" DNS is well designed to cache for well defined amounts of time."
It's amazing to me how well designed the DNS infrastructure is. Just the right balance of decentralization and authority. Unlike P2P systems it relies on root servers to provide an authoritive content but it also provides a completely decentrized administration infrastructure.
I am shocked that DNS or the ideas behind it have not been used for all kinds of things.
Is there something similar on the freebsd side? I think something like LIDS will come standard with kernel 2.6. I know freebsd has append only filesystems which are great for logs but it would be nice if they something like LIDS too.
Why not run something like LIDS. You can lock access to your logfiles so that only certain processes can run them.
It looks like a bit of work to set up and administer but you'd think that an organization like Debian would make sure all their computers would be running it.
"Why can't you see how ridiculously partisan you sound?"
For the same reason you can't see your own partisan bias. Both he and you are partisan each advancing his own point of view by pointing to facts that support your own party while compeletely ignoring all other facts.
The target audience are CIOs. This is a perfectly good chart for CIOs except of course for the fact that's it's not written in powerpoint.
Note to people who make charts for CIOs: You must make liberal use of RED and YELLOW in your diagrams. If your charts do not contain red or yellow your products probably suck real bad. Also make sure all lines are large and bold it's hard to see dotted lines on your palm pilot when you are out on the golf course.
Not in this case. Bush and his republican allies know that they get 100% of the republican votes no matter what they do. This is why Bush can feel free to add a huge entitlement program, grow the deficit, create a whole new govt agency, enact trade barriers etc. Usually conservatives would balk at such acts and if a democrat was in charge they would be howling and calling for impeachment.
As of now Howard Dean is actually more conservative then Bush (fiscally anyway).
The republicans apparently have given up on fiscal conservatism as long as their religious war is going well.
I can't help but think that this yet another black eye on Utah.
Between Hatch and SCO you guys are getting some bad press lately. OTOH I am pretty sure both Hatch and SCO are widely supported but the population at large in Utah.
Cheer up though bad news usually comes in threes. What's going to be the next news out Utah, anybody have a guess?
I think the actual quote was "I will do everything in my power". I leave it to your imagination what is within realm of his power considering he is the CEO of a company making voting machines.
Scary.
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Huh? The US does not tax it's citizens heavily? It does not maintain strict control over business?, it does not control infrastructure such as communications, transportation and natural resources? When did the power generation and distribution get fully privatized? Did I miss something?
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"care to bet some money on this? i work with alot of smart companies, and they arn't going to, why have a mix when it isnt needed? its a support nightmare for one, and the cost of paying someone to support linux is alot higher than windows."
It's already happening. You can eliminate windows desktops with by using linux and rdesktop + terminal server. The users can use mozilla and open office from linux and use rdesktop for any windows software they may have to run. You can even have the desktops run at thin clients or knoppix type CDs.
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The congress is on the verge of passing prescription drug benefits. This will represent the biggest expantion of discretionary spending by the federal govt since the new deal. A permanent entitlement program attached to medicare!.
The Bush administration has also created an entire federal dept (homeland secutiry). This was also the largest expansion of govt payroll since the new deal.
Where do you get off saying the US is not a socialist govt? Medicare, medicade. social security, subsidies for every known industry, steel tarrifs, the list goes on and on.
"I live in Canada, and have therefore been bombarded by this"
Since I live near the border I do have an occation to watch Canadian TV. I always find it amazing how different canadian coverage is compared to the US coverage.
Whether by hook or crook, censorship or bribery, stongarming or winking and nudging the canadian news is able to carry many more stories critical to US govt then the US media is.
It would be great for democracy if they had to re-confirmed every so many years. How about a no confidence vote?
I guess nothing would help. As long as judges are determined to first look at your political affliation and then look at the merits of the case we are in trouble.
"4 billion years of evolution have not produced what you described."
Nonsense. There have been many slave based economies in the past. Slavery has always been a big part of human commerce. Whether it was the ancient greeks and romans or the chinese dynasties or the US itself. Have read any history at all? How can you possibly claim slave labor has not been utilized for commerce?
Eventually slavery was phased out because it was recognized that social darwinism and pure capitalism was extremely bad for a significant minory of the population. More rights based structures like republics were invented and of course more socialist policies like taxes were put into place. By giving minorities rights and by re-circulating money from the rich to the poor we achieved some sort of a balance whereby the slave class was eliminated and the middle class didn't starve enough to want to revolt.
If left to themselves the rich will always become richer and the powerful will always become more powerful. The art of society is to slow down or halt that process so that everybody has a fair shake.
"How in the hell is paying more taxes going to help the economy?"
Because the people will not stop asking the govt to make roads, ensure law and order, pay farm subsidies, pay logging subsidies, pay for their schools and to make sure the interest on their mortgage is tax deductable.
Since 9/11 Bush has engaged in the biggest exapnsion of federal govt since the new deal. If the prescription drug benefits pass (looks like it) he will have also created the largest entitlement program since the new deal.
With an explosion the size of the govt and the mammoth increase in entitlements AND a decrease in taxes collected the inevitable result will be a gigantic deficit.
Go ask a farmer to give up subsidies and see how he reacts.
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And yet it was insightful at the same time. The fact that they are not paid does have a profound effect on how software is developed.
Slashdot is not a person. It is however something akin to a rorschach test.
" DNS is well designed to cache for well defined amounts of time."
It's amazing to me how well designed the DNS infrastructure is. Just the right balance of decentralization and authority. Unlike P2P systems it relies on root servers to provide an authoritive content but it also provides a completely decentrized administration infrastructure.
I am shocked that DNS or the ideas behind it have not been used for all kinds of things.
Is there something similar on the freebsd side? I think something like LIDS will come standard with kernel 2.6. I know freebsd has append only filesystems which are great for logs but it would be nice if they something like LIDS too.
Not with LIDS. You should look into it, it's pretty powerful stuff.
Why not run something like LIDS. You can lock access to your logfiles so that only certain processes can run them.
It looks like a bit of work to set up and administer but you'd think that an organization like Debian would make sure all their computers would be running it.
"Why can't you see how ridiculously partisan you sound?"
For the same reason you can't see your own partisan bias. Both he and you are partisan each advancing his own point of view by pointing to facts that support your own party while compeletely ignoring all other facts.
"What is the target audience supposed to do"
The target audience are CIOs. This is a perfectly good chart for CIOs except of course for the fact that's it's not written in powerpoint.
Note to people who make charts for CIOs: You must make liberal use of RED and YELLOW in your diagrams. If your charts do not contain red or yellow your products probably suck real bad. Also make sure all lines are large and bold it's hard to see dotted lines on your palm pilot when you are out on the golf course.
Bill gates of course would never ever lie. He is a man of impeccable ethics and morals.
I have seen articles in the salt lake paper (online) that seemed to be cheerleading for SCO. Kind of local-boys-done-good stuff.
Not in this case. Bush and his republican allies know that they get 100% of the republican votes no matter what they do. This is why Bush can feel free to add a huge entitlement program, grow the deficit, create a whole new govt agency, enact trade barriers etc. Usually conservatives would balk at such acts and if a democrat was in charge they would be howling and calling for impeachment.
As of now Howard Dean is actually more conservative then Bush (fiscally anyway).
The republicans apparently have given up on fiscal conservatism as long as their religious war is going well.
I can't help but think that this yet another black eye on Utah.
Between Hatch and SCO you guys are getting some bad press lately. OTOH I am pretty sure both Hatch and SCO are widely supported but the population at large in Utah.
Cheer up though bad news usually comes in threes. What's going to be the next news out Utah, anybody have a guess?
A free press is good except if it's arabic and critizes US policy then you should shut them down or bomb them.
It's bad if other countries torture prisoners but it's OK to send prisoners to other countries to be tortured.
Free trade is great except if you are in the steel industry.
My big complaint is that the fist couple of pages are from shopping sites.
Type in "how to sharpern a knife" and you get cutlery stores not instructions.
I wish Google would give me the option of excluding online stores but I guess that's what the newsgroups are for.
I think the actual quote was "I will do everything in my power". I leave it to your imagination what is within realm of his power considering he is the CEO of a company making voting machines.
Scary.
Huh? The US does not tax it's citizens heavily? It does not maintain strict control over business?, it does not control infrastructure such as communications, transportation and natural resources? When did the power generation and distribution get fully privatized? Did I miss something?
"care to bet some money on this? i work with alot of smart companies, and they arn't going to, why have a mix when it isnt needed? its a support nightmare for one, and the cost of paying someone to support linux is alot higher than windows."
It's already happening. You can eliminate windows desktops with by using linux and rdesktop + terminal server. The users can use mozilla and open office from linux and use rdesktop for any windows software they may have to run. You can even have the desktops run at thin clients or knoppix type CDs.
The congress is on the verge of passing prescription drug benefits. This will represent the biggest expantion of discretionary spending by the federal govt since the new deal. A permanent entitlement program attached to medicare!.
The Bush administration has also created an entire federal dept (homeland secutiry). This was also the largest expansion of govt payroll since the new deal.
Where do you get off saying the US is not a socialist govt? Medicare, medicade. social security, subsidies for every known industry, steel tarrifs, the list goes on and on.
You may be right. The US media may not have covered this because they so right wing.
"I live in Canada, and have therefore been bombarded by this"
Since I live near the border I do have an occation to watch Canadian TV. I always find it amazing how different canadian coverage is compared to the US coverage.
Whether by hook or crook, censorship or bribery, stongarming or winking and nudging the canadian news is able to carry many more stories critical to US govt then the US media is.
Where there is smoke there is fire.
It would be great for democracy if they had to re-confirmed every so many years. How about a no confidence vote?
I guess nothing would help. As long as judges are determined to first look at your political affliation and then look at the merits of the case we are in trouble.
Democracy is a dozen wolves and a sheep arguing what to have for dinner.
Yes and tens of thousands of jewish retirees actually meant to vote for Buchanan. Right!
"4 billion years of evolution have not produced what you described."
Nonsense. There have been many slave based economies in the past. Slavery has always been a big part of human commerce. Whether it was the ancient greeks and romans or the chinese dynasties or the US itself. Have read any history at all? How can you possibly claim slave labor has not been utilized for commerce?
Eventually slavery was phased out because it was recognized that social darwinism and pure capitalism was extremely bad for a significant minory of the population. More rights based structures like republics were invented and of course more socialist policies like taxes were put into place. By giving minorities rights and by re-circulating money from the rich to the poor we achieved some sort of a balance whereby the slave class was eliminated and the middle class didn't starve enough to want to revolt.
If left to themselves the rich will always become richer and the powerful will always become more powerful. The art of society is to slow down or halt that process so that everybody has a fair shake.
"How in the hell is paying more taxes going to help the economy?"
Because the people will not stop asking the govt to make roads, ensure law and order, pay farm subsidies, pay logging subsidies, pay for their schools and to make sure the interest on their mortgage is tax deductable.
Since 9/11 Bush has engaged in the biggest exapnsion of federal govt since the new deal. If the prescription drug benefits pass (looks like it) he will have also created the largest entitlement program since the new deal.
With an explosion the size of the govt and the mammoth increase in entitlements AND a decrease in taxes collected the inevitable result will be a gigantic deficit.
Go ask a farmer to give up subsidies and see how he reacts.