It boggles the mind how the admins who choose passwords like "password" or "1234" can keep a job. These people are supposed to secure systems and make sure they work in harmony. These usually go hand in hand, too. If you have insecure systems and they are breached, obviously things won't be all harmonious and blissful. If you have problems with the network, security won't matter since problems can usually lead to backdoors. If a system is compromised by this worm, I hope the companies that hired the admins give their security and networking department hell. They deserve it. No system should be cracked by a worm that searches for the sort of passwords you'd expect an idiot (or President Scroob) to have on their luggage.
Because meeting people in the real world is fun. I love meeting new people, and discussing stuff with them. I'd pay money to go to a conference to learn new things, but if it was online only, I wouldn't consider "going," because the Internet is a bit too impersonal. Have you ever tried telling a story or joke online and have it not work because they aren't physically there and can't understand your attitude or tone? I use IM and email to talk to friends, and only friends, since I know how they would say things, why they would say things, etc. It doesn't work well online unless you know the person in real life.
Of course, its a bunch of Perl hackers, so conversations might be short and cryptic, which pretty much describes Internet communications.:)
If it is only for Macs, you've just locked out a huge audience. Apple has a fairly low market share, and if many Apple users latch on to this service, and it is successful, its still probably less than 1% of computer user using the service. The RIAA could still yell "piracy!"
What if it is cross-platform, but only includes a small selection of music? You'll get the same reaction: "piracy!"
While I hope the service is successful (if it even exists), I can't help but think about what could happen. I know I'd buy music from this kind of service, but I don't own a Mac. And I wouldn't buy a Mac just to use that service.
Microsoft has never been a company that adhered to common standards, but they can't ignore the amount of Windows applications that use OpenGL. Many workstation applications use OpenGL, since it provides things that DirectX does not have. I don't even think DirectX is superior in games, since UT/Linux has a higher FPS than UT/Windows, and most other games compare similarly. If Microsoft dropped support for OpenGL entirely, they would lose the workstation market that they stole from SGI, IBM, HP, and Sun.
OpenGL is here to stay folks. It is not as advanced as some of the pretty features of DirectX (ooh...shaders), but it will have them soon enough, and OpenGL is still widely used. It ain't dead. Not by a long shot.
I'm going to be visiting Germany this summer, and while I won't be living there, I'm going to need to access a computer to stay in contact with people I know in the US. I'll be staying in Potsdam for a few weeks and then traveling around to Munich and then up the Rhine for a while. I'll be mainly staying in hostels while not in Potsdam. Anybody know how I could find places to access a computer while I'm there? I don't need much, just the ability to access my email.
I have friends in Potsdam, so that leg of the trip isn't a problem. And I do speak quite a bit of German, so throw those links this way!
SDL works. Not only does it work, its ultraportable, and it runs on virtually every platform available. Windows, Mac OS X, Unix variants, and so forth. I think its also available for PS2!
In conjunction with OpenGL, you can create a game that can run on any platform. And the API is simple. Which is good.
I'm guessing the treatment of us nerds isn't as bad as it was many years ago. I don't get treated badly by anybody "popular". I do get harassed by people who think they are "popular", but they have the intelligence of drunken rabid wombats on crack, so it doesn't matter.
Some people could consider me popular, but I wouldn't. I'd consider myself to be average.
However, my parents insulated me from the world so much, my first year of high school was terrible. Sophomore year was better, much better, but my parents still peered around in my life, prevented me from hanging out with my friends, or even going to parties. And they know I wouldn't have gotten drunk or high...This year is even better, since I can actually drive, but, of course, I am still having no luck with the opposite sex. And my parents are still as overprotective...
I can't wait to go to Germany this summer and college in about a year.
I'd love for my keyboard to have the following buttons/changes:
-- Caps Lock. Gone.
-- Control moved to where Caps Lock is.
-- Curly brace and bracket switched (so I don't have to use shift to get a curly brace)
-- Windows/Menu keys gone.
-- Right Ctrl/Alt/Shift buttons removed.
-- Print Screen/Scroll Lock/Pause/Numlock removed.
-- Pipe moved away from that damned enter button!
-- In all that freed-up space, some general purpose buttons that I can bind to whatever applications want. For example, a button could open files in most applications, but, for example, it could create a new session in Konsole.
Debian will let you use init=/bin/sh, but IIRC, it still asks for the root password. This is negated with something like Knoppix or another boot disc, since you still have the chroot utility.
No system can be 100% secure if someone can gain physical access to any machine. Your tips are good, but I have another one: only allow root logons from a single terminal. Lock this in a room in which only the sysadmin has access. Even better, remove the floppy and CD-ROM drive from this machine. About as secure as physically possible.
EarthLink is absolutely nothing like AOL or MSN. They are a real ISP, and don't use any proprietary protocols. I can use EarthLink in Linux, FreeBSD, QNX, and virtually any other OS available.
Can't say the same about MSN/AOL.
Yes, I do remember the good old days. When sites loaded fast, when Netscape 2.x dominated, and there wasn't this huge commercialization of the Internet. Nothing against commercialization, but when people start wanting to charge for a basic service of the net (Email), its gone too far.
I'm most likely going to either UMR or Caltech for either a BSCE, MSCE, or a dual CE/EE degree. Would people hire me with any of those degrees and no certifications? Or would they toss my resume in the trash since I don't have any of the certifications (CCNA, RHCE, MCSE)? I really don't want to be a certified anything, since I would think the degree would speak for itself.
Either I'll have a date this weekend, and then we'll do something on Valentine's day next week...
OR I'll go out with her on Valentine's day...
OR I'll go out with her on the day after Valentine's day.
From experience, having no date on Valentine's day sucks. Everyone is all cuddly with their {boy|girl}friend, and then it makes you feel even more alone in the world.
I'm not a Windows refugee. KDE may seem like its strapping a Windows-like UI on top of X, but I disagree. Many features probably make Windows users feel at home, but the really nice terminal (Konsole) and all the powerful tools (regexps in Konqueror, all of the Kate features) KDE provides make it fit perfectly in a Unix system. I haven't done any KDE programming yet, but I'm guessing it makes Qt even better to code with.
GNOME does all of these things, too.
I used to use a combination of Oroborus, DeskMenu, and some small taskbar application for my desktop. Before that, Window Maker. KDE is wonderful, even after moving from those.
For a long time I wanted to be a game developer. I tried learning C++, hacking around with some stuff, etc. This was a few years back, and I never understood C++ at the time. I just started learning C++ again, and this time around, its a lot easier for me to understand. Maybe because I have got a bunch of Scheme and Python under my belt.
Anyway, I don't want to develop games anymore. I don't know why. I've taken to learning Qt, and I'm developing a tool for developers now. I tried making a Half-Life mod, and I discovered that game development wasn't for me, for whatever reason.
Some tips: Get good with C/C++. Very good. If you use C++, use inheritance wherever you can, but don't overuse it. Learn OpenGL, get the Red and Blue books, and hack away. Try SDL for virtually everything else, and stay away from proprietary libraries and compilers, so as to remain as portable as possible.
If you develop a Quake-killer, can you GPL it, too?
A friend just finished making a demo, and it cost updards of $250. The demo is 4 songs. Its very expensive to produce an album. Cheap to make the CDs, though.
Thats part of the point. wxWindows is very similar to MFC to allow porting of MFC apps to wxWindows. The other point is, as others have pointed out, is that it is totally cross-platform and is under an open source license. You may have all the MFC source, but can you legally make modifications to it?
Since the MFC code/headers are packaged with VC++, I can't afford it. I'm a hobbyist programmer who does his development on Linux. I just use wxWindows so that I can run stuff on Windows or Mac OS if I so choose.
wxPython is awesome. So easy, so powerful, so cool. As someone else said, it relys too much on inheritance, which complicates code, but its still great. wxWindows (the C++ toolkit) is good too. I like that, but Qt is superior for C++ GUI development.
As an unrelated sidenote, we need a wxScheme, or a tkScheme, or a gtkScheme, or an xtkScheme...or SOMETHING!
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It boggles the mind how the admins who choose passwords like "password" or "1234" can keep a job. These people are supposed to secure systems and make sure they work in harmony. These usually go hand in hand, too. If you have insecure systems and they are breached, obviously things won't be all harmonious and blissful. If you have problems with the network, security won't matter since problems can usually lead to backdoors. If a system is compromised by this worm, I hope the companies that hired the admins give their security and networking department hell. They deserve it. No system should be cracked by a worm that searches for the sort of passwords you'd expect an idiot (or President Scroob) to have on their luggage.
In Linux there is a program called wayv. It was on /. not too long ago.
Because meeting people in the real world is fun. I love meeting new people, and discussing stuff with them. I'd pay money to go to a conference to learn new things, but if it was online only, I wouldn't consider "going," because the Internet is a bit too impersonal. Have you ever tried telling a story or joke online and have it not work because they aren't physically there and can't understand your attitude or tone? I use IM and email to talk to friends, and only friends, since I know how they would say things, why they would say things, etc. It doesn't work well online unless you know the person in real life.
:)
Of course, its a bunch of Perl hackers, so conversations might be short and cryptic, which pretty much describes Internet communications.
This is a perfect opportunity to get a throwaway email account. Get your file, never worry about the email flooding your inbox.
Well, lets evaluate how this could work...
If it is only for Macs, you've just locked out a huge audience. Apple has a fairly low market share, and if many Apple users latch on to this service, and it is successful, its still probably less than 1% of computer user using the service. The RIAA could still yell "piracy!"
What if it is cross-platform, but only includes a small selection of music? You'll get the same reaction: "piracy!"
While I hope the service is successful (if it even exists), I can't help but think about what could happen. I know I'd buy music from this kind of service, but I don't own a Mac. And I wouldn't buy a Mac just to use that service.
Microsoft has never been a company that adhered to common standards, but they can't ignore the amount of Windows applications that use OpenGL. Many workstation applications use OpenGL, since it provides things that DirectX does not have. I don't even think DirectX is superior in games, since UT/Linux has a higher FPS than UT/Windows, and most other games compare similarly. If Microsoft dropped support for OpenGL entirely, they would lose the workstation market that they stole from SGI, IBM, HP, and Sun.
OpenGL is here to stay folks. It is not as advanced as some of the pretty features of DirectX (ooh...shaders), but it will have them soon enough, and OpenGL is still widely used. It ain't dead. Not by a long shot.
I'm going to be visiting Germany this summer, and while I won't be living there, I'm going to need to access a computer to stay in contact with people I know in the US. I'll be staying in Potsdam for a few weeks and then traveling around to Munich and then up the Rhine for a while. I'll be mainly staying in hostels while not in Potsdam. Anybody know how I could find places to access a computer while I'm there? I don't need much, just the ability to access my email.
I have friends in Potsdam, so that leg of the trip isn't a problem. And I do speak quite a bit of German, so throw those links this way!
I compiled XFree86 4.2.1 a month or two ago, and it compiled fast enough, but I want to install my nice new shiny Gentoo before I install a new X.
No, I hadn't tried it yet. What were you expecting?
Anyone know how the performance compares?
Wow! So RMS wants us to simply call it GNU now? Dropping the Linux part altogether? Sorta hypocritical to me ;).
Or do you run Hurd? Which is technically the GNU OS.
The above is meant to be funny.
You mean www.abiword.org? Or some other product?
SDL works. Not only does it work, its ultraportable, and it runs on virtually every platform available. Windows, Mac OS X, Unix variants, and so forth. I think its also available for PS2!
In conjunction with OpenGL, you can create a game that can run on any platform. And the API is simple. Which is good.
I'm guessing the treatment of us nerds isn't as bad as it was many years ago. I don't get treated badly by anybody "popular". I do get harassed by people who think they are "popular", but they have the intelligence of drunken rabid wombats on crack, so it doesn't matter.
Some people could consider me popular, but I wouldn't. I'd consider myself to be average.
However, my parents insulated me from the world so much, my first year of high school was terrible. Sophomore year was better, much better, but my parents still peered around in my life, prevented me from hanging out with my friends, or even going to parties. And they know I wouldn't have gotten drunk or high...This year is even better, since I can actually drive, but, of course, I am still having no luck with the opposite sex. And my parents are still as overprotective...
I can't wait to go to Germany this summer and college in about a year.
Its for enabling people to play their games; nothing more.
I'd love for my keyboard to have the following buttons/changes:
-- Caps Lock. Gone.
-- Control moved to where Caps Lock is.
-- Curly brace and bracket switched (so I don't have to use shift to get a curly brace)
-- Windows/Menu keys gone.
-- Right Ctrl/Alt/Shift buttons removed.
-- Print Screen/Scroll Lock/Pause/Numlock removed.
-- Pipe moved away from that damned enter button!
-- In all that freed-up space, some general purpose buttons that I can bind to whatever applications want. For example, a button could open files in most applications, but, for example, it could create a new session in Konsole.
Debian will let you use init=/bin/sh, but IIRC, it still asks for the root password. This is negated with something like Knoppix or another boot disc, since you still have the chroot utility.
No system can be 100% secure if someone can gain physical access to any machine. Your tips are good, but I have another one: only allow root logons from a single terminal. Lock this in a room in which only the sysadmin has access. Even better, remove the floppy and CD-ROM drive from this machine. About as secure as physically possible.
EarthLink is absolutely nothing like AOL or MSN. They are a real ISP, and don't use any proprietary protocols. I can use EarthLink in Linux, FreeBSD, QNX, and virtually any other OS available.
Can't say the same about MSN/AOL.
Yes, I do remember the good old days. When sites loaded fast, when Netscape 2.x dominated, and there wasn't this huge commercialization of the Internet. Nothing against commercialization, but when people start wanting to charge for a basic service of the net (Email), its gone too far.
I'm most likely going to either UMR or Caltech for either a BSCE, MSCE, or a dual CE/EE degree. Would people hire me with any of those degrees and no certifications? Or would they toss my resume in the trash since I don't have any of the certifications (CCNA, RHCE, MCSE)? I really don't want to be a certified anything, since I would think the degree would speak for itself.
Would it?
Well, one of three things...
Either I'll have a date this weekend, and then we'll do something on Valentine's day next week...
OR I'll go out with her on Valentine's day...
OR I'll go out with her on the day after Valentine's day.
From experience, having no date on Valentine's day sucks. Everyone is all cuddly with their {boy|girl}friend, and then it makes you feel even more alone in the world.
So, Jack, my Matrix DVD will still work after its been through the digestive tracts of a dog? Amazing!
I'd like Jack to show me how.
I'm not a Windows refugee. KDE may seem like its strapping a Windows-like UI on top of X, but I disagree. Many features probably make Windows users feel at home, but the really nice terminal (Konsole) and all the powerful tools (regexps in Konqueror, all of the Kate features) KDE provides make it fit perfectly in a Unix system. I haven't done any KDE programming yet, but I'm guessing it makes Qt even better to code with.
GNOME does all of these things, too.
I used to use a combination of Oroborus, DeskMenu, and some small taskbar application for my desktop. Before that, Window Maker. KDE is wonderful, even after moving from those.
KDE already uses SVGs, in the default Crystal SVG theme, in KDE 3.1.
For a long time I wanted to be a game developer. I tried learning C++, hacking around with some stuff, etc. This was a few years back, and I never understood C++ at the time. I just started learning C++ again, and this time around, its a lot easier for me to understand. Maybe because I have got a bunch of Scheme and Python under my belt.
Anyway, I don't want to develop games anymore. I don't know why. I've taken to learning Qt, and I'm developing a tool for developers now. I tried making a Half-Life mod, and I discovered that game development wasn't for me, for whatever reason.
Some tips: Get good with C/C++. Very good. If you use C++, use inheritance wherever you can, but don't overuse it. Learn OpenGL, get the Red and Blue books, and hack away. Try SDL for virtually everything else, and stay away from proprietary libraries and compilers, so as to remain as portable as possible.
If you develop a Quake-killer, can you GPL it, too?
A friend just finished making a demo, and it cost updards of $250. The demo is 4 songs. Its very expensive to produce an album. Cheap to make the CDs, though.
Thats part of the point. wxWindows is very similar to MFC to allow porting of MFC apps to wxWindows. The other point is, as others have pointed out, is that it is totally cross-platform and is under an open source license. You may have all the MFC source, but can you legally make modifications to it?
Since the MFC code/headers are packaged with VC++, I can't afford it. I'm a hobbyist programmer who does his development on Linux. I just use wxWindows so that I can run stuff on Windows or Mac OS if I so choose.
wxPython is awesome. So easy, so powerful, so cool. As someone else said, it relys too much on inheritance, which complicates code, but its still great. wxWindows (the C++ toolkit) is good too. I like that, but Qt is superior for C++ GUI development.
As an unrelated sidenote, we need a wxScheme, or a tkScheme, or a gtkScheme, or an xtkScheme...or SOMETHING!