Ah yes
ISO 9945-1 Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) -- Part 1: Base Definitions
"The Ugly Red Book That Won't Fit On The Shelf"
This one was not mentioned in the TinyURL Recommended reading. But there are many of these entries in the Jargon File.
In the Recommended reading section this is stated:
There are definitive works in certain fields that online guides and HOWTOs cannot even approach in terms of detail or quality. It's a class of books that are so familiar people refer to them by nicknames instead of by full title.
Well maybe so, but I did not know them all, and in the interest of helping people along the path here they are:
Books like:
K&R, The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie The Dinosaur Book, Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz Knuth's never-ending story, The Art of Computer Programming, but Donald Knuth The White Book, Introduction To Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Cliff Stein P&H, Computer Organization and Design
The Hardware/Software Interface David Patterson John Hennessy The Illustrated's. TCP/IP Illustrated Series (The Illustrated's) - W. Richard Stevens The Rainbow series. U.S. DOD Computer Security Series
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Whew, someone woke up with mod points, and they were pretty upset....and had no sense of humor.
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... those zombies were not Purdue Boilermaker fans entering Camp Randall Stadium?
(Now we will find who has more mod points Badgers or Boilermakers. That is, if any are awake this early on Sunday)
I would like to see a list of other database manufacturers listed with their retailer equivalents.....
Seriously though, IKEA is a store full of very interesting, but not entirely useful gadgets. The Scandinavian connection seems to be about the only one I can make. mySQL has taken a less "gadgetey" approach to DB setup and maintenance. They have taken much criticism over the years for not including the Stored procedures, views, and triggers. These now all appear in version 5.0.
"D.D.O.S. attacks are still one of the primary ways of extorting a company, and we're seeing a lot of that," said Larry D. Johnson, special agent in charge of the United States Secret Service's criminal division. "
Heck, they talk like it is such a big deal to start a DOS attack. Just post an article like "Walla Walla school district to abandon FreeBSD and use Linux desktops" on slashdot, using your target's web site for the article location.
Recommend: Best Kept Secrets in .NET
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I highly recommend
Best Kept Secrets in.NET
by Deborah Kurata
This has plenty of good tricks for visual studio:
Chapter 1 - Hidden Treasures in Visual Studio
Chapter 2 - Doing Windows Forms
Chapter 3 - Code Tricks
Chapter 4 - Much ADO
Chapter 5 - Defensive Development
If you dig deep into the article web page, you will find a couple of interesting IBM Redbooks.
One of them is the OS/2 to Linux Client Transition. It could server as a valuable primer to anyone in the Linux community needing a "get aquainted" book.
This IBM Redbook provides information related to the viability of Linux as a client platform. It targets technical personnel who are involved in evaluating Linux as a possible client platform. It also targets administrators and support personnel who are responsible for supporting client systems. This redbook can also be helpful to anyone who is evaluating the potential of using Linux for enterprise client systems. However, the key focus is on environments where OS/2 is currently used.
Many enterprises have been using OS/2 as a stable platform for critical enterprise client applications. However, as those enterprises look to the future, they look for a platform on which they can build a strategy that is open, standards-based, secure, and provides a cost-effective solution. Linux has become successful as a server platform in many of these same enterprises. It comes as no surprise that these enterprises also want to evaluate the possibility of including Linux for many of their client systems.
This redbook describes platform and functional considerations for choosing Linux as a client platform. It examines techniques and facilities for administering Linux clients, coexistence of Linux clients with other platforms, and a technique to easily install Linux clients based on the well-known OS/2-based CID methodology.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Linux
Chapter 2. Platform considerations
Chapter 3. Functional considerations
Chapter 4. Linux client administration
Chapter 5. Coexistence considerations
Chapter 6. Migration considerations
Chapter 7. Linux client installation
Appendix A. Basic Linux for OS/2 users
Appendix B. Additional material
The most glaring omission however is how to PORT your desktop applications from OS/2 to Linux desktop. This book is more concerned with showing you the alternate applications for the basic "out of the box" user.
The 23% of small business probably were never Avaya/Nortel/{favorite} PBX customers to begin with. All the big vendors for large to enterprise size customers have offered Voice Over IP for years on separated networks protecting them from SPIT and VOMIT. Busineses will adopt VOIP at the same rate they adopted digital sets. That is, when it is time for an infrastructure change. Most companies with older digital sets have some remote workers with VOIP already through ISDN lines or remote sourced IP connectivity.
A significant number of tech people were never attracted to the area since the cost of living increase exceeded the salary increase. Companies have moved to spread their tech base outside the main "Silicon Valley" proper. The jobs have spread up the East Bay to Sacramento, while headquarters remained in the Silicon Valley area. Jobs have also spread to other outlying cities. With the advent of cheap broadband in rural areas, software engineers and project managers can live anywhere from Alabama to Oregon and maintain a nice home instead of two bedroom apartment.
I agree completely. I would never purchase Windows XP for the purpose of upgrading a machine that shipped with Windows 2000.
However, I would never install Windows 2000 on a desktop or laptop that shipped with Windows XP. VERY_LARGE_COMPANY_WHERE_I_WORK has done exactly that. They have installed Windows 2000 on machines that were never certified because they felt they needed to enforce a corporate standard. Now they are pulling their hair out trying to install Windows XP (pro) on all of their desktop machines as part of a multi million dollar initiative. The early findings are that if they have just supplied and supported a mixed environment, life would have been much easier in the long run.
I have been quite pleased by Paint.Net as a replacement for Start Menu --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Paint. It has been built with Microsoft mentorship.
It is still in development as a school project. If you have used paint there are a couple of behaviors that are different. The one I find the hardest to learn or unlearn is the select must be followed by a deselect.
Very Insightful. I like your descriptions of the characters. I think I have crossed over into several different areas user, power user, player, and key player.
I believe that the economy works differently than what you describe and is not so simple as to the payoff structure.
Here are just some examples, I am sure that every relationship between characters could involve compensation.
As a key player, I get compensated for direct development, although I do not believe that I would be so altruistic to accept lower compensation just on an Open source project. I would accept lower compensation to be on a FUN project, which could also be a cartridge video game or packaged closed source app. Open Source can, but does not always equal fun in my experience.
As a player, one could get compensated for implementation, say as a value added reseller, or integrator. With open source, I do not have to pass through any compensation to the key players or patrons, although a patron, user, or power user may compensate me. I might pass compensation to a key player or patron for closer attention to a key feature.
As a power user, one could get compensated for supporting users, and may also get the support of a patron. I do not have to pass any compensation to key players or patrons, but may have to compensate a player.
As a user, one may have to compensate a power user, player, patron, or key player depending upon the desired features.
Thanks
(Post script: I see a tr011 lurking in the woods in this forum too, which you seem to have smoked out in Northcat!;-) ).
is what puts "Out Of The Past" with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas on this list. This movie will end up banned in the State of California because of all the cigarette smoking. Ironically, the film's location could not even be used for a remake. Where could anyone smoke that many cigarettes? Roger Ebert gave this one glowing praise as he panned the movie "200 Cigarettes". Ebert also lists this one on his favorite movies. It is a good representation of Film Noir, but hardly a great movie.
The researchers think lesions in several parts of the brain can contribute to an inability to understand sarcasm. But, they wrote, this particular area is important because it draws on your innate recognition of the emotions of other people -- empathy -- and past experiences to comprehend a speaker's intentions.
So everone who wants to read Slashdot should get checked out with an MRI. Lesions automatically disqualify membership. Although AC posts will be grandfathered.
The biggest security threat to Automatic Teller Machines comes from those that service them. From the installers, to the guards that load them with money, these folks are the ones stealing money and identities.
If you, as a supervisor, fail to perform background checks, you may find yourself missing a whole bunch of money. And the security guards will tell you "Aw, these Diebold machines always count wrong" as they pocket thirty bills per week.
I suspect that the target audience of this book are the authors of every code offering on OpenSourceCMS.com
I agree with you. Same goes for shopping cart sites and blog sites. Check out SourceForge for a gazillion more php/mySQL applications like bug trackers and portals.
Then check out Nuke Cops to read up on the perils of mySQL/PHP in highly visible sites. They have logs of plenty of known exploits due to coding problems.
I understand your points about Free and Free. From my perspective, I have very little free time to search and download, even with a high speed connection. (So then what's all this time on Slashdot;-) right? ). And that high speed connection costs plenty too. Most days, time is a precious commodity. (Check my posting record. ) So to me, I am going without most Anime, and for those I do have time to see, I will buy real copies. The time spent to find, download, classify, store and recall is wasted, if I could just click and order. At a certain price point, there is no way I would watch the free version if I could buy the real one. I am middle middle class and not snooty. But every 15 minutes is worth a certain amount of money to me.
I feel the same way about time wasting in broadcast TV. Right now I watch one broadcast show per week tape delayed. Taping and finding the episode later, adding labels or notes also takes time. Yes, you can fast forward through commercials, but that is work too. Watching a professionally prepared DVD is much more relaxing. Since I feel that you and I disagree on what level of hassle we are willing to accept, we'll just have to leave it where it stands now.
If the anime business wants to achieve anything more than porn star relevancy, they should keep a blind eye for a while longer. Once they've grown further, they'd do better to bring costs down, import speeds up, and widen selection than to threaten the underground. There's already a willingness to pay on many people's parts once it arrives, as evidenced by the growing retail selection. The real fans just don't have enough
That is the problem in a nutshell. We want more now. I agree that threatening Fansubbers is a cop-out. The real answer is that the Anime studios have to pull their own weight in the United States. They are getting a free lunch with translations by fans. They should figure out a way to supply the demand and capitalize on the huge opportunity in what is assumed to be a niche.
I agree that Americans do have a taste for adult animation. While not Anime, shows like The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, and even the ancient Wait 'til your Father gets home, Flintstones and Jetsons, have all set the stage to enjoy animated adult comedy at least. The cultural differences are what makes Anime interesting. And not everyone can appreciate that different point of view. And while Anime has made great strides, it is going to be a long time before you see American businessmen buying graphic novels for the commuter train with the same frequency Japanese businessmen purchase manga.
But fansubbers aren't doing it for the money. They aren't doing it for business reasons. From what I gather they care more about sharing their experience than the business end of anything. They buy the DVDs of works they dub to keep the studios bringing anime to the US. That's fanatacism, not business.
I respectfully disagree. As I responded to another poster, It is possible to take the high road and provided subtitled Anime for your friends as a hobby. Not every Fansubber is taking the high road.
There's implicit "rules" to the underground that at least the people doing the subbing tend to follow. Allowing the underground to operate within these parameters has not hurt them in the past.
My opinion is that statement is unsubstantiated. There is a market for which product could be distributed, that is already stocked with freely available versions.
And you know, who'd think there'd be a market for the Friends series DVDs or Seinfeld or any of that crap. Clearly it ran on TV for free before DVD distribution and people could tape it. How can the publishers expect any sort of market when people already have had free access to the show? It's a terrible argument. If it were a good argument either nobody would release DVDs of past TV shows or everybody would laugh at their poor business sense.
You cannot call network TV broadcasts free (as in Free Beer). A 30 minute crap Friends episode actually contains 8 minutes of advertisements and promos on broadcast TV. The other reason that is not a valid comparison is that streaming media and DVDs are viewed at your convenience. A taped/Tivo'ed TV episode is more convenient than the live broadcast, but not as convenient as a DVD.
We can agree to disagree on the potential market dynamics. But you have to understand that the market for network TV shows is not the same market segment for Anime. Who could have predicted in the 1980's that by the late 90's you could purchase over 100 of the most popular Anime feature titles at Best Buy or Suncoast? Comparison to p*rn title availability might be closer to the market dynamics within which Anime distribution operates. (I am not comparing content necessarily, although there is plenty of "Pornime").
And yes, the author claims to be taking the high road. That was not my point for the link, he describes the market in more detail that I could hope to.
Thanks for the nice response.
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In fact we would not be here if it were the way you seem to think it should work because you will be still paying per-copy fee to the inventor of the "wheel" (he has absolute and never ending rights to his creation, which he passed onto his heirs, no?).
Obviously you have not priced a set of "Goodyear" tires lately...;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Ah yes
ISO 9945-1 Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) -- Part 1: Base Definitions
"The Ugly Red Book That Won't Fit On The Shelf"
This one was not mentioned in the TinyURL Recommended reading. But there are many of these entries in the Jargon File.
In the Recommended reading section this is stated:
There are definitive works in certain fields that online guides and HOWTOs cannot even approach in terms of detail or quality. It's a class of books that are so familiar people refer to them by nicknames instead of by full title.
Well maybe so, but I did not know them all, and in the interest of helping people along the path here they are:
Books like:
K&R, The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
The Dinosaur Book, Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz
Knuth's never-ending story, The Art of Computer Programming, but Donald Knuth
The White Book, Introduction To Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Cliff Stein
P&H, Computer Organization and Design The Hardware/Software Interface David Patterson John Hennessy
The Illustrated's. TCP/IP Illustrated Series (The Illustrated's) - W. Richard Stevens
The Rainbow series. U.S. DOD Computer Security Series
Whew, someone woke up with mod points, and they were pretty upset....and had no sense of humor.
... those zombies were not Purdue Boilermaker fans entering Camp Randall Stadium?
(Now we will find who has more mod points Badgers or Boilermakers. That is, if any are awake this early on Sunday)
I would like to see a list of other database manufacturers listed with their retailer equivalents..... Seriously though, IKEA is a store full of very interesting, but not entirely useful gadgets. The Scandinavian connection seems to be about the only one I can make. mySQL has taken a less "gadgetey" approach to DB setup and maintenance. They have taken much criticism over the years for not including the Stored procedures, views, and triggers. These now all appear in version 5.0.
"D.D.O.S. attacks are still one of the primary ways of extorting a company, and we're seeing a lot of that," said Larry D. Johnson, special agent in charge of the United States Secret Service's criminal division. "
Heck, they talk like it is such a big deal to start a DOS attack. Just post an article like "Walla Walla school district to abandon FreeBSD and use Linux desktops" on slashdot, using your target's web site for the article location.
I highly recommend
.NET
Best Kept Secrets in
by Deborah Kurata
This has plenty of good tricks for visual studio:
Chapter 1 - Hidden Treasures in Visual Studio
Chapter 2 - Doing Windows Forms
Chapter 3 - Code Tricks
Chapter 4 - Much ADO
Chapter 5 - Defensive Development
Was it only a coincidence that it weighed in at 666 KB?
AC beat me to the punch. But glad anyway.
eComStation from Serenity Systems is an outgrowth of the Warp 4 client, mentioned in a previous slashdot "OS/2 is dying" article.
OS News Review of eComStation 1.0 (lots of info and links about OS/2 history)
The most glaring omission however is how to PORT your desktop applications from OS/2 to Linux desktop. This book is more concerned with showing you the alternate applications for the basic "out of the box" user.
The 23% of small business probably were never Avaya/Nortel/{favorite} PBX customers to begin with. All the big vendors for large to enterprise size customers have offered Voice Over IP for years on separated networks protecting them from SPIT and VOMIT. Busineses will adopt VOIP at the same rate they adopted digital sets. That is, when it is time for an infrastructure change. Most companies with older digital sets have some remote workers with VOIP already through ISDN lines or remote sourced IP connectivity.
A significant number of tech people were never attracted to the area since the cost of living increase exceeded the salary increase. Companies have moved to spread their tech base outside the main "Silicon Valley" proper. The jobs have spread up the East Bay to Sacramento, while headquarters remained in the Silicon Valley area. Jobs have also spread to other outlying cities. With the advent of cheap broadband in rural areas, software engineers and project managers can live anywhere from Alabama to Oregon and maintain a nice home instead of two bedroom apartment.
Right Here
I agree completely. I would never purchase Windows XP for the purpose of upgrading a machine that shipped with Windows 2000.
However, I would never install Windows 2000 on a desktop or laptop that shipped with Windows XP. VERY_LARGE_COMPANY_WHERE_I_WORK has done exactly that. They have installed Windows 2000 on machines that were never certified because they felt they needed to enforce a corporate standard. Now they are pulling their hair out trying to install Windows XP (pro) on all of their desktop machines as part of a multi million dollar initiative. The early findings are that if they have just supplied and supported a mixed environment, life would have been much easier in the long run.
I have been quite pleased by Paint.Net as a replacement for Start Menu --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Paint. It has been built with Microsoft mentorship.
It is still in development as a school project. If you have used paint there are a couple of behaviors that are different. The one I find the hardest to learn or unlearn is the select must be followed by a deselect.
Looks like they will want to snap up a bunch of developers from the PearPC project!
Pieter,
;-) ).
Very Insightful. I like your descriptions of the characters. I think I have crossed over into several different areas user, power user, player, and key player.
I believe that the economy works differently than what you describe and is not so simple as to the payoff structure.
Here are just some examples, I am sure that every relationship between characters could involve compensation.
As a key player, I get compensated for direct development, although I do not believe that I would be so altruistic to accept lower compensation just on an Open source project. I would accept lower compensation to be on a FUN project, which could also be a cartridge video game or packaged closed source app. Open Source can, but does not always equal fun in my experience.
As a player, one could get compensated for implementation, say as a value added reseller, or integrator. With open source, I do not have to pass through any compensation to the key players or patrons, although a patron, user, or power user may compensate me. I might pass compensation to a key player or patron for closer attention to a key feature.
As a power user, one could get compensated for supporting users, and may also get the support of a patron. I do not have to pass any compensation to key players or patrons, but may have to compensate a player.
As a user, one may have to compensate a power user, player, patron, or key player depending upon the desired features.
Thanks
(Post script: I see a tr011 lurking in the woods in this forum too, which you seem to have smoked out in Northcat!
is what puts "Out Of The Past" with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas on this list. This movie will end up banned in the State of California because of all the cigarette smoking. Ironically, the film's location could not even be used for a remake. Where could anyone smoke that many cigarettes? Roger Ebert gave this one glowing praise as he panned the movie "200 Cigarettes". Ebert also lists this one on his favorite movies. It is a good representation of Film Noir, but hardly a great movie.
The researchers think lesions in several parts of the brain can contribute to an inability to understand sarcasm. But, they wrote, this particular area is important because it draws on your innate recognition of the emotions of other people -- empathy -- and past experiences to comprehend a speaker's intentions.
So everone who wants to read Slashdot should get checked out with an MRI. Lesions automatically disqualify membership. Although AC posts will be grandfathered.
The Harvard Sentences used to test, that are mentioned in the article, seem to be missing a key phrase:
I had an idea that we parked our car in the Harvard Yard.
(Boston Dialect article here or here.)
The biggest security threat to Automatic Teller Machines comes from those that service them. From the installers, to the guards that load them with money, these folks are the ones stealing money and identities.
If you, as a supervisor, fail to perform background checks, you may find yourself missing a whole bunch of money. And the security guards will tell you "Aw, these Diebold machines always count wrong" as they pocket thirty bills per week.
I suspect that the target audience of this book are the authors of every code offering on OpenSourceCMS.com
I agree with you. Same goes for shopping cart sites and blog sites. Check out SourceForge for a gazillion more php/mySQL applications like bug trackers and portals.
Then check out Nuke Cops to read up on the perils of mySQL/PHP in highly visible sites. They have logs of plenty of known exploits due to coding problems.
I understand your points about Free and Free. From my perspective, I have very little free time to search and download, even with a high speed connection. (So then what's all this time on Slashdot ;-) right? ). And that high speed connection costs plenty too. Most days, time is a precious commodity. (Check my posting record. ) So to me, I am going without most Anime, and for those I do have time to see, I will buy real copies. The time spent to find, download, classify, store and recall is wasted, if I could just click and order. At a certain price point, there is no way I would watch the free version if I could buy the real one. I am middle middle class and not snooty. But every 15 minutes is worth a certain amount of money to me.
I feel the same way about time wasting in broadcast TV. Right now I watch one broadcast show per week tape delayed. Taping and finding the episode later, adding labels or notes also takes time. Yes, you can fast forward through commercials, but that is work too. Watching a professionally prepared DVD is much more relaxing. Since I feel that you and I disagree on what level of hassle we are willing to accept, we'll just have to leave it where it stands now.
If the anime business wants to achieve anything more than porn star relevancy, they should keep a blind eye for a while longer. Once they've grown further, they'd do better to bring costs down, import speeds up, and widen selection than to threaten the underground. There's already a willingness to pay on many people's parts once it arrives, as evidenced by the growing retail selection. The real fans just don't have enough
That is the problem in a nutshell. We want more now. I agree that threatening Fansubbers is a cop-out. The real answer is that the Anime studios have to pull their own weight in the United States. They are getting a free lunch with translations by fans. They should figure out a way to supply the demand and capitalize on the huge opportunity in what is assumed to be a niche.
I agree that Americans do have a taste for adult animation. While not Anime, shows like The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, and even the ancient Wait 'til your Father gets home, Flintstones and Jetsons, have all set the stage to enjoy animated adult comedy at least. The cultural differences are what makes Anime interesting. And not everyone can appreciate that different point of view. And while Anime has made great strides, it is going to be a long time before you see American businessmen buying graphic novels for the commuter train with the same frequency Japanese businessmen purchase manga.
But fansubbers aren't doing it for the money. They aren't doing it for business reasons. From what I gather they care more about sharing their experience than the business end of anything. They buy the DVDs of works they dub to keep the studios bringing anime to the US. That's fanatacism, not business.
I respectfully disagree. As I responded to another poster, It is possible to take the high road and provided subtitled Anime for your friends as a hobby. Not every Fansubber is taking the high road.
There's implicit "rules" to the underground that at least the people doing the subbing tend to follow. Allowing the underground to operate within these parameters has not hurt them in the past.
My opinion is that statement is unsubstantiated. There is a market for which product could be distributed, that is already stocked with freely available versions.
And you know, who'd think there'd be a market for the Friends series DVDs or Seinfeld or any of that crap. Clearly it ran on TV for free before DVD distribution and people could tape it. How can the publishers expect any sort of market when people already have had free access to the show? It's a terrible argument. If it were a good argument either nobody would release DVDs of past TV shows or everybody would laugh at their poor business sense.
You cannot call network TV broadcasts free (as in Free Beer). A 30 minute crap Friends episode actually contains 8 minutes of advertisements and promos on broadcast TV. The other reason that is not a valid comparison is that streaming media and DVDs are viewed at your convenience. A taped/Tivo'ed TV episode is more convenient than the live broadcast, but not as convenient as a DVD.
We can agree to disagree on the potential market dynamics. But you have to understand that the market for network TV shows is not the same market segment for Anime. Who could have predicted in the 1980's that by the late 90's you could purchase over 100 of the most popular Anime feature titles at Best Buy or Suncoast? Comparison to p*rn title availability might be closer to the market dynamics within which Anime distribution operates. (I am not comparing content necessarily, although there is plenty of "Pornime").
And yes, the author claims to be taking the high road. That was not my point for the link, he describes the market in more detail that I could hope to.
Thanks for the nice response.
In fact we would not be here if it were the way you seem to think it should work because you will be still paying per-copy fee to the inventor of the "wheel" (he has absolute and never ending rights to his creation, which he passed onto his heirs, no?).
;-)
Obviously you have not priced a set of "Goodyear" tires lately...