Perhaps his small company does lots of business over E-mail as many do? E-mail is the primary interaction with customers for lots of smaller businesses and customers draw some pretty weird conclusions when they get even one NDR.
Also two or more mail servers is common the system is designed to work that way which is exactly why you can have multiple MX records for your domain. This way a sending server can try the other mail server if / when it can't contact the primary. Oh I suppose you could use some complex and expensive clustering solution so as to ensure your mail relay has 5 nines of uptime but that is likely much higher cost for an SMB which does not have dedicated IT staff and shared storage equipment.
No I think its probably a much easier cheaper solution to hire someone to simply setup two mail servers.
This off topic but- don't you think OS X was born out of it being easier to make Unix friendly than fixing MacOS which they tried and failed to do internally? I really don't see how Windows has anything to do with it.
Good luck trying this on me my twin Weber 40DCOEs. They can throw all the EMP at my all alloy twin cam hemi and I expect I will keep running just fine thank you very much. Computers don't belong in cars!
In the end this wont enable any buying of election. Ever notice how advertising has to get more an more extreme? That has much to do with the fact that your add has to register over the noise of all the other ads. You have to do something new and different just to be noticed because otherwise people just tune it out.
That is what will happen here this rush of new money will do nothing but create so much new noise no advertising method will get its message heard over the din. It might take a few years to get there but we will.
This will probably be a good thing in the end. Without being able to depend on a 30 second tv spot to tell them who to vote for Americans might go back to reading pamphlets with carefully laid arguments and actually trying to understand the issues.
So let me understand this your objection to corporations being able to participate freely in political giving ( a recognize form of speech ) is that the consequences of your sacrificing your own principles for money are increased?
I am sorry but your argument seems pretty hollow when examined.
You must have driver issues, the GMA 950 runs X slick with compositite an every thing on. If its that slow you have a serious software version or configuration problem.
So let me get this stait NS4 was a buggy unstable pice of crap but deciding to do a rewrite was a mistake? That rewrite might have given MS the time the needed to flesh out IE into a feature complete browser but it also provided a usable code base for Mozilla and Later SeaMonkey/Firefox + Thuderbird.
Here is a hint in general if you have a project as large as NS4 and its fundamentally a buggy unstable pice of crap (if that is true and I am not sure it was) you for the most part can't fix it. So if you write an the code was that bad they did the only thing they probably could. Well writen code can be refactored and hammered into something else as requirements change, less solid code just gets even more messy when you attempt to modernize it, and brings all your old problems with you, often ones you never even knew about as modules and interfaces take input that should be ok but was never really used and therfore largely untested before.
Ultimately you spend more man hours trying to fix it than a rewrite; and the final result is something that is still hard to maintain, still hard to add new features in and without potential the gain from lessons learned the first time around.
ReactOS is not cross platform though its a Windows workalike. ReactOs is to Windows as gnu/Linux is to NetBSD. Its a differnet platform but more or less intended to run the same application layer software.
Because some people actaully want Windows without the Microsoft licensing. Wine running on *nix or Mac will always be a different experience. Filesystems are laied out differently, permissions work differently, desktops integration works differently, the UI of the system around the windows apps is different. It won't ever offer the *same* user experience and its not enteded to do so.
ReactOs on the other hand could feel much more Windows like if implemented in a complete way.
I am not sure I agree. We have alot files XML, and flat that get exchanged between our midrange system and serveral of our WinTel and Linux servers. They are on the same lan seqment in the same locked room. The replication to the hot site for these machines is encrypted; because I can't know my DS3 is not being spied on.
I don't say an reason why these machines need to use encyption to talk amongst themselves. Anyone who has access to one is trusted to have access on them all; anyone who is premitted to be in the room where they would have pyasical access is trusted. All encryption would add is additional mantainance; more overhead; and more to go wrong. Why would we do that?
I agree the parents acted shamefully. I don't have any kids yet myself but my parents always knew enough about what I was doing that this sort of thing would not have caused them worry about me and instead cased them to get extremely defensive. They would have stuck up for me.
I can hear mom now" "You're and idiot I am taking my son and leaving now; and don't you come anywhere near our house or is father will make you wish you didn't"
The sad truth is nobody is thinking of the children. They are our future and it looks like a pretty bleak one right now. Where every kid who displays an ounce ingenuity, exceptional achievement, or even exceptional interest in a particular topic of field is labeled as a potential threat.
How likely is this kid after this experience to want to participate in a science fair again? How likely is he to share is projects with teachers who might be able to mentor him? Now even if teachers would be willing to put the extra time in the kid is going to be afraid to ask.
We are looking at a system that is effectively geared to NOT develop the talents of our best and brightest!
You do understand that lawyers get payed for more than just litigating. Those same lawyers are the ones drafting all the letters between Nokia and Apple. Their day rate might be a bit higher for doing actual litigation; but they make money either way.
Why should Microsoft be held responsible for these issues?
As a principled person I see your point and I agree with it. I would point out though in practice that software companies are treated in-congruently with regard to liability.
Manufacturers of other goods are held accountable when safety equipment fails. IE has all sorts of "safety equipment" these days, pop up blocking phishing filters; the whole trusted untrusted sites thing goes back to IE6 and prior.
Suppose you got in a car accident and the airbag failed to deploy; I suspect you could have a very successful law suit against the automaker.
True but your typical $500 - $1000 receiver from the later 2000's probably can produce output that is every bit as clean and generally good as a $2500 from the mid 90's or prior.
Better DACs that use more bits and hardware that internally uses higher sampling rates has become cheap. The noise floor is lower on modern equipment too as chip manufacturing even analog chips like opamps has improved greatly; much lower distortion. DSPs have gotten cheap as well; in even modest setup these days the internals are fully digital. Traditional noise is a much lower factor if the first thing you receiver does with any analog input is use some more isolated circuits to digitize. All the processing, effects, surround decoding etc gets done digitally. In the case of a digital source like HDMI or SPID its not analog until right before the final amp that is going to drive your speakers.
Not having any line level analog transmission is probably the biggest factor in the improvements. I am not sure THX has really gone down hill so much as typical kit is just way better than it used to be.
That is the problem, we won't hang them for doing it. We went back to being sheep the moment Washington succeed in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion. It really is time we organize again, stand together, refuse to comply with their New World Order crap, and violently oppose those who would make us comply.
Remember the revolution was not fought successfuly because we played by the Brits rules of battle field warfare. We hid in trees and shot first at the officers, we burned their homes and encampments on Christmas Eve.
Asymmetrical selection of targets and letting go of the rules and fighting a total war is how you win.
You certainly need to know alot about assembler and CPU architecture if you are going to write code that emits highly tuned assembler. Actually you probably do have to write those tools in assembler for all intents and purposes. To really over simplify: Compliers are pretty much syntax checkers and search tree engines. They take your code and replace it with a matching assembly listing or set of listings substituting which ever registers happen to be free etc etc.
Just because you can read the code doesn't mean it's not closed-source.
Yes it does mean its open source. It might not be Free Software, it might not even be free as in beer but it IS open source. Anyone having the ability to look at the source code via ordinary means is the only necessary condition for software being open source.
Where Cisco is a good value is enterprise licensed switching. You could buy 37XX, 4XXX, or 65XX gear depending on the level of residency you need and do lots of your heavy lifting there; BGP learning and advertisement and port access control and basic ACLs; you might then put some Linux servers behind some of that to do some of the really complex routing jobs (things with lots of rewrites and NAT operations; process authentication information, provide DHCP with dynamic DNS updates etc. You might save some serious scratch over the high end router like hardware from Cisco. It would be worth your time to look at Enterasys and Extreme Networks too. They have pretty competitive product catalogs in terms of features and reliability and its usually a bit cheaper than Cisco, Juniper, and Nortel.
I don't you want to try and run a carrier grade service with just Linux on what I assume is going to be a bunch of x86 boxen (hopefully server class at least). There is just too much to go wrong; I am not saying it does often but this is a job for a thin software stack not a general use OS no matter how good it is.
Answer: they have no obligation at all. Just like you don't have any obligation to pay your loan shark provided you are fairly certain you're thugs are bigger, badder, and more numerous than his thugs and think you can get away with it kneed caps intact.
If its just J/S it must be useing the browser to get or post the information back to their web server. Figure out what there net block is and black configure your firewall to send you a nice reset packet anytime your box tries to hit it.
I think that kinda sucks personally. I actually want to "Print the Screen" pretty often. Its not an elaborate process where I have to take a screenshot with the key, or some other method. Open some application that can consume an image type of clipboard information paste it in; and then use whatever menu or key combo that app has defined to actually print the image.
Because having you blood drained and replaced with embalming fluid and you body covered in makeup and posed like we do today commonly is perfectly rational.
Call me when the Google's might armies are pouring over the walls or when they threaten MAD with their Google Doomsday Device; until then I think governments are ultimately a little more powerful.
China has more than a trillion in bonds; some estimate it is probably closer to two and half trillion. They could easily have more short term impact than the FED. Also keep in mind that when the FED and Treasury went about dumping money into the economy they spent it in a selective manor. They put it in what were and in most cases besides banking still are highly deflationary micro economies. That selective application also limited the macro inflationary impact.
China could do much similarly use the money to manipulate prices in certain sectors to cause maximum harm. Imagine if they decided to plow all that money into buying up oil reserves and food stuffs; that would have a highly inflationary effect there and probably ripple into many other sectors. Its also true that the rate at which we are rolling over old debt and acquiring new debt has greatly increased due to the policies at the Fed, the Administration, and Congress. If China at the same time stopped making new financing available we would be bouncing checks, pretty much period end of story. Don't underestimate how bad China could make things for us if they wanted to do so.
The US Comptroller from the Clinton administration was on NPR just yesterday morning talking about how the booking keeping in Washington is pretty much a shell game and things are much much worse in his opinion than what the GAO and the Treasury department are publishing. It interesting because he is in a position to know and has no obvious anyway need to toe some line. Still we can't really know what his politics and motivations are so its at best one more reason to think that we are being lied too by those in power.
The good news here is we don't have to pay off the debt. This is a democracy and the wonderful about that is all those T-bills can be worthless with the strokes of a few pens and a few hundred shouts of yea. If we balance or budget and plan on operating without foreign credit in the future there really is nothing to stop us for saying "we aint paying, tough" and its not like we don't have enough nukes to ensure nobody would be dumb enough to come try and collect.
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Perhaps his small company does lots of business over E-mail as many do? E-mail is the primary interaction with customers for lots of smaller businesses and customers draw some pretty weird conclusions when they get even one NDR.
Also two or more mail servers is common the system is designed to work that way which is exactly why you can have multiple MX records for your domain. This way a sending server can try the other mail server if / when it can't contact the primary. Oh I suppose you could use some complex and expensive clustering solution so as to ensure your mail relay has 5 nines of uptime but that is likely much higher cost for an SMB which does not have dedicated IT staff and shared storage equipment.
No I think its probably a much easier cheaper solution to hire someone to simply setup two mail servers.
This off topic but- don't you think OS X was born out of it being easier to make Unix friendly than fixing MacOS which they tried and failed to do internally? I really don't see how Windows has anything to do with it.
Good luck trying this on me my twin Weber 40DCOEs. They can throw all the EMP at my all alloy twin cam hemi and I expect I will keep running just fine thank you very much. Computers don't belong in cars!
In the end this wont enable any buying of election. Ever notice how advertising has to get more an more extreme? That has much to do with the fact that your add has to register over the noise of all the other ads. You have to do something new and different just to be noticed because otherwise people just tune it out.
That is what will happen here this rush of new money will do nothing but create so much new noise no advertising method will get its message heard over the din. It might take a few years to get there but we will.
This will probably be a good thing in the end. Without being able to depend on a 30 second tv spot to tell them who to vote for Americans might go back to reading pamphlets with carefully laid arguments and actually trying to understand the issues.
So let me understand this your objection to corporations being able to participate freely in political giving ( a recognize form of speech ) is that the consequences of your sacrificing your own principles for money are increased?
I am sorry but your argument seems pretty hollow when examined.
You must have driver issues, the GMA 950 runs X slick with compositite an every thing on. If its that slow you have a serious software version or configuration problem.
So let me get this stait NS4 was a buggy unstable pice of crap but deciding to do a rewrite was a mistake? That rewrite might have given MS the time the needed to flesh out IE into a feature complete browser but it also provided a usable code base for Mozilla and Later SeaMonkey/Firefox + Thuderbird.
Here is a hint in general if you have a project as large as NS4 and its fundamentally a buggy unstable pice of crap (if that is true and I am not sure it was) you for the most part can't fix it. So if you write an the code was that bad they did the only thing they probably could. Well writen code can be refactored and hammered into something else as requirements change, less solid code just gets even more messy when you attempt to modernize it, and brings all your old problems with you, often ones you never even knew about as modules and interfaces take input that should be ok but was never really used and therfore largely untested before.
Ultimately you spend more man hours trying to fix it than a rewrite; and the final result is something that is still hard to maintain, still hard to add new features in and without potential the gain from lessons learned the first time around.
ReactOS is not cross platform though its a Windows workalike. ReactOs is to Windows as gnu/Linux is to NetBSD. Its a differnet platform but more or less intended to run the same application layer software.
Because some people actaully want Windows without the Microsoft licensing. Wine running on *nix or Mac will always be a different experience. Filesystems are laied out differently, permissions work differently, desktops integration works differently, the UI of the system around the windows apps is different. It won't ever offer the *same* user experience and its not enteded to do so.
ReactOs on the other hand could feel much more Windows like if implemented in a complete way.
I am not sure I agree. We have alot files XML, and flat that get exchanged between our midrange system and serveral of our WinTel and Linux servers. They are on the same lan seqment in the same locked room. The replication to the hot site for these machines is encrypted; because I can't know my DS3 is not being spied on.
I don't say an reason why these machines need to use encyption to talk amongst themselves. Anyone who has access to one is trusted to have access on them all; anyone who is premitted to be in the room where they would have pyasical access is trusted. All encryption would add is additional mantainance; more overhead; and more to go wrong.
Why would we do that?
I agree the parents acted shamefully. I don't have any kids yet myself but my parents always knew enough about what I was doing that this sort of thing would not have caused them worry about me and instead cased them to get extremely defensive. They would have stuck up for me.
I can hear mom now"
"You're and idiot I am taking my son and leaving now; and don't you come anywhere near our house or is father will make you wish you didn't"
The sad truth is nobody is thinking of the children. They are our future and it looks like a pretty bleak one right now. Where every kid who displays an ounce ingenuity, exceptional achievement, or even exceptional interest in a particular topic of field is labeled as a potential threat.
How likely is this kid after this experience to want to participate in a science fair again? How likely is he to share is projects with teachers who might be able to mentor him? Now even if teachers would be willing to put the extra time in the kid is going to be afraid to ask.
We are looking at a system that is effectively geared to NOT develop the talents of our best and brightest!
You do understand that lawyers get payed for more than just litigating. Those same lawyers are the ones drafting all the letters between Nokia and Apple. Their day rate might be a bit higher for doing actual litigation; but they make money either way.
Why should Microsoft be held responsible for these issues?
As a principled person I see your point and I agree with it. I would point out though in practice that software companies are treated in-congruently with regard to liability.
Manufacturers of other goods are held accountable when safety equipment fails. IE has all sorts of "safety equipment" these days, pop up blocking phishing filters; the whole trusted untrusted sites thing goes back to IE6 and prior.
Suppose you got in a car accident and the airbag failed to deploy; I suspect you could have a very successful law suit against the automaker.
True but your typical $500 - $1000 receiver from the later 2000's probably can produce output that is every bit as clean and generally good as a $2500 from the mid 90's or prior.
Better DACs that use more bits and hardware that internally uses higher sampling rates has become cheap. The noise floor is lower on modern equipment too as chip manufacturing even analog chips like opamps has improved greatly; much lower distortion. DSPs have gotten cheap as well; in even modest setup these days the internals are fully digital. Traditional noise is a much lower factor if the first thing you receiver does with any analog input is use some more isolated circuits to digitize. All the processing, effects, surround decoding etc gets done digitally. In the case of a digital source like HDMI or SPID its not analog until right before the final amp that is going to drive your speakers.
Not having any line level analog transmission is probably the biggest factor in the improvements. I am not sure THX has really gone down hill so much as typical kit is just way better than it used to be.
That is the problem, we won't hang them for doing it. We went back to being sheep the moment Washington succeed in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion. It really is time we organize again, stand together, refuse to comply with their New World Order crap, and violently oppose those who would make us comply.
Remember the revolution was not fought successfuly because we played by the Brits rules of battle field warfare. We hid in trees and shot first at the officers, we burned their homes and encampments on Christmas Eve.
Asymmetrical selection of targets and letting go of the rules and fighting a total war is how you win.
You certainly need to know alot about assembler and CPU architecture if you are going to write code that emits highly tuned assembler. Actually you probably do have to write those tools in assembler for all intents and purposes. To really over simplify: Compliers are pretty much syntax checkers and search tree engines. They take your code and replace it with a matching assembly listing or set of listings substituting which ever registers happen to be free etc etc.
Just because you can read the code doesn't mean it's not closed-source.
Yes it does mean its open source. It might not be Free Software, it might not even be free as in beer but it IS open source. Anyone having the ability to look at the source code via ordinary means is the only necessary condition for software being open source.
Where Cisco is a good value is enterprise licensed switching. You could buy 37XX, 4XXX, or 65XX gear depending on the level of residency you need and do lots of your heavy lifting there; BGP learning and advertisement and port access control and basic ACLs; you might then put some Linux servers behind some of that to do some of the really complex routing jobs (things with lots of rewrites and NAT operations; process authentication information, provide DHCP with dynamic DNS updates etc. You might save some serious scratch over the high end router like hardware from Cisco. It would be worth your time to look at Enterasys and Extreme Networks too. They have pretty competitive product catalogs in terms of features and reliability and its usually a bit cheaper than Cisco, Juniper, and Nortel.
I don't you want to try and run a carrier grade service with just Linux on what I assume is going to be a bunch of x86 boxen (hopefully server class at least). There is just too much to go wrong; I am not saying it does often but this is a job for a thin software stack not a general use OS no matter how good it is.
Answer: they have no obligation at all. Just like you don't have any obligation to pay your loan shark provided you are fairly certain you're thugs are bigger, badder, and more numerous than his thugs and think you can get away with it kneed caps intact.
If its just J/S it must be useing the browser to get or post the information back to their web server. Figure out what there net block is and black configure your firewall to send you a nice reset packet anytime your box tries to hit it.
I think that kinda sucks personally. I actually want to "Print the Screen" pretty often. Its not an elaborate process where I have to take a screenshot with the key, or some other method. Open some application that can consume an image type of clipboard information paste it in; and then use whatever menu or key combo that app has defined to actually print the image.
A *Working* print screen would be really useful.
Because having you blood drained and replaced with embalming fluid and you body covered in makeup and posed like we do today commonly is perfectly rational.
Call me when the Google's might armies are pouring over the walls or when they threaten MAD with their Google Doomsday Device; until then I think governments are ultimately a little more powerful.
China has more than a trillion in bonds; some estimate it is probably closer to two and half trillion. They could easily have more short term impact than the FED. Also keep in mind that when the FED and Treasury went about dumping money into the economy they spent it in a selective manor. They put it in what were and in most cases besides banking still are highly deflationary micro economies. That selective application also limited the macro inflationary impact.
China could do much similarly use the money to manipulate prices in certain sectors to cause maximum harm. Imagine if they decided to plow all that money into buying up oil reserves and food stuffs; that would have a highly inflationary effect there and probably ripple into many other sectors. Its also true that the rate at which we are rolling over old debt and acquiring new debt has greatly increased due to the policies at the Fed, the Administration, and Congress. If China at the same time stopped making new financing available we would be bouncing checks, pretty much period end of story. Don't underestimate how bad China could make things for us if they wanted to do so.
The US Comptroller from the Clinton administration was on NPR just yesterday morning talking about how the booking keeping in Washington is pretty much a shell game and things are much much worse in his opinion than what the GAO and the Treasury department are publishing. It interesting because he is in a position to know and has no obvious anyway need to toe some line. Still we can't really know what his politics and motivations are so its at best one more reason to think that we are being lied too by those in power.
The good news here is we don't have to pay off the debt. This is a democracy and the wonderful about that is all those T-bills can be worthless with the strokes of a few pens and a few hundred shouts of yea. If we balance or budget and plan on operating without foreign credit in the future there really is nothing to stop us for saying "we aint paying, tough" and its not like we don't have enough nukes to ensure nobody would be dumb enough to come try and collect.