Hmm, I bet that "free" information cost a newspaper buyer at least 50 cents U.S. in New York. Just because you come in on a web browser doesn't mean that information is just "free".
But also, the registration is free, but that helps them get demographics to help get advertising which is how newspapers have operated since the beginning of time or at least modern times.
Just remember that advertising has paid for the newspaper and magazine industry, not subscribers or daily buyers. Their payments probably don't even cover the cost of paper.
Um, that would be DEFCON 1 (total nuclear war), DEFCON 5 is complete peace (and as far as I know, we have never been at DEFCON 5, but I could be wrong)
The craziest thing I ever did for something was to look at the list of winners and as the conference was closing down, I quickly went and registered a name tag with one of the peoples name's who had won yet had not claimed their prize and claim the gear in their place. I got a free Palm III ( new at the time ) that way.:-)
But the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (also known as GAAP) have been around for a LONG time. Not just since the recent accounting problems showed their face as the poster implies.
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The only thing I disagree with you there is having to be raised "with religion" to be a good person. I don't buy it. As long as your parents taught you decent morals, you don *have* to have to religion to be a good person.
And they currently have a special for 1U Co-Lo with 100GB/Month and 2 IPs for $50/month. This is a pretty good deal. I have been with them for 2 years and just renegotiated my contract to the new rate. (As my old one just expired) Very, very good. I've had no problems even coming in and just working on my machine. Just let them know you are coming.
The problem is, in the middle of nowhere, your only choice is probably satellite. I live in a fairly metropolitan area, and I can only get Cable Modem to my house. My local bell has decided they don't want to invest in putting in DSL.
I too have ATT BI and I haven't had any of the experiences you are talking about. I have server at a co-lo here in town and I get 12ms avg ping times to it. I never get less than 150KB/s on transfers, no packet loss and no jitter. I am in the middle of the country and even pinging Apple is 53ms avg.
Now, I will agree they have the worst cusomter support ever. But for you, I would call them and have them come test your node. It sounds like your node is hosed. Or that they have massively overloaded it.
Harrison Ford also took this route with the Stars Wars films IIRC...And not just the films, but merchandising as well and it's forever. I think he still gets a cut to this very day.
This is true, but BEA is the largest player in the app server market and many large organizations that currently are betting big on J2EE have a hard time basing their business on free software. You need someone on the hook when things go wrong. You need guarantees.
Have you ever called BEA weblogic support? You practically have to tell them how to solve the problem. I have never really had anything successfully resolved without coming up with the solution myself. Not to mention they make you buy a support contract for every purchase of Weblogic. That means if you have a 4 CPU machine, you need to buy 4 1 year contracts of support that run concurrently. How crazy is that? They are a required purchase, there's no getting out of it.
One of the many reasons we dropped them like a bad habit.
I too love Java. I too hate weblogic and think it is the worst piece of overrated and overhyped software on the planet. Our new preference is Jrun 4.0 (it has quirks, but much better document than JBoss 3.0. At least to me) Lightweight and fast. Runs our stuff in half the time of Weblogic.
And you comments on EJB are pefect. Our project invested heavily into Entity Beans and we paid a nasty price. We ended up having to rewrite large sections to do their own database work ( under the transaction of a Session Bean ) instead of using Entity beans. They are DAMN slow. And by looking at the Entity design, it seems to be built in to be DAMN slow. We have pretty much gone with just Session beans to do transactions for us and do everything with the database ourselves. That way tou can do a million inserts or updates in a second or 2 instead of hours using techniques not available with Entity Beans.
The organization I work for has just dumped weblogic in favor of Jrun mostly because Weblogic was too bloated and needs to be restarted too often for the simplest changes (like adding a database connection). Not to mention its price. At $15k/CPU, it's a bit pricey and Jrun does all of it at a much lower resource footprint and less restarts (actually, not many at all) for only $1k/CPU.
If you were like me and wondered if after the OpenSSL upgrade that you actually patched everything right, you can compile and run this program to find out:
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/advisories/openssl- ss lv2-master/openssl-sslv2-master.c
It will connect to your HTTPS server and check it. Unfortunatly, it won't connect to SSH. It helped me make sure I was patched up at least for apache.
And I have never quite understood why the advisory says to recompile your apps as well. If they are using the Shared Library, where the problem actually exists, then they get the upgrade by default. Now, if you had some static compiles, then sure.
I too am an early adopter. And the mailing list (especially recently since the push for 1.0) has really shown how hard the different distros make it for companies like TheKompany. According to them, Mandrake used KDE 3.0-rc instead of the final KDE 3.0 and it has caused some conflicts for them packaging it up. And as for myself, I use the source version of Kapital, but I haven't been able to test it because I can't get Korelib (one of their standard libs they use) to compile with gcc-3.1. So it is truly an Herculean effort to make things work on the Linux desktop.
You are completely right, people drag out senseless emtional things to get other people to do things. Classic sales technique. I for one am sick and tired of "America the Beautiful" being played before a movie starts. I love my country, but what real good is playing a silly crappy remake of that song doing before I watch a movie filled with violence?
I can attest to this example. It happened to me. The cable company said I owed them a receive even though I had a receipt showing I turned it in. I finally had to go to their office and show them the receipt and they promptly cleared my credit report. But it was their clerical mistake and my credit rating took a hit for it and I have no legal recourse that I am aware of.
I know this is a bit off topic, but it is an example where you are guilty until proven innocent.
That is true in Windows 2000 because it is installed by default. If you will notice, you also have a scheduled tasks folder too. But on NT 4.0 it is not and you have to install at least either IE 5.0 or higher to get it. They have removed all the IE 4.0 installers.
Yeah, I noticed that one too. My other favorite is when I debug a Javascript error with Visual Interdev, Office 2000 wants to install something...I have no idea what. And sometimes, but not always, when doing a "Find Files" in Windows 2000, Office 2000 wants to install something...again I have no idea what.
To keep the rambling going, if you install Visio 2000, it adds a stupid little toolbar to all the Visual Studio products that basically just launches Visio. And if you hide it, it only stays hidden for that session. Open Studio again and there it is staring at you. Only way to get rid of it is to hack it out of the registry.
If you want the "Scheduled Tasks" folder in My Computer, you have to install Internet Explorer...Since when has the equivilent of cron needed a web browser to work?
One small point about Certified Letters. No matter if you sign for it or not, once the USPS drops it off at your house, it is considered not only delivered, but also read. I had to deal with this when we kicked some parents out of a hockey rink. They refused the letter, but it was still held that they had read it. Granted, the USPS isn't supposed to give the letter to anyone except to whom it is addressed, so I too am guessing that we aren't hearing all of the story.
Pbur
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You're right, he seemed to be updating the page when I posted because at the time an "rc" link existed but didn't go anywhere. RML is good like that.:)
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Hmm, I bet that "free" information cost a newspaper buyer at least 50 cents U.S. in New York. Just because you come in on a web browser doesn't mean that information is just "free".
But also, the registration is free, but that helps them get demographics to help get advertising which is how newspapers have operated since the beginning of time or at least modern times.
Just remember that advertising has paid for the newspaper and magazine industry, not subscribers or daily buyers. Their payments probably don't even cover the cost of paper.
As far as I know, I don't think the general public can...but I will ask some military friends if it's available.
Um, that would be DEFCON 1 (total nuclear war), DEFCON 5 is complete peace (and as far as I know, we have never been at DEFCON 5, but I could be wrong)
The craziest thing I ever did for something was to look at the list of winners and as the conference was closing down, I quickly went and registered a name tag with one of the peoples name's who had won yet had not claimed their prize and claim the gear in their place. I got a free Palm III ( new at the time ) that way. :-)
But the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (also known as GAAP) have been around for a LONG time. Not just since the recent accounting problems showed their face as the poster implies.
The only thing I disagree with you there is having to be raised "with religion" to be a good person. I don't buy it. As long as your parents taught you decent morals, you don *have* to have to religion to be a good person.
And they currently have a special for 1U Co-Lo with 100GB/Month and 2 IPs for $50/month. This is a pretty good deal. I have been with them for 2 years and just renegotiated my contract to the new rate. (As my old one just expired) Very, very good. I've had no problems even coming in and just working on my machine. Just let them know you are coming.
The problem is, in the middle of nowhere, your only choice is probably satellite. I live in a fairly metropolitan area, and I can only get Cable Modem to my house. My local bell has decided they don't want to invest in putting in DSL.
I too have ATT BI and I haven't had any of the experiences you are talking about. I have server at a co-lo here in town and I get 12ms avg ping times to it. I never get less than 150KB/s on transfers, no packet loss and no jitter. I am in the middle of the country and even pinging Apple is 53ms avg.
Now, I will agree they have the worst cusomter support ever. But for you, I would call them and have them come test your node. It sounds like your node is hosed. Or that they have massively overloaded it.
Pbur
Harrison Ford also took this route with the Stars Wars films IIRC...And not just the films, but merchandising as well and it's forever. I think he still gets a cut to this very day.
This is true, but BEA is the largest player in the app server market and many large organizations that currently are betting big on J2EE have a hard time basing their business on free software. You need someone on the hook when things go wrong. You need guarantees.
Have you ever called BEA weblogic support? You practically have to tell them how to solve the problem. I have never really had anything successfully resolved without coming up with the solution myself. Not to mention they make you buy a support contract for every purchase of Weblogic. That means if you have a 4 CPU machine, you need to buy 4 1 year contracts of support that run concurrently. How crazy is that? They are a required purchase, there's no getting out of it.
One of the many reasons we dropped them like a bad habit.
I too love Java. I too hate weblogic and think it is the worst piece of overrated and overhyped software on the planet. Our new preference is Jrun 4.0 (it has quirks, but much better document than JBoss 3.0. At least to me) Lightweight and fast. Runs our stuff in half the time of Weblogic.
And you comments on EJB are pefect. Our project invested heavily into Entity Beans and we paid a nasty price. We ended up having to rewrite large sections to do their own database work ( under the transaction of a Session Bean ) instead of using Entity beans. They are DAMN slow. And by looking at the Entity design, it seems to be built in to be DAMN slow. We have pretty much gone with just Session beans to do transactions for us and do everything with the database ourselves. That way tou can do a million inserts or updates in a second or 2 instead of hours using techniques not available with Entity Beans.
The organization I work for has just dumped weblogic in favor of Jrun mostly because Weblogic was too bloated and needs to be restarted too often for the simplest changes (like adding a database connection). Not to mention its price. At $15k/CPU, it's a bit pricey and Jrun does all of it at a much lower resource footprint and less restarts (actually, not many at all) for only $1k/CPU.
Pbur
Ok, /. put an extra space in the URL after "openssl-ss". I will make a link URL:
The Link
If you were like me and wondered if after the OpenSSL upgrade that you actually patched everything right, you can compile and run this program to find out:
- ss lv2-master/openssl-sslv2-master.c
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/advisories/openssl
It will connect to your HTTPS server and check it. Unfortunatly, it won't connect to SSH. It helped me make sure I was patched up at least for apache.
And I have never quite understood why the advisory says to recompile your apps as well. If they are using the Shared Library, where the problem actually exists, then they get the upgrade by default. Now, if you had some static compiles, then sure.
Pbur
Obviously, you have never had a hard drive head crash through the platter. That was a crash for me...But otherwise, most hardware doesn't "crash". :-)
I too am an early adopter. And the mailing list (especially recently since the push for 1.0) has really shown how hard the different distros make it for companies like TheKompany. According to them, Mandrake used KDE 3.0-rc instead of the final KDE 3.0 and it has caused some conflicts for them packaging it up. And as for myself, I use the source version of Kapital, but I haven't been able to test it because I can't get Korelib (one of their standard libs they use) to compile with gcc-3.1. So it is truly an Herculean effort to make things work on the Linux desktop.
Pbur
To quote George Carlin:
"Fuck the children!"
You are completely right, people drag out senseless emtional things to get other people to do things. Classic sales technique. I for one am sick and tired of "America the Beautiful" being played before a movie starts. I love my country, but what real good is playing a silly crappy remake of that song doing before I watch a movie filled with violence?
Pbur
It's at www.texasnocall.com. Just signed up the other day. Pbur
I can attest to this example. It happened to me. The cable company said I owed them a receive even though I had a receipt showing I turned it in. I finally had to go to their office and show them the receipt and they promptly cleared my credit report. But it was their clerical mistake and my credit rating took a hit for it and I have no legal recourse that I am aware of.
I know this is a bit off topic, but it is an example where you are guilty until proven innocent.
Pbur
That is true in Windows 2000 because it is installed by default. If you will notice, you also have a scheduled tasks folder too. But on NT 4.0 it is not and you have to install at least either IE 5.0 or higher to get it. They have removed all the IE 4.0 installers.
Pbur
Yeah, I noticed that one too. My other favorite is when I debug a Javascript error with Visual Interdev, Office 2000 wants to install something...I have no idea what. And sometimes, but not always, when doing a "Find Files" in Windows 2000, Office 2000 wants to install something...again I have no idea what.
To keep the rambling going, if you install Visio 2000, it adds a stupid little toolbar to all the Visual Studio products that basically just launches Visio. And if you hide it, it only stays hidden for that session. Open Studio again and there it is staring at you. Only way to get rid of it is to hack it out of the registry.
Ok, I am done now.
Pbur
If you want the "Scheduled Tasks" folder in My Computer, you have to install Internet Explorer...Since when has the equivilent of cron needed a web browser to work?
Pbur
One small point about Certified Letters. No matter if you sign for it or not, once the USPS drops it off at your house, it is considered not only delivered, but also read. I had to deal with this when we kicked some parents out of a hockey rink. They refused the letter, but it was still held that they had read it. Granted, the USPS isn't supposed to give the letter to anyone except to whom it is addressed, so I too am guessing that we aren't hearing all of the story.
Pbur
You're right, he seemed to be updating the page when I posted because at the time an "rc" link existed but didn't go anywhere. RML is good like that. :)