* Japan: their isolationist mindset was dropped in the 1850s. Without a caste system they were able to rapidly form an educated middle class that integrated foreign ideas. Now they have one of the largest and most productive economies in the world.
Japan wasn't in an internal crisis, neither sociologically, economically or environmentally speaking. It was the USA who forced the japanese to open their economy to 'open' trade (only with the US though). Before that point Japan had, for example, issues an environmental reforesting campaign, that was highly successful (85 percent of Japan is covered with forest). After the US 'opening up' Japan developed - partly out of feelings of frustration and humiliation brought on by the US - into an aggressive bully in the region culminating into invading mainland China and declaring war on the US. Nobody knows how the Japanese would have developed, would they've been left alone in the 1850s, but at least it's fair to state that the US did wrong big time back then.
With the economy down, people will hang on to their old computers longer. Since most windows PC's tend to stop worker altogether faster than Apple computers, Apple/Windows ratio will rise.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the reason for RAID6 the ability to survive a double failure.
You're correct, but the article I linked describes that that won't work forever either. RAID5 or RAID6 enables me to bypass LVM in certian solutions, if I use RAID1 I certainly need to lump several RAID1's together with LVM, which in my opinion is better than LVM over RAID5/6 but still somewhat flaky.
And are you really using ext3 for large filesystems?
Not anymore no, I use XFS for large filesystems these days. There was a time though that ext3 was the only journaling filesystems out of beta for Debian. And don't start about reiserfs on debian, long before Hans killed his wife he practiced on my servers.
It may happen some day, but until then its RAID5/6+LVM+ext3.
Right, and that day better come soon, at last before 2TB drives become mainstream in RAID5/6 setups. read http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162
about the chance of double failure on RAID5/6 growing with the size of the disk. Happened twice on my servers, exactly with RAID5+LVM+ext3.
We need ZFS (or similar) on linux servers right now.
Actually, I would argue that Indonesian is far easier to learn than Japanese. Indonesian (or Bahasa Indonesia) is a language that has been constructed after WWII out of Malaysian and some Javanese dialects. Indonesian doensn't have any grammatical or lexical ireggularities and no verb conjugation at all. Verb tenses are constructed by adding words that meaning something like 'future' or 'past'. Plural nouns are either not mentioned if the context is clear or by repeating the noun (child = 'anak', children = 'anak anak'). The only real challenge Indenesian poses for a non-native speaker is finding the right word sequence. Almost every sequence has a distinct meaning, but the difference may be subtle or unexpected.
The javanese languages it has been constructed out of, in contrast, are extremely irregular and vary with the social position of the person speaking it. Malaysian is a simpler language, it has functioned as a lingua franca for centuries in the region.
Actually this is not true, in general architects only have the faintest clues about the technical sides of buildings. A host of technical experts/consultants are hired to sort out the technical design of buildings like these. Subsequently responsabillity is moved to these consultants. Architects are only liable if they willingly and knowingly ignore the advice these consultants give. Architects get sued in order to point down the chain of consultants, most og the time to end up at the construction company.
Moreover $15 million dollar is not so much money for a $300 million dollar building like that. I takes an incredible amount of time and effort to build something like that. Whether you use the most advanced software and hardware around doesn't matter, designing a building is basically manual labor, i.e. there is no software that designs a building or parts of it, it's just the drawing process that's automated by computers. I very much doubt Gehry gets rich from building stuff like this. He gets rich by giving lectures and being member of committees for competitions and stuff like that.
It is even worse than that in the Netherlands : you also have to pay outrageous amounts of money if you play music AT WORK. And you can forget going to court to fight that. The best part is that the money is claimed by company that is called The foundation for accompanying rights. Theý are not state owned, but have some kind of license to go about and go after your money.
They actually visit offices and count the number of physical radios and - more recently - checking computers for bookmarks to internetradio stations or iTunes installations and that kind of stuff.
Actually there was another lucky happenstance with their rise to office suite power and that was that WordPerfect - untouchable in the wordprocessing arena untill windows 3.11 came out - was so incredibly slow to come out with a windows version or at least some kind of GUI version of WP51.
If these guys would have gotten of their lazy asses earlier on, things maybe would have looked different.
Another company that deserves mentioning for royally hosing their niche monopoly on PC hardware at that time, was of course Novell with their netware stuff. They ruled PC-to-PC networking in the DOS era and were blown away by Windows 3.11, which had a crappy network stack that was inferior to netware's under dos.
DR-DOS would have taken off if it hadn't been for the already in place business tactics of Microsoft. DR-Dos ran on exactly the same hardware, hell it even ran windows if ms wouldn't have blocked it.
check this on out http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=295359&cid=20573361
probably internet would have been introduced faster and better without microsoft at some point.
There's one major difference between IBM then and Apple now : IBM was so stupid as to have somebody else make their operating system and have them keep the licensing scheme. Now We all know who that someody else is...
So you're really comparing Apple with Microsoft circa 1985 and I guess that's what Steve Jobs et al. have been doing when they made this decision
I've used apache with webdav over https on several occasions for remote file sharing. Works great on 2000 & XP through webfolders without additional software. Users can just browse using windows explorer as if working with local files. OSX needs a special app (goliath).
tuning apache to user webdav with XP is the hardest part (but there's an manual here and here.
I was talking about webdav over httpS. The link with the security problem you posted is about a vulnerability of webDAV in IIS, which is indeed a shitty product. Furthermore I do not see what sftp has got to do with anything. Also I'm not talking of IE in any sense. End users can use webdav over https in windows explorer, just like they would use local files. This cannot be done for example in OSX, natively that is. Can it be done in KDE?
I don't get why it is useful to be able to type devices:// or whatever. For some of these protocols the ramifications are totally unclear: if i'd type pop3://myserver/mymailbox would that actually download my messages and effectively erase them from the server?
The useful protocols are covered in Win(XP) very well, including the most useful (not mentioned in the article) : webdav over https.
D*n right you are.
The first virus I saw was the Word Perfect 5.1 ping pong virus, which was a little 0 bouncing through the screen, taking away characters it bounced through on the screen.
wp5.1 was basically a single exe file, so the virus had to mod the binary in some way. An.exe without the virus would have exactlye the same size as the.exe WITH the virus. Maybe that's because of the trick the parent describes.
CAD and other engineering apps usually have versions available for linux, or solaris. They are usually very expensive.
Are you kidding me?
Linux doesn't have any serious CAD package available, no matter how much you're willing to pay. I'm a building engineer and a sysop for construction firms. We pay up to $6000-$6500/seat for AutoCAD or MicroStation. I'd kill for a decent linux (or UNIX version) for that kind of money. In fact AutoCAD KILLED their UNIX version after acad12 and MicroStation used to have an academic microstation95 version for UNIX. Nobody heard from them since.
CAD applications are the only things to keep the firms that I run tied (firmly) to windows.
If any of you know a serious CAD packages - usable in structural and building engineering - I'd be very surprised AND very interested.
Sorry, also the language situation in China is incredibly diverse. Not only do all the ethnic minorities have there own language, i.e. turkish, persian and the like languages, but the Han chinese among themselves have dialects that are incomprehensible for non-dialect speakers. The official Mandarin language is widely tought in school, but has a status similar to Hindi, I guess : a lot of people (mostly Han) speak it as their mother tongue, but nowhere near a majority. For the rest it is a rudimentary lingua franca at best.
You're right about the official language stuff, though. The Han chinese try to get rid of the other languages. Don't if that's better
Although I agree with you, I have to say that I can't agree with the second point you mention. China is not a very homgenous country. It is true that the Han chinese - the top dogs - try to stress homogenity in China, partly to cover up ther (former) imperialistic behaviour. Truth is there is a huge diversity in ethnicity : turkish (uygurs), persian (parsi), arabic, tibetan, nepali, mongoloid (in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia) etc. etc.
Also in religious sense I guess there are as many different religions in China as there are in India (muslims, Nestorians, zarathustrians, animists etc. etc.). Again these religious minorities are considered either futile barbarians or a threat to the stablitity of China as a whole by the Chinese (han-)government.
Not only in Japan, but also in Western Europe - most notably in Belgium, France and the Netherlands - have comics been mainstream. Everybody in These countries knows Tintin and most take it serious. Other serious yet popular comics are the comic-version of voyage au bout de la nuit (journey to the end of the night) - the novel by Louis Ferdinand Celine and made into a comic by Tardi. Also in Holland have major novels been turned into comics.
It's a pity that they only awarded consumer interfaces to computer-related products. I would have loved to to see an award for the best designed server rackmountcase for example. That would also bring the attention to the fact that there is something to be designed inside these things. Something which some of the manufacturers themselves don't seem to know.
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* Japan: their isolationist mindset was dropped in the 1850s. Without a caste system they were able to rapidly form an educated middle class that integrated foreign ideas. Now they have one of the largest and most productive economies in the world.
Japan wasn't in an internal crisis, neither sociologically, economically or environmentally speaking. It was the USA who forced the japanese to open their economy to 'open' trade (only with the US though). Before that point Japan had, for example, issues an environmental reforesting campaign, that was highly successful (85 percent of Japan is covered with forest). After the US 'opening up' Japan developed - partly out of feelings of frustration and humiliation brought on by the US - into an aggressive bully in the region culminating into invading mainland China and declaring war on the US. Nobody knows how the Japanese would have developed, would they've been left alone in the 1850s, but at least it's fair to state that the US did wrong big time back then.
With the economy down, people will hang on to their old computers longer. Since most windows PC's tend to stop worker altogether faster than Apple computers, Apple/Windows ratio will rise.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the reason for RAID6 the ability to survive a double failure.
You're correct, but the article I linked describes that that won't work forever either. RAID5 or RAID6 enables me to bypass LVM in certian solutions, if I use RAID1 I certainly need to lump several RAID1's together with LVM, which in my opinion is better than LVM over RAID5/6 but still somewhat flaky.
And are you really using ext3 for large filesystems?
Not anymore no, I use XFS for large filesystems these days. There was a time though that ext3 was the only journaling filesystems out of beta for Debian. And don't start about reiserfs on debian, long before Hans killed his wife he practiced on my servers.
It may happen some day, but until then its RAID5/6+LVM+ext3.
Right, and that day better come soon, at last before 2TB drives become mainstream in RAID5/6 setups. read http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 about the chance of double failure on RAID5/6 growing with the size of the disk. Happened twice on my servers, exactly with RAID5+LVM+ext3. We need ZFS (or similar) on linux servers right now.
Actually, I would argue that Indonesian is far easier to learn than Japanese. Indonesian (or Bahasa Indonesia) is a language that has been constructed after WWII out of Malaysian and some Javanese dialects. Indonesian doensn't have any grammatical or lexical ireggularities and no verb conjugation at all. Verb tenses are constructed by adding words that meaning something like 'future' or 'past'. Plural nouns are either not mentioned if the context is clear or by repeating the noun (child = 'anak', children = 'anak anak'). The only real challenge Indenesian poses for a non-native speaker is finding the right word sequence. Almost every sequence has a distinct meaning, but the difference may be subtle or unexpected. The javanese languages it has been constructed out of, in contrast, are extremely irregular and vary with the social position of the person speaking it. Malaysian is a simpler language, it has functioned as a lingua franca for centuries in the region.
Actually this is not true, in general architects only have the faintest clues about the technical sides of buildings. A host of technical experts/consultants are hired to sort out the technical design of buildings like these. Subsequently responsabillity is moved to these consultants. Architects are only liable if they willingly and knowingly ignore the advice these consultants give. Architects get sued in order to point down the chain of consultants, most og the time to end up at the construction company. Moreover $15 million dollar is not so much money for a $300 million dollar building like that. I takes an incredible amount of time and effort to build something like that. Whether you use the most advanced software and hardware around doesn't matter, designing a building is basically manual labor, i.e. there is no software that designs a building or parts of it, it's just the drawing process that's automated by computers. I very much doubt Gehry gets rich from building stuff like this. He gets rich by giving lectures and being member of committees for competitions and stuff like that.
It is even worse than that in the Netherlands : you also have to pay outrageous amounts of money if you play music AT WORK. And you can forget going to court to fight that. The best part is that the money is claimed by company that is called The foundation for accompanying rights. Theý are not state owned, but have some kind of license to go about and go after your money.
They actually visit offices and count the number of physical radios and - more recently - checking computers for bookmarks to internetradio stations or iTunes installations and that kind of stuff.
Actually there was another lucky happenstance with their rise to office suite power and that was that WordPerfect - untouchable in the wordprocessing arena untill windows 3.11 came out - was so incredibly slow to come out with a windows version or at least some kind of GUI version of WP51.
If these guys would have gotten of their lazy asses earlier on, things maybe would have looked different. Another company that deserves mentioning for royally hosing their niche monopoly on PC hardware at that time, was of course Novell with their netware stuff. They ruled PC-to-PC networking in the DOS era and were blown away by Windows 3.11, which had a crappy network stack that was inferior to netware's under dos.
DR-DOS would have taken off if it hadn't been for the already in place business tactics of Microsoft. DR-Dos ran on exactly the same hardware, hell it even ran windows if ms wouldn't have blocked it. check this on out http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=295359&cid=20573361 probably internet would have been introduced faster and better without microsoft at some point.
There's one major difference between IBM then and Apple now : IBM was so stupid as to have somebody else make their operating system and have them keep the licensing scheme. Now We all know who that someody else is ...
So you're really comparing Apple with Microsoft circa 1985 and I guess that's what Steve Jobs et al. have been doing when they made this decision
I've used apache with webdav over https on several occasions for remote file sharing. Works great on 2000 & XP through webfolders without additional software. Users can just browse using windows explorer as if working with local files. OSX needs a special app (goliath). tuning apache to user webdav with XP is the hardest part (but there's an manual here and here.
I was talking about webdav over httpS. The link with the security problem you posted is about a vulnerability of webDAV in IIS, which is indeed a shitty product. Furthermore I do not see what sftp has got to do with anything. Also I'm not talking of IE in any sense. End users can use webdav over https in windows explorer, just like they would use local files. This cannot be done for example in OSX, natively that is. Can it be done in KDE?
I don't get why it is useful to be able to type devices:// or whatever. For some of these protocols the ramifications are totally unclear: if i'd type pop3://myserver/mymailbox would that actually download my messages and effectively erase them from the server? The useful protocols are covered in Win(XP) very well, including the most useful (not mentioned in the article) : webdav over https.
Worse : HD DD Disk
Indeed, Stanislav Lem is still alive.
D*n right you are. The first virus I saw was the Word Perfect 5.1 ping pong virus, which was a little 0 bouncing through the screen, taking away characters it bounced through on the screen. wp5.1 was basically a single exe file, so the virus had to mod the binary in some way. An .exe without the virus would have exactlye the same size as the .exe WITH the virus. Maybe that's because of the trick the parent describes.
Are you kidding me? Linux doesn't have any serious CAD package available, no matter how much you're willing to pay. I'm a building engineer and a sysop for construction firms. We pay up to $6000-$6500/seat for AutoCAD or MicroStation. I'd kill for a decent linux (or UNIX version) for that kind of money. In fact AutoCAD KILLED their UNIX version after acad12 and MicroStation used to have an academic microstation95 version for UNIX. Nobody heard from them since.
CAD applications are the only things to keep the firms that I run tied (firmly) to windows.
If any of you know a serious CAD packages - usable in structural and building engineering - I'd be very surprised AND very interested.
Sorry, also the language situation in China is incredibly diverse. Not only do all the ethnic minorities have there own language, i.e. turkish, persian and the like languages, but the Han chinese among themselves have dialects that are incomprehensible for non-dialect speakers. The official Mandarin language is widely tought in school, but has a status similar to Hindi, I guess : a lot of people (mostly Han) speak it as their mother tongue, but nowhere near a majority. For the rest it is a rudimentary lingua franca at best. You're right about the official language stuff, though. The Han chinese try to get rid of the other languages. Don't if that's better
Although I agree with you, I have to say that I can't agree with the second point you mention. China is not a very homgenous country. It is true that the Han chinese - the top dogs - try to stress homogenity in China, partly to cover up ther (former) imperialistic behaviour. Truth is there is a huge diversity in ethnicity : turkish (uygurs), persian (parsi), arabic, tibetan, nepali, mongoloid (in Manchuria, Inner Mongolia) etc. etc. Also in religious sense I guess there are as many different religions in China as there are in India (muslims, Nestorians, zarathustrians, animists etc. etc.). Again these religious minorities are considered either futile barbarians or a threat to the stablitity of China as a whole by the Chinese (han-)government.
Not only in Japan, but also in Western Europe - most notably in Belgium, France and the Netherlands - have comics been mainstream. Everybody in These countries knows Tintin and most take it serious. Other serious yet popular comics are the comic-version of voyage au bout de la nuit (journey to the end of the night) - the novel by Louis Ferdinand Celine and made into a comic by Tardi. Also in Holland have major novels been turned into comics.
it's here
It's a pity that they only awarded consumer interfaces to computer-related products. I would have loved to to see an award for the best designed server rackmountcase for example. That would also bring the attention to the fact that there is something to be designed inside these things. Something which some of the manufacturers themselves don't seem to know.
And don't tell the X-serve would win this.
Mandrake, mandrake? That was a guy in the Dr. Strangelove movie, right?