If I went to your house, ripped the back door of its frames by ramming my Volvo into it, went to your living room, did my shit on your carpet, burned your picture frames and pissed on your cat while I'm going out of the front door and then shouted at you "No worries mate, you never invited me but I invited myself in, see ya", would that be OK?
More or less the same thing happened.:-)
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argh argh argh! Stoooopiiiid! Stoooopiiiiid!
GNL=GNL is not Linux of course!
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RMS better start a project called GNL then, "GNU is Not Linux" if he wants to call `Linux` Linux. Then, everything is fine, we will run GNL software under Linux and we'll know where everything starts and ends.
How the fuck can it be? Do they have a telescope which magnifies darkness instead of light? Any portion of sky which doesn't have a star/galaxy in it is black, black black!
Ah, traffic control. They are messing with the traffic control system in UK. There was a public outcry when the bugs became public.
Most of these bugs seems to be "fixable". The problem with Traffic Control systems is they rarely change, making the operators pretty aggressive towards the new features or options. Developing user-driven software is quite simple. For example we are developing a software which replaces our customer's old software. Instead of getting rid of annoying feature, il-logic-flow within app and stupid prompts, they want almost everything exactly the same as their previous one. Why are they getting something new then? I don't know but they just don't want to change anything.
Resistance to change is quite a tradition in UK, goes back to Industrial Revolution.
You have a point but since there was no truce signed, no peace was guaranteed, I still regard what's happening there as the direct continuation of the war. On the other hand, never there was a point in the history of this war where someone in Iraq officially ordered their troops to fight. Please correct me if I'm wrong.:)
This was, in all aspects, an invasion by hostile, foreign forces and many countries (muslim, christian and jew) collobrated with glee.
Hence the fight to liberate Iraq turned into an occupation and invasion pretty quickly. What's happening is quite similar to what happened in Afghanistan in many ways. The main difference is this time Mucaheddin do not need CIA to back them, they have their own secret organizations (Baath party and Shia clerics).
As far as I'm concerned, one of the biggest mistake Invaders made was dealing with these bastard son of a bitches clerics when they first invaded Iraq. Because Bush and his buddies are religious, it doesn't mean religious so-called-leaders should be used. I hate these nutters (christian and muslim extremists are so alike)...
Although the spirit of the conscript army was broken easily, American government made a big misake by dissolving the Iraqi army and letting loose almost half a million people trained to kill (although not as good as American Army & Marines Corps) with their weapons. Now these people are regrouping as small bands of forces and learning how to fight in guerilla tactics. A normal army cannot fight a resistant group without committing horrific acts of injustice. Germans in WWII France had the same problem, they had the same problem in western russia where the only way to prevent Resistance was to terrorize the townfolk, exactly like the Americans are doing in Iraq.
The only way to beat Resistance/Terrorists/Guerilla is to cut their supply and support. The way to do is mass relocations of villages and towns. Saddam used to do this in Shia South Iraq. Turks did this in Eastern Turkey in 1990s against Kurdish guerilla. Americans regularly used these tactics in 1880s in west America. Although this is very unpopular with everybody else in the world, it is very effective. A lot more effective than going in to a village, humiliating their elders and killing of a couple of youngs and raping their women.
Some people don't understand that this war is going extremely well. It only took less than a month to destroy the regular forces. It only took less than 200 dead personell (and most of those died with friendly fire incidents!) to conquer a country. The political decisions made by Bush's croonies are the real problem. Iraq could have accepted a liberated Iraqi government right away but instead Americans insisted on staying for years (10-20 years were mentioned in the past) but now they are trying to get out as soon as possible without Bush loosing face. Tough decision for Americans and look at the puppet they installed this week. He won't last long.
The biggest problem is, you can't prove a negative statement. Try to prove "Iraq doesn't have/didn't have any WMD" and you will always find that some idiot shouts "because they are hiding them and you can't find it!".:( It's just like the existence of God, I can tell you he doesn't exist but can't prove it, then it becomes a matter of belief, not facts. That's why the burden of proof is beared by the party who claims the positive statement ("Iraq has/had WMD"). The sad thing is, USA just can't prove it.
4-5k txns/day is nothing. You are talking about a couple of commits every minute. On a DB size over 2GB and 1000 fetch&commits/min, works fine. Even that's nothing, this test system still does a small amount of txns per second. The main limitation I had was the JMS queue I was using, Sun iMQ is single-threaded and when you have a bottle-neck, you have a bottleneck.
Hear hear. I have Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0.2 and 9.2.0.4) running on Suse 9 FTP version and nothing but SLES8 and 9 are supported for Suse. Still works fine if you are careful and know what you are doing. Still, there is a difference between "works out of the box" and "works" but hey, I like tinkering.:)
I have my Fedora Core 2 CDs but I haven't found any time to try it yet.:(
I have lots of Win-only crap, I'd love to ditch my Win2K workstation and have one of these running along my Linux servers&workstations at home. Wine... I don't know, I just never had it working perfectly on my systems and all usefull wine stuff is on closed systems.
Why should they? We already pay a grey-box tax to M$ every time we buy hardware? We also pay a CD tax to RIAA for every blank CD we buy. I still can't see why they charge for the software and the music, the money they make out of these hidden taxes should be enough to make them rich.
AFAIK, most of the problems with Osprey is the pilot training. The thing doesn't fly like a chopper and if I remember correctly, they re-train chopper pilots. Pilot makes a mistake, people on board die. This is always the case with flying things. The reason it's been on testing is army people don't like changes. They went with more boring F-22 instead of rule-breaking YF-23.
Apparently what makes some people Aces is something called "situation awareness". Sometimes while driving I suddenly get suprised and think "where I am, when did I come here, what happened in the last 5 miles (bloody UK, still uses miles on roads)". Obviously I wasn't in danger or never put anyone in danger (in such cases my awareness sharpens quite suddenly and I do remember such situations). Scary isn't it? I guess this happens to quite a lot of people. Apparently people having "situation awareness" can recall any detail in even most complicated circumstances like air battles. There are millions of pilots but only a handful of real aces. (In my opinion people using electronics to kill an aircraft miles away do not count as aces).
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Of course I haven't read the article :-) I better go and have a look at it.
Also I thought these days what mattered is the redshift, not faintness.
More or less the same thing happened. :-)
GNL=GNL is not Linux of course!
RMS better start a project called GNL then, "GNU is Not Linux" if he wants to call `Linux` Linux. Then, everything is fine, we will run GNL software under Linux and we'll know where everything starts and ends.
How the fuck can it be? Do they have a telescope which magnifies darkness instead of light? Any portion of sky which doesn't have a star/galaxy in it is black, black black!
Most of these bugs seems to be "fixable". The problem with Traffic Control systems is they rarely change, making the operators pretty aggressive towards the new features or options. Developing user-driven software is quite simple. For example we are developing a software which replaces our customer's old software. Instead of getting rid of annoying feature, il-logic-flow within app and stupid prompts, they want almost everything exactly the same as their previous one. Why are they getting something new then? I don't know but they just don't want to change anything.
Resistance to change is quite a tradition in UK, goes back to Industrial Revolution.
This was, in all aspects, an invasion by hostile, foreign forces and many countries (muslim, christian and jew) collobrated with glee.
Hence the fight to liberate Iraq turned into an occupation and invasion pretty quickly. What's happening is quite similar to what happened in Afghanistan in many ways. The main difference is this time Mucaheddin do not need CIA to back them, they have their own secret organizations (Baath party and Shia clerics).
As far as I'm concerned, one of the biggest mistake Invaders made was dealing with these bastard son of a bitches clerics when they first invaded Iraq. Because Bush and his buddies are religious, it doesn't mean religious so-called-leaders should be used. I hate these nutters (christian and muslim extremists are so alike)...
Oh yes, they were very paranoid indeed. They didn't one anyone preventing them launching their toys.
The only way to beat Resistance/Terrorists/Guerilla is to cut their supply and support. The way to do is mass relocations of villages and towns. Saddam used to do this in Shia South Iraq. Turks did this in Eastern Turkey in 1990s against Kurdish guerilla. Americans regularly used these tactics in 1880s in west America. Although this is very unpopular with everybody else in the world, it is very effective. A lot more effective than going in to a village, humiliating their elders and killing of a couple of youngs and raping their women.
Some people don't understand that this war is going extremely well. It only took less than a month to destroy the regular forces. It only took less than 200 dead personell (and most of those died with friendly fire incidents!) to conquer a country. The political decisions made by Bush's croonies are the real problem. Iraq could have accepted a liberated Iraqi government right away but instead Americans insisted on staying for years (10-20 years were mentioned in the past) but now they are trying to get out as soon as possible without Bush loosing face. Tough decision for Americans and look at the puppet they installed this week. He won't last long.
The biggest problem is, you can't prove a negative statement. Try to prove "Iraq doesn't have/didn't have any WMD" and you will always find that some idiot shouts "because they are hiding them and you can't find it!". :( It's just like the existence of God, I can tell you he doesn't exist but can't prove it, then it becomes a matter of belief, not facts. That's why the burden of proof is beared by the party who claims the positive statement ("Iraq has/had WMD"). The sad thing is, USA just can't prove it.
Similarly, FC1, same laptop, different OS partition, same Oracle installation, works fine.
4-5k txns/day is nothing. You are talking about a couple of commits every minute. On a DB size over 2GB and 1000 fetch&commits/min, works fine. Even that's nothing, this test system still does a small amount of txns per second. The main limitation I had was the JMS queue I was using, Sun iMQ is single-threaded and when you have a bottle-neck, you have a bottleneck.
I have my Fedora Core 2 CDs but I haven't found any time to try it yet. :(
You must have a very relaxed attitute towards life. No hurry 'cause nowhere to go?
I have lots of Win-only crap, I'd love to ditch my Win2K workstation and have one of these running along my Linux servers&workstations at home. Wine... I don't know, I just never had it working perfectly on my systems and all usefull wine stuff is on closed systems.
Why should they? We already pay a grey-box tax to M$ every time we buy hardware? We also pay a CD tax to RIAA for every blank CD we buy. I still can't see why they charge for the software and the music, the money they make out of these hidden taxes should be enough to make them rich.
what? why spend CPU cycles? Run it as a NT service!
Mosix clusters actually do this better (www.openmosix.org). Whenever I build one, migrating s@h tasks is the first thing to do.
It's all fake! Where are my stars! As we didn't go to the moon, we didn't reach the space either!
AFAIK, most of the problems with Osprey is the pilot training. The thing doesn't fly like a chopper and if I remember correctly, they re-train chopper pilots. Pilot makes a mistake, people on board die. This is always the case with flying things. The reason it's been on testing is army people don't like changes. They went with more boring F-22 instead of rule-breaking YF-23.
Which flight simulator is this (for Linux I hope)?
This is called "Situation Awareness". Argh, I had a book about this, I can't find it.
No it isn't. May 14 was the release to mirrors date. This is a part of that I understand. It's the real thing.
That's a good point. Is it more efficient than a helicopter I wonder. In most cases STOL is good enough. Let's do some googling on this...
Apparently what makes some people Aces is something called "situation awareness". Sometimes while driving I suddenly get suprised and think "where I am, when did I come here, what happened in the last 5 miles (bloody UK, still uses miles on roads)". Obviously I wasn't in danger or never put anyone in danger (in such cases my awareness sharpens quite suddenly and I do remember such situations). Scary isn't it? I guess this happens to quite a lot of people. Apparently people having "situation awareness" can recall any detail in even most complicated circumstances like air battles. There are millions of pilots but only a handful of real aces. (In my opinion people using electronics to kill an aircraft miles away do not count as aces).