I hear this on/. all of the time, but I have only heard one story of an athelete actually using caffeine as a performance enhancer. I think geeks say this to justify how much caffeine they consume.
For us, a big reason to back up to tape is to easily move lots of data offsite. Not really sure if there are ways to send terabytes of data to a remote location any other way.
Are there large companies just backing up to harddrive and not sending the data to multiple locations? Seems pretty risky.
He could have explained to the customers that their information was at risk, without revealing quite so much detail. But according to the government's theory of liability, this would not have prevented his prosecution. Moreover, as is frequently the case with security vulnerabilities, this likely would have prompted a quick denial by Tornado that any such bug existed -- and they may or may not have fixed them.
It looks like just saying that there was a flaw would have gotten the guy thrown into jail.
But then again, I am a Unix developer. On my desktop I have my workstation running HPUX 11i and my laptop with Gentoo.
People ask me about it all of the time and there have been more than a few people go out and install Red Hat on test boxes.
Even though I love my Gentoo box and all of my Unix work is done through ssh, I don't recommend it to others or go around trying to promote it. I figure that eventually it will just sort of catch on the same way it has slowly made its way into our server room.
Since I keep seeing posts about steel I figured I would respond to one.
US manufacturers were very competitive. I should know - I used to own a steel company that brought in steel from Russia (actually, smaller places that were once part of Russia). The fact is that Russia, China, and most of the third world has one thing that the US can not compete with - low-cost labor.
Places like Kazakhstan have have been taken over by Russian mafia who pay their workers in food. People over there are told that they are going to be paid - but, since there are no jobs outside of steel mills and prostitution, having a job that feeds you versus not having a job at all and starving is much better.
Think about this - you could buy foreign steel from Russia and have it shipped over for a much lower cost than going down the street to Huntco (now gone). Sure, the quality was a bit off - but, when you are building bridges and buildings you use so much steel that a little loss is no problem. US companies were fighting to survive but you can not compete with companies that have little overhead.
And Japan - they dumped like crazy. High grade, nice coils (selling for under cost) that took out the remaining US steel market.
So, yea. It was competition against countries that were either dumping to destroy the market or mafia with slave labor. Real fair.
I used to have a dozen drivers on payroll and I used independents and, while my hourly guys kept their books in order and never broke the law, I knew for a fact that the independent guys used to do all sorts of illegal shit just to make a living. From hauling extra-heavy loads to driving for 16 hours straight.
Let me guess, your brother works hourly for a company?
Especially on a heavy load. And then ome of the drivers do all sorts of illegal shit to their trucks to make them perform better (carry heavier loads at higher speeds).
I am not saying the parent poster is right, but I do know that truck drivers do tend to leave their trucks idling overnight. The main reason a lot of truck drivers do this is so they can keep their trucks cools and power things like their microwaves and electric appliances.
Keeping your truck running in idle is also hard as hell on your engine and still burns about a gallon or so an hour.
As someone who once owned a rather large company, I can assure you that most of what lawyers do is take your money and protect you from other lawyers.
If you are just starting to believe that lawyers are a parasite feeding off American business, you haven't been sued yet. Wait until the profits start rolling in and they begin to smell the blood in the water.
The main reason I got out of business was I was sick of having to sit in court and spend money so a nickle and dime lawyer could try to extract money out of me - yes, it is that bad.
I have a redhat network subscription and the download speeds today have been so bad that I am using bittorrent to grab the isos. RHN has been great so far, it is just that the servers are being slammed too hard today to justify waiting 36 hours for each iso.
Not for what we use it for. Linux is great for smaller servers and development, but we have machines with terabytes and terabytes of data running on super stable hardware that has features the Linux people are just talking about.
Plus, if/when Linux is ready it won't be too hard to switch as most of what we run on these machines is pretty standard, they are moving from PA-RISC to Intel Itanium, and support contracts only last a few years. Either way, HP gets our money.
Pretty much any technical book I pick up I instantly measure it against Expert C Programming just based on the fact that I have never come accross a book as clear, informative, and entertaining in any field. Looking at my bookshelf here at work I have math books, programming books, general documentation - and most of them are dry as hell and were a pain to get through. Has anyone found a good math book that can match Expert C Programming in its writing?
Forgive me if I am wrong - it has been awhile - but isn't this the problem that TCP addresses with its 'windows'? It sends out an extra packet for each ACK it gets back, and pulls back at any sign of congestion.
While I agree with you, there have always been artists like Briney and N'Sync. Bubblegum pop has been around for a log time.
I think the problem is the focus these bubblegum pop groups are getting from the Big 5. Can't be good when the shelf life of your main stars is maybe 3 years.
If there wern't enough people really concerned about this, it would not be as big as an issue. The fact is that there are a whole lot of Americans who think that the US Government should regulate video games, and - if there is enough consensus - there should be a bill drafted. This is how the system works.
Congresspeople very rarely fly by the seats of their pants - the American people (at least a pretty powerful group) must think that Americans have trouble deciding for themselves what is offensive for their kids to see.
I don't see anything wrong with extending a language as long as it stays modular and the modules are not required for the basic functionality. The PHP developers have done a good job with this in the 4.x releases, keeping the core language pretty small.
I have to disagree with you. I have been doing my scripting on PHP for about a year now and - at least for me - it kicks the shit out of perl for about 95% of all scripts. Not only is the syntax clean, it is really easy to extend - unlike Perl, the PHP C code is clean and modular.
Then again, the bulk of my development is in C and C++, so PHP is much more intuitive for me than most other scripting languages.
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All of those guys must have been really pleasant in the morning.
I hear this on /. all of the time, but I have only heard one story of an athelete actually using caffeine as a performance enhancer. I think geeks say this to justify how much caffeine they consume.
For us, a big reason to back up to tape is to easily move lots of data offsite. Not really sure if there are ways to send terabytes of data to a remote location any other way.
Are there large companies just backing up to harddrive and not sending the data to multiple locations? Seems pretty risky.
You mean all the way back 1994-95 era computing? sheesh. You work in a museum.
So, which one is Megadeth and which one is N'Sync?
From the article:
He could have explained to the customers that their information was at risk, without revealing quite so much detail. But according to the government's theory of liability, this would not have prevented his prosecution. Moreover, as is frequently the case with security vulnerabilities, this likely would have prompted a quick denial by Tornado that any such bug existed -- and they may or may not have fixed them.
It looks like just saying that there was a flaw would have gotten the guy thrown into jail.
But then again, I am a Unix developer. On my desktop I have my workstation running HPUX 11i and my laptop with Gentoo.
People ask me about it all of the time and there have been more than a few people go out and install Red Hat on test boxes.
Even though I love my Gentoo box and all of my Unix work is done through ssh, I don't recommend it to others or go around trying to promote it. I figure that eventually it will just sort of catch on the same way it has slowly made its way into our server room.
Yea, if you don't mind working in a small room with about 100 other guys.
Thanks for pointing that out. By eliminating the middle class these companies can make cheaper products to sell to the middl.. oh wait.
Since I keep seeing posts about steel I figured I would respond to one.
US manufacturers were very competitive. I should know - I used to own a steel company that brought in steel from Russia (actually, smaller places that were once part of Russia). The fact is that Russia, China, and most of the third world has one thing that the US can not compete with - low-cost labor.
Places like Kazakhstan have have been taken over by Russian mafia who pay their workers in food. People over there are told that they are going to be paid - but, since there are no jobs outside of steel mills and prostitution, having a job that feeds you versus not having a job at all and starving is much better.
Think about this - you could buy foreign steel from Russia and have it shipped over for a much lower cost than going down the street to Huntco (now gone). Sure, the quality was a bit off - but, when you are building bridges and buildings you use so much steel that a little loss is no problem. US companies were fighting to survive but you can not compete with companies that have little overhead.
And Japan - they dumped like crazy. High grade, nice coils (selling for under cost) that took out the remaining US steel market.
So, yea. It was competition against countries that were either dumping to destroy the market or mafia with slave labor. Real fair.
I used to have a dozen drivers on payroll and I used independents and, while my hourly guys kept their books in order and never broke the law, I knew for a fact that the independent guys used to do all sorts of illegal shit just to make a living. From hauling extra-heavy loads to driving for 16 hours straight.
Let me guess, your brother works hourly for a company?
Especially on a heavy load. And then ome of the drivers do all sorts of illegal shit to their trucks to make them perform better (carry heavier loads at higher speeds).
I am not saying the parent poster is right, but I do know that truck drivers do tend to leave their trucks idling overnight. The main reason a lot of truck drivers do this is so they can keep their trucks cools and power things like their microwaves and electric appliances.
Keeping your truck running in idle is also hard as hell on your engine and still burns about a gallon or so an hour.
As someone who once owned a rather large company, I can assure you that most of what lawyers do is take your money and protect you from other lawyers.
If you are just starting to believe that lawyers are a parasite feeding off American business, you haven't been sued yet. Wait until the profits start rolling in and they begin to smell the blood in the water.
The main reason I got out of business was I was sick of having to sit in court and spend money so a nickle and dime lawyer could try to extract money out of me - yes, it is that bad.
blackdown is proprietary.
I have a redhat network subscription and the download speeds today have been so bad that I am using bittorrent to grab the isos. RHN has been great so far, it is just that the servers are being slammed too hard today to justify waiting 36 hours for each iso.
Great movie and Sci-Fi is showing the sequel in a week.
It is a shame that you posted this anonymously and most people are not going to read it.
The reason I picked that article it the amount off cross references it makes with other news sources to back itself up.
Not for what we use it for. Linux is great for smaller servers and development, but we have machines with terabytes and terabytes of data running on super stable hardware that has features the Linux people are just talking about.
Plus, if/when Linux is ready it won't be too hard to switch as most of what we run on these machines is pretty standard, they are moving from PA-RISC to Intel Itanium, and support contracts only last a few years. Either way, HP gets our money.
Pretty much any technical book I pick up I instantly measure it against
Expert C Programming just based on the fact that I have never come accross a book as clear, informative, and entertaining in any field. Looking at my bookshelf here at work I have math books, programming books, general documentation - and most of them are dry as hell and were a pain to get through. Has anyone found a good math book that can match Expert C Programming in its writing?
Forgive me if I am wrong - it has been awhile - but isn't this the problem that TCP addresses with its 'windows'? It sends out an extra packet for each ACK it gets back, and pulls back at any sign of congestion.
While I agree with you, there have always been artists like Briney and N'Sync. Bubblegum pop has been around for a log time.
I think the problem is the focus these bubblegum pop groups are getting from the Big 5. Can't be good when the shelf life of your main stars is maybe 3 years.
If there wern't enough people really concerned about this, it would not be as big as an issue. The fact is that there are a whole lot of Americans who think that the US Government should regulate video games, and - if there is enough consensus - there should be a bill drafted. This is how the system works.
Congresspeople very rarely fly by the seats of their pants - the American people (at least a pretty powerful group) must think that Americans have trouble deciding for themselves what is offensive for their kids to see.
I don't see anything wrong with extending a language as long as it stays modular and the modules are not required for the basic functionality. The PHP developers have done a good job with this in the 4.x releases, keeping the core language pretty small.
I have to disagree with you. I have been doing my scripting on PHP for about a year now and - at least for me - it kicks the shit out of perl for about 95% of all scripts. Not only is the syntax clean, it is really easy to extend - unlike Perl, the PHP C code is clean and modular.
Then again, the bulk of my development is in C and C++, so PHP is much more intuitive for me than most other scripting languages.