I'm wondering: if you use many old CPUs (486, early Pentiums) vs. not so many recent (PIII/Athlon, ~1GHz) wouldn't you pay for your elecricity bill more than you saved on the hardware?
Is there anything like a MIPS/Wh rating for CPUs? (Would thermodynamics dictate a certain minimum?)
With a seperate power supply and hard disk per CPU (i.e. complete box) I would imagine that old PCs generate a *lot* of heat per CPU cycle.
Has anybody done measurements/calculations on this?
Actually, the they switched everything over to.99 and.95 with the invention of the cash register, the idea being to force the cashier to open up the cash box to retrieve change, which makes it much harder
for them to pocket the cash for themselves without anyone noticing.
Just in case you were being serious -- that is utter bullshit. (The reason is of course psychology: No matter how smart you are and if you know about it or not -- if you casually see 14.95 you think 14, not 15. That's an extra buck for every item sold)
I think that the text means: (extra memory support, floating-point capabilities) increase the performance of (Web hosting, data warehousing and other applications)
Yes, which means:
(extra memory support AND floating-point capabilities) increase the performance of (Web hosting AND data warehousing AND other applications)
The above poster simply pointed out that this is bull for the floating point part. And in fact it is bull for the memory part as well, unless you actually have more than 4GB RAM installed. 32-bits are perfectly fine to access all of your 256MB RAM. (Or am I missing something here?)
Last time I looked, SuSE violated the FHS by using/sbin/init.d and having the distribution install software into/opt
7.2 has it's init scipts in/etc/init.d. (Don't know about 7.0/7.1 -- skipped those)
SuSE "aims at FHS conformity" and is actively participating in the LSB project.
So they are getting there...
Windows NT - innovated from OS2 ?? what are you smoking - it owes more to X windows than that (hint - what happens when NT crashed - i dumps core) the back end is similar in many ways to Unix -...
Erm.. NT is actually not only "innovated from OS/2", it is completely based on the OS/2 codebase. (You might remember in the early days of NT those "OS2!SYS" error messages that kept coming up...
What are you smoking?
Windows 98 - I'll give you that one but it is much more than that - it was next generation tech that continued stability and useablity enhancements.
"next generation"? Ok, you might have fooled some until this point. "next generation" by itself sounds very much like a marketroid who doesn't know what he's talking about and doesn't have anything substantial to say. But "next generation" used in the context of Win98? -- That just gave it away. Thanks for playing. (And say hello to Bill...)
Nobody would have a problem with your products not being original if
they were of decent quality (hey, maybe even good)
You didn't claim to be that super genius innovator
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But it would be insane to propose MS should force-feed this server patch to all their customers.
Microsoft never had problem trying to force-feed their products to every single bloody PC on this planet.
They simply don't give a sh*t. And why would they? As long as the press is kissing their butt, what's to worry about? The customer? Yeah, right.
Maybe they're trying the same as with the swiss boy a year or so ago (the 10 year old who was charged with sexually abusing his sister)? They fucked up, but they don't want to admit it, so instead they intentionally fuck up again on a technicality and then 'have to' let him go...
Stanley sell crowbar's, Colt Sell gun's, Coates sell beer and Ford sell Car's.
The crowbar's what? The gun's what? the car's what? Sorry for the OT rant, but this is really getting out of hand here on/.
From a fortune:
Dear Mister Language Person: What is the purpose of the apostrophe?
Answer: The apostrophe is used mainly in hand-lettered small business signs to alert the reader than an "S" is coming up at the end of a word, as in: WE DO NOT EXCEPT PERSONAL CHECK'S, or: NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ITEM'S. Another important grammar concept to bear in mind when creating hand- lettered small-business signs is that you should put quotation marks around random words for decoration, as in "TRY" OUR HOT DOG'S, or even TRY "OUR" HOT DOG'S. -- Dave Barry, "Tips for Writer's"
And so on! Really, I'd love a better response. Crypto's what I do, and I wrote the previous rant on not *too* much sleep. You've gotta admit, Madore's system just isn't very good crypto, but if I missed the reasons why it isn't, I'm all ears.
Sure it's not good crypto. Because it is not supposed to be crypto. It's about spreading information sources in such a way that no single location can be pinpointed as publishing that information. You should read the article, maybe.
Dear Mister Language Person: What is the purpose of the apostrophe?
Answer: The apostrophe is used mainly in hand-lettered small business signs to alert the reader than an "S" is coming up at the end of a word, as in: WE DO NOT EXCEPT PERSONAL CHECK'S, or: NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ITEM'S. Another important grammar concept to bear in mind when creating hand- lettered small-business signs is that you should put quotation marks around random words for decoration, as in "TRY" OUR HOT DOG'S, or even TRY "OUR" HOT DOG'S. -- Dave Barry, "Tips for Writer's"
If your system is cracked, and then used to attack me, can I sue you for negligence?
Bad idea. I'd say go after the bad guy, not the dumb guy.
The problem is rather that if you go around cracking/DoSing other systems you don't really have to fear any consequences. With some very rare--and in my eyes very welcome--exceptions like Kevin Midnick.
How else do we get companies to put proper practices in place?
With time it will get harder to hire clueless techies. I still have hope;)
Like IP spoofing, for example. IP spoofing would more or less come to a halt if ISPs, Universities, and corporations would put some simple filters into place, preventing packets with impossible source addresses from leaving their networks.
I very much agree with you. I wonder if there's any reason besides the obvious costs of installing/maintaining such filters that they don't do it?
In Germany, all mobile phone providers where required to 'upgrade' their relay stations with decryption/listening devices.
Also, as an ISP you are required to install and maintain at your own cost remote access devices for 'big brother'. I.e. a dedicated ISDN link with access to your customer db. (I am not sure, though, if the latter is being enforced. Haven't heard about it for a while, but we got 'the letter' about 2 years ago.)
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Is there anything like a MIPS/Wh rating for CPUs? (Would thermodynamics dictate a certain minimum?)
With a seperate power supply and hard disk per CPU (i.e. complete box) I would imagine that old PCs generate a *lot* of heat per CPU cycle.
Has anybody done measurements/calculations on this?
So "OS X 10.1" is pronounced "OS ten ten point one"?
(extra memory support AND floating-point capabilities) increase the performance of (Web hosting AND data warehousing AND other applications)
The above poster simply pointed out that this is bull for the floating point part. And in fact it is bull for the memory part as well, unless you actually have more than 4GB RAM installed. 32-bits are perfectly fine to access all of your 256MB RAM. (Or am I missing something here?)
SuSE "aims at FHS conformity" and is actively participating in the LSB project.
So they are getting there...
They simply don't give a sh*t. And why would they? As long as the press is kissing their butt, what's to worry about? The customer? Yeah, right.
But then again, it was in 7.2.1, not 7.2.1.1, so maybe it doesn't count?
Someone please explain.
Maybe they're trying the same as with the swiss boy a year or so ago (the 10 year old who was charged with sexually abusing his sister)? They fucked up, but they don't want to admit it, so instead they intentionally fuck up again on a technicality and then 'have to' let him go...
Sorry for the OT rant, but this is really getting out of hand here on
From a fortune:
- Lazy/hasty coders
- Stupid (or very inexperienced) coders
Language isn't one of them.Aut agere aut mori.
(Either action or death.)
Isn't it rather "Work or die?" ;)
Sure it's not good crypto. Because it is not supposed to be crypto. It's about spreading information sources in such a way that no single location can be pinpointed as publishing that information.
You should read the article, maybe.
...This bubble is formed using the same reliable technology now used in inkjet printers.
;-)
Erm... mybe I've been shopping for printers at the wrong places, but reliability is not what comes to mind when I think about inkjet bubbles...
And what are these bubbles made of? Where do they go? Will that switch be dripping from used bubble material? Will I have to refill cardridges?
The problem is rather that if you go around cracking/DoSing other systems you don't really have to fear any consequences. With some very rare--and in my eyes very welcome--exceptions like Kevin Midnick.
With time it will get harder to hire clueless techies. I still have hope
I very much agree with you. I wonder if there's any reason besides the obvious costs of installing/maintaining such filters that they don't do it?
In Germany, all mobile phone providers where required to 'upgrade' their relay stations with decryption/listening devices.
Also, as an ISP you are required to install and maintain at your own cost remote access devices for 'big brother'. I.e. a dedicated ISDN link with access to your customer db. (I am not sure, though, if the latter is being enforced. Haven't heard about it for a while, but we got 'the letter' about 2 years ago.)
The fact that your post hasn't been rated funny shows how true it actually is.
/.ers
Even among
That's more than escape velocity from earth. Now we can really blow things away...