Actually... here we go again... In Europe kids are exposed to sexuality at a young age. It's also notable that you can turn on the TV and not see violence as well as sexual devency as opposed to the USA where you are guaranteed to see rape, incest, sexual aggression, etc etc. Europeans are usually quite shocked by American "entertainment". As long as you don't see tits everything is fine, right?
My favorite change going into 2.4 is the halving of the filesystem caching structures. Instead of a read buffer and a write buffer, there is a single buffer. That makes the buffering data files use far less memory. Systems like mine will benefit greatly from this because the key to good performance at my site is getting all the game files in memory to avoid the awful penalty of disk IO.;)
What!? There wasn't a single buffer all this time? That's scary. Yes, this should speed up disk performance quite a bit. Yay. Anyone know the state of the nfs code, is it still god awful?
With filth like this passing as "entertainment" these days, it's no wonder that kids are shooting each other in schools. We are heading in the wrong direction. Unless this country gets back to the morals on which it was founded, there are some awfully dark days ahead. Farting and swearing for the whole song? It boggles the mind. If you find this "entertaining", I suggest you get help.
Yes we should all go back the 50s when everyone one was a good god-fearing moron and there was no Jerry Springer, only freaks in the closet, bottled up like old champagne. Ok, so let's go further to when our country was founded. Let's get back to the morals of our founder, George Washington, who was not a christian - he did not believe in Jesus. Yes, let's ditch Christianity like our founder.
I wonder what you'd say if we found out George Washington "had" interns.
Anyway, this is getting off topic. "Shut your fucking face uncle fucker!"
Furthermore, when an NT machine goes down, there is precious little in the way of logfiles, possibly NT's greatest sin. Don't tell me- MS is simply exercising it's right to not incriminate themselves! Seriously, though, if you want to fix a problem caused by misconfiguration, it helps to have some breadcrumbs to follow.
Why do you need log files n stuff when your OS is so reliable?
Actually, as this site says, EBay runs on a pair of E10K (upto 64 processors and 64 GB of ram. woohoo.;-) for the backend and some NT boxes on the front-end. I remember talking to our local Sun SE after the EBay incidents, and he had stated that EBay was not installing critical patch updates and wasn't listening to their Sun techs. If that's truly the case, then it's interesting that MS put that as an example. I doubt they want bad implementations of NT pointed out to them in a public forum. *grin*
I work for a company which makes software used by the largest ISPs you can think of(except AOL)... We support all the major commercial UNIX platforms. We have _mandatory_ patch levels for each platform. The reason is some patches are just plain buggy. We have good contacts to each OS company so we can usually find the latest and bug-free patches through our (inside) contacts without a hassle . This is important because our software typically runs with >1000 threads (per process + it is distributed, mult. server types...) so if there are any bugs in a patch we are usually the first to know. Sun, Compaq, SGI, etc. love us.
We have proven that assuming you have the right patch levels, unix is extremely stable. We will never support NT because it's unreliable, you have to reboot frequently,.01 support for remote access, and our customers don't want it. We support platforms as our customers request them. We may port to Linux soon which will be a huge win for Linux.;-)
Isn't Mir going to fall to the earth this year?
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I heard from the Discovery Channel that Mir should fall to the earth this spring.
Looks like friends or "guardian angels" can log in - I assume it's from these there that guardian angels can notify the company that he/she is dead. But what if the guardian angels never log in - seems like it should still send "is-your-friend-dead-yet" messages.
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Seems like finalthoughts.com is set up for suicides since you specify dates? They could expand their market if they polled friends with "Is your friend dead yet?" messages.
If a few people respond "yes" then it makes a note that the person is dead and fires off the emails...
Katz, I don't rag on you usually - I mostly watch others do it, but here is my turn.
Andy Kaufman was great in that he apealed to high humor - innuendos, human behavior, mass group think, irony. Jim C, on the other hand, deals mainly with slapstick. A whole different type of humor. Andy Kaufman aimed for a gut laugh not the silly oh-he's-so-cute-and-silly laugh which Jim C. aims for.
I saw a clip of Andy Kaufman reading pages and pages of The Great Gatsby from the beginning. After awhile the audience booed. Andy told the audience to not be so rude there is still a long way to go. This is a form of situational comedy.
Also his wrestling spree was an attempt to delve into human behavior - creating a villan, worse than Iago of Shakespear's Othello. Not anything fake like wrestlers of today but a man who seemed on and off camera a villan - he hated women and everyone was convinced of that except for Andy Kaufman.
The movie did not do Andy Kaufman justice, once again your review is flawed. It didn't catch Andy Kaufman's attempt at discovering what entertainment is. It was a shallow attempt to discover Andy Kaufman and reminds one of a bad 6th grade report on flamingos.
I got most of my information from the web and from a documentary I saw on Andy Kaufman. Obviously Katz once again didn't do his homework and his mental capacities sure as hell didn't help. Please, fire Katz before his moronic posts do any more damange.
In order to not completely fragment the progress of the dvd decypher code, how about putting a cvs repository on a server residing in a country which is untouchable by U.S. laws? Another alternative is to have the files spread across different servers and unified with cvs, but I don't think that has been done yet. So which country is immune?
Just because you don't know much about markets doesn't mean you can't comment on va-linux. You probably have a better idea of what va-linux does than most of the "knowledgable" investors of LNUX. I agree with you, va-linux has a better story compared to redhat. I got the letter too and damn right I jumped in on this! As soon as I heard that you could up the shares to 140 I did that.
Getting in on IPOs is not easy. The process is helped out if you have >1million dollars with an underwriter...
If it's with the underwriter underwriting the ipo then no problem, if it's another underwriter then they could pull off getting pre-ipo shares for you. All assuming you have enough assets to facilitate this.
Just another shining example of how the rich get richer - god bless the usa.
There are _tons_ of incentives to doing business in Holland.. esp. as a foreigner.
There are govt-sponsored offices throughout Holland that match up techies to companies... That is how you could get an it-business started. Companies will pay >$100/hr, the govt takes a small percentage.
The trick is moving there and working... you will first have to find a company that will give you a visa... require that they get a 15% authorization from the U.S. - there is an agreement between the U.S. and Holland where u pay 15% taxes in U.S., 5% (for first fl. 70,000(US $45,000)) annual, 50-60% after that... But you must have the written paperwork.
Companies for sponsoring u? Try IT consulting, that is huge.... products are created in the US, consulting is done in Europe, it's a sad fact of life. But you can still do development when consulting. Look at Cambridge Technology Partners, maybe Anderson Consulting, etc... avoid KPMG-CT.
Holland is an awesome place to live... much better than the U.S. If you can move there you will really enjoy it.
There is an agreement between Holland and the U.S. wher as an American citizen you pay 5% in taxes for the first fl.70,000(45,000) then 50% after that, and you pay 15% in the US for soc. security. Also, rent is cheap, food... the employer usually pays for car + gas. So It's an _awesome_ deal.
Also healthcare is just as good as it is in the U.S., which isn't saying too much. But it is free. Wouldn't you feel godo knowing that everyone is covered, including friends+family?
How do I know all this? I'm an American engineer who lived there for a year. Your ignorance doesn't surprise me, in Europe they make fun of people like you.
The breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 was terrible in retrospect. It caused each division to have a monopoly in its domain.
Why do they have a monopoly? Because a. of their market dominance and b. their tactics of keeping it. If we open up their source then they can't continue with (b) because applications such as Wine will be easily written to migrate from windows.
Opening up their source seems like the sensable thing to do.
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Actually... here we go again... In Europe kids are exposed to sexuality at a young age. It's also notable that you can turn on the TV and not see violence as well as sexual devency as opposed to the USA where you are guaranteed to see rape, incest, sexual aggression, etc etc. Europeans are usually quite shocked by American "entertainment". As long as you don't see tits everything is fine, right?
My favorite change going into 2.4 is the halving of the filesystem caching structures. Instead of a read buffer and a write buffer, there is a single buffer. That makes the buffering data files use far less memory. Systems like mine will benefit greatly from this because the key to good performance at my site is getting all the game files in memory to avoid the awful penalty of disk IO. ;)
What!? There wasn't a single buffer all this time? That's scary. Yes, this should speed up disk performance quite a bit. Yay. Anyone know the state of the nfs code, is it still god awful?
With filth like this passing as "entertainment" these days, it's no wonder that kids are shooting each other in schools. We are heading in the wrong direction. Unless this country gets back to the morals on which it was founded, there are some awfully dark days ahead. Farting and swearing for the whole song? It boggles the mind. If you find this "entertaining", I suggest you get help.
Yes we should all go back the 50s when everyone one was a good god-fearing moron and there was no Jerry Springer, only freaks in the closet, bottled up like old champagne. Ok, so let's go further to when our country was founded. Let's get back to the morals of our founder, George Washington, who was not a christian - he did not believe in Jesus. Yes, let's ditch Christianity like our founder.
I wonder what you'd say if we found out George Washington "had" interns.
Anyway, this is getting off topic.
"Shut your fucking face uncle fucker!"
Furthermore, when an NT machine goes down, there is precious little in the way of logfiles, possibly NT's greatest sin. Don't tell me- MS is simply exercising it's right to not incriminate themselves! Seriously, though, if you want to fix a problem caused by misconfiguration, it helps to have some breadcrumbs to follow.
Why do you need log files n stuff when your OS is so reliable?
Actually, as this site says, EBay runs on a pair of E10K (upto 64 processors and 64 GB of ram. woohoo. ;-) for the backend and some NT boxes on the front-end. I remember talking to our local Sun SE after the EBay incidents, and he had stated that EBay was not installing critical patch updates and wasn't listening to their Sun techs. If that's truly the case, then it's interesting that MS put that as an example. I doubt they want bad implementations of NT pointed out to them in a public forum. *grin*
.01 support for remote access, and our customers don't want it. We support platforms as our customers request them. We may port to Linux soon which will be a huge win for Linux. ;-)
I work for a company which makes software used by the largest ISPs you can think of(except AOL)... We support all the major commercial UNIX platforms. We have _mandatory_ patch levels for each platform. The reason is some patches are just plain buggy. We have good contacts to each OS company so we can usually find the latest and bug-free patches through our (inside) contacts without a hassle . This is important because our software typically runs with >1000 threads (per process + it is distributed, mult. server types...) so if there are any bugs in a patch we are usually the first to know. Sun, Compaq, SGI, etc. love us.
We have proven that assuming you have the right patch levels, unix is extremely stable. We will never support NT because it's unreliable, you have to reboot frequently,
I heard from the Discovery Channel that Mir should fall to the earth this spring.
Can anyone back this up from another source?
Looks like friends or "guardian angels" can log in - I assume it's from these there that guardian angels can notify the company that he/she is dead. But what if the guardian angels never log in - seems like it should still send "is-your-friend-dead-yet" messages.
Seems like finalthoughts.com is set up for suicides since you specify dates? They could expand their market if they polled friends with "Is your friend dead yet?" messages.
If a few people respond "yes" then it makes a note that the person is dead and fires off the emails...
Katz, I don't rag on you usually - I mostly watch others do it, but here is my turn.
Andy Kaufman was great in that he apealed to high humor - innuendos, human behavior, mass group think, irony. Jim C, on the other hand, deals mainly with slapstick. A whole different type of humor. Andy Kaufman aimed for a gut laugh not the silly oh-he's-so-cute-and-silly laugh which Jim C. aims for.
I saw a clip of Andy Kaufman reading pages and pages of The Great Gatsby from the beginning. After awhile the audience booed. Andy told the audience to not be so rude there is still a long way to go. This is a form of situational comedy.
Also his wrestling spree was an attempt to delve into human behavior - creating a villan, worse than Iago of Shakespear's Othello. Not anything fake like wrestlers of today but a man who seemed on and off camera a villan - he hated women and everyone was convinced of that except for Andy Kaufman.
The movie did not do Andy Kaufman justice, once again your review is flawed. It didn't catch Andy Kaufman's attempt at discovering what entertainment is. It was a shallow attempt to discover Andy Kaufman and reminds one of a bad 6th grade report on flamingos.
I got most of my information from the web and from a documentary I saw on Andy Kaufman. Obviously Katz once again didn't do his homework and his mental capacities sure as hell didn't help. Please, fire Katz before his moronic posts do any more damange.
In order to not completely fragment the progress of the dvd decypher code, how about putting a cvs repository on a server residing in a country which is untouchable by U.S. laws? Another alternative is to have the files spread across different servers and unified with cvs, but I don't think that has been done yet. So which country is immune?
Java needs a poll() function so we don't have to have one thread per connection.
Just because you don't know much about markets doesn't mean you can't comment on va-linux. You probably have a better idea of what va-linux does than most of the "knowledgable" investors of LNUX. I agree with you, va-linux has a better story compared to redhat. I got the letter too and damn right I jumped in on this! As soon as I heard that you could up the shares to 140 I did that.
Getting in on IPOs is not easy. The process is helped out if you have >1million dollars with an underwriter...
If it's with the underwriter underwriting the ipo then no problem, if it's another underwriter then they could pull off getting pre-ipo shares for you. All assuming you have enough assets to facilitate this.
Just another shining example of how the rich get richer - god bless the usa.
There are _tons_ of incentives to doing business in Holland.. esp. as a foreigner.
There are govt-sponsored offices throughout Holland that match up techies to companies... That is how you could get an it-business started. Companies will pay >$100/hr, the govt takes a small percentage.
The trick is moving there and working... you will first have to find a company that will give you a visa... require that they get a 15% authorization from the U.S. - there is an agreement between the U.S. and Holland where u pay 15% taxes in U.S., 5% (for first fl. 70,000(US $45,000)) annual, 50-60% after that... But you must have the written paperwork.
Companies for sponsoring u? Try IT consulting, that is huge.... products are created in the US, consulting is done in Europe, it's a sad fact of life. But you can still do development when consulting. Look at Cambridge Technology Partners, maybe Anderson Consulting, etc... avoid KPMG-CT.
Holland is an awesome place to live... much better than the U.S. If you can move there you will really enjoy it.
Dutch women = tall, blond, hot, nice.
What a great combo!
There is an agreement between Holland and the U.S. wher as an American citizen you pay 5% in taxes for the first fl.70,000(45,000) then 50% after that, and you pay 15% in the US for soc. security. Also, rent is cheap, food... the employer usually pays for car + gas. So It's an _awesome_ deal.
Also healthcare is just as good as it is in the U.S., which isn't saying too much. But it is free. Wouldn't you feel godo knowing that everyone is covered, including friends+family?
How do I know all this? I'm an American engineer who lived there for a year. Your ignorance doesn't surprise me, in Europe they make fun of people like you.
You should stay in America, it is best.
Monopoly(in U.S.) = able to set arbitrary prices regardless of market conditions. The judge proved that M$ is a monopoly by establishing this fact.
The breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 was terrible in retrospect. It caused each division to have a monopoly in its domain.
Why do they have a monopoly? Because a. of their market dominance and b. their tactics of keeping it. If we open up their source then they can't continue with (b) because applications such as Wine will be easily written to migrate from windows.
Opening up their source seems like the sensable thing to do.