The other 43k a year is ost likely for lots of things.
It would include staff, and enterprises like banks tend to pay more for their staff than many smaller orgs.
It would include licence costs, and Linux can save you a fortune in licences. We've got a 2 CPU DL380 here that replaced a 4CPU Sun server. This means that our Oracle licences are cheaper, our monitoring software licences are cheaper and our Veritas licences are cheaper.
In an enterprise data centre there are lots of other costs that are amortised across all machines in the data centre. These include backups, monitoring, cooling, etc. In most cases these will be the same for any environment because they are environmental costs. However, where you might normally have 1 Sun V1280 taking up 8U and paying more for its floorspace, you could fit 4 HP DL380's in that space. This lowers the rack cost per server.
The one thing that has always put me off of using Opera is that I use OS X and Linux at home. Depending on what I'm doing, I'll be using one or the other.
Because I would have had to pay for both OSs, I never bothered with Opera. This will actually make me give it a try.
The last two times I went to the movies here in the UK, I was in a bad mood before the movie even started.
I've paid good money to escape from my life (Sin City and Batman Begins) and before these start, I'm subjected to 2 adverts showing people being knocked down and killed on the road. One was a drink-driving campaign, and one was about speeding. Both were shown at both movies.
These ads are pretty rough, and they're not what I'm there to see. When I complained to UCI, they were less than sympathetic to put it mildly, so now I don't go anymore. I've gone from 2 trips per month to none. I guess I'm one of these statistics:)
You're not tied to BT. For residential purposes you can choose Bulldog as your primary phone line supplier, and for commercial lines, Colt and Energis I believe can supply DSL with their own phone line instead of BT.
Sure, a lot of the ISPs require a BT phone line, but some ISPs like Mailbox will even work with a bulldog line.
As for cutting the phone line out entirely, I'm not sure I'd do that. Skype and Vonage don't work for emergency services calls when the power goes down, and as we saw on 7/7, your cell phone may not be able to get through.
I was cheering for Paris all the way through the selection process.
As a result of London winning the olympics, my council tax is going to go up. I have to pay more each month for the next several years, to make the IOC richer. What did I do wrong ? I simply picked the wrong place to live.
Apparantly about 300 businesses are being forced off their land for this circus as well, and the potential job losses look to number around 20,000 at the moment. This is 20,000 local people who will be out of work so that some people can run around in circles.
Sony screwed up their UK launch BADLY. People were psyched about it coming out here in March, and that didn't happen. As a result, almost everyone I know who wants a PSP has got one, either by ordering from Lik-sang or a local retailer who Sony recently sued out of business.
Sony have lost the wow factor for the launch. Instead of the mass stampede down to the shops that they need, not just for UK sales figures but also for marketting / mindshare purposes, they're going to get significantly fewer sales. This means less press, less hype, less of an edge against the DS which has been out here for ages.
I've not been on the tube in weeks without seeing someone playing with their PSP. Everyone I know, even the non-geeks, have already seen and handled a PSP. So when it launches here, instead of being OH WOW AWESOME, it's going to be more like Ah, finally, I can buy games from Amazon.co.uk.
What I don't get is that Sony are going after these people on the basis of trademark violation. With both the Lik-sang case and the other 2 local cases in the UK (which they won), they have based their case on the fact that the retailer is violating their trademark by advertising the product and displaying images of it.
If that is the case, why aren't they going after Game, Dixons and HMV, all of which have adverts prominently displayed in their stores advertising the PSP with images ?
Why can they use their trademark to shut down people that they don't like, but allow other people to carry on ?
It's common because many IP issuing organisations (RIPE, etc.) will not issue IP's for individual websites. You have to use things like SSL hosting, multiple different service hosting, etc. as your justification.
If you say I want 20 IP addresses because I want to run 20 websites, the issuing authority will turn you down flat. So you pretty much _have_ to do virtual hosting.
I'd seen a bunch of posts here about firefly, and I just couldn't see what the fuss was about. So fox cancelled a Joss Whedon TV show... So what?
I enjoyed Buffy and Angel in the early days, but towards the end, Buffy was just crap and Angel went through some bad spots.
Then I finally saw the pilot to Firefly on TV over here in the UK. It looked ok, so I bought the DVD set.
My wife and I sat down and re-watched the pilot. Then she said 'Can we watch another episode?'. We watched 7 episodes that night at her insistance, and I started to understand the fuss. The show is brilliant and it should never have been cancelled. How can CSI get two spinoffs, each worse than the last, but this work of originality get shoved in a bin?
A couple of months ago there was a big campaign in London to raise awareness of unattended packages. The slogan was something about don't take a chance, alert someone.
Around this time, I did see a suspect pacakge, and I called the police like a good shitizen. The full story is on my diary, but I'll give you the summary...
The police gave me such a hard time about calling them about the package that I swore then and there that I would never call them about anything again. I will get me and mine out of the way, and that's as far as it goes - civic responsibility be damned.
The woman on the other end of the line just kept asking why I thought the bag was suspicious, and I kept telling her that it was unattended, looked expensive and was out of place. Any two of these satisfied their stupid poster campiagn, but she even phoned be back to ask what made me think the bag was suspicious.
If the police want the public's help, then make it easy. If you've said call things like this in, then don't give me a hard time when I do.
The bank I work for started their Linux initiative, so we bought in boxes from Dell, HP and Sun to trial Linux on. 2 Dell 2850's, 3 HP DL-380's and 3 Sun Fire V65x's.
Firstly, the sun's don't ship with hardware RAID by default. As soon as you add this, they start to look more expensive than all of the competition.
Within the first 6 months I had one critical hardware failure PER MACHINE! And even though these machines were under maintenance, Sun considers a motherboard in a V65x to be a user servicable component. So when the board blew, I had to swap out the memory, the disks and the CPUs into another box. This is NOT what I pay maintenance for!
We had no problems at all with the HPs or the Dells.
On the enterprise hardware front, I've had two major failures in the last 2 days. For one of them, sun advise that I leave a terminal connected in the data centre and run down and see what messages are on the screen when it crashes. This is what you pay sun for!
Just to give some people some perspective on this issue. This is the same government that tried to pass a law that would have allowed a private company (Royal mail), the fire brigade and the food standards agency to legally intercept your e-mail without judicial oversight.
Now, can everyone understand why we're a little concerned ?
I wrote to mine when I first read this. I got an e-mail back within minutes of the fax that very much looked to be a form letter type response:
--- START EMAIL --- Dear Mr Pascoe,
I will write to you soon,
Jim Fitz. --- END EMAIL ---
You'll note that he can't even be arsed to spell his surname out in full.
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised... I wrote to all 9 of my MEPs about the Microsoft proposed settlement, and got back a form letter about software patents from some conservative retard. Grrr!
I bought a PSP recently... imported it from Japan to the UK. The only downer is that my game selection is not exactly huge. I'd love to get my hands on Hot Shots golf and Mercury, but places like Amazon.com won't ship to the UK.
I personally think that Sony has screwed the UK games retailers pretty bad. I know that Game Ltd was counting on sales of the PSP to make up a significant portion of this years budget. Because of the silly Sony delay, when the PSP finally launches here, both people who don't have one will go out and buy one. Everyone I know who wants one has either bought one over the 'net or had someone bring one back from the US.
When will people realise that the world isn't segmented neatly any more ?
To the best of my knowledge, there are no independant studies verifying the safety of these devices for regular scanning.
As far as I know, pregnent women may opt to NOT go through the trial devices at heathrow. This to me implies that there is a level of risk involved that I am not prepared to accept.
There are also no clear guidelines on vetting the staff that will use these. Sure, you can only scan people of the same sex, but that doesn't exclude homosexual screeners. The whole point of same-sex screeners is to remove any sexual element from the scan, but it doesn't do that at all.
And let's not forget the 'Think of the children' angle of course;)
I guess this is just one more reason for me to keep my foreign investment out of the USA and take it somewhwere else. This does completely fuck up my 30th birthday plans of course, but I'll find somewhere else to go.
You say 'However, turning down a scan you would probably get a strip search'
Did you ask what your options were, or did you meekly walk into the mmw radar unit ?
As for the gender issue, how do you know the person looking at you naked is not gay? How do you know they are NOT getting a sexual kick from this ? How does that possibility make you feel?
Before you stepped into this thing, did you find out what the long term and medium term effects of millimeter wave radar are ? Are you aware of any public studies that verify the safety of these scans on humans ?
Or did you meekly go the way the shepherd told you to ?
Picture it... An auditorium of heavily armed feds... An uncle fester lookalike on stage. Suddenly he starts jumping up and down like a baboon, chanting 'terrorism, terrorism, terrorism, terrorism'. The crowd goes wild!
And since the majority of installations of this latest version will be on desktops, the more hardware support, the better the hardware support, the more seamless the hardware support, the better.
What on earth makes you say that ? Linux Desktop installations aren't suddenly going to ramp up just because we have a new kernel, and changes to the kernel alone will not make Linux suitable for the desktop.
Linux's major market is still on the server. It's only now really starting to make the move from the edge of the network into the data centre. The main Linux market is going to be the server for a long time to come!
As for 'compentization', we already have this. Just compile the kernel with the minimum features you need, and the rest as modules. Most distros ship this way by default.
The last three movies I've bought or rented all had a commercial at the front about a guy stealing someone's purse. The statement was 'You wouldn't steal a purse, so don't steal a movie'.
Then there was the FACT warning that you can't fast forward past.
Both my wife and I feel that this is bullshit - We're legally renting or buying these movies, yet we have to sit through this?
We are about to start looking into downloading DVD Rips from the Internet, not because we don't want to pay for our entertainment, but because we're sick and tired of being forced to watch this crap. We're hoping that the rips won't include this.
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The other 43k a year is ost likely for lots of things.
:)
It would include staff, and enterprises like banks tend to pay more for their staff than many smaller orgs.
It would include licence costs, and Linux can save you a fortune in licences. We've got a 2 CPU DL380 here that replaced a 4CPU Sun server. This means that our Oracle licences are cheaper, our monitoring software licences are cheaper and our Veritas licences are cheaper.
In an enterprise data centre there are lots of other costs that are amortised across all machines in the data centre. These include backups, monitoring, cooling, etc. In most cases these will be the same for any environment because they are environmental costs. However, where you might normally have 1 Sun V1280 taking up 8U and paying more for its floorspace, you could fit 4 HP DL380's in that space. This lowers the rack cost per server.
Like I said, lots of little things
The one thing that has always put me off of using Opera is that I use OS X and Linux at home. Depending on what I'm doing, I'll be using one or the other.
Because I would have had to pay for both OSs, I never bothered with Opera. This will actually make me give it a try.
The last two times I went to the movies here in the UK, I was in a bad mood before the movie even started.
:)
I've paid good money to escape from my life (Sin City and Batman Begins) and before these start, I'm subjected to 2 adverts showing people being knocked down and killed on the road. One was a drink-driving campaign, and one was about speeding. Both were shown at both movies.
These ads are pretty rough, and they're not what I'm there to see. When I complained to UCI, they were less than sympathetic to put it mildly, so now I don't go anymore. I've gone from 2 trips per month to none. I guess I'm one of these statistics
You're not tied to BT. For residential purposes you can choose Bulldog as your primary phone line supplier, and for commercial lines, Colt and Energis I believe can supply DSL with their own phone line instead of BT.
Sure, a lot of the ISPs require a BT phone line, but some ISPs like Mailbox will even work with a bulldog line.
As for cutting the phone line out entirely, I'm not sure I'd do that. Skype and Vonage don't work for emergency services calls when the power goes down, and as we saw on 7/7, your cell phone may not be able to get through.
I was cheering for Paris all the way through the selection process.
As a result of London winning the olympics, my council tax is going to go up. I have to pay more each month for the next several years, to make the IOC richer. What did I do wrong ? I simply picked the wrong place to live.
Apparantly about 300 businesses are being forced off their land for this circus as well, and the potential job losses look to number around 20,000 at the moment. This is 20,000 local people who will be out of work so that some people can run around in circles.
Sony screwed up their UK launch BADLY. People were psyched about it coming out here in March, and that didn't happen. As a result, almost everyone I know who wants a PSP has got one, either by ordering from Lik-sang or a local retailer who Sony recently sued out of business.
Sony have lost the wow factor for the launch. Instead of the mass stampede down to the shops that they need, not just for UK sales figures but also for marketting / mindshare purposes, they're going to get significantly fewer sales. This means less press, less hype, less of an edge against the DS which has been out here for ages.
I've not been on the tube in weeks without seeing someone playing with their PSP. Everyone I know, even the non-geeks, have already seen and handled a PSP. So when it launches here, instead of being OH WOW AWESOME, it's going to be more like Ah, finally, I can buy games from Amazon.co.uk.
What I don't get is that Sony are going after these people on the basis of trademark violation. With both the Lik-sang case and the other 2 local cases in the UK (which they won), they have based their case on the fact that the retailer is violating their trademark by advertising the product and displaying images of it.
If that is the case, why aren't they going after Game, Dixons and HMV, all of which have adverts prominently displayed in their stores advertising the PSP with images ?
Why can they use their trademark to shut down people that they don't like, but allow other people to carry on ?
It's common because many IP issuing organisations (RIPE, etc.) will not issue IP's for individual websites. You have to use things like SSL hosting, multiple different service hosting, etc. as your justification.
If you say I want 20 IP addresses because I want to run 20 websites, the issuing authority will turn you down flat. So you pretty much _have_ to do virtual hosting.
A world with violence and no sex. Wait... wouldn't that be the fuckin apocalypse?
Uhm, no it wouldn't. The fucking apocalypse will have sex. I think you're thinking of the regular apocalypse.
I'd seen a bunch of posts here about firefly, and I just couldn't see what the fuss was about. So fox cancelled a Joss Whedon TV show... So what?
I enjoyed Buffy and Angel in the early days, but towards the end, Buffy was just crap and Angel went through some bad spots.
Then I finally saw the pilot to Firefly on TV over here in the UK. It looked ok, so I bought the DVD set.
My wife and I sat down and re-watched the pilot. Then she said 'Can we watch another episode?'. We watched 7 episodes that night at her insistance, and I started to understand the fuss. The show is brilliant and it should never have been cancelled. How can CSI get two spinoffs, each worse than the last, but this work of originality get shoved in a bin?
A couple of months ago there was a big campaign in London to raise awareness of unattended packages. The slogan was something about don't take a chance, alert someone.
Around this time, I did see a suspect pacakge, and I called the police like a good shitizen. The full story is on my diary, but I'll give you the summary...
The police gave me such a hard time about calling them about the package that I swore then and there that I would never call them about anything again. I will get me and mine out of the way, and that's as far as it goes - civic responsibility be damned.
The woman on the other end of the line just kept asking why I thought the bag was suspicious, and I kept telling her that it was unattended, looked expensive and was out of place. Any two of these satisfied their stupid poster campiagn, but she even phoned be back to ask what made me think the bag was suspicious.
If the police want the public's help, then make it easy. If you've said call things like this in, then don't give me a hard time when I do.
I just wet myself laughing.
Iz you from da east of town ?
Here's some anecdotal evidence for you...
The bank I work for started their Linux initiative, so we bought in boxes from Dell, HP and Sun to trial Linux on. 2 Dell 2850's, 3 HP DL-380's and 3 Sun Fire V65x's.
Firstly, the sun's don't ship with hardware RAID by default. As soon as you add this, they start to look more expensive than all of the competition.
Within the first 6 months I had one critical hardware failure PER MACHINE! And even though these machines were under maintenance, Sun considers a motherboard in a V65x to be a user servicable component. So when the board blew, I had to swap out the memory, the disks and the CPUs into another box. This is NOT what I pay maintenance for!
We had no problems at all with the HPs or the Dells.
On the enterprise hardware front, I've had two major failures in the last 2 days. For one of them, sun advise that I leave a terminal connected in the data centre and run down and see what messages are on the screen when it crashes. This is what you pay sun for!
Not true! My accountant's site doesn't work on Firefox (Linux or Apple) or Safari. It works just fine on opera thought!
Just to give some people some perspective on this issue. This is the same government that tried to pass a law that would have allowed a private company (Royal mail), the fire brigade and the food standards agency to legally intercept your e-mail without judicial oversight.
Now, can everyone understand why we're a little concerned ?
What do patents have to do with copyrights ?
I wrote to mine when I first read this. I got an e-mail back within minutes of the fax that very much looked to be a form letter type response:
--- START EMAIL ---
Dear Mr Pascoe,
I will write to you soon,
Jim Fitz.
--- END EMAIL ---
You'll note that he can't even be arsed to spell his surname out in full.
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised... I wrote to all 9 of my MEPs about the Microsoft proposed settlement, and got back a form letter about software patents from some conservative retard. Grrr!
You sure about that ? I thought they were going to follow DVD region encoding, which would put europe in the same region as japan.
I bought a PSP recently... imported it from Japan to the UK. The only downer is that my game selection is not exactly huge. I'd love to get my hands on Hot Shots golf and Mercury, but places like Amazon.com won't ship to the UK.
I personally think that Sony has screwed the UK games retailers pretty bad. I know that Game Ltd was counting on sales of the PSP to make up a significant portion of this years budget. Because of the silly Sony delay, when the PSP finally launches here, both people who don't have one will go out and buy one. Everyone I know who wants one has either bought one over the 'net or had someone bring one back from the US.
When will people realise that the world isn't segmented neatly any more ?
Yeah, your MP can work for you - but only if you can get his attention.
What about representing the people who's employers AREN'T big supporters ? How do we get a look in ?
To the best of my knowledge, there are no independant studies verifying the safety of these devices for regular scanning.
;)
As far as I know, pregnent women may opt to NOT go through the trial devices at heathrow. This to me implies that there is a level of risk involved that I am not prepared to accept.
There are also no clear guidelines on vetting the staff that will use these. Sure, you can only scan people of the same sex, but that doesn't exclude homosexual screeners. The whole point of same-sex screeners is to remove any sexual element from the scan, but it doesn't do that at all.
And let's not forget the 'Think of the children' angle of course
I guess this is just one more reason for me to keep my foreign investment out of the USA and take it somewhwere else. This does completely fuck up my 30th birthday plans of course, but I'll find somewhere else to go.
It's people like you who let this happen.
You say 'However, turning down a scan you would probably get a strip search'
Did you ask what your options were, or did you meekly walk into the mmw radar unit ?
As for the gender issue, how do you know the person looking at you naked is not gay? How do you know they are NOT getting a sexual kick from this ? How does that possibility make you feel?
Before you stepped into this thing, did you find out what the long term and medium term effects of millimeter wave radar are ? Are you aware of any public studies that verify the safety of these scans on humans ?
Or did you meekly go the way the shepherd told you to ?
Furrfu!
Picture it... An auditorium of heavily armed feds... An uncle fester lookalike on stage. Suddenly he starts jumping up and down like a baboon, chanting 'terrorism, terrorism, terrorism, terrorism'. The crowd goes wild!
And since the majority of installations of this latest version will be on desktops, the more hardware support, the better the hardware support, the more seamless the hardware support, the better.
What on earth makes you say that ? Linux Desktop installations aren't suddenly going to ramp up just because we have a new kernel, and changes to the kernel alone will not make Linux suitable for the desktop.
Linux's major market is still on the server. It's only now really starting to make the move from the edge of the network into the data centre. The main Linux market is going to be the server for a long time to come!
As for 'compentization', we already have this. Just compile the kernel with the minimum features you need, and the rest as modules. Most distros ship this way by default.
The last three movies I've bought or rented all had a commercial at the front about a guy stealing someone's purse. The statement was 'You wouldn't steal a purse, so don't steal a movie'.
Then there was the FACT warning that you can't fast forward past.
Both my wife and I feel that this is bullshit - We're legally renting or buying these movies, yet we have to sit through this?
We are about to start looking into downloading DVD Rips from the Internet, not because we don't want to pay for our entertainment, but because we're sick and tired of being forced to watch this crap. We're hoping that the rips won't include this.