In my experiences using Arcserve, Inoculan, and Remotely Possible (now ArcserveIT, InoculateIT and ControlIT) CA had the worst technical support I have ever seen. We had many problems with Arcserve (a buggy product) and tech support for us (supposedly with a "Platinum" type service contract) would take days to get a callback. It should have been four hours. Sometimes the callbacks never came. The other issue was with sales. We had unlimited licenses for a lot of things, and bought an upgrade license for Arcserve and they still hadn't delivered the product after four months. CA, in my opinion, has the worst customer service in the industry, and I know a lot of Windows administrators that agree.
I went to UNBC (University of Northern British Columbia) in scenic Prince George, and there was access in all of the dorms. Mind you, it is a small school.
I think you're missing the point of developing free software. We should sick ESR on you.:) I know you feel ripped off, but if it's really about the money, stop doing it. These companies like Red Hat and VA make their money supporting the free software, not writing it. You write it to make good code. If you want to get paid, start a business to support the software and charge for it. Have your own IPO. It's not about the money, it's all about the accomplishment.
First of all, there is a difference between Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing. Quantum Cryptography involves sending a particle (a qubit) to the other party you are communicating with. By knowing a specified property of this qubit, you can detect whether the particle has been measured in its journey, which means someone is eavesdropping. This is all quantum cryptography does, and it has been done already by several companies.
Quantum computing is a whole different ball game. It uses qubits as well, but several of them. The most qubits that have been used successfully as far as I know is 8. The qubits work like binary bits, except they can be both on and off at the same time. This allows all possible outcomes of a computation to be detected at once. The advantage that quantum computing will have for cryptography is the ability to factor extremely large numbers REALLY quickly. More quickly than any current computer. I recall from a book that a quantum computer with a relatively small number of qubits (32 or something) could factor a number in minutes, that would take a supercomputer millions of years to do. There are lots of great books on the subject too.
I agree with the post that says they should release the Mac and Linux versions to distribution first. That would be the only way (IMHO) to balance out the problem.
It says that they are all being released at roughly the same time, but CD copying and distribution for non windows platforms doesn't have the same "priority" as Windows platforms.
SAP R/3 has a Linux version. Is that overkill? That's a large company that supports Linux as a back-end OS.
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I just changed the oil in my VAXstation 3200. That thing really does sound like a jet engine, weighs 80-90lbs, and is beige. The actual case is all zinc flashed sheet metal, that slides into a big plastic thing. It uses MFM and DSSI and QBUS. I don't use it (I have a 3100 that's a whole lot smaller) but it looks and sounds cool. I didn't actually change the oil, but it's due in 1000KM.
This is called FUZZY LOGIC and has been around for 25 years. Fuzzy algorithms are excellent for pattern recognition and the like. I just read a good book on Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy controllers, but the name escapes me.
But if you start with a Merlin Block (ie a C300A) and bore it out to 638ci (ie 500-800MHz) you end up with over 1000hp easily.
Engine cylinder wall thicknesses are all the same through whole engine families. It's cheaper to have one casting than four. If you change the bore and stroke, you can convert from a small engine to a large one, inside that specific family. I figure processors are the same. Why would they fixture up to make so many different clock speeds? The differences must be minor. Too bad there is no ultrasonic cylinder wall thickness tester for processors!
Ballard Power Systems up here in BC make Hydrogen fuel cells, using a proton exchange membrane. They are pretty cool. But this is a really off topic post.
1) If they max out single mode fiber at about OC-192 now (realistic - I know about NEC and others with their experimental setups), then how can I get 2.5 gigabits over a crappy piece of a) steel wire rope (high tension lines - self supporting) or b) regular house wiring (usually plastic coated copper)?
2) This sounds a lot like an MLM scam... er program. Like "twisted pair technology" that was supposed to get 10 megabits to a webtv type box over a phone line.
"Adding to his notoriety is an upcoming feature film of "Takedown," which is expected to open later this year. The film, which is being produced by a division of Disney's Miramax Films, will star Skeet Ulrich as Mitnick."
"Among the untruths: During the pursuit, Mitnick clubs Shimomura with a garbage can lid, gashing his head (they never met until after Mitnick's arrest); he obtains free phone calls by whistling into the phone a la legendary phone phreaker Captain Crunch; he rigs a radio call-in contest to win a TV, a stunt performed in real life by fellow hacker Kevin Poulsen; near the end of the movie he vows to escape during a jail conversation with Shimomura, saying, "I'll be seeing you. All I need is a dime and a phone. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I don't even need the dime."
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Incorrect, InoculateIT is the new version of Inoculan, after the "corporate renaming strategy" or whatever made them name everything fooIT.
In my experiences using Arcserve, Inoculan, and Remotely Possible (now ArcserveIT, InoculateIT and ControlIT) CA had the worst technical support I have ever seen. We had many problems with Arcserve (a buggy product) and tech support for us (supposedly with a "Platinum" type service contract) would take days to get a callback. It should have been four hours. Sometimes the callbacks never came. The other issue was with sales. We had unlimited licenses for a lot of things, and bought an upgrade license for Arcserve and they still hadn't delivered the product after four months. CA, in my opinion, has the worst customer service in the industry, and I know a lot of Windows administrators that agree.
I went to UNBC (University of Northern British Columbia) in scenic Prince George, and there was access in all of the dorms. Mind you, it is a small school.
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I think you're missing the point of developing free software. We should sick ESR on you. :) I know you feel ripped off, but if it's really about the money, stop doing it. These companies like Red Hat and VA make their money supporting the free software, not writing it. You write it to make good code. If you want to get paid, start a business to support the software and charge for it. Have your own IPO. It's not about the money, it's all about the accomplishment.
First of all, there is a difference between Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Computing. Quantum Cryptography involves sending a particle (a qubit) to the other party you are communicating with. By knowing a specified property of this qubit, you can detect whether the particle has been measured in its journey, which means someone is eavesdropping. This is all quantum cryptography does, and it has been done already by several companies.
Quantum computing is a whole different ball game. It uses qubits as well, but several of them. The most qubits that have been used successfully as far as I know is 8. The qubits work like binary bits, except they can be both on and off at the same time. This allows all possible outcomes of a computation to be detected at once. The advantage that quantum computing will have for cryptography is the ability to factor extremely large numbers REALLY quickly. More quickly than any current computer. I recall from a book that a quantum computer with a relatively small number of qubits (32 or something) could factor a number in minutes, that would take a supercomputer millions of years to do. There are lots of great books on the subject too.
A BSOD is far from odd. It's actually pretty common in the life of an NT sysadmin.
I agree with the post that says they should release the Mac and Linux versions to distribution first. That would be the only way (IMHO) to balance out the problem.
It says that they are all being released at roughly the same time, but CD copying and distribution for non windows platforms doesn't have the same "priority" as Windows platforms.
After Y2K hits, we'll all be using DECnet anyways. Well, that's my master plan. You shall all be banished to OpenVMS! Muhahahaha!
SAP R/3 has a Linux version. Is that overkill? That's a large company that supports Linux as a back-end OS.
I just changed the oil in my VAXstation 3200. That thing really does sound like a jet engine, weighs 80-90lbs, and is beige. The actual case is all zinc flashed sheet metal, that slides into a big plastic thing. It uses MFM and DSSI and QBUS. I don't use it (I have a 3100 that's a whole lot smaller) but it looks and sounds cool. I didn't actually change the oil, but it's due in 1000KM.
This is called FUZZY LOGIC and has been around for 25 years. Fuzzy algorithms are excellent for pattern recognition and the like. I just read a good book on Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy controllers, but the name escapes me.
This is instead of getting the complete analysis when it's still incomplete.
But if you start with a Merlin Block (ie a C300A) and bore it out to 638ci (ie 500-800MHz) you end up with over 1000hp easily.
Engine cylinder wall thicknesses are all the same through whole engine families. It's cheaper to have one casting than four. If you change the bore and stroke, you can convert from a small engine to a large one, inside that specific family. I figure processors are the same. Why would they fixture up to make so many different clock speeds? The differences must be minor. Too bad there is no ultrasonic cylinder wall thickness tester for processors!
Ballard Power Systems up here in BC make Hydrogen fuel cells, using a proton exchange membrane. They are pretty cool. But this is a really off topic post.
It was NEC. Read about it in my SONET book. It was actually quite a while ago too. It was using doped optical amplifiers.
I have two points:
1) If they max out single mode fiber at about OC-192 now (realistic - I know about NEC and others with their experimental setups), then how can I get 2.5 gigabits over a crappy piece of a) steel wire rope (high tension lines - self supporting) or b) regular house wiring (usually plastic coated copper)?
2) This sounds a lot like an MLM scam... er program. Like "twisted pair technology" that was supposed to get 10 megabits to a webtv type box over a phone line.
Only in Hollywood.
"Adding to his notoriety is an upcoming feature film of "Takedown," which is expected to open later this year. The film, which is being produced by a division of Disney's Miramax Films, will star Skeet Ulrich as Mitnick."
"Among the untruths: During the pursuit, Mitnick clubs Shimomura with a garbage can lid, gashing his head (they never met until after Mitnick's arrest); he obtains free phone calls by whistling into the phone a la legendary phone phreaker Captain Crunch; he rigs a radio call-in contest to win a TV, a stunt performed in real life by fellow hacker Kevin Poulsen; near the end of the movie he vows to escape during a jail conversation with Shimomura, saying, "I'll be seeing you. All I need is a dime and a phone. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I don't even need the dime."