No, C&PA have never said that, nor has any official that I've ever seen. (I looked.)
I have friends that go or have gone to virtually any school in Canada you care to name, when asked "how's your University", most of them just shrug and say "meh, it's alright, it's a University." I've yet to see masses of undergrads enthusiastic about *anything* that isn't alcoholic.
I rather suspect the "speling" thing was deliberate. However, like most/. posts, this one is utterly unresearched, so perhaps it was a genuine mistake.
Further to documenting, everything you do and every change you make later should be documented such that a third party can step in and manage your systems without having you around - the infamous "but what if he gets hit by a bus" thing.
Yeah, you gotta document processes, but you also have to document what you did to arrive at those processes, otherwise your system is unmaintainable by anybody but you and somebody else can screw everything up for you.
That's certainly what Vin Diesel said he wanted it to be - a JB replacement. He said kids nowadays don't connect with Bond, but they would with XXX. (Sorry, no cite, read this in a theatre mag while waiting for XXX to start.) My response is "Vin, make another 19 exactly like XXX that are at least as successful/good, then we'll talk."
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Given the choice between starving and a mac and cheese IMP, I'd have to think about it for a while. My first thought on reading the original post was "I've had MRE-type mac and cheese - DON'T DO IT GUYS!". I never minded the chicken breast in gravy much, it was actually my favourite, although you need a lot of water.
Now I'm having flashbacks of sitting in a hole, eating chicken breast in gravy, pouring the little juice flavour packet into my mouth, and then washing it all down with gulps from my canteen.
Conning people in order to track down a con artist... that's... laudable. "but he did it first!"... I don't take that from a child, why should I take it from an adult?
Care to share the source of that fence stat? That's an interesting one, because dumbass tourists are *always* falling off the fence-free cliffs at Peggy's Cove in.ns.ca - enough that the locals are pushing for a fulltime lifeguard, because they're tired of fishing idiots (or the bodies of idiots) out of the water.
Ask an auto mechanic, I'm sure s/he could tell you how many motor morons are out there.
Having said that, I agree that easier kernel configuration is still better - I just disagree with the reasoning you used (and I don't think people will be *forced* to learn and know implicitly anything).
Incidentally, as a raw newbie faced with a 0.99.14plc kernel, I had very little difficulty compiling a 0.99.14plg kernel - the longest part was waiting for my 386DX-25 with a whopping 4MB to compile the damned thing - twice, cos I missed some options the first time. Anybody who can keep their head and not panic can learn "advanced" computing skills - but the same goes for pretty much any other skill too.
Did I use the word sue? I don't think so... I believe I said "legal recourse", which could include making the support staff responsible for fixing it, or at least helping me to fix it. I doubt Linus made any visits to anybody running Reiser who had their filesystems corrupted by a release kernel.
You failed to address my second point, which is that TFM is sometimes not worth R'ing - MY main complaint about free software, particularly in the linux world - but I'm rapidly becoming a BSD snob anyway.
oh, like Alan Cox not describing fixes he's made "due to the DMCA"? Nope, no agendas in the free OS world at all. Releasing software with bugs? The main reason for purchasing software and support contracts is, as others have said, accountability. If some 1337 haxx0r on IRC tells me something that fucks me up, that's it, I can't do anything to him. If a techie working for my support provider fucks up, I have legal recourse.
Furthermore, sometimes (often) TFMs aren't worth R'ing, particularly not in the linux world. (TFM's for the BSD distributions tend to be quite good, OTOH, if a bit terse.) If you're running a free OS or app, you depend on your local IS staff. You have to. If you have a support contract, you don't have to (but it still helps to have a good local staff if you can afford it...)
Forgive my rambling, I'm posting this from work... I just got back from unsucessfully trying to restore a user's mailbox that their free-type mailer corrupted. Bye bye inbox.
... which makes a chief of security at Microsoft incompetent how? I'm sure he personally reviews every single line of code himself, oh yes. This is not to say he's necessarily competent, but sheesh. (Having said that, I'd quit my job before I was forced to use MS-anything in a server role, without at least hiding it behind a firewall running on a real os.)
and what's to stop an Al Queda member, say, from getting a job with the DOD? I doubt they're going to check the box on their job application that says "Are you a terrorist, either in fact or potentially?"
Exactly my point.
Granted, that may have been corrected in future courses; personally, I think that error checking, *particularly* of user input, should be fundamental to teaching programming concepts. It should not be an afterthought, and as such, it should not be something you "learn later".
that's ok... I was told by the master's student "teaching" my course on *program design* during the final exam for that course to not bother checking any user input for errors, because I should "assume that the user has read and understood the manuals". The same went for checking return codes of system calls, etc. With that sort of attitude, who needs Microsoft?
Personally, I'm not trusting a system that's running programs for a battalion to some 20 year old programmer who read "Learn C in 21 Days" and is now a 133nux gh0d. Most programs you'll find on freshmeat are no better written than, say, Office XP. Granted, MS programs don't have great security records, but... sendmail, need I say more?
I don't object to not having a choice (because I do - I have one Windows machine in the 10 or so I have between work and home, and it's my home game machine, with a legal license and all, TYVM).
I DO object to being treated like a criminal by companies that want my money.
What difference does the nature of the products make? Should there be mandatory speed governors on any vehicle capable of exceeding posted speed limits, because it might be possible for somebody to speed in that vehicle? I, for one, have a huge problem with being accused of being a criminal - which, let's face it, such software restrictions do. "Because you CAN copy this and resell it, we'll make it illegal for you to resell it to!" Never mind the fact that copying it in the first place was illegal anyway.
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No, C&PA have never said that, nor has any official that I've ever seen. (I looked.)
I have friends that go or have gone to virtually any school in Canada you care to name, when asked "how's your University", most of them just shrug and say "meh, it's alright, it's a University." I've yet to see masses of undergrads enthusiastic about *anything* that isn't alcoholic.
http://www.uwaterloo.ca/ - swathes of the 1-800 space are blocked for most calls from staff phones.
The point of a LiveCD is that you don't need to put it on a partition of any sort, spare or not. Everything runs off CD or RAM disk.
I went looking too, a few weeks ago, and never had much luck.
I rather suspect the "speling" thing was deliberate. /. posts, this one is utterly unresearched, so perhaps it was a genuine mistake.
However, like most
The F4UT has been working on Falcon 4 for some time now: http://f4ut.frugalsworld.com/
I haven't checked it out in a while (too much Real Life intruding on my gaming time), but it's a damned good enhancement to a damned good flightsim.
Hell, history gets revised in books all the time, why not revise it in games too?
Further to documenting, everything you do and every change you make later should be documented such that a third party can step in and manage your systems without having you around - the infamous "but what if he gets hit by a bus" thing.
Yeah, you gotta document processes, but you also have to document what you did to arrive at those processes, otherwise your system is unmaintainable by anybody but you and somebody else can screw everything up for you.
That'd buy an awful lot of Nortel stock these days.
That's certainly what Vin Diesel said he wanted it to be - a JB replacement. He said kids nowadays don't connect with Bond, but they would with XXX. (Sorry, no cite, read this in a theatre mag while waiting for XXX to start.) My response is "Vin, make another 19 exactly like XXX that are at least as successful/good, then we'll talk."
But yeah, that scene was pretty good.
http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/hasty.htm
and that's all I've got to say about that.
Given the choice between starving and a mac and cheese IMP, I'd have to think about it for a while. My first thought on reading the original post was "I've had MRE-type mac and cheese - DON'T DO IT GUYS!". I never minded the chicken breast in gravy much, it was actually my favourite, although you need a lot of water.
Now I'm having flashbacks of sitting in a hole, eating chicken breast in gravy, pouring the little juice flavour packet into my mouth, and then washing it all down with gulps from my canteen.
Conning people in order to track down a con artist... that's... laudable. "but he did it first!"... I don't take that from a child, why should I take it from an adult?
Care to share the source of that fence stat? That's an interesting one, because dumbass tourists are *always* falling off the fence-free cliffs at Peggy's Cove in .ns.ca - enough that the locals are pushing for a fulltime lifeguard, because they're tired of fishing idiots (or the bodies of idiots) out of the water.
Ask an auto mechanic, I'm sure s/he could tell you how many motor morons are out there.
Having said that, I agree that easier kernel configuration is still better - I just disagree with the reasoning you used (and I don't think people will be *forced* to learn and know implicitly anything).
Incidentally, as a raw newbie faced with a 0.99.14plc kernel, I had very little difficulty compiling a 0.99.14plg kernel - the longest part was waiting for my 386DX-25 with a whopping 4MB to compile the damned thing - twice, cos I missed some options the first time. Anybody who can keep their head and not panic can learn "advanced" computing skills - but the same goes for pretty much any other skill too.
Did I use the word sue? I don't think so... I believe I said "legal recourse", which could include making the support staff responsible for fixing it, or at least helping me to fix it. I doubt Linus made any visits to anybody running Reiser who had their filesystems corrupted by a release kernel.
You failed to address my second point, which is that TFM is sometimes not worth R'ing - MY main complaint about free software, particularly in the linux world - but I'm rapidly becoming a BSD snob anyway.
oh, like Alan Cox not describing fixes he's made "due to the DMCA"? Nope, no agendas in the free OS world at all. Releasing software with bugs? The main reason for purchasing software and support contracts is, as others have said, accountability. If some 1337 haxx0r on IRC tells me something that fucks me up, that's it, I can't do anything to him. If a techie working for my support provider fucks up, I have legal recourse.
Furthermore, sometimes (often) TFMs aren't worth R'ing, particularly not in the linux world. (TFM's for the BSD distributions tend to be quite good, OTOH, if a bit terse.) If you're running a free OS or app, you depend on your local IS staff. You have to. If you have a support contract, you don't have to (but it still helps to have a good local staff if you can afford it...)
Forgive my rambling, I'm posting this from work... I just got back from unsucessfully trying to restore a user's mailbox that their free-type mailer corrupted. Bye bye inbox.
I think the next thing he'd be saying after that would be: "Would you like fries with that?" If he's lucky.
... which makes a chief of security at Microsoft incompetent how? I'm sure he personally reviews every single line of code himself, oh yes. This is not to say he's necessarily competent, but sheesh. (Having said that, I'd quit my job before I was forced to use MS-anything in a server role, without at least hiding it behind a firewall running on a real os.)
not like this hasn't happened with wu before, or sendmail, or bind, or...
and what's to stop an Al Queda member, say, from getting a job with the DOD? I doubt they're going to check the box on their job application that says "Are you a terrorist, either in fact or potentially?"
Exactly my point.
Granted, that may have been corrected in future courses; personally, I think that error checking, *particularly* of user input, should be fundamental to teaching programming concepts. It should not be an afterthought, and as such, it should not be something you "learn later".
that's ok... I was told by the master's student "teaching" my course on *program design* during the final exam for that course to not bother checking any user input for errors, because I should "assume that the user has read and understood the manuals". The same went for checking return codes of system calls, etc. With that sort of attitude, who needs Microsoft?
Few people think it could or would work that way. Most people will go somewhere else if a subscription model is used.
Sure, and they'll keep on doing that until there's no independent places left without subscriptions...
Personally, I'm not trusting a system that's running programs for a battalion to some 20 year old programmer who read "Learn C in 21 Days" and is now a 133nux gh0d. Most programs you'll find on freshmeat are no better written than, say, Office XP. Granted, MS programs don't have great security records, but... sendmail, need I say more?
I don't object to not having a choice (because I do - I have one Windows machine in the 10 or so I have between work and home, and it's my home game machine, with a legal license and all, TYVM).
I DO object to being treated like a criminal by companies that want my money.
What difference does the nature of the products make? Should there be mandatory speed governors on any vehicle capable of exceeding posted speed limits, because it might be possible for somebody to speed in that vehicle? I, for one, have a huge problem with being accused of being a criminal - which, let's face it, such software restrictions do. "Because you CAN copy this and resell it, we'll make it illegal for you to resell it to!" Never mind the fact that copying it in the first place was illegal anyway.