In case anyone else has a problem understanding what 2,500 US gallons per minute is, an Olympic sized swimming pool holds some 660,000 US gallons. So this system would have to process that volume of water in 264 minutes or about 4 1/2 hours.
You got it. Today, unless you have a dedicated Email server guy it's retarded to run an Exchange server in house.
I only agree on the point Exchange server, run exim or postfix for something stable and managable.
It is not really very hard to do, you need a bit of clue, but that is all. If no one at your company has clue then either outsource it or pay someone external to maintain it for you, neither should be expensive.
Oh: yes a rDNS record check is good, the problem is a numpty administrator who does not understand the issues and expects to force his brokenness onto the rest of the world. It should not be hard to whitelist that domain from the rDNS check.
*facepalm*
The phrase you're looking for is 'Scot-free'.
Thank you, although it might have been useful if you had provided a reference. I did a search and found that the hyphen is often not used, but yes I should have only put one letter 't'. It seems that 'Scot' is Scandinavian word for tax or payment..
Very true... people are not taught how to use the computers, it is kind of assumed that they know. So they mess up. The MOD would never get someone to drive a truck without first sending them on an appropriate driving course, so why are computers that different ?
Unless you TEACH people how to use the tools that you give them - you must expect them to use them poorly and occasionally screw up big time.
This is a management problem, but, as ever, they will blame it on some lowly paid, under trained minion and sack them. The real cuplrits much further up the management chain will get away scott free.
exporting the evidence outside of the state, country, and EU, to some random datacenter in the US, would mean a hairy pile of privacy and chain-of-custody problems for the chaps in legal?
Far more than that: it is exporting personal data outside of the country, this is against EU data protection laws. In particular the USA which has been found to NOT have a data protection standard that is good enough -- again a violation of EU data protection laws.
I would set up services like HideMyAss and run it in a competent way.... and let my analysts have a look at what people want to hide.
If people are trying to hide something then it is likely to be interesting or embarassing. OK: most of it would be uninteresting from the point of view of a national security agency, but there would probably be an occasional gem from some dumb ass who believes that such a service really does give him the secrecy that he wants.
Businesses don't care about YOUR overheads. That's an externality.
But I care about MY overheads, so I won't do these longer routes if it costs more than I get.
I do understand that some people will be excited at getting the occasional £5 from this scheme while
ignoring that it has cost them many times that to ''earn'' that £5. Hopefully most of us are saner than that.
Who's to say the tyre merchants and fuel stations won't subsidise this, so you spend more with them too?
Car tyres last many thousands of miles, ie many, many trips; so unless the system somehow knows that your tyres need replacing it is going
to be wasted advertising. The margins of fuel are slim and you fill up only occasionally.
* If 10 local businesses club together to pay for people to take a sub optimal route, then they still pay 60p to earn an extra what.... ?
It occurs to me that for businesses clubbing together to work, then you have to assume that the motorist would be tempted to stop on 1 in 3 journeys when he would otherwise not stop. It is all a guesstimate, but I can't see how it makes sense.
Presumably the idea is that if one in (say) N people who drive past X brand coffee shop would be tempted to buy a coffee that they otherwise would not have. Let's do some arithmetic:
* Cost of driving a car (petrol, tyres, servicing) is about 20p/mile
* Assume that the sub optimal route adds 1 mile to the journey, so the extra cost is 20p (about 13 cents for the guys on the wrong side of the pond)
* What is the value of N above (the ratio of extra people who stop & buy a coffee) ? I guestimate 30 (ie 1 in 30)
* Assuming that the motorist is sane enough to break even, then the coffee shop needs to spend 30*20p = £6 just to earn an extra 50p profit
* If 10 local businesses club together to pay for people to take a sub optimal route, then they still pay 60p to earn an extra what.... ?
I suspect that 30 is far too low a number, many people are busy, driving to get somewhere to do something else,... this just makes the return to the shop keeper even worse.
and a right pain it is too. I did not like the article saying:
Have you ever read any of the terms of service documents you agree to when you sign up to your favorite web apps?
Of course you don’t.
If I don't like them, then I don't click ''I agree'' and go somewhere else or don't use the service. If the TOS are too complicated then I don't accept & don't use them. That is why I don't use Amazon, Pay Pal, Skype,... I did not like their TOS.
But I do appreciate that most people do not have the time or inclination to understand these things. The problem is bigger than that, the TOS for basic services (eg: electricity, water,...) can also be one sided, but tend not to be as bad. In the UK consumer legislation has taken out the worst from these and the courts tend to not allow them to get away with some of the other bad clauses; but the service companies still use them to try to bluff the consumer to allow them to over charge them or provide a crap service (which is often what it is all about).
Sorry, but it was just not impressive. Seems to me Android has more interesting visuals in its robotic fingernail than Inferno on mobile has.
It is a start, not something complete -- we all need to start somewhere. You don't need a lot of imagination to see that once they attract more developers then they may get something that can provide true competition to Android & iOS.
But: why would anyone bother when they have a choice anyway ? Applications written using Limbo seem nice & small, small is good on something like a mobile 'phone. Probably lots of other reasons -- but I don't know enough about it. I was a little concerned to see that the GUI is based on Tk, this is quite old, will it be up to the job for the high quality graphic apps that some people want ?
Although I do not like some of what he has done, he has had a great influence on the shape of PCs and we would be poorer without having had him. I hope that he can keep his health problems at bay to enjoy his family and continue as chairman.
Oh, before anybody winges - an Apple Mac is often used as a Personal Computer and is thus a PC -- regardless of what the marketing people want you to think.
It is quite simple, all that is needed is to legalise ''grey imports'', ie goods that are bought in another country and imported. Many companies want to protect their price differential and so refuse to service kit that was not bought in the country - so that is the second part: they must be forced to service goods no matter where they were bought.
What pisses me off about this is that large companies use the difference in prices to their advantage, ie have stuff made in the part of the world where it is cheaper. They then work hard to prevent consumers doing the same thing, ie: buy stuff from where it is cheap. So competition works for companies not the consumer. You have similar things going on with lots of other things, eg clothing.
I would be quite happy to pay higher prices for stuff that I buy in the UK if those items were made in the UK (ie labour paid at UK rates).
Globalisation has to be for everyone, not just large companies.
Given that some 8% of the human genome is from retroviruses, some of which may be expressed in some way, perhaps not all the time, -- with good or bad consequences, what side effects may we expect if this 8% causes some cells to be identified as infected? Could it result in huge cell death ?
I am glad to see the use of LightDM -- hopefully this reduction of bloat on the desktop will continue. It is not just a matter of boot times but
also CPU & RAM usage. This might not seem important of a new top of the range machine, but is great when running on a netbook or
a PC that is affordable in the 3rd world.
One of the nice things about Linux was that it was lean & mean, then the desktop guys trashed that reputation.
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I don't know why. I received the entire list, I am only on it once. At least it was only names & email addresses — could have been worse.
In case anyone else has a problem understanding what 2,500 US gallons per minute is, an Olympic sized swimming pool holds some 660,000 US gallons. So this system would have to process that volume of water in 264 minutes or about 4 1/2 hours.
You got it. Today, unless you have a dedicated Email server guy it's retarded to run an Exchange server in house.
I only agree on the point Exchange server, run exim or postfix for something stable and managable.
It is not really very hard to do, you need a bit of clue, but that is all. If no one at your company has clue then either outsource it or pay someone external to maintain it for you, neither should be expensive.
Oh: yes a rDNS record check is good, the problem is a numpty administrator who does not understand the issues and expects to force his brokenness onto the rest of the world. It should not be hard to whitelist that domain from the rDNS check.
*facepalm* The phrase you're looking for is 'Scot-free'.
Thank you, although it might have been useful if you had provided a reference. I did a search and found that the hyphen is often not used, but yes I should have only put one letter 't'. It seems that 'Scot' is Scandinavian word for tax or payment..
Very true ... people are not taught how to use the computers, it is kind of assumed that they know. So they mess up. The MOD would never get someone to drive a truck without first sending them on an appropriate driving course, so why are computers that different ?
Unless you TEACH people how to use the tools that you give them - you must expect them to use them poorly and occasionally screw up big time.
This is a management problem, but, as ever, they will blame it on some lowly paid, under trained minion and sack them. The real cuplrits much further up the management chain will get away scott free.
exporting the evidence outside of the state, country, and EU, to some random datacenter in the US, would mean a hairy pile of privacy and chain-of-custody problems for the chaps in legal?
Far more than that: it is exporting personal data outside of the country, this is against EU data protection laws. In particular the USA which has been found to NOT have a data protection standard that is good enough -- again a violation of EU data protection laws.
The space vessel would be using GST
<pedant="on"> Relativity says that there is no such thing as an absolute time reference. Sorry to spoil the joke! </pedant>
They had better find a way to name this probe ASH because in the end that's what it'll be.
I hear that they are avoiding the problem of too much heat by sending it there at night... :-)
I would set up services like HideMyAss and run it in a competent way .... and let my analysts have a look at what people want to hide.
If people are trying to hide something then it is likely to be interesting or embarassing. OK: most of it would be uninteresting from the point of view of a national security agency, but there would probably be an occasional gem from some dumb ass who believes that such a service really does give him the secrecy that he wants.
Businesses don't care about YOUR overheads. That's an externality.
But I care about MY overheads, so I won't do these longer routes if it costs more than I get. I do understand that some people will be excited at getting the occasional £5 from this scheme while ignoring that it has cost them many times that to ''earn'' that £5. Hopefully most of us are saner than that.
Who's to say the tyre merchants and fuel stations won't subsidise this, so you spend more with them too?
Car tyres last many thousands of miles, ie many, many trips; so unless the system somehow knows that your tyres need replacing it is going to be wasted advertising. The margins of fuel are slim and you fill up only occasionally.
It occurs to me that for businesses clubbing together to work, then you have to assume that the motorist would be tempted to stop on 1 in 3 journeys when he would otherwise not stop. It is all a guesstimate, but I can't see how it makes sense.
Presumably the idea is that if one in (say) N people who drive past X brand coffee shop would be tempted to buy a coffee that they otherwise would not have. Let's do some arithmetic:
I suspect that 30 is far too low a number, many people are busy, driving to get somewhere to do something else, ... this just makes the return to the shop keeper even worse.
SUMMARY: it just doesn't add up
and a right pain it is too. I did not like the article saying:
If I don't like them, then I don't click ''I agree'' and go somewhere else or don't use the service. If the TOS are too complicated then I don't accept & don't use them. That is why I don't use Amazon, Pay Pal, Skype, ... I did not like their TOS.
But I do appreciate that most people do not have the time or inclination to understand these things. The problem is bigger than that, the TOS for basic services (eg: electricity, water, ...) can also be one sided, but tend not to be as bad. In the UK consumer legislation has taken out the worst from these and the courts tend to not allow them to get away with some of the other bad clauses; but the service companies still use them to try to bluff the consumer to allow them to over charge them or provide a crap service (which is often what it is all about).
Sorry, but it was just not impressive. Seems to me Android has more interesting visuals in its robotic fingernail than Inferno on mobile has.
It is a start, not something complete -- we all need to start somewhere. You don't need a lot of imagination to see that once they attract more developers then they may get something that can provide true competition to Android & iOS.
But: why would anyone bother when they have a choice anyway ? Applications written using Limbo seem nice & small, small is good on something like a mobile 'phone. Probably lots of other reasons -- but I don't know enough about it. I was a little concerned to see that the GUI is based on Tk, this is quite old, will it be up to the job for the high quality graphic apps that some people want ?
Whatever: competition is good!
You are going to need something like that to get Skein Hash In Bash done in an acceptable time.
He evidentially has run out of money. Should we be sad or disgusted at him? I vote for disgusted.
How hard is it to then separate the hydrogen and oxygen gasses that are produced?
Although I do not like some of what he has done, he has had a great influence on the shape of PCs and we would be poorer without having had him. I hope that he can keep his health problems at bay to enjoy his family and continue as chairman.
Oh, before anybody winges - an Apple Mac is often used as a Personal Computer and is thus a PC -- regardless of what the marketing people want you to think.
It is quite simple, all that is needed is to legalise ''grey imports'', ie goods that are bought in another country and imported. Many companies want to protect their price differential and so refuse to service kit that was not bought in the country - so that is the second part: they must be forced to service goods no matter where they were bought.
What pisses me off about this is that large companies use the difference in prices to their advantage, ie have stuff made in the part of the world where it is cheaper. They then work hard to prevent consumers doing the same thing, ie: buy stuff from where it is cheap. So competition works for companies not the consumer. You have similar things going on with lots of other things, eg clothing. I would be quite happy to pay higher prices for stuff that I buy in the UK if those items were made in the UK (ie labour paid at UK rates).
Globalisation has to be for everyone, not just large companies.
I don't think that IBM will be pleased to be told that HP produced AIX!
Given that some 8% of the human genome is from retroviruses, some of which may be expressed in some way, perhaps not all the time, -- with good or bad consequences, what side effects may we expect if this 8% causes some cells to be identified as infected? Could it result in huge cell death ?
If they aren't, I will!
Me, I have a felony conviction and I don't care who knows about it.
In that case why are you posting A/C ?
when you look at it from the Right Angle ...
Ducks!
I am glad to see the use of LightDM -- hopefully this reduction of bloat on the desktop will continue. It is not just a matter of boot times but also CPU & RAM usage. This might not seem important of a new top of the range machine, but is great when running on a netbook or a PC that is affordable in the 3rd world.
One of the nice things about Linux was that it was lean & mean, then the desktop guys trashed that reputation.