You may joke but this is exactly what they are doing:
== "Hum, well it's like cygwin perhaps?" Nope! Cygwin includes open source utilities are recompiled from source to run natively in Windows. Here, we're talking about bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows.
[long pause]
"So maybe something like a Linux emulator?" Now you're getting warmer! A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of "wine" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. Microsoft calls it their "Windows Subsystem for Linux". (No, it's not open source at this time.) ==
> Most all Wall St firm's systems are bloody awful > I think that is generally true of all software (and music, and laws, and books, and food, and...), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law
Personally I have really been enjoying the stories which Big Finish have been doing with the old doctors, they have even got Tom Baker doing some now. They've been exploring some of the different doctors' personalities in some interesting ways. You can find some on BBC Radio 4 Extra from time to time, if you don't want to shell out the cash for them...
Set up a system at home. Have a machine which you can use as a server for various things (music, streaming videos/DVDs, etc). Understand how to make it secure from external attacks (set up firewalls, root-kit hunters, etc.); figure out if/how you might access it remotely and still keep it all secure. Ensure you have a decent backup solution (understand what file systems exist, how they are useful, why "RAID is not a backup solution etc.". Set up crypto partitions for any sensitive data (if case someone walks off with your stuff). Depending on where you live and how likely power outages are, install a UPS and hook it up to your server. Install system monitoring software so you know everything is ship-shape (SMART checkers, Munin, etc.). If you have multiple machines set up NFS (and discover all of its wonderful gotchas).
Basically, build and use at home what you might be doing admin for at work. When you know that inside out you should be in a good position to answer questions thrown at you in an interview. Finding _good_ sys admins is hard, if you know your stuff then that's probably most of the battle IMHO.
Seconded. I have both phones now and have moved to having the N9 as my phone and the N900 just be my pocket/travel *nix box. I've not (touch wood) seen any problems with the USB port but it's something which is a known issue. The N900, while not perfect, is a damn good little machine.
Once this is in place how long before [insert hacking group of the month] breaks into an ISP and posts this online? The more of this stuff which is collected the more Sonyesque cases we are going to see. The eternal optimist in me says that maybe that will cause a rethink of these types of laws; the pessimist has a quite different opinion...
With the death knell sounding for the N900 a friends I recently decided to buy a Xoom figuring that Android is where things seem to be heading. I have to confess that I've been rather underwhelmed by it. My current list of gripes are:
The marketplace is a massive pain to use and to find anything useful in
Many apps just don't work (probably because they were never tested on the Xoom)
A general feeling that the apps are just unpolished or beta-quality
Lack of hardware consistency leading to confused software (some apps expect there to be some form of h/w keyboard present)
No video calling with Skype (the main reason I bought to device in the first place, more fool me for not checking)
...
Aside from the Android-specific gripes there are also Xoom-specific ones (proprietary charging interface, a pain to root the device, highly reflective screen,...). I really wanted to like this device but it feels like an uphill battle right now. It feels like the only way it beats my N900 is on screen size and CPU power; that may have been a niche device but it's still a much better user experience IMHO.
Pedant mode / oblig Wilt quote: Inspector Flint: Are you inferring we're all stupid? Henry Wilt: No. I'm implying you're all stupid; you're inferring it
I totally concur. I actually had to stop listening to Pandora since it was becoming a bit of a financial drain: song plays, "Oh, that's good", click-buy-album, wade through a few more songs, wash, rinse repeat. I realise that I'm a bit old skool in that I still do buy actual albums (and that you do get bitten by the old one-good-song-in-chaff problem) but Pandora still found plenty of really good artists that I would have never stumbled across otherwise.
I know I'm preaching to the converted here on Slashdot but the radio in the US is just terrible. Every station plays the same 5 latest "hits"; it's things like Pandora which keep music alive for me.
# Make my prompt "pretty" colours and set the xterm title bar to useful things at every command. Also make the continuation prompt blue rather than '> ' so I can cut and paste PS1='\[\033[00;31m\]$USER\[\033[00;33m\]@\[\033[00;32m\]\h\[\033[00;00;00m\]:\[\033[00;34m\]\w\[\033[00;00;00m\]\$ ' PS2='\[\033[00;34m\]'
# Tell me if something worked random_command && echo yes || echo no
# Completions: # commands which should complete to a command complete -A command which # commands which should complete to a shell variable complete -A file -A variable unset complete -A file -A variable export # commands which should complete to a word list and files complete -A file -W "commit diff remove update status annotate log" cvs complete -A file -W "all install depend clean" make complete -A file -W "all install depend clean" pmake
# Other things shift-insert to paste from the clipboard in terminals history > ~/docs/stuff_i_just_did_so_i_dont_forget less -S for wide files strace / ptrace / truss pushd/popd
I've got the Nokia E70. It's got a fold out QWERTY keyboard and has S60 (to you can use Putty for SSH). Supports pop3 (not sure about imap) for email (I use this). It also can connect to a Blue Tooth GPS devices and Google Maps works fine on it. Syncs with Outlook nicely and you can (if you're feeling clever) install the Nokia Blackberry software on it and use that too.
I'm a sad fanboi for it I'm afraid. Only thing I'm waiting for is a decent NetHack port to S60:)
At one point in college, I was even writing my essays in HTML to print from within Netscape 4, as there weren't any decent Linux word processing software (that was free;)) circa late 1996.
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You may joke but this is exactly what they are doing:
==
"Hum, well it's like cygwin perhaps?" Nope! Cygwin includes open source utilities are recompiled from source to run natively in Windows. Here, we're talking about bit-for-bit, checksum-for-checksum Ubuntu ELF binaries running directly in Windows.
[long pause]
"So maybe something like a Linux emulator?" Now you're getting warmer! A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of "wine" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows. Microsoft calls it their "Windows Subsystem for Linux". (No, it's not open source at this time.)
==
I'm with them: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Dearest Copernicus, [...]
Very droll :)
> Most all Wall St firm's systems are bloody awful ...), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_Law
>
I think that is generally true of all software (and music, and laws, and books, and food, and
Personally I have really been enjoying the stories which Big Finish have been doing with the old doctors, they have even got Tom Baker doing some now. They've been exploring some of the different doctors' personalities in some interesting ways. You can find some on BBC Radio 4 Extra from time to time, if you don't want to shell out the cash for them...
Set up a system at home. Have a machine which you can use as a server for various things (music, streaming videos/DVDs, etc). Understand how to make it secure from external attacks (set up firewalls, root-kit hunters, etc.); figure out if/how you might access it remotely and still keep it all secure. Ensure you have a decent backup solution (understand what file systems exist, how they are useful, why "RAID is not a backup solution etc.". Set up crypto partitions for any sensitive data (if case someone walks off with your stuff). Depending on where you live and how likely power outages are, install a UPS and hook it up to your server. Install system monitoring software so you know everything is ship-shape (SMART checkers, Munin, etc.). If you have multiple machines set up NFS (and discover all of its wonderful gotchas).
Basically, build and use at home what you might be doing admin for at work. When you know that inside out you should be in a good position to answer questions thrown at you in an interview. Finding _good_ sys admins is hard, if you know your stuff then that's probably most of the battle IMHO.
Seconded. I have both phones now and have moved to having the N9 as my phone and the N900 just be my pocket/travel *nix box. I've not (touch wood) seen any problems with the USB port but it's something which is a known issue. The N900, while not perfect, is a damn good little machine.
He's still out there and still coding:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/bill-atkinson-photocard/id333208430?mt=8
As an owner of the N900 I have to disagree. [Puts on fanboi hat] It's really the best phone I've had. Ever.
..and I'd be wrong apparently: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/9/7/seagate-ships-4tb-hard-drive/
I'd be willing to bet that this "drive" is actually a pair of 2TB ones...
Seems to highlight locations of reported places (when you search): http://healthmap.org/en/
Once this is in place how long before [insert hacking group of the month] breaks into an ISP and posts this online? The more of this stuff which is collected the more Sonyesque cases we are going to see. The eternal optimist in me says that maybe that will cause a rethink of these types of laws; the pessimist has a quite different opinion...
<minirant>
With the death knell sounding for the N900 a friends I recently decided to buy a Xoom figuring that Android is where things seem to be heading. I have to confess that I've been rather underwhelmed by it. My current list of gripes are:
Aside from the Android-specific gripes there are also Xoom-specific ones (proprietary charging interface, a pain to root the device, highly reflective screen, ...). I really wanted to like this device but it feels like an uphill battle right now. It feels like the only way it beats my N900 is on screen size and CPU power; that may have been a niche device but it's still a much better user experience IMHO.
</minirant>
Pedant mode / oblig Wilt quote:
Inspector Flint: Are you inferring we're all stupid?
Henry Wilt: No. I'm implying you're all stupid; you're inferring it
I totally concur. I actually had to stop listening to Pandora since it was becoming a bit of a financial drain: song plays, "Oh, that's good", click-buy-album, wade through a few more songs, wash, rinse repeat. I realise that I'm a bit old skool in that I still do buy actual albums (and that you do get bitten by the old one-good-song-in-chaff problem) but Pandora still found plenty of really good artists that I would have never stumbled across otherwise.
I know I'm preaching to the converted here on Slashdot but the radio in the US is just terrible. Every station plays the same 5 latest "hits"; it's things like Pandora which keep music alive for me.
Man, I sound old.
Oblig: http://xkcd.com/612/
Man, I totally read that as "Law and Order: SUV" and thought, "Hmm, these spinoff series are just getting stupid..."
I also have a girlfriend ...
Bluff!
Ha, those Somali guys are screwed now!
(Some of these might have been mentioned)
Bash foo:
# Make my prompt "pretty" colours and set the xterm title bar to useful things at every command. Also make the continuation prompt blue rather than '> ' so I can cut and paste
PS1='\[\033[00;31m\]$USER\[\033[00;33m\]@\[\033[00;32m\]\h\[\033[00;00;00m\]:\[\033[00;34m\]\w\[\033[00;00;00m\]\$ '
PS2='\[\033[00;34m\]'
# Tell me if something worked
random_command && echo yes || echo no
# Completions:
# commands which should complete to a command
complete -A command which
# commands which should complete to a shell variable
complete -A file -A variable unset
complete -A file -A variable export
# commands which should complete to a word list and files
complete -A file -W "commit diff remove update status annotate log" cvs
complete -A file -W "all install depend clean" make
complete -A file -W "all install depend clean" pmake
# C-d twice to log out
IGNOREEOF=1
# Avoid tmp files
join <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
# Other things
shift-insert to paste from the clipboard in terminals
history > ~/docs/stuff_i_just_did_so_i_dont_forget
less -S for wide files
strace / ptrace / truss
pushd/popd
--oik
I've got the Nokia E70. It's got a fold out QWERTY keyboard and has S60 (to you can use Putty for SSH). Supports pop3 (not sure about imap) for email (I use this). It also can connect to a Blue Tooth GPS devices and Google Maps works fine on it. Syncs with Outlook nicely and you can (if you're feeling clever) install the Nokia Blackberry software on it and use that too.
:)
I'm a sad fanboi for it I'm afraid. Only thing I'm waiting for is a decent NetHack port to S60
So, what was wrong with emacs and LaTeX? :)
FWIW it's worth, this was mentioned in the latest Frontiers episode:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/frontiers_20071212.shtml
There's a little more info there...