What's the advantage of a rackmount setup? I can see it if I could put it in your basement in a real rack, but sitting on shelves? I'm just wondering, really... Any reason?
For exatly those reasons, and the fact that we don't have a basement, so the machine makes noise in our office room, I want to go Soekris. Small, silent, power efficient. It's a bit more expensive than your solution though...
I know that, but a fabricated relation is not a relation. At least in my logic. You can't say that 9/11 caused the Iraq war, if the the relation between the two events is a lie.
Granted, my home server isn't rackmounted (exactly because I don't know where to get the rack, etc...), but it runs OpenBSD and currently uses a whopping 31Meg RAM. It does routing/firewalling, DHCP server, NTP server, Samba Server, DNS server (not forwarding, but a full one), email server, webserver including a webmail interfact, IMAP and I'm most likely skipping some stuff.
It's only a P-III 800MHz with 768Meg (my old desktop) and I have playroom if you consider the load average: 0.32, 0.19, 0.12
Hey, but you most certainly have your reasons. I guess eBay is a way to get what you look for...
Where did I exactly say "NYC harbour"? I don't know the topology of NYC and I most certainly don't know where it would be most effective to detonate one. It is clear that a detonation in the air is preferable and since I didn't say where the potential terrorist would detonate it, we don't know.
For example, they could detonate it in the top floor of one of the tallest buildings?
Or, since we're at it... A small airplane (I know it's a no fly-zone) could carry it and a suicide bomber could detonate it at the "sweet" spot.
Anyway, I never specified the exact detionation location. I'm well aware that the full 8million won't perish. However, fallout mostly comes from what goes *up* in the atomic cloud that falls down over the non-exploded areas. I am no nuclear physicist, so I'm probably wrong, but the surroundings of NYC after such an hypothetical attack aren't going to be fun to live and most certainly the people being in the non-exploding area will get a dose of radiation that will cause cancer in the future.
Actually, it triggered only one war. The war on Afghanistan, the other one is in fact unrelated. As far as the erosion of rights and privacy: well, we allowed it, didn't we? ("You", actually, since I'm not a US citizen) Why weren't you on the street protesting to protect your rights? Why aren't you actively fighting to retain and reclaim your rights and privacy? Ranting on slashdot doesn't really count, you know.
I know it's cliché, but by allowing the government to take away your rights, you let the terrorists win.
a) I wasn't saying that we can't protect us from terrorist attacks (within reasonable bounds, of course). Exceptional attacks like 9/11 change the rules. I don't think, for example, that a plane hijacker is going to get an easy ride these days.
b) I pointed out that the headcount of a exceptional terrorist attack (9/11) is way lower than the headcount of a exceptional natural disaster. Yet, people find 9/11 a worse event that the earthquake in China. It is not rational.
c) The poster to whom I responded, said that a 15kton A-Bomb would be nothing special compared to a big natural disaster. That is simply not true. Even if just 10% of NYCs population died in such an explosion, that would still be 800000 people and about 3.5 times the casualties from the 2004 Tsunami. Add in fallout, radiation sickness, etc... Gonna need a hell of a natural disaster to top that. I can only think of two: a supervolcano or a meteor impact.
Realistically, even a 15kt bomb being exploded by terrorists in the middle of NY or Boston would do less harm to civilisation than natural causes do from time to time,
Yes, but try saying that about 9/11 and see what reactions you'll get by most people. The difference, apparently, is intent. I don't get it either, but 3000 people killed by a bunch of madmen is somehow worse that 15000 to 40000 people killed by a natural catastrophe. Heck, the 2004 Tsunami "only" claimed 225000 people.
On the other hand, with a population of over 8 million people, a nuclear bomb isn't even in the same ballpark as the above mentioned earthquake. An unannounced nuclear attack on NYC is going to dwarf regular natural disasters. (Ignoring supervolcanoes and meteor impacts)
What I think is that many of the people who have problems, already had some malware running on their system and they didn't notice... SP3 just "highlighted" the fact that there was something fishy going on under the hood.
Yup, but today you can get these tools too! vi and gcc and off you go. Frankly, it's the best way to learn to program. IDEs distract too much and results in people thinking they *need* and IDE up to the point that I once met someone who asked me "What program do I need to buy to learn to program?" and my reply was "download a compiler and use your favourite editor". Pretty much made his head explode.
The current project I work on, is vi + gcc. I could do this on my old Toshiba CT210 without complaints.
I don't think he meant it that way. The open source solution is superior because an open source solution could technically be ported to a new platform. Try that if you only have the binary (closed source) and the company and/or people who made that binary are gone. This is a typical situation in the business world. A mission critical binary-only application needs to work on the new computer.
So, yes, an 8-bit application in open source, could live through the 16-bit, then 32-bit and 64-bit stages by porting/recompiling it. A closed source program.... well, virtualisation is your only option there.
Also, many open source programs are ported to many different CPUs because you can. A closed source program will be only compatible with the CPU that the programmer chose. Look at NetBSD (or Debian, which has quite a few supported platforms) and an application running on x86 is likely to run on PPC, ARM or SPARC. Heck, my OpenBSD CD's come with one source and binaries for four platforms!
So, yes, open source, is naturally better suited for "survival".
Hmmmm.... I learned programming on a 640x480 screen. I don't know what you're trying to say, but a programmable machine is a programmable machine. Let it be a Atari Portfolio, a Toshiba CT120 or a Core 8 Quad Flux.
However, some companies like them because they think they get more work from their employees if they give them laptops.
Exactly.... But then there are people like me who got a laptop and just leave it at the office just like I would leave a desktop. It isn't seen in a positive light by management, but others have started doing it too after I lead the way. After all, we're IT guys, we have at least one computer at home, right?
As for docking stations: I passed on one. It doesn't change a damn. Everything connected to the docking station can be connected to the laptop too, and since I don't ever disconnect my laptop... well, you get the picture;-)
Completely agree, I loved them as a kid (couldn't say at what age though). The one about space is indeed pure entertainment, forget that one. However, there are two other at least three other ones: "Il était une fois l'homme" which is about the evolution of man. Then there is "Il était une fois les découvreurs" which is about scientists (Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, Marie Curie, Marconi, Einstein come to mind) and finally a more historically oriented one being "Il était une fois les explorateurs" about the great explorers (Columbus, Marco Polo, etc...)
According do IMDB there also seems to be "Il était une fois, les Amériques", which would be about the history of the the Americas, but I do not remember seeing it.
The ones I loved most as a kid were the ones about human evolution, discoverers and life.
My wife is a preschool teacher, and I can guarantee you that she won't call anybody when a kid tells "The Aztecs pulled out hearts" (provided the knows that fact herself, which is not a given). However, when the kid say: "I'm goint to pull out your heart", might just raise the "potential violence flag".
Main problem with teachers at that level is that they usually just have basic knowledge about science. Their speciality is more on the level of psychology, behaviour analysis, psychomotorics, and a lot of stuff I don't even know the names of. (See, I don't "get" her world either, so she's probably telling her peers that I don't grasp anything of what she does *grin*)
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Absolutely! You're not contradicting what I said. :-)
What's the advantage of a rackmount setup? I can see it if I could put it in your basement in a real rack, but sitting on shelves? I'm just wondering, really... Any reason?
For exatly those reasons, and the fact that we don't have a basement, so the machine makes noise in our office room, I want to go Soekris. Small, silent, power efficient. It's a bit more expensive than your solution though...
I know that, but a fabricated relation is not a relation. At least in my logic. You can't say that 9/11 caused the Iraq war, if the the relation between the two events is a lie.
Granted, my home server isn't rackmounted (exactly because I don't know where to get the rack, etc...), but it runs OpenBSD and currently uses a whopping 31Meg RAM. It does routing/firewalling, DHCP server, NTP server, Samba Server, DNS server (not forwarding, but a full one), email server, webserver including a webmail interfact, IMAP and I'm most likely skipping some stuff.
It's only a P-III 800MHz with 768Meg (my old desktop) and I have playroom if you consider the load average: 0.32, 0.19, 0.12
Hey, but you most certainly have your reasons. I guess eBay is a way to get what you look for...
Hey, I did my part back in the day with a magnifying glass on a nice sunny day!
Where did I exactly say "NYC harbour"? I don't know the topology of NYC and I most certainly don't know where it would be most effective to detonate one. It is clear that a detonation in the air is preferable and since I didn't say where the potential terrorist would detonate it, we don't know.
For example, they could detonate it in the top floor of one of the tallest buildings?
Or, since we're at it... A small airplane (I know it's a no fly-zone) could carry it and a suicide bomber could detonate it at the "sweet" spot.
Anyway, I never specified the exact detionation location. I'm well aware that the full 8million won't perish. However, fallout mostly comes from what goes *up* in the atomic cloud that falls down over the non-exploded areas. I am no nuclear physicist, so I'm probably wrong, but the surroundings of NYC after such an hypothetical attack aren't going to be fun to live and most certainly the people being in the non-exploding area will get a dose of radiation that will cause cancer in the future.
Fair enough. Didn't think of those and those really killed millions. I should have read the whole wikipedia article.
Actually, it triggered only one war. The war on Afghanistan, the other one is in fact unrelated. As far as the erosion of rights and privacy: well, we allowed it, didn't we? ("You", actually, since I'm not a US citizen) Why weren't you on the street protesting to protect your rights? Why aren't you actively fighting to retain and reclaim your rights and privacy? Ranting on slashdot doesn't really count, you know.
I know it's cliché, but by allowing the government to take away your rights, you let the terrorists win.
Three things:
a) I wasn't saying that we can't protect us from terrorist attacks (within reasonable bounds, of course). Exceptional attacks like 9/11 change the rules. I don't think, for example, that a plane hijacker is going to get an easy ride these days.
b) I pointed out that the headcount of a exceptional terrorist attack (9/11) is way lower than the headcount of a exceptional natural disaster. Yet, people find 9/11 a worse event that the earthquake in China. It is not rational.
c) The poster to whom I responded, said that a 15kton A-Bomb would be nothing special compared to a big natural disaster. That is simply not true. Even if just 10% of NYCs population died in such an explosion, that would still be 800000 people and about 3.5 times the casualties from the 2004 Tsunami. Add in fallout, radiation sickness, etc... Gonna need a hell of a natural disaster to top that. I can only think of two: a supervolcano or a meteor impact.
Yes, but try saying that about 9/11 and see what reactions you'll get by most people. The difference, apparently, is intent. I don't get it either, but 3000 people killed by a bunch of madmen is somehow worse that 15000 to 40000 people killed by a natural catastrophe. Heck, the 2004 Tsunami "only" claimed 225000 people.
On the other hand, with a population of over 8 million people, a nuclear bomb isn't even in the same ballpark as the above mentioned earthquake. An unannounced nuclear attack on NYC is going to dwarf regular natural disasters. (Ignoring supervolcanoes and meteor impacts)
For reference: 10 deadliest natural disasters
What I think is that many of the people who have problems, already had some malware running on their system and they didn't notice... SP3 just "highlighted" the fact that there was something fishy going on under the hood.
Sooooo? Is there going to be an SP3a?
Regarding point #2. He could use views, which are ideal datasources for reports.
It's a (classic) joke.... Laugh. I'm a programmer myself and have done some basic soldering back in the day.
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Yup, but today you can get these tools too! vi and gcc and off you go. Frankly, it's the best way to learn to program. IDEs distract too much and results in people thinking they *need* and IDE up to the point that I once met someone who asked me "What program do I need to buy to learn to program?" and my reply was "download a compiler and use your favourite editor". Pretty much made his head explode.
The current project I work on, is vi + gcc. I could do this on my old Toshiba CT210 without complaints.
I don't think he meant it that way. The open source solution is superior because an open source solution could technically be ported to a new platform. Try that if you only have the binary (closed source) and the company and/or people who made that binary are gone. This is a typical situation in the business world. A mission critical binary-only application needs to work on the new computer.
So, yes, an 8-bit application in open source, could live through the 16-bit, then 32-bit and 64-bit stages by porting/recompiling it. A closed source program.... well, virtualisation is your only option there.
Also, many open source programs are ported to many different CPUs because you can. A closed source program will be only compatible with the CPU that the programmer chose. Look at NetBSD (or Debian, which has quite a few supported platforms) and an application running on x86 is likely to run on PPC, ARM or SPARC. Heck, my OpenBSD CD's come with one source and binaries for four platforms!
So, yes, open source, is naturally better suited for "survival".
It was more a feeble attempt at humor.... So since you chuckled it's okay. It just should teach me from posting drunk ;-)
As a former Revo+ user, I can only agree. I still have my Revo, but it's become unreliable over the years.
Hmmmm.... I learned programming on a 640x480 screen. I don't know what you're trying to say, but a programmable machine is a programmable machine. Let it be a Atari Portfolio, a Toshiba CT120 or a Core 8 Quad Flux.
She will make a lot of geeks happy, opening her legs for usage of their computers....
Exactly.... But then there are people like me who got a laptop and just leave it at the office just like I would leave a desktop. It isn't seen in a positive light by management, but others have started doing it too after I lead the way. After all, we're IT guys, we have at least one computer at home, right?
As for docking stations: I passed on one. It doesn't change a damn. Everything connected to the docking station can be connected to the laptop too, and since I don't ever disconnect my laptop... well, you get the picture ;-)
Completely agree, I loved them as a kid (couldn't say at what age though). The one about space is indeed pure entertainment, forget that one. However, there are two other at least three other ones: "Il était une fois l'homme" which is about the evolution of man. Then there is "Il était une fois les découvreurs" which is about scientists (Leonardo da Vinci, Copernicus, Marie Curie, Marconi, Einstein come to mind) and finally a more historically oriented one being "Il était une fois les explorateurs" about the great explorers (Columbus, Marco Polo, etc...)
According do IMDB there also seems to be "Il était une fois, les Amériques", which would be about the history of the the Americas, but I do not remember seeing it.
The ones I loved most as a kid were the ones about human evolution, discoverers and life.
My wife is a preschool teacher, and I can guarantee you that she won't call anybody when a kid tells "The Aztecs pulled out hearts" (provided the knows that fact herself, which is not a given). However, when the kid say: "I'm goint to pull out your heart", might just raise the "potential violence flag".
Main problem with teachers at that level is that they usually just have basic knowledge about science. Their speciality is more on the level of psychology, behaviour analysis, psychomotorics, and a lot of stuff I don't even know the names of. (See, I don't "get" her world either, so she's probably telling her peers that I don't grasp anything of what she does *grin*)