I just remembered the horrible thing I did to my first 386. Being an AT baby board, it didnt fit well into the megolithic AST 286 case, in fact massive structural changes were required to the case, still didnt really fit. So I did what I always did when something didnt fit back then, I pushed really hard. Once mounted and bolted down, the mother board was warped in order to make the near transdimentional fit. The center near the CPU was basically about two and a half inches lower than the edges on this baby board. It ran for about two years like that I think. Most reliable and compatable PC I have ever had.
The idea seems to be that Open Source is better than closed source because you can "tinker" with the code. But how many people actually do this?
All of us who do not wish to be trapped under unworkable, unfixable bugs and discontinued software products. You may take control of your destiny in the event you deem it necassary by incorperating free software. With closed software, you are at the mercy of the owner. Just becouse your not one to take advantage of this, does not mean their is not a fair amount of us. I personally use it to help me sleep better at night.
The nextgen Xbox will not be stable at all or will be so damned late that it does not matter. I make this preiction solely based on a rumor I heard that it will not be x86, and we all know how good MS is at porting NT/2000/XP (which the xbox runs). As curcumstantial proof I offer the recent MS statement that console backwards compatability with previous games is overated.
Can anyone confirm/deny this rumor regarding non x86 for Xbox? Sorry, have no time to look up my facts and offer links as would be polite, I must get back to work. My prediction seemed like it wanted to be spouted out never the less. Thanks.
Just out of curiousity, I wonder how much of that 300k can be attributed the TCO of each windows machine they maintain... Maybe they could save some money if they ditched Windows. Score: -1 Flamebait
As long as there is no other way to escape the lan will it make a difference. If someone wants to steal data, they will. In the meantime such a policy serves to alienate the employees, which in turn beeds contempt. They should think of it as a subtle accusation that the employees cannot be trusted, for that is how the employees will see it.
Security was also another area where there significant differences remain between the two operating systems. But ultimately, said Russinovich, the gap between the two operating systems will continue to narrow to a point where their underlying kernel becomes irrelevant. "Layered services will become more important," he concluded.
I long for the day that my portage packages are as easy to install as worms are for Windows. They are close, but Windows has worms that are almost intuitive, they get installed, 'ultimately', even before I know I want them. Yes Russinovich, there is a difference, and there are some sevices that Windows would be better off without. But you wont be mentioning them any time soon will you? Its only irreleveant for so long you continue to consider the customer needs irrelevant. Ok,/rant and thanks for your time.
The only known shortcut to this procedure is to use a computer to simulate the bomb.
Are you suggesting this is the reason we need to ban exporting P4 class CPUs? Its somewhat trivial to expand your computational power by adding CPUs. It just seems to me it would be far more effective in slowing down 'the enemy' if the U.S. were to control the sales of optical mice. At least in my experience, nothing slows me down more than a rolling ball thingy with a peice of sand stuck in it.
Or maybe the bugs are unique to to any code that Buyukkokten produces. Happens all the time. But really, he probably stole it. This also happens all the time.
company don't believe backwards compatibility to be an important feature for consoles
Or maybe they just think that they dont have so many titles to lose. They could be right.
Certifications are no longer a shield that the HR department may hide behind. No longer can they simply respond "she/he had the certifications" when an employee has proven themselves to be less than adequate. Your employment prospectives will follow suit if relying on such a mechanism. Proven worth will make you desireable and indispensable. But then again, its never bad to have some paper behind you if your trying to break into the industry you desire. Also worth noting is that I am biased. Veiw this comment as non-factual and opinionated. Also, all systems level hirees go through me at my orginization.
When I must interview a prospective person, I will ask them questions that they have no hope of answering. I am interested in their learned tactics for figuring out the answer. all of this for the problems you will face in everyday life will rarely be textbook.
Not to prey on someone elses excelent post, but he forgot to mention VB.net's full domain name support, which is obviously lacking in the Linux C kernel. Until Linux C gets full domain name support, it will be substandard as a networking language.
Even if you never publish your address, people you send to may do so inadvertantly by way of forwarding. Also, we have seen an agressive amount of username probing at our mail server, people cultivating valid email addresses dictionary style. If your email name prefix is common enough, then its not too suprising you get spam.
As a solution at my workplace, we deployed dspam at the mail server about 7 weeks ago. At first I was discouraged at the results so much that I thought I had made a worthless call. Gradually I saw improvment and now it is running at about %99.7 accuracy. I get something over 200 spam a day into my account. I now see about one spam in my in box every three or four days, the rest go into my spam folder. Our other users found the system to be far better than I did, faster learning even. One user reported near pefection in about a week, he gets 10 spam a day. Except for one user (but there is one in every croud), it has nearly fixed the spam problem at our orginization.
I expect this to be a more realistic and permanent solution far beyond what legislation will ever do to inhibit spam from using my time. I mean, other than right now.
Unfortunatly most windows user dont know the difference. They know viruses are bad, and bad people create them. They think "BAD Ole people!". And then applaud Microsoft for their newfound interest in security and for offering rewards for the betrayal of the BAD,BAD people. They never once stop to think that all of those random popups and the like are not supposed to be a part of the internet, and that the machine they trust is a host to 10's or 100's of malware products. They just thank God it hasnt happened to them yet.
Once observed could you not recreate the photons within a super secret insertable relay device? Like a ummm, photon tap I guess./me runs off to patent the idea. The buzzwords can be debugged later.
There is something very different about formating a floppy and creating a boot disk. If a boot disk is what your after, I recommend Recovery Is Possible CD and floppy images or KNOPPIX for a full blown bootable CD with GUI. I also recommend picking up a copy of Linux for Dummies. I hear its good for you.
Removing core features in code can take a significant percentage in recources when you consider the raw coding time + testing + QA. It can be far simpler/cheaper to introduce a lockout to the features depending on requirements. I am not saying its a perfect nor brilliant plan, its just some of the factors that go into making this sort of decsition. Even with the hack, it may have been the right choice to make. I would like to think that not everyone views a hack as lost revenue.
Knowing that I am easily addicted to games, I carefully addicted my future wife to UO back in 97. It was amazing how patient she was at building my virtual riches by spending hours*months mining. Now, some years later, she quit her job, takes care of the bills, and plays games all day while I work (at least thats how I like to tell it to this private slashdot croud). Not that I am complaining, I am just saying 'it works both ways', when it works. Now I am just fairly afraid to say anything about her work habits for fear that she might become more interested in something more than paying bills and games.
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I just remembered the horrible thing I did to my first 386. Being an AT baby board, it didnt fit well into the megolithic AST 286 case, in fact massive structural changes were required to the case, still didnt really fit. So I did what I always did when something didnt fit back then, I pushed really hard. Once mounted and bolted down, the mother board was warped in order to make the near transdimentional fit. The center near the CPU was basically about two and a half inches lower than the edges on this baby board. It ran for about two years like that I think. Most reliable and compatable PC I have ever had.
The idea seems to be that Open Source is better than closed source because you can "tinker" with the code. But how many people actually do this?
All of us who do not wish to be trapped under unworkable, unfixable bugs and discontinued software products. You may take control of your destiny in the event you deem it necassary by incorperating free software. With closed software, you are at the mercy of the owner.
Just becouse your not one to take advantage of this, does not mean their is not a fair amount of us. I personally use it to help me sleep better at night.
The nextgen Xbox will not be stable at all or will be so damned late that it does not matter. I make this preiction solely based on a rumor I heard that it will not be x86, and we all know how good MS is at porting NT/2000/XP (which the xbox runs). As curcumstantial proof I offer the recent MS statement that console backwards compatability with previous games is overated.
Can anyone confirm/deny this rumor regarding non x86 for Xbox?
Sorry, have no time to look up my facts and offer links as would be polite, I must get back to work.
My prediction seemed like it wanted to be spouted out never the less. Thanks.
Just out of curiousity, I wonder how much of that 300k can be attributed the TCO of each windows machine they maintain...
Maybe they could save some money if they ditched Windows.
Score: -1 Flamebait
As long as there is no other way to escape the lan will it make a difference. If someone wants to steal data, they will. In the meantime such a policy serves to alienate the employees, which in turn beeds contempt. They should think of it as a subtle accusation that the employees cannot be trusted, for that is how the employees will see it.
Security was also another area where there significant differences remain between the two operating systems. But ultimately, said Russinovich, the gap between the two operating systems will continue to narrow to a point where their underlying kernel becomes irrelevant. "Layered services will become more important," he concluded.
/rant and thanks for your time.
I long for the day that my portage packages are as easy to install as worms are for Windows. They are close, but Windows has worms that are almost intuitive, they get installed, 'ultimately', even before I know I want them.
Yes Russinovich, there is a difference, and there are some sevices that Windows would be better off without. But you wont be mentioning them any time soon will you?
Its only irreleveant for so long you continue to consider the customer needs irrelevant.
Ok,
The only known shortcut to this procedure is to use a computer to simulate the bomb.
Are you suggesting this is the reason we need to ban exporting P4 class CPUs?
Its somewhat trivial to expand your computational power by adding CPUs.
It just seems to me it would be far more effective in slowing down 'the enemy' if the U.S. were to control the sales of optical mice.
At least in my experience, nothing slows me down more than a rolling ball thingy with a peice of sand stuck in it.
We put four year a ban on thier products just like we did with Toshiba in 1987.
Or maybe the bugs are unique to to any code that Buyukkokten produces. Happens all the time.
But really, he probably stole it.
This also happens all the time.
Structured Wild Ass Guessing.
At least they are using a computer to do it.
company don't believe backwards compatibility to be an important feature for consoles
Or maybe they just think that they dont have so many titles to lose. They could be right.
Certifications are no longer a shield that the HR department may hide behind. No longer can they simply respond "she/he had the certifications" when an employee has proven themselves to be less than adequate. Your employment prospectives will follow suit if relying on such a mechanism. Proven worth will make you desireable and indispensable.
But then again, its never bad to have some paper behind you if your trying to break into the industry you desire.
Also worth noting is that I am biased. Veiw this comment as non-factual and opinionated. Also, all systems level hirees go through me at my orginization.
When I must interview a prospective person, I will ask them questions that they have no hope of answering. I am interested in their learned tactics for figuring out the answer.
all of this for the problems you will face in everyday life will rarely be textbook.
Not to prey on someone elses excelent post, but he forgot to mention VB.net's full domain name support, which is obviously lacking in the Linux C kernel.
Until Linux C gets full domain name support, it will be substandard as a networking language.
Even if you never publish your address, people you send to may do so inadvertantly by way of forwarding. Also, we have seen an agressive amount of username probing at our mail server, people cultivating valid email addresses dictionary style. If your email name prefix is common enough, then its not too suprising you get spam.
As a solution at my workplace, we deployed dspam at the mail server about 7 weeks ago. At first I was discouraged at the results so much that I thought I had made a worthless call. Gradually I saw improvment and now it is running at about %99.7 accuracy. I get something over 200 spam a day into my account. I now see about one spam in my in box every three or four days, the rest go into my spam folder. Our other users found the system to be far better than I did, faster learning even. One user reported near pefection in about a week, he gets 10 spam a day. Except for one user (but there is one in every croud), it has nearly fixed the spam problem at our orginization.
I expect this to be a more realistic and permanent solution far beyond what legislation will ever do to inhibit spam from using my time.
I mean, other than right now.
Life will be changed forever.
For the SciFi channel will likely cancel Stargate Atlantis for reshooting in Mexico.
Damnit.
Hey wait! Is that you Howard Carmak?
Unfortunatly most windows user dont know the difference. They know viruses are bad, and bad people create them. They think "BAD Ole people!". And then applaud Microsoft for their newfound interest in security and for offering rewards for the betrayal of the BAD,BAD people.
They never once stop to think that all of those random popups and the like are not supposed to be a part of the internet, and that the machine they trust is a host to 10's or 100's of malware products. They just thank God it hasnt happened to them yet.
Once observed could you not recreate the photons within a super secret insertable relay device? Like a ummm, photon tap I guess. /me runs off to patent the idea.
The buzzwords can be debugged later.
There is something very different about formating a floppy and creating a boot disk. If a boot disk is what your after, I recommend Recovery Is Possible CD and floppy images or KNOPPIX for a full blown bootable CD with GUI.
I also recommend picking up a copy of Linux for Dummies. I hear its good for you.
With movies such as: this being released every year, it could hardly be said that Killer Robot is the first 'all artificial movie'.
Removing core features in code can take a significant percentage in recources when you consider the raw coding time + testing + QA. It can be far simpler/cheaper to introduce a lockout to the features depending on requirements.
I am not saying its a perfect nor brilliant plan, its just some of the factors that go into making this sort of decsition. Even with the hack, it may have been the right choice to make.
I would like to think that not everyone views a hack as lost revenue.
Knowing that I am easily addicted to games, I carefully addicted my future wife to UO back in 97. It was amazing how patient she was at building my virtual riches by spending hours*months mining. Now, some years later, she quit her job, takes care of the bills, and plays games all day while I work (at least thats how I like to tell it to this private slashdot croud). Not that I am complaining, I am just saying 'it works both ways', when it works.
Now I am just fairly afraid to say anything about her work habits for fear that she might become more interested in something more than paying bills and games.
Yes, its very sad, but we like it that way.
You ask Howard Schmidt. He will tell you.
Maybe they have really been saving for 40 years.
The first two major distributions are Red Hat.