When it became illegal to own people those that depend on slavery found new ways to own, not people, but everything about the person.
Own his land, you own him. Bury him in debt and own his debt, you own him.
Throughout history people have alwasy sought ways to make slaves of their neighbors, now in the 21st century the method is:
Own his thoughts, you own him.
Thought crime is the new tool to make slaves of people; how dare the slaves think without permission. Think only what we tell you to think. We people exist for the benefit of the master, in this case businesses.
Goverment as king, business as the fiefs, the executives as the lords, and we the people have become intellectual share croppers; and have been returned to our proper place as slaves\pesants\serfs... Steal from the pesants and profit, steal from the master and suffer his wrath... The knights have been replaced with lawyers and history repeats itself...
Perhaps it's time we revolt and set up a new Internet with a non-commerical clause so we can get back to using the Internet for what it was intended for, making us smarter rather then selling us shit...
SSD disk when measured against IOPS, Watts, and Capacity in relation to cost based on several different server types is not cost effective yet. Depending on the type of server costs need to come down at least 3 fold, and under some scenarios as much as 3000 times. Hosting MP3s that are largely sequental, low write storage SSDs are 3000 times over priced. For insaine random IO scenarios that need to come down 3 fold to make it worth it compared to conventional drives.
Depending on the type of server they can perform worse then standard mechanical disks.
They found no advantage to 15k RPM drives versus 10k RPM drives when cost is factored in.
SSD drives pay for themselves in power saving in about 5 years, well past their expected longevity.
Mechanical disks wear out more or less independant of their data load, SSDs wear out proportional to their data load.
SSDs do not handle tiny files very well due to how data is written.
I see nothing in the paper that is pro-microsoft, rather straight dealing on the drives themselves.
I would suggest MOD-TROLL any evanglest on any side of the OS wars as this paper doesn't seem to deal with OS touting.
Cheers and don't forget to mention then thousands and thousands of pages worth of court ruling, common law, we inherited. We still from time to time cite case law\common law from Britian as the need arises... Law like life just keeps rolling along, each generation larger then the generation before...
The gift exchange is an ancient custom where heads of states would exchange gift representative of their nations best cultural contributions (in short, "Why we are worth keeping around, plz don't invade us).
So you are telling me that the best the US can come up with is an overpriced walkman and the best the English can come up with is a signed picture of an old woman? We are so FX$%*#^&#.
In days past it might have been a Beatles album swapped for Buddy Holly album. Or Pink Floyd for Nirvana. In days past it might have been Jack Daniels for Crowley Ale In days past perhaps Doyle for Twain
Global Warming... Doom... Destruction... Nonsense.
First off, have you notice it has gone from Global Warming to Climate Change? I'm old enough to remember "The Coming Ice Age" histerical nonsense.
Such fragile little critters we have become where we cannot accept any change, because change is inheritly evil. Sea levels will rise! Then move to higher ground. There will be droughts and famine! And new crop land will open up further too. The whole planet will become a desert! And the sun will blow up some day too. Nothing in history or cosmology says we get to live forever.
Remember all that fossil fuel was organic material that was on Earth at one point and nothing mathmatically says that the planet can suck all that out of the air and back into plant and animal life again, the question is the curve and rate of drawdown versus time and wether Al Gore can make a few more bucks during that window. The maddness is that because the world change from some non-existant "norm" of the last few centuries that the planet is doomed. The Sahara was a jungle once. Which is the norm? Jungle or Desert?
There is no normal except constant change. Change is not good or bad, it is just plain change.
They've built a religion around this crap. Try not building cities below sea level and start planning on buy land that will be ocean front property in a few years according to those forecasts. In the mean time, I'm smoking, drinking, and enjoy life because at any point in a world of inifinite possibilities there is always something that could annihilate us, a magnatar could wipe us out with a high-energy beam (death stars), comets, meteors, nuclear war, roaming feral children with guns, airborn disease of apocolypic scale, etc.
"The greatest of tyrants rise to power on the shoulders of ideals built in the name of the greater good."
You already use the term Heritics, come out of the religious closet and admit that Al Gore is your pope and your religious inquisition is in full swing...
It has been my observation that it is in fact LIMITATIONS that spur creative more so then FREEDOM.
Some the the greatest literary works came about in some of the most heavly censored days. It forces the writers, film makers, etc to be creative. I have seen some increibly violent movies that didn't have a single drop of onscreen blood. They simply showed the shadows. I great example in a video game is the original SAM AND MAX when Max is 'killing' the scientist in the intro. All you see is the shadow on the wall and Max's 'wet fist' going to town.
Blanketly stating that the movie must be PG-13 doesn't mean sacrificing anything creatively, it forces the to be creative in fact. Moving violence off camera doesn't inheritly silence the point you are trying to make and pointless ANYTHING in a movie is just that, pointless.
I remember when I was subbing for an English Comp. teacher I gave out an assignment, "Write a short 2 page story without using the letter A once in the story." Oddly those were the best stories they wrote that year because the limitations forced them to think things through.
Restrictions can do more to IMPROVE stories\movies\comics then detract from them.
Useless waste of time. organic computing is the future, this silicon crap is a joke. Why not HARVEST simple brains, jack them in, and use them as processors? Why make a metal brain when even a roach comes with a free brain to use? Hell look at the Matrix! Use human brains interconnected for a massive computing system. Felon? Death Penalty? BAH! HARVEST their brain and repurposes it as a GPU in a jar! In-game AI would be greatly improved by using REAL KILLER'S BRAINS to drive the NPCs! Nothing could go wrong unless Traci Lords throws a concert, Denzel Washington goes crazy, and the killer AI learns how to escape the virtual world and run amok looking a lot like Russel Crow while feeding off of silicates...
A counter suit for malicious or frivolous prosecution is the next step. More then likely they would settle out of court on that since the evidence was strong enough for their case to fall part\get dismissed\etc. Hell you could small claims court them and probably get a no-show for a quick8 grand. The airline ticket\hotel for their attourney would probably be at least $1200.
Borrowing from the military mindset this is my suggestion:
"Any online backup locations shall have a physical break in the networking infrastructure that must be phsyically connected as needed. Once operations are complete the physical connection is again broke until it is needed."
(IMPLEMENTATION A) From an implementation standpoint what you have at the core switching rack is a RED cable in the switch that is the connection to the backup server (onsite, i.e. disk to disk) that is unplugged at all times except when the backups are to run.
(IMPLEMENTATION B) Tapes, removeable disks, are stored off site, offline. In the event that they are needed they are either order and shipped, or a temporary connection is made to the dat warehouse and the data delivered via VPN\SSH. Once the restore is completed the data is taken offline and stored.
(IMPLEMENTATION C) Using a pair of hardware VPN routers, at each endpoint (server site, backup site) they sit, unconnected to the networking fabric until a request is made or the scheduled backup\restore windows are near.
YOu cannot remote hack (normally) devices that are stand alone.
FYI all batch processing on the linux machines is afterhours (mighnight to 6 am) so the average load on the system is only about 25% leaving 75% for gaming on the main system.
If your systems are much high in transaction and volume as several other have pointed out Xeon with a pair of decent raid controllers is going to do much better. 4 Cores would help but I am hesitant to reccomend as the clock speeds are lower and with only a 25% average load I'd rather clear out jobs faster then run more in paralell just do to IO contraints rather then mear instruction counts.
I use a Gigabyte EP45 with 8GB of RAM and 4 500 GB disk drives in a RAID10 configuration with a 3.2 GHz Intel Duo2.
I use Sun's Openbox (less issues then VMWare atm) and run 8 VMS at a time without much in the way of performance impact.
Ensure hardware virtualization is on leave IO ACPI virtualzation off. I have nested paging on also.
Each VM is allocated 256 MB of RAM for linux systems and the 2 M$ systems (XP and Vista) are allocated 1GB each.
PARENT OS (XP)
VM1 - Linux MYSQL Host
VM2 - Linux LAMP Host
VM3 - Linux REPORTS Server (Takes data and generates email from all systems)
VM4 - Linux Firewall\IDS (The main system uses wireless with the VMS allocated the two physical NIC ports on the Mobo. This is the default gateway for all systems.)
VM5 - Gentoo SSH DISTCC CCACHE Buddy (My friends use this via SSH to help compile Gentoo Systems)
VM6 - Windows XP VPN Client Container (Strictly Business Locked Down VPN host for remoting into work)
VM7 - Vista Media Host (Uses a mapped drive to the Parent system's MEDIA folder)
VM8 - Linux Game Hoster (Hosts versious game servers via private VPN for easy netplay)
The cool thing is EVER WITH ALL THAT RUNNING I can still play warhammer online with 0 lag or play Fallout with no lag.
There will be an occasional 2 second lag\pause on the system for some mysterious reason but only if the Vista VM is running.
This is not acceptable for production purposes but for home use it works great. For production I would simply change the parent to a lighter weight parent.
"Good developers will know that writing good code and documenting it correctly is job security of another sort--companies who WANT to keep you or hire you, not companies who are forced to do so. Ultimately, undocumented code will be rewritten from scratch by someone else, and the original programmer will be fired"
You are making the assumption they'd keep the original coders around for maintenance. I've never seen a senior developer retained for maintenance programming. They're converted to consultants and I have never had to call back an original coder when the documentation is good. So much for job security. I hate to break it to you but businesses pay people to WORK not sit around. No work, no pay. I sure as hell wouldn't pay someone 74 grand a year to put in 40 hours of maintenance per quarter. Once the first release is done he's either going to head a new project or he's out the door. Man where do you work? They have money to burn?
I hate to break it to you but there are plently, in fact a GLUT, of good programmers. Being a great programmer with good documentation skills means you get brought in to code the first release then promptly shown the door once it's gone into maintenance phase.
Programmers are a dime a dozen now. Thanks to open source their free now too.
I can bring in a "great programmer" on a project at $74-76 grand a year. I keep him for 6 months, make damn sure he does great documentation and after the second quarterly release I show him the door and hire two new grads at $31k a year to maintain the code and save myself $10 grand. At 3% annual raises I still come out ahead by notkeeping the original programmer around very long and I get 2 people instead of one. A few years later when they head the next project, out the door they go and wash rinse repeat.
The smart programmers do good documentation but not enough to make it too easy for the maintenance programmers. That way at least they can squeeze some consulting time out.
If your logic held fast cars would last for 30 years and toasters would last a lifetime. It cutthroat out there and it's only going to get worse for programmers. Hell I have a niece that already learned C++ and she's in the 8th grade. The bar is getting pretty high now for programmers. It's almost on the verge of being a basic skill (programming in at least 1 language).
Programmer, meet Mr. TV repair man. You have a lot in common now and say hi to the Help Desk folks when they get in.
Employees are an investment.
Mr. $75 grand a year will get 5% more productive but will want at least a 3% raise. I'm only getting a 2% return on investment.
Mr. $31 grand a year will get 15% more productive, take 4 years to be as good as Mr. 75 but with a 3% raise I'm getting a 12% return on investment.
You keep senior people because you have to, not because you want to (Barring personal feels etc.). Productivity gains taper off and factoring inflation you have to be ruthless in looking at productivity or your gonna get buried. It's why we outsource. Better return on investment in an employee.
I can go to some locations and get a damn good programmer for $1.88 an hour making him wealthy in his home country. He's not as good as the local guy, in fact he's twice as slow BUT the local guy is $44 an hour. I can hire 8 of the cheap guys putting me time table wise ahead by 4 fold, still under 1/2 the cost and know I've help 8 people become wealthy by thier local standards. In 4 years they'll be as good as the local guy and I've gotten a massive return of investment in my labor. Then I cut them loose and start over.
Job securty is the result of necessity not some idealogical committment to excellence. The mantra is Better, Faster, Cheaper. If you are not NEEDED, you aren't. Business doesn't deal with WANTED, we deal with NEEDED. We hire people and keep people because we NEED them, we don't hire people because we feel like it, we hire people because we NEED them.
BETTER: Employees are investments, you want a good return FAST: If a project takes 2000 hours, you need more people working 8 hours each to get it done faster. That means they have to be cheaper. CHEAPER: Withou compromising BETTER and FASTER it needs to be cheaper.
Troll me but this is another example of a lazy parent wanting someone else to do their job for them.
A: TURN THE COMPUTER OFF. Life moves along just fine without Facebook, Myspace, and Google. A computer is a TOOL not a life style.
B: As several have pointed out, keep the computer in the living room and check out what they are doing. If they are embarrassed by you looking over their shoulder just remind them that everything they do on the internet can be observed by millions. If you are embarrassed by mom or dad watching, you'd be insaine not to be embarrassed by millions seeing it.
C: Filter? Why? Get a porn pop up just close it... Ohhh scary images... Filters will do little when people are 1/2 naked walking around in malls during the summer.
D: Linux based filter? I suggest either M.O.R.A.L Code or the effective P.A.R.E.N.T Script. But using both together you can actually control your child AND their internet surfing habits. You see, when agressive scripts with objectionable content pop up with both M.O.R.A.L code and P.A.R.E.N.T scripts running you child can simple close the offending content or in circumstances where they are unable to the M.O.R.A.L and P.A.R.E.N.T tools actually allow your worthless waste of oxygen code named CHILD to actually peel themselves away from the stupid box long enough for P.A.R.E.N.T to clean up the situation provided the P.A.R.E.N.T script isn't too busy acting like an adult child buried in ESPN or an XBOX.
Here some advice, be a parent and quit delegating your responsibilities to EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE ELSE BESIDES YOURSELF. IF YOU CANNOT KEEP TABS ON YOUR CHILD AT ALL TIMES STOP POPPING THEM OUT LIKE FUCKING PEZ CANDY.
-- Version 1 -- Face it there are always be assholes in the world, learning to tolerate them is part of life. You don't have to like assholes but you do need to learn how to deal with assholes when they pop up.
-- Version 2 -- Face it there are always be p0rn popups in the world, learning to tolerate them is part of life. You don't have to like p0rn popups but you do need to learn how to deal with p0rn popups when they pop up.
-- Version 3 -- Face it there are always be objectional content in the world, learning to tolerate them is part of life. You don't have to like objectional content but you do need to learn how to deal with objectional content when they pop up.
If the OPs goal is to let the kid explore, let the kid learn how to deal with objectional content.
Morals + Good Parenting = Self Policing Kids that Listen to their Parent.
This is why history education in schools is an abomination. They school books have been censored so bad and tailored to political agendas that people with a proper education find none of this suprising.
Go to a rural public library and find some history books published pre-1960s. Look at the fall of Rome, the French Revolution, War of American Independance, the Civil War, and for those that were around the fall of the Russian Empire, Rise of the Soviets, and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Every government, from my recollection, as it falls goings through several key phases.
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A monetary collapse brought about by both goverment beuacracy exceeding its income. CHECK (US 1960s New Deal borrowing endlessly from the generation yet to come spending more then it made.)
Government cultivates dependency on the government over time (CHECK, a constant in governments)
Government increasingly taxes those that have to continue to subsidize those that don't (CHECK, primary foundation of the New Deal. No incentive to work if your expectations are low.)
Initial temor of panic and small exodus of population from one location to another (CHECK, 1980s the Great White Exodus of middle class america (mostly white) from inner city and urban environments to the suburbs.)
Economic fundamentals discarded as socialist policies attempt to "Float the Boat" (CHECK, 1930s, 2000s, mass cost cutting attempts via outsourcing, additional social services indicate failures in the private sector to provide those services)
Fraud increases in all aspects of society as people make personal power grabs to secure resources for self and others in close circles (CHECK, not only on the personal level but within social circles, e.g. society begins to function like the Mafia, The Bakers, The Butchers, the Candlestick Makers)
Goverment attempts to regulate further to slow the corruption, only increasing the pressure and accelerating the fraud (CHECK, 1990s, medical bribes up, growing disparity of healthcare options)
After successfully securing resources exodus of wealthy to better locations (CHECK, the modern aristocracy mostly lives abroad.)
With the loss of large amounts of tax revenue and the betrayal of the aristocracy the government begins to fold, services are cut. (PENDING, many 25+ million a year are increasingly living outside the US. Many corporations are rebasing outside the US to avoid taxes.)
Those dependant on the government services suffer first demanding what they have been educated they are entitled to. Middle class and few remaining wealthy start becoming protectionist with resources (money). Acellrating the decline. Corruption worsens still with tax fraud and evasion growing. Bartering returns (PENDING, Craigslist number of SWAP versus BUY listing drastically increasing in certain areas. Donations down. Growing disconnect between haves and have nots.)
Education slips and population becomes nieve as a whole. Critial thinking, personal responsibility, and sense of cultural unity vanishes(CHECK, no longer the melting pot we have become the salad bar. As Obama blundered: "We are a nation of immigrants, jews, whites, blacks, muslims, etc.." where ideally we would be a "nation of immigrants brought together as Americans with common goals and interests" Segragation and catagorizing people e.g. the Diversity Movement has done more harm then good, separating people rather then bringing them together.)
Violent Outbreaks between factions begin as societies become tribalized (gangs, city states) along social, political, and ethnic lines. If the government can't take care of us they we'l take care of "our own" (whom ever that may be; e.g. Families, Neighborhood, etc. Rival gangs, and even rival towns. More and more Mafia like behavior then before. Loyalty becomes a commidity.)
Government can no longer contain or control the various factions. A power vaccume develops. Tribes band together. (PENDING)
Developers are becoming resistant to documentation as the lack of documentation affords more job security. Better documentation = easier to replace the original coder.
Yes you can. You need to look at a few tools to help you along with getting configuration templates built. Right now I can deploy a fresh Exchange server into the virutal pool in less then 2 hours with 4 clicks and 1 web form to handle some config issues.
Move to quarterly releases for technical upgrades. Keep server deployments on a regular schedule. Hold Project Managers accountable for aligning project deployment windows to YOUR schedule Maintain an enterprise wide calendar to keep everyone in step.
Using tools like Tivoli can easily cut down on the work load. Active Directory and properly done GPOs can help. The hardest thing is getting upper management behind you and supporting you and sadly no tool out there can fix poor management.
Grab a copy of Winbatch (Must have tool) and learn how to read data from a MySQL database. Build configuration scripts you push to a template server. Winbatch script connects to the database, reads the config and handles the setups.
Learn MSI, Installshield, WisePackage configs so you can do proper silent installations. Use Prism for repackages. I tend to Seed\Bloom packages with a Winbatch watchdog to handle anything the config files won't.
I've been doing this a long time and you can do it. You are smart enough, it's just getting the right tools and having intelligent management backing you up. The costs of sub-standard management far exceed the cost of the tools you need. With GLBA\SoX\HIPPA\IRS\CISP\etc regulations (depending on industry) the price of a screw up is by far larger then the $99 bucks for Winbatch for starters.
You just need to inventory your day, like a diary. Find out repeatable tasks, and build tools to reduce the time. Just shaving off 5 seconds on a daily task saves you 2.5 hours a year in labor. You have to nickle and dime yourself on activities. LIke like working out at the gym.
Here we go again. All those people complained about my Grandma Test I do for usability saying that it's pointless and every time I mention it some linux-fanboy mods me troll for mentioning this kind of stuff.
LINUX WILL NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL ON THE DESKTOP UNTIL THEY GET OFF THEIR HIGH HORSE AND REALIZE THAT THEY NEED TO WORK ON MAKING THINGS 'INTUITIVE'
What good is saying "a few google searches would have told her" if she doesn't know that 'firefox' is a web browser.
More importantly, it would seem that the BUILT IN HELP in Linux is inadaquate to help her. FIX THIS SHIT and quit bitching linux-fanboy that users need to step up and learn. Technology serves the interests of the people, not the other way around.
I've ran Gentoo for years but many of you need to wipe the smug grin off your face and realize the vast majority of people aren't linux savvy and you need to build bridges to those people in order to get anywhere.
Usability != Functionality
Two different issues. The issue with Linux is usability. Gnome and KDE can only do so much to make some inherit issues with the whole GNU Linux ecosystem. It's largely driven by TECH SAVVY people. Just like hard core gamers versus casual gamers, the Linux\FOSS\GNU stack needs to take some serious time for the casual gamers of the OS world.
In further news it has been found that watching adult films, along with diet and excercise, can cause weight loss.
Of course just about ANYTHING along with diet and excercise can cause weight loss. If the article is to be looked at in a rational sense we come back to the same old adage:
There inany given population, in an effort to corrdinate, will have a given number of contrarians that for no purpose other then to avoiding conforming to the norm, will intentionally provide and contribute false information to the collective. This can be exhibited in the childrens game 'operator' starting with a message and retelling it down the line. While in small populations the deviation from the original message is minor. The larger the population, the larger the devation tends to get. But when comparing a wide variety of game sessions one can readily see that there will always be some little shit that screws the message up intentionally."
In an social network it is apparent that an incredibly small number of people can populate false information quickly to population. In this, peer review moves SLOWER then misinformation as the network of trust must oust the false information.
IN ENGLISH: YOU CAN MAKE SHIT UP FASTER THEN YOU CAN DISPROVE BULLSHIT.
5 hackers could easily poison a P2P defense with false-positives and use that very same P2P defense to automatically modify attacks to avoid detection QUICKER then peers can review it and flag is as bullshit.
light isn't free on a space station, it's not like they have a green house on the north-side of the ship so to speak. You are better off putting a large cargo trailer in space. Making 3 trips up to stock it, sending the craft up with crew and towing the cargo along for the trip. There is nothing that prevents us from stocking the cargo hold in multiple trips in orbit besides cost. As far as freezing stuff in space, that's pretty damn easy courtesy of the near vaccum of space. There is a suprisingly large amount free energy out there. IF ONLY WE COULD GET REPLICATORS WORKING TO CONVERT ENERGY INTO MATTER LIKE STAR TREK! CURSE YOU RODDENBERRY!!!
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When it became illegal to own people those that depend on slavery found new ways to own, not people, but everything about the person.
Own his land, you own him.
Bury him in debt and own his debt, you own him.
Throughout history people have alwasy sought ways to make slaves of their neighbors, now in the 21st century the method is:
Own his thoughts, you own him.
Thought crime is the new tool to make slaves of people; how dare the slaves think without permission. Think only what we tell you to think. We people exist for the benefit of the master, in this case businesses.
Goverment as king, business as the fiefs, the executives as the lords, and we the people have become intellectual share croppers; and have been returned to our proper place as slaves\pesants\serfs... Steal from the pesants and profit, steal from the master and suffer his wrath... The knights have been replaced with lawyers and history repeats itself...
Perhaps it's time we revolt and set up a new Internet with a non-commerical clause so we can get back to using the Internet for what it was intended for, making us smarter rather then selling us shit...
FUD, the paper was written last year....
fud mod parent troll please, not kid born in the 90s should never talk about the tape wars unless they were there...
I just finished the reading the paper.
The paper boils down to this:
SSD disk when measured against IOPS, Watts, and Capacity in relation to cost based on several different server types is not cost effective yet. Depending on the type of server costs need to come down at least 3 fold, and under some scenarios as much as 3000 times. Hosting MP3s that are largely sequental, low write storage SSDs are 3000 times over priced. For insaine random IO scenarios that need to come down 3 fold to make it worth it compared to conventional drives.
Depending on the type of server they can perform worse then standard mechanical disks.
They found no advantage to 15k RPM drives versus 10k RPM drives when cost is factored in.
SSD drives pay for themselves in power saving in about 5 years, well past their expected longevity.
Mechanical disks wear out more or less independant of their data load, SSDs wear out proportional to their data load.
SSDs do not handle tiny files very well due to how data is written.
I see nothing in the paper that is pro-microsoft, rather straight dealing on the drives themselves.
I would suggest MOD-TROLL any evanglest on any side of the OS wars as this paper doesn't seem to deal with OS touting.
It was a boring but informative read.
Cheers and don't forget to mention then thousands and thousands of pages worth of court ruling, common law, we inherited. We still from time to time cite case law\common law from Britian as the need arises... Law like life just keeps rolling along, each generation larger then the generation before...
The gift exchange is an ancient custom where heads of states would exchange gift representative of their nations best cultural contributions (in short, "Why we are worth keeping around, plz don't invade us).
So you are telling me that the best the US can come up with is an overpriced walkman and the best the English can come up with is a signed picture of an old woman? We are so FX$%*#^&#.
In days past it might have been a Beatles album swapped for Buddy Holly album. Or Pink Floyd for Nirvana.
In days past it might have been Jack Daniels for Crowley Ale
In days past perhaps Doyle for Twain
A )#($*%#)($% IPOD and a picture?!?!?! WTF!
There are plenty on Slashdot, they all get modded troll though regardless of the validity of their statements...
Global Warming... Doom... Destruction... Nonsense.
First off, have you notice it has gone from Global Warming to Climate Change? I'm old enough to remember "The Coming Ice Age" histerical nonsense.
Such fragile little critters we have become where we cannot accept any change, because change is inheritly evil. Sea levels will rise! Then move to higher ground. There will be droughts and famine! And new crop land will open up further too. The whole planet will become a desert! And the sun will blow up some day too. Nothing in history or cosmology says we get to live forever.
Remember all that fossil fuel was organic material that was on Earth at one point and nothing mathmatically says that the planet can suck all that out of the air and back into plant and animal life again, the question is the curve and rate of drawdown versus time and wether Al Gore can make a few more bucks during that window. The maddness is that because the world change from some non-existant "norm" of the last few centuries that the planet is doomed. The Sahara was a jungle once. Which is the norm? Jungle or Desert?
There is no normal except constant change. Change is not good or bad, it is just plain change.
They've built a religion around this crap. Try not building cities below sea level and start planning on buy land that will be ocean front property in a few years according to those forecasts. In the mean time, I'm smoking, drinking, and enjoy life because at any point in a world of inifinite possibilities there is always something that could annihilate us, a magnatar could wipe us out with a high-energy beam (death stars), comets, meteors, nuclear war, roaming feral children with guns, airborn disease of apocolypic scale, etc.
"The greatest of tyrants rise to power on the shoulders of ideals built in the name of the greater good."
You already use the term Heritics, come out of the religious closet and admit that Al Gore is your pope and your religious inquisition is in full swing...
It has been my observation that it is in fact LIMITATIONS that spur creative more so then FREEDOM.
Some the the greatest literary works came about in some of the most heavly censored days. It forces the writers, film makers, etc to be creative. I have seen some increibly violent movies that didn't have a single drop of onscreen blood. They simply showed the shadows. I great example in a video game is the original SAM AND MAX when Max is 'killing' the scientist in the intro. All you see is the shadow on the wall and Max's 'wet fist' going to town.
Blanketly stating that the movie must be PG-13 doesn't mean sacrificing anything creatively, it forces the to be creative in fact. Moving violence off camera doesn't inheritly silence the point you are trying to make and pointless ANYTHING in a movie is just that, pointless.
I remember when I was subbing for an English Comp. teacher I gave out an assignment, "Write a short 2 page story without using the letter A once in the story." Oddly those were the best stories they wrote that year because the limitations forced them to think things through.
Restrictions can do more to IMPROVE stories\movies\comics then detract from them.
Useless waste of time. organic computing is the future, this silicon crap is a joke. Why not HARVEST simple brains, jack them in, and use them as processors? Why make a metal brain when even a roach comes with a free brain to use? Hell look at the Matrix! Use human brains interconnected for a massive computing system. Felon? Death Penalty? BAH! HARVEST their brain and repurposes it as a GPU in a jar! In-game AI would be greatly improved by using REAL KILLER'S BRAINS to drive the NPCs! Nothing could go wrong unless Traci Lords throws a concert, Denzel Washington goes crazy, and the killer AI learns how to escape the virtual world and run amok looking a lot like Russel Crow while feeding off of silicates...
A counter suit for malicious or frivolous prosecution is the next step. More then likely they would settle out of court on that since the evidence was strong enough for their case to fall part\get dismissed\etc. Hell you could small claims court them and probably get a no-show for a quick8 grand. The airline ticket\hotel for their attourney would probably be at least $1200.
Borrowing from the military mindset this is my suggestion:
"Any online backup locations shall have a physical break in the networking infrastructure that must be phsyically connected as needed. Once operations are complete the physical connection is again broke until it is needed."
(IMPLEMENTATION A)
From an implementation standpoint what you have at the core switching rack is a RED cable in the switch that is the connection to the backup server (onsite, i.e. disk to disk) that is unplugged at all times except when the backups are to run.
(IMPLEMENTATION B)
Tapes, removeable disks, are stored off site, offline. In the event that they are needed they are either order and shipped, or a temporary connection is made to the dat warehouse and the data delivered via VPN\SSH. Once the restore is completed the data is taken offline and stored.
(IMPLEMENTATION C)
Using a pair of hardware VPN routers, at each endpoint (server site, backup site) they sit, unconnected to the networking fabric until a request is made or the scheduled backup\restore windows are near.
YOu cannot remote hack (normally) devices that are stand alone.
FYI all batch processing on the linux machines is afterhours (mighnight to 6 am) so the average load on the system is only about 25% leaving 75% for gaming on the main system.
If your systems are much high in transaction and volume as several other have pointed out Xeon with a pair of decent raid controllers is going to do much better. 4 Cores would help but I am hesitant to reccomend as the clock speeds are lower and with only a 25% average load I'd rather clear out jobs faster then run more in paralell just do to IO contraints rather then mear instruction counts.
I use a Gigabyte EP45 with 8GB of RAM and 4 500 GB disk drives in a RAID10 configuration with a 3.2 GHz Intel Duo2.
I use Sun's Openbox (less issues then VMWare atm) and run 8 VMS at a time without much in the way of performance impact.
Ensure hardware virtualization is on leave IO ACPI virtualzation off. I have nested paging on also.
Each VM is allocated 256 MB of RAM for linux systems and the 2 M$ systems (XP and Vista) are allocated 1GB each.
PARENT OS (XP)
VM1 - Linux MYSQL Host
VM2 - Linux LAMP Host
VM3 - Linux REPORTS Server (Takes data and generates email from all systems)
VM4 - Linux Firewall\IDS (The main system uses wireless with the VMS allocated the two physical NIC ports on the Mobo. This is the default gateway for all systems.)
VM5 - Gentoo SSH DISTCC CCACHE Buddy (My friends use this via SSH to help compile Gentoo Systems)
VM6 - Windows XP VPN Client Container (Strictly Business Locked Down VPN host for remoting into work)
VM7 - Vista Media Host (Uses a mapped drive to the Parent system's MEDIA folder)
VM8 - Linux Game Hoster (Hosts versious game servers via private VPN for easy netplay)
The cool thing is EVER WITH ALL THAT RUNNING I can still play warhammer online with 0 lag or play Fallout with no lag.
There will be an occasional 2 second lag\pause on the system for some mysterious reason but only if the Vista VM is running.
This is not acceptable for production purposes but for home use it works great. For production I would simply change the parent to a lighter weight parent.
Nonsense. Absolute nonsense.
"Good developers will know that writing good code and documenting it correctly is job security of another sort--companies who WANT to keep you or hire you, not companies who are forced to do so. Ultimately, undocumented code will be rewritten from scratch by someone else, and the original programmer will be fired"
You are making the assumption they'd keep the original coders around for maintenance. I've never seen a senior developer retained for maintenance programming. They're converted to consultants and I have never had to call back an original coder when the documentation is good. So much for job security. I hate to break it to you but businesses pay people to WORK not sit around. No work, no pay. I sure as hell wouldn't pay someone 74 grand a year to put in 40 hours of maintenance per quarter. Once the first release is done he's either going to head a new project or he's out the door. Man where do you work? They have money to burn?
I hate to break it to you but there are plently, in fact a GLUT, of good programmers. Being a great programmer with good documentation skills means you get brought in to code the first release then promptly shown the door once it's gone into maintenance phase.
Programmers are a dime a dozen now. Thanks to open source their free now too.
I can bring in a "great programmer" on a project at $74-76 grand a year. I keep him for 6 months, make damn sure he does great documentation and after the second quarterly release I show him the door and hire two new grads at $31k a year to maintain the code and save myself $10 grand. At 3% annual raises I still come out ahead by notkeeping the original programmer around very long and I get 2 people instead of one. A few years later when they head the next project, out the door they go and wash rinse repeat.
The smart programmers do good documentation but not enough to make it too easy for the maintenance programmers. That way at least they can squeeze some consulting time out.
If your logic held fast cars would last for 30 years and toasters would last a lifetime. It cutthroat out there and it's only going to get worse for programmers. Hell I have a niece that already learned C++ and she's in the 8th grade. The bar is getting pretty high now for programmers. It's almost on the verge of being a basic skill (programming in at least 1 language).
Programmer, meet Mr. TV repair man. You have a lot in common now and say hi to the Help Desk folks when they get in.
Employees are an investment.
Mr. $75 grand a year will get 5% more productive but will want at least a 3% raise. I'm only getting a 2% return on investment.
Mr. $31 grand a year will get 15% more productive, take 4 years to be as good as Mr. 75 but with a 3% raise I'm getting a 12% return on investment.
You keep senior people because you have to, not because you want to (Barring personal feels etc.). Productivity gains taper off and factoring inflation you have to be ruthless in looking at productivity or your gonna get buried. It's why we outsource. Better return on investment in an employee.
I can go to some locations and get a damn good programmer for $1.88 an hour making him wealthy in his home country. He's not as good as the local guy, in fact he's twice as slow BUT the local guy is $44 an hour. I can hire 8 of the cheap guys putting me time table wise ahead by 4 fold, still under 1/2 the cost and know I've help 8 people become wealthy by thier local standards. In 4 years they'll be as good as the local guy and I've gotten a massive return of investment in my labor. Then I cut them loose and start over.
Job securty is the result of necessity not some idealogical committment to excellence. The mantra is Better, Faster, Cheaper. If you are not NEEDED, you aren't. Business doesn't deal with WANTED, we deal with NEEDED. We hire people and keep people because we NEED them, we don't hire people because we feel like it, we hire people because we NEED them.
BETTER: Employees are investments, you want a good return
FAST: If a project takes 2000 hours, you need more people working 8 hours each to get it done faster. That means they have to be cheaper.
CHEAPER: Withou compromising BETTER and FASTER it needs to be cheaper.
Troll me but this is another example of a lazy parent wanting someone else to do their job for them.
A: TURN THE COMPUTER OFF. Life moves along just fine without Facebook, Myspace, and Google. A computer is a TOOL not a life style.
B: As several have pointed out, keep the computer in the living room and check out what they are doing. If they are embarrassed by you looking over their shoulder just remind them that everything they do on the internet can be observed by millions. If you are embarrassed by mom or dad watching, you'd be insaine not to be embarrassed by millions seeing it.
C: Filter? Why? Get a porn pop up just close it... Ohhh scary images... Filters will do little when people are 1/2 naked walking around in malls during the summer.
D: Linux based filter? I suggest either M.O.R.A.L Code or the effective P.A.R.E.N.T Script. But using both together you can actually control your child AND their internet surfing habits. You see, when agressive scripts with objectionable content pop up with both M.O.R.A.L code and P.A.R.E.N.T scripts running you child can simple close the offending content or in circumstances where they are unable to the M.O.R.A.L and P.A.R.E.N.T tools actually allow your worthless waste of oxygen code named CHILD to actually peel themselves away from the stupid box long enough for P.A.R.E.N.T to clean up the situation provided the P.A.R.E.N.T script isn't too busy acting like an adult child buried in ESPN or an XBOX.
Here some advice, be a parent and quit delegating your responsibilities to EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE ELSE BESIDES YOURSELF. IF YOU CANNOT KEEP TABS ON YOUR CHILD AT ALL TIMES STOP POPPING THEM OUT LIKE FUCKING PEZ CANDY.
-- Version 1 --
Face it there are always be assholes in the world, learning to tolerate them is part of life. You don't have to like assholes but you do need to learn how to deal with assholes when they pop up.
-- Version 2 --
Face it there are always be p0rn popups in the world, learning to tolerate them is part of life. You don't have to like p0rn popups but you do need to learn how to deal with p0rn popups when they pop up.
-- Version 3 --
Face it there are always be objectional content in the world, learning to tolerate them is part of life. You don't have to like objectional content but you do need to learn how to deal with objectional content when they pop up.
If the OPs goal is to let the kid explore, let the kid learn how to deal with objectional content.
Morals + Good Parenting = Self Policing Kids that Listen to their Parent.
This is why history education in schools is an abomination. They school books have been censored so bad and tailored to political agendas that people with a proper education find none of this suprising.
Go to a rural public library and find some history books published pre-1960s. Look at the fall of Rome, the French Revolution, War of American Independance, the Civil War, and for those that were around the fall of the Russian Empire, Rise of the Soviets, and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Every government, from my recollection, as it falls goings through several key phases.
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A monetary collapse brought about by both goverment beuacracy exceeding its income. CHECK (US 1960s New Deal borrowing endlessly from the generation yet to come spending more then it made.)
Government cultivates dependency on the government over time (CHECK, a constant in governments)
Government increasingly taxes those that have to continue to subsidize those that don't (CHECK, primary foundation of the New Deal. No incentive to work if your expectations are low.)
Initial temor of panic and small exodus of population from one location to another (CHECK, 1980s the Great White Exodus of middle class america (mostly white) from inner city and urban environments to the suburbs.)
Economic fundamentals discarded as socialist policies attempt to "Float the Boat" (CHECK, 1930s, 2000s, mass cost cutting attempts via outsourcing, additional social services indicate failures in the private sector to provide those services)
Fraud increases in all aspects of society as people make personal power grabs to secure resources for self and others in close circles (CHECK, not only on the personal level but within social circles, e.g. society begins to function like the Mafia, The Bakers, The Butchers, the Candlestick Makers)
Goverment attempts to regulate further to slow the corruption, only increasing the pressure and accelerating the fraud (CHECK, 1990s, medical bribes up, growing disparity of healthcare options)
After successfully securing resources exodus of wealthy to better locations (CHECK, the modern aristocracy mostly lives abroad.)
With the loss of large amounts of tax revenue and the betrayal of the aristocracy the government begins to fold, services are cut. (PENDING, many 25+ million a year are increasingly living outside the US. Many corporations are rebasing outside the US to avoid taxes.)
Those dependant on the government services suffer first demanding what they have been educated they are entitled to. Middle class and few remaining wealthy start becoming protectionist with resources (money). Acellrating the decline. Corruption worsens still with tax fraud and evasion growing. Bartering returns (PENDING, Craigslist number of SWAP versus BUY listing drastically increasing in certain areas. Donations down. Growing disconnect between haves and have nots.)
Education slips and population becomes nieve as a whole. Critial thinking, personal responsibility, and sense of cultural unity vanishes(CHECK, no longer the melting pot we have become the salad bar. As Obama blundered: "We are a nation of immigrants, jews, whites, blacks, muslims, etc.." where ideally we would be a "nation of immigrants brought together as Americans with common goals and interests" Segragation and catagorizing people e.g. the Diversity Movement has done more harm then good, separating people rather then bringing them together.)
Violent Outbreaks between factions begin as societies become tribalized (gangs, city states) along social, political, and ethnic lines. If the government can't take care of us they we'l take care of "our own" (whom ever that may be; e.g. Families, Neighborhood, etc. Rival gangs, and even rival towns. More and more Mafia like behavior then before. Loyalty becomes a commidity.)
Government can no longer contain or control the various factions. A power vaccume develops. Tribes band together. (PENDING)
Some political or social flash goes off. Vi
Developers are becoming resistant to documentation as the lack of documentation affords more job security. Better documentation = easier to replace the original coder.
It really is that simple.
Inalienable
You cannot take them away, citizen, non-citizen, good guy, bad guy.
Inalienable.
Liberty was an inalienable right once... long ago...
Yes you can. You need to look at a few tools to help you along with getting configuration templates built. Right now I can deploy a fresh Exchange server into the virutal pool in less then 2 hours with 4 clicks and 1 web form to handle some config issues.
Move to quarterly releases for technical upgrades.
Keep server deployments on a regular schedule.
Hold Project Managers accountable for aligning project deployment windows to YOUR schedule
Maintain an enterprise wide calendar to keep everyone in step.
Using tools like Tivoli can easily cut down on the work load. Active Directory and properly done GPOs can help. The hardest thing is getting upper management behind you and supporting you and sadly no tool out there can fix poor management.
Grab a copy of Winbatch (Must have tool) and learn how to read data from a MySQL database.
Build configuration scripts you push to a template server.
Winbatch script connects to the database, reads the config and handles the setups.
Learn MSI, Installshield, WisePackage configs so you can do proper silent installations. Use Prism for repackages. I tend to Seed\Bloom packages with a Winbatch watchdog to handle anything the config files won't.
I've been doing this a long time and you can do it. You are smart enough, it's just getting the right tools and having intelligent management backing you up. The costs of sub-standard management far exceed the cost of the tools you need. With GLBA\SoX\HIPPA\IRS\CISP\etc regulations (depending on industry) the price of a screw up is by far larger then the $99 bucks for Winbatch for starters.
You just need to inventory your day, like a diary. Find out repeatable tasks, and build tools to reduce the time. Just shaving off 5 seconds on a daily task saves you 2.5 hours a year in labor. You have to nickle and dime yourself on activities. LIke like working out at the gym.
You can do it.
Here we go again. All those people complained about my Grandma Test I do for usability saying that it's pointless and every time I mention it some linux-fanboy mods me troll for mentioning this kind of stuff.
LINUX WILL NEVER BE SUCCESSFUL ON THE DESKTOP UNTIL THEY GET OFF THEIR HIGH HORSE AND REALIZE THAT THEY NEED TO WORK ON MAKING THINGS 'INTUITIVE'
What good is saying "a few google searches would have told her" if she doesn't know that 'firefox' is a web browser.
More importantly, it would seem that the BUILT IN HELP in Linux is inadaquate to help her. FIX THIS SHIT and quit bitching linux-fanboy that users need to step up and learn. Technology serves the interests of the people, not the other way around.
I've ran Gentoo for years but many of you need to wipe the smug grin off your face and realize the vast majority of people aren't linux savvy and you need to build bridges to those people in order to get anywhere.
Usability != Functionality
Two different issues. The issue with Linux is usability. Gnome and KDE can only do so much to make some inherit issues with the whole GNU Linux ecosystem. It's largely driven by TECH SAVVY people. Just like hard core gamers versus casual gamers, the Linux\FOSS\GNU stack needs to take some serious time for the casual gamers of the OS world.
In further news it has been found that watching adult films, along with diet and excercise, can cause weight loss.
Of course just about ANYTHING along with diet and excercise can cause weight loss. If the article is to be looked at in a rational sense we come back to the same old adage:
CORRELLATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION.
Ken's OPERATOR Law
There inany given population, in an effort to corrdinate, will have a given number of contrarians that for no purpose other then to avoiding conforming to the norm, will intentionally provide and contribute false information to the collective. This can be exhibited in the childrens game 'operator' starting with a message and retelling it down the line. While in small populations the deviation from the original message is minor. The larger the population, the larger the devation tends to get. But when comparing a wide variety of game sessions one can readily see that there will always be some little shit that screws the message up intentionally."
In an social network it is apparent that an incredibly small number of people can populate false information quickly to population. In this, peer review moves SLOWER then misinformation as the network of trust must oust the false information.
IN ENGLISH: YOU CAN MAKE SHIT UP FASTER THEN YOU CAN DISPROVE BULLSHIT.
5 hackers could easily poison a P2P defense with false-positives and use that very same P2P defense to automatically modify attacks to avoid detection QUICKER then peers can review it and flag is as bullshit.
light isn't free on a space station, it's not like they have a green house on the north-side of the ship so to speak. You are better off putting a large cargo trailer in space. Making 3 trips up to stock it, sending the craft up with crew and towing the cargo along for the trip. There is nothing that prevents us from stocking the cargo hold in multiple trips in orbit besides cost. As far as freezing stuff in space, that's pretty damn easy courtesy of the near vaccum of space. There is a suprisingly large amount free energy out there. IF ONLY WE COULD GET REPLICATORS WORKING TO CONVERT ENERGY INTO MATTER LIKE STAR TREK! CURSE YOU RODDENBERRY!!!