Convenient that you don't have a source for this. One would think that reneging on a promise to donate around $80 million would go unreported by anyone. Especially after he donated twelve Harley Davidson motorcycles to stuntmen. Or did that not happen either?
There's the rub. From what I gather, FuturePower is not looking for server mirroring cards, but workstation cards.
I certainly won't argue against 3Ware as the way to go for quality, and/or reliability, but then again if one is looking for reliability, why would you be running Windows 98?
I have no experience with Microsoft's other operating system's software mirroring capabilities, other than the fact that Win2K Server does not have the capability to automatically boot off of the secondary drive if the primary dies. *shrug* If the server isn't important enough to merit a hardware RAID solution, then having to edit the boot.ini in case of drive failure is obviously not that big a deal.
Sorry, I wasn't clear... I'm more just "talking" out loud than anything.
I haven't been exposed to an environment such as this (just as I haven't been involved with a PH letters type of scenario), so I have no basis of comparison. It just sounds contrived to me. I won't knock someone else for finding entertainment in it (or in PH letters), I'm just stating my general opinion of what I have read so far.:o)
I just figured out my biggest problem with the whole thing. It reads like a Penthouse letter. Too unbeleivable to be true, but with a confidence of truth. The diary of "Lance" is even worse.
Eyore, who I guess had drunk more than a couple of Scotch's at that point looked at me and said "Harmon has totally lost it. Yesterday they recovered the Limo but couldn't find Harmon. I don't think we'll be seeing much of the main writer for this band for a while. This doesn't look as temporary as we want it to be, so that's why you're here... you fucking moron".
Who talks like that? I don't think we'll be seeing much of the main writer for this band for a while. WTF? Why interject his role into that sentance? Everyone there should know what he does.
On the other hand, perhaps it's just not my cup of tea. *shrug*
Good God! I've made it through the first two days and I have to say that "Mixerman" is coming across as a serious prima donna. Woe is me. I'm showing so much restraint for being forced to work with such incompetence. Blah, blah, blah.
Thanks for the link all the same. It just makes me glad that I don't have to work with this guy.
I know, I know. I like a good joke as much as the next fella. To be quite honest I feel that some of the restrictions on what you can carry are jokes. Hence the reply. *shrug*
So what you are saying is that you are a Grasshopper, not an Ant. Read Aesop's Fables if you have no idea what I am talking about.
You don't have 14 months worth of assets? What the hell are you going to retire on? Your good looks? Have you not heard of 401k? Mutal funds? Saving accounts?
Starting a job after not having one is the perfect oportunity to change your spending habits.
You were homeless because, like a lot of people, you were living at or beyond your means, and then your means dissapeared. An outage of funds won't put me on the street, it will just push my retirement back.
The RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is one of Four Regional Internet Registries (RIR) that exist in the world today, providing allocation and registration services that support the operation of the Internet globally.
The RIPE NCC performs activities primarily for the benefit of the membership in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and African countries located north of the equator. These are mainly activities that its members need to organise as a group, even though they may compete in other areas.
The services provided by the RIPE NCC ensure the fair distribution of global Internet resources in the RIPE NCC service region required for the stable and reliable operation of the Internet. This includes the allocation of Internet (IP) address space, autonomous system numbers and the management of reverse domain name space.
A traceroute from my desk shows (again, in part)...
11 bpr1-so-0-0-0.sanjoseequinix.cw.net (208.173.54.65) 50.889 ms 51.496 ms 55.282 ms 12 208.173.54.74 (208.173.54.74) 55.430 ms 51.065 ms 50.517 ms 13 so-5-0-0.gar1.sanjose1.level3.net (209.244.3.137) 51.761 ms 52.379 ms 55.816 ms 14 so-7-0-0.mp1.sanjose1.level3.net (64.159.1.73) 62.741 ms 58.862 ms 51.160 ms 15 unknown.level3.net (64.159.3.254) 114.017 ms 113.364 ms 111.183 ms 16 so-2-0-0.mp1.london2.level3.net (212.187.128.137) 188.881 ms 189.685 ms 188.827 ms 17 so-2-0-0.mp1.amsterdam1.level3.net (212.187.128.26) 195.189 ms 193.874 ms 194.465 ms 18 gige10-2.ipcolo1.amsterdam1.level3.net (213.244.165.99) 191.791 ms 192.253 ms 195.587 ms 19 unknown.level3.net (213.244.164.18) 192.521 ms 193.254 ms 192.870 ms 20 213.152.119.253 (213.152.119.253) 193.077 ms 192.419 ms 193.005 ms 21 213.152.119.5 (213.152.119.5) 193.729 ms 192.124 ms 194.005 ms
So download.es5.com looks to be housed in Amsterdam (gige10-2.ipcolo1.amsterdam1.level3.net).
I was suprised at all the negative comments this story has received.
Welcome to Slashdot. It's a real pool of negativity and spite, with a few gleaming examples of genuine humanity.
Try reading every story as if it's a subject matter that's near and dear to your heart. You'll see that this isn't the first time the "communities" response has been less than positive.
Well, what can you expect? Ridicule and spite is what many of these people have grown up with (society not treating geeks with respect and all). It's what they know.
Hmmm... Is it flamebait, troll or insightful? Maybe all three.
You trust the human instincts. I'll trust the machines. To quote:
Cockpit voice recorders have revealed that air traffic controllers told the Russian airliner to dive, contradicting a warning given by the plane's onboard anti-collision system to climb.
...
Tragically, within seconds of the Russian pilot heeding an instruction from Skyguide to dive, a collision avoidance computer on the other aircraft, a DHL cargo plane, suddenly told its pilot to do the same.
In other words, verbal instructions from air traffic controllers to the Russian crew, and computer instructions on the 757, put the planes on a deadly new collision course.
The Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic controllers made 1,061 "operational errors" in the year ending Sept. 30, down 11 percent from the 1,194 reported the previous year. The number of flights fell 3 percent during the same period.
The report found that a plane, person or vehicle mistakenly entered a runway once a day on average between Oct. 1, 2001 and Sept. 30. These so-called runway incursions, which are mostly caused by pilots, caused accidents that have claimed 49 lives since 1990.
Sure air travel is safe, but I think it's despite human interaction.
The best thing, however, would be the option to turn off the display of programming information for non-PPV channels that are not in the package you're currently subscribed to. It's frustrating and difficult to remember the 45 channels I don't have because I pay $60/month for the service instead of $90.
It'll never happen. That information is there to show you exactly what you are missing by not forking out that extra $30/month. I agree with you on the desire, though.
Some ultrasound firms say their products will also repel mice, rats, roaches, bats, fleas, spiders, and the like. The evidence to date suggests these claims are greatly exaggerated. At best they work only when used in conjunction with a concerted anti-pest program involving traps, improved sanitation, elimination of entry points and nesting places, and so on. So don't throw away that flyswatter yet.
Click here and scroll down to the graph titled "Web Browsers Used to Access Google". At the very bottom right of the graph you can see that Netscape 5.x+ (which includes Mozilla) does register. Barely. At least it's beating out IE 4.0...
Let's try this again... (All definitions are from dictionary.com)
Communism: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
Stalinism: The bureaucratic, authoritarian exercise of state power and mechanistic application of Marxist-Leninist principles associated with Stalin.
Maoism: Marxism-Leninism developed in China chiefly by Mao Zedong.
Nazism: The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy.
So, in short, the "commonality" between all of these is that the government controls the economy. The goals are completely different.
As an aside, Communism and Marxist-Leninism are different topics. Communism is the government's enforcement of a non-class society, while Marxism and Leninism focus on the abolishment of classes by the people. In any case, trying to bring the Nazis into this discussion is at best foolish. It's hardly a good way to be taken seriously in an anonymous discourse over the internet.
I'm not the AC you replied to, but I have to cry fowl. The maker of those images is not promoting Hitler's Third Riech. He is promoting Communism. dictionary.com's first definition of Communism is:
A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
Kind of sounds like what the open software movement is all about, as long as you substitute software for propery. Ah well.
The Many Forms of Godwin's Law
"When someboy on UseNet brings up Hitler or the Nazi's the thread has been going on too long." - Richard Sexton
How long was the problem fixed for? My guess would be "only as long as it took people to get used to the longer yellow".
This is a really good question, and one not answered by the source report.
Said report does state "It should be noted that these reductions have stayed consistently low since the increase in yellow light time." Whatever that means... Reductions have stayed low? I thought the reductions were major! *sigh*
The lights go to yellow not just between green and red, but also between red and green. The only reason that it's safe for this to happen is that people stop for yellows.
But it's not legal to enter the intersection on Red/Yellow going to green, is it? This is common in Europe, but I thought it had to do with preparing people to go (so you don't have to wait as long for the guy in front of you to wake up). Any Europeans care to comment here?
I don't have a definitive answer on legality, but common practice is to start rolling on yellow.
(Obviously there needs to be a minimum duration. Something along the lines of: ceiling(SpeedLimitInMPH/10)*seconds. A 35 MPH road has a 4 sec yellow, while a 45 MPH road has a 5 sec.)
I think that's the real problem. Here's the NMA's recommendation, which is very close to yours:
The minimum yellow light interval shall be 4 seconds for intersection signals on streets with actual 85th percentile approach speeds of 30 mph, or less.
The yellow light interval shall be increased ½ second for each 5-mph increase in 85th percentile approach speeds above 30 mph.
To be perfectly honest, I heard that formula in response to a question in "Defensive Driver Training" (a.k.a. I got a ticket, and want to erase the points from my licence). It certainly sounded reasonable.
You might be interested in http://www.skytran.net/. It still doesn't come to you, but it is automated and (in theory) 120MPH with inches between cars...
First off, let me say that I agree with most of what you say. I like your position (education, not automation), but I have to question one fact...
There have been numerous cases over the past couple of years of municipalities reducing yellow light duration to increase revenue. In Fairfax County, VA, cameras were installed at one intersection because of high incidences of red light runners. The cameras were catching an average of 52 events a day. Increasing the duration of the yellow from 4s to 5.5s reduced that number from 52 to less than 1. Engineering fixed the problem, not enforcement.
How long was the problem fixed for? My guess would be "only as long as it took people to get used to the longer yellow".
I've been to Sweden more than once, and noticed an interesting fact about the traffic lights I saw. The lights go to yellow not just between green and red, but also between red and green. The only reason that it's safe for this to happen is that people stop for yellows.
In the USA green means go, red means stop and yellow means hurry the heck up. Educating drivers to actually stop on yellow (or at least prepare to stop, instead of speeding up) would have a better effect than lengthening the duration of yellow lights.
(Obviously there needs to be a minimum duration. Something along the lines of: ceiling(SpeedLimitInMPH/10)*seconds. A 35 MPH road has a 4 sec yellow, while a 45 MPH road has a 5 sec.)
Even better. Use checkinstall to make an RPM. It takes any hassle out of making a.spec file, and you wind up with an RPM (or a.deb or a Slackware package).
Huh? Sorry, but I don't quite see how you interpreted my comments in that fashion. I was not referring to the reasons that people choose (or are "forced") to live in rural areas, just the fact that most of those rural areas support a completely different lifestyle than most Americans are used to. Upon looking my statements over more thoroughly, the only place I can see that would even have a possibility of causing confusion is:
And how are the rural dwellers going to make money to pay this [
Universal Housing Fund] fee?
To clarify that point, those living in rural area don't have the opportunity to earn money to pay for other people's housing.
Does that clear things up? Perhaps you were intending to reply to someone else.
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Convenient that you don't have a source for this. One would think that reneging on a promise to donate around $80 million would go unreported by anyone. Especially after he donated twelve Harley Davidson motorcycles to stuntmen. Or did that not happen either?
There's the rub. From what I gather, FuturePower is not looking for server mirroring cards, but workstation cards.
I certainly won't argue against 3Ware as the way to go for quality, and/or reliability, but then again if one is looking for reliability, why would you be running Windows 98?
I have no experience with Microsoft's other operating system's software mirroring capabilities, other than the fact that Win2K Server does not have the capability to automatically boot off of the secondary drive if the primary dies. *shrug* If the server isn't important enough to merit a hardware RAID solution, then having to edit the boot.ini in case of drive failure is obviously not that big a deal.
As a note, Windows 2000 Professional doesn't allow (at the very least) software RAID 1.
Yes, you can point and laugh.
Sorry, I wasn't clear... I'm more just "talking" out loud than anything.
:o)
I haven't been exposed to an environment such as this (just as I haven't been involved with a PH letters type of scenario), so I have no basis of comparison. It just sounds contrived to me. I won't knock someone else for finding entertainment in it (or in PH letters), I'm just stating my general opinion of what I have read so far.
Thanks for your concern, in any case.
Who talks like that? I don't think we'll be seeing much of the main writer for this band for a while. WTF? Why interject his role into that sentance? Everyone there should know what he does.
On the other hand, perhaps it's just not my cup of tea. *shrug*
Good God! I've made it through the first two days and I have to say that "Mixerman" is coming across as a serious prima donna. Woe is me. I'm showing so much restraint for being forced to work with such incompetence. Blah, blah, blah.
Thanks for the link all the same. It just makes me glad that I don't have to work with this guy.
Nice pun.
I know, I know. I like a good joke as much as the next fella. To be quite honest I feel that some of the restrictions on what you can carry are jokes. Hence the reply. *shrug*
Yeah, I know it's a joke, but both fingernail clippers (with or without a nail file) and knitting needles are allowed as carry on items on flights.
Feel free to bring a 12" knitting needle with you, but don't think about bringing a 1" razor blade or a pair of pliers. Beaurocracy at its best.
So what you are saying is that you are a Grasshopper, not an Ant. Read Aesop's Fables if you have no idea what I am talking about.
You don't have 14 months worth of assets? What the hell are you going to retire on? Your good looks? Have you not heard of 401k? Mutal funds? Saving accounts?
Starting a job after not having one is the perfect oportunity to change your spending habits.
You were homeless because, like a lot of people, you were living at or beyond your means, and then your means dissapeared. An outage of funds won't put me on the street, it will just push my retirement back.
http://www.perthshirebigtreecountry.co.uk/Bigtree Fortingall.htm Or just use %20 instead of a space...
Thanks for the original link, and the instructions on how to get to the desination.
BTW, RFC2616 (HTTP/1.1) recomends the striping of white space from URLs. Not that it is often followed.
download.es5.com. 10m36s IN A 213.152.119.5
[me polymorph]# dig -x 213.152.119.5
213.in-addr.arpa. 2H IN SOA ns.ripe.net. ops-213.ripe.net.
In other words, download.es5.com's IP address is "owned" by ripe.net. http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/about/ states in part:
A traceroute from my desk shows (again, in part)...
11 bpr1-so-0-0-0.sanjoseequinix.cw.net (208.173.54.65) 50.889 ms 51.496 ms 55.282 ms
12 208.173.54.74 (208.173.54.74) 55.430 ms 51.065 ms 50.517 ms
13 so-5-0-0.gar1.sanjose1.level3.net (209.244.3.137) 51.761 ms 52.379 ms 55.816 ms
14 so-7-0-0.mp1.sanjose1.level3.net (64.159.1.73) 62.741 ms 58.862 ms 51.160 ms
15 unknown.level3.net (64.159.3.254) 114.017 ms 113.364 ms 111.183 ms
16 so-2-0-0.mp1.london2.level3.net (212.187.128.137) 188.881 ms 189.685 ms 188.827 ms
17 so-2-0-0.mp1.amsterdam1.level3.net (212.187.128.26) 195.189 ms 193.874 ms 194.465 ms
18 gige10-2.ipcolo1.amsterdam1.level3.net (213.244.165.99) 191.791 ms 192.253 ms 195.587 ms
19 unknown.level3.net (213.244.164.18) 192.521 ms 193.254 ms 192.870 ms
20 213.152.119.253 (213.152.119.253) 193.077 ms 192.419 ms 193.005 ms
21 213.152.119.5 (213.152.119.5) 193.729 ms 192.124 ms 194.005 ms
So download.es5.com looks to be housed in Amsterdam (gige10-2.ipcolo1.amsterdam1.level3.net).
Just my take on the situation.
Welcome to Slashdot. It's a real pool of negativity and spite, with a few gleaming examples of genuine humanity.
Try reading every story as if it's a subject matter that's near and dear to your heart. You'll see that this isn't the first time the "communities" response has been less than positive.
Well, what can you expect? Ridicule and spite is what many of these people have grown up with (society not treating geeks with respect and all). It's what they know.
Hmmm... Is it flamebait, troll or insightful? Maybe all three.
Another article. To quote:
Sure air travel is safe, but I think it's despite human interaction.
It'll never happen. That information is there to show you exactly what you are missing by not forking out that extra $30/month. I agree with you on the desire, though.
And one of them has gotten in trouble for making such claims...
Care to know why ESPN has been ignoring you?
Click here and scroll down to the graph titled "Web Browsers Used to Access Google". At the very bottom right of the graph you can see that Netscape 5.x+ (which includes Mozilla) does register. Barely. At least it's beating out IE 4.0...
Let's try this again... (All definitions are from dictionary.com)
Communism: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
Stalinism: The bureaucratic, authoritarian exercise of state power and mechanistic application of Marxist-Leninist principles associated with Stalin.
Maoism: Marxism-Leninism developed in China chiefly by Mao Zedong.
Nazism: The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy.
So, in short, the "commonality" between all of these is that the government controls the economy. The goals are completely different.
As an aside, Communism and Marxist-Leninism are different topics. Communism is the government's enforcement of a non-class society, while Marxism and Leninism focus on the abolishment of classes by the people. In any case, trying to bring the Nazis into this discussion is at best foolish. It's hardly a good way to be taken seriously in an anonymous discourse over the internet.
Kind of sounds like what the open software movement is all about, as long as you substitute software for propery. Ah well.
Said report does state "It should be noted that these reductions have stayed consistently low since the increase in yellow light time." Whatever that means... Reductions have stayed low? I thought the reductions were major! *sigh*
I don't have a definitive answer on legality, but common practice is to start rolling on yellow.
To be perfectly honest, I heard that formula in response to a question in "Defensive Driver Training" (a.k.a. I got a ticket, and want to erase the points from my licence). It certainly sounded reasonable.
Close but not quite.
*sigh*
You might be interested in http://www.skytran.net/. It still doesn't come to you, but it is automated and (in theory) 120MPH with inches between cars...
How long was the problem fixed for? My guess would be "only as long as it took people to get used to the longer yellow".
I've been to Sweden more than once, and noticed an interesting fact about the traffic lights I saw. The lights go to yellow not just between green and red, but also between red and green. The only reason that it's safe for this to happen is that people stop for yellows.
In the USA green means go, red means stop and yellow means hurry the heck up. Educating drivers to actually stop on yellow (or at least prepare to stop, instead of speeding up) would have a better effect than lengthening the duration of yellow lights.
(Obviously there needs to be a minimum duration. Something along the lines of: ceiling(SpeedLimitInMPH/10)*seconds. A 35 MPH road has a 4 sec yellow, while a 45 MPH road has a 5 sec.)
Even better. Use checkinstall to make an RPM. It takes any hassle out of making a .spec file, and you wind up with an RPM (or a .deb or a Slackware package).
When you read stories about how we currently live.
We could have it a *lot* better.
To clarify that point, those living in rural area don't have the opportunity to earn money to pay for other people's housing.
Does that clear things up? Perhaps you were intending to reply to someone else.