After all that calm, good advice, was this where your blood suddenly started to boil over?
I could almost hear your teeth gritting... "those bastards!":-)
Actually, most of what I related came from friends who worked in IT before all getting laid off. I decided that those would be a lot more relevant than my own anecdotes, which mostly have to do with juggling
a regional legacy service decommission, given a couple months to do by myself what senior people had been trying to do for the last 3 years, including:
arranging with unmotivated sales staff (no residuals, no commission, small accounts that didn't even count towards quotas) to upsell any of the customers who hadn't left yet;
yanking back IP space from people that would be quitting or that would be staying but would have to get reassigned anyway;
determining who owned each legacy circuit without many CID records, so that we could either disconnect and stop paying telco, or tell the customer they should do so
work as part of a team, that required that we yank back many, many IPs from many, many customers who'd had them for many, many years, most of whom we had to discover as we went along because there was no surviving documentation, and many of whom couldn't justify but still expected the same amount of space despite ARIN usage requirements, facing very short deadlines for each block that needed returning. I can't tell you further details.
an international circuit database scrub. I can't tell you details of what this meant, either.
other projects as they popped up daily/weekly, which I've probably just blotted out entrely
In addition to all those, I also had my regular duties, which included supporting the customer routing infrastructure, then still taking weekly turns on 24-hour pager duty after I was too busy to do the daily support. Oh, and maybe a few escorted colo visits. And calls from the company president's office to fix other departments' problems. And that emergency customer premises visit...
I figured if I said anything about those, I'd get cranky, or you'd get bored, or think I'm desperate to show off so someone will hire me (I made it through 3 rounds of layoffs cleaning up the messes, but there were at least 4 rounds, so you'd be right about that), or I'd say too much and get sued by my former employer (I've just gone back and removed most of my text. But my former bosses can still reconize me immediately), and none of these really sound like system administration issues, which is what the root article is about, so I won't.
Too bad, too, because I could have mentioned how I got the decommission done with a month to spare. And how I did the last year of projects and support 90% from home, especially after the secretaries, then some fellow engineers, then my boss got laid off, and the office lost its soda budget! Oh, and that all the work at home was done over dialup, frequently at rates like 21.6K.:) (Thank God for SSH and screen)
But who wants to hear about those things?:) (anyone needs a good team player with Cisco/Juniper/angry customer experience, let me know:) )
A backup has to be reliable. It doesn't have to be fast, because it's not where the config actually runs. That's RAM, but there's no need for it to be battery-backed, because you always save your config... don't you?
The flash in routers doesn't see a huge number of writes (our Cisco ADSL modem/router[...]
I'm not talking about consumer-grade devices that aren't reconfigured often, I'm talking about "production" equipment used as regional aggregates, that have T-1 and DS-3 and other cards hanging off them, that get updates every day as new circuits get put in, existing circuits get changes in IP routing, interfaces get shut down because customers don't pay the bills or get caught spamming, etc. Devices that might see the equivalent of hourly saves throughout their use, frequently for very minor changes, in bursts.
("oops, I forgot to increment the date in the header, the config server won't rebuild the new routing tables, better do it again," "did i save it after shutting that interface a minute ago? better do it again," "That guy wants to add BGP, here's his ASN," "oh wait, he was wrong, that's his downstream's ASN, he's this," "oh, he doesn't want to pay for BGP, he wants static routes," "ok, his salesguy talked him into it," "oh, no, he's multi-homed and didn't tell us, and his other providers' space is not portable, so we need to drop his announcement of their space until he sends us permission from them," "oh, his downstream is spamming, jerks!" "oh, no, actually he lied about it being a downstream, he really owns that company too, do a shut until he calls us so we can chew him out," "his other provider's NOC just alerted us that they yanked his space, so remove the BGP totally until he fixes the route objects," "oh, accounting called, his check bounced also, yank his keycard access to the colo at the POP and padlock his rack, then remove his configs for his home T-1 also," "dude, some guy showed up at the data center, pulled a gun, and got arrested, was it him? no! it was the consultant who built a box for him, who got ripped off too! Guess you'll have to wait for legal's approval before disassembling his boxes with prejudice, but they'll probably tell the guy they won't press charges if he goes away quietly, since he just got hauled off by the cops"), etc.
That's the kind of use production routers get, all day (and night). Except in reality, the deadbeat's box at the POP may become our new secret quake server eventually instead of being dropped off the loading dock or sold at auction, so it will be routed some IPs from the office pool, which involves more routing changes...:)
Give estimates. Show your time table. Put the onus on someone else to fit it in, so they are clear on what the tradeoffs are going to be.
Seriously, this is basically all there is to it. Use whatever calendaring software you have to break down what you're doing on a daily or weekly basis, if not hourly. Even a recurring to-do list is good. The idea is to show that your time is not an infinite resource.
If you can sit down and say something like "I can make time for this project this month, but it will require moving back those security updates for a week, and the database migration for a few days. Also, we're running low on shared drive space and there's no budget to augment the servers, so to add this in, I'll have to put everyone on a harsher quota for the next few days (and delete your mp3s off your shared drive)," and show how your time is mapped, they will see why they can't reasonably expect you to take on more work.
You'll also be able to get more actual work done, because the mere act of organizing your regular activities will let you see ways to cluster them for more efficiency ("oh, while this disk image is copying, I can hit that next item on the list, replace the video cable on that secretary's computer so she'll stop holding my mail hostage"), etc.
Also, at the end of six months or a year, maybe you can use the resulting log as evidence that you need an assistant or a pay raise or both. It's also good for remembering what to put on your resume, if your small company decides to lay you off and replace you with two kids who just graduated and also happen to be related to the VPs...
And I do think CF is more reliable than Microdrive.
Now there's an understatement. Solid-state versus a tiny little hard drive. Drop both into your pocket without any protective cases, let them bang up against each other, your keys, loose change, and the side of your desk as you swing into your chair, for a few weeks. Step on them accidentally (on purpose) when you change clothes at the gym, or when you're at home with your honey (Slashdot regulars excluded) and in a hurry to undress...
Microdrives are cute, and store a lot of data, but they still rely on hard drive technology, so they still have floating heads less than a hair away from fast-spinning disk surfaces. Probably any failure point CF has, microdrives also share, as well as their own. Even if they are as externally as rugged as CF (and I think the tests above may disprove that), you can't get around the internal points of failure.
Flash RAM has quite a limited number of writes. This can cause problems if you're writing large numbers of small files to flash RAM as it can cause a huge number of writes to the FAT area of the device.
That's odd. Flash sees heavy use in routers. When I was an engineer for a Tier 1 provider, being conservative and cautious always meant saving more often, not less:)
I've had extremely good luck with my CF cards. I first started using them personally when I bought a Canon digital camera, and as long as the reader device worked properly with my computer (various OSes and readers tested), the data was always there. I read them as FAT drives (I never used above 48M cards, because my Powershot A5 supposedly can't use anything higher, so higher sizes might use FAT32). In fact, I think I remember using Ontrack's data recovery software to recover some files I accidentally deleted off a card, but I'm not sure. More importantly, though, I've gotten one wet, dried it out, and it still worked (don't rely on this, though). In fact, the only time I couldn't read a card was when there was lint or dust clogging a couple of edge connector holes, or I didn't have a card fully seated in the camera.
I've known people who've cracked the plastic shells, and some of the cards didn't work any more - but some of them did, at least long enough to move the data off. And any kind of mechanical damage harsh enough to crack a CF card open is more than enough to destroy most other storage media too, probably.
Don't forget, some routers use flash memory to store configuration data. in fact, that application probably helped drive the early development. They're not the fastest media, but they're a very rugged solution.
If you're losing data all the time on your cards, check that you're not using buffered writes and removing them before they're ready, or that you're not nicknamed Sparky because of a chronic static charge:) Seriously. Or try a different brand. For CF, I've used Lexans that were on sale, as well as plenty of Sandisks, and the tiny "free" Canon-branded card that came with my camera. For SD, I've only used the Canon-branded card that came with my videocamera), but it wasn't great at making stills, so I didn't get much practice. I have no experience with SmartMedia. Oh, and my parents had a lot of trouble getting data off their Memory Sticks the first couple times after they bought a Sony, but eventually got that working.
Under topics, search for "Caldera". Check the box next to it.
Except that this article was filed under "the courts" and some other department links, but none of them are Caldera, either.
The filter only works if the editors properly tag the stories, but few of the recent SCO stories actually were filed under Caldera. The editors have a cavalier attitude to fact-checking, grammar, and spelling, so I doubt they'll suddenly start enforcing strict filing rules.
Also worth noting that Sony named this color emerald, probably some patent is protecting the cyan (maybe Nikon)?
I don't know if Nikon has a patent protecting that, but to just make up a plausible reason, I'd guess that the Emerald is close to, but not the same, wavelength as the standard Cyan in a CMY (or CMYK) setup.
I really hope someone does a followup paper (even white papers from one company touting the superiority of its approach to the other's) comparing these. Also, if they could explain whether RGB or CMY is better for sensing light, anyway. My gut instinct is that RGB should be better, because my junior high art teacher and high school physics texts say that light uses RGB and pigments use CMY, but surely Nikon must know something more.
Now that people can buy cheap (~$30US) 6 or 7-in-1 readers that include 'plain' memory stick functionality, consumers need some real reason to cough up the extra dough for a memory stick pro reader.
When my parents bought their Sony recently, I talked them out of buying the pro sticks and reader, and getting the cheaper plain ones. I still prefer CF, which my Canon digital camera uses, but I haven't compared speeds between these types, or to SD, which my Canon camcorder uses.
Feed the baby, wife and self, pay the mortgage, etc.? Decisions, decisions.
Okay, beyond the obligatory "you must be new here," I have to say I don't have a baby or a wife or a mortgage, and I should lose a lot of weight. I still don't have another job, either, so that frees me to have all sorts of silly dreams.
Don't say that just yet. I was in the same boat but after following the directions and asking the friendly folks on the gentoo-user mailing list and forums.gentoo.org, I easily found everything I needed, and life is good.:)
Well... I chose SuSE because of its very nice KDE and office-type applications integration, and YaST2(3,4, whatever they have now). In other words, it's pretty, I can be productive right away on it, and all that. Same reason why I have licensed MS-Windows versions, too, of course. I'd like to play around with Gentoo Linux because of the speed appeal and the almost-rolling-my-own, but it's going to take a while to get it going.
The gamecube is the fun family console. If I was buying one console system for my 12-or-under kids I would buy a gamecube probably.
You might want to consider the DVD playing capabilities of the XBox and the PS2, if you're shopping for your kids. Just think of how useful it would be to let them watch their age-appropriate movies at the same time you're watching the news, or playing games on your primary tv set, etc.
You're not whoring. The reasons why I went ahead and bought the CD set when it came up, even though I'd already downloaded the ISO, were a) I was lazy b) I needed to know the CDs weren't going to fail on me like a copied ISO might, and c), the biggest reason of all, I want to support Gentoo.
My primary experience with Linux in the home has been SuSE, and I know I'm going to find Gentoo painful to start up and might even go back to SuSE at this stage in the game. But Gentoo seems to be about much more than Linux: from what I understand, they're working on platforms for other OSes out there, and that greatly increases the probability that many more people will benefit from their work on Portage and the rest.
Oh, and just in case someone thinks I'm karma whoring, myself (like I should care?), let me say that I also broke down and ordered an OEM version of Windows XP Pro yesterday, along with a requisite piece of hardware to meet the licensing terms, etc.
P.S. I know I used the word "we". I'm not a developer and haven't found a way to contribute to the comminity yet, but I love the ideals of all this. Have have for 5 or so years now.
If you've got the money and can afford to wait for a return, consider buying stock in Red Hat. If they win the lawsuit and get triple damages, I'll bet it will look good on their bottom line.
Disclaimer: I have never held Red Hat stock, and I think the last Red Hat distro I even tried was 4.x, and that was at work (I prefer SuSE, and have ordered the Gentoo 1.4 CD to try) and I have no idea what their financials look like, either.
SCO is more like North Korea, right down to the leaders making insane claims. North Korea wants to force a treaty and aid and they've threatened to consider it an act of war if the U.S. brings the matter into the UN, or pretty much says anything at all publicly, etc. Not too much different from SCO also wanting to force a payoff, and threatening to sue NDA-breakers, while also not making any openly-substantiated claims of injury.
Of course, the difference is, North Korea can field a real threat, while we can assume that there are no critical defense or civilian systems that SCO dares screw with intentionally, and won't be affected even accidentally if SCO implodes, since its market share of enterprise and other markets was very small even before this lawswuit business began.
Will they have big advertisements on them? Specifically, Microsoft advertisements?
But... then they'd be free! We can't have that!?!
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You know what sucks? Spending $200 on a nifty Garmin GPS unit only to find out that you have to spend another $200 on detailed maps. [...] This new unit it pretty expensive, but what how much do you have to spend for the friggin maps?
You know what else sucks? People who can't read linked information before commenting on it.
Right on this page, on the lower left it plainly says that the "MapSource(TM) City Select CD with full unlock" is included, in either North American or European versions, as well as the basemaps.
If you don't believe that page, follow the link from the North American version to here, where it also says "MapSource(R) North America City Select v4.01 now includes full coverage for the contiguous United States and expanded coverage for Canada. This updated product (with access to all regions at no extra charge) is included with the purchase of a Garmin(R) GPS V Deluxe or iQue 3600."
Maybe this stuff can be put in all those crappy DSL modems and routers that freeze up due to overheating. It would be easier than modding the whole damn thing to pieces with fans and whatnot...
Can you give us the names of the manufacturers of these devices? I've only had experience with a few DSL modems (mostly Westell) and a little SMC broadband router, and have never had heat-induced failure. My next router will also be an SMC, because I really liked this design. My next modem will be whatever I scrounge up, because they're probably all interchangeable at this point and the next DSL provider will try to throw one at me, also.
A concerted effort needs to be made to tie the labels publicly to the RIAA's actions.
Ads that say, for example, "Dave Matthews and Christina Aguilera help fund the RIAA" because they're affiliated with RCA might get a lot more people thinking.
When people go to a store, they don't usually look to see if the album on display is made by RCA (or any other specific company), and even if they did, complex publishing/distribution deals may make it hard to tell from the outside cover exactly where the money goes. But they do look to see who the artist is, so making a "no-hit list" of artists might work better.
If you choose to run a P2P client/server that works by serving content to anyone who asks for it, should you expect it to know that it's the RIAA asking, and to refuse to talk to them?
Anonymous FTP servers are a perfect example of giving content to anyone asking for it, without knowing who is doing the asking (other than maybe keeping logs of the IPs, of course).
He said sci-fi book fan, watching alian and star wars dosn't count here
How very presumptuous of you. I began reading authors like Sheckley and Asimov and Simak as a small child, because those were most of the books I'd find lying around the house, especially in the study where I'd sit quietly while my dad typed his dissertation on his TRS-80. It was either that or read Rodale Press books, metallurgical texts, or the Gödel, Escher, Bach paperback my parents kept in their bathroom. (No, I didn't understand the book until I was a teen; I'm no genius:) ) I had some books of my own, but they were kids' books, not stuff I picked out for the most part.
Which makes you wonder how much such a machine would cost today. Especially since the "much less than $250,000" remark referred to the whole project, including one-time costs in development. Don't you wonder what the current equivalent of the "deep crack" chip is? And can you bet that several governments have privately come up with custom silicon to do the job, also, much faster because they have lots more money and techniques we don't know about?
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Actually, most of what I related came from friends who worked in IT before all getting laid off. I decided that those would be a lot more relevant than my own anecdotes, which mostly have to do with juggling
In addition to all those, I also had my regular duties, which included supporting the customer routing infrastructure, then still taking weekly turns on 24-hour pager duty after I was too busy to do the daily support. Oh, and maybe a few escorted colo visits. And calls from the company president's office to fix other departments' problems. And that emergency customer premises visit...
I figured if I said anything about those, I'd get cranky, or you'd get bored, or think I'm desperate to show off so someone will hire me (I made it through 3 rounds of layoffs cleaning up the messes, but there were at least 4 rounds, so you'd be right about that), or I'd say too much and get sued by my former employer (I've just gone back and removed most of my text. But my former bosses can still reconize me immediately), and none of these really sound like system administration issues, which is what the root article is about, so I won't.
Too bad, too, because I could have mentioned how I got the decommission done with a month to spare. And how I did the last year of projects and support 90% from home, especially after the secretaries, then some fellow engineers, then my boss got laid off, and the office lost its soda budget! Oh, and that all the work at home was done over dialup, frequently at rates like 21.6K.
But who wants to hear about those things?
Have you tried going to Cisco's website and looking for yourself? Oh, wait, silly me, I forgot this is Slashdot.
Here you go.
Oh, and here's a link for Juniper, also.
A backup has to be reliable. It doesn't have to be fast, because it's not where the config actually runs. That's RAM, but there's no need for it to be battery-backed, because you always save your config... don't you?
I'm not talking about consumer-grade devices that aren't reconfigured often, I'm talking about "production" equipment used as regional aggregates, that have T-1 and DS-3 and other cards hanging off them, that get updates every day as new circuits get put in, existing circuits get changes in IP routing, interfaces get shut down because customers don't pay the bills or get caught spamming, etc.
Devices that might see the equivalent of hourly saves throughout their use, frequently for very minor changes, in bursts.
("oops, I forgot to increment the date in the header, the config server won't rebuild the new routing tables, better do it again," "did i save it after shutting that interface a minute ago? better do it again," "That guy wants to add BGP, here's his ASN," "oh wait, he was wrong, that's his downstream's ASN, he's this," "oh, he doesn't want to pay for BGP, he wants static routes," "ok, his salesguy talked him into it," "oh, no, he's multi-homed and didn't tell us, and his other providers' space is not portable, so we need to drop his announcement of their space until he sends us permission from them," "oh, his downstream is spamming, jerks!" "oh, no, actually he lied about it being a downstream, he really owns that company too, do a shut until he calls us so we can chew him out," "his other provider's NOC just alerted us that they yanked his space, so remove the BGP totally until he fixes the route objects," "oh, accounting called, his check bounced also, yank his keycard access to the colo at the POP and padlock his rack, then remove his configs for his home T-1 also," "dude, some guy showed up at the data center, pulled a gun, and got arrested, was it him? no! it was the consultant who built a box for him, who got ripped off too! Guess you'll have to wait for legal's approval before disassembling his boxes with prejudice, but they'll probably tell the guy they won't press charges if he goes away quietly, since he just got hauled off by the cops"), etc.
That's the kind of use production routers get, all day (and night). Except in reality, the deadbeat's box at the POP may become our new secret quake server eventually instead of being dropped off the loading dock or sold at auction, so it will be routed some IPs from the office pool, which involves more routing changes...
Seriously, this is basically all there is to it. Use whatever calendaring software you have to break down what you're doing on a daily or weekly basis, if not hourly. Even a recurring to-do list is good. The idea is to show that your time is not an infinite resource.
If you can sit down and say something like "I can make time for this project this month, but it will require moving back those security updates for a week, and the database migration for a few days. Also, we're running low on shared drive space and there's no budget to augment the servers, so to add this in, I'll have to put everyone on a harsher quota for the next few days (and delete your mp3s off your shared drive)," and show how your time is mapped, they will see why they can't reasonably expect you to take on more work.
You'll also be able to get more actual work done, because the mere act of organizing your regular activities will let you see ways to cluster them for more efficiency ("oh, while this disk image is copying, I can hit that next item on the list, replace the video cable on that secretary's computer so she'll stop holding my mail hostage"), etc.
Also, at the end of six months or a year, maybe you can use the resulting log as evidence that you need an assistant or a pay raise or both. It's also good for remembering what to put on your resume, if your small company decides to lay you off and replace you with two kids who just graduated and also happen to be related to the VPs...
Now there's an understatement. Solid-state versus a tiny little hard drive. Drop both into your pocket without any protective cases, let them bang up against each other, your keys, loose change, and the side of your desk as you swing into your chair, for a few weeks. Step on them accidentally (on purpose) when you change clothes at the gym, or when you're at home with your honey (Slashdot regulars excluded) and in a hurry to undress...
Microdrives are cute, and store a lot of data, but they still rely on hard drive technology, so they still have floating heads less than a hair away from fast-spinning disk surfaces. Probably any failure point CF has, microdrives also share, as well as their own. Even if they are as externally as rugged as CF (and I think the tests above may disprove that), you can't get around the internal points of failure.
That's odd. Flash sees heavy use in routers. When I was an engineer for a Tier 1 provider, being conservative and cautious always meant saving more often, not less
Oh, by the way, if you think Flash is bad for a storage medium, some Juniper routers have an LS-120 floppy drive for backup
I've had extremely good luck with my CF cards. I first started using them personally when I bought a Canon digital camera, and as long as the reader device worked properly with my computer (various OSes and readers tested), the data was always there. I read them as FAT drives (I never used above 48M cards, because my Powershot A5 supposedly can't use anything higher, so higher sizes might use FAT32). In fact, I think I remember using Ontrack's data recovery software to recover some files I accidentally deleted off a card, but I'm not sure. More importantly, though, I've gotten one wet, dried it out, and it still worked (don't rely on this, though). In fact, the only time I couldn't read a card was when there was lint or dust clogging a couple of edge connector holes, or I didn't have a card fully seated in the camera.
:) Seriously. Or try a different brand. For CF, I've used Lexans that were on sale, as well as plenty of Sandisks, and the tiny "free" Canon-branded card that came with my camera. For SD, I've only used the Canon-branded card that came with my videocamera), but it wasn't great at making stills, so I didn't get much practice. I have no experience with SmartMedia. Oh, and my parents had a lot of trouble getting data off their Memory Sticks the first couple times after they bought a Sony, but eventually got that working.
I've known people who've cracked the plastic shells, and some of the cards didn't work any more - but some of them did, at least long enough to move the data off. And any kind of mechanical damage harsh enough to crack a CF card open is more than enough to destroy most other storage media too, probably.
Don't forget, some routers use flash memory to store configuration data. in fact, that application probably helped drive the early development. They're not the fastest media, but they're a very rugged solution.
If you're losing data all the time on your cards, check that you're not using buffered writes and removing them before they're ready, or that you're not nicknamed Sparky because of a chronic static charge
Except that this article was filed under "the courts" and some other department links, but none of them are Caldera, either.
The filter only works if the editors properly tag the stories, but few of the recent SCO stories actually were filed under Caldera. The editors have a cavalier attitude to fact-checking, grammar, and spelling, so I doubt they'll suddenly start enforcing strict filing rules.
I don't know if Nikon has a patent protecting that, but to just make up a plausible reason, I'd guess that the Emerald is close to, but not the same, wavelength as the standard Cyan in a CMY (or CMYK) setup.
I really hope someone does a followup paper (even white papers from one company touting the superiority of its approach to the other's) comparing these. Also, if they could explain whether RGB or CMY is better for sensing light, anyway. My gut instinct is that RGB should be better, because my junior high art teacher and high school physics texts say that light uses RGB and pigments use CMY, but surely Nikon must know something more.
Now that people can buy cheap (~$30US) 6 or 7-in-1 readers that include 'plain' memory stick functionality, consumers need some real reason to cough up the extra dough for a memory stick pro reader.
When my parents bought their Sony recently, I talked them out of buying the pro sticks and reader, and getting the cheaper plain ones. I still prefer CF, which my Canon digital camera uses, but I haven't compared speeds between these types, or to SD, which my Canon camcorder uses.
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I'm sure you can understand. (looks at quote)
I think they've fixed it, now.
Are they the same colors? Link, please?
Okay, beyond the obligatory "you must be new here," I have to say I don't have a baby or a wife or a mortgage, and I should lose a lot of weight. I still don't have another job, either, so that frees me to have all sorts of silly dreams.
Well... I chose SuSE because of its very nice KDE and office-type applications integration, and YaST2(3,4, whatever they have now). In other words, it's pretty, I can be productive right away on it, and all that. Same reason why I have licensed MS-Windows versions, too, of course. I'd like to play around with Gentoo Linux because of the speed appeal and the almost-rolling-my-own, but it's going to take a while to get it going.
You might want to consider the DVD playing capabilities of the XBox and the PS2, if you're shopping for your kids. Just think of how useful it would be to let them watch their age-appropriate movies at the same time you're watching the news, or playing games on your primary tv set, etc.
You're not whoring. The reasons why I went ahead and bought the CD set when it came up, even though I'd already downloaded the ISO, were a) I was lazy b) I needed to know the CDs weren't going to fail on me like a copied ISO might, and c), the biggest reason of all, I want to support Gentoo.
My primary experience with Linux in the home has been SuSE, and I know I'm going to find Gentoo painful to start up and might even go back to SuSE at this stage in the game. But Gentoo seems to be about much more than Linux: from what I understand, they're working on platforms for other OSes out there, and that greatly increases the probability that many more people will benefit from their work on Portage and the rest.
Oh, and just in case someone thinks I'm karma whoring, myself (like I should care?), let me say that I also broke down and ordered an OEM version of Windows XP Pro yesterday, along with a requisite piece of hardware to meet the licensing terms, etc.
If you've got the money and can afford to wait for a return, consider buying stock in Red Hat. If they win the lawsuit and get triple damages, I'll bet it will look good on their bottom line.
Disclaimer: I have never held Red Hat stock, and I think the last Red Hat distro I even tried was 4.x, and that was at work (I prefer SuSE, and have ordered the Gentoo 1.4 CD to try) and I have no idea what their financials look like, either.
SCO is more like North Korea, right down to the leaders making insane claims. North Korea wants to force a treaty and aid and they've threatened to consider it an act of war if the U.S. brings the matter into the UN, or pretty much says anything at all publicly, etc. Not too much different from SCO also wanting to force a payoff, and threatening to sue NDA-breakers, while also not making any openly-substantiated claims of injury.
Of course, the difference is, North Korea can field a real threat, while we can assume that there are no critical defense or civilian systems that SCO dares screw with intentionally, and won't be affected even accidentally if SCO implodes, since its market share of enterprise and other markets was very small even before this lawswuit business began.
But... then they'd be free! We can't have that!?!
You know what else sucks? People who can't read linked information before commenting on it.
Right on this page, on the lower left it plainly says that the "MapSource(TM) City Select CD with full unlock" is included, in either North American or European versions, as well as the basemaps.
If you don't believe that page, follow the link from the North American version to here, where it also says "MapSource(R) North America City Select v4.01 now includes full coverage for the contiguous United States and expanded coverage for Canada. This updated product (with access to all regions at no extra charge) is included with the purchase of a Garmin(R) GPS V Deluxe or iQue 3600."
Can you give us the names of the manufacturers of these devices? I've only had experience with a few DSL modems (mostly Westell) and a little SMC broadband router, and have never had heat-induced failure. My next router will also be an SMC, because I really liked this design. My next modem will be whatever I scrounge up, because they're probably all interchangeable at this point and the next DSL provider will try to throw one at me, also.
Ads that say, for example, "Dave Matthews and Christina Aguilera help fund the RIAA" because they're affiliated with RCA might get a lot more people thinking.
When people go to a store, they don't usually look to see if the album on display is made by RCA (or any other specific company), and even if they did, complex publishing/distribution deals may make it hard to tell from the outside cover exactly where the money goes. But they do look to see who the artist is, so making a "no-hit list" of artists might work better.
Anonymous FTP servers are a perfect example of giving content to anyone asking for it, without knowing who is doing the asking (other than maybe keeping logs of the IPs, of course).
The correct answer is "no."
How very presumptuous of you. I began reading authors like Sheckley and Asimov and Simak as a small child, because those were most of the books I'd find lying around the house, especially in the study where I'd sit quietly while my dad typed his dissertation on his TRS-80. It was either that or read Rodale Press books, metallurgical texts, or the Gödel, Escher, Bach paperback my parents kept in their bathroom. (No, I didn't understand the book until I was a teen; I'm no genius
I knew there was a reason why those chips were called "deep crack."
I guess the designers met your girlfriend already.
Which makes you wonder how much such a machine would cost today. Especially since the "much less than $250,000" remark referred to the whole project, including one-time costs in development. Don't you wonder what the current equivalent of the "deep crack" chip is? And can you bet that several governments have privately come up with custom silicon to do the job, also, much faster because they have lots more money and techniques we don't know about?
Makes you wonder how safe even triple-DES is.