You do it with two people. One pokes around and takes notes. The other implements based on the notes. The DMCA doesn't prevent this as long as there is a non-infringing use of the protection bypass (i.e., writing drivers)
The user is supposed to know what is legit and what is not.
Honestly, there are a number of people out there who simply should not be using computers - or at the very least, not running with Administrative privelidges. This is not an elitist thing. This is a training and intuition thing.
I mean, phishing sites pretty much THRIVE on people not checking the URL in a link - something that just comes naturally to those aware of the issue. Viruses are spread not by using insecure software, but by opening programs from nontrusted sources.
The computer should not have to know this shit. The user should.
No. Because of the way NTFS.sys works, all operations are 'atomic' (ie: the file is changed, or the file is not changed. There is no in between. There's a lot of explanation as to how this process works, but that's the short of it.) The only way he could lose files due to defragging his system and it crashing is if he was using a FAT32 part as his system drive.
I actively develop for Slax, for example. I often get chastised for including software dependencies in the modules I create. I don't get it. Sure, sure, you're trying to save space - but I'm not. I'm trying to save end-user work.
Why don't windows actually maximize on a mac? I mean, they only get to fill about half to three-quarters of the screen (actual proportion determined by a complex algorithm using the phase of the moon, the number of leprechauns hiding under your bed, etc.)
There's very few SATA-only boards around, so HD is no problem.
You will often have to buy a mobo-processor-RAM combo, but that can range from as low as $125 to a little over $300.
There's also a vid card to think about, but that's easily avoided if you make sure your new board has both AGP and PCI-X (you can get a new card later).
The case almost never needs changed out, unless they add a connector like they did a couple years back (then you can get away with just the PSU).
Still, an incremental upgrade is almost always cheaper than replacing your whole box ever year.
Hell, I was tempted to get an Intel Mac Mini - until I saw their new marketing campaign.
Sure. Insult the population you're selling to. Tell them the things they've been doing for years can't be done on the platform they've been doing it. That'll get you customers.
Put up the alternative site; I would be interested in it if anything you can come up with is plausable.
I agree that maintaining an army has nothing to do with it, but roads and highways should, as should the cost of pollution. Paying the social cost of a product is something that most companies have to deal with - still, the oil companies get out of it.
Uncompensated damages caused by car accidents, for example, should be included in the cost of driving school - though, a pigouvian tax would cause issues.
I suppose. It's clear, though, that he's got the idea correct enough to figure out the issues with his approach in a real environment.
So, while his answer is not exact, it is still correct and worthy of bonus points in that he provided an example of a custom build, and in that he knew the correct parameters to use, if not the exact right variables.
In short, no, your syntax nazism will have no place here (this test, not slashdot. There's plenty of places for it on slashdot). We all make mistakes. In production software, those mistakes are ironed out by testing - a feature not available in an immediate question-answer form.
Though your distribution-specific bent is not exactly what I asked for, I kinda have to give you the point, even if you did end-run around the question.
No, I meant that, in meritorious terms in comparison to the most commonly available desktop OS (ie: windows), GNU/Linux with KDE is comparable if not better in some aspects. As such, it's ready for use in the home desktop.
When cross-spectrum adoption kicks in, it'll be ready for business desktop use.
Javascript. Mind you, it's about two years old. I'm on an OOP kick when I do JS lately. That page (not actually my homepage, just a cute little thing I use to read comics and slashdot) is actually pretty badly written. I'd bother to redo it, but it works.
Close, though I'd be curious as to where the./bootstrap.sh is available from, as I don't see it anywhere in the bash sources.
Still, you did include the requisite commands (./configure, make, and make install (bonus points for not running as root, thus requiring sudo)), so you pass. You also get bonus points for making it a single command with the &&'s.
Additional bonus geekery would have included a wget command to grab the sources, the tar command to extract them, pointing tar to the LFH-standard location for sources, and combining them via a pipe, e.g.:
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.1.tar.gz --output-document=- | tar -C/usr/src -xzv
Slashdot Mirror
We can and do.
At least, we can 'clean room' reveng.
You do it with two people. One pokes around and takes notes. The other implements based on the notes. The DMCA doesn't prevent this as long as there is a non-infringing use of the protection bypass (i.e., writing drivers)
*sigh*
The user is supposed to know what is legit and what is not.
Honestly, there are a number of people out there who simply should not be using computers - or at the very least, not running with Administrative privelidges. This is not an elitist thing. This is a training and intuition thing.
I mean, phishing sites pretty much THRIVE on people not checking the URL in a link - something that just comes naturally to those aware of the issue. Viruses are spread not by using insecure software, but by opening programs from nontrusted sources.
The computer should not have to know this shit. The user should.
No. Because of the way NTFS.sys works, all operations are 'atomic' (ie: the file is changed, or the file is not changed. There is no in between. There's a lot of explanation as to how this process works, but that's the short of it.) The only way he could lose files due to defragging his system and it crashing is if he was using a FAT32 part as his system drive.
For that, I say 'Bad Slashdotter! No mod points!'
Hm. Your system froze, while active, and you lost a bunch of dlls required for system use...
You were using a FAT32 partition, wern'cha?
I have much the same issue with linux.
I actively develop for Slax, for example. I often get chastised for including software dependencies in the modules I create. I don't get it. Sure, sure, you're trying to save space - but I'm not. I'm trying to save end-user work.
I may be stupid, but...
Why don't windows actually maximize on a mac? I mean, they only get to fill about half to three-quarters of the screen (actual proportion determined by a complex algorithm using the phase of the moon, the number of leprechauns hiding under your bed, etc.)
Huh. And here I was, playing high-def (1080i, I assume?) video on a 933 MHz Dell from about three years ago.
Oh, wait... do you consider using Linux and building your own stuff to be cheating?
Ooh, leasing. Lemme get right on that self-induced slavery.
There's very few SATA-only boards around, so HD is no problem.
You will often have to buy a mobo-processor-RAM combo, but that can range from as low as $125 to a little over $300.
There's also a vid card to think about, but that's easily avoided if you make sure your new board has both AGP and PCI-X (you can get a new card later).
The case almost never needs changed out, unless they add a connector like they did a couple years back (then you can get away with just the PSU).
Still, an incremental upgrade is almost always cheaper than replacing your whole box ever year.
My girl's iBook (12", circa 1998, named 'Baby') had to be replaced twice due to the HD overheating and wiping its own bearings.
It still didn't quite run right without a cold pack underneath it when I started dating her.
Now she uses an IBM Thinkpad, circa 2004.
Hell, I was tempted to get an Intel Mac Mini - until I saw their new marketing campaign.
Sure. Insult the population you're selling to. Tell them the things they've been doing for years can't be done on the platform they've been doing it. That'll get you customers.
Ignorant marketing humans.
The test was for linux geeks. Other forms of unix geeks may wait outside. Thank you.
Put up the alternative site; I would be interested in it if anything you can come up with is plausable.
I agree that maintaining an army has nothing to do with it, but roads and highways should, as should the cost of pollution. Paying the social cost of a product is something that most companies have to deal with - still, the oil companies get out of it.
Uncompensated damages caused by car accidents, for example, should be included in the cost of driving school - though, a pigouvian tax would cause issues.
Still, I'd like to see the site.
Good man.
I'm only giving out cookies now. I'm out of geek points.
For your cookie, please surf to http://www.google.com.
I suppose. It's clear, though, that he's got the idea correct enough to figure out the issues with his approach in a real environment.
So, while his answer is not exact, it is still correct and worthy of bonus points in that he provided an example of a custom build, and in that he knew the correct parameters to use, if not the exact right variables.
In short, no, your syntax nazism will have no place here (this test, not slashdot. There's plenty of places for it on slashdot). We all make mistakes. In production software, those mistakes are ironed out by testing - a feature not available in an immediate question-answer form.
You are a linux geek.
Though your distribution-specific bent is not exactly what I asked for, I kinda have to give you the point, even if you did end-run around the question.
Well, I gave the gentoo emerge guy the benefit of the doubt, so I gotta give it to you.
Still, it shows your distributionism.
You don't get anything, though. It's a test, not a contest. You're officially recognized as a 'Linux Geek'.
No, I meant that, in meritorious terms in comparison to the most commonly available desktop OS (ie: windows), GNU/Linux with KDE is comparable if not better in some aspects. As such, it's ready for use in the home desktop.
When cross-spectrum adoption kicks in, it'll be ready for business desktop use.
Not in the least. I didn't ask for the bash sources.
Javascript. Mind you, it's about two years old. I'm on an OOP kick when I do JS lately. That page (not actually my homepage, just a cute little thing I use to read comics and slashdot) is actually pretty badly written. I'd bother to redo it, but it works.
Excellent! and multiple bonus points for:
custom build
building in home
not running as root (thus requiring the 'su')
You are officially a Linux Geek +3
Close, though I'd be curious as to where the ./bootstrap.sh is available from, as I don't see it anywhere in the bash sources.
/usr/src -xzv
Still, you did include the requisite commands (./configure, make, and make install (bonus points for not running as root, thus requiring sudo)), so you pass. You also get bonus points for making it a single command with the &&'s.
Additional bonus geekery would have included a wget command to grab the sources, the tar command to extract them, pointing tar to the LFH-standard location for sources, and combining them via a pipe, e.g.:
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.1.tar.gz --output-document=- | tar -C
You pass, though I find the use of emerge distasteful for this exercise. Shows your gentoo-specific geektitude.
You fail too. I said from source.
What on EARTH are you talking about?
Oh. You're one of those 'Security through Obscurity' fellows.
Run along then. Go play with the razors with all the other proprietary lackeys.