Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah right. I am frankly surprised that there are people on this list > who question my qualifications. But to address your point-- it's true, > we can always reinvent the wheel. AND YES MISTER ZAK, I DID READ UP > THE LITERATURE ON FINGERPRINT ANALYSIS.
Well, someone has to ask, when that someone doesn't know, right? Or that's your last outrage... > But-- whether you implement the code yourself, or "lazily download > something off sourceforge," for THIS particular application, there is > no OSS solution. Trust me-- I HAVE LOOKED. I also considered writing > the code myself, seeing as I wrote a complete DSP suite back in > college (back when there was no libfftw).. Actually you could say I'm > a "if I can do it with Linux, I will do it with Linux even if it's > harder" kind of person. I'm not a "D/L something and if it don't > compile whine" kind of person. Then make one, seeing you *have* the qualifications to do it. But then again, no one's forcing you to, unless you yourself force yourself to, or not to. Again, it really all depends on how itchy your itch is, and how insane you are to start working on a hack... > There's no point making that distinction from a functional > perspective. From a technical perspective, yes, but in the world I > live in, no. Yep. We can make distinctions at any level of abstraction we want. :-) > Maybe when you've worked as long as I have (and the fun of coding for > work has all been drained out of you...) you will come to see my > point, which is: I don't care what's kernel and what's userspace. I > care about how this agglomeration will do my job. Therein lies your burn-out. I can't blame you though: I understand that you have to keep focused on your job, and given any means, whether proprietary or not, that would greatly increase the chances of success, well, why not? :-) I however, do not have the luxury of choosing between proprietary and FOSS solutions, because (a) I do not have the financial backing of a business or org that would be capable of paying the price of PSOS, and (b) given my current needs, I do not need to risk using pirate software when I can do my fun stuff and work on a free one. Not to mention (c) that by choosing PSOS I lose my freedoms, but to tell you the truth, with our current model of rights and responsibilities, this ground is still quite shaky. I just hope you change your mindset of `I code for work' to `I work for the fun of coding'. Don't you see how negative this is? But then again, I'm not supposed to question your qualification, right? I'm just a hapless unknown shouting from some relatively unknown area in .ph who just happens to think differently... I guesss it could be an uphill battle, but then again, why not? > But... what about the fork bomb bug which still exists in all/most > modern Linux distributions due to sloppy ulimit? (yes mister Zak, your > debian unstable doesn't count, before you swarm all over me correcting > my errors) That's right. Sid still has that fork bomb. But like what you said, you don't have to consider the technical and functional (mis)applications of a system because you don't need to. Like you, I don't need to make any special distinction between `a ulimit that works fine' and `a ulimit that borks'. All I need to know is that I have `a ulimit'--`a ulimit that just so happens to work'. Anyway, Sid technically doesn't get any security updates, though it is the path to testing-security. So, at any rate, I wouldn't consider my current installation as terribly secure. Just secure enough for my needs. -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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