Meh. They all still use those abortion-from-hell thumbsticks. I hate those things with a passion, "standard" or no. It's the main reason I don't have a console, and no interest in buying one.
I wonder what the status is on third-party software like DB/2 LUW, Oracle, and Sybase ASE. I know Ubuntu can only handle DB/2 LUW. Oracle and Sybase want a RedHat core.
Ah well, it doesn't matter. I've got DB/2 LUW, PostgreSQL, and MySQL running under Debian, and Oracle, Sybase ASE, and SQL Server on a Win7 box, so my database needs are covered.
I've run SuSE in the past though, and did like it. To be honest I can't remember why I switched. I think that was an actual dead machine issue -- I lost a couple of boxen in a car accident about 10 years ago.
And thanks to Michael Geist exposing their treasonous texts and clauses, the vast majority of those attempts to usurp Canadian copyright law have been stopped by citizen protests. We owe that man a huge debt of gratitude up here.
If they hadn't spent so many person-years sitting at coffee and doughnut shops instead of doing their jobs, this wouldn't be necessary.
And no, it's not a "stereotype." Everywhere I've ever lived I've seen anywhere from 1-6 cop cars parked at the most popular doughnut and coffee shops in town. People make fun of them because they're a joke, not because it's an exagerration.
I don't just blame the NSA for this situation. The providers are at fault for assuming that leased lines can be run unencrypted between their data centers because they're "private". Any time data enters or leaves a data center, one should assume it is being monitored. Everyone knows that's the most basic tenet of security.
But all these lazy vendors from Google to Yahoo and Microsoft and hundreds of others have taken the easy, lazy way out for years.
We all owe Snowden a big "Thank you" for kicking them all in the ass and getting them to do what they should have done in the first place.
Ah, the good old days.... when CPUs were measured in megahertz, and instructions took multiple clocks.:D
Really, what was the Cray when it first came out? One vector processing unit. How many does this new NVidia board have? How much faster are they than the original Cray?
"Unavoidable" means there is no way around it. That's bullshit when dealing with computers. There is always a way around it, if you're not a lazy fucktard doing the programming.
What the hell are you people running on your machines?
I run 2-3 copies of Eclipse, DB/2 LUW, PostgreSQL, and MySQL with a JEE debug server on a 4GB box. I run Oracle, Sybase ASE, and SQL Server on a Windows 7 laptop with a JEE debug server and a couple of other things with 4GB RAM, usually including a couple of java programs that are sucking back 768MB each.
Neither box comes anywhere near thrashing. In fact, they hardly use their swap at all.
If you burn a gallon of gasoline to obtain a gallon of ethanol, and then subsequently burn the gallon of ethanol, you're burning two gallons of fuel to travel the same distance (from the consumer's perspective) as you would just burning the gasoline in the first place. I fail to see how this can be good for CO2 levels.
When I set a default for a file extension in the OS, I expect the browser to respect that setting. Both Firefox and Chrome are now "bad apples" in the desktop configuration arena. Shame on them both. I see no reason why their implementation would be any more secure than the applications I've already chosen.
You damn well that the insurance companies are pushing this not for the "carrot" of reduced rates, but the much bigger "stick" of being able to nail bad drivers with higher rates.
The KDE "search" functionality is a fine example. If there were any way to uninstall Nepomuk, I'd get rid of it in a heartbeat. But no, this useless piece of crap is so deeply embedded all you can do is disable it. But disabling doesn't actually get it to stop sucking CPU -- you have to autostart to run "tracker-control --terminate=miners" to *really* kill Nepomuk.
The corpse is still rotting on my system, but it's dead now.
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Meh. They all still use those abortion-from-hell thumbsticks. I hate those things with a passion, "standard" or no. It's the main reason I don't have a console, and no interest in buying one.
I wonder what the status is on third-party software like DB/2 LUW, Oracle, and Sybase ASE. I know Ubuntu can only handle DB/2 LUW. Oracle and Sybase want a RedHat core.
Ah well, it doesn't matter. I've got DB/2 LUW, PostgreSQL, and MySQL running under Debian, and Oracle, Sybase ASE, and SQL Server on a Win7 box, so my database needs are covered.
I've run SuSE in the past though, and did like it. To be honest I can't remember why I switched. I think that was an actual dead machine issue -- I lost a couple of boxen in a car accident about 10 years ago.
And thanks to Michael Geist exposing their treasonous texts and clauses, the vast majority of those attempts to usurp Canadian copyright law have been stopped by citizen protests. We owe that man a huge debt of gratitude up here.
If they hadn't spent so many person-years sitting at coffee and doughnut shops instead of doing their jobs, this wouldn't be necessary.
And no, it's not a "stereotype." Everywhere I've ever lived I've seen anywhere from 1-6 cop cars parked at the most popular doughnut and coffee shops in town. People make fun of them because they're a joke, not because it's an exagerration.
It's too bad it's to be a live show. Ah well, hopefully they film at least one performance and release it for distribution.
Though I'm sure the "Ministry of Silly Walks" may have taken a hit due to arthritis by this time. :)
Now imagine a Cray-sized cabinet stuffed with those cards.
Bwahahahahaha! Power!!!!
Boom!
I don't just blame the NSA for this situation. The providers are at fault for assuming that leased lines can be run unencrypted between their data centers because they're "private". Any time data enters or leaves a data center, one should assume it is being monitored. Everyone knows that's the most basic tenet of security.
But all these lazy vendors from Google to Yahoo and Microsoft and hundreds of others have taken the easy, lazy way out for years.
We all owe Snowden a big "Thank you" for kicking them all in the ass and getting them to do what they should have done in the first place.
Ah, the good old days.... when CPUs were measured in megahertz, and instructions took multiple clocks. :D
Really, what was the Cray when it first came out? One vector processing unit. How many does this new NVidia board have? How much faster are they than the original Cray?
OMG! You mean I was *wrong*?
Holy shit, like that has *never* happened before. :P
Sure it does something. Blocking all the slang terms will make it harder to find child porn.
Unfortunately it will also make it a lot harder to find perfectly innocent items like "chicken", too.
As I read it, the complaint is that you can't revert to the old OS if you install a new OS.
Show me any OS installer that does that!
Whinging from an idiot in my books.
That's a shame. To go so young.
But I never have understood the sanity behind jumping out of a perfectly good plane. :(
A friend of mine was into sky diving years ago. Everyone warned him he was taking crazy risks and he'd die some time.
But in the end, he died flat on his back under a car that slipped from the jacks. Life can be so ironic...
If this information is "necessary", then you shouldn't be in business.
Period.
Email, browsers, Vuze, etc. are all running as well.
That's why I'm baffled at people who talk about "only" 8GB of RAM.
"Unavoidable" means there is no way around it. That's bullshit when dealing with computers. There is always a way around it, if you're not a lazy fucktard doing the programming.
Oh. I get it. A tag to indicate that the page was not intercepted by a man-in-the-middle attack.
Kind of impossible considering the NSA, et. al. could just edit the content of the tag in transmission.
So after you load the page, you find out that it was flagged for tracking?
Not exactly a lot of help now, is it?
What the hell are you people running on your machines?
I run 2-3 copies of Eclipse, DB/2 LUW, PostgreSQL, and MySQL with a JEE debug server on a 4GB box. I run Oracle, Sybase ASE, and SQL Server on a Windows 7 laptop with a JEE debug server and a couple of other things with 4GB RAM, usually including a couple of java programs that are sucking back 768MB each.
Neither box comes anywhere near thrashing. In fact, they hardly use their swap at all.
If you burn a gallon of gasoline to obtain a gallon of ethanol, and then subsequently burn the gallon of ethanol, you're burning two gallons of fuel to travel the same distance (from the consumer's perspective) as you would just burning the gasoline in the first place. I fail to see how this can be good for CO2 levels.
You don't.
When I set a default for a file extension in the OS, I expect the browser to respect that setting. Both Firefox and Chrome are now "bad apples" in the desktop configuration arena. Shame on them both. I see no reason why their implementation would be any more secure than the applications I've already chosen.
You go get property rights/permission from EVERY nation in the UN, you greedy fucking pig.
You damn well that the insurance companies are pushing this not for the "carrot" of reduced rates, but the much bigger "stick" of being able to nail bad drivers with higher rates.
The KDE "search" functionality is a fine example. If there were any way to uninstall Nepomuk, I'd get rid of it in a heartbeat. But no, this useless piece of crap is so deeply embedded all you can do is disable it. But disabling doesn't actually get it to stop sucking CPU -- you have to autostart to run "tracker-control --terminate=miners" to *really* kill Nepomuk.
The corpse is still rotting on my system, but it's dead now.