Juniper security gear has gone to a year.quarter. release numbering system
Our internal apps are built with a version number of: yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm
Patches get yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm-1, but we try to get versions rolled out every few weeks at most. The smaller the changes, the less likely it is to break.
I think most of the smart IT people are beginning to view the U.S. as a threat to their business.
Your link leads to an article complaining about shutting down "websites involved in copyright infringement, the sale of counterfeit goods or child pornography", among other things. I doubt most smart IT people are involved in criminal enterprises. If most of the "smart" people you know are, maybe you should think about moving to a different part of the industry. And when I say different, I mean legal.
Unless you run your own data center, and have multiple upstream links, you may be relying on a data centre that someone else is hosting those things -- either knowingly, or because a single box was compromised.
If you're not a beomouth fortune 500 company, chances are you've got a couple of physical machines in a colo, or even just a VM or two. You have no control over who Rackspace rent their servers and space too, so when the FBI come calling, you lose money.
Then write in Mickey Mouse, or Jon Stewart, or preferably someone that doesn't have connections to a party. Howabout the buy down the road?
The fact is the majority of Americans (and this applies to democracies in general) are happy with the current Republocrat regime. As long as American Idol in on Saturday, or Steam doesn't rip them off, it's fine.
If the American people really are innocent, and don't want to go to endless wars, then have a revolution. When Bin Laden "went to war", or Saddam Hussein with Kuwait, the country's people probably wanted it less than we want our country to go to war. They didn't have a choice. We have a slightly better choice.
Sad thing is, we're all sheep, and are happy. Sure, people die, on both sides (mainly their side), but it's a tiny risk. More people died on U.S. roads (3,800) in September 2001 than in the attacks (3000). By the time the sun set on Tuesday evening, more Americans had already died from heart disease *that week* (3,035) than in the attacks.
The only way I see things changing in America is if you get the hell bombed out of you (moreso than the UK got in WW2), or your economy collapses under the strain and people start rioting because of the price of a kilogram of rice.
I also dispute the whole "Xfree86 nightmare" thing.
X has done auto-detection when available and has fallen back to Win3x style config wizards otherwise.
I couldn't get X working with my machine in about '98 due to the graphics card. I believe it was a sis6326 (which, 12 years later, is still in my head!).
When Redhat 6 came out (I still have a "Mastering Redhat 6" book on my shelf) was about the time I got a voodoo banshee, and everything came together.
August 2000 I switched to debian potato, and then ubuntu in 2006. Managed to get it in under the radar at work (MS shop) and now have about 100 networked ubuntu servers from New York to Singapore, with one going into Kabul next month. Along with that we're undergoing a rollout of about 120 standalone SDI playout/record machines over the next few months.
Have you ever flown into Ben Gurion? It's a very different experience... I arrived, with a friend, with Egyptian and Jordanian visas (in Arabic) in our passports. We were separated, then questioned - Very expertly and professionally. There wasn't any arrogance like you might find entering the USA or Canada, but the questions were very persistent...
You got the sense you were interacting with human lie detectors. Answers like "It's none of your business" would not have gone down well.
Certainly not my experience *entering* the country, but I use my Israel/USA passport, not my Pakistan/Egypt passport. They barely look at the pages.
On the way out it's a completely different story -- expectI had I had otook over an hour before check in last time, and that was without the queue before the first xray machine (we had a shipping agent). Yes, they are human lie detectors. No plane has been subject to an attack leaving TLV. They're as succesful as the TSA
There's never been a large enough jump in features to justify a major release increment, yet 2.6.40 is more distinct from 2.6.0 than 2.6.0 was from 2.0.0
Or, not everybody who posts here bothers to have an account. The hating on AC thing is retarded.
Easy enough to sign with plain text. I'm off to Thailand in 3 weeks, and like other dodgy countries I've visited this year (Egypt, Pakistan, USA, China, Israel Afghanistan), I'm careful about what I say, even on the internet. Twitter is rolling over to the UK over super injunctions and even just normal defamation. At least with something as comical as mentioning Ryan Giggs you know it would be laughed out of a British court, but it's worrying non-the-less. I'm not going to take that risk with a Thai court, or A Chineese, or a U.S. one.
I can post anonymously, and be fairly confident that Slashdot isn't high enough profile that they'll roll over to foreign courts like Twitter does, but what does that prove? If you want to insult that Thai government, or post about Ryan Giggs, fine, but don't bother anonymously, you are detracting from the real reason that anonymous speech needs to be protected, so people can talk about Liu Xiaobo, or blow the whistle on Tepco.
I take it places like that assume their laws apply globally?
Well, ignoring countries that abduct people from other countries to try them locally (North Korea, Israel, etc), in this case the Thais arrested a Thai citizen.
Dmitry Sklyarov was not a U.S. citizen, yet he had the misfortune of travelling to the U.S., where he was immediately arrested, despite not breaking any crimes while in the U.S.
1 - Stand up to their principles and spend millions in court fighting someone that could buy them outright. And risking injunctions that would prevent them from selling.
2 - Agree to a pretty minor 'tax', that they can pass along to the consumer and be done with it. Most consumers wont even know its there and wont care even if they did.
So, its a bad choice for them again why?
Sort of like a Fee, for Protection from things like "accidents"?
If it is only for the largest planes, then it isn't all that helpful for a lot of travellers (myself included).
The largest of planes tend to fly on the longest of routes.I couldn't give a monkeys about on-board entertainment, or at-seat power, on a typical 2 hour jaunt around Europe, or even shorter flights like New York to Washington. A 14 hour flight to Singapore means I'll be watching at least 2 moives during that time, and the number onboard does seem to be quite restrictive after the 7th or 8th LH flight with the same selection.
Of course, a few terrabytes of extra space with a large back catalog would do the trick nicely.
Many people find the vast majority of their air travel is on small jets or turboprops.
If you're flying more than 3 hours on a small jet, I'm sorry you can't find a better carrier.
This reminds me of reading a Continental in-flight magazine that told me about the new full-recline sleeper seats that are in first class on the largest planes
It's worse when you're on the same plane as the flat beds, but you're crammed in economy overnight. When I pay for my own overnight flights I'll stump up for business with the flat beds, but those are rare. I agree they're nice though!
Being as I was riding steerage class on an EmbraerJet - and all the other legs of my journey were the same - it had no value for my travel.
But how long was that flight? Maximum range is about 3h30 isn't it? It's barely worth lying down on short flights.
* When the 700+ cellphones and devices pass near all the cellphone towers visible to the high-flying aircraft those towers can be overloaded, and
Really? When I have my phone turned on on a plane I don't get a signal -- even at altitudes low enough to get GPS on an iphone.
* Having people jibber-jabbering on cellphones in close confines over longer flights will result in all sorts of social problems (conflicts, if someone can't stop talking really annoyingly over the entire flight).
First flight I travelled on which allowed cell phones was a pilot in July 2007, had two kids behind us with text messages beeping away which was slightly annoying. Since then I've travelled on a few flights (mainly EK) that allow phones, never noticed people using phones on them.
In addition, all long haul flights I travel on have a phone in the seat. I've never seen anyone use it so I don't know if the system still works.
Many airlines, like Qantas, are happy for you to turn your phone on after wheels down and taxiing. BA tell you to keep them off until engines are off -- very annoying as it takes my phone a few minutes to get a signal, and I like to check my email on landing to see if there's anything I need to sort before heading through a potential 90 minute queue at immigration.
Probably won't help, but hopefully Duke Nukem Forever will have the lazer mines, pipe bombs, shrink ray, and everything from the original. A very nice level editor would be nice too, just for old time's sake
We used to play DN3D after school. It was against the rules, but we did it under the pretense of testing our level - we'd built the school and used to have it out at open evenings as part of showing how advanced IT was (3D computer modelling!)
Fortunately the school only had 2 levels, building rooms over rooms in DN3d was pretty hard, and everything could go very wrong very quickly!
We should invade Australia to help bring democracy to the region?
Please do. We keep getting screwed by higher prices and region locked on Steam, so if you make us a US territory it'll work out for everyone!
And this statement is why people don't care about freedom. Lock people up for speaking? Fine. Charge an extra $5 for a computer game? Revolution!
Same in the U.S. That was a revolution about taxes. The freedom of speech/freedom to bare arms/etc were things to ensure that another revolution could happen in the future, and the reason for such a revolution will be financial.
I must apologize for the incident at the border crossing in Israel. Though most of the world seems unaware of it, our resources are very strained, and the education system is unfortunately rather poor in many areas. In contrast to the United States, I believe we are relatively aware of it, and would like to change it.
If that happened at an airport security check, and was not a ploy used to test you, it should be a reason for dismissal of the security agent. Please post again if it did.
Really? I think it's a genuine question. Most passports are issues in the home country, so it's worth a follow up question. My last trip through TLV had an hour-long interrogation, involving me getting emails out and even running up eclipse. They seemed shocked that I'd been to Greece as well, an unusual location for us brits to go.
I'm dreading my next trip through TLV, as I'll have been to Gaza, which is bound to bring up questions.
Delusional... Who's gonna dig that? Mules? Once the energy is gone, there won't be technology like we're used to. Accept it, or deny it. But it's going to happen.
Assuming some form of electric energy (nuclear most likely, with an assortment of solar, wind and tidal) to power the trains, why not throw some sheet metal over the surface track, weld the pieces together, then reduce the pressure inside? You don't need to dig to make a vactrain.
The guide proceded to spend about 10 minutes pointing out exactly how each shelf had the same number of boxes arranged in the same position as the ones in the actual room. Yes and the boxes were proportionally the same size and colors. Notice how the shelves have the same labels as the actual shelves... and also notice how the....
blah blah blah...
Did the model of the room have a model of the model of the room in the corner?
I'm still surprised the flight crews don't go ape-shit when people take snapshots through airplane windows during flights.
I once had a passenger tell me I couldn't. I asked for his warrant card. He seemed perplexed. I said that if he thought he can tell me what I can and can't do then presumably he's a policeman or similar, so he should prove it.
He shut the fuck up and I carried on.
Your fellow passenger is happy for their screaming 6 year old daughter to have high school dropouts groping her, sticking their hands down her pants, and stroking her hair.
Wikipedia says: The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an IETF-defined signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP). The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party (unicast) or multiparty (multicast) sessions consisting of one or several media streams. The modification can involve changing addresses or ports, inviting more participants, and adding or deleting media streams. Other feasible application examples include video conferencing, streaming multimedia distribution, instant messaging, presence information, file transfer and online games.
*That's* the alternative.
People are on skype. Skype doesn't interoperate with SIP, therefore skype has no alternative. If you want to talk to someone on skype, you need skype. Setting up skype for your average home and mobile phone is a matter of visiting skype.com, or your app store, and running the one file. Within 10 minutes grandma is talking to her grandkids in Australia (and other kitschy scenarios)
Setting up sip on your average home and mobile phone?
No secret, the only way to get a decent raise is to jump ship.
Well, depends on benefits, but my wage has increased 250% over the last 7 years in the same job, and if they fire me they have to give me 3 months notice and then another 7 months wages on top of that.
I'm not "angry" or anything, but there are some things that are annoying about the interface. My main problem is the title bar. I love the idea of trying to make the client area as large as possible -- and I love that Firefox takes up nearly the entire screen
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Juniper security gear has gone to a year.quarter. release numbering system
Our internal apps are built with a version number of: yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm
Patches get yyyy.mm.dd.hh.mm-1, but we try to get versions rolled out every few weeks at most. The smaller the changes, the less likely it is to break.
I think most of the smart IT people are beginning to view the U.S. as a threat to their business.
Your link leads to an article complaining about shutting down "websites involved in copyright infringement, the sale of counterfeit goods or child pornography", among other things. I doubt most smart IT people are involved in criminal enterprises. If most of the "smart" people you know are, maybe you should think about moving to a different part of the industry. And when I say different, I mean legal.
Unless you run your own data center, and have multiple upstream links, you may be relying on a data centre that someone else is hosting those things -- either knowingly, or because a single box was compromised.
If you're not a beomouth fortune 500 company, chances are you've got a couple of physical machines in a colo, or even just a VM or two. You have no control over who Rackspace rent their servers and space too, so when the FBI come calling, you lose money.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!
Then write in Mickey Mouse, or Jon Stewart, or preferably someone that doesn't have connections to a party. Howabout the buy down the road?
The fact is the majority of Americans (and this applies to democracies in general) are happy with the current Republocrat regime. As long as American Idol in on Saturday, or Steam doesn't rip them off, it's fine.
If the American people really are innocent, and don't want to go to endless wars, then have a revolution. When Bin Laden "went to war", or Saddam Hussein with Kuwait, the country's people probably wanted it less than we want our country to go to war. They didn't have a choice. We have a slightly better choice.
Sad thing is, we're all sheep, and are happy. Sure, people die, on both sides (mainly their side), but it's a tiny risk. More people died on U.S. roads (3,800) in September 2001 than in the attacks (3000). By the time the sun set on Tuesday evening, more Americans had already died from heart disease *that week* (3,035) than in the attacks.
The only way I see things changing in America is if you get the hell bombed out of you (moreso than the UK got in WW2), or your economy collapses under the strain and people start rioting because of the price of a kilogram of rice.
20 bucks says Syrian protesters will attempt a Tahrir Square.
10 more bucks says some concessions will have to be made.
Unsure about revolution.
Does Syria have oil?
IE 7 still sounds new to me. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Our corporation moved to IE7 about 12 months ago, we're ahead of the game!
Rumour has it we're moving to IE8/Win7 by the end of the year
I also dispute the whole "Xfree86 nightmare" thing.
X has done auto-detection when available and has fallen back to Win3x style config wizards otherwise.
I couldn't get X working with my machine in about '98 due to the graphics card. I believe it was a sis6326 (which, 12 years later, is still in my head!).
When Redhat 6 came out (I still have a "Mastering Redhat 6" book on my shelf) was about the time I got a voodoo banshee, and everything came together.
August 2000 I switched to debian potato, and then ubuntu in 2006. Managed to get it in under the radar at work (MS shop) and now have about 100 networked ubuntu servers from New York to Singapore, with one going into Kabul next month. Along with that we're undergoing a rollout of about 120 standalone SDI playout/record machines over the next few months.
Have you ever flown into Ben Gurion? It's a very different experience... I arrived, with a friend, with Egyptian and Jordanian visas (in Arabic) in our passports. We were separated, then questioned - Very expertly and professionally. There wasn't any arrogance like you might find entering the USA or Canada, but the questions were very persistent...
You got the sense you were interacting with human lie detectors. Answers like "It's none of your business" would not have gone down well.
Certainly not my experience *entering* the country, but I use my Israel/USA passport, not my Pakistan/Egypt passport. They barely look at the pages.
On the way out it's a completely different story -- expectI had I had otook over an hour before check in last time, and that was without the queue before the first xray machine (we had a shipping agent). Yes, they are human lie detectors. No plane has been subject to an attack leaving TLV. They're as succesful as the TSA
There's never been a large enough jump in features to justify a major release increment, yet 2.6.40 is more distinct from 2.6.0 than 2.6.0 was from 2.0.0
Or, not everybody who posts here bothers to have an account. The hating on AC thing is retarded.
Easy enough to sign with plain text. I'm off to Thailand in 3 weeks, and like other dodgy countries I've visited this year (Egypt, Pakistan, USA, China, Israel Afghanistan), I'm careful about what I say, even on the internet. Twitter is rolling over to the UK over super injunctions and even just normal defamation. At least with something as comical as mentioning Ryan Giggs you know it would be laughed out of a British court, but it's worrying non-the-less. I'm not going to take that risk with a Thai court, or A Chineese, or a U.S. one.
I can post anonymously, and be fairly confident that Slashdot isn't high enough profile that they'll roll over to foreign courts like Twitter does, but what does that prove? If you want to insult that Thai government, or post about Ryan Giggs, fine, but don't bother anonymously, you are detracting from the real reason that anonymous speech needs to be protected, so people can talk about Liu Xiaobo, or blow the whistle on Tepco.
I take it places like that assume their laws apply globally?
Well, ignoring countries that abduct people from other countries to try them locally (North Korea, Israel, etc), in this case the Thais arrested a Thai citizen.
Dmitry Sklyarov was not a U.S. citizen, yet he had the misfortune of travelling to the U.S., where he was immediately arrested, despite not breaking any crimes while in the U.S.
The king of Thailand is a dirty bastard who fucked a chicken. On multiple occasions. In the ass.
Yet you're too much of a coward to post with your real name?
So their choices were basically:
1 - Stand up to their principles and spend millions in court fighting someone that could buy them outright. And risking injunctions that would prevent them from selling.
2 - Agree to a pretty minor 'tax', that they can pass along to the consumer and be done with it. Most consumers wont even know its there and wont care even if they did.
So, its a bad choice for them again why?
Sort of like a Fee, for Protection from things like "accidents"?
If it is only for the largest planes, then it isn't all that helpful for a lot of travellers (myself included).
The largest of planes tend to fly on the longest of routes.I couldn't give a monkeys about on-board entertainment, or at-seat power, on a typical 2 hour jaunt around Europe, or even shorter flights like New York to Washington. A 14 hour flight to Singapore means I'll be watching at least 2 moives during that time, and the number onboard does seem to be quite restrictive after the 7th or 8th LH flight with the same selection.
Of course, a few terrabytes of extra space with a large back catalog would do the trick nicely.
Many people find the vast majority of their air travel is on small jets or turboprops.
If you're flying more than 3 hours on a small jet, I'm sorry you can't find a better carrier.
This reminds me of reading a Continental in-flight magazine that told me about the new full-recline sleeper seats that are in first class on the largest planes
It's worse when you're on the same plane as the flat beds, but you're crammed in economy overnight. When I pay for my own overnight flights I'll stump up for business with the flat beds, but those are rare. I agree they're nice though!
Being as I was riding steerage class on an EmbraerJet - and all the other legs of my journey were the same - it had no value for my travel.
But how long was that flight? Maximum range is about 3h30 isn't it? It's barely worth lying down on short flights.
Really? When I have my phone turned on on a plane I don't get a signal -- even at altitudes low enough to get GPS on an iphone.
First flight I travelled on which allowed cell phones was a pilot in July 2007, had two kids behind us with text messages beeping away which was slightly annoying. Since then I've travelled on a few flights (mainly EK) that allow phones, never noticed people using phones on them.
In addition, all long haul flights I travel on have a phone in the seat. I've never seen anyone use it so I don't know if the system still works.
Many airlines, like Qantas, are happy for you to turn your phone on after wheels down and taxiing. BA tell you to keep them off until engines are off -- very annoying as it takes my phone a few minutes to get a signal, and I like to check my email on landing to see if there's anything I need to sort before heading through a potential 90 minute queue at immigration.
The specifics aren't really spelled out, the general understanding is that we will ascend to meet Jesus 'in the clouds'
What, like EC2?
Probably won't help, but hopefully Duke Nukem Forever will have the lazer mines, pipe bombs, shrink ray, and everything from the original. A very nice level editor would be nice too, just for old time's sake
We used to play DN3D after school. It was against the rules, but we did it under the pretense of testing our level - we'd built the school and used to have it out at open evenings as part of showing how advanced IT was (3D computer modelling!)
Fortunately the school only had 2 levels, building rooms over rooms in DN3d was pretty hard, and everything could go very wrong very quickly!
Please do. We keep getting screwed by higher prices and region locked on Steam, so if you make us a US territory it'll work out for everyone!
And this statement is why people don't care about freedom. Lock people up for speaking? Fine. Charge an extra $5 for a computer game? Revolution!
Same in the U.S. That was a revolution about taxes. The freedom of speech/freedom to bare arms/etc were things to ensure that another revolution could happen in the future, and the reason for such a revolution will be financial.
Yes, I have one for us/Israel/India and one for Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iraq etc
I must apologize for the incident at the border crossing in Israel. Though most of the world seems unaware of it, our resources are very strained, and the education system is unfortunately rather poor in many areas. In contrast to the United States, I believe we are relatively aware of it, and would like to change it.
If that happened at an airport security check, and was not a ploy used to test you, it should be a reason for dismissal of the security agent. Please post again if it did.
Really? I think it's a genuine question. Most passports are issues in the home country, so it's worth a follow up question. My last trip through TLV had an hour-long interrogation, involving me getting emails out and even running up eclipse. They seemed shocked that I'd been to Greece as well, an unusual location for us brits to go.
I'm dreading my next trip through TLV, as I'll have been to Gaza, which is bound to bring up questions.
Delusional... Who's gonna dig that? Mules? Once the energy is gone, there won't be technology like we're used to. Accept it, or deny it. But it's going to happen.
Assuming some form of electric energy (nuclear most likely, with an assortment of solar, wind and tidal) to power the trains, why not throw some sheet metal over the surface track, weld the pieces together, then reduce the pressure inside? You don't need to dig to make a vactrain.
The guide proceded to spend about 10 minutes pointing out exactly how each shelf had the same number of boxes arranged in the same position as the ones in the actual room. Yes and the boxes were proportionally the same size and colors. Notice how the shelves have the same labels as the actual shelves... and also notice how the....
blah blah blah...
Did the model of the room have a model of the model of the room in the corner?
I once had a passenger tell me I couldn't. I asked for his warrant card. He seemed perplexed. I said that if he thought he can tell me what I can and can't do then presumably he's a policeman or similar, so he should prove it.
He shut the fuck up and I carried on.
Your fellow passenger is happy for their screaming 6 year old daughter to have high school dropouts groping her, sticking their hands down her pants, and stroking her hair.
Wikipedia says:
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an IETF-defined signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP). The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party (unicast) or multiparty (multicast) sessions consisting of one or several media streams. The modification can involve changing addresses or ports, inviting more participants, and adding or deleting media streams. Other feasible application examples include video conferencing, streaming multimedia distribution, instant messaging, presence information, file transfer and online games.
*That's* the alternative.
People are on skype. Skype doesn't interoperate with SIP, therefore skype has no alternative. If you want to talk to someone on skype, you need skype. Setting up skype for your average home and mobile phone is a matter of visiting skype.com, or your app store, and running the one file. Within 10 minutes grandma is talking to her grandkids in Australia (and other kitschy scenarios)
Setting up sip on your average home and mobile phone?
No secret, the only way to get a decent raise is to jump ship.
Well, depends on benefits, but my wage has increased 250% over the last 7 years in the same job, and if they fire me they have to give me 3 months notice and then another 7 months wages on top of that.
I'm not "angry" or anything, but there are some things that are annoying about the interface. My main problem is the title bar. I love the idea of trying to make the client area as large as possible -- and I love that Firefox takes up nearly the entire screen
Hit F11. Job done.