A transmedia artist is a fucking bitch that thinks she's really fucking important and special because she can invent crazy names for the stupid bullshit she does. Just another case of an idiot that can press a few knobs on a synthesizer and calls that "music".
Really, I can see how she can attract a few trolls.
Anyway, I don't buy a single word of her story. She has been "cyber-stalked" for a decade? Sounds and looks like a total attention whore.
I'll do her a favor and post her bullshit on/b/, now she won't have a "cyberstalker" anymore, she'll have millions.
Hospital? What do you mean? Aren't you against science, progress and think that god and prayer can do everything for you? Well, stay the fuck out of our hospitals and just leave your daughter at home and pray until she dies, then say it was god's will.
Really, that's what we should do to the anti-science bigots. You are "pro-life"? You want creationism in schools? Great, go live with the Amish. If you enjoy living in the 21th century, embrace science and dump your imaginary god.
Oh, and, BTW: The GNU project started in '83, the Linux kernel started in '91, and usable distributions of GNU/Linux didn't became available until '93. It didn't became feasible to use it on the Desktop massively until 2000. So GNU/Linux on the desktop is at most just a bit over a decade old.
You mean like microsoft does when, for example, Argentina was going to move it's schools to Free Software, the local GLUGS where going to donate the work, RMS traveled to Buenos Aires and had a meeting with the ministry of education, and the next day microsoft pushed a few buttons, greased some politicians, and managed to sell a shitload of licenses at a discounted price, forcing the ministry of education to stop the project so the money invested in "discount licenses" wouldn't go to waste? That's what I call a new low. Anyway, bad troll, 0/10.
First of all, 3.1 Wasn't an OS, it was a GUI and some multitasking hacks to DOS.
Overall, it was a 16bit OS, and it run on 16 bit computers such as the 286. There was a hack you could add to take some advantage of 32 bit processors, such as the 386.
I don't know about him, but I have seen the writing on the wall. And I don't think I'll need any flash at all. No, Don't think I'll need any flash at all.
All in all it was just another stone in adobe's grave.
It's not that this machines don't ever get rebooted, or that it's common practice to do live updates.
I usually do update and reboot those servers when possible. But when there are critical updates that need to be applied NOW and I can't reboot, that's a nice solution until I get authorization to properly update the server.
There is a limitation you are not taking into account:
I'm doing ALL OF THIS on R2. That's how limited Telefonica's infrastructure is in this city. Do you think I wouldn't ask for SIP trunks if I could get them?
All of our international calls are coming in through SIP, and those are properly balanced across all boxes with 2 SIP routers configured with DNS failover. You just can't get that for many national calls here.
You don't know everything about my setup, so ask before you criticize.
This one is tricky if you're trunking with the local telco correctly. Your telco should offer a redunancy and rerouting service if you actually have 64 E1s with them. >> Learn a couple of things about Telefonica and Telecom and then you let me know. Those are my only choices as inbound telco. FYI: I'm getting R2 signalling, that'll tell you how obsolete is their infrastructure.
CCTV cameras don't have most of the time a strong enough signal to support a splitter after an average of 400m run on passive baluns.
The data IS on a SAN. What I can't cluster is the CAPTURE. Sure, I could double the amount of servers I need and use BNC T connectors to send each camera to 2 servers, that would cause a) a decrease in image quality and probable interference (CCTV cameras usually don't have a strong enough signal to replicate on two systems) and b) duplicate the cost, try convincing my customers about that...
Isolating systems isn't always the answer, when you have people accessing them 24/7 from iPads, phones and PCs. IP Cameras suck, and aren't flexible (try changing the lens on an IP camera). Also, good IP Cameras (I'm thinking Axis) cost 10x as much as a similar analogue camera.
Sure, if you are just handling the traffic. You where just routing calls, analogue to analogue. Try routing analogue => IP in various codecs, and also running complex IVRs do that do complex DB queries, voice recognition, speech synthesis, etc.
Also, imagine those applications changing on a daily basis. If you want to keep up with that, you want everything in a flexible Asterisk box. And you'll be doing RAD in PHP, not optimizing things in assembly.
When you have 8 servers each with 2 PCI-E Quad E1 Digium Cards, handling a total of 248 inbound calls on toll free numbers, with an average of 200 simultaneous channels per server 24/7, how do you cluster that? When you have analog CCTV cameras running into 4 servers each with 16 channels of video, well, how do you cluster that?
Not everything is HTTP over TCP/IP. Not everything is easily solved with a load-balancing reverse proxy or DNS balancing/failover. Not everything can be clustered. In those situations, and I speak from experience (those two are real-life situations I deal with), not rebooting is real fucking important. And you have two options: either you leave systems unpatched and wait for the next 5 minutes downtime window that might be a year from now, hoping nothing bad happens, or you live patch those motherfuckers.
If that wasn't enough, I can mention at least an extra 20 cases where clustering isn't an option, and neither is rebooting.
This has nothing to do with the platform being open. On my android device I have an option that says "install applications from unknown sources", and if I check it, I can adb install anything.apk from my pc, or just point my phone's web browser to any URL with an APK and download it, or even use other markets not under google's control. This is just google's policy for their own store, well, I'm ok with that. They can do whatever they want with that. Unlike apple where you can only install apple approved apps from their apple approved store.
Yes, I was indeed an urchin back then, but I was a sea urchin, so I don't think we ran into each other. I later evolved opposable thumbs and lungs and got the hell out of there.
No, you are right. That might have happened in 1990. It was a period of particular unrest and the country was going through a terrible crisis at the time. I was just 6 years old in 1990, and wasn't living in Buenos Aires at the time, so I can't tell for sure. Remember, democracy returned to Argentina in '83, and Alfonsin's government (83' - 89') was a total mess. Menem's was corrupt and totally messed up our economy, but we never saw the kind of civil unrest we saw with Alfonsin.
What you saw is certainly not what the city looks like now, or in the past 20 years.
Seriously, I'm not just blindly defending my country, I'm the first to point out all the things that are wrong with it.
Dude, I know the entire city. a) There are virtually no houses with doors to more than one street in Buenos Aires.
What you are mentioning could only happen within a slum. Maybe in Villa 31, Zabaleta, or the Flores slum. If you are talking about such places... well, it's like going to the worst of the South Bronx and saying you didn't like New York, Or thinking the slums around Detroit properly represent the entire USA.
Right now I live 400km south of there, but I lived there for years. I as robbed only once in 10 years, and it wasn't violent, just somebody took my wallet on the subway. There are simply no mothers pimping 8 year olds on the streets. Also, there are no alleys. Most of the things you are posting come from the so many manuals about "going to Argentina" that they sell to tourists to scare them off.
We were talking about the crimes of the various christian churches. Crimes actually committed by the INSTITUTION, and you mention a few good dids done by INDIVIDUALS, most of them not actual members of the church but just followers of the faith.
Let's take the example of the Palotinos: THE WHOLE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND THE ACTUAL VATICAN supported the military during the dirty war in Argentina, and you take the example of 5 guys that were against it. So, that somehow changes the position of the church?
Also, Newton was a christian because everybody was a christian back then. If you weren't, you were accused of heresy and murdered. For each Newton, there are thousands of Galileos.
And, the final bullshit:
No one today on some of the worlds poorest and saddest places teaching, loving, giving people hope, announcing God's free salvation for man, helping people to escape material and spiritual misery, telling them in words and actions that when God created them he saw what he had created and it was "good in great manner", that even if they are rejects to society, their family or whatever, they are loved by God and the church?
Announcing god's free salvation for man? There is no god, they are not helping people, they are brainwashing then. How is that good in any way?
God created man and saw it was good? Nobody created man, we evolved. Again, they were lying to people, and stopping the progress of science.
Even if their life sucks they are loved by god and the church? How is that a good thing? See, that's what the church is for: Your life sucks, you pay 100% taxes, you are born poor and you will be poor until you die, but don't worry, after you die, god will pay you back? FUCK OFF, that's the speech the powerful use to keep the oppressed masses calm.
It sounds fairly christian to me, it's what the christians have been doing for 2000 years: War and invasions. The crusades, the biggest mass murder in history back in 1492, etc. It also sounds fairly in touch with all of the USA's history, you've existed for roughly 200 years and you've been at war for that long.
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A transmedia artist is a fucking bitch that thinks she's really fucking important and special because she can invent crazy names for the stupid bullshit she does. Just another case of an idiot that can press a few knobs on a synthesizer and calls that "music".
Really, I can see how she can attract a few trolls.
Anyway, I don't buy a single word of her story. She has been "cyber-stalked" for a decade? Sounds and looks like a total attention whore.
I'll do her a favor and post her bullshit on /b/, now she won't have a "cyberstalker" anymore, she'll have millions.
Hospital? What do you mean? Aren't you against science, progress and think that god and prayer can do everything for you? Well, stay the fuck out of our hospitals and just leave your daughter at home and pray until she dies, then say it was god's will.
Really, that's what we should do to the anti-science bigots. You are "pro-life"? You want creationism in schools? Great, go live with the Amish. If you enjoy living in the 21th century, embrace science and dump your imaginary god.
Oh, and, BTW: The GNU project started in '83, the Linux kernel started in '91, and usable distributions of GNU/Linux didn't became available until '93. It didn't became feasible to use it on the Desktop massively until 2000. So GNU/Linux on the desktop is at most just a bit over a decade old.
You mean like microsoft does when, for example, Argentina was going to move it's schools to Free Software, the local GLUGS where going to donate the work, RMS traveled to Buenos Aires and had a meeting with the ministry of education, and the next day microsoft pushed a few buttons, greased some politicians, and managed to sell a shitload of licenses at a discounted price, forcing the ministry of education to stop the project so the money invested in "discount licenses" wouldn't go to waste? That's what I call a new low. Anyway, bad troll, 0/10.
First of all, 3.1 Wasn't an OS, it was a GUI and some multitasking hacks to DOS.
Overall, it was a 16bit OS, and it run on 16 bit computers such as the 286. There was a hack you could add to take some advantage of 32 bit processors, such as the 386.
I don't know about him, but I have seen the writing on the wall. And I don't think I'll need any flash at all. No, Don't think I'll need any flash at all.
All in all it was just another stone in adobe's grave.
It's not that this machines don't ever get rebooted, or that it's common practice to do live updates.
I usually do update and reboot those servers when possible. But when there are critical updates that need to be applied NOW and I can't reboot, that's a nice solution until I get authorization to properly update the server.
There is a limitation you are not taking into account:
I'm doing ALL OF THIS on R2. That's how limited Telefonica's infrastructure is in this city. Do you think I wouldn't ask for SIP trunks if I could get them?
All of our international calls are coming in through SIP, and those are properly balanced across all boxes with 2 SIP routers configured with DNS failover.
You just can't get that for many national calls here.
You don't know everything about my setup, so ask before you criticize.
This one is tricky if you're trunking with the local telco correctly. Your telco should offer a redunancy and rerouting service if you actually have 64 E1s with them. >> Learn a couple of things about Telefonica and Telecom and then you let me know. Those are my only choices as inbound telco. FYI: I'm getting R2 signalling, that'll tell you how obsolete is their infrastructure.
CCTV cameras don't have most of the time a strong enough signal to support a splitter after an average of 400m run on passive baluns.
The data IS on a SAN. What I can't cluster is the CAPTURE. Sure, I could double the amount of servers I need and use BNC T connectors to send each camera to 2 servers, that would cause a) a decrease in image quality and probable interference (CCTV cameras usually don't have a strong enough signal to replicate on two systems) and b) duplicate the cost, try convincing my customers about that ...
My infrastructure is just fine as it is. Thank you very much.
Isolating systems isn't always the answer, when you have people accessing them 24/7 from iPads, phones and PCs.
IP Cameras suck, and aren't flexible (try changing the lens on an IP camera). Also, good IP Cameras (I'm thinking Axis) cost 10x as much as a similar analogue camera.
Sure, if you are just handling the traffic. You where just routing calls, analogue to analogue. Try routing analogue => IP in various codecs, and also running complex IVRs do that do complex DB queries, voice recognition, speech synthesis, etc.
Also, imagine those applications changing on a daily basis. If you want to keep up with that, you want everything in a flexible Asterisk box. And you'll be doing RAD in PHP, not optimizing things in assembly.
Really?
Well, explain this to me:
When you have 8 servers each with 2 PCI-E Quad E1 Digium Cards, handling a total of 248 inbound calls on toll free numbers, with an average of 200 simultaneous channels per server 24/7, how do you cluster that? When you have analog CCTV cameras running into 4 servers each with 16 channels of video, well, how do you cluster that?
Not everything is HTTP over TCP/IP. Not everything is easily solved with a load-balancing reverse proxy or DNS balancing/failover. Not everything can be clustered. In those situations, and I speak from experience (those two are real-life situations I deal with), not rebooting is real fucking important. And you have two options: either you leave systems unpatched and wait for the next 5 minutes downtime window that might be a year from now, hoping nothing bad happens, or you live patch those motherfuckers.
If that wasn't enough, I can mention at least an extra 20 cases where clustering isn't an option, and neither is rebooting.
Really? I feel really stupid then doing it by hand years before ksplice even existed ...
This has nothing to do with the platform being open. On my android device I have an option that says "install applications from unknown sources", and if I check it, I can adb install anything.apk from my pc, or just point my phone's web browser to any URL with an APK and download it, or even use other markets not under google's control. This is just google's policy for their own store, well, I'm ok with that. They can do whatever they want with that. Unlike apple where you can only install apple approved apps from their apple approved store.
Yes, I was indeed an urchin back then, but I was a sea urchin, so I don't think we ran into each other. I later evolved opposable thumbs and lungs and got the hell out of there.
No, you are right. That might have happened in 1990. It was a period of particular unrest and the country was going through a terrible crisis at the time. I was just 6 years old in 1990, and wasn't living in Buenos Aires at the time, so I can't tell for sure. Remember, democracy returned to Argentina in '83, and Alfonsin's government (83' - 89') was a total mess. Menem's was corrupt and totally messed up our economy, but we never saw the kind of civil unrest we saw with Alfonsin.
What you saw is certainly not what the city looks like now, or in the past 20 years.
Seriously, I'm not just blindly defending my country, I'm the first to point out all the things that are wrong with it.
If I had only seen LA in 92', it looked like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/ANG40InfantryDivisionLosAngelesRiot1992.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/1st_Marine_Division_along_Crenshaw.jpg. And If I had posted saying that's what LA looks like, I imagine you would have corrected me to to tell me that's not really what LA looks like.
WHAT? Army with machine guns on the streets? When where you in BSAS? The 70's?
Seriously, when where you at BSAS?
Dude, I know the entire city. a) There are virtually no houses with doors to more than one street in Buenos Aires.
What you are mentioning could only happen within a slum. Maybe in Villa 31, Zabaleta, or the Flores slum. If you are talking about such places ... well, it's like going to the worst of the South Bronx and saying you didn't like New York, Or thinking the slums around Detroit properly represent the entire USA.
Right now I live 400km south of there, but I lived there for years. I as robbed only once in 10 years, and it wasn't violent, just somebody took my wallet on the subway. There are simply no mothers pimping 8 year olds on the streets. Also, there are no alleys. Most of the things you are posting come from the so many manuals about "going to Argentina" that they sell to tourists to scare them off.
Yes, shit happens just like everywhere else, but:
http://www.argentinepost.com/2010/09/buenos-aires-murder-rate-comparatively-low.html
The same goes for a lot of other areas of crime. Our crime rates are simply lower than most cities in the US.
Let me get this straight:
We were talking about the crimes of the various christian churches. Crimes actually committed by the INSTITUTION, and you mention a few good dids done by INDIVIDUALS, most of them not actual members of the church but just followers of the faith.
Let's take the example of the Palotinos: THE WHOLE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND THE ACTUAL VATICAN supported the military during the dirty war in Argentina, and you take the example of 5 guys that were against it. So, that somehow changes the position of the church?
Also, Newton was a christian because everybody was a christian back then. If you weren't, you were accused of heresy and murdered. For each Newton, there are thousands of Galileos.
And, the final bullshit:
No one today on some of the worlds poorest and saddest places teaching, loving, giving people hope, announcing God's free salvation for man, helping people to escape material and spiritual misery, telling them in words and actions that when God created them he saw what he had created and it was "good in great manner", that even if they are rejects to society, their family or whatever, they are loved by God and the church?
Announcing god's free salvation for man? There is no god, they are not helping people, they are brainwashing then. How is that good in any way?
God created man and saw it was good? Nobody created man, we evolved. Again, they were lying to people, and stopping the progress of science.
Even if their life sucks they are loved by god and the church? How is that a good thing? See, that's what the church is for: Your life sucks, you pay 100% taxes, you are born poor and you will be poor until you die, but don't worry, after you die, god will pay you back? FUCK OFF, that's the speech the powerful use to keep the oppressed masses calm.
Fuck you and your deluded, immoral religion.
Nice logic there. I'm sure you also believe that a jew carpenter that is his own father died for your sins.
And those photos I posted where from Buenos Aires, where I live. Population: 16 million people.
It sounds fairly christian to me, it's what the christians have been doing for 2000 years: War and invasions. The crusades, the biggest mass murder in history back in 1492, etc. It also sounds fairly in touch with all of the USA's history, you've existed for roughly 200 years and you've been at war for that long.