Idea: Hire the best person for the job. Sometimes that is Kevin Mitnick sometimes that is Theo De Raadt, it depends on whether you need pen testing done or secure software written.
Except when the "best person" is a criminal. You don't hire pedophiles to run a daycare center no matter how good they are with kids. There's a line to be drawn between having skills and using them responsibly and having skills and misusing them. I don't care if you're the greatest "security expert" in the world if I can't trust you. It's like cheating on your wife. You might end up resolving it and staying with her but you'll never be trusted again. Ok, ok, analogy overload.
Stop being a moron and take the tin-foil hat off. The government is just as concerned about computer security as anyone else, if not more. You'd be really suprised how much a personal grudge can affect a contract or grant like this. Get an ego-maniac (Theo) vs. a DARPA ego-maniac (some high level manager) and voila. You're un-American and your grant gets pulled. I wouldn't be suprised if Theo's work directly benefits Al Qaeda. They probably run OpenBSD on their terrorist web servers.
Well, best as I can figure it, Saddam is dead, Iraq is free, Afghanistan is free, Al Qaeda is destroyed, and international terrorism has been eradicated. DARPA has no more need for secure operating systems now that cyber-terrorism threats are no more.
Meanwhile, in some other part of the country, some contractor for DARPA is placing an order for $5 million worth of Microsoft Office because the damn thing keeps saying it's not activated. Our government really needs to get its head out of its politicians' asses.
Let's say that you regularly administer your mail server. It uses Qmail and you have become a wizard capable of blasting out commands like a machine gun. That's great but, now let's suppose that you change jobs and the new mail server is Sendmail. You must admit that you will be less efficient and perhaps even totally lost when trying to administer this new system.
I disagree. As the new administrator of the system you would have an obligation to tell your management how much Sendmail sucks ass and then convert it to Qmail or Postfix, both of which do a much better job than sendmail.
This work should be done at QT and GTK+ level. Overhead would be much smaller that way. I can only see some advantages of the double X server solution if you want to run remote x clients.
That is kind of the whole point of X. It's transparent to the network (or should be). If we start making it where you can't run an app from one machine and display it on another we might as well just run Windows XP or switch to MacOS X and Aqua.
Has anyone on/. got the Doom III demo to run smoothly? My friend has a relatively new AMD Athlon XP 2100+ with 512 megabytes of RAM on an ASUS nForce 2 motherboard, and he was getting like 2 frames per second or something ridiculous.
Well, don't expect it to run smoothly on such an old piece of crap computer. Try upgrading to a Quad P4-3GHz system with the best ATI Radeon you can buy and you MIGHT get 15fps if you're lucky. You can't expect a piece of artistic genius like Doom III to run on crappy commodity PC hardware can you? To get the real performance you need to buy an Xbox.
Indeed...that's nearly three weeks of nonstop TV. DVDs and SVCDs are cheaper, infinitely expandable, and less likely to fail. DVD-RW drives start at about $200 now, and blank DVD-Rs start at a little under $1.00. (For the budget-minded, CD-RW drives and blank CD-Rs are dirt-cheap, but everybody here knows that already.)
Hmmm, I guess you're right. I could cut $500 in drives off and just buy a DVD-R to archive the shows instead. Hmm. I just kinda liked the idea of having an all-in-one media convergance box. CD's, DVD's (ones I own, ripped and encoded), TV, etc. all in one box available at my fingertips.
The problem I had with Freevo is I could never get the XMLtv stuff to work right without tons of fscking around. Maybe I was just doing it wrong, but it seemed like you had to enter all the channels you want it to pick up into the config file. Seems like too much work.:-) With MythTV on the other hand I grabbed a handful of Debian packages with apt-get, configured the mysql setup via the dialog prompts and had a PVR up and running on a prototype server in no time at all.
Now all I need is the $1500-$2000 to build this project ($1000-$1500 for a backend server with between 500 and 800 gigs of space, $500 for a nice quiet living room system). Maybe I'm way too into this "free software" stuff. I could just buy a ReplayTV if they don't go out of business for much cheaper, but I'd have less functionality. Hmph. My goals are at least 500 hours of recording time, two tuners, enough horsepower to do DivX encoding from two tuners at once, and a nice quiet set top box for TV output in my living room.
Musicians may sell a million CDs a year, and make about $50,000 a year, or they can make that much in a day selling direct.
Tell that to the millions of independent artists out there who don't make squat. The RIAA and recording industry is only good for one thing, covering startup costs and advertising music of a new band. Once a band is successful obviously they don't need the recording industry anymore, but by then they're already hooked into lucrative contracts.
How else would the majority of people ever even learn about most bands if it wasn't for the massive advertising of the recording industry? ICE-T would've been some street thug in jail at this point if he didn't convince some recording industry exec he was worth their time and money to promote. It takes money to promote new artists people. Support the RIAA!!! Quit being thieves or you may never get any new music again except from the occassional "artist" working for free distributing music over the Internet.
I know we all like to bash Aohell, but at least they're one ISP that seems to be doing something right these days... fighting spam to its death... unlike 99% of all other ISPs.
They're just fighting it because it isn't AOL advertising. I had to use AOL to check my e-mail when I was over a friend's house once and holy sheep shit batman. Right when you log on you get assaulted with tons of banner ad spam. AOL just wants an exclusive market for their spam instead of sharing it.
Ummm. If you spend more than 10 hours a week on a computer and it isn't part of your job, you're a geek. Non-geeks check their AOL e-mail a couple of times a week, surf the web to check IMDB or stock prices, and then log off and go outside or watch TV. Anybody that wastes 40+ hours a week playing video games is a MAJOR dork (dork geek) and should really find something more constructive to do like read slashdot or program something new and creative.
I know you're joking, but that's a guarenteed way for them to promote Office Professional piracy. Offer something that should be standard only in a much more expensive product. People will just ignore the low end product completely and pirate the higher end one and Microsoft will get nothing in return. Very stupid on their part.
The music industry needs some innovation. It does'nt matter where it comes from. It will give many people who use Kazaa a better piracy-free alternative.
Unless they're giving me free music it's not a better alternative to Kazaa. Why pay for music when I can get it for free from Kazaa? Plus, whatever subscription service comes out will be cracked and we'll get the free songs from that as well. Double plus good. Christina Aguilera songs want to be free. Our founding fathers fought and died for our rights to pirate crappy teen pop music god damnit.
but promise ata raid card ARE software they just do a bit of bios translation for the boot sector then its up to the drivers to do the rest in software.
Which is why I ended up paying extra and getting a nice 3Ware ATA RAID controller. GPL'd drivers, looks like a SCSI device to the system, hardware RAID performance, etc. So far I've only tried their 2 disk controller for RAID-1 mirroring but I hope to pick up an 8 disk controller for my multimedia server project in a few weeks.;-)
Not to nitpick, but UFS logging was introduced in Solaris 7. I remember thinking, "finally I don't need to wait a half hour for my damn drive to fsck anymore" after a power outage or a crash.:-)
For the $11k difference in cost between a low end Sun scientific workstation and a high end Dell, I'll shut the machine down to swap my CPUs and RAM.:-)
Just stick a pipe into the ground and pump the oil. They'd live like kings if it wasn't for embargo imposed on them by the rest of the world. I'm not saying the embargo wasn't necessary, it was, but it would be stupid to think that they're poor. Second largest oil reserves in the world - that's a lot of dough sitting under them.
Correction: They'd have lived like kings if it wasn't for the asshat who stole the money and built 12 palaces while his people starved. Now that he is gone the PEOPLE of Iraq can reap the rewards of that beautiful black gold by selling it to their liberators (at a modest profit and less than the OPEC per-barrel price of course.. we DID risk our asses of there remember).
Do they still have operators in the USA?
When I went on holidays there I always was amazed you would get an operator on the line when making a call, e.g. from a public phone. That was 20 years after the last operators disappeared here.
Sure, hit 0 and the operator will assist you. That's a negative? You don't HAVE to use an operator of course if you prefer wading through computer voice recordings and menus to make complicated calls. Besides, nobody uses public phones here anymore anyway.
I wouldn't doubt it. The top-40 station around here plays a song once in awhile that sounds EXACTLY like a damaged one I downloaded off of Napster 3 years ago.:-) It even skips a bit in the same place (and it's not censored) like someone's encoder sucked. I wish I remembered the name of the song. Maybe that's just how the song was recorded, but it seems unlikely since it didn't make sense.
Now that Infinity stations will start benefiting from their new AOL Broadband agreement, perhaps they'll have enough bandwidth to download songs without loading down the corporate network and pissing off the execs downloading porn.
read a recent story on Canada.com about a Vancouver station playing songs from the new Radiohead album that they downloaded from the net...
As long as their ASCAP fees are paid up I imagine the music industry doesn't care where a radio station gets their music from. The problem is other people stealing the music via P2P sharing without paying any royalties.
It was just a matter of time as soon as all these databases were compiled that the government sought to legitimately get access to them. (I personally think that they already have/have access to all of this data, they simply wish to make it legal now.)
The problem isn't with "the government" getting access to this information, it's that there's a bunch of psycho loonies out there that think it's a matter of "us vs. them". The "government" is made up of our elected officials and in turn their appointees along with lower-level hired civil servants who are, bear with me here, made of of ordinary citizens just like you and me. The government isn't some dictatorship that rose to power because it had the biggest stick, we elected it and we can change it.
So stop blaming the entire system of government for the acts of a few wacko rogue officials and get rid of them. You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The 2004 elections are coming up, voice your opinion then and kick some of these dumbasses out of office along with their appointed cronies. Elect REAL statesmen to office again not political hacks looking for a full time job towing their political party's line. As a Republican it absolutely and utterly pained me to see George W. Bush win the candidacy for President over John McCain. He was NOT qualified in anything other than name. He's a dundering fucknut, but because he had the backing of very powerful republican party officials he was a shoe-in. The party system is your enemy, not the government.
They have been able to get to those documents in public libraries for a while. Access is not enough, they also have to 1) know they exist, and 2) give a damn.
Every single child going through skill gets drilled in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence article by article. We spent 6 months studying and discussing the Bill of Rights alone. Anyone that claims to have gotten out of high school without learning these concepts and our rights as US citizens must've been the most complete fucking moron on the planet and shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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Except when the "best person" is a criminal. You don't hire pedophiles to run a daycare center no matter how good they are with kids. There's a line to be drawn between having skills and using them responsibly and having skills and misusing them. I don't care if you're the greatest "security expert" in the world if I can't trust you. It's like cheating on your wife. You might end up resolving it and staying with her but you'll never be trusted again. Ok, ok, analogy overload.
Stop being a moron and take the tin-foil hat off. The government is just as concerned about computer security as anyone else, if not more. You'd be really suprised how much a personal grudge can affect a contract or grant like this. Get an ego-maniac (Theo) vs. a DARPA ego-maniac (some high level manager) and voila. You're un-American and your grant gets pulled. I wouldn't be suprised if Theo's work directly benefits Al Qaeda. They probably run OpenBSD on their terrorist web servers.
Meanwhile, in some other part of the country, some contractor for DARPA is placing an order for $5 million worth of Microsoft Office because the damn thing keeps saying it's not activated. Our government really needs to get its head out of its politicians' asses.
I disagree. As the new administrator of the system you would have an obligation to tell your management how much Sendmail sucks ass and then convert it to Qmail or Postfix, both of which do a much better job than sendmail.
That is kind of the whole point of X. It's transparent to the network (or should be). If we start making it where you can't run an app from one machine and display it on another we might as well just run Windows XP or switch to MacOS X and Aqua.
Well, don't expect it to run smoothly on such an old piece of crap computer. Try upgrading to a Quad P4-3GHz system with the best ATI Radeon you can buy and you MIGHT get 15fps if you're lucky. You can't expect a piece of artistic genius like Doom III to run on crappy commodity PC hardware can you? To get the real performance you need to buy an Xbox.
Hmmm, I guess you're right. I could cut $500 in drives off and just buy a DVD-R to archive the shows instead. Hmm. I just kinda liked the idea of having an all-in-one media convergance box. CD's, DVD's (ones I own, ripped and encoded), TV, etc. all in one box available at my fingertips.
Now all I need is the $1500-$2000 to build this project ($1000-$1500 for a backend server with between 500 and 800 gigs of space, $500 for a nice quiet living room system). Maybe I'm way too into this "free software" stuff. I could just buy a ReplayTV if they don't go out of business for much cheaper, but I'd have less functionality. Hmph. My goals are at least 500 hours of recording time, two tuners, enough horsepower to do DivX encoding from two tuners at once, and a nice quiet set top box for TV output in my living room.
Tell that to the millions of independent artists out there who don't make squat. The RIAA and recording industry is only good for one thing, covering startup costs and advertising music of a new band. Once a band is successful obviously they don't need the recording industry anymore, but by then they're already hooked into lucrative contracts.
How else would the majority of people ever even learn about most bands if it wasn't for the massive advertising of the recording industry? ICE-T would've been some street thug in jail at this point if he didn't convince some recording industry exec he was worth their time and money to promote. It takes money to promote new artists people. Support the RIAA!!! Quit being thieves or you may never get any new music again except from the occassional "artist" working for free distributing music over the Internet.
They're just fighting it because it isn't AOL advertising. I had to use AOL to check my e-mail when I was over a friend's house once and holy sheep shit batman. Right when you log on you get assaulted with tons of banner ad spam. AOL just wants an exclusive market for their spam instead of sharing it.
Ummm. If you spend more than 10 hours a week on a computer and it isn't part of your job, you're a geek. Non-geeks check their AOL e-mail a couple of times a week, surf the web to check IMDB or stock prices, and then log off and go outside or watch TV. Anybody that wastes 40+ hours a week playing video games is a MAJOR dork (dork geek) and should really find something more constructive to do like read slashdot or program something new and creative.
I know you're joking, but that's a guarenteed way for them to promote Office Professional piracy. Offer something that should be standard only in a much more expensive product. People will just ignore the low end product completely and pirate the higher end one and Microsoft will get nothing in return. Very stupid on their part.
Unless they're giving me free music it's not a better alternative to Kazaa. Why pay for music when I can get it for free from Kazaa? Plus, whatever subscription service comes out will be cracked and we'll get the free songs from that as well. Double plus good. Christina Aguilera songs want to be free. Our founding fathers fought and died for our rights to pirate crappy teen pop music god damnit.
Which is why I ended up paying extra and getting a nice 3Ware ATA RAID controller. GPL'd drivers, looks like a SCSI device to the system, hardware RAID performance, etc. So far I've only tried their 2 disk controller for RAID-1 mirroring but I hope to pick up an 8 disk controller for my multimedia server project in a few weeks. ;-)
No problem, just say "You know, Comical Ali... Baghdad Bob..."
"OOOOHHH that Mohammed Al-Sahaf. What an asshat."
Not to nitpick, but UFS logging was introduced in Solaris 7. I remember thinking, "finally I don't need to wait a half hour for my damn drive to fsck anymore" after a power outage or a crash. :-)
For the $11k difference in cost between a low end Sun scientific workstation and a high end Dell, I'll shut the machine down to swap my CPUs and RAM. :-)
Correction: They'd have lived like kings if it wasn't for the asshat who stole the money and built 12 palaces while his people starved. Now that he is gone the PEOPLE of Iraq can reap the rewards of that beautiful black gold by selling it to their liberators (at a modest profit and less than the OPEC per-barrel price of course.. we DID risk our asses of there remember).
Sure, hit 0 and the operator will assist you. That's a negative? You don't HAVE to use an operator of course if you prefer wading through computer voice recordings and menus to make complicated calls. Besides, nobody uses public phones here anymore anyway.
I wouldn't doubt it. The top-40 station around here plays a song once in awhile that sounds EXACTLY like a damaged one I downloaded off of Napster 3 years ago. :-) It even skips a bit in the same place (and it's not censored) like someone's encoder sucked. I wish I remembered the name of the song. Maybe that's just how the song was recorded, but it seems unlikely since it didn't make sense.
Now that Infinity stations will start benefiting from their new AOL Broadband agreement, perhaps they'll have enough bandwidth to download songs without loading down the corporate network and pissing off the execs downloading porn.
As long as their ASCAP fees are paid up I imagine the music industry doesn't care where a radio station gets their music from. The problem is other people stealing the music via P2P sharing without paying any royalties.
The problem isn't with "the government" getting access to this information, it's that there's a bunch of psycho loonies out there that think it's a matter of "us vs. them". The "government" is made up of our elected officials and in turn their appointees along with lower-level hired civil servants who are, bear with me here, made of of ordinary citizens just like you and me. The government isn't some dictatorship that rose to power because it had the biggest stick, we elected it and we can change it.
So stop blaming the entire system of government for the acts of a few wacko rogue officials and get rid of them. You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. The 2004 elections are coming up, voice your opinion then and kick some of these dumbasses out of office along with their appointed cronies. Elect REAL statesmen to office again not political hacks looking for a full time job towing their political party's line. As a Republican it absolutely and utterly pained me to see George W. Bush win the candidacy for President over John McCain. He was NOT qualified in anything other than name. He's a dundering fucknut, but because he had the backing of very powerful republican party officials he was a shoe-in. The party system is your enemy, not the government.
Every single child going through skill gets drilled in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence article by article. We spent 6 months studying and discussing the Bill of Rights alone. Anyone that claims to have gotten out of high school without learning these concepts and our rights as US citizens must've been the most complete fucking moron on the planet and shouldn't be allowed to vote.
But all it takes is one guy to snitch on you and provide proof to the RIAA and you're toast.