I hope one day that he will open up the network code
I'm pretty sure he did. Or he might as well; there is a quake3 parser for ethereal. Not sure how good it is, and not sure whether it or the source came first.
The choice is between bad guys finding holes and good guys patching them, or just bad guys finding holes.
The choice is between 1) bad guys easily finding holes and many good guys patching them, or 2) bad guys finding holes with more difficulty and a few good guys patching them (or not, if the product is unmaintained).
As I recall, John Carmack had a similar situation when he wanted to release the source for Quake*
Exposing the source code for the (obscured) multiplayer network protocol made it much easier to write cheats. It eventually happens anyway, but hiding the source code gives some measure of control over the problem.
AFAIK Carmack's position was that it was impossible to write a cheat-proof protocol.
... probably, but you almost make it sound like honesty is bad. Better to have both, really. Same for the money comment. And being an ass never helped me, tho YMMV.
I slightly disagree: geeks can often provide more than "average" security/wealth, which doesn't come along with a platonic friendship. It attracts golddiggers, of course, but it's still an advantage.
Speaking as a nerd, the main things that keep me from being Mr. Right are:
-- I can't even relate to most women, so I don't pursue 'em
-- Lack of confidence/experience
-- Lack of access, as part of my profession, but also self-imposed
It boils down to "since I disqualified myself, she didn't even get the chance to". It has nothing to do with women who "prefer apes" (and if we're hung up over that, ask yourself if you don't enjoy a little T&A). These are solvable problems.
Answer me this, how can you (or any of these poor threatened heathens) justify removing GOD from our Nation under God?
I don't think the grandparent was arguing for that, nor am I.
How many hands would it take for you to enumerate things worse than death?
That depends on your interpretation of the question, your imagination, the amount of time you have, and whether you feel the need to use hands in order to do the enumerating.
In the situations I've seen, not speaking passable English is a good way to keep yourself limited to the lower end of the job spectrum. Also, most higher-ranking jobs demand proof of citizenship. Sorry if this seems like flamebait.
The closest thing I know of to patchlevels in Linux-land is Debian's different revisions of -stable. I believe it's non-trivial to back-rev these, but Debian's so conservative about patching things in -stable that (in theory) it wouldn't be an issue.
Good luck with verifying Debian packages since I don't know how to do that. On RH, you should be able to verify the entire system w/something like "rpm -qa | xargs rpm -V". But, no, RH certainly doesn't have "clusters" of patches (last I checked).
I don't understand why I'm supposed to sympathize with your personal attacks on a complete stranger, when you freely admit to being a former jock, partier, and slacker?
You simply have no ground left to stand on.
(and before somebody dings me for the same thing, you'll note I haven't mentioned all the stupid shit *I've* done:-)
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If you actually follow the link, it looks like gcc4 was miscompiling bits of kde.
Here
is an example.
"not compiling cleanly" may have been a less-accurate description of the problem.
like IRIX -- I could give 10 good solid reasons, but I leave them out for brevity
I'm curious. I heard years ago that it wasn't very secure. But it runs on exceedingly high-end stuff. And there was the whole excellent support for OpenGL thing. So from a completely outsider perspective, what's not to like?
I truly pity companies who "bet the farm" on this junk.
For a company that does almost all of its development on a single LAN (like mine), Clearcase's changeset-oriented streams and semi-intelligent merge features kick the crap out of CVS.
You're correct that dynamic views are too much trouble; I use snapshot views so I can control when I sync with the rest of the codebase.
I'm not saying Linus should use Clearcase, but it does have its place.
It's only REALLY bad in August. You can build up resistance to July and September, and the other months are fine. Unless you live in Brownsville.
Of course, if you're the Colorado type that starts sweating like a pig when it hits 80F, you might want to reconsider.
It's also a good motivation to lose weight, since all that extra insulation is exactly what you don't want. Unfortunately (by all appearances), a lot of people down here disagree.
As far as shitty schools. I thought that was a nationwide problem, and last I checked we still taught evolution at least. But to hear some of my teacher acquaintances tell it, yes our schools have gotten steadily worse.
... the press release at least doesn't seem very informative.
I think I remember Conectiva pioneered APT-rpm. Is Mandrake planning on ditching urpmi? (I thought it was supposed to compare favorably with yum/up2date). Or has Conectiva got tons of experience with udev, and Mandrake would like to replace supermount, or something? Or is this all just to say Mandrake-"2006" will have pretty good brazilean portugese support?
Maintainability is a key attribute of a program, so yes coding style is important. Many GNU programs are rich in OBFUSCATING_MACRO()s and unfamiliar terms, coupled with poor source-level documentation. The funny indentation and occasional pre-ANSI C (needed for bootstrapping the toolchain on some platforms) doesn't help.
Anything the gnu group can do to ease the learning curve can only help them in the long term.
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I'm pretty sure he did. Or he might as well; there is a quake3 parser for ethereal. Not sure how good it is, and not sure whether it or the source came first.
The choice is between 1) bad guys easily finding holes and many good guys patching them, or 2) bad guys finding holes with more difficulty and a few good guys patching them (or not, if the product is unmaintained).
As I recall, John Carmack had a similar situation when he wanted to release the source for Quake* Exposing the source code for the (obscured) multiplayer network protocol made it much easier to write cheats. It eventually happens anyway, but hiding the source code gives some measure of control over the problem.
AFAIK Carmack's position was that it was impossible to write a cheat-proof protocol.
I'm having "Puppetmaster" flashbacks... I'd suggest something a little more his speed, like "Angry Clown"
Speaking as a nerd, the main things that keep me from being Mr. Right are:
-- I can't even relate to most women, so I don't pursue 'em
-- Lack of confidence/experience
-- Lack of access, as part of my profession, but also self-imposed
It boils down to "since I disqualified myself, she didn't even get the chance to". It has nothing to do with women who "prefer apes" (and if we're hung up over that, ask yourself if you don't enjoy a little T&A). These are solvable problems.
The boot partition doesn't need to be, but the root partition sure as heck should be.
You use that term as if it were a slur.
and biased
Who's not? Even Jesus was biased (against evil).
Answer me this, how can you (or any of these poor threatened heathens) justify removing GOD from our Nation under God?
I don't think the grandparent was arguing for that, nor am I.
How many hands would it take for you to enumerate things worse than death?
That depends on your interpretation of the question, your imagination, the amount of time you have, and whether you feel the need to use hands in order to do the enumerating.
In the situations I've seen, not speaking passable English is a good way to keep yourself limited to the lower end of the job spectrum. Also, most higher-ranking jobs demand proof of citizenship. Sorry if this seems like flamebait.
At least part of New Orleans' problem is that their culture takes pride in deep-frying everything. It affects the more well-to-do as well.
What exactly does a soccer-field-size flower-shaped starshade 50k miles away buy you, vs. a tiny flower-shaped starshade 5 feet away?
I RTFA, but I seemed to have missed this part.
"Errant Story" is also regularly updated -- rare, for webcomics. I enjoy it a lot, and I'm suprised it's not more popular on here. Go Poe!
I believe it depends on where you live. In Texas, my A/C and refrigerator suck up a lot more juice during the day than my lights do at night.
Agreed! We need to go the T-800 route, and focus on building machines from human parts.
Some people use trucks to (usefully) haul stuff -- a task which can often be performed solo.
If you'd like to discuss how most trucks are "utilized", well, that's another story altogether.
Two others had a boyfriend; and a couple were lesbians (they weren't lying ... it was obvious when I got to know them better).
Sucks, but that's life.
Good luck with verifying Debian packages since I don't know how to do that. On RH, you should be able to verify the entire system w/something like "rpm -qa | xargs rpm -V". But, no, RH certainly doesn't have "clusters" of patches (last I checked).
You simply have no ground left to stand on.
(and before somebody dings me for the same thing, you'll note I haven't mentioned all the stupid shit *I've* done :-)
"not compiling cleanly" may have been a less-accurate description of the problem.
I'm curious. I heard years ago that it wasn't very secure. But it runs on exceedingly high-end stuff. And there was the whole excellent support for OpenGL thing. So from a completely outsider perspective, what's not to like?
For a company that does almost all of its development on a single LAN (like mine), Clearcase's changeset-oriented streams and semi-intelligent merge features kick the crap out of CVS.
You're correct that dynamic views are too much trouble; I use snapshot views so I can control when I sync with the rest of the codebase.
I'm not saying Linus should use Clearcase, but it does have its place.
2004 election results
Most of Texas has a deep red color.
It's only REALLY bad in August. You can build up resistance to July and September, and the other months are fine. Unless you live in Brownsville.
Of course, if you're the Colorado type that starts sweating like a pig when it hits 80F, you might want to reconsider.
It's also a good motivation to lose weight, since all that extra insulation is exactly what you don't want. Unfortunately (by all appearances), a lot of people down here disagree.
As far as shitty schools. I thought that was a nationwide problem, and last I checked we still taught evolution at least. But to hear some of my teacher acquaintances tell it, yes our schools have gotten steadily worse.
I think I remember Conectiva pioneered APT-rpm. Is Mandrake planning on ditching urpmi? (I thought it was supposed to compare favorably with yum/up2date). Or has Conectiva got tons of experience with udev, and Mandrake would like to replace supermount, or something? Or is this all just to say Mandrake-"2006" will have pretty good brazilean portugese support?
What exactly does Conectiva have to offer?
Anything the gnu group can do to ease the learning curve can only help them in the long term.