Are you sure the install media weren't all screwed? It seems unlikely, but I haven't ever seen those distros put up such a fuss. Gentoo probably would've worked:)...(except for the "they needed a box that worked so they could grant wifi access to customers [that evening]")...actually, I have seen SuSE screw the pooch on the hardware autodetect part. It's retarded and doesn't know when to give up.
Does Microsoft sell the technology that apple licenses directly? On a recent sales call for SLES, the Microsoft guy did all the talking, and in the quote we received was directly from Microsoft...not Novell or another reseller. The guy who was on the line from Novell hardly said anything.
Personally, I don't really care about Novell's Microsoft deal either way, because their product offerings were inferior to begin with.
Amazing - and I am saying this in all seriousness. I did not know this was even allowed. For the past number of years (and really prior to that as well) I know that every time I took a flight, security person at the beginning of the line demanded to see my ID and boarding pass. To the best of my understanding there was no exception to that, they were fairly clear that I would not be permitted to proceed if I don't show the ID.
That and really I wouldn't even get through check in without one - airline registration counter person demands your id first.
Anyone actually flown without going through this in recent years? How did you do that? Yes. You check in/print your boarding pass at home and leave your ID "in your other pants". After an additional 15 minutes or so as you are patted down and have all of your bags checked for explosive residue, you get to go onto your flight.
Just because they stop streaming after 25 minutes doesn't mean they aren't providing free real-time quotes.
Guess you missed the end part where Yahoo said:
Quote data delayed 15 minutes for Nasdaq, 20 minutes for NYSE and Amex. Real-Time continuous streaming quotes are available through our premium service.
...and I guess you missed the part up at the top where Yahoo said:
For consolidated real-time quotes (incl. pre/post market data), sign up for a free trial of Real-time Quotes.
Plus much of the US power is generated by hydro electric and wind, solar-termal and nuclear are starting to come back... Wikipedia disagrees with you. Hydro is 7.1%, Wind and solar-thermal aren't even significant enough to get a slice of the pie, but combining "other renewables and other, you get another 3.1%".
I'm bored enough to argue pedantics this morning. According to the etymology of the word, something is "bricked" when it becomes like a brick; that is a solid and un-operable item best used as a paperweight, doorstop, or building material if you are so inclined. It is very similar to a "coaster" when referring to a burned CDR or DVD (and expanded to any disc these days) that is rendered unreadable. Since a computer with a bad MBR can be recovered via user intervention, even if it requires the user to go to the local software store and buy Norton Disk Doctor or whatever is en vogue with kids these days, it most definitely does not serve the same function as a brick.
The first time I heard the term, it was used to refer to DD-WRT installation. In this case, the only way to rewrite the OS of a commodity wireless router is through the router's own internal software update mechanism, which requires an existing functional OS. It does not have the capability of booting from any external media. If you try re-writing the OS and encounter a failure which causes the device to no longer boot, then you no longer have any means to restore a functional OS to the device. At this time, there is no software in the world that will allow you to fix this problem (if there is, then I would welcome the news). Your only option is to send it back to the manufacturer and claim that it "just stopped working one day" and hope the price of doing this is less than the price of a new wireless router. Until such time, there is nothing you can do in a user serviceable manner to restore wireless routing functionality to the device.
Is looking through a window with your eyes any different from using a camera on a pole. from a police helicopter of a blimp? Is taking a picture with a camera from an aircraft any different than looking and is doing something like taking a picture from a aircraft any different than takeing a picture from a spacecraft? Is taking a picture through the your window with visible light coming through really that much different from taking a multi-spectral image of the thermal IR pouring through your houses walls? Yes. It is called reasonable expectation of privacy. If you're in a place and somebody can see you with their eyes or a shoddy cctv camera, then you don't really have a reasonable expectation of privacy. If they can only see you with a billion dollar space satellite that you don't even know is there or not, then you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's the same reason why I can take a picture of you walking down the street, but can't take a picture of you with a 500mm zoom lens through a window.
Also, would you trust your enterprise storage to laptop drives? Running 24/7/36...
How long will those last? I have a lot of HP bl30p servers setup with software raid1 arrays on their internal disks...which really are laptop drives. I'm amazed that we still haven't had one of them fail these past 3 years.
Of course, now that I say this, 20 of them are going bad tomorrow.
Get a webhost for like $7/mo with 200GB of storage and a few terabytes of transfer allotment. Ask your friends to chip in $3 a month to cover the hosting. If you're hosting 3 sites for people, you now have a "free" webhost and a cup of coffee.
Since SGI hasn't turned a profit in forever and usually loses about $100M a year... False. Their net income for 2006 was -$146.19 Million while their net income for 2007 was $222.61 Million. You may have been correct but at least in 2007 it looked like they have turned things around. Weird, the statement I'm looking at shows a -$103.64 million income for 2007 http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=SGIC&annual, but their debt also substantially reduced that year. It looks like google figured that into their income calculation.
"It seems that that Linux Networx, the pioneering Linux supercomputing company, has gone belly up." What causes you to think that? Have they filed for bankruptcy? Is there some indication they were failing?
According to most definitions of 'belly up':
1. (idiomatic) Dead or defunct, often used with go, went, or turn. (see go belly-up)
After several financial failures, the organization went belly up. I'm pretty sure that since SGI has slowly become a niche provider for creating solutions for a few specific customers, they see Linux Networx as another good partner in another niche market. SGI isn't at the greatness they once were but it looks like they're holding their own in what they are doing. Since SGI hasn't turned a profit in forever and usually loses about $100M a year, I'd say that having your assets bought by them would qualify you for dead.
You know, I haven't built my own kernel since 'make menuconfig' was the most advanced method around. I thought it still was... wait...there's something more advanced than make config?
That sounds about the opposite of daily production sysadmin work, where you're watching a house of cards waiting for somebody to trip and knock it down.
I'm running Jive/Wildfire/Openfire. I'm not sure what the setting is these days, but when I first installed it, all conversations were logged. It's been a great help for my group and rather painless from an administrative point of view. Even the poor windows saps can play.
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"Middleware" is IT-speak for "we've got this closed-source thing over there, and it doesn't talk at all to this closed-source thing over here, and we have no idea what their data formats or wire formats are but we've spent scads of money on both of them and now we need them to talk to each other, so can you please figure out how to make that work?
It's the user tax on closed formats and closed source, basically. So how does an in house Java application running on JBoss and using a MySQL database fit into your analysis of Middleware?
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with the CF card and adapter, you're at $3.44/GB. Not necessarily a huge savings over price mentioned in the summary.
"yum install freenx nxclient" works on Red Hat derived distributions if you have the dag or atrpms repository.
emerge -uv screen ...and people say that gentoo is a nightmare?
I wish I was still elite enough to run slackware fulltime.
Are you sure the install media weren't all screwed? It seems unlikely, but I haven't ever seen those distros put up such a fuss. Gentoo probably would've worked :) ...(except for the "they needed a box that worked so they could grant wifi access to customers [that evening]") ...actually, I have seen SuSE screw the pooch on the hardware autodetect part. It's retarded and doesn't know when to give up.
Does Microsoft sell the technology that apple licenses directly? On a recent sales call for SLES, the Microsoft guy did all the talking, and in the quote we received was directly from Microsoft...not Novell or another reseller. The guy who was on the line from Novell hardly said anything.
Personally, I don't really care about Novell's Microsoft deal either way, because their product offerings were inferior to begin with.
That and really I wouldn't even get through check in without one - airline registration counter person demands your id first.
Anyone actually flown without going through this in recent years? How did you do that? Yes. You check in/print your boarding pass at home and leave your ID "in your other pants". After an additional 15 minutes or so as you are patted down and have all of your bags checked for explosive residue, you get to go onto your flight.
Guess you missed the end part where Yahoo said:
Quote data delayed 15 minutes for Nasdaq, 20 minutes for NYSE and Amex. Real-Time continuous streaming quotes are available through our premium service....and I guess you missed the part up at the top where Yahoo said:
For consolidated real-time quotes (incl. pre/post market data), sign up for a free trial of Real-time Quotes.I have a "no bears" sign in my yard. Haven't had a single problem with bears hanging around my house since.
I know dude, I can feel the bad vibes from here...totally bumming me out man
Just sayin'
I'm bored enough to argue pedantics this morning. According to the etymology of the word, something is "bricked" when it becomes like a brick; that is a solid and un-operable item best used as a paperweight, doorstop, or building material if you are so inclined. It is very similar to a "coaster" when referring to a burned CDR or DVD (and expanded to any disc these days) that is rendered unreadable. Since a computer with a bad MBR can be recovered via user intervention, even if it requires the user to go to the local software store and buy Norton Disk Doctor or whatever is en vogue with kids these days, it most definitely does not serve the same function as a brick.
The first time I heard the term, it was used to refer to DD-WRT installation. In this case, the only way to rewrite the OS of a commodity wireless router is through the router's own internal software update mechanism, which requires an existing functional OS. It does not have the capability of booting from any external media. If you try re-writing the OS and encounter a failure which causes the device to no longer boot, then you no longer have any means to restore a functional OS to the device. At this time, there is no software in the world that will allow you to fix this problem (if there is, then I would welcome the news). Your only option is to send it back to the manufacturer and claim that it "just stopped working one day" and hope the price of doing this is less than the price of a new wireless router. Until such time, there is nothing you can do in a user serviceable manner to restore wireless routing functionality to the device.
It is called reasonable expectation of privacy.
If you're in a place and somebody can see you with their eyes or a shoddy cctv camera, then you don't really have a reasonable expectation of privacy. If they can only see you with a billion dollar space satellite that you don't even know is there or not, then you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's the same reason why I can take a picture of you walking down the street, but can't take a picture of you with a 500mm zoom lens through a window.
How long will those last? I have a lot of HP bl30p servers setup with software raid1 arrays on their internal disks...which really are laptop drives. I'm amazed that we still haven't had one of them fail these past 3 years.
Of course, now that I say this, 20 of them are going bad tomorrow.
insecure.org put up a nice list at nodaddy.com when their domain was yanked. It looks like it is still there.
http://nodaddy.com/#alternatives
Get a webhost for like $7/mo with 200GB of storage and a few terabytes of transfer allotment.
Ask your friends to chip in $3 a month to cover the hosting.
If you're hosting 3 sites for people, you now have a "free" webhost and a cup of coffee.
According to most definitions of 'belly up': 1. (idiomatic) Dead or defunct, often used with go, went, or turn. (see go belly-up)
After several financial failures, the organization went belly up. I'm pretty sure that since SGI has slowly become a niche provider for creating solutions for a few specific customers, they see Linux Networx as another good partner in another niche market. SGI isn't at the greatness they once were but it looks like they're holding their own in what they are doing. Since SGI hasn't turned a profit in forever and usually loses about $100M a year, I'd say that having your assets bought by them would qualify you for dead.
alex@ephesus ~ $ cat
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
[...]
That "x" after the first colon indicates that the password is stored elsewhere --- in
alex@ephesus ~ $ ll
-rw-r----- 1 root shadow 896 2008-02-03 21:18
So what does the corresponding entry in the shadow file look like? root:$1$kR3d2v6a$DdWEe8U2vYnze0cBNMnsS0:13866:0::::: ?
Google is sitting on about 5 billion in cash as of last September, while Verizon has about 700 Million.
Google: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=GOOG
Verizon: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=VZ
From a cash perspective, google looks in much better condition to go on a $4.6B shopping spree.
That sounds about the opposite of daily production sysadmin work, where you're watching a house of cards waiting for somebody to trip and knock it down.
I'm running Jive/Wildfire/Openfire. I'm not sure what the setting is these days, but when I first installed it, all conversations were logged. It's been a great help for my group and rather painless from an administrative point of view. Even the poor windows saps can play.
It's the user tax on closed formats and closed source, basically. So how does an in house Java application running on JBoss and using a MySQL database fit into your analysis of Middleware?
It runs e17?
No wonder there's a lack of polish. e17 is at least "super beta" if not alpha status.