It isn't as bad as you think. I once read "Anna Karenina" on my palm pilot to see how it would go. It only took a couple of days to get used to it. I also read Sterling's "The Hacker Crackdown".
Still, because of the screen size, it wouldn't be my perferred reading platform. I went back to good old paper books.
I'm starting to agree with the overheated poster above...
NOT 256k. 256 bytes.
In 1977, if you wanted a computer with 256k ram, you started by asking the architect how much it would cost for the raised floor and the air-conditioning.
256 bytes.
Though perhaps you've confused bytes and 'k', as 256k is plenty for your post. Hell, my first computer only had 16k. I wrote a book on a 64k computer.
If you read the questions closely, especially those concerning porting, you see that the majority wants to develop under Linux and port to Windows. This tells us two things:
1) Most developers, even Windows developers, would prefer to develop under Linux.
2) Most developers expect Windows to be more important, in terms of PHB requirements, for the foreseeable future.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Linux is the ultimate hacker's OS, so of course us hackers like it. It is, on the other hand, scary to all those PHB's, who don't know a bit from a baud.
I used to run the X version of netscape on my OS/2 box years ago. That was the first setup I used with the web. Having the only OS/2 box in the company had me scrambling to get web access. It was easier to run it on an AIX box down the hall using X then to try an run the poor excuse for an OS/2 browser that was available.
This was a nasty old proprietary X server from IBM. It worked pretty well, though it did do wacky things with the system colors sometimes.
I also recall, nearly ten years ago, the company that did DesqView was creating an X server for DOS in an attempt to compete with Windows. I still remember their demo, which showed a Windows screen inside a window on their own GUI desktop, using X.
I'm not sure I completely understood what he was getting at with certificates, but an interesting social engineering "attack" using PGP would be to simply place a phony PGP signature in an e-mail that you knew was being sent to someone who did not have PGP. Or, for example, I could slap a PGP signature in this box, with the hope that no one would bother to actually go to the effort of checking it. Many people would simply assume that I was who I said I was simply because it "looked" right. I'd bet good money that no one would bother to check unless some other sign that the message was false appeared.
Forgive my ignorance about certificates, but isn't the process that assigns certificates automated? If so, couldn't I get a certificate as "Microshaft Corporation"? How closely do people read those certificate pop-ups? If you're like me (I shouldn't admit this), you impatiently click "always trust" after a glance.
This is a hoax, of course, and one of the oldest in the book. In 1982, it was pretty much the same, except it was a "modem tax" not an "e-mail tax".
But anyway, I'm surprised that no one mentioned the one advantage of the thing. It would kill spam dead forever.
I suspect that we would all be better off in general if, instead of handing out free e-mail addresses to all comers, ISPs instead charged $0.01 per e-mail, with, perhaps, some non-automated way for mailing lists to get a price break. You could even do something like "first hundred messages a day free" and still it would put most spammers out of business.
Interesting...When I first heard about this, it was that Cameron was going to do Robinson's Mars trilogy. From the plot synopsis, I gather that is no longer the case.
I have mixed feelings about that. I'd love to see those books done right, but I don't think that Cameron is the guy to do it.
Step 1: Screw design, charge right in. Start coding immediately. Throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.
Step 2: Type "rm *"
Step 3: Write the design document.
Seriously, I've been amazed what you can find out by simply trying to code something up. I find that I can avoid so many horrible errors by throwing up some code that I know will go to/dev/null before I even think about real design. The designs I've been most proud of were always version 2.
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The Sundance Film Festival, not the Internet, made the movie.
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It's not just Katz. It is the media in general. They seem to teach it at journalism school. For all Katz's "new media" pretensions, most of his stuff would fit right in at "Time" or "Newsweek".
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In this case, it is a damn good movie, though.
(A little overhyped, but, well, that's to be expected.)
Jon Katz's essay up there is just another example of what I consider the very worst of the press. This burning desire to turn absolutely everything into an "important event". It is as if every member of the media had dreams of catching the important "turning point" in history. And so they report every goddamn minor cultural burp as if it was the start of the industrial revolution.
This may kill this movie for some people because while the story is good, the acting great and the directing impressive, this is not the second coming of Hitchcock that some of those more interested in the "story" then what is really happening seem to want to make it.
This crap is why I no longer read "news" magazines or the newspaper. I'd rather just read it off the wire where I don't get distracted by people trying to tell me what it all means when I'm just trying to find out what happened.
Don't get me wrong. This isn't an anti-Katz flame. He has written some interesting, thought provoking stuff. I just he didn't succumb to the old media disease of trying to find deep meaning out of every little thing.
This movie isn't a precursor of the fall of Hollywood. It is a couple of guys with an idea and some credit cards trying to break into Hollywood. Hopefully they won't make the kind of crap Romero did. Given this movie, I am optimistic. But you can bet that their next movie will have a budget more like The Haunting.
This all started with those "Joe Isuzu" commericals ten or so years ago. Obviously no one was to believe that the Isuzu whatever could outrun a bullet, or came with a sattelite dish. And really, there should be a "reasonableness" clause for such things.
Pepsi was just stupid in the amount they chose, though I suspect there are laws against private citizens owning jumpjets. And one wonders why this guy didn't call Pepsi and check it out before plunking down the $700,000...
I am also reminded of the fiasco in the Philipines where either coke or pepsi ran a contest and accidentally printed something like 100,000 winning entries. (The prize was a million dollars, or somesuch.)
If you write under Win95/98, using the basic APIs (MFC, Winsock, etc.), the resulting code will run identically under Windows NT.
Now, the reverse is Not true, but can be if you are moderately careful.
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Pick a theme. Something like "names of Star quarterbacks of the seventies reversed and with all vowels replaced with the number of letters in their team name".
I.e.: n7tgn7kr7T
That way, when you forget a password, you have a very limited number of things to try. I've done this and found it very useful when I forget which password I gave some web service eight months ago.
I once got major gloat points when, less than two weeks after I had recommended UPSes as a safety measure to them , one of my company's customers lost upwards of $100,000 of equipment to a thunderstorm.
(They had originally thought that UPSes were too expensive.)
A Microsoft spokesperson attributed some of the difficulties to thunderstorms in Seattle on Tuesday but had no comment on the site's status by press time.
Ok, I am really impressed by this guy. I've been working in this industry almost twelve years now, I have not once thought to blaim problems with my software on the weather. I'll have to remember this.
"Sorry, boss. The weather was too dry when it went to QA".
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It isn't as bad as you think. I once read "Anna Karenina" on my palm pilot to see how it would go. It only took a couple of days to get used to it. I also read Sterling's "The Hacker Crackdown".
Still, because of the screen size, it wouldn't be my perferred reading platform. I went back to good old paper books.
For those who just can't concieve of a 256 byte computer, read here
I'm starting to agree with the overheated poster above...
NOT 256k. 256 bytes.
In 1977, if you wanted a computer with 256k ram, you started by asking the architect how much it would cost for the raised floor and the air-conditioning.
256 bytes.
Though perhaps you've confused bytes and 'k', as 256k is plenty for your post. Hell, my first computer only had 16k. I wrote a book on a 64k computer.
(damn kids)
If you read the questions closely, especially those concerning porting, you see that the majority wants to develop under Linux and port to Windows. This tells us two things:
1) Most developers, even Windows developers, would prefer to develop under Linux.
2) Most developers expect Windows to be more important, in terms of PHB requirements, for the foreseeable future.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. Linux is the ultimate hacker's OS, so of course us hackers like it. It is, on the other hand, scary to all those PHB's, who don't know a bit from a baud.
I used to run the X version of netscape on my OS/2 box years ago. That was the first setup I used with the web. Having the only OS/2 box in the company had me scrambling to get web access. It was easier to run it on an AIX box down the hall using X then to try an run the poor excuse for an OS/2 browser that was available.
This was a nasty old proprietary X server from IBM. It worked pretty well, though it did do wacky things with the system colors sometimes.
I also recall, nearly ten years ago, the company that did DesqView was creating an X server for DOS in an attempt to compete with Windows. I still remember their demo, which showed a Windows screen inside a window on their own GUI desktop, using X.
Well, I managed to make Yoda on one scale and Emperor on another. How's that for inner conflict?
How would we know?
I'm not sure I completely understood what he was getting at with certificates, but an interesting social engineering "attack" using PGP would be to simply place a phony PGP signature in an e-mail that you knew was being sent to someone who did not have PGP. Or, for example, I could slap a PGP signature in this box, with the hope that no one would bother to actually go to the effort of checking it. Many people would simply assume that I was who I said I was simply because it "looked" right. I'd bet good money that no one would bother to check unless some other sign that the message was false appeared.
Forgive my ignorance about certificates, but isn't the process that assigns certificates automated? If so, couldn't I get a certificate as "Microshaft Corporation"? How closely do people read those certificate pop-ups? If you're like me (I shouldn't admit this), you impatiently click "always trust" after a glance.
This is a hoax, of course, and one of the oldest in the book. In 1982, it was pretty much the same, except it was a "modem tax" not an "e-mail tax".
But anyway, I'm surprised that no one mentioned the one advantage of the thing. It would kill spam dead forever.
I suspect that we would all be better off in general if, instead of handing out free e-mail addresses to all comers, ISPs instead charged $0.01 per e-mail, with, perhaps, some non-automated way for mailing lists to get a price break. You could even do something like "first hundred messages a day free" and still it would put most spammers out of business.
Interesting...When I first heard about this, it was that Cameron was going to do Robinson's Mars trilogy. From the plot synopsis, I gather that is no longer the case.
I have mixed feelings about that. I'd love to see those books done right, but I don't think that Cameron is the guy to do it.
As someone else here said, in the minds of many suits, "Red Hat" == "Linux". Those are the guys that drive the price.
Now if only I could take advantage of this. [sigh]
Step 1: Screw design, charge right in. Start coding immediately. Throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.
/dev/null before I even think about real design. The designs I've been most proud of were always version 2.
Step 2: Type "rm *"
Step 3: Write the design document.
Seriously, I've been amazed what you can find out by simply trying to code something up. I find that I can avoid so many horrible errors by throwing up some code that I know will go to
The Sundance Film Festival, not the Internet, made the movie.
It's not just Katz. It is the media in general. They seem to teach it at journalism school. For all Katz's "new media" pretensions, most of his stuff would fit right in at "Time" or "Newsweek".
In this case, it is a damn good movie, though.
(A little overhyped, but, well, that's to be expected.)
Jon Katz's essay up there is just another example of what I consider the very worst of the press. This burning desire to turn absolutely everything into an "important event". It is as if every member of the media had dreams of catching the important "turning point" in history. And so they report every goddamn minor cultural burp as if it was the start of the industrial revolution.
This may kill this movie for some people because while the story is good, the acting great and the directing impressive, this is not the second coming of Hitchcock that some of those more interested in the "story" then what is really happening seem to want to make it.
This crap is why I no longer read "news" magazines or the newspaper. I'd rather just read it off the wire where I don't get distracted by people trying to tell me what it all means when I'm just trying to find out what happened.
Don't get me wrong. This isn't an anti-Katz flame. He has written some interesting, thought provoking stuff. I just he didn't succumb to the old media disease of trying to find deep meaning out of every little thing.
This movie isn't a precursor of the fall of Hollywood. It is a couple of guys with an idea and some credit cards trying to break into Hollywood. Hopefully they won't make the kind of crap Romero did. Given this movie, I am optimistic. But you can bet that their next movie will have a budget more like The Haunting.
Note "...using the basic APIs..."
This all started with those "Joe Isuzu" commericals ten or so years ago. Obviously no one was to believe that the Isuzu whatever could outrun a bullet, or came with a sattelite dish. And really, there should be a "reasonableness" clause for such things.
Pepsi was just stupid in the amount they chose, though I suspect there are laws against private citizens owning jumpjets. And one wonders why this guy didn't call Pepsi and check it out before plunking down the $700,000...
I am also reminded of the fiasco in the Philipines where either coke or pepsi ran a contest and accidentally printed something like 100,000 winning entries. (The prize was a million dollars, or somesuch.)
Does anyone else remember that this was Clinton's first choice for Attorney General, before Janet Reno?
If you write under Win95/98, using the basic APIs (MFC, Winsock, etc.), the resulting code will run identically under Windows NT.
Now, the reverse is Not true, but can be if you are moderately careful.
Pick a theme. Something like "names of Star quarterbacks of the seventies reversed and with all vowels replaced with the number of letters in their team name".
I.e.: n7tgn7kr7T
That way, when you forget a password, you have a very limited number of things to try. I've done this and found it very useful when I forget which password I gave some web service eight months ago.
(I do use a different theme.)
I once got major gloat points when, less than two weeks after I had recommended UPSes as a safety measure to them , one of my company's customers lost upwards of $100,000 of equipment to a thunderstorm.
(They had originally thought that UPSes were too expensive.)
A Microsoft spokesperson attributed some of the difficulties to thunderstorms in Seattle on Tuesday but had no comment on the site's status by press time.
Ok, I am really impressed by this guy. I've been working in this industry almost twelve years now, I have not once thought to blaim problems with my software on the weather. I'll have to remember this.
"Sorry, boss. The weather was too dry when it went to QA".
#ifdef MS_LINUX
Foobar = 3
#else
#ifdef GNU_LINUX
Foobar = 5
#endif
#ifdef TORVALDS_LINUX
int Linus_Is_A_Stud(int foo)
#else
#ifdef GNU_LINUX
int Stallman_Is_A_Stud(int foo)
#endif
#endif
It is all marketting. It wouldn't be "Microsoft -Linux". It would be "Windows for Linux".
"Support both Windows and Linux from your PC!"
If I am not mistaken, that is exactly what Apple is doing for the next version of MacOS. (Not Linux, but some other *nix.)