1) Large companies don't always do layoffs to "reduce expenses". They do it to reduce the supply because of a forecasted reduced demand
Then what do you call layoffs at a company that supplies nothing other than the manpower to operate the parent company? I call it cutting the bottom line.
2) If we are talking about technical people being laid off, it will still happen: they don't know Linux and so have to be replaced
There will still be computers that still have "I can't log on" or "I can't get my mail" problems, and we will still need helpdesk and cable monkeys to take care of them.
3) MS licenses are not an operating expense, they are a capital expense (capital offense?). Meaning they already have money locked up in licenses
Yeah, buyiong a piece of software is a capital expense. But owning the livcenses to a piece of software over the life of the company becomes an operating expense. If I run a company with 2,000 people in it, and use Office for my App Suite, then I have to stay at either the current or the previous version to maintain support from Microsoft. Older versions are not supported, and I can't afford to support an old piece of software on my own time. Dumping the software only loses money until the point where you would have had to relicense the new version to keep you supported.
What company are you working for, then? The last two companies I worked for both spent well over a couple of million dollars a year in OS and Application licenses for the desktop. That doesn't include things like Oracle, Notes, or whatever that ran on the servers and weren't directly visible to the user.
If I could save my company 2 million dollars a year, you better bet I'd be getting a raise and a promotion...
That regarless of what confirmations we have, Amazon reserve the right to cancel the order at any time before charging your card. You aren't going to win this one...
UNIX - for any OS that looks like the work done by AT&T/Bell Labs
While Tatu may have intended to keep his Trademark from public use, the fact of the matter is, like many popular brand names, it's become a generic term. You don't see the Trademark Police descending on little Mom&Pop sandwich stores in Tennessee when a conversation like this happens:
Me: I'll Have a Coke. Them: What kind of Coke? Me: (sarcastically) Well, what kind of Coke do you have? Them: Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, 7-up and root beer.
...do you? Tatu needs to get over himself and be glad that he's created something that has become so pervasive that it is being used as a generic term.
Check out TaxAct. Their basic version is free, and came pretty close to what Kiplinger TaxCut did when I compared them last year. I didn't try the deluxe version, but it's come down to something like $7.00 if you buy it online.
And just so you're not surprised, you do realize that E-filing your taxes isn't free, right? It costs like 5 bucks or something like that. The "Free E-Filing" in TaxCut and TurboTax is a mail-in rebate on the cost of your E-Filing.
The Sun PCi card (not to be confused with PCI bus cards) is a hardware solution to run X86 oerating systems under Solaris. It's actually a Computer-on-a-PCI card. Hence the price and the choices for additional memory - you're buying two computers that live in one chassis.
You'll need to add routes for the opposing subnets on either end of the tunnel:
ifconfig tunl0 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
ifconfig tunl1 2.2.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
This will set up the interfaces...you IP's may vary. Then:
route add 1.1.1.0 tunl1 (on machine 2)
route add 2.2.2.0 tunl0 (on machine 1)
Or, add the single IP address you're trying to get to instead of the networks. Which will be just as easy unless you've got multiple machines at either end.
I have an award jacket from making regional band in H.S. It says "Mark" on one line, and "Trombone" on the second on the front where there would be a breast pocket. Once college arrived, the name evolved from "trombone" to "trommy" to "tbone" to just "t" because everyone was usually stoned and eating, and "t" took less time to say:) But I took TBone.
Spammed?
Don't sign up for lists...I get about 1 Email from them a month, and it't Tim's monthly info mail. If one mail a month is too much for you, then you don't really need Email.
DynDNS work well with a home-brew perl script I wrote to do my own Dynamic DNS updates to make my mail server and such appear as the name I want them to be, not the name my Cable Modem provider picked.
Sparc is a lousy processor. 400 megahertz? And software support and development problems are also bad.
That 400 megahertz processor operates on about 4 times more CPU instructions per clock cycle than your X86 chip. You're comparing apples and oranges. And I have bad software support problems on my IBM Aptiva running Windows that crashes every 5-7 days. What problems do SPARC chips have that x86 chips don't?
standard Linux tools like Gimp
What exactly is standard about needing a massive image editing package with your server? Dumb statement
How will we ever be taught about the high level programs the end user deals with or the websites, when we don't even have a graphics tool comparable to Microsoft Paint.
How will you ever get a job in the real world when you equate Microsoft Paint with Oracle in the same sentence. I'm a sys admin and haven't touched a graphics program for work in over 5 years.
Sun computers are expensive, unreliable, slow, of a bad design, and are falling more behind each day.
Expensive? Yep, but they run better than your x86 boxes, even running Linux, sorry. Unreliable? Maybe when you let the developers have root access and tune things to their heart's content. We ran E10 domains that were up for months, and only went down because we installed some new software on a test domain (hence test), or we were installing upgrades and brought it down. Bad design? Maybe if you want it to look like an Intel or Apple, but for what it does, it does it as well as anything out there. And what's with falling behind more every day. Get your head out of your Megahertz, the days when X+25 is faster than X have been gone since the Pentium Pro and a second motherboard chipset.
Amazon is now on Linux.
Because Amazon hasn't made a dollar in over 3 years of operation. They can't afford Sun.
Selling? What's that got to do with computers? E-Commerce you mean? It's all in the software. Of course, if your computers can't handle the load, then you've got a problem. Hosting static pages? Yay, whooee, big load on your computer there. Static pages aren't where the web is going anyway. Sharing information? That's what Email is for. And Databases? On Win2K? Maybe if you're talking about your contact manager database with your friend's names and phone numbers, but for that matter, you could have used a CSV Spreadsheet from Excel for Windows and a little DOS batch file to break it out.
Sun Bigot? No, but kiddies who convinced their parents that they needed to have that 1GHz Athlon because it's 1000KHz and so it's the fastest, and have no concept of system architecture irritate me.
If you're running a large installation of servers, I'd have to recommend Veritas NetBackup. I'd also have to !recommend Networker, as I've had no end of problems with it in all the places I've worked for anything but the single-server, local drive version.
Pros:
Distributed architecture scales with absolutely no problems. We run NetBackup on about 800 servers spread throughout the entire eastern part of the United States, from workstations to large NT and UNIX servers.
Largest supported platform list that I've ever seen. NB 4.0 has been verified on most Linux distributions as a client, as well as just about every UNIX, Windows, and Mac platform, and some platforms I didn't even know existed (WTF is Auspex? People still run UNICOS on CRAY servers? And why would anyone run Data General's DG/UX?).
Widescale device support, from standalone drives to huge libraries.
Non-OS client software out the ying-yang. Pick your database, there's software to get it to back up to NB. Have Network Appliance boxes? Get the NDMP client.
In it's simplest setup, every image on tape is a GNU tar tarball. If you lose your master server, grab the backup tape, forward to the file you want, and tar it off by hand.
Lots of additional software that works with NB. Want to manage duplication and offsite tape storage? Get the Vault extension to do it automatically. Need spiffy reporting? Get the Advanced Reporter package.
Pick your interface to the software. Commandline, X, or Java. I believe the Java interface will even run through a web page.
Cons:
The NetBackup Server software doesn't run on Linux. It does run on just about every other UNIX, and Windows NT and 2000
Learning curve is steep. I've been one of the primary admins here since we installed the product last year, and I still have to go running to the docs every time there's a problem I don't have memorized yet
License Keys. They're a pain in the keester. I don't like dealing with keys when I have a site license for the damn software, I just want to install it all over the freaking place.
$$$$. I believe our site license cost us just over $1M. Contact your local rep to find out how much you'll get reamed:)
I've used Legato Networker, SCH Reels, various dump utilities, and Veritas NBU, and NBU is by far the best product I've seen so far. Any questions, drop me a line
In fact, the last time I was in Sams Club (WalMart's warehouse stores, you probably have one around), they has something exactly like this - it was a "tower" of...hmm...20 or so apothecary-style drawers, arranged sort of pyramidically (2 rows of 6, a row of 5, another row of fewer, maybe another row on top of that, I didn't look too hard). They were about 16" deep, so you're looking at about 50 CD's per drawer.
Hello? Do you live in the United States?
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You do know that what you just described is coersion, is voter fraud, is a felony crime, and is punishable by massive fines and long jail time, right?
Your boss, your party, and your Aunt Matilda all could go to jail for making you not vote in the way you want to, or even making the situation uncomfortable for you when yo do actually cast your vote. In fact, this issue is oging to come up down in Dade County in Miami, where it was apparently decided last Friday afternoon that the local Police Force would use Tuesday to check insurance and driver's licenses. Oh, did we forget to tell you that? Oh, is Dade County a primarily ethnic and Democratic community in a state run by Republicans?
If you can't vote the way you want, call your election board. My company told us we should vote against a measure that was proposed here in FL (the Monorail proposition, BTW). I voted for it, and decided they could suck it up. I don't take part in the PAC here at work, I don't vote party line because I'm a hard-core Democrat, I vote whoever I think should be there.
If you're unable to do that, then you need to get rid of the people that are causing you to be unable to exercise your most fundamental right here in the US.
Invalid architecture assumptions
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Everyone is assuming we're talking about hooking up modems to your local Baby Bell internet provider and broadcasting packets back to the master server which is on someone's DSL or Cable link.
I have one word for that: Duh. If we go to a computerized system, we're going to need point-to-point, non-open communications lines for all of these clients and servers. Systems that dial into each other directly. It won't be possible for Johnny to sit at home and man-in-the-middle hte tally packets, because there won't be a middle for him to be in. You wn't be able to DDoS the servers, because you will never see them poke their heads onto the net at large.
Come on people that's just common sense...
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I don't know about where you live, but having a Driver's license is not required here to vote. All you need is some form of photo ID. There are about 15 of them listed on our local election board web page, including things like Passports, Military ID's, and various other things.
There's too many acceptable forms of ID to make it a requirement to have a specific one to vote. In fact, I wa worried I wasn't going to be able to vote because we moved in May from one house to another right down the street, but we can't find which box our Voter Cards are in. Tying things to a single piece of paper/plastic/whatever is not a good idea.
Here's what you all seem to be forgetting...
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Everyone wants some kind of national push to develop 21st century voting systems, for everyone to 'get with the program' and get away from the punchcards, the scantron forms, or whetever else.
However, the United States of America is still just that - a Republic of United States. Voting is a right guaranteed under the Federal constitution, but exercised and controlled at the state level. In this sense, there are effectively 50 little countries voting here.
Imagine the European Union trying to pick a President/King/Queen/Prime Minister/whatever. Do you think Germany really gives a rat's ass how Sweden runs their voting? Or that France wants to be forced to adopt England's voting methods? Not on their life. They are individual countries with a common, uniting regulating body. That's essentially what the US is, with significantly more regulation coming to the states than an EU commission would have over the countries of Europe.
There will never be Federal Voting Standards. If you want your local voting standards changed, call your local election board and get things moving.
Oh, and here in Jacksonville, Florida (Duval County), we used punchcards this year, but there are already plans underway to move into computerized voting by 2004.
Hash the password agains a sequence of numbers - your SSN, Driver's License, something personal. Treate it like a PGP block, create a string 80 characters long that requires other information from you.
So can my mail-delivered PC Banking ID's, my credit card statements, and a lot of other sensitive documents with important numbers. what's the going price for your latest CC statement?
The set up SSH/SHTTP/whatever endrypted connections that talk to a bank of central computers that check off people as they vote. Trivial, once the voter ID hash is calculated, only the original number needs be registered back at "home base".
The social engineering attacks on voter ID cards are the same attachs that you can use to get almost ANY personal information.
What's that got to do with anything. This differs because:
This is run by a state-level organization
You could ONLY vote online for ICANN. You can still go to a polling place for this
The local government already sends hundreds of thousands of smaple ballots and other crap for the election, why wouldn't they be able to run off a postcard, too?
ICANN voting online was a good idea with not enough thought behind it. The infrastructure already esists to implement this.
For reference, here's the prescribed format of a ballot to be used for general elections in the state of Florida:
(slashdot is mangling it) I can't post a proper link. the URL is:
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_ mode=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0101/titl0101.htm&StatuteYear=2000&Title=%2D%3E2000%2D%3EChapte r%20101
There's the first stub for official signoffs, the second stub for other signoffs, then the actual ballot. Notice the wording:
TO VOTE for a candidate whose name is printed on the ballot, mark a cross (X) in the blank space at the RIGHT of the name of the candidate for whom you desire to vote. To vote for a candidate whose name is not printed on the ballot, write the candidate's name in the blank space provided for that purpose.
It's set up this way because people read English from right to left, then skip to the next line. The butterfly ballot is in violation of this wording by having checkboxes to the left of the candidates, and breaking from the single-column format.
And as far as a lot of Buchanan friends and family - his daughter was quoted on our news as saying that something is wrong, because he would never have gotten 3 times the state average of votes, especially not in that county.
For those of you who want stats, tat PDF document up there basically says that the Buchanan/Bush ratio across almost all of FL was between 0.001 and 0.011, with the bell curve centered at 0.004 and a deviation of 0.0021. Palm Coast fell at 0.22, 8 S.D.'s above the center.
The call wasn't made until 7:30 EST or so. The only polls still open were those in PST, Alaska (always Republican), and Hawaii (always Democrat).
If some shmoe was sitting around listening to exit polls 30 minutes before the voting closed in the last few states, and got apathetic, that's their fault. The news wires hold those polls until the majority of the US is done and won't be affected
There's no readon to have bad performance with small files.
UFS is not set up to, by default, perform well with lots of small files, it compromises between large and small files.
Jump your Inode count up a whole crapload (maybe 1 Inode per 4k), and install DiskSuite to raid across multiple disks (not multiple partitions, physically separate disks) with a small (4k) stripe size.
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1) Large companies don't always do layoffs to "reduce expenses". They do it to reduce the supply because of a forecasted reduced demand
Then what do you call layoffs at a company that supplies nothing other than the manpower to operate the parent company? I call it cutting the bottom line.
2) If we are talking about technical people being laid off, it will still happen: they don't know Linux and so have to be replaced
There will still be computers that still have "I can't log on" or "I can't get my mail" problems, and we will still need helpdesk and cable monkeys to take care of them.
3) MS licenses are not an operating expense, they are a capital expense (capital offense?). Meaning they already have money locked up in licenses
Yeah, buyiong a piece of software is a capital expense. But owning the livcenses to a piece of software over the life of the company becomes an operating expense. If I run a company with 2,000 people in it, and use Office for my App Suite, then I have to stay at either the current or the previous version to maintain support from Microsoft. Older versions are not supported, and I can't afford to support an old piece of software on my own time. Dumping the software only loses money until the point where you would have had to relicense the new version to keep you supported.
What company are you working for, then? The last two companies I worked for both spent well over a couple of million dollars a year in OS and Application licenses for the desktop. That doesn't include things like Oracle, Notes, or whatever that ran on the servers and weren't directly visible to the user.
If I could save my company 2 million dollars a year, you better bet I'd be getting a raise and a promotion...
That regarless of what confirmations we have, Amazon reserve the right to cancel the order at any time before charging your card. You aren't going to win this one...
While Tatu may have intended to keep his Trademark from public use, the fact of the matter is, like many popular brand names, it's become a generic term. You don't see the Trademark Police descending on little Mom&Pop sandwich stores in Tennessee when a conversation like this happens:
Yeah, you could. But your magazine sits there for 30 days never changing, eventually winding up in the trash. Hooray for dead trees.
Online magazines provide more content at a greater rate than just about any periodical outside of newspapers.
Check out TaxAct. Their basic version is free, and came pretty close to what Kiplinger TaxCut did when I compared them last year. I didn't try the deluxe version, but it's come down to something like $7.00 if you buy it online.
And just so you're not surprised, you do realize that E-filing your taxes isn't free, right? It costs like 5 bucks or something like that. The "Free E-Filing" in TaxCut and TurboTax is a mail-in rebate on the cost of your E-Filing.
So does ksh's file completion....
/home/mark/PERSONAL/
#>ksh
host:#>ls -d ~mark/PER*<tab>
(expands to)
host:#>ls -d
The Sun PCi card (not to be confused with PCI bus cards) is a hardware solution to run X86 oerating systems under Solaris. It's actually a Computer-on-a-PCI card. Hence the price and the choices for additional memory - you're buying two computers that live in one chassis.
Um, maybe init 3 and init 4? Or do you mean switching between a profile and off?
You'll need to add routes for the opposing subnets on either end of the tunnel:
ifconfig tunl0 1.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
ifconfig tunl1 2.2.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
This will set up the interfaces...you IP's may vary. Then:
route add 1.1.1.0 tunl1 (on machine 2)
route add 2.2.2.0 tunl0 (on machine 1)
Or, add the single IP address you're trying to get to instead of the networks. Which will be just as easy unless you've got multiple machines at either end.
I have an award jacket from making regional band in H.S. It says "Mark" on one line, and "Trombone" on the second on the front where there would be a breast pocket. Once college arrived, the name evolved from "trombone" to "trommy" to "tbone" to just "t" because everyone was usually stoned and eating, and "t" took less time to say :) But I took TBone.
Spammed? Don't sign up for lists...I get about 1 Email from them a month, and it't Tim's monthly info mail. If one mail a month is too much for you, then you don't really need Email. DynDNS work well with a home-brew perl script I wrote to do my own Dynamic DNS updates to make my mail server and such appear as the name I want them to be, not the name my Cable Modem provider picked.
Sparc is a lousy processor. 400 megahertz? And software support and development problems are also bad.
That 400 megahertz processor operates on about 4 times more CPU instructions per clock cycle than your X86 chip. You're comparing apples and oranges. And I have bad software support problems on my IBM Aptiva running Windows that crashes every 5-7 days. What problems do SPARC chips have that x86 chips don't?
standard Linux tools like Gimp
What exactly is standard about needing a massive image editing package with your server? Dumb statement
How will we ever be taught about the high level programs the end user deals with or the websites, when we don't even have a graphics tool comparable to Microsoft Paint.
How will you ever get a job in the real world when you equate Microsoft Paint with Oracle in the same sentence. I'm a sys admin and haven't touched a graphics program for work in over 5 years.
Sun computers are expensive, unreliable, slow, of a bad design, and are falling more behind each day.
Expensive? Yep, but they run better than your x86 boxes, even running Linux, sorry. Unreliable? Maybe when you let the developers have root access and tune things to their heart's content. We ran E10 domains that were up for months, and only went down because we installed some new software on a test domain (hence test), or we were installing upgrades and brought it down. Bad design? Maybe if you want it to look like an Intel or Apple, but for what it does, it does it as well as anything out there. And what's with falling behind more every day. Get your head out of your Megahertz, the days when X+25 is faster than X have been gone since the Pentium Pro and a second motherboard chipset.
Amazon is now on Linux.
Because Amazon hasn't made a dollar in over 3 years of operation. They can't afford Sun.
selling, hosting static pages, sharing information, databases
Selling? What's that got to do with computers? E-Commerce you mean? It's all in the software. Of course, if your computers can't handle the load, then you've got a problem. Hosting static pages? Yay, whooee, big load on your computer there. Static pages aren't where the web is going anyway. Sharing information? That's what Email is for. And Databases? On Win2K? Maybe if you're talking about your contact manager database with your friend's names and phone numbers, but for that matter, you could have used a CSV Spreadsheet from Excel for Windows and a little DOS batch file to break it out.
Sun Bigot? No, but kiddies who convinced their parents that they needed to have that 1GHz Athlon because it's 1000KHz and so it's the fastest, and have no concept of system architecture irritate me.
If you're running a large installation of servers, I'd have to recommend Veritas NetBackup. I'd also have to !recommend Networker, as I've had no end of problems with it in all the places I've worked for anything but the single-server, local drive version.
Pros:
Cons:
I've used Legato Networker, SCH Reels, various dump utilities, and Veritas NBU, and NBU is by far the best product I've seen so far. Any questions, drop me a line
In fact, the last time I was in Sams Club (WalMart's warehouse stores, you probably have one around), they has something exactly like this - it was a "tower" of...hmm...20 or so apothecary-style drawers, arranged sort of pyramidically (2 rows of 6, a row of 5, another row of fewer, maybe another row on top of that, I didn't look too hard). They were about 16" deep, so you're looking at about 50 CD's per drawer.
You do know that what you just described is coersion, is voter fraud, is a felony crime, and is punishable by massive fines and long jail time, right?
Your boss, your party, and your Aunt Matilda all could go to jail for making you not vote in the way you want to, or even making the situation uncomfortable for you when yo do actually cast your vote. In fact, this issue is oging to come up down in Dade County in Miami, where it was apparently decided last Friday afternoon that the local Police Force would use Tuesday to check insurance and driver's licenses. Oh, did we forget to tell you that? Oh, is Dade County a primarily ethnic and Democratic community in a state run by Republicans?
If you can't vote the way you want, call your election board. My company told us we should vote against a measure that was proposed here in FL (the Monorail proposition, BTW). I voted for it, and decided they could suck it up. I don't take part in the PAC here at work, I don't vote party line because I'm a hard-core Democrat, I vote whoever I think should be there.
If you're unable to do that, then you need to get rid of the people that are causing you to be unable to exercise your most fundamental right here in the US.
Everyone is assuming we're talking about hooking up modems to your local Baby Bell internet provider and broadcasting packets back to the master server which is on someone's DSL or Cable link.
I have one word for that: Duh. If we go to a computerized system, we're going to need point-to-point, non-open communications lines for all of these clients and servers. Systems that dial into each other directly. It won't be possible for Johnny to sit at home and man-in-the-middle hte tally packets, because there won't be a middle for him to be in. You wn't be able to DDoS the servers, because you will never see them poke their heads onto the net at large.
Come on people that's just common sense...
I don't know about where you live, but having a Driver's license is not required here to vote. All you need is some form of photo ID. There are about 15 of them listed on our local election board web page, including things like Passports, Military ID's, and various other things.
There's too many acceptable forms of ID to make it a requirement to have a specific one to vote. In fact, I wa worried I wasn't going to be able to vote because we moved in May from one house to another right down the street, but we can't find which box our Voter Cards are in. Tying things to a single piece of paper/plastic/whatever is not a good idea.
Everyone wants some kind of national push to develop 21st century voting systems, for everyone to 'get with the program' and get away from the punchcards, the scantron forms, or whetever else.
However, the United States of America is still just that - a Republic of United States. Voting is a right guaranteed under the Federal constitution, but exercised and controlled at the state level. In this sense, there are effectively 50 little countries voting here.
Imagine the European Union trying to pick a President/King/Queen/Prime Minister/whatever. Do you think Germany really gives a rat's ass how Sweden runs their voting? Or that France wants to be forced to adopt England's voting methods? Not on their life. They are individual countries with a common, uniting regulating body. That's essentially what the US is, with significantly more regulation coming to the states than an EU commission would have over the countries of Europe.
There will never be Federal Voting Standards. If you want your local voting standards changed, call your local election board and get things moving.
Oh, and here in Jacksonville, Florida (Duval County), we used punchcards this year, but there are already plans underway to move into computerized voting by 2004.
The Electoral College does not convene until December 19th to cast the state votes. January 20th is the official Inauguration of the new President.
- Hash the password agains a sequence of numbers - your SSN, Driver's License, something personal. Treate it like a PGP block, create a string 80 characters long that requires other information from you.
- So can my mail-delivered PC Banking ID's, my credit card statements, and a lot of other sensitive documents with important numbers. what's the going price for your latest CC statement?
- The set up SSH/SHTTP/whatever endrypted connections that talk to a bank of central computers that check off people as they vote. Trivial, once the voter ID hash is calculated, only the original number needs be registered back at "home base".
The social engineering attacks on voter ID cards are the same attachs that you can use to get almost ANY personal information.What's that got to do with anything. This differs because:
- This is run by a state-level organization
- You could ONLY vote online for ICANN. You can still go to a polling place for this
- The local government already sends hundreds of thousands of smaple ballots and other crap for the election, why wouldn't they be able to run off a postcard, too?
ICANN voting online was a good idea with not enough thought behind it. The infrastructure already esists to implement this.Note: IANAL
For reference, here's the prescribed format of a ballot to be used for general elections in the state of Florida:
(slashdot is mangling it) I can't post a proper link. the URL is:_ mode=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0101/titl0101 .htm&StatuteYear=2000&Title=%2D%3E2000%2D%3EChapte r%20101
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App
There's the first stub for official signoffs, the second stub for other signoffs, then the actual ballot. Notice the wording:
It's set up this way because people read English from right to left, then skip to the next line. The butterfly ballot is in violation of this wording by having checkboxes to the left of the candidates, and breaking from the single-column format.And as far as a lot of Buchanan friends and family - his daughter was quoted on our news as saying that something is wrong, because he would never have gotten 3 times the state average of votes, especially not in that county.
For those of you who want stats, tat PDF document up there basically says that the Buchanan/Bush ratio across almost all of FL was between 0.001 and 0.011, with the bell curve centered at 0.004 and a deviation of 0.0021. Palm Coast fell at 0.22, 8 S.D.'s above the center.
The call wasn't made until 7:30 EST or so. The only polls still open were those in PST, Alaska (always Republican), and Hawaii (always Democrat).
If some shmoe was sitting around listening to exit polls 30 minutes before the voting closed in the last few states, and got apathetic, that's their fault. The news wires hold those polls until the majority of the US is done and won't be affected
There's no readon to have bad performance with small files. UFS is not set up to, by default, perform well with lots of small files, it compromises between large and small files. Jump your Inode count up a whole crapload (maybe 1 Inode per 4k), and install DiskSuite to raid across multiple disks (not multiple partitions, physically separate disks) with a small (4k) stripe size.