Actually, the advantage to pressureized pipes is because if somebody cuts in to the pipe to get at the cable, you know just by glancing at a pressure meter.
Filling them with nerve gas would be crazy; it would be damn near impossible to service them in a timely manner. And some idiot with a backhoe could wipe out the entire campus.
(By the way, DVD's really aren't that much better than VHS. Sure they're more portable, and hold some more data, and you can make exact copies, but average video quality is only slightly better. In many cases, it's even worse.)
A VHS widescreen movie, on average, uses 180 lines of resolution. An anamorphically encoded DVD uses the full 480 lines of resolution allowed by NTSC. Yeah, that's hardly better quality right there.
Let alone the 5.1 DD/dts sound, the commentaries, the extras, and all that stuff. Oh, and the fact that a DVD doesn't physically destroy itself with each viewing. Oh, and a DVD will only rarely snap and break your player.
Thanks, I'll have to look into it. The problem is that clients aren't always amenable to having extra network service installed.
Should be perfectly good for internal stuff, though. And some clients.;-)
Yup. Full of shit.
Client: Can you guys do a one time install and configure of Oracle for us?
My Boss: Sure thing. SSM, get to it.
Me: Sure thing, boss. I'm assuming that they've guarenteed that the Internet between there and here will be both fast and stable enough to keep an X session going for the several hours it will take to install and do basic configuration?
Boss: Huh?
Me: *points to docs that say no character mode install*
Boss: AAAARGH!
Clients: AAARGH@
Nobody was happy at the end of the day.
Perhaps. Oracle's 8.1.x installer (fucking Java based installer; can't install over telnet anymore on most systems) tells you system/manager and sys/change-on-install or the like.
But anybody who's used Oracle even once knows about system/manager. Anybody who's used SQL Server knows about 'sa/'. Anybody who's used Windows NT knows Administrator, Guest, IUSR_MACHINENAME. Anybody who's used Linux knows about root, guest, etc etc.
There honestly does need to be criminal liability for this sort of thing. If an armoured truck full of gold bricks were stolen because the driver left the keys in the ignition, or in the sun visor, there'd be hell to pay. Well, default passwords and blatently poor installation should be just as liable.
Of course, the armoured truck driver doesn't have a CEO who's never gotten a driver's license sitting behind him telling him which pedal to push and which way to turn 'that wheel thing' all the time. It's not always the sys admin's fault. And heaven help the admin who's boss knows JUST ENOUGH to get himself in trouble.
I used to work as developer support for a web application development product. This often involved doing work dirctly on a customer's site.
If I had a nickel for every time I asked for the login/password for an e-commerce related database, and it was the admin login with either a null password, or a default, I'd have a shitload of nickels.
And if I also had a nickel for each time the database was installed on a computer completely exposed to the Internet, instead of, say, being installed behind a firewall, with possibly only the database access ports tunneled through (and only accepted from the IP of the web machine), or better yet, having both the web and database machines behind the firewall, and requests to the web machine being forwarded through, well, I'd have an even bigger shitload of nickels.
Picking up SQL Server for Dummies or O'Reilly's Oracle In a Nutshell does NOT an e-commerce ready database make.
Except, of course, for Pentium 3 processor IDs, or pretty much any other processor in existance, especially ones designed to run UNIX or other industrial strength OSs(SPARC, rs/6000, etc) also have ID numbers bolted in. Ever wonder why the command 'hostid' works?
I know that CD Burners put all sorts of information into the TOC. Take any Windows CD-R/CD-RW software; it probably burns in the machine name, the name of the registered owner of the Windows installation, I wouldn't be surprised if it put in a email addy, blah blah blah.
Seriously? Shit. I didn't realize that even the cops accepted the words 'Look at me go, exercising me First Amendment rights' quite so merrily.
In that case, I'd work to get the law struck down on the grounds that it's unenforceable; if that really is the case, than that law doesn't cover anything that either a) isn't illegal anyway and b) isn't covered by any other laws.
Also, I'd try to get statistics on white arrests vs black arrests. Then, go to court, and request a change of venue to get the case heard somewhere else. After all, the judges aren't going to like being accused of racisim.
Bearing in mind that I am not a lawyer, and I'm not as sauve as Raymond Burr, who played Perry Mason (and the obligatory acronym: IANASARBWPPM)
Or better yet, the bits about the 'errands for parents.'
(cop) Hey, kid! What are you doing out so late!
(you) Running an errand for my folks, officer, as the law allows.
(cop) Coming out of a movie theater? Bullshit. You're under arrest.
(you) But look at this note!
(note) "To whom it may concern: Little Johnny is hereby sent to watch the movie of his choosing, then summerize the plot to myself and my husband, who will then decide if we should go see it ourselves. Signed, The Parents of Little Johnny"
(you) *big ass grin*
(cop) Why you LITTLE.....*whack whack whack*
*later that night*
(cop) So then, sarge, the little fucker whips out this obviously forged note from his "parents" saying...
(mother and father) *rushing into the station* What the hell's going on here?! We sent little Johnny to see a movie, and tell us what it's about, and you fuckers arrest him? Against your own goddamn law? I hope your civil lawsuit fund is NICE and BIG, because we're retiring off you bastards!
(sarge) Cop, step in back with me a minute.
*sound of a pistol rack being slid*
*BANG!*
You get my point. 'Errand for a Parent' has such a broad perview.....
Finally, the ordinance does not affect minors who are "exercising First Amendment rights protected by the United States Constitution, such as the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech and the right of assembly." Id. 177(b)(8).
Does that not mean that if you're hagning with some adults, say, discussing politics, and some cop comes and orders you to go home, this law just violated your right to free assembly?
You might consider making a situation like that happen, so as to have something in court to point to directly.
We threw a linux port of some Solaris stuff to a bunch of Russians living in Taiwan (or was it Singapore?)
Not only did the code come back buggy as hell, but to my knowledge, they kept it for their own use. Oh, and they had the gall to call us in the tech support department and complain about bugs that they'd written.
Yeah, I know. But the concept of set price is inherently flawed. A book does not have an absolute value. Amazon is now experimenting with that concept, it looks like.
Lets just hope they do it in the correct direction....
Considering that 'h4x0ring' up one of these credit cards would involve inserting records into AmEx's bit ole database, I don't think it's going to happen too quickly.
Exactly. I make 60 grand Canadian a year, and I support a wife and two kids with that. However, I live in Toronto. If I lived ANYWHERE ELSE in Canada, with the possible exception of Vancouver, I'd be considered upper class. In Toronto, I'm considered 'just above the poverty line.'
If it takes four of these chips to beat a GF2 ultra then it must be a pretty crappy chip
Ummm...wow. That's ummm...wow.
Heaven forbid that somebody build a scalable, basically object-oriented hardware solution. Yeah, designing a chip so that you can just keep adding more and more and more to increase performance is pretty crappy. Boy oh boy, I'd hate to have the rest of my computer do that. Like those 'crappy' SMP motherboards. Boy, the chips must suck if you have to have more than one. Or RAM. I tell you, if you have more than one SIMM/DIMM, you must really really suck.
Sadly, I've exceeded my ignorance tolerence for the day. I will now have to hide in a bozon proof room until tomorrow, lest I build up lethal levels.
If visual quality is what you're looking for, the V6000 must blow you away with it's 4x anti-aliasing.
My dreamcast only kicks a faction of the polygons a PS2 is going to, but the DC antialiases, and that makes it look much much better.:-)
What other hardware does Linux run on? Lets see. PowerPC. Motorola 68K. Sun SPARC, UltraSPARC, and so on. MIPS, Alpha, VAXen, blah blah blah. IBM's big iron, like AS/400s and S/390s. All sorts of smaller bits, like ARM, StrongARM, hell, Commodore 64, 3Coms, Palm computing stuff, etc etc.
Now. What other hardware does NT5 run on? None. NT 3 ran on Intel, PowerPC, Alpha and MIPS. NT4 dropped, I think, MIPS, then PowerPC. NT5, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't run on Alphas.
Intel hardware was designed to be desktop PC grade, and later had Server level bits bolted on. That's fine, but it's still a single point of failure if you're running a lot of different services on a box. Something to think about.
See, now that's one of the great fallacies of Linux. Here's why.
Linux primarily runs on Intel hardware. Intel hardware is not designed for fault tolerence. Pretty much nothing on it is properly hot-swappable.
I'm not worried about Linux rolling over, that's not the issue. It's the hardware.
Big Iron UNIX boxes, on the other hand, ARE properly hot-swappable. The really good ones even let you yank a processor.
Running everything on one box, is fine, until a SIMM fries. Sure, it might be 10 minutes downtime, while you power down, yank it, put in a new one, and reboot. But that's still twice your 99.999 percent uptime target.:-)
IOW, with x86 Linux, it's not the software I fear, but the hardware.
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Actually, the advantage to pressureized pipes is because if somebody cuts in to the pipe to get at the cable, you know just by glancing at a pressure meter. Filling them with nerve gas would be crazy; it would be damn near impossible to service them in a timely manner. And some idiot with a backhoe could wipe out the entire campus.
Get a better player, then, and make sure that you're not mistaking NTSC artifacts or anamorphic downconversion artifacts for MPEG artifacts.
Thanks, I'll have to look into it. The problem is that clients aren't always amenable to having extra network service installed. Should be perfectly good for internal stuff, though. And some clients. ;-)
Yup. Full of shit. Client: Can you guys do a one time install and configure of Oracle for us? My Boss: Sure thing. SSM, get to it.
Me: Sure thing, boss. I'm assuming that they've guarenteed that the Internet between there and here will be both fast and stable enough to keep an X session going for the several hours it will take to install and do basic configuration?
Boss: Huh?
Me: *points to docs that say no character mode install*
Boss: AAAARGH!
Clients: AAARGH@
Nobody was happy at the end of the day.
Perhaps. Oracle's 8.1.x installer (fucking Java based installer; can't install over telnet anymore on most systems) tells you system/manager and sys/change-on-install or the like. But anybody who's used Oracle even once knows about system/manager. Anybody who's used SQL Server knows about 'sa/'. Anybody who's used Windows NT knows Administrator, Guest, IUSR_MACHINENAME. Anybody who's used Linux knows about root, guest, etc etc. There honestly does need to be criminal liability for this sort of thing. If an armoured truck full of gold bricks were stolen because the driver left the keys in the ignition, or in the sun visor, there'd be hell to pay. Well, default passwords and blatently poor installation should be just as liable. Of course, the armoured truck driver doesn't have a CEO who's never gotten a driver's license sitting behind him telling him which pedal to push and which way to turn 'that wheel thing' all the time. It's not always the sys admin's fault. And heaven help the admin who's boss knows JUST ENOUGH to get himself in trouble.
I used to work as developer support for a web application development product. This often involved doing work dirctly on a customer's site. If I had a nickel for every time I asked for the login/password for an e-commerce related database, and it was the admin login with either a null password, or a default, I'd have a shitload of nickels. And if I also had a nickel for each time the database was installed on a computer completely exposed to the Internet, instead of, say, being installed behind a firewall, with possibly only the database access ports tunneled through (and only accepted from the IP of the web machine), or better yet, having both the web and database machines behind the firewall, and requests to the web machine being forwarded through, well, I'd have an even bigger shitload of nickels. Picking up SQL Server for Dummies or O'Reilly's Oracle In a Nutshell does NOT an e-commerce ready database make.
's not the software, it's the hardware itself. The burner itself will embed as much identifying information as it can find.
Except, of course, for Pentium 3 processor IDs, or pretty much any other processor in existance, especially ones designed to run UNIX or other industrial strength OSs(SPARC, rs/6000, etc) also have ID numbers bolted in. Ever wonder why the command 'hostid' works?
I know that CD Burners put all sorts of information into the TOC. Take any Windows CD-R/CD-RW software; it probably burns in the machine name, the name of the registered owner of the Windows installation, I wouldn't be surprised if it put in a email addy, blah blah blah.
Seriously? Shit. I didn't realize that even the cops accepted the words 'Look at me go, exercising me First Amendment rights' quite so merrily. In that case, I'd work to get the law struck down on the grounds that it's unenforceable; if that really is the case, than that law doesn't cover anything that either a) isn't illegal anyway and b) isn't covered by any other laws. Also, I'd try to get statistics on white arrests vs black arrests. Then, go to court, and request a change of venue to get the case heard somewhere else. After all, the judges aren't going to like being accused of racisim. Bearing in mind that I am not a lawyer, and I'm not as sauve as Raymond Burr, who played Perry Mason (and the obligatory acronym: IANASARBWPPM)
Or better yet, the bits about the 'errands for parents.' (cop) Hey, kid! What are you doing out so late! (you) Running an errand for my folks, officer, as the law allows. (cop) Coming out of a movie theater? Bullshit. You're under arrest. (you) But look at this note! (note) "To whom it may concern: Little Johnny is hereby sent to watch the movie of his choosing, then summerize the plot to myself and my husband, who will then decide if we should go see it ourselves. Signed, The Parents of Little Johnny" (you) *big ass grin* (cop) Why you LITTLE.....*whack whack whack* *later that night* (cop) So then, sarge, the little fucker whips out this obviously forged note from his "parents" saying... (mother and father) *rushing into the station* What the hell's going on here?! We sent little Johnny to see a movie, and tell us what it's about, and you fuckers arrest him? Against your own goddamn law? I hope your civil lawsuit fund is NICE and BIG, because we're retiring off you bastards! (sarge) Cop, step in back with me a minute. *sound of a pistol rack being slid* *BANG!* You get my point. 'Errand for a Parent' has such a broad perview.....
We threw a linux port of some Solaris stuff to a bunch of Russians living in Taiwan (or was it Singapore?) Not only did the code come back buggy as hell, but to my knowledge, they kept it for their own use. Oh, and they had the gall to call us in the tech support department and complain about bugs that they'd written.
Yeah, I know. But the concept of set price is inherently flawed. A book does not have an absolute value. Amazon is now experimenting with that concept, it looks like. Lets just hope they do it in the correct direction....
Considering that 'h4x0ring' up one of these credit cards would involve inserting records into AmEx's bit ole database, I don't think it's going to happen too quickly.
Exactly. I make 60 grand Canadian a year, and I support a wife and two kids with that. However, I live in Toronto. If I lived ANYWHERE ELSE in Canada, with the possible exception of Vancouver, I'd be considered upper class. In Toronto, I'm considered 'just above the poverty line.'
Very few trading cultures actually have a concept of 'set price.' Most of them are entirely haggling/bargining based.
If visual quality is what you're looking for, the V6000 must blow you away with it's 4x anti-aliasing. My dreamcast only kicks a faction of the polygons a PS2 is going to, but the DC antialiases, and that makes it look much much better. :-)
Go read a book on programming Windows without using API calls.
What other hardware does Linux run on? Lets see. PowerPC. Motorola 68K. Sun SPARC, UltraSPARC, and so on. MIPS, Alpha, VAXen, blah blah blah. IBM's big iron, like AS/400s and S/390s. All sorts of smaller bits, like ARM, StrongARM, hell, Commodore 64, 3Coms, Palm computing stuff, etc etc. Now. What other hardware does NT5 run on? None. NT 3 ran on Intel, PowerPC, Alpha and MIPS. NT4 dropped, I think, MIPS, then PowerPC. NT5, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't run on Alphas. Intel hardware was designed to be desktop PC grade, and later had Server level bits bolted on. That's fine, but it's still a single point of failure if you're running a lot of different services on a box. Something to think about.
Now yank the card and stick it in a different slot.
Windows is NOT an object oriented OS. It's written in C. COM is a disgusting HACK. JavaBeans are a wee bit cooler.
See, now that's one of the great fallacies of Linux. Here's why. Linux primarily runs on Intel hardware. Intel hardware is not designed for fault tolerence. Pretty much nothing on it is properly hot-swappable. I'm not worried about Linux rolling over, that's not the issue. It's the hardware. Big Iron UNIX boxes, on the other hand, ARE properly hot-swappable. The really good ones even let you yank a processor. Running everything on one box, is fine, until a SIMM fries. Sure, it might be 10 minutes downtime, while you power down, yank it, put in a new one, and reboot. But that's still twice your 99.999 percent uptime target. :-)
IOW, with x86 Linux, it's not the software I fear, but the hardware.