I posted on my site "There's no doubt that Hans Reiser did it but between not finding Nina's body and if this ever comes out at trial it will be a get away with murder free card for Hans."
I'm assuming this comes out at trial, and that the gag order was to prevent pre-trial publicity, but Han's father apparently wants some anyway to help his son.
If this is really true this trial is going to light up the crime discussion boards. Remember also that this guy was Hans' financial agent prior to the divorce proceedings, not some random stranger his ex happened to meet, and they have nasty legal suits going on between them with the then wife playing a major role in it. This is really bizarre.
Still, no doubt Reiser will be working on his filesystem again real soon now. The trial starts Monday, and this will be a bombshell.
Dell just announced they are selling Dell's with Ubuntu Linux. I just now Googled Ubuntu Dell e1505 and there are plenty of threads about Ubuntu on Dell e505.
I recently researched what Linux PC to buy and had only seen occasional references here on slashdot to Ubuntu. (A side goal was being comfortable using it as a development platform for the Linux server dist, CentOS, used by my web host.) Despite having heard much more about other distributions through the years, Ubuntu had the most pluses.
In checking any links on it, the latest release 7.04 just came out, so experiences with prior releases on that Dell will be reflected in this release, which means it should work better than ever for you.
It's weird that we know about the seat, the tools, the blood, but we don't know Hans' explanation.
It would need to be a recent explanation too. He was stopped by Redwood City police a week earlier (but after Nina disappeared) and the car seat was there at that time.
To the list of sightseeing, killing time, looking for redlight specials, and other reasons for driving around in Redwood City at the time, we can add looking for Nina or looking for a place to strap her body to the car seat and drop it off a bridge.
Makes it a little fishy although I am sure I have small drops of blood around my house and in my cars too from small cuts and stuff happening while doing stuff outside. I would hope they need more than that to tie the "murder" to him.
They were not small drops of blood on the wall in the room of the house where they were heard arguing by the kids down in the den. They were not small drops of blood on the floor of the car, and of course the car seat is missing along with her. He at least tried to clean the blood off the floor of the car.
I think she just took off somewhere myself, I mean she was cheating on him so I don't think it is too far out of the ballpark.
They were separated and in divorce proceedings. Seeing someone else at that time is not "cheating".
IBM is clearly using Linux to get people into UNIX, and then is trying to sell them with "but AIX is more stable/scalable" line.
That would seem to be the logical answer, but in my opinion Linux is the Microsoft antidote that IBM went with when they gave up the ghost on OS/2.
They donated some significant enterprise technology to Linux, but the alternative would have been to compete with NT/Windows Server with their enterprise OS'es. That would have been a financial disaster. So what does it cost them to beef up a free OS to compete with Windows server OSes. Not nearly as much as degrading their enterprise OS line.
As it is, they are now trying to find ways to use their enterprise OS'es to get a share of the Windows server market with new iseries(AS/400) entry models with DB2 priced competitively with Windows and SQL Server. These are JSP/J2EE (Websphere) oriented app servers to compete with IIS.Net, as far as I can tell.
But in no way do I see IBM having spent the effort they have on Linux as bait for a switch to AIX. If there were an identifiable stability problem in a Linux release they would probably help fix it.
I'm an iseries RPG programmer. i5/OS (OS/400) is legendary in its scalability, but not from a 386 to teraflops like Linux as one poster cited.:)
But this is a field I'm passionate about so I felt obligated to post a defense for these IBM researchers. They really are doing great work.
Thanks for bringing me up to date. Any typos were minor, I understood your points.
But we now have to say spiking neural networks instead of neural networks or we're behind the times? Holy cow.
I really don't think any of my statements were wrong, you just have a lot more hope for this than I do based on your shared belief in the Hawkins theory, which I have to say, leaves me still saying that nothing, memory, reasoning, learning, or anything else, has been explained. Predicting into existence just isn't going to cut it, in my opinion.
I practically fell out of my chair when I read that half a mouse cortex has been simulated. This is an INCREDIBLE advancement.
Reading the article, the half a mouse cortex was simply based on number of neurons simulated, not right-left brain functionality. Presumably doubling the size of the computer would model the entire mouse brain, but it's only IBM, they couldn't do that.
In addition, everything I have seen in tech press on AI since the rules based AI reasoning failures of the 80's has been neural net simulations looking for patterns, such as the mentioned synchronized firings. Aren't the neural net rules just tweaked until they get interesting behavior like that? Don't tell me you think they actually have any idea how they would simulate brain functionality. Training neural nets is just something easy to do. Beats actually writing complex code, doesn't it?
I've never seen any explanation for how either short term or long term memory works, much less reasoning or any other functionality. And that at least is something that would seem able to be modelled and explained. How does man know anything about something they have never encountered before, for example, to acquire language as a child?
It's a catch-22. AI researchers are setting up neural net models and hoping they produce something that explains that which they cannot explain to model.
A few times, I overheard a recruiter call a neighboring colleague ("no thanks, I'm not really interested right now") and then hear my phone ring: it's the same recruiter.
Hate to burst your bubble, but that goes on all the time. They don't get paid unless they can move people.
As another ex-examiner I agree with the points you have made.
Thanks for the insight from you and GP ex-patent examiners. I will go back to recent thread on proposed patent law overhaul and see whether the GP's point about Supreme Court (idiotic) ruling that required granting patents like these is addressed and overruled, so to speak.
Well, I'm not sure at home work on certain things can be done let alone safe in some situations.
Prior posters you're responding to didn't even understand (or care) the issue being written about was after hours on call emergency work. That quite frankly isn't limited to IT, but issue is real and hard on IT people overall.
In general people will migrate to less crazy hours if they can. This should be no great revelation. Men will do same thing given the chance.
Note that this is one of those jobs that are difficult to outsource overseas, one of the "safe" jobs we're supposed to be privileged to have.
It's doubtful that the author posted his piece here anonymously, otherwise an AC has cut and paste someone's work here and been modded first Flamebait and now Interesting, but should be Interesting Plagiarism.
A Slashdot editor should edit in real author's name and fair use attribution. Also hopefully real author will have a chance to respond if he wants.
I don't think you understand the concept, you're still blinded by $ signs. Billy "donated" 30B to the foundation. He's worth an estimated 56B (I don't recall if that's before or after the donation, but let's take a worst case example of before, so his worth after is 26B. At a mere 4% interest, he'd have to spend a mere $2.8+M a day just to keep that 26B from growing. (BTW, that's over 1B A year)
I've posted a ton of anti-Microsoft posts in my time, but let's at least understand the facts here.
Gates and his wife will only be leaving releatively token amounts to their children. The rest will be go this foundation. Certainly it will end up having the impact of the Carnegie Foundation and many more all put together.
Buffet has started donating his fortune to the foundation with the stipulation that the money donated each year be spent that year. So whatever I said above about impact of foundation above is now doubled.
Gates has always had an intense interest in the science of life if you will, reading books on Microbiology at the beach on vacation and such. If he and his wife and Warren Buffet could solve the world's disease killers tomorrow, they would. So they fund research to do that.
In the meantime drinkable water and mosquito nets accomplish the same thing. I can not understand anyone slighting a foundation for trying to provide things like that.
Having said all that, will I ever run Vista? No. They have gone over the edge in trying to control people with that. I am already not happy with needing a lifeline to Microsoft for two XP Pro computers to at least have a chance of surviving on the internet. I will be buying a Linux computer next (Ubuntu after much research), and I'll see where I'm at when the relatively new XP Pro laptops die at some point. But I'll be cutting the lifeline to Microsoft then.
BillG has made enough money off me and everyone else that I won't be fretting about the foundation running dry anytime soon.
One other not so charitable point. To a certain degree from what I've read the foundation may be using grants to fund purchases of Microsoft software, although I've seen the denials and that the schools and libraries will be able to purchase what they want.
The impact of these two richest men in the United States gifts to the world will be far greater than Nobel's legacy of the Nobel Prize, or Carnegie's gifts of libraries such as I went to as a child. It may be unimaginable by the time they're done, and long after.
I'm imagining the ultimate solution will only be to allow users with email addresses from "approved" major ISPs.
I do that for my board. Just banning.info and.biz and various former and present Communist country domains stops most of it. But I require a real ISP email address. I would have tens of thousands of registered users with spyware URL's if I didn't. So I have a only a few legitimate registered users.:)
I used to add IP address ranges of foreign ISP's where a spam attack came from, but given my site content is of little interest to non-US, I finally just banned non-ARIN IP address ranges.
That's pretty much what it takes to block the attacks.
Had kept the focus and the creative minds, either.Net would not exist (and consequently, stole Borland's thunder) or the Borland tools would be better even than the Microsoft ones on that fronts (Delphi 8 almost got there, initially).
Which is why Microsoft did what they did. They have always done this to their competition, just add it to the long list.
I remember the early PC's were configured for up to 512K RAM. There were add-on boards to map in the extra RAM up to 640K (and a real time clock and ports). So the 640K however natural it was didn't match up with the way RAM naturalness developed.
If you think it MIGHT be your hardware, look into that.
The acid test would be for him to install Windows over Linux on the same hardware. It'd be interesting to se how "flawless" the Windows install is, and the subsequent behavior.
It's actually the only relevant comparison to make.
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I posted on my site "There's no doubt that Hans Reiser did it but between not finding Nina's body and if this ever comes out at trial it will be a get away with murder free card for Hans."
I'm assuming this comes out at trial, and that the gag order was to prevent pre-trial publicity, but Han's father apparently wants some anyway to help his son.
If this is really true this trial is going to light up the crime discussion boards. Remember also that this guy was Hans' financial agent prior to the divorce proceedings, not some random stranger his ex happened to meet, and they have nasty legal suits going on between them with the then wife playing a major role in it. This is really bizarre.
Still, no doubt Reiser will be working on his filesystem again real soon now. The trial starts Monday, and this will be a bombshell.
rd
Dell just announced they are selling Dell's with Ubuntu Linux. I just now Googled Ubuntu Dell e1505 and there are plenty of threads about Ubuntu on Dell e505.
I recently researched what Linux PC to buy and had only seen occasional references here on slashdot to Ubuntu. (A side goal was being comfortable using it as a development platform for the Linux server dist, CentOS, used by my web host.) Despite having heard much more about other distributions through the years, Ubuntu had the most pluses.
In checking any links on it, the latest release 7.04 just came out, so experiences with prior releases on that Dell will be reflected in this release, which means it should work better than ever for you.
rd
Just saying that there were small drops of blood isn't really enough.
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The floor of the car had been saturated with it and had been cleaned. Also the wall of a room in the house where they were arguing.
There really hasn't been enough information released to the public for us to form an accurate picture of any series of events.
There's been plenty of information reported. It is summarized in a thread with unadulterated opinion on my site at:
Noted coder Hans Reiser arrested for wife's disappearance
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewtopic
rd
It's weird that we know about the seat, the tools, the blood, but we don't know Hans' explanation.
It would need to be a recent explanation too. He was stopped by Redwood City police a week earlier (but after Nina disappeared) and the car seat was there at that time.
To the list of sightseeing, killing time, looking for redlight specials, and other reasons for driving around in Redwood City at the time, we can add looking for Nina or looking for a place to strap her body to the car seat and drop it off a bridge.
rd
Makes it a little fishy although I am sure I have small drops of blood around my house and in my cars too from small cuts and stuff happening while doing stuff outside. I would hope they need more than that to tie the "murder" to him.
They were not small drops of blood on the wall in the room of the house where they were heard arguing by the kids down in the den. They were not small drops of blood on the floor of the car, and of course the car seat is missing along with her. He at least tried to clean the blood off the floor of the car.
I think she just took off somewhere myself, I mean she was cheating on him so I don't think it is too far out of the ballpark.
They were separated and in divorce proceedings. Seeing someone else at that time is not "cheating".
rd
She was last seen at Hans Reiser's house (which was a large amount of the case against him) and if she is willing to enter his house, why not his car?
Because there was no front seat?
rd
She was last seen at Hans Reiser's house (which was a large amount of the case against him) and if she is willing to enter his house, why not his car?
She was dropping the kids off at his house, not his car.
rd
IBM is clearly using Linux to get people into UNIX, and then is trying to sell them with "but AIX is more stable/scalable" line.
.Net, as far as I can tell.
:)
That would seem to be the logical answer, but in my opinion Linux is the Microsoft antidote that IBM went with when they gave up the ghost on OS/2.
They donated some significant enterprise technology to Linux, but the alternative would have been to compete with NT/Windows Server with their enterprise OS'es. That would have been a financial disaster. So what does it cost them to beef up a free OS to compete with Windows server OSes. Not nearly as much as degrading their enterprise OS line.
As it is, they are now trying to find ways to use their enterprise OS'es to get a share of the Windows server market with new iseries(AS/400) entry models with DB2 priced competitively with Windows and SQL Server. These are JSP/J2EE (Websphere) oriented app servers to compete with IIS
But in no way do I see IBM having spent the effort they have on Linux as bait for a switch to AIX. If there were an identifiable stability problem in a Linux release they would probably help fix it.
I'm an iseries RPG programmer. i5/OS (OS/400) is legendary in its scalability, but not from a 386 to teraflops like Linux as one poster cited.
rd
But this is a field I'm passionate about so I felt obligated to post a defense for these IBM researchers. They really are doing great work.
Thanks for bringing me up to date. Any typos were minor, I understood your points.
But we now have to say spiking neural networks instead of neural networks or we're behind the times? Holy cow.
I really don't think any of my statements were wrong, you just have a lot more hope for this than I do based on your shared belief in the Hawkins theory, which I have to say, leaves me still saying that nothing, memory, reasoning, learning, or anything else, has been explained. Predicting into existence just isn't going to cut it, in my opinion.
rd
I practically fell out of my chair when I read that half a mouse cortex has been simulated. This is an INCREDIBLE advancement.
Reading the article, the half a mouse cortex was simply based on number of neurons simulated, not right-left brain functionality. Presumably doubling the size of the computer would model the entire mouse brain, but it's only IBM, they couldn't do that.
In addition, everything I have seen in tech press on AI since the rules based AI reasoning failures of the 80's has been neural net simulations looking for patterns, such as the mentioned synchronized firings. Aren't the neural net rules just tweaked until they get interesting behavior like that? Don't tell me you think they actually have any idea how they would simulate brain functionality. Training neural nets is just something easy to do. Beats actually writing complex code, doesn't it?
I've never seen any explanation for how either short term or long term memory works, much less reasoning or any other functionality. And that at least is something that would seem able to be modelled and explained. How does man know anything about something they have never encountered before, for example, to acquire language as a child?
It's a catch-22. AI researchers are setting up neural net models and hoping they produce something that explains that which they cannot explain to model.
rd
A few times, I overheard a recruiter call a neighboring colleague ("no thanks, I'm not really interested right now") and then hear my phone ring: it's the same recruiter.
Hate to burst your bubble, but that goes on all the time. They don't get paid unless they can move people.
rd
But you have to admit: a drummer in a punk band, carrying soap, might qualify as 'suspicious activity' to a jury of their peers.
How does someone use the date rape drug when it's in soap? And what if they shower with it?
As another ex-examiner I agree with the points you have made.
Thanks for the insight from you and GP ex-patent examiners. I will go back to recent thread on proposed patent law overhaul and see whether the GP's point about Supreme Court (idiotic) ruling that required granting patents like these is addressed and overruled, so to speak.
rd
Well, I'm not sure at home work on certain things can be done let alone safe in some situations.
Prior posters you're responding to didn't even understand (or care) the issue being written about was after hours on call emergency work. That quite frankly isn't limited to IT, but issue is real and hard on IT people overall.
In general people will migrate to less crazy hours if they can. This should be no great revelation. Men will do same thing given the chance.
Note that this is one of those jobs that are difficult to outsource overseas, one of the "safe" jobs we're supposed to be privileged to have.
It's no wonder people are staying away from IT.
rd
Wow, that sounds so ... FAMILIAR! [askmen.com]
It's doubtful that the author posted his piece here anonymously, otherwise an AC has cut and paste someone's work here and been modded first Flamebait and now Interesting, but should be Interesting Plagiarism.
A Slashdot editor should edit in real author's name and fair use attribution. Also hopefully real author will have a chance to respond if he wants.
rd
What is it about American society which creates these young men who have so little to lose?
Well, let's see. The last two mass shootings were by a Bosnian immigrant and now a Chinese national on a student visa.
Now how was it that American society created these young men?
rd
Win98's instability and lack of security made an upgrade to NT 5 much more appealing that an upgrade from WinXP to Vista.
I have two XP Pro's and a Win98. Guess which one I don't have to have security downloads to?
Of course a big part of that is using Netscape 7.02 on Win98, not IE (I use Firefox on the XP's). And having a BlackIce firewall (Norton on the XP's).
But the XP Pro's are constantly downloading security updates. Don't talk about Win98's lack of security to me. It's not the one that needs a lifeline.
rd
I don't think you understand the concept, you're still blinded by $ signs. Billy "donated" 30B to the foundation. He's worth an estimated 56B (I don't recall if that's before or after the donation, but let's take a worst case example of before, so his worth after is 26B. At a mere 4% interest, he'd have to spend a mere $2.8+M a day just to keep that 26B from growing. (BTW, that's over 1B A year)
I've posted a ton of anti-Microsoft posts in my time, but let's at least understand the facts here.
Gates and his wife will only be leaving releatively token amounts to their children. The rest will be go this foundation. Certainly it will end up having the impact of the Carnegie Foundation and many more all put together.
Buffet has started donating his fortune to the foundation with the stipulation that the money donated each year be spent that year. So whatever I said above about impact of foundation above is now doubled.
Gates has always had an intense interest in the science of life if you will, reading books on Microbiology at the beach on vacation and such. If he and his wife and Warren Buffet could solve the world's disease killers tomorrow, they would. So they fund research to do that.
In the meantime drinkable water and mosquito nets accomplish the same thing. I can not understand anyone slighting a foundation for trying to provide things like that.
Having said all that, will I ever run Vista? No. They have gone over the edge in trying to control people with that. I am already not happy with needing a lifeline to Microsoft for two XP Pro computers to at least have a chance of surviving on the internet. I will be buying a Linux computer next (Ubuntu after much research), and I'll see where I'm at when the relatively new XP Pro laptops die at some point. But I'll be cutting the lifeline to Microsoft then.
BillG has made enough money off me and everyone else that I won't be fretting about the foundation running dry anytime soon.
One other not so charitable point. To a certain degree from what I've read the foundation may be using grants to fund purchases of Microsoft software, although I've seen the denials and that the schools and libraries will be able to purchase what they want.
The impact of these two richest men in the United States gifts to the world will be far greater than Nobel's legacy of the Nobel Prize, or Carnegie's gifts of libraries such as I went to as a child. It may be unimaginable by the time they're done, and long after.
rd
I'm imagining the ultimate solution will only be to allow users with email addresses from "approved" major ISPs.
.info and .biz and various former and present Communist country domains stops most of it. But I require a real ISP email address. I would have tens of thousands of registered users with spyware URL's if I didn't. So I have a only a few legitimate registered users. :)
I do that for my board. Just banning
I used to add IP address ranges of foreign ISP's where a spam attack came from, but given my site content is of little interest to non-US, I finally just banned non-ARIN IP address ranges.
That's pretty much what it takes to block the attacks.
rd
From your point of view, maybe. But, again, MS put in the features you aren't using because someone wanted to pay for them.
I would term it embrace and extend to proprietary features that only work where Microsoft allows it to work. It's called lockin, and it comes free.
rd
Had kept the focus and the creative minds, either .Net would not exist (and consequently, stole Borland's thunder) or the Borland tools would be better even than the Microsoft ones on that fronts (Delphi 8 almost got there, initially).
Which is why Microsoft did what they did. They have always done this to their competition, just add it to the long list.
rd
I remember the early PC's were configured for up to 512K RAM. There were add-on boards to map in the extra RAM up to 640K (and a real time clock and ports). So the 640K however natural it was didn't match up with the way RAM naturalness developed.
rd
We need people to stop pirating Windows.
Bill said he would take care of that.
Windows users don't know what a command prompt is and never want to see one.
When I had a problem with Roadrunner the help desk instructed me to bring up the command window and type a command.
Windows users are people. Sheesh, they can type a command without freaking out.
rd
If you think it MIGHT be your hardware, look into that.
The acid test would be for him to install Windows over Linux on the same hardware. It'd be interesting to se how "flawless" the Windows install is, and the subsequent behavior.
It's actually the only relevant comparison to make.
rd