They say the system is so overburdened that creating a daily backup has become impossible; there is so much data that it takes more than 24 hours to copy it
I find that rather hard to believe. They only need to back up the new emails, then they can delete them at any time without actually losing them. I doubt they see many terabytes of new email every day. Nine times out of ten, any IT tech who says something is "impossible" is just lazy and/or incompetent.
Am I a bioterrorist? I will have collected a dangerous biological material, harvested it in my body, and exposed the public to the substance knowing its potential to cause harm.
Slashdot has the same exact anti-Linux, pro-Microsoft ads. I've tried bringing this up, but was rejected.
Imagine if it read like this: "I'm now calling on the Linux community to boycott Slashdot until its current owners stop accepting money from Microsoft to publish blatantly anti-Linux/pro-Microsoft ads."
I personally would call upon the community to click every Microsoft ad they see. They get cheap advertising if nobody clicks on them. And they're not going away if you don't. Microsoft is definitely the high bidder on most of our sites.
I used StationRipper for a few days. A very interesting program. It captured gigs of online radio music in a very short period. The only downside was that the resulting mp3s where usually miscut by several seconds. I suppose there's not much you can do about that unless you decode that area of the mp3 to identify the period of silence, almost another project in itself.
Put a donate button on your web page and in the about box of the program (if it has one). Braham Cohen, author of BitTorrent, was very successful going one step further and giving users a one time popup reminder to donate. Something like "Have you made a donation yet?" and it sends you to a donation page if you click no.
I grew up using tab and shift-tab to indent/unindent selected blocks of code. Under most graphical text editors of unix/linux origin, all that happens is your block of code is deleted and replaced by a tab character. Each editor has its own key combos for block indent/unindent (like ctrl-shift-i/u), with little in common between them.
They want to make it so that you can't buy good consumer-grade hardware without a software subscription from Microsoft and partners of Microsoft. I expect that if you cancel the subscription, you must return the hardware.
If someone who has a bachelors in CS cannot program, they must have majored in Counter-Strike instead of Computer Science.
I can hardly explain it myself. Her interest in programming is what got me interested in programming, when I was 9. Now I'm 22 and she's had her degree for few years. She's hardly used anything she learned outside of school and has all but forgotten it, not just languages but basic concepts. And it's not coming back when she needs it like riding a bike. And her IQ is high enough to consider her gifted. I think she just lacks the self confidence to realize that all she needs to do is sit down and work through her programming problems to completion.
If you go that sort of route, teach her SQL and normalized database design, and something she can use to build simple database apps with the knowledge. Though it's not real programming, a person can get pretty far with it in the real world if they have good people skills to back it up.
Don't focus on dhtml or anything beyond the scope of the language. You want an easy learning curve giving her skills she can use everywhere. On its own, JavaScript is a very simple, powerful, and forgiving language, who's syntax closely resembles most of the other mainstream programming languages.
Good luck. I'm still trying to teach my mom to program. And she has a bachelor's degree in CS.
I've got all that, and I'm running Fedora Core 2. Except got OpenOffice, NetBeans, and Eclipse instead of StarOffice and Sun Studio. Just took a little while to download, install, and configure.
I come from a DOS/Windows background. I've been forcing myself into Linux so my best pc has Fedora Core 2 installed and my ancient Windows PC is always off for the most part. I've had to deal with a variety of small problems but nothing damning.
"There are a few apps that should be included but are not, such as Abiword, Quanta (Web authoring) and Audacity (audio editing)."
Funny, since I installed FC2 on a clean hard disk and there they are, the first two at least. I chose the "everything" option during install, since my hard disk is bigger than 6gb.
The extent of my sound problems were that the headphone volume defaults to zero, and on my Dell (cheapest offering plus max ram+hd and no OS) there's only a headhone jack, and the speakers have amps.
The other problem I encountered was that the i845 drivers have a memory leak, so anything that uses opengl will eventually crash it. This is not a problem specific to any Linux distribution though.
I do dislike the unchangeable Nautilus defaults.
And the default cron setup could have been done better. It had my hard disk thrashing and cpu usage at 99% for about half an hour doing some whatis update, which I won't let it do again.
I was surprised to see that it did not come with Java. I learned all about installing Java by hand and also installed Eclipse and Netbeans while I was at it. Then had the fun of getting it to work with Mozilla. Just copying the plugin to the plugins directory will make Mozilla crash. You've gotta create a symbolic link to it. The Flash plugin was just a little easier to install.
SpamAssassin's spamd was installed and running by default (as a result of checking "everything"), but the default email program was not configured to use it. There were tons of other things running that it clearly didn't need, like bluetooth drivers, though removing them should be a trivial task.
Since Evolution was the recommended email client, it would have been nice to see Mozilla Firefox as the browser instead of the full Mozilla. So I got to install that and work out the details of getting it to run well, like making a shell script to check if it's already running before starting another, to avoid the dreaded profile selection dialog.
All the usual media software like mplayer and mp3 support weren't included, though I could understand the reasoning behind those decisions. Got to download and install mplayer. Don't need mp3 support. I rip my cd's to ogg.
The previous distribution I've installed on that system were Slackware 9.1, Suse 9.0, FC2test1, and Mandrake 9.1. Overall Fedora Core 2 has worked out well. It runs pretty well and if nothing else it's been an educational experience, something that would turn off any user who just wants it to work. With previous distributions, my Linux PC was mostly turned off despite it being much newer than my Windows PC. But since I installed Fedora Core 2, I've been relatively comfortable and productive under Linux and have only needed to turn on my Windows PC to copy files off of it. I guess the 13th try's a charm (that's about how many times I've tried to force myself into Linux).
I would probably still be on Windows if it wasn't for Caldera or Microsoft's "Get the Facts" campaign. Three cheers to Microsoft and SCO for accelerating Linux! Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, hurray!...:-/
The receiver can do whatever they want with the email you send to them. And if they want to allow google to index it, I don't see why you should be able to stop them. They could scale it up and stick it to the side of a building if they wanted. Just don't send confidential email to people you don't trust.
Bad legislation should never be rewarded. And they're singling out GMail. If that law was rewritten to be non-discriminatory, almost the entire Internet would suddenly become illegal in California.
What if the next episode of Enterprise is just a total piece of crap, an hour wasted for each of the 20 million geeks watching it? Hell, that's happened a few times already, more or less depending on who you ask. Say they've produced 10 real stinkers, x20 million viewers, x1 hour. That's 200 million hours wasted. Do the show's writers deserve to die?
And this famous usenet tradition relates to your last sentence.
What if the next episode of Enterprise is just a total piece of crap, an hour wasted for each of the 20 million geeks watching it? Hell, that's happened a few times already, more or less depending on who you ask. Say they've produced 10 real stinkers, x20 million viewers, x1 hour. That's 200 million hours wasted. Do the show's writers deserve to die?
And this famous usenet tradition relates to your last sentence.
There's a lot of people besides worm and virus writers who have done enough damage to exceed the economic value of a life. We could justify executing hundreds of thousands of executives. Spammers like Scott Richter too, but they deserve it. Microsoft programmers work for peanuts to drain billions of dollars out of the software industry and into the hands of mostly already wealthy investors. Shall we execute them too? And what about those wealthy people, the few who spend their money in ways that cause significant waste the world's resources, and who didn't really deserve that money in the first place? Or what about a politician who helps pass a bad bill? There's a lot of those. Just kill them all?
You can justify any decision with logic and statistics.
Not that I support worm and virus writers, but without them, software would have many more security holes than they have today, and a lot fewer systems would be protected behind NATs. And you can bet that governments work harder at finding exploits than anyone, and they don't report them to be patched. A well planned attack under these circumstances could wipe out most of the systems on the internet, a result more costly than all the past and present worms and viruses combined.
The goal of legal penalties is to prevent crime, not to get revenge equal to the damage. An adequate deterrent for most of those kids would be to punish them by not letting them use a computer, read or watch sci fi or fantasy, role play, look at porn, or play "Magic" ever again. But 5-20 years in prison, or death, well they're not afraid of that at all. Most of those kids have no social lives, are miserable, and are bordering on suicidal anyway. The only effective punishment would be forcing them to live, without any of the enjoyments life has to offer them.
Optimal blackjack play without card counting will still have you losing a couple percent of what you put into it. And casinos have gotten pretty good at fighting card counting, with multiple decks and frequent shuffles.
As for all the machines, the odds are always against you, or you're cheating.
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They say the system is so overburdened that creating a daily backup has become impossible; there is so much data that it takes more than 24 hours to copy it
I find that rather hard to believe. They only need to back up the new emails, then they can delete them at any time without actually losing them. I doubt they see many terabytes of new email every day. Nine times out of ten, any IT tech who says something is "impossible" is just lazy and/or incompetent.
Am I a bioterrorist? I will have collected a dangerous biological material, harvested it in my body, and exposed the public to the substance knowing its potential to cause harm.
If your job is mostly programming, you can mostly work from anywhere. Just come in when they need you. Demand it.
Slashdot has the same exact anti-Linux, pro-Microsoft ads. I've tried bringing this up, but was rejected.
Imagine if it read like this:
"I'm now calling on the Linux community to boycott Slashdot until its current owners stop accepting money from Microsoft to publish blatantly anti-Linux/pro-Microsoft ads."
I personally would call upon the community to click every Microsoft ad they see. They get cheap advertising if nobody clicks on them. And they're not going away if you don't. Microsoft is definitely the high bidder on most of our sites.
I used StationRipper for a few days. A very interesting program. It captured gigs of online radio music in a very short period. The only downside was that the resulting mp3s where usually miscut by several seconds. I suppose there's not much you can do about that unless you decode that area of the mp3 to identify the period of silence, almost another project in itself.
Imagine a RAID cluster of these...
Put a donate button on your web page and in the about box of the program (if it has one). Braham Cohen, author of BitTorrent, was very successful going one step further and giving users a one time popup reminder to donate. Something like "Have you made a donation yet?" and it sends you to a donation page if you click no.
I grew up using tab and shift-tab to indent/unindent selected blocks of code. Under most graphical text editors of unix/linux origin, all that happens is your block of code is deleted and replaced by a tab character. Each editor has its own key combos for block indent/unindent (like ctrl-shift-i/u), with little in common between them.
They want to make it so that you can't buy good consumer-grade hardware without a software subscription from Microsoft and partners of Microsoft. I expect that if you cancel the subscription, you must return the hardware.
If someone who has a bachelors in CS cannot program, they must have majored in Counter-Strike instead of Computer Science.
I can hardly explain it myself. Her interest in programming is what got me interested in programming, when I was 9. Now I'm 22 and she's had her degree for few years. She's hardly used anything she learned outside of school and has all but forgotten it, not just languages but basic concepts. And it's not coming back when she needs it like riding a bike. And her IQ is high enough to consider her gifted. I think she just lacks the self confidence to realize that all she needs to do is sit down and work through her programming problems to completion.
If you go that sort of route, teach her SQL and normalized database design, and something she can use to build simple database apps with the knowledge. Though it's not real programming, a person can get pretty far with it in the real world if they have good people skills to back it up.
If the language is Turing complete, it's programming.
Don't focus on dhtml or anything beyond the scope of the language. You want an easy learning curve giving her skills she can use everywhere. On its own, JavaScript is a very simple, powerful, and forgiving language, who's syntax closely resembles most of the other mainstream programming languages.
Good luck. I'm still trying to teach my mom to program. And she has a bachelor's degree in CS.
I've got all that, and I'm running Fedora Core 2. Except got OpenOffice, NetBeans, and Eclipse instead of StarOffice and Sun Studio. Just took a little while to download, install, and configure.
I come from a DOS/Windows background. I've been forcing myself into Linux so my best pc has Fedora Core 2 installed and my ancient Windows PC is always off for the most part. I've had to deal with a variety of small problems but nothing damning.
:-/
"There are a few apps that should be included but are not, such as Abiword, Quanta (Web authoring) and Audacity (audio editing)."
Funny, since I installed FC2 on a clean hard disk and there they are, the first two at least. I chose the "everything" option during install, since my hard disk is bigger than 6gb.
The extent of my sound problems were that the headphone volume defaults to zero, and on my Dell (cheapest offering plus max ram+hd and no OS) there's only a headhone jack, and the speakers have amps.
The other problem I encountered was that the i845 drivers have a memory leak, so anything that uses opengl will eventually crash it. This is not a problem specific to any Linux distribution though.
I do dislike the unchangeable Nautilus defaults.
And the default cron setup could have been done better. It had my hard disk thrashing and cpu usage at 99% for about half an hour doing some whatis update, which I won't let it do again.
I was surprised to see that it did not come with Java. I learned all about installing Java by hand and also installed Eclipse and Netbeans while I was at it. Then had the fun of getting it to work with Mozilla. Just copying the plugin to the plugins directory will make Mozilla crash. You've gotta create a symbolic link to it. The Flash plugin was just a little easier to install.
SpamAssassin's spamd was installed and running by default (as a result of checking "everything"), but the default email program was not configured to use it. There were tons of other things running that it clearly didn't need, like bluetooth drivers, though removing them should be a trivial task.
Since Evolution was the recommended email client, it would have been nice to see Mozilla Firefox as the browser instead of the full Mozilla. So I got to install that and work out the details of getting it to run well, like making a shell script to check if it's already running before starting another, to avoid the dreaded profile selection dialog.
All the usual media software like mplayer and mp3 support weren't included, though I could understand the reasoning behind those decisions. Got to download and install mplayer. Don't need mp3 support. I rip my cd's to ogg.
The previous distribution I've installed on that system were Slackware 9.1, Suse 9.0, FC2test1, and Mandrake 9.1. Overall Fedora Core 2 has worked out well. It runs pretty well and if nothing else it's been an educational experience, something that would turn off any user who just wants it to work. With previous distributions, my Linux PC was mostly turned off despite it being much newer than my Windows PC. But since I installed Fedora Core 2, I've been relatively comfortable and productive under Linux and have only needed to turn on my Windows PC to copy files off of it. I guess the 13th try's a charm (that's about how many times I've tried to force myself into Linux).
I would probably still be on Windows if it wasn't for Caldera or Microsoft's "Get the Facts" campaign. Three cheers to Microsoft and SCO for accelerating Linux! Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, hurray! Hip hip, hurray!...
Why not start at zero and count up? It's the simplest approach and it'll be just as fast on average as anything else.
It's good enough for my luggage.
Those few days out of the year when you have to work with something twice as large as memory, in memory.
Like a seatbelt, you won't be using it most of the time, and it may be an inconvenience at times, but it can save you when you really need it.
The receiver can do whatever they want with the email you send to them. And if they want to allow google to index it, I don't see why you should be able to stop them. They could scale it up and stick it to the side of a building if they wanted. Just don't send confidential email to people you don't trust.
Bad legislation should never be rewarded. And they're singling out GMail. If that law was rewritten to be non-discriminatory, almost the entire Internet would suddenly become illegal in California.
What if the next episode of Enterprise is just a total piece of crap, an hour wasted for each of the 20 million geeks watching it? Hell, that's happened a few times already, more or less depending on who you ask. Say they've produced 10 real stinkers, x20 million viewers, x1 hour. That's 200 million hours wasted. Do the show's writers deserve to die?
And this famous usenet tradition relates to your last sentence.
What if the next episode of Enterprise is just a total piece of crap, an hour wasted for each of the 20 million geeks watching it? Hell, that's happened a few times already, more or less depending on who you ask. Say they've produced 10 real stinkers, x20 million viewers, x1 hour. That's 200 million hours wasted. Do the show's writers deserve to die?
And this famous usenet tradition relates to your last sentence.
software terroristorisers
Sounds like something you'd hear in a Bush speech.
There's a lot of people besides worm and virus writers who have done enough damage to exceed the economic value of a life. We could justify executing hundreds of thousands of executives. Spammers like Scott Richter too, but they deserve it. Microsoft programmers work for peanuts to drain billions of dollars out of the software industry and into the hands of mostly already wealthy investors. Shall we execute them too? And what about those wealthy people, the few who spend their money in ways that cause significant waste the world's resources, and who didn't really deserve that money in the first place? Or what about a politician who helps pass a bad bill? There's a lot of those. Just kill them all?
You can justify any decision with logic and statistics.
Not that I support worm and virus writers, but without them, software would have many more security holes than they have today, and a lot fewer systems would be protected behind NATs. And you can bet that governments work harder at finding exploits than anyone, and they don't report them to be patched. A well planned attack under these circumstances could wipe out most of the systems on the internet, a result more costly than all the past and present worms and viruses combined.
The goal of legal penalties is to prevent crime, not to get revenge equal to the damage. An adequate deterrent for most of those kids would be to punish them by not letting them use a computer, read or watch sci fi or fantasy, role play, look at porn, or play "Magic" ever again. But 5-20 years in prison, or death, well they're not afraid of that at all. Most of those kids have no social lives, are miserable, and are bordering on suicidal anyway. The only effective punishment would be forcing them to live, without any of the enjoyments life has to offer them.
Optimal blackjack play without card counting will still have you losing a couple percent of what you put into it. And casinos have gotten pretty good at fighting card counting, with multiple decks and frequent shuffles.
As for all the machines, the odds are always against you, or you're cheating.