... I hear Darl McBride will be available on the job market very soon... Sure. After he's discharged from the smokin' hole that remains of The SCO Group, I'm sure he'll be available in 10-15 years.;)
"1) This would be a new memory technology." Okay well get back to me when you finish with that little detail. I wouldn't say that such a technology is that far off, based on what other developments I've seen in the industry.
2) What's sufficient? Well, that depends on the application. Just as you have chips geared at different applications today, you'd have chips geared at even more different applications. In case you haven't noticed, we're moving away from the general purpose computing device anyhow and increasingly into more specialized devices to meet specialized needs.
You, and whoever last moderated the grand parent's post, aren't getting what he's saying.
What he means is: forget on-chip cache -- on-chip main memory. IOW, instead of having main memory on the motherboard, it would be embedded into your processor, running, presumable, at the same speed as the CPU.
If you follow the trends happening in CPUs, including this one, faster CPUs aren't the big issue. The real issue is the bus. The bus is slow. The more you put on the other side of it, the better. A CPU like this new VIA CPU might be slow, but if you had sufficient memory integrated right on the CPU die, it would blow the pants off your latest 4+GHz Core 2 Duo.
Actual different machines with actual different firewalls are good for hosted solutions and IT departments that know what they are doing, but they are too complicated for non-geek do-it-yourself mom-and-pop-businessman/home-user solutions. Should the non-geek do-it-yourself mom-and-pop-businessman/home-user REALLY be putting a live box out on the public Intartubes with exposed services? Wouldn't they be MUCH better off with a hosted solution, especially given that shared hosting can cost as little as $5 a month?
Everything on the Web server should be mounted read-only, preferrably from a machine behind a firewall. A firewall sits behind that machine and your inside network. The only way to write to the file system should be from behind the firewall. Any temporary files that need to be created for download or parsing or whatever, where read/write is necessary, should only be done from a RAM disk. Reboot the server nightly.
The database server should also sit on the inside network, with a proxy running between the two firewalls, along with the read-only file server.
All connections should be secure and encrypted.
Or, just let someone else host it. Get a managed dedicated server, pay them to maintain it, and sue the pants off 'em if something happens to it.
He is absolutely correct; a half-million units shipped to just 12 to 15 destinations *IS* simple by comparison. Just look at the complexities of UPS' operations in moving 80000 packages within the boundaries of the US, and that becomes apparent. Yep. This is why any company that does significant amounts of shipping has an entire department and sometimes more than one department devoted to it. Some companies even have entire shipping divisions. Moving a large number of packages quickly is a significant undertaking and that's why there's an entire industry called the logistics industry devoted to it. A friend of mine works in the logistics industry and her job is to coordinate the shipping of packages and crates to various places around the world. It's a big job.
Remember that domain names pre-date the world wide web. Someone may have been using barf.com as a simple FTP site and never had a web page associated with it. You kids and yer newfangled 'domain names'! Sheesh! Why, in my day, we had !-paths. To e-mail someone far away was truly an exercise in typing:
Remember that domain names pre-date the world wide web. Someone may have been using barf.com as a simple FTP site and never had a web page associated with it. You could tell the route your mail was gonna take! And we LIKED it that way!
if you think darpa still has their mission critical systems on the internet you are mistaken. I never said that. I just said that the U.S. government considers ICANN to be a strategic U.S. asset. The plan was always to relinquish complete government control of the Internet -- but I'm betting that they still don't want to give up their last vestiges of control -- ICANN.
As much as it might be good for the Internet, it will never happen. ICANN is considered a strategic U.S. asset. Everyone seems to be forgetting that the Internet started out as a project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The government is not going to give up control that easily.
I remember something nasty happening to IE years ago and having to download Netscape, and then slowly learning about this Free Software idea and eventually installing Mozilla. My introduction to the 'Free Software' idea and GNU GPL was in 1989, when I first encountered Russ Nelson's Freemacs editor. I was kinda blown I find out a few years later that some Finnish college student had managed to create an entire complete operating system kernel and released it under those very same terms.
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
How can the format be dead if it's being supported by Office 2007 currently? It may continue on through that vein, and I certainly don't fear for saving my documents this way. Not to mention if it does continue on in the Office Suite, I would think competitors would still seek to work with it if the market demands it So long as Microsoft products are the only products that will read and write this file correctly, with no formatting problems or anything, what makes you think that it isn't a bad idea?
What would you do if a terrorist bombed Microsoft headquarters tomorrow?
WITPOUAATTDIKPWIWNBUITSEA - What is the point of using ad-hoc acronym, then to dereference it, knowing perfectly well it will never be used in that sense ever again? HCYBSC? (How can you be so certain?)
IANADF.:-P
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I agree with everything you say, but I think MySQL has been a thorn in the side of Oracle much more so than Redhat or Sun ever could be. This could just be a stepping stone for Oracle (if any of what I read is true in the first place:). It seems I have to be a bit more explicit. Now extrapolate what you just said with I what I said and draw some conclusions.
See it? (No peaking at the next paragraph until you think about it for yourself for a second.)...
Sun bought MySQL precisely because it is a thorn in Oracle's side. They won't want it to go away, they want it to continue being a thorn in Oracle's side.
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No, it's as if a million EU officials burst out in laughter...and then suddenly were silenced.
... I hear Darl McBride will be available on the job market very soon... Sure. After he's discharged from the smokin' hole that remains of The SCO Group, I'm sure he'll be available in 10-15 years.Okay well get back to me when you finish with that little detail. I wouldn't say that such a technology is that far off, based on what other developments I've seen in the industry.
The patent was originally filed on November 30, 2003. Can anyone say for sure there was prior art before this date?
1) This would be a new memory technology.
2) What's sufficient? Well, that depends on the application. Just as you have chips geared at different applications today, you'd have chips geared at even more different applications. In case you haven't noticed, we're moving away from the general purpose computing device anyhow and increasingly into more specialized devices to meet specialized needs.
Well, as long as a sufficient cooling lubricant were applied, it shouldn't be a problem.
You, and whoever last moderated the grand parent's post, aren't getting what he's saying.
What he means is: forget on-chip cache -- on-chip main memory. IOW, instead of having main memory on the motherboard, it would be embedded into your processor, running, presumable, at the same speed as the CPU.
If you follow the trends happening in CPUs, including this one, faster CPUs aren't the big issue. The real issue is the bus. The bus is slow. The more you put on the other side of it, the better. A CPU like this new VIA CPU might be slow, but if you had sufficient memory integrated right on the CPU die, it would blow the pants off your latest 4+GHz Core 2 Duo.
Easier. For a LAMP stack, here's what's needed:
Everything on the Web server should be mounted read-only, preferrably from a machine behind a firewall. A firewall sits behind that machine and your inside network. The only way to write to the file system should be from behind the firewall. Any temporary files that need to be created for download or parsing or whatever, where read/write is necessary, should only be done from a RAM disk. Reboot the server nightly.
The database server should also sit on the inside network, with a proxy running between the two firewalls, along with the read-only file server.
All connections should be secure and encrypted.
Or, just let someone else host it. Get a managed dedicated server, pay them to maintain it, and sue the pants off 'em if something happens to it.
Now you kids get off my lawn!
Domain names, indeed. *shakes head in disgust*
I'll give you $5.
It's FUD that been spread around by Microsoft and their cronies (read: SCO) since the Caldera^WThe SCO Group sued IBM.
Microsoft certainly does not live up to this. Attached to every copy of Windows in the EULA is a disclaimer of liability, including special liability.
Captialism is like mutt (the mail user agent) -- all economies suck, capitalism just sucks less.
As much as it might be good for the Internet, it will never happen. ICANN is considered a strategic U.S. asset. Everyone seems to be forgetting that the Internet started out as a project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The government is not going to give up control that easily.
But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird.
The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire
and thunder upon them. For the beast had been
reborn with its strength renewed, and the
followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
What would you do if a terrorist bombed Microsoft headquarters tomorrow?
Oh, in case you were all wondering -- that would be completely consistent with Sun's earlier behaviour.
IANADF.
See it? (No peaking at the next paragraph until you think about it for yourself for a second.)
Sun bought MySQL precisely because it is a thorn in Oracle's side. They won't want it to go away, they want it to continue being a thorn in Oracle's side.