It's frequently hard the move off a mainframe as it's quite proprietary. And 700K/year is very low in the world of mainframe support. That level of uptime can be had orders of magnitude cheaper with Linux clusters. In the real world of course, you rarely get that uptime because of human error.
Have a look at KSplice. It allows the kernel to be patched dynamically, with no reboot. It's also free to users of Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 but I'm not sure about others. It works nicely from what I've seen so far, and the company was nice enough to answer a few of the questions I had about it. It's great if you really want to avoid reboots.
Activism helps spread the word to others so that their dollars can vote too. It also more aggressively lets companies know that they've done something wrong... sometimes they really don't know unless you tell them.
The funny part is that they tried astroturfing about open software, and have provided a very poor product to exactly the people that would notice. The general public wouldn't care about the quality of a router (and usually not even the features). The general public really doesn't care if a router is open (although the attitude is changing a bit). They targeted these deceptions toward exactly the audience that would find out about them. This sounds like some very poorly informed marketing people thought they could get away with it.
I got my geek card revoked the other day for saying 64K instead of 640 when referring to the same alleged quote. Slashdot is a cold, heartless, unforgiving place. I'm thinking of moving to 4chan.
Wearing a specific type of clothing is a constitutional right? So if I create a religion that dictates I be naked, can I do that at work? (It would certainly stop most peopl efrom bothering me while I work)
Looking at the patches released over the last couple of years (for Linux specifically in my case, but I think it applies to Windows as well), Adobe is pretty much at the top of the list for exploits. It's nice that they release patches, but it scares the crap out of me to have them writing more software of any kind, especially software that's internet facing. They need to have a serious look at refactoring their big projects (especially Flash) for performance and security. If they keep going the way their going, HTML5 is going to eat their lunch.
Cool Dust? Wow, I could have used some of that in high school. This is undoubtedly part of some astronomy group's secret project to get back at the jocks.
Discourage? They shouldn't even have the right to view the content of your data connection, same as your phone calls. You want to listen, get a warrant, same as other communication channels.
Have you ever tried to find information on any of IBMs websites? They seem to be unavailable frequently, and when they're up, they're very difficult to find information on. They seem unfamiliar with the concept of a link. Most of their content seems to be generated from print versions of documents. I like the competition, but I think pretty much anyone else could do a better job.
The boss rarely asks you to pay up on technical debt. It From what I've seen, this is almost exclusively initiated by developers. Things would have to get to the technical bankrupcy level before management would initiate a refactoring effort.
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Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Uranus.
That would be an excellent feature. Perhaps also an option to show it in the list of downloaded files automatically would be good.
He's probably OK. Generally, it only seems to be the French that get offended when it comes to language.
I've always been amazed that tape is trusted as much as it is. It seem (anecdotally at least) to have a disproportionately high failure rate.
It's frequently hard the move off a mainframe as it's quite proprietary. And 700K/year is very low in the world of mainframe support. That level of uptime can be had orders of magnitude cheaper with Linux clusters. In the real world of course, you rarely get that uptime because of human error.
30 years ago the future was whatever IBM said it would be, and Gartner just relayed the information.
Kernel issues still require a reboot.
Have a look at KSplice. It allows the kernel to be patched dynamically, with no reboot. It's also free to users of Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 but I'm not sure about others. It works nicely from what I've seen so far, and the company was nice enough to answer a few of the questions I had about it. It's great if you really want to avoid reboots.
Activism helps spread the word to others so that their dollars can vote too. It also more aggressively lets companies know that they've done something wrong ... sometimes they really don't know unless you tell them.
The funny part is that they tried astroturfing about open software, and have provided a very poor product to exactly the people that would notice. The general public wouldn't care about the quality of a router (and usually not even the features). The general public really doesn't care if a router is open (although the attitude is changing a bit). They targeted these deceptions toward exactly the audience that would find out about them. This sounds like some very poorly informed marketing people thought they could get away with it.
I got my geek card revoked the other day for saying 64K instead of 640 when referring to the same alleged quote. Slashdot is a cold, heartless, unforgiving place. I'm thinking of moving to 4chan.
There is a reason that they call it a 'uniform'.
Wearing a specific type of clothing is a constitutional right? So if I create a religion that dictates I be naked, can I do that at work? (It would certainly stop most peopl efrom bothering me while I work)
Looking at the patches released over the last couple of years (for Linux specifically in my case, but I think it applies to Windows as well), Adobe is pretty much at the top of the list for exploits. It's nice that they release patches, but it scares the crap out of me to have them writing more software of any kind, especially software that's internet facing. They need to have a serious look at refactoring their big projects (especially Flash) for performance and security. If they keep going the way their going, HTML5 is going to eat their lunch.
Cool Dust? Wow, I could have used some of that in high school. This is undoubtedly part of some astronomy group's secret project to get back at the jocks.
"But officer, I was going for funny, not accurate. Yes, sir, I understand .. here's my geek card"
Discourage? They shouldn't even have the right to view the content of your data connection, same as your phone calls. You want to listen, get a warrant, same as other communication channels.
That one can make up for the whole "64K oughta be enough" thing.
If someone owns two new PCs and one only Mac, what does that say about the owner?
Still in the closet?
... it was worth it.
Yeah, go ahead
Or a print server, for those of us that have older (but reliable) non-network printers.
Have you ever tried to find information on any of IBMs websites? They seem to be unavailable frequently, and when they're up, they're very difficult to find information on. They seem unfamiliar with the concept of a link. Most of their content seems to be generated from print versions of documents. I like the competition, but I think pretty much anyone else could do a better job.
They have value if they're useful, whether they're open or closed source, free, or priced outrageously.
You're probably not doing things in the right order. First you get the power, then you get the money, then you get the women.
trying to illegally download music and later discovering later you actually downloaded George Michaels stuff. Wham!
... you've gotta have faith!
Trust people George
The boss rarely asks you to pay up on technical debt. It From what I've seen, this is almost exclusively initiated by developers. Things would have to get to the technical bankrupcy level before management would initiate a refactoring effort.
I would expect that your tendency to burn in sunlight would indicate that you are in fact, a vampire.