But the local net at the High Lab had transcended—almost without the humans realizing. The processes that circulated through its nodes were complex, beyond anything that could live on the computers the humans had brought. Those feeble devices were now simply front ends to the devices the recipes suggested. The processes had the potential for self-awareness and occasionally the need.
The great benefit of Red Hat is that it's stable and supported for a very long time, like 20 years. They don't change anything major in a release, and releases are few and far between. This is great for 'Enterprise' stuff, but the web is moving quickly and package support for RHEL boxes isn't great.
Having said that, where I work we have lots of stuff on RHEL/CentOS, and more and more stuff on Ubuntu. The Ubuntu stuff keeps me awake at night - literally. It's always falling over. I have never experience a kernel like the one the Ubuntu team are putting are. It's absolutely atrocious. The biggest problem is that the software we need to use has better support for Ubuntu than RHEL, so we're stuck using a dire OS to run it on.
The RHEL and CentOS boxes we have are rock solid stable and have never really given us significant issues. I walk into the office and get a new Ubuntu problem every day.
(FWIW I use Debian for all my own stuff exclusively, so I know my way around Debian-derivatives - this isn't a configuration issue).
I don't know why these anti-systemd posts get upvoted so much. I work with ~40 other Linux sysadmins and we're all excited for systemd, just waiting for our next upgrade cycle (to CentOS/RHEL 7) to start full rollout.
systemd makes system administration a joy.
> I have yet to figure out how to even create a service with systemd or how I figure out what I'm depending on.
man systemd.profile
> Let's take my *THREE HOUR* debugging session on systemd yesterday. [...] It would've been [simple] with SysV init because the errors during the mount would've been spewed to the console and I would've seen them.
> System admins hate systemD as it does not follow the Unix philosophy of text files and now awk, sed, grep, or perl to batch jobs:-(
Firstly, it's systemd. I'm not sure where you're getting the capital from.
Secondly, generalise much? I'm a long-time Linux system admin and I can't wait until systemd filters down to server distros like CentOS and Ubuntu LTS. It will make my job a whole lot easier.
Ridiculous headline title. All this means is they're going to be moving onto the next version of the OS by then (WP9?). Speculating that they're going to leave the phone market entirely is a little far-fetched at present.
Work on a server emulator is coming along very well apparently.
I wouldn't be surprised to see it - and every other game using this type of DRM - 'cracked' in less than a month.
It won't work for future releases.
Regardless, I'm adding my voice here as another person who will neither be buying or pirating Ubisoft games. I won't pay for a defective game.
You have to pay the CAs, though. How is a small one-man operation coding up some Windows-based free software going to afford the hundreds of dollars needed to fund such a signing?
In the last idea they say they have the code there, they were demoing it to publishers and stuff... Why not just open source the code and let the community run with it?
If the idea was dropped, if there is no way you're gonna get that game published and make money from it, why waste all those man-hours than went into producing that prototype and instead open source it and let people have fun with it.
Do you have a dual-core machine? I've had SS2 running on my single-core P4, WinXP before, but having played Thief on my dual core machine I have an idea.
With Thief 2 (which also uses the Dark Engine) you have to change the processor affinity so it just runs on one processor rather than both of them, otherwise the game will crash when you load the engine itself. To do this in Thief I Alt-Tabbed out of the main menu, opened task manager and adjusted the affinity (right-click on the process) and that solved my crash issues. Try it!
My sentiments exactly. If I had modpoints, you'd get more than one.
I like Vista. I moved away from Linux to use Vista. I've recently been looking at the development tools on Windows and, compared to their Linux counterparts, they're impressive. Ballmer was a dick, but his "Developers, Developers, Developers" thing was quite right.
Windows offers some nice development tools and a generally consistent environment. It's much easier to develop for Windows than Linux and until that is fixed Linux isn't going to take over the world...
Vista is far more stable than XP or even 2000 on a machine meeting its recommended specs with hardware on the HCL. Right. Whatever. How did that get modded +4 Insightful?
I've found Vista to be a lot stabler than XP on the same hardware also. Here's something that's sure to get me modded down too: I like Vista. I moved away from Linux to use Vista, and I'm glad I switched back. (Note: XP was used occasionally, but Linux was my main OS.)
In all honesty though I can't think of any reason why someone would upgrade from XP to Vista for money. I got a copy of Vista for free through my work's licensing agreement, which is why I made the move back to Windows.
Right, well I found BitLocker to be a perfect reason. I, and many others, are not getting the top end version of Vista just to encrypt some contents on a hard drive. TrueCrypt would've done this on XP. As such, BitLocker isn't a reason to upgrade and quite frankly I wouldn't trust any encryption method that isn't open source anyway.
I'm from Warrington, in Cheshire, and they have these in place already. People are starting to complain about them though.
The only one I've seen so far (at least, the only place I've seen it 'triggered') is in the outdoor centre bit of our local shopping center, where there is a pub and some construction work going on. A few friends and I came out of the pub a bit drunk and saw some "wet floor" type cones lying around... anyway, so yeah, we're messing with these cones in a non-destructive way (just putting them on our heads - hey, look, we were drunk, stfu) and then this booming yet completely intelligible voice starts talking to us telling us to put the cones down!
Over Christmas they had a fake ice rink there and they kept telling people to get off it at night.
We're not sure where the speaker itself is, but pretty much every place in town is covered by cameras. I'm pretty sure that's not the only place they cover with these things. Having read 1984, it's extremely disturbing.
Cell phones are for super-elite rich kids. ...In the US.
In the UK they are much more prevalent and available for people of all ages. I know many people over the age of 14 who have a MOBILE phone (:p ). I work in a school, so I hear them going off all day. My friends and myself have all had mobile phone since we were 16, and I do not know anyone over the age of 16 (and younger than 35) who does not have a mobile phone.
Slashdot Mirror
Here here.
Give me a Debian box over Ubuntu any day.
The great benefit of Red Hat is that it's stable and supported for a very long time, like 20 years. They don't change anything major in a release, and releases are few and far between. This is great for 'Enterprise' stuff, but the web is moving quickly and package support for RHEL boxes isn't great.
Having said that, where I work we have lots of stuff on RHEL/CentOS, and more and more stuff on Ubuntu. The Ubuntu stuff keeps me awake at night - literally. It's always falling over. I have never experience a kernel like the one the Ubuntu team are putting are. It's absolutely atrocious. The biggest problem is that the software we need to use has better support for Ubuntu than RHEL, so we're stuck using a dire OS to run it on.
The RHEL and CentOS boxes we have are rock solid stable and have never really given us significant issues. I walk into the office and get a new Ubuntu problem every day.
(FWIW I use Debian for all my own stuff exclusively, so I know my way around Debian-derivatives - this isn't a configuration issue).
I don't know why these anti-systemd posts get upvoted so much. I work with ~40 other Linux sysadmins and we're all excited for systemd, just waiting for our next upgrade cycle (to CentOS/RHEL 7) to start full rollout. systemd makes system administration a joy.
GNU coreutils is also on Gentoo... and Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE, etc, etc, etc.
Not avoiding that plague, are you?
Oops: man systemd.unit
> I have yet to figure out how to even create a service with systemd or how I figure out what I'm depending on.
man systemd.profile
> Let's take my *THREE HOUR* debugging session on systemd yesterday. [...] It would've been [simple] with SysV init because the errors during the mount would've been spewed to the console and I would've seen them.
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/So...
30 seconds of Googling.
Not really sure what the problem is here other than your ignorance.
> System admins hate systemD as it does not follow the Unix philosophy of text files and now awk, sed, grep, or perl to batch jobs :-(
Firstly, it's systemd. I'm not sure where you're getting the capital from.
Secondly, generalise much? I'm a long-time Linux system admin and I can't wait until systemd filters down to server distros like CentOS and Ubuntu LTS. It will make my job a whole lot easier.
Every time they open their mouths they make the PS4 look better.
I'm a Linux sysadmin. My head is so far away from Ballmer's ass you don't even know it.
Ridiculous headline title. All this means is they're going to be moving onto the next version of the OS by then (WP9?). Speculating that they're going to leave the phone market entirely is a little far-fetched at present.
Haha, I actually read the title as "Honda's Exoskeletons Help You Walk Like Asian" and thought it was wildly inappropriate.
Work on a server emulator is coming along very well apparently. I wouldn't be surprised to see it - and every other game using this type of DRM - 'cracked' in less than a month. It won't work for future releases. Regardless, I'm adding my voice here as another person who will neither be buying or pirating Ubisoft games. I won't pay for a defective game.
You have to pay the CAs, though. How is a small one-man operation coding up some Windows-based free software going to afford the hundreds of dollars needed to fund such a signing?
4.4MB image link on the front page of Slashdot? I sense a great disturbance in the force...
In the last idea they say they have the code there, they were demoing it to publishers and stuff... Why not just open source the code and let the community run with it?
If the idea was dropped, if there is no way you're gonna get that game published and make money from it, why waste all those man-hours than went into producing that prototype and instead open source it and let people have fun with it.
Do you have a dual-core machine? I've had SS2 running on my single-core P4, WinXP before, but having played Thief on my dual core machine I have an idea.
With Thief 2 (which also uses the Dark Engine) you have to change the processor affinity so it just runs on one processor rather than both of them, otherwise the game will crash when you load the engine itself. To do this in Thief I Alt-Tabbed out of the main menu, opened task manager and adjusted the affinity (right-click on the process) and that solved my crash issues. Try it!
Dude, what?
My sentiments exactly. If I had modpoints, you'd get more than one.
I like Vista. I moved away from Linux to use Vista. I've recently been looking at the development tools on Windows and, compared to their Linux counterparts, they're impressive. Ballmer was a dick, but his "Developers, Developers, Developers" thing was quite right.
Windows offers some nice development tools and a generally consistent environment. It's much easier to develop for Windows than Linux and until that is fixed Linux isn't going to take over the world...
Russia and Sweden.
n/t
I'm from Warrington, in Cheshire, and they have these in place already. People are starting to complain about them though.
The only one I've seen so far (at least, the only place I've seen it 'triggered') is in the outdoor centre bit of our local shopping center, where there is a pub and some construction work going on. A few friends and I came out of the pub a bit drunk and saw some "wet floor" type cones lying around... anyway, so yeah, we're messing with these cones in a non-destructive way (just putting them on our heads - hey, look, we were drunk, stfu) and then this booming yet completely intelligible voice starts talking to us telling us to put the cones down!
Over Christmas they had a fake ice rink there and they kept telling people to get off it at night.
We're not sure where the speaker itself is, but pretty much every place in town is covered by cameras. I'm pretty sure that's not the only place they cover with these things. Having read 1984, it's extremely disturbing.
In the UK they are much more prevalent and available for people of all ages. I know many people over the age of 14 who have a MOBILE phone (
Yes I know! I've read Heinlein, I was just stating for the Halo fans that there were games before that which involved powered armour!