If the recent financial meltdown has left you wondering, 'When does exponential decay function stop?' then I have the book for you. Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis
So THAT's why we had a financial meltdown. All of those investment banks were doing their books and analysis with Excel 2007.
I'm confused. Are you saying that the average user would be saving money paying a monthly "cloud computing" bill because they wouldn't have to purchase and run their own cloud computing infrastructure?
I don't really know any users that need a cloud computing infrastructure, let alone anyone that pays for one.
That's like my wife who can go out and buy 50 pairs of shoes, then proceed to tell me how we saved a ton of money because the shoes were on sale. Uhh - we didn't need the shoes in the first place.
From the "paranoid" RMS: "cloud computing [is] simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time"
From the "enterprising" Ballmer on a "free" cloud: "I was joking actually with Tim Lyons, who's here from Morgan Stanley, 'Sure, we'll give you everything for free as long as we get to watch what every investment banker does all day on their PC, where they go, what their mail says, and we'll give them real relevant ads.' I think we can probably get 100 bucks a year out of them instead of inflicting that experience. So, I don't think advertising is for everything."
Imagine paying your monthly internet bill. And your monthly cloud OS bill. And your monthly email app/storage bill. And your online office application bill. Etc. Etc.
RMS again: "whenever you hear somebody saying... this is inevitable... it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true."
Naaahhh... we've never heard of any giant marketing campaigns trying to convince us that some new product or idea is inevitable or that we can't or won't be able to live without it... right?
U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has identified a potentially disastrous new security flaw in the 2.6 branch of the Linux operating system. This flaw, if exploited, can allow a machine to be compromised completely and a new rootkit called "Ubuntu LiveCD" can be used to make whatever changes the attacker wishes to the Linux operating system.
We've found that if an attacker can gain physical access to the computer they wish to compromise, they can insert this rootkit CD into the drive and press the reset button on the computer. They can then boot from this CD and use this new rootkit to do whatever they wish to the system. After a reboot, the Linux operating system comes back online and is completely compromised.
CERT is currently investigating new means to fix this rather serious flaw in the Linux operating system.
Actually - I'm in the middle of a nightmare because I need to get this system out the door and to a client like... YESTERDAY, and for some reason the pkg.opensolaris.org server is having problems and I can't get this thing updated.
Aside from my grief this morning, my experience with Indiana has been pretty nice. It seems like once things are working, for the most part they stay that way. However, I'd agree with your statement about it being "betaish". The system has some wierd quirks like:
1. Occasionally when rebooted it cant bring up SMB shares. Reboot again and they come up. 2. Network Auto Magic... uhhh.... huh? Why? First thing I disabled. 3. Changing DNS servers in the config and reloading = broken DNS. Reboot and it's fine.
Anyway, I'm glad Sun has done this. It's always nice to have more "free" alternatives.
Anyone remember when this place was "News for nerds, stuff that matters"?
Slashdot was once an enlightening and stimulating place for people from the IT industry / Science Industry / etc to come and read the latest RELEVANT news, and then discuss it - the discussions were intelligent and insightful, and many times posts came from people who were known and respected in the field being discussed.
Stories that made the front page catered to such minds. Many of the articles would even warrant me spending an hour or so researching the topic and gaining insight into something new and exciting. Slashdot used to be "brain food".
This seems to be the fate of such places on the Internet. Usenet... Slashdot... (more examples that I couldn't think of)... it seems like as more idiots connect themselves to the Internet, the more idiotic the Internet becomes. Places once frequented by intellectuals seeking an intellectual forum become watered down with stupidity and insipidity - and are overtaken by those seeking a cheap laugh and simple entertainment.
Slashdot has been going downhill for a couple of years now, and seems to be gaining momentum. It makes me sad. There are a billion and one places to go for idle, mindless discussion and "college humor". There are a million and one places to go for discussion of "common tech news". Once this place has completely caved into mediocrity, there won't be anywhere else to go. Slashdot will no longer be unique. Slashdot might as well merge with digg or 4chan.
Someone oughtta buy this place out and put it back how it used to be, pink-slip all of the new editors and FUD-mongers and politiks, and have idle.slashdot.org redirect to www.bored.com.
There's a basic design flaw in how normal computers operate that requires this sort of behavior from kernels, which leads to bad drivers affecting them. If you can name one system ready for general purpose for which this isn't true I would love to hear about it.
I think you're on the wrong website. This site is for people who actually have some expertise in the IT field, not kids that think they're "l33t" because they can install Vista to play video games and upload photos to myspace.
See that little address bar up at the top of the window that says "Internet Explorer"? Type in http://www.microsoftisawesome.com/ and then hit enter. I think that's the site you want to be at. You can hook up with all of your little fanboy friends there.
Here's some more reading for you - you can get to these sites the same way as the one I placed above:
Once you're old enough, you can take some college classes and learn even more.
I know that once you gain some knowledge you'll look back at these posts you made and be embarrassed at how totally ridiculous and silly and misinformed they are - but don't worry, we'll forgive you. Next time though, try not to be such an ignorant little shit. It only makes you look even more hillarious.
AD support has been available for linux for years.
Hell - Suse has it built right into Yast now. PAM/Kerberos, LDAP, everything.
Setting it up on a vanilla distro is as easy as installing the kerberos libs, krb5, ntp (to keep time sync'd with the DC's time), samba, and winbind. Make sure you can resolve the DC via DNS, and you're good to go.
$50 per workstation license for this software? Hmmm...
porting Linux to anything less than an 8088 could lead to total protonic reversal.
I've reached this theory myself before - but have been too scared to test it.
The best idea I've come up with is porting it for a Z80 and then trying to boot it on a Sinclair in a remote region of Southern Utah using some sort of remote control for safety.
I really need a particle physicist to help me out with the minor details, you know - possible blast radius, how long before the area is habitable again, will the Earth's orbit be affected, etc.
Microsoft will stop being labeled evil when they stop doing evil things.
Since the great majority of what they do is either evil, anti-competitive, illegal, or stifles innovation (or any combination thereof) - the only way I see them not being evil anymore is if they cash in and dissolve.
Slashdot Mirror
Will this b00k teach me to cr4ck Call of Duty 4?
If the recent financial meltdown has left you wondering, 'When does exponential decay function stop?' then I have the book for you. Advanced Excel for Scientific Data Analysis
So THAT's why we had a financial meltdown. All of those investment banks were doing their books and analysis with Excel 2007.
I'm confused. Are you saying that the average user would be saving money paying a monthly "cloud computing" bill because they wouldn't have to purchase and run their own cloud computing infrastructure?
I don't really know any users that need a cloud computing infrastructure, let alone anyone that pays for one.
That's like my wife who can go out and buy 50 pairs of shoes, then proceed to tell me how we saved a ton of money because the shoes were on sale. Uhh - we didn't need the shoes in the first place.
From the "paranoid" RMS:
"cloud computing [is] simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time"
From the "enterprising" Ballmer on a "free" cloud:
"I was joking actually with Tim Lyons, who's here from Morgan Stanley, 'Sure, we'll give you everything for free as long as we get to watch what every investment banker does all day on their PC, where they go, what their mail says, and we'll give them real relevant ads.' I think we can probably get 100 bucks a year out of them instead of inflicting that experience. So, I don't think advertising is for everything."
Imagine paying your monthly internet bill. And your monthly cloud OS bill. And your monthly email app/storage bill. And your online office application bill. Etc. Etc.
RMS again: ... this is inevitable ... it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true."
"whenever you hear somebody saying
Naaahhh... we've never heard of any giant marketing campaigns trying to convince us that some new product or idea is inevitable or that we can't or won't be able to live without it... right?
Paranoid?
You know how much memory emacs uses today? Eight megs. Now find an app that does everything that emacs can in less than tens times that much memory.
I think you mean the text manual for emacs takes up eight megs.
The v2 version will, of course, run Emacs
So it has the 32gb flash memory then? Badass.
http://www.octools.com/index.cgi?caller=articles/submersion/submersion.html
Gamers shall have the right to modify their games to alter their singleplayer experience.
U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has identified a potentially disastrous new security flaw in the 2.6 branch of the Linux operating system. This flaw, if exploited, can allow a machine to be compromised completely and a new rootkit called "Ubuntu LiveCD" can be used to make whatever changes the attacker wishes to the Linux operating system.
We've found that if an attacker can gain physical access to the computer they wish to compromise, they can insert this rootkit CD into the drive and press the reset button on the computer. They can then boot from this CD and use this new rootkit to do whatever they wish to the system. After a reboot, the Linux operating system comes back online and is completely compromised.
CERT is currently investigating new means to fix this rather serious flaw in the Linux operating system.
The guy's been involved in many of security's moments in history.
How is this modded troll?
That's the first time I ever saw UID used as an estimator of age.
That's the first time I've seen age as an estimator of assets.
...the GUI vs. CLI war. 99.999% of functions should be accessible from a GUI. Period. End. Of. Story.
Okay, I'd really like you to tell me how something like that is even remotely possible.
The only way to give a GUI the same power as the CLI is to dumb down the CLI.
Actually - I'm in the middle of a nightmare because I need to get this system out the door and to a client like... YESTERDAY, and for some reason the pkg.opensolaris.org server is having problems and I can't get this thing updated.
Aside from my grief this morning, my experience with Indiana has been pretty nice. It seems like once things are working, for the most part they stay that way. However, I'd agree with your statement about it being "betaish". The system has some wierd quirks like:
1. Occasionally when rebooted it cant bring up SMB shares. Reboot again and they come up.
2. Network Auto Magic... uhhh.... huh? Why? First thing I disabled.
3. Changing DNS servers in the config and reloading = broken DNS. Reboot and it's fine.
Anyway, I'm glad Sun has done this. It's always nice to have more "free" alternatives.
Thanks for the info. Guess I should have RTFM/A. :)
http://opensrc.sec.samsung.com/document/Getting_Familiar_with_uClinuxARM2_6.html
Anyone remember when this place was "News for nerds, stuff that matters"?
Slashdot was once an enlightening and stimulating place for people from the IT industry / Science Industry / etc to come and read the latest RELEVANT news, and then discuss it - the discussions were intelligent and insightful, and many times posts came from people who were known and respected in the field being discussed.
Stories that made the front page catered to such minds. Many of the articles would even warrant me spending an hour or so researching the topic and gaining insight into something new and exciting. Slashdot used to be "brain food".
This seems to be the fate of such places on the Internet. Usenet... Slashdot... (more examples that I couldn't think of)... it seems like as more idiots connect themselves to the Internet, the more idiotic the Internet becomes. Places once frequented by intellectuals seeking an intellectual forum become watered down with stupidity and insipidity - and are overtaken by those seeking a cheap laugh and simple entertainment.
Slashdot has been going downhill for a couple of years now, and seems to be gaining momentum. It makes me sad. There are a billion and one places to go for idle, mindless discussion and "college humor". There are a million and one places to go for discussion of "common tech news". Once this place has completely caved into mediocrity, there won't be anywhere else to go. Slashdot will no longer be unique. Slashdot might as well merge with digg or 4chan.
Someone oughtta buy this place out and put it back how it used to be, pink-slip all of the new editors and FUD-mongers and politiks, and have idle.slashdot.org redirect to www.bored.com.
There's a basic design flaw in how normal computers operate that requires this sort of behavior from kernels, which leads to bad drivers affecting them. If you can name one system ready for general purpose for which this isn't true I would love to hear about it.
GNU Hurd
I think you're on the wrong website. This site is for people who actually have some expertise in the IT field, not kids that think they're "l33t" because they can install Vista to play video games and upload photos to myspace.
See that little address bar up at the top of the window that says "Internet Explorer"? Type in http://www.microsoftisawesome.com/ and then hit enter. I think that's the site you want to be at. You can hook up with all of your little fanboy friends there.
Here's some more reading for you - you can get to these sites the same way as the one I placed above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
Once you're old enough, you can take some college classes and learn even more.
I know that once you gain some knowledge you'll look back at these posts you made and be embarrassed at how totally ridiculous and silly and misinformed they are - but don't worry, we'll forgive you. Next time though, try not to be such an ignorant little shit. It only makes you look even more hillarious.
AD support has been available for linux for years.
Hell - Suse has it built right into Yast now. PAM/Kerberos, LDAP, everything.
Setting it up on a vanilla distro is as easy as installing the kerberos libs, krb5, ntp (to keep time sync'd with the DC's time), samba, and winbind. Make sure you can resolve the DC via DNS, and you're good to go.
$50 per workstation license for this software? Hmmm...
The adults are talking.
porting Linux to anything less than an 8088 could lead to total protonic reversal.
I've reached this theory myself before - but have been too scared to test it.
The best idea I've come up with is porting it for a Z80 and then trying to boot it on a Sinclair in a remote region of Southern Utah using some sort of remote control for safety.
I really need a particle physicist to help me out with the minor details, you know - possible blast radius, how long before the area is habitable again, will the Earth's orbit be affected, etc.
Will be done by holding monthly Gravity Tractor Pulls at the local fairgrounds, with free beer.
Microsoft will stop being labeled evil when they stop doing evil things.
Since the great majority of what they do is either evil, anti-competitive, illegal, or stifles innovation (or any combination thereof) - the only way I see them not being evil anymore is if they cash in and dissolve.
Fat chance.
Long live Gnus.
I'd use gnus, except I don't have enough hard drive space to install emacs.