It does sound like they're being dickheads - but I can certainly understand that. If it was just one standard MS abrogates, okay - but they have a long, LONG history of implementing things the way that suits them, and the rest of the world be hanged.
I'm involved in the engine room of a fairly large SaaS vendor. For a certain class of applications, it makes sense. For something like WGA, that had no customer upside anyway, it's a bit - well - where's the service? The only possible actions it can perform are "keep computer up" or "take computer down". How sweet is that?!?!? Um... not.
About general reliability of SaaS - the problems in SaaS happen everywhere regardless of them being in-house or not, and if you're a large multi-office corporation, you WILL use some portion of your apps remotely in any event. Our reliability runs to 99.999% uptime over the last three months, and 99.993% uptime year-to-date, on what I'd call modest but not insignificant throughput of 500 million page turns a month. I have servers that have been chugging for 700 days. If it fails - so what? Its failover partner will pickup. I can lose half my infrastructure without affecting availability at all.
SaaS is no different than any other type of enterprise app - if you spend enough money in the right places, you can make it pretty reliable. More reliable than your desktop. More reliable than your single exchange server, certainly. Speed is a legit issue that is largely a by-product of distance to the datacenter and working within the sometimes unnatural constraints of client web-based technology - for pure interactivity, you can do no better than a good desktop app. For a large class of apps, though, SaaS makes sense.
What? What are you talking about? EVERYTHING crashes. MacOS X does (rarely). Linux does (I run 600 servers full bore all the time, yup RHEL 3 and 4 and a few on 5 - though I do get high uptime on them, of course I've seen crashes, on every single kernel I've ever run!).
Be realistic. Honestly, I've not experienced Windows XP crashes that often. Usually once a year, it crashes bad enough to warrant a reinstall - don't know what's up with that). It certainly doesn't crash a couple times a week.
Sort of funny - but only a little. Every time one of these "Women pursuing intellectualism" comes out, so too does slashdot misogyny. I don't really get this. I consider myself a pretty smart guy, and am fairly successful. I know that it would be very difficult for me to get a degree in mathematics, and I applaud Winnie's efforts to make math more accessible to those that might otherwise turn away. *I* haven't published a proof, nor testified before congress, nor written a book that helps spread whatever hard-earned knowledge I have.
I don't think one book, even if it looks like the rest of the teen girl trash rags, is going to overcome a decades of social pressure to avoid being seen as "nerdy." What we really need is to have high schools that don't go out of their way to reinforce the perception that going to state for ****ball is the pinnacle of achievement.
And she says just that in the last paragraph of the interview.
I agree about your thoughts on high school emphasis.
Perhaps it is that some teens are getting less sex because, being at either end of the IQ spectrum, they have more difficulty making connections. I suggest that potential lovers are going to seek people that they feel most comfortable with, and that very wide spectrum between 90 to 110 simply contains more candidates for possible sexual liaisons.
Or maybe it's just the overuse of words like "liaisons".
Another motherboard. No real performance standouts. Usual mix of ports and "more" crap. Marketing nonsense like 12-phase power array. Another review spread in 6 or more pages.
Wake me when something really interesting happens.
Marshall, Will, and Holly on a routine expedition Met the greatest earthquake ever known. High on the rapids it struck their tiny raft, And plunged them down a thousand feet below. To the Land of the Lost.
I've been troubled for years on how generational improvements in computation equipment don't seem to result in improved USER experience. Now, important to realize that in the comparisons selected, we're talking about 1-bit bit-mapped operations on a screen 512x368 in size (from memory - might have botched the Y coord limit). Might be interesting to see what happens on that PC when dropping the display to 640x480 and 256 colors. That'd be a little closer to apples-apples comparison.
I digress. The point is - nothing seems much better in the user experience than before, for the vast majority of things we do - and that includes MacOS X, to my thinking. Nothing that makes me jump up and down and twist and shout anyway. What apps have I added in the last 10 years? Music players. Video players. Browsers. Pretty much it. I wonder where the hell my 4.5 billion clock cycles a second are actually going.
I don't know - computing just doesn't seem very exciting anymore. Help.
I don't agree the blame is with Cisco, not until I see more evidence. Cisco has some of the most stable operating systems. The cmd line interface can sometimes suck, but their stability is very remarkable. The fault I am guessing is with the ISP for not planning network redundancy and not scaling their networks in time. Cisco might look bad in this article, but their track record in creating an OS with less number of bugs is much better than Microsoft, Sun and the others.
I think you need more time with Cisco equipment to see some nasty failure scenarios and various out-of-memory bugs. While overall, networking hardware is a LOT more reliable than general purpose OS - it's my belief that a specialized OS like IOS ought to be more stable than it is. The main problem does appear to be OOM bugs - this experienced on Catalyst 6500s, PIX 535s, Firewall Services modules, and VPN modules.
I find it kind of sad. Yeah, the world probably needs the capitalistic natural selection to move forward, but I'd wish the kids would aspire for something else too, apart from trying to be rich.
Honestly - how about aspiring to TEACH KIDS IN WAYS THEY WANT TO LEARN? There, read his webpage - find out what his intentions are, rather than just making stuff up.
The kid's idea is stupid anyway
If you can impart two or three important concepts in this game, which seems more than likely, you've basically got Super Flashcards. And frankly, just getting kids to KNOW the names of elements is one step to getting them to ask questions about elements. What happened to slashdot's ability to dream? I don't get it, I really don't.
Bottom line is, Anshul Samhar inspires, whereas YOU just piss on the parade.
352 webcams, 253 webcams - which is correct? Impossible to find out with this article, since the referenced article refers to BOTH numbers, just as the summary article and headline on slashdot do! Sheesh.
a) had nothing to do with DNS overloading - the caching mechanisms of most DNS zones take care of that fairly handily. DNS distributes well, and is hardly ever the cause of a DoS. b) I do believe that Intuit knows something about their load - in fact, loads more than the armchair commentators strutting about "bigger server" or "no, MULTIPLE servers!" Intuit is not stupid, they realize well all that's riding on that last day (and February 2nd), and they build enterprise environments in which their software can run. I don't understand the notion that somehow, something can be made that won't break, especially under critical load. Yes, as an enterprise IT architect, you do as much as you can afford to do that will account for your (well-tracked and documented) previous load marks, plus a 50% margin. Idiots waiting until the last minute when the deadline was ALREADY extended I'm sure had a lot to do with how their model failed.
I think my experience is not uncommon. Started off as an integrator - energy and enthusiasm high. Through exposure to cultural stupidity and repeated banging against said stupidity's wall, I've become much more the segmentor - the quality of my life was not improving by giving my all to the company.
I know the place anonymity has on the Internet - but I believe the single greatest source of malfeasance comes from anonymity, both in legitimate forums and in numerous scams. Maybe some rethinking of the way the Internet works is in order. A difficult problem - how to link any particular network transaction (and I'm specifically not thinking of TCP/IP here, because I'm not entirely convinced it can be retooled to represent "packet from Mr. Smith", rather than "packet from device") to an identity. By keeping anonymity, the only "solution" to this issue would be draconian laws that invariably would be abused to punish the victims as much as the tormentors (potential for innocent bystander carnage is large).
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It does sound like they're being dickheads - but I can certainly understand that. If it was just one standard MS abrogates, okay - but they have a long, LONG history of implementing things the way that suits them, and the rest of the world be hanged.
sloth jr
I'm involved in the engine room of a fairly large SaaS vendor. For a certain class of applications, it makes sense. For something like WGA, that had no customer upside anyway, it's a bit - well - where's the service? The only possible actions it can perform are "keep computer up" or "take computer down". How sweet is that?!?!? Um ... not.
About general reliability of SaaS - the problems in SaaS happen everywhere regardless of them being in-house or not, and if you're a large multi-office corporation, you WILL use some portion of your apps remotely in any event. Our reliability runs to 99.999% uptime over the last three months, and 99.993% uptime year-to-date, on what I'd call modest but not insignificant throughput of 500 million page turns a month. I have servers that have been chugging for 700 days. If it fails - so what? Its failover partner will pickup. I can lose half my infrastructure without affecting availability at all.
SaaS is no different than any other type of enterprise app - if you spend enough money in the right places, you can make it pretty reliable. More reliable than your desktop. More reliable than your single exchange server, certainly. Speed is a legit issue that is largely a by-product of distance to the datacenter and working within the sometimes unnatural constraints of client web-based technology - for pure interactivity, you can do no better than a good desktop app. For a large class of apps, though, SaaS makes sense.
sloth jr
What? What are you talking about? EVERYTHING crashes. MacOS X does (rarely). Linux does (I run 600 servers full bore all the time, yup RHEL 3 and 4 and a few on 5 - though I do get high uptime on them, of course I've seen crashes, on every single kernel I've ever run!).
Be realistic. Honestly, I've not experienced Windows XP crashes that often. Usually once a year, it crashes bad enough to warrant a reinstall - don't know what's up with that). It certainly doesn't crash a couple times a week.
sloth jr
Sort of funny - but only a little. Every time one of these "Women pursuing intellectualism" comes out, so too does slashdot misogyny. I don't really get this. I consider myself a pretty smart guy, and am fairly successful. I know that it would be very difficult for me to get a degree in mathematics, and I applaud Winnie's efforts to make math more accessible to those that might otherwise turn away. *I* haven't published a proof, nor testified before congress, nor written a book that helps spread whatever hard-earned knowledge I have.
Smart women rock.
sloth jr
And she says just that in the last paragraph of the interview.
I agree about your thoughts on high school emphasis.
sloth jr
Perhaps it is that some teens are getting less sex because, being at either end of the IQ spectrum, they have more difficulty making connections. I suggest that potential lovers are going to seek people that they feel most comfortable with, and that very wide spectrum between 90 to 110 simply contains more candidates for possible sexual liaisons.
Or maybe it's just the overuse of words like "liaisons".
sloth jr
Dear asshat moderators,
I'll take my hits as appropriate - BUT - how the FUCK is this offtopic? I'm talking about the very subject of the article!!!!
sloth jr
Another motherboard. No real performance standouts. Usual mix of ports and "more" crap. Marketing nonsense like 12-phase power array. Another review spread in 6 or more pages.
Wake me when something really interesting happens.
sloth jr
Marshall, Will, and Holly on a routine expedition
Met the greatest earthquake ever known.
High on the rapids it struck their tiny raft,
And plunged them down a thousand feet below.
To the Land of the Lost.
I've been troubled for years on how generational improvements in computation equipment don't seem to result in improved USER experience. Now, important to realize that in the comparisons selected, we're talking about 1-bit bit-mapped operations on a screen 512x368 in size (from memory - might have botched the Y coord limit). Might be interesting to see what happens on that PC when dropping the display to 640x480 and 256 colors. That'd be a little closer to apples-apples comparison.
I digress. The point is - nothing seems much better in the user experience than before, for the vast majority of things we do - and that includes MacOS X, to my thinking. Nothing that makes me jump up and down and twist and shout anyway. What apps have I added in the last 10 years? Music players. Video players. Browsers. Pretty much it. I wonder where the hell my 4.5 billion clock cycles a second are actually going.
I don't know - computing just doesn't seem very exciting anymore. Help.
sloth jr
I think you need more time with Cisco equipment to see some nasty failure scenarios and various out-of-memory bugs. While overall, networking hardware is a LOT more reliable than general purpose OS - it's my belief that a specialized OS like IOS ought to be more stable than it is. The main problem does appear to be OOM bugs - this experienced on Catalyst 6500s, PIX 535s, Firewall Services modules, and VPN modules.
Honestly - how about aspiring to TEACH KIDS IN WAYS THEY WANT TO LEARN?
There, read his webpage - find out what his intentions are, rather than just making stuff up.
If you can impart two or three important concepts in this game, which seems more than likely, you've basically got Super Flashcards. And frankly, just getting kids to KNOW the names of elements is one step to getting them to ask questions about elements. What happened to slashdot's ability to dream? I don't get it, I really don't.
Bottom line is, Anshul Samhar inspires, whereas YOU just piss on the parade.
Good god, man! Unix administrators?!?!?? Call in the Airstrike!!!
I'm sorry if I'm science stupid - but water doesn't really HAVE a standardized volume per drop, does it? How much is "less than a drop", anyway?
It's simply a filesystem with snapshots. Big deal. It'll only do cool stuff when you tell it to make a snapshot, not every time a file changes.
352 webcams, 253 webcams - which is correct? Impossible to find out with this article, since the referenced article refers to BOTH numbers, just as the summary article and headline on slashdot do! Sheesh.
Why is a sequel something to get thrilled about? How about a TRULY new game from Blizzard?!?
a) had nothing to do with DNS overloading - the caching mechanisms of most DNS zones take care of that fairly handily. DNS distributes well, and is hardly ever the cause of a DoS.
b) I do believe that Intuit knows something about their load - in fact, loads more than the armchair commentators strutting about "bigger server" or "no, MULTIPLE servers!" Intuit is not stupid, they realize well all that's riding on that last day (and February 2nd), and they build enterprise environments in which their software can run. I don't understand the notion that somehow, something can be made that won't break, especially under critical load. Yes, as an enterprise IT architect, you do as much as you can afford to do that will account for your (well-tracked and documented) previous load marks, plus a 50% margin. Idiots waiting until the last minute when the deadline was ALREADY extended I'm sure had a lot to do with how their model failed.
sloth jr
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Who cares if YOUR data is owned, I'm just concerned that your machine isn't used to attack or spam MY machines.
sloth jr
I think my experience is not uncommon. Started off as an integrator - energy and enthusiasm high. Through exposure to cultural stupidity and repeated banging against said stupidity's wall, I've become much more the segmentor - the quality of my life was not improving by giving my all to the company.
... after 20 years, can we please move on a bit? I don't care what you run, really, I don't.
Once again: run whatever the hell you want. I don't care.
I mean jeez - vi versus emacs, anyone? VMS versus Unix? Criminey...
sloth jr
Of course they had have traditional radio capabilities. Every military aircraft does, because they have to interact with civilian air traffic control.
I know the place anonymity has on the Internet - but I believe the single greatest source of malfeasance comes from anonymity, both in legitimate forums and in numerous scams. Maybe some rethinking of the way the Internet works is in order. A difficult problem - how to link any particular network transaction (and I'm specifically not thinking of TCP/IP here, because I'm not entirely convinced it can be retooled to represent "packet from Mr. Smith", rather than "packet from device") to an identity.
By keeping anonymity, the only "solution" to this issue would be draconian laws that invariably would be abused to punish the victims as much as the tormentors (potential for innocent bystander carnage is large).
sloth jr
Note that the referenced article is in error. Applications do not run in a virtual machine. They run within a chroot jail.