Comment Thanks for providing a real world example.. (Score 5, Funny) 287
..we can all relate to
Comment what a wonderous universe (Score 0) 139
I'm just floored.. A whole 'nother planet, hundreds of miles away in deep space, and they have HOLES too!!!
Comment Just in from planet markla... (Score 0, Troll) 631
Hey Earthlings,
I've just arrived from a distant planet, and happened across this thread.
Wow your planet is lame!
Mxaskgplt
Comment Bad Analogy (Score 1) 139
"It's as if a driver had to get from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh without a map, navigating solely by traffic signs he encountered along the way — but the signs weren't put up by a central authority. If a sign pointed in the wrong direction, that driver would get lost."
Such a bad analogy on so many levels. The driver (the traffic) is never really aware of the route they are taking. Ignoring this for a second, a slightly better analogy would be that the driver gets a updated map of the route at each city along the way. And these maps are almost always the same.
An even better analogy is the usual post office one - but that's not as useful for trying to spread panic in the interwebs
Such a bad analogy on so many levels. The driver (the traffic) is never really aware of the route they are taking. Ignoring this for a second, a slightly better analogy would be that the driver gets a updated map of the route at each city along the way. And these maps are almost always the same.
An even better analogy is the usual post office one - but that's not as useful for trying to spread panic in the interwebs
Comment Balderdash, poppycock.. (Score 3, Insightful) 414
..and rubbish. I manage over 90 firewalls as a fraction of my full-time duties and it's a cakewalk. Why? I'm competent with unix (and a bunch of scripting languages). GUI's are for the command-line challenged..
Comment Mind Body Connection / Tapping the Unconscious (Score 1) 547
I can do a couple of weeks of 80 hours each no problem. After that I'll need a couple of days off. But I just can't do this if I am not looking after my physical well-being. That means eating well and gym workouts every second day.
As other people have said you also need be interested in the project and be in 'the zone' a lot of the time. That requires minimal distractions.
As an aside, others have mentioned you can't write QUALITY code working long hours. Well, not exactly true. Provided you realise when you're rushing a solution and are willing to put it aside until the next morning, you will find your unconscious mind can come up with some elegant solutions while you sleep. Not kidding, try it. And this just in, science agrees.. http://fora.tv/2009/08/11/Matt_Walker_Secrets_of_the_Sleeping_Brain
Comment Re:Checks against a spreadsheet (Score 1) 949
Sounds like someone let the visual basic programmers out of the asylum again...
Comment Open Source Nazis (Score 5, Insightful) 344
What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do I Avoid?
The part where I get yelled at by a developer for filing a bug that I tried diagnose to the best of my ability but didn't mange to fix myself.
Because, as we know, you shouldn't even USE open source software unless you're willing to DEVELOP it as well. Pffft.
Comment Re:Easy Solution (Score 5, Informative) 123
You are misunderstanding the problem.
The PC running this feature becomes a router bridging their local and probably unauthenticated network with whatever secure network they are already connected to. Add network connection sharing to the mix and you have a security hole regardless of how 'locked down' the original network is.
How big a problem this is will depend on the implementation and I haven't seen it.
Comment Not again.. (Score 1) 123
Didn't we already go through this with Ad Hoc networks on the original version of Win XP? The 'Free Public Wifi' SSID is still around today thanks to this poorly conceived 'convenience' and it was a nightmare for anyone trying to manage a secure wireless network.
I think time will show this feature not being worth the trouble it causes.
Comment Stanza on the iphone (Score 1) 684
Great for reading in bed, and one of the few iphone apps where you can turn off the damn auto-rotation.
Doesn't support every format but a few, I just convert on my desktop first.
Really quite a good interface for reading as well. Easy to de/increase font size with the ol' pinch manoeuvre
Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Booster 197
MikeChino writes "Porsche has just unveiled its 911 GT3 R Hybrid, a 480 horsepower track vehicle ready to rock the 24-hour Nurburgring race this May. Porsche's latest supercar will use the same 911 production platform available to consumers today, with a few race-ready features including front-wheel hybrid drive and an innovative flywheel system that stores kinetic energy from braking and then uses it to provide a 160 horsepower burst of speed. The setup is sure to offer an advantage when powering out of turns and passing by other racers."
Comment Re:AI first (Score 1) 979
I'm skeptical about the benefits of AI.
100 years ago we were promised an age of new enlightenment while washing machines, dish washers, vacuum cleaners and other then-cutting edge devices took over all the manual labor that dominated work at that time. Women were supposed to be able to ignore housework and concentrate on childrearing and other higher social activities.
Did that happen? No, the industrial capitalists just found new ways to put us (and now our wives too, who are no longer required for housework thanks to all these appliances) to work for their own insatiable greed. Men and women now work side by side in gigantic cube farms while children rot in day care or roam the streets with little to no guidance from the more experienced members of society.
Nothing moves us backwards faster than progress.
+1
Comment Go 2nd Hand Cisco (Score 1) 268
Why bother with a high-maintainance OS system for a router?? Just buy a refurbed Cisco from a reseller. You won't get support from Cisco but you can buy the router and a spare second-hand for 5% of the original cost.
Comment A subnet is a glass half empty (Score 1) 460
As everyone known "in use" is a dubious term.
The only subnets that I've ever seen fully occupied were /30's. Even my university has 2 class B's, where we could live with half of one - if we tried. Naturally this space is jealously guarded.
Meanwhile, in India, entire campuses are being NAT'd to /28's
Inefficient allocation are of course totally necessary when dealing with the prospects of future growth and variably-used DHCP pools, but I would be willing to wager at least 50% of the IPv4 space could be recovered if there was a serious effort at rationalisation - and that's ignoring the ridiculous situation of class A's.
