One huge problem with your proposition is that everyone is moving away from specialised hardware to commodity components. What you are proposing is a return to specialisation.
There is a 3rd option. Find a company (often a small store) that will build the computer to your specifications. This is what I do for my computers (I sell between 5 and 50 servers a year). One advantage is that they will spend the effort getting good prices, checking availability and looking for power-vs-price sweet spot while I just have to concentrate on important elements without having to sweet to many details.
No one in my household knows my password. I have ssh keys sitting in ssh-agent that can get into many of my client's servers. I obviously don't want any one but me using those keys.
I've only fought with the Office ribbon once. I thought it was a great innovation; it gives me one more reason to tell people that no, I can't help them with their computer problems.
Seriously, it struct me that they wanted their Office apps to have a wiz-bang interface closer to what Web 2.0 AJAX apps have. Which is stupid if you think about it for more then a few minutes.
I don't really care about bandwidth. What I really care about is parallel requests and out of order requests. This is why SCSI was so much better then IDE. Does SATA 3.0 remove the odious limit of 15 NCQ reqs?
I could rewrite your comment, only switching all positions. All my servers have CentOS. My desktops are Fedora Core or Mandriva. I installed Ubuntu on my laptop for some reason... using apt or just getting anything done is like pulling teeth. Apt's TUI was designed by someone who hates people.
I write applications that use MySQL that get installed on servers at the cient's premises. I'm also the one doing with the installation and MySQL config.
Reponding to your points :
If the client were to insist on handling the MySQL part, and screwed it up, it would cease to be my problem. Or rather, I would point at the instalation and tell them were they fucked up;
About turning off strict-mode. If your applications are turning off strict-mode, then don't be supprised if you break data integrity. If your clients are writing apps that turn off strict-mode and mess up data integrity, that isn't really your problem, is it?
Or how about we put it another way: it will always be possible for someone to mess up the data. These are human issue, not a software issue. Deal with them that way.
Computer fraud is like computer errors.
A computer error is any error that happens and there is a computer in the room. There is always a computer in the room. Hence, all errors are computer errors.
Linux currently kicks ass on the desktop. I have it on my desktop, my laptop and my step daughter's computer.
So far this year, I've replaced roughly 100 windows computers with LTSP diskless terminals.
Linux on the desktop is a done deal. Anyone saying otherwise is living in the dark.
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Very bad idea: raising electricity rates like that is basically a regressive tax on the poor.
With version control, play-back capability, distributed storage, and a well documented pluggin API.
Wave blows me away.
The fact that so many people chime in with "I don't get it" is probably an indication of how revolutionary it is.
One huge problem with your proposition is that everyone is moving away from specialised hardware to commodity components. What you are proposing is a return to specialisation.
Has a study like this been done for the current system of cold server rooms?
1- Mechanical wear (colder = looser fit);
2- Employee discomfort;
3- Part failure*
* In a large server center, I doubt those 15 degrees difference would gain you much in reaction time.
The moment the head hunters messed with your resumé, they are out of the running. Fire them so fast they get skid marks.
There is a 3rd option. Find a company (often a small store) that will build the computer to your specifications. This is what I do for my computers (I sell between 5 and 50 servers a year). One advantage is that they will spend the effort getting good prices, checking availability and looking for power-vs-price sweet spot while I just have to concentrate on important elements without having to sweet to many details.
Neither my car nor my home has air conditioning. I consider both nice to have, but unnecessary.
However, IE+Chrome is not using all of IE. So the holes in IE that are being superceeded by Chrome are no longer an issue.
You mean to say it isn't already where you live? It is here in Quebec, at the High School my step-daughter goes to.
No one in my household knows my password. I have ssh keys sitting in ssh-agent that can get into many of my client's servers. I obviously don't want any one but me using those keys.
I've only fought with the Office ribbon once. I thought it was a great innovation; it gives me one more reason to tell people that no, I can't help them with their computer problems.
Seriously, it struct me that they wanted their Office apps to have a wiz-bang interface closer to what Web 2.0 AJAX apps have. Which is stupid if you think about it for more then a few minutes.
Let's hope the Ribbon is the MS-Bob of 2009.
DEAGLE BRAND DEAGLE!
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I'm on a Bell DSL connection. I am unable to reproduce this problem.
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bing.honk-honk.qc.ca. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ca. 3600 IN SOA jbq01.tor.cira.ca. admin-dns.cira.ca. 2009080414 1800 900 604800 3600
;; Query time: 56 msec
;; SERVER: 206.47.244.78#53(206.47.244.78)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 4 14:16:41 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 99
I don't really care about bandwidth. What I really care about is parallel requests and out of order requests. This is why SCSI was so much better then IDE. Does SATA 3.0 remove the odious limit of 15 NCQ reqs?
Combine with a USB "docking port" ( http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/adet.to?seg=HHO&poid=408593) and you get a computer with no moving parts. No moving parts = no noise, and less to break.
I could rewrite your comment, only switching all positions. All my servers have CentOS. My desktops are Fedora Core or Mandriva. I installed Ubuntu on my laptop for some reason... using apt or just getting anything done is like pulling teeth. Apt's TUI was designed by someone who hates people.
I write applications that use MySQL that get installed on servers at the cient's premises. I'm also the one doing with the installation and MySQL config.
Reponding to your points :
Or how about we put it another way: it will always be possible for someone to mess up the data. These are human issue, not a software issue. Deal with them that way.
While SCO answers to all your acusations, government money in the USA these days seems to be reserved for perpetrators of financial fraud.
If it's a really good idea, drop out of school, start a business, make a million off it. If it's not a good idea, you don't care if they take it.
This is something I've been saying for years : 40 hours a week is "part time" for a programmer.
What an awsome legacy, eh.
Computer fraud is like computer errors. A computer error is any error that happens and there is a computer in the room. There is always a computer in the room. Hence, all errors are computer errors.
No you don't. The French keyboard has $ in the same place as an English one does.
Linux currently kicks ass on the desktop. I have it on my desktop, my laptop and my step daughter's computer. So far this year, I've replaced roughly 100 windows computers with LTSP diskless terminals. Linux on the desktop is a done deal. Anyone saying otherwise is living in the dark.
CentOS 4.6 uses the 2.6.9 kernel. This exploit is for 2.6.17 - 2.6.24