They have little loyalty to you, right?
Then why should you have loyalty for them?
As for your friends, you should be doing what I did with my last job change- if you really do like them and feel some sense of loyalty to them, do your level best to find THEM job possibilities, or better yet, try getting them in your current employer.
Remember, he said they didn't care to follow the rules when they went after criminals- "they were criminals, right?" What is to say they would follow the rules when dealing with him if they knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he ratted on them? Nothing. While I'm going to take what he's saing with more than a grain of salt, I'm not going to question the anyominity- it's valid, I'm afraid.
What about the KAL flight 007 tragedy?
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If memory serves, the plane that was shot down in this tragedy was a 747.
The NATO forces were purportedly running Cobra Ball surveillance runs in the area in question that night. Cobra Ball planes are made out of Boeing RC-135 airframes, which are derivatives of the Boeing 707 and look like a large 707 in profile. While they're obviously different in profile, someone could accidentally mistake one for the other in the heat of a tense situation.
This translates into a dangerous in the dark situation where someone in a combat plane might mistake a civillian airliner with a military plane and shoot it down- which is what aparently happened in the case of KAL 007.
Now this takes into account the prospects of a situation where the countries and the people involved are aware of the "Law" of Armed Conflict (which really isn't a law but an agreement between most of the potential combattants in a conflict- that's usually honored). What about the others that aren't in on the agreements or just don't give a damn?
Some things are embedded, but the sheer size of the data precludes using ROM (utterly prohibitive price-wise) or you've got something like a "smart file cabinet" like the DoD has on some of their platforms that stores things like topo maps that are linked to a GPS system, etc.
For these, ROM/EEPROM is not an option. I can see where there's going to be problems with this copy protection scheme with things like DoD platforms. They like controlling the crypto themselves (and they use a hell of a lot tougher stuff than would be inflicted here)- and this just gets in the way. Also, if for some reason they don't have the magic keys and the drive encrypts something critical and won't decrypt...well, the results could very well be excessively fatal.
Uh, this was server which is officially out (and has been for about a year or so!) and didn't supposedly HAVE debugging code.
Next time, before assuming, why not ask?
As far as the PPC portions go, I'd heartily agree with you. I've yet to get SuSE to work quite right (I've not tried YDL or LinuxPPC2k yet- just DLed YDL last night and all attempts to burn a LinuxPPC2k CD have went down in flames...). Right now, I'd love to find something that works similar to the Intel distributions so that they're not getting in the way of my Utah-GLX, etc. driver development work for the RagePRO and Rage128.
Your Intel woes? Well, I've not had any problems. Literally. Of course, Mandrake's been quite good and if you're not trying to do fancy things ('fancy' is building a firewall with an on-demand PPP dialout to an ISP...) it simply plugs in so long as you're not using goofy hardware. I don't know what you ran into on impasse with on Mandrake- I'd like to know (and I'm SURE the good people at Mandrake would too) so that people can improve upon things.
As for MacOS X...
The machine I'm using right now for PPC driver development is a Beige G3 with 128Mb of RAM and a Wide SCSI HD as the drive. Should be pretty fast right? The install of MacOS X that was previously on this loaner seemed to be slow on this box. SuSE is more responsive. If KDE 2.X were on the machine, it'd have 80-90% of what's needed to make it happen on PPC. Go figure.
On your site and on the news items about LinuxPPC-2000 Q4, you say that the ISO is available for the full install CD and that it's available through any of your mirror sites. I have yet to find anything other than images dated as late as August on any sites. What gives?
Rather than making a distribution, they should have focused on making the apps to sell first. And they shouldn't have used WINE unless they could have had decent levels of performance- which, currently, the Linux versions don't because they're using WINE.
I've an after-hours sysadmin customer that's the head of a small law firm in Dallas. He just wants something stable and something compatible with what they are using at the courthouses. If he could get legal practice management software worth it's salt (the options for Linux aren't quite what he or most practices need...) and get an office suite that is like WordPerfect, or does an excellent job of approximating the same- and doesn't up and eat his appointments, etc. He'd jump at it. He'd have went to Linux if I could have found a decent Linux based law practice management system. He's as conservative as they come- and he's fed up with Windows and the BS he's had to deal with while using it.
Doing WINE ports of their apps, while it boosted WINE and made it easy for them to make their applications "cross-platform", rendered them slow and somewhat unstable. Simply put, there was no value in using Corel's applications at the prices they were asking for them. If I want slow, bloated apps, I'd have bought StarOffice (but, it's free now, isn't it?) or I'd be using Windows and MS Office still.
No, this is not about an infant desktop. This is about a company that couldn't execute good business decisions to save their lives. If they don't get back to their core, original business, this money from this divestiture will do nothing for them.
Subject it to vibration approximately equivalent to 70g's worth of acceleration.
Subject it to dust, dirt, and mud.
Subject it to discharges of gunpowder and explosives (Nearby, not ON it...).
Won't last long, will it?
This mouse will under those conditions.
People need to realize that this stuff is not going to always be operated in office or home like conditions. It's going to be subjected, in most cases, to evil conditions that will kill your home or office equipment outright- that's what combat presents. That's why having "milspec" stuff can often mean you've got superior parts. In combat, failure of your equipment is not an option.
Picture a typical "industrial" situation. Noisy. Messy. Loads of vibration and contaminants in the air, etc. Standard computer equipment gets KILLED in this world. You usually find embedded and hardened PCs in this world. An ordinary mouse or trackball would die rather quickly in this world. This one wouldn't.
A military, or more appropriately, combat situation will be at least 10 times worse conditions than the industrial setting.
While I agree that the previous poster's analogy is a bit broken, there are definite reasons why this is a useful thing (and not overpriced either). If you've never dealt with the stuff, you wouldn't understand. I have.
People usually get killed if this equipment doesn't function correctly in a combat situation- our people.
Replace the unit is what some would suggest. In combat, you usually don't have the luxury of swapping out parts like that (and unless it's USB, it's NOT going to be hot-swappable either so that means a reboot of most OSes...) In combat, failure is largely NOT an option.
"One problem with retail Linux products is customer confusion. I bought Heroes III for Linux from the return bin at MicroCenter. When I checked out, the cashier said he had returned that very copy because he didn't realize it was for Linux. An employee!"
Well, letsee now. MicroCenter segregates the software by OS- MacOS in it's corner with the Macs, all the alternates other than MacOS on one asile, and all the Windows apps grouped together. Either he wasn't paying attention when he snagged the copy off the shipping dock or he's joshing you because the sections are VERY obviously labeled. I'd think the average person would have a lightbulb go off inside their heads when they see a lot of strange software and few games on an asile and games and software you recognize on another group of them.
Either that, or I'm giving my fellow man far, far too much credit.:-)
They come out and set up this embedded system box somewhere in your house that hooks into your demarc and the cable company cable. It looks and acts like a VoIP transponder. It even has a UPS to ensure operation in the case of a power failure.
Because of his conduct through this entire affair, his chances of being elected for the next term of office are slim to none- even if he "wins" this term (Him winning and turning out to be a very good president would really be his only chance at this point, I think...).
If he really wanted any chances of being elected four years from now, he should have conceded a LONG time ago instead of this whining, etc. that they're all guilty of. Basically speaking, Gore's politically self-destructed.
Yep DVD players are somewhat programmable (How else would those menus, etc. work?). All the production houses have to do is do up a script that checks to see if the disk is playable in some other region than the one the disk is intended for- if that is the case, the scripting prohibits playback.
Much of the solo music that is usually performed at the high-school or collegate level is actually in the Public domain (Hint: The idea of copyright largely didn't exist in the days of the "great masters" who composed most of that classical music...). If it is PD stuff that she performed, there's this little thing about recorded performances. If it's your daughter's performance, there is a copyright on the recordings thereof that belongs to her if she's of age or belongs to her legal guardian for the duration of her minority status.
Doesn't matter really. Distribution of circumvention is illegal under DMCA- meaning the original author's argument stands. If you own the IP or are acting on the behalf of the owner, and you're not a hacker- you're out of luck saving anything from a "protected" device unless someone breaks the law for you or you're some sort of hacker intimately familiar with the encryption scheme and the innards of the device.
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They have little loyalty to you, right?
Then why should you have loyalty for them?
As for your friends, you should be doing what I did with my last job change- if you really do like them and feel some sense of loyalty to them, do your level best to find THEM job possibilities, or better yet, try getting them in your current employer.
Remember, he said they didn't care to follow the rules when they went after criminals- "they were criminals, right?" What is to say they would follow the rules when dealing with him if they knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he ratted on them? Nothing. While I'm going to take what he's saing with more than a grain of salt, I'm not going to question the anyominity- it's valid, I'm afraid.
If memory serves, the plane that was shot down in this tragedy was a 747.
The NATO forces were purportedly running Cobra Ball surveillance runs in the area in question that night. Cobra Ball planes are made out of Boeing RC-135 airframes, which are derivatives of the Boeing 707 and look like a large 707 in profile. While they're obviously different in profile, someone could accidentally mistake one for the other in the heat of a tense situation.
This translates into a dangerous in the dark situation where someone in a combat plane might mistake a civillian airliner with a military plane and shoot it down- which is what aparently happened in the case of KAL 007.
Now this takes into account the prospects of a situation where the countries and the people involved are aware of the "Law" of Armed Conflict (which really isn't a law but an agreement between most of the potential combattants in a conflict- that's usually honored). What about the others that aren't in on the agreements or just don't give a damn?
RealBASIC's very nice. But, like Kylix, unless they're shipping it for Linux, I can't really use it, now can I?
Until that time, I'll resort to doing C/C++ coding or quick knock-offs with XBasic.
Some things are embedded, but the sheer size of the data precludes using ROM (utterly prohibitive price-wise) or you've got something like a "smart file cabinet" like the DoD has on some of their platforms that stores things like topo maps that are linked to a GPS system, etc.
For these, ROM/EEPROM is not an option. I can see where there's going to be problems with this copy protection scheme with things like DoD platforms. They like controlling the crypto themselves (and they use a hell of a lot tougher stuff than would be inflicted here)- and this just gets in the way. Also, if for some reason they don't have the magic keys and the drive encrypts something critical and won't decrypt...well, the results could very well be excessively fatal.
Uh, this was server which is officially out (and has been for about a year or so!) and didn't supposedly HAVE debugging code. Next time, before assuming, why not ask?
The numbers correspond to Mandrake version numbers- which I think he said he'd tried as well.
And it still seemed slow and resource hungry compared to SuSE 6.4 for PPC. Explain that one.
As far as the PPC portions go, I'd heartily agree with you. I've yet to get SuSE to work quite right (I've not tried YDL or LinuxPPC2k yet- just DLed YDL last night and all attempts to burn a LinuxPPC2k CD have went down in flames...). Right now, I'd love to find something that works similar to the Intel distributions so that they're not getting in the way of my Utah-GLX, etc. driver development work for the RagePRO and Rage128.
Your Intel woes? Well, I've not had any problems. Literally. Of course, Mandrake's been quite good and if you're not trying to do fancy things ('fancy' is building a firewall with an on-demand PPP dialout to an ISP...) it simply plugs in so long as you're not using goofy hardware. I don't know what you ran into on impasse with on Mandrake- I'd like to know (and I'm SURE the good people at Mandrake would too) so that people can improve upon things.
As for MacOS X...
The machine I'm using right now for PPC driver development is a Beige G3 with 128Mb of RAM and a Wide SCSI HD as the drive. Should be pretty fast right? The install of MacOS X that was previously on this loaner seemed to be slow on this box. SuSE is more responsive. If KDE 2.X were on the machine, it'd have 80-90% of what's needed to make it happen on PPC. Go figure.
On your site and on the news items about LinuxPPC-2000 Q4, you say that the ISO is available for the full install CD and that it's available through any of your mirror sites. I have yet to find anything other than images dated as late as August on any sites. What gives?
Hit their web site. One page there saying they do cool things that they're not ready to talk about...
...but we hope you'll like your Christmas present! -->
In the page source was this:
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Rather than making a distribution, they should have focused on making the apps to sell first. And they shouldn't have used WINE unless they could have had decent levels of performance- which, currently, the Linux versions don't because they're using WINE.
I've an after-hours sysadmin customer that's the head of a small law firm in Dallas. He just wants something stable and something compatible with what they are using at the courthouses. If he could get legal practice management software worth it's salt (the options for Linux aren't quite what he or most practices need...) and get an office suite that is like WordPerfect, or does an excellent job of approximating the same- and doesn't up and eat his appointments, etc. He'd jump at it. He'd have went to Linux if I could have found a decent Linux based law practice management system. He's as conservative as they come- and he's fed up with Windows and the BS he's had to deal with while using it.
Doing WINE ports of their apps, while it boosted WINE and made it easy for them to make their applications "cross-platform", rendered them slow and somewhat unstable. Simply put, there was no value in using Corel's applications at the prices they were asking for them. If I want slow, bloated apps, I'd have bought StarOffice (but, it's free now, isn't it?) or I'd be using Windows and MS Office still.
No, this is not about an infant desktop. This is about a company that couldn't execute good business decisions to save their lives. If they don't get back to their core, original business, this money from this divestiture will do nothing for them.
A Grizzly "suit" (sort o' like a shark suit...)- who'd have thunk...
After all, that is what he asked for...
Drop it from 6'. Repeat for at least 1000 cycles.
Submerge it in water.
Submerge it in oil.
Subject it to vibration approximately equivalent to 70g's worth of acceleration.
Subject it to dust, dirt, and mud.
Subject it to discharges of gunpowder and explosives (Nearby, not ON it...).
Won't last long, will it?
This mouse will under those conditions.
People need to realize that this stuff is not going to always be operated in office or home like conditions. It's going to be subjected, in most cases, to evil conditions that will kill your home or office equipment outright- that's what combat presents. That's why having "milspec" stuff can often mean you've got superior parts. In combat, failure of your equipment is not an option.
Picture a typical "industrial" situation. Noisy. Messy. Loads of vibration and contaminants in the air, etc. Standard computer equipment gets KILLED in this world. You usually find embedded and hardened PCs in this world. An ordinary mouse or trackball would die rather quickly in this world. This one wouldn't.
A military, or more appropriately, combat situation will be at least 10 times worse conditions than the industrial setting.
A Sigint system does.
A Sigint system is a computer with a GUI, etc.
While I agree that the previous poster's analogy is a bit broken, there are definite reasons why this is a useful thing (and not overpriced either). If you've never dealt with the stuff, you wouldn't understand. I have.
People usually get killed if this equipment doesn't function correctly in a combat situation- our people.
Replace the unit is what some would suggest. In combat, you usually don't have the luxury of swapping out parts like that (and unless it's USB, it's NOT going to be hot-swappable either so that means a reboot of most OSes...) In combat, failure is largely NOT an option.
"One problem with retail Linux products is customer confusion. I bought Heroes III for Linux from the return bin at MicroCenter. When I checked out, the cashier said he had returned that very copy because he didn't realize it was for Linux. An employee!"
:-)
Well, letsee now. MicroCenter segregates the software by OS- MacOS in it's corner with the Macs, all the alternates other than MacOS on one asile, and all the Windows apps grouped together. Either he wasn't paying attention when he snagged the copy off the shipping dock or he's joshing you because the sections are VERY obviously labeled. I'd think the average person would have a lightbulb go off inside their heads when they see a lot of strange software and few games on an asile and games and software you recognize on another group of them.
Either that, or I'm giving my fellow man far, far too much credit.
They come out and set up this embedded system box somewhere in your house that hooks into your demarc and the cable company cable. It looks and acts like a VoIP transponder. It even has a UPS to ensure operation in the case of a power failure.
Because of his conduct through this entire affair, his chances of being elected for the next term of office are slim to none- even if he "wins" this term (Him winning and turning out to be a very good president would really be his only chance at this point, I think...).
If he really wanted any chances of being elected four years from now, he should have conceded a LONG time ago instead of this whining, etc. that they're all guilty of. Basically speaking, Gore's politically self-destructed.
Yep DVD players are somewhat programmable (How else would those menus, etc. work?). All the production houses have to do is do up a script that checks to see if the disk is playable in some other region than the one the disk is intended for- if that is the case, the scripting prohibits playback.
Much of the solo music that is usually performed at the high-school or collegate level is actually in the Public domain (Hint: The idea of copyright largely didn't exist in the days of the "great masters" who composed most of that classical music...). If it is PD stuff that she performed, there's this little thing about recorded performances. If it's your daughter's performance, there is a copyright on the recordings thereof that belongs to her if she's of age or belongs to her legal guardian for the duration of her minority status.
Doesn't matter really. Distribution of circumvention is illegal under DMCA- meaning the original author's argument stands. If you own the IP or are acting on the behalf of the owner, and you're not a hacker- you're out of luck saving anything from a "protected" device unless someone breaks the law for you or you're some sort of hacker intimately familiar with the encryption scheme and the innards of the device.