Screwed? Oh please. If you're using some weird software that depends on some nonstandard behavior in the Sunoracle JVM then you deserve to have to support that with a custom JVM installation on your system. There are worse things in the life of a sysadmin. Cry me a river.
You're confused. OpenJDK is the OEM pump in Ubuntu. Sun java is the aftermarket optional part which isn't an available option on ubuntu cars anymore. (Though you can still do it yourself.)
Exactly! You already replaced your car's stock water pump with some aftermarket thing, now that's not working out so well for you. So do the right thing and replace that aftermarket water pump with an OEM part like the car came with.
Ubuntu uses OpenJDK Java by default. Users have for years had the option to switch out the default OpenJDK Java for an alternative package in the 3rd party repository which is Sun Java. That alternative is being removed. In fact, it has never been available in the latest Oneiric 11.10 release of ubuntu. In the latest release OpenJDK is the default & the only java available from the package repos.
Most people use OpenJDK on Ubuntu and for them this news means nothing.
If you're using an older release (11.04 or earlier) and you have sun-java installed, simply remove the package & install default-jdk. problem solved.
RSnapshot uses a clever blend of rsync + hard links to do what you want... you can store many incremental backups in just a little more space than a full backup. you can run rsnapshot on a backup server with lots of disk space, and all you need to expose on your target machines is SSH.
you'd create "backup" users on all the target hosts, generate a PKI key pair, and put the private key on your backup server. put the public key in the "backup" account on each target machine so the backup server can securely login without a password. then you just set up rsnapshot to log into your targets and it will use rsync-over-ssh to pull the data.
Isn't Time-Warner the single biggest member of both the MPAA and the RIAA? Why would anyone listen to their obviously biased opinion on this matter? The article is full of misinformation, fear, uncertainty, and doubt: just the kind of sensationalism we love here at slashdot.
First, consider the comparison made at the outset to describe the difference in scale between a home router and a CRS-3. Rather than using a neutral example, like car horsepower, an example is given which puts none other than the vicious T. Rex dinosaur in the position of the CRS-3. What is more understandable to the reader, the big violent dinosaur or the car with 1,000,000 horsepower? Of course both are equally understandable, but they give drastically different impressions.
"As it turns out, these megarouters sitting inside data centers of major telcos and cablecos are among the biggest bottlenecks of the Internet, because as bandwidth speed to end users has shot up in recent years, router technology has not kept up, resulting in traffic jams that can slow or freeze downloads."
You know you can trust TIME Magazine to report on the state of the art in core Internet statistical measurements. Need I say more? These bozos have the audacity to make such a bold claim, without even a hint of statistical data, without attribution to an outside study, without a quote by a recognized expert or even an industry insider. Am I supposed to take author Erik Heinrich's word for it? He's the guy who compares routers to geckos and T. Rexes!
The real story here should be Time-Warner's blatant use of the TIME publication to further it's corporate overlord agenda in collusion with the other members of the Big Media cartel. We'll see much more of this coming from all the usual suspects as we get nearer to a vote on ACTA.
Get a dedicated server running the latest centos or ubuntu server release. Use Xen to run your various applications in dedicated virtual machines. You can encrypt entire domains in a number of ways both internal and external. A dedicated test domain can be set up for your hosting provider to access, etc.
The world already has a microsoft and an apple! What more could it need but a reliable operating system? Linux solves a problem that Linus once had. As long as Linux continues to provide protection against that problem for SOMEONE (Linus or anyone else) it will remain a novel alternative to the offerings of proprietary vendors. There is no future for a fork of Linux aimed toward competing with proprietary vendors. Linux exists on an anthropic foundation. It exists because it is necessitated by the history which produced it. Linux is a rigorous statement of common and academic knowledge. How can any proprietary system really compete with that? There is a need for competition in the proprietary operating system market, all markets. Linux is free, so the notion of competing in a market does not apply! In those areas where Linux is not completely free, it is guaranteed to be open -- to competition from all markets. Thus the nature of Linux is not to compete in a market, but rather to coexist with all markets.
questions regarding the nature of the internet can be answered by expounding on the following thesis:
the Internet is a set of communications protocols (how) and peering agreements (what, where) for transferring information (why) across various private networks (who). all of the time.
Once most people have enough speed to do most of the things they want to do, the broadband providers will have to compete on things like ping times, SLA-type guarantees, and minimum hops. That is not a good market for the broadband providers to compete in as those are all much more expensive than raw MB/s. 100 MB/s is nice but not if it only works 70% of the time. I'd prever 70 MB/s all of the time but that would cost about 10000 times as much.
I really got you good. I bet you didnt even finish reading the post. Besides, if you recognize my (intentionally) bad grammar, you should agree with what I'm saying about roughly drafted.
How the hell does this make it onto the slashdot front page? It is not news for nerds, and it is not stuff that matters. The only reason it belongs on slashdot is as an example of a site with consistently worse grammer than slashdot more run on sentences and even sillier illustrations for its content that is poorly written anyway. After reading the article i do not think that I have been meaningfully educated on How FairPlay works -- nor do i believe that the author has presented a dilemma. As the web site name seems to imply, the author of roughlydrafted.com seems to take pride in his inability to write a clear essay or argument. Instead, like a rough draft, the content strays from topic and exudes a sense of being said from the gut, without reflection or contemplation. Yes, it sounds like the incoherent babel of a small child who wants to sound like the grown ups.
These are the best portable headphones i've ever used. They're not active noise cancelling, because they're so damn good they dont need to be. Put them in and be amazed. I used them extensively in a large (and very loud) server room and was very VERY impressed with their noise cancelling abilities.
He holds the Lucasian Chair. Isaac Newton was a previous holder of this chair, but it was not motorized back then. It is of course named for the benefactor of the chair, George Lucas.
Don't feel obligated to teach them anything like what people use in the "real world." At that level you should help them to construct virtual machines and use them to solve trivial problems. By virtual machine, i mean simply the conceptual machinery that is required to understand all programming languages. Understanding the type/token distinction is essential to understanding all programming languages. I would suggest avoiding functional languages like Lisp-derivatives because they assume that the programmer already understands the difference between code and data. At the primary level procedural languages are best. BASIC is always good because of its easy to read syntax and simple virtual machine. I've always thought that a quick intro to the sentential calculus would have been a boon for my computer programming education if anyone had taught it to me at that time in my life. It is perhaps the simplest virtual machine wherein the type/token distinction becomes apparent.
How is this not just a publicity stunt? If they have so many artists, they should start their own label. What can a couple more complaining voices do? The RIAA is within their rights under law. Even if their complaints are well received, what changes do they expect? I doubt the music industry going to say "oh, i see, we shouldn't do that stuff." Perhaps the solution lies in creating a new distribution system -- one not controlled by the current dominators.
No matter how "easy" you make something, people will inevitably figure out a way to not have to do it. As has been pointed out by other posters, there's a certain capacity for programming that the "great programmers" seem to have but the wannabes don't. So what if more people begin to use application scripting or visual markup languages? Who cares?
There's some special characteristic of natural languages that make them more expressive than the artificial formal languages used in science. Although the natural language is more expressive, it also allows for ambiguity, which programming languages do not. I believe that in order to be a competant programmer one must be able to think and reason formally in one's own natural language. Many speakers of English I have met who claim to be "hackers" can not even write a program in English. The idea that, in a dialogue between two people, one can beg for understanding with a phrase like "oh, you know what I mean," does not fly when your interlocutor is a machine. This simple fact alone is enough to frustrate all but the most determined computer programmer, regardless of the task at hand.
Anyone can learn to program, but it takes a lot of hard work, and it helps to start when you're young. You don't even need to know a "programming language" to be a programmer, you just need to know how to write a program, especially in your natural language. Learning the syntactic translation from your natural language into programming-language-X is like learning how to set the microwave timer. Learning how to cook food is a lifetime pursuit for most people, but it can be done in a matter of months or years with a little bit of talent or effort. Once you know how to cook food, learning how to set the stupid little timer on your microwave is a piece of cake.
And another thing, also already mentioned in other posts... What the hell is up with the buzzword bonanza in that article? Some of the more buzzword heavy sentences don't even make sense to me. Could that be a bit of irony? As if to say "yeah, even the author of this horribly written article could be a programmer".
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Check out these time-lapse cameras for nature recording. Seems like just the thing for you...
http://www.wingscapes.com/catalog.aspx
There's so much to do at Burning Man. Don't read a book, go volunteer at the post office or get into some crazy shit.
Screwed? Oh please. If you're using some weird software that depends on some nonstandard behavior in the Sunoracle JVM then you deserve to have to support that with a custom JVM installation on your system. There are worse things in the life of a sysadmin. Cry me a river.
You're confused. OpenJDK is the OEM pump in Ubuntu. Sun java is the aftermarket optional part which isn't an available option on ubuntu cars anymore. (Though you can still do it yourself.)
Exactly! You already replaced your car's stock water pump with some aftermarket thing, now that's not working out so well for you. So do the right thing and replace that aftermarket water pump with an OEM part like the car came with.
Ubuntu uses OpenJDK Java by default. Users have for years had the option to switch out the default OpenJDK Java for an alternative package in the 3rd party repository which is Sun Java. That alternative is being removed. In fact, it has never been available in the latest Oneiric 11.10 release of ubuntu. In the latest release OpenJDK is the default & the only java available from the package repos.
Most people use OpenJDK on Ubuntu and for them this news means nothing.
If you're using an older release (11.04 or earlier) and you have sun-java installed, simply remove the package & install default-jdk. problem solved.
Is this a sponsored post? It's a damn ad for vmware. This is NOT news for nerds, and it is certainly NOT stuff that matters.
Rob must have been the only thing keeping slashdot from completely selling out.
RSnapshot uses a clever blend of rsync + hard links to do what you want... you can store many incremental backups in just a little more space than a full backup. you can run rsnapshot on a backup server with lots of disk space, and all you need to expose on your target machines is SSH.
you'd create "backup" users on all the target hosts, generate a PKI key pair, and put the private key on your backup server. put the public key in the "backup" account on each target machine so the backup server can securely login without a password. then you just set up rsnapshot to log into your targets and it will use rsync-over-ssh to pull the data.
http://rsnapshot.org/
Isn't Time-Warner the single biggest member of both the MPAA and the RIAA? Why would anyone listen to their obviously biased opinion on this matter? The article is full of misinformation, fear, uncertainty, and doubt: just the kind of sensationalism we love here at slashdot.
First, consider the comparison made at the outset to describe the difference in scale between a home router and a CRS-3. Rather than using a neutral example, like car horsepower, an example is given which puts none other than the vicious T. Rex dinosaur in the position of the CRS-3. What is more understandable to the reader, the big violent dinosaur or the car with 1,000,000 horsepower? Of course both are equally understandable, but they give drastically different impressions.
"As it turns out, these megarouters sitting inside data centers of major telcos and cablecos are among the biggest bottlenecks of the Internet, because as bandwidth speed to end users has shot up in recent years, router technology has not kept up, resulting in traffic jams that can slow or freeze downloads."
You know you can trust TIME Magazine to report on the state of the art in core Internet statistical measurements. Need I say more? These bozos have the audacity to make such a bold claim, without even a hint of statistical data, without attribution to an outside study, without a quote by a recognized expert or even an industry insider. Am I supposed to take author Erik Heinrich's word for it? He's the guy who compares routers to geckos and T. Rexes!
The real story here should be Time-Warner's blatant use of the TIME publication to further it's corporate overlord agenda in collusion with the other members of the Big Media cartel. We'll see much more of this coming from all the usual suspects as we get nearer to a vote on ACTA.
Get a dedicated server running the latest centos or ubuntu server release. Use Xen to run your various applications in dedicated virtual machines. You can encrypt entire domains in a number of ways both internal and external. A dedicated test domain can be set up for your hosting provider to access, etc.
The pythagoreans identify nicely with Mathematica.
There's no flash on the iPhone.
The world already has a microsoft and an apple! What more could it need but a reliable operating system? Linux solves a problem that Linus once had. As long as Linux continues to provide protection against that problem for SOMEONE (Linus or anyone else) it will remain a novel alternative to the offerings of proprietary vendors. There is no future for a fork of Linux aimed toward competing with proprietary vendors. Linux exists on an anthropic foundation. It exists because it is necessitated by the history which produced it. Linux is a rigorous statement of common and academic knowledge. How can any proprietary system really compete with that? There is a need for competition in the proprietary operating system market, all markets. Linux is free, so the notion of competing in a market does not apply! In those areas where Linux is not completely free, it is guaranteed to be open -- to competition from all markets. Thus the nature of Linux is not to compete in a market, but rather to coexist with all markets.
questions regarding the nature of the internet can be answered by expounding on the following thesis:
the Internet is a set of communications protocols (how) and peering agreements (what, where) for transferring information (why) across various private networks (who). all of the time.
Once most people have enough speed to do most of the things they want to do, the broadband providers will have to compete on things like ping times, SLA-type guarantees, and minimum hops. That is not a good market for the broadband providers to compete in as those are all much more expensive than raw MB/s. 100 MB/s is nice but not if it only works 70% of the time. I'd prever 70 MB/s all of the time but that would cost about 10000 times as much.
I really got you good. I bet you didnt even finish reading the post. Besides, if you recognize my (intentionally) bad grammar, you should agree with what I'm saying about roughly drafted.
How the hell does this make it onto the slashdot front page? It is not news for nerds, and it is not stuff that matters. The only reason it belongs on slashdot is as an example of a site with consistently worse grammer than slashdot more run on sentences and even sillier illustrations for its content that is poorly written anyway. After reading the article i do not think that I have been meaningfully educated on How FairPlay works -- nor do i believe that the author has presented a dilemma. As the web site name seems to imply, the author of roughlydrafted.com seems to take pride in his inability to write a clear essay or argument. Instead, like a rough draft, the content strays from topic and exudes a sense of being said from the gut, without reflection or contemplation. Yes, it sounds like the incoherent babel of a small child who wants to sound like the grown ups.
ARAM is of course still fastest. However it's good to see DRAM get some distance from the horribly slow FRAM and GRAM.
...is coming. Time to dust off the Max Headroom DVDs.
These are the best portable headphones i've ever used. They're not active noise cancelling, because they're so damn good they dont need to be. Put them in and be amazed. I used them extensively in a large (and very loud) server room and was very VERY impressed with their noise cancelling abilities.
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http://www.shure.com/PersonalAudio/Products/Earph
He holds the Lucasian Chair. Isaac Newton was a previous holder of this chair, but it was not motorized back then. It is of course named for the benefactor of the chair, George Lucas.
Don't feel obligated to teach them anything like what people use in the "real world." At that level you should help them to construct virtual machines and use them to solve trivial problems. By virtual machine, i mean simply the conceptual machinery that is required to understand all programming languages. Understanding the type/token distinction is essential to understanding all programming languages. I would suggest avoiding functional languages like Lisp-derivatives because they assume that the programmer already understands the difference between code and data. At the primary level procedural languages are best. BASIC is always good because of its easy to read syntax and simple virtual machine. I've always thought that a quick intro to the sentential calculus would have been a boon for my computer programming education if anyone had taught it to me at that time in my life. It is perhaps the simplest virtual machine wherein the type/token distinction becomes apparent.
Those normal, everyday users are not expected to be computer literate! The question was "what is computer literacy?"
How is this not just a publicity stunt? If they have so many artists, they should start their own label. What can a couple more complaining voices do? The RIAA is within their rights under law. Even if their complaints are well received, what changes do they expect? I doubt the music industry going to say "oh, i see, we shouldn't do that stuff." Perhaps the solution lies in creating a new distribution system -- one not controlled by the current dominators.
No matter how "easy" you make something, people will inevitably figure out a way to not have to do it. As has been pointed out by other posters, there's a certain capacity for programming that the "great programmers" seem to have but the wannabes don't. So what if more people begin to use application scripting or visual markup languages? Who cares?
There's some special characteristic of natural languages that make them more expressive than the artificial formal languages used in science. Although the natural language is more expressive, it also allows for ambiguity, which programming languages do not. I believe that in order to be a competant programmer one must be able to think and reason formally in one's own natural language. Many speakers of English I have met who claim to be "hackers" can not even write a program in English. The idea that, in a dialogue between two people, one can beg for understanding with a phrase like "oh, you know what I mean," does not fly when your interlocutor is a machine. This simple fact alone is enough to frustrate all but the most determined computer programmer, regardless of the task at hand.
Anyone can learn to program, but it takes a lot of hard work, and it helps to start when you're young. You don't even need to know a "programming language" to be a programmer, you just need to know how to write a program, especially in your natural language. Learning the syntactic translation from your natural language into programming-language-X is like learning how to set the microwave timer. Learning how to cook food is a lifetime pursuit for most people, but it can be done in a matter of months or years with a little bit of talent or effort. Once you know how to cook food, learning how to set the stupid little timer on your microwave is a piece of cake.
And another thing, also already mentioned in other posts... What the hell is up with the buzzword bonanza in that article? Some of the more buzzword heavy sentences don't even make sense to me. Could that be a bit of irony? As if to say "yeah, even the author of this horribly written article could be a programmer".