Bullshit. DRM is fascist, if anything, as it relies on governmental support of corporate monopolies to make it even a little bit effective. It's not capitalist (or socialist or communist) because it's not an economic construct - it's purely political.
Who knows if there is anything in there worth having now.
I'll go out on a limb and say "not likely". It wasn't a major OS with a huge dev team to begin with, and I never remember envying any of its features. Seeing how far FreeBSD has come in the last 6 years, I can't imagine that a less-developed variant from back then would still have much to offer.
Their testing division is a borderline racket for the amount they charge for testing on testing software that still runs on Windows 2000 Professional and crashes mid way through the MC$E tests.
That sounds plausible, except the last I heard there weren't any radio transmissions during the episode. Wouldn't you expect at least 1 of 3 pilots to be screaming into the headset?
What's the possibility that the cockpit was destroyed before the rest of the plane? Could such a think happen and the rest of the plane still limp along in approximately stable flight, at least for a minute or so?
Hey, uh, wasn't he one of the ones that threw a tantrum (along with sam and marbux) when he didn't get his way with preserving Microsoft "dark matter" (undocumented RTF encoding) in ODF and then proclaimed that ODF is doomed to fail and all that nonsense when everyone told him to stuff it where it doesn't shine??
Anyone who currently uses IE 6 and either will not or can not upgrade to a modern browser is someone who isn't terribly concerned about using the types of apps that things like HTML 5 and Gears are meant to make possible.
The first time Youtube's legacy Flash interface has significant downtime while the HTML5 version is still online is the day that the CEO orders an upgrade past IE6.
Oh, right, Microsoft should write all drivers themselves...yees, thats right! hahah:D
But that's the standard people hold Linux to. Fair's fair: if Linux is expected to support everything in the world itself, then Windows should be expected to as well.
Like I said, it wasn't perfect. Still, FreeBSD installs a version of Linux in a subdirectory (Fedora Core 6 is the current default, I think) to provide shared libraries for apps that need them. Since FreeBSD doesn't have native flash support, people wanting to watch Youtube on a FreeBSD desktop are often advised to install Firefox for Linux.
In what sense would "quite a few Linux distros [...] run perfectly" in this context?
In the sense that FreeBSD has excellent Linux binary compatibility and one time I fired off a jail pointed at the root directory of a Gentoo stage3 archive. It didn't work 100% correctly because Gentoo's init scripts aren't exactly designed for such things, but I could SSH into it and play around.
They all must withstand the pressure from a layer of ocean above them AND a layer of atmosphere above the ocean--the ocean doesn't protect against the atmospheric pressure.
...for Creative Labs to get on the ball and release 64bit audio drivers for the X-Fi series that don't cause constant crackling and odd behavior. I swear, past their XP drivers, the drivers for Vista and Win7 are horrid.
Until Microsoft can deliver drivers for popular off-the-shelf peripherals, Windows will never be more than a niche toy for geeks who like to spend more time tinkering with their OS than actually using it.
Quote: "i do logic design and also write low level software, mostly linux device drivers for our hardware [...] I hate to sound condescending.. but system administration is considered the lower end of the technology community. Technology creators (i.e. R&D) is the high end, whereas maintenance (i.e. sysadmins) is the low end."
So yeah, he was. He's a driver writer and a lot higher ranking than us lowly sysadmins.
Deploying these systems is a serious challenge, since the implementation's performance needs to be considered during the design phase.
So you agree with me that system administration is a challenging and rewarding occupation.
'Jail' is such a terrible metaphor to choose for a product. I want a happy metaphor like 'sandbox', not something redolent of brutality, despair and iron sorrows.
I want our applications to be too freaking terrified to even consider trying to escape.
If you're a company that's trying to do web hosting, or run lots of very very similar systems that do the same, performance-centric task, then yes! OS Virtualization is for you! If you're like 95% of datacenters out there that have mixed workloads, mixed OS versions, and require deep features that are provided from a real system-level virtualization platform, use those.
If only it weren't mathematically impossible to mix technologies in the datacenter so that you could run jails and VMware in the same building and divide tasks amongst them as appropriate, but alas.
I hate to sound condescending.. but system administration is considered the lower end of the technology community.
You don't sound condescending; you sound ignorant. Routine system maintenance is low end, getting to play with new (to commodity hardware) virtualization techniques and ZFS and SANs and HA systems isn't quite the same as staring blankly at a re-purposed desktop.
Put another way: it's cool that you like writing drivers, but if they suck, I'm the one who gets to blackball your company on purchase orders.
Oh, I forgot to mention another much-loved jail use: giving applications their own customized execution environment. Suppose you have some legacy app that requires, say, some ancient version of Perl and a database connector from 1998. Jails are a great way to sandbox that crufty old environment without forcing those limitations onto the rest of your apps.
I'm not too up on sysjail, but it looks like it's implemented on top of systrace while jails are explicitly coded into the kernel. That probably made sysjail easier to write, but the FreeBSD work has paid off now that they're starting to virtualize the whole network stack so that each jail can have its own firewall and routing.
We use jails a lot at my work. We have a few pretty beefy "jail servers", and use FreeBSD's ezjail port to manage as many instances as we need. Need a new spamfilter, say? sudo ezjail-admin create spam1.example.com 192.168.0.5 and wait for 3 seconds while it creates a brand new empty system. It uses FreeBSD's "nullfs" filesystem to mount a partially populated base system read-only, so your actual jail directly only contains the files that you'd install on top of a new system. This saves drive space, makes it trivially easy to upgrade the OS image on all jails at once (sudo ezjail-admin update -i), and saves RAM because each jail shares the same copy of all the base system's shared libraries.
For extra fun, park each jail on its own ZFS filesystem and take a snapshot of the whole system before doing major upgrades. Want to migrate a jail onto a different server? Use zfs send and zfs receive to move the jail directory onto the other machine and start it.
The regular FreeBSD 7.2 jails already support multiple IP addresses and any combination of IPv4 and IPv6, and each jail can have its own routing table. FreeBSD 8-CURRENT jails also get their own firewall if I understand correctly. You could conceivably have each jail server host its own firewall server that protects and NATs all of the other images on that host. Imagine one machine running 20 services, all totally isolated and each running on an IP not routable outside of the machine itself - with no performance penalty.
Jails might not be the solution to every problem (you can't virtualize Windows this way, although quite a few Linux distros should run perfectly), but it's astoundingly good at the problems it does address. Now that I'm thoroughly spoiled, I'd never want to virtualize Unix any other way.
State Secretary Rigmor Aasrud said that the activities in question might be prosecuted as fraud or as violations of existing healthcare regulations.
Whoa, wait a second. That's actually an excellent point. Are personality tests the domain of psychologists, particularly when used to render a diagnosis (even as simple as "you're depressed") unless clearly being used to entertainment value? If so, then it would seem that Scientology is either:
I can't see how they could avoid being subject to HIPAA if they're presenting their tests as legitimate, informative procedures. If HIPAA does govern them, then I can imagine about 1,000 ways they've violated it based on headlines over the years.
I have a small GPL project that's fairly popular in certain circles, but I didn't write it to be popular. I wrote it because it met a need that my company had. Whether no people or a million use it, we'll get the same financial compensation: zero. But again, that's not why we released it! We have gotten back bug reports and enhancement requests that prompted me to make changes we never would have thought of on our own, and those changes have been useful to us. Isn't that compensation enough? It is for me and my boss.
My English teacher taught me that "seperate" was an adjective and "separate" was a verb. Or maybe it was the other way around, since it turns out she was just making crap up.
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Bullshit. DRM is fascist, if anything, as it relies on governmental support of corporate monopolies to make it even a little bit effective. It's not capitalist (or socialist or communist) because it's not an economic construct - it's purely political.
Who knows if there is anything in there worth having now.
I'll go out on a limb and say "not likely". It wasn't a major OS with a huge dev team to begin with, and I never remember envying any of its features. Seeing how far FreeBSD has come in the last 6 years, I can't imagine that a less-developed variant from back then would still have much to offer.
Or chanting "FERTilizers! FERTilizers! FERTilizers!" while the veins under his reddened face appear ready to burst.
Their testing division is a borderline racket for the amount they charge for testing on testing software that still runs on Windows 2000 Professional and crashes mid way through the MC$E tests.
Now that's funny.
That sounds plausible, except the last I heard there weren't any radio transmissions during the episode. Wouldn't you expect at least 1 of 3 pilots to be screaming into the headset?
What's the possibility that the cockpit was destroyed before the rest of the plane? Could such a think happen and the rest of the plane still limp along in approximately stable flight, at least for a minute or so?
Hey, uh, wasn't he one of the ones that threw a tantrum (along with sam and marbux) when he didn't get his way with preserving Microsoft "dark matter" (undocumented RTF encoding) in ODF and then proclaimed that ODF is doomed to fail and all that nonsense when everyone told him to stuff it where it doesn't shine??
Yep. And also one of the ones who created the OpenDocument Foundation and then decided ODF (the format) sucked and that ODF (the organization) wanted to support something else.
Anyone who currently uses IE 6 and either will not or can not upgrade to a modern browser is someone who isn't terribly concerned about using the types of apps that things like HTML 5 and Gears are meant to make possible.
The first time Youtube's legacy Flash interface has significant downtime while the HTML5 version is still online is the day that the CEO orders an upgrade past IE6.
Oh, right, Microsoft should write all drivers themselves...yees, thats right! hahah :D
But that's the standard people hold Linux to. Fair's fair: if Linux is expected to support everything in the world itself, then Windows should be expected to as well.
Like I said, it wasn't perfect. Still, FreeBSD installs a version of Linux in a subdirectory (Fedora Core 6 is the current default, I think) to provide shared libraries for apps that need them. Since FreeBSD doesn't have native flash support, people wanting to watch Youtube on a FreeBSD desktop are often advised to install Firefox for Linux.
In what sense would "quite a few Linux distros [...] run perfectly" in this context?
In the sense that FreeBSD has excellent Linux binary compatibility and one time I fired off a jail pointed at the root directory of a Gentoo stage3 archive. It didn't work 100% correctly because Gentoo's init scripts aren't exactly designed for such things, but I could SSH into it and play around.
UK police are talking to private companies about using plug-in USB devices that can scour the hard drive of any device they are attached to
I've got a rackmount OpenBSD box that claims otherwise.
They all must withstand the pressure from a layer of ocean above them AND a layer of atmosphere above the ocean--the ocean doesn't protect against the atmospheric pressure.
Come again?
...for Creative Labs to get on the ball and release 64bit audio drivers for the X-Fi series that don't cause constant crackling and odd behavior. I swear, past their XP drivers, the drivers for Vista and Win7 are horrid.
Until Microsoft can deliver drivers for popular off-the-shelf peripherals, Windows will never be more than a niche toy for geeks who like to spend more time tinkering with their OS than actually using it.
He wasn't talking about writing drivers.
Quote: "i do logic design and also write low level software, mostly linux device drivers for our hardware [...] I hate to sound condescending.. but system administration is considered the lower end of the technology community. Technology creators (i.e. R&D) is the high end, whereas maintenance (i.e. sysadmins) is the low end."
So yeah, he was. He's a driver writer and a lot higher ranking than us lowly sysadmins.
Deploying these systems is a serious challenge, since the implementation's performance needs to be considered during the design phase.
So you agree with me that system administration is a challenging and rewarding occupation.
'Jail' is such a terrible metaphor to choose for a product. I want a happy metaphor like 'sandbox', not something redolent of brutality, despair and iron sorrows.
I want our applications to be too freaking terrified to even consider trying to escape.
If you're a company that's trying to do web hosting, or run lots of very very similar systems that do the same, performance-centric task, then yes! OS Virtualization is for you! If you're like 95% of datacenters out there that have mixed workloads, mixed OS versions, and require deep features that are provided from a real system-level virtualization platform, use those.
If only it weren't mathematically impossible to mix technologies in the datacenter so that you could run jails and VMware in the same building and divide tasks amongst them as appropriate, but alas.
I hate to sound condescending.. but system administration is considered the lower end of the technology community.
You don't sound condescending; you sound ignorant. Routine system maintenance is low end, getting to play with new (to commodity hardware) virtualization techniques and ZFS and SANs and HA systems isn't quite the same as staring blankly at a re-purposed desktop.
Put another way: it's cool that you like writing drivers, but if they suck, I'm the one who gets to blackball your company on purchase orders.
Oh, I forgot to mention another much-loved jail use: giving applications their own customized execution environment. Suppose you have some legacy app that requires, say, some ancient version of Perl and a database connector from 1998. Jails are a great way to sandbox that crufty old environment without forcing those limitations onto the rest of your apps.
I haven't. After looking at that, I'm not sure what you have in mind. Explain a bit and maybe I can help.
I'm not too up on sysjail, but it looks like it's implemented on top of systrace while jails are explicitly coded into the kernel. That probably made sysjail easier to write, but the FreeBSD work has paid off now that they're starting to virtualize the whole network stack so that each jail can have its own firewall and routing.
More to the point: the sysjail project is no longer maintained.
Yeah. Now imagine that virtualized processes run exactly as fast as "native" processes. Starting to sound pretty good?
We use jails a lot at my work. We have a few pretty beefy "jail servers", and use FreeBSD's ezjail port to manage as many instances as we need. Need a new spamfilter, say? sudo ezjail-admin create spam1.example.com 192.168.0.5 and wait for 3 seconds while it creates a brand new empty system. It uses FreeBSD's "nullfs" filesystem to mount a partially populated base system read-only, so your actual jail directly only contains the files that you'd install on top of a new system. This saves drive space, makes it trivially easy to upgrade the OS image on all jails at once (sudo ezjail-admin update -i), and saves RAM because each jail shares the same copy of all the base system's shared libraries.
For extra fun, park each jail on its own ZFS filesystem and take a snapshot of the whole system before doing major upgrades. Want to migrate a jail onto a different server? Use zfs send and zfs receive to move the jail directory onto the other machine and start it.
The regular FreeBSD 7.2 jails already support multiple IP addresses and any combination of IPv4 and IPv6, and each jail can have its own routing table. FreeBSD 8-CURRENT jails also get their own firewall if I understand correctly. You could conceivably have each jail server host its own firewall server that protects and NATs all of the other images on that host. Imagine one machine running 20 services, all totally isolated and each running on an IP not routable outside of the machine itself - with no performance penalty.
Jails might not be the solution to every problem (you can't virtualize Windows this way, although quite a few Linux distros should run perfectly), but it's astoundingly good at the problems it does address. Now that I'm thoroughly spoiled, I'd never want to virtualize Unix any other way.
State Secretary Rigmor Aasrud said that the activities in question might be prosecuted as fraud or as violations of existing healthcare regulations.
Whoa, wait a second. That's actually an excellent point. Are personality tests the domain of psychologists, particularly when used to render a diagnosis (even as simple as "you're depressed") unless clearly being used to entertainment value? If so, then it would seem that Scientology is either:
I can't see how they could avoid being subject to HIPAA if they're presenting their tests as legitimate, informative procedures. If HIPAA does govern them, then I can imagine about 1,000 ways they've violated it based on headlines over the years.
I have a small GPL project that's fairly popular in certain circles, but I didn't write it to be popular. I wrote it because it met a need that my company had. Whether no people or a million use it, we'll get the same financial compensation: zero. But again, that's not why we released it! We have gotten back bug reports and enhancement requests that prompted me to make changes we never would have thought of on our own, and those changes have been useful to us. Isn't that compensation enough? It is for me and my boss.
My English teacher taught me that "seperate" was an adjective and "separate" was a verb. Or maybe it was the other way around, since it turns out she was just making crap up.