Hopefully someone has the decentsy to stealth a digital camera in and post torrents before the premiere.
dysentery.
as in "The guy in the seat in front of me with the digital camera appeared to have dysentery and stealthily expelled torrents of foul smelling flatulence right into my face."
...make sure you avoid floor zinc plated floor tiles. Few things are as damaging to a computer room as Zinc whiskers or other assorted airborne metal particles.
Very difficult to track down random machine failures to bad interior decoration choices!
...has been to defeat so-called 'keyloggers', tiny bits of software which can be used by hackers...
That's why I always use large, generously sized bits in all the code I write.
In my experience, larger bits (mine are atleast 2-3 times the size of regular bits) are easier to see and less prone to problems like memory leaks and haxx00rrzing than their smaller counterparts.
On the other hand, they're more likely to fill up buffers and cause overflows than smaller bits.
While it's well known that Google has an ub3r loadsharing cluster of 10k+ machines, running a custom version of Linux, and probably many more mini-clusters distributed around the globe, I wonder how much more CPU load they can really take.
I'm guessing their 10k cluster was probably underused when they started off with just basic search and indexing as their primary functions. Over time, they brainstormed over how else to put their massive resources to use. But now that they've released a large number of presumably *very* resource-intensive services, and are supporting an evergrowing number of users, I wonder if this Slashdotting is a sign of things to come.
Some of their resource intensive services that come to mind (probably in a decreasing order of hogginess):
1. Search/Indexing.
2. Google Earth.
3. Google Maps.
4. Gmail/Google Groups/Blog
5. Google Video (lower because of low usership currently).
6. Google Images.
7. Other assorted stuff.
This article opens up new insight into the common perceptions of what makes us happy, such as having more friends and more money.
Interesting article...especially given my recent reading on the Hindu/Buddhistic concept of "detachment". These traditions prescribe detachment from wordly/materialistic desires in order to achieve contentment in life.
In short, anything that you're sufficiently attached to, that can give you enough happiness, can cause you as much pain when taken away. The solution therefore, is to follow a middle path practising detachment from all wordly desires, so as to walk along the middle path - neither be swayed emotionally toward too much towards happiness, nor being overly susceptible to sadness.
Happiness is a short lived emotion, (often accompanied by a potentially negative emotion of sadness) while contentment with what you have is usually a longer lived state of mind.
/Not overly religious...just a philosophy I like subscribing to...especially after a recent -ve swing in the state of affairs.
Companies have been using the razor blade business model to guarantee a steady stream of revenue ever since, well, the razor blade.
People went: "Like OMG":
"Bullock carts sell cheap, it's always those flimsy bullock cart wheels that cost a fortune."
"Horses come cheap, it's the price of horsewhips that the horse companies are after."
"Rocks are a dime a dozen, it's the exorbitantly priced firewood that the wood companies fleece you with."
Now it's all like OMG "they're using teh razor blade model". Times are a changing.
It has withstood assaults by technologies such as the Windows terminal, the Web and the network PC, but the mighty desktop has been humbled by user demand for the one thing it can't deliver -- mobility.
You young 'uns and your fancy schmancy "mobile computers". In my day, we didn't have these flimsy little "laptops". No sirreee, none of these tiny little plastic computers for us.
We lugged them heavy duty 100% cast iron Sun workstations in to work every morning and carried them home on our backs when the day was done.
Yes sir. We built character lugging our Sun workstations about and balancing them on our laps. To say nothing of more resilient balls.
This should probably have made it to the article summary. Here's the original interview with Neil Cameron where he announced his decision to switch to open source and Linux last August.
Some excerpts:
What are the main drivers pushing you towards open source?
Fundamentally, open source is about flexibility and ultimately about cost.
What applications are being taken across to open source?
At the moment the migration of applications [is] purely infrastructure, firewalls [and so on]. It's been at that low level and I think we're being appropriately cautious.
There are other ways today of moving from a legacy cost and performance structure into other available products.It's not quite step-changing but giving yourself a significant benefit that narrows the gap between that which has been available, and some of the open source opportunities. One can walk towards the edge without jumping over it.
1. OpenServer 6 Costs Less
2. SCO Has a Superior Kernel
3. OpenServer Has Better Security
4. SCO Has a Customer-Driven Roadmap
5. OpenServer 6 is Backward Compatible
6. SCO Allows You to Focus on Your Core Competency
7. SCO Owns and Warrantees its Products
8. SCO is Unifying its Code Base
9. SCO UNIX: Legendary Reliability
10. SCO Has an Award-Winning Support Team
Read TFL for buzzwordy drivel and meaningless tripe from Darryl himself. Didn't know he'd registered a website in his name to spout his n0nsense.
...facial characteristics are altered based upon individual characteristics in a hopefully one-way process.
Heck, they need billion dollar research grants to figure out these "techniques"? Bubba, Sparky and his pals downtown would irreversibly alter an individual's facial characteristics given $100.00, 10 minutes and enough motivation.
Slashdot Mirror
And good luck trying to view the "stereo view" with the one remaining eye.
% man man
dysentery.
as in "The guy in the seat in front of me with the digital camera appeared to have dysentery and stealthily expelled torrents of foul smelling flatulence right into my face."
bash-2.05a$ ls -al /dev/usb/satellite0 /dev/satellite
/dev/usb/satellite0
/dev/usb/satellite0 /mnt/launch_vehicle
/mnt/launch_vehicle /space/orbit
crw------- 1 root satellite 3, 0 Nov 07 2005
bash-2.05a$ file
/dev/usb/satellite0: character special SpaceDev MMB-100 microsat
bash-2.05a$ mount
bash-2.05a$ mv
Very difficult to track down random machine failures to bad interior decoration choices!
Hmm..I'm going to need a notification from atleast one other organization than the FFIEC before I believe this.
where can i apply for my share in tihs secret fortune?? it sounds superk00l!! FREE GMAIL invites to all teh PEEPZ who answer my q!!!111!!1
That's why I always use large, generously sized bits in all the code I write.
In my experience, larger bits (mine are atleast 2-3 times the size of regular bits) are easier to see and less prone to problems like memory leaks and haxx00rrzing than their smaller counterparts.
On the other hand, they're more likely to fill up buffers and cause overflows than smaller bits.
Real men flex their muscles by editing raw sound:
% cat /dev/audio > /im_the_man/raw.snd /im_the_man/raw.snd
% hexedit
Turns out it's just screenshots of some guy's desktop with a fancy wallpaper.
JVM memory allocation isn't "SLOW". It's just pleasantly unhurried.
I'm guessing their 10k cluster was probably underused when they started off with just basic search and indexing as their primary functions. Over time, they brainstormed over how else to put their massive resources to use. But now that they've released a large number of presumably *very* resource-intensive services, and are supporting an evergrowing number of users, I wonder if this Slashdotting is a sign of things to come.
Some of their resource intensive services that come to mind (probably in a decreasing order of hogginess):
1. Search/Indexing.
2. Google Earth.
3. Google Maps.
4. Gmail/Google Groups/Blog
5. Google Video (lower because of low usership currently).
6. Google Images.
7. Other assorted stuff.
Interesting article...especially given my recent reading on the Hindu/Buddhistic concept of "detachment". These traditions prescribe detachment from wordly/materialistic desires in order to achieve contentment in life.
In short, anything that you're sufficiently attached to, that can give you enough happiness, can cause you as much pain when taken away. The solution therefore, is to follow a middle path practising detachment from all wordly desires, so as to walk along the middle path - neither be swayed emotionally toward too much towards happiness, nor being overly susceptible to sadness.
Happiness is a short lived emotion, (often accompanied by a potentially negative emotion of sadness) while contentment with what you have is usually a longer lived state of mind.
It's more like 4R7.
People went: "Like OMG":
"Bullock carts sell cheap, it's always those flimsy bullock cart wheels that cost a fortune."
"Horses come cheap, it's the price of horsewhips that the horse companies are after."
"Rocks are a dime a dozen, it's the exorbitantly priced firewood that the wood companies fleece you with."
Now it's all like OMG "they're using teh razor blade model". Times are a changing.
You young 'uns and your fancy schmancy "mobile computers". In my day, we didn't have these flimsy little "laptops". No sirreee, none of these tiny little plastic computers for us.
We lugged them heavy duty 100% cast iron Sun workstations in to work every morning and carried them home on our backs when the day was done.
Yes sir. We built character lugging our Sun workstations about and balancing them on our laps. To say nothing of more resilient balls.
On the other hand, the signal quality is stellar.
For a moment I hoped they were doing a major code reorganization to finally rid their code base of all the design/security flaws.
But hey, whatever floats their boat...
Ofcourse if you're using Perl4 and below, you're out of luck...
India pledges 5 million dollars for Katrina relief operations
Some excerpts:
What are the main drivers pushing you towards open source?
Fundamentally, open source is about flexibility and ultimately about cost.
What applications are being taken across to open source?
At the moment the migration of applications [is] purely infrastructure, firewalls [and so on]. It's been at that low level and I think we're being appropriately cautious.
There are other ways today of moving from a legacy cost and performance structure into other available products.It's not quite step-changing but giving yourself a significant benefit that narrows the gap between that which has been available, and some of the open source opportunities. One can walk towards the edge without jumping over it.
1. OpenServer 6 Costs Less
2. SCO Has a Superior Kernel
3. OpenServer Has Better Security
4. SCO Has a Customer-Driven Roadmap
5. OpenServer 6 is Backward Compatible
6. SCO Allows You to Focus on Your Core Competency
7. SCO Owns and Warrantees its Products
8. SCO is Unifying its Code Base
9. SCO UNIX: Legendary Reliability
10. SCO Has an Award-Winning Support Team
Read TFL for buzzwordy drivel and meaningless tripe from Darryl himself. Didn't know he'd registered a website in his name to spout his n0nsense.
Heck, they need billion dollar research grants to figure out these "techniques"? Bubba, Sparky and his pals downtown would irreversibly alter an individual's facial characteristics given $100.00, 10 minutes and enough motivation.