1 bad day, and you're ready to write off the entire company of 15,000+ people.
I cited only the Yahoo cyber Monday problem. That does not mean that it was Yahoo's only problem.
Yahoo's finance portal servers are slow, slow, slow. The redesigned message boards have got the worst user interface of any of the message board on the 'net, where else does a right-pointing arrow mean "go forward in time" or "go back in time" depending upon the placement on the page? It is so confusing that the ALT text for the arrow has to explain what it really means. That need alone should have triggered someone's light bulb that the UI design has issues.
The My Yahoo beta is a big step backwards for the Yahoo members. It is slower, more difficult to configure and has more obnoxious ad placements. This seems to echo Yahoo new "look" as it redesigns the various pieces of the portal.
Yahoo is on the way downward. I can only think that the Yahoo developers who write all these "do it our way" articles must be trying to make a name for themselves so they can find their next job more easily when Yahoo eventually crashes.
Facebook requires the good graces of its users to make money by selling the attention span of those users to advertisers. So what does Facebook do? Simple, piss off those very users it needs to make money.
Facebook says it is a vocal minority who are complaining. Perhaps it is the same minority who make up a majority of the page hits that the advertisers pay for?
Facebook is no smarter than the record companies. You do not anger the constituents of your revenue stream.
This past week or two, the SPAM level on my servers has been running about half of what iut had been last month. I chalked it up to the holidays, but now I wonder if the arrests had anything to do with the reduced level?
We won't know that there is competition in the marketplace until another monopoly has replaced Microsoft's monopoly. Just as we did not know there was competition for IBM until Microsoft's PC monopoly replaced IBM's mainframe monopoly.
The bill's purpose is to establish a committee to study violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism, and to assist federal officials in training and education efforts to prevent such things.
With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman's "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain.
Not since the "Patriot Act" of 2001 has any bill so threatened our constitutionally guaranteed rights.
The historian Henry Steele Commager, denouncing President John Adams' suppression of free speech in the 1790s, argued that the Bill of Rights was not written to protect government from dissenters but to provide a legal means for citizens to oppose a government they didn't trust. Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence not only proclaimed the right to dissent but declared it a people's duty, under certain conditions, to alter or abolish their government....
But her plan is a greater danger to us than the threats she fears. Her bill tramples constitutional rights by creating a commission with sweeping investigative power and a mandate to propose laws prohibiting whatever the commission labels "homegrown terrorism."
The proposed commission is a menace through its power to hold hearings, take testimony and administer oaths, an authority granted to even individual members of the commission - little Joe McCarthys - who will tour the country to hold their own private hearings. An aura of authority will automatically accompany this congressionally authorized mandate to expose native terrorism....
So I went to the HP site, and picked a random HP Pavillion notebook. Operating systems supported are listed as: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (64-bit), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP x64, Microsoft Windows 2000.
I was just on the Gateway support site, and I saw downloads for Windows 2000 and Windows XP drivers. So your comment that Gateway is not providing XP drivers is incorrect.
Because Windows 2000 and Windows XP weren't bad operating systems.
Windows XP has WGA. Therefore, it is a bad operating system.
Windows 2000 leveraged upon the illegally-obtained Windows 95 monopoly, which was leveraged upon the illegally obtained MS-DOS monopoly. The quality of the operating system (if any) had nothing to do with success (I will agree that Windows 2000 was the last good Microsoft operating system).
Once Microsoft hooks X-Box into their IPTV software, and gives special treatment to X-Box users, then it is all over. Microsoft has taken control of the TV service coming into your house.
Microsoft can't get Windows to work properly.
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Does Microsoft really expect me to trust them messing around with my grey matter?
Thanks for the analysis. All I was saying in my original message (that for some reason was marked as a troll?) was that info similar to what you provided should be in the specs for SSDs. The specs that are given are similar to those of regular hard drives when, as your astute analysis shows, SSDs behave quite differently.
The article talks about the "endurance" of the drives in mean time between failures. However, SSDs have another failure vector - there's a limit to the number of reads and writes that can be performed. That limit is not mentioned.
The good thing is that is easy to work with and works really good.
It is an awful package to work with. If you want to do anything (like, say, IPv6 support) beyond the very, very basic things that were coded in qmail many years ago, you have to apply dubious thrid-party patches. Patches that are not coordinated, patches that conflict with each other, patches that introduce nasty bugs.
qmail configuration files are cryptic (though, to be fair, not nearly as bad as Sendmail's config files). You have to install qmail with the directory structure djb wants, otherwise you violate the license.
qmail has not seen development by the author (djb) in many years.
Look to Postfix if you want to use a simple, modern, secure and up-to-date MTA.
I left them (moving to tera-byte) over 5 years ago. At the time, C I Host had all sorts of DNS problems, yet they continued to deny there was any problem.
Let me choose between Linux, MAC OS-X or you bribing me to use Windows; just like you bribed the vote on document formats.
Hey Microsoft, are you now starting to realize that you are unable to compete in the marketplace without using the tainted money from your cash-cow monopoly?
While still fairly far from Windows' market share, Mac OSX is now a solid competitor in the home market, so there definately is a choice
I meant a choice among versions of Windows (not a choice among OS's) in the home market. If you are a buyer of a home computer, and you want Windows, you have little choice but to get Vista.
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I cited only the Yahoo cyber Monday problem. That does not mean that it was Yahoo's only problem.
Yahoo's finance portal servers are slow, slow, slow. The redesigned message boards have got the worst user interface of any of the message board on the 'net, where else does a right-pointing arrow mean "go forward in time" or "go back in time" depending upon the placement on the page? It is so confusing that the ALT text for the arrow has to explain what it really means. That need alone should have triggered someone's light bulb that the UI design has issues.
The My Yahoo beta is a big step backwards for the Yahoo members. It is slower, more difficult to configure and has more obnoxious ad placements. This seems to echo Yahoo new "look" as it redesigns the various pieces of the portal.
Yahoo is on the way downward. I can only think that the Yahoo developers who write all these "do it our way" articles must be trying to make a name for themselves so they can find their next job more easily when Yahoo eventually crashes.
Yet the Yahoo developers keep on trying to tell the rest of the world how to create web sites, or how HTML should look, etc.
The Yahoo developers should first build credibility by getting their own house in order before they try to instruct others how to do their job.
Facebook says it is a vocal minority who are complaining. Perhaps it is the same minority who make up a majority of the page hits that the advertisers pay for?
Facebook is no smarter than the record companies. You do not anger the constituents of your revenue stream.
This past week or two, the SPAM level on my servers has been running about half of what iut had been last month. I chalked it up to the holidays, but now I wonder if the arrests had anything to do with the reduced level?
We won't know that there is competition in the marketplace until another monopoly has replaced Microsoft's monopoly. Just as we did not know there was competition for IBM until Microsoft's PC monopoly replaced IBM's mainframe monopoly.
Here is another view of the House bill.
With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman's "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act" passed the House 404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain.Not since the "Patriot Act" of 2001 has any bill so threatened our constitutionally guaranteed rights.
The historian Henry Steele Commager, denouncing President John Adams' suppression of free speech in the 1790s, argued that the Bill of Rights was not written to protect government from dissenters but to provide a legal means for citizens to oppose a government they didn't trust. Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence not only proclaimed the right to dissent but declared it a people's duty, under certain conditions, to alter or abolish their government....
But her plan is a greater danger to us than the threats she fears. Her bill tramples constitutional rights by creating a commission with sweeping investigative power and a mandate to propose laws prohibiting whatever the commission labels "homegrown terrorism."
The proposed commission is a menace through its power to hold hearings, take testimony and administer oaths, an authority granted to even individual members of the commission - little Joe McCarthys - who will tour the country to hold their own private hearings. An aura of authority will automatically accompany this congressionally authorized mandate to expose native terrorism....
Microsoft is funding Lagos Analysis Corp. in order to slow down the OLPC initiative. Didn't Microsoft do something similar in the SCO/Linux law suits?
And still, no model number given.
So I went to the HP site, and picked a random HP Pavillion notebook. Operating systems supported are listed as: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (64-bit), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows XP x64, Microsoft Windows 2000.
I was just on the Gateway support site, and I saw downloads for Windows 2000 and Windows XP drivers. So your comment that Gateway is not providing XP drivers is incorrect.
What model?
Dell and HP still provide drivers for Windows 2000, in addition to Windows XP.
Microsoft is still supporting Windows XP. PC manufacturers will support Windows XP as long as Microsoft does, possibly even longer.
Windows XP has WGA. Therefore, it is a bad operating system.
Windows 2000 leveraged upon the illegally-obtained Windows 95 monopoly, which was leveraged upon the illegally obtained MS-DOS monopoly. The quality of the operating system (if any) had nothing to do with success (I will agree that Windows 2000 was the last good Microsoft operating system).
Then explain windows' success.
Once Microsoft hooks X-Box into their IPTV software, and gives special treatment to X-Box users, then it is all over. Microsoft has taken control of the TV service coming into your house.
Does Microsoft really expect me to trust them messing around with my grey matter?
Linux was in the one published the prior year.
I wonder if this is a similar problem?
Now that's rich. Widespread use? What percent of the cell phone market does it have? 0.5%?
Thanks for the analysis. All I was saying in my original message (that for some reason was marked as a troll?) was that info similar to what you provided should be in the specs for SSDs. The specs that are given are similar to those of regular hard drives when, as your astute analysis shows, SSDs behave quite differently.
The article talks about the "endurance" of the drives in mean time between failures. However, SSDs have another failure vector - there's a limit to the number of reads and writes that can be performed. That limit is not mentioned.
It is an awful package to work with. If you want to do anything (like, say, IPv6 support) beyond the very, very basic things that were coded in qmail many years ago, you have to apply dubious thrid-party patches. Patches that are not coordinated, patches that conflict with each other, patches that introduce nasty bugs.
qmail configuration files are cryptic (though, to be fair, not nearly as bad as Sendmail's config files). You have to install qmail with the directory structure djb wants, otherwise you violate the license.
qmail has not seen development by the author (djb) in many years.
Look to Postfix if you want to use a simple, modern, secure and up-to-date MTA.
Microsoft is losing on the web. Microsoft is unable to compete. So what do they do? They whine.
I left them (moving to tera-byte) over 5 years ago. At the time, C I Host had all sorts of DNS problems, yet they continued to deny there was any problem.
Hey Microsoft, are you now starting to realize that you are unable to compete in the marketplace without using the tainted money from your cash-cow monopoly?
I meant a choice among versions of Windows (not a choice among OS's) in the home market. If you are a buyer of a home computer, and you want Windows, you have little choice but to get Vista.