I don't know why it's not been mentioned that when Romney was governor of Massachusetts almost 200,000 people left the state. We're going to lose another congresperson because of his complete lack of any form of leadership.
but aren't the libraries licensed under LGPL which gives you permission to compile binaries and distribute them so long as you don't change the libs. If you change the libraries you need to release back to the wild under the GPL. If my understanding is wrong then there are thousands of companies that have violated the GPL. Anyone that uses GCC and distributes the results is in violation. Tell me I'm wrong.
About 10 years ago I worked in a data center that lost cooling. The main water pipe to the cooling towers burst flooding the subfloor. All the old VAX systems overheated immediately and shutdown. Next to fail were the numerous PC based Unix systems (SCO mostly) then the HP, DG and IBM systems. None of the Sun systems ever overheated. The temperature in the server room got up to 120F before someone got the good idea to open some windows. The data center occupied a full floor of a modern glass office building. The windows had to be unscrewed and the plate glass carefully removed with suction cups. I was amazed that someone had actually thought of this. Fortunately it was February and the outside temperature was in the low 20's F. It took almost 24 hours to get everything cool enough to get back online.
I can't help thinking that now that hardware is finally outpacing our needs we need yet another level of software abstraction to justify buying more and more hardware. First there was library bloat, then feature creep now every application has to be run inside its own virtual machine. I remember when "Hello World" compiled down to about 850 bytes on a DG Eclipse machine. Of course that machine had 32K RAM so it had to be efficient. Now I compile "Hello World" on my Linux box and it's well over 30K but my Linux box has 1 GB of RAM. Hardware has outpaced my need for it. Add a hypervisor and my available RAM declined to ~750 MB and my 2.6 GHz Pentium is reduced to some fraction of its original power but if "Hello World" brings my virtual system down - the world is still safe. Don't get me wrong VM's are a great idea, just not very new (IBM's VM dates from the mid 1960's), not very complicated (see IBM's VM) and useful in limited applications (when you need a test environment that is distinct from the production environment but on the same hardware). Since IBM's VM first ran on an IBM 360 with 256K of core and a 10 MB drum (the first system I ever saw it on) why is VMware, Xen etc. such a big deal? IBM VM/CMS could probably be ported to my palm pilot. Anyone want to start writing a VM that would let you run a virtual OS above it? Any hardware vendors interested in funding it? IBM?
The truth is that journalism is dead. It was killed by greedy publishers who won't pay a reasonable price for real journalism: $50 for a 500 word article? Who is kidding who? To these publishers copy is just something that you need to get readers to view ads. Writers need to eat so if the mags and newspapers won't pay then a piece of the ad budget is the only way to earn a living. I'll admit it. I earn more writing press releases masquerading as freelance journalism than I ever made as a journalist.
As I remember it. Altos was hired by USL to merge Unix System. Sun was hired to merge Berkeley code into Unix. Finally Sun was hired to merge the resulting code and that became SVR4. USL was only a management front and did no coding. Novel bought that management organization.
Journalism is failing because it doesn't pay. Ask yourself what kind of story you're going to get if an editor says he'll take your story on spec for $200 for a 5000 word article but only if he runs it which might be in 6-9 months. As far as publishers are concerned copy is just something needed to wrap around ads. Copy is a regrettable cost to be minimized. Of course editors are going to use press releases where else can you get free copy. All the best writers I know, me included, are shills for mega-America, we write all those press releases for a lot more money than any publisher would pay us.
A very good friend of mine in the storage business (a CEO) has always bragged that he doesn't need PR he just pays for reviews and that everyone does it. Ask some of the biggies (and little guys as well) for their press kits and you'll see that they all publish glowing reviews from the same 10 hacks. You know the names. Microsoft buys the same "famous opinion shops" to push FUD. I've learned to trust virtually nothing I read in the trade rags.
You just didn't prepare well enough. Almost the same thing happened to me so when the DA got on his high horse I began to read the police report in open court in a very derisive tone. The DA objected and then told me that he's drop all charges if I would pay court costs and I very loudly asked him if he was soliciting a bribe. He got very angry and said then lets take this to trial. At this point the judge intervened and reamed the DA a new one and loudly proclaimed "Case dismissed."
Are we really stuck in the loop of thinking that interpreters are as good as the real thing? We had BASIC in the 1970's then we had Pascal with its P-Code in the 1980's then we had exactly the same thing only it's called Java and a JVM in the 1990's. We are stuck in a rut - none of this is new just the structure (and name) of the language changed.
I've seen two of them: At one mainframe installation they installed a flashing light to signal paper out on a row of high speed printers. This light was right next to the console of a Fortune 100 primary IBM mainframe. A security guard walking through the computer room saw the flashing red light, panicked and pressed the big red IBM panic button which caused an immediate shutdown of everything in the computer room. I heard it took them almost 24 hours to bring the beast back up.
Another time I was in a computer room when workmen building an enormous UPS system out of 1000 car batteries shot a nail from a nail gun through the 440 Volt Data Center Power bus. I nearly crapped myself from the exploding sound of a thousand disk heads retracting at the same time. I left the next morning when the IBM guys were coming in the door to restart the systems.
Over the years I've found myself migrating from coding to sys admin to tech writing to marketing writing. When the lights finally went out on my IT career and I found myself to old and to expensive for anyone to hire I turned to PR writing and have never looked back. I earn my keep writing business plans in English for Web 3.0 types who are stuck in jargon hell. It's more run than I've ever had and I keep current.
-- www.industrialmyth.com - legends, myths & fairy tales for the high tech trade.
I find it ironic that US thinks it's laws apply everywhere in the world... except in Guantanamo Bay. I am, at this moment in time, ashamed to be an American.
Some people move on to become bosses simply because they want to see the job done right. We've all seen how the job can be done wrong. Once you've mastered the technology mastering management is the only remaining way to the Zen of perfection.
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Yah, and I'll bet someone patented it just a couple of years ago.
I don't know why it's not been mentioned that when Romney was governor of Massachusetts almost 200,000 people left the state. We're going to lose another congresperson because of his complete lack of any form of leadership.
SG
5th amendment not 5th article.
but aren't the libraries licensed under LGPL which gives you permission to compile binaries and distribute them so long as you don't change the libs. If you change the libraries you need to release back to the wild under the GPL. If my understanding is wrong then there are thousands of companies that have violated the GPL. Anyone that uses GCC and distributes the results is in violation. Tell me I'm wrong.
SG
About 10 years ago I worked in a data center that lost cooling. The main water pipe to the cooling towers burst flooding the subfloor. All the old VAX systems overheated immediately and shutdown. Next to fail were the numerous PC based Unix systems (SCO mostly) then the HP, DG and IBM systems. None of the Sun systems ever overheated. The temperature in the server room got up to 120F before someone got the good idea to open some windows. The data center occupied a full floor of a modern glass office building. The windows had to be unscrewed and the plate glass carefully removed with suction cups. I was amazed that someone had actually thought of this. Fortunately it was February and the outside temperature was in the low 20's F. It took almost 24 hours to get everything cool enough to get back online.
Tell me I'm wrong but is slashdot's policy to simply reprint press releases? ....
In that case
And Unix/Linux is snakeoil.
I can't help thinking that now that hardware is finally outpacing our needs we need yet another level of software abstraction to justify buying more and more hardware. First there was library bloat, then feature creep now every application has to be run inside its own virtual machine. I remember when "Hello World" compiled down to about 850 bytes on a DG Eclipse machine. Of course that machine had 32K RAM so it had to be efficient. Now I compile "Hello World" on my Linux box and it's well over 30K but my Linux box has 1 GB of RAM. Hardware has outpaced my need for it. Add a hypervisor and my available RAM declined to ~750 MB and my 2.6 GHz Pentium is reduced to some fraction of its original power but if "Hello World" brings my virtual system down - the world is still safe. Don't get me wrong VM's are a great idea, just not very new (IBM's VM dates from the mid 1960's), not very complicated (see IBM's VM) and useful in limited applications (when you need a test environment that is distinct from the production environment but on the same hardware). Since IBM's VM first ran on an IBM 360 with 256K of core and a 10 MB drum (the first system I ever saw it on) why is VMware, Xen etc. such a big deal? IBM VM/CMS could probably be ported to my palm pilot. Anyone want to start writing a VM that would let you run a virtual OS above it? Any hardware vendors interested in funding it? IBM?
Look when it was filed - 2002. I know there is prior on this one. I rmember trying to chat over the internet long before then. This is getting nuts.
The truth is that journalism is dead. It was killed by greedy publishers who won't pay a reasonable price for real journalism: $50 for a 500 word article? Who is kidding who? To these publishers copy is just something that you need to get readers to view ads. Writers need to eat so if the mags and newspapers won't pay then a piece of the ad budget is the only way to earn a living. I'll admit it. I earn more writing press releases masquerading as freelance journalism than I ever made as a journalist.
You could look at your name server logs. When the attack subsides so will the DNS pings.
SG
As I remember it. Altos was hired by USL to merge Unix System. Sun was hired to merge Berkeley code into Unix. Finally Sun was hired to merge the resulting code and that became SVR4. USL was only a management front and did no coding. Novel bought that management organization.
Journalism is failing because it doesn't pay. Ask yourself what kind of story you're going to get if an editor says he'll take your story on spec for $200 for a 5000 word article but only if he runs it which might be in 6-9 months. As far as publishers are concerned copy is just something needed to wrap around ads. Copy is a regrettable cost to be minimized. Of course editors are going to use press releases where else can you get free copy. All the best writers I know, me included, are shills for mega-America, we write all those press releases for a lot more money than any publisher would pay us.
Thanks for pointing to a virtually empty wikipedia article.
A very good friend of mine in the storage business (a CEO) has always bragged that he doesn't need PR he just pays for reviews and that everyone does it. Ask some of the biggies (and little guys as well) for their press kits and you'll see that they all publish glowing reviews from the same 10 hacks. You know the names. Microsoft buys the same "famous opinion shops" to push FUD. I've learned to trust virtually nothing I read in the trade rags.
You just didn't prepare well enough. Almost the same thing happened to me so when the DA got on his high horse I began to read the police report in open court in a very derisive tone. The DA objected and then told me that he's drop all charges if I would pay court costs and I very loudly asked him if he was soliciting a bribe. He got very angry and said then lets take this to trial. At this point the judge intervened and reamed the DA a new one and loudly proclaimed "Case dismissed."
Are we really stuck in the loop of thinking that interpreters are as good as the real thing? We had BASIC in the 1970's then we had Pascal with its P-Code in the 1980's then we had exactly the same thing only it's called Java and a JVM in the 1990's. We are stuck in a rut - none of this is new just the structure (and name) of the language changed.
Just sign her up with Skype.
Well you might spend a night in jail but the state takes custody of your obnoxious kid and you make no effort to reclaim them. Works for me.
I've seen two of them: At one mainframe installation they installed a flashing light to signal paper out on a row of high speed printers. This light was right next to the console of a Fortune 100 primary IBM mainframe. A security guard walking through the computer room saw the flashing red light, panicked and pressed the big red IBM panic button which caused an immediate shutdown of everything in the computer room. I heard it took them almost 24 hours to bring the beast back up.
Another time I was in a computer room when workmen building an enormous UPS system out of 1000 car batteries shot a nail from a nail gun through the 440 Volt Data Center Power bus. I nearly crapped myself from the exploding sound of a thousand disk heads retracting at the same time. I left the next morning when the IBM guys were coming in the door to restart the systems.
Over the years I've found myself migrating from coding to sys admin to tech writing to marketing writing. When the lights finally went out on my IT career and I found myself to old and to expensive for anyone to hire I turned to PR writing and have never looked back. I earn my keep writing business plans in English for Web 3.0 types who are stuck in jargon hell. It's more run than I've ever had and I keep current.
--
www.industrialmyth.com - legends, myths & fairy tales for the high tech trade.
I find it ironic that US thinks it's laws apply everywhere in the world ... except in Guantanamo Bay. I am, at this moment in time, ashamed to be an American.
Some people move on to become bosses simply because they want to see the job done right. We've all seen how the job can be done wrong. Once you've mastered the technology mastering management is the only remaining way to the Zen of perfection.
What's the problem, doesn't Google already do this?
All your bases ....