You're absolutely right about the latency. I've got Verizon's 1xRTT / 1xEV-DO service, and live in one of the metro areas supported by the higher-speed 1xEV-DO service. It's great for downloading files and checking email, but terrible for remote ssh sessions due to latency. Works in a pinch though if I'm out and about and need to check on a server.
My only other complaint about Verizon's service is that there are major areas with no service at all. The rule of thumb is, if you're on a Verizon-owned cell tower, you'll get at least the 1xRTT speed (similar to dial-up). But the entire state of Oklahoma, most of Kansas, most of west Texas, and most of New Mexico have no coverage at all. These areas are all covered by roaming agreements with other cell carriers incapable of providing coverage. I can't speak for areas outside the southwest.
Here's some crazy info for you. HP is betting HPUX's future on Itanium chips. Check out their Integrity server line. This is a line of true enterprise-level HP servers supporting up to 64 Itanium chips, and capable of running HPUX, Linux, and Windows all on the same box.
This is excellent advise. We consulted a well-regarded law firm specializing in intellectual property litigation before writing one line of code or drafting a single design document. We went so far as to go out of our way not to use any paradigms or algorithms from the previous company, even if they were considered general knowledge in the industry. That did not stop the lawsuit. I could go on and on about how frivolous the whole thing is, but unfortunately the goal wasn't to win the lawsuit, but instead to bury us in legal fees. They were successful in that regard.
I came from a company that did exactly this sort of thing. I worked for a software shop that created enterprise software on a contract basis. Everybody worked 50 or 60 hours per week, and without fail every Friday afternoon the CEO would come into the office at 4:30 or 5:00 and give everybody some crazy new project due on Monday morning. In addition, he'd make all the developers come into the office on Sunday for a company meeting to discuss the progress of the new assignments. It was a complete mess.
So anyway, my project manager, two other developers and I got sick of this and decided to start a company of our own. This was back in 1998. We got some funding and made a go at it. Not two days after we quit and started up the new company did we all get slapped with a lawsuit from the previous employer. The lawsuit alleges that we stole trade secrets from the previous employer, which was completely baseless. But, it accomplished the goal of putting a huge burden on us while we were just starting out.
Fast forward to 2003. We were recently forced into chapter 7 bankruptcy, partly due to the legal fees associated with the lawsuit, but also due to the fact that my previous project manager (who was the president at the new company) was one of the worst businessmen on this planet, despite being a great project manager. The legal system is slower than molasses - we still aren't scheduled to go to trial until July of this year - nearly five years after the lawsuit was first filed! There have been some depositions, hearings, rulings, and appeals along the way, but man has this thing dragged out! Needless to say there's not any money for them to win anyway due to the bankruptcy.
Overall, walking out and starting a new company was the greatest business decision I ever made in my life. I'm getting all sorts of offers to do contract work on the side, plus one of our customers at the new place hired me with a six-figure wage plus great benefits, and actually allowed me to write a no-compete into the employment contract. In addition, they have picked up an attorney for me and agreed to pay my legal fees in the lawsuit.
If I could go back, I'd still say that the lean years at the new company were all worth it. My only regret was not doing it sooner - I'm already 24 years old and I'm not going to live forever.
Why doesn't Opera/Mozilla/Konqueror/etc load the popup ads, without actually displaying them. That way, the server detects that the popup page was downloaded, and continues displaying the content that the user wanted to see in the first place. There's no way in hell that this popup-blocking browser blocker server software is ever going to win in the long run.
My favorite part is how FBI agents will now "discretely" arrive at victims' offices.
In my experience, the FBI can be extremely discrete when they want to be. I work for a company that provided some important information to the FBI after September 11 last year. There would on occasion be two or three agents in our office, who always showed up driving an unmarked car, and wore casual attire. Most of the people in our office had no idea the FBI was even present.
how many thieves are going to be willing to sit and work at a Linux box till they come up with a valid Username/Password combo?
None, if they know what they're doing. All they would need to do would be boot the box in single-user mode, and change root's password. It is not necessary to know the old root password to do this.
Completely agreed. I've been working for the last 36 hours moving my company's production site from the Austin, TX Exodus to our corporate office just outside the city. For a mere two racks, a cabinet, and enough floor space for a Hitachi 7700 storage system, we were paying close to $20k per month (power not included). For the cost of one month's rent at Exodus, we threw together our own server room, with some great discounted UPS and generator systems from a local auction, with four times the floor space! Granted, we don't have bullet-proof glass and armed guards, but is that really worth a quarter million dollars per year? When we moved in a year ago, we had to fight for cage space in a 25000 sqft facility. Now that we're gone, there's just a couple of occupied cages left. No surprises there.
The first time I turned on my Gamecube with Luigi's Mansion, the Game froze after hitting start from the main menu. I've played several times since then, without any crashes at all.
The only people suffering from the proposed new laws would be the average law-abiding Internet citizen. The free ISPs will see a drop in subscribership as well. How many of you would honestly give away a credit card number or your home phone number to a free ISP, who's business model is based entirely on showing you advertisements? Child pornographers and Internet drug dealers will undoubtedly beat the system anyway, maintaining their anonynimity.
One easy way that I can think of to do this will be to buy a prepaid cell phone. Not one of those monthly subscription-based prepaid cell phones like AT&T offer, but more of the scratch-off recharge card variety. Sure, your Internet account may be traceable to a phone number, but that phone number won't be traceable to anybody.
The crooks win, the average person looses, and the law enforcement agencies realize what fools they've been when they realize the phone number on the free ISP account doesn't lead anywhere.
The Computer World article you link to is just a summary of Compaq's press release (read the first sentence of the article). The real press release does not say that the new super computer will use Linux as the OS. In fact, from the press release: Compaq and Sandia will collaborate on the development of system hardware and software. Both have extensive experience with supercomputers based on Alpha. The one and only mention of Linux in the entire press release: Sandia currently operates the most powerful Linux-based supercomputer in existence, Cplant[tm], which employs more than 1600 Alpha processors. As you can see, it is a previous (and much-less powerful) supercomputer that was running Linux.
Would the MPAA go after a site that provided broken source code to DeCSS? For example, change "int main(int argc, char* argv[])" to "function main(int argc, char* argv[])", but leave the rest of the source unmodified. Any person with trivial programming knowledge could easily fix the code, but it technically wouldn't be DeCSS.
"Where we display aggregate number of vulnerabilities (Linux and BSD) the number is the size of the set that results from the union of all vulnerabilities for the components without duplication. Vulnerabilities are not counted twice."
In the charts towards the bottom of the page, Windows NT 4.0 was listed as the most vulnerable distribution in 2000 and 1999. The most vulnerable Linux distributions were all from RedHat, but even then, there were 13 vulnerabilities in RedHat Linux 6.2 i386, compared to the 21 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows NT 2000, and the 34 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.
I just downloaded mozilla for the first time, and was extremely pleased to see mouse wheel support on Linux (under edit->preferences->advanced->mouse wheel).
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You're absolutely right about the latency. I've got Verizon's 1xRTT / 1xEV-DO service, and live in one of the metro areas supported by the higher-speed 1xEV-DO service. It's great for downloading files and checking email, but terrible for remote ssh sessions due to latency. Works in a pinch though if I'm out and about and need to check on a server.
My only other complaint about Verizon's service is that there are major areas with no service at all. The rule of thumb is, if you're on a Verizon-owned cell tower, you'll get at least the 1xRTT speed (similar to dial-up). But the entire state of Oklahoma, most of Kansas, most of west Texas, and most of New Mexico have no coverage at all. These areas are all covered by roaming agreements with other cell carriers incapable of providing coverage. I can't speak for areas outside the southwest.
Here's some crazy info for you. HP is betting HPUX's future on Itanium chips. Check out their Integrity server line. This is a line of true enterprise-level HP servers supporting up to 64 Itanium chips, and capable of running HPUX, Linux, and Windows all on the same box.
This is excellent advise. We consulted a well-regarded law firm specializing in intellectual property litigation before writing one line of code or drafting a single design document. We went so far as to go out of our way not to use any paradigms or algorithms from the previous company, even if they were considered general knowledge in the industry. That did not stop the lawsuit. I could go on and on about how frivolous the whole thing is, but unfortunately the goal wasn't to win the lawsuit, but instead to bury us in legal fees. They were successful in that regard.
So anyway, my project manager, two other developers and I got sick of this and decided to start a company of our own. This was back in 1998. We got some funding and made a go at it. Not two days after we quit and started up the new company did we all get slapped with a lawsuit from the previous employer. The lawsuit alleges that we stole trade secrets from the previous employer, which was completely baseless. But, it accomplished the goal of putting a huge burden on us while we were just starting out.
Fast forward to 2003. We were recently forced into chapter 7 bankruptcy, partly due to the legal fees associated with the lawsuit, but also due to the fact that my previous project manager (who was the president at the new company) was one of the worst businessmen on this planet, despite being a great project manager. The legal system is slower than molasses - we still aren't scheduled to go to trial until July of this year - nearly five years after the lawsuit was first filed! There have been some depositions, hearings, rulings, and appeals along the way, but man has this thing dragged out! Needless to say there's not any money for them to win anyway due to the bankruptcy.
Overall, walking out and starting a new company was the greatest business decision I ever made in my life. I'm getting all sorts of offers to do contract work on the side, plus one of our customers at the new place hired me with a six-figure wage plus great benefits, and actually allowed me to write a no-compete into the employment contract. In addition, they have picked up an attorney for me and agreed to pay my legal fees in the lawsuit.
If I could go back, I'd still say that the lean years at the new company were all worth it. My only regret was not doing it sooner - I'm already 24 years old and I'm not going to live forever.
Why doesn't Opera/Mozilla/Konqueror/etc load the popup ads, without actually displaying them. That way, the server detects that the popup page was downloaded, and continues displaying the content that the user wanted to see in the first place. There's no way in hell that this popup-blocking browser blocker server software is ever going to win in the long run.
My favorite part is how FBI agents will now "discretely" arrive at victims' offices.
In my experience, the FBI can be extremely discrete when they want to be. I work for a company that provided some important information to the FBI after September 11 last year. There would on occasion be two or three agents in our office, who always showed up driving an unmarked car, and wore casual attire. Most of the people in our office had no idea the FBI was even present.
None, if they know what they're doing. All they would need to do would be boot the box in single-user mode, and change root's password. It is not necessary to know the old root password to do this.
Completely agreed. I've been working for the last 36 hours moving my company's production site from the Austin, TX Exodus to our corporate office just outside the city. For a mere two racks, a cabinet, and enough floor space for a Hitachi 7700 storage system, we were paying close to $20k per month (power not included). For the cost of one month's rent at Exodus, we threw together our own server room, with some great discounted UPS and generator systems from a local auction, with four times the floor space! Granted, we don't have bullet-proof glass and armed guards, but is that really worth a quarter million dollars per year? When we moved in a year ago, we had to fight for cage space in a 25000 sqft facility. Now that we're gone, there's just a couple of occupied cages left. No surprises there.
The first time I turned on my Gamecube with Luigi's Mansion, the Game froze after hitting start from the main menu. I've played several times since then, without any crashes at all.
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The only people suffering from the proposed new laws would be the average law-abiding Internet citizen. The free ISPs will see a drop in subscribership as well. How many of you would honestly give away a credit card number or your home phone number to a free ISP, who's business model is based entirely on showing you advertisements? Child pornographers and Internet drug dealers will undoubtedly beat the system anyway, maintaining their anonynimity.
One easy way that I can think of to do this will be to buy a prepaid cell phone. Not one of those monthly subscription-based prepaid cell phones like AT&T offer, but more of the scratch-off recharge card variety. Sure, your Internet account may be traceable to a phone number, but that phone number won't be traceable to anybody.
The crooks win, the average person looses, and the law enforcement agencies realize what fools they've been when they realize the phone number on the free ISP account doesn't lead anywhere.
The Computer World article you link to is just a summary of Compaq's press release (read the first sentence of the article). The real press release does not say that the new super computer will use Linux as the OS. In fact, from the press release: Compaq and Sandia will collaborate on the development of system hardware and software. Both have extensive experience with supercomputers based on Alpha. The one and only mention of Linux in the entire press release: Sandia currently operates the most powerful Linux-based supercomputer in existence, Cplant[tm], which employs more than 1600 Alpha processors. As you can see, it is a previous (and much-less powerful) supercomputer that was running Linux.
I knew this looked familiar. Check out this article on zdnet dated April 7, 2000.
Would the MPAA go after a site that provided broken source code to DeCSS? For example, change "int main(int argc, char* argv[])" to "function main(int argc, char* argv[])", but leave the rest of the source unmodified. Any person with trivial programming knowledge could easily fix the code, but it technically wouldn't be DeCSS.
Fred Moody's data comes from Security Focus, but he obviously spend much time at their site. Look at the BUGTRAQ Vulnerability Database Statistics, and you'll see that
"Where we display aggregate number of vulnerabilities (Linux and BSD) the number is the size of the set that results from the union of all vulnerabilities for the components without duplication. Vulnerabilities are not counted twice."
In the charts towards the bottom of the page, Windows NT 4.0 was listed as the most vulnerable distribution in 2000 and 1999. The most vulnerable Linux distributions were all from RedHat, but even then, there were 13 vulnerabilities in RedHat Linux 6.2 i386, compared to the 21 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows NT 2000, and the 34 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.
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Senator Palpatine: He becomes evil emporer and dies on second death star with Anakin.
I just downloaded mozilla for the first time, and was extremely pleased to see mouse wheel support on Linux (under edit->preferences->advanced->mouse wheel).