Eighty percent of today's desktop computers operate on chips produced by Intel Corporation, which is now a more profitable company than the top 10 PC makers combined. But just how did the company, under CEO Andrew Grove, become so powerful? And what does its position mean to those who depend upon it? By combining public records, private documents, and interviews with more than 100 of those who know the company best, Financial Times columnist Tim Jackson has produced the fascinating, definitive story: Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company.
It goes into great detail about all the dirty tricks that Intel used to get to the top
I think your analogy would be more accurate if you said
Do you have any sympathy for the driver doing 75 mph in a 35 mph *if the speed limit was not posted* and finally gets a ticket because a cop just happened to be on the road?
My point is that what is considered decent and indecent is not clearly defined. The FCC just "knows" and fines people. In addition different performers are held to different standards
You should also check out the Horde Project which has a calendaring module called kronolith. You can view remote calendars, have multiple backends for storage, repeatable events, e-mail reminders, integration with tasks and notes, shared calendars for meetings and meeting scheduling. They have even started introduction SyncML for syncing with your phone/palm
After reading this, I'm not sure I want to implement SPF on my domain.
I use some features like pre-forwarding with qmail-ldap that will break because of SPF. And not to mention alot of the RFCs that it seems to break
Actually, there are some commerical companies in the US who use a modified version of what you are talking about to hawk their wares. There was a recent article in Forbes about Tremor (a word of mouth group made up for teens). Would be pretty interesting if Microsoft tried something like this and if it would work. Imagine random people getting Microsoft swag in the mail, I wonder what that would do for their image
While its not 1 or 2 developers, the Horde Project has a group of 4 core developers (who I see regularly contribute) and on my Horde installation there are 163k lines of php code. And that does not include the static HTML which has been split into.inc files. And I dont' even have all the applications installed so this number is more like 200k (or more)
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Main Entry: irregardless Pronunciation: "ir-i-'gard-l&s Function: adverb Etymology: probably blend of irrespective and regardless Date: circa 1912 nonstandard : REGARDLESS usage Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.
even though i agree with you, you should stick to the topic
If you file a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request you can get the winning bid (even if you can't find it on a website). Just call the DHS Contracting office and ask them for it. If they refuse ask them to give you the number of the person who handles FOIA requests in their department. I looked at the DHS website and there are several contact #'s so I don't know which one should be contacted...
also anyone see this?
Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft has landed a $470-plus million contract to issue software to the U.S. Army. Bloomberg reported it was the "biggest order ever for the company's programs. The deal covers 494,000 desktop computers, Microsoft spokesman Keith Hodson said. The Army will buy the software from a Microsoft reseller, Softmart, based in Downingtown, Pa. Hodson declined to say how the companies will divide the revenue," the wire service said.
but is it true with these computers that if something goes wrong with the protocol that they would be lost forever? I'm just saying for satellites there are better ways and you don't have to break the bank doing it.
Couldn't they have picked better protocols? It seems to be me for reliability and performance that isn't the best of choices. There are alot of other protocols (XTP for example) that the government could have used instead. Although TCP/IP is so commonplace I wouldn't want my 15 million dollar satellite to depend on it.
i have it working but wasn't easy.... I have a RedHat 7.3 machine with a SuperTrak SX6000 and 6 120GB WD HD's w/ 8MB cache. I tried the i2o drivers but with 2.4.18 I couldn't get the machine to boot off the array. So I ended up compiling the Promise source code as a module and using that. Works well for me/dev/sda1:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.47 seconds =272.34 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.03 seconds = 31.53 MB/sec
i had an open triangle boy proxy..... yes. I never knew where I was going to be and when I needed to use it. I didn't advertise it to anyone though.
However, I never had an open SMTP server running. The SPAM e-mail was sent by someone in Taiwan to other people who used my ISP. . When those people reported the e-mail to the ISP as SPAM, my ISP ran it through SpamCop and found out that my IP was listed in the text of the e-mail.
The stupid tech person didn't realize that the e-mail didn't come from my machine. All she saw was my IP address and assumed that I was advertising server storage or something. She told me that the mail came from my machine, but later confirmed that my SMTP server was not an open relay. The simplified Chinese showed up as junk and she was confused by the whole thing
There is some other way to detect Triangle Boy running. I specifically said *not* to list my machine in the directory of servers running triangle boy. And this happend well over a month ago.
Oh well, I guess i'll have to go back to using a VPN or SSH tunneling.
I had downloaded Triangle Boy and put it on my Linux machine when it was released so I get around various blocks at different places where I used the Internet. When SafeWeb called it quits, my Triangle Boy client continued to work which I found interesting. But I didn't complain.
That is until someone in Taiwan spammed a whole bunch of people with my IP address advertising it as a way to get around Chinese Internet censorship (my friend translated the Simplified Chinese in the e-mail). My ISP found out that my IP address was in the e-mail and was pissed and suspended my account (Ironically not because I was running Triangle Boy, but because my IP address was in the e-mail. They though *I* sent out the spam!) I just shut down the program, but lesson learned I guess.
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If you really want to find out about Intel, this is a great book.
Inside Intel
Eighty percent of today's desktop computers operate on chips produced by Intel Corporation, which is now a more profitable company than the top 10 PC makers combined. But just how did the company, under CEO Andrew Grove, become so powerful? And what does its position mean to those who depend upon it? By combining public records, private documents, and interviews with more than 100 of those who know the company best, Financial Times columnist Tim Jackson has produced the fascinating, definitive story: Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company. It goes into great detail about all the dirty tricks that Intel used to get to the top
I think your analogy would be more accurate if you said
Do you have any sympathy for the driver doing 75 mph in a 35 mph *if the speed limit was not posted* and finally gets a ticket because a cop just happened to be on the road?
My point is that what is considered decent and indecent is not clearly defined. The FCC just "knows" and fines people. In addition different performers are held to different standards
You should also check out the Horde Project which has a calendaring module called kronolith. You can view remote calendars, have multiple backends for storage, repeatable events, e-mail reminders, integration with tasks and notes, shared calendars for meetings and meeting scheduling. They have even started introduction SyncML for syncing with your phone/palm
After reading this, I'm not sure I want to implement SPF on my domain. I use some features like pre-forwarding with qmail-ldap that will break because of SPF. And not to mention alot of the RFCs that it seems to break
Actually, there are some commerical companies in the US who use a modified version of what you are talking about to hawk their wares. There was a recent article in Forbes about Tremor (a word of mouth group made up for teens). Would be pretty interesting if Microsoft tried something like this and if it would work. Imagine random people getting Microsoft swag in the mail, I wonder what that would do for their image
While its not 1 or 2 developers, the Horde Project has a group of 4 core developers (who I see regularly contribute) and on my Horde installation there are 163k lines of php code. And that does not include the static HTML which has been split into .inc files. And I dont' even have all the applications installed so this number is more like 200k (or more)
actually at Merriam-Webster
Main Entry: irregardless
Pronunciation: "ir-i-'gard-l&s
Function: adverb
Etymology: probably blend of irrespective and regardless
Date: circa 1912
nonstandard : REGARDLESS
usage Irregardless originated in dialectal American speech in the early 20th century. Its fairly widespread use in speech called it to the attention of usage commentators as early as 1927. The most frequently repeated remark about it is that "there is no such word." There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.
even though i agree with you, you should stick to the topic
If you file a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request you can get the winning bid (even if you can't find it on a website). Just call the DHS Contracting office and ask them for it. If they refuse ask them to give you the number of the person who handles FOIA requests in their department. I looked at the DHS website and there are several contact #'s so I don't know which one should be contacted...
also anyone see this?
Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft has landed a $470-plus million contract to issue software to the U.S. Army. Bloomberg reported it was the "biggest order ever for the company's programs. The deal covers 494,000 desktop computers, Microsoft spokesman Keith Hodson said. The Army will buy the software from a Microsoft reseller, Softmart, based in Downingtown, Pa. Hodson declined to say how the companies will divide the revenue," the wire service said.
from july 25, 2003
but is it true with these computers that if something goes wrong with the protocol that they would be lost forever? I'm just saying for satellites there are better ways and you don't have to break the bank doing it.
Couldn't they have picked better protocols? It seems to be me for reliability and performance that isn't the best of choices. There are alot of other protocols (XTP for example) that the government could have used instead. Although TCP/IP is so commonplace I wouldn't want my 15 million dollar satellite to depend on it.
i have it working but wasn't easy.... I have a RedHat 7.3 machine with a SuperTrak SX6000 and 6 120GB WD HD's w/ 8MB cache. I tried the i2o drivers but with 2.4.18 I couldn't get the machine to boot off the array. So I ended up compiling the Promise source code as a module and using that. Works well for me /dev/sda1:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.47 seconds =272.34 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.03 seconds = 31.53 MB/sec
However, I never had an open SMTP server running. The SPAM e-mail was sent by someone in Taiwan to other people who used my ISP. . When those people reported the e-mail to the ISP as SPAM, my ISP ran it through SpamCop and found out that my IP was listed in the text of the e-mail.
The stupid tech person didn't realize that the e-mail didn't come from my machine. All she saw was my IP address and assumed that I was advertising server storage or something. She told me that the mail came from my machine, but later confirmed that my SMTP server was not an open relay. The simplified Chinese showed up as junk and she was confused by the whole thing
There is some other way to detect Triangle Boy running. I specifically said *not* to list my machine in the directory of servers running triangle boy. And this happend well over a month ago.
Oh well, I guess i'll have to go back to using a VPN or SSH tunneling.
That is until someone in Taiwan spammed a whole bunch of people with my IP address advertising it as a way to get around Chinese Internet censorship (my friend translated the Simplified Chinese in the e-mail). My ISP found out that my IP address was in the e-mail and was pissed and suspended my account (Ironically not because I was running Triangle Boy, but because my IP address was in the e-mail. They though *I* sent out the spam!) I just shut down the program, but lesson learned I guess.