Enterprise Solution - Solvent used for dissolving piles of cash in corporate vaults.
LOL. That is absolutely true at least for the company I work for.
One thing I've noticed though, is that where the 'enterprise solution' comes from entirely depends upon the decision by corporate to buy it to dissolve excess cash on hand. For some reason they don't seem to bat an eye at spending millions of dollars for any solution that carries the Microsoft brand, even though it inevitably is less interoperable than alternatives, but they balk at paying licences for Redhat or Suse products, regardless of the actual cost. Maybe Redhat, Suse and other vendors need to add some kind of strawberry flavoring to their enterprise solution.
I think you're using definitions at odds with both common usage and political theory.
We have a Democratic Republic, one of the many forms of Democracy.
You're right in that these days, the uninformed have an almost religious believe in "democracy". The folks who founded this country had no illusions as to its dangers. You will note that neither the work democracy, nor any forms or subset of same appears in the Constitution. However, it is stated quite plainly in article 4, section 4 that "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government".
A democracy is two wolves and a sheep getting together to decide what's for lunch.
What we have here, in modern parlance is a representative republic.
ePub is modified HTML. Or rather, it's just strict XML with stylesheets, bundled up into a zip file. That's it. If you can make a web page, you can make an ePub.
I find calibre to be a wonderful tool for creating/converting simple ebooks. Runs on Linux/Windows/Mac
I have yet to hear an entire Pink Floyd album played on the radio.
That probably just means you're too young to remember radio stations whose format was termed "album rock". I've heard Dark Side, Animals, Wish You Were Here, and Meddle all played as entire albums on the radio. DJs loved it back then because it gave them nice long breaks. These days where everything is computerized, it's not an issue. Hell, I can set my computer up on random play with no repeats and it'll run for a month before it runs out of material.
I love the snowmen cartoons as well. My favorite is the one where Calvin builds one being run over by a car, with horrified onlookers. Dad's comment is "I think we'd better get that kid to a psychiatrist."
The U.S. government will never allow widespread use of such a craft. The FAA is trying to essentially eliminate community airfields with their regulations and "anti-terrorist" programs. While I'd love to be able to fly to work, it's just not.going.to.happen.
The nightly for Lightning seems to work pretty good, though I've run into a couple of bugs. (ate one my calendars - fortunately I backup often!)
I've been using the beta for 3.0 for a while now, and one feature of 2.x that I liked that does not seem to be present is the ability to display a single message as HTML. I generally do email as plain text, but occasionally I will want to see the html version of a message. Having a single button to allow for that (and the associated pulling of remote images and such) is useful. I don't want all email to be html-enabled because I generally distrust webbugs, and I don't want to assist spammers.
Have I missed something? Does anyone have any good/useful suggestions?
I must have had my head stuck in the sand for the past 6 years.
No. You just rely on the MSM (mainstream media) to give you the news. Problem is, the MSM is still pretending the times has credibility. They'll only tell you what they think you need to hear.
Never have mod points when you need them. These more whacky conspiracy theories are but a symptom of a much larger issue of trust. NASA actually brought some of it on themselves, though because there were some doctored photos, because there were certain shots that they wanted for PR purposes and they weren't willing to allow chance to play a role.
This ruling means there will soon be lead-tainted Lego-compatible pieces made in a certain Asian country and sold mostly through Walmart. Yeah, they'll break, discolor, and not fit together all that well, but they'll be significantly cheaper than genuine Legos, because Lego can't get away with paying its employees $2500 a year. And these new parts will soon outsell Lego.
I can't say I disagree with this assessment I'm afraid. The biggest problem Lego will face is that the people buying most of the cheap knock-offs won't be the ones who will be building with them, unfortunately. I recall buying some of those Mega brisks for my daughters, and realized after helping them put together one model that they were useless junk. Never bought any more of them because they simply do not hold up like real Lego when building things. The only reason I know how bad they were is because I was down there building with them myself and saw how bad it was.
I'd imagine that most parents wouldn't get the hands-on experience to know the difference.
That's been one of my longstanding sysadmin mottos: "If you haven't had to reload a production system from release media, you aren't trying hard enough."
Yup. That's why one of my standard interview questions, is "Please desctibe for me the most spectacular manner in which you've taken out a production box".
I consider it a great 'character' question, as Ireally don't trust people who say they've never done it.
Many years ago when the SSC (Superconducting Super Collider) was still being built in Texas, I went to an HP users group meeting as I was working primarily with HP-3000 systems at the time. The fellow addressing the meeting was the head of the physics department at the SSC. It was a really neat presentation, in which he described a similar, though orders of magnitude smaller data storage requirement, though he was talking terabytes of data per month IIRC. At the time, they were planning on using two arrays of 40 workstation computers to handle the load. This would have been fairly early loosely coupled setup similar to a Beowulf cluster.
After the presentation I went up to him and told him that all I wanted to do is sell him mag-tapes.
These types of experiments evidently produce tons of data. I wonder if the processing could be parcelled out like Stanford's Folding@Home or SETI to speed up data correlations.
That works fine if you only have small systems where every box has one IP. What about the webservers where you are running 20-30 websites on a single box, or application servers with a similar number of unique IPs?
We've been dealing with spreadsheet hell at the company where I work for years now, and it is only getting worse. We've got huge multi-page spreadsheets with hundreds of nonroutable network subnets in them. Worst thing about this is that ultimately, the spreadsheets cannot really be trusted because there is no way to verify that each IP in the sheet is live, or even desired to still be reserved for a specific purpose, because over time, people leave, projects come and go, and networks change through mergers/acquisitions.
You also have the little fiefdoms to worry about where group X has control over a big bunch of IP address space, but because it is managed through MS-AD, it doesn't communicate with anything to help you to manage it, or at least the controlling organizations won't let you manage it from a global perspective.
Of the packages I've looked at in the open source world, IPPlan and Sauron seem to be just about good enough for the task, but neither one seems to be actively developed anymore.
Baen's library, while it's great, doesn't include all of their books. They choose which books to include mainly for promotional purposes, and allow authors to opt out.
While that is true, they do provide many books for free in an unencumbered format for download, DRM free, and have a WebScription site that allows you to download others at a reasonable price, also completely DRM free.
Jim Baen got it, God rest his soul, and the company he left behind still does.
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Wow, you're right. In binary I can count to 1023 on my fingers and 1,048,575 if I use my toes...
Don't you mean that in binary you can count to 1111111111 on your fingers, and 11111111111111111111 if you include your toes?
Enterprise Solution - Solvent used for dissolving piles of cash in corporate vaults.
LOL. That is absolutely true at least for the company I work for.
One thing I've noticed though, is that where the 'enterprise solution' comes from entirely depends upon the decision by corporate to buy it to dissolve excess cash on hand. For some reason they don't seem to bat an eye at spending millions of dollars for any solution that carries the Microsoft brand, even though it inevitably is less interoperable than alternatives, but they balk at paying licences for Redhat or Suse products, regardless of the actual cost. Maybe Redhat, Suse and other vendors need to add some kind of strawberry flavoring to their enterprise solution.
I think you're using definitions at odds with both common usage and political theory.
We have a Democratic Republic, one of the many forms of Democracy.
You're right in that these days, the uninformed have an almost religious believe in "democracy". The folks who founded this country had no illusions as to its dangers. You will note that neither the work democracy, nor any forms or subset of same appears in the Constitution. However, it is stated quite plainly in article 4, section 4 that "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government".
A democracy is two wolves and a sheep getting together to decide what's for lunch.
What we have here, in modern parlance is a representative republic.
That's what DVRs are for. Holy shit Batman! There's some new Caprica on the DVR!
This will also kill the used book market.
That's the idea.
ePub is modified HTML. Or rather, it's just strict XML with stylesheets, bundled up into a zip file. That's it. If you can make a web page, you can make an ePub.
I find calibre to be a wonderful tool for creating/converting simple ebooks. Runs on Linux/Windows/Mac
http://calibre-ebook.com/
Haven't tried it with anything really complex yet though.
What I really like, is that I can take a Project Gutenberg e-text, and easily convert it from plain text to epub in seconds.
I suggest you look at the passage in question again. It wasn't Jesus who was to be stoned. It was an adultress.
Good for us. Bad for the owner. MS cannot fuck the owner on our behalf.
Strange. I thought fuck the consumer" was their business model.
See WGA
I have yet to hear an entire Pink Floyd album played on the radio.
That probably just means you're too young to remember radio stations whose format was termed "album rock". I've heard Dark Side, Animals, Wish You Were Here, and Meddle all played as entire albums on the radio. DJs loved it back then because it gave them nice long breaks. These days where everything is computerized, it's not an issue. Hell, I can set my computer up on random play with no repeats and it'll run for a month before it runs out of material.
It seems like one mp3 of the whole album should be fine to sell.
Funny. That's how I've ripped all my Floyd discs.
It's really the only way to listen to WYWH, Animals, or DSOTM,
I'll never forgive Bill for this torturous dream.
That's not a dream. It's a nightmare.
I love the snowmen cartoons as well. My favorite is the one where Calvin builds one being run over by a car, with horrified onlookers. Dad's comment is "I think we'd better get that kid to a psychiatrist."
The U.S. government will never allow widespread use of such a craft. The FAA is trying to essentially eliminate community airfields with their regulations and "anti-terrorist" programs. While I'd love to be able to fly to work, it's just not.going.to.happen.
The nightly for Lightning seems to work pretty good, though I've run into a couple of bugs. (ate one my calendars - fortunately I backup often!)
I've been using the beta for 3.0 for a while now, and one feature of 2.x that I liked that does not seem to be present is the ability to display a single message as HTML. I generally do email as plain text, but occasionally I will want to see the html version of a message. Having a single button to allow for that (and the associated pulling of remote images and such) is useful. I don't want all email to be html-enabled because I generally distrust webbugs, and I don't want to assist spammers.
Have I missed something? Does anyone have any good/useful suggestions?
I must have had my head stuck in the sand for the past 6 years.
No. You just rely on the MSM (mainstream media) to give you the news. Problem is, the MSM is still pretending the times has credibility. They'll only tell you what they think you need to hear.
For M16s and other assorted modern weapons,go to Brickarms. Unfortunately, they can't seem to keep things from being horribly backordered.
LOL. My oldest daughter used to rip their heads and hands off. I used to think that was fairly strange.
Never have mod points when you need them. These more whacky conspiracy theories are but a symptom of a much larger issue of trust. NASA actually brought some of it on themselves, though because there were some doctored photos, because there were certain shots that they wanted for PR purposes and they weren't willing to allow chance to play a role.
This ruling means there will soon be lead-tainted Lego-compatible pieces made in a certain Asian country and sold mostly through Walmart. Yeah, they'll break, discolor, and not fit together all that well, but they'll be significantly cheaper than genuine Legos, because Lego can't get away with paying its employees $2500 a year. And these new parts will soon outsell Lego.
I can't say I disagree with this assessment I'm afraid. The biggest problem Lego will face is that the people buying most of the cheap knock-offs won't be the ones who will be building with them, unfortunately. I recall buying some of those Mega brisks for my daughters, and realized after helping them put together one model that they were useless junk. Never bought any more of them because they simply do not hold up like real Lego when building things. The only reason I know how bad they were is because I was down there building with them myself and saw how bad it was.
I'd imagine that most parents wouldn't get the hands-on experience to know the difference.
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That's been one of my longstanding sysadmin mottos: "If you haven't had to reload a production system from release media, you aren't trying hard enough."
Yup. That's why one of my standard interview questions, is "Please desctibe for me the most spectacular manner in which you've taken out a production box".
I consider it a great 'character' question, as Ireally don't trust people who say they've never done it.
File exists, or file not found.
I've never understood this message. It is telling you that either the file exists, or it doesn't.
WTF?
what is the third word of this sentence?
What is the first word of the sentance.
Interesting article.
Many years ago when the SSC (Superconducting Super Collider) was still being built in Texas, I went to an HP users group meeting as I was working primarily with HP-3000 systems at the time. The fellow addressing the meeting was the head of the physics department at the SSC. It was a really neat presentation, in which he described a similar, though orders of magnitude smaller data storage requirement, though he was talking terabytes of data per month IIRC. At the time, they were planning on using two arrays of 40 workstation computers to handle the load. This would have been fairly early loosely coupled setup similar to a Beowulf cluster.
After the presentation I went up to him and told him that all I wanted to do is sell him mag-tapes.
These types of experiments evidently produce tons of data. I wonder if the processing could be parcelled out like Stanford's Folding@Home or SETI to speed up data correlations.
That works fine if you only have small systems where every box has one IP. What about the webservers where you are running 20-30 websites on a single box, or application servers with a similar number of unique IPs?
We've been dealing with spreadsheet hell at the company where I work for years now, and it is only getting worse. We've got huge multi-page spreadsheets with hundreds of nonroutable network subnets in them. Worst thing about this is that ultimately, the spreadsheets cannot really be trusted because there is no way to verify that each IP in the sheet is live, or even desired to still be reserved for a specific purpose, because over time, people leave, projects come and go, and networks change through mergers/acquisitions.
You also have the little fiefdoms to worry about where group X has control over a big bunch of IP address space, but because it is managed through MS-AD, it doesn't communicate with anything to help you to manage it, or at least the controlling organizations won't let you manage it from a global perspective.
Of the packages I've looked at in the open source world, IPPlan and Sauron seem to be just about good enough for the task, but neither one seems to be actively developed anymore.
Baen's library, while it's great, doesn't include all of their books. They choose which books to include mainly for promotional purposes, and allow authors to opt out.
While that is true, they do provide many books for free in an unencumbered format for download, DRM free, and have a WebScription site that allows you to download others at a reasonable price, also completely DRM free.
Jim Baen got it, God rest his soul, and the company he left behind still does.