NO, no, no. I do not characterize other nations as "phoney baloney". If you'd seen Blazing Saddles, you'd get the reference.
My comment was to the effect that politics exists to serve the people in such a manner as to keep the regime in power, thats all. American politics, Chinese politics, Sri Lankan politics. Doesn't matter.
It can't address that I have my shell and editor settings vastly different than the person(s) with whom I am pair programming.
As a simple example, I like vim with syntax highlighting. My boss (who is also one of the programmers) hates it and can't stand to see look like that. I run my monitors at 1280x1024 or higher, depending on what machine I'm using, and most everyone in my office likes 800x600 tops, on a 17" monitor, and so all I hear is "I can't see your code" and stuff like that.
Those are things that standards can certainly enforce, at the expense of my freedom to work how I see fit. But yeah, as far as actual comments, you're supposed to follow standards.
We've been doing a lot of it; pair programming and refactoring are the biggest parts for us.
Pair programming is lame, IMHO. 2 people will tend to either wander away from the programming topic, as sitting and watchng programming happen can never be as involving as actually programming. Also, 2 or more people tend to bicker over editor styles, code quirks (comment format and such) that gets overlooked during a code review.
Refactoring is a good idea when used sparingly, I think. Everyone complains about cruft but rewriting things to make it go away is seen as wasteful. YMMV but we've refactored a few things and had it work for the better.
Still, I think the majority of the XP "movement" is an effort to change the status quo by being, well, extreme, like asking your mom if you can stay out till 3am if you only want to stay out till midnight.
You can have it both ways, because Windows and Free Software have different development models.
A GNU/Linux kernel upgrade is a different beast than a Service Pack. An SP often breaks existing software without warning, or changes functionality. A new kernel does all these things, and sometimes more, but its part of a (somewhat) known development path, and its largely an optional thing. I have machines running 2.0.36 happily, and 2.2.18 as well. Since all machines in question are uniprocessor and have fully functioning hardware drivers, I have no need go to 2.4. I'll wait until there's a need or maybe I just want to play around. The same cannot be said of SP's which often roll up critical security fixes and performance hacks.
Now, I'll agree to statements about the pace of kernel development being... off (patches every other day for a week after months between patches?) but for the most part, you're comparing apples and oranges.
Its too bad that war is the extension of politics, but its the truth. If you want to see war go away, first change human nature, then you'll be able to affect the necessary changes in the political arena to make it a non-viable extension of politics.
There are no evil countries, but there are evil people. No one seriously thinks the Germans are evil, genocidal people. But face facts, the Nazi Party rose to power and killed a lot of people. The Russians weren't evil but Stalin's Purges killed a whole lot more people. Countries aren't evil but people sure are.
This isn't about "my country is on the side of God and yours is a haven of godless commie scum". This is about people that see a way to create a future for their families and more importantly, their regimes. If the fathers of the nation, its leaders and those with the power, decide that its the only way to ensure that they can keep their phoney-baloney jobs (to quote Mel Brooks) then its what they'll do, and you're kidding yourself if quoting Ginsberg will stop it.
I wasn't talking about style. a poster said that they had fans. Based on my personal experience, I disagreed. I was hoping for pointers to information that showed that their literature was *technically inaccurate*.
But iMac bashing always gets good karma around here.
Apple's promotional literature for the newest releases (Rosemary, Thyme, and Sage?) still loudly and proudly proclaims no fan, no way. Since the case design is unchanged from the original Bondi Blue models, where did they put it? I can't seem to find it.
Having the computer decide when to fire is nothing new. The fire control systems of modern tanks consider the trigger as a "release", more or less, but the computer decides to actually fire the gun. Granted the difference between the trigger being pulled and the gun going boom is miniscule, its important; the fire control computer makes last minute adjustments of things before firing. Its almost like using a "predicting gunsight" on a fighter plane.
After all, its hard to teach a human operator about things like barrel warp.
My GF's computer, a brand new Dell laptop, had the serial # on the case. My company recently bought a bunch of used IBM machines, which had the serial number on the case. I've seen recent vintage Gateways and Compaqs with the serial number... seems to me that they at least are getting customers ready for it.
The complete inabilty for the legal system to get their act together is to blame.
In the real world, tromping on someone's flowerbed is vandalism. But unless there's a serious amount of money stolen, most police agencies won't touch it.
These kids are immune to most real consequence. OK, so he's in Romainia, fine. If the US FBI finds him, they can't touch him unless the Romainian feds want to get him, too; and depending on how someone feels about the US taht day, they may just slap him on the wrist. Remember ILOVEYOU? They may not even have a law for this kind of thing.
Lets face it, until more of these waste-of-flesh dickweeds start getting gang-raped in jails, the problem won't go away.
Red Hat GNU/Linux? Not bloody likely. The Stormix people have tried to be the Red Hat of Debian, as did Corel, and it seems to have stalled and failed, respectively.
Red Hat can't hardly afford to just up and drop RPM in favor of dselect/apt. Talk about the mother of all breakings! Seems like the work needed to bridge the gap is better spent fixing RPM. Its probably an equally herculean task.
Actually, the HHKB was just what I needed to make my hands feel better; its not the main selling point but whatever it was that traditional keyboards were doing was solved by the HHKB.
Likewise, they market a Palm extension for the HHKB, if memory serves.
MS is the largest software company in the world. I just went to Borders tonight for some last-minute Xmas shopping. The store is FILLED with books on MS products, and many of them have large, reasonably comprehensive sections on security. There are probably millions of MCSE's and similar MS** professionals out there. The MS KB is FULL of articles on securing the machines. Bugtraq and NTBugtraq are likewise full of articles - good, technical ones - on security flaws, the NT/IIS security model, and security in general. ALl of these comments apply to Oracle, as well.
Why can't they secure the fscking box, then?
Personally, I believe that this is not a question based on the techical merits, rather, the social or cultural merits. These kinds of problems are, in the oh-so-eloquent words of my father, "dumb-boy shit".
I don't think IIS is inherently insecure; I think the computing model promoted by Microsoft - that an accountant, secretary, or poorly-trained nobody can set up a fully functional e-boz site - is the inherent insecurity. That MS's "bring computing power to the masses" crusade is what's biting them on the ass.
Are you not getting enough to eat, Taco? Yesterday it was stromboli, now its rice. Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, and great deli sandwitches.
I would write the book solely to be able to answer the same old questions we see in every interview once and for all. Just get it over with. Any time they ask the same old "so what got you started?" thing, I'd just reply "RTFB" and get on with life.
Also, will the book include and audio CD with the "famous" "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds" sample?
OK, let's pick nits: Its a new machine and I just slapped on some fonts I had handy. The point is, the "there are no fonts on linux!" means your sysadmin is incompetent and can't install xfstt or any other alternative. Besides, when I want to do gfx, I move over to my G4, anyway.
Re 30 seconds: what method did you use? Took me 1 second. I don't normally sit around counting fonts, of course. The point is, the shell is a powerful tool that saves time, because you can automate tasks.
And it should be noted that the original post referred to general purpose use, and you name a number of specific uses, for which yes, Linux probably isn't the best tool. I'd argue strongly for a Mac in the instance you specifically describe.
Also, I hate that productivity = writing memos and using Word. Productivity for me means writing CGI, working with databases, network and system administration. Why is it so bad when I counter that my "productivity tools" are nmap, ethereal, snort, inetd, Apache, mod_perl, and so forth?
>Lack of Productivity Software. (Yes, I like Word and Outlook).
Do you like VBS worms?
>Lack of Fonts.
[blacksun:/usr/share/fonts/truetype]: ls *.ttf | wc -l
433
Please explain how I'm missing fonts.
>Lack of. Popular games.
Yes and no. Only proven windows winners make it, and the sleepers (Homeworld, for instance) aren't there and never will be.
>Lack of Drive support.
What,exactly, does that mean? Got 3 IDE drives in my desktop and a few dozen SCSI in various servers.
>And no easy way of doing things
See above. How fast can you count the # of true-type fonts you have installed?
.. I have my cookie prefs in Netscape (4.75/X11 Linux) set to "only allow cookies from the originating server as the page" and the download links (click here... no, now click here... no, now click HERE...) stop if you don't have 'accept all cookies' on.
Maybe it was a glitch. Anyone else see this happen?
1. War on drugs
"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it."
2. Minority Religions
"Our priorities is our faith."
3. Tax Cut
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
4. Electoral Reform
(no response)
5. IP
'This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead."
6. Encryption
We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.''
7. Asteriod Defences
"It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
8. The future
"That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century."
All quotes from here
we have a local reseller of used machines and parts that has buckets and buckets full of ram marked as bad. There's probably a company like this in every large town; they seem to do quite well, making a nice buck selling "throw away" boxes and other stuff like that.
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NO, no, no. I do not characterize other nations as "phoney baloney". If you'd seen Blazing Saddles, you'd get the reference.
My comment was to the effect that politics exists to serve the people in such a manner as to keep the regime in power, thats all. American politics, Chinese politics, Sri Lankan politics. Doesn't matter.
It can't address that I have my shell and editor settings vastly different than the person(s) with whom I am pair programming.
As a simple example, I like vim with syntax highlighting. My boss (who is also one of the programmers) hates it and can't stand to see look like that. I run my monitors at 1280x1024 or higher, depending on what machine I'm using, and most everyone in my office likes 800x600 tops, on a 17" monitor, and so all I hear is "I can't see your code" and stuff like that.
Those are things that standards can certainly enforce, at the expense of my freedom to work how I see fit. But yeah, as far as actual comments, you're supposed to follow standards.
We've been doing a lot of it; pair programming and refactoring are the biggest parts for us.
Pair programming is lame, IMHO. 2 people will tend to either wander away from the programming topic, as sitting and watchng programming happen can never be as involving as actually programming. Also, 2 or more people tend to bicker over editor styles, code quirks (comment format and such) that gets overlooked during a code review.
Refactoring is a good idea when used sparingly, I think. Everyone complains about cruft but rewriting things to make it go away is seen as wasteful. YMMV but we've refactored a few things and had it work for the better.
Still, I think the majority of the XP "movement" is an effort to change the status quo by being, well, extreme, like asking your mom if you can stay out till 3am if you only want to stay out till midnight.
You can have it both ways, because Windows and Free Software have different development models.
A GNU/Linux kernel upgrade is a different beast than a Service Pack. An SP often breaks existing software without warning, or changes functionality. A new kernel does all these things, and sometimes more, but its part of a (somewhat) known development path, and its largely an optional thing. I have machines running 2.0.36 happily, and 2.2.18 as well. Since all machines in question are uniprocessor and have fully functioning hardware drivers, I have no need go to 2.4. I'll wait until there's a need or maybe I just want to play around. The same cannot be said of SP's which often roll up critical security fixes and performance hacks.
Now, I'll agree to statements about the pace of kernel development being... off (patches every other day for a week after months between patches?) but for the most part, you're comparing apples and oranges.
Its too bad that war is the extension of politics, but its the truth. If you want to see war go away, first change human nature, then you'll be able to affect the necessary changes in the political arena to make it a non-viable extension of politics.
There are no evil countries, but there are evil people. No one seriously thinks the Germans are evil, genocidal people. But face facts, the Nazi Party rose to power and killed a lot of people. The Russians weren't evil but Stalin's Purges killed a whole lot more people. Countries aren't evil but people sure are.
This isn't about "my country is on the side of God and yours is a haven of godless commie scum". This is about people that see a way to create a future for their families and more importantly, their regimes. If the fathers of the nation, its leaders and those with the power, decide that its the only way to ensure that they can keep their phoney-baloney jobs (to quote Mel Brooks) then its what they'll do, and you're kidding yourself if quoting Ginsberg will stop it.
The framerate was poor and jeeze, no BFG in sight.
I wasn't talking about style. a poster said that they had fans. Based on my personal experience, I disagreed. I was hoping for pointers to information that showed that their literature was *technically inaccurate*.
But iMac bashing always gets good karma around here.
Apple's promotional literature for the newest releases (Rosemary, Thyme, and Sage?) still loudly and proudly proclaims no fan, no way. Since the case design is unchanged from the original Bondi Blue models, where did they put it? I can't seem to find it.
Isn't it odd that the huge logo is on the top, where no one will ever see it, except during installation?
>Hitting a 10 ft target at 100 miles isn't easy.
we used to bullseye womp-rats in my T-16 back home, and they're not much bigger than 10 ft.
Having the computer decide when to fire is nothing new. The fire control systems of modern tanks consider the trigger as a "release", more or less, but the computer decides to actually fire the gun. Granted the difference between the trigger being pulled and the gun going boom is miniscule, its important; the fire control computer makes last minute adjustments of things before firing. Its almost like using a "predicting gunsight" on a fighter plane.
After all, its hard to teach a human operator about things like barrel warp.
My GF's computer, a brand new Dell laptop, had the serial # on the case. My company recently bought a bunch of used IBM machines, which had the serial number on the case. I've seen recent vintage Gateways and Compaqs with the serial number... seems to me that they at least are getting customers ready for it.
The complete inabilty for the legal system to get their act together is to blame.
In the real world, tromping on someone's flowerbed is vandalism. But unless there's a serious amount of money stolen, most police agencies won't touch it.
These kids are immune to most real consequence. OK, so he's in Romainia, fine. If the US FBI finds him, they can't touch him unless the Romainian feds want to get him, too; and depending on how someone feels about the US taht day, they may just slap him on the wrist. Remember ILOVEYOU? They may not even have a law for this kind of thing.
Lets face it, until more of these waste-of-flesh dickweeds start getting gang-raped in jails, the problem won't go away.
(sorry I'm so mad. I just get sick of this crap)
meaning, log in as >console then type startx?
Red Hat GNU/Linux? Not bloody likely. The Stormix people have tried to be the Red Hat of Debian, as did Corel, and it seems to have stalled and failed, respectively.
Red Hat can't hardly afford to just up and drop RPM in favor of dselect/apt. Talk about the mother of all breakings! Seems like the work needed to bridge the gap is better spent fixing RPM. Its probably an equally herculean task.
Actually, the HHKB was just what I needed to make my hands feel better; its not the main selling point but whatever it was that traditional keyboards were doing was solved by the HHKB.
Likewise, they market a Palm extension for the HHKB, if memory serves.
MS is the largest software company in the world. I just went to Borders tonight for some last-minute Xmas shopping. The store is FILLED with books on MS products, and many of them have large, reasonably comprehensive sections on security. There are probably millions of MCSE's and similar MS** professionals out there. The MS KB is FULL of articles on securing the machines. Bugtraq and NTBugtraq are likewise full of articles - good, technical ones - on security flaws, the NT/IIS security model, and security in general. ALl of these comments apply to Oracle, as well.
Why can't they secure the fscking box, then?
Personally, I believe that this is not a question based on the techical merits, rather, the social or cultural merits. These kinds of problems are, in the oh-so-eloquent words of my father, "dumb-boy shit".
I don't think IIS is inherently insecure; I think the computing model promoted by Microsoft - that an accountant, secretary, or poorly-trained nobody can set up a fully functional e-boz site - is the inherent insecurity. That MS's "bring computing power to the masses" crusade is what's biting them on the ass.
Are you not getting enough to eat, Taco? Yesterday it was stromboli, now its rice. Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, and great deli sandwitches.
I would write the book solely to be able to answer the same old questions we see in every interview once and for all. Just get it over with. Any time they ask the same old "so what got you started?" thing, I'd just reply "RTFB" and get on with life.
Also, will the book include and audio CD with the "famous" "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds" sample?
OK, let's pick nits: Its a new machine and I just slapped on some fonts I had handy. The point is, the "there are no fonts on linux!" means your sysadmin is incompetent and can't install xfstt or any other alternative. Besides, when I want to do gfx, I move over to my G4, anyway.
Re 30 seconds: what method did you use? Took me 1 second. I don't normally sit around counting fonts, of course. The point is, the shell is a powerful tool that saves time, because you can automate tasks.
And it should be noted that the original post referred to general purpose use, and you name a number of specific uses, for which yes, Linux probably isn't the best tool. I'd argue strongly for a Mac in the instance you specifically describe.
Also, I hate that productivity = writing memos and using Word. Productivity for me means writing CGI, working with databases, network and system administration. Why is it so bad when I counter that my "productivity tools" are nmap, ethereal, snort, inetd, Apache, mod_perl, and so forth?
>Lack of Productivity Software. (Yes, I like Word and Outlook).
Do you like VBS worms?
>Lack of Fonts.
[blacksun:/usr/share/fonts/truetype]: ls *.ttf | wc -l
433
Please explain how I'm missing fonts.
>Lack of. Popular games.
Yes and no. Only proven windows winners make it, and the sleepers (Homeworld, for instance) aren't there and never will be.
>Lack of Drive support.
What,exactly, does that mean? Got 3 IDE drives in my desktop and a few dozen SCSI in various servers.
>And no easy way of doing things
See above. How fast can you count the # of true-type fonts you have installed?
.. I have my cookie prefs in Netscape (4.75/X11 Linux) set to "only allow cookies from the originating server as the page" and the download links (click here... no, now click here... no, now click HERE...) stop if you don't have 'accept all cookies' on.
Maybe it was a glitch. Anyone else see this happen?
"Only human".
1. War on drugs
"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it."
2. Minority Religions
"Our priorities is our faith."
3. Tax Cut
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
4. Electoral Reform
(no response)
5. IP
'This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead."
6. Encryption
We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.''
7. Asteriod Defences
"It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
8. The future
"That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century."
All quotes from here
we have a local reseller of used machines and parts that has buckets and buckets full of ram marked as bad. There's probably a company like this in every large town; they seem to do quite well, making a nice buck selling "throw away" boxes and other stuff like that.