August 2007
117 posts
typedef struct node { char line[ MAX_LENGTH ]; /* text of line */ struct node *link; /* pointer to next line */ } NODE;
I really hate overly commented code. It is hard to read.
SchNEWS 600 - Camp for Climate Change →
A case of police apparently attacking peaceful protesters. But from the way the article is written it is obvious that it is not a clear unbias account of the events that took place.
What is more likely, The police attacking a peaceful protest or the police reacting to a few violent individuals at this protest?
originally linked from: http://www.stallman.org/archives/polnotes.html
Report: Wi-Fi to supersede wired Ethernet | CNET... →
I think not. Wireless networking is convienent, but not reliable. As a primary means of accessing a network a denial of service attack on your whole company would be laughably easy.
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Mountain Dew... →
“If you’re male and drink a lot of Mountain Dew, you will notice one related but perfectly harmless side effect: quite a bit of yellow liquid will flow out of your penis.”
Gentoo Bug 27727 - Larry can NOT be a Cow. →
Larry can be whatever he wants to be.
“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
– - James Thurber
< jessta> :DragonForce makes me want to get a sword and a viking ship and start raping and pillaging seaside villages
i will tape it all
and make millions off the movie
< zacius> dragonforce isn't what makes me want to do that
< zacius> but i concur
< zacius> it would make a good soundtrack
Atheros wireless device drivers in Linux licensing... →
Dual Licensing, It’s fucking confusing.
Don’t do it.
Judge: TorrentSpy must preserve data in RAM →
“Under this interpretation, any data stored in RAM could be subject to a subpoena, as at a basic level it is a “medium from which information can be obtained” just like a hard drive.”
Wow, sounds like that would end up being a lot of data to store.
FSF fails in their attempt to trick microsoft →
and which organisation is supposed to be the evil one?
inux is adding variable argument length; no more... →
Pair arrested after marking a powdery path through... →
Damn it charles, if I’ve told you once I’ve told you a million times, if it’s not an American Flag it’s probably a terrorist attack.
Skype 1.4.0.99 reads /etc/ passwd →
hmmm…how strange.. But thanks to shaddow passwords all they’ll get is a list of someone’s usernames.
Australian teenager cracks $84-million Internet... →
$84 million dollars? WTF? How could anyone spend that much money on a web filter that appears to be installed on the end users computer?
What Is Object Oriented Programming? →
I’ve never really liked object orientated programming, I always end up in a position where I’m fighting with the object model. This is because a lot of the time programming logic can’t be seperated out to be linked with a single datatype.
Microsoft Windows Server Compare →
Microsoft is distributing their case studies of why companies moved from GNU\Linux to Windows Server in .doc format.
Note to microsoft: when marketing to users of other platforms use a format that is easily read by users on any platform.
Idiots in US Government install client side... →
DAMN IT CHARLES! Shouldn’t they be monitoring the network traffic, where they actually have control and he can’t mess with it? Using software on a client computer to do the monitoring is just asking for abuse.
The Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness Calls... →
Damn it Charles
There are much more important things to do to prevent eatting disorders, like educationing teenages about healthy weights and breaking down some of the myths about the weights of media personalities/actors/models.
On The Long Road To Open Social Networks →
Apparently the tools for open social networks don’t exist. I wonder if they have googled for them.
XFN has been around for a while and in terms of making a network of friends the web has had the tools for the past decade.
Suprnova.org Returns →
The Anti-Mac Interface →
“we envision a computer interface that utilizes a thesaurus, spelling correction, displays of what is possible, and knowledge of the user and the task to take part in a negotiation of the user’s command. We could imagine, for example, a dialog in which the user makes a free-form request, the computer responds with a list of possible tasks that seem to match the request, and both...
Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and... →
A good reason don’t to base your paid commerical service on a peer-to-peer network for no other reason than to bypass firewalls
“So is the BSD licence even more ‘free’? Yes. Unquestionably. But I...”
– LinusTorvalds: I Have Never Really Talked To Microsoft!
“Information wants to be free”? No way! Nobody wants freedom these days!...”
– QuickFox (311231)
“I simply cant decide what’s hottest about this”
– anthony
ModBlog - Porn for gamer nerds or mod nerds? - Body modification and ritual blog sponsored by BMEzine.com (NSFW)
“2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2. Grabel’s Law”
– Quote Details: Grabel’s Law: 2 is not equal… - The Quotations Page
“Erlang is a fleet of cars that all cooperate to get you where you want to go. It...”
– If programming languages were cars…
“Bruce Lee is doing a roundhouse kick in his grave.”
– Digg user comment in regards to NYTimes article : “Enter the Dragon” to get Remake
Thought:
UML is stupidly complex. Most people don’t have the required stack space in their brain to hold all the requirements of a large project in their head.
UML doesn’t help because it still requires that you keep the abstract relationships between these requirements in your head.
Screw UML, release early, release often, and program with the understanding that your client may...
“My point, however, is that while I have had my share of hassles, the vast...”
– Windows Is Free (A TLUG Article)
Interesting, I spend 99% of my time doing uncomplicated things that don’t require a complex GUI.
Million Dollar Idea Generator →
Now all we need is an automatic patent generator to plug it in to.
“It is a grave mistake for the Government to be totally intransigent to...”
– Land rights ‘have impoverished’ Aborigines | NEWS.com.au
This is an example of why the current Australian government is a perversion of democracy.
If one party has a majority then no other parties count. This is a problem because democracy is based on the discussion of many points of...
Citrix Acquiring XenSource for $500 Million →
I wonder if they were waiting until Xen’s patches for Linux were included in mainline before annoucing this.
Coding Horror: Discipline Makes Strong Developers →
William Gibson - Wikipedia →
HACK THE GIBSON
Thought:
I need to be more arrogant and spend less time questioning my own understandings. Being fair and balanced requires way too much time spent researching topics I am not qualified to discuss.
Intuit building Quicken Online | →
I wish developers would stop making ‘web applications’ and start making proper remote applications.
PassPub - Strong Passwords, Uniquely Generated →
Wow, what a great idea. Some random website can generate my passwords. Luckly it’s https so only me and the website owner know what passwords I’m using.
Vast ancient settlement found at Angkor Wat →
Cool!
“Working Together As a Community to Leave Behind Microsoft Media Formats. Our...”
– :: Reviews : Community vs. Corporate Linux: The Coming Divide
ummm…Flash is non-free software, I fail to see how using flash is better than using Microsoft Media player formats.
In fact flash is worse. We have mplayer that will play almost any format(although not legally in many...
Terminally Incoherent » Blog Archive » Few Useful... →
I really should use netcat more often.
German Security Professionals in the Mist →
“German Government had introduced similar language into Section 202c StGB of the computer crime laws, which would have made the mere possession of (creates, obtains or provides access to, sells, yields, distributes or otherwise allows access to) tools like John, Kismet, KisMAC, Nessus, nmap, and the ability to Google effectively a crime.”
Damn It Charles!
A List of some of the most annoying IRC... →
Fairly accurate.