They *did* post the Aix/Solaris login hole... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/13/155323 9
Of course, one could see that as a "See, Linux and *BSD are just as secure as those multi-zillion dollar *nixes" type of bias. But hey, if you have a soapbox, you get to decide which side you stand on, and what you want to say.
I didn't see any OS listing on that page, or any pie chart... maybe they were removed for the year-end stuff. Too bad, since I wanted to see the (small) percentage of AIX/Mozilla (few) and AIX/Konquerer (fewer yet) stats...
>Subtle, tongue in cheek, overdrawn humor is lost on you then
Well, I usually catch the subtle, tongue in cheek stuff, but the overdrawn stuff just makes me weary:)
The fact that an "Interesting" was wasted on that is a little more sad than anything...
Too many levels of Meta-Meta-humor, I suppose... it'll be great when someone M2s the "Interesting" as "Fair" - what a hoot;)
> I almost went out and bought a PS2, when I first played the "Oni" demo. What changed my mind? They released it on windows.
This is also the reason that I haven't purchased a game console since the Sega Genesis... Especially since I tend to stick to sports games (and a few multiplayer RTSs). When the same sports game is available for a PC and a console, the price for the PC is significantly less, and you can get roster updates and game patches *far* more easily on the PC (sometimes not at all for the console) - well, the decision is already made...
>how do you know which tape it was on and how long will it take to scan several tapes to find your 2K file
A good backup system will keep logs, and a simple query should give you the file, when, what tape label, and other information... pretty standard stuff, really.
>No standard format, no backward compatabilty, short market life for thevarioustecnoligies
DAT is one of the few things here that continues to live well... DDS4 drives can read DDS3,2 formats. There are also tons of these drives available... As for my 2GB Ditto tape drive... well, that one didn't pan out so well:)
They should just use Spec numbers...
"The new Athlon 701i 634f!!!! Get it now!"
(Epox 8KHA+ Motherboard, Athlon (TM) XP 1900+ )
"Get rid of that old Pentium 4 609i 628f!"
(Intel D850GB motherboard(1.8 GHz P4))
Of course, that gives you the German car kind of luster (lustre U.K.), too... "Dude! My new Athlon 740i protection compiles a kernel superfast and corners like it is on rails!"
Links to backup those statements? I know of a 4GB Tyan / Dual Athlon MP system that has run in a fairly harsh test config for a week or two with no failures yet (heavy DB work). Any pointers to mentions of the corruption would be helpful (is it OS related?).
Allows for easy upgrading of either the power brick or the AC cable (some people like those tweaks, and some of us have so many extra standard AC cables around, we'd rather not pay for another one with our power supply:)
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Actually, the stock AM/FM/Cassette unit on my 1994 VW Jetta had a mini-plug for aux in... something any cassette-only player should have had for many years (but yet still isn't always included). Once I replaced it with an Alpine head unit, I lost the cassette player (no real loss), and had the CD built in.
Funny, I thought the color coding on the Abilene site was far more readable... however, this happens to be on an 8-bit colormap display (grumble)... If I had all of my colors, the Geant map might look better.
The directional arrows instead of the side column was a +, too...
One way to combat the ground loops (this is done on some special audio cables, too) is to only have the shield grounded on one end connector instead of both... The entire cable remains shielded and tied to ground, but there can be no AC/DC current passed from one component to another.
I've had a lot of trouble with slow Windows Update connections this past couple weeks (mmmm, W2K testbeds), but everything else on my cmodem connection runs just fine...
MSN took over QWEST DSL... which rules out the only other option besides my cable modem. Even the fliers which I get every week say Win98 or newer only... bah.
Don't invite me, I don't want to go...
but if you do, there better be good food...
and you better lock us in...
but no lame games...
but plenty of [alcohol/controlled substances]...
and [lan games/playstation/etc]...
but not too many people or I won't go...
but they can have a good time if you make them all hate *you*...
so let's just raid the pharmacy and mix some drinks.
Well, you could create a cable (such as the current PC->PC cables) with a chip to moderate...
PC Master1 ---- dual-sided endpoint ----- PC master2
The chip in the middle presents itself as a attached mass storage device to PC Master1 after configuration from PC2... Then it could buffer requests and data, and provide a solution... shouldn't be too hard to do with a little firmware.
100BTX or Gigabit ethernet would be kinda nice, and a lot faster, too... (and allow a little more platform independance).
>the general lack of interest in the last weekend of the 2001 MLB season, which featured all kinds of records falling.
That can be attributed to a few other things besides the frequency of records falling (although it *is* a large component).
1) Meaning of the records being broken - Breaking the single-season walk record doesn't get anyone excited, though that stood longer than the home run records. Career records in walks also don't have a whole lot of effect on most fans... the ball not being in play isn't exciting for most folks. Runs aren't as fun, and "nobody liked Ty Cobb anyway". The slugging % and OPS records aren't as easily recognizable to the common fan, and don't generate nearly as much interest. This, along with the fact that Sammy hit 60 HRs 'yet again', does temper the excitement quite a bit. Even getting to 50 HRs used to be a fairly rare occasion...
2) The personalities. Sammy vs. Mark is a lot more exciting than Barry vs. 1998... and Barry never had the fan base and media support than Sosa and Big Mac did (though even before this year he was easily a better player than either one). Rickey and Barry never were as loveable as Sammy and Mark. That goes a long way.
3) Relevance. Anything record-breaking within a month or two of September 11th wasn't going to carry the same weight that it might have before... people were just starting to really get into the whole HR record chase again, but things got put in their place by the other events. Heck, Ichiromania even cooled down a lot, and that was one of the few really *new* things in a while.
Super-human sports could press the limits of things, and I would surmise that there would need to be changes to other rules and regs of the sports to accomdate these things (think 400+ yd drives in golf, 550+ ft HRs in baseball when you still have 330-400 ft fences, etc). It could generate interest, but separate leagues for "normal" vs. enhanced players (especially at younger ages) would be needed... those 6'4", 250lb 10 year olds probably shouldn't be in the same league with regular kids...
Of course, that assumes instantaneous acceleration to light speed (races begin from a full stop relative to the race surface). That acceleration would take an infinite force (kind of cool, though)... so it might be a little more than.3us. Of course, that doesn't take into account time dialation and other factors, but my napkin is a little full right now:)
somewhat... aside from the whole corporate proxy thing (5000 people behind 2 IPs), the dialup thing (reusing the same IP for different people), and the/. totally innacurate postulate (Cowboy Neal).
Blackbox is a great choice - quick, useful... more stable than fvwm. I used a combo of blackbox/kde1 on my RS/6k for a while (note that gcc doesn't do shared libraries on AIX without a lot of pain, so everything takes up far more memory than it should). Blackbox was incredibly faster than kwm, and had a much smaller memory footprint. I haven't tried blackbox with kde2 (the current mess that I use), but I know that by itself it can make older RS/6ks and early Pentium-class hardware feel a lot faster. IceWM provides a little more functionality, and takes a little more memory, but I'd suggest blackbox for any limited situation.
It all depends on how big you'd like your array... the card from the previous poster lets you run a nice set of configs... three separate busses at up to 15 devices each. Even just a 5 disk RAID-5 array per channel would be far more than a few IDE RAID cards could handle (usually still two busses, two drives each).
Looking at it another way - looking at how the price of SCSI drives has dropped (though still a premium above IDE, esp for 15krpm), the cost there isn't really all that bad.
Your average Joe might be more than thrilled with a RAID1/0 of 4 60GB IDE drives (mmmmmm, storage), but depending on your use, the price premium can be easily justified.
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They *did* post the Aix/Solaris login hole... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/13/155323 9
Of course, one could see that as a "See, Linux and *BSD are just as secure as those multi-zillion dollar *nixes" type of bias. But hey, if you have a soapbox, you get to decide which side you stand on, and what you want to say.
They are, and several of their review links have benn to (surprise) The Duke... though there is a nice increase in other sites. Check 'em out!
I didn't see any OS listing on that page, or any pie chart... maybe they were removed for the year-end stuff. Too bad, since I wanted to see the (small) percentage of AIX/Mozilla (few) and AIX/Konquerer (fewer yet) stats...
>Subtle, tongue in cheek, overdrawn humor is lost on you then :)
;)
Well, I usually catch the subtle, tongue in cheek stuff, but the overdrawn stuff just makes me weary
The fact that an "Interesting" was wasted on that is a little more sad than anything...
Too many levels of Meta-Meta-humor, I suppose... it'll be great when someone M2s the "Interesting" as "Fair" - what a hoot
It would have been funnier without the last paragraph... sort of the "explaining the joke makes it no longer funny" syndrome.
Up until then, it was amusing...
> I almost went out and bought a PS2, when I first played the "Oni" demo. What changed my mind? They released it on windows.
This is also the reason that I haven't purchased a game console since the Sega Genesis... Especially since I tend to stick to sports games (and a few multiplayer RTSs). When the same sports game is available for a PC and a console, the price for the PC is significantly less, and you can get roster updates and game patches *far* more easily on the PC (sometimes not at all for the console) - well, the decision is already made...
>how do you know which tape it was on and how long will it take to scan several tapes to find your 2K file
:)
A good backup system will keep logs, and a simple query should give you the file, when, what tape label, and other information... pretty standard stuff, really.
>No standard format, no backward compatabilty, short market life for thevarioustecnoligies
DAT is one of the few things here that continues to live well... DDS4 drives can read DDS3,2 formats. There are also tons of these drives available... As for my 2GB Ditto tape drive... well, that one didn't pan out so well
They should just use Spec numbers...
"The new Athlon 701i 634f!!!! Get it now!"
(Epox 8KHA+ Motherboard, Athlon (TM) XP 1900+ )
"Get rid of that old Pentium 4 609i 628f!"
(Intel D850GB motherboard(1.8 GHz P4))
Of course, that gives you the German car kind of luster (lustre U.K.), too... "Dude! My new Athlon 740i protection compiles a kernel superfast and corners like it is on rails!"
Or maybe not....
Links to backup those statements? I know of a 4GB Tyan / Dual Athlon MP system that has run in a fairly harsh test config for a week or two with no failures yet (heavy DB work). Any pointers to mentions of the corruption would be helpful (is it OS related?).
Nice point. I've seen the following arrangement in several places, and it makes a lot of sense (for more expensive devices, especially):
:)
[Outlet] [3prong IEC] [Power Brick -> powercon] [Device]
Allows for easy upgrading of either the power brick or the AC cable (some people like those tweaks, and some of us have so many extra standard AC cables around, we'd rather not pay for another one with our power supply
Actually, the stock AM/FM/Cassette unit on my 1994 VW Jetta had a mini-plug for aux in... something any cassette-only player should have had for many years (but yet still isn't always included). Once I replaced it with an Alpine head unit, I lost the cassette player (no real loss), and had the CD built in.
Funny, I thought the color coding on the Abilene site was far more readable... however, this happens to be on an 8-bit colormap display (grumble)... If I had all of my colors, the Geant map might look better.
The directional arrows instead of the side column was a +, too...
One way to combat the ground loops (this is done on some special audio cables, too) is to only have the shield grounded on one end connector instead of both... The entire cable remains shielded and tied to ground, but there can be no AC/DC current passed from one component to another.
I've had a lot of trouble with slow Windows Update connections this past couple weeks (mmmm, W2K testbeds), but everything else on my cmodem connection runs just fine...
MSN took over QWEST DSL... which rules out the only other option besides my cable modem. Even the fliers which I get every week say Win98 or newer only... bah.
Ok, so here's what everyone has suggested...
Don't invite me, I don't want to go...
but if you do, there better be good food...
and you better lock us in...
but no lame games...
but plenty of [alcohol/controlled substances]...
and [lan games/playstation/etc]...
but not too many people or I won't go...
but they can have a good time if you make them all hate *you*...
so let's just raid the pharmacy and mix some drinks.
It's 159Kbytes... not 159 bytes. Not nearly as interesting.
Well, you could create a cable (such as the current PC->PC cables) with a chip to moderate...
PC Master1 ---- dual-sided endpoint ----- PC master2
The chip in the middle presents itself as a attached mass storage device to PC Master1 after configuration from PC2... Then it could buffer requests and data, and provide a solution... shouldn't be too hard to do with a little firmware.
100BTX or Gigabit ethernet would be kinda nice, and a lot faster, too... (and allow a little more platform independance).
>the general lack of interest in the last weekend of the 2001 MLB season, which featured all kinds of records falling.
That can be attributed to a few other things besides the frequency of records falling (although it *is* a large component).
1) Meaning of the records being broken - Breaking the single-season walk record doesn't get anyone excited, though that stood longer than the home run records. Career records in walks also don't have a whole lot of effect on most fans... the ball not being in play isn't exciting for most folks. Runs aren't as fun, and "nobody liked Ty Cobb anyway". The slugging % and OPS records aren't as easily recognizable to the common fan, and don't generate nearly as much interest. This, along with the fact that Sammy hit 60 HRs 'yet again', does temper the excitement quite a bit. Even getting to 50 HRs used to be a fairly rare occasion...
2) The personalities. Sammy vs. Mark is a lot more exciting than Barry vs. 1998... and Barry never had the fan base and media support than Sosa and Big Mac did (though even before this year he was easily a better player than either one). Rickey and Barry never were as loveable as Sammy and Mark. That goes a long way.
3) Relevance. Anything record-breaking within a month or two of September 11th wasn't going to carry the same weight that it might have before... people were just starting to really get into the whole HR record chase again, but things got put in their place by the other events. Heck, Ichiromania even cooled down a lot, and that was one of the few really *new* things in a while.
Super-human sports could press the limits of things, and I would surmise that there would need to be changes to other rules and regs of the sports to accomdate these things (think 400+ yd drives in golf, 550+ ft HRs in baseball when you still have 330-400 ft fences, etc). It could generate interest, but separate leagues for "normal" vs. enhanced players (especially at younger ages) would be needed... those 6'4", 250lb 10 year olds probably shouldn't be in the same league with regular kids...
Of course, that assumes instantaneous acceleration to light speed (races begin from a full stop relative to the race surface). That acceleration would take an infinite force (kind of cool, though)... so it might be a little more than .3us. Of course, that doesn't take into account time dialation and other factors, but my napkin is a little full right now :)
somewhat... aside from the whole corporate proxy thing (5000 people behind 2 IPs), the dialup thing (reusing the same IP for different people), and the /. totally innacurate postulate (Cowboy Neal).
Better yet, just ssh to the solaris server, with X-forwarding and compression automatically enabled.
Since IE for solaris is a SPARC binary, not x86... well, it might be tough to run it in VMWAre.
By the way - Mozilla runs better on Solaris than IE does, and Konquerer isn't too shabby, either...
I lived in NJ for most of my life... I have never seen or even heard of anyone tipping the petroleum distribution engineers ;)
Blackbox is a great choice - quick, useful... more stable than fvwm. I used a combo of blackbox/kde1 on my RS/6k for a while (note that gcc doesn't do shared libraries on AIX without a lot of pain, so everything takes up far more memory than it should). Blackbox was incredibly faster than kwm, and had a much smaller memory footprint. I haven't tried blackbox with kde2 (the current mess that I use), but I know that by itself it can make older RS/6ks and early Pentium-class hardware feel a lot faster. IceWM provides a little more functionality, and takes a little more memory, but I'd suggest blackbox for any limited situation.
It all depends on how big you'd like your array... the card from the previous poster lets you run a nice set of configs... three separate busses at up to 15 devices each. Even just a 5 disk RAID-5 array per channel would be far more than a few IDE RAID cards could handle (usually still two busses, two drives each).
Looking at it another way - looking at how the price of SCSI drives has dropped (though still a premium above IDE, esp for 15krpm), the cost there isn't really all that bad.
Your average Joe might be more than thrilled with a RAID1/0 of 4 60GB IDE drives (mmmmmm, storage), but depending on your use, the price premium can be easily justified.