Isn't the point that they've already called in, so your #1 is a sunk cost? Now that you have support on the line, and you're talking with support, why couldn't EA ask you to read the first 19 characters, and for them to tell you the last one?
It's not like it's that difficult to write a code generator. I'm sure they can download a free one off the web
HAHAHAHA. For about a year, the fedex number on packages, and the 1-800-go-fedex were off by one. So, if you called go-fedex, you got customer service, but if you called the actual number listed, you got *CUSTOMER SERVICE*. When fedex found out, they tried to buy the number from the *CUSTOMER SERVICE* place. Unfortunately, that guy found out who wanted the number, and charged them a pretty penny for it.
Haven't you heard of VMs where the systems run faster in a VM than on the metal? It actually happens especially if the VM has a better disk caching mechanism than the system in the VM.
You must not have used VMS much. My school's vax/vms systems had AllInOne, WordPerfect, SAS, SPSS, XWindows and a whole bunch of GNU stuff among others.
As I've said time and time again, there are no FOSS databases that can compete with closed source software when it comes to fail over handling. PgSQL is an extremely nice full featured database, one thing it doesn't have - and most important to our organization - is hot standby option / clustered option. We don't care about petabyte sized databases, we care about speed and reliability.
What I am saying is that speed and reliability is important to petabyte databases too - I'm assuming here. So what is it that they are doing that you don't know about?
And who says postgresql doesn't have clustering? I'm not aware of a hotstandby option, but I do know you have a cluster of live machines, which, presumably, is better.
But really, look at big big database users, like yahoo, and google - they all use FOSS databases. Are you saying they do not care about speed/reliability/clustering/etc? What is it that they are doing that you're not considering?
This is slashdot! If he's capable of listening, he would have gotten a girlfriend, and would have a real life instead, but here he is, posting on slashdot, so, obviously he is not capable of listening.
How many of the top 10 largest (petabyte sized, or approaching) are running on commercial databases, and how many are on postgresql again? Wasn't there a slashdot article just a few weeks ago? Hmm, one link I have is http://www.dbms2.com/2008/08/25/greenplum-is-in-the-big-leagues/
Doesn't matter. The point I was making was to the original person who said Microsoft was the innovative one, by being the first to include a hard disk in the XBox.
As for playing movies, my original PS 1 had a little dongle that allowed it to play VCDs.
You're talking about GPO and preconfigured packages. Both of which are possible in UNIX. OK, I'll give you that you'll have to do a little bit more work on preconfiguring packages - maybe. But things like standard configs get pushed down to users pretty easily. There are multiple ways to do it. If you use deadrat or ubuntu or any linux with a packaging system, you can have a custom package for your company and install that at the end. If you're doing user level configs, push it out via/etc/skel/.
If you have users who will mess with their settings, well, change the permissions on it.
I still can't see why any newbie users will have questions like "How do I set up email?" or "What's the address of the company intranet".
Shit, my SuperNintendo had an external (3rd party) "disk backup system" that allowed you to backup your cartridges to a floppy. And play from the floppy. This is different from a hard disk to store your games how?
What the fuck does AD have to do with installing windows and office?
If you're talking about user administration, you're changing the subject, but even there UNIX does have centralized and decentralized user administration. And most apps can understand ldap now. Setting up kerberos is just a bit harder in UNIX land compared to running dcpromo, but it has been simplified quite a lot compared to the past.
If you think cfengine is your answer to access administration, you don't understand UNIX.
Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that the/etc/passwd (and possibly/etc/group) files should be rebuilt. See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run mkpasswd -l [-d] >/etc/passwd mkgroup -l [-d] >/etc/group Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
Umm, you should probably talk to IBM. When they were designing DES, NSA told them "block out that keyspace". It wasn't until a few years back that we understood why - that particular chunk of keys were more vulnerable. NSA knew about it when IBM was designing DES. I'm spectacularly impressed by their publicly stated "We will be 7 years ahead of any commercial cryptography blah blah".
*sigh* YOU just made me lose some mod points. But nevermind. Since 1970s, Memphis Light Gas and Water has been running power cables with FIBER inside. In other words, the entire city is full of dark fiber. How much extra did it cost to run the fiber? Not that much, just the incremental cost over what it cost to have power lines that were empty in the middle, instead of being filled with fiber.
What is to stop this city from doing the same thing? It probably already did that, and that is why it feels that it can provide fiber to the house.
Just because *YOU* don't have experience does not mean that your experience is right. People working in government agencies do not start their day thinking how they can be inefficient for you.
"You've insulted Islam, a jailable offense, even though we cannot prove that in the articles that we've printed out. But your style of writing is too sophisticated, and dumb people who are not at the same intellectual level as you could misinterpret what you say, and mistakenly think what you wrote as an insult to Islam. Hence, we are going to send you to jail for insulting Islam."
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Oh my ghod. This is considered informative? Who let all the PFYs in?
Isn't the point that they've already called in, so your #1 is a sunk cost? Now that you have support on the line, and you're talking with support, why couldn't EA ask you to read the first 19 characters, and for them to tell you the last one?
It's not like it's that difficult to write a code generator. I'm sure they can download a free one off the web
HAHAHAHA. For about a year, the fedex number on packages, and the 1-800-go-fedex were off by one. So, if you called go-fedex, you got customer service, but if you called the actual number listed, you got *CUSTOMER SERVICE*. When fedex found out, they tried to buy the number from the *CUSTOMER SERVICE* place. Unfortunately, that guy found out who wanted the number, and charged them a pretty penny for it.
"And to make matters worse, I had to mow around the cars that are parked on the lawn".
Glad to be of service.
Obviously someone didn't buy the original comics when they first came out :)
And yes, gerrof my lawn, darnit! :)
Haven't you heard of VMs where the systems run faster in a VM than on the metal? It actually happens especially if the VM has a better disk caching mechanism than the system in the VM.
Please. Graphic Novels. Bah. You need to go back to the original source.
You must not have used VMS much. My school's vax/vms systems had AllInOne, WordPerfect, SAS, SPSS, XWindows and a whole bunch of GNU stuff among others.
As I've said time and time again, there are no FOSS databases that can compete with closed source software when it comes to fail over handling. PgSQL is an extremely nice full featured database, one thing it doesn't have - and most important to our organization - is hot standby option / clustered option. We don't care about petabyte sized databases, we care about speed and reliability.
What I am saying is that speed and reliability is important to petabyte databases too - I'm assuming here. So what is it that they are doing that you don't know about?
And who says postgresql doesn't have clustering? I'm not aware of a hotstandby option, but I do know you have a cluster of live machines, which, presumably, is better.
But really, look at big big database users, like yahoo, and google - they all use FOSS databases. Are you saying they do not care about speed/reliability/clustering/etc? What is it that they are doing that you're not considering?
This is slashdot! If he's capable of listening, he would have gotten a girlfriend, and would have a real life instead, but here he is, posting on slashdot, so, obviously he is not capable of listening.
How many of the top 10 largest (petabyte sized, or approaching) are running on commercial databases, and how many are on postgresql again? Wasn't there a slashdot article just a few weeks ago? Hmm, one link I have is http://www.dbms2.com/2008/08/25/greenplum-is-in-the-big-leagues/
Doesn't matter. The point I was making was to the original person who said Microsoft was the innovative one, by being the first to include a hard disk in the XBox.
As for playing movies, my original PS 1 had a little dongle that allowed it to play VCDs.
You're talking about GPO and preconfigured packages. Both of which are possible in UNIX. OK, I'll give you that you'll have to do a little bit more work on preconfiguring packages - maybe. But things like standard configs get pushed down to users pretty easily. There are multiple ways to do it. If you use deadrat or ubuntu or any linux with a packaging system, you can have a custom package for your company and install that at the end. If you're doing user level configs, push it out via /etc/skel/.
If you have users who will mess with their settings, well, change the permissions on it.
I still can't see why any newbie users will have questions like "How do I set up email?" or "What's the address of the company intranet".
Unfortunately you can't buy a winnt kernel only option - it always comes bundled with the win32 subsystem.
OK, it may be possible to split it out under the embedded versions of windows, but how many people actually get to use those versions?
Yet another fucking moron repeating crap. Find out why kde4 was released, and go read the part where it says "don't use it, not for end users" ya?
Shit, my SuperNintendo had an external (3rd party) "disk backup system" that allowed you to backup your cartridges to a floppy. And play from the floppy. This is different from a hard disk to store your games how?
What the fuck does AD have to do with installing windows and office?
If you're talking about user administration, you're changing the subject, but even there UNIX does have centralized and decentralized user administration. And most apps can understand ldap now. Setting up kerberos is just a bit harder in UNIX land compared to running dcpromo, but it has been simplified quite a lot compared to the past.
If you think cfengine is your answer to access administration, you don't understand UNIX.
Of course. It takes 3-5 minutes to get to a usable desktop. Time enough for me to go get a drink, etc, and come on back.
Now Microsoft is trying to take my caffeine break away! Bad Microsoft!
I would have thought it would be:
Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. /etc/passwd /etc/group
the
See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run
mkpasswd -l [-d] >
mkgroup -l [-d] >
Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users.
goodb0fh@b0fhmobile ~
That way, I can run mplayer and other things too.
Umm, you should probably talk to IBM. When they were designing DES, NSA told them "block out that keyspace". It wasn't until a few years back that we understood why - that particular chunk of keys were more vulnerable. NSA knew about it when IBM was designing DES. I'm spectacularly impressed by their publicly stated "We will be 7 years ahead of any commercial cryptography blah blah".
No, she's off making backups of her yahoo email account per court orders
Please, why are you inserting logic into a security discussion? What we need is MORE security theater please, because that will stop the terrorists!
And the only reason for that 100+ button controller is so that you can point the gun up, down, left, right, move, and variations thereof.
*sigh* YOU just made me lose some mod points. But nevermind. Since 1970s, Memphis Light Gas and Water has been running power cables with FIBER inside. In other words, the entire city is full of dark fiber. How much extra did it cost to run the fiber? Not that much, just the incremental cost over what it cost to have power lines that were empty in the middle, instead of being filled with fiber.
What is to stop this city from doing the same thing? It probably already did that, and that is why it feels that it can provide fiber to the house.
Just because *YOU* don't have experience does not mean that your experience is right. People working in government agencies do not start their day thinking how they can be inefficient for you.
Read his comment at his website: http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/12913/84/
Basically:
"You've insulted Islam, a jailable offense, even though we cannot prove that in the articles that we've printed out. But your style of writing is too sophisticated, and dumb people who are not at the same intellectual level as you could misinterpret what you say, and mistakenly think what you wrote as an insult to Islam. Hence, we are going to send you to jail for insulting Islam."