My "two cents" (i.e. $0.02) will ALWAYS be worth more than your "two euro cents" (i.e. 0.02).
It's a joke and a prophecy which I put on my sig after 9/11. I knew last year that the euro would be worth more than the dollar before this year was over. I knew when I first heard the word euro that one day it would be the standard currency of europe if not the world, and that there would be pollitical pressure put on all countries to adopt it exclusively.
It's been prophesied for almost two thousand years in Revelations that the world would eventually all use one currency, and so it doesn't surprise me at all.
What is surprising is that so very many people tell me I need to change my sig just because the euro is worth more than the dollar now. My sig would never have been funny if it had stayed under the dollar.
I don't have flash installed on my laptop (RH 7.3 ultra-modified with KDE 3.0 and Mosftet High Performance Liquid w/ QT 3), and I'm using mozilla 1.1. I had no trouble at all viewing the site. I have flash installed on my Linux desktop at home where I also run Mozilla 1.1 and the same modified RedHat, and there the flash works fine.
So IMHO your post is either flamebait, or troll, or both.
If we could leverage the impressive amount of cpu power currently to be found for relatively low price to replace current compression techniques with hybrid realtime 3D + Video.
For instance, easy prediction models (like the arms/smocks of the doctors, scalpels, hemostats, suction tubes) could with signatures and then compress the difficult to predict stuff (patient's entrails) with compressed video. Contrast in most operating environments means that this shouldn't be too hard to do. Then at the video destination build real-time 3D models of the cut objects to fill in the video. This should dramatically cut down on the ammount of video which needs to be compressed and transmitted.
Absolutely this is COI! They will be publishing every minor non-threat virus and probably every virus which is theoretical and not in the wild as well.
As a person who has, in the past, written some small amount of graphics filters and post-rendering effects I know that I personally have leaned heavily on open source projects (i.e. Gimp, GtK) and more-or-less open standards (like OpenGL) to learn most of my graphics programming (monkey see monkey do style).
In a field such as yours the latest and greatest rendering techniques, fractal algorithms, filter effects and post-render effects appear to be the only thing setting you and your company ahead of others in the field.
In light of this, and the apparent probability that you learned many of your programming techniques from those who came before you, what is your view of Open Source? Do you show your techniques to others and allow them to learn from them or do you consider them closely guarded IP?
Now will someone point me to a decent howto on how to get.mov,.qt or.mpeg/.avi/MPEG4/Divix:-) to play on my kde desktop? I've tried this in the past and all I ever get are tons of headaches and eventually I just give up.
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Consider it correctly. We are part of a large(ish) corporation. Corporate IS has a budget for the ERP systems, and they purchased the Sun machines and most of the Oracle licenses. We only had to purchase a couple licenses ourselves. If we weren't part of the corporation I probably would have gone with a MySQL solution, which would have been fine with me.
We still use MySQL for some applicaitons in the ebiz group (like logging and mailing lists). Our budget is way below 400k.
If it weren't for the corporate IS and their heavy ERP system needs we'd drop all that and just use one of the many possible multi-server MySQL combinations.
Coda is the best present option for fs dependant data storage on mostly open-source plaforms. We are using Coda for our MySQL table files, ZODB files and logs.
Coda may still be beta software, but if Open Source software like Coda is considered beta code then Windows 2000 + sp2 must have been alpha code.:-) (And yes, I have Win2000 on my machine and even occasionally am forced to boot into it so I speak from experience).
Heartbeat/Mon/Fake/Coda/Linux/IPVS for the High Availability, failover from DS1->DS2, each on different backbone nodes. Mirrored systems in different geographic locations: Firewall IPVS Gateway Apache->Weblogic bridge (Apache vhosts with ssl) Apache->Zope bridge (Apache vhosts with ssl) Zope->Zeo setup for content management. SAN drive array for Oracle, running on two E4500s
This system isn't really that expensive, just the costs of hardware and my salary for setting them up.
They are doing this because most businesses, including ours, have not standardized windows XP yet. Many of us are concerned about the effects of XP's DRM software and draconian EULAs.
I can only hope that stuff like this has the opposite effect, pushing management away from microsoft altogether instead of towards it (like M% hopes).
Lemme follow up before I get flamed for that last statement. The supernova (they claim) is old.
Well then, why did its "dying light first reached Earth some 320 years ago, scientists said on Wednesday". Shouldn't a dying supernova's light have been reaching earth a long time ago if we are perciving it in our relative time as old? I mean, assuming that TOR is correct we should have been seeing this supernova now for a long arse time shouldn't we? Nebulas last longer than just 400 years last I checked, and nebulas are supposedly created by supernova so what gives?
I have an account I purchased from spamcop.net. I never used the email address onything (i've never even checked it) and it's bounsing spam every day.
Spammers hack systems to get accounts, they harvest them, they buy them (illegally) from state agencies. These people are scum and I consider it my right, duty and priviledge to take them out whenever and wherever I can find them.
I am in the process of building a snort utility specifically designed to track down the home IPs of spammers (in the US at first).
I won't go into details on what I plan to do when I get some, but rest assured it will be neither pretty nor legal.
My first computer: an Odessy 2000. It had these little paddles with round dials we used for pong and kicked so much butt.
In addition, it was the first (only?) console to have a baseless mecury joystick for games like Space Rescue. This joystick decided the direction you wanted to go by where you pointed it. It was accurate as hell for that old box too. Only problem was that if you got tired you could just rest the joystick on anything...:(
Give me a break people. Many of you are saying your so good that you don't have to be on call all the time.
I wasn't on call last night, but I still had to answer the page because the problem fell into my lap by default.
Our security guy made changes to the firewall which altered the routing table without fully understanding what he was doing. (Don't get me started on this, I keep telling my boss that this guy can have as many degrees as a thermomiter in securty but still should be given user access to my firewall, much less root!:/).
One commit on his config changes and my whole datacenter went down. Thanks to a quick check by me I told them to fix their own problem and went back to sleep. If they want to have a n00b in a position to kill the datacenters then it's not my problem.
But this is the real world and I had to PROVE it wasn't my problem or my butt would've been fried.
Wake up people, no data center is perfect and the sysadmin is ALWAYS responsible, reguardless of who's on call.
They would survive, but they wouldn't know what they were doing for about a month. It would cost them a lot of money.
Besides, I get perks:
>Job security. >Plenty of vacation days (because I stay all night sometimes) >Nobody fsking with my servers behind my back >Reputation nearing demigod status:-)
Besides, with the heartbeat+mon+fake+coda setup and a datacenter in Atlanta with failover in Knoxville it's very very rare to have everything go down completely.
Seriously though, I am training backup people but it's very hard to keep other people up-to-date on how to take care of stuff on our servers. I live in Knoxville, TN and althought there are lots of people here smarter than me it's hard to find people with an abundance of system admin experience.
I'm sorry, but like most of the/. posters I keep my cell phone on vibrate ALL THE TIME. I'm not going to be rude and talk in the theater, but I HAVE TO GET MY TEXT MESSAGES.
"Dude, the servers are down" is the most important message I can get from mon!!!! If I can't get to one or the other data center things start going to shit fast.
Note to owners: This is a great way to get me to stay way the fsck away from your theater if you install it.
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My "two cents" (i.e. $0.02) will ALWAYS be worth more than your "two euro cents" (i.e. 0.02).
:)
It's a joke and a prophecy which I put on my sig after 9/11. I knew last year that the euro would be worth more than the dollar before this year was over. I knew when I first heard the word euro that one day it would be the standard currency of europe if not the world, and that there would be pollitical pressure put on all countries to adopt it exclusively.
It's been prophesied for almost two thousand years in Revelations that the world would eventually all use one currency, and so it doesn't surprise me at all.
What is surprising is that so very many people tell me I need to change my sig just because the euro is worth more than the dollar now. My sig would never have been funny if it had stayed under the dollar.
So laugh, you anal-retentive freaks of nature.
but I don't want to be a gargoyle.
Does this affect mp3, mpeg, Divx :-) or other standards which were built off of the original jpeg standard?
I don't have flash installed on my laptop (RH 7.3 ultra-modified with KDE 3.0 and Mosftet High Performance Liquid w/ QT 3), and I'm using mozilla 1.1. I had no trouble at all viewing the site. I have flash installed on my Linux desktop at home where I also run Mozilla 1.1 and the same modified RedHat, and there the flash works fine.
So IMHO your post is either flamebait, or troll, or both.
If we could leverage the impressive amount of cpu power currently to be found for relatively low price to replace current compression techniques with hybrid realtime 3D + Video.
For instance, easy prediction models (like the arms/smocks of the doctors, scalpels, hemostats, suction tubes) could with signatures and then compress the difficult to predict stuff (patient's entrails) with compressed video. Contrast in most operating environments means that this shouldn't be too hard to do. Then at the video destination build real-time 3D models of the cut objects to fill in the video. This should dramatically cut down on the ammount of video which needs to be compressed and transmitted.
Absolutely this is COI! They will be publishing every minor non-threat virus and probably every virus which is theoretical and not in the wild as well.
This is a bad thing IMHO.
As a person who has, in the past, written some small amount of graphics filters and post-rendering effects I know that I personally have leaned heavily on open source projects (i.e. Gimp, GtK) and more-or-less open standards (like OpenGL) to learn most of my graphics programming (monkey see monkey do style).
In a field such as yours the latest and greatest rendering techniques, fractal algorithms, filter effects and post-render effects appear to be the only thing setting you and your company ahead of others in the field.
In light of this, and the apparent probability that you learned many of your programming techniques from those who came before you, what is your view of Open Source? Do you show your techniques to others and allow them to learn from them or do you consider them closely guarded IP?
Now will someone point me to a decent howto on how to get .mov, .qt or .mpeg/.avi/MPEG4/Divix :-) to play on my kde desktop? I've tried this in the past and all I ever get are tons of headaches and eventually I just give up.
than the l337 |v|4Z73|2 himself, John Katz...
Consider it correctly. We are part of a large(ish) corporation. Corporate IS has a budget for the ERP systems, and they purchased the Sun machines and most of the Oracle licenses. We only had to purchase a couple licenses ourselves. If we weren't part of the corporation I probably would have gone with a MySQL solution, which would have been fine with me.
We still use MySQL for some applicaitons in the ebiz group (like logging and mailing lists). Our budget is way below 400k.
If it weren't for the corporate IS and their heavy ERP system needs we'd drop all that and just use one of the many possible multi-server MySQL combinations.
See High Availability for more informaiton.
:-) (And yes, I have Win2000 on my machine and even occasionally am forced to boot into it so I speak from experience).
Coda is the best present option for fs dependant data storage on mostly open-source plaforms. We are using Coda for our MySQL table files, ZODB files and logs.
Coda may still be beta software, but if Open Source software like Coda is considered beta code then Windows 2000 + sp2 must have been alpha code.
We did it on a really low budget:
Heartbeat/Mon/Fake/Coda/Linux/IPVS for the High Availability, failover from DS1->DS2, each on different backbone nodes.
Mirrored systems in different geographic locations:
Firewall
IPVS Gateway
Apache->Weblogic bridge (Apache vhosts with ssl)
Apache->Zope bridge (Apache vhosts with ssl)
Zope->Zeo setup for content management.
SAN drive array for Oracle, running on two E4500s
This system isn't really that expensive, just the costs of hardware and my salary for setting them up.
Registration for that was only $50. I hope to go to blackhat later too.
They are doing this because most businesses, including ours, have not standardized windows XP yet. Many of us are concerned about the effects of XP's DRM software and draconian EULAs.
I can only hope that stuff like this has the opposite effect, pushing management away from microsoft altogether instead of towards it (like M% hopes).
Troll
Lemme follow up before I get flamed for that last statement. The supernova (they claim) is old.
Well then, why did its "dying light first reached Earth some 320 years ago, scientists said on Wednesday". Shouldn't a dying supernova's light have been reaching earth a long time ago if we are perciving it in our relative time as old? I mean, assuming that TOR is correct we should have been seeing this supernova now for a long arse time shouldn't we? Nebulas last longer than just 400 years last I checked, and nebulas are supposedly created by supernova so what gives?
A supernova (as in this instance) is a dying Star not a dying supernova. The supernova is actually quite young.
their profits will be -$2,000,000,000 and they will claim it's "Due to piracy".
:-)
The funny thing is, they'll be more correct than any of the other times they have made that statement.
My problem isn't with that so much as the fact that spamcop requires you to check every single report, you can't just group submit reports.
That's 30 reviews and submits ( a total of 60 page loads on a really slow ass server ).
That buggs the tarsh*t outa me.
My opinion: spamcop is crap, but sometimes it's the only option for filtering, depending on how you do your filtering.
to stop spammers.
I have an account I purchased from spamcop.net. I never used the email address onything (i've never even checked it) and it's bounsing spam every day.
Spammers hack systems to get accounts, they harvest them, they buy them (illegally) from state agencies. These people are scum and I consider it my right, duty and priviledge to take them out whenever and wherever I can find them.
I am in the process of building a snort utility specifically designed to track down the home IPs of spammers (in the US at first).
I won't go into details on what I plan to do when I get some, but rest assured it will be neither pretty nor legal.
My first computer: an Odessy 2000. It had these little paddles with round dials we used for pong and kicked so much butt.
:(
In addition, it was the first (only?) console to have a baseless mecury joystick for games like Space Rescue. This joystick decided the direction you wanted to go by where you pointed it. It was accurate as hell for that old box too. Only problem was that if you got tired you could just rest the joystick on anything...
Give me a break people. Many of you are saying your so good that you don't have to be on call all the time.
:/).
I wasn't on call last night, but I still had to answer the page because the problem fell into my lap by default.
Our security guy made changes to the firewall which altered the routing table without fully understanding what he was doing. (Don't get me started on this, I keep telling my boss that this guy can have as many degrees as a thermomiter in securty but still should be given user access to my firewall, much less root!
One commit on his config changes and my whole datacenter went down. Thanks to a quick check by me I told them to fix their own problem and went back to sleep. If they want to have a n00b in a position to kill the datacenters then it's not my problem.
But this is the real world and I had to PROVE it wasn't my problem or my butt would've been fried.
Wake up people, no data center is perfect and the sysadmin is ALWAYS responsible, reguardless of who's on call.
They would survive, but they wouldn't know what they were doing for about a month. It would cost them a lot of money.
:-)
Besides, I get perks:
>Job security.
>Plenty of vacation days (because I stay all night sometimes)
>Nobody fsking with my servers behind my back
>Reputation nearing demigod status
Besides, with the heartbeat+mon+fake+coda setup and a datacenter in Atlanta with failover in Knoxville it's very very rare to have everything go down completely.
Seriously though, I am training backup people but it's very hard to keep other people up-to-date on how to take care of stuff on our servers. I live in Knoxville, TN and althought there are lots of people here smarter than me it's hard to find people with an abundance of system admin experience.
I'm sorry, but like most of the /. posters I keep my cell phone on vibrate ALL THE TIME. I'm not going to be rude and talk in the theater, but I HAVE TO GET MY TEXT MESSAGES.
"Dude, the servers are down" is the most important message I can get from mon!!!! If I can't get to one or the other data center things start going to shit fast.
Note to owners: This is a great way to get me to stay way the fsck away from your theater if you install it.