Linux is already appearing in low end and specialty boxes.
I just wanted to call bullshit, as people use Linux in extremely high end boxes, too, but I realized that you're right. One doesn't buy these, one builds them. And as such, they're not pre-packaged stuff, and thus not a sale for Dell or the likes.
In other words, on every single terminal in existence made within the last >15 years. This may be an issue if the output goes to something that is not a terminal (like redirected to some GUI), but, in that case you can simply check isatty() or pipe it through ansi2txt or ansi2html (bundled with a package of mine, trivial to recreate on your own).
It has no support whatsoever for colors "\e[32mReally?\e[0m\n"
or blinking text! "\e[5mHello world\e[0m\n"
... when the real world requirements call for a blinking 'Hello world\n' or a colourful 'Foobar'! "\e[5mHello world\n\e[0;34;1mF\e[36mo\e[32mo\e[33mb\e[31ma\e[3 5mr\e[0m\n"
(spell \e as \033 to make stone-age compilers like AIX cc happy)
Re:Distribution on Windows
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Why Use GTK+?
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vbrunxxx.dll? That's nothing. Try the.NET runtime, and talk about bloat again.
antivirus only stops at best 1% of viruses out there
Actually, it may stop even 50-80% of viruses. Old viruses, that is.
But, do you care if it can stop a virus that was written 5 years ago? It's only virii from the last 15mins/hour/day/week or at most month that really matter.
Actually, anti-virus software is nothing but snake oil and a money grab these days.
Why?
Once you get pwned, your system has been compromised. It's time for vetting any data, a thorough purge and reinstall. This applies both to real Unix systems and to Windows. These days, most virus/worm/spyware install 10-20 "friends", each updated on a frame of several days. It's pretty hard to get all of these, considering that most anti-crapware software has a detection rate of 30% or less (not counting any _old_ pests).
Thus, as parent said, AV actually makes your system less secure, provided you or your OS follow at least some basic security rules; it adds no security while creating new holes on its own. Also, performance lost to the scanner wasting your memory and CPU is not free, either.
Of course, if you're unlucky enough to work in tech support for Windows machines, this analysis doesn't apply. But, if you can get the boxes locked down, don't even bother paying the AV protection racket.
Yeah, but they work just wonderful if you want portability to something more than just different Linux distros. Any problems tend to stem from third-party sabotage (for example, Debian source packages mangle timestamps at patch time).
The problem is, you need to be able to edit files using an insane slew of languages. Each of the autotools uses a different one, and in the case of autoconf, you have a weird combination of m4 and sh.
having to figure out imake on top of that was a bit of a hassle.
Oh right, imake is a living proof that you can get a lot worse.
The last time X packages had to be updated, security.debian.org got hammered down to a crawl. Now, you will be able to download just the module that changed.
At least here in Poland, we have "religion" lessons in school (and it's "religion" as in "Christianity", not as in "religions at large"). Do you have such lessons in public schools in the US as well? Considering what I hear, it would be a natural thing.
And this is where ID _may_ belong, as long as you add clear remarks that the Catholic Church and most protestant churches shun ID as nothing but trying to bend the bible.
In one corner, we have people who infringe copyrights. In the other, we have corporations who spy on people, subvert computer security and massively breach laws they lobbed for themselves.
The former is the same crime as copying the recipe of a prize-winning bakery. Sure, you take away profits the inventor of the recipe would get -- but you don't even steal a single cookie. Or, as another analogy, copying the dress design of a lady who paid bazillions to go to a royal ball in an unique dress -- and suddenly some pesky commoners wear the same. Yes, she is hurt in some way. The latter is a case of break-in, overturning all possessions of the victim looking for allegedly "stolen" property, beating the victim in the face and threatening him with further actions of your gang.
If you see Delphi and Access as "new" technologies, then yes, maybe it is time you retire. My skills set doesn't include RAD tools. I can do: * low-level Unix stuff * networking (complex iptables setups, traffic shaping) * basic kernel hacking * Perl * AJAX (as in "full vt100 terminal in javascript", not as in "SOAP-based stuff")
maybe it is time you retire. Hey, I'm 27y old.
Unless your employer needs your assembly skills to debug the cofee machine. I haven't even touched assembler in more than ten years. I said that I played with it as a kid, not that it's what I do right now.
(for your convenience I posted this as "plain old text") Thanks, that's really preferred over MS Word attachments.
I was thoroughly shocked, when someone with a freaking degree in CS asked me once how to write a "while" loop. The guy also doesn't know the difference between a procedure and a function -- he will happily click on events in Delphi or Access, but can't write a subroutine on his own.
On the other hand, I personally have dropped from the university; however, having been to world finals of ACM ICPC suggests I may be not a complete moron.
So, uhm, whom would you hire -- a young IT worker who's familiar with newer technologies, or someone who has been hacking in assembly since the age of five but can't force himself to bother with the newest buzzwords?
There's nothing new about people spending all day typing, but there is something new about people who don't know how to type spending their entire workdays typing.
Microsoft can stand some parasites milking it for patent money; the benefits of having a big stick against the competition and Free Software far outweight the costs Microsoft has to pay due to patents.
I don't ever pay for random software -- I buy only things I need to (because @#$%^& customers won't switch to usable systems), and I sometimes help with Free Software projects (donating code, not money). For non-software related things, the banking system in Poland is so abysmal that purchasing material things online is simply out of the question; also, I have a strong negative response to ads -- I make conscious decisions to boycott products that are advertised in an annoying way.
Losing the clicks from the rest of the company I happen to admin the servers for is just collateral damage.
Really, there is no crime in China, drunken pick-pockets and rapists excluded.
Generally, you can have three pillars of power: * political * corporate * criminal
In an US-like state, politics and corporations are one. In communism, politics and crime are one. In present day's Russia, all three are entwined into one. In China, no one bothers yet about corporations. They don't have crime that is not a part of the political system, either. All _big_ criminal organizations are purely legal, being controlled by the Party.
So, don't even bother mentioning "privately owned" corporations in China. They are owned by the Party, everything else is just a thin cover.
Have you even seen Calibri without anti-aliasing? And Windows doesn't support anti-aliasing on a CRT at all for all reasonable font sizes; if you use the relevant APIs your selection will be simply ignored. Also, even on a LCD, Microsoft's anti-aliasing (available only in >=XP) looks smeared.
While Calibri is indeed a good font, it can be ironically used well only on non-Windows systems, something that requires breaking its license. Thus, I keep to Bitstream Vera and Antykwa Poltawskiego.
We've worked with the developers of the Firefox FlashBlock extension to make sure sIFR text is automatically degraded to (X)HTML for users of recent versions of FlashBlock.
Hah! I'm immune to their bullshit. I simply don't have the crap named 'Flash' installed.
Yeah -- we ("we" as the researchers and (an infinitessimally small contribution) those who give them moral support) already crossed an important boundary.
Before, this research was protested only by few fringe tree huggers. Now you need to count in a whole bunch of religious fundies, and they are those who can block the funding.
Re:JavaScript code is the core code - What???
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Also, if you consider the popularity of the "NoScript" extension, you'll see that a lot of people turn JavaScript off. Having it permanently disabled is a part of many security policies, as well; I would estimate that at least 10% or so of people will have JavaScript disabled at least on their first visit. This is a lot more than a minority such as "Links users" or "the blind".
So... unless you disregard a significant percentage of viewers, you do need to provide an alternate version.
The article says: "Ajax is more than just the latest fad -- it's your stepping stone to build better Web sites through efficient use of your time." -- tell me how can AJAX save you time if you have to do _both_ versions of the site, multiplied by the number of differently behaving browsers?
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Linux is already appearing in low end and specialty boxes.
I just wanted to call bullshit, as people use Linux in extremely high end boxes, too, but I realized that you're right. One doesn't buy these, one builds them. And as such, they're not pre-packaged stuff, and thus not a sale for Dell or the likes.
That only works on ANSI terms.
In other words, on every single terminal in existence made within the last >15 years.
This may be an issue if the output goes to something that is not a terminal (like redirected to some GUI), but, in that case you can simply check isatty() or pipe it through ansi2txt or ansi2html (bundled with a package of mine, trivial to recreate on your own).
It has no support whatsoever for colors
... when the real world requirements call for a blinking 'Hello world\n' or a colourful 'Foobar'!3 5mr\e[0m\n"
"\e[32mReally?\e[0m\n"
or blinking text!
"\e[5mHello world\e[0m\n"
"\e[5mHello world\n\e[0;34;1mF\e[36mo\e[32mo\e[33mb\e[31ma\e[
(spell \e as \033 to make stone-age compilers like AIX cc happy)
vbrunxxx.dll? That's nothing. Try the .NET runtime, and talk about bloat again.
antivirus only stops at best 1% of viruses out there
Actually, it may stop even 50-80% of viruses.
Old viruses, that is.
But, do you care if it can stop a virus that was written 5 years ago? It's only virii from the last 15mins/hour/day/week or at most month that really matter.
Actually, anti-virus software is nothing but snake oil and a money grab these days.
Why?
Once you get pwned, your system has been compromised. It's time for vetting any data, a thorough purge and reinstall. This applies both to real Unix systems and to Windows. These days, most virus/worm/spyware install 10-20 "friends", each updated on a frame of several days. It's pretty hard to get all of these, considering that most anti-crapware software has a detection rate of 30% or less (not counting any _old_ pests).
Thus, as parent said, AV actually makes your system less secure, provided you or your OS follow at least some basic security rules; it adds no security while creating new holes on its own. Also, performance lost to the scanner wasting your memory and CPU is not free, either.
Of course, if you're unlucky enough to work in tech support for Windows machines, this analysis doesn't apply. But, if you can get the boxes locked down, don't even bother paying the AV protection racket.
The autotools are hard enough to learn
Yeah, but they work just wonderful if you want portability to something more than just different Linux distros. Any problems tend to stem from third-party sabotage (for example, Debian source packages mangle timestamps at patch time).
The problem is, you need to be able to edit files using an insane slew of languages. Each of the autotools uses a different one, and in the case of autoconf, you have a weird combination of m4 and sh.
having to figure out imake on top of that was a bit of a hassle.
Oh right, imake is a living proof that you can get a lot worse.
Just wait for the first security hole.
The last time X packages had to be updated, security.debian.org got hammered down to a crawl. Now, you will be able to download just the module that changed.
At least here in Poland, we have "religion" lessons in school (and it's "religion" as in "Christianity", not as in "religions at large"). Do you have such lessons in public schools in the US as well? Considering what I hear, it would be a natural thing.
And this is where ID _may_ belong, as long as you add clear remarks that the Catholic Church and most protestant churches shun ID as nothing but trying to bend the bible.
Crime? Tell me who's the criminal here.
In one corner, we have people who infringe copyrights.
In the other, we have corporations who spy on people, subvert computer security and massively breach laws they lobbed for themselves.
The former is the same crime as copying the recipe of a prize-winning bakery. Sure, you take away profits the inventor of the recipe would get -- but you don't even steal a single cookie. Or, as another analogy, copying the dress design of a lady who paid bazillions to go to a royal ball in an unique dress -- and suddenly some pesky commoners wear the same. Yes, she is hurt in some way.
The latter is a case of break-in, overturning all possessions of the victim looking for allegedly "stolen" property, beating the victim in the face and threatening him with further actions of your gang.
If you see Delphi and Access as "new" technologies, then yes, maybe it is time you retire.
My skills set doesn't include RAD tools.
I can do:
* low-level Unix stuff
* networking (complex iptables setups, traffic shaping)
* basic kernel hacking
* Perl
* AJAX (as in "full vt100 terminal in javascript", not as in "SOAP-based stuff")
maybe it is time you retire.
Hey, I'm 27y old.
Unless your employer needs your assembly skills to debug the cofee machine.
I haven't even touched assembler in more than ten years. I said that I played with it as a kid, not that it's what I do right now.
(for your convenience I posted this as "plain old text")
Thanks, that's really preferred over MS Word attachments.
... and don't have any clue.
I was thoroughly shocked, when someone with a freaking degree in CS asked me once how to write a "while" loop. The guy also doesn't know the difference between a procedure and a function -- he will happily click on events in Delphi or Access, but can't write a subroutine on his own.
On the other hand, I personally have dropped from the university; however, having been to world finals of ACM ICPC suggests I may be not a complete moron.
So, uhm, whom would you hire -- a young IT worker who's familiar with newer technologies, or someone who has been hacking in assembly since the age of five but can't force himself to bother with the newest buzzwords?
There's nothing new about people spending all day typing, but there is something new about people who don't know how to type spending their entire workdays typing.
And Benedictines in medieval times?
Microsoft can stand some parasites milking it for patent money; the benefits of having a big stick against the competition and Free Software far outweight the costs Microsoft has to pay due to patents.
'Microsoft stands behind its products and respects intellectual property rights.'
Correction: this sentence lacks the second "its" (just after "respects").
I have yet to see a Google ad that is relevant to what I would like to see. And, I'm afraid that they already wasted their chance.
So... what ads
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
are
zone "googlesyndication.com" {type master;allow-query {any;};file "/etc/bind/db.blackhole";};
you
apt-get install adzapper
talking
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
about?
I don't ever pay for random software -- I buy only things I need to (because @#$%^& customers won't switch to usable systems), and I sometimes help with Free Software projects (donating code, not money). For non-software related things, the banking system in Poland is so abysmal that purchasing material things online is simply out of the question; also, I have a strong negative response to ads -- I make conscious decisions to boycott products that are advertised in an annoying way.
Losing the clicks from the rest of the company I happen to admin the servers for is just collateral damage.
Same in Poland, and in a majority of non-English-speaking countries, from what I heard.
Really, there is no crime in China, drunken pick-pockets and rapists excluded.
Generally, you can have three pillars of power:
* political
* corporate
* criminal
In an US-like state, politics and corporations are one.
In communism, politics and crime are one.
In present day's Russia, all three are entwined into one.
In China, no one bothers yet about corporations. They don't have crime that is not a part of the political system, either. All _big_ criminal organizations are purely legal, being controlled by the Party.
So, don't even bother mentioning "privately owned" corporations in China. They are owned by the Party, everything else is just a thin cover.
Have you even seen Calibri without anti-aliasing? And Windows doesn't support anti-aliasing on a CRT at all for all reasonable font sizes; if you use the relevant APIs your selection will be simply ignored. Also, even on a LCD, Microsoft's anti-aliasing (available only in >=XP) looks smeared.
While Calibri is indeed a good font, it can be ironically used well only on non-Windows systems, something that requires breaking its license. Thus, I keep to Bitstream Vera and Antykwa Poltawskiego.
Terrifying. What's next, ?
Oh, wait...
We've worked with the developers of the Firefox FlashBlock extension to make sure sIFR text is automatically degraded to (X)HTML for users of recent versions of FlashBlock.
Hah! I'm immune to their bullshit.
I simply don't have the crap named 'Flash' installed.
Wrong. No matter what marketing departments of disk manufacturers say, a kilobyte is still 1024 bytes.
/. nick ugly will be punished with extreme prejudice.
Any attempts to make my
Yeah -- we ("we" as the researchers and (an infinitessimally small contribution) those who give them moral support) already crossed an important boundary.
Before, this research was protested only by few fringe tree huggers. Now you need to count in a whole bunch of religious fundies, and they are those who can block the funding.
Also, if you consider the popularity of the "NoScript" extension, you'll see that a lot of people turn JavaScript off. Having it permanently disabled is a part of many security policies, as well; I would estimate that at least 10% or so of people will have JavaScript disabled at least on their first visit. This is a lot more than a minority such as "Links users" or "the blind".
So... unless you disregard a significant percentage of viewers, you do need to provide an alternate version.
The article says: "Ajax is more than just the latest fad -- it's your stepping stone to build better Web sites through efficient use of your time." -- tell me how can AJAX save you time if you have to do _both_ versions of the site, multiplied by the number of differently behaving browsers?
Your spelling is wrong. It should be "Hamburger Universität". Or, "Hamburg University" or "University of Hamburg" if you use English.