I'm more worried about the implications. On one hand it's great to not have loads of unpatched computers bent over with their arseholes facing the internet sending me spam, DOSing stuff and distributing child porn. Then again, "you cannot go online unless you download this patch from microsoft".. what if the patch contains something I don't like?
Clearly this guy has done more kernel hacking than I have (I was just fiddling about with a credit card reader). BUT.. to reiterate my previous post.. there's nothing 733+ about kernel hacking.. it's just code and it makes just as much sense as anything else you wrote. Tangent has been redirected:-)
The kernel has become so complete now, I rarely look at the source for any reason other than interest. I once wrote a couple of mods for the whole "I hacked linux" kudos thing, before realising it's just like programming anything else.. except the crash bit.. that's annoying. That's what qemu/kvm/vmware/virtualbox is for.
Unless you're writing disc drivers where you need to understand stepper motors, it's just code.. the same crap you find in all the other stuff you've done, only you get to see the word "oops" occasionally.
Therein lies a problem.. there's a lot of money out there for kernel hackers (just ask any mobile phone company), but as a home user, you need a reason, or at least a goal to do it.
Someone should release an open-hardware usb stick with an LED on it with a closed source driver. Your goal is to make the LED turn on. And NO, they shouldn't publish how to do it:-D
It's the wrong way round. The entertainment industry should fund my internet costs for all the shitty adverts they keep stuffing down my internet connection.
All of our servers build right up to being online automatically. In a cluster of more than 3, I'm happy to take one out of the load balancer for them to have a poke around at it. Even if they completely screw it up, I can have it back in its working state in 10 minutes, so it's really not a problem.
The database on the other hand... that contains difficult to replace customer data. I'm much more wary of that.
Then again, the author of the question should really be asking "have I done enough to recover from a catastrophe in a hurry?". If the system is a mess and can't auto-build itself, then a developer is bound to break it, and the sysadmin is partly to blame for not doing a complete job in the first place.
"as they don't have access to baseball or football or basketball or hockey."
There's plenty of access to American football here in blighty, since we invented it. We just prefer the 2 other versions of football which doesn't involve some fat fucks in armour kevlar armour calling themselves "athletes" whilst not being man enough for rugby, and we decided we didn't need commercial breaks or hotdogs every 15 minutes to presumably cope with the lower attention span.
Even the creators of the Ignobel prize admit that some of the science that they're making fun of may one day turn out to be useful. Pascal was trying to prove 1=0 and therefore (in his own logic) God is infallible.. he failed, but in the process came up with loads of really useful mathematics and some decent philosophy to boot. Boole did the same thing and gave us boolean logic. Off the top of my head, the same science could vaguely (I'm just using this as an abstract example) be applied to Barnes Wallace's famous bouncing bomb which allowed the British to prove they were capable of hitting back against the Germans at a point where the Russians had given up all hope on the Alliance.
I have a blackberry for sysadmin related on-call harassment from zabbix, and shiny as it is (I broke it last weekend at the downpour at download festival last weekend and it got waterlogged.. now I have a nice new one!), I don't see it as my property.. some employees use it as their main phone, but I have my own phone for private stuff, so getting a new object whose only purpose is to annoy the fuck out of me when I'm trying to relax and tell me LDAP isn't working isn't really an accolade. It's like being handed a pair of flight goggles by emperor Hirohito. It's plugged in to the office blackberry server which is in turn connected to an exchange server which I don't have control of. It would be foolish of me to send personal information on it.
"So find a drink, whip up some snacks, watch the shiny explosions, and listen to the soothing words of player experts as they walk you through the action!"
You have a point, but I had to kick myself up the arse to get back to coding our next demo:-)
It's now nearly 3am and I'm sick of the sight of Windows so I booted into linux to relax. A good day's work has been done in spite of the cryptic error messages that MSVC gives (I nearly kicked my computer's head in at one point!). I'm now going to be a prick on facebook and watch the end of this film about the dunquerque evacuation (makes us brits proud!) before going to bed.
I'm currently procrastinating by reading slashdot when I should be working. Then again, I went online to look up SIMD instructions in visual studio, and I now have the information I need. Swings and roundabouts.
this is what's happening. The high street chains go to fashion shows, photograph all the designer stuff, then make their own and get sued by the designer labels.
That said, it needs to be more of a blatant copy than patenting "method and system for affixing non-functional buckle to shoe**".
Then again, most software patents wouldn't even include the "affixing" bit. They would just patent having a buckle in the first place.
** that would probably be more specific, but I know nothing about fashion.
Sony hacked into thousands of people's computers with their DRM software. Apparently that's OK because they're big business and they were protecting sales or something.
No, it's not OK. Sony committed a worse crime than this bloke who just logged in to some computers using a default password. Sony deceptively installed a trojan on their customers' machines which impaired their function and made private information public. McKinnon didn't even publicly release his findings. By this logic, it's Sony who should be facing a gaol sentence.
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Apple have made such a device. Microsoft haven't. Innocent until proven guilty?
As much as I appreciate Microsoft bashing, I don't think they would go that far :-) You mean Apple, who already have.
I'm more worried about the implications. On one hand it's great to not have loads of unpatched computers bent over with their arseholes facing the internet sending me spam, DOSing stuff and distributing child porn. Then again, "you cannot go online unless you download this patch from microsoft".. what if the patch contains something I don't like?
mod parent up.
Clearly this guy has done more kernel hacking than I have (I was just fiddling about with a credit card reader). BUT.. to reiterate my previous post.. there's nothing 733+ about kernel hacking.. it's just code and it makes just as much sense as anything else you wrote. Tangent has been redirected :-)
Forgot to hit "plain old text". WHY is HTML the default? i'm not designing a frickin web page here!!!
The kernel has become so complete now, I rarely look at the source for any reason other than interest. I once wrote a couple of mods for the whole "I hacked linux" kudos thing, before realising it's just like programming anything else.. except the crash bit.. that's annoying. That's what qemu/kvm/vmware/virtualbox is for. Unless you're writing disc drivers where you need to understand stepper motors, it's just code.. the same crap you find in all the other stuff you've done, only you get to see the word "oops" occasionally. Therein lies a problem.. there's a lot of money out there for kernel hackers (just ask any mobile phone company), but as a home user, you need a reason, or at least a goal to do it. Someone should release an open-hardware usb stick with an LED on it with a closed source driver. Your goal is to make the LED turn on. And NO, they shouldn't publish how to do it :-D
It's the wrong way round. The entertainment industry should fund my internet costs for all the shitty adverts they keep stuffing down my internet connection.
All of our servers build right up to being online automatically. In a cluster of more than 3, I'm happy to take one out of the load balancer for them to have a poke around at it. Even if they completely screw it up, I can have it back in its working state in 10 minutes, so it's really not a problem.
The database on the other hand... that contains difficult to replace customer data. I'm much more wary of that.
Then again, the author of the question should really be asking "have I done enough to recover from a catastrophe in a hurry?". If the system is a mess and can't auto-build itself, then a developer is bound to break it, and the sysadmin is partly to blame for not doing a complete job in the first place.
if someone wants the non-logo version, they have to contact you directly and demonstrate that they've read the license.
I read that as "in my cars". I'm bloody glad I read it again :-)
Give them some credit.. they've finally invented something which doesn't suck and it's not even a vacuum cleaner.
amateur... I use bowling balls!
There's plenty of access to American football here in blighty, since we invented it. We just prefer the 2 other versions of football which doesn't involve some fat fucks in armour kevlar armour calling themselves "athletes" whilst not being man enough for rugby, and we decided we didn't need commercial breaks or hotdogs every 15 minutes to presumably cope with the lower attention span.
Hope you enjoyed reading slashdot.. Bhumibol Adulyadej is a cunt. byeee!
Even the creators of the Ignobel prize admit that some of the science that they're making fun of may one day turn out to be useful. Pascal was trying to prove 1=0 and therefore (in his own logic) God is infallible.. he failed, but in the process came up with loads of really useful mathematics and some decent philosophy to boot. Boole did the same thing and gave us boolean logic. Off the top of my head, the same science could vaguely (I'm just using this as an abstract example) be applied to Barnes Wallace's famous bouncing bomb which allowed the British to prove they were capable of hitting back against the Germans at a point where the Russians had given up all hope on the Alliance.
I have a blackberry for sysadmin related on-call harassment from zabbix, and shiny as it is (I broke it last weekend at the downpour at download festival last weekend and it got waterlogged.. now I have a nice new one!), I don't see it as my property.. some employees use it as their main phone, but I have my own phone for private stuff, so getting a new object whose only purpose is to annoy the fuck out of me when I'm trying to relax and tell me LDAP isn't working isn't really an accolade. It's like being handed a pair of flight goggles by emperor Hirohito. It's plugged in to the office blackberry server which is in turn connected to an exchange server which I don't have control of. It would be foolish of me to send personal information on it.
Google outed this 2 days ago. So it's not Zero-day, is it.
No, this is headline news... "woman might like ipad if they existed"
"So find a drink, whip up some snacks, watch the shiny explosions, and listen to the soothing words of player experts as they walk you through the action!"
no.
You have a point, but I had to kick myself up the arse to get back to coding our next demo :-)
It's now nearly 3am and I'm sick of the sight of Windows so I booted into linux to relax. A good day's work has been done in spite of the cryptic error messages that MSVC gives (I nearly kicked my computer's head in at one point!). I'm now going to be a prick on facebook and watch the end of this film about the dunquerque evacuation (makes us brits proud!) before going to bed.
I'm currently procrastinating by reading slashdot when I should be working. Then again, I went online to look up SIMD instructions in visual studio, and I now have the information I need. Swings and roundabouts.
this is what's happening. The high street chains go to fashion shows, photograph all the designer stuff, then make their own and get sued by the designer labels.
That said, it needs to be more of a blatant copy than patenting "method and system for affixing non-functional buckle to shoe**".
Then again, most software patents wouldn't even include the "affixing" bit. They would just patent having a buckle in the first place.
** that would probably be more specific, but I know nothing about fashion.
in Europe, we have carbon trading. You can pollute as much as you like, but it will cost you.
Wait until you get a load of the dolphins I've been training as suicide bombers :-)
Sony hacked into thousands of people's computers with their DRM software. Apparently that's OK because they're big business and they were protecting sales or something.
No, it's not OK. Sony committed a worse crime than this bloke who just logged in to some computers using a default password. Sony deceptively installed a trojan on their customers' machines which impaired their function and made private information public. McKinnon didn't even publicly release his findings. By this logic, it's Sony who should be facing a gaol sentence.