Yeah pretty much this. If you ever played D1, D2, D2 LOD, WoW, etc during the first month or two you'd know how true this is. They make good games, but there's usually a ton of relatively serious bugs with the 1.0 patch and often a couple unbalanced gameplay areas. To their credit they do address they fairly quickly and end up with a freaking fantastic product, but I don't know of a single Blizzard release that was anywhere near perfect at 1.0
I was just talking to a coworker on Friday and he mentioned he had a friend who worked for a multinational logistics company and they had landed a very large client for a replacement WAN project. The problem was he wasn't allowed to do anything wrt contracts until it was announced which was less than 30 days from the switchover. So he drop shipped hundreds of routers with 3G wireless and then had the T1's ordered and installed after the contract was signed. I guess these locations were upgrading from slow frame relay lines so even the 3G was fast =) The added bonus is they had the failover circuit built in from the get-go so no one could complain about the cost because it was the only way to get em up and running.
Look into uPnP (universal plug and play/pray). It's horribly insecure both from a design standpoint and from the standpoint of most of the real world code being horribly sloppy, but it exists and is fairly well supported for opening up the required ports for applications from Windows. I personally turn it off on both the router and the client because it's been the source of TONS of critical security vulnerabilities.
Hahahaha, you think a multi-hundred mhz cpu can't saturate a 100Mb line, I did it with a 66Mhz pentium. Also you save a TON on power by using a low power device like these as a low volume file server. I wouldn't hang an entire office off one, but they have more horesepower than most of the fileservers had when I started in the industry, and we made those work somehow =)
Uh, it's a low power linux box that happens to run with a web configuration page and some iptables magic. Hanging some storage and/or a printer off it makes perfect sense. I've done both, the storage for nearline backup (I have Mozy but I'd rather not pay for DVD's or wait forever to download my backups if my HDD simply dies, Mozy's more there in case the house burns down.) Simply handing the printer off the wireless router saved me enough in the first year to pay for the router (previously I had it hanging off an old Athlon XP workstation that ate power).
So they go with the Marijuana Tax stamp idea and setup a whole licensing program where they never license anyone. I haven't read the opinion yet but it wouldn't be unprecedented since the Marijuana law already passed supreme court muster (granted many years ago, but the SC tends to be slow moving).
Lots of stuff runs on jdk 1.4.7 since it was the stable and supported version for so long, especially when 1.5 was in flux. I have a ton of tools that ask for it and I know most of the Oracle stuff in 10g r2 uses it (and fails to include the TZ updates so every time we install a new client we have to TZ patch it). Basically Enterprise IT is often much slower moving than other areas of IT because we get bit by bleeding edge often enough to know it's often just not worth it if there's an alternative that has the same functionality and is more stable wrt change.
Hmm, I thought the inertial guidance was better on JDAM, but wiki says it's only accurate to ~30m with inertial guidance vs ~10m with GPS. That's the difference between hitting the room you want vs not hitting the building at all.
Sucks for you too on most good trackers, a share ratio below ~1 for very long and you are banned. I would give examples but most aren't slashdot appropriate =)
Yeah setting my PC MTU to 576 instead of 1500 made a big difference for me, not as much as limiting my upload in the torrent client, but the two together work very well.
For VoIP there's really no need for QoS on the downstream. Personally I've found that the best QoS is to simply limit my torrent client to about 1/3rd of my total available (150/500 kbps) upload bandwidth. That works better than the QoS on any low or midrange router/firewall I've ever run.
Those are some seriously crappy PSU's! All good PSU's have power factor correction and will be in the 90% range. My datacenter averages 91% and that includes some big equipment that knows nothing about PFC.
The national average is just over $0.10 per kWh. At our headquarters campus we pay just under that for mixed service when all charges are included. I pay almost twice that at home when you include all the freaking fees. I wish I lived near cheap hydro power, but since I don't I bought a super high efficiency AC unit that the installer said would never pay off vs a less efficient cheaper model. I've also gone all CFL for lighting. My PC uses a 45W TDP CPU and everything is energy efficient heatpipe cooled. There are 3 fans total, a 120mm in the front, a 120mm in the PSU and a 92mm on the cpu. I do all that and my summer electric bills still top $200 for an 1,100 sq ft house.
How about the owner uses those same features, have a hidden camera with motion detection. If you don't hit a hidden switch in 30 seconds it sends a video clip over the cellular connection to a site of your choice. I already have friends that do this for home security systems so extending it to the car is fairly obvious.
This makes sense. I was quite young when I started with C++ (middle school?) and so wouldn't have fully understood the difference between the pre-processor step and proper compilation to C. I just remember having to feed the output of the C++ compiler into the C compiler kind of like manually feeding things to the linker. Having since worked with another compiler (one of the Eiffel compilers) that targeted portable C and compilers that target the JVM I understand the design decision =)
There are two problems with using a third party for TPB's cert. First is that it is highly likely that one or more governments would compel the CA to turn over the cert, and it is also likely that the cert would quickly make its way onto a CRL through legal action. Since AFAIK there is no Swedish top level CA it is unlikely that they feel there is any CA that enjoys the same freedoms that they do (it makes me very sad that I as an American am saying that).
I was kind of interested in the comment that C++ required a proper compiler rather than just a pre-processor macro package. From the fog of my memory I remember many of the early commercial C++ offerings being mostly a pre-processor package, were those really just C with Classes compilers rather than true C++ ones?
You'd be surprised at the amount of code many businesses still run where the GUI obviously dates the program to the Windows 3.1 days, those won't run on XP/Vista x64 or 2003 x64/IA64 but they will on every other version of Windows supported today. I'm not sure many linux packages that old would even compile today due to changes in libc.
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Yeah pretty much this. If you ever played D1, D2, D2 LOD, WoW, etc during the first month or two you'd know how true this is. They make good games, but there's usually a ton of relatively serious bugs with the 1.0 patch and often a couple unbalanced gameplay areas. To their credit they do address they fairly quickly and end up with a freaking fantastic product, but I don't know of a single Blizzard release that was anywhere near perfect at 1.0
I was just talking to a coworker on Friday and he mentioned he had a friend who worked for a multinational logistics company and they had landed a very large client for a replacement WAN project. The problem was he wasn't allowed to do anything wrt contracts until it was announced which was less than 30 days from the switchover. So he drop shipped hundreds of routers with 3G wireless and then had the T1's ordered and installed after the contract was signed. I guess these locations were upgrading from slow frame relay lines so even the 3G was fast =) The added bonus is they had the failover circuit built in from the get-go so no one could complain about the cost because it was the only way to get em up and running.
Look into uPnP (universal plug and play/pray). It's horribly insecure both from a design standpoint and from the standpoint of most of the real world code being horribly sloppy, but it exists and is fairly well supported for opening up the required ports for applications from Windows. I personally turn it off on both the router and the client because it's been the source of TONS of critical security vulnerabilities.
Hahahaha, you think a multi-hundred mhz cpu can't saturate a 100Mb line, I did it with a 66Mhz pentium. Also you save a TON on power by using a low power device like these as a low volume file server. I wouldn't hang an entire office off one, but they have more horesepower than most of the fileservers had when I started in the industry, and we made those work somehow =)
Uh, it's a low power linux box that happens to run with a web configuration page and some iptables magic. Hanging some storage and/or a printer off it makes perfect sense. I've done both, the storage for nearline backup (I have Mozy but I'd rather not pay for DVD's or wait forever to download my backups if my HDD simply dies, Mozy's more there in case the house burns down.) Simply handing the printer off the wireless router saved me enough in the first year to pay for the router (previously I had it hanging off an old Athlon XP workstation that ate power).
So they go with the Marijuana Tax stamp idea and setup a whole licensing program where they never license anyone. I haven't read the opinion yet but it wouldn't be unprecedented since the Marijuana law already passed supreme court muster (granted many years ago, but the SC tends to be slow moving).
Lots of stuff runs on jdk 1.4.7 since it was the stable and supported version for so long, especially when 1.5 was in flux. I have a ton of tools that ask for it and I know most of the Oracle stuff in 10g r2 uses it (and fails to include the TZ updates so every time we install a new client we have to TZ patch it). Basically Enterprise IT is often much slower moving than other areas of IT because we get bit by bleeding edge often enough to know it's often just not worth it if there's an alternative that has the same functionality and is more stable wrt change.
A saying I heard recently and thought was *brilliant* was, if I have to pass you on the right you're in the wrong =)
Hmm, I thought the inertial guidance was better on JDAM, but wiki says it's only accurate to ~30m with inertial guidance vs ~10m with GPS. That's the difference between hitting the room you want vs not hitting the building at all.
Sucks for you too on most good trackers, a share ratio below ~1 for very long and you are banned. I would give examples but most aren't slashdot appropriate =)
Yeah setting my PC MTU to 576 instead of 1500 made a big difference for me, not as much as limiting my upload in the torrent client, but the two together work very well.
For VoIP there's really no need for QoS on the downstream. Personally I've found that the best QoS is to simply limit my torrent client to about 1/3rd of my total available (150/500 kbps) upload bandwidth. That works better than the QoS on any low or midrange router/firewall I've ever run.
Those are some seriously crappy PSU's! All good PSU's have power factor correction and will be in the 90% range. My datacenter averages 91% and that includes some big equipment that knows nothing about PFC.
The national average is just over $0.10 per kWh. At our headquarters campus we pay just under that for mixed service when all charges are included. I pay almost twice that at home when you include all the freaking fees. I wish I lived near cheap hydro power, but since I don't I bought a super high efficiency AC unit that the installer said would never pay off vs a less efficient cheaper model. I've also gone all CFL for lighting. My PC uses a 45W TDP CPU and everything is energy efficient heatpipe cooled. There are 3 fans total, a 120mm in the front, a 120mm in the PSU and a 92mm on the cpu. I do all that and my summer electric bills still top $200 for an 1,100 sq ft house.
How about the owner uses those same features, have a hidden camera with motion detection. If you don't hit a hidden switch in 30 seconds it sends a video clip over the cellular connection to a site of your choice. I already have friends that do this for home security systems so extending it to the car is fairly obvious.
Well, the code is free (libre) and the next build of Solaris will be based off a trunk from OpenSolaris AFAIK.
This makes sense. I was quite young when I started with C++ (middle school?) and so wouldn't have fully understood the difference between the pre-processor step and proper compilation to C. I just remember having to feed the output of the C++ compiler into the C compiler kind of like manually feeding things to the linker. Having since worked with another compiler (one of the Eiffel compilers) that targeted portable C and compilers that target the JVM I understand the design decision =)
Of course it's possible because C is Turing complete, it's just not very practical as you point out =)
There are two problems with using a third party for TPB's cert. First is that it is highly likely that one or more governments would compel the CA to turn over the cert, and it is also likely that the cert would quickly make its way onto a CRL through legal action. Since AFAIK there is no Swedish top level CA it is unlikely that they feel there is any CA that enjoys the same freedoms that they do (it makes me very sad that I as an American am saying that).
I was kind of interested in the comment that C++ required a proper compiler rather than just a pre-processor macro package. From the fog of my memory I remember many of the early commercial C++ offerings being mostly a pre-processor package, were those really just C with Classes compilers rather than true C++ ones?
That's not to say that Solaris 10 isn't nice, but it's not free,
Uh, it's free(gratis) for the downloading and has been for quite some time. You CAN pay for support but that's not different from linux.
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Yes, #23 a Dell cluster for NCSA. You can download the results in XLS format and then do a sort to quickly find data like that =)
MCI used plenty of railroad right of ways, I guess you don't spend enough time outdoors or you would know that from first hand knowledge =)
You'd be surprised at the amount of code many businesses still run where the GUI obviously dates the program to the Windows 3.1 days, those won't run on XP/Vista x64 or 2003 x64/IA64 but they will on every other version of Windows supported today. I'm not sure many linux packages that old would even compile today due to changes in libc.