Should be upvoted more - many shops do this, sell a product at a nominally "low" price but then rely on add-ons like meteor-strike insurance or phantom "setup/calibration" fees. To the point they even try to scare customers or magically run out of stock.
I seem to remember that elsewhere it was said that Google wanted to enter the power market. They are a pretty big consumer themselves and are apparently looking to be a supplier but as yet, are not a producer.
Energy trading is a complex game. Perhaps they hope to get a better advantage by themselves getting better knowledge of how much power people are busing and when.
You can potentially use any tool chain to build Linux, but can you redistribute it?
Forget the tool-chain for a moment. The real benefit is the GPL. It protected the kernel and toolchain so that improvements are shared in a developer community.
Agreed. One of the ways that Linux gets in to an enterprise is "under the radar". A turnkey box is low-profile. It may not even show a Linux splash-screen. It may not even have a console.
I have deployed fileservers (Samba) as well as other kinds of backend systems.When it doesn't show itself to the user, they don't care.
Recycling is a good and wonderful thing. However, a telephone is a normally on device. Yes, you can reduce power consumption in an old PC by removing unnecessary hardware but we are still talking about one very hungry telephone!
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Ofbcourse, the real joke was that the Deathstar was run by Brits, and most of the management team were actors normally specialising in playing villains in cop shows. Unsurprising really, as that part was filmed in Pinewood studios.
There is an excellent book, called "The Hidden Wiring" about the British constitution. In there, we learn that the monarch has a right to be consulted by political leaders and to advise and to warn. The politicians do not have to take notice, but they must listen.
Of course, the major difference between the head of state in the US and the UK is that in the UK, he/she is unelected but must remain apolitical.
I have also come across a Herr Wanke. He works for a British company in Germany so it must of been intersting when London calls and he answers with a "Wanke"
This must be a new record for/.!!! The original Eurex is based in Frankfurt, Germany and has been running since 1989 when it was known as DTB. Eurex is a financial futures and options exchange,
The backend runs OpenVMS and the critical files are kept on solid-state disks. Originally DEC ESE20s. In particular, the order-books are kept on mirrored solid-state disks to allow for fast matching between buyer and seller.
some idiot didn't sanitize the data before it went out. Once the data passes out of direct control, it should be cleaned. It really isn't that much of a deal and is something that good old Perl does well.
Wtf were you doing giving out live data sets? Your company deserved to be screwed and in Europe it could have been sued as well.
We had a project with a lot of info, something like half a million very confidential names and addresses. We just ran a perl script which transformed names and addresses to something that was reasonable (no duplicate data where it shouldn't be) and munged everything. Yes, the data wasn't completely sanitised, but it would be pretty damn hard to reverse engineer.
Ah, Gentoo, means I get the latest stuff as I install it. Does XP do that? Can I download and compile XP in a secure environment? Was it ever compiled in a secure environment? Probably not because MS actively discourages quality and security because it compromises their bottom line. Did they ever stop firing those who objected to shoddy QA and industry bottom security in order to meet ship dates and cost targets?
Sorry, you misunderstood about operating systems. True, Gatesy doesn't get it nor his ogre in chief Balmer - which is why I can't extract the worlds most buggy browser from the operating system without a major headache. With IE, you get Outlook Express for free!!! True I believe Moz gives you an Email client as well but Moz's Email client is flawed by outlook standard - no arbitrary execution of code. Give me their raw kernel, and I mnight be able to make a secure system, but not with the crap they ship with it.
Still, the good thing about choosing Microsoft is that you can always blame the system when you can't configure for five nines. Nobody would believe an MS uptime of a year, let alone two (I have seen non-MS uptimes of 5 years, including rolling upgrades and cross platform migrations)!
As fordue dilligence, you are probably aware of it as a clapped out VC buzzword. It isn't when you have regulators on your back. You start with a policy defining data and service availability. If it is a disposable facility like an Internet cafe or a high school, fine then maybe MS is good enough. If you want to bet a billion dollars a day, then forget MS as a server unless you really like your chances.
It isn't pro-gun but Moore is an NRA member and basically has and uses guns. He may not be a Guns & Ammo reader but he is from and part of a gun owning community by his own admission.
His point, covered in political BS from all sides (including his own) was very interesting but he was showing that it isn't the guns that make a community dangerous. Just scan through that section on Canada again.
Moore annoys a lot of people who then immediately switch off, but actually some of his points are very interesting. Forget the kneejerk reactions for a moment, but why are we so likely to die in the US and not so a few miles away in Canada? Whether you are right or left wing, that is an interesting question about how we can live a little safer.
It gets interesting because the RH fork isn't a straight Linus kernel - there are various ac thingies (as well as other fixes). On RH, I build my own kernel but from a kernel source rpm.
Why do they continue to release distros of Linux without the known bugs fixed?
No, I run Gentoo. It has all patches to date by the time installation finishes. Whilst the install is running, the system is locked down with no services running.
Please show me an up to date XP that I can download, and optimise for my machine.
Likewise with OSX, Unix, Opera, Sendmail [oh lord, Sendmail... possibly the most deeply flawed piece of software ever...], Mozilla, etc.
It appears like all Microsofties you are deeply confused as to what constitutes an operating system.
I would agree that Time Travel probably is possible. However the conditions would probably prevent the average human from ever negotiating the wormholes or whatever.
Michael Moore may be abhored by the right and loved by the left but he is pro-gun and raised a very interesting point that Canada is much more heavily armed than the US - but with less gun crime.
A gun is a tool. If an argument is going to happen and a gun is around, it will most likely get very serious.
Excuse me for laughing. Microsoft embraces and extends standards as anti-competitive behaviour. They started well, I agree and for a time they were more conformant than Netscape, but Mozilla has moved on.
They just don't like it when a company decides to make their own 'standards'. Eolas have no problems with open source and W3C compliant commercial browsers.
Is this unfair, well I suppose it could be seen that way, but MS have been trying to drive browser standards in their own direction.
Regrettably, you always start with an unpatched system and there can be some time before you have any system fully updated. Office pathes were never as automatic as Windows/IE - you had to explictly download them and the old vulnerability scanner (HFECHECK) didn't pick them up automatically (strange that, it could pick up patch problems with SQL Server). On the other hand there are still some nasties lurking in Internet Explorer.
I still use O2K from time to time but the distro it came from was already SR1 and I was religious about patches. I can imagine others letting them slip by.
These guys are under time pressure so I can understand that maybe their system administration wasn't in the best shape. However I still don't understand why all the source code could be so easily stolen in one go (few people need access to the authentication source) and what the firewall was doing all this time.
Leaking in flight happens with a lot of fountain pens. I use the ball point more often now.
The thing is that I was given a copy of the ballpoint at a conference. Obviously no snow or gold, but the mechanism was similar as well as the handling (mass and feel). I gues it may have cost a dollar or so, at least $100 less than the real one that I bought (in Switzerland), but writes almost as well. The Mont Blanc is more impressive but I love to know who made this other one.
I have both fountain pen and ball-point. I mostly use the latter after the former leaked during a flight.
Expensive, yes, but there are some good copies around with the same solid feel and weight for a fraction of the price. You just miss out on the snow on the cap.
Actually they *do* point the finger at Outlook and the preview pane. Outlook has got a lot better ('Microsoft' just sent me a 'patch', but the.exe was blocked automatically), but it is still open to exploits.
Most places where I work that have 'interesting source or data' have a machine with no email and very limited internet access (i.e., heavily firewalled) for development and a separate box with the usual level of access for office productivity (?) apps but the firewall wasn't quite so harsh. Production was on a completely separate network (with an airgap).
Hardware costs nothing now. The real issue is system and network administration time.
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Should be upvoted more - many shops do this, sell a product at a nominally "low" price but then rely on add-ons like meteor-strike insurance or phantom "setup/calibration" fees. To the point they even try to scare customers or magically run out of stock.
I seem to remember that elsewhere it was said that Google wanted to enter the power market. They are a pretty big consumer themselves and are apparently looking to be a supplier but as yet, are not a producer.
Energy trading is a complex game. Perhaps they hope to get a better advantage by themselves getting better knowledge of how much power people are busing and when.
Forget the tool-chain for a moment. The real benefit is the GPL. It protected the kernel and toolchain so that improvements are shared in a developer community.
I have deployed fileservers (Samba) as well as other kinds of backend systems.When it doesn't show itself to the user, they don't care.
Recycling is a good and wonderful thing. However, a telephone is a normally on device. Yes, you can reduce power consumption in an old PC by removing unnecessary hardware but we are still talking about one very hungry telephone!
Ofbcourse, the real joke was that the Deathstar was run by Brits, and most of the management team were actors normally specialising in playing villains in cop shows. Unsurprising really, as that part was filmed in Pinewood studios.
Of course, the major difference between the head of state in the US and the UK is that in the UK, he/she is unelected but must remain apolitical.
I have also come across a Herr Wanke. He works for a British company in Germany so it must of been intersting when London calls and he answers with a "Wanke"
The backend runs OpenVMS and the critical files are kept on solid-state disks. Originally DEC ESE20s. In particular, the order-books are kept on mirrored solid-state disks to allow for fast matching between buyer and seller.
some idiot didn't sanitize the data before it went out. Once the data passes out of direct control, it should be cleaned. It really isn't that much of a deal and is something that good old Perl does well.
We had a project with a lot of info, something like half a million very confidential names and addresses. We just ran a perl script which transformed names and addresses to something that was reasonable (no duplicate data where it shouldn't be) and munged everything. Yes, the data wasn't completely sanitised, but it would be pretty damn hard to reverse engineer.
Sorry, you misunderstood about operating systems. True, Gatesy doesn't get it nor his ogre in chief Balmer - which is why I can't extract the worlds most buggy browser from the operating system without a major headache. With IE, you get Outlook Express for free!!! True I believe Moz gives you an Email client as well but Moz's Email client is flawed by outlook standard - no arbitrary execution of code. Give me their raw kernel, and I mnight be able to make a secure system, but not with the crap they ship with it.
Still, the good thing about choosing Microsoft is that you can always blame the system when you can't configure for five nines. Nobody would believe an MS uptime of a year, let alone two (I have seen non-MS uptimes of 5 years, including rolling upgrades and cross platform migrations)!
As fordue dilligence, you are probably aware of it as a clapped out VC buzzword. It isn't when you have regulators on your back. You start with a policy defining data and service availability. If it is a disposable facility like an Internet cafe or a high school, fine then maybe MS is good enough. If you want to bet a billion dollars a day, then forget MS as a server unless you really like your chances.
His point, covered in political BS from all sides (including his own) was very interesting but he was showing that it isn't the guns that make a community dangerous. Just scan through that section on Canada again.
Moore annoys a lot of people who then immediately switch off, but actually some of his points are very interesting. Forget the kneejerk reactions for a moment, but why are we so likely to die in the US and not so a few miles away in Canada? Whether you are right or left wing, that is an interesting question about how we can live a little safer.
In post Soviet Russia OpenBSD runs firewalls!!!!
It gets interesting because the RH fork isn't a straight Linus kernel - there are various ac thingies (as well as other fixes). On RH, I build my own kernel but from a kernel source rpm.
No, I run Gentoo. It has all patches to date by the time installation finishes. Whilst the install is running, the system is locked down with no services running.
Please show me an up to date XP that I can download, and optimise for my machine.
Likewise with OSX, Unix, Opera, Sendmail [oh lord, Sendmail... possibly the most deeply flawed piece of software ever...], Mozilla, etc.
It appears like all Microsofties you are deeply confused as to what constitutes an operating system.
I would agree that Time Travel probably is possible. However the conditions would probably prevent the average human from ever negotiating the wormholes or whatever.
A gun is a tool. If an argument is going to happen and a gun is around, it will most likely get very serious.
Excuse me for laughing. Microsoft embraces and extends standards as anti-competitive behaviour. They started well, I agree and for a time they were more conformant than Netscape, but Mozilla has moved on.
Is this unfair, well I suppose it could be seen that way, but MS have been trying to drive browser standards in their own direction.
I still use O2K from time to time but the distro it came from was already SR1 and I was religious about patches. I can imagine others letting them slip by.
These guys are under time pressure so I can understand that maybe their system administration wasn't in the best shape. However I still don't understand why all the source code could be so easily stolen in one go (few people need access to the authentication source) and what the firewall was doing all this time.
The thing is that I was given a copy of the ballpoint at a conference. Obviously no snow or gold, but the mechanism was similar as well as the handling (mass and feel). I gues it may have cost a dollar or so, at least $100 less than the real one that I bought (in Switzerland), but writes almost as well. The Mont Blanc is more impressive but I love to know who made this other one.
Expensive, yes, but there are some good copies around with the same solid feel and weight for a fraction of the price. You just miss out on the snow on the cap.
Actually they *do* point the finger at Outlook and the preview pane. Outlook has got a lot better ('Microsoft' just sent me a 'patch', but the .exe was blocked automatically), but it is still open to exploits.
Hardware costs nothing now. The real issue is system and network administration time.