the internet is ours, mine, yours. not theirs! time to look into a private internet where like minded people won't have problems removing advertisers and spammers from the picture.
I wonder what Google will be doing with all their dark fiber. Considering that they are an advertiser, and somebody earlier said that Google likes these guys because it makes them money - I think it might be for something like a GoogleNET or it's their answer to AT&T's (and of course the other telco's) want for a tier'd internet. They will just bypass the wankers...
The government is somewhat scared of OpenSource, especially in the government secrets world. It doesn't make much sense to be scared of OpenSource, but the argument that has been given time and time again is that anybody can look at the source code and hack into the system. This pertains more for the smaller projects that would be useful in the development on some government made software product. There are a few Linux distributions on the "safe list" and also OSX is on that list too. I think the argument that other people have access to the source code holds no water - keep in mind that China has the source code to Windows. And with MSFT's attempt to appease the EU by making available the source code (under very tight NDAs) to developers. I think that it is better to have the code out in the open for all to see (and fix). Unfortunately I cannot change the mind of the government.
I'm sorry, but you have never visited my office. If I have to explain that regex is more powerful than home grown searching a string via == operators - I'm gonna go insane. Oh, and what about a 3 year programmer that can't tell me how to inherit an object in.NET (yeah, I wish it was something else too)...
There is no way that you could possibly tell me that bull hocky with a straight face!
You offer all these "suggestions" for embedding LISP programs and other stuff into a virus to accomplish that. You wonder why you don't see more of this kind of thing - its because most of the people making these virii haven't ever heard of LISP, or even know anything about it. A much too high majority of virii writers are actually the 13 year olds who can use a virus making utility or paste a couple lines of VB Script together...
Now if we got some talented people writing these virii, we would be in a world of hurt - and maybe better security overall.
I have been thinking this might be what Apple was up to with Front Row or whatever it is called. I even mentioned it on my (pretty boring) blog, for Apple to be hooked to the TV is where they should be. They do media extremely well, so for them not to have a PVR solution would be very odd...
I have used ubuntu as my desktop os of choice over FC3 and FC4. I haven't really checked out the "other" distros. Slackware is awesome as usuall and so is Gentoo.
I am of the opinion that Ubuntu is going to start gaining a lot of ground because of a $10 million dollar commitment by a Linux lover. When you throw money into a project, you can hire people to pour their heart and soul into making Ubuntu totally awesome - instead of only getting these people's leftover time after the soul sucking required of them from their other job. We are going to start seeing a lot of improvement (hopefully they will start picking better names) in the future. I believe that Ubuntu is one of the better distros to install as a desktop os. That $10 million started the Ubuntu Foundation. On top of that funding, they are backed by canonical...
For those of you who are forced to use the.doc format - there is always antiword to utilize. I haven't really used it myself, but there are quite a few people who do - would work great in a regex file content search.
I would have to say that I stand corrected on most of my stabbings on evolution not being scientific, that is the problem with most of these issues, most people (myself included) don't see past their own understanding or viewpoint.
I will pose this question though, since there are scientists and theories (both with evidence) on how old the earth is ranging from ~10,000 years to millions (if not billions) of years old. What would we be arguing over (what other theories would come to light) if we determined that Earth was only 10,000 years old (or even 100,000 years).
There is more science in the ID department than most people give credit for because they believe that creationism is faith only and everything is explained by "God Did It(TM)".
What is extremist is insisting that a religious doctrine with no basis in scientific method (i.e., not based on direct observation, not testable, not predictive, and neither provable nor disprovable) should be held as valid science.
It sounds like it would be extremist to teach me evolution also (at least what they taught ME in school). It isn't based on direct observation (if it takes a million years, how can something be observable within the timeframe of modern science), it isn't testable (how and what do you test?), its not predictive (when are we going to see us evolve - that third arm would be helpful), and finally you cannot prove or disprove evolution.
I am not really thrilled with all this bashing on ID/Creationism when Evolution has it's own holes to fill. I believe that Darwin might have had a couple good and valid ideas (i.e. Natural Selection) but everything else doesn't pan out. I personally think that evolution should be taught next to ID - both displayed as theories as to our beginnings and leave the heavy duty classes and such to advanced classes (i.e. don't put that crap in science class).
No matter which side you are looking from, all anybody ever does is point and scream at the other party and declare how invalid the other theory is - when in fact their own theory is just as full of holes. We just need to sit back and realize that we really don't have a clue as to how we got here that can be realized with science.
FYI: According to this article I'm a Bible Thumping Extremist Christian... In reality I'm the one that sits quietly in the back keeping to himself - not judging anybody but pissed off at the stupidity and inability of people to get along.
So what does "Linux hackers" have anything to do with this? Had they written the software under Windbloze would you have started the summary with "Windows hackers"?
No, they would call the windows hackers "Hackers"... Remember only evil hax0rs using Linux...
Its just the media manipulating the public's view of Linux...
Well, maybe back in the day the shuttle was super high quality. However when the space shuttle Discovery is 22 years old (made in 1983). Space Shuttle Discovery is getting old. For reference, Challenger's first flight was in 1983, Columbia's first flight was in 1981; both of which we lost the whole crew and shuttle (Source) The space shuttles are getting old and you have to expect that things are going to start to break. With budget cutbacks and the like, it doesn't look too good for NASA's people.
How high-tech things that were made in 1983 are still considered high-tech or even high quality. I know most consumer items made back then are sitting in the dump or in somebody's basement.
Floppys serve their purpose, especially when the email servers strip out pretty much ANY file attached to an email message. Actually.doc,.txt and a handful of others get through - you cannot zip anything useful because it will go through the entire archive deleting everything that isn't a word document. Don't tell me to encrypt it or change the file extension, that doesn't work - encrypted/password protected archives are deleted no questions asked. We cannot have flash drives in our building, our computers don't have burners on them and a floppy is handy when taking home 50 small source code files that the email server will strip. Anybody want to give me a job that doesn't involve this insane level of network security??
Then I get home and realize I don't have a floppy in my everyday computer and the Dell's floppy drive is broke (suprise, suprise), so luckly my server has a LS120 (remember those??)...
But you forget that the A/C unit has to run more...
So its probably more like $40/mo (pulled out of my ass guestimate)...
In all reality - 4 computers, 28 drives on 500 watts is pretty impressive. Think about how much a full 42U rack with 1U servers filling it up - how much power would that draw??
I think they should do a survey on how much "employee time" management wastes. When we have 2 hour meetings of which only about 10 minutes of it applys to our group. (We are software developers), then tack on top of that the documentation they have us doing. (I had to write more than 20 pages of documentation for 8 lines of code - YES!! EIGHT lines of code). On top of that they keep changing the "process" causing us to go back and re-write half of the documentation of the project we are currently working on because the standards have changed. Then to top it off, they have a bunch of people in QA who know NOTHING about software - so the comments that we get back from those auditing our documentation are completly useless...
I personally think that the most innovation and productivity comes from small companies that haven't fallen victim to corporate management. At home professionals also work very effectivly because they have to...
Someday I'll own my own business and fire my boss...
I will have to say that I am enjoying my escape from Microsoft. I don't have to worry about any of these kinds of ads or spyware or malware. So when M$ actually does put their own "Clippy" ads into windows, I'll just sit back listending to my Beep Media Player, Open Office and Firefox smiling...
God I love linux... Now if only they would take the strong points of Ubuntu and combine them with the strong points of Fedora Core - we would be one step closer to a perfect desktop distro...
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the internet is ours, mine, yours. not theirs! time to look into a private internet where like minded people won't have problems removing advertisers and spammers from the picture.
I wonder what Google will be doing with all their dark fiber. Considering that they are an advertiser, and somebody earlier said that Google likes these guys because it makes them money - I think it might be for something like a GoogleNET or it's their answer to AT&T's (and of course the other telco's) want for a tier'd internet. They will just bypass the wankers...
Chills just ran up and down my spine!
'nothing' is also another good Admin password =P
There are free DNS services out there like EveryDNS.net that allow you to register and list for free.
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NetBSD has had Toilet support for the past 4 years! Nothing new here, move along...
The government is somewhat scared of OpenSource, especially in the government secrets world. It doesn't make much sense to be scared of OpenSource, but the argument that has been given time and time again is that anybody can look at the source code and hack into the system. This pertains more for the smaller projects that would be useful in the development on some government made software product. There are a few Linux distributions on the "safe list" and also OSX is on that list too. I think the argument that other people have access to the source code holds no water - keep in mind that China has the source code to Windows. And with MSFT's attempt to appease the EU by making available the source code (under very tight NDAs) to developers. I think that it is better to have the code out in the open for all to see (and fix). Unfortunately I cannot change the mind of the government.
All developers are created equal
.NET (yeah, I wish it was something else too)...
I'm sorry, but you have never visited my office. If I have to explain that regex is more powerful than home grown searching a string via == operators - I'm gonna go insane. Oh, and what about a 3 year programmer that can't tell me how to inherit an object in
There is no way that you could possibly tell me that bull hocky with a straight face!
Or in Blue Collar Comedy Style:
Lady of the Evening, Lady of the Evening, Lady of the Evening. Happy Non-specific celebration day.
You can't mark an ARTICLE as Flamebait...
You offer all these "suggestions" for embedding LISP programs and other stuff into a virus to accomplish that. You wonder why you don't see more of this kind of thing - its because most of the people making these virii haven't ever heard of LISP, or even know anything about it. A much too high majority of virii writers are actually the 13 year olds who can use a virus making utility or paste a couple lines of VB Script together...
Now if we got some talented people writing these virii, we would be in a world of hurt - and maybe better security overall.
Somebody mod the parent as teh FUNNY. Come on people, where is your sense of humor? Redundant?! WTF is wrong with you people...
I have been thinking this might be what Apple was up to with Front Row or whatever it is called. I even mentioned it on my (pretty boring) blog, for Apple to be hooked to the TV is where they should be. They do media extremely well, so for them not to have a PVR solution would be very odd...
I have used ubuntu as my desktop os of choice over FC3 and FC4. I haven't really checked out the "other" distros. Slackware is awesome as usuall and so is Gentoo.
I am of the opinion that Ubuntu is going to start gaining a lot of ground because of a $10 million dollar commitment by a Linux lover. When you throw money into a project, you can hire people to pour their heart and soul into making Ubuntu totally awesome - instead of only getting these people's leftover time after the soul sucking required of them from their other job. We are going to start seeing a lot of improvement (hopefully they will start picking better names) in the future. I believe that Ubuntu is one of the better distros to install as a desktop os. That $10 million started the Ubuntu Foundation. On top of that funding, they are backed by canonical...
For those of you who are forced to use the .doc format - there is always antiword to utilize. I haven't really used it myself, but there are quite a few people who do - would work great in a regex file content search.
I would have to say that I stand corrected on most of my stabbings on evolution not being scientific, that is the problem with most of these issues, most people (myself included) don't see past their own understanding or viewpoint.
I will pose this question though, since there are scientists and theories (both with evidence) on how old the earth is ranging from ~10,000 years to millions (if not billions) of years old. What would we be arguing over (what other theories would come to light) if we determined that Earth was only 10,000 years old (or even 100,000 years).
There is more science in the ID department than most people give credit for because they believe that creationism is faith only and everything is explained by "God Did It(TM)".
for those who are curious
star.slashdot.org
www.cisco.com
www.nortel.com (I assume, didn't find in reverse dns)
its probably poisoned...
What is extremist is insisting that a religious doctrine with no basis in scientific method (i.e., not based on direct observation, not testable, not predictive, and neither provable nor disprovable) should be held as valid science.
It sounds like it would be extremist to teach me evolution also (at least what they taught ME in school). It isn't based on direct observation (if it takes a million years, how can something be observable within the timeframe of modern science), it isn't testable (how and what do you test?), its not predictive (when are we going to see us evolve - that third arm would be helpful), and finally you cannot prove or disprove evolution.
I am not really thrilled with all this bashing on ID/Creationism when Evolution has it's own holes to fill. I believe that Darwin might have had a couple good and valid ideas (i.e. Natural Selection) but everything else doesn't pan out. I personally think that evolution should be taught next to ID - both displayed as theories as to our beginnings and leave the heavy duty classes and such to advanced classes (i.e. don't put that crap in science class).
No matter which side you are looking from, all anybody ever does is point and scream at the other party and declare how invalid the other theory is - when in fact their own theory is just as full of holes. We just need to sit back and realize that we really don't have a clue as to how we got here that can be realized with science.
FYI: According to this article I'm a Bible Thumping Extremist Christian... In reality I'm the one that sits quietly in the back keeping to himself - not judging anybody but pissed off at the stupidity and inability of people to get along.
So what does "Linux hackers" have anything to do with this? Had they written the software under Windbloze would you have started the summary with "Windows hackers"?
No, they would call the windows hackers "Hackers"... Remember only evil hax0rs using Linux...
Its just the media manipulating the public's view of Linux...
Well, maybe back in the day the shuttle was super high quality. However when the space shuttle Discovery is 22 years old (made in 1983). Space Shuttle Discovery is getting old. For reference, Challenger's first flight was in 1983, Columbia's first flight was in 1981; both of which we lost the whole crew and shuttle (Source) The space shuttles are getting old and you have to expect that things are going to start to break. With budget cutbacks and the like, it doesn't look too good for NASA's people.
How high-tech things that were made in 1983 are still considered high-tech or even high quality. I know most consumer items made back then are sitting in the dump or in somebody's basement.
I will have to say this:
.doc, .txt and a handful of others get through - you cannot zip anything useful because it will go through the entire archive deleting everything that isn't a word document. Don't tell me to encrypt it or change the file extension, that doesn't work - encrypted/password protected archives are deleted no questions asked. We cannot have flash drives in our building, our computers don't have burners on them and a floppy is handy when taking home 50 small source code files that the email server will strip. Anybody want to give me a job that doesn't involve this insane level of network security??
Floppys serve their purpose, especially when the email servers strip out pretty much ANY file attached to an email message. Actually
Then I get home and realize I don't have a floppy in my everyday computer and the Dell's floppy drive is broke (suprise, suprise), so luckly my server has a LS120 (remember those??)...
But you forget that the A/C unit has to run more...
So its probably more like $40/mo (pulled out of my ass guestimate)...
In all reality - 4 computers, 28 drives on 500 watts is pretty impressive. Think about how much a full 42U rack with 1U servers filling it up - how much power would that draw??
I think they should do a survey on how much "employee time" management wastes. When we have 2 hour meetings of which only about 10 minutes of it applys to our group. (We are software developers), then tack on top of that the documentation they have us doing. (I had to write more than 20 pages of documentation for 8 lines of code - YES!! EIGHT lines of code). On top of that they keep changing the "process" causing us to go back and re-write half of the documentation of the project we are currently working on because the standards have changed. Then to top it off, they have a bunch of people in QA who know NOTHING about software - so the comments that we get back from those auditing our documentation are completly useless...
I personally think that the most innovation and productivity comes from small companies that haven't fallen victim to corporate management. At home professionals also work very effectivly because they have to...
Someday I'll own my own business and fire my boss...
I will have to say that I am enjoying my escape from Microsoft. I don't have to worry about any of these kinds of ads or spyware or malware. So when M$ actually does put their own "Clippy" ads into windows, I'll just sit back listending to my Beep Media Player, Open Office and Firefox smiling...
God I love linux...
Now if only they would take the strong points of Ubuntu and combine them with the strong points of Fedora Core - we would be one step closer to a perfect desktop distro...
Oh, you mean that black box thingy that sits on the shelf in the living room???
I forgot all about that dusty old thing...
GODDAMMIT!!! I swear I will pistol whip the next person who says shenanigans!
Hey Farva...what's the name of that place you like to go to with all the goofy shit on the wall and the cheese sticks?
You mean shenanigans?
OOOOOOoooooo...
-- SuperTroopers