The diversity idea has some interesting scenarios, implementation wise. But it's a great idea. We have redundent everything in a data center to take care of hardware issues, why not redundent diverse systems to handle software issues?
So a site with a critical web server would somehow need to run multiple instances using different web server packages under different OSes using different processors. Then there's the entire aspect of the back-end software like the DB to think about! And it would all have to inter-operate and look the same to the user (like an update to an mysql server on a x-server using a motorola processor would have to sync changes to a sql server under windows on an intel server.)
Neat... new job security! Certainly this has to be more expensive than writing it correct in the first place!:)
I have the first SmartPhone, the Orange SPV... [long list of features snipped]
Yeah, but how does it work as a phone? I've read a lot about current generation of cell phones on the cellular newsgroups, and consensus is pretty much that the newer pda-type phones are causing the phone function to suffer. Battery life takes a hit, sound quality takes a hit, output power takes a hit (they do 200mw instead of old 600mw), and reliability takes a hit. Buggy phone software can actually cause the phone to crash and reboot during a call. I don't need that.
While there are always differing opinions, allegedly the last great cell phone made was the Motorola Startac 7868W (or cousins).
I've bought 49 tunes so far and am generally happy with it, but I have been growing more and more annoyed at some of the pricing games.
Like Coldplay's Parachutes album. It's priced at $11.99 -- WTF happened to 9.99 albums? But it's only 10 songs (one of which is a whole 46 seconds long). OK, so buy them individually. Sorry, nope. Track 10 is marked "album only."
The other Coldplay Album is 10.89 for 11 songs, basically the price per song.
Now perhaps the record labels are forcing these limitations on Apple. Maybe they are the reason that a CD of 18 songs is for some reason missing one track and available "partial album only" so you have to buy all remaining 17 songs at 99 cents per. I mean, how can you sell some albums like Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memory or 6DOIT which are complete album-long epics and offer it as "partial album only?" Heaven forbid I get 70 minutes worth of music for only $9.99. If you sell little 3 minute songs you can get over 20 songs on a CD that way... That's less than 50 cents a track. Oh my guiddy aunt, can't allow that.
(Maybe I *will* go back to aquiring my CDs the old fashioned way after all... Maybe the record labels want that to happen. Maybe they want iTMS to fail. Maybe I will fail to clarify what I mean by "old fashined way" with respect to aquiring my CDs.)
Is there a website like Slashdot that is mainly biased towards Microsoft so I can go there and whine about the bias it shows towards Microsoft?
Maybe microdot.org -- oops, sorry, someone's sitting on it. You should go make them an offer for the domain!
Hey, good news. microslash.org is available. Here's your chance to become famous! If macslash.org can do it, so can you. Unfortunately, you might have to load up a linux server to run the slashcode, but it won't be the first time a Windows-centric site was run by a Linux box. I'm sure no one will notice...
United States currency doesn't expire. See my previous reply for why.
Now if you have a fiver that looks like this you might have to take it to a bank to get it swapped, but you'd be much better off taking it to a collector and getting more than face value for it!:)
This is an excellent point and one that i was wondering about. Unlike other countries who routinely decommission monetary instruments (with a brief trade-in period), the United States refuses to do so. Why? It helps support the dollar's strength. Everyone all over the world knows if they stuff chests full of american currency inside their walls, it will still be good in the future. They won't have to drive it to some US bank to exchange it for the latest bills. Why do you think Saddam had so many dollars stashed?
So, basically, in order to keep our currency the choice of the (under)world, we refuse to expire it.
What I use a lot is target disk mode. Very nice for transferring my huge tunes archive to my laptop. Just plug a firewire cable into your source mac, then into your powered down destination (target) mac, then power up the target mac while holding down the T key. A funky firewire symbol screensaver comes up and your second mac's disk icon appears on your source mac's desktop. Very nice.
The only weird thing I can't figure out yet is how it mounts that other disk. All files are owned by the admin owner and you can't chown anything on the target macs disk, therefore if I backup/Users to it with "rsync -a", it requires later booting up the destination mac and "chown -R" each user's home dir. There must be a mount option somewhere to deal with this...
Some people should volunteer to take it using random answers. It could be fun, like making patterns out of the bubbles!
Random answers would obviously score higher than he did, since he tried to answer incorrectly, but I wonder what percentile that would fall into, giving an idea of how many people tried to do well but ended up doing worse than just picking answers at random!
I agree. Someone who is less than 30 is far more likely to jump ship to "follow their dreams" after you've got him/her up to speed and spent a ton of money on training. Someone who is 40 will most likely be loyal and stick around 20+ years, where company-paid training will be an investment that pays for the company, and the stability is something you can count on.
Now, as someone who hires IT people, there are a lot of older people stuck in ruts who can't progress and end up becoming drains on the company, so you have to learn how to weed this out. Like, when you ask what COM is, the guy responds it's a MS/DOS executable (.com file) with absolute addressing using a small memory model.:)
Yeah, ok, I went there, read it, still confused. Sounds like it'd be more easier to define what.NET is.NOT than what it.IS
It's about as clear as going to a biology/chemistry lecture and not understanding a thing. Yeah, I'm sure they all know what an RNA is, but I'm lost and don't care.
I've been buying stuff from the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) for the past week. For me, it's great. But what I think is horribly unfair is that I pick up a lot of stuff I want to buy by listening to streaming radio stations like radiostorm and then go buy stuff on iTMS. So here you have streaming stations PAYING the record labels to stream music, while those who listen to it use it to decide what they want to buy, driving sales. The streamers are getting screwed.
I'd like to see Apple run their own streaming services or contract out to people like radiostorm and integrate it better into itunes so if I am listening during work, I can click on a link during the song play, and add the song to my basket, and pay/download it when I get home.
And what a perfect marketing feedback to the effectiveness of streaming radio to drive record sales. You can, if done right, tell how well every song is doing by who buys it as a result of listening to the streaming stations based on the sales that they drive.
Then maybe this stupid idea of streaming stations having to PAY to get people exposed to new music will die a rightful death.
I manage 18,000 e-mail accounts. I recently was instructed how I am supposed to comply with the Patriot act, including turning over everything I know about my users, including their e-mail and files, without a subpoena and without me being allowed to tell anyone I did it, not the user, not even my boss. I may also need to keep copies of everything my users do for several years as well.
And this is only in my little corner of the world I manage.
The best way to effect a change on a culture is not by revolution, but by a little bit here and a little bit there since no one thinks its a big deal or worth worrying about.
And what's this "you liberals" crap? What's a liberal? Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with Mike Gallagher or Rush Limbaugh?
yeah, I noticed that too. Some don't even put a $ on the price so the menu looks like
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Although I did see some beverages priced at 1.5:)
Also, I live in delaware and since there is no sales tax, some places just drop pennies completely from their prices and don't deal with them. A local pizza shop's prices is in quarter dollars only. Nice, I hate going to states with sales taxes. I always come home with a huge pocket of change.
Just wondering, what will it take to make y'all happy?
I finally got what *I* was looking for. A quick easy way to scan for tunes, check em out, and buy em online. That new iTunes service from Apple is amazing. It takes just a few minutes to scan, preview, download, and drop into my ipod and away I go. No hassles, I only get the tracks I want, and the DRM is very reasonable and usable.
I guess if you're time isn't worth much, then paying for your music isn't very attractive, but this new apple thing answers all of my issues with pay services. Albeit, it is still a bit expensive (Apple's new ipod holds 7,500 tunes and so how much would it cost to fill it?) but I'm happy.
I still use bittorrent to grab my fave TV shows because my cable co is too stupid to offer recent TV shows "on demand" for a reasonable price, but once they get their heads out of the sand and offer that service, I'll pay a buck to watch a TV show (sans commercials) as well.
Anyone older than 35 should remember the CB radio craze from around 1976. Before the mid 70s, CB radio was almost the exclusive hangout for truckers. Then it got popular and went to hell. The FCC removed the requirement for a token license, they expanded it from 23 channels to 40, and it was all garbage. Idiots would key their mic next to an FM radio to drown out others (we'd call it spamming today), no one would do a customary and polite "breaker" to ask permission to talk, and others would buy "heaters" to boost their signal to illegal levels. It became a big mess.
It became so bad that it became useless. You could barely get a response from across the street, let alone the next county like you once could. People got fed up, left, newer technologies like cell phones replaced the need to use CB like a phone, etc, etc...
Now it's back to a more civil sane level, full of mainly truckers keeping themselves company during that long haul.
See ya on the flip side good buddy, keep the rubber side down.
So, I actually think usenet is getting better. Newbies don't bother with it. Just ask your average net user about it, they don't have a clue. Others who use usenet just use it for binaries. The text groups are actually becoming almost useful again!
So keep your mouth shut. Let usenet groups become the hangout for hardcores again. The idiots can hang out on their various noisy useless user-friendly web discussion boards -- like slashdot for example.:)
Mac Stumbler. It's an active sniffer, not passive. It doesn't find APs that have their beacon turned off, but if someone is going to that much trouble to not be detected, I'd assume they don't want to be connected to.
I use it on my vacations. There are an amazing number of APs that have a SSID of "Public" or "PublicAP" or something like that. That's a pretty open invitation I'd say!:)
Some of this is the hosting problem's fault...
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If you want to simply use Mozilla to launch your bittorrent client and you set up the correct help app info, but when you click a link, it displays garbage in the screen, it's not the fault of Mozilla, it's the fault of the web server.
The web server needs to send out the correct content-type info. Does BitTorrent have a mime type? Or just an extension?
For example, on some sites if you click on a file that ends in.wmv it doesn't open in windows media player..wmv is not in the mime.types file of your standard RH distro (at least as of 7.3). The solution is to add..."
video/x-ms-wmv wmv
" to the mime.types file on the server, apache then sends out the correct content-type, and if Mozilla has the wmp client registered for that mime type, all works wbell.
The reason IE works is that Microsoft will trust a file extension to determine content type over content-type info, and that little tidbit has been the source of many an exploit over the years...
Apparently the rev of IIS in 2003 server is configured using a text file. And you know what, IIS admins are excited about this. Wish I remembered the discussion board I saw this in, but they were going on about how they could now easily clone IIS installs to other machines by just copying a text config file over to another one, or customizing an install by writing a simple script to munge the configuraiton file.
Wow, now that's progress! What next? An unattended installation process that actually works, like kickstart, where you can specify everything needed to install via a simple text file, including partition table layout, and then use a simple XML file to determine what packages get loaded?
And before you claim Windows can do this, be careful. You might get me started on one of my typical rants.
I find it amusing that it mentioned using a RAM based swapfile.
If you're trying to get by on some 32-bit system with 4 gigs of RAM and your box is still thrashing, you can't just add memory to it, so throwing swap into an external RAM device might make sense. Seldom used stuff that gets swapped out would happen much faster.
Just an idea. Not sure if that is any better than bank-switching would be (or just farming crap out to multiple systems).
The story summary is a bit over the top. Macslash has same story with a saner and more realistic intro....
GENERAL_SMILEY writes "Never posted a story before, so be gentle. This is a story(FRR) close to my heart though, I work with Universal regularly, and I hope it is true." The story says that Jobs is in talks with Vivendi to buy the music division of Universal for between 5 and 6 billion, making Apple the biggest player in the music business. In other news today, Disney is going to buy Apple and Apple is going to buy Palm. Take lots of grains of salt with this one.
Humans can be so stupid. Sometimes I think maybe evolution shouldn't just wipe us all out and start over again. In a few million years, who'll care that the human race had a forced reboot in the 21st Century?
Looks like we may get lucky this time -- hopefully. If a real killer virus hits, we're all doomed.:(
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So a site with a critical web server would somehow need to run multiple instances using different web server packages under different OSes using different processors. Then there's the entire aspect of the back-end software like the DB to think about! And it would all have to inter-operate and look the same to the user (like an update to an mysql server on a x-server using a motorola processor would have to sync changes to a sql server under windows on an intel server.)
Neat... new job security! Certainly this has to be more expensive than writing it correct in the first place! :)
Yeah, but how does it work as a phone? I've read a lot about current generation of cell phones on the cellular newsgroups, and consensus is pretty much that the newer pda-type phones are causing the phone function to suffer. Battery life takes a hit, sound quality takes a hit, output power takes a hit (they do 200mw instead of old 600mw), and reliability takes a hit. Buggy phone software can actually cause the phone to crash and reboot during a call. I don't need that.
While there are always differing opinions, allegedly the last great cell phone made was the Motorola Startac 7868W (or cousins).
Notice: This post is US-centric
Like Coldplay's Parachutes album. It's priced at $11.99 -- WTF happened to 9.99 albums? But it's only 10 songs (one of which is a whole 46 seconds long). OK, so buy them individually. Sorry, nope. Track 10 is marked "album only." The other Coldplay Album is 10.89 for 11 songs, basically the price per song.
Now perhaps the record labels are forcing these limitations on Apple. Maybe they are the reason that a CD of 18 songs is for some reason missing one track and available "partial album only" so you have to buy all remaining 17 songs at 99 cents per. I mean, how can you sell some albums like Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memory or 6DOIT which are complete album-long epics and offer it as "partial album only?" Heaven forbid I get 70 minutes worth of music for only $9.99. If you sell little 3 minute songs you can get over 20 songs on a CD that way... That's less than 50 cents a track. Oh my guiddy aunt, can't allow that.
(Maybe I *will* go back to aquiring my CDs the old fashioned way after all... Maybe the record labels want that to happen. Maybe they want iTMS to fail. Maybe I will fail to clarify what I mean by "old fashined way" with respect to aquiring my CDs.)
Maybe microdot.org -- oops, sorry, someone's sitting on it. You should go make them an offer for the domain!
Hey, good news. microslash.org is available. Here's your chance to become famous! If macslash.org can do it, so can you. Unfortunately, you might have to load up a linux server to run the slashcode, but it won't be the first time a Windows-centric site was run by a Linux box. I'm sure no one will notice...
Now if you have a fiver that looks like this you might have to take it to a bank to get it swapped, but you'd be much better off taking it to a collector and getting more than face value for it! :)
So, basically, in order to keep our currency the choice of the (under)world, we refuse to expire it.
The only weird thing I can't figure out yet is how it mounts that other disk. All files are owned by the admin owner and you can't chown anything on the target macs disk, therefore if I backup /Users to it with "rsync -a", it requires later booting up the destination mac and "chown -R" each user's home dir. There must be a mount option somewhere to deal with this...
Random answers would obviously score higher than he did, since he tried to answer incorrectly, but I wonder what percentile that would fall into, giving an idea of how many people tried to do well but ended up doing worse than just picking answers at random!
Now, as someone who hires IT people, there are a lot of older people stuck in ruts who can't progress and end up becoming drains on the company, so you have to learn how to weed this out. Like, when you ask what COM is, the guy responds it's a MS/DOS executable (.com file) with absolute addressing using a small memory model. :)
It's about as clear as going to a biology/chemistry lecture and not understanding a thing. Yeah, I'm sure they all know what an RNA is, but I'm lost and don't care.
So why should I care about .NET either?
I'd like to see Apple run their own streaming services or contract out to people like radiostorm and integrate it better into itunes so if I am listening during work, I can click on a link during the song play, and add the song to my basket, and pay/download it when I get home.
And what a perfect marketing feedback to the effectiveness of streaming radio to drive record sales. You can, if done right, tell how well every song is doing by who buys it as a result of listening to the streaming stations based on the sales that they drive.
Then maybe this stupid idea of streaming stations having to PAY to get people exposed to new music will die a rightful death.
I manage 18,000 e-mail accounts. I recently was instructed how I am supposed to comply with the Patriot act, including turning over everything I know about my users, including their e-mail and files, without a subpoena and without me being allowed to tell anyone I did it, not the user, not even my boss. I may also need to keep copies of everything my users do for several years as well.
And this is only in my little corner of the world I manage.
The best way to effect a change on a culture is not by revolution, but by a little bit here and a little bit there since no one thinks its a big deal or worth worrying about.
And what's this "you liberals" crap? What's a liberal? Anyone who doesn't agree 100% with Mike Gallagher or Rush Limbaugh?
So what a great way to prevent a future terrorist attack. Remove those freedoms so they (theoretically) have no reason to hate us anymore.
(Of course, that is a bunch of crap. "They" hate us now more than ever.)
Maybe the RIAA are DDOSing them. Maybe SCO has some of them p2p users on their network. You can't hide from the might RIAA.
I want to see some simple HTML code that will crash a spammer's email harvesting web crawler. Now THAT would be "News.*that matters..."
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Although I did see some beverages priced at 1.5 :)
Also, I live in delaware and since there is no sales tax, some places just drop pennies completely from their prices and don't deal with them. A local pizza shop's prices is in quarter dollars only. Nice, I hate going to states with sales taxes. I always come home with a huge pocket of change.
I finally got what *I* was looking for. A quick easy way to scan for tunes, check em out, and buy em online. That new iTunes service from Apple is amazing. It takes just a few minutes to scan, preview, download, and drop into my ipod and away I go. No hassles, I only get the tracks I want, and the DRM is very reasonable and usable.
I guess if you're time isn't worth much, then paying for your music isn't very attractive, but this new apple thing answers all of my issues with pay services. Albeit, it is still a bit expensive (Apple's new ipod holds 7,500 tunes and so how much would it cost to fill it?) but I'm happy.
I still use bittorrent to grab my fave TV shows because my cable co is too stupid to offer recent TV shows "on demand" for a reasonable price, but once they get their heads out of the sand and offer that service, I'll pay a buck to watch a TV show (sans commercials) as well.
No, heavens no. That stupid song is what helped fuel the CB craze. It all went downhill after that! :)
It became so bad that it became useless. You could barely get a response from across the street, let alone the next county like you once could. People got fed up, left, newer technologies like cell phones replaced the need to use CB like a phone, etc, etc...
Now it's back to a more civil sane level, full of mainly truckers keeping themselves company during that long haul.
See ya on the flip side good buddy, keep the rubber side down.
So, I actually think usenet is getting better. Newbies don't bother with it. Just ask your average net user about it, they don't have a clue. Others who use usenet just use it for binaries. The text groups are actually becoming almost useful again!
So keep your mouth shut. Let usenet groups become the hangout for hardcores again. The idiots can hang out on their various noisy useless user-friendly web discussion boards -- like slashdot for example. :)
I use it on my vacations. There are an amazing number of APs that have a SSID of "Public" or "PublicAP" or something like that. That's a pretty open invitation I'd say! :)
The web server needs to send out the correct content-type info. Does BitTorrent have a mime type? Or just an extension?
For example, on some sites if you click on a file that ends in .wmv it doesn't open in windows media player. .wmv is not in the mime.types file of your standard RH distro (at least as of 7.3). The solution is to add..."
" to the mime.types file on the server, apache then sends out the correct content-type, and if Mozilla has the wmp client registered for that mime type, all works wbell.The reason IE works is that Microsoft will trust a file extension to determine content type over content-type info, and that little tidbit has been the source of many an exploit over the years...
Wow, now that's progress! What next? An unattended installation process that actually works, like kickstart, where you can specify everything needed to install via a simple text file, including partition table layout, and then use a simple XML file to determine what packages get loaded?
And before you claim Windows can do this, be careful. You might get me started on one of my typical rants.
If you're trying to get by on some 32-bit system with 4 gigs of RAM and your box is still thrashing, you can't just add memory to it, so throwing swap into an external RAM device might make sense. Seldom used stuff that gets swapped out would happen much faster.
Just an idea. Not sure if that is any better than bank-switching would be (or just farming crap out to multiple systems).
GENERAL_SMILEY writes "Never posted a story before, so be gentle. This is a story(FRR) close to my heart though, I work with Universal regularly, and I hope it is true." The story says that Jobs is in talks with Vivendi to buy the music division of Universal for between 5 and 6 billion, making Apple the biggest player in the music business. In other news today, Disney is going to buy Apple and Apple is going to buy Palm. Take lots of grains of salt with this one.
Dig Deeper...
Looks like we may get lucky this time -- hopefully. If a real killer virus hits, we're all doomed. :(