Is it a horrible conspiricy on their part, or is it just bad HTML?
When stupidity is a sufficient explanation there is no need to resort to any other:
The secure mode looks like operating with the same cursed Micro... like Barkleys not just standard SSL. So it is least likely to work properly with Netscape in first place.
Cookies look like standard ASP session library and standard shopping basket implementation.
As you are going to be leaving there you credit card information anyway there is not much you will keep private anyway. They know your name, address, date of birth and can actually even request a credit reference for you and learn about your income band from there. So you may let them cookie your arse off anyway. Just use an editor to check them after that.
It is quite likely by the look and feel with Junkbuster on and Off that it relies on HTTP referrer in quite a few places. It is genuinely stupid, but some people see it as a "security measure". Quite popular lately. I wish they were watching more on unique session IDs and where and how they store data instead. See the recent Barkley and other cases
Conclusion: I guess you will have to use insecure browsing and junkbuster off you want to shop with netscape on this site. Or use vmware and shop with a Windoze having vmware in the mode when it does not keep the disk updated. After powering off all they have managed to stuff your machine with will go on holiday. And they will have wrong preference info on you anyway
Standard disclaimer:
ust as well
where is the incentive for writing enhanced applications..?
In the binary only commercial world - none. Sun is already locked up in this paradigm. Have a look at solaris. 64 bit kernel, most of the apps are 32 bit in order to be compatible with older sparcs.
If the app is distributed as source and the toolchain is 64 bit the app will be promoted automagically.
I think I'm going to curl up with some
milk and cookies.
And an IPV6 book. The only thing preventing IpV6 from wide acceptance is the lack of support at the desktop.
Throwing in a few million of lusers with ipv6 stack changes the balance drastically. And AOL will have much less problem with MS calling for a standard.Standards, sure, here is a standard, but it operates via IPV6. Oh you do not support it. Sorry, you lost...
Just random thoughts, but that is what I would have done with this boxes...
Sure in a properly run house it is cool now as well.
Only idiots would allow lusers keep the primary business software on their machines. It is much more maintainable when run off a server. Why do you think people continue to sell think clients? They are more expensive than a PC. They require bigger servers. So there got to be a catch somewhere. And the catch is maintenance.
And it does not matter what M$ does to break away from the catch they are making matters even worse...
Your thesis is not your property. It is (C) your university. If your university has sold it to them you are stuffed. And unleashing the lawyers of war will not help. At all...
If you really care about your data and have $: Oracle. Typical DOT.COM thinking. DB2 scales way further than Oracle. Especially on dedicated hardware and dedicated clusters. If you care about your data you will not put it on Oracle's primary platform (slowarez) in first place. Neither on the secondary - NT.
If you really hate your data and don't need transactions: MySql.
If you like your data but don't have the green for Oracle: Postgres Oracle or Informix for a small installation cost peanuts. Check the oracle price list. But the primary cost of a database has long shifted to be the support contract and the DBA/duhvelopers salaries. And the expenses you will run on postgress are going to be fairly similar.
The reason for chosing a tabase different than Oracle are:
If you do not want to be confined by ansient constraints like 2K for a varchar.
If you want to use all ANSI SQL features as well as the additions from the ODBC 3.x spec like "replace into" and not have to define triggers and stored procedures for the most elementary stuff. These come in handy in all applications that write happily over their old data. Session state engines and stuff comes to mind.
If you want proper database level support for all ODBC and ANSI SQL types, especially support for logical ops on integers and proper unix style timestamps along with full date/time support. Try to do an bitwise AND on integers in Oracle within a select statement for example. The latter are actually essential for network applications. Here MySQL rules. Period.
There are reasons to chose Oracle of course
Existing apps, Oracle Financials comes to mind
Support contracts and abundance of "educated" personnel. Though the "educated" personnel thinks in categories of using "sqlImport" and other stuff intsead of perl two liners for data import and uses half a year for stuff that takes 15 minutes and does not want to f... learn (there are few exemptions of course). But it is still some personnel. To use and to hold. And if you stay strictly within the limits of applications and methods where Larry's vision have put you now this personnel is worth its money.
Comanche. It had a really impressive landscape engine for its time. The heli movement near the landscape and the shading had some more to be desired but the overall landscape is still hardly matched.
By the time I read AMD pdf slashdot was already full of various "meaningfull opinions". Whatever, as usual, people never change.
I have to admit I am impressed:
AMD managed to get rid of quite a bit of legacy for the 64 bit mode. Most of the utterly idiotic segmented switching is gone. There is a well defined supervisior mode and user mode. There is a SYSCALL instruction so the mess of "jump to that magic offset to get promoted to OS level" is gone and OSes will have a nice clean API.
At the same time there is a reasonable amount of backwards compatibility. It is not without a cost but the cost is way less than Itanic. Almost all idiotic x86ism (tm) like the x86 task switching mechanism generate a GPF on the spot. So the OS will have to handle them in software. This means two things: the compatibility is relatively simple and the compatibility will be easier to achieve for emulating 32 bit OSes where ring 0 is called within a well defined API. Porting "the world of bypass backdoors" - NT on this will suck (even after AMD has broken their own rules and made exemptions for it). Porting all Unix OSes available for x86 will be a piece of cake.
Also unless told to it will do all calculations in 32 bit. So that most of favourite x86 legacy issues will have less impact. Also it has a reasonable number of register. 8 more general purpose 64 bit ones and 8 more 128 bit SIMD ones.
Quite an interesting beast to play with, question being will it have proper linux and BSD support. Also after reading the PDF it becomes clear why is the Sun support for this. This approach is very close to their uSparc/Sparc legacy scenario. And they have swam in that swamp for years (and are still swimming there). It is their CPU. It was born for them;-)
Let's face it -- government regulations aren't working
Correct, but you have got a wrong example for environmental awareness.
I would call this company envrironmentally friendly if it was somewhere in Death Valley or similar. It uses prime VA land instead. A waste of prime agricultural/habitable land imho is almost as bad as burning coal and oil if not worse.
It uses solar batteries instead of helioconcentrators. They have
limited and rather short lifetime
producing them generates polution. The silicon industry is hardly environmentally friendly, no matter what people say
There is no such thing as a journalist without hidden agenda. They have their salaries, stock options, friends and relatives. They are people too. And their employers have owners and shareholders.
Journalism when taken on a very large average can be considered to reflect community views which are also biased of course. And it reflects them mostly because if it does not noone will read it or listen to it or view it. But there is no such thing as unbiased mass media.
And to conclude IMHO, you are an idiotic fanatic. Grow up.
First: you are referring to the Slashdot crowd. For example I am sufficiently paranoid to put my old address or my company address on warranty cards and other stuff like this when I buy personal kit so my snail mail address does not get out. But this is me. Joe average random luser puts his personal information. Both in a conventional store and online
Second: correlation analysis is a great thing and statistics is a great science. If there is enough information and the criteria for filtering bogus data are well defined it can be filtered and your real you to show up.
ipchains -P input DENY to be contiunued... long live IP address surveys. That is besides all poor souls writing lame messages on Slashdot from a MASQed machine.
Well, and it is not simply control. It is control way beyond the level the US government, FBI, etc have ever been able to exercise.
To remind you the PGP code was published as a book, shipped out of the US, scanned and reentered by volunteers. This is the way US export controls were circumvented.
If the T-shirt case is won by MPAA someone may rise the old Fred Zimmerman case again. And this has much wider implications than we can actually imagine.
disclaimer: I bought one of the T-shirts and I am wearing it from time to time
Witrh this type of logic you should be brought back to the end of the 19th century.
Cocaine was not always illegal. And putting it in cookies sold near schools was standard practice. Same with soft drinks. The name coca cola has reasons for having the coca inside.
So coming back to our subject - you do not want to buy more cookies, sure? More coke sure? More userfirendly (which uses doubleclick), sure?
In other words junkbuster rulez. And if you want to specifically allow someone to advertise something to you (as I do allow cmdr taco to spam me with ads) it is your business. And that is the way to drive a... out of business. Not boicotting sites. Boicot the advertisers
think you're talking about an Alpha-based workstation. No one's going to be hosting a 30+GB database on a workstation. They would be looking at a DS10 or DS20 at a minimum. Expect to pay something in the area of US$20K for a smallishly configured DS20.
This is UK price for DS10L. You do not need the expandability of a DS10 or DS20. Also AXP has even cheaper machines. Sold in the UK by evolution.
A whopping $1000 for disk space to host a database? Only if you plan on sticking the entire thing on a single 36GB drive which would be an inexcusable performance hit. And that would leave no money for any kind of mirroring.
You are right. Off by 2-3 times. Was thinking of an external IDE RAID to SCSI box. Works fast enough. Is cheap enough. If necessary mirror two or more at RAID0.
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glanced at this article and I put it in the same category as CIA selling crack in LA, Aliens crashed at Roswell, and the Black Helicoper stuff...
CIA has been cought selling questionable stuff before. Iran/contras anyone? Weapons for heroine?
Dunno about aliens
Black Helicopter... Dunno about Black Helicopter different from KA51 Black Shark. Which is Black. Good machine... If on your side. If not on your side also a good machine though you do not admire it for long...
Very bad idea. Or maybe even "Stupidity is limitless"
1. If you have not noted Oracle legal has walked around every single site that had Oracle vs X benchmarks (X=mysql, sybase, informix) and made them drop them. This is actually possible under the 8.0x EULA. Actually just read the EULA. It is a masterpiece in itself. You are not allowed to benchmark the product and not allowed to question the fact that it is fscking slow and not ANSI compliant. That is besides the fact that if I was you I would not buy something where the manufacturer intentionally disallows fair comparison with other products. It is enough to say fsck this at least for me...
2. The original database is on Sybase. Sybase is at least more or less syntactically ANSI SQL compliant. Oracle is as far from ANSI as it gets. It will be a good guess that it will take you ages to port the bloody thing. And porting it will be more expensive than the "expensive" hardware.
3. I would see if the database design is implementable under postgreSQL or MySQL on an Alpha. Alpha is cheap. A reasonably good alpha is under 5000$. Storage will be a 1000$ more. This is as much as an appropriate x86 box. Postgres does not have a 2GB database limit anyway as it splits database files. MySQL does not have this limit on alpha because the platform is 64 bit. Your problems are in the key limitation/lob interface for postgress and transactions for MySQL.
4. If Neither of the solutions in 3 is implementable you have to open wide you wallet and buy informix for Intel or DB2 for intel. Both of them work and are ANSI compliant. In btw DB2 for Intel linux developer edition is free. Free period. No expiration. So you can actually see if the database will work. And they match Oracle on some benchmarks and DB2 beats the crap out of it when it comes to real scalability and clustering.
Slashdot Mirror
Ein reich, ein volk, ein cube(r)???
No, they will actually make a living. They are Uta state library compliant for example ;-)
When stupidity is a sufficient explanation there is no need to resort to any other:
- The secure mode looks like operating with the same cursed Micro... like Barkleys not just standard SSL. So it is least likely to work properly with Netscape in first place.
- Cookies look like standard ASP session library and standard shopping basket implementation.
- As you are going to be leaving there you credit card information anyway there is not much you will keep private anyway. They know your name, address, date of birth and can actually even request a credit reference for you and learn about your income band from there. So you may let them cookie your arse off anyway. Just use an editor to check them after that.
- It is quite likely by the look and feel with Junkbuster on and Off that it relies on HTTP referrer in quite a few places. It is genuinely stupid, but some people see it as a "security measure". Quite popular lately. I wish they were watching more on unique session IDs and where and how they store data instead. See the recent Barkley and other cases
Conclusion: I guess you will have to use insecure browsing and junkbuster off you want to shop with netscape on this site. Or use vmware and shop with a Windoze having vmware in the mode when it does not keep the disk updated. After powering off all they have managed to stuff your machine with will go on holiday. And they will have wrong preference info on you anyway Standard disclaimer:In the binary only commercial world - none. Sun is already locked up in this paradigm. Have a look at solaris. 64 bit kernel, most of the apps are 32 bit in order to be compatible with older sparcs.
If the app is distributed as source and the toolchain is 64 bit the app will be promoted automagically.
Throwing in a few million of lusers with ipv6 stack changes the balance drastically. And AOL will have much less problem with MS calling for a standard.Standards, sure, here is a standard, but it operates via IPV6. Oh you do not support it. Sorry, you lost...
Just random thoughts, but that is what I would have done with this boxes...
Only idiots would allow lusers keep the primary business software on their machines. It is much more maintainable when run off a server. Why do you think people continue to sell think clients? They are more expensive than a PC. They require bigger servers. So there got to be a catch somewhere. And the catch is maintenance.
And it does not matter what M$ does to break away from the catch they are making matters even worse...
Your thesis is not your property. It is (C) your university. If your university has sold it to them you are stuffed. And unleashing the lawyers of war will not help. At all...
- Existing apps, Oracle Financials comes to mind
- Support contracts and abundance of "educated" personnel. Though the "educated" personnel thinks in categories of using "sqlImport" and other stuff intsead of perl two liners for data import and uses half a year for stuff that takes 15 minutes and does not want to f... learn (there are few exemptions of course). But it is still some personnel. To use and to hold. And if you stay strictly within the limits of applications and methods where Larry's vision have put you now this personnel is worth its money.
But the reasons you quoted are complete shit...Comanche. It had a really impressive landscape engine for its time. The heli movement near the landscape and the shading had some more to be desired but the overall landscape is still hardly matched.
I have to admit I am impressed:
- AMD managed to get rid of quite a bit of legacy for the 64 bit mode. Most of the utterly idiotic segmented switching is gone. There is a well defined supervisior mode and user mode. There is a SYSCALL instruction so the mess of "jump to that magic offset to get promoted to OS level" is gone and OSes will have a nice clean API.
- At the same time there is a reasonable amount of backwards compatibility. It is not without a cost but the cost is way less than Itanic. Almost all idiotic x86ism (tm) like the x86 task switching mechanism generate a GPF on the spot. So the OS will have to handle them in software. This means two things: the compatibility is relatively simple and the compatibility will be easier to achieve for emulating 32 bit OSes where ring 0 is called within a well defined API. Porting "the world of bypass backdoors" - NT on this will suck (even after AMD has broken their own rules and made exemptions for it). Porting all Unix OSes available for x86 will be a piece of cake.
- Also unless told to it will do all calculations in 32 bit. So that most of favourite x86 legacy issues will have less impact. Also it has a reasonable number of register. 8 more general purpose 64 bit ones and 8 more 128 bit SIMD ones.
Quite an interesting beast to play with, question being will it have proper linux and BSD support. Also after reading the PDF it becomes clear why is the Sun support for this. This approach is very close to their uSparc/Sparc legacy scenario. And they have swam in that swamp for years (and are still swimming there). It is their CPU. It was born for themCorrect, but you have got a wrong example for environmental awareness.
I would call this company envrironmentally friendly if it was somewhere in Death Valley or similar. It uses prime VA land instead. A waste of prime agricultural/habitable land imho is almost as bad as burning coal and oil if not worse.
It uses solar batteries instead of helioconcentrators. They have
What coctail? Aren't these just synonyms?
Time to reread Fareheit 451.
Posting the link to the UK edition 'cause it has better cover art ;-)
Journalism when taken on a very large average can be considered to reflect community views which are also biased of course. And it reflects them mostly because if it does not noone will read it or listen to it or view it. But there is no such thing as unbiased mass media.
And to conclude IMHO, you are an idiotic fanatic. Grow up.
Because Compaq also has memory shring technology, not just filesystems. Search Compaq for a memory hub.
First: you are referring to the Slashdot crowd. For example I am sufficiently paranoid to put my old address or my company address on warranty cards and other stuff like this when I buy personal kit so my snail mail address does not get out. But this is me. Joe average random luser puts his personal information. Both in a conventional store and online
Second: correlation analysis is a great thing and statistics is a great science. If there is enough information and the criteria for filtering bogus data are well defined it can be filtered and your real you to show up.
No it will not. They will simply use transparent gifs. Which is just the same. And it is not just gif as PNG also has transparency channel.
ipchains -P input DENY
to be contiunued...
long live IP address surveys.
That is besides all poor souls writing lame messages on Slashdot from a MASQed machine.
To remind you the PGP code was published as a book, shipped out of the US, scanned and reentered by volunteers. This is the way US export controls were circumvented.
If the T-shirt case is won by MPAA someone may rise the old Fred Zimmerman case again. And this has much wider implications than we can actually imagine.
disclaimer: I bought one of the T-shirts and I am wearing it from time to timeThat is what you do to overcome a programmer's block. get a life.
Cocaine was not always illegal. And putting it in cookies sold near schools was standard practice. Same with soft drinks. The name coca cola has reasons for having the coca inside.
So coming back to our subject - you do not want to buy more cookies, sure? More coke sure? More userfirendly (which uses doubleclick), sure?
In other words junkbuster rulez. And if you want to specifically allow someone to advertise something to you (as I do allow cmdr taco to spam me with ads) it is your business. And that is the way to drive a... out of business. Not boicotting sites. Boicot the advertisers
This is UK price for DS10L. You do not need the expandability of a DS10 or DS20. Also AXP has even cheaper machines. Sold in the UK by evolution.
A whopping $1000 for disk space to host a database? Only if you plan on sticking the entire thing on a single 36GB drive which would be an inexcusable performance hit. And that would leave no money for any kind of mirroring.You are right. Off by 2-3 times. Was thinking of an external IDE RAID to SCSI box. Works fast enough. Is cheap enough. If necessary mirror two or more at RAID0.
CIA has been cought selling questionable stuff before. Iran/contras anyone? Weapons for heroine?
Dunno about aliens
Black Helicopter... Dunno about Black Helicopter different from KA51 Black Shark. Which is Black. Good machine... If on your side. If not on your side also a good machine though you do not admire it for long...
1. If you have not noted Oracle legal has walked around every single site that had Oracle vs X benchmarks (X=mysql, sybase, informix) and made them drop them. This is actually possible under the 8.0x EULA. Actually just read the EULA. It is a masterpiece in itself. You are not allowed to benchmark the product and not allowed to question the fact that it is fscking slow and not ANSI compliant. That is besides the fact that if I was you I would not buy something where the manufacturer intentionally disallows fair comparison with other products. It is enough to say fsck this at least for me...
2. The original database is on Sybase. Sybase is at least more or less syntactically ANSI SQL compliant. Oracle is as far from ANSI as it gets. It will be a good guess that it will take you ages to port the bloody thing. And porting it will be more expensive than the "expensive" hardware.
3. I would see if the database design is implementable under postgreSQL or MySQL on an Alpha. Alpha is cheap. A reasonably good alpha is under 5000$. Storage will be a 1000$ more. This is as much as an appropriate x86 box. Postgres does not have a 2GB database limit anyway as it splits database files. MySQL does not have this limit on alpha because the platform is 64 bit. Your problems are in the key limitation/lob interface for postgress and transactions for MySQL.
4. If Neither of the solutions in 3 is implementable you have to open wide you wallet and buy informix for Intel or DB2 for intel. Both of them work and are ANSI compliant. In btw DB2 for Intel linux developer edition is free. Free period. No expiration. So you can actually see if the database will work. And they match Oracle on some benchmarks and DB2 beats the crap out of it when it comes to real scalability and clustering.
In order to justify more funds allocated by the congresscritters...