The days of "I can run linux great on a 486" are long over. If you decide to run a desktop system with a recent version of KDE or GNOME, even a slow pentium 2 is brought to it's knees.
My advice to you would be to pick up a cheap PC from somewhere that is 733+ MHz... you should be able to find something for less that $200.
Banks and other lenders make lots of money on writing loans. They lend money and charge a premium for it based on how risky the loan was. Risk of default is part of the business.
Nobody forced Citibank or Credit Suisse to loan Worldcom money. Plenty of people knew that Worldcom and Enron were shams and profited from it.
Yet another
crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux community when recently
MSNBC confirmed that Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 27
percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft
survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share,
this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux
is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by
failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin
comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin
to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux
faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for
Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for
Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market
share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. TurboLinux Linux is the most
endangered of them all, having lost $4.8 billion last quarter. The constant and unpleasant conflict between long time Linux advocates Linus Tordvalds and Richard Stallman only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any question doubt: TurboLinux Linuxis continuing its slow downward spiral into darkness.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Debian leader
Theo states that there are 7000 users of Debian. How many users
of Slackware are there? Let's see. The number of Debian versus Slackware
posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are
about 7000/5 = 1400 Slackware users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about
half of the volume of Slackware posts. Therefore there are about 700
users of BSD/OS. A recent article put TurboLinux at about 80 percent
of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400
TurboLinux users. This is consistent with the number of TurboLinux Usenet
posts.
Due to the troubles of SCO, abysmal sales and
so on, OpenServer went out of business and was taken over by
Caldera who sell another troubled OS. Now Caldera is also dead,
its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major
surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is
very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux
is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Linux
continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at
this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
The only people getting hurt are the morons who are still purchasing music. The rates that you pay for a CD will be higher -- which is your problem.
The music industry exists because older forms of recording were too expensive for a non-commerical customer to record to and transport. They took advantage of technology to make a living.
Now recording technology has caught up and the barriers of entry for those who wish to produce and/or transmit music recording are approx $40/month for a phone and internet connection.
Remember that there was no "music industry" 100 years ago -- and music was still produced, and good artists didn't starve. If the RIAA member companies went out of business, the only people losing would be multi-millionaire pop "artists".
They actually define codes for every hardware initialization technique and server OS startup routines.
If some setting is mucked up in the network startup script, the LED has a code for that. If your SCSI bus is screwed, ther's a code for that too.
The only problem is the machines take 15 minutes to boot and the codes vary between models, so you need to leave a manual with the LCD codes in your computer room!
If you enjoy being outside in New York, Boston or Chicago during the dog days of summer, you are sick.
I highly doubt that you spend your days sitting on your front stoop with a wet towel wrapped around your neck. Until you do, don't lecture people about the nobility of the good old days when people sat in puddles of their own sweat.
There are plenty of educated people and none of the traffic problems that you have in larger metro areas. If you live in Saratoga Springs, a popular suburb about 40-50 miles north you have an hour's commute.
This facility is going to be located right near two big highways, about 50 minutes from IBM headquarters. IBM has a big investment in the area, and NYS Government spends massive quanities of cash on IBM.
There is a whole office campus that the state is vacating to attract startups with cheap rents and prime office space.
Active sonar is only used in emergency situations.
Using an active sonar array advertises your position to any other submarines in 30-90 nm radius.
The most common use for active sonar is to acquire a definitive lock on a target after torpedoes have been launched.
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I could think of plenty of reasons. Access to multiple lans (our shop runs an office lan and a network/server lan), access to controlled networks running IPSec, etc.
This guys problem is obvious
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"Eight or more hours of sitting and slouching with my feet propped up in an uncomfortable, half broken computer chair every single day for years has begun to take it's toll on my back, and I'm still quite young"
Sit up straight and put your feet down. The human body can handle sitting just fine. Slouching puts up to 60% more pressure on your back, and even more if you put your feet up.
Your mother yelled at you to sit up straight for a reason when you were 5.
The agency better make ear protection available to employees, or the employee unions will eventually raise a major fuss.
Hearing loss is something that really happens to people in IT. Hard disks in particular are terrible for the ears and operators handling tapes should be wearing ear protection.
NO workers in computer room all day.
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Unless you want to get sued and fined by OSHA.
Noise levels, particularly high-pitched noise in computer rooms are way too high for human habitation. You will go deaf if subjected to for many years.
If people need to sit in the raised floor area, there needs to be a wood/glass wall between them and the computers and chillers.
You are sadly mistaken. The DOE report on Yucca itself states that the peak level of radiation will be reached 4,000 years from now.
1,000 ft is not alot of space when you consider that the rock contains lots of fractures and tunnels that water can flow through. Plutonium, although it doesn't release gamma rays is one of the most toxic substances around. If any of that gets into a water supply, many people will be sick and some may die.
In the last few years, there have been a bunch of 2.0 earthquakes. How about 250 years ago? This facility must be able to retain deadly materials for 40,000 years or more.
Can you guarantee that there will not be a 9.5 earthquake at Yucca mountain in the next 40,000 years?
Side note: I was posting on a UBB board this morning. UBB uses square brackets for tags.
Oh, and btw I made a typo, I should have said 30 miles.
According to the Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office: (from the US EPA website)
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/yucca/faqs.htm#feat ur es
There is ongoing debate over whether the geologic features and proposed engineered barriers at Yucca Mountain will provide sufficient isolation for permanent disposal. A number of interested parties believe Yucca Mountain has certain characteristics that pose a concern for long-term isolation of highly radioactive material. The State of Nevada's Nuclear Waste Project Office has expressed concern about several of its geologic characteristics:
- Yucca's location in an active seismic (earthquake) region
- the presence of numerous earthquake faults (at least 33 in and around the site) and volcanic cinder cones near the site
- evidence of hydrothermal activity within the proposed repository block
- the presence of pathways (numerous interconnecting faults and fractures) that could move groundwater (and any escaping radioactive materials) rapidly through the site to the aquifer beneath and from there to the accessible environment.
[i] You'll recieve higher doses of radiation by standing along the road to protest than you will from the shipment itself, especially if you live at a high elevation. The containment canisters can handle 90 mile-per-hour head-on (ie, 180MPH) collisons with no damage to the internal canisters (which can also take quite a beating). [i]
The only problem is with those containment canisters it that they are so large that it would take between 75 and 100 years to transport what is in storage today using our current rail system. The best case scenario time to move the waste assumes that two thirds of rail shipping capacity is going to be used to move nuclear waste.
From a transport point of view, the goverment will either declare the program a failure a few years after opening the facility or ship waste in smaller, less resilient containers.
[i] Where does the aquifer run? Underneath the site? I wasn't aware of this -- it would be incredibly shortsighted if what you say is true. [/i]
According to the EPA, an aquifer runs approximately 1000ft under the storage area at Yucca (which is 1000ft below the surface). That sounds like alot of room, but consider that many home water wells run over 500ft deep.
Info is here: http://www.epa.gov/radiation/yucca/about.ht m
Consider that this storage facility has to store materials with half-lives of 20,000 years or more and is supposedly designed for the task. Putting such a facility in a place where an earthquake could trigger a radiation leak that could poison an entire regions water 20 years or 2,000 years from now is irresponsible and must be stopped.
I'm not anti-nuclear, and I agree that the rabid anti-nuke lobby has used gross misrepresentation of facts to push their arguments.
But if you crunch the numbers and figure out how many trainloads of waste of required to even remove 50% of the waste from ponds at nuclear plants, the whole Yucca mountain plan is untenable.
I remember when the train carrying parts of the former Yankee Rowe plant in Massachusetts passed through town. Activists tried to have the school evacuated and ran around in rubber suits "testing" for radiation.
That sort of nonsense is going to happen every day if Yucca goes live. The fact that most of the US population is near the transit lanes for the material will feed the hysteria. You'll see the Ralph Naderites on Slashdot trolling in full force on slashdot and kuro5hin and eventually the whole thing will be shut down.
The waste needs to be stored on-site at nuclear plants and we need to find ways to recycle the waste further -- things like breeder reactors and reprocessing.
While the waste is transported to Yucca from nuclear power stations, it will pass within 2 miles of 90% of the US population -- it will be in your backyard too.
The Feds have lied about a number of key facts.
The government claims that the area is a seismic (sp?) dead zone. Yet there was an earthquake at Yucca mountain about a month ago and a major fault line about 300 miles away.
There is also a possibilty that any waste that leaks from the mountain will contaminate an aquifer which provides water to millions.
No matter how you put it, Yucca mountain is a bad deal for everyone.
I am actually kind of shocked that the prevailing opinion on Slashdot is that everyone should convert to the metic system.
What's going to happen when we convert from traditional to metric measurement? hint: Prices will go up.
You'll get lots of slightly smaller packages selling for the same price. Coca-Cola will replace the 20 oz bottle with a 16.7 oz (0.5 Liter) and milk will come in a 2.5 liter jug but they will cost the same as before.
The metric system doesn't make sense for daily measurement, since the world isn't based on powers of ten. Traditional measures developed the way they did for a reason.
Keep your mouth shut. I'm sure your hole-in-the-wall store eats the cost of every return... since the distributors will not take software back that would be your only option.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you expect people who cannot even spell correctly to be able to pull that off?
CmdrTaco's reasoning for not mirroring is that he doesn't want to piss anyone off or fudge up their banner ad statistics.
I guess making a site inaccessible doesn't piss anyone off.
As far as intellectual property is concerned, I cannot see how that would be an issue when sites like Google regularly cache all sorts of pages.
Chuck the thing in the dumpster.
The days of "I can run linux great on a 486" are long over. If you decide to run a desktop system with a recent version of KDE or GNOME, even a slow pentium 2 is brought to it's knees.
My advice to you would be to pick up a cheap PC from somewhere that is 733+ MHz... you should be able to find something for less that $200.
Bankruptcy is not welfare.
Banks and other lenders make lots of money on writing loans. They lend money and charge a premium for it based on how risky the loan was. Risk of default is part of the business.
Nobody forced Citibank or Credit Suisse to loan Worldcom money. Plenty of people knew that Worldcom and Enron were shams and profited from it.
MTBF is however long it takes to pump 7 shells into the various parts of the airframe where the computers are housed.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux community when recently MSNBC confirmed that Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 27 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. TurboLinux Linux is the most endangered of them all, having lost $4.8 billion last quarter. The constant and unpleasant conflict between long time Linux advocates Linus Tordvalds and Richard Stallman only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any question doubt: TurboLinux Linuxis continuing its slow downward spiral into darkness.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Debian leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Debian. How many users of Slackware are there? Let's see. The number of Debian versus Slackware posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Slackware users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Slackware posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put TurboLinux at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 TurboLinux users. This is consistent with the number of TurboLinux Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SCO, abysmal sales and so on, OpenServer went out of business and was taken over by Caldera who sell another troubled OS. Now Caldera is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Fact: Linux is dead
The only people getting hurt are the morons who are still purchasing music. The rates that you pay for a CD will be higher -- which is your problem.
The music industry exists because older forms of recording were too expensive for a non-commerical customer to record to and transport. They took advantage of technology to make a living.
Now recording technology has caught up and the barriers of entry for those who wish to produce and/or transmit music recording are approx $40/month for a phone and internet connection.
Remember that there was no "music industry" 100 years ago -- and music was still produced, and good artists didn't starve. If the RIAA member companies went out of business, the only people losing would be multi-millionaire pop "artists".
IBM RS/6000 AIX servers have a feature like this.
They actually define codes for every hardware initialization technique and server OS startup routines.
If some setting is mucked up in the network startup script, the LED has a code for that. If your SCSI bus is screwed, ther's a code for that too.
The only problem is the machines take 15 minutes to boot and the codes vary between models, so you need to leave a manual with the LCD codes in your computer room!
If you enjoy being outside in New York, Boston or Chicago during the dog days of summer, you are sick.
I highly doubt that you spend your days sitting on your front stoop with a wet towel wrapped around your neck. Until you do, don't lecture people about the nobility of the good old days when people sat in puddles of their own sweat.
Actually, the capital region has a median per captia income of $68,000, one of the higest in the country for a whole region.
There are plenty of educated people and none of the traffic problems that you have in larger metro areas. If you live in Saratoga Springs, a popular suburb about 40-50 miles north you have an hour's commute.
This facility is going to be located right near two big highways, about 50 minutes from IBM headquarters. IBM has a big investment in the area, and NYS Government spends massive quanities of cash on IBM.
There is a whole office campus that the state is vacating to attract startups with cheap rents and prime office space.
Active sonar is only used in emergency situations.
Using an active sonar array advertises your position to any other submarines in 30-90 nm radius.
The most common use for active sonar is to acquire a definitive lock on a target after torpedoes have been launched.
I could think of plenty of reasons. Access to multiple lans (our shop runs an office lan and a network/server lan), access to controlled networks running IPSec, etc.
"Eight or more hours of sitting and slouching with my feet propped up in an uncomfortable, half broken computer chair every single day for years has begun to take it's toll on my back, and I'm still quite young"
Sit up straight and put your feet down. The human body can handle sitting just fine. Slouching puts up to 60% more pressure on your back, and even more if you put your feet up.
Your mother yelled at you to sit up straight for a reason when you were 5.
That's all you need.
By using linux and bsd boxen, you save alot of money compared to sun or microsoft.
also consider that you can use commidity hardware and save even more
overall it would probaly onyl cost about $200,000 to wire the whole state.
The agency better make ear protection available to employees, or the employee unions will eventually raise a major fuss.
Hearing loss is something that really happens to people in IT. Hard disks in particular are terrible for the ears and operators handling tapes should be wearing ear protection.
Unless you want to get sued and fined by OSHA.
Noise levels, particularly high-pitched noise in computer rooms are way too high for human habitation. You will go deaf if subjected to for many years.
If people need to sit in the raised floor area, there needs to be a wood/glass wall between them and the computers and chillers.
Please do a google search for plutonium and uranium toxicity.
You are sadly mistaken. The DOE report on Yucca itself states that the peak level of radiation will be reached 4,000 years from now.
1,000 ft is not alot of space when you consider that the rock contains lots of fractures and tunnels that water can flow through. Plutonium, although it doesn't release gamma rays is one of the most toxic substances around. If any of that gets into a water supply, many people will be sick and some may die.
In the last few years, there have been a bunch of 2.0 earthquakes. How about 250 years ago? This facility must be able to retain deadly materials for 40,000 years or more.
Can you guarantee that there will not be a 9.5 earthquake at Yucca mountain in the next 40,000 years?
Side note: I was posting on a UBB board this morning. UBB uses square brackets for tags.
According to the Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office: (from the US EPA website)
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/yucca/faqs.htm#fea
[i] You'll recieve higher doses of radiation by standing along the road to protest than you will from the shipment itself, especially if you live at a high elevation. The containment canisters can handle 90 mile-per-hour head-on (ie, 180MPH) collisons with no damage to the internal canisters (which can also take quite a beating). [i]
t m
The only problem is with those containment canisters it that they are so large that it would take between 75 and 100 years to transport what is in storage today using our current rail system. The best case scenario time to move the waste assumes that two thirds of rail shipping capacity is going to be used to move nuclear waste.
From a transport point of view, the goverment will either declare the program a failure a few years after opening the facility or ship waste in smaller, less resilient containers.
[i] Where does the aquifer run? Underneath the site? I wasn't aware of this -- it would be incredibly shortsighted if what you say is true. [/i]
According to the EPA, an aquifer runs approximately 1000ft under the storage area at Yucca (which is 1000ft below the surface). That sounds like alot of room, but consider that many home water wells run over 500ft deep.
Info is here:
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/yucca/about.h
Consider that this storage facility has to store materials with half-lives of 20,000 years or more and is supposedly designed for the task. Putting such a facility in a place where an earthquake could trigger a radiation leak that could poison an entire regions water 20 years or 2,000 years from now is irresponsible and must be stopped.
I'm not anti-nuclear, and I agree that the rabid anti-nuke lobby has used gross misrepresentation of facts to push their arguments.
But if you crunch the numbers and figure out how many trainloads of waste of required to even remove 50% of the waste from ponds at nuclear plants, the whole Yucca mountain plan is untenable.
I remember when the train carrying parts of the former Yankee Rowe plant in Massachusetts passed through town. Activists tried to have the school evacuated and ran around in rubber suits "testing" for radiation.
That sort of nonsense is going to happen every day if Yucca goes live. The fact that most of the US population is near the transit lanes for the material will feed the hysteria. You'll see the Ralph Naderites on Slashdot trolling in full force on slashdot and kuro5hin and eventually the whole thing will be shut down.
The waste needs to be stored on-site at nuclear plants and we need to find ways to recycle the waste further -- things like breeder reactors and reprocessing.
While the waste is transported to Yucca from nuclear power stations, it will pass within 2 miles of 90% of the US population -- it will be in your backyard too.
The Feds have lied about a number of key facts.
The government claims that the area is a seismic (sp?) dead zone. Yet there was an earthquake at Yucca mountain about a month ago and a major fault line about 300 miles away.
There is also a possibilty that any waste that leaks from the mountain will contaminate an aquifer which provides water to millions.
No matter how you put it, Yucca mountain is a bad deal for everyone.
Mafia bosses don't kill people, they just hire assassins who do the killing for them.
I am actually kind of shocked that the prevailing opinion on Slashdot is that everyone should convert to the metic system.
What's going to happen when we convert from traditional to metric measurement? hint: Prices will go up.
You'll get lots of slightly smaller packages selling for the same price. Coca-Cola will replace the 20 oz bottle with a 16.7 oz (0.5 Liter) and milk will come in a 2.5 liter jug but they will cost the same as before.
The metric system doesn't make sense for daily measurement, since the world isn't based on powers of ten. Traditional measures developed the way they did for a reason.
Keep your mouth shut. I'm sure your hole-in-the-wall store eats the cost of every return... since the distributors will not take software back that would be your only option.