Why in the hell they want to ruin Google+? I hate Facebook for two reasons:
1) It is annoying as hell to have those game requests. And if you don't block all applications, then you have to "enjoy" the constant stream of shit, when your friends request new tools in Farmville or want to share a pony.
2) Gaming becomes a sole purpose for using social networking site. Most of my friends don't bother to use Facebook for keeping touch or sharing interesting news or stories. They just spend time playing and filling their page with useless game-related crap.
I lost hope with Facebook long ago and recently joined Google+ hoping that it would be different. It seems I was wrong:(
Not with JavaScript, but with Java. Using Java Applets is an old idea for implementing automatically loaded website-based distributed computing. Although, I haven't seen these clients anymore in a long time, so maybe the idea wasn't received so well.
Why they even bother salting roads when there is -12 degrees Celsius? Salting is only sensible when there is about -4 degrees (at least that is a rule of thumb here in Finland). Also, using fertilizers is so completely boneheaded move because that's plain and simple polluting. I guess that someone made a risk analysis and decided that polluting groundwater supplies causes less deaths than icy roads. But I can't help but wonder what the long-term effects are for environment and groundwater.
But how dim they get over time? It's pretty pointless to have a LED light that lasts 19 years, if the light gets so dim after few years that it is practically unusable.
People might not like you taking their code and you risk alienating valuable assets if you proceed rashly.
So it is not socially acceptable to just fork the code?
I can understand the aspect of upsetting people and alienating the community, but the whole concept of "people might not like taking their code" confuses me here. I have always assumed that when something has been released under open source license, that act in itself is some kind of agreement that the code can be forked at some stage.
Personally I have never forked anything, but I have released few pieces of code to public and I have always assumed that if someone likes my work and wants to take it and improve it or take it to some new direction, then by all means, just take the code and start a new project. Granted, I don't have a thriving community behind me, so there isn't this social aspect to consider.
It's interesting to see that there can be this whole social protocol around the open source software development world. For me this is interesting, because I have always assumed that programmers in general seem to swear on following the OS licence literally regardless on social impact.
Not necessarily commenting this particular case, just wondering in general...
Why is it that when someone is pondering on forking a project, quite often we see these questions asked? Is the OSS community so polite that we have to ask permission from peers to fork a project? Why not just fork it and see, if the project takes off? Or is it about insecurity? Are we just afraid of negative feedback from anti-forking people?
er...when commodore 64's were popular there were no "old" pc's. the first ibm pc went on sale in 1981, and the C64 in 1982. clones did appear fairly quickly, but they were by no means cheap, and certainly cost more than a new c64, so the likelihood of getting one free (unless you mean in the "off the back of a truck" sense) seems dubious.
It was 1989 when I got the PC. And yes, the C64 was very popular in Finland at that time (another popular system for home use was Amiga). It was a Nokia MikroMikko, which was mainly used at banking systems. This PC in question was from a construction company, which was upgrading to newer machines (to 30386, if I remember correctly). They had to get rid of these old ones, so they gave them to the employees. This is how I got the PC.
I don't know, what I have done, but I still have the classic Slashdot view with comment counts. In my preferences I have disabled the beta index feature and in Discussions: Viewing, I have Slashdot Classic Discussion System selected.
The Debug.exe was actually my first contact to programming and the first language I learned, was x86 assembler.
It was MS-DOS 2.xx and all my friends played with C64s and coded all kinds of cool things. My parents couldn't afford a C64 but they somehow got an old PC free. Demoscene was a new and hot thing in those days and me and my friend programmed our first demo completely using the Debug.exe. Merging the two code-bases was an interesting task, when all you had was two pieces of binary and some unused memory space for copy 'n' paste. The demo actually was quite cool. Unfortunately I have lost my only copy.
Every time, when I hear about these in-door satellite navigation systems, I can't help but wonder, how these even could work. First of all, AFAIK, the GPS signal is so faint that it will not work inside the buildings. Also, the accuracy of the mobile tower / GPS systems might not be enough for this kind of applications.
... and I had just installed Slackware for the first time. The very first thing, I tried to do, was installing X11. If I remember correctly, I had to make several tries and it took almost a week (every evening after work) to me to get the XFree86 configuration working with my monitor and my Cirrus graphics card. It was very educational start for me. I had to reinstall the Slackware several times during that week and I learned a lot about my computer hardware and also learned to configure both Linux and X11. Eventually I got everything working, even the slirp connection, so I was able to get to the Internet.
So, before even starting to use Linux for anything useful, I spent my time fiddling around and learning stuff.
I still have a special place in my heart for Slackware.
For some reason, both the release version and this beta-version crash with my work XP in application error (0xc0000005). I have reported this issue already with the release version and now I just sent feedback regarding the beta version.
Business travel is awful. You fly somewhere really exciting and interesting - work your ass off, have zero social life, feel incredibly lonely as you wonder around your hotel, then you fly home. The important thing is to make up lots of stories of how great it was, all the crazy people you met, what a great bunch of lads your customers/colleagues are etc..
This is so true.
I like travelling abroad on vacation, but...
I try to avoid travelling overseas as much as possible because it really is not that fun as you might expect from the movies and great stories you hear from other people. Usually when I have to travel, it's just hell from start to finish: first of all, usually the trip is only two or three days, so it just is constant travelling and working, not much rest. I have to wake up in ungodly hours to catch my plane, which takes off at six or seven in the morning (and you have to be an hour or two earlier at the airport, depending where you are, and of course the airport is usually in the middle of nowhere). I also hate sitting in a cramped seat in economy class (no business class in my job). And then I have to do a ten-hour day on top of the travelling. So usually it means that my day is about 18-20 hour long before I can get to my hotel (and the hotel is IMHO the best part of the trip, that's the first and only time, when I don't actually have to do anything or go anywhere). And then the next day the same ordeal in reverse. God, it sucks!
Oh, and the best part: I don't get paid for the travelling hours. Only working hours. So, in essence, I'm donating my free time to my employer.
Domestic travel is not much better but I prefer it over travelling abroad any day.
I just can't understand why anyone would want voluntarily to do work-related travelling. It's nothing like the recreational travelling.
Well, as I stated before, maybe there is some technical limitations for this, I don't know, but I assume that it could be possible to Vista to track, if there has been an privilege elevation before the parent process and all subsequent spawns should go through the same UAC procedures as the parent did (i.e. Vista should ask separately admin password from the user for every subsequent spawn). Of course this might infuriate users, if Vista was nagging constantly about the permissions.
I have a faint recollection that in fact Vista can already do that at the command prompt level. If you try to execute cmd.exe with runas as an admin and then try to execute the regedit.exe, the regedit won't have admin rights even though the cmd.exe has. But I probably remember this wrong.
It is actually possible to create an installer that works with normal user privileges and does not install anything under the HKEY_Local_Machine or Program Files. Visual Studio 2008 has an installer wizard, which is able to create these kind of packages. So, it seems that under Vista, Microsoft already thought about these non-root installers.
What annoys me most with the Vista is the fact that is is unable to stop elevating the privileges "correctly" after the main installation process has finished. In other words, for example with the Firefox installer, the installer requires administrator rights, and after the installation process, it will ask if you want to run the Firefox for the first time. I you make the mistake and let the installer execute the Firefox, the FF will be launched as a separate process but under the administrator account. Why? Why the hell Vista allows this? I can't understand. Now the Firefox tries to import settings from the admin account and is you download anything or set any bookmarks, they all are saved under the admin profile. This is something I cannot understand. And most installers that require administrator rights, behave like this.
I would expect that the UAC would kick in, when the Vista notices that a process - regardless of the rights - tries to spawn/fork/execute another process. But no. Maybe there is some kind of technical reason for lack on this protection, and I understand that a big part of the blame is on software manufacturers, who create this bone-headed installers, but still...
Oh and yes, and another thing, the Linux GUIs offered on netbooks are designed for retards. That's also perhaps geeks don't buy them.
I have an eee PC 901 with Linux. First, the 20 GB SSD is a sweet deal compared to 12 GB with Win XP. Second, the Asus has made excellent job with Xandros Linux to provide easy-to-use, usable-with-everyday-tasks operating system. When I bought my eee PC, I was confident that I'll install Unbuntu eee immediately to it, but now, after a week of use, I actually like the preinstalled Linux. It provides everything I need - and I consider myself a geek - and it has a terminal, which is great, because I don't necessarily need any fancy GUI systems, the shell is enough for most "geek stuff" for me.
So, in my opinion, the preinstalled Linux is fine for non-geeks. And that's the target audience. But I enjoy it also, and if I some day find it "retarded", I can always install some other Linux distribution and be happy with it. And so can any one geek, who don't like the default installation. So, I don't get your complaint actually at all.
A Nokia S60 phone (I have an E61) + Nokia S60 Python interpreter have been enough for my personal development needs. The nice thing is, I can develop Python applications on the road only using the phone itself.
Thanks. I actually already did that, but the problem is, the component obviously still is somewhere in my system and I'd like to get rid of it all together. But as I mentioned in my previous post, IE doesn't let me delete it. Only disable it.
I already switched from AVG to Avast. One thing I noticed, is that under Vista, the "AVG safe search" doesn't get uninstalled from the Internet Explorer. Mind you, I use Firefox, but after uninstalling the AVG, I realized that I haven't checked if the IE also has this piece of software in it. Well, it does, and now I have no idea how to get rid of it without fiddling with the registry. IE doesn't let me delete the component even with Admin privileges. Any ideas how to get rid of it? Google turned up only similar questions but no solution.
What was wrong with Beta 5? My first contact to the FF 3 beta 5 was with Ubuntu 8.04. I didn't have any plugins or flash player installed and still the browsing experience was slow. The browser would freeze for few seconds in seemingly random fashion and scrolling would halt for few seconds without any obvious reason regardless of the contents or length of the page. With the same setup the FF 2 is much faster and doesn't have any issues with exact same web pages. I don't know if the real reason is the Ubuntu 8.04 or the FF 3, but after switching to FF2, I haven't had any such problems. Luckily the Ubuntu repositories had the FF 2, so switching was easy.
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Why in the hell they want to ruin Google+? I hate Facebook for two reasons:
1) It is annoying as hell to have those game requests. And if you don't block all applications, then you have to "enjoy" the constant stream of shit, when your friends request new tools in Farmville or want to share a pony.
2) Gaming becomes a sole purpose for using social networking site. Most of my friends don't bother to use Facebook for keeping touch or sharing interesting news or stories. They just spend time playing and filling their page with useless game-related crap.
I lost hope with Facebook long ago and recently joined Google+ hoping that it would be different. It seems I was wrong :(
Not with JavaScript, but with Java. Using Java Applets is an old idea for implementing automatically loaded website-based distributed computing. Although, I haven't seen these clients anymore in a long time, so maybe the idea wasn't received so well.
What you are saying, reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus
Why they even bother salting roads when there is -12 degrees Celsius? Salting is only sensible when there is about -4 degrees (at least that is a rule of thumb here in Finland). Also, using fertilizers is so completely boneheaded move because that's plain and simple polluting. I guess that someone made a risk analysis and decided that polluting groundwater supplies causes less deaths than icy roads. But I can't help but wonder what the long-term effects are for environment and groundwater.
My eeePC does that same thing. The eeePC 901 jumps to GRUB in about second (haven't actually measured it, but it is fast).
But how dim they get over time? It's pretty pointless to have a LED light that lasts 19 years, if the light gets so dim after few years that it is practically unusable.
I only have one tip: label cables clearly at both end.
People might not like you taking their code and you risk alienating valuable assets if you proceed rashly.
So it is not socially acceptable to just fork the code?
I can understand the aspect of upsetting people and alienating the community, but the whole concept of "people might not like taking their code" confuses me here. I have always assumed that when something has been released under open source license, that act in itself is some kind of agreement that the code can be forked at some stage.
Personally I have never forked anything, but I have released few pieces of code to public and I have always assumed that if someone likes my work and wants to take it and improve it or take it to some new direction, then by all means, just take the code and start a new project. Granted, I don't have a thriving community behind me, so there isn't this social aspect to consider.
It's interesting to see that there can be this whole social protocol around the open source software development world. For me this is interesting, because I have always assumed that programmers in general seem to swear on following the OS licence literally regardless on social impact.
Not necessarily commenting this particular case, just wondering in general...
Why is it that when someone is pondering on forking a project, quite often we see these questions asked? Is the OSS community so polite that we have to ask permission from peers to fork a project? Why not just fork it and see, if the project takes off? Or is it about insecurity? Are we just afraid of negative feedback from anti-forking people?
When I was reading the article, it was like I was reading this novel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(novel)
And here I thought that the Crichton book was just some random over-the-top science fiction. It's sometimes scary, when SciFi turns into reality.
er...when commodore 64's were popular there were no "old" pc's. the first ibm pc went on sale in 1981, and the C64 in 1982. clones did appear fairly quickly, but they were by no means cheap, and certainly cost more than a new c64, so the likelihood of getting one free (unless you mean in the "off the back of a truck" sense) seems dubious.
It was 1989 when I got the PC. And yes, the C64 was very popular in Finland at that time (another popular system for home use was Amiga). It was a Nokia MikroMikko, which was mainly used at banking systems. This PC in question was from a construction company, which was upgrading to newer machines (to 30386, if I remember correctly). They had to get rid of these old ones, so they gave them to the employees. This is how I got the PC.
I don't know, what I have done, but I still have the classic Slashdot view with comment counts. In my preferences I have disabled the beta index feature and in Discussions: Viewing, I have Slashdot Classic Discussion System selected.
So much fond memories...
The Debug.exe was actually my first contact to programming and the first language I learned, was x86 assembler.
It was MS-DOS 2.xx and all my friends played with C64s and coded all kinds of cool things. My parents couldn't afford a C64 but they somehow got an old PC free. Demoscene was a new and hot thing in those days and me and my friend programmed our first demo completely using the Debug.exe. Merging the two code-bases was an interesting task, when all you had was two pieces of binary and some unused memory space for copy 'n' paste. The demo actually was quite cool. Unfortunately I have lost my only copy.
Acutally, the debug command was removed in Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008.
Really? At least my Vista installation still has it.
Every time, when I hear about these in-door satellite navigation systems, I can't help but wonder, how these even could work. First of all, AFAIK, the GPS signal is so faint that it will not work inside the buildings. Also, the accuracy of the mobile tower / GPS systems might not be enough for this kind of applications.
So, before even starting to use Linux for anything useful, I spent my time fiddling around and learning stuff.
I still have a special place in my heart for Slackware.
For some reason, both the release version and this beta-version crash with my work XP in application error (0xc0000005). I have reported this issue already with the release version and now I just sent feedback regarding the beta version.
Business travel is awful. You fly somewhere really exciting and interesting - work your ass off, have zero social life, feel incredibly lonely as you wonder around your hotel, then you fly home. The important thing is to make up lots of stories of how great it was, all the crazy people you met, what a great bunch of lads your customers/colleagues are etc..
This is so true.
I like travelling abroad on vacation, but...
I try to avoid travelling overseas as much as possible because it really is not that fun as you might expect from the movies and great stories you hear from other people. Usually when I have to travel, it's just hell from start to finish: first of all, usually the trip is only two or three days, so it just is constant travelling and working, not much rest. I have to wake up in ungodly hours to catch my plane, which takes off at six or seven in the morning (and you have to be an hour or two earlier at the airport, depending where you are, and of course the airport is usually in the middle of nowhere). I also hate sitting in a cramped seat in economy class (no business class in my job). And then I have to do a ten-hour day on top of the travelling. So usually it means that my day is about 18-20 hour long before I can get to my hotel (and the hotel is IMHO the best part of the trip, that's the first and only time, when I don't actually have to do anything or go anywhere). And then the next day the same ordeal in reverse. God, it sucks!
Oh, and the best part: I don't get paid for the travelling hours. Only working hours. So, in essence, I'm donating my free time to my employer.
Domestic travel is not much better but I prefer it over travelling abroad any day.
I just can't understand why anyone would want voluntarily to do work-related travelling. It's nothing like the recreational travelling.
How do you propose that it prevent it ?
Well, as I stated before, maybe there is some technical limitations for this, I don't know, but I assume that it could be possible to Vista to track, if there has been an privilege elevation before the parent process and all subsequent spawns should go through the same UAC procedures as the parent did (i.e. Vista should ask separately admin password from the user for every subsequent spawn). Of course this might infuriate users, if Vista was nagging constantly about the permissions.
I have a faint recollection that in fact Vista can already do that at the command prompt level. If you try to execute cmd.exe with runas as an admin and then try to execute the regedit.exe, the regedit won't have admin rights even though the cmd.exe has. But I probably remember this wrong.
It is actually possible to create an installer that works with normal user privileges and does not install anything under the HKEY_Local_Machine or Program Files. Visual Studio 2008 has an installer wizard, which is able to create these kind of packages. So, it seems that under Vista, Microsoft already thought about these non-root installers.
What annoys me most with the Vista is the fact that is is unable to stop elevating the privileges "correctly" after the main installation process has finished. In other words, for example with the Firefox installer, the installer requires administrator rights, and after the installation process, it will ask if you want to run the Firefox for the first time. I you make the mistake and let the installer execute the Firefox, the FF will be launched as a separate process but under the administrator account. Why? Why the hell Vista allows this? I can't understand. Now the Firefox tries to import settings from the admin account and is you download anything or set any bookmarks, they all are saved under the admin profile. This is something I cannot understand. And most installers that require administrator rights, behave like this.
I would expect that the UAC would kick in, when the Vista notices that a process - regardless of the rights - tries to spawn/fork/execute another process. But no. Maybe there is some kind of technical reason for lack on this protection, and I understand that a big part of the blame is on software manufacturers, who create this bone-headed installers, but still...
Oh and yes, and another thing, the Linux GUIs offered on netbooks are designed for retards. That's also perhaps geeks don't buy them.
I have an eee PC 901 with Linux. First, the 20 GB SSD is a sweet deal compared to 12 GB with Win XP. Second, the Asus has made excellent job with Xandros Linux to provide easy-to-use, usable-with-everyday-tasks operating system. When I bought my eee PC, I was confident that I'll install Unbuntu eee immediately to it, but now, after a week of use, I actually like the preinstalled Linux. It provides everything I need - and I consider myself a geek - and it has a terminal, which is great, because I don't necessarily need any fancy GUI systems, the shell is enough for most "geek stuff" for me.
So, in my opinion, the preinstalled Linux is fine for non-geeks. And that's the target audience. But I enjoy it also, and if I some day find it "retarded", I can always install some other Linux distribution and be happy with it. And so can any one geek, who don't like the default installation. So, I don't get your complaint actually at all.
A Nokia S60 phone (I have an E61) + Nokia S60 Python interpreter have been enough for my personal development needs. The nice thing is, I can develop Python applications on the road only using the phone itself.
Information about the interpreter: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/pythonfors60/
The latest version is available at the Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pys60
Thanks. I actually already did that, but the problem is, the component obviously still is somewhere in my system and I'd like to get rid of it all together. But as I mentioned in my previous post, IE doesn't let me delete it. Only disable it.
I already switched from AVG to Avast. One thing I noticed, is that under Vista, the "AVG safe search" doesn't get uninstalled from the Internet Explorer. Mind you, I use Firefox, but after uninstalling the AVG, I realized that I haven't checked if the IE also has this piece of software in it. Well, it does, and now I have no idea how to get rid of it without fiddling with the registry. IE doesn't let me delete the component even with Admin privileges. Any ideas how to get rid of it? Google turned up only similar questions but no solution.