Isn't it going to be a little unrealistic to have a million starships going around? Besides, what do you have to work up to? Admiral, then the game gets REALLY boring. You just sit behind a desk.
I mean, with games like WoW, its more realistic to have hundreds of people all at the starting point of the game because they are just people and there are lots of people in the world.
But if everyone starts with their own starship and you have a lot of people playing, its going to end up looking like that TNG episode where Worf quantum leaps several times. "Sir I'm receiving 250,000 hails". (Sorry Wil, I couldn't resist quoting you)
Um, if the entire planet is zortched out of existence, people won't really have to *worry* about having their affairs in order, will they?
The real question is, if one is created, will there be enough time for anyone to report it, or will the black hole swallow things almost instantly or will it grow faster than the information can travel?
Sorry for the self plug, but this just seems silly. Your web host should be backing up your website and offer you restorations. I guess this isn't a standard feature any more. But it is at Suso. We backup your site and databases everyday. And can restore them for you for free.
So we should be welcoming, give them a drink of the kool-aid and treat them like one of the gang.
That's what they want, man. I say let them rot in the courner.
No! They are not expecting to like the kool-aid. They are expecting to get their foot in the door and have some leverage to dominate the open source community. I realize that. But we have to give them enough kool-aid so that they start liking it.
These analogies fail on me and you both obviously thought you were clever, and they were easy to make. However they are just wrong.
Open source doesn't really have an hierarchy "to take". Its obvious that traditional software businesses are having trouble adjusting to the new paradigm. Its amusing to watch these businesses try to fight it. If you want to use war analogies, it more like Japan facing the atomic bomb. What could it do against such a new force it new nothing about?
Microsoft is good at winning the game when people are agressive towards them. Which I know its very easy to get hostile towards them. But they are somewhat lost when another group is their host and they are not in control. So we should be welcoming, give them a drink of the kool-aid and treat them like one of the gang. Its going to be hard and we'll have to keep an eye out for deception, but I think we should start playing nicer with them and hope that they do the same. Perhaps Microsoft would see the light and become friendlier to open source and open standards. Unlikely, but so was getting Excel working under Linux through Wine if you asked someone 10 years ago.
In the end, open source is simply a better model for software development and its a lot more impervious to threats than proprietary software is. Businesses just don't get that. In a business, the software focus is on making money. In open source, the software focus is on quality and empowering the end user. In the end, open source and the user will win. Heck, we're already winning, Microsoft is interested in open source (regardless of the reasons).
Actually, I caught the error just from looking at the output of up2date/yum. It clearly said named.conf saved to named.conf.rpmsave. So all you have to do is compare what changed, implement any changes and copy named.conf.rpmsave over named.conf.
Just as I said on the day of the release, be careful, don't just blindly update things.
We have a Cisco ASA at work for a large enterprise and about 2 hours after I applied the patch to our DNS servers running BIND, they the ASA device blackholed the DNS servers. Wasn't a fun day really.
Well of course it is. Anyone can make a list. From the investigating I'm doing right now, it does seem to be legit. But I just think its important to be careful. Don't just blindly patch what is probably the most critical service on your network.
I was being generous. You also have to account for cell towers not being right next to COs and so you get charged for channel miles. A T1 that is 15 miles from the CO might be in the thousands of dollars. But its been a while since I've had to look this up.
The 40,687,488,000 should actually be 517,602.528.0 I made a mistake the first time I did this and corrected the prices, but didn't correct the rest of the comment. The rest of it is right.
I was recently reading about the whole George Vaccaro fiasco and did some calculations on how much the cost of transfer is over a T1 line vs. what companies like Verizon charge for data transfer. Its astonishing that people put up with this:
Cost of a T1 line: $600 (Verizon's cost would be less and they probably have higher capacity lines in many places.)
Monthly bandwidth capacity of a T1: 40,687,488,000 Kilobytes (86,400 sec. * 30.41 avg days * 197 KB/sec)
Cost per KB over a T1 line: 60,000 cents / 40,687,488,000 KB = 0.0001159190 cents per KB = $0.000001159190 (for all those Verizon reps out there)
Verizon's charge per KB to the customer: $0.02
Verizon's markup on data transfer: x 17,253!!!!!
Screwing generation Y & Z: Priceless
Why do people put up with this? Some people might say I'm comparing apples to oranges, but Apples dont' cost 17,000 times more than oranges. There should be a class action suit over this.
Colin Powell and Barack Obama aren't even in the same generation (Colin is 24 years older) Usually a Pres. and Vice-Pres. are in the same general age range. And it seems like the VP being older is rare, even though that's our current situation. So that was a variable that this algorithm didn't have.
Don't ever tell a hacker that something can't be done. For he'll make Linux and his followers will create a whole desktop, graphics apps, office apps a web browser and conquer the world. If there is one thing I've found out in the past 11 years of using Linux, its that it CAN be done. Nothing is impossible. It just takes time.
For all we know, in 10 years Microsoft will have ditched their platform, moved their office apps to run in KDE/Gnome and everything will be Linux/BSD open source based.
I hear people often say that its important for Wine to be able to run major applications like Office and Photoshop. However, from a migrate to Linux point, I think the thing that holds people up the most is the small propreitary applications that are written for a specific function. Is there going to be any focus on those programs in the future? Disclaimer, I realize that there are tens of thousands of such apps, but maybe many have something in common.
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Isn't it going to be a little unrealistic to have a million starships going around? Besides, what do you have to work up to? Admiral, then the game gets REALLY boring. You just sit behind a desk.
I mean, with games like WoW, its more realistic to have hundreds of people all at the starting point of the game because they are just people and there are lots of people in the world.
But if everyone starts with their own starship and you have a lot of people playing, its going to end up looking like that TNG episode where Worf quantum leaps several times. "Sir I'm receiving 250,000 hails". (Sorry Wil, I couldn't resist quoting you)
Um, if the entire planet is zortched out of existence, people won't really have to *worry* about having their affairs in order, will they?
The real question is, if one is created, will there be enough time for anyone to report it, or will the black hole swallow things almost instantly or will it grow faster than the information can travel?
And will take 1 day to warm up right?
Sorry for the self plug, but this just seems silly. Your web host should be backing up your website and offer you restorations. I guess this isn't a standard feature any more. But it is at Suso. We backup your site and databases everyday. And can restore them for you for free.
So we should be welcoming, give them a drink of the kool-aid and treat them like one of the gang.
That's what they want, man. I say let them rot in the courner.
No! They are not expecting to like the kool-aid. They are expecting to get their foot in the door and have some leverage to dominate the open source community. I realize that. But we have to give them enough kool-aid so that they start liking it.
These analogies fail on me and you both obviously thought you were clever, and they were easy to make. However they are just wrong.
Open source doesn't really have an hierarchy "to take". Its obvious that traditional software businesses are having trouble adjusting to the new paradigm. Its amusing to watch these businesses try to fight it. If you want to use war analogies, it more like Japan facing the atomic bomb. What could it do against such a new force it new nothing about?
Microsoft is good at winning the game when people are agressive towards them. Which I know its very easy to get hostile towards them. But they are somewhat lost when another group is their host and they are not in control. So we should be welcoming, give them a drink of the kool-aid and treat them like one of the gang. Its going to be hard and we'll have to keep an eye out for deception, but I think we should start playing nicer with them and hope that they do the same. Perhaps Microsoft would see the light and become friendlier to open source and open standards. Unlikely, but so was getting Excel working under Linux through Wine if you asked someone 10 years ago.
In the end, open source is simply a better model for software development and its a lot more impervious to threats than proprietary software is. Businesses just don't get that. In a business, the software focus is on making money. In open source, the software focus is on quality and empowering the end user. In the end, open source and the user will win. Heck, we're already winning, Microsoft is interested in open source (regardless of the reasons).
Don't throw arrows. Be diplomatic.
Strange. I was just trying to find out how many computer users there are worldwide. I can't get a good estimate.
It addresses this.
Here in Bloomington, Indiana, we have a huge number of limestone blocks that were left over from building larger blocks.
I've seen something crazy, but not that crazy. That's just ... crazy.
Actually, I caught the error just from looking at the output of up2date/yum. It clearly said named.conf saved to named.conf.rpmsave. So all you have to do is compare what changed, implement any changes and copy named.conf.rpmsave over named.conf.
Just as I said on the day of the release, be careful, don't just blindly update things.
We have a Cisco ASA at work for a large enterprise and about 2 hours after I applied the patch to our DNS servers running BIND, they the ASA device blackholed the DNS servers. Wasn't a fun day really.
Well of course it is. Anyone can make a list. From the investigating I'm doing right now, it does seem to be legit. But I just think its important to be careful. Don't just blindly patch what is probably the most critical service on your network.
Here everyone, install this patch to your Unix/Linux DNS servers that was conceived of on the Microsoft campus.
While if true, one should be expedient to fix it, one should also be careful to verify that this is true.
I'm not talking about Nina's body being discovered or Hans Reiser being guilty or whatever.
I'm just saying that given enough people in a community, you'll certain amounts of people who lie, cheat, steal and even murder.
I was being generous. You also have to account for cell towers not being right next to COs and so you get charged for channel miles. A T1 that is 15 miles from the CO might be in the thousands of dollars. But its been a while since I've had to look this up.
517,602,528. There must be something infectious about Verizon and getting your decimal points in the wrong place.
The 40,687,488,000 should actually be 517,602.528.0 I made a mistake the first time I did this and corrected the prices, but didn't correct the rest of the comment. The rest of it is right.
I was recently reading about the whole George Vaccaro fiasco and did some calculations on how much the cost of transfer is over a T1 line vs. what companies like Verizon charge for data transfer. Its astonishing that people put up with this:
Why do people put up with this? Some people might say I'm comparing apples to oranges, but Apples dont' cost 17,000 times more than oranges. There should be a class action suit over this.
Colin Powell and Barack Obama aren't even in the same generation (Colin is 24 years older) Usually a Pres. and Vice-Pres. are in the same general age range. And it seems like the VP being older is rare, even though that's our current situation. So that was a variable that this algorithm didn't have.
Actually, this was a joke about the old C64 game Echelon, which came with such a headset. Annoying gimmick. The game was Ok though.
Or you can just blow into the microphone.
Don't ever tell a hacker that something can't be done. For he'll make Linux and his followers will create a whole desktop, graphics apps, office apps a web browser and conquer the world. If there is one thing I've found out in the past 11 years of using Linux, its that it CAN be done. Nothing is impossible. It just takes time.
For all we know, in 10 years Microsoft will have ditched their platform, moved their office apps to run in KDE/Gnome and everything will be Linux/BSD open source based.
I hear people often say that its important for Wine to be able to run major applications like Office and Photoshop. However, from a migrate to Linux point, I think the thing that holds people up the most is the small propreitary applications that are written for a specific function. Is there going to be any focus on those programs in the future? Disclaimer, I realize that there are tens of thousands of such apps, but maybe many have something in common.