Is it only the geeks that have figured out that if two are good, three must be better? Can keeping both of your hands and your mouth occupied at the same time be referred to as 'RAID'?
Of course, striping (with or without parity) is awfully close to stripping, which would be going on anyway.
Okay, I've had too much coffee. I'll be quiet now.
Messing with the weather could be dangerous. Possible examples of what might happen include Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling and the Armada Storms as described in a number of Peter Hamilton's excellent Night's Dawn books, including the little-known Second Chance At Eden.
"In transportation, the ox cart and the rowboat represent the first stage of technology.
"The second stage might well be represented by the automobiles of the middle twentieth century just before the opening of interplanetary travel. These unbelievable museum pieces were for their time fast, sleek and powerful -- but inside their skins were assembled a preposterous collection of mechanical buffoonery. The prime mover for such a juggernaut might have rested in one's lap; the rest of the mad assembly consisted of afterthoughts to correct the uncorrectable, to repair the original basic mistake in design -- for automobiles and even the early aeroplanes were "powered" (if one may call it that) by "reciprocating engines".
"A reciprocating engine was a collection of miniature heat engines using (in a basically inefficient cycle) a small percentage of an exothermal chemical reaction, a reaction which was started and stopped ever split second. Much of the heat was intentionally thrown away into a "water jacket" or "cooling system", then wasted into the atmosphere through a heat exchanger.
"What little was left caused blocks of metal to thump folishly back-and-forth (hence the name "reciprocating") and thence through a linkage to cause a shaft and flywheel to spin around. The flywheel (believe it if you can) had no gyroscopic function; it was used to store kinetic energy in a futile attempt to cover up the sins of reciprocation. The shaft at long last caused the wheels to turn and thereby propelled this pile of junk over the countryside.
"The prime mover was used only to accelerate and to overcome "friction" -- a concept then in much wider engineering use. To decelerate, stop, or turn the heroic human operator used his own muscle power, multiplied precariously through a series of levers.
"Despite the name "automobile" these vehicles had no autocontrol circuits; control, such as it was, was exercised second by second for hours on end by a human being peering out through a small pane of dirty silica glass, and judging unassisted and often disastrously his own motion and those of other objects. In almost all cases the operator had no notion of the kinetic energy stored in his missile and could not have written the basic equation. Newton's Laws of Motion were to him mysteries as profound as the meaning of the universe.
"Nevertheless millions of these mechanical jokes swarmed over our home planet, dodging each other by inches or failing to dodge. None of them ever worked right; by their nature they could not work right; and they were constantly getting out of order. Their operators were usually mightily pleased when they worked at all. When they did not, which was every few hundred miles (hundred, not hundred thousand), they hired a member of a social class of arcane specialists to make inadequate and always expensive temporary repairs.
"Despite their mad shortcomings, these "automobiles" were the most characteristic form of wealth and the most cherished posessions of their times. Three whole generations were slaves to them."
I have also noticed those, and related "warning" effects, including:
* Stepping outside, and noticing an absence of birdsong. * Stepping outside, and noticing a sensation of silent ambiance, probably brought on by a marked lack of typical background noises (birds, dogs barking, crickets chirping, etc.) * Pets behaving in an odd and unexpected fashion, such as racing throughout the house or hiding for extended periods of time. * A faint smell of Sulfur in the air or carried on the breeze. * A very low-level hum or buzz, like distant thunder, but of a sufficiently low frequency that you are almost unable to hear it or feel it. * Seemingly odd or unusual cloud formations in the sky. * A "disquieted" feeling, or feelings of tension or anticipation, for which you have no explanation. Often felt by others in the area. * Most of the earthquakes I remember being in as a kid struck at night. * Most of the earthquakes I remember being in as a kid struck during, or shortly after, a rainstorm.
An awful lot of people are either complaining about how the BSA ignored their past employers for violations, or how the BSA went after them for "lots of money." Bah. Wait until you hear my story.
I work as a Sr. UNIX Administrator for a very large (Fortune 100) company that shall remain nameless for all the obvious reasons. I plan to leave soon, just as quickly as I settle upon a new opportunity in this less-than optimal job market.
Microsoft is currently auditing us. Granted, that is not what Microsoft or we are calling it; rather, Microsoft is "helping us to determine our licensing needs" but that is just a sugary title for what is really going on.
What is really going on is this: this company has long made an unofficial policy of pirating software. Factual, verified (by me) examples include:
* A single MSDN subscription CD of Office 2000 being installed on virtually every PC in a particular department (over one hundred machines) * Remote sites throughout the United States being sent CD-R copies of software such as Microsoft Project and being told that it is OK to deploy it on all their PCs * Numerous Windows Terminal Servers being setup for use by Sun workstation clients, each running Office, Project, and Visio - with at best only a handful (read: less than five) of licenses apiece, with no CALs at all - and definitely not enough licenses to cover the 300+ workstations that use them * Mass upgrades of PCs from Windows 9x to Windows 2000, with nary a license in sight * Another department, supposedly responsible for license compliance documentation, cannot now seem to lay their hands on any more than a third of the licenses that supposedly exist - thus leading to a deficit of more than 2,000 unlicensed copies of Office, Project, Visio, and Acrobat.
In my department alone, which is one of the smaller ones at this company, I estimated that we are looking at an easy $400,000 to "true up." Nevertheless, the departments are busy engaged in a finger-pointing battle, each blaming responsibility for license compliance on someone else. Upper management has completely ignored the issue, and as the deadline of July 31 draws ever closer, it is becoming rapidly apparent that this debacle may prove of truly colossal proportions.
I'm a senior systems administrator here at the corporate office of Cypress Semiconductor in San Jose, California. I am responsible for hardware and software recommendations and purchases - including Adobe products. I was extremely disturbed by the news of Dmitry Sklyarov of ElcomSoft, Ltd. being arrested as he was leaving the DefCon 9 conference in Las Vegas this past weekend. He is alleged to be in violation of section 1210 of U. S. copyright law, as a result of having delivered a talk titled "eBook Security: Theory and Practice."
His arrest is absolutely unconscionable, and I find it utterly revolting that a company as well established and successful as your employer is would be willing to play an active role in such a travesty.
I will be actively seeking to replace all Adobe products here at Cypress with non-Adobe equivalents, and will strongly recommend against the use of Adobe products to all my peers in the IT industry, and will do my best to never again use any Adobe products on my own personal systems.
Tyranny and the loss of free speech start on a small scale with single individuals, and I will not be party to supporting a company that condonesand encourages such reprehensible actions.
Sincerely,
Nathan W. Lindstrom
Sr. Systems Administrator
Cypress Semiconductor
San Jose, California
Hopefully, there is a small amount of customer sense left in someone at Adobe, and hopefully they will remember the old adage about "a satisfied customer may tell a friend or two; a dissatisfied customer will tell all his friends!"
I for one, use Solaris 8 SPARC edition almost exclusively. It is required at my office, owing to all the Sun hardware we use here; and I run an Ultra 5 at home in lieu of any PC or Mac.
I've been running Helix's Gnome implementation for awhile now, and am pretty happy with it. Hopefully Sun's implementation is a little less buggy.
I've found through my own personal experience that I can't beat the performance I get out of Gnome on Solaris 8 SPARC. Far more stable and reliable than any Linux or Windoze combination on any platform (except, perhaps, Mac OS X).
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Of course, striping (with or without parity) is awfully close to stripping, which would be going on anyway.
Okay, I've had too much coffee. I'll be quiet now.
Obligatory LotR Quote: Don't look at the lightsess!
Bah. Read the books. The 1x4x9 ebony slab ("Oh my god! It's full of stars!") is a prerequisite for life to become intelligent.
Messing with the weather could be dangerous. Possible examples of what might happen include Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling and the Armada Storms as described in a number of Peter Hamilton's excellent Night's Dawn books, including the little-known Second Chance At Eden.
And would make them a ... wait for it! ... a terrorist! OH MY GOD! ;-)
"In transportation, the ox cart and the rowboat represent the first stage of technology.
"The second stage might well be represented by the automobiles of the middle twentieth century just before the opening of interplanetary travel. These unbelievable museum pieces were for their time fast, sleek and powerful -- but inside their skins were assembled a preposterous collection of mechanical buffoonery. The prime mover for such a juggernaut might have rested in one's lap; the rest of the mad assembly consisted of afterthoughts to correct the uncorrectable, to repair the original basic mistake in design -- for automobiles and even the early aeroplanes were "powered" (if one may call it that) by "reciprocating engines".
"A reciprocating engine was a collection of miniature heat engines using (in a basically inefficient cycle) a small percentage of an exothermal chemical reaction, a reaction which was started and stopped ever split second. Much of the heat was intentionally thrown away into a "water jacket" or "cooling system", then wasted into the atmosphere through a heat exchanger.
"What little was left caused blocks of metal to thump folishly back-and-forth (hence the name "reciprocating") and thence through a linkage to cause a shaft and flywheel to spin around. The flywheel (believe it if you can) had no gyroscopic function; it was used to store kinetic energy in a futile attempt to cover up the sins of reciprocation. The shaft at long last caused the wheels to turn and thereby propelled this pile of junk over the countryside.
"The prime mover was used only to accelerate and to overcome "friction" -- a concept then in much wider engineering use. To decelerate, stop, or turn the heroic human operator used his own muscle power, multiplied precariously through a series of levers.
"Despite the name "automobile" these vehicles had no autocontrol circuits; control, such as it was, was exercised second by second for hours on end by a human being peering out through a small pane of dirty silica glass, and judging unassisted and often disastrously his own motion and those of other objects. In almost all cases the operator had no notion of the kinetic energy stored in his missile and could not have written the basic equation. Newton's Laws of Motion were to him mysteries as profound as the meaning of the universe.
"Nevertheless millions of these mechanical jokes swarmed over our home planet, dodging each other by inches or failing to dodge. None of them ever worked right; by their nature they could not work right; and they were constantly getting out of order. Their operators were usually mightily pleased when they worked at all. When they did not, which was every few hundred miles (hundred, not hundred thousand), they hired a member of a social class of arcane specialists to make inadequate and always expensive temporary repairs.
"Despite their mad shortcomings, these "automobiles" were the most characteristic form of wealth and the most cherished posessions of their times. Three whole generations were slaves to them."
--Robert Heinlein, The Rolling Stones
It's the cheese!
I have also noticed those, and related "warning" effects, including:
* Stepping outside, and noticing an absence of birdsong.
* Stepping outside, and noticing a sensation of silent ambiance, probably brought on by a marked lack of typical background noises (birds, dogs barking, crickets chirping, etc.)
* Pets behaving in an odd and unexpected fashion, such as racing throughout the house or hiding for extended periods of time.
* A faint smell of Sulfur in the air or carried on the breeze.
* A very low-level hum or buzz, like distant thunder, but of a sufficiently low frequency that you are almost unable to hear it or feel it.
* Seemingly odd or unusual cloud formations in the sky.
* A "disquieted" feeling, or feelings of tension or anticipation, for which you have no explanation. Often felt by others in the area.
* Most of the earthquakes I remember being in as a kid struck at night.
* Most of the earthquakes I remember being in as a kid struck during, or shortly after, a rainstorm.
An awful lot of people are either complaining about how the BSA ignored their past employers for violations, or how the BSA went after them for "lots of money." Bah. Wait until you hear my story.
I work as a Sr. UNIX Administrator for a very large (Fortune 100) company that shall remain nameless for all the obvious reasons. I plan to leave soon, just as quickly as I settle upon a new opportunity in this less-than optimal job market.
Microsoft is currently auditing us. Granted, that is not what Microsoft or we are calling it; rather, Microsoft is "helping us to determine our licensing needs" but that is just a sugary title for what is really going on.
What is really going on is this: this company has long made an unofficial policy of pirating software. Factual, verified (by me) examples include:
* A single MSDN subscription CD of Office 2000 being installed on virtually every PC in a particular department (over one hundred machines)
* Remote sites throughout the United States being sent CD-R copies of software such as Microsoft Project and being told that it is OK to deploy it on all their PCs
* Numerous Windows Terminal Servers being setup for use by Sun workstation clients, each running Office, Project, and Visio - with at best only a handful (read: less than five) of licenses apiece, with no CALs at all - and definitely not enough licenses to cover the 300+ workstations that use them
* Mass upgrades of PCs from Windows 9x to Windows 2000, with nary a license in sight
* Another department, supposedly responsible for license compliance documentation, cannot now seem to lay their hands on any more than a third of the licenses that supposedly exist - thus leading to a deficit of more than 2,000 unlicensed copies of Office, Project, Visio, and Acrobat.
In my department alone, which is one of the smaller ones at this company, I estimated that we are looking at an easy $400,000 to "true up." Nevertheless, the departments are busy engaged in a finger-pointing battle, each blaming responsibility for license compliance on someone else. Upper management has completely ignored the issue, and as the deadline of July 31 draws ever closer, it is becoming rapidly apparent that this debacle may prove of truly colossal proportions.
I e-mailed the following letter to Adobe:
I'm a senior systems administrator here at the corporate office of Cypress Semiconductor in San Jose, California. I am responsible for hardware and software recommendations and purchases - including Adobe products. I was extremely disturbed by the news of Dmitry Sklyarov of ElcomSoft, Ltd. being arrested as he was leaving the DefCon 9 conference in Las Vegas this past weekend. He is alleged to be in violation of section 1210 of U. S. copyright law, as a result of having delivered a talk titled "eBook Security: Theory and Practice."
His arrest is absolutely unconscionable, and I find it utterly revolting that a company as well established and successful as your employer is would be willing to play an active role in such a travesty.
I will be actively seeking to replace all Adobe products here at Cypress with non-Adobe equivalents, and will strongly recommend against the use of Adobe products to all my peers in the IT industry, and will do my best to never again use any Adobe products on my own personal systems.
Tyranny and the loss of free speech start on a small scale with single individuals, and I will not be party to supporting a company that condonesand encourages such reprehensible actions.
Sincerely,
Nathan W. Lindstrom
Sr. Systems Administrator
Cypress Semiconductor
San Jose, California
Hopefully, there is a small amount of customer sense left in someone at Adobe, and hopefully they will remember the old adage about "a satisfied customer may tell a friend or two; a dissatisfied customer will tell all his friends!"
I for one, use Solaris 8 SPARC edition almost exclusively. It is required at my office, owing to all the Sun hardware we use here; and I run an Ultra 5 at home in lieu of any PC or Mac.
I've been running Helix's Gnome implementation for awhile now, and am pretty happy with it. Hopefully Sun's implementation is a little less buggy.
I've found through my own personal experience that I can't beat the performance I get out of Gnome on Solaris 8 SPARC. Far more stable and reliable than any Linux or Windoze combination on any platform (except, perhaps, Mac OS X).
--Nathan