I find that when I use et al, i need to explain the linguistic origins of the phrase. People are more used to etc (but don't know that it comes from latin), but they get scared when they see et al ("What language is that?!?!?"). Note: like much in this world, this does not apply to academia.
They could have choosen a better frontman. This guy sounds like a tool.
A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to securifying [sic] the environment.
We are concerned about security on an open standard environment like that. We are also concerned about some of the scalability issues that we are seeing on our clients on a global basis. Also, we are somewhat cautious about what happened with Unix - it splintered into eight applications -- until McNealy (Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun) finally announced he won the battle and had the one surviving Unix out there.
Scalability issues that we are seeing on our clients? WTF does that even mean? Splintered into eight applications? Let's see: ls, vi, cat, sed, grep, more, cd, echo, wc, bc, dc . . . I haven't even gotten into X-based stuff yet. Oh. Wait. I get it. Geez, it's like listening to Dubya.
on linux for a few years now. It's actually a fairly quick hack that I've never gotten around to fixing up. Each of my computers runs a backup program at 4am on monday morning, and saves a tar.gz of the dirs. The tar.gz is owned by an account that is not used by anything else. Then, at 5am, my main computer (the one with the burner) uses scp (with dsa id keys) to download the tar.gz files. It then mkisofs's and cdrecord's, so that I have a CDRW backup of my data.
The programs are pretty crap (only very basic error checking and file size checking are implemented), and I often forget to put a CDRW in the drive, but it works pretty well. The other main problem for your situation is that you need to burn multiple CD's per backup. It seems to be that a second burner (or a DVD burner) would work better than trying to get a system that can deal with multiple discs.
From my point of view, you want a dedicated machine to do this. A network writable SAMBA drive (limited to the maximum size of the burnable media?) would be my choice. Then, you can use generic backup software to backup neccessary files on whatever OS's you are running.
. ..where I work (tech support for a major ISP), I am allowed to support netscape, but not firefox, so I recommend it as an alternative to IE.
I figure that less than 5% of the people I speak to (people who are having problems with their internet connection) are using something other than Windows + IE. Most of that 5% are Mac users (and mostly OS 8-9).
I know people use linux/mac/bsd/etc, and firefox/netscape/opera/lynx/etc, but those that do either don't use my ISP, don't have problems, don't call when they do have problems, or some combination of the above.
Kudos to Wikimedia for actually explaining what happened and not just putting a "This page is down, please try again later" messege up. Many people/companies/groups/etc would be too proud or too afraid of bad publicity to actually explain the problem.
Allowing the use of DMCA-backed hacks to achieve a virtual monopoly (even if it is in the area of "ink carts for Lexmark printers) would have been a very bad precedent.
OTOH, it seems the DMCA is here to stay. Unfortunate . ..
Being a comparative young'un, I wasn't around for those days, but this rings so true. There have been some great improvements in software recently (I'm actually thinking GNU/Linux specifically), but it's all based on some huge decisions that occured 30 or even 40 years ago.
Kinda makes me glad that arpanet and networking in general were developed by government organizations and universities. Imagine if some company owned the patent on the client/server model . ..
Conservative release cycles and a more exhaustive test cycle make Red Hat Enterprise Linux a safer bet for the business community--they don't have to chase the release of the week.
I guess they aren't comparing release cycles with Debian . . . maybe Longhorn?
All joking aside, I think RHEL isn't so much competing with other Linux distro's as with Windows. RedHat is trying to offer a choice to companies that are considering the jump away from MS: AS and ES for server machines and WS for workstations, solid support. I haven't used RH in a while, but I hear RPM hell isn't the "killer" app it used to be. Sounds like it's good competition for Windows.
The Cell is designed to make sure media, or third party programs, stay exactly where the owner of the media or program thinks they should stay. While most microprocessor designers agonize about how to make memory accesses as fast as possible, the Cell designers have erected several (four, we count) barriers to ensure memory accesses are as slow and cumbersome as possible - if need be.
Hannibal doesn't say anything about this (that I noticed) - anyone have more info?
One of the editorials on this story mentioned an interesting patent law rant located here.
One of his ideas: "In order to collect the inventors' royalties, an association representing the inventors' interests should be established and affiliated to the patent offices. This would be an association similar to the associations that collect royalties for musical performances and pay these to the composers."
Of all of the live-cd's that I've passed around to my non-tech (or just non-*nix friends), movix is the one that gets the best reaction. It's nice to be able to watch a movie even if your main os is having problems (due to reinstalling, driver problems, spyware/viruses, or being windows . ..). Plus, because it's so specialized (there's no other crap running in the background), it even works with older systems that might not otherwise play dvd's reliably. It is small, too (30 MB if I remember right), so it will fit on a mini-cdr.
I've found that the best live-cd to give to
non-tech friends is movix. A
specific-purpose cd seems to be more useful to
people, maybe because it fits into a niche. Or,
maybe I just know a lot of people who have
trouble getting dvd software to run in windows .
...
If I used my computer for just gaming, you'd be right. Windows, video card, mainboard, etc are going to cost more than an XBOX or PS2. But, install Linux, and I can use my computer for other things as well (music, movies, writing, programming, etc). I spend more time doing stuff like that than I do gaming.
Plus, most games I play are FPS, and I never liked Halo specifically because of the controller. Too used to mouse and kb. And with the computer, an added bonus: nethack!
but buying eight or ten games would bring my investment up to the price of a decent (not top-of-the-line, bought in parts) computer, which I would greatly prefer.
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I find that when I use et al, i need to explain the linguistic origins of the phrase. People are more used to etc (but don't know that it comes from latin), but they get scared when they see et al ("What language is that?!?!?"). Note: like much in this world, this does not apply to academia.
They could have choosen a better frontman. This guy sounds like a tool.
Scalability issues that we are seeing on our clients? WTF does that even mean? Splintered into eight applications? Let's see: ls, vi, cat, sed, grep, more, cd, echo, wc, bc, dc . . . I haven't even gotten into X-based stuff yet. Oh. Wait. I get it. Geez, it's like listening to Dubya.
on linux for a few years now. It's actually a fairly quick hack that I've never gotten around to fixing up. Each of my computers runs a backup program at 4am on monday morning, and saves a tar.gz of the dirs. The tar.gz is owned by an account that is not used by anything else. Then, at 5am, my main computer (the one with the burner) uses scp (with dsa id keys) to download the tar.gz files. It then mkisofs's and cdrecord's, so that I have a CDRW backup of my data.
The programs are pretty crap (only very basic error checking and file size checking are implemented), and I often forget to put a CDRW in the drive, but it works pretty well. The other main problem for your situation is that you need to burn multiple CD's per backup. It seems to be that a second burner (or a DVD burner) would work better than trying to get a system that can deal with multiple discs.
From my point of view, you want a dedicated machine to do this. A network writable SAMBA drive (limited to the maximum size of the burnable media?) would be my choice. Then, you can use generic backup software to backup neccessary files on whatever OS's you are running.
According to the snopes story, they didn't change to KFC to get rid of fried or chicken!
. . . we would have been able to watch good Star Wars movies?
Yanno, DNF jokes are so damned 2003. And 2001. And... Well, they're old and tired. Yet, I have to hand it to Bin Jammin.
DNF has been vaporware for so long that even jokes about how old and tired the jokes are about DNF being vaporware are old and tired.
My brain hurts . . .
. . .where I work (tech support for a major ISP), I am allowed to support netscape, but not firefox, so I recommend it as an alternative to IE.
I figure that less than 5% of the people I speak to (people who are having problems with their internet connection) are using something other than Windows + IE. Most of that 5% are Mac users (and mostly OS 8-9).
I know people use linux/mac/bsd/etc, and firefox/netscape/opera/lynx/etc, but those that do either don't use my ISP, don't have problems, don't call when they do have problems, or some combination of the above.
I just got my ubuntu CD's the other day: free shipping rules! I believe they'd ship to Asia . . .
as long as the presentations are not stored in .ppt format.
:)
"Hitler was a mass-murdering fuckhead . . . as many important historians have said."
Thank you, Eddie Izzard
Kudos to Wikimedia for actually explaining what happened and not just putting a "This page is down, please try again later" messege up. Many people/companies/groups/etc would be too proud or too afraid of bad publicity to actually explain the problem.
Allowing the use of DMCA-backed hacks to achieve a virtual monopoly (even if it is in the area of "ink carts for Lexmark printers) would have been a very bad precedent.
OTOH, it seems the DMCA is here to stay. Unfortunate . . .
Mod parent up.
Being a comparative young'un, I wasn't around for those days, but this rings so true. There have been some great improvements in software recently (I'm actually thinking GNU/Linux specifically), but it's all based on some huge decisions that occured 30 or even 40 years ago.
Kinda makes me glad that arpanet and networking in general were developed by government organizations and universities. Imagine if some company owned the patent on the client/server model . . .
hehehe!
Let's not confuse IGE [link to www.ign.com] with IGN [link to www.ign.com].
To the average linux user: not very.
To non computer geeks, who only hear about linux through mass media: almost as relevant as back in the day.
From the article:
I guess they aren't comparing release cycles with Debian . . . maybe Longhorn?
All joking aside, I think RHEL isn't so much competing with other Linux distro's as with Windows. RedHat is trying to offer a choice to companies that are considering the jump away from MS: AS and ES for server machines and WS for workstations, solid support. I haven't used RH in a while, but I hear RPM hell isn't the "killer" app it used to be. Sounds like it's good competition for Windows.
Another article on the Cell design at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/03/cell_analy sis_part_two/ seems to indicate that there is some sort of DRM built in.
Hannibal doesn't say anything about this (that I noticed) - anyone have more info?
One of the editorials on this story mentioned an interesting patent law rant located here.
One of his ideas: "In order to collect the inventors' royalties, an association representing the inventors' interests should be established and affiliated to the patent offices. This would be an association similar to the associations that collect royalties for musical performances and pay these to the composers."
Because what we really need is another RIAA!
Of all of the live-cd's that I've passed around to my non-tech (or just non-*nix friends), movix is the one that gets the best reaction. It's nice to be able to watch a movie even if your main os is having problems (due to reinstalling, driver problems, spyware/viruses, or being windows . . .). Plus, because it's so specialized (there's no other crap running in the background), it even works with older systems that might not otherwise play dvd's reliably. It is small, too (30 MB if I remember right), so it will fit on a mini-cdr.
I've found that the best live-cd to give to non-tech friends is movix. A specific-purpose cd seems to be more useful to people, maybe because it fits into a niche. Or, maybe I just know a lot of people who have trouble getting dvd software to run in windows . . ..
is a struck down DMCA, but this is a start.
Wait, there are kitchen tables on Mars? WTF? Isn't *that* proof of life?!?!?
that apple is dying now?
Plus, most games I play are FPS, and I never liked Halo specifically because of the controller. Too used to mouse and kb. And with the computer, an added bonus: nethack!
but buying eight or ten games would bring my investment up to the price of a decent (not top-of-the-line, bought in parts) computer, which I would greatly prefer.