It's fairly ridiculous that this SP is delayed.. again... however, IMHO its a good move on their part, because (hopefully) it means that they are including more useful security fixes etc. in it. And its silly that those even need to be release this much after the fact, but they might as well get them all (well, most of them) in there now, so there's not SP2a, SP2b, SP2security patch 229q etc.
I recall an operating system that was fairly rushed to get out, called Windows 95, that really sucked. Hopefully, though this is only an SP, the delay will prevent rush-to-get-it-out-crappiness.
Werd to that. I have finally beaten my ATI Radeon 9700 into submission with the fireGLX driver, fine tuned as can be. In RH9 my ultimate goal, a decent run of Morrowind in Cedega was made reality. But it was not easy. And dont get me started on the stupidity of a 56k modem in RH9 or linux at all for that matter (as long as the topic is stupid incompatibility). I am waiting for ATI to come out of their cave with a decently compatible graphics driver (and for transgaming to look at it and build in some compatibility). On my NVidia card, performance is through the roof difference (latest driver and GL).
Sadly, i agree w/ your last point. No painless distro yet, but they are on the way. Remember the time before a decent WineX. (well, actually maybe that time is still now, for a while more).
I AGREEE! What windows does when it is installed is pure evil, up there with the likes of Real Player, and Quicktime.
For instance: I install Suse 9.1 on my computer, having formatted the hard drive, I run it as my primary OS, booting with GRUB as my bootloader. If I wanted to install Windows XP (only to run games, of course), I have to jump through hoops to make Windows not just swipe the MBR and allow any OS to be booted. It is not simply "ok, i'll install windows too", one must commit to only use windows. This is unethical, and prohibitive of choice. As the owner of a license to their silly software, the hardware, and everything else on my system, they should have NO ability to go around prohibiting my use of other software. That is some local, individualized version of monopoly. They drive their competition out of your life on a personal level. I was outraged when i realized what trouble it was to install M$ junk as an afterthought to Linux. I am sure this was not an accident. Thank you to open source for at least not being so prohibitive.
All users have a right to CHOOSE what OS and what software they use on thier machine.
...is google@yahoo.com, just because i think it sounds ridiculous.
This talk of email abuse reminds me of the spam filtering system of a person i go to school with:
you send him mail. If not on his "Acceptable Mail" list your are directed, via an auto response to his webpage, whereupon, you submit your email address for his approval.
The problem exists when 2 people employ this method, as if your auto-response's email address is not in the original sender's acceptable mail list, an endless (or quickly auto-abandonded) chain of emails back and forth betwixt auto-reponders is created.
These books, (especially ABNW) helped me put a lot in perspective, and though not conventionally geeky, they are really good. Also, you may want to consider "UNIX in a nutshell" (O'Reilly) because i would say i spend more time flipping through remembering (well having forgotten, that is) how to do things than i do with any other book. =) cheers
I have been a C++ -er since about 14, and i have begun coding Perlwise. Something so simple as being able to say
'foreach(@array){ print $_;}'
is a world of difference. Kicking one's self over fence post errors is now a thing of the past, and i love it.
IMOH it is the simple conveniences like this that are done 100000000000 in a program that really make life better simply by volume of use. Oh, and this is lang. independent, but loosely typed, memory managed-ness is a great thing too. Not having to think to hard about where things are going (just knowing how to get them back) allows for much more thought to be applied to problems of form, rather than semantics and specifics.
Obvious sarcasm aside, this is a sad truth. We should have technolgy that is consumer ready available. If nothing else just so us geeks can happily outfit ourselves with new hardware, levels above what we realistically need. This is my problem with business. Schemes to make money hold back true development by making it take much longer than it needs to take. On the flipside of this, economic darwinism, they develop these things, and own them, so they can make the world their bitch to buy them as they please. I guess this leaves me somewhere in the middle, but i still feel like this practice is inhibitive to technological progress.
This is a proposterous proposition. P2P filesharing, (though frequently abused) needs to be taken for what it is: a protocol, and a means of using one's own internet connection for one's own purposes. This would be not only an inhibition, but a gross imposition on sharers everywhere who would be unable to even legitimately use these protocols that do their job so wonderfully. This is a case of the government taking a much too narrow scope of a stance on an issue of technology that they don't/partially understand the intricacies of. Really what needs to happen in our gub'mint is that those involved need to stop making decisions that just look good to people with money (RIAA MPAA etc), but rather take realistic considerations for the greater good of their constituents. Sure this would placate some overzealous anti-share folks -- "Ok, now people won't copy music", but then things would just revert to the days when it was google your ass off, and eventually find the illegit media somewhere anyway. Oy, Orrin Hatch needs to keep his hands to himself.
I have a very simple solution to the problem of mass exploited windows machines:
USE LINUX!
I am a CS major at a similarly small private institution, and i have been using linux on my desktop for 2 years, gracias, Gentoo. Thank you Linux for not sucking...
also, it seems that the be-all-end-all solution for the college tech support-ist is, in cases of windows infestations:"yea, we're going to have to reformat your NTFS harddrive". I think that is BS, but its so easy, and security issues in MS software are so plentiful, how can they do anything else, having to deal with the volume of cases to support. We have avoided the issue of realtime management altogether, and in its place, we employ a reactive approach.
This software though intrusive, is necessary, because if one idiot doesn't apply patches, every user can/will suffer. Its just another trade off decision that needs to be made, at the university's, and the people paying said university's tuition costs discretion. IMHO, however, i say roll it out, anyone who lags on patches deserves to have a defunct (more defunct) MS box.
PEEP the Network Auralizer This project, cooperatively developed by a faculty member and student in the Tufts University Comp. Sci. dept. answers this question. PEEP applies sounds to network events. Its really cool, i had checked it out, but didn't have much time to get very far with it. I imagine this software's authors will appreciate it if you give it a gander, and let them know.
This is all so true. I am a computer science major at the Tufts School of Engineering, and the math requirement is huge. I appreciate it though, and I am seeing all the time that the more comfortable I am with math, the more clever and efficient my solutions to large computing problems becomes. Math is the basis of computer science. It allows us to *compute*, which is the obvious origin of computer science. The function of these machines is to process computative operations, and Math is the tool by which we can understand these things, and engineer new more efficient ways to perform them.
CS without math is nonsense, who proposed that anyway???
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It's fairly ridiculous that this SP is delayed.. again... however, IMHO its a good move on their part, because (hopefully) it means that they are including more useful security fixes etc. in it. And its silly that those even need to be release this much after the fact, but they might as well get them all (well, most of them) in there now, so there's not SP2a, SP2b, SP2security patch 229q etc.
I recall an operating system that was fairly rushed to get out, called Windows 95, that really sucked. Hopefully, though this is only an SP, the delay will prevent rush-to-get-it-out-crappiness.
sigSEGV - doy!
Werd to that. I have finally beaten my ATI Radeon 9700 into submission with the fireGLX driver, fine tuned as can be. In RH9 my ultimate goal, a decent run of Morrowind in Cedega was made reality. But it was not easy. And dont get me started on the stupidity of a 56k modem in RH9 or linux at all for that matter (as long as the topic is stupid incompatibility). I am waiting for ATI to come out of their cave with a decently compatible graphics driver (and for transgaming to look at it and build in some compatibility). On my NVidia card, performance is through the roof difference (latest driver and GL).
Sadly, i agree w/ your last point. No painless distro yet, but they are on the way. Remember the time before a decent WineX. (well, actually maybe that time is still now, for a while more).
I AGREEE! What windows does when it is installed is pure evil, up there with the likes of Real Player, and Quicktime.
For instance: I install Suse 9.1 on my computer, having formatted the hard drive, I run it as my primary OS, booting with GRUB as my bootloader. If I wanted to install Windows XP (only to run games, of course), I have to jump through hoops to make Windows not just swipe the MBR and allow any OS to be booted. It is not simply "ok, i'll install windows too", one must commit to only use windows. This is unethical, and prohibitive of choice. As the owner of a license to their silly software, the hardware, and everything else on my system, they should have NO ability to go around prohibiting my use of other software. That is some local, individualized version of monopoly. They drive their competition out of your life on a personal level. I was outraged when i realized what trouble it was to install M$ junk as an afterthought to Linux. I am sure this was not an accident. Thank you to open source for at least not being so prohibitive.
All users have a right to CHOOSE what OS and what software they use on thier machine.
...is google@yahoo.com, just because i think it sounds ridiculous.
This talk of email abuse reminds me of the spam filtering system of a person i go to school with:
you send him mail. If not on his "Acceptable Mail" list your are directed, via an auto response to his webpage, whereupon, you submit your email address for his approval.
The problem exists when 2 people employ this method, as if your auto-response's email address is not in the original sender's acceptable mail list, an endless (or quickly auto-abandonded) chain of emails back and forth betwixt auto-reponders is created.
I thought this was a bit silly.
Waive That elaborate nonsense. This works wonders for me
--Cheers
These books, (especially ABNW) helped me put a lot in perspective, and though not conventionally geeky, they are really good. Also, you may want to consider "UNIX in a nutshell" (O'Reilly) because i would say i spend more time flipping through remembering (well having forgotten, that is) how to do things than i do with any other book. =) cheers
I have been a C++ -er since about 14, and i have begun coding Perlwise. Something so simple as being able to say
'foreach(@array){ print $_;}'
is a world of difference. Kicking one's self over fence post errors is now a thing of the past, and i love it.
IMOH it is the simple conveniences like this that are done 100000000000 in a program that really make life better simply by volume of use. Oh, and this is lang. independent, but loosely typed, memory managed-ness is a great thing too. Not having to think to hard about where things are going (just knowing how to get them back) allows for much more thought to be applied to problems of form, rather than semantics and specifics.
Obvious sarcasm aside, this is a sad truth. We should have technolgy that is consumer ready available. If nothing else just so us geeks can happily outfit ourselves with new hardware, levels above what we realistically need. This is my problem with business. Schemes to make money hold back true development by making it take much longer than it needs to take. On the flipside of this, economic darwinism, they develop these things, and own them, so they can make the world their bitch to buy them as they please. I guess this leaves me somewhere in the middle, but i still feel like this practice is inhibitive to technological progress.
This is a proposterous proposition. P2P filesharing, (though frequently abused) needs to be taken for what it is: a protocol, and a means of using one's own internet connection for one's own purposes. This would be not only an inhibition, but a gross imposition on sharers everywhere who would be unable to even legitimately use these protocols that do their job so wonderfully. This is a case of the government taking a much too narrow scope of a stance on an issue of technology that they don't/partially understand the intricacies of. Really what needs to happen in our gub'mint is that those involved need to stop making decisions that just look good to people with money (RIAA MPAA etc), but rather take realistic considerations for the greater good of their constituents. Sure this would placate some overzealous anti-share folks -- "Ok, now people won't copy music", but then things would just revert to the days when it was google your ass off, and eventually find the illegit media somewhere anyway.
Oy, Orrin Hatch needs to keep his hands to himself.
"Worse....Or Better?"
I have a very simple solution to the problem of mass exploited windows machines: USE LINUX! I am a CS major at a similarly small private institution, and i have been using linux on my desktop for 2 years, gracias, Gentoo. Thank you Linux for not sucking... also, it seems that the be-all-end-all solution for the college tech support-ist is, in cases of windows infestations:"yea, we're going to have to reformat your NTFS harddrive". I think that is BS, but its so easy, and security issues in MS software are so plentiful, how can they do anything else, having to deal with the volume of cases to support. We have avoided the issue of realtime management altogether, and in its place, we employ a reactive approach. This software though intrusive, is necessary, because if one idiot doesn't apply patches, every user can/will suffer. Its just another trade off decision that needs to be made, at the university's, and the people paying said university's tuition costs discretion. IMHO, however, i say roll it out, anyone who lags on patches deserves to have a defunct (more defunct) MS box.
PEEP the Network Auralizer This project, cooperatively developed by a faculty member and student in the Tufts University Comp. Sci. dept. answers this question. PEEP applies sounds to network events. Its really cool, i had checked it out, but didn't have much time to get very far with it. I imagine this software's authors will appreciate it if you give it a gander, and let them know.
This is all so true. I am a computer science major at the Tufts School of Engineering, and the math requirement is huge. I appreciate it though, and I am seeing all the time that the more comfortable I am with math, the more clever and efficient my solutions to large computing problems becomes. Math is the basis of computer science. It allows us to *compute*, which is the obvious origin of computer science. The function of these machines is to process computative operations, and Math is the tool by which we can understand these things, and engineer new more efficient ways to perform them. CS without math is nonsense, who proposed that anyway???