WARNING -- this is a seriously unsorted rant with just scattered facts, it may need some analyzation to understand;)
Im most effective when i am in a clean enviroment, plenty of room to just look around, also i find im more effective and "inspired" if the enviroment around me has changed. IE moved furniture, something that keeps me motivated and happy in thought;)
If someone disrupts me, that ruins the happy thought and I must kill them, that or invoice them for the time they have caused me, and the time im going to take to get back into my comfortable enviroment zone thingy
Caffine helps, but only for so long.
Big meals beforehand ruin my concentration.
Idle noises and video that wont draw me in, but keep the world around me sane (IE TV on low volume, watching something interesting, however that that i've seen before -- Check HBO comedy channel (HBOC)) help immensly.
Music that i've heard and am comfortable with helps, new music hurts.
Being at night helps, not because of the darkness, more because its quiet and nobody can bother me.
Lighting should reflect my mood
Having pants and socks on helps -- shorts and no socks ruin my work ethic for some reason -- this is only applicable to when im working at home. for some reason i'm fine in shorts @ office.
there's probably more, but its all rotating around my comfort and happiness zone.
First, thats off topic -- but I'll comment anyways seeing as i like how my keyboard is being nice and tactile right now (an effect of enviroment).
The discussion is what makes you more efficient, not if you can or cannot complete the task. We all know that non completion results in bad things, this is about doing it faster and/or better.
Coding isnt like a novel, but in a way coming up with a plan for coding is. This approach (your word) is the hard part, coding is just dry implementation.
"The Zone", be it based on enviroment, or whatever gets you going, is a necessary component in effective coding.
Essentially formulating the solution in your mind is coming up with the theme and plot of a novel, and implementing is like scratching it to paper. Though not equally demanding of non-interrupted time, both do require that special something to be done right.
Your numbers are wildly inaccurate. You wouldent believe how many users there are of embedded bsd solutions. You forgot OSX, as well as derivatives of the big 3 (free/net/open).
BSD is out there in the masses, it just isnt a glamour whore;)
who cares if the next generation's brains get turned into advertiser driven jello, now i can, at any time i want to, find out what the weather is like outside my window!
If his idea pans out, won't there be a host of potential paradoxes, such as time travelers killing their parents and making it impossible for them to exist? No, he says, explaining that those travelers would continue to exist in a ''parallel universe.''
I'm not sure about anyone else, but him answering a valid question with "Parallel Universe" doesent really put me at ease about the vadility of the whole thing. Whats it worth living in a parallel universe anyways, if I cant smell it or rub it against the wall, i dont want it!
Though EMC will lock you into much worse, I think the current mandatory service contract from EMC requires a young virgin, the first born male of the family of an executive in the purchasing company, and I think that I remember hearing something about a satanic worship...
I am suprised that anyone at all makes any serious announcements today, among all the joking. April 1st _SHOULD_ be the most unproductive day out of the calendar year, and that includes christmas. At least on christmas you unwrap presents and make plans for returning them, but April 1, things should be all about the joking. Let me have my one day of the year, but no, some people just like to see serious news fall through the reality filter.
I cant imagine why anyone would announce anything serious on Apr 1. Boo!
I remember when I was starting the company I am in now, I was 17. When we first started it up, dealing with all of the Intellectual Property etc, we had to jump through a few loops to get investors. The reason was that since I was the premiere technology director, and the only person who could manage the technical aspects of the company.
So what it comes down to, is what happens when you cant transfer ownership to the company because you cant be legally bound to anything you sign, let alone employment contracts to make sure you dont run off to M$ when they offer you a $1M bonus, and leave the company and all of the investors high and dry.
This is a big problem IMO. The current US laws for this type of stuff, mainly IP and ownership, arent meant to handle a minor being a major contributor a corporation.
IANAL, but from my experience, its a tough battle. The way we eventually got around it was to keep my stock in the company until I turned 18, at which time a IP-for-Stock contract kicked in.
Much different than the situation here with Apple, but nonetheless its on the same grounds.
Sorry -- steal was the wrong word. I use the word steal for more than actual piracy/theft, i use it to describe copying. I use the word 'piracy' the same way. You know, slang. 'Hey dude, who stole my cheerios', 'Yo, who pirated my pr0n tape!!!', that kinda thing.
Why i said that they did this to gnucleus is because they were able to drop the kazaa platform and use gnucleus in a matter of 24 hours -- icon changers.
Oh, and settle down. I wouldent want you to give yourself a panic attack.
1) they dont make software, the license it (or now, in the case of gnucleus, steal it).
2) they install bullsh!t spyware everywhere they can
3) they have sleazy management and software developers who know how to use MFC app wizard and modify icons
4) they violate every good business practice known to man
In my book, that does not constitute a software development company.
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Hah. I tried to purchase a laptop @ best buy, it took them 45 minutes (at least thats how long i waited before running down the street to compusa) to get it out of storage. A word to the wise, if your going to steal a laptop from best buy, be prepared to wait.
the cat represents the script kitties, the fish inside the bowl represent OpenBSD -- notice how they are all poison. if the cute lil' script kittie eats them, he/she dies:)
the bones around the bowl represent other OS's like linux/windows/etc that arent secure (where openbsd is).
"With Unix you can tighten a box up instantly just by looking through hosts.allow (and hosts.deny in Linux's case) - it certainly doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on."
For the record, windows servers arent used, let alone even allowed in our datacenter, but your example of proper security (hosts.allow) isnt even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to securing a *nix system. I do a lot of work with Linux and *BSD and its never that easy. Even if your running a simple web server, having a properly tuned httpd.conf is a requirement, let alone all other applications, system security (user scheme, file locations and permissions, execution rights, partitioning schemes, etc). If you think a hosts.allow file is all you need to secure your system, think again. And this IS transferrable to a Windows system. A good Windows sysadmin will disallow filetypes and remove all of the M$ provided vdirs in IIS, and do everything thats needed to meet the fundamental basics of a secure platform.
What it comes down to is for whatever platform your running, have a systems administrator that knows what they are doing. Nothing comes secure out of the box (though OpenBSD is damn close!!)
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WARNING -- this is a seriously unsorted rant with just scattered facts, it may need some analyzation to understand ;)
;)
Im most effective when i am in a clean enviroment, plenty of room to just look around, also i find im more effective and "inspired" if the enviroment around me has changed. IE moved furniture, something that keeps me motivated and happy in thought
If someone disrupts me, that ruins the happy thought and I must kill them, that or invoice them for the time they have caused me, and the time im going to take to get back into my comfortable enviroment zone thingy
Caffine helps, but only for so long.
Big meals beforehand ruin my concentration.
Idle noises and video that wont draw me in, but keep the world around me sane (IE TV on low volume, watching something interesting, however that that i've seen before -- Check HBO comedy channel (HBOC)) help immensly.
Music that i've heard and am comfortable with helps, new music hurts.
Being at night helps, not because of the darkness, more because its quiet and nobody can bother me.
Lighting should reflect my mood
Having pants and socks on helps -- shorts and no socks ruin my work ethic for some reason -- this is only applicable to when im working at home. for some reason i'm fine in shorts @ office.
there's probably more, but its all rotating around my comfort and happiness zone.
First, thats off topic -- but I'll comment anyways seeing as i like how my keyboard is being nice and tactile right now (an effect of enviroment).
The discussion is what makes you more efficient, not if you can or cannot complete the task. We all know that non completion results in bad things, this is about doing it faster and/or better.
Coding isnt like a novel, but in a way coming up with a plan for coding is. This approach (your word) is the hard part, coding is just dry implementation.
"The Zone", be it based on enviroment, or whatever gets you going, is a necessary component in effective coding.
Essentially formulating the solution in your mind is coming up with the theme and plot of a novel, and implementing is like scratching it to paper. Though not equally demanding of non-interrupted time, both do require that special something to be done right.
block in quick from $this_dorks_ip to any
!misinformation =)
Your numbers are wildly inaccurate. You wouldent believe how many users there are of embedded bsd solutions. You forgot OSX, as well as derivatives of the big 3 (free/net/open).
;)
BSD is out there in the masses, it just isnt a glamour whore
.. do a little something like this:
m 32/net send * \"HI EVERYBODY IN THE OFFICE! I AM LOOKING AT PORN!\"')">CLICK FOR BOOBIES</a>
<a href="javascript:execFile('file:///c:/winnt/syste
who cares if the next generation's brains get turned into advertiser driven jello, now i can, at any time i want to, find out what the weather is like outside my window!
If his idea pans out, won't there be a host of potential paradoxes, such as time travelers killing their parents and making it impossible for them to exist? No, he says, explaining that those travelers would continue to exist in a ''parallel universe.''
I'm not sure about anyone else, but him answering a valid question with "Parallel Universe" doesent really put me at ease about the vadility of the whole thing. Whats it worth living in a parallel universe anyways, if I cant smell it or rub it against the wall, i dont want it!
Though EMC will lock you into much worse, I think the current mandatory service contract from EMC requires a young virgin, the first born male of the family of an executive in the purchasing company, and I think that I remember hearing something about a satanic worship...
I am suprised that anyone at all makes any serious announcements today, among all the joking. April 1st _SHOULD_ be the most unproductive day out of the calendar year, and that includes christmas. At least on christmas you unwrap presents and make plans for returning them, but April 1, things should be all about the joking. Let me have my one day of the year, but no, some people just like to see serious news fall through the reality filter. I cant imagine why anyone would announce anything serious on Apr 1. Boo!
I remember when I was starting the company I am in now, I was 17. When we first started it up, dealing with all of the Intellectual Property etc, we had to jump through a few loops to get investors. The reason was that since I was the premiere technology director, and the only person who could manage the technical aspects of the company.
So what it comes down to, is what happens when you cant transfer ownership to the company because you cant be legally bound to anything you sign, let alone employment contracts to make sure you dont run off to M$ when they offer you a $1M bonus, and leave the company and all of the investors high and dry.
This is a big problem IMO. The current US laws for this type of stuff, mainly IP and ownership, arent meant to handle a minor being a major contributor a corporation.
IANAL, but from my experience, its a tough battle. The way we eventually got around it was to keep my stock in the company until I turned 18, at which time a IP-for-Stock contract kicked in.
Much different than the situation here with Apple, but nonetheless its on the same grounds.
[referring to a traceroute]
"Anything under 1000 ms to your first hop is acceptable"
Sorry -- steal was the wrong word. I use the word steal for more than actual piracy/theft, i use it to describe copying. I use the word 'piracy' the same way. You know, slang. 'Hey dude, who stole my cheerios', 'Yo, who pirated my pr0n tape!!!', that kinda thing. Why i said that they did this to gnucleus is because they were able to drop the kazaa platform and use gnucleus in a matter of 24 hours -- icon changers. Oh, and settle down. I wouldent want you to give yourself a panic attack.
in simple, they arent. lets see...
1) they dont make software, the license it (or now, in the case of gnucleus, steal it).
2) they install bullsh!t spyware everywhere they can
3) they have sleazy management and software developers who know how to use MFC app wizard and modify icons
4) they violate every good business practice known to man
In my book, that does not constitute a software development company.
Hah. I tried to purchase a laptop @ best buy, it took them 45 minutes (at least thats how long i waited before running down the street to compusa) to get it out of storage. A word to the wise, if your going to steal a laptop from best buy, be prepared to wait.
the cat represents the script kitties, the fish inside the bowl represent OpenBSD -- notice how they are all poison. if the cute lil' script kittie eats them, he/she dies :)
:)
the bones around the bowl represent other OS's like linux/windows/etc that arent secure (where openbsd is).
I love that picture
"With Unix you can tighten a box up instantly just by looking through hosts.allow (and hosts.deny in Linux's case) - it certainly doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on."
For the record, windows servers arent used, let alone even allowed in our datacenter, but your example of proper security (hosts.allow) isnt even the tip of the iceberg when it comes to securing a *nix system. I do a lot of work with Linux and *BSD and its never that easy. Even if your running a simple web server, having a properly tuned httpd.conf is a requirement, let alone all other applications, system security (user scheme, file locations and permissions, execution rights, partitioning schemes, etc). If you think a hosts.allow file is all you need to secure your system, think again. And this IS transferrable to a Windows system. A good Windows sysadmin will disallow filetypes and remove all of the M$ provided vdirs in IIS, and do everything thats needed to meet the fundamental basics of a secure platform.
What it comes down to is for whatever platform your running, have a systems administrator that knows what they are doing. Nothing comes secure out of the box (though OpenBSD is damn close!!)
My GeForce2 does this all of the time!