Hmmm... I'm not sure where you disagreed with me but your second paragraph is pretty close to the point I was trying to make. Sorry if my post was that unclear.;)
I don't think I actually lose 2 hours per crash -- but I save often and reboot often.;) I probably lose about 20 minutes.
I don't have 1 crash per day -- I reboot before I use my Windows machine and use it minimally. I probably do about a day's worth of Windows work in 3 weeks so I am probably not typical. (I mostly use Solaris;)
However, I think 1 million users per day is low, offsetting the other issues.
Hmmm... but is pushing customers into HP-PA systems advantageous over being the first on the block with *Merced* systems running your native Unix? I think not. If HP intends to move to IA-64 anyway, being the market leader would seem to give them a significant advantage. In addition, they will get the benefit of Intel's massive mindshare and marketing machine.
No, I think they have very real performance concerns in recommending customers skip Merced. It's not something they should consider lightly.
I upgrade my OS on my server when I need to -- not just to keep it "up to date". I built a new one this spring and brought it up on the new hardware 77 days ago. I don't intend to bring it down until I either upgrade the hardware or a security vulnerability that affects my services is found. And, it's hardly business oriented -- it's a game server.;)
Uh, that is, unless my 3 year old UPS can't ride out one of our many summer storm-caused power outages. I think I'd better be ready to replace that too...
While I've seen a few hard-to-explain lights in the sky from my amateur astronomy days, the most impressive "evidence" I've seen for UFO's was a photograph.
When I was about 14 years old my friend Ronnie brought in a photograph that he claimed his grandmother had taken. Ron's grandmother lived in a trailer-park in the Appalachicola National Forest. Her neighborhood consisted of a clearing about 1-2 acres in size with a street light in the middle and a ring of 5 or 6 trailers around it. The photograph was a perfectly focused, night shot of a classic UFO hovering over the street light. There was another source of light from above the street light illuminating the clearing so that you could clearly see a couple of the trailers and the dark forest in the background. Ron said that there had been another UFO hovering above the first one and beaming light down on the clearing. Weird.
As you say, "To most people" UFO sightings are a fashionable thing. That doesn't say anything about the people for whom it is not.
As for life "our there" being either more primative or more advanced than us, why not assume both? As for them using radio waves, maybe they've already learned that radio waves make you something of a beacon and, for reasons we can't yet verify, that may be a bad idea. In any event, they are kinda hard to pick up more than 10 miles out of town where I live.
Everything in the world is expainable in theory. That doesn't preclude other theories nor does it guarantee which, if any, are correct. Or, to put it more personally, just because I can explain away anything -- except new coke -- with a theory that is possible doesn't make me right.
In any event we are out there and we haven't contacted any otherworldly beings yet either. I wonder if they have concluded that we don't exist because of that.;-)
Depending on whether or not they distinguish between an obvious mispelling [Micorsoft.com] and believable variations such as those in the article, this could be a big problem. Disallowing all variations would cause far more problems (at least here in the U.S. -- Not familiar with Australian traditions) than just banning the believable ones.
The namespace crunch is so great, especially in the short names, that probably half of the.com names might legitimately be considered "deceptively similar" to another.
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...should be ignored unless they are useful in other contexts. A client that has no use outside a non-open server should not be considered open source but rather a marketing gimmick.
Obviously, a client that could be used as a base for a completely open source solution is a different matter. Beware of big companies with limited open source projects.
... if for no other reason than a lack of information. With nothing even similar having been built, how can they have such confidence that there won't be major performance-limiting issues with the actual implementation? Just because it works in theory doesn't mean it it will work at the anticipated speed until they actually build it -- so they can't possibly know that it is faster than current devices.
Well, if you measure the "millenium" to end on 12/31/2000, then how are you counting "centuries"? If you're going by the (erroneous) calendar with no year zero, then both century and millenium end on the same day. As for me, I prefer to go by the big high-order digits. 12/31/1999 is close enough for me... but then I'm something of a slacker.;)
12:00 We are still trying to find the right configuration to handle the combination of legitimate connection requests and the flood of attack packets. The new TCPIP stack has a couple of different configuration values that affect how it responds. Yes, we will be publishing exactly how this server is configured.
8:00 The server crashed again this morning. In the same part of the TCPIP stack as before. The TCPIP stack is still having difficulty with a prolonged attack. We are going to try some different configurations and see if we can bump up the connection rate.
Configuration 500MHz Pentium III with 256mb of RAM.
Seriously, our virtual guarantee of non-competition has made feasible encryption research that otherwise might not have happened.
Congratulations, Mr. Clinton and Friends, you now know that the high-tech advantage goes to those who work in the field rather than those who sit on their advantage. You have effectively subsidized far more foreign participants. Can we get back to a rational encryption policy now, please?
You don't shoot tanks with handguns and hunting rifles -- but that doesn't mean they don't exert a restraining force on government. Government leaders and military leaders' families and friends live throughout the countryside.
I'm sure that the leaders of China would have thought much longer and harder before bringing in the army and tanks against their own protesting citizens if guns were distributed throughout the civilian population of China. And, no, it wouldn't be because they were worried about the soldiers and tanks getting shot.;)
You call mwillis (the poster you are replying to) a moron, then go on to quote Bart Simpson saying that "secondary education in U.S.,... sucks and blows at the same time." Alas, I think you are way too critical of hasty details in the previous post and pay not enough attention to the central points. Yet, I must agree with your B.S. quotation.;)
First, note that the cow was dying in a field, not a desert. In any event, I think mwillis was not making the point that the dying cow doesn't leave a fossil but only that they are extremely rare -- which is surely true. [Ed note: the publisher takes no responsibility for the opinions in this comment or for assumptions about what a previous poster might have meant.]
Imagine for a moment that fossils of large animals were not rare. Suppose we had, lying around, fossils of 10% of the large animals that have died in the previous 1,000,000 generations... Ignoring a few exceptions and the buildup of fossils before that, we now have about 100,000 times as many large fossils as live large animals! Yep, fossils are rare alright -- and the "moron" is right about the cow. If you doubt it, check out some old farmland where many cows died of natural causes.
Of course, ancient fossils in good shape will be far rarer than recent ones.
So, do you actually disagree with mwillis or are you just giving him a hard time? Did you actually have a relevant point at all?
While this applies specifically to Intel-based SGI systems -- not the big NUMA servers and MIPS workstatsions -- it may represent an incremental strategy to move completely to Linux over the next 5-10 years. SGI seems to be a company that could really benefit from moving completely to Linux. Unfortunately, they are going to be stuck developing and supporting Irix for a long time to come. I would be surprised if they could move the high end to Linux in less than 5 or 6 years.
Hmmm... a solar eclipse only occurs when the moon is new and a lunar eclipse only occurs when the moon is full. Therefore, they should never be less than a fortnight apart.;)
A port of Domino can only be good news... and I can't wait to see benchmarks. Do any of your notes users have the ability to do a little ballpark benchmark?
... and in the wheeler-dealer spirit of Salt Lake City and the Olympics, what do we need to do to get it moved to Tallahassee, FL? We're a Paaarty town and we really want the party here...
Actually, there is a big difference between your examples and mine. In my examples, the uses are as basic, natural, and innocent as, say, using a computer is to a hacker. A computer is generally the most common means to a perfectly legal livelihood for a hacker.
To pick on one of your examples, a robber using a gun for his livelihood is not nearly as legal -- or as defendable. Now, you can feel free to quibble with my examples.;)
Now what good can come from banning a hacker from using a computer? Surely that is an unconstitutional violation of the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments!
It seems sort of like banning prostitutes from having sex or embezzelers from owning or using money. I guess when they do that I'll believe again in "equal protection under the law".
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Hmmm... I'm not sure where you disagreed with me but your second paragraph is pretty close to the point I was trying to make. Sorry if my post was that unclear. ;)
I'm curious about his assumptions.
;) I probably lose about 20 minutes.
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a) 1 million people using Windows on a given day.
b) 1 crash per day.
c) 2 hours lost per crash.
I don't think I actually lose 2 hours per crash -- but I save often and reboot often.
I don't have 1 crash per day -- I reboot before I use my Windows machine and use it minimally. I probably do about a day's worth of Windows work in 3 weeks so I am probably not typical. (I mostly use Solaris
However, I think 1 million users per day is low, offsetting the other issues.
Does anyone have any good data on this?
Hmmm... but is pushing customers into HP-PA systems advantageous over being the first on the block with *Merced* systems running your native Unix? I think not. If HP intends to move to IA-64 anyway, being the market leader would seem to give them a significant advantage. In addition, they will get the benefit of Intel's massive mindshare and marketing machine.
No, I think they have very real performance concerns in recommending customers skip Merced. It's not something they should consider lightly.
I upgrade my OS on my server when I need to -- not just to keep it "up to date". I built a new one this spring and brought it up on the new hardware 77 days ago. I don't intend to bring it down until I either upgrade the hardware or a security vulnerability that affects my services is found. And, it's hardly business oriented -- it's a game server. ;)
Uh, that is, unless my 3 year old UPS can't ride out one of our many summer storm-caused power outages. I think I'd better be ready to replace that too...
True, but how do you explain _Earth in the Balance_"? I suppose he was under a publisher's deadline? ;)
Yep, sniffer's and wire-tapping devices are just tools too. But problems arise with how they're sometimes used.
While I've seen a few hard-to-explain lights in the sky from my amateur astronomy days, the most impressive "evidence" I've seen for UFO's was a photograph.
When I was about 14 years old my friend Ronnie brought in a photograph that he claimed his grandmother had taken. Ron's grandmother lived in a trailer-park in the Appalachicola National Forest. Her neighborhood consisted of a clearing about 1-2 acres in size with a street light in the middle and a ring of 5 or 6 trailers around it. The photograph was a perfectly focused, night shot of a classic UFO hovering over the street light. There was another source of light from above the street light illuminating the clearing so that you could clearly see a couple of the trailers and the dark forest in the background. Ron said that there had been another UFO hovering above the first one and beaming light down on the clearing. Weird.
As you say, "To most people" UFO sightings are a fashionable thing. That doesn't say anything about the people for whom it is not.
;-)
As for life "our there" being either more primative or more advanced than us, why not assume both? As for them using radio waves, maybe they've already learned that radio waves make you something of a beacon and, for reasons we can't yet verify, that may be a bad idea. In any event, they are kinda hard to pick up more than 10 miles out of town where I live.
Everything in the world is expainable in theory. That doesn't preclude other theories nor does it guarantee which, if any, are correct. Or, to put it more personally, just because I can explain away anything -- except new coke -- with a theory that is possible doesn't make me right.
In any event we are out there and we haven't contacted any otherworldly beings yet either. I wonder if they have concluded that we don't exist because of that.
Throw out silly patents? Nahhh... that'd be way too much work!
Depending on whether or not they distinguish between an obvious mispelling [Micorsoft.com] and believable variations such as those in the article, this could be a big problem. Disallowing all variations would cause far more problems (at least here in the U.S. -- Not familiar with Australian traditions) than just banning the believable ones.
.com names might legitimately be considered "deceptively similar" to another.
The namespace crunch is so great, especially in the short names, that probably half of the
...should be ignored unless they are useful in other contexts. A client that has no use outside a non-open server should not be considered open source but rather a marketing gimmick.
Obviously, a client that could be used as a base for a completely open source solution is a different matter. Beware of big companies with limited open source projects.
... if for no other reason than a lack of information. With nothing even similar having been built, how can they have such confidence that there won't be major performance-limiting issues with the actual implementation? Just because it works in theory doesn't mean it it will work at the anticipated speed until they actually build it -- so they can't possibly know that it is faster than current devices.
Well, if you measure the "millenium" to end on 12/31/2000, then how are you counting "centuries"? If you're going by the (erroneous) calendar with no year zero, then both century and millenium end on the same day. As for me, I prefer to go by the big high-order digits. 12/31/1999 is close enough for me... but then I'm something of a slacker. ;)
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12:00 We are still trying to find the right configuration to handle the combination of legitimate connection requests and the flood of attack packets. The new TCPIP stack has a couple of different configuration values that affect how it responds. Yes, we will be publishing exactly how this server is configured.
8:00 The server crashed again this morning. In the same part of the TCPIP stack as before. The TCPIP stack is still having difficulty with a prolonged attack. We are going to try some different configurations and see if we can bump up the connection rate.
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500MHz Pentium III with 256mb of RAM.
heh. That explains it, alright!
Seriously, our virtual guarantee of non-competition has made feasible encryption research that otherwise might not have happened.
Congratulations, Mr. Clinton and Friends, you now know that the high-tech advantage goes to those who work in the field rather than those who sit on their advantage. You have effectively subsidized far more foreign participants. Can we get back to a rational encryption policy now, please?
Created. After that, well, we'd best be careful. ;) If it evolved originally we'd just call it life.
You don't shoot tanks with handguns and hunting rifles -- but that doesn't mean they don't exert a restraining force on government. Government leaders and military leaders' families and friends live throughout the countryside.
;)
I'm sure that the leaders of China would have thought much longer and harder before bringing in the army and tanks against their own protesting citizens if guns were distributed throughout the civilian population of China. And, no, it wouldn't be because they were worried about the soldiers and tanks getting shot.
You call mwillis (the poster you are replying to) a moron, then go on to quote Bart Simpson saying that "secondary education in U.S., ... sucks and blows at the same time." Alas, I think you are way too critical of hasty details in the previous post and pay not enough attention to the central points. Yet, I must agree with your B.S. quotation. ;)
First, note that the cow was dying in a field, not a desert. In any event, I think mwillis was not making the point that the dying cow doesn't leave a fossil but only that they are extremely rare -- which is surely true. [Ed note: the publisher takes no responsibility for the opinions in this comment or for assumptions about what a previous poster might have meant.]
Imagine for a moment that fossils of large animals were not rare. Suppose we had, lying around, fossils of 10% of the large animals that have died in the previous 1,000,000 generations... Ignoring a few exceptions and the buildup of fossils before that, we now have about 100,000 times as many large fossils as live large animals! Yep, fossils are rare alright -- and the "moron" is right about the cow. If you doubt it, check out some old farmland where many cows died of natural causes.
Of course, ancient fossils in good shape will be far rarer than recent ones.
So, do you actually disagree with mwillis or are you just giving him a hard time? Did you actually have a relevant point at all?
...or, maybe a bug ate it. They got bugs in that part of the world big enough to eat a whole web server!
While this applies specifically to Intel-based SGI systems -- not the big NUMA servers and MIPS workstatsions -- it may represent an incremental strategy to move completely to Linux over the next 5-10 years. SGI seems to be a company that could really benefit from moving completely to Linux. Unfortunately, they are going to be stuck developing and supporting Irix for a long time to come. I would be surprised if they could move the high end to Linux in less than 5 or 6 years.
Hmmm... a solar eclipse only occurs when the moon is new and a lunar eclipse only occurs when the moon is full. Therefore, they should never be less than a fortnight apart. ;)
A port of Domino can only be good news ... and I can't wait to see benchmarks. Do any of your notes users have the ability to do a little ballpark benchmark?
... and in the wheeler-dealer spirit of Salt Lake City and the Olympics, what do we need to do to get it moved to Tallahassee, FL? We're a Paaarty town and we really want the party here...
Now, what do we have to get a commitment today?
Actually, there is a big difference between your examples and mine. In my examples, the uses are as basic, natural, and innocent as, say, using a computer is to a hacker. A computer is generally the most common means to a perfectly legal livelihood for a hacker.
;)
To pick on one of your examples, a robber using a gun for his livelihood is not nearly as legal -- or as defendable. Now, you can feel free to quibble with my examples.
Now what good can come from banning a hacker from using a computer? Surely that is an unconstitutional violation of the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments!
It seems sort of like banning prostitutes from having sex or embezzelers from owning or using money. I guess when they do that I'll believe again in "equal protection under the law".