first off, oracle on a desktop type machine (p-4, 2gb ram, 200gb hdd) would be a complete waste. what is the oracle licensing for a linux installation of this sort? try adding another processor to the box. what happens to the license cost? IIRC, just the license for oracle STARTS at 5k and goes upwords rapidly. i'd imagine most shops are spending more than 50k on thier oracle software.
people don't run oracle (legally) who have a budget. those who have a budget also have $$ for hardware. they're going to be spending lots of money on storage devices that are redundant themselves. their E10k will not go down. they don't measure uptime 9's, they only measure downtime in 0's.
so, yes, while the boxes don't have to be expensive, if you're buying a ferrari, chances are you'll have someplace nice to park it.
no, it's like saying the car isn't slow, it's the fat-ass driver that makes the car ride slow. stick a human sized driver in the car and it zips along just fine.
a bigger window manager needs more ram to run in, and it could benefit from a bigger processor. it's logical that with features comes bloat. X is not really in and of itself bloated. as said by many many many other posters x does run fine on antique hardware with limited ram.
so basically. kick the fat ass outta the driver seat and the damn thing will move on down the road.
no, gentoo is a source based distro, you can rely on ebuilds ( automated install scripts ) to be sent by someone, or you can install stuff from source.
as with any distro, when you install stuff from sources over stuff that's been installed elsewhere, that other stuff might break.
gentoo is nice, but very dangerous. the rpm -e postfix command that you used would be:
emerge unmerge postfix in gentoo, and it would NOT complain about any dependancies. try doing an rpm -e --force glibc (or whatever however to force an uninstall) and see how well your system works.
it also has a nice clean feature where it will uninstall old packages that aren't used any more (still have kde 2.x laying around, emerge clean kde will do the trick) the problem is that you might have some apps that still need those kde 2.x libs. again no checking is done to see if packages are installed that use that software before cleaning it up.
in a nutshell, i like gentoo, i use gentoo, i wouldn't really think of using anything else, but i need to keep window around for whem my system gets fubarred from a simple upgrade. re-installing a system including kde/xfree takes literally days.
ok, i was golden until i reached the end. no, i have no evidence that cellular phones are safe for airplanes, but i should not need any. evidence is needed to prove something isn't safe; not that it is save. i can't go around blasting the tires on the Ford Explorer for being unsafe without substancial evidence that they are, until then, they're safe.
now, on to responding to these points.
4. Although successful interference will be rare, if it occurs at the wrong time there will be catestrophic loss of life
you quickly conclude positively that when such interference effects the systems that it will be catestrophic. i think that if it occurs at the wrong time, there will be a safe landing. if it occurs at the right time, there will be a safe landing.
5. Removal of existing safety measures should only take place when significant research provides proof positive that risk is not increased.
existing safety measures should be in place due to significant amounts of evidence and reasearch indicating such risk. rules should not be created to avoid the potential breakage. before the first person committed murder, there should not have been a rule against murder.
i guess it's a matter of reactionary.vs. proactivnesses (if i can ever spell a couple words it's not going to be without a good spell checker). being proactive is definately a positive thing, but there a point of diminishing returns certainly. we can't go around thinking of all the stuff that could happen and make rules to keep bad stuff from happening. i say, until the first airplane goes down from cellular interference let um on the planes...
blatantly biased research goes a long way to support your cause.
nowhere have you directly supported the claim that cellular phone use causes problems on air planes. you've told us that you don't like the sights of cell towers around your place. radiation from microwave RF is bad (you hopefully don't stand in front of the microwave watching the plate spin around for 45 seconds). you've told us that it's entirely possible for cell phones to cause problems on planes. you've told us that it's entirely possible for a pda user to crack into the airplane flight control systems.
it is also entirely possible that cellular phones help the planes navigate better in the air. it's entirely possible that pigeons flying outside help guide and fly the plane. it's not very probably though and neither is someone hacking into the flight control systems via a pda. is the black box also running a dhcp server passing out TCP/IP addresses and exposing web services to operate the plane? it's possible...
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=obsolet e
from dictionary.com: No longer in use: an obsolete word.novell was once the mainstream small/mid-size office network operating system. it is now obsolete. infact they're trying so hard to breath life into it they're going to run their services on... gasp... linux... as well as the novel kernel. bandwagon indeed.
i guess it depends on how our bills/lifestyle is. for me and the family of four the 768 (after federal taxes) every other week was well enough to get by on. we canceled the spring trip to cancun that year, and had to cut back on the dinning out, it wasn't a bad set of cards.
there's a big difference between what you're describing and what the internet boom of 96-00 experienced.
in a web services world it will be companies that have a solid business plan, and compines that think things trough. in the Iboom, it was anybody and everybody putting up a web site that provided nothing. there was also the fact that there was this Y2K issue that many many of companies spent millions of dollars for legal reasons to change 5 lines of code in their software systems and spend enourmous hours testing said changes across the board and saving every test log file and going through various levels of audits of the testing. basically y2k projects coupled with the internet boom kept a lot of people employed and brought in a lot of others.
exposing webservices will let a few good people work for a while.
possibly these days they're running a deficit. but it's entirely different than the wacked out SSAN system. perhaps there are years where their reciepts are in the black and spill over to other governement systems.
i certainly DO NOT agree with the entire system and would really prefer it to not be around. but since it is, it it quite silly to not file a claim each week you're personally unemployed. i spent 4 months last year between jobs, and could have made it off the severance for a while and would have found a part time waiter job for a while if i needed to. having enemployment ment i could focus on seeking employment in my area, and to educate myself during the down time (and also get a little few extra winks of sleep at night).
i'm not sure which state you're from and their procedure, but here in Ohio we were suppose to keep a journal of our employment search activities. a list of the two jobs we persued during the week. i called in my biweekly reportings and there was an automated question asking "did you activly seek employment from at least two jobs during the week you're claiming?" or some such. press one for yes, two for no. nobody EVER asked to see a journal or for actual copies of the employment applications, etc. of course i was seeking a job the entire time, but i had a neighbor who was a daycare worker who lost her job. she NEVER had any intention of finding work and was going to start a home daycare business. she rode the thing to the end, using all possible extensions available thanks to GWB.
i wouldn't say it's pointless per se. if i'm building a new house and have to sell me current one in 6 months to meet the contract, i'll look quite closely at the average sales of used homes in my area. if the average is 9 months, chances are i'm not going to gamble on signing the contract without a lot of reassurance from a sales agent that the house should go quickly.
salary ranges are a similar tool, and so are project estimates. they're one number to use to get an overall picture.
oh please. step down from that soap box and back down to planet earth where coders code and pedantic people have a foot shoved in the wrong place.
yeah, we don't check our spelling or grammer when posting to a silly web board or when posting an article to said board. we do, however, submit our resume to serveral recruiters. the good ones will take 10 minutes to look over spelling mistakes and to help polish it up. those are the recruiters what will most likely get the sale too.
we spend our day using software that will tell us when we haven't declared a variable or included a particular package/header. do we pay attention to details? sure, when the specs say that system needs to send a email report daily to a given group of people... the system will send a daily report to go given group of people.
those who can, code. those who can't worry about weather your posting proper english to a web board. i've seen this issue over and over on/. and it's quite silly in my opinion.
insightfull indeed. to my knowledge, this isn't tax dollars. the unemployment system is a governement system, but it's funded by companies who pay into the system. i'd like to see the budget where the outpays comes from actual tax dollars. if employers didn't have to pay into the unemployment system, chances are (albeit quite low) they would pay their employees a little more who could save for such an event.
admins? working on a webserver? needing a search server to query and cache results on a SQL database?
i'd be interested to find which shop this is from. admins administrate the box. they keep it running and secure. they install the stuff the system engineers/analysts/programmers ask them to.
now, if a systems analyst/programmer has a webserver that needs to do searches and their users need excellent performance, they might conclude that caching the query results in a db would be a good idea. and once that design is in place, they'll hopefully go to google and find some kick ass open source tools to get the job done
sorry, i'm not up for some quick googling. i'm trying to get the kde 3.1.1 working under cygwin this afternoon.
that provision is not a new part of the DMCA that i know of. it's been part of the law since it was signed by mr. cigar clinton. the RIAA is just now exercising that part of the law after they spent their lawyer money on the napster and other things in the past years, now it's time to go after joe schmoe and they have their law to use to do it.
accoring to the data, a try is the best way to go. it is a monthly 20$ for netflix right?
at anyrate, there's another service that uses a pay per movie, and you get it for a week or so. don't have the name off hand, but i've used it and wasn't too bad. they had the same setup where they sent you the return envelop, you just had to have it back in the mail within the 10 days. plenty of time to rip the vob's...
you voted for gore didn't you? (i'll admit that i did, though i thought that was the lesser of two evils).
absolute freedom (freedom of speech) should be absolute for everyone. the only exception to human freedoms should be when it interfers with another's rights (this is why the abortion issues is such a hot issue. does the fetus have rights? and if so are the mother's rights more important than the fetus?). thus, an organization should be free to employ someone and to rescind that employment if the employee speaks something they don't like.
i think it's certainly a cold harsh way of dealing with things, but... first, i'm a cold harsh bastard, and second and most important: is the job of a government really to be a playground supervisor or to protect the borders and the human rights (of its citizens) outlined in the constitutuion? to me everything else is grossly overstepping their boundaries.
encode to mpeg-2 and you won't have an issue. the vcd's turn out really nice, and the free software is getting really advanced. chapters, etc. divx is a hack for computers; mpeg-2 is a standard for video.
probably not on a consumer level isp, but if you're the equivilant of a President at a company which run www.myAdRevenueGeneratedWebSite.ORG and your primary email address is GeneralTsosMexicanCuisine@myAdRevenueGeneratedWebS ite.ORG then you're bound to have access to put a few filters on that there email server. dial up access is also questionable.
why is there all this popularity around divx formatted video streams? i spent some time learning to encode videos to divx; only for them to be playable on _some_ computers with the special drivers for the particular codec i used. then i found the vcd format and have never been happier. not only will it play on really crappy computer hardware (those old P166's play um just fine), but most home DVD players will play them fine. filesize is comparable to divx and quality seems about the same...
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first off, oracle on a desktop type machine (p-4, 2gb ram, 200gb hdd) would be a complete waste. what is the oracle licensing for a linux installation of this sort? try adding another processor to the box. what happens to the license cost? IIRC, just the license for oracle STARTS at 5k and goes upwords rapidly. i'd imagine most shops are spending more than 50k on thier oracle software.
people don't run oracle (legally) who have a budget. those who have a budget also have $$ for hardware. they're going to be spending lots of money on storage devices that are redundant themselves. their E10k will not go down. they don't measure uptime 9's, they only measure downtime in 0's.
so, yes, while the boxes don't have to be expensive, if you're buying a ferrari, chances are you'll have someplace nice to park it.
no, it's like saying the car isn't slow, it's the fat-ass driver that makes the car ride slow. stick a human sized driver in the car and it zips along just fine.
a bigger window manager needs more ram to run in, and it could benefit from a bigger processor. it's logical that with features comes bloat. X is not really in and of itself bloated. as said by many many many other posters x does run fine on antique hardware with limited ram.
so basically. kick the fat ass outta the driver seat and the damn thing will move on down the road.
no, gentoo is a source based distro, you can rely on ebuilds ( automated install scripts ) to be sent by someone, or you can install stuff from source.
as with any distro, when you install stuff from sources over stuff that's been installed elsewhere, that other stuff might break.
gentoo is nice, but very dangerous. the rpm -e postfix command that you used would be:
emerge unmerge postfix
in gentoo, and it would NOT complain about any dependancies. try doing an rpm -e --force glibc (or whatever however to force an uninstall) and see how well your system works.
it also has a nice clean feature where it will uninstall old packages that aren't used any more (still have kde 2.x laying around, emerge clean kde will do the trick) the problem is that you might have some apps that still need those kde 2.x libs. again no checking is done to see if packages are installed that use that software before cleaning it up.
in a nutshell, i like gentoo, i use gentoo, i wouldn't really think of using anything else, but i need to keep window around for whem my system gets fubarred from a simple upgrade. re-installing a system including kde/xfree takes literally days.
ok, i was golden until i reached the end. no, i have no evidence that cellular phones are safe for airplanes, but i should not need any. evidence is needed to prove something isn't safe; not that it is save. i can't go around blasting the tires on the Ford Explorer for being unsafe without substancial evidence that they are, until then, they're safe.
.vs. proactivnesses (if i can ever spell a couple words it's not going to be without a good spell checker). being proactive is definately a positive thing, but there a point of diminishing returns certainly. we can't go around thinking of all the stuff that could happen and make rules to keep bad stuff from happening. i say, until the first airplane goes down from cellular interference let um on the planes...
now, on to responding to these points.
4. Although successful interference will be rare, if it occurs at the wrong time there will be catestrophic loss of life
you quickly conclude positively that when such interference effects the systems that it will be catestrophic. i think that if it occurs at the wrong time, there will be a safe landing. if it occurs at the right time, there will be a safe landing.
5. Removal of existing safety measures should only take place when significant research provides proof positive that risk is not increased.
existing safety measures should be in place due to significant amounts of evidence and reasearch indicating such risk. rules should not be created to avoid the potential breakage. before the first person committed murder, there should not have been a rule against murder.
i guess it's a matter of reactionary
blatantly biased research goes a long way to support your cause.
nowhere have you directly supported the claim that cellular phone use causes problems on air planes. you've told us that you don't like the sights of cell towers around your place. radiation from microwave RF is bad (you hopefully don't stand in front of the microwave watching the plate spin around for 45 seconds). you've told us that it's entirely possible for cell phones to cause problems on planes. you've told us that it's entirely possible for a pda user to crack into the airplane flight control systems.
it is also entirely possible that cellular phones help the planes navigate better in the air. it's entirely possible that pigeons flying outside help guide and fly the plane. it's not very probably though and neither is someone hacking into the flight control systems via a pda. is the black box also running a dhcp server passing out TCP/IP addresses and exposing web services to operate the plane? it's possible...
the poster said obsolete, not ancient.
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... gasp... linux... as well as the novel kernel. bandwagon indeed.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=obsole
from dictionary.com: No longer in use: an obsolete word.novell was once the mainstream small/mid-size office network operating system. it is now obsolete. infact they're trying so hard to breath life into it they're going to run their services on
i guess it depends on how our bills/lifestyle is. for me and the family of four the 768 (after federal taxes) every other week was well enough to get by on. we canceled the spring trip to cancun that year, and had to cut back on the dinning out, it wasn't a bad set of cards.
there's a big difference between what you're describing and what the internet boom of 96-00 experienced.
in a web services world it will be companies that have a solid business plan, and compines that think things trough. in the Iboom, it was anybody and everybody putting up a web site that provided nothing. there was also the fact that there was this Y2K issue that many many of companies spent millions of dollars for legal reasons to change 5 lines of code in their software systems and spend enourmous hours testing said changes across the board and saving every test log file and going through various levels of audits of the testing. basically y2k projects coupled with the internet boom kept a lot of people employed and brought in a lot of others.
exposing webservices will let a few good people work for a while.
possibly these days they're running a deficit. but it's entirely different than the wacked out SSAN system. perhaps there are years where their reciepts are in the black and spill over to other governement systems.
i certainly DO NOT agree with the entire system and would really prefer it to not be around. but since it is, it it quite silly to not file a claim each week you're personally unemployed. i spent 4 months last year between jobs, and could have made it off the severance for a while and would have found a part time waiter job for a while if i needed to. having enemployment ment i could focus on seeking employment in my area, and to educate myself during the down time (and also get a little few extra winks of sleep at night).
i'm not sure which state you're from and their procedure, but here in Ohio we were suppose to keep a journal of our employment search activities. a list of the two jobs we persued during the week. i called in my biweekly reportings and there was an automated question asking "did you activly seek employment from at least two jobs during the week you're claiming?" or some such. press one for yes, two for no. nobody EVER asked to see a journal or for actual copies of the employment applications, etc. of course i was seeking a job the entire time, but i had a neighbor who was a daycare worker who lost her job. she NEVER had any intention of finding work and was going to start a home daycare business. she rode the thing to the end, using all possible extensions available thanks to GWB.
i wouldn't say it's pointless per se. if i'm building a new house and have to sell me current one in 6 months to meet the contract, i'll look quite closely at the average sales of used homes in my area. if the average is 9 months, chances are i'm not going to gamble on signing the contract without a lot of reassurance from a sales agent that the house should go quickly.
salary ranges are a similar tool, and so are project estimates. they're one number to use to get an overall picture.
oh please. step down from that soap box and back down to planet earth where coders code and pedantic people have a foot shoved in the wrong place.
/. and it's quite silly in my opinion.
yeah, we don't check our spelling or grammer when posting to a silly web board or when posting an article to said board. we do, however, submit our resume to serveral recruiters. the good ones will take 10 minutes to look over spelling mistakes and to help polish it up. those are the recruiters what will most likely get the sale too.
we spend our day using software that will tell us when we haven't declared a variable or included a particular package/header. do we pay attention to details? sure, when the specs say that system needs to send a email report daily to a given group of people... the system will send a daily report to go given group of people.
those who can, code. those who can't worry about weather your posting proper english to a web board. i've seen this issue over and over on
insightfull indeed. to my knowledge, this isn't tax dollars. the unemployment system is a governement system, but it's funded by companies who pay into the system. i'd like to see the budget where the outpays comes from actual tax dollars. if employers didn't have to pay into the unemployment system, chances are (albeit quite low) they would pay their employees a little more who could save for such an event.
again. admins don't write tools, they administrate a box.
admins? working on a webserver? needing a search server to query and cache results on a SQL database?
i'd be interested to find which shop this is from. admins administrate the box. they keep it running and secure. they install the stuff the system engineers/analysts/programmers ask them to.
now, if a systems analyst/programmer has a webserver that needs to do searches and their users need excellent performance, they might conclude that caching the query results in a db would be a good idea. and once that design is in place, they'll hopefully go to google and find some kick ass open source tools to get the job done
sorry, i'm not up for some quick googling. i'm trying to get the kde 3.1.1 working under cygwin this afternoon.
that provision is not a new part of the DMCA that i know of. it's been part of the law since it was signed by mr. cigar clinton. the RIAA is just now exercising that part of the law after they spent their lawyer money on the napster and other things in the past years, now it's time to go after joe schmoe and they have their law to use to do it.
God, I really hope this law doesnt pass
will someone please wake this guy up with a large cup of expresso to bring him to the recession filled world that was left from the internet boom?
the law was passed back in 98 or so.
watch out now, or someone's liable to open up a can of RTFA on your arse.
accoring to the data, a try is the best way to go. it is a monthly 20$ for netflix right?
at anyrate, there's another service that uses a pay per movie, and you get it for a week or so. don't have the name off hand, but i've used it and wasn't too bad. they had the same setup where they sent you the return envelop, you just had to have it back in the mail within the 10 days. plenty of time to rip the vob's...
you voted for gore didn't you? (i'll admit that i did, though i thought that was the lesser of two evils).
absolute freedom (freedom of speech) should be absolute for everyone. the only exception to human freedoms should be when it interfers with another's rights (this is why the abortion issues is such a hot issue. does the fetus have rights? and if so are the mother's rights more important than the fetus?). thus, an organization should be free to employ someone and to rescind that employment if the employee speaks something they don't like.
i think it's certainly a cold harsh way of dealing with things, but... first, i'm a cold harsh bastard, and second and most important: is the job of a government really to be a playground supervisor or to protect the borders and the human rights (of its citizens) outlined in the constitutuion? to me everything else is grossly overstepping their boundaries.
encode to mpeg-2 and you won't have an issue. the vcd's turn out really nice, and the free software is getting really advanced. chapters, etc. divx is a hack for computers; mpeg-2 is a standard for video.
it won't think you're gay if you tape Will & Grace.
though most items with a rational thought process (people) would highly consider that conclusion.
We here in central Ohio fully know the team name of the University of Iowa. Go Bucks!
and yes p2p will never die. disk copying will never die.
probably not on a consumer level isp, but if you're the equivilant of a President at a company which run www.myAdRevenueGeneratedWebSite.ORG and your primary email address is GeneralTsosMexicanCuisine@myAdRevenueGeneratedWebS ite.ORG then you're bound to have access to put a few filters on that there email server. dial up access is also questionable.
why is there all this popularity around divx formatted video streams? i spent some time learning to encode videos to divx; only for them to be playable on _some_ computers with the special drivers for the particular codec i used. then i found the vcd format and have never been happier. not only will it play on really crappy computer hardware (those old P166's play um just fine), but most home DVD players will play them fine. filesize is comparable to divx and quality seems about the same...