BP posted a link with a "Live" video feed of the belching oil. The running time-stamp on the image was accurate until today, when it seems to be about 2 minutes 24 seconds behind. Anybody else seeing this time delay? Is BP introducing a time delay to bleep out bad words?
Since last week, the image typically showed the actual oil exiting a pipe, but ever since the top kill effort began, the image tends to show pretty green pipes and hoses...anything but oil. Has BP shows the previous view since the news reports of partial success?
Live video link: http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
To equalize things up smartly, all one needs is a SheWee! It works beautifully, although I'm told it takes, uh, practice.
See the SheWee home page for guidence and usage. Note for Americans: you have to order here.
For what it's worth, the Kellogg and Wolff study can be found here
They frankly speak to the shortcomings of their methodology and the limits that introduces. Still, the upshot the Aussies burned more energy and spent more money to boot seems sound.
That is what happened this past winter in our shop when the WMF fiasco occurred: An in-the-wild exploit, MS says "yeah, but it's not *that* bad, we'll get it to you next time", and the World says "you must be kidding, we'll do it ourselves."
I run a small, corporate network. But it *is* corporate. When I went to the Boss to explain things, we wanted to deploy the third-party patch. But we kept running into the concept of Liability--the "what ifs" of something going wrong, and we did it to ourselves by applying something outside of the supported vendor. In the end, we lined up the third-party patch and were ready to quickly deploy it system-wide. In the WMF case, MS backed down and released an out-of-cycle official patch, which we then distrubuted.
The concept of the World doing the Right Thing by creating these patches is wonderful--it is an obvious and long overdue response. But I am not a lawyer--and I would have to think real lawyers who answer to corporations with thousands of boxes are going to pipe up over this.
The company I work for has two franchised, retail stores in the New Orleans area--one on the riverfront downtown, and another in the Metairie area, north of the main town. These satellite images have provided us with the first comfirmation of the damage, and are remarkably useful (in our case, the stores appear to be dry 48 hours after Katrina's passage). The executives were delighted to see this, and earned the IT group some nice brownie points...
There is a
similar link on the Denver Post site today. The images are from the same company, and for the same date and time, but are markedly different in color from the Google images. Does anybody know why?
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SPIEGEL: The particular charm of Linux is that it is an adaptable system that users can shape themselves.
Gates: If everything runs under the same platform, however, you can better concentrate resources and more quickly repair errors. For instance, in a hospital where different systems are used, a single problem in one section cause the other systems to crash. Thus, from a security standpoint it is always better to focus on one system.
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Gates' statement to remain focused on a single system strikes me as false. In the biological world, diversity rules. A favorite example comes from my birthplace, Denver, Colorado, US; in the 1930's, a foresightful mayor pushed through a wonderful program to build parks everywhere in town. It was a wonderful success and added to the quality of life. But, the park planners chose to plant, in general, a single species of tree, the Dutch Elm. Beautiful, shady tree, quick grower, looked great. But 30 to 40 years later, from the 60's to the 70's, Dutch Elm disease wiped out a large percentage of the city's trees, because the virus spread easily from one tree to the next. The lesson was clear: the city replaced those trees with a broad variety of other species to guard against future viruses. I would think in a hospital, that a "single problem in one section [causing] the other systems to crash" is just false--it would do the opposite, if you are talking different OS's. Now, if you are talking a single, monolithic OS, well that's different...
Huh. No mention of databases let alone the ubiquitous Access97 variety. Look, I didn't pick the database the company I work for uses--Access97 was here long before me--but I am stuck supporting it. And for better or worse, many small businesses have homebrewed their data management using Access.
When I have documented the business case to move off windows to Linux, we always run into the lack of a comparable application within the Linux/OSS community. Staroffice had it on its previous version, but that is gone now. The OpenOffice folks seem to be working on it, but it is not yet ready. The Boss looks at my suggestion of MySQL and sees lottsa money and time spent converting and training. The use of various JDBC and ODBC drivers make a conversation technically feasible, but I suspect that many in the small and medium sized corporate world need a one-to-one application capable of natively sucking in those.mdb files and running with them. If that was there, we'd start converting to a Linux desktop this afternoon.
It is surprising that the Consultingtimes ( article literally does not mention databases.
With 40 attorneys in the stable, some of you must have children. Have any of you parents found your kids had downloaded copyrighted material? What did you say/how did you explain/and did they roll their eyes and sigh, or did they adopt your position and never, ever do it again?
I ask partially because of a introductary class I teach at a college. Among other things, we touch on copyright. I knew I have to find a better approach the day a CS major came to me after the copyright lecture and, with a completely straight face, described the 40 episodes of a particularly popular TV show available on her dorm room's network. This is a 20-year-old, intelligent,curious human being, and the lecture did not make a dent (perhaps it was because of the lecturer:)
It is hard to convey the concept of IP and have people agree with it to the point that they do not download copyrighted material. Perhaps one of you has mastered a technique and can tell us how to get it to pass the "kid test", AKA "common sense".
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BP posted a link with a "Live" video feed of the belching oil. The running time-stamp on the image was accurate until today, when it seems to be about 2 minutes 24 seconds behind. Anybody else seeing this time delay? Is BP introducing a time delay to bleep out bad words? Since last week, the image typically showed the actual oil exiting a pipe, but ever since the top kill effort began, the image tends to show pretty green pipes and hoses...anything but oil. Has BP shows the previous view since the news reports of partial success? Live video link: http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
To equalize things up smartly, all one needs is a SheWee! It works beautifully, although I'm told it takes, uh, practice. See the SheWee home page for guidence and usage. Note for Americans: you have to order here.
For what it's worth, the Kellogg and Wolff study can be found here They frankly speak to the shortcomings of their methodology and the limits that introduces. Still, the upshot the Aussies burned more energy and spent more money to boot seems sound.
The L word will pop up here--Liability.
That is what happened this past winter in our shop when the WMF fiasco occurred: An in-the-wild exploit, MS says "yeah, but it's not *that* bad, we'll get it to you next time", and the World says "you must be kidding, we'll do it ourselves."
I run a small, corporate network. But it *is* corporate. When I went to the Boss to explain things, we wanted to deploy the third-party patch. But we kept running into the concept of Liability--the "what ifs" of something going wrong, and we did it to ourselves by applying something outside of the supported vendor. In the end, we lined up the third-party patch and were ready to quickly deploy it system-wide. In the WMF case, MS backed down and released an out-of-cycle official patch, which we then distrubuted.
The concept of the World doing the Right Thing by creating these patches is wonderful--it is an obvious and long overdue response. But I am not a lawyer--and I would have to think real lawyers who answer to corporations with thousands of boxes are going to pipe up over this.
The company I work for has two franchised, retail stores in the New Orleans area--one on the riverfront downtown, and another in the Metairie area, north of the main town. These satellite images have provided us with the first comfirmation of the damage, and are remarkably useful (in our case, the stores appear to be dry 48 hours after Katrina's passage). The executives were delighted to see this, and earned the IT group some nice brownie points... There is a similar link on the Denver Post site today. The images are from the same company, and for the same date and time, but are markedly different in color from the Google images. Does anybody know why?
Gates: If everything runs under the same platform, however, you can better concentrate resources and more quickly repair errors. For instance, in a hospital where different systems are used, a single problem in one section cause the other systems to crash. Thus, from a security standpoint it is always better to focus on one system. >
Gates' statement to remain focused on a single system strikes me as false. In the biological world, diversity rules. A favorite example comes from my birthplace, Denver, Colorado, US; in the 1930's, a foresightful mayor pushed through a wonderful program to build parks everywhere in town. It was a wonderful success and added to the quality of life. But, the park planners chose to plant, in general, a single species of tree, the Dutch Elm. Beautiful, shady tree, quick grower, looked great. But 30 to 40 years later, from the 60's to the 70's, Dutch Elm disease wiped out a large percentage of the city's trees, because the virus spread easily from one tree to the next. The lesson was clear: the city replaced those trees with a broad variety of other species to guard against future viruses. I would think in a hospital, that a "single problem in one section [causing] the other systems to crash" is just false--it would do the opposite, if you are talking different OS's. Now, if you are talking a single, monolithic OS, well that's different...
When I have documented the business case to move off windows to Linux, we always run into the lack of a comparable application within the Linux/OSS community. Staroffice had it on its previous version, but that is gone now. The OpenOffice folks seem to be working on it, but it is not yet ready. The Boss looks at my suggestion of MySQL and sees lottsa money and time spent converting and training. The use of various JDBC and ODBC drivers make a conversation technically feasible, but I suspect that many in the small and medium sized corporate world need a one-to-one application capable of natively sucking in those .mdb files and running with them. If that was there, we'd start converting to a Linux desktop this afternoon.
It is surprising that the Consultingtimes ( article literally does not mention databases.
A search for XFree86 Linux returns legit results, with no porn mentioned. And one gets a slightly different list searching for Linux XFree86. Odd.
No more carpal tunnel syndrome...the managers will be pleased.
With 40 attorneys in the stable, some of you must have children. Have any of you parents found your kids had downloaded copyrighted material? What did you say/how did you explain/and did they roll their eyes and sigh, or did they adopt your position and never, ever do it again? I ask partially because of a introductary class I teach at a college. Among other things, we touch on copyright. I knew I have to find a better approach the day a CS major came to me after the copyright lecture and, with a completely straight face, described the 40 episodes of a particularly popular TV show available on her dorm room's network. This is a 20-year-old, intelligent,curious human being, and the lecture did not make a dent (perhaps it was because of the lecturer :)
It is hard to convey the concept of IP and have people agree with it to the point that they do not download copyrighted material. Perhaps one of you has mastered a technique and can tell us how to get it to pass the "kid test", AKA "common sense".