Do you even know what these big time movie producers use Linux for? Math!
Most of the Linux farms are there for rendering or simulations of various kinds (water, crowds, fire, etc.) They're just crunching numbers and returning data. These are tasks that are easy to break up into pieces and have lots of machines work on just a bit of the problem so that you can get your results back quicker - grid computing type solutions.
All of the actual creation of textures and image work is still mostly done on either a mac or a windows box.
Only the US pay for incoming texts AFAIK... So never go anywhere with a civilised communications infrastructure - there, they'd be able to amputate bits of you for free!
The stable ABI is only provided by the distros since Linus went mad and decided that development in the 'stable' kernel branch was a good idea.
Linux on the desktop is never going to happen because of this decision.
Vendors will NOT maintain and update multiple different drivers for multiple distributions - it's just not cost effective. And Linux users will always remain spread across a multitude of distros, so there will _always_ be freetards screaming about how someone doesn't support their choice of distro.
I've done a lot of work in that neighbourhood, and believe me, there's no such thing as stable reception out there. You're luck on the odd occasion that you can get a call through.
Then you get screwed by your home operator cutting you off when you hit some predefined limit that you weren't aware was on there, and you can't call home to tell your wife that you weren't in the hotel that was shelled. Good times....
Do you even know what is being talked about here? ABI stability refers to the same piece of software being able to run on the same kernel between multiple versions.
For example, if I build a driver for 2.6.1, I want to be able to expect it to keep working with any 2.6. kernel. Linux does not provide this. Sun does. OS X does. AIX does. FreeBSD mostly does.
Most mature operating systems / kernels guarantee API and ABI stability within a stable branch of the OS. Changes are only made when making major version changes (e.g. Solaris 8 to Solaris 9)
Average time to boot my PC on a Monday morning in a bank is around 28 minutes. First there's the OS bootup. Then there's the profile checks and creation. Next we're onto agreeing to compliance notices and viewing warnings about use policy. Now I have a desktop. At this point, I can start the process of remoting into the machine where all of my apps are installed.
It covers most stuff, but there is still quite a bit missing. The main thing is the benefit of being on google mail for spam because they have so much more traffic to work with.
The above solution keeps mail accounts separate to system accounts and gets most things right.
How do you figure it's not that hard to run your own mailserver? Please tell me how to achieve the following, simply.
1. POP and IMAP access for all users 2. Simple ability to delegate administrative rights for the domain including creation of new user rights 3. Ability for users to manage aliases 4. Ability for users to manage mail lists 5. Spam prevention with similar success rates (including very low false positives) to Gmail or any other mass mail site 6. Webmail 7. Simple password changing for users 8. Authenticated SMTP 9. Simple SPF
I've spent a lot of time and effort, and have a good smtp / imap / pop / webmail solution, but it's still cobbled together from loads of stuff and it's still missing solutions to allow users to change passwords and delegate administration control of a domain.
You can't trust this bitch. Anytime her office gets anything, they ask for more. They started out by asking for 14 days detention without charge. When they got that, they started the push to 28 days. Their last try was for 42 days.
If they get traffic information, it'll just be a matter of time before they go for content as well.
Just because you had a good experience doesn't mean that thousands of other people haven't had bad experiences, also by doing nothing wrong.
Wait until you go visit the 'land of the free (some restrictions may apply)' and they separate you from your wife (on her birthday). They herd you into a room and leave you there for over an hour. During this time, no-one will speak to you. Your wife cannot get any information about where you are, what is happening or why.
And the whole reason for this bullshit? I had got a new passport. The system showed that my old passport from a previous visit would still have been valid and the fascist cunt wanted to know why I had got a new passport.
I explained that my old one would have had less than 4 months validity at the start of this visit. The terms of the VWP require that my passport have at least 6 months validity to be able to gain entry, so while my old passport was still valid, it wasn't valid enough for the visit. It took about 20 minutes to make him understand that I had got a new passport purely because one was required for this specific trip.
You don't need to use gender neutral terms when describing evil. Middleman is perfectly ok for bad people, as women have spent years trying to explain men are all evil:)
And that's just what you have to go through to get something running in a _current_ distro on the current kernel. Because of the absolute lack of a stable API / ABI in the Linux kernel, you cannot expect anything to still work in the next kernel release.
So really, why bother? Why go through all of the grief that porting to Linux involves for the very little amount of money you'd make? Stick with vendors who will guarantee the API and ABI and you will know that you can still sell copies of this game next year and keep making money off of it.
The PRS-505 launched in the UK recently, and I was all set on getting one until I saw the price of books for these things.
When I buy a book from Amazon, it's delivered the next day and at least two people read it. The same titles as e-books cost the same amount on the Waterstones store, if not slightly more than on Amazon, and only 1 person can read them unless I shell out for a second reader. And in some cases, I was able to get new books from Amazon BEFORE they would be available on the Waterstones store.
E-books have to be at least 30% less than their physical counterparts before I'll start buying them or a reader to read them.
Of course, if I could find a decent site on the net I might be convinced, but I never managed to find one that caters to most of my reading tastes.
Beyond the fact that you're completely wrong (our gear gets moved out on a 3 year refresh cycle and we often have new models of kit in the racks before it goes GA) the computers actually aren't the real value.
The real value lies in the floorspace, the structured cabling infrastructure, the power delivery and the cooling. These are the main costs when setting up your own DC.
Considering what we've spent on the NHS IT system that no doctor or nurse I've spoken to seems to want, this seems like a bargain to me - why NOT give the people something they actually want for a change ?
Many sites including Microsoft's Xbox site and TomTom do not accept the + sign as part of an e-mail address. This makes it worthless.
Combined with Google Apps for Domains having allowing only a very small number of aliases, and we're back to having to run our own MTAs and dealing with all that grief, spam and wasted bandwidth:(
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What are you talking about ? Care to give us some context for your comment?
Do you even know what these big time movie producers use Linux for? Math!
Most of the Linux farms are there for rendering or simulations of various kinds (water, crowds, fire, etc.) They're just crunching numbers and returning data. These are tasks that are easy to break up into pieces and have lots of machines work on just a bit of the problem so that you can get your results back quicker - grid computing type solutions.
All of the actual creation of textures and image work is still mostly done on either a mac or a windows box.
If they're bright kids, they probably already love lego. The mindstorms NXT stuff is the logical next step.
Only the US pay for incoming texts AFAIK... So never go anywhere with a civilised communications infrastructure - there, they'd be able to amputate bits of you for free!
The stable ABI is only provided by the distros since Linus went mad and decided that development in the 'stable' kernel branch was a good idea.
Linux on the desktop is never going to happen because of this decision.
Vendors will NOT maintain and update multiple different drivers for multiple distributions - it's just not cost effective. And Linux users will always remain spread across a multitude of distros, so there will _always_ be freetards screaming about how someone doesn't support their choice of distro.
I've done a lot of work in that neighbourhood, and believe me, there's no such thing as stable reception out there. You're luck on the odd occasion that you can get a call through.
Then you get screwed by your home operator cutting you off when you hit some predefined limit that you weren't aware was on there, and you can't call home to tell your wife that you weren't in the hotel that was shelled. Good times....
Do you even know what is being talked about here? ABI stability refers to the same piece of software being able to run on the same kernel between multiple versions.
For example, if I build a driver for 2.6.1, I want to be able to expect it to keep working with any 2.6. kernel. Linux does not provide this. Sun does. OS X does. AIX does. FreeBSD mostly does.
Most mature operating systems / kernels guarantee API and ABI stability within a stable branch of the OS. Changes are only made when making major version changes (e.g. Solaris 8 to Solaris 9)
Average time to boot my PC on a Monday morning in a bank is around 28 minutes. First there's the OS bootup. Then there's the profile checks and creation. Next we're onto agreeing to compliance notices and viewing warnings about use policy. Now I have a desktop. At this point, I can start the process of remoting into the machine where all of my apps are installed.
Indie Music is free? Since when ?
Many bands on independent labels or bands pushing their own recorded cds actually charge for this.
While bands may advocate sharing, I would not go so far as to say it is free, especially not in the legal sense of the word.
Lawyers aren't ALL evil you know. ;)
Yep... 99% of them give the rest a bad name.
Do try to keep up! Dave Grohl has moved on and is now in the Foo Fighters.
Sheesh... kids today!
Sorry, but just how is carrying a 2oz bottle (what's that in real units anyway?) better for security than carrying a 3oz bottle of fluid ?
Have a look at my doc at http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/email_virtualhosting.html
It covers most stuff, but there is still quite a bit missing. The main thing is the benefit of being on google mail for spam because they have so much more traffic to work with.
The above solution keeps mail accounts separate to system accounts and gets most things right.
How do you figure it's not that hard to run your own mailserver? Please tell me how to achieve the following, simply.
1. POP and IMAP access for all users
2. Simple ability to delegate administrative rights for the domain including creation of new user rights
3. Ability for users to manage aliases
4. Ability for users to manage mail lists
5. Spam prevention with similar success rates (including very low false positives) to Gmail or any other mass mail site
6. Webmail
7. Simple password changing for users
8. Authenticated SMTP
9. Simple SPF
I've spent a lot of time and effort, and have a good smtp / imap / pop / webmail solution, but it's still cobbled together from loads of stuff and it's still missing solutions to allow users to change passwords and delegate administration control of a domain.
This is going to have a chilling effect on some people's hobbies. This government has shown a stunning lack of ability to secure or hold onto data.
Who wants their boss to know what kind of porn they browse ?
You can't trust this bitch. Anytime her office gets anything, they ask for more. They started out by asking for 14 days detention without charge. When they got that, they started the push to 28 days. Their last try was for 42 days.
If they get traffic information, it'll just be a matter of time before they go for content as well.
Uh, why do you think he emigrated? Probably mainly BECAUSE of the food here ;)
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Just because you had a good experience doesn't mean that thousands of other people haven't had bad experiences, also by doing nothing wrong.
Wait until you go visit the 'land of the free (some restrictions may apply)' and they separate you from your wife (on her birthday). They herd you into a room and leave you there for over an hour. During this time, no-one will speak to you. Your wife cannot get any information about where you are, what is happening or why.
And the whole reason for this bullshit? I had got a new passport. The system showed that my old passport from a previous visit would still have been valid and the fascist cunt wanted to know why I had got a new passport.
I explained that my old one would have had less than 4 months validity at the start of this visit. The terms of the VWP require that my passport have at least 6 months validity to be able to gain entry, so while my old passport was still valid, it wasn't valid enough for the visit. It took about 20 minutes to make him understand that I had got a new passport purely because one was required for this specific trip.
You don't need to use gender neutral terms when describing evil. Middleman is perfectly ok for bad people, as women have spent years trying to explain men are all evil :)
Maybe because Linux makes life so incredibly hard for developers?
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/10/pulse-my-audio.html
http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/09/mini-rant.html
And that's just what you have to go through to get something running in a _current_ distro on the current kernel. Because of the absolute lack of a stable API / ABI in the Linux kernel, you cannot expect anything to still work in the next kernel release.
So really, why bother? Why go through all of the grief that porting to Linux involves for the very little amount of money you'd make? Stick with vendors who will guarantee the API and ABI and you will know that you can still sell copies of this game next year and keep making money off of it.
The PRS-505 launched in the UK recently, and I was all set on getting one until I saw the price of books for these things.
When I buy a book from Amazon, it's delivered the next day and at least two people read it. The same titles as e-books cost the same amount on the Waterstones store, if not slightly more than on Amazon, and only 1 person can read them unless I shell out for a second reader. And in some cases, I was able to get new books from Amazon BEFORE they would be available on the Waterstones store.
E-books have to be at least 30% less than their physical counterparts before I'll start buying them or a reader to read them.
Of course, if I could find a decent site on the net I might be convinced, but I never managed to find one that caters to most of my reading tastes.
Beyond the fact that you're completely wrong (our gear gets moved out on a 3 year refresh cycle and we often have new models of kit in the racks before it goes GA) the computers actually aren't the real value.
The real value lies in the floorspace, the structured cabling infrastructure, the power delivery and the cooling. These are the main costs when setting up your own DC.
Considering what we've spent on the NHS IT system that no doctor or nurse I've spoken to seems to want, this seems like a bargain to me - why NOT give the people something they actually want for a change ?
Many sites including Microsoft's Xbox site and TomTom do not accept the + sign as part of an e-mail address. This makes it worthless.
Combined with Google Apps for Domains having allowing only a very small number of aliases, and we're back to having to run our own MTAs and dealing with all that grief, spam and wasted bandwidth :(