Anyone who falls for a copy made with an inkjet printer is a moron.
Look for the red and blue threads in the paper. Look for the strip of plastic confirming the currency. Look for the watermark. Look for the colorshifting ink on the currency mark in the bottom right corner.
Those things are difficult to copy, and an inkjet won't be doing it.
Since it's based on FreeBSD 4, it'll be "All of good things of FreeBSD 4 with a focus on performance."
There's a LOT of work going into fine grained locking to allow faster SMP (which is a classic slowdown in FreeBSD 4) - light weight kernel threads, advanced caching, messaging APIs, and even plans for a package system that (if it works?) would completely change the way people think about installing third party software.
There are a lot of big things planned. It may be slow to start, hopefully it'll take off... and we'll see some cross development with the other BSDs.
I'm sure I represent a large portion of the community who greatly appreciated his work on the VM subsystem (he even pointed the Linux folks in the right direction on more than one occassion), and am disappointed to see him leaving the project.
I understand that not everyone gets along, that goals differ between members; it's just a shame to see it happen.
I know google's great and all, but this is basically a "we want to be able to do everything cool with computers and AI, but we don't know when that's going to happen" type story.
I imagine if you ask Microsoft, Apple, or Palm, they'll mimic those goals. NLP, instant searching, instant translations, it's all well and good, but where's the story?
Actually, McClintock has said explicitly that he'd roll back all programs to their 1998 levels, which would cut spending by around, oh, a measly 30 billion.
Arnold has said that he wants an outside audit of all spending, and that anything deemed wasteful would be cut. Right now, for instance, the taxpayers are paying for 44,000 new jobs (created in the last three years), many of which (~15,000) aren't filled because there's no office space. The salaries for these jobs still get paid to the departments (once it's allocated, it's paid), and are basically vanishing... This type of waste (fraud is more accurate) needs to be eliminated.
With any luck, your off-hand joke will be reality.
California doesn't need any more taxes, we need to cut spending. That isn't going to happen with Davis, et al in power. Arnold or McClintock are the only ones who have expressed any interest in cutting spending.
There's one party in california raising taxes: Democrats.
There's a reason there's a recall right now: the tax paying citizens are tired of paying taxes.
There's a large part of california that pays no taxes (ie: all of the immigrants making minimum wage, and people who don't work, but rather sit on welfare), and they're perfectly happy seeing taxes go up and up, because they (supposedly) get "more services", and it doesn't (directly) cost them anything. Of course they vote democrat. There's also the leftist crowd (those who vote on single issues such as pro-environment, pro-abortion, pro-gun-control, regardless of the rest of the issues) that push the democrats into the majority, and allow this nonsense to continue.
The rest of us pay for it out the ass, but there's not enough of us to do much.
It's an attempt to get money without needing 2/3 of the vote.
In california, Democrats hold about 60% of the state assembly, which means they need 3 or 4 republicans to vote for a 'tax' increase. But, if you call it regulation, you need only a simple majority, which they have easily. It's entirely designed to raise revenues, has nothing to do with regulating anything.
This is quite indicative of the business environment in california, and a perfect example of why the recall is (1) going forward, and (2) going to replace Davis with a Republican who's not afraid to protect business.
I've never seen it either... but on the other hand, I've never wanted it.
Sure, the Watchguard IIIs are basically 700Mhz Celerons with 64MB RAM (144 pin) and a flash disk, but why would you want to void your warranty by playing with the kernel source?
People buying watchguard boxes aren't going to waste their time and money by changing the source.
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Most NDAs don't actually prohibit you from discussing things generally, but they prohit you from discussing specifics.
That being the case, I wasn't talking about the general, one line sentences, but about the detailed information that's vital to startups.
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And as importantly, NDAs are required by the one thing that startups really need: money.
VCs are wary of tech startups. VCs aren't going to go giving money to people who give away their intellectual property.
If you have a truly unique idea, and you announce it to the world before you get to market, you might as well kiss your funding good-bye.
Because with the five remote root exploits in Unix based software in the last two weeks, Linux has a lot to talk about.
You'll notice that most of the vendors (RedHat, et. al) still haven't released updated ProFTPd or OpenSSH (hole #3 in the PAM code) packages. They're just too swamped.
It makes two-three queries -> four to six seconds.
It's very common. Fix it by either fixing DNS, or creating a complete hosts file.
At one point, I was asked by an employer to create a 500 line hosts file nightly via DNS, and then push it out to all the boxes. If we ever lost DNS (it happened once), those 500 boxes wouldn't be hosed until DNS came back up. The one time DNS died, it worked remarkably well. It's actually not a horrible idea.
17529.2.(b) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement to a California electronic mail address, or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent to a California electronic mail address.
So when I get spam through my work email, which is a LLC in California, and it was sent through a relay in Korea, how is the Attorney General going to collect?
Oh, you're going to go around suing every company in Asia and Europe? This simply isn't ever going to be enforced.
There was a company in California (Trevor Law Group, search google) that was basically scaring small businesses into settling for $5,00-$10,000 on nonsensical lawsuits, and it took the Bar Association to step forward and stop them, because the Attorney General simply has too many cases on his desk. The number of lawsuits in this state are silly as it is, and I don't see anyone going to enforce this.
Since it was Welchia, my guess is that they *DID* have firewalls, and that the infection came in through a non-standard method.
In so called mission-critical networks, you dont always push windows updates to all the systems: sometimes you just can't trust the patch. In these cases many network admins will toss up a strong firewall to protect the internal machines.
But what happens when someone brings in their home laptop with a virus on it? Well... you bypass the firewall and expose the internal, unpatched network. With Welchia, this is a guarantee of network problems, because it's a brutal, traffic intensive bastard that has taken out more than one core router with it's bursts.
Your complaints that this is the fault of windows is silly: the machines infected probably aren't the ones running the databases, but the employees desktop systems who use the database. Forcing those people to switch to Linux is silly: it requires them to rewrite all of their software and retrain all of their employees, that's not a trivial task. We've also seen 5 remote root exploits in very common Unix software in the last two weeks (openssh, openssh, sendmail, proftpd, openssh), and at this point, I would suggest that anyone running a mission critical operation on Linux without a properly configured firewall is absolutely stupid as well.
What they gain is the attention of another press release, and a few dozen new users who happen to have the boot order of their BIOSes wrong, and will boot from the new drive instead of CD and see Lindows for the first time completely by accident.
There will also be a ton of literature in the box, more inexpensive advertising. A lot of people have heard of Linux, but think it can be hard to install. If it's sitting there waiting for them, and they've heard of it but are afraid to try to install it, there's a chance a few might let it go ahead and boot... what is there to lose, right?
Most people won't care. Lindows isn't going for "most people." Their target audience is the group of people who aren't afraid of Linux, but are technically curious. It's a small market, and this might actually let them make a little headroom.
What I usually do is just die() right then and there.
die()'ing is nice, if what you want is to stop execution.
die()'ing is worthless, however, if what you want is to catch errors and correct them.
Imaging a banking transaction. Step 1) Receive a transaction request. Step 2) Debit the money from the source account. Step 3) Insert the money into the destination account. Step 4) Tell the source that the money was taken. Step 5) Tell the destination that the money was received.
What happens if an error occurs in step 3? The money has been taken out, but now you're going to die? That doesn't do anyone any good.
Exceptions are required for enterprise quality applications. Until PHP gets exceptions, it will remain a toy scripting language great for rapidly developed websites and horrible for mission critical applications.
You're absolutely crazy if you want to use PHP for banking and insurance apps.
It's security record is horrible. It's security model is a joke. It's object model is worthless compared to real OOP languages. It completely lacks exception handling, which makes rolling back partial transactions (etc) impossible in banking scenarios. It's developers regularly break POLA on minor version increments. It's database support is mediocre at best: third party classes are currently the best (but not only) DB interface PHP has.
Stick with.NET or J2EE. They're clunky,.NET is expensive, J2EE is slow, but they're both leaps and bounds ahead of PHP.
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Anyone who falls for a copy made with an inkjet printer is a moron.
Look for the red and blue threads in the paper.
Look for the strip of plastic confirming the currency.
Look for the watermark.
Look for the colorshifting ink on the currency mark in the bottom right corner.
Those things are difficult to copy, and an inkjet won't be doing it.
He never left FreeBSD, dammit. Get over it.
He was stripped of his commit bit. Effectively, that means his contributions are slow and filtered. He's not gone, but his role is diminished.
Since it's based on FreeBSD 4, it'll be "All of good things of FreeBSD 4 with a focus on performance."
There's a LOT of work going into fine grained locking to allow faster SMP (which is a classic slowdown in FreeBSD 4) - light weight kernel threads, advanced caching, messaging APIs, and even plans for a package system that (if it works?) would completely change the way people think about installing third party software.
There are a lot of big things planned. It may be slow to start, hopefully it'll take off... and we'll see some cross development with the other BSDs.
(Joking aside....)
Everyone knows that the BSD codebase is infinitely more clean than the Linux codebase.
Remember, the last few times there have been license issues with FreeBSD, it was people (*ahem* linux *ahem*) stealing FROM them.
His contributions to FreeBSD will be missed.
I'm sure I represent a large portion of the community who greatly appreciated his work on the VM subsystem (he even pointed the Linux folks in the right direction on more than one occassion), and am disappointed to see him leaving the project.
I understand that not everyone gets along, that goals differ between members; it's just a shame to see it happen.
I know google's great and all, but this is basically a "we want to be able to do everything cool with computers and AI, but we don't know when that's going to happen" type story.
I imagine if you ask Microsoft, Apple, or Palm, they'll mimic those goals. NLP, instant searching, instant translations, it's all well and good, but where's the story?
Odd.
Actually, McClintock has said explicitly that he'd roll back all programs to their 1998 levels, which would cut spending by around, oh, a measly 30 billion.
Arnold has said that he wants an outside audit of all spending, and that anything deemed wasteful would be cut. Right now, for instance, the taxpayers are paying for 44,000 new jobs (created in the last three years), many of which (~15,000) aren't filled because there's no office space. The salaries for these jobs still get paid to the departments (once it's allocated, it's paid), and are basically vanishing... This type of waste (fraud is more accurate) needs to be eliminated.
It's not the single issue of taxes, it's not even the single issue of money in general.
It's taxes, high spending, and illegal raising of "fees".
It's giving licenses to illegal immigrants.
It's pandering to special interests (which increases spending, which increases taxes)...
It's reverting to 'bilingual education' rather than english immersion in order to separate mexicans from the rest of the state.
There are LOTS of problems in california right now. The money issue is just the one that gets people to vote.
With any luck, your off-hand joke will be reality.
California doesn't need any more taxes, we need to cut spending. That isn't going to happen with Davis, et al in power. Arnold or McClintock are the only ones who have expressed any interest in cutting spending.
There's one party in california raising taxes: Democrats.
There's a reason there's a recall right now: the tax paying citizens are tired of paying taxes.
There's a large part of california that pays no taxes (ie: all of the immigrants making minimum wage, and people who don't work, but rather sit on welfare), and they're perfectly happy seeing taxes go up and up, because they (supposedly) get "more services", and it doesn't (directly) cost them anything. Of course they vote democrat. There's also the leftist crowd (those who vote on single issues such as pro-environment, pro-abortion, pro-gun-control, regardless of the rest of the issues) that push the democrats into the majority, and allow this nonsense to continue.
The rest of us pay for it out the ass, but there's not enough of us to do much.
It's not necessary.
It's an attempt to get money without needing 2/3 of the vote.
In california, Democrats hold about 60% of the state assembly, which means they need 3 or 4 republicans to vote for a 'tax' increase. But, if you call it regulation, you need only a simple majority, which they have easily. It's entirely designed to raise revenues, has nothing to do with regulating anything.
This is quite indicative of the business environment in california, and a perfect example of why the recall is (1) going forward, and (2) going to replace Davis with a Republican who's not afraid to protect business.
6 more days til the vote.
I've never seen it either... but on the other hand, I've never wanted it.
Sure, the Watchguard IIIs are basically 700Mhz Celerons with 64MB RAM (144 pin) and a flash disk, but why would you want to void your warranty by playing with the kernel source?
People buying watchguard boxes aren't going to waste their time and money by changing the source.
Most NDAs don't actually prohibit you from discussing things generally, but they prohit you from discussing specifics.
That being the case, I wasn't talking about the general, one line sentences, but about the detailed information that's vital to startups.
And as importantly, NDAs are required by the one thing that startups really need: money.
VCs are wary of tech startups. VCs aren't going to go giving money to people who give away their intellectual property.
If you have a truly unique idea, and you announce it to the world before you get to market, you might as well kiss your funding good-bye.
Right...
Because with the five remote root exploits in Unix based software in the last two weeks, Linux has a lot to talk about.
You'll notice that most of the vendors (RedHat, et. al) still haven't released updated ProFTPd or OpenSSH (hole #3 in the PAM code) packages. They're just too swamped.
The pause is the two second DNS query timeout.
It makes two-three queries -> four to six seconds.
It's very common. Fix it by either fixing DNS, or creating a complete hosts file.
At one point, I was asked by an employer to create a 500 line hosts file nightly via DNS, and then push it out to all the boxes. If we ever lost DNS (it happened once), those 500 boxes wouldn't be hosed until DNS came back up. The one time DNS died, it worked remarkably well. It's actually not a horrible idea.
17529.2.(b) Initiate or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement to a California electronic mail address, or advertise in an unsolicited commercial e-mail advertisement sent to a California electronic mail address.
So when I get spam through my work email, which is a LLC in California, and it was sent through a relay in Korea, how is the Attorney General going to collect?
Oh, you're going to go around suing every company in Asia and Europe? This simply isn't ever going to be enforced.
There was a company in California (Trevor Law Group, search google) that was basically scaring small businesses into settling for $5,00-$10,000 on nonsensical lawsuits, and it took the Bar Association to step forward and stop them, because the Attorney General simply has too many cases on his desk. The number of lawsuits in this state are silly as it is, and I don't see anyone going to enforce this.
Small edit. Please make that read:
However, those 60 million aren't likely voters.
The vast majority of the 60 million p2p users are teenage and college kids, and they're, statistically, among the least likely to vote.
Since it was Welchia, my guess is that they *DID* have firewalls, and that the infection came in through a non-standard method.
In so called mission-critical networks, you dont always push windows updates to all the systems: sometimes you just can't trust the patch. In these cases many network admins will toss up a strong firewall to protect the internal machines.
But what happens when someone brings in their home laptop with a virus on it? Well... you bypass the firewall and expose the internal, unpatched network. With Welchia, this is a guarantee of network problems, because it's a brutal, traffic intensive bastard that has taken out more than one core router with it's bursts.
Your complaints that this is the fault of windows is silly: the machines infected probably aren't the ones running the databases, but the employees desktop systems who use the database. Forcing those people to switch to Linux is silly: it requires them to rewrite all of their software and retrain all of their employees, that's not a trivial task. We've also seen 5 remote root exploits in very common Unix software in the last two weeks (openssh, openssh, sendmail, proftpd, openssh), and at this point, I would suggest that anyone running a mission critical operation on Linux without a properly configured firewall is absolutely stupid as well.
What they gain is the attention of another press release, and a few dozen new users who happen to have the boot order of their BIOSes wrong, and will boot from the new drive instead of CD and see Lindows for the first time completely by accident.
There will also be a ton of literature in the box, more inexpensive advertising. A lot of people have heard of Linux, but think it can be hard to install. If it's sitting there waiting for them, and they've heard of it but are afraid to try to install it, there's a chance a few might let it go ahead and boot... what is there to lose, right?
Most people won't care. Lindows isn't going for "most people." Their target audience is the group of people who aren't afraid of Linux, but are technically curious. It's a small market, and this might actually let them make a little headroom.
Yea, THAT would go over REALLY WELL in this day and age.
Every domain name you could possibly imagine would be taken, for free, using dictionary based registration I'm sure.
You think it's annoying that people go out and buy slahsdot.org, yaaho.com, etc? What if they didn't even have to pay the $5 for the domain name?
What I usually do is just die() right then and there.
die()'ing is nice, if what you want is to stop execution.
die()'ing is worthless, however, if what you want is to catch errors and correct them.
Imaging a banking transaction.
Step 1) Receive a transaction request.
Step 2) Debit the money from the source account.
Step 3) Insert the money into the destination account.
Step 4) Tell the source that the money was taken.
Step 5) Tell the destination that the money was received.
What happens if an error occurs in step 3? The money has been taken out, but now you're going to die? That doesn't do anyone any good.
Exceptions are required for enterprise quality applications. Until PHP gets exceptions, it will remain a toy scripting language great for rapidly developed websites and horrible for mission critical applications.
You're absolutely crazy if you want to use PHP for banking and insurance apps.
.NET or J2EE. They're clunky, .NET is expensive, J2EE is slow, but they're both leaps and bounds ahead of PHP.
It's security record is horrible.
It's security model is a joke.
It's object model is worthless compared to real OOP languages.
It completely lacks exception handling, which makes rolling back partial transactions (etc) impossible in banking scenarios.
It's developers regularly break POLA on minor version increments.
It's database support is mediocre at best: third party classes are currently the best (but not only) DB interface PHP has.
Stick with