Mono wasn't ported by Microsoft, and I'm guessing that Microsoft will eventually shut down (via legal means) the VB port. While C# is partially an open standard, which is why Mono can create a C# compiler with no issues, VB is completely closed.
I'm not even sure why someone would want to run VB under Linux. C# is a fantastic language, and well suited for any O/S. VB (and VB.NET) is far more Microsoft-specific, and any developers using it run the risk of future Mono compilers not supporting its features after Microsoft has it removed.
Compiling a language isn't easy - so if they've built a compiler for any given language, first I think they deserve some pretty major props. Second, while IANAL, I think MS would be on some pretty dicey ground to stop someone from compiling their code. After all, if more people are using their language - they make more headway into development mindshare.
Our datacentre has ~ 500 Solaris / HP-UX / AIX boxen, and ~ 1000 Windows servers.
15 minute change window to apply patch, another 15 minutes to reboot successfully and come back online. Multiply 30 min x 1500 = 45,000 minutes, or 750 hours.
I work for a company (who shall remain nameless - no shameless plugging) that does data center management - and we've just rolled-out our DST patches. They all get automatically pushed to every managed server, and the process happens transparently.
Praise for my employer aside, though: shouldn't your Windows server have snagged the update from MS automatically on Patch Tuesday? It should just be a matter of logging-in to each one and saying 'yes' to the update - unless you have your servers set to autoinstall patches.
And I would expect a relatively simple script should be able to snag the patches for the *NIX boxes pretty easily - probably different for each flavor, but overall fairly straightforward.
Hypothetically, all servers should be running off UTC - and the issue should only be with clients. Servers running in local time give me the willies.
It is amazing to see in action. Works a hell of a lot better than tampons, too. The price is obviously worth it, but the damage done to the limb is pretty ugly too. Do you know of anyone keeping a limb after using quickclot?
Do you see many people living whose femoral arteries get slashed?
The real story was that he overloaded by a bunch in two semester, so he compressed-out his last 2 years' worth of classes into one. Coming in with scads of AP credits was nice and all, but is this really news-worthy? I suspect a noticeable percentage of students could double-up their schedules if they weren't working, and didn't care about interacting with anybody. As a full-time student, I almost always had a bunch of slack time - even with project-intensive coursework. However, I decided that A) I didn't want to pay the extra per-credit-hour fee the school would assess for overloading, B) I needed to work to pay for things like gas and insurance, and C) I liked downtime - going to the movies, hanging out with friends, playing games, driving around to see what there was to see, etc.
Yes, the kid's probably pretty smart. But he's also really determined. I know many people who've taken 21-24 credits in a single semester and did decently - even people who are just 'average' because they poured a lot of time and energy into their classwork.
The article also doesn't say what the split in the AP vs 'real' credits were. I would suspect, though I don't know, that he took more of the arts/humanities AP classes and CLEP exams. CLEPing many classes isn't really all that hard if you're willing to put in a bit of time reading the prep books, or just know the material straight-up. Majoring in Math and Physics (from having talked to people who have, though it's not a universal truism) seems to have the fewest projects to turn in for grade, fewer papers (which take some time to just write, and more theory than application.
Congrats to him on blitzing through the material and passing the classes. But I think the more interesting story would be how much of this he recalls in weeks/months/years ahead that he'll need. I don't remember much of anything I learned in Accounting because I don't have a reason to know or use it. Same with most of the advanced math I've taken. But the programming and analysis class material comes out in my work.
So, we need a WikiCast - remember folks, you heard it here first!
Could this be lights out for Intel?
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AMD has ~26% of the server chip market. That means that everybody else (primarily Intel and some IBM/Sun) has ~74%. Let's say for sake of argument that Intel has 50% of the server chip market (didn't check the number, just as an illustration) - that means that for every AMD chip sold, two of Intel's are sold. This isn't a 'lights out for Intel' scenario - it's a scenario in which real competition is going on, and Intel can no longer just rest on its sizeable laurels.
enerally most fossil fuel plants don't use the same fuels you burn in your car, so you would probably have to take into account the refining of their fuel as well.
I don't know about every location, but several electrical power generation plants will run on more or less any kind of oil - it doesn't have to be horribly refined it you burn at high enough temperatures. Some areas also throw in old railroad ties and power poles to burn the wood and creosote.
The truth is far more nuanced than that. Deeper than that. More subtle than that.
Far more nuanced. Some parts of Vista are bloated pieces of crap.
Since when do you have to "nuance" truth? If it's a bloated, buggy piece of crap, it should be thrown out and redone. If it's "incredibly efficient", it should (probably) stay, and if it's in the middle, you have developers at least trying to do better.
I agree that you might not be able to say the whole shooting match is a "bloated piece of crap", but most of it sure looks like it. Tell me the few parts that are good, the chunk that's alright, and admit you screwed up the rest.
they do sell below cost; it's been demonstrated in court.
And your point is...? I don't recall it being illegal to sell below your cost. It's probably not the cleverest thing you could do if you don't stop before you run out of cash, but it's legal AFAIK.
For example, nothing prevents me from starting a business selling bread (which I either make or get from suppliers like Wonder, Pepperidge Farm, et al) and selling every loaf for $1. If it costs me $2.50 to buy Pepperidge Farm and $1.50 to buy Wonder, but I want to sell them for a buck a pop - that's my prerogative.
If I have enough capital, I can do that and force others to either cut their prices or go out of business. But when I run out of capital, I will either go out of business, or be forced to raise my prices. It may be unethical, but it's not illegal - and if can be used to help people (ie folks who couldn't afford to pay $2.50, but can $1), then it's probably a laudable thing to do.
Whether or not Wal*Mart operates ethically or not is irrelevant for the moment, as is whether Micron's asking others to lower their prices. The question is whether or not it was illegal, and getting together to drop prices, which forces those who don't agree to compete, and encourages more people to buy the product, sounds like a perfectly legal, and even economically-sound concept.
Looks to me like Rambus is pissed they didn't join the party, and now they're left out in the cold.
expertly played by Anthony Geary, but he's closely followed by Dr Emmett Brown: "the way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine out of a car, you gotta do with style"
don't see me whining that gmail doesn't work in lynx
I often access Gmail via elinks under linux, and have used it with Lynx - it sucks mightily, and most of the cool features, like chat, don't work - but it'll open and run:)
I have yet to see a "proper" non-academic microkernel which lets one part fail while the rest remain.
BeOS did this pretty nicely. I ran 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0, and while it was rare, I'd have chunks of the OS die (network stack, whatever), and the little status box would pop up either alerting me to the failure, allowing me to reboot that component, or it would just do it in the background. Resetting drivers etc all happened without rebooting.
just installed Sarge on my new web host and was hoping to get at least 2-3 years out of it as stable before I had to upgrade
Who says you have to upgrade instantly? I know a bunch of people running FC1, or even RH9 or 7.3. If it works, you don't have to touch it - it's not like Gentoo:)
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I liked the ones in Red Planet, myself
Damn, but that's friggin' expensive
Compiling a language isn't easy - so if they've built a compiler for any given language, first I think they deserve some pretty major props. Second, while IANAL, I think MS would be on some pretty dicey ground to stop someone from compiling their code. After all, if more people are using their language - they make more headway into development mindshare.
I work for a company (who shall remain nameless - no shameless plugging) that does data center management - and we've just rolled-out our DST patches. They all get automatically pushed to every managed server, and the process happens transparently.
Praise for my employer aside, though: shouldn't your Windows server have snagged the update from MS automatically on Patch Tuesday? It should just be a matter of logging-in to each one and saying 'yes' to the update - unless you have your servers set to autoinstall patches.
And I would expect a relatively simple script should be able to snag the patches for the *NIX boxes pretty easily - probably different for each flavor, but overall fairly straightforward.
Hypothetically, all servers should be running off UTC - and the issue should only be with clients. Servers running in local time give me the willies.
This sounds like a really bad Fox special
I've never heard anyone quote such a stat. Where does said statistic come from
Do you see many people living whose femoral arteries get slashed?
I'd take a missing leg over dead.
Kids might incorrectly say 'bump', but Lego does refer to the bumps as studs.
Though the typo on slide 4: "three-spud" is amusing
The real story was that he overloaded by a bunch in two semester, so he compressed-out his last 2 years' worth of classes into one. Coming in with scads of AP credits was nice and all, but is this really news-worthy? I suspect a noticeable percentage of students could double-up their schedules if they weren't working, and didn't care about interacting with anybody. As a full-time student, I almost always had a bunch of slack time - even with project-intensive coursework. However, I decided that A) I didn't want to pay the extra per-credit-hour fee the school would assess for overloading, B) I needed to work to pay for things like gas and insurance, and C) I liked downtime - going to the movies, hanging out with friends, playing games, driving around to see what there was to see, etc.
Yes, the kid's probably pretty smart. But he's also really determined. I know many people who've taken 21-24 credits in a single semester and did decently - even people who are just 'average' because they poured a lot of time and energy into their classwork.
The article also doesn't say what the split in the AP vs 'real' credits were. I would suspect, though I don't know, that he took more of the arts/humanities AP classes and CLEP exams. CLEPing many classes isn't really all that hard if you're willing to put in a bit of time reading the prep books, or just know the material straight-up. Majoring in Math and Physics (from having talked to people who have, though it's not a universal truism) seems to have the fewest projects to turn in for grade, fewer papers (which take some time to just write, and more theory than application.
Congrats to him on blitzing through the material and passing the classes. But I think the more interesting story would be how much of this he recalls in weeks/months/years ahead that he'll need. I don't remember much of anything I learned in Accounting because I don't have a reason to know or use it. Same with most of the advanced math I've taken. But the programming and analysis class material comes out in my work.
No more than do external hard drives, or any other portable media.
The potential of bad uses shouldn't preclude any good uses.
So, we need a WikiCast - remember folks, you heard it here first!
AMD has ~26% of the server chip market. That means that everybody else (primarily Intel and some IBM/Sun) has ~74%. Let's say for sake of argument that Intel has 50% of the server chip market (didn't check the number, just as an illustration) - that means that for every AMD chip sold, two of Intel's are sold. This isn't a 'lights out for Intel' scenario - it's a scenario in which real competition is going on, and Intel can no longer just rest on its sizeable laurels.
"We need more thrust!"
I don't know about every location, but several electrical power generation plants will run on more or less any kind of oil - it doesn't have to be horribly refined it you burn at high enough temperatures. Some areas also throw in old railroad ties and power poles to burn the wood and creosote.
Since when do you have to "nuance" truth? If it's a bloated, buggy piece of crap, it should be thrown out and redone. If it's "incredibly efficient", it should (probably) stay, and if it's in the middle, you have developers at least trying to do better.
I agree that you might not be able to say the whole shooting match is a "bloated piece of crap", but most of it sure looks like it. Tell me the few parts that are good, the chunk that's alright, and admit you screwed up the rest.
Ummm... I don't think that's a *POSTURE* problem, but perhaps a *VIEWING* issue...
And your point is...? I don't recall it being illegal to sell below your cost. It's probably not the cleverest thing you could do if you don't stop before you run out of cash, but it's legal AFAIK.
For example, nothing prevents me from starting a business selling bread (which I either make or get from suppliers like Wonder, Pepperidge Farm, et al) and selling every loaf for $1. If it costs me $2.50 to buy Pepperidge Farm and $1.50 to buy Wonder, but I want to sell them for a buck a pop - that's my prerogative.
If I have enough capital, I can do that and force others to either cut their prices or go out of business. But when I run out of capital, I will either go out of business, or be forced to raise my prices. It may be unethical, but it's not illegal - and if can be used to help people (ie folks who couldn't afford to pay $2.50, but can $1), then it's probably a laudable thing to do.
Whether or not Wal*Mart operates ethically or not is irrelevant for the moment, as is whether Micron's asking others to lower their prices. The question is whether or not it was illegal, and getting together to drop prices, which forces those who don't agree to compete, and encourages more people to buy the product, sounds like a perfectly legal, and even economically-sound concept.
Looks to me like Rambus is pissed they didn't join the party, and now they're left out in the cold.
DSS was the subject of an InfoWorld article a while back (nov 03) about setting up QuickTime-compatible video feeds.
A friend of mine is using ClearSilver templates and CGI mode Python to render his site, and it validates W3C with no problems.
expertly played by Anthony Geary, but he's closely followed by Dr Emmett Brown: "the way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine out of a car, you gotta do with style"
Hope they keep the temp under 212F - or it'll all be vapor
I often access Gmail via elinks under linux, and have used it with Lynx - it sucks mightily, and most of the cool features, like chat, don't work - but it'll open and run :)
BeOS did this pretty nicely. I ran 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0, and while it was rare, I'd have chunks of the OS die (network stack, whatever), and the little status box would pop up either alerting me to the failure, allowing me to reboot that component, or it would just do it in the background. Resetting drivers etc all happened without rebooting.
Who says you have to upgrade instantly? I know a bunch of people running FC1, or even RH9 or 7.3. If it works, you don't have to touch it - it's not like Gentoo :)
/ducks
wouldn't it be firing backwards, then? Kent's unit was supposed to hit ground targets.