This isn't a lot different than the general decline of math and science careers in general. It's just a small sign that we're moving away from skilled knowledge-based industries into crap-service based industries.
I was just considering that, in order to pirate the game, SOMEONE has to buy it in order to distribute it. If the company themselves is distributing it in illicit channels, then it makes the legitimate purchasers look worse. At least in my opinion
That's sort of underhanded, but still, a good way to see how far reaching the piracy goes. Doesn't say a lot about your opinion of your actual customers if you complain about piracy after you do it.
That's fantastic. I wish more companies would do this.
It would be very nice to be able to install a patch via CD to Windows XP to make it not authenticate against the MS servers once support for it dries up.
I really think the issue is that people expect a modicum of privacy from their government, and our governments are not really willing to accede to their requests
There are really a lot of hardware solutions to speeding up SSL.
The real issue is that, typically speaking, the server which is responsible for the server-side processing is also responsible for encrypting the stream.
By putting a hardware or software solution in front of the client-access machine, you offload encryption to that host, leaving the application server free to concentrate on serving applications.
This can also be useful for debugging sessions, as you (the provider) have an unencrypted stream to examine.
Securing that stream between the application and the encryption device becomes of paramount importance, in that case.
He wasn't really trying to "work around" the system, he was more subverting it for profit.
I'd have a lot more sympathy for him if he was trying to rearrange schedule conflicts for himself to get put in a more advanced class, or something. Petty changing of grades and falsifying of other documents for himself and his friends, not to mention the more insidious crimes on the list...not so much
Yea, but the downside is that you've got to run OSX
Don't get me wrong. OSX is a great operating system for a user. It's probably the best laptop OS in existence. I'm writing this comment on a Powerbook G4 right now, actually. But in the server room, OSX sucks if it has to interact with any non-OSX services.
The very fact that they took things in Unix that had worked for 20 years and broke them for no good reason except they didn't fit their idea of how something should work is asinine.
Granted, the recent releases have gotten better, but I was so burned by 10.2-10.3 that I literally have a pile of Mac Servers that I'm going to be selling on Ebay / Craigslist.
It's got a nice interface and gives you all the energy information you need on their equipment, plus allows you to insert your own equipment's energy profile to calculate total usage.
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This isn't a lot different than the general decline of math and science careers in general. It's just a small sign that we're moving away from skilled knowledge-based industries into crap-service based industries.
Would you like fries with that?
I've always found that it pays to like boring jobs ;-)
It's only rarely that we admins get to do heroics.
I was just considering that, in order to pirate the game, SOMEONE has to buy it in order to distribute it. If the company themselves is distributing it in illicit channels, then it makes the legitimate purchasers look worse. At least in my opinion
Do you happen to have a good resource for learning about HPC clustering in Windows? I'm not a Windows guy, but I'd be curious myself how it goes.
I imagine the base overhead of the OS cuts into each node's computing power, wouldn't it?
That's sort of underhanded, but still, a good way to see how far reaching the piracy goes. Doesn't say a lot about your opinion of your actual customers if you complain about piracy after you do it.
That's fantastic. I wish more companies would do this.
It would be very nice to be able to install a patch via CD to Windows XP to make it not authenticate against the MS servers once support for it dries up.
There's something wrong with my brain.
Every time I read "Symbian" I see "simian" mentally...
which of course lead to my reading your post as "My monkey's on google"
I need to go back to bed.
I appreciate what they're doing, and I sincerely hope that it becomes a viable option within the next 6 months or so.
Cause I'm not using it for anything mission critical before that, anyway.
I really think the issue is that people expect a modicum of privacy from their government, and our governments are not really willing to accede to their requests
There are really a lot of hardware solutions to speeding up SSL.
The real issue is that, typically speaking, the server which is responsible for the server-side processing is also responsible for encrypting the stream.
By putting a hardware or software solution in front of the client-access machine, you offload encryption to that host, leaving the application server free to concentrate on serving applications.
This can also be useful for debugging sessions, as you (the provider) have an unencrypted stream to examine.
Securing that stream between the application and the encryption device becomes of paramount importance, in that case.
While I sympathize with the Israelis in this case, it's open source, right?
Fork it and add your country. Then make it better software than it was originally. Hit them where it hurts.
He wasn't really trying to "work around" the system, he was more subverting it for profit.
I'd have a lot more sympathy for him if he was trying to rearrange schedule conflicts for himself to get put in a more advanced class, or something. Petty changing of grades and falsifying of other documents for himself and his friends, not to mention the more insidious crimes on the list...not so much
Count me in too. I want config details as well
I would guess a combination of difficulty and expense in
a) bandwidth
b) cooling
c) supplies
d) available utilities (i.e. running water, available healthcare)
Yea, but the downside is that you've got to run OSX
Don't get me wrong. OSX is a great operating system for a user. It's probably the best laptop OS in existence. I'm writing this comment on a Powerbook G4 right now, actually. But in the server room, OSX sucks if it has to interact with any non-OSX services.
The very fact that they took things in Unix that had worked for 20 years and broke them for no good reason except they didn't fit their idea of how something should work is asinine.
Granted, the recent releases have gotten better, but I was so burned by 10.2-10.3 that I literally have a pile of Mac Servers that I'm going to be selling on Ebay / Craigslist.
I've used Dell's Greenprint Calculator to determine usage in my racks pretty often.
It's got a nice interface and gives you all the energy information you need on their equipment, plus allows you to insert your own equipment's energy profile to calculate total usage.
It's very handy
Hey, sorry to complain, but how is this off topic?
Well, I'm not going to argue that he's obviously talented, but that's the sort of talent that gets you thrown into jail when misapplied
"You said altering records twice"
"I like altering records"
I'm supposing we could do that, but with the lady's reaction to my T1, I didn't really want to continue the conversation.
We're moving to a colocation that offers remote SAN backup and does offsite tape retention as well. I think we're just going to go with that route.
But it's analog data (video, sound, etc), not digital, right?
Not long enough, given how bad it was
I don't see a whole lot of difference in legality between this and hosting newsgroup messages. Legit reasons for both.
What a dopey idea ;-)
Are you storing data onto VHS? What method do you use to write to that?