The trouble is that she is getting popular (i.e., she is eye candy, but she *can* act) and another drama series has bagged her. Whether this will stop her acting in Dr Who is another matter.
It depends on the project. Companies may not be quite as political as governments but they still have their interest groups and an internal marketing drive is often needed to 'sell the project' to the guys with the money, even when it is still at a 'sand-box' stage.
They might leave incendiary devices to go off overnight, but there is no way that the criminals would want to cause casualties amongst civilians. The KGB^h^h^h, sorry FSB might take an interest because of the possible terrorism aspects. They are not famous for taking prisoners.
According to the BBC, it was Methyl Mercaptan. This is an extremely smelly substance which amongst other things is used to add the pong to the otherwise odourless natural gas (on the principle, that if you can smell it, something is wrong).
It isn't Sarin, it isn't a CBW agent (although it could be used for temporary area denial). Just think of a very, very powerful stink bomb. It probably was used during a shake down by a rival outfit offering "security services".
I'm following this with more than a little interest as I'll be staying a few klicks away from their next week (Moscow district in St Petersburg). Back to the subject, the cheap CDs were still available from a nearby market.
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If you want to use it from something like Perl/PHP whatever, you will find the license cost is zero. If you want to incorporate it as part of an in-house system, there is no issue. It is only if you want to build non-GPL software for distribution. OTOH, you will find that many commercial users have no issues with paying for support. Although not as full featured as Oracle 10g, it costs a tad less.
Ah PowerPoint is one of those nasties that isn't 100% compatible. I got caught out when my daughter needed to animate some slides and PP doesn't understand Impress animations at all well (at least under 2.0.0). The PC connected to the projector (in the Uni lecture theatre) only had MS Office so I (having an O2K license) had to redo the animations on the slides. Static slides seem to be fine though.
Apparently finnish dogs have had phones with GPS for some time. Benefon, the other cell phone company in Finland has a phone with build in GPS and there is a "tracking mode" allowing the tracker to see their position relative to that being tracked.
Forests are dense in Finland and a hunting dogs can end up being lost. GPS penetration is near enough 100% so it becomes viable to stick the phone on the dog as described, hence the problem is solved.
Good point. before GCC had spread around and on our systems, the C compiler was quite expensive. Sure we had other compilers but we couldn't compile anything distributed as C source code. There was a lot of stuff around in FORTRAN at the time but the language was stuck in extension hell, i.e. it was pretty difficlt to write cross platform stuff.
When GCC first arrived for the platform VAX/VMS, it was far from perfect, but it gave us access to a lot of public-domain code as well as the early GPL stuff. Of course it got rapidly better. The early VAX C compilers were pretty broken and GCC seemed to outperform them.
The funny thing is by providing a free, platform independent compiler, this was probably the single greatest contribution to open source.
You don't retrain anyone these days. You just tell your Indians to go and find another bunch of Indians who happen to know Linux! Support costs are built into the contract so there tends not to be any big thing either way. It is just that there seem to be more MCSEs than Linux admins in Chennai.
OpenVMS may not be totally dead but it definitely is dying. This is because of the vast effort by first Compaq, then later HP and Intel to bury it. I have to refer to it in the past tense even there are still a precious few installations around.
It isn't a BSD that can linger for ever. OpenVMS isn't open source so in the end it depends on the OS vendor's interest for development. The DoD contracts force a kind of lingering support but it is cursed with running on the EOLed Alpha and the turkey referred to as Itanium.
What VMS had was RMS, which gave you everything from unstructured files all the way through to b-tree based ISAM. The assumption on file types is massive OS dependency, but it means that applications on VMS tend to interoperate well. Unfortunately, no such thing exists on Unix. Sure I can use Berkeley/Sleepycat DB, but which version?
MySQL is already overkill, but at least it is some kind of standard.
I'm surprised that they got away for it. Pro-7, a major German network was behind it with various merchandising too. The whole thing started as a regular spoof in a German comedy show, and then someone decided to spin it out into a movie, this was perhaps a little too far. I speak and understand German but it was funny for about 15 minutes and definitely not after the advertising campaign.
I've used and deployed SBS. It really isn't that bad. However it is a single and none to cheap license. The usual strategy is to have multiple boxes (they are cheap) and to split the apps across the boxes (do you really want SQL Server doing ten rounds with MS Exchange). However then you need the big-boyz licensing and the money to match.
End solution, everything that doesn't have to be Win2K, run off linux.
Many of the persons were not found to be innocent until later. The real issue came from the lawyers.
If you had comitted a capital crime in the UK, you were entitled to the best representation, if necessary, for free. The QCs really didn't like doing the work as the trials went on for a long time and were extremely high stress. Believe it or not, some British lawyers (both barristers and solicitors) take comfort in the fact that if their client is sent down there was no time limit.
Note that if no lawyer volunteered to look after the client, one would be appointed for them and it was considered a duty of the legal profession.
The situation in the UK is such that few criminals have guns. Unlike the Schengen countries, there is no open border into the UK so illegal guns are expensive to get hold of. If the police 'tool-up' then acquiring arms will be seen to be a 'cost of doing business' by the bad guys.
In Russia, many of the police have AK47s, legal private ownership of guns is much more difficult than the UK, yet their rates of crime are far worse.
When you invest in a company, there is also the issue of 'reputational risk'. As an individual, it might not matter but for a bank, it may not look too good to have a the great unwashed protest outside the door even if they aren't holding long-term positions.
Investing in companies that get up to baaad things is seen to be high risk for other reasons. Dealings with dodgy regimes tends to be opaque so all kinds of extra costs can appear such as corruption with the possibility of future legal actions against the company.
There used to be something called the "Rubber Hose" filing system for Linux. With the key you saw data, without it you saw something unimportant and a lot of free space filled with almost random stuff. If you used the system without the correct password then the information hidden in the free-space would be slowly destroyed as space was allocated.
Unfortunately since the Paranoia of 9/11, it seems to have disappeared.
The funny thing was that Linuxdidn't have the instability issues on the same box.
I'm not particularly blaming windows, driver instability and DLL hell doesn't help, but it sure is funny how the same crashes don't happen on hardware that is probably working harder (more multitasking).
I worked on the precursor project, TPEP (Trans-Penine Ethylene Pipeline). The Sovs bought the Trans-Sib telemetry/control system and this was no problem to export. This is why I cry BS. Perhaps the pump controllers had something special (we only interfaced to them).
They would certainly have had access to full technical data on all equipment (it is normal, even if we had retained service rights) and that may or may not have included source code. However all the engineers involved in deploying (and debugging) the systen would have had source and I don't think particular care would have been taken to ensure that it was "protected". Not that anyone would have learned much, as it was all in assembler.
The first point is that the software was difficult enough to keep going anyway. To patch it would have needed too many people in the know. EPROMs were being reblown constantly to apply updates and code was being stepped through in EPROM emoulators. Dodgy code would have been painfully obvious to too many persons. There is a slim chance that it could all have been stabilised after I left, but that is unlikely.
The second point is how to ensure that nobody gets killed. Even at the height of the cold war, to cause the potential deaths of civilians in the USSR would be seen as a direct act of war.
I looked at this a while back because many millenia ago, I worked at the company that produced the telemetry/control system for the Trans-Sib pipeline. It was a specialised outfit based in Warwickshire, UK. It is very doubtdul that their systems could have nobbled by anyone. The network was closed, based on an X.25ish HDLC and the software was blown on to UV erasable EPROMs. The CIA may have modified the s/w at the pump stations, but again it is doubtful.
It is exceptionally difficult (and expensive) to fire anyone in Germany once their Probezeit is over. Most Germans carry legal insurance and will quite happily take an employer to court for unfair dismissal even when there are good grounds for doing so. The contract of employment would be seen to be invalid as a worker cannot be obliged to have a good attitude.
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The trouble is that she is getting popular (i.e., she is eye candy, but she *can* act) and another drama series has bagged her. Whether this will stop her acting in Dr Who is another matter.
It depends on the project. Companies may not be quite as political as governments but they still have their interest groups and an internal marketing drive is often needed to 'sell the project' to the guys with the money, even when it is still at a 'sand-box' stage.
They might leave incendiary devices to go off overnight, but there is no way that the criminals would want to cause casualties amongst civilians. The KGB^h^h^h, sorry FSB might take an interest because of the possible terrorism aspects. They are not famous for taking prisoners.
It isn't Sarin, it isn't a CBW agent (although it could be used for temporary area denial). Just think of a very, very powerful stink bomb. It probably was used during a shake down by a rival outfit offering "security services".
I'm following this with more than a little interest as I'll be staying a few klicks away from their next week (Moscow district in St Petersburg). Back to the subject, the cheap CDs were still available from a nearby market.
If you want to use it from something like Perl/PHP whatever, you will find the license cost is zero. If you want to incorporate it as part of an in-house system, there is no issue. It is only if you want to build non-GPL software for distribution. OTOH, you will find that many commercial users have no issues with paying for support. Although not as full featured as Oracle 10g, it costs a tad less.
You can always use Perl (Perl/MySQL is definitely covered by the GPL version). Possibly less transparent than compiled code.
Ah PowerPoint is one of those nasties that isn't 100% compatible. I got caught out when my daughter needed to animate some slides and PP doesn't understand Impress animations at all well (at least under 2.0.0). The PC connected to the projector (in the Uni lecture theatre) only had MS Office so I (having an O2K license) had to redo the animations on the slides. Static slides seem to be fine though.
Sounds a bit like Carly Fiorina, bu on a bigger scale.
Forests are dense in Finland and a hunting dogs can end up being lost. GPS penetration is near enough 100% so it becomes viable to stick the phone on the dog as described, hence the problem is solved.
When GCC first arrived for the platform VAX/VMS, it was far from perfect, but it gave us access to a lot of public-domain code as well as the early GPL stuff. Of course it got rapidly better. The early VAX C compilers were pretty broken and GCC seemed to outperform them.
The funny thing is by providing a free, platform independent compiler, this was probably the single greatest contribution to open source.
You don't retrain anyone these days. You just tell your Indians to go and find another bunch of Indians who happen to know Linux! Support costs are built into the contract so there tends not to be any big thing either way. It is just that there seem to be more MCSEs than Linux admins in Chennai.
It isn't a BSD that can linger for ever. OpenVMS isn't open source so in the end it depends on the OS vendor's interest for development. The DoD contracts force a kind of lingering support but it is cursed with running on the EOLed Alpha and the turkey referred to as Itanium.
MySQL is already overkill, but at least it is some kind of standard.
I'm surprised that they got away for it. Pro-7, a major German network was behind it with various merchandising too. The whole thing started as a regular spoof in a German comedy show, and then someone decided to spin it out into a movie, this was perhaps a little too far. I speak and understand German but it was funny for about 15 minutes and definitely not after the advertising campaign.
End solution, everything that doesn't have to be Win2K, run off linux.
If you had comitted a capital crime in the UK, you were entitled to the best representation, if necessary, for free. The QCs really didn't like doing the work as the trials went on for a long time and were extremely high stress. Believe it or not, some British lawyers (both barristers and solicitors) take comfort in the fact that if their client is sent down there was no time limit.
Note that if no lawyer volunteered to look after the client, one would be appointed for them and it was considered a duty of the legal profession.
In Russia, many of the police have AK47s, legal private ownership of guns is much more difficult than the UK, yet their rates of crime are far worse.
Investing in companies that get up to baaad things is seen to be high risk for other reasons. Dealings with dodgy regimes tends to be opaque so all kinds of extra costs can appear such as corruption with the possibility of future legal actions against the company.
Seriously, it may do as an MRP2/3 sytem but it sucks big time in banking.
Unfortunately since the Paranoia of 9/11, it seems to have disappeared.
I'm not particularly blaming windows, driver instability and DLL hell doesn't help, but it sure is funny how the same crashes don't happen on hardware that is probably working harder (more multitasking).
They would certainly have had access to full technical data on all equipment (it is normal, even if we had retained service rights) and that may or may not have included source code. However all the engineers involved in deploying (and debugging) the systen would have had source and I don't think particular care would have been taken to ensure that it was "protected". Not that anyone would have learned much, as it was all in assembler.
The second point is how to ensure that nobody gets killed. Even at the height of the cold war, to cause the potential deaths of civilians in the USSR would be seen as a direct act of war.
I looked at this a while back because many millenia ago, I worked at the company that produced the telemetry/control system for the Trans-Sib pipeline. It was a specialised outfit based in Warwickshire, UK. It is very doubtdul that their systems could have nobbled by anyone. The network was closed, based on an X.25ish HDLC and the software was blown on to UV erasable EPROMs. The CIA may have modified the s/w at the pump stations, but again it is doubtful.
It is exceptionally difficult (and expensive) to fire anyone in Germany once their Probezeit is over. Most Germans carry legal insurance and will quite happily take an employer to court for unfair dismissal even when there are good grounds for doing so. The contract of employment would be seen to be invalid as a worker cannot be obliged to have a good attitude.