OK, then, these "combat detainees" will presumably be released once hostilities have ended? Is any fighting actually still going on in Afghanistan? The US hasn't given any clear idea of what it plans to do with its prisoners/hostages/detainees in the long term. Until it does, I'm not going to give any benefit of the doubt to them. Also, I never stated what they were doing was illegal, but that doesn't mean to say I have to like their actions.
"Incorrect Again". Hrm, the BBC disagrees. "The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to exempt US peacekeepers from prosecution by the new war crimes court".
As for the UCMJ, yes, OK, soldiers could be tried under that. However, if an order comes from on high (e.g. a general, or even the president), is a trial really going to happen? I guess the examples of rape & pillage were bad, but what about orders to assassinate someone? Or napalm a village (not that the US has ever done that before...)?
Republic/Democracy? Whatever. The fact is that the US tends to like to believe it's the home of democracy.
You can get IE for the Mac as well as Solaris. I'm not saying those versions are as good as the Windows version (especially not the Solaris one!), but they exist.
Hrm, quite a number of people would disagree with your views that they are not being mistreated. There conditions are hardly comfortable. You're also "being slow about" giving them any kind of trial or legal representation. Also, as others have pointed out, the US is very keen not to call them POWs as that would give them rights which they are determined not to allow. What I would ask is what kind of noises would be coming out of the US if American citizens were being held in similar conditions, with no trial in a middle east country? They should, very rightly, be outraged.
As for "one of the FEW nations that follows the Laws of War and Peace", I'd like to point out that the US has demanded (and unfortunately, gotten) concessions that no US military personnel can be tried for war crimes on UN missions. This effectively gives US soldiers carte blanche to rape, pillage and burn in a manner that would make the atrocities in the Balkans seems like a Sunday School picnic with no chance of war crimes charges ever being laid. They may get some kind of court martial or charges laid in the US court or they may not. There would be no recourse for an aggrieved party in the Internation Courts.
The more I hear about the US in recent times, the more I despair about a nation that claims to be the home of Democracy. I have my own rant about another such incident, which you're free to read.
I guess the advantage in most cases is the ease of development based on how much is already handled in the HTTP protocol (and SSL for encryption). This allows a faster development cycle as you don't have to worry about creating widgets (just use form/table/input tags). The other advantage is that 99.9% of desktop workstations have a web browser installed, but not all will allow the remote installation of software (a good thing, IMHO) due to security settings.
I guess that currently, there's enough expertise in delivering web apps that it's a good proposition. Whether that paradigm will continue in the longer term or not is a different matter, and time will tell as to the long term usage of web apps.
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Given the prices of Sun kit these days (you can get an entry level server for $1000, and a beefy v880 for $20-40k), you might want to look at that. Performance may or may not match the Itanium, but you'd get a guaranteed stable system from hardware to OS.
There's a group of developers here working on web apps, and one thing they're doing is using DHTML + XML to get table data transferred. This may solve the problem of dynamic content, but to be honest, they're doing it for bandwidth efficiency (as the main users will be on oil rigs over low-bandwidth connections).
If you really want dynamic content in a web, you can use Java applets.
Unless I missed the announcement, linux is still stuck with 2GB RAM max, at least on x86.
Also, if you can fit enough P4s in blades, you can beat the Xeon's processing power for less cost and floorspace; this is, after all, why x86 clusters are beating the big iron servers from Sun & IBM on price/performance. Of course, you have to have a load which can be distributed in this way; if you have fewer, heavy duty compute requirements, Xeons may be the best fit for the job.
The rates are, IIRC, 10% of revenues or 7% of expenses, whichever is greater. Non-profit orgs will still pay the 7% of expenses; not sure how "revenue" is defined for this.
I have to say rsync is an excellent bit of software. It has a small task, and damn it does it well. I subscribe to the Sun Manager's list and there are several times I've recommended rsync, just because it is the best bit of software around for copying files while retaining all the Unix stuff like:
file ownership
permissions
symlinks
special files (devices, etc)
hard links
Great bit of software. Perhaps not as technically excellent as Samba, which is more complex, but very useful.
patchck; yup, the old version at least gave you a plain text file. However, there's nothing stopping you writing a wrapper round it to parse things out.
I've managed to get perl extensions installed using gcc; you just have to edit the Makefile to use gcc instead of cc. Alternatively, make a symlink from/usr/bin/cc to/usr/local/bin/gcc.
PKZIP=zip/unzip; that does more than bzip2, even if bzip2 does have a better compression algorithm. I'm not sure where this comes into the package management in any case.
LVM: the documentation on docs.sun.com (i.e. the same as the answerbooks) is fine. I've set up mirrors, concats, stripes and RAID-5 volumes using that documentation.
If your admins don't know about UFS logging, hire better admins. There are also occasions when it isn't always prudent to enable ufs logging. That said, I do think it may well be about time they enabled it by default.
Setting kernel parameters: as someone has said, some can be set with ndd; adb is available for some others, although a reboot is required for others with/etc/system. At least with/etc/system, if it goes wrong, you can at least boot from CD and edit the file (unless you use VXVM for your root disks or something wacky like that).
What's the hardship in having awk, nawk *awk all on one system? It takes mebbe a meg of disk space and keeps $DEITY knows how many user scripts working.
SysV commands should only be replaced as and when their GNU equivalents provide drop-in functionality; i.e. they respond to all the flags that the SysV ones do in the same manner. Again, some scripts may rely on some arcane switch and/or the output from the command being absolutely identical.
CDE fulfilled a design goal, that being all Unices looked identical (or at least similar). I personally don't see the problem with CDE, even if it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Gnome/KDE.
As I've implied above, the SysV "cruft" is there for the end users; even if you don't use any of it, what is the harm in it staying? The harm in removing it is to break a large portion of user scripts and completely piss off your customer base, many of whom have large wodges of spending power.
Hehe, very silly advert. I still prefer "Pogo the Monkey", though. "Idiot Gamer voted 'Pogo the Monkey' the best springing simian game since 'Bouncing Bananas'"
Yup, I agree with the above. You've also got to bear in mind that it's not the skript kiddies you have to worry about; it's the real hackers who know how to write script kiddie tools.
It's fairly simple to defend against script kiddies by following good practice; defending against "real" hackers takes a lot of work and knowledge.
Use url rewriting for redirects, it saves on HTTP transactions.
Yup, they're great, except when you don't have control of the web site, i.e. you're using a web server provider. In that case, a META tag is your only choice. Well, there is Javascript, but the META tag is more generic.
Most Scottish kilts won't lift up in anything except the strongest breeze. At the front, there's a sporran to weigh it down and the back is pleated and therefore heavier.
I've worn a kilt tons of times to ceilidhs/weddings/rugby and the only times any prudes would have had any complaint was due to, ah, human intervention.
There's a couple of audio specific based distros; one based on Debian and another on something else. I don't think there's a games specific distro, but anything with decent sound support and 3D drivers will do the trick.
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"Incorrect Again". Hrm, the BBC disagrees. "The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to exempt US peacekeepers from prosecution by the new war crimes court".
As for the UCMJ, yes, OK, soldiers could be tried under that. However, if an order comes from on high (e.g. a general, or even the president), is a trial really going to happen? I guess the examples of rape & pillage were bad, but what about orders to assassinate someone? Or napalm a village (not that the US has ever done that before...)?
Republic/Democracy? Whatever. The fact is that the US tends to like to believe it's the home of democracy.
You can get IE for the Mac as well as Solaris. I'm not saying those versions are as good as the Windows version (especially not the Solaris one!), but they exist.
As for "one of the FEW nations that follows the Laws of War and Peace", I'd like to point out that the US has demanded (and unfortunately, gotten) concessions that no US military personnel can be tried for war crimes on UN missions. This effectively gives US soldiers carte blanche to rape, pillage and burn in a manner that would make the atrocities in the Balkans seems like a Sunday School picnic with no chance of war crimes charges ever being laid. They may get some kind of court martial or charges laid in the US court or they may not. There would be no recourse for an aggrieved party in the Internation Courts.
The more I hear about the US in recent times, the more I despair about a nation that claims to be the home of Democracy. I have my own rant about another such incident, which you're free to read.
I think that was the idea; show the extremes that the US is going to at the moment.
I guess that currently, there's enough expertise in delivering web apps that it's a good proposition. Whether that paradigm will continue in the longer term or not is a different matter, and time will tell as to the long term usage of web apps.
Given the prices of Sun kit these days (you can get an entry level server for $1000, and a beefy v880 for $20-40k), you might want to look at that. Performance may or may not match the Itanium, but you'd get a guaranteed stable system from hardware to OS.
If you really want dynamic content in a web, you can use Java applets.
To add to that, seismic interpretation by Oil companies. Shell have a 1024 node AMD cluster in the Netherlands for this purpose.
Also, if you can fit enough P4s in blades, you can beat the Xeon's processing power for less cost and floorspace; this is, after all, why x86 clusters are beating the big iron servers from Sun & IBM on price/performance. Of course, you have to have a load which can be distributed in this way; if you have fewer, heavy duty compute requirements, Xeons may be the best fit for the job.
The rates are, IIRC, 10% of revenues or 7% of expenses, whichever is greater. Non-profit orgs will still pay the 7% of expenses; not sure how "revenue" is defined for this.
- file ownership
- permissions
- symlinks
- special files (devices, etc)
- hard links
Great bit of software. Perhaps not as technically excellent as Samba, which is more complex, but very useful.- patchck; yup, the old version at least gave you a plain text file. However, there's nothing stopping you writing a wrapper round it to parse things out.
- I've managed to get perl extensions installed using gcc; you just have to edit the Makefile to use gcc instead of cc. Alternatively, make a symlink from
/usr/bin/cc to /usr/local/bin/gcc.
- PKZIP=zip/unzip; that does more than bzip2, even if bzip2 does have a better compression algorithm. I'm not sure where this comes into the package management in any case.
- LVM: the documentation on docs.sun.com (i.e. the same as the answerbooks) is fine. I've set up mirrors, concats, stripes and RAID-5 volumes using that documentation.
- If your admins don't know about UFS logging, hire better admins. There are also occasions when it isn't always prudent to enable ufs logging. That said, I do think it may well be about time they enabled it by default.
- Setting kernel parameters: as someone has said, some can be set with ndd; adb is available for some others, although a reboot is required for others with
/etc/system. At least with /etc/system, if it goes wrong, you can at least boot from CD and edit the file (unless you use VXVM for your root disks or something wacky like that).
- What's the hardship in having awk, nawk *awk all on one system? It takes mebbe a meg of disk space and keeps $DEITY knows how many user scripts working.
- SysV commands should only be replaced as and when their GNU equivalents provide drop-in functionality; i.e. they respond to all the flags that the SysV ones do in the same manner. Again, some scripts may rely on some arcane switch and/or the output from the command being absolutely identical.
- CDE fulfilled a design goal, that being all Unices looked identical (or at least similar). I personally don't see the problem with CDE, even if it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Gnome/KDE.
As I've implied above, the SysV "cruft" is there for the end users; even if you don't use any of it, what is the harm in it staying? The harm in removing it is to break a large portion of user scripts and completely piss off your customer base, many of whom have large wodges of spending power.- No sound drivers for anything other than Sound Blasters; probably not a biggie, and you can download drivers for SB64/128
- Pick your network cards carefully; check the HCL.
- Poor/non-existent X support. You almost have to use XFree86 to get any useful X windows.
- Poor support for IDE; DMA is limited.
If you can work around that, you'll do OK, but linux will probably run smoother on commodity x86 hardware.Hehe, very silly advert. I still prefer "Pogo the Monkey", though. "Idiot Gamer voted 'Pogo the Monkey' the best springing simian game since 'Bouncing Bananas'"
It's fairly simple to defend against script kiddies by following good practice; defending against "real" hackers takes a lot of work and knowledge.
Hrm, didn't know you could use .htaccess files for redirects; you learn something new every day.
Now, that would be telling...:)
Wow, a whole 3 months before you became obsolete? Damn, you must have been ahead of the game when you got your last card!
FWIW, if anyone's interested, the above page is linked to from this BBC story
I've worn a kilt tons of times to ceilidhs/weddings/rugby and the only times any prudes would have had any complaint was due to, ah, human intervention.
There's a couple of audio specific based distros; one based on Debian and another on something else. I don't think there's a games specific distro, but anything with decent sound support and 3D drivers will do the trick.
Coincidentally, applications for St Andrews Uni rocketed that year once the news broke....
In short, if asked, you just say "I took a gap year to broaden my horizons before continuing my education" or some other waffle.