Treat it as a a commercial system and "port" knowledge from large scale "uniix deployments of old"
Automount - relevant docs can be found in advanced solaris manuals and courses, just translate that into linux terms
NIS/LDAP - once again, no linux books, look to old pre-NIS+ books courses on solaris
So on. You will find it much easier to do this with Debian than with RedHat (at least I have found it to be the case). While RedHat will allow you to configure all kinds of PAM/LDAP stuff even using their tools they are missing a number of things to get a proper large scale network going. For starters RHEL 4+ has a race when automounting smb shares which results in death of the automounter. Debian has it as well, but frankly, putting a new kernel (2.6.13+) on a large debian network is much easier compared to redhat. Everything else aside it does not void your support agreements (as you do not have any in first place).
Overall - it is matter of taste, but up to RHEL4 I have found it much easier to maintain a large debian network "by the book". I do not have enough experience with RWS4 to have an opinion, but my gut feeling is that it still lags behind debian as far as maintaining large networks "by the book" using NIS + LDAP and some heavy automounting (especially when there are windows systems around).
Gmail is not greylisting friendly and quite obviously sends out from a cluster which does not maintain per destination state.
Gmail for your domain maintains state and sends correctly from same relay to same destination overtime.
So while you are correct that google seems to be eating its own dogfood and using its hosted system for corporate mail, it is not Gmail as such. It is the Gmail-for-your-domain which is Gmail only in name for marketing reasons (as any sysadmin who runs a mailserver can tell you looking at his logs).
As far as the content of the article, yep, I know the story. We have a fledging PHB who wants to migrate an existing unix IMAP server with some mailboxes exceeding 5G and 40K mails to an exchange (I will not go why, but human stupidity knows no limits especially when the people weilding it can call it a business driver). It will be a very entertaining one to watch.
Yeast will happily die by itself if the wine is left to reach its natural alcohol level and complete fermentation (speaking this as someone who has brewed himself and has actually worked scientifically with Saccharomices Cerevisia). This means that taste, alcohol content and residual sugar will vary greatly from year to year and some vintages will suck. Australians (and Californians) as well as vineries in other parts of the world owned by them do not allow that as a matter of principle. They are geared to large scale production destined to supermarket shelves and they have to continue delivering the same product year after year. By the way Australians actually now directly or indirectly own large portions of wine production in Europe and force this tech down everyone's throat.
The best example of such intervention is Bulgarian Mavrud. This is a relic grape which has survived the filoxera pandemic and is notorious for producing 4-5 piss vintages useable only for vinegar followed by one year which it produces the "nectar of the gods". Great wine, if you do not mind the really high alcohol content which in some years ran into the 16-17%. A vintage from one of those rare years could stay for 20-40 years in a cellar before starting to oxidise into vinegar without any extra preservatives. And it was a phenomenal wine. Was. Till recently. Now the vineyards which grow it have deployed Australian technology. As a result they produce moderate quality supermarket shelf style rancid horsepiss arrested at 13% which I find utterly undrinkable. It makes a good export to Great Britain though.
I can continue with other similar examples from Spain, Portugal, Italy, etc where Australian tech has been used to make wines "behave". As a result wines that produce 1-2 good or even phenomenal vintages per decade and crap for the rest now produce supermarket quality piss every year. As one of my italian collegues says "Ribena Wine".
The study is Italian. So this means a glass or two of red wine, possibly a small shot of brandy. Less likely, but still possible - a glass of decent beer or a glass of white.
We are definitely not talking about a glass of scotchpiss, budwiserpiss, johnsmithpiss or any other forms of rancid piss served in english speaking bars on either side of the pond.
There are plenty of studies which reach this conclusion - a bit of red whine is actually good for your health. IMO, what they miss is that it has to be real red wine, not Californian or Australian ribenapiss whose fermentation has been arrested with two tons of preservatives. I cannot prove that with a reference an actual study, but there is anecdotal evidence that neither Californian nor Australians have been able to confirm the Italian, Spanish and French studies. Considering the horrid things they do to wine in the so called "New World Vineries" I am not surprised.
I would rather have Debian release schedules, but have all the packages that are in it. Most of the sysadmins out there who deploy debian do it exactly because "Resistance is futile, you shall be packaged" and because "apt-get install light" works 99.99% of the time.
As a result there is a working platform on which to build services and commercial software regardless of what insane libraries your developers have chosen this time. Whatever it is, it can be apt-get installed. In the very rare cases you sometimes have to backport a version from testing, but someone has already solved most of the dependencies for you.
Trying something similar with RedHat quickly brings you into the land of RPM hell. I always love watching sysadmins suffering while trying to support development in a RedHat shop (especially where developers have su/sudo access). It is immensely entertaining to watch the network fall apart and be reduced to a random collection of machines all different from each other and each in its own circle of the RPM hell none being able to produce a release build.
So from the perspective of someone who has been running Debian driven networks for 6+ years and with 5+ years of supporting Debian as a base for commercial development I can say - no thank you, you misunderstood what brings most sysadmins to Debian. It is the best *nix development platform out there.
Well... It may the underlying reasons for the good moods, not the good moods themselves.
I noted that my colds have a nearly perfect correlation with the level of tiredness. I used to catch an average of more than one cold a month during the winter in the days when I overworked myself, worked extra hours for a prolonged period without compensating with a day off here or there, took work home and otherwise followed the antisocial behaviour pattern loved by slaver PHBs.
Nowdays, I stay strictly within the "green" zone of sub-40h per week at work and do not overdo the recreational coding. As a result I have less than one cold per 4-6 months. I have observed the same correlation in other people.
Unfortunately many PHBs do not grok the phenomenon. They would rather have their staff staring at the monitor at the height of lemsim stupor while checking in ephedrin driven code that has to be thrown out later anyway. Even the fact that the average productivity in the industry in Europe is in nearly perfect inverse proportion to the overtime put in does not make them stop and think for a second.
It is heavily dependant on external converters and if the team decides to change these for licensing or other reasons half of the features break right away. For example when moving from latex2html to hevea half of the image/url related features were lost and I had to go around and fix the damn C++ source to get them working again (debian bugs 344677). 114990 is another example.
In addition to that the people who use it are highly technical which means that UI rough edges do not get fixed years after years and it still looks like an ugly hack.
None the less it is one of the best editor as far as writing technical articles and documentation is concerned.
AFAIK russian constitution does not allow more than 2 presidential terms. While Putin can go the blunt way and alter it, I suspect that he will try a more refined approach and use a puppet instead. Russian politics have a long history of this. Suslov pulled Brezhnev strings from behind the scenes for nearly 20 years. Considering the number of people Putin put in the right places he can do that with ease. 80%+ of the government is from his KGB department.
So while it can be a checkmate right away, it is more likely to be a prolonged Alekhine style combination with quite a few major figures sacrificed on the way (something like the famous game against Fletcher where Alekhin sacrifices a Queen, a rook, a bishop and a few other to finish with a "choke" checkmate).
Bleah... Americanised list. Softy toys for softy boys all of them (except the darts)
As far ast the U238 set, I would say that it was a safe toy compared to my "Junior Chemist" chemistry set which I got when I was 8. The thing had the lot - KMnO4, NaOH, NH3 solution, S, HCl and many other wonderfull things. In reasonable quantities and concentrations (where in solution). The floor of my room kept the scars from some successfull experiments for years to come.
Same for the cannon - it is a joke compared to my neighbout T34 remote controlled battle tank (my parents bluntly refused to buy me one). That thing could shoot plastic rounds circa 5 mm in diameter and move. Both on remote control. Ideal toy for an eight year old and a six year old to chase the family cat. The only advantage the cat had was that the tank while remotely controlled had a manual reload so we had to fetch it after every shell to pull the reload lever. The fun continued until the cat found out that he should attack the person with the remote, not the tank. After that we called a truce.
That is all true especially once you see what P2P is good at.
Once you have discounted the illegal uses it becomes bloody obvious that most P2P uses are nothing but halfbaked emulation of multicast done by people with poor understanding of networking. Node discovery, node promotion to hypernode, sending single request to multiple interested parties are all trivial in a multicast environment. On top of the in a multicast environment the provider can easily enforce and control QoS, administrative boundaries, seed the network with nodes, limit propagation of requests to a network region, etc.
By the way - this is especially valid as far as Generic P2P Vide On Demand and P2P voice like Skype. These are solutions looking for a problem. The problem is currently solely in the fact that idiots in big incumbent telcos in the chase of "build it big" residential access have largely ignored issues like multicast, QoS and the like. The moment they themselves start distributing content they will reconfigure their network to support that and throttle down generic P2P so it does not stand in the way. That will be the moment when the problem will disappear and this will be the moment when P2P multimedia distribution companies will begin to die.
Via has a general purpose x86 compatible CPU with encryption acceleration and it can run circles around AMD and Intel combined in AES and RSA benchmarks while eating around 7W of power. In fact its power consumption is so low that I cannot use their motherboard with the monstrous 400W ATX power units shipped these days. It does not drain enough current which results in the board not resetting cleanly. Quite annoying actually (need to look at a refurbished old 150W PS for that). It also has MPEG accel on board and a few other features.
So as a matter of fact both AMD and Intel are late to that party though frankly I also do not think that there is that much food on the party table to eat anyway. If these features were so important Via would have had more than its 1% share of the market (it has a very nice margin on it though).
Not necessarily at least for code (not data access and representation). Depends on the code example and language.
If the target language is sufficiently diverse and expressive the code example can tell you about the way a person thinks at least as much as the interview.
There is no point to ask for code samples in java, python, ruby or smalltalk. Different people asked about the same problem will usually end up with the same implementation sans variable names and minor stillistic differences. That is the reason why these languages are popular nowdays - they allow industrial programming.
Now asking for a code example in perl, c and to a much lesser extent c++ is a completely different story. In these languages there is usually more than 1 way to hang yourself (in perl 5 on the average, in C around 3). As a result the code snippet can actually give you some insight on how the person thinks.
Asking for a data representation and access example and especially online ones (not save/snapshot) is also a completely different ball game. There you have multiple ways of hanging yourself even in otherwise limited choice languages like java and Co. It also gives an insight how a person thinks with regards to scalability, interaction between multiple threads, etc. Example - if a person in an online data representation and access example piles all of their data access in a single thread, locks the access with an exclusive mutex, reads/writes it non-transactionally and the data is passed to other threads via shared data segment - just ask them to turn around and leave. That is just one example. Plenty of others to go around.
Besides Lebanon, Blair had to comply with his obligations to provide "Bush is great, war against terror is great, the world supports Bush" news items for the US midterm. Which he did. And that is all that needs to be said here.
It should make you feel bad for everything Chinese around you.
The primary reason for their extinction is the destruction of their habitat by hydrogigantomaniac projects and pollution, not tuna (which does not live in rivers anyway).
And no worries - this is just the start. At the rate they dump poisonous chemicals in the surrounding seas they will kill quite a few more species in the next 20 years. Every "made in china" item your buy is yet another nail in the coffin of quite a few species including ourselves. Earth is not that big and mercury and dioxines dumped into the yellow sea will end on our table in less then 15 years through fish caught in the pacific.
Frankly, it is high time for Europe and USA to introduce pollution based excise and import duty.
That would have been the case with any BT driver and any BT product but crackberry. The crackberry is usually placed by operators on all-you-can-eat plans which presume only mail access to the crackberry server. The crackberry server eats surprisingly (actually the best word is phenomanally) little bandwidth. 1Kbit average per 20 users is normal. As a result the operators can afford all-you-can-eat without a problem. The moment the users start actively using it for data these assumptions go out of the window.
So, I would not be surprised if the operators demanded the feature and the feature got rolled out quietly. In other words, I would not be surprised if there is a communist hidden in the Bush.
20 years ago you could produce what was considered commercial quality code for those days and make a living off it with knowledge that was equivalent to 1-1.5 years of university education, sometimes less. Nowdays 4 years of college are not always enough to get you through your first day in the job.
You are describing an old Yugo (real cost 10$), which left the road (hence it flies) while running on rakia-gazoline mix (rakia is local balkan brandy which is often made of garbage, shit and a few other similar ingredients). So the only missing feature is the nag-vigation system. Well, that is easy to achieve. All you need is to put the biosat nag-vigation system you picked up in one of the local mehanas in control of the vehicle. If he/she has drunk as much as local nag-vigation systems can drink, you have achieved that goal as well. The car is definitely going based on user "thinking" to the extent the user is still capable to think after 1 litre or rakia with minimal meze. Voila - not that hard after all. You see them all the time in some countries. In fact dodging them is part of being a driver in these places
It clearly will. Windows sucks it even worse than MicroWhore Winhoze. In fact it sucks bricks through straw sidewise.
1. Windows has no proper routing protocol stack available. There is some rudimentary RIP support somewhere in the deep guts of the RAS functionality, largely unmaintained and tested mostly in the context of announcing host-based routes in a RAS scenario. OSPF, BGP or in fact listening to a lot of RIP and doing something meaningfull with it as well anything else you may need for Layer3 HA - forget it. Note - you can still use clustering and external load-balancers to achieve HA by means different from direct layer 3 usage so to take advantage of this you have to redesign your network.
By using the routing protocol stack on the embedded board and using network HA approaches you can reduce the costs compared to cluster HA. You can also achieve things that are unachievable on a cluster like geographically distributed HA.
2. Microsoft has put a QoS stack in Vista which I have not looked at yet so I cannot really judge its merits. For its older OSes this board can possibly (if it has good timer hardware) allow you to use QoS to police traffic. In fact it is perfectly positioned to do so because the traffic traverses it both directions which would allow you to perform both ingress and egress policying. Windows itself will be able to perform only egress as it is the terminating point. Further to this, in the context of the article gamer systems are too heavily loaded during a game to maintain QoS. This will allow to use QoS even with game in progress.
Quite a few other applications come to mind, but geographically distributed HA based on anicast and QoS are definite possibilities. These are currently impossible on Windows servers (even with 3rd party software) and require using a unix system or a router in front of it.
In addition to that if these guys develop drivers that hook into the correct vista QoS APIs even Vista machines will be able to take advantage of it.
It is the in-game "ping", not ICMP. In most games this includes the RTT for traversing the game own network API all the way to the event loop, through the event loop and back.
1. Anything that can interface at a higher API level compared to the normal Winhoze network stack it is likely to reduce application level round trip.
2. The results will be more pronounced on a more loaded system.
3. If you read till the end of the article the NIC is actually an embedded Linux system so you can turn off your winhoze firewall completely and let Linux do the firewalling.
Overall: 3 alone on a heavily loaded system will give seriously improved application response rates and not just for gaming. 2 and 3 can boost that even further and allow applications that are not feasible under windows. F.E. winhoze sucks rotten eggz as far as Layer 3 based HA, anicast and routing and this will allow you to bolt on that on top of a Winhoze application by running a routing protocol stack on the embedded engine. In fact there is a lot of non-gaming potential in this thing.
And how exactly are you going to cross a road toll or a police checkpoint?
This is one of the few possible use of RFID which make sense. Your number plate is out in plain sight anyway, it is also visible at the same or greater distance as the reader range. So there is no privacy implication here. In fact many privately run road toll systems already use this tech and this is simply an extension to cover the entire country.
Compared to the alternatives like Ken Livingston's London CCTV camera recognition and the UK dept of tranport "GPS in every car" scheme this is considerably less privacy invasive and much much cheaper. In fact - I would prefer this to them any day (especially to the GPS in every car idea).
That would have been a fair point if it was not for one well known building on the Thames bank (and its equivalents in most other EU countries) helping Langley to sponsor, consult and establish many of these parallel economies in the first place. The rest were established with significant input from their counterparts located near Moscow's Garden ring road. Very few if any were established without significant foreign assistance.
Unfortunately, once established they run and grow on their own.
So in this case Europe (and at a later date USA) is going to reap what it has sown jointly with the USA. Same as Russia which is already reaping a lot of what it has sown around its borders.
Complete and utter bollocks as far as most of the third world and ex-soviet block is concerned (which are the target market for one laptop per child).
There crime starts at the highest level of society and goes down to the bottom as a parallel economy which is quite often more efficient than the white economy of the western world.
Example 1: During the years of the ex-yugoslavian wars and the embargo on Serbia Bulgarian trains ran like clockwork. I had to meet my significant other every second week and the cross country express was never ever a minute late. Guess why - there were two petrol trains shadowing it. One in front, one in the back. Unmarked. In broad dailyight. Travelling in perfect synchronicity at express speed. Towards Serbia. You think that was run by the lowest levels of sosciety? Give me a break, whoever dunnit had half of the railway management on payroll. And they achieved the impossible - absolute schedule precision on the mainline down to the seconds. As a result the 3 trains showed up as a single train on all systems, documents, everywhere. Hidden in plain sight from the UN inspectors.
Example 2: Recently one of the mafia heads in Bulgaria was about to stand trial for possessing an illegal arms collection (actually only 2 out of 42 weapons in his possession did not have proper documents). Who do you think were his lawyers? The ex-prosecutor general and the ex-minister of internal affairs. Lowest levels of sosciety - my arse...
Situations like the above exist all over the world and USA and Europe with their selfrighteous halfarsed interventions into local conflicts have fed them for years. The Bulgarian and Romanian mafia has fed on the embargo for nearly 8 years. The same Bulgarian mafia together with the Baltic states underworld has fed on channeling surplus ex-Warsaw pact weaponry to Chechnia for nearly 10 years. There were two flights loaded by unmarked trucks from Sofia airport every week to Rostov-na-Don in Russia. None of them has ever arrived with more then 10% cargo in Rostov-na-Don and they for some "unknown" reason requested NOTAMs (notices for airman) for low level altitude winds in Northern Caucasus every time. Fairly obvious where they went. Where did all the training jet aircraft from Poland, Germany, Hungary, etc go in the 90? They were last seen in the Baltic republics being refurbished for combat. After that noone saw them and you know what - I believe the Russians when they say that they destroyed 100+ armed and ready for combat aircraft at Hankala on the first day of the first Chechen war. You call that coming from low levels of society? We are talking government involvment here with fully blown parallel economies and assistance from some well known organisations located in Langley and on the Thames bank.
And that is in Europe - right under our noses. I do not even want to get started about Afrika. Just look at stellar examples of law and order like Nigeria where the anticorruption commission ended up being the front for bribe collections or Swazi or a few others.
IMO, that is a valid approach in hiring on the low end of the salary and skills ladder. I would also add to that "hire a hungry one with a family and a slightly overspending wife (not a lot)". While I do not like the idea, I can see some merit in it. As you say, it no longer makes sense on the high end and I do not understand idiots who apply it. But none the less some idiots do.
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In Nazi germany the definition of a crowd was 5 people. Same in Stalin's (and post-stalin) Soviet Union. That just about says it all.
Treat it as a a commercial system and "port" knowledge from large scale "uniix deployments of old"
Automount - relevant docs can be found in advanced solaris manuals and courses, just translate that into linux terms
NIS/LDAP - once again, no linux books, look to old pre-NIS+ books courses on solaris
So on. You will find it much easier to do this with Debian than with RedHat (at least I have found it to be the case). While RedHat will allow you to configure all kinds of PAM/LDAP stuff even using their tools they are missing a number of things to get a proper large scale network going. For starters RHEL 4+ has a race when automounting smb shares which results in death of the automounter. Debian has it as well, but frankly, putting a new kernel (2.6.13+) on a large debian network is much easier compared to redhat. Everything else aside it does not void your support agreements (as you do not have any in first place).
Overall - it is matter of taste, but up to RHEL4 I have found it much easier to maintain a large debian network "by the book". I do not have enough experience with RWS4 to have an opinion, but my gut feeling is that it still lags behind debian as far as maintaining large networks "by the book" using NIS + LDAP and some heavy automounting (especially when there are windows systems around).
Nope they aren't. Fingerprint is different.
Gmail is not greylisting friendly and quite obviously sends out from a cluster which does not maintain per destination state.
Gmail for your domain maintains state and sends correctly from same relay to same destination overtime.
So while you are correct that google seems to be eating its own dogfood and using its hosted system for corporate mail, it is not Gmail as such. It is the Gmail-for-your-domain which is Gmail only in name for marketing reasons (as any sysadmin who runs a mailserver can tell you looking at his logs).
As far as the content of the article, yep, I know the story. We have a fledging PHB who wants to migrate an existing unix IMAP server with some mailboxes exceeding 5G and 40K mails to an exchange (I will not go why, but human stupidity knows no limits especially when the people weilding it can call it a business driver). It will be a very entertaining one to watch.
Yeast will happily die by itself if the wine is left to reach its natural alcohol level and complete fermentation (speaking this as someone who has brewed himself and has actually worked scientifically with Saccharomices Cerevisia). This means that taste, alcohol content and residual sugar will vary greatly from year to year and some vintages will suck. Australians (and Californians) as well as vineries in other parts of the world owned by them do not allow that as a matter of principle. They are geared to large scale production destined to supermarket shelves and they have to continue delivering the same product year after year. By the way Australians actually now directly or indirectly own large portions of wine production in Europe and force this tech down everyone's throat.
The best example of such intervention is Bulgarian Mavrud. This is a relic grape which has survived the filoxera pandemic and is notorious for producing 4-5 piss vintages useable only for vinegar followed by one year which it produces the "nectar of the gods". Great wine, if you do not mind the really high alcohol content which in some years ran into the 16-17%. A vintage from one of those rare years could stay for 20-40 years in a cellar before starting to oxidise into vinegar without any extra preservatives. And it was a phenomenal wine. Was. Till recently. Now the vineyards which grow it have deployed Australian technology. As a result they produce moderate quality supermarket shelf style rancid horsepiss arrested at 13% which I find utterly undrinkable. It makes a good export to Great Britain though.
I can continue with other similar examples from Spain, Portugal, Italy, etc where Australian tech has been used to make wines "behave". As a result wines that produce 1-2 good or even phenomenal vintages per decade and crap for the rest now produce supermarket quality piss every year. As one of my italian collegues says "Ribena Wine".
The study is Italian. So this means a glass or two of red wine, possibly a small shot of brandy. Less likely, but still possible - a glass of decent beer or a glass of white.
We are definitely not talking about a glass of scotchpiss, budwiserpiss, johnsmithpiss or any other forms of rancid piss served in english speaking bars on either side of the pond.
There are plenty of studies which reach this conclusion - a bit of red whine is actually good for your health. IMO, what they miss is that it has to be real red wine, not Californian or Australian ribenapiss whose fermentation has been arrested with two tons of preservatives. I cannot prove that with a reference an actual study, but there is anecdotal evidence that neither Californian nor Australians have been able to confirm the Italian, Spanish and French studies. Considering the horrid things they do to wine in the so called "New World Vineries" I am not surprised.
You have just described RedHat. No thanks.
I would rather have Debian release schedules, but have all the packages that are in it. Most of the sysadmins out there who deploy debian do it exactly because "Resistance is futile, you shall be packaged" and because "apt-get install light" works 99.99% of the time.
As a result there is a working platform on which to build services and commercial software regardless of what insane libraries your developers have chosen this time. Whatever it is, it can be apt-get installed. In the very rare cases you sometimes have to backport a version from testing, but someone has already solved most of the dependencies for you.
Trying something similar with RedHat quickly brings you into the land of RPM hell. I always love watching sysadmins suffering while trying to support development in a RedHat shop (especially where developers have su/sudo access). It is immensely entertaining to watch the network fall apart and be reduced to a random collection of machines all different from each other and each in its own circle of the RPM hell none being able to produce a release build.
So from the perspective of someone who has been running Debian driven networks for 6+ years and with 5+ years of supporting Debian as a base for commercial development I can say - no thank you, you misunderstood what brings most sysadmins to Debian. It is the best *nix development platform out there.
Did you mean justification of marketing?
The study is performed by a strange sounding outfit nobody has heard about and commissioned by rackspace... That about says it all.
Well... It may the underlying reasons for the good moods, not the good moods themselves.
I noted that my colds have a nearly perfect correlation with the level of tiredness. I used to catch an average of more than one cold a month during the winter in the days when I overworked myself, worked extra hours for a prolonged period without compensating with a day off here or there, took work home and otherwise followed the antisocial behaviour pattern loved by slaver PHBs.
Nowdays, I stay strictly within the "green" zone of sub-40h per week at work and do not overdo the recreational coding. As a result I have less than one cold per 4-6 months. I have observed the same correlation in other people.
Unfortunately many PHBs do not grok the phenomenon. They would rather have their staff staring at the monitor at the height of lemsim stupor while checking in ephedrin driven code that has to be thrown out later anyway. Even the fact that the average productivity in the industry in Europe is in nearly perfect inverse proportion to the overtime put in does not make them stop and think for a second.
Lyx has its own major failings as well.
It is heavily dependant on external converters and if the team decides to change these for licensing or other reasons half of the features break right away. For example when moving from latex2html to hevea half of the image/url related features were lost and I had to go around and fix the damn C++ source to get them working again (debian bugs 344677). 114990 is another example.
In addition to that the people who use it are highly technical which means that UI rough edges do not get fixed years after years and it still looks like an ugly hack.
None the less it is one of the best editor as far as writing technical articles and documentation is concerned.
AFAIK russian constitution does not allow more than 2 presidential terms. While Putin can go the blunt way and alter it, I suspect that he will try a more refined approach and use a puppet instead. Russian politics have a long history of this. Suslov pulled Brezhnev strings from behind the scenes for nearly 20 years. Considering the number of people Putin put in the right places he can do that with ease. 80%+ of the government is from his KGB department.
So while it can be a checkmate right away, it is more likely to be a prolonged Alekhine style combination with quite a few major figures sacrificed on the way (something like the famous game against Fletcher where Alekhin sacrifices a Queen, a rook, a bishop and a few other to finish with a "choke" checkmate).
Bleah... Americanised list. Softy toys for softy boys all of them (except the darts)
As far ast the U238 set, I would say that it was a safe toy compared to my "Junior Chemist" chemistry set which I got when I was 8. The thing had the lot - KMnO4, NaOH, NH3 solution, S, HCl and many other wonderfull things. In reasonable quantities and concentrations (where in solution). The floor of my room kept the scars from some successfull experiments for years to come.
Same for the cannon - it is a joke compared to my neighbout T34 remote controlled battle tank (my parents bluntly refused to buy me one). That thing could shoot plastic rounds circa 5 mm in diameter and move. Both on remote control. Ideal toy for an eight year old and a six year old to chase the family cat. The only advantage the cat had was that the tank while remotely controlled had a manual reload so we had to fetch it after every shell to pull the reload lever. The fun continued until the cat found out that he should attack the person with the remote, not the tank. After that we called a truce.
That is all true especially once you see what P2P is good at.
Once you have discounted the illegal uses it becomes bloody obvious that most P2P uses are nothing but halfbaked emulation of multicast done by people with poor understanding of networking. Node discovery, node promotion to hypernode, sending single request to multiple interested parties are all trivial in a multicast environment. On top of the in a multicast environment the provider can easily enforce and control QoS, administrative boundaries, seed the network with nodes, limit propagation of requests to a network region, etc.
By the way - this is especially valid as far as Generic P2P Vide On Demand and P2P voice like Skype. These are solutions looking for a problem. The problem is currently solely in the fact that idiots in big incumbent telcos in the chase of "build it big" residential access have largely ignored issues like multicast, QoS and the like. The moment they themselves start distributing content they will reconfigure their network to support that and throttle down generic P2P so it does not stand in the way. That will be the moment when the problem will disappear and this will be the moment when P2P multimedia distribution companies will begin to die.
For encryption? No.
Via has a general purpose x86 compatible CPU with encryption acceleration and it can run circles around AMD and Intel combined in AES and RSA benchmarks while eating around 7W of power. In fact its power consumption is so low that I cannot use their motherboard with the monstrous 400W ATX power units shipped these days. It does not drain enough current which results in the board not resetting cleanly. Quite annoying actually (need to look at a refurbished old 150W PS for that). It also has MPEG accel on board and a few other features.
So as a matter of fact both AMD and Intel are late to that party though frankly I also do not think that there is that much food on the party table to eat anyway. If these features were so important Via would have had more than its 1% share of the market (it has a very nice margin on it though).
Not necessarily at least for code (not data access and representation). Depends on the code example and language.
If the target language is sufficiently diverse and expressive the code example can tell you about the way a person thinks at least as much as the interview.
There is no point to ask for code samples in java, python, ruby or smalltalk. Different people asked about the same problem will usually end up with the same implementation sans variable names and minor stillistic differences. That is the reason why these languages are popular nowdays - they allow industrial programming.
Now asking for a code example in perl, c and to a much lesser extent c++ is a completely different story. In these languages there is usually more than 1 way to hang yourself (in perl 5 on the average, in C around 3). As a result the code snippet can actually give you some insight on how the person thinks.
Asking for a data representation and access example and especially online ones (not save/snapshot) is also a completely different ball game. There you have multiple ways of hanging yourself even in otherwise limited choice languages like java and Co. It also gives an insight how a person thinks with regards to scalability, interaction between multiple threads, etc. Example - if a person in an online data representation and access example piles all of their data access in a single thread, locks the access with an exclusive mutex, reads/writes it non-transactionally and the data is passed to other threads via shared data segment - just ask them to turn around and leave. That is just one example. Plenty of others to go around.
Besides Lebanon, Blair had to comply with his obligations to provide "Bush is great, war against terror is great, the world supports Bush" news items for the US midterm. Which he did. And that is all that needs to be said here.
No.
It should make you feel bad for everything Chinese around you.
The primary reason for their extinction is the destruction of their habitat by hydrogigantomaniac projects and pollution, not tuna (which does not live in rivers anyway).
And no worries - this is just the start. At the rate they dump poisonous chemicals in the surrounding seas they will kill quite a few more species in the next 20 years. Every "made in china" item your buy is yet another nail in the coffin of quite a few species including ourselves. Earth is not that big and mercury and dioxines dumped into the yellow sea will end on our table in less then 15 years through fish caught in the pacific.
Frankly, it is high time for Europe and USA to introduce pollution based excise and import duty.
That would have been the case with any BT driver and any BT product but crackberry. The crackberry is usually placed by operators on all-you-can-eat plans which presume only mail access to the crackberry server. The crackberry server eats surprisingly (actually the best word is phenomanally) little bandwidth. 1Kbit average per 20 users is normal. As a result the operators can afford all-you-can-eat without a problem. The moment the users start actively using it for data these assumptions go out of the window.
So, I would not be surprised if the operators demanded the feature and the feature got rolled out quietly. In other words, I would not be surprised if there is a communist hidden in the Bush.
Absolutely.
20 years ago you could produce what was considered commercial quality code for those days and make a living off it with knowledge that was equivalent to 1-1.5 years of university education, sometimes less. Nowdays 4 years of college are not always enough to get you through your first day in the job.
You are describing an old Yugo (real cost 10$), which left the road (hence it flies) while running on rakia-gazoline mix (rakia is local balkan brandy which is often made of garbage, shit and a few other similar ingredients). So the only missing feature is the nag-vigation system. Well, that is easy to achieve. All you need is to put the biosat nag-vigation system you picked up in one of the local mehanas in control of the vehicle. If he/she has drunk as much as local nag-vigation systems can drink, you have achieved that goal as well. The car is definitely going based on user "thinking" to the extent the user is still capable to think after 1 litre or rakia with minimal meze. Voila - not that hard after all. You see them all the time in some countries. In fact dodging them is part of being a driver in these places
It clearly will. Windows sucks it even worse than MicroWhore Winhoze. In fact it sucks bricks through straw sidewise.
1. Windows has no proper routing protocol stack available. There is some rudimentary RIP support somewhere in the deep guts of the RAS functionality, largely unmaintained and tested mostly in the context of announcing host-based routes in a RAS scenario. OSPF, BGP or in fact listening to a lot of RIP and doing something meaningfull with it as well anything else you may need for Layer3 HA - forget it. Note - you can still use clustering and external load-balancers to achieve HA by means different from direct layer 3 usage so to take advantage of this you have to redesign your network.
By using the routing protocol stack on the embedded board and using network HA approaches you can reduce the costs compared to cluster HA. You can also achieve things that are unachievable on a cluster like geographically distributed HA.
2. Microsoft has put a QoS stack in Vista which I have not looked at yet so I cannot really judge its merits. For its older OSes this board can possibly (if it has good timer hardware) allow you to use QoS to police traffic. In fact it is perfectly positioned to do so because the traffic traverses it both directions which would allow you to perform both ingress and egress policying. Windows itself will be able to perform only egress as it is the terminating point. Further to this, in the context of the article gamer systems are too heavily loaded during a game to maintain QoS. This will allow to use QoS even with game in progress.
Quite a few other applications come to mind, but geographically distributed HA based on anicast and QoS are definite possibilities. These are currently impossible on Windows servers (even with 3rd party software) and require using a unix system or a router in front of it.
In addition to that if these guys develop drivers that hook into the correct vista QoS APIs even Vista machines will be able to take advantage of it.
It is the in-game "ping", not ICMP. In most games this includes the RTT for traversing the game own network API all the way to the event loop, through the event loop and back.
1. Anything that can interface at a higher API level compared to the normal Winhoze network stack it is likely to reduce application level round trip.
2. The results will be more pronounced on a more loaded system.
3. If you read till the end of the article the NIC is actually an embedded Linux system so you can turn off your winhoze firewall completely and let Linux do the firewalling.
Overall: 3 alone on a heavily loaded system will give seriously improved application response rates and not just for gaming. 2 and 3 can boost that even further and allow applications that are not feasible under windows. F.E. winhoze sucks rotten eggz as far as Layer 3 based HA, anicast and routing and this will allow you to bolt on that on top of a Winhoze application by running a routing protocol stack on the embedded engine. In fact there is a lot of non-gaming potential in this thing.
And how exactly are you going to cross a road toll or a police checkpoint?
This is one of the few possible use of RFID which make sense. Your number plate is out in plain sight anyway, it is also visible at the same or greater distance as the reader range. So there is no privacy implication here. In fact many privately run road toll systems already use this tech and this is simply an extension to cover the entire country.
Compared to the alternatives like Ken Livingston's London CCTV camera recognition and the UK dept of tranport "GPS in every car" scheme this is considerably less privacy invasive and much much cheaper. In fact - I would prefer this to them any day (especially to the GPS in every car idea).
That would have been a fair point if it was not for one well known building on the Thames bank (and its equivalents in most other EU countries) helping Langley to sponsor, consult and establish many of these parallel economies in the first place. The rest were established with significant input from their counterparts located near Moscow's Garden ring road. Very few if any were established without significant foreign assistance.
Unfortunately, once established they run and grow on their own.
So in this case Europe (and at a later date USA) is going to reap what it has sown jointly with the USA. Same as Russia which is already reaping a lot of what it has sown around its borders.
Complete and utter bollocks as far as most of the third world and ex-soviet block is concerned (which are the target market for one laptop per child).
There crime starts at the highest level of society and goes down to the bottom as a parallel economy which is quite often more efficient than the white economy of the western world.
Example 1: During the years of the ex-yugoslavian wars and the embargo on Serbia Bulgarian trains ran like clockwork. I had to meet my significant other every second week and the cross country express was never ever a minute late. Guess why - there were two petrol trains shadowing it. One in front, one in the back. Unmarked. In broad dailyight. Travelling in perfect synchronicity at express speed. Towards Serbia. You think that was run by the lowest levels of sosciety? Give me a break, whoever dunnit had half of the railway management on payroll. And they achieved the impossible - absolute schedule precision on the mainline down to the seconds. As a result the 3 trains showed up as a single train on all systems, documents, everywhere. Hidden in plain sight from the UN inspectors.
Example 2: Recently one of the mafia heads in Bulgaria was about to stand trial for possessing an illegal arms collection (actually only 2 out of 42 weapons in his possession did not have proper documents). Who do you think were his lawyers? The ex-prosecutor general and the ex-minister of internal affairs. Lowest levels of sosciety - my arse...
Situations like the above exist all over the world and USA and Europe with their selfrighteous halfarsed interventions into local conflicts have fed them for years. The Bulgarian and Romanian mafia has fed on the embargo for nearly 8 years. The same Bulgarian mafia together with the Baltic states underworld has fed on channeling surplus ex-Warsaw pact weaponry to Chechnia for nearly 10 years. There were two flights loaded by unmarked trucks from Sofia airport every week to Rostov-na-Don in Russia. None of them has ever arrived with more then 10% cargo in Rostov-na-Don and they for some "unknown" reason requested NOTAMs (notices for airman) for low level altitude winds in Northern Caucasus every time. Fairly obvious where they went. Where did all the training jet aircraft from Poland, Germany, Hungary, etc go in the 90? They were last seen in the Baltic republics being refurbished for combat. After that noone saw them and you know what - I believe the Russians when they say that they destroyed 100+ armed and ready for combat aircraft at Hankala on the first day of the first Chechen war. You call that coming from low levels of society? We are talking government involvment here with fully blown parallel economies and assistance from some well known organisations located in Langley and on the Thames bank.
And that is in Europe - right under our noses. I do not even want to get started about Afrika. Just look at stellar examples of law and order like Nigeria where the anticorruption commission ended up being the front for bribe collections or Swazi or a few others.
Low level of sosciety... Give me a break...
Yup. That is what I heard.
IMO, that is a valid approach in hiring on the low end of the salary and skills ladder. I would also add to that "hire a hungry one with a family and a slightly overspending wife (not a lot)". While I do not like the idea, I can see some merit in it. As you say, it no longer makes sense on the high end and I do not understand idiots who apply it. But none the less some idiots do.