I so wish I had mod points to mod you up right now... I recently saw the light and started a savings account, especially after seeing the tech drought hit home ( my brother sat idle for 6 months or so and just now got a job ).. Problem i'm having, (as with most americans ) is paying down the major credit card bills that alot of us aquired during the 'oh, the economy is great and always will be ' boom...
Anyway, what is the compatibility of this thing with MS SQL server. last I checked, there was only like one or two NAS devices that could support SQL databases on them.
I'ld love to have a cheaper solution of having SQL database files on a network device, without sacrificing reliablity...
Does anybody do anything with SQL Server and a NAS device currently?
...The latest issue of Linux Journal (remember that mag? ) has a good article on the various quicktime players available for Linux, and how to install/use them...
You know what scares me...is congress...being...well...congress.. is going to layer on the regulations so thick, that they wont even realize that they are putting many business's who dont have a large R&D budget, but decent products, out of business... I wonder how many technical advisors are really helping these legislators with the requirements. Are we just talking about congressmen thinking they can pass a law that will automatically fix everything? I honestly dont think they know (or care) about the ramifications this law will have on the technology market...
Somebody please correct me on this, but since XML is just text, and text is not compressed (usually).. how can a XML based db even be plausible when compared to a 'standard' database that compresses date, indexes it, etc etc etc...
I'm still scratching my head...
on
AdCritic To Return
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· Score: 3, Insightful
...over why they even took adcritic down in the first time. Are big corporations so stupid that they cant realize they are getting free publicity? Adcritic could of and should be a marketing execs dream. Mother fuck wasting hordes of money to get time on a large network during a popular show's timeslot... just make it funny, post it to the net, and let the word of mouth do the rest.. i swear, sometimes i think companies that go out of business do so not because of poor sales, but because of stupid,ignorant, closed minded people running them
For anybody to lazy (or paranoid) to click on the link:
March 27, 2002
Promote Consumer Use of Broadband and Prevent Digital Piracy!
Dear Colleague
I invite you to join me in supporting legislation that would
encourage demand for broadband Internet service and protect
creative enterprise from the threat of digital piracy.
The promise of the Internet has not been fully met. While
consumers have unprecedented access to information resources
on the web, there is still a demand for more. Congress has
recently debated ways to better serve our constituents by
improving access to broadband Internet service, yet the demand
for this technology is severely lacking. This is simply
because consumers can't get what they want -- high quality
digital content like movies, music, and video games.
The reason for this has become very clear. Our nation's
creative enterprises have been hesitant to offer their
products over the Internet out of fear of piracy --
intellectual theft. And their concerns are justified. The
movie studios estimate that they lose over $3 billion annually
to piracy, yet private industry has stalled in developing
technology to prevent this illegal activity.
I would like to direct your attention to the following op-ed
written by Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of Disney.
Mr. Eisner points out the profound historical significance of
intellectual property rights and draws on one early and
aggressive advocate of protecting such property rights, the
16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
I plan to introduce legislation that would safeguard digital
content by spurring the rapid development of copyright
protection technology. Similar legislation, S. 2048, has been
introduced in the Senate by Senators Hollings, Stevens,
Inouye, Breaux, Nelson and Feinstein. I believe this is a
necessary step and I encourage you to join me in this effort.
If you have any questions or would like to become an original
cosponsor, please contact me or Jen Briggs of my staff at
5-4176.
... But it seemed like only a matter of time before the major players in the business world adopted linux. Hate to jump on the 'Hate MS' Bandwagon, but MS has really fumbled the ball lately. As Linux becomes more widespread, and more competent people who know how to install/run/use it get into the job market, we will see more of these types of stories being commonplace.
The problem I see is, so many people are trying to force feed the linux solution down peoples throats. Yes, advocate linux, but dont throw your hand. Managers and the ones who make business decisions like thinking they stumbled upon a great idea. For the most part, they wont take kindly to some geeky kid in IT telling them "we can save bunches of money with linux"... they have to talk to their buddies on the golf course, etc etc..
To sum it up...dont fret, in time, linux _will_ dominate
How long until...
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Spy v. Spy
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· Score: 2, Interesting
...somebody tries to sue while claiming a violation of the DMCA? This seems like something a corporation would pull out from it's sleave if it sees it's efforts to stop the anti-spy software is going nowhere...
...Stop harping on the guy. If it wasnt for him, I'ld still be bald, my wang wouldnt be 20-30% bigger, my vast real-estate empire would be nothing, and my hot willing wife from asia would still be over there picking rice...
...Well at least in my mind it was. Xenix was my first introduction to that "YOU NUCKS" thing I kept hearing about. I was a pimply faced teenager who was friends with a real live "hacker". Imagine that. But anyway, he did some wardialing and found a open Xenix box, and gave me the info. I remember calling him up going 'dude, whats the command to do DIR ? '. Little did I know at the time, but because of that one experience, i would fall in love with unix for the rest of my life... I sit here typing on my linux box, remembering thinking how it would be cool to run a unix clone on my pc in circa 1994 and have something similiar to that first box i encountered. aww..the memories..
...The economy rises, and falls. The tech sector also went through another boom, during the 80's (during the cold war era)...but then there was a massive batch of layoffs due to defense cut backs... then along comes the proliferation of the internet, and another boom... then a big burst in the bubble from bad investors... now another rise... ad nauseum....
Thats why I laugh when people think the End Is Near (tm). And, I also laugh when they think that these days are 'hard times'. No, hard times was when during the 80's my father would go on strike against Ma Bell for 6 months to a year at a time, and try to support 3 kids at the same time... This current market slowdown is an inconvenience... not the big catastrophe everybody seems to think it is
...with building up strategic alliances and subcontracting out manufacuring, but Intel still doesnt seem to be phased by any advances AMD has made... And i dont know why.. I would like to see somebody do a good writeup comparing AMD and Intel's practices, pointing out the strenghts/and/or weaknesses in both.. so one could get a feel of what makes Intel tick...
...of RMS... by watching Revolution OS last monday night on Sundance channel.
In my mind, the guy does more harm than good for the Linux & Open Source movement, however, his achievments cant be overlooked. You can sense the frustration Linus seems to have for RMS when he brought his kids on stage at LinuxWorld while RMS was giving his speech about Linux being called 'GNU/Linux'.
Yes, the guy is a genious, but like most, he's an eccentric one at that... Of course many dont see past his quirks, and just label him a pain...
Space, and its exploration, has yielded little to the common taxpayer. Other than good crapper reading, NASA needs to publish some tangible findings for the funding to continue. Otherwise people see it as a waste of money.
We can argue this till the cows come home... NASA's problem is bad PR. They do publish important findings, yet the layperson doesnt have a clue what they mean. NASA needs to learn how to translate geek speak to joe six pack.
In a way, the tech sector is going through/has gone through the same thing... the commoner still doesnt understand whats so great about Linux or why Microsoft blows..
..It is kind of depressing to ponder the rise and fall of the soviet space exploration empire. Crippled by the fall of communism, and lack of money, a once great competitor to NASA is now a laughing stock.
Now a point to ponder, how long will it be before NASA becomes a laughing stock. Countless articles continually point out that NASA cant get proper funding, etc etc.
The sad thing is, if only Russia's space agency could of survived after the berlin wall came down, we would probably still have a thriving space race and maybe even more public interest.
... Books about general topics/practices. If you focused an admin book towards a specific OS (ie NT, Unix, whatever), you could easily wind up with a admin who freaks out when dealing with a different OS on the network. I prefer to see books deal with the overall scope of a topic , rather than focusing down on a specific product. ( ie. You buy a book on XML and get to learn everything you ever wanted to know about MSXML... um...ok...but what if you're a unix geek )..
Why are we letting the ICANN become the electronic equivalent of the UN ( i.e. Holding court in foreign countries, ignoring US interests )..when the majority of the internets infrastructure is here in the US, not to mention the majority of high tech and other blue chip companies.
..Katz is a little late on this one. First off, they arent accepting submissions any more , so I would beg to differ that it is a 'collaborative' web site... What collaborative web site (in the utopian 'everbody can submit' sense of the word) closes it's doors to all but a few select writers?
And secondly, it looks as if this web site hasnt even been updated in quite some time. Did Katz just find the nearest 'collaborative' site to use as his example in this article, or does he really think of this as a text book example of that kind of web site...
Slashdot Mirror
...Call me naive, but why isnt that states attorney general investigating this company? This is nothing short of corporate sponsored hax0ring.
I didnt see any mention in the article of somebody lodging a criminal or even civil complaint.
I think a big reason these companies get away with this crap is that nobody takes them to task for what they are doing...
Try OfficeMax next time. They got a lexmark inkjet printer for 30 bucks. Thats less than most ink carts:
Lexmark Z13 Color Inkjet Printer.
Item # 20154752 , Style # 16E0000
$29.98
I so wish I had mod points to mod you up right now... I recently saw the light and started a savings account, especially after seeing the tech drought hit home ( my brother sat idle for 6 months or so and just now got a job ) .. Problem i'm having, (as with most americans ) is paying down the major credit card bills that alot of us aquired during the 'oh, the economy is great and always will be ' boom...
"Lisa, in this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" -- Homer Simpson
... sort of.. they have a XML file out there off of the main site that you can query to get the latest headlines...
i've actually used it before with a simple VB app...
email me if you want the code...
MS haters just skip past this post....
Anyway, what is the compatibility of this thing with MS SQL server. last I checked, there was only like one or two NAS devices that could support SQL databases on them.
I'ld love to have a cheaper solution of having SQL database files on a network device, without sacrificing reliablity...
Does anybody do anything with SQL Server and a NAS device currently?
...The latest issue of Linux Journal (remember that mag? ) has a good article on the various quicktime players available for Linux, and how to install/use them ...
Check them here : Linux Journal
You know what scares me...is congress...being...well...congress.. is going to layer on the regulations so thick, that they wont even realize that they are putting many business's who dont have a large R&D budget, but decent products, out of business... I wonder how many technical advisors are really helping these legislators with the requirements. Are we just talking about congressmen thinking they can pass a law that will automatically fix everything? I honestly dont think they know (or care) about the ramifications this law will have on the technology market...
Somebody please correct me on this, but since XML is just text, and text is not compressed (usually) .. how can a XML based db even be plausible when compared to a 'standard' database that compresses date, indexes it, etc etc etc...
...over why they even took adcritic down in the first time. Are big corporations so stupid that they cant realize they are getting free publicity? Adcritic could of and should be a marketing execs dream. Mother fuck wasting hordes of money to get time on a large network during a popular show's timeslot... just make it funny, post it to the net, and let the word of mouth do the rest.. i swear, sometimes i think companies that go out of business do so not because of poor sales, but because of stupid,ignorant, closed minded people running them
For anybody to lazy (or paranoid) to click on the link:
March 27, 2002
Promote Consumer Use of Broadband and Prevent Digital Piracy!
Dear Colleague
I invite you to join me in supporting legislation that would
encourage demand for broadband Internet service and protect
creative enterprise from the threat of digital piracy.
The promise of the Internet has not been fully met. While
consumers have unprecedented access to information resources
on the web, there is still a demand for more. Congress has
recently debated ways to better serve our constituents by
improving access to broadband Internet service, yet the demand
for this technology is severely lacking. This is simply
because consumers can't get what they want -- high quality
digital content like movies, music, and video games.
The reason for this has become very clear. Our nation's
creative enterprises have been hesitant to offer their
products over the Internet out of fear of piracy --
intellectual theft. And their concerns are justified. The
movie studios estimate that they lose over $3 billion annually
to piracy, yet private industry has stalled in developing
technology to prevent this illegal activity.
I would like to direct your attention to the following op-ed
written by Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of Disney.
Mr. Eisner points out the profound historical significance of
intellectual property rights and draws on one early and
aggressive advocate of protecting such property rights, the
16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
I plan to introduce legislation that would safeguard digital
content by spurring the rapid development of copyright
protection technology. Similar legislation, S. 2048, has been
introduced in the Senate by Senators Hollings, Stevens,
Inouye, Breaux, Nelson and Feinstein. I believe this is a
necessary step and I encourage you to join me in this effort.
If you have any questions or would like to become an original
cosponsor, please contact me or Jen Briggs of my staff at
5-4176.
Sincerely,
Adam B. Schiff
Member of Congress
... But it seemed like only a matter of time before the major players in the business world adopted linux. Hate to jump on the 'Hate MS' Bandwagon, but MS has really fumbled the ball lately. As Linux becomes more widespread, and more competent people who know how to install/run/use it get into the job market, we will see more of these types of stories being commonplace.
The problem I see is, so many people are trying to force feed the linux solution down peoples throats. Yes, advocate linux, but dont throw your hand. Managers and the ones who make business decisions like thinking they stumbled upon a great idea. For the most part, they wont take kindly to some geeky kid in IT telling them "we can save bunches of money with linux"... they have to talk to their buddies on the golf course, etc etc..
To sum it up...dont fret, in time, linux _will_ dominate
..I'll admit, I've never used it, but just from reading about it, and knowing who the main architect is, it seems like a pretty decent product.
:CityDesk
Check it out here
...somebody tries to sue while claiming a violation of the DMCA? This seems like something a corporation would pull out from it's sleave if it sees it's efforts to stop the anti-spy software is going nowhere...
...Stop harping on the guy. If it wasnt for him, I'ld still be bald, my wang wouldnt be 20-30% bigger, my vast real-estate empire would be nothing, and my hot willing wife from asia would still be over there picking rice...
God bless the spam...it changed my life
...Well at least in my mind it was. Xenix was my first introduction to that "YOU NUCKS" thing I kept hearing about. I was a pimply faced teenager who was friends with a real live "hacker". Imagine that. But anyway, he did some wardialing and found a open Xenix box, and gave me the info. I remember calling him up going 'dude, whats the command to do DIR ? '. Little did I know at the time, but because of that one experience, i would fall in love with unix for the rest of my life... I sit here typing on my linux box, remembering thinking how it would be cool to run a unix clone on my pc in circa 1994 and have something similiar to that first box i encountered. aww..the memories..
...The economy rises, and falls. The tech sector also went through another boom, during the 80's (during the cold war era) ...but then there was a massive batch of layoffs due to defense cut backs ... then along comes the proliferation of the internet, and another boom... then a big burst in the bubble from bad investors... now another rise... ad nauseum....
Thats why I laugh when people think the End Is Near (tm). And, I also laugh when they think that these days are 'hard times'. No, hard times was when during the 80's my father would go on strike against Ma Bell for 6 months to a year at a time, and try to support 3 kids at the same time... This current market slowdown is an inconvenience... not the big catastrophe everybody seems to think it is
...with building up strategic alliances and subcontracting out manufacuring, but Intel still doesnt seem to be phased by any advances AMD has made... And i dont know why.. I would like to see somebody do a good writeup comparing AMD and Intel's practices, pointing out the strenghts/and/or weaknesses in both.. so one could get a feel of what makes Intel tick...
...of RMS ... by watching Revolution OS last monday night on Sundance channel.
In my mind, the guy does more harm than good for the Linux & Open Source movement, however, his achievments cant be overlooked. You can sense the frustration Linus seems to have for RMS when he brought his kids on stage at LinuxWorld while RMS was giving his speech about Linux being called 'GNU/Linux'.
Yes, the guy is a genious, but like most, he's an eccentric one at that... Of course many dont see past his quirks, and just label him a pain...
Space, and its exploration, has yielded little to the common taxpayer. Other than good crapper reading, NASA needs to publish some tangible findings for the funding to continue. Otherwise people see it as a waste of money.
We can argue this till the cows come home... NASA's problem is bad PR. They do publish important findings, yet the layperson doesnt have a clue what they mean. NASA needs to learn how to translate geek speak to joe six pack.
In a way, the tech sector is going through/has gone through the same thing... the commoner still doesnt understand whats so great about Linux or why Microsoft blows..
..It is kind of depressing to ponder the rise and fall of the soviet space exploration empire. Crippled by the fall of communism, and lack of money, a once great competitor to NASA is now a laughing stock.
Now a point to ponder, how long will it be before NASA becomes a laughing stock. Countless articles continually point out that NASA cant get proper funding, etc etc.
The sad thing is, if only Russia's space agency could of survived after the berlin wall came down, we would probably still have a thriving space race and maybe even more public interest.
.... Nothing could be better than learning from others mistakes:
Computer Stupidities
... Books about general topics/practices. If you focused an admin book towards a specific OS (ie NT, Unix, whatever), you could easily wind up with a admin who freaks out when dealing with a different OS on the network. I prefer to see books deal with the overall scope of a topic , rather than focusing down on a specific product. ( ie. You buy a book on XML and get to learn everything you ever wanted to know about MSXML... um...ok...but what if you're a unix geek )..
Why are we letting the ICANN become the electronic equivalent of the UN ( i.e. Holding court in foreign countries, ignoring US interests ) ..when the majority of the internets infrastructure is here in the US, not to mention the majority of high tech and other blue chip companies.
..Katz is a little late on this one. First off, they arent accepting submissions any more , so I would beg to differ that it is a 'collaborative' web site... What collaborative web site (in the utopian 'everbody can submit' sense of the word) closes it's doors to all but a few select writers?
And secondly, it looks as if this web site hasnt even been updated in quite some time. Did Katz just find the nearest 'collaborative' site to use as his example in this article, or does he really think of this as a text book example of that kind of web site...