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To the parent poster, IANAL however, if nobody outside your University or dissertation committee ever even reviews your paper, that would certainly be acceptable use under these terms. Otherwise you can shoot them an e-mail, explain your situation and ask permission, you might even be surprised by the response.
Um, is there anything that explicitly prohibits you from benchmarking and publishing the results of performance on VMWare ESXi or GSX? Both of them are free downloads from vmware.com with a valid e-mail address.
You should clearly get them a ThinkGeek gift certificate. $20 gets most sysadmins a T-Shirt they really would like.
-- Kirby, ThinkGeek programmer/blockquote
Hasn't there been a ThinkGeek promotion for SysAdmin day for the last several years? Like, buy $50 worth of stuff, get one of these SysAdmin shirts free sort of thing?
I can't seem to find one this year. What is up with that?
Say what you will about Microsoft, but they are geniuses when it comes to marketing. I mean they can tell everyone that 6.1 is equal to 7.0, and sell Vista to the same pissed off customers again at $400 a head.
That is what configuration management is supposed to do, as far as I know puppet and cfengine do this already. I believe puppet compiles configuration changes and sends its hosts their configuration automatically, every 30 minutes.
Don't know what Unix or Linux vendor you're using puppet with. Whenever you do your network install, assuming you have some unattended install process, there should be some way to run post installation scripts. Create a post install script that will join your newly installed hosts to your puppet server. Run this post install script with kickstart, preseed, etc. at the end of the install process. Once newly installed hosts are joined to your central puppet server, then puppet can manage the rest of the configurations.
There are better ways to poll people. Youtube comments will only give you a cross section of youtube users.......not a group representative of most of America. No reason to spend tax payer money in this economy to pay people to read peanut gallery quality comments.
I think that was one of the points of the original poster. The video responses are not stellar by any measure most, if not all of them, are either off-topic or on the same sophomoric level as typical youtube text comments.
As others have mentioned DOSBox is a DOS API emulator, not a complete Operating System as FreeDOS. For unknown reasons many hardware vendors and OEMs still rely on DOS boot disks to flash firmware on RAID controllers, BIOS, and Fiber Channel or iSCSI Host Bus Adapters. I could speculate that it has something to do with modern Operating Systems having greater or more complex abstraction between the hardware and the software. Either that, or there is just no reason to re-invent a wheel, when the wheel you have works just fine on DOS.
So while FreeDOS is not something that many people use everyday, it is something that many people heavily rely on to create bootable images for floppy disks or PXE-booting. Unlike other DOS implementations (DRDOS/PCDOS/MSDOS) there are not licensing costs associated with redistributing a bootable floppy image generated from FreeDOS. So FreeDOS allows hardware, software, and OEM vendors to pre-generate images of bootable floppy based utilities, and redistribute the images without fear of making a copyright violation.
I personally have dozens of floppy images built on FreeDOS, that I use to PXE-boot things like Ghost, SpinRite, BIOS and flash utilities, etc. Some of those images were pre-generated by vendors, some of them were generated by myself using the FreeDOS 'sysx' command on Linux or Windows. I would not be surprised if people are still using FreeDOS for these same things in another 15 years from now.
That isn't what the original poster meant by security. Encryption only secures the transport, that does not mean SSL and TLS secures HTTPS from any exploits.
The President should not appear on talk shows, MTV, movies, or sitcoms. The President is not our friend or buddy. Discipline is needed to keep respect and authority.
Where have you been? This has been going on at least since the televised Kennedy/Nixon debate.
I was not questioning whether the Beta software works or not. The grandparent poster suggested that the benchmarked Firefox Release Candidate in this article was in fact, an official Ubuntu build as opposed to a Mozilla build. The article suggests that Ubuntu 9.04 still ships with Firefox 3.0.11 by default. More than likely, the package benchmarked was a Mozilla build.
That and Ubuntu does its own recompile...they make changes. It's not Mozilla's build.
I doubt that Ubuntu has an official 3.5 RC package built, as of yet. The benchmark article, even suggests, they are still shipping Firefox 3.0.11 with Ubuntu 9.04. No matter how bleeding edge Ubuntu may seem, it is very unlikely that Canonical would ship a Beta version or Release Candidate of Firefox.
Many major cities have bookstores and gaming shops that have regular singles events.
Gaming shops, whoa, stop right there! At least at the bookstore you have a chance of finding an attractive and potentially literate specimen of the opposite sex. Seriously, gaming shop singles event? What exactly is the ratio of men to women there, 4:1? Of the females that are into WoW, or pwning n00bs at Counter-Strike, on the spectrum of 1 (Rosie O'Donnell) to 10 (standard issue Booth Babe) where would you say the majority of them fall?
Seriously, the first step is leaving the basement. Second, just talk to people. You can practice by greeting random strangers, with a simple hello, while walking down the street.
You may be surprised how interesting the people around you at work, or school, are. That is only if you take a few minutes out of your day to talk to the people around you. You do not have to pigeonhole yourself into only making friends with technology-minded geeks for social interaction. There are 40 people in our department and although not all of them are techs, every single one of them geeks out over some hobby. Off the top of my head I work with people who are: car racing enthusiasts, a few weekend BBQ pit-masters; one guy home-brews his own beer; another guy hacks digital cameras to take astronomy photos; there is a MacGyver wanna-be that can fix or build just about anything; film enthusiasts; there are softball and bowling leaguers; habitual video gamers, and so on.
What makes most people interesting is the ability to carry on a conversation about something other than work, or computers for more than a few minutes. If one does not have some sort of hobby or interests, outside of programming or working on computers, then it isn't much of an attractive personality to peers or potential mates for that matter. Not only will taking up a hobby or interest, boost your amount of conversational fodder, it is a good renewal to just unwind from work or school. In other words, if all you can talk about is Linux, Perl, or work, people might just start avoiding you.
As for meeting women, you don't have to go to smelly bars to meet them. Women are everywhere, and in most places they outnumber the men 2:1. It sounds like you may need to work on some personal development, and maybe your confidence a bit, before you start approaching any of them. There are better places to get advice than from Slashdot though.
It is not the NSA 3. It is NSA 3-suited, geesh read the title carefully, already.
Seriously though, do those with mod points not have anything better to do than mod this offtopic? Ill-suited clearly looks like III-suited in the title, and I think it probably has something to do with fonts in stylesheets, and not my default browser font.
Pretty much. Gabe Newell has stated in several interviews that the PS3 is a pain in the ass platform to develop games on, and for the most part is a huge waste of time.
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To the parent poster, IANAL however, if nobody outside your University or dissertation committee ever even reviews your paper, that would certainly be acceptable use under these terms. Otherwise you can shoot them an e-mail, explain your situation and ask permission, you might even be surprised by the response.
Um, is there anything that explicitly prohibits you from benchmarking and publishing the results of performance on VMWare ESXi or GSX? Both of them are free downloads from vmware.com with a valid e-mail address.
Sysadmin's don't worry about garbage collectors, that's a developer's job.
I'm pretty sure that the real Bumblebee (despite being a VW Beetle), doesn't have 42 strategically placed Autobot medallions.
Say what you will about Microsoft, but they are geniuses when it comes to marketing. I mean they can tell everyone that 6.1 is equal to 7.0, and sell Vista to the same pissed off customers again at $400 a head.
That is what configuration management is supposed to do, as far as I know puppet and cfengine do this already. I believe puppet compiles configuration changes and sends its hosts their configuration automatically, every 30 minutes.
Don't know what Unix or Linux vendor you're using puppet with. Whenever you do your network install, assuming you have some unattended install process, there should be some way to run post installation scripts. Create a post install script that will join your newly installed hosts to your puppet server. Run this post install script with kickstart, preseed, etc. at the end of the install process. Once newly installed hosts are joined to your central puppet server, then puppet can manage the rest of the configurations.
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Nah, you don't think!
Mod parent +1 Insightful.
I think that was one of the points of the original poster. The video responses are not stellar by any measure most, if not all of them, are either off-topic or on the same sophomoric level as typical youtube text comments.
As others have mentioned DOSBox is a DOS API emulator, not a complete Operating System as FreeDOS. For unknown reasons many hardware vendors and OEMs still rely on DOS boot disks to flash firmware on RAID controllers, BIOS, and Fiber Channel or iSCSI Host Bus Adapters. I could speculate that it has something to do with modern Operating Systems having greater or more complex abstraction between the hardware and the software. Either that, or there is just no reason to re-invent a wheel, when the wheel you have works just fine on DOS.
So while FreeDOS is not something that many people use everyday, it is something that many people heavily rely on to create bootable images for floppy disks or PXE-booting. Unlike other DOS implementations (DRDOS/PCDOS/MSDOS) there are not licensing costs associated with redistributing a bootable floppy image generated from FreeDOS. So FreeDOS allows hardware, software, and OEM vendors to pre-generate images of bootable floppy based utilities, and redistribute the images without fear of making a copyright violation.
I personally have dozens of floppy images built on FreeDOS, that I use to PXE-boot things like Ghost, SpinRite, BIOS and flash utilities, etc. Some of those images were pre-generated by vendors, some of them were generated by myself using the FreeDOS 'sysx' command on Linux or Windows. I would not be surprised if people are still using FreeDOS for these same things in another 15 years from now.
That isn't what the original poster meant by security. Encryption only secures the transport, that does not mean SSL and TLS secures HTTPS from any exploits.
Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!
Where have you been? This has been going on at least since the televised Kennedy/Nixon debate.
Well if you really want to nitpick, the 300 bits per second should be 300 baud. But hey, I guess all nitpickers aren't perfect.
Hear where?
I was not questioning whether the Beta software works or not. The grandparent poster suggested that the benchmarked Firefox Release Candidate in this article was in fact, an official Ubuntu build as opposed to a Mozilla build. The article suggests that Ubuntu 9.04 still ships with Firefox 3.0.11 by default. More than likely, the package benchmarked was a Mozilla build.
So what is the problem Flash, or Linux?
I doubt that Ubuntu has an official 3.5 RC package built, as of yet. The benchmark article, even suggests, they are still shipping Firefox 3.0.11 with Ubuntu 9.04. No matter how bleeding edge Ubuntu may seem, it is very unlikely that Canonical would ship a Beta version or Release Candidate of Firefox.
Gaming shops, whoa, stop right there! At least at the bookstore you have a chance of finding an attractive and potentially literate specimen of the opposite sex. Seriously, gaming shop singles event? What exactly is the ratio of men to women there, 4:1? Of the females that are into WoW, or pwning n00bs at Counter-Strike, on the spectrum of 1 (Rosie O'Donnell) to 10 (standard issue Booth Babe) where would you say the majority of them fall?
Seriously, the first step is leaving the basement. Second, just talk to people. You can practice by greeting random strangers, with a simple hello, while walking down the street.
You may be surprised how interesting the people around you at work, or school, are. That is only if you take a few minutes out of your day to talk to the people around you. You do not have to pigeonhole yourself into only making friends with technology-minded geeks for social interaction. There are 40 people in our department and although not all of them are techs, every single one of them geeks out over some hobby. Off the top of my head I work with people who are: car racing enthusiasts, a few weekend BBQ pit-masters; one guy home-brews his own beer; another guy hacks digital cameras to take astronomy photos; there is a MacGyver wanna-be that can fix or build just about anything; film enthusiasts; there are softball and bowling leaguers; habitual video gamers, and so on.
What makes most people interesting is the ability to carry on a conversation about something other than work, or computers for more than a few minutes. If one does not have some sort of hobby or interests, outside of programming or working on computers, then it isn't much of an attractive personality to peers or potential mates for that matter. Not only will taking up a hobby or interest, boost your amount of conversational fodder, it is a good renewal to just unwind from work or school. In other words, if all you can talk about is Linux, Perl, or work, people might just start avoiding you.
As for meeting women, you don't have to go to smelly bars to meet them. Women are everywhere, and in most places they outnumber the men 2:1. It sounds like you may need to work on some personal development, and maybe your confidence a bit, before you start approaching any of them. There are better places to get advice than from Slashdot though.
It is not the NSA 3. It is NSA 3-suited, geesh read the title carefully, already.
Seriously though, do those with mod points not have anything better to do than mod this offtopic? Ill-suited clearly looks like III-suited in the title, and I think it probably has something to do with fonts in stylesheets, and not my default browser font.
I wonder when Microsoft will catch up, so that Windows will be, you know, "ready for the desktop"?
Just what I need, GPS navigation for my shoes.
Turn left in .01 miles...
Pretty much. Gabe Newell has stated in several interviews that the PS3 is a pain in the ass platform to develop games on, and for the most part is a huge waste of time.