Re:Linux uptime. - most irrelevant post evah
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NYSE Moves to Linux
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Sigh, how did that get modded up?
This anecdote of some n00b's pr0n server running on a laptop in Iraq of all places could not be LESS relevant to conditions in the NYSE's data centre.
UNIX has had magnificent uptimes since about 1973. If anyone is surprised UNIX/Linux servers are reliable, they have been living under a rock (or maybe living in Windows-alterna-world).
Definitive novels dealing with intergalactic contact are Stanislaw Lem's Fiasco and Eden. I cannot recommend these books highly enough as explorations of human psychology and what-could-possibly-go-wrong!
Sure, it's exciting, but it's not a life threatening "I'll die if I don't get medical attention in 10 minutes" thing. Nature is really good at making sure there are plenty of humans successfully pushed out to... uh... join Greenpeace, shun cars and heedless consumption, and preserve the planet for the next exponentially large generations. Yeah.
Some people will keep gpl2 as their license, others will go gpl3, bsd, or one of any of the OSI licenses for the most part, because people like attribution, they like retaining (some) control of their work.
Exactly. And the headache is in the troller's imagination. It's like imagining that one gets a headache every morning because there are 75 brands of cereal you can buy. Stupid FUDding summary. People (including djb) use the license they want to use, no more, no less.
I didn't RTFA but have a passing familiarity with the context in Russia...
One might have said, instead, "in opposition to", or "promoting a party which is an alternative to". But democracy is such a quaint concept these days - as Reichsleiter Gonzales might say. (Even the recent ouster of Australia's pygmy fascist Howard does not restore confidence, since that public already elected Howard twice, the second time unforgivably.)
While it may save you from a catastrophic drive failure, despite popular belief RAID generally cannot detect or repair corruption*... you really need ZFS (part of Solaris 10 and being integrated into OS X).
* - the short answer: because it reads only one side of a mirror and does not checksum. Drives and controllers do not reliably report errors and nor can RAID do anything about hardware issues such as RAM, cable, controller, or firmware bugs. (ZFS has other features further improving integrity, such as COW.)
You want to strap my anesthetised body on to a gurney over which crouches a robot on autopilot with scalpels for fingers and programmed to cut me up? No thanks... I'm ready to die the good old fashioned way...
3 digits never got me laid. But with a 2 digit... I'd be dating Natalie Portman AND Giselle Bundchen for sure, and I'd know what to do with both digits.
Being British myself, and having modified my own communications to fit North American cultural scopes, I decided to scan the review for these claimed "Britishisms". A North American may be forgiven for not knowing who Kenny Everett is - although he certainly was broadcast as far afield as the former British colony Australia (now a military and cultural outpost of the USA) - but apart from that, what are the other impenetrable Britishisms?
Can't be bidet - a strictly Continental idea; "serendipitous" is surely common usage by now, though coined of course by a Brit; Chris Moyles - well who cares - one can assume he's the UK's Michael Richards - ditto; Boswell and Dr Johnson are simply subjects of general knowledge; Ravel is no Pom and his Boléro no English hymn; ah, Jeremy Clarkson, there you may have a point, laddie. Cholmondeley-Warner is just a television character, innit. Anything else?
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Sigh, how did that get modded up?
This anecdote of some n00b's pr0n server running on a laptop in Iraq of all places could not be LESS relevant to conditions in the NYSE's data centre.
UNIX has had magnificent uptimes since about 1973. If anyone is surprised UNIX/Linux servers are reliable, they have been living under a rock (or maybe living in Windows-alterna-world).
Definitive novels dealing with intergalactic contact are Stanislaw Lem's Fiasco and Eden. I cannot recommend these books highly enough as explorations of human psychology and what-could-possibly-go-wrong!
Pregnancy != emergency.
Sure, it's exciting, but it's not a life threatening "I'll die if I don't get medical attention in 10 minutes" thing. Nature is really good at making sure there are plenty of humans successfully pushed out to... uh... join Greenpeace, shun cars and heedless consumption, and preserve the planet for the next exponentially large generations. Yeah.
Hmm... I wonder if they give a damn that their state-wide reliance on Windows is another accident waiting to happen.
Care about trojans, keyloggers, viruses, and all the other uncountable ways to lose confidential data, not to mention productivity?
Get rid of Windows as well. You'll never regret it.
Some people will keep gpl2 as their license, others will go gpl3, bsd, or one of any of the OSI licenses for the most part, because people like attribution, they like retaining (some) control of their work.
Exactly. And the headache is in the troller's imagination. It's like imagining that one gets a headache every morning because there are 75 brands of cereal you can buy. Stupid FUDding summary. People (including djb) use the license they want to use, no more, no less.
as long as there is no patent preventing that
Interesting choice of words, "against Putin."
I didn't RTFA but have a passing familiarity with the context in Russia...
One might have said, instead, "in opposition to", or "promoting a party which is an alternative to". But democracy is such a quaint concept these days - as Reichsleiter Gonzales might say. (Even the recent ouster of Australia's pygmy fascist Howard does not restore confidence, since that public already elected Howard twice, the second time unforgivably.)
While it may save you from a catastrophic drive failure, despite popular belief RAID generally cannot detect or repair corruption*... you really need ZFS (part of Solaris 10 and being integrated into OS X).
* - the short answer: because it reads only one side of a mirror and does not checksum. Drives and controllers do not reliably report errors and nor can RAID do anything about hardware issues such as RAM, cable, controller, or firmware bugs. (ZFS has other features further improving integrity, such as COW.)
"What do you want rammed up your a** today?"
Travellers to the US have been fingerprinted for some time - not to mention all the other indignities they endure. Reciprocity is a bitch, isn't it.
It's not as if spectacularly better alternatives don't exist.
Btw, it's "Multics" not "MULTICS".
Probably the best source for Multics-related information is this site.
Here.
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Link, Therac-25.
You want to strap my anesthetised body on to a gurney over which crouches a robot on autopilot with scalpels for fingers and programmed to cut me up? No thanks... I'm ready to die the good old fashioned way...
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3 digits never got me laid. But with a 2 digit... I'd be dating Natalie Portman AND Giselle Bundchen for sure, and I'd know what to do with both digits.
it's great that the world's largest software maker is fighting to give more options to people in need
Yep! That's their mission!
In other news, Global Warming benefits public health! according to White House flack.
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That's not going to make Sun very happy.
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I only lived there for 35 years, you'd think I would know of what I speak.
Being British myself, and having modified my own communications to fit North American cultural scopes, I decided to scan the review for these claimed "Britishisms". A North American may be forgiven for not knowing who Kenny Everett is - although he certainly was broadcast as far afield as the former British colony Australia (now a military and cultural outpost of the USA) - but apart from that, what are the other impenetrable Britishisms?
Can't be bidet - a strictly Continental idea; "serendipitous" is surely common usage by now, though coined of course by a Brit; Chris Moyles - well who cares - one can assume he's the UK's Michael Richards - ditto; Boswell and Dr Johnson are simply subjects of general knowledge; Ravel is no Pom and his Boléro no English hymn; ah, Jeremy Clarkson, there you may have a point, laddie. Cholmondeley-Warner is just a television character, innit. Anything else?