They aren't really buying a super computer, just a lot of "of the shelf" hardware.
I think The Register talked about this in an article regarding the new 8 cpu motherboards from Tyan, presumably that's what the chinese are going to use.
I have the same thing with my pin, don't know what it is, but I know where to push. What isn't so cool is that all the terminals in stores are being changed, not all at once of cause, and the new one have a different layout. That is isn't very clever, I almost had my card closed after having entered the wrong pin twice, because I had to figure out what my pin was.
I considered using Postfix, simply to get any from qmails no license thing, but found it a major pain to play around with. When you come from qmail, the configuration files in Postfix can be really annoying and stupid. It isn't as bad as in sendmail, but close.
Bind provides easy data replication, that's how you make secondary dns servers:-)
I can understand why some people would what to have dns information in a SQL database, but personally I feel that it's just adding a not piece of software that could potentially fail. Trust me, you don't what your dns to fail.
I run tinydns, small, secure and easy to use. I not fan of the license and I really should switch to something with a clearly defined license, but I haven't found anything better.
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I kinda look at things the other way around, if a site doesn't work in what ever browser I'm currently using, then it just wasn't that important.
IE is a crappy browser simple things like CSS and png isn't shown correctly, there are no tabs and I find it to be kind of slow (yes slow).
By the way, what do you mean that Safari is faster than Opera on any platform? Safari only runs on MacOSX.
A refund? They still spend money on teaching him, regardless of whether or not he cheated. A masters degree or even a bachelor degree is anything but free. Why should the university lose money just because some moron doesn't know that he's not suppose to steal other peoples works, which I honestly find hard to believe. If you really need the work of someone else, credit them, then you should be fine, unless you haven't done any work yourself.
Universities need to hit people who cheat hard, they need to make it clear that the people who graduate from their insitution are fully qualified. I think they made the right decision, they can't check every single paper handed in for plagiarisem, but perhaps they can scare of people.
If anything he should have dropped out when he found that he needed to cheat to keep up. The guy is an idiot, I don't understand how he made to university in the first place.
I never really seen Java applications as being platform independent, I mean they only run on a one platform, the JVM.
Sure there are different JVM platforms, but then again Intel, AMD and Via x86 cpus are all different implementations of the same platform.
Making truly platform independent software is impossible, at least that my opinion.
What I don't get is why they picked Java, sure it's a nice enough language, but as many others point out it's amazingly slow, mostly because of the whole JVM concept. Why didn't they just pick a nice platform independent graphics library and the whole thing in some nice ANSI C or perhaps C++, which make it compile on pretty much anything. I think that to many people fail to see the advantages that C and C++ holdes when it come to develop cross-platform software. I can't think of a single platform for which there does not exist an ANSI C compiler. Granted the graphics libraries are somewhat of a problem, but nothing you couldn't pay TrollTech to take care of for you.
Doesn't look good then. I think something like 99% or more of the Danish work-force are members of a union.
Don't bitch about unions being a bad thing, just because it doesn't work in the US.
Union protect the interest of the workers, ensures that we're well paid, that our working conditions are in order and just generally being helpfull when your employer is being an idiot.
I hope you're right. I hope some of the big companies will crash and burn so badly because of this.
In 2 or 3 year when no small European software companies are left, I'll bet you pretty much anything that the EU member countries will start crying about how the big US companies are killing inovation and stealing job. Then, I'll laugh some more. God, fucking stupid politicians, they don't know shit about software and should keep away.
Im European by the way, and strongly believed that this crap would never pass. Americans are welcome to point and laugh at me for my ignorance.
Of cause I have no idea about what you run on your server, so two days might be extremely fast. However using Debian to build a mailserver takes around 4 hours. I think thats pretty good.
allofmp3.com isn't legal, it migth be in Russia, but that doesn't mean that people outside russia can buy from them legally. If they wish to tell to say Denmark, they must have an agreement with KODA (Danish RIAA), THEY DON'T. Same deal as with Spanish weblisten, legal in Spain, not outside.
It might be a nice service, but I won't recommend using it. If they do not have a deal with the RIAA equivalent in what ever country you're in, it is a waste of money.
Don't trust sites that sell music that doesn't have an agreement with a record label or the artists.
No it's not, you're allowed to break copy-protection such using tools as DeCSS and similar, if they prevent you from viewing a DVD og listening to a CD.
Since you didn't specify where in the world you're from, neither will I.
Actually, when the temperatur rises globally, the Gulf stream stop, which makes it bloody cool in northen europe. Get a globus or a map, look a where europe is places, compared to say Canada. We should be freezing to death, but we don't, because of the Gulf stream.
So with global warming comes the cooling of europe.
But are you willing to take the chance? Im not, I honestly don't care if some people think global warming is a not issue, Im simply not willing to run that risk.
Now I what read up on TCP/IP and my memory isn't that good, but isn't it the TCP part which a problem, mening that switching to a different IP protocol won't help you at all. IPv6 is as far as I understood it, only adressing, the TCP stuff is the same... maybe not.
Except that Windows is abit stupid regarding the use of a MIT Kerberos server as backend. Windows only really work with Microsoft own version of Kerberos. If I want my users to authenticate using an MIT Kerberos server, I have to create an account of each user on every single workstation... kind of, well stupid.
Most system administrator would wish that they had a company policy which allowed them to break the fingers of users who share their passwords.
But if users don't like using password, why force them. I think they would discover very quickly why it's needed. Nothing like a "You suck" email sent from a users account to the boss, to make them realise that may it's not such a bad idea.
A better solution would of cause be wide spread use of Kerberos, then at least they only need to enter their password once.
I just more than 5 minuts to figure out that Windows WON'T find a HP usb printer, unless the printer isn't turned on after Windows is booted.
Honestly, printers can be hell in Linux, no doubt about it, but this is equally true in Windows. If my dad had been running Linux I could have setup his printer, without having to travel an hour by train. Point being, that most users can't setup their printer, not even in Windows. Mostly because they don't read the manual, or because the manual sucks.
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They aren't really buying a super computer, just a lot of "of the shelf" hardware.
I think The Register talked about this in an article regarding the new 8 cpu motherboards from Tyan, presumably that's what the chinese are going to use.
I have the same thing with my pin, don't know what it is, but I know where to push. What isn't so cool is that all the terminals in stores are being changed, not all at once of cause, and the new one have a different layout. That is isn't very clever, I almost had my card closed after having entered the wrong pin twice, because I had to figure out what my pin was.
I considered using Postfix, simply to get any from qmails no license thing, but found it a major pain to play around with. When you come from qmail, the configuration files in Postfix can be really annoying and stupid. It isn't as bad as in sendmail, but close.
I once used dhcp_dns http://www.thismetalsky.org/magic/projects/dhcp_dn s.html
Im not quite sure if this was what you where looking for. If you just need to update tinydns with information from dhcp it works okay.
Bind provides easy data replication, that's how you make secondary dns servers :-)
I can understand why some people would what to have dns information in a SQL database, but personally I feel that it's just adding a not piece of software that could potentially fail. Trust me, you don't what your dns to fail.
I run tinydns, small, secure and easy to use. I not fan of the license and I really should switch to something with a clearly defined license, but I haven't found anything better.
I kinda look at things the other way around, if a site doesn't work in what ever browser I'm currently using, then it just wasn't that important.
IE is a crappy browser simple things like CSS and png isn't shown correctly, there are no tabs and I find it to be kind of slow (yes slow).
By the way, what do you mean that Safari is faster than Opera on any platform? Safari only runs on MacOSX.
A refund? They still spend money on teaching him, regardless of whether or not he cheated. A masters degree or even a bachelor degree is anything but free. Why should the university lose money just because some moron doesn't know that he's not suppose to steal other peoples works, which I honestly find hard to believe. If you really need the work of someone else, credit them, then you should be fine, unless you haven't done any work yourself.
Universities need to hit people who cheat hard, they need to make it clear that the people who graduate from their insitution are fully qualified. I think they made the right decision, they can't check every single paper handed in for plagiarisem, but perhaps they can scare of people.
If anything he should have dropped out when he found that he needed to cheat to keep up. The guy is an idiot, I don't understand how he made to university in the first place.
I never really seen Java applications as being platform independent, I mean they only run on a one platform, the JVM.
Sure there are different JVM platforms, but then again Intel, AMD and Via x86 cpus are all different implementations of the same platform.
Making truly platform independent software is impossible, at least that my opinion.
What I don't get is why they picked Java, sure it's a nice enough language, but as many others point out it's amazingly slow, mostly because of the whole JVM concept. Why didn't they just pick a nice platform independent graphics library and the whole thing in some nice ANSI C or perhaps C++, which make it compile on pretty much anything. I think that to many people fail to see the advantages that C and C++ holdes when it come to develop cross-platform software. I can't think of a single platform for which there does not exist an ANSI C compiler. Granted the graphics libraries are somewhat of a problem, but nothing you couldn't pay TrollTech to take care of for you.
Doesn't look good then. I think something like 99% or more of the Danish work-force are members of a union.
Don't bitch about unions being a bad thing, just because it doesn't work in the US.
Union protect the interest of the workers, ensures that we're well paid, that our working conditions are in order and just generally being helpfull when your employer is being an idiot.
I hope you're right. I hope some of the big companies will crash and burn so badly because of this.
In 2 or 3 year when no small European software companies are left, I'll bet you pretty much anything that the EU member countries will start crying about how the big US companies are killing inovation and stealing job. Then, I'll laugh some more. God, fucking stupid politicians, they don't know shit about software and should keep away.
Im European by the way, and strongly believed that this crap would never pass. Americans are welcome to point and laugh at me for my ignorance.
Try to look at the "About" box, choose "credits", that line is actually included in Thunderbird.
Honestly, do you see an alternative anywhere? NO, can't let Unix die if you don't have a replacement, that would be stupid.
Of cause I have no idea about what you run on your server, so two days might be extremely fast. However using Debian to build a mailserver takes around 4 hours. I think thats pretty good.
That you do, but Im not paying to download music which is going to be considered illegal where I live. That would be stupid.
allofmp3.com isn't legal, it migth be in Russia, but that doesn't mean that people outside russia can buy from them legally. If they wish to tell to say Denmark, they must have an agreement with KODA (Danish RIAA), THEY DON'T. Same deal as with Spanish weblisten, legal in Spain, not outside.
It might be a nice service, but I won't recommend using it. If they do not have a deal with the RIAA equivalent in what ever country you're in, it is a waste of money.
Don't trust sites that sell music that doesn't have an agreement with a record label or the artists.
No it's not, you're allowed to break copy-protection such using tools as DeCSS and similar, if they prevent you from viewing a DVD og listening to a CD.
Since you didn't specify where in the world you're from, neither will I.
Personally I like to fix what ever is broken, rather than reinstalling things that aren't broken.
Proof that Linux heightens your productivity, you don't reinstall, saves time, so you can get more work done.
less (only on Debian where it isn't part of the base system)
gaim
zsh
evilwm
emacs
wget
firefox
mutt
xmms
xchat
Soon it will be FireGNOMEGNU/Linux.
Actually, when the temperatur rises globally, the Gulf stream stop, which makes it bloody cool in northen europe. Get a globus or a map, look a where europe is places, compared to say Canada. We should be freezing to death, but we don't, because of the Gulf stream.
So with global warming comes the cooling of europe.
But are you willing to take the chance? Im not, I honestly don't care if some people think global warming is a not issue, Im simply not willing to run that risk.
Now I what read up on TCP/IP and my memory isn't that good, but isn't it the TCP part which a problem, mening that switching to a different IP protocol won't help you at all. IPv6 is as far as I understood it, only adressing, the TCP stuff is the same... maybe not.
Except that Windows is abit stupid regarding the use of a MIT Kerberos server as backend. Windows only really work with Microsoft own version of Kerberos. If I want my users to authenticate using an MIT Kerberos server, I have to create an account of each user on every single workstation... kind of, well stupid.
Most system administrator would wish that they had a company policy which allowed them to break the fingers of users who share their passwords.
But if users don't like using password, why force them. I think they would discover very quickly why it's needed. Nothing like a "You suck" email sent from a users account to the boss, to make them realise that may it's not such a bad idea.
A better solution would of cause be wide spread use of Kerberos, then at least they only need to enter their password once.
I just more than 5 minuts to figure out that Windows WON'T find a HP usb printer, unless the printer isn't turned on after Windows is booted.
Honestly, printers can be hell in Linux, no doubt about it, but this is equally true in Windows. If my dad had been running Linux I could have setup his printer, without having to travel an hour by train. Point being, that most users can't setup their printer, not even in Windows. Mostly because they don't read the manual, or because the manual sucks.