Lets hope not, but it concerns me that we see people leaving their day job for a hobby - I've seen other people burn out doing that.
Its not just programing, I know a photographer who says the stupidist thing he ever did was become a pro, he enjoyed it was a hobby, but to HAVE to do the hobby to put food on the table. Suddenly it wasn't fun.
I could go on, but I think you get the point. I don't want to see devolpers of great software burning out.
Pc Power and CoolingIs where I get all my fans and power supplies now. I've had too many porblems with poor quality fans. FreeBSD is ultra reliable now that my processors have the required cooling.
Sure they are a little nosiy, but better then a little hot. I got ear plugs anyway.
There was an IPv5. Two if I remember correctly (which is part of the problem), but it/they was/were never designed for wide scale use. They solve some problem that most of us will never encounter, but you can find the RFCs for them.
The elderly probably don't have the reaction time (or inclination) to play doom or quake, but some good games can really ease the learning curve of whatever you do. It is no accident that Microsoft always has solitary in windows. Almost everyone knows the rules (and several varations so that they know to figgure out if the 10 of hearts goes on the jack of hearts or a jack of clubs/spades) Once they start playing the mouse becomes second nature, and no long teaching was needed.
Blackjack, solitary, skat, sheephead (my grandpa's favorite), cribbage and more all fit for card games. After they have done a few of those introduce them to a few adventure games.
I've known a couple people without college educations (at least not in law) who have taken the bar, and are now lawyers in some specific area. I've considered doing that myself.
They all warn that the BAR is not an easy test, but if you spend time at your local library you can probably pass it. Where time is measured in months.
Anyone know more about this? Anyone done it? I've accually only heard this third hand, and one guy who was half way through his studies to take it.
I don't know if anyone ever reached it, but in kernel version 1.2.x and before there was a roll over at about 490 days. Linus said back then that he'd get around to fixing it if anyone accually complained about the limit. (Yes this disscussion has come up before)
AFAIK the limit was fixed in the 1.3.x series, about 1.3.60 if I remember right. I think someone else was buged by the theroetical limit and fixed it.
Maybe you have just had bad luck. I have had my Qualcomm phone for a year, and know of 10 other people who have had thiers for a while, and no problems. Admitiadly a small sample, but enough that if the quality was horrid I'd expect at least one to be bad.
Although I'm sure those who run airlines love to charge you for their expensive phones, making you turn off the cell phone in a plane is not extortion. When you talk on a phone in one cell, generally the next cell can't use that frequency since your signal travels enough to confuse ligitiment signals. No big deal, the second cell can use it no problem.
In an airplane, the power to get to any tower is about the same to get to many. Cell phones can talk to a tower 6 miles away on the ground. An airplane at 6 miles up is flying higher then normal. (AFAIK only the concord regularrly flys that high or higher though other planes can reach that high) At 30,000 feet your cell phone is blocking calls for many towers. Now add in everyone on the plane, and a few other planes well seperated, and you have blocked all cell phone useagee on the ground.
There are some problems. Most camcorders are not high quality. Good enough for video where you won't notice a byte being off a little, but fatal to a comptuer when some of the bytes are off.
You may get 40 gig of movie, but I'd be surprized if you can get more then 10 gig of data and still have a chance of recovering it.
Your arguements ahve nothing to do with this book. You are looking at what you think this book says, what the mac is, and assume that the mac is the end all of human factors.
Not so. A large part of user interface design is speeding up the expert. There are people who count the milliseconds it takes to complete a task.
Sure, as an expert Unix is more productive then windows could be (if you were an expert in windows instead). Windows assumes some things that are not true for you, but are for most people. When playing a game windows is the wrong way to go, which is why most games bypass windows for a single full screen task.
Your transmission arguement is a recignised part of human factors. AT&T spends a lot of money building a system that only expert operators can use, and then a lot of money training operators to beocme experts. They are not stuipd, they know that the expert only system will in the end save them money as the expert operators need less time to do their job, meaning they can help more people faster. This system that AT&T has designed is considered one of the triumphs of user interface design.
proper user interface design requires the goals be set in stone. In AT&Ts case speed was the number one goal, in the macs case they can sacrafice a little speed once in a while. However Bruce Tognisky in TOG on Interface reports that for some operations users who used the keyboard shortcuts said they got the job done faster, but the stop watch said otherwise! This is regaurds a few very specific situations, and can't be generalized to everything. The point can though: Often while you think you are productive you are less productive, you just feel like you are working. Step back and examine your habbits objectivly, is Unix more productive or does it just seem that way because you have to think about the way to do things as opposed to the mac where you mearly had to move the mouse to the right position.
One friday night a friend and I sat down with a mac boot floppy and reverse engineered it. (If you have never done something like this you are not a true geek and should get off of/. IMHO
We sat down with a hex editor motorola's 68000 book. After a while I could recignise a mov command and where it was moving to/from just by the hex value.
I remember clearly that it set up a few registers, and then did a JSR to something in rom, then a few more registers and anouther JSR, and then a few more things. We decided to test our work out by modifying things just a little. (I think we put a yellow square on the screen) IT DIDN'T WORK! after much futher analysis we discovered that the first JSR never returned on that machine. It seems that on some other macs there were ROM bugs that the boot disk would fix, and the resgiers the first JSR had set up was just enough to tell the ROMs if they needed to be patched or not.
Overall this was fun, but it took us 6 hours to deal with a 512 byte sector. We didn't work with the ROMs at all (we are just guessing what happened in the non-returning JSR case above because analysis revelaed that the rest of the secotor set things up to disable rom, and write a couple fixes to obviously ROM loactions, now copied to ram so it was writeable)
Granted that Wine is still alpha, but even still, winLinux should package Wine, and setup the KDE menu with all windows programs (Unless a kde equivelent exists, and the windows version doesn't work). This way a user goes into linux, and still can run all programs
PS, for a real challange, see if you can parse windows data structures enough that you can take a program running under Windows, start winlinux, and have it show up under Wine when the first user logs into linux! (This is theoritically possibal, but practially a real mess that due to changing fixes/versions of windows probably cannot be done reliabally)
Hard to say. I didn't read the artical, so I don't know how far away it is, but since the nearest star is 8 (10? lets call it 8) light years away. If we assume that the universe ends (and mirror starts) at say 25 light years, we already know that the russions did not have a space station up 25 years ago. If the curve is farther away, you might be able to obserbe dinasors in their nateral habitat. If only our telescopes are that powerful - I understand that in theory they cannot be that powerful.
If you had extensive physics (any freshman college course for example) you would know that heavy objects do in fact fall faster in a vacuum. (In air you get into wind resestance trouble) However the other variables overshadow this for any object you could reasonably test. (on earth those variables are more or less constant, except for the difference in mass. But objects smaller than say the moon tend to be the same mass for all practical purposes)
Seems obvious, but if your live in europe and just want to export to the US, what I have to say will not apply. Therefore, assuming you live in the US:
You can sell to anyone in the US, assuming you make a token effort to assure it will not be exported by them. That is you can place your product on the shelves of your local compUsa (if you can get them to stock it) with just a minor legal disclaimer.
If you want to sell internationaly: forget it. It can be done, the company I work for has been exporting 128 bit IDEA for years (1994 at least), but we have a large export deparment dealing with this. We have to prove to the US goverment that the organization we are shiping to won't use it for anything bad. Foreign banks have a general US exception to encryption export laws (which is why we are able to ship strong encryption to them) but that only means the goverment cannot reject you outrigt for proposing to ship strong encryption to a bank.
How many sales do you intend to get? You can hire encryption experts overseas, give them yoru source code (without encryption hooks) have them add the encryption and hooks, and then import that to the US and sell to the Us, while they sell to everyone else. This however is easier said then done. Sun attempted it, and failed to satisfiy the law for reasons I don't understand. If you have lots of money and good lawyers you can use this loophole.
I love hardcover books. However they are more expensive, so I don't want to spend that much money on things I will rarely use
I normally buy the softcover first (unless I can get a good deal on hardcover - I always watch bargan books), but most publishers stop printing hardcover after doing the soft version.
I have a couple books at home that I'm on the thrid copy of (Dragonsong by Anne Mccaffery comes to mind, published in 1976 as I recall), I'd pay for a hardcover printing. Some authors I've learned are worth the risk and I buy the hardcover as soon as it comes out, but most are hit and miss.
O'Rielie is a hit and miss thing. Not that the books are medioker, but that not all are useful that often. Java in a Nutshell (what I was doing java) was indispensiable by my desk and worth hardcover. Portability with imake was useful, but not enough (TO ME!) that it would be worth it.
Maybe they should take the popular books, and accept pre-orders for hardcover, any that get enough are printed in hardcover. (Note that the bat book is of limited use, but I suspect those who need it would buy hardcover because they need it that often)
If you put any encryption on the internet and you are a US citician be prepared to prove to the goverment that when it got out it wasn't your doing. I'd suggest asking whoever currently has forms for distributing pgp (mit I think as them) to distribute your app.
It is illegal to even have function calls that someone can replave to add encryption. That is you can't make it obvious where your encryption fit, and distribute it without encryption.
One way to get around the above: external filters, and give an example filter of how you can prevent job blow from loging in unless finger is enabled on his system. (a stupid filter, but it is only an example for someone who wants to filter. That an intellegent person could write encryption there is none of your buisness, that isn't the intended use. Show that your US source code uses different calls (which are not in theinternational version) to do encryption.
Or you can do what pgp did: publish a book with your course code and how it works. call it something like "Implmenting encryption in your programs" which contains the entire code in an appendix. The Us supreme court has held that your book is now protected speech and can be exported. There are fonts easially comptuer readable that are good for the srouce code secion. (Make sure that you have many comments so that you can argue in court that this is educational)
There are differences, but you get used to that. I'm already in the habbit of typing "ps -aef;ps -aux;ps -ae;ps -ex;ps -ax;ps -a" of which normally only one returns what I was looking for. (Challange, guess which variant eash is used on - trick question, I may have one made up)
Other than command line arguements, of which ps is about the worst few people will be able to tell the difference without being told. That is if you replcaed the login screen on any xbsd box with one that said Linux few people would notice the difference.
I like the way freeBSD is configured, but I've only played with slackware 3.0 for linux, which is not a fair comparition.
As a programer, I think that *BSD is better programed overall. This is not to say that *BSD is perfect, or that Linux is all bad, there are places where linux is better programed. Overall though from what I've seen the majority of cases leaves *BSD better. One aspect of better is that BSD encourages programers to think through what they are doing while linux is more of a quick hack. That is Linux is more release quickly and often where as BSD is get it right, then release. The only advantage is if it is wrong BSD makes it easier to throw away that code as it isn't released.
FreeBSD has better networking code, though linux has cought up for the most part. Linux has better SMP, but FreeBSD is catching up. OpenBSD is more secure, netBSD is more portable. (Linux has been ported alot, but netBSD has more useful working ports, while many linux ports belong in the curisoity catagory due to the hardware limits)
Finially, BSD is not GNU. This is religion for many people, but the fact it I don't like the GNU license. Your welcome to disagree, I don't worship the BSD license, just prefer it given a choice
but elementary human mating rituals can be as bewildering to your average geek as sendmail.cf is to a non-geek - often it's just not apparent where to start.
Yeah, I know where to find the bat book if I ever need it. OReilly and Associates doesn't publish a dating manual and I don't trust anyone else to help me with something as finding a potential Mate. You understand of course that the concequenses of being wrong are horrid. Thus I'm single and dateless at 25. Don't want to be that way, but I don't know many girls I accually would consider if I wasn't a geek.
A machine with no display doesn't need a x server as there is no display to serve to programs. Most people get confused about this terminologiy at first (it does seem backwords) but after you look at it closely it make sense, and you soon realise the other way while more obvious is wrong.
Maybe you don't need to send your graphics over the network, but I do, and I need it often. Here at work for instance every one of us requires a top of the line Sparc machine for some graphics tasks, but we only need them for a few hours a week. I got a sparc on my desk, 8 other people use X to access my machine when they need the cycles. Since they are already on my machine often, they do the rest of their work on it too, allowing them to have cheaper machines on their desk. (unless they are doing this CPU intensive activity they never put much load on the machine, there is plenty of power, and we are not wasting an expensive machine on one each desk)
You seem to be stuck in a home enviroment with one high power comptuer to person. It appears you want to play games [a guess, there is noting otherwise to indicate that]. If that is your situation, X leaves a lot to be desired, it is slow. It isn't my situation though, I have one high powered machine at home, and many low powered machines.
BTW, most X servers support not sending graphics through the network when the display is local, this capability should be enchanced and taken advantage of by games.
Others have pointed this out, but I don't think everyone will get the difference even through they are right, so here is my attempt, dumbed down a bit for the less technical.
Imangine for a moment that I capture Rob (cmdTaco ie founder of/.) and tortue him until he gives me the root password on the main/. server. I now have a seceret, and I can get into/., but I do not have enough information to get into User Friendly Even though(if) both run the same version on linux.
Not imangine that I capture an enginerr from Microsoft and torture him until I get a previously unknown security hole in Windows NT. I can now break into any NT server in the world, (assuming the reqrisites for the hole are in place, obviously a system in a locked room not attached to a netwrok is safe)
See the difference? In one area the terriorist got the ability to break into one machine, in the other the terriorist got the ability to break into virtually any machine.
Now It is possibal that some bug exists in Linux that will allow anyone to get into it. With linux, once I discover how someone got into my machine I can fix it, with NT I have to wait for microsoft. So in reality what makes open source better in the face of attack is that I can fix it in a few hours whereas with STO I have to wait for a vender to fix it. If I'm a minor player and nobody else is attacking me, with STO my vender can leave me in the lurch, whereas with open source I can fix it myself.
I went to college with someone from New England (some town he never named) who explained who it works in their town which is a demoracy:
for the large majority of town meetings 10 old men (women are allowed, but appearently don't attend) show up and decide how to run the town. These people are responsiable to nobody, are not elected, but they have power to set taxes.
The some students decided they wanted a new track. They printed up flyers, raised interest about their parents and friends parents. On a set night most of the town decended on the meeting, with one issue: voting for a new track. They had no interest in any other issues up for vote. They had no interest in how to get the money to pay for this track. They simply went along with everyone else to vote for a new track, and went home.
The next meeting the 10-15 old men who ran the town sat alone in that room, went overthe budget and decided that since there wasn't money to pay for it (of course the most expensive track was approved) they would have to raise taxes.
Then all the towns folks started complaining about how taxes went up, not realising they were the problem. It only takes a few issues like this before the irresposibility of the people overwhelms the ability of a demoracy to work. Remember, not everyone cares as much as you or I might. MN had the highest voter turnout of any state in the US last year, and 40% of the voters didn't bother to vote! (probably more then 40%.) If I recall correctly, in one state 70% of the voters didn't vote.
Until a large majority of the population keeps themselves informed and bothers to vote on all issues there is not point. At least with representatives there is some control, more then there is over those self selected 10 old men.
Err, no that is not the defination of average. Look it up.
If one person have an IQ of 400 that would allow 8 to have an IQ of 50 and still have the average iq be 100. (note, this isn't the definition of iq)
You have obviously confused median, mode and average. Sometimes all are the same, but in the sample I gave the average is 100, the median is 225, and the mode is 50. (There might be something wrong with my median calculation, it has been a while since I've worked with it. You'll soon see the flames if so.)
This paints McDonalds as money hungry for the extra cents from the coffee savings. However the cost of heating the water hotter will make up for the cents saved. In truth, there were customers who complained about the decreased tempature when my local mcDonalds lowered teh tempature. We ended up raisng the tempature (not as hot as it was, but the hottest that anyone could call normal, which didn't satisfy all customers)
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Lets hope not, but it concerns me that we see people leaving their day job for a hobby - I've seen other people burn out doing that.
Its not just programing, I know a photographer who says the stupidist thing he ever did was become a pro, he enjoyed it was a hobby, but to HAVE to do the hobby to put food on the table. Suddenly it wasn't fun.
I could go on, but I think you get the point. I don't want to see devolpers of great software burning out.
Pc Power and CoolingIs where I get all my fans and power supplies now. I've had too many porblems with poor quality fans. FreeBSD is ultra reliable now that my processors have the required cooling.
Sure they are a little nosiy, but better then a little hot. I got ear plugs anyway.
There was an IPv5. Two if I remember correctly (which is part of the problem), but it/they was/were never designed for wide scale use. They solve some problem that most of us will never encounter, but you can find the RFCs for them.
The elderly probably don't have the reaction time (or inclination) to play doom or quake, but some good games can really ease the learning curve of whatever you do. It is no accident that Microsoft always has solitary in windows. Almost everyone knows the rules (and several varations so that they know to figgure out if the 10 of hearts goes on the jack of hearts or a jack of clubs/spades) Once they start playing the mouse becomes second nature, and no long teaching was needed.
Blackjack, solitary, skat, sheephead (my grandpa's favorite), cribbage and more all fit for card games. After they have done a few of those introduce them to a few adventure games.
I've known a couple people without college educations (at least not in law) who have taken the bar, and are now lawyers in some specific area. I've considered doing that myself.
They all warn that the BAR is not an easy test, but if you spend time at your local library you can probably pass it. Where time is measured in months.
Anyone know more about this? Anyone done it? I've accually only heard this third hand, and one guy who was half way through his studies to take it.
I don't know if anyone ever reached it, but in kernel version 1.2.x and before there was a roll over at about 490 days. Linus said back then that he'd get around to fixing it if anyone accually complained about the limit. (Yes this disscussion has come up before)
AFAIK the limit was fixed in the 1.3.x series, about 1.3.60 if I remember right. I think someone else was buged by the theroetical limit and fixed it.
Maybe you have just had bad luck. I have had my Qualcomm phone for a year, and know of 10 other people who have had thiers for a while, and no problems. Admitiadly a small sample, but enough that if the quality was horrid I'd expect at least one to be bad.
Although I'm sure those who run airlines love to charge you for their expensive phones, making you turn off the cell phone in a plane is not extortion. When you talk on a phone in one cell, generally the next cell can't use that frequency since your signal travels enough to confuse ligitiment signals. No big deal, the second cell can use it no problem.
In an airplane, the power to get to any tower is about the same to get to many. Cell phones can talk to a tower 6 miles away on the ground. An airplane at 6 miles up is flying higher then normal. (AFAIK only the concord regularrly flys that high or higher though other planes can reach that high) At 30,000 feet your cell phone is blocking calls for many towers. Now add in everyone on the plane, and a few other planes well seperated, and you have blocked all cell phone useagee on the ground.
There are some problems. Most camcorders are not high quality. Good enough for video where you won't notice a byte being off a little, but fatal to a comptuer when some of the bytes are off.
You may get 40 gig of movie, but I'd be surprized if you can get more then 10 gig of data and still have a chance of recovering it.
Your arguements ahve nothing to do with this book. You are looking at what you think this book says, what the mac is, and assume that the mac is the end all of human factors.
Not so. A large part of user interface design is speeding up the expert. There are people who count the milliseconds it takes to complete a task.
Sure, as an expert Unix is more productive then windows could be (if you were an expert in windows instead). Windows assumes some things that are not true for you, but are for most people. When playing a game windows is the wrong way to go, which is why most games bypass windows for a single full screen task.
Your transmission arguement is a recignised part of human factors. AT&T spends a lot of money building a system that only expert operators can use, and then a lot of money training operators to beocme experts. They are not stuipd, they know that the expert only system will in the end save them money as the expert operators need less time to do their job, meaning they can help more people faster. This system that AT&T has designed is considered one of the triumphs of user interface design.
proper user interface design requires the goals be set in stone. In AT&Ts case speed was the number one goal, in the macs case they can sacrafice a little speed once in a while. However Bruce Tognisky in TOG on Interface reports that for some operations users who used the keyboard shortcuts said they got the job done faster, but the stop watch said otherwise! This is regaurds a few very specific situations, and can't be generalized to everything. The point can though: Often while you think you are productive you are less productive, you just feel like you are working. Step back and examine your habbits objectivly, is Unix more productive or does it just seem that way because you have to think about the way to do things as opposed to the mac where you mearly had to move the mouse to the right position.
One friday night a friend and I sat down with a mac boot floppy and reverse engineered it. (If you have never done something like this you are not a true geek and should get off of /. IMHO
We sat down with a hex editor motorola's 68000 book. After a while I could recignise a mov command and where it was moving to/from just by the hex value.
I remember clearly that it set up a few registers, and then did a JSR to something in rom, then a few more registers and anouther JSR, and then a few more things. We decided to test our work out by modifying things just a little. (I think we put a yellow square on the screen) IT DIDN'T WORK! after much futher analysis we discovered that the first JSR never returned on that machine. It seems that on some other macs there were ROM bugs that the boot disk would fix, and the resgiers the first JSR had set up was just enough to tell the ROMs if they needed to be patched or not.
Overall this was fun, but it took us 6 hours to deal with a 512 byte sector. We didn't work with the ROMs at all (we are just guessing what happened in the non-returning JSR case above because analysis revelaed that the rest of the secotor set things up to disable rom, and write a couple fixes to obviously ROM loactions, now copied to ram so it was writeable)
Granted that Wine is still alpha, but even still, winLinux should package Wine, and setup the KDE menu with all windows programs (Unless a kde equivelent exists, and the windows version doesn't work). This way a user goes into linux, and still can run all programs
PS, for a real challange, see if you can parse windows data structures enough that you can take a program running under Windows, start winlinux, and have it show up under Wine when the first user logs into linux! (This is theoritically possibal, but practially a real mess that due to changing fixes/versions of windows probably cannot be done reliabally)
Hard to say. I didn't read the artical, so I don't know how far away it is, but since the nearest star is 8 (10? lets call it 8) light years away. If we assume that the universe ends (and mirror starts) at say 25 light years, we already know that the russions did not have a space station up 25 years ago. If the curve is farther away, you might be able to obserbe dinasors in their nateral habitat. If only our telescopes are that powerful - I understand that in theory they cannot be that powerful.
If you had extensive physics (any freshman college course for example) you would know that heavy objects do in fact fall faster in a vacuum. (In air you get into wind resestance trouble) However the other variables overshadow this for any object you could reasonably test. (on earth those variables are more or less constant, except for the difference in mass. But objects smaller than say the moon tend to be the same mass for all practical purposes)
Seems obvious, but if your live in europe and just want to export to the US, what I have to say will not apply. Therefore, assuming you live in the US:
You can sell to anyone in the US, assuming you make a token effort to assure it will not be exported by them. That is you can place your product on the shelves of your local compUsa (if you can get them to stock it) with just a minor legal disclaimer.
If you want to sell internationaly: forget it. It can be done, the company I work for has been exporting 128 bit IDEA for years (1994 at least), but we have a large export deparment dealing with this. We have to prove to the US goverment that the organization we are shiping to won't use it for anything bad. Foreign banks have a general US exception to encryption export laws (which is why we are able to ship strong encryption to them) but that only means the goverment cannot reject you outrigt for proposing to ship strong encryption to a bank.
How many sales do you intend to get? You can hire encryption experts overseas, give them yoru source code (without encryption hooks) have them add the encryption and hooks, and then import that to the US and sell to the Us, while they sell to everyone else. This however is easier said then done. Sun attempted it, and failed to satisfiy the law for reasons I don't understand. If you have lots of money and good lawyers you can use this loophole.
I love hardcover books. However they are more expensive, so I don't want to spend that much money on things I will rarely use
I normally buy the softcover first (unless I can get a good deal on hardcover - I always watch bargan books), but most publishers stop printing hardcover after doing the soft version.
I have a couple books at home that I'm on the thrid copy of (Dragonsong by Anne Mccaffery comes to mind, published in 1976 as I recall), I'd pay for a hardcover printing. Some authors I've learned are worth the risk and I buy the hardcover as soon as it comes out, but most are hit and miss.
O'Rielie is a hit and miss thing. Not that the books are medioker, but that not all are useful that often. Java in a Nutshell (what I was doing java) was indispensiable by my desk and worth hardcover. Portability with imake was useful, but not enough (TO ME!) that it would be worth it.
Maybe they should take the popular books, and accept pre-orders for hardcover, any that get enough are printed in hardcover. (Note that the bat book is of limited use, but I suspect those who need it would buy hardcover because they need it that often)
If you put any encryption on the internet and you are a US citician be prepared to prove to the goverment that when it got out it wasn't your doing. I'd suggest asking whoever currently has forms for distributing pgp (mit I think as them) to distribute your app.
It is illegal to even have function calls that someone can replave to add encryption. That is you can't make it obvious where your encryption fit, and distribute it without encryption.
One way to get around the above: external filters, and give an example filter of how you can prevent job blow from loging in unless finger is enabled on his system. (a stupid filter, but it is only an example for someone who wants to filter. That an intellegent person could write encryption there is none of your buisness, that isn't the intended use. Show that your US source code uses different calls (which are not in theinternational version) to do encryption.
Or you can do what pgp did: publish a book with your course code and how it works. call it something like "Implmenting encryption in your programs" which contains the entire code in an appendix. The Us supreme court has held that your book is now protected speech and can be exported. There are fonts easially comptuer readable that are good for the srouce code secion. (Make sure that you have many comments so that you can argue in court that this is educational)
Simple, it is BSD, not SysV.
There are differences, but you get used to that. I'm already in the habbit of typing "ps -aef;ps -aux;ps -ae;ps -ex;ps -ax;ps -a" of which normally only one returns what I was looking for. (Challange, guess which variant eash is used on - trick question, I may have one made up)
Other than command line arguements, of which ps is about the worst few people will be able to tell the difference without being told. That is if you replcaed the login screen on any xbsd box with one that said Linux few people would notice the difference.
I like the way freeBSD is configured, but I've only played with slackware 3.0 for linux, which is not a fair comparition.
As a programer, I think that *BSD is better programed overall. This is not to say that *BSD is perfect, or that Linux is all bad, there are places where linux is better programed. Overall though from what I've seen the majority of cases leaves *BSD better. One aspect of better is that BSD encourages programers to think through what they are doing while linux is more of a quick hack. That is Linux is more release quickly and often where as BSD is get it right, then release. The only advantage is if it is wrong BSD makes it easier to throw away that code as it isn't released.
FreeBSD has better networking code, though linux has cought up for the most part. Linux has better SMP, but FreeBSD is catching up. OpenBSD is more secure, netBSD is more portable. (Linux has been ported alot, but netBSD has more useful working ports, while many linux ports belong in the curisoity catagory due to the hardware limits)
Finially, BSD is not GNU. This is religion for many people, but the fact it I don't like the GNU license. Your welcome to disagree, I don't worship the BSD license, just prefer it given a choice
but elementary human mating rituals can be as bewildering to your average geek as sendmail.cf is to a non-geek - often it's just not apparent where to start.
Yeah, I know where to find the bat book if I ever need it. OReilly and Associates doesn't publish a dating manual and I don't trust anyone else to help me with something as finding a potential Mate. You understand of course that the concequenses of being wrong are horrid. Thus I'm single and dateless at 25. Don't want to be that way, but I don't know many girls I accually would consider if I wasn't a geek.
A machine with no display doesn't need a x server as there is no display to serve to programs. Most people get confused about this terminologiy at first (it does seem backwords) but after you look at it closely it make sense, and you soon realise the other way while more obvious is wrong.
Maybe you don't need to send your graphics over the network, but I do, and I need it often. Here at work for instance every one of us requires a top of the line Sparc machine for some graphics tasks, but we only need them for a few hours a week. I got a sparc on my desk, 8 other people use X to access my machine when they need the cycles. Since they are already on my machine often, they do the rest of their work on it too, allowing them to have cheaper machines on their desk. (unless they are doing this CPU intensive activity they never put much load on the machine, there is plenty of power, and we are not wasting an expensive machine on one each desk)
You seem to be stuck in a home enviroment with one high power comptuer to person. It appears you want to play games [a guess, there is noting otherwise to indicate that]. If that is your situation, X leaves a lot to be desired, it is slow. It isn't my situation though, I have one high powered machine at home, and many low powered machines.
BTW, most X servers support not sending graphics through the network when the display is local, this capability should be enchanced and taken advantage of by games.
see, told you so
Others have pointed this out, but I don't think everyone will get the difference even through they are right, so here is my attempt, dumbed down a bit for the less technical.
Imangine for a moment that I capture Rob (cmdTaco ie founder of /.) and tortue him until he gives me the root password on the main /. server. I now have a seceret, and I can get into /., but I do not have enough information to get into User Friendly Even though(if) both run the same version on linux.
Not imangine that I capture an enginerr from Microsoft and torture him until I get a previously unknown security hole in Windows NT. I can now break into any NT server in the world, (assuming the reqrisites for the hole are in place, obviously a system in a locked room not attached to a netwrok is safe)
See the difference? In one area the terriorist got the ability to break into one machine, in the other the terriorist got the ability to break into virtually any machine.
Now It is possibal that some bug exists in Linux that will allow anyone to get into it. With linux, once I discover how someone got into my machine I can fix it, with NT I have to wait for microsoft. So in reality what makes open source better in the face of attack is that I can fix it in a few hours whereas with STO I have to wait for a vender to fix it. If I'm a minor player and nobody else is attacking me, with STO my vender can leave me in the lurch, whereas with open source I can fix it myself.
I went to college with someone from New England (some town he never named) who explained who it works in their town which is a demoracy:
for the large majority of town meetings 10 old men (women are allowed, but appearently don't attend) show up and decide how to run the town. These people are responsiable to nobody, are not elected, but they have power to set taxes.
The some students decided they wanted a new track. They printed up flyers, raised interest about their parents and friends parents. On a set night most of the town decended on the meeting, with one issue: voting for a new track. They had no interest in any other issues up for vote. They had no interest in how to get the money to pay for this track. They simply went along with everyone else to vote for a new track, and went home.
The next meeting the 10-15 old men who ran the town sat alone in that room, went overthe budget and decided that since there wasn't money to pay for it (of course the most expensive track was approved) they would have to raise taxes.
Then all the towns folks started complaining about how taxes went up, not realising they were the problem. It only takes a few issues like this before the irresposibility of the people overwhelms the ability of a demoracy to work. Remember, not everyone cares as much as you or I might. MN had the highest voter turnout of any state in the US last year, and 40% of the voters didn't bother to vote! (probably more then 40%.) If I recall correctly, in one state 70% of the voters didn't vote.
Until a large majority of the population keeps themselves informed and bothers to vote on all issues there is not point. At least with representatives there is some control, more then there is over those self selected 10 old men.
Err, no that is not the defination of average. Look it up.
If one person have an IQ of 400 that would allow 8 to have an IQ of 50 and still have the average iq be 100. (note, this isn't the definition of iq)
You have obviously confused median, mode and average. Sometimes all are the same, but in the sample I gave the average is 100, the median is 225, and the mode is 50. (There might be something wrong with my median calculation, it has been a while since I've worked with it. You'll soon see the flames if so.)
This paints McDonalds as money hungry for the extra cents from the coffee savings. However the cost of heating the water hotter will make up for the cents saved. In truth, there were customers who complained about the decreased tempature when my local mcDonalds lowered teh tempature. We ended up raisng the tempature (not as hot as it was, but the hottest that anyone could call normal, which didn't satisfy all customers)