Well, oddlly enough I write my own program, Myster, for myself too. The thing is I can't stand touching config files or playing with text interfaces or banging my head on a dumb interface with silly limitations so I try and program my app that way too. In my mind the interface is the most important part of an application because that is what you interract with. I always try and make interracting with the program as painless as possible.
I got my current job via monster. For that matter I got all my interviews leading to my first job via Monster. I don't think I had any success via any other source come to think of it. So, I guess it worked well for me.
Oddly enough I had the exact same situation.I had two email addresses. One of them was public and I used it everywhere - in forums online etc.. The other was private and wasen't used anywhere. The public one started with "spam" as in "spamandrewt@..." and I had, like 3 piece of spam in it during its life. The private one almost had to be abandonned because of the level of spam. If it weren't for yahoomail's nice spam filtering I would get about 100 spams a day. In the end the spam email address was deleted citing lack of use.. The guy in the cube next to me has a similar story.. I wonder if we're on to something here:-)...
Yes. I do this all the time. In fact, most tasks can background process independently.. which means if you are working on three (or more) hard problems at once they all tend to background process and if they are related they tend to compliment each other too. Just be careful with this because you will need more sleep. As much as 4 hours more in my experience depending on how how many problems and how long your worke don them etc...
When I'm programming and I get seriously stuck, I just go for a walk or start some other problem. Non sense banging your head against a wall. It does make filling in time sheets really hard though..
Yeah, I know I worked 24 hours on the project. I billed you for my sleeping time too.. and that walk I took..
The thing is, in order for clients to filter their songs you need to have the co-operation of that client. If you have an open network protocol then any client can get around that problem by writing their own client. Open p2p networks can never trust their clients. It's really quite annoying actually. With kaazaaaaa, from what I remember, they have safeguards in place to stop just any old client from connecting to their networks. I believe their network protocols are encrypted and undocumented for a start.
As for filtering songs by hash value, no this obviously won't work. Change one bit and you have a different song. However, if it's possible to create a filter that can tell a piece of spam from a legit email then it should be possible to tell that two songs are the same even if there is multiple bits different. I'm not sure of the kind of crazy computation overhead involved, though. Calculating an MD5 hash ishard enough;-)... Not to mention the fact you'd probably need a central server to authenticate the keys which would introduce a central point of failure in an otherwise distributed system..
I think wire isn't the way to go. What we need here is a bird education program. These birds are obviously stupid so we should set up billboards and runs ads with catchy slogans like:
This is your brain, bird. This is your brain after it's been hit by a very large wind turbine propeller. Any question?
or
If you fly near wind farms, you're not a bird, you're a turkey.
or put big yellow stickers on the side of the propeller blades saying something like
There is an excellent on-line documentairy on the topic of drug prices in the US vs Canada.
Also, if you liked it, don't forget to send them an email. They are still undecided about whether they should put more of their documentaitries online.
Agh.. This slashdot article should be called flamebait. Ya, blame the users because the technical elite are delusional. There is nothing special about computing. Computers are overly complicated, unreliable, user hostile pieces of junk. The technically savy are not helping by pretending that the absurd junk we all go through is perfectly normal and reasonable behavior.
Whose at fault for virus/worm propagation? Well, in the case of IIs and RPC exploits, that would be the vendor. One thing that irritate the hell out of me is that windows keeps a bunch of ports open and there's no way of turning them off. It's MY computer and I can't turn off the useless ports. I mean even microsoft recommends running a firewall.. I need to INSTALL software to TURN STUFF OFF! Not only that but there are remote exploits for the stupid ports. I can't turn off stuff that shouldn't be on in the first place and there's a virus that uses them to spread and this piece of junk is on 90% of the world's computers. This kind of behavior requires a Phd in stupidity.
Who fault is it that updates are not applied? I come from a radical school of thought which goes something like this -> updates are annoying, difficult to apply., they are inconvenient, the bugs they fix are not my fault and they are often avoidable. I don't understand where this attitude of "It's my duty to clean up someone else's error" comes from. Or actually more like "It's my duty to read on-line mags everyday and then be savy enough to update my system every time some programmer writes something in C ". Auto-update makes things slightly better but I know a few users who are wary of updates because they tend to change and break things. Misleading autoupdates are evil. Downloaded real player or media player? What was the first thing you did? Unless you are savy enough to avoid stupid updates updating is scary. It's an unreasonable expectation that users will apply all updates in a timely manner. What really bugs me is when there's an error and it involves a port that I can't close without a freaking third party piece of software. It's insecure by default and even when you turn off as much as possible it's still got a bunch of useless ports open . Microsoft forces me to be insecure. Why hasn't an angry mob of sys admins stormed redmond? There they are, producing millions of little insecure nodes all the while having some of the best computer people on the planet tell them it's a bad idea. They could very well be trying to undermine the internet on purpose because lord knows they have the expertise to not be this stupid.
Email worms - Outlook is evil. The only worms that should possibly exist are the ones that have their own smtp server. These ones can easy be avoided by reminding users that running unknown programs is a bad idea. What would also help is if certain operating systems didn't make it nearly impossible to tell the difference between a document and an app. Or run stuff automatically. What is the point of putting the type of the document in the name if you're not going to show it?
anyway..
Star Trek the next generation once had an episode called contagion in which the enterprise catches a computer virus when Picard reads the logs of the USS Yamato. At the time people said it was silly because you can't catch a virus from a datafile like a ship's log. Not only that but odd things on the enterprise stopped working like the doors and things. Who would wires doors into a computer system? Well, now we know. How is that ship that ran on NT again?
You can/could get a virus from web browsing from zark's sake!
Ugh. I am ranting.. enough of this I'm going to bed.
I work for a company that does all the logistics work for large conventions and have rather stumbled into the role of writting all Appplescript code. We have several scripts around the company (one for doing releases, one to start clients etc..) and we implemented a great number of features in our in house software by executing small snippits of applescript code from inside our app. So yeah, it's extremely usefull. (Maybe I should say Apple events ar extremely usefull since we tend to do applescripts instead of using Apple Events 'cause it's marginally easier:-) )
That is dangerous! There could be a hidden or obfuscated loophole. I, for one, never run any code that hasen't been written by myself while under polygraph examination. I keep my website running in a concrete block under the ocean and I keep all the clocks in my appartment running at different times, just in case my future self came back in time to try to sabotage my project. Every one should do it.
When I introduce someone to coding I chop off their hands and then hide them to be sure they won't code anything. New users think I'm paranoid and arrogent but I don't want any one of the mindless rabble to come and get me in middle of the night when the KGB hacks their site.:-)
I would be surprised if a web site ran on an iMac because of their screens.. it takes up a bit of space for nothing in the server room. We used to run part of our website on 6 iMacs but we switched things around so the things that used to run on iMac now run on older G3/G4 towers and the iMacs are in the field. The towers are more easy to stack in a rack and have more CPU power per unit volume. Especially the dual processor macs.
That being said, I can think of no technical reasone you couldn't do the same with iMacs. Kidda a waste with that nice LCD, though.
Yes, indeed. Someone who already knows Java should be reviewing it. They should also have 5 years experince with OO design principles. These are the perfect people to review entry level books.
To use your own analogy, what if you were a non-Christian living in the US and wanted to smoke Marijuana? What an outrage!
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Being Christian or not in the US is not relevant. Marijuana laws or for that matter ALL laws are not based on any religious doctrine. Religion has no legislative input. Europe spent a great deal of effort separating church and state over the last few hundred years specifically so that religious organizations could not dictate policy in their own interest.
if you want to argue for or against a law in the US, quoting religious commandments or passages will get you nowhere. Religion has no place in lawmaking.
The way it used to work on the mac was there were two files that were system critical. The finder and the system. If you tried to delete the system folder (which was defined basically as any folder that contained these two files) the system would tell you that you can't delete your main system folder 'cause that would render your system unbootable. You could still do it but you had to boot form another disk. You could also split the files up and trash them individually but I think the system file might have been "in use" and you can't delete files that are in use (you could move them, however).
other files in the system folder were not critical so you could delete them (well the ones that were not in use) and all that would happen was your system would loose functionality. later on they started to bugger about with this so that there were now three files, one of which was the appearance manager or something..
The Mac was great. You could rename the system folder to anything and it would still boot, you could stick the system folder anywhere on the hard disk even several layers deep in some folder hierarchy.. I even saw someone who had their system folder at the root (which meant that everything on their hard disk was inside the system folder.).. not a good idea but it booted and didn't give any errors or crash. In fact the only reason I was called was he was complaining his fonts had disappeared. He had a second valid system folder inside a folder called system folder on his main HD and he thought that that was his active system folder so he was putting his fonts in there. I simply moved the Finder file off his root and that system folder became unblessed, the system found the other valid system folder and blessed it for me and it was fixed.. although we did have to move a few preferences files over..
macs were so much fun.. You could copy your active system folder from your HD to a zip then reboot from the zip without having to do anything else. Everything would work with no problems..
Can't do that any more.. Now everything's got permissions to stop you from modifying things. I'm being stopped form doing things on my own system! Outrageous! More of the system uses primitive absolute paths so if you rename a folder suddenly some program will not know where it is. A program NEEDS installers because third party software has easier access to the system than me. blah.
Given what I have seen with the placebo effect I would rather not believe my own personal observations until I could quantify them. Much less those of someone else. It's entirely reasonable to discount personal observations. With these types of things personal observations should *always* be discounted. Presumably consumer reports did the proper tests and it's therefore reasonable to point to those tests as evidence that they are not very effective. In any case, the proper way of resolving this is to setup repeatable experiments showing the effectiveness of one filter verses another and to publish the results.
On the MacOS you could add a return character to the filname via copy and paste.. It was a usefull way to change the short order of files sorted by name. Put a space in front of the name then a return character and the name would look like it had no space in front but always be at the top of any list listed by name. I used this all the time in the Apple menu to put an alias to my hard drive at the top of the menu.
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Well, oddlly enough I write my own program, Myster, for myself too. The thing is I can't stand touching config files or playing with text interfaces or banging my head on a dumb interface with silly limitations so I try and program my app that way too. In my mind the interface is the most important part of an application because that is what you interract with. I always try and make interracting with the program as painless as possible.
That's because Wine is still in beta.
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Yes and a good WINE needs to be aged a long time.
I got my current job via monster. For that matter I got all my interviews leading to my first job via Monster. I don't think I had any success via any other source come to think of it. So, I guess it worked well for me.
Say we try and we fail. Would you really want to live in such a world?
Oddly enough I had the exact same situation.I had two email addresses. One of them was public and I used it everywhere - in forums online etc.. The other was private and wasen't used anywhere. The public one started with "spam" as in "spamandrewt@..." and I had, like 3 piece of spam in it during its life. The private one almost had to be abandonned because of the level of spam. If it weren't for yahoomail's nice spam filtering I would get about 100 spams a day. In the end the spam email address was deleted citing lack of use.. The guy in the cube next to me has a similar story.. I wonder if we're on to something here :-)...
Yes. I do this all the time. In fact, most tasks can background process independently.. which means if you are working on three (or more) hard problems at once they all tend to background process and if they are related they tend to compliment each other too. Just be careful with this because you will need more sleep. As much as 4 hours more in my experience depending on how how many problems and how long your worke don them etc...
When I'm programming and I get seriously stuck, I just go for a walk or start some other problem. Non sense banging your head against a wall. It does make filling in time sheets really hard though..
Yeah, I know I worked 24 hours on the project. I billed you for my sleeping time too.. and that walk I took..
That just doesn't work for most clients...
The thing is, in order for clients to filter their songs you need to have the co-operation of that client. If you have an open network protocol then any client can get around that problem by writing their own client. Open p2p networks can never trust their clients. It's really quite annoying actually. With kaazaaaaa, from what I remember, they have safeguards in place to stop just any old client from connecting to their networks. I believe their network protocols are encrypted and undocumented for a start.
;-) ... Not to mention the fact you'd probably need a central server to authenticate the keys which would introduce a central point of failure in an otherwise distributed system..
As for filtering songs by hash value, no this obviously won't work. Change one bit and you have a different song. However, if it's possible to create a filter that can tell a piece of spam from a legit email then it should be possible to tell that two songs are the same even if there is multiple bits different. I'm not sure of the kind of crazy computation overhead involved, though. Calculating an MD5 hash ishard enough
Why? Do magnets have cooties or something?
They should glue speed lines on the blades then.. It would make them look like they were moving faster.
bird 1: Look a GAP!
bird 2: No, dude, that blade is moving too fast. Look at all the speed lines!
bird 1: oh yeah.. My bad..
I think wire isn't the way to go. What we need here is a bird education program. These birds are obviously stupid so we should set up billboards and runs ads with catchy slogans like :
This is your brain, bird. This is your brain after it's been hit by a very large wind turbine propeller. Any question?
or
If you fly near wind farms, you're not a bird, you're a turkey.
or put big yellow stickers on the side of the propeller blades saying something like
"This is not a perch!"
Someone's gone and added a ridding crop to my HD icon..
God forbid they discouver the black, white, red, yellow electrical cables.
Weeeeeeeeeee........ That's what makes it fun!
Ooooooh, an anonymous coward just posted an insightfull string of condescending vugarities! Gotta go!
There is an excellent on-line documentairy on the topic of drug prices in the US vs Canada.
e r/
Also, if you liked it, don't forget to send them an email. They are still undecided about whether they should put more of their documentaitries online.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oth
Agh.. This slashdot article should be called flamebait. Ya, blame the users because the technical elite are delusional. There is nothing special about computing. Computers are overly complicated, unreliable, user hostile pieces of junk. The technically savy are not helping by pretending that the absurd junk we all go through is perfectly normal and reasonable behavior.
Whose at fault for virus/worm propagation? Well, in the case of IIs and RPC exploits, that would be the vendor. One thing that irritate the hell out of me is that windows keeps a bunch of ports open and there's no way of turning them off. It's MY computer and I can't turn off the useless ports. I mean even microsoft recommends running a firewall.. I need to INSTALL software to TURN STUFF OFF! Not only that but there are remote exploits for the stupid ports. I can't turn off stuff that shouldn't be on in the first place and there's a virus that uses them to spread and this piece of junk is on 90% of the world's computers. This kind of behavior requires a Phd in stupidity.
Who fault is it that updates are not applied? I come from a radical school of thought which goes something like this -> updates are annoying, difficult to apply., they are inconvenient, the bugs they fix are not my fault and they are often avoidable. I don't understand where this attitude of "It's my duty to clean up someone else's error" comes from. Or actually more like "It's my duty to read on-line mags everyday and then be savy enough to update my system every time some programmer writes something in C ". Auto-update makes things slightly better but I know a few users who are wary of updates because they tend to change and break things. Misleading autoupdates are evil. Downloaded real player or media player? What was the first thing you did? Unless you are savy enough to avoid stupid updates updating is scary. It's an unreasonable expectation that users will apply all updates in a timely manner. What really bugs me is when there's an error and it involves a port that I can't close without a freaking third party piece of software. It's insecure by default and even when you turn off as much as possible it's still got a bunch of useless ports open . Microsoft forces me to be insecure. Why hasn't an angry mob of sys admins stormed redmond? There they are, producing millions of little insecure nodes all the while having some of the best computer people on the planet tell them it's a bad idea. They could very well be trying to undermine the internet on purpose because lord knows they have the expertise to not be this stupid.
Email worms - Outlook is evil. The only worms that should possibly exist are the ones that have their own smtp server. These ones can easy be avoided by reminding users that running unknown programs is a bad idea. What would also help is if certain operating systems didn't make it nearly impossible to tell the difference between a document and an app. Or run stuff automatically. What is the point of putting the type of the document in the name if you're not going to show it?
anyway..
Star Trek the next generation once had an episode called contagion in which the enterprise catches a computer virus when Picard reads the logs of the USS Yamato. At the time people said it was silly because you can't catch a virus from a datafile like a ship's log. Not only that but odd things on the enterprise stopped working like the doors and things. Who would wires doors into a computer system? Well, now we know. How is that ship that ran on NT again?
You can/could get a virus from web browsing from zark's sake!
Ugh. I am ranting.. enough of this I'm going to bed.
I work for a company that does all the logistics work for large conventions and have rather stumbled into the role of writting all Appplescript code. We have several scripts around the company (one for doing releases, one to start clients etc..) and we implemented a great number of features in our in house software by executing small snippits of applescript code from inside our app. So yeah, it's extremely usefull. (Maybe I should say Apple events ar extremely usefull since we tend to do applescripts instead of using Apple Events 'cause it's marginally easier :-) )
That is dangerous! There could be a hidden or obfuscated loophole. I, for one, never run any code that hasen't been written by myself while under polygraph examination. I keep my website running in a concrete block under the ocean and I keep all the clocks in my appartment running at different times, just in case my future self came back in time to try to sabotage my project. Every one should do it.
:-)
When I introduce someone to coding I chop off their hands and then hide them to be sure they won't code anything. New users think I'm paranoid and arrogent but I don't want any one of the mindless rabble to come and get me in middle of the night when the KGB hacks their site.
You be crazy! No G3 can run MacOS X acceptably... Well, by my definition of acceptable..
:-)
Just thought I'd chime in.
I would be surprised if a web site ran on an iMac because of their screens.. it takes up a bit of space for nothing in the server room. We used to run part of our website on 6 iMacs but we switched things around so the things that used to run on iMac now run on older G3/G4 towers and the iMacs are in the field. The towers are more easy to stack in a rack and have more CPU power per unit volume. Especially the dual processor macs.
That being said, I can think of no technical reasone you couldn't do the same with iMacs. Kidda a waste with that nice LCD, though.
Yes, indeed. Someone who already knows Java should be reviewing it. They should also have 5 years experince with OO design principles. These are the perfect people to review entry level books.
To use your own analogy, what if you were a non-Christian living in the US and wanted to smoke Marijuana? What an outrage!
====================
Being Christian or not in the US is not relevant. Marijuana laws or for that matter ALL laws are not based on any religious doctrine. Religion has no legislative input. Europe spent a great deal of effort separating church and state over the last few hundred years specifically so that religious organizations could not dictate policy in their own interest.
if you want to argue for or against a law in the US, quoting religious commandments or passages will get you nowhere. Religion has no place in lawmaking.
It's like Neo is trapped inside the game...
He is the one who will bring balence to Shadowbane.
The way it used to work on the mac was there were two files that were system critical. The finder and the system. If you tried to delete the system folder (which was defined basically as any folder that contained these two files) the system would tell you that you can't delete your main system folder 'cause that would render your system unbootable. You could still do it but you had to boot form another disk. You could also split the files up and trash them individually but I think the system file might have been "in use" and you can't delete files that are in use (you could move them, however).
other files in the system folder were not critical so you could delete them (well the ones that were not in use) and all that would happen was your system would loose functionality. later on they started to bugger about with this so that there were now three files, one of which was the appearance manager or something..
The Mac was great. You could rename the system folder to anything and it would still boot, you could stick the system folder anywhere on the hard disk even several layers deep in some folder hierarchy.. I even saw someone who had their system folder at the root (which meant that everything on their hard disk was inside the system folder.).. not a good idea but it booted and didn't give any errors or crash. In fact the only reason I was called was he was complaining his fonts had disappeared. He had a second valid system folder inside a folder called system folder on his main HD and he thought that that was his active system folder so he was putting his fonts in there. I simply moved the Finder file off his root and that system folder became unblessed, the system found the other valid system folder and blessed it for me and it was fixed.. although we did have to move a few preferences files over..
macs were so much fun.. You could copy your active system folder from your HD to a zip then reboot from the zip without having to do anything else. Everything would work with no problems..
Can't do that any more.. Now everything's got permissions to stop you from modifying things. I'm being stopped form doing things on my own system! Outrageous! More of the system uses primitive absolute paths so if you rename a folder suddenly some program will not know where it is. A program NEEDS installers because third party software has easier access to the system than me. blah.
Given what I have seen with the placebo effect I would rather not believe my own personal observations until I could quantify them. Much less those of someone else. It's entirely reasonable to discount personal observations. With these types of things personal observations should *always* be discounted. Presumably consumer reports did the proper tests and it's therefore reasonable to point to those tests as evidence that they are not very effective. In any case, the proper way of resolving this is to setup repeatable experiments showing the effectiveness of one filter verses another and to publish the results.
On the MacOS you could add a return character to the filname via copy and paste.. It was a usefull way to change the short order of files sorted by name. Put a space in front of the name then a return character and the name would look like it had no space in front but always be at the top of any list listed by name. I used this all the time in the Apple menu to put an alias to my hard drive at the top of the menu.