I still run it rather than replacing it because (a) it does what I need it to do (serving) with perfectly adequate performance, (b) it still works well, (c) it's secure and (d) I don't see the point of throwing out perfectly good working hardware, and (e) it allows me to tell all those insufferable AMD64 users on IRC that I was on 64-bit years before them (the last one isn't serious by the way!)
Indeed, I recently added a 250GB hard drive to turn the machine into a DVD server.
I know you're just joking - but seriously - an air filter on your computer's intake isn't a bad idea. A local company's MISYS server has air filters on the intakes. It's a machine built to last, and when you open it up it's spotlessly clean inside, not like the catacombs.
Of course, the filter need not be expensive - a simple foam filter will do the job.
If you fly (I fly power planes and gliders) the TV weather has *never* been adequate. Use the Met Office's web site instead, it's free and it has proper aviation weather (METAR/TAFs, rainfall radar etc.) Also, for gliding, look at NOAA's READY website (http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/cmet.html) which has soundings for the entire world (I find the Skew-T diagrams very useful for determining what kind of soaring day we'll have).
TV weather doesn't even tell you where the cloud bases are going to be or what the visibilities are forecast to be, and for sailing, I suspect Radio 4's Shipping Forecast is far more useful.
Firstly, it's already very simple for people to go between the UK and the US. It'd be hard to make it any simpler - in fact, the only way to make it simpler would be to do away with passports which I doubt they will do.
The ID card will also cost a lot of money, and bring no benefit to the holder. The holder essentially has to pay a lot of money for the benefit of the government (and we already pay handsomely for that).
"If you're not doing anything wrong..." Well, maybe now with the current government. Despots have spawned from democracy before now, and in any case I doubt you get through a day without breaking at least one law. I know I almost certainly don't - from accidentally speeding to perhaps taping a CD for the car. Once you have a police state, it's easy to arrest political opponents without needing any explicit political laws - you just harrass them on all the trivial little laws everyone in the land breaks daily. *Everyone* is doing something wrong some time.
FM is only backward where there is no RDS. The US has a problem of geography too.
In Britain, there are many good national BBC radio stations. You don't have to retune when driving across the country, because of RDS. Your radio knows what station you're listening to (and displays it on its display) and automatically retunes to each frequency for that station as you travel. It works pretty well, especially with a decent radio.
However, FM is just starting to be on the way out - it won't be long until DAB pretty much replaces it.
But not everyone is at home. When I'm in a different city, or just far enough that going home for a coffee break is uneconomical, I'd rather use a cafe.
The brain runs on glucose, so don't drink sugary or fizzy drinks. Eat beans on toast which have high fiber and protein. This makes no sense. Sugar is good for the brain. It is the preferential fuel.
Maybe so, but if you take in a dose of refined sugars, your body has a crisis reaction and produces lots of insulin to control it. So shortly afterwards, you go a bit hypo - which is BAD for the brain and what's more it makes you feel hungry again.
I find I *do* need breakfast. I can miss lunch but absolutely not breakfast. It doesn't mean you have a massive meal for breakfast, just something that'll last a few hours.
Note that the Slashdot crowd is made up of more than one person.
Note that when you have a group of people, it is entirely possible to have one set of people with one opinion, and one set of people with another opinion.
Therefore, it is quite possible (inevitable) that some people will be Mac zealots and some other people will be Free software zealots, and both may be present on Slashdot. Who'd have thought that not everyone who posts has exactly the same opinion!
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Well, firstly, file sharing was NOT pioneered by Napster. We were using IRC to file share peer-to-peer in 1990, probably years before the writer of Napster had heard of the internet. In any case, saying BitTorrent is a copy of Napster is so wrong it's not even wrong. It works in a completely different way (and is designed to solve a different problem). The only similarity with Napster is it allows peers to exchange data.
PHP came out before ASP too. You are not letting reality get in the way of anything, because Microsoft did not invent server side scripting first.
In any case, the first web browser was open source. The first web server was open source. The first TCP/IP stack was open source. The first SSH was open source. The first network transparent windowing system was open source. There is no closed-source equivalent of rsync.
Actually - there were 1200 baud modems. V22bis (2400 bps, 1200 baud - i.e. 2 bits per baud) was mainstream for at least 3 or 4 years. Indeed, I ran my FidoNet node with one.
PROCESSOR independence, maybe - but certainly not platform independence. It was supposed to be Windows-only (but able to run on different CPU architectures).
How will surfing the web whilst using port 80 cause errors? On any properly programmed socket interface (i.e. in every modern operating system) it will NOT cause errors at all.
Why not use port 587 which is the proper port for a MUA to submit mail on?
You must have at least enough such that any opponent knows their entire nation will be turned to glass (and more importantly still) the government of the enemy state knows that they will all personally die too.
If you just had one or two, then someone else (such as North Korea, or Iran, or whoever) may decide that since you only have two weapons, they pre-emptively strike the US since losing just a couple of targets makes an acceptable loss when they can pretty much ruin the US economy. (Just a handful of high-altitude air bursts that does not destroy a single building on the ground could essentially destroy the US - what would the US be when every car, train, airplane, truck, power station and computer no longer functions? How long would the US population last before starvation with no distribution chain and no modern mechanised farming because it's all been disabled by the EMP attack?)
The US being the wealthiest country in the world - even without its evil foreign policy - is a giant target simply due to envy. If the enemies of the US are convinced that any attack is suicide for their entire nation, they will be unwilling to attack. If the enemies of the US realised that the US could only inflict a couple of destroyed cities on them, they may decide it's an acceptable loss.
I dunno, it just seems somewhat...wrong...when our computers are running SO HOT they need liquid cooling of any type. This is not the way it's meant to be.
I've only used VMware workstation. However, Xen (and all the xen-u instances) can trivially be run as init scripts (making easy startup/shutdown in a consistent manner to other processes) and has good management tools (xm for the command line plus web-based management). The performance is unbeatable too - very close to native. Due to the way VMware works it's really not possible for VMware to get even close to Xen's performance for workloads that matter.
As for not publishing benchmarks, if I had VMware server, I'd still publish a comparison - I don't think that term in the EULA would be enforcable here. I'd do it just to piss 'em off because clauses in EULAs like that border on restraint of speech.
I suspect WITHOUT the Get The Facts campaign (et al). there would be an even smaller number thinking of evaluating Linux - because they would never have heard of it.
Most IT people I work with don't know about it if it's not in a Microsoft catalogue. Most IT people are in IT not because they have a particular passion for it, but merely because it pays the mortgage and and isn't too awful. They don't actively research outside what's in the shiny catalogues of large corporations, they just install what's on offer from the biggest.
It's going to be at least a decade before Linux even scratches the surface in most traditional companies.
No, the original poster didn't use it to sound 'lighter' than 112lbs, the stone has been the colloquial way of talking about a person's weight in Britain probably for centuries.
Doctors in Britain (or anyone formally weighing you) will use kilograms, but in convesation, no one talks about kilos or lbs for people's weights, it's always stones. (Bloody hell, look at that fat bastard, he must weigh at least 25 stone! But him over there is so skinny he can only weigh 8 stone soaking wet)
1st is 14lbs. It's a measure that's only really used for informally talking about people's weight in Britain. Doctors in Britain will record your weight in kilograms. However, in informal conversation everyone uses stone.
I've noticed that for ages - eat a bag of crisps when you just want to chew on something, and all of a sudden you're starving hungry. Same with certain sweets and snacks. I end up feeling more hungry at work doing nothing than spending the whole day outside without lunch.
I'm using it in production. It's the best virtualization system for servers I've used by far. The difference in performance between Xen and VMware is like night and day. The ease of management of a remote server running under Xen compared to VMware is like night and day.
However, I think this article was talking about ZenWorks, not Xen.
This whole trackerless bullshit (new BT beta as well as "new" distributed tracking in Azureus, was created for ONE purpose only - to distribute ILLEGAL content.
No, that's not true. There are plenty of reasons for having a trackerless torrent system - it allows people who don't have access to a server that can provide a tracker (such as bloggers, or those with GeoCities sites) to host large files without waxing their bandwidth limits. Bloggers can now easily publish their home videos, for example. There are substantial non-infringing uses for trackerless torrents.
If that happens, there will be no one left who can afford the services of plumbers and auto mechanics. Plumbers, plasterers, builders etc. generally are in demand when there are plenty of good jobs around and high salaries, and people can afford to have work done on their houses.
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I have an old Ultra 5. It runs OpenBSD.
I still run it rather than replacing it because (a) it does what I need it to do (serving) with perfectly adequate performance, (b) it still works well, (c) it's secure and (d) I don't see the point of throwing out perfectly good working hardware, and (e) it allows me to tell all those insufferable AMD64 users on IRC that I was on 64-bit years before them (the last one isn't serious by the way!)
Indeed, I recently added a 250GB hard drive to turn the machine into a DVD server.
I know you're just joking - but seriously - an air filter on your computer's intake isn't a bad idea. A local company's MISYS server has air filters on the intakes. It's a machine built to last, and when you open it up it's spotlessly clean inside, not like the catacombs.
Of course, the filter need not be expensive - a simple foam filter will do the job.
If you fly (I fly power planes and gliders) the TV weather has *never* been adequate. Use the Met Office's web site instead, it's free and it has proper aviation weather (METAR/TAFs, rainfall radar etc.) Also, for gliding, look at NOAA's READY website (http://www.arl.noaa.gov/ready/cmet.html) which has soundings for the entire world (I find the Skew-T diagrams very useful for determining what kind of soaring day we'll have).
TV weather doesn't even tell you where the cloud bases are going to be or what the visibilities are forecast to be, and for sailing, I suspect Radio 4's Shipping Forecast is far more useful.
Firstly, it's already very simple for people to go between the UK and the US. It'd be hard to make it any simpler - in fact, the only way to make it simpler would be to do away with passports which I doubt they will do.
The ID card will also cost a lot of money, and bring no benefit to the holder. The holder essentially has to pay a lot of money for the benefit of the government (and we already pay handsomely for that).
"If you're not doing anything wrong..." Well, maybe now with the current government. Despots have spawned from democracy before now, and in any case I doubt you get through a day without breaking at least one law. I know I almost certainly don't - from accidentally speeding to perhaps taping a CD for the car. Once you have a police state, it's easy to arrest political opponents without needing any explicit political laws - you just harrass them on all the trivial little laws everyone in the land breaks daily. *Everyone* is doing something wrong some time.
FM is only backward where there is no RDS. The US has a problem of geography too.
In Britain, there are many good national BBC radio stations. You don't have to retune when driving across the country, because of RDS. Your radio knows what station you're listening to (and displays it on its display) and automatically retunes to each frequency for that station as you travel. It works pretty well, especially with a decent radio.
However, FM is just starting to be on the way out - it won't be long until DAB pretty much replaces it.
But not everyone is at home. When I'm in a different city, or just far enough that going home for a coffee break is uneconomical, I'd rather use a cafe.
Maybe so, but if you take in a dose of refined sugars, your body has a crisis reaction and produces lots of insulin to control it. So shortly afterwards, you go a bit hypo - which is BAD for the brain and what's more it makes you feel hungry again.
I find I *do* need breakfast. I can miss lunch but absolutely not breakfast. It doesn't mean you have a massive meal for breakfast, just something that'll last a few hours.
Note that the Slashdot crowd is made up of more than one person.
Note that when you have a group of people, it is entirely possible to have one set of people with one opinion, and one set of people with another opinion.
Therefore, it is quite possible (inevitable) that some people will be Mac zealots and some other people will be Free software zealots, and both may be present on Slashdot. Who'd have thought that not everyone who posts has exactly the same opinion!
Well, firstly, file sharing was NOT pioneered by Napster. We were using IRC to file share peer-to-peer in 1990, probably years before the writer of Napster had heard of the internet. In any case, saying BitTorrent is a copy of Napster is so wrong it's not even wrong. It works in a completely different way (and is designed to solve a different problem). The only similarity with Napster is it allows peers to exchange data.
PHP came out before ASP too. You are not letting reality get in the way of anything, because Microsoft did not invent server side scripting first.
In any case, the first web browser was open source. The first web server was open source. The first TCP/IP stack was open source. The first SSH was open source. The first network transparent windowing system was open source. There is no closed-source equivalent of rsync.
McVoy is bullshitting I'm afraid.
The modems must have been different where you were then. No modem I've used makes a sound after dialing until the remote modem makes carrier tone.
Actually - there were 1200 baud modems. V22bis (2400 bps, 1200 baud - i.e. 2 bits per baud) was mainstream for at least 3 or 4 years. Indeed, I ran my FidoNet node with one.
PROCESSOR independence, maybe - but certainly not platform independence. It was supposed to be Windows-only (but able to run on different CPU architectures).
How will surfing the web whilst using port 80 cause errors? On any properly programmed socket interface (i.e. in every modern operating system) it will NOT cause errors at all.
Why not use port 587 which is the proper port for a MUA to submit mail on?
You must have at least enough such that any opponent knows their entire nation will be turned to glass (and more importantly still) the government of the enemy state knows that they will all personally die too.
If you just had one or two, then someone else (such as North Korea, or Iran, or whoever) may decide that since you only have two weapons, they pre-emptively strike the US since losing just a couple of targets makes an acceptable loss when they can pretty much ruin the US economy. (Just a handful of high-altitude air bursts that does not destroy a single building on the ground could essentially destroy the US - what would the US be when every car, train, airplane, truck, power station and computer no longer functions? How long would the US population last before starvation with no distribution chain and no modern mechanised farming because it's all been disabled by the EMP attack?)
The US being the wealthiest country in the world - even without its evil foreign policy - is a giant target simply due to envy. If the enemies of the US are convinced that any attack is suicide for their entire nation, they will be unwilling to attack. If the enemies of the US realised that the US could only inflict a couple of destroyed cities on them, they may decide it's an acceptable loss.
It's not so much the euro rising against the dollar as it is the dollar falling against everything else.
There was lots of whining about the Chinese government was mandating Chinese software only for government use.
How is this any different?
I dunno, it just seems somewhat ...wrong...when our computers are running SO HOT they need liquid cooling of any type. This is not the way it's meant to be.
I've only used VMware workstation. However, Xen (and all the xen-u instances) can trivially be run as init scripts (making easy startup/shutdown in a consistent manner to other processes) and has good management tools (xm for the command line plus web-based management). The performance is unbeatable too - very close to native. Due to the way VMware works it's really not possible for VMware to get even close to Xen's performance for workloads that matter.
As for not publishing benchmarks, if I had VMware server, I'd still publish a comparison - I don't think that term in the EULA would be enforcable here. I'd do it just to piss 'em off because clauses in EULAs like that border on restraint of speech.
I suspect WITHOUT the Get The Facts campaign (et al). there would be an even smaller number thinking of evaluating Linux - because they would never have heard of it.
Most IT people I work with don't know about it if it's not in a Microsoft catalogue. Most IT people are in IT not because they have a particular passion for it, but merely because it pays the mortgage and and isn't too awful. They don't actively research outside what's in the shiny catalogues of large corporations, they just install what's on offer from the biggest.
It's going to be at least a decade before Linux even scratches the surface in most traditional companies.
No, the original poster didn't use it to sound 'lighter' than 112lbs, the stone has been the colloquial way of talking about a person's weight in Britain probably for centuries.
Doctors in Britain (or anyone formally weighing you) will use kilograms, but in convesation, no one talks about kilos or lbs for people's weights, it's always stones. (Bloody hell, look at that fat bastard, he must weigh at least 25 stone! But him over there is so skinny he can only weigh 8 stone soaking wet)
1st is 14lbs. It's a measure that's only really used for informally talking about people's weight in Britain. Doctors in Britain will record your weight in kilograms. However, in informal conversation everyone uses stone.
I weigh about 11 stone.
I've noticed that for ages - eat a bag of crisps when you just want to chew on something, and all of a sudden you're starving hungry. Same with certain sweets and snacks. I end up feeling more hungry at work doing nothing than spending the whole day outside without lunch.
I'm using it in production. It's the best virtualization system for servers I've used by far. The difference in performance between Xen and VMware is like night and day. The ease of management of a remote server running under Xen compared to VMware is like night and day.
However, I think this article was talking about ZenWorks, not Xen.
If that happens, there will be no one left who can afford the services of plumbers and auto mechanics. Plumbers, plasterers, builders etc. generally are in demand when there are plenty of good jobs around and high salaries, and people can afford to have work done on their houses.