Here in Massachusetts a normal Class "D" license entitles one to drive 2 axle vehicles with no trailer up to 24000 lbs GVW. The first time I pulled a 24" straight truck out of Budget in downtown Brookline, drove it completely across town, through Newton Highlands and onto I95N to Burlington gave me a completely new respect for CDL holders. It took less than 500 feet and two minutes for a Porsche to cut me off (I was empty - thank god). I stopped two feet off his bumper with brakes screaming.
The SGI keyboard *WAS* a standard 101/4 key keyboard, but it's tactile response was somewhere between the existing PC standard, and the old super-click IBM Model M keyboards that clacked like old mechanical typewriters. I'd like to get one and make it bluetooth compatible. They came in marbellized colors that matched the system you bough it with, and they were an absolute joy to type on.
Actually, Linux from 2000 onward is taking more of Solaris' thunder in the development arena. License costs are cheaper, hardware is more prolific (and cheaper). But no one does development on AIX and ports to Solaris.
When I worked at Parametric (CAD software), development was mostly done on SGI and Solaris, and then ported everywhere else. No one wanted to touch the IBM or HP hardware.
I've run my laptop running XP SP2 for three months back and forth to work, to Starbucks, to the backyard, wireless bluetooth (IBM T42) before I finally had to reboot to fix some fubar'd display problems.
I'm terrified to move to Vista. Microsoft finally has invented a decent consumer OS platform in XP, and I'm happy here.
Then again, I can't keep Battlefield 2142 from rebooting my computer every 3-90 minutes.
Solaris : Applications are written here, and ported elsewhere. It appears to be the defacto king of VAR/OEM software for Unix. Zones: Great, though BSD had 'em first. ZFS: New, but a good start.
AIX: LVM. That's about it. Best disk management tools in the world, and has been since I started using it in 97.
HP-UX: Dogshit. Nuff said.
Linux: The bastard Frankenstein of the Unix world. Runs everywhere, runs reliably (I haven't had a non-hardware based panic since 1999. The driver binary issue can be a PITA sometimes.
I distinctly remember one game where as a bunch of third level characters we got to meet an evil dragon who was going to be instrumental in our DMs campaign, but we thought we were goners and attacked him, so one of us jumped in his mouth (the dragon failed a dodge, go figure) and tried to stab him in the brain... figure that one out...
Sun's containerization (or OpenVZ to similar extent) is exactly what we want from our OSes. 90% of our problems in the server space come not from the overly broad power of our operating systems and frameworks, but from our default policy of "grant everything, and deny only the bad stuff". If we treated Firewalls like we treated our application servers, well, we're seeing exactly what the result it.
Java and.NET sandboxing does work, to an extent, but other than the web arena, it doesn't apply to server hosted applications. If application servers like jboss could enforce a sandbox that would be a step up, but they cannot. Java/.NET do not know they need to be sandboxed to such and such a directory. They operate at a level far above where this functionality needs to be.
When we can get to a point and say, Application XYZ can access port 443, 80, on IPs 10.3.90.1-6 and access any file in/ApplicationXYZ, connect to database server db1 via mysql version 4.1 and db2 via MDAC 2.6, we can have more robust software architectures. In my opinion, the architecture of Windows precludes this at this time. So unix platforms with OpenVZ like support will evolve to support this functionality.
Or maybe not. Maybe we take the easy way out. Containers are easier to develop, to architect, to use as end users than some SELinux+ for applications.
HP gets in bed with Intel to create Itanium to compete against UltraSparc, PowerPC and DEC Alpha which were destroying PA-RISC in the 1994-1997 timeframe.
Digital goes tits up and is sold for a song to Compaq and Intel.
Intel and HP bleed billions into Itanic.
HP and Compaq merge to become the mega-goliath HPaq.
HP was the sole original source vendor for Alpha servers and had tried to kill off Alpha sales several times until finally putting the nail in the coffin in April of '07.
I too was a bit pissed off with the whole AM2 debacle. How hard would it have been to have added Pacifica to the 940 chipset and allowed me to put hypothetical Opteron 285V's in my Tyan 2895?
I went and bought three (used) Core systems just to protest.:-/
My fault for buying into a platform that I suspected was dead-ending...
Chase Manhattan drove my $4K card up to $12K before I had them drop it back to $2500 after I got in WAY over my head. It's been left alone for a good three or four years now. They've started doing the same with my NEW Mastercard, but one phone call will cure that, and I've learned much better credit and money management skills since them.
Chase is a great company to do business with. Excellent the one time I needed to force a chargeback to get a recalcitrant retailer to take back his defective shit, and twice when mystery charges showed up on my monthlies.
1) Not keeping cash in the register to deter convenience store thievery. 2) Reducing the amount of counterfeit bills over $20 they have to get burned for.
Besides satellite, which isn't necessarily an option for broadband, cable *IS* a monopoly in most places. You usually don't have the option to "take your money" and go home.
I was lucky once. I had a choice between RCN and Comcast(AT&T at the time).
RCN was by FAR a better company to deal with. Comcast sucks.
The Japanese treated Pearl Harbor exactly as a tactical battle, no strategic thinking at all. If they had their heads on straight, the bombing would have been immediately followed by another wave to completely destroy the usefulness of the Hawaiian islands, taken Midway two days later and made designs to dig in.
Now I'd be happy to eat crow to learn that the Japanese Admiralty had a flotilla of ships right behind their assault force to put paid to their assault. No, it was a stunningly short-sighted assault with no followup plan. Even *IF* they had smashed our carrier fleet at their moorings, they surely would have realized we have more shoreline on our western coast than almost their entire country? Significant naval and shipbuilding facilities, and MANY airfields? How do you just attack someone, and NOT follow through? Why they didn't take Midway on their way home astounds me.
No, it was a poorly planned exercise with absolutely no strategic forethought, and they paid the price.
Most people don't go to jail for their first DUI. They go to jail because they did it again, and again and again, or they finally ended up killing someone.
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Here in Massachusetts a normal Class "D" license entitles one to drive 2 axle vehicles with no trailer up to 24000 lbs GVW. The first time I pulled a 24" straight truck out of Budget in downtown Brookline, drove it completely across town, through Newton Highlands and onto I95N to Burlington gave me a completely new respect for CDL holders. It took less than 500 feet and two minutes for a Porsche to cut me off (I was empty - thank god). I stopped two feet off his bumper with brakes screaming.
:-)
I never got that truck over 55.
The SGI keyboard *WAS* a standard 101/4 key keyboard, but it's tactile response was somewhere between the existing PC standard, and the old super-click IBM Model M keyboards that clacked like old mechanical typewriters. I'd like to get one and make it bluetooth compatible. They came in marbellized colors that matched the system you bough it with, and they were an absolute joy to type on.
That is truly evil... :-)
Actually, Linux from 2000 onward is taking more of Solaris' thunder in the development arena. License costs are cheaper, hardware is more prolific (and cheaper). But no one does development on AIX and ports to Solaris.
:-)
When I worked at Parametric (CAD software), development was mostly done on SGI and Solaris, and then ported everywhere else. No one wanted to touch the IBM or HP hardware.
I far preferred the SGI keyboards myself.
I've run my laptop running XP SP2 for three months back and forth to work, to Starbucks, to the backyard, wireless bluetooth (IBM T42) before I finally had to reboot to fix some fubar'd display problems.
I'm terrified to move to Vista. Microsoft finally has invented a decent consumer OS platform in XP, and I'm happy here.
Then again, I can't keep Battlefield 2142 from rebooting my computer every 3-90 minutes.
My manifesto of Unix:
Solaris : Applications are written here, and ported elsewhere. It appears to be the defacto king of VAR/OEM software for Unix. Zones: Great, though BSD had 'em first. ZFS: New, but a good start.
AIX: LVM. That's about it. Best disk management tools in the world, and has been since I started using it in 97.
HP-UX: Dogshit. Nuff said.
Linux: The bastard Frankenstein of the Unix world. Runs everywhere, runs reliably (I haven't had a non-hardware based panic since 1999. The driver binary issue can be a PITA sometimes.
linky link to said paper?
I distinctly remember one game where as a bunch of third level characters we got to meet an evil dragon who was going to be instrumental in our DMs campaign, but we thought we were goners and attacked him, so one of us jumped in his mouth (the dragon failed a dodge, go figure) and tried to stab him in the brain... figure that one out...
Sun's containerization (or OpenVZ to similar extent) is exactly what we want from our OSes. 90% of our problems in the server space come not from the overly broad power of our operating systems and frameworks, but from our default policy of "grant everything, and deny only the bad stuff". If we treated Firewalls like we treated our application servers, well, we're seeing exactly what the result it.
.NET sandboxing does work, to an extent, but other than the web arena, it doesn't apply to server hosted applications. If application servers like jboss could enforce a sandbox that would be a step up, but they cannot. Java/.NET do not know they need to be sandboxed to such and such a directory. They operate at a level far above where this functionality needs to be.
/ApplicationXYZ, connect to database server db1 via mysql version 4.1 and db2 via MDAC 2.6, we can have more robust software architectures. In my opinion, the architecture of Windows precludes this at this time. So unix platforms with OpenVZ like support will evolve to support this functionality.
Java and
When we can get to a point and say, Application XYZ can access port 443, 80, on IPs 10.3.90.1-6 and access any file in
Or maybe not. Maybe we take the easy way out. Containers are easier to develop, to architect, to use as end users than some SELinux+ for applications.
Well, then, they surely don't need those golden parachutes...
Really good sales people are worth their weight in gold. But the junkets are a way for execs to get perks on the company dime. Don't mix the two...
Any company of less than a thousand people with more than 3 levels of management is badly run.
Isn't it ironic.
HP gets in bed with Intel to create Itanium to compete against UltraSparc, PowerPC and DEC Alpha which were destroying PA-RISC in the 1994-1997 timeframe.
Digital goes tits up and is sold for a song to Compaq and Intel.
Intel and HP bleed billions into Itanic.
HP and Compaq merge to become the mega-goliath HPaq.
HP was the sole original source vendor for Alpha servers and had tried to kill off Alpha sales several times until finally putting the nail in the coffin in April of '07.
Sigh...
That's irony.
I too was a bit pissed off with the whole AM2 debacle. How hard would it have been to have added Pacifica to the 940 chipset and allowed me to put hypothetical Opteron 285V's in my Tyan 2895?
:-/
I went and bought three (used) Core systems just to protest.
My fault for buying into a platform that I suspected was dead-ending...
Chase Manhattan drove my $4K card up to $12K before I had them drop it back to $2500 after I got in WAY over my head. It's been left alone for a good three or four years now. They've started doing the same with my NEW Mastercard, but one phone call will cure that, and I've learned much better credit and money management skills since them.
Chase is a great company to do business with. Excellent the one time I needed to force a chargeback to get a recalcitrant retailer to take back his defective shit, and twice when mystery charges showed up on my monthlies.
I think it has more to do with
1) Not keeping cash in the register to deter convenience store thievery.
2) Reducing the amount of counterfeit bills over $20 they have to get burned for.
Besides satellite, which isn't necessarily an option for broadband, cable *IS* a monopoly in most places. You usually don't have the option to "take your money" and go home.
I was lucky once. I had a choice between RCN and Comcast(AT&T at the time).
RCN was by FAR a better company to deal with. Comcast sucks.
No, in actuality it was Cerebus, the aardvark.
365 days of goatse.cx
>> -> mecca (non-muslims are to be killed on sight in mecca in case you didn't know)
Troll... how are you supposed to tell a non-muslim by sight?
Had.
Osama got his wish almost five months ago.
Nope. Just stating the obvious.
The Japanese treated Pearl Harbor exactly as a tactical battle, no strategic thinking at all. If they had their heads on straight, the bombing would have been immediately followed by another wave to completely destroy the usefulness of the Hawaiian islands, taken Midway two days later and made designs to dig in.
Now I'd be happy to eat crow to learn that the Japanese Admiralty had a flotilla of ships right behind their assault force to put paid to their assault. No, it was a stunningly short-sighted assault with no followup plan. Even *IF* they had smashed our carrier fleet at their moorings, they surely would have realized we have more shoreline on our western coast than almost their entire country? Significant naval and shipbuilding facilities, and MANY airfields? How do you just attack someone, and NOT follow through? Why they didn't take Midway on their way home astounds me.
No, it was a poorly planned exercise with absolutely no strategic forethought, and they paid the price.
The dark tone was much more in tune with the comic books than the TV show, which was sort of the point. The TV show was just too campy.
The only victories that matter are the strategic ones.
Spider-man and Mrs. Fantastic you mean, right? Surely Jessica Alba in spandex is far far better than Toby? Right?
Right?
Most people don't go to jail for their first DUI. They go to jail because they did it again, and again and again, or they finally ended up killing someone.