Well, at this stage Assange has become a pawn in the game of international relations. I wonder if he envisioned that, when he was dreaming of how "Wikileaks" would change the world.
Countries that generally get a raw deal in their dealings with the US, like many in South America, can use him as a bargaining chip. And that's exactly what's happening here. Reading between the lines, seeing beyond the silly headlines the papers are feeding us, does not require you to be a foreign policy expert.
As someone said in an earlier post, whether we like Assange as a person is less relevant than the fact his ill-considered actions have pushed the envelope and are forcing some issues about the internet to be addressed, the resolution of which hackers have been patiently waiting for many years.
It's interesting to think about all the cables that were never released, i.e. the vast majority of them. How did the newspapers decide which ones to let the public see? Those decisions are having real effects. They were in essence policy decisions. Someone at the news corporation had to say, let's release these cables about Ecuador.
Every employee is a representative of the company. That includes the legal and marketing departments. And it is indeed, as another commenter calls it, lame for persons outside those departments to use them as an excuse. It's their responsibility to communicate with their colleagues and present a consistent face of the company. I know little about Teralogix, but from reading of this little stunt I am not sure I want to. Extremely unprofessional.
Haha. This is great. Seems young programmers are not so naive about IP after all, eh Teralogix? Nice try. Way to go St. Louis hacking community. Always read the fine print, and ask questions.
In the article he asks why does less need a history file. Who says it does? It's an option. It can be disabled turned off. The question of why it's on by default is another matter.
Manpage extract:
LESSHISTFILE
Name of the history file used to remember search
commands and shell commands between invocations of less. If set to "-" or "/dev/null", a history file is not used. The default is "$HOME/.lesshst" on Unix systems, "$HOME/_lesshst" on DOS and Windows systems, or "$HOME/lesshst.ini" or "$INIT/lesshst.ini" on OS/2 systems.
Then the author complains about applications that write too much to disk. He has my sympathies.
Has he ever heard of a ramdisk? mfs? tmpfs?
This is the easy solution to the problem of braindead applications writing needlessly to disk.
The simple rule is: If you don't want disk writes then don't use the disk. Mount your directories in RAM. Is this perfect solution with zero overhead? No. Is the cost very small? Is is exponentially faster than using the HDD? Try it and answer these questions for yourself.
There are also the countless bloggers who write about installing an OS to a USB stick or SD card. They usually mention the issue of disk writes and how this impacts flash memory, but they almost always proceed to instruct their readers to "untar" several thousand files in the course of an install anyway. This is not very helpful.
Did it ever occur to them that they could make an image of a
filesystem and transfer that to the media - requiring only a single write? Can you mount root read-only and other dirs like /var and /etc read-write? Yes, of course.
How do tech support people in corporations deploy countless Windows installations? They use imaging. It is not rocket science.
One commenter says you can't extract a single member from a tarball without reading the entire file. What version of tar is he using?
Manpage extract:
-q, --fast-read
Select the first archive member that matches each pattern operand. No more than one archive member is matched for each pattern. When members of type directory are matched, the file hierarchy rooted at that directory is also matched.
This means the entire archive is not read, unless the member to be extracted is at the very end. Similar to sed /pattern/q or grep -m1 pattern.
Anyway pax is better than tar.
Another commenter claims you cannot "stream download and decompress" tar.gz files "on-the-fly". What exactly does that mean?
What if you do this:
(BSD/OSX only; Linux ftp is not the same)
Countries that generally get a raw deal in their dealings with the US, like many in South America, can use him as a bargaining chip. And that's exactly what's happening here. Reading between the lines, seeing beyond the silly headlines the papers are feeding us, does not require you to be a foreign policy expert.
As someone said in an earlier post, whether we like Assange as a person is less relevant than the fact his ill-considered actions have pushed the envelope and are forcing some issues about the internet to be addressed, the resolution of which hackers have been patiently waiting for many years.
It's interesting to think about all the cables that were never released, i.e. the vast majority of them. How did the newspapers decide which ones to let the public see? Those decisions are having real effects. They were in essence policy decisions. Someone at the news corporation had to say, let's release these cables about Ecuador.
And here we are.
Pass the popcorn.