Wouldn't this be more of a target out in the wild? Think about it, if your a company who's going to (fall for this `plan') wouldn't you think someone would have an easier time breaking into some place where they probably have about > 25 law enforcement agents, most of whom are likely not trained properly (not to troll, but think about some high tech espionage case) what are they gonna do call for Gentle Ben or something?
Might sound like a cool idea but I think it has issues. Sweden, Norway, and parts of Finland (their nothern parts) have equally cool places full of the resources too, maybe the EU should jump at the idea. Maybe not, when the crap hits the fan who are you going to turn to an Eskimo who only knows fishing and shit?
They should set up a colo space in meat market like environments filled with freon cooled rack spaces powered by potatoes is what I think somewhere in Idaho
Chip Maker Trustworthy announced today they'll be cutting to the chase and releasing a 5terrahertz chip which is the fastest on any market, touting a catchy slogan "Powered by God."
"We didn't want to get involved in the whole marketing game at all. We've had these chips for years but had to sell all other lower speed chips in order to make money. Well all that is in the past, from now on we will release things to the public immediately. No more lies." stated Swedish born CEO Karl Karlssson who is now a converted Born Again Christian Chipmaker.
The company however faces a lengthy delay after residents of South Beach Miami claimed to own the patents to create the sand used to make the silicon used to make the chips. "What about dew prossis" claimed a big breasted South Beach Miami blonde wearing an Intel t-shirt looking in the mirror.
"We decided to give the chips to the people, without any side stepping. As is, and we're confident the powers of the Pope will annoint this chip and smoat the "Blue Man Group" of Intel who resemble satanists." stated Karl.
Team up with Starbucks to hurry and send rockets to Mars, then have Starbucks help them hurry to deliver that horrible coffee they so often dispose on the public....
Honestly though, they should take as much time preparing to get it right. I would rather see them wanting to wait 19 more years at the cost of a couple billion tax payer dollars, then see them spend a couple billion per year in failed missions going there. If all else fails, they could always fake pictures of lannding on Mars (har har) or explore another planet. Whats the big fascination with Mars anyways, there are so many others involved. Are they leaking out something they don't want the public to know?
I've never heard any major stories surrounding any trips to other planets. Come to think about it, aside from Mars and the Moon, I've never even heard of any trips to places like Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, etc. Do they know something they don't want others to know?
The entire legal system everywhere, not only the United States needs an exhaustive overhaul. Has anyone taken a trip to Dumb Laws?
In Cali:
You are forbidden to spit on the ground within 5 feet of another person.
It is illegal to own or sell "Silly String".
It is illegal to posses, own or raise roosters.
This is considered disturbing the peace.
Cars are the only item allowed in a garage.
It is illegal to curse on a mini-golf course.
It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent.
You cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time.
You may not hunt moths under a street light.
It is illegal to cry on the witness stand.
Toads may not be licked.
What happens in my eyes, is laws are made with a few scenarios taken into consideration, and as times change, the laws remain the same, never ever being reconsidered and often coming back to the limelight in some funny fashions.
So should laws be copywritten? Sure only if someone is allowed to copywrite the letters of the alphabet, and that person is paid for someone else's use of otherwise freely available information.
An overpaid Unix admin? Take your so called overpaid Unix admin and compare them to a Windows admin. Oh yes those point and click, drag and drop warriors using MS, versus the Unix admin who usually has a good knowledge of programming that has to specially tweak systems, via scripts as opposed to purchasing more products to throw on top of a precompiled executable you can't do anything with.
Yes that overpaid Unix administrator who often has to understand many other aspects of computing such as networking, configuring servers, building servers, benchmarking the products that will work, in comparison to the point-and-click/drag-and-drop Microsoft warrior which still comes out cheaper than hiring a networking guru, along with an MCSE (Must Consult Someone Experienced), atop of all the programs you still have to pay for, ATOP OF EVEN THAT the TCO of other budled software your going to buy to get your network running "slightly" the way you could get it with Nix based systems.
Wow you'd be a poor bookeeper there if you didn't scope out the whole scenario and all everything in its entirety up. Don't you know that MS kills when all is said and done? MS sure has a high Total Cost of Ownership which I wouldn't be willing to pay.
Don't get me wrong I'm not bashing Windows, I know most business would have a hard time migrating over to something more feasible at this point, being they've been marketed to death and frozen into the MS way, this I won't argue, however you have to remember this generation will be tomorrow's CTO's which is MS' biggest hidden fear
I ran Linux on a tickle me elmo doll for faster word processing. Why not just invest on getting something bigger processors are dirt cheap unless your experimenting. IMHO I think it'd be a waste of time running on something extremely obsolete and I highly doutb any developer of the Linux time would code for an obsolete architecture
Microsoft's point, which was lost on you, is that there is a huge investment in any OS, free or otherwise. Software licensing is a minimal part. Maybe you pay $4,000 for your OS, or $0. The real
expense is the $50,000 administrator. How many servers that admin can reasonably manage is where
the cost-savings lie.
My point which was not posted still makes more sense. Taking a realistic look at the vulnerabilities surrounding Microsoft, Linux is still cheaper in the long run.
Take a 300 node based network filled with MS servers. Then solve the amount of time it would take an administrator to patch every one of those servers each time Microsoft release a patch. After you've got that number store it in your excel spreadsheet because the adding isn't over yet.
With that 300 node farm, calculate the amount of times servers just go buggy for no reason, and an administrator has to run to the colo to reboot them, figure out what happened, etc. Add that to your spread sheet too. But its not finished yet...
MS releases something else you need lets say someone TCP based which you need to run in order to make things better for you. Let me give that a generous price of 19.99 x 300 node farm x _AMOUNT_OF_TIME_ADMINS_SPEND_INSTALLING x reboot downtime of applying that program. Add it to your spread sheet.
Get the picture? This doesn't even include securing those boxes via firewalls (ever see a Free functional firewall for MS Linux has IPF/IPChains and others) so who do you think MS if fooling? The fools thats who...
When it comes to marketing any publicity is good publicity. What happens is, many of those who've never heard of Linux, become more familiar with it via, their own worst enem(a)y, Microsoft. Especially funny is their comment.
The purpose of this paper is to dispel the popular notion that the Linux operating system is free and to arm retailers with the key areas they need to take a serious look at when considering Linux in their enterprise.
Translated to we'll show you why are products are better in biased fashion, at a more reasonable price than $0,000.00 (free). So as stated others will probably take a second look at why Microsoft is even bothering to comment on something they're sure they're better at.
Nothing like having a billion dollar budget in marketing to sell your product for you. Some of these Linux based sites should focus on placing benchmarking data on their sites very close to their [about | links | information] hyperlinks to make that data readily available to those curious with the OS itself, so should they go looking to see another perspective of the OS holy war, they can have it at a point-and-click (l)user-friendly way they're used to with MS.
Out here in NY the big stores mainly have a sampler setup so whatever is there is what you get to hear. Sure some of the other ones will let you hear certain songs if they're best sellers, provided they'd play the cd in rotation because its popular, but when you buy imports it's a no no, they'd give you every excuse in the book
Sound redundant? It is as is most of the comments on this whole Napster/RIAA issue. AgentX argues Napster is good AgentY argues it's evil.
I use Napster to often find the names of a song because I expect to buy the album and I want to be sure that I'm buying the correct album so I don't look like an ass or a thief returning it (thief being the record store is likely to hink I bought it burned it and am now returning it... I live in a big city)
So why should I not be allowed to look for songs in this method? I'm sure there are a slew of others who use Napster for similar reasons, adding validity for the uses of Napster. The whole argument is beginning to become a waste of time because when the shit hits the fan, no one is listening. Coincidently record sales have increased and not decreased since the inception of Napster.
Could it be that more people actually are using the same methods I described, hearing a cool song on Napster and buying it? Its possible but we'll never know, since the RIAA is now attempting to create its own Napster-style service for those that don't know, which is an underhanded method of calling a criminal a criminal when your doing the same shit, so any arguments can be rebutted with ease when you look at things from all perspectives.
I posted this before somewhere but it applies more here... One way to make a nice little set up for your machines is to create your own crate like addition which could follow the typical dimensions of a desk. Now it would have to be enclosed at least the section where your pc is going to be placed which makes for cool security too if you want to add a lock to it. No one could remotely root it via booting in single modes...
Anyways what you'd do after making the enclosure is insulate is with fiberglass insulation sold at a typical hardware store (dirt cheap), drill about an 4 inch slot into the side somewhere or the back if you have enough space or the side and attach a floor standing Penguino air conditioner along with a hose used for clothes dryers. The insulation keeps both the cold air in and noise out. Not only that but when your not using your PC's you could remove the hose and cool your house.
Religious factions with assistance from MADD, RNC, Britains BBC, ELF, EFF, EPIC, ACLU, and 50 million other acronyms you never heard of, announced today the creation of another acronymed organization set to make its debut at Quakecon.
Dubbed HAVOC, or Homosapiens Against Violence On Computers, the group is targeting Quakecon in efforts to halt millions of geeks from "fragging" each other into oblivion.
"We shouldn't educate our children on what is and what isn't violent in society. The process is simple, attack the gaming industry, porn industry, poisonous media outlets, and rap music, in order to make the world safer. Why the hell would I want to speak to my kid?" stated an angry parent known as Hilda.
The group is hoping to pass out buttons, stickers, and T-Shirts of Barney the purple dinosaur in hopes of circumventing the angers of millions of video gamers.
At least michael you could have posted the link for Comet Cursors since you've mentioned it in the header. For those who don't know what it is, its what they've dubbed a "smart cursor" which allows you to select something in an article, highlight it, and get information on what you'd selected and with or without a hyperlink get information on it, or purchase something (if its a product)
Now for the Wine part of it, I think it's a great idea, and I also think the company would probably want to work around some of the bugs we often (or at least I do) get when visiting pages with Shockwave Flash, and other embedded technologies on a page. As for the above post claiming a degradation of Linux, I'd highly doubt it would degrade the views of Linux for simple reasons. By having more companies developing for the *Nix based market, it goes to show that contrary to anyone's beliefs (or secret wishes) Linux/BSD's aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
However I also hope this isn't just another one of those here-today-gone-tomorrow based ideas coming out of a company trying to ride the coattails of the open source market, gaining fame, then moving on (Caldera).
I just wrote a rebuttal to Kurt Seifried's humorous "Why Linux is more secure then OpenBSD" which can be found here.
So here's my two cents to it all. Having used Linux for some years then switching back to the BSD's (started with FBSD, now running Open for my server, and FBSD @ home) I'd have to say Linux is as much of a Joke as Windows is when it comes to security, and no I don't mean to be a troll.
People are forgetting some of the core basics involved with security. Auditing. If core codebase was audited prior to releasing a distribution, you wouldn't have that many security advisories coming forward. Sure the process can become tedious especially when your in a large network environment, but why should I run an insecure OS then download an add-on solution, when I could just download OpenBSD for hardcore security?
Give me a break sure lomac sounds great so does did bastille, so does SE-Linux but these to me are just patches. I'd rather take a secure by default installation any time.
And oh yea you could respond with limiting services being run, but that still doesn't account for all the patches you have to install because someone just released another advisory for Linux.
Anyways the article I wrote summarizes some good points and weak ones too. kudos
J. "sil" Oquendo
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(security pimps should get a laugh off the sig;))
Do you think the RIAA and MPAA do things for free out of love? Stick with commenting with the spork and goat sex posters you retard they're businesses unless you think they get paid peanuts, and pay all their legal fees with monopoly money asshole they're in it for money just like any other business
Ruthless as the RIAA, mean as the MPAA, the software industry provides a near perfect model for anyone who wants to turn infinitely reproducible silver discs into endless buckets of cash.
And without all the awkwardness of actually providing a product or service, too.
People may bitch this out but what some people fail to realize is both the MPAA and RIAA is a business, a business that will protect what they feel is their property, even if it means dragging everyone, their co-lo's, ISP's, etc, etc, to court, and failure to realize business will always give someone biased opinions on the subject altogether.
MPAA has been around for about 80 years, and they've done a pretty good job of promoting films. Now their other business includes making sure no one pirates a movie. Something (piracy) which does cost billions of dollars in revenue. So place yourself in their shoes. Sure we may see them as having misplaced actions by suing everyone but this is what their company does. If it were your money, you would do the same.
RIAA same rules apply. These are businesses, and while we may view their actions as bullyish, misplaced, right winged, or which ever term you want to interject, in their eyes it's the right actions to take.
On the subject of Open Source software, etc., as I've stated before I would like to see a non biased "WORLDWIDE" (not solely US based) consortium to have one definitive license scheme which all vendors and developers can agree on. With this 26 licenses deal, its just a crock of he said/she said'ish bullshit adding to the confusion of it all. If its open source it free for crying out loud. Free to download and use for your own purposes, should you tweak anything, retain the original copyrights and add to it. Whats the big ass deal?
The need for everyone and their mother to have their own licensing schemes devalues the overall appeal of taking any of the licensing serious. Who the hell is sole provider of which license is right? Richard Stallman? Give me a break why? Why should we listen to him as opposed to listening to Person X? Understand what I'm trying to convey?
In late breaking news today Sesame Street's Count ha filed a class action patent lawsuit against the world claiming that people from all walks of life are infringing on his works.
"While counting to one two, I teach kids how to learn to make it in life, yet these kids turned around and made programs which have made more money than I have. What happened to due process?" stated the Count.
So what's at stake here? Its simple numbers via ways of 0's and 1's combined constructed together form marvelous works earning companies millions. The Count is claiming patents on the numbers one and zero, which would give him sole ownership of the internet as we know it.
Employees of IBM, Sun, Microsoft, and other heavy hitters have released brief statements claiming to have never watched Sesame Street.
create a an overlying case for the PC with 4 slots cut out, left side, right side, top, and back. On the side place some fans blowing inbound, let the back blow outbound. With the top cut out you could get a hose similar to something a clothing dryer would use, and hook it up to a "Penguino" floor standing air condition to keep cool air circulating into it.
Actually you could make a nice little desktop set up with something like that and keep most of your PC's in there to keep them cooled. Just don't forget to have AC filters on the insides of the carve outs to keep the PC's dust free. Or you could dish out for a single freon cooled case.
IHMO I don't see the big deal about running out to get the `latest` high speed (Mhz) chip to run from any vendor be it Intel, AMD, Transmeta, etc., especially something that hasn't been tested in real world condition so my question are as follows...
[1]
When the 300's and 400's came out the same hooplah surrounded them and everyone hyped them much the same way as the comments on this story. If marginal fractions of people brought those chips, then carried on to other higher speeds, what is everyone doing with their other chips... Is there a chip cementary I should know about or are people doing cool shit like donating older chips to non profit companies, or edu's or something? What the heck happens to all those outgoing chips?
[2]
What about recycling some of the 300's and 400's and making a Quad motherboard running say a PIII 400 wouldn't it be cheaper, and faster for certain tasks. Has anyone tried this?
I'm not hardcore on hardware since I don't do any high tech scientific computing, or distributed computing, hardcore gaming, etc., so I always wonder who in the `real world` buys these chips and for what...
Well this is halfway off topic (as usual) but what I would like to know is when is someone going to focus on doing something really cool with SGI based hardware. They have some pretty hardcore boxes, and with the way the company is going (or so it seems) is they'll be going going gone soon, which means your likely to pick up some SGI boxes for dirt cheap.
Yes I know SGI makes a Linux based box, but surely someone could create a special port of Nix focusing on maybe some hardcore graphic design packages for that machine... Anyone using an SGI running anything other than (*cough*crap*cough) Irix? And not an SGI Indy... gimme some hardcore O2, Origin freak respond to this with their pimpification of an SGI
If security isn't your main line of work then its sometimes better if you contacted a security company and had them speak to the other company after working out some sort of deal with the security company for the following reasons.
If you were doing some other work for the company, then was cut off they could think you were illegally looking for holes in their systems, or were pissed off at them, and helped yourself to take some form of actions by auditing them (think about what the company would see in this situation) to find ways of screwing them.
Contacting a security company could benefit you in other ways because if they know of something your company does, they'd likely turn to you for passing on business to them so you create a network for yourself. Now the security company on the other hand could present it in the following fashion to the primary place.
salesman of sec. co: "A previous vendor of yours contacted us out of concern for your company as they suspected you may have some vulnerabilities but they were unsure of this so they turned to us since we focus in security...."
As stated if security isn't your main field of work your better off (IMHO) going this route since it also saves face and doesn't seem like your fetching for bones. It may also help win back "brownie points" should the company have to reconsider vendors, and they're likely to remember your actions if they went ahead and had the security company audit them and fix their holes.
Someone should create a form based template with a generic based letter with something like...
To whom it may concern:
After searching for a logical solution for my company we came across your product, and purchased it. Upon attempting to use your product we learned afterwards it was not compatible with our non Microsoft based network of computers.
We are a Linux, and BSD based shop, and had been looking forward to adding your products however its sad to see a company like yours still hasn't gained insight that other operating systems have gained ground on a commercial level to rival Microsoft.
Sadly we are returning your product after we wrap it back up, and hopefully in the future we'll see drivers for other operating systems, in which we're sure many companies will find useful.
Yours truly
<ENTER COMPANY RECIPIENT>
<ENTER YOUR NAME>
<ENTER YOUR E-MAIL>
<CLICK TO SEND>
Sounds cheesy as all hell, but I'm sure customer service reps, and sales people would surely respond after getting slashdotted with a shitload of emails telling them to wake the fsck up.
For anyone who hasn't followed this case, its all about 2600 hyperlinking to sites that post DVD cracking code when you look at things from a "whats it all about" basis.
Sure the underlying motives are free speech, and the rights for techie/hackers which is good and the outcome is either going to make or break "freedom of speech" based arenas in the tech world. Think about it entirely... Why shouldn't you have the right to post a link to information others want to read for whatever purposes? Just because some corporate bigwigs get scared your going to break their technology? Give me a break tax dollars should have been wasted on more important matters than 2600 posting a hyperlink on their page.
My two cents of it all since I'm personally tired of hearing the rants and ramblings of "they should" "they shouldn't" Next time I'm voting for Elmo for president so he can place real muppets in office (not pseudo fakesters trying to hide their `muppetcy`) maybe they'll allow people to express themselves in unbiased fashions, without getting dragged into court because they hurt someone's corporate ego's.
Customer lists the features that the software must provide. [a]
Customer chooses the most important tasks that can be completed by the next release.[b]
[a] Programmers will just love trying to create the impossible some customers will be asking for.
[b] Again customers will be asking for an outrageous amount on tasks that will likely be unfeasible.
Not to sound rebellious againstthe article, but looking at things from an outside perspective this isn't so called "Extreme Programming" to me, its more like custom programming. Not all customers need the same features in a program so who will be the thinktank customer to help with the foundations of it all?
Too many hands in the pot spoil the food (or something similar to that) and if you get caught up with trying to cater to one or two customers, your slighting the remainder of your customers' wants or needs, and if you cater to one too many your liable to create one huge worthless program filled with obsolete bloat.
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Money is the least of my concerns. I'd be worried about the quality of the environment I work in. Work is something I enjoy nowadays, and sure I make enough and I could make less and not be worried since my life doesn't revolve around a dollar. However what would that environment be like when co workers start slacking because they're protected by a Union and can't be fired?
Even moreso what is going to happen when a salary based becomes a standard and I make as much as my manager or someone else makes the same amount as someone else without having the skills for command a salary, and tensions rise between co-workers?
The environment (workplace) becomes less desireable to be at. Thats my concern not money. Most people in this field with enough experience know how easy it is to move onto other jobs for higher pay, and I could have done so plenty of times for more money. Why should I when I feel comfortable where I'm at?
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Wouldn't this be more of a target out in the wild? Think about it, if your a company who's going to (fall for this `plan') wouldn't you think someone would have an easier time breaking into some place where they probably have about > 25 law enforcement agents, most of whom are likely not trained properly (not to troll, but think about some high tech espionage case) what are they gonna do call for Gentle Ben or something?
Might sound like a cool idea but I think it has issues. Sweden, Norway, and parts of Finland (their nothern parts) have equally cool places full of the resources too, maybe the EU should jump at the idea. Maybe not, when the crap hits the fan who are you going to turn to an Eskimo who only knows fishing and shit?
They should set up a colo space in meat market like environments filled with freon cooled rack spaces powered by potatoes is what I think somewhere in Idaho
Chip Maker Trustworthy announced today they'll be cutting to the chase and releasing a 5terrahertz chip which is the fastest on any market, touting a catchy slogan "Powered by God."
"We didn't want to get involved in the whole marketing game at all. We've had these chips for years but had to sell all other lower speed chips in order to make money. Well all that is in the past, from now on we will release things to the public immediately. No more lies." stated Swedish born CEO Karl Karlssson who is now a converted Born Again Christian Chipmaker.
The company however faces a lengthy delay after residents of South Beach Miami claimed to own the patents to create the sand used to make the silicon used to make the chips. "What about dew prossis" claimed a big breasted South Beach Miami blonde wearing an Intel t-shirt looking in the mirror.
"We decided to give the chips to the people, without any side stepping. As is, and we're confident the powers of the Pope will annoint this chip and smoat the "Blue Man Group" of Intel who resemble satanists." stated Karl.
Stay tuned for this lengthy battle.
Q & A with John Young of Cryptome.org
Team up with Starbucks to hurry and send rockets to Mars, then have Starbucks help them hurry to deliver that horrible coffee they so often dispose on the public....
Honestly though, they should take as much time preparing to get it right. I would rather see them wanting to wait 19 more years at the cost of a couple billion tax payer dollars, then see them spend a couple billion per year in failed missions going there. If all else fails, they could always fake pictures of lannding on Mars (har har) or explore another planet. Whats the big fascination with Mars anyways, there are so many others involved. Are they leaking out something they don't want the public to know?
I've never heard any major stories surrounding any trips to other planets. Come to think about it, aside from Mars and the Moon, I've never even heard of any trips to places like Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, etc. Do they know something they don't want others to know?
The entire legal system everywhere, not only the United States needs an exhaustive overhaul. Has anyone taken a trip to Dumb Laws?
In Cali:
What happens in my eyes, is laws are made with a few scenarios taken into consideration, and as times change, the laws remain the same, never ever being reconsidered and often coming back to the limelight in some funny fashions.
So should laws be copywritten? Sure only if someone is allowed to copywrite the letters of the alphabet, and that person is paid for someone else's use of otherwise freely available information.
An overpaid Unix admin? Take your so called overpaid Unix admin and compare them to a Windows admin. Oh yes those point and click, drag and drop warriors using MS, versus the Unix admin who usually has a good knowledge of programming that has to specially tweak systems, via scripts as opposed to purchasing more products to throw on top of a precompiled executable you can't do anything with.
Yes that overpaid Unix administrator who often has to understand many other aspects of computing such as networking, configuring servers, building servers, benchmarking the products that will work, in comparison to the point-and-click/drag-and-drop Microsoft warrior which still comes out cheaper than hiring a networking guru, along with an MCSE (Must Consult Someone Experienced), atop of all the programs you still have to pay for, ATOP OF EVEN THAT the TCO of other budled software your going to buy to get your network running "slightly" the way you could get it with Nix based systems.
Wow you'd be a poor bookeeper there if you didn't scope out the whole scenario and all everything in its entirety up. Don't you know that MS kills when all is said and done? MS sure has a high Total Cost of Ownership which I wouldn't be willing to pay.
Don't get me wrong I'm not bashing Windows, I know most business would have a hard time migrating over to something more feasible at this point, being they've been marketed to death and frozen into the MS way, this I won't argue, however you have to remember this generation will be tomorrow's CTO's which is MS' biggest hidden fear
I ran Linux on a tickle me elmo doll for faster word processing. Why not just invest on getting something bigger processors are dirt cheap unless your experimenting. IMHO I think it'd be a waste of time running on something extremely obsolete and I highly doutb any developer of the Linux time would code for an obsolete architecture
Microsoft's point, which was lost on you, is that there is a huge investment in any OS, free or otherwise. Software licensing is a minimal part. Maybe you pay $4,000 for your OS, or $0. The real
expense is the $50,000 administrator. How many servers that admin can reasonably manage is where
the cost-savings lie.
My point which was not posted still makes more sense. Taking a realistic look at the vulnerabilities surrounding Microsoft, Linux is still cheaper in the long run.
Take a 300 node based network filled with MS servers. Then solve the amount of time it would take an administrator to patch every one of those servers each time Microsoft release a patch. After you've got that number store it in your excel spreadsheet because the adding isn't over yet.
With that 300 node farm, calculate the amount of times servers just go buggy for no reason, and an administrator has to run to the colo to reboot them, figure out what happened, etc. Add that to your spread sheet too. But its not finished yet...
MS releases something else you need lets say someone TCP based which you need to run in order to make things better for you. Let me give that a generous price of 19.99 x 300 node farm x _AMOUNT_OF_TIME_ADMINS_SPEND_INSTALLING x reboot downtime of applying that program. Add it to your spread sheet.
Get the picture? This doesn't even include securing those boxes via firewalls (ever see a Free functional firewall for MS Linux has IPF/IPChains and others) so who do you think MS if fooling? The fools thats who...
When it comes to marketing any publicity is good publicity. What happens is, many of those who've never heard of Linux, become more familiar with it via, their own worst enem(a)y, Microsoft. Especially funny is their comment.
Translated to we'll show you why are products are better in biased fashion, at a more reasonable price than $0,000.00 (free). So as stated others will probably take a second look at why Microsoft is even bothering to comment on something they're sure they're better at.
Nothing like having a billion dollar budget in marketing to sell your product for you. Some of these Linux based sites should focus on placing benchmarking data on their sites very close to their [about | links | information] hyperlinks to make that data readily available to those curious with the OS itself, so should they go looking to see another perspective of the OS holy war, they can have it at a point-and-click (l)user-friendly way they're used to with MS.
my two cents...
Q & A with John Young of Cryptome.org
Out here in NY the big stores mainly have a sampler setup so whatever is there is what you get to hear. Sure some of the other ones will let you hear certain songs if they're best sellers, provided they'd play the cd in rotation because its popular, but when you buy imports it's a no no, they'd give you every excuse in the book
Sound redundant? It is as is most of the comments on this whole Napster/RIAA issue. AgentX argues Napster is good AgentY argues it's evil.
I use Napster to often find the names of a song because I expect to buy the album and I want to be sure that I'm buying the correct album so I don't look like an ass or a thief returning it (thief being the record store is likely to hink I bought it burned it and am now returning it... I live in a big city)
So why should I not be allowed to look for songs in this method? I'm sure there are a slew of others who use Napster for similar reasons, adding validity for the uses of Napster. The whole argument is beginning to become a waste of time because when the shit hits the fan, no one is listening. Coincidently record sales have increased and not decreased since the inception of Napster.
Could it be that more people actually are using the same methods I described, hearing a cool song on Napster and buying it? Its possible but we'll never know, since the RIAA is now attempting to create its own Napster-style service for those that don't know, which is an underhanded method of calling a criminal a criminal when your doing the same shit, so any arguments can be rebutted with ease when you look at things from all perspectives.
I posted this before somewhere but it applies more here... One way to make a nice little set up for your machines is to create your own crate like addition which could follow the typical dimensions of a desk. Now it would have to be enclosed at least the section where your pc is going to be placed which makes for cool security too if you want to add a lock to it. No one could remotely root it via booting in single modes...
Anyways what you'd do after making the enclosure is insulate is with fiberglass insulation sold at a typical hardware store (dirt cheap), drill about an 4 inch slot into the side somewhere or the back if you have enough space or the side and attach a floor standing Penguino air conditioner along with a hose used for clothes dryers. The insulation keeps both the cold air in and noise out. Not only that but when your not using your PC's you could remove the hose and cool your house.
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Religious factions with assistance from MADD, RNC, Britains BBC, ELF, EFF, EPIC, ACLU, and 50 million other acronyms you never heard of, announced today the creation of another acronymed organization set to make its debut at Quakecon.
Dubbed HAVOC, or Homosapiens Against Violence On Computers, the group is targeting Quakecon in efforts to halt millions of geeks from "fragging" each other into oblivion.
"We shouldn't educate our children on what is and what isn't violent in society. The process is simple, attack the gaming industry, porn industry, poisonous media outlets, and rap music, in order to make the world safer. Why the hell would I want to speak to my kid?" stated an angry parent known as Hilda.
The group is hoping to pass out buttons, stickers, and T-Shirts of Barney the purple dinosaur in hopes of circumventing the angers of millions of video gamers.
stay tuned
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At least michael you could have posted the link for Comet Cursors since you've mentioned it in the header. For those who don't know what it is, its what they've dubbed a "smart cursor" which allows you to select something in an article, highlight it, and get information on what you'd selected and with or without a hyperlink get information on it, or purchase something (if its a product)
Now for the Wine part of it, I think it's a great idea, and I also think the company would probably want to work around some of the bugs we often (or at least I do) get when visiting pages with Shockwave Flash, and other embedded technologies on a page. As for the above post claiming a degradation of Linux, I'd highly doubt it would degrade the views of Linux for simple reasons. By having more companies developing for the *Nix based market, it goes to show that contrary to anyone's beliefs (or secret wishes) Linux/BSD's aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
However I also hope this isn't just another one of those here-today-gone-tomorrow based ideas coming out of a company trying to ride the coattails of the open source market, gaining fame, then moving on (Caldera).
I just wrote a rebuttal to Kurt Seifried's humorous "Why Linux is more secure then OpenBSD" which can be found here.
So here's my two cents to it all. Having used Linux for some years then switching back to the BSD's (started with FBSD, now running Open for my server, and FBSD @ home) I'd have to say Linux is as much of a Joke as Windows is when it comes to security, and no I don't mean to be a troll.
People are forgetting some of the core basics involved with security. Auditing. If core codebase was audited prior to releasing a distribution, you wouldn't have that many security advisories coming forward. Sure the process can become tedious especially when your in a large network environment, but why should I run an insecure OS then download an add-on solution, when I could just download OpenBSD for hardcore security?
Give me a break sure lomac sounds great so does did bastille, so does SE-Linux but these to me are just patches. I'd rather take a secure by default installation any time.
And oh yea you could respond with limiting services being run, but that still doesn't account for all the patches you have to install because someone just released another advisory for Linux.
Anyways the article I wrote summarizes some good points and weak ones too. kudos
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(security pimps should get a laugh off the sig
Do you think the RIAA and MPAA do things for free out of love? Stick with commenting with the spork and goat sex posters you retard they're businesses unless you think they get paid peanuts, and pay all their legal fees with monopoly money asshole they're in it for money just like any other business
People may bitch this out but what some people fail to realize is both the MPAA and RIAA is a business, a business that will protect what they feel is their property, even if it means dragging everyone, their co-lo's, ISP's, etc, etc, to court, and failure to realize business will always give someone biased opinions on the subject altogether.
MPAA has been around for about 80 years, and they've done a pretty good job of promoting films. Now their other business includes making sure no one pirates a movie. Something (piracy) which does cost billions of dollars in revenue. So place yourself in their shoes. Sure we may see them as having misplaced actions by suing everyone but this is what their company does. If it were your money, you would do the same.
RIAA same rules apply. These are businesses, and while we may view their actions as bullyish, misplaced, right winged, or which ever term you want to interject, in their eyes it's the right actions to take.
On the subject of Open Source software, etc., as I've stated before I would like to see a non biased "WORLDWIDE" (not solely US based) consortium to have one definitive license scheme which all vendors and developers can agree on. With this 26 licenses deal, its just a crock of he said/she said'ish bullshit adding to the confusion of it all. If its open source it free for crying out loud. Free to download and use for your own purposes, should you tweak anything, retain the original copyrights and add to it. Whats the big ass deal?
The need for everyone and their mother to have their own licensing schemes devalues the overall appeal of taking any of the licensing serious. Who the hell is sole provider of which license is right? Richard Stallman? Give me a break why? Why should we listen to him as opposed to listening to Person X? Understand what I'm trying to convey?
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In late breaking news today Sesame Street's Count ha filed a class action patent lawsuit against the world claiming that people from all walks of life are infringing on his works.
"While counting to one two, I teach kids how to learn to make it in life, yet these kids turned around and made programs which have made more money than I have. What happened to due process?" stated the Count.
So what's at stake here? Its simple numbers via ways of 0's and 1's combined constructed together form marvelous works earning companies millions. The Count is claiming patents on the numbers one and zero, which would give him sole ownership of the internet as we know it.
Employees of IBM, Sun, Microsoft, and other heavy hitters have released brief statements claiming to have never watched Sesame Street.
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create a an overlying case for the PC with 4 slots cut out, left side, right side, top, and back. On the side place some fans blowing inbound, let the back blow outbound. With the top cut out you could get a hose similar to something a clothing dryer would use, and hook it up to a "Penguino" floor standing air condition to keep cool air circulating into it.
Actually you could make a nice little desktop set up with something like that and keep most of your PC's in there to keep them cooled. Just don't forget to have AC filters on the insides of the carve outs to keep the PC's dust free. Or you could dish out for a single freon cooled case.
IHMO I don't see the big deal about running out to get the `latest` high speed (Mhz) chip to run from any vendor be it Intel, AMD, Transmeta, etc., especially something that hasn't been tested in real world condition so my question are as follows...
[1]
When the 300's and 400's came out the same hooplah surrounded them and everyone hyped them much the same way as the comments on this story. If marginal fractions of people brought those chips, then carried on to other higher speeds, what is everyone doing with their other chips... Is there a chip cementary I should know about or are people doing cool shit like donating older chips to non profit companies, or edu's or something? What the heck happens to all those outgoing chips?
[2]
What about recycling some of the 300's and 400's and making a Quad motherboard running say a PIII 400 wouldn't it be cheaper, and faster for certain tasks. Has anyone tried this?
I'm not hardcore on hardware since I don't do any high tech scientific computing, or distributed computing, hardcore gaming, etc., so I always wonder who in the `real world` buys these chips and for what...
Well this is halfway off topic (as usual) but what I would like to know is when is someone going to focus on doing something really cool with SGI based hardware. They have some pretty hardcore boxes, and with the way the company is going (or so it seems) is they'll be going going gone soon, which means your likely to pick up some SGI boxes for dirt cheap.
Yes I know SGI makes a Linux based box, but surely someone could create a special port of Nix focusing on maybe some hardcore graphic design packages for that machine... Anyone using an SGI running anything other than (*cough*crap*cough) Irix? And not an SGI Indy... gimme some hardcore O2, Origin freak respond to this with their pimpification of an SGI
If security isn't your main line of work then its sometimes better if you contacted a security company and had them speak to the other company after working out some sort of deal with the security company for the following reasons.
If you were doing some other work for the company, then was cut off they could think you were illegally looking for holes in their systems, or were pissed off at them, and helped yourself to take some form of actions by auditing them (think about what the company would see in this situation) to find ways of screwing them.
Contacting a security company could benefit you in other ways because if they know of something your company does, they'd likely turn to you for passing on business to them so you create a network for yourself. Now the security company on the other hand could present it in the following fashion to the primary place.
salesman of sec. co: "A previous vendor of yours contacted us out of concern for your company as they suspected you may have some vulnerabilities but they were unsure of this so they turned to us since we focus in security...."
As stated if security isn't your main field of work your better off (IMHO) going this route since it also saves face and doesn't seem like your fetching for bones. It may also help win back "brownie points" should the company have to reconsider vendors, and they're likely to remember your actions if they went ahead and had the security company audit them and fix their holes.
my two cents...
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Someone should create a form based template with a generic based letter with something like...
Sounds cheesy as all hell, but I'm sure customer service reps, and sales people would surely respond after getting slashdotted with a shitload of emails telling them to wake the fsck up.
For anyone who hasn't followed this case, its all about 2600 hyperlinking to sites that post DVD cracking code when you look at things from a "whats it all about" basis.
Sure the underlying motives are free speech, and the rights for techie/hackers which is good and the outcome is either going to make or break "freedom of speech" based arenas in the tech world. Think about it entirely... Why shouldn't you have the right to post a link to information others want to read for whatever purposes? Just because some corporate bigwigs get scared your going to break their technology? Give me a break tax dollars should have been wasted on more important matters than 2600 posting a hyperlink on their page.
My two cents of it all since I'm personally tired of hearing the rants and ramblings of "they should" "they shouldn't" Next time I'm voting for Elmo for president so he can place real muppets in office (not pseudo fakesters trying to hide their `muppetcy`) maybe they'll allow people to express themselves in unbiased fashions, without getting dragged into court because they hurt someone's corporate ego's.
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[a] Programmers will just love trying to create the impossible some customers will be asking for.
[b] Again customers will be asking for an outrageous amount on tasks that will likely be unfeasible.
Not to sound rebellious againstthe article, but looking at things from an outside perspective this isn't so called "Extreme Programming" to me, its more like custom programming. Not all customers need the same features in a program so who will be the thinktank customer to help with the foundations of it all?
Too many hands in the pot spoil the food (or something similar to that) and if you get caught up with trying to cater to one or two customers, your slighting the remainder of your customers' wants or needs, and if you cater to one too many your liable to create one huge worthless program filled with obsolete bloat.
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Money is the least of my concerns. I'd be worried about the quality of the environment I work in. Work is something I enjoy nowadays, and sure I make enough and I could make less and not be worried since my life doesn't revolve around a dollar. However what would that environment be like when co workers start slacking because they're protected by a Union and can't be fired?
Even moreso what is going to happen when a salary based becomes a standard and I make as much as my manager or someone else makes the same amount as someone else without having the skills for command a salary, and tensions rise between co-workers?
The environment (workplace) becomes less desireable to be at. Thats my concern not money. Most people in this field with enough experience know how easy it is to move onto other jobs for higher pay, and I could have done so plenty of times for more money. Why should I when I feel comfortable where I'm at?