What makes you think the company's management is acting illogically? The system works, the computers get the job done and there are no problems other than the fact that someone hired as a System Administrator now wants to be an I.S. Manager and feels he needs a few more people on staff to justify that title. This company isn't in the business of running a computer network, so why should it dedicate more staff than necessary to maintaining one perfectly when there's nothing impeding the daily running of what the comapny does do?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Obviously this System Administrator thinks that proper I.S. management is the well-spring of all company productivity, but everything looks like a nail to someone with a hammer. I say he just accept the fact that he isn't going to advance his career very far at this company. He should quit for that reason, but don't blame the company for it.
Bingo - this is exactly the difference between OpenOffice and MS Office. But ultimately it's just a matter of exchanging the OS' virtual paging system for an internal system that loads and unloads as required. You'll still end up getting a fair amount of swapping in both cases, but the latter (which MS Office uses) makes it *appear* that there's less memory being used. In reality, most of OpenOffice's used memory is committed to the swap file anyway.
It's pretty clear you have no idea what you're talking about - Sonar operates in the VHF to UHF range, so even at the high-power end, it only has a transmittable range of 2 to 5 miles through the water.
Also, SOSUS, as you probably know, is a series of underwater microphones that is monitored from a shore-based station. It does nothing for ships and other submarines trying to search for something in an area with no pre-place microphones. Passive sonar has a very limited range and does little to detect most diesel submarines (ditto SOSUS), and Magnetic Anonmaly Detection can only be used if the detector is literally on top of the target. NOt much use there.
Do you suppose that maybe the hundreds of Navy research scientists who think about this stuff for a living may know something you don't about it?
It bears pointing out that the only reason that mobile networks are so relatively less evolved in North America is because of the vast area of coverage required and the high level of landline service quality over there.
When I lived in Canada I could get a landline in my home (with unlimited free local calling) for less than 10 pounds a month. I could call long-distance from Halifax to Vancouver for less than I'd pay to call locally with a landline here in Exeter. And the call quality is certainly better with a landline.
The fact is that mobile phones are seen as an unnecessary luxury in NA, and nobody gives much thought to the extra gadgets.
I'm a fan of babyTEL VoIP, myself. They're only available here in Canada, but it looks like they'll be offering service in the US within the next year. Definitely the cheapest long-distance I've seen.
Yeah, that was my experience with Vonage too - and the tech support isn't anything to write home about. I use BabyTel now and they look to be the cheapest around. All their packages have all the features and the sound quality is just like a regular landline. Not that cell-phone quality noise you get with Vonage.
For me, BabyTel is all about the features - I think they're still the only guys doing voicemail-to-email in Canada, and they don't charge a small fortune for such luxuries as caller ID and call waiting and voicemail. It's all included in the base price. I can deal with a one-time chrage of $20 for that.
BabyTEL has a plan that lets you make unlimited calls to any city in Canada (just about) for $25 per month. And that's in Canadian dollars.
Strange that they're not mentioned in the article - they're the third-largest provider in Canada, after Vonage and Primus. I use them myself and can't get enough of them, after some nasty experiences with Vonage.
Since no one seems to be able to moderate-down this obvious troll (perhaps for fear that someone will discry the suppression of an "alternate view") I'll compose a reasoned answer.
Linus really needs to get a job at a company not working on linux, so he can see all the design mistakes in linux
Linus works at Transmeta. Transmeta designs chips. Linus is given time to work on Linux by Transmeta, but he does no work with the company on Linux.
Kernel debuggers, file system VMM issues
relating the journaled FS's, RAS
I have to admit that I haven't heard the great outcry for kernel debuggers, except by kernel developers, who clearly like the design of Linux or they wouldn't be developing it. Linux has a journaling FS. Period. Go get it from teh usual sources.
Linux will be prime time when you can sit it down next to a commercial OS like AIX, Solaris, or Win2k and do a
feature by feature comparison
Been there, done that. Check the/. archives. Linux compares favourably.
without having to install 200 conflicting kernel patches that make half ass untested unstable changes to 20
different builds of the kernel.
I haven't updated the kernel or installed a patch in over a year. Call me a Luddite, but 2.3 works quite well.
The article says that this is a potentially huge problem, but the fact of the matter is that it's:
a) very hard to do, and
b) rather limited in practical damage-causing.
This issue is more founded in a company trying to make a name for itself by announcing a "huge" security flaw but it also appeals to the public at large to imagine that there might be some terrible hole underpinning the electronic revolution (like as in Y2K or the fuss around some dot.coms going belly up). Besides, this isn't a hole so much as a feature that can be used in a negative way. I don't think the possibility of doing this went unobserved by the hundreds of people involved in developing TCP.
While that is, strictly speaking, seven lines long, it's only because it's like 30 statements strung together. Did the student get extra points for obfuscation?
Very few missiles (read: almost none) are GPS guided. They tend to use inertial guidance, active/passive radar, or ground maps rather than GPS because a GPS signal can be replicated (or blocked) as easily as any remote-control signal.
Plus, in any major conflict, the first thing to go down would be the GPS satellites, hence the military teaches alternate navigation skills (celestial, map reading for pilots, etc). Damage to the GPS system would mostly affect merchant shipping and just sort of annoy any military organization worth its salt.
Judging by your the names of your workstations, I see that you're a farily well-read fellow. Who, then, would you rate as your favorite writers and what specific genre do you prefer?
Also, is Thomas Wolfe or Tom Wolfe the wolfe in question?
I find your perspective, as a retired Petty Officer Cook, on international diplomacy, health care, and huge organization mobilization and management to be particularly irrelevant.
To begin with, you are clearly a Republican and because of this you find fault with eveything touched by the Clinton government. I, for one, can't speak to this, being Canadian, but being an officer in the Navy here and witnessing our force receive a 40% reduction in rather less than eight years I can sympathize nonethless. You are partially angry because of the effect of their reduced military priorities, but you are more offended than even this should warrant.
I also can't say much about the state of your forces' medical care, but if it is anything like here, it is, at worst, non-coddling. Your pink-eye/bronchitis example: were you put to work on the food line, or were you set to washing dishes, having been told not to touch your eye or cough on anything? Contaminated eye medication: a medical discharge is not as heartless as it sounds - your friend would have been honourably discharged and receiving compensation pay for the rest of their life. All enormous organizations make terrible mistakes - it's the law of averages - but the military generally pays for them handsomely and you can bet someone got in a whole lot of trouble for that.
Food poisoning: whoever was supervising the galley (what's a kitchen?) should have arranged to get more soap. Anyone returning to work from there without properly washing their hands and telling the Chief Cook about the lack of soap should punished.
Slavery: the US military is notorious for having poor officer/rating relations. I attribute this partially to the size of the organization, partially to the low standard of basic training that such a huge recruiting requirement would engender, and partially to the average American's over-inflated sense of self-worth: those selected as officers have a chance to treat someone like shit, and those selected as rates feel undervalued even when treated well.
48 hours no sleep or food: There's no life like it. I still can't envision how this would have happened.
Somalia: Don't see the problem for you, but I do see that you weren't actually close enough to know exactly what was happening on land.
As a final word, throwing around those stupid US military acronyms doesn't much serve to impress, although it does attest to the inflated sense of self-worth, as mentioned above.
Geoff
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A very similar variation of Harrison's chronometer was used in the navy (well, Canadian Navy, anyhow) up until the late '60s. One on each ship was kept in a massive refrigerated unit that kept the temperature constant so as to maintain accurate time. This was opened once a week in order to set the time of another chronometer that was kept for daily use.
Then digital watches came along and blew all that out of the water. Sigh.
There are some pretty astounding military repercussions of this device (which explains the price - it's not a product aimed at pranksters). Since Most modern military weapons (guided missiles, SAMs, SSMs, fighter jets, etc) are GPS guided, land bases and ships can easily defend themselves by switching on a GPS jammer. A $7500 device to defeat million-dollar technology is a very good investment. The American military is particularly dependent on GPS tech (having invented it, they jumped on the bandwagon with more vigour) so this bad news for their fleet of GPS navigators.
Obviously you shouldn't use drugs to replace a loving relationship or a job you enjoy. Drugs a simply a way to undergo something completely different from your normal experience. You should use them (if you choose to) for the same reason that people go off hiking for months at a time, or go away to work in third-world countries.
Have you ever had those evenings when you're just sitting around doing nothing - maybe watching TV or flipping through old magazines? These are the times when you should try smoking pot. If you've nothing better to do and want to see things from another point of view, or just feel really good. Clearly, however, you've already made up your mind; but I would invite to experience what it is like before dismissing it or passing judgement.
Incidentally, I don't smoke up on anything even approaching a regular basis - maybe two or three times a year.
This is a philosophy I must appreciate and respect. Therefore it is only for Fermi staff, family and friends. It sounds as though Fermi itself is rather ambivalent about keeping people out - they are only sending this for the sake of Comdex. Also note that it is open to Fermi staff, family and friends. If there aren't tickets to this thing how are they going to filter people at the door - "Oh, I'm a friend of... Bob who works in... particle acceleration." - and it doesn't seem as though Fermi cares enough to bother with ticketing. This message was just to appease Comdex - I'm willing to bet that if you show up you'll get in.
Wish I was in Chicago now (well, not really, but I wish I could go to the speeches).
Well, running NT was a mistake - I was installing a hard drive from a "top-o-the-line" 486 and booted it by mistake. I have to say I was quite shocked - it was slow as all hell, but I could run Eudora from across the network.
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What makes you think the company's management is acting illogically? The system works, the computers get the job done and there are no problems other than the fact that someone hired as a System Administrator now wants to be an I.S. Manager and feels he needs a few more people on staff to justify that title. This company isn't in the business of running a computer network, so why should it dedicate more staff than necessary to maintaining one perfectly when there's nothing impeding the daily running of what the comapny does do?
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Obviously this System Administrator thinks that proper I.S. management is the well-spring of all company productivity, but everything looks like a nail to someone with a hammer. I say he just accept the fact that he isn't going to advance his career very far at this company. He should quit for that reason, but don't blame the company for it.
Bingo - this is exactly the difference between OpenOffice and MS Office. But ultimately it's just a matter of exchanging the OS' virtual paging system for an internal system that loads and unloads as required. You'll still end up getting a fair amount of swapping in both cases, but the latter (which MS Office uses) makes it *appear* that there's less memory being used. In reality, most of OpenOffice's used memory is committed to the swap file anyway.
It's pretty clear you have no idea what you're talking about - Sonar operates in the VHF to UHF range, so even at the high-power end, it only has a transmittable range of 2 to 5 miles through the water.
Also, SOSUS, as you probably know, is a series of underwater microphones that is monitored from a shore-based station. It does nothing for ships and other submarines trying to search for something in an area with no pre-place microphones. Passive sonar has a very limited range and does little to detect most diesel submarines (ditto SOSUS), and Magnetic Anonmaly Detection can only be used if the detector is literally on top of the target. NOt much use there.
Do you suppose that maybe the hundreds of Navy research scientists who think about this stuff for a living may know something you don't about it?
Can I take the collosal comment silence surrounding this entry to mean that no one else has heard of this movie either?
It bears pointing out that the only reason that mobile networks are so relatively less evolved in North America is because of the vast area of coverage required and the high level of landline service quality over there.
When I lived in Canada I could get a landline in my home (with unlimited free local calling) for less than 10 pounds a month. I could call long-distance from Halifax to Vancouver for less than I'd pay to call locally with a landline here in Exeter. And the call quality is certainly better with a landline.
The fact is that mobile phones are seen as an unnecessary luxury in NA, and nobody gives much thought to the extra gadgets.
I'm a fan of babyTEL VoIP, myself. They're only available here in Canada, but it looks like they'll be offering service in the US within the next year. Definitely the cheapest long-distance I've seen.
Yeah, that was my experience with Vonage too - and the tech support isn't anything to write home about. I use BabyTel now and they look to be the cheapest around. All their packages have all the features and the sound quality is just like a regular landline. Not that cell-phone quality noise you get with Vonage.
For me, BabyTel is all about the features - I think they're still the only guys doing voicemail-to-email in Canada, and they don't charge a small fortune for such luxuries as caller ID and call waiting and voicemail. It's all included in the base price. I can deal with a one-time chrage of $20 for that.
Strange that they're not mentioned in the article - they're the third-largest provider in Canada, after Vonage and Primus. I use them myself and can't get enough of them, after some nasty experiences with Vonage.
Linus really needs to get a job at a company not working on linux, so he can see all the design mistakes in linux
Linus works at Transmeta. Transmeta designs chips. Linus is given time to work on Linux by Transmeta, but he does no work with the company on Linux.
Kernel debuggers, file system VMM issues relating the journaled FS's, RAS
I have to admit that I haven't heard the great outcry for kernel debuggers, except by kernel developers, who clearly like the design of Linux or they wouldn't be developing it. Linux has a journaling FS. Period. Go get it from teh usual sources.
Linux will be prime time when you can sit it down next to a commercial OS like AIX, Solaris, or Win2k and do a feature by feature comparison
Been there, done that. Check the /. archives. Linux compares favourably.
without having to install 200 conflicting kernel patches that make half ass untested unstable changes to 20 different builds of the kernel.
I haven't updated the kernel or installed a patch in over a year. Call me a Luddite, but 2.3 works quite well.
How about a pot-somking kernel hacker?
It's a good thing that April Fool's Day is almost over, because it's rapidly becoming annoying.
a) very hard to do, and
b) rather limited in practical damage-causing.
This issue is more founded in a company trying to make a name for itself by announcing a "huge" security flaw but it also appeals to the public at large to imagine that there might be some terrible hole underpinning the electronic revolution (like as in Y2K or the fuss around some dot.coms going belly up). Besides, this isn't a hole so much as a feature that can be used in a negative way. I don't think the possibility of doing this went unobserved by the hundreds of people involved in developing TCP.
Geoff
While that is, strictly speaking, seven lines long, it's only because it's like 30 statements strung together. Did the student get extra points for obfuscation?
Plus, in any major conflict, the first thing to go down would be the GPS satellites, hence the military teaches alternate navigation skills (celestial, map reading for pilots, etc). Damage to the GPS system would mostly affect merchant shipping and just sort of annoy any military organization worth its salt.
Geoff
Also, is Thomas Wolfe or Tom Wolfe the wolfe in question?
How can you subscribe to any belief at all and call yourself existentialist? It seems clear that you don't know what the word means.
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To begin with, you are clearly a Republican and because of this you find fault with eveything touched by the Clinton government. I, for one, can't speak to this, being Canadian, but being an officer in the Navy here and witnessing our force receive a 40% reduction in rather less than eight years I can sympathize nonethless. You are partially angry because of the effect of their reduced military priorities, but you are more offended than even this should warrant.
I also can't say much about the state of your forces' medical care, but if it is anything like here, it is, at worst, non-coddling. Your pink-eye/bronchitis example: were you put to work on the food line, or were you set to washing dishes, having been told not to touch your eye or cough on anything? Contaminated eye medication: a medical discharge is not as heartless as it sounds - your friend would have been honourably discharged and receiving compensation pay for the rest of their life. All enormous organizations make terrible mistakes - it's the law of averages - but the military generally pays for them handsomely and you can bet someone got in a whole lot of trouble for that.
Food poisoning: whoever was supervising the galley (what's a kitchen?) should have arranged to get more soap. Anyone returning to work from there without properly washing their hands and telling the Chief Cook about the lack of soap should punished.
Slavery: the US military is notorious for having poor officer/rating relations. I attribute this partially to the size of the organization, partially to the low standard of basic training that such a huge recruiting requirement would engender, and partially to the average American's over-inflated sense of self-worth: those selected as officers have a chance to treat someone like shit, and those selected as rates feel undervalued even when treated well.
48 hours no sleep or food: There's no life like it. I still can't envision how this would have happened.
Somalia: Don't see the problem for you, but I do see that you weren't actually close enough to know exactly what was happening on land.
As a final word, throwing around those stupid US military acronyms doesn't much serve to impress, although it does attest to the inflated sense of self-worth, as mentioned above.
Geoff
Then digital watches came along and blew all that out of the water. Sigh.
There are some pretty astounding military repercussions of this device (which explains the price - it's not a product aimed at pranksters). Since Most modern military weapons (guided missiles, SAMs, SSMs, fighter jets, etc) are GPS guided, land bases and ships can easily defend themselves by switching on a GPS jammer. A $7500 device to defeat million-dollar technology is a very good investment. The American military is particularly dependent on GPS tech (having invented it, they jumped on the bandwagon with more vigour) so this bad news for their fleet of GPS navigators.
Have you ever had those evenings when you're just sitting around doing nothing - maybe watching TV or flipping through old magazines? These are the times when you should try smoking pot. If you've nothing better to do and want to see things from another point of view, or just feel really good. Clearly, however, you've already made up your mind; but I would invite to experience what it is like before dismissing it or passing judgement.
Incidentally, I don't smoke up on anything even approaching a regular basis - maybe two or three times a year.
Is that what you mean? Is it?
It sounds as though Fermi itself is rather ambivalent about keeping people out - they are only sending this for the sake of Comdex. Also note that it is open to Fermi staff, family and friends. If there aren't tickets to this thing how are they going to filter people at the door - "Oh, I'm a friend of... Bob who works in... particle acceleration." - and it doesn't seem as though Fermi cares enough to bother with ticketing. This message was just to appease Comdex - I'm willing to bet that if you show up you'll get in.
Wish I was in Chicago now (well, not really, but I wish I could go to the speeches).
Well, running NT was a mistake - I was installing a hard drive from a "top-o-the-line" 486 and booted it by mistake. I have to say I was quite shocked - it was slow as all hell, but I could run Eudora from across the network.