time_t st_ctime;/* Time of last file status change */ /* Times measured in seconds since */ /* 00:00:00 UTC, Jan. 1, 1970 */
and further down ...
st_ctime Time when file status was last changed. Changed by the following functions: chmod(), chown(), creat(), link(2), mknod(), pipe(), unlink(2), utime(), and write().
Yes, creating a hard link to a file, chowning it, or chmoding it will change its ctime. creation time my eye. Oh well slashdot doesn't respect pre tags anymore, deal with the formatting.
Have you just noticed this fact? Most slashdot headlines are taken verbatim from the original article. This isn't unusual in itself, but custom and courtesy dictate that the name of the publication or service be placed before the headline. This is what Linux Today does.
Shakespeare is great when run through babblefish. For some reason it seems to do Macbeth reasonably well, but totally mangles Hamlet. "To be or not to be" would become unrecognizable, whereas I couldn't get it to mangle "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow". Actually I plugged the whole of those respective soloquies in, and Macbeth still came out readable.
You'd be neither the first nor last pro-choice advocate (assuming you are) who believes Roe.v.Wade was decided on a rather shaky interpretation of privacy rather than a firmer grounding in equal protection under the law. This is relevant to the privacy issue here, as it's the basis of civil rights cases against "profiling". The dragnet process of gathering evidence against a certain class of criminal (terrorists, drug dealers, etc) wherein suspicion (and thus monitoring) of every single contact is its own sort of profiling. Witness how open-ended investigations tend to creep (can we say "Monica Lewinsky"?)
The 21st century will be marked by the word "privacy" entering the lexicon of newspeak, joining the ranks of "family values".
> I can certainly envision a future where every packet you send must first be routed through the Fed's computer system before it's sent off to it's destination.
Actually this was mandated years ago by a voice vote called the Digital Telephony Act. Requires phone companies to install enough ports for the FBI to tap from a central location as many phones as they want. Currently they want enough capacity to tap one home on every single residental block in America.
Got any more fears I can assuage by showing you how they already happened?
One thing I do find remarkable is that I've met a reasonably large number of people who describe themselves as "against religion" but are fascinated by religions such as Buddhism or Taoism. Does anyone have any insight as to why this is (it seems inconsistent to me)?
They're not so much anti-religion as anti-theist. Taoism is totally non-theistic, being little more than a nature-oriented metaphysics. Buddhism is only quasi-theistic in that it does not worship Buddha, pays homage to several historical (as well as mystical) Buddhas, and believes any can attain Buddha status (Buddha is a title meaning "enlightened one"). This doesn't quite apply to the Therevada branch which is a bit closer to its Hindu origins, but that's going even further off-track...
Atheism and Buddhism are quite compatible. But yes, there's also the poseurs who just like to be into something "eastern" because it's exotic and isn't so "western" (this division being a distinctly "western" view of the world, ironically enough).
There are many organizations that want to save us from the epidemic of drugs, non-whites, or responsibility (yes it cuts both ways). I personally see these organizations as an epidemic that I sincerely wish to save others from. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
DESCRIPTION X Window System servers run on computers with bitmap displays ... X supports overlapping hierarchical subwindows and text and graphics operations, on both monochrome and color displays.
And so on. For not being a GUI it sure seems to have a lot of blits, rectangles, lines, cursors, fonts, and colors wired right in. Oh yeah there's this X protocol thing which is useful for other things but is rarely used for it.
Can you dispense with the frothing at the mouth now?
PGP is not "uncrackable", merely "hard". A OTP isn't a mathematical problem, it's a pre-established secure channel. The trick of course is in establishing that channel. And you can't reuse it.
I'd heard of one or two, used to be with an outfit that did work with schools and communities, but I can't find it anymore. I had lots of fun teaching complete computer illiterates how to write HTML by hand with notepad (well, PFE) -- a reasonably marketable skill while learning about files and networking and so on. De-mystifying the workings of the web is empowering that way.
And yes they ran Windows, 3.1 to be exact. X wasn't going to cut it in 4 or 6 megs RAM, and believe me we tried. Web server ran linux though.
Whup, my mistake, Diamond doesn't make the Stealth either, that was usually based on an S3 chip. So Diamond in general seems to be doing quite well without their own chips.
Yes, like "I accidentally deleted that file" or "my drive crashed and I need that file" or "employee X quit, this is his manager, I need these files he was working on".
Human error, hardware failures, and reorganization all still do happen.
One crash a day is a pretty wild number, way high. I supported Windows, hated every minute of having to deal with this awful perpetually broken brittle piece of crap operating system. But if someone's computer crashed every single day, damn straight they'd be calling the helpdesk eventually, and I can tell you we didn't get calls from every single person in the company.
Geez, he can't even get slashdot to agree with him on this one...
This isn't inefficiency of technology, it's inefficiency of process. Every auto parts store I've been to, I ask for the part, they yank it off the shelf immediately if they know exactly what I'm asking for while the other guy at the counter punches it in. Then when the part gets up to the counter, he compares the part numbers and hands it to me where I take it to the checkout. The part has a box or a tag that's barcoded.
If there's only one guy at the distributorship and people are lining up waiting for a long time, then they're simply understaffed.
What boggles my mind is that some people have actually told me "Cool, I'd like to be in tech support, how would I get in?" I gave 'em dirty looks like they were mocking me. I was a level 1 tech (phone drone) and I was doing nothing but internal support, i.e. no external customers. So if someone cussed me out I can and did call their manager over it. And I still burned out. Now I'm a level 2 type, I take only returned calls to ones I made, and having root access isn't a matter of if politics will ever allow it, it's a matter of when I get it. Know what? It still sucks in a lot of places, but I deal.
All that said it's good that the dark sides of any industry be exposed. More knowledge is a good thing. Overall though, the story seemed really lacking in actual anecdotes, and mostly contained a lot of assertions and opinions. Maybe true, but I didn't feel like I was being given a picture of the situation more than being handed a resignation letter.
Now let me start off by saying that I love KDE, I use it on my Linux box, and I previously used it on my sparc (but I have to support CDE now and it's much easier to do so when actually running it). Bugs and all (like consistently losing all but two of my desktops) I still like it.
But the screenshots of the device manager and user manager really made me wince. These are identical copies of the windows equivalents. Know what immediate impression I get? Microsoft leads, KDE copies. This is not a reputation we deserve to get.
How old are you anyway? At least 15 to 20 years old? Your development has gotten so slow that you probably haven't added any height whatever for at least a year, if not longer. You probably have added weight (bloat) since you stopped developing.
Its probably time to replace you. You've stopped making progress.
Actually this is precisely why we reproduce.
Re:Berlin and Fresco are even slower - believe it
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> Each of CORBA's on the wire requests has a big header which includes the name of the remote function name - in ASCII no less!
This isn't so much a problem with CORBA so much as it is with IIOP, which I'll admit is a pretty well entrenched part of CORBA. It did boggle my mind how stateless they tried to make IIOP. A real world analogy would be like doing away with pronouns. John went to the store and John bought some raspberries and John put the raspberries on John's cereal and John thought the raspberries were rather tasty. (and to top it off, you're John). Now that CORBA 3.0 has interface versioning, maybe we can say "okay you refer to function xyzfoobarbazmumbleblah as 2, ok?" I wouldnt count on it though.
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> Plan 9's windowing system will run another instance of itself in one of its windows
Any window? Running xli inside an xterm would be nifty indeed. Or is it a "window system window?" Xnest has been able to do that for a long time.
I don't even know where to begin listing the ways this article stomps on my buttons. Could it be the Linus-is-God mentality and if he says "modularity sucks" then it must? His opinions lost a lot of credibility with me after his rantings against microkernels.
Or perhaps the "it's good because it's standard" mentality that drives the author to plug bloatif. Hey where's my grid control for motif? How about a tree list? News flash: they don't exist.
Or maybe "well X really *can* do this because it has extension y and extension z". Great, extension after extension after extension, while fonts can STILL only be passed around as 1-bit pixmaps. Hey the Windows API has a lot of extensions too, are you happy with that?
Or perhaps it's the "newness is unbellyfeel doubleplusungood, our leaders have taken us this far, petition them with our cries that they may take pity on us." This could just devolve into a whole new sub-rant, but I'll ask the $20,000 question: how much does membership in The Open Group cost? (Around half the cost of the question, I believe?)
This is personally my best hope for replacing X, or giving it a sorely needed wakeup call.
I think it's more a benhmark on developers, not languages. Dallheimer, Ettrich, and let's not forget the Trolls who made the toolkit and ported mozilla to Qt inside a week.
All that said, I wish Qt would use the signal/slot mechanism of Gtk--. Moc is a nasty little boondoggle I could do without.
Know what would have been a perfect reply? Quoting the last paragraph of his article verbatim. The one before his, ah, retraction.
Wow. I've seen plenty of opinionated articles from Tom before, but I always figured he was factual if a little hot-headed. I'm done with him now, and won't be recommending tomshardware any more to people looking for information before buying.
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man stat
/* Time of last file status change */
/* Times measured in seconds since */
/* 00:00:00 UTC, Jan. 1, 1970 */
time_t st_ctime;
and further down
...
st_ctime Time when file status was last changed. Changed by
the following functions: chmod(), chown(),
creat(), link(2), mknod(), pipe(), unlink(2),
utime(), and write().
Yes, creating a hard link to a file, chowning it, or chmoding it will change its ctime. creation time my eye. Oh well slashdot doesn't respect pre tags anymore, deal with the formatting.
Have you just noticed this fact? Most slashdot headlines are taken verbatim from the original article. This isn't unusual in itself, but custom and courtesy dictate that the name of the publication or service be placed before the headline. This is what Linux Today does.
Shakespeare is great when run through babblefish. For some reason it seems to do Macbeth reasonably well, but totally mangles Hamlet. "To be or not to be" would become unrecognizable, whereas I couldn't get it to mangle "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow". Actually I plugged the whole of those respective soloquies in, and Macbeth still came out readable.
You'd be neither the first nor last pro-choice advocate (assuming you are) who believes Roe.v.Wade was decided on a rather shaky interpretation of privacy rather than a firmer grounding in equal protection under the law. This is relevant to the privacy issue here, as it's the basis of civil rights cases against "profiling". The dragnet process of gathering evidence against a certain class of criminal (terrorists, drug dealers, etc) wherein suspicion (and thus monitoring) of every single contact is its own sort of profiling. Witness how open-ended investigations tend to creep (can we say "Monica Lewinsky"?)
The 21st century will be marked by the word "privacy" entering the lexicon of newspeak, joining the ranks of "family values".
> I can certainly envision a future where every packet you send must first be routed through the Fed's computer system before it's sent off to it's destination.
Actually this was mandated years ago by a voice vote called the Digital Telephony Act. Requires phone companies to install enough ports for the FBI to tap from a central location as many phones as they want. Currently they want enough capacity to tap one home on every single residental block in America.
Got any more fears I can assuage by showing you how they already happened?
They're not so much anti-religion as anti-theist. Taoism is totally non-theistic, being little more than a nature-oriented metaphysics. Buddhism is only quasi-theistic in that it does not worship Buddha, pays homage to several historical (as well as mystical) Buddhas, and believes any can attain Buddha status (Buddha is a title meaning "enlightened one"). This doesn't quite apply to the Therevada branch which is a bit closer to its Hindu origins, but that's going even further off-track...
Atheism and Buddhism are quite compatible. But yes, there's also the poseurs who just like to be into something "eastern" because it's exotic and isn't so "western" (this division being a distinctly "western" view of the world, ironically enough).
There are many organizations that want to save us from the epidemic of drugs, non-whites, or responsibility (yes it cuts both ways). I personally see these organizations as an epidemic that I sincerely wish to save others from. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
> X is *NOT* a GUI!!!
> read: man X
DESCRIPTION
X Window System servers run on computers with bitmap displays
...
X supports overlapping hierarchical subwindows and text and graphics operations, on both monochrome and color displays.
And so on. For not being a GUI it sure seems to have a lot of blits, rectangles, lines, cursors, fonts, and colors wired right in. Oh yeah there's this X protocol thing which is useful for other things but is rarely used for it.
Can you dispense with the frothing at the mouth now?
They smoke hash legally in Turkey, moron.
PGP is not "uncrackable", merely "hard". A OTP isn't a mathematical problem, it's a pre-established secure channel. The trick of course is in establishing that channel. And you can't reuse it.
I'd heard of one or two, used to be with an outfit that did work with schools and communities, but I can't find it anymore. I had lots of fun teaching complete computer illiterates how to write HTML by hand with notepad (well, PFE) -- a reasonably marketable skill while learning about files and networking and so on. De-mystifying the workings of the web is empowering that way.
And yes they ran Windows, 3.1 to be exact. X wasn't going to cut it in 4 or 6 megs RAM, and believe me we tried. Web server ran linux though.
Whup, my mistake, Diamond doesn't make the Stealth either, that was usually based on an S3 chip. So Diamond in general seems to be doing quite well without their own chips.
> It seems to me that being a video card maker, while using someone elses chipset is not very profitable business.
Diamond seems to do better with others' chipsets than their own. Know anyone who likes the Stealth at all? Now what about the Viper line?
Yes, like "I accidentally deleted that file" or "my drive crashed and I need that file" or "employee X quit, this is his manager, I need these files he was working on".
Human error, hardware failures, and reorganization all still do happen.
One crash a day is a pretty wild number, way high. I supported Windows, hated every minute of having to deal with this awful perpetually broken brittle piece of crap operating system. But if someone's computer crashed every single day, damn straight they'd be calling the helpdesk eventually, and I can tell you we didn't get calls from every single person in the company.
Geez, he can't even get slashdot to agree with him on this one...
This isn't inefficiency of technology, it's inefficiency of process. Every auto parts store I've been to, I ask for the part, they yank it off the shelf immediately if they know exactly what I'm asking for while the other guy at the counter punches it in. Then when the part gets up to the counter, he compares the part numbers and hands it to me where I take it to the checkout. The part has a box or a tag that's barcoded.
If there's only one guy at the distributorship and people are lining up waiting for a long time, then they're simply understaffed.
Dude... 3 grand is nothing. The products engineers sell typically price higher than a McCheesburger and McFries, yunno.
What boggles my mind is that some people have actually told me "Cool, I'd like to be in tech support, how would I get in?" I gave 'em dirty looks like they were mocking me. I was a level 1 tech (phone drone) and I was doing nothing but internal support, i.e. no external customers. So if someone cussed me out I can and did call their manager over it. And I still burned out. Now I'm a level 2 type, I take only returned calls to ones I made, and having root access isn't a matter of if politics will ever allow it, it's a matter of when I get it. Know what? It still sucks in a lot of places, but I deal.
All that said it's good that the dark sides of any industry be exposed. More knowledge is a good thing. Overall though, the story seemed really lacking in actual anecdotes, and mostly contained a lot of assertions and opinions. Maybe true, but I didn't feel like I was being given a picture of the situation more than being handed a resignation letter.
Now let me start off by saying that I love KDE, I use it on my Linux box, and I previously used it on my sparc (but I have to support CDE now and it's much easier to do so when actually running it). Bugs and all (like consistently losing all but two of my desktops) I still like it.
But the screenshots of the device manager and user manager really made me wince. These are identical copies of the windows equivalents. Know what immediate impression I get? Microsoft leads, KDE copies. This is not a reputation we deserve to get.
Actually this is precisely why we reproduce.
> Each of CORBA's on the wire requests has a big header which includes the name of the remote function name - in ASCII no less!
This isn't so much a problem with CORBA so much as it is with IIOP, which I'll admit is a pretty well entrenched part of CORBA. It did boggle my mind how stateless they tried to make IIOP. A real world analogy would be like doing away with pronouns. John went to the store and John bought some raspberries and John put the raspberries on John's cereal and John thought the raspberries were rather tasty. (and to top it off, you're John). Now that CORBA 3.0 has interface versioning, maybe we can say "okay you refer to function xyzfoobarbazmumbleblah as 2, ok?" I wouldnt count on it though.
> Plan 9's windowing system will run another instance of itself in one of its windows
Any window? Running xli inside an xterm would be nifty indeed. Or is it a "window system window?" Xnest has been able to do that for a long time.
I don't even know where to begin listing the ways this article stomps on my buttons. Could it be the Linus-is-God mentality and if he says "modularity sucks" then it must? His opinions lost a lot of credibility with me after his rantings against microkernels.
Or perhaps the "it's good because it's standard" mentality that drives the author to plug bloatif. Hey where's my grid control for motif? How about a tree list? News flash: they don't exist.
Or maybe "well X really *can* do this because it has extension y and extension z". Great, extension after extension after extension, while fonts can STILL only be passed around as 1-bit pixmaps. Hey the Windows API has a lot of extensions too, are you happy with that?
Or perhaps it's the "newness is unbellyfeel doubleplusungood, our leaders have taken us this far, petition them with our cries that they may take pity on us." This could just devolve into a whole new sub-rant, but I'll ask the $20,000 question: how much does membership in The Open Group cost? (Around half the cost of the question, I believe?)
This is personally my best hope for replacing X, or giving it a sorely needed wakeup call.
I think it's more a benhmark on developers, not languages. Dallheimer, Ettrich, and let's not forget the Trolls who made the toolkit and ported mozilla to Qt inside a week.
All that said, I wish Qt would use the signal/slot mechanism of Gtk--. Moc is a nasty little boondoggle I could do without.
Know what would have been a perfect reply? Quoting the last paragraph of his article verbatim. The one before his, ah, retraction.
Wow. I've seen plenty of opinionated articles from Tom before, but I always figured he was factual if a little hot-headed. I'm done with him now, and won't be recommending tomshardware any more to people looking for information before buying.