Fucking Red Hat does not give binary updates to people who do not pay for their service.
The GPL only stipulates that buildable source must be available, and encourages distributors to charge money for the service of making said files available. (Duplicating tapes takes time and effort and tapes cost money. Likewise, high-speed network links cost serious coin.)
I've always known that RH = MS.
What an ignorant dweeb. Have you even read the GPL?
In addition- GCC is meant to be a cross-compiler. It works for ALpha, Sparc, RISC, x86, and a dozen others. To get there without writing N different compilers, they need to use techniques that are architecture neutral. That means purposely passing up a lot of optimizations that are incompatible with their intermediate representations.
I don't think that's true.
Many versions ago (4.0?), gcc was refactored to have a front-end parser that created an intermediate language that is then processed by the target CPU code generator. This also made it easy to support multiple source languages, since they each can have a front-end parser that generates the intermediary language.
Of course, DEC pioneered this technique back in the early 1980s, which made it possible to link OBJ files (written in different languages) all into the same EXE.
Any person who has their entire reliance set upon a single San not only doesn't understand how a San works, but doesn't understand System Architecture and should look to find a new career.
The CIO who pushed SANs is gone, and the guy who defended SANs against my "all the eggs" arguments was fired for making a database change which crashed the database in the middle of the day, when he was explicitly told not to.
And we've never had SAN replication (though we religiously do backups and test them semi-annually, which is why/how we successfully got that system completely restored without any hassle).
Finally, the real key - Reliability. All connections were dual-pathed, with storage presented to a pair of smart FC switches which were zoned to present storage to various systems. We could lose three of the four power cables...
True story:
Two years ago next month, a clumsy plumber got a propane torch too close to a sprinkler head with the expected consequences: LOTS of water took the path of least resistance, where it finally filtered it's way into the basement data center, coming out right on top of our SAN.
While on the subject of design, I would want to get past the "vest" paradigm. I don't know about everyone else but I want my Legs arms and Head protected too.
That's what Larry Phillips did for the North Hollywood/Laurel Canyon bank robbery in 1997. His arms, legs and neck were also protected, in addition to his abdomen. It weighed 42 lbs.
Certainly that could be lowered some by proper design, but it would still be heavy. And HOT. Imagine wearing the equivalent of a rubber exercise suit out in the middle of summer, and having to chase a bad guy.
Ballistics scientists have developed a new style of 9mm bullet made of a stronger polyethelene form of Dynema SB61. During a test, at least one police officer wearing a Dynema SB61 vest was killed. The new bullets are expected to be available at all Walmart stores within the next 6 months.
I'm surprised this hasn't been modded Funny or Interesting.
The problem, though, with plastic bullets, is momentum - a cm^3 of plastic has so much less mass (and thus momentum, and thus penetrating power) than steel or lead that it wouldn't do (much) good. In order to do the same amount of damage as a 5.56mm round, you'd need much a much larger caliber, and thus could carry fewer rounds.
Exactly. What has a 'federal judge' got to do with something off the coast of England?
There are treaties that enumerate all this. Depending on what the treaties say, Odyssey Marine Exploration might have to turn over a chunk of the profits to England.
I can easily see somoene in the 80's saying "a connection faster 16 kbps per second is absurd
As someone who had a 300 baud modem in 1984 (which caused one to run up quite a high phone bill in the Ma Bell days) and a 2400bps modem in the late 1980s, I can attest that 19.2kbps was a dream that only businesses/universities could afford.
Instead of viewing streaming media over and over, I'd rather d/l it once and view the local dataset over and over. Conserves bandwidth all around, from one end to another.
For a while now I haven't regarded anything below symmetric 10 Mbit/s as "broadband", and now even that begins to feel quite limiting. But then of course, I live in Sweden. At school we've got 100 Mbit/s to every workstation, and at our computer club we've got 1 Gbit/s straight to the internet.
Honest question: what do you actually do with all that bandwidth?
The reason I ask is that while I know full-well the need to jump from dial-up to broadband (having gotten DSL in 1999!) and really like the jump from 1.5Mbps to 6Mbps, I just don't see the need for any more bandwidth. OOo2, FF & the Linux kernel download fast enough. My life won't be improved by having those files d/l in 1 minute instead of 6 minutes.
Just like I don't have any need for anything faster than a Sempron 2800+ (which was trailing edge when I bought it 2 years ago) or GeForce FX5200.
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Well that's just a load of crap.
No, it's not.
"EAL4 with CAPP, LSPP and RBACPP" means that RHEL5 on most all current IBM h/w can be very secure by people who care and know what they are doing.
Slashdot SOP: you didn't RTFA.
The GPL only stipulates that buildable source must be available, and encourages distributors to charge money for the service of making said files available. (Duplicating tapes takes time and effort and tapes cost money. Likewise, high-speed network links cost serious coin.)
I've always known that RH = MS.
What an ignorant dweeb. Have you even read the GPL?
I don't think that's true.
Many versions ago (4.0?), gcc was refactored to have a front-end parser that created an intermediate language that is then processed by the target CPU code generator. This also made it easy to support multiple source languages, since they each can have a front-end parser that generates the intermediary language.
Of course, DEC pioneered this technique back in the early 1980s, which made it possible to link OBJ files (written in different languages) all into the same EXE.
You won't be saying that when the drought comes and the river dries up.
Yes, but what would you do with it?
Seriously. ICE vehicles do chemical->mechanical energy conversion. What would it do with all that extra electricity?
A hybrid vehicle could definitely use it, but that's adding Yet More Complexity to an already complex system.
Define "lots".
However many "lots" were, it wasn't a whole "lot", since wave after wave of European immigrants rolled over them.
Three words: rubber hose cryptography.
It's all cost-benefit, and what we agreed to do in the contract.
The CIO who pushed SANs is gone, and the guy who defended SANs against my "all the eggs" arguments was fired for making a database change which crashed the database in the middle of the day, when he was explicitly told not to.
And we've never had SAN replication (though we religiously do backups and test them semi-annually, which is why/how we successfully got that system completely restored without any hassle).
Not if it's still significantly smaller than flac.
Unless you are mirroring it off-site, it is a single point of failure.
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True story:
Two years ago next month, a clumsy plumber got a propane torch too close to a sprinkler head with the expected consequences: LOTS of water took the path of least resistance, where it finally filtered it's way into the basement data center, coming out right on top of our SAN.
Obviously, it didn't survive.
Sure, no problem: select() and epoll().
That's what Larry Phillips did for the North Hollywood/Laurel Canyon bank robbery in 1997. His arms, legs and neck were also protected, in addition to his abdomen. It weighed 42 lbs.
Certainly that could be lowered some by proper design, but it would still be heavy. And HOT. Imagine wearing the equivalent of a rubber exercise suit out in the middle of summer, and having to chase a bad guy.
During a test, at least one police officer wearing a Dynema SB61 vest was killed.
The new bullets are expected to be available at all Walmart stores within the next 6 months.
I'm surprised this hasn't been modded Funny or Interesting.
The problem, though, with plastic bullets, is momentum - a cm^3 of plastic has so much less mass (and thus momentum, and thus penetrating power) than steel or lead that it wouldn't do (much) good. In order to do the same amount of damage as a 5.56mm round, you'd need much a much larger caliber, and thus could carry fewer rounds.
It's the pipe dream of the deluded do-gooder.
You need to go watch the movies again.
He was a contract adventurer, hired by the University to steal specific artifacts. Remember the opening scene of RotLA?
He was being sarcastic...
There are treaties that enumerate all this. Depending on what the treaties say, Odyssey Marine Exploration might have to turn over a chunk of the profits to England.
As someone who had a 300 baud modem in 1984 (which caused one to run up quite a high phone bill in the Ma Bell days) and a 2400bps modem in the late 1980s, I can attest that 19.2kbps was a dream that only businesses/universities could afford.
Instead of viewing streaming media over and over, I'd rather d/l it once and view the local dataset over and over. Conserves bandwidth all around, from one end to another.
Honest question: what do you actually do with all that bandwidth?
The reason I ask is that while I know full-well the need to jump from dial-up to broadband (having gotten DSL in 1999!) and really like the jump from 1.5Mbps to 6Mbps, I just don't see the need for any more bandwidth. OOo2, FF & the Linux kernel download fast enough. My life won't be improved by having those files d/l in 1 minute instead of 6 minutes.
Just like I don't have any need for anything faster than a Sempron 2800+ (which was trailing edge when I bought it 2 years ago) or GeForce FX5200.
That's not funny, it's spot-on insightful.
And you are 100% dependent on Cox.
A decent colo will have multiple independent feeds, so if some goomba cuts the a cable, the other feed will still be active.
And what if a server crashes while you're on vacation? My company's web site stays down until you return from Bora Bora?