This uses the PROMT software engine from the company of the same name in St. Petersburg, Russia. I have used their software extensively including in an online forum. It works ok, but heaven help those who want to translate soemthing very technical or diplomatic.
The attack against the whitehouse looked for a given IP address which seemed to have been set when the attack started. When the IP address associated with the DNS name is changed, the attack is sidestepped.
For attacks where the 'bots do a DNS lookup, then a redirect from a webserver may be sufficient. You just nee the customer to connect once and then the genuine connection is redirected to another server. The 'bot keeps hamering away at the dummy server.
Large companies have multiple IP addresses and pipes. It then becomes possible to reconfigure so that only one pipe becomes stuffed and normal traffic is redirected. It is more of a problem when you don't have so much spare capacity.
Well a few years ago I was working in some former Soviet Union countries. Many people told me the same story about Digital's screw up and why HP was strong, so I guess that was probably true. Digital really had some idiots in their management team but some great engineers.
As for uptime, well the real plus from Digital was clustering, which was well, fairly seamless about fifteen years ago. Other vendors are catching up, but my hope is for the really important stuff for clustering to go into Linux - and I don't mean Beowulf.
Don't knock it, VMS still sings when you want five nines reliability. It is still a favourite at some of the biggest financial exchanges.
The reason that Digital screwed up is that after the end of communism, the Russians went to DEC and asked for licenses. The stupid idiots dug out their standard price lists which scared them away. They preferred Digital as they found it more reliable and secure but they couldn't get it legally.
HP were much cleverer discounting heavily to get market share. until they eventually wiped out Digital from the former Soviet Union.
If you have an independent reference for this explosion whether in English or Russian, I and several others would very much like to know. AFAIK, there was no major disaster of this kind anywhere in the Soviet Union during 1982.
Actually the main target was the source code to VMS. They liked VMS (it ran on their VAX copies from Robotron) and wanted the source code to it, a lot. These tapes meant breaking into Digital.
I worked on some of the system that was used for the TransSIb pipeline and it would have been what was live in 1982. There were *no* single chip computers used. The highest tech was a card based on an MC6800 (yep, not the 68000) which would do the electrical interfacing with sensors and activators. I tried giving Safire real information, but you might as well send him Spam - it was ignored.
There was a computer control system but all it did was really a glorified remote. You could setup some equations like when opening valve A 10%, close valve B by 1% but it wasn't It would have been non-trivial to insert a bug on the main control computer (it would have been detected) and the remote telemetry cards were always being moved around so you never knew which was where so they couldn't easily be sabotaged either.
MS Works is a lot less than MS Word plus some cut down extras. It is ver much a Word--. What it does give you is a relatively cheap upgrade path to full MS Office. However MS Works by itself is almost useless.
Wordperfect is anything but useless and is a full scale, business ready product.
Uh oh, there goes another Email account to spam, but try JFK's family name (the president, not the candidate) followed by an underscore then the letters 'haj'. The domain name is Yahoo.co.uk.
Excuse the indirectness but with all the spam harvesters, I'm reluctant to publish eMail addresses on an open forum. I have no problems discussing my work then because it was straight commercial and a long time ago.
In Germany, the first degree is not the equivalent of a masters although they like to think so. A German graduating age 28 has the same education as a Brit or Irish person at 21. In a fast moving subject like computer science, this puts the slower system at a disadvantage. Aidan is hungry for experience of real project work and open source is a great way to start. At age 30, Aidan would have had 9 years of real experience as opposed to Clemens' two. If Clemens had a house and family aged 30, it could only have been through a dodgy IPO on Germany's NASDAQ. OTOH, I know an exception to this, a brilliant German computer scientist who managed to get a PhD aged 26 who then went onto a good job and could afford both aged 30.
I use open source software all the time - I couldn't live without it. I probably won't bring the authors in as consultants but I would certainly look better on somebody's CV better if they had open source experience.
Why? Well someone who has worked on open source is at least interested in writing code and is probably proud of their own code quality.
ROTK didn't win - it was the trilogy, a work so large (it was filmed in one go) that it compares with the epics of yesteryear. Hollywood likes spectacle, and LOTR definitely qualified. Anyone who knows anything about film (and the academy, by definition are all professionals) would have admired the way the story was hung together with so much hard work behind it.
LiT was a great little film, and a jewel in its own way, but it doesn't really compare. Sofia is young and the academy probably feels that they will see even better from her in the future. Remember that effectively the film is a two person show, hardly challenging for a director.
That was my impression too. The story could easily have been told in other ways (remember that originally Gollum's story was related before the council). Serkis was really good, but then so was McKellan and also Bernard Hill (Theoden). Brad Dourif (Worm Tongue) was also excellent in the Two Towers.
If anything this was a film that cried out for an ensemble award. I believe that some non-acadamy organisations have already given LOTR such awards.
Here it is more or less minimum wage. It is interesting that airports do not employ security staff directly, they employ security firms who then recruit the temporary staff. I'm unsure what added value the secuirity companies bring, but I guess they get more than minimum wage!
The people doing security are usually minimum wage staff on a stressful job and working shifts. They have to deal with annoyed passengers all the time. They will make mistakes and lots of them.
Current security prevents low-grade terrorism, i.e., the old-style 'take-me-to-Cuba' hijackings. It won't do much to stop the high-end terrorist.
As for cost effective, if Osama wants to kill americans, he should just buy a tobacco farm. He could then kill more than 9/11 did on an annual basis.
It should also be noted that Germany's toll-road system for goods vehicles on autobahns, a massive federal project is massively over budget and extremely late. The developers include Siemens and Telekom. This had no existing system to displace.
The point is that, if anything, this is a far simpler project than migrating 14000 desktops to Linux. Large projects tend to overrun especially Government ones on whatever scale. Munich's is still within realistic expectations.
Yes, that beta looks very nice, but most of us would be hung before we used it in production. Otherwise we have Sun E15Ks maxed out with memory running modded 1.4.2.
Note that you can do with ANSI C whatever you like: you can implement or not implement whatever parts you like. Not so with Java under the current licenses.
The thing is that you cannot call it ANSI C compliant unless it implements all the mandatory bits. If you do and the the either the compiler or the library is non-standard then you are misrepresenting your product. An ANSI Java could be similarly protected.
Your mileage may vary but server apps usually perform very well.
I'm not so sure on that one, under JVMs that are currently in production. One issue is that of memory and the inability of JVMs to share memory, whether for code or data. Yes, the server app may run quickly (JITed once per JVM), but each JVM eats memory and classes aren't shareable between instances.
Not quite correct. The raw image has high definition luminance information, but the chrominance information requires clusters of three pixels. It really depends upon the image processing algorithms in the camera as to how this is used.
When freelancing, I was farmed by one agency through another to the client. I was asked by the second agency to sign a very restrictive non-compete. I refused on the basis that I had no relationship with the second agency. I said that they were welcome to call after sorting it with a lawyer, they never did. The first contract didn't require me to sign anything special.
this isn't really a major problem. Call centres in India are already finding that what they think is English and what others think are different. Indians can write good English though. Russians can write but not so well. Both work with English specs.
The problem that India has is that it is too Asian. Russia is part Asian, part European. The Asian part means that everything has to pretty much run top down. Russian programmers are more likely to signal a major issue with a spec and then avoid implementing a misunderstanding. OTOH, Indians are better team workers. Russian programmers tend to be quite individualistic and require careful management to get useful code out of them.
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This uses the PROMT software engine from the company of the same name in St. Petersburg, Russia. I have used their software extensively including in an online forum. It works ok, but heaven help those who want to translate soemthing very technical or diplomatic.
For attacks where the 'bots do a DNS lookup, then a redirect from a webserver may be sufficient. You just nee the customer to connect once and then the genuine connection is redirected to another server. The 'bot keeps hamering away at the dummy server.
Large companies have multiple IP addresses and pipes. It then becomes possible to reconfigure so that only one pipe becomes stuffed and normal traffic is redirected. It is more of a problem when you don't have so much spare capacity.
Fertiliser may come from animal waste, i.e, shit. It can be mined or most usually it can come from cooking nitrogen under pressure. (Haber process).
As for uptime, well the real plus from Digital was clustering, which was well, fairly seamless about fifteen years ago. Other vendors are catching up, but my hope is for the really important stuff for clustering to go into Linux - and I don't mean Beowulf.
The reason that Digital screwed up is that after the end of communism, the Russians went to DEC and asked for licenses. The stupid idiots dug out their standard price lists which scared them away. They preferred Digital as they found it more reliable and secure but they couldn't get it legally.
HP were much cleverer discounting heavily to get market share. until they eventually wiped out Digital from the former Soviet Union.
If you have an independent reference for this explosion whether in English or Russian, I and several others would very much like to know. AFAIK, there was no major disaster of this kind anywhere in the Soviet Union during 1982.
Actually the main target was the source code to VMS. They liked VMS (it ran on their VAX copies from Robotron) and wanted the source code to it, a lot. These tapes meant breaking into Digital.
There was a computer control system but all it did was really a glorified remote. You could setup some equations like when opening valve A 10%, close valve B by 1% but it wasn't It would have been non-trivial to insert a bug on the main control computer (it would have been detected) and the remote telemetry cards were always being moved around so you never knew which was where so they couldn't easily be sabotaged either.
Wordperfect is anything but useless and is a full scale, business ready product.
Excuse the indirectness but with all the spam harvesters, I'm reluctant to publish eMail addresses on an open forum. I have no problems discussing my work then because it was straight commercial and a long time ago.
I use open source software all the time - I couldn't live without it. I probably won't bring the authors in as consultants but I would certainly look better on somebody's CV better if they had open source experience.
Why? Well someone who has worked on open source is at least interested in writing code and is probably proud of their own code quality.
LiT was a great little film, and a jewel in its own way, but it doesn't really compare. Sofia is young and the academy probably feels that they will see even better from her in the future. Remember that effectively the film is a two person show, hardly challenging for a director.
If anything this was a film that cried out for an ensemble award. I believe that some non-acadamy organisations have already given LOTR such awards.
Here it is more or less minimum wage. It is interesting that airports do not employ security staff directly, they employ security firms who then recruit the temporary staff. I'm unsure what added value the secuirity companies bring, but I guess they get more than minimum wage!
Current security prevents low-grade terrorism, i.e., the old-style 'take-me-to-Cuba' hijackings. It won't do much to stop the high-end terrorist.
As for cost effective, if Osama wants to kill americans, he should just buy a tobacco farm. He could then kill more than 9/11 did on an annual basis.
The point is that, if anything, this is a far simpler project than migrating 14000 desktops to Linux. Large projects tend to overrun especially Government ones on whatever scale. Munich's is still within realistic expectations.
Yes, that beta looks very nice, but most of us would be hung before we used it in production. Otherwise we have Sun E15Ks maxed out with memory running modded 1.4.2.
Not quite correct. The raw image has high definition luminance information, but the chrominance information requires clusters of three pixels. It really depends upon the image processing algorithms in the camera as to how this is used.
Um I'm supervising outsourced projects. At the moment I'm designing a QA strategy to address some of the problems.
When freelancing, I was farmed by one agency through another to the client. I was asked by the second agency to sign a very restrictive non-compete. I refused on the basis that I had no relationship with the second agency. I said that they were welcome to call after sorting it with a lawyer, they never did. The first contract didn't require me to sign anything special.
The problem that India has is that it is too Asian. Russia is part Asian, part European. The Asian part means that everything has to pretty much run top down. Russian programmers are more likely to signal a major issue with a spec and then avoid implementing a misunderstanding. OTOH, Indians are better team workers. Russian programmers tend to be quite individualistic and require careful management to get useful code out of them.