There's a whole internal discussion going on inside the BBC about them being a MS house.
Remember when PalmOS devices where 'banned' from the network, they closed down Kingswood Warren and moved everyone to Maidenhead to be with the MS based content team, stopped the OGG streams...
Of course all the computers you see on live telly (non-current news items with phone-ins) always have those ever so pretty Apples rather than ugly PC's!!!
Personnally I like to misquote an Oxford (UK) professor on items like this..
"An Universiry education is designed to make you THINK. A course is designed to make you think "
If you want to learn about computers then a Uni education is the best. It won't necessarilty teach you specific skills (Word, Excel, IOS etc) but will teach you how to understand the issues in a computing fashion.
I've seen lots of people who know alot about Excel, but because they haven't been taught the principles of programming, don't use 'names' when selecting areas for formula's etc. They just use the cell ranged (C1-C13). When you have to insert/delete a row, it quickly becomes a mess to update all the calculations.
OK so this is not the best example, but I think it proves the point. If you know the principles you can work the problem, rather then just knowing specific things.
yesterday at this I was betting 45kbs out of it, last night it was down to 12 and now its taking over 30 seconds to start the sessions but gives me 40kbs...
The best bit of this is the automatic it actually finds the correct lens for you eye.
At last something can put on your face and a few minutes later have a correct setting for the lens you need.
I'm sure all the opticians/optomatrists will be sad to loose they jobs (or at least part of the job) to and automated system.But this has got to make to whole process so much easier especially when trying to prescribe lenses for young children or those with communication (eg speach) difficulties.
The fact it then goes off and quickly makes the lens is purely a plus point in my view.
is there less bandwidth than before? there used to be multiple 45mbs links (a few years back when the E6000 was there). Now I can't get more than 73mkbs out of it. Could be increased used I guess..
I tend to used mirror.ac.uk as it tends to have what I need..
Very graphic adverts showing the results of drink driving have had a large impact.
Of course there is still the hard core of abusers who still instist on DD, but they 'tend' to be above 40 where they didn't have this hammered in from a early age.
It's become socially unacceptable to DD over here, although of course people still do..
Tough laws along with this have helped as well.
Using technology for the sake of it will only make a black market in getting around the device.
Increased policing on the issue had gone someway as the 'named driver' getting cheap/free soft drinks in some areas around various hi-days and holidays.
I think making it socially unacceptable is the key, this takes time and education, and of course the tax payer has to pay for this education.
anyone can walk down to a PC store and pick up the software they want (games/ quicken type stuff/ desktop publishing/photoshop....) and install then easily, by themselves, on Windows.
Until Linux gets the native app support from the big software guys, AND the software is as easy to install, its not going to succeed in the long run.
THEN the PC vendors will start to sell Linux with the hardware (or will send lawyers at them?).
A proper security audit shoud include a vuln assessment from the internet, but how about
1. Dial in lines.. 2. social engineering - ring someone and say "Hi I'm the new guy in IT and I've been asked to check everyones password, can I have yours". Ring the IT dept, "Hi I''m fred from xyz sales inc. we sell firewalls (or whatever) can I spend a few minutes talking about your network security" amd so on. 3. Do they have a security Policy. How to they enforce the policy. 4. What about disaster recovery? 5. What happens when the senior IT security is on holiday/off sick and you get a reported breach? 6........
Numa and RCU - Sequents technology (now IBM's after they bight Sequent) Volume manager and JFS are IBM's technology.
Nothing to so with Sys V as far as I can tell.
If IBM want to give away this stuff, then fine, this has nothing to do with Sys V. Unless they have GPL style, can't link it with an incompatible licence clause...
Of course external hacking is relatively easy to stop.
Root exploits (ala Debian's systems getting hosed), and cross file access are more difficult to protect against. You've also issues with Apache, sshd and whatever other third party apps you include.
Folk want auditing of everything, admin security roles, and probably B-level security features too. Prob why Trusted Solaris is always shipped on every other major release - it's a sod to do for a relatively limited market.
There's lots of 'Comp Sci' students out there that really don't want to learn the basics. They want pointy clicky, draggy droppy and really hate anything like real work (ie a command line).
This is a big problem for the Uk Universities as each module has a point system, and you pass so modules = get a degree.
Alot of students are avoiding programming courses (or any course with programming content), and still get a comp sci degree.
This means the 'programming' course have low numbers and are therefore under pressure to 'close'.
IHMO there should be a core set of courses + a few options, not totally choice based. This means that you HAVE to pass the programming courses the maths courses etc etc.
too much choice makes the world a bad thing, too little is bad too..
and any data protection/human rights/RIPE style laws in place.
In the UK, I think the answer would be know with a policy document that the 'user' has agreed to. This of course is still open to question as the UK human rights law and RIPE laws currently contradict each other on this. So until a court decides which has precident it's unclear.
depends on how well your projected growth is known.
If you are going from Solaris to A.N.Other Unix-like O/S be prepared for a learning curve. Doesn't matter what the O/S is it will require retraining - adds to costs.
Also how write heavy is you App? You'll need to watch the O/S - Oracle tuning as they (esp Oracle) will need specific tuning, remember having to set alsort of new stuff for Oracle 9 and Solaris?#
Best advice is get your self a decent Oracle DB-admin, even for a short term contract as this will save you lots of money in the meduim term. If you can find one who understands/admins Unix as well you're 1/2 way there.
As with anything Oracle there are so many ways of doinf things and so many knobs to tune it can be quite difficult to optimise, the Filesystem type and O/S tuning are normally fairly low down the list of things to do..
Sort of. Except that with DAB the radio station gets a specific bandwidth. It could be HD quality (eg BBC Radio 1) or it could be slightly poorer than FM (eg BBC Radio 7).
With HD you get a high bandwidth all the time, will be interesting to see how the two formats compete, will the oldest one win (ala VHS vs Beta)???
Slashdot Mirror
interesting part there - US only!
Of course the original article is US based so I guess it's OK for you guys.
I wonder why the guy tried to return the Mac anyway, he doesn't state does he??
they do the same.
you WILL have the machine we sent...
--
martin
There's a whole internal discussion going on inside the BBC about them being a MS house.
Remember when PalmOS devices where 'banned' from the network, they closed down Kingswood Warren and moved everyone to Maidenhead to be with the MS based content team, stopped the OGG streams...
Of course all the computers you see on live telly (non-current news items with phone-ins) always have those ever so pretty Apples rather than ugly PC's!!!
I guess thats another reason to pay cash...can't track you.
Of course if you drink the USA Budwieser rather than the Czech variety.....;-)
Personnally I like to misquote an Oxford (UK) professor on items like this..
"An Universiry education is designed to make you THINK. A course is designed to make you think "
If you want to learn about computers then a Uni education is the best. It won't necessarilty teach you specific skills (Word, Excel, IOS etc) but will teach you how to understand the issues in a computing fashion.
I've seen lots of people who know alot about Excel, but because they haven't been taught the principles of programming, don't use 'names' when selecting areas for formula's etc. They just use the cell ranged (C1-C13). When you have to insert/delete a row, it quickly becomes a mess to update all the calculations.
OK so this is not the best example, but I think it proves the point. If you know the principles you can work the problem, rather then just knowing specific things.
doesn't matter what the smell - it will still stink!
looks likes it very overloaded at the moment...
yesterday at this I was betting 45kbs out of it, last night it was down to 12 and now its taking over 30 seconds to start the sessions but gives me 40kbs...
same from New York and LA....
The best bit of this is the automatic it actually finds the correct lens for you eye.
.But this has got to make to whole process so much easier especially when trying to prescribe lenses for young children or those with communication (eg speach) difficulties.
At last something can put on your face and a few minutes later have a correct setting for the lens you need.
I'm sure all the opticians/optomatrists will be sad to loose they jobs (or at least part of the job) to and automated system
The fact it then goes off and quickly makes the lens is purely a plus point in my view.
yeah I noted that...
is there less bandwidth than before? there used to be multiple 45mbs links (a few years back when the E6000 was there). Now I can't get more than 73mkbs out of it. Could be increased used I guess..
I tend to used mirror.ac.uk as it tends to have what I need..
Don't ya just love Imperial's domain name
:-)
ic ac uk (if you forget the dots).
even better when Sunsite Northern Europe was..
src ic ac uk (again foragetting the dots)
ah the heady days of the 1990's..
have worked well on the population of the UK.
Very graphic adverts showing the results of drink driving have had a large impact.
Of course there is still the hard core of abusers who still instist on DD, but they 'tend' to be above 40 where they didn't have this hammered in from a early age.
It's become socially unacceptable to DD over here, although of course people still do..
Tough laws along with this have helped as well.
Using technology for the sake of it will only make a black market in getting around the device.
Increased policing on the issue had gone someway as the 'named driver' getting cheap/free soft drinks in some areas around various hi-days and holidays.
I think making it socially unacceptable is the key, this takes time and education, and of course the tax payer has to pay for this education.
This is the key,
anyone can walk down to a PC store and pick up the software they want (games/ quicken type stuff/ desktop publishing/photoshop....) and install then easily, by themselves, on Windows.
Until Linux gets the native app support from the big software guys, AND the software is as easy to install, its not going to succeed in the long run.
THEN the PC vendors will start to sell Linux with the hardware (or will send lawyers at them?).
A proper security audit shoud include a vuln assessment from the internet, but how about
1. Dial in lines..
2. social engineering - ring someone and say "Hi I'm the new guy in IT and I've been asked to check everyones password, can I have yours". Ring the IT dept, "Hi I''m fred from xyz sales inc. we sell firewalls (or whatever) can I spend a few minutes talking about your network security" amd so on.
3. Do they have a security Policy. How to they enforce the policy.
4. What about disaster recovery?
5. What happens when the senior IT security is on holiday/off sick and you get a reported breach?
6.
OK so you can show your multiple DVD streams on it and download a CD at the same, whilst running a VoIP conversion..
How about having a T1 or a.n.other (45mbs) link trying to do the same thing. They need something to compare against.
Now compare the costs!
Old news. The concept of hijacking bluetooth links was first mentioned here back in November.
But I guess Nokia finally admitting they have an issue is interesting. I wonder what the other Bluetooth capable device manufacturers do about this???
Numa and RCU - Sequents technology (now IBM's after they bight Sequent)
Volume manager and JFS are IBM's technology.
Nothing to so with Sys V as far as I can tell.
If IBM want to give away this stuff, then fine, this has nothing to do with Sys V. Unless they have GPL style, can't link it with an incompatible licence clause...
yawn - back to sleep..
Of course external hacking is relatively easy to stop.
Root exploits (ala Debian's systems getting hosed), and cross file access are more difficult to protect against. You've also issues with Apache, sshd and whatever other third party apps you include.
Folk want auditing of everything, admin security roles, and probably B-level security features too. Prob why Trusted Solaris is always shipped on every other major release - it's a sod to do for a relatively limited market.
How about just..
'start teaching assembly language'
There's lots of 'Comp Sci' students out there that really don't want to learn the basics. They want pointy clicky, draggy droppy and really hate anything like real work (ie a command line).
This is a big problem for the Uk Universities as each module has a point system, and you pass so modules = get a degree.
Alot of students are avoiding programming courses (or any course with programming content), and still get a comp sci degree.
This means the 'programming' course have low numbers and are therefore under pressure to 'close'.
IHMO there should be a core set of courses + a few options, not totally choice based. This means that you HAVE to pass the programming courses the maths courses etc etc.
too much choice makes the world a bad thing, too little is bad too..
and any data protection/human rights/RIPE style laws in place.
In the UK, I think the answer would be know with a policy document that the 'user' has agreed to. This of course is still open to question as the UK human rights law and RIPE laws currently contradict each other on this. So until a court decides which has precident it's unclear.
The who was the source of the original story has the following pics of the finals
I hope their alerts are better than their mojordomo subscription requests.
It took 15 hours to get back the initial confirmation email after sending a subsciption request.
Goodness knows allow long the confirmation will take to process.
depends on how well your projected growth is known.
If you are going from Solaris to A.N.Other Unix-like O/S be prepared for a learning curve. Doesn't matter what the O/S is it will require retraining - adds to costs.
Also how write heavy is you App? You'll need to watch the O/S - Oracle tuning as they (esp Oracle) will need specific tuning, remember having to set alsort of new stuff for Oracle 9 and Solaris?#
Best advice is get your self a decent Oracle DB-admin, even for a short term contract as this will save you lots of money in the meduim term. If you can find one who understands/admins Unix as well you're 1/2 way there.
As with anything Oracle there are so many ways of doinf things and so many knobs to tune it can be quite difficult to optimise, the Filesystem type and O/S tuning are normally fairly low down the list of things to do..
was this a fresh install or upgrade?
It could be that the upgrade didn't do the KDE/Gnome bits as you didn't ask it to from sysinstall...might be worthwhile checking.
Results of some testing in the FreeBSD UK email group suggested no such problems when running X11 apps.
top works for me with 5.2 and a dual PIII 933mhz Dell 1400sc...
Sort of. Except that with DAB the radio station gets a specific bandwidth. It could be HD quality (eg BBC Radio 1) or it could be slightly poorer than FM (eg BBC Radio 7).
With HD you get a high bandwidth all the time, will be interesting to see how the two formats compete, will the oldest one win (ala VHS vs Beta)???