I'm happy to hear that Google is making a large amount of profit. In fact, I hope they make even more profit.
I can think of many things that Google has done:
a search engine that outperforms all others. financial support for firefox google earth gmail (webmail that doesn't suck) picassa google maps google summer of code supporting my favorite OSS projects google calendar kicking Microsoft's.ss
I am hoping google in the next year will come out with more products, support more OSS, and do even greater things. Oh and fix google browser sync too!
Marketing deadlines always trumps everything else, except for OpenBSD and maybe Linux kernels. Curiously, both have dominant but benevolent personalities in charge......
Linux & UNIX based virtualization has always been far superior to that of Windows. Superior is probably an understatement though, more like exponentially better.
and the list goes on. So much better on *nix. Of course, I think that is somehow related to the fact you can run a *nix box via CLI, bare minimum of functionality, the likes of which it even the best Windows gurus cannot get close to (though Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell do rox)
What is funny, is so many of us are ignorant of virtualization's roots in IBM mainframes. Big Blue was so far ahead of the times, it is like omg. BTW, I love Wikipedia. I've been preparing a presentation on virtualization the last few days, and Wikipedia makes it so easy!
admin friends have told me about Dell Support.......
Dell support is going downhill. They have been outsourcing to foreigners reading off cue-cards that know diddly squat....
I tried to have a conversation with someone from Dell recently, it was very clear to me, that my colleagues were dead accurate about Dell Support.
More HP is the result.
What does aggravate me though, is Dell's continual B.S.-ing around when it comes to getting some AMD Opteron systems. I swear, as long as some dipshit company refuses to honor customer wishes, I'll be more than happy to steer my bosses to Dell competitors. Now they start to work on the AMD systems, with the advent of Woodcrest. What turds!
It is time for the Dell Hegemony to end with a whimper. Their service has gone downhill, as have their products.
The defining characteristic of great pvp games is the player skill involved, vice time to obtain certain items.
Ultima Online, during the tank mage era immediately preceding UO:R was the best skill focused pvp game to date.
In UO during that period, a six week old player with skills could very easily stomp a 7x GM 2 year old player.
That is why UO was so great of a PVP game, and probably, the reason why EA ruined the pvp system with the release of UO:R and overpowered gear. Many people that claim to love pvp, couldn't actually survive in a game that required skill. Too many gamers would rather opt for the fast food pvp offered by WOW. Little skill, mainly farming and equipment.
You only fought NPCs. You were in high security space the entire time.
You mentioned nothing of true tactics in ship vs ship pvp.
When it comes to player vs. player in EVE, EVE has so much more tactics and strategy than most other MMOs. The simple reason behind this is the massive variety of ships, loadouts, skillsets. Whereas WOW has certain classes that specialize in killing other classes, and strictly defined skilltrees, EVE has far more variety.
Yet another newbie posting on a game. This is like a level 5 nub in WOW talking about endgame.
EVE I consider somewhat like Shadowbane-in-space, without the sb.exe and with a far better engine.
EVE graphics are great. Far better than anything else on the market that is an MMO.
I love the depth of EVE - you can trade, mine, pirate (PK), pvp, run NPC missions, or kill NPC pirates.
The huge amount of players online at any given time is great too - it isn't like standard MMOs with everything being on seperate servers.
EVE has a different levelling system also - basically time based. You set a skill up, it finishes after a set amount of time. No need to kill a mob over and over again, then move on to tougher mobs. Just time, based on the attributes of your character.
EVE requires a high performance system in order fully experience it in all its glory. I am using a p4 2.8 C, 1 GB ram, gf fx 5900 ultra typically at 100hz @1024x768 and my framerate is somewhat substandard. Going to build a new system specifically for this.
Also, alt usage is rampant in EVE. Because you can only train up one character at a time, a significant % of people run alts. I know of people that have as many as 5 accounts!
EVE's territorial, and risk vs. reward system is far superior to most other modern MMOs. In most other MMOs, there is no risk really, because of the watered down pvp. You die in WOW, you basically lose nothing. Not so in EVE. Dying in EVE can be seriously painful because of the massive expense of well fitted ships.
My only gripes with EVE is the time based levelling has some of the oldest players nearly at 55 million skill points (SP) so newer players cannot dream of competing with them, not for years. There is significant amount of time to be spent in your initial learning tree, and follow on into chosen skills based on your professions.
"MySQL has become the most popular open-source database in the world by offering users a good combination of choice, performance and ease of use," said Marten Mickos, MySQL's CEO....
"We will now be providing developers with the additional option of leveraging SCO's popular platforms. We look forward to working with SCO and their large reseller network to support our mutual customers with their enterprise database applications," Mickos said....
The certified version of MySQL 5.0 for SCO OpenServer 6 will be available later this year under the name MySQL Network for SCO OpenServer 6. It will be available directly from SCO and from SCO's resellers. Its pricing has not yet been set.
I like Theo. The more of his statements I read, the more I appreciate his no compromise, take no prisoners approach.
50 personal questions sounds way beyond overkill. I've downloaded plenty of export controlled software, with merely a few questions.
My guess is, Hifn like many other companies, gives everything to their sales folks, or worse, resells it. Can you blame Theo for taking offense, when they want 50 personal questions answered?
Sun - Corporate mismanagement at its finest
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Sun could have jumped on the Linux bandwagon and been it's strongest proponent. Could have stood up their own distribution, and brought some of their vaunted engineering skills to bear in polishing it.
Coulda-woulda-shoulda
except it would have competed with their own cashcow Sparc business.
Now Sun is just the posterchild for companies with poor strategy.
I hope they get their act together. The new AMD hardware looks to be a promising start.
Whether or not the CDC has sent staff to investigate Morgellon's claims *DOES NOT* relate to the validity of the claims. You need to brush up on logic and fallacies http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
I'd advise looking at http://www.morgellons.org/ since that site has more detail for medical professionals.
Comparing the number of people killed by governments vs terrorists is a bogus comparison that is skewed by totalitarian states.
If you removed the communist governments, that might be a better question to ask.
Or perhaps, asked how many were killed by truely democratic states, vs totalitarian states.
I have read more BS in these threads than anywhere else in recent memory.
So, I'll in you on the truth.
Foreign nations are actively seeking to get their hands into US classified govt sites, to get the underlying information which they want DESPERATELY. Israel, France, China, Russia - they are the most aggressive.
A few years back I was working for DOD. Someone was trying to make a sales pitch for equipment they wanted to sell us, for use in classified environments. They claimed to be a US company.
My boss asked me to look into the company and get back to him. It took a few hours, but I found exactly what I think he already suspected.
The company was a US company in name only. The entire company was infested at the upper levels by former intelligence personnel from one of the above countries already mentioned. Most of their company also, was in this foreign country too. Only a small amount of sales ppl actually were in the US for the company.
They made a huge amount of factual misrepresentations, trying to trick us.
When the US govt says no, there is normally a reason behind it, or active intelligence efforts supporting their rationale. Don't believe some moronic reporter with shit for brains that is labelling something as "protectionism".
My guess is the MDA was not reading the DOD guidelines on IA http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/html/850 02.htm (among many other pubs) which is pretty clear. Being a classified mission critical system used for warfighting, they would fit into the MAC I, confidentiality=high baseline.
Lets hope their contract gets recompeted so my company can head over there!
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When exploits require administrator/root access in the first place in order to function, interest level drops to 0.
r s.html#Lin0xx which was quite boring.
This exploit-requiring-admin reminds me of another recent speech, namely http://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-14/dc-14-speake
*yawn*
If Vyatta is the "dawn of open source networking" then who the hell are these guys?
I'm happy to hear that Google is making a large amount of profit. In fact, I hope they make even more profit.
.ss
I can think of many things that Google has done:
a search engine that outperforms all others.
financial support for firefox
google earth
gmail (webmail that doesn't suck)
picassa
google maps
google summer of code supporting my favorite OSS projects
google calendar
kicking Microsoft's
I am hoping google in the next year will come out with more products, support more OSS, and do even greater things. Oh and fix google browser sync too!
AMD's 4x4 approach isn't a mere reaction to Core 2 Duo. AMD has been planning this for a long time.
AMD systems don't suffer from bandwidth problems with additional cores, unlike Intel's Kentsfield (quad core).
AMD is opening up hypertransport for 3rd party co-processors. This will totally change the industry with the ability to drop in specialized processors onto boards. These kind of possibilities are going to give EEs a new meaning in life.
Are Altix's a niche product or what? Every review of them I have read seemed pretty glowing.
Can someone discuss the attractiveness of Altixs and if they could make SGI a takeover target, or what.
Thanks.
Marketing deadlines always trumps everything else, except for OpenBSD and maybe Linux kernels. Curiously, both have dominant but benevolent personalities in charge......
Russinovich & Cogswell were the developers that "knew more about Windows internals than Microsoft".
I've enjoyed using their utilities for security work. Their articles were always interesting.
My fave was probably the one where they tried to run Windows with the bare amount of processes/services, kind of similar to a halted unix system.
I hope they keep on releasing the good utilities after the acquisition.
Linux & UNIX based virtualization has always been far superior to that of Windows. Superior is probably an understatement though, more like exponentially better.
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Just check into
OpenVZ http://openvz.org/
FreeBSD Jails http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Jail
Solaris zones http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zones/faq
Xen http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/
and the list goes on. So much better on *nix. Of course, I think that is somehow related to the fact you can run a *nix box via CLI, bare minimum of functionality, the likes of which it even the best Windows gurus cannot get close to (though Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell do rox)
What is funny, is so many of us are ignorant of virtualization's roots in IBM mainframes. Big Blue was so far ahead of the times, it is like omg. BTW, I love Wikipedia. I've been preparing a presentation on virtualization the last few days, and Wikipedia makes it so easy!
admin friends have told me about Dell Support.......
Dell support is going downhill. They have been outsourcing to foreigners reading off cue-cards that know diddly squat....
I tried to have a conversation with someone from Dell recently, it was very clear to me, that my colleagues were dead accurate about Dell Support.
More HP is the result.
What does aggravate me though, is Dell's continual B.S.-ing around when it comes to getting some AMD Opteron systems. I swear, as long as some dipshit company refuses to honor customer wishes, I'll be more than happy to steer my bosses to Dell competitors. Now they start to work on the AMD systems, with the advent of Woodcrest. What turds!
It is time for the Dell Hegemony to end with a whimper. Their service has gone downhill, as have their products.
Swan song, exit stage left.
The defining characteristic of great pvp games is the player skill involved, vice time to obtain certain items.
Ultima Online, during the tank mage era immediately preceding UO:R was the best skill focused pvp game to date.
In UO during that period, a six week old player with skills could very easily stomp a 7x GM 2 year old player.
That is why UO was so great of a PVP game, and probably, the reason why EA ruined the pvp system with the release of UO:R and overpowered gear. Many people that claim to love pvp, couldn't actually survive in a game that required skill. Too many gamers would rather opt for the fast food pvp offered by WOW. Little skill, mainly farming and equipment.
You only fought NPCs. You were in high security space the entire time.
You mentioned nothing of true tactics in ship vs ship pvp.
When it comes to player vs. player in EVE, EVE has so much more tactics and strategy than most other MMOs. The simple reason behind this is the massive variety of ships, loadouts, skillsets. Whereas WOW has certain classes that specialize in killing other classes, and strictly defined skilltrees, EVE has far more variety.
Yet another newbie posting on a game. This is like a level 5 nub in WOW talking about endgame.
I'm playing EVE right now.
EVE I consider somewhat like Shadowbane-in-space, without the sb.exe and with a far better engine.
EVE graphics are great. Far better than anything else on the market that is an MMO.
I love the depth of EVE - you can trade, mine, pirate (PK), pvp, run NPC missions, or kill NPC pirates.
The huge amount of players online at any given time is great too - it isn't like standard MMOs with everything being on seperate servers.
EVE has a different levelling system also - basically time based. You set a skill up, it finishes after a set amount of time. No need to kill a mob over and over again, then move on to tougher mobs. Just time, based on the attributes of your character.
EVE requires a high performance system in order fully experience it in all its glory. I am using a p4 2.8 C, 1 GB ram, gf fx 5900 ultra typically at 100hz @1024x768 and my framerate is somewhat substandard. Going to build a new system specifically for this.
Also, alt usage is rampant in EVE. Because you can only train up one character at a time, a significant % of people run alts. I know of people that have as many as 5 accounts!
EVE's territorial, and risk vs. reward system is far superior to most other modern MMOs. In most other MMOs, there is no risk really, because of the watered down pvp. You die in WOW, you basically lose nothing. Not so in EVE. Dying in EVE can be seriously painful because of the massive expense of well fitted ships.
My only gripes with EVE is the time based levelling has some of the oldest players nearly at 55 million skill points (SP) so newer players cannot dream of competing with them, not for years. There is significant amount of time to be spent in your initial learning tree, and follow on into chosen skills based on your professions.
Instead of prison, execute a few of those identity thieves.
Public castrations also sounds just.
My girlfriend favors hard labor, e.g. chain gang breaking rocks.
"MySQL has become the most popular open-source database in the world by offering users a good combination of choice, performance and ease of use," said Marten Mickos, MySQL's CEO. ...
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"We will now be providing developers with the additional option of leveraging SCO's popular platforms. We look forward to working with SCO and their large reseller network to support our mutual customers with their enterprise database applications," Mickos said.
The certified version of MySQL 5.0 for SCO OpenServer 6 will be available later this year under the name MySQL Network for SCO OpenServer 6. It will be available directly from SCO and from SCO's resellers. Its pricing has not yet been set.
Taken from http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C1855483%
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Mysql AB actively sought a relationship with SCO, and is now assisting SCO by joint certifications.
You can be sure every dollar they make will be used to fund their legal warchest for the attack on GNU/Linux
We should boycott Mysql, and Mysql AB.
http://www.sco.com/products/mysql/
This is disgusting.
Mysql AB should be ashamed of themselves for this blatant support of an OSS attacker.
Postgresql
+better ANSI compliance
+ACID
+not a toy database
+doesn't support SCO finances
Make your move today!
I like Theo. The more of his statements I read, the more I appreciate his no compromise, take no prisoners approach.
= signupapp or just part of it? That part about the NDA bothers me.....
50 personal questions sounds way beyond overkill. I've downloaded plenty of export controlled software, with merely a few questions.
My guess is, Hifn like many other companies, gives everything to their sales folks, or worse, resells it. Can you blame Theo for taking offense, when they want 50 personal questions answered?
BTW, is this the signup? http://extranet.hifn.com/home/anonymous/?workflow
Sun could have jumped on the Linux bandwagon and been it's strongest proponent. Could have stood up their own distribution, and brought some of their vaunted engineering skills to bear in polishing it.
Coulda-woulda-shoulda
except it would have competed with their own cashcow Sparc business.
Now Sun is just the posterchild for companies with poor strategy.
I hope they get their act together. The new AMD hardware looks to be a promising start.
Although I have licenses to VMware workstation, I've been using vmware server beta lately.
VMware server beta is free. Plus it competes with M$ VirtualPC. VMware as a company seems to be pushing standardization in VMs.
I got my VMware workstation license for free also, by going to some free seminar on vmware.
Whether or not the CDC has sent staff to investigate Morgellon's claims *DOES NOT* relate to the validity of the claims. You need to brush up on logic and fallacies
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
I'd advise looking at http://www.morgellons.org/ since that site has more detail for medical professionals.
Comparing the number of people killed by governments vs terrorists is a bogus comparison that is skewed by totalitarian states. If you removed the communist governments, that might be a better question to ask. Or perhaps, asked how many were killed by truely democratic states, vs totalitarian states.
As Mysql continues to catch come towards the Mid-tier in the market, Postgresql is charging at Oracle.
The entire Database market is heading towards OSS.
I have read more BS in these threads than anywhere else in recent memory.
So, I'll in you on the truth.
Foreign nations are actively seeking to get their hands into US classified govt sites, to get the underlying information which they want DESPERATELY. Israel, France, China, Russia - they are the most aggressive.
A few years back I was working for DOD. Someone was trying to make a sales pitch for equipment they wanted to sell us, for use in classified environments. They claimed to be a US company.
My boss asked me to look into the company and get back to him. It took a few hours, but I found exactly what I think he already suspected.
The company was a US company in name only. The entire company was infested at the upper levels by former intelligence personnel from one of the above countries already mentioned. Most of their company also, was in this foreign country too. Only a small amount of sales ppl actually were in the US for the company.
They made a huge amount of factual misrepresentations, trying to trick us.
When the US govt says no, there is normally a reason behind it, or active intelligence efforts supporting their rationale. Don't believe some moronic reporter with shit for brains that is labelling something as "protectionism".
Meet the Kluttzes
I still think the Jawbone PC edition http://www.aliph.com/main/pc_edition.htm is far superior to it.
The Everglide doesn't even come with the highend military grade noise reduction stuff the Jawbone sports.
Not even in the same class.
My guess is the MDA was not reading the DOD guidelines on IA http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/html/850 02.htm (among many other pubs) which is pretty clear. Being a classified mission critical system used for warfighting, they would fit into the MAC I, confidentiality=high baseline.
Lets hope their contract gets recompeted so my company can head over there!