until recently, I had a working Gould 32/67 (circa 1982) in my garage.
It was only the size of a fridge, but weighed around 900 lbs. Too bad that my wife insisted that I get rid of it. She didn't see the value in a huge, energy gulping, heat pumping, two MIP machine:)
I wonder if the museum would have been interested in such a beast.
-- The quark particles might form a very compressed object called a strangelet, "far smaller than a single atom," that could "infect" surrounding matter and "transform the entire planet Earth into an inert hyperdense sphere about 100 meters across."
Just when I thought that my cow-workers couldn't get any denser...
I've used several ISP/CoLo sites over the past six years and have been with PogoLinux for the past two.
I'm very happy with them, $149 a month for their hardware at their site (15 GB xfer/month). I've paid more to CoLo my own boxes.
You have root access on your box.
Had no service interruptions or power outages since I've been with them. I just checked my uptime and it was 292 days, I bounced it earlier this year after patching something.
Anyways, I'm not affiliated, etc, but I've been very happy with PogoLinux.
I just signed up for TPJ pdf subscription, even though I got burned on the magazine subscription.
I was a subscriber to the TPJ mag since issue #3, and had just sent in my payment for three more years when I received a notice that they were discontinuing The Perl Journal and would begin sending me Sys Admin mag instead to finish out my subscription.
Received one Sys Admin mag in the mail, then nothing...What a deal.
So, I must be a glutton for punishment to send them MORE money, but I really enjoyed TPJ's content and was usually able to apply something from each issue to my daily work.
Twelve bucks a year is a pretty good investment for quality content that TPJ has provided in the past.
Does anyone believe that scientists will be able to accurately forecast earthquakes in our lifetime(s)?
Really, many of our local TV weather-critters don't accurately forecast the weather for tomorrow, earthquakes seem to be a bit of a stretch.
Tomorrow we anticipate clear skys in the San Fernando Valley, with a high near 82 degrees F. Look for minor tremors around magnitude 4.5 in the foothills during your afternoon commute
I've been a user and promoter of Linux since late '94. Pushed it for the first time (quite successfully, BTW) at NASA Dryden in 95 for use in their mission control rooms.
And I've been pushing Linux ever since--in 1998 I'm sure that I had several boxes with uptimes (I know--who cares) over 200 days.
While linux was harder to install back then (no fancy wizards or GUI installers) it was still a fully functional and full featured O/S.
I submitted the K5 article a while back when I received my letter from Telocity.
I have not sent back MY gateway, but may do so, even though:
1-I never signed a contract with Telocity (was switched over from Flashcom)
2-Telocity cancelled my service (due to Northpoint going out of business) after only 58 days of service at my residence.
3-Telocity has waited for 3-4 months before asking for their equipment back.
But I'll probably send it back to them anyway...Not worth the hassle or worry of them charging $499.00 to my "account" ---
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Have you considered the fact that your box at work is behind a firewall?
That might explain the lack of scans against that particular box. (Your co-workers could always begin scanning your box, if it would make you feel better about all of those ports/services that you closed) ---
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I compresed this story using lzip before reading, and I just wanted to say that it downloaded in a flash...plus, I didn't have to spend as much time reading the compressed article as I would have the original.
lzip saves the day (or will it be three to seven weeks?) as I'm back on a shared dialup line since we lost our telocity DSL on Friday...thanks Northpoint!
Kudos goes out to the authors of lzip, as well as lzip's counterpart, rm. ---
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I see their ads for a $1,000,000 guarantee that Oracle 8 will 3x be faster than your existing server.
The challenge is at Oracle's site here and it mentions only Microsoft SQL server 7.0 against Oracle 8i.
If Oracle was to open it up to other RDBMSes such as Sybase, Informix and DB2/UDB, they would be broke paying folks (including myself) the million dollar prize.
MS SQL server is limited by the hardware that it can run on, so it is at a severe disadvantage to other RDBMSes...
Oracle's challenge is nothing more than a marketing ploy, albeit a good one.
I realize that all of the Slashdot.org (tm) staffers are dirt-poor, and are also therefore Democrats, but jeesh--posting inflamatory and critically erroneous info about the proposed tax cut only propagates the rumors and mis-information.
The last major tax cut that we (U.S., Americans) received prompted one of the biggest economic expansions in U.S. history.
You see, when people pay less taxes, they have more money to spend.
When people have more money to spend, they spend it on goods and services (thereby creating more taxable income for someone else)
When those goods and services people have more money to spend (because they got more from other folks who had more to spend) they spend more...(thereby creating more taxable income for someone else)
and they told two friends
and they told two friends
and so on......
and so on.....
So, get off of your high horse, Slashdot editors---after all, you are all worth millions....don't you want to save some of your $$$ for your retirement?
Don't count on your govt to 'give' you a retirement....save your own money and make things happen for yourself.
Seriously, folks--don't you think that if there was any proof that we didn't land on the moon that the Soviets would have brought it up a long time ago?
The Apollo missions are among the greatest triumphs that mankind has ever achieved.
Please don't let the conspiracy wackos persuade you otherwise. ---
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I'd run Oracle RDBMS on it, say 11.2.0.3.
Then I'd call your friendly, local, Oracle sales rep and ask for a quote for a 12 processor Oracle DB server.
Here is the photo with the Rotini pasta thingy pointed out
until recently, I had a working Gould 32/67 (circa 1982) in my garage.
:)
It was only the size of a fridge, but weighed around 900 lbs. Too bad that my wife insisted that I get rid of it. She didn't see the value in a huge, energy gulping, heat pumping, two MIP machine
I wonder if the museum would have been interested in such a beast.
I particularly enjoyed this one:
-- The quark particles might form a very compressed object called a strangelet, "far smaller than a single atom," that could "infect" surrounding matter and "transform the entire planet Earth into an inert hyperdense sphere about 100 meters across."
Just when I thought that my cow-workers couldn't get any denser...
Jeesh--you would think that people who live in modular homes probably have better thngs to spend their money on than networked PVRs...
Oh, you mean a Modular, Home Network PVR?
That's different...
Nevermind.
I've used several ISP/CoLo sites over the past six years and have been with PogoLinux for the past two.
I'm very happy with them, $149 a month for their hardware at their site (15 GB xfer/month). I've paid more to CoLo my own boxes.
You have root access on your box.
Had no service interruptions or power outages since I've been with them. I just checked my uptime and it was 292 days, I bounced it earlier this year after patching something.
Anyways, I'm not affiliated, etc, but I've been very happy with PogoLinux.
Many French people will take any joke about them surrendering offensively!
How can you 'surrender offensively'?
I would think that at best it would be a defensive tactic.
I just signed up for TPJ pdf subscription, even though I got burned on the magazine subscription.
I was a subscriber to the TPJ mag since issue #3, and had just sent in my payment for three more years when I received a notice that they were discontinuing The Perl Journal and would begin sending me Sys Admin mag instead to finish out my subscription.
Received one Sys Admin mag in the mail, then nothing...What a deal.
So, I must be a glutton for punishment to send them MORE money, but I really enjoyed TPJ's content and was usually able to apply something from each issue to my daily work.
Twelve bucks a year is a pretty good investment for quality content that TPJ has provided in the past.
Would it have a 'turbo' button?
If so, what would it clock the PC down to when deselected?
Indiana Jones style or somethink
Does anyone believe that scientists will be able to accurately forecast earthquakes in our lifetime(s)?
Really, many of our local TV weather-critters don't accurately forecast the weather for tomorrow, earthquakes seem to be a bit of a stretch.
Tomorrow we anticipate clear skys in the San Fernando Valley, with a high near 82 degrees F. Look for minor tremors around magnitude 4.5 in the foothills during your afternoon commute
I've been a user and promoter of Linux since late '94. Pushed it for the first time (quite successfully, BTW) at NASA Dryden in 95 for use in their mission control rooms.
.02--have a nice day/life :)
And I've been pushing Linux ever since--in 1998 I'm sure that I had several boxes with uptimes (I know--who cares) over 200 days.
While linux was harder to install back then (no fancy wizards or GUI installers) it was still a fully functional and full featured O/S.
just my
Actually, the nearest star is just 8.3 light minutes away.
I'm fairly confident that it has at least one Jupiter-like planet and at least one Earth-like planet orbiting it.
You are absolutely correct...this story would have been of no use readers of ./
/. instead.
./ only had one submission pending.
./'s submission queue is monitored by reptiles while /.'s submission queue is monitored by mammals .
I should have submitted it to
I wondered why the submission queue at
I also should have noticed that
Thanks for showing me the error of my ways!
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I submitted the K5 article a while back when I received my letter from Telocity.
I have not sent back MY gateway, but may do so, even though:
1-I never signed a contract with Telocity (was switched over from Flashcom)
2-Telocity cancelled my service (due to Northpoint going out of business) after only 58 days of service at my residence.
3-Telocity has waited for 3-4 months before asking for their equipment back.
But I'll probably send it back to them anyway...Not worth the hassle or worry of them charging $499.00 to my "account"
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I submitted this story to ./ over a week ago with no success, but it did get posted at K5.
It seems like the bottom line is that we probably should send the gateways back to Telocity.
However, I'm thinking that mine doesn't necessarily have to work when I send it back.
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I manage several dozen oracle servers on about a dozen solaris/hpux/linux boxes, so I always like to know who/what/where I am:
echo $PS1
$LOGNAME@$HOSTN [$PWD]:
my prompt looks like:
oracle@workmachine [/opt/oracle]:
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STL is old news, we do it every day.
I'm still waiting for FTL travel.
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Have you considered the fact that your box at work is behind a firewall?
That might explain the lack of scans against that particular box. (Your co-workers could always begin scanning your box, if it would make you feel better about all of those ports/services that you closed)
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I used to work with Mary Shafer at NASA Dryden. I don't recall a Mary Shaver.
Mary Shafer is one sharp engineer.
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I compresed this story using lzip before reading, and I just wanted to say that it downloaded in a flash...plus, I didn't have to spend as much time reading the compressed article as I would have the original.
lzip saves the day (or will it be three to seven weeks?) as I'm back on a shared dialup line since we lost our telocity DSL on Friday...thanks Northpoint!
Kudos goes out to the authors of lzip, as well as lzip's counterpart, rm.
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I see their ads for a $1,000,000 guarantee that Oracle 8 will 3x be faster than your existing server.
The challenge is at Oracle's site here and it mentions only Microsoft SQL server 7.0 against Oracle 8i.
If Oracle was to open it up to other RDBMSes such as Sybase, Informix and DB2/UDB, they would be broke paying folks (including myself) the million dollar prize.
MS SQL server is limited by the hardware that it can run on, so it is at a severe disadvantage to other RDBMSes...
Oracle's challenge is nothing more than a marketing ploy, albeit a good one.
---
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I realize that all of the Slashdot.org (tm) staffers are dirt-poor, and are also therefore Democrats, but jeesh--posting inflamatory and critically erroneous info about the proposed tax cut only propagates the rumors and mis-information.
The last major tax cut that we (U.S., Americans) received prompted one of the biggest economic expansions in U.S. history.
You see, when people pay less taxes, they have more money to spend.
When people have more money to spend, they spend it on goods and services (thereby creating more taxable income for someone else)
When those goods and services people have more money to spend (because they got more from other folks who had more to spend) they spend more...(thereby creating more taxable income for someone else)
and they told two friends
and they told two friends
and so on......
and so on.....
So, get off of your high horse, Slashdot editors---after all, you are all worth millions....don't you want to save some of your $$$ for your retirement?
Don't count on your govt to 'give' you a retirement....save your own money and make things happen for yourself.
Robert
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Seriously, folks--don't you think that if there was any proof that we didn't land on the moon that the Soviets would have brought it up a long time ago?
The Apollo missions are among the greatest triumphs that mankind has ever achieved.
Please don't let the conspiracy wackos persuade you otherwise.
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Oh, it is made of plastic, so it should be at least as effective as the armor that the storm troopers wear.
One blaster shot to the chest. Down.
While their armor may not have effective protection against blasters, at least it didn't limit their vision or hearing.
Oh, that's right....nevermind.
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