he he, I did in a P90 a several years ago by reconnecting a floppy drive power supply that I forgot to hook up while the system was still running. Very pretty blue sparks! That's the only thing I've fried, but I took it as a clue that I was up too late;o)
The one that really kills me is when someone plugs in a PS2 mouse while the system is running because it got disconnected for some reason (read: some idiot tripped over the back of the case). The person in question just plugs the mouse back in and then is surprised when they have to reboot anyway to get the mouse recognized again.
You wouldn't believe how many people don't realize you can fry a motherboard that way...
Exactly, I've got a friend who spent the last couple weeks learning COBOL in prep for a university job. He wrote himself an XML parser in COBOL for practice before the interview... He got the job...:)
Isn't a G5 cluster one of the newest/oldest cool things mentioned on/. lately? Better yet, it's pretty easy to make hideously expensive. And you might even consider creating a in-memory Oracle database using 10,000 G5 machines. The VIP would have his/her own Google:)
btw, can we use that as a noun yet? Like a gaggle of geese, a herd a cattle or a school of fish, can we have a Google of computers?
Let's say your point about the pirating stands. It's still a huge real world example of how Linux can replace the Windows infrastructure of a country. I'm pretty sure this will be the largest public exodus from Microsoft in history.
Tell you what, if I offered you 20% of my yearly income or 30% of the income tax the U.S. government collects this year, which would you take? It's all about the size of the pie and this one is pretty impressive.
Simply because it's a wide scale test. Right now, Linux users are blocked from "several key Korean web-based services" and it looks like South Korea is trying to remedy that. I expect that given that the general landscape hasn't changed by 2007 and the test is successful, they'll slowly roll their entire infrastructure over. Note that they cited security as a principal reason for the switch...
The PC in the picture can be found here. Silly thing doesn't come with a harddrive, but otherwise seems to be fairly decent for a home (not gaming) machine.
Not at all, you just need to generate massive thrust in arbitrary directions. The easy way to do this is generate thrust out the back and then have a thruster at the front-top, front-bottom, front-left, and front-right that allow the vehicle to spin on its center.
Exactly what I thought. It's kind of ironic that at the end of the paper they mention that it may be detectable by scripts like chrootkit and that future development will address that issue. When it *is* used as an advanced root kit, the whitehats will need to make better detection script so they can detect hostile rootkits. And that just makes it easier to detect this tool. Around and around we go:)
Exactly... This is only occuring because SCO wasn't watching their butt careful enough. In their haste while pressing forward with their claims, they mistakenly violated other license agreements (namely on the GPL'd code in the kernel and other applications in their distro).
IMHO, this is probably worse legally than the false claims they have been making. With those claims, they could at least back out at some point, take a slap on the hand for being idiots and watch their company slowly die. This way, they've set themselves up to get utterly destroyed. IBM is going to make them fry;o)
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Sometimes machines ship with a hibernation partition. Did you remove it when you installed linux? If you did, have fun. I have no idea how to get it back.
Also, why not just suspend instead of hibernate? Suspend is typically faster anyway although I think it consumes slightly more battery power when asleep. Try 'apm -S'
Rings? Are you implying *all* servers involved in the replication process could handle writes rather than a master that handles writes and a bunch of slaves that handle all the read access? If this is true, point me to some docs:) That would be too cool.
You know who's going to feel real bad? The guy who wins the lotto on the day before the end of the world. See, the stuff that comes out of the end of a cow, it happens...
Seriously, there's nothing to be done. Prices on processors drop seconds after some poor fool purchases them. Same with RAM, hard drives, etc. Mortage rates go down two days after refinancing a home. That's what economics is all about.
Sounds like everyone feels the same way too... We've got some automated testing software for MS Office at the local college and although it's getting better, it still makes really silly mistakes from time to time. Analyzing English composition has got to be many times more difficult than watching a bunch of clicks and key presses.
The only use I can see for this thing is as a "first pass" grading tool that quickly finds obvious mistakes (spelling, grammer, redundancy, etc) and flags them for the instructor. On the other hand, it's probably just as time consuming for the instructor to read over the flagged items as it is to just catch them on the first time reading through the paper.
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he he, I did in a P90 a several years ago by reconnecting a floppy drive power supply that I forgot to hook up while the system was still running. Very pretty blue sparks! That's the only thing I've fried, but I took it as a clue that I was up too late ;o)
The one that really kills me is when someone plugs in a PS2 mouse while the system is running because it got disconnected for some reason (read: some idiot tripped over the back of the case). The person in question just plugs the mouse back in and then is surprised when they have to reboot anyway to get the mouse recognized again.
You wouldn't believe how many people don't realize you can fry a motherboard that way...
Exactly, I've got a friend who spent the last couple weeks learning COBOL in prep for a university job. He wrote himself an XML parser in COBOL for practice before the interview... He got the job... :)
Ok, so thats *alot* of computers :)
Isn't a G5 cluster one of the newest/oldest cool things mentioned on /. lately? Better yet, it's pretty easy to make hideously expensive. And you might even consider creating a in-memory Oracle database using 10,000 G5 machines. The VIP would have his/her own Google :)
btw, can we use that as a noun yet? Like a gaggle of geese, a herd a cattle or a school of fish, can we have a Google of computers?
Let's say your point about the pirating stands. It's still a huge real world example of how Linux can replace the Windows infrastructure of a country. I'm pretty sure this will be the largest public exodus from Microsoft in history.
IBM should figure out how to make that into a commercial :)
300 Million dollars in savings? Yeah, I'll bet it's just 3 computers.
he he, meant to use 20% for both numbers... heck, might as well change the second number to 2%...
Tell you what, if I offered you 20% of my yearly income or 30% of the income tax the U.S. government collects this year, which would you take? It's all about the size of the pie and this one is pretty impressive.
Simply because it's a wide scale test. Right now, Linux users are blocked from "several key Korean web-based services" and it looks like South Korea is trying to remedy that. I expect that given that the general landscape hasn't changed by 2007 and the test is successful, they'll slowly roll their entire infrastructure over. Note that they cited security as a principal reason for the switch...
The PC in the picture can be found here. Silly thing doesn't come with a harddrive, but otherwise seems to be fairly decent for a home (not gaming) machine.
Just imagine swivelling (firing side thrusters) while firing the main engine. If you can swivel to line up the main engines, you can bank as well.
Not at all, you just need to generate massive thrust in arbitrary directions. The easy way to do this is generate thrust out the back and then have a thruster at the front-top, front-bottom, front-left, and front-right that allow the vehicle to spin on its center.
Exactly what I thought. It's kind of ironic that at the end of the paper they mention that it may be detectable by scripts like chrootkit and that future development will address that issue. When it *is* used as an advanced root kit, the whitehats will need to make better detection script so they can detect hostile rootkits. And that just makes it easier to detect this tool. Around and around we go :)
I'm getting a kick out of the fire-breathing dragon reference earlier in the comment :) I'm thinking pathetic goblin verses Ancient Gold Dragon.
Exactly... This is only occuring because SCO wasn't watching their butt careful enough. In their haste while pressing forward with their claims, they mistakenly violated other license agreements (namely on the GPL'd code in the kernel and other applications in their distro).
;o)
IMHO, this is probably worse legally than the false claims they have been making. With those claims, they could at least back out at some point, take a slap on the hand for being idiots and watch their company slowly die. This way, they've set themselves up to get utterly destroyed. IBM is going to make them fry
Or we've all because suckers ;o)
Sometimes machines ship with a hibernation partition. Did you remove it when you installed linux? If you did, have fun. I have no idea how to get it back.
Also, why not just suspend instead of hibernate? Suspend is typically faster anyway although I think it consumes slightly more battery power when asleep. Try 'apm -S'
You sure don't drive on ice much... Grabby brakes are just begging to meet a guardrail in my area.
Rings? Are you implying *all* servers involved in the replication process could handle writes rather than a master that handles writes and a bunch of slaves that handle all the read access? If this is true, point me to some docs :) That would be too cool.
You know who's going to feel real bad? The guy who wins the lotto on the day before the end of the world. See, the stuff that comes out of the end of a cow, it happens...
Seriously, there's nothing to be done. Prices on processors drop seconds after some poor fool purchases them. Same with RAM, hard drives, etc. Mortage rates go down two days after refinancing a home. That's what economics is all about.
58,000 copies? If you read the article, each message is worth $500 a pop. You do the math... Mr. Featherston could have asked for a whole lot more.
Of course not, but perhaps the association with an organization like the RIAA is deserving of such a label...
Sounds like everyone feels the same way too... We've got some automated testing software for MS Office at the local college and although it's getting better, it still makes really silly mistakes from time to time. Analyzing English composition has got to be many times more difficult than watching a bunch of clicks and key presses.
The only use I can see for this thing is as a "first pass" grading tool that quickly finds obvious mistakes (spelling, grammer, redundancy, etc) and flags them for the instructor. On the other hand, it's probably just as time consuming for the instructor to read over the flagged items as it is to just catch them on the first time reading through the paper.