I know it might be too late to cry over spilled milk, but way back when, vendors started offering a very nifty thing called a "redundant power supply" or "n+1 power"... This would have prevented all these problem.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
I like it when they say that the net has been brought up as a cause of divorce. I like to think that if you're getting divorced because of the net, there is a much deeper problem in your couple then "net-abuse".
I used to get into fights with my wife because she said I was spending too much time online. Then, I got tired of fighting and decided to talk things out with her. In the end, what it came down to was : You're having fun, while I'm there getting bored out of my life.
We then proceeded to find something for her to do. It was as simple as getting her a computer of her own, and hooking her up. I guess I've become her pusher. We spend alot of time online. Me working on my system, working remotely, and her chatting with far away r/l friends. We dont fight much anymore.
We have a kid. The kid was born with a computer addiction. I'm having trouble keeping him off the keyboard / mouse, and he's only 2. Is he going to grow into some kind of sociopath ? I ask the question.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
In a transaction of undisclosed amount, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)has bought the U.S. Department of Justice.
Microsoft officials promised that the deal would be transparent to U.S. citizens, and that it was not part of a total world-domination scheme.
In other news, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)bought the country of Mexico for a sum of 900 US B$ and stock options. Immediately after the signing of the contracts, Mexico was renamed to Microsofto, and citizen became Microsoftan. Microsoft has been on a streak of land-acquisition, buying Australia, New Zealand, South-Africa, Russia and Mexico.
Government officials are starting to worry that Microsoft Corporation may be up to something.
More news at 6.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
I find it most bizarre that in a world where incredible riches are made and destroyed in a matter of seconds, that transactions be carried over such an unreliable medium as the internet.
Dont flame me now. I love the net just as much as the next guy. But this network is one big pile of copper and fiber thrown together as need be, and patched up to "work" most of the times. When I see people complaining that they did not receive alerts fast enough or yadi yadi yada, it just makes me think that they're lucky to have received it at all.
This is something that will have to be addressed soon. Telco's are expected to offer near 100% uptime (When was the last time the phone went down except when a natural disaster ripped the network to shred) ? But we see sites handling ungodly amount of money go down all the time. (E-bay anyone ?)
Then, I chuckle. The net is paying back all those who invaded it to make a quick buck. And I go back to sleep thinking that it all balances.
Point is : You're using an unreliable-best-effort-network to conduct transaction. EXPECT these things to happen.
'nuff said.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
But it is and should be illegal for some hacker to break into a server and steal my credit card number thank you. I'll never know why people love this thief so much.
So right you are... But keep in mind, it should also be illegal for company to keep your CC informations accesible to the outside world, and unencrypted.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
I've toyed with the idea of parallely recompiling a Linux kernel. Picture using 10-20 older computer that would each chew on it's own piece of the kernel, and then the final putting together would be done by a master host.
Is there an easy / existing way to do this or is it just one of the weird dreams only I get ?
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Actually, as much as I hate Exchange, having gone through the hell of the one week head MS propaganda boot camp on Exchange, there is a relatively way to create a large amount of users in short time. It's basically called the Import/Export function. You simply dump the headers of the database using a hidden (clever heh ?) tool called HEADER.EXE to a CSV file, and then just dump your user list in the correct field, and re-import the sucker.
I've had my fights with Exchange, I'd go with *NIX solutions anytime, but corporate standards have been set prior to my arrival and these people really need the calendaring.
Let's just say I've managed to keep the box up and running for !! 30 !! consecutive days, and I'm now touching wood that it wont crash and burn under the burden of a mere 250 users.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
I used to work for a banking institution. When I started out, there were about 30 people operating a +- 200 servers environment. (Mixed NT, OS/2, Solaris, AIX).
Every action was procedurized(sp?), documented, approved, and signed-for. Remember. This is banking we're talking about. Downtime is not in this shop's dictionary. Real people lose real money when you go down. Everything was failsafe. Each server had a "twin" that would hot-swap whenever problems came up.
After 2 years on the job, the department was down to 12 admins. It still went along just fine, migrating 5-6 servers per weekend without any downtime. But the point is : Everything was planned for, and they even had provision for the unplanned-for. You need this. You cannot go along without decent planification if you have more then 3 workstations.
Regarding the hellish workweeks, well... That comes with the territory. As the topic said, they had flexible schedule. You could work as many hours as you wished, as long as it was 24 hours a day. But overtime was well... Very rewarding to say the least. I know some people cannot take the heat, and usually need some sleep. If you cannot do it, get an office job. If you can do it, more power to you.
'nuff said.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
When I read this, it brought back to mind a Simpson episode I saw a while back, where Bart prank calls someone in Australia, and goes over there, bringing his bullfrog over and letting it loose in nature.
The ecosystem might not be able to support this specific lifeform anymore (I know, it was there, and was beaten up to a pulp, but things change.) Bugs that were eaten by this feather-ball might not be there anymore, or it might feed off something that is used by another animal. If we clone them to stick'em in zoo's, there is no problem, but otherwise, I think that re-insertion is not a viable plan.
The thing died. Let's leave the dead where they are.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Perhaps if Linux developers would a) stop focusing on making Linux look (and run) like MS-Windows, b) concentrate on networking and server applications instead of desktop, c) make a consistent format that should be used as a *standard for all "distributions"* to provide a complete base system, then maybe Linux will stand a chance.
there. You have your chance. Why dont _YOU_ make up your own distribution that will suit _YOUR_ need and will have all the essential files in the right place at the right time, and will not look like windows ? I for one personally like the "windows look" because it will prevent me from teaching yet another interface to users who have problem remembering their own phone number.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
I might be dead wrong on this but isnt a CD-Rom drive a "digital" audio player ? Isnt music on a cd in a 0-1 format ? That means Sony actually let them patent the CD-rom ? I think not. This company should be closed down for blatant theft. Sony should sue AudioHighway & USPTO.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Why are they now trying to regulate the internet ? Don't they have some third-world countries to abuse these days ? I just wish that sometime they'd stay out of our business. They didnt want to take care of it before, but now that it's become mainstream, they feel like they have to regulate all over it. The U.N. has no place here. What are we going to see next ? U.N. regulating communication charges ? sigh.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
To the best of my knowledge, Mozilla is an independantly driven project. Ok, it just so happen that most of the coders are paid for by netscape corp.^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAOL...
Now I guess we start to see the dark side of AOL. They dont like some competing component to be added to the product, and they "politely" request that it be taken out (politely == remove it, or lose your job.). I think it's really sad, but it will most likely serve to prove a point in the future... Make it clear in other projects that components submitted can not be unsubmitted. What if Linus decided to pull his code out of the kernel ? What if FSF decided to pull it's code out of GCC ?
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Then, please explain why Office components break other office components up. Then get fixed by SP4 which gets broken by RAS, which in turn has a conflicting (RSA32.DLL or something) conflicting with Internet Exploder, who breaks Netscape, and I'm not even going to touch the WIMP (Windows Media Player) that likes Real Audio so much it hogs all of it's file types. Now, those guy in the central testing point must be having a hell of a good time making sure that all those application (especially in a "tightly-integrated" environment manage to maim each other out in this fashion.) Get real Bill...
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Quote: While MS might not be legally liable for criminal negligence or complicity in the distribution of the Melissa virus, they are definitely ethically in the wrong. They are bad engineers, not simply for making a shoddy product but for ignoring and denying responsibility for the shortcomings which are direct, obvious byproducts of its design. End Quote
You guys keep mentionning engineers. I'm not too sure about US Engineers, but I know that up here in Canada, engineers are personally liable for the outcome of their work. If an engineer says something that leads to trouble, he's responsible, if he signs a plan that's flawed, responsible again. I know that the same thing applies to Ph.D's and Masters. If that is the case in the US, couldnt we just bring the Evil Empire (tm) down by blasting through it's foundation (eg: Class action against one engineer at a time) instead of attacking the monolith itself ?
Food for thought.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Well. I seem to have read earlier on that it did not require dialing out to play a particular disc, and that it only dialed out every 2 weeks... Now, what if the 2nd week never come ? And also, it was said that disc played history was stored in a chip, which means erasable. (It cannot possibly store all of the information forever.) I heard that +5v well placed could work wonder on said chips. DivX will be and already is a fiasco, because people will work around it with so much ease. It's been like this forever, and I doubt it will ever change. (Anyone remembers the un-duplicatable (sp?) playstation discs ?? And the soon-after-release mod chips ?? Well. They'll do the same for Divx... 'Nuff said.
The Deal is : I dont speak for them, they dont speak for me. I dont get paid well enough to speak for them anyways.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
The average person is dumb ? Ok. I have a very goo d orthopedist (sp?) that is responsible for my still being able to walk. I met with the guy 7 times a week for a couple of months, while he was fixing me. This gave us lots of time to talk about things and other. I found out that he didnt know how to use a computer, and that he still used a paper log book, that was being processed by his secretary. Now, Does that make him a dumb ass ? I think not. Because, even if I can put a machine to pieces and put it back together in working condition blind folded, I would have been unable to fix my legs myself. So please stop saying that because someone is computer illiterate they're dumb. They might have a weakness on the techno side, but be very qualified at something you could be considered dumb at. Food for thought. Disclaimer: Me and the corp got a deal. They dont speak for me, and I'm not paid well enough to speak for them.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Can you spell "user-space" ? Unless you run emacs as root (running anything as root unless explicitly necessary is stupid anyways), the only damage Lisp code could do is to your own stuff... Not bring the whole mail server down to its knees (Sendmail is tougher then Exchange, we now have proof.).
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Can anyone remember a short while (couple of years) when MS-DOS 6.x came out, factory-equipped with Screaming Fist ? Am I the only one that sees a pattern of product release / virus / product release / virus from the dark side ? They might not be the ones responsible for the virus, but where I come from, the guy that sells the gun to the guy that shoots the other guy is about as guilty as the guy who actually shot the other guy. (Ok this is confusing.)
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux... - Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
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I know it might be too late to cry over spilled milk, but way back when, vendors started offering a very nifty thing called a "redundant power supply" or "n+1 power"... This would have prevented all these problem.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
I used to get into fights with my wife because she said I was spending too much time online. Then, I got tired of fighting and decided to talk things out with her. In the end, what it came down to was : You're having fun, while I'm there getting bored out of my life.
We then proceeded to find something for her to do. It was as simple as getting her a computer of her own, and hooking her up. I guess I've become her pusher. We spend alot of time online. Me working on my system, working remotely, and her chatting with far away r/l friends. We dont fight much anymore.
We have a kid. The kid was born with a computer addiction. I'm having trouble keeping him off the keyboard / mouse, and he's only 2. Is he going to grow into some kind of sociopath ? I ask the question.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
In a transaction of undisclosed amount, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)has bought the U.S. Department of Justice.
Microsoft officials promised that the deal would be transparent to U.S. citizens, and that it was not part of a total world-domination scheme.
In other news, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)bought the country of Mexico for a sum of 900 US B$ and stock options. Immediately after the signing of the contracts, Mexico was renamed to Microsofto, and citizen became Microsoftan. Microsoft has been on a streak of land-acquisition, buying Australia, New Zealand, South-Africa, Russia and Mexico.
Government officials are starting to worry that Microsoft Corporation may be up to something.
More news at 6.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Dont flame me now. I love the net just as much as the next guy. But this network is one big pile of copper and fiber thrown together as need be, and patched up to "work" most of the times. When I see people complaining that they did not receive alerts fast enough or yadi yadi yada, it just makes me think that they're lucky to have received it at all.
This is something that will have to be addressed soon. Telco's are expected to offer near 100% uptime (When was the last time the phone went down except when a natural disaster ripped the network to shred) ? But we see sites handling ungodly amount of money go down all the time. (E-bay anyone ?)
Then, I chuckle. The net is paying back all those who invaded it to make a quick buck. And I go back to sleep thinking that it all balances.
Point is : You're using an unreliable-best-effort-network to conduct transaction. EXPECT these things to happen.
'nuff said.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
The thing will either last for a couple of years, or the government will settle to avoid "bad" publicity.
He's done it, granted.
He might be guilty as sin, but _NO ONE_ disserves to spend 53 months locked up _WAITING_ to be tried and sentenced.
The government screwed up big time on this one, and they're trying to minimize damage right now. Expect a big settlement with NDA.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
So right you are... But keep in mind, it should also be illegal for company to keep your CC informations accesible to the outside world, and unencrypted.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Is there an easy / existing way to do this or is it just one of the weird dreams only I get ?
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
I've had my fights with Exchange, I'd go with *NIX solutions anytime, but corporate standards have been set prior to my arrival and these people really need the calendaring.
Let's just say I've managed to keep the box up and running for !! 30 !! consecutive days, and I'm now touching wood that it wont crash and burn under the burden of a mere 250 users.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Every action was procedurized(sp?), documented, approved, and signed-for. Remember. This is banking we're talking about. Downtime is not in this shop's dictionary. Real people lose real money when you go down. Everything was failsafe. Each server had a "twin" that would hot-swap whenever problems came up.
After 2 years on the job, the department was down to 12 admins. It still went along just fine, migrating 5-6 servers per weekend without any downtime. But the point is : Everything was planned for, and they even had provision for the unplanned-for. You need this. You cannot go along without decent planification if you have more then 3 workstations.
Regarding the hellish workweeks, well... That comes with the territory. As the topic said, they had flexible schedule. You could work as many hours as you wished, as long as it was 24 hours a day. But overtime was well... Very rewarding to say the least. I know some people cannot take the heat, and usually need some sleep. If you cannot do it, get an office job. If you can do it, more power to you.
'nuff said.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
The ecosystem might not be able to support this specific lifeform anymore (I know, it was there, and was beaten up to a pulp, but things change.) Bugs that were eaten by this feather-ball might not be there anymore, or it might feed off something that is used by another animal. If we clone them to stick'em in zoo's, there is no problem, but otherwise, I think that re-insertion is not a viable plan.
The thing died. Let's leave the dead where they are.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Perhaps if Linux developers would a) stop
focusing on making Linux look (and run) like
MS-Windows, b) concentrate on networking and
server applications instead of desktop, c)
make a consistent format that should be used
as a *standard for all "distributions"* to
provide a complete base system, then maybe
Linux will stand a chance.
there. You have your chance. Why dont _YOU_ make up your own distribution that will suit _YOUR_ need and will have all the essential files in the right place at the right time, and will not look like windows ? I for one personally like the "windows look" because it will prevent me from teaching yet another interface to users who have problem remembering their own phone number.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
I might be dead wrong on this but isnt a CD-Rom drive a "digital" audio player ? Isnt music on a cd in a 0-1 format ? That means Sony actually let them patent the CD-rom ? I think not. This company should be closed down for blatant theft. Sony should sue AudioHighway & USPTO.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Why are they now trying to regulate the internet ?
Don't they have some third-world countries to abuse these days ?
I just wish that sometime they'd stay out of our business. They didnt want to take care of it before, but now that it's become mainstream, they feel like they have to regulate all over it. The U.N. has no place here. What are we going to see next ? U.N. regulating communication charges ?
sigh.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
To the best of my knowledge, Mozilla is an independantly driven project. Ok, it just so happen that most of the coders are paid for by netscape corp.^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HAOL...
Now I guess we start to see the dark side of AOL. They dont like some competing component to be added to the product, and they "politely" request that it be taken out (politely == remove it, or lose your job.).
I think it's really sad, but it will most likely serve to prove a point in the future... Make it clear in other projects that components submitted can not be unsubmitted. What if Linus decided to pull his code out of the kernel ? What if FSF decided to pull it's code out of GCC ?
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Get real Bill...
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Here... I seem to remember a time when ribbons and politic banners used to be fashionable.
http://w3.to/silic0n
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
While MS might not be legally liable for criminal negligence or complicity in the distribution of the Melissa virus, they are definitely ethically in the wrong. They are bad engineers, not simply for making a shoddy product but for ignoring and denying responsibility for the shortcomings which are direct, obvious byproducts of its design. End Quote
You guys keep mentionning engineers. I'm not too sure about US Engineers, but I know that up here in Canada, engineers are personally liable for the outcome of their work. If an engineer says something that leads to trouble, he's responsible, if he signs a plan that's flawed, responsible again. I know that the same thing applies to Ph.D's and Masters. If that is the case in the US, couldnt we just bring the Evil Empire (tm) down by blasting through it's foundation (eg: Class action against one engineer at a time) instead of attacking the monolith itself ?
Food for thought.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Isn't Uncle Bill's wife named Melissa ?
Pointless comment, with no fact check. Please demote me.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Now, what if the 2nd week never come ? And also, it was said that disc played history was stored in a chip, which means erasable. (It cannot possibly store all of the information forever.) I heard that +5v well placed could work wonder on said chips.
DivX will be and already is a fiasco, because people will work around it with so much ease. It's been like this forever, and I doubt it will ever change. (Anyone remembers the un-duplicatable (sp?) playstation discs ?? And the soon-after-release mod chips ?? Well. They'll do the same for Divx...
'Nuff said.
The Deal is : I dont speak for them, they dont speak for me. I dont get paid well enough to speak for them anyways.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
The average person is dumb ? Ok. I have a very goo d orthopedist (sp?) that is responsible for my still being able to walk. I met with the guy 7 times a week for a couple of months, while he was fixing me. This gave us lots of time to talk about things and other. I found out that he didnt know how to use a computer, and that he still used a paper log book, that was being processed by his secretary. Now, Does that make him a dumb ass ? I think not. Because, even if I can put a machine to pieces and put it back together in working condition blind folded, I would have been unable to fix my legs myself. So please stop saying that because someone is computer illiterate they're dumb. They might have a weakness on the techno side, but be very qualified at something you could be considered dumb at. Food for thought. Disclaimer: Me and the corp got a deal. They dont speak for me, and I'm not paid well enough to speak for them.
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Can you spell "user-space" ? Unless you run emacs as root (running anything as root unless explicitly necessary is stupid anyways), the only damage Lisp code could do is to your own stuff... Not bring the whole mail server down to its knees (Sendmail is tougher then Exchange, we now have proof.).
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)
Can anyone remember a short while (couple of years) when MS-DOS 6.x came out, factory-equipped with Screaming Fist ? Am I the only one that sees a pattern of product release / virus / product release / virus from the dark side ? They might not be the ones responsible for the virus, but where I come from, the guy that sells the gun to the guy that shoots the other guy is about as guilty as the guy who actually shot the other guy. (Ok this is confusing.)
Sun Tzu must have been running Linux...
- Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. (Sun Tzu, The art of war)