...jurisdictions like Texas that are gradually invalidating the teaching of evolution find that national centers of excellence like the Ivy League colleges will not accept the credentials of kids graduating from high schools that fail to teach legitimate science. When George Bush finds his grandkids can't get into Yale because their science preparation is simply unacceptable to Yale, not matter how big a 'legacy' they are, things will change.
Surely MSFT HR will want to know who these weirdos are and if you have to lose a few oddball programming or creative types you're better off without 'em.
Console vendors think they have a total right to control what you execute on them. If Microsoft ever tried to suggest it would limit 3rd party games or other apps on a Windows PC there would be a congressional investigation.
A really common mistake for people who don't know how processor generations work is to confuse things that are IN the cpu with things that are features in that generation of chipset incl wireless that arrive WITH that cpu. Intel Anti Theft is mostly a platform technology - it's mainly not about the cpu. But because it arrives as part of the Sandy Bridge generation platform, it's assumed to be a purely cpu technology. Hence the idiot, earlier that thought this meant 3G in the processor. Instead of being surprised at that, he should have reconsidered the premise that this IS all in the cpu
If we won't call anything that's faster than dial-up broadband, then we need some new names. The difference to the user, between any kind of 'high-speed' internet access that is always on, is not excruciatingly slow and doesn't tie your landline and classic PPP dialup is much more significant to e user than the difference between 3MB vs 6MB down. I propose we create following gradations with level of urgency that it is available (for North America - connections elsewhere will generally be higher)
Download Type Speed Urgency Dialup 56k Absolute minimum -all should have ISP Basic 1MB Minimum -all should have Broadband 4MB Most should have this. HighS Bband 10MB Best Cable DSL Fiber 12MB Good connectivity HighS Fiber 24MB+ Best
>> 'Mr. DePriest of EPB does not expect brisk demand for the one-gigabit service anytime soon. So why offer it? Because there is a huge opportunity for resale or inclusion in basic services of multi-tenant (residential or business). Give 10 businesses 100MB/s for $50 / month and you're making money or for offer it free and it's a cheap inducement lease space Give 100 tenants 10MB/s for $10 / month and you're making more money or for offer free and it's a cheap inducement to renters
Knowing Oracle it was obvious from the day the acquisition was announced that: 1) Oracle will cripple, keep on life support or close-source all open source projects. Larry believes anything users want to use is worth making them pay for. Any open source projects that survive will be strategically useful (like letting a 'free' MySQL contaminate Microsoft's low-midrange database business revenue)
2) Java is what Oracle really wanted in Sun acquisition (see announcement today of lawsuit against Google re Android Java use) and Solaris is useful only insofar as it is part of the value prop for selling Sun, now Oracle, hardware. Solaris will only be pushed by Oracle on non-Oracle hardware if they can make a good license business out of it. Expect that all use of Java in open source implementations will dry up and any commercial implementations will be expected to start pushing license dollars back to Oracle (Which is why somebody at IBM should have been shot for blowing the Sun acquisition over the few measly millions they were fighting over before Oracle pulled the rug out form under IBM -it could have been Oracle kneeling in front of IBM instead of IBM watching the underlying architecture of Websphere and everything else Java based owned by their biggest competitor)
3) Open Solaris was a way to enable a user community (not really a dev community like Linux has) but since it can't be licensed (for money) and there's no really support/services business and it certainly doesn't help sell any Sun/Oracle hardware (which generally always runs the commercial Solaris) it has no place in an Oracle world.
So any gov't regulation of, say, electrical power quality from private power utilities or water potability (drinking safety) for water companies constitutes a taking? Because minimum quality regulation (eg. that internet access is not arbitrarily limited on bandwidth to/from specific source addresses) seems like an equivalent and reasonable regulation. People who accept this argument really believe that any kind of regulatory limitation by gov't on economic activity constitutes a taking. Taken to it's logical conclusion, enforcement of fraud laws constitutes a taking from my right to con people.
Please don't confuse real, admirable entrepreneurs like yourself that have an equity stake and downside exposure with Wall St traders. At big investment banks the traders have no stake in the downside either. It's not their equity, and as the events of 2009 proved, few lost their jobs for their reckless decisions. Except to the extent that everybody at a failing firm is vulnerable (EVERYBODY was out of a job at Bear Stearns - programmers and traders) there was no personal risk for traders ether.
The bitter $150k salaried programmer is going to be shocked to find that some bean counter will find a way for a PhD in Bangalore to do his job for $50k (and consider herself well compensated)
However the real shock will happen when the combination of really sophisticated applications, HPC clusters and globalized business smarts gets the NYC trader making millions replaced by a Bangalore MBA merely making a few hundred k.
Shareholders at the big investment firms should be a lot more interested in having the second one happening as it will yield much more.
A washer mysteriously disappearing because God wills a plane full of evil people to crash is an Act of God. A washer breaking and plane crashing because Southwest elected to buy cheaper and, hence, poorer quality washers is not an Act of God.
You're obviously too cool to bother with social networking or photo sites, but both Facebook and Flickr.com (and at least one site I can't recall) were blocked when we were staying with friends in Beijing recently. PPTP connection to StrongVPN.com made my traffic emerge in a San Fransisco POP and nothing was blocked. So depending on what kind of cocoon you live in, maybe the wall never hits you but it's there.
In a system even more like the actual British system, Canada has had minority parliaments where the PM asks the Govt General (in the Queen's stead) to let him form a Govt without a majority for about 3 years now. Without formal coalitions they simply need to ensure that they can find one of the other two major parties to support any given piece of legislation and as long as the opposition does not unite to force a confidence vote, the govt goes on. I could see UK Conservatives getting agreement from LibDems on enough issues to make a minority govt work. In a time of Euro (and other) instability in the world, it's irresponsible of the British and world press to talk about a 'hung' parliament as if that represented some kind of paralytic constitutional crisis. Parliamentary democracies are designed to deal with this in a orderly way.
No, AMD is not going to save software costs, on Oracle for instance, by using a 12 core processor when an 8-core Nehalem-EX processor outperforms the AMD at two-thirds the per core license cost. This is AMD trying to get out in front of the issue that the overall throughput per core is much lower than Intel's current Westmere-EP 6-core. 2-socket or Nehalem-EX 8-core, 4/8+ socket cpus . In virtually all per-core licensing scenarios (most of HPC and many big DB ( Oracle, DB2 ) and ERP apps) AMD Magny Cours is not competitive
Well, not the entire disk but... In about 1988 I was migrating a union office off an old Altos Xenix system over onto a network of PCs served by a Novell file server (the hot setup at the time).sds
They got a ridiculous quote from the company that provided the accounting / WP apps and the OS and Hdw for the Xenix system to provide a set of the word processing docs. I was a PC LAN guy and had not remembered much UNIX (this was pre Linux days) but did a little scoping and found the following solution worked. No doubt this will seem crude and inelegant, but it worked....
Got a PC attached to the Altos via a null-modem cable to PC serial port and used ProComm, a popular serial terminal program to match the protocol the old IBM dumb ASCII terminals used ( 9600 / 8, N , 1) so I got a shell on the Altos. Wasn't sure if there was any serial transfer programs (Xmodem or preferably Zmodem) on the Altos side but I found word processing files were plain text and were in each users directories. You could cat them to the screen. There were a few hundred files so I wasn't going to do this manually, so I dredged up shell scripting manual and wrote a little script (sorry actual code was lost). Then did the following 1) Put Procomm in loggin mode and removed all the limits from file size, so it was going to create a local text file on the PC that contained the entire session 2) Created from ls'ing each dir and editing it, a target list of wp filenames. 3) Ran the script which
a) echo'd each filename with some special markers eg "*****$FILENAME_BEGINS*****"
b) cat (type'd for you Win/DOS people) contents of each file to the screen
c) echo'd each filename with some special markers eg "*****$FILENAME_ENDS*****" 4) When all files were done script terminates, closed the ProComm SESSION.LOG file which now had the entire contents of all the WP docs in it. 5) Wrote a VBSCRIPT parser that found the FILENAME for each file and saved contenst between the BEGIN and END for each file under that name. Ugly and dumb but it worked. - Sometimes that's the fastest way to do it,
Problem? Yes, I'm getting a failure to establish my IPSEC tunnel from the car router to my fixed site and I don't seem to be able to setup for WPA2 enterprise authenticated clients and... hello? hello?
I find it interesting that in the two or three Sun Microsystems offices I've been in the receptionist has a SunRay but all everybody else is using Mac (or other laptops - often running Solaris tho) . There's a curious elitism in that everyone participating in these discussions may think that the 'workers' they condescend to are appropriate candidates for thin clients but probably NO ONE here thinks THEY could iive with a locked down, limited environment a TC represents. No that's for the little people. Combine this with the revelation that the economies of scale make PCs (which with good management can be locked down and run softclient stacks to do any kind of centralized management a TC supports) about the same price. The perpetual wishful thinking around TCs is delusional because it's based on the belief that because OEMs COULD buiid a decent TC for $75 that they WOULD sell it for $90. That kind of margin represents a sufficient profit on a $400-500 PC but isn't a good enough business at the TC level.
Looks like it's a Microsoft coding problem if there is no problem in Xen or VMWare ESX Hypervisors (post on VMware above is far from useful). And poster didn't read the MSFT article very closely. The hotfix doesn't preclude the energy saving sleep states, it's the workaround that inhibits their use.
Is it in response to a documented problem with VMWare ESX that HP trying to remedy with a specific BIOS change or is HP just flailing around suggesting BIOS updates as a fix to a problem they don't yet understand? There are 100s of reasons why you're having VMWare lockup issues - the ONLY similarity to MSFT issue that you seem to have is they are both hypervisors running on Nelhalem procs. Pretty thin. What does VMWare think the problem is?
Check out Intel D945GSEJT Johnstown Mainboard Dual core Atom, low power fanless, doesn't need power supply (jack in back goes right to power brick) and gig ethernet for about $118. Very low profile Mini-ITX board, works well in $39 mini-case. I've been using this combination for all sorts of things esp storage servers ( Try OpenFiler Linux-based or FreeNAS BSD-based FOSS NAS solutions )
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No doubt, if you or I, having seen the movie, wanted to paint ourselves up like Ed Helm, Warner would claim we're violating THEIR rights
...jurisdictions like Texas that are gradually invalidating the teaching of evolution find that national centers of excellence like the Ivy League colleges will not accept the credentials of kids graduating from high schools that fail to teach legitimate science. When George Bush finds his grandkids can't get into Yale because their science preparation is simply unacceptable to Yale, not matter how big a 'legacy' they are, things will change.
What, I thought Capt Kirk wasn't due to be born for a couple of centuries, right? Who cares how old Shattner is?
Surely MSFT HR will want to know who these weirdos are and if you have to lose a few oddball programming or creative types you're better off without 'em.
Console vendors think they have a total right to control what you execute on them. If Microsoft ever tried to suggest it would limit 3rd party games or other apps on a Windows PC there would be a congressional investigation.
A really common mistake for people who don't know how processor generations work is to confuse things that are IN the cpu with things that are features in that generation of chipset incl wireless that arrive WITH that cpu. Intel Anti Theft is mostly a platform technology - it's mainly not about the cpu. But because it arrives as part of the Sandy Bridge generation platform, it's assumed to be a purely cpu technology. Hence the idiot, earlier that thought this meant 3G in the processor. Instead of being surprised at that, he should have reconsidered the premise that this IS all in the cpu
If we won't call anything that's faster than dial-up broadband, then we need some new names. The difference to the user, between any kind of 'high-speed' internet access that is always on, is not excruciatingly slow and doesn't tie your landline and classic PPP dialup is much more significant to e user than the difference between 3MB vs 6MB down. I propose we create following gradations with level of urgency that it is available (for North America - connections elsewhere will generally be higher)
Download
Type Speed Urgency
Dialup 56k Absolute minimum -all should have
ISP Basic 1MB Minimum -all should have
Broadband 4MB Most should have this.
HighS Bband 10MB Best Cable DSL
Fiber 12MB Good connectivity
HighS Fiber 24MB+ Best
They may have numbers equivalent to some fraction of Printed Book Sales, but they are assuredly not any part of a category that requires printing.
>> 'Mr. DePriest of EPB does not expect brisk demand for the one-gigabit service anytime soon. So why offer it?
Because there is a huge opportunity for resale or inclusion in basic services of multi-tenant (residential or business).
Give 10 businesses 100MB/s for $50 / month and you're making money or for offer it free and it's a cheap inducement lease space
Give 100 tenants 10MB/s for $10 / month and you're making more money or for offer free and it's a cheap inducement to renters
Knowing Oracle it was obvious from the day the acquisition was announced that:
1) Oracle will cripple, keep on life support or close-source all open source projects. Larry believes anything users want to use is worth making them pay for. Any open source projects that survive will be strategically useful (like letting a 'free' MySQL contaminate Microsoft's low-midrange database business revenue)
2) Java is what Oracle really wanted in Sun acquisition (see announcement today of lawsuit against Google re Android Java use) and Solaris is useful only insofar as it is part of the value prop for selling Sun, now Oracle, hardware. Solaris will only be pushed by Oracle on non-Oracle hardware if they can make a good license business out of it. Expect that all use of Java in open source implementations will dry up and any commercial implementations will be expected to start pushing license dollars back to Oracle (Which is why somebody at IBM should have been shot for blowing the Sun acquisition over the few measly millions they were fighting over before Oracle pulled the rug out form under IBM -it could have been Oracle kneeling in front of IBM instead of IBM watching the underlying architecture of Websphere and everything else Java based owned by their biggest competitor)
3) Open Solaris was a way to enable a user community (not really a dev community like Linux has) but since it can't be licensed (for money) and there's no really support/services business and it certainly doesn't help sell any Sun/Oracle hardware (which generally always runs the commercial Solaris) it has no place in an Oracle world.
I'm amazed that anybody is surprised.
So any gov't regulation of, say, electrical power quality from private power utilities or water potability (drinking safety) for water companies constitutes a taking? Because minimum quality regulation (eg. that internet access is not arbitrarily limited on bandwidth to/from specific source addresses) seems like an equivalent and reasonable regulation.
People who accept this argument really believe that any kind of regulatory limitation by gov't on economic activity constitutes a taking. Taken to it's logical conclusion, enforcement of fraud laws constitutes a taking from my right to con people.
Please don't confuse real, admirable entrepreneurs like yourself that have an equity stake and downside exposure with Wall St traders. At big investment banks the traders have no stake in the downside either. It's not their equity, and as the events of 2009 proved, few lost their jobs for their reckless decisions. Except to the extent that everybody at a failing firm is vulnerable (EVERYBODY was out of a job at Bear Stearns - programmers and traders) there was no personal risk for traders ether.
The bitter $150k salaried programmer is going to be shocked to find that some bean counter will find a way for a PhD in Bangalore to do his job for $50k (and consider herself well compensated)
However the real shock will happen when the combination of really sophisticated applications, HPC clusters and globalized business smarts gets the NYC trader making millions replaced by a Bangalore MBA merely making a few hundred k.
Shareholders at the big investment firms should be a lot more interested in having the second one happening as it will yield much more.
A washer mysteriously disappearing because God wills a plane full of evil people to crash is an Act of God.
A washer breaking and plane crashing because Southwest elected to buy cheaper and, hence, poorer quality washers is not an Act of God.
You're obviously too cool to bother with social networking or photo sites, but both Facebook and Flickr.com (and at least one site I can't recall) were blocked when we were staying with friends in Beijing recently. PPTP connection to StrongVPN.com made my traffic emerge in a San Fransisco POP and nothing was blocked. So depending on what kind of cocoon you live in, maybe the wall never hits you but it's there.
In a system even more like the actual British system, Canada has had minority parliaments where the PM asks the Govt General (in the Queen's stead) to let him form a Govt without a majority for about 3 years now. Without formal coalitions they simply need to ensure that they can find one of the other two major parties to support any given piece of legislation and as long as the opposition does not unite to force a confidence vote, the govt goes on. I could see UK Conservatives getting agreement from LibDems on enough issues to make a minority govt work. In a time of Euro (and other) instability in the world, it's irresponsible of the British and world press to talk about a 'hung' parliament as if that represented some kind of paralytic constitutional crisis. Parliamentary democracies are designed to deal with this in a orderly way.
No, AMD is not going to save software costs, on Oracle for instance, by using a 12 core processor when an 8-core Nehalem-EX processor outperforms the AMD at two-thirds the per core license cost.
This is AMD trying to get out in front of the issue that the overall throughput per core is much lower than Intel's current Westmere-EP 6-core. 2-socket or Nehalem-EX 8-core, 4/8+ socket cpus .
In virtually all per-core licensing scenarios (most of HPC and many big DB ( Oracle, DB2 ) and ERP apps) AMD Magny Cours is not competitive
Well, not the entire disk but...
In about 1988 I was migrating a union office off an old Altos Xenix system over onto a network of PCs served by a Novell file server (the hot setup at the time).sds
They got a ridiculous quote from the company that provided the accounting / WP apps and the OS and Hdw for the Xenix system to provide a set of the word processing docs. I was a PC LAN guy and had not remembered much UNIX (this was pre Linux days) but did a little scoping and found the following solution worked. No doubt this will seem crude and inelegant, but it worked....
Got a PC attached to the Altos via a null-modem cable to PC serial port and used ProComm, a popular serial terminal program to match the protocol the old IBM dumb ASCII terminals used ( 9600 / 8, N , 1) so I got a shell on the Altos. Wasn't sure if there was any serial transfer programs (Xmodem or preferably Zmodem) on the Altos side but I found word processing files were plain text and were in each users directories. You could cat them to the screen. There were a few hundred files so I wasn't going to do this manually, so I dredged up shell scripting manual and wrote a little script (sorry actual code was lost). Then did the following
1) Put Procomm in loggin mode and removed all the limits from file size, so it was going to create a local text file on the PC that contained the entire session
2) Created from ls'ing each dir and editing it, a target list of wp filenames.
3) Ran the script which
a) echo'd each filename with some special markers eg "*****$FILENAME_BEGINS*****"
b) cat (type'd for you Win/DOS people) contents of each file to the screen
c) echo'd each filename with some special markers eg "*****$FILENAME_ENDS*****"
4) When all files were done script terminates, closed the ProComm SESSION.LOG file which now had the entire contents of all the WP docs in it.
5) Wrote a VBSCRIPT parser that found the FILENAME for each file and saved contenst between the BEGIN and END for each file under that name.
Ugly and dumb but it worked. - Sometimes that's the fastest way to do it,
Problem? Yes, I'm getting a failure to establish my IPSEC tunnel from the car router to my fixed site and I don't seem to be able to setup for WPA2 enterprise authenticated clients and... hello? hello?
I find it interesting that in the two or three Sun Microsystems offices I've been in the receptionist has a SunRay but all everybody else is using Mac (or other laptops - often running Solaris tho) .
There's a curious elitism in that everyone participating in these discussions may think that the 'workers' they condescend to are appropriate candidates for thin clients but probably NO ONE here thinks THEY could iive with a locked down, limited environment a TC represents. No that's for the little people.
Combine this with the revelation that the economies of scale make PCs (which with good management can be locked down and run softclient stacks to do any kind of centralized management a TC supports) about the same price. The perpetual wishful thinking around TCs is delusional because it's based on the belief that because OEMs COULD buiid a decent TC for $75 that they WOULD sell it for $90. That kind of margin represents a sufficient profit on a $400-500 PC but isn't a good enough business at the TC level.
Looks like it's a Microsoft coding problem if there is no problem in Xen or VMWare ESX Hypervisors (post on VMware above is far from useful).
And poster didn't read the MSFT article very closely. The hotfix doesn't preclude the energy saving sleep states, it's the workaround that inhibits their use.
Is it in response to a documented problem with VMWare ESX that HP trying to remedy with a specific BIOS change or is HP just flailing around suggesting BIOS updates as a fix to a problem they don't yet understand? There are 100s of reasons why you're having VMWare lockup issues - the ONLY similarity to MSFT issue that you seem to have is they are both hypervisors running on Nelhalem procs. Pretty thin. What does VMWare think the problem is?
And would my bartender get arrested?
I'd agree with you if I were living in 2005 like you are.
Check out Intel D945GSEJT Johnstown Mainboard Dual core Atom, low power fanless, doesn't need power supply (jack in back goes right to power brick) and gig ethernet for about $118. Very low profile Mini-ITX board, works well in $39 mini-case. I've been using this combination for all sorts of things esp storage servers ( Try OpenFiler Linux-based or FreeNAS BSD-based FOSS NAS solutions )