If they add some of the core subsystems then I suspect Xeon will be able to decode IA-64, at least if the market asks for it. The Xeon decoder already translates x86-64 to a microcode that is almost pretty far removed from core instructions, its not like its one for one. The next gen Xeons will likely need little more than firmware to be IA64.
It might lead to more short term sales. People have lots of path commitment. If you were anticipating playing a certain up coming title when it became available you will like do whatever you have to do to get there even if that means paying for when your original plan was pirate it.
If people have a bad experience because of the DRM they won't start anticipating the next round of titles in the first place, and that will translate to lost sales.
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So Pfizer breaks the law, and the government is afraid to apply the prescribed penalties for the infraction and your solution is for the government to than break the law or rather selectively apply it and not enforce their IP rights.
Now personal I think the concept of intelectual property is bad and we should repeal those laws but I don't want to live in a systems where the powers that be; be they our corporate masters or our government can change the rules outside the process at their whim.
Another person who does not understand captialism in the Adam Smith sense. Capitalism is NOT about profit profit profit, its about rational self interest! Say you have a pasture, your could put 50 head of cattle on it to graze this year and make a nice sum. Lets say you could also put 100 head on that same pasture but they would eat and trample the flora faster than it can reproduce. You could make more profit this year but its not in your self interest to do so because it will leave you with a ruined field you can't use in subsequent years.
Our problems are two fold. The fist being my simplistic cattle ranching example is much to simple. If the inputs, outputs, and rates were always that strait forward there would be little room for gaming the system but the real world cattle ranching included is more complex. The second being our attention spans are much to short. You have CEO's who only expect to hold the job for 18months and are only concerned with the next quarters profits, and complex enough situations that boards of directors and investors can't often predict the long term implactions of the CEO's strategy if they are even in it for the long term themselves. The CEO who usually knows a little more then everyone else is able to sell out tomorrow for the sake of today make himself look good and bail before anyone knows what happened.
Take Microsoft its was not really to their interest to stifle innovation and development of desktop computing. They hurt the entire industrty to the point its getting replace. We are going back to time sharing or um...Cloud computing.. they call it this week. I think that has a bit to do with a certain vendor creating a ecology that made it hard to solve certain problems in the PC industry. Now they are being marginalized and forced to compete in a different segments where they are by no means the best, or masters.
This is just false oh sure you can't do some pointer arithmetic wrong and segfault or forget to free something but you sure as heck do things that make the garbage collector lose its marbles. You do need to worry about memory management in Java, not some of the low level details but you do need to think about it. At least if you are working on a nontrivial project.
If ORACLE tries to tie Java to their database as you suggest it would kill Java. Java is one of their more valuable properties, it was probably THE reason to buy Sun. ORACLE is not stupid they won't do that.
To much of the Java ecosystem is on IBM iron and talking to DB2. ORACLE would much rather have thriving Java community then pick up a tiny number of database sales.
Yes it is his right to use any SDR he wants to buy and to run it on Winodws if that is what it needs. He I supposed underder the first Amendment is still entitled to complain about how it does not work on OSS and call OSS a failure, if he wants but its stupid because:
There are SDRs that support OSS
Some of the best SDRs support OSS
As a parent pointed out he is acting as an enbabler for behavior the community he wants? to be a member of does not like; when he had better options.
He is doging his personal responsiblity to make consicious, researched purchasing descison and attempting to blame others for anticipating and meeting his needs.
So sure he is entitled to his opinion but the rest of us don't have to agree or give him much consideration when its pretty clear he made is own bed and just is simply unsatisfied laying in it.
I have to agree the view that the web is like a magazine where the author should control the layout is a broken idea. The entire point of the markup langague as was originally designed was so that the page could be flowed on the device. Web 2.0 is the worst of all badness with everyone using css to lay things out to the pixel.
If you can't make your app/site look good on a variety of screen shapes ( accepting there are going to be extreems that don't work perfectly ) you're a bad web developer. If your secret desire is to do Madison Avenue style layouts go get a job in desktop publishing and leave our WWW alone.
I think you are correct. If you perception that Linux is less stable than the commerical Unix systems in your organization than at least one and possibly all three things are true:
1. There are a lot more Linux boxen on (realatively speaking) smaller iron, hosting a single app. This is common behavior in the Windows world because Windows licenses were cheap, Linux license are cheaper than that. This lets you localize your problems which is nice but you have more platforms and therfore more platform problems, where platform means hardware plus base OS image.
2. You are running these things on much cheaper, lower quality hardware than your commercial Unix vendor would have sold you. Addionally that particular configuration has not been tested with the software stack. Maybe there are well tested drivers for everything in the boxes but something does not play nice together. This is one of the value adds the older traditional model of buy the whole shootin match from one vendor did offer. That RS6000 was KNOW to work with AIX.
3. You are running bleeding edge Linux, and your problems would go away if you switched to debian stable.
If we have to give up essential freedom to stop climate change than I don't want stop it all. I'd rather just adapt to the new conditions whatever they may be.
True, slasdoters tend to way over estimate the collective moral outrage that exists out there in the world beyond this website. There needs to be some acceptance of reality that its very unlikely you are going to make $COMPANY pay!
Still I totally understand the frustration. There are lots of comments to the effect here to of: I did not buy a $PRODUCT to do $TASK, where task is something other then the most common application. Still if you bought something that advertised $FEATURE its not at all unreasonable to expect to be able to use it for that, and its a little unfair for the vendor to come along after and say "well no you can't do that anymore."
Its not like you can just not apply the new firmwares either, because if you don't you can't run the latest games. Lots of people probably did buy a PS3 expecting that they could run Linux AND native PS3 software. If Sony wants to be a responsible vendor (and they have proved time and time again, at virtually every opportunity they are not) they would support the full feature set for the life cycle of the product.
What people have to start doing is being personally responsible enough to assess the past behavior of vendors and decide if that and the merits of the product make the purchase worth while. I have been burned by Sony enough times that I WILL NOT BUY their products even when they are light years ahead of the competition because I know I will end the end be treated badly by them.
You can sell me awful hardware if your customer service is good enough. If I feel like you care about my problems and you're solving them quickly and painlessly when they happen, I will put up with a lot of problems. If you pull Sony type BS all the time than forget it, I don't want to do business with you becuase I know when I do have a problem its going be misery, even if there will be few problems.
This comes as something of a surprise. Particularly because only a month ago Sony Computer Entertainment management seemed committed to the continued support of the Other OS option on the PS3
Right, because eliminating support for it on the current model hardware they are selling shows shuch strong commitment.
Its real rarity in any of the enterprise environments that I have ever seen for minimal OS install installs to be the mode of operation on application servers (Unix and like); and I have never seen in on Windows based application servers. I am not even certain I agree that its such a good idea. Sure all the daemons not in use should not be started and ideally have had their execute bits turned off to avoid mistakes but when things go wrong its often helpful to have full platform availability.
So in lots of SAN based storage scenarios I suspect there is a great deal more than a few blocks to be saved on OS files alone.
Now for an application think about your typical corporate mail server, where users usually send 100 people a copy of the same speadsheet; times a thousand speadsheets, times a few hundred users. Yea it would be nice if you could get them to use the collaboration application or at least the file server but that will never happen. Exchange prior to 2k10 did that type of dedupe in the information store, but not any more. Lets assume you have a 5 or 7TB of online mail storage. An often quoted figure is 30% will be duplicate in the environment I described. SAN storage is still expensive enough that if you can cut that mail store down by a TB that is meaningful savings. If that is not reason enough for you imaging you are doing some kind of SAN level replication to a hot site. The less data you need to move the less connectivity you need to have to do it; at least in the States here D3s are not inexpensive. Even if you are just scratching tape backups every night cutting down the size of the snap shot in anyway possible is a big win, anyone who has even been stressed to figure out backup windows will tell you that.
Maybe not, you might be able to fool the dedupe engine with a hash collision, and get it to turn your file full of gobeldy-gook into the actual file contents. I agree though you would need to know an awful amount about the file to pull that off, size, hash of what ever type the dedupe uses, time stamps.
So of that you might be able to control yourself like atime, though other access, but I don't know how you'd get the rest, (thinking about the GP's example of/etc/shadow).
Does software like ESX and others (Xen etc) perform this in memory already for running VMs? I.e. if you have 2 Windows VMs it will only store one copy of the libs etc in the hosts memory ?
I don't know about Xen but VMWare will do that.
is there easy way to get multiple machines running 'as one' to pool resources for running a vm setup? Does openmosix do that?
I am not entirely certain what you mean by 'as one' to pool resources. Openmosix more or less is a load distributor that dispatches jobs across hosts. I am not sure what advantage you would gain by virtualizing the hosts other than granularity.
It really is hundreds, on a modern nehalem core system with 64 gigs of memory or so. We used to do dozens on each node in a citrix farm back in the PIII days.
Why is lubrication of a stiff bolt a surprise? I am not a mechanic but I have been tinkering with cars as an amateur for years and that is the first things I would try if the threads on the bold and block appeared otherwise ok.
That is sorta the trouble with landfills in general. You typically stir a compost heap, that's what needs to be done in landfills if you actually want decomposition and it is done in some places but its hard to do well.
This is why you can go digging in landfill and find readable news papers from 40+ years ago. Once that stuff gets covered up by a few layers of anything such that air does not get to it, the rate at which it breaks down gets very slow.
That is a really good strategy as lots corporate device control polices will have exceptions for those sorts of things. Now admins should be using hashes to check those but we all know they just trust the name because its a pain to update their policy evertime an updater gets updated.
If you really want to be secure and you are using certificates you should be self signing and exchanging the self signed certs with your partners out of band.
Actually it is business friendly in that chances are others you may work with are already using it. Its as close to standard as you can really get. The DOD uses it, and we have to use it to sign everything we send back to them. Lots of Orgs to work with the DOD given its a hard requirement for communication with them in many cases its pretty common out in the wild.
Give every a copy of PGP or gnupg and use your favorite collaboration program to store and version the documents. I would consider just signing the docs and not encrypting them when they are not sensitive, encryption just adds risk that you could lose data more easily. Its really important to know that it really was the comptroller who authorized the PO for that new delivery van but its not a secret the company purchased a new truck.
This should also give you some flexibility going forward. If you don't like the work flow solution you don't have to change the authentication solution or the other way around.
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yes than your traffic can get router there anyway when the start advertising American, and European subnets.
If they add some of the core subsystems then I suspect Xeon will be able to decode IA-64, at least if the market asks for it. The Xeon decoder already translates x86-64 to a microcode that is almost pretty far removed from core instructions, its not like its one for one. The next gen Xeons will likely need little more than firmware to be IA64.
It might lead to more short term sales. People have lots of path commitment. If you were anticipating playing a certain up coming title when it became available you will like do whatever you have to do to get there even if that means paying for when your original plan was pirate it.
If people have a bad experience because of the DRM they won't start anticipating the next round of titles in the first place, and that will translate to lost sales.
So Pfizer breaks the law, and the government is afraid to apply the prescribed penalties for the infraction and your solution is for the government to than break the law or rather selectively apply it and not enforce their IP rights.
Now personal I think the concept of intelectual property is bad and we should repeal those laws but I don't want to live in a systems where the powers that be; be they our corporate masters or our government can change the rules outside the process at their whim.
That is how how democracies end.
Another person who does not understand captialism in the Adam Smith sense. Capitalism is NOT about profit profit profit, its about rational self interest! Say you have a pasture, your could put 50 head of cattle on it to graze this year and make a nice sum. Lets say you could also put 100 head on that same pasture but they would eat and trample the flora faster than it can reproduce. You could make more profit this year but its not in your self interest to do so because it will leave you with a ruined field you can't use in subsequent years.
Our problems are two fold. The fist being my simplistic cattle ranching example is much to simple. If the inputs, outputs, and rates were always that strait forward there would be little room for gaming the system but the real world cattle ranching included is more complex. The second being our attention spans are much to short. You have CEO's who only expect to hold the job for 18months and are only concerned with the next quarters profits, and complex enough situations that boards of directors and investors can't often predict the long term implactions of the CEO's strategy if they are even in it for the long term themselves. The CEO who usually knows a little more then everyone else is able to sell out tomorrow for the sake of today make himself look good and bail before anyone knows what happened.
Take Microsoft its was not really to their interest to stifle innovation and development of desktop computing. They hurt the entire industrty to the point its getting replace. We are going back to time sharing or um...Cloud computing.. they call it this week. I think that has a bit to do with a certain vendor creating a ecology that made it hard to solve certain problems in the PC industry. Now they are being marginalized and forced to compete in a different segments where they are by no means the best, or masters.
no chance for manual memory screw ups
This is just false oh sure you can't do some pointer arithmetic wrong and segfault or forget to free something but you sure as heck do things that make the garbage collector lose its marbles. You do need to worry about memory management in Java, not some of the low level details but you do need to think about it. At least if you are working on a nontrivial project.
If ORACLE tries to tie Java to their database as you suggest it would kill Java. Java is one of their more valuable properties, it was probably THE reason to buy Sun. ORACLE is not stupid they won't do that.
To much of the Java ecosystem is on IBM iron and talking to DB2. ORACLE would much rather have thriving Java community then pick up a tiny number of database sales.
Yes it is his right to use any SDR he wants to buy and to run it on Winodws if that is what it needs. He I supposed underder the first Amendment is still entitled to complain about how it does not work on OSS and call OSS a failure, if he wants but its stupid because:
There are SDRs that support OSS
Some of the best SDRs support OSS
As a parent pointed out he is acting as an enbabler for behavior the community he wants? to be a member of does not like; when he had better options.
He is doging his personal responsiblity to make consicious, researched purchasing descison and attempting to blame others for anticipating and meeting his needs.
So sure he is entitled to his opinion but the rest of us don't have to agree or give him much consideration when its pretty clear he made is own bed and just is simply unsatisfied laying in it.
I have to agree the view that the web is like a magazine where the author should control the layout is a broken idea. The entire point of the markup langague as was originally designed was so that the page could be flowed on the device. Web 2.0 is the worst of all badness with everyone using css to lay things out to the pixel.
If you can't make your app/site look good on a variety of screen shapes ( accepting there are going to be extreems that don't work perfectly ) you're a bad web developer. If your secret desire is to do Madison Avenue style layouts go get a job in desktop publishing and leave our WWW alone.
I think you are correct. If you perception that Linux is less stable than the commerical Unix systems in your organization than at least one and possibly all three things are true:
1. There are a lot more Linux boxen on (realatively speaking) smaller iron, hosting a single app. This is common behavior in the Windows world because Windows licenses were cheap, Linux license are cheaper than that. This lets you localize your problems which is nice but you have more platforms and therfore more platform problems, where platform means hardware plus base OS image.
2. You are running these things on much cheaper, lower quality hardware than your commercial Unix vendor would have sold you. Addionally that particular configuration has not been tested with the software stack. Maybe there are well tested drivers for everything in the boxes but something does not play nice together. This is one of the value adds the older traditional model of buy the whole shootin match from one vendor did offer. That RS6000 was KNOW to work with AIX.
3. You are running bleeding edge Linux, and your problems would go away if you switched to debian stable.
If we have to give up essential freedom to stop climate change than I don't want stop it all. I'd rather just adapt to the new conditions whatever they may be.
True, slasdoters tend to way over estimate the collective moral outrage that exists out there in the world beyond this website. There needs to be some acceptance of reality that its very unlikely you are going to make $COMPANY pay!
Still I totally understand the frustration. There are lots of comments to the effect here to of: I did not buy a $PRODUCT to do $TASK, where task is something other then the most common application. Still if you bought something that advertised $FEATURE its not at all unreasonable to expect to be able to use it for that, and its a little unfair for the vendor to come along after and say "well no you can't do that anymore."
Its not like you can just not apply the new firmwares either, because if you don't you can't run the latest games. Lots of people probably did buy a PS3 expecting that they could run Linux AND native PS3 software. If Sony wants to be a responsible vendor (and they have proved time and time again, at virtually every opportunity they are not) they would support the full feature set for the life cycle of the product.
What people have to start doing is being personally responsible enough to assess the past behavior of vendors and decide if that and the merits of the product make the purchase worth while. I have been burned by Sony enough times that I WILL NOT BUY their products even when they are light years ahead of the competition because I know I will end the end be treated badly by them.
You can sell me awful hardware if your customer service is good enough. If I feel like you care about my problems and you're solving them quickly and painlessly when they happen, I will put up with a lot of problems. If you pull Sony type BS all the time than forget it, I don't want to do business with you becuase I know when I do have a problem its going be misery, even if there will be few problems.
This comes as something of a surprise. Particularly because only a month ago Sony Computer Entertainment management seemed committed to the continued support of the Other OS option on the PS3
Right, because eliminating support for it on the current model hardware they are selling shows shuch strong commitment.
Ok I'll bite.
Its real rarity in any of the enterprise environments that I have ever seen for minimal OS install installs to be the mode of operation on application servers (Unix and like); and I have never seen in on Windows based application servers. I am not even certain I agree that its such a good idea. Sure all the daemons not in use should not be started and ideally have had their execute bits turned off to avoid mistakes but when things go wrong its often helpful to have full platform availability.
So in lots of SAN based storage scenarios I suspect there is a great deal more than a few blocks to be saved on OS files alone.
Now for an application think about your typical corporate mail server, where users usually send 100 people a copy of the same speadsheet; times a thousand speadsheets, times a few hundred users. Yea it would be nice if you could get them to use the collaboration application or at least the file server but that will never happen. Exchange prior to 2k10 did that type of dedupe in the information store, but not any more. Lets assume you have a 5 or 7TB of online mail storage. An often quoted figure is 30% will be duplicate in the environment I described. SAN storage is still expensive enough that if you can cut that mail store down by a TB that is meaningful savings. If that is not reason enough for you imaging you are doing some kind of SAN level replication to a hot site. The less data you need to move the less connectivity you need to have to do it; at least in the States here D3s are not inexpensive. Even if you are just scratching tape backups every night cutting down the size of the snap shot in anyway possible is a big win, anyone who has even been stressed to figure out backup windows will tell you that.
Maybe not, you might be able to fool the dedupe engine with a hash collision, and get it to turn your file full of gobeldy-gook into the actual file contents. I agree though you would need to know an awful amount about the file to pull that off, size, hash of what ever type the dedupe uses, time stamps.
So of that you might be able to control yourself like atime, though other access, but I don't know how you'd get the rest, (thinking about the GP's example of /etc/shadow).
Does software like ESX and others (Xen etc) perform this in memory already for running VMs? I.e. if you have 2 Windows VMs it will only store one copy of the libs etc in the hosts memory ?
I don't know about Xen but VMWare will do that.
is there easy way to get multiple machines running 'as one' to pool resources for running a vm setup? Does openmosix do that?
I am not entirely certain what you mean by 'as one' to pool resources. Openmosix more or less is a load distributor that dispatches jobs across hosts. I am not sure what advantage you would gain by virtualizing the hosts other than granularity.
It really is hundreds, on a modern nehalem core system with 64 gigs of memory or so. We used to do dozens on each node in a citrix farm back in the PIII days.
Why is lubrication of a stiff bolt a surprise? I am not a mechanic but I have been tinkering with cars as an amateur for years and that is the first things I would try if the threads on the bold and block appeared otherwise ok.
That is sorta the trouble with landfills in general. You typically stir a compost heap, that's what needs to be done in landfills if you actually want decomposition and it is done in some places but its hard to do well.
This is why you can go digging in landfill and find readable news papers from 40+ years ago. Once that stuff gets covered up by a few layers of anything such that air does not get to it, the rate at which it breaks down gets very slow.
That is a really good strategy as lots corporate device control polices will have exceptions for those sorts of things. Now admins should be using hashes to check those but we all know they just trust the name because its a pain to update their policy evertime an updater gets updated.
If you really want to be secure and you are using certificates you should be self signing and exchanging the self signed certs with your partners out of band.
Why do you think that they want something other than that to happen?
Only if your admin either, does not really care or is terrible at building GPOs
Actually it is business friendly in that chances are others you may work with are already using it. Its as close to standard as you can really get. The DOD uses it, and we have to use it to sign everything we send back to them. Lots of Orgs to work with the DOD given its a hard requirement for communication with them in many cases its pretty common out in the wild.
Give every a copy of PGP or gnupg and use your favorite collaboration program to store and version the documents. I would consider just signing the docs and not encrypting them when they are not sensitive, encryption just adds risk that you could lose data more easily. Its really important to know that it really was the comptroller who authorized the PO for that new delivery van but its not a secret the company purchased a new truck.
This should also give you some flexibility going forward. If you don't like the work flow solution you don't have to change the authentication solution or the other way around.