is the state water authority. Something that always amused me, but logical if you have a large amound of country below sea-level so they have their entry powers. This is why they were given the duty to collect VAT there.
Drugs get administered based on the information in those records. A good doctor will always double check by asking the patient about allergies before prescribing. Of course if the patient has been admitted unconscious after a road accident and the data dowloaded from their medical insurance card, that's a little difficult.
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Software does not kill. Bad engineering and poor implementation kills. My copy of Windows XP, while still radiating pure evil, has not managed to pop open the gun cabinet.
But other people's seem to want to short-sell the dollar!
The difference is that most civil engineers design in risk mitigation - for example multiple stress bearing elements that back each other up. The bridge building process would have gone through a formal sign-off process so that not only is the design reviewed, but so is the implementation. The same doesn't always happen with computer programs.
Hey, it won't kill anyone but I have seen a lot of systems keeping money as floats. The first time was donkey's years ago where a poorly written app by the boss went over 100,000 and dropped pennies. The problem is that although the difference was small, all the integrity checks started failing.
At the same time I have seen an app recently written just a few years ago that used floats for stock exchange transactions. Also a double-plus ungood situation. Hell, we were taught at school that floats were approximations and only good for a certain number of digits, and the accuracy can collapse over repeated calculations.
Um, I think you have just put your finger on MS's QA problem. You never, ever put any features in after beta. You just take things out that are considered unworkable and put fixes in.
Seriously, I do feel that MS is more than a bit undisciplined about their release strategy (i.e., letting fixes provide new functionality) and that is one of the reasons that they get a bad rap for stability and security.
In effect, that is what happens in the UK - it is up to the party how they choose their leader. I seem to remember that at one stage, only a subset of the members were permitted to vote for their leader, i.e., only elected Labour MPs could select a leadership candidate.
That's what our government is hoping for: when offenders die
of old age, their victims will pass away, too.
Interesting quote. A friend's Jewish Father received compensation for the Apotheke that he was forced to flee from in Germany in the thirties. The compensation arrived in 1985 or so, the day after he died. This was after some twenty years of bureacratic prevarication.
The main adventure started on a PDP-10 and was written in Fortran by Crowther and Woods. It was mostly data driven (special actions needed software assistance) and the data file was eminently hackable. This sounds very much like a variant of the original from the 70s.
Um no, unless you have an antenna, you can't receive a signal (unless the strength is such that a coat hanger will do). There have been court cases back to the original micros connected via a modulator to the antenna socket of a TV which were thrown out.
If you are using a TV in a room with an antenna connector on the wall, you may have a hard time proving your case - even if there is no apparent connection.
Do you really think "Deutsche Bank" would "take" an Open Source java implementation for their next Enterprise Portal?
But they, along with many other major institutions want to avoid suckage and do not run a standard JVM. I otherwise agree and don't think that open source bothers them though, just support. A large enterprise does tend to push the limits simply because of scale and more implementations can mean better performance. If it screws up, it must be Somebody Else's Problem and the enterprise must have someone prepared to "own" the support problem.
I have worse in my little DSL ghetto. I use a separate email server on another ISP where my domain is. Regrettably, I cannot send a nything out except over my DSL provider's smtp server, which insists on a local return address. To use smtp-relay, I must pay extra.
No, X window managers are client apps that negotiate the ability to manage a server's screen. For example, I ran Hummingbird eXceed on a Windows box, so that was my X-server. The screen manager was a CDE client running off a Sun. The clients were on VMS and Solaris. Nice mixture, pity about the Windows box in front of me though.
Fake passports aren't easy. Especially from the "whitelisted" countries. US Immigration is quite good at detecting fake passports. The good fakes come from official blanks, but there remains a problem with the serial numbers. About five years ago, I heard a fake passport using genuine blanks from EEA country would cost about $10K. I would guess that has gone up several times more recently.
This is because many US citizens do not have a passport, however they can use their driver's license as ID. It is also one of the acceptable forms of ID that can be shown to board a plane so I can guess why.
To get your German license, you will need official proof-of-address (Anmeldbecheinigung) and your passport. No fingerprints, but they have a good lock on who you are and where you live.
Clinton's people were aware of an immediate ththreat from Al Qaida and they briefed Bush's people when they took over. They didn't have any details about who what and when. Bush disregarded these warnings, perhaps because of other interests. On entry, he had no real idea about foreign policy, except perhaps fionishing off Daddy's dirty little business in Iraq.
Bush should have followed up on the warnings by placing the FBI, State and INS on a higher state of alert (i.e., look carefully at middle eastern visitors and what they are doing). If such a state was in place, the warnings raised earlier in the year may not have been ignored.
It really depends on what you are looking for. Itanium is a crap architecture and it isn't a high-end x86 (half the problem). IMHO, HPaq should have pressed Intel to produce faster and cheaper Alphas. AMD is another story.
However, the processor is just a part of it. A high-end Sun boxes offers muliple PCI buses as well as other I/O interfaces. It is I/O throughput that makes high-end commercial computers for most people. The other issue is execution domains. This allows you to assign procesors to domains that run particular processes. This gives you fine grained control over who runs what. When IBM runs Linux on a Z series, they run multiple instances of Linux as virtual machines under a host operating system. VMs can be assigned processors to allow them to increase their power or redundancy. However VMs can and do share processors. The problem is that the host system is propietary IBM. There are efforts to do this with Linux, such as VMWARE, or as open-source, Xen but they don't cover the issue of multiprocessing management.
High-end CPU chips can compete, they just need the on-chip hardware to facilitate interlocking but what they really need is a lot of glue chips to allow efficient shared memory use. Building the big boxes that support multiprocessing with more than 2 processors isn't easy. Adding fast I/O channels to keep pace is even less easy. However, I do have big hopes for the Opteron based motherboards though.
Note that clustering helps only when you have loosely coupled cooperation between processes. If you need lots of closely interacting processes or threads then a cluster isn't really fast enough.
Suns are nice because you can get some nice big ones, you can even cluster them and Solaris isn't a bad kernel. Of course, if Sun decided to, then it may be easy to commercially run Linux on the high-end boxes (E15Ks and above). They have domains and other stuff that Linux needs at the
Sun had a bit of a lock-in with Solaris. The thing is that since Linux has become popular, the binary lock-in doesn't really count for a lot. It is to Sun's advantage if they decide that the high-end hardware business is what they want, then they can move away from Solaris and benefit from lower costs. To lever there high-end hardware, they would need to get some features into the kernel that may be beneficial to others (like domains), but on the whole, it would be an improvement.
Either they get it, or they lose out. They have already lost at the lower end (desktops).
Asprin should not be taken on an empty stomach. It should really be taken after meals (or food-like drinks). Paracetamol is better, but you had better minimise any alcohol intake as some paracetamol plus any alcohol inside a day is a problem for the liver.
I have a stills camera. Being a quite keen photographer I carry it almost everywhere because you never know when a situation presents itself. However, like most modern digital cameras it can shoot short movies too. It can't be used to record a film but it sounds like it too would be outlawed. I wouldn't dream of using a camera in a theatre, but it would still be banned by this rule.
A frined who graduated a long time ago with EE and specialising with analogue RF design has found it very difficult to get work, even with modern mobile telephone systems (largely digital). It seems that only the military seems to do much work in this area. Techniques like parametric amplifers and MASERs have been around for a while but there definitely not as many people who know how to build them.
No, OpenBSD isn't as secure as people think but I have some stripped down OpenBSD boxes at one end of the DMZ and Linux at the other end.The DMZ contains a mixture of Unix type boxes (Solaris and Linux). Windows is only permitted on the intranet. The main issue is keeping the portable Windows PCs segregated off because of worms like Blaster being imported. The combo is fairly good. Yes, the CISCO routers connecting to the net are also locked down but they are not the primary firewall.
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is the state water authority. Something that always amused me, but logical if you have a large amound of country below sea-level so they have their entry powers. This is why they were given the duty to collect VAT there.
Drugs get administered based on the information in those records. A good doctor will always double check by asking the patient about allergies before prescribing. Of course if the patient has been admitted unconscious after a road accident and the data dowloaded from their medical insurance card, that's a little difficult.
The difference is that most civil engineers design in risk mitigation - for example multiple stress bearing elements that back each other up. The bridge building process would have gone through a formal sign-off process so that not only is the design reviewed, but so is the implementation. The same doesn't always happen with computer programs.
At the same time I have seen an app recently written just a few years ago that used floats for stock exchange transactions. Also a double-plus ungood situation. Hell, we were taught at school that floats were approximations and only good for a certain number of digits, and the accuracy can collapse over repeated calculations.
Seriously, I do feel that MS is more than a bit undisciplined about their release strategy (i.e., letting fixes provide new functionality) and that is one of the reasons that they get a bad rap for stability and security.
In effect, that is what happens in the UK - it is up to the party how they choose their leader. I seem to remember that at one stage, only a subset of the members were permitted to vote for their leader, i.e., only elected Labour MPs could select a leadership candidate.
The main adventure started on a PDP-10 and was written in Fortran by Crowther and Woods. It was mostly data driven (special actions needed software assistance) and the data file was eminently hackable. This sounds very much like a variant of the original from the 70s.
If you are using a TV in a room with an antenna connector on the wall, you may have a hard time proving your case - even if there is no apparent connection.
I have worse in my little DSL ghetto. I use a separate email server on another ISP where my domain is. Regrettably, I cannot send a nything out except over my DSL provider's smtp server, which insists on a local return address. To use smtp-relay, I must pay extra.
No, X window managers are client apps that negotiate the ability to manage a server's screen. For example, I ran Hummingbird eXceed on a Windows box, so that was my X-server. The screen manager was a CDE client running off a Sun. The clients were on VMS and Solaris. Nice mixture, pity about the Windows box in front of me though.
Fake passports aren't easy. Especially from the "whitelisted" countries. US Immigration is quite good at detecting fake passports. The good fakes come from official blanks, but there remains a problem with the serial numbers. About five years ago, I heard a fake passport using genuine blanks from EEA country would cost about $10K. I would guess that has gone up several times more recently.
To get your German license, you will need official proof-of-address (Anmeldbecheinigung) and your passport. No fingerprints, but they have a good lock on who you are and where you live.
Bush should have followed up on the warnings by placing the FBI, State and INS on a higher state of alert (i.e., look carefully at middle eastern visitors and what they are doing). If such a state was in place, the warnings raised earlier in the year may not have been ignored.
However, the processor is just a part of it. A high-end Sun boxes offers muliple PCI buses as well as other I/O interfaces. It is I/O throughput that makes high-end commercial computers for most people. The other issue is execution domains. This allows you to assign procesors to domains that run particular processes. This gives you fine grained control over who runs what. When IBM runs Linux on a Z series, they run multiple instances of Linux as virtual machines under a host operating system. VMs can be assigned processors to allow them to increase their power or redundancy. However VMs can and do share processors. The problem is that the host system is propietary IBM. There are efforts to do this with Linux, such as VMWARE, or as open-source, Xen but they don't cover the issue of multiprocessing management.
High-end CPU chips can compete, they just need the on-chip hardware to facilitate interlocking but what they really need is a lot of glue chips to allow efficient shared memory use. Building the big boxes that support multiprocessing with more than 2 processors isn't easy. Adding fast I/O channels to keep pace is even less easy. However, I do have big hopes for the Opteron based motherboards though.
Note that clustering helps only when you have loosely coupled cooperation between processes. If you need lots of closely interacting processes or threads then a cluster isn't really fast enough.
Sun had a bit of a lock-in with Solaris. The thing is that since Linux has become popular, the binary lock-in doesn't really count for a lot. It is to Sun's advantage if they decide that the high-end hardware business is what they want, then they can move away from Solaris and benefit from lower costs. To lever there high-end hardware, they would need to get some features into the kernel that may be beneficial to others (like domains), but on the whole, it would be an improvement.
Either they get it, or they lose out. They have already lost at the lower end (desktops).
Asprin should not be taken on an empty stomach. It should really be taken after meals (or food-like drinks). Paracetamol is better, but you had better minimise any alcohol intake as some paracetamol plus any alcohol inside a day is a problem for the liver.
Thank heavens, all the PDP-11s that I ended up using had a bootstrap ROM. Much easier. Paddle switches and lots of lights look impressive though.
I have a stills camera. Being a quite keen photographer I carry it almost everywhere because you never know when a situation presents itself. However, like most modern digital cameras it can shoot short movies too. It can't be used to record a film but it sounds like it too would be outlawed. I wouldn't dream of using a camera in a theatre, but it would still be banned by this rule.
A frined who graduated a long time ago with EE and specialising with analogue RF design has found it very difficult to get work, even with modern mobile telephone systems (largely digital). It seems that only the military seems to do much work in this area. Techniques like parametric amplifers and MASERs have been around for a while but there definitely not as many people who know how to build them.
I would disagree, as a British probe, it would come back looking for a nice cup of tea. A B'agel with tea......
No, OpenBSD isn't as secure as people think but I have some stripped down OpenBSD boxes at one end of the DMZ and Linux at the other end.The DMZ contains a mixture of Unix type boxes (Solaris and Linux). Windows is only permitted on the intranet. The main issue is keeping the portable Windows PCs segregated off because of worms like Blaster being imported. The combo is fairly good. Yes, the CISCO routers connecting to the net are also locked down but they are not the primary firewall.
Except those that run OpenBSD.