Unless I've significantly misread your message, It's been that way for years.
X has been a distributed system for at least fifteen years. For a long time, running the display half (XServers) and the application half (xterm, xload,...) on the same machine was rather unusual. There used to be a decent market for dedicated XServer appliances. Which the PC pretty much killed off.
I know that Debian, and other too, splits X into components, Servers, Libraries, Common.
A computer scientist, a surgeon, and a civil engineer were gathered at the pub. The surgeon boasts, Surgery is the oldest technology in the world. It's in the Bible. God removed Adam's rib while he slept. This is clear evidence that surgery pre-dates all other technological endevors.
Without so much as a beat, the civil engineer says that before that, God formed the Earth, the stars, and everything from nothing but chaos. He created rivers, mountians and oceans. This was clear evidence that civil engineering pre-dates all other technological endevors.
No to be outdone, the computer scientist points out, "Yes, but where do you think the Chaos came from?"
Since this is a Rails Article, I have found Typo which is a Rails based Blog tool that's along the same lines as WordPress or MoveableType and others. It has Comments, RSS+Atom feeds.
You can use all the MoveableType posting tools to maintain content - or use the builtin Active Record, HTML based Admin Tool.
It's pretty young, and has a few bugs in the XML-RPC interface. But, it was easy to customize and fix the XML-RPC bug.
If you promise to be nice to my home DSL line: The Fermata
Whilst this may sound like marketing speak: I think of Apple as an "end-to-end" services company. To that end, Apple are similar to Sun, IBM and HP in their Unix and Mainframe offerings.
For people who use a computer like an appliance, the system needs to be stable on all levels - software and hardware. Because Apple produce hardware, then Apple have a say in the quality that goes into the solution. I've always liked how Apple put locking washers on most screws, ribbon cables have a pull tab, and their cases have piano hinges to keep cables from pinching.
My father has often cursed Microsoft for his system crashing. He was having daily crashes of Windows 2000. As much as I like speak derisively of Microsoft, crashing daily is too much, even for Windows 2000 and is a symptom of something else. It turned out to be a faulty DIMM. One can not expect any operating system to behave well if the hardware is dodgy. I'm, of course, not suggesting that the software is faultless, far from it. But, some small portion of Microsoft's reputation for unreliablity is due to factors beyond their control.
That's the difference between a System and a Runtime Environment. The bundled software is the added value that OS X has over anything else like Debian, Fedora, ***BSD. The bundled apps like iPhoto, iDVD, iCal or iTunes make the system useful, out of the box, to your average Soccer Mom or Nascar Dad.
Without those apps, OS X-x86-Lite would likely suffer the same fate as those who "tried" RedHat only to reinstall their orginal Windows because it wouldn't do anything for them.
The first thing I noticed is that the vowels and punctuation are on the left side of the keyboard. It made be think: Does Dvorak help or hinder typists who are left handed, especially those who also mouse with their left hand.
It's iterative book development. And since iterations is an agile development philosophy, what better context.
I've bought this book. More to the point, I have the current Beta. The authors have sent e-mails as the book gets updated. I had two ways I could by the book: 1) Dead tree + PDF, or 2) PDF only. I went with #1 since there's nothing like being able to touch it. The PDF's are slightly different that the printed version - The one I bought was watermarked with my name. They're hyperlinked and maximize the PDF format. The printed version won't and can't support hyperlinking. Once published I get to keep both, for the benefits each format brings.
The DiO-2496 is discontinued... do later models also ignore SCMS?
The Delta-66 is based upon the same chipset and the website claims SCMS control.
It doesn't have optical S/PDIF, only coaxial, which for me is a royal !#$%. There are converters. A friend of mine has this card and says the analogue ports are very clean and free from a lot of noise.
The S/PDIF protocol has a consumer mode and a professional mode. I do some professional audio work and my DiO-2496 will emit both. My MD player will only accept the consumer mode which includes Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) flags which indicates if the source is first generation (allowed) or second generation (not allowed). The other nice thing about this card, it is completely ignores inbound SCMS and can re-code a second generation stream as a first generation consumer stream or a professional stream. Haven't needed it, but cool. I've connected it to professional DAT units, consumer MD units and DVD players.
It's true, of course, lot's of ISO images are flung far and wide using bittorrent(BT). ISO has two primary features, they're bootable, and they're structured.
BT can't solve the bootable problem, but BT can manage the structure problem. As near as I can tell, these torrents are structured.
I still think they face the problem of stagnation. How they face the problem is important. If they can continue to adapt and innovate then there's all kinds of life left in the series.
Perhaps another thing, is that the SG series is not from a "Big Studio" and perhaps has less intervention that might stiffle the creative process.
I really hope that Stargate can continue to innovate. Two more months til season 9!
I like trying to draw parallels between Star Trek and Doctor Who. With Doctor Who, there was one producer running the show for a long time, John Nathan Turner. I'm sure he's a fine producer, but anyone who runs a show that long is going to get into a rut. That staleness also carries into the creative team (writers, effects, costumes,... yada) In the Star Trek franchise, you've got Brandon Braga, who's been running the Trek universe for a long time.
I'm of the opinion that one team can't sustain the level of creativity that fans expect for more than a decade. I think the good folks at Stargate are going to the facing this Real Soon Now.
BBC shelved Doctor Who for a few years, assembeled a fresh team with new ideas of what the programme should be and they've got a show that by all accounts is a hit. Sure there are critics who deride the show or certian aspects of it, but on the whole, it's a hit.
Paramount should learn that lesson. Let Trek rest for a while. Diversify the old Trek production team into other projects. Then, after a few years, create a fresh team with all new people and lookout!
They have a little utility that contacts the apple update site about once a week. If it finds any, it gives you a list box that you can pick and choose which items to upgrade. I usually do them all.
Feature upgrades occur about monthly, not that I've really timed it. Security fixes are on a faster track.
First thing 32767 changes are a lot. A whole f*ck*ng lot. It averages over 1310 changes per day. For a company that flys over 1300 flights a day, it means they averaged a change every flight every day. That's insanely high.
I'm personally getting sick of people asking about backup systems. It was a problem with the data. Too much of it. Given the safety and goverment oversight that hinges on this data, you don't mess with it. Any backup system, whether one or one hundred backup systems, when presented with the same data, would also fail.
The DOT report issued back in March (sorry don't have karma link handy) said neither Comair nor SBS (the closed source vendor that supplied the application) were aware of the limit.
Their TCP/IP has to co-exist with every other TCP/IP otherwise it isn't TCP/IP. Their TCP/IP is just as fine as Linux or BSD or whatever - with one big exception.
The problem is culture. In Linux, if you're going to run an application that generates raw packets, that app has to run as root. Unix admins (Linspire not withstanding) have long chanted the mantra, "don't run as root unless you have to." Thus the Evil Coder has to not only trick his Mark into running the trojan payload, but run it as root.
In the Windows culture, there are more users who can be tricked into running malicious payload.
Even though most Windows users run as an admin equivalent, the trojan payload only needs ordinary permissions to get at TCP/IP and turn that machine into a 'Bot.
This is what Microsoft has to fix and fix now. Windows accounts should not be admin equivalent. Mac OS X does something interesting: It runs 99% of all user apps with safe permissions. If you run an install program, it prompts for a login/password in a way that's clear the app is about to do something serious.
As near as I can tell, the article builds six individual firewire disks. Since Mac OS X has ability to create various RAID configurations, I presume that's how he did it.
The thing that gets me is that I can't find anything in the legistation that actually mentions technology. I think it was an excuse for the the "Big Accounting Firms" to impose new criteria for of what a firm must do before they'll certify a companies financial statements.
In the Cincinnati financial district, there are accounting firms that can't remodel floors fast enough to hold all the people in their 'Sarbanes-Oxley wing.'
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The one thing a terrorist, or school bully, can't stand is to be ignored.
I have a ADS Tech - Dual Link 2.5 and I love it. It does both Firewire 400 and USB 2.0.
X has been a distributed system for at least fifteen years. For a long time, running the display half (XServers) and the application half (xterm, xload, ...) on the same machine was rather unusual. There used to be a decent market for dedicated XServer appliances. Which the PC pretty much killed off.
I know that Debian, and other too, splits X into components, Servers, Libraries, Common.
Without so much as a beat, the civil engineer says that before that, God formed the Earth, the stars, and everything from nothing but chaos. He created rivers, mountians and oceans. This was clear evidence that civil engineering pre-dates all other technological endevors.
No to be outdone, the computer scientist points out, "Yes, but where do you think the Chaos came from?"
You can use all the MoveableType posting tools to maintain content - or use the builtin Active Record, HTML based Admin Tool.
It's pretty young, and has a few bugs in the XML-RPC interface. But, it was easy to customize and fix the XML-RPC bug.
If you promise to be nice to my home DSL line: The Fermata
For people who use a computer like an appliance, the system needs to be stable on all levels - software and hardware. Because Apple produce hardware, then Apple have a say in the quality that goes into the solution. I've always liked how Apple put locking washers on most screws, ribbon cables have a pull tab, and their cases have piano hinges to keep cables from pinching.
My father has often cursed Microsoft for his system crashing. He was having daily crashes of Windows 2000. As much as I like speak derisively of Microsoft, crashing daily is too much, even for Windows 2000 and is a symptom of something else. It turned out to be a faulty DIMM. One can not expect any operating system to behave well if the hardware is dodgy. I'm, of course, not suggesting that the software is faultless, far from it. But, some small portion of Microsoft's reputation for unreliablity is due to factors beyond their control.
Without those apps, OS X-x86-Lite would likely suffer the same fate as those who "tried" RedHat only to reinstall their orginal Windows because it wouldn't do anything for them.
The first thing I noticed is that the vowels and punctuation are on the left side of the keyboard. It made be think: Does Dvorak help or hinder typists who are left handed, especially those who also mouse with their left hand.
Wasn't that an episode of Red Green? Or am I confusing it with Mulroney economics?
I've bought this book. More to the point, I have the current Beta. The authors have sent e-mails as the book gets updated. I had two ways I could by the book: 1) Dead tree + PDF, or 2) PDF only. I went with #1 since there's nothing like being able to touch it. The PDF's are slightly different that the printed version - The one I bought was watermarked with my name. They're hyperlinked and maximize the PDF format. The printed version won't and can't support hyperlinking. Once published I get to keep both, for the benefits each format brings.
And you needed to be from an organisation that was already a development partner.
Mark Windholtz - Member of Team 32.
Jim Weirich - Member of Team 8.
The Delta-66 is based upon the same chipset and the website claims SCMS control.
It doesn't have optical S/PDIF, only coaxial, which for me is a royal !#$%. There are converters. A friend of mine has this card and says the analogue ports are very clean and free from a lot of noise.
The S/PDIF protocol has a consumer mode and a professional mode. I do some professional audio work and my DiO-2496 will emit both. My MD player will only accept the consumer mode which includes Serial Copy Management System (SCMS) flags which indicates if the source is first generation (allowed) or second generation (not allowed). The other nice thing about this card, it is completely ignores inbound SCMS and can re-code a second generation stream as a first generation consumer stream or a professional stream. Haven't needed it, but cool. I've connected it to professional DAT units, consumer MD units and DVD players.
It's true, of course, lot's of ISO images are flung far and wide using bittorrent(BT). ISO has two primary features, they're bootable, and they're structured.
BT can't solve the bootable problem, but BT can manage the structure problem. As near as I can tell, these torrents are structured.
I still think they face the problem of stagnation. How they face the problem is important. If they can continue to adapt and innovate then there's all kinds of life left in the series.
Perhaps another thing, is that the SG series is not from a "Big Studio" and perhaps has less intervention that might stiffle the creative process.
I really hope that Stargate can continue to innovate. Two more months til season 9!
I'm of the opinion that one team can't sustain the level of creativity that fans expect for more than a decade. I think the good folks at Stargate are going to the facing this Real Soon Now.
BBC shelved Doctor Who for a few years, assembeled a fresh team with new ideas of what the programme should be and they've got a show that by all accounts is a hit. Sure there are critics who deride the show or certian aspects of it, but on the whole, it's a hit.
Paramount should learn that lesson. Let Trek rest for a while. Diversify the old Trek production team into other projects. Then, after a few years, create a fresh team with all new people and lookout!
The Transmeta Crusoe has been 128 bit since it came out five years ago.
result = (WORLD) ~ (USA)
They have a little utility that contacts the apple update site about once a week. If it finds any, it gives you a list box that you can pick and choose which items to upgrade. I usually do them all.
Feature upgrades occur about monthly, not that I've really timed it. Security fixes are on a faster track.
First thing 32767 changes are a lot. A whole f*ck*ng lot. It averages over 1310 changes per day. For a company that flys over 1300 flights a day, it means they averaged a change every flight every day. That's insanely high.
I'm personally getting sick of people asking about backup systems. It was a problem with the data. Too much of it. Given the safety and goverment oversight that hinges on this data, you don't mess with it. Any backup system, whether one or one hundred backup systems, when presented with the same data, would also fail.
The DOT report issued back in March (sorry don't have karma link handy) said neither Comair nor SBS (the closed source vendor that supplied the application) were aware of the limit.
Eric Bardes (Yes, the one from TFA)
The problem is culture. In Linux, if you're going to run an application that generates raw packets, that app has to run as root. Unix admins (Linspire not withstanding) have long chanted the mantra, "don't run as root unless you have to." Thus the Evil Coder has to not only trick his Mark into running the trojan payload, but run it as root.
In the Windows culture, there are more users who can be tricked into running malicious payload. Even though most Windows users run as an admin equivalent, the trojan payload only needs ordinary permissions to get at TCP/IP and turn that machine into a 'Bot.
This is what Microsoft has to fix and fix now. Windows accounts should not be admin equivalent. Mac OS X does something interesting: It runs 99% of all user apps with safe permissions. If you run an install program, it prompts for a login/password in a way that's clear the app is about to do something serious.
As near as I can tell, the article builds six individual firewire disks. Since Mac OS X has ability to create various RAID configurations, I presume that's how he did it.
Bring it back when you can assemble a fresh creative team that hasn't burned out from years of doing the same thing over and over.
In the Cincinnati financial district, there are accounting firms that can't remodel floors fast enough to hold all the people in their 'Sarbanes-Oxley wing.'