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One of the few hard-and-fast requirements of NetBSD is that it have an MMU. It can be a really brain damaged MMU (see arm26), but it's got to be there.
I doubt many NetBSD folks would argue that it's more secure than OpenBSD. Rather, it's just as secure as OpenBSD, with the bonus that you don't get summarily pissed on if you have the audacity to ask for help on a mailing list or IRC.
vast majority of this spyware was installed by exploiting vulnerabilities
Not true. Our non-trivial (several thousand PCs) analysis of spyware at my company shows that the majority of the spyware initially infected machines by piggybacking on other programs that the users installed, such as iMesh, Gozilla, eWallet, etc. They didn't need a vulnerability, just a not-very-observant user.
The bottom 10% are automatically fired without a second chance.
So they should be forced to keep the bottom 10% performers (or rather, non-performer)?
(sarcasm on)
Oh, well, by all means we shouldn't actually measure performance and hold people accountable for delivering.
(sarcasm off)
I come from an organization that won't fire people for essentially any reason. I watch every day the accumulation of worthless dead wood taking every advantage of the lack of backbone in HR. I measure how much productivity goes down the toilet because the bottom 10% is in the corner laughing at the rest of us because they know they face no consequence.
I envy an organization that makes it a culture that you need to strive to exceed. If the culture that rewards excellence and punishes being the bottom of the barrel bothers you, then that's your problem and you need to confine yourself to jobs that don't care about performance (government jobs being best for those of you who simply want to cruse through). But don't criticise those that want to be the best. You obviously don't understand what that desire is all about.
The bottom 10% are automatically fired without a second chance.
So they should be forced to keep the bottom 10% performers (or rather, lack or performer)?
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Oh, well, by all means we shouldn't actually measure performance and hold people accountable for delivering.
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I come from an organization that won't fire people for essentially any reason. I watch every day the accumulation of worthless dead wood taking every advantage of the lack of backbone in HR.
I envy an organization that makes it a culture that you need to strive to exceed. If the culture that rewards excellence and punishes being the bottom of the barrel bothers you, then that's your problem and you need to confine yourself to jobs that don't care about performance. You are undoubtedly the bottom 10% anyway.
University of Georgia had a Cyber 205. Odd machine, and interesting to compare what jobs ran better on it than the Cray and vice versa. Software wasn't nearly as polished as the Cray. Doubt more than a handful were ever built. Not really much "competition" for Cray in the end.
He said the front ends ran VMS, not the Cray. Users edited programs and did other interactive stuff on the front end that then got submitted to the Cray.
BTW...real men ran COS on their Cray, not fruity Unicos.
The Y/MP-48 that I used at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center was tricked out the same way.
I think the operative concept is "they were right next to a friggin exploding star". In other words, they are ciders if they weren't completely vaporized.
Yeah, but it has a very, very small set of targets, far smaller than the other players. After talking us up on it for the last few months, we we're very disappointed. Perhaps in time it will be better, but right now it's not a comprehensive solution for my 38,000 folks.
they are well documented as being bullies to push down prices of their suppliers with "do it or we will drop you" mantra.
Then Home Depot is a monopoly. So is Publix. So was KMart. And a lot of other retail vendors who just as obviously aren't monopolies. Yada, yada.
"Monopoly" is a technical term with a specific meaning, and applying it to every big company you don't like is no more accurate or factual than calling every individual you don't like a "Nazi".
By definition, a monopoly is where a single company controls, for all practical purposes, all supply for a given industry. It is not meaningfully affected by any other competetor, and is driving price arbitrarily (economically speaking) higher (see: Microsoft).
Walmart is something distictly different, in that it isn't the only player (though it is the biggest), does have competetors in the market that can influence it (esp. in sub-markets where it competes), and actively drives prices lower (generally by leaning on suppliers).
That's not to say Walmark is a good-guy. It's just not a monopoly.
Rob Pike wasn't a "co-creator" of Unix. He came to the Labs in the early '80s, more than a decade after Unix was created. He's very important and influential, but not for that...
We run iPlanet on several hundred web servers and have a SunONE pilot looking to cover around 25 million users. iPlanet stuff seems to be smooth; SunONE has been...challenging.
As I understand, tho, what RedHat got isn't the new stuff we are using.
In some ways, DIY electronics is getting harder. Lot's of logic parts are long out of production and getting harder to find. Those that are still in production are packaged in hobbyist-unfriendly ways (e.g. BGA). I know you can work with these packages with various gyrations, but it's a long way from the straightforward ease of DIPs and wire-wrap.
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Thus, it's not going to be useful for an 8086.
Now be reasonable...NetBSD is positively light speed compared to Debians "next major release" timetable...:-)
I doubt many NetBSD folks would argue that it's more secure than OpenBSD. Rather, it's just as secure as OpenBSD, with the bonus that you don't get summarily pissed on if you have the audacity to ask for help on a mailing list or IRC.
Not true. Our non-trivial (several thousand PCs) analysis of spyware at my company shows that the majority of the spyware initially infected machines by piggybacking on other programs that the users installed, such as iMesh, Gozilla, eWallet, etc. They didn't need a vulnerability, just a not-very-observant user.
So they should be forced to keep the bottom 10% performers (or rather, non-performer)?
(sarcasm on)
Oh, well, by all means we shouldn't actually measure performance and hold people accountable for delivering.
(sarcasm off)
I come from an organization that won't fire people for essentially any reason. I watch every day the accumulation of worthless dead wood taking every advantage of the lack of backbone in HR. I measure how much productivity goes down the toilet because the bottom 10% is in the corner laughing at the rest of us because they know they face no consequence.
I envy an organization that makes it a culture that you need to strive to exceed. If the culture that rewards excellence and punishes being the bottom of the barrel bothers you, then that's your problem and you need to confine yourself to jobs that don't care about performance (government jobs being best for those of you who simply want to cruse through). But don't criticise those that want to be the best. You obviously don't understand what that desire is all about.
> Oh, well, by all means we shouldn't actually measure performance and hold people accountable for delivering. >
I come from an organization that won't fire people for essentially any reason. I watch every day the accumulation of worthless dead wood taking every advantage of the lack of backbone in HR.
I envy an organization that makes it a culture that you need to strive to exceed. If the culture that rewards excellence and punishes being the bottom of the barrel bothers you, then that's your problem and you need to confine yourself to jobs that don't care about performance. You are undoubtedly the bottom 10% anyway.
...do not feed the trolls.
University of Georgia had a Cyber 205. Odd machine, and interesting to compare what jobs ran better on it than the Cray and vice versa. Software wasn't nearly as polished as the Cray. Doubt more than a handful were ever built. Not really much "competition" for Cray in the end.
BTW...real men ran COS on their Cray, not fruity Unicos.
The Y/MP-48 that I used at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center was tricked out the same way.
I think the operative concept is "they were right next to a friggin exploding star". In other words, they are ciders if they weren't completely vaporized.
You're about 4 orders of magnatude shy of the engergy involved.
Yeah, but it has a very, very small set of targets, far smaller than the other players. After talking us up on it for the last few months, we we're very disappointed. Perhaps in time it will be better, but right now it's not a comprehensive solution for my 38,000 folks.
For perspective, to the Moon and back in a day with plenty of time to have a picnic.
Then Home Depot is a monopoly. So is Publix. So was KMart. And a lot of other retail vendors who just as obviously aren't monopolies. Yada, yada.
"Monopoly" is a technical term with a specific meaning, and applying it to every big company you don't like is no more accurate or factual than calling every individual you don't like a "Nazi".
By definition, a monopoly is where a single company controls, for all practical purposes, all supply for a given industry. It is not meaningfully affected by any other competetor, and is driving price arbitrarily (economically speaking) higher (see: Microsoft).
Walmart is something distictly different, in that it isn't the only player (though it is the biggest), does have competetors in the market that can influence it (esp. in sub-markets where it competes), and actively drives prices lower (generally by leaning on suppliers).
That's not to say Walmark is a good-guy. It's just not a monopoly.
That might just be enough for me to go get a Mac. Thanks for the pointer!
Visio.
Yikes...we use Clarify and Concur as well.
Rob Pike wasn't a "co-creator" of Unix. He came to the Labs in the early '80s, more than a decade after Unix was created. He's very important and influential, but not for that...
Thanks for the suggestion.
We run iPlanet on several hundred web servers and have a SunONE pilot looking to cover around 25 million users. iPlanet stuff seems to be smooth; SunONE has been...challenging.
As I understand, tho, what RedHat got isn't the new stuff we are using.
If you ever come upon the design, do drop me a note. I'm experimenting with my own am2900 designs, and seeing something like that would be invaluable.
While we are on the topic...anyone know of a reasonably good open-source PCB autorouter?
Boy, would I like to see that am2900 design!
In some ways, DIY electronics is getting harder. Lot's of logic parts are long out of production and getting harder to find. Those that are still in production are packaged in hobbyist-unfriendly ways (e.g. BGA). I know you can work with these packages with various gyrations, but it's a long way from the straightforward ease of DIPs and wire-wrap.