Me: Do you want it done right, or do you want it done fast?
Product-guy: We want it fast.
This proposal is so far out there, there's not really any need to worry about it, but if it ever happened, watch US business (especially startups) grind to a halt.
Kinda related -- a neat program over at Arstechnica to send out those last few message group posts and emails from beyond the grave -- dead man's switch.
not to be a jerk or anything, but you've got a pretty serious race condition there. if any files are changed while rsync is running, you'll miss them. not such a big deal, i guess, since eventually you'll pick them up. if would be safer to touch the file before any processing is done.
If I am to believe all the Verizon advertising, two
people can share a moment over the phone (and thus
in different places).
The internet has changed the way people interact. If I
have friends over at my house and we're talking about music,
I can say, "hey, wait, listen to this" and turn on the
stereo. If I'm talking to friends on IRC/aim about music,
and I say, "hey, wait, listen to this," the only way to
get them to share in the moment is to send them a copy
of the file. And that should be a felony?
first of all, it's pretty insane to assume everyone should read all relevant documenation before posting. YES, read the article/review/whatever itself, but if there's an article about a new XML parser from apache, should ever reader read all the w3 docs regarding XML documents, dtd, schemas, etc.? probably not...
secondly, if you're saying that I'm wrong about only vanilla compiles, whatever. of course it's always possible to compile in whatever you want (umm, download the source).
the point i'm trying to make is that if all you are doing is typing "emerage rysnc", you're obviously not doing all this setup. If you were doing all this setup, how is "emerge rynsc" easier than just downloading the package, setting some variables, and typing "make"?
seems like a waste of computing power, especially
if you are compiling it with all default options
(which must be the case if all you are typing is "emerge foo").
Afterall, there's always
Extraterrestrial life to search for, encryption to break, or maybe even a cure for cancer. Do we all really need to re-compile rsync?
it is also possible to use FTP server to server (ftp from a to b, transfer files from b to c) thanks to the overly complicated protocol and control channel. Maybe that's what he was talking about.
Parasitic computing is getting other machines to perform calculations for you, while only using legitimate services. There is a great article here
There's also a good page quickly discussing Villain-to-Victim computing. The point is to use correctly configured machines to do things they were not intended to.
umm, i think your missing the point. the poster was afraid of letting javascript run in his browser, but the whole point of this exercise is that once he is finished, he's planning on running an installer that is going to have free run of his computer. if real wants to mess with him, they can do it with realplayer, they don't have to mess with javascript.
best quote from the article
on
Wired Talks Wine
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Responding to Steve Wasko's (Microsoft) comments about no threat from WINE/Linux.
..., Lebor said. "I also find it intriguing that Microsoft has a Linux Competitive Manager if they don't see Linux as competition."
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This is exactly it.
Me: Do you want it done right, or do you want it done fast?
Product-guy: We want it fast.
This proposal is so far out there, there's not really any need to worry about it, but if it ever happened, watch US business (especially startups) grind to a halt.
Kinda related -- a neat program over at Arstechnica to send out those last few message group posts and emails from beyond the grave -- dead man's switch.
yeah, you've got some client to client abilities (dcc), but that's not the way it's usually used.
not to be a jerk or anything, but you've got a pretty serious race condition there. if any files are changed while rsync is running, you'll miss them. not such a big deal, i guess, since eventually you'll pick them up. if would be safer to touch the file before any processing is done.
.last-sync .last-sync-cur .last-sync .last-sync-cur
mv
touch
find . -follow -cnewer
etc., etc.
but still, rsync is a great idea.
I mean, you can buy a lot of things for $129. It's a shame there's not a cheaper upgrade price....
The internet has changed the way people interact. If I have friends over at my house and we're talking about music, I can say, "hey, wait, listen to this" and turn on the stereo. If I'm talking to friends on IRC/aim about music, and I say, "hey, wait, listen to this," the only way to get them to share in the moment is to send them a copy of the file. And that should be a felony?
The fact that the only way to share digital media is to make a copy is the tricky part, but what we need is way to make sharing compensate the copyright holders in some way, not outlaw sharing.
slightly off topic, but interesting and not too well known, so i'll give it a shot.
back in the day, microsoft actually had their own unix,
called xenix, which later became SCO unix.
link
yeah
Funny thing is, the page doesn't render correctly in Konqueror....
Once again. we need a moderator boot camp
or something. Offtopic? gimme a break.
Umm, anyone who marked that informative obviously
didn't bother to check the links. thanks guys!
using a cell phone would be too expensive... .. and we used a cell phone to get online!!!
You know it's bad when the mozilla contributors think mozilla isn't that useable. mpt seems to have a ton of valid complaints...
Yes, compiling packages when I don't care about non-standard installations certainly does make me cool!
first of all, it's pretty insane to assume everyone should read all relevant documenation before posting. YES, read the article/review/whatever itself, but if there's an article about a new XML parser from apache, should ever reader read all the w3 docs regarding XML documents, dtd, schemas, etc.? probably not...
secondly, if you're saying that I'm wrong about only vanilla compiles, whatever. of course it's always possible to compile in whatever you want (umm, download the source).
the point i'm trying to make is that if all you are doing is typing "emerage rysnc", you're obviously not doing all this setup. If you were doing all this setup, how is "emerge rynsc" easier than just downloading the package, setting some variables, and typing "make"?
that's why they have packagename-i{386, 596, 686}.{rpm, deb, whatever}.
Afterall, there's always Extraterrestrial life to search for, encryption to break, or maybe even a cure for cancer. Do we all really need to re-compile rsync?
umm, read the article.
(hint: the guy who submitted the story obviously did).
it is also possible to use FTP server to server (ftp from a to b, transfer files from b to c) thanks to the overly complicated protocol and control channel. Maybe that's what he was talking about.
i'm with you on the rest though..
Stress is a killer, man. Take it a little bit easy next time.
Next time I want to share some information, I'll be sure to be as cryptic as possible to avoid complaints.
Thanks.
There's also a good page quickly discussing Villain-to-Victim computing. The point is to use correctly configured machines to do things they were not intended to.
umm, i think your missing the point. the poster was afraid of letting javascript run in his browser, but the whole point of this exercise is that once he is finished, he's planning on running an installer that is going to have free run of his computer. if real wants to mess with him, they can do it with realplayer, they don't have to mess with javascript.
Responding to Steve Wasko's (Microsoft) comments about no threat from WINE/Linux.
..., Lebor said. "I also find it intriguing that Microsoft has a Linux Competitive Manager if they don't see Linux as competition."
they sure got on and off of that bandwagon pretty quick.
lynx
Keep in mind that prefacing something you just made up with "as the saying goes" does not really do any good.