Running a Windows desktop VM on a Linux workstation is actually an excellent solution in the right circumstances. On one hand you seem to say that using the right tool for the job is best, but then you come out with this tripe? Shame on your 4-digit UID!
Having worked for a large oil company, we used VMPlayer to run the standard Windows desktop build on each of the extremely high-end Linux geophys workstations. Why? Because having 2x 30" monitors on a geologists desk was enough and using a KVM to completely switch everything from one machine to another was not desirable. This wasn't done because we were zealots or anything, but because the geologists requested it. And when you're in oil exploration, everything revolves around the geologists (as long as they're good!)
Who modded me Funny? I'm serious - I like the scheme. But it's like PIN numbers on credit cards - people HATE change. They'll find a way to criticise it as insecure, big brother, or anything - just to denigrate it.
You think the current system is secure? You think the current system works well?
Seriously - there are more people who would accept this scheme than is reported in the general press. And the concerns about big brother and invasion of privacy are only equal to the same concerns but of the current system. The new driving licenses are great (apart from the points I've currently got of course). This scheme isn't such a big step away from that.
And to the real privacy concerned brigade . . . get your tin foil hats off.
Sorry . . . but COOK the popcorn? I know there's a technical correctness to that phrase, but "cook" is a somewhat gradiose for the efforts required to produce popcorn...
What nasty 50Mbit users they must be!!! Imagine actually USING their connections at the same time as you - how inconsiderate:-( I'd have started crying right about . . . . WOA - hold on.
As they pay more than you, what makes you think that they should be throttled more than you? The 50Mbit service has no traffic shaping or download limits. THAT'S WHY SOME OF US PAY FOR THAT SERVICE.
If you want to pay for a cheaper server - go right ahead. Just don't whine when people who pay more than you are using their service to the full.
Selfish users indeed. Pay for the service - or in your case, don't.
Being on the 50Mbit connection, I'll confirm the absence of traffic shaping.
I'll also confirm that the service runs at VERY close to the advertised speed the vast majority of the time.
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I actually took part in a trial of a system like this at my local GP's when I was still at school. I've still got the credit card sized optical card that has a store of all my patient records at that time.
Don't know what the reasons for the demise of the project were, but carrying your own data around with you is exactly what people don't like about ID cards. It could also scratch easily and doctors had no access to the data unless you were actually in the practice with your card.
Centrally stored universally accessible (with applicable restrictions if you ABSOLUTELY need them) are the only way forward. Been knocked over by a bus in a strange city? Have medical complications that it would be just great if the Doctors treating you had access to?
Quite simply it is that Doctors believe they are the most intelligent people in the room whenever they walk in. They will accept no management advice, no time allocation advice, no parking advice, no dietary advice . . . no advice.
They believe that they are already operating in the most efficient manner and that any change will put patient lives at risk. Well . . . actually they don't believe this, but this excuse is used every time they don't like something. A quick "OOooooo - patient lives at risk" and any progressive idea is already on the back foot.
This ideology permeates through the health care system with consultants at the top right down through the chain to the nurses.
Getting these people to agree on ANYTHING is a Herculean task.
A friend of mine (a Doctor) was on a committee trying to bring more IT into the healthcare system in Scotland. He is very IT minded (read geek) and was keen as mustard to help push things along. Within a handful of months, he was at the end of his tether due to the sheer deluge of nonsensical crap that was being floated purely to waste the committee's time and ensure that nothing got done.
There is also the notion that "copying" someone else's work as a target is a good thing to do.
Innovation rarely gets it right first time round. There are few examples of big innovations working well first time out.
The huge number of hands to code Open Source projects does enable fast innovation, but copying should not be seen as an evil thing. I don't think there are too many projects where copying the exact functionallity of Microsoft or Apple products is the aim. I would humbly suggest that copying the good parts and improving the poor parts is what drives innovation in many areas - and that this isn't a bad thing.
This has nothing to do with robotic cars. It's a way of letting traffic exchange information with traffic signalling systems so that best traffic flow can be maintained.
Then cars/SatNav that can receive information will take updates from traffic signals that alert them of problems along the route and possibly alternative routes.
It's every person's right to do whatever they want (laws of the land not withstanding).
If a user is not inclined to submit bug reports - fine. To call them an asshat for not doing so is poor at the VERY least.
The vast majority of society are sheep. We will generally follow each other without complaint.
The Linux community is not just made up of developers and testers. There are also a huge amount of USERS. These strange beasts merely USE systems and actually expect them to work. Shock horror. As someone who actively submits bug reports (although not as much recently I have to admit), I do not have the right to criticise anyone else for not joining in the community and putting in effort like I do. The development is not carried out solely by unpaid coders doing things for their own enjoyment any more. Corporate money is ploughed into Linux at every stage.
Criticism should not be taken as an attack. It should all be taken constructively. That's part of how the community has to work. If there is a problem somewhere in the OS/distro/application, then that problem should be looked into - regardless of whether the user managed to submit a bug report.
In short - stop whining about non-contributory users. They outnumber you, me, the developers, the testers, the artists, the translators etc by a huge margin. They're not going to convert to bug submitting do-gooders that you think we should all be. Telling them that they're all asshats - way to go. We'll grow the user base that way!
Concorde wasn't 10x normal prices. Least when I flew on it it wasn't.
Ticket price on Concorde was a little over £4000 one way. A Business class BA ticket on subsonic flight was NEVER as cheap as £400 on the same route. I've never paid for a business class ticket from LHR to JFK, but I think they were around £1500.
British Airways made a pretty good fist of Concorde despite it being restricted so heavily by the FAA. Air France made a complete hash of it on the other hand.
Bull. IBM are making a big play on Open Source. Yes they make money from it, but so do Novell, Red Hat et al.
IBM are a services company at heart. Of course they will support an area into which they can expand their services. Only an idiot wouldn't do this. But it doesn't mean support of Open Source is fleeting or anything. Microsoft are heavy supporters of Intel/AMD based computers. Why? That's the platform that supports their business model.
Get over it. IBM's involvement here is in the interests of Open Source and it is a Good Thing (TM).
Here's you with your 71012 ID. I'm only slightly higher at 143049, but YOU decide to set the bar to exclude ME!
Pah - the ignominy of it all.
I've got a solution though . . . let's be snooty on a sliding scale. So ID's in the 100k-200k range can attract a little bit of snoot. Then a bit more for the 200k-500k brigade. Substantially more for the 500k-999,999 grouping. Finally the 7-digit mob attract nothing but derision.
Me? Yeah, I'm just SLIGHTLY bitter at having missed the 5 digit ID. What really smarts is that I read slashdot for quite a while before registering to post a comment! If only . . .
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True, my Acorn Electron didn't boot into a Qt application, but it managed to get to a prompt virtually instantly.
I've been waiting for those days to return.
Anadarko
Running a Windows desktop VM on a Linux workstation is actually an excellent solution in the right circumstances. On one hand you seem to say that using the right tool for the job is best, but then you come out with this tripe? Shame on your 4-digit UID!
Having worked for a large oil company, we used VMPlayer to run the standard Windows desktop build on each of the extremely high-end Linux geophys workstations. Why? Because having 2x 30" monitors on a geologists desk was enough and using a KVM to completely switch everything from one machine to another was not desirable. This wasn't done because we were zealots or anything, but because the geologists requested it. And when you're in oil exploration, everything revolves around the geologists (as long as they're good!)
Cheers
Duncan
Blah blah blah - BP - blah blah blah
Why don't we hear much from Haliburton and Anadarko about the spill?
Who modded me Funny? I'm serious - I like the scheme. But it's like PIN numbers on credit cards - people HATE change. They'll find a way to criticise it as insecure, big brother, or anything - just to denigrate it.
You think the current system is secure?
You think the current system works well?
Seriously - there are more people who would accept this scheme than is reported in the general press. And the concerns about big brother and invasion of privacy are only equal to the same concerns but of the current system. The new driving licenses are great (apart from the points I've currently got of course). This scheme isn't such a big step away from that.
And to the real privacy concerned brigade . . . get your tin foil hats off.
I like mine . . . no really, I do.
It's not yours . . . give it back!
Sorry . . . but COOK the popcorn? I know there's a technical correctness to that phrase, but "cook" is a somewhat gradiose for the efforts required to produce popcorn...
What nasty 50Mbit users they must be!!! Imagine actually USING their connections at the same time as you - how inconsiderate :-( I'd have started crying right about . . . . WOA - hold on.
As they pay more than you, what makes you think that they should be throttled more than you? The 50Mbit service has no traffic shaping or download limits. THAT'S WHY SOME OF US PAY FOR THAT SERVICE.
If you want to pay for a cheaper server - go right ahead. Just don't whine when people who pay more than you are using their service to the full.
Selfish users indeed. Pay for the service - or in your case, don't.
Being on the 50Mbit connection, I'll confirm the absence of traffic shaping.
I'll also confirm that the service runs at VERY close to the advertised speed the vast majority of the time.
I actually took part in a trial of a system like this at my local GP's when I was still at school. I've still got the credit card sized optical card that has a store of all my patient records at that time.
Don't know what the reasons for the demise of the project were, but carrying your own data around with you is exactly what people don't like about ID cards. It could also scratch easily and doctors had no access to the data unless you were actually in the practice with your card.
Centrally stored universally accessible (with applicable restrictions if you ABSOLUTELY need them) are the only way forward. Been knocked over by a bus in a strange city? Have medical complications that it would be just great if the Doctors treating you had access to?
Quite simply it is that Doctors believe they are the most intelligent people in the room whenever they walk in. They will accept no management advice, no time allocation advice, no parking advice, no dietary advice . . . no advice.
They believe that they are already operating in the most efficient manner and that any change will put patient lives at risk. Well . . . actually they don't believe this, but this excuse is used every time they don't like something. A quick "OOooooo - patient lives at risk" and any progressive idea is already on the back foot.
This ideology permeates through the health care system with consultants at the top right down through the chain to the nurses.
Getting these people to agree on ANYTHING is a Herculean task.
A friend of mine (a Doctor) was on a committee trying to bring more IT into the healthcare system in Scotland. He is very IT minded (read geek) and was keen as mustard to help push things along. Within a handful of months, he was at the end of his tether due to the sheer deluge of nonsensical crap that was being floated purely to waste the committee's time and ensure that nothing got done.
Doesn't avoid the random_tsunami procedure kicking in once every now and again!
There is also the notion that "copying" someone else's work as a target is a good thing to do.
Innovation rarely gets it right first time round. There are few examples of big innovations working well first time out.
The huge number of hands to code Open Source projects does enable fast innovation, but copying should not be seen as an evil thing. I don't think there are too many projects where copying the exact functionallity of Microsoft or Apple products is the aim. I would humbly suggest that copying the good parts and improving the poor parts is what drives innovation in many areas - and that this isn't a bad thing.
Cheers
Duncan
Actually, the NatWest three were guilty as sin of a major financial fraud.
Cheers
D
This has nothing to do with robotic cars. It's a way of letting traffic exchange information with traffic signalling systems so that best traffic flow can be maintained.
Then cars/SatNav that can receive information will take updates from traffic signals that alert them of problems along the route and possibly alternative routes.
It's not rocket science.
I call BS.
There's NO WAY your wife is gonna come home and say that without there being at least a dent in the fender!
Duncan
In fact the article actually states:
"Mr. Deeb s home lab likely violated the regulations of nany state and local departments, although officials have not yet announced any penalties. "
Fixed it for you
Duncan
Stamped, self addressed envelope marked "SENSITIVE INFORMATION"
Stop stop STOP
It's every person's right to do whatever they want (laws of the land not withstanding).
If a user is not inclined to submit bug reports - fine. To call them an asshat for not doing so is poor at the VERY least.
The vast majority of society are sheep. We will generally follow each other without complaint.
The Linux community is not just made up of developers and testers. There are also a huge amount of USERS. These strange beasts merely USE systems and actually expect them to work. Shock horror. As someone who actively submits bug reports (although not as much recently I have to admit), I do not have the right to criticise anyone else for not joining in the community and putting in effort like I do. The development is not carried out solely by unpaid coders doing things for their own enjoyment any more. Corporate money is ploughed into Linux at every stage.
Criticism should not be taken as an attack. It should all be taken constructively. That's part of how the community has to work. If there is a problem somewhere in the OS/distro/application, then that problem should be looked into - regardless of whether the user managed to submit a bug report.
In short - stop whining about non-contributory users. They outnumber you, me, the developers, the testers, the artists, the translators etc by a huge margin. They're not going to convert to bug submitting do-gooders that you think we should all be. Telling them that they're all asshats - way to go. We'll grow the user base that way!
Cheers
Duncan
That would make it a tripe surely and not a trupe?
dupe derives from DUP-licate
tripe derives from TRIP-licate
Donk
Great way to clear up space junk though eh?
Concorde wasn't 10x normal prices. Least when I flew on it it wasn't.
Ticket price on Concorde was a little over £4000 one way. A Business class BA ticket on subsonic flight was NEVER as cheap as £400 on the same route. I've never paid for a business class ticket from LHR to JFK, but I think they were around £1500.
British Airways made a pretty good fist of Concorde despite it being restricted so heavily by the FAA. Air France made a complete hash of it on the other hand.
Cheers
Duncan
Bull. IBM are making a big play on Open Source. Yes they make money from it, but so do Novell, Red Hat et al.
IBM are a services company at heart. Of course they will support an area into which they can expand their services. Only an idiot wouldn't do this. But it doesn't mean support of Open Source is fleeting or anything. Microsoft are heavy supporters of Intel/AMD based computers. Why? That's the platform that supports their business model.
Get over it. IBM's involvement here is in the interests of Open Source and it is a Good Thing (TM).
Duncan
You insensitive bar steward!
Here's you with your 71012 ID. I'm only slightly higher at 143049, but YOU decide to set the bar to exclude ME!
Pah - the ignominy of it all.
I've got a solution though . . . let's be snooty on a sliding scale. So ID's in the 100k-200k range can attract a little bit of snoot. Then a bit more for the 200k-500k brigade. Substantially more for the 500k-999,999 grouping. Finally the 7-digit mob attract nothing but derision.
Me? Yeah, I'm just SLIGHTLY bitter at having missed the 5 digit ID. What really smarts is that I read slashdot for quite a while before registering to post a comment! If only . . .