The story mentions that downtime contributes more than 20% of the TCO of a system. With uptimes of months to years for *nix boxes; whereas you are strongly advised to reboot Windows boxes on a regular basis, where is the logic that 23% of the TCO of a *nix box comes from downtime?
We have linux servers at work that have downtime every 6 months for servicing, and then only for a handful of hours. Other than that, they don't come down at all. I fail to see how less than 1 day downtime/year (planned, at that) can contribute 23% of the TCO of the system.
2 sysadms at ~$70k/yr = $140k/yr. $0 for licensing. That would make downtime cost roughly $32k/day (23% of 140k, assuming 24 hrs downtime/yr). If you house something critical, like your CRM system, on 1 machine, and it goes down, I could see that. Then again, that would be your own damn fault for having 0 backup/redundancy.
There's a lot about that article that doesn't add up, and not just the 5 year study on Win 2000...
Did you miss the C in DMCA. That's digital millenium COPYRIGHT act. If you have a technological protection on something that is NOT COPYRIGHTABLE, circumventing it does NOT fall under the DM*C*A. It may fall under some other law, but the DMCA is all about content protection... copyrighted content protection. As the OP stated, facts cannot be copyrighted. Only original, creative expressions of the facts contained within.
It is perfectly legal for me to copy an equation out of my favorite physics textbook when writing another book/paper/etc. However, I cannot freely exceprt descriptions/discussions of that equation, as those are an original expression.
To wit, quoting various parts of the DMCA:
Section 103 of the DMCA adds a new chapter 12 to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. New section 1201 implements the obligation to provide adequate and effective protection against circumvention of technological measures used by copyright owners to protect their works.
Section 1201 divides technological measures into two categories: measures that prevent unauthorized access to a copyrighted work and measures that prevent unauthorized copying of a copyrighted work.
To answer my own question, this site has the details. It looks like Futurama will be on M-Th at 11pm starting 1/12/03. Teach me to post without doing a FULL google search again...
When? I just looked at their site, and they do not list Futurama as one of their shows, nor is it scheduled for the next week... I have heard these rumors, just not a) a substantiation, nor b) a network schedule listing Futurama.
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Like that has anything to do with anything?!? It's not like you become a more responsible member of society and know not to drink and drive the day you turn 21. Like everything else, someone set a useless, arbitrary limit, and we're all stuck living with it.
Maybe the computations were not communications bound... Fractal calculations can be done with a Monte Carlo method, which is highly parallelizable, and requires very little inter-node communication.
Remind me where you got your numbers for point 2. This seems to say differently, and has for quite some time. Apache is ahead of all other competetion, nearly 2 to 1.
...and what's wrong with 'tar tvf file.tar' to get a list of files in a tarball (pipe it through more or less if it's a big tarball), and 'tar xvf file.tar file.txt [file2.txt...]' to extract one or more files? It's not graphical? That's the only drawback I can think of, and I couldn't care less about that.
You're both confused. iMovie is for creating movies by offloading clips from your DV (and maybe other formats) Video Cameras. iDVD is for authoring (and burning?) DVDs. DVD Player is what you use to watch a DVD.
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Because it's a separate application. Hence, standalone mail client. Sure, the guy doing Thunderbird is also working on Phoenix, but he wants to keep them as separate apps...
1. Rip out fans and heat sinks 2. Put some sound dampening dynamat over fan and heat sink holes 3. Put back together 4. Turn on... wait a few seconds 5. Extinguish flames 6. Go to store.apple.com and buy a Mac
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Did you read the article? He did that... repeatedly. Twice (or was it just once?), he even got his auction reinstated. But every time he posted a new auction for the same item (and each subsequent time, posted in larger font that he was indeed the copyright holder), the auction got cancelled and he went through the whole process again.
Much as I hate to say it, you're wrong. There is no such thing as "Fair Use" of a patent. You're thinking of copyrights. Patents are completely exclusive, the patent holder may dictate EVERYTHING about their patent. If they want to give away rights to the patent to everyone, that's their prerogative. If they want to make you pay $1M for rights, that also their prerogative.
Patents are so exclusive that, if two people independently come up with the same idea, only the person who gets the patent granted to them gets rights to it. The other person has no rights to it whatsoever.
A manifold is just an n-dimensional surface. The surface of a sphere is completly defined by two dimensions, theta and phi, latitude and longitude, etc.; hence, a 2D sphere.
No one cares what goes on inside the sphere... no one can see it!
Yah, but now he can afford to do that, as he's 81, and not seeking re-election to the senate this year. In days of old, he'd have his hand out waiting for corporate donations, just like all the rest of the politicians that are supposed to be "representing" the citizens of their respective states.
I guess after 30 years in senate, he doesn't need any more corporate handouts.
Is there any way to import Chimera bookmarks (XML) into Mozilla (HTML)? I did the obvious (Import bookmarks from mozilla and selected my bookmarks.xml file from the Chimera path) but that didn't work...
My biggest complaint with Chimera is the distinct lack of preferences that can be diddled within the app... I'm sure I could find the right prefs file, figure out what keys need to be set with what values, etc., but Chimera REALLY needs to add in a more robust Preferences panel than it currently has.
That and fix the bugs with not saving changes in the fonts panel.
However, I rarely have crashes with Chimera (no more often than mozilla 1.2a/b has)... except for some plugin issues that have been widely reported on bugzilla. Those got squashed sometime last week, and I've only had 1 crash since then, and that was more of a "my keystrokes aren't registering, but the app is otherwise responding" glitch rather than a true error log-producing crash. I typically get one or two of the nightly builds every week just to see if things are better. Speed has definitely improved in the past couple weeks.
I'm in the same boat as you with the X.2, but I really don't need an Office suite... I can use that on my work PC. If I get really desparate, I'll buy a copy of VirtualPC/DOS, load it with old copies of win98 and office97... but I'll have to get *really* desparate!
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The story mentions that downtime contributes more than 20% of the TCO of a system. With uptimes of months to years for *nix boxes; whereas you are strongly advised to reboot Windows boxes on a regular basis, where is the logic that 23% of the TCO of a *nix box comes from downtime?
We have linux servers at work that have downtime every 6 months for servicing, and then only for a handful of hours. Other than that, they don't come down at all. I fail to see how less than 1 day downtime/year (planned, at that) can contribute 23% of the TCO of the system.
2 sysadms at ~$70k/yr = $140k/yr. $0 for licensing. That would make downtime cost roughly $32k/day (23% of 140k, assuming 24 hrs downtime/yr). If you house something critical, like your CRM system, on 1 machine, and it goes down, I could see that. Then again, that would be your own damn fault for having 0 backup/redundancy.
There's a lot about that article that doesn't add up, and not just the 5 year study on Win 2000...
Did you miss the C in DMCA. That's digital millenium COPYRIGHT act. If you have a technological protection on something that is NOT COPYRIGHTABLE, circumventing it does NOT fall under the DM*C*A. It may fall under some other law, but the DMCA is all about content protection... copyrighted content protection. As the OP stated, facts cannot be copyrighted. Only original, creative expressions of the facts contained within.
It is perfectly legal for me to copy an equation out of my favorite physics textbook when writing another book/paper/etc. However, I cannot freely exceprt descriptions/discussions of that equation, as those are an original expression.
To wit, quoting various parts of the DMCA:
Section 103 of the DMCA adds a new chapter 12 to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. New section 1201 implements the obligation to provide adequate and effective protection against circumvention of technological measures used by copyright owners to protect their works.
Section 1201 divides technological measures into two categories: measures that prevent unauthorized access to a copyrighted work and measures that prevent unauthorized copying of a copyrighted work.
Notice how 'copyright' keeps showing up here?
To answer my own question, this site has the details. It looks like Futurama will be on M-Th at 11pm starting 1/12/03. Teach me to post without doing a FULL google search again...
When? I just looked at their site, and they do not list Futurama as one of their shows, nor is it scheduled for the next week... I have heard these rumors, just not a) a substantiation, nor b) a network schedule listing Futurama.
Until then, abm.futurama is my friend.
Lasers. Big freaking lasers...
Like that has anything to do with anything?!? It's not like you become a more responsible member of society and know not to drink and drive the day you turn 21. Like everything else, someone set a useless, arbitrary limit, and we're all stuck living with it.
Maybe the fact you placed Neptune 100 ly from the Sun? Give or take 8 lm...
Maybe the computations were not communications bound... Fractal calculations can be done with a Monte Carlo method, which is highly parallelizable, and requires very little inter-node communication.
Except it's an image, and I can't get the text to highlight properly.
...and what's wrong with 'tar tvf file.tar' to get a list of files in a tarball (pipe it through more or less if it's a big tarball), and 'tar xvf file.tar file.txt [file2.txt ...]' to extract one or more files? It's not graphical? That's the only drawback I can think of, and I couldn't care less about that.
You're both confused. iMovie is for creating movies by offloading clips from your DV (and maybe other formats) Video Cameras. iDVD is for authoring (and burning?) DVDs. DVD Player is what you use to watch a DVD.
Because it's a separate application. Hence, standalone mail client. Sure, the guy doing Thunderbird is also working on Phoenix, but he wants to keep them as separate apps...
I tried it on the nightly build of phoenix from 10/28, and it screwed things up royally. It did work with the official 0.3 release, though.
I was thinking "Digitally Challenged Audio Discs", as they do not follow the Red Book standard required to call them CDs.
Fine...
;-)
7. Get in car
8. Drive to apple store and buy a mac
How's that?
1. Rip out fans and heat sinks
2. Put some sound dampening dynamat over fan and heat sink holes
3. Put back together
4. Turn on... wait a few seconds
5. Extinguish flames
6. Go to store.apple.com and buy a Mac
Did you read the article? He did that... repeatedly. Twice (or was it just once?), he even got his auction reinstated. But every time he posted a new auction for the same item (and each subsequent time, posted in larger font that he was indeed the copyright holder), the auction got cancelled and he went through the whole process again.
Much as I hate to say it, you're wrong. There is no such thing as "Fair Use" of a patent. You're thinking of copyrights. Patents are completely exclusive, the patent holder may dictate EVERYTHING about their patent. If they want to give away rights to the patent to everyone, that's their prerogative. If they want to make you pay $1M for rights, that also their prerogative.
Patents are so exclusive that, if two people independently come up with the same idea, only the person who gets the patent granted to them gets rights to it. The other person has no rights to it whatsoever.
It sucks, but that's the way it goes...
Well, curvature depends on the radius, which is a constant... for that manifold anyway...
mmmm.... apples....
A manifold is just an n-dimensional surface. The surface of a sphere is completly defined by two dimensions, theta and phi, latitude and longitude, etc.; hence, a 2D sphere.
No one cares what goes on inside the sphere... no one can see it!
Yah, but now he can afford to do that, as he's 81, and not seeking re-election to the senate this year. In days of old, he'd have his hand out waiting for corporate donations, just like all the rest of the politicians that are supposed to be "representing" the citizens of their respective states.
I guess after 30 years in senate, he doesn't need any more corporate handouts.
Is there any way to import Chimera bookmarks (XML) into Mozilla (HTML)? I did the obvious (Import bookmarks from mozilla and selected my bookmarks.xml file from the Chimera path) but that didn't work...
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Eric
My biggest complaint with Chimera is the distinct lack of preferences that can be diddled within the app... I'm sure I could find the right prefs file, figure out what keys need to be set with what values, etc., but Chimera REALLY needs to add in a more robust Preferences panel than it currently has.
That and fix the bugs with not saving changes in the fonts panel.
However, I rarely have crashes with Chimera (no more often than mozilla 1.2a/b has)... except for some plugin issues that have been widely reported on bugzilla. Those got squashed sometime last week, and I've only had 1 crash since then, and that was more of a "my keystrokes aren't registering, but the app is otherwise responding" glitch rather than a true error log-producing crash. I typically get one or two of the nightly builds every week just to see if things are better. Speed has definitely improved in the past couple weeks.
I'm in the same boat as you with the X.2, but I really don't need an Office suite... I can use that on my work PC. If I get really desparate, I'll buy a copy of VirtualPC/DOS, load it with old copies of win98 and office97... but I'll have to get *really* desparate!