So revenues at theatres are dropping. Unless you also report the revenues generated by PPV and DVDs this isn't even worth discussion. Anyone want to bet PPV, "Movies on demand" and DVD sales went UP more than 8% last year?
If you were trying to solve the security mess of NFS you have obviously investigated NFSv4. All the security of Microfot/Kerberos file sharing with the speed and reliability of NFS.
Propogating the hell of Microsoft file sharing would be a quantum lead backwards from NFS and will bring far more nightmares to your universe than it solves. Ask anyone who has attempted to migrate data from one Microsoft environment to another.
Anyone who believes that IDC isn't a Microsoft lapdog is sans clue and should be ignored. Obviously you sit in that camp. A 5 second trip to google and searching for "Microsoft funded IDC survey" yields 161,000 hits.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Microsoft+fun ded+IDC+survey
History does not lie in this case. Anything from IDC which both touts Microsoft as a leader over *NIX and then espoused immediately by Microsoft has historically been funded by Microsoft. If you consider that bat guano, then so be it. Arguing against the facts is pointless and assinine.
Just a sampling.
http://www.daynesoftasia.com/English/NewEvents/THR EE.htm
"The report has cast serious doubts on the Microsoft-funded TCO study undertaken by IDC"
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalCon tent/0,289142,sid39_gci885961,00.html
"A Microsoft-funded IDC report that claims that the Linux TCO is 13% higher than an equivalent MS Windows solution"
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=14493 08906&fp=16&fpid=0
"The Yankee survey is just the latest to compare the TCO (total cost of ownership) of Windows and Linux, but is the first (unlike those from Jupiter Research Inc., Forrester and IDC) that have not been requested and funded by Microsoft."
http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8861
"The Microsoft Partner Program got high marks from industry analysts at IDC in a recent survey comparing the channel programs of 25 top software vendors."
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outs ourcing/itservices/story/0,10801,85963,00.html
"Last month, some IT professionals reacted angrily to a Microsoft-funded report released by Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. that concluded that developing and deploying Web-based portal applications is substantially less expensive using Microsoft technology than it is using a Linux/J2EE combination [QuickLink 41320]."
Anyway -- Here's a laundry list of objections that will no doubt appear:
+ This study doesn't count the servers I have running Gentoo/Debian/etc -- Most of the revenue reported is actually hardware, so yes it does
+ How would they know what I'm running on my servers? I didn't get a preinstalled OS -- User surveys, statistical methods, etc. It's not an exact count. In other words, in this Microsoft funded survey, Microsoft wins because the fudge the numbers $.2B in their favor. Thats my inexact impression at any rate.
+ My *nix servers have 234 CPUs and run more applications than my Windows servers -- Because the survey counts $$$ and not CPU or box counts, this sorta works itself out, but I guess this is valid. See point 1 above.
+ We put Linux on our i486-33 Servers -- Who cares? IDC doesn't, they're counting new server revenue. Again, see point #1 above. The only solution to this is to prevent any hardware manufacturer from automatically including ANY OS pre-installed, forcing every purchaser to empirically specify their installed OS of choice and even then you will fall into the large enterprise customers who have negotiated massive price discounts by defining standard hardware bundles that always include an OS, usually MS, which in many cases ends up in the waste basket.
Im sure a blind sent email from some dood in Russia complaining that another dood says his software stinks made the FBI sit up, take immediate notice. Im sure the troops are being mobilised and the black helicopters are getting fueled. Not.
Lets see, back in 1972 I had a suitcase Boom box with an 8track recorder which allowed me to record directly off the radio to an 8 track.
Then I got my boom box with the cassette recorder that allowed me to record to a cassette directly of the radio or any other source plugged into the auxillary audio in jack, such as my portable CD walkman or the turntable that now sits in the bottom of a closet.
Add tho this argument the dual CD deck I bought at Best Buy 4-5 years ago that lets me record to cassette from any audio source connected to my stereo, which also happens to include my Dish Satellite receiver with 120+ channels of Sirius audio programming. I made a number of Christmas cassettes for a holiday trip last year. I recorded a couple of O'Reilley factors for listening on the way to work.
Add in the CD recorder that is also now hooked to my stereo which can also record any connected audio source.
I have been seriously considering buying a stereo connected DVD burner right after Christmas so I can burn a few shows directly to DVD but the DVD burner can also make VCD and music CDs so I can eliminate the cassettes from my world by converting all my cassettes to MP3 or music CDs.
I paid for all my 8 track tapes. I paid for all my cassettes. I pay for my Satellite Dish access, I pay for my own blank CD's and DVDs.
I think the RIAA should try for a law that says every experience is owned by the viewer and require anyone participating in your personal experience is required to pay you royalty revenue. Lets see them solve the logistical nightmare of a super stadium live simulcast rock concert or the Super Bowl. Every viewer is entitled to royalty from every other participant.
In summary, what a crock.
And... you get what you pay for. Just because a Windows admin is cheaper doesnt mean he is better or worse than the higher paid Linux admin however I would put the network troubleshooting skills of an "average" Linux admin vs. and "average" windows admin on any day and Im willing to bet the Linux admin would run circles around the Windows guy.
In my 15 years of experience guys who only know windows normally are a waste of breath and most *nix admins exceeded the expectations of the windows support community and moved into something better.
MY.02.
Inertia is a property of matter where objects in motion remain in motion, and objects at rest remain at rest unless acted on by some external force (Newton's First Law). The more mass an object has, the more inertia, and thus, the harder it is to change the speed and direction of it in motion. In the case of rings, we are concerned with how easy it is to make the ring spin faster (or slower) - this is angular momentum. We want to minimize angular momentum so that the rings' responsiveness will be maximized.
The thing about angular momentum is that it's not just how much the ring weighs, but the distribution of weight (mass, really) that really matters. Suppose you had a ring that weighed 100 million pounds. If the rim weighed 99.99 million pounds, that'd be one tough wheel to turn. But, if instead you had that 99 million pounds in the planetary core, it wouldn't be such a chore to spin the ring.
The spokes are there to just transfer the enegy from the mass at the core to the rim of the ring.
Centripetal force is the force that compels a body to move in a circular path. According to the law of inertia, in the absence of forces, an object moves in a straight line at a constant speed. An outside force must act on an object to make it move in a curved path. When you whirl a stone around on a string, you must pull on the string to keep the stone from flying off in a straight line. The force the string applies to the object is the centripetal force. The word centripetal is from two Latin words meaning to seek the center.
Centripetal force acts in other ways as well. For example, a speeding automobile tends to move in a straight line. Centripetal force must act on the car to make it travel around a curve. This force comes from the friction between the tires and the pavement. If the pavement is wet or icy, this frictional force is reduced. The car may then skid off the road because there is not enough centripetal force to keep it moving in a curved path.
Gyroscope inertia is the tendency of a spinning body to resist change in the direction of its axis. Inertia keeps the axis of a spinning top straight up until the top slows. Use the Right Hand Rule. Form your RIGHT hand in the "hitch hiker" mode. The fingers represent the spin direction of the wheel, and the thumb represents the directional force of the gyroscope axis.
Angular Momentum (A) is the force of a rotating object. A=mvr (m=mass, v=velocity, r=radius).
Centrifugal force is the force arising in a rotating reference system. It points away from the center, in the direction opposite to the centripetal force.
Centripetal force is the force that causes an object to change direction. For uniform circular motion, the force is directed toward the center of the circle and has a magnitude given by mv2/r.
I want to see one of these three vendors take their best team of Windows IIS Support and professional services engineers and their best team of Linux support and PS engineers and do a real head to head challenge.
Give each team your best hardware. 2, 4 and 8 CPU systems. Fiberchannel storage arrays configured for maximum web server performance in a customer production configuration (Raid5, BCVs, massive spindle luns, 8K, 16K and 32K block size volumes.
Leverage your partnership with LoadRunner. Build a massive load generation farm. Full GbE on generators and servers. Jumbo frames might be interesting. Fully document the tweaks from hell to eek out the maximum web and application server performance from each system.
Use the latest and greatest version, fully patched of each OS. Leverage your Microsoft and Linux distribution partnerships. Hell lets make this really interesting and bring in X86 Solaris and Apple, too! Get Microsoft to send a team of 200 and the Linux distribution vendors to send 1 guy, a trunk of O'Reilley manuals and his buddy from the Apache team.
1 week to prep the web server hardware. All tweaks, tunings and configuration changes must be documented and submitted to the other team on day 6. Either team can take advantage of tricks discovered by the other for tweaking hardware. Prepare your server for a 20 million hit load test.
The exact same HTML, XML, PHP, java and javascript will be loaded on each server in as similar as possible directory structure. No vendor specific coding tricks or proprietary BS. If I can't properly view the page in 3 of 4 web browsers (Explorer, NetScape, Mozilla and Opera - or more if you feel its necessary) it gets removed.
Then bring in Load Runner. Let them create the hairiest pounding load generator that hits every page, every CGI, every java applet concurrently from hundreds and thousands of clients.
The first to do so will be the god of Linux. All those slunking down to hide behind their Microsoft coat tails just lost the race.
[eak@www ~]$ openssl speed rc4 md5 des-ede3 sha1
Doing md5 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 501077 md5's in 3.00s
Doing md5 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 447089 md5's in 3.00s
Doing md5 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 328345 md5's in 3.00s
Doing md5 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 161911 md5's in 3.00s
Doing md5 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 28091 md5's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 450041 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 360994 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 227294 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 92109 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 14104 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 8473853 rc4's in 3.00s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 2499745 rc4's in 3.01s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 650560 rc4's in 3.00s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 163453 rc4's in 3.00s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 20386 rc4's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 711139 des ede3's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 183706 des ede3's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 46336 des ede3's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 11549 des ede3's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 1445 des ede3's in 3.00s
OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
built on: Tue Oct 5 08:55:24 EDT 2004
options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(idx,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) aes(partial) blowfish(idx)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DKRB5_MIT -DOPENSSL_NO_IDEA -DOPENSSL_NO_MDC2 -DOPENSSL_NO_RC5 -DOPENSSL_NO_EC -I/usr/kerberos/include -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -Wall -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Wa,--noexecstack -DSHA1_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM
available timing options: TIMES TIMEB HZ=100 [sysconf value]
timing function used: times
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
md5 2672.41k 9537.90k 28018.77k 55265.62k 76707.16k
sha1 2400.22k 7701.21k 19395.75k 31439.87k 38513.32k
rc4 45193.88k 53150.72k 55514.45k 55791.96k 55667.37k
des ede3 3792.74k 3919.06k 3954.01k 3942.06k 3945.81k
"God, I love Google" Eric Kimminau, February, 2005.
Dune. Bene Gesserit. Reverend Mother. Shai Huluud. Desert Planet. Kwisatz Haderach. The sleeper has awakened. The Fremen believes that the actions of Shai-hulud are directly the actions of God. He is the Great Maker, The Worm who is God. The phrase Kwisatz Haderach originally came from Hebrew (poss. originally Kfitsat or Kfitzat Haderech) and means "Jump ahead of the path", i.e. a significant breakthrough.
These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness... From the Instruction Manual: Missionaria Protectiva Children of Dune
"The 3 laws of robotics" have done more to create the religion of technology than anything else ever written. # A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. # A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. # A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Sounds like technologies answer to the 10 commandments to me.
"Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Free Enterprise. Our 500 year mission: to seek out new life and new civilizations; to explore strange new worlds; to boldly go where noone has gone before."
http://members.aol.com/heraklit1/startrek.htm
"In Who mourns for Adonais, the Enterprise picks up signals of an unknown life form near the planet Pollux IV of Beta Geminorum system. This turns out to be the God Apollo - a man-shaped entity with an extra organ in his chest, through which he could channel extraordinary energies. After retiring here from Earth, Apollo missed the adoration he had from the Greeks. He tries to force the Enterprise crew to worship him as a God. When they refuse, he dissolves himself into the wind.
The film Star Trek: Final Frontier tackles a similar theme. In revolt against Vulcan rationalism, Spock's brother Sybok hijacks the Enterprise and heads for the planet Sha Ka Ree near the galactic centre, where he believes the Creator lives. But this "God" turns out to be a tyrannical old man who kills anyone who doesn't do exactly what he says. It was a bold theme, since "God" was very similar to Moses' idea of Yahweh. This was a film which started up without Roddenberry, and which Roddenberry opposed - but actually it embodies the typical Star Trek humanist theology.
In The Way to Eden Spock discovers the planet Eden, which at first sight appears a place of beauty and peace, but on investigation turns out to have vegetation impregnated with deadly acids.
In The Apple, the inhabitants of Gamma Trianguli VI worship the God Vaal, which appears as the gigantic face of a snake-like reptile with burning eyes. Vaal provides an idyllic life for the people in exchange for fuel to power its energy systems. Vaal's priest Akuta wears antennae on his head so he can hear commands from the machine. The Enterprise crew discover that Vaal is a computer-controlled machine and destroy it with a blast of phaser fire, thus liberating the locals from their debilitating subservience to a cruel deity (but violating the Prime Directive in a very cavalier manner).
The Next Generation Episode Justice presents an almost identical theme. The Edos on the planet Rubicun III live a child-like, hedonistic life, worshipping a "God" which turns out to be a multi-dimensional life form in a transparent spaceship orbiting the planet. Despite the Prime Directive, the Enterprise crew question and then violate Edo law, and show one of their leaders the spaceship which is the visible for
As soon as I saw this, I clicked on
Tools / Options / Advances / Software Updates
Selected Thunderbird and My Extensions & Themes
Clicked Check Now
"Thunderbird was not able to find any updates."
That clearly shows the Loch Ness monster from below and slightly to the right. It you look at it carefully this almost exactly matches the improper angle of the killing shot from the Macgruder film which which would lead one to believe Kennedy have fallen forward and the to right rather than back and to the left.
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http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/hr2391
Summary
As the 108th congressional session winds down, there is one major piece of intellectual property legislation currently under consideration. Here are the pieces of the bill:
H.R. 2391 Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act of 2003
The Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act of 2004 would allow researchers and inventors who work for different organizations to share information without losing the ability to file a patent. Passed the House March 10, 2004.
H.R. 4077 Piracy Deterrence in Education
Establishes "offering for distribution" as basis for criminal copyright violation and "making available" for civil violation, regardless of whether there is any distribution or copying, let alone infringement. While traditional infringement employs a higher, "willful" infringement standard, this new cause of action lowers the standard of infringement to "knowing with reckless disregard." Passed the House Sept. 28, 2004 on voice vote.
S. 2237 The Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation (PIRATE) Act
The bill would authorize the Justice Dept. to file civil actions against copyright infringers. We believe that is an inappropriate use of federal funds to enforce private rights of action. Passed Senate June 25, 2004 under unanimous consent. Passed the Senate June 25, 2004.
S. 1932 The Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2004 (ART Act)
The bill would make the unauthorized use of a video camera in a movie theater to transmit or make a copy of a copyrighted work into an imprisonable offense. Fair use protections guaranteed under copyright law would not apply. Text was folded into H.R. 4077. Passed the Senate June 25, 2004.
H.R. 4586 The Family Movie Act
The provisions were included in H.R. 4077 as passed by the House. The original House version of this bill provided an affirmative right for those who used technology to skip objectionable material, such as profanity, violence, or other adult material, in the audio / video works that they legally purchased. This is a right that most believe manufacturers of technology and consumers already have--regardless of H.R. 4077. The entertainment community has hijacked this provision and turned it against consumers and the tech community. Now, the affirmative right to watch and skip parts of the content that a consumer has legally obtained only exists if certain conditions are met: no commercial or promotional ads may be skipped. Additionally, technology manufacturers must provide a notice at the beginning each showing stating that "the motion picture is altered from the performance intended by the director or copyright holder of the motion picture." This sets the functionality of the everyday VCR and TiVo on its head.
H.R. 3632 The Anticounterfeiting Act of 2004
Provides penalties and jail sentences for trafficking in "counterfeit labels, illicit labels or counterfeit documentation or packaging" of records, software, movies, etc. The original bill also provided penalties for filing false information with Internet registrars, but that portion wasn't picked up in the omnibus. Passed the House Sept. 21, 2004.
H.R. 5136 The Preservation of Orphan Works Act
The bill would allow libraries to create copies of certain copyrighted works that, in their last twenty years of copyright term, are no longer commercially exploited, and are not available at a reasonable price. Introduced Sept. 23, 2004. No further action.
S. 1933 Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement
The bill would amend copyright law to provide that a certificate of registration shall satisfy registration requirements irrespective of any inaccurate information on the registration application, unless: (1) the inaccurate information was included on the application with knowledge that it was inaccurate; and (2) the inaccurate information, if known, would have caused the Register of Copyrights to refuse registration. This is a way of eliminating defenses raised in many suits (including Napster,
Unfortunately, the system had a hard SLA which meant wipe and reload ASAP. It is being watched very closely for further signs of the culprit(s) return..
A very much protected system I help administer (behind a hardware firewall, ip tables limiting ports and access) which was running a VERY up-to-date Fedora core 1 and whose only means of remote access was by shared SSH2 secure keys was hacked Sunday night. I found multiple outbound sessions to.de IRC servers and rebooted the box. The system was unuseable at that point. It would not boot again. YMMV.
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Actuall, the moment I saw the DDOS I would have downed their BLOG and been downe with it.
So revenues at theatres are dropping. Unless you also report the revenues generated by PPV and DVDs this isn't even worth discussion. Anyone want to bet PPV, "Movies on demand" and DVD sales went UP more than 8% last year?
If you were trying to solve the security mess of NFS you have obviously investigated NFSv4. All the security of Microfot/Kerberos file sharing with the speed and reliability of NFS. Propogating the hell of Microsoft file sharing would be a quantum lead backwards from NFS and will bring far more nightmares to your universe than it solves. Ask anyone who has attempted to migrate data from one Microsoft environment to another.
Anyone who believes that IDC isn't a Microsoft lapdog is sans clue and should be ignored. Obviously you sit in that camp. A 5 second trip to google and searching for "Microsoft funded IDC survey" yields 161,000 hits. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Microsoft+fun ded+IDC+survey
History does not lie in this case. Anything from IDC which both touts Microsoft as a leader over *NIX and then espoused immediately by Microsoft has historically been funded by Microsoft. If you consider that bat guano, then so be it. Arguing against the facts is pointless and assinine.
Just a sampling.
http://www.daynesoftasia.com/English/NewEvents/THR EE.htm
"The report has cast serious doubts on the Microsoft-funded TCO study undertaken by IDC"
http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalCon tent/0,289142,sid39_gci885961,00.html
"A Microsoft-funded IDC report that claims that the Linux TCO is 13% higher than an equivalent MS Windows solution"
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=14493 08906&fp=16&fpid=0
"The Yankee survey is just the latest to compare the TCO (total cost of ownership) of Windows and Linux, but is the first (unlike those from Jupiter Research Inc., Forrester and IDC) that have not been requested and funded by Microsoft."
http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8861
"The Microsoft Partner Program got high marks from industry analysts at IDC in a recent survey comparing the channel programs of 25 top software vendors."
http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outs ourcing/itservices/story/0,10801,85963,00.html
"Last month, some IT professionals reacted angrily to a Microsoft-funded report released by Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc. that concluded that developing and deploying Web-based portal applications is substantially less expensive using Microsoft technology than it is using a Linux/J2EE combination [QuickLink 41320]."
Anyway -- Here's a laundry list of objections that will no doubt appear:
+ This study doesn't count the servers I have running Gentoo/Debian/etc
-- Most of the revenue reported is actually hardware, so yes it does
+ How would they know what I'm running on my servers? I didn't get a preinstalled OS
-- User surveys, statistical methods, etc. It's not an exact count.
In other words, in this Microsoft funded survey, Microsoft wins because the fudge the numbers $.2B in their favor. Thats my inexact impression at any rate.
+ My *nix servers have 234 CPUs and run more applications than my Windows servers
-- Because the survey counts $$$ and not CPU or box counts, this sorta works itself out, but I guess this is valid.
See point 1 above.
+ We put Linux on our i486-33 Servers
-- Who cares? IDC doesn't, they're counting new server revenue.
Again, see point #1 above. The only solution to this is to prevent any hardware manufacturer from automatically including ANY OS pre-installed, forcing every purchaser to empirically specify their installed OS of choice and even then you will fall into the large enterprise customers who have negotiated massive price discounts by defining standard hardware bundles that always include an OS, usually MS, which in many cases ends up in the waste basket.
Im sure a blind sent email from some dood in Russia complaining that another dood says his software stinks made the FBI sit up, take immediate notice. Im sure the troops are being mobilised and the black helicopters are getting fueled. Not.
Lets see, back in 1972 I had a suitcase Boom box with an 8track recorder which allowed me to record directly off the radio to an 8 track.
Then I got my boom box with the cassette recorder that allowed me to record to a cassette directly of the radio or any other source plugged into the auxillary audio in jack, such as my portable CD walkman or the turntable that now sits in the bottom of a closet.
Add tho this argument the dual CD deck I bought at Best Buy 4-5 years ago that lets me record to cassette from any audio source connected to my stereo, which also happens to include my Dish Satellite receiver with 120+ channels of Sirius audio programming. I made a number of Christmas cassettes for a holiday trip last year. I recorded a couple of O'Reilley factors for listening on the way to work.
Add in the CD recorder that is also now hooked to my stereo which can also record any connected audio source.
I have been seriously considering buying a stereo connected DVD burner right after Christmas so I can burn a few shows directly to DVD but the DVD burner can also make VCD and music CDs so I can eliminate the cassettes from my world by converting all my cassettes to MP3 or music CDs.
I paid for all my 8 track tapes. I paid for all my cassettes. I pay for my Satellite Dish access, I pay for my own blank CD's and DVDs.
I think the RIAA should try for a law that says every experience is owned by the viewer and require anyone participating in your personal experience is required to pay you royalty revenue. Lets see them solve the logistical nightmare of a super stadium live simulcast rock concert or the Super Bowl. Every viewer is entitled to royalty from every other participant.
In summary, what a crock.
And... you get what you pay for. Just because a Windows admin is cheaper doesnt mean he is better or worse than the higher paid Linux admin however I would put the network troubleshooting skills of an "average" Linux admin vs. and "average" windows admin on any day and Im willing to bet the Linux admin would run circles around the Windows guy. In my 15 years of experience guys who only know windows normally are a waste of breath and most *nix admins exceeded the expectations of the windows support community and moved into something better. MY .02.
Inertia is a property of matter where objects in motion remain in motion, and objects at rest remain at rest unless acted on by some external force (Newton's First Law). The more mass an object has, the more inertia, and thus, the harder it is to change the speed and direction of it in motion. In the case of rings, we are concerned with how easy it is to make the ring spin faster (or slower) - this is angular momentum. We want to minimize angular momentum so that the rings' responsiveness will be maximized. The thing about angular momentum is that it's not just how much the ring weighs, but the distribution of weight (mass, really) that really matters. Suppose you had a ring that weighed 100 million pounds. If the rim weighed 99.99 million pounds, that'd be one tough wheel to turn. But, if instead you had that 99 million pounds in the planetary core, it wouldn't be such a chore to spin the ring. The spokes are there to just transfer the enegy from the mass at the core to the rim of the ring. Centripetal force is the force that compels a body to move in a circular path. According to the law of inertia, in the absence of forces, an object moves in a straight line at a constant speed. An outside force must act on an object to make it move in a curved path. When you whirl a stone around on a string, you must pull on the string to keep the stone from flying off in a straight line. The force the string applies to the object is the centripetal force. The word centripetal is from two Latin words meaning to seek the center. Centripetal force acts in other ways as well. For example, a speeding automobile tends to move in a straight line. Centripetal force must act on the car to make it travel around a curve. This force comes from the friction between the tires and the pavement. If the pavement is wet or icy, this frictional force is reduced. The car may then skid off the road because there is not enough centripetal force to keep it moving in a curved path. Gyroscope inertia is the tendency of a spinning body to resist change in the direction of its axis. Inertia keeps the axis of a spinning top straight up until the top slows. Use the Right Hand Rule. Form your RIGHT hand in the "hitch hiker" mode. The fingers represent the spin direction of the wheel, and the thumb represents the directional force of the gyroscope axis. Angular Momentum (A) is the force of a rotating object. A=mvr (m=mass, v=velocity, r=radius). Centrifugal force is the force arising in a rotating reference system. It points away from the center, in the direction opposite to the centripetal force. Centripetal force is the force that causes an object to change direction. For uniform circular motion, the force is directed toward the center of the circle and has a magnitude given by mv2/r.
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I want to see one of these three vendors take their best team of Windows IIS Support and professional services engineers and their best team of Linux support and PS engineers and do a real head to head challenge.
Give each team your best hardware. 2, 4 and 8 CPU systems. Fiberchannel storage arrays configured for maximum web server performance in a customer production configuration (Raid5, BCVs, massive spindle luns, 8K, 16K and 32K block size volumes.
Leverage your partnership with LoadRunner. Build a massive load generation farm. Full GbE on generators and servers. Jumbo frames might be interesting. Fully document the tweaks from hell to eek out the maximum web and application server performance from each system.
Use the latest and greatest version, fully patched of each OS. Leverage your Microsoft and Linux distribution partnerships. Hell lets make this really interesting and bring in X86 Solaris and Apple, too! Get Microsoft to send a team of 200 and the Linux distribution vendors to send 1 guy, a trunk of O'Reilley manuals and his buddy from the Apache team.
1 week to prep the web server hardware. All tweaks, tunings and configuration changes must be documented and submitted to the other team on day 6. Either team can take advantage of tricks discovered by the other for tweaking hardware. Prepare your server for a 20 million hit load test.
The exact same HTML, XML, PHP, java and javascript will be loaded on each server in as similar as possible directory structure. No vendor specific coding tricks or proprietary BS. If I can't properly view the page in 3 of 4 web browsers (Explorer, NetScape, Mozilla and Opera - or more if you feel its necessary) it gets removed.
Then bring in Load Runner. Let them create the hairiest pounding load generator that hits every page, every CGI, every java applet concurrently from hundreds and thousands of clients.
The first to do so will be the god of Linux. All those slunking down to hide behind their Microsoft coat tails just lost the race.
I dare ya! I double dog dare ya!
[eak@www ~]$ openssl speed rc4 md5 des-ede3 sha1
Doing md5 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 501077 md5's in 3.00s
Doing md5 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 447089 md5's in 3.00s
Doing md5 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 328345 md5's in 3.00s
Doing md5 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 161911 md5's in 3.00s
Doing md5 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 28091 md5's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 450041 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 360994 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 227294 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 92109 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing sha1 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 14104 sha1's in 3.00s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 8473853 rc4's in 3.00s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 2499745 rc4's in 3.01s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 650560 rc4's in 3.00s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 163453 rc4's in 3.00s
Doing rc4 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 20386 rc4's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 711139 des ede3's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 183706 des ede3's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 46336 des ede3's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 11549 des ede3's in 3.00s
Doing des ede3 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 1445 des ede3's in 3.00s
OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
built on: Tue Oct 5 08:55:24 EDT 2004
options:bn(64,32) md2(int) rc4(idx,int) des(ptr,risc1,16,long) aes(partial) blowfish(idx)
compiler: gcc -fPIC -DZLIB -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DKRB5_MIT -DOPENSSL_NO_IDEA -DOPENSSL_NO_MDC2 -DOPENSSL_NO_RC5 -DOPENSSL_NO_EC -I/usr/kerberos/include -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO -Wall -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -Wa,--noexecstack -DSHA1_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM
available timing options: TIMES TIMEB HZ=100 [sysconf value]
timing function used: times
The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.
type 16 bytes 64 bytes 256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
md5 2672.41k 9537.90k 28018.77k 55265.62k 76707.16k
sha1 2400.22k 7701.21k 19395.75k 31439.87k 38513.32k
rc4 45193.88k 53150.72k 55514.45k 55791.96k 55667.37k
des ede3 3792.74k 3919.06k 3954.01k 3942.06k 3945.81k
"God, I love Google" Eric Kimminau, February, 2005.
Dune. Bene Gesserit. Reverend Mother. Shai Huluud. Desert Planet. Kwisatz Haderach. The sleeper has awakened.
The Fremen believes that the actions of Shai-hulud are directly the actions of God. He is the Great Maker, The Worm who is God.
The phrase Kwisatz Haderach originally came from Hebrew (poss. originally Kfitsat or Kfitzat Haderech) and means "Jump ahead of the path", i.e. a significant breakthrough.
These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness...
From the Instruction Manual: Missionaria Protectiva
Children of Dune
"The 3 laws of robotics" have done more to create the religion of technology than anything else ever written.
# A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
# A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
# A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Sounds like technologies answer to the 10 commandments to me.
"Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Free Enterprise. Our 500 year mission: to seek out new life and new civilizations; to explore strange new worlds; to boldly go where noone has gone before."
http://members.aol.com/heraklit1/startrek.htm
"In Who mourns for Adonais, the Enterprise picks up signals of an unknown life form near the planet Pollux IV of Beta Geminorum system. This turns out to be the God Apollo - a man-shaped entity with an extra organ in his chest, through which he could channel extraordinary energies. After retiring here from Earth, Apollo missed the adoration he had from the Greeks. He tries to force the Enterprise crew to worship him as a God. When they refuse, he dissolves himself into the wind.
The film Star Trek: Final Frontier tackles a similar theme. In revolt against Vulcan rationalism, Spock's brother Sybok hijacks the Enterprise and heads for the planet Sha Ka Ree near the galactic centre, where he believes the Creator lives. But this "God" turns out to be a tyrannical old man who kills anyone who doesn't do exactly what he says. It was a bold theme, since "God" was very similar to Moses' idea of Yahweh. This was a film which started up without Roddenberry, and which Roddenberry opposed - but actually it embodies the typical Star Trek humanist theology.
In The Way to Eden Spock discovers the planet Eden, which at first sight appears a place of beauty and peace, but on investigation turns out to have vegetation impregnated with deadly acids.
In The Apple, the inhabitants of Gamma Trianguli VI worship the God Vaal, which appears as the gigantic face of a snake-like reptile with burning eyes. Vaal provides an idyllic life for the people in exchange for fuel to power its energy systems. Vaal's priest Akuta wears antennae on his head so he can hear commands from the machine. The Enterprise crew discover that Vaal is a computer-controlled machine and destroy it with a blast of phaser fire, thus liberating the locals from their debilitating subservience to a cruel deity (but violating the Prime Directive in a very cavalier manner).
The Next Generation Episode Justice presents an almost identical theme. The Edos on the planet Rubicun III live a child-like, hedonistic life, worshipping a "God" which turns out to be a multi-dimensional life form in a transparent spaceship orbiting the planet. Despite the Prime Directive, the Enterprise crew question and then violate Edo law, and show one of their leaders the spaceship which is the visible for
What OS are you running? Works like a champ for me on both Fedora Core 2 and WIn XP Pro SP2.
As soon as I saw this, I clicked on Tools / Options / Advances / Software Updates Selected Thunderbird and My Extensions & Themes Clicked Check Now "Thunderbird was not able to find any updates."
That clearly shows the Loch Ness monster from below and slightly to the right. It you look at it carefully this almost exactly matches the improper angle of the killing shot from the Macgruder film which which would lead one to believe Kennedy have fallen forward and the to right rather than back and to the left.
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http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/hr2391 Summary As the 108th congressional session winds down, there is one major piece of intellectual property legislation currently under consideration. Here are the pieces of the bill: H.R. 2391 Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act of 2003 The Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act of 2004 would allow researchers and inventors who work for different organizations to share information without losing the ability to file a patent. Passed the House March 10, 2004. H.R. 4077 Piracy Deterrence in Education Establishes "offering for distribution" as basis for criminal copyright violation and "making available" for civil violation, regardless of whether there is any distribution or copying, let alone infringement. While traditional infringement employs a higher, "willful" infringement standard, this new cause of action lowers the standard of infringement to "knowing with reckless disregard." Passed the House Sept. 28, 2004 on voice vote. S. 2237 The Protecting Intellectual Rights Against Theft and Expropriation (PIRATE) Act The bill would authorize the Justice Dept. to file civil actions against copyright infringers. We believe that is an inappropriate use of federal funds to enforce private rights of action. Passed Senate June 25, 2004 under unanimous consent. Passed the Senate June 25, 2004. S. 1932 The Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2004 (ART Act) The bill would make the unauthorized use of a video camera in a movie theater to transmit or make a copy of a copyrighted work into an imprisonable offense. Fair use protections guaranteed under copyright law would not apply. Text was folded into H.R. 4077. Passed the Senate June 25, 2004. H.R. 4586 The Family Movie Act The provisions were included in H.R. 4077 as passed by the House. The original House version of this bill provided an affirmative right for those who used technology to skip objectionable material, such as profanity, violence, or other adult material, in the audio / video works that they legally purchased. This is a right that most believe manufacturers of technology and consumers already have--regardless of H.R. 4077. The entertainment community has hijacked this provision and turned it against consumers and the tech community. Now, the affirmative right to watch and skip parts of the content that a consumer has legally obtained only exists if certain conditions are met: no commercial or promotional ads may be skipped. Additionally, technology manufacturers must provide a notice at the beginning each showing stating that "the motion picture is altered from the performance intended by the director or copyright holder of the motion picture." This sets the functionality of the everyday VCR and TiVo on its head. H.R. 3632 The Anticounterfeiting Act of 2004 Provides penalties and jail sentences for trafficking in "counterfeit labels, illicit labels or counterfeit documentation or packaging" of records, software, movies, etc. The original bill also provided penalties for filing false information with Internet registrars, but that portion wasn't picked up in the omnibus. Passed the House Sept. 21, 2004. H.R. 5136 The Preservation of Orphan Works Act The bill would allow libraries to create copies of certain copyrighted works that, in their last twenty years of copyright term, are no longer commercially exploited, and are not available at a reasonable price. Introduced Sept. 23, 2004. No further action. S. 1933 Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement The bill would amend copyright law to provide that a certificate of registration shall satisfy registration requirements irrespective of any inaccurate information on the registration application, unless: (1) the inaccurate information was included on the application with knowledge that it was inaccurate; and (2) the inaccurate information, if known, would have caused the Register of Copyrights to refuse registration. This is a way of eliminating defenses raised in many suits (including Napster,
Unfortunately, the system had a hard SLA which meant wipe and reload ASAP. It is being watched very closely for further signs of the culprit(s) return..
A very much protected system I help administer (behind a hardware firewall, ip tables limiting ports and access) which was running a VERY up-to-date Fedora core 1 and whose only means of remote access was by shared SSH2 secure keys was hacked Sunday night. I found multiple outbound sessions to .de IRC servers and rebooted the box. The system was unuseable at that point. It would not boot again. YMMV.
Howdy! Any chance someone has a mini-howto for modifying the sources.list to perform an upgrade from Core 1 to Core 2 using apt? Thanks!