Or maybe stupid. I don't really understand it. I think they developers don't actually read any of the Perl books. Validating that user input is what you actually think it should be is *basic* security.
I have yet come across any voice recognition technology that even comes close to understanding my accent. Hell, English people have difficulty with a Glaswegian accent. I find i havveee ttooooo sppeeeeekkk veeerrryy slooowwllyy to be understood consistently.
By far the best tool for monitoring bandwidth etc. But for system monitoring, I'm not so sure.
Ahhh the mibs, the mibs.
Getting multi platform support for all the mibs is a pain.
Hardly "Last place" - Just missing "Drool Tools"
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They gave a lot of points to "Drool Tools" and to be fair Linux is kind of lacking in "Droolability".
It did Ok in the performance tests. Novell is still king, but I'll bet Samba'll get there and the distribution would have been vanilla - slightly elderly packages and optimised for your early Pentiums.
Time Warner/AOL don't care about or really want EMI. What they want is the music catalogue.
Once they have that, they'll rip every track to an MP3 (or proprietary format if they can), stick it on a web site and fire the entire staff of EMI. Same for the rest of the Time Warner music division.
The EMI executives must be off their nuts.
The resulting "mega corporation" will have fewer people than now. You'll have a team of marketing droids, a few studios, a single sysadmin and a dozen ftp/http servers.
What matters is an API. The fact that a configuration is stored in a file of format X or Y on disk or on an LDAP server, or SQL server, or web site becomes irrelevant.
At least part of the problem is that there are hundreds of different configuration formats.
Basically everyone who writes a tool, utility or application has re-invented the wheel and written their own special configuration file format. This is partly due to the creators of the first Unix systems not creating a little configuration API/library to save developers some coding time.
Well. There is no longer any excuse. There are now a number of configuration libraries with differing properties and licenses.
Don't create "Yet Another File Format" when you code. Use one of the existing configuration management libraries. Check out freshmeat.
These include: Name License Primary use ---- ------- -----------
One think to note is that the license of a library might well affect it's usefulness to commercial applications. A library which can be used for free software, but not realisticaly for a commercial application is, well, only half useful.
The LCD screens are one of the largest power suckers on palmtops (no moving parts, so no HD). That's why I get 30hours battery life from my greyscale Psion series 5 and those palmtops with backlit colour screens (HP) get 2 hours.
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Or maybe stupid. I don't really understand it. I think they developers don't actually read any of the Perl books. Validating that user input is what you actually think it should be is *basic* security.
Maybe they are ASP developers.
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I have yet come across any voice recognition technology that even comes close to understanding my accent. Hell, English people have difficulty with a Glaswegian accent. I find i havveee ttooooo sppeeeeekkk veeerrryy slooowwllyy to be understood consistently.
It's easy to deal with. Just costs a lot of money.
data goes to disk, disk migrates to tape.
Only garuanteed storage mechanism! Good for thousands of years.
Capacity: 2Kb/tablet
I/O: 1byte/hr
Media cost: £50/tablet
Error rate*: 1 per 100bytes
Note: Error rate assumes fully qualified and certified stone mason.
As it should be.
By far the best tool for monitoring bandwidth etc. But for system monitoring, I'm not so sure.
Ahhh the mibs, the mibs.
Getting multi platform support for all the mibs is a pain.
They gave a lot of points to "Drool Tools" and to be fair Linux is kind of lacking in "Droolability".
It did Ok in the performance tests. Novell is still king, but I'll bet Samba'll get there and the distribution would have been vanilla - slightly elderly packages and optimised for your early Pentiums.
All the new mobiles have the web stuff built in. No need for a Palm V.
It just so 1980s.
Time Warner/AOL don't care about or really want EMI. What they want is the music catalogue.
Once they have that, they'll rip every track to an MP3 (or proprietary format if they can), stick it on a web site and fire the entire staff of EMI. Same for the rest of the Time Warner music division.
The EMI executives must be off their nuts.
The resulting "mega corporation" will have fewer people than now. You'll have a team of marketing droids, a few studios, a single sysadmin and a dozen ftp/http servers.
What matters is an API. The fact that a configuration is stored in a file of format X or Y on disk or on an LDAP server, or SQL server, or web site becomes irrelevant.
At least part of the problem is that there are hundreds of different configuration formats.
Basically everyone who writes a tool, utility or application has re-invented the wheel and written their own special configuration file format. This is partly due to the creators of the first Unix systems not creating a little configuration API/library to save developers some coding time.
Well. There is no longer any excuse. There are now a number of configuration libraries with differing properties and licenses.
Don't create "Yet Another File Format" when you code. Use one of the existing configuration management libraries. Check out freshmeat.
These include:
Name License Primary use
---- ------- -----------
GConf LGPL Gnome
parsecfg GPL unknown
libconfig GPL unknown
libproplist LGPL GnuStep
libcfg BSD unknown
One think to note is that the license of a library might well affect it's usefulness to commercial applications. A library which can be used for free software, but not realisticaly for a commercial application is, well, only half useful.
The computers are owned by the business. They have no right to install business damaging software.
It only takes a couple.
The PPC guys added more services to the box until it cracked.
Basically W2K bug had:
HTTP
FTP
Linux had:
HTTP
FTP
TELNET
TIME
ECHO
and they gave out the root passwd.
Ok, here are some order of magnitude data access stats.
Lets say we have a 500MHz CPU that can process one instruction per cycle and it needs to get hold of a bit of data. How many cycles get wasted?
Register : 1 cycles = 2e^-9 seconds
20ns RAM: 10 cycles = 2e^-8 seconds
10ms SCSI HD: 5000000 cycles = 1e^-2 seconds
15ms IDE HD: 7500000 cycles = 1.5e^-2 seconds
Soooo...
Do you spend £500 on a 700MHz PIII, on 256Mb of RAM or on the fastest god damned disks you can find?
The LCD screens are one of the largest power suckers on palmtops (no moving parts, so no HD). That's why I get 30hours battery life from my greyscale Psion series 5 and those palmtops with backlit colour screens (HP) get 2 hours.
ARM can pretty much do all this anyway, though not 128bit (does it matter). The bonus I suppose is the Ix86 compatability.
BTW The ARM share price went mental today...
Well?
Can I pop it into my PC, download Crusoe Linux and get going?
:)
I wonder how many billions of extra votes one could stuff the eletronic ballot boxes with?
Who want's to be the next president of the USA? Only $1 per vote (Special introductory offer).
There are a number of open content: Freely distributable RPG systems listed in the Open Content database.
The problem I think is source material. A decent system is easy to create.
What're the chances?
Films of books *ALWAYS* suck. I can't imagine a file of sucky game not sucking.
RuneQuest is a much better system. Glorantha a much better world.
Wow, how geeky did that sound?
God, all these schmucks screwing it up.
The whole point of D&D and Lord of the Rings is to use your *imagination*. There is no way that any film can come close to the games I've played.
Having said that, the D&D cartoon was shit, and the base system is completely screwed. What else could the film be.
I don't mean printing the XML itself, but using XML to fit data into a template which is then printed?
I'm thinking of something along the lines of Formscape which can format data for invoices and purchase orders and such.