The tone of the "obviously" comment was merely an echo of your own tone. The guy hadn't "obviously" anything. Instead of "obviously you haven't" can I recommend the less cavalier "is it safe to assume that you haven't?"
Keep up the examples, all very heartening stuff. They're timeless, so it's not obvious that they'd get old. (-:
None of them obviate my point, either; no doubt the MS testing routine for Excel-for-Mac didn't include fiddling with graph options, and the poor overworked tester concerned may simply not have noticed the lack. Click-click... got graphs? Tick... next. Mongolian-horde testing methods aren't necessarily rigorous but they will find stuff that "rational" testing misses.
...by turning "oh, bugger, that involves much work" into a simple "sorry, it can't be done" by making the task involved much too hard to be reasonable when compared with (say) re-typing a document - kind of like UNIX password recovery if you required cracklib to bless the password in the first place.
This is where OSS really shines. Your software is tested by people you don't know, using methods you'd never dream of trying yourself - if they're planned at all.
Microsoft (and others) try to rigorously plan their testing, but because it's being done by one person or small group it bears the stamp of their (perhaps collective) personality. They set about testing things in certain ways, a limited and predictable number of ways, and that can leave some glaring holes in the QC results.
To work with the debugger example, it's not unreasonable to surmise that their test suite happened to include only code sets that were all symbolised or all raw, or only walked through the transition one way - so the transition in question was simply never tested.
Within two days of an OSS release, you'll get reports back from users in the field who have walked through the transition. This despite the fact that many others did so but couldn't be bothered reporting it.
Your fatal mistake lay in using the word "obviously" which roughly translated means "I didn't think about this very carefully before I posted it."
...(s)he can probably photograph and export someone else's screen in realtime before the saver kicks in, thereby protecting h(er/im)self against even simpler ID techniques such as systematic variations in spelling, spacing and punctuation. How long would that take? Two seconds a page, equals two minutes for a 60-page doc? You could do a lot of damage in one lunch-time. And no DMCA violation.
Is anyone looking forward to the day when a sleeping worm wipes out all of a company's ID servers, and some glitch renders backups of same useless? A classic Microsoft scenario.
"Do you have those documents for me?" "Um, weeellll... that all depends on what you mean by 'have'..."
...most readers have missed the significance of Samba4. Samba3 is already a better Windows fileserver than Windows, in several ways. Samba4 will give Tridge and team the flexibility to nail down every corner when it comes to compatibility and performance. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see features like distributed file stores appear out of this; y'know, rather than buy a $30,000 obsolete-tomorrow monster (and spend another $30-60,000 for MS-seats - "here's your frame, motor, panels and wheels, sir; and how many people will you be buying seats for?"), you buy three reasonable $5000 boxes and get better performance, automatic load-sharing and failover.
Dad got done on the people-outside-school thing and I only missed out (completely different occasion) on bleeding $200 on a roadwork zone because there was too much traffic between the policeman and my car for him to turn around and give chase before I was out of sight.
...so you get gridlock, whereas in Canberra you get dizzy (and sometimes lost).
When you're driving there, do take the speed limit signs seriously. Violating 25km/h speed zones is an instant $200 fine, and a yellow curb with a person on it is a 25km/h speed zone 24x7. They're also touchy about poking your bumper over the line at intersections, but they're as slack with their trafficators as Kiwis and BMW/Merc drivers.
If you like slaloms and chicanes, you're gunna just love the highway in through the hills. (-: Last time I was there I saw a full-length semitrailer sticking up maybe 15m into the air off the downhill side of the road at maybe 60deg, upside down, barely visible in the fog at 6AM:-)
how do we handle hundreds of thousands of pieces of pretty well homogeneous data?
Welcome to UNIX. The correct answer could be grep, perl, gawk, or any one of a squillion other patterning languages, one of half a dozen databases, or something like KMail, which doesn't seem to mind unlimited numbers of messages in one mailbox, or pick sixty possibilities I never mentioned or thought of. Most of which have cryptic 2-3 letter names. (-:
Time to sue D'ohl, Blake and David instead?
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I think ignoring the company and going for the false, misleading and/or manipulative statements from those who drive and/or profit from it would make more political and financial sense.
I am a Linux developer. D'ohl McBride, you publicly accused me of using stolen code. That is a slander. Retract it as publicly as you made it.
Since you have not retracted your slander, here is my lawsuit in the amount of $3,000,000,000.00, being the amount of the gain you intended the slander to support the acquisition of.
Plus interest. Your time starts now.
Another possible approach: send him an invoice for USD$31,000,000 being royalties for his use of your code during August, available otherwise only under the GPL. Terms 7 days.
So you think that money talks...
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...and D'ohl's money is saying, "Wow, what a dedicated, professional Mormon guy this dude is"? (-:
Sorry, are you telling me that there are Seventh-day Mormons?
[OT] Do give up on that faux-smartass tagline idea
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lilo: linux init=/bin/bash - Instant root without password
I tried that. My machine said "Password:".
I guess that's because Mandrake's installer prompted me for a LILO password when I set the machine up, and I bothered to supply one. "Oh, the security of it all!" (-:
If you want real instant root without password, leave the root password blank when setting up, then tick the box that asks you to confirm that you're criminally negligent, and click on Next. Be sure to set the security level to "Welcome to crackers" (I believe they call it "Low" these days) and select sshd for installation so that this effect can be used remotely.
If you think that's disturbing, I know of an OS which has no such protections: a QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) derivative which was in turn a CP/M clone, called Microsoft Windows. "Instant root, all the time" (and unless you're fully patched, "from everywhere").
Try a tagline that says "This would be a witty tagline but I haven't developed that far yet".
BTW, the stuff there about groundwater...?
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"Roundup" is the civilian version of...
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...Agent Orange, which seems strangely appropriate.
Round of applause, that man!
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Soviet Russia never resembled anything from Marx's communist ideal and to date, no "communist" country in the world has. Marx, like all political theorists was a dreamer who ignored the one wildcard i.e. human nature.
The converse is also true: almost any political system will work (including dictatorships and anarchies) if you postulate 100% altruistic and sane participants.
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The tone of the "obviously" comment was merely an echo of your own tone. The guy hadn't "obviously" anything. Instead of "obviously you haven't" can I recommend the less cavalier "is it safe to assume that you haven't?"
Keep up the examples, all very heartening stuff. They're timeless, so it's not obvious that they'd get old. (-:
None of them obviate my point, either; no doubt the MS testing routine for Excel-for-Mac didn't include fiddling with graph options, and the poor overworked tester concerned may simply not have noticed the lack. Click-click... got graphs? Tick... next. Mongolian-horde testing methods aren't necessarily rigorous but they will find stuff that "rational" testing misses.
...by turning "oh, bugger, that involves much work" into a simple "sorry, it can't be done" by making the task involved much too hard to be reasonable when compared with (say) re-typing a document - kind of like UNIX password recovery if you required cracklib to bless the password in the first place.
And more.
This is where OSS really shines. Your software is tested by people you don't know, using methods you'd never dream of trying yourself - if they're planned at all.
Microsoft (and others) try to rigorously plan their testing, but because it's being done by one person or small group it bears the stamp of their (perhaps collective) personality. They set about testing things in certain ways, a limited and predictable number of ways, and that can leave some glaring holes in the QC results.
To work with the debugger example, it's not unreasonable to surmise that their test suite happened to include only code sets that were all symbolised or all raw, or only walked through the transition one way - so the transition in question was simply never tested.
Within two days of an OSS release, you'll get reports back from users in the field who have walked through the transition. This despite the fact that many others did so but couldn't be bothered reporting it.
Your fatal mistake lay in using the word "obviously" which roughly translated means "I didn't think about this very carefully before I posted it."
If what you say is so, DRM operates to thwart laws about obtaining evidence. That may make it inherently illegal in some circumstances.
Is anyone looking forward to the day when a sleeping worm wipes out all of a company's ID servers, and some glitch renders backups of same useless? A classic Microsoft scenario.
"Do you have those documents for me?" "Um, weeellll... that all depends on what you mean by 'have'..."
...most readers have missed the significance of Samba4. Samba3 is already a better Windows fileserver than Windows, in several ways. Samba4 will give Tridge and team the flexibility to nail down every corner when it comes to compatibility and performance. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see features like distributed file stores appear out of this; y'know, rather than buy a $30,000 obsolete-tomorrow monster (and spend another $30-60,000 for MS-seats - "here's your frame, motor, panels and wheels, sir; and how many people will you be buying seats for?"), you buy three reasonable $5000 boxes and get better performance, automatic load-sharing and failover.
Dad got done on the people-outside-school thing and I only missed out (completely different occasion) on bleeding $200 on a roadwork zone because there was too much traffic between the policeman and my car for him to turn around and give chase before I was out of sight.
Guaranteed bunfight, first time, every time. (-:
The timetable's not up yet 'coz it's not final yet.
...so you get gridlock, whereas in Canberra you get dizzy (and sometimes lost).
:-)
When you're driving there, do take the speed limit signs seriously. Violating 25km/h speed zones is an instant $200 fine, and a yellow curb with a person on it is a 25km/h speed zone 24x7. They're also touchy about poking your bumper over the line at intersections, but they're as slack with their trafficators as Kiwis and BMW/Merc drivers.
If you like slaloms and chicanes, you're gunna just love the highway in through the hills. (-: Last time I was there I saw a full-length semitrailer sticking up maybe 15m into the air off the downhill side of the road at maybe 60deg, upside down, barely visible in the fog at 6AM
Very corporate friendly. And then of course there's TFPC. (-:
...KOffice is switching to OASIS, the OOo file format.
You did post to SlashDot, no? (-: Terry Pratchett would love this place :-)
Their native standard doesn't follow any of these, and their "Unicode" breaks Unicode (e.g. fancy quotes in "high control character" space).
Big surprise that answer was.
...or after the last run of Win32 viruses filled up some uni's 80GB student quarantine drive in one day?
Welcome to UNIX. The correct answer could be grep, perl, gawk, or any one of a squillion other patterning languages, one of half a dozen databases, or something like KMail, which doesn't seem to mind unlimited numbers of messages in one mailbox, or pick sixty possibilities I never mentioned or thought of. Most of which have cryptic 2-3 letter names. (-:
Another possible approach: send him an invoice for USD$31,000,000 being royalties for his use of your code during August, available otherwise only under the GPL. Terms 7 days.
...and D'ohl's money is saying, "Wow, what a dedicated, professional Mormon guy this dude is"? (-:
Sorry, are you telling me that there are Seventh-day Mormons?
I tried that. My machine said "Password:".
I guess that's because Mandrake's installer prompted me for a LILO password when I set the machine up, and I bothered to supply one. "Oh, the security of it all!" (-:
If you want real instant root without password, leave the root password blank when setting up, then tick the box that asks you to confirm that you're criminally negligent, and click on Next. Be sure to set the security level to "Welcome to crackers" (I believe they call it "Low" these days) and select sshd for installation so that this effect can be used remotely.
If you think that's disturbing, I know of an OS which has no such protections: a QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) derivative which was in turn a CP/M clone, called Microsoft Windows. "Instant root, all the time" (and unless you're fully patched, "from everywhere").
Try a tagline that says "This would be a witty tagline but I haven't developed that far yet".
It's wrong.
...Agent Orange, which seems strangely appropriate.
The converse is also true: almost any political system will work (including dictatorships and anarchies) if you postulate 100% altruistic and sane participants.
Yeah? Go read Exodus 20:8-11 and tell me why none of them obey it. Dollars to doughnuts some odd corner of BoM or PoGP claims to supercede it.
...on that shiny new HP cluster, supplied by a Canopy Group lackey. (-:
...fire up a few torrents and install the result. (-: