I know that Peter Gabriel once sampled a dot matrix printer his song Intruder. He added all kinds of processesing, but the dox matrix sound is unmistakable.
The bad part about just aborting the connection is that TCP uses an optimistic, windowing protocol. It will send multiple packets down the wire before getting an ACK expecting them accepted and read. Sure one connection is only a KB or two.
If he needs to scan hundreds or thousands of files, that WILL add up in a hurry. Also, if he's clever, he can take advantage persistant HTTP connections, diable Nagle's Algorithm and really get a performance boost. Especially over a "slow" link.
This person is really asking is, "How do I circumvent the unreasonable policies of the unwashed Microsoft conscripts that have taken over all of the Intel hardware?" He further pleads, "I want to be liberated. But I must be careful. If I outright revolt, if I install OpenBSD, they will send to a re-education camp." Which is located at the Unemployment Centre. "I could sneek in Cygwin, remain below the radar, boost my productivity, get promoted, and finally TAKE OVER THE WHOLE OF IT!BWAAAHA HA HA HA!
I remember a case where the Ohio EPA had a strong notion that some site was toxic due to pollution from a manufacturing firm. In fact, the suspected it was so toxic that they wouldn't allow their staff to collect a sample because it would have been too dangerous. Because they couldn't get the sample, however, they couldn't legally prove in court that the site was exceeding the legal limit and compel the polluter to clean it up.
This and similar technology, should go a long way to prevent those Catch 22 situations.
As Creosote pointed out, it was as a farcical remark in reference to all of the Soviet Russia remarks that decrease the signal-to-noise ratio in Slashdot.
The Big X on the floor is a reference to a scene in an Indiana Jones movie that came out in 1989.
Poland was still clinging onto the soviet system. (more likely the other way round?) Lech Walesa wasn't elected President of the Republic of Poland until December of 1990.
I absolutely agree that being a US ally isn't something to be proud of.
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That may be where he was born. The Bush family, going back to when Prescott Bush (Senior's Dad) was the Junior Senator from Connecticut has ties to the state.
But, Jr. currently has 76638 as his zip code.
But that's not Java. That's a Java Library - pardon me class. And probably a package or two. In a strict sense, the Java language wouldn't change one iota if javax.bittorrent was added as a standard package.
This really got to the heart of Sun's Vison of Java vs. Microsoft's Vision of Java. Microsoft looked at Java and said, "Nice Language," and proceeded to create wrappers for their Windows platform and called it a "Good Thing." Sun said, "A pox upon thee! For thou hast strip'd the soul from Java!" (they also hired all the lawyers instead of killing them, but that is another matter.) The "soul" of Java, as Sun would see it, it it's platform neutrality. The heart of the platform neutrality is the standard packages. Anything that begins java.* or javax.* is part of the standard packages.
That's to make sure that no one installs bootleg copies of Longhorn on legacy equipment is to make sure that legacy equipment can't run it. You can't (easily) buy a PC without it.
I think the best thing that could happen to the UN is to eliminate the veto power held by The Big Five. Resolutions would still be just what they are now, a public world statement, but you could still get some resolutions through that don't now just because a significant minority state finds it unflattering from political or idealogical grounds.
The header blocks of each disk contains a map of all the disks. I reminds me of the Borg. Something like: I am 3 of 5.
I had to compile a version of the kernel with the auto-detect and activate RAID feature turned on. That way I could make the disk array my root file system.
To your question, The disk array is abstracted to appear as a single device. The disk array has a mission to defend against problems below it, not above it. So if the filesystem code has bugs and corrupts itself, the array doesn't know any better, but it will faithfully mirror and protect that corruption against hardware failure.
A reasonable comparison might go like this. A journaling file system, like ext3 or reiserfs can't defend against the root user doing rm -f/etc/passwd.
The best defense against that is something like EMC's BCV. In a multi-array system, they have some technique of delaying the replication from array A to array B. That way if you accidentally rm -rf / on array A, you have half an hour (or whatever) to switchover to array B.
If you're curious, here is what my array looks like. I distrubuted swap among sd{a,b,c,d,e}1.
# mdadm --misc --examine/dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 00.90.00 UUID : ffae297b:5de65de9:7ed22ed0:6435b436 Creation Time : Fri May 30 00:33:16 2002 Raid Level : raid5 Device Size : 8888256 (8.48 GiB 9.10 GB) Raid Devices : 5 Total Devices : 5 Preferred Minor : 0
Update Time : Dec 23 13:58:39 2003 State : clean, no-errors Active Devices : 5 Working Devices : 5 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 Checksum : 6a77e500 - correct Events : 0.6531321
Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 64K
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State this 0 8 2 0 active sync/dev/sda2 0 0 8 2 0 active sync/dev/sda2 1 1 8 18 1 active sync/dev/sdb2 2 2 8 34 2 active sync/dev/sdc2 3 3 8 50 3 active sync/dev/sdd2 4 4 8 66 4 active sync/dev/sde2
Airforce One is a 747-200. The 200 has a smaller "bubble" on top. The 747-400F is a freighter version of the 747. The 747 Family Page has a lot of good information including a page of Milestones that clearly indicate what AF1 is.
The reason the 747 even has that bubble, is because the 747 was orginally going to be a cargo-only plane and the nose-cone on freighter versions of 747's flip up so you can slide big cargo straight onboard.
My understanding is that the "Laser" (insert Dr. Evil reference) is big enough that there wouldn't be much room for people. The hatch for the beam is on top just behind the bubble. This is a great angle to hit inbound ICBM comming from above the aircraft, but a lousy angle to catch SAM rockets from below it.
I'm sorry, I wasn't as clear as I could have been. I agree, vendors should do all that.
But, a point I was trying to make, what if the toolset required to generate isn't open? There could a dozen reasons for that from technical (the device's CPU is not supported by GCC) to political (tool used by vendor is closed - either by the vendor or by NDA).
Now were back to the discusion of device proliferation and hardware compatability. This point is already begin discussed quite well with one noteable exception.
What about vendors who lock their code into on-board EEROM chips? That class of vendor surely covers over 95% of them out there. Think about it CD-ROM drives, Video card 3D engines, Printers, Phones, Music Players. These all have on-board systems. But if the firmware is locked in the device for the most part, it's out of sight, out of mind. But, when you get right down to it, there's no difference between a hex-dump in a kernel file or code locked in on-board EEPROM.
The "Great Moment" that launched Richard Stallman's crusade to liberate software was when his trying to get a printer manufacturer to give him the source code to a buggy printer so he could fix those bugs. They said no. Not long after that incident and watching computer makers "steal" X11 for their own versions of UNIX, the GPL was born.
Obviously "best" is subjective. Sure source is better, but what if the device uses an architecture embeded processor that lacks a compiler or assember to build the binary or the tools aren't normally installed?
I see this as a similar problem with Lex/Yacc based applications. GCC, for example, requires bison to compile it. GCC ships with both the source grammer files and the compiled grammer file. Yes, I call the.c file compiled because it is an output file. That way, GCC can be compiled without having to have bison installed.
I've been using linux software raid with an old non-raid symbios scsi-3 card. Performance isn't a requirement in this environment so the penalty (which isn't that much actually) is acceptable.
In the past two years, none of the "downtime" that I've experenced has been attributed to the disk array or controller.
The biggies have been: power outage that exceeded the capacity of the UPS (3 hours), planned upgrades and an anonymous gremlin who bumped the reset button - since detached.
This smells to me of the same process. Being sued for security holes would be much more effective at increasing security than some hare-brained government regulation scheme.
Let's take a look at a completely unrelated sector: Airlines. Sure they're deregulated in the sense that they can chase markets freely, but their operations are still highly regulated. The FAA has to approve how the pilots fly the plane, how the mechanics fix the plan. All pilots and mechanincs and ground crew are FAA certified.
The upside is that air transportation is very safe. The downside is that should something go wrong, the carriers have a HUGE, government supplied legal shield that they get to hide behind.
Bring this back to programming. All Microsoft has to do is certify enough their programmers and certify their processes. I'm sure their quality will go up as a result just like airlines. But when the next virus comes, their lawyers can point to the certifications and processes and say, "Our software meets the Government Standard for Security."
Gary Oldman. And those movies you list, are not his finest work. That's not to say he was bad in them. It's to say his other work is AMAZING! He's one of those actors who almost never plays the same character twice.
He was...
the Russian Nationalist in "Air Force One"
Beethoven in "Imortal Beloved"
Dracula in "Bram Stokers Dracula
A corrupt government agent in "The Professional"
Sirus Black in the upcoming Harry Potter movie.
We finally might actually get to hear his real accent in the Harry Potter movie! He's Brittish
I've done some professional theatre work. The sums get large fast. In an arts centre where I've worked, the power mains running from the street to the dimmer vaults are encased in concrete. There are three theatres in the whole facility each with their own dimmer vault. Combined, there are over 500 2.4kw dimmers for a theoricial load of over 12 million watts.
In reality, it would never be loaded more that 40% of that, but still, it's a large number.
Big budget work, it strikes me, is mostly when you need exceptionally high-priced talent, or a lot of visual effects (including locations).
... Or large casts. Think about a show like The West Wing. It's about as high brow as it gets. And it's done 90% on a set. They take two trips a year out to DC to film all the exterior shows for five or six episodes. What inflates their budget is some twelve or more regulars.
In some ways, I think the future of TV might be "low budget". Some of the more interesting (or at least humorous) programming I've seen on cable and satellite has been low-budget amateur productions shown on regional access channels.
I think the future is here. Those so-called reality shows. What is their talent budget? Well, there one host who prior to the first episode was nobody. So, he/she is getting paid scale. What is the visual effects budget? If they splurge, maybe a fast forward montage. The producer is probably one of the editors. There's a new hollywood buzzword to refer to the hybrid -"Preditor".
I have no use for that kind of programing.
And they wonder why ratings are dropping?
What's sad is that given the dollar spent for dollar of ad revenue, the media giants are still ahead.
Also note that it has a built-in controller. The key benefit is that it's not limited to the slowness of the channel connector - IDE/SCSI/Fibre - whatever.
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I know that Peter Gabriel once sampled a dot matrix printer his song Intruder. He added all kinds of processesing, but the dox matrix sound is unmistakable.
If he needs to scan hundreds or thousands of files, that WILL add up in a hurry. Also, if he's clever, he can take advantage persistant HTTP connections, diable Nagle's Algorithm and really get a performance boost. Especially over a "slow" link.
This person is really asking is, "How do I circumvent the unreasonable policies of the unwashed Microsoft conscripts that have taken over all of the Intel hardware?" He further pleads, "I want to be liberated. But I must be careful. If I outright revolt, if I install OpenBSD, they will send to a re-education camp." Which is located at the Unemployment Centre. "I could sneek in Cygwin, remain below the radar, boost my productivity, get promoted, and finally TAKE OVER THE WHOLE OF IT!BWAAAHA HA HA HA!
Sorry, got lost in the moment.
Another example is airline's fuel surcharge.
This and similar technology, should go a long way to prevent those Catch 22 situations.
The Big X on the floor is a reference to a scene in an Indiana Jones movie that came out in 1989. Poland was still clinging onto the soviet system. (more likely the other way round?) Lech Walesa wasn't elected President of the Republic of Poland until December of 1990.
I absolutely agree that being a US ally isn't something to be proud of.
What, In Soviet Poland they don't watch Indiana Jones movies?
That may be where he was born. The Bush family, going back to when Prescott Bush (Senior's Dad) was the Junior Senator from Connecticut has ties to the state. But, Jr. currently has 76638 as his zip code.
This really got to the heart of Sun's Vison of Java vs. Microsoft's Vision of Java. Microsoft looked at Java and said, "Nice Language," and proceeded to create wrappers for their Windows platform and called it a "Good Thing." Sun said, "A pox upon thee! For thou hast strip'd the soul from Java!" (they also hired all the lawyers instead of killing them, but that is another matter.) The "soul" of Java, as Sun would see it, it it's platform neutrality. The heart of the platform neutrality is the standard packages. Anything that begins java.* or javax.* is part of the standard packages.
That's to make sure that no one installs bootleg copies of Longhorn on legacy equipment is to make sure that legacy equipment can't run it. You can't (easily) buy a PC without it.
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I think the best thing that could happen to the UN is to eliminate the veto power held by The Big Five. Resolutions would still be just what they are now, a public world statement, but you could still get some resolutions through that don't now just because a significant minority state finds it unflattering from political or idealogical grounds.
I had to compile a version of the kernel with the auto-detect and activate RAID feature turned on. That way I could make the disk array my root file system.
To your question, The disk array is abstracted to appear as a single device. The disk array has a mission to defend against problems below it, not above it. So if the filesystem code has bugs and corrupts itself, the array doesn't know any better, but it will faithfully mirror and protect that corruption against hardware failure.
A reasonable comparison might go like this. A journaling file system, like ext3 or reiserfs can't defend against the root user doing rm -f /etc/passwd.
The best defense against that is something like EMC's BCV. In a multi-array system, they have some technique of delaying the replication from array A to array B. That way if you accidentally rm -rf / on array A, you have half an hour (or whatever) to switchover to array B.
If you're curious, here is what my array looks like. I distrubuted swap among sd{a,b,c,d,e}1.
I mixed up the 747 based laser with the 747 based telescope.
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The reason the 747 even has that bubble, is because the 747 was orginally going to be a cargo-only plane and the nose-cone on freighter versions of 747's flip up so you can slide big cargo straight onboard.
My understanding is that the "Laser" (insert Dr. Evil reference) is big enough that there wouldn't be much room for people. The hatch for the beam is on top just behind the bubble. This is a great angle to hit inbound ICBM comming from above the aircraft, but a lousy angle to catch SAM rockets from below it.
But, a point I was trying to make, what if the toolset required to generate isn't open? There could a dozen reasons for that from technical (the device's CPU is not supported by GCC) to political (tool used by vendor is closed - either by the vendor or by NDA).
Now were back to the discusion of device proliferation and hardware compatability. This point is already begin discussed quite well with one noteable exception.
What about vendors who lock their code into on-board EEROM chips? That class of vendor surely covers over 95% of them out there. Think about it CD-ROM drives, Video card 3D engines, Printers, Phones, Music Players. These all have on-board systems. But if the firmware is locked in the device for the most part, it's out of sight, out of mind. But, when you get right down to it, there's no difference between a hex-dump in a kernel file or code locked in on-board EEPROM.
The "Great Moment" that launched Richard Stallman's crusade to liberate software was when his trying to get a printer manufacturer to give him the source code to a buggy printer so he could fix those bugs. They said no. Not long after that incident and watching computer makers "steal" X11 for their own versions of UNIX, the GPL was born.
I see this as a similar problem with Lex/Yacc based applications. GCC, for example, requires bison to compile it. GCC ships with both the source grammer files and the compiled grammer file. Yes, I call the .c file compiled because it is an output file. That way, GCC can be compiled without having to have bison installed.
In the past two years, none of the "downtime" that I've experenced has been attributed to the disk array or controller.
The biggies have been: power outage that exceeded the capacity of the UPS (3 hours), planned upgrades and an anonymous gremlin who bumped the reset button - since detached.
The upside is that air transportation is very safe. The downside is that should something go wrong, the carriers have a HUGE, government supplied legal shield that they get to hide behind.
Bring this back to programming. All Microsoft has to do is certify enough their programmers and certify their processes. I'm sure their quality will go up as a result just like airlines. But when the next virus comes, their lawyers can point to the certifications and processes and say, "Our software meets the Government Standard for Security."
He was ...
- the Russian Nationalist in "Air Force One"
- Beethoven in "Imortal Beloved"
- Dracula in "Bram Stokers Dracula
- A corrupt government agent in "The Professional"
- Sirus Black in the upcoming Harry Potter movie.
We finally might actually get to hear his real accent in the Harry Potter movie! He's BrittishIn reality, it would never be loaded more that 40% of that, but still, it's a large number.
I have no use for that kind of programing.
And they wonder why ratings are dropping?
What's sad is that given the dollar spent for dollar of ad revenue, the media giants are still ahead.
Also note that it has a built-in controller. The key benefit is that it's not limited to the slowness of the channel connector - IDE/SCSI/Fibre - whatever.