But would it really be done properly? I'd love to see the Dark Tower on film, but after seeing how the Harry Potter's have turned out compared to the books, I'm not enthused about a series that long making it to screen intact.
I spent the whole scene wondering why the people in charge sat in the main hold with the detonator in their hands outnumbered by a bunch of people whose lives were in danger.
But what the prisoner did at the end of the showdown really threw me. I though he was going to do the opposite.
They don't want chips that put out more heat, they wants chips capable of running in a higher ambient temperature environment. i.e. a server room maintained at 80 degrees Fahrenheit vs 70 degrees.
But you get the Service Management Framework (SMF), on Sun hardware you get awesome hardware diagnostic utilities, you get zones (which can also run linux, Sol8 and Sol9), you get dtrace, you get a real nice auditing features (BSM), just to name a few. I don't consider 'ls' to be a deal breaker for using an OS.
I used to always install a crap load of GNU utilities on Solaris systems pre-10, but with Solaris 10 I have hardly found a need, and even then only to support some 3rd party app that depends on certain GNU libs.
RedHat updates the same IMHO. Any enterprise supported software is not going to do much feature enhancement within the current version.
If you are referring to the other dozens of linux distros out there, then yes they get the features faster. But if you want that from Solaris, try OpenSolaris or get on the Solaris Nevada (ie Solaris 11) list.
If your only experience with Solaris is v8 or v9, you really need to check out Solaris 10. It is a complete night and day difference in ease of use and features. Add to that the volume of useful enterprise management software from Sun (the N1 stack, and now the new xVM stack) and you have an enterprise that is a dream to maintain.
I've been doing straight Solaris 10 admin for the last 2 years (linux for 4 years before that), and shortly will once again be taking a position that will be 99% linux. I will miss Solaris 10. I still love both OS's, but Solaris wins in my book at the moment.
I concur...where I work our 5 man unix team supports about 400 engineers of various types (mechanical, electrical, computer scientists, aerospace, etc.) and they are a needy little bunch.
never want to follow the processes, always want it now, refuse to let us do any IT analysis of their computing needs, refuse to use the ticketing system.
Frustrating to say the least.
Another place I worked one of the VMS computer operators told me a story where she was fixing a problem for a scientist and paused for a few seconds to review what she was doing in her mind before typing in a command..the scientist looked her in the eye and told her "you just wasted 13 seconds of my time." Her response was she would have wasted his entire day if her command had taken down the cluster...
Um, get past the identity theft victims...now the thief has the ability to fake credentials for 33K people who get to go through much reduced security at airports.
To pull the terrorism card: how much would a terrorist organization pay to have the ability to bypass almost all security checkpoints at the airports that participate in the program?
The smart thing to do (from an airport security standpoint) would be to remove all 33K people from the program and make them go through normal security again like everyone else.
I had a manager who was a reserve police officer...his first domestic violence case he was extremely diligent, made sure all the paperwork was perfect, all the witness affidavits legit, etc. His boss told him not to bother because the woman would just drop the case. My manager didn't beleive him.
Sure enough, when he showed up in court, he found out that the woman had dropped all the charges and was still living with the husband. Then he was on duty and got called out to the house again.
Statistics I heard many years ago from a sports coach:
1 lb of fat requires 10 calories a day to maintain 1 lb of muscle requires 40 calories a day
So even you you didn't lose any weight in a strength training program, if you swapped 10 lbs of fat for 10lbs of muscle, you would not only be thinner, but would be burning an extra 300 calories a day just by breathing (the equivalent of 2 cans of soda).
But only the first 2-3 programming classes are actually teaching you how to program, the remainder use the programming skills you (hopefully) already learned as a tool to implement the concepts the course is trying to teach.
A good example was my computational methods course (400 level). Most of our assignments were basically implementing mathematical algorithms in a computer language.
Bingo on what a CS degree should be. I was told once by a professor I respected that programming in the CS curriculum was there to assist in teaching logical, structured thinking and as a tool to implement human ideas into computer speak.
Once of the best programmers I know retired from the Air Force after a career as a linguist. He picked up programming languages like nothing since to him it was just another way of speaking. (He also completed his CS degree).
And for the record, I am a systems admin who has a CS degree.
But making available does not imply you have to put a link for the srouce code on your website.
If you had a process where someone had to fill out a form, include a product receipt, send $5 for shipping and then the party was sent a DVD in the mail with the source code, you would be meeting the requirements of the GPL.
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I agree that this bill wasn't in his plan, but will he sign it or not???
If he doesn't, then he is keeping to the spirit of his plan.
If he does, then he is following the letter of his plan, but not the spirit.
They named it after something lunar related!!!! I thought they named it after the server from EVE-Online...
You just scarred my retinas with that mental picture...
But would it really be done properly? I'd love to see the Dark Tower on film, but after seeing how the Harry Potter's have turned out compared to the books, I'm not enthused about a series that long making it to screen intact.
I spent the whole scene wondering why the people in charge sat in the main hold with the detonator in their hands outnumbered by a bunch of people whose lives were in danger.
But what the prisoner did at the end of the showdown really threw me. I though he was going to do the opposite.
This video is at least a year old, I remember seeing it when I attended one of their mobile Blackbox tour presentations last year.
Said landlord decides to just not pay the mortgage payments. That is what happened to us a little over a year ago.
But your forgetting that to most people, OpenSource == Free as in beer.
I mean, why would you PAY for something you can download for free?
They don't want chips that put out more heat, they wants chips capable of running in a higher ambient temperature environment. i.e. a server room maintained at 80 degrees Fahrenheit vs 70 degrees.
Actually, I have a Computer Science degree, so I at least fooled the university into thinking I know that stuff!
But you get the Service Management Framework (SMF), on Sun hardware you get awesome hardware diagnostic utilities, you get zones (which can also run linux, Sol8 and Sol9), you get dtrace, you get a real nice auditing features (BSM), just to name a few. I don't consider 'ls' to be a deal breaker for using an OS.
I used to always install a crap load of GNU utilities on Solaris systems pre-10, but with Solaris 10 I have hardly found a need, and even then only to support some 3rd party app that depends on certain GNU libs.
RedHat updates the same IMHO. Any enterprise supported software is not going to do much feature enhancement within the current version.
If you are referring to the other dozens of linux distros out there, then yes they get the features faster. But if you want that from Solaris, try OpenSolaris or get on the Solaris Nevada (ie Solaris 11) list.
If your only experience with Solaris is v8 or v9, you really need to check out Solaris 10. It is a complete night and day difference in ease of use and features. Add to that the volume of useful enterprise management software from Sun (the N1 stack, and now the new xVM stack) and you have an enterprise that is a dream to maintain.
I've been doing straight Solaris 10 admin for the last 2 years (linux for 4 years before that), and shortly will once again be taking a position that will be 99% linux. I will miss Solaris 10. I still love both OS's, but Solaris wins in my book at the moment.
I concur...where I work our 5 man unix team supports about 400 engineers of various types (mechanical, electrical, computer scientists, aerospace, etc.) and they are a needy little bunch.
never want to follow the processes, always want it now, refuse to let us do any IT analysis of their computing needs, refuse to use the ticketing system.
Frustrating to say the least.
Another place I worked one of the VMS computer operators told me a story where she was fixing a problem for a scientist and paused for a few seconds to review what she was doing in her mind before typing in a command..the scientist looked her in the eye and told her "you just wasted 13 seconds of my time." Her response was she would have wasted his entire day if her command had taken down the cluster...
I won't even think about ZFS on linux until it can be implemented in kernel space.
On Solaris, ZFS is awesome for handling large pools of disks. I haven't played with the OpenSolaris yet where you can have the root partition on ZFS.
Um, since the credit/banking industry lobbies like crazy for laws to go their way, a law like this would never get passed.
Politicians are not stupid, they follow the money.
http://xkcd.com/208/
I love this particular comic...
Um, get past the identity theft victims...now the thief has the ability to fake credentials for 33K people who get to go through much reduced security at airports.
To pull the terrorism card: how much would a terrorist organization pay to have the ability to bypass almost all security checkpoints at the airports that participate in the program?
The smart thing to do (from an airport security standpoint) would be to remove all 33K people from the program and make them go through normal security again like everyone else.
I had a manager who was a reserve police officer...his first domestic violence case he was extremely diligent, made sure all the paperwork was perfect, all the witness affidavits legit, etc. His boss told him not to bother because the woman would just drop the case. My manager didn't beleive him.
Sure enough, when he showed up in court, he found out that the woman had dropped all the charges and was still living with the husband. Then he was on duty and got called out to the house again.
Statistics I heard many years ago from a sports coach:
1 lb of fat requires 10 calories a day to maintain
1 lb of muscle requires 40 calories a day
So even you you didn't lose any weight in a strength training program, if you swapped 10 lbs of fat for 10lbs of muscle, you would not only be thinner, but would be burning an extra 300 calories a day just by breathing (the equivalent of 2 cans of soda).
Of my limited 1 year of pain with VMS back in the 90s (the software got ported to Linux shortly after), I think the file versioning was awesome.
We had a custom DIR alias to only show the current version, and custom purge scripts to keep the directories from becoming unwieldy.
But only the first 2-3 programming classes are actually teaching you how to program, the remainder use the programming skills you (hopefully) already learned as a tool to implement the concepts the course is trying to teach.
A good example was my computational methods course (400 level). Most of our assignments were basically implementing mathematical algorithms in a computer language.
Bingo on what a CS degree should be. I was told once by a professor I respected that programming in the CS curriculum was there to assist in teaching logical, structured thinking and as a tool to implement human ideas into computer speak.
Once of the best programmers I know retired from the Air Force after a career as a linguist. He picked up programming languages like nothing since to him it was just another way of speaking. (He also completed his CS degree).
And for the record, I am a systems admin who has a CS degree.
Solaris 10, (and I would presume Linux as well) has a package of TIFF utilities.
We didn't do too much pdf2tiff (most stuff came in as TIFFs), but I don't remember any major issues the other way (tiff2pdf).
I imagine a fully featured converter application would do a better job though.
But making available does not imply you have to put a link for the srouce code on your website.
If you had a process where someone had to fill out a form, include a product receipt, send $5 for shipping and then the party was sent a DVD in the mail with the source code, you would be meeting the requirements of the GPL.