Unison works great for me. I use it to synchronize filesystems for two servers in remote locations over an OpenVPN connection. I also use it to sync my laptop up with my desktop (and then use rsync to backup the desktop copy to a remote server). It works well and can be automated although making the automation work securely can be a hassle.
For the two remote servers I have unison running every half hour via a cron script kicking off unison on server A to an instance of unison listening via sockets on server B. This works well until something kills the connection during a unison session and the unison listening on the socket dies and has to be restarted either manually or by a watchdog. For the laptop/desktop systems I kick off unison manually since I don't need to sync up often.
If you went the unison socket route on the server it would be fairly easy to set up unison on the laptop to run automatically via a script. The script could trigger when the laptop is able to ping the server do a test rsync for a specific file and if it passes follow up with unison).
The best part about unison is that in addition to doing two-way syncs is that it works with both Windows and Unix systems for those rare times that I need to work on a Windows box.
I think the potential of new Google-backed OCR software is pretty high but I'm not certain that your average library would have the manpower and technical know-how to manage a book-to-ebook conversion, Google OCR software or not.
If libraries are interested in getting their out-of-copyright assets into digital form, they really only need contact someone with Digital Proofreaders to get the ball rolling. DPers would take care of the scanning, proofing, formatting, and post-processing of the book on behalf of the library requiring nothing but a temporary loan of the book or manuscript (something the libraries already excel at:)
Depending on the DNS server, turning off recursion completely is not the answer. Granted most internet-facing DNS servers can simply turn recursion off without negatively impacting lookups (generally) but doing so for an internal system (or one that bridges an internal and external) is begging for trouble.
Note: The above sequence is highly artificial since the resolver on Windows and most *nix systems is a stub resolver - which is defined in the standards to be a minimal resolver which cannot follow referrals. If you reconfigure your local PC or Workstation to point to a DNS server that only supports Iterative queries - it will not work. Period.
A better solution would be to use allow-recursion to specify which clients will receive recursive DNS responses.
This year IBM shareholders voted to expense stock options. The Board of Directors recommended voting against the proposal for expensing options as it obviously effects CEO compensation but the shareholders wanted it anyway.
As other posters have pointed out - this effects other employee stock programs such as some Employee Stock Purchase Plans depending on how the company sets them up.
As I understand it, the challenge of "porting" to XBox isn't that you're coding for a different platform, it's that you're working with more constrained resources. The game designers might have to cut the number of unique characters on a map, or the unique texture maps for the characters, etc - just to make it run on the freak'n box.
You know what they say: It's all part and parcel of the whole genii gig: phenomenal cosmic powers, itty bitty living space.
"While patent donations are one of the latest twists on corporate philanthropy, the practice has aroused the curiosity of the IRS as a possible tax avoidance scheme."
So what if it's a scheme for tax avoidance? There is nothing illegal about tax avoidance, only tax evasion -- an important distinction people often miss.
Re:Imperial vs. Metric: SERIOUSLY OFFTOPIC!
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I don't think you really want us Americans to start using metric units. Sure it would all be easier, but it hasn't happened yet, and it probably never will.
While scientists use metric units all the time, the average person (me included) can't remember if a kilometer is slightly longer or slightly shorter than a mile which could lead to some very interesting traffic issues:)
Secondly, I can't think of one country in the world who uses all metric measurements. Doubt me? Name one country who uses metric time (http://zapatopi.net/metrictime.html)
Naming a tennis racquet, racquetball racquet, computer, video card, whatever "Titanium" makes a little sense despite the fact that most (all?) don't have an atom of titanium in them. What gets me is the "Titanium Racquetballs" they're selling now. Excuse me? Racquetballs are made of _rubber_ so they _bounce_. No one wants a metal racquetball! Who hires these marketing droids anyway?
So really, the problem is that the software designed to calcuate the risk of a given fetus having down's syndrome failed and told women that there was a smaller-than-actual risk, correct?
So worst-case is that some selfish woman (I won't bother to call her a "mother") decided to continue with the pregnancy instead of abort it, because of the incorrectly-reported low-risk and her child was born with down's syndrome.
While no computer error is good, at least it err'd on the side of life. It could have been worst and the software informed the women that they had higher-than-actual risk factor and caused more of the women to seek an abortion.
Every game as problems of some sort. And while the number of problems encountered in Myst III: Exile might be more than average I the game deserves a fair review.
Myself and a friend just finished Exile last night. The worlds were awesome! The puzzles were well designed, not too easy and not too difficult. The game play was better in Myst III than in Myst or Riven as you had an almost full 360 degree view during your explorations. The absolute coolest thing was the video continuing to play while moving in the 360 degree mode!
The game has problems, granted. On some hardware it works great, on others it won't run. But when you do a game evaluation, please try and look past the problems and do a somewhat objective review.
One of the best features in IE5 and Mozilla is the ability for the browser to only show the first frame of an animated GIF. Mozilla also has an option to only to show one loop of an animated GIF once then stop.
The problem for advertisers is that most animated banner adds have no useful information in the first frame. Most of the time I don't even know the company paying for the ad much less what they're advertising. If you're going to tell the advertisers something beneficial, tell them to put everything they want to relay in the first frame. Otherwise they're pissing in the wind.
As someone working for IBM I know that we are developing linux products specifically for use on SuSE's 390 distro. As I understand it there is a big demand for a solid linux distro for the 390 and companies with 390s are willing to pay big bucks for support too. SuSE has a great jump on the competition.
The first thing to come to mind after reading the article was Jane from Orson Scott Card's Ender series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind). The circumstances of her creation were a little different than just flipping on a computer, but she was still a quantum computer for most of her life.
We've got a ways to go before reality is stranger than fiction.
Another plus of mainframes over PCs is reliability. Sure you can just take any old PC and install Linux on it, but beefing that PC up so that when a hard drive, network card, or cpu dies it doesn't crash can get pretty pricey itself. Mainframes however have been doing this for years. Not to mention there are a great many large companies out there who would much rather have one mainframe in their server room rather than a couple of hundred PCs.
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Unison works great for me. I use it to synchronize filesystems for two servers in remote locations over an OpenVPN connection. I also use it to sync my laptop up with my desktop (and then use rsync to backup the desktop copy to a remote server). It works well and can be automated although making the automation work securely can be a hassle.
For the two remote servers I have unison running every half hour via a cron script kicking off unison on server A to an instance of unison listening via sockets on server B. This works well until something kills the connection during a unison session and the unison listening on the socket dies and has to be restarted either manually or by a watchdog. For the laptop/desktop systems I kick off unison manually since I don't need to sync up often.
If you went the unison socket route on the server it would be fairly easy to set up unison on the laptop to run automatically via a script. The script could trigger when the laptop is able to ping the server do a test rsync for a specific file and if it passes follow up with unison).
The best part about unison is that in addition to doing two-way syncs is that it works with both Windows and Unix systems for those rare times that I need to work on a Windows box.
Lets see - "big three letter place", "future as merely saving and cost cutting", and "only new things ... via acquisition". That just screams IBM.
I think the potential of new Google-backed OCR software is pretty high but I'm not certain that your average library would have the manpower and technical know-how to manage a book-to-ebook conversion, Google OCR software or not.
If libraries are interested in getting their out-of-copyright assets into digital form, they really only need contact someone with Digital Proofreaders to get the ball rolling. DPers would take care of the scanning, proofing, formatting, and post-processing of the book on behalf of the library requiring nothing but a temporary loan of the book or manuscript (something the libraries already excel at :)
Depending on the DNS server, turning off recursion completely is not the answer. Granted most internet-facing DNS servers can simply turn recursion off without negatively impacting lookups (generally) but doing so for an internal system (or one that bridges an internal and external) is begging for trouble.
According to Chapter 2.2.6.2 of Pro DNS and BIND (http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch2/index.html#re cursive))
A better solution would be to use allow-recursion to specify which clients will receive recursive DNS responses.
This year IBM shareholders voted to expense stock options. The Board of Directors recommended voting against the proposal for expensing options as it obviously effects CEO compensation but the shareholders wanted it anyway.
As other posters have pointed out - this effects other employee stock programs such as some Employee Stock Purchase Plans depending on how the company sets them up.
As I understand it, the challenge of "porting" to XBox isn't that you're coding for a different platform, it's that you're working with more constrained resources. The game designers might have to cut the number of unique characters on a map, or the unique texture maps for the characters, etc - just to make it run on the freak'n box.
You know what they say: It's all part and parcel of the whole genii gig: phenomenal cosmic powers, itty bitty living space.
"While patent donations are one of the latest twists on corporate philanthropy, the practice has aroused the curiosity of the IRS as a possible tax avoidance scheme."
So what if it's a scheme for tax avoidance? There is nothing illegal about tax avoidance, only tax evasion -- an important distinction people often miss.
I don't think you really want us Americans to start using metric units. Sure it would all be easier, but it hasn't happened yet, and it probably never will.
:)
While scientists use metric units all the time, the average person (me included) can't remember if a kilometer is slightly longer or slightly shorter than a mile which could lead to some very interesting traffic issues
Secondly, I can't think of one country in the world who uses all metric measurements. Doubt me? Name one country who uses metric time (http://zapatopi.net/metrictime.html)
Naming a tennis racquet, racquetball racquet, computer, video card, whatever "Titanium" makes a little sense despite the fact that most (all?) don't have an atom of titanium in them. What gets me is the "Titanium Racquetballs" they're selling now. Excuse me? Racquetballs are made of _rubber_ so they _bounce_. No one wants a metal racquetball! Who hires these marketing droids anyway?
So really, the problem is that the software designed to calcuate the risk of a given fetus having down's syndrome failed and told women that there was a smaller-than-actual risk, correct?
So worst-case is that some selfish woman (I won't bother to call her a "mother") decided to continue with the pregnancy instead of abort it, because of the incorrectly-reported low-risk and her child was born with down's syndrome.
While no computer error is good, at least it err'd on the side of life. It could have been worst and the software informed the women that they had higher-than-actual risk factor and caused more of the women to seek an abortion.
Every game as problems of some sort. And while the number of problems encountered in Myst III: Exile might be more than average I the game deserves a fair review.
Myself and a friend just finished Exile last night. The worlds were awesome! The puzzles were well designed, not too easy and not too difficult. The game play was better in Myst III than in Myst or Riven as you had an almost full 360 degree view during your explorations. The absolute coolest thing was the video continuing to play while moving in the 360 degree mode!
The game has problems, granted. On some hardware it works great, on others it won't run. But when you do a game evaluation, please try and look past the problems and do a somewhat objective review.
One of the best features in IE5 and Mozilla is the ability for the browser to only show the first frame of an animated GIF. Mozilla also has an option to only to show one loop of an animated GIF once then stop.
The problem for advertisers is that most animated banner adds have no useful information in the first frame. Most of the time I don't even know the company paying for the ad much less what they're advertising. If you're going to tell the advertisers something beneficial, tell them to put everything they want to relay in the first frame. Otherwise they're pissing in the wind.
As someone working for IBM I know that we are developing linux products specifically for use on SuSE's 390 distro. As I understand it there is a big demand for a solid linux distro for the 390 and companies with 390s are willing to pay big bucks for support too. SuSE has a great jump on the competition.
The first thing to come to mind after reading the article was Jane from Orson Scott Card's Ender series (Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind). The circumstances of her creation were a little different than just flipping on a computer, but she was still a quantum computer for most of her life.
We've got a ways to go before reality is stranger than fiction.
Another plus of mainframes over PCs is reliability. Sure you can just take any old PC and install Linux on it, but beefing that PC up so that when a hard drive, network card, or cpu dies it doesn't crash can get pretty pricey itself. Mainframes however have been doing this for years. Not to mention there are a great many large companies out there who would much rather have one mainframe in their server room rather than a couple of hundred PCs.
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And of course it's just cool