Well, since SCO seems to prefer a world full of Windows, why else whould they try to destroy Linux, they are given a sneak peek of what it whould bring them. This will cause them to give MS back all the money they got from them, because they are enabling terrorist actions against them. It is a Windows virus after all. They will find out how wrong they were. They will convert and tomorrow we will seem Darl hugging Linus and all will be well again.
Well, i'd choose a Peugeot over Volkwagen myself. Just because they look better, are priced better, and because VW's and Opels are boring cars. And indeed, proper maintainance makes a huge difference.
I'm from Holland, we also import all cars here. And yes, you see a lot of frech cars here as well. But there is more to buying a car then just reliability. Frech cars are reliable enough to be worth cosideration when buying a car. A they might have a better price/quality ratio, depending on what you want from a car. The tend to be better better fitted towards european taste and demands. But is you look at reliability alone the german and scandinavian cars are stil better. Take a look at the 'Pannenstatistik' for 2002 and you will see that the german cars are scoring better than Peugeot and (especially)Renault.
There also was this east-german guy that drove his trabant into west berlin. When it broke down a Mercedes garage happend to be near by, so he put it there for repair. The car was fixed and he drove on happily, but after a 100 meters it stopped for a while, started running again for another 100 meters and then stopped again. This just kept going on. So the guy drove - stopped - drove -stopped - drove back to the garage and aksed about it. The mechanic told him: "Well, i put in a mercedes engine for windshield whipers, must have left it on interval..."
Excuse me, but my cheaply made windup toy actually isn't such a bad idea as you may think. First of these cars actually manage to make efficient use of the power the engine provides. It actually accelerates when you step on the gas, despite having a smaller engine. It doesn't require a huge gas tank to actually get some distance between the tank stops. It likely has way better handling and get through sharp turns without almost having to stop. It does not require a massive amount of space just to park it, and being heavy isn't going to help you in a crash.
Citroen is Frech, Peugeot is French, Trabant is eastern europe. Ask a european if he considers French, or Italian for that matter, cars reliable and the answer will likely be 'No way'. German (Volkswagen, Mercedes) cars are generally considered to be reliable. Scandinavian (Volvo, Saab) are considered even better by most people. But when it comes to real reliability most people start looking at Japan (Toyota at the top, followed by Honda, Nissan, Mazda).
Are you sure that they are really talking about european cars? At least the VW Golf that is sold in the states is build in Mexico and know to be less reliable than the one build in germany. The same could very well be true for other 'European' cars. These days loads of 'the same' cars are build in different locations with different parts and different problems. One recent example was a problem with the Toyota Avensis, I believe it was something with the brakes, that only occured, IIRC, on the ones build in the UK.
I think of all the car companies Toyota is near the top in terms of reliability.
I think it is the top. I never had any problems with the Carina E i drive, until i tried to make it swin;-) My dad drove Toyota's for years without any significant problems. It was a Toyota Starlet that showed up at David Letterman for driving one million miles, yes on the original engine.
The german ADAC, the organisation that help people when their cars beaks along the road, maintains statitics of wich cars they pick up. Toyota's always end up in top positions and are the absolute number one over a 25 year period! (German link, but take a look at the graph.) The only brand that comes close is Mercedes.
Well, all may be a bit to much, people actually get hired through the resume/interview procces, but getting an inside recomendation helps a lot. I can't say i have a lot of experience on the job market, but the three jobs i've had a came from networking. All companies i came to ask me if i knew somebody when there was an open position. The reason is simple, taking interviews and reading resumes takes a lot of time and hardly gives you any insight in who you're hiring. Asking your employee will the judgment of someone who actually knows the person and is in a much better position to judge his/her qualities. The result for the company is less hassle and a better changeof getting the right person for the job.
If you can't find a job that way, try looking for the smaller companies. Call them and ask if they mind if you drop by for a talk. Chances are you will get an instant interview. Only HR people like to get resumes, most managers hate it as much as you do and are likely to skip the proccess when somebody gives them a change to do so.
You could use any Pop-Webmail system. Find an ISP that offers webmail as well, or use something like Mailstart. I mention mailstart because they have a free demo, wich you can use once a week wich might be sufficient for you.
The next thing to do is to set you mail client not to download big messages. IIRC even OE supports this. I'm certain that Pegasus Mail has this feature. This way you will never be waiting for big emails unexpectedly. You can use webmail to see what it is and delete the message or download the attachment...
The most funny part of it all is that they admit, indirectly, that they haven't even looked at the comments. If anyone there has been reading these emails he/she could have removed the personal info easily enough. That's not to much extra effort when you are reading or even just scanning the stuff anyway. But hey, they could send the mails to me, i'll remove the personal data for a dollar per email...
So they are in the same building. What does that has to say? The previous poster allready explained that there are more (unrelated) companies in that building and Center7 provides the internet access for them. The fact that they happen to be in the same building tells me absolutely nothing.
it is often true that once I have gotten to the point of adequately (not simply) expressing a design, I could have more easily coded the solution.
;-)
That's so familiar. Yet when it comes to meeting corporate requirements and dealing with large projects, you just can't escape a formal design. And once you have that worked out properly it the programming isn't much more than 'translation' of the design to code. That is way easier than doing both the design and the code.
Try to do some networking. Tell your friends, fellowstudents, the guys where you did internships etc. that you are looking for a job. Also, take on freelance work, help people out with computer problems etc. I've gotting all my jobs without a very official interview, but simply by knowing people. When my company got bankrupt I got called by someone like "Hey, i hear you're out of work." He's my new boss...
I'm speaking from my experience in the Netherlands, so it might not work for you in the USA, but around here most company tend to ask around among employee's first to check if there are friend of them available, because it tends to get them the right people for the job and, perhaps even more important, save the hassle of dealing with 1 ad, 3245 letters, 24 interview etc.
Try to write, for example, to write a simple program that fetches a file over http. Once in Java and once in assembler. You'll surely note the difference. That being said, it doesn't mean programmers can be dumb. But it does make programming easier. And yes, the quality of the libraries used is a crucial factor and is often the cause of a lot of trouble. I can't could the times i've gotten a library for something, but still ended up writing it myself, simple because the library sucked. But on the other side i also can't count the amount of hours saved by using (solid) libraries to do the work for me.
That higly depends on how you define programming. To a lot of people programming is the whole procces of analysing a problem, finding a solution and implement that solution. The first two are the parts that are creative, the last part, if the first parts are done right, is not much more than putting together the pieces. Anybody can do/learn that part. The problem is that traditionally the whole proccess is done by the same person, the one we call the programmer. If you seperate the process it becomes more like designing a car, it's parts and then do the actual assembly somewhere else. This is done with cars, electronics and a lot more stuff, so why not software.
By the way, people outside the western world can be creative as well, but they tend do be cheaper while doing it...
Very true. Yet this is why outsourcing can work. First of all, there are good coders outside the USA, second, outsourcing is mostly done in countries where, unlike in the USA and most of (western) Europe, coding is still a skill. Something you should learn, instead of something anybody that has VB can do. This is an important factor of how people do there work and might make them more precise and more critical about their own work.
Another important factor is the fact that application development has changed a lot. Design is becoming much more important and the coding has become easier. Mostly because a lot of low-level work is done in libraries allready. It's now possible to just say 'fetch that file using http' instead of openning a socket, sending a request and read and parse the answer. And that's just one example. The fact that computers have become faster and cheaper makes a difference as well. Optimizing code has become less important. From a managers point of view this means there is the choice of spending two extra day on optimizing memory usage or just buy 1gig of extra ram. I know wich one is cheaper...
The good programmer you are looking for likely mainly has to be a good designer. What most bad programmers mis IMHO is the ability to analyse a given problem, chop is into pieces and work out a technical sollution. Every good coder does that, knowingly or not. When you separate this part from the actual coding you can simply document the sollution and have a 'decent' programmer to write the actual code. Most big company seperate the design and implementation anyway so taking to coding somewhere else is not that hard, but might make a big difference since 'decent' programmers tend to be expensive over here.
Really? How does a windows machine being compromised effect me?
Ever looked at the amount of incomming traffic when you're online? Ever considered where the amount of you are getting is mainly comming from? Unless they get windows.update, I am not concerned at all.
Well, start worring right now. How big do you consider the chance that your vendor tells you about that? They don't even tell you about problem in your OS they know about for months before some exploit is published in the wild.
I do share your concern about trusting the source of your software, but even with these compromises i'd trust Debian and Gentoo more that a big company that has a huge interest in hiding problems like that.
There is no solution to this problem, other then writing all your software yourself. The thing that comes the closed to that, while being still practical, is and open development model where a lot of people are reviewing the source for mistakes and/or malware.
Linux seems to be gaining popularity in being the target for crackers.
The question is, why? The optimistic answer is that as Linux box is way more usefull;-)
What worries me is that machines used for distibuting sourcecode are being attacked, with some succes. We whould have a hell of a problem if someone messes with widely used source and it goes unnoticed. This proves the need for peer review and does not, in any way put closed source system in a better position, but it will be very important to be on very alert.
The guy's running that server did a hell of a job finding it in one hour. Kuddos to them, whoever they may be.
Well we are used to that kind of thing aren't we? First we create IP to send data packets over all kinds of infrastructures. Then we put TCP on top of that to maintain connections. Then we go and create HTTP on top of TCP, basically to fetch larger packet (html files). Then we add cookies to that to maintain connections (session) with a server, basically bringing us back to where we where with tcp, only bigger 'packets' and more overhead. Since we have come such a long way we now start tunneling about every thing we can find over HTTP, such as IM, Kazaa, etc.
I propose we first get DNS working on top of HTTP before and then create DNS cookies to maintain sessions with a DNS server wich can then be used to fetch the torrent.
Given the amount of spam comming in through trojanized or badly configured systems, I guess the same will happen with spim. Its just to easy to use somebody elses resources, no difference for email or im.
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Well, since SCO seems to prefer a world full of Windows, why else whould they try to destroy Linux, they are given a sneak peek of what it whould bring them. This will cause them to give MS back all the money they got from them, because they are enabling terrorist actions against them. It is a Windows virus after all. They will find out how wrong they were. They will convert and tomorrow we will seem Darl hugging Linus and all will be well again.
Maybe...
Well, i'd choose a Peugeot over Volkwagen myself. Just because they look better, are priced better, and because VW's and Opels are boring cars. And indeed, proper maintainance makes a huge difference.
Oops, forgot the link to the 'Pannenstatistik'.
I'm from Holland, we also import all cars here. And yes, you see a lot of frech cars here as well. But there is more to buying a car then just reliability. Frech cars are reliable enough to be worth cosideration when buying a car. A they might have a better price/quality ratio, depending on what you want from a car. The tend to be better better fitted towards european taste and demands. But is you look at reliability alone the german and scandinavian cars are stil better. Take a look at the 'Pannenstatistik' for 2002 and you will see that the german cars are scoring better than Peugeot and (especially)Renault.
There also was this east-german guy that drove his trabant into west berlin. When it broke down a Mercedes garage happend to be near by, so he put it there for repair. The car was fixed and he drove on happily, but after a 100 meters it stopped for a while, started running again for another 100 meters and then stopped again. This just kept going on. So the guy drove - stopped - drove -stopped - drove back to the garage and aksed about it. The mechanic told him: "Well, i put in a mercedes engine for windshield whipers, must have left it on interval..."
Excuse me, but my cheaply made windup toy actually isn't such a bad idea as you may think. First of these cars actually manage to make efficient use of the power the engine provides. It actually accelerates when you step on the gas, despite having a smaller engine. It doesn't require a huge gas tank to actually get some distance between the tank stops. It likely has way better handling and get through sharp turns without almost having to stop. It does not require a massive amount of space just to park it, and being heavy isn't going to help you in a crash.
But, hey, taste differs...
Citroen is Frech, Peugeot is French, Trabant is eastern europe. Ask a european if he considers French, or Italian for that matter, cars reliable and the answer will likely be 'No way'. German (Volkswagen, Mercedes) cars are generally considered to be reliable. Scandinavian (Volvo, Saab) are considered even better by most people. But when it comes to real reliability most people start looking at Japan (Toyota at the top, followed by Honda, Nissan, Mazda).
Are you sure that they are really talking about european cars? At least the VW Golf that is sold in the states is build in Mexico and know to be less reliable than the one build in germany. The same could very well be true for other 'European' cars. These days loads of 'the same' cars are build in different locations with different parts and different problems. One recent example was a problem with the Toyota Avensis, I believe it was something with the brakes, that only occured, IIRC, on the ones build in the UK.
I think of all the car companies Toyota is near the top in terms of reliability.
;-) My dad drove Toyota's for years without any significant problems. It was a Toyota Starlet that showed up at David Letterman for driving one million miles, yes on the original engine.
I think it is the top. I never had any problems with the Carina E i drive, until i tried to make it swin
The german ADAC, the organisation that help people when their cars beaks along the road, maintains statitics of wich cars they pick up. Toyota's always end up in top positions and are the absolute number one over a 25 year period! (German link, but take a look at the graph.) The only brand that comes close is Mercedes.
Well, all may be a bit to much, people actually get hired through the resume/interview procces, but getting an inside recomendation helps a lot. I can't say i have a lot of experience on the job market, but the three jobs i've had a came from networking. All companies i came to ask me if i knew somebody when there was an open position. The reason is simple, taking interviews and reading resumes takes a lot of time and hardly gives you any insight in who you're hiring. Asking your employee will the judgment of someone who actually knows the person and is in a much better position to judge his/her qualities. The result for the company is less hassle and a better changeof getting the right person for the job.
If you can't find a job that way, try looking for the smaller companies. Call them and ask if they mind if you drop by for a talk. Chances are you will get an instant interview. Only HR people like to get resumes, most managers hate it as much as you do and are likely to skip the proccess when somebody gives them a change to do so.
You could use any Pop-Webmail system. Find an ISP that offers webmail as well, or use something like Mailstart. I mention mailstart because they have a free demo, wich you can use once a week wich might be sufficient for you.
The next thing to do is to set you mail client not to download big messages. IIRC even OE supports this. I'm certain that Pegasus Mail has this feature. This way you will never be waiting for big emails unexpectedly. You can use webmail to see what it is and delete the message or download the attachment...
The most funny part of it all is that they admit, indirectly, that they haven't even looked at the comments. If anyone there has been reading these emails he/she could have removed the personal info easily enough. That's not to much extra effort when you are reading or even just scanning the stuff anyway. But hey, they could send the mails to me, i'll remove the personal data for a dollar per email...
So they are in the same building. What does that has to say? The previous poster allready explained that there are more (unrelated) companies in that building and Center7 provides the internet access for them. The fact that they happen to be in the same building tells me absolutely nothing.
SCO's ISP has also been contacted by zdnet.
Whould you care to provide a link? The only thing i can find is the this one., wich mention nothing more than the fact that SCO is under attack.
it is often true that once I have gotten to the point of adequately (not simply) expressing a design, I could have more easily coded the solution.
;-)
That's so familiar. Yet when it comes to meeting corporate requirements and dealing with large projects, you just can't escape a formal design. And once you have that worked out properly it the programming isn't much more than 'translation' of the design to code. That is way easier than doing both the design and the code.
Try to do some networking. Tell your friends, fellowstudents, the guys where you did internships etc. that you are looking for a job. Also, take on freelance work, help people out with computer problems etc. I've gotting all my jobs without a very official interview, but simply by knowing people. When my company got bankrupt I got called by someone like "Hey, i hear you're out of work." He's my new boss...
I'm speaking from my experience in the Netherlands, so it might not work for you in the USA, but around here most company tend to ask around among employee's first to check if there are friend of them available, because it tends to get them the right people for the job and, perhaps even more important, save the hassle of dealing with 1 ad, 3245 letters, 24 interview etc.
Try to write, for example, to write a simple program that fetches a file over http. Once in Java and once in assembler. You'll surely note the difference. That being said, it doesn't mean programmers can be dumb. But it does make programming easier. And yes, the quality of the libraries used is a crucial factor and is often the cause of a lot of trouble. I can't could the times i've gotten a library for something, but still ended up writing it myself, simple because the library sucked. But on the other side i also can't count the amount of hours saved by using (solid) libraries to do the work for me.
That higly depends on how you define programming. To a lot of people programming is the whole procces of analysing a problem, finding a solution and implement that solution. The first two are the parts that are creative, the last part, if the first parts are done right, is not much more than putting together the pieces. Anybody can do/learn that part. The problem is that traditionally the whole proccess is done by the same person, the one we call the programmer. If you seperate the process it becomes more like designing a car, it's parts and then do the actual assembly somewhere else. This is done with cars, electronics and a lot more stuff, so why not software.
By the way, people outside the western world can be creative as well, but they tend do be cheaper while doing it...
Very true. Yet this is why outsourcing can work. First of all, there are good coders outside the USA, second, outsourcing is mostly done in countries where, unlike in the USA and most of (western) Europe, coding is still a skill. Something you should learn, instead of something anybody that has VB can do. This is an important factor of how people do there work and might make them more precise and more critical about their own work.
Another important factor is the fact that application development has changed a lot. Design is becoming much more important and the coding has become easier. Mostly because a lot of low-level work is done in libraries allready. It's now possible to just say 'fetch that file using http' instead of openning a socket, sending a request and read and parse the answer. And that's just one example. The fact that computers have become faster and cheaper makes a difference as well. Optimizing code has become less important. From a managers point of view this means there is the choice of spending two extra day on optimizing memory usage or just buy 1gig of extra ram. I know wich one is cheaper...
The good programmer you are looking for likely mainly has to be a good designer. What most bad programmers mis IMHO is the ability to analyse a given problem, chop is into pieces and work out a technical sollution. Every good coder does that, knowingly or not. When you separate this part from the actual coding you can simply document the sollution and have a 'decent' programmer to write the actual code. Most big company seperate the design and implementation anyway so taking to coding somewhere else is not that hard, but might make a big difference since 'decent' programmers tend to be expensive over here.
Really? How does a windows machine being compromised effect me?
Ever looked at the amount of incomming traffic when you're online? Ever considered where the amount of you are getting is mainly comming from?
Unless they get windows.update, I am not concerned at all.
Well, start worring right now. How big do you consider the chance that your vendor tells you about that? They don't even tell you about problem in your OS they know about for months before some exploit is published in the wild.
I do share your concern about trusting the source of your software, but even with these compromises i'd trust Debian and Gentoo more that a big company that has a huge interest in hiding problems like that.
There is no solution to this problem, other then writing all your software yourself. The thing that comes the closed to that, while being still practical, is and open development model where a lot of people are reviewing the source for mistakes and/or malware.
Linux seems to be gaining popularity in being the target for crackers.
;-)
The question is, why? The optimistic answer is that as Linux box is way more usefull
What worries me is that machines used for distibuting sourcecode are being attacked, with some succes. We whould have a hell of a problem if someone messes with widely used source and it goes unnoticed. This proves the need for peer review and does not, in any way put closed source system in a better position, but it will be very important to be on very alert.
The guy's running that server did a hell of a job finding it in one hour. Kuddos to them, whoever they may be.
Well we are used to that kind of thing aren't we? First we create IP to send data packets over all kinds of infrastructures. Then we put TCP on top of that to maintain connections. Then we go and create HTTP on top of TCP, basically to fetch larger packet (html files). Then we add cookies to that to maintain connections (session) with a server, basically bringing us back to where we where with tcp, only bigger 'packets' and more overhead. Since we have come such a long way we now start tunneling about every thing we can find over HTTP, such as IM, Kazaa, etc.
I propose we first get DNS working on top of HTTP before and then create DNS cookies to maintain sessions with a DNS server wich can then be used to fetch the torrent.
So as you can see, the latest versions of Windows & Office are definitely more secure.
Yeah, but more secure is the easy part. How about secure?
No, it whould have to be 42, since "What should my case look like?" is the ultimate question.
Given the amount of spam comming in through trojanized or badly configured systems, I guess the same will happen with spim. Its just to easy to use somebody elses resources, no difference for email or im.