my friend and i wrote exactly what you're talking about for our senior project. dotorg. that will do what you want; it's pretty easy to set up, you can share files, it's easy to secure (uses jaas) and you can write your own plugins for it.
I used to think that writing a password on a sticky note was the dumbest idea. But then a week ago I almost did it. Where I work, they just updated their password policy, and it has some pretty strange requirements that make things almost impossible to remember:
10-15 characters (not bad)
at least 1 lowercase letter, at least one uppercase letter (ok)
at least 1 digit (no biggie)
can't start or end with a digit (just like a variable, still not rough)
no substring can be a dictionary word, where words like "ayu" and "ber" are dictionary words (wtf!?)
so, of the first five passwords i tried, none of them passed the test because of its absurd dictionary rule. i eventually just came up with a way to count that makes my password fairly easy to guess given the constraints, but also fairly easy to remember. come on, is not allowing the password "ayud4m3p0rf4v0R!" really going to compromise my security?
i'm starting to think biometrics will be nicer because i doubt they're going to make me change my fingerprint.
look at the ten-millions of consoles that sell each year, then look at the (hopeful here) millions of apples that sell each year. which one is the better market to be in? especially considering that whatever next-gen console you buy, you're buying ibm.
seeing how the consoles seem to be a pissing contest for each company in terms of features and speeds, and that ibm's chips are both easier to develop for (i'm a risc fan) and are generally considered better, i think they do have an inside track.
interviews with ballmer have him saying things like "sony will win japan, we plan on winning europe and america."
they might try to focus on them just in the off-chance they can get a decent market share, but nobody's kidding themselves about microsoft being able to win the war in japan.
if you read any philosophy stuff, you'd recognize that what they're proposing is morally reprehensible. the punishment should only serve to bring justice to the person; it's wrong to use a person's death as a means to some other end (in this case, deterring people from hacking).
while it might be nice to have a way to discourage people from breaking into computers, it's wrong to use a person to achieve such a goal.
I almost got in trouble for that in high school. I was in a computer science class, and I sat at the same computer most of the time. One day, I'm pulled out of my history class to see the principal and the cs teacher. She accused me of "hacking the computer", because it wouldn't start up anymore.
I had to emphatically explain that I had no reason to do it, nobody gained anything, and that I never opened the computer, so I couldn't have fried the cpu. I got lucky, and eventually the thing blew over. Unfortunately, this shows how dumb most HS teachers/administrators are. If a computer breaks and you're in the room and you're known as a geek, you're probably fucked.
is probably the best way to ensure standards compliance and get what you really want.
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Well, if they set up specs for the systems and required that manufacturers go by that, then the support wouldn't be that much of a nightmare.
Your driver argument makes no sense, because lots of hardware manufacturers already provide drivers for OS X. It's not another straggling unix distro; it's an operating system with customers who are willing to spend money for what they want. Accordingly, hardware vendors generally support them.
i try not to put personal information on my blog. i just document sites i'm developing and put up links with summaries.
i use it more as a reference for me, because lots of sites i come across are worth visiting again but aren't worth bookmarking, so i made a blog to put them there. occasionally i put other stuff, but i try to keep that to a minimum.
it says that a "new analysis by gartner" says that apple could use the trusted computing stuff.
i'm sure apple will use something, but nobody knows what they're going to use. apple said that it was not ready to release a specification in the article.
i'm glad that it's not meant to be a replacement for microsoft, though, because many PHBs would require that we use this instead of photoshop since microsoft "works well with office".
From my experience, Motorola phones are built better, last longer, and make more sense. I have a Sony phone now that syncs up with my powerbook, which is nice, but lots of times the buttons don't work at all. I haven't had this phone for a year yet, and I've been nicer to it than my previous phones, and it's still falling apart. My next phone is going to be a Motorola.
That only means that Apple has the 2nd largest homogeneous network. Since p2p is heterogeneous (different platforms, programs, OSes), it doesn't matter what programs people are using.
A more important statistic would be "number of gnutella users: X; number of iTMS users: Y".
I'm not a huge OS X developer, but when I do write little client apps to help me out in day-to-day tasks, I write them in Java. Some of my programs do worry about bit ordering.
Luckily, I don't have to recompile any of my stuff or worry about any of that. Once a fully-functional open JVM is released, nobody will have to worry about being locked in to one OS or platform or anything. I hope Apache does that...
Not so much nerds, as the environment that we work in. Workers are encouraged to excel and out-perform others, because they get more recognition and hope that leads to more pay and promotions.
Someone above discussed airline mechanics unions, where they guarantee some amount of training and skill. This would be difficult to do in some of today's IT squads, because there are some people who are still looking for the "any" key, but who call themselves coders.
The amount of competition between workers is how you keep unions from forming, and employers are doing a good job of maintaining that competition. It's a lot like slavery back in the early days of America, where slave owners would separate the slaves into separate classes (in-house slaves, field slaves, etc.) to discourage unity.
You forgot to mention that, after 2 promotions or so, you're stuck in the same job forever.
You learn how to learn in school; the subject matter isn't why you go.
Don't forget about the huge amount of social learning and experience you gain in college. People who downplay school are the ones who didn't go, so they don't know what they missed out on.
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my friend and i wrote exactly what you're talking about for our senior project. dotorg. that will do what you want; it's pretty easy to set up, you can share files, it's easy to secure (uses jaas) and you can write your own plugins for it.
so, of the first five passwords i tried, none of them passed the test because of its absurd dictionary rule. i eventually just came up with a way to count that makes my password fairly easy to guess given the constraints, but also fairly easy to remember. come on, is not allowing the password "ayud4m3p0rf4v0R!" really going to compromise my security?
i'm starting to think biometrics will be nicer because i doubt they're going to make me change my fingerprint.
look at the ten-millions of consoles that sell each year, then look at the (hopeful here) millions of apples that sell each year. which one is the better market to be in? especially considering that whatever next-gen console you buy, you're buying ibm.
seeing how the consoles seem to be a pissing contest for each company in terms of features and speeds, and that ibm's chips are both easier to develop for (i'm a risc fan) and are generally considered better, i think they do have an inside track.
they might try to focus on them just in the off-chance they can get a decent market share, but nobody's kidding themselves about microsoft being able to win the war in japan.
while it might be nice to have a way to discourage people from breaking into computers, it's wrong to use a person to achieve such a goal.
that requires IE. if you want me to buy your movie, you're going to have to provide a little more flexibility than that.
I had to emphatically explain that I had no reason to do it, nobody gained anything, and that I never opened the computer, so I couldn't have fried the cpu. I got lucky, and eventually the thing blew over. Unfortunately, this shows how dumb most HS teachers/administrators are. If a computer breaks and you're in the room and you're known as a geek, you're probably fucked.
10% of UK businesses don't want my business.
as for hosting, i use www.dailyrazor.net and they're really good. their support is amazing, people will respond to your emails at all hours of the night and on weekends, and they go the extra mile to figure out problems (even if they're not their own - they helped me find a problem with hibernate). my site(s) are all hosted from them, you can see them at www.terrbear.org.
good luck!
Well, if they set up specs for the systems and required that manufacturers go by that, then the support wouldn't be that much of a nightmare. Your driver argument makes no sense, because lots of hardware manufacturers already provide drivers for OS X. It's not another straggling unix distro; it's an operating system with customers who are willing to spend money for what they want. Accordingly, hardware vendors generally support them.
it has lots of....insight? i'll let go of it for 500000 dollars. you can hire me after that!
i use it more as a reference for me, because lots of sites i come across are worth visiting again but aren't worth bookmarking, so i made a blog to put them there. occasionally i put other stuff, but i try to keep that to a minimum.
i'm sure apple will use something, but nobody knows what they're going to use. apple said that it was not ready to release a specification in the article.
the case study doesn't even show up correctly in safari.
i'm glad that it's not meant to be a replacement for microsoft, though, because many PHBs would require that we use this instead of photoshop since microsoft "works well with office".
I think I like episodes 4 and 5 less than 3 because I don't have any of the nostalgia with the movies.
From my experience, Motorola phones are built better, last longer, and make more sense. I have a Sony phone now that syncs up with my powerbook, which is nice, but lots of times the buttons don't work at all. I haven't had this phone for a year yet, and I've been nicer to it than my previous phones, and it's still falling apart. My next phone is going to be a Motorola.
A more important statistic would be "number of gnutella users: X; number of iTMS users: Y".
I'm not a huge OS X developer, but when I do write little client apps to help me out in day-to-day tasks, I write them in Java. Some of my programs do worry about bit ordering. Luckily, I don't have to recompile any of my stuff or worry about any of that. Once a fully-functional open JVM is released, nobody will have to worry about being locked in to one OS or platform or anything. I hope Apache does that...
WSJ does actually say x86 chips, not that Apple is just using Intel as their new manufacturer
Not so much nerds, as the environment that we work in. Workers are encouraged to excel and out-perform others, because they get more recognition and hope that leads to more pay and promotions. Someone above discussed airline mechanics unions, where they guarantee some amount of training and skill. This would be difficult to do in some of today's IT squads, because there are some people who are still looking for the "any" key, but who call themselves coders. The amount of competition between workers is how you keep unions from forming, and employers are doing a good job of maintaining that competition. It's a lot like slavery back in the early days of America, where slave owners would separate the slaves into separate classes (in-house slaves, field slaves, etc.) to discourage unity.
i didn't rtfa, but why do this when tomcat is already considered the j2ee standard?
That's better than any bash.org thing I've read. Except the wizard hat one.
If you go look at the blog, they already put back one negative comment. Was it the posters?
You forgot to mention that, after 2 promotions or so, you're stuck in the same job forever. You learn how to learn in school; the subject matter isn't why you go. Don't forget about the huge amount of social learning and experience you gain in college. People who downplay school are the ones who didn't go, so they don't know what they missed out on.