"Case-In-Point... the most secure server is one that is unplugged and buried in the middle of the earth, and that's still questionable."
I'd guess that in the middle of the earth it would be pretty secure as it would have melted:) not to mention the potential for a volcano where you drilled through the crust releasing pressure...
Just a thought but with proper web hosting being available for bugger all these days if this site is such a serious resource why don't they put it on a proper host which doesn't have tripods popups and bandwidth limits?
I can see how Rational would fit into MS's plans. But Borland? Not much of a fit beyond zapping the competion.
Though how easily this would go down with the regulatory bodies in Europe and the States I'm not sure... Rational again is probably fair enough, but Borland... not much chance (fingers crossed).
Hmm... how can the plot of the second film be spoiled by reading the reviews... the books only be around for the last 50 odd years so other than spoiling the visual effect the plot can't be.
Interesting article but think participating in a online game is a world apart from participating in a massive open source project. I might consider wasting an hour online playing a game after work but after programming for 8 hours I don't fancy going home to start programming again (well not all the time).
Why in this day does everything online have to be compared to something else online regardless of the differences?
As it stands normal GPS is accurate to within a few meters (10's). For really high accuracy within a campus area differential GPS could significantly boost that accuracy...
Shit, even if true! More is better. When someone is not getting work done, throw more people at it. Devide the tasks, appoint new people, get the work done. The secretary missed a few meetings? Get two.
Hmm, Peter Cochrane posted an article on silcon.com recently going into the details of how much work a given number of people produce, 1 person does one persons work, 2 do 1.75 peoples work etc...
As pointed out earlier GPS does one thing only (okay, ignoring diff. gps for now) - and that is report *your* position to *you* it does not relay that data anywhere else.
This GPS + networked position repeater.
The GPS part I'd imagine is still just a normal gps tracker with the NMEA data feed (the standard format output) being relayed to a remote destination rather than to a local display (or in addition to the local display).
Without knowing what application servers you're looking to replace it's abit hard to say anything.
The general network infrastructure bits, file servers, mail servers (note: MAIL not the overblown nightmare known as Exchange), firewalls, dhcp servers, gateways, some router boxes then Linux will be of benifit.
The one cost factor that is hard to calculate is the cost of retraining the IT support team - do you know how many already use linux at home or have used it in the past?
Also, be glad the OS has a gui. Having to learn every darn flag of every darn commandline tool out there (plus where they are located) and having to know every layout/syntaxis of every config file out there is way way way more painful than clicking on some buttons.
Bollocks. The Windows method setting system configurations wouldn't be too bad if it still produced human readable text config files - that way when it all goes to hell you can fix the thing yourself.
GUI's should not get in the way of letting the user work. Unfortuantly Windows' GUI does just that... all those bloody are you sure screens etc drive me around the twist...
That report might explain why my sight is crap... but the other issue with this report is that survey was taken between 1995 and 1997, not long after that IIRC didn't the regulations regarding VDU emissions etc get tightened up?
As he is one of the people responsible for XML and Office 11 is going to be using XML as its native file format have you spotted the link (hint think of three letters...)
That aside, if MS do adopt XML as their file format AND they don't screw the way the HTML formatted output did then it is about time, and I would imagine that the people who came with XML are going to be happy to see their work being put to good use.
Depends on what your definition of interface is. Human interface designer and yes you're probably right but designing interfaces to talk to other systems then a software engineer is probably your best bet... And I do know one or two s/eng's that do good HCI designs, the two don't have to be exclusive.
What's worrying and is a sad reflection on people who buy MS products is that we've put up with their crap for years without getting value for money... Most buisnesses that don't offer value in their products tend to last about as long as whelk in a supernova.
Actually I've got a Barclays Connect card, and when some little (*(* head went on a 2k spending spree with the card number Barclays phoned me, found out it was fraud refunded me the dosh and reissued my cards.
I'd imagine someone probably noticed that banning google lead to people not being able to find articles the leaders thought suitable... IE Pro-China sites...
Or the minister for security got shot when the boss couldn't find his daily fix of porn;>
Their better firewall would have nothing to do with their decision would it - like now we've got a better f/wall we can let the great unwashed view the search engine 'cause we know they can't get to the links on (including google's cache) results pages if we don't want them to...
Too bloody right... I live with in the ADSL area for my exchange, and thanks to BT cocking removal of my ISDN lines up I can't get ADSL (when they removed ISDN they managed to foul up the copper so now what was once a quite useable line is now buggered)...
One problem with increasing the RPM is that has an affect on the life of the drive... the fast the rpm the greater the wear especially on the bearings etc and potentially the greater the noise.
Yes I know you can get high RPM SCSI drivers but they do come with a price permium - IDE is really for home/SOHO/desktop use and so you don't really need these mega capacity drives - where you do for servers, video editing etc SCSI is still a better bet even if it is more expensive as SCSI devices are still designed for professional high-end use and come with the reliability/throughput to satisfy those demands.
"So let me get this straight... Microsoft is the world's most profitable company because it gives huge wads of cash to other companies? Doesn't quite sound right to me..."
Not directly no but given most large corporations are still (regardless of any rights/wrongs) demanding MS on the desktop and file servers together with back office applications any company that can supply an MS solution for corporates is going to get revenue purely by being an MS supplier.
Also out of interest what sort of discount would a large company like HP get on a copy of XP Pro or 2000 AS?
there was a topic with an amazing potential for flamebait, trolling et al this is it...
RedHat are trying to do what most companies do and make some money. I don't have a problem with Redhat... good luck to them as if Linux is to get corporate recognition it needs corporate attitudes by the companies providing linux distro's.
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Most cryptographic algorithims do not gain acceptance without being open to peer review to spot flaws and potential weaknesses...
So why should any of this article be a suprise or even particulary note worthy?
Think the 3 option would be a pain as well as you'd have to keep replacing your desk which might just upset the accountants...
I'd guess that in the middle of the earth it would be pretty secure as it would have melted
I think the UK people with regards to space flight might not object too much however we'd probably rather see our taxes go elsewhere.
And I'm going to go into the reasons why most of Britain is anti-Euro/anti-EU - too little time and no interest on here.
Just a thought but with proper web hosting being available for bugger all these days if this site is such a serious resource why don't they put it on a proper host which doesn't have tripods popups and bandwidth limits?
Though how easily this would go down with the regulatory bodies in Europe and the States I'm not sure... Rational again is probably fair enough, but Borland... not much chance (fingers crossed).
Hmm... how can the plot of the second film be spoiled by reading the reviews... the books only be around for the last 50 odd years so other than spoiling the visual effect the plot can't be.
Hm, the dell optiplex sitting next to me has a Phoenix BIOS, my old 486 had a Phoenix bios.
Interesting article but think participating in a online game is a world apart from participating in a massive open source project. I might consider wasting an hour online playing a game after work but after programming for 8 hours I don't fancy going home to start programming again (well not all the time).
Why in this day does everything online have to be compared to something else online regardless of the differences?
As it stands normal GPS is accurate to within a few meters (10's). For really high accuracy within a campus area differential GPS could significantly boost that accuracy...
Hmm, Peter Cochrane posted an article on silcon.com recently going into the details of how much work a given number of people produce, 1 person does one persons work, 2 do 1.75 peoples work etc...
No it is not a pumped version of GPS.
As pointed out earlier GPS does one thing only (okay, ignoring diff. gps for now) - and that is report *your* position to *you* it does not relay that data anywhere else.
This GPS + networked position repeater.
The GPS part I'd imagine is still just a normal gps tracker with the NMEA data feed (the standard format output) being relayed to a remote destination rather than to a local display (or in addition to the local display).
Without knowing what application servers you're looking to replace it's abit hard to say anything.
The general network infrastructure bits, file servers, mail servers (note: MAIL not the overblown nightmare known as Exchange), firewalls, dhcp servers, gateways, some router boxes then Linux will be of benifit.
The one cost factor that is hard to calculate is the cost of retraining the IT support team - do you know how many already use linux at home or have used it in the past?
Bollocks. The Windows method setting system configurations wouldn't be too bad if it still produced human readable text config files - that way when it all goes to hell you can fix the thing yourself.
GUI's should not get in the way of letting the user work. Unfortuantly Windows' GUI does just that... all those bloody are you sure screens etc drive me around the twist...
That report might explain why my sight is crap... but the other issue with this report is that survey was taken between 1995 and 1997, not long after that IIRC didn't the regulations regarding VDU emissions etc get tightened up?
As he is one of the people responsible for XML and Office 11 is going to be using XML as its native file format have you spotted the link (hint think of three letters...)
That aside, if MS do adopt XML as their file format AND they don't screw the way the HTML formatted output did then it is about time, and I would imagine that the people who came with XML are going to be happy to see their work being put to good use.
Depends on what your definition of interface is. Human interface designer and yes you're probably right but designing interfaces to talk to other systems then a software engineer is probably your best bet... And I do know one or two s/eng's that do good HCI designs, the two don't have to be exclusive.
What's worrying and is a sad reflection on people who buy MS products is that we've put up with their crap for years without getting value for money... Most buisnesses that don't offer value in their products tend to last about as long as whelk in a supernova.
Actually I've got a Barclays Connect card, and when some little (*(* head went on a 2k spending spree with the card number Barclays phoned me, found out it was fraud refunded me the dosh and reissued my cards.
So most bnanks debit cards are protected...
I'd imagine someone probably noticed that banning google lead to people not being able to find articles the leaders thought suitable... IE Pro-China sites...
;>
Or the minister for security got shot when the boss couldn't find his daily fix of porn
Their better firewall would have nothing to do with their decision would it - like now we've got a better f/wall we can let the great unwashed view the search engine 'cause we know they can't get to the links on (including google's cache) results pages if we don't want them to...
Too bloody right... I live with in the ADSL area for my exchange, and thanks to BT cocking removal of my ISDN lines up I can't get ADSL (when they removed ISDN they managed to foul up the copper so now what was once a quite useable line is now buggered)...
One problem with increasing the RPM is that has an affect on the life of the drive... the fast the rpm the greater the wear especially on the bearings etc and potentially the greater the noise.
Yes I know you can get high RPM SCSI drivers but they do come with a price permium - IDE is really for home/SOHO/desktop use and so you don't really need these mega capacity drives - where you do for servers, video editing etc SCSI is still a better bet even if it is more expensive as SCSI devices are still designed for professional high-end use and come with the reliability/throughput to satisfy those demands.
there was a topic with an amazing potential for flamebait, trolling et al this is it...
RedHat are trying to do what most companies do and make some money. I don't have a problem with Redhat... good luck to them as if Linux is to get corporate recognition it needs corporate attitudes by the companies providing linux distro's.