Wasn't SELinux implicated in part of making the mmap_min_addr root exploit even worse a few months ago? In fact, for one of them, I'm pretty sure that it was the cause of it. Just sayin'.
Really, its more like IT is to Computer Science as Lube Shop Tech is to MechE at BMW. There is a big difference between the person with a degree in what amounts to applied mathematics and someone with a high school diploma that runs cabling. I have a degree in English and History. I work as a Unix admin, and I have 12 years of experience with BSD and Linux. Is what I do "IT"? Well, its definitely not Comp Sci. But I still feel a little miffed when I get lumped in, because while I know its not a personal attack, I still feel like my head is going to implode, followed by some old knight saying "he chose...poorly."
Isn't this sort of what LinkedIn is supposed to do? I haven't really used it, but it sounds similar in concept -- basically having your resume posted and vouched for by other people in your field but who didn't necessarily work with you though they know what you can do?
Are you seeing the performance degradation over a wired network, or over wireless? Of course, I don't think I've ever even seen more than 54Mbps over a wireless connection on my own, to the router that is, so I it may not even matter, really.
I don't really know how things were in Debian-land, because I was off in BSD-world, and while I was expected to do a lot of reading and figuring out on my own, when I still had questions and could show what I had already tried, I would get coaching in IRC or from where ever else I could find it. I have this 5-digit since I was a Freshman (or first bit of sophomore year, I forget now) in high school -- I'm only 25 -- and the big, imposing uber-nerds didn't scare me away. They just expected that if I want to play in their league, I need to learn the rules of the game.
China is not nearly on the level of the Soviet Union, let alone Nazi Germany, at least since Mao ceased to be in charge. Comparing China to the Third Reich is like comparing John Wayne Gacy to Oliver Cromwell -- sure Gacy was bad, but not/that/ bad.
First, physically replacing stuff in your care requires special tools and a shop in a lot of cases -- stuff that most people don't have just chilling in their garage. Every linux system comes with the tools to code the Linux system. Secondly, the guy in the car shop is getting paid a fair bit of money to do the work, whereas the people coming into IRC or on forums demanding help are never going to pay for that assistance, often ask in the wrong place, and are frequently rude and demanding about the free help they're getting.
Hell, if you poke around Ubuntu forums, half the time one person has a problem and then there are naught but 50 responses all going "me too!" and no actual solution in site. It's like AOL. There have always been new people coming into the community, but when it gets to the point where the newbs outnumber the established people, it tips the balance in a really weird way. Maybe it's "for the better," but I liked things just fine the way they used to be.
I think you're confusing "recording "artists"" with musicians. To be a real musician takes a good bit of talent and a whole lot of practice, and I think you'll find that there are more slashdotters and other technical people who are also musicians as well and who will find some sympathy for musicians who actually deserve the title.
Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, Jimmie Page -- just to name a few popular people who deserve to actually be called musicians -- are markedly different than the slutty little panty flashers and boys in girls pants that get pimped by the recording studios, but to whom no one wants to listen, and thus it can't possibly be that the product sucks... nope -- PIRACY is responsible for the decline in revenue.
I understand your post was probably tongue-in-cheek, but still, I think a Beethoven or a Wagner is every bit a master of craft as a Ken Thompson or Dennis Ritchie, and perhaps more so. Computer Scientists can only need to count by 1s and 2s... musicians have to work in multiples of 5 and 8 as well. C# and F# were music notes, first, lest we forget;-)
I don't see taking the code and releasing it as a "jerk option." That's the self-validation option -- someone thought my code was good enough and useful enough to include into a commercial product. The "I like this but, I don't really like your terms because of political/philosophical/church of emacs reasons and think everyone should agree with ME!!" option is how I view the GPL. Of course, maybe that just makes me the jerk, but I can live with that.
No, not quite. Taking BSD code and using it on your project, no matter how you change it, and whether you release as code or binary, needs only mention that you borrowed from the BSD code to begin with. You are under no obligation to make your code changes public in anyway, just the notice. Also, none of this affects the original BSD code.
If someone were to take BSD code and re-license it under the GPL, then the BSD-ness of the code would be in jeopardy in a way that Microsoft scraping 4.4BSD for its FTP program is not.
I'm 6'4" and ~240lbs. The 1911 is slim enough that it can be concealed without terribly much effort on someone my size. As to the stopping power issue, the.38spc can get up to 319J of energy, and is not an insignificant round. The Army switched the.45ACP in the Filipines after the Spanish-American War, because the.38 wouldn't take down the Filipino warriors, who would take drugs prior to battle, sort of like Viking berzerkers.
The 9mm may be high velocity, but in practice that sometimes has a tendency to carry through, rather than giving the nice "thud" with a.45ACP, especially when shooting ball ammunition. Personally I used Federal Premium Low Recoil JHP and have no reason to believe that it wouldn't sufficiently take someone down, if need be. I'd live a.357 Sig though -- basically a 9mm round in a.40cal case that's crimped down around it.
Though, I honestly just don't believe the 1911 can be beat on aesthetics... like a Colt 1851 Navy, the Winchester Repeater and the M1 Garand, they're just sort of iconic of America. Of the Brits hadn't become so pussified over guns lately, I'd assume they'd feel the same way about the Webley revolver and the SMLE rifle -- tools of empire building.
I first read "Ask an Astrobiologist" as "Ask an Astrologist" -- frankly, I think were NASA to set up an 'Ask an Astrologist' blog and just put up a bunch of "predictions" that the world ISN'T going to end, that they might have more lasting luck with this project.
I had computers as a hobby for many years, starting out with FreeBSD 2.2.8 when I was in 8th grade and teaching myself C and dabbling in a few other things as well. I'm 25 and have a legitimate 5-digit ID, not that it means much other than I got started with being a nerd at an early age for some reason signed up for Slashdot. I thought I was going to be a Comp Sci major, but then I quit and studied English and Classical History instead.
I still kept up with Unix-y things, and futzing around with Perl and stuff like that, and after an endless string of half-ass pseudo-success after college while trying to do the "english major" thing, I bit the bullet and got back into computers. I've been employed for the last year and change as a Linux admin at a web hosting company, and just got a new job that I start next month where I'll probably have to write the occasional C code again, too.
Now, I think I'm a reasonably competent programmer -- definitely more so than one would expect from a liberal arts major, but I'm definitely not a computer scientists. I'll read algorthims books and study stuff on my own, but I think I lack the degree of comprehension that someone who had it drilled and tested in a formal environment would. I'm not a great programmer, but I can hold my own in the certain realms in which I need to write code, but computers are also not my entire life.
Most tech school people I have met are really only interested in computers and doing computer stuff. They're the ones that throw the memes around and use terms like "lulz," and as long as they do their job, I don't really care. But those I know who studied computer science are more likely to be able to talk with me about non-computer things, and I really appreciate that. I make my living in technology, but my hobbies and interests are wide-ranging, and I don't always just want to talk about computers. I also find that the university-trained computer scientists are more likely to be able to explain WHY they are doing what they're doing, why they made the design choices they did, and in general have a better understanding of the whole system rather than just doing things "they way they were taught" whether its the best or not.
Of course, I realize this is all just anecdote and not just data, and I'm probably going to piss some people off by saying, however I will stand behind the notion that university-trained computer scientists are going to be easier and more fun to deal with than someone with a more myopic view of their "trade."
Also, if you really want to get at why those with a 4-year degree from a "real" school get offered more and are picked first, its probably because those are the degrees that management understands, whether they understand the subject matter or not. Management typically has a 4-year degree from a real school, and so they'd rather hire people with a piece of paper they "get" the value of. Perhaps its an economic or educational prejudice, but such is life.
Microsoft drops the price on Windows every chance they get for OEMs and large purchasers, even sometimes down to free. I don't think they're worried about cross-platform applications reducing the Windows profits so much as a platform they don't control, and thus can make faster/better software than everyone else reducing their profits on other fronts.
I bet more people are running Office 2007 on Windows XP than are running Vista these days. Just sayin'.
At some point, if it becomes economically feasible, I may buy a "real" Mac, but I just really don't feel like trying this type of project just now. There are more productive things to spend time on.
Microsoft's customers are OEMs and retailers, not us. We're consumers. Apple is more of a self-contained ecosystem, having their own stores and selling their entire vertically integrated product stack directly to end users. In Microsoft's case, their actions make slightly more sense, however most Apple customers seem more than willing to just bend over and take it with regards to some of the b.s. that the company seems to want to perpetrate.
Now, I must admit that I'm pretty jealous over the fact that OS X is the only Unix I can think of that can run Photoshop natively alongside the likes of Matlab and everything else I can get on a BSD or GNU platform, and their hardware does have the shiny factor, but quite frankly, I can't really see the value added in running OS X on my EeePC and so really have no willingness to jump through the hoops to try and get it running, with out without the added steps to try and prevent me from doing so. It just doesn't really seem worth it to me.
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Still counts? I think this is the quintessential definition of "hackintosh."
Wasn't SELinux implicated in part of making the mmap_min_addr root exploit even worse a few months ago? In fact, for one of them, I'm pretty sure that it was the cause of it. Just sayin'.
Really, its more like IT is to Computer Science as Lube Shop Tech is to MechE at BMW. There is a big difference between the person with a degree in what amounts to applied mathematics and someone with a high school diploma that runs cabling. I have a degree in English and History. I work as a Unix admin, and I have 12 years of experience with BSD and Linux. Is what I do "IT"? Well, its definitely not Comp Sci. But I still feel a little miffed when I get lumped in, because while I know its not a personal attack, I still feel like my head is going to implode, followed by some old knight saying "he chose...poorly."
Isn't this sort of what LinkedIn is supposed to do? I haven't really used it, but it sounds similar in concept -- basically having your resume posted and vouched for by other people in your field but who didn't necessarily work with you though they know what you can do?
Are you seeing the performance degradation over a wired network, or over wireless? Of course, I don't think I've ever even seen more than 54Mbps over a wireless connection on my own, to the router that is, so I it may not even matter, really.
I don't really know how things were in Debian-land, because I was off in BSD-world, and while I was expected to do a lot of reading and figuring out on my own, when I still had questions and could show what I had already tried, I would get coaching in IRC or from where ever else I could find it. I have this 5-digit since I was a Freshman (or first bit of sophomore year, I forget now) in high school -- I'm only 25 -- and the big, imposing uber-nerds didn't scare me away. They just expected that if I want to play in their league, I need to learn the rules of the game.
I think it was more productive.
China is not nearly on the level of the Soviet Union, let alone Nazi Germany, at least since Mao ceased to be in charge. Comparing China to the Third Reich is like comparing John Wayne Gacy to Oliver Cromwell -- sure Gacy was bad, but not /that/ bad.
Way to Godwin the thread. I bet your mom's real proud.
First, physically replacing stuff in your care requires special tools and a shop in a lot of cases -- stuff that most people don't have just chilling in their garage. Every linux system comes with the tools to code the Linux system. Secondly, the guy in the car shop is getting paid a fair bit of money to do the work, whereas the people coming into IRC or on forums demanding help are never going to pay for that assistance, often ask in the wrong place, and are frequently rude and demanding about the free help they're getting.
Hell, if you poke around Ubuntu forums, half the time one person has a problem and then there are naught but 50 responses all going "me too!" and no actual solution in site. It's like AOL. There have always been new people coming into the community, but when it gets to the point where the newbs outnumber the established people, it tips the balance in a really weird way. Maybe it's "for the better," but I liked things just fine the way they used to be.
I think you're confusing "recording "artists"" with musicians. To be a real musician takes a good bit of talent and a whole lot of practice, and I think you'll find that there are more slashdotters and other technical people who are also musicians as well and who will find some sympathy for musicians who actually deserve the title.
;-)
Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, Jimmie Page -- just to name a few popular people who deserve to actually be called musicians -- are markedly different than the slutty little panty flashers and boys in girls pants that get pimped by the recording studios, but to whom no one wants to listen, and thus it can't possibly be that the product sucks... nope -- PIRACY is responsible for the decline in revenue.
I understand your post was probably tongue-in-cheek, but still, I think a Beethoven or a Wagner is every bit a master of craft as a Ken Thompson or Dennis Ritchie, and perhaps more so. Computer Scientists can only need to count by 1s and 2s... musicians have to work in multiples of 5 and 8 as well. C# and F# were music notes, first, lest we forget
Well, this was an attempt at a pun on a "Princess Bride" quote, but thank you for ruining it by me having to explain it :-/
Well, Ibogaine powder is among the more deadly poisons known to man...
I don't see taking the code and releasing it as a "jerk option." That's the self-validation option -- someone thought my code was good enough and useful enough to include into a commercial product. The "I like this but, I don't really like your terms because of political/philosophical/church of emacs reasons and think everyone should agree with ME!!" option is how I view the GPL. Of course, maybe that just makes me the jerk, but I can live with that.
No, not quite. Taking BSD code and using it on your project, no matter how you change it, and whether you release as code or binary, needs only mention that you borrowed from the BSD code to begin with. You are under no obligation to make your code changes public in anyway, just the notice. Also, none of this affects the original BSD code.
If someone were to take BSD code and re-license it under the GPL, then the BSD-ness of the code would be in jeopardy in a way that Microsoft scraping 4.4BSD for its FTP program is not.
Yeah, but most of those 100 posts were probably actually read before getting responded to
I'm 6'4" and ~240lbs. The 1911 is slim enough that it can be concealed without terribly much effort on someone my size. As to the stopping power issue, the .38spc can get up to 319J of energy, and is not an insignificant round. The Army switched the .45ACP in the Filipines after the Spanish-American War, because the .38 wouldn't take down the Filipino warriors, who would take drugs prior to battle, sort of like Viking berzerkers.
.45ACP, especially when shooting ball ammunition. Personally I used Federal Premium Low Recoil JHP and have no reason to believe that it wouldn't sufficiently take someone down, if need be. I'd live a .357 Sig though -- basically a 9mm round in a .40cal case that's crimped down around it.
The 9mm may be high velocity, but in practice that sometimes has a tendency to carry through, rather than giving the nice "thud" with a
Though, I honestly just don't believe the 1911 can be beat on aesthetics... like a Colt 1851 Navy, the Winchester Repeater and the M1 Garand, they're just sort of iconic of America. Of the Brits hadn't become so pussified over guns lately, I'd assume they'd feel the same way about the Webley revolver and the SMLE rifle -- tools of empire building.
I first read "Ask an Astrobiologist" as "Ask an Astrologist" -- frankly, I think were NASA to set up an 'Ask an Astrologist' blog and just put up a bunch of "predictions" that the world ISN'T going to end, that they might have more lasting luck with this project.
The UN would be better than ICANN, right?
I had computers as a hobby for many years, starting out with FreeBSD 2.2.8 when I was in 8th grade and teaching myself C and dabbling in a few other things as well. I'm 25 and have a legitimate 5-digit ID, not that it means much other than I got started with being a nerd at an early age for some reason signed up for Slashdot. I thought I was going to be a Comp Sci major, but then I quit and studied English and Classical History instead.
I still kept up with Unix-y things, and futzing around with Perl and stuff like that, and after an endless string of half-ass pseudo-success after college while trying to do the "english major" thing, I bit the bullet and got back into computers. I've been employed for the last year and change as a Linux admin at a web hosting company, and just got a new job that I start next month where I'll probably have to write the occasional C code again, too.
Now, I think I'm a reasonably competent programmer -- definitely more so than one would expect from a liberal arts major, but I'm definitely not a computer scientists. I'll read algorthims books and study stuff on my own, but I think I lack the degree of comprehension that someone who had it drilled and tested in a formal environment would. I'm not a great programmer, but I can hold my own in the certain realms in which I need to write code, but computers are also not my entire life.
Most tech school people I have met are really only interested in computers and doing computer stuff. They're the ones that throw the memes around and use terms like "lulz," and as long as they do their job, I don't really care. But those I know who studied computer science are more likely to be able to talk with me about non-computer things, and I really appreciate that. I make my living in technology, but my hobbies and interests are wide-ranging, and I don't always just want to talk about computers. I also find that the university-trained computer scientists are more likely to be able to explain WHY they are doing what they're doing, why they made the design choices they did, and in general have a better understanding of the whole system rather than just doing things "they way they were taught" whether its the best or not.
Of course, I realize this is all just anecdote and not just data, and I'm probably going to piss some people off by saying, however I will stand behind the notion that university-trained computer scientists are going to be easier and more fun to deal with than someone with a more myopic view of their "trade."
Also, if you really want to get at why those with a 4-year degree from a "real" school get offered more and are picked first, its probably because those are the degrees that management understands, whether they understand the subject matter or not. Management typically has a 4-year degree from a real school, and so they'd rather hire people with a piece of paper they "get" the value of. Perhaps its an economic or educational prejudice, but such is life.
And here I was expecting a Perl comment... at least then you can use an editor and it won't matter ;-)
I think they have a word for this... blackmail, isn't it?
Microsoft drops the price on Windows every chance they get for OEMs and large purchasers, even sometimes down to free. I don't think they're worried about cross-platform applications reducing the Windows profits so much as a platform they don't control, and thus can make faster/better software than everyone else reducing their profits on other fronts.
I bet more people are running Office 2007 on Windows XP than are running Vista these days. Just sayin'.
I've been posting on slashdot for a long-ass time. Its just sort of a habit at this point, but I can quit whenever I want; I swear!
At some point, if it becomes economically feasible, I may buy a "real" Mac, but I just really don't feel like trying this type of project just now. There are more productive things to spend time on.
Microsoft's customers are OEMs and retailers, not us. We're consumers. Apple is more of a self-contained ecosystem, having their own stores and selling their entire vertically integrated product stack directly to end users. In Microsoft's case, their actions make slightly more sense, however most Apple customers seem more than willing to just bend over and take it with regards to some of the b.s. that the company seems to want to perpetrate.
Now, I must admit that I'm pretty jealous over the fact that OS X is the only Unix I can think of that can run Photoshop natively alongside the likes of Matlab and everything else I can get on a BSD or GNU platform, and their hardware does have the shiny factor, but quite frankly, I can't really see the value added in running OS X on my EeePC and so really have no willingness to jump through the hoops to try and get it running, with out without the added steps to try and prevent me from doing so. It just doesn't really seem worth it to me.