First, I only read 80% of the correspondence, so perhaps I'm missing something.
But I'm wondering why this Justin let this thing go on for so long? Was he just bored, and thought it would be hilarious? I'd want my cash back right away...
That, and it's just creepy to correspond with a criminal for that amount of time. The guy could show up one day and stab you in the cheek:(.
And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."
Of course, that's impossible. He must have misspoke himself. Though no one challenged him on it, AFAIK.
Also, did anyone catch the bizarre joke he told in his previous sentence? Here:
Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida.
It's remarkably subtle. Sure, I've taken it slightly out of context (read the whole thing for yourself), but why wouldn't anyone believe he'd be in a troubled mental state after learning about those horrible, unprecedented attacks?
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe.
The nature of human achievement depends on each of us "standing on the shoulders of giants".
Linus went to a good university, obviously spent a reprehensible amount of time in front of the computer, and thoroughly read some great books.
Torvalds never claimed to have designed the concept of a Unix-like operating system. "All" he did was implement a minimal kernel, based on the ingenious designs of others. This "6 months" versus "3 years" BS is laughable, but disturbing.
Why not put programming on hold, and show her the basic of the commandline? Show her how to navigate the filesystem, how piping works, how useful something like "grep" is (and regexes in general), which we all take for granted.
Then she can graduate to basic shell scripting. Show her how to automate tasks with crond. Show her how to handle complexity on a practical, useful level.
Then let her run free on the system. If she isn't hacking away at Perl scripts in a few months, and fighting her way through K&R soon thereafter, well she's not your mom anymore:-).
I agree completely with what you've stated, and I'd like to also point out another book which, according to the Linux Reading List HOWTO and Linus himself[1], influenced Linus's work on Linux: Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice J. Bach.
It is, imho, still a fascinating read.
[1] The two books I
originally used were "The Design of the Unix Operating System" by Bach,
and "OS Design and Implementation" by Tanenbaum. [...] The Bach book has a few nice
algorithms in it, and I'd suggest reading them too: many of the actual
ideas on how something could be implemented came from that.
Anyone with a passing familiarity of dictionary-based attacks (and I assume this student has that!) is aware of the point you bring up, and would undoubtedly seek to procure or "create" a dictionary file with all sorts of extra names, abbreviations, acronyms, places, etc. (eg. NATO, Mossad, Building 7, and so forth)
And if there's anything that I can
say to anybody that is considering starting out
on their own, it's to do something that nobody
before them has done. And as such, if I was to
really try to unduly influence anybody's path,
even by working with them, I'd think that I'd be
being untrue to the nature of what I do."
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More time to get ripped!
First, I only read 80% of the correspondence, so perhaps I'm missing something.
:(.
But I'm wondering why this Justin let this thing go on for so long? Was he just bored, and thought it would be hilarious? I'd want my cash back right away...
That, and it's just creepy to correspond with a criminal for that amount of time. The guy could show up one day and stab you in the cheek
Of course, that's impossible. He must have misspoke himself. Though no one challenged him on it, AFAIK.
Also, did anyone catch the bizarre joke he told in his previous sentence? Here: It's remarkably subtle. Sure, I've taken it slightly out of context (read the whole thing for yourself), but why wouldn't anyone believe he'd be in a troubled mental state after learning about those horrible, unprecedented attacks?
Hmm. His nick is "thenextpresident"; I'm guessing fantasy post ;)
Go Slackware! I'll always reserve a place for you, on every hard drive I come across.
Linus went to a good university, obviously spent a reprehensible amount of time in front of the computer, and thoroughly read some great books.
Torvalds never claimed to have designed the concept of a Unix-like operating system. "All" he did was implement a minimal kernel, based on the ingenious designs of others. This "6 months" versus "3 years" BS is laughable, but disturbing.
The cat was out of the bag!
Why not put programming on hold, and show her the basic of the commandline? Show her how to navigate the filesystem, how piping works, how useful something like "grep" is (and regexes in general), which we all take for granted.
:-).
Then she can graduate to basic shell scripting. Show her how to automate tasks with crond. Show her how to handle complexity on a practical, useful level.
Then let her run free on the system. If she isn't hacking away at Perl scripts in a few months, and fighting her way through K&R soon thereafter, well she's not your mom anymore
Really? All I could find was this.
I'd be very interested to find an on-line version if it exists.
It is, imho, still a fascinating read.
- Linus Torvalds, 1992
As luck would have it: check it.
:).
Direct link to image: sassy.
Woah.. I just previewed/clicked that -- didn't realize they have a full-sized pic... she could play a hotty secret agent on TV
Anyone with a passing familiarity of dictionary-based attacks (and I assume this student has that!) is aware of the point you bring up, and would undoubtedly seek to procure or "create" a dictionary file with all sorts of extra names, abbreviations, acronyms, places, etc. (eg. NATO, Mossad, Building 7, and so forth)
Damn those hackers for not having the ((tens|hundreds) of)? millions of dollars for R&D, testing, outsourcing, etc.
When will they learn!
I'm highly uninformed on the possibilities of such a thing, but are there "parts" of my brain which can still produce "move tail now" signals? :-)
Sound like he needs one.