I think Exchange should still support both IMAP4 and POP3. Any number of open source clients should be able to connect. Work your way through the help desk until you can talk to a sysadmin, if need be.
I can ignore gold spammers, it's a reflex really. What bothered me about EQ gold sellers is how they monopolised the best camps forever with large, silent and well equipped teams and couldn't be budged, 24x7. Never gave us normal folk a chance to get the drops that only dropped off certain mobs. Hated that. Utterly killed the game for me, or I'd still be conjuring up flight rings today.
We've already shipped over 6 million copies of our desktop hypervisor
I can't think of a better way to give people a taste of virtualisation, myself. Once people see how easy it is to use on the desktop, they'll be more willing to accept the transition to this new way of providing services. By this I mean better acceptance of server consolidation, greener DC's etc. I just did a spec for a power company bringing some 400 discrete servers into a rack of Sun blades, and the power savings for that alone was close to half a megawatt. You give some, you get some, and it all adds up.
I hate seeing all those floor standing servers go to waste when they could be put to better use as a perfectly good upscale set of server dominos (JFGI).
The separate guest image virtual disks are going to end up chewing up a lot of storage. I think a big issue will be keeping the libraries of these things organised, but it's certainly going to chew up a lot of disk, too. I think there is an argument for including data storage in the conversation -- lightweight is going to become important. De-duplicators are sort of like CVS but for much larger files and file collections, and live mostly in the SAN appliance space I believe. People like HDS and Data Domain play here.
That's definitely not what he's after. He's trying to reuse operating system dynamic libraries between host and guest OS instances.
Correct. I think this is where the market strug between Citrix' XENapps (which I think they're positioning as a replacement for Metaframe?) and Microsoft's application center server is going to weigh in -- both of them are about sharing apps from a server by providing an abstracted presentation layer to a thin (or thinnish) client while optimising the network traffic between the intermediate presentation server and the client. This needs encapsulated, or better versioned DLL's. It has to do it that way to get the scalability, otherwise screen refreshes across the net would be oenerous.
It's hard to give up client-server totally (there's alot of COBOL that runs on it, for example -- see Fujitsu's PC dusty-deck emulators for a case in point) so an intermediate layer is essential. What he's suggesting could use the same binding process, just in the same box. I think you can see a bit of this in the stub-call part of the CORBA spec, too
Besides, there's got to be a certain amount of shared code between the host OS and the guest OS via the hypervisor, else they couldn't share devices, no?
Anyway, here's Microsoft's take on it from just a day ago -- buried somewhere in http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-07GetVirtualNowPR.mspx/ is the statement "Last week Microsoft released Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, which gives desktop users a boost in fully harnessing the power of Windows Vista by streaming resource-heavy applications to the desktop. This helps eliminate potential software conflicts driving desktop stability and performance, while simultaneously enabling IT managers to centrally control key applications and their use. Application Virtualization 4.5 will be included as part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2, which is due for general availability in the coming weeks."
Looks like they're targeting Citrix, doesn't it? If I remember one of the Technet streams I think this relates directly to the serialisation of that DLL traffic across the virtual server-guest border. Or I could be full of compost, that's possible too.
Erk! IANADTEISWAGAS (take everything I say with a grain of salt). Of course, drinking can cause liver damage too. Not quite so sure about hard gaming, though. I suspect the preservatives in the junk food are all that's holding me together.
actually there is almost no ganking in WARHAMMER. You can't go back into a lower tier's pvp zone after you lvl out of it.
Ok kid, this bow I'm holding is a 44DPS Magnum Epic. Trouble is, I don't know just how much mana I have left. Was it five or was it six casts? Well kid, what do you say -- do you feel Blucky?
And take a Vitamin B1 supplement plus an anti-inflam such as aspirin or ibuprofin. If you can handle the sugar a sports drink, if not try a banana for the potassium. You'll still be a bit wobbly but you need to replace the water and salts and drop the inflammation from the previous night.
Surprisingly, this technique works just as well if you were drinking, too.
Gun control really only works to lessen crime in certain specific ways -- if it materially decreases the number of guns in circulation (which is unlikely, as they're a durable good and easy to conceal) thus making them less available to criminals, or reduces the likelihood of death in crimes of passion, where lessened availability might increase the percentage of victims who survive a murder attempt because of the lesser efficiency of a blunt instrument vs. a firearm.
It's certain that someone with criminal intent will not balk at breaking another law, but gun control would drop firearm-based fatalities by some small percentage. You might be part of that small percentage, so it can still be rather important.
For the rabid gun keepers out there who misuse or play with these things at home, well, think of it as evolution in action.
We don't have much of a mosquito problem down here, the blowflies tend to keep them down. When we're not in mosquito season the blowflies augment their diet by stealing dairy milk. They do this by shaking the trucks until the bottles fall out, then feasting among the wreckage.
Yeah, my brother nearly lost a rib to a drop bear. Not a good idea to nap under a tree out in the bush.
Books are very dear, but clothes can be pretty cheap if you know where to look. Can't say the same about shoes... but on the plus side anything made out of wood here will bug your eyes out compared to USA -- solid jarrah or myrtle furniture, made the old fashioned way by craftsmen who started out as apprentices when young. Jobs? Top-notch SAP architect $140-180k. Don't move to Sydney imho, better off way up north in Brisbane or either Melbourne (where I live) or Adelaide (where I occasionaly consider moving to). Brisbane unbelievably hot during summer, Adelaide can get that way, but have fantastic wineries. Melbourne if you like the rain, jobs in finance, trams, and football (especially football). If you're after quaint, they invented that word to describe Hobart. Tasmania has limited opportunities (small population) but unbelievably beautiful surrounds, forests, mountains, lakes and fish that you need a cricket bat to defend against.
And don't drink that Foster's crap, it's sex in a canoe. Boags, Cascade, or Malt Shovel are what you drink after you die, if you've been good.
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...the guy with the gold makes the rules. Mutual animosity can be the basis of a fine business relationship if you're co-dependent enough.
OTOH well, if you find (say) a good auto mechanic, see what the difference in your bill looks like depending on (a) how expensive a car you drive in with is, and (b) how close to peonage said mechanic is treated by said customer.
I think independence may be the key -- if you work within the firm as a permanent (or long-term contractor) then the perception of your technical skills are diminished as time passes, as familiarity dilutes your apparent value. From outside the company, well, they may treat you like the auto mechanic in the above example or they may treat you like a saviour, the person who recovered their email / payroll / customer database.
If they're rude, you have the option of legal retaliation when you give them the next quote -- if you don't want to deal with them, raise your contract rate to an absurdly high level. Either they'll ignore you or you'll be paid commensurate with the aggro involved (they can sneer at you all they want if you're driving the Porsche while they're driving the clapped-out 1972 Pinto, no?)
That said, with the skills crisis here in Australia, engineers and skilled trades of any type are pretty well regarded due to the tight market, and that's probably why I don't see a lot of Tech-Business animosity.
I imagine one could cycle through certain parameters to improve sterilisation -- for example, if a bacterium is quite happy in a high-saline environment, perhaps flooding the surface with fresh water for a while might help. And to ensure the low-salinity bacteria aren't forgotten, then flood the surface with a salt solution. You could do the same thing for PH -- switch from (reasonably) low PH to (reasonably) high PH because some bacteria might find sodium hydroxide rather yummy, and other bacteria might prefer to live in acetic acid. If you went from one antibacterial medium to another, wouldn't you kill both sets off? I know it would be more convenient to use broad-spectrum antiseptics, but they don't always work (e.g.Golden Staph). Where it isn't practical to autoclave surfaces, this technique might be effective on niche-ecosystem bacteria. Switching between fluids would be a minor inconvenience, or at worst a simple engineering problem I'd think. Would this work?
Is there an ISO, W3C or IEEE standard tinfoil hat? I think I need one, but it has to be standard because it's Friday and I don't want my brain to crash before the raid on Kara.
Yes, Apple could be pulling a nasty, but I wouldn't think so because that would open them to some fairly nasty conspiracy charges.
On the other hand, ~n$B in market share vs. a possible injunction and fine...hmm.....
What I really what to comment on here is the state of the FUD surrounding Vista. There were many negative reviews of Vista at time of release, which were deserved, if a little hyperbolic
For any mass-market commodity, first impressions count. A simple, clean design that does not annoy during the early stages of introduction means positive market and mind share. Any glitch -- any glitch that arises during that critical word-of-mouth attention span immediately after a product's introduction will get carried around with the news of its existence. "Oooh, Shiny!" followed by "the battery life sucks" later, is far easier on the general impression of a product than "Oooh, Shiny, but the battery life sucks", which is toxic. It depends entirely on how much baggage trails along with the initial rumor. It's not often recognised how much more important it is to have a painless experience, than it is to be early-to-market.
You may have had a hard time explaining why file-sharing isn't theft because the two are pretty close.
But not quite the same.
I wonder some times if we're not trying to stretch precedent too far here. It's clear that file sharing is more like one candle lighting another than it is one person stealing another person's candle. Have we not gone over the edge, where we can no longer apply the term "theft", "piracy" other epithets to something that is so very difficult to match to the original definition of those terms? Modern usage is so different I think depending on precedent is just a wee bit bogus. The act of copying a file, legal or otherwise, is something different, and new rules and definitions should apply.
Once I pointed out to my young daughter that dragons were an evolutionary offshoot of birds. "Don't be silly, Daddy! Dragons are Dragonkind".
Well, some P2P-using company perhaps. I'd think Blizzard might have something to say about attempts to criminalise their use of P2P in the delivery of client game updates in World of Warcraft. Protection of an existing revenue stream of over $2B US per year might bring a bit of action in their defense. 10 million subscribers, all paying a monthly fee, would likely be able to underwrite a bit of legal help.
Did the issue concern whether SafeNet was representing themselves as an expert witness, and does that representation include stating they acted as a private investigation firm, and thus declaring the work was done by a licensed private investigator? If that were true, I'd think it's misrepresentative at the least, and might open them to the accusation of perjury. I'd expect their expert testimony to be struck at the very least.
Well, as it turns out it did. Frequently in fact -- these old disk packs were not what you'd call reliable. But people bought multi-platter disks anyway. It simply changed the granularity of what constituted the minimum backup set.
RAID 0 does the same thing -- multiple spindles bound together in a stripe set is functionally the same as multiple platters bound together in a disk pack, both in granularity of the volume set as a unit, parallelism (disk packs) or near-parallelism (stripe sets) and the fail-one, fail-all vulnerability. The two systems are topologically conformant.
And people buy RAID stacks as a separate unit, today, in the form of 1RU and 2RU server blades with pre-packaged RAID stacks in the same, single box as the computer. If one component dies, you may just replace the entire unit.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
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I think Exchange should still support both IMAP4 and POP3. Any number of open source clients should be able to connect. Work your way through the help desk until you can talk to a sysadmin, if need be.
I can ignore gold spammers, it's a reflex really. What bothered me about EQ gold sellers is how they monopolised the best camps forever with large, silent and well equipped teams and couldn't be budged, 24x7. Never gave us normal folk a chance to get the drops that only dropped off certain mobs. Hated that. Utterly killed the game for me, or I'd still be conjuring up flight rings today.
We've already shipped over 6 million copies of our desktop hypervisor
I can't think of a better way to give people a taste of virtualisation, myself. Once people see how easy it is to use on the desktop, they'll be more willing to accept the transition to this new way of providing services. By this I mean better acceptance of server consolidation, greener DC's etc. I just did a spec for a power company bringing some 400 discrete servers into a rack of Sun blades, and the power savings for that alone was close to half a megawatt. You give some, you get some, and it all adds up.
I hate seeing all those floor standing servers go to waste when they could be put to better use as a perfectly good upscale set of server dominos (JFGI).
The separate guest image virtual disks are going to end up chewing up a lot of storage. I think a big issue will be keeping the libraries of these things organised, but it's certainly going to chew up a lot of disk, too. I think there is an argument for including data storage in the conversation -- lightweight is going to become important. De-duplicators are sort of like CVS but for much larger files and file collections, and live mostly in the SAN appliance space I believe. People like HDS and Data Domain play here.
apologies for "alot" -- missed the space bar.
That's definitely not what he's after. He's trying to reuse operating system dynamic libraries between host and guest OS instances.
Correct. I think this is where the market strug between Citrix' XENapps (which I think they're positioning as a replacement for Metaframe?) and Microsoft's application center server is going to weigh in -- both of them are about sharing apps from a server by providing an abstracted presentation layer to a thin (or thinnish) client while optimising the network traffic between the intermediate presentation server and the client. This needs encapsulated, or better versioned DLL's. It has to do it that way to get the scalability, otherwise screen refreshes across the net would be oenerous.
It's hard to give up client-server totally (there's alot of COBOL that runs on it, for example -- see Fujitsu's PC dusty-deck emulators for a case in point) so an intermediate layer is essential. What he's suggesting could use the same binding process, just in the same box. I think you can see a bit of this in the stub-call part of the CORBA spec, too
Besides, there's got to be a certain amount of shared code between the host OS and the guest OS via the hypervisor, else they couldn't share devices, no?
Anyway, here's Microsoft's take on it from just a day ago -- buried somewhere in http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-07GetVirtualNowPR.mspx/ is the statement "Last week Microsoft released Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, which gives desktop users a boost in fully harnessing the power of Windows Vista by streaming resource-heavy applications to the desktop. This helps eliminate potential software conflicts driving desktop stability and performance, while simultaneously enabling IT managers to centrally control key applications and their use. Application Virtualization 4.5 will be included as part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2, which is due for general availability in the coming weeks."
Looks like they're targeting Citrix, doesn't it? If I remember one of the Technet streams I think this relates directly to the serialisation of that DLL traffic across the virtual server-guest border. Or I could be full of compost, that's possible too.
Erk! IANADTEISWAGAS (take everything I say with a grain of salt). Of course, drinking can cause liver damage too. Not quite so sure about hard gaming, though. I suspect the preservatives in the junk food are all that's holding me together.
actually there is almost no ganking in WARHAMMER. You can't go back into a lower tier's pvp zone after you lvl out of it.
Ok kid, this bow I'm holding is a 44DPS Magnum Epic. Trouble is, I don't know just how much mana I have left. Was it five or was it six casts? Well kid, what do you say -- do you feel Blucky?
Personally I would prefer writing in "None of the Above"
Drink a lot of water.
And take a Vitamin B1 supplement plus an anti-inflam such as aspirin or ibuprofin. If you can handle the sugar a sports drink, if not try a banana for the potassium. You'll still be a bit wobbly but you need to replace the water and salts and drop the inflammation from the previous night.
Surprisingly, this technique works just as well if you were drinking, too.
It's certain that someone with criminal intent will not balk at breaking another law, but gun control would drop firearm-based fatalities by some small percentage. You might be part of that small percentage, so it can still be rather important.
For the rabid gun keepers out there who misuse or play with these things at home, well, think of it as evolution in action.
We don't have much of a mosquito problem down here, the blowflies tend to keep them down. When we're not in mosquito season the blowflies augment their diet by stealing dairy milk. They do this by shaking the trucks until the bottles fall out, then feasting among the wreckage.
Books are very dear, but clothes can be pretty cheap if you know where to look. Can't say the same about shoes... but on the plus side anything made out of wood here will bug your eyes out compared to USA -- solid jarrah or myrtle furniture, made the old fashioned way by craftsmen who started out as apprentices when young. Jobs? Top-notch SAP architect $140-180k. Don't move to Sydney imho, better off way up north in Brisbane or either Melbourne (where I live) or Adelaide (where I occasionaly consider moving to). Brisbane unbelievably hot during summer, Adelaide can get that way, but have fantastic wineries. Melbourne if you like the rain, jobs in finance, trams, and football (especially football). If you're after quaint, they invented that word to describe Hobart. Tasmania has limited opportunities (small population) but unbelievably beautiful surrounds, forests, mountains, lakes and fish that you need a cricket bat to defend against.
And don't drink that Foster's crap, it's sex in a canoe. Boags, Cascade, or Malt Shovel are what you drink after you die, if you've been good.
OTOH well, if you find (say) a good auto mechanic, see what the difference in your bill looks like depending on (a) how expensive a car you drive in with is, and (b) how close to peonage said mechanic is treated by said customer.
I think independence may be the key -- if you work within the firm as a permanent (or long-term contractor) then the perception of your technical skills are diminished as time passes, as familiarity dilutes your apparent value. From outside the company, well, they may treat you like the auto mechanic in the above example or they may treat you like a saviour, the person who recovered their email / payroll / customer database.
If they're rude, you have the option of legal retaliation when you give them the next quote -- if you don't want to deal with them, raise your contract rate to an absurdly high level. Either they'll ignore you or you'll be paid commensurate with the aggro involved (they can sneer at you all they want if you're driving the Porsche while they're driving the clapped-out 1972 Pinto, no?)
That said, with the skills crisis here in Australia, engineers and skilled trades of any type are pretty well regarded due to the tight market, and that's probably why I don't see a lot of Tech-Business animosity.
No doing any potentially expensive mods unless you're fresh. Tired == stupid.
I imagine one could cycle through certain parameters to improve sterilisation -- for example, if a bacterium is quite happy in a high-saline environment, perhaps flooding the surface with fresh water for a while might help. And to ensure the low-salinity bacteria aren't forgotten, then flood the surface with a salt solution. You could do the same thing for PH -- switch from (reasonably) low PH to (reasonably) high PH because some bacteria might find sodium hydroxide rather yummy, and other bacteria might prefer to live in acetic acid. If you went from one antibacterial medium to another, wouldn't you kill both sets off? I know it would be more convenient to use broad-spectrum antiseptics, but they don't always work (e.g.Golden Staph). Where it isn't practical to autoclave surfaces, this technique might be effective on niche-ecosystem bacteria. Switching between fluids would be a minor inconvenience, or at worst a simple engineering problem I'd think. Would this work?
Maybe Apple did QA it properly.
Is there an ISO, W3C or IEEE standard tinfoil hat? I think I need one, but it has to be standard because it's Friday and I don't want my brain to crash before the raid on Kara.
Yes, Apple could be pulling a nasty, but I wouldn't think so because that would open them to some fairly nasty conspiracy charges.
On the other hand, ~n$B in market share vs. a possible injunction and fine...hmm.....
My Slashdot nic has better coverage on the web than my real name.
What I really what to comment on here is the state of the FUD surrounding Vista. There were many negative reviews of Vista at time of release, which were deserved, if a little hyperbolic
For any mass-market commodity, first impressions count. A simple, clean design that does not annoy during the early stages of introduction means positive market and mind share. Any glitch -- any glitch that arises during that critical word-of-mouth attention span immediately after a product's introduction will get carried around with the news of its existence. "Oooh, Shiny!" followed by "the battery life sucks" later, is far easier on the general impression of a product than "Oooh, Shiny, but the battery life sucks", which is toxic. It depends entirely on how much baggage trails along with the initial rumor. It's not often recognised how much more important it is to have a painless experience, than it is to be early-to-market.
He couldn't be German. His sentence at the end does not his verbs have.
You may have had a hard time explaining why file-sharing isn't theft because the two are pretty close.
But not quite the same.
I wonder some times if we're not trying to stretch precedent too far here. It's clear that file sharing is more like one candle lighting another than it is one person stealing another person's candle. Have we not gone over the edge, where we can no longer apply the term "theft", "piracy" other epithets to something that is so very difficult to match to the original definition of those terms? Modern usage is so different I think depending on precedent is just a wee bit bogus. The act of copying a file, legal or otherwise, is something different, and new rules and definitions should apply.
Once I pointed out to my young daughter that dragons were an evolutionary offshoot of birds. "Don't be silly, Daddy! Dragons are Dragonkind".
Some P2P company should sue them for defamation.
Well, some P2P-using company perhaps. I'd think Blizzard might have something to say about attempts to criminalise their use of P2P in the delivery of client game updates in World of Warcraft. Protection of an existing revenue stream of over $2B US per year might bring a bit of action in their defense. 10 million subscribers, all paying a monthly fee, would likely be able to underwrite a bit of legal help.
Did the issue concern whether SafeNet was representing themselves as an expert witness, and does that representation include stating they acted as a private investigation firm, and thus declaring the work was done by a licensed private investigator? If that were true, I'd think it's misrepresentative at the least, and might open them to the accusation of perjury. I'd expect their expert testimony to be struck at the very least.
I = V/R
If your resistance remains the same, 330V is gonna provide a heckuva lot more amps to run through you.
V/I = Futile
RAID 0 does the same thing -- multiple spindles bound together in a stripe set is functionally the same as multiple platters bound together in a disk pack, both in granularity of the volume set as a unit, parallelism (disk packs) or near-parallelism (stripe sets) and the fail-one, fail-all vulnerability. The two systems are topologically conformant.
And people buy RAID stacks as a separate unit, today, in the form of 1RU and 2RU server blades with pre-packaged RAID stacks in the same, single box as the computer. If one component dies, you may just replace the entire unit.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...