Linux kernel is portable to lots of platforms. It has very small portions in assembly. If it were written totally in assembly, it would be a pain to port.
You are wrong. See http://www.microsoft.com/msft/ar03/alt/Note13.htm, for example, for Microsoft's income tax breakdown. At the very bottom is the summary: "Income taxes paid were $1.3 billion in 2001, $1.9 billion in 2002, and $2.8 billion in 2003."
If you use Eclipse, you already have built-in Ant and CVS support, so you can just check it out as a CVS project directly, and the only thing you need to get is JSAPI, which involves running 1 binary. How is that complicated?
Furthermore, you would not need a firewall if you were not running services that bound to things other than localhost. Since Windows firewall (prior to SP2, not sure whether SP2 has this functionality) doesn't let you pick who gets through to your ports, users should have the choice to shut down all ports exposed to the net. Keeping ports open and firewalled to everybody seems stupidly inefficient.
I suppose getting a PhD, which is usually a tedious 4+ year project, is an accident then? I agree that academic qualifications are not a foolproof indicator of one's suitability for a job, but for risky research work (I bet Google has lots of it) they are a strong indicator of likelihood of perseverance and success. I don't have a PhD, but I wish I had one.
I had the opposite experience. GDI+ detection tool says I need to update Office, but Office update site doesn't give me any updates. Everything installed on this work computer is legitimate. The machine has no spyware on it. I had lots of problems with Microsoft's patches in general and must conclude that they are just as buggy as the programs they try to patch.
I had the opposite experience. Almost every place where I interviewed put pressure on me to be able to start immediately. I had to explain to them over and over that I cannot just leave my current job without notice. Unfortunately I lost some job opportunities because of this.
I noticed that IBM Thinkpad laptops make a very distinct noise when you perform tasks that access memory very heavily. When you access the disk the noise is different.
Firstly, you may want to read Dijkstra's "Go To Considered Harmful". Secondly, your code is full of redundancies. What you are doing can be captured much more clearly by a finite state automaton with an alphabet and transition table. Finally, because of how this is written, it is completely unconvincing that it is bug-free, even if every line was commented.
It was included before. I have Fedora Core 2 Test 2 and it came with SElinux enabled. I can use ls with special options and see SElinux attributes on files and directories. Some stuff is screwed up because of SElinux and I haven't had time to figure it out yet. E.g. after I can't run any graphic programs that prompt for root password (package managers, etc.)
I agree with you. I've been regularly trying gaim out and am yet to have any successful direct AOL IM connections in either Linux or Windows... and it is embarassing to have to answer to surprised contacts that it doesn't work because "i'm in linux, using gaim".
You should have your shredder scan and store documents on a hidden hard drive before shredding them.:-) That way you can make some money off law enforcement as well.
Somebody could rename a.xm file to.mp3, add some junk to it to make it look like an mp3 in terms of size and still exploit the bug. WinAmp will auto-detect that the file is really a.xm file and will try to play it as such, triggering the bug.
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They also provide Cygwin. What does "ability to distribute customer's applications without being bound by the GPL" mean? Is this gem the reason they were surprised by Richard Stallman's words?
I disagree. My 4 years in CS at one of the top universities in the nation were pretty easy. There was a lot of work to do, but it wasn't too hard. I didn't party, so I had just enough time on my hands to get through it all. I've worked at companies that have such high standards that they can't hire random people from other countries. Security comes when you feel you are too good to be replaced - and that's a great feeling. Work at companies that value talent. Probably none of such companies are public - but you never know. Your idea of engineers over 40 being fossils is ludicrous. If they continue learning throughout their life, they get more skills. Have you seen what most requirements on software engineering job sites are nowadays? 5+ years this, 10+ years that - you can get a lot more jobs with years of experience that you don't have when you're young.
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Linux kernel is portable to lots of platforms. It has very small portions in assembly. If it were written totally in assembly, it would be a pain to port.
It is quite easy to unintentionally infringe on a patent and be sued for it. I doubt it happens often with other kinds of intellectual property.
NTFS supports hard links. Note how Microsoft conveniently removed the article. I remember reading it a few years ago... *sigh*
You are wrong. See http://www.microsoft.com/msft/ar03/alt/Note13.htm, for example, for Microsoft's income tax breakdown. At the very bottom is the summary: "Income taxes paid were $1.3 billion in 2001, $1.9 billion in 2002, and $2.8 billion in 2003."
If you use Eclipse, you already have built-in Ant and CVS support, so you can just check it out as a CVS project directly, and the only thing you need to get is JSAPI, which involves running 1 binary. How is that complicated?
Furthermore, you would not need a firewall if you were not running services that bound to things other than localhost. Since Windows firewall (prior to SP2, not sure whether SP2 has this functionality) doesn't let you pick who gets through to your ports, users should have the choice to shut down all ports exposed to the net. Keeping ports open and firewalled to everybody seems stupidly inefficient.
I suppose getting a PhD, which is usually a tedious 4+ year project, is an accident then? I agree that academic qualifications are not a foolproof indicator of one's suitability for a job, but for risky research work (I bet Google has lots of it) they are a strong indicator of likelihood of perseverance and success. I don't have a PhD, but I wish I had one.
I had the opposite experience. GDI+ detection tool says I need to update Office, but Office update site doesn't give me any updates. Everything installed on this work computer is legitimate. The machine has no spyware on it. I had lots of problems with Microsoft's patches in general and must conclude that they are just as buggy as the programs they try to patch.
Why can't one use miniature wireless transmitters/receivers instead of wires in this case?
I had the opposite experience. Almost every place where I interviewed put pressure on me to be able to start immediately. I had to explain to them over and over that I cannot just leave my current job without notice. Unfortunately I lost some job opportunities because of this.
Maybe it's Microsoft's subtle way to force people to switch to .NET for their GUI apps.
I noticed that IBM Thinkpad laptops make a very distinct noise when you perform tasks that access memory very heavily. When you access the disk the noise is different.
Firstly, you may want to read Dijkstra's "Go To Considered Harmful". Secondly, your code is full of redundancies. What you are doing can be captured much more clearly by a finite state automaton with an alphabet and transition table. Finally, because of how this is written, it is completely unconvincing that it is bug-free, even if every line was commented.
It was included before. I have Fedora Core 2 Test 2 and it came with SElinux enabled. I can use ls with special options and see SElinux attributes on files and directories. Some stuff is screwed up because of SElinux and I haven't had time to figure it out yet. E.g. after I can't run any graphic programs that prompt for root password (package managers, etc.)
I agree with you. I've been regularly trying gaim out and am yet to have any successful direct AOL IM connections in either Linux or Windows... and it is embarassing to have to answer to surprised contacts that it doesn't work because "i'm in linux, using gaim".
Or they could just remake Apple's 1984 commercial into an IBM 2004 commercial. :-)
You should have your shredder scan and store documents on a hidden hard drive before shredding them. :-) That way you can make some money off law enforcement as well.
You should check DLL dependencies of resulting binaries - in the Microsoft case it could be using more DLLs.
Somebody could rename a .xm file to .mp3, add some junk to it to make it look like an mp3 in terms of size and still exploit the bug. WinAmp will auto-detect that the file is really a .xm file and will try to play it as such, triggering the bug.
They also provide Cygwin. What does "ability to distribute customer's applications without being bound by the GPL" mean? Is this gem the reason they were surprised by Richard Stallman's words?
Then you haven't read Operating Systems and Concepts by Silberschatz et al.
I disagree. My 4 years in CS at one of the top universities in the nation were pretty easy. There was a lot of work to do, but it wasn't too hard. I didn't party, so I had just enough time on my hands to get through it all. I've worked at companies that have such high standards that they can't hire random people from other countries. Security comes when you feel you are too good to be replaced - and that's a great feeling. Work at companies that value talent. Probably none of such companies are public - but you never know. Your idea of engineers over 40 being fossils is ludicrous. If they continue learning throughout their life, they get more skills. Have you seen what most requirements on software engineering job sites are nowadays? 5+ years this, 10+ years that - you can get a lot more jobs with years of experience that you don't have when you're young.
Grub is pretty close to what you're looking for. You can also see grab its source.
Why can't we just use radar?