You've encouraged me, and inspired me, to do something like this my self now. Thank you, sir.
Would you mind giving a little more detail of what kind of things you keep (or should keep) on the USB stick? And what encryption set up? Veracrypt would be nice but might be overkill.
I've never thought of this type of thing before and now that I am, I realize it's something I really need to do for my wife. Because I won't be here much longer.
Just because there is a 'coding standard' does not mean it has good naming standards. I'm not -downing- C -- I've already stated several times that I -love- C and prefer it over anything else. I've been writing C applications since 1990. Both professionally ( as in, for PAY on major projects ) and on my own projects. I think I have earned a right to not be 'inexperienced.'
I hate to admit it, but a lot of "Linux Fans" lack common sense; they simply go where their friends/peers go. That whole hipster thing. Meh. I see things for their value, and their cons. I use windows AND linux, and I like both.
I am NOT a fan of Java. But I see it's worth quite well. It has its use. A tool for every job. I, personally, prefer C, but that's because I've always used C (it's what I started on all those years ago) and it's what i always come back to. It's like that abusive Ex that you just cannot quit, but the sex is good, so you stay.
C function names....I could write a book on that rant. Truly. C is horrid when it comes to standards, conventions, etc with naming. Hell, even with arguments. LibC itself is a pain for those who aren't intimately familiar with it.
I agree, 100% and, quite frankly, yes. That is the level of some engineering in linux.
I am die hard linux; I love the idea, and I use tons of distros every day. I love the freedom. But they reinvent the wheel so often, that some times people forget the wheel is meant to be round.
Yes, we have fgets(), but it's not exclusively a ReadLine() function, so to speak. Sane people would write a ReadLine() function using fgets() wrapped in some nice loops to read in buffered input. APT -- apparently not so much. I can only assume they were using getc or some such. I may dig in to apt-get source here in a few to see exactly what they were doing.
I've been looking for a project to dedicate some spare time to and, seeing someone earlier in the discussion saying it only has four people working on it, I may give it a bit of my time.
The production server that I work with runs CentOS and its YUM updates are fairly quick. Granted, it has a super, super fat pipe and some pretty nice hardware. But on a production system, I'm not looking for speed in updating, I am looking for consistency and "don't fuck my shit up, yo!"
The standard library doesn't come with a ReadLine function. It has the ability to read I/O, and to buffer it, but it is up to the implementation to do it how they see fit. In the case of APT (I cannot say I am surprised. I would really love to hear the reason they made it unbuffered to begin with,) since it is in C and a core function, it will be using ONLY the C library. So they have to implement the ReadLine() themselves.
C was designed to be barebones. It's why you can easily shoot yourself in the foot (like in this case) and it's the reason I prefer C over any language. It's not that the library is poor; it's not -- it's actually quite well done. It just does not have a lot of the built in cruft that some languages hang on to, such as Java. It IS pretty standard practice to implement ReadLine() in a specific way; again, I would love to know the real reason. I am better it was debug code that 'worked' and no one thought to look at the most basic of I/O as a performance issue (they were looking at parsing, formats, network latency, etc)
Bogusly? That's precisely what the down mod system is for, mind you.
I've never down modded him, personally, because they make little difference on him. But down mods are designed to get rid of scum like him. He's a SPAMMER and needs to be treated as a SPAMMER. I cannot fathom why some of you actually put up with his dumb ass.
I've decided to write a chrome/firefox plugin that will block ALL posts by APK, as I see this is advertisement and should be blocked thusly.
If you agree, please join the cause. It would make the web (and slashdot) much better.
Btw, apk, I've seen your app and it's a piece of crap. You truly don't know what you're doing when it comes to coding. It looks like you copy/pasted a bunch of snippets you found on google and then stop a bunch of people's block lists. That makes you a script kiddie
Please, for the love of fucking God - Go. The. Fuck. Away.
One post is enough. But having to scroll through pages upon of pages to see REAL content is annoying me. What you are effectively doing is creating ads; the very same we all want to block with tools and/or hosts files!, -- way to go. You've become the slimy advertisement person.
Please go shoot yourself after you get through jerking off to pictures of nude children on a beach.
Apple is starting to gain market share and now they're seeing targeting done towards their hardware and software. Welcome to the world of security, Apple and Apple devs!
Just don't do what Microsoft did. Please.
(I am NOT an Apple user, or fanboi. Just good to see them finally getting their share of security issues revolving around their tech.)
I am not going to get in some dick waving argument with some random troll on slashdot. So I will leave with this:
1) I clearly stated that I know little to nothing about drones, aside from their software and electronics. Nice attempt at an insult. if you had read the post, you would have noticed this. 2) Your attempt at blasting my logical attempt at stating common sense license and certifications for hardware and software that are -capable of causing damage- (Drones larger than an ounce and fly for more than five bloody minutes, as you like to state) is falling way behind. 3) If you cannot agree that certifications for a FLYING OBJECT capable of carrying MULTIPLE PAYLOADS and traversing THOUSANDS OF FEET from the controller, with tons of chances of interference and software defects / user error is a good idea, then perhaps you're the type of person who should be the politician. As you seem to only care about yourself.
I am referring to the ones that, obviously, weigh more than an ounce, especially considering I stated "higher than 10m."
I am referring to the drones that actually fly hundreds of feet in altitude and hundreds of feet (or more) from the user. I am not for crippling it. I am for safe guarding it. With logic.
A $40.00 drone from walmart? Fly it all you want.
A $4,500 drone, purpose built to fly quite a ways, with strong motors, big power supplies and capable of carrying payloads of different types? License and certifications for programming.
I will admit, freely, that I know very little, outside of the basics of electronics, about drones. I know how they work, but that's about it.
Hearing that the control systems are made by amateurs really does not surprise me. I've seen a trend lately of more and more people with no real clue of what they're doing, getting in to hardware/software design. Which, on its own, is AMAZING to hear; I love knowing more people are learning the trade. But stick with the Pi, arduino and other small systems. When you're competent enough, then move in to the flying / driving realm. Unfortunately, it won't happen that way - They'll go straight to the drone world because, frankly (and, again, sadly) that's where the money is right now. It's all about trends and what's 'popular.'
I would LOVE to see what a well trained engineer/software writer can do with a purposely designed and well programmed drone. Outside of the military, that is, as their stuff is top notch.
We already require license to fly planes, even remote controlled ones. It's time to require them for drones (if they don't already) and to require code certification for any object flying more than 10 meters off the ground. Certification is required for cars and planes, logically it should be for drones. This way a child can learn to code below 10m and hone in his / her skills as a programmer but when you are ready to go full scale, you have full accountability. I can already see a drone software certification coming. DCERT, maybe?
I don't even think I would devote my time and skill to a company, even after a lawyer has went over every bit of the contract. The liability, and ethical (and moral, I assume) reasoning alone prevents me from wanting to.
Don't get me wrong - I think they're cool ideas, in the right hands. But as a mass commodity and spy usage really gets on my nerves. We cannot get code right for automobiles, on the ground. How can we get code right for drones in the sky?
Exactly what I mentioned in my comment elsewhere here. The idea of HS grads who took a small course on "intro to JAVA" writing drone software scares the living crap out of me. And for good reason.
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I seriously like the way you think. A lot of these are pipe dreams, but wonderful dreams, nonetheless.
Unfortunately, typing this got rid of my mod for you, but I think words work better than a +1, at this point.
I like this.
You've encouraged me, and inspired me, to do something like this my self now. Thank you, sir.
Would you mind giving a little more detail of what kind of things you keep (or should keep) on the USB stick? And what encryption set up? Veracrypt would be nice but might be overkill.
I've never thought of this type of thing before and now that I am, I realize it's something I really need to do for my wife. Because I won't be here much longer.
If only APK's program could stop all wArEz on the internet.
If only APK's program could stop google's indexing of WaReZ on the internet.
If only APK could prove me wrong!
It has nothing to do with apt. I was just replying to the original A/C who said YUM was slow.
You're fucking kidding me, right? Go away, Troll.
Just because there is a 'coding standard' does not mean it has good naming standards. I'm not -downing- C -- I've already stated several times that I -love- C and prefer it over anything else. I've been writing C applications since 1990. Both professionally ( as in, for PAY on major projects ) and on my own projects. I think I have earned a right to not be 'inexperienced.'
I hate to admit it, but a lot of "Linux Fans" lack common sense; they simply go where their friends/peers go. That whole hipster thing. Meh. I see things for their value, and their cons. I use windows AND linux, and I like both.
I am NOT a fan of Java. But I see it's worth quite well. It has its use. A tool for every job. I, personally, prefer C, but that's because I've always used C (it's what I started on all those years ago) and it's what i always come back to. It's like that abusive Ex that you just cannot quit, but the sex is good, so you stay.
C function names....I could write a book on that rant. Truly. C is horrid when it comes to standards, conventions, etc with naming. Hell, even with arguments. LibC itself is a pain for those who aren't intimately familiar with it.
I agree, 100% and, quite frankly, yes. That is the level of some engineering in linux.
I am die hard linux; I love the idea, and I use tons of distros every day. I love the freedom. But they reinvent the wheel so often, that some times people forget the wheel is meant to be round.
Yes, we have fgets(), but it's not exclusively a ReadLine() function, so to speak. Sane people would write a ReadLine() function using fgets() wrapped in some nice loops to read in buffered input. APT -- apparently not so much. I can only assume they were using getc or some such. I may dig in to apt-get source here in a few to see exactly what they were doing.
I've been looking for a project to dedicate some spare time to and, seeing someone earlier in the discussion saying it only has four people working on it, I may give it a bit of my time.
The production server that I work with runs CentOS and its YUM updates are fairly quick. Granted, it has a super, super fat pipe and some pretty nice hardware. But on a production system, I'm not looking for speed in updating, I am looking for consistency and "don't fuck my shit up, yo!"
The standard library doesn't come with a ReadLine function. It has the ability to read I/O, and to buffer it, but it is up to the implementation to do it how they see fit. In the case of APT (I cannot say I am surprised. I would really love to hear the reason they made it unbuffered to begin with,) since it is in C and a core function, it will be using ONLY the C library. So they have to implement the ReadLine() themselves.
C was designed to be barebones. It's why you can easily shoot yourself in the foot (like in this case) and it's the reason I prefer C over any language. It's not that the library is poor; it's not -- it's actually quite well done. It just does not have a lot of the built in cruft that some languages hang on to, such as Java. It IS pretty standard practice to implement ReadLine() in a specific way; again, I would love to know the real reason. I am better it was debug code that 'worked' and no one thought to look at the most basic of I/O as a performance issue (they were looking at parsing, formats, network latency, etc)
Looks like APK himself now; "Prove him wrong" -- A famous tag line.
Spamming is spamming is spamming. Go away, shill.
Bogusly? That's precisely what the down mod system is for, mind you.
I've never down modded him, personally, because they make little difference on him. But down mods are designed to get rid of scum like him. He's a SPAMMER and needs to be treated as a SPAMMER. I cannot fathom why some of you actually put up with his dumb ass.
I've decided to write a chrome/firefox plugin that will block ALL posts by APK, as I see this is advertisement and should be blocked thusly.
If you agree, please join the cause. It would make the web (and slashdot) much better.
Btw, apk, I've seen your app and it's a piece of crap. You truly don't know what you're doing when it comes to coding. It looks like you copy/pasted a bunch of snippets you found on google and then stop a bunch of people's block lists. That makes you a script kiddie
Please, for the love of fucking God - Go. The. Fuck. Away.
One post is enough. But having to scroll through pages upon of pages to see REAL content is annoying me. What you are effectively doing is creating ads; the very same we all want to block with tools and/or hosts files!, -- way to go. You've become the slimy advertisement person.
Please go shoot yourself after you get through jerking off to pictures of nude children on a beach.
I was speaking more to the fact that people are TARGETING Apple related products more often. Not just Apple software/hardware.
We're seeing the advent of more and more Mac/iPhone exploits/hacks happening these days. And it's a good thing, in theory.
Apple is starting to gain market share and now they're seeing targeting done towards their hardware and software. Welcome to the world of security, Apple and Apple devs!
Just don't do what Microsoft did. Please.
(I am NOT an Apple user, or fanboi. Just good to see them finally getting their share of security issues revolving around their tech.)
You mean functions? Like C/C++ and almost all other languages have had for years?
Or maybe Libraries?
What, exactly, does the high level "feature" do here?
What in the holy fuck did I just read?
I would pay good money, and a large tub of popcorn to watch Linus respond to something like that.
I would also start a betting pool for certain, choice, phrase words.
Absolutely. And it does prevent it. I would turn down any opportunity from an automotive agency.
I am not going to get in some dick waving argument with some random troll on slashdot. So I will leave with this:
1) I clearly stated that I know little to nothing about drones, aside from their software and electronics. Nice attempt at an insult. if you had read the post, you would have noticed this.
2) Your attempt at blasting my logical attempt at stating common sense license and certifications for hardware and software that are -capable of causing damage- (Drones larger than an ounce and fly for more than five bloody minutes, as you like to state) is falling way behind.
3) If you cannot agree that certifications for a FLYING OBJECT capable of carrying MULTIPLE PAYLOADS and traversing THOUSANDS OF FEET from the controller, with tons of chances of interference and software defects / user error is a good idea, then perhaps you're the type of person who should be the politician. As you seem to only care about yourself.
Good day.
I am referring to the ones that, obviously, weigh more than an ounce, especially considering I stated "higher than 10m."
I am referring to the drones that actually fly hundreds of feet in altitude and hundreds of feet (or more) from the user. I am not for crippling it. I am for safe guarding it. With logic.
A $40.00 drone from walmart? Fly it all you want.
A $4,500 drone, purpose built to fly quite a ways, with strong motors, big power supplies and capable of carrying payloads of different types? License and certifications for programming.
Did you even RTFP?
I will admit, freely, that I know very little, outside of the basics of electronics, about drones. I know how they work, but that's about it.
Hearing that the control systems are made by amateurs really does not surprise me. I've seen a trend lately of more and more people with no real clue of what they're doing, getting in to hardware/software design. Which, on its own, is AMAZING to hear; I love knowing more people are learning the trade. But stick with the Pi, arduino and other small systems. When you're competent enough, then move in to the flying / driving realm. Unfortunately, it won't happen that way - They'll go straight to the drone world because, frankly (and, again, sadly) that's where the money is right now. It's all about trends and what's 'popular.'
I would LOVE to see what a well trained engineer /software writer can do with a purposely designed and well programmed drone. Outside of the military, that is, as their stuff is top notch.
We already require license to fly planes, even remote controlled ones. It's time to require them for drones (if they don't already) and to require code certification for any object flying more than 10 meters off the ground. Certification is required for cars and planes, logically it should be for drones. This way a child can learn to code below 10m and hone in his / her skills as a programmer but when you are ready to go full scale, you have full accountability. I can already see a drone software certification coming. DCERT, maybe?
I don't even think I would devote my time and skill to a company, even after a lawyer has went over every bit of the contract. The liability, and ethical (and moral, I assume) reasoning alone prevents me from wanting to.
Don't get me wrong - I think they're cool ideas, in the right hands. But as a mass commodity and spy usage really gets on my nerves. We cannot get code right for automobiles, on the ground. How can we get code right for drones in the sky?
Exactly what I mentioned in my comment elsewhere here. The idea of HS grads who took a small course on "intro to JAVA" writing drone software scares the living crap out of me. And for good reason.