Not to mention your government officials and social infrastructure are most likely not prepared to close every school if a lot of cases are confirmed to be swine flu.
Maybe in your country. In the UK, we had a light dusting of snow a couple of months ago. It was fairly unusual. In my town, every single school was shut for 4 days, and most people stayed away from work, because of child care, or because they couldn't get in. Once swine flue starts killing more than die on the roads every day, then I imagine the same things will happen.
Riding alone: 6 hours each way (Thinking about it this summer, it's 50 miles, 49 of them along a canal towpath) Walk + Train + Walk: 1h20 each way Walk + Train + light transit: 1h25 each way Walk + Bus + light transit: 2h each way Car: 1h35 each way, on a good day, but upto 2h30 depending on the time Bike + Train + Bike: 1 hour each way
The train ride is productive time, I get to spend an hour less in the office because of the work I do on the train, that makes it Bike + Train + Bike: 25 minutes each way Car: 1h35 each way on a good day
bikes aren't great on snowy or icy roads, although they're not as bad as many noncyclists would expect.
A month or two ago London was covered in snow. Very unusual for this part of the world. Buses didn't run. The tube didn't run. Half the trains didn't run. Most people complained it was too dangerous for them to drive their 4-wheel-drive cars out of their drive.
It took me 35 minutes, rather than 25 minutes, to do the 6 miles from the station to my work on my Brompton folding bike with 6" wheels. the main road was a breeze - hardly any taxis, no buses, polite drivers and respect all round. The back roads were a little more hazzardous, being covered in compacted snow. Not only did I have to practically stop to turn corners (no friction), but I had to avoid snowmen people were building in the road.
Don't tell me that cycling in snow is hard.
Later that week, when it was actually snowing during the commute, I wore my ski goggles, but aside from that no problems.
Ford has one which is the Focus and they are bringing the Fiesta next year. They also have the Fusion Hybrid which gets better millage than the Camry and is much bigger the Pirus.
A Focus is a big car. Ford do have the Ka, personally I prefer a Micra though. A Fiesta is better than a Corvette if you're shopping or going to Normandy though.
Outlook is not Vista. Outlook is a horribly written pile of junk that Microsoft should be ashamed of
This is actually on XP (Pro). If Outlook isn't Vista/XP/etc, what is? MS Paint? I'm used to my distribution coming with pretty much everything I need to do almost any task. Email clients, web browsers, word processors etc, it's all part of the computer. When I refer to "Linux", I mean more than just the kernel, I include the basic applications you expect from a fully-featured "Linux" install, I.E. Firefox, Openoffice, vim, etc.
When I refer to "Windows", I include Outlook and the rest of the MS Office suite. IME Most non-tech people do.
Agreed. People who will sit and tell me with a straight face that Vista, in their experience, is unstable are either very unlucky, or liars. Windows stopped being generally unstable years ago. Get with the times.
I'm not convinced, I have a fairly old desktop at work I keep for Outlook use only. After a few days outlook's toolbar becomes unresponsive, and whenever I shut it down it stalls and requires a poweroff. Task manager doesn't say I'm using that much memory (still got cached files in physical ram).
I don't use windows much, I'm not used to the tricks that keep it running, where I probably use those tricks subconciously to keep my linux workstation and laptop running.
I wonder if Windows continued increase in stability is, at least partly, people subconciously learning how to adapt to it.
No,it's not the best way of doing it for a given value of best (performance). Our value was more storage density and disk failure. We offset the chance of getting random corruption by weekly scrubs and nightly rsyncs.
The total raw capacity of the container is 3 peta bytes. In reality it's going to be less than that. First, 2 disks are likely to be setup in a mirrored pool for the system disks. I believe the root pool only supports mirrors, not raidz. Not sure if this has changed.
Our Thumpers are like that, but the new ones (4550) have a CF card for booting the OS. ZFS booting is supported since u5 or u6, but only booting from a mirrored pool.
I was all excited by the storage denstity until recently. We had an issue with one of the controllers. A later patch fixed it. We installed that patch, which hung the machine (our backup machine). After powercycling (the alom didn't want to depower the box), we had a corrupt ufs boot partition that fsck couldn't fix. In the end I had to install u6 onto the boot drives.
Combine the ridiclous not-quite-x86 not-quite-sparc remote access (the VGA port doesn't work with our raritan systems, the alom network grabbing the console isn't reliable, depending on whether vga is plugged in), and the difficulty for our org of maintaining solaris (compared with linux), as well as the cost, means we're not recommending them for our field offices.
We have our machines set up in a z2, 44TB storage, with 2TB of parity. That's 40TiB, or 10TiB per rack unit.
Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and state that people do *not* rush out and replace their standard iPhone headphones with a $100-300 pair.
No, but I have a pair of $20 closed-cup headphones that I love, use for about 8 hours a day, and have lasted 2 years without showing any sign of age. I hate in-ear ones.
So if you get payed $100000 a year and the overheads of employing you are equal to your salery then your time is costing your employer about $100 per hour.
Figure $100 for your time and $100 for the drive and it's still easilly cheaper than a replacement laptop.
Once you have practice it's 1 hour, first time more like 2, I know plenty of people who charge way more than $500 an hour.
Our policy is, if you have to work within 10 hours of landing on a flight > 8 hours, you get to go business.
Of course the bigwigs will get first class all the way, but they have to present to 7 million people 3 hours after landing on a China->UK flight, so that's forgivable.
3) Your software cannot call home unless I authorize it, every time (this is enforced via firewall rules outside the box).
Really? You somehow prevent a piece of software from connecting to a machine on port 80? From outside the box, where you have no idea what process initiated the request, beyond "from port 18933"? I guess a custom built firefox which authenticates with the firewall before each request.
You are also blocking DNS requests to "hackstring199d8d88jdddfsdawion1023rn1803n1082n.hackerorg.dyndns.org"?
You can forbid it, but I doubt you can block it without severe restrictions on your normal web access.
Have you personally gone through the millions of lines of code in the Linux kernel to make sure that there isn't a backdoor? No? Then you're just taking someones word for it.
I haven't gone through the designs of a 747 either, and I haven't checked that the plane I'm about to board matches those designs. Even if I did, I wouldn't know what I'm looking for.
Fortunatly I trust that many independent people have been through those designs, and I trust the the qualified pilot has checked the plane out. More importantly, I trust that if the pilot is wrong, he suffers the same consequences I do.
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PS. to PHIL NELSON! I'm unable to get through to you, and keep getting "forward error - strawberry unknown domain" or something.
I think this is the greatest line to ever be tagged on to an historical announcement.
There's so much extraneous crap running on a typical Windows install it just blows me away. I'm less familiar with Linux and OS X but from what I've seen they are as guilty at times.
Install a default ubuntu server, you dont even get sshd installed. Ubuntu has bugger all listening by default.
Mod this guy up. You know the app that annoys me the worst? It's FF. That app pops up almost every time I start it asking either to update extensions or install downloaded extensions.
You want Tools/Preferences/Advanced/Update
Flash is evil.
Currently it's the safest way to get embedded video to most people.
You don't know until you hit something like youtube and then presto half the sites you visited yesterday magically don't work today because you need the next flash.
I've never encountered that, my last upgrade was April 2008, from 9.0.115 to 9.0.124.
I understand 10 is out, might upgrade at some point. I've never been pestered to upgrade, although I do run apt-get upgrade fairly frequently.
The Sun Java app seems like the quietest app that checks for updates.
We have some windows servers at work, when I tsclient in I'm shocked by the fack there's a java icon in the corner. I have a single place to upgrade my system, it's an advanced package tool, been around for years. It runs when I tell it to.
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Not to mention your government officials and social infrastructure are most likely not prepared to close every school if a lot of cases are confirmed to be swine flu.
Maybe in your country. In the UK, we had a light dusting of snow a couple of months ago. It was fairly unusual. In my town, every single school was shut for 4 days, and most people stayed away from work, because of child care, or because they couldn't get in. Once swine flue starts killing more than die on the roads every day, then I imagine the same things will happen.
You seem to be leaving time out of your equation.
Varies from person to person
Riding alone: 6 hours each way (Thinking about it this summer, it's 50 miles, 49 of them along a canal towpath)
Walk + Train + Walk: 1h20 each way
Walk + Train + light transit: 1h25 each way
Walk + Bus + light transit: 2h each way
Car: 1h35 each way, on a good day, but upto 2h30 depending on the time
Bike + Train + Bike: 1 hour each way
The train ride is productive time, I get to spend an hour less in the office because of the work I do on the train, that makes it
Bike + Train + Bike: 25 minutes each way
Car: 1h35 each way on a good day
bikes aren't great on snowy or icy roads, although they're not as bad as many noncyclists would expect.
A month or two ago London was covered in snow. Very unusual for this part of the world. Buses didn't run. The tube didn't run. Half the trains didn't run. Most people complained it was too dangerous for them to drive their 4-wheel-drive cars out of their drive.
It took me 35 minutes, rather than 25 minutes, to do the 6 miles from the station to my work on my Brompton folding bike with 6" wheels. the main road was a breeze - hardly any taxis, no buses, polite drivers and respect all round. The back roads were a little more hazzardous, being covered in compacted snow. Not only did I have to practically stop to turn corners (no friction), but I had to avoid snowmen people were building in the road.
Don't tell me that cycling in snow is hard.
Later that week, when it was actually snowing during the commute, I wore my ski goggles, but aside from that no problems.
Ford has one which is the Focus and they are bringing the Fiesta next year. They also have the Fusion Hybrid which gets better millage than the Camry and is much bigger the Pirus.
A Focus is a big car. Ford do have the Ka, personally I prefer a Micra though. A Fiesta is better than a Corvette if you're shopping or going to Normandy though.
Outlook is not Vista. Outlook is a horribly written pile of junk that Microsoft should be ashamed of
This is actually on XP (Pro). If Outlook isn't Vista/XP/etc, what is? MS Paint? I'm used to my distribution coming with pretty much everything I need to do almost any task. Email clients, web browsers, word processors etc, it's all part of the computer. When I refer to "Linux", I mean more than just the kernel, I include the basic applications you expect from a fully-featured "Linux" install, I.E. Firefox, Openoffice, vim, etc.
When I refer to "Windows", I include Outlook and the rest of the MS Office suite. IME Most non-tech people do.
Agreed. People who will sit and tell me with a straight face that Vista, in their experience, is unstable are either very unlucky, or liars. Windows stopped being generally unstable years ago. Get with the times.
I'm not convinced, I have a fairly old desktop at work I keep for Outlook use only. After a few days outlook's toolbar becomes unresponsive, and whenever I shut it down it stalls and requires a poweroff. Task manager doesn't say I'm using that much memory (still got cached files in physical ram).
I don't use windows much, I'm not used to the tricks that keep it running, where I probably use those tricks subconciously to keep my linux workstation and laptop running.
I wonder if Windows continued increase in stability is, at least partly, people subconciously learning how to adapt to it.
No,it's not the best way of doing it for a given value of best (performance). Our value was more storage density and disk failure. We offset the chance of getting random corruption by weekly scrubs and nightly rsyncs.
The total raw capacity of the container is 3 peta bytes. In reality it's going to be less than that. First, 2 disks are likely to be setup in a mirrored pool for the system disks. I believe the root pool only supports mirrors, not raidz. Not sure if this has changed.
Our Thumpers are like that, but the new ones (4550) have a CF card for booting the OS. ZFS booting is supported since u5 or u6, but only booting from a mirrored pool.
I was all excited by the storage denstity until recently. We had an issue with one of the controllers. A later patch fixed it. We installed that patch, which hung the machine (our backup machine). After powercycling (the alom didn't want to depower the box), we had a corrupt ufs boot partition that fsck couldn't fix. In the end I had to install u6 onto the boot drives.
Combine the ridiclous not-quite-x86 not-quite-sparc remote access (the VGA port doesn't work with our raritan systems, the alom network grabbing the console isn't reliable, depending on whether vga is plugged in), and the difficulty for our org of maintaining solaris (compared with linux), as well as the cost, means we're not recommending them for our field offices.
We have our machines set up in a z2, 44TB storage, with 2TB of parity. That's 40TiB, or 10TiB per rack unit.
but there are no shoulders or sidewalks on most of the roads to safely ride your bike
Because you don't know how to ride in the correct position?
Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and state that people do *not* rush out and replace their standard iPhone headphones with a $100-300 pair.
No, but I have a pair of $20 closed-cup headphones that I love, use for about 8 hours a day, and have lasted 2 years without showing any sign of age. I hate in-ear ones.
Slashdot quoting Friends. And being modded up. There's something strange going on...
What is it about the Windows processes that makes them cost that much?
License fees?
The kernel has to ensure processes are obeying any DRM and WGA restrictions
So if you get payed $100000 a year and the overheads of employing you are equal to your salery then your time is costing your employer about $100 per hour.
Figure $100 for your time and $100 for the drive and it's still easilly cheaper than a replacement laptop.
Once you have practice it's 1 hour, first time more like 2, I know plenty of people who charge way more than $500 an hour.
Our policy is, if you have to work within 10 hours of landing on a flight > 8 hours, you get to go business.
Of course the bigwigs will get first class all the way, but they have to present to 7 million people 3 hours after landing on a China->UK flight, so that's forgivable.
Total time to disassemble, swap drives, and re-assemble, after you've had practice? I think the fastest I ever did it was a little under an hour.
Isn't it cheaper to simply buy a new one?
If you enjoy it, work on something more satisfying.
3) Your software cannot call home unless I authorize it, every time (this is enforced via firewall rules outside the box).
Really? You somehow prevent a piece of software from connecting to a machine on port 80? From outside the box, where you have no idea what process initiated the request, beyond "from port 18933"? I guess a custom built firefox which authenticates with the firewall before each request.
You are also blocking DNS requests to "hackstring199d8d88jdddfsdawion1023rn1803n1082n.hackerorg.dyndns.org"?
You can forbid it, but I doubt you can block it without severe restrictions on your normal web access.
Ever heard of an oral contract?
Is that like Oral Sex?
I haven't had any modpoints since I modded up in the famous "The first Slashdot troll post investigation" thread 7 years ago.
Got metamodding back a few years ago, used it a few times, never seen any normal mod points though.
Have you personally gone through the millions of lines of code in the Linux kernel to make sure that there isn't a backdoor? No? Then you're just taking someones word for it.
I haven't gone through the designs of a 747 either, and I haven't checked that the plane I'm about to board matches those designs. Even if I did, I wouldn't know what I'm looking for.
Fortunatly I trust that many independent people have been through those designs, and I trust the the qualified pilot has checked the plane out. More importantly, I trust that if the pilot is wrong, he suffers the same consequences I do.
PS. to PHIL NELSON! I'm unable to get through to you, and keep getting
"forward error - strawberry unknown domain" or something.
I think this is the greatest line to ever be tagged on to an historical announcement.
There's so much extraneous crap running on a typical Windows install it just blows me away. I'm less familiar with Linux and OS X but from what I've seen they are as guilty at times.
Install a default ubuntu server, you dont even get sshd installed. Ubuntu has bugger all listening by default.
Windows 7 finally breaks the mould, it comes with flashing eyes!
Working knowledge of x86 and ARM architectures a plus, but not required for candidates with strong aptitude.
Those using raw dpkg might struggle, and synaptic users needn't apply
I actually got this upgrader on my system from installing Google SketchUp on my Mac last month, so I don't think Google is limiting this to Earth.
So do you live on Mars, or are you just in orbit?
Mod this guy up. You know the app that annoys me the worst? It's FF. That app pops up almost every time I start it asking either to update extensions or install downloaded extensions.
You want Tools/Preferences/Advanced/Update
Flash is evil.
Currently it's the safest way to get embedded video to most people.
You don't know until you hit something like youtube and then presto half the sites you visited yesterday magically don't work today because you need the next flash.
I've never encountered that, my last upgrade was April 2008, from 9.0.115 to 9.0.124.
I understand 10 is out, might upgrade at some point. I've never been pestered to upgrade, although I do run apt-get upgrade fairly frequently.
The Sun Java app seems like the quietest app that checks for updates.
We have some windows servers at work, when I tsclient in I'm shocked by the fack there's a java icon in the corner. I have a single place to upgrade my system, it's an advanced package tool, been around for years. It runs when I tell it to.