"The ability to understand the secret communications of our foreign adversaries while protecting our own communications..." http://www.nsa.gov/about/about00003.cfm
contemptible?
From what I can see from Executive Order 12333 http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12333.html the NSA is charged with Foreign Intelligence gathering and Information Assurance. The second one is at discussion here. I'm sure they, like every other Govt department, use off-the-shelf software where possible to cut down cost (another goal of all Govt departments). Making that software secure protects your Government AND your people.
Admittedly they may have overstepped the letter of the law (which can be quite grey at times) on a few occasions, but I do believe that, in general, agencies of Democratic governments aren't inherently evil, or made up of evil people. They're just normal people trying to do a job and really are trying to do the best for the people they serve.
Having said that, as others have commented, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Trust your Government, they probably really are trying to do their best for you, but DO keep an eye on them!
Those of you who are paranoid, we know who you are...
Thats really interesting that you should mention "and a type of foodcoloring."
Our eldest child, a male, had all sorts of problems, ADD/ADHD type symptoms, autistic-type behaviours, difficulty in communicating, acting like a chicken (no sh1t, he flapped his elbows and clucked at any time. Even now (16) he is still sensitive to chicken noises) etc. All of the Doctors we tried scorned our (parental) intuition that food colouring, somehow, had something to do with it.
So, we removed food colouring from his diet. Within a week he had calmed down and could speak coherantly. We used colour-free drinks etc and it made a huge difference. We found that yellows were the baddest, but worst of all was the "white" colouring in some vanilla ice-creams!
By regulating the colouring in his diet, and by educating *him* about the problems he is now normal (apart from some lingering chicken tendancies). He now recognises the impact of colourings and regulates his own intake. He has gone on to be extremely intelligent, coming 3rd in the countries Science challenge, for e.g.
BTW - he also had bad excema. All sorts of "modern" medicine didn't work (steroid creams etc) , however we happened to visit an Indian Ayuvedic pharmicist who belived in treating the cause, rather than the symptom. He thought that the excema was caused by body heat trying to escape, so ruled out high heat foods. We regulated the jam & honey in his diet and the excema is gone, well to managable levels anyway.
Which was unfortunate. The DSL link was (probably) up, just they couln't authenticate with their ISP who was probably North of the breaks.
It was an unfortunate Murphy. 2 cables on different side of the country being killed at the same time.
I'm not a Telcom fan-boy, but cut them some slack. The chances of 2 seperate fibres being cut at the same time is slim, even giving the homing instinct of the average post hole borer.
Not to mention the coolest insect, the weta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta An insect that can grow close to the size of a rat (not a freaking cool animation studio that had a little to do with the movie-isation of some Tolkein books!)
As an island nation we have had our unique native fauna absolutely screwed over by introduced animals: rats, cats, ferrets, dogs etc. Our flora screwed by opossums, deer, goat(se), vegeterians, etc.
The only winners are the sheep, who have moved to Aussy to look for boyfriends.;-)
I work for a living and use Linux all day, every day. I'm much more productive now than 3 years ago when I was forced to use Windows. (Unix sysadmin for 15 years)
I work in a very Windows oriented office, IIS based Intranet (ntlm auth reqd), Exchange, Windows shared directories etc, but there's NOTHING I cant do on my Linux box.
A GUI should be a personal choice. Personally I use a very minimal FluxBox, because it suits the way I work. (To me a GUI is a way to have lots of command line windows open at once:-) Others prefer the full Start Button, System Tray thing, good on em. If thats what you need to be productive, go for it.
Oh, and when I want to get WORK done, I don't boot linux. It's alwaysi running. (Barring unfortunate UPS issues:)
From http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs/ in their FAQ
Q1. What is the history of the source based use for the port of JFS for Linux.
A1. IBM introduced its UNIX file system as the Journaled File System (JFS)
with the initial release of AIX Version 3.1. This file system, now
called JFS1 on AIX, has been the premier file system for AIX over the
last 10 years and has been installed in millions of customer's AIX
systems. In 1995, work began to enhance the file system to be more
scalable and to support machines that had more than one
processor. Another goal was to have a more portable file system,
capable of running on multiple operating systems.
Historically, the JFS1 file system is very closely tied to the memory
manager of AIX. This design is typical of a closed-source operating
system, or a file system supporting only one operating system.
The new Journaled File System, on which the Linux port was based, was
first shipped in OS/2 Warp Server for eBusiness in April, 1999, after
several years of designing, coding, and testing. It also shipped with
OS/2 Warp Client in October, 2000. In parallel to this effort, some
of the JFS development team returned to the AIX Operating System
Development Group in 1997 and started to move this new JFS source base
to the AIX operating system. In May, 2001, a second journaled file
system, Enhanced Journaled File System (JFS2), was made available for
AIX 5L. In December of 1999, a snapshot of the original OS/2 JFS
source was taken and work was begun to port JFS to Linux.
So, the original JFS-1 was written as closed source for AIX. However, the JFS that made its way into Linux was JFS-2, which was originally written for OS/2 then ported to AIX and Linux.
Raid 0+1 is a mirrored stripe Raid 1+0 (usually called raid raid 10) is a striped mirror, and is only usefull for 4+ drives.
For e.g. Raid 0+1 1 2 |=| 3 4 so, disks 1 & 3 are striped, as are disks 2 & 4. Then 1-3 and 2-4 are mirrored.
Raid 1+0 1=2
| 3=4 Disks 1&2 are mirrored, as are 3&4, then 1-2 and 3-4 are striped.
Raid 0+1 and 1+0 are similar in performance, good for reads, good for writes, the gain is in redundancy when a 2nd drive fails. If, for e.g., disk 1 dies:
In raid 0+1 the whole thing fails if disks 2 or 4 dies. (Disk 1 dies, disk 3 is also dead because of the stripe)
In Raid 1+0 the whole thing dies only if disk 2 also dies.
Theres a good description at: http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/raid10/
Also, is Linux more secure than Windows, because I hear a fair amount of Linux security holes more than Windows
Well, according to the Inquirer http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13420 some Linux distro's are WAY worse than Windoze. For e.g. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 with 186 vulns last year opposed to Windoze XP Home with 32
I find this very hard to believe, and haven't checked their sources yet, but it does look disturbing. Makes me wonder what comprises a "Linux" vuln vs a Windoze one?
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It's not realistic until the Virtual IRS can tax your Actual A$$.
Oh, wait, we have to pay for *indows when we buy a PC?
How is:
"The ability to understand the secret communications of our foreign adversaries while protecting our own communications..." http://www.nsa.gov/about/about00003.cfm
contemptible?
From what I can see from Executive Order 12333 http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12333.html the NSA is charged with Foreign Intelligence gathering and Information Assurance. The second one is at discussion here. I'm sure they, like every other Govt department, use off-the-shelf software where possible to cut down cost (another goal of all Govt departments). Making that software secure protects your Government AND your people.
Admittedly they may have overstepped the letter of the law (which can be quite grey at times) on a few occasions, but I do believe that, in general, agencies of Democratic governments aren't inherently evil, or made up of evil people. They're just normal people trying to do a job and really are trying to do the best for the people they serve.
Having said that, as others have commented, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Trust your Government, they probably really are trying to do their best for you, but DO keep an eye on them!
Those of you who are paranoid, we know who you are...
Thats really interesting that you should mention "and a type of foodcoloring."
Our eldest child, a male, had all sorts of problems, ADD/ADHD type symptoms, autistic-type behaviours, difficulty in communicating, acting like a chicken (no sh1t, he flapped his elbows and clucked at any time. Even now (16) he is still sensitive to chicken noises) etc. All of the Doctors we tried scorned our (parental) intuition that food colouring, somehow, had something to do with it.
So, we removed food colouring from his diet. Within a week he had calmed down and could speak coherantly. We used colour-free drinks etc and it made a huge difference. We found that yellows were the baddest, but worst of all was the "white" colouring in some vanilla ice-creams!
By regulating the colouring in his diet, and by educating *him* about the problems he is now normal (apart from some lingering chicken tendancies). He now recognises the impact of colourings and regulates his own intake. He has gone on to be extremely intelligent, coming 3rd in the countries Science challenge, for e.g.
BTW - he also had bad excema. All sorts of "modern" medicine didn't work (steroid creams etc) , however we happened to visit an Indian Ayuvedic pharmicist who belived in treating the cause, rather than the symptom. He thought that the excema was caused by body heat trying to escape, so ruled out high heat foods. We regulated the jam & honey in his diet and the excema is gone, well to managable levels anyway.
Can you imagine being able to program in VB.net instead of C99?
Of course after writing it in VB.net you'd need a HPC to run it!
Mind you, perhaps they released Compute Cluster Server so people would have something to run Longtooth on?
Google should step past the google bar and release it's own OS, Linux based free software, named Go or something else cute that starts with a 'G'
:-)
How about GonOS or Gonux ?
But if Google is Ad driven, that would be Gonads?
Which was unfortunate. The DSL link was (probably) up, just they couln't authenticate with their ISP who was probably North of the breaks.
It was an unfortunate Murphy. 2 cables on different side of the country being killed at the same time.
I'm not a Telcom fan-boy, but cut them some slack. The chances of 2 seperate fibres being cut at the same time is slim, even giving the homing instinct of the average post hole borer.
Hm, as for the rat population maybe they need to sell off some of those many millions of sheeps (40+ million, IIRC) and get some cats
;-)
Which would screw our native species even more.
Introduced predators, especially cats and ferrets, have decimated out national icon the Kiwi (as in bird, not fruit) http://xenon.stanford.edu/~rsf/kiwi.html
Not to mention the coolest insect, the weta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta An insect that can grow close to the size of a rat (not a freaking cool animation studio that had a little to do with the movie-isation of some Tolkein books!)
As an island nation we have had our unique native fauna absolutely screwed over by introduced animals: rats, cats, ferrets, dogs etc. Our flora screwed by opossums, deer, goat(se), vegeterians, etc.
The only winners are the sheep, who have moved to Aussy to look for boyfriends.
When I want to get WORK done, I boot XP.
:-) Others prefer the full Start Button, System Tray thing, good on em. If thats what you need to be productive, go for it.
:)
Depends what work you do, I guess.
I work for a living and use Linux all day, every day. I'm much more productive now than 3 years ago when I was forced to use Windows. (Unix sysadmin for 15 years)
I work in a very Windows oriented office, IIS based Intranet (ntlm auth reqd), Exchange, Windows shared directories etc, but there's NOTHING I cant do on my Linux box.
A GUI should be a personal choice. Personally I use a very minimal FluxBox, because it suits the way I work. (To me a GUI is a way to have lots of command line windows open at once
Oh, and when I want to get WORK done, I don't boot linux. It's alwaysi running. (Barring unfortunate UPS issues
From http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs/ in their FAQ
:-)
Q1. What is the history of the source based use for the port of JFS for Linux.
A1. IBM introduced its UNIX file system as the Journaled File System (JFS)
with the initial release of AIX Version 3.1. This file system, now
called JFS1 on AIX, has been the premier file system for AIX over the
last 10 years and has been installed in millions of customer's AIX
systems. In 1995, work began to enhance the file system to be more
scalable and to support machines that had more than one
processor. Another goal was to have a more portable file system,
capable of running on multiple operating systems.
Historically, the JFS1 file system is very closely tied to the memory
manager of AIX. This design is typical of a closed-source operating
system, or a file system supporting only one operating system.
The new Journaled File System, on which the Linux port was based, was
first shipped in OS/2 Warp Server for eBusiness in April, 1999, after
several years of designing, coding, and testing. It also shipped with
OS/2 Warp Client in October, 2000. In parallel to this effort, some
of the JFS development team returned to the AIX Operating System
Development Group in 1997 and started to move this new JFS source base
to the AIX operating system. In May, 2001, a second journaled file
system, Enhanced Journaled File System (JFS2), was made available for
AIX 5L. In December of 1999, a snapshot of the original OS/2 JFS
source was taken and work was begun to port JFS to Linux.
So, the original JFS-1 was written as closed source for AIX. However, the JFS that made its way into Linux was JFS-2, which was originally written for OS/2 then ported to AIX and Linux.
Dunno how SCO can claim code written for OS/2
Raid 0+1 is a mirrored stripe
Raid 1+0 (usually called raid raid 10) is a striped mirror, and is only usefull for 4+ drives.
For e.g.
Raid 0+1
1 2
|=|
3 4
so, disks 1 & 3 are striped, as are disks 2 & 4. Then 1-3 and 2-4 are mirrored.
Raid 1+0
1=2
|
3=4
Disks 1&2 are mirrored, as are 3&4, then 1-2 and 3-4 are striped.
Raid 0+1 and 1+0 are similar in performance, good for reads, good for writes, the gain is in redundancy when a 2nd drive fails. If, for e.g., disk 1 dies:
In raid 0+1 the whole thing fails if disks 2 or 4 dies. (Disk 1 dies, disk 3 is also dead because of the stripe)
In Raid 1+0 the whole thing dies only if disk 2 also dies.
Theres a good description at: http://www.ofb.net/~jheiss/raid10/
Also, is Linux more secure than Windows, because I hear a fair amount of Linux security holes more than Windows
Well, according to the Inquirer http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13420 some Linux distro's are WAY worse than Windoze. For e.g. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 with 186 vulns last year opposed to Windoze XP Home with 32
I find this very hard to believe, and haven't checked their sources yet, but it does look disturbing. Makes me wonder what comprises a "Linux" vuln vs a Windoze one?
If you havent allready signed it, there's a petition at http://www.whois.sc/verisign-dns/ to encourage Verisign to rack-off.