Slackware users will probably dislike what they've done.
Hi, Slackware Zealot here. Just to prove you wrong, I like the idea of a nice perty interface. I think it is needed. However, I won't use it. I am downloading it for one of my roomates who wants to try Linux though, I think this is a real nice starting point for most users.
That being said, I have one complaint. FIVE fscking-disks?! Hello!?!? Some people still are too cheap to buy stuff! Hell Slack is just recently toying with the idea for possibly going to 2, and even they postponed it for another release. Sheesh!
You young whipper snappers! This is my 2nd account to, my first one (Zaphod_B, 87000-something) was tragically lost during a passowrd change attempt, and is now forever relegated to the bowels of unused UIDs.
Another good book is "The Fugitive Game" by John Littman. Highly Recommend this book to anyone who has ever read Takedown, as it provides a more (IMHO) realistic, albeit shorter, view of the arrest of Kevin. The book overall follows Kevin during his time as a fugitive, in which he had telephone conversations with the author. Kevin even says the book is a very accurate portrayal of what really happened. Buy this book, now.:)
Man, I think I am going to have to pull that book off my shelf this weekend and start it again.
But you know what 100% Microsoft translates to? 100% downtime when the next "melissa" or "nimda" hits.
No. No, No, No, and No again. It's not about a 100% homogenous networks, its not about MSFT or Linux, and it's not about what certifications you have. It's about competent administration. I am a NT admin, I enjoy Linux, I use it at home regularly, but NT pays the bills. We got hit by Nimda, but, we only lost 2 computers. One of which was a Developer's box who decided to be running IIS and told no one about it (Patient Zero, I think he was rooted within 5 minutes of the first onslaught of IIS exploits), the other one ran an attachment 5 minutes before we pushed out the AnitVirus updates ("But I only previewed it!" LART - Hard). I think we had spare boxes swapped out in about 1 hour and had files salvaged off the old PCs in about 3h. Did we do mop up duty for the next 2 days due to infected boxes from "trusted" people spewing.eml files onto our file server? [1] Indeedy do. Did we put in some overtime? I think all of IT did about 2 hours per person the night after the initial infection, and I put in about 2 hours watching snort logs scroll by the first night the sh*t hit the fan. under $200 OT, probably cost my department $300-$400 tops. Did my 2 IIS servers (*shudder* Yes, I hate them too) get rooted? No way. I patch those things like there is no tommorow.Did we lose the entire network to the thing? Not on your life.
Also, when everything calmed down, we all sat down over a nice glass of Guiness and figured out "What can we do better next time?" there is always room for improvement. (We initiated policies of port scanning computers in the NT domain for unauthorized services, as we were proved once again that some people can't be trusted)
That is how it all works . thank you.
Wow, that was a nice rant
[1]"Why is $luser's account disabled?" "Because she was spewing nimda into our file server" "But she needs to access $important_file" "When she gets fixed and I cna inspect her computer, I will re-enable the account"
Here, Here! My parents never forced me to be like them, in fact my father actively discouraged him from taking his route through life (Never went to college), but they were always supportive in what I wanted to do and alwasy supported me through what I did. They had to kick me in the butt a couple of times, but I look back and realize it was nessecary. I'm happy the way I turned out.:)
Well, I got the impression that she wasn't "not good" at math, she was just "not enthusiastic" about it. I never said to actvely discoruage her from math nor not help her if she is struggling. I got the idea that she doesn't like math the way I didn't, I hate algebra, I hate calculus, and I have never had a reason to use them in real life (note, I am SysAdmin, not a Software Jockey)
My parents never pointed me in a direction that I didn't want to go in, but still encouraged me to be curious, do the things I wanted to do, and never stop learning. Did they help me out when I was struggling with Math in HS? Yes. Did they try to be exact replicas of themselves? Nope, and so far I think I turned out OK.
Instead of wanting to mold your daughter into a math geek, why not just let her enjoy the things that she wants to do by herself? Instead of trying to turn her toward math, why don't you just continue to encourage her reading skills and just leave it at that?
Your Lucky enough to have a kid who actaully shows intrest in reading at all.
Actaully, I adapted the Alien idea from an old "B.C." comic where one of the cavemen was painting an alien on the wall of a cave saying "Man, this ought to screw with their minds in the future" or something to that extent.
But seriously, (I read about it in Snow Crash first, and I later read into it more) A lot of the stuff written in pyramids are rubbish, its mostly pro-Egyptian propaganda: "We whooped his butt because we are cool like that!", where they might have had their butts whooped by their opponents. Apparently, some Archeaologists really don't take some Egyptian History too seriously unless collaborated by other sources.
Egyptian Engineer 1: "Hey Ahumhuphet!" Egyptian Engineer 2: "Yo!" Egyptian Engineer 1: "Check it out, I designed this really long, small passage that leads to a door, then it goes on, and leads to another door!" Egyptian Engineer 2: "Why?" Egyptian Engineer 1: "...dunno... thought it would be cool" Egyptian Engineer 2: "Man, this is like your idea to draw aliens on hieroglyphs! Its not like anyone is ever going to/see/ these things!"
True, While it shouldn't be the first thing you do, Dropping into ASM to check things out/usually/ will yield a performance increase, in my experience. Also, learning assembly and such will show you how to write faster conditional statements (IIRC a "while a != b) yields better non-optimized assembly then "while a = b" [Could be way off my mark on it, but I was taught an example like that])
*points to the 45-byte guy who was here before him*
That, is why ASM is better then any HLL. I think the best quote I got from one of my Computer Engineering book was (paraphrasing) "Modern compilers with their optimizations are on the road to becoming almost as good as hand writen assembler."
Now, would I write word processor in ASM? Not bloody likely, HLLs make it much easier to do. But, when you are writing code for some type of embeded system that doesn't have a whopping 2 GHz processor, ASM will beat any HLL hands down. Unfortunately, too many people think ASM is dead, never learn it, write their embedded code in C and when it isn't fast enough, tell their supervisors that it needs a faster processor. Consider this scenario (stolen from one of my profs):
Coder writes embedded system in C.
Code isn't fast enough makes company buy faster processor
Each processor adds $10 to cost of said system.
$10 * 1e6 units = $10e6
As opposed to this
Coder writes embedded system in C
Code isn't fast enough
Company calls in consultant
Consultant reads C, looks at the ASM it creates and spends one night tightening the ASM up.
Consultant head off to Florida for the rest of the week
At the end of the week consultant makes himself looked disheveled and stumbles in saying "It took all week, but here is the code, it will save to $10 per unit"
Consultant Charges $2e6, which will the company gladly pays, considering it saves them over $8e6.
See, knowing ASM and how processor works is a good thing that can make you money (maybe not as much, but still a nice whopping amount for a few days work). ASM is still needed, and anyone who says different, does not understand how computers work.
OK, break out your favorite editor. Write a "Hello World" program in C. Compile, tell the computer to optimize the sh*t out of it. Now, write the same program in ASM. I can guarentee you the ASM version will be about 5x smaller then the compiled one. And Smaller == Faster.
I hate PASCAL, I took a course in HS and the teacher was horrific: Teaching us functions but never teaching them correctly (passing variables? whatzat?), a very scrict comment policy (each line had to descibe what each variable did, every time it was used.), among other things. Then I took a simple C course and everything made sense.
Amen! I am glad (and relieved) that someone other then myself feels that way. I learned x86 assembly about a year ago during my junior year, its fantastic, I really got a grasp on what goes inside the processor, which, sadly, a lot of CS/CE students don't have. I think that it allows me to write faster code in my C programs by keeping in mind how it translated down to ASM.
Its aslo handy to know for embedded systems.
Also, I used Kip's book and I fall into the 'cool book' catagory
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You young whipper snappers! This is my 2nd account to, my first one (Zaphod_B, 87000-something) was tragically lost during a passowrd change attempt, and is now forever relegated to the bowels of unused UIDs.
*lart*
The only reason AShcroft is named is because he is the current attorney general in the US. He has had nothing to do with TCEA.
We need a "(-1, Didn't read the story)"
Also try Where Wizards Stay Up Late. Really thorough explanation of the early days of computer and the origins of ARPANet.
Man, I think I am going to have to pull that book off my shelf this weekend and start it again.
Now, lets see what's behind the door!
NOTHING! Absolutely NOTHING! STUPID!
Never underestimate the bandwith of a stationwagon full of backup tapes. (Or a 747 full of CD-ROMs)
Here, Here! My parents never forced me to be like them, in fact my father actively discouraged him from taking his route through life (Never went to college), but they were always supportive in what I wanted to do and alwasy supported me through what I did. They had to kick me in the butt a couple of times, but I look back and realize it was nessecary. I'm happy the way I turned out. :)
Well, I got the impression that she wasn't "not good" at math, she was just "not enthusiastic" about it. I never said to actvely discoruage her from math nor not help her if she is struggling. I got the idea that she doesn't like math the way I didn't, I hate algebra, I hate calculus, and I have never had a reason to use them in real life (note, I am SysAdmin, not a Software Jockey)
My parents never pointed me in a direction that I didn't want to go in, but still encouraged me to be curious, do the things I wanted to do, and never stop learning. Did they help me out when I was struggling with Math in HS? Yes. Did they try to be exact replicas of themselves? Nope, and so far I think I turned out OK.
Instead of wanting to mold your daughter into a math geek, why not just let her enjoy the things that she wants to do by herself? Instead of trying to turn her toward math, why don't you just continue to encourage her reading skills and just leave it at that?
Your Lucky enough to have a kid who actaully shows intrest in reading at all.
Actaully, I adapted the Alien idea from an old "B.C." comic where one of the cavemen was painting an alien on the wall of a cave saying "Man, this ought to screw with their minds in the future" or something to that extent.
But seriously, (I read about it in Snow Crash first, and I later read into it more) A lot of the stuff written in pyramids are rubbish, its mostly pro-Egyptian propaganda: "We whooped his butt because we are cool like that!", where they might have had their butts whooped by their opponents. Apparently, some Archeaologists really don't take some Egyptian History too seriously unless collaborated by other sources.
Egyptian Engineer 1: "Hey Ahumhuphet!" /see/ these things!"
Egyptian Engineer 2: "Yo!"
Egyptian Engineer 1: "Check it out, I designed this really long, small passage that leads to a door, then it goes on, and leads to another door!"
Egyptian Engineer 2: "Why?"
Egyptian Engineer 1: "...dunno... thought it would be cool"
Egyptian Engineer 2: "Man, this is like your idea to draw aliens on hieroglyphs! Its not like anyone is ever going to
For us non-Mac people, we can still play with Mozilla Calendar
True, While it shouldn't be the first thing you do, Dropping into ASM to check things out /usually/ will yield a performance increase, in my experience. Also, learning assembly and such will show you how to write faster conditional statements (IIRC a "while a != b) yields better non-optimized assembly then "while a = b" [Could be way off my mark on it, but I was taught an example like that])
As always, YMMV.
That, is why ASM is better then any HLL. I think the best quote I got from one of my Computer Engineering book was (paraphrasing) "Modern compilers with their optimizations are on the road to becoming almost as good as hand writen assembler."
Now, would I write word processor in ASM? Not bloody likely, HLLs make it much easier to do. But, when you are writing code for some type of embeded system that doesn't have a whopping 2 GHz processor, ASM will beat any HLL hands down. Unfortunately, too many people think ASM is dead, never learn it, write their embedded code in C and when it isn't fast enough, tell their supervisors that it needs a faster processor. Consider this scenario (stolen from one of my profs):
- Coder writes embedded system in C.
- Code isn't fast enough makes company buy faster processor
- Each processor adds $10 to cost of said system.
- $10 * 1e6 units = $10e6
As opposed to this- Coder writes embedded system in C
- Code isn't fast enough
- Company calls in consultant
- Consultant reads C, looks at the ASM it creates and spends one night tightening the ASM up.
- Consultant head off to Florida for the rest of the week
- At the end of the week consultant makes himself looked disheveled and stumbles in saying "It took all week, but here is the code, it will save to $10 per unit"
- Consultant Charges $2e6, which will the company gladly pays, considering it saves them over $8e6.
See, knowing ASM and how processor works is a good thing that can make you money (maybe not as much, but still a nice whopping amount for a few days work). ASM is still needed, and anyone who says different, does not understand how computers work.*bookmark*
Oh my $DEITY, that is sweet, Thanks for posting that.
OK, break out your favorite editor. Write a "Hello World" program in C. Compile, tell the computer to optimize the sh*t out of it. Now, write the same program in ASM. I can guarentee you the ASM version will be about 5x smaller then the compiled one. And Smaller == Faster.
Just a lurker, I never comment.
Oh this isn't Fark.com? I'll get my coat.
I hate PASCAL, I took a course in HS and the teacher was horrific: Teaching us functions but never teaching them correctly (passing variables? whatzat?), a very scrict comment policy (each line had to descibe what each variable did, every time it was used.), among other things. Then I took a simple C course and everything made sense.
I never liked PASCAL and I never will. *shudder*
Amen! I am glad (and relieved) that someone other then myself feels that way. I learned x86 assembly about a year ago during my junior year, its fantastic, I really got a grasp on what goes inside the processor, which, sadly, a lot of CS/CE students don't have. I think that it allows me to write faster code in my C programs by keeping in mind how it translated down to ASM.
Its aslo handy to know for embedded systems.
Also, I used Kip's book and I fall into the 'cool book' catagory