"What happens when some collision sends a pluton from space crashing onto earth"
The pluton will cease being a pluton as soon as it no longer takes longer than 200 Earth years to orbit the Sun. Once on Earth it would be a meteorite.
Web Site Viewer is too generic, but Webfox or Fireweb would have been good. Thundermail definitely sounds like a mail client. It's quite easy to take many names from OSS and change them slightly to have broader appeal.
Konqueror can be Web Konqueror. GIMP can be Gnu Photo. Sunbird can be Sun Calendar.
"Sorry I tripped off your anti-ms zealotry circuits"
My point wasn't that you should trust software pirates (although the big release groups really do have a much better record than Microsoft) nor am I an anti-ms zealot. What I was saying is that you shouldn't trust Microsoft just because they're a big company. Not only are their motives for producing software not the same as my motives for buying software, but they also have hundreds of employees who each have enough access to poison-pill a release. It's happened to other big companies.
"Would you use a linux distro downloaded from a torrent if you couldn't verify the authenticity of the file you'd downloaded?"
While I wouldn't trust a Linux distro from an unknown source, I also wouldn't trust a Linux distro that installed new software on my machine under the guise of a security update. What I will trust is any software that makes their processes transparent to me. That doesn't necessarily mean open source, but it does mean that I know about and can control what happens to the software I use.
I don't trust Microsoft to begin with. How on Earth can anybody? They ship beta spyware that bypasses personal firewalls using hidden system hooks, they consistently ship poorly made patches that break functionality. They ignored their web browser's disgusting security record for several years because there was almost no competition. These guys shouldn't have anyone's trust because it's very obvious that they're not trying to make users happy, they're trying to make as much money as possible.
Re:Why does everything need to be tech based?
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And *that* is the problem with modern Hot Wheels.
My six year old got lots of Hot Wheels three years ago for X-Mas. He's got roads and mountain passes and all the cool stuff. The problem is that none of the new cars will actually go over the hills because they don't have enough ground clearance. Some of them won't make it down the mountain race track because they have giant spoilers that get stuck in the tunnel. Some are too wide to fit on the roads. Only two or three will make it down the race track and do the loop.
Of course, I gave my son all my old Hot Wheels. All of them will work with his new race tracks, including the loops and hills. They have higher ground clearance and go a lot faster.
So maybe what's wrong with Hot Wheels is that they care more about what the cars look like than making a product that works well. If my beat up 20+ year old cars are faster than any of the new ones and the new ones don't work well with the playsets, no wonder kids don't play with them much anymore. Mattel should just try to make them fun again.
Presumably the space junk is orbiting Earth rather than ceaslessly falling into it from an unknown source of space junk. With any luck the space station will also be orbiting Earth. Any dangerous debris will have to be orbiting the Earth at the same height as the station, so it will therefore also be orbiting at about the same speed.
So while the debris may orbit at dangerous velocities, its relative speed to that of the space station will not be so high. Besides which, as others have stated, debris is tracked and can be avoided if necessary. Not to mention that generally when someone builds a space station they take into account small impacts.
You misread it. This is a beta release candidate, so if it's good it will become the first beta release. It's a bit confusing for end users, but then this release is only for developers and official testers.
You couldn't be more right. The first thing I do when getting a game is look online for unlock codes. Too often I find myself not buying a game because I don't want to be bothered. RPGs are completely out of the question, but sports and racing games are good.
Unfortunately I am unable to budget for ESX this year. I'm just lucky to be able to get new servers and finally ditch the house of cards I'm running everything on now:)
I agree that RAM is the probable cause of the slowdown. Once I get the new production server here to setup I'll have a month before deployment and will be able to test VMWare Server on a system with 4GB of RAM and I'll make sure the host is as trimmed down as possible. Right now it's Ubuntu running Gnome for the VMWare Server front-end, but in production I'll use Debian and run the front-end on my workstation.
The media is run by people and people are affected by their own bias. Somebody with no previous knowledge of racism would not think that this ad is promoting white supremacy in any way (especially after they see the other ads).
People looking for racist overtones will see them everywhere. A black co-worker at my last job complained about police racism everytime he got pulled over (not wearing a seatbelt, speeding, drunk driving, etc) even though he deserved to be stopped. He was convinced that the reason he was stopped so often was because he was black while I have never been stopped because I am white. Nevermind the fact that he was a terrible driver who regularly broke traffic laws.
In the case of the Sony ads people are seeing one instance of a white woman being agressive towards a black woman and assuming there is deep anti-black meaning behind it. Really, Sony's ad firm was trying to create a black vs. white ad campaign about the color of the PSP and used white and black people to help convey that message.
The real racists are the people who continually add to the problem by accusing people and companies of racism. They're the ones who can't handle the fact that people come in different colors and that those colors can be used for visual effect in movies, tv and ads. (Just look at how Snipes' black skin and clothes are used in Blade).
I've noticed quite a serious network performance issue using VMWare Server on a dev system. I was ready to go live with this on the new production server, but now I'm not sure. The benefits of virtualization are huge, but sometimes performance is too important. In my case, the web server takes noticably longer to serve requests and an especially long time if it's the first request in a long time, as if there is a delay while VMWare wakes the system from sleep mode or something like that. VMWare tools is installed.
Speaking of punching holes in floppy disks, am I the only kid who drilled a hole into the edge of a low-density 3.5" floppy so the computer would read it as a high density disk? Occasionally it even worked (probably when a manufacturer put high density disks in low density cases because it was cheaper to only manufacture one kind).
I also remember trying to format disks to sizes larger than 1.44MB using all sorts of weird formatting utilities. 1.88MB worked pretty well. This sort of thing made a difference when Star Trek used 25 disks.
">6) Linux continues to step by step become the de facto choice for computing companies to base their hardware on
Which explains the ease of finding Linux drivers and the near impossiblity of finding them for Windows."
You're mistaken. The grandparent poster was talking about embedded and OEM Linux, where a specialized hardware device comes with the OS already installed. PDAs, network appliances and multimedia devices are good examples. Drivers aren't released because it's specialized hardware.
The only thing wrong with ESRB ratings is that kids can still purchase M-rated games. Everybody already knows about movie ratings and theatres usually won't let underage kids into an R-rated movie. With games, it's completely different. Very few stores have anything more than casual enforcement of the ratings. If one store turns a kid down, that kid will just go to the next store and buy it there, so the first store would have lost business for essentially no reason at all.
I think the ESRB should have the power to pull M-rated games from the shelf of a retailer who sells them to kids. That way there would be a business reason to enforce the ratings.
Maybe that's what the FTC means when it says the game industry has not regulated itself very well.
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Apache down, IIS up
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At the last place I worked at IBM did the same thing. They wanted us off LAMP and offered to give us 1-year Websphere and DB2 licenses (something like $10,000 per year afterwards!) and they would even re-write all of our web applications at no charge.
So as I'm in the meeting with these guys all I hear them talk about is their technology. Java this and Java that, scalability, DB2, XML addons, etc. It was all very impressive until I asked them a question for which they had no answer.
What business problem does our current technology fail to solve that your new technology can?
The fact is they had no idea. They didn't care at all about our business, only their technology. Our LAMP system already did what we wanted and I communicated to IBM that our business success had nothing to do with technology, but everything to do with the business model behind it. I'd be willing to bet that Microsoft isn't solving any business problems by converting anyone to IIS.
The defensiveness comes from the fact that Yankee analyst Laura DiDio repeatedly makes ridiculous claims against Linux. She's the one that said Linux definitely stole SCO's code.
I don't have access to the full report, but I wonder how the "lack of documentation" came into play. Was a certified admin working each system? Did the admin call vendor support for help resolving any of the incidents? Was the particular problem experienced by each server the same? Hardware or software problems? Were all the servers configured in the same role? These differences play a role in how each of the operating systems scored.
Cogeco Cable in Ontario is excellent. They advertise 8mbps and last night I downloaded Ubuntu Dapper at almost exactly 8mbps. Usually I'm restricted by the server's bandwidth, but I guess Ubuntu's pipe is a nice fat subway tunnel:)
I just wish there was a good 'lite' plan for $20/month that had reasonable bandwidth. They all seem stuck at 128kbps or 256kbps. If they'd do 512kbps for $20/month it'd be great because as it is now I can't even download OS updates on my mom's computer without leaving it on for a couple of hours while it's downloading at 16KBps.
I use large spreadsheets a lot at work and I have Office XP docs, Office 2003 XML Excel docs and.ods docs. I always save as.ods because they're by far the smallest, which means I can usually email them to co-workers.
Here is a real-world example using a medium-sized spreadsheet (63,999 rows, > 20 columns, but little data in many of the columns)..ods => 3.0 MB.xls (Office XP) => 10.1 MB.xml (Excel 2003) => 5.2 MB
Only the.ods can be sent from my work email account.
And never even mind that Excel has terrible support for CSV files (try using a non-comma delimiter) and zero support for space-delimited files (try it with OpenOffice.org... what a great interface!)
If they compiled with winelib then it would be a native Linux app. The rewriting would be to take out the stuff winelib doesn't support.
I think that's a reasonable path to take when porting smaller apps. If Wine was 100% Windows compatible then you could take any Windows source code and compile it against winelib to get a native Linux binary.
Slashdot links to other stories on the web, they don't write the stories themselves. If anybody is going to get sued it should be the publication that actually commited libel.
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"What happens when some collision sends a pluton from space crashing onto earth"
The pluton will cease being a pluton as soon as it no longer takes longer than 200 Earth years to orbit the Sun. Once on Earth it would be a meteorite.
Web Site Viewer is too generic, but Webfox or Fireweb would have been good. Thundermail definitely sounds like a mail client. It's quite easy to take many names from OSS and change them slightly to have broader appeal.
Konqueror can be Web Konqueror. GIMP can be Gnu Photo. Sunbird can be Sun Calendar.
MySQL, RadRails and OpenOffice are great names.
A few weeks ago he gave an interview and said it was still at least a year away from release.
I have literally told you a million times to read the whole article before commenting.
One would, however, expect a journalist to know the difference between literal and figurative speech.
"Sorry I tripped off your anti-ms zealotry circuits"
My point wasn't that you should trust software pirates (although the big release groups really do have a much better record than Microsoft) nor am I an anti-ms zealot. What I was saying is that you shouldn't trust Microsoft just because they're a big company. Not only are their motives for producing software not the same as my motives for buying software, but they also have hundreds of employees who each have enough access to poison-pill a release. It's happened to other big companies.
"Would you use a linux distro downloaded from a torrent if you couldn't verify the authenticity of the file you'd downloaded?"
While I wouldn't trust a Linux distro from an unknown source, I also wouldn't trust a Linux distro that installed new software on my machine under the guise of a security update. What I will trust is any software that makes their processes transparent to me. That doesn't necessarily mean open source, but it does mean that I know about and can control what happens to the software I use.
I don't trust Microsoft to begin with. How on Earth can anybody? They ship beta spyware that bypasses personal firewalls using hidden system hooks, they consistently ship poorly made patches that break functionality. They ignored their web browser's disgusting security record for several years because there was almost no competition. These guys shouldn't have anyone's trust because it's very obvious that they're not trying to make users happy, they're trying to make as much money as possible.
And *that* is the problem with modern Hot Wheels.
My six year old got lots of Hot Wheels three years ago for X-Mas. He's got roads and mountain passes and all the cool stuff. The problem is that none of the new cars will actually go over the hills because they don't have enough ground clearance. Some of them won't make it down the mountain race track because they have giant spoilers that get stuck in the tunnel. Some are too wide to fit on the roads. Only two or three will make it down the race track and do the loop.
Of course, I gave my son all my old Hot Wheels. All of them will work with his new race tracks, including the loops and hills. They have higher ground clearance and go a lot faster.
So maybe what's wrong with Hot Wheels is that they care more about what the cars look like than making a product that works well. If my beat up 20+ year old cars are faster than any of the new ones and the new ones don't work well with the playsets, no wonder kids don't play with them much anymore. Mattel should just try to make them fun again.
Yes, Ubuntu has deb-src repositories as well. I'm not sure what the fuss is about.
Presumably the space junk is orbiting Earth rather than ceaslessly falling into it from an unknown source of space junk. With any luck the space station will also be orbiting Earth. Any dangerous debris will have to be orbiting the Earth at the same height as the station, so it will therefore also be orbiting at about the same speed.
So while the debris may orbit at dangerous velocities, its relative speed to that of the space station will not be so high. Besides which, as others have stated, debris is tracked and can be avoided if necessary. Not to mention that generally when someone builds a space station they take into account small impacts.
You misread it. This is a beta release candidate, so if it's good it will become the first beta release. It's a bit confusing for end users, but then this release is only for developers and official testers.
You couldn't be more right. The first thing I do when getting a game is look online for unlock codes. Too often I find myself not buying a game because I don't want to be bothered. RPGs are completely out of the question, but sports and racing games are good.
Thanks for the reply.
:)
Unfortunately I am unable to budget for ESX this year. I'm just lucky to be able to get new servers and finally ditch the house of cards I'm running everything on now
I agree that RAM is the probable cause of the slowdown. Once I get the new production server here to setup I'll have a month before deployment and will be able to test VMWare Server on a system with 4GB of RAM and I'll make sure the host is as trimmed down as possible. Right now it's Ubuntu running Gnome for the VMWare Server front-end, but in production I'll use Debian and run the front-end on my workstation.
The media is run by people and people are affected by their own bias. Somebody with no previous knowledge of racism would not think that this ad is promoting white supremacy in any way (especially after they see the other ads).
People looking for racist overtones will see them everywhere. A black co-worker at my last job complained about police racism everytime he got pulled over (not wearing a seatbelt, speeding, drunk driving, etc) even though he deserved to be stopped. He was convinced that the reason he was stopped so often was because he was black while I have never been stopped because I am white. Nevermind the fact that he was a terrible driver who regularly broke traffic laws.
In the case of the Sony ads people are seeing one instance of a white woman being agressive towards a black woman and assuming there is deep anti-black meaning behind it. Really, Sony's ad firm was trying to create a black vs. white ad campaign about the color of the PSP and used white and black people to help convey that message.
The real racists are the people who continually add to the problem by accusing people and companies of racism. They're the ones who can't handle the fact that people come in different colors and that those colors can be used for visual effect in movies, tv and ads. (Just look at how Snipes' black skin and clothes are used in Blade).
I've noticed quite a serious network performance issue using VMWare Server on a dev system. I was ready to go live with this on the new production server, but now I'm not sure. The benefits of virtualization are huge, but sometimes performance is too important. In my case, the web server takes noticably longer to serve requests and an especially long time if it's the first request in a long time, as if there is a delay while VMWare wakes the system from sleep mode or something like that. VMWare tools is installed.
Has anybody else seen this problem?
Speaking of punching holes in floppy disks, am I the only kid who drilled a hole into the edge of a low-density 3.5" floppy so the computer would read it as a high density disk? Occasionally it even worked (probably when a manufacturer put high density disks in low density cases because it was cheaper to only manufacture one kind).
I also remember trying to format disks to sizes larger than 1.44MB using all sorts of weird formatting utilities. 1.88MB worked pretty well. This sort of thing made a difference when Star Trek used 25 disks.
">6) Linux continues to step by step become the de facto choice for computing companies to base their hardware on
Which explains the ease of finding Linux drivers and the near impossiblity of finding them for Windows."
You're mistaken. The grandparent poster was talking about embedded and OEM Linux, where a specialized hardware device comes with the OS already installed. PDAs, network appliances and multimedia devices are good examples. Drivers aren't released because it's specialized hardware.
The only thing wrong with ESRB ratings is that kids can still purchase M-rated games. Everybody already knows about movie ratings and theatres usually won't let underage kids into an R-rated movie. With games, it's completely different. Very few stores have anything more than casual enforcement of the ratings. If one store turns a kid down, that kid will just go to the next store and buy it there, so the first store would have lost business for essentially no reason at all.
I think the ESRB should have the power to pull M-rated games from the shelf of a retailer who sells them to kids. That way there would be a business reason to enforce the ratings.
Maybe that's what the FTC means when it says the game industry has not regulated itself very well.
At the last place I worked at IBM did the same thing. They wanted us off LAMP and offered to give us 1-year Websphere and DB2 licenses (something like $10,000 per year afterwards!) and they would even re-write all of our web applications at no charge.
So as I'm in the meeting with these guys all I hear them talk about is their technology. Java this and Java that, scalability, DB2, XML addons, etc. It was all very impressive until I asked them a question for which they had no answer.
What business problem does our current technology fail to solve that your new technology can?
The fact is they had no idea. They didn't care at all about our business, only their technology. Our LAMP system already did what we wanted and I communicated to IBM that our business success had nothing to do with technology, but everything to do with the business model behind it. I'd be willing to bet that Microsoft isn't solving any business problems by converting anyone to IIS.
The defensiveness comes from the fact that Yankee analyst Laura DiDio repeatedly makes ridiculous claims against Linux. She's the one that said Linux definitely stole SCO's code.
I don't have access to the full report, but I wonder how the "lack of documentation" came into play. Was a certified admin working each system? Did the admin call vendor support for help resolving any of the incidents? Was the particular problem experienced by each server the same? Hardware or software problems? Were all the servers configured in the same role? These differences play a role in how each of the operating systems scored.
Cogeco Cable in Ontario is excellent. They advertise 8mbps and last night I downloaded Ubuntu Dapper at almost exactly 8mbps. Usually I'm restricted by the server's bandwidth, but I guess Ubuntu's pipe is a nice fat subway tunnel :)
I just wish there was a good 'lite' plan for $20/month that had reasonable bandwidth. They all seem stuck at 128kbps or 256kbps. If they'd do 512kbps for $20/month it'd be great because as it is now I can't even download OS updates on my mom's computer without leaving it on for a couple of hours while it's downloading at 16KBps.
Run EasyUbuntu instead, but yes, you must install them because Ubuntu isn't legally allowed to include those codecs.
Chicken and egg, my friend, chicken and egg.
I use large spreadsheets a lot at work and I have Office XP docs, Office 2003 XML Excel docs and .ods docs. I always save as .ods because they're by far the smallest, which means I can usually email them to co-workers.
.ods => 3.0 MB .xls (Office XP) => 10.1 MB .xml (Excel 2003) => 5.2 MB
.ods can be sent from my work email account.
Here is a real-world example using a medium-sized spreadsheet (63,999 rows, > 20 columns, but little data in many of the columns).
Only the
And never even mind that Excel has terrible support for CSV files (try using a non-comma delimiter) and zero support for space-delimited files (try it with OpenOffice.org... what a great interface!)
If they compiled with winelib then it would be a native Linux app. The rewriting would be to take out the stuff winelib doesn't support.
I think that's a reasonable path to take when porting smaller apps. If Wine was 100% Windows compatible then you could take any Windows source code and compile it against winelib to get a native Linux binary.
Slashdot links to other stories on the web, they don't write the stories themselves. If anybody is going to get sued it should be the publication that actually commited libel.