Why not go after the guy who wrote nimda/code red and its varients? I've found that I receive over 100 megs of http requests (for files inside/winnt) daily from zombied windows boxes.
because I remember when I was in college working for a production company called "digital fx" (in oregon) we produced all kinds of really complex animations mostly on amiga computers (some running lightwave) - the most memory we had in any machine was 96 megs of ram - most of the computers just had 16 fast.
The most complex scene we made was a chessboard on a coffee table with the camera rotating around some chess pieces that were playing a game - as I recall it took around 72 megs to render and that includes memory needed for the OS.
I think if it was done right 64 megs would be more then enough for most television type applications.
This is one of the things you learn as an amateur radio operator (because you get the chance to actually play around with real satellites) - you can have an eliptical orbit around the equator (phase 3), but a lot of the time the satellite can be as far as 50,000+ km away.
Polar orbiting satellites are nice because A) they maintain a pretty much constant height/velocity above the earth, and B) they can be recieved with handheld transcievers. Also its easier to predict passes. Disadvantage being that if you want 24-7 coverage you have to have a lot of them floating around (which is what iridium does, as well as a few other services)
BTW - just for your info phase 4 sattelites (geo stationary) suffer the same problem as Phase 3 sattelites - most of the time they can only be recieved with a fixed station using high gain antennas.
Fine by me - but when I assist some history teacher in public school and American kids believe that stuff its a whole different story.
I mean, crying about revisionist history is one thing, but I don't like to imagine what history would be like were Hitler to have won.
what the heck does this mean? Revisionist history has nothing to do with changing the outcome - it has everything to do with changing invidual or national roles to make things your own or to glorify someone or a nation - when in reality something completely different happened.
Personally I think television revisionism is so bad (like saying Buzz Aldrin was the first man on the moon - which they did on Disney's Recess Cartoon show) I think in every school of history in every university they should have a big banner that says "eveything you know is wrong" - because its true.
well you left out the next sentence - a benign dictator is someone that will still let american (or whatever) corperations exploit their country and resources - which Pinochet was no stranger too. Neither was Adolph Hitler - in fact many US corperations became wealthy under his regime - including a little known company called general motors.
I have to agree with this guy on most points. Some sys admin jobs are pretty well paying.
Its very variable work though - I do know a few people who have joined the armed forces just because they were sick and tired of being layed off, hired etc. But its definately not for everyone.
Like most things technical people tend to take them for granted - including the people who run the machines. I even worked at a company at one point who fired all the sys-admins - for quite a while I got calls almost daily from my former manager on how to work stuff. Oh sure - like I'm going to tell you for free.
Does anyone have any idea how Buran got transported?
Yes:) There's a cargo jet called the AN-225 (Antonov 225) - supposedly there are only like 3 and their primary purpose is to fly to air shows. Also called mria - you can find hords of pictures of it on the net - including some with the orbiter on top.
I just noticed:) - apt-get install swat - then you modify inetd.conf (assuming its installed) slightly and presto - should just work - did for me first try even.
The reasons why they didn't kill HP-UX are probably simple enough - control. You have to pay licensing fee's and network access fee's, tech support fee's every year.
Remember when MS launched that campaign saying Windows NT was a whole lot cheaper then running unix and you were sitting there in front of your linux or bsd machine saying "where do they get these numbers?!" - at the time I was working for a company that had a whole bunch of HP-9000's (various models) and I knew exactly where they got those numbers. Its rediculously expensive - but we needed to run colleague (a college database of sorts) on it [since the prime mini's were breaking down] and had to pay it.
You obviously haven't been outside lately. I worked for a company in Portland Oregon (they make filters for AOL) who got rid of some of their best admins/technicians and kept the lacky's simply because they got along better with the layers and layers of management and are better party people - and I'm not kidding.
I had wondered - I didn't know who was behind it, but ITT Technical Institute is still running ads on how you can have a great career in Information Technology.
I like working in IT, but I've had my chain yanked one to many times. Being unemployed sucks - not just with self worth and depression, but its kinda fun to buy new gadgets and play around with them.
Thats not true at all - I've got a set of 18 gig IBM DMVS drives that have been replaces 3 times - all for the same problem (drive electronics die it seems) - these are drives that cost like 400$ new at the time.
On the other side I have a 7200 RPM 80 gig 2 meg cache seagate IDE drive that I bought at fryz a while back on sale for 89$ and its never dropped a single file.
Most people use regular electric trains for transportation in Japan - last time I was there all the trains I saw all had two rails, and there are lots and lots of trains there - you really have to just plan a trip just to put it all in perspective.
Anyhoo like the simpsons say mono means one and rail means rail. (sorry to bring that up)
My problem with monorails in general is that they are usually poorely implimented, they cost more then electric light rail, and above all - I've never seen one anywhere in the world where it was more then just a gimic used to attract tourists. Plus its never been proved that monorails have better rides (case in point - try out the current mono rail in seattle), less roll or are faster then conventional trains.
I remember when you had to set up the xconfig by hand.
One thing I think is funny is setting up XFree86 on sparcstation - aside from the fact that it should have been called xfreesparc - none of the configuration scripts that came with it were suited to sparc - so I'm answering questions about vga, resolutions, colour depths and monitor info when I'm using an sbus, 8 bit, fixed frequency monitor:( - worked anyhow;)
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Why not go after the guy who wrote nimda/code red and its varients? I've found that I receive over 100 megs of http requests (for files inside /winnt) daily from zombied windows boxes.
Wouldn't be so bad if these companies didn't have a monopoly on the isp services already in the area.
because I remember when I was in college working for a production company called "digital fx" (in oregon) we produced all kinds of really complex animations mostly on amiga computers (some running lightwave) - the most memory we had in any machine was 96 megs of ram - most of the computers just had 16 fast.
The most complex scene we made was a chessboard on a coffee table with the camera rotating around some chess pieces that were playing a game - as I recall it took around 72 megs to render and that includes memory needed for the OS.
I think if it was done right 64 megs would be more then enough for most television type applications.
This is one of the things you learn as an amateur radio operator (because you get the chance to actually play around with real satellites) - you can have an eliptical orbit around the equator (phase 3), but a lot of the time the satellite can be as far as 50,000+ km away.
Polar orbiting satellites are nice because A) they maintain a pretty much constant height/velocity above the earth, and B) they can be recieved with handheld transcievers. Also its easier to predict passes. Disadvantage being that if you want 24-7 coverage you have to have a lot of them floating around (which is what iridium does, as well as a few other services)
BTW - just for your info phase 4 sattelites (geo stationary) suffer the same problem as Phase 3 sattelites - most of the time they can only be recieved with a fixed station using high gain antennas.
Can't wait to visit Moscow Russia, USA - is that in Texas?
Fine by me - but when I assist some history teacher in public school and American kids believe that stuff its a whole different story.
I mean, crying about revisionist history is one thing, but I don't like to imagine what history would be like were Hitler to have won.
what the heck does this mean? Revisionist history has nothing to do with changing the outcome - it has everything to do with changing invidual or national roles to make things your own or to glorify someone or a nation - when in reality something completely different happened.
Personally I think television revisionism is so bad (like saying Buzz Aldrin was the first man on the moon - which they did on Disney's Recess Cartoon show) I think in every school of history in every university they should have a big banner that says "eveything you know is wrong" - because its true.
It's a dictatorship people can do business with
well you left out the next sentence - a benign dictator is someone that will still let american (or whatever) corperations exploit their country and resources - which Pinochet was no stranger too. Neither was Adolph Hitler - in fact many US corperations became wealthy under his regime - including a little known company called general motors.
I have to agree with this guy on most points. Some sys admin jobs are pretty well paying.
Its very variable work though - I do know a few people who have joined the armed forces just because they were sick and tired of being layed off, hired etc. But its definately not for everyone.
Like most things technical people tend to take them for granted - including the people who run the machines. I even worked at a company at one point who fired all the sys-admins - for quite a while I got calls almost daily from my former manager on how to work stuff. Oh sure - like I'm going to tell you for free.
The Amiga was MUCH more impressive to me. I still want to get a 500 or 1000 one of these days.
write me man - I can help you there.
Thats like those dilbert books "wally if this idea is soo good how come other companies aren't doing it?"
You know they said the same thing about the company I used to work for before they layed most of us off :).
Does anyone have any idea how Buran got transported?
:) There's a cargo jet called the AN-225 (Antonov 225) - supposedly there are only like 3 and their primary purpose is to fly to air shows. Also called mria - you can find hords of pictures of it on the net - including some with the orbiter on top.
Yes
BTW - there's some good pictures and videos of buran taking off and landing here: http://www.buran.ru/htm/molniya5.htm
I just noticed :) - apt-get install swat - then you modify inetd.conf (assuming its installed) slightly and presto - should just work - did for me first try even.
Tell me more about this - I've got samba running running under Debian/Woody on Sparc but haven't noticed anything about a web interface.
The reasons why they didn't kill HP-UX are probably simple enough - control. You have to pay licensing fee's and network access fee's, tech support fee's every year.
Remember when MS launched that campaign saying Windows NT was a whole lot cheaper then running unix and you were sitting there in front of your linux or bsd machine saying "where do they get these numbers?!" - at the time I was working for a company that had a whole bunch of HP-9000's (various models) and I knew exactly where they got those numbers. Its rediculously expensive - but we needed to run colleague (a college database of sorts) on it [since the prime mini's were breaking down] and had to pay it.
You obviously haven't been outside lately. I worked for a company in Portland Oregon (they make filters for AOL) who got rid of some of their best admins/technicians and kept the lacky's simply because they got along better with the layers and layers of management and are better party people - and I'm not kidding.
I had wondered - I didn't know who was behind it, but ITT Technical Institute is still running ads on how you can have a great career in Information Technology.
I like working in IT, but I've had my chain yanked one to many times. Being unemployed sucks - not just with self worth and depression, but its kinda fun to buy new gadgets and play around with them.
VERY NOOOOOOO!
ever use alexa or archive.org? Its all ide - seriously.
Thats not true at all - I've got a set of 18 gig IBM DMVS drives that have been replaces 3 times - all for the same problem (drive electronics die it seems) - these are drives that cost like 400$ new at the time.
On the other side I have a 7200 RPM 80 gig 2 meg cache seagate IDE drive that I bought at fryz a while back on sale for 89$ and its never dropped a single file.
Crayons? I was happy (estatic) with a 500$ C64 attached to an 800$ 1541 floppy drive.
Thats not so bad - I wouldn't mind being assigned a new job after losing mine in the .com bomb.
What about patents on drugs researched by public universities and manufactured by private corperations?
Not to nitpick but,
Most people use regular electric trains for transportation in Japan - last time I was there all the trains I saw all had two rails, and there are lots and lots of trains there - you really have to just plan a trip just to put it all in perspective.
Anyhoo like the simpsons say mono means one and rail means rail. (sorry to bring that up)
My problem with monorails in general is that they are usually poorely implimented, they cost more then electric light rail, and above all - I've never seen one anywhere in the world where it was more then just a gimic used to attract tourists. Plus its never been proved that monorails have better rides (case in point - try out the current mono rail in seattle), less roll or are faster then conventional trains.
I remember when you had to set up the xconfig by hand.
:( - worked anyhow ;)
One thing I think is funny is setting up XFree86 on sparcstation - aside from the fact that it should have been called xfreesparc - none of the configuration scripts that came with it were suited to sparc - so I'm answering questions about vga, resolutions, colour depths and monitor info when I'm using an sbus, 8 bit, fixed frequency monitor