On a lighter note, my local DOT in Florida put out an alert last week, that the northbound Interstate through Tampa would be miserable all weekend due to a lane realignment.
Their hope, which panned out, was that they'd scare enough people people off the street to mitigate the lane closures and such.
And it worked so well that, again, they might hear some "boy cried wolf" noise.
In such cases, you just have to hope that people are smart enough to take the next step, mentally.
I know they're generally not, but those will be the people who get bitten next time when they ignore a good warning, so it's self-limiting.
Especially if it's this flu epidemic.
You act like the warnings are "sky falling", and you might not be around to think that next time...
That's the one that says that the utility of a network is proportional to the square of the number of things (devices, people, services) connected to it.
I suspect that President Obama (isn't it interesting how many people seem to be avoiding using that 2 word phrase in writing about him?) is about to discover that the useful thing about a BlackBerry isn't the *device*, it's the *people at the other end*.
There was no journalism in that piece. Just opinion and commentary.
There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but I agree that some *real* reporting is necessary, and it still is.
So let us, I guess, hope that Wired is on the beat -- since this is their beat -- and I'm sure I'll see something in the next RISKS Digest, as well, if not more than one item.
Indeed, PGN mentions this piece, though it's not as long as I expected from his note.
Nat gas is much more expensive and dangerous to store; diesel is about the safest possible reasonable way to store emergency power, aside from a million gallons of water 30 feet up a hill.
As for "second in line behind the hospital", sometimes the contracts aren't enough -- go read Inderdictor's LJ of Katrina, lo those 2 years back... if you haven't already.
Major impact on commerce in a major American city is in fact an issue of national security, and anyone who doesn't think so either has his head in the sand, or doesn't read enough Tom Clancy.
If you for some reason didn't terminate *all 4 pairs in the cable* -- for example, you were doubling up runs, as I sometimes have to do -- you're SOL, since GigE requires all 4 pairs, while 100Base only needs 2.
Licenses are an aspect of *contract* law, and you can grant damned near anything in American contract law, unless it explicitly contradicts other statutes or "public policy".
There's nothing about "or any later version" that carries those connotations, so there's no reason why a contributor would be deemed unable to agree to that term, and therefore it's valid.
Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup. Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup. Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup. Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup. Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup.
If you want to use magnetic storage for backups, use DLT or LTO tape, and make two copies, and keep them in different place.
Or, y'know, just hire a friggin sysadmin, and ask him "so, what will your backup plan be", and then get a second opinion on his answer.:-)
And *this*, boys and girls, is an altogether excellent example of why professional system administration talent is well worth whatever you have to pay to have it around.
If I'm not mistaken, they were so tall because, like on a 3270, the terminal could *physically lock every key against depression* when the terminal wasn't listening to you.
It was kind of weird. I worked on a 5250 on a 36 that was the same way...
The first 5 people who have genuine working IBM Model M's with 6-pin cables and all their keytops, who don't want them cluttering up their closets, I'll pay shipping to take them off your hands.
I have a Model M on my office desk, and one here at home -- S/N 3111818, dated Jul 87.
They're nice to type on -- I type much more faster and more accurately on one than on any other type of keyboard -- and they're also handy if someone breaks into your house. They deflect bullets up to a.38, and you can commit homicide with one, if necessary.
Not that he would necssarily give a crap that I do.
My personal conviction is that Linux came to be what it has come to be *precisely* because it was released as GPLv2 code; I don't think it would have grown to nearly the size and penetration </beavis> that it has were it under some other license.
Therefore, the state of much of the world today -- not just the computing world, but Real Life -- descends almost entirely from the fact that rms is a extremist about the principles of Free Software.
We often look on extremists with amusement or scorn, but I personally tend to try to remember Tom Peters' observation from one of the Excellence books:
When anything useful is accomplished in this world, it is done, I have found, by a monomaniac with a mission.
We don't all have to be as hardcore as rms is -- Linus isn't -- but if *he* *weren't*, then I don't think we'd be where we are today.
So yeah, comparing him to a vegan is probably pretty accurate -- they have similar types of motivation.
But *dissing* him for it?
No, I don't think that's really the best outlook to have.
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It's a lose-lose situation.
On a lighter note, my local DOT in Florida put out an alert last week, that the northbound Interstate through Tampa would be miserable all weekend due to a lane realignment.
Their hope, which panned out, was that they'd scare enough people people off the street to mitigate the lane closures and such.
And it worked so well that, again, they might hear some "boy cried wolf" noise.
In such cases, you just have to hope that people are smart enough to take the next step, mentally.
I know they're generally not, but those will be the people who get bitten next time when they ignore a good warning, so it's self-limiting.
Especially if it's this flu epidemic.
You act like the warnings are "sky falling", and you might not be around to think that next time...
Darwin was right!
That's the one that says that the utility of a network is proportional to the square of the number of things (devices, people, services) connected to it.
I suspect that President Obama (isn't it interesting how many people seem to be avoiding using that 2 word phrase in writing about him?) is about to discover that the useful thing about a BlackBerry isn't the *device*, it's the *people at the other end*.
Whom he won't have.
And Bruce, my esteemed smart opinionated guy?
It still goes unreported.
There was no journalism in that piece. Just opinion and commentary.
There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but I agree that some *real* reporting is necessary, and it still is.
So let us, I guess, hope that Wired is on the beat -- since this is their beat -- and I'm sure I'll see something in the next RISKS Digest, as well, if not more than one item.
Indeed, PGN mentions this piece, though it's not as long as I expected from his note.
that no one's mentioned Robert Perry's Metzger's Dog.
Were there an unusual number of freeway traffic jams that day? Mercury in the CO switch? 1/4 :-)
Nat gas is much more expensive and dangerous to store; diesel is about the safest possible reasonable way to store emergency power, aside from a million gallons of water 30 feet up a hill.
As for "second in line behind the hospital", sometimes the contracts aren't enough -- go read Inderdictor's LJ of Katrina, lo those 2 years back... if you haven't already.
Major impact on commerce in a major American city is in fact an issue of national security, and anyone who doesn't think so either has his head in the sand, or doesn't read enough Tom Clancy.
Well-terminated is important, here.
If you for some reason didn't terminate *all 4 pairs in the cable* -- for example, you were doubling up runs, as I sometimes have to do -- you're SOL, since GigE requires all 4 pairs, while 100Base only needs 2.
Yes, but -- just like with CPUs -- we are *over* the hump in the S-curve now.
With a few small exceptions (HD-Video and the like), Core CPUs, a gig or 2 or RAM and GigE are *enough*.
Really. :-)
In office environments, it's not squirrels -- they commit squirrelcide on your power transformers -- it's rats.
But definitely, if you're putting in new wiring, don't skimp; remember: copper's cheap. People are expensive.
Pull at least 2 and preferably 3 runs of cat5e to every jack, and if you're planning on CATV, a run of RJ-6 or -11 (depending on length).
American law works differently.
The issue here is not copyright law.
Licenses are an aspect of *contract* law, and you can grant damned near anything in American contract law, unless it explicitly contradicts other statutes or "public policy".
There's nothing about "or any later version" that carries those connotations, so there's no reason why a contributor would be deemed unable to agree to that term, and therefore it's valid.
(IANAL, E)
Of *course* BOFHs are going to pick that, if you give it to them.
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Repeat after me:
Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup.
Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup.
Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup.
Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup.
Spinning magnetic storage is not a backup.
If you want to use magnetic storage for backups, use DLT or LTO tape, and make two copies, and keep them in different place.
Or, y'know, just hire a friggin sysadmin, and ask him "so, what will your backup plan be", and then get a second opinion on his answer. :-)
And *this*, boys and girls, is an altogether excellent example of why professional system administration talent is well worth whatever you have to pay to have it around.
May every device you touch which runs Linux -- which may be more than you think -- all drop dead on you on the same day.
In other news: any chance at all they're ever going to think ahead to include a PTT button on the case design?
"Action" is precisely the term I'd pick, as well, to describe why I think I type faster and more reliably on my M's.
I plink at piano, but you couldn't say I play.
"AR-15"; the -10 is the MAC.
And I think SWAT teams get actual M-16s. At least in big cities.
> This is the first keyboard I've had that could stand up to heavy coding and writing.
It's the only keyboard *I've* ever had that could stand up to "me being exceedingly pissed at my job, and having to go back to working, anyway". :-)
Oh yes; those.
If I'm not mistaken, they were so tall because, like on a 3270, the terminal could *physically lock every key against depression* when the terminal wasn't listening to you.
It was kind of weird. I worked on a 5250 on a 36 that was the same way...
Naw... we just all miss alt.folklore.computers.
The first 5 people who have genuine working IBM Model M's with 6-pin cables and all their keytops, who don't want them cluttering up their closets, I'll pay shipping to take them off your hands.
Five miles. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.
I have a Model M on my office desk, and one here at home -- S/N 3111818, dated Jul 87.
They're nice to type on -- I type much more faster and more accurately on one than on any other type of keyboard -- and they're also handy if someone breaks into your house. They deflect bullets up to a .38, and you can commit homicide with one, if necessary.
It's not just Princeton. Every college publication I've ever seen mentions the grad year after a student's name, at least on first reference.
And she's not bad. But if I understand Chinese naming properly, Quan is her given name, not her surname.
You should have left off the Tolkein quote; even I wouldn't have been sure, then...
Not that he would necssarily give a crap that I do.
My personal conviction is that Linux came to be what it has come to be *precisely* because it was released as GPLv2 code; I don't think it would have grown to nearly the size and penetration </beavis> that it has were it under some other license.
Therefore, the state of much of the world today -- not just the computing world, but Real Life -- descends almost entirely from the fact that rms is a extremist about the principles of Free Software.
We often look on extremists with amusement or scorn, but I personally tend to try to remember Tom Peters' observation from one of the Excellence books:
We don't all have to be as hardcore as rms is -- Linus isn't -- but if *he* *weren't*, then I don't think we'd be where we are today.
So yeah, comparing him to a vegan is probably pretty accurate -- they have similar types of motivation.
But *dissing* him for it?
No, I don't think that's really the best outlook to have.
is that, apparently, "syfy" means "crusty venereal disease" in Polish.
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/03/17/the-venereal-disease-channel-imaginatizes-greatastically/
Morons.