If you don't know what it is and what it does and how it works. When your car starts slowing down by itself oneday you can cause an accident. Just that feature changing a basic tool you use regularly requires training. If you are to stupid to understand why you shouldn't be laughing.
Assume you will lose your netbook at some point: encrypt the entire thing using truecrypt or similar, and make sure you can access vital data from somewhere else: either use dropbox, or use google docs, or whatever.
And that's all there's to it. Besides, look at it as you'd look at overselling airplane seats, or dial-up capacity: It's pretty certain not will all be claimed at the same time, and you're pretty certain to get away with it. They could have added 3 more zeroes to that quota, and it wouldn'nt make the slightest difference.
Be that as it may, that's not the issue. Issue is what percentage of the USSR is black, because that's where they'd have to blend in. Otoh, a nice (and important.) war in subsaharan Africa would have been good for the career of of aforementioned black intelligence agents (Not touching South Africa with a bargepole here.) So if someone can go dig up what percentage of the USSR is black and contrast it to the 13% if the USA (And they'd better use the same definitions of black or we'll be here all night.) that would be AOK, thank you.
What a depressing photo.
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Can someone tell me what image they are trying top project here? It sure looks like Hell to me.
I don't want to annoy too much but which part of "German band" did you not understand?
Re:Gentoo E-build? No files to be seen. Yet.
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Im beg to differ. You apparently haven't tried it yourself. When trying to get the source, you will find emerge start with it's usual mirror (a dutch one in this case), and then successively try others, such as ftp://download.us.kde.org, none of which seem to have the files.
So, rather than me not knowing what I'm talking about, you may have revealed a certain lack of knowledge mistakenly compensated with an excessively judgemental attitude yourself.
Re:Gentoo E-build? No files to be seen. Yet.
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Yes, unmasking is easy, but the files aren't there yet:
emerge -u kde Calculating dependencies...done! >>> emerge (1 of 17) kde-base/arts-1.2.0 to/ >>> Downloading http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/arts -1.2.0.tar.bz 2 --14:28:58-- http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/arts -1.2.0.tar.bz2
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/arts-1.2.0.tar.bz2' Resol ving ftp.easynet.nl... 195.86.128.57 Connecting to ftp.easynet.nl[195.86.128.57]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 14:28:58 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Sit back and watch it try all the mirrors it knows. Noone has them. Yet.
Duplicate data is a _good thing_. It saves your ass when the unthinkable happens, anything between the dog eating over your cdr and a plane hitting.. Oh well, you get the idea. Trust me, the nicest thing about stored data is its own copy safely guarded somewhere else, at at least 10 km distance andsoon.
Submerging Technologies: Five That Are Sinking Fast
These technologies are rapidly taking on water. Is it time to jump ship?
Story by Gary H. Anthes and Robert L. Mitchell
OCTOBER 20, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Most corporate IT organizations have steering committees to craft strategies for new technologies, chief technology officers to assess new products, and IT policies and procedures for developing and buying new hardware and software.
But where are the review committees for obsolete technologies? Who's looking at what's in the data center, on desktops and in briefcases to see if they still make sense? Who's checking to see if spare parts, vendor support and employees with the right skills will be available next month--or next year?
In most companies, no one is doing those things in any rigorous way, says John Parkinson, chief technologist for the Americas region at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Chicago. "I know of very few companies that actively manage sunsetting their IT," he says. "They think it will last forever."
It doesn't, of course. But in most cases, there's no need to rush: "No tool is really outdated if it serves the needs of end users," says Eric Goldfarb, CIO at PRG-Schultz International Inc. in Atlanta. However, IT managers who wait too long may risk being forced into expensive last-minute changes to accommodate new technology initiatives as business needs change. That IP telephony call center application won't fly if you have to replace not only the private branch exchange but also update network cabling and those nonswitched, shared-media Ethernet hubs.
Parkinson says that for each type of software and hardware installed, companies should have an estimated cost and date to replace it and an estimated cost to retain it. "You really should have this in the plan when you [buy], otherwise you won't know what ROI to expect," he says.
Of course, some technologies need closer scrutiny than others. So Computerworld asked corporate IT managers and analysts what items they would put at the top of their lists. Some of them may justify an immediate rip-and-replace strategy; others should be put on your "endangered" list. Here are five submerging technologies to watch in 2004:
1. WINDOWS 9x
Why it's sinking: Can 92 million users be wrong? Yes. Declining support, reliability problems, security issues and incompatibility with new applications should drive the remaining installed base to Windows 2000 or XP.
Credit: Red Nose Studio No obsolete technology is in wider use than the 9x versions of Microsoft Corp.'s operating system. "Windows 9x is getting to be pretty much unsustainable," says Tony Iams, an analyst at D.H. Brown Associates Inc. in Port Chester, N.Y. Indeed, many companies have already migrated to Windows 2000 Professional to gain the reliability of an operating system built on the more stable NT kernel.
But eradicating Windows 9x won't come easy: IDC in Framingham, Mass., estimates that by year's end, there will still be 17 million Windows 95 installations, 48 million Windows 98 users and 27 million machines still running Windows Me. And the majority of those are business PCs, claims IDC analyst Dan Kuznetsky. "In the long term, it will probably be less costly to upgrade [to Windows XP], just because the NT kernel is much more reliable," he says.
But what if your organization has waited? Should you go directly to XP, wait for the next generation (code-named Longhorn) or choose something else?
Don't hold your breath for Longhorn: It isn't due to arrive until 2005 at the earliest. Linux is a widely touted option, but for many the idea of replacing thousands of Windows installations, training users on a new operating system and getting it to work with existing Windows applications is a nonstarter.
Tom Pratt, information systems manager at Coastal Transportation Inc. in Seattle, says he has no plans to abandon Windows 98. The applications running on his boats won't run on anything else,
Wasn't Baystar the corporation that helped Nina Brink wheel and deal half of the Netherlands out of their savings? For lying and cheating, go see them. In NL, this scandal started the collapse of the.com boom. Wouldn't buy a car from her, nor from Baystar. Ugly people.
Well, I've found Webmin extremely useful in getting an idea of what a certain server can do, what type of options there are, etc. Manpages are nice, but don't provide a quick oversight in the same way. Also, when configuring stuff using webmin, the fact that it's a gui makes it quite easy to correct mistakes, try new things, etc. Later on, you can always dive into a config file or use the commandline directly.
Well, maybe in a few days. Right now I did the obvious thing: a google search, and only got the article itself (and a mention of it on news.google.com)
Someone with too much time on his hands could write a script to see how long it takes for the search results to go forth and multiply.
Re:Gotta love british humor (inside joke?)
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Constituants? Hah. this is the House of Lords. I'm not even sure if a lord has any topographical binding an area (They come with quite fancy titles, not necessary english duchies or baronies.), but I'm certain nobody voted for them.
Basically, as long as you don't get a bandwith problem, putting a proxy-cache configured for acceleration in front of the website itself is the way to go. In times like this, 95% of the visitors wants the same news. The cache will serve them their data, so that the server itself does not die under the load of having to rethink every individual request.
Is it just me, or does it seem that slashdot mostly regurgitates BBC News, osnews.com, and The Register? If you just quickly walk through these three sites, it's quite predictable what will turn up on slashdot.
And you folks wonder why a french farmer burns down a Macdonalds? I really cannot blame him. This level of stupidity is sickening, and it seems to be enforced upon those who actually managed to _make a living_ in the country they were born in. Unlike some other country that shall remain nameless for the occasion. Flame intended.
Cue to summer 1940. Bomber formation approaching the northern uk from the east. Frontgunner in plane cries out: "There they are again! The last 50 Spitfires!"
It's even better in german: "Dort sind sie wieder, die letzten 50 Spitfeuer!".
I beg to differ. It's the public perception that counts. If it's good enough to trust handling money, it's gotta be good. Who cares about threading? It has to stay up and do its work. And make no mistakes.
Most software has some default/fallback error message, to be used if the program really doesn't know what else to say, right before going belly-up. IIRC for winfax 4, it was the usual popup, saying Error, Big And that was that:-)
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Hmm.
Does it come with the nvidia drivers? I'm just asking.
Slashdot Mirror
But chmod 600 is a start.
If you don't know what it is and what it does and how it works. When your car starts slowing down by itself oneday you can cause an accident. Just that feature changing a basic tool you use regularly requires training. If you are to stupid to understand why you shouldn't be laughing.
Again, please, now as a coherent statement?
Assume you will lose your netbook at some point: encrypt the entire thing using truecrypt or similar, and make sure you can access vital data from somewhere else: either use dropbox, or use google docs, or whatever.
Check the testimonials. PantyMap tracking software? Come on people, I don't buy it. Still, hoaxes are fun. |Anyone remember fufme.com?
Going through the alphabet I'm guessing it's just whatever people search for most frequently.
But who the hell is Tara Reid?
And that's all there's to it.
Besides, look at it as you'd look at overselling airplane seats, or dial-up capacity: It's pretty certain not will all be claimed at the same time, and you're pretty certain to get away with it. They could have added 3 more zeroes to that quota, and it wouldn'nt make the slightest difference.
Be that as it may, that's not the issue. Issue is what percentage of the USSR is black, because that's where they'd have to blend in.
Otoh, a nice (and important.) war in subsaharan Africa would have been good for the career of of aforementioned black intelligence agents (Not touching South Africa with a bargepole here.)
So if someone can go dig up what percentage of the USSR is black and contrast it to the 13% if the USA (And they'd better use the same definitions of black or we'll be here all night.) that would be AOK, thank you.
Can someone tell me what image they are trying top project here? It sure looks like Hell to me.
Ehm,
I don't want to annoy too much but which part of "German band" did you not understand?
Im beg to differ. You apparently haven't tried it yourself. When trying to get the source, you will find emerge start with it's usual mirror (a dutch one in this case), and then successively try others, such as ftp://download.us.kde.org, none of which seem to have the files.
So, rather than me not knowing what I'm talking about, you may have revealed a certain lack of knowledge mistakenly compensated with an excessively judgemental attitude yourself.
Yes, unmasking is easy, but the files aren't there yet:
...done! /s -1.2.0.tar.bzs -1.2.0.tar.bz2l ving ftp.easynet.nl... 195.86.128.57
emerge -u kde
Calculating dependencies
>>> emerge (1 of 17) kde-base/arts-1.2.0 to
>>> Downloading http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/art
2
--14:28:58-- http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/art
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/arts-1.2.0.tar.bz2'
Reso
Connecting to ftp.easynet.nl[195.86.128.57]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
14:28:58 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Sit back and watch it try all the mirrors it knows. Noone has them. Yet.
There's no excuse for a word like that. People have been shot for less.
Duplicate data is a _good thing_. It saves your ass when the unthinkable happens, anything between the dog eating over your cdr and a plane hitting.. Oh well, you get the idea.
Trust me, the nicest thing about stored data is its own copy safely guarded somewhere else, at at least 10 km distance andsoon.
Submerging Technologies: Five That Are Sinking Fast
These technologies are rapidly taking on water. Is it time to jump ship?
Story by Gary H. Anthes and Robert L. Mitchell
OCTOBER 20, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - Most corporate IT organizations have steering committees to craft strategies for new technologies, chief technology officers to assess new products, and IT policies and procedures for developing and buying new hardware and software.
But where are the review committees for obsolete technologies? Who's looking at what's in the data center, on desktops and in briefcases to see if they still make sense? Who's checking to see if spare parts, vendor support and employees with the right skills will be available next month--or next year?
In most companies, no one is doing those things in any rigorous way, says John Parkinson, chief technologist for the Americas region at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Chicago. "I know of very few companies that actively manage sunsetting their IT," he says. "They think it will last forever."
It doesn't, of course. But in most cases, there's no need to rush: "No tool is really outdated if it serves the needs of end users," says Eric Goldfarb, CIO at PRG-Schultz International Inc. in Atlanta. However, IT managers who wait too long may risk being forced into expensive last-minute changes to accommodate new technology initiatives as business needs change. That IP telephony call center application won't fly if you have to replace not only the private branch exchange but also update network cabling and those nonswitched, shared-media Ethernet hubs.
Parkinson says that for each type of software and hardware installed, companies should have an estimated cost and date to replace it and an estimated cost to retain it. "You really should have this in the plan when you [buy], otherwise you won't know what ROI to expect," he says.
Of course, some technologies need closer scrutiny than others. So Computerworld asked corporate IT managers and analysts what items they would put at the top of their lists. Some of them may justify an immediate rip-and-replace strategy; others should be put on your "endangered" list. Here are five submerging technologies to watch in 2004:
1. WINDOWS 9x
Why it's sinking: Can 92 million users be wrong? Yes. Declining support, reliability problems, security issues and incompatibility with new applications should drive the remaining installed base to Windows 2000 or XP.
Credit: Red Nose Studio
No obsolete technology is in wider use than the 9x versions of Microsoft Corp.'s operating system. "Windows 9x is getting to be pretty much unsustainable," says Tony Iams, an analyst at D.H. Brown Associates Inc. in Port Chester, N.Y. Indeed, many companies have already migrated to Windows 2000 Professional to gain the reliability of an operating system built on the more stable NT kernel.
But eradicating Windows 9x won't come easy: IDC in Framingham, Mass., estimates that by year's end, there will still be 17 million Windows 95 installations, 48 million Windows 98 users and 27 million machines still running Windows Me. And the majority of those are business PCs, claims IDC analyst Dan Kuznetsky. "In the long term, it will probably be less costly to upgrade [to Windows XP], just because the NT kernel is much more reliable," he says.
But what if your organization has waited? Should you go directly to XP, wait for the next generation (code-named Longhorn) or choose something else?
Don't hold your breath for Longhorn: It isn't due to arrive until 2005 at the earliest. Linux is a widely touted option, but for many the idea of replacing thousands of Windows installations, training users on a new operating system and getting it to work with existing Windows applications is a nonstarter.
Tom Pratt, information systems manager at Coastal Transportation Inc. in Seattle, says he has no plans to abandon Windows 98. The applications running on his boats won't run on anything else,
Wasn't Baystar the corporation that helped Nina Brink wheel and deal half of the Netherlands out of their savings? For lying and cheating, go see them. In NL, this scandal started the collapse of the .com boom.
Wouldn't buy a car from her, nor from Baystar. Ugly people.
Well, I've found Webmin extremely useful in getting an idea of what a certain server can do, what type of options there are, etc. Manpages are nice, but don't provide a quick oversight in the same way. Also, when configuring stuff using webmin, the fact that it's a gui makes it quite easy to correct mistakes, try new things, etc.
Later on, you can always dive into a config file or use the commandline directly.
Well, maybe in a few days. Right now I did the obvious thing: a google search, and only got the article itself (and a mention of it on news.google.com) Someone with too much time on his hands could write a script to see how long it takes for the search results to go forth and multiply.
Constituants? Hah. this is the House of Lords. I'm not even sure if a lord has any topographical binding an area (They come with quite fancy titles, not necessary english duchies or baronies.), but I'm certain nobody voted for them.
Basically, as long as you don't get a bandwith problem, putting a proxy-cache configured for acceleration in front of the website itself is the way to go. In times like this, 95% of the visitors wants the same news. The cache will serve them their data, so that the server itself does not die under the load of having to rethink every individual request.
Is it just me, or does it seem that slashdot mostly regurgitates BBC News, osnews.com, and The Register? If you just quickly walk through these three sites, it's quite predictable what will turn up on slashdot.
Now really. I zoned out after those.
And you folks wonder why a french farmer burns down a Macdonalds? I really cannot blame him. This level of stupidity is sickening, and it seems to be enforced upon those who actually managed to _make a living_ in the country they were born in. Unlike some other country that shall remain nameless for the occasion. Flame intended.
Cue to summer 1940. Bomber formation approaching the northern uk from the east. Frontgunner in plane cries out: "There they are again! The last 50 Spitfires!"
It's even better in german: "Dort sind sie wieder, die letzten 50 Spitfeuer!".
I beg to differ. It's the public perception that counts. If it's good enough to trust handling money, it's gotta be good. Who cares about threading? It has to stay up and do its work. And make no mistakes.
All it needs is a penguin decal on the side.
Most software has some default/fallback error message, to be used if the program really doesn't know what else to say, right before going belly-up. IIRC for winfax 4, it was the usual popup, saying Error, Big :-)
And that was that
Hmm.
Does it come with the nvidia drivers? I'm just asking.