Because Brits have a Stiff Upper Lip. Great for breaking phones, summers where it never gets above 50, and attempting to conquer places like Afghanistan and India.
Unless Oracle Express is different enough from their main code base that it would be less trouble to ditch Express and just let the OSS crowd continue to maintain MySQL.
Plus Express is still harder to install than MySQL, and a usable version of MySQL "ships" with every Linux (and BSD?) distro.
This is all about the EU blocking Oracle's acquisition of Sun. They are trolling for testimonials about how the Sun acquisition would force people to buy Oracle DB, which is almost certainly would not:
Look at Berkeley DB (on which OpenLDAP uttely depends.) It's now "Oracle Berkeley DB". I don't see any monkey business with that arrangement (although the OpenLDAP people are probably working on ditching BDB just as due diligence.)
This dates me too, but the binary Nvidia driver for my ancient GeForce MX 400 has been working flawlessly since, oh, about the time Nividia EOLed the GeForce 2 hardware.
And it's not what you know either. Hopefully, if you have a college degree, you have been trained in the scientific method, and how to analyze problems rationally. The people I have worked with who didn't go to university tend to be the ones who just randomly spew code or swap out patch panel cables until something works.
It's not just tech, it's everything. Who are the offshore workers replacing Americans and Europeans? Indians and Chinese with *university degrees in science and engineering*, that's who.
There are enough tales of woe in the discussion groups of ZFS file systems that have melted down on people that I would not start shorting the midrange storage companies stock just yet. I myself have an 18TB ZFS filesystem on a X4540 and it was brought to a standstill a few weeks ago by one dead SATA disk. Didn't lose any data, and it might be buggy hardware and drivers, but still, Sun support had no explanation. That should not happen!
I'm still a ZFS fanboy though - for about $1 per GB how can you lose. The host is a backup / virtual tape library server so it's not super high availability, and it's hella fast. No problem stuffing data into it at 2 X 1000baseT wire speed.
Yeah but GPSes are dirt cheap, you make money with the map subscriptions. Nearly everyone who needs real-time navigation also has a data phone. It's not just Android, there will be version for all cell phone OSes in a few months. They are doomed, the GPS receivers themselves will cost $10 in a few years.
Maybe Garmin and TomTom chould make cell phones, or cheap sat phone devices like the Spot tracker (http://www.findmespot.com/en/)?
I challenge the open source community to come up with a project that can shoot down a drone cruising at 10,000 feet, forget about an F16.
Anyway, TFA was about kill switches in expensive defense systems, not only the kind you get if you're an unfortunate country trying to develop a nuclear program within F16 range of Israel (honorable intent or otherwise), but also in off the shelf hardware the US uses.
Lots of places I know won't contemplate buying Huawei routers for exactly this reason. Much of the Cisco gear on the grey market is counterfeit - same thing. Now that I think of it, the pallet of of Juniper routers I just bought is prominently merked "Made in China". Oh well.
It's basically what you have now: "Lawful" is rather clearly defined. I'm more worried about whimsical definitions of "harm". "Harmful" is plenty vague. Like all them VoIP packets "harming" the network, or "harming" the provider by blocking their spam and ads. Same old spit.
I am a little skeptical since most hard drive failures I've had have been right after a air conditioning outage. The Google paper uses temperature obtained from SMART, which is usually 10 to 15C higher than the ambient temperature in the room, and the tail of their sample falls off rapidly over 40C. What would the SMART temperature be if the ambient temperature was 40 or so? Probably 60 or above. Their graphs don't do that high.
But we're talking raising the temperature of a data center only 2 or 3 deg. Meat lockers are not helpful. Moral of the story? Maybe spend your cooling bucks on your storage, then let the rest of your systems eat their exhaust. I have some new Juniper routers, no moving parts inside except fans - the yellow alarm doesn't kick off until 70C and the machine doesn't shut down until 85C.
Quick, call the EFF! Google peers with Facebook! I have a constitutional right for all my Google-to-Facebook packets to transit some 3rd party carrier!
Moreover, a lot of the 900-lb gorillas of the Internet have colocation operations in the same building, so peering is largely a matter of just tossing a cable over a partition or two.
Yeah, been there done that. *My* fumble only brought 10,000 domains down for about 10 minutes, and no one noticed. (I think all the domains hosted only cat pictures anyway.)
Sorry, that's as big a responsibility as any employer has ever deemed suitable for my incompetent ass.
Until Joe Redneck Public starts to recycle the cars by leaving them in his front yard to rust.
OTOH the power pack would last much longer than the car, so he could hook the old power pack up to his beer cooler or mechanical bull and put it to use.
The point to get across is that no (reputable) service or agency will ever, ever send you an email asking you to fill in and email back ANYTHING anymore.
If I were to ever get a legitimate email from my bank or credit card asking for personal information, I would call them as ask them WTF they were doing.
My estimate is that your average stupid phishing victim is just as likely to reply with their personal information regardless of whether the email is obviously fake.
As a hypothetical, since length is really what matters, I wonder how long it would take before something like
01234567890123 or even 0123456789
would get guessed?
My experience is that short passwords (less than 7 chars) are the ones that get guessed, even if they are "good" ones that have a mix of letters, number, and punctuation.
I am not sure that MP had that much *influence* on American TV, but it was the first time that American audiences were exposed to humor from a TV culture other than their own. That alone was a great thing.
Then they started showing Benny Hill and anything on PBS, and we realized that whether you are a Brit or a Yank, genius is genius, and suck is suck.
10,000 years from now no one is going to care about your cat and explosion videos.
They're going to be trying to figure what caused the great famine-flood-nuclear-hurricane-iceage of 2075 AD that suddenly caused the human population to disappear and be replaced by a race of extraterrestrial manbearpigs.
This device seems to be flashing rapidly; it's essentially a laser pointer with a lens to make a spot just large enough to focus on a subject's eye area. Of course it's backed up by the proven reliability and effectiveness of an H&K MP5, it appears from the video.
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Because Brits have a Stiff Upper Lip. Great for breaking phones, summers where it never gets above 50, and attempting to conquer places like Afghanistan and India.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/berkeley-db/index.html
I'm confused too.
Unless Oracle Express is different enough from their main code base that it would be less trouble to ditch Express and just let the OSS crowd continue to maintain MySQL.
Plus Express is still harder to install than MySQL, and a usable version of MySQL "ships" with every Linux (and BSD?) distro.
This is all about the EU blocking Oracle's acquisition of Sun. They are trolling for testimonials about how the Sun acquisition would force people to buy Oracle DB, which is almost certainly would not:
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/ibu_index.php?storyid=832
Look at Berkeley DB (on which OpenLDAP uttely depends.) It's now "Oracle Berkeley DB". I don't see any monkey business with that arrangement (although the OpenLDAP people are probably working on ditching BDB just as due diligence.)
I have to post quickly, I have a Prius with a technology editor pinned inside I need to unwrap from around a bridge abutment.
Most people have pretty poor situational awareness. I've overheard more than once on he local ham radio repeater a conversation similar to this:
Ham driver: "Help help I have an emergency, I need a phone patch to CHP!"
Ham answers from somewhere: "Where are you?"
Driver: "I'm on the freeway!"
And so on. I can only imagine what 911 dispatchers go through.
This dates me too, but the binary Nvidia driver for my ancient GeForce MX 400 has been working flawlessly since, oh, about the time Nividia EOLed the GeForce 2 hardware.
.. would be good for tornado warning:
"There is a tornado in your area. It is OUTSIDE. You do remember where OUTSIDE is, right?"
And it's not what you know either. Hopefully, if you have a college degree, you have been trained in the scientific method, and how to analyze problems rationally. The people I have worked with who didn't go to university tend to be the ones who just randomly spew code or swap out patch panel cables until something works.
It's not just tech, it's everything. Who are the offshore workers replacing Americans and Europeans? Indians and Chinese with *university degrees in science and engineering*, that's who.
You can already get this tech if you splurge for an S-class Mercedes:
http://www.benzinsider.com/2008/06/distronic-plus-and-brake-assist-plus-reduce-rear-end-collisions-by-20/
It would be a cool DIY project, too. Don't tell your insurance company.
I am fairly sure a hurricane would make short work of that dome long before the residents of Houston would gas (or murder) each other.
Ike did a pretty good number on their baseball stadium: http://www.chron.com/sports/photogallery/TEXANS_RELIANT_STADIUM_AFTER_IKE.html
There are enough tales of woe in the discussion groups of ZFS file systems that have melted down on people that I would not start shorting the midrange storage companies stock just yet. I myself have an 18TB ZFS filesystem on a X4540 and it was brought to a standstill a few weeks ago by one dead SATA disk. Didn't lose any data, and it might be buggy hardware and drivers, but still, Sun support had no explanation. That should not happen!
I'm still a ZFS fanboy though - for about $1 per GB how can you lose. The host is a backup / virtual tape library server so it's not super high availability, and it's hella fast. No problem stuffing data into it at 2 X 1000baseT wire speed.
Available only from AT&T, and it costs $100 more than an iPhone.
Fail.
Well, I suppose there is a market for Apple Haters and phone hackers.
Yeah but GPSes are dirt cheap, you make money with the map subscriptions. Nearly everyone who needs real-time navigation also has a data phone. It's not just Android, there will be version for all cell phone OSes in a few months. They are doomed, the GPS receivers themselves will cost $10 in a few years.
Maybe Garmin and TomTom chould make cell phones, or cheap sat phone devices like the Spot tracker (http://www.findmespot.com/en/)?
I challenge the open source community to come up with a project that can shoot down a drone cruising at 10,000 feet, forget about an F16.
Anyway, TFA was about kill switches in expensive defense systems, not only the kind you get if you're an unfortunate country trying to develop a nuclear program within F16 range of Israel (honorable intent or otherwise), but also in off the shelf hardware the US uses.
Lots of places I know won't contemplate buying Huawei routers for exactly this reason. Much of the Cisco gear on the grey market is counterfeit - same thing. Now that I think of it, the pallet of of Juniper routers I just bought is prominently merked "Made in China". Oh well.
It's basically what you have now: "Lawful" is rather clearly defined. I'm more worried about whimsical definitions of "harm". "Harmful" is plenty vague. Like all them VoIP packets "harming" the network, or "harming" the provider by blocking their spam and ads. Same old spit.
I am a little skeptical since most hard drive failures I've had have been right after a air conditioning outage. The Google paper uses temperature obtained from SMART, which is usually 10 to 15C higher than the ambient temperature in the room, and the tail of their sample falls off rapidly over 40C. What would the SMART temperature be if the ambient temperature was 40 or so? Probably 60 or above. Their graphs don't do that high.
But we're talking raising the temperature of a data center only 2 or 3 deg. Meat lockers are not helpful. Moral of the story? Maybe spend your cooling bucks on your storage, then let the rest of your systems eat their exhaust. I have some new Juniper routers, no moving parts inside except fans - the yellow alarm doesn't kick off until 70C and the machine doesn't shut down until 85C.
The problem is that the longer the decision is delayed the longer Sun's EU employees get to keep their jobs doing .... whatever it is they do.
I dunno what Sun people do anymore. Every time I've called Sun for the last 5 or 6 years they seemed only vaguely interested in selling me a computer.
Quick, call the EFF! Google peers with Facebook! I have a constitutional right for all my Google-to-Facebook packets to transit some 3rd party carrier!
Moreover, a lot of the 900-lb gorillas of the Internet have colocation operations in the same building, so peering is largely a matter of just tossing a cable over a partition or two.
Yeah, been there done that. *My* fumble only brought 10,000 domains down for about 10 minutes, and no one noticed. (I think all the domains hosted only cat pictures anyway.)
Sorry, that's as big a responsibility as any employer has ever deemed suitable for my incompetent ass.
Until Joe Redneck Public starts to recycle the cars by leaving them in his front yard to rust.
OTOH the power pack would last much longer than the car, so he could hook the old power pack up to his beer cooler or mechanical bull and put it to use.
The point to get across is that no (reputable) service or agency will ever, ever send you an email asking you to fill in and email back ANYTHING anymore.
If I were to ever get a legitimate email from my bank or credit card asking for personal information, I would call them as ask them WTF they were doing.
My estimate is that your average stupid phishing victim is just as likely to reply with their personal information regardless of whether the email is obviously fake.
As a hypothetical, since length is really what matters, I wonder how long it would take before something like
01234567890123 or even 0123456789
would get guessed?
My experience is that short passwords (less than 7 chars) are the ones that get guessed, even if they are "good" ones that have a mix of letters, number, and punctuation.
I am not sure that MP had that much *influence* on American TV, but it was the first time that American audiences were exposed to humor from a TV culture other than their own. That alone was a great thing.
Then they started showing Benny Hill and anything on PBS, and we realized that whether you are a Brit or a Yank, genius is genius, and suck is suck.
10,000 years from now no one is going to care about your cat and explosion videos.
They're going to be trying to figure what caused the great famine-flood-nuclear-hurricane-iceage of 2075 AD that suddenly caused the human population to disappear and be replaced by a race of extraterrestrial manbearpigs.
http://www.laserdazzler.net/standard_laser_dazzler.htm
This device seems to be flashing rapidly; it's essentially a laser pointer with a lens to make a spot just large enough to focus on a subject's eye area. Of course it's backed up by the proven reliability and effectiveness of an H&K MP5, it appears from the video.
That's an interesting question for all the /. armchair lawyers. Is something a patent violation if it doesn't actually work the way the patent says?