His supporters though can't seem to talk to others without alienating them.
And this has been more of a fundamental problem than any sort of media coverage. It's the same thing that happens in the South when there's a tornado -"It was a pandelerium!" from the toothless yokel from South Georgia.
Yeah, Paul got shafted by the "media" and by conservative talk radio but it was his supporters that did more damage and in one case, the man himself.
I'm a big Boortz fan. If not for Boortz, I would NOT be concerned with politics or be a registered Libertarian. However I still remember the day that Ron Paul was supposed to come on his show. I was so excited to actually hear two intelligent people discuss the core issues and then Paul backed out for WHATEVER reason he backed out. Boortz then proceeded to talk to that asshat Hannity for 30 minutes and the WHOLE conversation was bad mouthing Ron Paul. Not only for canceling at the last minute (which was spun as not wanting to take up the challenge) but also because of an incident involving Hannity's producer the night before in NH. Basically some RP supporters ganged up on her and started using some of the most foul language known to man because they didn't like Hannity.
That was utter bullshit. Yes, Hannity is a dick and expressly prohibited Ron Paul from any discussion from the beginning SOLELY for his stance on the Iraq Conflict. Every day on the commute home I would have to hear Hannity blather about having the candidates on the air. Not once was Ron Paul ever on the air. He would have Huckabee on the air multiple times before Huckabee was even a remote candidate. For fuck's sake he had Tancredo on the air as a viable candidate.
So yeah, RP got the shaft but his "supporters" weren't helping the matter any with the behaviour they had.
Let me clarify, I am so voting for RP tomorrow. I like the man and I like his constitutional stance and honesty.
I will say this though. It's funny as shit listening to Hannity backpedal on his stance that ALL the Republican candidates were better than Hillary when he thought it was going to be Rudy, Huckabee and Romney in the lead. I always wondered what would happen if Paul started placing higher than one of those and he was forced to actually say his name. I'm getting the same benefit because of McCain now (who I won't vote for even if I were a republican)
You are free to believe that fact all you want but it doesn't make it true. What defines a living human being? The presence of a soul? Oh wait. What business does the government have in religious issues like that? None.
The fact of the matter is simply that the fight over abortion is a purely religious one. As harsh as it may be, scientifically speaking, a foetus is nothing more than a parasite up until the point that it's viable to exist on its own. It know it sound terrible but I do *NOT* want the government basing its LAWS that affect the ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE COUNTRY on the personal religious beliefs of one group.
Government has no business in legislating morality. Not EVEN at the state level. Do I think abortion is right? No. But I understand that is a personally held belief that has no actual basis of reasoning behind it.
You do realize that pregnancies can terminate without any sort of effort on the part of a doctor? Ask my wife. I'm sure you would have loved for her to have to carry a failed fetus around because the procedure is technically still an "abortion".
While I'm not a fan of this current administration or many of the things it has done and continues to do daily, who in their right mind would consider it SMART to release schematics to a fucking military installation?
Yeah this just happens to be a prison but how are you going to feel when someone releases the schematics to the air conditioning system at jrandom fort in your town and proceeds to gas and entire base of people?
I'm as big an opponent of fearmongering as there is. I hate the war on "terrorism" but for god's sake people, have some common sense.
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I've been so busy dealing with a cluster at the office that I totally neglected my slashdot!
In response to your post and the one right below it, yes all of these things are valid and in fact we currently use one method at my current company (independent components across multiple servers with discrete stateless transactions) and used something we used at a previous company (partitioning databases usage across different data sources - login traffic uses one datasource, session traffic to another, ad infinitum).
I'm familiar with all these techniques but was not trying to get into advanced cluster techniques for the OP. Based on what he said, I was trying to simply provide the Yugo upgrade path that would buy him some time. It was more of a "keep this basic concept in mind when you want a cheap scaling path beyond the bigger hardware route".
I didn't even want to get into the nuances and semantics around the phrase "high availability" or "cluster". Here's a hint - ask a JPL guy what a cluster is and then ask a corporate IT administrator what a cluster is.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but the key to a web application being scalable horizontally is statelessness. It's much easier to throw another server behind the load balancer than it is to upgrade the capacity on one. I've never been a fan of sticky sessions myself. This requires a different approach to development in terms of memory space and what not. With a horizontally scalable front tier, you can't always guarantee that someone will be talking to the same server on the next request that they were on the previous request. It requires a little more overhead in terms of either replicating the contents of memory between all application servers or on the database tier because you persist everything to the database.
Easy. Broadcast. I an perform in the UK and someone can receive the broadcast in Spain and make a recording. Thus the performance was in UK but the recording in Spain.
You would be surprised. I dealt with a Samsung rep at a previous company and you would be surprised how much Samsung technology and parts are in OTHER printers.
or as I mentioned previously, you could run Insipid ( http://www.neuro-tech.net/insipid/ ) on a webserver of your own. The snapshotting feature alone makes it worth while.
It's basically a delicious clone but the feature I love the most is the snapshotting one. That way I never have to worry about the information going missing. It's been very useful for things that are hosted on university servers that disappear when the student leaves. Some of my bookmarks are private while others are public. They provide a javascript snippet you can put in your toolbar to bookmark the current page.
It requires a server of your own to host it but it works for me.
A few points:
Also, I know that email is not used for really critical communication. I know I can just delete the email, because if it is something really urgent, someone will call me about it. You MIGHT want to clarify that with everyone in the world who will send you email. I agree that email is not an appropriate medium for critical communication but that doesn't mean it doesn't get treated that way. I've made it a policy where I work that if anyone has anything critical for me, they need to speak with me in real-time about it. Otherwise they will need to assume it won't get read in the time they expect it to.
Automated emails by machines should be banned, or at least restricted. As a developer, I am constantly getting emails from servers telling me that some job has run successfully, or that some automated procedure is done, and I couldn't care less. Then modify the jobs. What I find happening many times is that when something NEW is rolled out or in development, people have it alert them to anything and everything including success but never change it when it has stabilized or gone live.
This doesn't mean that success emails aren't important but not for a developer. At my previous company, once we moved to a 24x7 helpdesk, we actually created a list of success emails and the times that the operators should expect to see them. There are many more failures that don't generate a failure message. What about a long running job? In fact I got in this morning and noticed that one of my nightly rsync jobs had not sent a success OR failure email. I looked and found that the job was still running. An error code is not the only time a job might have failed.
One thing that I don't think has been addressed is that email usage is different for each type of person. If we look at the microcosm of IT:
All of those are critical communications for each of those teams. Some can be followed up with a personal communication but others cannot. A helpdesk email-based trouble ticketing system is by its nature critical.
Actually I'm almost positive that there is infringing code. Microsoft is like IBM in the patent portfolio department. I'm pretty sure that developers were encouraged to submit any idea they came up with for a patent. It wasn't their job to do the research just let the patent team know.
There are two things though: 1 - If Linux developers (sponsored contributers or individuals) KNEW they were infringing 2 - Should the patents have been granted in the first place? (Prior art or obvious concept)
Let's look at number 1. IANAL, but my understanding is that you can be given a 'pass' for unknowing infringement or a chance to either pony up or remove the infringing code. Not sure about that though. Obviously the community and sponsors would clean up the code posthaste and be done with it. Look what happened with Bitkeeper or the pf debacle in openbsd.
Microsoft doesn't want this. That's why they won't actually produce WHICH patents are infringing or actually DO anything about it. The reasons are because of number 2.
My guess, based on the stuff they've mentioned thus far, is that some of these patents are either look and feel or in the prior art/obvious concept department. Look what happened when SCO actually showed the "infringing" lines of code. Immediately every argument they had was shot down by the community. People went back and look at text books and said "these are standard SIGs for unix" and so on.
Another option is that if Microsoft were to reveal the patents in specificity (i.e. patent number), IBM would march in with its catalog of patents and say "Yeah well MS, you're infringing on our patent to do blah that appears to be critical to the function of Word".
So don't make the mistake of assuming that there are not any infringements.
Remember that this is in South Korea where Starcraft is a national sport (for all intents and purposes). It doesn't surprise me at all. I'm very psyched myself as I figured Blizzard never needed to do anything but warcraft expansions ever again.
He must be working for Speakeasy or Mindspring/Earthlink. Those are the only two companies I can think of that sell "T1" service which is nothing more than a shitty DSL connection.
We have two actually t1's bonded through bandwidth.com coming out of our smartjax. I'm of the school if it ain't coming out of a smartjack and doesn't have a circuit ID, it ain't a t1;)
That would actually hurt me as well (ignore from trial) because we have a guild we're building made up of people at work and people often use the trial copy to get rolling and decide if they wnat to play or just *listen* to us throw words around like aggro,dps,tank and zerg;)
I agree. I play using Cedega and have never had any problems that weren't my own causing. The ONLY bug I've had that was even remotely annoying was occasionally losing the ability to type anything. I could still use all my macros and move with the keyboard just couldn't type in guild or whisper. Get to a safe place, log out and log in and it's resolved.
Player XXXXXXXX is whisper spamming website xxx.xxx.xxxx for gold and powerleveling services in area (STV|Barrens|wherever)
EVERY GM I've talked to thus far has said they don't mind getting these reports and that this is currently the prefered method.
The only time it's a pain is when I'm in the middle of a mob.
The way that would make it easier is to put functionality into the problem report to select a name from recent whispers. I know who foo and bar and baz are but Murxxtyyyvwee is not someone I've partied with in the past;) I also report farming as well. I hate trying to do a quest when two indonesian farmers keep killing the mobs I need.
I'm not judging the concept of punative penalties but let me make a point if I might:
North Dakota: Population Ranked 48th
- Total (2000) 642,200
- Density 9.30/sq mi 3.592/km (47th)
Texas: Population Ranked 2nd
- Total (2000) 20,851,820
- Density 79.6/sq mi 30.75/km (28th)
You've got 32x the population and almost 9x the population density. Now math is not my strong point but I'm guessing Texas has more stupid assholes per square mile that North Dakota every will. In North Dakota, you would actually have to try to find someone to kill and by the time you found them, you'd have frost bite. The death penalty doesn't play into this at all.
This is an interesting comment and begs a few thoughts from the entitlement crowd:
You bitch and moan because walmart doesn't pay enough and keeps costs down that way. You bitch and moan because circuit city has layoffs because they pay too much.
What's your frackin' solution? Have you ever been the CEO of a company, much less one the size of a Wally world or CC?
Let's look at some of the things that the CEO of a company has to deal with: - Answers to the board of directors - Is legally obligated to make the most money possible for shareholders (in a public company) - decisions will literally and directly impact every single employee in the company - decisions could impact the entire economy for a given area
Do you think you could do any better if you ran Walmart? One stupid mistake and you could destroy what amounts to the economy of some nations. Can you imagine the unemployment rate if walmart went out of business tomorrow? What about the effect it would have on freight carriers. What about the impact it would have on all the Walmart suppliers?
CEOs get paid a lot of money because they have a lot of responsibility. Tough choices must be made. Do they make stupid ones? Hell yeah. It's quite possible that this move could put Circuit City out of business because of public outrage (which the public is perfectly allowed to have). I personally have never run into a skilled employee at any big box store of any kind. The last time I ran into a person who knew more than me was when I was a kid and was buying capacitors at Radio Shack. The point I'm making is that it's easy to sideline judge the actions of the company but it you're a person who's invested money in CC, you want return on that money.
Actually the things you mention are applications that might be better run on something OTHER than RHEL. The place to run RHEL is where you require commercial vendor support for a product (i.e. DB2, Oracle, Netbackup, Tivoli, yadda yadda). The vendors of those products will NOT require you to have a newer version of X package just to get a bug fix or secfix (At least not in my experience).
If you're running phpBB and the bug fix/secfix only runs on the latest version of PHP, that's not enterprise support. In those cases, if you WANT to keep a similar platform for your SA/IT team, run CentOS on non-commercial app servers and RHEL on commercial app servers.
I'm not disagreeing that the packages in RHEL get stale but the reason they get "stale" is ISV certification. If Oracle wants to write it's installer in Python for RHEL4 then that version of Python must always be available on RHEL4 to be Oracle certified.
You could also look at BUILDING your own RPMS for those RHEL servers not running commercial applications.
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And here I was thinking it was the software industry equivalent of jumping the shark. Now I know it's something much more ominous.
His supporters though can't seem to talk to others without alienating them.
And this has been more of a fundamental problem than any sort of media coverage. It's the same thing that happens in the South when there's a tornado -"It was a pandelerium!" from the toothless yokel from South Georgia.
Yeah, Paul got shafted by the "media" and by conservative talk radio but it was his supporters that did more damage and in one case, the man himself.
I'm a big Boortz fan. If not for Boortz, I would NOT be concerned with politics or be a registered Libertarian. However I still remember the day that Ron Paul was supposed to come on his show. I was so excited to actually hear two intelligent people discuss the core issues and then Paul backed out for WHATEVER reason he backed out. Boortz then proceeded to talk to that asshat Hannity for 30 minutes and the WHOLE conversation was bad mouthing Ron Paul. Not only for canceling at the last minute (which was spun as not wanting to take up the challenge) but also because of an incident involving Hannity's producer the night before in NH. Basically some RP supporters ganged up on her and started using some of the most foul language known to man because they didn't like Hannity.
That was utter bullshit. Yes, Hannity is a dick and expressly prohibited Ron Paul from any discussion from the beginning SOLELY for his stance on the Iraq Conflict. Every day on the commute home I would have to hear Hannity blather about having the candidates on the air. Not once was Ron Paul ever on the air. He would have Huckabee on the air multiple times before Huckabee was even a remote candidate. For fuck's sake he had Tancredo on the air as a viable candidate.
So yeah, RP got the shaft but his "supporters" weren't helping the matter any with the behaviour they had.
Let me clarify, I am so voting for RP tomorrow. I like the man and I like his constitutional stance and honesty.
I will say this though. It's funny as shit listening to Hannity backpedal on his stance that ALL the Republican candidates were better than Hillary when he thought it was going to be Rudy, Huckabee and Romney in the lead. I always wondered what would happen if Paul started placing higher than one of those and he was forced to actually say his name. I'm getting the same benefit because of McCain now (who I won't vote for even if I were a republican)
I think maybe they mean they'll focus on developing custom add-ons. Nothing is stopping someone else from making an add-on and making it open source.
You are free to believe that fact all you want but it doesn't make it true. What defines a living human being? The presence of a soul? Oh wait. What business does the government have in religious issues like that? None.
The fact of the matter is simply that the fight over abortion is a purely religious one. As harsh as it may be, scientifically speaking, a foetus is nothing more than a parasite up until the point that it's viable to exist on its own. It know it sound terrible but I do *NOT* want the government basing its LAWS that affect the ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE COUNTRY on the personal religious beliefs of one group.
Government has no business in legislating morality. Not EVEN at the state level. Do I think abortion is right? No. But I understand that is a personally held belief that has no actual basis of reasoning behind it.
You do realize that pregnancies can terminate without any sort of effort on the part of a doctor? Ask my wife. I'm sure you would have loved for her to have to carry a failed fetus around because the procedure is technically still an "abortion".
While I'm not a fan of this current administration or many of the things it has done and continues to do daily, who in their right mind would consider it SMART to release schematics to a fucking military installation?
Yeah this just happens to be a prison but how are you going to feel when someone releases the schematics to the air conditioning system at jrandom fort in your town and proceeds to gas and entire base of people?
I'm as big an opponent of fearmongering as there is. I hate the war on "terrorism" but for god's sake people, have some common sense.
You sir, are an idiot.
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Purchase Direct or Find a Dealer
Anjou Speaker Cable
Anjou Speaker Cable
3 foot pair - $2750
8 foot pair - $5250
12 foot pair - $7250
Custom lengths are priced at the same rate as standard products - contact for quote
Cables are available as single wire or single biwire for the same price. Standard terminations include bananas, 1/4" spades, or 5/16" spades. Please contact Pear Cable to place an order.
I've been so busy dealing with a cluster at the office that I totally neglected my slashdot!
In response to your post and the one right below it, yes all of these things are valid and in fact we currently use one method at my current company (independent components across multiple servers with discrete stateless transactions) and used something we used at a previous company (partitioning databases usage across different data sources - login traffic uses one datasource, session traffic to another, ad infinitum).
I'm familiar with all these techniques but was not trying to get into advanced cluster techniques for the OP. Based on what he said, I was trying to simply provide the Yugo upgrade path that would buy him some time. It was more of a "keep this basic concept in mind when you want a cheap scaling path beyond the bigger hardware route".
I didn't even want to get into the nuances and semantics around the phrase "high availability" or "cluster". Here's a hint - ask a JPL guy what a cluster is and then ask a corporate IT administrator what a cluster is.
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but the key to a web application being scalable horizontally is statelessness. It's much easier to throw another server behind the load balancer than it is to upgrade the capacity on one. I've never been a fan of sticky sessions myself. This requires a different approach to development in terms of memory space and what not. With a horizontally scalable front tier, you can't always guarantee that someone will be talking to the same server on the next request that they were on the previous request. It requires a little more overhead in terms of either replicating the contents of memory between all application servers or on the database tier because you persist everything to the database.
At least that's my opinion.
Easy. Broadcast. I an perform in the UK and someone can receive the broadcast in Spain and make a recording. Thus the performance was in UK but the recording in Spain.
You would be surprised. I dealt with a Samsung rep at a previous company and you would be surprised how much Samsung technology and parts are in OTHER printers.
Not only that but if you notice in the article, IBM hasn't been charging interest.
That is the single funniest thing I've read today.
or as I mentioned previously, you could run Insipid ( http://www.neuro-tech.net/insipid/ ) on a webserver of your own. The snapshotting feature alone makes it worth while.
is called Insipid - http://www.neuro-tech.net/insipid/
It's basically a delicious clone but the feature I love the most is the snapshotting one. That way I never have to worry about the information going missing. It's been very useful for things that are hosted on university servers that disappear when the student leaves. Some of my bookmarks are private while others are public. They provide a javascript snippet you can put in your toolbar to bookmark the current page.
It requires a server of your own to host it but it works for me.
This doesn't mean that success emails aren't important but not for a developer. At my previous company, once we moved to a 24x7 helpdesk, we actually created a list of success emails and the times that the operators should expect to see them. There are many more failures that don't generate a failure message. What about a long running job? In fact I got in this morning and noticed that one of my nightly rsync jobs had not sent a success OR failure email. I looked and found that the job was still running. An error code is not the only time a job might have failed.
One thing that I don't think has been addressed is that email usage is different for each type of person. If we look at the microcosm of IT:
Developers - Bug reports
SA/Network - Job Alerts/System Alarms
Managers - Meeting requests/Policy changes
Helpdesk - Trouble tickets
All of those are critical communications for each of those teams. Some can be followed up with a personal communication but others cannot. A helpdesk email-based trouble ticketing system is by its nature critical.
Actually I'm almost positive that there is infringing code. Microsoft is like IBM in the patent portfolio department. I'm pretty sure that developers were encouraged to submit any idea they came up with for a patent. It wasn't their job to do the research just let the patent team know.
There are two things though:
1 - If Linux developers (sponsored contributers or individuals) KNEW they were infringing
2 - Should the patents have been granted in the first place? (Prior art or obvious concept)
Let's look at number 1. IANAL, but my understanding is that you can be given a 'pass' for unknowing infringement or a chance to either pony up or remove the infringing code. Not sure about that though. Obviously the community and sponsors would clean up the code posthaste and be done with it. Look what happened with Bitkeeper or the pf debacle in openbsd.
Microsoft doesn't want this. That's why they won't actually produce WHICH patents are infringing or actually DO anything about it. The reasons are because of number 2.
My guess, based on the stuff they've mentioned thus far, is that some of these patents are either look and feel or in the prior art/obvious concept department. Look what happened when SCO actually showed the "infringing" lines of code. Immediately every argument they had was shot down by the community. People went back and look at text books and said "these are standard SIGs for unix" and so on.
Another option is that if Microsoft were to reveal the patents in specificity (i.e. patent number), IBM would march in with its catalog of patents and say "Yeah well MS, you're infringing on our patent to do blah that appears to be critical to the function of Word".
So don't make the mistake of assuming that there are not any infringements.
Remember that this is in South Korea where Starcraft is a national sport (for all intents and purposes). It doesn't surprise me at all. I'm very psyched myself as I figured Blizzard never needed to do anything but warcraft expansions ever again.
Maybe the better rule is to ask anyone selling you a T1 if it's a DS1 or not.
He must be working for Speakeasy or Mindspring/Earthlink. Those are the only two companies I can think of that sell "T1" service which is nothing more than a shitty DSL connection.
;)
We have two actually t1's bonded through bandwidth.com coming out of our smartjax. I'm of the school if it ain't coming out of a smartjack and doesn't have a circuit ID, it ain't a t1
That would actually hurt me as well (ignore from trial) because we have a guild we're building made up of people at work and people often use the trial copy to get rolling and decide if they wnat to play or just *listen* to us throw words around like aggro,dps,tank and zerg ;)
I agree. I play using Cedega and have never had any problems that weren't my own causing. The ONLY bug I've had that was even remotely annoying was occasionally losing the ability to type anything. I could still use all my macros and move with the keyboard just couldn't type in guild or whisper. Get to a safe place, log out and log in and it's resolved.
Do what I do. Simple verbal harrasment complaint:
;) I also report farming as well. I hate trying to do a quest when two indonesian farmers keep killing the mobs I need.
Player XXXXXXXX is whisper spamming website xxx.xxx.xxxx for gold and powerleveling services in area (STV|Barrens|wherever)
EVERY GM I've talked to thus far has said they don't mind getting these reports and that this is currently the prefered method.
The only time it's a pain is when I'm in the middle of a mob.
The way that would make it easier is to put functionality into the problem report to select a name from recent whispers. I know who foo and bar and baz are but Murxxtyyyvwee is not someone I've partied with in the past
I'm not judging the concept of punative penalties but let me make a point if I might:
North Dakota:
Population Ranked 48th
- Total (2000) 642,200
- Density 9.30/sq mi
3.592/km (47th)
Texas:
Population Ranked 2nd
- Total (2000) 20,851,820
- Density 79.6/sq mi
30.75/km (28th)
You've got 32x the population and almost 9x the population density. Now math is not my strong point but I'm guessing Texas has more stupid assholes per square mile that North Dakota every will. In North Dakota, you would actually have to try to find someone to kill and by the time you found them, you'd have frost bite. The death penalty doesn't play into this at all.
This is an interesting comment and begs a few thoughts from the entitlement crowd:
You bitch and moan because walmart doesn't pay enough and keeps costs down that way.
You bitch and moan because circuit city has layoffs because they pay too much.
What's your frackin' solution? Have you ever been the CEO of a company, much less one the size of a Wally world or CC?
Let's look at some of the things that the CEO of a company has to deal with:
- Answers to the board of directors
- Is legally obligated to make the most money possible for shareholders (in a public company)
- decisions will literally and directly impact every single employee in the company
- decisions could impact the entire economy for a given area
Do you think you could do any better if you ran Walmart? One stupid mistake and you could destroy what amounts to the economy of some nations. Can you imagine the unemployment rate if walmart went out of business tomorrow? What about the effect it would have on freight carriers. What about the impact it would have on all the Walmart suppliers?
CEOs get paid a lot of money because they have a lot of responsibility. Tough choices must be made. Do they make stupid ones? Hell yeah. It's quite possible that this move could put Circuit City out of business because of public outrage (which the public is perfectly allowed to have). I personally have never run into a skilled employee at any big box store of any kind. The last time I ran into a person who knew more than me was when I was a kid and was buying capacitors at Radio Shack. The point I'm making is that it's easy to sideline judge the actions of the company but it you're a person who's invested money in CC, you want return on that money.
Actually the things you mention are applications that might be better run on something OTHER than RHEL. The place to run RHEL is where you require commercial vendor support for a product (i.e. DB2, Oracle, Netbackup, Tivoli, yadda yadda). The vendors of those products will NOT require you to have a newer version of X package just to get a bug fix or secfix (At least not in my experience).
If you're running phpBB and the bug fix/secfix only runs on the latest version of PHP, that's not enterprise support. In those cases, if you WANT to keep a similar platform for your SA/IT team, run CentOS on non-commercial app servers and RHEL on commercial app servers.
I'm not disagreeing that the packages in RHEL get stale but the reason they get "stale" is ISV certification. If Oracle wants to write it's installer in Python for RHEL4 then that version of Python must always be available on RHEL4 to be Oracle certified.
You could also look at BUILDING your own RPMS for those RHEL servers not running commercial applications.