Depends on what you're doing. Try installing Apache2, Mysql5, and PHP5 on a mac. It's not pretty. Lots of crazy command line operations and hoops to jump through. Lots of "fiddlyness" as you'd say. For a web developer OSX is not easy to adopt.
Now let's try on Ubuntu:
apt-get install apache2 mysql php5
Wow. That was hard.
Audience is everything. OSX is a great OS, but it isn't for everyone.
It's amazing just how useful the net is these days for any student, not just computer related.
In my biology classes I regularly teamed up with a classmate for homework and test reviews. One would use Google and one would use my overpriced biology book. Over nine times out of ten Google got our answers faster than the book could, and Google is free.
Anymore, students can save a bundle in textbooks by using the Internet instead.
When it comes to anti viruses you have either signature based systems or anomaly detection, as far as I know: if anyone knows another approach correct me please.
Signature based systems are obviously very accurate but have equally obvious flaws. Anomaly (abnormal behavior) based systems have a lot of false positives. This is where SELinux seems to gain some traction in my opinion. Programs are given reasonable boundaries based on real world use and if they cross them they're flagged. Seems like a good idea to me.
Zao is a Greek word for "spiritually alive", which gives all sorts of false impressions if you didn't know that it was supposed to be ZAO as in Zakrytoye Aktsiohnernoye Obschestvo.
Why not a single ':'? As far as I know, only '::' is recognized by the parser as a token. So you get a token that isn't used otherwise in current syntax.
Yeah, I wish someone could find a way to keep some central collection of safe software on digitally signed servers...
Some kind of... oh I don't know repository. Heck, if they were to do that, they could even have the software download itself automatically and install itself automatically when you request it. But now I'm starting up a huge wish-list. Like that could ever happen.
You jest, but I've started doing that because I hate how quickly my friends and relatives manage to screw up their Windows machines.
Several times now I've offered the solution of paid support for Windows or free support for Linux. When they need help I can just SSH in and fix just about anything from the command line, and I have yet to have one of them actually break their Linux machine. It's always been stuff like "I can't play this DVD."
SSH in, apt-get install (whatever package they need), tell them to try it again, they say "thanks it works now."
For users that just browse the web, listen to music, download a torrent or two, and write reports for work/school I've found Linux requires less maintenance from me. And heck - if they don't want to pay for Windows support and don't want to try Linux I have the added benefit of them finding someone else to fix all the problems their ignorance inflicts upon their poor Windows machines:)
Right you are. This is just a one time pad. Its strength can be proven mathematically via information theory. To summarize, the strongest encryption is when the key is the same length as the plaintext, so a large key (such as a jpeg of a person) is inherently stronger than a smaller one.
As you correctly point out, the clincher is transferring the keys in a secure manner. If you're face to face with the other person you may as well exchange memory cards containing 2 gigs of data to use as the keys. Why settle for a ~60k jpeg?
I absolutely agree that Apple gouges you for upgrades to hard drive and ram. Everyone I know that buys a mac and wants more ram will just upgrade it themselves once it arrives. You'll pay FAR less.
Just don't try it with a mac mini - two putty knives and 4 hours later you'll be wishing you either paid the premium or didn't get a mac mini.
I lucked out when I bought my mac - I bought it refurb, and it was supposed to come with 2 gigs of ram. I figured I'd put 4 gigs in it when it arrived. It arrived with 3 gigs (your mistake, Apple...), and I haven't had issues with performance so I left it at that.
Price isn't all of it. You can get an HP notebook with great specs really cheap, and I did. The DV6130us was a steal for its specs back in its time, but it didn't perform like a machine with those numbers should (they forgot to tell you the front side bus was totally gimped) and it degraded quickly in ways that weren't covered by warranty.
Now fingers crossed here, but I haven't had a problem with the mac mini I bought to be my web/svn server/jukebox/snes/arcade machine wannabe nor my macbook pro, and I put linux on them both (as well as the aforementioned HP notebook), so it's not Apple fanboyism.
When I priced out the mini I realized I could get a machine that was 6 times the size, much louder, an entire 200 mhtz faster, with a slightly larger hard drive for the same price. That is if you include the same features (bluetooth, atheros wireless, firewire, gig ethernet, etc).
Tech nerds have been given far less headaches by Apple's products than Microsoft's. We're bitter.
Evil or not, many people are wishing Apple luck - the moment Microsoft doesn't have such huge market share it won't have as much power to abuse and will have to be a better "citizen". This includes better quality control and actual innovation. If Apple gets a significant portion of the market from MS we all win(except MS). Two competing evils are a lot less scary than one tyrannical evil.
Ok, fine, I admit it's kind of a cult:). A cult of awesome.
Disclaimer: I appreciate Apple's stuff but it's not for me: I'm a Linux/BSD guy.
That's assuming child pornographers are actually their target. If their real target is casual music pirates, this is really effective. Especially if they claim to target someone else.
The last version of VS I used was 2k3 because 2k5 was too buggy for me. Toolbars randomly changed positions (so you couldn't just remember where the tools you wanted were, you had to hunt for them), intellisense would frequently jump to a forward declaration when asked for the definition of something, there were frequent pauses where it was unresponsive. There were fairly frequent crashes during debug builds. The list goes on, believe me.
So maybe now, in 2008, VS 2K5 may be better, but if we compare what you're experiencing now to what I was experiencing in 2005, it looks like you should wait at least 2 years to upgrade your Visual Studio.
Haha... makes you wonder if they knew Vista was going to suck, so they gave completely incomparable names to it and its predecessor XP. Obviously not, but it's an interesting thought and it sure does work out for them now.
I mean, if Windows 2003 was way better than Windows 2006 that throws up some big scary warnings about a company's competence. Three years of work to make a giant leap backwards, and every time you hear their names you're reminded "three years. three years. three years", "this is older, that is newer, this is older, that is newer."
But if XP is better than Vista? Nothing immediately and automatically concludes in the mind.
Well while I also hate manipulated customer version numbers, this isn't really a dichotomy: many companies have "internal" version numbers and "external" version numbers.
The development process doesn't get interfered with and marketing can do whatever they want without really bugging engineers.
For a company to risk losing the good will of a customer on a blatant lie seems foolhardy to me. Trust is easy to lose, hard to regain.
While I agree with you, that's how I would have phrased it. It's a lie of omission. Sure, they can choose whatever version numbers they want so that really is version 6.3, as designated by the authors. But what they left out is that there are no previous versions. No matter what short term benefits that could have, lies have a way of coming back around to haunt you long term.
And now a proposed alternative: just use the year as your version number. It's honest, and it has the added benefit of constantly reminding people when their software is old and they should consider upgrading, while sounding modern and up-to-date when it first comes out.
Awesomesoft 6.3 vs. Awesomesoft 2008 - they both work, but one isn't a lie.
This isn't trolling - per capita measurements tell you nothing about the actual distribution of wealth.
So while a nation may have tons of money, 99% of that money could belong to 1% of the people. The nation will appear to be thriving based on per capita measurements, but would in reality be hellish to live in.
Statistics are like bikinis - it's not what they show that matters, it's what they hide.
"This is pretty major. At one point these guys delivered up to one-third of all spam," said Richard Cox, chief information officer at SpamHaus, a nonprofit antispam research group.
Oh the irony: that CIO of an anti spam research group would have first name "Dick" and last name that rhymes with "cocks."
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What OSX is missing from Linux: fiddlyness.
Depends on what you're doing. Try installing Apache2, Mysql5, and PHP5 on a mac. It's not pretty. Lots of crazy command line operations and hoops to jump through. Lots of "fiddlyness" as you'd say. For a web developer OSX is not easy to adopt.
Now let's try on Ubuntu: apt-get install apache2 mysql php5 Wow. That was hard.
Audience is everything. OSX is a great OS, but it isn't for everyone.
It's amazing just how useful the net is these days for any student, not just computer related.
In my biology classes I regularly teamed up with a classmate for homework and test reviews. One would use Google and one would use my overpriced biology book. Over nine times out of ten Google got our answers faster than the book could, and Google is free.
Anymore, students can save a bundle in textbooks by using the Internet instead.
When it comes to anti viruses you have either signature based systems or anomaly detection, as far as I know: if anyone knows another approach correct me please.
Signature based systems are obviously very accurate but have equally obvious flaws. Anomaly (abnormal behavior) based systems have a lot of false positives. This is where SELinux seems to gain some traction in my opinion. Programs are given reasonable boundaries based on real world use and if they cross them they're flagged. Seems like a good idea to me.
Zao is a Greek word for "spiritually alive", which gives all sorts of false impressions if you didn't know that it was supposed to be ZAO as in Zakrytoye Aktsiohnernoye Obschestvo.
Why not a single ':'? As far as I know, only '::' is recognized by the parser as a token. So you get a token that isn't used otherwise in current syntax.
Yeah, I wish someone could find a way to keep some central collection of safe software on digitally signed servers...
Some kind of... oh I don't know repository. Heck, if they were to do that, they could even have the software download itself automatically and install itself automatically when you request it. But now I'm starting up a huge wish-list. Like that could ever happen.
You jest, but I've started doing that because I hate how quickly my friends and relatives manage to screw up their Windows machines.
:)
Several times now I've offered the solution of paid support for Windows or free support for Linux. When they need help I can just SSH in and fix just about anything from the command line, and I have yet to have one of them actually break their Linux machine. It's always been stuff like "I can't play this DVD."
SSH in, apt-get install (whatever package they need), tell them to try it again, they say "thanks it works now."
For users that just browse the web, listen to music, download a torrent or two, and write reports for work/school I've found Linux requires less maintenance from me. And heck - if they don't want to pay for Windows support and don't want to try Linux I have the added benefit of them finding someone else to fix all the problems their ignorance inflicts upon their poor Windows machines
What happened to "tubes"? Why doesn't anyone ever tell me these things? I didn't switch from "dump trucks" until a good month after the rest.
Right you are. This is just a one time pad. Its strength can be proven mathematically via information theory. To summarize, the strongest encryption is when the key is the same length as the plaintext, so a large key (such as a jpeg of a person) is inherently stronger than a smaller one.
As you correctly point out, the clincher is transferring the keys in a secure manner. If you're face to face with the other person you may as well exchange memory cards containing 2 gigs of data to use as the keys. Why settle for a ~60k jpeg?
I absolutely agree that Apple gouges you for upgrades to hard drive and ram. Everyone I know that buys a mac and wants more ram will just upgrade it themselves once it arrives. You'll pay FAR less.
Just don't try it with a mac mini - two putty knives and 4 hours later you'll be wishing you either paid the premium or didn't get a mac mini.
I lucked out when I bought my mac - I bought it refurb, and it was supposed to come with 2 gigs of ram. I figured I'd put 4 gigs in it when it arrived. It arrived with 3 gigs (your mistake, Apple...), and I haven't had issues with performance so I left it at that.
Price isn't all of it. You can get an HP notebook with great specs really cheap, and I did. The DV6130us was a steal for its specs back in its time, but it didn't perform like a machine with those numbers should (they forgot to tell you the front side bus was totally gimped) and it degraded quickly in ways that weren't covered by warranty.
Now fingers crossed here, but I haven't had a problem with the mac mini I bought to be my web/svn server/jukebox/snes/arcade machine wannabe nor my macbook pro, and I put linux on them both (as well as the aforementioned HP notebook), so it's not Apple fanboyism.
When I priced out the mini I realized I could get a machine that was 6 times the size, much louder, an entire 200 mhtz faster, with a slightly larger hard drive for the same price. That is if you include the same features (bluetooth, atheros wireless, firewire, gig ethernet, etc).
I got my macbook pro for 33% off from the refurb site. I saw a macbook air there for 42% off the other day.
Disclaimer: I appreciate Apple's stuff but it's not for me: I'm a Linux/BSD guy.
That's assuming child pornographers are actually their target. If their real target is casual music pirates, this is really effective. Especially if they claim to target someone else.
Screw this, guys. Let's compare penis sizes! Woo!
The last version of VS I used was 2k3 because 2k5 was too buggy for me. Toolbars randomly changed positions (so you couldn't just remember where the tools you wanted were, you had to hunt for them), intellisense would frequently jump to a forward declaration when asked for the definition of something, there were frequent pauses where it was unresponsive. There were fairly frequent crashes during debug builds. The list goes on, believe me.
So maybe now, in 2008, VS 2K5 may be better, but if we compare what you're experiencing now to what I was experiencing in 2005, it looks like you should wait at least 2 years to upgrade your Visual Studio.
And from 1.1 to 4.5, didn't it?
Haha... makes you wonder if they knew Vista was going to suck, so they gave completely incomparable names to it and its predecessor XP. Obviously not, but it's an interesting thought and it sure does work out for them now.
I mean, if Windows 2003 was way better than Windows 2006 that throws up some big scary warnings about a company's competence. Three years of work to make a giant leap backwards, and every time you hear their names you're reminded "three years. three years. three years", "this is older, that is newer, this is older, that is newer."
But if XP is better than Vista? Nothing immediately and automatically concludes in the mind.
Well while I also hate manipulated customer version numbers, this isn't really a dichotomy: many companies have "internal" version numbers and "external" version numbers.
The development process doesn't get interfered with and marketing can do whatever they want without really bugging engineers.
And less blood loss.
For a company to risk losing the good will of a customer on a blatant lie seems foolhardy to me. Trust is easy to lose, hard to regain.
While I agree with you, that's how I would have phrased it. It's a lie of omission. Sure, they can choose whatever version numbers they want so that really is version 6.3, as designated by the authors. But what they left out is that there are no previous versions. No matter what short term benefits that could have, lies have a way of coming back around to haunt you long term.
And now a proposed alternative: just use the year as your version number. It's honest, and it has the added benefit of constantly reminding people when their software is old and they should consider upgrading, while sounding modern and up-to-date when it first comes out.
Awesomesoft 6.3 vs. Awesomesoft 2008 - they both work, but one isn't a lie.
This is slashdot. You don't have a girlfriend.
This isn't trolling - per capita measurements tell you nothing about the actual distribution of wealth.
So while a nation may have tons of money, 99% of that money could belong to 1% of the people. The nation will appear to be thriving based on per capita measurements, but would in reality be hellish to live in.
Statistics are like bikinis - it's not what they show that matters, it's what they hide.
Maybe he got where he is now because he's bitter at being gypped by spammers!
"Hey, these pills said they'd enhance me, but they only enhance part of me. What gives?! "
"This is pretty major. At one point these guys delivered up to one-third of all spam," said Richard Cox, chief information officer at SpamHaus, a nonprofit antispam research group.
Oh the irony: that CIO of an anti spam research group would have first name "Dick" and last name that rhymes with "cocks."