You always get caught at UofC because you aren't very bright about it. The HRC hasn't had a good plan in years.
Us guy's from SAIT on the other hand had a very small group, with a good plan, and managed to pull several small scale stunts in our years.
It's great to see that UBC is setting a standard for you youngin's to live up to. Now get the HRC to come up with a real plan, and they too can pull it off without getting caught.
I'm looking at a 1.1Ghz Athlon, and lots of memory/disk space. Debian unstable will be used to power the whole thing. One thing I'd really like though is to be able to pipe the Cable TV into the box, and then also pipe the XFree Display out to my 60" TV. The idea being with the amount of HDD space I'm installing I should be able to pull off using my computer as a intellegent VCR. Plus it'll make Quake III just rock.
The one thing you'll *never* hear them say is "Er...I don't know how to do that"
You can tell me that one again, OTOH hand they should be telling you that. I deal with 60 different systems, and probably 30+ Vendors. One of the most difficult things is dealing with vendors who *WON'T* just say " I don't know ".
IBM is very bad for taking on things that are hideously complex, and just throwing a low-level grunt in to maintain and fix it, without any clue as to how it really works.
I've had to deal with more than one problem caused by the newbie IBM guy.
Yikes! I work for the Canadian Health Care system, and a large (4 1/2 hospitals) IT department. If such a system was proposed here, we'd laugh the person suggesting it out the door. The security there is very weak, and the access to potental patient info is *VERY* scary.
We have a system to give Lab results to HIV tests on the Web. The following rules apply to it.
Login is via SSL with a username that is the recipt number on the lab test the patient is given after the blood sample is taken. The password is given to the patient over the phone(special number, and requires an identity check), and TWO pieces of identity are asked that don't appear on the recipt. None of this is attached to names, etc...
Once logged in the Person can check the Lab result, but it also carefully doesn't indicate anything that could be used to identify a individual.
Even with all this security, and the germainization(is that a real word?) of the data, this is viewed by our IT dept, as a HUGE security risk, to the point we have had the Senior Management sign-off on the system.
I'm interested in why you feel Id made it to the top, where so many other companies like this fail,and what people getting into the business should do to capture that success?
Was it dedicted people, the way you used venture funding, the shear talent you have in the group, the product (Doom) being so unique at the time...
Why do people think SUN sells good hardware? Their SPARC systems are SLOW. We use 28 CPU systems to large scale numeric problems.
Because they DO sell excellent HW. If you have access to a 28 CPU system, what is it? a E5000, E6000, E10K? really, I'd bet your either a) running your mouth, b) have a BADDLY mis-architeched system, c) have bloody ugly code. Speed Comparisions are so darn subjective...
We run a million record Patient care system on a E450 with a single 400Mhz UltraSPARC, and it just rocks. I'll go back to my point about Market Share though, and at 80-85% of the UNIX market, I can't see how in good conscience I'd even suggest running a Patient care system on a Intel based server even if it was running NetBSD!!! =8)
Why does everyone on/. believe Linux is a threat to Sun Microsystems computers?
Ok this is probably going to set off the sprinklers, but it's the harsh truth.... Wishful thinking... Really Linux is a threat to Sun like it is to Microsoft. Despite the Zeal and Fever let's face it, in a business environment, it's always "the right tool for the right job". Often this means picking things based on market share, as opposed to "better" solutions.
They used to say "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", the saying may have died but the reality is still there. If it comes to desktops for the users, I'll (Eris help me) pick Microsoft everytime. Just so I can send users to someone else for training, help desk, and to make my life infinately less complicated when they decide to buy company X's whiz bang proprietary software that only run's on Windoze. Just the same as with any DB app, it's off to a Sun Server, running Solaris 2.6 (2.7 still needs some work).
Do I think Linux has a place, sure I do, but it's not in the corporation, not now at least. It's still needs some serious growing up. It also sit's (typically) on HW that I just don't fundamentaly trust. That's why I pick Sun HW, People don't seem to get that Sun is first, and foremost a HW company, any software they do is mearly teasers to get you to buy their HW.
pico is still my most used editor Let's *NOT* start that thread =8) (vi user)
LOL It isn't that hard to kill someone with a pointy stick. I think you forget how easy our bodies really do break. It just makes it messier and more painful for the victim and makes the thug sweat more. Didn't you ever go to camp and learn how to kill animals in the woods without a gun or knife? The same thing works on humans I'm sure.:) Working for the Healthcare Industry (check my info) I can safely say, I'm very aware of how delicate bodies are. Statistically though there are far fewer fatalities due to pointy stick, than gunshot wounds in most urban areas. =8)
If the license isn't OS, then the whole thing is still run by Sun and this is just an exercise in dumping. This means that after Sun runs MS into the ground, Sun can close everything back up, change the formats and reap the upgrade-treadmill rewards.
Any that would be wrong how? Sorry I don't subscribe to the 100% Open Source Bugaboo, as long as we have companies turning out good products for cheap/free (That excludes MS in most cases). I find it hard to Demonize a company for keeping the hard work of the programmers closed to the Open Source rabble.
The potential for Orwellian-like traffic analysis is getting too big. Better make sure you're indistinguishable from above
I'll start being concerned when they make us start putting licence numbers on car roofs. The major flaw in your concern is the idea of tasking. You have a sattelite whipping around the earth, at a half hour interval, so you only get one shot every half hour at locating the target. That makes traffic analysis a touch (impossible?) hard. Now if we were talking about a series of geo-stationairy satt's then it would be possible, but you'd hog, all the tasking time doing something like that.
I'm interested in the cost of such a thing, and how it would work to get the picture you want. Do I really need a 640m x 480m shot of Area 51??? What is the GPS location of it anyways?
However, now that HTML has such a hold it is doubtful that Xanadu can ever make much of an impact.
Why is it I recall the same thing being said about HTML??? I believe I once nievely stated that HTML was useless, because everyone had already put so much material on gopher. Doh!!!
Having said that, the release of Xanadu, I firmly believe is a sign of the oncoming apocalypse.
As I recall the main reason for the probe was that the small ISP's were taking it up the I/O port by the big Telcos, and Cablecos entering the market. The Telcos definately are not playing fair.
Still a big win IMHO. Now if I can get them to ease up on the TV regs I may even be able to watch the superbowl w/ U.S. commercials (the only time I can say I prefer U.S. tv)
I'm curious how many ORA books most people own? I know amongst my friends when we want a book on topic "x" we naturally search for a ORA book first. Maybe this should be a poll for CmdrTaco to setup... Hint!?!
I don't think all/.'ers hate Apple, I for instance am a Sun person, but administrated a setup of two Sun Server's with 80 NeXT stations, for a while. NeXT is just brilliant, Mac is just the same, both are Steve Jobs showing how good he is at Computer Design. Both Apple and NeXT are Steve showing how much he SUCKS at marketing.
Linux has a LONG road to go still before it becomes a desktop standard ANYWHERE in business, Mac and (UGH) Windows have proven their ability on the desktop. Neither can do servers worth beans.
Now if someone can post the right URL I'm interested in this book...
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You always get caught at UofC because you aren't very bright about it. The HRC hasn't had a good plan in years. Us guy's from SAIT on the other hand had a very small group, with a good plan, and managed to pull several small scale stunts in our years. It's great to see that UBC is setting a standard for you youngin's to live up to. Now get the HRC to come up with a real plan, and they too can pull it off without getting caught.
I'm looking at a 1.1Ghz Athlon, and lots of memory/disk space. Debian unstable will be used to power the whole thing. One thing I'd really like though is to be able to pipe the Cable TV into the box, and then also pipe the XFree Display out to my 60" TV. The idea being with the amount of HDD space I'm installing I should be able to pull off using my computer as a intellegent VCR. Plus it'll make Quake III just rock.
The Video Card I've been looking at is the Matrox G450eTV as discribed here : http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/marv_g450_etv/h ome.cfm .
Any experiences with doing TV signals under Linux (or even just URL's to places to check) would be appreciated.
You can tell me that one again, OTOH hand they should be telling you that. I deal with 60 different systems, and probably 30+ Vendors. One of the most difficult things is dealing with vendors who *WON'T* just say " I don't know ".
IBM is very bad for taking on things that are hideously complex, and just throwing a low-level grunt in to maintain and fix it, without any clue as to how it really works.
I've had to deal with more than one problem caused by the newbie IBM guy.
Yikes! I work for the Canadian Health Care system, and a large (4 1/2 hospitals) IT department. If such a system was proposed here, we'd laugh the person suggesting it out the door. The security there is very weak, and the access to potental patient info is *VERY* scary.
We have a system to give Lab results to HIV tests on the Web. The following rules apply to it.
Login is via SSL with a username that is the recipt number on the lab test the patient is given after the blood sample is taken. The password is given to the patient over the phone(special number, and requires an identity check), and TWO pieces of identity are asked that don't appear on the recipt. None of this is attached to names, etc...
Once logged in the Person can check the Lab result, but it also carefully doesn't indicate anything that could be used to identify a individual.
Even with all this security, and the germainization(is that a real word?) of the data, this is viewed by our IT dept, as a HUGE security risk, to the point we have had the Senior Management sign-off on the system.
I'm interested in why you feel Id made it to the top, where so many other companies like this fail,and what people getting into the business should do to capture that success?
Was it dedicted people, the way you used venture funding, the shear talent you have in the group, the product (Doom) being so unique at the time...
Thanx
Because they DO sell excellent HW. If you have access to a 28 CPU system, what is it? a E5000, E6000, E10K? really, I'd bet your either a) running your mouth, b) have a BADDLY mis-architeched system, c) have bloody ugly code. Speed Comparisions are so darn subjective...
We run a million record Patient care system on a E450 with a single 400Mhz UltraSPARC, and it just rocks. I'll go back to my point about Market Share though, and at 80-85% of the UNIX market, I can't see how in good conscience I'd even suggest running a Patient care system on a Intel based server even if it was running NetBSD!!! =8)
LMFAO ... Ok, this is just silly. Anytime you want to test that theory, just let me know, and we'll go 1 on 1. I get the gun!
Hopefully that will end the offtopic posts. =8)
Ok this is probably going to set off the sprinklers, but it's the harsh truth....
Wishful thinking... Really Linux is a threat to Sun like it is to Microsoft. Despite the Zeal and Fever let's face it, in a business environment, it's always "the right tool for the right job". Often this means picking things based on market share, as opposed to "better" solutions.
They used to say "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", the saying may have died but the reality is still there. If it comes to desktops for the users, I'll (Eris help me) pick Microsoft everytime. Just so I can send users to someone else for training, help desk, and to make my life infinately less complicated when they decide to buy company X's whiz bang proprietary software that only run's on Windoze. Just the same as with any DB app, it's off to a Sun Server, running Solaris 2.6 (2.7 still needs some work).
Do I think Linux has a place, sure I do, but it's not in the corporation, not now at least. It's still needs some serious growing up. It also sit's (typically) on HW that I just don't fundamentaly trust. That's why I pick Sun HW, People don't seem to get that Sun is first, and foremost a HW company, any software they do is mearly teasers to get you to buy their HW.
Sorry, but them's the facts...
Let's *NOT* start that thread =8) (vi user)
LOL It isn't that hard to kill someone with a pointy stick. I think you forget how easy our bodies really do break. It just makes it messier and more painful for the victim and makes the thug sweat more. Didn't you ever go to camp and learn how to kill animals in the woods without a gun or knife? The same thing works on humans I'm sure. :)
Working for the Healthcare Industry (check my info) I can safely say, I'm very aware of how delicate bodies are. Statistically though there are far fewer fatalities due to pointy stick, than gunshot wounds in most urban areas. =8)
This means that after Sun runs MS into the ground, Sun can close everything back up, change the formats and reap the upgrade-treadmill rewards.
Any that would be wrong how? Sorry I don't subscribe to the 100% Open Source Bugaboo, as long as we have companies turning out good products for cheap/free (That excludes MS in most cases). I find it hard to Demonize a company for keeping the hard work of the programmers closed to the Open Source rabble.
Big deal, at least it's free. That alone is 100% better than M$ can say.
I stand corrected. I still think it's funny it cut -off right there.
maybe microsoft isn't building a nuclear missle silo though, after all =8)
According to the map on Expedia mirosoft is here. My how interesting that the sattelite seems to have missed the microsoft campus by mere blocks!
obviously there isn't anything to worry about here.... =8)
I'll start being concerned when they make us start putting licence numbers on car roofs. The major flaw in your concern is the idea of tasking. You have a sattelite whipping around the earth, at a half hour interval, so you only get one shot every half hour at locating the target. That makes traffic analysis a touch (impossible?) hard. Now if we were talking about a series of geo-stationairy satt's then it would be possible, but you'd hog, all the tasking time doing something like that.
Thank Eris for Clouds!
Anyone have any more URL's on this.
I'm interested in the cost of such a thing, and how it would work to get the picture you want. Do I really need a 640m x 480m shot of Area 51??? What is the GPS location of it anyways?
Why is it I recall the same thing being said about HTML??? I believe I once nievely stated that HTML was useless, because everyone had already put so much material on gopher. Doh!!!
Having said that, the release of Xanadu, I firmly believe is a sign of the oncoming apocalypse.
Unbelievable, this isn't a true victory though...
As I recall the main reason for the probe was that the small ISP's were taking it up the I/O port by the big Telcos, and Cablecos entering the market. The Telcos definately are not playing fair.
Still a big win IMHO. Now if I can get them to ease up on the TV regs I may even be able to watch the superbowl w/ U.S. commercials (the only time I can say I prefer U.S. tv)
Back to the grind....
I'm curious how many ORA books most people own? I know amongst my friends when we want a book on topic "x" we naturally search for a ORA book first. Maybe this should be a poll for CmdrTaco to setup... Hint!?!
I Currently own 9 how about the rest of you???
Linux has a LONG road to go still before it becomes a desktop standard ANYWHERE in business, Mac and (UGH) Windows have proven their ability on the desktop. Neither can do servers worth beans.
Now if someone can post the right URL I'm interested in this book...