The only thing worse than people who say Java is slow is those who say it is fast.
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What we really need is an HTTP torrent-like technology, so when you hit a site that's being slashdotted, you transparently download it from everybody else who's there.
That sure puts IBM's e-business on demand to shame.
Have you ever tried SuSE 8.2 Pro? It's light years ahead of Red Hat or Mandrake in desktop usability. Their selection process may or may not be favouring home-grown software, but even an impartial process would have selected SuSE for the desktop.
SuSE on the server is quite popular as well. IBM, for instance, only officially supports Red Hat Advanced Server and SuSE with their Linux server apps.
Word 97 autocompletes names and dates. Is extending that functionality to previous database searches really all that revolutionary? I understand that this isn't autocomplete, but it's a very obvious extension of the autocomplete invention.
"Seeded" is not the same as "staged". It would be a really crappy show if they had to build boats, but nothing in the JY would float! They seed the JY with many things that can be used to help the teams, but the teams have to put together this junk in a useful fashion.
For instance, planting a long chain isn't the same as handing over all the parts to build a wrecking ball. The seeded stuff is still usually junk. The few exceptions are stuff like airplane motors, which is more of a safety precaution.
That's only partially true. OS design has a lot to do with how much damage a virus or hacker can do. On Windows, once some executable content runs, it has free reign over the system. On *nix, this is not usually the case.
Truth be told, security has more to do with users than with the OS.
Canada is among the world leaders in medical advances, including work on the human Genome project, Cancer, AIDS and Autism research. I wouldn't expect anyone in the know to put the US much higher than Canada in medical research.
Yes, but a few weeks ago when there was a threat of SARS moving into the community, it was a real treat to be able to simply cough to get a seat on the train.
Actually, I don't think any children have died. They seem to develop a very weak version of the disease. Also, the mortality rate is more like 4%, although real numbers are hard to get outside of a few major countries.
Great, so now we're back to DOS -- requiring to select the VESA video driver because your video card isn't supported.
I think the solution to that is to have a/drivers partition on your hard drive that the CD uses to pick up whatever drivers and settings your system needs. Trouble is that then you run into the problem of having to setup your system in a way that MS won't support, just so you can play games.
BTW, check out the Gentoo Live CD sometime. It includes Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo. Perfect for quickly booting into a game without installing anything, assuming you have a Nvidia video card.
I love this plan. By cutting off terrorists' access to computer software, they will be thrown back to the stone age and become much less a threat. Because terrorists don't have any money to purchase software from legitimate companies like Microsoft, they rely totally on free software like BSD and Linux.
By eliminating those free software projects we can effectively stop terrorists from obtaining the vital software they need to build bombs.
I told my manager Linux was free, and his eyes opened wide. I told my manager it was more stable than our NT 4 servers, and his eyes opened wider. I told my manager that I would have better, easier, remote management, and his eyes opened wider. I told my manager Linux would still run our Websphere software and that IBM provided a free migration path (no new licenses), and my bosses eyes finally popped out of their sockets.
I'm not being a Linux zealot. Everything there -- except for his eyes popping out -- is true. We just migrated 3 web servers to Redhat. It was an incredibly easy process and we're already seeing dramatic stability improvements despite a severe coding bug that cause us some downtime. I have never managed a Linux server before, but I'm not having any trouble learning it, with a bit of online help.
While your.NET apps won't easily port, who says.NET is better than Java anyway? I'm no Java fan, but I've done some Java web app coding and some.NET development, and.NET is no better.
This behaviour is not uncommon among large companies. Take IBM, for instance, who aren't quite sure whether or not they want to support Linux. On one hand, they put a lot of development and marketing into Linux, but on the other hand they didn't bother to beta test Websphere 5 for Linux before launch, but they did beta test the Windows version.
I developed and help admin a private forum of people who met on the net. When I was developing it I asked what people wanted. They unanimously did not want multiple forums, "hidden" replies (forcing you to click on each one) or limits to replying (it's fully threaded). People don't like anything that they interpret as limiting what they want to do.
Within a really good community you can let the community keep itself in order. When someone steps out of line or a newbie does something... newbieish... then the community straightens it out before a moderator needs to step in.
To create strong community you must create a strong friendship, or at least a strong commonality, among members.
Too bad I'm so late, so nobody will read this, but yesterday I was adding a server to a rack by myself. The two ServerIrons we use are on top, but only take up 1/2 depth, so I pulled them out from the back of the rack as far as I could without them falling, then from the front I balanced the IBM Netfinity 4500R 3U server.
The plan was to lift the ServerIrons from the back of the rack and slide the IBM underneath. It was an attempted time saving measure. Oh, and everything still had to be plugged in and working while I did this so our web sites didn't go down -- only the new IBM 4500R was not yet running.
To make a long story short, the IBM didn't remain balanced once I moved the ServerIrons and it fell front-first 5 feet onto a tiled floor. The plastic face is smashed in a bit, the tabs that hold it on are gone and the case cover had its tabs bent so it wouldn't fit back on.
I bent the case tabs back so the case would fit back together and put on the face as best I could, booted up and it worked.
Laws are written by industry groups as often as not, then they pay a congressman to introduce it. Bill from techfocus.org explained it all to me a while ago (I'm Canadian... not too much knowledge of US politics). The whole thing made me kind of sick. So much for "For the people, by the people." More like "For the corporation, by the corporation."
Whenever a telemarketer calls me I say the exact same thing as you -- that I'm on a cell phone and would like to be reimbursed for the minutes used. In every single case I've been removed from their call list. I now get almost no telemarketing calls.
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The only thing worse than people who say Java is slow is those who say it is fast.
What we really need is an HTTP torrent-like technology, so when you hit a site that's being slashdotted, you transparently download it from everybody else who's there.
That sure puts IBM's e-business on demand to shame.
Have you ever tried SuSE 8.2 Pro? It's light years ahead of Red Hat or Mandrake in desktop usability. Their selection process may or may not be favouring home-grown software, but even an impartial process would have selected SuSE for the desktop.
SuSE on the server is quite popular as well. IBM, for instance, only officially supports Red Hat Advanced Server and SuSE with their Linux server apps.
but what they don't tell you is that it doesn't play games anymore.
Word 97 autocompletes names and dates. Is extending that functionality to previous database searches really all that revolutionary? I understand that this isn't autocomplete, but it's a very obvious extension of the autocomplete invention.
"Seeded" is not the same as "staged". It would be a really crappy show if they had to build boats, but nothing in the JY would float! They seed the JY with many things that can be used to help the teams, but the teams have to put together this junk in a useful fashion.
For instance, planting a long chain isn't the same as handing over all the parts to build a wrecking ball. The seeded stuff is still usually junk. The few exceptions are stuff like airplane motors, which is more of a safety precaution.
That's only partially true. OS design has a lot to do with how much damage a virus or hacker can do. On Windows, once some executable content runs, it has free reign over the system. On *nix, this is not usually the case.
Truth be told, security has more to do with users than with the OS.
They TRY to sell it, but those filthy Asian pirates are giving it away to anybody who comes near them!
Canada is among the world leaders in medical advances, including work on the human Genome project, Cancer, AIDS and Autism research. I wouldn't expect anyone in the know to put the US much higher than Canada in medical research.
Yes, but a few weeks ago when there was a threat of SARS moving into the community, it was a real treat to be able to simply cough to get a seat on the train.
Actually, I don't think any children have died. They seem to develop a very weak version of the disease. Also, the mortality rate is more like 4%, although real numbers are hard to get outside of a few major countries.
Great, so now we're back to DOS -- requiring to select the VESA video driver because your video card isn't supported.
/drivers partition on your hard drive that the CD uses to pick up whatever drivers and settings your system needs. Trouble is that then you run into the problem of having to setup your system in a way that MS won't support, just so you can play games.
I think the solution to that is to have a
BTW, check out the Gentoo Live CD sometime. It includes Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo. Perfect for quickly booting into a game without installing anything, assuming you have a Nvidia video card.
Like flight sim joysticks have, with the sole difference being that it's shaped differently.
I love this plan. By cutting off terrorists' access to computer software, they will be thrown back to the stone age and become much less a threat. Because terrorists don't have any money to purchase software from legitimate companies like Microsoft, they rely totally on free software like BSD and Linux.
By eliminating those free software projects we can effectively stop terrorists from obtaining the vital software they need to build bombs.
If it's MS XML, they'll end up shooting themselves in the foot, then flying their spacecraft into Pluto.
using Oracle!
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.NET apps won't easily port, who says .NET is better than Java anyway? I'm no Java fan, but I've done some Java web app coding and some .NET development, and .NET is no better.
I told my manager Linux was free, and his eyes opened wide. I told my manager it was more stable than our NT 4 servers, and his eyes opened wider. I told my manager that I would have better, easier, remote management, and his eyes opened wider. I told my manager Linux would still run our Websphere software and that IBM provided a free migration path (no new licenses), and my bosses eyes finally popped out of their sockets.
I'm not being a Linux zealot. Everything there -- except for his eyes popping out -- is true. We just migrated 3 web servers to Redhat. It was an incredibly easy process and we're already seeing dramatic stability improvements despite a severe coding bug that cause us some downtime. I have never managed a Linux server before, but I'm not having any trouble learning it, with a bit of online help.
While your
Which is exactly why stopping people from overclocking doesn't hurt their market for upgrades.
This behaviour is not uncommon among large companies. Take IBM, for instance, who aren't quite sure whether or not they want to support Linux. On one hand, they put a lot of development and marketing into Linux, but on the other hand they didn't bother to beta test Websphere 5 for Linux before launch, but they did beta test the Windows version.
I developed and help admin a private forum of people who met on the net. When I was developing it I asked what people wanted. They unanimously did not want multiple forums, "hidden" replies (forcing you to click on each one) or limits to replying (it's fully threaded). People don't like anything that they interpret as limiting what they want to do.
Within a really good community you can let the community keep itself in order. When someone steps out of line or a newbie does something... newbieish... then the community straightens it out before a moderator needs to step in.
To create strong community you must create a strong friendship, or at least a strong commonality, among members.
Trolling? That's part of the Slashdot system design.
Too bad I'm so late, so nobody will read this, but yesterday I was adding a server to a rack by myself. The two ServerIrons we use are on top, but only take up 1/2 depth, so I pulled them out from the back of the rack as far as I could without them falling, then from the front I balanced the IBM Netfinity 4500R 3U server.
:)
The plan was to lift the ServerIrons from the back of the rack and slide the IBM underneath. It was an attempted time saving measure. Oh, and everything still had to be plugged in and working while I did this so our web sites didn't go down -- only the new IBM 4500R was not yet running.
To make a long story short, the IBM didn't remain balanced once I moved the ServerIrons and it fell front-first 5 feet onto a tiled floor. The plastic face is smashed in a bit, the tabs that hold it on are gone and the case cover had its tabs bent so it wouldn't fit back on.
I bent the case tabs back so the case would fit back together and put on the face as best I could, booted up and it worked.
In fact, it's running our web site right now!
Oh, and don't tell my boss
Laws are written by industry groups as often as not, then they pay a congressman to introduce it. Bill from techfocus.org explained it all to me a while ago (I'm Canadian... not too much knowledge of US politics). The whole thing made me kind of sick. So much for "For the people, by the people." More like "For the corporation, by the corporation."
Have we really become this desperate for new software that an MS Word screenshot is worth posting?
"Look, ma, it looks like a word processor!"
Whenever a telemarketer calls me I say the exact same thing as you -- that I'm on a cell phone and would like to be reimbursed for the minutes used. In every single case I've been removed from their call list. I now get almost no telemarketing calls.
The funny part is that I don't own a cell phone.