There is a real time variant of linux called RTLinux which is used across a large number of embedded and real time sensitive industries to great effect. Real time scheduling is exactly that, mostly about the scheduler. Linux is modular enough that it has had no less than four different schedulers in the last two major kernel releases, not counting the RT variant. If you can have as large a swath of the code peer reviewed as possible then I don't see where you can really go wrong, if you feel more testing is needed then put dollars into testing, not into creating new code that is then going to need just as much testing!
Ohio is one, but then again it was on *last* years form as well. In Ohio at least it's just application of the use tax laws that have been on the books forever to a new area which the states fear could significantly impact revenues. In other words they are just pointing out that you need to report this new area just like you always were, of course from a bit of old research it seems that use taxes were never a big source of revenue due to their inherint unenforcability.
NT hasn't been true Microkernel since NT 3.51 when they moved the GDI into the kernel. After that it was all downhill. They had to do that to get decent workstation performance because thunking between Ring 0 and 3 multiple times for every graphics operation just kills performance, that's why no one has the graphics and other core drivers outside of the kernel anymore.
It doesn't, and is the number one real world reason why runas is all but worthless. If I could really login as a trusted user only when I need to then I would do it that way, but I can't get any real work done like that. If it was as easy to login as a second user as it is with XP's fast user switching then I think you would see a lot more admin's doing it. MS needs to fix fast user switching to work in domain mode for the next client OS if they really want to take a real world step towards better security.
Better yet use an email client that can strip all but basic tags from the message before displaying it. Mozilla Mail has such a feature, it's called view as basic HTML. That along with not downloading remote images and not allowing Javascript/Java/Plugins to run on email makes me fairly confident that Mozilla Mail won't be a virus vector anytime soon.
Uh, you are forgetting the biggest computer maker of all, IBM. They make their own CPU's (POWER,Zseries, PPC), systems (Z and i series), and OS (OS/390, AIX, z/OS). They do it well and it makes them plenty of profits.
Unless you actually need it, in which case you need it and not many alternatives will do. Sure you can replace a 1700 series, or maybe even a 3500 series router with a PC and PCI card but try replacing a 7500 or 12000 series with a PC and you will be laughed at, not to mention the Cat 6500 series switches. Also you are sadly mistaken if you think a general purpose OS and generic CPU have more routing or switching power then the ASICs in just about any specialized router.
It's not usually a matter of not remembering, at least not on a personal level. It's usually a matter of their not being any institutional memory. That is the person who configured that router is now gone/fired/dead/unknown and there is no documentation because that wasn't important at 3am, getting the damn thing working was.
Ummm, the very article you linked has a link to the review of the Cat-6500 which did better on the same tests.... Not only that but the numbers seem to indicate that the switching fabric of the chassis can't really handle the 40x1Gb card talking to the 4x10Gb card, whereas a 6509 can take 6 20x1Gb cards and a 4x10Gb card and switch them all at line speed and have fast failover with dual supervisor cards.
Ah yes, but they are so obtuse that not even the IRS can always answer detailed questions, and even if they can they will tell you that the answer is non-binding and that a tax court may not rule the same as the answer you were given.
Sorry but there is NO cross platform toolkit that is going to look native across those plaftforms. Using native elements doesn't make it native, it just makes it less foreign looking. The functionality and GUI design elements for those OS's are so far from each other that simply changing window dressing isn't going to make the functionality of an app apear native.
Without a contract or binding confidentiality clause you are free to redistribute any information you are given, what this guy did might not be ethical but absent a contract he is probably free both civily and criminally.
And they rarely should. The have completely different, and in fact oposite directives and charters. The CIA is forbidden to spy domestically and the FBI has no jurisdiction outside of US sovereign soil. Now should there be communications or financial dealings between those outside the country and operatives working in the country then they should do their best to communicate information that pertains to both investigations.
Um, we knew Aschcroft was off his rocker within a couple days of him taking office. He had a curtain put up for a freaking nude marble statue! Also you point out the ultimate irony of Republicans, they want the government out of their lifes unless it's to instill their own brand of morality on everyone else.
Ant ThinCast 5000 from Acute Network Technologies. Found a lot of them as is for $25, only a couple were non-functional or had boot passwords. Guy we bought them from said he had some new ones for $50.
That's funny, we LOVE our Citrix environments, and so do our clients. We only have a couple of boxes per client we really have to worry about, backups are guarenteed to be centralized since the thinterms have no local storage, and best of all new terms are $50 new or $25 used. We generally have only a couple percent fat clients for those wierd but necessary apps that all customers seem to have which we don't feel safe loading on the Citrix farms. Best of all anyone with a web browser can get setup from home if the client is using NFuse, it's the webapp thing that Java applets never even came close to living up to. (ok so you have to be running Windows for the normall plugin to work, but I'm pretty sure there are Citirix clients for most OS's).
That's really funny since Apple owns neither the AAC format NOR the fairplay technology. I can't see how they can earn royalties off of technology that they liscense, not own. Btw non-DRM'd AAC files should be universally supported since they are nothing more than MP4 audio files.
God, you people act more like sheeple than geeks. I've had RealOne installed since Oct 02 and I haven't seen a single peep from it since the initial install, other than the videos it's supposed to show me. Do the advanced install, or go through the preferences menu after a normal install and turn all the crap off. It's not like actual malware where stuff is inaccessible without regedit, just click the freaking boxes!
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I worry about more than that, I worry about the closing of space for generations!
But in reality, space does not clear after an explosion near our planet. The fragments continue circling the Earth, their orbits crossing those of other objects. Paint chips, lost bolts, pieces of exploded rockets--all have already become tiny satellites, traveling at about 27,000 kilometers per hour, 10 times faster than a high-powered rifle bullet. A marble traveling at such speed would hit with the energy of a one-ton safe dropped from a three-story building. Anything it strikes will be destroyed and only increase the debris.
With enough orbiting debris, pieces will begin to hit other pieces, fragmenting them into more pieces, which will in turn hit more pieces, setting off a chain reaction of destruction that will leave a lethal halo around the Earth. To operate a satellite within this cloud of millions of tiny missiles would be impossible: no more Hubble Space Telescopes or International Space Stations. Even communications and GPS satellites in higher orbits would be endangered. Every person who cares about the human future in space should also realize that weaponizing space will jeopardize the possibility of space exploration.
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These satellites are already at increasing risk from space debris. At any moment, only about 200 kilograms of meteoroid mass are within 2,000 kilometers of the Earth's surface. But within this same altitude range are roughly 3 million kilograms of orbiting debris introduced by human activities, most from about 3,000 spent rocket stages and now-inactive satellites. Most of the approximately 4,000 additional objects several centimeters in size or larger resulted from the fragmentation of more than 120 satellites.
That's from Bullitin of the atomic scientists. link
Maybe Drug Fair wouldn't, but I can guarentee you that Walmart would LOVE to lower prices. Shrinkage is a major component to the retail markup. The annual shrinkage at Walmart is around 3 Billion dollars (just over 1%)! Likewise politicians LOVE to lower taxes, in fact the usually scream it from the highest tower they can find, even when they are efectivly pushing grannie from the nursing home to do it. (or cutting other social programs, they never seem to cut defense spending to pay for tax cuts)
My guess is that they think they can compete with OO on Linux and that trying to fight the entrenched MS Office on Mac is futile. Also if it wasn't for the fact that the 800lb gorilla was already entrenched in the stagnant market then there might in fact be plenty of money to be made there. My father sells chemicals and related services to heavy manufacturing here in the "rustbelt", to be sure a stagnant, if not shrinking market. Yet his small business is doing extrememly well after only a few years. They are making money by feeding off the mistakes of the larger, established players. Now if they had to face a single large competitor that basically defined the industry I doubt he would be able to do as well, that is afterall one of the powers of monopolies =)
I take it you've never had to deal with PowerPoint and Excell happy marketing types? We have to remind people constantly to check their pst file size so that they don't go over the 2GB hard limit and lose emails. It's hard to go over a couple hundred megs of plain text email but with multimeg attachment's it's almost a foregone conclusion.
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There is a real time variant of linux called RTLinux which is used across a large number of embedded and real time sensitive industries to great effect. Real time scheduling is exactly that, mostly about the scheduler. Linux is modular enough that it has had no less than four different schedulers in the last two major kernel releases, not counting the RT variant. If you can have as large a swath of the code peer reviewed as possible then I don't see where you can really go wrong, if you feel more testing is needed then put dollars into testing, not into creating new code that is then going to need just as much testing!
Ohio is one, but then again it was on *last* years form as well. In Ohio at least it's just application of the use tax laws that have been on the books forever to a new area which the states fear could significantly impact revenues. In other words they are just pointing out that you need to report this new area just like you always were, of course from a bit of old research it seems that use taxes were never a big source of revenue due to their inherint unenforcability.
They are not illegal if you live outside the US.
NT hasn't been true Microkernel since NT 3.51 when they moved the GDI into the kernel. After that it was all downhill. They had to do that to get decent workstation performance because thunking between Ring 0 and 3 multiple times for every graphics operation just kills performance, that's why no one has the graphics and other core drivers outside of the kernel anymore.
It doesn't, and is the number one real world reason why runas is all but worthless. If I could really login as a trusted user only when I need to then I would do it that way, but I can't get any real work done like that. If it was as easy to login as a second user as it is with XP's fast user switching then I think you would see a lot more admin's doing it. MS needs to fix fast user switching to work in domain mode for the next client OS if they really want to take a real world step towards better security.
Better yet use an email client that can strip all but basic tags from the message before displaying it. Mozilla Mail has such a feature, it's called view as basic HTML. That along with not downloading remote images and not allowing Javascript/Java/Plugins to run on email makes me fairly confident that Mozilla Mail won't be a virus vector anytime soon.
Uh, you are forgetting the biggest computer maker of all, IBM. They make their own CPU's (POWER,Zseries, PPC), systems (Z and i series), and OS (OS/390, AIX, z/OS). They do it well and it makes them plenty of profits.
My guess would be that IBM does VERY well with Linux support.
Unless you actually need it, in which case you need it and not many alternatives will do. Sure you can replace a 1700 series, or maybe even a 3500 series router with a PC and PCI card but try replacing a 7500 or 12000 series with a PC and you will be laughed at, not to mention the Cat 6500 series switches. Also you are sadly mistaken if you think a general purpose OS and generic CPU have more routing or switching power then the ASICs in just about any specialized router.
It's not usually a matter of not remembering, at least not on a personal level. It's usually a matter of their not being any institutional memory. That is the person who configured that router is now gone/fired/dead/unknown and there is no documentation because that wasn't important at 3am, getting the damn thing working was.
Ummm, the very article you linked has a link to the review of the Cat-6500 which did better on the same tests.... Not only that but the numbers seem to indicate that the switching fabric of the chassis can't really handle the 40x1Gb card talking to the 4x10Gb card, whereas a 6509 can take 6 20x1Gb cards and a 4x10Gb card and switch them all at line speed and have fast failover with dual supervisor cards.
Ah yes, but they are so obtuse that not even the IRS can always answer detailed questions, and even if they can they will tell you that the answer is non-binding and that a tax court may not rule the same as the answer you were given.
Sorry but there is NO cross platform toolkit that is going to look native across those plaftforms. Using native elements doesn't make it native, it just makes it less foreign looking. The functionality and GUI design elements for those OS's are so far from each other that simply changing window dressing isn't going to make the functionality of an app apear native.
Without a contract or binding confidentiality clause you are free to redistribute any information you are given, what this guy did might not be ethical but absent a contract he is probably free both civily and criminally.
And they rarely should. The have completely different, and in fact oposite directives and charters. The CIA is forbidden to spy domestically and the FBI has no jurisdiction outside of US sovereign soil. Now should there be communications or financial dealings between those outside the country and operatives working in the country then they should do their best to communicate information that pertains to both investigations.
Yep, and the meteor attack is analagous to Perl Harbor.
Um, we knew Aschcroft was off his rocker within a couple days of him taking office. He had a curtain put up for a freaking nude marble statue! Also you point out the ultimate irony of Republicans, they want the government out of their lifes unless it's to instill their own brand of morality on everyone else.
Ant ThinCast 5000 from Acute Network Technologies. Found a lot of them as is for $25, only a couple were non-functional or had boot passwords. Guy we bought them from said he had some new ones for $50.
That's funny, we LOVE our Citrix environments, and so do our clients. We only have a couple of boxes per client we really have to worry about, backups are guarenteed to be centralized since the thinterms have no local storage, and best of all new terms are $50 new or $25 used. We generally have only a couple percent fat clients for those wierd but necessary apps that all customers seem to have which we don't feel safe loading on the Citrix farms. Best of all anyone with a web browser can get setup from home if the client is using NFuse, it's the webapp thing that Java applets never even came close to living up to. (ok so you have to be running Windows for the normall plugin to work, but I'm pretty sure there are Citirix clients for most OS's).
That's really funny since Apple owns neither the AAC format NOR the fairplay technology. I can't see how they can earn royalties off of technology that they liscense, not own. Btw non-DRM'd AAC files should be universally supported since they are nothing more than MP4 audio files.
God, you people act more like sheeple than geeks. I've had RealOne installed since Oct 02 and I haven't seen a single peep from it since the initial install, other than the videos it's supposed to show me. Do the advanced install, or go through the preferences menu after a normal install and turn all the crap off. It's not like actual malware where stuff is inaccessible without regedit, just click the freaking boxes!
I worry about more than that, I worry about the closing of space for generations!
But in reality, space does not clear after an explosion near our planet. The fragments continue circling the Earth, their orbits crossing those of other objects. Paint chips, lost bolts, pieces of exploded rockets--all have already become tiny satellites, traveling at about 27,000 kilometers per hour, 10 times faster than a high-powered rifle bullet. A marble traveling at such speed would hit with the energy of a one-ton safe dropped from a three-story building. Anything it strikes will be destroyed and only increase the debris.
With enough orbiting debris, pieces will begin to hit other pieces, fragmenting them into more pieces, which will in turn hit more pieces, setting off a chain reaction of destruction that will leave a lethal halo around the Earth. To operate a satellite within this cloud of millions of tiny missiles would be impossible: no more Hubble Space Telescopes or International Space Stations. Even communications and GPS satellites in higher orbits would be endangered. Every person who cares about the human future in space should also realize that weaponizing space will jeopardize the possibility of space exploration.
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These satellites are already at increasing risk from space debris. At any moment, only about 200 kilograms of meteoroid mass are within 2,000 kilometers of the Earth's surface. But within this same altitude range are roughly 3 million kilograms of orbiting debris introduced by human activities, most from about 3,000 spent rocket stages and now-inactive satellites. Most of the approximately 4,000 additional objects several centimeters in size or larger resulted from the fragmentation of more than 120 satellites.
That's from Bullitin of the atomic scientists. link
Maybe Drug Fair wouldn't, but I can guarentee you that Walmart would LOVE to lower prices. Shrinkage is a major component to the retail markup. The annual shrinkage at Walmart is around 3 Billion dollars (just over 1%)! Likewise politicians LOVE to lower taxes, in fact the usually scream it from the highest tower they can find, even when they are efectivly pushing grannie from the nursing home to do it. (or cutting other social programs, they never seem to cut defense spending to pay for tax cuts)
My guess is that they think they can compete with OO on Linux and that trying to fight the entrenched MS Office on Mac is futile. Also if it wasn't for the fact that the 800lb gorilla was already entrenched in the stagnant market then there might in fact be plenty of money to be made there. My father sells chemicals and related services to heavy manufacturing here in the "rustbelt", to be sure a stagnant, if not shrinking market. Yet his small business is doing extrememly well after only a few years. They are making money by feeding off the mistakes of the larger, established players. Now if they had to face a single large competitor that basically defined the industry I doubt he would be able to do as well, that is afterall one of the powers of monopolies =)
I take it you've never had to deal with PowerPoint and Excell happy marketing types? We have to remind people constantly to check their pst file size so that they don't go over the 2GB hard limit and lose emails. It's hard to go over a couple hundred megs of plain text email but with multimeg attachment's it's almost a foregone conclusion.