Quality, openness and accountability aside, I would suggest that bugs or vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer would be exploited quicker and more often because of the large user base and more importantly because of self-enflating (and militant) attitudes like the above poster. Simply put, it's more bang for your buck attacking IE, and less morally troubling if IE users are in line for a Darwinian end. (The Dodo deserved to become extinct because it was stupid afterall.)
Then there's the demographic differences between users of Internet Explorer and various open source browsers; these affect how often vulnerabilities are discovered and how quickly they are fixed. I would doubt very much that the average user of IE would look at the source code of his browser if he had access to it, just a little bit less likely than the average user of Mozilla doing the same.
Is it just me or are both those 3dmark scores pretty low?
Perhaps comparison with current tech would give it some context. They say that running at the lowest resolution should remove the video card from being a bottleneck, yet there's something wrong with the scores!
Firewire supports data transfer rates (at this time) of 100 to 400 Mbps (bits)
USB 1.1 which is the most common standard implemented at this point is 12Mbps, though most low-speed devices operate at 1.5Mbps.
USB 2.0 offers 480Mbps.
If you believe the current marketing direction, USB (though now fast) is really complimentary to firewire. One is aimed at professional uses, the other for slow and/or home uses. USB is much cheaper and simpler and performance suffers as you might expect.
Interesting, I hadn't considered that. Still, I've had a lot of tape media die for various known and unknown reasons. I agree, it would be too fragile, so I guess it would be more useful as online-but-slow data access (near-line).
However, your comment on it not being useful - I wasn't suggesting that there be no intelligence used, just that there were alternatives to (often proprietary) tape formats. Perhaps these drives could be used to journal server space as some WORM drives are used currently - point in time recovery, perhaps with a time-based overwrite. I don't blame you for your interpretation, perhaps my intent was not clearly expressed.
Also, I would think that there would be some as yet fictional packaging which allowed the drive to be used safely under these circumstances. I am supposing based on what is technically possible, not just what the industry has fed us to this date. As always there are very likely reasons why this has not been done, and tape technology has advanced in many ways to overcome it's weaknesses - such as on-tape static RAM for tape content indexes which give some approximation of random access.
I did some research on backup options, and as a backup device (assuming you could use them like removable media) they would be very competitive price-wise and possibly much better in performance. I used the higher price given in the article of $399, I assume that the price would be better after volume release.
DLT Type IV (35Gb) - $1.8/Gb
Sony AIT (50Gb) - $1.58/Gb
Maxtor Disk (320Gb) - $1.25/Gb
LTO Ultrium (100Gb) - $1.15/Gb
Super DLT (110Gb) - $1.09/Gb
Where the disk would really shine is in scenarios where random access was important, such as retrieving the CEO's lost e-mail. Also, from a recovery perspective, you could use something as simple as a file-system with backed-up files on it - the simpler the access method the more utility it will have. A file system such as NTFS with file-level compression would give you lots of space too.
In my experience, Windows Server installations decay much faster because there are countless crazy staff who think that because it's Windows they can administer them perfectly. No Windows server should have Office, GetRight, or Napster installed. Nor should people be able to just log into them unless they can be trusted not to break them. If the same fear of UNIX was felt for Windows then it would be seen a more stable platform too.
And is a nice OS too.
Pity it's so low on everyone's port list.
Clearly, all people want to do is illicit some sign that this person being interviewed is going to add some skill or experience to the team. Mostly interviewers are worse at asking questions than the interviewees are at answering them. Some get off on the power it gives them too, in a lot of organisations, you can't blame them. There are very few "dumb" people out there on either side of this fence, they just need the right guidance to bring out their abilities.
I moved from NZ last year, though I wasn't living in Christchurch (go Hurricanes...) I did have a good experience with high speed internet where I was. I did have a cap, afterwhich I would have to pay for data, however I only hit it once in the time I had the service. The service was from Saturn - now owned by Telstra, the same company being trashed by angry Australians, so it may be worse. I see that Clear (also now owned by Telstra) is offering a service called Tempest that you may be able to take advantage of which is unlimited.
On the other hand, here in Atlantic Canada I can get unlimited DSL (2mbps/512kbps) for $39.95/mo. Woohoo.
I know this is not exactly on topic but this is something I am really sick of... why write "then" when you mean "than"? Do you people really say "then" in that context? Or perhaps you really mean something was better, and _then_ became a Crackerjack box?
I was wondering what kind of strange language the title of this conjecture was written in - instead of the e with the acute, I was seeing a rather less roman and definitely more asian pictograph. As it turns out, my browser thought this page was encoded in UTF-8. Switching back to the regular ISO-8859-1 encoding everything seemed to make more sense. Did any one else notice that or was it just my browser?
I realize that this is not entirely on-topic, just curious tho!
This may sound trite, but documentation is there to document your actions, plans and outcomes. I don't think it really matters how you organise your documentation so long as you can get it back again later without too much hassle.
I suggest having templates for all the major areas you would need to have documented - or at least identify the things you want documented and make sure everyone does their part. Things like proposals, project charter, agendas, minutes, functional specs, design documents, project plans, change requests, test cases, test plans, etc.
Obviously, this all ties in with project management and your methodology of choice. If you don't go out and get a consultant to guide you, at least read a few books and get some ideas.
I've actually had free standing unit leak into a server room. We only noticed it when a room adjacent to the server room had a wet patch on the carpet. The rats' nest of power and network cables under the false floor in the server room were all sitting in about an inch of water.
Needless to say, we got it cleaned up quickly. However, just because we were lucky and didn't get electrocuted, or have servers explode or anything else as dramatic doesn't mean you shouldn't be extremely careful!
I didn't see the first season, but if that is "toned down" then I'm glad I didn't. I don't think he's an asshole or anything, but he gets in the way of what is an otherwise great show.
Got to give him some credit for being a Zappa. Frank was the man.
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Oh I wish I hadn't just used my last mod point...
Quality, openness and accountability aside, I would suggest that bugs or vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer would be exploited quicker and more often because of the large user base and more importantly because of self-enflating (and militant) attitudes like the above poster. Simply put, it's more bang for your buck attacking IE, and less morally troubling if IE users are in line for a Darwinian end. (The Dodo deserved to become extinct because it was stupid afterall.)
Then there's the demographic differences between users of Internet Explorer and various open source browsers; these affect how often vulnerabilities are discovered and how quickly they are fixed. I would doubt very much that the average user of IE would look at the source code of his browser if he had access to it, just a little bit less likely than the average user of Mozilla doing the same.
I thought it looked like a sub, but what a bad place to stick one of those unless you want to dampen its effect...
Is it just me or are both those 3dmark scores pretty low?
Perhaps comparison with current tech would give it some context. They say that running at the lowest resolution should remove the video card from being a bottleneck, yet there's something wrong with the scores!
It's that Any key that DOS applications mentioned that I'm still looking for...
I guess with one of these, you could project your own.
Firewire supports data transfer rates (at this time) of 100 to 400 Mbps (bits)
USB 1.1 which is the most common standard implemented at this point is 12Mbps, though most low-speed devices operate at 1.5Mbps.
USB 2.0 offers 480Mbps.
If you believe the current marketing direction, USB (though now fast) is really complimentary to firewire. One is aimed at professional uses, the other for slow and/or home uses. USB is much cheaper and simpler and performance suffers as you might expect.
Perhaps they are still developing on their 1983 systems where a 1 gig software limit is no problem...
I guess it has to be written in perl too, right?
Nothing that can't be solved by packaging and software :-)
Interesting, I hadn't considered that. Still, I've had a lot of tape media die for various known and unknown reasons. I agree, it would be too fragile, so I guess it would be more useful as online-but-slow data access (near-line).
However, your comment on it not being useful - I wasn't suggesting that there be no intelligence used, just that there were alternatives to (often proprietary) tape formats. Perhaps these drives could be used to journal server space as some WORM drives are used currently - point in time recovery, perhaps with a time-based overwrite. I don't blame you for your interpretation, perhaps my intent was not clearly expressed.
Also, I would think that there would be some as yet fictional packaging which allowed the drive to be used safely under these circumstances. I am supposing based on what is technically possible, not just what the industry has fed us to this date. As always there are very likely reasons why this has not been done, and tape technology has advanced in many ways to overcome it's weaknesses - such as on-tape static RAM for tape content indexes which give some approximation of random access.
I did some research on backup options, and as a backup device (assuming you could use them like removable media) they would be very competitive price-wise and possibly much better in performance. I used the higher price given in the article of $399, I assume that the price would be better after volume release.
DLT Type IV (35Gb) - $1.8/Gb
Sony AIT (50Gb) - $1.58/Gb
Maxtor Disk (320Gb) - $1.25/Gb
LTO Ultrium (100Gb) - $1.15/Gb
Super DLT (110Gb) - $1.09/Gb
Where the disk would really shine is in scenarios where random access was important, such as retrieving the CEO's lost e-mail. Also, from a recovery perspective, you could use something as simple as a file-system with backed-up files on it - the simpler the access method the more utility it will have. A file system such as NTFS with file-level compression would give you lots of space too.
From the article: "express and conspicuous audible and visible prompt in case there is a need to alter the user."
I wish my software was able to alter the user.
What city doesn't have flowers planted around it? None that I can think of. Not that I have a sample size worthy of statistical confidence.
In my experience, Windows Server installations decay much faster because there are countless crazy staff who think that because it's Windows they can administer them perfectly. No Windows server should have Office, GetRight, or Napster installed. Nor should people be able to just log into them unless they can be trusted not to break them. If the same fear of UNIX was felt for Windows then it would be seen a more stable platform too.
And is a nice OS too.
Pity it's so low on everyone's port list.
Clearly, all people want to do is illicit some sign that this person being interviewed is going to add some skill or experience to the team. Mostly interviewers are worse at asking questions than the interviewees are at answering them. Some get off on the power it gives them too, in a lot of organisations, you can't blame them. There are very few "dumb" people out there on either side of this fence, they just need the right guidance to bring out their abilities.
I moved from NZ last year, though I wasn't living in Christchurch (go Hurricanes...) I did have a good experience with high speed internet where I was. I did have a cap, afterwhich I would have to pay for data, however I only hit it once in the time I had the service. The service was from Saturn - now owned by Telstra, the same company being trashed by angry Australians, so it may be worse. I see that Clear (also now owned by Telstra) is offering a service called Tempest that you may be able to take advantage of which is unlimited.
On the other hand, here in Atlantic Canada I can get unlimited DSL (2mbps/512kbps) for $39.95/mo. Woohoo.
I know this is not exactly on topic but this is something I am really sick of... why write "then" when you mean "than"? Do you people really say "then" in that context? Or perhaps you really mean something was better, and _then_ became a Crackerjack box?
Ok, rant over.
I was wondering what kind of strange language the title of this conjecture was written in - instead of the e with the acute, I was seeing a rather less roman and definitely more asian pictograph. As it turns out, my browser thought this page was encoded in UTF-8. Switching back to the regular ISO-8859-1 encoding everything seemed to make more sense. Did any one else notice that or was it just my browser?
I realize that this is not entirely on-topic, just curious tho!
I just had to look this up...
evolute:
the locus of the center of curvature or the envelope of the normals of a curve
I thought you were supposed to add a malloc(1024) in that loop too...
Sheesh!
Perhaps it is the new graphics and installer? I'll let you know when I have downloaded it :-)
This may sound trite, but documentation is there to document your actions, plans and outcomes. I don't think it really matters how you organise your documentation so long as you can get it back again later without too much hassle.
I suggest having templates for all the major areas you would need to have documented - or at least identify the things you want documented and make sure everyone does their part. Things like proposals, project charter, agendas, minutes, functional specs, design documents, project plans, change requests, test cases, test plans, etc.
Obviously, this all ties in with project management and your methodology of choice. If you don't go out and get a consultant to guide you, at least read a few books and get some ideas.
I've actually had free standing unit leak into a server room. We only noticed it when a room adjacent to the server room had a wet patch on the carpet. The rats' nest of power and network cables under the false floor in the server room were all sitting in about an inch of water.
Needless to say, we got it cleaned up quickly. However, just because we were lucky and didn't get electrocuted, or have servers explode or anything else as dramatic doesn't mean you shouldn't be extremely careful!
Actually, Lilo is brand of inflatable pool accessories, such as those things you float on while sipping cocktails. As one does, of course.
Enough said.
I didn't see the first season, but if that is "toned down" then I'm glad I didn't. I don't think he's an asshole or anything, but he gets in the way of what is an otherwise great show.
Got to give him some credit for being a Zappa. Frank was the man.