Suggesting that Windows XP is awful because it is easy to change a user's password if you have physical access is absurd. Has the dope who wrote this every head of "single-user mode" in Unix?
Similarly is the statement criticizing MS for not supporting ghosted system images without sysprep. If you do not use sysprep, the ghosted systems will have the same SID, which opens you up to all sorts of security vulnerabilites.
Microsoft is a shitty company, which plenty of legimate practices to criticize. If you need to use FUD when knocking Windows XP, you need to pursue a new line of work.
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At my old job, we were screwed.
We had offices with IT and web staff in New York, Ontario, California, Michigan and Florida.
Everything was firewalled. Email attachments was limited to 1.5MB FTP was blocked.
At the time that I left, security policies forced us to use ICQ and AOL Instant messenger to xfer files. (Real secure, huh)
The 70's oil crisis was caused by the arabs curtailing oil supplies.
Today OPEC is nearly powerless. Now the oil companies are cutailing gas supplies to keep the prices up. In the summer, gasoline is more expensive. In the winter, fuel oil is more expensive, while diesel (which is the same as fuel oil) remains at the same price levels.
The free market does not prevail when large companies exert influence over the government, which has the ultimate power to do anything it wants.
I'm not a libertarian. I believe that government in general should protect the weak from the strong.
Oil and automobile friendly policies have turned nearly all american cities into decaying ruin. Automobile industry lobbyists wrote the laws that put inter and intra city trolleys and railroads out of business in favor of cars, trucks and busses running on government built and maintained roads.
Nope, I'm implying that oil prices are determined by cartels of oil producers and refiners.
Oil companies manipulate the available supply of various petroleum products to maintain high prices. During the winter, for example, supplies of fuel oil are constrained, shooting the price up to $1.50 a gallon in NY and guaranteeing the refiner a profit even if the winter is mild.
Back about 40 years ago, the petroleum industry was heavily regulated and playing games with supply led to a stiff fine.
Today oil companies and media conglomorates represent the vast bulk of political contributions and heavily influence US laws and policy.
All I am suggesting that organized labor was a much more powerful force in the past, and influenced policy that helped regular people more than corporate executives and shareholders.
RIAA is the antithesis of free market. RIAA is an organization of media companies who band together to fix prices and shutout competition. RIAA is why you cannot find music published by smaller record labels in music shops.
A companies actions are not necessarily capitalist just because a company is a private enterprise. In the past, meat packers, oil companies and steel companies banded into trusts and exerted monopoly influence over the markets. Coalitions of organized labor and progressive reform movements defeated the trusts, who are now re-emerging today. A great example of this is ExxonMobil. When Rockeffeler's Standard Oil Trust was broken up, the two largest parts were Standard Oil of Pennsylvania (Exxon) and Standard Oil of New Jersey (Mobil).
Whine about the ineptitude of organized labor all you want. When you find yourself paying $4.00 a gallon for gasoline to a giant oil conglomorate, you will be doing so because there was no powerful force like organized labor to counterbalance the power of oil company campaign contributions.
A large portion of the tech community consists of people who have an impaired ability to work with others and a distorted view of their own importance.
Plenty of IT types see themselves as the backbone of the company, since they "support" the systems that are the "backbone" of most organizations. They work long hours without overtime and are often on call. Programmers often have it even worse, having to deal with short deadlines and an always increasing demand for quality.
To make this more palatable, companies have infused workers with the idea that they are being "entrepreneurial" by working outragous hours and doing unreasonable work. The lure of stock options and advancement has convinced plenty of people to abandon their lives and families in favor of careers.
In reality, most IT workers are tiny cogs in a wheel. As time goes on, distributed systems and offshore labor will either automate or export their jobs out of the market.
I think that platforms should be ignored in computer science education as much as possible, especially early on.
Teach students basic concepts on stripped-down, basic implementations. When they have been introduced to data structures and the engineering process, then give them exposure to IDE's and non-ANSI libraries.
I work some some very talented coders who have started on ancient systems like Sperry and Wang minicomputers -- they learned to program on paper and stand on line to execute code! And they still design & code rings around less experienced developers.
But at my current job, I have noticed that some developers/application owners have a tendency to do this. One guy claimed his data would change 50% daily, which would have required an extra 2TB of tape storage over 3 years. We allocated him 500GB, and his backups have used about 50% of this over two years, using the same backup methods as were spec'd in the past.
Keep in mind that alot of this is attributed by a management-inspired lack of trust between the systems, enterprise mgmt & support and application groups. People outside of the systems group do not trust the large integrated systems like SANs and partitioned Sun and IBM unix machines.
The more concurrent connections you have, the more CPUs you want.
The more analytical work being done on the server (like a data warehouse) the faster cpu you want.
Basically, all things being equal, faster CPUs will make tasks run faster. (How much faster depends) More CPUs will make more happen at once.
In general, more CPUs of any reasonable speed are the better choice, which is why the database vendor charges you to use them.
Since you didn't give any detail whatsoever about what your application is doing, how many users, etc. How can you expect any kind of reasonable answer?
My advice to you would be to buy the faster, 2 processor server if you cannot afford a 4-cpu license. You can always add database licenses and cpus later, perhaps in a quarter when you have a larger budget.
A second piece of advice -- discount the application developers hardware requirements heavily. When specing equipment, most application groups pad numbers throughout 10-15%. When the final requirements are forwarded up, the developer's manager inflate those inflated numbers by 20-200%.
I went to a university that refused to teach product specific stuff. We we were taught to code C on sunos and solaris with gcc in the intro classes.
Later, we were expected to code competently in any number of languages with mimimal tutoring.
Most people complained and bitched at this policy, since at the time, (1997) you could get a $50k/year job after studying two weeks for an MCSE.
Students wanted to learn VC++ and Java. Most employers, even the morons who came on campus, didn't care if you could implement a unix TCP/IP stack -- they wanted to know if you knew how to use VB or were intimate with MFC.
It sounds like many students are getting their wish -- and finding that they get a shitty, proprietary education.
I didn't realize how distributed freenet truly is. Is breaking up a file into pieces that small typical?
Even so, I'd say that legislation making tools like freenet illegal are on the horizon. The anti-terrorism, "save the children" and copyright lobbies will see to that.
They are placed in the "exempt" category because they are "professionals".
Working without overtime pay, if required, should be specifically addressed in a written contract. If a non-management employee needs to work over the agreed-upon workweek, they should be paid overtime.
I'm not arguing that working alot is evil. The often-times decieving way that companies extract more work out of employees is wrong. If an employee is going to be working long hours, on a pager, etc this needs to be worked out in writing ahead of time.
People have been prosecuted for having underage porn received in a spam email that they never read. Possession of it is like posessing narcotics -- it's just a bad idea.
You are also assuming that everything is secure. In January, everybody thought that the current release of OpenSSL was secure too.
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That's a very naive view of the legal system. If a friend is sitting in your car with a pound of cocaine in his jacket, you will be arrested on a narcotics distribution charge if a policeman pulls you over and searches the vehicle.
Could you control what the guy had in his jacket? No.
Read about the law. The existance of child pornography in any form on a computer makes you a criminal. Whether you put it there or not, it is your responsibility.
The end result of Freenet will be regulation of encryption.
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I love my job... and my life.
I think you'll find that the work habits you develop now will either stick are create an expectation from your employers that you continue to work at such a pace.
Maybe you don't find it crappy to work like that now, but when you lose a relationship, miss your kids growing up or wake up one day and realize that you existance consists of work and sleep you might feel differently.
If you choose to allow yourself to be systematically exploited, by all means go for it.
Unless it says otherwise in your employment contract, the statutory full-time workweek is 37.5-40 hours/week.
By donating your time to your employer, you are basically allowing that employer to run understaffed. If work needs to be done into the late hours of the night, you need more staff or automation.
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That establishes a good tradeoff for me. If I wear a suit, no crawling looking for shit.
So instead of me getting away from programming tasks and other real work, we have some $12/hour wire monkey crawling under tables and racks.
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What a moron you are.
Your job is your job. Working until 1 AM off the clock only proves that you are an ass.
Maybe by having to regiment yourself, you'd actually pay attention and DESIGN things, instead of cobbling together some spaghetti shit that you wrote half asleep.
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By allowing child pornography to circulate over it.
As I understand it, freesites proliferate based on usage; the more people who look at something, the more widely it gets distributed.
The main "portal" freesite contain several links to kiddie porn, and thus supports the distribution of it.
I would love to run a machine or two as a freenet node, but am afraid that supporting that filth and subjecting myself to 20+ years in prision because I cannot control the cache on my computer is not acceptable.
And before you say "it anonymous, nobody can see your encrypted cache"... I call bullshit. There are plenty of bugs out there, and I'm sure that governments have found flaws in encryption algorithms that the public doesn't know about.
One of the smartest people I ever met was the son of a farmer whose family owned a vcr, much less a computer.
He went to a local community college, then transferred to the state university and eventually ended up becoming a very rell-regarded biochemist.
You don't need to go to an elite school or have access to lots of high tech gadgetry to learn. Make it your goal to have your fifth graders reading at a 10th grade level and you'll be doing them a far more valuable service.
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Lawyers can read and the GPL has nothing to do with technology.
When someone eventually sues over the binary drivers packaged with the Linux kernel, people will lose their intellectual property.
The FSF knows this and loves it -- they are out to push their agendas.
BSD or Apache licensing is the way to go.
My advice to you would be to listen to your lawyers -- there is no rational argument to support your claims.
That article is full of FUD and very misleading.
Suggesting that Windows XP is awful because it is easy to change a user's password if you have physical access is absurd. Has the dope who wrote this every head of "single-user mode" in Unix?
Similarly is the statement criticizing MS for not supporting ghosted system images without sysprep. If you do not use sysprep, the ghosted systems will have the same SID, which opens you up to all sorts of security vulnerabilites.
Microsoft is a shitty company, which plenty of legimate practices to criticize. If you need to use FUD when knocking Windows XP, you need to pursue a new line of work.
At my old job, we were screwed.
We had offices with IT and web staff in New York, Ontario, California, Michigan and Florida.
Everything was firewalled.
Email attachments was limited to 1.5MB
FTP was blocked.
At the time that I left, security policies forced us to use ICQ and AOL Instant messenger to xfer files. (Real secure, huh)
Who needs their human rights protected?
People with power and money don't need government assistance to protect their speech, thoughts and property.
The weak and poor are the ones who need the protection of government.
Libertarianism is an academic fraud. Society without central government is a pluotracy, which devoles into feudalism and anarchy.
And what poor schumck non-profit organization agreed to go all linux for everything?
Are you really saving them money, or forcing them to use your overpriced consulting services?
I'd guess that latter.
The 70's oil crisis was caused by the arabs curtailing oil supplies.
Today OPEC is nearly powerless. Now the oil companies are cutailing gas supplies to keep the prices up. In the summer, gasoline is more expensive. In the winter, fuel oil is more expensive, while diesel (which is the same as fuel oil) remains at the same price levels.
The free market does not prevail when large companies exert influence over the government, which has the ultimate power to do anything it wants.
I'm not a libertarian. I believe that government in general should protect the weak from the strong.
Oil and automobile friendly policies have turned nearly all american cities into decaying ruin. Automobile industry lobbyists wrote the laws that put inter and intra city trolleys and railroads out of business in favor of cars, trucks and busses running on government built and maintained roads.
It's a real pity.
Nope, I'm implying that oil prices are determined by cartels of oil producers and refiners.
Oil companies manipulate the available supply of various petroleum products to maintain high prices. During the winter, for example, supplies of fuel oil are constrained, shooting the price up to $1.50 a gallon in NY and guaranteeing the refiner a profit even if the winter is mild.
Back about 40 years ago, the petroleum industry was heavily regulated and playing games with supply led to a stiff fine.
Today oil companies and media conglomorates represent the vast bulk of political contributions and heavily influence US laws and policy.
All I am suggesting that organized labor was a much more powerful force in the past, and influenced policy that helped regular people more than corporate executives and shareholders.
Too bad you can't think for yourself.
RIAA is the antithesis of free market. RIAA is an organization of media companies who band together to fix prices and shutout competition. RIAA is why you cannot find music published by smaller record labels in music shops.
A companies actions are not necessarily capitalist just because a company is a private enterprise. In the past, meat packers, oil companies and steel companies banded into trusts and exerted monopoly influence over the markets. Coalitions of organized labor and progressive reform movements defeated the trusts, who are now re-emerging today. A great example of this is ExxonMobil. When Rockeffeler's Standard Oil Trust was broken up, the two largest parts were Standard Oil of Pennsylvania (Exxon) and Standard Oil of New Jersey (Mobil).
Whine about the ineptitude of organized labor all you want. When you find yourself paying $4.00 a gallon for gasoline to a giant oil conglomorate, you will be doing so because there was no powerful force like organized labor to counterbalance the power of oil company campaign contributions.
A large portion of the tech community consists of people who have an impaired ability to work with others and a distorted view of their own importance.
Plenty of IT types see themselves as the backbone of the company, since they "support" the systems that are the "backbone" of most organizations. They work long hours without overtime and are often on call. Programmers often have it even worse, having to deal with short deadlines and an always increasing demand for quality.
To make this more palatable, companies have infused workers with the idea that they are being "entrepreneurial" by working outragous hours and doing unreasonable work. The lure of stock options and advancement has convinced plenty of people to abandon their lives and families in favor of careers.
In reality, most IT workers are tiny cogs in a wheel. As time goes on, distributed systems and offshore labor will either automate or export their jobs out of the market.
I think that platforms should be ignored in computer science education as much as possible, especially early on.
Teach students basic concepts on stripped-down, basic implementations. When they have been introduced to data structures and the engineering process, then give them exposure to IDE's and non-ANSI libraries.
I work some some very talented coders who have started on ancient systems like Sperry and Wang minicomputers -- they learned to program on paper and stand on line to execute code! And they still design & code rings around less experienced developers.
I was being a little sarcastic.
But at my current job, I have noticed that some developers/application owners have a tendency to do this. One guy claimed his data would change 50% daily, which would have required an extra 2TB of tape storage over 3 years. We allocated him 500GB, and his backups have used about 50% of this over two years, using the same backup methods as were spec'd in the past.
Keep in mind that alot of this is attributed by a management-inspired lack of trust between the systems, enterprise mgmt & support and application groups. People outside of the systems group do not trust the large integrated systems like SANs and partitioned Sun and IBM unix machines.
For RDBMSs in general:
The more concurrent connections you have, the more CPUs you want.
The more analytical work being done on the server (like a data warehouse) the faster cpu you want.
Basically, all things being equal, faster CPUs will make tasks run faster. (How much faster depends) More CPUs will make more happen at once.
In general, more CPUs of any reasonable speed are the better choice, which is why the database vendor charges you to use them.
Since you didn't give any detail whatsoever about what your application is doing, how many users, etc. How can you expect any kind of reasonable answer?
My advice to you would be to buy the faster, 2 processor server if you cannot afford a 4-cpu license. You can always add database licenses and cpus later, perhaps in a quarter when you have a larger budget.
A second piece of advice -- discount the application developers hardware requirements heavily. When specing equipment, most application groups pad numbers throughout 10-15%. When the final requirements are forwarded up, the developer's manager inflate those inflated numbers by 20-200%.
I went to a university that refused to teach product specific stuff. We we were taught to code C on sunos and solaris with gcc in the intro classes.
Later, we were expected to code competently in any number of languages with mimimal tutoring.
Most people complained and bitched at this policy, since at the time, (1997) you could get a $50k/year job after studying two weeks for an MCSE.
Students wanted to learn VC++ and Java. Most employers, even the morons who came on campus, didn't care if you could implement a unix TCP/IP stack -- they wanted to know if you knew how to use VB or were intimate with MFC.
It sounds like many students are getting their wish -- and finding that they get a shitty, proprietary education.
I didn't realize how distributed freenet truly is. Is breaking up a file into pieces that small typical?
Even so, I'd say that legislation making tools like freenet illegal are on the horizon. The anti-terrorism, "save the children" and copyright lobbies will see to that.
They are placed in the "exempt" category because they are "professionals".
Working without overtime pay, if required, should be specifically addressed in a written contract. If a non-management employee needs to work over the agreed-upon workweek, they should be paid overtime.
I'm not arguing that working alot is evil. The often-times decieving way that companies extract more work out of employees is wrong. If an employee is going to be working long hours, on a pager, etc this needs to be worked out in writing ahead of time.
Under the current law, yes.
People have been prosecuted for having underage porn received in a spam email that they never read. Possession of it is like posessing narcotics -- it's just a bad idea.
You are also assuming that everything is secure. In January, everybody thought that the current release of OpenSSL was secure too.
That's a very naive view of the legal system. If a friend is sitting in your car with a pound of cocaine in his jacket, you will be arrested on a narcotics distribution charge if a policeman pulls you over and searches the vehicle.
Could you control what the guy had in his jacket? No.
Read about the law. The existance of child pornography in any form on a computer makes you a criminal. Whether you put it there or not, it is your responsibility.
The end result of Freenet will be regulation of encryption.
I love my job... and my life.
I think you'll find that the work habits you develop now will either stick are create an expectation from your employers that you continue to work at such a pace.
Maybe you don't find it crappy to work like that now, but when you lose a relationship, miss your kids growing up or wake up one day and realize that you existance consists of work and sleep you might feel differently.
If you choose to allow yourself to be systematically exploited, by all means go for it.
Unless it says otherwise in your employment contract, the statutory full-time workweek is 37.5-40 hours/week.
By donating your time to your employer, you are basically allowing that employer to run understaffed. If work needs to be done into the late hours of the night, you need more staff or automation.
That establishes a good tradeoff for me. If I wear a suit, no crawling looking for shit.
So instead of me getting away from programming tasks and other real work, we have some $12/hour wire monkey crawling under tables and racks.
What a moron you are.
Your job is your job. Working until 1 AM off the clock only proves that you are an ass.
Maybe by having to regiment yourself, you'd actually pay attention and DESIGN things, instead of cobbling together some spaghetti shit that you wrote half asleep.
By allowing child pornography to circulate over it.
As I understand it, freesites proliferate based on usage; the more people who look at something, the more widely it gets distributed.
The main "portal" freesite contain several links to kiddie porn, and thus supports the distribution of it.
I would love to run a machine or two as a freenet node, but am afraid that supporting that filth and subjecting myself to 20+ years in prision because I cannot control the cache on my computer is not acceptable.
And before you say "it anonymous, nobody can see your encrypted cache"... I call bullshit. There are plenty of bugs out there, and I'm sure that governments have found flaws in encryption algorithms that the public doesn't know about.
One of the smartest people I ever met was the son of a farmer whose family owned a vcr, much less a computer.
He went to a local community college, then transferred to the state university and eventually ended up becoming a very rell-regarded biochemist.
You don't need to go to an elite school or have access to lots of high tech gadgetry to learn. Make it your goal to have your fifth graders reading at a 10th grade level and you'll be doing them a far more valuable service.
Many times the problem is that applications do not provide support for free databases.
I have an app that would run great on PostgreSQL. But the vendor only supports Oracle, DB2, Informix and Sybase. So we get fucked buying DB2 licenses.