I'm very glad that the major distributions took charge and dropped XFree86. While it might not have been *completely* necessary, it sent quite a message. XFree86 is about to die. Don't mess with the GPL or you're gone next.
This just gave the GPL a lot more strength, and all non-conforming licenses a lot less. You can bet that nobody else is going to test Redhat/Debian/Mandrake/etc, or else your project is done for.
Haha he spent so much time explaining his story that he forgot to do what he meant to do in the first place!
I hate when i do that. I live in an attic room on the 3rd floor, I probably run 40 flights of stairs a day because I always come up here, get something, and forget what I originally wanted to get!
I'll be the first NOT to call shenanigans, at least kinda. I did this way back in the day when I had a 1 gig hard drive (very top of the line at that time), which had 32kb cluster sizes.
I used a program which partitioned my hard drive into 2, one being an 11 meg partition with some goofy cluster size, and then it reduced my current cluster size to 8kb on the main partition! Recovered TONS of space!
The 32kb cluster size was killing me because I had tons of files that were very very small, but were wasting 32kb each anyway. Lowering that waste did save this.
Maybe that's what this program is doing, although I think it'd work less anymore
This is going to be mocked or yelled at, but I couldn't agree more on this one. Once you get into a huge slump, it's very tough getting out. But once you pop, you can't stop:)
I agree, but my concern with many EXTREMELY gifted students is that they are too lost by the time drinking age starts. We got to drinking pretty heavily around 10th grade.
Many of the kids that were gifted moreso than me were already goners at this point. And they're far less successful now too. It was just too late.
I wasn't THAT antisocial in high school (played sports, had quite a group of friends, was friendly with all other groups [jocks/nerds/sluts/metalheads/biblethumpers/etc..] ), but I did love to hang out on my computer in my basement for a long time in high school. Sometimes I preferred being down there alone every night except on some weekend nights.
Then I went to college, and lived in the dorms. It was an honors dorm, and I wish i would have socialized MORE, but I still did an incredible job.
What happened the next summer for me? I couldn't get out of my basement soon enough! I was SO bored and lonely... i wanted to run next door and talk to the kids. I missed college life, and couldn't wait to get back to school.
So dorm life's what did it for me. Now in my 4th year of school, I have such an incredible group of friends that I can't fit everyone into my cell phone. And i'm not in a lame ass frat either.
However, looking back even further, I was MUCH more anti-social in 6th/7th grade. Was too smart for my own good sometimes. How did i start meeting those high school friends? Video games and Magic Cards! It did work for me -- and we did quickly outgrow it and start hanging out with girls around 9th grade.
So to make a long story short, you can't do this in a semester. But foster some of the skills so that this kid doesn't get lost. It definitely took time for me, but now I could honestly care less about my engineering classes and just want to go partying with my friends (bertopics.afraid.org if you want to see how out of control we get)... and I couldn't be happier.
PS: one last thing - have him do a nerd-friendly sport. Mine was swimming, and I now play water polo at school. Martial arts are also recommended, I was in the ju-jitsu club for quite a while too. Don't let that stuff get to his head though.
If you're thinking of adding more features, the chances are that i DO NOT WANT IT.
So add it as a plugin or an option that won't slow me down when I don't use it. I want a web browser with speed. Don't screw up firefox, today I've officially switched over from galeon.
So what's gonna happen to their connections during the next round of riots when all the morons down there knock down all of the power lines and telephone poles?
Haha, sorry, but I'm from Cleveland and currently live in Columbus and had to poke!
Wheresgeorge.com is a very interesting site, but come on, there's basically nothing in there! I put in a few bills and it was always the first one in their database.
There's too much money out there to rely on users to update that stuff.
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I'm having trouble believing this picture... look how perfect it is! It's awe-inspiring that something like that truly exists
No, it's worse. It's not THAT easy to get a patent. You need to either REALLY know your shit, or get a patent attourney. Could cost you something like $8000.
So this means that only the bottom feeding CORPORATIONS can afford to landrush it. That's why it's worse.
I don't know much about freenet obviously, but I thought it was going to be some sort of system that had users storing information as well -- so i thought it'd go faster with more users, like bittorrent?
You don't need a tablet, this you can already see. But let me say this, you don't need a laptop either. You need a pencil and paper and one folder for each class. Total cost: $10.
You need a reliable computer for your dorm and apartment.
Maybe you should use the computer labs at school anyway -- this is a good way to meet people, and get help in your class by talking to people working on the same projects.
So why do I want you to be a cheapass? Because you should be spending your money on ONE thing - alcohol. No other time to waste it on booze than college. You got all the rest of your life to waste it on technology that you WILL be able to afford later one.
I actually wanted to qualify the nail a bit better. Perhaps the next nail, or the first BIG nail. But I think it is a nail.
If there are as many exploits as I think there will be, how long will it take before companies just get plain sick and tired of their products?
Business-types consider IT budgets sunken money anyway. The last thing they're going to want to hear is that they had to pay millions due to downtime, overtime, etc.. because their systems are swiss cheese.
I honestly think this is going to expedite a switch to more secure systems.
IF this is true, the release of the source is the nail in the coffin for Microsoft.
An exploit this quick? There's going to be some serious happenings going on at Microsoft. Also look for another Longhorn delay sometime due to everything that is found out.
I'm not sure what to think. I'm not happy that when I get back to work this summer, I'm going to spend way too much time fighting these problems/viruses and patching things up. I'm not happy businesses are losing money. I am, however, happy that Microsoft is forced to clean up their act even more, or they are going to lose market share.
Open source isn't 'communistic' -- it's capitalistic. Why? It increases competition.
We have an interesting 6 months ahead of us, folks.
What in the hell are you talking about, "So much for capitalism." ???
This IS WHAT CAPITALISM IS ALL ABOUT -- COMPETITION. I don't care whose product we use, I just want it to work, and I want it to be fairly priced. And guess what -- we (the linux community) are the sole reason for getting microsoft to drop their prices. We are now COMPETITIVE. This is huge. This is what capitalism is all about. MS can't strongarm every company in the world for too much longer. You can now threaten them with the big L word or the big blue.
This is incredible. Others are going to see that MS can have lower prices, and we can now negotiate with the devil.
Does everybody remember back in the day when everyone had AWFUL looking web pages (much like the one in my signature.. heh), they had little tiny rectangular image links that said "Best if viewed with MSIE 3.0" or "Download Netscape 3.1!" ???
Why don't we do that with more of our sites? That used to be a great way to get downloads going. Of course, I'd want to link to the Firefox INSTALLER if such a thing exists (not a zip file), but still - that could help!
This is one of those ideas where I go "damn, why didn't *I* think of that?!"
There was a good response about your network being sniffed and you could get the knocking sequence, but maybe the knocking sequence could also be changed regularly and you get a key that somehow deciphers what knock sequence to use on what given day or whatever.
I've never implemented anything like that, so that's just a general idea. You can see what I'm saying -- yet ANOTHER layer somehow that changes.
Ga Tech eh? Isn't that the school with KAMEN and HECK who wrote the Signals and Systems book? Please let them know that it is, by far, the worst text book I've ever had to buy. Absolutely worthless. I can't wait to sell it on half.com after this quarter is over.
Dude, you were born for Biomedical Engineering. If you're serious about it, research a school where you can get a degree. You will probably be able to work wonders, and the field is going to explode.
Forget programming, millions of people can do that -- but not many people can mix your two areas of expertise.
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This just gave the GPL a lot more strength, and all non-conforming licenses a lot less. You can bet that nobody else is going to test Redhat/Debian/Mandrake/etc, or else your project is done for.
I hate when i do that. I live in an attic room on the 3rd floor, I probably run 40 flights of stairs a day because I always come up here, get something, and forget what I originally wanted to get!
I used a program which partitioned my hard drive into 2, one being an 11 meg partition with some goofy cluster size, and then it reduced my current cluster size to 8kb on the main partition! Recovered TONS of space!
The 32kb cluster size was killing me because I had tons of files that were very very small, but were wasting 32kb each anyway. Lowering that waste did save this.
Maybe that's what this program is doing, although I think it'd work less anymore
This is going to be mocked or yelled at, but I couldn't agree more on this one. Once you get into a huge slump, it's very tough getting out. But once you pop, you can't stop :)
Many of the kids that were gifted moreso than me were already goners at this point. And they're far less successful now too. It was just too late.
Then I went to college, and lived in the dorms. It was an honors dorm, and I wish i would have socialized MORE, but I still did an incredible job.
What happened the next summer for me? I couldn't get out of my basement soon enough! I was SO bored and lonely... i wanted to run next door and talk to the kids. I missed college life, and couldn't wait to get back to school.
So dorm life's what did it for me. Now in my 4th year of school, I have such an incredible group of friends that I can't fit everyone into my cell phone. And i'm not in a lame ass frat either.
However, looking back even further, I was MUCH more anti-social in 6th/7th grade. Was too smart for my own good sometimes. How did i start meeting those high school friends? Video games and Magic Cards! It did work for me -- and we did quickly outgrow it and start hanging out with girls around 9th grade.
So to make a long story short, you can't do this in a semester. But foster some of the skills so that this kid doesn't get lost. It definitely took time for me, but now I could honestly care less about my engineering classes and just want to go partying with my friends (bertopics.afraid.org if you want to see how out of control we get)... and I couldn't be happier.
PS: one last thing - have him do a nerd-friendly sport. Mine was swimming, and I now play water polo at school. Martial arts are also recommended, I was in the ju-jitsu club for quite a while too. Don't let that stuff get to his head though.
So add it as a plugin or an option that won't slow me down when I don't use it. I want a web browser with speed. Don't screw up firefox, today I've officially switched over from galeon.
Haha, sorry, but I'm from Cleveland and currently live in Columbus and had to poke!
There's too much money out there to rely on users to update that stuff.
I'm having trouble believing this picture... look how perfect it is! It's awe-inspiring that something like that truly exists
So this means that only the bottom feeding CORPORATIONS can afford to landrush it. That's why it's worse.
And the Indians are pissed that the Americans were able to do it in a cost-effective and internal manner.
Hey, if a million linux users [read: geeks] were trying to do ME, I would be feeling vulnerable and exploited too! No wonder he's rebelling.
Maybe i'll check out what the deal is.
I'll be extremely surprised if anyone takes this shit seriously now.
You need a reliable computer for your dorm and apartment.
Maybe you should use the computer labs at school anyway -- this is a good way to meet people, and get help in your class by talking to people working on the same projects.
So why do I want you to be a cheapass? Because you should be spending your money on ONE thing - alcohol. No other time to waste it on booze than college. You got all the rest of your life to waste it on technology that you WILL be able to afford later one.
If there are as many exploits as I think there will be, how long will it take before companies just get plain sick and tired of their products?
Business-types consider IT budgets sunken money anyway. The last thing they're going to want to hear is that they had to pay millions due to downtime, overtime, etc.. because their systems are swiss cheese.
I honestly think this is going to expedite a switch to more secure systems.
An exploit this quick? There's going to be some serious happenings going on at Microsoft. Also look for another Longhorn delay sometime due to everything that is found out.
I'm not sure what to think. I'm not happy that when I get back to work this summer, I'm going to spend way too much time fighting these problems/viruses and patching things up. I'm not happy businesses are losing money. I am, however, happy that Microsoft is forced to clean up their act even more, or they are going to lose market share.
Open source isn't 'communistic' -- it's capitalistic. Why? It increases competition.
We have an interesting 6 months ahead of us, folks.
This IS WHAT CAPITALISM IS ALL ABOUT -- COMPETITION. I don't care whose product we use, I just want it to work, and I want it to be fairly priced. And guess what -- we (the linux community) are the sole reason for getting microsoft to drop their prices. We are now COMPETITIVE. This is huge. This is what capitalism is all about. MS can't strongarm every company in the world for too much longer. You can now threaten them with the big L word or the big blue.
This is incredible. Others are going to see that MS can have lower prices, and we can now negotiate with the devil.
Why don't we do that with more of our sites? That used to be a great way to get downloads going. Of course, I'd want to link to the Firefox INSTALLER if such a thing exists (not a zip file), but still - that could help!
Hahaha, god i'm bitter at the opposite sex lately :)
There was a good response about your network being sniffed and you could get the knocking sequence, but maybe the knocking sequence could also be changed regularly and you get a key that somehow deciphers what knock sequence to use on what given day or whatever.
I've never implemented anything like that, so that's just a general idea. You can see what I'm saying -- yet ANOTHER layer somehow that changes.
Ga Tech eh? Isn't that the school with KAMEN and HECK who wrote the Signals and Systems book? Please let them know that it is, by far, the worst text book I've ever had to buy. Absolutely worthless. I can't wait to sell it on half.com after this quarter is over.
Forget programming, millions of people can do that -- but not many people can mix your two areas of expertise.