I'd like to see someone steel a rack of DB servers and the wall of EMC arrays (speculation, but highly likely) from a casino. Even that is too big for an insider.
As an added benefit, the birth rate will be reduced in areas using the cheap boxes. Anthropogists noticed that when pirated satellite feeds became available to villages (one person would be the dish, and run cable to the whole neighborhood for a small fee), the birth rate dropped dramatically. The reason? Men were up late watching porn instead of keeping the wife "busy". The men turned to self gratification instead.
Maybe not VC funds, but you could have sold banner ads at the top for $1,400/month, and made enough money before the ad price crash to seed a real startup.
You have a good point, but I have to point this out. When you use the full 1500 watts (or whatever your Honda is rated at) you will consume that $10 in gas much more quickly. You increase the resistence in the generator coils, and depending on the generator design, you increase the engine speed too. Most likeley, it slows the engine speed down a bit, and makes the governor open the throttle a bit wider to keep it at the optimal engine speed. Basically, the energy wasted with no load is the minimum idle speed overhead, which big power plants rarely have to worry about. At that idle speed there is some electricity available, probably stored in capacitors and transformers, and the excess is disappated as heat once their capacity is exceeded.
For example, what would happen if someone were to steal MGM Mirage's database and post it on the net? Immediately millions of people's names and addresses would be available next to their estimated personal income, and potentially "interesting" information such as when they're likely to go on holiday.
Assuming a best case scenario on a dedicated T1:
ftp.m1ragehax0r.net userdb.sql 6.5970698E12 bytes completed in 397 days 16:22:18.368 @192.000KB/s
If my insurance company knows this information, then both the issuing banks and the grocery stores would immediately be subjected to a civil suit. Why? Because I actually read the privacy policies before I sign the dotted line, which indicate that they cannot submit this type of information to any third party without my consent. They can sell my name and address (well not anymore, I opted out in writing) but unless I give written permission and I am contacted by the party collecting the data beforehand, they cannot share my grocery list to my PPO.
It is hard to imagine any place in the world where police are loved by all. It is good to have them around, as long as they are working in your favor. Enter a scandal, harassment, etc. and they quickly become the enemy (not to mention if you're a criminal or speeder).
There are also the issues of retention and motivation. An employee who feels like the company values his/her contributions, and rewards his/her contributions accordingly, is an employee who will be dedicated to the employeer, and far less likely to move on to another job. If an employee feels like he/she is just there to make a pay check, with little or no potential for growth or influence is the employee who is going to job hop for even a small raise.
The chancellor of my alma mater was asked just before he retired a couple of years ago how it was that he was able to move the university to the top 20 and keep it there during his tenure. His response was that by giving a total compensation package just above the standard, you could attract and retain the best and most dedicated talent to your faculty and staff.
Very true. In 1991 the update ability for DOS/Windows was to reboot with floppy 1 (out of 4-6 depending on the DOS version) and esentially reinstall. Then you had to update the "version tables" with ver to get the DOS 3.3 or 5.0 binaries to run with DOS 5.x or 6.x. It was a pain, and most users never figured it out. No wonder Macs had a bigger market share back then.
It not only fetches dependencies, but it has the ability to compile everything for you, including the dependencies. That is usefull since binaries are usually first released on Alpha and Intel, while other (espeically slower) architectures are slower to receive the latest binaries.
My company is a small (25 employees, I'm the only full time tech staff member), so tuition reimbursment is not currently an option. However, we do have the opportunity to go to seminars (locally or out of town) to learn or fine tune skills directly related to our job duties. For example, we sent a web content manager to Boston for a two-day Flash class, and she liked it so much, we flew the teacher in to teach five of our artists. Several of my coworkers just finished graduate degrees, and were given minimal schedule flexability and no compensation.
Managers, pay attention: One of those people already left the company, and the other is looking for new work. In fact, several people who are considering graduate programs are considering leaving the company, and another long-time employee left so she could pursue an MBA while working and being reimbursed. This may not apply in all cases, but it seems to have a big affect on employee retention here (that's at least 20% annual turnover related to education alone, although probably an extreme case).
Success is in fact useful, not only for the reason you mention. I find it quite usefull, especially when installing new kernels on fringe hardware (say a new G4 PPC). It is good to see that the usb driver loaded and detected a OHCI hub with xyz device connected. And when the new kernel doesn't work at boot, you don't always get usefull error messages. But with success messages, you can tell what IS working, and usually figure out what caused the freeze. I wouldn't mind having a progress bar or status indicator like others mentioned, as long as I can still get the same basic information from my boot logs.
Do you plan to market Linux as an enterprise workstation replacement? Specifically, I wonder if you plan to market Linux desktops for replacements for Windows 9x/NT/2000 workstations, and how you plan to market them.
I really pity people who buy their PCs from name-brand manufacturers as opposed to screwdriver shops. I really do.
I always build my computers too, even workstations for work. I used to buy work computers from "screwdriver shops", but there is too much instability. It is really because so many people prefer to buy from a big company. They seek saftey in numbers.
Exactly. The fact was, you could purchase a Socket A motherboard and Thunderbird processor for a few hundred dollars. An Alpha mohterboard/CPU combo with a 25% slower clock rate (which is roughly 50% faster) would cost about $1,000. Add to that the need for more expensive RAM and your total system cost is going to be over 100% more. For large businesses, this wasn't always a problem, but it was for smaller users and home users. Add the loss of NT, and most consultants stopped recommending Alpha systems, since they either wanted to stick with NT on Intel or Solaris. Tru-64 was fabulous, but just didn't have the widespread support to hold up the architecture.
Oh well, maybe this means there will be some closeouts on Alpha boxes soon.
With some caching techniques, or for less dynamic files, background processing (e.g. a perl script making a static file that is updated periodically), you could maximize the speed boost. And yes, running PHP as a CGI is going to be much slower on any web server most likely.
If it supports cgi, it supports PHP as a CGI script. Applications should support databases, not the web server itself. I don't know about MOD_SLL, but if you read the article you might have seen that it says, "Tux's main weakness is that it doesn't support Secure Sockets Layer traffic, a feature planned for a future version."
This article make several fallacies. First, it assumes that because Windows application sizes have not decreased since they became more dependent on dynamic libraries, dynamic libraries must not decrease the size of the binary. The fact is, if those already large binaries were staticly linked, they would increase greatly in size.
The second is the "there is plenty of drive space and memory to go around" argument. The author complains that Word has large binaries with neadless junk in them. If he had many large binaries, each with their own version of the same functions staticly linked, those large applications would take even more space. Sure space is cheap, memory is cheap. But not everyone wants to have to buy a large hard disk and 256MB of RAM just to run some personal finance and office applications.
What it really comes down to is a tradeoff. Windows DLL's are broken because of installer bugs, backwards compatibility bugs and uninstaller bugs. But if things are done properly, and you use several applications at once (I'm sure many of the libraries for GNUCash are not used by anything else on most systems) you have reduced memory usage, storage space and the ability to optimize functionality of several applications without (assuming good coding) breaking the applications or needing to upgrade the applications themselves. Best of all, if it is a common library, dial-up users can spend much less time downloading the binaries if they don't want to compile their own. With open source, you are more likely to avoid "embrace and extend" mentallity, so good code and optimizations without breaking everything are common. With rpm or apt you can easily manage packages of libraries, usually much better than a half-assed InstallShield uninstall script in Windows.
That is fairly common when moving to new xservers on new hardware. It is usually the result of timing issues afaik. This type of bug is usually eliminated as more user feedback and testing help the developers with optimal timeing and acceleration code. Speaking of acceleration code, sometimes turning acceleration off eliminates the snow at the cost of speed. In any case, 4.1.1 will probably be much less snowy for you.
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I'd like to see someone steel a rack of DB servers and the wall of EMC arrays (speculation, but highly likely) from a casino. Even that is too big for an insider.
As an added benefit, the birth rate will be reduced in areas using the cheap boxes. Anthropogists noticed that when pirated satellite feeds became available to villages (one person would be the dish, and run cable to the whole neighborhood for a small fee), the birth rate dropped dramatically. The reason? Men were up late watching porn instead of keeping the wife "busy". The men turned to self gratification instead.
Maybe not VC funds, but you could have sold banner ads at the top for $1,400/month, and made enough money before the ad price crash to seed a real startup.
If you look at the ingrediants on most of those "bags", they are 40%-60% instant coffee. Always read the labels before purchasing. =)
You have a good point, but I have to point this out. When you use the full 1500 watts (or whatever your Honda is rated at) you will consume that $10 in gas much more quickly. You increase the resistence in the generator coils, and depending on the generator design, you increase the engine speed too. Most likeley, it slows the engine speed down a bit, and makes the governor open the throttle a bit wider to keep it at the optimal engine speed. Basically, the energy wasted with no load is the minimum idle speed overhead, which big power plants rarely have to worry about. At that idle speed there is some electricity available, probably stored in capacitors and transformers, and the excess is disappated as heat once their capacity is exceeded.
For example, what would happen if someone were to steal MGM Mirage's database and post it on the net? Immediately millions of people's names and addresses would be available next to their estimated personal income, and potentially "interesting" information such as when they're likely to go on holiday.
Assuming a best case scenario on a dedicated T1:
ftp.m1ragehax0r.net userdb.sql 6.5970698E12 bytes completed in 397 days 16:22:18.368 @192.000KB/s
Somehow bringing "$300 that you are prepared to lose" is not as fun as having a system, still having fun, and being more likely to win.
I wouldn't have a problem with that. As long as I only brought $50 or so. hehe
If my insurance company knows this information, then both the issuing banks and the grocery stores would immediately be subjected to a civil suit. Why? Because I actually read the privacy policies before I sign the dotted line, which indicate that they cannot submit this type of information to any third party without my consent. They can sell my name and address (well not anymore, I opted out in writing) but unless I give written permission and I am contacted by the party collecting the data beforehand, they cannot share my grocery list to my PPO.
It is hard to imagine any place in the world where police are loved by all. It is good to have them around, as long as they are working in your favor. Enter a scandal, harassment, etc. and they quickly become the enemy (not to mention if you're a criminal or speeder).
Because this means we can no longer go off roading in our rental Dodge Neons and Ford Escorts.
Blast.
There are also the issues of retention and motivation. An employee who feels like the company values his/her contributions, and rewards his/her contributions accordingly, is an employee who will be dedicated to the employeer, and far less likely to move on to another job. If an employee feels like he/she is just there to make a pay check, with little or no potential for growth or influence is the employee who is going to job hop for even a small raise.
The chancellor of my alma mater was asked just before he retired a couple of years ago how it was that he was able to move the university to the top 20 and keep it there during his tenure. His response was that by giving a total compensation package just above the standard, you could attract and retain the best and most dedicated talent to your faculty and staff.
Very true. In 1991 the update ability for DOS/Windows was to reboot with floppy 1 (out of 4-6 depending on the DOS version) and esentially reinstall. Then you had to update the "version tables" with ver to get the DOS 3.3 or 5.0 binaries to run with DOS 5.x or 6.x. It was a pain, and most users never figured it out. No wonder Macs had a bigger market share back then.
It not only fetches dependencies, but it has the ability to compile everything for you, including the dependencies. That is usefull since binaries are usually first released on Alpha and Intel, while other (espeically slower) architectures are slower to receive the latest binaries.
Managers, pay attention: One of those people already left the company, and the other is looking for new work. In fact, several people who are considering graduate programs are considering leaving the company, and another long-time employee left so she could pursue an MBA while working and being reimbursed. This may not apply in all cases, but it seems to have a big affect on employee retention here (that's at least 20% annual turnover related to education alone, although probably an extreme case).
Success is in fact useful, not only for the reason you mention. I find it quite usefull, especially when installing new kernels on fringe hardware (say a new G4 PPC). It is good to see that the usb driver loaded and detected a OHCI hub with xyz device connected. And when the new kernel doesn't work at boot, you don't always get usefull error messages. But with success messages, you can tell what IS working, and usually figure out what caused the freeze. I wouldn't mind having a progress bar or status indicator like others mentioned, as long as I can still get the same basic information from my boot logs.
Do you plan to market Linux as an enterprise workstation replacement? Specifically, I wonder if you plan to market Linux desktops for replacements for Windows 9x/NT/2000 workstations, and how you plan to market them.
I really pity people who buy their PCs from name-brand manufacturers as opposed to screwdriver shops. I really do.
I always build my computers too, even workstations for work. I used to buy work computers from "screwdriver shops", but there is too much instability. It is really because so many people prefer to buy from a big company. They seek saftey in numbers.
Exactly. The fact was, you could purchase a Socket A motherboard and Thunderbird processor for a few hundred dollars. An Alpha mohterboard/CPU combo with a 25% slower clock rate (which is roughly 50% faster) would cost about $1,000. Add to that the need for more expensive RAM and your total system cost is going to be over 100% more. For large businesses, this wasn't always a problem, but it was for smaller users and home users. Add the loss of NT, and most consultants stopped recommending Alpha systems, since they either wanted to stick with NT on Intel or Solaris. Tru-64 was fabulous, but just didn't have the widespread support to hold up the architecture. Oh well, maybe this means there will be some closeouts on Alpha boxes soon.
Sell them and use the proceeds to buy office property that the office can use. Preferably something with educational (read: hack) value.
With some caching techniques, or for less dynamic files, background processing (e.g. a perl script making a static file that is updated periodically), you could maximize the speed boost. And yes, running PHP as a CGI is going to be much slower on any web server most likely.
If it supports cgi, it supports PHP as a CGI script. Applications should support databases, not the web server itself. I don't know about MOD_SLL, but if you read the article you might have seen that it says, "Tux's main weakness is that it doesn't support Secure Sockets Layer traffic, a feature planned for a future version."
That is going to take a bit more cranking. Above 12W is approaching something that needs pedal power.
This article make several fallacies. First, it assumes that because Windows application sizes have not decreased since they became more dependent on dynamic libraries, dynamic libraries must not decrease the size of the binary. The fact is, if those already large binaries were staticly linked, they would increase greatly in size.
The second is the "there is plenty of drive space and memory to go around" argument. The author complains that Word has large binaries with neadless junk in them. If he had many large binaries, each with their own version of the same functions staticly linked, those large applications would take even more space. Sure space is cheap, memory is cheap. But not everyone wants to have to buy a large hard disk and 256MB of RAM just to run some personal finance and office applications.
What it really comes down to is a tradeoff. Windows DLL's are broken because of installer bugs, backwards compatibility bugs and uninstaller bugs. But if things are done properly, and you use several applications at once (I'm sure many of the libraries for GNUCash are not used by anything else on most systems) you have reduced memory usage, storage space and the ability to optimize functionality of several applications without (assuming good coding) breaking the applications or needing to upgrade the applications themselves. Best of all, if it is a common library, dial-up users can spend much less time downloading the binaries if they don't want to compile their own. With open source, you are more likely to avoid "embrace and extend" mentallity, so good code and optimizations without breaking everything are common. With rpm or apt you can easily manage packages of libraries, usually much better than a half-assed InstallShield uninstall script in Windows.
That is fairly common when moving to new xservers on new hardware. It is usually the result of timing issues afaik. This type of bug is usually eliminated as more user feedback and testing help the developers with optimal timeing and acceleration code. Speaking of acceleration code, sometimes turning acceleration off eliminates the snow at the cost of speed. In any case, 4.1.1 will probably be much less snowy for you.