Urchin.com had at one time extensive online docs, including a very good searchable knowledge base. IIRC most of these docs vanished shortly after the acquisition.
I too am happy this is getting some attention, as management needs to be reminded from time to time that no company is infallible. Even Google.
Wow, since this guy is a computer science prof, maybe he can come up with some value or symbol to represent "nullity." I suggest "NaN" for "not a number."
(ducks to avoid rotten tomatoes)
Patrick Ricciardi, the city's information technology officer, who took over at the garage after Robotics left, said codes used to operate several dozen components were inexplicably changed overnight.
Workers then had to manually reassign numbers to each module because Robotics did not leave a manual behind.
"This is usually done through the computer, but since we don't have a manual, we can't do it that way," Ricciardi said.
Dennis Clarke, general manager of Robotics, said the city has no right to an operating manual.
"If you own the copyright, you have a right to use it," Clarke said. "They are not entitled to our source codes. This is very critical proprietary information covered under contract law and intellectual properties."
Hmmm, sounds like someone has been taking lessons from Darl McBride...
When the 916 Garden St. Garage - a unique automatic facility - opened in Oct. 2002, it was years late and already millions of dollars over budget.
Problems during construction created deeply embedded professional, legal, and personal animosity between the city and Robotic Parking. The city blamed Robotic for the delays, while Robotic blamed the city and another contractor.
Since the opening, there have been highly publicized problems at the garage. Two vehicles were totaled after they fell inside the garage. In October, 2005, Corea posted a letter to patrons warning that if they decide to keep using the automated garage, they would "have to accept the fact that there may be many future delays."
Robotic counters that Corea is overstating any malfunctions as part of a smear campaign against Robotic. Clarke said that the garage has a "reliability rating of 99.99 percent" and that the garage had been down less than total of 30 hours since it has opened....
The HPU's current contract with Robotic Parking is $23,250. Corea told the council that on June 22, Robotic officials made a demand to increase the fee to $27,900 per month, which the City Council has said that it will not accept. Robotic contended that a $4,650 is a reasonable moderate monthly increase.
I guess 99.99% reliability means only one in 10,000 cars gets totaled.
TFA doesn't mention it, but other media reports have stated that the employer tried to cut Abdala's starting salary *after* she had accepted the job offer.
And so far no one has said that forwarding a private e-mail exchange doesn't reflect well on a CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY -- a person who is expected to exercise great discretion with other people's private communications.
Abdala arguably committed gross errors of form, but IMO everyone overlooks the substantial errors of substance that were made by other parties.
Close... Google for "Sil m15w" and you should find a series of 2.6 kernel patches by Tejun Heo...
The patch improves disk I/O quite a bit, but I still wouldn't want to use that setup in production. If you have some extra bucks lying around, just get some newer drives.
Coincidentally I was browsing an ad-heavy lyrics site in another tab (Firefox, of course) and was prompted for an action to handle "track5.wmf"... Geez, they don't waste any time, do they?
In all fairness to both old and new SCO, both the unsealed e-mail and a previous Groklaw article linked from TFA suggests the code comparison was done by Old SCO (Santa Cruz Operation), possibly as long ago as 1999.
P.S. Those who know me can vouch for the purity of my pro-Linux, anti-SCO credentials, which contain nothing but barley, yeast, hops and water.
Yet another zero-day exploit released as a publicity stunt by a so-called security consulting firm... the scourge of legitimate information-security professionals.
FrSIRT calls itself "a leading security research organisation employing an international team of Internet security experts to provide an outsourced, Web-based approach to securing a company's cyberspace." Pure marketspeak.
CmdrTaco et al please note that techcentralstation.com is run by a Beltway lobbying firm, DCI Group LLC, and is the sort of site that some might characterize as "astroturf." From DCIGroup.com:
DCI Group is a full-service public and government affairs firm comprised of more than 150 veterans of federal and state politics and public policy. We offer a full suite of public affairs services, including:
Corporate Grassroots Campaigns
Federal and State Lobbying
Corporate Outsourcing
Political Campaign Management
Public Relations
Internet Communications and Mobilization
Issue Management
Public Policy Events
Targeted Research & Planning
Not that I'm a rock-throwing anarchist or anything, but what the heck are "Corporate Grassroots Campaigns"?!?!?!?!?
A few years back I hosted a party, complete with cake, when one of the mail servers at work hit 365 days of uptime. Unfortunately I couldn't talk anyone into singing "Happy Birthday."
(Sad to say, later that week one of the other guys bumped that machine's power cord while working in the server room. Someday I may forgive him.)
I remember a similar but even more explicit "Joe Job" e-mail to a journalism mailing list back in the mid-'90s, complete with name, RL street address and phone number. List subscribers (mostly working journalists or academics) called every law enforcement agency in sight, and IIRC at least one person claimed to have gone to the address. (!)
Eventually someone figured out that it was a hoax. (Eventually.) I can only imagine that the average person would be almost as credulous as a crowd of professional journalists.
I've been running a 3-4 node MySQL 3.23.x cluster on Slowlaris 9 since January. It has survived several catastrophic power outages and numerous other insults without a hiccup. Load is fairly light (about 3,000 updates daily and a similar number of queries on each server) so YMMV.
They'll have to disclose it before court anyway.
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If I'm not mistaken both parties will be required to disclose their evidence *before* court during the discovery process.
To me SCO's statements about revealing their evidence only "in a court setting" sound as clueless as they are belligerent. Perhaps SCO's backers dream at night of David Boies confronting Samuel Palmisano with a stack of greenbar paper in some Salt Lake City courtroom, badgering him with: "How do you explain these diff files?!?!?!?" If so they should cut down on the TV.
While I'm grateful to the Associated Press for picking up this story and running with it, I find nothing in any of their coverage that credits "J. Edgar Hoover," Bugtraq, SecurityFocus.com or Slashdot.
Just "The Associated Press reported Tuesday..." or "In response to the AP's coverage..."
As a former journalist, this bothers me. There's nothing wrong with scanning message boards, listservs, etc. for tips, but credit should go where credit is due.
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Urchin.com had at one time extensive online docs, including a very good searchable knowledge base. IIRC most of these docs vanished shortly after the acquisition.
I too am happy this is getting some attention, as management needs to be reminded from time to time that no company is infallible. Even Google.
Mod up for being specific.
Wow, since this guy is a computer science prof, maybe he can come up with some value or symbol to represent "nullity." I suggest "NaN" for "not a number." (ducks to avoid rotten tomatoes)
From http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/ne ws-0/1154154297217660.xml&coll=3
Hmmm, sounds like someone has been taking lessons from Darl McBride ...
And from http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=12 91&dept_id=523585&newsid=16980856&PAG=461&rfi=9
I guess 99.99% reliability means only one in 10,000 cars gets totaled.
Quite a few registrars seem to use one of several mail drops in New York City.
TFA doesn't mention it, but other media reports have stated that the employer tried to cut Abdala's starting salary *after* she had accepted the job offer.
See, for example, http://www.masslaw.com/break021506.cfm
And so far no one has said that forwarding a private e-mail exchange doesn't reflect well on a CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY -- a person who is expected to exercise great discretion with other people's private communications.
Abdala arguably committed gross errors of form, but IMO everyone overlooks the substantial errors of substance that were made by other parties.
Close ... Google for "Sil m15w" and you should find a series of 2.6 kernel patches by Tejun Heo ...
The patch improves disk I/O quite a bit, but I still wouldn't want to use that setup in production. If you have some extra bucks lying around, just get some newer drives.
Coincidentally I was browsing an ad-heavy lyrics site in another tab (Firefox, of course) and was prompted for an action to handle "track5.wmf" ... Geez, they don't waste any time, do they?
In all fairness to both old and new SCO, both the unsealed e-mail and a previous Groklaw article linked from TFA suggests the code comparison was done by Old SCO (Santa Cruz Operation), possibly as long ago as 1999.
P.S. Those who know me can vouch for the purity of my pro-Linux, anti-SCO credentials, which contain nothing but barley, yeast, hops and water.
Yet another zero-day exploit released as a publicity stunt by a so-called security consulting firm ... the scourge of legitimate information-security professionals.
FrSIRT calls itself "a leading security research organisation employing an international team of Internet security experts to provide an outsourced, Web-based approach to securing a company's cyberspace." Pure marketspeak.
CmdrTaco et al please note that techcentralstation.com is run by a Beltway lobbying firm, DCI Group LLC, and is the sort of site that some might characterize as "astroturf." From DCIGroup.com:
Not that I'm a rock-throwing anarchist or anything, but what the heck are "Corporate Grassroots Campaigns"?!?!?!?!?
A few years back I hosted a party, complete with cake, when one of the mail servers at work hit 365 days of uptime. Unfortunately I couldn't talk anyone into singing "Happy Birthday."
(Sad to say, later that week one of the other guys bumped that machine's power cord while working in the server room. Someday I may forgive him.)
I remember a similar but even more explicit "Joe Job" e-mail to a journalism mailing list back in the mid-'90s, complete with name, RL street address and phone number. List subscribers (mostly working journalists or academics) called every law enforcement agency in sight, and IIRC at least one person claimed to have gone to the address. (!)
Eventually someone figured out that it was a hoax. (Eventually.) I can only imagine that the average person would be almost as credulous as a crowd of professional journalists.
I've been running a 3-4 node MySQL 3.23.x cluster on Slowlaris 9 since January. It has survived several catastrophic power outages and numerous other insults without a hiccup. Load is fairly light (about 3,000 updates daily and a similar number of queries on each server) so YMMV.
If I'm not mistaken both parties will be required to disclose their evidence *before* court during the discovery process. To me SCO's statements about revealing their evidence only "in a court setting" sound as clueless as they are belligerent. Perhaps SCO's backers dream at night of David Boies confronting Samuel Palmisano with a stack of greenbar paper in some Salt Lake City courtroom, badgering him with: "How do you explain these diff files?!?!?!?" If so they should cut down on the TV.
While I'm grateful to the Associated Press for picking up this story and running with it, I find nothing in any of their coverage that credits "J. Edgar Hoover," Bugtraq, SecurityFocus.com or Slashdot. Just "The Associated Press reported Tuesday ..." or "In response to the AP's coverage ..."
As a former journalist, this bothers me. There's nothing wrong with scanning message boards, listservs, etc. for tips, but credit should go where credit is due.