I don't disagree, I've met many awesome people through various online things.. I've just found that there have been periods in my own life where I have become so involved with online communities that I didn't put the time into real-world interactions. I find that for me at least, this trap just leads to me not being happy in the real world, so I try to balance online and offline life. To each his/her own, of course..
I'd say that the more opportunity to meet interesting people in this world, the better, and this just improves the odds of randomly meeting people your probably wouldn't otherwise have to opportunity to meet.
As long as it doesn't supplant actual real world interaction with people as a primary social outlet, that is..
This would be an amazing idea, and could probably work if it ever managed to pick up momentum.. After all, it seems unlikely that flash would have become so ubiquitous if developers hadn't seen how much power they had using it, and encouraged people to install it all over the place.
It seems to me that if developers had the option of using things like proper PNG alpha support, and embedded SVG in HTML by just specifying that pages should render in a full-page Gecko ActiveX control, a lot of them probably would.
..to code in Java: There are very nice libraries that take care of the plumbing for you and help you write clean code faster. In this case, the library in question is jMusic.
I'm sure Chuck is awesome (it sure looks cool yet daunting), but as a java coder by day and a musician by night, I'm rather intrigued by jMusic myself.
It also assumes that the gourmet places aren't "juicing" their coffee... I have no ideas if that's really plausible either, but I've certainly heard many a rumour about it.
Malicious VBScript and unsafe.exe files are pretty easy to avoid in the first place though. Where this would come in handy is for things like maliciously crafted data files that exploit buffer overruns in software, and service exploits like the ones used by Sasser and other internet worms..
Some of the images were found in unallocated file space, and would have to have been placed there deliberately since cached images from browsing sessions wouldn't have been stored in unallocated space.
Anyone have any idea what they are talking about here? Do they mean like the files were deleted? What does that prove?
After all, how often do you see pop-ups with child porn on 'em? I certainly know I never do, even when I'm forced to use IE
The dude in question claims that he bought the computer on eBay, which is a whole other ball of wax. If you buy a used computer, and can prove you did so, are you legally responsible for what might have been on it when you bought it?
I totally have no idea what the right answer to that would be.
It would be awesome to have a car that was able to "refuel" itself while it sat idle most of the time. Cars have so much surface area that is exposed to the sun, it just seems like this would be a great fit, although the sun obviously couldn't be the sole source of power.
I'd say that this is just good business for them.. Making sure that people who probably wouldn't pay for an OS anyways aren't helping to spread worms and infecting people who DO pay for the OS is just going to help MS.
On the other hand, denying people service packs is not likely to induce them to pay for a license (it certainly wouldn't have convinced me, back when I ran windows), and just contributes to the perception (if you want to call it that..:)) that windows is insecure.
Very often OSS projects use Bugzilla to track problems and requests for enhancements. To bugzilla, the fundamental unit (whether it's a defect or an RFE) is called a Bug.
Therefore, when they call it "Bug 9399", they are just referring to the entry in bugzilla with that number.
I'm curious, which departments do you know of that are using OSS? In all my time working there, I found that it was very rare for any of the IT -managers- to have even -heard- of open source. It was completely ass-backwards.
I now work in health care though (technically for the province I guess), and we use OSS quite a bit.
I work as a developer for a hospital here in canada. We develop all of our shit in Java, and use open source products both for development and in our apps pretty much constantly. Most of our major projects have at least 5 apache/jakarta projects within.
SO true.. The feds here are really behind as far as IT in general goes, I found. I worked for 3 years at HRDC ending about a year ago, and it was only within the last six months I was there that our desktops were upgraded from Windows 95 to Windows 2000 (as in a good while after winXP came out.. Our office LAN was this old VINES network that apparently the vendor didn't even support any more, and it went down constantly.
The one bright side was that my particular group used Perl quite a bit. I became very adept at perl after a while there, which was fun.
Another flaw of ref counting is that if you have two objects which are no longer referenced by any of the active application, but which have references to each other, they will not get GC'ed, leading to memory leaks. Circular refs alone are just not good enough for any serious application, unless you force the programmer to look after cleaning up circular references, which kinda defeats alot of the benefit of using a GC'ed language.
Out of curiosity, has drobbins given any explanation as to why he has made this decision? Too much work? Change in priorities? It's definitely sad to see him go... Gentoo forums don't seem to have an answer yet, and they're usually the first source of any gentoo news..
On another note, is Gentoo ever gonna get it's own icon on/.? The time is now!
And it won't look the least bit suspicious when the host is connected to several other hosts, transferring encrypted data at full-speed 24 hours a day.
Suspicious maybe, but surely this thing can't be designed to block anything that is remotely suspicious.. Maybe I'm wrong, but damn that would suck.
I guess uploading with it would be particularly suspicious and problematic though, given that the uploader would appear to be running a public webserver, which college campuses don't seem to like either.
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I don't disagree, I've met many awesome people through various online things.. I've just found that there have been periods in my own life where I have become so involved with online communities that I didn't put the time into real-world interactions. I find that for me at least, this trap just leads to me not being happy in the real world, so I try to balance online and offline life. To each his/her own, of course..
I'd say that the more opportunity to meet interesting people in this world, the better, and this just improves the odds of randomly meeting people your probably wouldn't otherwise have to opportunity to meet.
As long as it doesn't supplant actual real world interaction with people as a primary social outlet, that is..
This would be an amazing idea, and could probably work if it ever managed to pick up momentum.. After all, it seems unlikely that flash would have become so ubiquitous if developers hadn't seen how much power they had using it, and encouraged people to install it all over the place.
It seems to me that if developers had the option of using things like proper PNG alpha support, and embedded SVG in HTML by just specifying that pages should render in a full-page Gecko ActiveX control, a lot of them probably would.
..to code in Java: There are very nice libraries that take care of the plumbing for you and help you write clean code faster. In this case, the library in question is jMusic.
I'm sure Chuck is awesome (it sure looks cool yet daunting), but as a java coder by day and a musician by night, I'm rather intrigued by jMusic myself.
The article is a bit sparse on detail, but here's a link I dug up: Link.
Quite law, that. I wonder if it will work?
It also assumes that the gourmet places aren't "juicing" their coffee... I have no ideas if that's really plausible either, but I've certainly heard many a rumour about it.
Malicious VBScript and unsafe .exe files are pretty easy to avoid in the first place though. Where this would come in handy is for things like maliciously crafted data files that exploit buffer overruns in software, and service exploits like the ones used by Sasser and other internet worms..
Not in my eyes. I work for a domestic company producing domestic software for domestic clients. I know a lot of people in the same situation.
There's nothing "outsourced" about it.
If you visit the OP's website, it appears to be more or less a fansite for Canada.. :)
I have no idea if this is actually a difference, but I definitely find that IT workers here (in Toronto) are not one bit concerned about outsourcing..
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Of course, I have no idea if the general IT population in the states are either, or if it's just especially strong here on
After all, how often do you see pop-ups with child porn on 'em? I certainly know I never do, even when I'm forced to use IE
The dude in question claims that he bought the computer on eBay, which is a whole other ball of wax. If you buy a used computer, and can prove you did so, are you legally responsible for what might have been on it when you bought it?
I totally have no idea what the right answer to that would be.
It would be awesome to have a car that was able to "refuel" itself while it sat idle most of the time. Cars have so much surface area that is exposed to the sun, it just seems like this would be a great fit, although the sun obviously couldn't be the sole source of power.
I'd say that this is just good business for them.. Making sure that people who probably wouldn't pay for an OS anyways aren't helping to spread worms and infecting people who DO pay for the OS is just going to help MS.
:)) that windows is insecure.
On the other hand, denying people service packs is not likely to induce them to pay for a license (it certainly wouldn't have convinced me, back when I ran windows), and just contributes to the perception (if you want to call it that..
Very often OSS projects use Bugzilla to track problems and requests for enhancements. To bugzilla, the fundamental unit (whether it's a defect or an RFE) is called a Bug.
Therefore, when they call it "Bug 9399", they are just referring to the entry in bugzilla with that number.
I hand out knoppix cds to many friends, can anyone shed light on why kOffice is no longer indluded?
Just look three words to the right:
"Koffice has been dropped for space reasons"
I'm curious, which departments do you know of that are using OSS? In all my time working there, I found that it was very rare for any of the IT -managers- to have even -heard- of open source. It was completely ass-backwards.
I now work in health care though (technically for the province I guess), and we use OSS quite a bit.
I work as a developer for a hospital here in canada. We develop all of our shit in Java, and use open source products both for development and in our apps pretty much constantly. Most of our major projects have at least 5 apache/jakarta projects within.
SO true.. The feds here are really behind as far as IT in general goes, I found. I worked for 3 years at HRDC ending about a year ago, and it was only within the last six months I was there that our desktops were upgraded from Windows 95 to Windows 2000 (as in a good while after winXP came out.. Our office LAN was this old VINES network that apparently the vendor didn't even support any more, and it went down constantly.
The one bright side was that my particular group used Perl quite a bit. I became very adept at perl after a while there, which was fun.
Another flaw of ref counting is that if you have two objects which are no longer referenced by any of the active application, but which have references to each other, they will not get GC'ed, leading to memory leaks. Circular refs alone are just not good enough for any serious application, unless you force the programmer to look after cleaning up circular references, which kinda defeats alot of the benefit of using a GC'ed language.
So, let me get this straight..
-Xfree86 is evil because they have a license that forces distributors to acknowledge their work.
-Java Desktop is evil because they don't acknowledge the work they use.
*confused*
Out of curiosity, has drobbins given any explanation as to why he has made this decision? Too much work? Change in priorities? It's definitely sad to see him go... Gentoo forums don't seem to have an answer yet, and they're usually the first source of any gentoo news..
/.? The time is now!
On another note, is Gentoo ever gonna get it's own icon on
And it won't look the least bit suspicious when the host is connected to several other hosts, transferring encrypted data at full-speed 24 hours a day.
Suspicious maybe, but surely this thing can't be designed to block anything that is remotely suspicious.. Maybe I'm wrong, but damn that would suck.
I guess uploading with it would be particularly suspicious and problematic though, given that the uploader would appear to be running a public webserver, which college campuses don't seem to like either.
..is a P2P app that can run over an SSL connection, disguised as web traffic. I'd bet that could beat this thing. Does such a thing exist?
My bad.