Anything that's not implemented correctly is a major security issue...
Even when implemented correctly it can still be a major security issue, it just becomes an even bigger one when not done correctly. Some ideas (ActiveX?) should just not ever be implemented and implementing them poorly is just asking for trouble.
...that when anyone buys a router, in 90% cases IPv6 routing is not available. Or at least disabled by default. I mean big ISP-grade routers, home routers, linux IPTables routing howtos, everything. Fix this first.
I can't speak for home routers but ISP-grade (Cisco 76xx and routing modules for 65xx series switches) devices support IPv6 and they have for a while. There are some minor issues with the implementation that CIsco is working to fix (nothing is perfect) but generally the IPv6 support has been there for a while, from Cisco at least. As far as Linux iptables, I just put together a hardened RHEL 5.1 image and ip6tables were there. I didn't test them yet but the infrastructure seemed to be there, again, that is just for RHEL. Paradoxically, IPv6 is on by default in Vista and OS X, albeit the link local IP addresses. Search for "fe80::/10" at this link. They are equivalent to MS's IPv4 169.254.xxx.xxx addresses.
are better off given that many, many ads are now created in Flash and of course not having the plug-in means you don't have to see the annoying video ads. Of course, with the FF plug-in you can selectively turn Flash off on a site-by-site basis. I personally don't like Flash so I don't miss it.
The company doesn't treat you like a disposable commodity (lay offs and firings are extremely rare) and in return most of the employees respect the wishes of their employer and do things "for the good of the company" rather than just walking away for greener pastures.
I think that is because it is pointless to fire/lay off someone who has killed himself for disgracing his family.
It helps if you don't subscribe to relativistic morality to understand this.
Well that rules out 99.9% of the U.S. population. You'll lose them (either through disagreement or outright confusion) after requiring them to have a set of morals with an origin higher than human. I hope that percentage changes for the better but there is only so much time before the apocalypse.
We live in a wonderful world when we have to resort to calling "irritation directed at an ethnic group" racism. I remember when "racist" was a much stronger word.
That's the progressive movement for you. Taking a word that used to mean something really bad and now it just is used to push an agenda for white people on behalf of the Mexicans.
I'm inclined to want this country to stay a "beacon of liberty". I don't want to view immigrants as a threat to my job and way of life - I view them as raw material, much like my own (Irish) immigrant ancestors who went through the exact same things.
Remember, there is nothing wrong with legal immigrants. It is the illegal ones who can afford lower wages because they don't have to pay taxes (local, state, federa, FICA) or insurance out of their pay check. If they had to pay those things like *everyone* else then they would see that the money they have left from those low wages really isn't enough to survive and they would demand more, maybe even something on par with what the job used to pay to someone who speaks English.
However, simply labeling someone racist isn't an argument. For that matter, I don't believe he is a "racist" - that's abusing a buzzword, and betrays it's full meaning. He would be better labeled as a xenophobe - it's not the hispanic race or the indian race he's railing against, it's the fact that they are from another country, another culture. That's not racism. Saying he is as bad as a true racist is no different from saying a racist is no worse than a radical isolationist.
Unfortunately it isn't meant to be an argument. Keep in mind I'm not directly referring to the OP for everything I say here. Calling someone racist is just meant to be a cop-out for people who don't know how to debate the issue properly, maybe because they know they have nothing to stand on for their side of the debate. Calling someone a racist or saying "hatred has no place in America" is just a way to villify those who believe in enforcing the laws of the Land. However, it isn't xenophobia either. It's an issue of right and wrong, legal vs illegal. Many Americans aren't against others coming into this country as long as it is done legally so that those who come here are made to pull their own weight instead of getting a free ride (i.e. no taxes being paid) while those who have always been here have to pay extra taxes in order to make up for those who don't. Saying someone shouldn't be here illegally and calling it xenophobia is as bad as someone calling it racism. It is neither. I'm not saying there aren't people who just don't like Mexicans but in reality, for the majority, the nationality doesn't matter if the people are coming here illegally to stay and getting a free ride. The problem is the method, not the person, and the fact the U.S. government won't enforce its own laws.
Let them come, like they always have. The culture of the US, for better or for worse, is immigrant to it's core - and ALWAYS has been.
Let them come *legally*. If you want to live here then you have to accept our laws and our language. You have to be willing to be assimilated. I agree with you that our culture is immigrant to its core but we don't run an anarchy here either. There are rules to follow. There is no excuse for people from another country not having to follow them.
I think it would interesting to see what the world would be like if all the state and federal workers were fired. Would things be better or worse? Would the economy collapse or enter a boom when the tax burden disappeared and we got the free markets the conservatives keep saying will solve all problems.
Look at Afghanistan for your answer as to what would happen. Whether things should go wrong is a different story but just as the "market" can cause landslides and sky high increases in stocks and commodity prices on a whim, the market can also make the economy tank if the government were to disappear because they think the gov't is needed. It would be a self-fulfilling prophecy really. And if ours does that then other economies suffer too. If you don't believe that then you must not have paid attention to world economies the last few months when they suffered just because the U.S. economy suffered due to the heavy reliance between them and us. We have the highest GDP in the world.
It's about time that cell phone companies introduce per second billing, but this is not going to happen anytime soon as it is a major part of their business... and fat profits. SB
You say that like it is a good thing. Why can't cell carriers charge the same way land-line carriers charge, as in, not by time (unless the call is long distance)? In this day and age we shouldn't have to keep counting our minutes on our cell phone nor should we have to sign contracts but that is not going to happen anytime soon as it is a major part of their business...and fat profits.
But this isn't a universal forum. USENET encompassed any topic and was the most widely read set of forums. If you wanted an answer to a complicated technical question, it was the best place to go.
It still is because, as you state, many web forums require registration (free or non-free). Many others are just duplicates of each other which just adds to the noise. I do try ot find stuff on Google (which can lead to a web forum many times) first but I know that in the end I can always go to a newsgroup to get help. A newsgroup is also useful for describing a problem especially when you don't know exactly the best search terms to use to make a Google search useful.
Some groups are more prone to spam than others. The Java groups have been hit pretty hard the last few months with spam. It didn't used to be like that as recently as last year. Although TimeWarner no longer provides me newsgroup service for free I just have to pay to get a feed now because it is worth it to me. I just hate the fact I have to pay when I'm paying the same to TW but not getting news service now. There may be no replacement for usenet but for the foreseeable future we don't have to worry about that.
While it might be a pretty modern front end to usenet it doesn't help the fact that the back end feed is slowly being strangled by spam, and now legislation.
The same can be said for another component of the Internet: e-mail.
www.usenet-access.com. They are 6 bucks a month and you get 2 GB per day. An unholy shitload of groups with the retention from hell. I've been able to snag stuff going back almost 2 years. I know they are a reseller for someone, I just don't know who. I've been using them for almost 6 years and never had issues with them at all.
Possible issues are, well 2 Gb per day but hell that an average of 60 GB per month. And you can only have 3 simultaneous connections but hell they are only 6 bucks a month.
I started paying $15/mo to NewsHosting after TimeWarner dropped news service. I get 8 connections, 80 day retention, and unlimited downloads. The unlimited downloads did it for me since 60GB is useless to me. For July I downloaded over 100 GB. It's at least $7 cheaper than the best unlimited package from GigaNews. I don't need more than a month or so of retention and 8 connections is plenty. I use probably 4 at most. If you don't download binaries then, yeah, 2GB/day is plenty.
The US has some of the most stringent laws amongst western nations for limiting alcohol access to young adults. You can be taxed, vote, fuck and die for your country, but you can't drink beer until you're 21. Yet, amongst its peers, it ranks close to the top in terms of alcohol abuse and related activities like drink driving.
That may be because American teenagers are irresponsible asswipes and trying to minimize alcohol use helps us protect society as a whole from said teenagers. Being taxed, voting, f*cking, and dying only affects the individual taking part in those activities. Drinking and driving on the other hand can cause more people to die than just the person who was drinking.
Similar hypocricy abounds in other spheres of life. The 'most free' nation in the developed world, yet a higher fraction of its population imprisoned than anywhere else. Abstinence only, but the highest rates of teenage pregnancy.
Without laws there is chaos. You don't say where you are from so you obviously must live in a country with no freedom at all and feel you must complain about us to make your own country look at least a little better in some small way. I'm sure your country has laws that someone else may find equally idiotic but we conveniently can't comment on that since you didn't mention your nationality.
All of these are symptomatic of the US's prohibitionist approach to life -- a trait that can be traced all the way back to the pilgrims, who fled England not to be free from religious persecution, but so that they could themselves persecute without interference.
Orrrr.......they are symptomatic of a country whose religious foundation has eroded away over the decades such that it is more desired by society as a whole to teach kids how to have sex, to advertise sex in every imaginable way using teenagers, and teach them about Islam in schools than it is to teach them about Christianity, how to respect others instead of killing them, and to not act like a slut by age 15.
Seems you either have issues with the United States providing more freedom than your own country (which you neglected to mention in your rant about us) or you just have issues with Christians and feel that the U.S. is failing because of their sheer existence rather than their decreasing visibility and influence in American society. You failed to mention the correlation between the latter and the U.S's current situation.
Considering fewer Americans every year believe that homosexuality is sin, that abortion is wrong, that religion is important, and that proper parenting (setting rules for children to follow, keeping a watchful eye on them, caring for them, and an even distribution of male/female organs) is important, it is hard to imagine there are people like you who think that the laws of this nation are actually causing our downfall. You obviously haven't looked at the situation entirely. Maybe you have biases that prevent you from doing so?
I've stopped drinking pop (soda), at least most of the time. I still go to fast food restaurants sometimes but I've tried to take my lunch to work. When I do go to a fast food restaurant I will get pepsi to drink or if I go out on weekends I'll do the same but I try to make it a special occasion so I cut down on the carbs. I can keep 5 pounds off just by sticking to water. I try to drink water now as much as I can especially at work with my lunch. I haven't changed my diet totally yet but I'm working on that.
As far as my workout, I used to do just weight machines but I started to use the treadmill too. On the treadmill I started by walking for 20 min then I gradually worked my endurance up so that now I can run 25 minutes straight at 6mph (that's over a 4 month period of building endurance). Not record breaking but it burns about 350 calories and if your daily intake is low and you are building muscle (which burns more calories than fat) then your overall caloric intake may end up being negative. I read that having a negative caloric intake of 1000 calories burns 1 pound of fat over any time period. Keep that in mind if you are running the numbers.
It helps to do a workout everyday, at least for cardio, but for weight training you need a good day's rest. I think the secret is changing your diet to more protein and less carbs if you haven't already. Some diets recommend 25 carbs per meal with 3 meals and 3 snacks a day. If you already are okay in that area then as soon as you start working out and/or doing cardio workouts then you are sure to lose weight, possibly a few pounds a week depending on how much you push yourself.
But what about employees who do legitimate selects from these databases and then load CSV files and other text files onto their laptops and PDAs?
Maybe someone should teach them how to implement views in their DB so that it cuts down on just how many people can do 'selects' to query the DB for sensitive information.
Pay your employees enough to make protecting your company's data on their computers/PDAs worthwhile.
You can only pay employees so much and it will probably never be able to match what organized crime would pay someone to steal the data. That's where background checks on all employees helps but still not guarantee that you can trust your employees.
iESX is for server-class use of virtual machines. VMWare Player is for the private consumer to use virtual machines, specificallly ones created by VMWare Workstation or Server. iESX is a Hypervisor which runs right on top of the hardware just like an operating system. It gives the ability for operating systems in a virtual machine to run closer to the hardware without the need for a host OS. You pay a lot for this capability which is why it is for enterprise-class customers. I haven't paid attention to MS Virtual PC for a while but the last time I looked at it it was just on par with VMWare Workstation, in other words, it isn't for the enterprise per se. I believe MS was eventually planning for cluster support for it but don't know if that ever came to fruition. In general, VMWare is just more polished than the open source options but that is to be expected.
by large segments of the population. Immature bullshit like this. You have a point, you can advertise it on your web site, but grow the fuck up. Doing shit like this will only turn people AWAY from your message.
Says someone who talks like a high school boy showing off to his friends how many curse words he can use in a single sentence.
I get the impression that open source projects are a bit slow on the uptake here?
Open source isn't alone in this regard. Many closed source applications also lag behind. Obviously there are exceptions but many apps just haven't caught up to multi-cores, whether that be just 2 (which is ancient tech by now) or 8 cores in a single system.
Had one of my new guys yesterday wanting to push a change. "I'll tell you what it does," he said. "Don't bother," I said, "if what it's doing is not obvious, it's not going anywhere."
Just because he was offering to tell you doesn't mean it wasn't obvious. He was probably saving time, especially if you interrupted him, to let you know that it wasn't an intrusive change and, instead of you taking the time to analyze it yourself, he was just going to tell you.
On RoadRunner's website they state that they dropped usenet access because of low customer demand. Supposedly some other ISPs only dropped certain groups (alt.binaries.*) but RR just stopped providing usenet service altogether. They used to have their own servers until around November of 2006 and then they outsourced their service to NewsHosting. Then of course in June they stopped that as well. Given that when I would call tech support when I had issues with the usenet service and none of the techs knew what I was talking about (I used both 'usenet' and 'newsgroups' terms when calling) or wouldn't know anything about it but knew what it was, it doesn't surprise me if demand was actually really low and it just wasn't worth it to keep paying NewsHosting for the service.
I ended up signing up with NewsHosting instead of Giganews because NewsHosting had recently changed their plans around to offer 8 connections with 80 day retention and unlimited downloads for only $14.95 a month which was must cheaper than Giganews (I was aiming for an unlimited account). Luckily I can still stick it to RR since all my downloads still have to go through their pipes.
At least we still have these 3rd party news services. Hopefully they will not ever cave to SIGs who want to stop usenet just because a few groups contain child pornography. We may as well disable TCP/IP on all routers because it is the transport mechanism for digital child pornography.
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Anything that's not implemented correctly is a major security issue...
Even when implemented correctly it can still be a major security issue, it just becomes an even bigger one when not done correctly. Some ideas (ActiveX?) should just not ever be implemented and implementing them poorly is just asking for trouble.
A larger OS will of course use more resources.
I don't think anyone disputes that. The problem is that MS made a bigger OS and doesn't have much to show for it.
we can wake Windows remotely. This seems like a major security issue if not implemented correctly.
...that when anyone buys a router, in 90% cases IPv6 routing is not available. Or at least disabled by default. I mean big ISP-grade routers, home routers, linux IPTables routing howtos, everything. Fix this first.
I can't speak for home routers but ISP-grade (Cisco 76xx and routing modules for 65xx series switches) devices support IPv6 and they have for a while. There are some minor issues with the implementation that CIsco is working to fix (nothing is perfect) but generally the IPv6 support has been there for a while, from Cisco at least. As far as Linux iptables, I just put together a hardened RHEL 5.1 image and ip6tables were there. I didn't test them yet but the infrastructure seemed to be there, again, that is just for RHEL. Paradoxically, IPv6 is on by default in Vista and OS X, albeit the link local IP addresses. Search for "fe80::/10" at this link. They are equivalent to MS's IPv4 169.254.xxx.xxx addresses.
are better off given that many, many ads are now created in Flash and of course not having the plug-in means you don't have to see the annoying video ads. Of course, with the FF plug-in you can selectively turn Flash off on a site-by-site basis. I personally don't like Flash so I don't miss it.
The company doesn't treat you like a disposable commodity (lay offs and firings are extremely rare) and in return most of the employees respect the wishes of their employer and do things "for the good of the company" rather than just walking away for greener pastures.
I think that is because it is pointless to fire/lay off someone who has killed himself for disgracing his family.
It helps if you don't subscribe to relativistic morality to understand this.
Well that rules out 99.9% of the U.S. population. You'll lose them (either through disagreement or outright confusion) after requiring them to have a set of morals with an origin higher than human. I hope that percentage changes for the better but there is only so much time before the apocalypse.
We live in a wonderful world when we have to resort to calling "irritation directed at an ethnic group" racism. I remember when "racist" was a much stronger word.
That's the progressive movement for you. Taking a word that used to mean something really bad and now it just is used to push an agenda for white people on behalf of the Mexicans.
I'm inclined to want this country to stay a "beacon of liberty". I don't want to view immigrants as a threat to my job and way of life - I view them as raw material, much like my own (Irish) immigrant ancestors who went through the exact same things.
Remember, there is nothing wrong with legal immigrants. It is the illegal ones who can afford lower wages because they don't have to pay taxes (local, state, federa, FICA) or insurance out of their pay check. If they had to pay those things like *everyone* else then they would see that the money they have left from those low wages really isn't enough to survive and they would demand more, maybe even something on par with what the job used to pay to someone who speaks English.
However, simply labeling someone racist isn't an argument. For that matter, I don't believe he is a "racist" - that's abusing a buzzword, and betrays it's full meaning. He would be better labeled as a xenophobe - it's not the hispanic race or the indian race he's railing against, it's the fact that they are from another country, another culture. That's not racism. Saying he is as bad as a true racist is no different from saying a racist is no worse than a radical isolationist.
Unfortunately it isn't meant to be an argument. Keep in mind I'm not directly referring to the OP for everything I say here. Calling someone racist is just meant to be a cop-out for people who don't know how to debate the issue properly, maybe because they know they have nothing to stand on for their side of the debate. Calling someone a racist or saying "hatred has no place in America" is just a way to villify those who believe in enforcing the laws of the Land. However, it isn't xenophobia either. It's an issue of right and wrong, legal vs illegal. Many Americans aren't against others coming into this country as long as it is done legally so that those who come here are made to pull their own weight instead of getting a free ride (i.e. no taxes being paid) while those who have always been here have to pay extra taxes in order to make up for those who don't. Saying someone shouldn't be here illegally and calling it xenophobia is as bad as someone calling it racism. It is neither. I'm not saying there aren't people who just don't like Mexicans but in reality, for the majority, the nationality doesn't matter if the people are coming here illegally to stay and getting a free ride. The problem is the method, not the person, and the fact the U.S. government won't enforce its own laws.
Let them come, like they always have. The culture of the US, for better or for worse, is immigrant to it's core - and ALWAYS has been.
Let them come *legally*. If you want to live here then you have to accept our laws and our language. You have to be willing to be assimilated. I agree with you that our culture is immigrant to its core but we don't run an anarchy here either. There are rules to follow. There is no excuse for people from another country not having to follow them.
I think it would interesting to see what the world would be like if all the state and federal workers were fired. Would things be better or worse? Would the economy collapse or enter a boom when the tax burden disappeared and we got the free markets the conservatives keep saying will solve all problems.
Look at Afghanistan for your answer as to what would happen. Whether things should go wrong is a different story but just as the "market" can cause landslides and sky high increases in stocks and commodity prices on a whim, the market can also make the economy tank if the government were to disappear because they think the gov't is needed. It would be a self-fulfilling prophecy really. And if ours does that then other economies suffer too. If you don't believe that then you must not have paid attention to world economies the last few months when they suffered just because the U.S. economy suffered due to the heavy reliance between them and us. We have the highest GDP in the world.
2) Open source projects don't innovate and instead mimic Microsoft's products.
They must think they invented tabbed browsing so as to not have to admit they aren't able to innovate enough to have thought of the idea on their own.
It's about time that cell phone companies introduce per second billing, but this is not going to happen anytime soon as it is a major part of their business... and fat profits. SB
You say that like it is a good thing. Why can't cell carriers charge the same way land-line carriers charge, as in, not by time (unless the call is long distance)? In this day and age we shouldn't have to keep counting our minutes on our cell phone nor should we have to sign contracts but that is not going to happen anytime soon as it is a major part of their business...and fat profits.
Err no. MS doesn't usually make their code publicly available. I wonder where you saw it..
MS made some of their Windows code available to MSDN members a while back under a specific license.
But this isn't a universal forum. USENET encompassed any topic and was the most widely read set of forums. If you wanted an answer to a complicated technical question, it was the best place to go.
It still is because, as you state, many web forums require registration (free or non-free). Many others are just duplicates of each other which just adds to the noise. I do try ot find stuff on Google (which can lead to a web forum many times) first but I know that in the end I can always go to a newsgroup to get help. A newsgroup is also useful for describing a problem especially when you don't know exactly the best search terms to use to make a Google search useful.
Some groups are more prone to spam than others. The Java groups have been hit pretty hard the last few months with spam. It didn't used to be like that as recently as last year. Although TimeWarner no longer provides me newsgroup service for free I just have to pay to get a feed now because it is worth it to me. I just hate the fact I have to pay when I'm paying the same to TW but not getting news service now. There may be no replacement for usenet but for the foreseeable future we don't have to worry about that.
While it might be a pretty modern front end to usenet it doesn't help the fact that the back end feed is slowly being strangled by spam, and now legislation.
The same can be said for another component of the Internet: e-mail.
www.usenet-access.com. They are 6 bucks a month and you get 2 GB per day. An unholy shitload of groups with the retention from hell. I've been able to snag stuff going back almost 2 years. I know they are a reseller for someone, I just don't know who. I've been using them for almost 6 years and never had issues with them at all. Possible issues are, well 2 Gb per day but hell that an average of 60 GB per month. And you can only have 3 simultaneous connections but hell they are only 6 bucks a month.
I started paying $15/mo to NewsHosting after TimeWarner dropped news service. I get 8 connections, 80 day retention, and unlimited downloads. The unlimited downloads did it for me since 60GB is useless to me. For July I downloaded over 100 GB. It's at least $7 cheaper than the best unlimited package from GigaNews. I don't need more than a month or so of retention and 8 connections is plenty. I use probably 4 at most. If you don't download binaries then, yeah, 2GB/day is plenty.
The US has some of the most stringent laws amongst western nations for limiting alcohol access to young adults. You can be taxed, vote, fuck and die for your country, but you can't drink beer until you're 21. Yet, amongst its peers, it ranks close to the top in terms of alcohol abuse and related activities like drink driving.
That may be because American teenagers are irresponsible asswipes and trying to minimize alcohol use helps us protect society as a whole from said teenagers. Being taxed, voting, f*cking, and dying only affects the individual taking part in those activities. Drinking and driving on the other hand can cause more people to die than just the person who was drinking.
Similar hypocricy abounds in other spheres of life. The 'most free' nation in the developed world, yet a higher fraction of its population imprisoned than anywhere else. Abstinence only, but the highest rates of teenage pregnancy.
Without laws there is chaos. You don't say where you are from so you obviously must live in a country with no freedom at all and feel you must complain about us to make your own country look at least a little better in some small way. I'm sure your country has laws that someone else may find equally idiotic but we conveniently can't comment on that since you didn't mention your nationality.
All of these are symptomatic of the US's prohibitionist approach to life -- a trait that can be traced all the way back to the pilgrims, who fled England not to be free from religious persecution, but so that they could themselves persecute without interference.
Orrrr.......they are symptomatic of a country whose religious foundation has eroded away over the decades such that it is more desired by society as a whole to teach kids how to have sex, to advertise sex in every imaginable way using teenagers, and teach them about Islam in schools than it is to teach them about Christianity, how to respect others instead of killing them, and to not act like a slut by age 15.
Seems you either have issues with the United States providing more freedom than your own country (which you neglected to mention in your rant about us) or you just have issues with Christians and feel that the U.S. is failing because of their sheer existence rather than their decreasing visibility and influence in American society. You failed to mention the correlation between the latter and the U.S's current situation.
Considering fewer Americans every year believe that homosexuality is sin, that abortion is wrong, that religion is important, and that proper parenting (setting rules for children to follow, keeping a watchful eye on them, caring for them, and an even distribution of male/female organs) is important, it is hard to imagine there are people like you who think that the laws of this nation are actually causing our downfall. You obviously haven't looked at the situation entirely. Maybe you have biases that prevent you from doing so?
nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=2 -a GlyphCache=1
Using this trick, resize becomes snappy.
*Slaps forehead* Doh! Of course. I'm curious...where did you find that?
I've stopped drinking pop (soda), at least most of the time. I still go to fast food restaurants sometimes but I've tried to take my lunch to work. When I do go to a fast food restaurant I will get pepsi to drink or if I go out on weekends I'll do the same but I try to make it a special occasion so I cut down on the carbs. I can keep 5 pounds off just by sticking to water. I try to drink water now as much as I can especially at work with my lunch. I haven't changed my diet totally yet but I'm working on that.
As far as my workout, I used to do just weight machines but I started to use the treadmill too. On the treadmill I started by walking for 20 min then I gradually worked my endurance up so that now I can run 25 minutes straight at 6mph (that's over a 4 month period of building endurance). Not record breaking but it burns about 350 calories and if your daily intake is low and you are building muscle (which burns more calories than fat) then your overall caloric intake may end up being negative. I read that having a negative caloric intake of 1000 calories burns 1 pound of fat over any time period. Keep that in mind if you are running the numbers.
It helps to do a workout everyday, at least for cardio, but for weight training you need a good day's rest. I think the secret is changing your diet to more protein and less carbs if you haven't already. Some diets recommend 25 carbs per meal with 3 meals and 3 snacks a day. If you already are okay in that area then as soon as you start working out and/or doing cardio workouts then you are sure to lose weight, possibly a few pounds a week depending on how much you push yourself.
But what about employees who do legitimate selects from these databases and then load CSV files and other text files onto their laptops and PDAs?
Maybe someone should teach them how to implement views in their DB so that it cuts down on just how many people can do 'selects' to query the DB for sensitive information.
Pay your employees enough to make protecting your company's data on their computers/PDAs worthwhile.
You can only pay employees so much and it will probably never be able to match what organized crime would pay someone to steal the data. That's where background checks on all employees helps but still not guarantee that you can trust your employees.
iESX is for server-class use of virtual machines. VMWare Player is for the private consumer to use virtual machines, specificallly ones created by VMWare Workstation or Server. iESX is a Hypervisor which runs right on top of the hardware just like an operating system. It gives the ability for operating systems in a virtual machine to run closer to the hardware without the need for a host OS. You pay a lot for this capability which is why it is for enterprise-class customers. I haven't paid attention to MS Virtual PC for a while but the last time I looked at it it was just on par with VMWare Workstation, in other words, it isn't for the enterprise per se. I believe MS was eventually planning for cluster support for it but don't know if that ever came to fruition. In general, VMWare is just more polished than the open source options but that is to be expected.
by large segments of the population. Immature bullshit like this. You have a point, you can advertise it on your web site, but grow the fuck up. Doing shit like this will only turn people AWAY from your message.
Says someone who talks like a high school boy showing off to his friends how many curse words he can use in a single sentence.
I get the impression that open source projects are a bit slow on the uptake here?
Open source isn't alone in this regard. Many closed source applications also lag behind. Obviously there are exceptions but many apps just haven't caught up to multi-cores, whether that be just 2 (which is ancient tech by now) or 8 cores in a single system.
Had one of my new guys yesterday wanting to push a change. "I'll tell you what it does," he said. "Don't bother," I said, "if what it's doing is not obvious, it's not going anywhere."
Just because he was offering to tell you doesn't mean it wasn't obvious. He was probably saving time, especially if you interrupted him, to let you know that it wasn't an intrusive change and, instead of you taking the time to analyze it yourself, he was just going to tell you.
On RoadRunner's website they state that they dropped usenet access because of low customer demand. Supposedly some other ISPs only dropped certain groups (alt.binaries.*) but RR just stopped providing usenet service altogether. They used to have their own servers until around November of 2006 and then they outsourced their service to NewsHosting. Then of course in June they stopped that as well. Given that when I would call tech support when I had issues with the usenet service and none of the techs knew what I was talking about (I used both 'usenet' and 'newsgroups' terms when calling) or wouldn't know anything about it but knew what it was, it doesn't surprise me if demand was actually really low and it just wasn't worth it to keep paying NewsHosting for the service.
I ended up signing up with NewsHosting instead of Giganews because NewsHosting had recently changed their plans around to offer 8 connections with 80 day retention and unlimited downloads for only $14.95 a month which was must cheaper than Giganews (I was aiming for an unlimited account). Luckily I can still stick it to RR since all my downloads still have to go through their pipes.
At least we still have these 3rd party news services. Hopefully they will not ever cave to SIGs who want to stop usenet just because a few groups contain child pornography. We may as well disable TCP/IP on all routers because it is the transport mechanism for digital child pornography.