Ok. Try Stanislav Lem for one, until you figure out that Sci Fi is just a genre, and there's all sorts of great non-SciFi books. In fact, most great books are NOT SciFi nor Fantasy. Wake the fuck up.
OK. All that you need to do to convince you that you are wrong is to do level one tech support at a major ISP the week after this has been implemented.
this is a case where that great document was far too vague, unfortunately
Well, most likely they did not imagine the courts to be such sellouts in the late 19th century, effectively making corporations "immortal persons," and thus making copyright that much more complicated. Naturally, an "immortal person" will want their copyright to last forever, an individual doesn't give a damn what happens after they die, generally.
those who do not unstand unix are condemned to reinvent it... poorly.
Dennis Richie
Well, I USED to like SGI, but now this ...
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Looks like SGI is a Poindexter and TIA/Bush whore.
This is from their website concerning their "Information Dominance Solution" (Jesus that sounds fucking creepy).
"Today, governments worldwide are inundated with an abundance of data but a shortage of information that supports the decision-making process. In the future, a variety of sources and sensors will continue to generate ever-increasing amounts of such data. That data includes text-based information and records along with more complex media types such as video, audio, imagery, scans, electronic emissions, and other geo-referenced data."
Translation: Governments are finding it harder and harder to spy on their citizens.
"SGI has developed a variety of visualization and computing technologies ideally suited to allow government decision makers to rapidly assimilate the growing amounts and diverse types of data being collected. Finding the few important bits of information out of mountains of data is the job of the SGI Decision Support Center (DSC) solution, which uses large-scale visualization, high-performance computing, and the management of complex data to provide mission-critical information to support rapid and confident decision-making cycles. "
Uh, look a t Microsoft's history. The flash format will live about 1 minute after they buy it, after which it will be killed in favor of whatever equivalent MS is developing, which will be about the same, but won'y play on anything but windowze and Mac.
Octopi are extremely smart; here's an anecdote for you.
I have a friend who is a fish enthusiast and used to work in a pet store that sold fish. One day they got an octopus, and put it in a (so they thought) tightly covered tank.
The employer noticed many of his fish were going missing and, thinking that the employees were stealing his fish (many were worth a lot of money), put a video camera in to tape what exactly was going on at night.
It turned out the octopus was escaping its tank, crawling over and into the other ones, eating the fish, and crawling back into its own tank.
Policies are nothing more than a tacit admission that windows is a poor design. 99.9% of what it does is solved in *nix simply by having an intelligent filesystem layout.
Add to the mix that you are continually running into walls with windows unless you are running a domain, or otherwise spend a boatload of money on something you shouldn't really need.
Lock down a linux machine? Bah, they're already that way; all I need do is add users. When unix users talk about "locking down" the system, they're talking "refinement", not "square one" - putting them about a week ahead of the windows admins who are still piddling with policy editors and saving up for more CALs for Active Directory.
You call those little glowing blurbs on amazon "reviews"? The woman has little or no capacity for critical thought at all. National book Critics Circle? what a joke. Read her reviews. She didn't express a critical thought in any of them.
The woman is a sham, a paid astroturfer, plain and simple
Having said that, the 1.3% vs. 3% IT budget cost reduction is not all because of linux. All of that dirt cheap hardward adds up. I'm sure their bottom sure would still be significantly less than 3% even if they did use windows. Spending a couple dollars on a dumb terminal equals hugh hardware savings.
Funny, I though it was linux (well, X11) that enbled one to use the terminals in the first place.
With windows, you pay even more for terminals (terminal server cost, terminal server license) than for PC's. So it still goes back to linux vs. windows, see?
Given what I call the "Moores Law of Terrorism" [1], eventually it will be possible to for a small group of people to wipe out the entire human species (via nukes, biokillers, nanokillers, etc.)
duh. Doesn't the Government of the United States count as a "small group of people"? There's been "small groups of people" who have the capacity to wipe out the planet for many decades now.
The crimes commited by states every day dwarf the crimes commited by "terrorists" by several orders of magnitude.
What if the employees owned the company? Then there would be no useless managers eating up everyone's paychecks and "scaring" the employees into being more profitable. Certainly there would be no "deadweight", and everyone would share in the profits.
Why in the world did each server cost them anything? They already had 32 servers, and I am sure Linux would have ran on them, so why didn't they save the 96,000 and just use existing hardware..
Gee, I guess the phrases "test environment", "run concurrently" don't mean anything to you.
So you're going to take 32 unix servers and a running system, blow them away and put linux on them and expect it all to work just dandy on Monday morning, huh?
Yeah I used to waste my time with nonsense like this, then about 4 years ago I started using Debian.
No more cruft, and instead of learning essentially useless things which pertain only to windows' design shortcomings, I learn things that apply to everything I do.
I disagree. You can always reply to junk snail mail. Often you even get a postage paid return envelope, so you can just send it back to them, or better, send them each others spam.
If you don't get a return envelope, you can also include all your unsolicited mail for the month in your monthly bills, like I do.
You can't do that with email, since they never have a valid return address.
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Does anyone know?
Sorry. Piers Anthony? you got to be kidding.
Ok. Try Stanislav Lem for one, until you figure out that Sci Fi is just a genre, and there's all sorts of great non-SciFi books. In fact, most great books are NOT SciFi nor Fantasy. Wake the fuck up.
OK. All that you need to do to convince you that you are wrong is to do level one tech support at a major ISP the week after this has been implemented.
Well, most likely they did not imagine the courts to be such sellouts in the late 19th century, effectively making corporations "immortal persons," and thus making copyright that much more complicated. Naturally, an "immortal person" will want their copyright to last forever, an individual doesn't give a damn what happens after they die, generally.
Are they going to fix all the problems with CSS and KHTML? I love konqueror, but it seems to have a lot of problems with CSS ...
Most people are, every day, raped by their employers and their government. They don't even notice, because they're just used to it.
those who do not unstand unix are condemned to reinvent it ... poorly.
Dennis Richie
Looks like SGI is a Poindexter and TIA/Bush whore.
This is from their website concerning their "Information Dominance Solution" (Jesus that sounds fucking creepy).
"Today, governments worldwide are inundated with an abundance of data but a shortage of information that supports the decision-making process. In the future, a variety of sources and sensors will continue to generate ever-increasing amounts of such data. That data includes text-based information and records along with more complex media types such as video, audio, imagery, scans, electronic emissions, and other geo-referenced data."
Translation: Governments are finding it harder and harder to spy on their citizens.
"SGI has developed a variety of visualization and computing technologies ideally suited to allow government decision makers to rapidly assimilate the growing amounts and diverse types of data being collected. Finding the few important bits of information out of mountains of data is the job of the SGI Decision Support Center (DSC) solution, which uses large-scale visualization, high-performance computing, and the management of complex data to provide mission-critical information to support rapid and confident decision-making cycles. "
Translation: SGI wants to help.
Looks conspicuously like the watermelon monster from Dunken Wu Tang Masters ... probably this PC is some evil Wu Tang plot.
Uh, look a t Microsoft's history. The flash format will live about 1 minute after they buy it, after which it will be killed in favor of whatever equivalent MS is developing, which will be about the same, but won'y play on anything but windowze and Mac.
Octopi are extremely smart; here's an anecdote for you.
I have a friend who is a fish enthusiast and used to work in a pet store that sold fish. One day they got an octopus, and put it in a (so they thought) tightly covered tank.
The employer noticed many of his fish were going missing and, thinking that the employees were stealing his fish (many were worth a lot of money), put a video camera in to tape what exactly was going on at night.
It turned out the octopus was escaping its tank, crawling over and into the other ones, eating the fish, and crawling back into its own tank.
This guy's in jail and Bernie Ebbers, who ruined the lives of many people, has not even been charged with anything.
wait .. you forgot
* treat employees with respect and dignity and they won't want to fuck you over
Oh no - that'll never happen.
Policies are nothing more than a tacit admission that windows is a poor design. 99.9% of what it does is solved in *nix simply by having an intelligent filesystem layout.
Add to the mix that you are continually running into walls with windows unless you are running a domain, or otherwise spend a boatload of money on something you shouldn't really need.
Lock down a linux machine? Bah, they're already that way; all I need do is add users. When unix users talk about "locking down" the system, they're talking "refinement", not "square one" - putting them about a week ahead of the windows admins who are still piddling with policy editors and saving up for more CALs for Active Directory.
You call those little glowing blurbs on amazon "reviews"? The woman has little or no capacity for critical thought at all. National book Critics Circle? what a joke. Read her reviews. She didn't express a critical thought in any of them.
The woman is a sham, a paid astroturfer, plain and simple
Funny, I though it was linux (well, X11) that enbled one to use the terminals in the first place. With windows, you pay even more for terminals (terminal server cost, terminal server license) than for PC's. So it still goes back to linux vs. windows, see?
duh. Doesn't the Government of the United States count as a "small group of people"? There's been "small groups of people" who have the capacity to wipe out the planet for many decades now.
The crimes commited by states every day dwarf the crimes commited by "terrorists" by several orders of magnitude.
You're missing the point there.
What if the employees owned the company? Then there would be no useless managers eating up everyone's paychecks and "scaring" the employees into being more profitable. Certainly there would be no "deadweight", and everyone would share in the profits.
You would need to install roughly $5,000 worth of commercial software to get what redhat installs.
Gee, I guess the phrases "test environment", "run concurrently" don't mean anything to you.
So you're going to take 32 unix servers and a running system, blow them away and put linux on them and expect it all to work just dandy on Monday morning, huh?
Yeah I used to waste my time with nonsense like this, then about 4 years ago I started using Debian.
No more cruft, and instead of learning essentially useless things which pertain only to windows' design shortcomings, I learn things that apply to everything I do.
That's Shakespeare (Hamlet), not the bible.
Well, first you must know tcp/ip very well. ORA's "Internet Core Protocols" is an excellent start and a very good book.
The "hacking unix exposed" series of books are also very good.
Forget windows. Get yourself a free unix and learn tcpdump and netfilter or ipfilter inside and out.
Talking about learning security by going to conferences is kinda ridiculous, like expecting to learn archeology by going to archeology conferences.
I disagree. You can always reply to junk snail mail. Often you even get a postage paid return envelope, so you can just send it back to them, or better, send them each others spam.
If you don't get a return envelope, you can also include all your unsolicited mail for the month in your monthly bills, like I do.
You can't do that with email, since they never have a valid return address.
gallery [apt-get install gallery] is a fantastic tool for organizing digital photos. Check it out.