it would depend on if the person you are dealing with has the authority to deal. If you go to a car lot and give the janitor $100 to druive off a $10000 car, it is theft because the janitor does not have the authority to give the car at that price. usually a salesman does not have the authority to go lower than a certain point either. usually I would think online vendors can claim that their software does not ahve any authority to accept altered prices. which would make submitting altered prices fraud. but then, IANAL.
Do you also have a cable modem? I still say the innate latency of coax cable is lower than the innate latency of DSL. And I have both. Yeah, of course if your cable/DSL provider is stupid you'll get poor ping times. But on a non-crowded network, the cable modem will win.
I thought my DSL was great until I added the cable modem.
ummm... just to clarify for anyone who might be misled by the above post: DSL does *not* have lower latency than cable modems.
DSL:
64 bytes from 151.203.46.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=30.910 ms
64 bytes from 151.203.xx.x: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=32.866 ms
64 bytes from 151.203.xx.x: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=94.914 ms
64 bytes from 151.203.xx.x: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=29.929 ms
Cable:
64 bytes from 146.115.xx.x: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=22.306 ms
64 bytes from 146.115.xx.x: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=86.162 ms
64 bytes from 146.115.xx.x: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=29.843 ms
64 bytes from 146.115.xx.x: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=16.554 ms
OK, yeah, the cable modem *is* getting a bit slow right now, but the inate latency is much lower (usually 15ms~20ms vs. 30~40ms.)
Larry Ellison == Saruman -- he wants so badly to rule the world, but he just isn't powerful enough to replace Sauron.
Steve Ballmer == the Mouth of Sauron
Linus Torvalds == Celebrimbor, forged Linux on his own, out of the watchful eye of Sauron. Therefore Linux was not contaminated by Sauron's evil. Sauron hates Linux and wishes to destroy it and all who benefit from it.
Novell == Osgiliath, fell in the war with Mordor. Now just a ghost town between the warring parties of Gondor and Mordor.
Steve Wozniak == Tom Bombadil, extremely powerful, but prefers to sit in his own little corner as the events of the outside world unfold.
if you don't min bringing in the Silmarillion:
Morgoth == chairman of IBM (whoever it was circa 1981). He was a greater evil than Sauron ever was, but banished to oblivion by the Valar (the US Govt.). He fostered the evil which became Sauron.
Bill Joy == Feanor, created vi, the most wondrous tool ever made, but was excessively proud.
Sun == the Sons of Feanor, forever fighting the behemoth of Redmond, but never to conquer.
BSD UNIX
The kernel architecture of Mac OS X includes operating system services derived from FreeBSD (Berkeley Software Distribution, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features. In addition, new technologies, such as the I/O Kit and Network Kernel Extensions (NKEs), have been designed and engineered by Apple to take advantage of advanced capabilities such as those provided by an object-oriented programming model.
Looks like its not so much about BSD Unix, but more about the Apple extensions on the BSD level, specifically drivers. Which is a good thing since few seem to be writing drivers (or at least releasing them) for OS X yet.
So you think Office is good because it consumes a little more space than StarOffice???
I won't even argue with the logic of that. I don't like or use either product.
Let me put my original point another way: MS Word 5.1 for Mac was small enough to fit on an 800k floppy with room left over (OK, if you wanted spell-check, two floppies). As far as I can tell, Word 9x/200x [may] provide marginally more functionality while consuming 2 orders of magnitude more space. That is what I call bloatware. Lots of feature creap that does not help me type documents any better, but sure as hell makes the whole program bigger and slower. Oh yeah, Word 5.1 for Mac was statically linked. No extensions/libraries/anything.
i don't know about everyone else, but I blast Microsoft for bloat in the sense that Word includes everything but the kitchen sink despite the fact I doubt very much if anyone uses more than 10% of the features in Word. Big hulking programs due to feature bloat is a what I think of about Microsoft. But then, I'm not enough of a programmer to get pissed about code bloat due to static linking.
just for the record, all SSH1 implementations except for OpenSSH 2.3.0 had the flaw. This includes the commercial SSH. But shame on me for responding to a troll.
A little over a year. Don't know if that's what you mean by "a while." And ossh alreay describes a different free implementation of ssh. I like the earlier suggestion of "shush". Or maybe OpenShuSH.
is that what you say? Tatu Ylonen seems to have been nice enough not to challenge OpenSSH on the trademark dilution until now. He hints that it is because of the recent furor over SSH1 security holes that he is reluctantly doing this. By your reasoning, any company with a trademark should be fascistic about enforcing their rights as soon and as often as possible. There can be no leniency or they will loose their trademark. That's not exactly a situation I want to come about (not that I have the least say in it, of course).
By the way, it's not exactly years. OpenSSH was inroduced with OpenBSD 2.6. Released December 1, 1999. So roughly a year and 3 months.
hey, I think that's great that you as a consultant feel justified gambling on breaking components in someone else's system (except when there's a chance you'll have to pay a lot of money to fix it). The thing about ESD is that damage is rarely traceable to one source, as it usually shows up as random errors over time. I agree with you that ESD precautions are over-hyped, but the thing is that you never know when you've damaged something.
By the way, my consultant friend was not in contact with the chassis, just touching things randomly. But I think you missed the main point: the VGA cable was loose! he touched every card in the machine when all he needed to do was plug in the monitor.
my upstairs neighbor is a computer consultant. he hired me once to help on a job. the job was to make sure that a company's (about 30 computers) move from one office building to another went smoothly. the company was paying him to come over and turn on (y ep, just turn on) the computers to make sure the move went okay. the actual moving was outsourced to a different company, the wiring of the new company was outsourced. he was there to *supervise* the whole thing. I guess no one in the company was smart e n ough to be able to plug things in correctly themselves. anyway, the thing i remember most was when he powered up their server: no video. the monitor cable was loose, so, yeah, no video. what does he do? turn it off, yank open the case, and put his hands all over _every_ card inside. he puts it all back together, plugs the vga cable back in (properly, this time), and voila, video. the company's *computer guy* was watching the whole thing and had no idea that touching every card inside the computer was no t a good idea, particularly without taking any precautions for ESD. to be fair, I don't think my neighbor realized the vga cable was loose.
anyway, that was the last time I worked with him. I figure he did just enough damage to make the server continu ously fail over a period of a couple years: enough to insure that he gets to play consultant for that company for a long time to come.
Consultants are like Norton Utilities: if they look busy enough, people are fooled into thinking that they're doin g a good job. P
well, I don't think anyone ever lacked money, but money certainly played a major role in the hobbiton end of things. Bilbo was rich and so he could afford to throw his his eleventy-first birthday party. He was also able to be eccentric because he was rich. Money plays a much bigger role in Hobbit, but there it was more treasure than general currency. I think the main thing is that the setting is more in line with feudal economics. Money did not exist in the sense that we know it today. If you didn't have enough gold to pay, there might be other currencies, like telling a good story, for example.
Actually, I rather agree with you. Just wanted to point out a few exceptions.While we're on the topic, though, another big thing in LOTR was that for the most part middle earth had no cities or even towns. They go from Bree and its surrounding towns of Chetwood and Archet (I think those were the names) all the way over to Minas Tirith without stopping at a single human town or city. So, yeah, everyday social and economic realities were left out of LOTR. On the other hand, I think it's perfect the way it is.
not trolling, but asking seriously... is there a reason why you can't just release those 38500 lines of code as open source? Sure, the GPL keeps you from being able to use GPL'd code in your project, but how does it keep you from releasing your own code, say under a BSD license, which you seem to prefer? Really, just curious.
Hey, c'mon. He's not any worse than the CNN hack who wrote the original.
The 1.8 metre Optical SETI Telescope now being built in Harvard, Massachusetts, will look for messages from the stars written in pulses of laser light.
Now, either the writer went to Harvard, in which case he knows that Harvard really is at the center of Massachusetts (as well as the rest of the world), or he's an idiot. (Probably the latter). Harvard University is located in Cambridge Mass. It is not its own city.
(OK, maybe he really does mean a city called Harvard, located in Massachusetts. But did you really get that feeling from the article?)
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and I was looking to go into sysadmining because I can't take the lusers I have to help doing technical support.
it would depend on if the person you are dealing with has the authority to deal. If you go to a car lot and give the janitor $100 to druive off a $10000 car, it is theft because the janitor does not have the authority to give the car at that price. usually a salesman does not have the authority to go lower than a certain point either. usually I would think online vendors can claim that their software does not ahve any authority to accept altered prices. which would make submitting altered prices fraud. but then, IANAL.
but this one goes to 11.
I thought my DSL was great until I added the cable modem.
ummm... just to clarify for anyone who might be misled by the above post: DSL does *not* have lower latency than cable modems.
DSL:
64 bytes from 151.203.46.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=30.910 ms
64 bytes from 151.203.xx.x: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=32.866 ms
64 bytes from 151.203.xx.x: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=94.914 ms
64 bytes from 151.203.xx.x: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=29.929 ms
Cable:
64 bytes from 146.115.xx.x: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=22.306 ms
64 bytes from 146.115.xx.x: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=86.162 ms
64 bytes from 146.115.xx.x: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=29.843 ms
64 bytes from 146.115.xx.x: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=16.554 ms
OK, yeah, the cable modem *is* getting a bit slow right now, but the inate latency is much lower (usually 15ms~20ms vs. 30~40ms.)
either the GPL or WordPerfect. Wordperfect killed Novell, then Corel. At least they bought it and died.
The dragon of whom you speak was Glaurung, btw.
Larry Ellison == Saruman -- he wants so badly to rule the world, but he just isn't powerful enough to replace Sauron.
Steve Ballmer == the Mouth of Sauron
Linus Torvalds == Celebrimbor, forged Linux on his own, out of the watchful eye of Sauron. Therefore Linux was not contaminated by Sauron's evil. Sauron hates Linux and wishes to destroy it and all who benefit from it.
Novell == Osgiliath, fell in the war with Mordor. Now just a ghost town between the warring parties of Gondor and Mordor.
Steve Wozniak == Tom Bombadil, extremely powerful, but prefers to sit in his own little corner as the events of the outside world unfold.
if you don't min bringing in the Silmarillion:
Morgoth == chairman of IBM (whoever it was circa 1981). He was a greater evil than Sauron ever was, but banished to oblivion by the Valar (the US Govt.). He fostered the evil which became Sauron.
Bill Joy == Feanor, created vi, the most wondrous tool ever made, but was excessively proud. Sun == the Sons of Feanor, forever fighting the behemoth of Redmond, but never to conquer.
The kernel architecture of Mac OS X includes operating system services derived from FreeBSD (Berkeley Software Distribution, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features. In addition, new technologies, such as the I/O Kit and Network Kernel Extensions (NKEs), have been designed and engineered by Apple to take advantage of advanced capabilities such as those provided by an object-oriented programming model.
Looks like its not so much about BSD Unix, but more about the Apple extensions on the BSD level, specifically drivers. Which is a good thing since few seem to be writing drivers (or at least releasing them) for OS X yet.
So you think Office is good because it consumes a little more space than StarOffice???
I won't even argue with the logic of that. I don't like or use either product.
Let me put my original point another way: MS Word 5.1 for Mac was small enough to fit on an 800k floppy with room left over (OK, if you wanted spell-check, two floppies). As far as I can tell, Word 9x/200x [may] provide marginally more functionality while consuming 2 orders of magnitude more space. That is what I call bloatware. Lots of feature creap that does not help me type documents any better, but sure as hell makes the whole program bigger and slower. Oh yeah, Word 5.1 for Mac was statically linked. No extensions/libraries/anything.
i don't know about everyone else, but I blast Microsoft for bloat in the sense that Word includes everything but the kitchen sink despite the fact I doubt very much if anyone uses more than 10% of the features in Word. Big hulking programs due to feature bloat is a what I think of about Microsoft. But then, I'm not enough of a programmer to get pissed about code bloat due to static linking.
attention karmawarrior: that was very well put.
just for the record, all SSH1 implementations except for OpenSSH 2.3.0 had the flaw. This includes the commercial SSH. But shame on me for responding to a troll.
A little over a year. Don't know if that's what you mean by "a while." And ossh alreay describes a different free implementation of ssh. I like the earlier suggestion of "shush". Or maybe OpenShuSH.
By the way, it's not exactly years. OpenSSH was inroduced with OpenBSD 2.6. Released December 1, 1999. So roughly a year and 3 months.
How bout we put a tax on cars because every bank robber uses them to illegally make his getaway?
By the way, my consultant friend was not in contact with the chassis, just touching things randomly. But I think you missed the main point: the VGA cable was loose! he touched every card in the machine when all he needed to do was plug in the monitor.
anyway, that was the last time I worked with him. I figure he did just enough damage to make the server continu ously fail over a period of a couple years: enough to insure that he gets to play consultant for that company for a long time to come.
Consultants are like Norton Utilities: if they look busy enough, people are fooled into thinking that they're doin g a good job.
P
Or not.
But you knew that, right?
Actually, I rather agree with you. Just wanted to point out a few exceptions.While we're on the topic, though, another big thing in LOTR was that for the most part middle earth had no cities or even towns. They go from Bree and its surrounding towns of Chetwood and Archet (I think those were the names) all the way over to Minas Tirith without stopping at a single human town or city. So, yeah, everyday social and economic realities were left out of LOTR. On the other hand, I think it's perfect the way it is.
Since when is Intellectual Property one of the greatest achievements of mankind?
Note for humor impaired: above is a joke.
not trolling, but asking seriously... is there a reason why you can't just release those 38500 lines of code as open source? Sure, the GPL keeps you from being able to use GPL'd code in your project, but how does it keep you from releasing your own code, say under a BSD license, which you seem to prefer? Really, just curious.
The 1.8 metre Optical SETI Telescope now being built in Harvard, Massachusetts, will look for messages from the stars written in pulses of laser light.
Now, either the writer went to Harvard, in which case he knows that Harvard really is at the center of Massachusetts (as well as the rest of the world), or he's an idiot. (Probably the latter). Harvard University is located in Cambridge Mass. It is not its own city.
(OK, maybe he really does mean a city called Harvard, located in Massachusetts. But did you really get that feeling from the article?)
Yes. Kidding. See recent article on pillsbury sueing for using the term "bake-off".