Before NT4, if the GUI crashed, the server and network layer would keep chugging. I used to run overnight qualifications on a very large CAD package (that seems to be the only high-end competition left for CATIA:-> ) In the NT 3.1 and particularly the 3.5 days, our regression tests would DESTROY the graphics subsystem, yet when we came in the next day, we could still run our over-the-network data retrievals to get our results before going around to reboot the whole lab.
Today, you'll get the STOP error for nearly anything. It wasn't always that way.
Microsoft made the move to put the GUI in kernel space before the whole video accelerator market got through it's teething phase. By the time the first 3dfx cards hit the market, it was a little late to undo the mass of work done in NT 4.
(If you have to ask, then you should consider how much of a deficit running the gui from kernel space inflicts on a server right off the top.)
In all honesty, when NT 4 moved the GUI into kernel space, 99% of the bitching wasn't that it slowed performance, or even improved it, it was that it made NT less robust.
On a server, you're never going to USE the GUI, so it's presense in the kernel only reduces stability in the event that Administrator on the console or the remote RDP session fucks something up.
So now I hear this rumor that Longhorn's moving the GUI back out of the kernel. Any truth to that?
But when you consider those insiders KNOW when the good press releases are coming out and can time them to occur a day or two before "timed sales" occur, then it's still a pump and dump, albeit a legal one.
I'm sorry, but how, in 19 days, could you NOT possibly let someone know you have a child at home? Considering:
1) She had to be arrested
2) She had to ride in a police car
3) She had to be fingerprinted
4) She had to be interviewed
5) She had to meet with a lawyer. Said lawyer didn't do HIS job to notify the state about a wayward child.
I'm sorry, I'm guessing that this lady thought she'd be in for a day and back on the streets so she could take care of her kid and not lose her to the state, and when it got out of control, kept her mouth shut.
I can buy complicity of one or two people in trying to cover up their fuckup. I can't buy a concerted effort on the behalf of the police to leave this girl alone just so they could punish the woman more. That's asking too much evil out of too many people.
More importantly, there's no contrail AHEAD of the "blast cloud". The curved cloud leading out from it is at a lower altitude, since it was in the previous photograph of a minute before, and has traveled considerably in relation to the blast cloud.
I see no clear-cut photographic evidence to rule this out as a bolide.
Not really, if access anytime/anywhere is important to you. That being said, what financial services company DOESN'T have PDF's these days? As soon as I can get my electric and cable bills sent to me as PDF's, I'll be that much happier.
IIRC, their heavy lift rocket managed to put an orbiter in space. Surely more than 40,000 feet, no?
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IPO's w/o VC's are really just cash-out plans by the founders when they can't find someone to buy them, or as the late 20th century showed us, get-rich-quick schemes that destroyed the economy.
I hear you friend. Being slave to the stockholders when you truly need to think long-term sucks ass. I'd rather give my employees a good profit sharing plan, since my employees are the heart and soul of my business, than pay dividends to people who are effectively independent banks.
Decent article, BTW.
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More VC-speak for "Find a job for poor Aunt Christina so she can stop nagging Uncle Bob for shopping money".:-) Right! Thanks for clearing that up.
PS: WTF is a people-focused initiative, and why does it need a full-time executive to produce vision and strategy???
Well, looking at the Mission Critical Linux pages, it seems their product is an Active-active failover clustering product. It might have shared-everything features and a lock manager to manage resource contention.
http://linux-ha.org/ - has quite a bit of info on this, including the software and OpenGFS for managing shared resources across machines.
Better than that, why not just give 30% to the state, and 10% to the federal gummit, since most of that federal money just ends up right back in the states anyway?
Yea, and let's not forget a few years back those four cops who gang-raped a guy with a broom handle. Some of those "enforcers" are no better than criminals themselves.
After driving a 24' 24000# GVW box truck a number of times for moving, I can say the Suburban is little.:-) I could FIT a Suburban on the back of that thing.
I like my little Mercury Sable. She's a peppy little 6 cylinder and gets decent gas mileage. But she's no cargo hauler, she's a commuter, which is why I also own a suburban.:-)
If you think the laws are insane that let people who can barely see over the steering wheel drive SUV's, come to Massachusetts, where ANY driver possing a class D license can drive any non-trailer vehicle up to 24000# GVW. Without training. SUV's don't scare me. People like me (no training) getting behind the wheel of 12ton moving trucks scares me.
I gotta tell ya, living near Boston has been an interesting ride/walk the past couple weekends. I've been in and out of town hundreds and hundreds of times, but it wasn't until two weeks ago that I actually walked across town. From BU to the Aquarium, via Copley Square and the Commons. Bar hopping.
Did it again last weekend for the Freedom Rally (aka Hemp Fest). This town is relatively easy to walk around in (not if you're in a hurry, I guess)... Even Chicago wasn't too bad on foot. An hour and a half puts you almost anywhere you want to go.
As much as I hate SUV's (but dammit, I love Jeeps and Pickup's, and you have to admit the Suburban can be a handy little truck to have), many people will already argue that drivers who own SUV's are already paying a disproportionate part of the tax burden of road maintenance through their excessive gas taxes (mmmm $100 tank fill ups yummy!)
Damn Chevy and their Blazer for starting this whole mess. Before the Blazer came around you could still call the Suburban a truck...:-(
Still have the little problem of needing a key. And what with laser cut keys these days and internal keyfob computer locks, all the cars worth stealing are impossible to steal.:-)
Doesn't give me much hope for my Sable, though, but who'd want to steal that?
Except that with a proper plan, the necessities are not taxed (clothing, food, medicine, birth control?) while luxuries (alcohol, cigarettes, recreational drugs (oh please!) entertainment, dining out, cars, gas, etc) are taxed at a flat rate.
Those who buy only food and clothing and rent a home are paying no tax. Those who spend all their money on booze and cigarettes are paying the same as everyone else.
Somewhat like Massachusetts today. Clothes and food are tax-free. Everything else is fair game.
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And isn't that the sad thing about this whole War on Terror? That our very own soldiers could turn out to be al Queda sympathizers? Gives one pause.
:-)
It wouldn't surprise me to find Osama sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom (although now I'm just being silly).
Before NT4, if the GUI crashed, the server and network layer would keep chugging. I used to run overnight qualifications on a very large CAD package (that seems to be the only high-end competition left for CATIA :-> ) In the NT 3.1 and particularly the 3.5 days, our regression tests would DESTROY the graphics subsystem, yet when we came in the next day, we could still run our over-the-network data retrievals to get our results before going around to reboot the whole lab.
Today, you'll get the STOP error for nearly anything. It wasn't always that way.
Microsoft made the move to put the GUI in kernel space before the whole video accelerator market got through it's teething phase. By the time the first 3dfx cards hit the market, it was a little late to undo the mass of work done in NT 4.
(If you have to ask, then you should consider how much of a deficit running the gui from kernel space inflicts on a server right off the top.) In all honesty, when NT 4 moved the GUI into kernel space, 99% of the bitching wasn't that it slowed performance, or even improved it, it was that it made NT less robust. On a server, you're never going to USE the GUI, so it's presense in the kernel only reduces stability in the event that Administrator on the console or the remote RDP session fucks something up. So now I hear this rumor that Longhorn's moving the GUI back out of the kernel. Any truth to that?
Sure sure.
But when you consider those insiders KNOW when the good press releases are coming out and can time them to occur a day or two before "timed sales" occur, then it's still a pump and dump, albeit a legal one.
I'm sorry, but how, in 19 days, could you NOT possibly let someone know you have a child at home? Considering:
1) She had to be arrested
2) She had to ride in a police car
3) She had to be fingerprinted
4) She had to be interviewed
5) She had to meet with a lawyer. Said lawyer didn't do HIS job to notify the state about a wayward child.
I'm sorry, I'm guessing that this lady thought she'd be in for a day and back on the streets so she could take care of her kid and not lose her to the state, and when it got out of control, kept her mouth shut.
I can buy complicity of one or two people in trying to cover up their fuckup. I can't buy a concerted effort on the behalf of the police to leave this girl alone just so they could punish the woman more. That's asking too much evil out of too many people.
Right, and what no one seems to get out of this is that a lightweight kernel has been built that can do virtualization.
How much effort would it really take to put true virtualization back into this kernel, ala vmware?
More importantly, there's no contrail AHEAD of the "blast cloud". The curved cloud leading out from it is at a lower altitude, since it was in the previous photograph of a minute before, and has traveled considerably in relation to the blast cloud.
I see no clear-cut photographic evidence to rule this out as a bolide.
Not really, if access anytime/anywhere is important to you. That being said, what financial services company DOESN'T have PDF's these days? As soon as I can get my electric and cable bills sent to me as PDF's, I'll be that much happier.
-Chris
IIRC, their heavy lift rocket managed to put an orbiter in space. Surely more than 40,000 feet, no?
IPO's w/o VC's are really just cash-out plans by the founders when they can't find someone to buy them, or as the late 20th century showed us, get-rich-quick schemes that destroyed the economy.
I hear you friend. Being slave to the stockholders when you truly need to think long-term sucks ass. I'd rather give my employees a good profit sharing plan, since my employees are the heart and soul of my business, than pay dividends to people who are effectively independent banks.
Decent article, BTW.
More VC-speak for "Find a job for poor Aunt Christina so she can stop nagging Uncle Bob for shopping money". :-) Right! Thanks for clearing that up.
PS: WTF is a people-focused initiative, and why does it need a full-time executive to produce vision and strategy???
Chromium?? Please excuse the ignorant sack of flesh (me).
-Chris
Well, looking at the Mission Critical Linux pages, it seems their product is an Active-active failover clustering product. It might have shared-everything features and a lock manager to manage resource contention.
http://linux-ha.org/ - has quite a bit of info on this, including the software and OpenGFS for managing shared resources across machines.
What type of cluster? A shared-nothing failover cluster, or a shared-everything load-balancing cluster? Makes a difference.
In the first case, just about ANY piece of software can be clustered. In the second, I'm not at all sure.
I seriously doubt that OpenSSH is 10 years old.
Better than that, why not just give 30% to the state, and 10% to the federal gummit, since most of that federal money just ends up right back in the states anyway?
Yea, and let's not forget a few years back those four cops who gang-raped a guy with a broom handle. Some of those "enforcers" are no better than criminals themselves.
After driving a 24' 24000# GVW box truck a number of times for moving, I can say the Suburban is little. :-) I could FIT a Suburban on the back of that thing.
:-)
I like my little Mercury Sable. She's a peppy little 6 cylinder and gets decent gas mileage. But she's no cargo hauler, she's a commuter, which is why I also own a suburban.
If you think the laws are insane that let people who can barely see over the steering wheel drive SUV's, come to Massachusetts, where ANY driver possing a class D license can drive any non-trailer vehicle up to 24000# GVW. Without training. SUV's don't scare me. People like me (no training) getting behind the wheel of 12ton moving trucks scares me.
Actually, I think it's my beer gut that's killing my back... any amount of walking right now is better than sitting in a car. :-)
But you make a good point, proper footwear is essential for sidewalk-warriors.
I gotta tell ya, living near Boston has been an interesting ride/walk the past couple weekends. I've been in and out of town hundreds and hundreds of times, but it wasn't until two weeks ago that I actually walked across town. From BU to the Aquarium, via Copley Square and the Commons. Bar hopping.
Did it again last weekend for the Freedom Rally (aka Hemp Fest). This town is relatively easy to walk around in (not if you're in a hurry, I guess)... Even Chicago wasn't too bad on foot. An hour and a half puts you almost anywhere you want to go.
Americans are just lazy.
As much as I hate SUV's (but dammit, I love Jeeps and Pickup's, and you have to admit the Suburban can be a handy little truck to have), many people will already argue that drivers who own SUV's are already paying a disproportionate part of the tax burden of road maintenance through their excessive gas taxes (mmmm $100 tank fill ups yummy!)
:-(
Damn Chevy and their Blazer for starting this whole mess. Before the Blazer came around you could still call the Suburban a truck...
Still have the little problem of needing a key. And what with laser cut keys these days and internal keyfob computer locks, all the cars worth stealing are impossible to steal. :-)
Doesn't give me much hope for my Sable, though, but who'd want to steal that?
IIR(The New Testament)C the Ark never hit an iceberg at 20+ knots. Go figure.
Right right right...
At least it's not the most "FORMATTED and REINSTALLED" of all time...
Except that with a proper plan, the necessities are not taxed (clothing, food, medicine, birth control?) while luxuries (alcohol, cigarettes, recreational drugs (oh please!) entertainment, dining out, cars, gas, etc) are taxed at a flat rate.
Those who buy only food and clothing and rent a home are paying no tax. Those who spend all their money on booze and cigarettes are paying the same as everyone else.
Somewhat like Massachusetts today. Clothes and food are tax-free. Everything else is fair game.