Please correct me if I'm wrong here but wouldn't a log that is only appended to and never overwritten cause a massive ammount of bloat after a period of prolonged use?
I think you made a good point with the idea of folks being able to download source of G's web apps and run their own personal/corporate servers based on Google's technology however I have to part ways with you on the whole Evil Google thing. I think that their amazing contributions and enrichment of the Web more than makes up for their lack of forthcomingness (not a word I know) with their source code. It would be great if they did release their source but I think a customizable binary set might be acceptable to most corporations looking to build a feature-rich service based on Google's technology. Great point though:-)
This can only be a good thing, if all the fine products coming out of the Mozilla community are to compete with the likes of MS it needs to be done on a level playing field. Plus there's nothing wrong with making money for all your hard work!
I was just saying it was cheap in comparison tho the speculated price of the Optimus ($500). Thanks for the Das Keyboard link, I've been thinking about buying one for a while now:-)
If anyone reading works for Logitech or some other big peripheral manufacturer please let your R&D department know about this and maybe they can license the design and technology from the good people at art.lebedev.
But seriously this technology could have huge implications for the future of peripheral manufacturing (on the high-end at least) purely because you can have it as QWERTY, AZERTY, DVORAK or any other english, arabic, cyrillic, sanscrit, klingon or other layout!
You must be new around here.
Let's examine that statement, the sixty-five hundred and ninety-first person to get a/. account (Cyryathorn (6591)) is new around here? I think you are the one who's new!
If you are more worried about driving than terrorism you have no right to lecture anyone about "threat assessment skills". Or am I forgetting about all those bands of middle eastern car journeys plotting the downfall of the western world?
"I wonder, perchance, if you've considered why it's commonly referred to as "9/11" or "September the eleventh two thousand and one"? It's because that's when it happened. The only time it has ever happened."
Now this is amusing, so by your logic if something has happened once it can't happen again? At least this seems to be what you are inferring. You have conveniently forgotten the 1993 World Trade Center attack, so only 6 people died, six too many in my opinion, but it does demonstrate that your presumption that it was "The only time it has ever happened" is in fact incorrect.
"In the last 5 years - actually, in the whole of history - just over 3000 people have been killed by Al Qaeda militants on the US mainland, all on 9/11 in a single coordinated attack. It hasn't happened since, and despite plenty of fear mongering, there hasn't been any credible evidence to suggest that it could either."
Big who cares on this little point, that's 3,000 (or more) too many innocent people dead. The fact remains that Osama Bin Laden is still out there and until he is apprehended and bought to justice (I don't care if he is a symbolic figurehead or not) we should continue to be conscientious about the possibility of a repeat attack.
"In the year 2001 ALONE there were 42,443 deaths on the US mainland due to road traffic accidents."
Let me get this straight, you are equating road traffic deaths to those killed, sorry, murdered by terrorists flying planes into buildings and the ground? Your values are so unbelievably out of whack that you may just be beyond help. Traffic deaths are tragic and I understand that they cause a lot of pain for the families of their victims but just because there are more that makes them more tragic? Sheesh.
"Of course, even US road deaths pale in comparison to the 250,000-and-still-rising deathtoll which resulted from the boxing day tsunami in the Indian Ocean."
A tragic humanitarian disaster but why do you consider this a more worthy disaster? It was a geological disaster, nobody is to blame. I believe it is just as sad and heart-wrenching that all of these people died but it was ENTIRELY unavoidable.
"And let's not forget the 972 US citizens who have been killed on US soil by.... the US Government, since 1976. Sure, they might be criminals (At least, you'd better hope they are!) but who says some of the people in the Twin Towers weren't?"
I believe that the US justice system has a pretty good record in this department and most of these people are criminals proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Nobody, including me, has ever said that all of the people in the twin towers, pentagon or Shanksville, PA were saints but I do happen to know that the number of bad people was 19.
"Never mind though. So long as you can convince yourself that the sky is falling and there are terrorists lurking in every doorway and around every corner, I'm sure things will be just hunky dory. Who needs civil liberties anyways?"
I don't live in fear but neither do I deny the existence of evil in the world. On the point of civil liberties I would just like to say that the United States is without a doubt the most free place to live in the Western world. I am originally from England where such civil liberties as the ability to design and build your own house pretty much anywhere, purchase a weapon (though you're probably against that civil liberty) or drive a large car or truck are unheard of. If the government wants to check what books I have checked out of my local library that's fine, the only people against that sort of thing either have a guilty conscience or something to hide.
"but in the overall scale of things.. well.. it was no big deal, quite frankly."
I left this one until last because it was the only one that made me really mad. To say that it was "no big deal" is not just naive but plain offensive and undermines al
OK, tell that to the families of more than 3000 people who died on 9/11. People need to be more alert, it is not paranoia to be worried about the international terrorist threat and I think people who aren't worried about it are pretty naive.
You are correct that this tool does not aid terrorists any more than the satellite imagery available from countless sources on the web but all of this information does make it easier to scout possible locations, that's the double-edged sword of the right to freedom of information
In my humble opinion (and having used BartPE before) I think it might have been a better idea to use one of the abundantly available Linux LiveCD's (Knoppix or variant, Morphix or variant etc) purely for security reasons. A custom built live cd using one of the freely available script sets would probably be the best route to go.
Very insightful and true. I left a job recently (Helldesk) because I was sick of dreading walking into the office every day. I love the people who work there and have a great relationship with (most) of the management but the work just wasn't stimulating. Luckily I managed to save up some cash before I left so i now have about 5 months where I can take some time out to maybe do a few certifications and look for something better.
If you don't love your work, don't stay there. There is always something better if you look hard enough for it.
I think you have a point about management at the strategic high-end level, however I do believe that managers who interact directly with technical staff and have to make mid-level strategic decisions about technical systems should know how their workers do what they do.
I'll give an example: just before I left the "Head of Information and Communications Infrastructure" (Both networks and systems) handed out a task that in 2 weeks they will do restore tests to ensure our capability to be up and running quickly in the event of a disaster. Sounds fair enough, however he wanted to test these restores on the live Novell/Active directory and Web servers.
If that's not proof that managers of technical personnel need to at least have a small amount of real world knowledge then I don't know what is.
P.S. No I don't like the Prez on the west wing:-)
I have just left an institution where 3 departments (IT, Media/Print and Library Services) were merged. It was a total disaster! My managers were the former head of Media/Print and a library sub-department manager and neither of them had the first clue about how to run an IT department. I saw the service and quality of the department (both to customers and in terms of job-satisfaction) degrade enormously in the 18 months I stayed with the company post-merger. I can only speak from my personal experience but it seems to me that only technical managers are qualified to manage technical people.
Nothing better than b*tch about their self righteous positions on world issues they have no real business in getting involved with (unless of course oil is involved!)
Honestlythough, who really cares? If this were the 1860's it might matter that France hates us but now they are a nothing in terms of world power and are just a little sore about it!
It seems to me that this is just a kneejerk response to the elemental truth that English has superseeded French as the international language, French was of course once considered the language of diplomacy:-)
That's not the same, i think it is legit to buy a copy of Windows (including license) off of someone if they are no longer using it. The point is that Blizzard aren't losing money neither are they gaining it. Because the game he bought was used (and probably cheaper than retail) he shouldn't be penalised. I would, however, agree with you if the seller had retained a copy, which in this situation appears not to be so.
I think Bill could learn a lot from Stallman and by examining his own past and the way MS and Apple took the computer industry off of IBM in the early days.
There are plans in the works that would replace the current UK system of road tax with a per-mile scheme similar to CA's or an increase in the number of toll-roads. Although it is true that paying £120 ($227) is extremely unpopular surely there's a better way to pay for our roads.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong here but wouldn't a log that is only appended to and never overwritten cause a massive ammount of bloat after a period of prolonged use?
I think you made a good point with the idea of folks being able to download source of G's web apps and run their own personal/corporate servers based on Google's technology however I have to part ways with you on the whole Evil Google thing. I think that their amazing contributions and enrichment of the Web more than makes up for their lack of forthcomingness (not a word I know) with their source code. It would be great if they did release their source but I think a customizable binary set might be acceptable to most corporations looking to build a feature-rich service based on Google's technology. Great point though :-)
This can only be a good thing, if all the fine products coming out of the Mozilla community are to compete with the likes of MS it needs to be done on a level playing field. Plus there's nothing wrong with making money for all your hard work!
I was just saying it was cheap in comparison tho the speculated price of the Optimus ($500). Thanks for the Das Keyboard link, I've been thinking about buying one for a while now:-)
But seriously this technology could have huge implications for the future of peripheral manufacturing (on the high-end at least) purely because you can have it as QWERTY, AZERTY, DVORAK or any other english, arabic, cyrillic, sanscrit, klingon or other layout!
For the cheapskates there's always Das Keyboard!
You must be new around here. Let's examine that statement, the sixty-five hundred and ninety-first person to get a /. account (Cyryathorn (6591)) is new around here? I think you are the one who's new!
If you are more worried about driving than terrorism you have no right to lecture anyone about "threat assessment skills". Or am I forgetting about all those bands of middle eastern car journeys plotting the downfall of the western world?
"I wonder, perchance, if you've considered why it's commonly referred to as "9/11" or "September the eleventh two thousand and one"? It's because that's when it happened. The only time it has ever happened."
Now this is amusing, so by your logic if something has happened once it can't happen again? At least this seems to be what you are inferring. You have conveniently forgotten the 1993 World Trade Center attack, so only 6 people died, six too many in my opinion, but it does demonstrate that your presumption that it was "The only time it has ever happened" is in fact incorrect.
"In the last 5 years - actually, in the whole of history - just over 3000 people have been killed by Al Qaeda militants on the US mainland, all on 9/11 in a single coordinated attack. It hasn't happened since, and despite plenty of fear mongering, there hasn't been any credible evidence to suggest that it could either."
Big who cares on this little point, that's 3,000 (or more) too many innocent people dead. The fact remains that Osama Bin Laden is still out there and until he is apprehended and bought to justice (I don't care if he is a symbolic figurehead or not) we should continue to be conscientious about the possibility of a repeat attack.
"In the year 2001 ALONE there were 42,443 deaths on the US mainland due to road traffic accidents."
Let me get this straight, you are equating road traffic deaths to those killed, sorry, murdered by terrorists flying planes into buildings and the ground? Your values are so unbelievably out of whack that you may just be beyond help. Traffic deaths are tragic and I understand that they cause a lot of pain for the families of their victims but just because there are more that makes them more tragic? Sheesh.
"Of course, even US road deaths pale in comparison to the 250,000-and-still-rising deathtoll which resulted from the boxing day tsunami in the Indian Ocean."
A tragic humanitarian disaster but why do you consider this a more worthy disaster? It was a geological disaster, nobody is to blame. I believe it is just as sad and heart-wrenching that all of these people died but it was ENTIRELY unavoidable.
"And let's not forget the 972 US citizens who have been killed on US soil by.... the US Government, since 1976. Sure, they might be criminals (At least, you'd better hope they are!) but who says some of the people in the Twin Towers weren't?"
I believe that the US justice system has a pretty good record in this department and most of these people are criminals proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Nobody, including me, has ever said that all of the people in the twin towers, pentagon or Shanksville, PA were saints but I do happen to know that the number of bad people was 19.
"Never mind though. So long as you can convince yourself that the sky is falling and there are terrorists lurking in every doorway and around every corner, I'm sure things will be just hunky dory. Who needs civil liberties anyways?"
I don't live in fear but neither do I deny the existence of evil in the world. On the point of civil liberties I would just like to say that the United States is without a doubt the most free place to live in the Western world. I am originally from England where such civil liberties as the ability to design and build your own house pretty much anywhere, purchase a weapon (though you're probably against that civil liberty) or drive a large car or truck are unheard of. If the government wants to check what books I have checked out of my local library that's fine, the only people against that sort of thing either have a guilty conscience or something to hide.
"but in the overall scale of things.. well.. it was no big deal, quite frankly."
I left this one until last because it was the only one that made me really mad. To say that it was "no big deal" is not just naive but plain offensive and undermines al
OK, tell that to the families of more than 3000 people who died on 9/11. People need to be more alert, it is not paranoia to be worried about the international terrorist threat and I think people who aren't worried about it are pretty naive.
You are correct that this tool does not aid terrorists any more than the satellite imagery available from countless sources on the web but all of this information does make it easier to scout possible locations, that's the double-edged sword of the right to freedom of information
In my humble opinion (and having used BartPE before) I think it might have been a better idea to use one of the abundantly available Linux LiveCD's (Knoppix or variant, Morphix or variant etc) purely for security reasons. A custom built live cd using one of the freely available script sets would probably be the best route to go.
Vision of the Future?
Very insightful and true. I left a job recently (Helldesk) because I was sick of dreading walking into the office every day. I love the people who work there and have a great relationship with (most) of the management but the work just wasn't stimulating. Luckily I managed to save up some cash before I left so i now have about 5 months where I can take some time out to maybe do a few certifications and look for something better. If you don't love your work, don't stay there. There is always something better if you look hard enough for it.
I'll give an example: just before I left the "Head of Information and Communications Infrastructure" (Both networks and systems) handed out a task that in 2 weeks they will do restore tests to ensure our capability to be up and running quickly in the event of a disaster. Sounds fair enough, however he wanted to test these restores on the live Novell/Active directory and Web servers.
If that's not proof that managers of technical personnel need to at least have a small amount of real world knowledge then I don't know what is. P.S. No I don't like the Prez on the west wing :-)
I have just left an institution where 3 departments (IT, Media/Print and Library Services) were merged. It was a total disaster! My managers were the former head of Media/Print and a library sub-department manager and neither of them had the first clue about how to run an IT department. I saw the service and quality of the department (both to customers and in terms of job-satisfaction) degrade enormously in the 18 months I stayed with the company post-merger. I can only speak from my personal experience but it seems to me that only technical managers are qualified to manage technical people.
Nothing better than b*tch about their self righteous positions on world issues they have no real business in getting involved with (unless of course oil is involved!)
look, I was in a rush ok!? ;-)
Honestlythough, who really cares? If this were the 1860's it might matter that France hates us but now they are a nothing in terms of world power and are just a little sore about it!
It seems to me that this is just a kneejerk response to the elemental truth that English has superseeded French as the international language, French was of course once considered the language of diplomacy :-)
That's not the same, i think it is legit to buy a copy of Windows (including license) off of someone if they are no longer using it. The point is that Blizzard aren't losing money neither are they gaining it. Because the game he bought was used (and probably cheaper than retail) he shouldn't be penalised. I would, however, agree with you if the seller had retained a copy, which in this situation appears not to be so.
Dude, tuxracer rules! Oh and so does UT2003/2004 which you can also play on Linux!
TCP/IP has played a pivotal role in the revolutionised age of information and communication.
I think Bill could learn a lot from Stallman and by examining his own past and the way MS and Apple took the computer industry off of IBM in the early days.
There are plans in the works that would replace the current UK system of road tax with a per-mile scheme similar to CA's or an increase in the number of toll-roads. Although it is true that paying £120 ($227) is extremely unpopular surely there's a better way to pay for our roads.
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