Half of whole point of a subscription to RHEL is to ensure that patches they put out are properly QAed. The other side is support, but I never had a chance to test that part out.
Writing this from a Mac Pro dual quad 3ghz. Macbook pro here have a lot of issues. It can't take abuse. We have 3 of them sitting waiting to be sent back. For the investment I expect more. I fully agree with the above above poster. Rate of failure seems higher to me too from personal experience. And I trust that more than independent studies that are not done over long period of time.
Electricity wise that's just plain not efficient. There was a story posted here a while back about how Hollywood studios were having the same issue. This is what these disc are good for long term storage. Well stored DVDs can last 20 years or more. Hard Drive will seize and stop working long before that and flopping data over to new hardware every 10-15 years isn't cheap.
Well, by sending information of yourself to YouTube, you entered the US. Are you suggesting that if you stood just west of the Russofinnish border and shot someone just east, you would be completely safe from prosecution because the murder occurred in Russia and you never went into Russia?
Cause google doesn't have data centers in foreign countries?
I really want a linux phone. It's pretty cheap at 300$. One thing bothers me, do providers allow random phones to be used on there network? Do some cellular providers block phones that they don't approve off?
Even a document from someone you trust can't be trusted yet the risk is outweighed by the speed benefit of email. Maybe the state department should go to text only email with no attachments. Copy pasting documents into emails mught help mitigate future attacks.
The fact that a simple Word document can cause such a big problem is really sad. How can you tell a few thousand of people not to open word document attachment? I mean, where I work, users receive tons of documents (pdf, office, autocad) files by email from vendors and such, I guess the only defense is good email filtering but still a 0-day attack would make that useless.
They could always go to Quebec. Cheap Hydro electricity. Cheapest in north America and lots of cheap land. ( they could by themeselves a piece of land the size of texas for almost nothing.)
Well, the British military wants to have the source code to there software. I guess we the common folks should do the same and require our software to be open and free from what ever device the coporation have inserted into our software to control us.
Nic
P.S Oh well I'm way too political for 12:45 pm. I should probably shut up.
yep and with the aquisition of that Web Office compagny the are going to buid one hell of a office suite.(Can't remeber the name right now) This looks like a all out assault at Microsoft. I like it. Google has the power to fight Microsoft on this one. Only thing is I don't know how I would like all my personal and work stuff to be hosted on a remote machine. I guess Google servers a little more secure than my personal computer. But hey I really wonder how long it will take before corporate espionage stories come out of this.
ut I don't agree with the 'sink or swim' school of learning, most CS students I knew in college just sank unless they had some experience already.
I have to admit you are right about this. I think solution would be to find a student that had some experience before. I help a lot of my friends in there courses. Sometimes teachers expect the student to think about solutions that are extremely unobvious. In the end unless you had to do it before finding the solution is usually hard and students need help. Tutoring them is the best way. Just not make it to easy for them is good.
I like tutoring it's fun and seriously, it's the best way to study.
Nic
I second that, Python is easy on the beginers but, I still think that to make a good programmer you need to teach him/her 2 languages. C first and then Python. The reasoning behind this is that C teaches a lot of basic (easy and complex ) things such a variable and memory, functions, types, stucture, control flow.... It shows new programmers a lot of concepts that are part of the majority of languages (Even just a Subset of features). After new programmers have done it the hard way, Python is great to start talking about OOP, Data structures, Algorithm... Since it's a pretty quick to code most things in python and that it removes the major pain of memory management, it allows for quick and easy learning of some more complex topic like those I have just mentioned. Finally I say that learning C and Python will allow most to learn any other language in a short period of time. It makes well rounded people. Java is also quite nice for beginers. But C and Python are just more usefull together. They fit in more places.
Nic
It might be great to get bug fixes in a matter of hours but no sys admin in there right mind should apply patches that are untested unless they don't mind having hoards of users after wanting to kill them. Vendor patches from Microsoft and OSS companies take longer to be released since they have to guarantee it won't break anything. Compagnies like the safaty of having someone to blame if stuff goes to hell.
I'm a big advocate of OSS and all but applying random patches is just careless and stupid. At least wait until you distro releases it themselves. (Supposing you have a decent distro)
What makes you think that the software that runs on winXP will still work on Vista ? Seriously, major changes between vistan and XP will certainly cause many incompatibilities. Also the interface has much changed between the two. People will still have a good learning curve to overcome.
Also 99% of windows probably do not all own a fairly decent machine. XP is 5 years old now. Boxes that ran windows XP 5 years ago probably will make Vista look very slughish. Does who don't have the graphic capabilities will not see the new Interface "improvements" either. For them, the low graphics people, the advantages of Vista will not be very explicit.
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We have three. None of them run DNS :). Description: XSan, XSan head and webserver. The previous admin was a fan. I don't know why.
Half of whole point of a subscription to RHEL is to ensure that patches they put out are properly QAed. The other side is support, but I never had a chance to test that part out.
Writing this from a Mac Pro dual quad 3ghz. Macbook pro here have a lot of issues. It can't take abuse. We have 3 of them sitting waiting to be sent back. For the investment I expect more. I fully agree with the above above poster. Rate of failure seems higher to me too from personal experience. And I trust that more than independent studies that are not done over long period of time.
Don't think it's the last time we see this guy lobbying for the elimination of xyz. Just a little bump in the road.
Electricity wise that's just plain not efficient. There was a story posted here a while back about how Hollywood studios were having the same issue. This is what these disc are good for long term storage. Well stored DVDs can last 20 years or more. Hard Drive will seize and stop working long before that and flopping data over to new hardware every 10-15 years isn't cheap.
Well, by sending information of yourself to YouTube, you entered the US. Are you suggesting that if you stood just west of the Russofinnish border and shot someone just east, you would be completely safe from prosecution because the murder occurred in Russia and you never went into Russia?
Cause google doesn't have data centers in foreign countries?
stop posting on slashdot then
I really want a linux phone. It's pretty cheap at 300$. One thing bothers me, do providers allow random phones to be used on there network? Do some cellular providers block phones that they don't approve off?
Even a document from someone you trust can't be trusted yet the risk is outweighed by the speed benefit of email. Maybe the state department should go to text only email with no attachments. Copy pasting documents into emails mught help mitigate future attacks.
The fact that a simple Word document can cause such a big problem is really sad. How can you tell a few thousand of people not to open word document attachment? I mean, where I work, users receive tons of documents (pdf, office, autocad) files by email from vendors and such, I guess the only defense is good email filtering but still a 0-day attack would make that useless.
They could always go to Quebec. Cheap Hydro electricity. Cheapest in north America and lots of cheap land. ( they could by themeselves a piece of land the size of texas for almost nothing.)
They obviously wanted to spice up such a boring news day ;0)
CNN does this all the time.
And a Service Pack does not come with many added features ? I mean compare Windows XP SP1 and SP2 and you will see a major difference.
Or less. If Microsoft execs were so good, Why would slashdot bash a them so much. Oh wait I get it now ;-)
How about rebuilding it and putting it on the chips. But then again what is to say there are no hardwire device to shut off the planes
Well, the British military wants to have the source code to there software. I guess we the common folks should do the same and require our software to be open and free from what ever device the coporation have inserted into our software to control us.
Nic P.S Oh well I'm way too political for 12:45 pm. I should probably shut up.
yep and with the aquisition of that Web Office compagny the are going to buid one hell of a office suite.(Can't remeber the name right now) This looks like a all out assault at Microsoft. I like it. Google has the power to fight Microsoft on this one. Only thing is I don't know how I would like all my personal and work stuff to be hosted on a remote machine. I guess Google servers a little more secure than my personal computer. But hey I really wonder how long it will take before corporate espionage stories come out of this.
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I think he was trying to be sarcastic. Nic
Sure I understand your point. I just think that a person who learn Python first will have a hard time getting around this:
int x;
float y;
Maybe I don't give enough credit to new programmers but I just find that understanding that behind the simple statement
x = 5
in python there is such a thing as memory location and a little understanding of where the 5 goes and of what a type is.
Anyways you make a good argument. Maybe introducing C first is a little harsh and will scare many when they hit there first segfault.
Nic
I second that, Python is easy on the beginers but, I still think that to make a good programmer you need to teach him/her 2 languages. C first and then Python. The reasoning behind this is that C teaches a lot of basic (easy and complex ) things such a variable and memory, functions, types, stucture, control flow.... It shows new programmers a lot of concepts that are part of the majority of languages (Even just a Subset of features). After new programmers have done it the hard way, Python is great to start talking about OOP, Data structures, Algorithm... Since it's a pretty quick to code most things in python and that it removes the major pain of memory management, it allows for quick and easy learning of some more complex topic like those I have just mentioned. Finally I say that learning C and Python will allow most to learn any other language in a short period of time. It makes well rounded people. Java is also quite nice for beginers. But C and Python are just more usefull together. They fit in more places. Nic
It might be great to get bug fixes in a matter of hours but no sys admin in there right mind should apply patches that are untested unless they don't mind having hoards of users after wanting to kill them. Vendor patches from Microsoft and OSS companies take longer to be released since they have to guarantee it won't break anything. Compagnies like the safaty of having someone to blame if stuff goes to hell.
I'm a big advocate of OSS and all but applying random patches is just careless and stupid. At least wait until you distro releases it themselves. (Supposing you have a decent distro)
Nic
AltaVista is still pretty strong. There Video search is pretty good. Google has a better one now but AltaVista had it earlier. Nic
This hole has never been fixed. Simply because it dosen't want too.
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What makes you think that the software that runs on winXP will still work on Vista ? Seriously, major changes between vistan and XP will certainly cause many incompatibilities. Also the interface has much changed between the two. People will still have a good learning curve to overcome. Also 99% of windows probably do not all own a fairly decent machine. XP is 5 years old now. Boxes that ran windows XP 5 years ago probably will make Vista look very slughish. Does who don't have the graphic capabilities will not see the new Interface "improvements" either. For them, the low graphics people, the advantages of Vista will not be very explicit. Nic