"SCSI is a business, server-targeted technology. It's a stronger, faster, more expandable technology"
Do you work in marketing? You managed to say abosolutely nothing in those two sentences.
Try asking a Sun rep why a 18GB drive that can be ordered at CDW for $500 and the 'Sun OEM'd' model costs $1300. They'll say "We only select the best quality drives and test them further to make sure they are stronger, faster and blah blah blah."
Traditional SCSI hardware is a low-volume business compared to IDE. This, combined with low demand for non-OEM parts and low demand for large-capactity SCSI drives keeps the prices of SCSI equipment high.
I always thought that the password nazis rarely, if ever accomplish anything.
At my shop, we require 8 digit passwords with at least 1 number and a punctuation symbol for most workers, which seems to be accurate enough.
I interviewed at one place where employees were issued a random sequence of characters that was changed every month. That is a complete waste of everybody's time and accomplishes nothing.
In my view, it makes more sense to increase security by moving to client-server apps and web-enabled applications versus granting shell access to as few as possible (in a Unix env).
In a windows environment, strict domain permissions and security policy are the only way to secure workstations.
Sorry, you are wrong. After reading about Napster on Slashdot, I began downloading all of the music that I already own.
Believe it or not, I began buying CD's left and right. Right after buying a CD, I would download all of the tracks to support the artist!
I also discovered alot of new independent bands that I never heard of. I'm not quite sure how I found these new artists, since you have to search for a song to download it, but I did. Right after downloading, I clicked the little CDnow button and supported the artists! Sometimes I even mailed money to the artists for no apparent reason!
I share my keys by writing them down on a non-digestable sheet of paper.
Then I eat the paper with a bunch of spaghetti and wheat germ. Next I go to a pre-arranged rest stop on the highway, take a shit into the toilet and leave the toilet unflushed.
The recipient of the key then scoops up my shit and recovers the encyption key.
This is the only way to safely and reliably transmit encryption keys.
Exchange 2000 email allows for 128bit encryption of email and automatically signs every message sent. This works great in a corporate environment
Until obsolete internet protocols like SMTP, POP and Finger get replaced with new (non-Microsoft) we will be stuck using cumbersome and brain-dead hack fixes like PGP.
Running around at work like you are in your living room is not a proper enviroment for business.
The whole dress like a slob phenomenon is typical of the high-tech or dotcom attitude that you should adapt work to be more like your home. This is fits well with the insane workhours and other demands placed with the employees.
In my division, we have a quasi-formal workplace. Office drones where shirts and ties. Sysadmins or people who move around alot tend to wear shirts or polos, sales dorks wear suits. People work 8-4 unless we need to work overtime, in which case they are paid well for their time.
I think it is ironic that both the conspiracy theorist and the hard-line warlord share a similar mindset.
Men like Hitler and Tojo were convinced that they would achieve ultimate victory until the very end. When the Russians were shelling Hitler's bunker under the Reichstag, Hitler was convinced that a counteroffensive would drive the Russians back to Moscow.
The conspiracy theorist will stick to his 'theory' no matter what. Whether it be aliens at Roswell, Cubans shooting JFK or black helicopters, they never give up.
Would you like some petty thief to have access to all your corporate data? Backup tapes are a great tool to violate security permissions at a distance.
I would suggest using a tape archiving company like Iron Mountain. One carton of tapes costs about $30/month to store.
I'm curious, who owns a slashdot post? Since this a public forum, and many posts are archived for extended periods of time, I would like to see the Slashdot license.
I would say that google is even more evil than microsoft, since they are using a FREE operating system as a tool for their nefarious purposes.
I suggest that we all get together, seceede from the United States and form a Free country, where every aspect of life is ruled by the GPL. If the entire society is free, than nobody can ever infringe on Linux or Usenet!!!
Several factions of the Japanese government were preparing to surrender. Unfortunately, a dozen of them were executed about a week before the Hiroshima bomb when attempting to obtain the support of the emperor.
Robert Stinett writes an interesting story, but fails to appreciate the time differences between Washington, Hawaii and Tokyo and speed of communication between the various agencies of the US government & western union in 1941.
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You completely lack any sense of perspective or any knowledge of human behavior.
Modern war is a awful horrible thing. Since the entire economy of a modern nation is geared to produce the tools of war, everything is a target. The only means by which such a war can be ended is by complete eradication of a generation of fighting men (ie World War 1) or the complete destruction of a combatant (ie the Confederacy during the US Civil War, Germany and Japan in WW2)
The total destruction of cities and centers of production are terrible. The human cost is horrific, but that is what modern warfare is.
Ironically, the nuclear weapons that you abhor so much are the tools that will prevent a conflict on the scale of WW2 from ever happening again. The cost of a global, nuclear conflict are so high that such a conflict will never happen again. (Until there is an effective countermeasure against nuclear weaponry)
After 55 years you are happy that we are wasting billions developing advanced weapon systems that will never be used. If the threat of those weapons was not present, millions of us or our children would be casulties in yet another 'Great War'.
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You are totally wrong your first two both. Go read your hitory book again.
The strike on Pearl Harbor was a tactical strike designed to take out the capital assets of the US Pacific Fleet. (namely the carriers and battleships) The Japanese wanted to build their asian empire without interference. They took out the British Asiatic squadron in Singapore a month later for the same reason.
Dolittle's raid was completely irrelevant. It served as a moral booster to the American public and little else.
Coral Sea & Midway were the decisive moments of the Pacific War. Coral Sea blocked the Japanese feint towards Australia and Midway sunk the core of the Japanese carrier fleet, along with the elite pilots of the Japanese Navy.
There is a difference between men who faced each other in combat and men who were held in brutal captivity by sadists.
Warriors or soldiers face each other in battle and often kill each other. They do this because they must, because their respective nations demand it.
Lester Tenney and Simon Wiesenthal were soldiers captured in combat who were subject to beatings, near starvation and torture because it gave pleasure to some prison guards. If those guards were soldiers, they dishonored themselves and the uniform that they wore.
My uncle served in combat in Vietnam, and speaks of the Viet Cong with respect on the few occasions that he talks about the war. His enemy fought with honor and bravery and cannot be faulted with anything.
The Japanese flyers and sailors at Pearl Harbor did nothing wrong. They conducted a daring and decisive strike against great odds (many Japanese planes were shot down too, especially in the 2nd wave) and won a partial victory. The only reason why their victory was 'partial' and not complete was the US carrier task force was at sea.
That sort of thing would not happen in a big conflict. During the gulf war we had 24 hour recon coverage over Iraq.
Satellite orbits can be modified to change the overflight schedule. It is not done often though, since the fuel supply was finite.
Note that during the Falklands conflict, the Keyhole series of recon birds were brand new. I do not believe that frequent retasking was possible with that model.
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$0.50/gallon would be the cost to manufacture a gallon of gas.
This is really expensive. Regular (non-oxygenated or 'clean' gas) costs approximately $0.15-$0.22 a gallon to produce when oil is $11/barrel. This is how gasoline prices went under a dollar in most places a year ago. (about $0.70 of gas prices consist of sales, excise and other taxes).
So even before there is massive demand for vegatable oils, the price is too high. Then the supply/demand effect you describe takes place.
High schoolers are NOT children, they are adolescents. Turning teenagers into children is a 20th century phenomenon which is an utter failure.
Adolescents need to be LED, not controlled. Micro-management does not accomplish anything, besides creating immature, dependent adults. Leadership encourages responsibility and self-worth.
Actually, this is one of the few times that a journalist hits the nail right on the head.
Not only is the Unix desktop dead, it was stillborn. Windows has a truly awesome GUI and high-quality browser which is unmatched anywhere.
Enlightenment, KDE, GNOME, etc just don't function well enough to ever be a real desktop contender.
Instead of wasting time making Linux as bloated as Windows, we should be improving the server-side features of Linux and increasing performance.
God help my karma for saying this; but Linux is in a real crisis right now. This is merely the first Linux failure.
The bleating of anti-intellectual property fanatics has really attached itself to Linux. This, combined with the failures of dozens of all-Linux companies have seriously damaged Linux's reputation.
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"SCSI is a business, server-targeted technology. It's a stronger, faster, more expandable technology"
Do you work in marketing? You managed to say abosolutely nothing in those two sentences.
Try asking a Sun rep why a 18GB drive that can be ordered at CDW for $500 and the 'Sun OEM'd' model costs $1300. They'll say "We only select the best quality drives and test them further to make sure they are stronger, faster and blah blah blah."
Traditional SCSI hardware is a low-volume business compared to IDE. This, combined with low demand for non-OEM parts and low demand for large-capactity SCSI drives keeps the prices of SCSI equipment high.
I always thought that the password nazis rarely, if ever accomplish anything.
At my shop, we require 8 digit passwords with at least 1 number and a punctuation symbol for most workers, which seems to be accurate enough.
I interviewed at one place where employees were issued a random sequence of characters that was changed every month. That is a complete waste of everybody's time and accomplishes nothing.
In my view, it makes more sense to increase security by moving to client-server apps and web-enabled applications versus granting shell access to as few as possible (in a Unix env).
In a windows environment, strict domain permissions and security policy are the only way to secure workstations.
Sorry, you are wrong. After reading about Napster on Slashdot, I began downloading all of the music that I already own.
Believe it or not, I began buying CD's left and right. Right after buying a CD, I would download all of the tracks to support the artist!
I also discovered alot of new independent bands that I never heard of. I'm not quite sure how I found these new artists, since you have to search for a song to download it, but I did. Right after downloading, I clicked the little CDnow button and supported the artists! Sometimes I even mailed money to the artists for no apparent reason!
Yay! More bloat for Mozilla!
I share my keys by writing them down on a non-digestable sheet of paper.
Then I eat the paper with a bunch of spaghetti and wheat germ. Next I go to a pre-arranged rest stop on the highway, take a shit into the toilet and leave the toilet unflushed.
The recipient of the key then scoops up my shit and recovers the encyption key.
This is the only way to safely and reliably transmit encryption keys.
Exchange 2000 email allows for 128bit encryption of email and automatically signs every message sent. This works great in a corporate environment
Until obsolete internet protocols like SMTP, POP and Finger get replaced with new (non-Microsoft) we will be stuck using cumbersome and brain-dead hack fixes like PGP.
Seriously.
"While playing around with GNutella the other day, I came across this PDF document (HTML Here)"
That's like posting... "I was walking down the street, and this dude said he was Jesus and the end is near!"
Taking some neo-communist FUD as face value is just plain dumb. That pdf is one of the more poorly done pieces of propaganda that I've ever seen...
Why aren't any Opensource developers developing cutting edge web browsers for the Vic-20???
The Vic is all the computer anyone needs, and is plenty fast. Yet I don't see a BASIC webbrowser project on sourceforge??
What the heck??
That wasn't a troll at all, asshole.
Running around at work like you are in your living room is not a proper enviroment for business.
The whole dress like a slob phenomenon is typical of the high-tech or dotcom attitude that you should adapt work to be more like your home. This is fits well with the insane workhours and other demands placed with the employees.
In my division, we have a quasi-formal workplace. Office drones where shirts and ties. Sysadmins or people who move around alot tend to wear shirts or polos, sales dorks wear suits. People work 8-4 unless we need to work overtime, in which case they are paid well for their time.
That is an excellent idea for a TV show.
I think it is ironic that both the conspiracy theorist and the hard-line warlord share a similar mindset.
Men like Hitler and Tojo were convinced that they would achieve ultimate victory until the very end. When the Russians were shelling Hitler's bunker under the Reichstag, Hitler was convinced that a counteroffensive would drive the Russians back to Moscow.
The conspiracy theorist will stick to his 'theory' no matter what. Whether it be aliens at Roswell, Cubans shooting JFK or black helicopters, they never give up.
Would you like some petty thief to have access to all your corporate data? Backup tapes are a great tool to violate security permissions at a distance.
I would suggest using a tape archiving company like Iron Mountain. One carton of tapes costs about $30/month to store.
I'm curious, who owns a slashdot post? Since this a public forum, and many posts are archived for extended periods of time, I would like to see the Slashdot license.
I would say that google is even more evil than microsoft, since they are using a FREE operating system as a tool for their nefarious purposes.
I suggest that we all get together, seceede from the United States and form a Free country, where every aspect of life is ruled by the GPL. If the entire society is free, than nobody can ever infringe on Linux or Usenet!!!
Several factions of the Japanese government were preparing to surrender. Unfortunately, a dozen of them were executed about a week before the Hiroshima bomb when attempting to obtain the support of the emperor.
Robert Stinett writes an interesting story, but fails to appreciate the time differences between Washington, Hawaii and Tokyo and speed of communication between the various agencies of the US government & western union in 1941.
You completely lack any sense of perspective or any knowledge of human behavior.
Modern war is a awful horrible thing. Since the entire economy of a modern nation is geared to produce the tools of war, everything is a target. The only means by which such a war can be ended is by complete eradication of a generation of fighting men (ie World War 1) or the complete destruction of a combatant (ie the Confederacy during the US Civil War, Germany and Japan in WW2)
The total destruction of cities and centers of production are terrible. The human cost is horrific, but that is what modern warfare is.
Ironically, the nuclear weapons that you abhor so much are the tools that will prevent a conflict on the scale of WW2 from ever happening again. The cost of a global, nuclear conflict are so high that such a conflict will never happen again. (Until there is an effective countermeasure against nuclear weaponry)
After 55 years you are happy that we are wasting billions developing advanced weapon systems that will never be used. If the threat of those weapons was not present, millions of us or our children would be casulties in yet another 'Great War'.
You are totally wrong your first two both. Go read your hitory book again.
The strike on Pearl Harbor was a tactical strike designed to take out the capital assets of the US Pacific Fleet. (namely the carriers and battleships) The Japanese wanted to build their asian empire without interference. They took out the British Asiatic squadron in Singapore a month later for the same reason.
Dolittle's raid was completely irrelevant. It served as a moral booster to the American public and little else.
Coral Sea & Midway were the decisive moments of the Pacific War. Coral Sea blocked the Japanese feint towards Australia and Midway sunk the core of the Japanese carrier fleet, along with the elite pilots of the Japanese Navy.
There is a difference between men who faced each other in combat and men who were held in brutal captivity by sadists.
Warriors or soldiers face each other in battle and often kill each other. They do this because they must, because their respective nations demand it.
Lester Tenney and Simon Wiesenthal were soldiers captured in combat who were subject to beatings, near starvation and torture because it gave pleasure to some prison guards. If those guards were soldiers, they dishonored themselves and the uniform that they wore.
My uncle served in combat in Vietnam, and speaks of the Viet Cong with respect on the few occasions that he talks about the war. His enemy fought with honor and bravery and cannot be faulted with anything.
The Japanese flyers and sailors at Pearl Harbor did nothing wrong. They conducted a daring and decisive strike against great odds (many Japanese planes were shot down too, especially in the 2nd wave) and won a partial victory. The only reason why their victory was 'partial' and not complete was the US carrier task force was at sea.
That sort of thing would not happen in a big conflict. During the gulf war we had 24 hour recon coverage over Iraq.
Satellite orbits can be modified to change the overflight schedule. It is not done often though, since the fuel supply was finite.
Note that during the Falklands conflict, the Keyhole series of recon birds were brand new. I do not believe that frequent retasking was possible with that model.
Dude,
you know waay too much about this.
$0.50/gallon would be the cost to manufacture a gallon of gas.
This is really expensive. Regular (non-oxygenated or 'clean' gas) costs approximately $0.15-$0.22 a gallon to produce when oil is $11/barrel. This is how gasoline prices went under a dollar in most places a year ago. (about $0.70 of gas prices consist of sales, excise and other taxes).
So even before there is massive demand for vegatable oils, the price is too high. Then the supply/demand effect you describe takes place.
It's not the slow-ass filesystem, but the shitty IDE suport Solaris
High schoolers are NOT children, they are adolescents. Turning teenagers into children is a 20th century phenomenon which is an utter failure.
Adolescents need to be LED, not controlled. Micro-management does not accomplish anything, besides creating immature, dependent adults. Leadership encourages responsibility and self-worth.
Actually, this is one of the few times that a journalist hits the nail right on the head.
Not only is the Unix desktop dead, it was stillborn. Windows has a truly awesome GUI and high-quality browser which is unmatched anywhere.
Enlightenment, KDE, GNOME, etc just don't function well enough to ever be a real desktop contender.
Instead of wasting time making Linux as bloated as Windows, we should be improving the server-side features of Linux and increasing performance.
God help my karma for saying this; but Linux is in a real crisis right now. This is merely the first Linux failure.
The bleating of anti-intellectual property fanatics has really attached itself to Linux. This, combined with the failures of dozens of all-Linux companies have seriously damaged Linux's reputation.
Aimster licenses their software to several multinationals.
It is commonly used to exchange engineering documents through a multi-platform enterprise.
Check the webpage for details.
See subject.