I seldom do anything important off wire, even on my own wireless network...
Because you run Windows, right?:)
My advice is to use a secure proxy (e.g. over OpenVPN) if you are concerned about local eavesdropping (residence, ISP). I use a VPN for all browsing and email, even from home, but this is particularly advised when travelling and using unknown residential/hotel/office networks.
1. Error reporting paths are not reliable (in fact it's notoriously terrible). Drive failure prediction is not reliable.
2. The data path is not reliable. That includes media, drive controller, firmware, buffers, cabling, controller, host RAM, and other host subsystems. Cosmic rays. Whatever might flip a bit anywhere in your system.
3. Given the foregoing, ZFS detects ALL errors between media and application, and (if redundancy is available) corrects them.
Traditional RAID doesn't even know which side of a mirror is the good side, if they don't match. Some RAID systems do checksumming but this doesn't protect you against errors in the rest of the datapath. And isolated storage subsystems like NetApp, no matter how sophisticated, also do not protect the whole longer more vulnerable datapath.
ZFS is unique in doing that, by design. Join the mailing list or study the material at opensolaris.org. It may change the way you think about storage.
...making Bill Gates and his cronies A LOT LESS POOR, however.
As usual, 'creative capitalism' is only going to deepen inequalities (that's what Bill epitomises, after all - the obscene, not to mention illegal, enrichment of one man at the expense of society in general).
it doesn't address one of the fundamental problems of open source: it's difficult to make a living writing open source code
That's because it's socially constructive - in other words, an honest occupation.
What's your point? It's difficult making a living doing anything that's socially constructive as opposed to socially destructive and/or dishonest (TV, Hollywood, big business, arms dealing, petrochemicals, big pharma, drug dealing, etc). That's a fundamental sickness in contemporary civilisation, and a message that's unfortunately unpalatable to many Americans.
if the whole world went open source, I'd have to go into management just to feed my family - Get prepared. Open source is the only viable future for software. The Gold Rush is over, Bill Gates won that round and already robbed the bank dry.
That said, nobody is threatening the proprietary software model that you describe. The threatened model is proprietary platforms, which were never any good anyway, and were actively destructive (mainly via lockin, and simple thievery). Open source is a win-win by providing high quality, free platforms and infrastructure, which allows high quality proprietary (non-distributed, for example) solutions to be developed cheaply. You can continue earning money building solutions for your employer. But if you're in the software industry trying to sell those, you're going to have to compete on merit, instead of taking the Microsoft model of using dirty tricks to keep people locked into a mediocre product. I don't see a downside here.:-)
By Chris Espinosa, Joanna Hoffman, et al. The manual was called Inside Macintosh, the draft I received is dated 1983, lovingly daisywheel printed, and apparently it's what the rest cribbed from (Command-Z,X,C,V for Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste was one of the rules established by IM).
"There's such a disconnect between what people experience in their cars and what they experience in the rest of their lives.'"
He says that like it's a bad thing.
A car takes us from point A to point B. It's already the dumbest means of transport ever invented - Microsoft's meddling can hardly improve things. Leave the gadgets at home.
being willing to do anything legal to make a buck isn't good. It's pretty evil.
C'mon, that's half of the American way! The other half is of course doing illegal stuff for a buck, which MS never shied from, and if nobody cares in the DoJ, we can still hope the EU isn't going to tolerate it.
Remember: Money is EVERYTHING! How you get it doesn't matter. - Gates' credo, in its essence.
MS is not only uncivilised, it's one of the greatest contemporary threats to civilisation. However, human beings have a knack for routing around damage; Microsoft, long irrelevant, are increasingly ignored...
Pre-shared X.509 certs, plus an optional pre-shared transport access key.
That said, incredibly, I've seen some sysadmins email OpenVPN certificate/key pairs around.:-( In both cases, people who considered themselves security experts...
Every few months I have a nasty enough experience on irc to send me elsewhere for amusement for a while.
A couple of weeks ago I bumped into a very unpleasant individual on #erlang. Only a few days afterwards the generally abrasive op-clique on #mysql made one too many unnecessarily-rude remarks in my direction, and I decided to get my kicks elsewhere for a while. It's the channel's loss, as I enjoyed helping people there - often while nobody else was around to help.
Generally the sociopaths on irc (or anywhere, really) are Americans. There's some kind of fundamental social training y'all are not getting down there. Until you learn to socialise in a healthy way - I'll avoid you as necessary. HAND.
At a first glance, isn't dumping huge quantities of lime (fertiliser) into the sea causing the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone? AFAIK it is only killing marine life in an area the size of New Jersey - not solving global warming...
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"The squeaky wheel gets the oil."
I seldom do anything important off wire, even on my own wireless network...
Because you run Windows, right? :)
My advice is to use a secure proxy (e.g. over OpenVPN) if you are concerned about local eavesdropping (residence, ISP). I use a VPN for all browsing and email, even from home, but this is particularly advised when travelling and using unknown residential/hotel/office networks.
Nice society you're building there.
Is that considered normal in the US? Because it's contradictory to civilised principles elsewhere.
Miguel is irrelevant. Microsoft is irrelevant. Mono is irrelevant. Moon/Silverlight is irrelevant. Stop publishing the FUD.
1. Error reporting paths are not reliable (in fact it's notoriously terrible). Drive failure prediction is not reliable.
2. The data path is not reliable. That includes media, drive controller, firmware, buffers, cabling, controller, host RAM, and other host subsystems. Cosmic rays. Whatever might flip a bit anywhere in your system.
3. Given the foregoing, ZFS detects ALL errors between media and application, and (if redundancy is available) corrects them.
Traditional RAID doesn't even know which side of a mirror is the good side, if they don't match. Some RAID systems do checksumming but this doesn't protect you against errors in the rest of the datapath. And isolated storage subsystems like NetApp, no matter how sophisticated, also do not protect the whole longer more vulnerable datapath.
ZFS is unique in doing that, by design. Join the mailing list or study the material at opensolaris.org. It may change the way you think about storage.
...making Bill Gates and his cronies A LOT LESS POOR, however.
As usual, 'creative capitalism' is only going to deepen inequalities (that's what Bill epitomises, after all - the obscene, not to mention illegal, enrichment of one man at the expense of society in general).
If they discovered intelligent life in the White House.
it doesn't address one of the fundamental problems of open source: it's difficult to make a living writing open source code
That's because it's socially constructive - in other words, an honest occupation.
What's your point? It's difficult making a living doing anything that's socially constructive as opposed to socially destructive and/or dishonest (TV, Hollywood, big business, arms dealing, petrochemicals, big pharma, drug dealing, etc). That's a fundamental sickness in contemporary civilisation, and a message that's unfortunately unpalatable to many Americans.
if the whole world went open source, I'd have to go into management just to feed my family - Get prepared. Open source is the only viable future for software. The Gold Rush is over, Bill Gates won that round and already robbed the bank dry.
That said, nobody is threatening the proprietary software model that you describe. The threatened model is proprietary platforms, which were never any good anyway, and were actively destructive (mainly via lockin, and simple thievery). Open source is a win-win by providing high quality, free platforms and infrastructure, which allows high quality proprietary (non-distributed, for example) solutions to be developed cheaply. You can continue earning money building solutions for your employer. But if you're in the software industry trying to sell those, you're going to have to compete on merit, instead of taking the Microsoft model of using dirty tricks to keep people locked into a mediocre product. I don't see a downside here. :-)
We are judged by what we DO.
Goes for Microsoft, Bush, just as much as you and me.
MS are trying to gently persuade people to stop development for all platforms in favour of Windows only.
n/t
Fuck 'em
By Chris Espinosa, Joanna Hoffman, et al. The manual was called Inside Macintosh, the draft I received is dated 1983, lovingly daisywheel printed, and apparently it's what the rest cribbed from (Command-Z,X,C,V for Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste was one of the rules established by IM).
What, you're not using agile/rapid development tools/techniques??
"There's such a disconnect between what people experience in their cars and what they experience in the rest of their lives.'"
He says that like it's a bad thing.
A car takes us from point A to point B. It's already the dumbest means of transport ever invented - Microsoft's meddling can hardly improve things. Leave the gadgets at home.
"educational" software available for XP that will soon be ported to Vista
Isn't the big lock-in idea that you don't have to *port* anything forward? What's the point of Vista if it won't run your existing apps?
Otherwise, port it to a real operating system :)
like MS is talking out both sides of their mouth or something
being willing to do anything legal to make a buck isn't good. It's pretty evil.
C'mon, that's half of the American way! The other half is of course doing illegal stuff for a buck, which MS never shied from, and if nobody cares in the DoJ, we can still hope the EU isn't going to tolerate it.
Remember: Money is EVERYTHING! How you get it doesn't matter. - Gates' credo, in its essence.
MS is not only uncivilised, it's one of the greatest contemporary threats to civilisation. However, human beings have a knack for routing around damage; Microsoft, long irrelevant, are increasingly ignored...
Microsoft could give all their money to me tomorrow (and I hope they do!)
You'd go hand it back to everyone they stole it from?
Seriously, money isn't everything unless you're as sociopathic as Gates.
Bill Parish has something to say about MS' financials.
a well-established business model which works
You mean the one Gates copied from the Mafia?
Pre-shared X.509 certs, plus an optional pre-shared transport access key.
That said, incredibly, I've seen some sysadmins email OpenVPN certificate/key pairs around. :-( In both cases, people who considered themselves security experts...
If you aren't already using it, check OpenVPN out, it's wonderful.
Every few months I have a nasty enough experience on irc to send me elsewhere for amusement for a while.
A couple of weeks ago I bumped into a very unpleasant individual on #erlang. Only a few days afterwards the generally abrasive op-clique on #mysql made one too many unnecessarily-rude remarks in my direction, and I decided to get my kicks elsewhere for a while. It's the channel's loss, as I enjoyed helping people there - often while nobody else was around to help.
Generally the sociopaths on irc (or anywhere, really) are Americans. There's some kind of fundamental social training y'all are not getting down there. Until you learn to socialise in a healthy way - I'll avoid you as necessary. HAND.
Don LaFuckingFontaine to read the voiceover.
At a first glance, isn't dumping huge quantities of lime (fertiliser) into the sea causing the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone? AFAIK it is only killing marine life in an area the size of New Jersey - not solving global warming...