I get a kick out of the vendors that have been running control and acquisition systems on bulletproof UNIX boxes forever and now they're switching Windows XP but *leaving* the Motif user interfaces in place.
In many regions, it varies by municipality. My tap water is "blegh" as you say. Tap water in the town five miles down the road is fairly palatable. Both test within health limits but mine fails the taste test.
On a related note, most folks agree that coffee from that other town's coffee shops tastes better than from our shops.
We've just finished demoing Motion Computing's C5. I was quite impressed. As the demo period ended, the surgeon that we paired it with told us in no uncertain terms that we weren't getting it back. Of course, none of this matters if your EMR's interface isn't touch friendly.
in the enterprise world most companies use scsi drives.
Or fibre channel.
The largest capacity SAS drive you can buy now is 146GB
I just bought a bunch of 300GB SAS drives for one of my NAS. Actually, it looks like 1TB drives are available now too!
Technicalities aside, you're completely right. Folks don't seem to understand that the hard drives you walk out of Best Buy with are not the same that plug into your CLARiiON. And then of course, there is backing up that data because the enterprise backs up more of its data than it doesn't. You need a backup platform, tape systems, tape, backup licenses, off site storage and people to manage all of it.
For conferences and such, there's a little box on the speaker information form you fill out before you go where you can indicate you'll need a PC or laptop.
Alternatively, do like all visiting vendors and speakers do where I work. Just show up completely unprepared. Five minutes before the presentation the speaker finds IT, enters the department and proclaims, "You guys don't know me, and I don't work here. But I'm doing a presentation in five minutes and I need a projector, a laptop, internet access, an extension cord and a power strip... right now! Oh and you have to convert the presentation from my crappy presentation software to whatever crappy presentation software you guys use."
A growing collection of well designed web applications require MySQL 5.x
Let me start by saying that I agree with you. It would be great if hosting providers could give us a bit more choice.
Now I'd like to disagree with just the bit of your statement that I've quoted. By definition, a "well designed" web application can never *require* MySQL 5.x. Well designed web application have abstraction layers and don't care whether you use MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and so on. If web programmers built a proper abstraction layer into their apps, they could support MySQL x.y along with all the other versions of MySQL with little added effort.
I don't really see how this could be done on a software level
I imagine that if the software has built in knowledge of the network topology (and the article mentions such knowledge) that it could make some determination about which peers to prefer. Another possibility is a more central index that a client could contact and ask for directions about which peers are "closest."
The first time I used a P2P system, it appeared to me, as I watched the packets that peer selection was more or less random. It did its job though, and made sure to saturate my link by using as many peers as necessary. It hit me that a great way to do this would be to integrate something like BGP into the client. Then the client could cross reference the list of peers hosting needed bits with AS paths to decide which peers are the most efficient matches. The key element would be access to a set of BGP looking glasses. Ideally, large ISPs would have BGP servers making this information available via HTTP, RPC, SOAP, etc. specifically for this sort of work.
Typical Euro-gloating. Go ahead, flaunt your bullet-proof wireless network *and* your superior mass transit. Meanwhile, I'm learning semaphore so that I can communicate with cars stopped at railroad crossings while my train lumbers by at 10mph.
Can't for the life of me figure out why they call him maddog when he's so laid back and relaxed.:/
You're right, he's very laid back. A long time ago, I asked him why they call him maddog. He told me the story over beer and pizza. If I recall correctly, he was teaching at a community college at the time and became enraged by something the administration had pulled. He reacted accordingly and his students dubbed him "maddog." Perhaps somebody with a fresher memory can fill in the details (or correct me).
I'll tell you what though, I've never met a kinder, more generous, more patient man. He's the reason I got into Linux. He spent the time to help me get my PC running Linux (it wasn't easy back in '95), gave me a hard copy Linux manual and, by example, taught me what Free Software was all about. And at the time, he was in charge of the UNIX Software Group at Digital!
I've been wondering, does there exist hardware accelerators usable by OpenSSL or GnuTLS? I work in embedded systems, and our chip includes a crypto and hash processor. I'm surprised nothing equivalent exists on modern PCs, or have I just not been looking in the right places? Similar features exist, though not on all "modern PCs." VIA's C3 chips have a random number generator. C3 chips with the step 8 or later Nehemiah core actually have a hardware AES implementation. I think the C7 family has these features as well. And then, of course, there's a bunch of Hifn-based hardware that can be attached to a PC. Soekris Engineering has PCI and mini-PCI versions of their Hifn-based crypto boards.
I didn't even know New Hampshire had some election in this pre-election zaniness the Americans have designed to increase the length of elections.
The purpose of this particular bit of pre-election zaniness (I can't argue with that term) is to narrow the field. The states each hold some form of "primary" whereby the opposing parties can decide which candidate to offer up during the "end-the-zaniness" election when we finally decide upon a president and put an end to the high volume stream of telephone calls and junk mail we all receive during election years.
The significance of the primaries here in New Hampshire is that we've historically been "first in the nation" to hold these polls. In fact, I believe (but could be wrong) that our state government even passed a law forcing us to move the primaries forward, if necessary, to protect that status.
Netinfo is seriously obnoxious I'm going to go ahead and second that. NetInfo was... interesting. The good news is that, as of 10.5, NetInfo is gone. The bad news is that, you may or may not like OpenDirectory, dscl and friends better. I *think* I do but it'll take a while before I'm sure.
Posting to negate the accidental "-1 Overrated" I just handed your post.
+1 Funny is what I wanted but I've had so much coffee this morning that I'm twitchy.
I'd also add a rant of my own that my Lenovo "IBM" T60 Thinkpad doesn't have RS-232, nor, PS/2 ports, nor parallel ports, and only has three USB ports in their place.
Get a T43 like me and you can have your parallel port... but only two USB and still no RS-232. The thing I love most about my USB to RS-232 dongle is how it shows up on a different COM port depending on which USB port you plug into. It's exciting when you use it on workstation-class hardware with about 10 ports! "Sweet, COM15!"
Such a concept exists here in the US as well. It isn't available to all ISPs but it is open to CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers). These are the independent phone companies. They do exactly what you've mentioned. They put DSLAMs in the central offices. They have access to the incumbents' services, dry copper and, in some places, unbundled network elements (dark fiber).
ADSL2+ may already exist in the US but we've got a terrible combination of century old copper and *long* distances from COs to rural customers.
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Fuck those missiles.
I believe the expression is "Damn the torpedoes!"
Why would you want a dedicated chip for this when cloud computing is in fashion? Offload your burdensome encryption work.
Yeah, this is *exactly* the sort of hardware that the "cloud" providers run.
I get a kick out of the vendors that have been running control and acquisition systems on bulletproof UNIX boxes forever and now they're switching Windows XP but *leaving* the Motif user interfaces in place.
No, the laboratory equipment should be air-gapped.
Sure, and the referring physician can drive across town to the lab and sit right in front of the blood gas analyzer to see his patient's results.
I'm sure water quality varies by state, though.
In many regions, it varies by municipality. My tap water is "blegh" as you say. Tap water in the town five miles down the road is fairly palatable. Both test within health limits but mine fails the taste test.
On a related note, most folks agree that coffee from that other town's coffee shops tastes better than from our shops.
Leavenworth is half jail, half military base, and half citizen residence.
But, that's three halves!
We've just finished demoing Motion Computing's C5. I was quite impressed. As the demo period ended, the surgeon that we paired it with told us in no uncertain terms that we weren't getting it back. Of course, none of this matters if your EMR's interface isn't touch friendly.
Posting to take back mod points from that shock/virus site post.
in the enterprise world most companies use scsi drives.
Or fibre channel.
The largest capacity SAS drive you can buy now is 146GB
I just bought a bunch of 300GB SAS drives for one of my NAS. Actually, it looks like 1TB drives are available now too!
Technicalities aside, you're completely right. Folks don't seem to understand that the hard drives you walk out of Best Buy with are not the same that plug into your CLARiiON. And then of course, there is backing up that data because the enterprise backs up more of its data than it doesn't. You need a backup platform, tape systems, tape, backup licenses, off site storage and people to manage all of it.
No wonder all their shit is overpriced plastic crap!
I'd rather have a beige box, save a grand, and have better software. (xp, mind you, vista blows)
So, you're a fan of plastic crap, as long as it's not overpriced?
Apple only spends $292 on R&D? No wonder all their shit is overpriced plastic crap!
Be truthful now. How many consumer electronics companies put as much aluminum and glass into their products as Apple do?
For conferences and such, there's a little box on the speaker information form you fill out before you go where you can indicate you'll need a PC or laptop.
Alternatively, do like all visiting vendors and speakers do where I work. Just show up completely unprepared. Five minutes before the presentation the speaker finds IT, enters the department and proclaims, "You guys don't know me, and I don't work here. But I'm doing a presentation in five minutes and I need a projector, a laptop, internet access, an extension cord and a power strip... right now! Oh and you have to convert the presentation from my crappy presentation software to whatever crappy presentation software you guys use."
A growing collection of well designed web applications require MySQL 5.x
Let me start by saying that I agree with you. It would be great if hosting providers could give us a bit more choice.
Now I'd like to disagree with just the bit of your statement that I've quoted. By definition, a "well designed" web application can never *require* MySQL 5.x. Well designed web application have abstraction layers and don't care whether you use MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and so on. If web programmers built a proper abstraction layer into their apps, they could support MySQL x.y along with all the other versions of MySQL with little added effort.
I imagine that if the software has built in knowledge of the network topology (and the article mentions such knowledge) that it could make some determination about which peers to prefer. Another possibility is a more central index that a client could contact and ask for directions about which peers are "closest."
The first time I used a P2P system, it appeared to me, as I watched the packets that peer selection was more or less random. It did its job though, and made sure to saturate my link by using as many peers as necessary. It hit me that a great way to do this would be to integrate something like BGP into the client. Then the client could cross reference the list of peers hosting needed bits with AS paths to decide which peers are the most efficient matches. The key element would be access to a set of BGP looking glasses. Ideally, large ISPs would have BGP servers making this information available via HTTP, RPC, SOAP, etc. specifically for this sort of work.
Typical Euro-gloating. Go ahead, flaunt your bullet-proof wireless network *and* your superior mass transit. Meanwhile, I'm learning semaphore so that I can communicate with cars stopped at railroad crossings while my train lumbers by at 10mph.
Thank you for your service, soldier.
I'll assume that the switch to tan boots was for desert deployment. Get back safely, if you haven't already.
You're right, he's very laid back. A long time ago, I asked him why they call him maddog. He told me the story over beer and pizza. If I recall correctly, he was teaching at a community college at the time and became enraged by something the administration had pulled. He reacted accordingly and his students dubbed him "maddog." Perhaps somebody with a fresher memory can fill in the details (or correct me).
I'll tell you what though, I've never met a kinder, more generous, more patient man. He's the reason I got into Linux. He spent the time to help me get my PC running Linux (it wasn't easy back in '95), gave me a hard copy Linux manual and, by example, taught me what Free Software was all about. And at the time, he was in charge of the UNIX Software Group at Digital!
+1 "So True"
You seem quite educated on NH. You may be in a position to help. Please send a list of names and origins so that we can send those folks back.
The purpose of this particular bit of pre-election zaniness (I can't argue with that term) is to narrow the field. The states each hold some form of "primary" whereby the opposing parties can decide which candidate to offer up during the "end-the-zaniness" election when we finally decide upon a president and put an end to the high volume stream of telephone calls and junk mail we all receive during election years.
The significance of the primaries here in New Hampshire is that we've historically been "first in the nation" to hold these polls. In fact, I believe (but could be wrong) that our state government even passed a law forcing us to move the primaries forward, if necessary, to protect that status.
Posting to negate the accidental "-1 Overrated" I just handed your post. +1 Funny is what I wanted but I've had so much coffee this morning that I'm twitchy.
I'd also add a rant of my own that my Lenovo "IBM" T60 Thinkpad doesn't have RS-232, nor, PS/2 ports, nor parallel ports, and only has three USB ports in their place.
Get a T43 like me and you can have your parallel port... but only two USB and still no RS-232. The thing I love most about my USB to RS-232 dongle is how it shows up on a different COM port depending on which USB port you plug into. It's exciting when you use it on workstation-class hardware with about 10 ports! "Sweet, COM15!"Such a concept exists here in the US as well. It isn't available to all ISPs but it is open to CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers). These are the independent phone companies. They do exactly what you've mentioned. They put DSLAMs in the central offices. They have access to the incumbents' services, dry copper and, in some places, unbundled network elements (dark fiber).
ADSL2+ may already exist in the US but we've got a terrible combination of century old copper and *long* distances from COs to rural customers.