While going through the Heinlein Society homepage, I found this review of The Number of the Beast. I've never read the book (but will now), but it seems to imply that Heinlein intentionally wrote the book bad to show how a SciFi book should not be written.
The review is pretty interesting, and I think I'd like to read it just to see what they are talking about. Morbid curiosity maybe?
There's lots of advantages to this kind of system, especially if interfaces are written for other OS's (Windows, Solaris, OSX)
Networked file system. No more NFS/SMB hacks. Everyone accesses the data in a common way, and can access the same data
Integrated mime-types. No more relying on file extensions and other hacks. The mime-type (and subsequent viewer) is right there in the query
Integrated version control. Have and keep a history of all of your files as they were managed and maintained through their lives, as well as a history of who modified them. If this aspect could be enhanced with branching & merging, then would make other CM Systems (CVS, ClearCase) obsolete?
Of course it's only wishful thinking. I'd be nervous to see exactly how this integrates into other "Legacy" applications. I can also see be performance penalties since you are now querying a database, rather than looking at a simple file structure...
If Netgear lifted code from Linux, and SCO is basically saying they own & want royalties from Linux, then couldn't they ask for royalties for any code that was once part of the Linux kernel? (Think userland drivers that were once in the kernel)
Boy, Just because code touched the kernel, would mean that SCO would/could own that code too. Hope SCO doesn't get any ideas about that...
... he's not dead, but he's got Alzheimer's real bad. So he either won't have a clue what's going on, or could be considered a near vegetable.
In any case, he's definitely not the same man this ship was named after. Besides, they might have just been counting that he would have died by now... I mean he is like 92...
Our division is standardizing on Mozilla 1.4. Our previous standard browser was Netscape 4.76. IE & Outlook has tried to sneak in, and unfortunately some of our vendor's products require IE. We're not quite big enough to demand their products work with both browsers...
The main reasons we're sticking with Mozilla and not going IE?
Platform availability. It's available on Windows, Linux & Irix.
Not MS
Spam filtering
Doesn't propogate virii
Low/No cost
Why are we going with Mozilla instead of Netscape?
Available on all above platforms.
Doesn't have the AOL marketing embedded in it.
Windows installations will be WinInstalled, so all plugins & customizations can be centralized.
The latest version of Samba even allows you to set up your Samba server to be a PDC, and directly migrate your users & groups from an already functioning NT Domain.
The link is down, so I don't know exactly what it says. But there are many solutions possible:
Install Linux. Just get rid of Windows.
Install Perl on Windows
Install Tcl/Tk on Windows
Install Python on Windows
Install Cygwin on Windows
Install <OSS Language of choice> on Windows
Just because MS doesn't come with a language doesn't mean there are no languages available. I'd say start the young tykes off with Tcl/Tk or Python to learn the basics and go from there.
I remember growing up with my PC & GW-Basic book in hand learning how to code. I also remember being stigmatized by it as well (Poor documentation, poor interpreter). If anything, I believe there is a lot greater opportunity for kids to learn to code on their own, by using many of the OSS languages out there. The languages are free, the IDE's are free, all it really takes is getting the word out about them.
Perhaps use Konspire2b to distribute the.torrent files. Create a channel for each torrent (or categorize the torrents into different genre-based channels), and that may answer the question of "How do you search for a.torrent file?"
Just because he released it under the GPL doesn't necessarily mean it's legal. If all of the code he writes is owned by AOL, then AOL, as the copyright holder, must determine the license it's released under.
Don't know how serious this may be, but if AOL wanted to, they might be able to sue for loss of IP due to the dumpage of WASTE into the GPL realm. That's the real bitch when you write code for a company. Unless you beg & plead with the lawyers (or your managers) to give you a little freedom, they own your stuff.
And this leads right into non-compete clauses in your contract. Even thinking about the code you wrote for another company could be considered competing against your previous employer.
But imagine you're an aspiring artist who's spent several hours a day for the past two months on a painting and someone breaks into your studio and splatters paint all over it. Hey, It's just a piece of canvas after all. It's just your spare time and money down the drain, it's not like it's your job or anything.
My immediate comment is did you leave your studio unlocked, or did you have a security system, pit bulls and 15 Deadlock bolts on the door?
I'd be inclined to think that you would put a lot more effort into security your house/studio, than what was apparantly put into these servers.
Yes, it's a shame that it happened, but they can't be totally free from blame if they used piss-poor security.
I think that you're overlooking exactly what work he put into it. By reading the analysis, you basically now know that:
Buy a system with the fastest bus speed
Don't worry about buying the fastest RAM based on CAS
What does that mean? You can save $10-15 a stick of memory if you just buy CAS 2.5/3 instead of CAS 2 RAM (unless you really want that extra 2% increase of speed)
I definitely think the write-up is on par with the earlier write-ups indicating that SDRAM kicked the snot out of RDRAM 3-4 years ago. It let the educated consumer know that SDRAM was as fast as the RDRAM implementations at the time, despite what Intel was trying to do shoving RDRAM down everyone's throats.
On a similar note, that's half the problem with New York & big business. (At least upstate New York).
We've got cheap land to build on, lots of skilled labor in every discipline from EE, to CompSci, to Manufacturing & BioTech. Cost of living is in the 70-80 percentile (100 is national average).
Problem is business is taxed out the ass once they set up shop. The only way to keep business is to give them tax breaks, and then jack up sales tax (going on 8.75% in some counties), or property taxes (10-20%!!!) to try to balance the budget.
It's really no wonder businesses are trying to go elsewhere to get away from taxes & other governmental problems.
In a sense, safecracking could be considered an art. Consider the safe, a big black box that is locked up tight. How do the tumblers work, where are they located, how do I circumvent it. How do I make the safe work to do my bidding (open).
In a sense, that's the same thing that a cracker does. He tries to take a big black box, and carefully poke & prod. Not so much that he alerts the owners. And then when he is confident he knows how the black box works, then he cracks it open and gets the riches.
Now a cracker is nothing more than a specialized hacker. But a hacker, and cracker all really have the same tasks & goals. Take a problem, hold it, examine it, lovingly caress it, and then create a solution to the problem.
It's in that solution that the artist is revealed. Does he take a sledgehammer to the problem, or silently pick it apart from numerous directions?
What about hooking your sister/daughter/wife up with a phone that generates electricity when she's talking. That could really answer the worlds energy needs...
At least pay for the phone calls themselves...
"Hon, time to call your mother again, the lights are getting dim."
This really should be implemented via an HFS approach. ie: The commonly used files are placed & kept in memory, while less-frequently used files are kept on another medium (Disk or Tape).
This way, the 20% of your disk that is used 95% of the time is kept in memory forever. While the other 80% is placed on disk. With HFS, as soon as the system saw that you needed the file, it would automatically pull it off of the hard-drive, and stick it in memory.
Similar techiniques are used for tape & hard-drives. ie: The Hard-Drive has a bazillion files, but only 20% are used. If you need a file, the system automatically pulls it off of the tape for you. It's like a tape archival system, but it's integrated into the OS, rather than requiring an external application to be run.
Now if HFS could be implemented & documented on Linux...
Slashdot Mirror
Don't know what's worse. Whether you've got the images hosted on your website, or I felt compelled to take a look for myself.
:)
Ewww. Neato, but Ewww.
While going through the Heinlein Society homepage, I found this review of The Number of the Beast. I've never read the book (but will now), but it seems to imply that Heinlein intentionally wrote the book bad to show how a SciFi book should not be written.
The review is pretty interesting, and I think I'd like to read it just to see what they are talking about. Morbid curiosity maybe?
> I know, I'm the first to look for screenshots, but antialiased filesystems are a bit too much, maybe.
Reminds me of an internal joke we have here. Our ClearCase file server was an SGI.
Why?
Because the filenames were rendered so much prettier than on a Linux or Sun box...
Of course it's only wishful thinking. I'd be nervous to see exactly how this integrates into other "Legacy" applications. I can also see be performance penalties since you are now querying a database, rather than looking at a simple file structure...
Oh man, is this history repeating itself?
Will the next version of Windows be called
* MS Apache?
* Apache OS?
* WinApache?
(For those of you who don't know, Apache Webserver was called that because originally it was A-Patchy Server)
Seriously, how would that play out?
If Netgear lifted code from Linux, and SCO is basically saying they own & want royalties from Linux, then couldn't they ask for royalties for any code that was once part of the Linux kernel? (Think userland drivers that were once in the kernel)
Boy, Just because code touched the kernel, would mean that SCO would/could own that code too. Hope SCO doesn't get any ideas about that...
...Erwin will be getting an upgrade?
... he's not dead, but he's got Alzheimer's real bad. So he either won't have a clue what's going on, or could be considered a near vegetable.
In any case, he's definitely not the same man this ship was named after. Besides, they might have just been counting that he would have died by now... I mean he is like 92...
But they passed the driver's exam so it's safe for them to drive a car? Just because they have a basic class in it, doesn't make them safer.
What, you mean you've never seen Grandma swerving across the road?
Making a Beowulf cluster of these
Hacking them until they become Linux terminals
That MS will buy them up/out or do the same thing
...then why is it their webserver? :)
Of course it is Apache 1.3.23...
My next comment on the 50%, how many of them were Opera or Konqueror users spoofing as MSIE?
The main reasons we're sticking with Mozilla and not going IE?
Platform availability. It's available on Windows, Linux & Irix.
Not MS
Spam filtering
Doesn't propogate virii
Low/No cost
Why are we going with Mozilla instead of Netscape?
Available on all above platforms.
Doesn't have the AOL marketing embedded in it.
Windows installations will be WinInstalled, so all plugins & customizations can be centralized.
Hope it helps.
If you upgrade from NT4, do it right. Use Samba.
The latest version of Samba even allows you to set up your Samba server to be a PDC, and directly migrate your users & groups from an already functioning NT Domain.
Just because MS doesn't come with a language doesn't mean there are no languages available. I'd say start the young tykes off with Tcl/Tk or Python to learn the basics and go from there.
I remember growing up with my PC & GW-Basic book in hand learning how to code. I also remember being stigmatized by it as well (Poor documentation, poor interpreter). If anything, I believe there is a lot greater opportunity for kids to learn to code on their own, by using many of the OSS languages out there. The languages are free, the IDE's are free, all it really takes is getting the word out about them.
Perhaps use Konspire2b to distribute the .torrent files. Create a channel for each torrent (or categorize the torrents into different genre-based channels), and that may answer the question of "How do you search for a .torrent file?"
Don't know how serious this may be, but if AOL wanted to, they might be able to sue for loss of IP due to the dumpage of WASTE into the GPL realm. That's the real bitch when you write code for a company. Unless you beg & plead with the lawyers (or your managers) to give you a little freedom, they own your stuff.
And this leads right into non-compete clauses in your contract. Even thinking about the code you wrote for another company could be considered competing against your previous employer.
But imagine you're an aspiring artist who's spent several hours a day for the past two months on a painting and someone breaks into your studio and splatters paint all over it. Hey, It's just a piece of canvas after all. It's just your spare time and money down the drain, it's not like it's your job or anything.
My immediate comment is did you leave your studio unlocked, or did you have a security system, pit bulls and 15 Deadlock bolts on the door?
I'd be inclined to think that you would put a lot more effort into security your house/studio, than what was apparantly put into these servers.
Yes, it's a shame that it happened, but they can't be totally free from blame if they used piss-poor security.
...the allure grew when I wanted to be a SysAdmin.
Muwahahaha
Root, God, What is difference?
- Buy a system with the fastest bus speed
- Don't worry about buying the fastest RAM based on CAS
What does that mean? You can save $10-15 a stick of memory if you just buy CAS 2.5/3 instead of CAS 2 RAM (unless you really want that extra 2% increase of speed)I definitely think the write-up is on par with the earlier write-ups indicating that SDRAM kicked the snot out of RDRAM 3-4 years ago. It let the educated consumer know that SDRAM was as fast as the RDRAM implementations at the time, despite what Intel was trying to do shoving RDRAM down everyone's throats.
On a similar note, that's half the problem with New York & big business. (At least upstate New York).
We've got cheap land to build on, lots of skilled labor in every discipline from EE, to CompSci, to Manufacturing & BioTech. Cost of living is in the 70-80 percentile (100 is national average).
Problem is business is taxed out the ass once they set up shop. The only way to keep business is to give them tax breaks, and then jack up sales tax (going on 8.75% in some counties), or property taxes (10-20%!!!) to try to balance the budget.
It's really no wonder businesses are trying to go elsewhere to get away from taxes & other governmental problems.
In a sense, safecracking could be considered an art. Consider the safe, a big black box that is locked up tight. How do the tumblers work, where are they located, how do I circumvent it. How do I make the safe work to do my bidding (open).
In a sense, that's the same thing that a cracker does. He tries to take a big black box, and carefully poke & prod. Not so much that he alerts the owners. And then when he is confident he knows how the black box works, then he cracks it open and gets the riches.
Now a cracker is nothing more than a specialized hacker. But a hacker, and cracker all really have the same tasks & goals. Take a problem, hold it, examine it, lovingly caress it, and then create a solution to the problem.
It's in that solution that the artist is revealed. Does he take a sledgehammer to the problem, or silently pick it apart from numerous directions?
Hate to reply to myself, but....
What about hooking your sister/daughter/wife up with a phone that generates electricity when she's talking. That could really answer the worlds energy needs...
At least pay for the phone calls themselves...
"Hon, time to call your mother again, the lights are getting dim."
Well, maybe you almost have it. If you keep talking into the phone, your vocal vibrations will continually recharge the phone.
:)
But you figure that you would be talking, and perpetually recharging the motion machine...
This really should be implemented via an HFS approach. ie: The commonly used files are placed & kept in memory, while less-frequently used files are kept on another medium (Disk or Tape).
This way, the 20% of your disk that is used 95% of the time is kept in memory forever. While the other 80% is placed on disk. With HFS, as soon as the system saw that you needed the file, it would automatically pull it off of the hard-drive, and stick it in memory.
Similar techiniques are used for tape & hard-drives. ie: The Hard-Drive has a bazillion files, but only 20% are used. If you need a file, the system automatically pulls it off of the tape for you. It's like a tape archival system, but it's integrated into the OS, rather than requiring an external application to be run.
Now if HFS could be implemented & documented on Linux...