... him, for whatever reason. I don't agree that murder is always the best solution, because eventually it gets hard to hide the bodies... however in cases like this it's the only real option, and from those of us who do spam admin and blocking-- we thank you (even if you were part of the russian mafia who spam us with viruses all the damn time... one less spammer is one less spammer.)
Although, I don't know that it will be a popular solution for the most part in television setups.... and would it really be good in the long run anyways? At least when watching tv we have some chat time with the family... with head phones on that'll go away... and that doesnt seem like a good thing to me... people for the most part are isolated enough.
I think the understated thing here is the severity of the typical break in though.
In windows most users install and run as administrator, they can do pretty much anything. Thus even small application security holes result in someone being able to completely obliterate the machine.
In unix most people install as root and run as an individual user. Thus most security holes unix has are relatively minor at worst executing the resultant code as the user who it is currently running as... which typically means it does very little.
You could further go on about how many script kiddies target windows as compared to other os's etc.etc.. but that's just getting into security through obscurity as the first poster here mentioned and "thats just silly"(tm).
I don't mind spelling and grammer trolls, my spelling and grammer are horrible... but come on, if you're going to pick at someone else about it, at least make sure your spelling and grammer is impecible. Your grammer is off on the first sentance, and you spelled say wrong on the second.
Besides it depends on the day, when I type really fast, I do sometimes type ALITTLE.
The "cost" is varied based on what kinda shop you run.
An all windows shop is probally going to have some issues integrating linux and open source into their daily routine, especially if the admins don't have some experience with it.
A unix shop can integrate and probally has integrated some open source solutions for years, even moving to linux from unix is trivial.
The expense of opensource/linux/*bsd can really be mostly determined by the quality of your administration staff and programming staff depending on the product and market you're looking at.
Short story: One of the companies we work with just hired an "Admin" (I use the term in a very loose sense). He's in college, bout half way through an mcse and shy the times the mcse material has forced him to a command prompt... he's never seen one. He doesn't know how to do most windows administration tasks, and linux/*bsd/unix scares the hell out of him. For them to move to a opensource OS and software would send him screaching for the hills. He's afraid to login to the SINGLE fileserver that runs linux that they have... even using webmin.
On the other hand, you could take any of the admin staff here and drop them in his place and we'd be comfortable moving between windows and pretty much any other modern os. Course between the 3 of us we have in excess of 40 years of experience.
The sad thing is, they are paying the admin at the company we work with what I would consider to be less than most technical support jobs payscale... to "save money"... but some of the choices he's making and design methodology he uses (ask his professor generally and then pray) aren't going to work well in the long run and he's going to end up costing them many many many times what it would have cost them to pay a decent wage and pick up an admin that had a vague idea of what was going on.
Good admins are a vastly underrated commodity... because they're flexible, knowledgeable, and comfortable with a wide range of technology that will drastically decrease the cost of implementation of ANY technology used, opensource or otherwise.
That is really where the primary cost savings comes from regardless of if the software is OS or closed... Time is money and if it takes months to implement something that should take days, thats alot of cash lost.
Slashdot dupes another story every 12 minutes on average! This strangely coincides with the frequency a windows computer gets "0wn3d" on the "n37" by "3r337 5kr1p7 k1dd13z"... y0 y0. News at 11.
"Not to detract from your point, but clusters don't break as a single piece unless the cluster blows up or is otherwise completely destroyed. Large clustered systems are designed with redundant *everything* including of course motherboards, cpu, memory, network cards, power supplies, and disk drives as each system is independant of the others. If any one part fails the cluster will route around it. The system can then be power down and removed from the cluster. To bring it back up to full capacity you simply plug in the replacement system and walk away.
In that light, mainframe system failures are actually going to be more difficult to repair. However the cost of repairing a linux system is still going to be far less (disposable box)."
Basically a well designed cluster is a mainframe for all intents and purposes.
I can read history books and most classical lit and even poetry that fast and still pass tests based on the material at a 95% or better rate including dates, chronological order, etc within a few days of reading the material. Occasionally I transpose names or dates and such and thats generally what causes me to miss an item or two if im tested on the material.
Honestly, I'm not exactly sure how I do it. I zone out when I read, I don't really think, but I see images of what the book is talking about and hear dialog in my mind (which is a large part of why I read so much fantasy, horror, and sci-fi -- its more entertaining for me than textual documentation which comes across sorta like a monolog) When I read the first few pages I read probally hmm 1-2 pages a minute then gradually the book outline leaves, the pages leave, and I almost quit thinking except about what is happening in the book exactly. When I read I'm *completely* gone. For a fact you have to "shake me" to get me back to reality or wait for me to finish the book, I don't hear anything or see anything going on around me at all... heh, which is why i got in so much trouble reading in school.
I'm hoping jordon doesn't die before he finishes WOT (he's gettin up there), it's not the best series or story, but I've enjoyed it quite a bit becuase of the depth of the characters and world. It's alot like zelazny's amber books in the way it reads (cept amber wasn't quite so wordy and filled with repeated imagery like the ring falling between N's breasts... over and over and over.) heh.
What slows me down the most is use of vocabulary that I cant determine the meaning of from the usage and surrounding context or that i've never come across before. With enough of it, I actually "snap out of it" and have to go start looking things up in the dictionary. I've only had a few books do that to me ever and it becomes increasingly less as my vocabulary increases... don't recall it happening in the last few months at all.
I read alot of everything really, good and bad, classic and modern, probally the thing i've read the least of is modern foreign lit that is translated to english.
That would be beyond cool. I love the library but it's such a pain in the ass to go and from especially if you're reading a large volume of books. Shipping them in and out would kick much ass. Bout 5-10 books at a time would be perfect.
Spelling and reading have very little to do with each other. I have an excellent vocab in real life but on paper, I tend towards many many many mispellings.
Shrug, I didn't learn phoenics. I can't sound words out and regardless of how many times I see it, like all humans, especially those with good reading speed, I don't read entire words letter for letter, I recognise words by partials pieces and letter sequences.
Mind, I've re-read many books several times during that period so I wouldn't forget what was in them. I'm not boasting when I say I read that much in the least, if you go back to the beginning of that time period I prolly read closer to 8 hours a day.
I think the books with the highest number of reads by me would probally be Ursla Le'Guin's Earthsea books... or perhaps greg Baer's Eon. I'd say on the low side i've read each earthsea book 3-4 times and Eon i've read at least 4... and more I'd guess. So it's not all unique reads
In highschool I ran what would be considered a "disturbing" number of books to most people... I damn near failed alot of my classes because all I did was set and read... then I'd go home and read.
I quite literally read every single sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and romance novel the branch library where I live had and at one time was through a pretty healthy chunk of the main's fiction section (bout 1/3rd).
I just wish I had a photographic memory, then I wouldn't have the need to re-read to keep from forgetting pieces and parts of the books i love.:/
My "home library" consists of 8 10ftX3ft 5 shelf bookshelves. It's loading to breaking and I have several cabinets besides that fully loaded and boxes stored in the basement of encyclopedias and such.
Shrug, I love books and I love to read, I'm good at it... it's not that startling. How long a day does the average slashdotter spend on a computer? Bet it's more than 4 hours.
Ebooks rule, but they just don't have the *FEEL* of paper books. I like to read ebooks to get a feel for if I would like to own the book, if I enjoy the ebook I buy the real thing. It has probally saved me *almost* enough money to buy that nice little book collection:P There are *alot* of really bad sci-fi and fantasy out there.
Hmm lets see, at the rate I read (which is about 150-300 pages an hour (depends on difficulity of the material to gain comprehension) or 3-6 pages a minute... figure the average book is ~450 pages long and there are ~1100 books roughly... a reading time of ~4 hours a day (I've maintained that for about 10 years consistantly.) That's about ~500,000 pages... at 600-1200 pages a day it would take me between ~420 and ~835 days to finish reading the entire collection. If you figure the price at $10 per day it's really not that much... pity you can't get it on a payment plan:)
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... him, for whatever reason. I don't agree that murder is always the best solution, because eventually it gets hard to hide the bodies... however in cases like this it's the only real option, and from those of us who do spam admin and blocking-- we thank you (even if you were part of the russian mafia who spam us with viruses all the damn time... one less spammer is one less spammer.)
You can also use your icq# to get a popularity rating based on that.
Headphones are the answer.
Although, I don't know that it will be a popular solution for the most part in television setups.... and would it really be good in the long run anyways? At least when watching tv we have some chat time with the family... with head phones on that'll go away... and that doesnt seem like a good thing to me... people for the most part are isolated enough.
Hehe, sad but true ;)
I think the understated thing here is the severity of the typical break in though.
In windows most users install and run as administrator, they can do pretty much anything. Thus even small application security holes result in someone being able to completely obliterate the machine.
In unix most people install as root and run as an individual user. Thus most security holes unix has are relatively minor at worst executing the resultant code as the user who it is currently running as... which typically means it does very little.
You could further go on about how many script kiddies target windows as compared to other os's etc.etc.. but that's just getting into security through obscurity as the first poster here mentioned and "thats just silly"(tm).
They already have... it's called IRC ;)
I don't mind spelling and grammer trolls, my spelling and grammer are horrible... but come on, if you're going to pick at someone else about it, at least make sure your spelling and grammer is impecible. Your grammer is off on the first sentance, and you spelled say wrong on the second.
Besides it depends on the day, when I type really fast, I do sometimes type ALITTLE.
The "cost" is varied based on what kinda shop you run.
An all windows shop is probally going to have some issues integrating linux and open source into their daily routine, especially if the admins don't have some experience with it.
A unix shop can integrate and probally has integrated some open source solutions for years, even moving to linux from unix is trivial.
The expense of opensource/linux/*bsd can really be mostly determined by the quality of your administration staff and programming staff depending on the product and market you're looking at.
Short story:
One of the companies we work with just hired an "Admin" (I use the term in a very loose sense). He's in college, bout half way through an mcse and shy the times the mcse material has forced him to a command prompt... he's never seen one. He doesn't know how to do most windows administration tasks, and linux/*bsd/unix scares the hell out of him. For them to move to a opensource OS and software would send him screaching for the hills. He's afraid to login to the SINGLE fileserver that runs linux that they have... even using webmin.
On the other hand, you could take any of the admin staff here and drop them in his place and we'd be comfortable moving between windows and pretty much any other modern os. Course between the 3 of us we have in excess of 40 years of experience.
The sad thing is, they are paying the admin at the company we work with what I would consider to be less than most technical support jobs payscale... to "save money"... but some of the choices he's making and design methodology he uses (ask his professor generally and then pray) aren't going to work well in the long run and he's going to end up costing them many many many times what it would have cost them to pay a decent wage and pick up an admin that had a vague idea of what was going on.
Good admins are a vastly underrated commodity... because they're flexible, knowledgeable, and comfortable with a wide range of technology that will drastically decrease the cost of implementation of ANY technology used, opensource or otherwise.
That is really where the primary cost savings comes from regardless of if the software is OS or closed... Time is money and if it takes months to implement something that should take days, thats alot of cash lost.
Slashdot dupes another story every 12 minutes on average! This strangely coincides with the frequency a windows computer gets "0wn3d" on the "n37" by "3r337 5kr1p7 k1dd13z"... y0 y0. News at 11.
but milk... it does the body good.
Actually milk isn't technically bad for you, we just consume it in stupidly massive quantities and in a wide range of forms.
You know in all honesty, for most geeks sunscreen is a moot point. Alot are as pasty as a vampire :P
Although, I'd say most family age geeks get occasional sun. Shrug.
I wonder if low spf (4/8) would block the production of vitamin d?
Lemme rephrase your sentance a bit...
"Not to detract from your point, but clusters don't break as a single piece unless the cluster blows up or is otherwise completely destroyed. Large clustered systems are designed with redundant *everything* including of course motherboards, cpu, memory, network cards, power supplies, and disk drives as each system is independant of the others. If any one part fails the cluster will route around it. The system can then be power down and removed from the cluster. To bring it back up to full capacity you simply plug in the replacement system and walk away.
In that light, mainframe system failures are actually going to be more difficult to repair. However the cost of repairing a linux system is still going to be far less (disposable box)."
Basically a well designed cluster is a mainframe for all intents and purposes.
... if this suit has merit, but there is alot of click fraud that happens on google. It's been a long standing problem. Shrug.
... he ONLY got 200 million? He got so fucked. Poor guy. *cough*.
I can read history books and most classical lit and even poetry that fast and still pass tests based on the material at a 95% or better rate including dates, chronological order, etc within a few days of reading the material. Occasionally I transpose names or dates and such and thats generally what causes me to miss an item or two if im tested on the material.
Wheel of time I hit about 4-5 / hr.
Honestly, I'm not exactly sure how I do it. I zone out when I read, I don't really think, but I see images of what the book is talking about and hear dialog in my mind (which is a large part of why I read so much fantasy, horror, and sci-fi -- its more entertaining for me than textual documentation which comes across sorta like a monolog) When I read the first few pages I read probally hmm 1-2 pages a minute then gradually the book outline leaves, the pages leave, and I almost quit thinking except about what is happening in the book exactly. When I read I'm *completely* gone. For a fact you have to "shake me" to get me back to reality or wait for me to finish the book, I don't hear anything or see anything going on around me at all... heh, which is why i got in so much trouble reading in school.
I'm hoping jordon doesn't die before he finishes WOT (he's gettin up there), it's not the best series or story, but I've enjoyed it quite a bit becuase of the depth of the characters and world. It's alot like zelazny's amber books in the way it reads (cept amber wasn't quite so wordy and filled with repeated imagery like the ring falling between N's breasts... over and over and over.) heh.
What slows me down the most is use of vocabulary that I cant determine the meaning of from the usage and surrounding context or that i've never come across before. With enough of it, I actually "snap out of it" and have to go start looking things up in the dictionary. I've only had a few books do that to me ever and it becomes increasingly less as my vocabulary increases... don't recall it happening in the last few months at all.
I read alot of everything really, good and bad, classic and modern, probally the thing i've read the least of is modern foreign lit that is translated to english.
It's really a pity they ruled that way... going to give the cable companies an unfair advantage in the long run. :/
That would be beyond cool. I love the library but it's such a pain in the ass to go and from especially if you're reading a large volume of books. Shipping them in and out would kick much ass. Bout 5-10 books at a time would be perfect.
eh, I did aight.
;)
Course, cept for english teachers and research papers, the grammer and spelling nazi's aren't very vocal.
Besides, I was a csci major not an engrish maja
Spelling and reading have very little to do with each other. I have an excellent vocab in real life but on paper, I tend towards many many many mispellings.
:/
Shrug, I didn't learn phoenics. I can't sound words out and regardless of how many times I see it, like all humans, especially those with good reading speed, I don't read entire words letter for letter, I recognise words by partials pieces and letter sequences.
Mind, I've re-read many books several times during that period so I wouldn't forget what was in them. I'm not boasting when I say I read that much in the least, if you go back to the beginning of that time period I prolly read closer to 8 hours a day.
I think the books with the highest number of reads by me would probally be Ursla Le'Guin's Earthsea books... or perhaps greg Baer's Eon. I'd say on the low side i've read each earthsea book 3-4 times and Eon i've read at least 4... and more I'd guess. So it's not all unique reads
In highschool I ran what would be considered a "disturbing" number of books to most people... I damn near failed alot of my classes because all I did was set and read... then I'd go home and read.
I quite literally read every single sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and romance novel the branch library where I live had and at one time was through a pretty healthy chunk of the main's fiction section (bout 1/3rd).
I just wish I had a photographic memory, then I wouldn't have the need to re-read to keep from forgetting pieces and parts of the books i love.
My "home library" consists of 8 10ftX3ft 5 shelf bookshelves. It's loading to breaking and I have several cabinets besides that fully loaded and boxes stored in the basement of encyclopedias and such.
Shrug, I love books and I love to read, I'm good at it... it's not that startling. How long a day does the average slashdotter spend on a computer? Bet it's more than 4 hours.
... just need to jump in both feet and get it done with.
Bah, that's only 672 pages long. Finish in a day or so. I think I already read that book during college, wasn't to impressed with it.
Ebooks rule, but they just don't have the *FEEL* of paper books. I like to read ebooks to get a feel for if I would like to own the book, if I enjoy the ebook I buy the real thing. It has probally saved me *almost* enough money to buy that nice little book collection :P There are *alot* of really bad sci-fi and fantasy out there.
:)
Hmm lets see, at the rate I read (which is about 150-300 pages an hour (depends on difficulity of the material to gain comprehension) or 3-6 pages a minute... figure the average book is ~450 pages long and there are ~1100 books roughly... a reading time of ~4 hours a day (I've maintained that for about 10 years consistantly.) That's about ~500,000 pages... at 600-1200 pages a day it would take me between ~420 and ~835 days to finish reading the entire collection. If you figure the price at $10 per day it's really not that much... pity you can't get it on a payment plan
the problem is, at one time we considered it worth life and limb, anymore if someone gets scratched we cry a river.
... "SCO pulls more inane bullshit out of their ass"
What a bunch of hypocrits.
I love email and im, they're communication. Blogging is like tv, it melts your brains. It's not communication it's living vicariously through others.