I don't speak Finnish, unfortunately. Or better to say, I speak it, but don't understand it;o)
Anyway, here are a few things about the BBC News reporting on Israel in specific:
When MK Tibi has been at first suspended from the latest elections because of his support for the destruction of the state of Israel, BBC was sistematic in reporting that Tibi denied this. The truth is that Tibi NEVER denied he has expressed support for terrorists and the destruction for Israel. Tibi was only arguing in front of the Election panel that his expressions are allowed by free speech. (Eventually he was allowed on the list of his party, by the high court.) (MK=Member of Knesset)
More generally, BBC sistematically reports about the terrorist attacks, including suicide bombers, car bombs, armed terrorists that infiltrate towns etc. and always the reporter would add that "this proves that the security measures are not working" - On the other hand, BBC NEVER reports of intercepted and destroyed explosive devices, not even of 50 Kg devices (there have been more than one such case) prepared in cars. NOw, tel me honestly, don't you think that the interception of a 50 Kg explosive device would be newsworthy? Hec, there have been even such strange cases such as a huge explosive device tied to a fucking DONKEY! That would be newsworthy fr the sheer bizarreness of it! Not to mention the dozens of suicide bombers and armed terrorists that were succesfully intercepted. Why are these never reported? And please, don't try to find excuses for BBC, this is clearly PR "massaging".
Arafat has innumerable times been publicly encouraging suicide bombers and other forms of terrorism - in arabic. Yet, there is not one shred of a word abot this, on BBC. Nothing, zippo, nada, nista!
When physical evidence of Arafat's financial support for the Al-Aqsa Brigades was found and presented to the public, id BBC report on it? Nothing, zippo.. etc.
Heck, I don't know why they chose Gnome over KDE: I have installed KDE on my Blade 100, from the applications CD that comes with the Solaris 8 (and 9) media set, I think it's a version 2.x KDE, and it's even faster than CDE, all the while being prettier!
Yes, sounds unbelievable, but it's true, it's really snappy, compared to CDE. I guess compared to Gnome 2.0 it totally flies.
Pretty strong words you have there. Do you have anything to prove them?
Yes, of course, but since it would take me some time, I would do it only if you were really genuinely curious, not just being nice. (and just for the record, I don't mean to say BBC is lying about everything, just about the events in the middle east in general.)
Actually, your nickname.... Mistä sinä olet? Oletkohan sinä suomalainen???
You really believe that Israel would have blamed the plestinian Arabs? You watch way too much BBC World. The coverage of the Middle East by BBC is so full of lies that they don't even know where and what they lied, so it's rather easy to catch them with their pants on fire. They're so hell-bent on lying that sometimes one single sentence is in contraddiction with itself.
It's foolish to blaim on the terrorist after every incident. I know it's much easier to blaim on someone, but no. You shouldn't do that. These things happen. It's probably just a serie of incidents. Bad luck. It's life, man. Try to accept it.
Man, I didn't blame the terrorists! Think more carefully of what I wrote instead of calling me a fool: I was saying that it was dismissed too early by the JOURNALISTS, and I also say that it's stupid to think that a terrorist would try to use some sort of missile to take down the Shuttle.
I saw reprots that "terrorism is certainly not considered as a cause" in this tragedy. All these journalists can think of is terrorists trying to fire some sort of rocket at the Shuttle (which, of course, would have been impossible to achieve). What nonsens!
All you have to do is try to think as a terrorist: what's the weak point of the Shuttle? The thermal protection: if only ONE tile falls off, the heat buildup would make the tiles around the breach fall off, effectively causing the area of the Shuttle above this point overheat and cause this kind of breakup. how to make this happen? for example, just put a tiny stripe of C2 plastic explosive in the groove between two tiles. C2 doesn't explode easily, it needs rather high temperatures to explode (and no, it does NOT need atmosphere to ignite). how to get it there: find a volunteer inside NASA.
The last point is, obviously, crucial. Difficult? Sure! Impossible? Not at all impossible.
Related to this, I always thought that having such a high number of small tiles in the thermal shield increases the failure chances way too much, since it's enough that ONE tile falls to cause this kind of tragedy. A fewer number of bigger tiles, while perhaps more expensive, would provide a dramatially higher security.
I see. OK. I am not sure how it would improve security, but I can imagine that it was the thought behind it. It's not like it's some bug, more like a deliberate decision, isn't it.
Just goes to show that no matter who you are, you'd better keep your apps patched. No, it shows rather that no matter who you are, you should not use Microsoft's server and database solutions.
In some environments, 3 years is less than shit. In such places testing alone takes 8 months and more.
Anyway, look at this! Pretty fucking impressive, isn't it? Solaris is, for this reason, one of the good choices for companies such as mine (R&D mobile phone industry, 50.000+ people).
OK, but then explain to me why would _anyone_ want to buy anything but RedHat advanced server? Home users? There was an article a few days ago about a guy who criticized RedHat on the desktop, and everybody and their pro-Linux dog said this guy is a moron, he should know better that RedHat is NOT a desktop distro, it's a server-centric distro.
So which one it is, then? It's not for the desktop, ok, but hey, it's not for the server, either (with such short lifespan, companies aren't going to use RH Linux for servers... if their support is dropped so quickly, they might as well just run Slackware or Debian and be done with it).
The comparison to Sun is striking: they are clear about the fact that Solaris is only and exclusvely a server operating environment (sic), and they behave that way, in the sense that they support, directly or through their website, even ultra-old versions of Solaris (you will find support documentation even for Solaris 2.5, on the Sun's website!!!!!)
Compressed air is very delicate and it's widely used for cleaning precise machinery such as watches and robotic engines. I really think you should take it into consideration.
But now that you ask, no I have not yet seen a flying laser head:o)
Anyway, what shall we do, buy this baby or not? I am a bit unsure about the brand - KiSS did prove to be, at least with me, a bad brand through and through, in the past. I even had one model (forgot the exact number) with me for a week of testing, and it didn't pass.
Now, this one seems to be composed of good parts, at least. There doesn't seem to be any reason to think it wouldn't deliver acceptable quality and durability.
Ummm.. one thing we didn't talk about... Macrovision! I like it off, but with this model it might prove to be a tough nut to crack, as it's impemented in the decoder ASIC.
Because Kasparov is stil world number one chess player, based on the points system. As an example, just because some guy beat Agassi doesn't mean that Agassi will automatically lose hist position in the ATP table, and certainly doesn't mean that some guy will take his place.
OK, I will then do my test here in the lab. If it works, it will be the second supported solution, apart from Solaris 8 and 9.
probably back into the 1.x series even Umm... even if that was so (I tend to doubt that.. 1.x? 1.2.x was the first I saw doing anyting useful), back then there wasn't anything but ext2 surely didn't yet support large files. Th patch for ext2 for such support came out somewhere near the end of 1999. I think it was RedHat 6.0 the first to support it. If I recall correctly. But c'mon... Linux 1.x, I'm almost getting nostalgic. It didn't even have ext2, just the crappy old extfs...
Yes, Unix is Unix, yet time and time again I see that Solaris satisfies me a bit more than the rest of the crop. It's all small things, I know, but the fact that my crappy little Blade 100 turned effectively to be more powerful than a HP L2000 was quite shocking. What a difference an OS makes... It's really good that this autokill is gone in RH 8.0. Still, if I think about the fact that Solaris 2.7 had it, it feels as if it took Linux really long to get it's act together on this little detail. On the other hand, Sun invented NFS, so it's no wonder they have it done right, even in the little details. It's no wonder that Solaris 8 has NFS ver. 3.
I'll be honest with you: if I manage to get a Linux server do the NFS server job for this backup procedure, it'll get a huge plus in my book, and it will get a lot of visibility with some large customers. But last time I had to work with Linux as NFS server, something was wrong with the locking.
I think you're right about the kits. It occured to me that this is just a huge scum that has never passed the test of actual measuring and checking. People buy it and use it to have a peace of mind, but it never worked, for me. Any CD drive that would not work with most of the CDs, after the cleaning with a kit like this, will still NOT read most of the CDs.
I wonder if a good compressed air pistol wouldn't be better than a brush, though.
Do you mean, cleaning with one of those cleaning kits/discs? Or do you know of some special trick, that requires disassembling the drive and the optics?
Oh yeah, so how does Linux cope with > 2 GB files transferred via NFS TO a Linux server? So far, only Solaris seem to support our solution. I have not tried Linux because the test takes some relatively considerable time, and if large files aren't supported to be transferred via NFS, I better not even try.
Thanks. And no, Solaris doesn't have this kind of problem. In Solaris, you have (a more general)/etc/dfs/* for sharing filesystems. Even if there is no fs shared in/etc/dfs/dfstab, nfsd and mountd will happily run. This autokill thing is really stupid.
Because, for example: 1. If it breaks, I can easily fix it. 2. I have tried some KiSS models before, and it always was the case that the DVD would overheat, after an hour. When I would pop out the DVD after watching a movie, it was worryingly hot. I decided not to put up with that and I have now a Philips DVD player. But I would consider a new one, to play SVCD. 3. I already have a region-lock-free DVD ROM, which I don't use to watch movies, so why not just swap it with the one in the KiSS. OK, not a strong argument, but ir reinforces the previous too, a bit.
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In fact, Novell came up with the name earlier than Nokia did.
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The only reason why this is introduced is to drive, mercilessly and brutally, the market to buy new shit they don't need at all.
Heippa.
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I don't speak Finnish, unfortunately. Or better to say, I speak it, but don't understand it
Anyway, here are a few things about the BBC News reporting on Israel in specific:
When MK Tibi has been at first suspended from the latest elections because of his support for the destruction of the state of Israel, BBC was sistematic in reporting that Tibi denied this. The truth is that Tibi NEVER denied he has expressed support for terrorists and the destruction for Israel. Tibi was only arguing in front of the Election panel that his expressions are allowed by free speech. (Eventually he was allowed on the list of his party, by the high court.) (MK=Member of Knesset)
More generally, BBC sistematically reports about the terrorist attacks, including suicide bombers, car bombs, armed terrorists that infiltrate towns etc. and always the reporter would add that "this proves that the security measures are not working" - On the other hand, BBC NEVER reports of intercepted and destroyed explosive devices, not even of 50 Kg devices (there have been more than one such case) prepared in cars. NOw, tel me honestly, don't you think that the interception of a 50 Kg explosive device would be newsworthy? Hec, there have been even such strange cases such as a huge explosive device tied to a fucking DONKEY! That would be newsworthy fr the sheer bizarreness of it! Not to mention the dozens of suicide bombers and armed terrorists that were succesfully intercepted. Why are these never reported? And please, don't try to find excuses for BBC, this is clearly PR "massaging".
Arafat has innumerable times been publicly encouraging suicide bombers and other forms of terrorism - in arabic. Yet, there is not one shred of a word abot this, on BBC. Nothing, zippo, nada, nista!
When physical evidence of Arafat's financial support for the Al-Aqsa Brigades was found and presented to the public, id BBC report on it? Nothing, zippo.. etc.
OK, time to watch CSI.
Mistä kaupingista sine olet? Ja missä?
Heck, I don't know why they chose Gnome over KDE: I have installed KDE on my Blade 100, from the applications CD that comes with the Solaris 8 (and 9) media set, I think it's a version 2.x KDE, and it's even faster than CDE, all the while being prettier!
Yes, sounds unbelievable, but it's true, it's really snappy, compared to CDE. I guess compared to Gnome 2.0 it totally flies.
Pretty strong words you have there. Do you have anything to prove them?
Yes, of course, but since it would take me some time, I would do it only if you were really genuinely curious, not just being nice. (and just for the record, I don't mean to say BBC is lying about everything, just about the events in the middle east in general.)
Actually, your nickname.... Mistä sinä olet? Oletkohan sinä suomalainen???
You really believe that Israel would have blamed the plestinian Arabs?
You watch way too much BBC World. The coverage of the Middle East by BBC is so full of lies that they don't even know where and what they lied, so it's rather easy to catch them with their pants on fire. They're so hell-bent on lying that sometimes one single sentence is in contraddiction with itself.
But for me, effieciency is all too important.
And so is for the original poster. That's why he/she was sarcastic.
It's foolish to blaim on the terrorist after every incident. I know it's much easier to blaim on someone, but no. You shouldn't do that. These things happen. It's probably just a serie of incidents. Bad luck. It's life, man. Try to accept it.
Man, I didn't blame the terrorists! Think more carefully of what I wrote instead of calling me a fool: I was saying that it was dismissed too early by the JOURNALISTS, and I also say that it's stupid to think that a terrorist would try to use some sort of missile to take down the Shuttle.
That was a sarcastic comment, a kind of criticism directed towards nowaday's lack of efficiency in programming.
I'm amazed you didn't get it. Remind me never to employ you. (I actually do interview some of our candidates).
I saw reprots that "terrorism is certainly not considered as a cause" in this tragedy. All these journalists can think of is terrorists trying to fire some sort of rocket at the Shuttle (which, of course, would have been impossible to achieve). What nonsens!
All you have to do is try to think as a terrorist:
what's the weak point of the Shuttle? The thermal protection: if only ONE tile falls off, the heat buildup would make the tiles around the breach fall off, effectively causing the area of the Shuttle above this point overheat and cause this kind of breakup.
how to make this happen? for example, just put a tiny stripe of C2 plastic explosive in the groove between two tiles. C2 doesn't explode easily, it needs rather high temperatures to explode (and no, it does NOT need atmosphere to ignite).
how to get it there: find a volunteer inside NASA.
The last point is, obviously, crucial. Difficult? Sure! Impossible? Not at all impossible.
Related to this, I always thought that having such a high number of small tiles in the thermal shield increases the failure chances way too much, since it's enough that ONE tile falls to cause this kind of tragedy. A fewer number of bigger tiles, while perhaps more expensive, would provide a dramatially higher security.
I see. OK. I am not sure how it would improve security, but I can imagine that it was the thought behind it. It's not like it's some bug, more like a deliberate decision, isn't it.
Just goes to show that no matter who you are, you'd better keep your apps patched.
No, it shows rather that no matter who you are, you should not use Microsoft's server and database solutions.
In some environments, 3 years is less than shit. In such places testing alone takes 8 months and more.
Anyway, look at this!
Pretty fucking impressive, isn't it? Solaris is, for this reason, one of the good choices for companies such as mine (R&D mobile phone industry, 50.000+ people).
OK, but then explain to me why would _anyone_ want to buy anything but RedHat advanced server? Home users? There was an article a few days ago about a guy who criticized RedHat on the desktop, and everybody and their pro-Linux dog said this guy is a moron, he should know better that RedHat is NOT a desktop distro, it's a server-centric distro.
So which one it is, then? It's not for the desktop, ok, but hey, it's not for the server, either (with such short lifespan, companies aren't going to use RH Linux for servers... if their support is dropped so quickly, they might as well just run Slackware or Debian and be done with it).
The comparison to Sun is striking: they are clear about the fact that Solaris is only and exclusvely a server operating environment (sic), and they behave that way, in the sense that they support, directly or through their website, even ultra-old versions of Solaris (you will find support documentation even for Solaris 2.5, on the Sun's website!!!!!)
Sure, and that's exactly the reason why you can't download an .iso of RH Advanced Server. If you want to try it, spit $845.
Compressed air is very delicate and it's widely used for cleaning precise machinery such as watches and robotic engines. I really think you should take it into consideration.
:o)
But now that you ask, no I have not yet seen a flying laser head
Anyway, what shall we do, buy this baby or not? I am a bit unsure about the brand - KiSS did prove to be, at least with me, a bad brand through and through, in the past. I even had one model (forgot the exact number) with me for a week of testing, and it didn't pass.
Now, this one seems to be composed of good parts, at least. There doesn't seem to be any reason to think it wouldn't deliver acceptable quality and durability.
Ummm.. one thing we didn't talk about... Macrovision! I like it off, but with this model it might prove to be a tough nut to crack, as it's impemented in the decoder ASIC.
Because Kasparov is stil world number one chess player, based on the points system. As an example, just because some guy beat Agassi doesn't mean that Agassi will automatically lose hist position in the ATP table, and certainly doesn't mean that some guy will take his place.
OK, I will then do my test here in the lab. If it works, it will be the second supported solution, apart from Solaris 8 and 9.
probably back into the 1.x series even
Umm... even if that was so (I tend to doubt that.. 1.x? 1.2.x was the first I saw doing anyting useful), back then there wasn't anything but ext2 surely didn't yet support large files. Th patch for ext2 for such support came out somewhere near the end of 1999. I think it was RedHat 6.0 the first to support it. If I recall correctly. But c'mon... Linux 1.x, I'm almost getting nostalgic. It didn't even have ext2, just the crappy old extfs...
Are you the DotComGuy? Is this how low you've fallen, or you just refuse to use e-shps on principle?
Yes, Unix is Unix, yet time and time again I see that Solaris satisfies me a bit more than the rest of the crop. It's all small things, I know, but the fact that my crappy little Blade 100 turned effectively to be more powerful than a HP L2000 was quite shocking. What a difference an OS makes...
It's really good that this autokill is gone in RH 8.0. Still, if I think about the fact that Solaris 2.7 had it, it feels as if it took Linux really long to get it's act together on this little detail. On the other hand, Sun invented NFS, so it's no wonder they have it done right, even in the little details. It's no wonder that Solaris 8 has NFS ver. 3.
I'll be honest with you: if I manage to get a Linux server do the NFS server job for this backup procedure, it'll get a huge plus in my book, and it will get a lot of visibility with some large customers. But last time I had to work with Linux as NFS server, something was wrong with the locking.
I think you're right about the kits. It occured to me that this is just a huge scum that has never passed the test of actual measuring and checking. People buy it and use it to have a peace of mind, but it never worked, for me. Any CD drive that would not work with most of the CDs, after the cleaning with a kit like this, will still NOT read most of the CDs.
I wonder if a good compressed air pistol wouldn't be better than a brush, though.
Do you mean, cleaning with one of those cleaning kits/discs? Or do you know of some special trick, that requires disassembling the drive and the optics?
Oh yeah, so how does Linux cope with > 2 GB files transferred via NFS TO a Linux server? So far, only Solaris seem to support our solution. I have not tried Linux because the test takes some relatively considerable time, and if large files aren't supported to be transferred via NFS, I better not even try.
Thanks. /etc/dfs/* for sharing filesystems. Even if there is no fs shared in /etc/dfs/dfstab, nfsd and mountd will happily run. This autokill thing is really stupid.
And no, Solaris doesn't have this kind of problem. In Solaris, you have (a more general)
Because, for example:
1. If it breaks, I can easily fix it.
2. I have tried some KiSS models before, and it always was the case that the DVD would overheat, after an hour. When I would pop out the DVD after watching a movie, it was worryingly hot. I decided not to put up with that and I have now a Philips DVD player. But I would consider a new one, to play SVCD.
3. I already have a region-lock-free DVD ROM, which I don't use to watch movies, so why not just swap it with the one in the KiSS. OK, not a strong argument, but ir reinforces the previous too, a bit.