How about this: "All you shutup so the representative can hear the ones that take the time to think through the issue and construct their own logical arguments based on the issue" Oh wait I'm sorry that might make more sense then the signing and mailing of a piece of paper someone else wrote.
Pardon my naivete, but doesn't tagging the books work?
Not really, I worked at Officemax, Best Buy and Compusa. Officemax and CompUsa had those electronic tags attached to a laptop. I'm sure you've seen them they're usually black with wires running under the counter to a power source and an alarm. You'd be amazed at what thieves can come up with. Every so often we'd find a razor blade where a laptop should be. It turns out if you slip a razor blade between the sticky side and the laptop it'll hold down the button and not go off while you pry the laptop out.
BestBuy had/has those white tags, the ones the Borders puts in the books and on the CDs. Next time you buy a CD try this out: Grow your fingernails a bit long, not too long but maybe a millimeter longer then usual. Slip your fingernails under the tag use at least two maybe 3 fingers and drag them across the CD. It'll pop right off, there might be a little adhesive left. It might take you a try or two but eventually you'll have those tags off faster then they can run them over that little pad. That will only work on CDs that have the tags on the outside of course, I've noticed that some DVDs I've bought had the tags on the inside, I don't know if CDs are going toward that as well.
Totally off topic, the best thief that ever hit any store I worked at walked out with over $10,000 of stuff in about an hour. That's just a guess because we never knew what all they took. It was Christmas and the store was hopping, We had people standing 4-5 deep to talk to a sales guy so there was no way we could watch the floor. It was hell, the supervisor noticed 2 of the highend laptops misssing. The other employee's thought he'd sold them "as is", nope instead we found the steel bars holding the laptop in place had been sawed through with a small hand saw, kinda like the ones you have on a swiss army knife. Management was ticked, turns out they took a few items from video too, camcorders I believe. Security watched the tape that night with the police, they could never spot who did it. They had a guess or two but thats about it.
Stealing is a HUGE problem for retail stores, but for all of what I've said, I'd guess 75% is from employees or ex-employees. Hell there were managers taking things at BestBuy, they'd just edit it out of inventory. Upper management found out some how and busted around 20 people. Now that was fun to watch, the guy riding your ass all year being escorted out in handcuffs.:-)
Don't get me wrong modeling is great useful and necessary, but this was supposed to be done before the prototype was finished so they could decide to go ahead or not. Instead his task was make the model say what the tests on the prototype did. Well at least that's what it turned into. He knew what the results were and the goal was to get his program to match it.
I work at a university that shall remain nameless, we have a person there who is paid by both NASA and the University to do computer modeling and testing. Over a year ago he was given a fairly simple project: model what this piece of equipment would do in space so we can show a panel your findings, since the prototype won't be ready for a month or two. He's been working on this ever since I started there and he just finished about a month ago. The prototype had already been built, they knew from testing what it would do in space but he still had to finish his modeling before they could go any farther.
Does this sound like something that should have happened? From what I understand the local NASA branch is a joke, sure it does some cool things but about 50% of the people there could be axed with no problems, except they can't because it's a government job. The current joke where I work is "Get a job at NASA you'll never need to work again". It's almost unheard of to fire someone, and even worse if you're asigned a project and take forever to finish it, they won't yank it from you and asign it to someone else, they'll just wait for you to finish. Half of the stuff they do there doesn't even translate to the space program at all. If you really want a good space program start by streamlining NASA. Run it like a business, you could make NASA self sufficient and profitable.
I've been doing some thinking about this... ever seen those HP scanners with the autodocument feeder? I figure one of those with omnipage pro(does double sided scanning, ie scan stack of 50 flip over and scan again it will put them in order) would work for any book you want to scan in if you destory the binding.
Someones doing it since I found the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy for the palm on someones site. I don't really have a problem with this since I have two copies of it already.
Why can't we have our cake and eat it too? People seem to think if we have an intuitive iterface we'll lose out on functionality, I don't agree.
I want all the functionality we have in Unix but I want an interface that kicks some serious ass. I don't think its too much to ask to have both.
There just hasn't been enough improvement (innovation) in the *nix GUI, or innovation in linux in general. Thats the only real problem I see in linux, it seems everything designed for linux is trying to be a clone of something commercial, the developers are reacting not acting. Don't get me wrong I like the fact I have a choice in what I run and I can replace most stuff for free, but if linux is ever to surpass Microsoft or Apple we need to have good original ideas and provide the software people want/need before everyone else.
When you think about it though the free part is the whole mentality that spawned linux, "I can't afford to buy a real Unix but I can download this linux thing that doesn't work quite the same way (or as well, at least up to a year or two ago) but it's free and I can still do most things I want to do with it."
Trust me math labs at schools love this, they are full of technical people who can usually understand how to maintain a system and most of the ones I work with write their own code for research.
But everything they use for linux has a commerical counterpart that kicks butt, guess which is better/around first. Actually the good profs usually have enough money from research grants to buy the good compilers and there's still no free replacement for Matlab or Maple/XMaple.
Sorry its late but I guess the whole point of this post is:
1. People think that providing a great intuitive interface is going to eliminate the functionality we've come to know and love in linux. I disagree, a great interface is one that anyone from a new user to a kernel hacker can use and feel comfortable with.
2. There is a lack of innovation in the GUI department (DUH, anyone could tell you that, we're just rehashing MS, who stole from apple, who stole from Xerox Parc....)
3. Linux and free software in general is a copycat of good commercial software (heck sometimes the free version is better) and if we don't want it to be a nitch market this needs to change.
One last thought the GPL is the most revolutionary concept around, and we wouldn't be anywhere close to where we are in GUI or anything else if it wasn't for that.
Ok here's the setup my co-worker and I used. We have 1 alpha server(DS 20) and two alpha workstations(XP1000) running True64 4.0F with all of their released patches. Also we have various linux boxes(PIII and dual Xeons) with the gigabit cards in them. We cat'd a file into/dev/null first to hopefully but it in the file system cache, then scp'd to/dev/null on the other machine. Also we did the same from/dev/zero to/dev/null. If you can tell me what software you used, I'd be more then willing to try it out since we need to get this fixed. Another stupid (unrelated?) problem we're having is it takes the cards about a minute to locate the network (maybe negotating) when they are loaded at bootup. This happens on both NT and linux so it's not the OS. If you have any ideas, please feel free to either e-mail me or post here.
I thought about talking about this, but I'd have to use my experience and that is fairly subjective. I'm curious what do you think the difference in human costs are? Lets see, take 30 minutes to install/configure Redhat, Take 10 minutes to install the latest updates, 5 minutes to disable services that are not needed and block the outside world from anything except 80 and 22, 10 minutes to install openssh, 5 minutes to load an existing website on the machine. Reboot the machine just to make sure and you're all set.
Looks like about an hour to me. Maybe an hour and a half if you want samba and frontpage extentions installed.
Just for kicks, lets take a look at NT. When I installed it yesterday it took about the same about of time to install as redhat, so lets figure 30 minutes. Configure for network and reboot 5 minutes, Setup IIS 15 minutes, add webpage to IIS 5 minutes. Reboot the machine just to make sure.
Ok looks like a total of 55 minutes. Great, MS just saved you 5 or 35 minutes depending on what you're looking for. Is it really worth a few hundred dollars, if not more for an MS webserver if you really don't need one?
Also, with the linux box, I can ssh in and fix things remotely, I don't even have to be there to apply a patch when it comes out. As a consultant I find that very appealing. I just scp a file over, install it, restart the service and I'm set. NT I actually have to be there, when some of my clients are almost 2 hours away, I'd much prefer the linux method.
Gigabit..... sigh, what can I say about it other then I personally have had nothing but problems with it in both NT and Linux. I get a whopping 3600K/sec when I'm on 100mbit and when we switched a few machines to 1000mbit fiber we get 3800K/sec. Great we just spent ungodly amounts of money on a nice Cisco 5300(?) Catalyst router and 450.00 a piece on some network cards. I think the problem is in how the router is set up though. I'm assured by a few people that it really isn't supposed to be that slow;-)
It looks like the dates the tests were run were a few months appart. If I go to Dell today and say I want a PowerEdge 6400/700 with a SCSI card they're going to ship me that model with whatever SCSI card they can get right now. If I come back 6 months latter and order the same model there's nothing that says they are using the same SCSI card, they might be able to get card X cheaper so they use it. I've noticed the selections change on Dell's desktops over time, why should servers be any different?
Ok, I agree with you about benchmarks being statistics and how they can be manipulated. This is still a good thing.
Think about it from the point of view of someone who is trying to justify a linux web server in a business environment. I'm going to assume that most businesses have a budget dealing with what they're going to spend for the year on equipment and software. Isn't it worth it to prove that you could save hundreds of dollars on Windows and the licenses if linux met the businesses needs?
Say the web server is going to be spitting out static HTML on DSL or a T1, what's the point in having an NT/Win2k box for that when Linux or BSD would do the job for a considerable savings. The money saved would be money for another project.
If you're working for a company thats money to spend on replacing some of the old junk that gives you problems (10mbit nics, hubs where you need switches, a few larger hard drives....etc).
If you're consulting thats more value to the customer while acomplishing the project. The last thing I want to do is give an improper solution when my reputation is on the line.
I think that the more "fair" benchmarks out there the better. Even Mindcraft's benchmarks were helpful because they showed how far linux had to go in certain situations. Right now in my opinion the more linux gets talked about the better, it needs to become a household name before a lot of business owners will consider it.
I don't much like any polititian, and greens well.. I agree with some of what their platform is I just don't know enough about them to say much either for or against. Honestly I don't see another party gaining any type of power unless the government or one of the parties does something really really stupid, like try to take all the guns away, starting prohibition again, and elminating welfare, social security... even then they'd have to do this all at the same time for the people to get a new party in there. On the other hand a nice big wallstreet and crash might do it in under a year.
Oh and I'm sure MS knows innovation, as a matter of fact I'll bet you they do. What do you think determines who they buy out or immatate a dartboard?
hmmmmm nah they couldn't be that bad... could they?
I'm not a big fan of George W. but I liked Gore less, I'm not sure now. All I do know is politics is dirty in more ways then one.
While Bush has begged off the question in recent days, he did say Tuesday: "I wish there had been a settlement early on in the case. I was hoping there would be an agreement between the two parties."
Actually I agree on this one too, and I'm sure most people would, he leaves a lot unsaid. I'm sure the government would have loved it if MS said. "Whoops you're right, sorry we just didn't realize what we were doing. Flat rate pricing and open APIs, heck we'll even split into 4 companies or whatever you want. Just tell us what we should do." I know that MS would have loved "Ha we caught you, ok we're on a catch and release policy. Don't do it again" (This might have given support in other cases pending against MS by companies, hey speaking of which what would happen with those lawsuits if MS is split up?) And I know most of Slashdot wants "Yep you're right GPL everything, long live the geeks"
During a February stop in Seattle, Bush also indicated support for the company's position.
"I'm not going to comment on the particulars of the Microsoft suit, but as president, the question should be innovation as opposed to litigation," Bush said.
I'd have to agree with this one, I didn't really favor the whole Ken Starr thing either though. I think everyone in the government has a job to do, the president leads the country, Congress passes laws, and the often ignored by most the Supreme Court determines the legality of those laws that were passed. I usually think of congress as the patent office and the Supreme Court as what we need before patents are granted (a nice review of the law and existing laws:-)) So its not the president's job to get involved in it IMHO.
"I am unsympathetic to lawsuits. You can write that down. I am worried about the effect of lawsuits on job creation," he added. "If you're looking at the kind of president I'll be, I'll be slow to litigate."
Ok you got me here, the whole reason I'm rethinkig it...
I'm unsympathetic towards most lawsuits, when we can can find ourselves in court at the drop of a hat for talking bad about someone else (random example pulled from the air, don't know if its really happened yet... I'm just talking the plain stupid ones here, the ones where the only people who win are the lawyers)
I don't think job creation is much of an issue, this might help or it might hurt the job market in the US. 50/50 in my book, depends if americians are as smart as we claim to be.
I already said what I think about lawsuits, but slow to litigate?!? Ok even if he is playing the political fence he should have said something like "I'll support litigation when the case warants it" or even "Propery used litigation can provide a balance" I might be over reacting, it is a bit late here but that statement does sound like he doesn't support the lawsuit. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait and see if it becomes clearer what his stance is, needless to say I'll watch for a new candidate too.
I do a little coding, not much but enough to amuse me and make things easier for the network. I've downloaded music from Napster, heck I've even burned it to CD so I could listen to it in the car.... why?
Because the radio stations around here suck, we lost are only alternative station to another Hip Hop (that's 4 or is it 5 now, I can't keep track) So now I have the choice of elevator music, old old rock or talk radio.
This being said you'd think I'd be the perfect one to buy CDs but I'm not a CD customer, I never have been. I think all in all I've purcased under 10 cds in my life (22 years in case you're wondering). Ah but I am a customer you say, well all but 3 were gifts, and the ones that wern't met with the trash soon after I bought them.
I'm not going into any depth why I don't buy CDs I'll just list some of them: Price, Content, Customization, and the fact I have better things to spend my money on then something I can hear (or used to be able to) on the radio.
I think most of the problem is something they created for themselves, their (RIAA) goal is to make money. (I can't really fault them there, if looking out for yourself wasn't popular capitalism wouldn't exist, for the most part everyone looks out for themselves/family first.)
Anyway back to something resembeling a point, After the radio was invented people started equating it with music, after a bit longer they got used to being about to tune in for the latest songs and go to specific stations for certain music. Fast forward to now... They (the record companies) play some "their songs" (ok the artist's songs or are they any more after some of those contracts) for free over the radio, heck they "pay" (bribe, offer prizes etc...) for those songs to be played. So they give away 2 at most 3 songs in order to entice someone to buy the cd with the rest on it. But they gave some of those same songs away to be played for free on the radio.
I may be totally off base here but I think people don't see the "cost" of listening to the radio and view music as free if they can hear it on the radio. And that I think is the whole problem that the (RIAA, record companies, artists) are facing.
dd is a program to "copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options"
if= is the input file
/dev/zero hmmmm consider it a black hole of sorts, nothing comes out of it. Not even an End of File.
of= output file
bs= byte size of file to copy
count= how many times to copy the bytes
So basically it copies "nothing" (using the term loosely, it might copy all 0's but I don't know for sure having never tried it) to a file that napster can't tell from the real thing without downloading it and verifying it.
Someone used this one in this thread too, I like t a bit more.
head takes the first -c bytes from whatever file you specify in this case/dev/urandom
(think of it as random information, if I'm not mistaken random is truly random (well as good as it gets without exravagent measures) and/dev/urandom gives you random until thats exhosted then gives psudo-random info. The advantage is you can always count on urandom having data, even if its not "completely" random.)
| pipes information to a file or progarm, normally if you just typed the first part of the command it would appear on the screen. (I really don't have a use for that much random data appearing on the screen but I'm sure I'll think of something.)
Its an interesting experience listening to random data coming out the speakers, not really my taste, though everyone should do it a few times just to do it. Someone I know claimed he started detecting things (patterns) in the/dev/random by listening to it... I think he was just delusional.
BTW Its late and I'm not an expert so I could be mistaken on some parts
That's why in laws they usually define words that: are unfamiliar to some people, might change or that have multiple meanings. Its usually (but not always) the section at the very end.
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How about this: "All you shutup so the representative can hear the ones that take the time to think through the issue and construct their own logical arguments based on the issue" Oh wait I'm sorry that might make more sense then the signing and mailing of a piece of paper someone else wrote.
Pardon my naivete, but doesn't tagging the books work?
:-)
Not really, I worked at Officemax, Best Buy and Compusa. Officemax and CompUsa had those electronic tags attached to a laptop. I'm sure you've seen them they're usually black with wires running under the counter to a power source and an alarm. You'd be amazed at what thieves can come up with. Every so often we'd find a razor blade where a laptop should be. It turns out if you slip a razor blade between the sticky side and the laptop it'll hold down the button and not go off while you pry the laptop out.
BestBuy had/has those white tags, the ones the Borders puts in the books and on the CDs. Next time you buy a CD try this out: Grow your fingernails a bit long, not too long but maybe a millimeter longer then usual. Slip your fingernails under the tag use at least two maybe 3 fingers and drag them across the CD. It'll pop right off, there might be a little adhesive left. It might take you a try or two but eventually you'll have those tags off faster then they can run them over that little pad. That will only work on CDs that have the tags on the outside of course, I've noticed that some DVDs I've bought had the tags on the inside, I don't know if CDs are going toward that as well.
Totally off topic, the best thief that ever hit any store I worked at walked out with over $10,000 of stuff in about an hour. That's just a guess because we never knew what all they took. It was Christmas and the store was hopping, We had people standing 4-5 deep to talk to a sales guy so there was no way we could watch the floor. It was hell, the supervisor noticed 2 of the highend laptops misssing. The other employee's thought he'd sold them "as is", nope instead we found the steel bars holding the laptop in place had been sawed through with a small hand saw, kinda like the ones you have on a swiss army knife. Management was ticked, turns out they took a few items from video too, camcorders I believe. Security watched the tape that night with the police, they could never spot who did it. They had a guess or two but thats about it.
Stealing is a HUGE problem for retail stores, but for all of what I've said, I'd guess 75% is from employees or ex-employees. Hell there were managers taking things at BestBuy, they'd just edit it out of inventory. Upper management found out some how and busted around 20 people. Now that was fun to watch, the guy riding your ass all year being escorted out in handcuffs.
Don't get me wrong modeling is great useful and necessary, but this was supposed to be done before the prototype was finished so they could decide to go ahead or not. Instead his task was make the model say what the tests on the prototype did. Well at least that's what it turned into. He knew what the results were and the goal was to get his program to match it.
I work at a university that shall remain nameless, we have a person there who is paid by both NASA and the University to do computer modeling and testing. Over a year ago he was given a fairly simple project: model what this piece of equipment would do in space so we can show a panel your findings, since the prototype won't be ready for a month or two. He's been working on this ever since I started there and he just finished about a month ago. The prototype had already been built, they knew from testing what it would do in space but he still had to finish his modeling before they could go any farther.
Does this sound like something that should have happened? From what I understand the local NASA branch is a joke, sure it does some cool things but about 50% of the people there could be axed with no problems, except they can't because it's a government job. The current joke where I work is "Get a job at NASA you'll never need to work again". It's almost unheard of to fire someone, and even worse if you're asigned a project and take forever to finish it, they won't yank it from you and asign it to someone else, they'll just wait for you to finish. Half of the stuff they do there doesn't even translate to the space program at all. If you really want a good space program start by streamlining NASA. Run it like a business, you could make NASA self sufficient and profitable.
Yep I'd have to agree. sulpher + saltpeter + charcoal anyone?
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actually its just a stupid link error.
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I thought this commercial sums it up nicely...
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I've been doing some thinking about this... ever seen those HP scanners with the autodocument feeder? I figure one of those with omnipage pro(does double sided scanning, ie scan stack of 50 flip over and scan again it will put them in order) would work for any book you want to scan in if you destory the binding.
Someones doing it since I found the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy for the palm on someones site. I don't really have a problem with this since I have two copies of it already.
Price isn't too reasonable but it gets the cool factor. The empeg
Why can't we have our cake and eat it too? People seem to think if we have an intuitive iterface we'll lose out on functionality, I don't agree.
I want all the functionality we have in Unix but I want an interface that kicks some serious ass. I don't think its too much to ask to have both.
There just hasn't been enough improvement (innovation) in the *nix GUI, or innovation in linux in general. Thats the only real problem I see in linux, it seems everything designed for linux is trying to be a clone of something commercial, the developers are reacting not acting. Don't get me wrong I like the fact I have a choice in what I run and I can replace most stuff for free, but if linux is ever to surpass Microsoft or Apple we need to have good original ideas and provide the software people want/need before everyone else.
When you think about it though the free part is the whole mentality that spawned linux, "I can't afford to buy a real Unix but I can download this linux thing that doesn't work quite the same way (or as well, at least up to a year or two ago) but it's free and I can still do most things I want to do with it."
Trust me math labs at schools love this, they are full of technical people who can usually understand how to maintain a system and most of the ones I work with write their own code for research.
But everything they use for linux has a commerical counterpart that kicks butt, guess which is better/around first. Actually the good profs usually have enough money from research grants to buy the good compilers and there's still no free replacement for Matlab or Maple/XMaple.
Sorry its late but I guess the whole point of this post is:
1. People think that providing a great intuitive interface is going to eliminate the functionality we've come to know and love in linux. I disagree, a great interface is one that anyone from a new user to a kernel hacker can use and feel comfortable with.
2. There is a lack of innovation in the GUI department (DUH, anyone could tell you that, we're just rehashing MS, who stole from apple, who stole from Xerox Parc....)
3. Linux and free software in general is a copycat of good commercial software (heck sometimes the free version is better) and if we don't want it to be a nitch market this needs to change.
One last thought the GPL is the most revolutionary concept around, and we wouldn't be anywhere close to where we are in GUI or anything else if it wasn't for that.
Sleep Calls
Ok here's the setup my co-worker and I used. We have 1 alpha server(DS 20) and two alpha workstations(XP1000) running True64 4.0F with all of their released patches. Also we have various linux boxes(PIII and dual Xeons) with the gigabit cards in them. We cat'd a file into /dev/null first to hopefully but it in the file system cache, then scp'd to /dev/null on the other machine. Also we did the same from /dev/zero to /dev/null. If you can tell me what software you used, I'd be more then willing to try it out since we need to get this fixed. Another stupid (unrelated?) problem we're having is it takes the cards about a minute to locate the network (maybe negotating) when they are loaded at bootup. This happens on both NT and linux so it's not the OS. If you have any ideas, please feel free to either e-mail me or post here.
Very true.
I thought about talking about this, but I'd have to use my experience and that is fairly subjective. I'm curious what do you think the difference in human costs are? Lets see, take 30 minutes to install/configure Redhat, Take 10 minutes to install the latest updates, 5 minutes to disable services that are not needed and block the outside world from anything except 80 and 22, 10 minutes to install openssh, 5 minutes to load an existing website on the machine. Reboot the machine just to make sure and you're all set.
Looks like about an hour to me. Maybe an hour and a half if you want samba and frontpage extentions installed.
Just for kicks, lets take a look at NT.
When I installed it yesterday it took about the same about of time to install as redhat, so lets figure 30 minutes. Configure for network and reboot 5 minutes, Setup IIS 15 minutes, add webpage to IIS 5 minutes. Reboot the machine just to make sure.
Ok looks like a total of 55 minutes. Great, MS just saved you 5 or 35 minutes depending on what you're looking for. Is it really worth a few hundred dollars, if not more for an MS webserver if you really don't need one?
Also, with the linux box, I can ssh in and fix things remotely, I don't even have to be there to apply a patch when it comes out. As a consultant I find that very appealing. I just scp a file over, install it, restart the service and I'm set. NT I actually have to be there, when some of my clients are almost 2 hours away, I'd much prefer the linux method.
Gigabit..... sigh, what can I say about it other then I personally have had nothing but problems with it in both NT and Linux. I get a whopping 3600K/sec when I'm on 100mbit and when we switched a few machines to 1000mbit fiber we get 3800K/sec. Great we just spent ungodly amounts of money on a nice Cisco 5300(?) Catalyst router and 450.00 a piece on some network cards. I think the problem is in how the router is set up though. I'm assured by a few people that it really isn't supposed to be that slow ;-)
It looks like the dates the tests were run were a few months appart. If I go to Dell today and say I want a PowerEdge 6400/700 with a SCSI card they're going to ship me that model with whatever SCSI card they can get right now. If I come back 6 months latter and order the same model there's nothing that says they are using the same SCSI card, they might be able to get card X cheaper so they use it. I've noticed the selections change on Dell's desktops over time, why should servers be any different?
Ok, I agree with you about benchmarks being statistics and how they can be manipulated. This is still a good thing.
Think about it from the point of view of someone who is trying to justify a linux web server in a business environment. I'm going to assume that most businesses have a budget dealing with what they're going to spend for the year on equipment and software. Isn't it worth it to prove that you could save hundreds of dollars on Windows and the licenses if linux met the businesses needs?
Say the web server is going to be spitting out static HTML on DSL or a T1, what's the point in having an NT/Win2k box for that when Linux or BSD would do the job for a considerable savings. The money saved would be money for another project.
If you're working for a company thats money to spend on replacing some of the old junk that gives you problems (10mbit nics, hubs where you need switches, a few larger hard drives....etc).
If you're consulting thats more value to the customer while acomplishing the project. The last thing I want to do is give an improper solution when my reputation is on the line.
I think that the more "fair" benchmarks out there the better. Even Mindcraft's benchmarks were helpful because they showed how far linux had to go in certain situations. Right now in my opinion the more linux gets talked about the better, it needs to become a household name before a lot of business owners will consider it.
Guess once I get some free time away from class, I'll stop by there.
I don't much like any polititian, and greens well.. I agree with some of what their platform is I just don't know enough about them to say much either for or against. Honestly I don't see another party gaining any type of power unless the government or one of the parties does something really really stupid, like try to take all the guns away, starting prohibition again, and elminating welfare, social security... even then they'd have to do this all at the same time for the people to get a new party in there. On the other hand a nice big wallstreet and crash might do it in under a year.
Oh and I'm sure MS knows innovation, as a matter of fact I'll bet you they do. What do you think determines who they buy out or immatate a dartboard?
hmmmmm nah they couldn't be that bad... could they?
First of all, Thanks for the link.
I'm not a big fan of George W. but I liked Gore less, I'm not sure now. All I do know is politics is dirty in more ways then one.
While Bush has begged off the question in recent days, he did say Tuesday: "I wish there had been a settlement early on in the case. I was hoping there would be an agreement between the two parties."
Actually I agree on this one too, and I'm sure most people would, he leaves a lot unsaid. I'm sure the government would have loved it if MS said. "Whoops you're right, sorry we just didn't realize what we were doing. Flat rate pricing and open APIs, heck we'll even split into 4 companies or whatever you want. Just tell us what we should do." I know that MS would have loved "Ha we caught you, ok we're on a catch and release policy. Don't do it again" (This might have given support in other cases pending against MS by companies, hey speaking of which what would happen with those lawsuits if MS is split up?) And I know most of Slashdot wants "Yep you're right GPL everything, long live the geeks"
During a February stop in Seattle, Bush also indicated support for the company's position.
"I'm not going to comment on the particulars of the Microsoft suit, but as president, the question should be innovation as opposed to litigation," Bush said.
I'd have to agree with this one, I didn't really favor the whole Ken Starr thing either though. I think everyone in the government has a job to do, the president leads the country, Congress passes laws, and the often ignored by most the Supreme Court determines the legality of those laws that were passed. I usually think of congress as the patent office and the Supreme Court as what we need before patents are granted (a nice review of the law and existing laws:-)) So its not the president's job to get involved in it IMHO.
"I am unsympathetic to lawsuits. You can write that down. I am worried about the effect of lawsuits on job creation," he added. "If you're looking at the kind of president I'll be, I'll be slow to litigate."
Ok you got me here, the whole reason I'm rethinkig it...
I'm unsympathetic towards most lawsuits, when we can can find ourselves in court at the drop of a hat for talking bad about someone else (random example pulled from the air, don't know if its really happened yet... I'm just talking the plain stupid ones here, the ones where the only people who win are the lawyers)
I don't think job creation is much of an issue, this might help or it might hurt the job market in the US. 50/50 in my book, depends if americians are as smart as we claim to be.
I already said what I think about lawsuits, but slow to litigate?!? Ok even if he is playing the political fence he should have said something like "I'll support litigation when the case warants it" or even "Propery used litigation can provide a balance" I might be over reacting, it is a bit late here but that statement does sound like he doesn't support the lawsuit. Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait and see if it becomes clearer what his stance is, needless to say I'll watch for a new candidate too.
I do a little coding, not much but enough to amuse me and make things easier for the network. I've downloaded music from Napster, heck I've even burned it to CD so I could listen to it in the car.... why?
Because the radio stations around here suck, we lost are only alternative station to another Hip Hop (that's 4 or is it 5 now, I can't keep track) So now I have the choice of elevator music, old old rock or talk radio.
This being said you'd think I'd be the perfect one to buy CDs but I'm not a CD customer, I never have been. I think all in all I've purcased under 10 cds in my life (22 years in case you're wondering). Ah but I am a customer you say, well all but 3 were gifts, and the ones that wern't met with the trash soon after I bought them.
I'm not going into any depth why I don't buy CDs I'll just list some of them: Price, Content, Customization, and the fact I have better things to spend my money on then something I can hear (or used to be able to) on the radio.
I think most of the problem is something they created for themselves, their (RIAA) goal is to make money. (I can't really fault them there, if looking out for yourself wasn't popular capitalism wouldn't exist, for the most part everyone looks out for themselves/family first.)
Anyway back to something resembeling a point, After the radio was invented people started equating it with music, after a bit longer they got used to being about to tune in for the latest songs and go to specific stations for certain music. Fast forward to now... They (the record companies) play some "their songs" (ok the artist's songs or are they any more after some of those contracts) for free over the radio, heck they "pay" (bribe, offer prizes etc...) for those songs to be played. So they give away 2 at most 3 songs in order to entice someone to buy the cd with the rest on it. But they gave some of those same songs away to be played for free on the radio.
I may be totally off base here but I think people don't see the "cost" of listening to the radio and view music as free if they can hear it on the radio. And that I think is the whole problem that the (RIAA, record companies, artists) are facing.
Anyway its late so be kind in the flames.
This is a command for a *nix based system
/dev/urandom | lame - thissoundslikemetallica.mp3
/dev/urandom
/dev/urandom gives you random until thats exhosted then gives psudo-random info. The advantage is you can always count on urandom having data, even if its not "completely" random.)
/dev/random by listening to it... I think he was just delusional.
dd is a program to "copy a file, converting and formatting according to the options"
if= is the input file
/dev/zero hmmmm consider it a black hole of sorts, nothing comes out of it. Not even an End of File.
of= output file
bs= byte size of file to copy
count= how many times to copy the bytes
So basically it copies "nothing" (using the term loosely, it might copy all 0's but I don't know for sure having never tried it) to a file that napster can't tell from the real thing without downloading it and verifying it.
>head -c 45000000
Someone used this one in this thread too, I like t a bit more.
head takes the first -c bytes from whatever file you specify in this case
(think of it as random information, if I'm not mistaken random is truly random (well as good as it gets without exravagent measures) and
| pipes information to a file or progarm, normally if you just typed the first part of the command it would appear on the screen. (I really don't have a use for that much random data appearing on the screen but I'm sure I'll think of something.)
Its an interesting experience listening to random data coming out the speakers, not really my taste, though everyone should do it a few times just to do it. Someone I know claimed he started detecting things (patterns) in the
BTW Its late and I'm not an expert so I could be mistaken on some parts
Do you have a link to a news story where he says this? Changes my vote if you do....
Ah, but what about the Playstation hacks that allow you to play copied discs? That's a hardware hack. Seems to me something similar would happen.
That's why in laws they usually define words that: are unfamiliar to some people, might change or that have multiple meanings. Its usually (but not always) the section at the very end.