Are we talking about the "peace sign"? If we do get a logo, it will become trendy, probably in a way worse than all-your-base and "profit!" and the like and then...
What will all these people do when they actually have to code in C and suddenly discovered they don't actually know C, they know a subset of C++?
The whole point of learning it in a class is to learn the fundamentals. Once you understand I/O, it doesn't matter if you're using stdio or iostreams, the concepts are the same and you just look up what you need.
On a side note, I did sent the Planetary Society some money since they support SETI rather well. Boy was that a mistake - they've been telemarketing the shit out of me every other night for the past couple weeks.
Just screw up a digit on every damned form that demands your phone number. If you put an errant '1' in the last digit of the area code (e.g. 211 instead of 215) you can be guaranteed that it won't be a valid number.
1. Compatible with C++/Java/Some scripting languages
2. Intagrated editor/debugger
3. Works well with compiler
4. Multi-platform (or at least Linux for god's sake!)
CodeWarrior is what you're looking for, but standard Unix tools are what you want.
Have a look at DrScheme, too. It has a simple IDE and a lot of tutorials for learning scheme. Don't waste your tens (hundreds?) of thousands of tuition dollars learning C++ when you can do that from a book. You're there to learn concepts and theory which you can apply to any language.
But, please recognize. If no one can sell microsoft windows, then no one can sell computers with windows, and since most of the consumer sector doesn't want a computer with no OS, almost no computers will be sold, and the american economy will come to a screeching halt. We'll immediately be plunged back into the recession we're slowly starting to climb out of.
That's like those idiotic pronouncements that "we're going to run out of oil! There will be rioting on the streets!"
No judge, or even company, is going to hold the entire US economy ransom. They'll come to an agreement. Whatever effects there are will be phased in gradually. Life will go on, with nary a dip in MS's stock.
(Similarly, if we actually did start running out of oil, the price would rise gradually until the cost of staying with oil was greater than the cost of switching to an alternative.)
Facts: USB 1.0 and 1.1 had "Low Speed" and "Full Speed" modes, way before USB 2.0 came out. USB 2.0 was developed, Full Speed was taken so we had to call it "Hi-Speed." That's not new, though the article presents it as such.
You're absolutely right.
Low speed USB is for keyboards and mice, and full speed USB was form those cheesy little webcams.
The problem with USB is how it handles devices that run at different speeds. A low speed device will send its data and occupy the bus for whatever period of time. A full speed or high speed device will send 10x or 400x as much data in the same space of time. This means a low speed device will block a high speed device as though it's transmitting 400x as much data as it actually is.
That's why you generally want to have multiple busses, and segregate your keyboard and mouse from your camcorder. Try explaining that to the consumer who (quite reasonably) assumes that if the plug fits, it must be working!
My fave is that USB 1.1 tops out at "Full" speed, while faster USB 2.0 is "High" speed. Shouldn't full speed be the fastest? These guys didn't think to forward proof themselves?
Am I the only one who remembers "double-density" and "high-density" 3 1/2 inch floppies?
Not to mention having to explain to people why the 3 1/2 inch floppies are really floppies and that they really do hold more than 5 1/4 or 8 inchers.
Remind me to never hire you to write a compiler, or any other kind of lexical parser for that matter.
I agree, but a somewhat more practical alternative is to learn a LISP variant. Prefix notation is just as good as RPN, and you can actually write useful programs in it.
There are a ton of great books on Scheme out there, for example, "The Little Schemer." (Okay, provided you can ignore the illustrations that look like something out of Winnie the Pooh.)
Another alternative: one could learn Postscript...
In Mac OS X, even an administrator can't touch the files that drive the operating system itself. A Mac OS X virus (if there were such a thing) could theoretically wipe out all of your files, but wouldn't be able to access anyone else's stuff -- and couldn't touch the operating system itself.
I don't know where he gets that notion. If you have root access on *any* Unix, you can do whatever you like to any file, period.
And on Mac OS X's default installation, httpd, sshd and inetd all run as root. Granted, they're not all switched on, but as with Windows, a buffer overrun in any one of them will give you complete control over the system.
It's possible to protect yourself by running Apache as nobody, iff you can live with only one user having access to it. It's not possible to run sshd as anything less than root because it has to be able to setuid.
This is a problem relating to the user-based security system that all commercially viable modern OS's use. There has to be a root user who can impersonate any other user, but it also means that once an attacker gets root, checkmate.
I've been following his posts for a while now b/c something he posted recently really pissed me off. Oh, and he's against Taiwan being a separate country from China and hates Sun Microsystems with a passion.
I.E. he's a troll. If you ever have mod points, I'd suggest you don't mod him up or down. Just ignore his rubbish.
Nah, he's lefty moderate, but his stuff is still well thought out. I don't really care about the trivia of what issues he supports or dislikes, I just like to read a coherent point of view.
If someone can't find the "Any" key then how did they connect to the internet, navigate to Compaq's website, determine what "FAQ" stands for, and then read it to find out that there is no "Any" key?
When you call tech support, usually all they do is run a search on the website.
It may well be for their benefit.
Warding off the inevitable "switch to Java" commen
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Secure Programming
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· Score: 5, Insightful
If you RTFA, or even just GATFA (glance at) you'll notice that the book has info on:
Random numbers
Input validation
Cryptography (e.g. ssh)
Buffer overruns are just one kind of problem you need to deal with when writing secure code. There are also DOS attacks and information theft. Even with Java, it can be quite challenging to ensure that data is properly encrypted and authenticated, and you still need to worry about permissions in the file system.
And let's not even dredge up the standard "why can't you just rewrite 100s of 1000s of lines of working C++ code in Java?" inanity.
I generally can't stand Courtney Love but she had a pretty good speech and quote about this whole thing: "How can pirates steal money from artists when the record companies have already stolen it all?"
Yeah, I read that when she first put it out.
At the time, it was fresh material, but she's too long winded and sounds like an idiot. She really should have hired a writer to clean up her copy.
Music is not these things. Music is audio. I love music, but this experience that you say goes along with it does not interest me.
No, music is any art in which the primary medium of artistic expression is aural. The best art is a composition of many elements and themes, and often with songs you get a distinctly different work when it's expressed live and recorded.
Certainly I am not the only person in the world who thinks this way.
Well, going to the concert is a financial decision. They are damned expensive, and usually you wind up justifying it as a social event. So if your friends don't have the same taste in music you'll probably prefer to spend 7 bucks at the theater.
You're comparing Duke to Lott? Better comparison: Sen. Byrd from W Va. And when Lott suggested that a Dixiecrat presidency might have been something to be proud of, the Republicans demoted him from majority leader.
When Byrd was chatting about "white niggers" on national television, the Dems did *nothing*.
The GOP is the party of Lincoln. It's the party that integrated blacks into the military. They provided critical votes to get the Civil Rights act passed. You buy into all that propaganda your people put out... no wonder you're getting fooled by the "centrist" Dean.
Is supporting nationalized healthcare, something Hillary Clinton failed to pass under a Democrat congress and president, "centrist"?
Is supporting third trimester and partial birth abortion "centrist"?
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Are we talking about the "peace sign"? If we do get a logo, it will become trendy, probably in a way worse than all-your-base and "profit!" and the like and then...
Doesn't he mean that stupid A in a circle?
The leter H which in the game of life disolves into nothingness after 6 generations. Just like most of my programs.
And, of course, H stands for "hentai."
What will all these people do when they actually have to code in C and suddenly discovered they don't actually know C, they know a subset of C++?
The whole point of learning it in a class is to learn the fundamentals. Once you understand I/O, it doesn't matter if you're using stdio or iostreams, the concepts are the same and you just look up what you need.
A few years ago I had a rather nasty realization; as 100 is the mean IQ, that means fully one half of the population has an IQ below 100.
But that doesn't explain where you found 3 people who would moderate that as "Insightful."
Odd, how sysadmins frequently barely fit into that category.
Ba-dum-bum!
It's old, everyone does it so it's not cool anymore.
That's how the language changes. At first it's novel, then it's cliched and after a while it's just another mode of expression.
(Incidentally, I used sco08y because it's rarely registered so I can have the same username on all the sites I'm logged in to.)
On a side note, I did sent the Planetary Society some money since they support SETI rather well. Boy was that a mistake - they've been telemarketing the shit out of me every other night for the past couple weeks.
Just screw up a digit on every damned form that demands your phone number. If you put an errant '1' in the last digit of the area code (e.g. 211 instead of 215) you can be guaranteed that it won't be a valid number.
However, my apartment has electric heaters which I have no choice over.
They're still running on thermostats, right?
1. Compatible with C++/Java/Some scripting languages
2. Intagrated editor/debugger
3. Works well with compiler
4. Multi-platform (or at least Linux for god's sake!)
CodeWarrior is what you're looking for, but standard Unix tools are what you want.
Have a look at DrScheme, too. It has a simple IDE and a lot of tutorials for learning scheme. Don't waste your tens (hundreds?) of thousands of tuition dollars learning C++ when you can do that from a book. You're there to learn concepts and theory which you can apply to any language.
Are you trying to raise an army of informed sysadmins or an army of grubby computer crackers?
Oh wait, I forgot. There's very little difference between those two skill sets isn't there?
One knows how to bathe and dress well enough to hold down a 9 to 5.
Why don't you read the posts rather than make knee-jerk predictions about what all the "slashbots" will say.
He accurately predicted what 95% of the karma whores would say.
But, please recognize. If no one can sell microsoft windows, then no one can sell computers with windows, and since most of the consumer sector doesn't want a computer with no OS, almost no computers will be sold, and the american economy will come to a screeching halt. We'll immediately be plunged back into the recession we're slowly starting to climb out of.
That's like those idiotic pronouncements that "we're going to run out of oil! There will be rioting on the streets!"
No judge, or even company, is going to hold the entire US economy ransom. They'll come to an agreement. Whatever effects there are will be phased in gradually. Life will go on, with nary a dip in MS's stock.
(Similarly, if we actually did start running out of oil, the price would rise gradually until the cost of staying with oil was greater than the cost of switching to an alternative.)
Or at least, you'll be able to fight the desire to post about them once your immune system kicks in.
If they put up a fight, we wouldn't call them karma whores.
Facts: USB 1.0 and 1.1 had "Low Speed" and "Full Speed" modes, way before USB 2.0 came out. USB 2.0 was developed, Full Speed was taken so we had to call it "Hi-Speed." That's not new, though the article presents it as such.
You're absolutely right.
Low speed USB is for keyboards and mice, and full speed USB was form those cheesy little webcams.
The problem with USB is how it handles devices that run at different speeds. A low speed device will send its data and occupy the bus for whatever period of time. A full speed or high speed device will send 10x or 400x as much data in the same space of time. This means a low speed device will block a high speed device as though it's transmitting 400x as much data as it actually is.
That's why you generally want to have multiple busses, and segregate your keyboard and mouse from your camcorder. Try explaining that to the consumer who (quite reasonably) assumes that if the plug fits, it must be working!
(Firewire doesn't have this issue, btw.)
My fave is that USB 1.1 tops out at "Full" speed, while faster USB 2.0 is "High" speed. Shouldn't full speed be the fastest? These guys didn't think to forward proof themselves?
Am I the only one who remembers "double-density" and "high-density" 3 1/2 inch floppies?
Not to mention having to explain to people why the 3 1/2 inch floppies are really floppies and that they really do hold more than 5 1/4 or 8 inchers.
Remind me to never hire you to write a compiler, or any other kind of lexical parser for that matter.
I agree, but a somewhat more practical alternative is to learn a LISP variant. Prefix notation is just as good as RPN, and you can actually write useful programs in it.
There are a ton of great books on Scheme out there, for example, "The Little Schemer." (Okay, provided you can ignore the illustrations that look like something out of Winnie the Pooh.)
Another alternative: one could learn Postscript...
In Mac OS X, even an administrator can't touch the
files that drive the operating system itself. A Mac OS X
virus (if there were such a thing) could theoretically wipe
out all of your files, but wouldn't be able to access anyone
else's stuff -- and couldn't touch the operating system
itself.
I don't know where he gets that notion. If you have root access on *any* Unix, you can do whatever you like to any file, period.
And on Mac OS X's default installation, httpd, sshd and inetd all run as root. Granted, they're not all switched on, but as with Windows, a buffer overrun in any one of them will give you complete control over the system.
It's possible to protect yourself by running Apache as nobody, iff you can live with only one user having access to it. It's not possible to run sshd as anything less than root because it has to be able to setuid.
This is a problem relating to the user-based security system that all commercially viable modern OS's use. There has to be a root user who can impersonate any other user, but it also means that once an attacker gets root, checkmate.
I've been following his posts for a while now b/c something he posted recently really pissed me off. Oh, and he's against Taiwan being a separate country from China and hates Sun Microsystems with a passion.
I.E. he's a troll. If you ever have mod points, I'd suggest you don't mod him up or down. Just ignore his rubbish.
Nah, he's lefty moderate, but his stuff is still well thought out. I don't really care about the trivia of what issues he supports or dislikes, I just like to read a coherent point of view.
I suggest you stick to posting as an AC.
Well written, too bad I don't have mod points.
If someone can't find the "Any" key then how did they connect to the internet, navigate to Compaq's website, determine what "FAQ" stands for, and then read it to find out that there is no "Any" key?
When you call tech support, usually all they do is run a search on the website.
It may well be for their benefit.
If you RTFA, or even just GATFA (glance at) you'll notice that the book has info on:
Random numbers
Input validation
Cryptography (e.g. ssh)
Buffer overruns are just one kind of problem you need to deal with when writing secure code. There are also DOS attacks and information theft. Even with Java, it can be quite challenging to ensure that data is properly encrypted and authenticated, and you still need to worry about permissions in the file system.
And let's not even dredge up the standard "why can't you just rewrite 100s of 1000s of lines of working C++ code in Java?" inanity.
I generally can't stand Courtney Love but she had a pretty good speech and quote about this whole thing: "How can pirates steal money from artists when the record companies have already stolen it all?"
Yeah, I read that when she first put it out.
At the time, it was fresh material, but she's too long winded and sounds like an idiot. She really should have hired a writer to clean up her copy.
Music is not these things. Music is audio. I love music, but this experience that you say goes along with it does not interest me.
No, music is any art in which the primary medium of artistic expression is aural. The best art is a composition of many elements and themes, and often with songs you get a distinctly different work when it's expressed live and recorded.
Certainly I am not the only person in the world who thinks this way.
Well, going to the concert is a financial decision. They are damned expensive, and usually you wind up justifying it as a social event. So if your friends don't have the same taste in music you'll probably prefer to spend 7 bucks at the theater.
What about Trent Lott? Remember him?
You're comparing Duke to Lott? Better comparison: Sen. Byrd from W Va. And when Lott suggested that a Dixiecrat presidency might have been something to be proud of, the Republicans demoted him from majority leader.
When Byrd was chatting about "white niggers" on national television, the Dems did *nothing*.
The GOP is the party of Lincoln. It's the party that integrated blacks into the military. They provided critical votes to get the Civil Rights act passed. You buy into all that propaganda your people put out... no wonder you're getting fooled by the "centrist" Dean.
Is supporting nationalized healthcare, something Hillary Clinton failed to pass under a Democrat congress and president, "centrist"?
Is supporting third trimester and partial birth abortion "centrist"?
Is supporting Ted Kennedy spending "centrist"?
Not a chance. They're lying to you, my friend.
I looked at their "FAQ" but that didn't have anything.
So, the standard question: it's QT based. So is a Mac version in the works?