Great! So any time soon, violent thugs our children should be protected from
and corporation executives -but I repeat myself- will be able to afford a
terminator body accompanied by a terminated brain.
I don't want to have my PC running to make calls. And no Windows PC for
certain.
I want a VOIP appliance I can plug into my NAT/firewall and link up to my
existing phone cabling.
That's one reason not to have Skype. But two reasons not to have a Windows
solution.
"Suppose you are producing a suntan lotion, you can't say
'get bronze in London in 2012'.
Yeah, you'd be infringing the act. The immorality however is that you'd be lying!
On the whole, the death penalty is not proportional to the damage made by
breaking into computer systems.
Also, the organizations that do not put enough effort in protecting sensitive
data are partly responsible for the cybercrime inflicted upon them.
Banks must absolutely guard the assets put in their trust. Hospitals should
not put highly sensitive patient devices (heart/drug monitors) on a network.
Armies should not have fireNuclearMissile() method behind a simple TCP
server.
Then you can ponder on whether the death penalty is proportional to any
thinkable crime.
On/. people care about slashes and dots. And other characters that
together make a computer program.
People also care about other obviously technology related stuff. Yeah! And also
about philosophical implications/influences technology has on man.
And Tolkien. Let's not forget about Tolkien. -I personally hate the b*stard
because he bores the pants off my butt. But it's an occasional topic on/.
and I can live with that.-
It's either that or I have completely missed the point.
So WTF does a Harry Potter article do on/.? Tell us! Tell us then!!!
I dare you.
Harry Potter has nothing to do with technology. His stories are even less
original then Tolkien's drivel! I believe I have a point here.
The former article was about a person in a company having responsibility.
Managers just love it to make you responsible when you make the occasional screw-up.
On the other hand they are most reluctant in appreciating people that act
responsibly by paying them a fair wage.
In a case where one modestly payed person can cause a damage of several millionsof dollar one must question the organization where this happened. Don't they
have review processes installed to minimize risks caused by silly typos? How
can a modestly payed person be responsible for multi million risks?
Humans tend to screw up every now and then. A professional organization needs
quality procedures to cover for bad days.
In geek terms:
If you need a very high available system, you can buy (well lease) a mainframe.
If you are a cheapskate (like most of us are) or you simply like *nix better
that MVS (end even USS) you can buy a couple of i386 systems which will do
the work. Enough CPU, enough disk space etc... But which will break
down on you eventually.
You can make a very high available system using cheap hardware. However, you
must organize your components so that they are fault tolerant and that fail
over occurs automatically. You need to have a redundant hardware setup. But mostof all, you need the right middleware that provides you the very high
availability.
The middleware that keeps your systems very high available is the equivalent
of what in business systems is called a quality system. You have a good quality
system and you don't run unacceptable multi million risks.
blocking online ads simple was tied to 'a negative vibe against advertising in general' Bollocks!!
Intrusive adds have bad vibes written all over them. I allow Googl's
non-intrusive adds because they don't bother me. Hell, I might even click on
them out of actual interest. I despise pop-ups or the patented pop-downs.
Freedom is one thing I care for. I care about the work of bright and
altruist people, especially if it's GPL-ed. I tend to agree on most
stuff they come up with (and I have to admit I take much longer in
getting the brilliancy).
By that, I agree with the GUI concepts as developed by MIT and enhanced
by numerous others. If I select a word I expect it to be in the copy
buffer. If my pointer hovers over a window I expect it to focus on that
window and to keep the window where it is.
I dislike Windows' way of raising windows to get input focus. I don't
to type CTRL-C to copy a selection in the copy buffer. I also don't care
much for the fact that MacOS actually invented APPLE-C, APPLE-V
etc... I also find Apple's Finder pathetic.
I actually like lots of stuff from X11 R4-R6! But spare me pedantic
remarks on xBSD. I like the GNOME desktop better than KDE and
twm. I'm not into fashion statements, I want a GUI like most Linux
distros deliver because I'm more productive that way.
Of course I'll do parts of my job on MacOS-X but I'll use a Linux distro
to be productive. So no, I'll not change and very few others will if you
ask me.
Something tells me Theo wouldn't recognize quality if it hit him in the face.
Quality is not directly about nice, structured and documented code. It's about
setting up a system that predictabily nice, structured and documented code.
For software development there is one true quality measurement system:
CMM. I have worked for many
large to huge SW companies. Even il large companies, only the very bright
people contemplate assessing the SW development process using CMM. And then
hit the wall called costs.
Quality in SW development is horribly expensive and does not produce a
direct revenue or return on investment.
Now, getting back to the definition of quality. In short, quality is about
setting and documenting standards, living up to them, having an independent
authoritative body audit the process periodically and defining corrective
tasks.
If you don't have such a system you should plainly shut up about quality.
Besides that, who would want to work with a cocky bastard that has a hard time
respecting other people's efforts? Theo clearly does not realize how much effortgoes into organizing huge groups of people.
And then there's the GPL. Using the GPL I don't feel raped without lubricant.
Is 'whopping' really the only adjective adequate enough to describe
supercomputer performance?
No but as soon as I use any of the British sounding superlatives
I get modded down.
Ok so where exactly did Steve Jobs say it would be a PC inside.
Agree. It wouldn't surprise me though if soon enough a HW enhancement
will be there to let PCs pretend to be Apple hardware. Or, the distro gets
hacked to let it install on any HW. After all, there's only so much you can
do to a general purpose -indeed, not an X-Box- Intel based system to not make
it incompatible.
Re:What does hyperthreading have to do with it?
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AMD Quad Cores, Oh My
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most programs haven't even got the ability to hyperthread, so do we
really need the extra cores?
Think about/.ers working in places where multiprocessing is daily business. Multiple cores on lowend hardware lowers costs (cost factor, yawn) and makes Linux solutions more viable (fun or x-factor).
In a romantic way the Indonesian government apparently allows steeling from the
rich and giving to the poor. On certain terms I'd actually agree to it.
But the Indonesian government commits and condones theft while alternatives are
at hand. Hell, they can install almost any Linux distro and have all the tools
they need to administer their country readily installed.
Such a government does not deserve any respect whatsoever.
Artistic protection! For artists that compose their first evergreen in the
womb, write it down immediately after being dried and live to a hundred.
What a load of manure. Like record companies don't have enough money already.
And as if classical music is easier to compose and hence needs merely 50 years.
Slashdot Mirror
Let's call it the Boy Who Cried Linux or BWCL for short. ;)
Wow, catchy!!
Great! So any time soon, violent thugs our children should be protected from and corporation executives -but I repeat myself- will be able to afford a terminator body accompanied by a terminated brain.
I don't want to have my PC running to make calls. And no Windows PC for certain.
I want a VOIP appliance I can plug into my NAT/firewall and link up to my existing phone cabling.
That's one reason not to have Skype. But two reasons not to have a Windows solution.
"Suppose you are producing a suntan lotion, you can't say 'get bronze in London in 2012'.
Yeah, you'd be infringing the act. The immorality however is that you'd be lying!
The "New Way to Make Hydrogen" as opposed to the "Old Way to make Methane".
On the whole, the death penalty is not proportional to the damage made by breaking into computer systems.
Also, the organizations that do not put enough effort in protecting sensitive data are partly responsible for the cybercrime inflicted upon them.
Banks must absolutely guard the assets put in their trust. Hospitals should not put highly sensitive patient devices (heart/drug monitors) on a network. Armies should not have fireNuclearMissile() method behind a simple TCP server.
Then you can ponder on whether the death penalty is proportional to any thinkable crime.
On /. people care about slashes and dots. And other characters that
together make a computer program.
/.
and I can live with that.-
/.? Tell us! Tell us then!!!
I dare you.
People also care about other obviously technology related stuff. Yeah! And also about philosophical implications/influences technology has on man.
And Tolkien. Let's not forget about Tolkien. -I personally hate the b*stard because he bores the pants off my butt. But it's an occasional topic on
It's either that or I have completely missed the point.
So WTF does a Harry Potter article do on
Harry Potter has nothing to do with technology. His stories are even less original then Tolkien's drivel! I believe I have a point here.
Now you may mod me down.
Just because it's not ready for you, doesn't mean it's not ready for me.. I'd buy one to tinker with (if for nothing else), if I had the money,
Buddy you sound like my SO.
Good deals on ThinkGeek... I haven't seen one since Istarted buying from them about 6 years ago.
I only buy my funny t-shirts and (/.) stickers at TG. Almost anything else is slightly to horribly overpriced.
The former article was about a person in a company having responsibility.
Managers just love it to make you responsible when you make the occasional screw-up. On the other hand they are most reluctant in appreciating people that act responsibly by paying them a fair wage.
In a case where one modestly payed person can cause a damage of several millionsof dollar one must question the organization where this happened. Don't they have review processes installed to minimize risks caused by silly typos? How can a modestly payed person be responsible for multi million risks?
Humans tend to screw up every now and then. A professional organization needs quality procedures to cover for bad days.
In geek terms:
-
If you need a very high available system, you can buy (well lease) a mainframe.
-
If you are a cheapskate (like most of us are) or you simply like *nix better
that MVS (end even USS) you can buy a couple of i386 systems which will do
the work. Enough CPU, enough disk space etc... But which will break
down on you eventually.
-
You can make a very high available system using cheap hardware. However, you
must organize your components so that they are fault tolerant and that fail
over occurs automatically. You need to have a redundant hardware setup. But mostof all, you need the right middleware that provides you the very high
availability.
The middleware that keeps your systems very high available is the equivalent of what in business systems is called a quality system. You have a good quality system and you don't run unacceptable multi million risks.I sense someone is due to be sued, sacked (or both) by Apple.
blocking online ads simple was tied to 'a negative vibe against advertising in general'
Bollocks!!
Intrusive adds have bad vibes written all over them. I allow Googl's non-intrusive adds because they don't bother me. Hell, I might even click on them out of actual interest. I despise pop-ups or the patented pop-downs.
Freedom is one thing I care for. I care about the work of bright and altruist people, especially if it's GPL-ed. I tend to agree on most stuff they come up with (and I have to admit I take much longer in getting the brilliancy).
By that, I agree with the GUI concepts as developed by MIT and enhanced by numerous others. If I select a word I expect it to be in the copy buffer. If my pointer hovers over a window I expect it to focus on that window and to keep the window where it is.
I dislike Windows' way of raising windows to get input focus. I don't to type CTRL-C to copy a selection in the copy buffer. I also don't care much for the fact that MacOS actually invented APPLE-C, APPLE-V etc... I also find Apple's Finder pathetic.
I actually like lots of stuff from X11 R4-R6! But spare me pedantic remarks on xBSD. I like the GNOME desktop better than KDE and twm. I'm not into fashion statements, I want a GUI like most Linux distros deliver because I'm more productive that way.
Of course I'll do parts of my job on MacOS-X but I'll use a Linux distro to be productive. So no, I'll not change and very few others will if you ask me.
After seeing all the cooling that the boards need and the small fan, I get the feeling these boards come with complementary earplugs.
Theo, define quality!
Something tells me Theo wouldn't recognize quality if it hit him in the face. Quality is not directly about nice, structured and documented code. It's about setting up a system that predictabily nice, structured and documented code.
For software development there is one true quality measurement system: CMM. I have worked for many large to huge SW companies. Even il large companies, only the very bright people contemplate assessing the SW development process using CMM. And then hit the wall called costs.
Quality in SW development is horribly expensive and does not produce a direct revenue or return on investment.
Now, getting back to the definition of quality. In short, quality is about setting and documenting standards, living up to them, having an independent authoritative body audit the process periodically and defining corrective tasks.
If you don't have such a system you should plainly shut up about quality.
Besides that, who would want to work with a cocky bastard that has a hard time respecting other people's efforts? Theo clearly does not realize how much effortgoes into organizing huge groups of people.
And then there's the GPL. Using the GPL I don't feel raped without lubricant.
Java and Javascript have nothing at all to do with each other
Allow me for a minute to represent the ignorant mass:
Yes they have!
Here's the link at Logitech
Diag, I think we are knowingly ignored by the /. mass. Lemme imagine a complot theory....
Is 'whopping' really the only adjective adequate enough to describe supercomputer performance?
No but as soon as I use any of the British sounding superlatives I get modded down.
Watch this experiment:
Staggering
You see, I just got modded down!
Ok so where exactly did Steve Jobs say it would be a PC inside.
Agree. It wouldn't surprise me though if soon enough a HW enhancement will be there to let PCs pretend to be Apple hardware. Or, the distro gets hacked to let it install on any HW. After all, there's only so much you can do to a general purpose -indeed, not an X-Box- Intel based system to not make it incompatible.
If only /. editors would censor dupes. Sigh...
most programs haven't even got the ability to hyperthread, so do we really need the extra cores? /.ers working in places where multiprocessing is daily business. Multiple cores on lowend hardware lowers costs (cost factor, yawn) and makes Linux solutions more viable (fun or x-factor).
Think about
In a romantic way the Indonesian government apparently allows steeling from the rich and giving to the poor. On certain terms I'd actually agree to it.
But the Indonesian government commits and condones theft while alternatives are at hand. Hell, they can install almost any Linux distro and have all the tools they need to administer their country readily installed.
Such a government does not deserve any respect whatsoever.
Artistic protection! For artists that compose their first evergreen in the womb, write it down immediately after being dried and live to a hundred.
What a load of manure. Like record companies don't have enough money already. And as if classical music is easier to compose and hence needs merely 50 years.