Is this supposed to be news? This obviously shows how desperate the linux community is to brag about something as useless as this. -- lets all report every time some amazon tribe uses toilet paper instead of a leaf to wipe his ass!
Even with this solution, the RIAA still prevails. Their goal was to reduce the amount of illegal trading of music. They are well aware that there will still be a mere 1% or so that can find alternate solutions. But this is an insignificant impact.
The few techie geeks (no insult implied here as I fall into this category as well) that go out of the way to get these files are having to resort back to the old days of trading (almost) newsgroups, irc, ratio ftp sites, etc. Or in this case multiple pieces of software that becomes time consuming to get what you want.
Your statement is vague and distasteful. Not every sys admin (even good ones) knows perl. Plenty of ppl, like me, get by with shell scripting but would like to get more efficient.
"reinventing the wheel" is also a sign of oversimplification. Modifying existing work is a great concept but that does not apply to all scenarios. There is always room for new tools.
I have a quad board fully populated with P4's and it works great on my tomsrtbt distro. Pretty fast too, I might add! Except booting from the floppy is still kinda slow. I dunno what u d00ds are talking about?
I previously worked for two of the big colo providers. The two biggest problems that I have noticed are 1) peering arrangements 2) customer service. My complaints about current providers: To impress Wall Street, they all post big numbers on bandwith, power, sq ft of facility, fatness of generators, etc. For example, Exodus brags they have redudant helicopters to bring in diesel fuel with a 4 hour response time in case the generators bomb. Who cares? The overkill investments in power and bullet proof glass does not keep a customer's servers up. They need to focus on internal hardware infrastructure such as switches and routers which fail *FAR* more often then power or a terrorist attack. Staff needs to be improved from the NOC through specific expertise in core areas such as Cisco, Linux, NT, Solaris. Recommendations: They all claim to have either a big fat backbone, i.e. Qwest claims OC-192, Internap (although not a colo provider in itself) claims to have arrangements with all the major players. You need to get their peering list (usually requires a signing of an NDA) and compare. Because it is the last mile that is always the bottleneck. But more importantly, you need to check the specific site you are planning on hosting. If, for example, most of your customers are from China, you need to get some IP's from their colo center and do some traceroutes and pings to test yourself. The second issue is customer service, since most of the colo's are going through high growth, their customer service varies *greatly*. If you plan to host yourself, i.e. you hold root, they "ping and pipe" then this is less of an issue. But bottom line, you need to hammer the expertise of their onsite staff and get a copy of their escalation procedures and response times. Look for honesty. Obviously NO ONE can *guarantee* that no matter what the problem is, the box will be up by a certain amount of time. But they can guarantee their response times. So hammer the staff and get a list of existing customers to find out their experience.
AMD claims a "4 year window" in the 32bit market until 64bit takes off. I don't think so. Just because Intel is focusing on Itanium, it doesn't mean that they won't be continuing to develop 32bit processors along side 64bit. In fact it will only make things more problematic for AMD because they will have to chase Intel on both 64bit and 32bit paths now. My guess is Itanium will be like today's Pentium Pro, a processor that had brief popularity but all others that followed had many new features as well as those found in the Pro. Bottom line, this article is a little to optimistic on AMD's side.
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Maybe you should get some help for your obvious symptoms of ADHD.
Is this supposed to be news? This obviously shows how desperate the linux community is to brag about something as useless as this. -- lets all report every time some amazon tribe uses toilet paper instead of a leaf to wipe his ass!
Even with this solution, the RIAA still prevails. Their goal was to reduce the amount of illegal trading of music. They are well aware that there will still be a mere 1% or so that can find alternate solutions. But this is an insignificant impact. The few techie geeks (no insult implied here as I fall into this category as well) that go out of the way to get these files are having to resort back to the old days of trading (almost) newsgroups, irc, ratio ftp sites, etc. Or in this case multiple pieces of software that becomes time consuming to get what you want.
http://come.to/iz nuff said (tm)
Your statement is vague and distasteful. Not every sys admin (even good ones) knows perl. Plenty of ppl, like me, get by with shell scripting but would like to get more efficient. "reinventing the wheel" is also a sign of oversimplification. Modifying existing work is a great concept but that does not apply to all scenarios. There is always room for new tools.
it was a joke (tomsrtbt=floppy distro) Moderate me down PLEASE
I have a quad board fully populated with P4's and it works great on my tomsrtbt distro. Pretty fast too, I might add! Except booting from the floppy is still kinda slow. I dunno what u d00ds are talking about?
Who cares. Most of Microsloth's overpriced shit can be obtained from your nearest newsgroup anyway.
I previously worked for two of the big colo providers. The two biggest problems that I have noticed are 1) peering arrangements 2) customer service. My complaints about current providers: To impress Wall Street, they all post big numbers on bandwith, power, sq ft of facility, fatness of generators, etc. For example, Exodus brags they have redudant helicopters to bring in diesel fuel with a 4 hour response time in case the generators bomb. Who cares? The overkill investments in power and bullet proof glass does not keep a customer's servers up. They need to focus on internal hardware infrastructure such as switches and routers which fail *FAR* more often then power or a terrorist attack. Staff needs to be improved from the NOC through specific expertise in core areas such as Cisco, Linux, NT, Solaris. Recommendations: They all claim to have either a big fat backbone, i.e. Qwest claims OC-192, Internap (although not a colo provider in itself) claims to have arrangements with all the major players. You need to get their peering list (usually requires a signing of an NDA) and compare. Because it is the last mile that is always the bottleneck. But more importantly, you need to check the specific site you are planning on hosting. If, for example, most of your customers are from China, you need to get some IP's from their colo center and do some traceroutes and pings to test yourself. The second issue is customer service, since most of the colo's are going through high growth, their customer service varies *greatly*. If you plan to host yourself, i.e. you hold root, they "ping and pipe" then this is less of an issue. But bottom line, you need to hammer the expertise of their onsite staff and get a copy of their escalation procedures and response times. Look for honesty. Obviously NO ONE can *guarantee* that no matter what the problem is, the box will be up by a certain amount of time. But they can guarantee their response times. So hammer the staff and get a list of existing customers to find out their experience.
Nah you are confusing it with Earthlink. Earthlink's founder is Church of Scientology
Even better... Opera Preview Release 3 is out. Light, tight and better then before
If the outcome does not come to MS liking, can't they appeal this in the Supreme Court, or will it die here? (I'm not a lawyer or up on legal stuff)
AMD claims a "4 year window" in the 32bit market until 64bit takes off. I don't think so. Just because Intel is focusing on Itanium, it doesn't mean that they won't be continuing to develop 32bit processors along side 64bit. In fact it will only make things more problematic for AMD because they will have to chase Intel on both 64bit and 32bit paths now. My guess is Itanium will be like today's Pentium Pro, a processor that had brief popularity but all others that followed had many new features as well as those found in the Pro. Bottom line, this article is a little to optimistic on AMD's side.
Maybe they will jump on the Linux Bandwagon (tm) and open source their stuff. ;)