No. On the whole, the rebuttal seemed to be more interested in taking on a respected figure to get attention than anything else. But ESR ought to have either ignored it, or analyzed it without emotion and post the results (ie, do it academically). It's not that I fault Eric - I'd probably be pissed to see something so badly-written calling itself a 'critique' of a famous work of mine... it's just that I've noted that ESR, RMS, Bruce, and most of the other oss|free_software leaders tend to jump to the personal slams abit quicker than maybe they should. I would have torn the article apart point by point and embarrassed this guy if I were in ESR's position instead of slighting him with the 'this adds nothing to the debate'. Either don't dignify it with a response.. or make a damn good one that deconstructs the entire article point-by-point.
Correct, but not for the reasons you specified. HNN has the details if you want it, but suffice it to say the NSA likely has technology that sorts on the basis of *context*, so throwing random keywords out is likely a futile act. Now, if OTOH, you started passing around, for example, the info sheet on the nerve-gas VX, or decided to call embassies in the New York area from several payphones and when they answered gave some cryptic 'the pig flies at three', or something equally cryptic to the Russian embassy, the Libian embassy, and maybe throw in China for good measure (we don't seem to like them anymore)... THAT would surely raise a few eyebrows at Spook HQ.
The problem that many of my detractors (who Should be Obvious to you by now). Is that They have more problems with, ( of course ) the subnet of my presentation ( table 1 ). Needles to say, Nevertheless. That they more than Likely do not comprehend ( of course ) the Fundamentals of the I'm a Fucking Retard Rule ( Needless to say, similar to my Octet rule ).
Never the less, it should be Obvious why I didn't ( or should i say, Couldn't ). Needless to say, pass the fucking Cisco exam because my head ( or never the less, what is on top of my head ) is so far.
Just imagine! Shoved up my ass, that this paper should be my addmitance paperwork out of computer ( or network ). Consutlting/IT Professional, and into scooping M&M's for Dary Queen.
if you read this hampsters paper all the way thru.. take off two points. Take off 3 if you printed it out to read it later.
Yeah...I know. but at 7:00am when you're sick, have strep, and your code hasn't compiled cleanly in days.. I think I can get away with alittle inaccuracy.
Note to self: bubble-sorting is slow on large arrays.. and what's worse.. it's *REALLY* slow. Must.. find.. better.. way...
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-- Man, this Arthur Clarke guy is pretty naive - root (god) and that naustrdamnus guy has been telling us that on Jan 1, 2000 all the computers are gonna blow up, nuclear bombs are going to whistle all over the world, and the apocolipse is gonna hit us.:)
Indeed. It's alittle too early in the morning too - I'm sick, so I got up early and perchance happened to see my story on the main page, so I thought I'd muster something together. Unfortunately it didn't come out the way I wanted. Well, atleast I got first post and didn't get eternal damnation for it...
My question really is - how come our president is allowed to keep reintroducing the same legislation over and over again? It's a waste of legislator time, it's obviously unpopular, and it just seems to me like clinton's little pet project. Politicians shouldn't have "pet projects" - they ought to find out what's most needed by the country, and dedicate the maximum amount of time to solving that problem.
Not only do I get first article for the day, but it looks like I get first post too. hehehe.:^)
Anyway, what happened to the concept of democracy in this country? Isn't it supposed to be congress that approves budgets and bills? While I have some issues with the system in general, all my textbooks say this is the way it's "supposed" to work.
Have we given the executive branch too much power? Maybe somebody with a background in political sci can give me some more details? I've only taken 1 class on it.:)
As with any new skill you plan on absorbing, the most efficient method is to find somebody that already knows it and exchange ideas. The point is that you're more likely to be receptive to somebody's ideas if you go out and find them and ask them than if somebody else decides what you will and will not learn on your own. To quote Plato - physical excercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body. Education, when compulsory, obtains no hold on the mind (sorry if I mangled the quote).
And as to 'limiting' other people to learning on their own.. that's gotta be about the most absurd thing I've heard all week. If you'd like to go into that further, I could make the assertion that the sum of human knowledge was created by self-taught people, and passed on so that each successive generation could improve upon the design(s) and idea(s).
I'd be willing to wager the self-taught geeks know more about history than their school-shaped counterparts. Consider the wisdom that floweth from the Hacker Dictionary, Appendix D - contrary to popular belief, the better a hacker is at hacking the more likely he is to have interests/knowledge at which he/she is more than merely competent at.
I believe this - not only do I see it in myself, but also in my geek-friends. People who are willing to seize the initiative and learn, think critically, and question are miles ahead of their school-shaped counterparts. It may be counter-intuitive, but it is often true.
Anyway, I think school would be alot more effective if it wasn't so 'standardized' - there are efforts underway to change this, but it's still largely a 'one size fits all' education. And if the 'one size fits all' pants that they sell in the store is any indication - they don't fit anyone well at all. Personalize and individualize ought to be the motto of today's educational institutions. Right now it seems to be 'my way or the highway'.
Yes, but unlike creationism which is static and unchanging, science aims to better it's view of the world and how it works rather than blaming everything on a divine being who will not be bothered with explaining himself to mere mortals such as ourselves.
I have a strong aversion to organized religion because of this - they all depend on an inaccessible truth.
While we're at it, how about just abolishing the entire concept of force-fed education and allow students to pursue their own personalized education? Socrates and Plato both patrolled the streets engaging in conversation with anybody who would listen, and look at what incredible works they came up with. Maybe these recent articles are foreshadowing a move towards the elimination of public education.
More to the point - how many of you out there learned to use computers on your own? For those who are largely self-taught, how many of you would rate yourselves as better than your school-shaped counterparts?
*mumble* It's obvious that the use of microsoft products as art is an attempt to appeal to the linux users in the post-postcommunistic era of computing. By appealing to the third-wave post-industrial paradigm shift amongst users of modern-day operating systems, they hope to accomplish a radical departure from current artistic forms of linux artwork.
Did that make any sense to you? Me neither. So how come you're "donating" atleast $99 in return for a $6.95 CD?!
Umm, I don't think you want that ! there. You don't want to change it if opensource already equals communism!
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Okay, so you're deleting the old opensource string, allocating a new 11-byte string off the free store, then copying the first 10 bytes into the constant string "communism". I'm sure the compiler will have a field day with that.;)
Well, I *am* trying to save some memory here. Heh. Anyway, opensource is a pointer-to-char, so assigning it a new value via new would do the right thing - why would the compiler have a fit over that?!
I have to disagree. I have a K6-350 at home here, and I've been programming now for several months. I try to avoid coding sloppy - partly for performance, but mostly because 'good enough' isn't in my vocabulary.
I don't believe that if computers suddenly hit a ceiling in terms of max performance that people who code sloppy would stop. It's just like any other profession - some people do it to the best of their ability, and some people make it 'good enough'. And on a related topic - guess which methodology most linux programmers embrace.:^)
Timeout there. This is supposed to be an 'on the cheap' project - that basically means whatever the poor guy can scrap together. I'd say anything more than $1000 for the hardware is asking too much. Sorry, but clustering is clearly not an option for this - and is/vastly/ overkill. A DX4/100 can stream about 7.8mb/s... anything with a PCI architecture can push 60+. All he needs is a cpu powerful enough to decode the mp3 in realtime (P60's can decode, but they can't do anything else - atleast a 233 can let him serve content and stream simul) and lots and lots of RAM.
To answer your question - yes and no. It's practical. It just depends on how much traffic you get. The key thing here is/not/ cpu - but memory. Assuming you want to run linux on this bad boy, here's what you'll need:
Large mp3 collection. (BYOA - bring your own archive. *g*)
If you think you won't have more than 50 simultanious listeners on this box, a K6-350 or a P266 ought to be sufficient. Due to the nature of icecast, it only needs to encode the stream *once* and stream it out - so it's largely a bandwidth issue. If you're going to have more than 50, and will be serving dyn-html off the same site (generating playlists and whatnot), you might want something abit more beefy. Either way, consider 256mb of RAM your minimum.
As for HDD, here again - it just 'depends'. A good strategy might be two drives - one for your mp3 archive / wav files, the other for your web pages & stuff. Regular old IDE drives will do well under this setup and you don't have to worry much about blips in the audio if you have the streams on a seperate (dedicated) drive
Apache web server with perl_mod and/or php3_mod. But this is more for quick development of webpages and access to databases than anything else.
I don't know if it'll be much use to you, but I couldn't resist plugging my mp3db program to help organize your collection.:)
I would seriously recommend ripping / encoding on a seperate box to keep the load down. I'm sure there won't be a problem finding volunteers to send you pre-encoded mp3s on campus.:^) If you want a free software encoder, check out LAME (no url, sorry!) - it works very well as long as you give it somewhat high bitrates. Otherwise freshmeat has a variety of mp3 utilities in the app index under console/mp3
*cough* Not to be an ingrate or anything, but if you're going to use C++, it would look more like this:
if(! strcmp(opensource,"communism")){ delete opensource; opensource = new char[11]; strncpy("communism",opensource,10); } else printf("opensource looks fine - %s hasn't gotten to it yet.", DEITY); // sorry, couldn't use the greater-than-greater-than operator & cout b/c slashdot filters it.
... As if. Any discussion and critique is good - saying that it adds nothing to the debate is a rather foolish thing to say. If we don't question CatB, the GPL, the Debian Free Software Guidelines what point is there to even having those documents in the first place? The whole *point* is to think it over, talk about it, discuss it, improve it, and critique it.
Question everything. Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. Our community leaders are not excempt from this - we should question them often and in depth, because if we don't they'll be unprepared for what the rest of the world will. To paraphrase Buddha - "do not accept anything at first.. but if after careful consideration it agrees with your view, accept it and live by it." I know I mangled the quote, but you get the idea - in so many words question everything.
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No. On the whole, the rebuttal seemed to be more interested in taking on a respected figure to get attention than anything else. But ESR ought to have either ignored it, or analyzed it without emotion and post the results (ie, do it academically). It's not that I fault Eric - I'd probably be pissed to see something so badly-written calling itself a 'critique' of a famous work of mine... it's just that I've noted that ESR, RMS, Bruce, and most of the other oss|free_software leaders tend to jump to the personal slams abit quicker than maybe they should. I would have torn the article apart point by point and embarrassed this guy if I were in ESR's position instead of slighting him with the 'this adds nothing to the debate'. Either don't dignify it with a response.. or make a damn good one that deconstructs the entire article point-by-point.
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Yup, it was integrated into the RPC portmapper as "rwall" - most linux distros ship with it, along with rwho and a few other utilities.
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The problem that many of my detractors (who Should be Obvious to you by now). Is that They have more problems with, ( of course ) the subnet of my presentation ( table 1 ). Needles to say, Nevertheless. That they more than Likely do not comprehend ( of course ) the Fundamentals of the I'm a Fucking Retard Rule ( Needless to say, similar to my Octet rule ).
Never the less, it should be Obvious why I didn't ( or should i say, Couldn't ). Needless to say, pass the fucking Cisco exam because my head ( or never the less, what is on top of my head ) is so far.
Just imagine! Shoved up my ass, that this paper should be my addmitance paperwork out of computer ( or network ). Consutlting/IT Professional, and into scooping M&M's for Dary Queen.
if you read this hampsters paper all the way thru.. take off two points. Take off 3 if you printed it out to read it later.
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Put too much sugar on your rice crispies again?
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Yeah...I know. but at 7:00am when you're sick, have strep, and your code hasn't compiled cleanly in days.. I think I can get away with alittle inaccuracy.
Note to self: bubble-sorting is slow on large arrays.. and what's worse.. it's *REALLY* slow. Must.. find.. better.. way...
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Man, this Arthur Clarke guy is pretty naive - root (god) and that naustrdamnus guy has been telling us that on Jan 1, 2000 all the computers are gonna blow up, nuclear bombs are going to whistle all over the world, and the apocolipse is gonna hit us.
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Indeed. It's alittle too early in the morning too - I'm sick, so I got up early and perchance happened to see my story on the main page, so I thought I'd muster something together. Unfortunately it didn't come out the way I wanted. Well, atleast I got first post and didn't get eternal damnation for it...
My question really is - how come our president is allowed to keep reintroducing the same legislation over and over again? It's a waste of legislator time, it's obviously unpopular, and it just seems to me like clinton's little pet project. Politicians shouldn't have "pet projects" - they ought to find out what's most needed by the country, and dedicate the maximum amount of time to solving that problem.
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Anyway, what happened to the concept of democracy in this country? Isn't it supposed to be congress that approves budgets and bills? While I have some issues with the system in general, all my textbooks say this is the way it's "supposed" to work.
Have we given the executive branch too much power? Maybe somebody with a background in political sci can give me some more details? I've only taken 1 class on it. :)
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As with any new skill you plan on absorbing, the most efficient method is to find somebody that already knows it and exchange ideas. The point is that you're more likely to be receptive to somebody's ideas if you go out and find them and ask them than if somebody else decides what you will and will not learn on your own. To quote Plato - physical excercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body. Education, when compulsory, obtains no hold on the mind (sorry if I mangled the quote).
And as to 'limiting' other people to learning on their own.. that's gotta be about the most absurd thing I've heard all week. If you'd like to go into that further, I could make the assertion that the sum of human knowledge was created by self-taught people, and passed on so that each successive generation could improve upon the design(s) and idea(s).
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I believe this - not only do I see it in myself, but also in my geek-friends. People who are willing to seize the initiative and learn, think critically, and question are miles ahead of their school-shaped counterparts. It may be counter-intuitive, but it is often true.
Anyway, I think school would be alot more effective if it wasn't so 'standardized' - there are efforts underway to change this, but it's still largely a 'one size fits all' education. And if the 'one size fits all' pants that they sell in the store is any indication - they don't fit anyone well at all. Personalize and individualize ought to be the motto of today's educational institutions. Right now it seems to be 'my way or the highway'.
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I have a strong aversion to organized religion because of this - they all depend on an inaccessible truth.
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More to the point - how many of you out there learned to use computers on your own? For those who are largely self-taught, how many of you would rate yourselves as better than your school-shaped counterparts?
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Did that make any sense to you? Me neither. So how come you're "donating" atleast $99 in return for a $6.95 CD?!
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Oops. :\
Okay, so you're deleting the old opensource string, allocating a new 11-byte string off the free store, then copying the first 10 bytes into the constant string "communism". I'm sure the compiler will have a field day with that. ;)
Well, I *am* trying to save some memory here. Heh. Anyway, opensource is a pointer-to-char, so assigning it a new value via new would do the right thing - why would the compiler have a fit over that?!
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I don't believe that if computers suddenly hit a ceiling in terms of max performance that people who code sloppy would stop. It's just like any other profession - some people do it to the best of their ability, and some people make it 'good enough'. And on a related topic - guess which methodology most linux programmers embrace. :^)
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That's just my $0.02 though.
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show me the money!
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Hope this helps!
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*cough* Not to be an ingrate or anything, but if you're going to use C++, it would look more like this:
if(! strcmp(opensource,"communism")){
delete opensource;
opensource = new char[11];
strncpy("communism",opensource,10);
} else
printf("opensource looks fine - %s hasn't gotten to it yet.", DEITY);
// sorry, couldn't use the greater-than-greater-than operator & cout b/c slashdot filters it.
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It appears the author was writing a rebuttal, not a critique of CatB. I believe it has been misrepresented. It is, however, no less valid.
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Question everything. Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. Our community leaders are not excempt from this - we should question them often and in depth, because if we don't they'll be unprepared for what the rest of the world will. To paraphrase Buddha - "do not accept anything at first.. but if after careful consideration it agrees with your view, accept it and live by it." I know I mangled the quote, but you get the idea - in so many words question everything.
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