I think the biggest problem with programming is the number of programmers involved and the size of the project. It's really the testing group/QA departments job to catch the bugs. I listen to music while i work, granted I install network hardware, but it makes the day go by faster and seems to be more productive than listening to the phone ring or staring at the wall for hours on end. I think that programmers are given too much crap. They may make coding errors, but they are human. Another set of eyes on any project makes things a bit easier. As much as I hate OpenBSD, they have a descent system. They take code, review it, and then post it to their distro. It may take them forever to get to that point, but at least its reviewed. Programs would be so much better if there was a better source. I'm sure this is offtopic so yeah....I forgot where i was going with this, its quiet in the office.
Kudos to Craigslist. Sex sells. They have done more than they should have to prevent this kind of activity on their site. The way I see it, they are keeping officers employed by busting the prostitutes and the people who use their services. Its a personal choice if you choose to use the services. they control their content but honestly stopping craigslist from have an adult section is gonna do absolutely nothing to stop prostitution in cities. There are plenty of other websites such as backpage or citypages that do the same exact thing at no charge and I've yet to see any of them make the news. The claim that the "prosititute" was killed because she posted on craigsiist is bogus. She's the one taking the chance by sleeping around and she'd do it whether or not craigslist existed or not. It's about time someone grew a pair and stood up to the corrupt legislatures in this country and told them to politely f*ck off.
1) RIAA greases legislators with millions to get them to pass the damn thing.
2) ISPs are forced to implement packet sniffing, thus decreasing the speed of the internet with new filtering bottlenecks.
3) All torrents go encrypted so sniffers dont know the difference between legitimate traffic and p2p.
3a) torrents start using TOR or i2p connections so other peoples shit gets disconnected.
4) RIAA gets fucked anyway along with the crappy economy in the US.
5) I'm still not buying the record, screw them.
either way they are gonna loose the revenue they think they should be getting. I'd rather go see a concert than buy a CD personally, just raise the ticket prices and people would still go. I dont agree that people should be ripping off music but until MP3 players only work with itunes or other online tools then this is always gonna be a problem. Someones always gonna loose money. they've been losing money since 8 track tapes, they just need to deal with it.
The future is web based. Endless bloat, inefficient javascript and the latency of accessing remote systems. Why will people accept such a system? because a lot of people never learned to use a desktop, they learned how to use a web browser. Anything outside the web browser looks complicated to them.
I'll agree to an extent that Linux isnt a good desktop OS for people who are Windows nuts. I have used Linux for the past 4 years on a regular basis and there is a huge learning curve. Linux is great for the server environment and it blows Windows Server out of the water when it comes to ease of use and setup. As far as web browsers, theres a lot of kiosk companies that are running Linux with Windows as the guest os on their machines and taking care of a lot of issues that used to plague remote admin work for distributed computing platforms. Anything you can do in Linux can be done in Windows. Windows also has about 30 years of end-user time on Linux. I know it wasn't really adopted by a lot of my customers as a viable server until 2001-2002 time frame.
There is also the fact that web-based is the new way of making money from software. No piracy since its mostly server-side, lace it with ads and nobody complains about adware. Give it a few years and ads will no longer be served up by dedicated domains you can easily block.
I agree completely. Linux will always be there for the server backend platforms. Linux is great for serving the content. Look at its use in routers and embedded solutions. You couldn't get Windows bloatware to run nearly as effective as Linux does in small environments. I think Linux will overall end up winning in the server platforms in the long run. I'd take a linux server over a windows box anyday of the week just because of reliability. If you have the slightest clue how to setup a basic LAMP then Linux is the way to go. I don't think we need to push Linux to the desktop because people just expect it to work. I spend a lot of time in linux IRC rooms and i see a lot of newbs come in with basic questions that you could get by reading a howto. MS has made Windows so simple that switching to another OS other than a Mac would be hard for them. The other issue i have are the asshole hardcore linux guys that refuse to help people. I think thats really what keeps people away from Linux is because the community doesn't listen nor are they really worried about getting a larger userbase. There are some guys out there that help out where they can, and people appreciate the little bit of help.. In windows getting from A to B is clicking a few buttons. The same process in Linux could be from A to Z with every step needing to be complete and one error throws off the entire process. Until we as a community can stand up and be helpful and supportive and work with developers insteading of blaming them for the problems then Linux won't make it to the desktop and even hold water. Personally any chance I get I load a linux livecd and do what I need to do because for me its easier, but until its easy like Windows then we arent going to get anywhere.
What Halliburton is: A shell (some would say "richly diversified") company, a large stake of which is owned by our nation's current VP.
....aka the US Governments Bitch
What they do: get government contracts worth millions, some of which were never put up for open bid processes.
And Diebold had a contract for voting machines??? See my point
I don't mind Microsoft, but I don't think they need any help in leaving their systems vulnerable. I don't agree with Sony's DRM bullshit, and I do believe that they need to be smacked like a little bitch for including their 'anti-piracy' crap. I just want to listen to MUSIC, not get more annoying software installed on my computer that does absolutely nothing other than piss me off to a greater extent than XP rebooting my computer for no reason. Thanks guys, can't wait for the PS3..Is it going to have software to keep me from playing my PS3 games on my PC?
Yet they haven't managed to slip a terrorist into Microsoft with a dirty bomb..tsk tsk...When will these silly corporate companies learn to kill the bad man..
Out of all the places in the US to pick, they chose Kansas??!?!?!? This isnt the Wizard of Oz for christ sakes. On another note, It's good ot see the US is at least making an attempt to keep the country on a the path to educate their people to try to hold on to the technological advances in the US. I hope good things come out of such a small, desolate state.
Why do we have to go hunting round 3rd parties to learn how to secure our O/S? Surely this information (in the form of clear and easy Howtos) should be given as part of the O/S package, as purchased from the vendor.
Yeah, but then people like you wouldn't know how to get online. Shit, I'm writing my Congressman now....
/. means slashdot" thats troll -1 obviously
\. means "heil hitler" or "sieg heil"
in use heavily on Counter-Strike servers around Europe. Funny? Well.. not.
So be damn sure u write/. and not \.
LOL
Careful now you might piss of some Vietnamese twins in South Africa if you mention that again.
Look at it this way....The government wastes millions of taxpayers money every year on shit we'd never use anyway. The boxes served a purpose, they were a write-off for the government. To them there is no amount of money and no budget when it comes to technology. At least those computers made it under the big LCD screen in the sky instead of rotting next to my neighbors trash bin
Uh-huh. And there comes a point where security impinges on usability to an unsatisfactory degree. Sure, not having your computer hooked onto the net will make it incredibly secure compared to if it were hooked to the net. But if you need to use the internet, then this level of security makes it unusable.
True, but thats basically what the NSA says in their 143-page document from 2003 (which misses, oh, ALL of the patches to XP, for example)... Maybe they released this information as a conspiracy to the UN wanting international control of the Internet. If the NSA's involved, I'd honestly like to know why they take interest at this point in time as opposed to when the zombie machines became a serious and costly area of the internet.
IBM's site is a nightmare. I'm glad Google teamed up with them. Now we can use Google hacks to find out all the important shit about AIX that we'd ever need.
On a side note, Microsoft teams up with Apple to create new interface to piss off Google and IBM. Kid gets assassinated for making a 'Working Windows' virus. More news at 11.
Leave it to the government to tell us how to secure our computers so they can tap into our data later through some backdoor. Good read, except all they really had to say was 'disconnect your computer from the fucking internet'..
I did work for Muzak's satellite division once. Depending on where you work, which really doesn't matter, this is a relatively simple fix. The speakers hook to some type of amplifier, which, in turn, has an 'input'. This 'input' is RCA, SO......Hook up your favorite CD player to the audio amp, (you may need a 1/8" jack to RCA adapter Y cable, Radio Shack, 5 bucks) and viola, the speakers now play your best of Cat Stephens record.
I've lived on the Gulf and been through a few hurricanes. Definately bring food and water...If you can manage it bring a propane hotstove/small grill with charcoal. Bring plenty of clothes and socks, definately some waterproof boots. Also bring plenty of mosquito spray.....I would also take a face mask because of the mold spores that I'm sure have populated in the standing water by now. As far as tools, I'd bring your basic toolkit with screwdrivers and box wrenches, both SAE and metric (as we Americans cant decide on one standard). Batteries are a big plus along with a flashlight. I don't know exactly what is available down there and what isn't right now. Also remember anything you forgot can't just be UPS'd/FedEx'd as they arent delivering to most of the gulf coast right now. I think theres a wireless net setup in New Orleans for internet access but I'm not entirely sure. I plan on making a trip down there for commercial reasons in about a month to help with the infrastructure rebuild, but my needs are definately different from yours.
Hope this helped
Could this mean that they finalized the process or making a reliable drive yet again?? I remember back in the 90s I couldn't give away a WD drive if I could get a Seagate.. My customers still rely on the quality of the Seagate drives and dont mind paying the extra 20 bucks for them.. But I do agree with the previous posters, if you dont have a backup replacing the drive for free really isnt going to matter..
Nope..this bird is servicing Canada, US, and Mexico.. Its right over the Equator, which makes it available to all 3 (111.1W, its in the Clark belt folks)...
According to what I've been told the Ka-band is capable of trasmitting and recieving as much data as a standard OC-192, which makes it the largest satellite throughput I've ever heard of..of course, its up to the 'customer' on how much bandwidth and time they buy on the satellite.... So, it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with this one
Slashdot Mirror
Just make sure you pay for your idiot friends WoW accounts and they'll be fine
has No one heard of DNSMasq?
I think the biggest problem with programming is the number of programmers involved and the size of the project. It's really the testing group/QA departments job to catch the bugs. I listen to music while i work, granted I install network hardware, but it makes the day go by faster and seems to be more productive than listening to the phone ring or staring at the wall for hours on end. I think that programmers are given too much crap. They may make coding errors, but they are human. Another set of eyes on any project makes things a bit easier. As much as I hate OpenBSD, they have a descent system. They take code, review it, and then post it to their distro. It may take them forever to get to that point, but at least its reviewed. Programs would be so much better if there was a better source. I'm sure this is offtopic so yeah....I forgot where i was going with this, its quiet in the office.
Kudos to Craigslist. Sex sells. They have done more than they should have to prevent this kind of activity on their site. The way I see it, they are keeping officers employed by busting the prostitutes and the people who use their services. Its a personal choice if you choose to use the services. they control their content but honestly stopping craigslist from have an adult section is gonna do absolutely nothing to stop prostitution in cities. There are plenty of other websites such as backpage or citypages that do the same exact thing at no charge and I've yet to see any of them make the news. The claim that the "prosititute" was killed because she posted on craigsiist is bogus. She's the one taking the chance by sleeping around and she'd do it whether or not craigslist existed or not. It's about time someone grew a pair and stood up to the corrupt legislatures in this country and told them to politely f*ck off.
Steps to sign new law into office:
1) RIAA greases legislators with millions to get them to pass the damn thing.
2) ISPs are forced to implement packet sniffing, thus decreasing the speed of the internet with new filtering bottlenecks.
3) All torrents go encrypted so sniffers dont know the difference between legitimate traffic and p2p.
3a) torrents start using TOR or i2p connections so other peoples shit gets disconnected.
4) RIAA gets fucked anyway along with the crappy economy in the US.
5) I'm still not buying the record, screw them.
either way they are gonna loose the revenue they think they should be getting. I'd rather go see a concert than buy a CD personally, just raise the ticket prices and people would still go. I dont agree that people should be ripping off music but until MP3 players only work with itunes or other online tools then this is always gonna be a problem. Someones always gonna loose money. they've been losing money since 8 track tapes, they just need to deal with it.
The future is web based. Endless bloat, inefficient javascript and the latency of accessing remote systems. Why will people accept such a system? because a lot of people never learned to use a desktop, they learned how to use a web browser. Anything outside the web browser looks complicated to them.
I'll agree to an extent that Linux isnt a good desktop OS for people who are Windows nuts. I have used Linux for the past 4 years on a regular basis and there is a huge learning curve. Linux is great for the server environment and it blows Windows Server out of the water when it comes to ease of use and setup. As far as web browsers, theres a lot of kiosk companies that are running Linux with Windows as the guest os on their machines and taking care of a lot of issues that used to plague remote admin work for distributed computing platforms. Anything you can do in Linux can be done in Windows. Windows also has about 30 years of end-user time on Linux. I know it wasn't really adopted by a lot of my customers as a viable server until 2001-2002 time frame.
There is also the fact that web-based is the new way of making money from software. No piracy since its mostly server-side, lace it with ads and nobody complains about adware. Give it a few years and ads will no longer be served up by dedicated domains you can easily block.
I agree completely. Linux will always be there for the server backend platforms. Linux is great for serving the content. Look at its use in routers and embedded solutions. You couldn't get Windows bloatware to run nearly as effective as Linux does in small environments. I think Linux will overall end up winning in the server platforms in the long run. I'd take a linux server over a windows box anyday of the week just because of reliability. If you have the slightest clue how to setup a basic LAMP then Linux is the way to go. I don't think we need to push Linux to the desktop because people just expect it to work. I spend a lot of time in linux IRC rooms and i see a lot of newbs come in with basic questions that you could get by reading a howto. MS has made Windows so simple that switching to another OS other than a Mac would be hard for them. The other issue i have are the asshole hardcore linux guys that refuse to help people. I think thats really what keeps people away from Linux is because the community doesn't listen nor are they really worried about getting a larger userbase. There are some guys out there that help out where they can, and people appreciate the little bit of help.. In windows getting from A to B is clicking a few buttons. The same process in Linux could be from A to Z with every step needing to be complete and one error throws off the entire process. Until we as a community can stand up and be helpful and supportive and work with developers insteading of blaming them for the problems then Linux won't make it to the desktop and even hold water. Personally any chance I get I load a linux livecd and do what I need to do because for me its easier, but until its easy like Windows then we arent going to get anywhere.
What Halliburton is: A shell (some would say "richly diversified") company, a large stake of which is owned by our nation's current VP.
....aka the US Governments Bitch
What they do: get government contracts worth millions, some of which were never put up for open bid processes.
And Diebold had a contract for voting machines??? See my point
I don't mind Microsoft, but I don't think they need any help in leaving their systems vulnerable. I don't agree with Sony's DRM bullshit, and I do believe that they need to be smacked like a little bitch for including their 'anti-piracy' crap. I just want to listen to MUSIC, not get more annoying software installed on my computer that does absolutely nothing other than piss me off to a greater extent than XP rebooting my computer for no reason. Thanks guys, can't wait for the PS3..Is it going to have software to keep me from playing my PS3 games on my PC?
Maybe that was the point. But then again, why would you to understand.
another contract for Haliburton to take over.
Yet they haven't managed to slip a terrorist into Microsoft with a dirty bomb..tsk tsk...When will these silly corporate companies learn to kill the bad man..
Out of all the places in the US to pick, they chose Kansas??!?!?!? This isnt the Wizard of Oz for christ sakes.
On another note, It's good ot see the US is at least making an attempt to keep the country on a the path to educate their people to try to hold on to the technological advances in the US. I hope good things come out of such a small, desolate state.
Why do we have to go hunting round 3rd parties to learn how to secure our O/S? Surely this information (in the form of clear and easy Howtos) should be given as part of the O/S package, as purchased from the vendor.
Yeah, but then people like you wouldn't know how to get online. Shit, I'm writing my Congressman now....
Careful now you might piss of some Vietnamese twins in South Africa if you mention that again.
Look at it this way....The government wastes millions of taxpayers money every year on shit we'd never use anyway. The boxes served a purpose, they were a write-off for the government. To them there is no amount of money and no budget when it comes to technology. At least those computers made it under the big LCD screen in the sky instead of rotting next to my neighbors trash bin
Uh-huh. And there comes a point where security impinges on usability to an unsatisfactory degree. Sure, not having your computer hooked onto the net will make it incredibly secure compared to if it were hooked to the net. But if you need to use the internet, then this level of security makes it unusable. True, but thats basically what the NSA says in their 143-page document from 2003 (which misses, oh, ALL of the patches to XP, for example)... Maybe they released this information as a conspiracy to the UN wanting international control of the Internet. If the NSA's involved, I'd honestly like to know why they take interest at this point in time as opposed to when the zombie machines became a serious and costly area of the internet.
IBM's site is a nightmare. I'm glad Google teamed up with them. Now we can use Google hacks to find out all the important shit about AIX that we'd ever need. On a side note, Microsoft teams up with Apple to create new interface to piss off Google and IBM. Kid gets assassinated for making a 'Working Windows' virus. More news at 11.
Leave it to the government to tell us how to secure our computers so they can tap into our data later through some backdoor. Good read, except all they really had to say was 'disconnect your computer from the fucking internet'..
I did work for Muzak's satellite division once. Depending on where you work, which really doesn't matter, this is a relatively simple fix. The speakers hook to some type of amplifier, which, in turn, has an 'input'. This 'input' is RCA, SO......Hook up your favorite CD player to the audio amp, (you may need a 1/8" jack to RCA adapter Y cable, Radio Shack, 5 bucks) and viola, the speakers now play your best of Cat Stephens record.
I've lived on the Gulf and been through a few hurricanes. Definately bring food and water...If you can manage it bring a propane hotstove/small grill with charcoal. Bring plenty of clothes and socks, definately some waterproof boots. Also bring plenty of mosquito spray.....I would also take a face mask because of the mold spores that I'm sure have populated in the standing water by now. As far as tools, I'd bring your basic toolkit with screwdrivers and box wrenches, both SAE and metric (as we Americans cant decide on one standard). Batteries are a big plus along with a flashlight. I don't know exactly what is available down there and what isn't right now. Also remember anything you forgot can't just be UPS'd/FedEx'd as they arent delivering to most of the gulf coast right now. I think theres a wireless net setup in New Orleans for internet access but I'm not entirely sure. I plan on making a trip down there for commercial reasons in about a month to help with the infrastructure rebuild, but my needs are definately different from yours. Hope this helped
Sounds to be like the next setting of Survivor. the real game
Could this mean that they finalized the process or making a reliable drive yet again?? I remember back in the 90s I couldn't give away a WD drive if I could get a Seagate.. My customers still rely on the quality of the Seagate drives and dont mind paying the extra 20 bucks for them.. But I do agree with the previous posters, if you dont have a backup replacing the drive for free really isnt going to matter..
Johnny Cochran anyone?
Nope..this bird is servicing Canada, US, and Mexico.. Its right over the Equator, which makes it available to all 3 (111.1W, its in the Clark belt folks)...
According to what I've been told the Ka-band is capable of trasmitting and recieving as much data as a standard OC-192, which makes it the largest satellite throughput I've ever heard of..of course, its up to the 'customer' on how much bandwidth and time they buy on the satellite.... So, it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with this one