virtually none I imagine. huge hosting centres don't decide to change their hosting OS as a lightly made decision and it's not something they can or would do quickly. if they're using it now, then they were using it last year in all likelyhood.
not that linux is a bad OS by any means, but perhaps all these sites are using freebsd, cos they like it and thinks it performs well, rather than just using it as a refuge from legal action?
dave
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while napster was great, I personally preferred audiogalaxy. I found that a lot easier to find more obscure music on, not to mention that it had an open source client and you could use it at work and come home to find the files waiting for you. not to mention the great community that was there, and the suggestions of other tracks to listen to
I don;t suppose any of the current file sharers work like the old AG did do they?
All of the "most important" people and places have three names.
you should try reading the silmarillion then:) each major character seems to have 6 names in 6 different languages which the book cuts between aeemingly at random:) good book though, if a little deep.
For example, on my first reading I had no idea what a "brace of coney" were.
this is fairly standard UK english, if a little old.
I loved tolkien and I still read my rather dogeared single volume edition from time to time, but my eyes have learned to skip over the highly dense descriptive paragraphs. I start to read one and I just know it's a huge description or w a water fall etc so I quickly scan the paragraph to see if it's relevant, and if not, move on to the next. I've also not read any of the songs yet:)
on the recommending books note. I'd recommend a few books, not particluarly hackish but damn good read's. my favourite book ever is still "the scret history" by donna tartt. alaex garland's "the beach" is well worth a read. and pratchett's/gaiman's "good omens" is pretty funny, and an easy into into pratchett's style if ppl haven't read the increasingly large discworld universe (but I'm sure almost everyone here has read pratchett).
oh yeah, I know that novell aren't going to sue (I was basically karma whoring before;) novell aren't a bad co by any means and going up against IBM does require an iron clad lawsuit and alot of money to back you up, neither of which sco had.
At the other end red light is emitted, with a lower wavelength, so in the same time period fewer waves come out. What has happened to the 'missing' ones?
I would imagine that that if you spend 1 second pouring blue light in, red light will spend 1.1 seconds coming out so that the number of waves entering and leaving is the same (scale figures as approriate).
conversely I suppose that if you shine red light into it continuously, you migh get pulses of blue coming out, although this one is harder to reason through.
or perhaps it affects the strength of light coming in and out? ie a bright red light produces a weaker blue light? and vice versa?
in this particular interview, I'd say that the interviewer wasn't particularly clued up.
bob talks about his "ethernet business model" and goes on to say:
It's based on de jure standards with proprietary implementations of those de jure standards, and it is unlike open source in that competitors don't give their intellectual property away. The competition is fierce, but there is a market ethic that products will be interoperable. And the standard evolves rapidly based on market engagement in such a way to value the installed base. There is a heavy value placed on sustaining and maintaining the installed base. That's the Ethernet business model.
which is fair enough, whether people beleive him or not is another matter but I think he's making a valid point. then the interview asks:
So does that have to do specifically with businesses that work with Ethernet technologies?
what? was he even listening to bob? it reminds me of "handsome dan" interviewing wayne an garth about waynestock... "yeah, uhuh, yeah, right. groovey" etcetc.
It is also inspired by a long-forgotten Conputer OS built by those effing Pearl-Harbor bombing Japanese, but the went out of Business (Ha) because of their bad Marketing Dept.
hang on, amiwm is a wm that looks like the amiga workbench interface, and that was built by commodore, based in silicon valley. it's an american machine boyo, and it was a damn fine one.
and yes, bad marketting was one reason for it's downfall, another being terrible management. I beleive they had the first sysV unix on th market (AMIX) available with the amiga 3000ux and when sun asked them if they could OEM the machines as cheap unix workstations (as opposed to sun dirtying their hands and making them themselves) *they said no*
wtf?! who turns down a guaranteed income like that in the situation that commodre was in at the time. still, that was only one of many terrible decisoins they made during the history of that machine.
I think his analogy is more inherently flawed due to the fact that if you buy a mushroom from a shop and it turns out to be poisonous, you can sue them, and they can't turn around and say "well, you shoulda read the fineprint that came with the mushroom. it states that the mushrooms are not sold with any expectation of being eaten and if the purchasers chooses to consue the mushroom then he must take responsibility thereof. indeed the mushroom is in no way certified to even be a mushroom, it may very well be a diving mask. no recourse is available against the mushroom vendor or mushroom supplier. this mushroom is not to be used in mission critical or life affecting situations. you are not allowed to make any duplicate of this mushroom, this includes taking a photo of it or even drawing it with a crayon. the physical characteristics of this mushroom are trademarked, copyrighted and patented. if you are unhappy with the conditions attached to this mushroom then you may return it to the vender who supplied it to you (with the purchase of a shopping trolley) and ask for a refund on your mushroom. he will likely inform you that he is unable to do this but you can certainly ask.
approximately 100% of people who watch any movie will be watching it on a T.V., so why the hell wouldn't you design the movie to be seen on that medium?
well, here in the UK, they *are* designing their movie to be viewed on tv. we've mostly converted to widescreen here... and in much of the rest of europe. you have to go out of your way to find 4:3 stuff, both hardware and software. a friend of mine is looking for the second harry potter film on dvd in 4:3 and it's not available yet. you've been able to get the widescreen one for a while now but the 4:3 one is not even out.
As long as widescreen isn't filling the entire screen, beacuse it isn't, it will never conquer the home market.
well, as far as movies are concerned, no format will ever have the full screen filled as there is no standard aspect ratio that directors use. some use 16:9 exactly and those will fit onto a widescreen tv with no probs, others use 22:9 which gives black bars at the top and bottom even with widescreen tv's. some use 14:9 which gives vertical bars at the sides, etc.
and in europe and japan widescreen pretty much has conquered. it's becoming hard to even find 4:3 tv's in the shops now and almost all movies on dvd are in widescreen (unless of course, the were filmed in 4:3). digital tv tends to broadcast much tv in widescreen too.
as for camcorders. I know nothing about them so I've no idea what kind of price a "consumer" camcorder goes for, but a quick search revealed this:
I also have TLS enabled on my server but hardly anyone else does, and thats the problem. if you restrict it so that it'll only accept TLS connections then you'll suddenly have very little spam, but also very little email.
in the last week I've had 7 remote hosts (apart from my own workstations) use TLS with my server, and 3 of those were for spam *sigh*
if there were humans driving it at the start then there wouldn't have been at the end. apart from the fact that the sled stopped yb hitting an immobile object, the humans would have been but a red paint job at the back of the cabin by then anyways
You should read a commercial software EULA some time, because you might be in for a suprise. I'd bet you have about as much recourse for broke code with Oracle as you do with MySQL.
interestingly I was at a meeting the other month where it transpired that there is a recent version of oracle out there that plain refuses to run on a machine with 2 ip addresses.
who let *that* showstopper of a bug out of the door? how much does oracle cost again?:)
oracle did at least admit to that one and promise to fix it, don't kow if they have done so yet though.
but he's not using it by choice, not by force. I don't currently own a printer. I have no need for one. ubt if were made redundant then I'd prolly go and buy a cheap printer so I could run cv's off. once I'd got a new job then I'd prolly not use the printer too much, perhaps a document here and there, but I'm not a big office user. now 3 years alater I lose my job again, I edit my cv, go to print and it tells me that the cart has expired.
I paid for that cartridge and the ink in it. I know damn well that I've hardly used any and that there is sufficent ink to do the job. I'm printing a cv, not colour pictures of the family so ultimate quality isn;t a huge issue, I just need black print. is it fair/moral for me to be forced into buying another cartridge (which might be more than half the cost of the printer) because HP decided I just wasn't spending enough money with them?
just because I'm not using something currently doesn;t mean I don't have a use for it planned.
it's like saying that having insurance is useless as I'm not claiming on it.
While this may be a nuisance for a very tiny number of people the timeframes seem reasonable to me. If you have a printer sitting with a single cartridge for more than 2 years you really dont need a printer.
it seems reasonable for a printer compny to leech mponey from it's customers because they aren't buying enough ink? to add restrictions that were not there before, for no better reaosn than to make more money andmake a fully paid for product useless. if thats not illegal it's at least immoral in my book.
I hate this sentiment. It doesn't do the network or the business any good to be able to point a finger. It does you some good though, as you're not responsible for it in managment's eyes. So, not only are you paying out the arse for support, you're also suffering downtime. Wonderful!
damn right. esp as alot of these companies have woefully expensive and just generally woeful support anyways. if there is a problem, it's nice to say "it wasn't my fault, I did all I could" but surely it's more important not to have the problem in the first place... there it really *isn't* your fault.
having used checkpoint and ccse and ccsa courses I can say that it is a very good firewall but why would anyone want to rip out checkpoint and ipso and install linux? if you want a linux (or for my preference, freebsd) firewall then buy a 1u box and a qfe ffs. why trash a perfectly good nokia box? checkpoint is a damn good firewall even if you don't keep getting updates to the latest and greatest.
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virtually none I imagine. huge hosting centres don't decide to change their hosting OS as a lightly made decision and it's not something they can or would do quickly. if they're using it now, then they were using it last year in all likelyhood.
not that linux is a bad OS by any means, but perhaps all these sites are using freebsd, cos they like it and thinks it performs well, rather than just using it as a refuge from legal action?
dave
while napster was great, I personally preferred audiogalaxy. I found that a lot easier to find more obscure music on, not to mention that it had an open source client and you could use it at work and come home to find the files waiting for you. not to mention the great community that was there, and the suggestions of other tracks to listen to
I don;t suppose any of the current file sharers work like the old AG did do they?
dave
It wasn't until much later, and only when someone specifically told me, that I found out that orcs and goblins were actually the same thing.
they're not the same thing. orc's and goblins are similar, but goblins are smaller and craftier. orc's are bigger, stronger and a little more stupid.
dave
All of the "most important" people and places have three names.
:) each major character seems to have 6 names in 6 different languages which the book cuts between aeemingly at random :) good book though, if a little deep.
:)
you should try reading the silmarillion then
For example, on my first reading I had no idea what a "brace of coney" were.
this is fairly standard UK english, if a little old.
I loved tolkien and I still read my rather dogeared single volume edition from time to time, but my eyes have learned to skip over the highly dense descriptive paragraphs. I start to read one and I just know it's a huge description or w a water fall etc so I quickly scan the paragraph to see if it's relevant, and if not, move on to the next. I've also not read any of the songs yet
on the recommending books note. I'd recommend a few books, not particluarly hackish but damn good read's. my favourite book ever is still "the scret history" by donna tartt. alaex garland's "the beach" is well worth a read. and pratchett's/gaiman's "good omens" is pretty funny, and an easy into into pratchett's style if ppl haven't read the increasingly large discworld universe (but I'm sure almost everyone here has read pratchett).
dave
oh yeah, I know that novell aren't going to sue (I was basically karma whoring before ;) novell aren't a bad co by any means and going up against IBM does require an iron clad lawsuit and alot of money to back you up, neither of which sco had.
dave
Novell sues IBM over linux IP issues....
?
dave
At the other end red light is emitted, with a lower wavelength, so in the same time period fewer waves come out. What has happened to the 'missing' ones?
I would imagine that that if you spend 1 second pouring blue light in, red light will spend 1.1 seconds coming out so that the number of waves entering and leaving is the same (scale figures as approriate).
conversely I suppose that if you shine red light into it continuously, you migh get pulses of blue coming out, although this one is harder to reason through.
or perhaps it affects the strength of light coming in and out? ie a bright red light produces a weaker blue light? and vice versa?
dave
in this particular interview, I'd say that the interviewer wasn't particularly clued up.
bob talks about his "ethernet business model" and goes on to say:
It's based on de jure standards with proprietary implementations of those de jure standards, and it is unlike open source in that competitors don't give their intellectual property away. The competition is fierce, but there is a market ethic that products will be interoperable. And the standard evolves rapidly based on market engagement in such a way to value the installed base. There is a heavy value placed on sustaining and maintaining the installed base. That's the Ethernet business model.
which is fair enough, whether people beleive him or not is another matter but I think he's making a valid point. then the interview asks:
So does that have to do specifically with businesses that work with Ethernet technologies?
what? was he even listening to bob? it reminds me of "handsome dan" interviewing wayne an garth about waynestock... "yeah, uhuh, yeah, right. groovey" etcetc.
dave
I've always preferred "a fool and his money are soon partying"
dave
It is also inspired by a long-forgotten Conputer OS built by those effing Pearl-Harbor bombing Japanese, but the went out of Business (Ha) because of their bad Marketing Dept.
hang on, amiwm is a wm that looks like the amiga workbench interface, and that was built by commodore, based in silicon valley. it's an american machine boyo, and it was a damn fine one.
and yes, bad marketting was one reason for it's downfall, another being terrible management. I beleive they had the first sysV unix on th market (AMIX) available with the amiga 3000ux and when sun asked them if they could OEM the machines as cheap unix workstations (as opposed to sun dirtying their hands and making them themselves) *they said no*
wtf?! who turns down a guaranteed income like that in the situation that commodre was in at the time. still, that was only one of many terrible decisoins they made during the history of that machine.
oh well...
dave
Your analogy is inherently flawed
I think his analogy is more inherently flawed due to the fact that if you buy a mushroom from a shop and it turns out to be poisonous, you can sue them, and they can't turn around and say "well, you shoulda read the fineprint that came with the mushroom. it states that the mushrooms are not sold with any expectation of being eaten and if the purchasers chooses to consue the mushroom then he must take responsibility thereof. indeed the mushroom is in no way certified to even be a mushroom, it may very well be a diving mask. no recourse is available against the mushroom vendor or mushroom supplier. this mushroom is not to be used in mission critical or life affecting situations. you are not allowed to make any duplicate of this mushroom, this includes taking a photo of it or even drawing it with a crayon. the physical characteristics of this mushroom are trademarked, copyrighted and patented. if you are unhappy with the conditions attached to this mushroom then you may return it to the vender who supplied it to you (with the purchase of a shopping trolley) and ask for a refund on your mushroom. he will likely inform you that he is unable to do this but you can certainly ask.
etc, ad nauseam
dave
Personally what gets me is the two widescreen standards...
there aren;t really 2 widescreen standards.. there aren;t really any widescreen standards.. they shoot it in the aspect ratio they feel like.
dave
approximately 100% of people who watch any movie will be watching it on a T.V., so why the hell wouldn't you design the movie to be seen on that medium?
well, here in the UK, they *are* designing their movie to be viewed on tv. we've mostly converted to widescreen here... and in much of the rest of europe. you have to go out of your way to find 4:3 stuff, both hardware and software. a friend of mine is looking for the second harry potter film on dvd in 4:3 and it's not available yet. you've been able to get the widescreen one for a while now but the 4:3 one is not even out.
dave
As long as widescreen isn't filling the entire screen, beacuse it isn't, it will never conquer the home market.
well, as far as movies are concerned, no format will ever have the full screen filled as there is no standard aspect ratio that directors use. some use 16:9 exactly and those will fit onto a widescreen tv with no probs, others use 22:9 which gives black bars at the top and bottom even with widescreen tv's. some use 14:9 which gives vertical bars at the sides, etc.
and in europe and japan widescreen pretty much has conquered. it's becoming hard to even find 4:3 tv's in the shops now and almost all movies on dvd are in widescreen (unless of course, the were filmed in 4:3). digital tv tends to broadcast much tv in widescreen too.
as for camcorders. I know nothing about them so I've no idea what kind of price a "consumer" camcorder goes for, but a quick search revealed this:
Sony DCRVX2000 MiniDV Digital Camcorder
if it's sold at amazon I'd say it's fairly consumer...?
dave
I'm waiting for some bright soul to realise that releasing the Mysterious Cities of Gold on DVD with English audio would be really smart
not quite what you're after but close. I bought this for some friends, still haven't watched it yet though. I really should.
http://www.medvale.demon.co.uk/gold.htm
dave
I also have TLS enabled on my server but hardly anyone else does, and thats the problem. if you restrict it so that it'll only accept TLS connections then you'll suddenly have very little spam, but also very little email.
in the last week I've had 7 remote hosts (apart from my own workstations) use TLS with my server, and 3 of those were for spam *sigh*
it would be nice if more mailservers supported it
dave
ended in a spray of sparks when a missile carried by the sled slammed into an immobile target.
I'm guessing it didn;t make it through the test in one peice... maybe it made it through in a cloud of dust though
dave
Are there even human beings "driving" it?
I think it's safe to say "no"
if there were humans driving it at the start then there wouldn't have been at the end. apart from the fact that the sled stopped yb hitting an immobile object, the humans would have been but a red paint job at the back of the cabin by then anyways
dave
back in *my* day we had 32 character case insensitive but case respecting filenames... it was about the same day as your day except I owned an amiga :)
dave
You should read a commercial software EULA some time, because you might be in for a suprise. I'd bet you have about as much recourse for broke code with Oracle as you do with MySQL.
:)
interestingly I was at a meeting the other month where it transpired that there is a recent version of oracle out there that plain refuses to run on a machine with 2 ip addresses.
who let *that* showstopper of a bug out of the door? how much does oracle cost again?
oracle did at least admit to that one and promise to fix it, don't kow if they have done so yet though.
dave
but he's not using it by choice, not by force. I don't currently own a printer. I have no need for one. ubt if were made redundant then I'd prolly go and buy a cheap printer so I could run cv's off. once I'd got a new job then I'd prolly not use the printer too much, perhaps a document here and there, but I'm not a big office user. now 3 years alater I lose my job again, I edit my cv, go to print and it tells me that the cart has expired.
I paid for that cartridge and the ink in it. I know damn well that I've hardly used any and that there is sufficent ink to do the job. I'm printing a cv, not colour pictures of the family so ultimate quality isn;t a huge issue, I just need black print. is it fair/moral for me to be forced into buying another cartridge (which might be more than half the cost of the printer) because HP decided I just wasn't spending enough money with them?
just because I'm not using something currently doesn;t mean I don't have a use for it planned.
it's like saying that having insurance is useless as I'm not claiming on it.
dave
While this may be a nuisance for a very tiny number of people the timeframes seem reasonable to me. If you have a printer sitting with a single cartridge for more than 2 years you really dont need a printer.
it seems reasonable for a printer compny to leech mponey from it's customers because they aren't buying enough ink? to add restrictions that were not there before, for no better reaosn than to make more money andmake a fully paid for product useless. if thats not illegal it's at least immoral in my book.
dave
well, there are free frrp deamons about but I don't know if they are missing anything from commercial vrrp stuff.
www.bsdshell.net
dave
I hate this sentiment. It doesn't do the network or the business any good to be able to point a finger. It does you some good though, as you're not responsible for it in managment's eyes. So, not only are you paying out the arse for support, you're also suffering downtime. Wonderful!
damn right. esp as alot of these companies have woefully expensive and just generally woeful support anyways. if there is a problem, it's nice to say "it wasn't my fault, I did all I could" but surely it's more important not to have the problem in the first place... there it really *isn't* your fault.
dave
having used checkpoint and ccse and ccsa courses I can say that it is a very good firewall but why would anyone want to rip out checkpoint and ipso and install linux? if you want a linux (or for my preference, freebsd) firewall then buy a 1u box and a qfe ffs. why trash a perfectly good nokia box? checkpoint is a damn good firewall even if you don't keep getting updates to the latest and greatest.
dave