You get what you pay for in an Enterpise shop, sometimes. If Redhat(or IBM) was financially motivated, the bug would have been addressed(or they would have pressured the company to address it, etc). Even with RHEL3, you can only expect so much support(a considerable ammount, but it has limits). If you payed the millions that your CRM customer did as you mentioned, you bet your ass someone would fix that bug.
But Bungie is owned by Microsoft. So, yes, Microsoft did indeed re(write) halo and write halo 2. They also happened to publish it themselves. The 2 are not mutually exclusive.
Some jackass broke his NDA with Apple to leak product details to a site that openly welcomes such news.
Thinksecret isn't journalism, it is a spam filter for Apple rumors. The leak isn't using his free speech rights, he just broke a contract he signed that forbid him to talk about upcoming products.
Why are you sensationalizing something that doesn't deserve it! Think secret is a great rumor website, but it is not journalism.
On the Oregon campus being built: the expected average salary of the Google employees in rural Oregon is roughly 2x the average pay of the rest of the area.
In Oregon, $250,000- $350,000 can buy you an extremely nice house, with land. Money goes a long way in Oregon compared to million dollar estates in California that are bought solely for the land and location.
I always thought having components offloaded to their cards(the way OS X offloads video the video car). Network offload to the NIC, sound to the sound card, etc. Why not? Given that 100mhz+ processor are becoming dirt cheap, and their ability to take on processor load only makes sense, freeing time for the system CPU to move on to better things.
I don't think so much damage has been done to totally kill Fedora, but I think some changes need to be made. Correct me if I am wrong on these.
Fedora's Add/Remove Packages system, which has been present since 7.0 or earlier. It should use Yum repositories to put available packages from the 'net, not just from CD.
RHEL's up2date graphical update/patch system, too, should use yum repositories (RHEL would use a redhat certified/authenticated repository, for instance, but also have public ones available).
Essentially, this would make Fedora only need 1 cd(base install, everything else could be pulled down off the 'net), and the patch system would make a graphical update system to replace the simple-but-not-user-friendly yum update.
This would be a much more Ubuntu like setup, because the major gain with Ubuntu is a network-based install and update system. Redhat has the possibility to do this, with yum and up2date, they just haven't done it yet.
And at the same time, with faster computers will be able to use larger and more advanced encryption techniques. SHA-512, -1024, 2048. It is all relative. Besides which, ecnryption is known to be breakable, the deciding factor is HOW LONG your information needs to remain a secret.
I would rather have a clear plastic panel that covers my eye, and have a projected image hit it. So that the display was transparent, and when not in use, could be looked through with ease... This would also go well when you start writing the display software to overlay map information with what your eye see, so looking with your left eye, you see all real world terrain as you normally would, through your right eye, you see the real world terrain, with computer generated graphics laid on top of that terrain, highlighting known object, friends, targets, etc.
The closest visually I have seen to this device is the (useless) HUD used in Hackers, the mid-1990s movie. Most consumer HUDs are far too bulky. These really need to be near sunglass weight on the ears/nose/neck, even if they feed of a small PDA strapped to your hip.
Well Oregon, though some don't know it, is extremely well engineered for anything networking related. We have a lot of fiber laid down, designed for redundant links to the 'major' cities throughout the state, so for Google, there is a lot of bandwidth they can tap into, without having to worry about digging holes.
They are called file permissions. In linux(or any real OS, really) you should only be able to fuck up your own home directory. System stuff, apps, etc, should all be outside your fuck-up-able domain. This is not so in Windows, your FUA(see above) domain is system-wide, so any system file can be rewritteny, deleted or replaced.. The registry can be changed at will, and auto-executing scripts from email or websites have this ability almost without trying..
I think IS and IT departments need to be independent to each agency... but at the same time, the NSA, in my opinion, needs to set standards of secure inter- and intra-agency communication. Encryption, standards, documentation, some level of absolute requirements.
Each agency has a lot of unique, huge needs. You can't have an IT department for the entire Fortune 10 corporations. You just can't. Their needs are different, their size is rediculous, and you just wouldn't be gaining anything.
Better communication, more sharing of non-sensitive information and collaberation, and giving the smart Sys Admin the right to fix the problem and not jump through hoops.
Why not just apply email spam filters and bayesian "smart" filters to usenet posts, blacklists and whitelists, etc. Same concept as a high volume email address. What is the problem?
Googled for "motorola a630" and the first results (two hits from the Image search that displayed in the 'web' search category) were relevant. Here it is open.
Fine. take the html rendering core, set activeX to never run, or to run only on local content, set it to only render local files, set it to not be network-capable, etc. etc.
Basicly, make it a local-only content renderer. Leave the internet browsing to something that is actively developed.
Or, you could post to the article that inspired yours(and was cited in it), regarding the Fedora boot process.
here.
Basically, they found that rhgb (which is often turned off by Redhat Engineers) is wasting a lot of time and doesn't accomplish anything. Removing it would increase bootspeed.
"So it is with Microsoft. Besides Windows and Office, what products do they have that are profitable?"
*The Xbox(loss money) and Halo(make all of it back, then some). *Flight Sim, etc, being fairly popular games, also their Age of something or other(i forget) was a good game. *AD and their Directory services are widely used with Windows enviroments. *The mac software devision(highly profitable, much of it due to Office). *PDA/CE(they are the #1 PDA OS in front of Palm). *Their rebranded peripherals like mice and keyboards are highly acclaimed. *Their bank account, with its $50 billion.
"Story after story comes out about how Microsoft is going to take over this or that sector of the industry (MSN, WinCE, WMP), but they never seem to turn a profit."
Quote from above: "$50 billion". Why do they have to turn a profit in all markets? Having a loss in xboxes means that they can get better hardware into the console, making games like Halo run better, bringing in profits to compensate.
I don't like MS too much, but when you have that kind of monetary reserve, you don't need a quick buck, you need the longterm buck, which is what they are going after(xbox vs. xbox2).
Several of the Root Name servers are actually multiple computers on different continents load-balanced through Anycast technology(you 'hit' the closest server, wherever you are). This is what is needed for torrent sites. A legit, existing technology to load balance the tracker.
This is all just different ways to distribute the tracker. One way or another, we need a fully distributed, swarming-capable, secure, anonymous file sharing program.
Which is why it is P2P and not client/server... Instead of having a server host an mp3 file that is downloaded to many clients... You use icecast, p2p radio casting, or modified bittorrent (there was a/. on this a while back) that basically makes the author only upload to 1 or 2 people, and those users stream to users to who join later, etc, etc.
I would imagine some form of solid-state iPod/Flash drive like device using an encrypted bluetooth... Wireless authenticate and load your user profile from the wireless device, and run the dumb terminal using your files, etc. With the inclusion of a X server+screen that can pause/resume applications while running.
You forgot the native-looking Java Runtime enviroment that nicely ties in to the Mac, along with Apple's X11 server that also is aqua-themed (looks pretty close to native) and runs most any linux/*nix GUI app, along with command line apps.
For me, Mac is has the largest(by far) number of programs it can run. Add in VPC and it is reaching high 90's in % of available software being able to run on my laptop(excluding really hardcore old *nix stuff that just doesn't run; old, old mac classic software; etc).
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You get what you pay for in an Enterpise shop, sometimes. If Redhat(or IBM) was financially motivated, the bug would have been addressed(or they would have pressured the company to address it, etc). Even with RHEL3, you can only expect so much support(a considerable ammount, but it has limits). If you payed the millions that your CRM customer did as you mentioned, you bet your ass someone would fix that bug.
But Bungie is owned by Microsoft. So, yes, Microsoft did indeed re(write) halo and write halo 2. They also happened to publish it themselves. The 2 are not mutually exclusive.
Well, arrogance is bliss, isn't it?
Some jackass broke his NDA with Apple to leak product details to a site that openly welcomes such news.
Thinksecret isn't journalism, it is a spam filter for Apple rumors. The leak isn't using his free speech rights, he just broke a contract he signed that forbid him to talk about upcoming products.
Why are you sensationalizing something that doesn't deserve it! Think secret is a great rumor website, but it is not journalism.
On the Oregon campus being built: the expected average salary of the Google employees in rural Oregon is roughly 2x the average pay of the rest of the area.
In Oregon, $250,000- $350,000 can buy you an extremely nice house, with land. Money goes a long way in Oregon compared to million dollar estates in California that are bought solely for the land and location.
Why not just use the scp (secure copy) command?
I always thought having components offloaded to their cards(the way OS X offloads video the video car). Network offload to the NIC, sound to the sound card, etc. Why not? Given that 100mhz+ processor are becoming dirt cheap, and their ability to take on processor load only makes sense, freeing time for the system CPU to move on to better things.
I don't think so much damage has been done to totally kill Fedora, but I think some changes need to be made. Correct me if I am wrong on these.
Fedora's Add/Remove Packages system, which has been present since 7.0 or earlier. It should use Yum repositories to put available packages from the 'net, not just from CD.
RHEL's up2date graphical update/patch system, too, should use yum repositories (RHEL would use a redhat certified/authenticated repository, for instance, but also have public ones available).
Essentially, this would make Fedora only need 1 cd(base install, everything else could be pulled down off the 'net), and the patch system would make a graphical update system to replace the simple-but-not-user-friendly yum update.
This would be a much more Ubuntu like setup, because the major gain with Ubuntu is a network-based install and update system. Redhat has the possibility to do this, with yum and up2date, they just haven't done it yet.
And at the same time, with faster computers will be able to use larger and more advanced encryption techniques. SHA-512, -1024, 2048. It is all relative. Besides which, ecnryption is known to be breakable, the deciding factor is HOW LONG your information needs to remain a secret.
I would rather have a clear plastic panel that covers my eye, and have a projected image hit it. So that the display was transparent, and when not in use, could be looked through with ease... This would also go well when you start writing the display software to overlay map information with what your eye see, so looking with your left eye, you see all real world terrain as you normally would, through your right eye, you see the real world terrain, with computer generated graphics laid on top of that terrain, highlighting known object, friends, targets, etc.
The closest visually I have seen to this device is the (useless) HUD used in Hackers, the mid-1990s movie. Most consumer HUDs are far too bulky. These really need to be near sunglass weight on the ears/nose/neck, even if they feed of a small PDA strapped to your hip.
Well Oregon, though some don't know it, is extremely well engineered for anything networking related. We have a lot of fiber laid down, designed for redundant links to the 'major' cities throughout the state, so for Google, there is a lot of bandwidth they can tap into, without having to worry about digging holes.
Its whole goal is to be paltform friendly, and it is largely just an LDAP server. It should be very friendly for any modern OS.
large prime numbers are used in encryption techniques, also.
They are called file permissions. In linux(or any real OS, really) you should only be able to fuck up your own home directory. System stuff, apps, etc, should all be outside your fuck-up-able domain. This is not so in Windows, your FUA(see above) domain is system-wide, so any system file can be rewritteny, deleted or replaced.. The registry can be changed at will, and auto-executing scripts from email or websites have this ability almost without trying..
Yay.
I think IS and IT departments need to be independent to each agency... but at the same time, the NSA, in my opinion, needs to set standards of secure inter- and intra-agency communication. Encryption, standards, documentation, some level of absolute requirements.
Each agency has a lot of unique, huge needs. You can't have an IT department for the entire Fortune 10 corporations. You just can't. Their needs are different, their size is rediculous, and you just wouldn't be gaining anything.
Better communication, more sharing of non-sensitive information and collaberation, and giving the smart Sys Admin the right to fix the problem and not jump through hoops.
Why not just apply email spam filters and bayesian "smart" filters to usenet posts, blacklists and whitelists, etc. Same concept as a high volume email address. What is the problem?
Googled for "motorola a630" and the first results (two hits from the Image search that displayed in the 'web' search category) were relevant. Here it is open.
SOMEONE POSTED THIS TO SLASHDOT WITHOUT MY APPROVAL. IT IS AN UNFINISHED SITE....
[this site] ...WAS THROWN TOGETHER IN 5 MINUTES AS A DEMO. Please be respectful.
Fine. take the html rendering core, set activeX to never run, or to run only on local content, set it to only render local files, set it to not be network-capable, etc. etc.
Basicly, make it a local-only content renderer. Leave the internet browsing to something that is actively developed.
Works for me.
Basically, they found that rhgb (which is often turned off by Redhat Engineers) is wasting a lot of time and doesn't accomplish anything. Removing it would increase bootspeed.
"So it is with Microsoft. Besides Windows and Office, what products do they have that are profitable?"
*The Xbox(loss money) and Halo(make all of it back, then some).
*Flight Sim, etc, being fairly popular games, also their Age of something or other(i forget) was a good game.
*AD and their Directory services are widely used with Windows enviroments.
*The mac software devision(highly profitable, much of it due to Office).
*PDA/CE(they are the #1 PDA OS in front of Palm).
*Their rebranded peripherals like mice and keyboards are highly acclaimed.
*Their bank account, with its $50 billion.
"Story after story comes out about how Microsoft is going to take over this or that sector of the industry (MSN, WinCE, WMP), but they never seem to turn a profit."
Quote from above: "$50 billion". Why do they have to turn a profit in all markets? Having a loss in xboxes means that they can get better hardware into the console, making games like Halo run better, bringing in profits to compensate.
I don't like MS too much, but when you have that kind of monetary reserve, you don't need a quick buck, you need the longterm buck, which is what they are going after(xbox vs. xbox2).
Several of the Root Name servers are actually multiple computers on different continents load-balanced through Anycast technology(you 'hit' the closest server, wherever you are). This is what is needed for torrent sites. A legit, existing technology to load balance the tracker.
This is all just different ways to distribute the tracker. One way or another, we need a fully distributed, swarming-capable, secure, anonymous file sharing program.
Which is why it is P2P and not client/server... Instead of having a server host an mp3 file that is downloaded to many clients... You use icecast, p2p radio casting, or modified bittorrent (there was a /. on this a while back) that basically makes the author only upload to 1 or 2 people, and those users stream to users to who join later, etc, etc.
I would imagine some form of solid-state iPod/Flash drive like device using an encrypted bluetooth... Wireless authenticate and load your user profile from the wireless device, and run the dumb terminal using your files, etc. With the inclusion of a X server+screen that can pause/resume applications while running.
You forgot the native-looking Java Runtime enviroment that nicely ties in to the Mac, along with Apple's X11 server that also is aqua-themed (looks pretty close to native) and runs most any linux/*nix GUI app, along with command line apps.
For me, Mac is has the largest(by far) number of programs it can run. Add in VPC and it is reaching high 90's in % of available software being able to run on my laptop(excluding really hardcore old *nix stuff that just doesn't run; old, old mac classic software; etc).