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Give each employee a $500 holiday bonus, throw a really nice party for them, and then donate a big wad of cash to your local Hospice, in your company's name on behalf of all employees. Donations to Hospice are tax deductible too. Last Christmas, a friend of mine was laying dying in our local Hospice from terminal stomach cancer, he passed away in January. Our local Hospice is always in financial hurts, I'm sure yours could use the help too.
... and has about the best "on-paper" offering. I'm in the same boat. I have my own server(s) at home for hosting my own vanity domains, web servers, email servers, and game servers. Right now I've got a combination of RR (residential, dynamic IP and prohibited to run servers) cablemodem for high speed websurfing and client-side game playing where I don't need fixed IP address and a hobbiest-friendly wireless ISP connection for hosting my servers. Problem is, that I'm paying a total of about $100/month for two broadband providers, and the wireless connection is a bit flakey due to it just being wireless and signal dropouts in bad weather, wind blowing the outdoor antenna around, 18-wheel trucks going down the highway in front of my house reflecting the RF signal out of the Fresnel Zone, etc, etc.
Just reading this AskSlashdot story and seeing all the folks praising SpeakEasy has got me interested in their service, which is now available in my town. I used to have 1.5M/768k ADSL for $60/mo which worked great until my old DSL ISP went bankrupt about a year ago. SpeakEasy is offering 1.5/768 here with 4 fixed ip addrs for $80/month and I'm seriously considering them.
Lose the dragon. It's difficult enough to introduce something new into a corporate environment, and mythical firebreathing critters are of no help. Doesn't have to be boring - just not too strange.
I agree, Mozilla is finally getting to be quite the finished product. Now if needs to be renamed to something very professional-sounding... something that will even catapult it far past Netscape in name recognition.
...and that is that Windows is suffering security problems at an astounding frequency of occurrance much greater than that of Linux. It is no wonder that MS is suddenly pouring such huge volumes of resources at fixing those problems that they are now starting to get better and faster at plugging the holes.
They still need to address why Windows (acquired/continues to) acquire all these security hole to begin with.
Isn't part of the back story of Gattica that it was illegal to use DNA, but everyone did it anyway.
Yes, that was specifically mentioned.
I had never seen Gattaca before, nor even knew what the story was about... until today, after reading this Slashdot story, I felt compelled to stop by Best Buy (shame on me) on my way home from work and bought a copy on DVD for $15 (supporting the MPAA, double shame on me) and just now finished watching it a few minutes ago.
All I can say is WOW!
What a great story.
I think this is an absolute masterpiece of a sci-fi story... the quality of which I daresay deserves comparison to best of the classic, golden-era sci-fi dramas of Alfred Bester and Poul Anderson. This is the kind of sci-fi drama story that will be lingering in, and permeating my thoughts for many days to some. Kinda makes you sit back and look at the world in a different light, eh?
I thought long and hard about using XFS instead, and even googled for whatever filesystem performance benchmarks I could find on the web back then, and read a few poor measurements discovered on read for XFS under certain circumstances, but nothing really bad stood out in the reported benchmarks across the board about JFS. I just wanted a good reliable and fast journalled filesystem that supported ACL's thru Samba so that my GIS users would be able to set ACL permissions from their Windows clients. I also didn't fully know all the ranges of file sizes that were going to be thrown at this machine with the GIS mapping data files that were not yet available at the time I built the machine, but have since been added. Since the client software (ESRI) expects Windows filesharing only, Samba is the protocol we have to use... until the day comes that we move all that ESRI stuff to inside an Oracle database instead of shared data files. JFS was probably the best choice I could make at the time, and it's proven to perform quite well. The users are pleased and that's what matters most.
I've set up JFS (SuSE 8.2) on a Proliant ML370, dual 2.8GHz Xeons, 2GB memory box with a 300GB raid5 array on a SmartArray 5302/128 controller for a GIS map server (lots and lots of files served via Samba, most files in the several tens of megabytes size) and it is literally twice as fast as when that same box was running WinNT4SP6a. The owners of that box were skeptical of Linux at first, and were hardcore Windows fanatics, but between myself, and their tech guy at the GIS software vendor, we talked them into giving Linux a test drive on this new server hardware. One day into the test, they were sold on Linux. I was torn between choosing XFS or JFS for the 300GB Samba-served filesystem, and finally settled on JFS, and it looks to have been a good choice based on the kind of traffic this server sees. We've had zero problems and it's been running 24x7 since mid-August... about two months now. Uptime is 68 days today.
If you're looking to buy a first new car, have a slim budget, and need an all-around good transportation appliance that is a small car, lasts a long time without giving hardly any trouble, gets great fuel economy, has enough room for two comfortably, and four when you need it, and is decently stylish and fun to drive then get a Honda Civic.
I've never had one myself, I'm a pickup truck driving man myself, but I have plenty of friends who've bought various different brands and models of small economy cars over the years and those who bought the Civics are the absolute happiest of the bunch.
The real reason why anyone shouldn't hire former SCO programmers is not as an emotional knee-jerk reaction against SCO (mis)manangement. It's because those programmers now carry a tremendous amount of legal liability baggage with them wherever they go. They now possess in their brains the internal trade secrets that are the IP of SCO and hence, their knowledge is now "polluted" by SCO's IP and any code they produce from now on for subsequent employers, could possibly bring litigation from SCO against their new employers. SCO has already displayed substantial evidence that they are of a highly litiguous nature, and anyone who hires former SCO programmers suddenly may find themselves the target of litigation, so it makes good business sense for them to not consider any former SCO people for hire due to this hazard.
...to destroy a computer involves a Remington 870 12 guage loaded with 00-buck 3" magnum shells at close range to both the side of the case and to the face of a CRT monitor. Make sure you wear adequate hearing and eye protection first.
2. Morse code isn't used as much today as it has been in the past. But it is still popular. Unfortunately, the only radio service still using it is the amateur service, afaik.
Morse code still has use in certain military applications especially with light signals. Even though the Navy, Marines and even the Coast Guard have ceased formal morse code operations over radio years ago, naval aviators are still required to be proficient with morse code unless they dropped that requirement very recently.
...not all new music coming out sucks to me, it's just that it seems exceedingly rare these days. And to show that I'm not totally old and shrivelled up, one of my favorite "new" bands (although they've been around for a few years more than most people know) is Bowling For Soup. Now granted, I am almost old enough to be their father, and they did originate from my old hometown so I can't deny I might have a bit of bias to support them... and indeed I used to go out and see them live when they were playing their first gigs back then, but I think their music is very good and it reminds me a lot of the punkish new wave rock stuff that I used to really dig when I was in college back in the early-mid '80's. Oh my god!!! I am old... Excuse me, I've got to go take my vitamins now.
Yep, in very short order you're gonna see the fuel cell cartridges equipped with chips so that only the manufacturers' DMCA-protected, encrypted data-containing cartridges ($$$$$$$$) will work, you won't be able to refill them either for "safety" reasons. and they'll have an expiry date even if they're still full.
The Cartercopter is a real piece of cutting-edge aviation technology... combining fixed-wings with a hybrid powered + autogyro rotor. Gonna be the first rotorcraft to break the one mu barrier too.
If and only if they were doing RAID 5 (not 0,1 or 0+1) in hardware on NT (don't think anything runs that in software), getting the same for the Linux servers would be reasonable
I gathered from the article that they had been using a software raid mode in NT and they were re-using the same hardware and the raid hardware was an additional expense. I've used the software striping and mirroring stuff that's built into NT before, and learned my lesson the hard way not to do that anymore! Even though Linux does indeed have very good software-based striping and raid capabilities, hardware raid is much superior, especially with hotswap and auto-rebuild capabilities. I concur that the IT guys probably knew this very well and did take advantage of the situation to convince their managment to spring for the raid hardware, which was a smart thing to do. At my job, we now have a prohibition against acquiring any new server-grade machines that do not have hardware raid in them. After having my managers witness drive failures under software raid, along with the disruptive replacement and recovery procedure, followed by a similar one in a Proliant with hardware raid that stayed up and running during the whole failure + hotswap + auto-rebuild event on that machine, the senior brass agreed in a heartbeat that hardware raid was the only way to go from now on... Of course the discovery that hardware raid was better suddenly became their idea and not mine, but you all know how that goes:-/
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As a guitarist I can't help but think about the original Tom Scholtz Rockman from the 1980's.
... I want one that handles special Martian time with 24:39:35 days.
Give each employee a $500 holiday bonus, throw a really nice party for them, and then donate a big wad of cash to your local Hospice, in your company's name on behalf of all employees. Donations to Hospice are tax deductible too. Last Christmas, a friend of mine was laying dying in our local Hospice from terminal stomach cancer, he passed away in January. Our local Hospice is always in financial hurts, I'm sure yours could use the help too.
... and has about the best "on-paper" offering. I'm in the same boat. I have my own server(s) at home for hosting my own vanity domains, web servers, email servers, and game servers. Right now I've got a combination of RR (residential, dynamic IP and prohibited to run servers) cablemodem for high speed websurfing and client-side game playing where I don't need fixed IP address and a hobbiest-friendly wireless ISP connection for hosting my servers. Problem is, that I'm paying a total of about $100/month for two broadband providers, and the wireless connection is a bit flakey due to it just being wireless and signal dropouts in bad weather, wind blowing the outdoor antenna around, 18-wheel trucks going down the highway in front of my house reflecting the RF signal out of the Fresnel Zone, etc, etc.
Just reading this AskSlashdot story and seeing all the folks praising SpeakEasy has got me interested in their service, which is now available in my town. I used to have 1.5M/768k ADSL for $60/mo which worked great until my old DSL ISP went bankrupt about a year ago. SpeakEasy is offering 1.5/768 here with 4 fixed ip addrs for $80/month and I'm seriously considering them.
Lose the dragon. It's difficult enough to introduce something new into a corporate environment, and mythical firebreathing critters are of no help. Doesn't have to be boring - just not too strange.
I agree, Mozilla is finally getting to be quite the finished product. Now if needs to be renamed to something very professional-sounding... something that will even catapult it far past Netscape in name recognition.
...and that is that Windows is suffering security problems at an astounding frequency of occurrance much greater than that of Linux. It is no wonder that MS is suddenly pouring such huge volumes of resources at fixing those problems that they are now starting to get better and faster at plugging the holes.
They still need to address why Windows (acquired/continues to) acquire all these security hole to begin with.
That was supposed to say "...for many days to come". Doh!
Isn't part of the back story of Gattica that it was illegal to use DNA, but everyone did it anyway.
Yes, that was specifically mentioned.
I had never seen Gattaca before, nor even knew what the story was about... until today, after reading this Slashdot story, I felt compelled to stop by Best Buy (shame on me) on my way home from work and bought a copy on DVD for $15 (supporting the MPAA, double shame on me) and just now finished watching it a few minutes ago.
All I can say is WOW!
What a great story.
I think this is an absolute masterpiece of a sci-fi story... the quality of which I daresay deserves comparison to best of the classic, golden-era sci-fi dramas of Alfred Bester and Poul Anderson. This is the kind of sci-fi drama story that will be lingering in, and permeating my thoughts for many days to some. Kinda makes you sit back and look at the world in a different light, eh?
... to give this one a +1 Funny!
What WON'T be in Linux 2.7?
Uhh, you mean like any SCO code?
I thought long and hard about using XFS instead, and even googled for whatever filesystem performance benchmarks I could find on the web back then, and read a few poor measurements discovered on read for XFS under certain circumstances, but nothing really bad stood out in the reported benchmarks across the board about JFS. I just wanted a good reliable and fast journalled filesystem that supported ACL's thru Samba so that my GIS users would be able to set ACL permissions from their Windows clients. I also didn't fully know all the ranges of file sizes that were going to be thrown at this machine with the GIS mapping data files that were not yet available at the time I built the machine, but have since been added. Since the client software (ESRI) expects Windows filesharing only, Samba is the protocol we have to use... until the day comes that we move all that ESRI stuff to inside an Oracle database instead of shared data files. JFS was probably the best choice I could make at the time, and it's proven to perform quite well. The users are pleased and that's what matters most.
I've set up JFS (SuSE 8.2) on a Proliant ML370, dual 2.8GHz Xeons, 2GB memory box with a 300GB raid5 array on a SmartArray 5302/128 controller for a GIS map server (lots and lots of files served via Samba, most files in the several tens of megabytes size) and it is literally twice as fast as when that same box was running WinNT4SP6a. The owners of that box were skeptical of Linux at first, and were hardcore Windows fanatics, but between myself, and their tech guy at the GIS software vendor, we talked them into giving Linux a test drive on this new server hardware. One day into the test, they were sold on Linux. I was torn between choosing XFS or JFS for the 300GB Samba-served filesystem, and finally settled on JFS, and it looks to have been a good choice based on the kind of traffic this server sees. We've had zero problems and it's been running 24x7 since mid-August... about two months now. Uptime is 68 days today.
He's always at the bottom of the list, ya know.
...the WWV radio clock? :-)
Who'da thunk a telnet port would get slashdotted.
If you're looking to buy a first new car, have a slim budget, and need an all-around good transportation appliance that is a small car, lasts a long time without giving hardly any trouble, gets great fuel economy, has enough room for two comfortably, and four when you need it, and is decently stylish and fun to drive then get a Honda Civic.
I've never had one myself, I'm a pickup truck driving man myself, but I have plenty of friends who've bought various different brands and models of small economy cars over the years and those who bought the Civics are the absolute happiest of the bunch.
The real reason why anyone shouldn't hire former SCO programmers is not as an emotional knee-jerk reaction against SCO (mis)manangement. It's because those programmers now carry a tremendous amount of legal liability baggage with them wherever they go. They now possess in their brains the internal trade secrets that are the IP of SCO and hence, their knowledge is now "polluted" by SCO's IP and any code they produce from now on for subsequent employers, could possibly bring litigation from SCO against their new employers. SCO has already displayed substantial evidence that they are of a highly litiguous nature, and anyone who hires former SCO programmers suddenly may find themselves the target of litigation, so it makes good business sense for them to not consider any former SCO people for hire due to this hazard.
...to destroy a computer involves a Remington 870 12 guage loaded with 00-buck 3" magnum shells at close range to both the side of the case and to the face of a CRT monitor. Make sure you wear adequate hearing and eye protection first.
...couldn't light up Jupiter, the measley small amount of fissionable fuel onboard Galileo won't stand a chance.
2. Morse code isn't used as much today as it has been in the past. But it is still popular. Unfortunately, the only radio service still using it is the amateur service, afaik.
Morse code still has use in certain military applications especially with light signals. Even though the Navy, Marines and even the Coast Guard have ceased formal morse code operations over radio years ago, naval aviators are still required to be proficient with morse code unless they dropped that requirement very recently.
...not all new music coming out sucks to me, it's just that it seems exceedingly rare these days. And to show that I'm not totally old and shrivelled up, one of my favorite "new" bands (although they've been around for a few years more than most people know) is Bowling For Soup. Now granted, I am almost old enough to be their father, and they did originate from my old hometown so I can't deny I might have a bit of bias to support them... and indeed I used to go out and see them live when they were playing their first gigs back then, but I think their music is very good and it reminds me a lot of the punkish new wave rock stuff that I used to really dig when I was in college back in the early-mid '80's. Oh my god!!! I am old... Excuse me, I've got to go take my vitamins now.
...now the next step would be to start recording new bands that sound good... if there even exists such a thing anymore.
Yep, in very short order you're gonna see the fuel cell cartridges equipped with chips so that only the manufacturers' DMCA-protected, encrypted data-containing cartridges ($$$$$$$$) will work, you won't be able to refill them either for "safety" reasons. and they'll have an expiry date even if they're still full.
The Cartercopter is a real piece of cutting-edge aviation technology... combining fixed-wings with a hybrid powered + autogyro rotor. Gonna be the first rotorcraft to break the one mu barrier too.
The preliminary jet-powered design looks pretty promising too.
If and only if they were doing RAID 5 (not 0,1 or 0+1) in hardware on NT (don't think anything runs that in software), getting the same for the Linux servers would be reasonable
:-/
I gathered from the article that they had been using a software raid mode in NT and they were re-using the same hardware and the raid hardware was an additional expense. I've used the software striping and mirroring stuff that's built into NT before, and learned my lesson the hard way not to do that anymore! Even though Linux does indeed have very good software-based striping and raid capabilities, hardware raid is much superior, especially with hotswap and auto-rebuild capabilities. I concur that the IT guys probably knew this very well and did take advantage of the situation to convince their managment to spring for the raid hardware, which was a smart thing to do. At my job, we now have a prohibition against acquiring any new server-grade machines that do not have hardware raid in them. After having my managers witness drive failures under software raid, along with the disruptive replacement and recovery procedure, followed by a similar one in a Proliant with hardware raid that stayed up and running during the whole failure + hotswap + auto-rebuild event on that machine, the senior brass agreed in a heartbeat that hardware raid was the only way to go from now on... Of course the discovery that hardware raid was better suddenly became their idea and not mine, but you all know how that goes