I am in no way an expert at this stuff, but judgin from the color, streak, projectory, and location (Australia), it look to me like a burning hot piece of some very durable metal that was falling through the atmosphere. A lost satellite best fits that description. Regards, Steve
It's a little worse than that too. Europe (in particular Germany), is about the only place that doesn't use Red Hat in a corporate linux setting. I had always heard this, but realized how true it was once I had to start traveling abroad. Sun's COO was addressing the majority of the world, I mean Red Hat has over 80% of the market and is making new deals for embedded systems and other neat things every day. If you want to seriously use Oracle, you use Red Hat. Red Hat is just the distro that you use for serious work. Since Novell bought Suse hasn't Suse been an American company anyway? So whats the deal with all the Europeans?:) Regards, Steve
Thunderbird is not a full groupware solution that many companies require. I use thunderbird, its filtering capabilites are amazing. Regardless, in a corporate environment with a mail gateway receiving tons of mail, you need a central point of filtering for it to be most effective. In some companies, client side filtering will work fine, but not in any that I've worked for. Steve
IIRC, SpamAssassin once properly trained and configured has yet to lose against any commercial or foss spam solution. DSAM is another amazing FOSS spam filter that could go up against the best of commercial products. But as another poster pointed out, FOSS doesn't advertise on their website unlike the 11 products reviewed. Regards, Steve
I've had similar experiences with RedHat and hardware. Its pretty amazing at that, infact Fedora is the only distro out of Suse, Mandrake, and Debian that I could get to work on my laptop. In particular though, it handled scanners better then any prorietary operating system. Regards, Steve
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
How else exactly would you interpret that? I doubt this fool even knows what TCP/IP is. The claims that he made or were implying is just ridiculous and the man really thinks he had something to do with the internet. Regards, Steve
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It doesn't. It is simply a clever trick on the programmers part. Another quine, in perl is: $b='$b=%c%s%c;printf$b,39,$b,39;';printf$b,39,$b,39; Looks confusing right? Actually if you format it nicer it makes more sense: $b='$b=%c%s%c;printf$b,39,$b,39;'; printf$b,39, $b,39;
You'll see that $b is a string that is equal to the entire source code except for what b is equal to. (Give it some thought and it'll make sense). printf then prints b substituting %c%s%c with the appropriate values ( quotation marks and the value of $b in the middle). It's going to be hard for a non-programmer to grasp, but hopefully this helped. Regards, Steve
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For number 11, here is the solution. I'm not the guy who coded this and I don't know who to attribute it to so I guess we'll just say: Copyright SCO 1994-2004;) (laugh) Here is the C program that prints itself (also known as a self-reproducing program or a quine)
Point 1) Get rid of our weak carbon based bodies... we need something new and we have the materials...now we just have to figure out that last part.
Point 2) Could you imagine how advanced our society would become and how quickly? Itd be great if Einstein, Feynman, Planck, Newton, etc... were all still alive. Not only would we have the knowledge, insight, and new ideas brought to the table the younger generations, but we'd have these amazingly brilliant people that would have centuries of knowledge and research to work with.
The reason humanity began to advance so quickly was because we started writing things down so future generations could learn from what prior generations did. Imagine if those prior generations could teach you themself, or at least record it asaccurately as possible. With today's technology and what's coming tomorrow, we could have nearly 100% data retention. The efficieny and speed of our progress would be mind boggling. Another point worth making is that if we live to be 1000 years old I can nearly guarantee you that if not by the time your 100, then by the time that your 300, we'll have some form of brain backup considering that its really the only organ that we couldn't just grow a new one of using stem cells or some other technology (in other words, it's not hot swappable like many other organs most likely will be a a decade or two). Once we have some redundancy of our brains, then who cares if you get smashed to bits and pieces, revert to version.20041128. I personally am very grateful that I was born when I was to see all this wonderful stuff going on, I definitly would like the oppurtunity to never have to stop. Regards, Steve
Unfortunately its very hard to enforce and its based on a trust based system. We live in a dishonest world where people will do whatever they can for money, including lying and illegally breaking contracts that they've agreed to with Google. It's pathetic in a way, but those people probably aren't ever going to get anywhere in life anyway, so I'm not too bothered by it. (What I mean is, this shows that they are lazy, if they weren't lazy and they needed money they'd think of some service to offer or product to sell to make some honest cash. They aren't doing this, and in general, people like that fail at life.) Regards, Steve
Well SMS is verifiable in theory because it has the central telephone service provider that it is routed through. Very few hands touch that message and you can only receive message from one source and only send them to one source, that one source does all the verification. Similar argument for IMs. Blogs typically require a log-in controlled by a central authority and so unless your owned, its verifiable that what you posted is yours and comments by friends are theirs. Email on the other hand doesnt require any authentication, can be recieved and sent to millions of different locations, it has no central authority (which is good for many things, but bad for auth). I could send you an email right now with your mom's email address and it'd be very hard to prove it wasn't your mom, yet alone trace it back to me. I personally only use email,and the occasional IM, but this guy does have a point. And of course anything formal is a physical document. Regards, Steve
If someone came through my door asking for directions without knocking...? Heh gun or no gun, he'd be lucky if he ever saw the light of day again. Thats why they have things like AAA, GPS, and doorbells. Regards, Steve
Maybe they couldn't find anything wrong for a reason... I'm not saying intentional or unintentionally, but I've seen a lot of people think they have something life threatening turn out to be nothing and once they start reading about some of the diseases out there...its all the sudden "OMG! I have a few bumps that look like that", or "I swear my heart feels heavy, just like this describes.", alot of it is psychological. I have no doubt that he's sick, but it might not be as bad as he's making it out to be. Regards, Steve
Point 1: An update should check the systems's versioning info against it's own before being applied...this is a basic principal. Point 2: EDS would have just called Red Hat or Novell or whoever. Point 3: If they were running linux, they could have been booting off the network from one or more central locations so that a) They are definitly all running the same versions of software, and b) Updates are only applied to a few machines (rather than 60,000) and fixing and problems only requires focusing on a few manageable machines. Regards, Steve
My understanding is that this is completely legal if your using it for compatibility reasons (isn't that why he won that last law suit, and why Real can support ITMS?) Microsoft isn't releasing a wmv product for linux so technically this is the only way to make it compatible. Regards, Steve
For those of you curious of the math... its simple: C_{1}=Pi*D C_{2}=Pi*(D+2) C_{2}=(Pi*D) +(Pi*2) C_{2}=C{1}+Pi*2 So the new circumferance is the old one plus 2*Pi. Regards, Steve
OSS is a wonderful thing. For those who don't know perl, I would definitly recommend learning it. For those who are intimidated by Perl or just interested in learning other useful languages (a must for every geek) try reading these free online books
Dive into Python - A very good and informative book on python. Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby - If you want to read a free book on ruby, not only is the very informative, buts its an amusing read as well with quite interesting and funny stories to be told along the way.
Some (many) companies aren't lucky enough to just toss money around and upgrade to Windows XP. In Particular, my company has a no Windows XP policy because of application stability and resource usage etc... Windows 2000 as far as I'm concerned is the best windows release to date, and thats a lot coming from me because at home I run 3 Fedora boxes and 1 debian and no windows machines (just a personal preference). Regardless, Microsoft isn't updating IE for non-SP2 users and so my company is stuck with a security hole, and its worse then that because its impossible to remove. Right now we just have IE locked down as tight as possible, have it hidden from the user, have a no IE policy and solely use firefox, its worked out well so far. Regards, Steve
Look... now we all like to make out 3 year olds feel good by calling there "art" masterpieces but please don't lump a bunch of splashes in the same realm as real art. Yea I know you meant real modern art...and yes I was comparing real modern artists to 3 year olds. Regards, Steve
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heh wow thanks for pointing that out. Now I'll go hide ;)
Regards,
Steve
I am in no way an expert at this stuff, but judgin from the color, streak, projectory, and location (Australia), it look to me like a burning hot piece of some very durable metal that was falling through the atmosphere. A lost satellite best fits that description.
Regards,
Steve
It's a little worse than that too. Europe (in particular Germany), is about the only place that doesn't use Red Hat in a corporate linux setting. I had always heard this, but realized how true it was once I had to start traveling abroad. Sun's COO was addressing the majority of the world, I mean Red Hat has over 80% of the market and is making new deals for embedded systems and other neat things every day. If you want to seriously use Oracle, you use Red Hat. Red Hat is just the distro that you use for serious work. Since Novell bought Suse hasn't Suse been an American company anyway? So whats the deal with all the Europeans? :)
Regards,
Steve
Thunderbird is not a full groupware solution that many companies require. I use thunderbird, its filtering capabilites are amazing. Regardless, in a corporate environment with a mail gateway receiving tons of mail, you need a central point of filtering for it to be most effective. In some companies, client side filtering will work fine, but not in any that I've worked for.
Steve
A few of those commercial products are based off of spam assassin. Where's the credit? Where's the source?
Regards,
Steve
IIRC, SpamAssassin once properly trained and configured has yet to lose against any commercial or foss spam solution. DSAM is another amazing FOSS spam filter that could go up against the best of commercial products. But as another poster pointed out, FOSS doesn't advertise on their website unlike the 11 products reviewed.
Regards,
Steve
I've had similar experiences with RedHat and hardware. Its pretty amazing at that, infact Fedora is the only distro out of Suse, Mandrake, and Debian that I could get to work on my laptop. In particular though, it handled scanners better then any prorietary operating system.
Regards,
Steve
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
How else exactly would you interpret that? I doubt this fool even knows what TCP/IP is. The claims that he made or were implying is just ridiculous and the man really thinks he had something to do with the internet.
Regards,
Steve
It doesn't. It is simply a clever trick on the programmers part. Another quine, in perl is:9 ,$b,39;, $b,39;
$b='$b=%c%s%c;printf$b,39,$b,39;';printf$b,3
Looks confusing right? Actually if you format it nicer it makes more sense:
$b='$b=%c%s%c;printf$b,39,$b,39;';
printf$b,39
You'll see that $b is a string that is equal to the entire source code except for what b is equal to. (Give it some thought and it'll make sense). printf then prints b substituting %c%s%c with the appropriate values ( quotation marks and the value of $b in the middle). It's going to be hard for a non-programmer to grasp, but hopefully this helped.
Regards,
Steve
For number 11, here is the solution. I'm not the guy who coded this and I don't know who to attribute it to so I guess we'll just say: Copyright SCO 1994-2004 ;) (laugh)
0 );}%c";
main(){printf(f,34,f,34,10);}
Here is the C program that prints itself (also known as a self-reproducing program or a quine)
char*f="char*f=%c%s%c;main(){printf(f,34,f,34,1
Regards,
Steve
Everything in there is possible. I've done them before. Any CS undergraduate should have done most of those.
Regards,
Steve
Point 1) Get rid of our weak carbon based bodies... we need something new and we have the materials...now we just have to figure out that last part.
.20041128. I personally am very grateful that I was born when I was to see all this wonderful stuff going on, I definitly would like the oppurtunity to never have to stop.
Point 2) Could you imagine how advanced our society would become and how quickly? Itd be great if Einstein, Feynman, Planck, Newton, etc... were all still alive. Not only would we have the knowledge, insight, and new ideas brought to the table the younger generations, but we'd have these amazingly brilliant people that would have centuries of knowledge and research to work with.
The reason humanity began to advance so quickly was because we started writing things down so future generations could learn from what prior generations did. Imagine if those prior generations could teach you themself, or at least record it asaccurately as possible. With today's technology and what's coming tomorrow, we could have nearly 100% data retention. The efficieny and speed of our progress would be mind boggling. Another point worth making is that if we live to be 1000 years old I can nearly guarantee you that if not by the time your 100, then by the time that your 300, we'll have some form of brain backup considering that its really the only organ that we couldn't just grow a new one of using stem cells or some other technology (in other words, it's not hot swappable like many other organs most likely will be a a decade or two). Once we have some redundancy of our brains, then who cares if you get smashed to bits and pieces, revert to version
Regards,
Steve
Unfortunately its very hard to enforce and its based on a trust based system. We live in a dishonest world where people will do whatever they can for money, including lying and illegally breaking contracts that they've agreed to with Google. It's pathetic in a way, but those people probably aren't ever going to get anywhere in life anyway, so I'm not too bothered by it. (What I mean is, this shows that they are lazy, if they weren't lazy and they needed money they'd think of some service to offer or product to sell to make some honest cash. They aren't doing this, and in general, people like that fail at life.)
Regards,
Steve
Well SMS is verifiable in theory because it has the central telephone service provider that it is routed through. Very few hands touch that message and you can only receive message from one source and only send them to one source, that one source does all the verification. Similar argument for IMs. Blogs typically require a log-in controlled by a central authority and so unless your owned, its verifiable that what you posted is yours and comments by friends are theirs. Email on the other hand doesnt require any authentication, can be recieved and sent to millions of different locations, it has no central authority (which is good for many things, but bad for auth). I could send you an email right now with your mom's email address and it'd be very hard to prove it wasn't your mom, yet alone trace it back to me. I personally only use email,and the occasional IM, but this guy does have a point. And of course anything formal is a physical document.
Regards,
Steve
If someone came through my door asking for directions without knocking...? Heh gun or no gun, he'd be lucky if he ever saw the light of day again. Thats why they have things like AAA, GPS, and doorbells.
Regards,
Steve
We could just revert to a stable branch too.
-Steve
Maybe they couldn't find anything wrong for a reason... I'm not saying intentional or unintentionally, but I've seen a lot of people think they have something life threatening turn out to be nothing and once they start reading about some of the diseases out there...its all the sudden "OMG! I have a few bumps that look like that", or "I swear my heart feels heavy, just like this describes.", alot of it is psychological. I have no doubt that he's sick, but it might not be as bad as he's making it out to be.
Regards,
Steve
Point 1: An update should check the systems's versioning info against it's own before being applied...this is a basic principal.
Point 2: EDS would have just called Red Hat or Novell or whoever.
Point 3: If they were running linux, they could have been booting off the network from one or more central locations so that a) They are definitly all running the same versions of software, and b) Updates are only applied to a few machines (rather than 60,000) and fixing and problems only requires focusing on a few manageable machines.
Regards,
Steve
My understanding is that this is completely legal if your using it for compatibility reasons (isn't that why he won that last law suit, and why Real can support ITMS?) Microsoft isn't releasing a wmv product for linux so technically this is the only way to make it compatible.
Regards,
Steve
Wow DVD Jon is amazing, if he's reading this, thank you very much for all that you've done for us. It is so cool and so appreciated.
Take care,
Steve
For those of you curious of the math... its simple:
C_{1}=Pi*D
C_{2}=Pi*(D+2)
C_{2}=(Pi*D) +(Pi*2)
C_{2}=C{1}+Pi*2
So the new circumferance is the old one plus 2*Pi.
Regards,
Steve
OSS is a wonderful thing. For those who don't know perl, I would definitly recommend learning it. For those who are intimidated by Perl or just interested in learning other useful languages (a must for every geek) try reading these free online books
Dive into Python - A very good and informative book on python.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby - If you want to read a free book on ruby, not only is the very informative, buts its an amusing read as well with quite interesting and funny stories to be told along the way.
Regards,
Steve
Some (many) companies aren't lucky enough to just toss money around and upgrade to Windows XP. In Particular, my company has a no Windows XP policy because of application stability and resource usage etc... Windows 2000 as far as I'm concerned is the best windows release to date, and thats a lot coming from me because at home I run 3 Fedora boxes and 1 debian and no windows machines (just a personal preference). Regardless, Microsoft isn't updating IE for non-SP2 users and so my company is stuck with a security hole, and its worse then that because its impossible to remove. Right now we just have IE locked down as tight as possible, have it hidden from the user, have a no IE policy and solely use firefox, its worked out well so far.
Regards,
Steve
It does.
Look... now we all like to make out 3 year olds feel good by calling there "art" masterpieces but please don't lump a bunch of splashes in the same realm as real art. Yea I know you meant real modern art...and yes I was comparing real modern artists to 3 year olds.
Regards,
Steve