15 dollars with a 30-day demo. It's really lightweight, and even runs off a portable drive! You can drag and drop windows between workspaces from the bar, and that T-Bird=>Firefox SHOULD jump over to Firefox (I remember it did when I last booted into windows about 2 months ago). I'm perfectly satisfied with Ubuntu/CF, although links to webpages don't move the desktop:(
I'm not the parent poster, but I think it might have gone something like this:
Fuck the fucking fucked-up $noun for fucking fucking the fucking fucked fucks that fucking fucked the fucking $noun2. OK, 7 non-fucks (I dunno if I should could articles), but 10/17 ain't bad.
Amen to that brother. I'm going back to DC for the summer (internship) and possibly staying there for the fall (Georgetown transfer, cmon:)), but I will miss my Fry's in vegas so desperately. Right off the freeway, approximately 4 miles from campus, and a 300GB SATA drive for 80 bucks!!!
*sigh* I'll just have to stick with Woot! and newegg while I'm up there.
Completely in agreement with you on that one. Sony will get the exclusive bump once the exclusives are, yknow, there. By the way, Final Fantasy XIII is in development (with a very smooth looking trailer) but there is no release date set (I hear mid-late '08).
I'm not a fan of the MGS series, so that's a no go for me. However, White Knight Story (no release date) also looks pretty nice. It looks like the GAMES are going to determine the success or failure of the PS3, and that should come as no shock to anyone who's been paying attention.
It's not particularly your fault the problem exists, it's the whole large business system. Being the go-between between devs and upper management isn't nessecarily a BAD thing ("I have PEOPLE skills!!!!"), but the fact that you need to go to meetings ad infinitum is a problem. There needs to be more organization on the higher-ups so that the dev team (represented by you) can focus on the developing and not the "business" end of things.
See: Joel on Software's take on it. Basically, your job is important, but Microsoft needs to focus on the level above yours.
While I agree with you that this is a horrible bug that needs to be fixed ASAP, your statement that "There's no option to ignore specific sites" is horribly wrong.
When you first enter a password for a site, a dialog comes up asking "Would you like to remember the password?" and options "Remember Password", "Never for this Site", and "Not Now". I think that middle option is the one you're looking for:)
I was an intern for the public sector not too long ago, and even though it wasn't particularly my job to babysit the servers, I felt more comfortable being able to check the backup jobs, make sure everything was alive, et cetera, after I left the office.
The only real cure for that is to have more than one sysadmin who could get stuff done and rotate out paranoia-time. Then they gave me a blackberry... The only times I wasn't in nazi-paranoia mode was when the battery died and on public holidays.
As explained above, NASA content (and all government-paid content) is pretty much copyright-free. You can use it for whatever purposes you want to. Same thing happened with Ted Steven's Senate rant on Tubes. A few people made very funny remixes/mashups, and the government couldn't do anything about it.
Meanwhile pornography in the US is one of the growth industries during a recession (like it has never been a growth industry, no pun intended). But remember - Sex=Bad, but Sex=Product=Good (hmm, maybe this is why porn is consumed here in the US, because it is the ultimate expression of Sex as a Product?)...
You make an excellent point here, and really this extends to all products. If Sex = Bad in the 'real world', and people are, by nature, sexual people, the only outlet they have is the Products (Sex = Products). By keeping sex in the real world bad, the only indulgence method in the US for sex is consumerism... wow. That is the most disturbing principle I have heard in my lifetime.
You are correct about ESX essentially being a very stripped down RedHat install. It has some stringent hardware requirements, however (SCSI, limited NIC support, requires 2 physical cores minimum), so not really good for the consumer market. I know ESX comes with a pl script called VMSnap, which performs a hot backup to a remote linux host (or anything that understands scp, really). I wodner if the same script can be hacked to work with GSX.
Which reminds me, is there any specialty linux distro in the works that has wider hardware support (maybe not Knoppix-level) and just runs vmware-server. That could be a killer app for the hobbyist, ploppin down some VMWare Servers like that...
Close... but here's the difference between Xen and VMWare ESX:
Xen does 'para-virtualization', wherein it virtualizes MOST of the hardware, but allows some passthrough to the bare metal. This requires virtualization-aware kernels and modifications to some software, perhaps. Since it's a 'lighter' application than the ESX server, it should run a bit faster.
VMWare does a full virtualization of every hardware component, like most other virtualization products (Virtual Server 2k3, Virtual PC, VMWare Workstation (I'm sure there are others, and I really don't know the field that much), so there is no requirement for the guest OS's (besides x86 and support for the 'VMWare Hardware', which is rather standard). VMWare provides the VMWare Tools package to Windows and Linux servers to enable better communication with the 'hypervisor' kernel, increasing network utilization, etc. However, it is very possible to run other OS's using the standard drivers.
Basically, if you're really going for the speed and don't mind the extra leg-work to get a working kernel in Xen, it should be faster. Since we have to run Windows 2003 servers, and really don't have the staff to hack around the kernels (not to mention already bought support for ESX), ESX runs beautifully for us.
I'm sure you could, although again, it has to do with hard-setting registers, and a bunch of stuff I really don't understand. I'm sure if you wanted to, you could hack up the Linux kernel to simulate it, or try and get VMWare/Xen/QEMU to do it, but in terms of ease, jmp-ing over the check is far simpler.
The drop from 64 bit to 32 bit is one thing, however, in this case, the Skype code specifically queried the hardware for the GenuineIntel. If I remember this correctly from another/. post (not mine)
The opcode used in Skype, when activated on the processor, sets 3 4-byte registers on the processor as an identifier. This is burned into the silicon, basically.
For Intel Chips, the registers become Genu, ineI, ntel - Genuine Intel
For AMD: Auth, enti, cAMD - Authentic AMD
Like I said, since it's burned into the chip, there's no real way of 'masking' those registers as something else. This crack skips the verification, basically telling Skype that 'any processor is cool to run 10way' as opposed 'only GeniuneIntel chips can run 10way'
....than how your sysadmins would run their network.
You keep it open enough for them to do their job, and not much else, provide the proper storage and network services that they require, and that's about it. What I see as the main difference is that your users aren't dumb enough to open.exe file attachments, which is good for you.
Expect a lot of griping from your sysadmins, mainly involving filtering out Quake server traffic, if it comes to that. You have a job to do, so just do it.
Crack the jokes alll you want, but NTP specifically exempted Government, First Responders, some Military, and Medical fields, to prevent bad publicity (OMG NTP is taking away communciations from First Repsonders who need it the most) and vested interest in the government.
I work in a government position and we run our own BES. We couldn't give a crap whether or not this case goes in favor of NTP or RIM.
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15 dollars with a 30-day demo. It's really lightweight, and even runs off a portable drive! You can drag and drop windows between workspaces from the bar, and that T-Bird=>Firefox SHOULD jump over to Firefox (I remember it did when I last booted into windows about 2 months ago). I'm perfectly satisfied with Ubuntu/CF, although links to webpages don't move the desktop
I'm not the parent poster, but I think it might have gone something like this:
Fuck the fucking fucked-up $noun for fucking fucking the fucking fucked fucks that fucking fucked the fucking $noun2. OK, 7 non-fucks (I dunno if I should could articles), but 10/17 ain't bad.
As you wish:
Some jerk ram your car from the rear, causing collision, damage, destruction, etc
vs.
Some jerk block the offramp to your favorite pizza place.
The Detainment of an Unlawful Enemy Student?
As was once quoted to me from a source I cannot recall:
"Computer Science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes."
But in all reality, it's the Nanos that dominate the market, not the 30GB videos.
Amen to that brother. I'm going back to DC for the summer (internship) and possibly staying there for the fall (Georgetown transfer, cmon :)), but I will miss my Fry's in vegas so desperately. Right off the freeway, approximately 4 miles from campus, and a 300GB SATA drive for 80 bucks!!!
*sigh* I'll just have to stick with Woot! and newegg while I'm up there.
Completely in agreement with you on that one. Sony will get the exclusive bump once the exclusives are, yknow, there. By the way, Final Fantasy XIII is in development (with a very smooth looking trailer) but there is no release date set (I hear mid-late '08).
I'm not a fan of the MGS series, so that's a no go for me. However, White Knight Story (no release date) also looks pretty nice. It looks like the GAMES are going to determine the success or failure of the PS3, and that should come as no shock to anyone who's been paying attention.
It's not particularly your fault the problem exists, it's the whole large business system. Being the go-between between devs and upper management isn't nessecarily a BAD thing ("I have PEOPLE skills!!!!"), but the fact that you need to go to meetings ad infinitum is a problem. There needs to be more organization on the higher-ups so that the dev team (represented by you) can focus on the developing and not the "business" end of things. See: Joel on Software's take on it. Basically, your job is important, but Microsoft needs to focus on the level above yours.
While I agree with you that this is a horrible bug that needs to be fixed ASAP, your statement that "There's no option to ignore specific sites" is horribly wrong.
:)
When you first enter a password for a site, a dialog comes up asking "Would you like to remember the password?" and options "Remember Password", "Never for this Site", and "Not Now". I think that middle option is the one you're looking for
My thoughts exactly!
I was an intern for the public sector not too long ago, and even though it wasn't particularly my job to babysit the servers, I felt more comfortable being able to check the backup jobs, make sure everything was alive, et cetera, after I left the office.
The only real cure for that is to have more than one sysadmin who could get stuff done and rotate out paranoia-time. Then they gave me a blackberry... The only times I wasn't in nazi-paranoia mode was when the battery died and on public holidays.
Wow.... that would definitely qualify for the most offensive, yet poignant joke that I've seen for quite a while. Well done, jerk :-p
...and invaded Germany.
Hah, the first time someone's been happy about a 1.5-week shipping delay....
As explained above, NASA content (and all government-paid content) is pretty much copyright-free. You can use it for whatever purposes you want to. Same thing happened with Ted Steven's Senate rant on Tubes. A few people made very funny remixes/mashups, and the government couldn't do anything about it.
Uhm.. 10 bucks'll get you that: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=IW-06&cm_v en=Froogle&cm_cat=Shopping&cm_ite=total
Videos > Video Settings > TV Out, Signal, and Widescreen
You make an excellent point here, and really this extends to all products. If Sex = Bad in the 'real world', and people are, by nature, sexual people, the only outlet they have is the Products (Sex = Products). By keeping sex in the real world bad, the only indulgence method in the US for sex is consumerism... wow. That is the most disturbing principle I have heard in my lifetime.
You are correct about ESX essentially being a very stripped down RedHat install. It has some stringent hardware requirements, however (SCSI, limited NIC support, requires 2 physical cores minimum), so not really good for the consumer market. I know ESX comes with a pl script called VMSnap, which performs a hot backup to a remote linux host (or anything that understands scp, really). I wodner if the same script can be hacked to work with GSX.
Which reminds me, is there any specialty linux distro in the works that has wider hardware support (maybe not Knoppix-level) and just runs vmware-server. That could be a killer app for the hobbyist, ploppin down some VMWare Servers like that...
And in my previous comment, I forgot to answer the 'second thought'.
ESX server is a modified Redhat kernel (2.4.9) and the ESX-specific apps, plus device modules to connect to whatever server-class hardware you have.
Close... but here's the difference between Xen and VMWare ESX:
Xen does 'para-virtualization', wherein it virtualizes MOST of the hardware, but allows some passthrough to the bare metal. This requires virtualization-aware kernels and modifications to some software, perhaps. Since it's a 'lighter' application than the ESX server, it should run a bit faster.
VMWare does a full virtualization of every hardware component, like most other virtualization products (Virtual Server 2k3, Virtual PC, VMWare Workstation (I'm sure there are others, and I really don't know the field that much), so there is no requirement for the guest OS's (besides x86 and support for the 'VMWare Hardware', which is rather standard). VMWare provides the VMWare Tools package to Windows and Linux servers to enable better communication with the 'hypervisor' kernel, increasing network utilization, etc. However, it is very possible to run other OS's using the standard drivers.
Basically, if you're really going for the speed and don't mind the extra leg-work to get a working kernel in Xen, it should be faster. Since we have to run Windows 2003 servers, and really don't have the staff to hack around the kernels (not to mention already bought support for ESX), ESX runs beautifully for us.
Is that you? Jobs? OMG Happy 30th!!!
I'm sure you could, although again, it has to do with hard-setting registers, and a bunch of stuff I really don't understand. I'm sure if you wanted to, you could hack up the Linux kernel to simulate it, or try and get VMWare/Xen/QEMU to do it, but in terms of ease, jmp-ing over the check is far simpler.
The drop from 64 bit to 32 bit is one thing, however, in this case, the Skype code specifically queried the hardware for the GenuineIntel. If I remember this correctly from another /. post (not mine)
The opcode used in Skype, when activated on the processor, sets 3 4-byte registers on the processor as an identifier. This is burned into the silicon, basically.
For Intel Chips, the registers become
Genu, ineI, ntel - Genuine Intel
For AMD:
Auth, enti, cAMD - Authentic AMD
Like I said, since it's burned into the chip, there's no real way of 'masking' those registers as something else. This crack skips the verification, basically telling Skype that 'any processor is cool to run 10way' as opposed 'only GeniuneIntel chips can run 10way'
....than how your sysadmins would run their network.
.exe file attachments, which is good for you.
You keep it open enough for them to do their job, and not much else, provide the proper storage and network services that they require, and that's about it. What I see as the main difference is that your users aren't dumb enough to open
Expect a lot of griping from your sysadmins, mainly involving filtering out Quake server traffic, if it comes to that. You have a job to do, so just do it.
Crack the jokes alll you want, but NTP specifically exempted Government, First Responders, some Military, and Medical fields, to prevent bad publicity (OMG NTP is taking away communciations from First Repsonders who need it the most) and vested interest in the government.
I work in a government position and we run our own BES. We couldn't give a crap whether or not this case goes in favor of NTP or RIM.
...and that's just how they want it to be.