I had a drive array that was eating drives about '02.
WD started sending extra return packages with the replacement drives.
MTBF was running about two months, or two failures a week.
Got to know there support department well.
I think every drive was replaced twice, and then it became stable. so something changed, but I don't really know what.
I have rarely had drives last their full three years. but pretty much all of them have had good RMA policies.
I just wish that they had easy to get linux based drive test software so I could easily net boot the machine and test the drives without having to deal with removable media.
I believe that the sun converter is the only one that has a chance of saving setting word to save text documents as odt by default, (much like you can do for almost any document format properly supported by word.)
There is nothing in the GPL that says you are granting exclusive license of the code.
If you are the sole copyright holder (this conversation makes no sense otherwise).
You release A 1.0 under the GPL You can then release A 1.1 under what ever license you wish. As you own the copyright and are are just on longer offering it under what is for you an old license.
You can even release SoftwareA 1.0 under the GPL and simultaneously release it under a license similar to Microsoft's standard license, and charge $50.00 per copy.
The GPL is not an exclusive license, which opens the door to all sorts of oddities.
That includes the 120 TB of network traffic I accounted for last month on my DSL account. That's not BT traffic, that's mostly offsite backups of my business, but still, I know I'm in the "blood sucking leaches" category.
WTF You average 485.451852 megabytes per second on your home DSL line!!!
I WANT THAT DSL SERVICE! 120 GB of network traffic a month my dsl could do, but that's 500 times as fast as what I have.
Interesting that ClamAV seems to be left out of most anti-virus comparisons,
I would think that ClamAV would be sortof the defacto standard that you have to be better than to get someone to spend money. Oh, well we all know the reasons for it, but it sort of sucks anyways.
Try running high end ATi cards in linux... pain in the arse.
Agreed, but keep looking with the new docs that AMD released the ATI video drivers in xorg are noticeably better every couple days or so.
I'd check back in a couple months and see what the state of ATI drivers in debian unstable is. I remember when Intel released the docs to their video chips and the four months or so of really broken drivers followed by nice stable 3d acceleration (on a crappy on board video card, but nice for what it is.) So I have some hope for my ATI cards working nicely some time this year.
In California If you produce more electricity than your use from the solar panels on your house you not only don't get to sell your excess electricity at wholesale rates you just get credits that expire on your anniversary of having net metering. This is unlike Germany where you get to sell your excess solar generated electricity at retail prices.
Basically PG&E is going to make about $2,000 dollars off of me because I don't use enough electricity. (maybe I need to move some pizza boxes from the office to home, no I can hear the fans in the other room at work even with the door closed)
The only debate we are having is to replace the hot water heaters or the stove with electric instead of gas so that we can increase our electric usage.
California has an electricity shortage and many of their residents are scaling back solar installations and or scheming to use more electricity and they are going to install stupid devices that can be defeated by walking down to the drugstore and getting an instant heat pad to put on the thermostat. (Of course the real nerds will put a second thermostat on the hair dryer that is pointed at the radio controlled thermostat and have it blow hot air at the thing to get the house cool. I guess I need to go patent a really obvious design and get manufacturing lined up if this stupid nanny state regulation gets passed.
Gee this a bad idea that has an obvious workaround by the dishonest and has lots of room for kickbacks and ignores the cause of the problem, I give it about an 80% chance of passing if the elected officials in Sacramento get paid their bribes^w campaign contributions.
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
If your job included duties like programing where you you have to keep a lot in your mind at one time a private office would seem more of a work requirement than a nicety.
I would clear out a large (or medium sized, the LCD monitor won't take up much space) broom closet for an IT worker that is expected to produce working code, even if it is just maintenance scripts.)
If interruptions do not cause you to be an order of magnitude less efficient than you can happily do with out an office, many top producing sales people prefer not to have an office, or if they do have one they want a fishbowl (glass walls to the hallway).
I don't get this idea of hiring people and then not giving the an environment that the can do the job you are paying good money for.
That methodology is from July 2000. If you have been following the survey for the last several years you would know that a large percentage of the sites currently counted are on blogger.com, livejournal.com myspace.com and facebook.com. They have been collecting comments and tweaking there survey for over seven years since that methodology was posted.
What I would find much more interesting is a sharepoint, drupal, joomla, plone, handcoded html, frontpage, oracle websphere, opencms, wordpress, etc. survey of websites.
If you read netcrafts definition of a website you will find some sort of strange things. almost all the google sites are blogger sites, over half the IIS sites are myspace profiles and live.com blogs.
The recent decline in IIS and gain by apache is almost entirely myspace to facebook migration.
The other big factors are godaddy parking is IIS, most other parking domains are apache, and then there is the relatively small number of sites which are all the sites that generate all the content that you would actually want to connect to the internet for.
Netcraft is has a bit of a problem with figuring out what is a website. Is a myspace profile a website? No, but what if someone is running a music site off of their myspace profile and have it branded and put real effort into and is its own destination?
Do geocities accounts count as websites? most of them did get counted and when geocities popularity waned so did BSDs market share.
What if you wild card a domain name and have a script generate unique content for almost every possible hostname, and submitted tens of thousands of the hostnames of that server to netcraft? How many websites would that be? Some creative spamming by Microsoft or their enemies would make netcraft statistics pretty meaningless. Also Netcraft only reports on the front facing server which grossly understates zope and tomcats presence.
There are lies, damn lies, statistics, and netcraft website counts.
You can do tftp firmware upgrades to the router much like the Linux based Linksys boxes.
The uses I can foresee is modifying the ipstack and modifying snmp of the router. I am sure more creative minds than mine can come up with much more useful ideas.
I have a compaq rack mount with redundant power supplies that draws 10 watts with the power off! (not that it spends much time with the power off), but that counts as a bit more than nothing.
Last time I check... Winter was caused by the angle of the planet. Meaning
Umm, If you live in the northern hemisphere the sun is closer during the winter than during the summer.
The angle of the planet results in a variation in the amount of solar radiation absorbed in a particular place. Another factor that makes the poles colder than equitorial regions is the amount of atmosphere that the radiation (sunlight) has to pass through, there is also issues of diffraction that occur.
Now if you want to talk about the core temp of the earth, then I suppose it would be possible that the sun has no effect.
Because of course their would be no effect from being bombarded with radiation 24/7/365 for a few million years. This is as wrong as the creationists that claim that the evolution violates thermodynamics because there is no outside energy source. (I sitll cann't believe someone doesn't interupt them and go "I know how about the sun, think that might proved some outside energy?")
Wish there was a -5 wrong tag. Some posts just deserve it.
Ok, I'll bite. What "invalid" urls are in exchangeweb? Before you answer, remember I DO have exchange web on my server..
I cannot remember what the issue is exactly but it has (had? I have been mercifully spared from exchange 2005) to do with % signs in email subjects or file names.
If Microsoft concedes that IE should validate/sanitize URL input before passing it to other applications, then other browsers should also validate/sanitize URL input before passing it to other vulnerable Microsoft/Adobe/IBM/... applications.
That would work if you didn't have to make an exception for the Outlook Web Access Client for exchange. That has all sorts of invalid URL's in it that should never be accepted by a web browser.
Worst thing Netscape and Microsoft ever did is allow their browsers to render invalid html instead of throwing an error.
If you are allowed to keep the receipt it would make vote buying verifiable.
Bring in your receipt showing you voted for Joe Bob for 20% off your next car would be a cool ad scheme.
It would also make direct purchasing of votes easier, as here is $50 and bring back a receipt showing you voted. (the mayor of San Francisco spent 10 million for his 120K votes. )
You could only rent to tenants that show receipts that show that they voted against tenant protections.
Receipts are very problematic.
The solution is what has been said before: machine generated ballots or ballots scanned by machine but the "real" ballot is the paper ballot and recounts use the paper ballots.
(I live in San Francisco that because we refuse to use touch screen voting machines are hand counting our election this fall.
The only point would be that the USA has little moral authority when discussing weapons. (practical authority yes, moral authority no.)
Ironically, our diplomatic policy is as if we believe that we have moral authority and no practical authority. As evil as Nixon was, at least he didn't say that because he was a Quaker he was clearly a left wing pacifist. (I can see all of our current leadership in congress being that disingenuous.)
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However my math professor in college followed up with the follow up question:
There is a goat behind two doors and a car behind one door.
You chose door C.
Monty shows you door A has a goat behind it.
Your odds are now fifty-fifty that you have a car behind door C.
What do you know?
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Spoiler
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If you choose door C, Monty will always choose door A if he can. (if this is not true the odds would not have changed to 50-50)
They are getting tagged with the moniker "the new evil".
I wonder how much of this has to do with the Microsoft to Google employee migration bringing the corporate culture with the people?
I had a drive array that was eating drives about '02.
WD started sending extra return packages with the replacement drives.
MTBF was running about two months, or two failures a week.
Got to know there support department well.
I think every drive was replaced twice, and then it became stable. so something changed, but I don't really know what.
I have rarely had drives last their full three years. but pretty much all of them have had good RMA policies.
I just wish that they had easy to get linux based drive test software so I could easily net boot the machine and test the drives without having to deal with removable media.
From the specs I would use the sun converter.
I believe that the sun converter is the only one that has a chance of saving setting word to save text documents as odt by default, (much like you can do for almost any document format properly supported by word.)
But, this is what mysql/Sun Micro does.
There is nothing in the GPL that says you are granting exclusive license of the code.
If you are the sole copyright holder (this conversation makes no sense otherwise).
You release A 1.0 under the GPL
You can then release A 1.1 under what ever license you wish. As you own the copyright and are are just on longer offering it under what is for you an old license.
You can even release SoftwareA 1.0 under the GPL and simultaneously release it under a license similar to Microsoft's standard license, and charge $50.00 per copy.
The GPL is not an exclusive license, which opens the door to all sorts of oddities.
I believe you meant:
"Is it compatible with my OS?" is was not an issue for windows users. Despite all the strides made in the last few years, it still is for Linux users.
As windows will not mean Windows XP after next year but Windows Vista.
WTF You average 485.451852 megabytes per second on your home DSL line!!!
I WANT THAT DSL SERVICE!
120 GB of network traffic a month my dsl could do, but that's 500 times as fast as what I have.
Interesting that ClamAV seems to be left out of most anti-virus comparisons,
I would think that ClamAV would be sortof the defacto standard that you have to be better than to get someone to spend money. Oh, well we all know the reasons for it, but it sort of sucks anyways.
http://www.moonsecure.com/ is what I recommend to people, it has on execute and uses clamav but you can plug the anti-virus engine of your choice in.
Agreed, but keep looking with the new docs that AMD released the ATI video drivers in xorg are noticeably better every couple days or so.
I'd check back in a couple months and see what the state of ATI drivers in debian unstable is. I remember when Intel released the docs to their video chips and the four months or so of really broken drivers followed by nice stable 3d acceleration (on a crappy on board video card, but nice for what it is.) So I have some hope for my ATI cards working nicely some time this year.
In California If you produce more electricity than your use from the solar panels on your house you not only don't get to sell your excess electricity at wholesale rates you just get credits that expire on your anniversary of having net metering. This is unlike Germany where you get to sell your excess solar generated electricity at retail prices.
Basically PG&E is going to make about $2,000 dollars off of me because I don't use enough electricity. (maybe I need to move some pizza boxes from the office to home, no I can hear the fans in the other room at work even with the door closed)
The only debate we are having is to replace the hot water heaters or the stove with electric instead of gas so that we can increase our electric usage.
California has an electricity shortage and many of their residents are scaling back solar installations and or scheming to use more electricity and they are going to install stupid devices that can be defeated by walking down to the drugstore and getting an instant heat pad to put on the thermostat. (Of course the real nerds will put a second thermostat on the hair dryer that is pointed at the radio controlled thermostat and have it blow hot air at the thing to get the house cool. I guess I need to go patent a really obvious design and get manufacturing lined up if this stupid nanny state regulation gets passed.
Gee this a bad idea that has an obvious workaround by the dishonest and has lots of room for kickbacks and ignores the cause of the problem, I give it about an 80% chance of passing if the elected officials in Sacramento get paid their bribes^w campaign contributions.
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS
By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
Bill Gates
General Partner, Micro-Soft
If your job included duties like programing where you you have to keep a lot in your mind at one time a private office would seem more of a work requirement than a nicety.
I would clear out a large (or medium sized, the LCD monitor won't take up much space) broom closet for an IT worker that is expected to produce working code, even if it is just maintenance scripts.)
If interruptions do not cause you to be an order of magnitude less efficient than you can happily do with out an office, many top producing sales people prefer not to have an office, or if they do have one they want a fishbowl (glass walls to the hallway).
I don't get this idea of hiring people and then not giving the an environment that the can do the job you are paying good money for.
That methodology is from July 2000. If you have been following the survey for the last several years you would know that a large percentage of the sites currently counted are on blogger.com, livejournal.com myspace.com and facebook.com. They have been collecting comments and tweaking there survey for over seven years since that methodology was posted.
What I would find much more interesting is a sharepoint, drupal, joomla, plone, handcoded html, frontpage, oracle websphere, opencms, wordpress, etc. survey of websites.
If you read netcrafts definition of a website you will find some sort of strange things. almost all the google sites are blogger sites, over half the IIS sites are myspace profiles and live.com blogs.
The recent decline in IIS and gain by apache is almost entirely myspace to facebook migration.
The other big factors are godaddy parking is IIS, most other parking domains are apache, and then there is the relatively small number of sites which are all the sites that generate all the content that you would actually want to connect to the internet for.
Netcraft is has a bit of a problem with figuring out what is a website. Is a myspace profile a website? No, but what if someone is running a music site off of their myspace profile and have it branded and put real effort into and is its own destination?
Do geocities accounts count as websites? most of them did get counted and when geocities popularity waned so did BSDs market share.
What if you wild card a domain name and have a script generate unique content for almost every possible hostname, and submitted tens of thousands of the hostnames of that server to netcraft? How many websites would that be? Some creative spamming by Microsoft or their enemies would make netcraft statistics pretty meaningless. Also Netcraft only reports on the front facing server which grossly understates zope and tomcats presence.
There are lies, damn lies, statistics, and netcraft website counts.
They have tools that enable them to create the Flash based solutions quickly.
The technical discussion probably begins and ends there most of the time.
You can do tftp firmware upgrades to the router much like the Linux based Linksys boxes.
The uses I can foresee is modifying the ipstack and modifying snmp of the router. I am sure more creative minds than mine can come up with much more useful ideas.
I have a compaq rack mount with redundant power supplies that draws 10 watts with the power off! (not that it spends much time with the power off), but that counts as a bit more than nothing.
Umm, If you live in the northern hemisphere the sun is closer during the winter than during the summer.
The angle of the planet results in a variation in the amount of solar radiation absorbed in a particular place. Another factor that makes the poles colder than equitorial regions is the amount of atmosphere that the radiation (sunlight) has to pass through, there is also issues of diffraction that occur.
Because of course their would be no effect from being bombarded with radiation 24/7/365 for a few million years. This is as wrong as the creationists that claim that the evolution violates thermodynamics because there is no outside energy source. (I sitll cann't believe someone doesn't interupt them and go "I know how about the sun, think that might proved some outside energy?")
Wish there was a -5 wrong tag. Some posts just deserve it.
You might reconsider the women part of it for the GOP (excluding Condi of course ;-)
I cannot remember what the issue is exactly but it has (had? I have been mercifully spared from exchange 2005) to do with % signs in email subjects or file names.
That would work if you didn't have to make an exception for the Outlook Web Access Client for exchange. That has all sorts of invalid URL's in it that should never be accepted by a web browser.
Worst thing Netscape and Microsoft ever did is allow their browsers to render invalid html instead of throwing an error.
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
:-)
Is a good starting place
If you are allowed to keep the receipt it would make vote buying verifiable.
Bring in your receipt showing you voted for Joe Bob for 20% off your next car would be a cool ad scheme.
It would also make direct purchasing of votes easier, as here is $50 and bring back a receipt showing you voted. (the mayor of San Francisco spent 10 million for his 120K votes. )
You could only rent to tenants that show receipts that show that they voted against tenant protections.
Receipts are very problematic.
The solution is what has been said before: machine generated ballots or ballots scanned by machine but the "real" ballot is the paper ballot and recounts use the paper ballots.
(I live in San Francisco that because we refuse to use touch screen voting machines are hand counting our election this fall.
The only point would be that the USA has little moral authority when discussing weapons. (practical authority yes, moral authority no.)
Ironically, our diplomatic policy is as if we believe that we have moral authority and no practical authority. As evil as Nixon was, at least he didn't say that because he was a Quaker he was clearly a left wing pacifist. (I can see all of our current leadership in congress being that disingenuous.)