Gnome/gtk kind of sucks for X performance, even compared to the Motif libraries, which are no speed demons. It makes WAN/dialup/dsl use of X even more painful than it need be.
All you've done is shifted.com up one level so it's chaos at the top level. Fubaring oooh lots of nameservers.
Commercial organisations have shown themselves to be capable only of managing flat namespaces, they appear simply unable to manage heirarchical naming systems in a coherent manner. Whatever you give them becomes flat.
Hmm, where's my DNS rant?
Ooh here it is: http://www.archeus.plus.com/colin/dns/
Hmm, my stylesheet needs a little work and the email address is old so don't bother trying to mail me.
In the UK. The electricity all comes from the same place of course and comes in through the same set of wires, but the electricity companies don't have a monopoly on the customers in their region.
It means that I can do stuff like buy "green" electricity. I use the electricity, pay my green supplier and how they handle the generation, top up supply to the grid and inter company billing is completely up to them.
e.g. http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/pre ss_for_c hange/choose_green_energy/
Active Directory, SMS, Exchange, Fileservers, MS Office all rolled up into large bundled licenses for the corporations.
If they try to switch, they'll lose their bundled corporate licenses and have to start paying for the lot separately which is far more expensive *and* they'll have to pay for licenses for the new software at the same time.
You have to give it to the CIOs of US multinational corps, when they take the bait, they have your arm off with it.
But, then, we're moving all the unix users on to an array of login servers and getting rid of all the workstations at the desktop. Or rather, moving them to the backend.
Nobody gets individual upgrades or replacements from now on. They want computing power? They click on the Cygwin Xserver, Hummingbird, use an XTerm or Idon'treallygiveatoswhatisphysicallyonthedesktopco s it'snolongermyproblem.
Upgrading becomes a case of adding or replacing servers. And it was the I.T. dept which suggested it, why? Because supporting desktop based systems is a Royal Pain In The Arse! We really really have better things to do.
You could easily do the same thing with windows and mac systems.
However you could make more use of the Solar II Solar thermal stuff mentioned in slashdot a few weeks ago. They produce power period as the aircon requires it and they reckon they can scale the technology to 400MW.
The Japanese manufacturers care about quality in a big way, their employees actually care about the quality of the products they produce.
If you don't care about what you do, you'll produce unreliable crap.
The same is true about software and subsequent tech support, you can either have cookie cutter one size fits all software and read from a script mcdonalds crap support or you can have real tech support, but you can expect to pay for the quality product.
I find that many of the disposables to be as good as the expensive blades. Try a couple of different ones, I prefer the Wilkinson Sword disposables which are mid priced.
Course, then you also get the real cheapy cheapy disposables which seem to be designed specifically to draw as much blood as possible.
From just a dozen systems. The problem is *not* methods of detecting hackers or people accessing information.
The problem is information overload. It's false positives.
Can you imagine the number of badly coded VB applications there are out there in the real world? Can you imagine the number of mistakes people make when executing queries
In a perfect world or with an unlimited security budget this stuff would be useful, unfortunately some of us don't live in a perfect world or have unlimited security budgets.
Several thousand explosions per minute 6 inches from my bollocks. Add to that a 50kW heater situated directly under 20L of petrol, which happens to be placed 1 inch from my bollocks.
The problem with hydrogen is storage. Liquid, gas tight pressure canisters? Methanol is a simple and effective solution to that problem.
You can manufacture methanol from a number of sources, fossil fuels, biological sources, you can even manufacture it from the CO2 in the atmosphere if you have plenty of free energy.
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Gnome/gtk kind of sucks for X performance, even compared to the Motif libraries, which are no speed demons. It makes WAN/dialup/dsl use of X even more painful than it need be.
All you've done is shifted .com up one level so it's chaos at the top level. Fubaring oooh lots of nameservers.
Commercial organisations have shown themselves to be capable only of managing flat namespaces, they appear simply unable to manage heirarchical naming systems in a coherent manner. Whatever you give them becomes flat.
Hmm, where's my DNS rant?
Ooh here it is:
http://www.archeus.plus.com/colin/dns/
Hmm, my stylesheet needs a little work and the email address is old so don't bother trying to mail me.
"This is good valid research, the type that applied research CS programs should be doing. Thismay actually make a difference in a deployed product."
Yeah? They might actually discover that TOP POSTING IS WRONG then?
No?
It's more than green/normal. I can buy from any of the providers. Most people just go for the cheapest though.
There was an article on Solar II on Slashdot very recently. Tut tut.
Solar thermal is far more efficient than photovoltaic.
Y'know, like molten salt. The heat boils water to superheated steam and turns a turbine, generating electricity on demand.
Solar II proved that this works. They can generate power 24 hours per day from a solar thermal source.
In the UK. The electricity all comes from the same place of course and comes in through the same set of wires, but the electricity companies don't have a monopoly on the customers in their region.
e ss_for_c hange/choose_green_energy/
It means that I can do stuff like buy "green" electricity. I use the electricity, pay my green supplier and how they handle the generation, top up supply to the grid and inter company billing is completely up to them.
e.g.
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/pr
It'll be an interesting experiment.
It's how you pay for it. Microsoft is already paid for with large discounts *if you take the lot*.
If you don't take the lot, it gets expensive, and you already have the stuff in place so it's not as if you can stop paying.
With the new MS pay as you go licensing deals that may change, I don't know but the Linux vendors need to find a way round the license bundling.
Active Directory, SMS, Exchange, Fileservers, MS Office all rolled up into large bundled licenses for the corporations.
If they try to switch, they'll lose their bundled corporate licenses and have to start paying for the lot separately which is far more expensive *and* they'll have to pay for licenses for the new software at the same time.
You have to give it to the CIOs of US multinational corps, when they take the bait, they have your arm off with it.
But, then, we're moving all the unix users on to an array of login servers and getting rid of all the workstations at the desktop. Or rather, moving them to the backend.
o s it'snolongermyproblem.
Nobody gets individual upgrades or replacements from now on. They want computing power? They click on the Cygwin Xserver, Hummingbird, use an XTerm or Idon'treallygiveatoswhatisphysicallyonthedesktopc
Upgrading becomes a case of adding or replacing servers. And it was the I.T. dept which suggested it, why? Because supporting desktop based systems is a Royal Pain In The Arse! We really really have better things to do.
You could easily do the same thing with windows and mac systems.
Because only a few in each batch are tested, whereas each and every SCSI drive is tested.
HTH.
onall "find / -name msblast.exe -exec chmod a-x {} \;"
Where onall is a trivial shell script wrapper round rsh, ssh or whichever equivalent you use.
That's life, the gas turbines are cheaper.
However you could make more use of the Solar II Solar thermal stuff mentioned in slashdot a few weeks ago. They produce power period as the aircon requires it and they reckon they can scale the technology to 400MW.
Or perhaps only the mission critical stuff?
But quality mattters.
The Japanese manufacturers care about quality in a big way, their employees actually care about the quality of the products they produce.
If you don't care about what you do, you'll produce unreliable crap.
The same is true about software and subsequent tech support, you can either have cookie cutter one size fits all software and read from a script mcdonalds crap support or you can have real tech support, but you can expect to pay for the quality product.
You say most are wiped and Linux installed. How many systems? 10? 100?
That's $2,000 and $20,000. Out of the realms of a small claims court. Perhaps you need a lawyer.
The rest of their range is similarly reliable. Bin it and get a 3com.
Linksys access points are flaky unreliable pieces of shit.
The original wap11 was OK but the succeeding and current versions are an abomination. And no, the firmware updates don't make a lot of difference.
I eventually binned mine and bought a cheapy 3com one which has been great.
I find that many of the disposables to be as good as the expensive blades. Try a couple of different ones, I prefer the Wilkinson Sword disposables which are mid priced.
Course, then you also get the real cheapy cheapy disposables which seem to be designed specifically to draw as much blood as possible.
From just a dozen systems. The problem is *not* methods of detecting hackers or people accessing information.
The problem is information overload. It's false
positives.
Can you imagine the number of badly coded VB applications there are out there in the real world? Can you imagine the number of mistakes people make when executing queries
In a perfect world or with an unlimited security budget this stuff would be useful, unfortunately some of us don't live in a perfect world or have unlimited security budgets.
Basically, Russians understand quality. Americans don't yet.
Oh, and sophisticated.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance had absolutely nothing to do with motorcycles?
Sometimes you can almost hear the whoosh as it passes overs someone's head...
I ride a motorcycle.
Several thousand explosions per minute 6 inches from my bollocks. Add to that a 50kW heater situated directly under 20L of petrol, which happens to be placed 1 inch from my bollocks.
The problem with hydrogen is storage. Liquid, gas tight pressure canisters? Methanol is a simple and effective solution to that problem.
You can manufacture methanol from a number of sources, fossil fuels, biological sources, you can even manufacture it from the CO2 in the atmosphere if you have plenty of free energy.