More efficiency. You mean instead of constantly checking the pitchers, that person can do something else. You mean instead of hiring 5 people to maintain beer pitcher levels, they can hire 3 instead.
Great, so now instead of paying a person to make the rounds and ensure everyone has a supply of beer we can replace them with a machine. Whatever can't be outsourced..
How many people does it take to make "large numbers".. I guess living in the backyard of a major industrial company, anything less than a thousand seems like a drop in the bucket. Big deal, SCO with it's 270ish employees is going to lay off another 10%? The local fast food joint going out of business puts more out of work than that!
Well, how hard would it be for someone to oh, use the "mount" command after they ssh in as root. Or perhaps they can zero out your harddrive. Seems likea fairly serious security hole to me. If you're behind a firewall that blocks ssh access (and nobody inside the firewall is a threat... ) it maybe a non-issue, but otherwise I wouldn't be putting that on the net.
This is a great idea! We could have Linux Identification Numbers (like VIN) and they would be able to tell you everything you need to know. So, a sample LIN number could be
WSPKY474X4F000001
Where W means it's made in germany, KY means it runs 2.6 kernel, and so forth and so on. Then all you gotta do is ask the person for their LIN number and you know everything about their distribution and release! Genius!
I think I'd find it a lot easier to become attached to my computer. Let's face it, Bob & Clippy appear more masculine than feminine.
Let's give a computer a personality, and give that personality an animated image. An athletic hot chick, wearing skimpy clothing (although being highly intelligent) with a nice (not overly cheesy "sexy" though) voice. I think it would work, people would become attached. (Of course, that's the opposite of what every company with the power to do this really wants, force people to upgrade, don't get them attached to their current PC!)
I'm not gonna do any free advertising for anyone (I don't know of any free research databases, however most colleges pay for access for their students), but the easy way to get around this is with an online research database. Dead tree publications, including newspapers, magazines, books, research journals, just about anything you could ever want in a searchable database. Plus, it'll give you just the articles or pages in a book that match your search query! Generally with the bibliography format done for you.
What I want to know, is how they plan to administer security updates. If it were Debian or Fedora etc, an auto-update system wouldn't be hard to implement. But, being LFS, they could put into place any number of methods for security updates (or, they could omit it -- which is what I would suspect.) It wouldn't look so good if next week we see this story again, except all the 200 machines were hacked and had to be shut down til they can fix it.
Yuck, you have to buy physical cards? The pricing seems about on par with vmobile, if you purchase the yearly cards. (The first year is a little better, following years are worse however as compared to vmobile. $100 for 200 minutes (or even 220) is more than $0.25 per minute.) Besides, you're chaining yourself up for a whole year.
We can't outsource everything for a simple reason. Once we produce no exportable goods, we'll have no way of paying the would be workers in other countries. Someone still has to produce exportable goods. If they can convince some country like india to do all the work so we can sell it back to them at a higher price, that will work. I don't think it'll happen though, because once that country gets enough experience they're going to realize they don't need us and we're ripping them off. So, we'll have to produce something exportable using Americans eventually, either that or stop importing and eliminate outsourced jobs and we can all be homeless bums.
When I was on Sprint's vision internet service hooked to my laptop, the speeds were much less than I had hoped for. Initially I could pull in around 70kbps down (and something like 20 up, nothing exciting up anyway.) Then I realized I was using a test that mainly consisted of loading images (which on sprint were put through pretty drastic compression giving artificially high scores on tests that used them.) My actual rates were closer to 30kbps, though there was a period of about a month I couldn't get above 5kbps. It's probably one of those things where location is key. Be in the right spot and the service kicks ass.
I agree that they can have it BSD licensed no problems if they program it from scratch, but somehow referring to it as the "SGI XFS port" sounds like they're taking the existing GPL implementation and porting it. My guess is it'll be like the ext2fs parts, GPL code on BSD.
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Isn't Douglas Adams the same guy who couldn't come to an agreement with Disney on choosing actors, the movie script, etc and actually broke off the deal? If he was still alive, would this movie be getting made?
Debian does get referenced more than anyone else (or at least has in the past, I haven't checked recently) on security stuff.
No surprise, it has 4000 packages. Compare Debian with every MTA under the sun included to Redhat with only a couple and gee, I wonder what's going to happen. As long as you don't happen to be running 15 different programs that do the same job simply because debian has them you'll be far safer on Debian than most anyone else (very low security incidence per package.)
That said, the recent gpg thing kinda upset me. El Gamel key's.. Redhat/Fedora had the updates out in November I think, and Debian just released an update in the last week for it. Not a major security flaw, but boy a long time to fix it.
You do little but confuse everyone by referring to standard source tarballs as.tgz -- yes, some are named.tgz but (especially) when talking slackware, calling them.tgz is going to make people confuse them for the slackware packages (also.tgz, but not the same.)
The guy that created the dreamcatcher modules (among others) was offered a job at bioware. He turned it down though. Therefore, it stands to reason -- you could get a job this way. Good luck
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I guess that means I'm getting 100mbps dsl in 2005?
It used to be available right here.
Okay, so it's now "out of stock" -- kinda wishing I had purchased my own copy instead of renting it.
More efficiency. You mean instead of constantly checking the pitchers, that person can do something else. You mean instead of hiring 5 people to maintain beer pitcher levels, they can hire 3 instead.
Great, so now instead of paying a person to make the rounds and ensure everyone has a supply of beer we can replace them with a machine. Whatever can't be outsourced..
How many people does it take to make "large numbers" .. I guess living in the backyard of a major industrial company, anything less than a thousand seems like a drop in the bucket. Big deal, SCO with it's 270ish employees is going to lay off another 10%? The local fast food joint going out of business puts more out of work than that!
Well, how hard would it be for someone to oh, use the "mount" command after they ssh in as root. Or perhaps they can zero out your harddrive. Seems likea fairly serious security hole to me. If you're behind a firewall that blocks ssh access (and nobody inside the firewall is a threat ... ) it maybe a non-issue, but otherwise I wouldn't be putting that on the net.
This is a great idea! We could have Linux Identification Numbers (like VIN) and they would be able to tell you everything you need to know. So, a sample LIN number could be
WSPKY474X4F000001
Where W means it's made in germany, KY means it runs 2.6 kernel, and so forth and so on. Then all you gotta do is ask the person for their LIN number and you know everything about their distribution and release! Genius!
I think I'd find it a lot easier to become attached to my computer. Let's face it, Bob & Clippy appear more masculine than feminine.
Let's give a computer a personality, and give that personality an animated image. An athletic hot chick, wearing skimpy clothing (although being highly intelligent) with a nice (not overly cheesy "sexy" though) voice. I think it would work, people would become attached. (Of course, that's the opposite of what every company with the power to do this really wants, force people to upgrade, don't get them attached to their current PC!)
I'm not gonna do any free advertising for anyone (I don't know of any free research databases, however most colleges pay for access for their students), but the easy way to get around this is with an online research database. Dead tree publications, including newspapers, magazines, books, research journals, just about anything you could ever want in a searchable database. Plus, it'll give you just the articles or pages in a book that match your search query! Generally with the bibliography format done for you.
I think "dropped" usually means "went down" -- of course, SCOX's stock was actually a little under $4 one year ago, so it's UP over the last year!
What I want to know, is how they plan to administer security updates. If it were Debian or Fedora etc, an auto-update system wouldn't be hard to implement. But, being LFS, they could put into place any number of methods for security updates (or, they could omit it -- which is what I would suspect.) It wouldn't look so good if next week we see this story again, except all the 200 machines were hacked and had to be shut down til they can fix it.
Yuck, you have to buy physical cards? The pricing seems about on par with vmobile, if you purchase the yearly cards. (The first year is a little better, following years are worse however as compared to vmobile. $100 for 200 minutes (or even 220) is more than $0.25 per minute.) Besides, you're chaining yourself up for a whole year.
We can't outsource everything for a simple reason. Once we produce no exportable goods, we'll have no way of paying the would be workers in other countries. Someone still has to produce exportable goods. If they can convince some country like india to do all the work so we can sell it back to them at a higher price, that will work. I don't think it'll happen though, because once that country gets enough experience they're going to realize they don't need us and we're ripping them off. So, we'll have to produce something exportable using Americans eventually, either that or stop importing and eliminate outsourced jobs and we can all be homeless bums.
When I was on Sprint's vision internet service hooked to my laptop, the speeds were much less than I had hoped for. Initially I could pull in around 70kbps down (and something like 20 up, nothing exciting up anyway.) Then I realized I was using a test that mainly consisted of loading images (which on sprint were put through pretty drastic compression giving artificially high scores on tests that used them.) My actual rates were closer to 30kbps, though there was a period of about a month I couldn't get above 5kbps. It's probably one of those things where location is key. Be in the right spot and the service kicks ass.
I agree that they can have it BSD licensed no problems if they program it from scratch, but somehow referring to it as the "SGI XFS port" sounds like they're taking the existing GPL implementation and porting it. My guess is it'll be like the ext2fs parts, GPL code on BSD.
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Personally, I thought the idea of a flashlight on a phone was insane, who needs a light on their phone? Different tastes..
Isn't Douglas Adams the same guy who couldn't come to an agreement with Disney on choosing actors, the movie script, etc and actually broke off the deal? If he was still alive, would this movie be getting made?
If you want to learn more about the slackware .tgz format, read the section on Slackware packages from the slackware book.
Debian does get referenced more than anyone else (or at least has in the past, I haven't checked recently) on security stuff. No surprise, it has 4000 packages. Compare Debian with every MTA under the sun included to Redhat with only a couple and gee, I wonder what's going to happen. As long as you don't happen to be running 15 different programs that do the same job simply because debian has them you'll be far safer on Debian than most anyone else (very low security incidence per package.) That said, the recent gpg thing kinda upset me. El Gamel key's.. Redhat/Fedora had the updates out in November I think, and Debian just released an update in the last week for it. Not a major security flaw, but boy a long time to fix it.
You do little but confuse everyone by referring to standard source tarballs as .tgz -- yes, some are named .tgz but (especially) when talking slackware, calling them .tgz is going to make people confuse them for the slackware packages (also .tgz, but not the same.)
The guy that created the dreamcatcher modules (among others) was offered a job at bioware. He turned it down though. Therefore, it stands to reason -- you could get a job this way. Good luck