The amazing thing wasn't that some ships sank, it was that of the 100+ ships in the bay that ONLY 13 sank in TWO detonation! (the first one ABLE was above ground and sunk 5 ships, the second underwater test BAKER sunk 8). Btw the scrap ships used for the test would have qualified as the world's 8th largest navy if they had been owned by another country and the support staff occupied another 115 vessels.
The REAL failing was twofold, the bridging of the production network which should have been isolated to the office network full of unpatched windows machines, the second was the use of antiquated 10Mb ethernet, we've had 100Mb for what, at least a decade?
This technology is NOT lossless, read the article. If you choose the highest speed (and hence the greatest compression), the image quality is downright poor. On PCMag.com, for example, the photo accompanying John C. Dvorak's column became a featureless blob. Doesn't sound lossless at all to me. If admins knew what they were doing the HTML,CSS, etc would already be compressed with mod_gzip or the little compression checkbox in IIS.
NT4-SP4, NT4-SP6, and about a dozen hotfixes half of which couldn't be rolled back. MS DOES release dodgy patches, about one a year, and a lot of the time they can't be undone so you have to ghost the drive and start all over.
Wrong, the flaw is in the methodology of development and testing. Unchecked buffers aren't hard to eliminate. Tools like Purify will find 90% of them automatically, a good code review will find most of the rest. Look at FreeBSD, only one remote exploit in how many years??? It CAN be done, MS just doesn't have the will, because they certainly have the resources.
Buy a turnkey solution. One platform that I have had lots of luck with is Mirapoint. They have boxes to fill every need from small boxes up to large enterprise installations. When I worked at Cisco they had over half their email on Mirapoint boxes. They had a few IMAP issues several years ago but after I gave them the problem description, client software information, and a reference to where they were not following the RFC's they came out with a patch in fairly short order.
Charging per device takes away my right to own that which I purchase. It ruins the first sale doctrine. I do NOT want to give the media companies more rights then they already have, they are already greatly abusing the rights they do have.
GNU entab is your friend. Feed it a source file and a rule file and it will give you standardized output which you can easily compare. My brother's tabbing style is not even internally consistant so in order to help him debug programs I have to fist run them through my own GNU entab rules so I can read the code =)
Actually it was traced back to code written by Ritchie for a very early version of UNIX and which was placed in the public domain by SCO themselves several years ago. The fact is that SCO has no or almost no legitimate claims of copyright infringement for Linux. They may have a case against IBM for breach of contract but that is VERY unlikely. They are stretching the definition of derivitive work to the extreme. Ultimitly it is up to a judge.
Re:Still won't help Windows
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My win2k system running on a P2-300 with 192MB of ram had a high uptime of 320 days. I would think it is the admin more than the software (or perhaps you have bad hardware/drivers which can affect any OS).
The magnetic domains for this kind of things are EXTREMELY powerfull but very small in scope. Modern HDD's can't be erased fully even with the DeGaussing coils that the navy uses to remove charge from their battleships. This ram will be the same way, field strengths many times more powerfull than any fixed magnet but small enough that they do not interfere with adjacent cells.
Re:"Keeping the computer on"
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I would advise against this. As many sysadmins know if your HDD's are used to being at a raised temperature they bearing will expand and create a groove in their track. Once you power them down a HDD that has been running flawlessly for years will often fail to spin up again after only a few minutes downtime. This is probably not a problem for more modern liquid bearing drives.
AAC the format may have DRM but AAC the songs available from the iTMS have ZERO DRM turned on. Basically it's MP3 with a different compression scheme enabled. You can freely trade the AAC files from iTMS if you want. Whether this will still be true after the larger PC rollout I do not know, maybe Apple trusts their loyal fans more than the great unwashed.
Is that no material can take the EM pulse AND the physical abrasion. I guess levitating the object and magnetically containing it during its travel might work but no one has done that so far AFAIK. Every rail gun experiment I have seen needs to replace the rails every couple of shots if they try very high pulse energies.
This is simply the most amazing thing I have ever seen. A bunch of civi's were on a naval ship when a hotshot pilot buzzed the ship at supersonic speed. One of them happened to get some amazing video of the pressure wave.
What kind of crack are you on? My Honors English teacher read for the college board and I can guarentee you that they didn't have any checklist of words for scoring. AP exams are scored based on gramatical and spelling correctness, complexity of structure, and completeness of expression of ideas.
Actually this sounds a lot like Gramatica. Gramatica was the grammer checker that was an optional component with WordPerfect for DOS and later a standard component with the Windows version. It was written by a team comprised of both computer scientists and professors of English. One of the interesting features was the scoring feature which would give you a rough estimate of the grade level of your writing. It would also give you statistics and compare them to a selection of famous works.
Re:So why didn't Intel do this? Politics
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And conventional wisdom was correct. They just underestimated the power of the entrenched software library. Intel processors since the Pentium Pro have basically been RISC cores with a x86->RISC translator in front. This allows them to ramp up the speed of the core, even change core architectures while still running all the old code. It costs at the fairly small cost of the gates needed for the translation frontend. It has another advantage in that CISC operations take up less room in cache so you get much better utilization out of your expensive cache resources. Intel started the Itanium project for two reasons, HP needed a new flagship chip and they are a large enough customer to sway Intel, and two they were tired of Cyrix and AMD copying their designs so they were going to make a tightly controlled architecture where EVERYTHING was covered by patents and copyright, that way they thought they could have the whole pie to themselves. What they didn't realize is that while they are a big player the only reason people keep using their chips is that they have maintained that backwards compatability path, throw that away and Intel is just another chip maker and others like IBM, Motorolla, etc may look better.
Actually IBM doesn't care, they have sold WAY more Opteron systems than Itanium systems despite the fact that Itanium has been out for about 20% the length of time that Itanium has. Besides which their real 64bit chip is the POWER series. They are already performing initial work on the POWER6 and some research on stuff to include in the POWER7 even though the currently shipping generation is the POWER4. SGI is irrelevant these days so the only big player attaching their horse to Itanium is HPaq and they were doing it because they hoped it would pay off by reducing the cost of development of their chip used for their high end systems like the Superdome. In that sense Itanium has already reached its goals for HPaq, even if Intel never gets volume pricing on the chip Intel has already subsidized HPaq's development efforts =)
Re:64-benchmarks wont be good
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some of the tests didn't enable any hyper-threading stuff (and thus it didn't take any advantage of the dualies.
Actually depending on the competence of the authors that may have been very intentional and may have actually boosted the numbers for the XEON's. There are situations where HT will decrease scored because the context switches will be more expensive than any gains reached at the silicon level.
Yamhill. From all the rumors it is still alive and should the Athlon64/Opteron really take off expect Intel to come out with Yamhill, its own x86-64 chip. This will all but signal the end of IA64, it will at that point probably only be used for HPaq's large servers.
Athlon64 will be in short supply
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or so says Ars Technica. In addition most of the initial shipments will go to motherboard manufacturers for bundling with their boards. I really don't like the idea of that becoming common practice as that much purchasing power will mean tight pricing controlls. Read more Here.
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The amazing thing wasn't that some ships sank, it was that of the 100+ ships in the bay that ONLY 13 sank in TWO detonation! (the first one ABLE was above ground and sunk 5 ships, the second underwater test BAKER sunk 8). Btw the scrap ships used for the test would have qualified as the world's 8th largest navy if they had been owned by another country and the support staff occupied another 115 vessels.
What exactly can't you do with run as? I have never run into a situation where I HAD to be admin.
The REAL failing was twofold, the bridging of the production network which should have been isolated to the office network full of unpatched windows machines, the second was the use of antiquated 10Mb ethernet, we've had 100Mb for what, at least a decade?
This technology is NOT lossless, read the article. .com, for example, the photo accompanying John C. Dvorak's column became a featureless blob.
If you choose the highest speed (and hence the greatest compression), the image quality is downright poor. On PCMag
Doesn't sound lossless at all to me. If admins knew what they were doing the HTML,CSS, etc would already be compressed with mod_gzip or the little compression checkbox in IIS.
NT4-SP4, NT4-SP6, and about a dozen hotfixes half of which couldn't be rolled back. MS DOES release dodgy patches, about one a year, and a lot of the time they can't be undone so you have to ghost the drive and start all over.
Wrong, the flaw is in the methodology of development and testing. Unchecked buffers aren't hard to eliminate. Tools like Purify will find 90% of them automatically, a good code review will find most of the rest. Look at FreeBSD, only one remote exploit in how many years??? It CAN be done, MS just doesn't have the will, because they certainly have the resources.
Buy a turnkey solution. One platform that I have had lots of luck with is Mirapoint. They have boxes to fill every need from small boxes up to large enterprise installations. When I worked at Cisco they had over half their email on Mirapoint boxes. They had a few IMAP issues several years ago but after I gave them the problem description, client software information, and a reference to where they were not following the RFC's they came out with a patch in fairly short order.
NO!
Charging per device takes away my right to own that which I purchase. It ruins the first sale doctrine. I do NOT want to give the media companies more rights then they already have, they are already greatly abusing the rights they do have.
GNU entab is your friend. Feed it a source file and a rule file and it will give you standardized output which you can easily compare. My brother's tabbing style is not even internally consistant so in order to help him debug programs I have to fist run them through my own GNU entab rules so I can read the code =)
Actually it was traced back to code written by Ritchie for a very early version of UNIX and which was placed in the public domain by SCO themselves several years ago. The fact is that SCO has no or almost no legitimate claims of copyright infringement for Linux. They may have a case against IBM for breach of contract but that is VERY unlikely. They are stretching the definition of derivitive work to the extreme. Ultimitly it is up to a judge.
My win2k system running on a P2-300 with 192MB of ram had a high uptime of 320 days. I would think it is the admin more than the software (or perhaps you have bad hardware/drivers which can affect any OS).
The magnetic domains for this kind of things are EXTREMELY powerfull but very small in scope. Modern HDD's can't be erased fully even with the DeGaussing coils that the navy uses to remove charge from their battleships. This ram will be the same way, field strengths many times more powerfull than any fixed magnet but small enough that they do not interfere with adjacent cells.
I would advise against this. As many sysadmins know if your HDD's are used to being at a raised temperature they bearing will expand and create a groove in their track. Once you power them down a HDD that has been running flawlessly for years will often fail to spin up again after only a few minutes downtime. This is probably not a problem for more modern liquid bearing drives.
AAC the format may have DRM but AAC the songs available from the iTMS have ZERO DRM turned on. Basically it's MP3 with a different compression scheme enabled. You can freely trade the AAC files from iTMS if you want. Whether this will still be true after the larger PC rollout I do not know, maybe Apple trusts their loyal fans more than the great unwashed.
Some would say that it's 50 countries with a friendly agreement
Well since California alone is the WORLD'S fifth largest economy I guess that is a good analogy =)
Sure since it is far enough down I don't think my ISP will kill me too much for linking to it.
Here you go.
Is that no material can take the EM pulse AND the physical abrasion. I guess levitating the object and magnetically containing it during its travel might work but no one has done that so far AFAIK. Every rail gun experiment I have seen needs to replace the rails every couple of shots if they try very high pulse energies.
This is simply the most amazing thing I have ever seen. A bunch of civi's were on a naval ship when a hotshot pilot buzzed the ship at supersonic speed. One of them happened to get some amazing video of the pressure wave.
What kind of crack are you on? My Honors English teacher read for the college board and I can guarentee you that they didn't have any checklist of words for scoring. AP exams are scored based on gramatical and spelling correctness, complexity of structure, and completeness of expression of ideas.
This sounds a lot like This story.
Actually this sounds a lot like Gramatica. Gramatica was the grammer checker that was an optional component with WordPerfect for DOS and later a standard component with the Windows version. It was written by a team comprised of both computer scientists and professors of English. One of the interesting features was the scoring feature which would give you a rough estimate of the grade level of your writing. It would also give you statistics and compare them to a selection of famous works.
And conventional wisdom was correct. They just underestimated the power of the entrenched software library. Intel processors since the Pentium Pro have basically been RISC cores with a x86->RISC translator in front. This allows them to ramp up the speed of the core, even change core architectures while still running all the old code. It costs at the fairly small cost of the gates needed for the translation frontend. It has another advantage in that CISC operations take up less room in cache so you get much better utilization out of your expensive cache resources. Intel started the Itanium project for two reasons, HP needed a new flagship chip and they are a large enough customer to sway Intel, and two they were tired of Cyrix and AMD copying their designs so they were going to make a tightly controlled architecture where EVERYTHING was covered by patents and copyright, that way they thought they could have the whole pie to themselves. What they didn't realize is that while they are a big player the only reason people keep using their chips is that they have maintained that backwards compatability path, throw that away and Intel is just another chip maker and others like IBM, Motorolla, etc may look better.
Actually IBM doesn't care, they have sold WAY more Opteron systems than Itanium systems despite the fact that Itanium has been out for about 20% the length of time that Itanium has. Besides which their real 64bit chip is the POWER series. They are already performing initial work on the POWER6 and some research on stuff to include in the POWER7 even though the currently shipping generation is the POWER4. SGI is irrelevant these days so the only big player attaching their horse to Itanium is HPaq and they were doing it because they hoped it would pay off by reducing the cost of development of their chip used for their high end systems like the Superdome. In that sense Itanium has already reached its goals for HPaq, even if Intel never gets volume pricing on the chip Intel has already subsidized HPaq's development efforts =)
some of the tests didn't enable any hyper-threading stuff (and thus it didn't take any advantage of the dualies.
Actually depending on the competence of the authors that may have been very intentional and may have actually boosted the numbers for the XEON's. There are situations where HT will decrease scored because the context switches will be more expensive than any gains reached at the silicon level.
Yamhill. From all the rumors it is still alive and should the Athlon64/Opteron really take off expect Intel to come out with Yamhill, its own x86-64 chip. This will all but signal the end of IA64, it will at that point probably only be used for HPaq's large servers.
or so says Ars Technica. In addition most of the initial shipments will go to motherboard manufacturers for bundling with their boards. I really don't like the idea of that becoming common practice as that much purchasing power will mean tight pricing controlls. Read more Here.