I would like to point out that this article was written by Eric Knorr. Editor in Chief at Infosuck... I mean Infoworld. I am a 40 year old IT Director. I have been at this for 20 years. As far as I can remember, every place I've been, Infoworld usually is sitting in the lobby or somewhere in the IT magazine rack. It's one of the rags that CIOs like to have up front to show they are "in touch".
I remember when Bob Metcalfe was EIC, and when they sued Mark Stephens over the use of the pen name Robert X. Cringley.
I can't remember anything, any major direction, they were well informed or ahead of the curve on. Not one. I remember the Lotus Notes vs. Microsoft Exchange wars, I can't ever remember thinking 'Wow, Infoworld is really on top of this trend.' Can you?
As such, I wouldn't even read that claptrap about SaaS. It's fodder for CIO types to talk to CEO types about. Truth is, SaaS is evolutionary, not revolutionary. That's been true for everything in the past 20 years of computing.
All tower cases should come with a diagnostic boot drive. The days of feeding IDE and SATA cables and screwing hard drives into place has to stop. The tech to make snap in hard drives has been there for a long time.
I keep a cheap HD with KNOPPIX Maxi ready. I would always swap it in, if I ever bothered to let a hardware tech touch my machine. I have in the past, but only because they can diagnose motherboard issues and I cannot.
1. Create torrent tracker that carries pirate torrents
2. Relentlessly self-promote
3. Find high profile buyer suckered into 'capturing the audience' while dodging the criminal case judgment
4. Profit!
An Atlantic hit would utterly destroy Europe to nearly Switzerland and Indiana on the US side.
Turns out this is Joe Jackson's next money making scheme, now that his cash cow Michael is dead. Buy all the land in East Gary, wait for the strike to hit the Atlantic. Viola, instant beachfront property. Yes, he stole the idea from Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor, just without the nukes.
I agree here. The exact opposite may be true. Unbreakable Linux will become Unbreakable UNIX - and it will be increasingly based on OpenSolaris. There are a lot of developments in Solaris - and I think Ellison is perhaps unhappy with his relationship with Linux.
I can tell you as a IT Director in finance that they have come pushing Unbreakable into big accounts, and want to cut Redhat off at the knees as much as possible. So the opening salvos have already been sent, and sinking Redhat and getting all Oracle installations off it is the goal.
It was *MUCH* easier for me to sign up for basic TV + internet with Comcast than what I ended up doing. I wanted to keep everything at the magic $100/mo. number, so I went with AT&T - DirecTV partnership, where they give you DSL and a dish and DVR, and put it all on one bill. My DSL is 3Mb down/768kb up, where a Speakeasy test at my neighbor showed almost 12Mb down and nearly a full meg up. When he asked "why would you choose that?" - my answer was simple: Comcast.
AT&T doesn't touch my bandwidth. They don't cap it, they don't filter it - they aren't keeping a database of my URL lookups. That's worth a great deal to me - and Comcast will never get my business. I urge everyone else to do the same, even if it is some other DSL provider or dish provider.
Imagine what Kubrick, rest his soul, could do with these rights. There would be wide shots of asteroid fields, set to Strauss - with a 4 and a half hour run time, all of it filmed in natural light, where the asteroids hitting each other come to represent the extensional angst of human interaction with each other, where the main characters fracture and come apart slightly, just like the rocks.
The end could be a 20 minute pyrotechnic hallucination, where we - the viewer - no longer understand if the little ship or the rocks themselves are the protgaganist - Haley Joel Osment could stand in as a lost teenager, piloting the ship - never knowing why he is shooting the rocks, or even if he is human. On the side of his ship is painted the words "Me love you long time...", being both a metaphor and a literal phrase of what the ship is doing to the rocks.
Later, we found out that a secret sex cult has arranged the rocks to bang into each other for the pleasure of its sadistic members, who wear masks shaped like big asteroids. Lee Ermey marches in and screams "what is your major malfunction, did mommy and daddy not show you enough love?" to the cult. and of course, the movie ends with a Malcom McDowell voiceover while we see Jack Nicholson frozen in place on the asteroid surface.
I have a solution. We get Martin Landau to lead us on a Moonbase that we construct. Since it is the first moonbase ever, we will call it Moonbase Alpha. We detonate a nuclear weapon on the surface of the moon, causing it to rocket away from the Solar System, like when Wile E. Coyote attaches a bottle rocket to a car.
We launch out of the Solar System and into the galaxy, meeting strange alien beings along the way. We will build shuttlecraft, and call them "Eagles".
Earth crashes into Mars, we move into the deep reaches of space, exploring and adventuring! Let's get started, Martin doesn't have long to live!
Likewise, Centrify, Quest and others (Centrify especially) provide tools for all flavors of Linux, JBOSS Servers, Apache servers, and Oracle databases to all use AD for directory services. Centrify has tools for audit and command control that piggyback on restricted shell.
It's hard to argue against AD - even in your situation where the Microsoft boxes comprise the minority of systems.
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Dammit - READ!
Pinball Construction Set is there. M.U.L.E. is not.
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That title arguably kept Electronic Arts going during a rough patch.
Also missing is M.U.L.E.
No list is perfect, but those are major omissions.
Is John Chambers. Just pick up a copy of his trade rag... er... the respected publication Business 2.0. He's sure to be on the cover, and he will tell you just how famous he is.
Dr. Vasili Orlov: What was that all about?
Chandra: I've erased all of HAL's memory from the moment the trouble started.
Dr. Vasili Orlov: The 9000 series uses holographic memory so chronological erasures would not work.
Chandra: I made a tapeworm.
Walter Curnow: You made a what?
Chandra: It's a program that's fed into a system that will hunt down and destroy any desired memories.
They are filing a civil case against a state's attorney general (which will make it a federal hearing) - alleging what?
That his sidebar remarks that Craiglist executives could have criminal charges filed against them cost them revenue? Affected their listings?
McMaster is an asshole, no doubt. He may as well have said that Hugh Hefner was going to go to jail for publishing that salacious playboy magazine all these years. He is just looking to grandstand, possibly because he thinks he's going to run for governor someday.
I'd like to see Craigslist attorneys hand that douche a slapdown, but I'm not holding my breath that the actual tort here won't get tossed.
When done correctly, the "cloud" is the internet itself. Google has network design issues, some of their key services only have a couple of ingresses into Tier-1 providers:
I don't work for them, i don't hold their stock, and I am not (currently) a customer, so I have no skin in their game, but Internap as a BUSINESS MODEL, becomes more important.
If you are a major company that comes to rely HEAVILY on Cloud Services, you want to insure that you have on-ramps into several Tier-1 providers ALL AT ONCE, without having to contract individually with 4 or 5 of them yourself. I predict more companies will mimic this model of aggregation, essentially handling the business of BGP optimization for customers, and handing customers 2 redundant pipes and saying "hey, don't worry if San Fran has an earthquake and these peering points blow up, we'll get you out via this Tier-1 backbone over to your cloud computing provider's service via this backbone within seconds. Let us handle that."
Especially with ISPs that get into pissing matches, like when Cogent and Telia got into it, and cut each other off. If you had Cogent as your only ISP, you were screwed if you wanted to get to a bunch of Swedish sites, because Cogent's CEO was trying to play chicken over some tariff rates. The cloud computing model will no longer tolerate that, it's not just some website, it's a BUSINESS function.
Can somebody tell me how to search for results that were indexed between a set of dates?
Let's say I want to search for "Linux multitasking", but I only want to see magazine articles or blog posts or what have you between 2003 and 2005. How do I do that?
I have tried [Linux multitask 2003..2005] but that doesn't really work. It gives me articles that have the year WITHIN the text, such as a 2007 article in which somebody discusses 2005. But not just articles that were posted between those years.
That is a way I would like to slice and dice but don't know how.
The EFF isn't going to take up a fight with a corporate policy. Never in a million years. If it is Fortune 15, then it is probably public, i.e. it's stock is public.
That's the only way you have to affect a reversal of that policy. Get a lot of shares amassed and invite yourself to a board meeting. Outside of that, forget it. The EFF won't touch it.
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I would like to point out that this article was written by Eric Knorr. Editor in Chief at Infosuck... I mean Infoworld. I am a 40 year old IT Director. I have been at this for 20 years. As far as I can remember, every place I've been, Infoworld usually is sitting in the lobby or somewhere in the IT magazine rack. It's one of the rags that CIOs like to have up front to show they are "in touch".
I remember when Bob Metcalfe was EIC, and when they sued Mark Stephens over the use of the pen name Robert X. Cringley.
I can't remember anything, any major direction, they were well informed or ahead of the curve on. Not one. I remember the Lotus Notes vs. Microsoft Exchange wars, I can't ever remember thinking 'Wow, Infoworld is really on top of this trend.' Can you?
As such, I wouldn't even read that claptrap about SaaS. It's fodder for CIO types to talk to CEO types about. Truth is, SaaS is evolutionary, not revolutionary. That's been true for everything in the past 20 years of computing.
All tower cases should come with a diagnostic boot drive. The days of feeding IDE and SATA cables and screwing hard drives into place has to stop. The tech to make snap in hard drives has been there for a long time.
I keep a cheap HD with KNOPPIX Maxi ready. I would always swap it in, if I ever bothered to let a hardware tech touch my machine. I have in the past, but only because they can diagnose motherboard issues and I cannot.
Open Source use OpenNMS: http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Main_Page
Want commercial software?: Solarwinds Orion with IP Monitor.
1. Create torrent tracker that carries pirate torrents
2. Relentlessly self-promote
3. Find high profile buyer suckered into 'capturing the audience' while dodging the criminal case judgment
4. Profit!
Julia Ann is smoking hot in any century, on any planet.
Mythbusters would get to see if a large scale nuclear explosion really would push the moon out of earth's orbit.
Ooooooh, Space 1999 episode!
An Atlantic hit would utterly destroy Europe to nearly Switzerland and Indiana on the US side.
Turns out this is Joe Jackson's next money making scheme, now that his cash cow Michael is dead. Buy all the land in East Gary, wait for the strike to hit the Atlantic. Viola, instant beachfront property. Yes, he stole the idea from Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor, just without the nukes.
I agree here. The exact opposite may be true. Unbreakable Linux will become Unbreakable UNIX - and it will be increasingly based on OpenSolaris. There are a lot of developments in Solaris - and I think Ellison is perhaps unhappy with his relationship with Linux.
I can tell you as a IT Director in finance that they have come pushing Unbreakable into big accounts, and want to cut Redhat off at the knees as much as possible. So the opening salvos have already been sent, and sinking Redhat and getting all Oracle installations off it is the goal.
This is knows as the Hottie-Frigid paradox. The most scorching hot women are nearly certain to be lousy in bed.
Thus: Beer Goggles leads to lower chance of pregnancy.
Perfectly logical.
It was *MUCH* easier for me to sign up for basic TV + internet with Comcast than what I ended up doing. I wanted to keep everything at the magic $100/mo. number, so I went with AT&T - DirecTV partnership, where they give you DSL and a dish and DVR, and put it all on one bill. My DSL is 3Mb down/768kb up, where a Speakeasy test at my neighbor showed almost 12Mb down and nearly a full meg up. When he asked "why would you choose that?" - my answer was simple: Comcast.
AT&T doesn't touch my bandwidth. They don't cap it, they don't filter it - they aren't keeping a database of my URL lookups. That's worth a great deal to me - and Comcast will never get my business. I urge everyone else to do the same, even if it is some other DSL provider or dish provider.
"Do keep in mind that the legal definition is really, past all the smoke and mirrors, whatever the judge personally finds distasteful."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
Imagine what Kubrick, rest his soul, could do with these rights. There would be wide shots of asteroid fields, set to Strauss - with a 4 and a half hour run time, all of it filmed in natural light, where the asteroids hitting each other come to represent the extensional angst of human interaction with each other, where the main characters fracture and come apart slightly, just like the rocks.
The end could be a 20 minute pyrotechnic hallucination, where we - the viewer - no longer understand if the little ship or the rocks themselves are the protgaganist - Haley Joel Osment could stand in as a lost teenager, piloting the ship - never knowing why he is shooting the rocks, or even if he is human. On the side of his ship is painted the words "Me love you long time...", being both a metaphor and a literal phrase of what the ship is doing to the rocks.
Later, we found out that a secret sex cult has arranged the rocks to bang into each other for the pleasure of its sadistic members, who wear masks shaped like big asteroids. Lee Ermey marches in and screams "what is your major malfunction, did mommy and daddy not show you enough love?" to the cult. and of course, the movie ends with a Malcom McDowell voiceover while we see Jack Nicholson frozen in place on the asteroid surface.
Oh Stanley - had you only been here to do it!
Hoooooooooooogan!
I have a solution. We get Martin Landau to lead us on a Moonbase that we construct. Since it is the first moonbase ever, we will call it Moonbase Alpha. We detonate a nuclear weapon on the surface of the moon, causing it to rocket away from the Solar System, like when Wile E. Coyote attaches a bottle rocket to a car.
We launch out of the Solar System and into the galaxy, meeting strange alien beings along the way. We will build shuttlecraft, and call them "Eagles".
Earth crashes into Mars, we move into the deep reaches of space, exploring and adventuring! Let's get started, Martin doesn't have long to live!
Likewise, Centrify, Quest and others (Centrify especially) provide tools for all flavors of Linux, JBOSS Servers, Apache servers, and Oracle databases to all use AD for directory services. Centrify has tools for audit and command control that piggyback on restricted shell.
It's hard to argue against AD - even in your situation where the Microsoft boxes comprise the minority of systems.
Dammit - READ!
Pinball Construction Set is there. M.U.L.E. is not.
That title arguably kept Electronic Arts going during a rough patch. Also missing is M.U.L.E. No list is perfect, but those are major omissions.
Is John Chambers. Just pick up a copy of his trade rag... er... the respected publication Business 2.0. He's sure to be on the cover, and he will tell you just how famous he is.
Dr. Vasili Orlov: What was that all about?
Chandra: I've erased all of HAL's memory from the moment the trouble started.
Dr. Vasili Orlov: The 9000 series uses holographic memory so chronological erasures would not work.
Chandra: I made a tapeworm.
Walter Curnow: You made a what?
Chandra: It's a program that's fed into a system that will hunt down and destroy any desired memories.
They are filing a civil case against a state's attorney general (which will make it a federal hearing) - alleging what?
That his sidebar remarks that Craiglist executives could have criminal charges filed against them cost them revenue? Affected their listings?
McMaster is an asshole, no doubt. He may as well have said that Hugh Hefner was going to go to jail for publishing that salacious playboy magazine all these years. He is just looking to grandstand, possibly because he thinks he's going to run for governor someday.
I'd like to see Craigslist attorneys hand that douche a slapdown, but I'm not holding my breath that the actual tort here won't get tossed.
Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots
That is the title of the book you tell your 7th grade teacher you are GOING to write when you grow up.
Sounds like the FAQ for Robot Battle.
http://www.robotbattle.com/
When done correctly, the "cloud" is the internet itself. Google has network design issues, some of their key services only have a couple of ingresses into Tier-1 providers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_carrier
I don't work for them, i don't hold their stock, and I am not (currently) a customer, so I have no skin in their game, but Internap as a BUSINESS MODEL, becomes more important.
If you are a major company that comes to rely HEAVILY on Cloud Services, you want to insure that you have on-ramps into several Tier-1 providers ALL AT ONCE, without having to contract individually with 4 or 5 of them yourself. I predict more companies will mimic this model of aggregation, essentially handling the business of BGP optimization for customers, and handing customers 2 redundant pipes and saying "hey, don't worry if San Fran has an earthquake and these peering points blow up, we'll get you out via this Tier-1 backbone over to your cloud computing provider's service via this backbone within seconds. Let us handle that."
Especially with ISPs that get into pissing matches, like when Cogent and Telia got into it, and cut each other off. If you had Cogent as your only ISP, you were screwed if you wanted to get to a bunch of Swedish sites, because Cogent's CEO was trying to play chicken over some tariff rates. The cloud computing model will no longer tolerate that, it's not just some website, it's a BUSINESS function.
that's my take at least.
Can somebody tell me how to search for results that were indexed between a set of dates?
Let's say I want to search for "Linux multitasking", but I only want to see magazine articles or blog posts or what have you between 2003 and 2005. How do I do that?
I have tried [Linux multitask 2003..2005] but that doesn't really work. It gives me articles that have the year WITHIN the text, such as a 2007 article in which somebody discusses 2005. But not just articles that were posted between those years.
That is a way I would like to slice and dice but don't know how.
The EFF isn't going to take up a fight with a corporate policy. Never in a million years. If it is Fortune 15, then it is probably public, i.e. it's stock is public.
That's the only way you have to affect a reversal of that policy. Get a lot of shares amassed and invite yourself to a board meeting. Outside of that, forget it. The EFF won't touch it.