I signed up for Trustic a couple of weeks ago, and fifteen minutes after configuring my mail server to use it, I had bounced a legitimate email. The email in question came through Sneakemail, a service I use to generate disposable email addresses for posting on websites, etc. Well, presumably somebody using Trustic had received SPAM through a Sneakemail address and promptly made a negative recommendation against Sneakemail, which blacklisted the server.
Trustic uses a "karma-like" system where the more recommendations you make, the more your recommendations are worth. I think the problem with that system is that it is very open to abuse and mistakes. And even though I loathe SPAM, I don't hate it enough to want to expose myself to losing legitimate email.
So very sadly I disabled Trustic as an RBL source on my mail server.
Nobody has brought up the cost of licensing VMWare. I have no idea what sort of volume discounts are available, but I know that a single Workstation license certainly isn't free. Wouldn't it be easier to set up a bunch of Citrix/Terminal Services servers and have just the client on the linux machines? It would be a lot easier to maintain, and the hardware requirements on the workstations would be vastly reduced.
Plus, how is alienating your 14,000 users a good thing? Fine, the decision has been made to switch to Linux, but I don't see how "making it hard for them to use Windows" (to quote another poster) is beneficial to the organisation. If the decision has been made then deal with it, take some affirmative action, don't expect the users to get pissed off by themselves and figure out how "this linux thing" (or the German equivalent) works.
I don't have any experience rolling out.NET applications of any size worth mentioning, but I have installed a few Java ones, and let me tell you: what a dog! Users are complaining about the performance, and I'm talking about 5 concurrent users. Not to mention the crap that has to go on the machines in the first place (Oracle IAS or IBM WebSphere) or the time it takes these applications to actually start up. I have yet to understand what the fascination with servlets et al is.
Example configuration is a Windows 2000 box with dual Xeons and 2GB of RAM, running Oracle IAS, connecting to an Oracle db running on Tru64 (Digital Alpha boxes).
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Without a doubt the best fantasy series I've read is "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin. It is ongoing, and hopefully won't suffer the same fate as "The Wheel of Time" -- going on and on and on... These books are rich, interesting, exciting, warm and the thing I like the most about them: it is very difficult to say with certainty who is "good" and who is "bad" because the story is told from many different point of views. Well worth reading.
LOL I can see it now. Some sort of truck loaded to the gills with hard drives (think something slick, glistening, almost wet, a-la Aliens) and plugging into a big mother of a port (like those transparent plastic three-phase power connectors) on the side of the building (insert appropriate sound of compressed air as cable is connected and disconnected). There, your data has been backed up, sir!
I've always been told that you should not use DLT tapes after they've been dropped. I'm sure that 99% of the time they'll work, but is there substance to that bit of advice?
So, if for some reason there was a sudden surge in Internet traffic (such as a worm randomly trying to infect IP addresses without caring whether or not there is a machine capable of being infected on the other end) the ATM might not be able to get enough satellite time to complete a transaction without timing out, therefore resulting a "lost my connection" message on the ATM.
Ermm... There is Quality of Service (QoS) on those satellites, and one customer (e.g. DirecPC) wouldn't be able to encroach on the bandwidth of another customer (e.g. the bank).
1) There is no such thing as 911 in Colombia. 2) There are no GSM mobile networks in Colombia. 3) Even if you've run out of minutes, the Cellphone company ALWAYS gives you a free number to call so you can top up. How else would you? (Especially on the top of an andean (sic) mountain).
In Brazil the bureaucrats had Fresnel lenses in front of all their "monitors" and it looked really really cool, especially when you were given the monitor's point of view.
Oh come on! Microsoft must be doing something right. The fact that billions of people use Microsoft products every day is a testament to that (flame all you want, but explain why Linux isn't on every desktop in the world). It isn't perfect, but neither is Linux; and Microsoft is certainly making an effort to improve. In the specific case of Longhorn, they are actually attempting something pretty dangerous: betting everything (or a lot anyway) on a single product, that if unsuccessful will put them in serious trouble (they employ a ton of people and many many industries depend on them).
Ok, so a "database" filing system has been done before, and many of the other "new" technologies too. But has anyone actually put everything together, made it work, and succeeded in the market? BeOS is a cool OS by design principles, but how many people actually use it? Does it have an office suite comparable to Microsoft? (For those complaining about auto-formatting, it *can* be turned off, and anyway, if all you want is plain text, use...quantum leap... a plain text editor).
To pull off something of the magnitude of Longhorn, you need committment, loads of money, and most importantly a majority market share (otherwise you will most likely fail in getting all the other "satellite" technologies such as cellphones, tv, telephony, etc. to align).
I think ceejayoz summarised it pretty well: just because it's Microsoft doesn't automatically make it wrong/bad/evil.
You know, it'd be easier to just say "I hate Microsoft and no amount of logic will change that" and get it over with, instead of trying to come up with actual reasons to dislike it (like "ono they're using other peoples' good ideas! how evil").
Actually Monday isn't a good day - lots of employees call in sick (leaving the factory short-staffed causing delays and bottlenecks) because they are either hung-over or just plain don't feel like going into work or want a long weekend. Tuesday to Thursday are the better days.
WHAT? So being a Christian precludes any possibility of an opinion about Christianity or anything even vaguely related? I'd say right there is the end of Slashdot - remove all opinions from people that are in some way related to what they opined on (they own a linux box, perhaps?) and this place becomes a ghost town.
Byte magazine had an article on this, at least 15 years ago (possibly more). It involved bouncing a laser off one of (apparently) many golf ball satellites orbiting the earth (tiny spheres covered in mirrors, designed for measuring continental drift) and encoding data in the laser. The roundtrip of the light beam allowed the "storage" of quite a few megabytes IIRC. The fact that I still remember this vividly so many years later is a testament of how cool the idea was back then. *Sigh* Those were the days.
Ummm I'm pretty sure that a month or two ago when the new advertising policy was announced on/. there was also mention of having "advertisement posts" - i.e. fake posts that were actually paid customer content. I also recall there being a limit of one of these per day or per something (week?). So I reckon that is what this post is - our very first infommercialpost.
As opposed to the choice of backing out of any other platform decision, involving potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of labour? Microsoft bashing as a sport needs a reality check.
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Oh no, a circular reference! Slashdot is going to crash!!
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I tried this and it doesn't work.
I signed up for Trustic a couple of weeks ago, and fifteen minutes after configuring my mail server to use it, I had bounced a legitimate email. The email in question came through Sneakemail, a service I use to generate disposable email addresses for posting on websites, etc. Well, presumably somebody using Trustic had received SPAM through a Sneakemail address and promptly made a negative recommendation against Sneakemail, which blacklisted the server.
Trustic uses a "karma-like" system where the more recommendations you make, the more your recommendations are worth. I think the problem with that system is that it is very open to abuse and mistakes. And even though I loathe SPAM, I don't hate it enough to want to expose myself to losing legitimate email.
So very sadly I disabled Trustic as an RBL source on my mail server.
I'm sorry things didn't work out.
Nobody has brought up the cost of licensing VMWare. I have no idea what sort of volume discounts are available, but I know that a single Workstation license certainly isn't free. Wouldn't it be easier to set up a bunch of Citrix/Terminal Services servers and have just the client on the linux machines? It would be a lot easier to maintain, and the hardware requirements on the workstations would be vastly reduced.
Plus, how is alienating your 14,000 users a good thing? Fine, the decision has been made to switch to Linux, but I don't see how "making it hard for them to use Windows" (to quote another poster) is beneficial to the organisation. If the decision has been made then deal with it, take some affirmative action, don't expect the users to get pissed off by themselves and figure out how "this linux thing" (or the German equivalent) works.
I don't have any experience rolling out .NET applications of any size worth mentioning, but I have installed a few Java ones, and let me tell you: what a dog! Users are complaining about the performance, and I'm talking about 5 concurrent users. Not to mention the crap that has to go on the machines in the first place (Oracle IAS or IBM WebSphere) or the time it takes these applications to actually start up. I have yet to understand what the fascination with servlets et al is.
Example configuration is a Windows 2000 box with dual Xeons and 2GB of RAM, running Oracle IAS, connecting to an Oracle db running on Tru64 (Digital Alpha boxes).
This is how ArsDigita University distributes its course material: http://aduni.org/drives/
Without a doubt the best fantasy series I've read is "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin. It is ongoing, and hopefully won't suffer the same fate as "The Wheel of Time" -- going on and on and on... These books are rich, interesting, exciting, warm and the thing I like the most about them: it is very difficult to say with certainty who is "good" and who is "bad" because the story is told from many different point of views. Well worth reading.
LOL I can see it now. Some sort of truck loaded to the gills with hard drives (think something slick, glistening, almost wet, a-la Aliens) and plugging into a big mother of a port (like those transparent plastic three-phase power connectors) on the side of the building (insert appropriate sound of compressed air as cable is connected and disconnected). There, your data has been backed up, sir!
I've always been told that you should not use DLT tapes after they've been dropped. I'm sure that 99% of the time they'll work, but is there substance to that bit of advice?
Why doesn't he just go and buy all the peroxide from every available pharmacy and distill it back to the concentration required?
Ermm... There is Quality of Service (QoS) on those satellites, and one customer (e.g. DirecPC) wouldn't be able to encroach on the bandwidth of another customer (e.g. the bank).
Open source sauce. =) (This may only work with a British/Ozzie/Kiwi accent).
1) There is no such thing as 911 in Colombia. 2) There are no GSM mobile networks in Colombia. 3) Even if you've run out of minutes, the Cellphone company ALWAYS gives you a free number to call so you can top up. How else would you? (Especially on the top of an andean (sic) mountain).
In Brazil the bureaucrats had Fresnel lenses in front of all their "monitors" and it looked really really cool, especially when you were given the monitor's point of view.
Also, finding Googlisms are fun
Weren't they called Googlewhacks?
Oh come on! Microsoft must be doing something right. The fact that billions of people use Microsoft products every day is a testament to that (flame all you want, but explain why Linux isn't on every desktop in the world). It isn't perfect, but neither is Linux; and Microsoft is certainly making an effort to improve. In the specific case of Longhorn, they are actually attempting something pretty dangerous: betting everything (or a lot anyway) on a single product, that if unsuccessful will put them in serious trouble (they employ a ton of people and many many industries depend on them).
...quantum leap... a plain text editor).
Ok, so a "database" filing system has been done before, and many of the other "new" technologies too. But has anyone actually put everything together, made it work, and succeeded in the market? BeOS is a cool OS by design principles, but how many people actually use it? Does it have an office suite comparable to Microsoft? (For those complaining about auto-formatting, it *can* be turned off, and anyway, if all you want is plain text, use
To pull off something of the magnitude of Longhorn, you need committment, loads of money, and most importantly a majority market share (otherwise you will most likely fail in getting all the other "satellite" technologies such as cellphones, tv, telephony, etc. to align).
I think ceejayoz summarised it pretty well: just because it's Microsoft doesn't automatically make it wrong/bad/evil.
You know, it'd be easier to just say "I hate Microsoft and no amount of logic will change that" and get it over with, instead of trying to come up with actual reasons to dislike it (like "ono they're using other peoples' good ideas! how evil").
LOL My sentiments exactly!
Actually Monday isn't a good day - lots of employees call in sick (leaving the factory short-staffed causing delays and bottlenecks) because they are either hung-over or just plain don't feel like going into work or want a long weekend. Tuesday to Thursday are the better days.
WHAT? So being a Christian precludes any possibility of an opinion about Christianity or anything even vaguely related? I'd say right there is the end of Slashdot - remove all opinions from people that are in some way related to what they opined on (they own a linux box, perhaps?) and this place becomes a ghost town.
Good grief!
Byte magazine had an article on this, at least 15 years ago (possibly more). It involved bouncing a laser off one of (apparently) many golf ball satellites orbiting the earth (tiny spheres covered in mirrors, designed for measuring continental drift) and encoding data in the laser. The roundtrip of the light beam allowed the "storage" of quite a few megabytes IIRC. The fact that I still remember this vividly so many years later is a testament of how cool the idea was back then. *Sigh* Those were the days.
Again, this is news? What's up with the stories on Slashdot? I've submitted better crap than this that never got through.
Ummm I'm pretty sure that a month or two ago when the new advertising policy was announced on /. there was also mention of having "advertisement posts" - i.e. fake posts that were actually paid customer content. I also recall there being a limit of one of these per day or per something (week?). So I reckon that is what this post is - our very first infommercialpost.
It's kinda sad to see how uninformed some people are about what .Net actually is.
Amen brother! In fact, make that *.microsoft. Rabid anti-Microsoft sentiment doesn't cut it as a statement any longer (if it ever did).
Uh, yeah, this sounds like a *real* question: I want to develop a GUI application for *NIX, but I want to develop it on Win2k.
As opposed to the choice of backing out of any other platform decision, involving potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of labour? Microsoft bashing as a sport needs a reality check.