tens of terabytes are fairly cheap these days (as in less than the labor for the tech doing the scanning). How important is that data that you forgot to backup? With $20 million? If so, spending a couple hundred thousand to read it is a good idea. Not as good as just having enough backups of course, but that has been ruled out.
In some special cases the courts can go after money already paid. When you are in bankruptcy court there is a order of who gets paid, if you pay someone low on the list before filing bankruptcy, they can take that money back and give it to someone higher on the list to be paid.
I would be very surprised if this happened here, but it could. Lawyers are fairly high on the list of who gets paid.
Who is playing the political games? IT does what the boss tells them to. If you are a typical slashdotter you do not play the political games well. So you should have your boss play them for you, that is his job. Just tell your boss that you need good time, and let him do it.
If you boss won't play those games, think about sending thing up the line. Start asking questions in the company meetings about why IT isn't responding to employee needs. Your point will get across. (Careful here though, this is playing politics, so you need to understand the politics of your question more than the technical content!)
The X and Y registers on the 6502 were called index registers for a reason. Index X to A, and Y to B, and you can not do it in less lines.
My way is slower, but uses less bytes (I can't recall the syntax of 6502 asm, so I'm not going to write it). Since we are talking about a processor that could deal with more than 64K at a time this is a critical concern.
I have used a hammer to drive a screw before. It works much better than you think it would. Not nearly as good as a screwdrive would do the job, but it gets the job done. It may hold better than a nail would (again, not as good as if you had done it right).
In short: you can use the wrong tool for the job, and it might work better than you would think. It is still the wrong tool for the job, so get the right tool if you can.
I always post with my real name. My +1 bonus normally means that the controversial things don't get modded all the way down, and I can burn a little karma. Karma is meaningless, and the next post won't be so controversial and thus when modded up gets me back all the karma I lost.
Which reminds me, I gotta meta-moderate again. Seems every day there is at least one unfair moderation in the list.
the full name is french fried potato's, referring to how they are cooked, not the origion. I have no idea if the French would deep fry potato's, but that is a whole different issue
You are a liar. I have seen 10 year olds on computers. They are better with linux. Same point and click interface, plus the programs they run don't demand administrator, so they never accidently screw up the system or delete mom's files.
On Microsoft Windows their programs only run with administrator. Once they are done with the game they start playing with things, randomly dragging files around until the system won't run. (though XP hides system files, it is an easy click to unhide them - and when playing they might do that)
You 10 year old sister will not be typing those cryptic commands. (well she might, but only if you trust her with root, but lets assume she doesn't care) Everything she wants to do can be done from either the GNOME or KDE desktop.
No, XP is the latest. Linux vendors have learned to spin a new release every 6 months or year. Microsoft ships far more systems, so their marginal cost to ship a new CD with the latest drivers should be less. Microsoft also charges more for XP than most linux vendors. (desktop vendors anyway, enterprize vendors charge more, but then 2003 server is more too)
I refuse to compare anything other than the latest out of the box distributions. It is Microsoft's fault if they are out of date.
As I recall XP SP2 was released early this year. That is the latest version, and there is no excuse for not putting that on the CDs they are shipping.
Most of the GNU developers were using linux, with ELF. They were letting the a.out support get out of date. It was easier in the long run to switch to ELF (which was in general a good thing and the way forward, but not required for any technical reasons) than to keep maintaining a.out in the GNU tools along with the other FreeBSD changes.
FreeBSD supported dynamically loaded libraries in a.out.
I never implied that ELF was developed by Linux. The linux developers could have solved their shared library problems (which were a mess back when linux was just a couple years old) in a.out. However they made the decision (correctly) to solve the problem as part of moving to ELF because ELF was the way they wanted to go in the long run anyway.
Don't forget that the AMD chips have the memory controller built in, while the Intel chips require a separate chip sucking power (normally part of the North Bridge) to do this task.
Sadly I know of nobody who has measured who much the separate memory controller costs in power. Could range from insignificant to nearly as much as the CPU.
In the US they are rarely enforced too. As I understand this case, the guy was working on the MSN search engine. So it is a clear case of competing. Microsoft presumably wouldn't have done anything if he was working on Word and went to Google, but by going from the MSN search engine to Google they think it is too far.
This would be reasonable if companies didn't insist on specific experience. I've been refused jobs because I didn't have linux kernel experience, even though I have FreeBSD kernel experience. If this was commercial software (instead of open source), they could get anything because all Linux kernel experts would be under a non-compete. (and it would apply to FreeBSD kernel experts too)
Where did I get that passport? Another poster said it better than I can, but the gist is I got a copy of my birth certificate, and then send in a couple photos. I then have a passport in your name.
Seriously, identification is hard. Passwords are forgotten all the time. Everything else is nearly public knowledge. The most common way to get your password back is getting your mother's maiden name. The phising site originally mentioned would have got that as a matter of course. Even if they didn't, many women do not change their last name when they get married. As a last restort, with a little searching you can find it - marriage records are public information (as is the form mom used to change her last name when she got married). All that is required is a little leg work to collect this information.
It isn't worth it if your target doesn't have much money. I'm surprised that rich guys don't have this happen more often. It shouldn't be hard to get info Bill Gate's personal accounts, pulling 1% of his net worth would give you a nice retirement on some remote island.
Most is my guess. I have a good job, but if someone offered me more money I'd leave. I've taken time for pre-interviews. I haven't had an offer yet, but if I get one I'd consider it. I won't say that I'll change jobs, that depends on many factors (money, where they are located, how interesting the work is, how ethical the company is, and some other factors I can't think of right now)
So if I got this message I'd consider filling it out.
Installers were the next app to focus. If you can't install it you can't run it. They could work on one more hack for each app to make it install, but in the long run that just makes for ugly code, and it costs more. Most of the hard code that installers need is also needed by some other app, so by doing this work now they not only get installers to work for all the future apps they focus on, but they eliminate one area where they would have to create some hack to get that other app to work. (and good luck not breaking everything else with that hack)
Focusing on one app at a time might be the right way to go. However installers are an app too, and they are rather fundamental to Windows.
I never said he was using google to search. This is not a internet savvy guy, he was probably using MSN search, from back before microsoft considered searching a market they should compete in. It is unlikely he would know how to turn off any "safe search" features, so his results were likely filtered.
I can't recall FreeBSD saying anything bad about shared libraries. Care to provide some proof?
FreeBSD did not disparage journalled file systems. They said soft updates gave most of the advantages without the cost, and may be faster. For some workloads soft updates are better, for some they are not, but until FreeBSD implemented them nobody knew.
FreeBSD was never against ELF. They just had no need - ELF solved some very real problems in the early versions of Linux, and because it was the standard when the linux developers went to fix those problems (back when linux was only a few years old) they went with ELF at the same time. FreeBSD did linking differently, and didn't have the problems early Linux did. The only reason FreeBSD now uses ELF is the GNU tools support ELF better. Otherwise the old FreeBSD a.out is just as good.
IDE disk drives are still bad. However they are cheap so everyone uses them. (the advantages of SCSI are rarely seen on home machines. High end servers still use SCSI for good reason)
I don't know where you got the idea that FreeBSD ever said anything against X.org, because they never did. The position is We don't care about what X server you run, but the X.org people seem like they might be more responsive to users, and that is a win, so we are going with X.org for all new versions. Because they are conservative about changes in general, they maintain XFree86 for old versions.
Yes. A friend of mine was arguing with his wife, she claimed there was porn all over on the internet, and he called BS as he had never seen it. He then spent 10 minutes on the computer trying to find porn and didn't find anything. His wife eventually pushed him aside and found porn in seconds.
One of the terms he tried was XXX, and he got plenty of sites about XXX beer. I'm not sure what else he got - I don't know his exact query, nor the search engine he used. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a default child safe search checked.
This is a reflection on both him (he is in construction and uses the internet only for weather), and his wife (who loves pron).
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tens of terabytes are fairly cheap these days (as in less than the labor for the tech doing the scanning). How important is that data that you forgot to backup? With $20 million? If so, spending a couple hundred thousand to read it is a good idea. Not as good as just having enough backups of course, but that has been ruled out.
Read the article. It is a Towable Remote Observation vehicle. Not to be confused with the Remotely Operated Vehicle.
In some special cases the courts can go after money already paid. When you are in bankruptcy court there is a order of who gets paid, if you pay someone low on the list before filing bankruptcy, they can take that money back and give it to someone higher on the list to be paid.
I would be very surprised if this happened here, but it could. Lawyers are fairly high on the list of who gets paid.
Who is playing the political games? IT does what the boss tells them to. If you are a typical slashdotter you do not play the political games well. So you should have your boss play them for you, that is his job. Just tell your boss that you need good time, and let him do it.
If you boss won't play those games, think about sending thing up the line. Start asking questions in the company meetings about why IT isn't responding to employee needs. Your point will get across. (Careful here though, this is playing politics, so you need to understand the politics of your question more than the technical content!)
The X and Y registers on the 6502 were called index registers for a reason. Index X to A, and Y to B, and you can not do it in less lines.
My way is slower, but uses less bytes (I can't recall the syntax of 6502 asm, so I'm not going to write it). Since we are talking about a processor that could deal with more than 64K at a time this is a critical concern.
I have used a hammer to drive a screw before. It works much better than you think it would. Not nearly as good as a screwdrive would do the job, but it gets the job done. It may hold better than a nail would (again, not as good as if you had done it right).
In short: you can use the wrong tool for the job, and it might work better than you would think. It is still the wrong tool for the job, so get the right tool if you can.
I always post with my real name. My +1 bonus normally means that the controversial things don't get modded all the way down, and I can burn a little karma. Karma is meaningless, and the next post won't be so controversial and thus when modded up gets me back all the karma I lost.
Which reminds me, I gotta meta-moderate again. Seems every day there is at least one unfair moderation in the list.
I am outside. Just finished supper on my deck, and enjoying the cool of the evening.
Most geeks own a laptop and WiFi (at least most of us done with school), so we can be outside.
Sadly there are no women with me.
the full name is french fried potato's, referring to how they are cooked, not the origion. I have no idea if the French would deep fry potato's, but that is a whole different issue
You are a liar. I have seen 10 year olds on computers. They are better with linux. Same point and click interface, plus the programs they run don't demand administrator, so they never accidently screw up the system or delete mom's files.
On Microsoft Windows their programs only run with administrator. Once they are done with the game they start playing with things, randomly dragging files around until the system won't run. (though XP hides system files, it is an easy click to unhide them - and when playing they might do that)
You 10 year old sister will not be typing those cryptic commands. (well she might, but only if you trust her with root, but lets assume she doesn't care) Everything she wants to do can be done from either the GNOME or KDE desktop.
No, XP is the latest. Linux vendors have learned to spin a new release every 6 months or year. Microsoft ships far more systems, so their marginal cost to ship a new CD with the latest drivers should be less. Microsoft also charges more for XP than most linux vendors. (desktop vendors anyway, enterprize vendors charge more, but then 2003 server is more too)
I refuse to compare anything other than the latest out of the box distributions. It is Microsoft's fault if they are out of date.
As I recall XP SP2 was released early this year. That is the latest version, and there is no excuse for not putting that on the CDs they are shipping.
True, but if you want something better than the Intel extreme graphics (which is adequate at best) you won't be using the Intel chipset anyway.
Most of the GNU developers were using linux, with ELF. They were letting the a.out support get out of date. It was easier in the long run to switch to ELF (which was in general a good thing and the way forward, but not required for any technical reasons) than to keep maintaining a.out in the GNU tools along with the other FreeBSD changes.
FreeBSD supported dynamically loaded libraries in a.out.
I never implied that ELF was developed by Linux. The linux developers could have solved their shared library problems (which were a mess back when linux was just a couple years old) in a.out. However they made the decision (correctly) to solve the problem as part of moving to ELF because ELF was the way they wanted to go in the long run anyway.
Vanilla Konq 3.5 Due to be released in Augest or September.
Why not? They did with Netscape. Remember all the terrible pages that were "best viewed with Netscape"?
Don't forget that the AMD chips have the memory controller built in, while the Intel chips require a separate chip sucking power (normally part of the North Bridge) to do this task.
Sadly I know of nobody who has measured who much the separate memory controller costs in power. Could range from insignificant to nearly as much as the CPU.
In the US they are rarely enforced too. As I understand this case, the guy was working on the MSN search engine. So it is a clear case of competing. Microsoft presumably wouldn't have done anything if he was working on Word and went to Google, but by going from the MSN search engine to Google they think it is too far.
This would be reasonable if companies didn't insist on specific experience. I've been refused jobs because I didn't have linux kernel experience, even though I have FreeBSD kernel experience. If this was commercial software (instead of open source), they could get anything because all Linux kernel experts would be under a non-compete. (and it would apply to FreeBSD kernel experts too)
Where did I get that passport? Another poster said it better than I can, but the gist is I got a copy of my birth certificate, and then send in a couple photos. I then have a passport in your name.
No. Or rather they did, but because they were communist nobody cared to build something any sane person would enter, so practically they didn't.
The above is a joke, for those with no sense of humor.
I forgot my password.
Seriously, identification is hard. Passwords are forgotten all the time. Everything else is nearly public knowledge. The most common way to get your password back is getting your mother's maiden name. The phising site originally mentioned would have got that as a matter of course. Even if they didn't, many women do not change their last name when they get married. As a last restort, with a little searching you can find it - marriage records are public information (as is the form mom used to change her last name when she got married). All that is required is a little leg work to collect this information.
It isn't worth it if your target doesn't have much money. I'm surprised that rich guys don't have this happen more often. It shouldn't be hard to get info Bill Gate's personal accounts, pulling 1% of his net worth would give you a nice retirement on some remote island.
Most is my guess. I have a good job, but if someone offered me more money I'd leave. I've taken time for pre-interviews. I haven't had an offer yet, but if I get one I'd consider it. I won't say that I'll change jobs, that depends on many factors (money, where they are located, how interesting the work is, how ethical the company is, and some other factors I can't think of right now)
So if I got this message I'd consider filling it out.
Installers were the next app to focus. If you can't install it you can't run it. They could work on one more hack for each app to make it install, but in the long run that just makes for ugly code, and it costs more. Most of the hard code that installers need is also needed by some other app, so by doing this work now they not only get installers to work for all the future apps they focus on, but they eliminate one area where they would have to create some hack to get that other app to work. (and good luck not breaking everything else with that hack)
Focusing on one app at a time might be the right way to go. However installers are an app too, and they are rather fundamental to Windows.
I never said he was using google to search. This is not a internet savvy guy, he was probably using MSN search, from back before microsoft considered searching a market they should compete in. It is unlikely he would know how to turn off any "safe search" features, so his results were likely filtered.
I can't recall FreeBSD saying anything bad about shared libraries. Care to provide some proof?
FreeBSD did not disparage journalled file systems. They said soft updates gave most of the advantages without the cost, and may be faster. For some workloads soft updates are better, for some they are not, but until FreeBSD implemented them nobody knew.
FreeBSD was never against ELF. They just had no need - ELF solved some very real problems in the early versions of Linux, and because it was the standard when the linux developers went to fix those problems (back when linux was only a few years old) they went with ELF at the same time. FreeBSD did linking differently, and didn't have the problems early Linux did. The only reason FreeBSD now uses ELF is the GNU tools support ELF better. Otherwise the old FreeBSD a.out is just as good.
IDE disk drives are still bad. However they are cheap so everyone uses them. (the advantages of SCSI are rarely seen on home machines. High end servers still use SCSI for good reason)
I don't know where you got the idea that FreeBSD ever said anything against X.org, because they never did. The position is We don't care about what X server you run, but the X.org people seem like they might be more responsive to users, and that is a win, so we are going with X.org for all new versions. Because they are conservative about changes in general, they maintain XFree86 for old versions.
Yes. A friend of mine was arguing with his wife, she claimed there was porn all over on the internet, and he called BS as he had never seen it. He then spent 10 minutes on the computer trying to find porn and didn't find anything. His wife eventually pushed him aside and found porn in seconds.
One of the terms he tried was XXX, and he got plenty of sites about XXX beer. I'm not sure what else he got - I don't know his exact query, nor the search engine he used. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a default child safe search checked.
This is a reflection on both him (he is in construction and uses the internet only for weather), and his wife (who loves pron).