Between the references to "the blob over Canada" (actually Ohio and environs) and to the one over "the east of Russia" (actually a country known as "China", including the city of Beijing), the geographic knowledge being shown here is a bit disappointing.
Some of the other "hot" spots visible in the larger version of the map correspond to Hong Kong (China), Seoul (Korea), Tokyo (Japan), Bangkok (Thailand), Delhi (India), Qatar (Qatar), Riyadh & Mecca (Saudia Arabia), Jerusalem (Israel), Moscow (Russia), Johannesburg/Pretoria (S.Africa), Venice/Milan/Genoa (Italy), Amsterdam/Brussels/Bonn (Netherland/Belgium/Germany), London (England), the DC-to-NYC region, Montreal & Toronto (Canada), Chicago, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Mexico City (guess), Denver, Santa Fe, Salt Lake, Phoenix, Vegas, and of course LA and San Francisco (all un-specified cities being in the U.S.A. of course).
If you're young and new to the industry, take this advice: the big-wigs won't be as impressed by saving $200 on a server as they would by a $400 MORE EXPENSIVE server staying alive for ONLY 1 HOUR longer.
That may be true where you work, but there are plenty of places where a real, there-on-the-books savings this quarter outweighs a hypothetical, this-could-happen savings some day down the line. Especially if they don't consider computers to be mission-critical zero-downtime equipment (and in many organisations, they still really aren't).
A lot of corporate "big-wigs" have no grasp of continency planning and spending, and will bounce back and forth between wanting to spend nothing, and wanting a redundant off-site facility waiting for the company to move into in the event of a tornado. So you're right that one of the jobs of the tech guys is to educate and steer them to the proper balance between those extremes, based on their actual business needs.
When you start counting your cost as part of the system machine, a server no longer seem expensive.
Except that management will often count the tech guy's time as something that's already paid for. Even if they recognise that time spent doing A means time can't be spent doing B, their quarterly payroll budget will come out the same, so the cost of the tech guy's time on this project is perceived as Zero. (And if it means repurposing desktop gear the company already owns instead of buying new server gear, that becomes a net improvement on the bottom line.)
I assume USB is to make it removable, but for that to do any good, you need to actually remove it, which means having at least one other USB drive to swap in when the one is off-site. If the budget doesn't allow for that, and you're just going to leave the backup there on top of the server all the time, then save yourself some money and mount an IDE drive in the case, and take advantage of the better speed to get daily backups done more effectively. Alternatively, do on-site daily backups across the network to an old machine otherwise destined for recycling but with a new large hard drive; that'll give you better disaster recovery ability if the main server dies and takes its drives with it.
If you don't need a UPS, make sure you at least have a surge supressor.
Please ignore that comment. You do need a UPS. Skimp on the specs and buy whatever's on sale with rebates at Best Buy this week if you must, but any machine you're going to call a "server" needs at least a few minutes of battery power to protect its data from sudden power outages and its electronics from power slumps.
There's a person in my office who rides his bike to work every day (rain or shine), has a Macquarium SE with a goldfish named Click (the fishes named Double-Click keep dying), has the webcam view out the window of his home office as his desktop wallpaper, munches on carrots when he isn't eating junk food, keeps a photo of his ex-boyfriend on his desk, has a wallet-sized copy of his BFA taped to his monitor, and hangs out on/. all the time.
I'm not sure, but I think the guy who shares an office with me thinks this person is crazy.
Moderator: That's not +1, Funny; it's -1, Sad. This poor slob hasn't read one of the most nerd-friendly series of fictional books in the galaxy (or heard the radio series or watched the TV series, both of which covered this point, as I recall).
Although Adams insisted it was coincidence, the answer to "What is six times nine?" is 42... in Base 13.
The problem with hosting it yourself is, usually, those same broadband providers block port 25 for mail (incoming and outgoing) making it almost impossible to run your own mail server without having to relay all your email through your ISP.
That's why you need to shop around for a connectivity provider that doesn't do that.
(Yes, there's a referal ID embedded in that link. A) That's why I'm posting this with No Karma Bonus, to pre-down-mod me for being a whore. B) I wouldn't suggest looking at them if I didn't think they were good eggs: Linux/Mac-friendly, servers and connection sharing explicitly allowed, POTS optional, etc.)
The whole matter is a civil affair, not a criminal one. So why should the ISP go to jail?
One of the most problematic developments in copyright law has been the conversion from civil to criminal law. I'm a believer in the principle of copyright, but only as matter between individuals. If you make unauthorised copies of my comics, it's up to me to go after you (or not, at my discretion); it is not a crime against society or the state that should be subject to a trial of The People v. _______.
This is one of the many reasons I host my own sites, and how I got into the business of hosting sites for friends who want a person they can trust doing it. I didn't like the one-sided contract terms and the poor service I was getting from hosting providers, so I set up my own shop. A little Apache, some Postfix, and a dash of BIND in a Linux stew, and I was cooking for myself. So now if someone sends a take-down notice to the company hosting my web site... it'll come to me.
Granted, I'm still dependent on someone else for connectivity itself, but I found a pretty good DSL provider with terms I can live with, so as long as I keep my systems are zombie free and I don't do anything stupid enough to get an actual court order sent to my DSL provider, I'm pretty safe from this kind of crap (at least more than I was before). And I got broadband service to my house in the process.
I realise it's not an option for a lot of people, but if you want something done right...
Based on my understanding of legal thinking, the Smart that was parked right next to to the meter would be considered the proper occupant of the parking space, and the other would be considered "illegally parked" and fined, much like a larger car that was parked equidistant between meters.
The trick would be to find places too small for a full-sized vehicle where there was neither a meter nor a "no parking" designation.
What kind of 3space are you living in that you have difficulty fitting groceries in your car? My car is a Geo Metro, which - until the Mini-come-latelies showed up on these shores - was the tiniest rollerskate on the roads of North America, and I have room for a shopping-cart-full of groceries, two laundry baskets, a small bookshelf, my bike, or even a somewhat obese passenger. It's done each of those at least once in the past month. By contrast, it's less than once a year that I need to borrow something larger (or pay someone to deliver). Granted, if I were the daily caregiver for a small herd of children and responsible for acquiring groceries to feed them at the same time, I might need a minivan or a classic station wagon for my weekly excursions to Food City, but I rarely see vehicles on the road that heavily loaded. Your average American family got by with a single mid-sized sedan for decades, and considered themselves the envy of the world in doing so. They have absolutely no need for a pair of trucks today.
Because of the size of the US and the relatively uniform population distribution compared to the rest of the industrialized world,
You're right about size, but I believe you have that backwards about distribution. America has a very nonuniform distribution of people, with huge cities in certain parts, separated by vast states with almost nobody living in them. The same pattern is repeated in most states: a few mutually distant major cities, with lots of farmland/mountains/desert in between. It's the this population distribution in combination with its size that makes trains impractical for so much intercity travel; it has no signficant bearing on the practicality of small automobiles vs. large ones.
I have an old 486 running Coyote Linux that sits as a firewall between my LAN (a mix of Linux, OS X, and Win98 boxes). SpamAssassin on the mail server handles most of the UCE.
I don't have any anti-virus software. I have some simple procmail rules that delete messages with all but the most innocuous attachments, and the Win98 box isn't used for mail or web browsing (just some a few old Win apps and testing my own web sites on IE), so the only impact viruses have on my systems is that the mail-borne ones are just more spam.
Yes, homophone would probably be a better word choice. But your cited definitions of homonym do not rule out different spellings (i.e. "often the same spelling", only "the same sound", "pronounced or spelled the same way"), and homonym was the standard textbook term when I went to school. So if you're trying to argue that my word choice was incorrect, I - and your references - disagree.
And then? Where does the software go? How do you get rid of it? How do you start it? How do you know what's installed?
Have you actually used OS X? It goes in the Applications folder. To get rid of it, you drag it from the Applications folder to the trash. To start it, you double-click the icon in the Applications folder. You know what's installed by looking in the Applications folder. This is pretty basic stuff; you must be trying really hard to remain ignorant of it.
Yes, there's also the Dock to deal with and yes it can confuse people, but this is no different from Windows' multiplicity of answers to some of your questions: You start them by A) double-clicking on the icon on the Desktop, or B) clicking on the Start button, and finding it in the menu (and if it doesn't show up in the menu, you click the little "expand the menu" chevron), or C) single-clicking on the little Quick Start icon in the area next to the Start button, etc. Knowing what's installed is just as inconsistent, especially with the magic menus that hide infrequently used programs from you, and Windows' dynamic menu that shuffles your most recent apps around.
I think the poster meant to write that it piqued his interest, indicating that is provoked his interest, which increased. If it had peaked his interest, that would mean his interest in the distro was at a maximum when he heard about it and has declined since then, which doesn't seem to be the case.
The use of incorrect homonyms can be an especially Bad Thing when they completely reverse the meaning of what you say.
There is nothing to "manage": the major Linux distributions handle all the dependencies for you.
Perhaps someone neglected to mention that they were interested in a Linux distro that did this effectively. I love Linux (I'm posting this from a Linux machine which is my primary desktop), but none of the major distros I've used (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE) make software installation as easy as Windows or OS X. If I want to install something that hasn't been packaged by my Linux distributor, I have to roll up my sleeves and prove that my four years in college and 15 years as a technology professional are worth something.
Worse, unlike Windows, Macintosh doesn't even have a single, consistent way of installing or removing packages.
What drugs are you on? Windows has 3-6 different ways of doing just aout anything, and installing software is no exception. You can insert the CD and let it autorun; you can double-click on SETUP.EXE; you can double-click on the.MSI file; you can go into Add/Remove Programs and tell to search for an installer; if it's free(beer) MS-ware, you can get it through Windows Update; etc.
OS X has only three methods that I've encountered: drag and drop the.app "file" (actually a folder that looks like a file) from the CD or.DMG to the Applications folder on your hard drive; and double-click on the.PKG file and click some buttons; and if it's an upgrade of free(beer) Apple-ware, you can get it through Software Update. Your talk of dependencies makes me suspect you're talking about X11 apps written for Darwin; it makes no sense whatsoever in reference to OS X.
Indeed. I always thought that idea was implicit in the word "party," but what do I know?
I'm guessing you've never held (or been to) a "rent party", the purpose of which is to charge enough for admission (and access to the kegs) to cover the residents' living expenses until the next party. (Those with good accounting skills also factor in the cost of the refreshments when calculating whether the party was a "success" or not, and those capable of long-term thinking factor in the loss of their security deposit at the end of the school term.)
Cut back gradually. Eliminate a cup or glassful a day rather than going "cold turkey."
On the other hand, I had pretty good luck sequestering myself in the wilderness of Isle Royale, with no cola, coffee, tea, or even penguin mints within a 1-3 days' hike. No caffeine, no ethanol, no slashdot... just me and the meese. I slept great, woke up easily, and got to go a whole week with no personal grooming to speak of.
in a year or two when the G5 power book comes out, the whole OS will probably go 64 bit native and the old powerbooks will no longer get software upgrades.
Apple has too much interest in selling OS upgrades to people with still-usable hardware for that to happen. I have a 1998 vintage iMac (G3) which has been a modest source of income for Apple via OS upgrades since then, leading to (so far) version 10.3. To say nothing of the G3 iBooks that Apple was still selling a year ago, which they aren't about to drop from the "supported hardware" list any time soon. So I'd say a G4 PowerBook will be safe for a while.
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Power corrupts.
PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
"Ha! Mars has such a wispy atmosphere!"
"Lenin and Stalin could make a better Red planet than that... and they're dead!"
"You call that an ice cap?"
"You couldn't support life anymore even if your life depended on it!"
"I wouldn't touch Mars with a 10-foot Pole!"
"Martians drink American vodka!"
"Even Afghanistan was nicer than Mars!"
Some of the other "hot" spots visible in the larger version of the map correspond to Hong Kong (China), Seoul (Korea), Tokyo (Japan), Bangkok (Thailand), Delhi (India), Qatar (Qatar), Riyadh & Mecca (Saudia Arabia), Jerusalem (Israel), Moscow (Russia), Johannesburg/Pretoria (S.Africa), Venice/Milan/Genoa (Italy), Amsterdam/Brussels/Bonn (Netherland/Belgium/Germany), London (England), the DC-to-NYC region, Montreal & Toronto (Canada), Chicago, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Mexico City (guess), Denver, Santa Fe, Salt Lake, Phoenix, Vegas, and of course LA and San Francisco (all un-specified cities being in the U.S.A. of course).
That may be true where you work, but there are plenty of places where a real, there-on-the-books savings this quarter outweighs a hypothetical, this-could-happen savings some day down the line. Especially if they don't consider computers to be mission-critical zero-downtime equipment (and in many organisations, they still really aren't).
A lot of corporate "big-wigs" have no grasp of continency planning and spending, and will bounce back and forth between wanting to spend nothing, and wanting a redundant off-site facility waiting for the company to move into in the event of a tornado. So you're right that one of the jobs of the tech guys is to educate and steer them to the proper balance between those extremes, based on their actual business needs.
Except that management will often count the tech guy's time as something that's already paid for. Even if they recognise that time spent doing A means time can't be spent doing B, their quarterly payroll budget will come out the same, so the cost of the tech guy's time on this project is perceived as Zero. (And if it means repurposing desktop gear the company already owns instead of buying new server gear, that becomes a net improvement on the bottom line.)
I assume USB is to make it removable, but for that to do any good, you need to actually remove it, which means having at least one other USB drive to swap in when the one is off-site. If the budget doesn't allow for that, and you're just going to leave the backup there on top of the server all the time, then save yourself some money and mount an IDE drive in the case, and take advantage of the better speed to get daily backups done more effectively. Alternatively, do on-site daily backups across the network to an old machine otherwise destined for recycling but with a new large hard drive; that'll give you better disaster recovery ability if the main server dies and takes its drives with it.
If you don't need a UPS, make sure you at least have a surge supressor.
Please ignore that comment. You do need a UPS. Skimp on the specs and buy whatever's on sale with rebates at Best Buy this week if you must, but any machine you're going to call a "server" needs at least a few minutes of battery power to protect its data from sudden power outages and its electronics from power slumps.
I'm not sure, but I think the guy who shares an office with me thinks this person is crazy.
Although Adams insisted it was coincidence, the answer to "What is six times nine?" is 42... in Base 13.
OK, so what if, say, BeOS was ported to x86? And updated? And was later going to be available as open source software? Any interest?
That's why you need to shop around for a connectivity provider that doesn't do that.
(Yes, there's a referal ID embedded in that link. A) That's why I'm posting this with No Karma Bonus, to pre-down-mod me for being a whore. B) I wouldn't suggest looking at them if I didn't think they were good eggs: Linux/Mac-friendly, servers and connection sharing explicitly allowed, POTS optional, etc.)
One of the most problematic developments in copyright law has been the conversion from civil to criminal law. I'm a believer in the principle of copyright, but only as matter between individuals. If you make unauthorised copies of my comics, it's up to me to go after you (or not, at my discretion); it is not a crime against society or the state that should be subject to a trial of The People v. _______.
Granted, I'm still dependent on someone else for connectivity itself, but I found a pretty good DSL provider with terms I can live with, so as long as I keep my systems are zombie free and I don't do anything stupid enough to get an actual court order sent to my DSL provider, I'm pretty safe from this kind of crap (at least more than I was before). And I got broadband service to my house in the process.
I realise it's not an option for a lot of people, but if you want something done right...
The trick would be to find places too small for a full-sized vehicle where there was neither a meter nor a "no parking" designation.
Because of the size of the US and the relatively uniform population distribution compared to the rest of the industrialized world,
You're right about size, but I believe you have that backwards about distribution. America has a very nonuniform distribution of people, with huge cities in certain parts, separated by vast states with almost nobody living in them. The same pattern is repeated in most states: a few mutually distant major cities, with lots of farmland/mountains/desert in between. It's the this population distribution in combination with its size that makes trains impractical for so much intercity travel; it has no signficant bearing on the practicality of small automobiles vs. large ones.
I don't have any anti-virus software. I have some simple procmail rules that delete messages with all but the most innocuous attachments, and the Win98 box isn't used for mail or web browsing (just some a few old Win apps and testing my own web sites on IE), so the only impact viruses have on my systems is that the mail-borne ones are just more spam.
Yes, homophone would probably be a better word choice. But your cited definitions of homonym do not rule out different spellings (i.e. "often the same spelling", only "the same sound", "pronounced or spelled the same way"), and homonym was the standard textbook term when I went to school. So if you're trying to argue that my word choice was incorrect, I - and your references - disagree.
Have you actually used OS X? It goes in the Applications folder. To get rid of it, you drag it from the Applications folder to the trash. To start it, you double-click the icon in the Applications folder. You know what's installed by looking in the Applications folder. This is pretty basic stuff; you must be trying really hard to remain ignorant of it.
Yes, there's also the Dock to deal with and yes it can confuse people, but this is no different from Windows' multiplicity of answers to some of your questions: You start them by A) double-clicking on the icon on the Desktop, or B) clicking on the Start button, and finding it in the menu (and if it doesn't show up in the menu, you click the little "expand the menu" chevron), or C) single-clicking on the little Quick Start icon in the area next to the Start button, etc. Knowing what's installed is just as inconsistent, especially with the magic menus that hide infrequently used programs from you, and Windows' dynamic menu that shuffles your most recent apps around.
I think the poster meant to write that it piqued his interest, indicating that is provoked his interest, which increased. If it had peaked his interest, that would mean his interest in the distro was at a maximum when he heard about it and has declined since then, which doesn't seem to be the case.
The use of incorrect homonyms can be an especially Bad Thing when they completely reverse the meaning of what you say.
Perhaps someone neglected to mention that they were interested in a Linux distro that did this effectively. I love Linux (I'm posting this from a Linux machine which is my primary desktop), but none of the major distros I've used (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE) make software installation as easy as Windows or OS X. If I want to install something that hasn't been packaged by my Linux distributor, I have to roll up my sleeves and prove that my four years in college and 15 years as a technology professional are worth something.
Worse, unlike Windows, Macintosh doesn't even have a single, consistent way of installing or removing packages.
What drugs are you on? Windows has 3-6 different ways of doing just aout anything, and installing software is no exception. You can insert the CD and let it autorun; you can double-click on SETUP.EXE; you can double-click on the .MSI file; you can go into Add/Remove Programs and tell to search for an installer; if it's free(beer) MS-ware, you can get it through Windows Update; etc.
OS X has only three methods that I've encountered: drag and drop the .app "file" (actually a folder that looks like a file) from the CD or .DMG to the Applications folder on your hard drive; and double-click on the .PKG file and click some buttons; and if it's an upgrade of free(beer) Apple-ware, you can get it through Software Update. Your talk of dependencies makes me suspect you're talking about X11 apps written for Darwin; it makes no sense whatsoever in reference to OS X.
I have a condom that expired during the previous Bush administration.
Great, so sometime in the next 3 years then. Or doesn't the first "election" of GWB count?
I'm guessing you've never held (or been to) a "rent party", the purpose of which is to charge enough for admission (and access to the kegs) to cover the residents' living expenses until the next party. (Those with good accounting skills also factor in the cost of the refreshments when calculating whether the party was a "success" or not, and those capable of long-term thinking factor in the loss of their security deposit at the end of the school term.)
It's like a horse fly, but much, much, much bigger. And it hurts even worse if bites you.
On the other hand, I had pretty good luck sequestering myself in the wilderness of Isle Royale, with no cola, coffee, tea, or even penguin mints within a 1-3 days' hike. No caffeine, no ethanol, no slashdot... just me and the meese. I slept great, woke up easily, and got to go a whole week with no personal grooming to speak of.
Apple has too much interest in selling OS upgrades to people with still-usable hardware for that to happen. I have a 1998 vintage iMac (G3) which has been a modest source of income for Apple via OS upgrades since then, leading to (so far) version 10.3. To say nothing of the G3 iBooks that Apple was still selling a year ago, which they aren't about to drop from the "supported hardware" list any time soon. So I'd say a G4 PowerBook will be safe for a while.