I personally don't trust software that's probably written by some spotty 14 year old going by some odd name like "L3kk3r"... open source seems to be mostly written using the "Bodgitt & Skarper" methodologies, at least if it comes from a company they are more likely to produce a design (remember those funny things from university ? You do them BEFORE you code!:-) and are less likely/able to run a mile when things go wrong.
So you work for an educational establishment and you are trying to incite an outside party to send said establishment a million dollar bill...
I'm sure your manager is going to love that one when he finds out:-)
Hmm, the guy is now 60 years old... is he going to be up to running around blowing up Star Destroyers and carrying dismembered driods on his back ?
Chewie just won't be the same going "WUUUAAAAGGG *gasp* GGHHHHHHH!!!";-)
Do you have independant thought ? Or are you just a sheep ?
I was "just curious", I'm interested to know if a fair trial is possible or if this will just be a witch hunt... after all they found tons of "weapons of mass destruction" didn't they:-)
I've no liking of the guy, but even if he is the most misguided person on the planet he still deserves a fair trial, otherwise we might as well start advertising for the next bunch of "freedom fighters" to step up and start blowing things up all chanting "Free Sadam" etc
What with the media frenzy over this whole Iraq thing and that most of the world leaders threw in there lott with the US, how will a fair trial be carried out ?
Will this be a trial by jury ? If so how will they find jurors who havn't been influenced by the media ?
Just curious is all.
Regards
Mark
This has been on the news for the past couple of days down here, news say that he didn't do much forward planning or contact any of the organisations in antarctica before hand to let them know what he was going to do... it's probably this that annoys them most, having to rescue him because they didn't have a chance to advise him beforehand.
Got to admire his sense of adventure though:-) Maybe next year I'll get a chance to do an antarctic fly by.
Although no-one can argue against the fact that the US has a huge war machine, lots of people can argue the fact that the US military (as a whole) is not that well trained.
Having lived on a couple of NATO bases over the years and seen the way various nationalities interact (both in social and military gatherings) the US has always been the butt of many a joke, jibe and fear (from "friendly fire")
A good example was during the first Gulf conflict, the US army arriving by landing craft onto a beach and "occupying" said beach... all the while being closely filmed by the BBC, CNN and other world news casters, who'd been there for the past 2 days waiting for them... the other fun thing to watch was the Coca Cola machines being unloaded:-)
Of note the training the pilots gets seems lower than what other countries give (ie. get permission to blast something rather than blast it and then find out it was actually a bunch of italians or canadians or some other poor bugger allied to the US)
I think the US (and it's people) needs to realise that a) the rest of the world exists outside of TV and b) the rest of the world has been fighting wars for a lot longer than the USA has been in existance... and hence know a lot of dirty tricks, you think that in the hypothetical situation of the US vs EU that the EU members would fight fair ?
Ah well, maybe a big wall could be built around the US, they'd be quite happy in there by themselves and the rest of the world could breath easier:-)
I was just thinking that this is just up iSCSI's street. Have multiple iSCSI targets and then use a software RAID-5 implementation (it wouldn't care because as far as it's concerned the iSCSI device is a "local" device) on he initator machine.
Would be neat to see in action, anyone got enough kit at home/work to try it out and report back ?.... my wallet doesn't open far enough at the moment:-)
Wow Apple fans sure are a rabid lot:-)
You'd have thought from the queues that the shops were giving away free drugs!
How do people get so addicted to a piece of computer software ?
Personally I found hiding behind a pillow was sufficient protection... though when I used to watch the incredible hulk I found I had to use a duvet at times;-)
I know this sort of talk is likely to get me stalked but...
What possible reason would Valve have for releasing a Linux port of Half Life ? It'll get bugger all sales. Face it if you walked down your street and knocked on all the doors how many of the people there would be running (and using, not just have it installed) Linux ? Eff all in the scheme of things! So why then should Valve employ a bunch of horribly expensive developers to make a Linux port with no visible returns in sight ?
Face it Linux people, Linux is very good at some things (server stuff, though I'm not keen on it being in important/sensitive datacenters) but impracticale for others.
I always find it interesting that the minority groups are the loudest whingers... you should here some Amigans;-)
Now if you'll exscuse me I'll jet find my asbestos undies...
Does the RIAA have any powers outside of the US ?
Also (and correct me if I'm wrong here) are they tracking those nasty file sharing pirates by requesting from the ISP who was using the particular IP's at the time of the crime ?
If so in the UK it owuld be a breach of the Data Protection Act for the ISP to give out the users name and address because the last time I asked the RIAA is not a govermental police force (at least not in the UK:-) but are funded by the music industry, who also apparently should only be producing music and not sponsoring vigilate action.
My nan actually has one Sir Clives wheel chair assist motors, very good too, just bolted onto her existing wheel chair and zoom of she goes:-)
All we've got to do now is instill in her the need to recharge it.
Mark
This is relying on there being no-one else on earth using an EM emitting device (and Mother Nature being quiet too!), that you are sitting with your phone pressed up against the base station and your phone can handle lots and lots of data channels. WCDMA can do a theoretical 2Mb (if things are perfect), but that is broken up into data channels can do a maximum of 384Kb/s (and only a limited number of those per cell) Mere mortals will get about 128-160Kb/s.
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SGI have announced that they're not supporting IRIX ??!?!? Since when ? Please provide a link to your source of information.
And why should any company release for free the source code of their product ? They've put many years of effort into IRIX why should they release it to the great unwashed masses ?
All (!) SGI have to do is get a good entry level system back into their range of workstations and price it to attract.
Linux is OK but it always lives in BETA or ALPHA versions of everything, people start projects then give up when it gets to the boring bits like documentation or bug fixing, this is where "proper" commercial software wins, it's supported by people whose only job is to support that bit of software and things are documented so that if the lead programmer gets run over by a bus the project can continue.
Regards
Mark
I remember when I got my C64 and found they had included the schematics of it in the back of the manual.
Shame they don't do that anymore... could be nice for a company to make hardware and say "Here it is!" "Here's how it works" "Off you go and make cool stuff for it!"
Ah well, big business rules I guess.
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I personally don't trust software that's probably written by some spotty 14 year old going by some odd name like "L3kk3r" ... open source seems to be mostly written using the "Bodgitt & Skarper" methodologies, at least if it comes from a company they are more likely to produce a design (remember those funny things from university ? You do them BEFORE you code! :-) and are less likely/able to run a mile when things go wrong.
So you work for an educational establishment and you are trying to incite an outside party to send said establishment a million dollar bill ...
I'm sure your manager is going to love that one when he finds out :-)
Hmm, the guy is now 60 years old ... is he going to be up to running around blowing up Star Destroyers and carrying dismembered driods on his back ?
Chewie just won't be the same going "WUUUAAAAGGG *gasp* GGHHHHHHH!!!" ;-)
Don't these sort of announcements usually get spouted out at election time ? :-)
So will this system automagically flag tourists a threat ?
...
After all it's probably not going to be able to do that much of a background check on "Joe Bloggs" from the Isle of Skye
The US seems to be getting quite scary and creepy lately, almost like the way the Nazi influence crept slowly across Germany not that long ago.
Mark
Hmmm, not to my knowledge.
... after all they found tons of "weapons of mass destruction" didn't they :-)
Do you have independant thought ? Or are you just a sheep ?
I was "just curious", I'm interested to know if a fair trial is possible or if this will just be a witch hunt
I've no liking of the guy, but even if he is the most misguided person on the planet he still deserves a fair trial, otherwise we might as well start advertising for the next bunch of "freedom fighters" to step up and start blowing things up all chanting "Free Sadam" etc
Mark
What with the media frenzy over this whole Iraq thing and that most of the world leaders threw in there lott with the US, how will a fair trial be carried out ? Will this be a trial by jury ? If so how will they find jurors who havn't been influenced by the media ? Just curious is all. Regards Mark
This has been on the news for the past couple of days down here, news say that he didn't do much forward planning or contact any of the organisations in antarctica before hand to let them know what he was going to do ... it's probably this that annoys them most, having to rescue him because they didn't have a chance to advise him beforehand.
:-)
Got to admire his sense of adventure though
Maybe next year I'll get a chance to do an antarctic fly by.
... as someone said once.
... all the while being closely filmed by the BBC, CNN and other world news casters, who'd been there for the past 2 days waiting for them ... the other fun thing to watch was the Coca Cola machines being unloaded :-)
... and hence know a lot of dirty tricks, you think that in the hypothetical situation of the US vs EU that the EU members would fight fair ?
:-)
Although no-one can argue against the fact that the US has a huge war machine, lots of people can argue the fact that the US military (as a whole) is not that well trained.
Having lived on a couple of NATO bases over the years and seen the way various nationalities interact (both in social and military gatherings) the US has always been the butt of many a joke, jibe and fear (from "friendly fire")
A good example was during the first Gulf conflict, the US army arriving by landing craft onto a beach and "occupying" said beach
Of note the training the pilots gets seems lower than what other countries give (ie. get permission to blast something rather than blast it and then find out it was actually a bunch of italians or canadians or some other poor bugger allied to the US)
I think the US (and it's people) needs to realise that a) the rest of the world exists outside of TV and b) the rest of the world has been fighting wars for a lot longer than the USA has been in existance
Ah well, maybe a big wall could be built around the US, they'd be quite happy in there by themselves and the rest of the world could breath easier
So this problem of space junk is about to get worse then ? Since anyone with the odd $9million to burn can have a satellite launched.
Will they be providing facilities to recover/repair the broken satellites ?
Mark
I was just thinking that this is just up iSCSI's street.
.... my wallet doesn't open far enough at the moment :-)
Have multiple iSCSI targets and then use a software RAID-5 implementation (it wouldn't care because as far as it's concerned the iSCSI device is a "local" device) on he initator machine.
Would be neat to see in action, anyone got enough kit at home/work to try it out and report back ?
Mark
Wow Apple fans sure are a rabid lot :-)
You'd have thought from the queues that the shops were giving away free drugs!
How do people get so addicted to a piece of computer software ?
Personally I found hiding behind a pillow was sufficient protection ... though when I used to watch the incredible hulk I found I had to use a duvet at times ;-)
I know this sort of talk is likely to get me stalked but ...
What possible reason would Valve have for releasing a Linux port of Half Life ? It'll get bugger all sales. Face it if you walked down your street and knocked on all the doors how many of the people there would be running (and using, not just have it installed) Linux ? Eff all in the scheme of things! So why then should Valve employ a bunch of horribly expensive developers to make a Linux port with no visible returns in sight ?
Face it Linux people, Linux is very good at some things (server stuff, though I'm not keen on it being in important/sensitive datacenters) but impracticale for others.
I always find it interesting that the minority groups are the loudest whingers ... you should here some Amigans ;-)
Now if you'll exscuse me I'll jet find my asbestos undies ...
Does the RIAA have any powers outside of the US ? Also (and correct me if I'm wrong here) are they tracking those nasty file sharing pirates by requesting from the ISP who was using the particular IP's at the time of the crime ? If so in the UK it owuld be a breach of the Data Protection Act for the ISP to give out the users name and address because the last time I asked the RIAA is not a govermental police force (at least not in the UK :-) but are funded by the music industry, who also apparently should only be producing music and not sponsoring vigilate action.
My nan actually has one Sir Clives wheel chair assist motors, very good too, just bolted onto her existing wheel chair and zoom of she goes :-)
All we've got to do now is instill in her the need to recharge it.
Mark
I guess they didn't want to effect anyone else who might be in the covered area. People get narky when their equipment gets interference.
Regards
Mark
I think you need to read up on what a SAN is :-( A SAN is not a method for providing data integrity.
Mark
55Tb ? Pah! Our current on-line storage is 218Tb ... and we don't even have a single customer yet ;-)
Cue the next "Mine is bigger than yours!" :-)
Mark
Sorry to be picky but it's a decoder not an encoder/decoder (codec). Mark
This is relying on there being no-one else on earth using an EM emitting device (and Mother Nature being quiet too!), that you are sitting with your phone pressed up against the base station and your phone can handle lots and lots of data channels. WCDMA can do a theoretical 2Mb (if things are perfect), but that is broken up into data channels can do a maximum of 384Kb/s (and only a limited number of those per cell) Mere mortals will get about 128-160Kb/s.
SGI have announced that they're not supporting IRIX ??!?!? Since when ? Please provide a link to your source of information. And why should any company release for free the source code of their product ? They've put many years of effort into IRIX why should they release it to the great unwashed masses ? All (!) SGI have to do is get a good entry level system back into their range of workstations and price it to attract. Linux is OK but it always lives in BETA or ALPHA versions of everything, people start projects then give up when it gets to the boring bits like documentation or bug fixing, this is where "proper" commercial software wins, it's supported by people whose only job is to support that bit of software and things are documented so that if the lead programmer gets run over by a bus the project can continue. Regards Mark
I remember when I got my C64 and found they had included the schematics of it in the back of the manual. Shame they don't do that anymore ... could be nice for a company to make hardware and say "Here it is!" "Here's how it works" "Off you go and make cool stuff for it!"
Ah well, big business rules I guess.