If you're a large corporation using OSS code that's been abandoned, you're in a much better situation than if you were using someone else's proprietary code that's abandoned.
You hit the nail squarely on the head. Most software vendors do not have the resources or lifespan to maintain old titles or even previous revisions of current titles, so the customer is screwed when their vendor inevitably drops a product and moves on or becomes a nonentity or property of another company that has no interest in maintaining the product.
Open source software tends to fall into two categories - hobbyist projects and commercially viable projects. Hobbyist projects tend to fall out of development rather quickly, as the author hits a point where his project suits his needs. The commercially viable products have sponsorship from a foundation and/or are driven by corporate sponsored developers and tend to be actively developed and maintain several concurrent versions of the project to support users that cannot or do not want to alter their software configuration. These projects can do this more effectively because end users are able to provide a large chunk of the support and maintenance for legacy code through mailing lists, message boards, IRC, and end user contributed patches. Closed source proprietary titles cannot receive this kind of reciprocation by their very nature, and by doing so limit their ability to service the end user. There's simply no opportunity for the end user to become personally invested in the title, the user is simply dependent on company X to hire quality designers and programmers, maintain quality leadership, and stay alive in an industry plagued by executives that drive stock prices up and sell off their companies for a quick cash out.
Taken by itself, if Raiders or Star Wars had never been made, what do you think the worlds reaction to Temple of Doom would have been? or the Phantom Menace? they surely are not in the same league as the prior 2, but they are still great movies. Mee-sah thinkin' you be full o' dat bantha poo-doo, okie-day?
That being said, the Nazi deal just doesn't stick. He was basically forced into the Hitler Youth, and he ran away when they tried to enlist him in the army. Yes, while thousands of young people of the time, including Jehovah's Witnesses, gave their life or were forced into concentration camps for refusing to have anything to do with fascism. Now, I'm not a pope fan, nor even a fan of most religion, but this is an absurd remark. I find it in extremely poor taste to fault Ratzinger at age 14 in a highly subversive state because he (along with all German boys at that age) was put into the Hitler Youth; and then later adopted a spiritual life and became Pope. I'm sure you never faltered in your moral direction when you were an adolescent, right? Because, I mean, you're pretty much a functional, adjusted adult a year after you hit puberty, yes? With the extensive world experiences you've had by that age and all? And you probably had a firm grasp on the operations of your government, and could easily recognize subversion on the part of the state on yourself, your family, and friends, and have the willpower to turn your back on everyone around you. Yes, I'm sure you were a model of humanity at 14, and Ratzinger should have been easily up to the task, especially since I'm sure he had decided long before that he would aspire to the papal seat in his late adulthood.
First, let me acknowledge that the plural of anecdote is not data. However, others have already provided the statistics indicating that a gun in the home is overwhelmingly more likely to harm a family member than an intruder.
Caveats aside: my home has been broken into once. It was a drunk guy looking for the party next door. With this nuke-'em-from-orbit bullshit attitude, a couple of things might have happened: 1) there might have been a largely innocent dead guy fouling up the carpet or 2) there might have been a truly innocent family member spilling loosing bodily fluids to the carpet. With a more reasoned guns-do-kill-people attitude, we ended up in a situation where a) the cops were called, b) a drunk guy got a ride home or to a holding cell and c) we went back to bed. Note that in the real scenario, my father was not dead, I was not dead, my mother was not raped, and our money was not stolen.
Emptying a clip because you-have-more-firepower-than-him is pretty much guaranteed to end in tragedy. Insightful my ass.
well, you presume that I share the gp's "nuke-'em-from-orbit" attitude. In fact I don't have that attitude. In your situation, you used good judgment and called the police; as you said, the only interest the guy had was getting to a party. I would have done the same thing you did. But like you said, the plural of anecdote is not data. There are people out there that have the intent of entering another person's home to deprive them of their life or property, or to victimize them in another manner. There is no other reason to purposefully enter another person's home. And ultimately, though your life, liberty, and property may be granted to you by your government and there are punishments for those who would deprive you of them, it is still your charge to protect them. No one else will do it for you. If you are resolved not to care enough to try, then there are those in this world that will appreciate your complacency. That's all I'm saying.
I dunno....I like to drop about 200-300 rounds every couple of weekends. I'm fairly proficient.
Shooting at paper targets is a lot different from shooting at live human beings while amped up on adrenaline in a low light situation such as your home.
If someone is in my house....I pretty much guarantee I have much more firepower than they do...and I'm not even starting to ask for names till I've emptied a few clips.
And then you find out that your your son/daughter/wife took a round or two from the "few clips" you just emptied.
That aside, you are aware that bullets will go through drywall like hot knives through butter, aren't you? Guess what - you probably just wounded or killed one of your neighbours too. Now you've exposed yourself to ruinous civil liability as well as to a long, long stretch in the cooler with a cellie named Bubba who has a thing for 5'6" skinny computer geekboys. You know, I suppose you're right. You're so much better off if you just let the intruders kill you and your kids, rape your wife, take your money, and then be free to do it again at their leisure. That's a much better scenario.
Profit is profit is profit is profit, so why would they not take the opportunity to have an overpriced blueray disc player accessory for the 360? Doesn't seem like sensible business practices to me. Because Microsoft does not actively seek profit. Microsoft actively seeks indomitable control of markets, a side effect of which is profit.
I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of "unauthorized software" are things like chat clients, media players, RSS/Weather update notifiers, games and software for personal devices (iTunes etc). Or operating systems. Technically, the only authorized OS for my two workstations is Windows XP, but I develop web apps and supporting infrastructure that is deployed on Linux servers, so my two workstations run FreeBSD and Gentoo. If I were to run only "authorized" (read: Microsoft Licensed) software, I'd be unable to get the job done. I'd spend all my time futzing with notepad, recovering from ftp and telnet security holes, and in general pulling my hair out to get any work done. As it is, I have a flexible, secure, and rational work environment because it was dictated by my needs rather than the whimsy of a pointy-haired boss.
Frankly, I am surprized one of those guys/gals doesn't pull a gun and go postal. I think the government pension system deters most TSA employees from seeking employment in the postal system, and even so I hope you don't think that bringing a gun to an interview is an acceptable substitute for submitting a well written resume.
Does FreeBSD have a pre-emptable kernel? One of the things Linux has really focused on lately is desktop interactive performance, so there may be performance tradeoffs vs. a kernel which can't pre-empt itself. Yes. The FreeBSD kernel has preemption options to enable preemption. The distributed generic kernels have it enabled.
While I believe you quite rightly attained your +Insightful mod, I couldn't even start to tell you what my disk geometry is, and I'm running openSUSE, XP and (sorry) Vista on the same HDD, partitioned through Linux fdisk after XP had the whole disk, and Vista was the last thing on there. Messing around with partitions is not hard, but never have I been asked to delve into things that the BIOS presents and are ignored only to be faced with a utility querying the HDD itself and be asked if the returned information is true.
I'm not ignorant, stupid, unable to find out how to do things (except work out why this 2.6.22-17 kernel that I rolled myself with all the right things in refuses to accept my high quality 80 wire cables) when they need doing, but for serious, how is it that I have never been asked things like that under Linux?
Why is the BSD automatic detection routine so unsure of itself that it asks if you want to override it? Read this: http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net/freebsd/disk_geometry.html
It may hold the answers that you seek.
I don't know the current state of this issue, but I suspect it has been resolved. Suffice it to say that my FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE system is happily chugging along on a 160G disk and has never complained about geometry.
Hmm. The time I tried to install FreeBSD, the installer choked on my hardware. I tried two different dell desktops. Part of the problem was an inability to deal with a USB keyboard. I hope that has been fixed, and I plan to try FreeBSD again, some day. I'll stick with a more common OS, for now. FWIW, there's something about Dells and USB keyboards and the FreeBSD single user mode. I'm not sure exactly what the problem is (or I'd contribute my own fix), but a workaround is to go to the loader prompt on boot (option 6 I think) and enter 'set hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1"'m then 'boot'. This will bump the AT keyboard out of the way and allow the USB keyboard to function. You'll either need to set this in your/boot/device.hints after installation or remember to do it whenever you boot into single user mode.
I don't want to have to figure out disk geometry to install an OS...have they made it as easy as Ubuntu?
I'd gladly give it a go. Let me fix that for you.
I don't want to have to figure out something worthwhile to say...it's not my favoritest Linux so I'll just discredit it.
I refuse to willingly evaluate it without preconceived prejudice.
That was kinda funny. Not very, but kinda. It doesn't fit the beat of last line, so you can't sing it!
I'm an OSU student. I'm an OSU Alumnus.
There are warnings in the enrollment/residential life/computer agreements that you are being monitored on campus. That doesn't make this right. Monitoring is different from facilitating legal suits. I didn't pay my taxes and tuition to that school so that it would use that money to help the RIAA sue students. I paid that money so that I and other students could get an education. I could care less if people are pirating music. I'm tired of seeing the RIAA pressure universities into caving in and giving up poor college kids to be indiscriminately targeted with ruinous law suits.
What really sucks is that if you live in China you could complain to your government that the big old sky eye was watching you and they might decide to shoot it down. In America about all you can do is stay indoors all the time, or maybe erect a big tent over your property,
I'm opting for a boater with "Fuck Off" in bold on the crown.
Cowed to court order, We'll curse your name;
Oklahoma State, We hold you to blame.
RIAA will find us-and we'll be sued.
Thanks to our Alma Mater, O...S...U.
Your looking for this for your SSH logs: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ It will automatically detect and block the attackers and optionally add them to a gobal block list. It's really more effective, in my opinion, to simply disable interactive logins altogether and use DSA key authentication. Brute force login attempts become a negligible threat, since attackers are not trying to spoof dsa private keys and even if they did the sheer number of possible dsa keys combined with the number of possible user names makes the chance of a successful breakin very very slim. Using denyhosts requires that the botted cracker machines out there be given a good chance to brute force their way in before they can be added to the list, so even though you can block some hosts you know are trying to get in, you can't preempt future attackers and the vulnerability is still there.
Your college degree in engineering does not mean that you automatically provide valuable engineering services to a company.
I wish I had points for you. These days every kid out of high school seems to be shuffling off to college with mom and dad's credit card to get a business management or marketing degree, boozing it up on thursday nights and missing tests on friday mornings, with every expectation that when they finally get through their 4 years of drunken stupor they will emerge into a world that wants to throw money at them for being so highly educated and accustomed to privilege. In reality, however, the degree itself is usually in and of itself simply a free pass to the interview, not an indication of ability.
At least the disc it comes on is pretty and shiny. Unless it came preinstalled on your computer, in which case, you probably don't have a disc, so, errmmm...scratch that. I think your conditional is backwards, let me correct it:
At least the disc it comes on is pretty and shiny, so, errmmm...scratch that. Unless it came preinstalled on your computer, in which case, you probably don't have a disc.
You can come up with any number of numerological associations for any event. Seriously. Try it some time. Pick any event, and you can come up with a dozen, if you try.
Interesting that of all the numbers you could have mentioned, you just happened to pick dozen: the number of eggs that are most often sold together. This suggests you are a chicken farmer. Your uid is another clue: 853723. 8+5+3+7+2+3=28. 28 % 12 = 4, which happens to be your comment's score at the time I type this. 853723 %12 = 7. You bring your eggs to market every week.
Look at all I have learned about you. And you think numerology doesn't work.
You forgot the most obvious - 853723: 8 + 5 + 3 + 7 = 23. This chicken farmer has a name: Topsy Kretts. Watch out!
I wrote a bunch of VBA many years ago (hey, I was young and needed the money:P), You should have been a hooker. It would have done less damage to your soul and self-respect.:)
In either case, the parent poster should be considered a carrier of disease and you should not engage in sexual contact or shared needle drug use with him.
And wash your hands with warm, soapy water after reading his posts.
Americans are no saints when it comes to butchering foreign words but the British are the worst offenders with their silly jag-you-ares and sam-you-rais and various other rubbish prononounciations.
And they're always parking their "al-you-mini-um" fabricated cars in the "gair-raj" too.
This is offtopic I know I know... But why on earth do people call their Porsche PorSha? I never understood this.
If you say the word Porsche in English the e is silent. And since I speak fluent German the e at the end is not an Sha, it is more like the e in wet or like the e in Good Day, eh. What I am wondering is how the e turned into a?
The same way "Danke schön" became "Donkah shane", Frankenstein became "Frankensteen", and "Weimaraner" became "Whymeriner", Americans love above all else to butcher a language. And that ain't irregardless of nobody y'all.
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package test;
public class paulaBean {
private String paula = "Brillant";
public String getPaula() {
return paula;
}
}
I rest my case.
(http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Brillant_Paula_Bean.aspx)
You hit the nail squarely on the head. Most software vendors do not have the resources or lifespan to maintain old titles or even previous revisions of current titles, so the customer is screwed when their vendor inevitably drops a product and moves on or becomes a nonentity or property of another company that has no interest in maintaining the product.
Open source software tends to fall into two categories - hobbyist projects and commercially viable projects. Hobbyist projects tend to fall out of development rather quickly, as the author hits a point where his project suits his needs. The commercially viable products have sponsorship from a foundation and/or are driven by corporate sponsored developers and tend to be actively developed and maintain several concurrent versions of the project to support users that cannot or do not want to alter their software configuration. These projects can do this more effectively because end users are able to provide a large chunk of the support and maintenance for legacy code through mailing lists, message boards, IRC, and end user contributed patches. Closed source proprietary titles cannot receive this kind of reciprocation by their very nature, and by doing so limit their ability to service the end user. There's simply no opportunity for the end user to become personally invested in the title, the user is simply dependent on company X to hire quality designers and programmers, maintain quality leadership, and stay alive in an industry plagued by executives that drive stock prices up and sell off their companies for a quick cash out.
ERROR: No mod points in account. Abort, Rety, Fail? _
First, let me acknowledge that the plural of anecdote is not data. However, others have already provided the statistics indicating that a gun in the home is overwhelmingly more likely to harm a family member than an intruder.
Caveats aside: my home has been broken into once. It was a drunk guy looking for the party next door. With this nuke-'em-from-orbit bullshit attitude, a couple of things might have happened: 1) there might have been a largely innocent dead guy fouling up the carpet or 2) there might have been a truly innocent family member spilling loosing bodily fluids to the carpet. With a more reasoned guns-do-kill-people attitude, we ended up in a situation where a) the cops were called, b) a drunk guy got a ride home or to a holding cell and c) we went back to bed. Note that in the real scenario, my father was not dead, I was not dead, my mother was not raped, and our money was not stolen.
Emptying a clip because you-have-more-firepower-than-him is pretty much guaranteed to end in tragedy. Insightful my ass.
well, you presume that I share the gp's "nuke-'em-from-orbit" attitude. In fact I don't have that attitude. In your situation, you used good judgment and called the police; as you said, the only interest the guy had was getting to a party. I would have done the same thing you did. But like you said, the plural of anecdote is not data. There are people out there that have the intent of entering another person's home to deprive them of their life or property, or to victimize them in another manner. There is no other reason to purposefully enter another person's home. And ultimately, though your life, liberty, and property may be granted to you by your government and there are punishments for those who would deprive you of them, it is still your charge to protect them. No one else will do it for you. If you are resolved not to care enough to try, then there are those in this world that will appreciate your complacency. That's all I'm saying.Or operating systems. Technically, the only authorized OS for my two workstations is Windows XP, but I develop web apps and supporting infrastructure that is deployed on Linux servers, so my two workstations run FreeBSD and Gentoo. If I were to run only "authorized" (read: Microsoft Licensed) software, I'd be unable to get the job done. I'd spend all my time futzing with notepad, recovering from ftp and telnet security holes, and in general pulling my hair out to get any work done. As it is, I have a flexible, secure, and rational work environment because it was dictated by my needs rather than the whimsy of a pointy-haired boss.
I'm not ignorant, stupid, unable to find out how to do things (except work out why this 2.6.22-17 kernel that I rolled myself with all the right things in refuses to accept my high quality 80 wire cables) when they need doing, but for serious, how is it that I have never been asked things like that under Linux?
Why is the BSD automatic detection routine so unsure of itself that it asks if you want to override it? Read this: http://myfreebsd.homeunix.net/freebsd/disk_geometry.html
It may hold the answers that you seek.
I don't know the current state of this issue, but I suspect it has been resolved. Suffice it to say that my FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE system is happily chugging along on a 160G disk and has never complained about geometry.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100%
linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%
I'd gladly give it a go. Let me fix that for you. I don't want to have to figure out something worthwhile to say...it's not my favoritest Linux so I'll just discredit it.
I refuse to willingly evaluate it without preconceived prejudice.
I'm an OSU student.
I'm an OSU Alumnus. There are warnings in the enrollment/residential life/computer agreements that you are being monitored on campus. That doesn't make this right. Monitoring is different from facilitating legal suits. I didn't pay my taxes and tuition to that school so that it would use that money to help the RIAA sue students. I paid that money so that I and other students could get an education. I could care less if people are pirating music. I'm tired of seeing the RIAA pressure universities into caving in and giving up poor college kids to be indiscriminately targeted with ruinous law suits.
I'm opting for a boater with "Fuck Off" in bold on the crown.
D'oh!
Cowed to court order, We'll curse your name;
Oklahoma State, We hold you to blame.
RIAA will find us-and we'll be sued.
Thanks to our Alma Mater, O...S...U.
It will automatically detect and block the attackers and optionally add them to a gobal block list. It's really more effective, in my opinion, to simply disable interactive logins altogether and use DSA key authentication. Brute force login attempts become a negligible threat, since attackers are not trying to spoof dsa private keys and even if they did the sheer number of possible dsa keys combined with the number of possible user names makes the chance of a successful breakin very very slim. Using denyhosts requires that the botted cracker machines out there be given a good chance to brute force their way in before they can be added to the list, so even though you can block some hosts you know are trying to get in, you can't preempt future attackers and the vulnerability is still there.
I wish I had points for you. These days every kid out of high school seems to be shuffling off to college with mom and dad's credit card to get a business management or marketing degree, boozing it up on thursday nights and missing tests on friday mornings, with every expectation that when they finally get through their 4 years of drunken stupor they will emerge into a world that wants to throw money at them for being so highly educated and accustomed to privilege. In reality, however, the degree itself is usually in and of itself simply a free pass to the interview, not an indication of ability.
I think your conditional is backwards, let me correct it: At least the disc it comes on is pretty and shiny, so, errmmm...scratch that. Unless it came preinstalled on your computer, in which case, you probably don't have a disc.
Interesting that of all the numbers you could have mentioned, you just happened to pick dozen: the number of eggs that are most often sold together. This suggests you are a chicken farmer. Your uid is another clue: 853723. 8+5+3+7+2+3=28. 28 % 12 = 4, which happens to be your comment's score at the time I type this. 853723 %12 = 7. You bring your eggs to market every week.
Look at all I have learned about you. And you think numerology doesn't work.
You forgot the most obvious - 853723: 8 + 5 + 3 + 7 = 23. This chicken farmer has a name: Topsy Kretts. Watch out!
In either case, the parent poster should be considered a carrier of disease and you should not engage in sexual contact or shared needle drug use with him.
And wash your hands with warm, soapy water after reading his posts.
And they're always parking their "al-you-mini-um" fabricated cars in the "gair-raj" too.
If you say the word Porsche in English the e is silent. And since I speak fluent German the e at the end is not an Sha, it is more like the e in wet or like the e in Good Day, eh. What I am wondering is how the e turned into a?
The same way "Danke schön" became "Donkah shane", Frankenstein became "Frankensteen", and "Weimaraner" became "Whymeriner", Americans love above all else to butcher a language. And that ain't irregardless of nobody y'all.