Comment Re:Vial Criminals? (Score 1) 362
But your spell checker would not have caught that one
But your spell checker would not have caught that one
COBOL's reputation for being slow has to do with writing the programs, and dates back to its earliest days when code had to be written as SET RIDICULOUSLYLONGVARIABLENAME EQUAL TO 2 PLUS 2. Development time sped up a lot when Gracie was finally convinced that RIDICULOUSLYLONGVARIABLENAME = 2 + 2 would work as well[...]
You mean: ADD 2 TO 2 GIVING RIDICULOUSLYLONGVARIABLENAME
and: CALCULATE RIDICULOUSLYLONGVARIABLENAME = 2 + 2
It gets worse with operations with longer names and other variables:
MULTIPLY WEIGHT-OF-SPARROW BY NUMBER-OF-SPARROWS GIVING TOTAL-WEIGHT
Unix just turned 40, and Tetris just turned 25. What do they have in common other than closely spaced birthdays? They were both first developed on PDP-11 hardware (Unix on a PDP-11, Tetris on a Russian clone). And they've both been cloned, early and often.
And Lisp is 50 years old. It wasn't developed on a PDP-11, since PDP-11s weren't around then
I think you can say the same about cloning, since there are many different dialects of Lisp and many languages have adopted aspects of Lisp.
Bah. Your command would fail. You need to escape the splat just like the semicolon:
Not necessarily. It depends on whether there are files/directories in the current directory that start with the string "kids" (and your shell's globbing rules). If there aren't, then everything works find. If there's only one, things might seem to work, but files/directories in subdirectories will not be found (and therefore removed).
find my_lawn -name kids\* | xargs rm -rvf
Which will break if you have spaces or tabs or newlines etc. in your filenames. Use this instead (I hope you have a reasonable version of find and xargs):
find my_lawn -name kids\* -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm -rvf
No, he's not saying that at all. Go read it again.
Basically John the Ripper guesses the password and then you're free to try that password against other machines. Obviously if someone's used that password on the other machines you will get in using that password. That has nothing to do with whether the original password can be retrieved from the hash by reversing the hashing algorithm or "decrypting" the hash to get the original password.
Also, the text that John the Ripper spits out could actually be different from the real password and still work, because every hashing algorithm takes a large (probably infinite) set of things and squeezes them into a finite set of values. i.e. there are guaranteed to be collisions.
He did say "Turbo Pascal 1.0".
I agree. 4 pence is about what I was thinking was reasonable too (based on how much that works out to for a 300 page book converted into my currency.)
More than about 5p and I'd more than likely do without. Especially if the quality is poor.
[...] if Solaris were GPL'ed, code could flow in the opposite direction as well - you could also pull in code from Linux, then.
The problem with that (from SUN/Oracle's perspective) is that they would not own the code that was borrowed from Linux.
Yep, SAP is a pain to install. Peoplesoft is apparently worse. I don't know about Oracle, though.
Damning with faint praise?
Yes, that's what I thought too.
What the hell were they thinking?
We Dutch are the rudest people in the world, so you can still learn a lot from us I think. In Amsterdam these little robots would be flattended or thrown in a canal in no time.
Interesting, given that New York City was at one time called New Amsterdam
In any case, the language the minister used is a bit deceptive. Unfortunately after taking a close look at what he said, it seems the money can only be spent on _licences_.
On the plus side, you can "buy" a hell of a lot of licenses for Open Source software with 12,000,000,000 florints!
Either that, or it could just mean that Openfire is more focussed on the c2s part of XMPP and what is experimental is the s2s functionality. i.e. the "XMPP" they are calling experimental is under "Experimental Gateways" in the configuration.
Although I have been using Ruby and Lisp more the last few years, much of my business is based on Java
You might want to have a look at Clojure
Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.
Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.
With your bare hands?!?
