a computer should be as easy to use as to start typing on a keyboard to open a word processor -- with no lost keystrokes, or to put a stylus to a tablet and start drawing in a graphics app.
So this guy is whining about how backwards UNIX is when the paradigm he is describing is about as advanced as a 19th century typewriter or good old pen and paper?
They have these neat things at the Office Depot in town... they're called Word Processor machines and they're absolutely useless nowadays.
How are you supposed to multitask without an operating system? Share files? What about simple tasks such as copy and paste?
I'm 17 and I'm a senior in high school. I've been using Linux since about the age of 13 or 14, when I was a freshman. Probably not unlike yourself, I learned to program basically through books and peer support. Long hours in front of the computer, yadda yadda yadda.
My grades aren't shitty, but aren't that great either. B average. That means I got as many Cs as I did As:)
I started my current programming job when I was 15, before I could drive. I don't know anyone in my school who has the same skillset or mindset as I do, but I see all sorts of people like myself online. Such as you.
I don't know why, but I'm not considered a "nerdy" person in school. I know I sound incredibly... stupid when I say this, but I'm not a nerd. My skillset isn't very exciting or unique at all (i have no especially 31337 sk1llz, d00d), but it gets the job done and my friends think I'm a god. I don't think I fit the typical nerd-geek-in-high-school social stereotype, either. I'm wondering if the majority of high-school Linux users are total all-out socially reclusive nerds or are rather regular folks that happen to have a high-tech hobby.
I think I fall into the latter category. I enjoy other activities aside from coding, etc, such as snowboarding and playing the guitar and piano. I have plenty of friends (male and female!) from all sorts of cliques, ranging from the football team to the color guard to even the car club (!) at school. My friends say I'm a fun guy to be around because I make people smile and laugh.
So what about you? Which category do you fit into? Would you say that you're a nerd (socially reclusive, awkward around members of the opposite sex, completely inundated with your passions), a geek (enthusiastic about your passions, but still know how to have a good time with others, possibly only others with the same interests, not socially awkward), or just a regular guy with a high-tech hobby like me?
Personally, I wish there would be more of my type in school. I think I'd have more fun talking with them and spending time with them instead of seeking them out and digging them out of their holes just to have a conversation with me.
After upgrading to XFree86 4.0, I tried playing quake 3, but the mouse didn't work. Disabling DGA, etc, did nothing. The mouse was still sporadic and unpredictable in nature. The game also played quite slow.
Is this fixed in the new version, and are there RPMs available?
A couple years ago (I'm a senior in high school right now as well), I had taught myself to program and was itching to write something. I was also eager to help others, but also realized that it would be great if I could start a couple of projects myself.
I released some small Perl utilities first. Pilot2pine, my first creation, used the pilot-libs package to grab the address list from a palm pilot and converted it into a Pine e-mail addressbook. Very useful:)
I also wrote a few more fairly interesting Perl scripts. I posted them to freshmeat, where they were received quite warmly. This was back when freshmeat wasn't swamped with 139485719834751984 different projects.
After writing some Perl tidbits, I decided to get my feet wet with C (my feet are still pretty damn dry) and started work on GDict - perhaps you've heard of it. At the time, a friend of mine had a small console application that looked up user-specified words on the MIT dictionary server.
I used this as a base to learn the GTK widget set. I wrote a front-end, gave it some buttons, etc, and released it, bugs and all, (it really was some pretty shitty code) to the world, where it received a fair amount of use.
A few months later people started submitting patches. To me! The project got better and better, until someone eventually started working on the thing more than I did (as you can imagine, school got more and more time-consuming. Homework bites.)
So I passed the project along to the new developers (http://gdict.dhs.org) and they extended it into an awesome little app with full GNOME functionality and stuff like that. It was eventually integrated into the GNOME desktop distribution and is bundled with every distribution that comes with GNOME. Pretty damn cool, huh? I still get positive feedback on the project today, even though I don't actively participate in it (school again!)
A funny story: my coworkers (who didn't know I started the little project) were using GDict one day and they were telling me how great it is. Apparently they use it all the time! I clicked on the About... box and they were pretty shocked to see my name listed in the credits (in pretty big font, too!):) Good water-cooler anecdotes.
Writing GPL stuff is a pretty fun. And it gives some good stuff to put on your college applications!
About three years ago, GTE debuted "WorldWind", their "amazingly fast" cable modem service at my area. Speeds were limited to 128kbit/sec download. Rate was $80/month. @Home already had their 300kBYTE/sec service in many towns at this time. Same with MediaOne, etc. Customer service was nonexistant at GTE.
I had a web page up that showed traceroute data, bandwidth measuring data, and e-mails I had received from GTE's support department, and response from other people in the same area with the same problems (and lack of service).
After a few months they shut down my account and blacklisted my ADDRESS. (not just my name, my whole address. Nobody who lives at my house will EVER get service).
About a year after my blacklisting, they opened up the veritable bandwidth pipes. Everyone was downloading stuff at 100kBYTE/sec+. With one catch: all common services ports were blocked. Oops.
So I got DSL, and all is happy. No blocked ports, reverse DNS, Class C all to myself (routed subnet), etc, etc. Sendmail, apache, NET8, it's all running.
I can strap 10 pounds of explosives to an airports radar tower and "make the system useless for air traffic control".
You can have redundant base stations with the broadcast idea, so that if one of them is disabled, the rest can simply kick in. Backup power and extra security can help, too.
What makes you think the inter-airplane communications protocol is going to be so easy for you to broadcast? What makes you think you're going to be able to trick the base station into thinking you're a million planes?
The only thing I can think of is a jamming procedure, and you can do that today with radar!
Obviously, the GPS signal will be acquired by the planes and/or base station from the real GPS satellites. Faking this signal isn't easy to do, or else it'd be done all the time today. And we all know that it's not.
After acquiring positional information from GPS, the units will obviously re-package the information onto an encrypted channel of communication, utilizing extra security and tecnologies such as DSSS (ooh, buzzwords!) and other shit that I have no idea exists.
And this "single point of failure" bullshit about GPS satellites going down. Well, what happens today if this giant radar tower stops working? Mass fucking chaos. At least there are multiple points of failure with the GPS system; the chances that you're not going to see at least three satellites above the horizon is much smaller than a radar system at an airport (which are horribly old and antiquated anyway) going down.
The "standard" form of measurement today (the SI, or systeme internationale), with meters, grams, liters, etc, was invented by the French around 1793. This was "officially" adopted by the rest of the world at various times throughout the twentieth century.
Most people consider July 4, 1776 to be the first date that the United States "existed".
The reason pedophilia is frowned upon in today's world is because children need to reach a certain age before they become sexually mature.
This is pretty much standard before most species on Earth. How often do you see a Bull try to have his way with a new born calf?
It's been proven time and time again that when children are molested or engage in sexual activity, etc, before a certain age (probably 14 or 15) by someone much older than them, they turn out pretty fucked up. The lucky ones just have bad dreams, or something. The unlucky ones become psychotic and kill themselves.
Hey, but if you want to have sex with little children, I guess it's nobody's right but the government's to stop you. Might I suggest NAMBLA?
It seems that every single day I see this awkward use of the word "are" at least 3 times.
"Apple are", "Sony are", "MPAA are".
I don't see how this could possibly be correct. Shouldn't it be "Apple is", "Sony is", "MPAA is"? When you're referring to the people of sony, the proper word to use is "are". Example:
I'm a senior in High School. You might be in high school too, judging from the age of your mother, but let me tell you how things are in my town, Thousand Oaks, in Southern California, where a large percentage of the students at my school have cable or DSL.
First off: everyone (even the jocks) uses Napster.
Second: everyone (yes... even the jocks) uses AIM or ICQ. This means files are being shared and tons of information is being exchanged.
Before GTE and Pac bell came in and "saved the day" with DSL and Cable net access, I'd say that maybe 5% of the people who use the net in a bandwidth-intensive manner now were using it in the same way.
Time and the advancement of technology (synonymous?) is making everyone a geek. Maybe not culturally, but at least in the way that they use the internet so bandwidth-intensively and to their advantage. They know HOW TO already.
So don't you tell anyone it's "their site and they'll do what the hell they want". They have to answer to the shareholders as much as they do to themselves.
About a month ago I was in the market for a good ultraportable laptop on a budget, which for me was under $1500 (!).
After a few days of searching the VAIO models (I already knew I wanted one), I stumbled across the discontinued PCG-505x models. I bought a PCG-505TR (300MHz Pentium, 64MB ram, 10.4" XGA active matrix LCD) All this, plus extended battery for $1400. I'd say that's quite a deal.
Coupled with an IEEE-802.11b wireless ethernet card, it's an awesome mobile workstation that looks cool and functions very well.
I just wish PayPal would mail me my checks faster.
- Mike Hughes
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Just testing my user id #56 really. :)
So this guy is whining about how backwards UNIX is when the paradigm he is describing is about as advanced as a 19th century typewriter or good old pen and paper?
They have these neat things at the Office Depot in town ... they're called Word Processor machines and they're absolutely useless nowadays.
How are you supposed to multitask without an operating system? Share files? What about simple tasks such as copy and paste?
- Mike Hughes
I'm 17 and I'm a senior in high school. I've been using Linux since about the age of 13 or 14, when I was a freshman. Probably not unlike yourself, I learned to program basically through books and peer support. Long hours in front of the computer, yadda yadda yadda.
:)
... stupid when I say this, but I'm not a nerd. My skillset isn't very exciting or unique at all (i have no especially 31337 sk1llz, d00d), but it gets the job done and my friends think I'm a god. I don't think I fit the typical nerd-geek-in-high-school social stereotype, either. I'm wondering if the majority of high-school Linux users are total all-out socially reclusive nerds or are rather regular folks that happen to have a high-tech hobby.
My grades aren't shitty, but aren't that great either. B average. That means I got as many Cs as I did As
I started my current programming job when I was 15, before I could drive. I don't know anyone in my school who has the same skillset or mindset as I do, but I see all sorts of people like myself online. Such as you.
I don't know why, but I'm not considered a "nerdy" person in school. I know I sound incredibly
I think I fall into the latter category. I enjoy other activities aside from coding, etc, such as snowboarding and playing the guitar and piano. I have plenty of friends (male and female!) from all sorts of cliques, ranging from the football team to the color guard to even the car club (!) at school. My friends say I'm a fun guy to be around because I make people smile and laugh.
So what about you? Which category do you fit into? Would you say that you're a nerd (socially reclusive, awkward around members of the opposite sex, completely inundated with your passions), a geek (enthusiastic about your passions, but still know how to have a good time with others, possibly only others with the same interests, not socially awkward), or just a regular guy with a high-tech hobby like me?
Personally, I wish there would be more of my type in school. I think I'd have more fun talking with them and spending time with them instead of seeking them out and digging them out of their holes just to have a conversation with me.
- Mike Hughes
After upgrading to XFree86 4.0, I tried playing quake 3, but the mouse didn't work. Disabling DGA, etc, did nothing. The mouse was still sporadic and unpredictable in nature. The game also played quite slow.
Is this fixed in the new version, and are there RPMs available?
Thanks.
- Mike Hughes
Technology is supposed to improve life, not the other way around.
- Mike Hughes
DNS names are mapped to IP addresses, which are then usually mapped to MAC addresses in an ARP table. Not too horribly stupid if you ask me...
- Mike Hughes
A couple years ago (I'm a senior in high school right now as well), I had taught myself to program and was itching to write something. I was also eager to help others, but also realized that it would be great if I could start a couple of projects myself.
:)
:) Good water-cooler anecdotes.
I released some small Perl utilities first. Pilot2pine, my first creation, used the pilot-libs package to grab the address list from a palm pilot and converted it into a Pine e-mail addressbook. Very useful
I also wrote a few more fairly interesting Perl scripts. I posted them to freshmeat, where they were received quite warmly. This was back when freshmeat wasn't swamped with 139485719834751984 different projects.
After writing some Perl tidbits, I decided to get my feet wet with C (my feet are still pretty damn dry) and started work on GDict - perhaps you've heard of it. At the time, a friend of mine had a small console application that looked up user-specified words on the MIT dictionary server.
I used this as a base to learn the GTK widget set. I wrote a front-end, gave it some buttons, etc, and released it, bugs and all, (it really was some pretty shitty code) to the world, where it received a fair amount of use.
A few months later people started submitting patches. To me! The project got better and better, until someone eventually started working on the thing more than I did (as you can imagine, school got more and more time-consuming. Homework bites.)
So I passed the project along to the new developers (http://gdict.dhs.org) and they extended it into an awesome little app with full GNOME functionality and stuff like that. It was eventually integrated into the GNOME desktop distribution and is bundled with every distribution that comes with GNOME. Pretty damn cool, huh? I still get positive feedback on the project today, even though I don't actively participate in it (school again!)
A funny story: my coworkers (who didn't know I started the little project) were using GDict one day and they were telling me how great it is. Apparently they use it all the time! I clicked on the About... box and they were pretty shocked to see my name listed in the credits (in pretty big font, too!)
Writing GPL stuff is a pretty fun. And it gives some good stuff to put on your college applications!
- Mike Hughes
Is it powered by DOHC VTEC?
Sorry.
- Mike Hughes
About three years ago, GTE debuted "WorldWind", their "amazingly fast" cable modem service at my area. Speeds were limited to 128kbit/sec download. Rate was $80/month. @Home already had their 300kBYTE/sec service in many towns at this time. Same with MediaOne, etc. Customer service was nonexistant at GTE.
I had a web page up that showed traceroute data, bandwidth measuring data, and e-mails I had received from GTE's support department, and response from other people in the same area with the same problems (and lack of service).
After a few months they shut down my account and blacklisted my ADDRESS. (not just my name, my whole address. Nobody who lives at my house will EVER get service).
About a year after my blacklisting, they opened up the veritable bandwidth pipes. Everyone was downloading stuff at 100kBYTE/sec+. With one catch: all common services ports were blocked. Oops.
So I got DSL, and all is happy. No blocked ports, reverse DNS, Class C all to myself (routed subnet), etc, etc. Sendmail, apache, NET8, it's all running.
Get DSL.
- Mike Hughes
You never say "Johnny are going to the store", do you?
- Mike Hughes
Now that you're older perhaps you'd like to talk to this about them and perhaps work out some issues?
Or is that not allowed?
- Mike Hughes
I can strap 10 pounds of explosives to an airports radar tower and "make the system useless for air traffic control". You can have redundant base stations with the broadcast idea, so that if one of them is disabled, the rest can simply kick in. Backup power and extra security can help, too.
- Mike Hughes
What makes you think the inter-airplane communications protocol is going to be so easy for you to broadcast? What makes you think you're going to be able to trick the base station into thinking you're a million planes?
The only thing I can think of is a jamming procedure, and you can do that today with radar!
Obviously, the GPS signal will be acquired by the planes and/or base station from the real GPS satellites. Faking this signal isn't easy to do, or else it'd be done all the time today. And we all know that it's not.
After acquiring positional information from GPS, the units will obviously re-package the information onto an encrypted channel of communication, utilizing extra security and tecnologies such as DSSS (ooh, buzzwords!) and other shit that I have no idea exists.
And this "single point of failure" bullshit about GPS satellites going down. Well, what happens today if this giant radar tower stops working? Mass fucking chaos. At least there are multiple points of failure with the GPS system; the chances that you're not going to see at least three satellites above the horizon is much smaller than a radar system at an airport (which are horribly old and antiquated anyway) going down.
- Mike Hughes
The "standard" form of measurement today (the SI, or systeme internationale), with meters, grams, liters, etc, was invented by the French around 1793. This was "officially" adopted by the rest of the world at various times throughout the twentieth century.
Most people consider July 4, 1776 to be the first date that the United States "existed".
You were about 17 years off, or so.
- Mike Hughes
The reason pedophilia is frowned upon in today's world is because children need to reach a certain age before they become sexually mature. This is pretty much standard before most species on Earth. How often do you see a Bull try to have his way with a new born calf? It's been proven time and time again that when children are molested or engage in sexual activity, etc, before a certain age (probably 14 or 15) by someone much older than them, they turn out pretty fucked up. The lucky ones just have bad dreams, or something. The unlucky ones become psychotic and kill themselves. Hey, but if you want to have sex with little children, I guess it's nobody's right but the government's to stop you. Might I suggest NAMBLA?
- Mike Hughes
The cynical, jaded outlook is there for a reason.
- Mike Hughes
"Apple are", "Sony are", "MPAA are".
I don't see how this could possibly be correct. Shouldn't it be "Apple is", "Sony is", "MPAA is"? When you're referring to the people of sony, the proper word to use is "are". Example:
Q: Apple is releasing OS X soon?
A: Yes, they (the people of Apple) are.
- Mike Hughes
I guess all the admins who want to run statistics and trend grapher applications on their routers (other than SNMP-based solutions) are smoking crack.
- Mike Hughes
Stop trying to be clever.
- Mike Hughes
First off: everyone (even the jocks) uses Napster.
Second: everyone (yes... even the jocks) uses AIM or ICQ. This means files are being shared and tons of information is being exchanged.
Before GTE and Pac bell came in and "saved the day" with DSL and Cable net access, I'd say that maybe 5% of the people who use the net in a bandwidth-intensive manner now were using it in the same way.
Time and the advancement of technology (synonymous?) is making everyone a geek. Maybe not culturally, but at least in the way that they use the internet so bandwidth-intensively and to their advantage. They know HOW TO already.
- Mike Hughes
So don't you tell anyone it's "their site and they'll do what the hell they want". They have to answer to the shareholders as much as they do to themselves.
- Mike Hughes
About a month ago I was in the market for a good ultraportable laptop on a budget, which for me was under $1500 (!). After a few days of searching the VAIO models (I already knew I wanted one), I stumbled across the discontinued PCG-505x models. I bought a PCG-505TR (300MHz Pentium, 64MB ram, 10.4" XGA active matrix LCD) All this, plus extended battery for $1400. I'd say that's quite a deal. Coupled with an IEEE-802.11b wireless ethernet card, it's an awesome mobile workstation that looks cool and functions very well.
- Mike Hughes
Vint Cerf has something up his sleeve.
- Mike Hughes
I just wish PayPal would mail me my checks faster.
- Mike Hughes
Traditionally, internic.net has been WAY more than a store front for t-shirts. Obviously you've never used internic.net for anything useful. If you had, you'd know that it was full of forms and technical information. It was actually full of *useful stuff*. Now, i can buy a t-shirt that advertises NSI.
- Mike Hughes