Most financial or transactional institutions. A list of the top of my head is Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, Wells Fargo, Delta Airlines, Nationwide Insurance. Also most regional banks and credit unions also run systems based on the z platform.
Jealous! We're a little smaller (1 EC12, 3 IFL's, 2 CP's) but I wouldn't want to run virtualized Linux on any other platform, and that's coming off a decade of work in the distributed world. Nothing beats z/VM in my experience, I love it!
I'm confused, are you saying that because Citrix and Terminal Services exist in the Windows world, mainframes will never die because the alternative of dealing with Citrix/TS is so unpalatable?
I didn't say anything about intending harm, that's all you. A direct, credible threat of violence is a very different thing than an off-color joke. The OP suggested that people should get their "head caved in" for saying something disagreeable. The point I was attempting to make is that just because someone is offended by something you say that doesn't mean that they should be criminalized.
Does that mean that you should be arrested for saying something unpleasant? What if you don't consider what you're saying to be worthy of arrest but society (whatever that is) does and the costume-wearing class comes a-knocking? I suspect you'd change your tune.
Quit trolling, GP never said anything about the US being a paragon of free speech protections. As someone who grew up in the UK and moved to the US at the age of 28 I can tell you from first-hand experience, however, that the general attitude to protecting speech, even speech that you personally find reprehensible is far more prevalent in the US than in the UK. I have had lengthy discussions with fellow Brits who seem to think that censorship according to the prevailing attitudes of the day is perfectly fine. The problem is that there's a sort of myopia that prevents many people (not just Brits) from seeing that if those prevailing attitudes change in the future a dangerous precedent will have been set. Is joking about an accident in which people lost their lives a nice thing to do? Certainly not. That doesn't mean it should be criminalized. The US and those advocating similar legislation to that implemented in the UK (criminalizing hate speech/incitement of violence) suffer from the same myopia as my former countrymen do.
I'm most certainly over thinking this but it could be a comment on the inefficiencies of the giant bureaucracy that would need to be in place in order to administrate a massively autocratic, centralized regime such as the Empire.
I'd second this. I'd certainly be interested in looking at such a collection on eBay and if the donations went to an organization that supports Free Software all the better.
That's a completely fair criticism of Firefox. Thankfully there's something one can do about it, Classic Theme Restorer is fantastic. I'm not a fan of the Chrome look and feel so this suits me well.
Apples to oranges. This all comes back to property rights and what you're actually buying. In your example I don't own the race track so I have no rights to it without the express permission of the owner, a fee may be involved. In this case, however, the discussion revolves around what one can do with property they own. Sharing information about that property is neither immoral nor unlawful. It would seem it is illegal under the DMCA but that seems rather ridiculous to most with rational heads on their shoulders. If the manufacturer wanted to sell added capacity they shouldn't sell the unit in a crippled state but make the add-on features available by way of additional/replacement hardware. A good example of this is the Roland synthesizer expansion cards that provide additional instrument patches. They're a little PCB that you pop in to a slot under an easily accessible panel. I don't really know a great deal about oscilloscopes but I suspect it's not beyond reason to expect that a company producing complex electronic devices do something similar. This is especially true given how technical the consumer base is for such products and the idea they're surprised by it is, quite frankly, ridiculous.
So they did a text-editor roundup that excluded every serious contender in favor of 5 third-string also-rans.
I actually tried to read the text but it was too brain-numbingly stupid to get through. He's trumpeting all these wonderful features that... vi and emacs had in the 80s.
It's so true - 'those who do not remember Unix are condemned to re-invent it, poorly.'
Lennart Pottering needs to read the last line of this comment in particular!
It's a matter of preference and consistency for me. I've been using vi/vim for more than 15 years and have it as my default editor on my desktop so I have the same environment whether I'm ssh'd to a system I manage or editing scripts locally. I feel that my motivations for doing so are far from retarded!
One thing that has been a challenge is learning XEDIT under z/VM in the last couple of years. Many a REXX EXEC has ended up with a:wq on the last line I was editing!
is hackoverpricedswedishflatpackfurniture.com already taken?
If it is maybe IkeaGoFuckYourself.com is available....
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
No match for "IKEAGOFUCKYOURSELF.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:23:27 UTC
Yep, go buy it if you think you can do something constructive with it.
If you want the Model M experience with a super key and USB connectivity I'd recommend Unicomp. They're a little pricey but provide a very close approximation to the original Model M feel.
I took a pay cut to move in to the digital forensics field in 2007 mainly because of the large volume of included training that was offered and the prospect of increased salaries in the future. I feel that it paid off, I got to learn a great deal about a field I was unsure of using software I could never have afforded to purchase on my own. Self study is how I've learned most things in my career but there really is something to be said for having access to experienced real-world professionals.
The truth is that IBM's primary server market has never been its x86 offerings. The pSeries and System z market is much more lucrative what with engine licensing (CP, IFL etc) and massively expensive platform specific operating systems (z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF, AIX etc) along with decades old products like CICS powering the vast majority of the financial world. I work closely with a contractor who worked for IBM for nearly four decades and his attitude to the distributed world is likely representative of a general antipathy to x86 on the server side within IBM (though I have no evidence other than him to back that up!) I suspect though, that the fact they can focus on "real" servers on the hardware side will probably be seen as good by most in Endicott.
The walls of the Big British Castle have been breached, the serfs and tithe payers are at risk of pilfer from outside forces. We can't possibly have non-sanctioned extortion take place, we have a charter by jove!
Someone tell Fusion.io. They're based at 5000+ feet here in the Salt Lake valley! It would be interesting if their QC procedures are what have made them more reliable as the failure rate is higher where the testing is performed.
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Yeah, thankfully systemd is still regarded as an "alternative init system" by Gentoo. I rather like OpenRC, hopefully they'll stay the course.
CrunchBang could have been the systemD-less distro
Thankfully, for that we have Slackware.
[T]he site isn't in danger of going under financially any time soon
That's a real shame.
Most financial or transactional institutions. A list of the top of my head is Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, Wells Fargo, Delta Airlines, Nationwide Insurance. Also most regional banks and credit unions also run systems based on the z platform.
Jealous! We're a little smaller (1 EC12, 3 IFL's, 2 CP's) but I wouldn't want to run virtualized Linux on any other platform, and that's coming off a decade of work in the distributed world. Nothing beats z/VM in my experience, I love it!
I'm confused, are you saying that because Citrix and Terminal Services exist in the Windows world, mainframes will never die because the alternative of dealing with Citrix/TS is so unpalatable?
I didn't say anything about intending harm, that's all you. A direct, credible threat of violence is a very different thing than an off-color joke. The OP suggested that people should get their "head caved in" for saying something disagreeable. The point I was attempting to make is that just because someone is offended by something you say that doesn't mean that they should be criminalized.
Does that mean that you should be arrested for saying something unpleasant? What if you don't consider what you're saying to be worthy of arrest but society (whatever that is) does and the costume-wearing class comes a-knocking? I suspect you'd change your tune.
Quit trolling, GP never said anything about the US being a paragon of free speech protections. As someone who grew up in the UK and moved to the US at the age of 28 I can tell you from first-hand experience, however, that the general attitude to protecting speech, even speech that you personally find reprehensible is far more prevalent in the US than in the UK. I have had lengthy discussions with fellow Brits who seem to think that censorship according to the prevailing attitudes of the day is perfectly fine. The problem is that there's a sort of myopia that prevents many people (not just Brits) from seeing that if those prevailing attitudes change in the future a dangerous precedent will have been set. Is joking about an accident in which people lost their lives a nice thing to do? Certainly not. That doesn't mean it should be criminalized. The US and those advocating similar legislation to that implemented in the UK (criminalizing hate speech/incitement of violence) suffer from the same myopia as my former countrymen do.
Link to the original website.
I'm most certainly over thinking this but it could be a comment on the inefficiencies of the giant bureaucracy that would need to be in place in order to administrate a massively autocratic, centralized regime such as the Empire.
I'd second this. I'd certainly be interested in looking at such a collection on eBay and if the donations went to an organization that supports Free Software all the better.
That's a completely fair criticism of Firefox. Thankfully there's something one can do about it, Classic Theme Restorer is fantastic. I'm not a fan of the Chrome look and feel so this suits me well.
Apples to oranges. This all comes back to property rights and what you're actually buying. In your example I don't own the race track so I have no rights to it without the express permission of the owner, a fee may be involved. In this case, however, the discussion revolves around what one can do with property they own. Sharing information about that property is neither immoral nor unlawful. It would seem it is illegal under the DMCA but that seems rather ridiculous to most with rational heads on their shoulders. If the manufacturer wanted to sell added capacity they shouldn't sell the unit in a crippled state but make the add-on features available by way of additional/replacement hardware. A good example of this is the Roland synthesizer expansion cards that provide additional instrument patches. They're a little PCB that you pop in to a slot under an easily accessible panel. I don't really know a great deal about oscilloscopes but I suspect it's not beyond reason to expect that a company producing complex electronic devices do something similar. This is especially true given how technical the consumer base is for such products and the idea they're surprised by it is, quite frankly, ridiculous.
Sorry, reply to undo moderation mistake.
So they did a text-editor roundup that excluded every serious contender in favor of 5 third-string also-rans. I actually tried to read the text but it was too brain-numbingly stupid to get through. He's trumpeting all these wonderful features that... vi and emacs had in the 80s. It's so true - 'those who do not remember Unix are condemned to re-invent it, poorly.'
Lennart Pottering needs to read the last line of this comment in particular!
It's a matter of preference and consistency for me. I've been using vi/vim for more than 15 years and have it as my default editor on my desktop so I have the same environment whether I'm ssh'd to a system I manage or editing scripts locally. I feel that my motivations for doing so are far from retarded!
:wq on the last line I was editing!
One thing that has been a challenge is learning XEDIT under z/VM in the last couple of years. Many a REXX EXEC has ended up with a
is hackoverpricedswedishflatpackfurniture.com already taken?
If it is maybe IkeaGoFuckYourself.com is available....
Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
No match for "IKEAGOFUCKYOURSELF.COM".
>>> Last update of whois database: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:23:27 UTC
Yep, go buy it if you think you can do something constructive with it.
Amen to that, all hail Bob!
If you want the Model M experience with a super key and USB connectivity I'd recommend Unicomp. They're a little pricey but provide a very close approximation to the original Model M feel.
I took a pay cut to move in to the digital forensics field in 2007 mainly because of the large volume of included training that was offered and the prospect of increased salaries in the future. I feel that it paid off, I got to learn a great deal about a field I was unsure of using software I could never have afforded to purchase on my own. Self study is how I've learned most things in my career but there really is something to be said for having access to experienced real-world professionals.
The truth is that IBM's primary server market has never been its x86 offerings. The pSeries and System z market is much more lucrative what with engine licensing (CP, IFL etc) and massively expensive platform specific operating systems (z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF, AIX etc) along with decades old products like CICS powering the vast majority of the financial world. I work closely with a contractor who worked for IBM for nearly four decades and his attitude to the distributed world is likely representative of a general antipathy to x86 on the server side within IBM (though I have no evidence other than him to back that up!) I suspect though, that the fact they can focus on "real" servers on the hardware side will probably be seen as good by most in Endicott.
There's still the large pSeries and System z market.
The walls of the Big British Castle have been breached, the serfs and tithe payers are at risk of pilfer from outside forces. We can't possibly have non-sanctioned extortion take place, we have a charter by jove!
Someone tell Fusion.io. They're based at 5000+ feet here in the Salt Lake valley! It would be interesting if their QC procedures are what have made them more reliable as the failure rate is higher where the testing is performed.