Let's see, what did I do today. Logged into my VAX 6630 cluster, it was still working. Checked my other 6 VAX/micro-VAXen servers, still working. Changed the UCX SMTP config to use the new gateways, no reboots required. modified the backup tape script to write HTML then copy to the OSU web server, hi-tech stuff today.
The fan on the D/R box (used to be live) eventually packed in after 15 yrs continuous usage this week. Shoddy quality there.
Some of our systems only have 2 years uptime. We physically moved them to new datacenters 2 yrs ago. Even VAXen are not magic.
Approximate cost to migrate apps of these servers - high millions. Really! One app alone is going to cost about 15 big ones. It's a home grown highly specialised thing. T'other is a staff rostering system used by thousands of staff.
My next computer is going to be a 5 node micro-VAXen cluster. When we decommision the beasts.
No one in their right mind would sign up for this without huge, unsustainable bribes and/or being taken in by confusing double-talk and deception. I expect they'll be trying to use both in spades to get a stranglehold on the market, then make it back in rent once they have that.
You mean every purchasing dept. and manager I've had the displeasure of dealing with. PHB's like the phrase 'free', even if the overall TCO doubles. They'll be taken in be the marketting double talk and happily go on the freebies.
Then blame the tech's for suggesting such a ludicrous model when the bean counters realise they've been had.
Every other test of Relativity has not yet disproven it, they've all fallen within predicted values plus/minus experimental error. It's unlikely this one will fail. If it fails, it just means one aspect of the theory needs revising.
Not that that will stop a thousand woo woo's trumpeting that their theory predicted this 120 years ago.
I just heard a discussion about this on the BBC's Radio Five Live. One concern they raised: children will not stop chatting online, but will simply switch to other chat services which are even less safe than MSN's.
Speaking as a parent of 3 girls I think MS are between a rock and a hard place with this. There have been several high profile cases of underage people being lured into sex through chatrooms. If MS continue the service they undoubtedly will get flack for helping aid Paedophiles. No sooner was this announced they where closing the service they get accused of censorship. There have been calls in the UK to legislate that chat serverice providers 'properly monitor' users. Can't have it both ways and it's not up to MS to monitor each and every conversation. That would be a greater breach of privacy.
I've seen several comments here and here that this will allow people to ween off MS. It's not about MS crapware, censorship or privacy, it's about kids being abused by adults.
What is needed here is an education programme to teach parents, not children, as to the dangers. Most parents are clueless about the Net as a whole.
What do you see when you look up at the stars at night?
A bunch of Polytropes in hydrodynamic equilibrium with gravity, living on the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram. Thanks for asking.
It is within human nature to explore. It drove the Polynesians across the pacific, asiatics into America, early humans out of Africa and Europeans across the world. Of course humans have to explore Space, it is truly the last frontier to conquer.
Anyway, eventually the resources on Earth will expire and we will become an evolutionary mistake. There is not enough time to build a Dyson Sphere/Ringworld to stop this happening.
P.S. Shouldn't this discussion be on uplink.space.com?
Now there's a point. Given that blank CD's can be used to copy, and hence pirate, music why doesn't the RIAA go after the manufacturers of the CD's and CD recorders for aiding and abetting piracy.
We all bought our burners and 100 blanks purely for disk backup, didn't we. We all need 100 Gbyte drives for the sheer amount of (non-MP3) data, don't we. Course we did. Sue the aiders and abetters as well.
Why doesn't the RIAA sue AOL and other ISP's for carrying alt.binaries.music.* newsgroups? Surely they are culpable in aiding and abetting piracy as well.
The mob I work with is a very large organisation that has ongoing severe financial problems. Think national air carrier for.uk here. Desktops are pure MS with *nix and MS servers in abundance.
Some one in IT has realised the beauty of Opensource, it's cheaper than MS. Cheap is good, saving money is good. Where an open source solution exists that can replace a commercial solution, it is on the desktop. Out went eXceed, in came Xfree 86 on Cygwin. Out went Reflections, in came Putty. And so on.
Several servers are already running Linux and I've heard they are trialling a rack of blades using Linux for something or other. I envisage more servers going over to Linux to save money and more of the desktop converting to Linux or at least Cygwin/Opensource for the same reason.
The question is, if the RIAA does successfully sue file swappers for copyright breach, will they then give a fair percentage of that money to the musicians. How will they determine the proper percentages to dole out?
We know Spiral Galaxies are embedded in Dark Matter. This is pure speculatipon but could this ring be evidence for the outer edge of the Halo?
Spiral structure is thought to be due to Lin-shu density waves. It's a given they only extend as far the Galaxies visible structure. For the sake of argument the denser dark matter thought to be responsible for triggering collapse and thence galaxy formation may have had a larger radius than the spiral density wave. Note that early galaxies often are chaotic or flocculent. Could these be stars formed at the edge of the early Milky Way's extent before spiral structure was imposed.
Alternatively, is this just a dim afterglow of a collision in the past. Something like a ring Galaxy?
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Let's see, what did I do today. Logged into my VAX 6630 cluster, it was still working. Checked my other 6 VAX/micro-VAXen servers, still working. Changed the UCX SMTP config to use the new gateways, no reboots required. modified the backup tape script to write HTML then copy to the OSU web server, hi-tech stuff today.
The fan on the D/R box (used to be live) eventually packed in after 15 yrs continuous usage this week. Shoddy quality there.
Some of our systems only have 2 years uptime. We physically moved them to new datacenters 2 yrs ago. Even VAXen are not magic.
Approximate cost to migrate apps of these servers - high millions. Really! One app alone is going to cost about 15 big ones. It's a home grown highly specialised thing. T'other is a staff rostering system used by thousands of staff.
My next computer is going to be a 5 node micro-VAXen cluster. When we decommision the beasts.
No one in their right mind would sign up for this without huge, unsustainable bribes and/or being taken in by confusing double-talk and deception. I expect they'll be trying to use both in spades to get a stranglehold on the market, then make it back in rent once they have that.
You mean every purchasing dept. and manager I've had the displeasure of dealing with. PHB's like the phrase 'free', even if the overall TCO doubles. They'll be taken in be the marketting double talk and happily go on the freebies.
Then blame the tech's for suggesting such a ludicrous model when the bean counters realise they've been had.
Cynic, me? Never cynical enough.
Every other test of Relativity has not yet disproven it, they've all fallen within predicted values plus/minus experimental error. It's unlikely this one will fail. If it fails, it just means one aspect of the theory needs revising.
Not that that will stop a thousand woo woo's trumpeting that their theory predicted this 120 years ago.
I just heard a discussion about this on the BBC's Radio Five Live. One concern they raised: children will not stop chatting online, but will simply switch to other chat services which are even less safe than MSN's.
Speaking as a parent of 3 girls I think MS are between a rock and a hard place with this. There have been several high profile cases of underage people being lured into sex through chatrooms. If MS continue the service they undoubtedly will get flack for helping aid Paedophiles. No sooner was this announced they where closing the service they get accused of censorship. There have been calls in the UK to legislate that chat serverice providers 'properly monitor' users. Can't have it both ways and it's not up to MS to monitor each and every conversation. That would be a greater breach of privacy.
I've seen several comments here and here that this will allow people to ween off MS. It's not about MS crapware, censorship or privacy, it's about kids being abused by adults.
What is needed here is an education programme to teach parents, not children, as to the dangers. Most parents are clueless about the Net as a whole.
What do you see when you look up at the stars at night?
A bunch of Polytropes in hydrodynamic equilibrium with gravity, living on the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram. Thanks for asking.
It is within human nature to explore. It drove the Polynesians across the pacific, asiatics into America, early humans out of Africa and Europeans across the world. Of course humans have to explore Space, it is truly the last frontier to conquer.
Anyway, eventually the resources on Earth will expire and we will become an evolutionary mistake. There is not enough time to build a Dyson Sphere/Ringworld to stop this happening.
P.S. Shouldn't this discussion be on uplink.space.com?
- Blank Audio CD's are sold as audio CDs.
Now there's a point. Given that blank CD's can be used to copy, and hence pirate, music why doesn't the RIAA go after the manufacturers of the CD's and CD recorders for aiding and abetting piracy.
We all bought our burners and 100 blanks purely for disk backup, didn't we. We all need 100 Gbyte drives for the sheer amount of (non-MP3) data, don't we. Course we did. Sue the aiders and abetters as well.
Why doesn't the RIAA sue AOL and other ISP's for carrying alt.binaries.music.* newsgroups? Surely they are culpable in aiding and abetting piracy as well.
The mob I work with is a very large organisation that has ongoing severe financial problems. Think national air carrier for .uk here. Desktops are pure MS with *nix and MS servers in abundance.
Some one in IT has realised the beauty of Opensource, it's cheaper than MS. Cheap is good, saving money is good. Where an open source solution exists that can replace a commercial solution, it is on the desktop. Out went eXceed, in came Xfree 86 on Cygwin. Out went Reflections, in came Putty. And so on.
Several servers are already running Linux and I've heard they are trialling a rack of blades using Linux for something or other. I envisage more servers going over to Linux to save money and more of the desktop converting to Linux or at least Cygwin/Opensource for the same reason.
The question is, if the RIAA does successfully sue file swappers for copyright breach, will they then give a fair percentage of that money to the musicians. How will they determine the proper percentages to dole out?
We know Spiral Galaxies are embedded in Dark Matter. This is pure speculatipon but could this ring be evidence for the outer edge of the Halo?
Spiral structure is thought to be due to Lin-shu density waves. It's a given they only extend as far the Galaxies visible structure. For the sake of argument the denser dark matter thought to be responsible for triggering collapse and thence galaxy formation may have had a larger radius than the spiral density wave. Note that early galaxies often are chaotic or flocculent. Could these be stars formed at the edge of the early Milky Way's extent before spiral structure was imposed.
Alternatively, is this just a dim afterglow of a collision in the past. Something like a ring Galaxy?
Don't forget; Terraform Venus by moving it to a new orbit.