I've seen photos of light (half-ton or less) planes that have hit buildings. Even in the case of small office buildings, they generally stick like a raisin in bread. I've seen worse done by cars & trucks hitting buildings; they weigh more.
it was forked from OpenBSD 3.x (twice actually, first from 3.0 then 3.3)
the idea was to make a easy gui based admin & install BSD
oh well, still plenty of free / open / closed/proprietary BSD flavors to choose from that are very much alive and growing. The idea of an easier admin/install is very good & would help attract new users. Sure, an experienced person could whip out a configured machine in under 15 minutes for any flavor of BSD, but there's alot of confusing stuff for a newbie.
yes, according to the project leader "on this supercomputer, OpenOffice will finally *run* at decent speed, but waiting for the JVM to start up will still be a bitch" As for KDE, he stated "we're still waiting for the qt toolkit to initialize, but we're confident we can be fully logged in before August"
yes, but there are side effects to wearing the special glasses. Besides headaches, everything will look monochrome, and billboards will only have "OBEY" and "MARRY AND REPRODUCE" written on them. Your money will read "THIS IS YOUR GOD" Some people will look like hideous space aliens, and will speak into their watches about you, "he can SEE!".
nah, some huge asian countries are/will be rolling their own flavor of Linux, and will be building more and more of the enterprise hardware (from servers to SAN to networking) that we in the US will use.
I have my own domains on a machine co-located at my ISP. In the past 4 months I've seen alot of spamming done by just sending to a list of common usernames @my domain. If you want to see such a list, they're great for building your own mail body check and header check bounce criteria. However, the down side is you will get many 10's of megabytes of this crap.
I too have worked in major Sun installations over the past 15 years, but the point is they are losing market share that does not seem to be coming back. The list of things a Sun box can do that a Linux box could not still exists, but it's getting shorter. Maybe Sun will do something to reverse the trend
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something in earth's orbit hasn't escaped earth's gravity at all. Escape velocity is 11.2Km / sec or over 25,000MPH to leave the earth and never return on an unpowered trajectory. The common weather satellites I read about only have to achieve 17,000+ MPH, so 6Km/sec or almost 4 miles/sec seems a good answer
There actually are some compatibility issues before the ANSI standardization of COBOL and FORTRAN, and both languages let one use non-portable extensions. A program has to be written with portability in mind, just like most other compiled languages.
No commercial database application uses pure ANSI standard SQL to get real world work done....try to substitute one db for another behind the scenes and things will break. Many applications can use multiple dbms on the back end only because they have configuration settings that tell which database you are using, often to the version (Oracle 4 doesn't speak quite the same SQL as Oracle 8, especially for database creation and modification, though MOST things are backwards compatible).
I speak as one who's earned many $10K's because stuff doesn't quite act in a backwards compatible or portable manner , whether language, dbms, OS flavor
right now when I go to a new doctor or new insurance company we have to start from square one about what treatments/illnesses I've had in past 5 years, etc.
Sure, there are legal requirements for the physical records to be kept, but who really knows where all of it is? no one, that's who.
So right now we have essentially zero years of retention as far as I'm concerned, and talking of 50 years or more out seems a dream
tell that cheap-ass rat bastard CIO you're not running a telecom charity for struggling corporations! it is very much in THEIR INTERESTS to provide you with tools to maintain THEIR CRAP from YOUR HOME. That bullshit about being dedicated employees doesn't fly in this era, there will be no regard for your loyalty or experience when senior management's screw-ups make them unable to employ a given number of people.
blown out of proportion? the 7.x compiler issue caused major havoc for the datacenter where I worked even though no kernel compiles were done. i Still consider myself a great redhat fan, but let's not pretend it's all been peaches. There's been major releases of RH that never should have been pushed out the door as production grade products, and business users have to take that into account.
Clearly Fedora is for people who want to have fun testing for RedHat, which is just fine for some.
the price of the blanks will fall as they become more common. A 10-pack of 5-1/4" disks for the TRS-80 used to be $40 over twenty years ago. Scale THAT to present day dollars!!
Not everyone has thousands or even hundreds of dollars to spend on a system to throw away every 3-5 years. For $20 to $40 one can get a used Unix workstation or Vaxstation and run a completely modern OS on it. Would you rather have built in networking, high resolution video, SCSI, and 64-256M of memory, or a x486 with IDE and 16M of memory and a sucky graphics card for that money?
a big kernel lock is just fine for 2-way or 4-way smp in 97 percent of cases...do you really want to wait another 4 years for a perfectly microthreaded kernel?
back in the day of magnetic core, you could boot and choose whether you wanted to execute a little routine that would shuffle zeros from one location to the next to clear out the machine, or continue running with what you had (any other slashdotters out there ever work on IBM 1620 or 1720 or magcore models in the 360/370 line?)
I think it's funny that this is once again may be an option.
hmmm, $4k a month seems low for contract work abroad in a post-war zone that still hasn't settled down. The global construction company I work for is paying over $200 an hour for work in dangerous contries, and that includes IT-related work like project scheduling, budgeting, etc. But I'm just making $44 / hour for them working here in the U.S. at a power plant, which is plenty, thank you! Maybe if I was single without children.....
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I've seen photos of light (half-ton or less) planes that have hit buildings. Even in the case of small office buildings, they generally stick like a raisin in bread. I've seen worse done by cars & trucks hitting buildings; they weigh more.
+ proper filter = the Boston Underwear/Pube Cams!
it was forked from OpenBSD 3.x (twice actually, first from 3.0 then 3.3) the idea was to make a easy gui based admin & install BSD oh well, still plenty of free / open / closed /proprietary BSD flavors to choose from that are very much alive and growing. The idea of an easier admin/install is very good & would help attract new users. Sure, an experienced person could whip out a configured machine in under 15 minutes for any flavor of BSD, but there's alot of confusing stuff for a newbie.
yes, according to the project leader "on this supercomputer, OpenOffice will finally *run* at decent speed, but waiting for the JVM to start up will still be a bitch" As for KDE, he stated "we're still waiting for the qt toolkit to initialize, but we're confident we can be fully logged in before August"
yes, but there are side effects to wearing the special glasses. Besides headaches, everything will look monochrome, and billboards will only have "OBEY" and "MARRY AND REPRODUCE" written on them. Your money will read "THIS IS YOUR GOD" Some people will look like hideous space aliens, and will speak into their watches about you, "he can SEE!".
nah, some huge asian countries are/will be rolling their own flavor of Linux, and will be building more and more of the enterprise hardware (from servers to SAN to networking) that we in the US will use.
I have my own domains on a machine co-located at my ISP. In the past 4 months I've seen alot of spamming done by just sending to a list of common usernames @my domain. If you want to see such a list, they're great for building your own mail body check and header check bounce criteria. However, the down side is you will get many 10's of megabytes of this crap.
I too have worked in major Sun installations over the past 15 years, but the point is they are losing market share that does not seem to be coming back. The list of things a Sun box can do that a Linux box could not still exists, but it's getting shorter. Maybe Sun will do something to reverse the trend
something in earth's orbit hasn't escaped earth's gravity at all. Escape velocity is 11.2Km / sec or over 25,000MPH to leave the earth and never return on an unpowered trajectory. The common weather satellites I read about only have to achieve 17,000+ MPH, so 6Km/sec or almost 4 miles/sec seems a good answer
There actually are some compatibility issues before the ANSI standardization of COBOL and FORTRAN, and both languages let one use non-portable extensions. A program has to be written with portability in mind, just like most other compiled languages. No commercial database application uses pure ANSI standard SQL to get real world work done....try to substitute one db for another behind the scenes and things will break. Many applications can use multiple dbms on the back end only because they have configuration settings that tell which database you are using, often to the version (Oracle 4 doesn't speak quite the same SQL as Oracle 8, especially for database creation and modification, though MOST things are backwards compatible). I speak as one who's earned many $10K's because stuff doesn't quite act in a backwards compatible or portable manner , whether language, dbms, OS flavor
right now when I go to a new doctor or new insurance company we have to start from square one about what treatments/illnesses I've had in past 5 years, etc. Sure, there are legal requirements for the physical records to be kept, but who really knows where all of it is? no one, that's who. So right now we have essentially zero years of retention as far as I'm concerned, and talking of 50 years or more out seems a dream
and we KNOW those ATM machines really secure. hmmmmmmmm............
what, and put the paper mill workers and paper shredder repairman out of work?
tell that cheap-ass rat bastard CIO you're not running a telecom charity for struggling corporations! it is very much in THEIR INTERESTS to provide you with tools to maintain THEIR CRAP from YOUR HOME. That bullshit about being dedicated employees doesn't fly in this era, there will be no regard for your loyalty or experience when senior management's screw-ups make them unable to employ a given number of people.
blown out of proportion? the 7.x compiler issue caused major havoc for the datacenter where I worked even though no kernel compiles were done. i Still consider myself a great redhat fan, but let's not pretend it's all been peaches. There's been major releases of RH that never should have been pushed out the door as production grade products, and business users have to take that into account. Clearly Fedora is for people who want to have fun testing for RedHat, which is just fine for some.
the price of the blanks will fall as they become more common. A 10-pack of 5-1/4" disks for the TRS-80 used to be $40 over twenty years ago. Scale THAT to present day dollars!!
Not everyone has thousands or even hundreds of dollars to spend on a system to throw away every 3-5 years. For $20 to $40 one can get a used Unix workstation or Vaxstation and run a completely modern OS on it. Would you rather have built in networking, high resolution video, SCSI, and 64-256M of memory, or a x486 with IDE and 16M of memory and a sucky graphics card for that money?
and let's not forget Sun's hardware number jumps. Sparcstation 1, 2 then 10 and 20. Then 5 and its little brother 4.
heh, AutoCAD ran so much better on Solaris and IRIX. I'm hoping they go back to Unixish code & do a Linux port
Free os/360? wait no more (run it on the Hercules emulator on your pc) Some FreeNeXTSTEP would rock too!
not so slow anymore, just a resource pig.
a big kernel lock is just fine for 2-way or 4-way smp in 97 percent of cases...do you really want to wait another 4 years for a perfectly microthreaded kernel?
no, however they confirm that Microsoft Bob is truly dead.
back in the day of magnetic core, you could boot and choose whether you wanted to execute a little routine that would shuffle zeros from one location to the next to clear out the machine, or continue running with what you had (any other slashdotters out there ever work on IBM 1620 or 1720 or magcore models in the 360/370 line?) I think it's funny that this is once again may be an option.
hmmm, $4k a month seems low for contract work abroad in a post-war zone that still hasn't settled down. The global construction company I work for is paying over $200 an hour for work in dangerous contries, and that includes IT-related work like project scheduling, budgeting, etc. But I'm just making $44 / hour for them working here in the U.S. at a power plant, which is plenty, thank you! Maybe if I was single without children.....