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Programming

Ted Dziuba Says, "I Don't Code In My Free Time" 619

theodp writes "When he gets some free time away from his gigs at startup Milo and The Register, you won't catch Ted Dziuba doing any recreational programming. And he wouldn't want to work for a company that doesn't hire those who don't code in their spare time. 'You know what's more awesome than spending my Saturday afternoon learning Haskell by hacking away at a few Project Euler problems?' asks Dziuba. 'F***, ANYTHING.'"

Comment So 28% of banks lie on surveys. (Score 5, Insightful) 272

The odds of a bank (even a small bank) having no such problems is next to none. The only bank I can think of which has absolutely no employee corruption is the one in the mall. It's been closed for a few years, during which their track record is flawless. Their customer service times aren't actually much worse either.

Seriously, if there are humans in involved and money involved, corruption ain't far behind.

Comment There goes writing worth reading. (Score 1) 243

It's bad enough that the kind of writing we teach children to do is so obviously bad that I had to explain to my daughter why on earth they do it. No one wants to read the kind of writing we teach. If you have computers grading essays then you train toward "John wore a hat. The hat was brown. Brown hats are brown." All of these are perfectly good sentences. None of them encourage the reader to actually finish the article. The finest parts of technical writing, essays, any attempt to inform and communicate are balancing the need to for clear sentences that convey a precise meaning and the need to keep the reader reading long enough to actually get the information they need. My COM pewter canned tail the deference betwixt manly similar wards. I'd out it cane grade SAs wail.

Comment If they are hiding something...it WILL be found. (Score 1) 184

Or rather - it can be found. It just depends on how hard you want to look. Let's say that they dont' do full backups nightly (fairly reasonable depending on hardware and a bunch of other factors). Get the last full backup and then you'll have a set of logs from each incremental. Copy that full backup into the RSG and start it up. Exmerge out and that's your baseline. Stop the RSG and copy back the default (I've heard from recovery guys that they use a virtual box and revert). Copy in a set of logs, lather, rinse, repeat. Copy the dumpster crap too - that's the stuff someone hard deleted. That's particularly interesting.

Still think someone's being extra sneaky?

Do what the hardcore recovery people do. Plan it in one log at a time, recover and merge out. (Yes, I've heard of people doing this). Entities journaling this way have to enforce dumpster retention until backup. That way a person can't shift delete away the evidence.

Comment Absolutely not...if you intended to recover data (Score 1) 184

The biggest problem is that you have to intend to be able to recover data to begin with. Journaling results in a record set where you basically say "Give me everything From X or To X". If they are really doing a RSG/Recover Mailbox to recover data it's again unlikely that it costs this much, with one caveat - Your organization has to have intended to be able to recover data to start with. That is, if they don't have hardware, they don't have a recovery plan or expertise in this area the first one can be difficult, and usually results in calling support for them to walk you through the process. It's not that it's difficult. It's that you have to do it.

This number sounds designed to scare off requests to me.

Comment Not quite. (Score 1) 269

The book itself is probably free to anyone who can read the prologue and live. You would think that a large number of people could do this - coma victims, people who have suffered brain death and live on ventilators. Then again I expect we'll see reports of "Coma victim awakens during middle of wheel of time reading, asks to be taken off life support if the reading doesn't stop."

Comment Re:There isn't enough bandwidth in the world (Score 1) 269

Yeah, you wouldn't think there would be that many instances of
"The diaphenous mist hung deep upon the mountain side from which there thundered forth the voice of ten thousand angry locust gods whose pus had once made the rivers of the southern continent run yellow, when the da'cam did first venture forth from the underground cavern from which all which is evil once did rise, and a wind like the wind from Elon's third midwive's flatulent second husband wracked the pines"

But you would be wrong.

Comment There isn't enough bandwidth in the world (Score 5, Funny) 269

to download this book if they followed Jordan's writing style. The first chapter alone will contain so many electrons the internet itself will become unbalanced. Seriously, I swear he was paid by the pound for how much his books weighed. Long, flowery descriptions of clothing, scenery, hell, the crust on the underside of a chamber pot in the thirteenth bathroom of the summer home of the ice king's third cousin's dog. The series ought to come with a Wheel-barrow of time to avoid slipping a disc. Still, as long as there are trees left to kill and money to be earned the series will "be continued."
Hardware Hacking

The State of Open Source Hardware In 2008 88

ptorrone writes "MAKE Magazine has put together their 3rd annual 'State of Open Source Hardware 2008' — in just a few years, the number of projects has grown from a small handful to an amazing 60+ offerings. Similar to open source software, open source hardware is available with source code, schematics, firmware and bills of materials, and allows commercial use. The most popular project, Arduino, the open source prototyping platform for artists and engineers, has shipped over 60,000 units." The article is formatted such that the first link for a particular device will usually take you to the project home page. Some will bring you instead to where you can purchase the items, but most still have a "How To" tab which will direct you to guides and instructions on how to build your own gadgets. There are a bunch of interesting devices, from the Game of Life on the outside of a cube to a home-made MP3 player to OpenMoko.
Classic Games (Games)

Submission + - ScummVM Ported to Nintendo Wii

Croakyvoice writes: Rodolfo Portillo has released a port of ScummVM for the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Gamecube. ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games like Simon the Sorcerer, Broken Sword and Flight of the Amazon Queen. You will have to use SD Load to run this on your console.

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