CFengine is an excellent tool for configuration management and automation - and it is just celebrating its 10th birthday.
It can run under *nix as well as Windoze, and has a 'self healing' capability (so that if you removed the sshd from the system, for example, and were not able to login after a reboot - it would detect this [provided you set it up to look for this] and restore it)
I like to wind things up, then let them go about their merry way...
Why in God's name would you want to use vi when a perfectly suitable emacs editor is available?
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There are plenty of tools available already that are beyond beta stage; take Open Office, for example.
Additionally, there are plenty of GNU tools already out there that work.
Alot of people poke linux with a stick, and walk away - instead of trying to really understand the paradigm behind it. In a nutshell, it is about combining a bunch of small powerful tools together to create new functionality. Its about brevity and elegance. Its about automation and multitasking taken beyond anything windoze is capable of - all from the simplicity of the command line.
"DOS does not attempt to overwrite data unless you instruct it to do so. DOS based programs are also more effective in extracting and recovering data than Windows based programs." - from the infomercial
Any OS will attempt to write to blocks that it does not think are allocated (such as the result of corrupted file allocation tables). I guess he is referring to Windows writing the cache file onto disk - as opposed to Dos that does not page out memory since it is single-tasking and originally designed to run in considerably less than 640K.
You could just as well run your disk recovery utilities from a small linux kernel and get the same result; additionally, linux itself pages out memory to a dedicated swap partition which would avoid writing into data sectors on the disk, and I would also put forward the idea that linux will run recovery apps more efficiently than Dos due to the inate ability to address and utilize all of the memory on the box, as well as the latest CPU instructions.
The article also mentions a lack of low level Dos system programmers - well, duh! Its an essentially dead OS. Now talk about unix or linux system level programmers - and you'll have them coming out of the woodwork.
I have to question the professionalism of an outfit that is banking everything on DOS, when they could run their apps off of a bootable linux CD to do the same job for their new 'target' customers (small businesses and home PC users).
The ability to open multiple text buffers (and windows!) like the expensive GUI apps, while retaining the purity of ascii text output; once you learn a few basic commands:
I have some friends who make pens from various materials; various different hardwoods, plastic resins and even elephant tusk.
I had one made out of walnut - and defined the shape to fit my hand. The pen uses regular Cross pen refills. He also made me a PDA pen out of desert ironwood, and a pen for my wife out of Lake Superior drift wood (old wood that has been in the frigid deep waters of the lake for several hundred years - real tight grains and very hard) for my wife.
"Smell the roses" is a euphemism - it means being 100% in the moment. If you are fast forwarding the lecture you are not getting all the nuances that are underlying the professor's discourse. Carried to other parts of life, rushing through it only serves to cheapen the quality of the experience for you.
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The cost of training is equal regardless of whether you are training MS Office or Open Office.
Software availability - I have found more useful software *for free* for GNU/Linux than I have seen for Windoze.
Linux is cost efficient and has more applications available.
I think the key point that was touched upon in a previous posting is change is the result of desire/dissatisfaction with the status quo.
The problem is, the vast majority of desire that propels us is not rational and only serves the needs of those in power.
If we, as a society, were to conquer our desire - then we would be able to do some really great things. Here are some things that I think could be avoided if we were to do so:
1. War. The middle east conflict and all that came before it are the result of desire. Desire of a few men that has brought death and destruction on untold millions.
1. Crime. If we do not act violently on our desires and steal, rape, and murder to get what we want, crime would disapear.
2. Dissatisfaction with life. This one comes full circle. If you do not desire - then the fast paced society around you would vex you. Life is full of contradictions that can coexist - and this is one of them.
Some things we could do if we channeled all of that energy in the right things:
1. Cure diseases more quickly, and unlock the mysteries of the body.
2. Feed everyone.
3. Educate everyone.
4. Instead of spending billions on bombs, we could build real space exploration.
At that point life would not be percieved as a struggle - it would be truely a gift. The reality is you can start living this way, today, if you really want to, and while the world won't change significantly around you, your perception of the world and your place in it will. While you will not percieve a change, just by changing yourself you have changed the world; enough people making that change...I think you get the picture.
Is there a USPTO mailing list for new patent application review (better yet for software patent review) prior to the granting? I would love to get on that list.
Society is moving too fast as it is - and you want to speed it up even more.
Careful thought and consideration is an important aspect of learning critical thinking - not how much you can cram into your brain at one sitting.
I see two things happening: 1. People are quick to jump to incorrect conclusions more than I remember in the past. 2. People don't stop and smell the roses in their relentless pursuit of *?
Reminds me of a parable: A young bull and an old bull are at the top of a hill, looking down on the herd of cows. The young bull says to the old bull, "lets run down there a meet a cow!" The old bull responds, "lets walk down there and meet them all."
For visuals - I go with cable TV; news channels to see world events of a visual nature (natural disasters, war, etc); history channel for movies in history and war related stuff and the heavy metal/engineering series; some 'how to' shows such as: Monster Garage, Monster House, Trading Spaces, and more mundane shows of that ilk.
For detailed information on a subject I usually buy a book and read it.
For detailed information not available in book form, and for general information that I need 'quickly', then I go with the internet.
~ If I care about an issue significantly enough, I will validate it via more than one of these sources.
First they call a referendum against a duly elected governor. Now they want to regulate the internet.
This is just the last two in a long string of incidents that reinforces my belief that California should fall into the Pacific Ocean, and be done with it.
Of course, if that happened then all of the sane people would end up on an island, and Snake Plisken would have to come in and save the day...after which he would fry the internet anyway. So, pick your poison.
You can run VOIP on a data only network - you don't have to have a PSTN gateway.
I would think that 'data-only' VOIP services would be exempt - otherwise it would open up all data networks to regulation. The internet would be regulated.
That would be a very bad thing...
Costs to maintain the records and functions of the regulations within the service providers would cut into profits.
As a result services that are borderline or non- profitable would be cut, people would be layed off, and many providers would probably get out of VOIP altogether. This would not benefit the public in any way - just the incumbent large service providers who could pay the regulatory 'bills' and then reap the longterm windfall of the former customers of the borderline operations.
Now I know why I've been getting my butt handed to me on the Radio Antenna map...all those 64bit AA consoles are whipping my poor little 32bit linux box...:(
I think the point he is trying to make is if the coding domain is small, the likelyhood of introducing an exploitable bug is minimized, and validation and auditing can be done more thoroughly given X amount of time compared to the same application that is allowed to be big and hairy.
He didn't really invent the use of multiple shift keys. It was a well established functionality of the space cadet keyboard, used on MIT LISP machines back in the 70s.
I think it is painfully obvious, but I will say it anyway:
If you are in a position where you have to take a menial job, then you need to revisit your skill set.
The same situation happened during the 1970s when the Japanese auto industry came into the American market with better quality automobiles. The industry downsized and new techniques (robots) entered the marketplace to allow manufacturers to build cars more efficiently. The shakeout occurred; if you weren't willing to learn new skills, your days were numbered.
Its the same situation now. New jobs will present themselves as old methods are revealed to be less efficient. People need to get over the idea that they will hold the same job for 20 years, and start learning to enhance their skill sets to address new trends.
It seems ironic to me that a company that is supposedly about increasing the adoption of new technology to help people would be against the use of the very same technology to assist people.
Companies are only forward looking when it suits them to be. If it goes against them, then they can be just as much a luddite as they assume people who don't use MS products are.
I am glad I can be a lightening rod for some interesting discourse.
*tip of the hat*
My gut reaction is not to like anything proprietary, simply because I have been bitten too many times in the past by proprietary systems. Invariably you end up having to go round and round with vendors to get anything fixed. It always starts out on their side as an 'enhancement' for a price, while you know its a defect. I could see a similar situation occurring with this Linksys issue.
I really hate dealing with people that are plainly wrong by any common sense definition. Their actions smack of profiteering and leaves me feeling like time better spent is wasted arguing with sleazoids, over and over again.
Perhaps I overreacted in this case. However, my experiences tend to validate my approach.
The merging of Linksys and Cisco was seen by some to be a good thing.
However it appears that culture of 'security through obscurity', as seen in Cisco router firmware apps has found its way into the Linksys product line, to the detriment of the GPL contract.
What Cisco is doing is wrong - plain and simple. If Cisco chooses to use copyrighted material under the GPL, they need to live up to their responsibilities under that license. I urge Cisco/Linksys to fix the problem before things get out of hand. You can't participate in the free/opensource software community half way.
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CFengine is an excellent tool for configuration management and automation - and it is just celebrating its 10th birthday.
It can run under *nix as well as Windoze, and has a 'self healing' capability (so that if you removed the sshd from the system, for example, and were not able to login after a reboot - it would detect this [provided you set it up to look for this] and restore it)
I like to wind things up, then let them go about their merry way...
...to continue from a previous thread...
Why in God's name would you want to use vi when a perfectly suitable emacs editor is available?
There are plenty of tools available already that are beyond beta stage; take Open Office, for example.
Additionally, there are plenty of GNU tools already out there that work.
Alot of people poke linux with a stick, and walk away - instead of trying to really understand the paradigm behind it. In a nutshell, it is about combining a bunch of small powerful tools together to create new functionality. Its about brevity and elegance. Its about automation and multitasking taken beyond anything windoze is capable of - all from the simplicity of the command line.
"DOS does not attempt to overwrite data unless you instruct it to do so. DOS based programs are also more effective in extracting and recovering data than Windows based programs." - from the infomercial
Any OS will attempt to write to blocks that it does not think are allocated (such as the result of corrupted file allocation tables). I guess he is referring to Windows writing the cache file onto disk - as opposed to Dos that does not page out memory since it is single-tasking and originally designed to run in considerably less than 640K.
You could just as well run your disk recovery utilities from a small linux kernel and get the same result; additionally, linux itself pages out memory to a dedicated swap partition which would avoid writing into data sectors on the disk, and I would also put forward the idea that linux will run recovery apps more efficiently than Dos due to the inate ability to address and utilize all of the memory on the box, as well as the latest CPU instructions.
The article also mentions a lack of low level Dos system programmers - well, duh! Its an essentially dead OS. Now talk about unix or linux system level programmers - and you'll have them coming out of the woodwork.
I have to question the professionalism of an outfit that is banking everything on DOS, when they could run their apps off of a bootable linux CD to do the same job for their new 'target' customers (small businesses and home PC users).
Emacs has the best of both worlds:
...you are set!
The ability to open multiple text buffers (and windows!) like the expensive GUI apps, while retaining the purity of ascii text output; once you learn a few basic commands:
File/Buffer controls:
CTRL-x-f CTRL-x-CTRL-d
CTRL-x-c CTRL-x-k
CTRL-x-s
Window controls:
CTRL-X-o CTRL-X-1
CTRL-X-2 CTRL-X-3
I have some friends who make pens from various materials; various different hardwoods, plastic resins and even elephant tusk.
I had one made out of walnut - and defined the shape to fit my hand. The pen uses regular Cross pen refills. He also made me a PDA pen out of desert ironwood, and a pen for my wife out of Lake Superior drift wood (old wood that has been in the frigid deep waters of the lake for several hundred years - real tight grains and very hard) for my wife.
"Smell the roses" is a euphemism - it means being 100% in the moment. If you are fast forwarding the lecture you are not getting all the nuances that are underlying the professor's discourse. Carried to other parts of life, rushing through it only serves to cheapen the quality of the experience for you.
The cost of training is equal regardless of whether you are training MS Office or Open Office.
Software availability - I have found more useful software *for free* for GNU/Linux than I have seen for Windoze.
Linux is cost efficient and has more applications available.
I think the key point that was touched upon in a previous posting is change is the result of desire/dissatisfaction with the status quo.
The problem is, the vast majority of desire that propels us is not rational and only serves the needs of those in power.
If we, as a society, were to conquer our desire - then we would be able to do some really great things. Here are some things that I think could be avoided if we were to do so:
1. War. The middle east conflict and all that came before it are the result of desire. Desire of a few men that has brought death and destruction on untold millions.
1. Crime. If we do not act violently on our desires and steal, rape, and murder to get what we want, crime would disapear.
2. Dissatisfaction with life. This one comes full circle. If you do not desire - then the fast paced society around you would vex you. Life is full of contradictions that can coexist - and this is one of them.
Some things we could do if we channeled all of that energy in the right things:
1. Cure diseases more quickly, and unlock the mysteries of the body.
2. Feed everyone.
3. Educate everyone.
4. Instead of spending billions on bombs, we could build real space exploration.
At that point life would not be percieved as a struggle - it would be truely a gift. The reality is you can start living this way, today, if you really want to, and while the world won't change significantly around you, your perception of the world and your place in it will. While you will not percieve a change, just by changing yourself you have changed the world; enough people making that change...I think you get the picture.
Is there a USPTO mailing list for new patent application review (better yet for software patent review) prior to the granting? I would love to get on that list.
Society is moving too fast as it is - and you want to speed it up even more.
Careful thought and consideration is an important aspect of learning critical thinking - not how much you can cram into your brain at one sitting.
I see two things happening:
1. People are quick to jump to incorrect conclusions more than I remember in the past.
2. People don't stop and smell the roses in their relentless pursuit of *?
Reminds me of a parable:
A young bull and an old bull are at the top of a hill, looking down on the herd of cows.
The young bull says to the old bull, "lets run down there a meet a cow!"
The old bull responds, "lets walk down there and meet them all."
You have brought up some very interesting points.
With the comming of universal digital rights management, I think many of the previously 'free and available' resources you mention will dry up online.
Sadly, while the authors by and large will support fair use, the publishers will use DRM to make more money by providing 'fair use' at a cost.
I am hopeful that this never happens. However, I have learned never say never.
I break up my information resources thus:
For visuals - I go with cable TV; news channels to see world events of a visual nature (natural disasters, war, etc); history channel for movies in history and war related stuff and the heavy metal/engineering series; some 'how to' shows such as: Monster Garage, Monster House, Trading Spaces, and more mundane shows of that ilk.
For detailed information on a subject I usually buy a book and read it.
For detailed information not available in book form, and for general information that I need 'quickly', then I go with the internet.
~
If I care about an issue significantly enough, I will validate it via more than one of these sources.
That is all there is to it for me.
First they call a referendum against a duly elected governor. Now they want to regulate the internet.
This is just the last two in a long string of incidents that reinforces my belief that California should fall into the Pacific Ocean, and be done with it.
Of course, if that happened then all of the sane people would end up on an island, and Snake Plisken would have to come in and save the day...after which he would fry the internet anyway. So, pick your poison.
You can run VOIP on a data only network - you don't have to have a PSTN gateway.
I would think that 'data-only' VOIP services would be exempt - otherwise it would open up all data networks to regulation. The internet would be regulated.
That would be a very bad thing...
Costs to maintain the records and functions of the regulations within the service providers would cut into profits.
As a result services that are borderline or non- profitable would be cut, people would be layed off, and many providers would probably get out of VOIP altogether. This would not benefit the public in any way - just the incumbent large service providers who could pay the regulatory 'bills' and then reap the longterm windfall of the former customers of the borderline operations.
Now I know why I've been getting my butt handed to me on the Radio Antenna map...all those 64bit AA consoles are whipping my poor little 32bit linux box... :(
I think the point he is trying to make is if the coding domain is small, the likelyhood of introducing an exploitable bug is minimized, and validation and auditing can be done more thoroughly given X amount of time compared to the same application that is allowed to be big and hairy.
Elegant is better than haphazard.
He didn't really invent the use of multiple shift keys. It was a well established functionality of the space cadet keyboard, used on MIT LISP machines back in the 70s.
I think it is painfully obvious, but I will say it anyway:
If you are in a position where you have to take a menial job, then you need to revisit your skill set.
The same situation happened during the 1970s when the Japanese auto industry came into the American market with better quality automobiles. The industry downsized and new techniques (robots) entered the marketplace to allow manufacturers to build cars more efficiently. The shakeout occurred; if you weren't willing to learn new skills, your days were numbered.
Its the same situation now. New jobs will present themselves as old methods are revealed to be less efficient. People need to get over the idea that they will hold the same job for 20 years, and start learning to enhance their skill sets to address new trends.
It seems ironic to me that a company that is supposedly about increasing the adoption of new technology to help people would be against the use of the very same technology to assist people.
Companies are only forward looking when it suits them to be. If it goes against them, then they can be just as much a luddite as they assume people who don't use MS products are.
Please mod down...
I am glad I can be a lightening rod for some interesting discourse.
*tip of the hat*
My gut reaction is not to like anything proprietary, simply because I have been bitten too many times in the past by proprietary systems. Invariably you end up having to go round and round with vendors to get anything fixed. It always starts out on their side as an 'enhancement' for a price, while you know its a defect. I could see a similar situation occurring with this Linksys issue.
I really hate dealing with people that are plainly wrong by any common sense definition. Their actions smack of profiteering and leaves me feeling like time better spent is wasted arguing with sleazoids, over and over again.
Perhaps I overreacted in this case. However, my experiences tend to validate my approach.
The merging of Linksys and Cisco was seen by some to be a good thing.
However it appears that culture of 'security through obscurity', as seen in Cisco router firmware apps has found its way into the Linksys product line, to the detriment of the GPL contract.
What Cisco is doing is wrong - plain and simple. If Cisco chooses to use copyrighted material under the GPL, they need to live up to their responsibilities under that license. I urge Cisco/Linksys to fix the problem before things get out of hand. You can't participate in the free/opensource software community half way.
Sounds like more FUD from the M$ tribe.
"Begone you demons of stupidity" - Saint Dogbert
The hell with watching TV. I want it for my computer monitor...can you imagine the number of xterms you can have open at the same time?