I had thought this too but it won't work. Torvalds is far from being a commie/leftie and if anything, RMS will come over as a pedant (the legal profession is full of those) and a libertarian.
Remember that RMS started the GPL thing after he saw someone trying to sell back to the MIT AI Lab what he had written for the lab. This is a key point which should be respected in court. Torvalds doesn't have anything against commercial software -it's just that Linux isn't. RMS may not like closed source software but he fully supports commercial funding of open source projects or commercial style support.
IBM and the FSF have good lawyers. As long as they are clever, both Linus and Richard can put on a great show for open software and the GPL.
On 2K you can easily mirror a logical partition to another which is the same or larger. After mirroring is complete (extremely important), break the mirror and what was C: is now somewhere else, in its entirity.
If this works on XP, (it depends on the disk management tools provided) there may still be activation issues. What I haven't done is to try and boot the split mirror.
In former times, all systems came with a standalone backup. This was a special tuned down version of the OS with some utilities for testing media, formatting and the backup/restore of *everything*. Standalone backup ran much like Knoppix, totally from R/O media and with a small memory disk for the R/W stuff. It could work either with backup sets (savesets) like a tar file or with disk images.
Anyway, twenty years ago, you expected this as standard with an operating system. NTBackup will not make a copy of my system disk that I can restore. Not unless I install a second NT installation to use for backup/restore. NTBackup only works with savesets and can not be used for imaging.
Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Skiba in October issued a "buy" recommendation on SCO stock and said the stock could more than double in value.
Is this the same Deutsche Bank that sees just two operating ystsems in the future, Windows and Linux? The one that has started an adoption program throughout the bank.
There is another factor. Tiananmen is not even on the PRC's doorstep - it is their living room.They had to react quickly or risk immediate instability.
As far as Russia was concerned, the DDR was important (and perhaps Gorbachev underestimated its symbolic value), but it was not considered core.
Also Russians are not an asian people. They have different values and the reason I prefer (which may not be the correct one) is that Gorbachev didn't wnat to see bloodshed (this looked considerably worse than Budapest or Prague). From interviews, it seems that Gorbachev was a communist, but very much a moderniser and principled.
I don't consider Regan to be particularly important, but Gorbachev was vital as in the end the decisions cam down to him. Honnecker was no reformer, and Krenz was ineffective. I hope history recognises Gorbachev's role as seldom has such a major decision come down to one man. Strang ely, he is more respected in the west. In the end he didn't reform fast enough and Boris Yeltsin came in.
You might look at some of the other events going on at the time. Reagan was not exactly one of the more able inhabitents of the Whitehouse. He may have been well advised but even then his government just continued the watch. Starwars didn't work and if anything, the Soviets were more advanced with some of the technology (lasers for example).
It is interesting that none of these books that you show look look beyond that b-movie studio set of the Whitehouse. The real answers are to be found in Russia. There are plenty of historical texts which study the fall of the Soviet Union, but they look at where it actually happened. Moscow.
Kennan was wrong. With modern (i.e., western style) information systems, the Soviet Union may have continued a centrally planned economy. However the military were a major drain.
Actually, you can better blame the fall on the downing of flight KL007 and a young German who landed a private aircraft in red square in 1985.
Gorbachev wanted to modernize the economy but the military didn't want to give up power or their share of the budget. After KL007 and Mathias Rust landed in front of the Kremlin, he could turn around and question the very reasoning for the military.
Ironically, it was the reaction from those forces that Gorbachev fought down that instigated the Putsch in 91. This triggered the ascendancy of Yeltsin and the fall of the communist party.
Another important thing was the fall of the DDR. Gorbachev kept the tanks in the barracks when the east Germans started rioting. Honnecker was a hard-liner anyway and Gorbachev was not keen to support him. It is clear that a number of backroom deals were being done with the FRG (West German) government. As the wall was allowed to fall, support was triggerred from the Germans not only to support the conversion of the DDR, but also extensive support for the transformation of the SOviet Union into the commonwealth of independant states. Many look at Germany's current problems and forget the vast fortune paid by Kohl's government to support peaceful transition.
As you said, it was down to Regan not to screw up, but many others had already demonstrated that the west econmically more flexible and was militarily not a threat. This was in the end more important.
There is a real economic cost. A student who has studied in a host country becomes familiar with that country. If they have good memories of their time, they are more likely to look favourably upon goods and services being offerred by their host even after they have returned.
At the moment, if you come from a visa country, the hoops and extra costs associated even with an ordinary tourist visa, let alone a business visa or a study visa mean that you go somewhere else.
Hooray for the Splendid Isolationists, shame for everyone else and the jobs that the visitors represent.
You can find topographical data sets on line - not very accurate but up there for free (I think from the USGS). Apart from anything else, this how open source flight simulators get their stuff.
For the accurate stuff, you buy data sets which consist of strings of 3d and 2d coords. These can be assembled into Digital Ground Models and are used by architects all the time.
Um, I'll let you into a little secret. Bombs do not need electronics to set them off. They don't even need electricity.
Demolition charges used for sabotage in the last war were generally set up by a small tube containing a glass phial of acid. You crush the tube, the acid is released and it starts eating through a separator into the detonator. When it hits the detonator, bang.
Remember that idiot who tried to blow himself and a plane up with a bomb in his sports shoes. Again, very low tech. Unfortunately for him, it didn't self ignite.
Around 16,000 people have died through the Iraq action so far. Most of these were civillians. They didn't die in road accidents - they died because some corrupt stupid idiot wanted to go to war to protect his pork barrel.
The US is not under attack by anyone except a few very stupid saudis who were working for a guy who is directly associated with the Bush family.
There is no international governent, but there is a network of treaties that so far the current regime seems intent on abrogating.
What Bush has done is to setup very American citizen to be a target. Quite a few others as well may get hit as 'collateral damage'. Remember those that perpetrated the Bali bombing though that the tourists were American (most were Australian, but dead is dead).
The thing is that we are not talking about the US. We are talking about a few idiots, who happen to have bought or clawed their way into power. These are idiots and criminals (ask where Saddam got his Anthrax from). The economy is going down the tubes but the Nazi approach of "throw some forigners in a concentration camp and declare war on a minor country" still seems valid as a way of distracting the voters. Not that they really need to, Diebold seem to be doing their job though.
It is a pity that neither the real republicans nor the democratic party seem to want to call the whitehouse out.
I agree that the lack of delegation is in itself an error, however inadaquate understanding is a major problem. In order to deploy staff sucessfully, you must have a good overview of the task. You cannot delegate the overview - this is something you must have yourself. Persons coming from a non-technical background manageing a very technical process are at a disadvantage. At the same time, a manager from a technical background must understand resource limitations and budgets.
In the case of NASA, there was a major communications problem between the engineers and their managemnent. The managers had only a cursory understanding of the technology and not enough to know that they were out of their field. A manager must be able to understand their direct reports but also be able to communicate at least one level beneath. This helps to ensure that the correct information is being passed onwards.
Many years ago I was a projet management course and we were shown "Das Boot" as an example (this was the bit when the sub was stuck on the bottom). The manager (captain) was knowledgable enough about what each team was doing so as to coordinate between them. The lesson is that whilst you don't need to know the details, you had better have an idea of what your teams are doing.
One of the single largest examples of poor management is when there is the lack of real coordination. In developer terms, I don't need a manager that knows how to program, but I need one to understand what a software development project is. However, having a manager that knows about the job and can communicate is an asset.
We know about managers who are essentially accountants - that is why we got Columbia and Challenger. I'm sorry, training in accounting is not a good background for management. They are the money techies and like engineers, they need to 'round-off' their education a little. For accountants in particular, ethics is a good place to start!!!!
I agree with you about the single-mindedness of geeks - but that is what the manager is for. Yes, there is atension between the geek and the "is it ready yet?" manager - but this can work out. It doesn't matter if the manager is a former geek him/herself as long as they know what their new role is.
I have programmed, managed and as of the momnent, I'm back programming (more programmer jobs than project managers) - so I have a good overview of both sides. Although they kicked me off into business analysis when they realised that I understood what we were trying to do.
You forgot to mention that it those same middle managers who couldn't manage their own staff are now mismanaging the outsourced projects.
What I hope is that techies are taking a lesson from Alan Cox, who is taking time off coding to do an MBA. Middle management have become too technically disconnected to be responsible for anything.
Perhaps things would be better if the mismanagement read "Learn $TECHNOLGY in 21 days". At least they might understand what is going on.
For motion more is definitely better. That is why motor drives were cool.
The word is bracketing. Half a dozen identical shots are useless but tweaking exposure 1/3 stop either way, can help considerably. Remember the metering system is looking for grey or something and it is usually at best a weighted average system.
In the film days I worked with 35mm Kodachrome-25 and 64. Lovely film but not much lattitude and no possiblity of cleanup later. My preferred camera bodies (Olympus OM-4) had a good metering system (spot, average-spot, field) - but sometimes it was inadequate because I needed to see the end result.
A rule of photography is to shoot as many as possible. One shot may be useful. With 10x8, this is the reverse direction from digital, being about the most expensive negatives around. Sure you can photo-edit these by hand but would you want to?
Um it aint going to do a lot if the perl instance runs under User-Mode Linux and in a chroot jail - effectively a poor man's VM with features enough for secure hosting. I looked for it on Windows, but unless I buy VMware, not such feature.
There are a lot more these days because there are a few thousand US soldiers out there now. I guess their relatives would know. Actually, for me this why the story doesn't ring true. I would have thought that the kid wiould have said Russia or China, not Uz.
It wouldn't work though because of the bandwidth going into the country and poor telecoms infrastructure.
In Uzbekistan, the best way to get music or movies is at the bazaar (Chorsu or Hippodrome), for about $2/CD. You do not file share, because the country doesn't have enough bandwidth and unless you are related to Karimov, forget about broadband at home. However, I approve of the kid's idea. A PWC accountant should approve of such a legislative avoidance move.
Bret Balonick, a tax accountant on loan from PricewaterhouseCoopers to teach the anti-piracy class, was arguing that some downloaders have been affected by malicious activity.
The difference between PWC and Andersen is that Andersen did it in the US. PWC did it in Russia and they got away with it (although they eventually lost their audit arrangement with the RCB. Frankly PWC, should be dismembered like Andersen.
If those thieves ever accuse my kids of stealing from the producers, I will quite happily tell them how much they conived in stealing fom the Russian people and the IMF.
Really, even the Winders people now have reasonable multiprocessing. The moment people have multiple visible windows open on the screen, that means that more than one process is active and can generate disk requests. I think you may find that single user, single machine, single transaction is kind of rare these days.
Unfortunaetly the link was buried, but if you check this fluff piece that was mentioned earlier, search for the chart showing the top ten investors, Microsoft is there anyway and so is Vulcan. Google or go to EDGAR and then you find out who is behind Vulcan.
We have no way of knowing whether Vulcan or Microsoft were in this particular deal, but it still smells.
Edison - inventor of the electric chair (an exceptionally painful and barbaric device even compared with the guillotine) and the public executioner of elephants whilst trying to promote DC against AC power.
It so happens that we know now that AC isn't the best for grids (synchronisation issues) but it is still the best for transmitting power at the local level. Edison was partially right, but he was at the least dishonest and morally deficient (although he would be considered good MBA material today). His presentation techniques owed more to Barnum and Bailey than that of a respectable businessman.
Wasn't it the Edison patents and the enforcers who forced the film-makers to Hollywood in the first place?
Pro shares for about 5 users unless it has been changed recently. It doesn't work with licensing, having a hard connection limit. It also lacks the management goodies.
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Remember that RMS started the GPL thing after he saw someone trying to sell back to the MIT AI Lab what he had written for the lab. This is a key point which should be respected in court. Torvalds doesn't have anything against commercial software -it's just that Linux isn't. RMS may not like closed source software but he fully supports commercial funding of open source projects or commercial style support.
IBM and the FSF have good lawyers. As long as they are clever, both Linus and Richard can put on a great show for open software and the GPL.
If this works on XP, (it depends on the disk management tools provided) there may still be activation issues. What I haven't done is to try and boot the split mirror.
Anyway, twenty years ago, you expected this as standard with an operating system. NTBackup will not make a copy of my system disk that I can restore. Not unless I install a second NT installation to use for backup/restore. NTBackup only works with savesets and can not be used for imaging.
As far as Russia was concerned, the DDR was important (and perhaps Gorbachev underestimated its symbolic value), but it was not considered core.
Also Russians are not an asian people. They have different values and the reason I prefer (which may not be the correct one) is that Gorbachev didn't wnat to see bloodshed (this looked considerably worse than Budapest or Prague). From interviews, it seems that Gorbachev was a communist, but very much a moderniser and principled.
I don't consider Regan to be particularly important, but Gorbachev was vital as in the end the decisions cam down to him. Honnecker was no reformer, and Krenz was ineffective. I hope history recognises Gorbachev's role as seldom has such a major decision come down to one man. Strang ely, he is more respected in the west. In the end he didn't reform fast enough and Boris Yeltsin came in.
It is interesting that none of these books that you show look look beyond that b-movie studio set of the Whitehouse. The real answers are to be found in Russia. There are plenty of historical texts which study the fall of the Soviet Union, but they look at where it actually happened. Moscow.
Actually, you can better blame the fall on the downing of flight KL007 and a young German who landed a private aircraft in red square in 1985.
Gorbachev wanted to modernize the economy but the military didn't want to give up power or their share of the budget. After KL007 and Mathias Rust landed in front of the Kremlin, he could turn around and question the very reasoning for the military.
Ironically, it was the reaction from those forces that Gorbachev fought down that instigated the Putsch in 91. This triggered the ascendancy of Yeltsin and the fall of the communist party.
Another important thing was the fall of the DDR. Gorbachev kept the tanks in the barracks when the east Germans started rioting. Honnecker was a hard-liner anyway and Gorbachev was not keen to support him. It is clear that a number of backroom deals were being done with the FRG (West German) government. As the wall was allowed to fall, support was triggerred from the Germans not only to support the conversion of the DDR, but also extensive support for the transformation of the SOviet Union into the commonwealth of independant states. Many look at Germany's current problems and forget the vast fortune paid by Kohl's government to support peaceful transition.
As you said, it was down to Regan not to screw up, but many others had already demonstrated that the west econmically more flexible and was militarily not a threat. This was in the end more important.
At the moment, if you come from a visa country, the hoops and extra costs associated even with an ordinary tourist visa, let alone a business visa or a study visa mean that you go somewhere else.
Hooray for the Splendid Isolationists, shame for everyone else and the jobs that the visitors represent.
For the accurate stuff, you buy data sets which consist of strings of 3d and 2d coords. These can be assembled into Digital Ground Models and are used by architects all the time.
Demolition charges used for sabotage in the last war were generally set up by a small tube containing a glass phial of acid. You crush the tube, the acid is released and it starts eating through a separator into the detonator. When it hits the detonator, bang.
Remember that idiot who tried to blow himself and a plane up with a bomb in his sports shoes. Again, very low tech. Unfortunately for him, it didn't self ignite.
The US is not under attack by anyone except a few very stupid saudis who were working for a guy who is directly associated with the Bush family.
There is no international governent, but there is a network of treaties that so far the current regime seems intent on abrogating.
What Bush has done is to setup very American citizen to be a target. Quite a few others as well may get hit as 'collateral damage'. Remember those that perpetrated the Bali bombing though that the tourists were American (most were Australian, but dead is dead).
The thing is that we are not talking about the US. We are talking about a few idiots, who happen to have bought or clawed their way into power. These are idiots and criminals (ask where Saddam got his Anthrax from). The economy is going down the tubes but the Nazi approach of "throw some forigners in a concentration camp and declare war on a minor country" still seems valid as a way of distracting the voters. Not that they really need to, Diebold seem to be doing their job though.
It is a pity that neither the real republicans nor the democratic party seem to want to call the whitehouse out.
In the case of NASA, there was a major communications problem between the engineers and their managemnent. The managers had only a cursory understanding of the technology and not enough to know that they were out of their field. A manager must be able to understand their direct reports but also be able to communicate at least one level beneath. This helps to ensure that the correct information is being passed onwards.
One of the single largest examples of poor management is when there is the lack of real coordination. In developer terms, I don't need a manager that knows how to program, but I need one to understand what a software development project is. However, having a manager that knows about the job and can communicate is an asset.
We know about managers who are essentially accountants - that is why we got Columbia and Challenger. I'm sorry, training in accounting is not a good background for management. They are the money techies and like engineers, they need to 'round-off' their education a little. For accountants in particular, ethics is a good place to start!!!!
I agree with you about the single-mindedness of geeks - but that is what the manager is for. Yes, there is atension between the geek and the "is it ready yet?" manager - but this can work out. It doesn't matter if the manager is a former geek him/herself as long as they know what their new role is.
I have programmed, managed and as of the momnent, I'm back programming (more programmer jobs than project managers) - so I have a good overview of both sides. Although they kicked me off into business analysis when they realised that I understood what we were trying to do.
What I hope is that techies are taking a lesson from Alan Cox, who is taking time off coding to do an MBA. Middle management have become too technically disconnected to be responsible for anything.
Perhaps things would be better if the mismanagement read "Learn $TECHNOLGY in 21 days". At least they might understand what is going on.
The word is bracketing. Half a dozen identical shots are useless but tweaking exposure 1/3 stop either way, can help considerably. Remember the metering system is looking for grey or something and it is usually at best a weighted average system.
In the film days I worked with 35mm Kodachrome-25 and 64. Lovely film but not much lattitude and no possiblity of cleanup later. My preferred camera bodies (Olympus OM-4) had a good metering system (spot, average-spot, field) - but sometimes it was inadequate because I needed to see the end result.
A rule of photography is to shoot as many as possible. One shot may be useful. With 10x8, this is the reverse direction from digital, being about the most expensive negatives around. Sure you can photo-edit these by hand but would you want to?
Um it aint going to do a lot if the perl instance runs under User-Mode Linux and in a chroot jail - effectively a poor man's VM with features enough for secure hosting. I looked for it on Windows, but unless I buy VMware, not such feature.
It wouldn't work though because of the bandwidth going into the country and poor telecoms infrastructure.
In Uzbekistan, the best way to get music or movies is at the bazaar (Chorsu or Hippodrome), for about $2/CD. You do not file share, because the country doesn't have enough bandwidth and unless you are related to Karimov, forget about broadband at home. However, I approve of the kid's idea. A PWC accountant should approve of such a legislative avoidance move.
The difference between PWC and Andersen is that Andersen did it in the US. PWC did it in Russia and they got away with it (although they eventually lost their audit arrangement with the RCB. Frankly PWC, should be dismembered like Andersen.
If those thieves ever accuse my kids of stealing from the producers, I will quite happily tell them how much they conived in stealing fom the Russian people and the IMF.
Usually simple calculators are allowed but forget anything sophisticated, as you may have a cheat sheet stored there!
Really, even the Winders people now have reasonable multiprocessing. The moment people have multiple visible windows open on the screen, that means that more than one process is active and can generate disk requests. I think you may find that single user, single machine, single transaction is kind of rare these days.
We have no way of knowing whether Vulcan or Microsoft were in this particular deal, but it still smells.
It so happens that we know now that AC isn't the best for grids (synchronisation issues) but it is still the best for transmitting power at the local level. Edison was partially right, but he was at the least dishonest and morally deficient (although he would be considered good MBA material today). His presentation techniques owed more to Barnum and Bailey than that of a respectable businessman.
Wasn't it the Edison patents and the enforcers who forced the film-makers to Hollywood in the first place?
Pro shares for about 5 users unless it has been changed recently. It doesn't work with licensing, having a hard connection limit. It also lacks the management goodies.