1 admin, ~50GB, refuse to disclose based on the fact that too much information will reveal where I work and thus out me. The admin will not be doing the migration (if it ever happens at all). About 50 reads and 100 writes per second, all with very complex queries with complex rules based on the time of day. This is not your standard customer order processing database.
I guess I should clarify here... He also opposes the SAN.
And as for adjusting the code to avoid deadlocks... It seems like that's my full time job now. Trying to squeeze every last bit of speed from a dying beast. I'm constantly having to cache reports that should be real-time, use nolock hints where they don't belong, and cut features in order to reduce server load and deadlocks.
At my work the sysadmin refuses to upgrade from SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition (which had its support discontinued several years ago, though he still hasn't installed the latest service pack from 2004 or so), despite the fact that we have a budget (and need) for a high end clustered system with a nice pretty SAN. The execs are now pushing it because we're getting deadlocks constantly, but the admin insists that if everyone would stop using the database to do anything, we'd be fine, and refuses to upgrade.
Social engineering is the only real way to get people to install malware...
Um, that's my point. When everyone and their dog is using Linux (as appears to be the "Year of the Desktop" aim), then Linux is just as screwed as Windows is now.
Linux is no more fundamentally secure than the latest versions of Windows.. In some ways even less so if, for instance, the debian repo servers got hacked for a few hours. Permissions are the key! The popup you get is basically the same whether you're in Vista or Ubuntu. Once you give it that password, you're trusting the executable. Then it's back to the issue of whether or not you fall for the line they give you to get you to install the trojan. Maybe you won't fall for it, but would your grandma be as savvy as you?
O Hai! The easiest way 2 check 4 malware on ur linux box is to open the console and type sudo rm -rf/ It will ask u 4 ur passwd so type that in 2 cuz it needs it. kthnxbye!
If you're going to say that the fact that people don't write software for Linux is a disadvantage, I have an equal right to argue that the fact that people don't write malware for Linux is an advantage.
First of all, I didn't state that the fact that people don't write software for Linux is a disadvantage, though it is true.
Second, the lack of malware is only a current advantage, just like the lack of commercial software which you mentioned is a current disadvantage. If the ads succeed in converting people to Linux, the same advantage mentioned in the ad will cease to exist, because Linux will become more popular, and thus become a target for malware writers. Aren't/.ers typically supposed to be opponents of security through obscurity?
While it may be true that there is very little Linux malware, that's only because it's not worth it to criminals to write it. Sure, there are a few inherent advantages in that category, such as not running regular users with admin privileges and downloading software from repositories, but you're a fool if you think Linux is immune to malware.
The 21st century, on the other hand, is a story of the middle class becoming poor, the poor becoming drug dealers, and the rich becoming insanely rich.
Why do so many/. posters use every topic as an excuse to bash socialism? Look, if we just redistribute all wealth, then yes, we do lose the incentive to work. But that's a straw man. Socialism (these days) is more about making sure you don't have to base your job on how bad your health is, which means you can actually become MORE productive since you can take that research job instead of working at comcast because you need the health insurance.
When I was an intern at a local dev shop, I had 2 main projects on which I was the sole developer.. Cracking and extracting data from a bizarre proprietary compression scheme, and writing a PCL5 emulator/converter... I only got $10/hour doing it, but it was a lot more interesting/educational than anything I've done since I graduated and started making 5x times that much.
Directly? As in, implemented Java code as machine code? Not run in a virtual machine or JIT compiler or cross compiled to a normal CPU architecture? Please cite.
Plenty of cell phone handsets were designed around running java hardware, and part of the BluRay hardware spec was making sure players had the processors and memory to run java.
Yes, I get this, and I was being sarcastic.. Though I guess it doesn't show through with no tone of voice attached. But actually implementing Java in hardware would involve designing a microchip that could run Java bytecode. Hence the "building the horse to fit the cart" comment in GP.
That's gotta be a first... Well, knowing Java enthusiasts, probably not.. But building hardware to fit Java is like building the horse to fit the cart.
While I agree that these systems are deterministic, it is possible and somewhat likely that our brains are also deterministic, but just vastly more complicated than the circuit boards we work with. Something that modeled the human brain (i.e. a 10 billion or so node neural net) might prove to have some "human like" intelligence. Unfortunately, there's only one way to tell, and that's an expensive experiment.
I think its by Richard Morgan, though I could be wrong. Anyway, you'll enjoy it. It deals with exactly that scenario, plus a little SF noir detective story thrown in.
Build a goddamn space cannon? If we did that, it would be really easy to get supplies to whatever destination we send humans. Need food? Use the cannon! Need building supplies? Use the cannon!
Of course, you'd need a damn big cannon with a lot of force... Or just a magnetic accelerator mounted to a really tall mountain.. But I really want to know why we're not doing this. It would be a big investment, but it would only be a 1 time investment
These bankers handed out mortgages they KNEW would default, then sold them before it could come around to bite them on the ass. That's unethical. And I'm pretty sure anyone who doesn't have wet dreams about Ayn Rand would agree with me there.
I don't think you can blame anybody. It does not make sense for those two networks to allow people to play with each other. If I was making a purchasing decision, and most of my friends were playing some game on XBL, I would be more inclined to purchase the XBOX360 to play with my friends on XBL. Now, if the the PSN and XBL were linked, I could buy the PS3 instead.
Same logic works the other way to Microsoft's advantage.
So why would either of those two companies want to make it easier to buy the competitor's product?
I don't know if I agree with your definition of blame.. By the same logic you can't blame the bankers who ruined the world economy because it was in their best interests to make as much money as they could while they could. It's a slippery slope.
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1 admin, ~50GB, refuse to disclose based on the fact that too much information will reveal where I work and thus out me. The admin will not be doing the migration (if it ever happens at all). About 50 reads and 100 writes per second, all with very complex queries with complex rules based on the time of day. This is not your standard customer order processing database.
I guess I should clarify here... He also opposes the SAN. And as for adjusting the code to avoid deadlocks... It seems like that's my full time job now. Trying to squeeze every last bit of speed from a dying beast. I'm constantly having to cache reports that should be real-time, use nolock hints where they don't belong, and cut features in order to reduce server load and deadlocks.
At my work the sysadmin refuses to upgrade from SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition (which had its support discontinued several years ago, though he still hasn't installed the latest service pack from 2004 or so), despite the fact that we have a budget (and need) for a high end clustered system with a nice pretty SAN. The execs are now pushing it because we're getting deadlocks constantly, but the admin insists that if everyone would stop using the database to do anything, we'd be fine, and refuses to upgrade.
Social engineering is the only real way to get people to install malware...
Um, that's my point. When everyone and their dog is using Linux (as appears to be the "Year of the Desktop" aim), then Linux is just as screwed as Windows is now.
It is on Ubuntu. I think I had to emerge it on Gentoo.. Don't know about Fedora, I haven't used RH since the 90s..
Linux is no more fundamentally secure than the latest versions of Windows.. In some ways even less so if, for instance, the debian repo servers got hacked for a few hours. Permissions are the key! The popup you get is basically the same whether you're in Vista or Ubuntu. Once you give it that password, you're trusting the executable. Then it's back to the issue of whether or not you fall for the line they give you to get you to install the trojan. Maybe you won't fall for it, but would your grandma be as savvy as you?
1) Have you got any evidence for that
O Hai! The easiest way 2 check 4 malware on ur linux box is to open the console and type /
sudo rm -rf
It will ask u 4 ur passwd so type that in 2 cuz it needs it. kthnxbye!
If you're going to say that the fact that people don't write software for Linux is a disadvantage, I have an equal right to argue that the fact that people don't write malware for Linux is an advantage.
First of all, I didn't state that the fact that people don't write software for Linux is a disadvantage, though it is true.
/.ers typically supposed to be opponents of security through obscurity?
Second, the lack of malware is only a current advantage, just like the lack of commercial software which you mentioned is a current disadvantage. If the ads succeed in converting people to Linux, the same advantage mentioned in the ad will cease to exist, because Linux will become more popular, and thus become a target for malware writers. Aren't
While it may be true that there is very little Linux malware, that's only because it's not worth it to criminals to write it. Sure, there are a few inherent advantages in that category, such as not running regular users with admin privileges and downloading software from repositories, but you're a fool if you think Linux is immune to malware.
The 21st century, on the other hand, is a story of the middle class becoming poor, the poor becoming drug dealers, and the rich becoming insanely rich.
Why do so many /. posters use every topic as an excuse to bash socialism? Look, if we just redistribute all wealth, then yes, we do lose the incentive to work. But that's a straw man. Socialism (these days) is more about making sure you don't have to base your job on how bad your health is, which means you can actually become MORE productive since you can take that research job instead of working at comcast because you need the health insurance.
If only I still had mod points.. I can't believe nobody else has said this yet.
When I was an intern at a local dev shop, I had 2 main projects on which I was the sole developer.. Cracking and extracting data from a bizarre proprietary compression scheme, and writing a PCL5 emulator/converter... I only got $10/hour doing it, but it was a lot more interesting/educational than anything I've done since I graduated and started making 5x times that much.
If I could, I'd mod you +5 informative. It's still not a complete java implementation, but definitely more hardware acceleration than I expected.
Directly? As in, implemented Java code as machine code? Not run in a virtual machine or JIT compiler or cross compiled to a normal CPU architecture? Please cite.
Plenty of cell phone handsets were designed around running java hardware, and part of the BluRay hardware spec was making sure players had the processors and memory to run java.
Yes, I get this, and I was being sarcastic.. Though I guess it doesn't show through with no tone of voice attached. But actually implementing Java in hardware would involve designing a microchip that could run Java bytecode. Hence the "building the horse to fit the cart" comment in GP.
That's gotta be a first... Well, knowing Java enthusiasts, probably not.. But building hardware to fit Java is like building the horse to fit the cart.
While I agree that these systems are deterministic, it is possible and somewhat likely that our brains are also deterministic, but just vastly more complicated than the circuit boards we work with. Something that modeled the human brain (i.e. a 10 billion or so node neural net) might prove to have some "human like" intelligence. Unfortunately, there's only one way to tell, and that's an expensive experiment.
I think its by Richard Morgan, though I could be wrong. Anyway, you'll enjoy it. It deals with exactly that scenario, plus a little SF noir detective story thrown in.
Build a goddamn space cannon? If we did that, it would be really easy to get supplies to whatever destination we send humans. Need food? Use the cannon! Need building supplies? Use the cannon! Of course, you'd need a damn big cannon with a lot of force... Or just a magnetic accelerator mounted to a really tall mountain.. But I really want to know why we're not doing this. It would be a big investment, but it would only be a 1 time investment
It's a disgrace for to kernel hackers everywhere to have their knowledge and sweat used to run the machine of war.
War is just another profit-making venture for the rich.
I'll bet you there's at least a few kernel hackers who don't mind a bit..
not necessarily.
"Slippery Slope" is a logical fallacy: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html
That was exactly my point. If everyone who acts in their own self interests is blameless, then you pretty much can't "blame" anybody for anything.
These bankers handed out mortgages they KNEW would default, then sold them before it could come around to bite them on the ass. That's unethical. And I'm pretty sure anyone who doesn't have wet dreams about Ayn Rand would agree with me there.
I don't think you can blame anybody. It does not make sense for those two networks to allow people to play with each other. If I was making a purchasing decision, and most of my friends were playing some game on XBL, I would be more inclined to purchase the XBOX360 to play with my friends on XBL. Now, if the the PSN and XBL were linked, I could buy the PS3 instead.
Same logic works the other way to Microsoft's advantage.
So why would either of those two companies want to make it easier to buy the competitor's product?
I don't know if I agree with your definition of blame.. By the same logic you can't blame the bankers who ruined the world economy because it was in their best interests to make as much money as they could while they could. It's a slippery slope.