Those were ordinary zealot soldiers. Every one has their bigots and ignoramuses.
There was far more preservation of the classical world under Islamic rule than any other contemporary civilization. It is enjoined in the Q'ran: "Seek knowledge, even unto China (the ends of the earth.)"
Remember this when you use terms like "algorithm", "algebra", "azimuth" and "apogee".
These are not technology issues, but rather policy concerns. If Sr. Management is unable to view this as a critical exposure of their business, and are unwilling to listen to this as an issue requiring the formulation policy, consider this job an excellent learning exprience, and quietly, begin circulating your resume.
Management that believes it cannot afford to implement this kind of IT policy needs to consider if it can afford to have its data and business tools unavailable for a day.
Or two...
In such an organization, the Engineers and Admins will be held accountable for "technology" failures, which are in reality failure in policy and process. Nonetheless, the Admins will be disciplined or fired!
Policy - rightly- belongs to management. It is not a Technology decision.
In the best of worlds, management would seek to make enlightened decisions, informed by the best technical information from Engineering, with an understanding of what is critical to the business and its mission. I know that in the real world, we can hope for about half of this, and that all of the players are usually pursuing numerous private agendas... Nonetheless, If this business is dependent on its information systems, test/cert/stage is an important enough exposure to request funding from the Board or the Investors. Otherwise, cover your rear, and look to your future!
sys admin (yes one of those of the clueless types) installed a service pack on the main NT server, it broke NT, exchange and the MsSQL server, and the network was escentialy down for 2 days..
This is why you never apply any patch or make a significant change to production, without first validating these changes in a test environment!
This is a methodology issue, that does not distinguish between operating systems or hardware platforms.
Systems configuration must be treated like source-code, and a proper Configuration Management policy instituted. Without this, systems are at best, irreproducable - at worst, subject to the problems you have experienced.
It is true that Windows OS's -- with their binary configuration registry -- are peculiarly resistant to platform versioning by any CM style system. MS can't really claim scalability untill the equivalent of a toolkit like cfEngine/Jumpstart/package management/version repository (CVS) is available.
> Just like that old phrase says, noone ever got fired for buying Microsoft.
The old phrase was "No one ever got fired for buying IBM. This Microsoft thing is new, new, new...
MS was nowhere on the map of officer-level folks until MS Office 4.2, which, I think, was late 1994.
We all have short memories, trained by rapid devel/deploy cycles, and an industry with 14 month lifecycles. The IBM quote was common in the 80's, and generally was used in reference to folks like DEC, DataGeneral, Amdahl, etc...
It was Hubbard's editor, John W. Campbell - Hugo Gernsback's successor at Amazing Stories.
The two were friends, and at a dinner conversation, Campbell responded to Hubbard's complaint that there was little money in writing for magazines. He said that the real money to be made was in Religion, with the added benefit of being exempt from taxation.
Hubbard started to speculate on what you would need to do, to start a religion. Campbell insisted you couldn't just start a religion, which Hubbard took as a friendly challenge and responded by asserting that he could, and reportedly, bet Campbell a Million dollars that it could be done!
Needless to say, Hubbard may have won the bet, but never collected from Campbell. By then, he was already being secluded by his children, who wished their father to receive as little public examination as possible.
A few of Campbell's contemporaries in the SF publishing world knew this story well, and I remember Harlan Ellison (a famous exagerator, mind you) recounting it as received from Campbell himself....
The point about grain/gene patents was just an individual illustration of the total lack of a civil impulse in the ethic of the marketplace. Whoever issued the patent is an obfuscation of the issue. Monsanto still seeks the imprisonment of people from whom it stole its "technology".
Now, to directly address your absurd need to find a Government institution responsible for this:
The US government issues the patent, without the input of the impacted community, who are:
1) Largely illiterate (but NOT ignorant)
2) Socially marginal in their own country
3) Congenitally responsible for the varieties of rice we know of as Basmati.
We can then thank the likes of GATT, WTO, etc., for enforcement of this abroad, in the face of Indian "sovereignity".
The US Patent Office is a blind stooge to the con artists using it. It has regulations established for it, that weigh in favor of the Corporations who donate heavily in political campaigns, and numerous other warts that go beyond mentioning here.
..."It is the LOVE of money, that is the root of all evil..."
"The difference between Government and Corporations is that Corporations have to EARN their dollars"...
Excepting the cases where they obtain these dollars through the private manipulation of public resources and institutions.
Or the cases that involve theft, fraud, graft, etc.
Or the cases where Corporations monopolize a commodity, or market something far beyond its intrinsic value through distorted information campaigns.
I do not agree with Carr's conclusions, but his contention that the incentive to profit is generally a disincentive to social and civil resposibility is pretty much in evidence.
These so-called "EARNings" are at the expense of millions.
Example:
There are Agribusiness concerns patenting Basmati rice strains, which they derived from the prior work of hundreds of generations of farmers in the Indian sub-continent. These corporations, like Monsanto, "EARN" profit from the stolen heritage of many thousand years. They have legal ownership of this gene strain, as if they were present at the dawn of life, and combined the first basic proteins!
They maintain this ability to "EARN" via manipulation though all of my above mentioned tactics, and are imprisoning the same Indian rice-farmers who dare grow their own 'infringing' strains.
The church of the free market is conviced that this behavior is an anomaly, and that market forces will coerce civility! Just like they have with deCSS and MP3, etc.
HUMBUG!
Re:Obviously the screenshots aren't very special..
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hit the <WRONG>button</WRONG>
Obviously the screenshots aren't very special...
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If the screenshots don't seem special, you haven't looked closley enough!
Every font is anti-aliased, as are many of the lines, etc.<p>
I also see that the test is not only multi-lingual, but there is advanced <b>BiDi</b> and unicode support with dynamic keyboard re-binding. This evidenced by the Hebrew and Arabic in menus, forms and text fields.<p>
I think that this means that Pixbuf and Pango are along farther than I thought, and that a simple lib swap gets about any Gtk+ app/library running on the fb.<p>
This is the most plausible theory, and makes sense to people who wouldn't usually associate with the wing-nuts in the tin-foil beanies.
It could have been a REAL minor virus/trojan occurrence. These happen at big companies all the time. (I'm a security consultant, I get to see the stuff...)
Microsoft is not famous for disclosure, even under oath. Nontheless, they have voluntarily made the decision to go public with a damaging publicity incident. They are sure to be milking the cow for a reason...
Generally, these things are not at all publicized. Keep it hush! Where did this story first break? MSNBC? Did they call a press conference?
Keep your eyes open. It will be interesting to watch the further developments here. Microsoft are surely interested in manipulation of laws and government, as amply evidenced by the behaviors exhibited in the course of their subpoenaed testimony.
Bill calls the shots from the top, and he's arrogant enough to think that the Constitutional mechanisms for statute and regulation are archaic impediments to himself, personally - and to Microsoft only by extension of his ego.
What I wonder is, is there any filesystem that makes it easier for filemanagers to track changes in the filesystem?
This is not, properly, a function of the file system.
Instead, you want a file-monitoring daemon, independant of the many fs's you may be accessing. This will include monitoring the changes across NFS, etc., and removable-media.
SGI Irix does this beautifully with its File Alteration Monitor (FAM) and Inode Monitor (IMON).
If you've ever used the 4Dwm filemanager, you'll know what I mean.
Fortunately, SGI has added these projects to its OSS roster, and documented, portable sources are available at: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/
IBM would do well to work with the existing project, or at least to establish a good-faith basis for communucation with the developer community already committed to solutions under public license.
Yeah! One of the Guys I work with is a contributor to this project! Weird and cool...
Re:Imagine a Beowulf of these things...
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Old English:
Really closer to Flemish or "Flemming" as anything... That's the Frisian language spoken in parts of Nederland and Belgie.
The first Saxon invaders of Britain were brothers, Hengst and Horsa were their names, if I recall correctly.
They hailed from this part of the continent. Hired on as mercenaries, to protect the last vestige of roman-british government... They found out that there was more money in running things themselves, and burned the British Dux (Duke) in his fort. I think he was called Vortigern.
Pretty stirring stuff! A few generations down the line, with lots of Danish-blooded Jutes thrown into the mix, these folks produce Beowulf, providing a romantic glance backward at their pagan halcyon days...
In fact, OS/2 Version 3 (32-bit OS/2) by Microsoft, eventually became NT 3.1.
The crew Dave Cutler brought from Oregon were going to be building 32-bit OS/2 v.3. The problems in the relationship with IBM were exacerbated by MS insisting that the next OS/2 MUST be 32-bit, while IBM was convinced that a lighter, 16-bit version would still storm the market, given a little more time.
Gates & Ballmer got the agreement to split 16 and 32 -bit development with IBM on company lines. It was only as Win3.x applications began to emerge as the business standard that MS got the courage to implement a Win API subsystem on the NT kernel, as opposed to a PM subsystem.
The console-based OS/2 subsystem present through NT 4 was a vestige of this original direction.
Enough of this! See what talking about NetBEUI will dredge forth from the depths!
These were not systems that were designed or engineered... Rather, they were politic'ed and marketed into existance!
Slashdot Mirror
There was far more preservation of the classical world under Islamic rule than any other contemporary civilization. It is enjoined in the Q'ran: "Seek knowledge, even unto China (the ends of the earth.)"
Remember this when you use terms like "algorithm", "algebra", "azimuth" and "apogee".
Jeremiah
Management that believes it cannot afford to implement this kind of IT policy needs to consider if it can afford to have its data and business tools unavailable for a day.
Or two...
In such an organization, the Engineers and Admins will be held accountable for "technology" failures, which are in reality failure in policy and process. Nonetheless, the Admins will be disciplined or fired!
Policy - rightly- belongs to management. It is not a Technology decision.
In the best of worlds, management would seek to make enlightened decisions, informed by the best technical information from Engineering, with an understanding of what is critical to the business and its mission. I know that in the real world, we can hope for about half of this, and that all of the players are usually pursuing numerous private agendas... Nonetheless, If this business is dependent on its information systems, test/cert/stage is an important enough exposure to request funding from the Board or the Investors. Otherwise, cover your rear, and look to your future!
Jeremiah
sys admin (yes one of those of the clueless types) installed a service pack on the main NT server, it broke NT, exchange and the MsSQL server, and the network was escentialy down for 2 days ..
This is why you never apply any patch or make a significant change to production, without first validating these changes in a test environment!
This is a methodology issue, that does not distinguish between operating systems or hardware platforms.
Systems configuration must be treated like source-code, and a proper Configuration Management policy instituted. Without this, systems are at best, irreproducable - at worst, subject to the problems you have experienced.
It is true that Windows OS's -- with their binary configuration registry -- are peculiarly resistant to platform versioning by any CM style system. MS can't really claim scalability untill the equivalent of a toolkit like cfEngine/Jumpstart/package management/version repository (CVS) is available.
NOT A FLAME...
Jeremiah
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Straight down!
Jeremiah
The old phrase was "No one ever got fired for buying IBM. This Microsoft thing is new, new, new...
MS was nowhere on the map of officer-level folks until MS Office 4.2, which, I think, was late 1994.
We all have short memories, trained by rapid devel/deploy cycles, and an industry with 14 month lifecycles. The IBM quote was common in the 80's, and generally was used in reference to folks like DEC, DataGeneral, Amdahl, etc...
Jeremiah
That'd be God
The two were friends, and at a dinner conversation, Campbell responded to Hubbard's complaint that there was little money in writing for magazines. He said that the real money to be made was in Religion, with the added benefit of being exempt from taxation.
Hubbard started to speculate on what you would need to do, to start a religion. Campbell insisted you couldn't just start a religion, which Hubbard took as a friendly challenge and responded by asserting that he could, and reportedly, bet Campbell a Million dollars that it could be done!
Needless to say, Hubbard may have won the bet, but never collected from Campbell. By then, he was already being secluded by his children, who wished their father to receive as little public examination as possible.
A few of Campbell's contemporaries in the SF publishing world knew this story well, and I remember Harlan Ellison (a famous exagerator, mind you) recounting it as received from Campbell himself....
Jeremiah Cornelius
I would be interested in a few of these, were they available at an "overstock" discount!
Jeremiah
Patti Smith first sang "Jesus died for sombodies sins, but not mine"
Billy Idol was just quoting her song. It's not really in Billy's line, which runs more like:
"Hey little sister, Shotgun!"
or going wayyy back: "One hundred Punks rule!"
Jeremiah Cornelius and the Stiff Little Fingers.
IP Tables is available as a patch (module) for the 2.2 Kernels...
Jeremiah Cornelius
He even looks like "SATAN"
Jeremiah
I've just booted the HURD!
Now, to directly address your absurd need to find a Government institution responsible for this:
The US government issues the patent, without the input of the impacted community, who are:
1) Largely illiterate (but NOT ignorant)
2) Socially marginal in their own country
3) Congenitally responsible for the varieties of rice we know of as Basmati.
We can then thank the likes of GATT, WTO, etc., for enforcement of this abroad, in the face of Indian "sovereignity".
The US Patent Office is a blind stooge to the con artists using it. It has regulations established for it, that weigh in favor of the Corporations who donate heavily in political campaigns, and numerous other warts that go beyond mentioning here.
Excepting the cases where they obtain these dollars through the private manipulation of public resources and institutions.
Or the cases that involve theft, fraud, graft, etc.
Or the cases where Corporations monopolize a commodity, or market something far beyond its intrinsic value through distorted information campaigns.
I do not agree with Carr's conclusions, but his contention that the incentive to profit is generally a disincentive to social and civil resposibility is pretty much in evidence.
These so-called "EARNings" are at the expense of millions.
Example:
There are Agribusiness concerns patenting Basmati rice strains, which they derived from the prior work of hundreds of generations of farmers in the Indian sub-continent. These corporations, like Monsanto, "EARN" profit from the stolen heritage of many thousand years. They have legal ownership of this gene strain, as if they were present at the dawn of life, and combined the first basic proteins!
They maintain this ability to "EARN" via manipulation though all of my above mentioned tactics, and are imprisoning the same Indian rice-farmers who dare grow their own 'infringing' strains.
The church of the free market is conviced that this behavior is an anomaly, and that market forces will coerce civility! Just like they have with deCSS and MP3, etc.
HUMBUG!
Yeah...
hit the <WRONG>button</WRONG>
Every font is anti-aliased, as are many of the lines, etc.<p>
I also see that the test is not only multi-lingual, but there is advanced <b>BiDi</b> and unicode support with dynamic keyboard re-binding. This evidenced by the Hebrew and Arabic in menus, forms and text fields.<p>
I think that this means that Pixbuf and Pango are along farther than I thought, and that a simple lib swap gets about any Gtk+ app/library running on the fb.<p>
It could have been a REAL minor virus/trojan occurrence. These happen at big companies all the time. (I'm a security consultant, I get to see the stuff...)
Microsoft is not famous for disclosure, even under oath. Nontheless, they have voluntarily made the decision to go public with a damaging publicity incident. They are sure to be milking the cow for a reason...
Generally, these things are not at all publicized. Keep it hush! Where did this story first break? MSNBC? Did they call a press conference?
Keep your eyes open. It will be interesting to watch the further developments here. Microsoft are surely interested in manipulation of laws and government, as amply evidenced by the behaviors exhibited in the course of their subpoenaed testimony.
Bill calls the shots from the top, and he's arrogant enough to think that the Constitutional mechanisms for statute and regulation are archaic impediments to himself, personally - and to Microsoft only by extension of his ego.
Jeremiah Cornelius
This is not, properly, a function of the file system.
Instead, you want a file-monitoring daemon, independant of the many fs's you may be accessing. This will include monitoring the changes across NFS, etc., and removable-media.
SGI Irix does this beautifully with its File Alteration Monitor (FAM) and Inode Monitor (IMON).
If you've ever used the 4Dwm filemanager, you'll know what I mean.
Fortunately, SGI has added these projects to its OSS roster, and documented, portable sources are available at: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/
Jeremiah Cornelius
This has been on USENET, since February, at least.
Suddenly, it's news to the world!
--Jeremiah
Better and more eclectic content anyways...
I'm glad I didn't follow Slashdot SOP and accuse IBM of hubris, misdeeds, or ignorance...
Maybe this will see the EXPERIMENTAL light of day in early 2.4 revs.
Jeremiah
http://linux.msede.com/lvm/
Check Freshmeat for updates.
IBM would do well to work with the existing project, or at least to establish a good-faith basis for communucation with the developer community already committed to solutions under public license.
Jeremiah
Yeah! One of the Guys I work with is a contributor to this project! Weird and cool...
Old English:
Really closer to Flemish or "Flemming" as anything... That's the Frisian language spoken in parts of Nederland and Belgie.
The first Saxon invaders of Britain were brothers, Hengst and Horsa were their names, if I recall correctly.
They hailed from this part of the continent. Hired on as mercenaries, to protect the last vestige of roman-british government... They found out that there was more money in running things themselves, and burned the British Dux (Duke) in his fort. I think he was called Vortigern.
Pretty stirring stuff! A few generations down the line, with lots of Danish-blooded Jutes thrown into the mix, these folks produce Beowulf, providing a romantic glance backward at their pagan halcyon days...
'Course, I might be mistaken.
This should be anEverything thread!
The crew Dave Cutler brought from Oregon were going to be building 32-bit OS/2 v.3. The problems in the relationship with IBM were exacerbated by MS insisting that the next OS/2 MUST be 32-bit, while IBM was convinced that a lighter, 16-bit version would still storm the market, given a little more time.
Gates & Ballmer got the agreement to split 16 and 32 -bit development with IBM on company lines. It was only as Win3.x applications began to emerge as the business standard that MS got the courage to implement a Win API subsystem on the NT kernel, as opposed to a PM subsystem.
The console-based OS/2 subsystem present through NT 4 was a vestige of this original direction.
Enough of this! See what talking about NetBEUI will dredge forth from the depths!
These were not systems that were designed or engineered... Rather, they were politic'ed and marketed into existance!
--Jeremiah