Stephen Rooster Conroy certainly is anything but a conservative. The current Australian Federal Government is run by the Australian Labor Party, generally a centre-left party. After running a campaign in the 2007 Federal Election against the socially & fiscally conservative Howard Government, Kevin Rudd (now Prime Minister) modelled himself as a mini-Howard trying to convince voters he was a safe choice as he also was a "fiscal conservative". This couldn't by further from the truth. From the immigration debacle, industry "picking winners" through the to most recent self made disaster with the the Australian financial system - this government, and Stephen Conroy, are anything but conservative.
Whether you are conservative or progressive is fine, but let's not call a rooster a swan.
No, Alan Jones was not convicted - that implies criminal proceedings.
The broadcasting authority is a self regulating leftist warm and fuzzy touchy feeling organisation that is merely pandering to the minority groups yet again.
If you have 7000+ Windows Servers you should already be running a software patching solution such as SMS, WSUS, etc...
Sure you'll spend a large amount of time sorting out which server[s] (server group[s])should be patched when, but once that is done - you should be able to schedule them within your chosen solution.
Take WSUS for example. Organise your servers into groups, approve the update and set each group's Windows Update GP properties appropriately.
If you already have a large investment in Oracle and associated resources (trained staff, infrastructure, support contracts) for an application requiring Oracle (for whatever reason) then it is more cost effective to utilise those resources than to retrain and allocate more infrastructure.
Adding another database to an Oracle database run by trained techs on Oracle specialised infrastructure is a lot cheaper than running another database system on that server (NO!) or dedicating another box to it. In addition, you then need to train your tech staff to understand and support that system as well.
This issue isn't necessarily that the application "requires the strength of Oracle".
There will be many places where a particular organisation has invested time, money and resources to their Oracle installation for other requirements. If they already have Oracle and Oracle resources why not take advantage of that support in an application rather than learning PostgreSQL, MySQL or some other RDBMS and committing more, possibly stretched or unavailable, resources to another system.
While a company such as Vyatta may be able to deliver the software to actually do the routing, you still need hardware pieces to actually connect to your equipment.
There aren't many PCI (full or half height) cards that can do ATM with OC3, etc....
Then there is the size factor. Data centre space is sparse and expensive, cisco (and such) equipment is built for this space. x86 PCs also run hotter (and louder) than specifically designed hardware from vendors such as cisco, juniper and 3com. oh and they draw more power.
i just can't see how this will take off in the top end of the market.
sure, for a small branch office that connects to frame, isdn, dsl or pstn and runs a vpn it may be fine, but not in a data centre or racked environment.
While I in no way defend or support the theft of property and subsequent distribution, both the Recording and Movie industries need to take some responsibilty.
I realise that in this instance Revenge of the Sith was a huge success and made number 7 in the top 10 grossing movies of all time. However, both the MPAA and RIAA continually push that priacy hurts them. In the case of Sith - let's all be fair and honest - the movie was absolute rubbish. Perhaps if they made better movies (and music) more people would buy them.
Another little tidbit..... revenues are going up for music - inspite of p2p distribution and other online sales stores. I wonder why less and less people are going to the movies??? It's a clear example of the market in action - you produce rubbish, people won't pay to see it. The number of people that would sit there and download movies is quite small compared to the worldwide audience of potential theater goers.
Make better movies, get more people into the theater, make more money.
Anthony Stewart Head (Rupert Giles from Buffy) would make the best Dr Who.
Having been a fan since my tiny years I loved that Dr Who has finally made a comeback and made it strongly. I always had reservations about Christopher and this just reinforces them. Sure, his first episode was alright, but he was no Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker. God... even Colin Baker was better in some stories!
Everything Linux in Sydney,Australia has been operating as a retail store (with webfront) for many years now and is totally devoted to linux and linux related products.
Nothing new. Again, our North American cousins believe they are the only people in the world. Been on that page already folks, catch up.
How is this any different to when AOL broke the AIM protocol to stop gaim and trillian connecting?
I remember Microsoft then calling for open standards. This was when MSN Messenger was only a fledgling service and not widely adopted.
Just another backflip from not only a large corporation, but Microsoft. Again, only acting in their best interests - which is fair enough, they are a business. But I think the biggest problem we have is how they go about doing their business, the FUD, etc... etc.... etc....
I'd say that Gentoo would be the fastest. XFree86 4.3 was available before the/. post! *grins*
I've been running glibc 2.3.2pre1 for over a week, XFree86 4.3 after an hour of it going final - and all of this from the portage tree (package management), not manually downloading source and building by hand.
It appears to be a font issue on the surface, however removing either webdings (offending font) or the TrueType font directory and re-caching your fonts don't help just yet.
You can run wine in Xvfb, but that doesn't really help anyone now does it:)
Look, where is all this wonderful service that you city folk are supposed to be subsidising?
You missed the point. There is NO wonderful service. Because we are subsidising you bush folk, noone gets a good / decent product.
Now, with respect to DSL, even I (city biased person that I am) have to admit, that Telstra's problems have nothing to do with the bush. Just bad network equipment, infrastructure, planning, implementation, business policies, etc... the list is endless
part of the problem with high cost in Australia is paying for the Southern Cross cable. Well if you are using Telstra that is.
There are other networks in Australia (PowerTel, Optus, RequestDSL, etc...) that don't use the Southern Cross cable.
One thing that really raises the prices in Australia and really shits the city folk (me) off their rocker, is that we must subsidise the bush. Not only that, we must provide the bush people with the same level of service as that of the city. Meaning in reality, the bush doesn't get good service, but the city gets bad service. Therefore they are the same.
If I was living in the bush, I could get subsidised Satellite because there is nothing else available. However, since I am in a new estate but in an established area, just outside of the city (bout 15-20 minutes drive from Brisbane - read Mt Gravatt) my choices are limited. I can spend a shit load paying for microwave - i don't think so tim, try and get DSL from my Telco (Telstra or Optus) and find out that I have pair gain lines (where they split multiple "lines" over the same copper pair), or move into the CBD. again, i dont think so.
This is where a number of new companies, such as RequestDSL are doing so well, in that they are supplying a carrier grade DSL network to the business community over a SLA covered backhaul (nb, Telstra don't provide ANY SLA on any service, be it residential or business) with excellent uptime ( > 99.98%), throughput and latency.
Here, where I am, I have both 2Mb DSL from RequestDSL and Satellite (supposed to be ~ 400K, but really only around 30K most of the time) and things don't work too badly.
Another bad thing about Telstra's DSL is their damn authentication and heartbeat crap. What happened (such as those "real" business DSL suppliers - RequestDSL) to supplying ethernet straight from the router!?!?
Disclaimer : I do not work for RequestDSL. However, I do work for a RequestDSL channel partner - SecureONE
Not knowing much about his role at microsoft, or USAF, but he is the current president of the Information Systems Security Association (www.issa.org).
The ISSA seems to be an interesting and informative organisation. Their monthly magazine has some good articles, but the advertising seems to be mainly interested in selling you products to secure your phone lines and phone systems, than your network, border routers, etc...
Their meetings and presentations are definately worth the yearly charge.
Although I must say that his editorial is mostly waffle than real content.
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Stephen Rooster Conroy certainly is anything but a conservative. The current Australian Federal Government is run by the Australian Labor Party, generally a centre-left party. After running a campaign in the 2007 Federal Election against the socially & fiscally conservative Howard Government, Kevin Rudd (now Prime Minister) modelled himself as a mini-Howard trying to convince voters he was a safe choice as he also was a "fiscal conservative". This couldn't by further from the truth. From the immigration debacle, industry "picking winners" through the to most recent self made disaster with the the Australian financial system - this government, and Stephen Conroy, are anything but conservative.
Whether you are conservative or progressive is fine, but let's not call a rooster a swan.
No, Alan Jones was not convicted - that implies criminal proceedings.
The broadcasting authority is a self regulating leftist warm and fuzzy touchy feeling organisation that is merely pandering to the minority groups yet again.
If you have 7000+ Windows Servers you should already be running a software patching solution such as SMS, WSUS, etc...
Sure you'll spend a large amount of time sorting out which server[s] (server group[s])should be patched when, but once that is done - you should be able to schedule them within your chosen solution.
Take WSUS for example. Organise your servers into groups, approve the update and set each group's Windows Update GP properties appropriately.
if it moves, compile it :)
You misunderstood my point.
If you already have a large investment in Oracle and associated resources (trained staff, infrastructure, support contracts) for an application requiring Oracle (for whatever reason) then it is more cost effective to utilise those resources than to retrain and allocate more infrastructure.
Adding another database to an Oracle database run by trained techs on Oracle specialised infrastructure is a lot cheaper than running another database system on that server (NO!) or dedicating another box to it. In addition, you then need to train your tech staff to understand and support that system as well.
This issue isn't necessarily that the application "requires the strength of Oracle".
There will be many places where a particular organisation has invested time, money and resources to their Oracle installation for other requirements. If they already have Oracle and Oracle resources why not take advantage of that support in an application rather than learning PostgreSQL, MySQL or some other RDBMS and committing more, possibly stretched or unavailable, resources to another system.
The beauty of the OSS system is that if there is a wan, need or requirement, then it will ultimately be filled.
If people want to use OpenACS with Oracle then people will support it. Conversly, if there is no reason for it, it will be dropped and die.
The Free Market at work is a thing of beauty.
While a company such as Vyatta may be able to deliver the software to actually do the routing, you still need hardware pieces to actually connect to your equipment.
There aren't many PCI (full or half height) cards that can do ATM with OC3, etc....
Then there is the size factor. Data centre space is sparse and expensive, cisco (and such) equipment is built for this space. x86 PCs also run hotter (and louder) than specifically designed hardware from vendors such as cisco, juniper and 3com. oh and they draw more power.
i just can't see how this will take off in the top end of the market.
sure, for a small branch office that connects to frame, isdn, dsl or pstn and runs a vpn it may be fine, but not in a data centre or racked environment.
While I in no way defend or support the theft of property and subsequent distribution, both the Recording and Movie industries need to take some responsibilty.
I realise that in this instance Revenge of the Sith was a huge success and made number 7 in the top 10 grossing movies of all time. However, both the MPAA and RIAA continually push that priacy hurts them. In the case of Sith - let's all be fair and honest - the movie was absolute rubbish. Perhaps if they made better movies (and music) more people would buy them.
Another little tidbit..... revenues are going up for music - inspite of p2p distribution and other online sales stores. I wonder why less and less people are going to the movies??? It's a clear example of the market in action - you produce rubbish, people won't pay to see it. The number of people that would sit there and download movies is quite small compared to the worldwide audience of potential theater goers.
Make better movies, get more people into the theater, make more money.
And he doesn't want anything more to do with the Dr Who franchise. After playing the 4th Doctor for 7 seasons, he's had enough.
He didn't appear in the 5 Doctors for more than 3 minutes.
Anthony Stewart Head (Rupert Giles from Buffy) would make the best Dr Who.
Having been a fan since my tiny years I loved that Dr Who has finally made a comeback and made it strongly. I always had reservations about Christopher and this just reinforces them. Sure, his first episode was alright, but he was no Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker. God... even Colin Baker was better in some stories!
Bring on the Ripper!
Not meaning to be a spoilsport, but those pics are from an Aussie/NZ
e .h tm
research expedition in mid 2003.
http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/CreatureFeatur
The links at the top of the page include all these 'tsunami' pics.
They're actually all from the Tasman Sea so have a think about that
next time someone wants to head down to the beach.
Everything Linux in Sydney,Australia has been operating as a retail store (with webfront) for many years now and is totally devoted to linux and linux related products.
Nothing new. Again, our North American cousins believe they are the only people in the world. Been on that page already folks, catch up.
How is this any different to when AOL broke the AIM protocol to stop gaim and trillian connecting?
I remember Microsoft then calling for open standards. This was when MSN Messenger was only a fledgling service and not widely adopted.
Just another backflip from not only a large corporation, but Microsoft. Again, only acting in their best interests - which is fair enough, they are a business. But I think the biggest problem we have is how they go about doing their business, the FUD, etc... etc.... etc....
Don't forget OSExchange (on SourceForge).
True, development has pretty stalled, but it looked like a good project, etc... etc...
I agree, I don't see the reason for the post being funny. Am I also missing something?
Is it the comment about being bleeding and still solid?
I'd say that Gentoo would be the fastest. XFree86 4.3 was available before the /. post! *grins*
I've been running glibc 2.3.2pre1 for over a week, XFree86 4.3 after an hour of it going final - and all of this from the portage tree (package management), not manually downloading source and building by hand.
It appears to be a font issue on the surface, however removing either webdings (offending font) or the TrueType font directory and re-caching your fonts don't help just yet.
:)
You can run wine in Xvfb, but that doesn't really help anyone now does it
And just remember kiddies, that 4.2.99_902 and 4.3 break wine[x].
It is being worked on.
So, if you depend on wine[x], don't emerge, apt-get, rpm, XFree86 just yet.
very true. its no "a" food group. its "the" food group.
They always seem to go after the smaller guys. If they were really serious, why not go after Microsoft, RSA, Symantec, etc...
Oh yeah, thats right, they would be eaten for breakfast because of that pesky prior art thing that they so nicely ignored.
corporate america needs a kick in the pants. America has to realise one thing.... the rest of the world
It has been in the -ac (and subsequently in -mjc) tree for quite a while.
2.5 merged it around 2.5.4 (IIRC)
Look, where is all this wonderful service that you city folk are supposed to be subsidising?
You missed the point. There is NO wonderful service. Because we are subsidising you bush folk, noone gets a good / decent product.
Now, with respect to DSL, even I (city biased person that I am) have to admit, that Telstra's problems have nothing to do with the bush. Just bad network equipment, infrastructure, planning, implementation, business policies, etc... the list is endless
yes and no.
part of the problem with high cost in Australia is paying for the Southern Cross cable. Well if you are using Telstra that is.
There are other networks in Australia (PowerTel, Optus, RequestDSL, etc...) that don't use the Southern Cross cable.
One thing that really raises the prices in Australia and really shits the city folk (me) off their rocker, is that we must subsidise the bush. Not only that, we must provide the bush people with the same level of service as that of the city. Meaning in reality, the bush doesn't get good service, but the city gets bad service. Therefore they are the same.
If I was living in the bush, I could get subsidised Satellite because there is nothing else available. However, since I am in a new estate but in an established area, just outside of the city (bout 15-20 minutes drive from Brisbane - read Mt Gravatt) my choices are limited. I can spend a shit load paying for microwave - i don't think so tim, try and get DSL from my Telco (Telstra or Optus) and find out that I have pair gain lines (where they split multiple "lines" over the same copper pair), or move into the CBD. again, i dont think so.
This is where a number of new companies, such as RequestDSL are doing so well, in that they are supplying a carrier grade DSL network to the business community over a SLA covered backhaul (nb, Telstra don't provide ANY SLA on any service, be it residential or business) with excellent uptime ( > 99.98%), throughput and latency.
Here, where I am, I have both 2Mb DSL from RequestDSL and Satellite (supposed to be ~ 400K, but really only around 30K most of the time) and things don't work too badly.
Another bad thing about Telstra's DSL is their damn authentication and heartbeat crap. What happened (such as those "real" business DSL suppliers - RequestDSL) to supplying ethernet straight from the router!?!?
Disclaimer : I do not work for RequestDSL. However, I do work for a RequestDSL channel partner - SecureONE
Not knowing much about his role at microsoft, or USAF, but he is the current president of the Information Systems Security Association (www.issa.org).
The ISSA seems to be an interesting and informative organisation. Their monthly magazine has some good articles, but the advertising seems to be mainly interested in selling you products to secure your phone lines and phone systems, than your network, border routers, etc...
Their meetings and presentations are definately worth the yearly charge.
Although I must say that his editorial is mostly waffle than real content.
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