I implemented Nagios at my work and am very happy with. We are mostly a Citrix shop so rouge processes on windows servers are the bane to things running smoothly. We monitor average CPU load on all our application servers.
All in all I'm monitoring about 200 different processes across our network as well as running MRTG on the same box. Never felt once I needed to cluster.
Be faithful and give your two weeks. Let them know that this new oprotunity will give you more room to grow than you've felt that your current working conditions will currently allow for. And for added bonus, bring in bagels or doughnuts on your last day. That my friend, is style.
I used to work for a lodging association in Sacramento and we used a vendor over near Rancho Cordova to help us implement a package.
They were a reseller for a national software package. They were also developing a home grown association management package. Right now I can't remember their name but I've e-mailed someone I used to work with back then to see if they could remember.
So far I've seen no mention of Trivial Persuit. I love this game. Right now though I am at the point where in order to keep the game fair I have to answer two questions per turn rather than just one when I play with my wife and our friends. I've even gone so far as to give them the childrens cards for their questions and the uber-esoteric ones for myself.
Dr. Who ran from the 60's to nearly the 90's. Has a HUGE after series novelisation, and the BBC is currently producing new online radio dramas. I'd say that although not nearly as visable in the US as Star Trek, Dr. Who is just as viable and just as long lasting.
Advertisers might not be too keen on that idea. I reboot my linux box maybe once a month. Therefore the ad impact would be minimal. ----
"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
Having spent a year manning the phones at Earthlink in thier cutstomer service department, I wonder what advertisers would expect to gain by advertising on a free ISP service. They are trying to market products to people who are too cheap to pay for an ISP, what makes you think they are going to want to buy anything else.
I had a hard enough time trying to convice people that the 19.95 we were charging them was for a subscription based service. You pay for it, it's up to you to use it. If you didn't use it, tough luck. You don't argue with the paper boy that you didn't read sunday's edition, he still dropped it off at your door step.
Maybe there is something more to be said about the number of people who would call me 2 days before thier account was ready to be billed and would cancel so that they could go buy some groceries. If you are living that close to the wire maybe it's time to rethink your priorities. ----
"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
If you think Mozilla is slow and unusable then head over to the build documentation on mozilla.org and read through how to pull the CVS tree and roll your own version. It's actually quite simple. Last weekend I pulled the tree and used the build configurator to turn off all the debugging code and turn off a lot of warning flags and little things like that. What I ended up with is a fairly fast running version that has SSL, java, flash, and runs through ESD as well. Ever few hours I close it down and restart it because top says it's eatting up memory, but it is definatly bettner than Netscape 4.7, Netscape 6, or any of the milestone builds. ----
"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
The best way to gaurd your kids against porn is to be blunt about it. I say show it to them. Explain to them what it is.
Half the fun with porn and kids is the idea that they are getting away with something that mom and dad don't know about.
Then construct an elegant lie. Have all the internet access in the house routed through a Linux box. Tell your kid you've written a perl script which will scan every URL routed through the box for some keywords and will send you an e-mail once it reaches a certain limit.
By the time the kid has learned how to hack in as root and figure out how to disable this non-existant script you can feel confident that they know how to use the Internet as a tool instead of a porn bank. ----
"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
You know, this could be the way to save the net-appliance manufacturers. Instead of having them make stupid wanna be computers with little functionality, have them switch production over to electronic voting booths. ----
"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) and AndoverNet (NasdaqNM:ANDN - news) on Monday declined to comment on rumors that Microsoft was looking to take over the electronic news service company.
Shares of both companys did what is normally expected of over inflated speculative trading.
``We don't comment on rumors,'' said Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.
`Typically we don't comment on these kinds of rumors,'' said Rob Malda creater of the overly popular Slashdot news board. ----
"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
The only problem with Jabber is that is requires the Helix GNOME packages. For those of us on Slackware and other "non-supported" distros we are sort of left in the rain.
I use Everybuddy. I've been reading the development list for a while and I am convinced only good things are going to come from it. I mean come on, one program that does four protocols, or four programs that do one protocol. Let's do the math here people. ----
"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
I work in customer service for a very large ISP. At least once a week I have to deal with a call from an irate person who has found a charge on their credit card that they never expected to be there. Normally I post a refund to the credit card and get the person off the phone. If it was a hacked account submit it to the fraud department.
Here is where I begin to loose track of the situation. In the case of one individual, 17 monthly charges had been posted before they decided to call in and discuss the situation. It is obvious by looking at the usage that the account was never used, but 17 monthly charges before it ever clicked to me seems idiotic. I calmly inform the individual that I am only able to refund two months back. The next thing said is usually "I'll get my credit card company in on this." To which I respond that "As far as credit cards are concerened, all charges are valid unless disputed within the fist 60 days."
Read the fine print on your credit card statements. If you don't dispute that charge within 60 days the credit card company isn't going to do anything for you. Consumers seem to forget all that legal mumbo jumbo they sign when they sign up for credit cards. You are legealy and financially responsible for that card. Every single charge. If you were an idiot and didn't read your monthly statements for the past 17 months, PLEASE do not yell at me telling me that we've been stealing your money.
I think truthfully that credit cards are a much bigger and deeper problem in this country (the US) than just hacked cards being used on the internet. It strikes right at the heart of consumerism in America. I like to say this country was built on the backs of plastic.
Ok enough preaching. ---- "War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
I will not name names but I used to work for a co-location facility. I think one of the most important things is to actually visit a site before you settle on a facility. On paper the facility I worked for looked great. If you took a tour of our facility you usually heard a lot of "That's scheduled to be installed." I worked there for six months and nothing got installed.
This brings me to my second point. Don't be afraid to check the financial backings of a facility you are interested in. You are trusting your buisness to a compnay, you need to make sure that the electric company isn't going to be turning the power off, or the fiber company hasn't been paid in three months.
The biggest thing is to make sure that what they claim is in fact what they say. We said 24 hour staffed, in fact I was the one who locked up the doors at the end of the night and set an alarm, which had a habit of going off when the few customers we did have attempted to check thier servers during off hours.
Ultimately I left that company mainly over a lack of paychecks, but also I just hated liying to people about who we were.
Co-location services may all look the same on the surface, but it pays off to look deeply at the history of the company. ---- "War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
But, isn't MP3 based off of JPEG compression which is in fact an OPEN standard, therefore not copywritten???
The only audio related patent I can think of would have been Tom Edison's original patent which probably outlined a way for encoding audio patterns for later playback and I think the time would have worn out on that one.
But, please enlighten me here. ---- "War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
What I don't understand is why Hasbro decided to follow suit on these things. It's not as if Hasbro was attempting to sell these things currently. Like many have said this was ages ago.
If I develope a game and a month or two later somebody comes out with a near clone of my game then yeah I'll get pissed and probably take them to court. But come on, Pac Man is a legacy from nearly twenty years ago. Hasbro isn't loosing out on cash from the sales of these game packs.
What next, does some relative of some dead English Lord sue over PONG because it looks awfuly similar to Badmition or Tennis? ---- "War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
You are right that they are not supposed to publicly comment on these things while they are before them, but once the settlement is handed down I think it would be great if he could be interviewed.
This is by far the single most important case facing computers and technology, and it has the potential power to change the way the masses use computers for the next decade.
Last thing to keep in mind though, with a case this big, the Judge more than likely will give a detailed outline as to how he came to all of his conclusions, so the majority of the questions (besides boxers or briefs, no pun intended) will be answered as soon as his decision is made.
Am I the only one that sees M$ stalling as much as possible? ---- "War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
There are parts of this country that according to the US State Department qualify as 3rd world nations due to the living conditions there. These areas include man Native American Reservations and rancharieas, the rural south, the Apilacians, and areas along the northern midwest.
Although many of these areas do in fact have access to the internet, the people don't. There are towns here in California that only have power for certain parts of the day. Once it reaches 8pm the lights go out. Not too conducive to late night coding runs and killer uptimes if you ask me.
By the very fact that we are able to post here on/. means we are members of a more privlaged class. We have the resources that allow us to have computers and internet access. There are people in this country who don't have these sorts of things.
Before we set off on thinking about how we are going to wire the Outback of Australia for high speed internet access, it would probably serve us well to figure out how we are going to get propper electricity and running water to areas of our own country. ---- "War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
I'll one up ya. My microwave thinks it's March 1. For some reason the manufactuer decided to put in a month and a date function but no year function.
Damn. Now the pot roast I had pre-programed in for two years down the line is going to show up on the wrong night. ---- "War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
Along the side bar there was an article titled Licencing fees a Feature with the following portion:
Despite the costs, companies will adopt Windows 2000 over the rival, freely available Linux operating system because of the service and technical support that exists around Windows, Willingham asserted. "I don't know of any organization that is going to put a 'mission-critical' application on an OS without a company to stand behind it," she said.
I'm surprised this fluff piece was posted and not the other article. ---- "War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
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All in all I'm monitoring about 200 different processes across our network as well as running MRTG on the same box. Never felt once I needed to cluster.
No US release date? Saw this in Walmart last night. Somebody needs to get some facts sraight.
Be faithful and give your two weeks. Let them know that this new oprotunity will give you more room to grow than you've felt that your current working conditions will currently allow for. And for added bonus, bring in bagels or doughnuts on your last day. That my friend, is style.
I used to work for a lodging association in Sacramento and we used a vendor over near Rancho Cordova to help us implement a package.
They were a reseller for a national software package. They were also developing a home grown association management package. Right now I can't remember their name but I've e-mailed someone I used to work with back then to see if they could remember.
If I find out the name I'll post again.
So far I've seen no mention of Trivial Persuit. I love this game. Right now though I am at the point where in order to keep the game fair I have to answer two questions per turn rather than just one when I play with my wife and our friends. I've even gone so far as to give them the childrens cards for their questions and the uber-esoteric ones for myself.
I worked for Earthlink in CS for a while and all they used was Vantive, which was a joke. I hope they decide to drop it too.
Believe it or not I've got one of those on video tape some where. Cheesier than a KRAFT factory.
Dr. Who ran from the 60's to nearly the 90's. Has a HUGE after series novelisation, and the BBC is currently producing new online radio dramas. I'd say that although not nearly as visable in the US as Star Trek, Dr. Who is just as viable and just as long lasting.
What if Napster's subscription service never makes if off the ground due to "technical" difficulties. Do they still pay the $26 million?
Advertisers might not be too keen on that idea. I reboot my linux box maybe once a month. Therefore the ad impact would be minimal.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
I had a hard enough time trying to convice people that the 19.95 we were charging them was for a subscription based service. You pay for it, it's up to you to use it. If you didn't use it, tough luck. You don't argue with the paper boy that you didn't read sunday's edition, he still dropped it off at your door step.
Maybe there is something more to be said about the number of people who would call me 2 days before thier account was ready to be billed and would cancel so that they could go buy some groceries. If you are living that close to the wire maybe it's time to rethink your priorities.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
If you think Mozilla is slow and unusable then head over to the build documentation on mozilla.org and read through how to pull the CVS tree and roll your own version. It's actually quite simple. Last weekend I pulled the tree and used the build configurator to turn off all the debugging code and turn off a lot of warning flags and little things like that. What I ended up with is a fairly fast running version that has SSL, java, flash, and runs through ESD as well. Ever few hours I close it down and restart it because top says it's eatting up memory, but it is definatly bettner than Netscape 4.7, Netscape 6, or any of the milestone builds.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
Half the fun with porn and kids is the idea that they are getting away with something that mom and dad don't know about.
Then construct an elegant lie. Have all the internet access in the house routed through a Linux box. Tell your kid you've written a perl script which will scan every URL routed through the box for some keywords and will send you an e-mail once it reaches a certain limit.
By the time the kid has learned how to hack in as root and figure out how to disable this non-existant script you can feel confident that they know how to use the Internet as a tool instead of a porn bank.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
just have to say this is a damn cool site ;)
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
You know, this could be the way to save the net-appliance manufacturers. Instead of having them make stupid wanna be computers with little functionality, have them switch production over to electronic voting booths.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
Shares of both companys did what is normally expected of over inflated speculative trading.
``We don't comment on rumors,'' said Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.
`Typically we don't comment on these kinds of rumors,'' said Rob Malda creater of the overly popular Slashdot news board.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
I use Everybuddy. I've been reading the development list for a while and I am convinced only good things are going to come from it. I mean come on, one program that does four protocols, or four programs that do one protocol. Let's do the math here people.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
I work in customer service for a very large ISP. At least once a week I have to deal with a call from an irate person who has found a charge on their credit card that they never expected to be there. Normally I post a refund to the credit card and get the person off the phone. If it was a hacked account submit it to the fraud department.
Here is where I begin to loose track of the situation. In the case of one individual, 17 monthly charges had been posted before they decided to call in and discuss the situation. It is obvious by looking at the usage that the account was never used, but 17 monthly charges before it ever clicked to me seems idiotic. I calmly inform the individual that I am only able to refund two months back. The next thing said is usually "I'll get my credit card company in on this." To which I respond that "As far as credit cards are concerened, all charges are valid unless disputed within the fist 60 days."
Read the fine print on your credit card statements. If you don't dispute that charge within 60 days the credit card company isn't going to do anything for you. Consumers seem to forget all that legal mumbo jumbo they sign when they sign up for credit cards. You are legealy and financially responsible for that card. Every single charge. If you were an idiot and didn't read your monthly statements for the past 17 months, PLEASE do not yell at me telling me that we've been stealing your money.
I think truthfully that credit cards are a much bigger and deeper problem in this country (the US) than just hacked cards being used on the internet. It strikes right at the heart of consumerism in America. I like to say this country was built on the backs of plastic.
Ok enough preaching.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
I will not name names but I used to work for a co-location facility. I think one of the most important things is to actually visit a site before you settle on a facility. On paper the facility I worked for looked great. If you took a tour of our facility you usually heard a lot of "That's scheduled to be installed." I worked there for six months and nothing got installed.
This brings me to my second point. Don't be afraid to check the financial backings of a facility you are interested in. You are trusting your buisness to a compnay, you need to make sure that the electric company isn't going to be turning the power off, or the fiber company hasn't been paid in three months.
The biggest thing is to make sure that what they claim is in fact what they say. We said 24 hour staffed, in fact I was the one who locked up the doors at the end of the night and set an alarm, which had a habit of going off when the few customers we did have attempted to check thier servers during off hours.
Ultimately I left that company mainly over a lack of paychecks, but also I just hated liying to people about who we were.
Co-location services may all look the same on the surface, but it pays off to look deeply at the history of the company.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
The only audio related patent I can think of would have been Tom Edison's original patent which probably outlined a way for encoding audio patterns for later playback and I think the time would have worn out on that one.
But, please enlighten me here.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
What I don't understand is why Hasbro decided to follow suit on these things. It's not as if Hasbro was attempting to sell these things currently. Like many have said this was ages ago.
If I develope a game and a month or two later somebody comes out with a near clone of my game then yeah I'll get pissed and probably take them to court. But come on, Pac Man is a legacy from nearly twenty years ago. Hasbro isn't loosing out on cash from the sales of these game packs.
What next, does some relative of some dead English Lord sue over PONG because it looks awfuly similar to Badmition or Tennis?
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
You are right that they are not supposed to publicly comment on these things while they are before them, but once the settlement is handed down I think it would be great if he could be interviewed.
This is by far the single most important case facing computers and technology, and it has the potential power to change the way the masses use computers for the next decade.
Last thing to keep in mind though, with a case this big, the Judge more than likely will give a detailed outline as to how he came to all of his conclusions, so the majority of the questions (besides boxers or briefs, no pun intended) will be answered as soon as his decision is made.
Am I the only one that sees M$ stalling as much as possible?
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
There are parts of this country that according to the US State Department qualify as 3rd world nations due to the living conditions there. These areas include man Native American Reservations and rancharieas, the rural south, the Apilacians, and areas along the northern midwest.
/. means we are members of a more privlaged class. We have the resources that allow us to have computers and internet access. There are people in this country who don't have these sorts of things.
Although many of these areas do in fact have access to the internet, the people don't. There are towns here in California that only have power for certain parts of the day. Once it reaches 8pm the lights go out. Not too conducive to late night coding runs and killer uptimes if you ask me.
By the very fact that we are able to post here on
Before we set off on thinking about how we are going to wire the Outback of Australia for high speed internet access, it would probably serve us well to figure out how we are going to get propper electricity and running water to areas of our own country.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
I'll one up ya. My microwave thinks it's March 1. For some reason the manufactuer decided to put in a month and a date function but no year function.
Damn. Now the pot roast I had pre-programed in for two years down the line is going to show up on the wrong night.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"
Despite the costs, companies will adopt Windows 2000 over the rival, freely available Linux operating system because of the service and technical support that exists around Windows, Willingham asserted. "I don't know of any organization that is going to put a 'mission-critical' application on an OS without a company to stand behind it," she said.
I'm surprised this fluff piece was posted and not the other article.
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"War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left"