I agree. This story smells extremely fishy indeed, and not just because the "news source" reporting this has only been around for a week or so. Read here for another possible angle about what's going on here. http://kschofield.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!4C58DDFAA6673C69!1362.entry The fourth comment down is the most pertinent information about what this may be about.
I can't imagine China would subvert such a large percentage of searches - that would be *really bad* for business (and public) relations with the west - also there would be a lot more information out there if this was actually happening on such a large scale.
Is the defining property of a device that it was created by someone? M-W.com says a device is: something devised or contrived: as a (1): plan, procedure, technique
Here are two assumptions based on what I understand this thread to be about.
1 - A device, in this case a large bomb, is a human contrivance, and it was the most powerful chemical explosive device ever created. 2 - A device, in this case the sun, is a device of intelligent design, and this bomb is the most powerful device a human has ever created - and this particular article uses this a bad analogy of the sun as an example (i.e. the sun outputs 20000 mid-sized SUVs worth of power every 1/400th pico second.)
Why not compare this bomb to 5000 earthquakes? Or 10^-600 seconds of the energy a black hole swallows? And really, the origin of the comparative 'device' is irrelevant. A comparison of energy output is a sensationalist way of looking at things, as I'm sure the amount of energy created by the combined nuclear reactors on this planet, for any given amount of time, equal the energy released by this bomb. It all depends on what comparison you're making and the reaction you'd like.
Ooh, here's one, this bomb was equal 1/100 to the amount of energy squawked by baby animals being slaughtered cruelly for their meat in the last century. Baby animals I tell you!!! And don't even get me started on the volcanoes...
It depends on the solution you are looking for. Besides, when you say Intel's chipsets suck compared to AMD, you're comparing nforce pro chipsets, which is Nvidia, not AMD. Try looking at Nvidia's chipsets for Intel's CPUs and make the same comparison.
On another note, this is considered news? There was, quite literally, nothing to see here. It was a couple of paragraphs with a flashy new slide in it. It lost all credibility when this line was written:
Of course, Intel is also rushing out a similar solution, in the form of their V8 programme. So, it is a race to see which company will be the first to release an 8-core platform. AMD stands to take some wind out of Intel's sails if they are the first out with their 8-core platform. Intel has had an 8-core platform since last summer. Are they talking about "native" quad-core? Does a slight technical difference matter when one exists and one does not exist? How do we know "native" quad-core is better than dual-dual-core-on-a-single-chip?
Let's discuss this again when AMD comes out with a platform that can be benchmarked.
For the US military, it will more than likely be used to simulate the economic and political fallout of potential US movement, be it military, political, or financial. What does the world do if the US invades Iran? Engages militants in Africa? "Acquires" even more of the world's precious resources? Which nations will be the loudest enemies? Which will be our friends?
Do you want to play thermonuclear war, etc?
It's not so much the "prove we are better" aspect, but "how can we stay on top when we decide to throw a little chaos in the mix?". The big dog needs to stay the big dog. Real time intelligence is one thing, but now they have "response forecasting".
My guess is that compromising this particular security mechanism will be hard. Vista engineers worked pretty hard on the signed code requirement and on hardening kernel-level services to prevent the likelihood of attack. Getting unsigned code to run is going to require a hole in the kernel or a kernel driver (not user-mode drivers, as most Vista drivers must be). Is it possible? Sure, and it's been demonstrated in RC1 (or was it RC2 that the Bluepill malware exploited?). But it is damned hard, and between that and automatic updates available and on by default, I think we're unlikely to see any of the absurd worms of a few years past.
Sooooooo..... What you're saying are that wide-spread exploitations of an animated cursor library flaw are things of the past? Thank science my Windows PC is safe from administrative privilege granting exploits, because the administrator can't disable things like automatic updates and code signing and junk! Sweet!!
Ahh, the famed friendliness of the Linux community strikes again.
What?? Since when did I AS AN INDIVIDUAL become a community? I am not a damn community. I am an individual.
Yet you seem determined to put me, the only FOSS-friendly voice in an entire school district, off by calling me an idiot.
I don't care if you're FOSS friendly or not, I don't discriminate against idiots of different philosophies.
Yes. I've been in contact with a Microsoft rep several times about cleaning up our deployment process so that we can make better use of our time during the summer.
Well, my between-the-lines point earlier was that Windows either works or it doesn't based on the tech and the hardware. You were not calling support about a *broken product*, you were calling a rep about an *internal process* that needs professional help. Really, there is an entire section in the MCSE training books that discuss RIS and deployment of images, no need to call a rep.
Oops, there's that "self-teaching" concept again. And you don't need your employer to pay for your hardware - don't you have a computer? I'll bet it runs windows and I'll even bet there is FREE VirtualPC that allows you to run Linux inside of it! But I wouldn't want you to waste your time learning something that would help you be more marketable and successful. Please, don't waste your time learning anything new on your own!
Do you honestly think that just because children were given a system that comes with 1001 scripting languages they are going to do anything different with it then they did with Windows? Here's a hint, they won't. They don't care that Windows comes with WSH that will run Javascript and VBScript, they don't care that a default Linux install has Perl, Python, Ruby and who knows what else.
I did. I programmed in BASIC, Pascal, C before I was 12 and later C++ (and a masochistic teacher gave me a fortran book, but I dropped that after chapter 2) - all before the age of 17. I enjoyed learning these languages, and I know I'm not alone in this. I had options - most kids don't. And I'm not even a "professional" programmer, though I do code for my work occasionally.
Look, I'm not saying all kids are going to scream for joy and poop their pants at the site of a Ruby interpreter, but is there *really* anything the "Windows" kids will be missing out on by running Linux - even if it's just to give those few kids who would use it a chance to code?
I don't see the OP saying he was hired to be a Linux admin and asking for training after.
No, you see the OP saying something like "I don't know Linux and neither do my co-workers here in IT." I'm just saying that not knowing information should not be a barrier to your *consideration* of adoption. If this is a good choice for you (which they said it was, cost of training being the barrier) and this is the only thing holding you back from a proposal, download some Slackware or Gentoo install disks and LEARN.
No offense, but why would you need training to do a job you were hired to do in the first place? My employers never trained me to learn or know Linux, and yet I learned it on my own. I learned it in my free time and my resume looked better than ever. I know, I know - it's strange when people do things of their own free will to better themselves and their prospects.
Support? What is this support you speak of? Have you ever needed to call tech support on your IT-supported desktops for Windows? If you answered "yes" for anything other than an RMA, you're either an idiot or - well, an idiot..
The easiest way to "leap into Linux" as you put it would be to learn HANDS ON, on your own, at home, at work, wherever you find the free time. I've never worked for IT a company where I didn't have two or three computers under my desk - make your desktop Linux. Really, you work in education, teaching yourself is the easiest job you should have. Do you care about the quality of education your students might receive? Yes? Why give them a computer that only ships with a programming language default of "VB script"?
I would prefer my children be taught on a very versatile operating system which will keep their interest (and not because the pictures are pretty or this new game is fun.)
If they dont like how things are where they live they are human and they can leave and come here to the USA it seems we let people live here for free anyways!
Err, which USA do you live in? Nothing here is free, not even speech. And it's not the Dweeb Police (is that like the fashion police??) that tell you what to do - it's the lawmakers who write the laws, the police just enforce them.
That and I dont use windows so this makes it much easier to avoid security meausures..
Err, how is it easier to avoid security measures on *nix than on Windows? All the tools you mentioned you use are available on Windows too. Please explain what you mean by this.
Placed in the wrong hands these tools could be dangerous.
You mean like a hammer? Yes, we should definitely ban hammers. Do you know how many murders were committed last year by dangerous people with tools?
Please. Start using those spare brain cells - people already think Americans are stupid, for the sake of the rest of us, don't open your mouth and prove them right anymore!!
Good idea: Remastering old video and shows to a modern digital standard.
Bad idea: Mixing old video and new video while violating Roddenberry's standards.
(I have some old home movies of me as a child naked, perhaps I can digitally enhance certain elements of my naked body as a 2 year old. I just didn't have the capabilities back then to express my, uh, manhood and now that I do, let's DESTROY the old memory and create a new one!)
Your choice of OS is no protection. If you run malicious software, your computer is a zombie. Period.
Really? I looked around and can find no links through google for malicious zombie downloads on linux that will run on all flavors. Please post the link to one or a link to an article that disects one.
I'm not making the argument that linux can't be hacked - it can and I've seen the results of root kits. How many linux zombies are there? Is it proporational to the number of linux vs. windows machines? (Assuming Linux desktops and servers total 2% of desktops, 2% of spam zombies should be Linux, right? Where are the 4% of OSX zombies?)
It's about time to come up with a new type of server based messaging.
For every lock, there is a new way to pick it. For every type of security, there is a new way to hack it. This is a band-aid. The real problem is the fact that there is money to be made from this.
They will if they want to have a "Made for Windows Vista" logo on the outside, which would be all major PC manufacturers.
Trust me, most OEMs are already well aware of the Microsoft Logo requirements for Vista. If it's going to ship on your PC (and by ship I don't mean your brother's girlfriend's ex-boyfriend's PC company down the street) it will probably be logo'd. If it has that logo, it will run Vista just fine.
I think I missed the part of the article that stated *only OEM PCs* would have HDCP. Currently, only a Sony Windows Media PC has a card with this capability, but that does not mean that in the future they won't have them built in.
Once you have a card with that capability, you'll need to be running Windows Vista to be able to use it. I'm sure eventually someone will hack together a video player ala de-css, but that remains to be seen.
How many people spoof all headers? You and a few dozen other paranoid few? The majority of people do not, and that is all they care about. (If this was really about terrorism, they would know this wouldn't work - they want to fill out their "social connections" database a little better.)
Well, encryption won't help if the only information they want are the headers. Those nifty "TO" and "FROM" fields let them know who you're contacting. An added bonus is they get to see what type of computer you're running. If they are allowed to listen on the SMTP servers, they can catch your password in plain english (unless you're one of the few who are using SSL or some other form of encryption on the passwords.)
Encryption will block them knowing the dirty joke you just told your friends, but it won't stop them from knowing WHO your friends are!
Umm, because this the ATI TV Wonder is mediocre? I'll admit, my TV Wonder is still working too, but the people who buy this card are not looking for upgradeability. If you want to go with an external TV tuner, Hauppage makes a better card. Besides, the target audience for this card is probably not looking for "always the best" video - they want what is the latest with all the other features *plus* 3d-video.
My ATI All-in-wonder 7500 is still a great card, but the system it's in plays no games other than my snes (and the occasional bout of Enemy Territory). It records TV and kicks ass. TV picture is much better than the TV Wonder. YMMV.
I agree. Knowing and using the limitations of a system is the mark of someone who wants to win, not necessarily an abuser.
Hiding in a wall hack is cheating. Bouncing around a map using rockets on rocket arena requires talent.
Each game has it's own limitations, and each fight has it's own strategy. Many British generals decried the foul tactics of the American Revolutionary army as they used guerilla tactics. Come out and fight us face to face! Line up in bright colors! Don't attack during tea time!
Do you want to win or have a long set of rules? If it's the rules, go play D&D, not FPS. You (and the rest of us who won't have to listen to Yet Another Whiner) will be happier.
Humans are physical creatures. We touch, smell, feel, and love. I participate in teleconferences all the time, even some with video. Something is lost when you can't reach over and whisper a snide remark in someone's ear.
I am a book collector, and have many old books. Something about the fact that many people have touched them and loved them makes them all the more special. I have about 10 copies of the Rubiyat of Omar Kayyan - none any less than 80 years old. Something about the different artwork, leather covers, hand-written notes that conveys a continuity, a chain of humanity to them.
Shaking the hand of the world's best gamer is really no less.
Is this gamer real? Is he a person or a bot that a marketing exec thought up to encourage the Future Gamers of the World to play more games in the hope that they too can make money by sitting on their arse? Never underestimate the phyiscal world and our need to *physically understand* something.
You haven't used cable in an upgraded market lately. With a cable modem you get your Internet, and if you plug it into your cable set-top box you have streaming TV, movies on demand, dating on demand, news, weather, etc.
The cable box of the future will not be picking up the "cable" frequency per se, but rather handling a large amound of streaming traffic coming into the house. Perhaps Cisco might even make a cable-box/cable-modem/router all-in-one.
The future of cable is right around the corner. By the time Cisco adds their IP to a box and gets it to market, it will be here.
The Marvell/Syskonnect yukon2 driver is crap, but it works. The source code is available for free - check out marvell.com. I *promise* you (as someone who works at Intel) that Intel get their drivers direct from Marvell and does not modify them in anyway. All bugs are sent to Marvell, who change and release a new driver.
If the driver is open source, why is it not in the kernel? Because the kernel developers think it's crap too. So Intel made a binary.deb file. Even though the driver sucks, Marvell's installer for their source driver is fantastic. I install it a dozen times a day. Have a vanilla debian system, run the installer, package the resulting.ko file as a.deb.
This is just a press announcement to gain support of the Debian community. Probably some Intel developer who is doing this at work to gain a bit of visibility in the ranks (just takes a few minutes).
BTW, these drivers are *old*. We use 8.24 in our validation runs, and even that one is a bit dated now!
You said "Continuing Education" which I translate as "Not-for-credit", or in other words, a class one takes in ones own time which does not count towards anything other than personal satisfaction or career enrichment.
Look at your target audience: beginning to mid-level programmers with no real-world experience. Adults, probably older than college-age, who have families and careers (or not) and are looking to learn. If they take an OSS course, they are interested.
Don't scare them off by jumping straight into philosophy and legalities - explain the history of OSS by exploring what is GNU, why they existed, talk about the split between ATT UNIX/BSD/etc. Introduce Linux. Introduce the wide-range of programming tools available. THEN, and ONLY THEN talk about the details. If you don't pique their interest right off, you are liable to scare them off. Most programmers I know aren't too keen on using their free time to discuss legalities and philosophies. (I know you exist out there, but you are not the majority.)
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Did you steal this from the lab or do they know you took it?
I agree. This story smells extremely fishy indeed, and not just because the "news source" reporting this has only been around for a week or so. Read here for another possible angle about what's going on here. http://kschofield.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!4C58DDFAA6673C69!1362.entry The fourth comment down is the most pertinent information about what this may be about.
I can't imagine China would subvert such a large percentage of searches - that would be *really bad* for business (and public) relations with the west - also there would be a lot more information out there if this was actually happening on such a large scale.
Here are two assumptions based on what I understand this thread to be about.
1 - A device, in this case a large bomb, is a human contrivance, and it was the most powerful chemical explosive device ever created.
2 - A device, in this case the sun, is a device of intelligent design, and this bomb is the most powerful device a human has ever created - and this particular article uses this a bad analogy of the sun as an example (i.e. the sun outputs 20000 mid-sized SUVs worth of power every 1/400th pico second.)
Why not compare this bomb to 5000 earthquakes? Or 10^-600 seconds of the energy a black hole swallows? And really, the origin of the comparative 'device' is irrelevant. A comparison of energy output is a sensationalist way of looking at things, as I'm sure the amount of energy created by the combined nuclear reactors on this planet, for any given amount of time, equal the energy released by this bomb. It all depends on what comparison you're making and the reaction you'd like.
Ooh, here's one, this bomb was equal 1/100 to the amount of energy squawked by baby animals being slaughtered cruelly for their meat in the last century. Baby animals I tell you!!! And don't even get me started on the volcanoes...
On another note, this is considered news? There was, quite literally, nothing to see here. It was a couple of paragraphs with a flashy new slide in it. It lost all credibility when this line was written:
Of course, Intel is also rushing out a similar solution, in the form of their V8 programme. So, it is a race to see which company will be the first to release an 8-core platform. AMD stands to take some wind out of Intel's sails if they are the first out with their 8-core platform.
Intel has had an 8-core platform since last summer. Are they talking about "native" quad-core? Does a slight technical difference matter when one exists and one does not exist? How do we know "native" quad-core is better than dual-dual-core-on-a-single-chip?
Let's discuss this again when AMD comes out with a platform that can be benchmarked.
For the US military, it will more than likely be used to simulate the economic and political fallout of potential US movement, be it military, political, or financial. What does the world do if the US invades Iran? Engages militants in Africa? "Acquires" even more of the world's precious resources? Which nations will be the loudest enemies? Which will be our friends?
Do you want to play thermonuclear war, etc?
It's not so much the "prove we are better" aspect, but "how can we stay on top when we decide to throw a little chaos in the mix?". The big dog needs to stay the big dog. Real time intelligence is one thing, but now they have "response forecasting".
Sooooooo..... What you're saying are that wide-spread exploitations of an animated cursor library flaw are things of the past? Thank science my Windows PC is safe from administrative privilege granting exploits, because the administrator can't disable things like automatic updates and code signing and junk! Sweet!!
Ahh, the famed friendliness of the Linux community strikes again.
What?? Since when did I AS AN INDIVIDUAL become a community? I am not a damn community. I am an individual.
Yet you seem determined to put me, the only FOSS-friendly voice in an entire school district, off by calling me an idiot.
I don't care if you're FOSS friendly or not, I don't discriminate against idiots of different philosophies.
Yes. I've been in contact with a Microsoft rep several times about cleaning up our deployment process so that we can make better use of our time during the summer.
Well, my between-the-lines point earlier was that Windows either works or it doesn't based on the tech and the hardware. You were not calling support about a *broken product*, you were calling a rep about an *internal process* that needs professional help. Really, there is an entire section in the MCSE training books that discuss RIS and deployment of images, no need to call a rep.
Oops, there's that "self-teaching" concept again. And you don't need your employer to pay for your hardware - don't you have a computer? I'll bet it runs windows and I'll even bet there is FREE VirtualPC that allows you to run Linux inside of it! But I wouldn't want you to waste your time learning something that would help you be more marketable and successful. Please, don't waste your time learning anything new on your own!
Do you honestly think that just because children were given a system that comes with 1001 scripting languages they are going to do anything different with it then they did with Windows? Here's a hint, they won't. They don't care that Windows comes with WSH that will run Javascript and VBScript, they don't care that a default Linux install has Perl, Python, Ruby and who knows what else.
I did. I programmed in BASIC, Pascal, C before I was 12 and later C++ (and a masochistic teacher gave me a fortran book, but I dropped that after chapter 2) - all before the age of 17. I enjoyed learning these languages, and I know I'm not alone in this. I had options - most kids don't. And I'm not even a "professional" programmer, though I do code for my work occasionally.
Look, I'm not saying all kids are going to scream for joy and poop their pants at the site of a Ruby interpreter, but is there *really* anything the "Windows" kids will be missing out on by running Linux - even if it's just to give those few kids who would use it a chance to code?
I don't see the OP saying he was hired to be a Linux admin and asking for training after.
No, you see the OP saying something like "I don't know Linux and neither do my co-workers here in IT." I'm just saying that not knowing information should not be a barrier to your *consideration* of adoption. If this is a good choice for you (which they said it was, cost of training being the barrier) and this is the only thing holding you back from a proposal, download some Slackware or Gentoo install disks and LEARN.
No offense, but why would you need training to do a job you were hired to do in the first place? My employers never trained me to learn or know Linux, and yet I learned it on my own. I learned it in my free time and my resume looked better than ever. I know, I know - it's strange when people do things of their own free will to better themselves and their prospects. Support? What is this support you speak of? Have you ever needed to call tech support on your IT-supported desktops for Windows? If you answered "yes" for anything other than an RMA, you're either an idiot or - well, an idiot..
The easiest way to "leap into Linux" as you put it would be to learn HANDS ON, on your own, at home, at work, wherever you find the free time. I've never worked for IT a company where I didn't have two or three computers under my desk - make your desktop Linux. Really, you work in education, teaching yourself is the easiest job you should have. Do you care about the quality of education your students might receive? Yes? Why give them a computer that only ships with a programming language default of "VB script"?
I would prefer my children be taught on a very versatile operating system which will keep their interest (and not because the pictures are pretty or this new game is fun.)
If they dont like how things are where they live they are human and they can leave and come here to the USA it seems we let people live here for free anyways!
Err, which USA do you live in? Nothing here is free, not even speech. And it's not the Dweeb Police (is that like the fashion police??) that tell you what to do - it's the lawmakers who write the laws, the police just enforce them.
That and I dont use windows so this makes it much easier to avoid security meausures..
Err, how is it easier to avoid security measures on *nix than on Windows? All the tools you mentioned you use are available on Windows too. Please explain what you mean by this.
Placed in the wrong hands these tools could be dangerous.
You mean like a hammer? Yes, we should definitely ban hammers. Do you know how many murders were committed last year by dangerous people with tools?
Please. Start using those spare brain cells - people already think Americans are stupid, for the sake of the rest of us, don't open your mouth and prove them right anymore!!
Or at least pick you up - here are some better pics and a whole slew of great information from the horses mouth. http://www.we.kanagawa-it.ac.jp/~yamamoto_lab/pas/ index.htm
It's time for another good idea/bad idea.
Good idea: Remastering old video and shows to a modern digital standard.
Bad idea: Mixing old video and new video while violating Roddenberry's standards.
(I have some old home movies of me as a child naked, perhaps I can digitally enhance certain elements of my naked body as a 2 year old. I just didn't have the capabilities back then to express my, uh, manhood and now that I do, let's DESTROY the old memory and create a new one!)
I'm too lazy to go and look for a definition to FFT, and the article (or webpage describing the software) was short on details.
Enlighten me, please!
Your choice of OS is no protection. If you run malicious software, your computer is a zombie. Period.
Really? I looked around and can find no links through google for malicious zombie downloads on linux that will run on all flavors. Please post the link to one or a link to an article that disects one.
I'm not making the argument that linux can't be hacked - it can and I've seen the results of root kits. How many linux zombies are there? Is it proporational to the number of linux vs. windows machines? (Assuming Linux desktops and servers total 2% of desktops, 2% of spam zombies should be Linux, right? Where are the 4% of OSX zombies?)
It's about time to come up with a new type of server based messaging.
For every lock, there is a new way to pick it. For every type of security, there is a new way to hack it. This is a band-aid. The real problem is the fact that there is money to be made from this.
They will if they want to have a "Made for Windows Vista" logo on the outside, which would be all major PC manufacturers. Trust me, most OEMs are already well aware of the Microsoft Logo requirements for Vista. If it's going to ship on your PC (and by ship I don't mean your brother's girlfriend's ex-boyfriend's PC company down the street) it will probably be logo'd. If it has that logo, it will run Vista just fine.
I think I missed the part of the article that stated *only OEM PCs* would have HDCP. Currently, only a Sony Windows Media PC has a card with this capability, but that does not mean that in the future they won't have them built in.
Once you have a card with that capability, you'll need to be running Windows Vista to be able to use it. I'm sure eventually someone will hack together a video player ala de-css, but that remains to be seen.
How many people spoof all headers? You and a few dozen other paranoid few? The majority of people do not, and that is all they care about. (If this was really about terrorism, they would know this wouldn't work - they want to fill out their "social connections" database a little better.)
Well, encryption won't help if the only information they want are the headers. Those nifty "TO" and "FROM" fields let them know who you're contacting. An added bonus is they get to see what type of computer you're running. If they are allowed to listen on the SMTP servers, they can catch your password in plain english (unless you're one of the few who are using SSL or some other form of encryption on the passwords.)
Encryption will block them knowing the dirty joke you just told your friends, but it won't stop them from knowing WHO your friends are!
No kidding.
More to the point, anyone who wants this type of content knows where to look for it, and I seriously doubt they went looking for it there.
Umm, because this the ATI TV Wonder is mediocre? I'll admit, my TV Wonder is still working too, but the people who buy this card are not looking for upgradeability. If you want to go with an external TV tuner, Hauppage makes a better card. Besides, the target audience for this card is probably not looking for "always the best" video - they want what is the latest with all the other features *plus* 3d-video.
My ATI All-in-wonder 7500 is still a great card, but the system it's in plays no games other than my snes (and the occasional bout of Enemy Territory). It records TV and kicks ass. TV picture is much better than the TV Wonder. YMMV.
I agree. Knowing and using the limitations of a system is the mark of someone who wants to win, not necessarily an abuser.
Hiding in a wall hack is cheating. Bouncing around a map using rockets on rocket arena requires talent.
Each game has it's own limitations, and each fight has it's own strategy. Many British generals decried the foul tactics of the American Revolutionary army as they used guerilla tactics. Come out and fight us face to face! Line up in bright colors! Don't attack during tea time!
Do you want to win or have a long set of rules? If it's the rules, go play D&D, not FPS. You (and the rest of us who won't have to listen to Yet Another Whiner) will be happier.
Humans are physical creatures. We touch, smell, feel, and love. I participate in teleconferences all the time, even some with video. Something is lost when you can't reach over and whisper a snide remark in someone's ear.
I am a book collector, and have many old books. Something about the fact that many people have touched them and loved them makes them all the more special. I have about 10 copies of the Rubiyat of Omar Kayyan - none any less than 80 years old. Something about the different artwork, leather covers, hand-written notes that conveys a continuity, a chain of humanity to them.
Shaking the hand of the world's best gamer is really no less.
Is this gamer real? Is he a person or a bot that a marketing exec thought up to encourage the Future Gamers of the World to play more games in the hope that they too can make money by sitting on their arse? Never underestimate the phyiscal world and our need to *physically understand* something.
You haven't used cable in an upgraded market lately. With a cable modem you get your Internet, and if you plug it into your cable set-top box you have streaming TV, movies on demand, dating on demand, news, weather, etc.
The cable box of the future will not be picking up the "cable" frequency per se, but rather handling a large amound of streaming traffic coming into the house. Perhaps Cisco might even make a cable-box/cable-modem/router all-in-one.
The future of cable is right around the corner. By the time Cisco adds their IP to a box and gets it to market, it will be here.
The Marvell/Syskonnect yukon2 driver is crap, but it works. The source code is available for free - check out marvell.com. I *promise* you (as someone who works at Intel) that Intel get their drivers direct from Marvell and does not modify them in anyway. All bugs are sent to Marvell, who change and release a new driver.
.deb file. Even though the driver sucks, Marvell's installer for their source driver is fantastic. I install it a dozen times a day. Have a vanilla debian system, run the installer, package the resulting .ko file as a .deb.
If the driver is open source, why is it not in the kernel? Because the kernel developers think it's crap too. So Intel made a binary
This is just a press announcement to gain support of the Debian community. Probably some Intel developer who is doing this at work to gain a bit of visibility in the ranks (just takes a few minutes).
BTW, these drivers are *old*. We use 8.24 in our validation runs, and even that one is a bit dated now!
You said "Continuing Education" which I translate as "Not-for-credit", or in other words, a class one takes in ones own time which does not count towards anything other than personal satisfaction or career enrichment.
Look at your target audience: beginning to mid-level programmers with no real-world experience. Adults, probably older than college-age, who have families and careers (or not) and are looking to learn. If they take an OSS course, they are interested.
Don't scare them off by jumping straight into philosophy and legalities - explain the history of OSS by exploring what is GNU, why they existed, talk about the split between ATT UNIX/BSD/etc. Introduce Linux. Introduce the wide-range of programming tools available. THEN, and ONLY THEN talk about the details. If you don't pique their interest right off, you are liable to scare them off. Most programmers I know aren't too keen on using their free time to discuss legalities and philosophies. (I know you exist out there, but you are not the majority.)