No don't be kind. Be critical that is how things get better. I realized that this was a repeat right away. Do the people who authorize stories read slashdot? I don't mean to be an ass but this was pretty recent. I don't mind so much when i see a story that i remember from 2 years ago but this was too recent. Being able to remember stories from less than two months ago seems pretty easy. Furthermore is it so hard to search slashdot? And finally this story sucked, atleast the bbc coverage did. Even the ppt slides that the arbor people published are lacking in details. Not like anyone read the real data. But come on imagine if every story that got posted on slashdot got followed up a month later with a crappeir report of the same shit.
Thank god kuro5hin is back...
What are your feelings about using the ideas behind the second amendment as a means to think about the right of encryption? I recognize the fact that the 2nd amendment is only about guns. However i do feel that in an information age where power is vested in information not physical things that in order to defend against a tyrnical government encryption will prove far more useful than a 45...
Hey,
I used to have a bunch of posts on groups.google.com but now none of my old correspondence are there. Wierd, anyone else see themselves as missing?
Hello,
I really like the dallas ibuttons. They have a good amount of open source software available but nothing that is off the shelf ready to go. I thkn htat you will need to tweak most of it. I really want to use one to store my gpg key inside of it.....
Hello,
i am interested in getting somehosting. I want he.net cause they rock but they are a little skimpy on space. I am not looking for huge data transfers just a little space. Any good hosting company suggestions?
PICO would be great if it had search and replace. It doesn't nano does...
Not to start a flame war;)
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Hello,
If you are going to put an editor story on slashdot you know that you are going to start a editor war. So I thought I would offer my two cents. I like nano the enhanced pico. It is small lightwieght and has search and replace. Perfect for editing config files...
My favorite security book to come out lately has been:White-Hat Security Arsenal: Tackling the Threat by Aviel Rubin
I sawm mcclure and kurtz at usenix. They were doing a talk about network security. Not a whole lot of new info but they are a good team for presentations. The original Hacking Exposed was pretty good too...
You must have never owned a dog. They incur way more vet bills than 1000 dollars. Shots checkups, neutering and god forbid something to go wrong. One of my dogs has already had 2500 dollars worth of doggy dental care.
On a related note. LWN.net had a post today about the release of the third edition of Learning Perl
From lwn.net:
O'REILLY RELEASES THE THIRD EDITION OF "LEARNING PERL"
Sebastopol, CA--When Randal Schwartz wrote the first edition of
"Learning Perl" in 1993, the back cover stated--almost
prophetically--that the book was written by a "leading Perl trainer."
Within a few months of the book's publication, Schwartz's company had
in fact become the leading worldwide on-site Perl training company and
"Learning Perl" had become a bestseller. Known affectionately as the
"Llama" among Perl programmers, "Learning Perl" has guided thousands of
aspiring Perl programmers into the Perl community. Now the third
edition of "Learning Perl" (O'Reilly, US $34.95), coauthored by Randal
Schwartz and Tom Phoenix, two of the most prominent and active members
of the Perl community, is sure to take its place beside the earlier
editions as the most recommended book for learning the Perl programming
language.
"This book is totally new, with no cut and paste from any previous
edition, reflecting the results of research for our ongoing Stonehenge
classroom trainings," says Schwartz. "You get the core of Perl.
Everyone should spend the first 30 hours of their Perl experience
reading this book."
Perl began as a tool for Unix system administrators and has since
blossomed into a full-featured programming language found on
practically every computing platform, used for web programming,
database manipulation, XML processing, system administration and more.
According to the authors of "Learning Perl, Third Edition," Perl is
easy to use, unlimited in its capabilities, and fast. But the claim
made most often by Perl programmers is that Perl is "fun." For whatever
reason they have chosen to learn Perl, there are more than one million
Perl programmers today and their number continues to grow.
"Perl gives you a way to make the common tasks easy, and the uncommon
tasks possible," explains Schwartz. "Perl is also a mandatory
requirement for many hiring managers these days, so it's good to have
on your resume in this age of downsizing and dot-comming. And even if
you're in a company that isn't going out of business, people need to do
more with less, and Perl is great leverage to do that.
With years of success in teaching Perl as consultants, Schwartz and
Phoenix derived the new text from their "Learning Perl" courseware and
instructor notes, which they refined and road-tested with a view to
this latest edition of the "Llama." Even the exercises at the end of
each chapter have changed to be "more real world and better paced," as
Schwartz says, and include exercises created with both Unix and Windows
in mind. Readers will find that the latest edition of the book is
addressed less to the Unix system administrator and much more to the
general programmer. The authors have reengineered the book especially
to match the pace and scope appropriate for readers who are trying to
get started with Perl, while retaining the detailed discussion,
examples, and the humor for which the book is famous.
"We had a lot of fun writing this book, and it shows in the text," says
coauthor Phoenix. "When we work at teaching or writing, we're really
playing and having a good time. That's one of the reasons Randal and I
enjoy working together, since we have a compatible sense of humor.
We're always trying to top each other with a joke or a way of
presenting the material to our students."
"Learning Perl, Third Edition" was written for anyone who would like to
learn how to program Perl or learn about the language. As the authors
say, "Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but 'Learning Perl'
will turn you into a Perl programmer."
What readers and critics said about the earlier editions:
"It does more than merely introduce the reader to the language; it also
does an excellent job of conveying the philosophy of Perl. More than
anything else this book has given me a solid enough foundation in Perl
for me to experiment on my own by writing programs that are at least
personally useful, and be able to easily understand the more
complicated subjects discussed in the Perl Cookbook and others."
--Josh Borroughs, Alaska Perl Mongers
"Thankfully, O'Reilly publishes many de facto programming titles to
which Learning Perl can easily be added. Simple but elegant examples
throughout detail this rich language. . . . worth every penny!"
--Compbookreview.com
"Well thought out and well written, with a sense of humor. Learning
Perl is also known as 'the llama book' for the animal pictured on its
cover. It is deliberately incomplete. The assumption is that after
you've gotten your feet wet going through this book, you'll move on to
Programming Perl."--Martin Heller, Byte.com
Here is my editing of the above list with a little more focus on sys admin. I like some of the hacking exposed books for computer security(or northrup's intrusion detection). But they seem a little to placed in time. Any ideas on a good timeless security book?
UNIX System Administration Handbook
I saw mr. romig at usenix. He gave a good talk on the less technichal details of computer forensics. I was a little disappointed because I was expecting nitty gritty tech information. But that was just a vague usenix descritption of the talk. If you are looking for good policy decisions on computer forensics the talk would have been wonderful...
I thought I was the only one who saw the post on nanog. I got a big kick out of it. I think that we should have a ask slashdot about whre you saw slashdot's downtime mentioned...
I love nanog...
Ther is now a
good book about philosophy and the simpsons. It uses simpsons excerpts to discuss philosophical issues. The review on amazon says that groening was a philosophy major in school.
I have this book and it is pretty good. A lot better than sophie's world a book along the same lines...
I have a patagonia atom pack. they are decent size well made and have a good design:
http://www.patagonia.com/webapp/commerce/Pgonia/ Pr oduct.jsp?SearchID=E6C119EBDB&merchant_rn=7385&sku =48255
who makes the decision to fire all of these people
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Who makes the decision to fire all of these people? It seems like the firings would need to come from below if the CEO, CIO, CTO, COO are fired...
I must be missing something obvious about corporate chain of command.
Slashdot Mirror
No don't be kind. Be critical that is how things get better. I realized that this was a repeat right away. Do the people who authorize stories read slashdot? I don't mean to be an ass but this was pretty recent. I don't mind so much when i see a story that i remember from 2 years ago but this was too recent. Being able to remember stories from less than two months ago seems pretty easy. Furthermore is it so hard to search slashdot? And finally this story sucked, atleast the bbc coverage did. Even the ppt slides that the arbor people published are lacking in details. Not like anyone read the real data. But come on imagine if every story that got posted on slashdot got followed up a month later with a crappeir report of the same shit.
Thank god kuro5hin is back...
What are your feelings about using the ideas behind the second amendment as a means to think about the right of encryption? I recognize the fact that the 2nd amendment is only about guns. However i do feel that in an information age where power is vested in information not physical things that in order to defend against a tyrnical government encryption will prove far more useful than a 45...
Hey,
I used to have a bunch of posts on groups.google.com but now none of my old correspondence are there. Wierd, anyone else see themselves as missing?
it's like my uncle says:
"lock yourself in a room and lie down for thirty minutes. Once the urge passes you can leave the room"
Hello,
I really like the dallas ibuttons. They have a good amount of open source software available but nothing that is off the shelf ready to go. I thkn htat you will need to tweak most of it. I really want to use one to store my gpg key inside of it.....
Hello,
i am interested in getting somehosting. I want he.net cause they rock but they are a little skimpy on space. I am not looking for huge data transfers just a little space. Any good hosting company suggestions?
Hello,
Does anyone have any good links about physical security? ANd any info on programs to genereate traffic when a line is dead?
there is an easy fix to this. Don't send html mail...
PICO would be great if it had search and replace. It doesn't nano does...
Hello,
If you are going to put an editor story on slashdot you know that you are going to start a editor war. So I thought I would offer my two cents. I like nano the enhanced pico. It is small lightwieght and has search and replace. Perfect for editing config files...
Hello,
Is kernel.org dead? I can't even get a connection to web, ftp or rsync. Not even a too many users message...
My favorite security book to come out lately has been:White-Hat Security Arsenal: Tackling the Threat by Aviel Rubin
I sawm mcclure and kurtz at usenix. They were doing a talk about network security. Not a whole lot of new info but they are a good team for presentations. The original Hacking Exposed was pretty good too...
You can see some of his papers at: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/30955.html That is a cool site for any scientifc article lookups. Form that link you can see a lot more of his papers and related ones. Their is a new book coming out about this. I saw it in the article Emergence : The Connected Lives of Ants and their have been others to: Swarm Intelligence
This is time for the nation to unite, donate to the red cross trough amazon, and give blood...
You must have never owned a dog. They incur way more vet bills than 1000 dollars. Shots checkups, neutering and god forbid something to go wrong. One of my dogs has already had 2500 dollars worth of doggy dental care.
Hello,
Unixreview.com has a review of Incident Response: Investigating computer Crime. Incidentally chapter 11 is available online
From lwn.net: O'REILLY RELEASES THE THIRD EDITION OF "LEARNING PERL" Sebastopol, CA--When Randal Schwartz wrote the first edition of "Learning Perl" in 1993, the back cover stated--almost prophetically--that the book was written by a "leading Perl trainer." Within a few months of the book's publication, Schwartz's company had in fact become the leading worldwide on-site Perl training company and "Learning Perl" had become a bestseller. Known affectionately as the "Llama" among Perl programmers, "Learning Perl" has guided thousands of aspiring Perl programmers into the Perl community. Now the third edition of "Learning Perl" (O'Reilly, US $34.95), coauthored by Randal Schwartz and Tom Phoenix, two of the most prominent and active members of the Perl community, is sure to take its place beside the earlier editions as the most recommended book for learning the Perl programming language. "This book is totally new, with no cut and paste from any previous edition, reflecting the results of research for our ongoing Stonehenge classroom trainings," says Schwartz. "You get the core of Perl. Everyone should spend the first 30 hours of their Perl experience reading this book." Perl began as a tool for Unix system administrators and has since blossomed into a full-featured programming language found on practically every computing platform, used for web programming, database manipulation, XML processing, system administration and more. According to the authors of "Learning Perl, Third Edition," Perl is easy to use, unlimited in its capabilities, and fast. But the claim made most often by Perl programmers is that Perl is "fun." For whatever reason they have chosen to learn Perl, there are more than one million Perl programmers today and their number continues to grow. "Perl gives you a way to make the common tasks easy, and the uncommon tasks possible," explains Schwartz. "Perl is also a mandatory requirement for many hiring managers these days, so it's good to have on your resume in this age of downsizing and dot-comming. And even if you're in a company that isn't going out of business, people need to do more with less, and Perl is great leverage to do that. With years of success in teaching Perl as consultants, Schwartz and Phoenix derived the new text from their "Learning Perl" courseware and instructor notes, which they refined and road-tested with a view to this latest edition of the "Llama." Even the exercises at the end of each chapter have changed to be "more real world and better paced," as Schwartz says, and include exercises created with both Unix and Windows in mind. Readers will find that the latest edition of the book is addressed less to the Unix system administrator and much more to the general programmer. The authors have reengineered the book especially to match the pace and scope appropriate for readers who are trying to get started with Perl, while retaining the detailed discussion, examples, and the humor for which the book is famous. "We had a lot of fun writing this book, and it shows in the text," says coauthor Phoenix. "When we work at teaching or writing, we're really playing and having a good time. That's one of the reasons Randal and I enjoy working together, since we have a compatible sense of humor. We're always trying to top each other with a joke or a way of presenting the material to our students." "Learning Perl, Third Edition" was written for anyone who would like to learn how to program Perl or learn about the language. As the authors say, "Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but 'Learning Perl' will turn you into a Perl programmer." What readers and critics said about the earlier editions: "It does more than merely introduce the reader to the language; it also does an excellent job of conveying the philosophy of Perl. More than anything else this book has given me a solid enough foundation in Perl for me to experiment on my own by writing programs that are at least personally useful, and be able to easily understand the more complicated subjects discussed in the Perl Cookbook and others." --Josh Borroughs, Alaska Perl Mongers "Thankfully, O'Reilly publishes many de facto programming titles to which Learning Perl can easily be added. Simple but elegant examples throughout detail this rich language. . . . worth every penny!" --Compbookreview.com "Well thought out and well written, with a sense of humor. Learning Perl is also known as 'the llama book' for the animal pictured on its cover. It is deliberately incomplete. The assumption is that after you've gotten your feet wet going through this book, you'll move on to Programming Perl."--Martin Heller, Byte.com
Kuroshin has had some good stories about computer books:
The Essential Linux Bookshelf, Part I: The Unix Programming Environment
...Part II: Linux Installation
..Part III Running Linux
Part IV Unix Power Tools
TCP/IP Net Administration
Part VI
part Vii Unix haters
Kuroshins book section is quite nice there are even more topics on programming and nice reviews. The kuroshin crowd seems a little more literary.
Any way to make a long post longer here are my additional includes for all around cool books that I am reading this summer (most are relatively new)
Body of Secrets : Anatomy of the...
John Adams
Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions...
Writings on an Ethical Life
The Simpsons and Philosophy : The D'Oh!...
The Hacker Ethic
Sophie's World : A Novel About the...
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
Learning Perl (3rd Edition)
From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of...
Essential System Administration
Computer Networks
Interconnections, Second Edition
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
The Mythical-Man Month
Modern Operating Systems
The Art of Computer Programming, All 3 Volumes
Programming Perl (3rd Edition)
Applied Cryptography
I saw mr. romig at usenix. He gave a good talk on the less technichal details of computer forensics. I was a little disappointed because I was expecting nitty gritty tech information. But that was just a vague usenix descritption of the talk. If you are looking for good policy decisions on computer forensics the talk would have been wonderful...
I thought I was the only one who saw the post on nanog. I got a big kick out of it. I think that we should have a ask slashdot about whre you saw slashdot's downtime mentioned... I love nanog...
Ther is now a good book about philosophy and the simpsons. It uses simpsons excerpts to discuss philosophical issues. The review on amazon says that groening was a philosophy major in school. I have this book and it is pretty good. A lot better than sophie's world a book along the same lines...
I have a patagonia atom pack. they are decent size well made and have a good design:/ Pr oduct.jsp?SearchID=E6C119EBDB&merchant_rn=7385&sku =48255
http://www.patagonia.com/webapp/commerce/Pgonia
Who makes the decision to fire all of these people? It seems like the firings would need to come from below if the CEO, CIO, CTO, COO are fired...
I must be missing something obvious about corporate chain of command.
it is not that windows supports more hardware but that the hardware devlopers release thier drivers for windows...