First, my website has more than just a blog. It's a personal website, which is what slashdot asks for for a url.
Second, I don't think it's significant that people have ways of writing on the Internet and don't understand what the big deal is. I also find it ridiculous that bloggers are demanding to be treated like journalists.
On this note, I also think people should pass general intelligence tests before having kids.
Get off your high horse. It's people like you, who write on the Internet and think they're special for it, that are pushing the whole blog thing. Everyone's excited and writing about it, but also linking to their blog at the end of everything they write online now.
So what, you wrote some stuff... It's probably just as homogenous as everything else that's written in any other form.
The blogosphere is just a huge collection of idiots blabbing and feeling more important than they did when they did in bulletin board systems. There isn't a single blogger I read often. In fact, I only read the blogs of my friends and I've been a Linux/bsd/programming geek for 6-7 years now. I'd much rather read the docs than the opinion of some (typically) misinformed moron who read the first chapter and thinks they're an expert.
AJAX isn't for webpages. It's for applications. People will misuse technology until the universe implodes. If you want something that prints nicely, then provide a link that takes you to a page where you can print easily. If you want the webpage to alter shape and work quickly for the user to get things done, then who cares about printing...
The person who wrote that article is a luddite and a whiner.
I suspect they're in trouble because they're not performing a valuable enough service. Linux never has trouble finding funding because it's so valuable to people that Linux stay in healthy shape. I've taken a look through OSWD before and found most of the sites were ugly. Not only that, they wouldn't adapt well to a site design I have in mind.
How about you guys get your act together then and start being innovative like back when you guys were v4.x. FreeBSD has had nothing interesting going on since 5. 5 was basically a joke as far as I'm concerned.
I don't need a free pass. I was freebsd guy for a long time and paid my dues, which allows me to say the OS is boring and stagnant now.
Have fun with that.
That might be true, but you're assuming the exploit happens at a particular point. What if it's the way the im client handles network packets. You don't have to worry about anything with aim scripting there. It's just like attacking anything else. If you can gain control of the client in someway, you can start sending bad data to other people.
I stand by my point that if you're not using Windows aim/msn/yahoo, you're probably not going to be a target. Virus writers go after the most common things because it's easier to get the virus to distribute itself.
You're less likely to suffer from the attack, but you're not safe. Attackers would most likely go for Windows AIM / MSN / Yahoo long before they go for an open source im client on a mac.
To say openbsd has risen from the dead makes no sense. It's only been getting stronger. With FreeBSD basically dying (sorry, a new website won't save you guys) and DragonFlyBSD not catching on as fast as it'd prefer, I'd say OpenBSD is the strongest of the BSD's. It continually pushes security ideas forward and continues to be the best foss network border operating system. It works fantastic for many things most people use Linux for. Web serving, file sharing, firewalling, database serving, etc...
In response to this, I would like to extend this to say try writing a large project. I find many of my best lessons were learned when trying to do something useful that required lots of code. Design Patterns are inevitable and *that*, imho, is where the best programming lessons are learned. Not only implementing them, but finding a particular design doesn't accomodate a certain change well and then having to rethink the design and implement the changes without breaking too much in the process.
It's not exactly silicon valley... Do people even care about rights ensure by the GPL when they'd probably be ecstatic to have a magic wonder box that can compute results in seconds!
Yeah, but the lack of keyboard is enough to make me want a browser on a proper computer. The controls on the psp are more than efficient for gaming (they were designed for it, after all). That, coupled with the size of the psp, and I'm a happy gamer.
Have you ever played a ds? They can play gba games too. DS has metroid and then they basically gave up.
I'm not looking to have a/. argument. I think we agree that DS is weak and psp pwnz0rs and that's the important bit.
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At best!
First, my website has more than just a blog. It's a personal website, which is what slashdot asks for for a url. Second, I don't think it's significant that people have ways of writing on the Internet and don't understand what the big deal is. I also find it ridiculous that bloggers are demanding to be treated like journalists. On this note, I also think people should pass general intelligence tests before having kids.
Get off your high horse. It's people like you, who write on the Internet and think they're special for it, that are pushing the whole blog thing. Everyone's excited and writing about it, but also linking to their blog at the end of everything they write online now. So what, you wrote some stuff... It's probably just as homogenous as everything else that's written in any other form.
The blogosphere is just a huge collection of idiots blabbing and feeling more important than they did when they did in bulletin board systems. There isn't a single blogger I read often. In fact, I only read the blogs of my friends and I've been a Linux/bsd/programming geek for 6-7 years now. I'd much rather read the docs than the opinion of some (typically) misinformed moron who read the first chapter and thinks they're an expert.
AJAX isn't for webpages. It's for applications. People will misuse technology until the universe implodes. If you want something that prints nicely, then provide a link that takes you to a page where you can print easily. If you want the webpage to alter shape and work quickly for the user to get things done, then who cares about printing... The person who wrote that article is a luddite and a whiner.
If people cared enough, a replacement would pop up. That was my point.
I suspect they're in trouble because they're not performing a valuable enough service. Linux never has trouble finding funding because it's so valuable to people that Linux stay in healthy shape. I've taken a look through OSWD before and found most of the sites were ugly. Not only that, they wouldn't adapt well to a site design I have in mind.
So it goes.
Yeah... yeah, you do!
How about you guys get your act together then and start being innovative like back when you guys were v4.x. FreeBSD has had nothing interesting going on since 5. 5 was basically a joke as far as I'm concerned. I don't need a free pass. I was freebsd guy for a long time and paid my dues, which allows me to say the OS is boring and stagnant now. Have fun with that.
That might be true, but you're assuming the exploit happens at a particular point. What if it's the way the im client handles network packets. You don't have to worry about anything with aim scripting there. It's just like attacking anything else. If you can gain control of the client in someway, you can start sending bad data to other people. I stand by my point that if you're not using Windows aim/msn/yahoo, you're probably not going to be a target. Virus writers go after the most common things because it's easier to get the virus to distribute itself.
What you said is wrong. How do you think some worms reach 90% of the Internet in less than 10 minutes?
You're less likely to suffer from the attack, but you're not safe. Attackers would most likely go for Windows AIM / MSN / Yahoo long before they go for an open source im client on a mac.
It's still defaced! Good job, DotNOT.
To say openbsd has risen from the dead makes no sense. It's only been getting stronger. With FreeBSD basically dying (sorry, a new website won't save you guys) and DragonFlyBSD not catching on as fast as it'd prefer, I'd say OpenBSD is the strongest of the BSD's. It continually pushes security ideas forward and continues to be the best foss network border operating system. It works fantastic for many things most people use Linux for. Web serving, file sharing, firewalling, database serving, etc...
Try looking for the book actually called "Design Patters" from Addison Wesley. It's top notch.
In response to this, I would like to extend this to say try writing a large project. I find many of my best lessons were learned when trying to do something useful that required lots of code. Design Patterns are inevitable and *that*, imho, is where the best programming lessons are learned. Not only implementing them, but finding a particular design doesn't accomodate a certain change well and then having to rethink the design and implement the changes without breaking too much in the process.
You pretty much nailed it with that.
What's pansier is not being able to learn how to use the new changes. They know what you want and you just won't accept it!
pansy!
It is my understanding that the Neanderthals are still alive and well in France!
It's not exactly silicon valley... Do people even care about rights ensure by the GPL when they'd probably be ecstatic to have a magic wonder box that can compute results in seconds!
And you can buy one DS game that is worthwhile (Metroid) and at least 3 that are good on psp!
Yeah, but the lack of keyboard is enough to make me want a browser on a proper computer. The controls on the psp are more than efficient for gaming (they were designed for it, after all). That, coupled with the size of the psp, and I'm a happy gamer.
Have you ever played a ds? They can play gba games too. DS has metroid and then they basically gave up. I'm not looking to have a /. argument. I think we agree that DS is weak and psp pwnz0rs and that's the important bit.
That's exactly what I'm referring to. Dumbass.