the Red Hat Linux
product is becoming the Red Hat Linux Project.
Followed (here) by all kinds of softer,gentler "public forum" and "outside participation" words. I admittedly don't get out from under my bridge very often, but does this signify a fundamental shift in how RH is doing development? Are they becoming a not-for-profit?? Hey, I'm a microsoft masochist, and any kind of altruism just confuses me....
Take your typical Japanese microwave oven or VCR remote control. With only a few buttons, these ubiquitous devices manage to baffle most of the people who use them. A VCR flashing "12:00" now seems to be a generic joke line. How can something so simple (in concept) be implemented in a fashion that makes it completely baffling to so many Americans; or should I say "most Americans over 30"? Why do these same people not have a problem operating the dashboard controls on their Toyota (cockpit designed by Americans)? It's simple -- Japanese, Indian, and Pakistani engineers don't think like American engineers. It's a different culture, and people think differently. No problem. Thank God for small favors. Thinking different is good. Diversity is good. But take that VCR and magnify it's complexity by 10000, call it an OS, and put on your PC. I'm guessing, and I could be wrong, that the end result will be something that is technically good, algorithmically correct, but wickedly incomprehensible to anyone this side of the Int'l Date Line.
I'm sorry, I just can't agree with the folks who argue that Indian software engineers with doctorate degrees making minimum wage working on outdated equipment in code sweatshops will somehow put me out of a job. I'll do it by fiddling with my 401k, IM-ing, kazooming, and playing Civ-III all day long.
You may not... in any way exploit, any of the Content or the Service (including software) in whole or in part.
What is meant by "exploit"???
From the "Forums and Discussions" section:
You shall not upload to, or distribute or otherwise publish on the message boards (the "Forums") any... abusive... material.
What is meant by "abusive"???
And how about this>
3.5 You acknowledge that any submissions you make to the Service (e.g. Letter to the Editor, Review or Commentary) may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by NYTD and you waive any moral rights you may have in having the material altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you.
Interpretation: The user/poster is entirely responsible for the content of their post, which the Times may alter in any way. Yikes!!! Granted, this applies only to content submitted to the Times, but the wording seems pretty scary.
The engineers and key people can quit and go start a competitive (or perhaps not-so-competitive, depending on what you signed when you were hired) firm. Some of you (i.e. all of you) will probably have to empty your life savings and go into hock up to your eyeballs, but hey, it's worth it. Oh, you'll probably have to work 60 hour weeks on the normal stuff, plus spend another 10-20 hrs each week doing the "odds-and-ends" that need to be done around the office like vacuuming, answering phones, cleaning windows, and scrubing toilets. Hiring some to do that stuff just depletes your limited financial resources. Paychecks can be "irregular", health insurance and taxes will eat you alive, and investors (if you can find any) will want 90% of everything, but hey, it's worth it.
I created a complicated feature req + bug report + task mgmt DB in MS-Access. It's a split DB with the data tables on an NT server and a forms client on each user PC. 33 tables, 39 relationships, 188 fields, 42 forms & sub-forms, 84 queries, 27 reports, 10 macros, and 20 modules with several thousand lines of VB. It worked great with a couple hundred records and 2 users. With 125+ users (usually 5 or more simultaneously), and a 14 Mb of data, it's a real, slow, piggie, and the primative page-level locking becomes a major pain.
Yes, I've done the basic optimizations. Yes I use the.Visible property on forms. Yes, I try to use SQL instead of recordsets. Yes I've analyzed my indicies. But still, users beat me up when their brand new, high dollar, 3 giga-poodle, thousand mega-ram, half tera-disk, compiles-faster-than-a-bat-outta-hell PC looks alike a 286 when accessing my DB.
As I recall, the whole alien/nazi earthling/jewish thing was way too haavy-handed and preachy. The "V" insignia was a swastika with a few missing chunks, the uniforms were SS. They may have even had the equivalent of "hitler youth", but my brain is rebelling at trying to remember. No subtlety, too little imagination, really bad dialog, and a limp, hole-ridden plot (i.e. like "Matrix" but without the overly-long fight scenes). Please, if you're going to waste my time and beat me over the head with your same-old message, at least show me some t*t.
waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the United States
Oh baaaaby. This calls for the loooong board. Wait a minute. March 16, 2880? Dude. Isn't that like, way off in the future or something? 406 Dude.
Since no one else has started singing yet....
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Shocking Clothing
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· Score: 4, Funny
To the tune of "Singing in the Rain"
I'm stingin' in the rain.
Just standin' here in pain.
What a glorious feelin'.. bug zapper humane.
I laugh at your clothes, but don't get me wrong,
I need insulation to finish this song.
Let the volts I wear toast
All the fools that boast
Of their trouser snakes
Which I'm ready to roast.
I walk down the lane
With a zapping refrain
Just zinging, zinging in the rain.
I've been working on growing my own silicon ingots, which I will cut up and use to create my own integrated circuits. I expect to have a 4004 compatable in.... oh.... 30 years or so. After that I'll develop a way to program it, then invent a way to hook a couple of 'em together in a thing I call a "network". This will be just too too solid state.
I built an similiar system a decade ago and turned it loose in society. My was slightly more human in appearance and behavior, but still obviously "not all there". But it did manage to get itself elected as President....
Shoelaces, throw rugs, towels, and TP,
Cat barf, hairballs, remote for the TV,
Appliance power cords strewn all about,
Trilobyte sucks 'em all right up it's snout.
1.3333 Eu - hey, that ain't metric!
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Making Change
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· Score: 1
In the land of the integer-multiple-fixated, all that stuff to the right of the decimal place is just not good.
And I, as Lord High Potentiate of the Lightest Sabre, and a leader of The Worshipers of Jedi Known As Bob, claim all kinds of tax breaks for my self, my priestess, the church which happens to be my house, my dog (who is strong with the farts, er, make that the force), my car, my...
I've had various ATI cards over the years, and every single one, without exception, had problems. These guys may be leading edge on the hardware, but their software always seems to get short shrift.
A Google search on passport email "reset your password" yields some interesting links with (possible?) alternate URLs for this exploit. Is MSoft's domain the only place where this works? I would assume there's other sites that have bought into MS's security tripe and have setup passport servers, or is passport a central repository?
Slashdot Mirror
Turn my world upside down, hurt my brain, then expect me to shell out .... Oh. Only 18 bucks? Ok then. Never mind.
- Spy museum in Washington DC
- North of DC, The NSA crypto museum
- The manly Rocketdyne F1 Saturn V Booster
- More thrust at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center
- Spam king Alan Ralsky's house
- A Lake Washington cruise past Bill's humble abode
- While in Seattle, the Museum of Flight
- North of Seattle is the largest building under 1 continuous roof at Boeing
- That Holy of Holies: Xerox PARC
- Another park, but of the vertical daqueri variety the Ouray Ice Park
Have fun! Don't drink & drive!!Highway not found. Abort, retry, ignore?
I'm sorry, I just can't agree with the folks who argue that Indian software engineers with doctorate degrees making minimum wage working on outdated equipment in code sweatshops will somehow put me out of a job. I'll do it by fiddling with my 401k, IM-ing, kazooming, and playing Civ-III all day long.
How about if the Times got over their registration fetish?
From the Times Subscriber Agreement:
What is meant by "exploit"???From the "Forums and Discussions" section:
What is meant by "abusive"???And how about this>
Interpretation: The user/poster is entirely responsible for the content of their post, which the Times may alter in any way. Yikes!!! Granted, this applies only to content submitted to the Times, but the wording seems pretty scary.
He is receiving instructions through an ear piece telling him what to do next ....
Ummm. Anomurans.
The engineers and key people can quit and go start a competitive (or perhaps not-so-competitive, depending on what you signed when you were hired) firm. Some of you (i.e. all of you) will probably have to empty your life savings and go into hock up to your eyeballs, but hey, it's worth it. Oh, you'll probably have to work 60 hour weeks on the normal stuff, plus spend another 10-20 hrs each week doing the "odds-and-ends" that need to be done around the office like vacuuming, answering phones, cleaning windows, and scrubing toilets. Hiring some to do that stuff just depletes your limited financial resources. Paychecks can be "irregular", health insurance and taxes will eat you alive, and investors (if you can find any) will want 90% of everything, but hey, it's worth it.
I created a complicated feature req + bug report + task mgmt DB in MS-Access. It's a split DB with the data tables on an NT server and a forms client on each user PC. 33 tables, 39 relationships, 188 fields, 42 forms & sub-forms, 84 queries, 27 reports, 10 macros, and 20 modules with several thousand lines of VB. It worked great with a couple hundred records and 2 users. With 125+ users (usually 5 or more simultaneously), and a 14 Mb of data, it's a real, slow, piggie, and the primative page-level locking becomes a major pain. .Visible property on forms. Yes, I try to use SQL instead of recordsets. Yes I've analyzed my indicies. But still, users beat me up when their brand new, high dollar, 3 giga-poodle, thousand mega-ram, half tera-disk, compiles-faster-than-a-bat-outta-hell PC looks alike a 286 when accessing my DB.
Yes, I've done the basic optimizations. Yes I use the
As I recall, the whole alien/nazi earthling/jewish thing was way too haavy-handed and preachy. The "V" insignia was a swastika with a few missing chunks, the uniforms were SS. They may have even had the equivalent of "hitler youth", but my brain is rebelling at trying to remember. No subtlety, too little imagination, really bad dialog, and a limp, hole-ridden plot (i.e. like "Matrix" but without the overly-long fight scenes). Please, if you're going to waste my time and beat me over the head with your same-old message, at least show me some t*t.
Who do they think they are? NY Times?
Oh baaaaby. This calls for the loooong board. Wait a minute. March 16, 2880? Dude. Isn't that like, way off in the future or something? 406 Dude.
(Boy, am I wasting my time writing software....)
I've been working on growing my own silicon ingots, which I will cut up and use to create my own integrated circuits. I expect to have a 4004 compatable in .... oh .... 30 years or so. After that I'll develop a way to program it, then invent a way to hook a couple of 'em together in a thing I call a "network". This will be just too too solid state.
I built an similiar system a decade ago and turned it loose in society. My was slightly more human in appearance and behavior, but still obviously "not all there". But it did manage to get itself elected as President....
Shoelaces, throw rugs, towels, and TP,
Cat barf, hairballs, remote for the TV,
Appliance power cords strewn all about,
Trilobyte sucks 'em all right up it's snout.
In the land of the integer-multiple-fixated, all that stuff to the right of the decimal place is just not good.
And I, as Lord High Potentiate of the Lightest Sabre, and a leader of The Worshipers of Jedi Known As Bob, claim all kinds of tax breaks for my self, my priestess, the church which happens to be my house, my dog (who is strong with the farts, er, make that the force), my car, my ...
I've had various ATI cards over the years, and every single one, without exception, had problems. These guys may be leading edge on the hardware, but their software always seems to get short shrift.
30% action? I guess that's a reflection of real life, but not my life.
IpChains? Netfilter/IpTables ? Pair of wirecutters? Pair of dykes with shotguns and bad attitudes?
A Google search on passport email "reset your password" yields some interesting links with (possible?) alternate URLs for this exploit. Is MSoft's domain the only place where this works? I would assume there's other sites that have bought into MS's security tripe and have setup passport servers, or is passport a central repository?