Now if I can just get the damn thing to build a J2ME Midlet suite properly...
I sure could have used a good jsp/servlet plugin for eclipse, lomboz just didn't cut it. Wound up doing it with JDeveloper, wich sucks for coding but has wizards to die for:D and deployment works every time, unlike netbeans.
NetBeans is the most painful experience ever. And 3.6 eats so much ram it isn't funny, while eclipse 3M8 worked great, and 3m9 speeds along nicely, with a better UI and better features.
And if you keep reading until the end, he acknowledges that the word "swiped" creates a bad impression/implication, and that Microsoft legally used BSD code.
I think that the place where Oracle really shines is in product integration. PostgreSQL might provide all the capabilities of the Oracle DATABASE, but the app framework around Oracle is really, really nice. If you have the $$$, that is.
Did I say I was against him making a living? No, I presented evidence that he is making a living out of conferences right now. I have no beef against him. Parent poster asked what ever happened to Mitnick, and I provided him with the information, not condemnation.
For authentication purposes, biometrics are nearly as good as it gets. Remember, authentication, is to show that you are who you say you are.
The problem arises if/when somebody finally finds a way to fool a biometric scanner. Then you are in for a world of hurt. (So, you are not a spy for the competition? And it was YOUR fingerprint that entered the system late at night and yadda yadda? But it wasn't you? Yeah, right!)
Having all staked on the non-replicability of biometric auth can come back and bite uss in the ass.
is milking the conference circuit as hard as he can (it's how he makes his living now)
He was briefly in Chile for a US$420 a seat conference, and the head of the Computer Science Dept. asked him if he could give the students a little talk.
A representative answered exactly this:
Thank you for your inquiry.
Kevin is indeed in Chile next week-- and would love to address your
students.
He does, however, charge a fee for his presentations (it's how he earns his
livelihood)---
A standard presentation is 45 min. long plus 15 min. Q&A and covers the
information presented in his book, The Art of Deception. The cost for a
presentation like that is typically $15,000 US; however, due to the fact
that
you are an educational institution and Kevin will already be in the area
delivering his other presentation, I could offer you a discounted price of
$9,000 US (a savings of 40%)plus any related travel costs to/from your
organization to his hotel.
Perhaps he meant that line only to apply to the licenses of packages that were not released under the GPL, such as the artistic license, but he did not make that clear.
I think he meant the whole SUSE CD package. True, you can take apache sources, compile it and sell it for a million bucks (and maybe even find a sucker who would buy it:) but they would frown if you take their compilation (SUSE) and sell it for more than "the cost of distribution" (I think there's a further email that I can't find that touches that point. You are not expected to give away SUSE, but you should not _profit_ from selling SUSE (just recoup your distribution costs). Of course, without the backing email, I might very well be full of shit:).
You can copy the CDs freely and install it on n+1 machines, but you can't _sell_ those copies or sell machines with SUSE preinstalled unless you sell them the license (and the CDs, and the manuals, and...)
An email was sent to SUSE to settle an ongoing discussion on the legality of copying the CDs in the local unix/linux newsgroup chile.comp.unix:)
This is from the response email from Frank Schmachel of the SUSE sales team:
Many thanks for your inquiry to our SUSE PreSales Service and your
interest in SUSE LINUX.
Most applications that come with the SUSE LINUX distribution are licensed with GPL or LGPL, some have their own licenses.
Each of these licenses applies to the single package it comes with and
allows you to make as many copies of the software as you want and give
them to whoever you want, provided you do not _sell_ the software. You
may sell support for the software, but not the software itself. Also,
you have to make the source code available for free.
SUSE LINUX as a Linux distribution is a work with its own rights. Our
license can be found on CD1 as/COPYRIGHT.yast. This license too allows
you to make as many copies and installations as you want from one set of
discs, provided you do not long for or get any kind of reward for it. Reward implies value in money, benefit in kind and supply >of services.
This also implies that it is _not_ allowed to install SUSE LINUX on machines that you will sell except that you will sell a full license (boxed CD set and books) with the machine to the customer.
So you can copy the SUSE cds. Why don't they offer the ISOs directly is beyond me. More user familiarization with the product would lead to more recommendations when it comes to buying enterprise-supported linux.
Maybe. Here in Chile, the ruling entity on the.cl domain usually turns down applications to register www.cocacola.cl or www.mcdonalds.cl if you aren't Coke or McD's. That happened after some squatter went out and registered a bunch of stuff like luckystrike.cl, for example. The cost of contesting all those registrations made it worthwhile to do a bit of "research" before granting domains.
But what's really funny, is that no post complains about both things. It's like, dunno, like the posts were done by different persons!. How cool is that?
Well, that's why I put the "mental standpoint" argument in there. I couldn't think of anything else at the time.
It's obvious that if you already know how to type, be it with qwerty, azerty or dvorak, you already know how to USE a keyboard, and using a new layout is a matter of remapping the keys in your mind. You already have (from your post) at least two years of muscle memory on the motions of using a keyboard.
The point would be that, given two persons that somehow have the exact same level of keyboard skills, but one of them knows no layout and one of them knows the qwerty layout, the no-layout guy should learn the dvorak faster than the qwerty guy, because mr. qwerty has to fight his own preconceptions on how a keyboard should be mapped.
I completely agree. The problem lies in that making good UIs is way way harder than doing good software.
And my gripes with windows never were with the interface:) Although I felt quite comfy when using OsX...
The copying saddens me too. One thing is to copy what they have gotten right (love or hate it, MS has had years of experience with that) wich is one of the premises that has made Linux great: we copy from Unix (Hi darl!:) what is good about unix... but to make the UI look just like Windows?:(
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I sure could have used a good jsp/servlet plugin for eclipse, lomboz just didn't cut it. Wound up doing it with JDeveloper, wich sucks for coding but has wizards to die for :D and deployment works every time, unlike netbeans.
IDEA is faster and prettier, has a shitload of features, but if you think US$500 us "a little (not much)", I envy you :)
NetBeans is the most painful experience ever. And 3.6 eats so much ram it isn't funny, while eclipse 3M8 worked great, and 3m9 speeds along nicely, with a better UI and better features.
No, last I heard it was saltwater only. And a bitch to properly clean, too...
(so *that's* what karma smells like when it burns!)
And if you keep reading until the end, he acknowledges that the word "swiped" creates a bad impression/implication, and that Microsoft legally used BSD code.
I'm not spanish either, and in my country (Chile) it's "el diario oficial" :D
Once it's been published in El Diario Oficial, nobody can plead ignorance.
I think that the place where Oracle really shines is in product integration. PostgreSQL might provide all the capabilities of the Oracle DATABASE, but the app framework around Oracle is really, really nice. If you have the $$$, that is.
Did I say I was against him making a living? No, I presented evidence that he is making a living out of conferences right now. I have no beef against him. Parent poster asked what ever happened to Mitnick, and I provided him with the information, not condemnation.
The problem arises if/when somebody finally finds a way to fool a biometric scanner. Then you are in for a world of hurt. (So, you are not a spy for the competition? And it was YOUR fingerprint that entered the system late at night and yadda yadda? But it wasn't you? Yeah, right!)
Having all staked on the non-replicability of biometric auth can come back and bite uss in the ass.
He was briefly in Chile for a US$420 a seat conference, and the head of the Computer Science Dept. asked him if he could give the students a little talk.
A representative answered exactly this:
Thank you for your inquiry. Kevin is indeed in Chile next week-- and would love to address your students. He does, however, charge a fee for his presentations (it's how he earns his livelihood)--- A standard presentation is 45 min. long plus 15 min. Q&A and covers the information presented in his book, The Art of Deception. The cost for a presentation like that is typically $15,000 US; however, due to the fact that you are an educational institution and Kevin will already be in the area delivering his other presentation, I could offer you a discounted price of $9,000 US (a savings of 40%)plus any related travel costs to/from your organization to his hotel.
I think he meant the whole SUSE CD package. True, you can take apache sources, compile it and sell it for a million bucks (and maybe even find a sucker who would buy it :) but they would frown if you take their compilation (SUSE) and sell it for more than "the cost of distribution" (I think there's a further email that I can't find that touches that point. You are not expected to give away SUSE, but you should not _profit_ from selling SUSE (just recoup your distribution costs). Of course, without the backing email, I might very well be full of shit :).
Whitebox linux (RH Enterprise 3 recompiled from the SRPS) ships with kernel 2.4.20-8.
BTW, poster of the story could have told us if it's a stock 2.4.19 kernel or a modified/security fixes backported kernel.
An email was sent to SUSE to settle an ongoing discussion on the legality of copying the CDs in the local unix/linux newsgroup chile.comp.unix :)
This is from the response email from Frank Schmachel of the SUSE sales team:
Many thanks for your inquiry to our SUSE PreSales Service and your interest in SUSE LINUX.
Most applications that come with the SUSE LINUX distribution are licensed with GPL or LGPL, some have their own licenses.
Each of these licenses applies to the single package it comes with and allows you to make as many copies of the software as you want and give them to whoever you want, provided you do not _sell_ the software. You may sell support for the software, but not the software itself. Also, you have to make the source code available for free.
SUSE LINUX as a Linux distribution is a work with its own rights. Our license can be found on CD1 as /COPYRIGHT.yast. This license too allows
you to make as many copies and installations as you want from one set of
discs, provided you do not long for or get any kind of reward for it. Reward implies value in money, benefit in kind and supply >of services.
This also implies that it is _not_ allowed to install SUSE LINUX on machines that you will sell except that you will sell a full license (boxed CD set and books) with the machine to the customer.
So you can copy the SUSE cds. Why don't they offer the ISOs directly is beyond me. More user familiarization with the product would lead to more recommendations when it comes to buying enterprise-supported linux.
Maybe. Here in Chile, the ruling entity on the .cl domain usually turns down applications to register www.cocacola.cl or www.mcdonalds.cl if you aren't Coke or McD's. That happened after some squatter went out and registered a bunch of stuff like luckystrike.cl, for example. The cost of contesting all those registrations made it worthwhile to do a bit of "research" before granting domains.
But what's really funny, is that no post complains about both things. It's like, dunno, like the posts were done by different persons!. How cool is that?
that Sappho Juice incantation is one of the most abominable perversions of Frank Herbert's work. (That, and those @#$%$%@ sonic guns!)
Now, if they were surfing on lava using JarJar as a surfboard, I might be eager to watch :)
Oh wait... (or is it "moo wait..."?)
Low tech thwarting of high tech snoopping.
No, it doesn't.
("Raising the question" != "Begging the question")
(Bored? ME? ;)
There are mount options that will journal only data, only the metadata (as most journaling filesystems do) or both.
It's obvious that if you already know how to type, be it with qwerty, azerty or dvorak, you already know how to USE a keyboard, and using a new layout is a matter of remapping the keys in your mind. You already have (from your post) at least two years of muscle memory on the motions of using a keyboard.
The point would be that, given two persons that somehow have the exact same level of keyboard skills, but one of them knows no layout and one of them knows the qwerty layout, the no-layout guy should learn the dvorak faster than the qwerty guy, because mr. qwerty has to fight his own preconceptions on how a keyboard should be mapped.
Ok, it's a bad analogy :)
Yes! Terrific idea! After all, how expensive can it be to buy the record label that distributes "The Beatles"?
And my gripes with windows never were with the interface :) Although I felt quite comfy when using OsX...
The copying saddens me too. One thing is to copy what they have gotten right (love or hate it, MS has had years of experience with that) wich is one of the premises that has made Linux great: we copy from Unix (Hi darl! :) what is good about unix... but to make the UI look just like Windows? :(