The RIAA also claims that its tactics are actually working -- to increase awareness and reduce online piracy
People don't care enough to help out people that they don't even know get games, music, movies, etc to spend 6 months in court fighting to stay out of jail.
Openly letting the world know what pirated software and music is on your harddrive never was a smart idea. Just sitting there waiting for them to come down on them.
Has there been any work at making 3,4,or 8 bit gates instead of just on/off ?
Like different voltages on each gate. I could see having a 3way gate by 0 charge, + charge, - charge. I'd imagine a 5 way gate to have: 0, -1, -2, +1, +2.
My parents are head of an Elementry Charter School in Mesa, Arizona. We are doing a program where we give an opportunity to the students to join the "Tech Crew" for the school. In this program they learn how to video tape with DV cameras, edit video on Apple OSX G3 powermacs that were donated to the school, setup lighting, and setup Sound equipment. They video tape the student councel and events the school puts on and make video clips that get broadcasted on the school TV's in all the classrooms every few weeks.
I think computers make a great place in the classroom when used with an actual purpose. Sure, teaching typing is useful. But you don't have to spend ALL the money on expensive computers when you could teach typing and letter formating on cheaper computers or even cheaper typewriters.
The school districts give computers to public schools, charter schools have to beg, borrow and bleed to get computers. But the charter schools actually can make better use of computers than public schools because its easier to integrate a new system into the curriculum.
"Using Computers in the classroom" is a far too generic concept. Give the kids similar projects that are to be done with and without computers. Show the good ol' way of doing things and how a computer can help with specific tasks.
Or are the bigwigs in Corporate America so out of touch with reality they don't realize that moving from IIS would probably save them tons of money just in manhours saved from less patching/recovering?
BigWigs see the bottom line. "Manhours saved" is B.S. to a "BIGWIG". Most employees at this time are Salary employees, not contractors. MOST of the contractors have been layed off due to the hardtimes. Employees currently are afraid to quite their jobs due to these hardtimes and are just "glad to have not been layed off" right now.
Thankfully I'm on the UNIX side of things, so I don't deal with this mess. But the Windows folk have some good times. They have things currently setup so that every 'black wednesday' when MS releases new patches they have a few different shifts of the employees that come in and patch all the boxes. They've juggled people's lives arround. No money lost or gained due to this situation.
As sad as it is, no cost savings. NOW, if this situation goes on for much longer people will start hating their jobs and working less and less effectively and will demand to hire more people. Now that will be a huge cost. But from what I can tell, this company is in head count reduction mode. So it'd take quite a big issue to crop up to allow hiring to take place.
Uhmm, how many companies have you worked for? How many hits does your site get in a day? How much of your company's business is critically dependent on your web presence?
I have worked personally for 3 major corporate companies (fortune 500) and have friends that work in several others. Yes, the web is a huge dependency for my current location. I'm still sticking to my original comment. Linux is sure picking up the pace due to RedHat Advanced Server. The EXPENSIVE ONE. But it is not no where near as deployed as other major UNIX (non-linux) distributions in Corporate America. And that would explain the results of this survey.
Another poster commented saying that Netcraft offers similar surveys to members. They are saying results of the Fortune 1000 to be very similar to this report.
Settle down. Relax. Linux will be where you think it is today within 3 or 4 years.
And yes, Linux is starting to make inroads, but not because it is now expensive but because all costs have been more closely studied over the last few years.
Costs are what is driving Linux into the server market, but the funny thing it's not because it's been 'closely studied over the past few years'. Corporate America thinks they're getting the POWER OF A UNIX BOX, for the price of an NT BOX. This is crazy talk. If you follow the costs of running linux in an environment over running any other MAJOR Unix (ie. Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX to mention a few) you will see the sysadmins slaving to keep the servers patched. A regular linux distribution has more patches out a month than Windows NT, Windows 2000, AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.1, Solaris 2.6, Solaris 2.7, and Solaris 8 ALL COMBINED. AND in the end, I'm sorry, but our CORPORATE tests have proved linux on x86 not able to handle loads of much lesser Mhz RISC boxes.
As a hobbiest I love linux. I hardly patch my boxs and they run fine all the time. I know it's dangerous, but I don't have anything critical on them. If it gets hacked, I reload it. The markets you're referring to cannot handle not being kept up with the system patches.
Slashdotting a site is not a sign of server 'capability'. It just means that their bandwidth pipe is saturated. That's all. The server could be quite happily just sitting there running Unreal Tournament, and until the traffic died down, it wouldn't be able to honor pretty much any requests.
Very true, just seems like apache/linux is tailored to handle these types of situations easier, well at least differently. It might not serve out pages during a slashdot effect, but the web server would still at least attempt to make connections and serve things out slowly... Their site is completely dead. As if they shut the box off. It responds instantly back that port 80 isn't even open.
You have to look at their survey. It's talking about the CORPORATE web servers. I work for a major corporate america company. We have close to 4000 servers handling our "web" environment. That consists of web, app, and database servers. There's more IIS then anything else out there for sure in corporate america. Expecially on the WEB front end. In a corporate environment there are about 20 Windows to 1 Unix boxes. Mostly due to Windows servers being so cheap and can't handle as much load per server. But on the DATABASE backend there is much more UNIX to Windows.
Another thing is Corporate America is barely getting their feet wet with Linux/Apache. The UNIX boxes that are installed are not running Apache, they're running something from a major vendor (ie. Netscape, etc). Up until this year there was NO linux in the corporate company I work for. If a MAJOR vendor will not support a product, corporate america will not install it. They love to point the finger at the vendors. If there's nobody to point a finger at when something goes wrong, it will not get installed.
Until Redhat started selling Linux for $5k corporate america wouldn't even bat an eye at it. Now they're eating it up like hot cakes cause it's EXPENSIVE! Linux is no longer a free thing. Now powerful execs can point fingers and plus be able to throw around the "L" buzz word and feel like they're pushing the envelope.
thx for the story... With all our current "technology" around us it's hard to fathom doing tasks like this and getting onto the moon with nothing but nuts and bolts.
A previous company I worked for had ALL the disks from a specific batch of IBM drives it used in a RAID setup fail one after the other within a short period of time.
Sounds like we work/worked for the same company. Unless everyone just got screwed by this "mystical batch" of IBM drives. I'm starting to wonder if it was "one batch" or more of a year or two's worth of drives.
Reminds me of how we went through all this trouble at [UNNAMED CORPORATION] of making sure to mirror the root disks for all 3000+ servers, but nobody setup alerts or notifications of a disk failure. So even though all the disks were mirrored if one drive failed, nobody knew. So we ended up running most our boxes off one drive until the other drive went out. So sure, mirroring delayed a major problem, but the major problem still existed.
We also had a similar problem with Fiber Storage. For all the servers they had run two seporate fiber runs to each box that needed to use the "SAN". Each server would have two fiber cards installed. This way if one network went out, it would just fall back to the other card. Well, of course, both cables were plugged into the same switch.. Smart. Yes, we did have a fiber switch go out once.
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What would be nice is if it was bluetooth enabled, you could just have your iPod on constant broadcast mode, let people walking by snoop in on your listening... That way it wouldn't interrupt your listening.
No, the REAL issue is memory space. 32 bit just won't cut it anymore for large database servers and the like, regardless of the movement for clustering.
The thing is, in the desktop it will take longer for machines to require more than 4/8 GB of memory.
Hum, seems like several companies have
handled the memory issue. How the heck are they getting away with 64GIGS of memory on some of these 32bit servers?
It only accounts for one type of door handle. The handle has to be at 90 degrees and be the type that pushs down. Any type of door knob would just fluster this expensive two wheeled disaster just waiting to happen. Though the last few seconds shows how easily this thing gets excited. Some guy talks demanding to it and it springs up some sort of levers in front and back of the thing... I don't really know what to make of that.
Depending on the processor, it seems this costs from $300 to $2000 for the desktop. With MS Windows, you might not have any support at all from MS, you might have free installation support, or you might have to pay more than $200 per incidence from help from MS.
Uh, at least with windows I get free updates once I've paid for the software.
Compiling up all these packages, testing them, writing an installer and configuration tools, is a lot of work and is worthy of payment. So stop being such a cheap bastard.
Crazy, lots of people are pissed at paying for Micro$oft software.. But I think RedHats prices are outrageous.
I decided to just try out Linux because I was curious. I went with Suse. It installed fine, but it was a pain in the ass to get it to recognize my screen size (1600 x 1050), it refused to see my wifi card, and the touchpad wouldn't work. Fair, enough, I can deal with all that because it's a notebook after all, the drivers aren't at all standard. But the actual user experince... well, honestly, yuck.
I couldn't have said it better myself. I love Unix, I hate Linux. I mostly hate linux because it's trying to be a desktop but there are too many seporate scattered projects. I wish KDE and GNOME could have some sort of truce and just make the a collabritive effort to help the Desktop. None of the projects work together even though they all depend on each other.
Ok, but what is the real difference between say the latest Debian package and RedHat Advanced Server? Take $$ out of the money, whats the underlinings difference? They both run the same Linux kernel don't they?
So, does this mean we will start seeing IBM workstations with linux on them? I personaly cant wait to get a thinpad without having to pay micro$oft 20% of the cost:P
Right, instead we'll be paying the 20% to Redhat. Thats right. If you have anything beyond a single CPU processor, you gotta' buy the one that costs at leat $1499 (Advanced Server). And if I remember right, the fee's are a YEARLY fee for updates, whereas Windows gave windows updates out for free. I'm not sure how this is BETTER.
I know there are other Distros out there, but it seems like RedHat has the most commercial support currently.
IBM's prefered Linux is Redhat. Being that Redhat is discontinuing their "free" versions of Redhat, how does this make Linux a contender in a cheaper solution? RedHat linux is expensive. I can't believe how much redhat charges for something that is supposed to be 'free'. Can anyone justify Redhat charging for something they're not able to legally charge for?
A move to Opteron would allow them to be more competitve in cost and focus more on what they're good at, designing systems, not processors
Designing systems? Well, if they're just going to be come another motherboard manufacture, why would you ever buy an overpriced Sun System? I've seen sparcs handle loads that bring expensive x86 systems to their knees. Can opterons come in 106 processor combinations? I see they want to intoduce some lower end options, but their lower end models give them a lot of research opportunities to make the big systems really shine.
Sorry to be cruel, but by what moral right does an artist who sells less than 100 songs a month deserve to live off his or her musical talent alone? Even if he got 100% of the iTMS revenue, that's still just under $100 a month, on which you still cannot afford to be a professional musician in the US.
You're assuming that the only revenue is coming from the iTMS.
Slashdot Mirror
Openly letting the world know what pirated software and music is on your harddrive never was a smart idea. Just sitting there waiting for them to come down on them.
Has there been any work at making 3,4,or 8 bit gates instead of just on/off ?
Like different voltages on each gate. I could see having a 3way gate by 0 charge, + charge, - charge. I'd imagine a 5 way gate to have: 0, -1, -2, +1, +2.
Is this possible?
My parents are head of an Elementry Charter School in Mesa, Arizona. We are doing a program where we give an opportunity to the students to join the "Tech Crew" for the school. In this program they learn how to video tape with DV cameras, edit video on Apple OSX G3 powermacs that were donated to the school, setup lighting, and setup Sound equipment. They video tape the student councel and events the school puts on and make video clips that get broadcasted on the school TV's in all the classrooms every few weeks.
I think computers make a great place in the classroom when used with an actual purpose. Sure, teaching typing is useful. But you don't have to spend ALL the money on expensive computers when you could teach typing and letter formating on cheaper computers or even cheaper typewriters.
The school districts give computers to public schools, charter schools have to beg, borrow and bleed to get computers. But the charter schools actually can make better use of computers than public schools because its easier to integrate a new system into the curriculum.
"Using Computers in the classroom" is a far too generic concept. Give the kids similar projects that are to be done with and without computers. Show the good ol' way of doing things and how a computer can help with specific tasks.
Thankfully I'm on the UNIX side of things, so I don't deal with this mess. But the Windows folk have some good times. They have things currently setup so that every 'black wednesday' when MS releases new patches they have a few different shifts of the employees that come in and patch all the boxes. They've juggled people's lives arround. No money lost or gained due to this situation.
As sad as it is, no cost savings. NOW, if this situation goes on for much longer people will start hating their jobs and working less and less effectively and will demand to hire more people. Now that will be a huge cost. But from what I can tell, this company is in head count reduction mode. So it'd take quite a big issue to crop up to allow hiring to take place.
Another poster commented saying that Netcraft offers similar surveys to members. They are saying results of the Fortune 1000 to be very similar to this report.
Settle down. Relax. Linux will be where you think it is today within 3 or 4 years.
uh, 34 minutes I mean.. oh well...
Back up. So far only a 20 minute outage.
Costs are what is driving Linux into the server market, but the funny thing it's not because it's been 'closely studied over the past few years'. Corporate America thinks they're getting the POWER OF A UNIX BOX, for the price of an NT BOX. This is crazy talk. If you follow the costs of running linux in an environment over running any other MAJOR Unix (ie. Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX to mention a few) you will see the sysadmins slaving to keep the servers patched. A regular linux distribution has more patches out a month than Windows NT, Windows 2000, AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.1, Solaris 2.6, Solaris 2.7, and Solaris 8 ALL COMBINED. AND in the end, I'm sorry, but our CORPORATE tests have proved linux on x86 not able to handle loads of much lesser Mhz RISC boxes.
As a hobbiest I love linux. I hardly patch my boxs and they run fine all the time. I know it's dangerous, but I don't have anything critical on them. If it gets hacked, I reload it. The markets you're referring to cannot handle not being kept up with the system patches.
Very true, just seems like apache/linux is tailored to handle these types of situations easier, well at least differently. It might not serve out pages during a slashdot effect, but the web server would still at least attempt to make connections and serve things out slowly
Port80Software has been slashdotted. As of 23:41 MTN Standardtime Nov 26th, 2003.. their box is completely down.
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Wonder what they're running
You have to look at their survey. It's talking about the CORPORATE web servers. I work for a major corporate america company. We have close to 4000 servers handling our "web" environment. That consists of web, app, and database servers. There's more IIS then anything else out there for sure in corporate america. Expecially on the WEB front end. In a corporate environment there are about 20 Windows to 1 Unix boxes. Mostly due to Windows servers being so cheap and can't handle as much load per server. But on the DATABASE backend there is much more UNIX to Windows.
Another thing is Corporate America is barely getting their feet wet with Linux/Apache. The UNIX boxes that are installed are not running Apache, they're running something from a major vendor (ie. Netscape, etc). Up until this year there was NO linux in the corporate company I work for. If a MAJOR vendor will not support a product, corporate america will not install it. They love to point the finger at the vendors. If there's nobody to point a finger at when something goes wrong, it will not get installed.
Until Redhat started selling Linux for $5k corporate america wouldn't even bat an eye at it. Now they're eating it up like hot cakes cause it's EXPENSIVE! Linux is no longer a free thing. Now powerful execs can point fingers and plus be able to throw around the "L" buzz word and feel like they're pushing the envelope.
thx for the story... With all our current "technology" around us it's hard to fathom doing tasks like this and getting onto the moon with nothing but nuts and bolts.
Reminds me of how we went through all this trouble at [UNNAMED CORPORATION] of making sure to mirror the root disks for all 3000+ servers, but nobody setup alerts or notifications of a disk failure. So even though all the disks were mirrored if one drive failed, nobody knew. So we ended up running most our boxes off one drive until the other drive went out. So sure, mirroring delayed a major problem, but the major problem still existed.
We also had a similar problem with Fiber Storage. For all the servers they had run two seporate fiber runs to each box that needed to use the "SAN". Each server would have two fiber cards installed. This way if one network went out, it would just fall back to the other card. Well, of course, both cables were plugged into the same switch.. Smart. Yes, we did have a fiber switch go out once.
What would be nice is if it was bluetooth enabled, you could just have your iPod on constant broadcast mode, let people walking by snoop in on your listening... That way it wouldn't interrupt your listening.
It only accounts for one type of door handle. The handle has to be at 90 degrees and be the type that pushs down. Any type of door knob would just fluster this expensive two wheeled disaster just waiting to happen. Though the last few seconds shows how easily this thing gets excited. Some guy talks demanding to it and it springs up some sort of levers in front and back of the thing... I don't really know what to make of that.
Ok, but what is the real difference between say the latest Debian package and RedHat Advanced Server? Take $$ out of the money, whats the underlinings difference? They both run the same Linux kernel don't they?
I know there are other Distros out there, but it seems like RedHat has the most commercial support currently.
IBM's prefered Linux is Redhat. Being that Redhat is discontinuing their "free" versions of Redhat, how does this make Linux a contender in a cheaper solution? RedHat linux is expensive. I can't believe how much redhat charges for something that is supposed to be 'free'. Can anyone justify Redhat charging for something they're not able to legally charge for?