yes, but you rattled off a lot more than 4 languages (counting delphi as a separate language is a bit of a stretch, but oh well).
My point is that I could say I know over 20 languages! How many do I use often? 3 or 4. While I have familiarity with the other 16+, I'd still need a book to get any work done.
What I'm saying, is that your reply pretty much validates that you stretched the truth.
Sure, it's easy to rattle off languages. Which ones do you excel in? I doubt all of them.
At my last corp job, we had a guy who insisted up and down that "he knew perl". Well, his perl wouldn't run through a compiler check, much less execute.
However, his C abilities were beyond compare, and we turned to him when we needed to bind lower. The unfortunate problem is that he likes to over-engineer, and getting anything small and simple was impossible - he wrote 40k LOC of C once to handle requests when the site was down - this replaced a 100 line perl script.
Sure, but what are you basing it on, reputation? I think you'll find yourself sorely lacking in news sources that don't have a flawed reputation and like to report false news or well-disguised opinion.
I do like the Christian Science Monitor, but only because they rarely provide an actual position themselves, more observations - and there are normally a wealth of quotable and easy-to-check sources cited in the article.
I haven't found anything farther than the CSM that is honestly so close to absolute, and therefore most of the stuff I read is tagged "opinion" until something else more objective supercedes it.
Example - I waited a couple of days before I "called" the election in my head, despite the fact that pretty much every source out there was saying the same thing - although, a good portion of those stories were either quoting Reuters or AP or directly using the articles - which means, instead of 200 sources, you really have 2 - the failure percentage is much higher when one of them is wrong.
I'm a die hard SNES fan (it's the games - 15 years and they're still better than most new releases), but I can't see how this would ever appeal to me beyond the hack that created it.
Actually, the only blog that I've seen that really has any effect (hence, enabling accountability) on people is IndyMedia. Yes, it's a blog in all senses of the term.
Also, you read slashdot, for crying out loud. Slashdot is more or less a blog, and as a "news source" is a joke amongst the people that shape the technology that slashdot writes about. So, maybe you shouldn't be posting about accountability here. (Or, maybe you should ask CmdrTaco to actually run a piece on Linux's actual, undeniable flaws - there are plenty and he certainly won't post them - Linux fanboys are his cash cow)
Accountable media, any problems regarding it, is a false dilemma. When your money comes from advertisement, your definition of accountable and their definition probably vary widely. The laws that enforce media accountability are thin and apply to internet writers as well, namely "slander" and "libel", and the occasional "plaigarism", although with reuters and the like, it's mostly a formality.
Of course, you can stop reading and watching and listening, but you won't do that. Protect yourself, don't expect someone who doesn't care to protect you.
Considering Mr. Campbell's primary residence is about a 40 minute drive from here (last I checked - I have a friend who was an assistant to him until he moved to S.F.), my guess is that he bought his house clean and lives in a relatively economically depressed area (south of washington, north of california)...
Translation: if he had to worry about it, it wouldn't be that big of a deal - he's still doing better than most of the people around here.
And your run of the mill tcp connect flood would work 10 times better and be significantly more efficient, what is your point?
Most systems have a TCP connection limit and an expiry time - both of which, at least on UNIX systems, are normally sysctl-able.
Sending connects until you get an ACK and then dropping them does nothing to your machine but will cause the other machine to CLOSE_WAIT while it makes sure you're actually gone.
50k of these will kill any system dead.
Like I said, if you're going to do it, do it right. Have a nice day.
Oh, and if you're an Emacs user, I hope you like GNU Emacs, because you'd better get used to it being your only option. The darwinports build is especially nice.
I'll try and be objective, because I never really "switched". I believe in using the right tool for the job.
IE is there, and the nice thing about the mac is that you can have all the major browsers on your machine (including a KHTML-based one, which is unavailable on windows AFAIK)... Big bonus if you do web dev. However, it's IE 5.x (version slips my mind), and the renderer is tweaked somewhat. So, while this was attractive to me originally, it's ultimately useless.
Some things are poorly supported on the Mac - if you use Macromedia's Flash plugin, hope it never works because that baby saps my G4 dry every time it fires up the smallest of animations. Also, FireFox 1.0 has, as far as I can tell, a XPFE bug where it doesn't redraw when it is hidden and revealed. I haven't reported it yet, I've been to busy and it doesn't bug me that much.
Hmm - Mail.app is slick, but I wish it had more power in the filtering department... While you can have it execute applescript, applescript is notoriously weak as a general use language. However, it is/extremely/ powerful for the void it fills - which is fully automated system interaction even at the GUI level, and almost every application supports it, and if it doesn't, you can get pretty far manipulating the system's underlying support to get it to play with the app. However, I am notoriously demanding of mail clients.
Compiling software on my Powerbook G4 is horribly slow - the G4 is not a fast processor, and AFAIK, G5 laptops aren't available yet. However, between fink and darwinports, I don't end up compiling much OSS, but just installing it from binary.
If you buy a Mac, remember two things:
1) Apple overcharges for everything 2) They never sell enough ram with their machines.
Add 1 and 2 together - right after you buy your Mac, go to Circuit City and buy a ram stick that will work with it. Be sure whatever warranty plan you might have purchased covers it. Applecare, for all I know, is a very nice service with awesome turnaround, so it's probably worth the money. However, you'll find that Apple's RAM is not that great and is marked up astronomically high.
OTOH, my cat had fun with my powerbook keyboard and I am going to be out $120 to replace it grey-market and violate my warranty at the same time. I don't even want to know what apple charges for the same part. $300 up front would have been worth it.
Another thing, buy the actual unit directly from apple. Perhaps i had an isolated experience, but the shady characters at my local affiliate tried to off me a display model at first (they actually had recorded iMovies on the box from other people checkign out the machine, plus, it had a bad LCD.), for a brand new price, and I am not isolated in my "interesting" dealing with these people. In case anyone cares, it was "Connecting Point" in Southern Oregon. It took them almost 2 weeks to replace it, and that was after I threatened legal action. If I was lying, it would be slander, but I'm not.:)
Anyways, I know this post sounds pretty negative, but the hard part was the first month, dealing with the vendor B.S., and learning the system. After that, it's smooth sailing. If you're a UNIX geek, you will feel right at home when you hit the terminal - a great deal of terminal utilities interact with the GUI in a way that the PARC and XFree guys could only imagine on UNIX - mostly from the NeXT merge, but Apple has done their fair share of improving the system themselves. Nowadays, you'd have to do more than put a gun to my head to make me abandon this platform on as a workstation.
And, FYI, I run X11 programs and I have an RDC client to talk to windows machines - so I have access to all the platforms I use right here.
While I agree with you - Apple stores are notoriously flexible with their display use policy... If you're respectful, you can get them to install quite a girth of software you're interested in (or do it yourself, depending on the salesman), beat on the machine, break it (software-wise), and walk away without even thinking about it.
It's a far cry from the sales-sentries at Best Buy or similar that freak out when you touch the keyboard.
Don't buy a Mac if you're a gamer. Buy a Mac when you want to get work done.
Buy a Windows machine to play games - they're ultimately cheaper and support more of the stuff you will undoubtedly like to play.
If that changes in the future, great. Otherwise, my plan is to install FreeBSD for utility servers, use a Mac as a UNIX workstation and play games on a Windows box.
If you can't afford that, perhaps being choosy isn't something you should be doing. I know I wasn't when I couldn't afford it.
With the release of FreeBSD-5.3, are we going to see userland changes? I'm curious, a lot of the core utils have been significantly updated, and I think Panther is still running mostly on 4.x's userland.
The problem is, that save the video conferencing features, iChat blows ass. For all purposes, it's horribly underpowered* given the alternatives.
Most heavy IM users are using either Adium X or Fire, and Fire's going through a heavy rewrite right now - it has it's fair share of issues.
I know the rewrite of Fire is taking advantage of it, but not sure if the current one is. Either way, the protocol support comes from libgaim, which is a great use of Open Source - I'm not a fan of GAIM's interface, nor Fire's, but it doesn't matter because I can judge the interface on it's own merits and not have to worry about protocol support - a common problem with IM clients.
[*] Yes, I said underpowered - an IM client can be simple, powerful, and the features recieved well by people who actually need them.
But do you remember when cable TV started getting ubiquitous? It was fucking expensive. That's because infrastructure costs were, not to mention, it was new.
Take a look at Steam which distributes HL2. You guys think it's bad now, read about the reports of when it was originally launched to distribute CS 1.6 - and realize that many people waited a week or two TO EVEN PLAY.
Now, that's just a video game. Imagine The Apprentice being available like that.
Battle Angel is very formulaic for Anime. Try looking a little harder and you will find good stuff off the beaten path.
That said, some times people just want to watch Martin Lawrence make an ass out of himself, other times, people want George Carlin, Chris Rock or Dennis Miller. In other words, this will appeal to a lot of people.
Slashdot Mirror
Intel gives a press release on 2 June, 2006, saying "Oops, we killed the Pentium III fab too, on accident."
I still don't understand why anyone would think the "plot" of Doom is worthy of a movie anyways.
What are they going to do - at the end of the movie, print out the ending in text like the actual games do?
yes, but you rattled off a lot more than 4 languages (counting delphi as a separate language is a bit of a stretch, but oh well).
My point is that I could say I know over 20 languages! How many do I use often? 3 or 4. While I have familiarity with the other 16+, I'd still need a book to get any work done.
What I'm saying, is that your reply pretty much validates that you stretched the truth.
.. that slashdot serves shameless self-plug on a topic that means a whole lotta nothing these days.
People have already made their decisions one way or another - let the world sort it out, not two over-opinionated goons that need ad impressions.
Sure, it's easy to rattle off languages. Which ones do you excel in? I doubt all of them.
At my last corp job, we had a guy who insisted up and down that "he knew perl". Well, his perl wouldn't run through a compiler check, much less execute.
However, his C abilities were beyond compare, and we turned to him when we needed to bind lower. The unfortunate problem is that he likes to over-engineer, and getting anything small and simple was impossible - he wrote 40k LOC of C once to handle requests when the site was down - this replaced a 100 line perl script.
Sure, but what are you basing it on, reputation? I think you'll find yourself sorely lacking in news sources that don't have a flawed reputation and like to report false news or well-disguised opinion.
I do like the Christian Science Monitor, but only because they rarely provide an actual position themselves, more observations - and there are normally a wealth of quotable and easy-to-check sources cited in the article.
I haven't found anything farther than the CSM that is honestly so close to absolute, and therefore most of the stuff I read is tagged "opinion" until something else more objective supercedes it.
Example - I waited a couple of days before I "called" the election in my head, despite the fact that pretty much every source out there was saying the same thing - although, a good portion of those stories were either quoting Reuters or AP or directly using the articles - which means, instead of 200 sources, you really have 2 - the failure percentage is much higher when one of them is wrong.
Or, don't use dns in the client, use dns to update the list the client retrieves.
Sheesh. All the technology in the world won't provide common sense.
I'm a die hard SNES fan (it's the games - 15 years and they're still better than most new releases), but I can't see how this would ever appeal to me beyond the hack that created it.
Actually, the only blog that I've seen that really has any effect (hence, enabling accountability) on people is IndyMedia. Yes, it's a blog in all senses of the term.
Also, you read slashdot, for crying out loud. Slashdot is more or less a blog, and as a "news source" is a joke amongst the people that shape the technology that slashdot writes about. So, maybe you shouldn't be posting about accountability here. (Or, maybe you should ask CmdrTaco to actually run a piece on Linux's actual, undeniable flaws - there are plenty and he certainly won't post them - Linux fanboys are his cash cow)
Accountable media, any problems regarding it, is a false dilemma. When your money comes from advertisement, your definition of accountable and their definition probably vary widely. The laws that enforce media accountability are thin and apply to internet writers as well, namely "slander" and "libel", and the occasional "plaigarism", although with reuters and the like, it's mostly a formality.
Of course, you can stop reading and watching and listening, but you won't do that. Protect yourself, don't expect someone who doesn't care to protect you.
Considering Mr. Campbell's primary residence is about a 40 minute drive from here (last I checked - I have a friend who was an assistant to him until he moved to S.F.), my guess is that he bought his house clean and lives in a relatively economically depressed area (south of washington, north of california)...
Translation: if he had to worry about it, it wouldn't be that big of a deal - he's still doing better than most of the people around here.
Oh, neat - the TCP version of a joe-job.
Won't a block all/accept few firewall that keeps state get around this? Because, you know, they're pretty common.
And your run of the mill tcp connect flood would work 10 times better and be significantly more efficient, what is your point?
Most systems have a TCP connection limit and an expiry time - both of which, at least on UNIX systems, are normally sysctl-able.
Sending connects until you get an ACK and then dropping them does nothing to your machine but will cause the other machine to CLOSE_WAIT while it makes sure you're actually gone.
50k of these will kill any system dead.
Like I said, if you're going to do it, do it right. Have a nice day.
Seriously, where do you get off?
Those guys are paid pretty well last I checked, I wouldn't turn down that job if I was qualified for it.
They don't need ICMP to send spam.
They do however need whatever they use for customers to get back to them so they can make money.
If you're going to do it, do it right.
I use messagewall. It's good at getting rid of 90% of the stuff.
The other 10% trickles through a variety of things, noably SA and razor.
If I get 5 pieces of spam in all of my accunts a week, including postmaster and webmasters accounts, I'm having a bad week.
And they just get caught by Mail.app's bayesian junk filter.
It's only a problem if you don't take active steps to defeat it.
(I apologize for not reading the link)
Isn't this an old ISN attack that was defeated over a year ago?
Oh, and if you're an Emacs user, I hope you like GNU Emacs, because you'd better get used to it being your only option. The darwinports build is especially nice.
I'll try and be objective, because I never really "switched". I believe in using the right tool for the job.
/extremely/ powerful for the void it fills - which is fully automated system interaction even at the GUI level, and almost every application supports it, and if it doesn't, you can get pretty far manipulating the system's underlying support to get it to play with the app. However, I am notoriously demanding of mail clients.
:)
IE is there, and the nice thing about the mac is that you can have all the major browsers on your machine (including a KHTML-based one, which is unavailable on windows AFAIK)... Big bonus if you do web dev. However, it's IE 5.x (version slips my mind), and the renderer is tweaked somewhat. So, while this was attractive to me originally, it's ultimately useless.
Some things are poorly supported on the Mac - if you use Macromedia's Flash plugin, hope it never works because that baby saps my G4 dry every time it fires up the smallest of animations. Also, FireFox 1.0 has, as far as I can tell, a XPFE bug where it doesn't redraw when it is hidden and revealed. I haven't reported it yet, I've been to busy and it doesn't bug me that much.
Hmm - Mail.app is slick, but I wish it had more power in the filtering department... While you can have it execute applescript, applescript is notoriously weak as a general use language. However, it is
Compiling software on my Powerbook G4 is horribly slow - the G4 is not a fast processor, and AFAIK, G5 laptops aren't available yet. However, between fink and darwinports, I don't end up compiling much OSS, but just installing it from binary.
If you buy a Mac, remember two things:
1) Apple overcharges for everything
2) They never sell enough ram with their machines.
Add 1 and 2 together - right after you buy your Mac, go to Circuit City and buy a ram stick that will work with it. Be sure whatever warranty plan you might have purchased covers it. Applecare, for all I know, is a very nice service with awesome turnaround, so it's probably worth the money. However, you'll find that Apple's RAM is not that great and is marked up astronomically high.
OTOH, my cat had fun with my powerbook keyboard and I am going to be out $120 to replace it grey-market and violate my warranty at the same time. I don't even want to know what apple charges for the same part. $300 up front would have been worth it.
Another thing, buy the actual unit directly from apple. Perhaps i had an isolated experience, but the shady characters at my local affiliate tried to off me a display model at first (they actually had recorded iMovies on the box from other people checkign out the machine, plus, it had a bad LCD.), for a brand new price, and I am not isolated in my "interesting" dealing with these people. In case anyone cares, it was "Connecting Point" in Southern Oregon. It took them almost 2 weeks to replace it, and that was after I threatened legal action. If I was lying, it would be slander, but I'm not.
Anyways, I know this post sounds pretty negative, but the hard part was the first month, dealing with the vendor B.S., and learning the system. After that, it's smooth sailing. If you're a UNIX geek, you will feel right at home when you hit the terminal - a great deal of terminal utilities interact with the GUI in a way that the PARC and XFree guys could only imagine on UNIX - mostly from the NeXT merge, but Apple has done their fair share of improving the system themselves. Nowadays, you'd have to do more than put a gun to my head to make me abandon this platform on as a workstation.
And, FYI, I run X11 programs and I have an RDC client to talk to windows machines - so I have access to all the platforms I use right here.
While I agree with you - Apple stores are notoriously flexible with their display use policy... If you're respectful, you can get them to install quite a girth of software you're interested in (or do it yourself, depending on the salesman), beat on the machine, break it (software-wise), and walk away without even thinking about it.
It's a far cry from the sales-sentries at Best Buy or similar that freak out when you touch the keyboard.
Don't buy a Mac if you're a gamer. Buy a Mac when you want to get work done.
Buy a Windows machine to play games - they're ultimately cheaper and support more of the stuff you will undoubtedly like to play.
If that changes in the future, great. Otherwise, my plan is to install FreeBSD for utility servers, use a Mac as a UNIX workstation and play games on a Windows box.
If you can't afford that, perhaps being choosy isn't something you should be doing. I know I wasn't when I couldn't afford it.
I've been meaning to ask...
With the release of FreeBSD-5.3, are we going to see userland changes? I'm curious, a lot of the core utils have been significantly updated, and I think Panther is still running mostly on 4.x's userland.
The problem is, that save the video conferencing features, iChat blows ass. For all purposes, it's horribly underpowered* given the alternatives.
Most heavy IM users are using either Adium X or Fire, and Fire's going through a heavy rewrite right now - it has it's fair share of issues.
I know the rewrite of Fire is taking advantage of it, but not sure if the current one is. Either way, the protocol support comes from libgaim, which is a great use of Open Source - I'm not a fan of GAIM's interface, nor Fire's, but it doesn't matter because I can judge the interface on it's own merits and not have to worry about protocol support - a common problem with IM clients.
[*] Yes, I said underpowered - an IM client can be simple, powerful, and the features recieved well by people who actually need them.
You're on to a great idea...
But do you remember when cable TV started getting ubiquitous? It was fucking expensive. That's because infrastructure costs were, not to mention, it was new.
Take a look at Steam which distributes HL2. You guys think it's bad now, read about the reports of when it was originally launched to distribute CS 1.6 - and realize that many people waited a week or two TO EVEN PLAY.
Now, that's just a video game. Imagine The Apprentice being available like that.
Battle Angel is very formulaic for Anime. Try looking a little harder and you will find good stuff off the beaten path.
That said, some times people just want to watch Martin Lawrence make an ass out of himself, other times, people want George Carlin, Chris Rock or Dennis Miller. In other words, this will appeal to a lot of people.
this is what's happening.
honk($_) if (you(love, perl));
you're assuming that the new() "special" syntax is applied anywhere, and it's not. it just applies to new().
(yes, I know it sucks.)