From the distrowatch link parent cites...
"Turbolinux 7 Server also supports the Large File Support (LFS) standard for working with applications that manage or handle up to four terabytes of data "
I run openSUSE, both at work and at home, but my secondary home machine is going to be running Fedora Core as of next week.
Its not that I have a problem with Novell (I don't - I think they were blindsided by Microsoft's post-deal lies about the "patent protection racket"), but at the same time, I can "vote with my cpus" for a healthy linux ecosystem.
... and that's why they did the deal - attention. The article say's they're big in Asia, but they're not, and their other forays into things like "appliances" didn't work.
Just another linux company slowly sliding into obscurity as other linux distros make get larger and more capable by the day. This market rationalization will end up with a few major distros ready to take on Redmond head-to-head - and win.
Small distros will still continue to exist, to serve their market niches where warranted, and not as "me to" linux.
"Um, Darwin awards? Unfortunately, criminals are still allowed to procreate and spread their genes. So unless he's either dead or rendered an eunuch, we're still screwed. -W"
Well, if he gets the 10 years in PMITA prison, he isn't going to be procreating during that time, and when he gets out, he'll probably be the next "hello.jpg". Sounds to me like the only spreading he'll do will be his jeans, not his genes.
And eventually, when enough people lose enough money, this typo-squatting stupidity will stop.
Imagine a list, like an adblock list, but filled with typo-squatter urls, and your browser set to hit 4 or 5 (but not show you the resulting page) every time you load a new page, to help obfuscate your browsing history from snoops upstream. Hurts the typo-squatters, since its all bad traffic, hurts the snoops, because its mostly bad data.
"I recently did a search for a domain on GoDaddy, the domain was available. Three days later when I went to buy it, it was not available and had been recently bought by a squatter or reseller or something. This is a whole different problem altogether and another flaw in the system. Anyways, I made it a point not to go to that site to make sure I didn't give them any hits that would encourage them to keep it."
Actually, its too bad we can't have some "white-hat botnets" to visit such sites on a regular basis - like every few seconds... and NOT click on a single link...
"I doubt that it was that fast as you are implying. And what do you mean "some registrar"? Where did they search? At a registrars page? Are you saying that registrar, or some other registrar, registered the name? In either case, it's not likely to happen and means in the former case, the registrar is loosing it's own business (dumb) or is colluding with the competition (also dumb).
Those people probably just got bit by a coincidence.
I used to see it happen a LOT - then I stopped doing name lookups through web interfaces, and do a whois in a terminal, and the problem went away. NEVER do a domain name search through a web interface. They're not there for your benefit, but for domain name pharmers.
"Yeah, except the data could probably be used by typosquatters to... optimize their activities. Anything that helps typosquatters is a bad thing in my opinion."
So just write a script to look up randomly generated web sites, like "mydog42131cat.com", "yourdog42131cat.com", "ourdog42131cat.com" "thedog42131cat.com", and hit those random names many times a day, for weeks on end, until some typo squatter spends the $6 to register it, then stop. "Gee, this domain was getting 100s of hits, now its getting nothing... Verisign ar crooks!"
> "I'm of the opinion that they should go taller and slimmer. I like the size/distribution of the Shuttle SFF. This has a very large footprint for not having a place for a expansion slot graphics solution."
So do like everyone did with the original desktops - turn them on their ends...
For the first decade, nobody had towers unless they made them themselves...
> "These drives were basically designed for datacenters, so you can look at paying out the teeth for them."
If its being used in a data center, what is the likelyhood that it will be able to "low-idle" for any length of time?
More likely these are for getting the "Energy Saver" sticker on desktop computers that have higher-consumption video, cpu, etc. Of course, just turning off the computer before going home will save more energy than leaving everything on during "down time", but too many people like to come in and see their pretty screen savers first thing in the morning.
Also, in the winter months, if you're heating with electricity, might as well get some "work" out of it - leave the computer on 24/7. Just install a few extra case fans.
"You're not much of a web designer then. A good web designer checks how his/her work looks on as many platforms as possible. Just flipping the bird to Vista users because you don't like Vista, or because you think it's irrelevant, is poor practice, imho."
And that's what separates programmers from "web monkeys" or "web designers". You should design your pages for content, not specific fonts. There is no guarantee that a specific font is available on any particular platform, and there is NO need to do "browser sniffing" or "shimming" or "wedging" if you use your head and work on content instead of "gee, I want it to look pretty".
If you want pages that have specific sizes, renderings, etc., use pdf, not html/xhtml.
So, tell us again why we should code to Windows IE when we can code to the standard?
"'if you're a web designer and not using Vista then this download is mandatory since it will let you see your page as your Vista users see it."
[X] I don't run Windows, so I don't have a license to download them, you ignorant clod!
It may be "mandatory", but only in the sense that some people think Vista is "mandatory". Seeing as how Vista is dying on the vine, its not something I'm going to worry about for the next few years...
"Or future religions will be based on copious proselytization of porn spam."
Don't laugh - what happens when religion decides to "spread the word" via spam, and then challenges any restriction based on the separation of church and state, and the 1st Amendment? They'll take the ISPs and spam filters to court (they have the $$$ and they're krazzzy enough to do it) for blocking them.
"I think that is is great that they are in jail, that is two things now that the internet no longer needs. I don't know what else you could really say on this topic, I mean, they did bad stuff and now they go to jail, next story please!"
Guaranteed this won't make even the most minor dent. 2 guys out of how many? Gee, with odds of about what, a million to one, of being thrown in jail, its actually rational to spam.
The only way to stop this is to educate all the f*ckturds who keep encouraging the spammers by buying! Send them to jail for 30 days each time, and you'll see spam dry up as it becomes unprofitable.
Moderate evidence was concluded for a positive association between the duration of mouse use and hand-arm symptoms." (from a related study, http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/64/4/211 ) constitutes evidence for my pet theory that right-hand usage for 'right'-handed people is not appropriate, as it constrains the well trained hand two only simple movements (I am retraining 'lefthandedness' but did not change the keyboard/mouse layout for that reason, so there is at least single case evidence:)
You know you can have more than one mouse, right? I have one one each side of the keyboard, to 2 different usb ports, and they both work find. Grab the one that's the most convenient each time you need to use a mouse, or give each hand a break.
Microsoft USED to call it "Microsoft Certified Software Engineer" example & they got taken to court over it by several states and provinces for misusing the term engineer.
There's also another problem - Microsoft has never been the largest software company in the world - that's IBM.
And then if you want to go further, with RIAA-style arithmetic (those CD burners count dobule because they're faster!), 1 IBM programmer has got to be worth at least a dozen MCSEs.
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From the distrowatch link parent cites ...
"Turbolinux 7 Server also supports the Large File Support (LFS) standard for working with applications that manage or handle up to four terabytes of data "
All the modern distros can have maximum file sizes larger than that ... old chart .... And then you have these totally insane file size limits ... Petabyte and exabite file sizes ....
Turbo linux? They lost their cachet around the time that PC makers stopped putting turbo buttons on computers.
I run openSUSE, both at work and at home, but my secondary home machine is going to be running Fedora Core as of next week.
Its not that I have a problem with Novell (I don't - I think they were blindsided by Microsoft's post-deal lies about the "patent protection racket"), but at the same time, I can "vote with my cpus" for a healthy linux ecosystem.
Just another linux company slowly sliding into obscurity as other linux distros make get larger and more capable by the day. This market rationalization will end up with a few major distros ready to take on Redmond head-to-head - and win.
Small distros will still continue to exist, to serve their market niches where warranted, and not as "me to" linux.
It was probably this one:
Putting the lower-case 'r' and 'n' side by side looks just like an m.
http://bankofarnerica.com/ A-R-N-erica == evil phishing site!
http://bankofamerica.com/ A-M-erica == real bank site.
mouse over them both, and see how easy it is to misread the url in the status bar.
"Um, Darwin awards? Unfortunately, criminals are still allowed to procreate and spread their genes. So unless he's either dead or rendered an eunuch, we're still screwed. -W"
Well, if he gets the 10 years in PMITA prison, he isn't going to be procreating during that time, and when he gets out, he'll probably be the next "hello.jpg". Sounds to me like the only spreading he'll do will be his jeans, not his genes.
And eventually, when enough people lose enough money, this typo-squatting stupidity will stop.
Imagine a list, like an adblock list, but filled with typo-squatter urls, and your browser set to hit 4 or 5 (but not show you the resulting page) every time you load a new page, to help obfuscate your browsing history from snoops upstream. Hurts the typo-squatters, since its all bad traffic, hurts the snoops, because its mostly bad data.
"I recently did a search for a domain on GoDaddy, the domain was available. Three days later when I went to buy it, it was not available and had been recently bought by a squatter or reseller or something. This is a whole different problem altogether and another flaw in the system. Anyways, I made it a point not to go to that site to make sure I didn't give them any hits that would encourage them to keep it."
Actually, its too bad we can't have some "white-hat botnets" to visit such sites on a regular basis - like every few seconds ... and NOT click on a single link ...
"I doubt that it was that fast as you are implying. And what do you mean "some registrar"? Where did they search? At a registrars page? Are you saying that registrar, or some other registrar, registered the name? In either case, it's not likely to happen and means in the former case, the registrar is loosing it's own business (dumb) or is colluding with the competition (also dumb).
Those people probably just got bit by a coincidence.
I used to see it happen a LOT - then I stopped doing name lookups through web interfaces, and do a whois in a terminal, and the problem went away. NEVER do a domain name search through a web interface. They're not there for your benefit, but for domain name pharmers."Yeah, except the data could probably be used by typosquatters to... optimize their activities. Anything that helps typosquatters is a bad thing in my opinion."
So just write a script to look up randomly generated web sites, like "mydog42131cat.com", "yourdog42131cat.com", "ourdog42131cat.com" "thedog42131cat.com", and hit those random names many times a day, for weeks on end, until some typo squatter spends the $6 to register it, then stop. "Gee, this domain was getting 100s of hits, now its getting nothing ... Verisign ar crooks!"
Why not? It lead plumbing accelerated the fall of the Roman empire.
> "I'm of the opinion that they should go taller and slimmer. I like the size/distribution of the Shuttle SFF. This has a very large footprint for not having a place for a expansion slot graphics solution."
So do like everyone did with the original desktops - turn them on their ends ...
For the first decade, nobody had towers unless they made them themselves ...
> "My laptop uses on 20 watts while operating, so cutting out 6 watts would be quite beneficial."
I know its not usual to read the articles, but could you (and everyone else) at least read the summary?
The summary makes it clear these are for desktops, not laptops, data centers, or anything else.
FTFS: "Today Hitachi released what they are calling the 'world's most energy efficient desktop hard drive"
> "Game houses wet dream. Thin clients, Oracles wet dream."
Lets go back to what I originally stated - that these drives are probably NOT for data centers.
From the summary of TFA:
> "Today Hitachi released what they are calling the 'world's most energy efficient desktop hard drive'
These are probably NEVER going to go into data centers, at least not under any sort of warranty.
> "but can they get rid of that horrible grinding noise?"
> "These drives were basically designed for datacenters, so you can look at paying out the teeth for them."
If its being used in a data center, what is the likelyhood that it will be able to "low-idle" for any length of time?
More likely these are for getting the "Energy Saver" sticker on desktop computers that have higher-consumption video, cpu, etc. Of course, just turning off the computer before going home will save more energy than leaving everything on during "down time", but too many people like to come in and see their pretty screen savers first thing in the morning.
Also, in the winter months, if you're heating with electricity, might as well get some "work" out of it - leave the computer on 24/7. Just install a few extra case fans.
"where copyright extends for 70 years after the composer's death"
"You're not much of a web designer then. A good web designer checks how his/her work looks on as many platforms as possible. Just flipping the bird to Vista users because you don't like Vista, or because you think it's irrelevant, is poor practice, imho."
And that's what separates programmers from "web monkeys" or "web designers". You should design your pages for content, not specific fonts. There is no guarantee that a specific font is available on any particular platform, and there is NO need to do "browser sniffing" or "shimming" or "wedging" if you use your head and work on content instead of "gee, I want it to look pretty".
If you want pages that have specific sizes, renderings, etc., use pdf, not html/xhtml. So, tell us again why we should code to Windows IE when we can code to the standard?
"'if you're a web designer and not using Vista then this download is mandatory since it will let you see your page as your Vista users see it."
[X] I don't run Windows, so I don't have a license to download them, you ignorant clod!
It may be "mandatory", but only in the sense that some people think Vista is "mandatory". Seeing as how Vista is dying on the vine, its not something I'm going to worry about for the next few years ...
Not totally immune to EMP; they'll saturate, then return to normal operation, whereas a transistor will just act like a fuse and burn out.
"Or future religions will be based on copious proselytization of porn spam."
Don't laugh - what happens when religion decides to "spread the word" via spam, and then challenges any restriction based on the separation of church and state, and the 1st Amendment? They'll take the ISPs and spam filters to court (they have the $$$ and they're krazzzy enough to do it) for blocking them.
"I think that is is great that they are in jail, that is two things now that the internet no longer needs. I don't know what else you could really say on this topic, I mean, they did bad stuff and now they go to jail, next story please!"
Guaranteed this won't make even the most minor dent. 2 guys out of how many? Gee, with odds of about what, a million to one, of being thrown in jail, its actually rational to spam.
The only way to stop this is to educate all the f*ckturds who keep encouraging the spammers by buying! Send them to jail for 30 days each time, and you'll see spam dry up as it becomes unprofitable.
You know you can have more than one mouse, right? I have one one each side of the keyboard, to 2 different usb ports, and they both work find. Grab the one that's the most convenient each time you need to use a mouse, or give each hand a break.
Microsoft USED to call it "Microsoft Certified Software Engineer" example & they got taken to court over it by several states and provinces for misusing the term engineer.
There's also another problem - Microsoft has never been the largest software company in the world - that's IBM.
And then if you want to go further, with RIAA-style arithmetic (those CD burners count dobule because they're faster!), 1 IBM programmer has got to be worth at least a dozen MCSEs.