even if most of the people in the UN supported this, France said time & time again that they would veto any resolution that set a hard date on compliance. They refused any proposal that had a clause that would automatically trigger an invasion. Thus, there was no way to get a resolution that was enforceable. Powel said many times that if France would set any hard date for compliance, then the US would agree to wait on the UN.
Sad, while you were busy raising yourself above the rest of humanity, you defined humanity as a star-trek like 'create or discover'. If that is all you have to define yourself, then I say you have nihil ('what a fun word to decline btw').
To define yourself in an ego-centric fashion via what you do or have done, makes you sound cold and without love.
Amen. On my openbsd box, I often reboot after making nfs changes and the like. It is easier to reboot then get the pids, stop the services, look up the cmd line options, and restart the daemons.
On my debian (sys V init ) boxes,/etc/init.d/daemon restart takes care of the whole mess. Modules are good when it comes to init scripts.
Hmm. I would agree that traditional homeschooling requires a very good family foundation, but umbrella organizations are popping up all over to fill in where less dedicated and talented parents need support. Homeschooling is really coming a long way. For an idea of what a very good umbrella can offer, check out Gateway in TN. State HS diplomas, and regular testing and monitoring. I've yet to meet a Gateway student who did not speak very highly of the program. Most of those students had some public school experiance for comparison as well.
Yep, you nailed it. Arming sheep will not a free people make. But as a counter point...Had not the people been armed, they never would have attempted to revolt after the first Gulf War.
They had the stones, they had the guns, they lacked the determination to fight a losing battle.
This is a good idea, but I would focus on the backend and skip the commentary. That way you will not dilute the service with your views. Instead, collect a group of volunteers who will add their take on each bill. Let the subscribers pick and choose which person's view they want to see.
If you do this correctly, you can then sell the service at a very small fee to special interest groups. These groups could then offer to send emails to their followers with their slant on the votes. Send an email to beer at midsouth.rr.com if you decide to proceed. I would love to contribute some code to this.
Ah. Security through obsurity w/ regards to key lanks. Now that brings back memories of the quest for the Ruswin (sp?) 17N key blank. In the area where I had a Ruswin 17N key, none of the locksmiths would touch it b/c it was a law enforcement only blank. So, we broadened the search to locksmiths out of state. So yes, it makes it harder when you don't know a locksmith who can get you the blank, but if you just hunt around, you can get any blank you want.
Wrong. I watched the entire amendment debate last night on CSPAN. I saw the lack of logic. I saw people openly admit that this bill was un-constitutional (I swear). They are trying to trash the forth. They really don't care.
Feingold was very well spoken. He was very direct. No one gave a single valid objection to any of his amendments. They simply tabled them. Something wierd is going down. There is more to this than just a knee-jerk reaction to the bombings. And for once, Slashdot is not being inflammatory.
I hate resoning by example (people always choose extreme ones either way), but Feingold reasoned that this bill would allow the Feds to wiretap you w/o a warrant if you use the Library's or a work computer in a way other then directed. In other words using your work computer to look at monster.com causes you to fall under the definition of a terrorist and thus you give up all forth amendment protections when dealing w/ and work computer indefinetly. This is not good. The senators understood this example. They did not disagree with it. They went ahead and tabled the amendments anyway. The fix was in. I don't know why but the whole attitude on the floor was wierd. ( I watch alot of CSPAN, things were out of place )
The fact that this passed hands down in VA does not surprise me one bit. I used to work in a law firm based in Maryland with offices in VA. One of the reoccuring themes that the lawyers would bring up is how consumer unfriendly VA is.
Case in point. You walk into a jewelry store in VA. You buy a diamond for your wife. You sign a lease to buy the diamond. The lease has in its fine print that in case of forfeiture you wave all rights to trial by jury, trial in the state of VA ( in case of a jewelry chain that is based in another state ), and allow them to garnish your wages to reclaim lost income. If you sign it, you are bound to it. If you sign the exact same form in MD, none of the above clauses are legally binding. In MD you are not allowed to wave any of your rights in a non-negotiated contract.
I will be really upset and worried when and if this passes in Maryland.
Ok, you sound like you actually know a little about the subject. Do you mind answering a few questions for me?
Question 1 -- Can both interfaces send data across one pair of wires at the same time? If they can, then that sure sounds like full Duplex to me. Do you have a link to something on 'Duel Duplex'?
Question 2 -- Are you sure that 'PAM5x5x5x5' encoding was not also used in the V.90 stuff. I have read about the 1000BaseT encoding from several different sources, and they all mentioned it as being the same as used in the V.90 spec? Maybe the modem people got their Ideas from 100BaseT2. Again, a link would be helpful.
Hey, I understand what you are saying about crossover cables not being as resitant to RF and crosstalk, but I'm not sure you understand how gigabit over cat 5 works.
First off, the clock rate on 1000BaseT is not any faster than on 100BaseTX. They both run at 125Mhz. 1000BaseT gets its speed bost from running all eight wires ( not just 1,2,3,and 6 ) in full duplex. The other speed boost comes from borrowing the compression tech. form the V.90 modem spec. Therefor, since the clock rate is not increased, if the patch cable works for 100BaseTX, it should work for Gigabit over Cat 5.
Now, that being said, I don't think you even need a x-over cable for 1000BaseT. Since all the pairs are full duplex ( in 10BaseT & 100BaseTX they is one transmit pair and one Rx pair ) crossing over pairs would seem useless.
Nope. Congress does not really have any power over the NSA. The NSA gets its funding from the Executive Branch ( much like the secret service ) and it is agaist the law for congress to starve the Executive branch for $$$. National Security $ is paid on several lump sums, and it is up to Clinton's aids to divide it up amongst 'their' agencies.
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If my two unused moderator points had not just expired, I would have bumped you up a notch as 'Funny'.
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There was a discussion awhile ago on NTBugTraq about the \winnt permissions. As per MS instructions only the Admin's should be able to write to \winnt and its sub-directories, but because windows apps are made to work on 9x machines as well as NT machines, you cannot do this.
Although the above poster seems to think that he can have \winnt and its sub-directories read-only; I doubt that he has ever done this. Most apps need write access to the \winnt dir tree in order to work. Office 97 is an example of one such app.
What this means is that you can have a secure NT machine or you can have a NT machine with Office 97, but you cannot have the \winnt dir-tree read-only and run Office at the same time. You can work around this security hole by installing Office 2000, or upgrading to *nix.
Ok, I'll bite. I've managed to build or purchase *nix boxes that have obtained very good performance and very good uptimes. I've managed to build and purchase NT boxes that have some decent uptimes ( couple of months ), but I've yet to have an NT box retain its performance for any length of time. All my NT boxes become so slow after a couple of weeks of uptime, that if I let them run w/o reboot, then users will start complaining.
So, how exactly do I go about building an NT box that will outlast and outperform my Linux boxes? I'm serious. Do you have some URL's, or whitepapers, that will help. I just don't think any kind of hardware I put together will manage to keep NT from leaking memory. It's an OS problem, not a hardware one. Maybe I'm not applying the right patches. What do you recommend?
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Actually, I would like to see an Episode II that features Star Trek NG coming through a time warp and ending up in the Star Wars realm. Then the mighty Que could make himself up to be a Sith and in a painfully heart wrenching moment tell Picard "Jean-Luke, I am your father"
Yeh, I've done it w/ Tandem too. I used to work in the Hardware labs of the Austin, Tx. site. Worked on the PUMA project.
Do you have any links for MS cooperating w/ Tandem on this stuff?
Even with Tandem's help, I don't see it doing them much good. The reason you were able to hot-swap the CRU's with the Motherboards and stuff in them, was because the hardware switched things over to one of the many backup boards. Unless MS gets someone to develop this kind of hardware for x86, I can't see it doing them much good.
Your right that eBay should have switched over to a Tandem. Even though this is a software and not a hardware or OS problem, Non-stop UX does a hell of a lot to help you when something goes wrong. They probably would have been able to detect the problems with their software by now.
Well, before I blame eBay to much, I'm off to go see if Oracle has recent ports to tandem hardware.
I knew about MS SQL being from Sybase. So I can understand how the code base is probably pretty good, but what I was wondering about was how they got it to fit in their clusters. The situation for the frontend stuff is simple. You make a request for a page, you end up getting a direct connection to one of the machines in the cluster ( I know this is more like a preformance cluster than a HA one ), that machine serves you up the page, dynamic content etc. It also takes your input and sends it out to the backend. The HA is simply that all of the machines are identical, and if one goes down or has problems, the cluster software senses this, and routes around that one machine. Things are not so easy with the database stuff. With the web server, file server, etc. you only need to periodically sync up the data on each of the machines, with the DataBase, every write to any of the rows or tables has to be accompanied by a lock on that copy of the row or table on all the other machines. This means that for one write operation, I have make a connection to one of the machines, lock the table or row, then have that machine propogate that lock to the other machines, write the data, have the data propogate to the other machines, and then release all of the locks. And all of these database machines have to be available to all of the front-end machines. Any other way I can think of will introduce a SPOF into the situation. This is increadably slow, and I didn't think that the old version of Sybase that MS purchased did this kind of thing.
I think the point MS is trying to make with #4 is that when you run things on a single machine ( like ebay's back-end ), you need to jump through some hoops to fix things like a hardware fault. With a High Availablity Cluster, if you run into a hardware fault, then you sync up the machines and remove the faulty node. The point about a SPOF is some what valid.
Also, the point about the admin console being able to shut things down is kinda funny. I think it only makes sense when you consider how a real mainframe is admined. In a mainframe security is dealt with differently. There usally is no such thing as a superuser type account. No one person, or one machine can just take everything down. This helps prevent against the rouge Admin taking revenge on the company. I think the point is valid, I just don't think MS should be allowed to make it. If IBM said #2, then I would not have laughed so hard.
MS also sited Dell and all as using their HA cluster tech. I just can't see MS SQL working well on a cluster. The web server I can see, but SQL server? Anyone got some info on this?
I don't think AOL is taking any risk in compeating with Microsoft. Microsoft's biggest concern, with regards to AOL, is makeing sure that AOL does not make Netscape the default browser for their ~15 Million customers. So far AOL is keeping IE as the default browser. As long as IE stays put, MS will be happy.
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even if most of the people in the UN supported this, France said time & time again that they would veto any resolution that set a hard date on compliance. They refused any proposal that had a clause that would automatically trigger an invasion. Thus, there was no way to get a resolution that was enforceable. Powel said many times that if France would set any hard date for compliance, then the US would agree to wait on the UN.
Sad, while you were busy raising yourself above the rest of humanity, you defined humanity as a star-trek like 'create or discover'. If that is all you have to define yourself, then I say you have nihil ('what a fun word to decline btw').
To define yourself in an ego-centric fashion via what you do or have done, makes you sound cold and without love.
Amen. On my openbsd box, I often reboot after making nfs changes and the like. It is easier to reboot then get the pids, stop the services, look up the cmd line options, and restart the daemons.
/etc/init.d/daemon restart takes care of the whole mess. Modules are good when it comes to init scripts.
On my debian (sys V init ) boxes,
ouch. That post got away from me. I'm posting via lynx from a low bw connection and using one of the worst keyboards ever. Please excuse.
Hmm. I would agree that traditional homeschooling requires a very good family foundation, but umbrella organizations are popping up all over to fill in where less dedicated and talented parents need support. Homeschooling is really coming a long way. For an idea of what a very good umbrella can offer, check out Gateway in TN. State HS diplomas, and regular testing and monitoring. I've yet to meet a Gateway student who did not speak very highly of the program. Most of those students had some public school experiance for comparison as well.
Yep, you nailed it. Arming sheep will not a free people make. But as a counter point...Had not the people been armed, they never would have attempted to revolt after the first Gulf War.
They had the stones, they had the guns, they lacked the determination to fight a losing battle.
This is a good idea, but I would focus on the backend and skip the commentary. That way you will not dilute the service with your views. Instead, collect a group of volunteers who will add their take on each bill. Let the subscribers pick and choose which person's view they want to see.
If you do this correctly, you can then sell the service at a very small fee to special interest groups. These groups could then offer to send emails to their followers with their slant on the votes.
Send an email to beer at midsouth.rr.com if you decide to proceed. I would love to contribute some code to this.
Ah. Security through obsurity w/ regards to key lanks. Now that brings back memories of the quest for the Ruswin (sp?) 17N key blank. In the area where I had a Ruswin 17N key, none of the locksmiths would touch it b/c it was a law enforcement only blank. So, we broadened the search to locksmiths out of state. So yes, it makes it harder when you don't know a locksmith who can get you the blank, but if you just hunt around, you can get any blank you want.
Wrong. I watched the entire amendment debate last night on CSPAN. I saw the lack of logic. I saw people openly admit that this bill was un-constitutional (I swear). They are trying to trash the forth. They really don't care.
Feingold was very well spoken. He was very direct. No one gave a single valid objection to any of his amendments. They simply tabled them. Something wierd is going down. There is more to this than just a knee-jerk reaction to the bombings. And for once, Slashdot is not being inflammatory.
I hate resoning by example (people always choose extreme ones either way), but Feingold reasoned that this bill would allow the Feds to wiretap you w/o a warrant if you use the Library's or a work computer in a way other then directed. In other words using your work computer to look at monster.com causes you to fall under the definition of a terrorist and thus you give up all forth amendment protections when dealing w/ and work computer indefinetly. This is not good. The senators understood this example. They did not disagree with it. They went ahead and tabled the amendments anyway. The fix was in. I don't know why but the whole attitude on the floor was wierd. ( I watch alot of CSPAN, things were out of place )
The fact that this passed hands down in VA does not surprise me one bit. I used to work in a law firm based in Maryland with offices in VA. One of the reoccuring themes that the lawyers would bring up is how consumer unfriendly VA is.
Case in point. You walk into a jewelry store in VA. You buy a diamond for your wife. You sign a lease to buy the diamond. The lease has in its fine print that in case of forfeiture you wave all rights to trial by jury, trial in the state of VA ( in case of a jewelry chain that is based in another state ), and allow them to garnish your wages to reclaim lost income. If you sign it, you are bound to it.
If you sign the exact same form in MD, none of the above clauses are legally binding. In MD you are not allowed to wave any of your rights in a non-negotiated contract.
I will be really upset and worried when and if this passes in Maryland.
Ok, you sound like you actually know a little about the subject. Do you mind answering a few questions for me?
Question 1 -- Can both interfaces send data across one pair of wires at the same time? If they can, then that sure sounds like full Duplex to me. Do you have a link to something on 'Duel Duplex'?
Question 2 -- Are you sure that 'PAM5x5x5x5' encoding was not also used in the V.90 stuff. I have read about the 1000BaseT encoding from several different sources, and they all mentioned it as being the same as used in the V.90 spec? Maybe the modem people got their Ideas from 100BaseT2. Again, a link would be helpful.
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Bill
Hey, I understand what you are saying about crossover cables not being as resitant to RF and crosstalk, but I'm not sure you understand how gigabit over cat 5 works.
First off, the clock rate on 1000BaseT is not any faster than on 100BaseTX. They both run at 125Mhz. 1000BaseT gets its speed bost from running all eight wires ( not just 1,2,3,and 6 ) in full duplex. The other speed boost comes from borrowing the compression tech. form the V.90 modem spec.
Therefor, since the clock rate is not increased, if the patch cable works for 100BaseTX, it should work for Gigabit over Cat 5.
Now, that being said, I don't think you even need a x-over cable for 1000BaseT. Since all the pairs are full duplex ( in 10BaseT & 100BaseTX they is one transmit pair and one Rx pair ) crossing over pairs would seem useless.
Nope. Congress does not really have any power over the NSA. The NSA gets its funding from the Executive Branch ( much like the secret service ) and it is agaist the law for congress to starve the Executive branch for $$$. National Security $ is paid on several lump sums, and it is up to Clinton's aids to divide it up amongst 'their' agencies.
If my two unused moderator points had not just expired, I would have bumped you up a notch as 'Funny'.
There was a discussion awhile ago on NTBugTraq about the \winnt permissions. As per MS instructions only the Admin's should be able to write to \winnt and its sub-directories, but because windows apps are made to work on 9x machines as well as NT machines, you cannot do this.
Although the above poster seems to think that he can have \winnt and its sub-directories read-only; I doubt that he has ever done this. Most apps need write access to the \winnt dir tree in order to work. Office 97 is an example of one such app.
What this means is that you can have a secure NT machine or you can have a NT machine with Office 97, but you cannot have the \winnt dir-tree read-only and run Office at the same time.
You can work around this security hole by installing Office 2000, or upgrading to *nix.
Ok, I'll bite. I've managed to build or purchase *nix boxes that have obtained very good performance and very good uptimes. I've managed to build and purchase NT boxes that have some decent uptimes ( couple of months ), but I've yet to have an NT box retain its performance for any length of time. All my NT boxes become so slow after a couple of weeks of uptime, that if I let them run w/o reboot, then users will start complaining.
So, how exactly do I go about building an NT box that will outlast and outperform my Linux boxes?
I'm serious. Do you have some URL's, or whitepapers, that will help.
I just don't think any kind of hardware I put together will manage to keep NT from leaking memory. It's an OS problem, not a hardware one.
Maybe I'm not applying the right patches. What do you recommend?
Actually, I would like to see an Episode II that features Star Trek NG coming through a time warp and ending up in the Star Wars realm.
Then the mighty Que could make himself up to be a Sith and in a painfully heart wrenching moment tell Picard "Jean-Luke, I am your father"
Yeh, I've done it w/ Tandem too. I used to work in the Hardware labs of the Austin, Tx. site. Worked on the PUMA project.
Do you have any links for MS cooperating w/ Tandem on this stuff?
Even with Tandem's help, I don't see it doing them much good. The reason you were able to hot-swap the CRU's with the Motherboards and stuff in them, was because the hardware switched things over to one of the many backup boards. Unless MS gets someone to develop this kind of hardware for x86, I can't see it doing them much good.
Your right that eBay should have switched over to a Tandem. Even though this is a software and not a hardware or OS problem, Non-stop UX does a hell of a lot to help you when something goes wrong. They probably would have been able to detect the problems with their software by now.
Well, before I blame eBay to much, I'm off to go see if Oracle has recent ports to tandem hardware.
I knew about MS SQL being from Sybase. So I can understand how the code base is probably pretty good, but what I was wondering about was how they got it to fit in their clusters.
The situation for the frontend stuff is simple. You make a request for a page, you end up getting a direct connection to one of the machines in the cluster ( I know this is more like a preformance cluster than a HA one ), that machine serves you up the page, dynamic content etc. It also takes your input and sends it out to the backend. The HA is simply that all of the machines are identical, and if one goes down or has problems, the cluster software senses this, and routes around that one machine.
Things are not so easy with the database stuff. With the web server, file server, etc. you only need to periodically sync up the data on each of the machines, with the DataBase, every write to any of the rows or tables has to be accompanied by a lock on that copy of the row or table on all the other machines. This means that for one write operation, I have make a connection to one of the machines, lock the table or row, then have that machine propogate that lock to the other machines, write the data, have the data propogate to the other machines, and then release all of the locks. And all of these database machines have to be available to all of the front-end machines. Any other way I can think of will introduce a SPOF into the situation. This is increadably slow, and I didn't think that the old version of Sybase that MS purchased did this kind of thing.
I think the point MS is trying to make with #4 is that when you run things on a single machine ( like ebay's back-end ), you need to jump through some hoops to fix things like a hardware fault. With a High Availablity Cluster, if you run into a hardware fault, then you sync up the machines and remove the faulty node. The point about a SPOF is some what valid.
Also, the point about the admin console being able to shut things down is kinda funny. I think it only makes sense when you consider how a real mainframe is admined. In a mainframe security is dealt with differently. There usally is no such thing as a superuser type account. No one person, or one machine can just take everything down. This helps prevent against the rouge Admin taking revenge on the company. I think the point is valid, I just don't think MS should be allowed to make it. If IBM said #2, then I would not have laughed so hard.
MS also sited Dell and all as using their HA cluster tech. I just can't see MS SQL working well on a cluster. The web server I can see, but SQL server? Anyone got some info on this?
I don't think AOL is taking any risk in compeating with Microsoft. Microsoft's biggest concern, with regards to AOL, is makeing sure that AOL does not make Netscape the default browser for their ~15 Million customers. So far AOL is keeping IE as the default browser. As long as IE stays put, MS will be happy.