I don't think these guys are targetting the Word Processor market. There are several of those already.
VI is a powerful text editor. I would love to see it embedded in more documents, if only that I can seemly switch between VI the text editor, and use my VI commands in this Slashdot webform, and then hop on over to Evolution to type up a quick email.
After a while, you have the need search the documents for all occurances of a pattern that begins with "http://www.", "https://www" or "ftp://ftp", a common string in the middle, and a variety of filenames in the end. Each line needs to be turned from a plain text string into an HTML hyperlink.
BTW, you need to replace 65% of these, not 100%, so you might want to confirm each change.
And by the way, you need to make this change on 50 files.
You can do that in VI, and it's actually suprisingly easy once you go through the learning curve.
"The integrated coating reacts to the suns ultraviolet rays to gradually and continuously break down organic dirt through what is called a photocatalytic effect"
That makes it sound like it can only work on dirt with a high organic content (which is all arond us).
The dirt on mars probably isn't organic, so there is no organic content to break down.
Also, they also rely on water to keep the glass clean. Water is very heavy, and would be very expensive to ship all the way to Mars.
When you try to access port 80/443 , are you actually doing it with an external IP? Or are you actually trying to connect to the external IP from inside the network?
Most Linksys products will actually allow you to access port 80/443 via both the internal and external IPs. I always thought it was wierd that they allowed this, because it seems there is a spoofing potential there.
However, many people have complained about this, but few people actually think it is a problem.
One problem with selecting a game is that it will only appeal to some of your friends and not others.
I love strategy, logic and bluffing games. I hate word games. I'll play Risk, Monopoly or poker for hours. Most of my friends like playing things like Boggle or Scrabble-- they'll play something like Cranium.
One solution to this is to use game kits which can have multiple uses. A deck of cards can be used to play a huge number of games depending on the crowd.
Another really cool "game kit" is Icehouse Pyramids. The pyramids are these pretty colorful plastic pyramids. You can use the pyramids to play a dozen different games. You can download the rules for free from their website, and many other people have made other kinds of games using the pyramids.
Another issue is time: Alot of the strategy games take a long time to learn, play and master. When everyone has busy lives or kids and can only spend a couple hours every other week or month to play these games, a game which is quick to learn is essential.
WEP is completly insecure, and can be broken really easily, its really not worth it. I think making sure you are not broadcasting your ID, and setting up MAC address filtering, is the way to go. That would keep war drivers from 1)Finding your network, and 2) Connecting to it.
If WEP can be broken and the MAC address is sent along with every packet, then what is to stop a cracker from simply using one of the approved MAC addresses?
Sure, there is more time and effort involved, but it still seems very possible.
Unsecured WiFi networks all over the country are very useful to criminals and terrorists.
I'm also rather shocked that DHL hasn't noticed this either. Open WiFi networks are pretty anonymous. The Access Point may log the MAC address of the NIC, but that address can be easily changed on most cards.
Not to mention that WEP isn't very secure. Once someone cracks the WEP key, they can probably figure out the MAC address for the other computers on the system, and mimic one of those systems.
So, the Feds can track the traffic down to the Access Point, and then they can find out the MAC address. By then, the evil individual is long gone, and has wiped the MAC address from their system.
So... it occurs to me that one sure fire way to make the cell phone companies go out of business is to sign up for service in California with the most subsidized phone one can find, then return it within the 30 day period
How is this different from most retail operations? This is sort of one of the fundamental aspects of the retail business in general.
The business sells a product to a customer. If the customer isn't satisified they can return the product if it's still in good condition.
The business may loose money, but that's because they provided a unsatisfactory service. This is a risk in just about any commodity business. The companies need to learn from it and provide better services.
When I think of "collaborative weblog" I think of something where the individual weblogs are easier to find, and where the discussion is a little more energetic.
Slashdot's journals are a little difficult to find. There is no way for me to see the journals of all Slashdotters. The only "Journal" link on the front page is a link to my own Journal. To find other people's journals I either need to click on "Journal" and then click on "Friend's Journals". This inconvenience means less people will read the Journals.
Slashdot's journals aren't very dynamic (like your own link). There are 63 comments on this story so var. Search all comments in this page for the string "Last Journal:". A few people updated their journals on May 17 (one is a troll). My own perspective is this: My journal (when I kept it more updated) never attracted many comments. Why should I bother using Slashdot's journal when nobody reads it, especially when there are so many other tools out there already.
I've always wanted to see the journals of all Slashdotters, with most recent updates at top or something.
Kuro5hin's journals are on a sidebar on the front page. Other collaborative weblogs use the individual blogs as content for the front page. Your weblog has a much larger audience with this method.
I'm not sure if this is within the power of the commission that did it, for whatever benefit.
The PUC has juristiction over many critical systems such as power and (land) phone. They also have juristiction to regulate television cable (which is *not* a critical service). Cell phone service seems much more critical then cable.
I'm always frustrated that somehow these existing laws somehow don't apply to the cell phone companies as well. Imagine if you went to Wal-mart to purchase a Television because there's a 10% off sale, and when you get to the checkout stand the cashier starts applying a bunch of additional fees.
If I go to a regular store to purchase anything, the store is required to disclose fees up front, must accept any faulty products within a certain period od time. You can't do that with a cell phone.
Keep in mind that many low-cost products which hype "IDE RAID" are actually Software RAID using propietary drivers (Look under "RAID issues (a separate wrinkle)"). These devices often come with drivers for Windows. Linux drivers are rarely provided by the manufacturer, and you'd be better off with using Linux MD (multidisk) module support with the Kernel.
These low cost software RAID systems really reduce the potential value, performance and convenience of a RAID setup.
"The suborbital vehicle will attain an altitude of 100 km or 62 statute miles--high enough to be considered 'space'--linger there for a couple of minutes then arc back to Earth some 26 miles down range."
So, they didn't actually launch an Amateur Satellite into orbit (darn!).
I was thinking this exact same thing a few weeks ago. I've been experimenting with both eDonkey and Bittorrent over the last few weeks to download and distribute Knoppix and Fedora (core 1) ISO's.
I totally expected Bittorrent to be slower then eMule for the very reasons that you state. However, the opposite is true.
With eMule, I was downloading the Fedora ISO images at about 20Kb/s. Bittorrent averaged over 100Kb/s. In the time eMule downloaded a single Fedora ISO, Bittorrent had downloaded all 3.
Note that core 1 came out many months ago, and the download speed wasn't a trickle.
Also interesting was my upload speeds. With eMule, I was uploading to 4-5 different clients at the same time, at a speed of 2-5Kb/s, for a max of 25Kb/s. There was noticible affect on the rest of my net connections.
With Bittorrent, I rarely uploaded above 5Kb/s. I barely noticed any negative impact on my other net connections.
So in the end: Bittorrent was faster for me, and the payoff was smaller then eMule in terms of using my bandwidth to upload the software.
I'm now at my 3rd CM position. I feel that my non-technical background actually provides me which a great ability to think big-picture and long term.
- You are entering the world of the arcane. Many engineers and sysadmins keep the CM system at arms length, and don't really have a good concept on how it works. Most Managers have trouble understanding what CM Engineering is ('I double-click setup.exe and the product just installs. Can you do that?').
- Because of the arcane nature of your position, promote your accomplishments. Make sure that people know what you do and that you are appreciated.
- Your coworkers probably have alot of great ideas. Talk to them and see how they can help you to help them:)
- Clean stuff up and keep it organized. Many developers, sysadmins and managers probably don't even realize that disorganization really interferes with getting even the basic stuff done more efficiently.
- Work smarter not harder. Focus on creating procedures that are understandable by your coworkers and which can be easily replicated for other tasks. Write scripts and programs to use those procedures.
- Document your procedures (and scripts) really well. You might want to put some of the debate and your reasoning for doing things the way you did them so that people will understand why you did things that way.
- If the system is very complex, then something is probably wrong. Super complex systems are usually unnecessary, even if you have many products. If you have many products, chances are they have alot in common with one another. If you utilize those common features, organize the overall systems and keep the long term goals in mind, you can probably simplify things by a great amount.
- You will end up loving or hating the person who came before you. Either way, you will probably need to get inside their head, even if they documented the systems well.
- Likewise, the engineers will probably end up loving or hating you. If the engineers want want to get inside your head to know what the hell you were thinking, something is probably wrong.
- Personality matters. Your coworkers will defer to you for many tasks, and you will probably end up managing people in some way.
- The CM world can be very academic and uses too much industry jargon. Learn how to explain the system in normal human terms. Also, you will probably be at the center of alot of spirited interdepartmental debate, so will really help if you can explain your position in words that everyone can understand. Around here, many people have remodeled their house, have a garden or build things. "Pretend we're building a house. The foundation comes first, then the walls, plumbing and electrical systems. After those are in place, the interior decorators can do their thing." "Weed in the winter, then mulch, then plant. Oh yeah, and you need to water and weed once in a while."
Oh, at my last CM position, I cleaned stuff up and automated so many tasks that I ended up scripting myself out of a position when the layoffs came (There was still a ton of OTHER work to do, but well... go figure). Be careful about that:)
Well, most of the additional services still focus on searching and information. Information is also one of their core goals (I should have said this earlier). There still is nothing like Yahoo Travel or MSNBC.
Froogle is still a search product, but with a focus on shopping.
Groups is mostly still a search product (You can post also, so it's also about creating information). The service has been around for years (I think it's their second big project after web search). If I have a technical question, I often find the answers in Google groups. Blogger is new, but is similar to Groups in it's goals.
Gmail is also largely about search. With search they can place ads in your email.
Actually, I guess you can really say that Google is about using a good search technology to place highly targeted ads with the information.
Google has hundreds of millions of dollars. Google treats their 2000 (2500+?) employees pretty well, so those employees work hard and smart and put in 40-60 hour work weeks. Google started earlier then the other modern engines, and had some very good ideas.
They focus on a small set of goals-- make it easy to search through a ton of information.
Compare this to Yahoo and MSN, where search is really just one part of their business model (there is no Google Singles! or Google Games).
So Bush Jr. had evidence which was good enough to go to war and kill thousands of people, but not good enough to convince the world that we should go to war?
He praised the document. Here's a quote from Powell's speech (On 2/5/03):
I would call my colleagues' attention to the fine paper that the United Kingdom distributed yesterday which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities.
I'm not arguing with accuracy of the text itself. But look, this was Bush's chance to provide inarguable evidence that we should go to War.
Powell was presenting the President's argument for War in Iraq in front of the whole world.
The US is supposed to be the greatest nation in the world. We go to war only as a last resort and only when are arguments are sound and just. Right?
Bush could have convinced the entire world if he had used quality evidence, when a huge percentage of the world (and the US) doubted the reasons for war.
So what does Powell, when presenting this inarguable evidence, cite as a "fine paper"? A document was was largely lifted from a Graduate Student thesis.
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users can now see PageRank without being restricted to a OS or browser.
The plugin is restricted to a browser.
Pagerank is a Google product. Thanks to this plugin, it is restricted to a single browser.
I don't think these guys are targetting the Word Processor market. There are several of those already.
VI is a powerful text editor. I would love to see it embedded in more documents, if only that I can seemly switch between VI the text editor, and use my VI commands in this Slashdot webform, and then hop on over to Evolution to type up a quick email.
After a while, you have the need search the documents for all occurances of a pattern that begins with "http://www.", "https://www" or "ftp://ftp", a common string in the middle, and a variety of filenames in the end. Each line needs to be turned from a plain text string into an HTML hyperlink.
BTW, you need to replace 65% of these, not 100%, so you might want to confirm each change.
And by the way, you need to make this change on 50 files.
You can do that in VI, and it's actually suprisingly easy once you go through the learning curve.
"The integrated coating reacts to the suns ultraviolet rays to gradually and continuously break down organic dirt through what is called a photocatalytic effect"
That makes it sound like it can only work on dirt with a high organic content (which is all arond us).
The dirt on mars probably isn't organic, so there is no organic content to break down.
Also, they also rely on water to keep the glass clean. Water is very heavy, and would be very expensive to ship all the way to Mars.
It works from the outside as well.
When you try to access port 80/443 , are you actually doing it with an external IP? Or are you actually trying to connect to the external IP from inside the network?
Most Linksys products will actually allow you to access port 80/443 via both the internal and external IPs. I always thought it was wierd that they allowed this, because it seems there is a spoofing potential there.
However, many people have complained about this, but few people actually think it is a problem.
He apparently pushed just the right combination of buttons to access some sort of set-up menu.
Yes, but that was intentional. I think your nephew has been hacking around in Emacs behind your back...
One problem with selecting a game is that it will only appeal to some of your friends and not others.
I love strategy, logic and bluffing games. I hate word games. I'll play Risk, Monopoly or poker for hours. Most of my friends like playing things like Boggle or Scrabble-- they'll play something like Cranium.
One solution to this is to use game kits which can have multiple uses. A deck of cards can be used to play a huge number of games depending on the crowd.
Another really cool "game kit" is Icehouse Pyramids. The pyramids are these pretty colorful plastic pyramids. You can use the pyramids to play a dozen different games. You can download the rules for free from their website, and many other people have made other kinds of games using the pyramids.
Another issue is time: Alot of the strategy games take a long time to learn, play and master. When everyone has busy lives or kids and can only spend a couple hours every other week or month to play these games, a game which is quick to learn is essential.
WEP is completly insecure, and can be broken really easily, its really not worth it. I think making sure you are not broadcasting your ID, and setting up MAC address filtering, is the way to go. That would keep war drivers from 1)Finding your network, and 2) Connecting to it.
If WEP can be broken and the MAC address is sent along with every packet, then what is to stop a cracker from simply using one of the approved MAC addresses?
Sure, there is more time and effort involved, but it still seems very possible.
Unsecured WiFi networks all over the country are very useful to criminals and terrorists.
I'm also rather shocked that DHL hasn't noticed this either. Open WiFi networks are pretty anonymous. The Access Point may log the MAC address of the NIC, but that address can be easily changed on most cards.
Not to mention that WEP isn't very secure. Once someone cracks the WEP key, they can probably figure out the MAC address for the other computers on the system, and mimic one of those systems.
So, the Feds can track the traffic down to the Access Point, and then they can find out the MAC address. By then, the evil individual is long gone, and has wiped the MAC address from their system.
So... it occurs to me that one sure fire way to make the cell phone companies go out of business is to sign up for service in California with the most subsidized phone one can find, then return it within the 30 day period
How is this different from most retail operations? This is sort of one of the fundamental aspects of the retail business in general.
The business sells a product to a customer. If the customer isn't satisified they can return the product if it's still in good condition.
The business may loose money, but that's because they provided a unsatisfactory service. This is a risk in just about any commodity business. The companies need to learn from it and provide better services.
When I think of "collaborative weblog" I think of something where the individual weblogs are easier to find, and where the discussion is a little more energetic.
Slashdot's journals are a little difficult to find. There is no way for me to see the journals of all Slashdotters. The only "Journal" link on the front page is a link to my own Journal. To find other people's journals I either need to click on "Journal" and then click on "Friend's Journals". This inconvenience means less people will read the Journals.
Slashdot's journals aren't very dynamic (like your own link). There are 63 comments on this story so var. Search all comments in this page for the string "Last Journal:". A few people updated their journals on May 17 (one is a troll). My own perspective is this: My journal (when I kept it more updated) never attracted many comments. Why should I bother using Slashdot's journal when nobody reads it, especially when there are so many other tools out there already.
I've always wanted to see the journals of all Slashdotters, with most recent updates at top or something.
Kuro5hin's journals are on a sidebar on the front page. Other collaborative weblogs use the individual blogs as content for the front page. Your weblog has a much larger audience with this method.
I'm not sure if this is within the power of the commission that did it, for whatever benefit.
The PUC has juristiction over many critical systems such as power and (land) phone. They also have juristiction to regulate television cable (which is *not* a critical service). Cell phone service seems much more critical then cable.
I'm always frustrated that somehow these existing laws somehow don't apply to the cell phone companies as well. Imagine if you went to Wal-mart to purchase a Television because there's a 10% off sale, and when you get to the checkout stand the cashier starts applying a bunch of additional fees.
If I go to a regular store to purchase anything, the store is required to disclose fees up front, must accept any faulty products within a certain period od time. You can't do that with a cell phone.
Ug, I can barely read that teeny blury graph.
Are there any numbers or more readable graphs for Google's Zeitgeist?
and Serial-ATA (or possibly IDE RAID) disk.
Keep in mind that many low-cost products which hype "IDE RAID" are actually Software RAID using propietary drivers (Look under "RAID issues (a separate wrinkle)"). These devices often come with drivers for Windows. Linux drivers are rarely provided by the manufacturer, and you'd be better off with using Linux MD (multidisk) module support with the Kernel.
These low cost software RAID systems really reduce the potential value, performance and convenience of a RAID setup.
According to The Previous Slashdot story:
"The suborbital vehicle will attain an altitude of 100 km or 62 statute miles--high enough to be considered 'space'--linger there for a couple of minutes then arc back to Earth some 26 miles down range."
So, they didn't actually launch an Amateur Satellite into orbit (darn!).
But it looks like these guys are trying just that.
And since it's very relevant to this discussion:
"At the time that I made the presentation, it reflected the collective judgment, the sound judgment of the intelligence community. But it turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading."
Everyone please report to the near Homeland detention center for "reprogramming".
No no, this is open source. You are alowed to reprogram yourself.
Just make sure the "New You" contains the appropriate license and a README.
Why not put it on a P2P network like eDonkey?
I was thinking this exact same thing a few weeks ago. I've been experimenting with both eDonkey and Bittorrent over the last few weeks to download and distribute Knoppix and Fedora (core 1) ISO's.
I totally expected Bittorrent to be slower then eMule for the very reasons that you state. However, the opposite is true.
With eMule, I was downloading the Fedora ISO images at about 20Kb/s. Bittorrent averaged over 100Kb/s. In the time eMule downloaded a single Fedora ISO, Bittorrent had downloaded all 3.
Note that core 1 came out many months ago, and the download speed wasn't a trickle.
Also interesting was my upload speeds. With eMule, I was uploading to 4-5 different clients at the same time, at a speed of 2-5Kb/s, for a max of 25Kb/s. There was noticible affect on the rest of my net connections.
With Bittorrent, I rarely uploaded above 5Kb/s. I barely noticed any negative impact on my other net connections.
So in the end: Bittorrent was faster for me, and the payoff was smaller then eMule in terms of using my bandwidth to upload the software.
No no no, I belive the Star Trek episode you are thinking of is:
... are ... four ... lights!"
"There
I'm now at my 3rd CM position. I feel that my non-technical background actually provides me which a great ability to think big-picture and long term.
:)
:)
- You are entering the world of the arcane. Many engineers and sysadmins keep the CM system at arms length, and don't really have a good concept on how it works. Most Managers have trouble understanding what CM Engineering is ('I double-click setup.exe and the product just installs. Can you do that?').
- Because of the arcane nature of your position, promote your accomplishments. Make sure that people know what you do and that you are appreciated.
- Your coworkers probably have alot of great ideas. Talk to them and see how they can help you to help them
- Clean stuff up and keep it organized. Many developers, sysadmins and managers probably don't even realize that disorganization really interferes with getting even the basic stuff done more efficiently.
- Work smarter not harder. Focus on creating procedures that are understandable by your coworkers and which can be easily replicated for other tasks. Write scripts and programs to use those procedures.
- Document your procedures (and scripts) really well. You might want to put some of the debate and your reasoning for doing things the way you did them so that people will understand why you did things that way.
- If the system is very complex, then something is probably wrong. Super complex systems are usually unnecessary, even if you have many products. If you have many products, chances are they have alot in common with one another. If you utilize those common features, organize the overall systems and keep the long term goals in mind, you can probably simplify things by a great amount.
- You will end up loving or hating the person who came before you. Either way, you will probably need to get inside their head, even if they documented the systems well.
- Likewise, the engineers will probably end up loving or hating you. If the engineers want want to get inside your head to know what the hell you were thinking, something is probably wrong.
- Personality matters. Your coworkers will defer to you for many tasks, and you will probably end up managing people in some way.
- The CM world can be very academic and uses too much industry jargon. Learn how to explain the system in normal human terms. Also, you will probably be at the center of alot of spirited interdepartmental debate, so will really help if you can explain your position in words that everyone can understand. Around here, many people have remodeled their house, have a garden or build things. "Pretend we're building a house. The foundation comes first, then the walls, plumbing and electrical systems. After those are in place, the interior decorators can do their thing." "Weed in the winter, then mulch, then plant. Oh yeah, and you need to water and weed once in a while."
Oh, at my last CM position, I cleaned stuff up and automated so many tasks that I ended up scripting myself out of a position when the layoffs came (There was still a ton of OTHER work to do, but well... go figure). Be careful about that
Well, most of the additional services still focus on searching and information. Information is also one of their core goals (I should have said this earlier). There still is nothing like Yahoo Travel or MSNBC.
Froogle is still a search product, but with a focus on shopping.
Groups is mostly still a search product (You can post also, so it's also about creating information). The service has been around for years (I think it's their second big project after web search). If I have a technical question, I often find the answers in Google groups. Blogger is new, but is similar to Groups in it's goals.
Gmail is also largely about search. With search they can place ads in your email.
Actually, I guess you can really say that Google is about using a good search technology to place highly targeted ads with the information.
How does Google make it look so easy?
Google has hundreds of millions of dollars. Google treats their 2000 (2500+?) employees pretty well, so those employees work hard and smart and put in 40-60 hour work weeks. Google started earlier then the other modern engines, and had some very good ideas.
They focus on a small set of goals-- make it easy to search through a ton of information.
Compare this to Yahoo and MSN, where search is really just one part of their business model (there is no Google Singles! or Google Games).
So Bush Jr. had evidence which was good enough to go to war and kill thousands of people, but not good enough to convince the world that we should go to war?
No, it's not very obvious. Not everyone reads the "Washington Whispers" column in the US News. A link would be helpful.
He didn't mention anything from the UK dossier.
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He praised the document. Here's a quote from Powell's speech (On 2/5/03):
I would call my colleagues' attention to the fine paper that the United Kingdom distributed yesterday which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities.
The paper in question was "Iraq - its infrastructure of concealment, deception and intimidation".
Number 10 Downing Street later admited that they plagerized a document from a Graduate Thesis (Search for "Iraq"). This certainly puts the quality of some of the intellegence in question.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,890
I'm not arguing with accuracy of the text itself. But look,
this was Bush's chance to provide inarguable evidence that we should go to War.
Powell was presenting the President's argument for War in Iraq in front of the whole world.
The US is supposed to be the greatest nation in the world. We go to war only as a last resort and only when are arguments are sound and just. Right?
Bush could have convinced the entire world if he had used quality evidence, when a huge percentage of the world (and the US) doubted the reasons for war.
So what does Powell, when presenting this inarguable evidence, cite as a "fine paper"? A document was was largely lifted from a Graduate Student thesis.
The story is so silly it's almost unbelievable.
But then Powell used a Graduate Student's Thesis to justify a war against Iraq in front of the entire world.