Big difference comparing IE to notepad. If Office were provided for free then Wordperfect would have had a right to bitch. Notepad is a thoroughly simplistic tool. IE was completely aimed at destroying a complicated piece of software. That and keeping MSHTML.dll around is a bit different than building an OS around an application designed to compete with a smaller company.
Google's "customers" aren't the people using them so *search* the web, Google's customers are the people and businesses who depend on website and advertisement hits.
so, Google's customers are fewer and more valuable than Microsoft's? Sounds very preferable to me, as a little guy and all.
Yea, as an American I'd be happy if they could just contribute to an international science project without breaking something in a more than spectacular way. All in all I think fermilab was the first of it's kind and deserve a whole lot of credit for that. Besides, if they find the Boson in the big accelerator wouldn't it also be pretty cool to find it in the little accelerator?
[Honest questions]Can't you build the kernel module on a test server and upload it to the production server?
Besides, if you really need to run VMware on your production server wouldn't that be something you'd research before building the server?[/Honest questions]
I know there are always corner cases, but it seems to me like most of this kind of Q&A has already been answered. Anyways, choice and competition are one of open source software's greatest strengths; weakness is all to often a product of deficiency caused by strength in one area. The same is true of Windows' market share and viruses or software that sits on the desktop for YEARS without upgrade (IE6 I'm looking at you).
The point is for all the problems that come with choice in FOSS, there will always be cream that rises to the top, and that stuff is very good when compared to proprietary counterparts. I mean look at it, these are essentially free systems competing over about 3% percent market share, imagine what it would look like if they were competing for 10% or 20%, then things would really start to take form.
Hmmm, I read there are about three distros he is trying out Red Hat, Suse, and Ubuntu. You can say that he also tried Fedora, but I'm pretty sure he tried them both as a matter of evaluating Red Hat.
Funny thing here is he is testing out the Linux systems that have already proven themselves in the corporate world, they are sold by both Dell and Sun-Microsystems. Basically, these systems are standards, they are ubiquitous and they are being recognized as such. It's multiple versions that are driving them to the top, ie it's choice that is putting them in the enterprise level.
funny, for me when I clean up a Windows PC it's all about re-imaging the thing. Why? because once you run the AV, the Registry Cleaner, the ad-ware remover, blah blah blah, it's a ton quicker, cleaner, and safer just to re-image the damn thing. You can spend days on a Windows machine cleaning things up that are archaically crufty after just a year of use. Of course I may be dealing with a different class of user than you, but I feel that on a system that is as heavily targeted for attack as windows is, it almost requires a new image every year or so, I mean who knows what's on there that you can't find.
Sorry need more caffeine. I always thought securing our National Network was the role of the NSA, as well as securing our network. They are the intelligence version of IT aren't they? Hell for a long while there, people didn't even believe they existed. DHS is a as worthless as the presidential prayer committee, they probably got tasked with network security in order to give people someone to sue when, things inevitably break.
only in the proprietary software world do you need fat software for fat hardware (or vice versa).
Thin software running on burl hardware frees up your resources, gives you room to really flex your muscles. That's what make those 386-linux guys l33t. They get a 2.2 kernel and a copy of busy box, throw it on a 15 year old machine, and when they hit the terminal they still have leg room.
One thing that can cause a threshold shift in the RAM cells is ionic contamination of the cell(s) of interest, although such contamination is rarer now than it used to be because of robotic handling of the materials and because the purity of the chemicals used is greatly improved.
I'm very impressed, but after reading the above sentence it occurred to me that purity levels and moore's law are directly related to one another, and this paper was written in '96. It seems that the better DRAM gets, the more difficult it will be to extract data from it.
However, even a perfect oxide is subject to having its properties changed by an applied field. When it comes to contaminants, sodium is the most common offender - it is found virtually everywhere, and is a fairly small (and therefore mobile) atom with a positive charge. In the presence of an electric field, it migrates towards the negative pole with a velocity which depends on temperature, the concentration of the sodium, the oxide quality, and the other impurities in the oxide such as dopants from the processing. If the electric field is zero and given enough time, this stress tends to dissipate eventually.
Now if someone with better chemistry than can describe to me that things are still this way then I will bite, but at this point I'm assuming those thin little sodium atoms slip out of place rather quickly. After that I'd still have some reservations about the sheer number of little sodium balls you'd be counting. You'd need a fairly specialized machine to actually extract that data.
I think he's making fun of me. I'm not talking about account codes as in phone numbers at an ISP though, I'm referring to serial numbers, part numbers, merchant ID numbers, terminal ID numbers, heck even credit card numbers are a pain in the ass. You ever get through a sixteen digit credit card # then spend ten minutes explaining to the customer where the cvv2 number was. Add to that the other myriad list of info grasping you need to go through when they don't give you the right numbers, like email addresses, home phone, physical address, middle initial, do live at... blah blah blah. I think anything that pulled up the records auto-magically when the customer said "hello" would be a god send. Of course laryngitis would effectively screw a customer out of accessing their records. "hello" "yea, you're not in our records" "my name is..." "look buddy you're not in our records"
That's different, if you worked in a shop with only Macs and Linux boxen, then the term PC would be equally synonymous with the Linux machines. In a a truly mixed environment (kinda like slash) where you come in saying you have "such and such" that will work with our Macs and PCs, you might do well to mention it won't run on the Linux boxes. Point is, you hear the word the way you want to hear it, Linux is not really a consideration for you so PC automatically refers to Windows, and yes it does bother people who a) know better and b) who use something other than Windows on their PCs.
I can't believe you actually held urban dictionary above Wikipedia - not bad.
Hah! Point is when you get something from Microsoft they wrote or purchased every scrap of software that goes with it. When you use Mac or Linux developers are competing to get their software in the system. Remember Mac uses quite a bit of OSS too. Essentially, Mac and Linux operate in a free market while everything installed on Windows is affected by some board of directors in Redmond and their decisions are not based on what is best for the user, it is based on what is best for the bottom line, even if it means shipping IE6 for years after it's a dead horse.
you're just so completely right, that i'm going to uninstall Debian and go out and purchase Vista for $700 f*cking dollars so I can browse the web, edit office documents, run a web server, and write my code with a decent IDE, oh wait, that'll cost a bit more than $700.
vista copyright holders = 1
debian copyright holders = ???
Mac OSX copyright holders = "more than you think"
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Big difference comparing IE to notepad. If Office were provided for free then Wordperfect would have had a right to bitch. Notepad is a thoroughly simplistic tool. IE was completely aimed at destroying a complicated piece of software. That and keeping MSHTML.dll around is a bit different than building an OS around an application designed to compete with a smaller company.
so, Google's customers are fewer and more valuable than Microsoft's? Sounds very preferable to me, as a little guy and all.
Yea, as an American I'd be happy if they could just contribute to an international science project without breaking something in a more than spectacular way. All in all I think fermilab was the first of it's kind and deserve a whole lot of credit for that. Besides, if they find the Boson in the big accelerator wouldn't it also be pretty cool to find it in the little accelerator?
[Honest questions]Can't you build the kernel module on a test server and upload it to the production server? Besides, if you really need to run VMware on your production server wouldn't that be something you'd research before building the server?[/Honest questions]
I know there are always corner cases, but it seems to me like most of this kind of Q&A has already been answered. Anyways, choice and competition are one of open source software's greatest strengths; weakness is all to often a product of deficiency caused by strength in one area. The same is true of Windows' market share and viruses or software that sits on the desktop for YEARS without upgrade (IE6 I'm looking at you).
The point is for all the problems that come with choice in FOSS, there will always be cream that rises to the top, and that stuff is very good when compared to proprietary counterparts. I mean look at it, these are essentially free systems competing over about 3% percent market share, imagine what it would look like if they were competing for 10% or 20%, then things would really start to take form.
Hmmm, I read there are about three distros he is trying out Red Hat, Suse, and Ubuntu. You can say that he also tried Fedora, but I'm pretty sure he tried them both as a matter of evaluating Red Hat.
Funny thing here is he is testing out the Linux systems that have already proven themselves in the corporate world, they are sold by both Dell and Sun-Microsystems. Basically, these systems are standards, they are ubiquitous and they are being recognized as such. It's multiple versions that are driving them to the top, ie it's choice that is putting them in the enterprise level.
Sorry, I hadn't thought about that, bet you see some weird stuff some times.
funny, for me when I clean up a Windows PC it's all about re-imaging the thing. Why? because once you run the AV, the Registry Cleaner, the ad-ware remover, blah blah blah, it's a ton quicker, cleaner, and safer just to re-image the damn thing. You can spend days on a Windows machine cleaning things up that are archaically crufty after just a year of use. Of course I may be dealing with a different class of user than you, but I feel that on a system that is as heavily targeted for attack as windows is, it almost requires a new image every year or so, I mean who knows what's on there that you can't find.
It's called LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
I haven't done it, but it certainly looks doable.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinhttp://www.google.com/search?q=linux+ldap
Sorry need more caffeine. I always thought securing our National Network was the role of the NSA, as well as securing our network. They are the intelligence version of IT aren't they? Hell for a long while there, people didn't even believe they existed. DHS is a as worthless as the presidential prayer committee, they probably got tasked with network security in order to give people someone to sue when, things inevitably break.
I always assumed it was the of the NSA.
only in the proprietary software world do you need fat software for fat hardware (or vice versa).
Thin software running on burl hardware frees up your resources, gives you room to really flex your muscles. That's what make those 386-linux guys l33t. They get a 2.2 kernel and a copy of busy box, throw it on a 15 year old machine, and when they hit the terminal they still have leg room.
funny how you remove one player and suddenly security comes from competition rather than third party patch professionals.
Yes, but no one here has any clue as to what the context is.
I'm very impressed, but after reading the above sentence it occurred to me that purity levels and moore's law are directly related to one another, and this paper was written in '96. It seems that the better DRAM gets, the more difficult it will be to extract data from it.
However, even a perfect oxide is subject to having its properties changed by an applied field. When it comes to contaminants, sodium is the most common offender - it is found virtually everywhere, and is a fairly small (and therefore mobile) atom with a positive charge. In the presence of an electric field, it migrates towards the negative pole with a velocity which depends on temperature, the concentration of the sodium, the oxide quality, and the other impurities in the oxide such as dopants from the processing. If the electric field is zero and given enough time, this stress tends to dissipate eventually.Now if someone with better chemistry than can describe to me that things are still this way then I will bite, but at this point I'm assuming those thin little sodium atoms slip out of place rather quickly. After that I'd still have some reservations about the sheer number of little sodium balls you'd be counting. You'd need a fairly specialized machine to actually extract that data.
Can't read your link, but I'm assuming your talking about NVRAM, or NAND flash RAM and this stuff is hardly common-place.
Hello?!!?? Jackass, learn to read a thread.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=238463&thThe way I understood, was that volatile memory required current to hold a "1" no current no ones or all "0"s. Zero, is the natural state of the ram.
So, lick the contacts before mailing right?
I think he's making fun of me. I'm not talking about account codes as in phone numbers at an ISP though, I'm referring to serial numbers, part numbers, merchant ID numbers, terminal ID numbers, heck even credit card numbers are a pain in the ass. You ever get through a sixteen digit credit card # then spend ten minutes explaining to the customer where the cvv2 number was. Add to that the other myriad list of info grasping you need to go through when they don't give you the right numbers, like email addresses, home phone, physical address, middle initial, do live at... blah blah blah. I think anything that pulled up the records auto-magically when the customer said "hello" would be a god send. Of course laryngitis would effectively screw a customer out of accessing their records. "hello" "yea, you're not in our records" "my name is..." "look buddy you're not in our records"
That's different, if you worked in a shop with only Macs and Linux boxen, then the term PC would be equally synonymous with the Linux machines. In a a truly mixed environment (kinda like slash) where you come in saying you have "such and such" that will work with our Macs and PCs, you might do well to mention it won't run on the Linux boxes. Point is, you hear the word the way you want to hear it, Linux is not really a consideration for you so PC automatically refers to Windows, and yes it does bother people who a) know better and b) who use something other than Windows on their PCs.
I can't believe you actually held urban dictionary above Wikipedia - not bad.
Hah! Point is when you get something from Microsoft they wrote or purchased every scrap of software that goes with it. When you use Mac or Linux developers are competing to get their software in the system. Remember Mac uses quite a bit of OSS too. Essentially, Mac and Linux operate in a free market while everything installed on Windows is affected by some board of directors in Redmond and their decisions are not based on what is best for the user, it is based on what is best for the bottom line, even if it means shipping IE6 for years after it's a dead horse.
You haven't had to ask a lot of people for account numbers have you?
you're just so completely right, that i'm going to uninstall Debian and go out and purchase Vista for $700 f*cking dollars so I can browse the web, edit office documents, run a web server, and write my code with a decent IDE, oh wait, that'll cost a bit more than $700.
vista copyright holders = 1debian copyright holders = ???
Mac OSX copyright holders = "more than you think"
Um "I don't know" - yuck
"water"
"thank you"
that was funny - you insensitive mod!!!