I wouldn't use Debian unstable for a computer that I needed to be working on a daily basis. Most of the time it's fine but now and again they'll release a big "break everything" upgrade of a bunch of packages, and you've suddenly lost four hours of your day sorting the mess out. I've been very happy with a Kubuntu desktop - the packages are up-to-date enough for me. I've held off for a few days on upgrading to Edgy on my office PC just in case the upgrade didn't go smoothly... glad I did now:P
Damn, where were you with that comment four weeks ago?! I was trying to work out how to do this, Google turned up plenty of pages detailing nasty hacks with loading modules in different orders and kernel command line options (which didn't work).. but none of them mentioned this...
I know this might seem like a kinda radical idea, especially as we're talking about software here... but maybe McAfee and Symantec should try actually making decent products? The business version of McAfee antivirus is okay-ish, but the home version's fucking atrocious! The same goes for Symantec - I've been asked to fix numerous computers that have been, er.. "secured" by these products, they're almost impossible to uninstall cleanly and slow everything down when they run. I now have difficulty recommending antivirus software to friends, because they all suck so much. There's always AVG of course, but that never seems to be able to clean virus infections, only report them and give a cryptic error about not being able to delete them.
If McAfee and Symantec are being smart, they should have predicted this already and already made plans to move with the market and continue to offer software that's valuable to people in other ways. Businesses that don't adapt, fail. But I won't miss them:)
Depends on the deck. A Pioneer CDJ1000mk3 or a Technics SLDZ1200 accomplish this very well indeed and give vinyl a serious run for its money. If you're just mixing, and not doing any scratching or other hip hop style turntablism stuff, they're actually superior to vinyl... a lot of vinyl purist DJs would disagree vehmently with me at this point but generally their arguments come down to sentimentality about their vinyl collection;)
Do you mean you can code faster in Python or that Python programs run faster? I've always found Python to be a bit of a dog, definitely slower than Java anyway. Haven't tried C#.
world we live in. Everyone has the power to decide where their money goes - research who's behind the companies that provide the products and services that you buy - who they are, what they stand for, what political, economic, social and environmental influence they have, and if you don't agree with it, don't give them your money. With a bit of self discipline you'll be influencing things in the right direction on a daily basis and not just once every few years or whenever the government decides to call a farce of an election where all the candidates with any chance of winning are just as corrupt as each other.
I'm not sure about that list, not all sysadmins are Bawls-quaffing, Manga-watching, Nerf-gun-wielding stereotypes are they? Is this really the image of IT workers that we want to project to the rest of the world?
Virtualisation is an inevitable step in the evolution of computers. It follows the trend that we've already seen - when computers got powerful enough to usefully run more than one process/program at a time, we introduced multitasking operating systems that "virtualised" memory, IO, and peripherals to multiple processes. Now computers are getting powerful enough to usefully run more than one OS at a time, we are seeing software which arbitrates this in much the same way, and extra hardware features to support it better.
Don't forget that this is just the first or second generation of this technology; in future we are likely to see multiple operating systems on one machine become much more commonplace, and as operating systems start to be built with this in mind, increased inter-OS communication in the same way that we have inter-process communication now.
Also worth noting is that we're moving away from the model of ramping up the clock speed on CPUs and moving towards a model of increasing the number of processing cores (dual-core CPUs and SMP), and smart high-speed switched buses (e.g. PCI express, 1/10/100GBps switched ethernet) - I believe that the computers of 10 to 20 years from now will be highly parallel, modular, hot-pluggable sets of processors and buses that will be able to intelligently allocate and partition resources between OSes and apps, and we will see a break away from the strict two-tier OS/program model and move more towards a much more flexible model with multiple levels of abstraction.
It would be possible to sneak enough data out to make a theft report in a carefully constructed DNS lookup (with a specially made DNS server at the other end obviously)...
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I wouldn't use Debian unstable for a computer that I needed to be working on a daily basis. Most of the time it's fine but now and again they'll release a big "break everything" upgrade of a bunch of packages, and you've suddenly lost four hours of your day sorting the mess out. I've been very happy with a Kubuntu desktop - the packages are up-to-date enough for me. I've held off for a few days on upgrading to Edgy on my office PC just in case the upgrade didn't go smoothly... glad I did now :P
Damn, where were you with that comment four weeks ago?! I was trying to work out how to do this, Google turned up plenty of pages detailing nasty hacks with loading modules in different orders and kernel command line options (which didn't work).. but none of them mentioned this...
I know this might seem like a kinda radical idea, especially as we're talking about software here... but maybe McAfee and Symantec should try actually making decent products? The business version of McAfee antivirus is okay-ish, but the home version's fucking atrocious! The same goes for Symantec - I've been asked to fix numerous computers that have been, er.. "secured" by these products, they're almost impossible to uninstall cleanly and slow everything down when they run. I now have difficulty recommending antivirus software to friends, because they all suck so much. There's always AVG of course, but that never seems to be able to clean virus infections, only report them and give a cryptic error about not being able to delete them.
:)
If McAfee and Symantec are being smart, they should have predicted this already and already made plans to move with the market and continue to offer software that's valuable to people in other ways. Businesses that don't adapt, fail. But I won't miss them
Finding your keys will be a whole lot harder if you leave them in your invisibility cloak's pocket.
So what he's really saying is essentially "you're much more likely to get laid with an iPod than a Zune"...
26.22% of quoted statistics are made up on the spot.
I don't think so - Coral Cache is a nice try but let's face it, half the time it just doesn't work!
Depends on the deck. A Pioneer CDJ1000mk3 or a Technics SLDZ1200 accomplish this very well indeed and give vinyl a serious run for its money. If you're just mixing, and not doing any scratching or other hip hop style turntablism stuff, they're actually superior to vinyl... a lot of vinyl purist DJs would disagree vehmently with me at this point but generally their arguments come down to sentimentality about their vinyl collection ;)
Do you mean you can code faster in Python or that Python programs run faster? I've always found Python to be a bit of a dog, definitely slower than Java anyway. Haven't tried C#.
Just submit your Linux questions as more Ask Slashdot articles. Duh.
world we live in. Everyone has the power to decide where their money goes - research who's behind the companies that provide the products and services that you buy - who they are, what they stand for, what political, economic, social and environmental influence they have, and if you don't agree with it, don't give them your money. With a bit of self discipline you'll be influencing things in the right direction on a daily basis and not just once every few years or whenever the government decides to call a farce of an election where all the candidates with any chance of winning are just as corrupt as each other.
I'm not sure about that list, not all sysadmins are Bawls-quaffing, Manga-watching, Nerf-gun-wielding stereotypes are they? Is this really the image of IT workers that we want to project to the rest of the world?
A nice stink-bomb in their air con system should do the job nicely...
Virtualisation is an inevitable step in the evolution of computers. It follows the trend that we've already seen - when computers got powerful enough to usefully run more than one process/program at a time, we introduced multitasking operating systems that "virtualised" memory, IO, and peripherals to multiple processes. Now computers are getting powerful enough to usefully run more than one OS at a time, we are seeing software which arbitrates this in much the same way, and extra hardware features to support it better.
Don't forget that this is just the first or second generation of this technology; in future we are likely to see multiple operating systems on one machine become much more commonplace, and as operating systems start to be built with this in mind, increased inter-OS communication in the same way that we have inter-process communication now.
Also worth noting is that we're moving away from the model of ramping up the clock speed on CPUs and moving towards a model of increasing the number of processing cores (dual-core CPUs and SMP), and smart high-speed switched buses (e.g. PCI express, 1/10/100GBps switched ethernet) - I believe that the computers of 10 to 20 years from now will be highly parallel, modular, hot-pluggable sets of processors and buses that will be able to intelligently allocate and partition resources between OSes and apps, and we will see a break away from the strict two-tier OS/program model and move more towards a much more flexible model with multiple levels of abstraction.
There are plenty of phones like that around at the moment.
Excuse the pedantry, but that's five words!
Rapidly becoming the over-hyped buzzword of 2006 :D
ACID is only on the InnoDB table type, and the highest basic data access speed is on the MyISAM table type
Forget using InnoDB for any high-traffic app unless you're prepared to fork out for the InnoDB hot backup utility.
People breed worthless content. I say kill everyone, preferably at birth. That should improve the signal to noise ratio considerably :D
Does it use AJAX?
Looks like someone hasn't taken their medication today.
Calm down, it'll be alright..
It would be possible to sneak enough data out to make a theft report in a carefully constructed DNS lookup (with a specially made DNS server at the other end obviously)...
Surely it covers the cost more than $0 does? :P
Killing whales does not directly affect health.
I think the whales would disagree with you on that.