I hear where you're coming from, but what if some very probable coincidences (sp?) occurred like: - you happen to be born with brown skin and live here - you happen to have just returned from visiting, say, a family member in a mid-east nation like Saudi Arabia. - You happen to have been mistakely searched at an airport once. - maybe you went to the same school as a couple of suspected al queda operatives when you were a child in your birth country. - visited a website (purposely or accidentaly) about making bombs/other destructive devices from houshold items. - sent a joking email to another about how you were involved in every terrorist attack since the beginning of time. etc...
I think you'll agree that for a person of Arab descent living here to have at least some of these pureley coincidental characteristics are not really THAT far-fetched.
Now, all you have to do is be suspected of possibly being a terrorist courtesy of some software like carnivore or FBI/CIA agent, and they simply brand you an "enemy combatant" and that, in an instant, takes away ALL of your rights.
There's a good chance you will be in custody for a while, lose your job maybe even your home, etc.
Heh, I love how the grandparent and ones like them all think the NT kernel is a joke (based on "poor" software) and haven't ever pic-up an operating systems book, or know next-to-nothing on its internals.
Yes, I've tried mandrake (8.0 at last point), however, and my annoyance with it is exactly what slack is not:
a whole mess of "bleeding-edge" applications (end-users do the bleeding) that are soooo buggy or misconfigured (permissions,dep,etc).
But I think slack and mandrake complement each other, the latter for the desktop user who just wants to install and play dvds, listen to music, browse web, email, etc.
I went to slack after red hat (don't get me started) and mandrake. I tried it on a whim, expecting it to be more of the same, but loved how simple,minimal,and well-documented (esp. config files) it was.
Really, what turned you off about slackware and onto debian? Haven't used debian myself so I don't nkow much about it. I like the KISS philosophy of slack and find it the most stable. Have to try gentoo as well in that respect...
The interop capabilities of.NET seemed stupid to me at first but is important for a couple reasons:
- It allows you to slowly merge (write wrapper classes for) your old code in COM/DLL nightmare and,
- Interop allows people to write a (albeit platform-dependant) wrappers around libraries to extend the framework without having to wait for MS to add the needed functionality.
An example of the latter would be the CsGL (C# interface to OpenGL).
Now this is OK until people abuse it and never eventually port over their code entirely to.NET and thereby miss the whole point of "portability".
As far as portability, I am disappointed that MS decided to make WinForms so similar to the Win32 UI programming, but I think the success of.NET hangs on the success of Mono.
If you create a piece of software that is based on another GPL'd software then your software must be covered by the original GPL license. You are not under any obligation to release the binaries or source. However, if you do release the binaries you must make the source available upon request.
I think that's what I got out of the ref'd whitepaper, but also doesn't it say that you only have to release source upon request within 3 years? Or did I just misunderstand.
Also, the linking, kern module, and other issues are an extremely big question mark, IMHO, even though the author cites precedent as answering the question for us, ie, the existence of binary only kernel drivers, and programs linking with GPL'd shared libs.
I understand, it's hard to convey intention without a face or at least a voice to go along w/ the comments.
As for Mr Hussein, I now confess that I actually am mildly curious. Does Fruit of the Loom export to Iraq?
Sweet merciful crap, I just got a mental picture pop into my head of Hussein in bikini breifs, skipping along a shoreline. Thanks a bunch.
Back to reality, Is anybody concerned about the next generation of Husseins? Bush has his golden child in office now, what about Saddam's son? I don't mean the Jeb, I mean the scary one, who grew up witnessing his father's sadism, and is eager to follow in hs footsteps.
Yes, this is certainly an argument for his forceful removal, unfortunately the UN probably can't even agree what they're ordering out for in their meetings let alone agree on having to remove a dictator while they were already in the midst of pushing his army back from Kuwait. So, fast fwd to now, he supposedly is building up a killer arsenal of devastating weapons (and he's tested it on his ppl before). I personally would like him to be forced to surrender to UN inspection teams so the US doesn't look like the bad guy, "sticking" our nose in everyones business. But I've hear he's got trucks driving around constantly with his weapons, so that inspectors can't find them in installations.
Bush senior wanted to overthrow Hussein and even called on Iraqi ppl to rebel but the US could not help b/c of UN pressures, they were left swinging in the wind.
During the 90's I really was more concerned with "boxers or briefs" than the Middle East conflicts
"Untrusted code" in this case refers to user-level programs that are not allowed to write outside of their virtual address space, which is done by Brix as opposed to by actual paging hardware on modern systems. I guess that internally, a badly designed user program can still be vulnerable to stack-smashing efforts.
Palladium is a whole other high-level of control over users themselves, not just their programs;-)
When someone says he's a good X,Y,Z whatever programmer you know he ain't good. A real programmer can pick up a new language quickly. However if you told me that you're a good Haskell, Scheme, ML whatever language usually used in academia programmer, then I'd know you have theoretical experience in language constructs and you would surely learn a new language without problems.
Actually, I have a four year CS degree (you'd know that if you've read any further down the thread) and have also used SML (NJ/ML), Prolog, and Modula-3 in addition to Java/J2SE in academia. The listed languages are those that I have taught myself -- because that's what someone worth their salt in this field does, they have to know how to educate themselves, read papers, and keep up with new technologies. That's why CS students know how to design/analayze algorithms, learn about compiler design, language paradigms, and newtwork or database concepts.
Plus where have you ever programmed in C#:)
I have taught it to myself (it is a fairly new language), and have undertaken a couple of personal projects with it as well.
BTW, your rules [sic] of recruiting good programmers must have seemed pretty clever when you typed them out but stupid if you reread them. You oviously have no real-world experience and have certainly never lead a dev project.
iforaci.joseph@verizon.net take the initial 'i' off the above addr to retrieve my real mail. I just put it there b/c of email scouring bots:(
Thanks, looking forward to hearing from you.
Ahh, it isn't! Sweet, merciful crap! What year is this!! God, how did this HAPPEN??!! Yeah, we get it, but he wants to easily advertise a consulting service that will probably cost them next to nothing if it fails. Get the idea?
You capitalist pig, trying to profit off of intellectual property. Consulting? Look for free projects that need help and work on those! Sheesh
Somebody explain to me how this will keep you from starving to death. Oh wait, this guy probably lives in his mom's basement -- see how annoying generalizations can be?
All I can say is it's probably much harder to start up (even a modest) company for consulting that it is finding an entry-level job. But if you decide to do it anyways, more power to you and I hope you succeed.
ahem...and if your looking for a good C/C++, Java, VB, C# programmer...:D
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I hear where you're coming from, but what if some very probable coincidences (sp?) occurred like:
- you happen to be born with brown skin and live here
- you happen to have just returned from visiting, say, a family member in a mid-east nation like Saudi Arabia.
- You happen to have been mistakely searched at an airport once.
- maybe you went to the same school as a couple of suspected al queda operatives when you were a child in your birth country.
- visited a website (purposely or accidentaly) about making bombs/other destructive devices from houshold items.
- sent a joking email to another about how you were involved in every terrorist attack since the beginning of time.
etc...
I think you'll agree that for a person of Arab descent living here to have at least some of these pureley coincidental characteristics are not really THAT far-fetched.
Now, all you have to do is be suspected of possibly being a terrorist courtesy of some software like carnivore or FBI/CIA agent, and they simply brand you an "enemy combatant" and that, in an instant, takes away ALL of your rights.
There's a good chance you will be in custody for a while, lose your job maybe even your home, etc.
And that's assuming you'll ever be seen again.
Heh, I love how the grandparent and ones like them all think the NT kernel is a joke (based on "poor" software) and haven't ever pic-up an operating systems book, or know next-to-nothing on its internals.
...but quite frankly you will pollute your system quite badly over the years as you install all sorts of new stuff by hand.
That's true, but you could still use rpms (my annoyance with rpms on slack is that dependencies are NEVER satisfied for some reason).
Also, there's the discontinued autoslack, and the packaging utilities to use, but I don't have much exp with those yet.
All I can say is that I have learned more from running slackware than any other distro, by FAR. It seems to most "standard".
Mmmm, slack...
Yes, I've tried mandrake (8.0 at last point), however, and my annoyance with it is exactly what slack is not:
a whole mess of "bleeding-edge" applications (end-users do the bleeding) that are soooo buggy or misconfigured (permissions,dep,etc).
But I think slack and mandrake complement each other, the latter for the desktop user who just wants to install and play dvds, listen to music, browse web, email, etc.
I went to slack after red hat (don't get me started) and mandrake. I tried it on a whim, expecting it to be more of the same, but loved how simple,minimal,and well-documented (esp. config files) it was.
Really, what turned you off about slackware and onto debian? Haven't used debian myself so I don't nkow much about it.
I like the KISS philosophy of slack and find it the most stable.
Have to try gentoo as well in that respect...
Don't forget Slackware :-D
For anyone who doesnt know: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSID.html
You still need a secure authentication b/c the ssid can be sniffed. What solutions are there for this prob?
The interop capabilities of .NET seemed stupid to me at first but is important for a couple reasons:
.NET and thereby miss the whole point of "portability".
.NET hangs on the success of Mono.
- It allows you to slowly merge (write wrapper classes for) your old code in COM/DLL nightmare and,
- Interop allows people to write a (albeit platform-dependant) wrappers around libraries to extend the framework without having to wait for MS to add the needed functionality.
An example of the latter would be the CsGL (C# interface to OpenGL).
Now this is OK until people abuse it and never eventually port over their code entirely to
As far as portability, I am disappointed that MS decided to make WinForms so similar to the Win32 UI programming, but I think the success of
You know, things like that seem to happen with the good games, where you feel like and think (or dream) in terms of the game[play] and its rules.
It's a really weird feeling that I think only an addicting game can do to your mind.
That was a really great link!
The Keystone Capers bit had me laughing.
If you create a piece of software that is based on another GPL'd software then your software must be covered by the original GPL license. You are not under any obligation to release the binaries or source. However, if you do release the binaries you must make the source available upon request.
I think that's what I got out of the ref'd whitepaper, but also doesn't it say that you only have to release source upon request within 3 years? Or did I just misunderstand.
Also, the linking, kern module, and other issues are an extremely big question mark, IMHO, even though the author cites precedent as answering the question for us, ie, the existence of binary only kernel drivers, and programs linking with GPL'd shared libs.
Sorry if I was too dry.
I understand, it's hard to convey intention without a face or at least a voice to go along w/ the comments.
As for Mr Hussein, I now confess that I actually am mildly curious. Does Fruit of the Loom export to Iraq?
Sweet merciful crap, I just got a mental picture pop into my head of Hussein in bikini breifs, skipping along a shoreline. Thanks a bunch.
Back to reality, Is anybody concerned about the next generation of Husseins? Bush has his golden child in office now, what about Saddam's son? I don't mean the Jeb, I mean the scary one, who grew up witnessing his father's sadism, and is eager to follow in hs footsteps.
Yes, this is certainly an argument for his forceful removal, unfortunately the UN probably can't even agree what they're ordering out for in their meetings let alone agree on having to remove a dictator while they were already in the midst of pushing his army back from Kuwait.
So, fast fwd to now, he supposedly is building up a killer arsenal of devastating weapons (and he's tested it on his ppl before).
I personally would like him to be forced to surrender to UN inspection teams so the US doesn't look like the bad guy, "sticking" our nose in everyones business. But I've hear he's got trucks driving around constantly with his weapons, so that inspectors can't find them in installations.
bingo, thanks
ghostscript
Bush senior wanted to overthrow Hussein and even called on Iraqi ppl to rebel but the US could not help b/c of UN pressures, they were left swinging in the wind.
During the 90's I really was more concerned with "boxers or briefs" than the Middle East conflicts
That's real nice.
Yes, I know what virtual hardware paging is. I was objecting to trusted code
:P
Well, you mentioned it somehow reminded you of palladium, thats what flagged your comment as apples vs. oranges to me
"Untrusted code" in this case refers to user-level programs that are not allowed to write outside of their virtual address space, which is done by Brix as opposed to by actual paging hardware on modern systems. I guess that internally, a badly designed user program can still be vulnerable to stack-smashing efforts.
;-)
Palladium is a whole other high-level of control over users themselves, not just their programs
When someone says he's a good X,Y,Z whatever programmer you know he ain't good. A real programmer can pick up a new language quickly. However if you told me that you're a good Haskell, Scheme, ML whatever language usually used in academia programmer, then I'd know you have theoretical experience in language constructs and you would surely learn a new language without problems.
:)
Actually, I have a four year CS degree (you'd know that if you've read any further down the thread) and have also used SML (NJ/ML), Prolog, and Modula-3 in addition to Java/J2SE in academia.
The listed languages are those that I have taught myself -- because that's what someone worth their salt in this field does, they have to know how to educate themselves, read papers, and keep up with new technologies.
That's why CS students know how to design/analayze algorithms, learn about compiler design, language paradigms, and newtwork or database concepts.
Plus where have you ever programmed in C#
I have taught it to myself (it is a fairly new language), and have undertaken a couple of personal projects with it as well.
BTW, your rules [sic] of recruiting good programmers must have seemed pretty clever when you typed them out but stupid if you reread them. You oviously have no real-world experience and have certainly never lead a dev project.
Hope that sheds light on your misguided comments.
iforaci.joseph@verizon.net :(
take the initial 'i' off the above addr to retrieve my real mail. I just put it there b/c of email scouring bots
Thanks, looking forward to hearing from you.
Hey, I'm considering a move anyways, been very tough around here :)
Still interested?
In NY-US. Job markets quite slow for entry-level comp sci grads :-|
This isn't 1999, you know...
Ahh, it isn't!
Sweet, merciful crap!
What year is this!!
God, how did this HAPPEN??!!
Yeah, we get it, but he wants to easily advertise a consulting service that will probably cost them next to nothing if it fails. Get the idea?
Ding ding ding ding !! Give the man a cracker!!
You capitalist pig, trying to profit off of intellectual property. Consulting? Look for free projects that need help and work on those! Sheesh
Somebody explain to me how this will keep you from starving to death. Oh wait, this guy probably lives in his mom's basement -- see how annoying generalizations can be?
All I can say is it's probably much harder to start up (even a modest) company for consulting that it is finding an entry-level job.
But if you decide to do it anyways, more power to you and I hope you succeed.
ahem...and if your looking for a good C/C++, Java, VB, C# programmer...:D