I don't know why people have a problem with people receiving calls on cellphones when they're in restaurants, for example -- it's a public place, and there are all sorts of other potential irritants (screaming kids, cigarette smoke, someone yammering about the colonoscopy they had that morning)
Move to Tucson, where there is no smoking in any restaurant, and many classy restaurants will ask you to step outside if your baby is crying.
If you need to have your cellphone with you at all times, eat at home.
but because some courses dive into assembly to understand machine architecture (there is a distinct x86 bias for obvious reasons)
I guess things have changed in the 10 years or so it's been since I was in college. In the courses that dealt with assembly, we all used MIPS assembly, and most of us used SPIM, the MIPS emulator, for our projects.
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I pretty much *expect* people to have some sort of a college degree...and personally, at least a 4-year, and not from DeVry. If you don't, I immediately think "Why not?"
Do you at least ask "why not?" instead of just thining it? I don't have a degree. I spent 3 years in college and then ran out of money. A few months later, I found a new job and have been working at that job ever since.
I'm now the senior programmer and my job is in no danger of being outsourced. My job worked out so well, I turned down a 60k starting salary job offer at Intel.
I have the money to go back to school and finish my degree now, but I haven't really seen the point. My years of experience say far more about my abilities than a degree would.
My goal is to provide Linux with a platform for developers that they can and will enjoy.
Bravo. This is exactly what the goal for mono should be (and why I contributed some code myself).
There's a reason that so many programmers like languages like PHP, Python, and C#. It's because they run fairly fast, are easy to develop in, and have an extensive class library.
I can't stand the fact that there isn't a comprehensive C++ library other than the half-assed STL. I don't *want* my apps to have crazy dependencies. I don't want to say "in order to use this app, you must go download NoBinariesAvailable Crypto Library 0.2 and 10 others".
The only thing missing from C# right now is a little more speed. Get that and you have a wonderful programming environment.
Gaim'UI sucks big time : it has tons of windows opening for no reason
What are you talking about? It has windows opening because people are sending you IMs.
By default, Gaim puts all chats into one tabbed window now. So actually there are only 2 windows, your buddy list, and your chats.
Compare this with iChat, which does indeed have the worst UI of any IM client. (If someone sends you an IM, you get that little notification window that pops up, and stays *ABOVE* all other windows until you hit Reply). iChat also doesn't have tabbed chat windows.
When I bought my house, I was handed a stack of papers connected with the mortgage, asked to read them, and then sign. The banker did not hold my hand and explicitly tell me anything bad that could happen. It was entirely my responsibility to sit and read those papers.
The mortgage doesn't require it, but your realtor is required by law to go over the paperwork paragraph by paragraph with you.
It took me over an hour with my realtor just to do the paperwork when I bought my house. Each paragraph was explained, and then I had to initial.
My mortgage wasn't as bad, they sent me a bunch of paperwork in the mail, I signed and initialed, and mailed it back in.
In the default installation, have the installer create a tool to run the update from a random server chosen from a list of approved servers for the distro. Assign it to run at a random time, then repeat it weekly as a cron job called something obvious like weeklyupdate.
Fedora does this. It's not on by default (you need to symbolically link it into your rc.d) but it runs yum nightly to download and install updates.
I would still like to understand the difference between the Demicans and the Republocrats
It's simple. The Democrats want to repeal the second ammendment, the Republicans want to repeal the 1st.
And the neocons (not to be confused with republicans) want to declare martial law.
Bridging is essential if you want Rendezvous to work properly between your wired and wireless machines.
Woah, what? Rendezvous won't route, but it'll pass through a switch no problem. My linksys 802.11b AP+4port switch handles rendezvous just fine between wireless and the guys plugged into the switch.
Anyone with five minutes and a copy of ethereal could learn that iTMS uses HTTP.
If only you had spent *6* minutes instead of just 5.. and then you may have noticed that after the serviceList, all iTMS traffic is AES encrypted.
If this script requires those pages, it must be "circumventing" that encryption, hence DMCA problems.
It's not circumventing, it's decrypting that encryption with a perfectly valid key.
Plus the data it is decrypting is factual information (urls, song names, artist names), which can't be copyrighted... thus DMCA doesn't apply.
And now I'm wondering how long it will take before the protocol will be changed slightly to lock out this program...
I'm the one who discovered the AES key, it took me about 4 hours. Now that I know where to look, even if they change it, it won't take long to get the new key.
So the question is, how often does Apple want to break older versions of iTunes and force everyone to upgrade? The other question is, why would Apple want to do that in the first place?
at what time during what day was the story posted?
Friday, 1PM MST, 304 comments.
If it can survive ./, thats a good sign.
Not really. I was impressed with the power of a good slashdotting until we made the slashdot frontpage a few weeks ago (we also made it to the frontpage a few years ago but at that time we were serving static htmls).
An article was pulled out of a mysql database, xsl transformed, sent to the webserver via SOAP and finally send about 150k of html and images to the user. Repeat 80,000 times over a 5 hour period.
This is hardly an impressive feat. I expected more, but it turns out that slashdot really only sends about 20-30k unique visitors to your site.
Yes, I used to be impressed with the power of a slashdotting, but now I realize that it's just the result of very crappy sites run on very crappy desktop machines pretending to be servers.
So, no, them withstanding a slashdot link isn't a good sign, it's the very least we can expect of a commercial entity.
But to distribute a public project which is essentially a tool for excising the golden egg from the goose is not a sustainable action.
PlayFair is absolutely no different than DeCSS. It enables you to play m4ps on linux.
You mean you don't see all the wasted space between the icons? I thought that's what it meant. ;-)
Turn on Condensed mode to fix that.
the compromised user account is typically used to run a password decoding application called John the Ripper
What the hell? How OLD are these systems? A user account can't access view the shadow file, ergo there's nothing to run John the Ripper on.
This tells me they're running *very* early versions of linux (like slackware 3.2) and early versions of solaris (like sunos).. where the passwd file was viewable by everyone.
However from what I understand it was much much faster and more reliable than their Zip drives.
Yeah it is. I still have my old Jaz drive and a few Jaz disks. I even had NetBSD installed on one and used to boot my SparcStation2 off it. The drive and the media all still work perfectly.
- Always check your uptime. If it's better than the guy in your shop that's always preaching the benefits of BSD/Windows 2003 Server/Coco Puffs, then you have free rein to feel better than yourself.
$ uptime
12:00pm up 1567 day(s), 20:30, 1 user, load average: 0.79, 0.79, 0.80
That means I get to feel damn good about myself.
Whaddya bet that MS changes their EULA to make running another OS concurrently a violation of said EULA? I can see that happening judging by their history.
That'd be dumb, since then they'd prevent xbox developers from doing work. It would prevent pocketpc developers from doing work.
If they made an exception for MS OSes, it'd be a very obvious anti-trust move.
This is more comparable to the countless emulation softwares out there (VirtualPC, VMware etc).
Or Mac-On-Linux, which lets you install linux on a mac, then run OSX on a different virtual terminal, or OS9, or both at the same time.
This little pismo pb can't handle linux+osx+os9 but linux+osx is fast.
Wozniak having developed a virtually identical font smoothing algorithm for the Apple II
That's not entirely true. The Apple ][c and ][gs used subpixel tricks to increase their horizontal resolution, but they never used it to antialias fonts. In fact, fonts on the ][gs looked worse because of this (you'd often see little purple and green pixels on the edges of your fonts when against a subpixel dithered background)
Darwin (the name of Apple's OS OS) is based on the FreeBSD kernel (version 5.x I think).
No, Darwin uses the Mach kernel, it's completely different from FreeBSD's kernel. FreeBSD uses a monolithic kernel, so does linux. Darwin uses a microkernel. Completely different designs.
The only OSes I know of that use a Mach microkernel are Tru64, GNU/Hurd (hah!), Darwin, and mkLinux.
See the Linus vs. Tanenbaum arguement for the pros and cons of microkernels.
It's just a lot harder to exploit all of these things on Mac OS X for numerous logistical, technical, and statistical reasons.
I predict that QuickTime will be the InternetExploder of OSX. It's installed on everyone's machine, it's very hard to remove, it doesn't verify input, it's not open source, it autoplays content on the web, it's a big black box waiting to be exploited.
I don't know why people have a problem with people receiving calls on cellphones when they're in restaurants, for example -- it's a public place, and there are all sorts of other potential irritants (screaming kids, cigarette smoke, someone yammering about the colonoscopy they had that morning)
Move to Tucson, where there is no smoking in any restaurant, and many classy restaurants will ask you to step outside if your baby is crying.
If you need to have your cellphone with you at all times, eat at home.
The developer tools, including the compiler, come with the OS, on the "Xcode Tools" CD.
Now they do, but for 3 years there was no "Xcode Tools" cd.
but because some courses dive into assembly to understand machine architecture (there is a distinct x86 bias for obvious reasons)
I guess things have changed in the 10 years or so it's been since I was in college. In the courses that dealt with assembly, we all used MIPS assembly, and most of us used SPIM, the MIPS emulator, for our projects.