I can say this is true! I was just out cutting my grass and this lawyer pulls up in a big limo and asks me if I could please step over there for a minute. So I turn of my John Deer and walk over and ask him what's up. He tells me that I can't use John Deer's to cut my grass because it smells like damp freshly cut grass (which it did, I admit) without paying him. So I politely tell him where he can stick his trademark, and now I'm typing this in jail. Man, life sucks! Well, gotta go.. my girlfriend (Bubba) wants to see me.
Slashdotted island indeed - if this picture is any indication. Personally, I don't think it was an island - I think it's a coverup: Microsoft has finally entered the arms race. You'll note yesterday's quote that they would (I paraphrase here): "not stand by while our commercial enterprise is destroyed". We all know what happened when Microsoft programmed Encarta to show the world spinning backwards: they rewrote the astronomy section.
It's a common misconception that we need more RAM. That is false. We need faster RAM. Repeat after me: Latency is bad. Latency is evil. I must keep latency to a minimum.
My tech friends are usually stunned when I pick up a stick of PC100 that has 4.5ns instead of PC133 at 5.5ns - they say "PC133 is better!".. and nevermind why. Alittle arm-wringing and explanations of latency and what cache hits v. misses do to their processor performance usually helps. For the stubborn, I ask them to bring their "PC133" ram over and we run a Quake demo. Guess who wins?
I don't want to hear about how much more RAM the industry is capable of making - I'm interested in hearing how fast they can make it. Bandwidth * Latency = Performance.. you cannot have high bandwidth and HIGH latency and get good performance - we've used up all our tricks in that area.
That being said, there are alternatives underway. I'll give you a few hints and leave you to it: magnets and optics. Enjoy!
Well, we all knew it was going to happen. If they paint a picture of Mickey on the side of the craft though, I will grab the latest keps, a nice big laser, and a huge lens and make sure he gets a mustache.
I'll be honest here - it's nice to hear that the certification is worth something. Yes, it is alittle rough around the edges but linux in general tends to be that way.:) However, myself (and I suspect many others) get certified primarily for one reason - to make more money.
What this means is that a certification program depends more on marketing and getting PR and HR together to be successful. Competency is, unfortunately, second. As a side-effect, this means that people like me aren't going to look at it seriously until the people in a position to hire me do. This is why many people are going for their MCSEs - they know HR reads the 4 color glossies MS sends out. Of course, the tech department groaned loudly when HR went off and stuck up another job description without consulting them (HR won't get stuck with the new guy, will they?).
So, in a nutshell, RedHat should pour alittle money into PR to make sure HR knows who they are. And, the 4 color glossies never hurt.
... It's tough to track 20 people all coming from the same IP address:)
php4 has extensive session support - you can encode the session info into the URL, or as a cookie, or even use http authentication. That would go a long way towards ensuring uniqueness.
If you don't properly typecast it's sloppy programming.. yes, the compiler may upcast it for you but I wouldn't count on it. And you're right, I have no clue on how to program.
I can't say it!! I just can't bring myself to say it! Bleh. Programmers have no ethics - they have heuristics and algorithms...
if(bigmoney){ printf("Go to hell %s!\n",&bigcorp); } else { rms->sing(); }
There's also a known bug in the random number generator - when used inside subvert_society() it generates larger values than normal. We're not sure why this is...
I'll second that. I checked the specs and they say ATLEAST a 250w power supply. I bought a 300w and have had little difficulty with the GeForce card. Now, it DOES randomly crash sometimes, but I believe this is due to my overclocking the board - it is perfectly stable at it's "normal" 700 rating. So all this means is the card is running near or at its limit.. which I already knew.
Personally, I think AMD is leaving out a critical piece of information - silicon is running out of time. Various experts agree that within a decade, silicon will reach the end of its usable lifespan - we can only go so small. This is why I think AMD has secretly started moving to Latex based CPUs. I mean, think about it - it's available at lower cost than silicon, and for wearable computers it is simply great. I mean, imagine how many gigabites per second this thing can achieve. What's even better, nobody will squabble about the die size of the newer latex-based CPUs - afterall, size matters. In addition, this may finally solve the issue of unsafe hex which has caused numerous virus outbreaks across the country - an estimated $10 billion in damage.
AMD is keeping the wraps on this new processor for a reason, and I bet this is it.
I've had that idea for ages.. as has any decent programmer / geek. We all know where the technology can *really* go.. and while the media is busy cajouling us for releasing these bugs, they have no idea whatsoever what the creme de creme of us are capable of - nor do they understand why we don't do it. It's sad, really, we are pretty much running the world and nobody knows how we're doing it.. hence the massive FUD surrounding viruses. Viruses are the *least* of our worries...
Try accessing something with write enabled and read not sometime on a novell server with notepad... the results will suprise you. Well.. maybe.. this is MS afterall.
Lawyer Translation: You are hereby ordered to cease and desist immediately under CFR 938.10 subparagraph b, which states: "No parody or other humor may take place via a purely online forum which modifies language without the consent of the people using said language". Furthermore, plaintiff hereby declares...
HI! I see that you are trying to surf the net. Would you like me to help give away all your private information and data?
[Yes, please help me] or [No thanks] (greyed out)
What next, a picture of a ActiveX scripting component painted on a cat to pop up and go "Script kiddie detected." followed by another message saying "Your security settings have changed, please reboot for these settings to take effect" ?
First off, I live in the US and am a US citizen. This being said - to my European counter-parts: Squish the US as flat as a postcard!
As a citizen of this country I am sick and tired of the US' "big brother" attitude towards the world. I think this is in part due to us emerging largely unscathed from WWII and not being properly humbled (ie: get your country's infrastructure bombed into oblivion) and then enjoying economic superiority over countries that had. The other part is that the US is still subconsciously reeling from vietnam. I think in an effort to "prove" themselves, our government has decided to dominate other, less powerful, countries. This isn't big brother - this is schoolyard bully.
The US has absolutely no right to impunge on the soverenty of other countries. End of story. The WIPO and UN have both been forced down the throats of countries through economic means, and IP rights are still used as a bludgeoning tool by this country to extort less developed 3rd world countries' resources. In short, the US has no moral conscience beyond the dollar, and this is further proof. The internet threatens to take the rug out from underneath the US' economic superiority by enabling "global capitalism". This is putting this country into a neat problem of fighting itself - capitalism requires growth to survive, yet this country also has the conflicting goal of remaining economically superior. To maintain this (inevitably doomed to failure, I suppose) they are trying to leverage their current economic power to promote a global political climate that would allow them to maintain their vice on the global market.
I say you people in France do what you do best - take some of my unenlightened peers to school!
I've found this alarmingly common to be routed on networks. I wish router manufacturers would squish this once and for all - it's in the RFCs that these are NOT to be routed on the 'net at large.
I've had alot of portscans for 31337 and 12345 in the past week on the mediaone network, all from 10.0.0.0/16 networks. I am massively annoyed that they let this through and block ports 137:139. Umm.. is this solving the problem? No! Oh, and they've taken a liking to scanning their customers boxen.. but I digress.
DDoS is the direct result of sloppy upstream administrators. IF I were in your shoes, I would be suing every person upstream for atleast a few hops for passing those 10.0.0.0 packets along for gross negligence.
First, cute name - I like it. Second, open source to businesses is still largely a PR stunt. Witness Sun's foray into it, or Apple's - both had absolutely atrocious licensing under the "open source" banner... both were (largely) resolved after community outcry and some work by our esteemed Bruce Perens, but many other companies have not been subjected to that level of scrutiny.
Most businesses still cannot (and will continue to for some time) grasp the basic idea of giving something away. In their world, if you give something away, you earn no money in return. This is true. They also presume support will continue to derive the same income, as the number of users hasn't increased much over a period of N. Hence, the logical conclusion is that without that source of revenue, they need to cut back expenditures to survive. Not very optimal - they lose profits. The flipside that they don't realize is that by open sourcing something, you can decrease your maintenance costs and increase your user base (if properly executed).
Companies don't see the long-term benefit. And, to be honest, open source is risky - there is no guarantee of high market penetration, as always.. and companies do NOT like risk, especially an unknown one - and there is unsufficient data right now to make a long-term commitment for many companies.
I know everyone is now shouting "FUD! FUD!" but this is how companies think, so you'd better warm up to the idea. Open source developers for the most part aren't getting rich - Microsoft developers are. That's a pretty powerful statement. So, if you want companies to open source a live product, instead of one that is no longer generating revenue (at which point it doesn't matter much what happens to the software, so the decision to go open source is easier) maybe we should concentrate on producing some hard numbers on companies that have taken the plunge.. and what happened 5 years later.
Slashdot Mirror
Let me just say that, after today, I will never ever criticize any of the slashdot authors again for grammar / linguistic errors.
I can say this is true! I was just out cutting my grass and this lawyer pulls up in a big limo and asks me if I could please step over there for a minute. So I turn of my John Deer and walk over and ask him what's up. He tells me that I can't use John Deer's to cut my grass because it smells like damp freshly cut grass (which it did, I admit) without paying him. So I politely tell him where he can stick his trademark, and now I'm typing this in jail. Man, life sucks! Well, gotta go.. my girlfriend (Bubba) wants to see me.
Maybe, but I didn't tell you how I was measuring latency, did I? =)
Must have been a transient electromagnetic field in your drive actuator. Did you try the usual fix?
Slashdotted island indeed - if this picture is any indication. Personally, I don't think it was an island - I think it's a coverup: Microsoft has finally entered the arms race. You'll note yesterday's quote that they would (I paraphrase here): "not stand by while our commercial enterprise is destroyed". We all know what happened when Microsoft programmed Encarta to show the world spinning backwards: they rewrote the astronomy section.
My tech friends are usually stunned when I pick up a stick of PC100 that has 4.5ns instead of PC133 at 5.5ns - they say "PC133 is better!".. and nevermind why. Alittle arm-wringing and explanations of latency and what cache hits v. misses do to their processor performance usually helps. For the stubborn, I ask them to bring their "PC133" ram over and we run a Quake demo. Guess who wins?
I don't want to hear about how much more RAM the industry is capable of making - I'm interested in hearing how fast they can make it. Bandwidth * Latency = Performance.. you cannot have high bandwidth and HIGH latency and get good performance - we've used up all our tricks in that area.
That being said, there are alternatives underway. I'll give you a few hints and leave you to it: magnets and optics. Enjoy!
Well, we all knew it was going to happen. If they paint a picture of Mickey on the side of the craft though, I will grab the latest keps, a nice big laser, and a huge lens and make sure he gets a mustache.
hmm, Linus vs. Jobs. I'm thinking that if we added alittle bit of Gladiator to it, it would certainly be a nice mpeg download... =)
What this means is that a certification program depends more on marketing and getting PR and HR together to be successful. Competency is, unfortunately, second. As a side-effect, this means that people like me aren't going to look at it seriously until the people in a position to hire me do. This is why many people are going for their MCSEs - they know HR reads the 4 color glossies MS sends out. Of course, the tech department groaned loudly when HR went off and stuck up another job description without consulting them (HR won't get stuck with the new guy, will they?).
So, in a nutshell, RedHat should pour alittle money into PR to make sure HR knows who they are. And, the 4 color glossies never hurt.
Sigh. Yeah, and 5 minutes after being submitted to slashdot and it's mashed potatoes...
php4 has extensive session support - you can encode the session info into the URL, or as a cookie, or even use http authentication. That would go a long way towards ensuring uniqueness.
If you don't properly typecast it's sloppy programming.. yes, the compiler may upcast it for you but I wouldn't count on it. And you're right, I have no clue on how to program.
Okay, so I missed hitting the "8" and hit the "7" instead... sue me.
if(bigmoney){
printf("Go to hell %s!\n",&bigcorp);
} else {
rms->sing();
}
There's also a known bug in the random number generator - when used inside subvert_society() it generates larger values than normal. We're not sure why this is...
I'll second that. I checked the specs and they say ATLEAST a 250w power supply. I bought a 300w and have had little difficulty with the GeForce card. Now, it DOES randomly crash sometimes, but I believe this is due to my overclocking the board - it is perfectly stable at it's "normal" 700 rating. So all this means is the card is running near or at its limit.. which I already knew.
AMD is keeping the wraps on this new processor for a reason, and I bet this is it.
I've had that idea for ages.. as has any decent programmer / geek. We all know where the technology can *really* go.. and while the media is busy cajouling us for releasing these bugs, they have no idea whatsoever what the creme de creme of us are capable of - nor do they understand why we don't do it. It's sad, really, we are pretty much running the world and nobody knows how we're doing it.. hence the massive FUD surrounding viruses. Viruses are the *least* of our worries...
I couldn't get to that one but there's another one here. By the way, is there any way to save a flash animation?
I think so. =)
right click.. view source...
Try accessing something with write enabled and read not sometime on a novell server with notepad... the results will suprise you. Well.. maybe.. this is MS afterall.
F*ck you!
Lawyer Translation: You are hereby ordered to cease and desist immediately under CFR 938.10 subparagraph b, which states: "No parody or other humor may take place via a purely online forum which modifies language without the consent of the people using said language". Furthermore, plaintiff hereby declares...
[Yes, please help me] or [No thanks] (greyed out)
What next, a picture of a ActiveX scripting component painted on a cat to pop up and go "Script kiddie detected." followed by another message saying "Your security settings have changed, please reboot for these settings to take effect" ?
As a citizen of this country I am sick and tired of the US' "big brother" attitude towards the world. I think this is in part due to us emerging largely unscathed from WWII and not being properly humbled (ie: get your country's infrastructure bombed into oblivion) and then enjoying economic superiority over countries that had. The other part is that the US is still subconsciously reeling from vietnam. I think in an effort to "prove" themselves, our government has decided to dominate other, less powerful, countries. This isn't big brother - this is schoolyard bully.
The US has absolutely no right to impunge on the soverenty of other countries. End of story. The WIPO and UN have both been forced down the throats of countries through economic means, and IP rights are still used as a bludgeoning tool by this country to extort less developed 3rd world countries' resources. In short, the US has no moral conscience beyond the dollar, and this is further proof. The internet threatens to take the rug out from underneath the US' economic superiority by enabling "global capitalism". This is putting this country into a neat problem of fighting itself - capitalism requires growth to survive, yet this country also has the conflicting goal of remaining economically superior. To maintain this (inevitably doomed to failure, I suppose) they are trying to leverage their current economic power to promote a global political climate that would allow them to maintain their vice on the global market.
I say you people in France do what you do best - take some of my unenlightened peers to school!
I've had alot of portscans for 31337 and 12345 in the past week on the mediaone network, all from 10.0.0.0/16 networks. I am massively annoyed that they let this through and block ports 137:139. Umm.. is this solving the problem? No! Oh, and they've taken a liking to scanning their customers boxen.. but I digress.
DDoS is the direct result of sloppy upstream administrators. IF I were in your shoes, I would be suing every person upstream for atleast a few hops for passing those 10.0.0.0 packets along for gross negligence.
Eh, well.. that's kindof what I meant.. I called it "open source" because Sun didn't make it all the way to Open Source.
Most businesses still cannot (and will continue to for some time) grasp the basic idea of giving something away. In their world, if you give something away, you earn no money in return. This is true. They also presume support will continue to derive the same income, as the number of users hasn't increased much over a period of N. Hence, the logical conclusion is that without that source of revenue, they need to cut back expenditures to survive. Not very optimal - they lose profits. The flipside that they don't realize is that by open sourcing something, you can decrease your maintenance costs and increase your user base (if properly executed).
Companies don't see the long-term benefit. And, to be honest, open source is risky - there is no guarantee of high market penetration, as always.. and companies do NOT like risk, especially an unknown one - and there is unsufficient data right now to make a long-term commitment for many companies.
I know everyone is now shouting "FUD! FUD!" but this is how companies think, so you'd better warm up to the idea. Open source developers for the most part aren't getting rich - Microsoft developers are. That's a pretty powerful statement. So, if you want companies to open source a live product, instead of one that is no longer generating revenue (at which point it doesn't matter much what happens to the software, so the decision to go open source is easier) maybe we should concentrate on producing some hard numbers on companies that have taken the plunge.. and what happened 5 years later.