say I purchased something on-line from a vendor I had never dealt with before. Their e-mail system may automatically kick out an e-mail
Using TMDA, you would generate a "keyword" address: A unique addressed, identified by a keyword embedded in the address, which would allow your vendor to bypass the C/R system. If they keyword address starts being abused then (1) you can easily disable it, and (2) you know not to do business with that vendor again.
As an example, another post here mentioned a system where the mail is held, not on your ISP or upstream provider's system until you download it, but rather is held on the sender's or sender's ISP's system.
This system quickly breaks down, though, as delays are introduced by having to wait to fetch each piece of mail. People bothered by such delays will write/obtain software that automatically fetches the mail at a predetermined time, which would then shift the bandwidth problem (part of it, anyways) back to the recipient.
The other problem with sender authentication is who, exactly, determines whether a sender is authenticated? I run my own e-mail server. Will I have to pay out bucks for an "authority" to confirm that my sending address is valid? Right now, some ISP's (notably Time-Warner offshoots) are denying access to their SMTP servers under the guise of reducing spam. If your IP happens to fall within a certain range, they simply don't allow you access. We will end up in the same morass RBL has put us in: Who plays God in determining whether a sender is truly "authentic" or "worthy"?
Bombs are rarely used for the purpose of killing people these days.
I think you need to get out from behind your keyboard more often and take stock in the world around you. I believe the Palestinians would beg to differ with you. So would the Indonesians. And the families of certain US soldiers in Iraq. The list goes on.
If you take all (well, mostly all) the bitches here about Linux, and distill them down into a black tarry mess, the one thing that stands out is this:
"I simply want to be able to double-click a 'Setup' icon somewhere and have my software install without having to worry about configurations, or builds, or dependencies, or anything else."
Which isn't a bad idea. However, for those of you who don't want to (or don't have the time to) figure out how to install software on your systems, I think it's a bit disingenuous to call this lack of software plug-n-play "an annoyance." For some of us, it's a feature. Yeah, we've spent many hours mastering the intricacies involved with keeping a Linux distro updated with the latest/greatest apps, but in the end, most of us look back on our experiences and consider it a learning experience, rather than an inconvenience.
I don't believe there's any book that can be written that will be able to address every idiosyncracy of every Linux app that doesn't have a "Click Me" icon to install it with. Let's be honest with ourselves here: If you want software plug-and-play, Linux is probably not for you. You don't use a tack hammer to drive 8d nails, and neither do you use Linux for all the creature comforts one would expect from Windows or MacOS or [OS of choice here].
the attitude of the Linux users I ran across was intollerable
The local users' groups are usually much friendlier than the IRC or newsgroup crowds. Many users' groups have mailing lists set up specifically for folks new to Linux. Check out NTLUG for some friendly advice.
Large quantities of material, much of it verbatim, was lifted from the PP book for the LP book. There's very little in the way of added value in the LP book, just some reorganization.
This isn't anything to brag about, nor is it something to write articles about.
Nobody becomes financially self-sufficient by trading their time for a monetary equivalent. Who wants to work 50-70 hours workweeks? The proper way to do it is to spend a little money up front starting your own corporation, then hire someone else to do the work for you, such as the author of this article. Use the time you save by hiring someone else to do stuff meaningful to you. After all, no one wants "Worked 70-hour workweeks" on their tombstone when they die.
Form a legal corporation (or LLC, or LLP, or whatever) with two or three other individuals. Then you're eligible to negotiate group rates. You don't even have to like the people you're organizing with; just find some like-minded individuals who need insurance but don't want to be bilked by individual policy rates (if you can even get an individual policy -- good luck).
then it won't be long before the Linux community re-writes those parts that IBM contributed
I have seen the light now...this is the very reason why SCO won't release the infringing code. To do so would gut whatever claims they have against Linux. This really isn't about protecting proprietary property. It's about milking a cash cow for all its worth before it wanders away to greener pastures.
These basic proof techniques are the very basis of mathematics. The reason so many people get through high school with little understanding of math is that they are never forced to do any proofs outside of Geometry.
And the sad fact is that in Texas, that last bastion of logical thought and problem-solving called Geometry is being completely gutted thanks to the new state learning standards called TEKS. Gone are the days of teaching high-school students proofs and reasoning. Instead, geometry is now taught as an extension of algebra, basically "plug and play" with no underlying foundations being taught. The reason? It's very difficult to use standardized testing to test whether a student has mastered the logic of reasoning. The only discipline a high school student in Texas might be introduced to reasoning and proofs is calculus, but this is not a required course, and very few students see the need to take it.
I've had the (mis)fortune of having to teach courses in Unix using the Visual Quickstart Guides. (I've also checked out several of the other books in the series.) The problem with these books is that they teach by example with very little theoretical background. There's nothing wrong with teaching by example, but if it isn't set in a strong foundation, you end up with students that might have breadth of understanding, but no depth. The books themselves become useless at this point, as the examples are often so narrowly contrived that it's difficult to extrapolate them into more generic scenarios.
There's nothing worse than to see students pay good money for books that will be obsolete or of little use as soon as they finish a class. God knows I bought enough of them when I was in school. For this reason, I avoid the Visual Quickstart Guides and opt for textbooks with more depth of coverage.
After traveling through the Jemez Pueblo reservation this summer, and observing first-hand the deplorable conditions they live in, I'm deeply ashamed at the way the government is treating the true founders of this country. The government treats the Native Americans as a public attraction, a curiosity like the rest of the projects the DOI oversees.
But rest assured, the BIA will never be moved to State under the current administration. Why? Too much of an embarrassment. Very few Americans have seen first-hand how the government treats the Indian tribes, how they foster the rampant crime, poverty, and social ills that plague many reservations. Why would the current administration want to draw attention to their disregard for human decency? Plus, putting the BIA under State would give many Indian tribes the standing they need to pursue their claims against the government for unlawful seizure of their lands. Can you imagine resolving a dispute such as this by returning all 520,000 acres of privately-owned land to their rightful owners, the Kiowa and the Comanche?
Cool. I'm a big Jennifer Terran fan thanks to CDBaby. Shopping there is like a lottery, though -- I've gotten hold of some stuff that's worse than a bad pistachio.
Is buying a used CD from one of the boycotted labels still considered to fall under the "spirit" of a boycott? Or do used CD sales drive the market for new CDs?
So there you sit, all smug, shaking your head at these really stupid people who would have the gall to share copyrighted stuff on the net. You don't do P2P, so it's Someone Else's Problem. They deserve what they get.
So think about this the next time you're perusing your favorite porn site, or maybe if you don't do porn, a fan club site. Hell, it doesn't really matter: Any site will do, as long as you are downloading content.
Are you sure that content isn't copyright-protected? Are you sure that the content provider isn't sharing something (lesbo pictures, glamour shots, whatever) that they themselves don't have a right to share? What a surprise it will be when the local constable shows up at your door with a subpoena in hand, listing all the times you accessed www.analdestruction.com, how long you spent on the site, and what your browser downloaded, all courtesy of Comcast or some other ISP provider who really doesn't give a shit about your privacy. How will you explain that one to your wife? Or your buddies at work? Or the judge?
This "rape and plunder" tactic that the RIAA is taking is just the tip of the iceberg. As ISPs get jaded to serving up your IP/MAC information on a routine basis, your surfing habits will become easy prey for anyone with a grudge. Thanks to the RIAA, they are spending all the money necessary to establish legal precedence in this area, and to basically pave the way for anyone to start their own little money-making venture.
If you surf the web, you are vulnerable, because I seriously doubt you check the copyright status of each and every piece of content you download. So wipe that smug smile off your face, because it's just a matter of time before your IP shows up on a federal subpoena.
This isn't an issue of whether or not some morons sharing stuff that isn't theirs deserve what they get. Nor is it Someone Else's Problem. It's your problem, my problem, and everyone's problem. The madness needs to stop.
I'm sorry, but I think we've all just been trolled. I don't believe there's really an attempt to ask a valid question here. This individual has written a couple of perl scripts, and truly believes they will change the world. He hasn't done any research (no mention of CPAN, thinks that FreeBSD does Perl, etc.), and truly believes that a few Perl math routines will change the world. Can you spell "ego trip"?
But just in case I'm wrong, here's what you do: Point your browser to CPAN. Carefully read the instructions. Submit your scripts. If they're good, they'll get used, you'll make a name for yourself, and will be on the way to The Big Time.
Never, ever invest in company stock. Investing in company stock is always an emotional experience (you want to see your company succeed, and it will succeed through your efforts, etc.), and your better judgement will always be clouded by emotions. Nobody should be delving into stocks while letting emotions rule their decisions.
With that said: If you are being offered options, take them. As soon as you vest, cash out. Otherwise, your emotional ties to the company will cause your good judgement to take a flying leap, and you will most likely end up holding a worthless options contract. Remember also that some companies require you to pony up the cost of your options at their strike price before they'll exercise your options. It's a bit tough trying to cash in on options when you don't have the cash-on-hand to begin with.
Stock options now are vastly overrated. I would not even consider them as part of a compensation package. You should be negotiating compensation as if stock options weren't involved. If anything, they should be icing on the cake.
I'm sure/. advertisers would be pleased to see what web content their companies are being associated with..."Rackspace" and "tubgirl" will forever be visually branded in my mind as one and the same.
I was trying to simplify things by drawing an analogy to something familiar to most people. Their "wages" are the earnings they retain. They're not true wages in the sense of a paycheck.
They are definitely not employees, as we provide no defined benefits. Instead, they work the farm, and pay us a fixed percentage of the farm's income. It's a common arrangement, at least here in the US. Rules concerning farm employment are very different from non-farm employment.
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You mean, an accounting like this? Seems pretty detailed to me...
So, is this Unix tool philosophy useful for real applications, or just for little shell scripts?
qmail and cbb come immediately to mind. Small apps, all do one thing well, communicate with others via pipes.
say I purchased something on-line from a vendor I had never dealt with before. Their e-mail system may automatically kick out an e-mail
Using TMDA, you would generate a "keyword" address: A unique addressed, identified by a keyword embedded in the address, which would allow your vendor to bypass the C/R system. If they keyword address starts being abused then (1) you can easily disable it, and (2) you know not to do business with that vendor again.
As an example, another post here mentioned a system where the mail is held, not on your ISP or upstream provider's system until you download it, but rather is held on the sender's or sender's ISP's system.
This system quickly breaks down, though, as delays are introduced by having to wait to fetch each piece of mail. People bothered by such delays will write/obtain software that automatically fetches the mail at a predetermined time, which would then shift the bandwidth problem (part of it, anyways) back to the recipient.
The other problem with sender authentication is who, exactly, determines whether a sender is authenticated? I run my own e-mail server. Will I have to pay out bucks for an "authority" to confirm that my sending address is valid? Right now, some ISP's (notably Time-Warner offshoots) are denying access to their SMTP servers under the guise of reducing spam. If your IP happens to fall within a certain range, they simply don't allow you access. We will end up in the same morass RBL has put us in: Who plays God in determining whether a sender is truly "authentic" or "worthy"?
Bombs are rarely used for the purpose of killing people these days.
I think you need to get out from behind your keyboard more often and take stock in the world around you. I believe the Palestinians would beg to differ with you. So would the Indonesians. And the families of certain US soldiers in Iraq. The list goes on.
Come on, this is flamebait and not at all funny.
It's no more flamebait than the article it was posted in response to is.
If you take all (well, mostly all) the bitches here about Linux, and distill them down into a black tarry mess, the one thing that stands out is this:
"I simply want to be able to double-click a 'Setup' icon somewhere and have my software install without having to worry about configurations, or builds, or dependencies, or anything else."
Which isn't a bad idea. However, for those of you who don't want to (or don't have the time to) figure out how to install software on your systems, I think it's a bit disingenuous to call this lack of software plug-n-play "an annoyance." For some of us, it's a feature. Yeah, we've spent many hours mastering the intricacies involved with keeping a Linux distro updated with the latest/greatest apps, but in the end, most of us look back on our experiences and consider it a learning experience, rather than an inconvenience.
I don't believe there's any book that can be written that will be able to address every idiosyncracy of every Linux app that doesn't have a "Click Me" icon to install it with. Let's be honest with ourselves here: If you want software plug-and-play, Linux is probably not for you. You don't use a tack hammer to drive 8d nails, and neither do you use Linux for all the creature comforts one would expect from Windows or MacOS or [OS of choice here].
the attitude of the Linux users I ran across was intollerable
The local users' groups are usually much friendlier than the IRC or newsgroup crowds. Many users' groups have mailing lists set up specifically for folks new to Linux. Check out NTLUG for some friendly advice.
Everything that is covered in LP is covered in PP. So what's your point?
Large quantities of material, much of it verbatim, was lifted from the PP book for the LP book. There's very little in the way of added value in the LP book, just some reorganization.
I work from 50 to 70 hours a week.
This isn't anything to brag about, nor is it something to write articles about.
Nobody becomes financially self-sufficient by trading their time for a monetary equivalent. Who wants to work 50-70 hours workweeks? The proper way to do it is to spend a little money up front starting your own corporation, then hire someone else to do the work for you, such as the author of this article. Use the time you save by hiring someone else to do stuff meaningful to you. After all, no one wants "Worked 70-hour workweeks" on their tombstone when they die.
Form a legal corporation (or LLC, or LLP, or whatever) with two or three other individuals. Then you're eligible to negotiate group rates. You don't even have to like the people you're organizing with; just find some like-minded individuals who need insurance but don't want to be bilked by individual policy rates (if you can even get an individual policy -- good luck).
And while we're at it, let's make perfectly clear that Learning Perl is simply an abridged version of Programming Perl.
Mr. Schwartz does seem to know how to milk those cash camels, though!
then it won't be long before the Linux community re-writes those parts that IBM contributed
I have seen the light now...this is the very reason why SCO won't release the infringing code. To do so would gut whatever claims they have against Linux. This really isn't about protecting proprietary property. It's about milking a cash cow for all its worth before it wanders away to greener pastures.
These basic proof techniques are the very basis of mathematics. The reason so many people get through high school with little understanding of math is that they are never forced to do any proofs outside of Geometry.
And the sad fact is that in Texas, that last bastion of logical thought and problem-solving called Geometry is being completely gutted thanks to the new state learning standards called TEKS. Gone are the days of teaching high-school students proofs and reasoning. Instead, geometry is now taught as an extension of algebra, basically "plug and play" with no underlying foundations being taught. The reason? It's very difficult to use standardized testing to test whether a student has mastered the logic of reasoning. The only discipline a high school student in Texas might be introduced to reasoning and proofs is calculus, but this is not a required course, and very few students see the need to take it.
A very sad state of affairs IMO.
I've had the (mis)fortune of having to teach courses in Unix using the Visual Quickstart Guides. (I've also checked out several of the other books in the series.) The problem with these books is that they teach by example with very little theoretical background. There's nothing wrong with teaching by example, but if it isn't set in a strong foundation, you end up with students that might have breadth of understanding, but no depth. The books themselves become useless at this point, as the examples are often so narrowly contrived that it's difficult to extrapolate them into more generic scenarios.
There's nothing worse than to see students pay good money for books that will be obsolete or of little use as soon as they finish a class. God knows I bought enough of them when I was in school. For this reason, I avoid the Visual Quickstart Guides and opt for textbooks with more depth of coverage.
After traveling through the Jemez Pueblo reservation this summer, and observing first-hand the deplorable conditions they live in, I'm deeply ashamed at the way the government is treating the true founders of this country. The government treats the Native Americans as a public attraction, a curiosity like the rest of the projects the DOI oversees.
But rest assured, the BIA will never be moved to State under the current administration. Why? Too much of an embarrassment. Very few Americans have seen first-hand how the government treats the Indian tribes, how they foster the rampant crime, poverty, and social ills that plague many reservations. Why would the current administration want to draw attention to their disregard for human decency? Plus, putting the BIA under State would give many Indian tribes the standing they need to pursue their claims against the government for unlawful seizure of their lands. Can you imagine resolving a dispute such as this by returning all 520,000 acres of privately-owned land to their rightful owners, the Kiowa and the Comanche?
Of course you can't. Neither can the government.
Cool. I'm a big Jennifer Terran fan thanks to CDBaby. Shopping there is like a lottery, though -- I've gotten hold of some stuff that's worse than a bad pistachio.
Is buying a used CD from one of the boycotted labels still considered to fall under the "spirit" of a boycott? Or do used CD sales drive the market for new CDs?
So there you sit, all smug, shaking your head at these really stupid people who would have the gall to share copyrighted stuff on the net. You don't do P2P, so it's Someone Else's Problem. They deserve what they get.
So think about this the next time you're perusing your favorite porn site, or maybe if you don't do porn, a fan club site. Hell, it doesn't really matter: Any site will do, as long as you are downloading content.
Are you sure that content isn't copyright-protected? Are you sure that the content provider isn't sharing something (lesbo pictures, glamour shots, whatever) that they themselves don't have a right to share? What a surprise it will be when the local constable shows up at your door with a subpoena in hand, listing all the times you accessed www.analdestruction.com, how long you spent on the site, and what your browser downloaded, all courtesy of Comcast or some other ISP provider who really doesn't give a shit about your privacy. How will you explain that one to your wife? Or your buddies at work? Or the judge?
This "rape and plunder" tactic that the RIAA is taking is just the tip of the iceberg. As ISPs get jaded to serving up your IP/MAC information on a routine basis, your surfing habits will become easy prey for anyone with a grudge. Thanks to the RIAA, they are spending all the money necessary to establish legal precedence in this area, and to basically pave the way for anyone to start their own little money-making venture.
If you surf the web, you are vulnerable, because I seriously doubt you check the copyright status of each and every piece of content you download. So wipe that smug smile off your face, because it's just a matter of time before your IP shows up on a federal subpoena.
This isn't an issue of whether or not some morons sharing stuff that isn't theirs deserve what they get. Nor is it Someone Else's Problem. It's your problem, my problem, and everyone's problem. The madness needs to stop.
I'm sorry, but I think we've all just been trolled. I don't believe there's really an attempt to ask a valid question here. This individual has written a couple of perl scripts, and truly believes they will change the world. He hasn't done any research (no mention of CPAN, thinks that FreeBSD does Perl, etc.), and truly believes that a few Perl math routines will change the world. Can you spell "ego trip"?
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But just in case I'm wrong, here's what you do: Point your browser to CPAN. Carefully read the instructions. Submit your scripts. If they're good, they'll get used, you'll make a name for yourself, and will be on the way to The Big Time.
I really can't believe this made
Never, ever invest in company stock. Investing in company stock is always an emotional experience (you want to see your company succeed, and it will succeed through your efforts, etc.), and your better judgement will always be clouded by emotions. Nobody should be delving into stocks while letting emotions rule their decisions.
With that said: If you are being offered options, take them. As soon as you vest, cash out. Otherwise, your emotional ties to the company will cause your good judgement to take a flying leap, and you will most likely end up holding a worthless options contract. Remember also that some companies require you to pony up the cost of your options at their strike price before they'll exercise your options. It's a bit tough trying to cash in on options when you don't have the cash-on-hand to begin with.
Stock options now are vastly overrated. I would not even consider them as part of a compensation package. You should be negotiating compensation as if stock options weren't involved. If anything, they should be icing on the cake.
I'm sure /. advertisers would be pleased to see what web content their companies are being associated with..."Rackspace" and "tubgirl" will forever be visually branded in my mind as one and the same.
I was trying to simplify things by drawing an analogy to something familiar to most people. Their "wages" are the earnings they retain. They're not true wages in the sense of a paycheck.
They are definitely not employees, as we provide no defined benefits. Instead, they work the farm, and pay us a fixed percentage of the farm's income. It's a common arrangement, at least here in the US. Rules concerning farm employment are very different from non-farm employment.