For the lazy among you, the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" originates from the 1951 Cold-War-era science fiction film The Day The Earth Stood Still. The phrase "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from destroying the world, etc..
They obviously do have something against Linux. You have no idea how much I wanted a Mac of some sort, but I need wireless support. Apple does not sell any machines with open-chipset wireless cards.
I have a camera phone for a single purpose: to take pictures of girls when I get their phone number. Otherwise, I have a bunch of names and numbers, but I can't remember which name goes with which girl. I was waiting for a camera phone before they hit the streets and I think they're one of the most wonderful inventions ever.
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Let me attack your points in the order you gave them:
Your scenario here is really grasping for straws. Just make sure no users are in the wheel group or its equivalent. Ctrl-Alt-F* if you need to.
This is you most valid point, but introduce an FTP server to the machine and your box is as good as owned by anyone with a packet sniffer if you have sudo enabled.
Remote attacks are FAR more worrisome that someone physically stumbling accross an open terminal that's running as root in the five minutes it takes to get your coffee.
To conclude, enjoy your sudo! I, on the other hand, will have none of it. Different su* commands for different folk*.
Once I had to follow directions from a Dell tech-support guy on how to re-assemble one of their PowerEdge servers. The experience was painful because he gave me the instuctions backwards! I told him so, but he replied that he had no choice but to follow the script.
BTW, every damn PowerEdge has a different SCSI controller. My original plan was to convert them to Gentoo, but there's just no way if every machine is different. Very good results with Redhat, though.
The real problem as I see it with languages like C and C++ is that they've been around so long that where ever you go, you'll run into a different library that was written to solve these types of problems.
Most of these libraries are difficult to use. What makes Java nice is not necessarily the garbage collection, but the API. I can really treat method calls as black boxes that take my arguments and do what the documentation says they're going to do. I simply can't say the same for all the custom libraries I've encoutered in C/C++ for doing the same types of things. I have to either resort to reading source code if it's available, or being very frustrated while I try to guess what the original programmer intended.
So, while your contention that programming languages don't matter is certainly true in theory, but not always in practice.
Indeed. As a life-long Democrat, I am disgusted with my party's lack of partisanship.
Why don't we see impeachment proceedings against Bush? Why don't we see lawsuits over these elections? Why don't they pull a filibuster when it's needed?
If you look at recent national history and the history of Pennsylvania over a longer timeline, you'll understand that Republicans are nothing but partisan. Democrats need to start fighting fire with fire or we'll never have a responsible, democratic (in the 'God wants democracy' sense of the word) government.
I'm really tired of people pretending like Americans live in a democracy without qualification. There's a company called Diebold that ensures that the votes that matter don't count.
Yes, the name MacBook Pro sucks, but it'd be so way better than a Thinkpad.
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They do not choose stories like that. I implemented an algorithm similar to what Google News uses for a data mining class in grad school. The algorithm is called Latent Semantic Indexing. The idea is to represent the ideas, or latent semantics, of a document in a vector space. Those documents with the smallest angle relative to a query vector are selected. Note that there is room for tweaking, but it's not just some guy deciding what I should read. It's software I can understand.
Two very important things I had to do to get rt2500 to work:
As already mentioned, you must disable SMP support.
You must not select 'Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb' under 'Kernel Hacking' in 'make menuconfig' or whatever you used to compile your kernel.
I'm guessing this is all you need to know for a 2.6 kernel.
computer linux # uname -a Linux computer 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #1 Sat Nov 12 20:24:38 EST 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
That's so true. I work with Windows at work. Today I struggeled with Symantec corperate edition server pushouts to clients. Very frustratring. Now I sit at home with my Gentoo machine, completely content and stress-free. Computers running Windows and software that is specific to Windows is the number one source of stress in my life. I like computers.
The first thing you want to do is right click on the virtual desktop part of the task bar. You will see that "Share Desktops" is checked. Make sure this unchecked, unless you want to move a window from one virtual desktop to another.
The next thing you want to do is install cygwin. The whole thing. You may have to play with permissions on/tmp, but in the end you will get X to work. I do most everything in emacs and xterm running through an X server in cygwin on my Windows XP machine at work. Copy and paste works as expected.
Once I was able to find an older machine that was being decomissioned, I installed Gentoo and XFCE4 on it. I share a single mouse and keyboard between the two machines using Synergy. I even copy and paste between them. So while I admit it's much more difficult than setting up Gentoo, it is possible to make a Windows box into a productive machine. Good luck!
That's the same reason I didn't buy an Apple: the non linux friendly airport extreme. I never bought a Mac in the first place because I want to run Linux with wireless.
As much as I'd love to own Apple hardware, their (lack of) open-source support prevents me. Apple, please give just little more back and I would be another diehard customer of yours.
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OMFG, you're trying to legitimize teh Micro$oft tax!
'Tis true, but I have a thing for the gratuitous use of regular expressions.
Um, p2p?
"I tried to patent f.cking your mom, but it was revoked for prior art."
We elect our president? Either you're not an American or you've never heard of Diebold.
For the lazy among you, the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" originates from the 1951 Cold-War-era science fiction film The Day The Earth Stood Still. The phrase "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from destroying the world, etc..
They obviously do have something against Linux. You have no idea how much I wanted a Mac of some sort, but I need wireless support. Apple does not sell any machines with open-chipset wireless cards.
I have a camera phone for a single purpose: to take pictures of girls when I get their phone number. Otherwise, I have a bunch of names and numbers, but I can't remember which name goes with which girl. I was waiting for a camera phone before they hit the streets and I think they're one of the most wonderful inventions ever.
To conclude, enjoy your sudo! I, on the other hand, will have none of it. Different su* commands for different folk*.
BTW, every damn PowerEdge has a different SCSI controller. My original plan was to convert them to Gentoo, but there's just no way if every machine is different. Very good results with Redhat, though.
Most of these libraries are difficult to use. What makes Java nice is not necessarily the garbage collection, but the API. I can really treat method calls as black boxes that take my arguments and do what the documentation says they're going to do. I simply can't say the same for all the custom libraries I've encoutered in C/C++ for doing the same types of things. I have to either resort to reading source code if it's available, or being very frustrated while I try to guess what the original programmer intended.
So, while your contention that programming languages don't matter is certainly true in theory, but not always in practice.Why don't we see impeachment proceedings against Bush? Why don't we see lawsuits over these elections? Why don't they pull a filibuster when it's needed?
If you look at recent national history and the history of Pennsylvania over a longer timeline, you'll understand that Republicans are nothing but partisan. Democrats need to start fighting fire with fire or we'll never have a responsible, democratic (in the 'God wants democracy' sense of the word) government.I'm really tired of people pretending like Americans live in a democracy without qualification. There's a company called Diebold that ensures that the votes that matter don't count.
Indeed, the United States would not be the economic superpower it is today if not for the hyperbolic materialization of people.
Especially when they're less than a percent when margins of error are at least one percent.
A single trusted system is not necessary, it's impossible.
Yes, the name MacBook Pro sucks, but it'd be so way better than a Thinkpad.
They do not choose stories like that. I implemented an algorithm similar to what Google News uses for a data mining class in grad school. The algorithm is called Latent Semantic Indexing. The idea is to represent the ideas, or latent semantics, of a document in a vector space. Those documents with the smallest angle relative to a query vector are selected. Note that there is room for tweaking, but it's not just some guy deciding what I should read. It's software I can understand.
Two very important things I had to do to get rt2500 to work:
I'm guessing this is all you need to know for a 2.6 kernel.
That's so true. I work with Windows at work. Today I struggeled with Symantec corperate edition server pushouts to clients. Very frustratring. Now I sit at home with my Gentoo machine, completely content and stress-free. Computers running Windows and software that is specific to Windows is the number one source of stress in my life. I like computers.
The way I see it:
You pay Windows to get the job done.
All Linux wants is your time.
The next thing you want to do is install cygwin. The whole thing. You may have to play with permissions on /tmp, but in the end you will get X to work. I do most everything in emacs and xterm running through an X server in cygwin on my Windows XP machine at work. Copy and paste works as expected.
Once I was able to find an older machine that was being decomissioned, I installed Gentoo and XFCE4 on it. I share a single mouse and keyboard between the two machines using Synergy. I even copy and paste between them. So while I admit it's much more difficult than setting up Gentoo, it is possible to make a Windows box into a productive machine. Good luck!That was my exact impression of the interview.
As much as I'd love to own Apple hardware, their (lack of) open-source support prevents me. Apple, please give just little more back and I would be another diehard customer of yours.