all dynamic IPs are owned by an ISP, and they log when you are using it (otherwise, how would they not bill you?)(and lets face it, to any ISP, military network security comes a long way down the list of priorities with 'bill you' right there at the top).
So, given the time of hack and the dynamic IP, the ISP knows who it was.
I think its gut feeling from the lightbulb problem - they never break during normal operation, only when you flick the switch. (though I think that occurs because you need the light - when you switch it on - and they hang on in there when they're about to blow just to get maximum annoyance)
People say its the damage due to spinning up discs - but they do that all the time, some disks power off if they're not needed (ie most laptops) and you don't hear that laptops die regularly.
Some say its the heat in the startup, but computers get hot and cold all the time - when you use the CPU heavily (ie play games) there's a significant increase in heat. And you don't hear from gamers that their computers die regularly (except when they overclock them;) )
Some say its the electrical surge, but like HDDs, power saving turns lots of components off regularly.
I say its not going to destroy your server during its operational life. I find moving them (ie shaking them around in the back of a van) is the worst thing you can do to break computers, not recycle the power.
I suppose you might have a problem if your power supply to the building is down, but you have generators right.. but then maybe your datacentre building is destroyed, but you have offsite disaster recovery... but then maybe you'd have problems if your city is invaded by rampaging armies... but you have an international site to run it from, but then maybe you'd have problems if the Earth is destroyed to make way for a intergalactic superhighway...
I mean really, you need to manage risk better. If your server fails to restart due to a PSU failure, you get the support guys to send a new one, or you go to PC World and buy one. You have a couple of hours downtime that you'd probably have anyway if you ran your server 24/7.
so you run it in a VM host, suspend it and then shut the host server down. Bring it all back up as if nothing had happened (and that's nearly entirely true).
If they'd written it in COBOL they wouldn't have these problems... I guess they paid some high-cost consultants to rewrite it in something modern so it'd be faster and more configurable:-)
I feel someone needs to have a look at their code and then post to WTF
True, serious Kudos to Mr Shuttleworth for all he's done subsidising Ubuntu. I'd say its done more to bring Linux to the desktop than any other company.
However, to concentrate on the server edition is a mistake, he won't bring Ubuntu into the datacentre as you've got RedHat (mostly) there already. Why would anyone want to try a different Linux distro - there's nothing really to make it worthwhile.
So, concentrate more on the desktop, get governments to go for it in place of Windows, make money off the support for that instead of the server edition.
I think Mark can afford it, $20m for a space trip, $575 for selling Thawte at the height of the dotCom boom (just think a year later, he wouldn't be a multi-millionaire).
yeah, but as implementing an OpenID consumer is such a doddle, I'm sure CmdrTaco could read the example perl docs and slap it into the authentication system on/. in 5 minutes.
The tricky bit is tying your existing user to your openid login.. maybe it'd take him 10 minutes:-)
The xbox was partly developed as a way to become the 'home centre' computing hub - ie when everybody in the world has a PC running Windows, what do you do to sell more copies? You become a set top box provider, and then bring the value of windows to people's homes through their multimedia centre.
So, Sony saw, thought 'oh yeah, games are just so 80s, we can have a bit of that pie too' and now you see news fluff like this as part of their competitive stance against each other. They both care, they both want you to have a console as your main PC (for MS: want you to have a console as well as a PC) as this is where they see lots of sales coming from.
You and I may not care, but you can see a suggestion here where these companies want you to go in the future.
With that said, the ONLY reason I would even think of switching to Vista is because it supports video hardware acceleration for the desktop. I just wish I could find an application to do that on XP.
really? I run Vista and I've not noticed. You'd think with HW acceleration my desktop would be zippy-do fast, but it flickers when I drag large windows around, and the effects are no better than they when I had XP.
However, thumbnails and the useless Windows picture viewer thing (that views almost every image format... eventually)(but not gifs)(but does do wmvs) are really poor. You'd think that if it all was hardware accelerated, it wouldn't suck at all - I play some games that really are stunning graphically, Vista desktop is nothing like what you'd expect from the same hardware.
Yeah, but what you've just described in BizTalk... only that's not quite the fire-and-forget applicationinfrastructureframework that it should be.
So, perhaps we'll see it integrated into that, just so you can be enticed by the 'open and interoperable' MQs but then get bent over the totally un-open and expensive Biztalk server while.. you described the rest already.
When you test new software on old hardware of course it's going to be slower though.
That's hardly a given, lots of software gets better as it ages - new features are added, but also performance tweaks get added.
The problem is that software should be getting quicker on the same hardware, the alternative is bloaty apps that no-one wants to use. See Vista for the ultimate conclusion to that. You don;t want Ubuntu to end up the same, so its good that someone is pointing out performance issues. Hopefully the next release will have a few of these issues looked at and improved.
mod_wxjs, no. I've not used it. I'm not a web server developer really. However, I do think its a sensible thing, whilst you cannot re-use all your client-side code, that's no reason not to reuse some of it and also to have client and server code written in a single language (there's quite a few benefits to that).
As we have all these client-side javascript compilers that give great performance there's even less reason not to use it on the server too.
I grew up on Pascal too! I really think everyone else should, its the perfect introduction to a serious development career.
I used Evans Data survey (you need to pay for it, but its widely popular amongst CIOs:
Dynamic languages are certainly popular. Almost 70 percent of the 1,200 developers surveyed by Evans Data for its most recent Global Development Survey currently use JavaScript, the most popular dynamic language, with fifteen percent more planning to adopt it. PHP is used by just over a third of developers, and Perl has captured about a quarter of developers (though Perl is much more popular in North America, with 36 percent spending at least some of their time using it).
I guess it depends on the methodology, I'm a C++ dev, but even I use javascript occasionally.
See here for a bit of a discussion of the topic, including a link to mod_wxjs an whitebeam.
Ps. Indentation is your friend, even with scope indicators, you still want to code scope blocks with indentation, otherwise its a bitch to read. python just removed them as they should be redundant.
Basically the cost vs. efficiency just doesn't cut it. You would probably spend close to a trillion dollars for cyclers that don't have a real good chance at saving a colony. More likely, your company (or government) would just go bankrupt over 100 people.
Here's a comparison of some options: IBM SecureWay Directory, Messaging Direct M-Vault, Microsoft Active Directory, Netscape Directory Server, Novell eDirectory, OpenLDAP.
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all dynamic IPs are owned by an ISP, and they log when you are using it (otherwise, how would they not bill you?)(and lets face it, to any ISP, military network security comes a long way down the list of priorities with 'bill you' right there at the top).
So, given the time of hack and the dynamic IP, the ISP knows who it was.
Surely that should be pogrommers? The reference here being specifically directed at any non-MS user.
I wonder how tracking it is going to help if it crashes thru someones ceiling at 100mph.
It won't, but means no-one can deny your claim using an 'act of god' insurance exclusion.
if only 4k of 11k are migrated, doesn't that mean they will announce even greater cost savings once the migration is complete?
The big question is - which desktop do they use? Suse, Ubuntu or Fedora? Gnome or KDE?
I think its gut feeling from the lightbulb problem - they never break during normal operation, only when you flick the switch. (though I think that occurs because you need the light - when you switch it on - and they hang on in there when they're about to blow just to get maximum annoyance)
People say its the damage due to spinning up discs - but they do that all the time, some disks power off if they're not needed (ie most laptops) and you don't hear that laptops die regularly.
Some say its the heat in the startup, but computers get hot and cold all the time - when you use the CPU heavily (ie play games) there's a significant increase in heat. And you don't hear from gamers that their computers die regularly (except when they overclock them ;) )
Some say its the electrical surge, but like HDDs, power saving turns lots of components off regularly.
I say its not going to destroy your server during its operational life. I find moving them (ie shaking them around in the back of a van) is the worst thing you can do to break computers, not recycle the power.
Serious servers have redundant PSUs.
I suppose you might have a problem if your power supply to the building is down, but you have generators right.. but then maybe your datacentre building is destroyed, but you have offsite disaster recovery... but then maybe you'd have problems if your city is invaded by rampaging armies... but you have an international site to run it from, but then maybe you'd have problems if the Earth is destroyed to make way for a intergalactic superhighway...
I mean really, you need to manage risk better. If your server fails to restart due to a PSU failure, you get the support guys to send a new one, or you go to PC World and buy one. You have a couple of hours downtime that you'd probably have anyway if you ran your server 24/7.
so you run it in a VM host, suspend it and then shut the host server down. Bring it all back up as if nothing had happened (and that's nearly entirely true).
If they'd written it in COBOL they wouldn't have these problems... I guess they paid some high-cost consultants to rewrite it in something modern so it'd be faster and more configurable :-)
I feel someone needs to have a look at their code and then post to WTF
True, serious Kudos to Mr Shuttleworth for all he's done subsidising Ubuntu. I'd say its done more to bring Linux to the desktop than any other company.
However, to concentrate on the server edition is a mistake, he won't bring Ubuntu into the datacentre as you've got RedHat (mostly) there already. Why would anyone want to try a different Linux distro - there's nothing really to make it worthwhile.
So, concentrate more on the desktop, get governments to go for it in place of Windows, make money off the support for that instead of the server edition.
I think Mark can afford it, $20m for a space trip, $575 for selling Thawte at the height of the dotCom boom (just think a year later, he wouldn't be a multi-millionaire).
yeah, but as implementing an OpenID consumer is such a doddle, I'm sure CmdrTaco could read the example perl docs and slap it into the authentication system on /. in 5 minutes.
The tricky bit is tying your existing user to your openid login.. maybe it'd take him 10 minutes :-)
sorry.. of course, Sony had these things, then MS came along said "look at this great new innovation we've created" and the rest is as I said :)
The xbox was partly developed as a way to become the 'home centre' computing hub - ie when everybody in the world has a PC running Windows, what do you do to sell more copies? You become a set top box provider, and then bring the value of windows to people's homes through their multimedia centre.
So, Sony saw, thought 'oh yeah, games are just so 80s, we can have a bit of that pie too' and now you see news fluff like this as part of their competitive stance against each other. They both care, they both want you to have a console as your main PC (for MS: want you to have a console as well as a PC) as this is where they see lots of sales coming from.
You and I may not care, but you can see a suggestion here where these companies want you to go in the future.
Slipstreaming DriverPacks into the install disc......
I thought the discussion was about setting up Linux is for geeks, while Windows can be done by anyone?
are you saying that there will be no software piracy in Africa?
I suppose, like China, MS will be sending all its lawyers in to enforce software copyrights... eventually.
With that said, the ONLY reason I would even think of switching to Vista is because it supports video hardware acceleration for the desktop. I just wish I could find an application to do that on XP.
really? I run Vista and I've not noticed. You'd think with HW acceleration my desktop would be zippy-do fast, but it flickers when I drag large windows around, and the effects are no better than they when I had XP.
However, thumbnails and the useless Windows picture viewer thing (that views almost every image format... eventually)(but not gifs)(but does do wmvs) are really poor. You'd think that if it all was hardware accelerated, it wouldn't suck at all - I play some games that really are stunning graphically, Vista desktop is nothing like what you'd expect from the same hardware.
Yeah, but what you've just described in BizTalk... only that's not quite the fire-and-forget applicationinfrastructureframework that it should be.
So, perhaps we'll see it integrated into that, just so you can be enticed by the 'open and interoperable' MQs but then get bent over the totally un-open and expensive Biztalk server while .. you described the rest already.
When you test new software on old hardware of course it's going to be slower though.
That's hardly a given, lots of software gets better as it ages - new features are added, but also performance tweaks get added.
The problem is that software should be getting quicker on the same hardware, the alternative is bloaty apps that no-one wants to use. See Vista for the ultimate conclusion to that. You don;t want Ubuntu to end up the same, so its good that someone is pointing out performance issues. Hopefully the next release will have a few of these issues looked at and improved.
mod_wxjs, no. I've not used it. I'm not a web server developer really. However, I do think its a sensible thing, whilst you cannot re-use all your client-side code, that's no reason not to reuse some of it and also to have client and server code written in a single language (there's quite a few benefits to that).
As we have all these client-side javascript compilers that give great performance there's even less reason not to use it on the server too.
I grew up on Pascal too! I really think everyone else should, its the perfect introduction to a serious development career.
I used Evans Data survey (you need to pay for it, but its widely popular amongst CIOs:
Dynamic languages are certainly popular. Almost 70 percent of the 1,200 developers surveyed by Evans Data for its most recent Global Development Survey currently use JavaScript, the most popular dynamic language, with fifteen percent more planning to adopt it. PHP is used by just over a third of developers, and Perl has captured about a quarter of developers (though Perl is much more popular in North America, with 36 percent spending at least some of their time using it).
I guess it depends on the methodology, I'm a C++ dev, but even I use javascript occasionally.
They do (sortof).
See here for a bit of a discussion of the topic, including a link to mod_wxjs an whitebeam.
Ps. Indentation is your friend, even with scope indicators, you still want to code scope blocks with indentation, otherwise its a bitch to read. python just removed them as they should be redundant.
Now tell me: Do you really think that makes you qualified to pass judgment on, arguably, the most widely-used language on the internet?
Show me where he criticised javascript and I'll accept that he's unqualified to pass judgement on the most widely-used language on the planet.
I understand Perl is the 2nd (in North America)(3rd overall otherwise).
however, make a backup before installing it. It may be different now, but it was a bitch to remove from my old box.
Basically the cost vs. efficiency just doesn't cut it. You would probably spend close to a trillion dollars for cyclers that don't have a real good chance at saving a colony. More likely, your company (or government) would just go bankrupt over 100 people.
So, what, we just need to send a load of bankers?
He was obviously promoted into the position. Don't worry, soon he should be promoted into a head of marketing, its only a matter of time :-)
do a search for LDAP.
Here's a comparison of some options:
IBM SecureWay Directory,
Messaging Direct M-Vault,
Microsoft Active Directory,
Netscape Directory Server,
Novell eDirectory,
OpenLDAP.