"Every round that begins with a ritual: you have to calibrate the controller by pointing it at your player on the screen. Persons, teams, and nations have their pre-game hakas and so forth, but the benefit here is not psychosomatic. The MotionPlus must know precisely where it is before it can work its magic."
This might mean that using the wii motion plus in a newer game like Red Steel or Zelda would not work. You would need to periodically recalibrate it during the game, and that would defeat immersion.
My brain boggles that you got AIO, VxFS, and Oracle DB to play nicely, wow you don't know how lucky you were or you did it under a certain mix of versions that was relatively stable.
I agree in point 1, but the performance increase was typically 30% or so. Thus that pain had to be dealt with.
The ZFS point, again why I see Oracle Corp seeing a place where there is money to be made.
I was very surprised at how easy it was and how well this worked, but over the weekend I finally paired-up my xbox360 and vista 64-bit with tv pack 2008 media center. Then I fired-up the media center on the xbox 360 and it was virtually indistinguishable from running media center from the computer on the TV. My son was able to play RCT3 on the computer while my wife watched recorded TV on the computer from the xbox 360, all using a remote control that looks like a TV/DVD combo remote. It was better than AppleTV, I was surprised that I had not heard more about just how good this combo of vista + media center + xbox360 is.
The xbox360 also lets me watch streamed NetFlix movies. My Samsung TV also allows me to get lots of content over the internet. I see Philips TVs that do similar things. I think Adobe sees this and is afraid that in the future they will be less relevant as people spend their idle time on the couch once more.
Re:I'm quite sure that IBM hates itself now
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"Oracle+Sun has the power to seriously harm IBM."
No, rather IBM+Sun would have been the most formidable competitor that Oracle Corp had ever had to face. The fear of that monster is what prompted Oracle Corp to purchase Sun.
On the other hand Oracle+Sun cannot harm IBM to the same extent.
Ah here is the sensible reply I was looking for. Now onto speculation:
As an example Oracle9i runs fine on a block device instead of a fs. The OS only seems to get in the way in the eyes of Oracle DB. That lends credence to the idea that Solaris vs. Linux is not worth the extra dev and maintenance costs. After all Oracle Corp already can sell you a turn key solution involving x86 boxes, Linux, and 10g. One thing that people running Oracle DBs on Linux wish they had was truss and dtrace though. Oracle Corp may decide that it is cost effective to release dtrace under the GPL. They may see ZFS as a cash cow for the current Solaris clients though, so you can forget about that.
The fact that Lustre is not Java, MySQL, or OpenOffice means that Oracle is not likely to care about it. That is what the original poster was worried about. Yes Lustre is great and I hope it can exist well as OSS without a corporate backer in the near future.
If IBM had bought Sun there would be a zero length string at 0x0 and malloc(0) would return NULL. Solaris is already half-way there with/usr/lib/0@0.so.1 I suppose.
Re:New Solaris bit-by-bit licensing terms
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Oh man I hope not. The falling price of Solaris circa 2.7 was a Godsend. For those that mentioed IBM, You should see a Sybase fee structure sometime. With IBM at least you get reasonable support.
I fear this as well, we may be on the verge of seeing Solaris HPUX-ified (think back to all the peculiarities of admining HPUX compared to those in Solaris, ugh).
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The rumors are that the IBM deal fell through when IBM balked at the size of the golden parachutes that Sun expected. My guess of what happened is that Oracle was scared of IBM+Sun as their competitor. So they bought Sun so IBM wold not. Oracle does not really believe all of the stuff they stated (about financials) and others are inferring (like they were interested in MySQL, Java, sparc, etc). They simply saw that if they offered a better deal to the Sun execs they could prevent the creation of the most serious competitor they had ever faced. The Sun execs cared more for themselves than the long term good of Sun's products and employees.
It depends on the variant. The first used a buffer overflow in NetBIOS, for which there was a critical patch about two weeks before it appeared. Those that had a decent firewall were not affected even if unpatched.
Then later variants used AutoRun, those users that either disable that or don't put suspicious media into into their computers were not affected.
Then later variants also tried to spread over writable shares and even did dictionary attacks. Those that had reasonable permissions, decent passwords, or paid attention to unusually slow network performance were unaffected or knew to wipe and reinstall.
So basically if you were not a moron computer user and did any reasonable subset of safe computer precautions you have no problem with conficker even without AV software in the mix.
You realize that the CO2 in soda pop comes from the air so ignoring the energy expended to get it into the can that is carbon neutral. On the other hand CO2 sequestered into a soda can is not sequestered the moment the can is opened.
The only comment that was at my thresh hold above made me think this was a discussion about strippers, so I thought I'd throw in my two cents from the ones my wife knows, but then I see this.
Look here are the facts. The largest proportion of sex workers in the US, they are commonly referred to as crack whores. Does that seem a rosey life? Then there are the destitute young girls from the former Soviet bloc trapped here trying to earn back their fake passport, this is in particular a problem in NY.
I don't know if they hate themselves, but I would not like that life.
First the only model S is a mock-up. Is it even a rolling mock-up? That $200 million was only for the roadster, which was a modified Lotus chassis. The model S, Tesla intends to make a chassis from ground-up, good luck with that for under $600 million or so. Also they had some early help on the shoulders of Fisker, which they are now suing, but not counting towards the R&D cost. Finally that $200 million yielded a car that does not meet it's initial design specs.
Also the EV-1, that was developed quite some time ago, that R&D money was spent on lots of tech that could be taken for granted at the point in time that Tesla roadster dev began.
Not true in the US Navy, enlisted do coding, not just config. The computers are ancient too, I'm talking M68K with 4MB RAM, 512K of NVRAM, and 5 inch monochrome screen for diagnostics. The actual coding is done with a cross compiler on a more modern setup thankfully.
I have family in Norway. They would let someone sleep on their front lawn without being asked, but only let them into the house under circumstances that made sense. No someone just walking in to use the bathroom would not qualify, but if they knocked and asked and felt safe, sure. Norwegians value hospitality and when I was going to visit once the family gave me a phone number of an organization in Norway that arranges cheap safe places to sleep for students. I slept on the couch in some couple's flat in Oslo the night between when I landed in the airport and took the train out the next morning. They fed me breakfast and simply would not have it that I pay them.
Regarding the JRE, yes the MS one was faster, but it was also far buggier and all that cool stuff you alluded to was not only WIndows specific but almost all of it was only in the MS JRE. That is what MS did to kill Java, in fact there was a long drawn-out legal battle about it. At that time an entry sparc work station was somewhere between 4 and 5 times faster and had 2 to 4 times as much memory than an office PC. MS had plenty of time to hone.NET until the commodity hardware was ready for fat run time environments. Also it did not help that the Mac version of the JRE was always a bit out of date and had its own peculiar set of bugs. Basically Java was moving too fast and too different form one machine to the next for it to succeed and only had the performance that was barely good enough on expensive sun boxes.
Sun has competent engineering talent in Ireland, England, Germany, and Russia. IBM hires lots of people in crazy markets where they leave for greener pastures just as they are getting good at what they do. Who does it right again?
I have seen Linux kill arbitrary processes under swap exhaustion. At first I just thought malloc()s were failing but then I reproduced the conditions and was shocked that seemingly random long idle processes were the ones that were basically getting kill -9'ed. The OSs that can take a load of hurt and just keep going are:
"With his work, Rick helped improve the browsing experience for millions of people. And while he will be deeply missed, he built up a strong community that will be able to continue what he started. There are several strong candidates and I expect to announce Rick's successor as EasyList maintainer in the next few days."
So essentially not too much to worry about, but yes that was indeed trollish to care more about yourself rather that the family and friends and publicly ask that question.
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"Every round that begins with a ritual: you have to calibrate the controller by pointing it at your player on the screen. Persons, teams, and nations have their pre-game hakas and so forth, but the benefit here is not psychosomatic. The MotionPlus must know precisely where it is before it can work its magic."
This might mean that using the wii motion plus in a newer game like Red Steel or Zelda would not work. You would need to periodically recalibrate it during the game, and that would defeat immersion.
My brain boggles that you got AIO, VxFS, and Oracle DB to play nicely, wow you don't know how lucky you were or you did it under a certain mix of versions that was relatively stable.
I agree in point 1, but the performance increase was typically 30% or so. Thus that pain had to be dealt with.
The ZFS point, again why I see Oracle Corp seeing a place where there is money to be made.
That is heartening news.
I was very surprised at how easy it was and how well this worked, but over the weekend I finally paired-up my xbox360 and vista 64-bit with tv pack 2008 media center. Then I fired-up the media center on the xbox 360 and it was virtually indistinguishable from running media center from the computer on the TV. My son was able to play RCT3 on the computer while my wife watched recorded TV on the computer from the xbox 360, all using a remote control that looks like a TV/DVD combo remote. It was better than AppleTV, I was surprised that I had not heard more about just how good this combo of vista + media center + xbox360 is.
The xbox360 also lets me watch streamed NetFlix movies. My Samsung TV also allows me to get lots of content over the internet. I see Philips TVs that do similar things. I think Adobe sees this and is afraid that in the future they will be less relevant as people spend their idle time on the couch once more.
"Oracle+Sun has the power to seriously harm IBM."
No, rather IBM+Sun would have been the most formidable competitor that Oracle Corp had ever had to face. The fear of that monster is what prompted Oracle Corp to purchase Sun.
On the other hand Oracle+Sun cannot harm IBM to the same extent.
Ah here is the sensible reply I was looking for. Now onto speculation:
As an example Oracle9i runs fine on a block device instead of a fs. The OS only seems to get in the way in the eyes of Oracle DB. That lends credence to the idea that Solaris vs. Linux is not worth the extra dev and maintenance costs. After all Oracle Corp already can sell you a turn key solution involving x86 boxes, Linux, and 10g. One thing that people running Oracle DBs on Linux wish they had was truss and dtrace though. Oracle Corp may decide that it is cost effective to release dtrace under the GPL. They may see ZFS as a cash cow for the current Solaris clients though, so you can forget about that.
"Why would you buy a company for billions of dollars and ditch it's most popular product?"
When you bought it because it looked like your competitor was trying to buy it and form your worst nightmare of a competitor.
The fact that Lustre is not Java, MySQL, or OpenOffice means that Oracle is not likely to care about it. That is what the original poster was worried about. Yes Lustre is great and I hope it can exist well as OSS without a corporate backer in the near future.
That was great!
If IBM had bought Sun there would be a zero length string at 0x0 and malloc(0) would return NULL. Solaris is already half-way there with /usr/lib/0@0.so.1 I suppose.
Oh man I hope not. The falling price of Solaris circa 2.7 was a Godsend. For those that mentioed IBM, You should see a Sybase fee structure sometime. With IBM at least you get reasonable support.
I fear this as well, we may be on the verge of seeing Solaris HPUX-ified (think back to all the peculiarities of admining HPUX compared to those in Solaris, ugh).
The rumors are that the IBM deal fell through when IBM balked at the size of the golden parachutes that Sun expected. My guess of what happened is that Oracle was scared of IBM+Sun as their competitor. So they bought Sun so IBM wold not. Oracle does not really believe all of the stuff they stated (about financials) and others are inferring (like they were interested in MySQL, Java, sparc, etc). They simply saw that if they offered a better deal to the Sun execs they could prevent the creation of the most serious competitor they had ever faced. The Sun execs cared more for themselves than the long term good of Sun's products and employees.
It depends on the variant. The first used a buffer overflow in NetBIOS, for which there was a critical patch about two weeks before it appeared. Those that had a decent firewall were not affected even if unpatched.
Then later variants used AutoRun, those users that either disable that or don't put suspicious media into into their computers were not affected.
Then later variants also tried to spread over writable shares and even did dictionary attacks. Those that had reasonable permissions, decent passwords, or paid attention to unusually slow network performance were unaffected or knew to wipe and reinstall.
So basically if you were not a moron computer user and did any reasonable subset of safe computer precautions you have no problem with conficker even without AV software in the mix.
You realize that the CO2 in soda pop comes from the air so ignoring the energy expended to get it into the can that is carbon neutral. On the other hand CO2 sequestered into a soda can is not sequestered the moment the can is opened.
What in the!?
The only comment that was at my thresh hold above made me think this was a discussion about strippers, so I thought I'd throw in my two cents from the ones my wife knows, but then I see this.
Look here are the facts. The largest proportion of sex workers in the US, they are commonly referred to as crack whores. Does that seem a rosey life? Then there are the destitute young girls from the former Soviet bloc trapped here trying to earn back their fake passport, this is in particular a problem in NY.
I don't know if they hate themselves, but I would not like that life.
First the only model S is a mock-up. Is it even a rolling mock-up? That $200 million was only for the roadster, which was a modified Lotus chassis. The model S, Tesla intends to make a chassis from ground-up, good luck with that for under $600 million or so. Also they had some early help on the shoulders of Fisker, which they are now suing, but not counting towards the R&D cost. Finally that $200 million yielded a car that does not meet it's initial design specs.
Also the EV-1, that was developed quite some time ago, that R&D money was spent on lots of tech that could be taken for granted at the point in time that Tesla roadster dev began.
Not true in the US Navy, enlisted do coding, not just config. The computers are ancient too, I'm talking M68K with 4MB RAM, 512K of NVRAM, and 5 inch monochrome screen for diagnostics. The actual coding is done with a cross compiler on a more modern setup thankfully.
More like the back story to an interesting unsafe working conditions law suit.
I have family in Norway. They would let someone sleep on their front lawn without being asked, but only let them into the house under circumstances that made sense. No someone just walking in to use the bathroom would not qualify, but if they knocked and asked and felt safe, sure. Norwegians value hospitality and when I was going to visit once the family gave me a phone number of an organization in Norway that arranges cheap safe places to sleep for students. I slept on the couch in some couple's flat in Oslo the night between when I landed in the airport and took the train out the next morning. They fed me breakfast and simply would not have it that I pay them.
Regarding the JRE, yes the MS one was faster, but it was also far buggier and all that cool stuff you alluded to was not only WIndows specific but almost all of it was only in the MS JRE. That is what MS did to kill Java, in fact there was a long drawn-out legal battle about it. At that time an entry sparc work station was somewhere between 4 and 5 times faster and had 2 to 4 times as much memory than an office PC. MS had plenty of time to hone .NET until the commodity hardware was ready for fat run time environments. Also it did not help that the Mac version of the JRE was always a bit out of date and had its own peculiar set of bugs. Basically Java was moving too fast and too different form one machine to the next for it to succeed and only had the performance that was barely good enough on expensive sun boxes.
Sun has competent engineering talent in Ireland, England, Germany, and Russia. IBM hires lots of people in crazy markets where they leave for greener pastures just as they are getting good at what they do. Who does it right again?
You missed an oldie but a goodie, the slab memory allocator, that was genius.
I have seen Linux kill arbitrary processes under swap exhaustion. At first I just thought malloc()s were failing but then I reproduced the conditions and was shocked that seemingly random long idle processes were the ones that were basically getting kill -9'ed. The OSs that can take a load of hurt and just keep going are:
1st place: Solaris 9 (sparcv9)
2nd place: FreeBSD 5.3 (i386)
3rd place: SunOS 4.1.3 (sparc)
There was just something particularly magic about those versions, things just somehow aligned right in the heavens for those.
He had a stroke about two weeks ago:
http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3366
"Rick had suffered a stroke on St Patrick' Day"
From http://adblockplus.org/blog/sad-news
"With his work, Rick helped improve the browsing experience for millions of people. And while he will be deeply missed, he built up a strong community that will be able to continue what he started. There are several strong candidates and I expect to announce Rick's successor as EasyList maintainer in the next few days."
So essentially not too much to worry about, but yes that was indeed trollish to care more about yourself rather that the family and friends and publicly ask that question.