It looks to me like a waste of resources. Why not setting a cron job that copies the content of the partition you want to back up on n other systems?
That's the way I am set up at home: One linux box (my server) has a 80GB hdd. That's where I put everything I have valuable (mp3, pr0n, cvs, db...). Every night, at 1:53AM, a cron job starts, stop every service susceptible of changing the data (Tomcat, Mysql, cvs...) and back the HDD up through the network over to my second PC. Then all services are restarted and everything is up and running again. Incremental backup allow this operation to take a few minutes. The down time is usually not a problem since it's my home personnal system.
Of note is that 92 percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, which may create an interesting problem for historians and archaeologists of the future
I don't really think historians and archaeologists are ever going to be able to dig through Five Exabytes of Data. Maybe the magnetic storage is a blessing then...
Microsoft was also engaged in mixing personal and professional
Huh? Microsoft has a personal life? Dude, re-read yourself!
These G5s were tasked to be test beds for Longhorn on Mac hardware
Are you working at Microsoft or are you just talking out of your ass on this one? Is it just a wild guess or do you have any basis to assert that?
Plus, if Microsoft wanted to buy G5s for anything, why would they hide it? I mean, as you pointed out, they have macs and it's no secret. So why would they "secretely" buy some macs when they can do it openly? You're watching to much TV!
By over-reacting
You are over-reacting, not them! It is commom sense that you should not take any indide information of your company (such as a picture, or any document, even non-marked as being confidential) and just publish it "for the heck of it". Dude! come on! The guy did a professional mistake, these things happens!
Now, the interesting thing is, since he wasn't properly terminated, he could probably feel free to breech a few NDAs
I suppose the outcome of that would be that he shows everyone (including any potential future employer) that he is the guy that will break their NDAs if they ever fire him. That's probably not very good for his professional future in Seattle hmmm?
Plus, I think he was fired on very solid grounds. As much as I dislike Microsoft, I can't picture myself at the head of a company where every employee hangs around with a camera ready to put anything on the internet. The guy made a stupid mistake (mixing his personnal life and professional one) and got fired. Big deal.
Maybe because they were the first one to come up with a usable and convenient MP3 player? In this regard, they are the first ones to release an MP3 player that doesn't suck. The ranking of the player says it all.
Actually, you didn't look very far. All of them do, you just have to burn a CD/DVD at the right format. Very few people know that you can store stills up to 720x480 on a VCD. You can have virtually several thousand full resolution pictures on a single CD! Not all DVD players will play VCDs though (even if most does) but you can do the same thing with a DVD. It'll cost you $100 to get a DVD burner, and then you're all set.
Dude, I am tired of people answering my post and not reading it. I am not going to live under a Teepee in northern oregon because of high-tension lines!
Can you read my post once again (or, say, once)? I am saying that if I have a choice between two houses and I am in doubt, then I'll go with the one that is not under a high tension line. That's all, it's that little thing that will help me decide, it's not anything that will drive my life.
You are also mentionning dinner. It's not like I could avoid having dinner, could I? You comparison is utterly offtopic.
For the car one, it is good. Do you remember all the fuss a couple of years ago about firestone and Ford explorer? I learned one thing about it: When faced to your security vs. their $$$, both Ford and Firestone will choose their $$$. That said, if one day I am in doubt between a Nissan Terra and a Ford Explorer, I'll go with the Nissan.
Under the same circumstances, they will probably make the same decision, but I'm not sure. In case of Ford, I know that their $$$ are before my safety.
Of course, if Ford was to release an SUV a lot better (or that better fits my needs) than Nissan, then I'll still go Ford.
Geeks will make Linux/OSS superior to any Microsoft product?
Yes. You misread me. I didn't say that geeks are more talented than Microsoft employees. Certainly not. The thing is that Microsoft employees have a lot of constraints that are not technical: Marketing, schedules and other business-related constraints, that basically impair them from producing their best.
That is why geeks will always produce better than any Microsoft-like company. Because they are free to do what they want, at their own rythm.
Giving that all the corporations push this in to protect their existing materials, I doubt this is going to happen. Plus, think abut our grand-grand kids which will be stuck with ID4 and T3 as the best movies of public domain!
You know, it is not always black in white in real life. It is all a nice shade of gray. Plus, in the end of my post (That you obviously didn't read entirely), I am saying:
To resume my position, it is going to become very hard to make money off of a "Generic" proprietary software.
See? I'm using the future here. This process is new, it'll take time to get established.
Plus, I am also adressing the Microsoft case by saying that they still make lots of money because they "have a huge userbase". See? Everything becomes clear now?
You see, when I say "some kind of public domain", I don't mean public domain. I know the code in question belong to their authors.
But in the case of many licenses (excluding the GPL) the code is free to use/modify/run/whatever. The only thing you can't do with it is claim ownership (Like SCO does).
So it is reasonnably close to being "Public Domain" to me.
"Should there be a reason to believe that code that comes from a variety of people around the world would be higher-quality than from people who do it professionally?..." says Ballmer.
Linux people are geeks, inherently technical people, that focus on technology. I'm not even mentionning that they might be professionals themselves. Microsoft people are professionals, driven by marketing and other business objectives. Hence:
from a technological standpoint, Linux/OSS is more likely to be/become superior than any Microsoft product. That's because there is nothing that comes in the way of a pure technological product in case of Linux. There is plenty of constraints on the back of the Windows developers.
From a marketing standpoint, Microsoft will always be ahead of Linux. That's because in the Linux team, nobody cares about marketting.
But... some other people are doing the marketting job on top of linux. That's what we call distros. So eventually, they'll bring to Linux the only remaining area in which Microsoft excell: Marketing.
All of that is obviously not only true for Linux. Apple did understand that. There is a bunch of people doing a nice OS, and giving it away for free. It is not polished as we would like it to be. Ok. Let's polish it!
The point is that Apple did a nice economy of scale with relying on a nice kernel that they don't have to maintain or pay!
I think as OSS as some kind of "Public domain for software." It's just that enough people has an extensive knowledge of how a well architectured OS such as a UNIX work. When the critical mass of people is reached, an OSS software such as Linux pops up and it just reflects the materialization of the public knowledge.
A multi-task OS is so basic nowadays, ther is no way Microsoft or any one else will ever be able to make money off of it. Microsoft is still resisting because they have this huge userbase, but it is just a matter of time.
To resume my position, it is going to become very hard to make money off of a "Generic" proprietary software. By generic, I mean anything that has been around for a while and is understood by many people. OSS will represent a very nice basis for every software. A kind of public domain toolbox.
Companies will have to find their added value on top of that.
That's not the way spam works. An independant entity is doing SPAM and it is based in Russia. It will advertise "Get the lower rates for your mortgage" for example. Then, when someone respond to that and give its name/address, the Russian company will sell the personal informations collected to any company willing to pay $2 (or $n) for it in the U.S.
See, the mortgage company is not involved in the SPAM at all! The mortgage company just buys the name/addres of someone interested by low rates.
No one does anything wrong in the U.S. with this model.
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I guess the magnetic field lines make the poles the most vulnerable area
Nope, it's just that the Ozone layer is open (at least very thinner) at the poles.
It looks to me like a waste of resources. Why not setting a cron job that copies the content of the partition you want to back up on n other systems?
That's the way I am set up at home: One linux box (my server) has a 80GB hdd. That's where I put everything I have valuable (mp3, pr0n, cvs, db...). Every night, at 1:53AM, a cron job starts, stop every service susceptible of changing the data (Tomcat, Mysql, cvs...) and back the HDD up through the network over to my second PC. Then all services are restarted and everything is up and running again. Incremental backup allow this operation to take a few minutes. The down time is usually not a problem since it's my home personnal system.
Of note is that 92 percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, which may create an interesting problem for historians and archaeologists of the future
I don't really think historians and archaeologists are ever going to be able to dig through Five Exabytes of Data. Maybe the magnetic storage is a blessing then...
Microsoft was also engaged in mixing personal and professional
Huh? Microsoft has a personal life? Dude, re-read yourself!
These G5s were tasked to be test beds for Longhorn on Mac hardware
Are you working at Microsoft or are you just talking out of your ass on this one? Is it just a wild guess or do you have any basis to assert that?
Plus, if Microsoft wanted to buy G5s for anything, why would they hide it? I mean, as you pointed out, they have macs and it's no secret. So why would they "secretely" buy some macs when they can do it openly? You're watching to much TV!
By over-reacting
You are over-reacting, not them! It is commom sense that you should not take any indide information of your company (such as a picture, or any document, even non-marked as being confidential) and just publish it "for the heck of it". Dude! come on! The guy did a professional mistake, these things happens!
Now, the interesting thing is, since he wasn't properly terminated, he could probably feel free to breech a few NDAs
I suppose the outcome of that would be that he shows everyone (including any potential future employer) that he is the guy that will break their NDAs if they ever fire him. That's probably not very good for his professional future in Seattle hmmm?
Plus, I think he was fired on very solid grounds. As much as I dislike Microsoft, I can't picture myself at the head of a company where every employee hangs around with a camera ready to put anything on the internet. The guy made a stupid mistake (mixing his personnal life and professional one) and got fired. Big deal.
Twice today? No wonder it's so hot outside!
I'm gonna pop a beer, see ya!
That's probably because it's not $200 but $200 million.
In your examples, 1 is not a constant, it's a literal expression.
Both wrong, I rul3z!
Maybe because they were the first one to come up with a usable and convenient MP3 player? In this regard, they are the first ones to release an MP3 player that doesn't suck. The ranking of the player says it all.
Same here. I'm fed up with their sh*t. I do not play their media again, and my computer is just thanking me every day about it!
a suitable frame is more important than most people think
Maybe you can display the framed picture inside of your plasma TV!
Actually, you didn't look very far. All of them do, you just have to burn a CD/DVD at the right format. Very few people know that you can store stills up to 720x480 on a VCD. You can have virtually several thousand full resolution pictures on a single CD! Not all DVD players will play VCDs though (even if most does) but you can do the same thing with a DVD. It'll cost you $100 to get a DVD burner, and then you're all set.
You can crunch as many as you want, you'll just have some more oon after. That's the annoying thing.
The "free-to-implement" aspect has to compete with "Lack of files out there" and "new thing".
Don't forget what the market wants is not the perfect codec. It is the good enough one. No point trying to slightly improve something that works well.
That *really* should be the lossy codec of choice these days
What for? To save a few megs on your 80gig HDD? Is there really a point?
Dude, I am tired of people answering my post and not reading it. I am not going to live under a Teepee in northern oregon because of high-tension lines!
Can you read my post once again (or, say, once)? I am saying that if I have a choice between two houses and I am in doubt, then I'll go with the one that is not under a high tension line. That's all, it's that little thing that will help me decide, it's not anything that will drive my life.
You are also mentionning dinner. It's not like I could avoid having dinner, could I? You comparison is utterly offtopic.
For the car one, it is good. Do you remember all the fuss a couple of years ago about firestone and Ford explorer? I learned one thing about it: When faced to your security vs. their $$$, both Ford and Firestone will choose their $$$. That said, if one day I am in doubt between a Nissan Terra and a Ford Explorer, I'll go with the Nissan.
Under the same circumstances, they will probably make the same decision, but I'm not sure. In case of Ford, I know that their $$$ are before my safety.
Of course, if Ford was to release an SUV a lot better (or that better fits my needs) than Nissan, then I'll still go Ford.
Geeks will make Linux/OSS superior to any Microsoft product?
Yes. You misread me. I didn't say that geeks are more talented than Microsoft employees. Certainly not. The thing is that Microsoft employees have a lot of constraints that are not technical: Marketing, schedules and other business-related constraints, that basically impair them from producing their best.
That is why geeks will always produce better than any Microsoft-like company. Because they are free to do what they want, at their own rythm.
They will not justify it. Do you think they need to justify everything they do? They'll either:
1. not respond
2. Make up anything stupid.
As usual. Don't hope too much from these guys.
Giving that all the corporations push this in to protect their existing materials, I doubt this is going to happen. Plus, think abut our grand-grand kids which will be stuck with ID4 and T3 as the best movies of public domain!
You know, it is not always black in white in real life. It is all a nice shade of gray. Plus, in the end of my post (That you obviously didn't read entirely), I am saying:
To resume my position, it is going to become very hard to make money off of a "Generic" proprietary software.
See? I'm using the future here. This process is new, it'll take time to get established.
Plus, I am also adressing the Microsoft case by saying that they still make lots of money because they "have a huge userbase". See? Everything becomes clear now?
You see, when I say "some kind of public domain", I don't mean public domain. I know the code in question belong to their authors.
But in the case of many licenses (excluding the GPL) the code is free to use/modify/run/whatever. The only thing you can't do with it is claim ownership (Like SCO does).
So it is reasonnably close to being "Public Domain" to me.
why is this story empty
This seems to prove that the average slashdot nerd doesn't give a sh*t about fish.
That's just my take of course.
Linux people are geeks, inherently technical people, that focus on technology. I'm not even mentionning that they might be professionals themselves. Microsoft people are professionals, driven by marketing and other business objectives.
Hence:
All of that is obviously not only true for Linux. Apple did understand that. There is a bunch of people doing a nice OS, and giving it away for free. It is not polished as we would like it to be. Ok. Let's polish it!
The point is that Apple did a nice economy of scale with relying on a nice kernel that they don't have to maintain or pay!
I think as OSS as some kind of "Public domain for software." It's just that enough people has an extensive knowledge of how a well architectured OS such as a UNIX work. When the critical mass of people is reached, an OSS software such as Linux pops up and it just reflects the materialization of the public knowledge.
A multi-task OS is so basic nowadays, ther is no way Microsoft or any one else will ever be able to make money off of it. Microsoft is still resisting because they have this huge userbase, but it is just a matter of time.
To resume my position, it is going to become very hard to make money off of a "Generic" proprietary software. By generic, I mean anything that has been around for a while and is understood by many people. OSS will represent a very nice basis for every software. A kind of public domain toolbox.
Companies will have to find their added value on top of that.
That's not the way spam works. An independant entity is doing SPAM and it is based in Russia. It will advertise "Get the lower rates for your mortgage" for example. Then, when someone respond to that and give its name/address, the Russian company will sell the personal informations collected to any company willing to pay $2 (or $n) for it in the U.S.
See, the mortgage company is not involved in the SPAM at all! The mortgage company just buys the name/addres of someone interested by low rates.
No one does anything wrong in the U.S. with this model.
And I always thought it was a dinosaur... Silly me!