No - what has happened is that almost every (all that I have seen - but that isn't anywhere close to an exhaustive search) consumer router now comes with a "setup" disk. You attach the router to your computer - run the setup disk and it prompts you to give it a password. From there it created a file that you put onto a USB key that you can give all of your friends to import into the Windows Wireless profile manager - and imagine that... easy security.
Just realize that your dad will loose this file AND the password - requiring a cross country flight to visit.
Anyone that claims either vi or emacs is a useful editor hasn't used a modern Windows IDE. Just the amount of context aware help that is available about the platform is amazing.
Get a real kernel debugger INTO the linux kernel. DO it now - I hate having to patch the heck out of my kernel just to see what some module that I am unfamiliar with works. I know I know - Linus doesn't like debuggers. Well, hate to say it but he is wrong. There is no substitute for watching your code run on the platform in real time.
For that matter dbg could use a little update - it is what 30 years old now, getting closer to 40. There are a lot of new things that need to be included.
Sadly not microsoft's though. If I am doing this correctly Robots.txt seems to return a 404 error. Looks like cpan removed their robots.txt file at least from where I am sitting.
Looking at another Robots.txt file seems to return what I expect.
Let no rock remain unthrown when it shows Microsoft is in the wrong - even if they aren't
He's being ironic with the plenty of jobs. His point is that morality and workers' rights should be set to whatever the market will bear. Since jobs are in demand, it is possible (and ethical) for companies to offer less desirable jobs.
So you are saying if the economy was better - amazon wouldn't have people packing boxes and picking out items from the shelves?
I think what you meant to say might have been to offer less desirable pay.
Create all kinds of web presence - create several blogs and crosslink them to high profile sites. Google juice the heck out of a personal web page you have. Post about work you do on various sites.
It boils down to make it so the one incident is buried in googles results to the second page, and even then - they will see all the positive stuff on the first page and wonder if it is even you.
Well, I guess it was announced almost 2 months ago. The teams have been submitted and the contest is currently running as far as I can tell FTFA. Hmmm... timely news. I don't think so, this would have been cool back in Sept. so someone that might be interested could simply create a bot and enter it. Now it is way past time
Strange - Bad people do bad things, they are caught using existing tools and regulations - if their crimes are proven they will be penalized.
Where do you see the need for more regulation?
Do you see a need to have these people violate two or three regulations instead of simply one?
Do you believe that their penalties (if they are proven guilty) are insufficient and deserving of harsher punishment?
By the way, many of these companies aren't on Wall street, but in Aramok, NY, and Santa Clara, CA.
And number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Dont mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation
-- Know your Rights
Don't forget to check out numbers 1 & 3
Someone with expertise in one domain - trying to solve problems in another domain using a very simple solution. There are reasons dell is charging 8 times as much (well, that and they need to make a buck in there too). You will have to pay for the parts, pay for manufacturing (so keep someone on staff for 60K a year), pay for failures (how many hard drives will fail in 3 years - especially using commodity components rather than server components).
I give it a 50/50 chance of actually breaking even vs. buying the cheaper Dell solution in a 5 year time frame.
I give it a 10% chance of causing an EPIC FAIL that causes the company to go out of business from a massive loss of customer data.
Well except for VSS, and Microsoft isn't even dumb enough to use that on their own projects.
This article was very limiting by only talking about a few small system, didn't even talk about "interesting" systems like ClearCase (Yes, you too must hire a Clear Case administrator to figure out this beast). I really liked the underlying technology where the VCS was treated as a filesystem driver and the current code that you were working on was handled as a set of operations on the file system.
Just like removing printf, scanf, and most other copy/string functions. There are safe versions of memcpy that work just fine and are just as easy to use...
Lame story (Trying for flamebait here?)
I'm going to have to call bullshit on this statement. The only things that change every 5 years is the popular programming languages or methods, and the amount of computing resources available. As far as software engineering concepts go, there really hasn't been anything new in about 20 years.
Sorry, I will say that EVERYTHING is quite strong. When I started almost 20 years ago the 1/2 life of an engineer was assumed to by 5 years (1/2 of what you are doing today won't be relavent in 5 years) that number appears to have dropped to 2-3 year 1/2 life.
Yes, big ticket things don't change - the low level details do. It is the low level details that give you the ability to do your job efficiently. An example is UI development. 20 years ago there were a TON of UI frameworks to develop the code. Now they seem to be some form of XML deleveloping.
Networking is similar. 15 years ago - everything was ASN.1, then wrapping everything in HTTP became all the rage in the late 90s. Now transfering things around in various XML documents seems to be how people want to handle things (Look at RPC, we used to do DCE/RPC - now it is SOAP and WSDL)
Concepts are the same in both cases, details are very different. New libraries, new low level code - different debugging techniques... these things matter. If you came back from a 10 year nap today - you would find being a software developer very difficult because of all the new things you would not have been exposed to in the last 10 years.
Depends. I prefer education so it is volunteering for a regional science fair as a judge and giving classroom presentations for National Engineering and Technitians Month (NET Month)out here.
I actually prefer donating labor to the environment through the local park & rec. department. Gives me a chance to get out in the big blue room and move some dirt around through tree planting, landscape maintenance and other things I don't do on a regular basis but are actually kinda fun for a day project.
Yeah - it is one guy and as long as he doesn't put on an annoyingly green tie - it all just works. It is actually amazing how much technology is behind simple video effects done seamlessly. I thought it was funny when Forest Gump won the oscar for special effects - everyone was like... that isn't a special effects movie... I was like - that is the point
So you want to apply resources in a sub optimal way (We couldn't do it normally - but now that we are looking to waste money on make work projects) doesn't seem to be the way to work your way out of a recession. Sadly - it seems the way that people seem to be heading.
Remember boys and girls - it wasn't the market crash that caused the great depression - it was the governments reaction to it (closing borders to imports and creating make work projects with the huge public work projects of the 30's) that created the great depression.
What do you want to happen. A short deep recession - or the lost decade of the 2010's (see Japan in the 90's or the USA of the 1930's). Lets see the most optimal use of resources - if it isn't, it won't help.
Uh - I do. You mean when you are building a large distribution you don't create a manifest that lists all of the files that are supposed to be on the disk - and then have a script automatically check that everything is on the CD that is supposed to be on it... nothing more - nothing less.
Sloppy work at the best - a simple engineering problem to solve, takes 2 minutes to run after the ISO is cut. My QA lead would laugh hysterically at me if I tried to pull a stunt link this on her. Easy to verify final ship products
The other thing that may have happened to your milage is the ethenol consipiracy. Here in Oregon they push a bunch of ethenol in the winter. My gas milage drops from 45-48 to 40-42 in the winter. This summer, they apparently didn't get rid of all of the ehtenol as is normal. My milage has only made it back up to 43-45.
Got to love a country that is burning a major food crop to reduce fuel efficency.
Hard to say as the Prius was a VERY small market in 2000 (8 years ago) - so 10 failures would be a significant percentage of US sales. I have a 2002 that was still significantly difficult to get (long wait lists at ALL the dealerships in So Cal) so I wouldn't know what the reliability of the car is at this point.
Sorry, I was expecting someone to have found a way of controlling the video card fan to belt out jingle bells, or some strange hum in the graphics system. This... Now this is stupid. I mean what next - someone doing the same thing with glasses of beer, or bells, or...
Give me my 30 seconds back
I am crawling deep into this cave - we don't know what is in there but it could be very dangerous... Followed by a head shot of the lead guy crawling toward the camera into the great danger just beyond in the cave.
This show is so obviously faked, or it would be completely boring for the average person to watch. Who wants to watch someone forging credentials and walking around with a clipboard. No way they could do their job with a full camera crew behind them (Well, they could do it once... make fake credentials that they are CNBC camera crew to do an interview with the CEO)
Well, why should I have to show proof of my ability to drive a car to sit in the back of an airplane.
The interesting reason for requiring a drivers license in the first place was to prevent people from reselling discount airline tickets. If you have to show your drivers license - well, you have to have your name on the ticket. Doesn't do anything for security - drivers licenses are one of the most counterfeited documents in the country after all.
To make friends on Capitol Hill, Google plans to initiate Google 101, a series of tutorials for congressional aides that will teach them how to use Google's search engine better and faster. The aides will learn, for example, how to do simple math by writing numbers in the proper order on Google's search line.
So you are telling me that these people aren't capable of doing math - either in their head, on paper, or with a calculator that they have to learn how to do math with Google?
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char*_="Hello world.\n";
That is it - the whole program.
Just realize that your dad will loose this file AND the password - requiring a cross country flight to visit.
Get a real kernel debugger INTO the linux kernel. DO it now - I hate having to patch the heck out of my kernel just to see what some module that I am unfamiliar with works. I know I know - Linus doesn't like debuggers. Well, hate to say it but he is wrong. There is no substitute for watching your code run on the platform in real time.
For that matter dbg could use a little update - it is what 30 years old now, getting closer to 40. There are a lot of new things that need to be included.
Looking at another Robots.txt file seems to return what I expect.
Let no rock remain unthrown when it shows Microsoft is in the wrong - even if they aren't
He's being ironic with the plenty of jobs. His point is that morality and workers' rights should be set to whatever the market will bear. Since jobs are in demand, it is possible (and ethical) for companies to offer less desirable jobs.
So you are saying if the economy was better - amazon wouldn't have people packing boxes and picking out items from the shelves?
I think what you meant to say might have been to offer less desirable pay.
Create all kinds of web presence - create several blogs and crosslink them to high profile sites. Google juice the heck out of a personal web page you have. Post about work you do on various sites.
It boils down to make it so the one incident is buried in googles results to the second page, and even then - they will see all the positive stuff on the first page and wonder if it is even you.
Well, I guess it was announced almost 2 months ago. The teams have been submitted and the contest is currently running as far as I can tell FTFA. Hmmm... timely news. I don't think so, this would have been cool back in Sept. so someone that might be interested could simply create a bot and enter it. Now it is way past time
Where do you see the need for more regulation?
Do you see a need to have these people violate two or three regulations instead of simply one?
Do you believe that their penalties (if they are proven guilty) are insufficient and deserving of harsher punishment?
By the way, many of these companies aren't on Wall street, but in Aramok, NY, and Santa Clara, CA.
Your populist milage may vary
-- Know your Rights
Don't forget to check out numbers 1 & 3
I give it a 50/50 chance of actually breaking even vs. buying the cheaper Dell solution in a 5 year time frame.
I give it a 10% chance of causing an EPIC FAIL that causes the company to go out of business from a massive loss of customer data.
Well except for VSS, and Microsoft isn't even dumb enough to use that on their own projects.
This article was very limiting by only talking about a few small system, didn't even talk about "interesting" systems like ClearCase (Yes, you too must hire a Clear Case administrator to figure out this beast). I really liked the underlying technology where the VCS was treated as a filesystem driver and the current code that you were working on was handled as a set of operations on the file system.
Just like removing printf, scanf, and most other copy/string functions. There are safe versions of memcpy that work just fine and are just as easy to use...
Lame story (Trying for flamebait here?)
Sorry, I will say that EVERYTHING is quite strong. When I started almost 20 years ago the 1/2 life of an engineer was assumed to by 5 years (1/2 of what you are doing today won't be relavent in 5 years) that number appears to have dropped to 2-3 year 1/2 life.
Yes, big ticket things don't change - the low level details do. It is the low level details that give you the ability to do your job efficiently. An example is UI development. 20 years ago there were a TON of UI frameworks to develop the code. Now they seem to be some form of XML deleveloping.
Networking is similar. 15 years ago - everything was ASN.1, then wrapping everything in HTTP became all the rage in the late 90s. Now transfering things around in various XML documents seems to be how people want to handle things (Look at RPC, we used to do DCE/RPC - now it is SOAP and WSDL)
Concepts are the same in both cases, details are very different. New libraries, new low level code - different debugging techniques... these things matter. If you came back from a 10 year nap today - you would find being a software developer very difficult because of all the new things you would not have been exposed to in the last 10 years.
Depends. I prefer education so it is volunteering for a regional science fair as a judge and giving classroom presentations for National Engineering and Technitians Month (NET Month)out here.
I actually prefer donating labor to the environment through the local park & rec. department. Gives me a chance to get out in the big blue room and move some dirt around through tree planting, landscape maintenance and other things I don't do on a regular basis but are actually kinda fun for a day project.
Yeah - it is one guy and as long as he doesn't put on an annoyingly green tie - it all just works. It is actually amazing how much technology is behind simple video effects done seamlessly. I thought it was funny when Forest Gump won the oscar for special effects - everyone was like... that isn't a special effects movie... I was like - that is the point
Remember boys and girls - it wasn't the market crash that caused the great depression - it was the governments reaction to it (closing borders to imports and creating make work projects with the huge public work projects of the 30's) that created the great depression.
What do you want to happen. A short deep recession - or the lost decade of the 2010's (see Japan in the 90's or the USA of the 1930's). Lets see the most optimal use of resources - if it isn't, it won't help.
Sloppy work at the best - a simple engineering problem to solve, takes 2 minutes to run after the ISO is cut. My QA lead would laugh hysterically at me if I tried to pull a stunt link this on her. Easy to verify final ship products
The other thing that may have happened to your milage is the ethenol consipiracy. Here in Oregon they push a bunch of ethenol in the winter. My gas milage drops from 45-48 to 40-42 in the winter. This summer, they apparently didn't get rid of all of the ehtenol as is normal. My milage has only made it back up to 43-45. Got to love a country that is burning a major food crop to reduce fuel efficency.
Hard to say as the Prius was a VERY small market in 2000 (8 years ago) - so 10 failures would be a significant percentage of US sales. I have a 2002 that was still significantly difficult to get (long wait lists at ALL the dealerships in So Cal) so I wouldn't know what the reliability of the car is at this point.
Don't forget Apple's 50% margin - so 1M retail worth of Apple hardware is actually worth 1/2M to apple
Sorry, I was expecting someone to have found a way of controlling the video card fan to belt out jingle bells, or some strange hum in the graphics system. This... Now this is stupid. I mean what next - someone doing the same thing with glasses of beer, or bells, or ...
Give me my 30 seconds back
I am crawling deep into this cave - we don't know what is in there but it could be very dangerous... Followed by a head shot of the lead guy crawling toward the camera into the great danger just beyond in the cave.
This show is so obviously faked, or it would be completely boring for the average person to watch. Who wants to watch someone forging credentials and walking around with a clipboard. No way they could do their job with a full camera crew behind them (Well, they could do it once... make fake credentials that they are CNBC camera crew to do an interview with the CEO)
Got to love people that don't RTFA and make inappropriate comments
The interesting reason for requiring a drivers license in the first place was to prevent people from reselling discount airline tickets. If you have to show your drivers license - well, you have to have your name on the ticket. Doesn't do anything for security - drivers licenses are one of the most counterfeited documents in the country after all.