All the corporate criminals will get huge settlements for redundancy (think multimillion dollar payouts) and the sysadmins and programmer (if they even have 1) and secretarys and stuff will get fired without pay. Not the best option in town.
My Linux server at home has uptime equal to the time between power strikes. Sure, once in a long while I might decide to put a new kernel on it, but mostly I don't nowadays. It runs SAMBA, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, SSH, FTP and a host of other services, all without ever glitching or crashing...and did I mention it's a Pentium II 350? Linux, speed, stability and the ability to re-use legacy hardware all go together.
Nope, we use Netcraft to determine who's OS stays up the longest. Sadly for us Linux fans it's *BSD, but at least that's one of "the family" as it were.
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I'm not seeing a lot of Windows boxes in there...in fact, I can't see any in the top 50.
Haha:-) I've been using it constantly for about three years and I haven't seen it crash once. I have seen an app or two segfault, but nothing has ever taken my box down. Win 2000 isn't too bad for this either, much better than the Win 95/98/3.1 crapola, but it still isn't as good as Linux at stability.
If I'm writing an email in Outlook, or a letter in Word I feel the need to save every five minutes or every significant paragraph because years of training from the OS have taught me I'm only a mouse click away from a GPF. I don't do that in Linux I've noticed, because the apps don't crash anywhere near as often.
They didn't steal the card, they stole the card number and my address/name. That's enough to do a "card not present" transaction. They must have just guessed the expiry date or had some way of knowing it because I don't recall it being on the statements...then again, maybe it was? Also, I haven't received a statement for a while, maybe it's bloody happening again! Arghghghh!
Why bother dumpster diving MS when you can just break into their lousy insecure OS and copy all their source code and stuff from their source code repository (been done before because they didn't patch their own servers). You might even be able to wardrive the dumb bastards. Hell, with that many people working there someone is always willing to just release the company memos anyway.
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Just a thought, why not get a paper recycling kit and recycle the paper once it's shredded? You can dye it and put some nice scents and stuff and use it for that written correspondance I have heard of but never personally experienced. Seriously though, a friend used to do this and the results were quite nice.
Someone tried to rack up £2500 worth of gear on my credit card, which luckily the bank queried (just for once). Who really needs 20 hooded tops, trainers, 10xtrack pants and a 50" rear projection TV?
Mine and 3 of my neighboors were swipped from the mailbox before we ever got to see them. It must have been systematic too, because we were with different banks - so it had to be done several times. Even though shredding wouldn't have helped there it does help to stop the fucktards who have dumpster dived my rubbish - and yes, I know it happens because I caught one.
...and you'll be out on parole in 18 months. The jails are too crowded now, so it's incredibly unlikely you'll see out a decent length of sentance.
e.g. In Australia a guy went down the pub, got pissed off his head, drove home and killed a little girl in a car accident. His sentance was 18 months for manslaughter. This was not just sticking a gun in someones face, he actually killed a small child and still got off cleaner than people who commited far less tragic crimes.
With this lousy performance I am starting to wonder if the DOM contains his entire website and he is parsing out the page that he needs to serve. Honestly, XML and XSL are lightning fast on the servers and platform we use, which is just plain old Windows 2000 Server and MSXML 4.0. We're talking hundreds of pages marked up per second, each with maybe a dozen sections that are transformed individually (by our CMS).
A better solution is Gigabit Ethernet. Honestly, you read the crap that is SlashDot and yet complain about wasting bandwidth;->
Do you use a text only browser to do all your web browsing or are you downloading some of those nasty bug graphics too? Isn't CSS and tables to layout web pages a waste of bandwidth? Why not get rid of all the formatting tags that bloat web pages too and just have plain black and white web pages with (perhaps) the H1-H6 tags. Bandwidth is cheap and plentiful, especially inside a data processing centre where this is all going to take place.
Of course those protocols are binary formatted packet streams, they were designed for extremely quick and low cost message passing. You might as well compare XML to GIF files or a JPEG for all the sense that last statement made. Binary formatting is appropriate for low level network transports, DCOM, RPC, CORBA, etc, but is not appropriate for a format that is designed to allow easy interchange of data between completely disparate systems e.g. 32 bit big endian machines and 64 bit little endian machines. Even TCP/IP forces you to convert to and from network endianess before sending out your packets.
Ah, there's nothing like posting on SlashDot to humiliate yourself amoungst your peers. Buffer overflows and stack smashing are the worst security flaws these days. Encryption is there to keep people reading your cleartext, and is only a sub-set of good security principles. Please, try to post only on topics in which you are knowledgable.
P.S. if the other guy returns with that clue I suggest you nab it and try using it for yourself.
XML is not designed for speed, but for information exchange. Mapping onto a C structure may work well for a single platform and a single compiler but each processor and compiler have their own ideas about ordering of struct members and padding e.g. Intel likes DWORD alignment if available and used to pad as required...not sure about the latest batch of processors and compilers.
You lose portability between platforms by trying this low level mapping. How well do you thin big endian systems will like to share with little endian ones? Portability, readability and exchangability are the reasons for XML, not flat out speed. That said, we use XSL around here for marking up our web pages and it is lightening fast!
Why risk five years in prison when you can do easy time instead? Give up your P2P networks and purchase (or steal, we know what you little motherfuckers are like!) a handgun. Now go to your local video store and rob them at gunpoint! You're still likely to get a lesser sentance than if you'd downloaded the file, plus you don't have the cost of burning a CD! Woot!
At the end of the contract they will negotiate an extention to the present contract, or perhaps seek out a new contract with a new supplier. Since they are using Linux they can ensure their desktops stay basically the same, even though they are potentially changing suppliers.
Most modern distros will ship with KDE and Gnome, albeit usually somewhat customised - though SuSE currently doesn't do this to the same extent as RedHat.
Rollout of a new desktop is a big process when you're talking that many machines, so expect a rollout team to provide a customised selection and configuration of the installs. When I worked for SunCorp in Australia I was part of a rollout team that spent 2-3 years rolling out the new desktop. A small part of the team spent several months getting the install images sorted out before we started imaging the drives. This was all fucked up by Compaq when they reneged on the deal to supply us with completely identical machines for the entire 5000 machine rollout. We then had to sit around waiting for a new install image to be built prior to doing the next round of hardware. I imagine that part of the money for the contract will be doing something very similar.
NOTE: I personally spent 2 of those years simply converting Word Basic macros into VBA macros for all the templates. A simple change from Office 6.0 to Office 97 meant me and another guy were busy for *two solid years* converting those stupid little macros to ensure Susie in accounting could still send out her important form letters.
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All the corporate criminals will get huge settlements for redundancy (think multimillion dollar payouts) and the sysadmins and programmer (if they even have 1) and secretarys and stuff will get fired without pay. Not the best option in town.
Could be spoofing his headers or might be running that Chillisoft product I seem to remember hearing about. It can run ASP under *nix.
My Linux server at home has uptime equal to the time between power strikes. Sure, once in a long while I might decide to put a new kernel on it, but mostly I don't nowadays. It runs SAMBA, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, SSH, FTP and a host of other services, all without ever glitching or crashing...and did I mention it's a Pentium II 350? Linux, speed, stability and the ability to re-use legacy hardware all go together.
I'm not seeing a lot of Windows boxes in there...in fact, I can't see any in the top 50.
If I'm writing an email in Outlook, or a letter in Word I feel the need to save every five minutes or every significant paragraph because years of training from the OS have taught me I'm only a mouse click away from a GPF. I don't do that in Linux I've noticed, because the apps don't crash anywhere near as often.
They didn't steal the card, they stole the card number and my address/name. That's enough to do a "card not present" transaction. They must have just guessed the expiry date or had some way of knowing it because I don't recall it being on the statements...then again, maybe it was? Also, I haven't received a statement for a while, maybe it's bloody happening again! Arghghghh!
Why bother dumpster diving MS when you can just break into their lousy insecure OS and copy all their source code and stuff from their source code repository (been done before because they didn't patch their own servers). You might even be able to wardrive the dumb bastards. Hell, with that many people working there someone is always willing to just release the company memos anyway.
Was your previous job at Enron by any chance ;->
Imagine if he is a secret glue sniffer freak ;-0
Just a thought, why not get a paper recycling kit and recycle the paper once it's shredded? You can dye it and put some nice scents and stuff and use it for that written correspondance I have heard of but never personally experienced. Seriously though, a friend used to do this and the results were quite nice.
Someone tried to rack up £2500 worth of gear on my credit card, which luckily the bank queried (just for once). Who really needs 20 hooded tops, trainers, 10xtrack pants and a 50" rear projection TV?
Mine and 3 of my neighboors were swipped from the mailbox before we ever got to see them. It must have been systematic too, because we were with different banks - so it had to be done several times. Even though shredding wouldn't have helped there it does help to stop the fucktards who have dumpster dived my rubbish - and yes, I know it happens because I caught one.
Dammit, if only you'd gotten your hands on them first you could have shredded them before anyone got to see them ;->
We all do that, but most of us do it in prepackaged boxes bought at the supermarket labelled "breakfast cereal" or "shredded wheat" ;-0
e.g. In Australia a guy went down the pub, got pissed off his head, drove home and killed a little girl in a car accident. His sentance was 18 months for manslaughter. This was not just sticking a gun in someones face, he actually killed a small child and still got off cleaner than people who commited far less tragic crimes.
I used to use SCO (twats) Xenix to run NetHack :^) Nowadays, its still all that SCO (twats) software is good for.
Hahaha, you mean *recent* don't you ;-)
With this lousy performance I am starting to wonder if the DOM contains his entire website and he is parsing out the page that he needs to serve. Honestly, XML and XSL are lightning fast on the servers and platform we use, which is just plain old Windows 2000 Server and MSXML 4.0. We're talking hundreds of pages marked up per second, each with maybe a dozen sections that are transformed individually (by our CMS).
Wouldn't it be better for MS to fix the memory leaks? I have a copy of BoundChecker they can borrow if they're a little strapped for cash ;->
Do you use a text only browser to do all your web browsing or are you downloading some of those nasty bug graphics too? Isn't CSS and tables to layout web pages a waste of bandwidth? Why not get rid of all the formatting tags that bloat web pages too and just have plain black and white web pages with (perhaps) the H1-H6 tags. Bandwidth is cheap and plentiful, especially inside a data processing centre where this is all going to take place.
Of course those protocols are binary formatted packet streams, they were designed for extremely quick and low cost message passing. You might as well compare XML to GIF files or a JPEG for all the sense that last statement made. Binary formatting is appropriate for low level network transports, DCOM, RPC, CORBA, etc, but is not appropriate for a format that is designed to allow easy interchange of data between completely disparate systems e.g. 32 bit big endian machines and 64 bit little endian machines. Even TCP/IP forces you to convert to and from network endianess before sending out your packets.
P.S. if the other guy returns with that clue I suggest you nab it and try using it for yourself.
You lose portability between platforms by trying this low level mapping. How well do you thin big endian systems will like to share with little endian ones? Portability, readability and exchangability are the reasons for XML, not flat out speed. That said, we use XSL around here for marking up our web pages and it is lightening fast!
Why risk five years in prison when you can do easy time instead? Give up your P2P networks and purchase (or steal, we know what you little motherfuckers are like!) a handgun. Now go to your local video store and rob them at gunpoint! You're still likely to get a lesser sentance than if you'd downloaded the file, plus you don't have the cost of burning a CD! Woot!
Most modern distros will ship with KDE and Gnome, albeit usually somewhat customised - though SuSE currently doesn't do this to the same extent as RedHat.
Rollout of a new desktop is a big process when you're talking that many machines, so expect a rollout team to provide a customised selection and configuration of the installs. When I worked for SunCorp in Australia I was part of a rollout team that spent 2-3 years rolling out the new desktop. A small part of the team spent several months getting the install images sorted out before we started imaging the drives. This was all fucked up by Compaq when they reneged on the deal to supply us with completely identical machines for the entire 5000 machine rollout. We then had to sit around waiting for a new install image to be built prior to doing the next round of hardware. I imagine that part of the money for the contract will be doing something very similar.
NOTE: I personally spent 2 of those years simply converting Word Basic macros into VBA macros for all the templates. A simple change from Office 6.0 to Office 97 meant me and another guy were busy for *two solid years* converting those stupid little macros to ensure Susie in accounting could still send out her important form letters.