This is really an interesting proposal. What USENET, and now the WWW, have shown is that information online never really dies -- I'm sure many of us can go through USENET and mailing list archive services and find embarassing rants and flamewars of yesteryear. My question is, in what context would such a statute of limitations truly be useful? Not in a personal context, surely... and in a legal situation, it might not do much good. For instance, what if the e-mail/posting/whatever contained evidence absolving you of a crime, but was ruled impermissible because it was from a year ago?
What is the judge worried about, anyway -- his wife finding his online porn stash, or e-mails to his mistress? Just use decent encryption and utilities like PGP, and you'll be fine.
This judge really sounds paranoid. What he needs is a secure delete program, an operating system which doesn't store remnants of temp files everywhere, and an sledgehammer to "obfuscate" his disk when he gets a new PC.
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While I agree that this "test" means nothing, I'll admit that every site I've been underwhelmed enough with to check them out with Netcraft has run IIS. No joke.
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Actually, I think that GNU/Linux performs well on two- or four-way IA32 machines, which of course are "traditionally" NT's market. It's once you get past eight CPUs that a scalable OS like Solaris really shines.
FreeBSD's SMP is stable, but nothing to write home about in terms of performance. FreeBSD has always been more about stability than speed however, so this isn't too much of a problem.
OpenBSD needs to go SMP soon. For two reasons: first, because this is a good time for Freenixes, and we're gaining a lot of ground... lack of SMP is a black eye for OpenBSD at a time where they might expand their market. Second, the longer the OS is developed, the harder it will be to do. SMP-capability is not something that can or should be "tacked on".
IMHO, if you're looking at running GNU/Linux on an eight-way box, you should really look at clustering two four-way boxen, or four two-way boxen. I feel this is not a limitation of Linux as much as a limitation of Intel's current architecture, and that more than four x86 CPUs on the same board will start to get starved for bandwidth. YMMV. If you insist on doing eight-way x86 Unix, spend the $80 and get a binary license for Solaris 8 x86.
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I like your point... NT is especially hard to master because of the lack of clear, correct documentation. GNU/Linux is the most documented OS in existence. In order to get the same level of documentation about the NT kernel that you get about the Linux kernel from the LDP alone, you'd be paying big bucks and signing NDAs for Redmond. (Did that make sense?) In other words, you can't learn the quirks of NT simply by reading a commonly available book, as you can with most UNIX systems. And you can't check the source code yourself, the way you can with Freenix systems (or even commercial UNIXes, if you can afford a source license).
Really knowing how NT works is truly a black art. However, because of the extremely limited about that is user-customizable in the NT kernel, this is a skill which isn't much in demand... as opposed to the UNIX world, where an extremely knowledgable admin really can make a difference.
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Another instance of a luser spouting off on something he's completely ignorant about. JSPs and servlets are not the same thing. Servlets are Java programs which use the javax.servlet.http interface. They are executed by the HTTP server, and are in many respects like CGI, except they have a state that is maintained through the lifetime of the servlet (from when the server is started until when it is stopped or restarted). There is an initialization method which you can use to setup database pools, cache XML or HTML, open a log file -- do whatever you like. There is a "destroy" method which performs complementary functions. Servlets can do server and database backend, as well as handling GET and POST requests. You have access to all of the language, including the superb standard library, allowing you to use JDBC, threads (native threads, on some platforms), RMI, object serialization, et cetera.
JSPs are HTML pages with embedded code... much like SSI or SSJS includes. The code is compiled at run-time and executed. So, while servlets and JSP are both compiled code, the similarity ends there.
Get your facts straight. The "discussions" fo Java in this form are filled with more ignorance than FUD... get a clue. You guys should work for Microsoft... "we're not telling outright lies because we're malicious, we're just ignorant!"
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Java makes things like pooled database connections and object persistance simple. And once you reach a certain load threshold, Java is much more efficient than say, Perl. Heh heh, in order to use Perl as the basis of a high-traffic website, you have to use a clever hack like mod_perl. Lusers like yourself have used a Swing application or two, seen the poor performance, and decided that the whole language is useless. Morons.
Many aspects of Java's early hype (applets, Swing) suck, true, but it truly is the "language of the Internet". It takes much of the power of C++, adds an excellent standard library, and lets you ignore the low-level and worry about design. And it's the most purely OO language in use.
If Java is so "inefficient", I'm curious why it's supplanted Perl and ASP in both the UNIX and NT environments I've worked in. And while its not WORA, it is cross platform -- I compile servlets in NT, move them to test on Solaris, and then to production on AIX, and there's hardly ever a hitch. (When there is, it's usually due to inconsistencies in a DB vendor's software port. Nothing to do with Java itself.)
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Well, once you progress past web pages and start learning how to manage data in an enterprise environment, perhaps you'll appreciate Java. I'm tired of ignorant "web developers".
You dumb fuck, JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. Nothing! Absolutely nothing! The only thing in common is the name. And as for applets, they're just the tip of the Java iceberg. I suppose you've never heard of servlets, or seen the Java in prolific use by companies like Oracle.
Instead of simply laughing at you and moving on, I'm giving you a tip: try to at least learn about the technologies you pass off as useless. I'm always amazed to see low UIDs associated with such thick-headedness.
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Oops, maybe I'm getting my pathetic spinoff series confused. Whichever series has the female captain who sounds like she was kicked in the nuts... that's the one I hate.
That's right, feel the love, Janeway.
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Amen. Gamers O/Cing their CPUs should be instead concentrating on a decent video card and RAM. Can never have enough RAM, boys. I'd rather have a 300MHz Celeron with 256MB RAM and a TNT2 than a 1GHz Athlon with 64MB and a Voodoo 2.:-)
Good bang-for-the-buck gamer's setup is a 500MHz P3 with 128MB RAM and a TNT2 Ultra or Voodoo 3. To take it to the next level, add another 128MB RAM and get SCSI-anything disks. Unless you're cracking DES or crunching SETI, a >500MHz CPU isn't what you need.
And a decent video card will speed everything up, not just games. Schweet.
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This is such an obvious trollish piece of flamebait that I should just ignore it, but better I respond first than a Trekk(er || ie). Star Trek is fiction, and its fans know that. Christians really think that all that shit happened. That's the difference. If Christians would accept the Bible as a poorly-written dark comedy, we'd be a lot better off.
(Now that's flamebait!)
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Is she the bitch from Deep Space Nine? Look, I'm not a Trekker -- I've never seen one of the original -- and I'm not a Trekkie -- although I used to enjoy watching TNG on Friday nights -- but the first time I saw DS9, I didn't know whether to start laughing or just break the TV. I've almost completely stopped watching television, and crap like that is one of the reasons why. How did DS9 ever make it to the airwaves?
Oh, wait, it's UPN. My bad.
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Hey, who misses the BFG from Q][? I mean, sure it was slow, but it was awesome... when you saw that huge fucking green ball coming, you got the fuck out of the way. And the whole post-explosion kill zone was slick. The BFG in Q]|[ is like the plama gun on crack. Maybe we'll see a return of the true BFG in DOOM2005?:-)
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No, the worst thing that could happen is that all the things you want come to life in horrible monster form and destroy New York City. You should really be more circumspect, you silly little man.
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We have several E450s and an E3000. They're being phased out in favor of a dozen RS/6000 B50s. AIX isn't as bad as I thought it'd be, but I'm still pissed.
However, an advantage of going the IBM route is their support of GNU/Linux. No one's going to put GNU/Linux on those B50's, but if our hardware vendor starts really supporting it, maybe I can convert a few workgroup servers and PCs.
I've really been getting off lately on the price/performance advantage you get with GNU/Linux. I mean, everyone always talks about it, but I'm currently trying to migrate my personal x86 BSD server to something SVR4-ish. I'd like to run Netscape for HTTP, and use a decent RDB. Solaris x86 was my first choice, but iPlanet doesn't do Solaris x86. Plus, I can't use ATA/66, or the late-model LNE100TX NIC I have. GNU/Linux supports all of my hardware beautifully, plus I can run Oracle 8i, iPlanet web server, and get JDK1.3 from IBM.
Schweet.
I'm simultaneously upgrading my Thinkpad to something SVR4-ish, and Solaris 8 x86 doesn't do PCMCIA or APM properly, and it won't detect my Linksys PCMPC100. Oh well, GNU/Linux works great there too.
The other option for SVR4-ish x86 Unix is SCO, and SCO costs lots of money. Just not worth it, sorry. GNU/Linux is free, Solaris 8 binary license is $80. SCO can't beat either of them.
So I find myself, a UNIX bigot (as in UNIX rules, Linux sucks), coming to the side of the script kiddies, Slashdot lusers, industry buzz, and all that. Linux has almost completely turned me. GNU/Linux beats everybody for x86 hardware support, and its software support is finally good enough to make it an execllent e-commerce platform.
This was an offtopic rant, but fuck it. I'm impressed.
I'm using Debian, by the way. But of course.
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Actually, Santa was created by the Communists. Let all doubt disappear when you note his Marx-like beard, "red" suit, and control over means of production. The three things wrong with the American image are that he lives in Siberia, not the North Pole, his name is spelled "Klaus" with one of those wacky backwards K's, and each children shall receive pressies in accordance with his own need.
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I agree with your sentiment. O'Reilly hasn't put out any classics in years... I guess they've just run out of material. Though the joys of UNIX are infinite, the amount you can write about it is not.;-)
All of the O'Reilly 'must-haves' are years old. The camel book, Hunt's TCP/IP book, Frisch's sysadmin book, Liu's DNS/BIND book, UNIX in a Nutshell, Java in a Nutshell...
They've even gone as far as taking their Unix books and repackaging them as Linux books, for the clueless newbies^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HRed Hat users, I suppose. For instance, that Linux network admin book is useless if you already have Hunt's TCP/IP admin book.
I think the only really awesome O'Reilly book to come out lately is Spurgeon's Ethernet: The Definitive Guide. When I first heard about it, I thought it sounded shallow and unnecessary, but it's really quite a gem -- complement's Hunt's TCP/IP book beautifullly. It talks about hardware, standards, network topologies and architecture, troubleshooting... great stuff.
As for your feelings on TCatB and Illiad's crap, I mostly agree, and though ESR may be a fruity gun-nut and Illiad may be a hack who sold out to SuSE, if ORA hadn't published their books, I'll bet no-one else would have.;-)
As for the BSD stuff... I've been trying to find the 4.4BSD printed manuals, which were jointly published by O'Reilly and the CSRG, for about a year. This includes the user section, USD, programmer's section, PSD, and SMM (five books in total). I've tried the used book search services at Amazon.com, Border's website, and Barnes & Noble's website. I've also contacted O'Reilly, but they don't even have copies left in their warehouse, supposedly. That's what I really want for Xmas.
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After Mae Ling lost her job at the LWE Blowjob Booth, she became a drifter, taking up various odd jobs (jail bait, surly diner waitress, cheap whore) as she traveled across the country with her pathetic laptop, Lal. (Lal is a Pentium 133 with 16MB RAM, proudly running Red Hat 5.2, and covered in Marilyn Manson stickers.) After wandering for two years, Ms. Mak found her calling as a trailer-trash stoner in California's scenic Orange County. Her time is mostly spent hitching rides to San Francisco, where she scores dope from old hippies in exchange for dirty buttsex. This month, she'll be hanging out around BSDCon, showcasing a magic-marker Tux drawing on her not-inconsiderable belly, and physically assaulting McCusick whilst screaming "BSD sux!!" and "Lunix roolz!". Mae Ling Mak isn't much to look at these days, and her tale is a sad one; the Linux community left her behind once the movement's momentum went mainstream, but she'll always hold a special place in the hearts and pants of GNU/Linux hackers everywhere, for they remember a time (before Stile's Linux Loving Sluts) when she was the only thing within ten miles of a Linux users' group sporting a vagina.
Mae Ling Mak, we salute you.
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What is the judge worried about, anyway -- his wife finding his online porn stash, or e-mails to his mistress? Just use decent encryption and utilities like PGP, and you'll be fine.
This judge really sounds paranoid. What he needs is a secure delete program, an operating system which doesn't store remnants of temp files everywhere, and an sledgehammer to "obfuscate" his disk when he gets a new PC.
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FreeBSD's SMP is stable, but nothing to write home about in terms of performance. FreeBSD has always been more about stability than speed however, so this isn't too much of a problem.
OpenBSD needs to go SMP soon. For two reasons: first, because this is a good time for Freenixes, and we're gaining a lot of ground... lack of SMP is a black eye for OpenBSD at a time where they might expand their market. Second, the longer the OS is developed, the harder it will be to do. SMP-capability is not something that can or should be "tacked on".
IMHO, if you're looking at running GNU/Linux on an eight-way box, you should really look at clustering two four-way boxen, or four two-way boxen. I feel this is not a limitation of Linux as much as a limitation of Intel's current architecture, and that more than four x86 CPUs on the same board will start to get starved for bandwidth. YMMV. If you insist on doing eight-way x86 Unix, spend the $80 and get a binary license for Solaris 8 x86.
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Really knowing how NT works is truly a black art. However, because of the extremely limited about that is user-customizable in the NT kernel, this is a skill which isn't much in demand... as opposed to the UNIX world, where an extremely knowledgable admin really can make a difference.
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JSPs are HTML pages with embedded code... much like SSI or SSJS includes. The code is compiled at run-time and executed. So, while servlets and JSP are both compiled code, the similarity ends there.
Get your facts straight. The "discussions" fo Java in this form are filled with more ignorance than FUD... get a clue. You guys should work for Microsoft... "we're not telling outright lies because we're malicious, we're just ignorant!"
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Many aspects of Java's early hype (applets, Swing) suck, true, but it truly is the "language of the Internet". It takes much of the power of C++, adds an excellent standard library, and lets you ignore the low-level and worry about design. And it's the most purely OO language in use.
If Java is so "inefficient", I'm curious why it's supplanted Perl and ASP in both the UNIX and NT environments I've worked in. And while its not WORA, it is cross platform -- I compile servlets in NT, move them to test on Solaris, and then to production on AIX, and there's hardly ever a hitch. (When there is, it's usually due to inconsistencies in a DB vendor's software port. Nothing to do with Java itself.)
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You dumb fuck, JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. Nothing! Absolutely nothing! The only thing in common is the name. And as for applets, they're just the tip of the Java iceberg. I suppose you've never heard of servlets, or seen the Java in prolific use by companies like Oracle.
Instead of simply laughing at you and moving on, I'm giving you a tip: try to at least learn about the technologies you pass off as useless. I'm always amazed to see low UIDs associated with such thick-headedness.
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Good bang-for-the-buck gamer's setup is a 500MHz P3 with 128MB RAM and a TNT2 Ultra or Voodoo 3. To take it to the next level, add another 128MB RAM and get SCSI-anything disks. Unless you're cracking DES or crunching SETI, a >500MHz CPU isn't what you need.
And a decent video card will speed everything up, not just games. Schweet.
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(Now that's flamebait!)
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Oh, wait, it's UPN. My bad.
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Hey, who misses the BFG from Q][? I mean, sure it was slow, but it was awesome... when you saw that huge fucking green ball coming, you got the fuck out of the way. And the whole post-explosion kill zone was slick. The BFG in Q]|[ is like the plama gun on crack. Maybe we'll see a return of the true BFG in DOOM2005? :-)
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However, an advantage of going the IBM route is their support of GNU/Linux. No one's going to put GNU/Linux on those B50's, but if our hardware vendor starts really supporting it, maybe I can convert a few workgroup servers and PCs.
I've really been getting off lately on the price/performance advantage you get with GNU/Linux. I mean, everyone always talks about it, but I'm currently trying to migrate my personal x86 BSD server to something SVR4-ish. I'd like to run Netscape for HTTP, and use a decent RDB. Solaris x86 was my first choice, but iPlanet doesn't do Solaris x86. Plus, I can't use ATA/66, or the late-model LNE100TX NIC I have. GNU/Linux supports all of my hardware beautifully, plus I can run Oracle 8i, iPlanet web server, and get JDK1.3 from IBM.
Schweet.
I'm simultaneously upgrading my Thinkpad to something SVR4-ish, and Solaris 8 x86 doesn't do PCMCIA or APM properly, and it won't detect my Linksys PCMPC100. Oh well, GNU/Linux works great there too.
The other option for SVR4-ish x86 Unix is SCO, and SCO costs lots of money. Just not worth it, sorry. GNU/Linux is free, Solaris 8 binary license is $80. SCO can't beat either of them.
So I find myself, a UNIX bigot (as in UNIX rules, Linux sucks), coming to the side of the script kiddies, Slashdot lusers, industry buzz, and all that. Linux has almost completely turned me. GNU/Linux beats everybody for x86 hardware support, and its software support is finally good enough to make it an execllent e-commerce platform.
This was an offtopic rant, but fuck it. I'm impressed.
I'm using Debian, by the way. But of course.
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I agree with your sentiment. O'Reilly hasn't put out any classics in years... I guess they've just run out of material. Though the joys of UNIX are infinite, the amount you can write about it is not. ;-)
All of the O'Reilly 'must-haves' are years old. The camel book, Hunt's TCP/IP book, Frisch's sysadmin book, Liu's DNS/BIND book, UNIX in a Nutshell, Java in a Nutshell...
They've even gone as far as taking their Unix books and repackaging them as Linux books, for the clueless newbies^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HRed Hat users, I suppose. For instance, that Linux network admin book is useless if you already have Hunt's TCP/IP admin book.
I think the only really awesome O'Reilly book to come out lately is Spurgeon's Ethernet: The Definitive Guide. When I first heard about it, I thought it sounded shallow and unnecessary, but it's really quite a gem -- complement's Hunt's TCP/IP book beautifullly. It talks about hardware, standards, network topologies and architecture, troubleshooting... great stuff.
As for your feelings on TCatB and Illiad's crap, I mostly agree, and though ESR may be a fruity gun-nut and Illiad may be a hack who sold out to SuSE, if ORA hadn't published their books, I'll bet no-one else would have. ;-)
As for the BSD stuff... I've been trying to find the 4.4BSD printed manuals, which were jointly published by O'Reilly and the CSRG, for about a year. This includes the user section, USD, programmer's section, PSD, and SMM (five books in total). I've tried the used book search services at Amazon.com, Border's website, and Barnes & Noble's website. I've also contacted O'Reilly, but they don't even have copies left in their warehouse, supposedly. That's what I really want for Xmas.
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Mae Ling Mak, we salute you.
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