It will just not go into some corrupt useless aquisition. If it instead go to some other corrupt useless aquisition, the situation didn't get any worse. Now, if it goes to some usefull aquisition (even if also corrupt), the russian people will gain.
There is simply no downside. Even if everything goes wrong, they won't be any worse. I guess there is some chance that something will fail to go wrong.
Debian does ship with ssh turned off. By the way, it ships with no ssh server even installed.
Ssh is a dangerous piece of software, that will can make your machine quite vunerable if you don't know it is running and don't protect it accordingly (good passwords or only key autentication).
Dependency hell is not a feature of the packaging format. To make it go away, you'd need a huge team of developers focused only on making your distro work, and the proper environment.
Even Debian testing sometimes has dependency problems.
That is exactly what happend with proprietary software, the selling price of competitive software is often too low to make sense writting it. Now, when you don't writte the software, you never know what is its potentital, even if it could end up worthing bilions after a few iterations. Competitors are also priced out of the market, because their earlier iterations aren't any good they don't have money to take over the world.
This way, the market becomes too dumb to fullfill most of the ninches, fighting only for the top seller softwares.
"Not because I don't believe it exists, but because a lot of the cure appears to be worse than the symptoms."
It can be stopped by carbon neutral power sources (solar, wind, nuclear, etc). It can be delayed by small carbon footprint powersources (biomass come here). It can be reversed by carbon neutral power sources combined with carbon mining from the air. Those don't seem worse than the simptoms, just quite hard to build.
About reprocessing... Why there is no one plutonium based power plant? Is there a ploblem using the fuel or it is because it does not happen naturaly and can only be obtained by reprocessing?
If you look at it well, you'll see that nuclear power plants are making the world a safer place, since they are downgrading and using uranium that was composing war heads. But reprocessing does not have the same effect, since there is no good use for plutonium. It'd be very nice to see some civilian demand for the material that currently makes most of the nuclear bombs.
Disk-to-disk backup is quite cheap nowadays, and will also protect you against an accidental 'rm *.o'. RAID is still for increasing uptime, access speed and partition sizes.
There is a very nice program called rdiff-backup, useful for cheap disk-to-disk backups. It incorporates incremental changes at your current backup, making it equal to the more recent version and keeping incremental deltas that you can apply to get the old versions (the reverse of incremental backups). Of course it isn't as reliable as proper disk-to-tape backups.
Now, about your situation, I bet all those terabytes don't have the same importance for the company. Are you sure that you can't provide extra protection for some of the data?
I forgot about hubs, they emmulate a bus, with colisions and everything else. But switches don't have colisions, they may drop packages, but that is a different thing.
Oh yes, it is. It is not that Calc is bad, but that Excel is excelent. You can bet Writte is better than Word, since Word is really bad and Write isn't bad, but the same doesn't apply to Power Point and Excel.
Note that most people shouldn't be using Power Point (ok, nearly nobody should) and most people don't need Excel. So, that doesn't apply to lots of organizations.
Chances are most companies are in the same situation as my last employer. Their core apps are written on Visual Basic 6 and ASP. Both products don't exist for almost a decade, and making any change has a huge cost because of that. Also, new versions of Windows (at desktops, core servers and other services) disrupt the way things work all the time.
It takes a lot of work to stay on the same place when you use the MS plattaform. People experienced on FOSS have no idea.
You probably don't have a storage area network, running over some proprietary fiber protocol, or some hight performance proprietary cluster, or a supercomputer around, do you? All those things are fading out as Ethernet evolves to do those kinds of jobs, but they didn't disapear yet.
Fast Ethernet (10/100Mbps) already didn't work that way. Current Ethernet do not work at a bus topology anymore, only star. That means there are no more colisions.
"How many Postgres boxes have you seen at that scale?"
A 96 cores machine. Well, really none, since Postgres actualy does clustering, differently from Oracle that uses marketing newspeech to redefine clustering to mean what they do. With real clusters you can use cheap commodity hardware, no need for a supercomputer to run databases on.
A Red Hat subscription was a similar price to a Windows 2008 (basic - I mean, Standard - edition) yearly payment with Software Assurance. The difference being that Red Hat does way more.
Or you were comparing that with Vista? Red Hat is a server system.
A headline at/. starting with "Google" and "Microsoft" won't tell you much. One starting with "Energy efficiency" would be informative even when chopped. When you design headlines to be chopped, their size are much less important, that is what I was refering when I said that on the web there are different rules.
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It will just not go into some corrupt useless aquisition. If it instead go to some other corrupt useless aquisition, the situation didn't get any worse. Now, if it goes to some usefull aquisition (even if also corrupt), the russian people will gain.
There is simply no downside. Even if everything goes wrong, they won't be any worse. I guess there is some chance that something will fail to go wrong.
Looking by that point of view... I hope most admins don't backup their LDAP servers by file shares.
Man, the latency of your network must suck.
Debian does ship with ssh turned off. By the way, it ships with no ssh server even installed.
Ssh is a dangerous piece of software, that will can make your machine quite vunerable if you don't know it is running and don't protect it accordingly (good passwords or only key autentication).
Dependency hell is not a feature of the packaging format. To make it go away, you'd need a huge team of developers focused only on making your distro work, and the proper environment.
Even Debian testing sometimes has dependency problems.
That is exactly what happend with proprietary software, the selling price of competitive software is often too low to make sense writting it. Now, when you don't writte the software, you never know what is its potentital, even if it could end up worthing bilions after a few iterations. Competitors are also priced out of the market, because their earlier iterations aren't any good they don't have money to take over the world.
This way, the market becomes too dumb to fullfill most of the ninches, fighting only for the top seller softwares.
No, but you could sell it (rent the account) to an astroturf and pay a burrito.
Nice stuf :) I didn't know that.
4) You must keep everything cool.
It can be stopped by carbon neutral power sources (solar, wind, nuclear, etc). It can be delayed by small carbon footprint powersources (biomass come here). It can be reversed by carbon neutral power sources combined with carbon mining from the air. Those don't seem worse than the simptoms, just quite hard to build.
About reprocessing... Why there is no one plutonium based power plant? Is there a ploblem using the fuel or it is because it does not happen naturaly and can only be obtained by reprocessing?
If you look at it well, you'll see that nuclear power plants are making the world a safer place, since they are downgrading and using uranium that was composing war heads. But reprocessing does not have the same effect, since there is no good use for plutonium. It'd be very nice to see some civilian demand for the material that currently makes most of the nuclear bombs.
Disk-to-disk backup is quite cheap nowadays, and will also protect you against an accidental 'rm * .o'. RAID is still for increasing uptime, access speed and partition sizes.
There is a very nice program called rdiff-backup, useful for cheap disk-to-disk backups. It incorporates incremental changes at your current backup, making it equal to the more recent version and keeping incremental deltas that you can apply to get the old versions (the reverse of incremental backups). Of course it isn't as reliable as proper disk-to-tape backups.
Now, about your situation, I bet all those terabytes don't have the same importance for the company. Are you sure that you can't provide extra protection for some of the data?
I forgot about hubs, they emmulate a bus, with colisions and everything else. But switches don't have colisions, they may drop packages, but that is a different thing.
Oh yes, it is. It is not that Calc is bad, but that Excel is excelent. You can bet Writte is better than Word, since Word is really bad and Write isn't bad, but the same doesn't apply to Power Point and Excel.
Note that most people shouldn't be using Power Point (ok, nearly nobody should) and most people don't need Excel. So, that doesn't apply to lots of organizations.
Chances are most companies are in the same situation as my last employer. Their core apps are written on Visual Basic 6 and ASP. Both products don't exist for almost a decade, and making any change has a huge cost because of that. Also, new versions of Windows (at desktops, core servers and other services) disrupt the way things work all the time.
It takes a lot of work to stay on the same place when you use the MS plattaform. People experienced on FOSS have no idea.
No, you can't. All the days are already taken.
Windows 95.
You probably don't have a storage area network, running over some proprietary fiber protocol, or some hight performance proprietary cluster, or a supercomputer around, do you? All those things are fading out as Ethernet evolves to do those kinds of jobs, but they didn't disapear yet.
Fast Ethernet (10/100Mbps) already didn't work that way. Current Ethernet do not work at a bus topology anymore, only star. That means there are no more colisions.
When the economy is in a downturn, the safe choice can quite likely lead to bankrupcy and, consequently, unemployment. Thus, it isn't safe anymore.
"It is cheap, so let's buy it!" or "It's expensive, so let's buy it (it must be good)!". Signs of great managers.
A 96 cores machine. Well, really none, since Postgres actualy does clustering, differently from Oracle that uses marketing newspeech to redefine clustering to mean what they do. With real clusters you can use cheap commodity hardware, no need for a supercomputer to run databases on.
A Red Hat subscription was a similar price to a Windows 2008 (basic - I mean, Standard - edition) yearly payment with Software Assurance. The difference being that Red Hat does way more.
Or you were comparing that with Vista? Red Hat is a server system.
A headline at /. starting with "Google" and "Microsoft" won't tell you much. One starting with "Energy efficiency" would be informative even when chopped. When you design headlines to be chopped, their size are much less important, that is what I was refering when I said that on the web there are different rules.