No you weren't. The article was seriously messed up. (Hope the editors didn't pay the author by the word.) I thought I was having a deja vu. Just like yesterday.:-)
``...just park a truck with a jammer next to a presidential palace, power station, or whatever you want to protect.''
I'll see your jamming truck and raise you an anti-radiation missle or two.
I'd bet that the first thing that gets taken out in Iraq is just about anything emitting RF. Didn't the military recently warn journalists that any use of satellite uplinks might put them in harm's way.
The item about people downloading music to obtain previews/samples of music they might later purchase has got to have the RIAA companies thinking that maybe all that money they've been spending on payol^H^H^H^H^Hpromotion might be wasted. And it can't help the owners of the cookie-cutter style radios stations feel very good about the number of people who are finding an alternate means of discovering new music.
``At least, according to the RIAA, CD sales around Cornell should now skyrocket''
Why? Is there going to be a sudden rise in the amount of cash in college students' bank accounts when this policy takes effect? Now it has been a while since I've worked in a college town, but I didn't exactly see the local businesses lowering their prices to accomodate the relative lack of buying power that many (if not most) college students have. If anything the prices tended to be higher.
It'll be interesting and/or amusing to see the RIAA attempt to place some kind of positive spin on the news that CD sales are still down. Who will they blame next?
``... One of the nicest things about it though is that it is _integrated_ with the OS; I don't have to futz around and find this kernel patch and that application patch, etc.
One other nice thing about Tru64 is the Advanced FileSystem, AdvFS. It is like having a journaling filesystem integrated with some logical volume management....
... you can apply patch kits or even install OS upgrades without the cluster as a whole being shut down....''
Hear! Hear! One ``problem'' with Tru64 clusters, though, is that they're so damned stable that you sort of get out of practice of how to recover from problems. Bad things just don't happen so you have to dig down into your long-term memory to perform certain tasks. Last week I had to do a boot disk recovery from tape on a Tru64 system for the first time in probably five years.
``Some of the problem because much of the hardware required is proprietary. There are specialized distributions available that bring some of the software components together, but then you are "locked in" to that distribution.''
Similar problem in the Alpha arena as well (as I'm sure you know) but unlikely to get much better. Even if Itanic flies. It sure would be nice to be able to, say, toss any old Adaptec or 3Com board in an Alpha and have it work but you can imagine how much bigger and more complicated the console firmware would have to be to be able to do that. Not to mention the additional complexity that would be needed in the error logging pieces of the OS.
Say... anyone know if KZPSA diff-SCSI bus adapters and HSZ controllers can be used with Linux? (I have some old HSZ40s that will be coming out of service this year. Wouldn't it be nice to redeploy them on a Linux system?)
And a good thing too, since the graphical version should be considered broken since it uses absolute pixel counts rather than percentages when defining table widths.
``It even goes into great detail on how important it is to force secure coding practices onto the rest of the project team, and how you have to resist the temptation to add features or push up the release date at the expense of code review and
good coding practices.''
Of course Microsoft Press agreed to publish the book under the condition that the author wouldn't follow the practices that he wrote about as they certainly impact the inclusion of nifty marketroid requested features and possibly push back their product delivery dates.
I saw this IEEE article a few days ago and was concerned since I have a couple of Gigabyte motherboards. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed to find that there was absolutely no mention of this problem on Gigabyte's web site. I'd hoped that there would be some mention of it if only a ``we are looking into the reports, etc., etc.'' type of release. Guess I'll be doing a visual inspection of the systems that have those m'boards.
We have 666MHz ES40s at work and we could upgrade the processor boards in them to run at 866 (well, 800-something; can't remember just now) MHz. I believe that the newest Alphas (EV7) are coming out in 1GHz -- or faster -- versions. And I hear they blow anything else out of the water.
Well... at least those 210 crew members that were replaced by the automated system won't have to go down with the ship when the ship's systems blue screen leaving them sitting ducks for whatever is coming their way.
Apparently others feel the same way. The following is a great rant that I snagged a copy of from an online forum a few years back:
``SCO should do the industry a favor and disband, pausing only to bulk-format all their drives so that none of the evil source code can inadvertently escape into the world. Their marketing people and their tech support people should be sent to camps to be retrained for professions more suited to their skills and their buildings should be torn down and burned.''
(My apologies to the originator of this as I didn't get your name -- I was laughing too hard at the time -- so if you see this and want to claim it, let me know.)
``That brings to mind some of the worst looking/smelling developers I've worked with as "Open Source Man"''
Yah, I'm thinking that he'd look a lot like the guy that used to show up on The Tonight Show as `Captain Twinkie' (in a cape and toting with a Twinkie-shooting bazooka). It was something to see.
Well, I used to keep/usr/local/enlightenment in my PATH. Never heard of straight-jacket, though. Can you get that via freshmeat? Oh, wait... never mind. That's the window manager I have to use at work.
``...should include a requirement that the default (if not the required) file save format must be fully open. This cuts off the drive behind this sort of forced upgrade cycle and protects public
access to government documents.''
Nobody mentions the stupendious waste of time and money involved in having to reopen each and every file and save it in the latest format. (You really think that Microsoft will be able to read Office 95 documents without error when Office 2010 comes out?)
``There's the Windows paradigm of a comprehensive, integrated, easy-to-use stack of technologies and then there is the Unix approach, which is a piece-parts approach where the customer integrates those parts into the ultimate solution.''
[emphasis mine]
And who wouldn't want the ultimate solution? All this talk about ``integration'', IMHO, is just happy talk that really means ``lock in''. When your businees needs change and the Microsoft package no longer fits your needs, you have two option: Keep doing things the way the Microsoft package allows you to do them or you can dump the Microsoft package and potentially have to dump everything because it's all integrated to the pointer where it's really difficult/impossible to separate them (and there aren't any comparable applications from 3rd party vendors because Microsoft scared off any potential competitors). Which one sounds the least disruptive to a businesses future and/or bottom line.
Count me as one person who's getting a little tired of this argument that we keep hearing that ``Linux's security isn't up to snuff and hasn't been severely tested because all the `hackers' are too busy writing attacks on Windows. Oooh! It'll just be awful when these `hackers' turn their attention to Linux''. Well, to me, that's just pure FUD and BS. Linux is, as reported in the FT article (or was it another one I read this morning) being developed by 1000 developers. These are hackers -- hackers in the sense we understand to be the true meaning of the word and not what the news outlets redefined it to mean -- that are attacking the Linux kernel every day. To think that the security implications of the features that are working their way into the kernel aren't being looked at from a security aspect by (at least some of) these 1000 developers is just silly and wishful thinking by Linux detractors. Not to mention the untold number of people beta testing the development kernels.
Oh sure, there are userland applications that have security issues. But didn't Intuit's flagship product recently have a flaw exposed? And didn't Oracle (you know: the folks with the ``unbreakable'' database) have to issue patches to plug potential security holes?
The day when the army of ``hackers'' writing Windows exploits focus their aim on Linux is the day after Microsoft releases Office for Linux (though I'm not holding my breath until that hit the shelves). And the attacks that target Linux-based systems will be a tribute to the concept of code reuse as most of the current Windows exploits will probably work just fine against the Office running on Linux. (Anyone thinking about who Microsoft would blame for the problem?)
``This is absolutely ridiculous and non-enforcable.''
The taxi tax wouldn't stand a chance in the U.S. but the restaurant ban on ``performances'' of songs seems to be in full force. That's why you hear all those goofy birthday songs chanted by the waitstaff. The only legitimate way to have the song Happy Birthday at your birthday party at a restaurant is to play it on the jukebox. And that's if they even have one, which most don't, hence the wierd songs sung by waiters who can't sing and can barely clap in unison.
Hate to point this out to him but the sewage treatment that the publishing corporations isn't working too well. Better call up the EPA because their treatment process is broken. There's way too much crap being released after they've supposed tidied it up for public consumption. IMHO, Kling has far too low of an opinion of the average person's abililty to perform their own filtering.
If the stuff that I find in the local music store, or the video store, and, especially, what's being put on the airwaves is the pure stuff that's left over after the publishing houses have filtered out the crap then that pretty much explains the drop off in CD buying or TV viewership. I find it incredibly difficult to believe that of all the content that the 3-letter TV networks could have chosen to air, that, after all the valuable filtering we're so fortunate for them to have performed, the best they could come up with was ``reality TV''. Or yet another cop show. And, of course, people watch it... it's the only thing on most of the time. And the reason that my TV is rarely displaying anything but a rented (or purchased) video.
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No you weren't. The article was seriously messed up. (Hope the editors didn't pay the author by the word.) I thought I was having a deja vu. Just like yesterday. :-)
I'll see your jamming truck and raise you an anti-radiation missle or two.
I'd bet that the first thing that gets taken out in Iraq is just about anything emitting RF. Didn't the military recently warn journalists that any use of satellite uplinks might put them in harm's way.
The item about people downloading music to obtain previews/samples of music they might later purchase has got to have the RIAA companies thinking that maybe all that money they've been spending on payol^H^H^H^H^Hpromotion might be wasted. And it can't help the owners of the cookie-cutter style radios stations feel very good about the number of people who are finding an alternate means of discovering new music.
Next time, better get your administrative assistant to spellcheck your post.
:-)
It's happening already. Check out the selected comments by Suse's CEO. Didn't think about that happening, eh Darl? Or is it that you just didn't care?
Why? Is there going to be a sudden rise in the amount of cash in college students' bank accounts when this policy takes effect? Now it has been a while since I've worked in a college town, but I didn't exactly see the local businesses lowering their prices to accomodate the relative lack of buying power that many (if not most) college students have. If anything the prices tended to be higher. It'll be interesting and/or amusing to see the RIAA attempt to place some kind of positive spin on the news that CD sales are still down. Who will they blame next?
Hear! Hear! One ``problem'' with Tru64 clusters, though, is that they're so damned stable that you sort of get out of practice of how to recover from problems. Bad things just don't happen so you have to dig down into your long-term memory to perform certain tasks. Last week I had to do a boot disk recovery from tape on a Tru64 system for the first time in probably five years.
Similar problem in the Alpha arena as well (as I'm sure you know) but unlikely to get much better. Even if Itanic flies. It sure would be nice to be able to, say, toss any old Adaptec or 3Com board in an Alpha and have it work but you can imagine how much bigger and more complicated the console firmware would have to be to be able to do that. Not to mention the additional complexity that would be needed in the error logging pieces of the OS.
Say... anyone know if KZPSA diff-SCSI bus adapters and HSZ controllers can be used with Linux? (I have some old HSZ40s that will be coming out of service this year. Wouldn't it be nice to redeploy them on a Linux system?)
And a good thing too, since the graphical version should be considered broken since it uses absolute pixel counts rather than percentages when defining table widths.
:-)
Of course Microsoft Press agreed to publish the book under the condition that the author wouldn't follow the practices that he wrote about as they certainly impact the inclusion of nifty marketroid requested features and possibly push back their product delivery dates.
Perhaps what they're really saying is that folks who haven't been with the .NET group at Microsoft from the get go need not apply.
I saw this IEEE article a few days ago and was concerned since I have a couple of Gigabyte motherboards. Needless to say, I was pretty disappointed to find that there was absolutely no mention of this problem on Gigabyte's web site. I'd hoped that there would be some mention of it if only a ``we are looking into the reports, etc., etc.'' type of release. Guess I'll be doing a visual inspection of the systems that have those m'boards.
We have 666MHz ES40s at work and we could upgrade the processor boards in them to run at 866 (well, 800-something; can't remember just now) MHz. I believe that the newest Alphas (EV7) are coming out in 1GHz -- or faster -- versions. And I hear they blow anything else out of the water.
Well... at least those 210 crew members that were replaced by the automated system won't have to go down with the ship when the ship's systems blue screen leaving them sitting ducks for whatever is coming their way.
A rest stop with a Stuckeys?
I can see it now... ``Say that sign up ahead says `Exit 1A McMurdo' This is our turn. Better get into the right lane.''
Or maybe ``Anyone got change for the tolls? Otherwise I have break a five.''
(Oh you can tell it's Friday, eh?)
Hope you checked my spelling while you were at it.
If Lord Kelvin was alive today he might say something like:
Apparently others feel the same way. The following is a great rant that I snagged a copy of from an online forum a few years back:
(My apologies to the originator of this as I didn't get your name -- I was laughing too hard at the time -- so if you see this and want to claim it, let me know.)
Yah, I'm thinking that he'd look a lot like the guy that used to show up on The Tonight Show as `Captain Twinkie' (in a cape and toting with a Twinkie-shooting bazooka). It was something to see.
``GUI: Path to enlightement or straight-jacket?''
Well, I used to keep /usr/local/enlightenment in my PATH. Never heard of straight-jacket, though. Can you get that via freshmeat? Oh, wait... never mind. That's the window manager I have to use at work.
Nobody mentions the stupendious waste of time and money involved in having to reopen each and every file and save it in the latest format. (You really think that Microsoft will be able to read Office 95 documents without error when Office 2010 comes out?)
Actually, I'm cutting back.
From Cooper's interview with Houston on news.com:
[emphasis mine]
And who wouldn't want the ultimate solution? All this talk about ``integration'', IMHO, is just happy talk that really means ``lock in''. When your businees needs change and the Microsoft package no longer fits your needs, you have two option: Keep doing things the way the Microsoft package allows you to do them or you can dump the Microsoft package and potentially have to dump everything because it's all integrated to the pointer where it's really difficult/impossible to separate them (and there aren't any comparable applications from 3rd party vendors because Microsoft scared off any potential competitors). Which one sounds the least disruptive to a businesses future and/or bottom line.
This news.com article was a humor piece, right?
Count me as one person who's getting a little tired of this argument that we keep hearing that ``Linux's security isn't up to snuff and hasn't been severely tested because all the `hackers' are too busy writing attacks on Windows. Oooh! It'll just be awful when these `hackers' turn their attention to Linux''. Well, to me, that's just pure FUD and BS. Linux is, as reported in the FT article (or was it another one I read this morning) being developed by 1000 developers. These are hackers -- hackers in the sense we understand to be the true meaning of the word and not what the news outlets redefined it to mean -- that are attacking the Linux kernel every day. To think that the security implications of the features that are working their way into the kernel aren't being looked at from a security aspect by (at least some of) these 1000 developers is just silly and wishful thinking by Linux detractors. Not to mention the untold number of people beta testing the development kernels.
Oh sure, there are userland applications that have security issues. But didn't Intuit's flagship product recently have a flaw exposed? And didn't Oracle (you know: the folks with the ``unbreakable'' database) have to issue patches to plug potential security holes?
The day when the army of ``hackers'' writing Windows exploits focus their aim on Linux is the day after Microsoft releases Office for Linux (though I'm not holding my breath until that hit the shelves). And the attacks that target Linux-based systems will be a tribute to the concept of code reuse as most of the current Windows exploits will probably work just fine against the Office running on Linux. (Anyone thinking about who Microsoft would blame for the problem?)
The taxi tax wouldn't stand a chance in the U.S. but the restaurant ban on ``performances'' of songs seems to be in full force. That's why you hear all those goofy birthday songs chanted by the waitstaff. The only legitimate way to have the song Happy Birthday at your birthday party at a restaurant is to play it on the jukebox. And that's if they even have one, which most don't, hence the wierd songs sung by waiters who can't sing and can barely clap in unison.
Hate to point this out to him but the sewage treatment that the publishing corporations isn't working too well. Better call up the EPA because their treatment process is broken. There's way too much crap being released after they've supposed tidied it up for public consumption. IMHO, Kling has far too low of an opinion of the average person's abililty to perform their own filtering.
If the stuff that I find in the local music store, or the video store, and, especially, what's being put on the airwaves is the pure stuff that's left over after the publishing houses have filtered out the crap then that pretty much explains the drop off in CD buying or TV viewership. I find it incredibly difficult to believe that of all the content that the 3-letter TV networks could have chosen to air, that, after all the valuable filtering we're so fortunate for them to have performed, the best they could come up with was ``reality TV''. Or yet another cop show. And, of course, people watch it... it's the only thing on most of the time. And the reason that my TV is rarely displaying anything but a rented (or purchased) video.