It is news to me...strange how that works. Sometimes it fun to bring back some of this stuff. I think some people take it (unique news) gathering too seriously. Why don't you try digg if you don't like it? At least there can be a wee bit more intelligence here.
"5. PROVIDING CONTENT TO AMAZON
You may provide text, images, reviews and other informational content ("Content" about a product to Amazon. If you do so, you hereby grant to Amazon a perpetual, paid-up royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable right and license to: (i) use, reproduce, perform, display and distribute the Content in any manner; (ii) adapt, modify, re-format and create derivative works of the Content for any purpose;(iii) use and publish your name in the form of a credit in conjunction with the Content; and (iv) sublicense the foregoing rights to its affiliates or any third parties. Additionally, you represent and warrant that: (a) the Content is your original work or you obtained the Content in a lawful manner, and (b) Amazon's and its sublicensees' use of the Content as specified above will not violate any third party's rights, including but not limited to copyright rights. Amazon reserves the right, but is not obligated, to use and publish your name in the form of a credit in conjunction with the Content you supply to Amazon, and by supplying any Content, you grant Amazon the irrevocable right to do so."
Ouch... Now look at this part of the EULA that pertains to S3 service...
"B. Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service
1) You may use Amazon S3 to store, retrieve, run, and/or operate software applications and/or data owned or lawfully obtained by you ("Your S3 Content"). You acknowledge that neither Amazon nor its affiliates are responsible in any manner, and you are solely responsible, for Your S3 Content. While we may track information regarding your usage of Amazon S3, we will not disclose, sell or license Your S3 Content in any way that is inconsistent with this Agreement, except as may be necessary to comply with subpoenas, court orders, or other legal requirements.
2) The limitation of 1 call/per second/per IP address set forth in Section 1.A.2 above is not applicable to your use of Amazon S3. You may not, however, store "objects" (as described in the user documentation) that contain more than 5 Gigabytes of data, or own more than 100 "buckets" (as described in the user documentation) at any one time."
So, can they use your information that is stored? I do not think it is very clear...
At the very least something to think about before jumping on board...
For all of you scientists out there, that know a bit more than the average Joe, what would happen if the plasma was dense enough to sustain fusion? Could the burn grow, sucking in what is around it? What about the materials that this is contained in? Last time I checked, the temperatures achieved in this experiment were just a touch higher than the boiling point of most materials known to man. Also, could that kind of heat catch our own atmosphere on fire, so to speak? I am all for research, but couldn't there be a pretty wicked accident here?
What do you think EMC's role is in this? They could easily afford to give the product away, and sell services. VMWare isn't going anywhere; on the contrary, this could be decision from the higher ups at EMC to start gathering and holding on to market share, much like EMC has been doing with their storage for the last 2 or so years...what ever it takes, I am sure they will do it.
Workstations and GSX are host based virtualization, where as ESX is a bare metal install, with OS's installed on top of that. All of their fancy software is only available on ESX, for the most part...I think they should give ESX away...man would that be super cool...
No, I don't smoke crack...of course you can put multiple domains on IIS. My point was that IIS is incapable of handling more than one domain at a time per box...load a few sophisticated web applications, and you need a monster of a box, or several...also, IIS does not do well on servers that have more than 2 cpus, so another limitation...
and so on, and so on...
Yes, I do know about the product, you just misunderstood my response it seems.
Um, you are missing the point...IIS can only handle one domain per "real server". Apache can handle 500virtuals and a bowl of cereal to boot. Counting your way, Microsoft would always win due to them creating this "one server / one application" tiered computing mentality that most *nix users have never come to grips with, nor ever wanted to shell out the $$$ for it...
"Sing to me, Goddess, of the wrath of Achilles, Son of Peleus...
We bought 5 of the V20z as soon as they appeared, and have loved them. I am impressed with them, even though I have heard that Sun did not build them. Running the latest linux kernel from SuSE, and have yet to make them break a sweat. I think it is about time Sun got exited about something. Even if they give up ultraSPARC, they hired the guy from AMD who helped develop the Opteron x86-64, and would seem to me that it would be in their best interest in capitalizing on the investment. It would be nice to see someone other than Dell and HP in this arena. Remember once again, the Sun was one of the first with 64bit technology, and they were also one of the first, if not the first, to offer Opteron servers.
Maybe they will lead again...
Go ahead, Toot your horn Sun!!! Keep making these good decisions!!
It is amazing to see a fix of this nature...it is more like an upgrade. I didn't count the number of fixes, but I would venture to say it is in the hundreds, plus all the ones they do not publish. I can't wait to download all 250MB of this patch over my dialup line! should take about 2.75 days
Firstly, perhaps someone here on slashdot.org might be able to shed some light on the particular encryption algorythms mentioned in the article...thier basic differences, weaknesses and strengths.
Secondly, I am assuming that a "collision" is not as seriuos as a crack...what is a collision, and what are the ramifications of this in my ssh sessions and the like...
I have read about and used encryption, but have never really delved into it. I would venture to say that a good many of us would benefit from some enlightenment.
Well, if MySQL decides they need to change the license, then fine...I am sure they will loose some users, but it will not be their downfall. Perhaps they could something like http://www.bb4.net/ has done, where they have a fairly functional free, version, which is still open source, and a "professional" version which has some additional features and support. Really not a bad idea...
MySQL is a great product, as well as Postgres, but a change in licensing for MySQL will not be as bad as it may sound...
I think this may answer, not only your question, but a lot of others here on MIMO...seems to be pretty cool technology. More antennas, though, generally mean more power consumption...
While procrastinating in BioChem one day, talking of the enrgy state of atoms, it was spoken/written, that atoms have an affinity for being in the lowest energy state possible. Now put togehter a whole bunch of these atoms, say in a biological system (such as a human/monkey/programmer) and you have sort of the collective state of billions and billions of atoms that are all desperately trying to reach its lowest energy state at all costs! What happens? Instinctive procrastination/laziness/lack of energy-motivation! I am of course theorizing here (rather jokingly), but what if there is some truth to that? We as humans will always be looking for the drug/gene-therapy to get us (and when I say "us", I mean our collective atomic BORG ) into an excited state!
I suppose one would ask...exactly how many servers do they use to serve the site? My issue with IIS and the rest of the Triad is that you need a billion pieces of hardware to do this...and lots of licensing and god knows what else. And again, you write about microsoft.com...if they were using apache on *nix, would be bad karma...
Here is another example of why linux/unix is the system of choice for these types of sites. I never hear about a windowsOS with SQL2000 running on IIS making a site like this work...reliably...it would never happen. If you need to scale, do it with minimal fuss and get RESULTS, then Linux/Unix is your choice. I am sure it is there own distro, as they use alot of their own software, and not the Open Source packages that come with most distros...
Linux is just...coool!
I think what they are trying to say is distributed...when something is decentralized you don't have one company with a million dns servers running all your DNS...you should have several companies running your dns. The mere fact that all those different companies were no longer available when akamai changed things is proof enough that you do need to decentralize...so services are distributed.
If not MSSQL, you should look at MySQL. If you need to teach people high level concepts, such as SQL, DML, etc, then using a database that is ANSI compliant is the only way to go. Access database fundementals are not transferrable to Oracle, DB2 or any other "industrial strength" RDBMS...
my.02 from st. lou
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Well George Orwell already took this to task, and NewSpeak will become our new language!
ourwelcome bb anteJaggernauts newspeak! (our something like this...)
Shawn
How about a gun engine or a Bourke Engine? Now That is an alternative...
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http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Bourke_Eng
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Gun_Engine
Trying to tweak an already inefficient engine is futile; the time and energy outweighs the product...
Just a few pennies from my head...
I agree! Raymond Feist books will make for a great series of movies...
It is news to me...strange how that works. Sometimes it fun to bring back some of this stuff. I think some people take it (unique news) gathering too seriously. Why don't you try digg if you don't like it? At least there can be a wee bit more intelligence here.
Geez...
Ouch... Now look at this part of the EULA that pertains to S3 service...
So, can they use your information that is stored? I do not think it is very clear...
At the very least something to think about before jumping on board...
For all of you scientists out there, that know a bit more than the average Joe, what would happen if the plasma was dense enough to sustain fusion? Could the burn grow, sucking in what is around it? What about the materials that this is contained in? Last time I checked, the temperatures achieved in this experiment were just a touch higher than the boiling point of most materials known to man. Also, could that kind of heat catch our own atmosphere on fire, so to speak? I am all for research, but couldn't there be a pretty wicked accident here?
What do you think EMC's role is in this? They could easily afford to give the product away, and sell services. VMWare isn't going anywhere; on the contrary, this could be decision from the higher ups at EMC to start gathering and holding on to market share, much like EMC has been doing with their storage for the last 2 or so years...what ever it takes, I am sure they will do it.
Workstations and GSX are host based virtualization, where as ESX is a bare metal install, with OS's installed on top of that. All of their fancy software is only available on ESX, for the most part...I think they should give ESX away...man would that be super cool...
No, I don't smoke crack...of course you can put multiple domains on IIS. My point was that IIS is incapable of handling more than one domain at a time per box...load a few sophisticated web applications, and you need a monster of a box, or several...also, IIS does not do well on servers that have more than 2 cpus, so another limitation...
and so on, and so on...
Yes, I do know about the product, you just misunderstood my response it seems.
Um, you are missing the point...IIS can only handle one domain per "real server". Apache can handle 500virtuals and a bowl of cereal to boot. Counting your way, Microsoft would always win due to them creating this "one server / one application" tiered computing mentality that most *nix users have never come to grips with, nor ever wanted to shell out the $$$ for it...
"Sing to me, Goddess, of the wrath of Achilles, Son of Peleus...
We bought 5 of the V20z as soon as they appeared, and have loved them. I am impressed with them, even though I have heard that Sun did not build them. Running the latest linux kernel from SuSE, and have yet to make them break a sweat. I think it is about time Sun got exited about something. Even if they give up ultraSPARC, they hired the guy from AMD who helped develop the Opteron x86-64, and would seem to me that it would be in their best interest in capitalizing on the investment. It would be nice to see someone other than Dell and HP in this arena. Remember once again, the Sun was one of the first with 64bit technology, and they were also one of the first, if not the first, to offer Opteron servers.
Maybe they will lead again...
Go ahead, Toot your horn Sun!!! Keep making these good decisions!!
It is amazing to see a fix of this nature...it is more like an upgrade. I didn't count the number of fixes, but I would venture to say it is in the hundreds, plus all the ones they do not publish. I can't wait to download all 250MB of this patch over my dialup line! should take about 2.75 days
I am curious about 2 things:
Firstly, perhaps someone here on slashdot.org might be able to shed some light on the particular encryption algorythms mentioned in the article...thier basic differences, weaknesses and strengths.
Secondly, I am assuming that a "collision" is not as seriuos as a crack...what is a collision, and what are the ramifications of this in my ssh sessions and the like...
I have read about and used encryption, but have never really delved into it. I would venture to say that a good many of us would benefit from some enlightenment.
Well, if MySQL decides they need to change the license, then fine...I am sure they will loose some users, but it will not be their downfall. Perhaps they could something like http://www.bb4.net/ has done, where they have a fairly functional free, version, which is still open source, and a "professional" version which has some additional features and support. Really not a bad idea...
MySQL is a great product, as well as Postgres, but a change in licensing for MySQL will not be as bad as it may sound...
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2004/072604techu pdate.html
I think this may answer, not only your question, but a lot of others here on MIMO...seems to be pretty cool technology. More antennas, though, generally mean more power consumption...
While procrastinating in BioChem one day, talking of the enrgy state of atoms, it was spoken/written, that atoms have an affinity for being in the lowest energy state possible. Now put togehter a whole bunch of these atoms, say in a biological system (such as a human/monkey/programmer) and you have sort of the collective state of billions and billions of atoms that are all desperately trying to reach its lowest energy state at all costs! What happens? Instinctive procrastination/laziness/lack of energy-motivation! I am of course theorizing here (rather jokingly), but what if there is some truth to that? We as humans will always be looking for the drug/gene-therapy to get us (and when I say "us", I mean our collective atomic BORG ) into an excited state!
Orange and cream has to be one of my favorite flavors for soda and IceCream...dreamsicle and Orange Julias....gotta love them!
I would hope that Microsoft can do it right...
Here is another example of why linux/unix is the system of choice for these types of sites. I never hear about a windowsOS with SQL2000 running on IIS making a site like this work...reliably...it would never happen. If you need to scale, do it with minimal fuss and get RESULTS, then Linux/Unix is your choice. I am sure it is there own distro, as they use alot of their own software, and not the Open Source packages that come with most distros... Linux is just...coool!
I think what they are trying to say is distributed...when something is decentralized you don't have one company with a million dns servers running all your DNS...you should have several companies running your dns. The mere fact that all those different companies were no longer available when akamai changed things is proof enough that you do need to decentralize...so services are distributed.
If you run your own DNS, just clear the cache and everything will be ok...will probably need to flush the cache on your client as well...
http://help.sbcglobal.net/article.php?item=441 Not bad...nothing about bandwidth that I saw at first glance...actually seems pretty fair...
If not MSSQL, you should look at MySQL. If you need to teach people high level concepts, such as SQL, DML, etc, then using a database that is ANSI compliant is the only way to go. Access database fundementals are not transferrable to Oracle, DB2 or any other "industrial strength" RDBMS... my .02 from st. lou