They supervise flights. The astronauts are strapped to their seats and control layout is divided between the three (and so are the responsibilities). This guy knows everything about this piece of metal, and whatever can make it behave the way it behaved. He probably even knows who exactly fscked up the landing, he just don't want to point fingers.
And Americans have tremendous amount of loyalty in them. "He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch, and if he's screwed up - we don't want to know about this." Telling American public that American astronaut has pressed the wrong button, is very unpatriotic to say the least, which has some negative consequences in terms of ratings and advertisement revenues (in Russia these same things have positive effect, though).
Besides, his words are just that, words, no matter how well he knows the situation. There should be some official investigation which would reach some conclusion as to why things happened the way they did. But by the time investigation finishes hardly anybody will notice the outcome.
It's in every freakin (Russian) newspaper today. There's a correction, though. It wasn't Budarin who said this. It was the head of RKK "Energia" (the folks who make spacecrafts) Yury Semenov. He said this in direct broadcast on TVS TV channel. If you can read Russian, here's the link: http://newsru.com/russia/04may2003/knopka.html
Budarin says that one of the americans botched the descent. "He pressed a wrong button and control systems have gone crazy" - this is a rough translation of his words. I doubt this will ever show up in "free" American press. He didn't clarify which one, though.
As far as I know you can customize the default installation script virtually in every aspect, INCLUDING default parameter values. And it's something that's been there for as long as I can remember.
I've never had UPS lose a package on me, and fscking FedEx did it twice. UPS customer service is also a helluvalot better and their tracking actually reflects the location of your package most of the time (unlike FedEx's). If this new gear makes even 1% of improvement they'll still be FAR ahead of any other carrier in this country.
You've just put together a list of people whose music I wouldn't listen to to save my life. Great example of "musicians" who would die in their cardboard boxes if it wasn't for multimillion-dollar advertisement campaigns and constant MTV and radio brainwash.
I have ASUS P4S8X mobo and RH9 doesn't support not only RAID (which is based on PDC20368 if I'm not mistaken) but network adapter and sound, too. This is a very popular board, so it would be great for a lot of folks to know how to make Linux work on it.
Microsoft Windows Update makes installing patches even simpler. It runs in background and doesn't hang from time to time like RH update thingie. And if you think that the fact that RH doesn't own the vast majority of the code it ships makes me feel more secure, you're WRONG. Every freaking patch to any piece of software they ship technically requires a comprehensive security review. Do they do that? Heck no. They just don't have enough people and dough. But they seem to be doing what Microsoft has been doing for the last year or so, only on a smaller scale. They go through the old code and review it. "Thousand eyes give better quality" is a myth as the last Samba vulnerability shows. There's no substitute for good engineering and professional security reviews. And thank god Microsoft stopped burying their shit in the sand and started fixing all those holes. Over time they'll get where they want to be, that's a truth that has been proven over and over. If they've really made security a priority (and I have no reason to doubt that having seen shitloads of fixes in the last year), they'll kick everyone else's ass.
This new Samba vulnerability allowed to do this too. These problems are less severe just because of 3 reasons: 1. There are much less Linux programmers than there are Windows programmers 2. It's not "cool" to write Linux worms and viruses, because Microsoft is evil, right? 3. Linux codebase is much more fragmented and virus that works on one system is not guaranteed to work on another.
Just stick a pipe into the ground and pump the oil. They'd live like kings if it wasn't for embargo imposed on them by the rest of the world. I'm not saying the embargo wasn't necessary, it was, but it would be stupid to think that they're poor. Second largest oil reserves in the world - that's a lot of dough sitting under them.
If they REALLY want to, they'll bury them. Just like they buried netscape, OS/2, and all office suites. They invested a HUGE sum of money into natural language processing technologies. In fact some of the best scientists in this domain are currently working for them. So if they want to, they'll eat Google alive.
You'd rather see these jobs migrate to India or Russia, right? Not those highly skilled Hindus and Russians migrate to the US and bring down ridiculously overinflated salaries of.com workers. It is for some reason impossible to reduce the salary for a worker in the US. During the dot-com era, you had to pay your workers real well, especially in California, to keep them. If you couldn't or didn't want to, you had to lower your hiring standards and hire morons. Guess what folks, those days are over and forgotten. I think Sun just can't pay $120K+ salaries anymore. They can't also tell their workers "starting with the next paycheck you'll get $85K", so they just fire them and hire cream of the crop from India for some reasonable salaries. I personally met some unbelievably bright Indian developers, so it's not like everyone is a cheap moron over there.
If you'd rather see these jobs migrate to India, write your senator NOW. But when there are no jobs left here, let me tell you, you won't like it in India.
1. Remember, we're talking about corporate customers who are interested in running large sites with strong database backend. Static content just isn't enough here.
2. I suppose you heard that the worlds largest webmail site runs on a cluster of Windows 2000 machines.:0) But that's not the point. The point is that corporate customer won't be willing to invest as much into clustering as Google did. They need high performance, low cost and READILY AVAILABLE solutions.
3. As far as I remember a lot of skull sweat from RH gurus went into that Linux machine as well in mindcraft tests. Did it help? A lot of skull sweat goes into oracle clustered benchmarks for TPC-C, and it doesn't help oracle either. Windows solutions are still twice as cheap and twice as fast at the same time.
4. IIS has never been Ring 0. Nuff said.:0)
5. Catching up in what?.NET is far ahead of Java in terms of speed, XML support, security, remoting, UI libraries, you name it! You've obviously haven't seen.NET technologies in person. It's amazing how much quality stuff they've cranked out in just 4.5 years.
Who the heck needs a single P2-500 junker serving static content? Let's see some serious stuff. Quads, 8-way servers, clusters, buttloads of RAM and data, dynamic pages served by each side's engine of choice. Something remotely resembling reality of a big corporate customer and letting the OS realize its full potential. Last time I checked Windows ripped Linux apart on tests like these. And IIS 6 (surprise!) now includes a kernel module as well, so TUX has lost its only advantage. And when we consider ASP.NET for generating the dynamic content we pretty much see that in terms of technology and performance the "inept" MS is far ahead. Perhaps it's time for linux hackers to stop writing widget libraries and making screenshots and show the world what they're made of.
That's why some system engineers and DBAs get paid real well. We're not talking about "average" systems here. We're talking about enterprise databases. If you don't know how to set them up properly, you better hire someone who does. I'd really be interested in seeing another independent test between the latest release of RH Linux (tweaked and patched ad nauseam) and Windows Server 2003 with IIS6. It seems to me so far that Linux is up for serious buttkicking again.
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They supervise flights. The astronauts are strapped to their seats and control layout is divided between the three (and so are the responsibilities). This guy knows everything about this piece of metal, and whatever can make it behave the way it behaved. He probably even knows who exactly fscked up the landing, he just don't want to point fingers.
And Americans have tremendous amount of loyalty in them. "He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch, and if he's screwed up - we don't want to know about this." Telling American public that American astronaut has pressed the wrong button, is very unpatriotic to say the least, which has some negative consequences in terms of ratings and advertisement revenues (in Russia these same things have positive effect, though).
Besides, his words are just that, words, no matter how well he knows the situation. There should be some official investigation which would reach some conclusion as to why things happened the way they did. But by the time investigation finishes hardly anybody will notice the outcome.
It's in every freakin (Russian) newspaper today. There's a correction, though. It wasn't Budarin who said this. It was the head of RKK "Energia" (the folks who make spacecrafts) Yury Semenov. He said this in direct broadcast on TVS TV channel. If you can read Russian, here's the link: http://newsru.com/russia/04may2003/knopka.html
Budarin says that one of the americans botched the descent. "He pressed a wrong button and control systems have gone crazy" - this is a rough translation of his words. I doubt this will ever show up in "free" American press. He didn't clarify which one, though.
As far as I know you can customize the default installation script virtually in every aspect, INCLUDING default parameter values. And it's something that's been there for as long as I can remember.
And check it out yourself. Although both UPS and FedEx suck, UPS sucks much less. At least in Washington.
I've never had UPS lose a package on me, and fscking FedEx did it twice. UPS customer service is also a helluvalot better and their tracking actually reflects the location of your package most of the time (unlike FedEx's). If this new gear makes even 1% of improvement they'll still be FAR ahead of any other carrier in this country.
I guess you think only your moral masturbation is important. Enjoy your next Nelly album you sheep.
Uh-uh. Growing up. Only grownups listen to Shania Twain (pukes) and J.Lo. (pukes again). Gimme a break.
You've just put together a list of people whose music I wouldn't listen to to save my life. Great example of "musicians" who would die in their cardboard boxes if it wasn't for multimillion-dollar advertisement campaigns and constant MTV and radio brainwash.
This site has only been taken down once since it appeared on the web despite the herds of hackers attacking it everyday.
I have ASUS P4S8X mobo and RH9 doesn't support not only RAID (which is based on PDC20368 if I'm not mistaken) but network adapter and sound, too. This is a very popular board, so it would be great for a lot of folks to know how to make Linux work on it.
This "poll" doesn't say that they trust Linux more though. And 35 experts is by no means a representative sample.
Microsoft Windows Update makes installing patches even simpler. It runs in background and doesn't hang from time to time like RH update thingie. And if you think that the fact that RH doesn't own the vast majority of the code it ships makes me feel more secure, you're WRONG. Every freaking patch to any piece of software they ship technically requires a comprehensive security review. Do they do that? Heck no. They just don't have enough people and dough. But they seem to be doing what Microsoft has been doing for the last year or so, only on a smaller scale. They go through the old code and review it. "Thousand eyes give better quality" is a myth as the last Samba vulnerability shows. There's no substitute for good engineering and professional security reviews. And thank god Microsoft stopped burying their shit in the sand and started fixing all those holes. Over time they'll get where they want to be, that's a truth that has been proven over and over. If they've really made security a priority (and I have no reason to doubt that having seen shitloads of fixes in the last year), they'll kick everyone else's ass.
This new Samba vulnerability allowed to do this too. These problems are less severe just because of 3 reasons:
1. There are much less Linux programmers than there are Windows programmers
2. It's not "cool" to write Linux worms and viruses, because Microsoft is evil, right?
3. Linux codebase is much more fragmented and virus that works on one system is not guaranteed to work on another.
Just stick a pipe into the ground and pump the oil. They'd live like kings if it wasn't for embargo imposed on them by the rest of the world. I'm not saying the embargo wasn't necessary, it was, but it would be stupid to think that they're poor. Second largest oil reserves in the world - that's a lot of dough sitting under them.
I receive patches from redhat twice or three times as often as from Microsoft. That gives me some data to compare the two.
Sorry folks, I'm not going to shell out several hundred dollars for a stinking remote. And I doubt that many readers of /. will.
If someone knows where I can see some mid-priced scanner comparative reviews, I'm all ears.
A little bit of thinking when developing the code and you'll never have to curse it. Quantity is not the main thing here, quality is.
If they REALLY want to, they'll bury them. Just like they buried netscape, OS/2, and all office suites. They invested a HUGE sum of money into natural language processing technologies. In fact some of the best scientists in this domain are currently working for them. So if they want to, they'll eat Google alive.
I've heard something like this somewhere. :0)
You'd rather see these jobs migrate to India or Russia, right? Not those highly skilled Hindus and Russians migrate to the US and bring down ridiculously overinflated salaries of .com workers. It is for some reason impossible to reduce the salary for a worker in the US. During the dot-com era, you had to pay your workers real well, especially in California, to keep them. If you couldn't or didn't want to, you had to lower your hiring standards and hire morons. Guess what folks, those days are over and forgotten. I think Sun just can't pay $120K+ salaries anymore. They can't also tell their workers "starting with the next paycheck you'll get $85K", so they just fire them and hire cream of the crop from India for some reasonable salaries. I personally met some unbelievably bright Indian developers, so it's not like everyone is a cheap moron over there.
If you'd rather see these jobs migrate to India, write your senator NOW. But when there are no jobs left here, let me tell you, you won't like it in India.
And where are the benchmarks proving your point of view? Even those done on a machine carefully crafted to let linux shine?
Sorry man, but you don't know JACK.
:0) But that's not the point. The point is that corporate customer won't be willing to invest as much into clustering as Google did. They need high performance, low cost and READILY AVAILABLE solutions.
:0)
.NET is far ahead of Java in terms of speed, XML support, security, remoting, UI libraries, you name it! You've obviously haven't seen .NET technologies in person. It's amazing how much quality stuff they've cranked out in just 4.5 years.
1. Remember, we're talking about corporate customers who are interested in running large sites with strong database backend. Static content just isn't enough here.
2. I suppose you heard that the worlds largest webmail site runs on a cluster of Windows 2000 machines.
3. As far as I remember a lot of skull sweat from RH gurus went into that Linux machine as well in mindcraft tests. Did it help? A lot of skull sweat goes into oracle clustered benchmarks for TPC-C, and it doesn't help oracle either. Windows solutions are still twice as cheap and twice as fast at the same time.
4. IIS has never been Ring 0. Nuff said.
5. Catching up in what?
Who the heck needs a single P2-500 junker serving static content? Let's see some serious stuff. Quads, 8-way servers, clusters, buttloads of RAM and data, dynamic pages served by each side's engine of choice. Something remotely resembling reality of a big corporate customer and letting the OS realize its full potential. Last time I checked Windows ripped Linux apart on tests like these. And IIS 6 (surprise!) now includes a kernel module as well, so TUX has lost its only advantage. And when we consider ASP.NET for generating the dynamic content we pretty much see that in terms of technology and performance the "inept" MS is far ahead. Perhaps it's time for linux hackers to stop writing widget libraries and making screenshots and show the world what they're made of.
That's why some system engineers and DBAs get paid real well. We're not talking about "average" systems here. We're talking about enterprise databases. If you don't know how to set them up properly, you better hire someone who does. I'd really be interested in seeing another independent test between the latest release of RH Linux (tweaked and patched ad nauseam) and Windows Server 2003 with IIS6. It seems to me so far that Linux is up for serious buttkicking again.