My experience is that's pretty normal for people using a SCO system, at least through the 90's. To i nstall the Y2K patches, I had to download them through the internet on a win98 puter, use a linux cd's rawwrite to put the images on floppy and then sneaker-net the floppies to the SCO box.
Does anybody really need anything above ext2 for/home or their wwwroot?
Actualy that is where most of the files I consider imporant are. If I had to choose between losing my files or losing evething else, it would always be everthing else.
Why not put/, ext2 read-only;/tmp,/mnt ext2 read-write;/etc, Reiserfs or EXT3;/home,/var,/srv,/root,/usr/local, XFS?
that way everything is on a fs that works best for the type of files found there; just remount / rw for updates.
enable PHBs to replace Unix servers with cheap Dell boxes running Windows admined by MCSEs.
I'm not sure why this is preferable to cheap Dell boxes running Linux adminned by MCSEs, If they can't admin a unix service running on linux, they can't admin a unix service running on Windows either.
I must be dense today, cause I still don't get it. I guess if the boss asks about SFU, I'll just pronounce it as SNAFU and mutter some nonsense about legal imdemification issues, over mixing GPL and proprietary software.
O3 is like... 150% faster than O2. I always thought that O3 while producing code that was theoreticaly faster, also produced code that was larger. That often meant that the faster code ran slower due to I/O bottlenecks and a tighter squeaze into existing RAM.
The bottom line is if you have a Need for Speed, then you also have a need to do your own benchmarks on the hardware and software you actualy run.
what if I think that it's a pretty slick idea to copy the "winning" coke can, have it programmed to call my number and pay off the coke guy to make sure that its planted in the machine across the hall from the secure area that I wish to spy on?
My little brother once worked at a private company, doing non-millitary stuff; where he had to store his street clothes, take a shower and dress in company provided work clothes on the other side of the showers, leaving work involved the reversal of the above.
the article I read said that a pump was concidered inaccurate when it was off by 4 cubic inches in five gallons which is just under 1 oz in a gallon. The stations must know that when they drop 50K gallons in the tank week after week, that the varience would be just about 1 thousand gallons and would be pretty obvious when their records got examined.
while the odds are the same for the next hit as for the previous; it's rather miss leading to say it that way. If the odds are 1/10^9 of getting your house struck within a century, the odds would be 1/10^18 for it to be struck twice in the same period.
I'd hope that it would be the NT line that they'd port, just thinke of the advantages for those of us using windows
1, the windowing system would have to be factored out of the system, don't want that over head on a cluster node.
2, A usable CLI would be necessary, and inteface to the OS would need to be documented
3. That reboot after update install would have to be eliminated, that wouldn't work on a cluster node.
4, would have to get it Unix(TM) certified to increase its geek appeal ( don't laugh, WinXP is supposed to be real close now).
of course with all of these improvemants, I might just buy one and run it on my desktop as a one node cluster, could even see about getting an X11 port, yeah that could be cool, a Unix certified Windows machine running X windows! You wouldn't see too many of those arround.
I guess I just don't understand this, what are we going to do, analyse the entire S&P 500 in a freaking Excel spreadsheet? I realise that these spreadsheet jockeys are doing things in Excel that are a lot more like applications than what most of us meer mortals think of as spreadsheets; but I just can't picture pitching to a PHB the need to purchase a 5T FLOPS cluster to run a spreadsheet app!
Of course it gets even better, imagine telling your users that the "server" will be down for a millions dollars of transaction time, so that we can reboot after installing the latest Windows update.
you would probably be suprised, the amount of email a computer can spew is more likely to be dependent on the internet connection bandwidth than the processing power.
Most of the cons of nuclear is based on old technology nayway. I remember seeing an article in popular science years ago where the fissile material was sealed inside ceramic balls along with the necessary moderator. This resulted in a package that was impact resistant, tamper resistant and best of all unlikely to melt or release its contents.
The reactor was controled by adding more fuel balls as power was increased, removing them as power was decreased, as the fuel balls were remove from the reactor they would automaticaly analysed for fuel remaining fuel content and be re-added to the usable population or retired to the spent population.
While nuclear could theoreticaly replace even all CO2 fuels I doubt that it would make any difference; the differnence in co2 warming at pre-induistrial 100 ppm levels and our present 330 ppm levels is not significant because the IR adsorbance band are to narrow and the degree of adsorbanse is to small to account for any significant atmospheric warming. Anything going on is natural and therefore beyond our control; we'd have to plug all the volcanoes, kill all of the termmites, and drain all of the oceans to really effect global warming due to atmospheric gasses.
I've been following this story a while and in previous stories Schmeiser is reported to have been growing heirloom crops also. Heirloom crops are fast disapearing but are important because they provide a genetic baseline that agricultural scientist can use to "start from scratch" occasonaly.
I under stand that if you found the original pre-indian corn, it would be worth millions.
Hi-tech toys that eat a lot of electricity are good as they can pay the R&D expenses on batteries. Then the batteries can be used in things like electric vehicles.
I agree, most local elections have a bigger impact on our quality of life and disposable income than the national elections do. Unfortunatly most of us don't or can't take off work on tuesday to vote on a two issue local election, especialy when we were only aware of it monday morning.
The other thing interesting that I saw on tv last week was that Abraham Lincoln, received 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote; must have been a lot of very tight elections in that one.
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I just completed a poll of the League Women Voters member and in a sampling 1000, 77% +- 5% always get a paper reciept when making an ATM financial transaction
Ok the poll part is made up, but my experience is that there is a trend, the more a person knows about computer programming and or administration, the more likely he or she is to want a paper trail for transactions of any type.
That was kinda cool, especialy the part about photoshop storing a thumbnail inside the image and not updating it after some small changes, like cropping tits, can any photoshop user's verify this. If it does would this be a security feature or a vulnerability? Otherwise I suspect that it's the old pornographer's trick of pasteing different heads on different bodies to make it seem like they have more contenet than they realy do.
In the past the network NIC recieved large contiguous blocks of IP addresses; soon the US had soaked up an apearently large share of the IP addresses and everyone was running around screaming that the internet was running out of addresses. This was resolved in the interim by aassigning addresses in a more rational manner and of course using NAT; IPv6 will sokve the problem completely.
The problem now is that the addresses are not contiguous. so it's not trivial to block a country or area. Dynamic IP's make it nearly impossible to quarentine infected machines. So the telcos recieving the pipes into sya china would be the only ones that had a chance of doing the blocking.
I did change the default browser to moz and that cause all of the html files on the WinXP machine to change from the ei style icon to the mini-Moz icon.
I've found that most people when they want a web browser, automaticaly click the IE icon, but if Mozilla is already running they don't notice that it's different. So what I not sure of is if an Icon on the desk-top is selectable like in gnome or kde, or if it is sometime selected by the OS. If I were microsoft I would set it to selected by the OS rather than user for branding purposes. My wife would scream bloody murder if I broke something on her machine, and if I couldn't fix it, would commit bloody murder!
My wild-hairy-assed guess is that the purpose of the virus-worm has changed significantly over the years. Originaly it was bragging rights about infecting individual machines, More recently it's about collecting 'bots for other purposes.
Now somebody seems to be finding the vulerabilities, notifing MS and waiting for a preventative patch to be issued. About the same time as the patch is released, the vulerability is shown to a lackey script-kiddy along with some prototype exploit code. The lackey write the worm, by the time the worm is written, the clue-full have already installed the preventative patches, and the semi-clued are testing the patches.
The Somebody in the back-ground doesn't want the clue-full to get infected, because they understand their systems, have forensic tools and will complain to and actively assist law-enforcement/intellegence agents. The semi-clued realy don't want to admit that they were caught with their pants down other than a few rants on/. They clean up their systems, and install the required protection soon the problem fades from the news; if law-enforcement/intellegence agents knok on their doors they can probably help some.
The clue-less on the other hand are still vulnerable, and the somebody in the background comes in with a modified worm to capture their machine for his purposes, skimming credit-card numbers, relaying spam or something more sinister. While he's doing this the visable infection rate is decreasing and law-enforcement is looking for the lackey while the priority of the case decreases. Of course it's also posible I put my tin-foil hat on crooked this morning.
I've pointed my YOU, YaST Online Update, at anl.gov's ftp server and with one checkbox click, and enter a URL and time, it automaticaly downloads the updates at over 300Kbs and installs them every night. the only problem I've had is that it over-wrote my mozilla 1.6 with mozilla 1.4. Re-installing mozilla in/usr/local/mozilla lets YOU update mozilla in/opt/mozilla all it wants.
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My experience is that's pretty normal for people using a SCO system, at least through the 90's. To i nstall the Y2K patches, I had to download them through the internet on a win98 puter, use a linux cd's rawwrite to put the images on floppy and then sneaker-net the floppies to the SCO box.
I've had power failures, and no obvious data lose or corruption on my xfs fs, but I'm desktop rather than server user so mileage may vary.
If I was a server type ups, backup generators and raid would be the order of the day anyways.
What advantage does it bring?
it will allow linux to have the one thing that MS OSes have that it doesn't, the ability of a poorly writen user space program to crash the system
Does anybody really need anything above ext2 for /home or their wwwroot?
/, ext2 read-only; /tmp, /mnt ext2 read-write; /etc, Reiserfs or EXT3; /home, /var, /srv, /root, /usr/local, XFS?
Actualy that is where most of the files I consider imporant are. If I had to choose between losing my files or losing evething else, it would always be everthing else.
Why not put
that way everything is on a fs that works best for the type of files found there; just remount / rw for updates.
enable PHBs to replace Unix servers with cheap Dell boxes running Windows admined by MCSEs.
I'm not sure why this is preferable to cheap Dell boxes running Linux adminned by MCSEs, If they can't admin a unix service running on linux, they can't admin a unix service running on Windows either.
I must be dense today, cause I still don't get it. I guess if the boss asks about SFU, I'll just pronounce it as SNAFU and mutter some nonsense about legal imdemification issues, over mixing GPL and proprietary software.
O3 is like... 150% faster than O2.
I always thought that O3 while producing code that was theoreticaly faster, also produced code that was larger. That often meant that the faster code ran slower due to I/O bottlenecks and a tighter squeaze into existing RAM.
The bottom line is if you have a Need for Speed, then you also have a need to do your own benchmarks on the hardware and software you actualy run.
what if I think that it's a pretty slick idea to copy the "winning" coke can, have it programmed to call my number and pay off the coke guy to make sure that its planted in the machine across the hall from the secure area that I wish to spy on?
My little brother once worked at a private company, doing non-millitary stuff; where he had to store his street clothes, take a shower and dress in company provided work clothes on the other side of the showers, leaving work involved the reversal of the above.
the article I read said that a pump was concidered inaccurate when it was off by 4 cubic inches in five gallons which is just under 1 oz in a gallon. The stations must know that when they drop 50K gallons in the tank week after week, that the varience would be just about 1 thousand gallons and would be pretty obvious when their records got examined.
while the odds are the same for the next hit as for the previous; it's rather miss leading to say it that way. If the odds are 1/10^9 of getting your house struck within a century, the odds would be 1/10^18 for it to be struck twice in the same period.
I'd hope that it would be the NT line that they'd port, just thinke of the advantages for those of us using windows
1, the windowing system would have to be factored out of the system, don't want that over head on a cluster node.
2, A usable CLI would be necessary, and inteface to the OS would need to be documented
3. That reboot after update install would have to be eliminated, that wouldn't work on a cluster node.
4, would have to get it Unix(TM) certified to increase its geek appeal ( don't laugh, WinXP is supposed to be real close now).
of course with all of these improvemants, I might just buy one and run it on my desktop as a one node cluster, could even see about getting an X11 port, yeah that could be cool, a Unix certified Windows machine running X windows! You wouldn't see too many of those arround.
I guess I just don't understand this, what are we going to do, analyse the entire S&P 500 in a freaking Excel spreadsheet? I realise that these spreadsheet jockeys are doing things in Excel that are a lot more like applications than what most of us meer mortals think of as spreadsheets; but I just can't picture pitching to a PHB the need to purchase a 5T FLOPS cluster to run a spreadsheet app!
Of course it gets even better, imagine telling your users that the "server" will be down for a millions dollars of transaction time, so that we can reboot after installing the latest Windows update.
you would probably be suprised, the amount of email a computer can spew is more likely to be dependent on the internet connection bandwidth than the processing power.
Most of the cons of nuclear is based on old technology nayway. I remember seeing an article in popular science years ago where the fissile material was sealed inside ceramic balls along with the necessary moderator. This resulted in a package that was impact resistant, tamper resistant and best of all unlikely to melt or release its contents.
The reactor was controled by adding more fuel balls as power was increased, removing them as power was decreased, as the fuel balls were remove from the reactor they would automaticaly analysed for fuel remaining fuel content and be re-added to the usable population or retired to the spent population.
While nuclear could theoreticaly replace even all CO2 fuels I doubt that it would make any difference; the differnence in co2 warming at pre-induistrial 100 ppm levels and our present 330 ppm levels is not significant because the IR adsorbance band are to narrow and the degree of adsorbanse is to small to account for any significant atmospheric warming. Anything going on is natural and therefore beyond our control; we'd have to plug all the volcanoes, kill all of the termmites, and drain all of the oceans to really effect global warming due to atmospheric gasses.
Now farmers can't set aside part of their crop for the next season's planting,
[tin foil hat mode]
They could as long a black helicopter didn't drop patented seeds on their fields durring the night.
[/tin foil hat mode]
I've been following this story a while and in previous stories Schmeiser is reported to have been growing heirloom crops also. Heirloom crops are fast disapearing but are important because they provide a genetic baseline that agricultural scientist can use to "start from scratch" occasonaly.
I under stand that if you found the original pre-indian corn, it would be worth millions.
Hi-tech toys that eat a lot of electricity are good as they can pay the R&D expenses on batteries. Then the batteries can be used in things like electric vehicles.
I agree, most local elections have a bigger impact on our quality of life and disposable income than the national elections do. Unfortunatly most of us don't or can't take off work on tuesday to vote on a two issue local election, especialy when we were only aware of it monday morning.
The other thing interesting that I saw on tv last week was that Abraham Lincoln, received 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote; must have been a lot of very tight elections in that one.
I just completed a poll of the League Women Voters member and in a sampling 1000, 77% +- 5% always get a paper reciept when making an ATM financial transaction
Ok the poll part is made up, but my experience is that there is a trend, the more a person knows about computer programming and or administration, the more likely he or she is to want a paper trail for transactions of any type.
That was kinda cool, especialy the part about photoshop storing a thumbnail inside the image and not updating it after some small changes, like cropping tits, can any photoshop user's verify this. If it does would this be a security feature or a vulnerability? Otherwise I suspect that it's the old pornographer's trick of pasteing different heads on different bodies to make it seem like they have more contenet than they realy do.
In the past the network NIC recieved large contiguous blocks of IP addresses; soon the US had soaked up an apearently large share of the IP addresses and everyone was running around screaming that the internet was running out of addresses. This was resolved in the interim by aassigning addresses in a more rational manner and of course using NAT; IPv6 will sokve the problem completely.
The problem now is that the addresses are not contiguous. so it's not trivial to block a country or area. Dynamic IP's make it nearly impossible to quarentine infected machines. So the telcos recieving the pipes into sya china would be the only ones that had a chance of doing the blocking.
I did change the default browser to moz and that cause all of the html files on the WinXP machine to change from the ei style icon to the mini-Moz icon.
I've found that most people when they want a web browser, automaticaly click the IE icon, but if Mozilla is already running they don't notice that it's different. So what I not sure of is if an Icon on the desk-top is selectable like in gnome or kde, or if it is sometime selected by the OS. If I were microsoft I would set it to selected by the OS rather than user for branding purposes. My wife would scream bloody murder if I broke something on her machine, and if I couldn't fix it, would commit bloody murder!
My wild-hairy-assed guess is that the purpose of the virus-worm has changed significantly over the years. Originaly it was bragging rights about infecting individual machines, More recently it's about collecting 'bots for other purposes.
/. They clean up their systems, and install the required protection soon the problem fades from the news; if law-enforcement/intellegence agents knok on their doors they can probably help some.
Now somebody seems to be finding the vulerabilities, notifing MS and waiting for a preventative patch to be issued. About the same time as the patch is released, the vulerability is shown to a lackey script-kiddy along with some prototype exploit code. The lackey write the worm, by the time the worm is written, the clue-full have already installed the preventative patches, and the semi-clued are testing the patches.
The Somebody in the back-ground doesn't want the clue-full to get infected, because they understand their systems, have forensic tools and will complain to and actively assist law-enforcement/intellegence agents. The semi-clued realy don't want to admit that they were caught with their pants down other than a few rants on
The clue-less on the other hand are still vulnerable, and the somebody in the background comes in with a modified worm to capture their machine for his purposes, skimming credit-card numbers, relaying spam or something more sinister. While he's doing this the visable infection rate is decreasing and law-enforcement is looking for the lackey while the priority of the case decreases.
Of course it's also posible I put my tin-foil hat on crooked this morning.
I've pointed my YOU, YaST Online Update, at anl.gov's ftp server and with one checkbox click, and enter a URL and time, it automaticaly downloads the updates at over 300Kbs and installs them every night. the only problem I've had is that it over-wrote my mozilla 1.6 with mozilla 1.4. Re-installing mozilla in /usr/local/mozilla lets YOU update mozilla in /opt/mozilla all it wants.