"You have to wonder how current EDS customers who are attached to their non HP hardware and software will feel about this when EDS suddenly has a massive bias to drive every nail with an HP hammer."
If they're EDS customers already, they probably can't find there arse with both hands and won't care if they're shipped a system which doesn't work, whether it's built on Dell/HP/whatever - Her Majesty's Government, I'm looking at you.
Today on Big Brother: Winston finally comes to love Big Brother and then gets shot in the back of the head. The rest of the housemates fight over how to divvy up his possessions.
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a windfarm on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the best windfarm in all of Denmark.
Hmmm... where's BadAnalogyGuy when you need him? OK, look, blocking ping is like saying that you've seen a guy killed by an Isuzu truck, so you think you can prevent all fatal accidents by banning Isuzu trucks from the highway.
Ooh, ooh, and turning off all ICMP, hence killing PMTU discovery, is like taking the number off your front door to stop your house getting burgled and then wondering why you aren't receiving as much snail mail as you used to.
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I'm pretty sure someone who's celibate can tell people to fuck off :)
Can I just say to the contrary, if someone wants to pay me money to run Linux games, I'm open to reasonable offers.
He's a Good Bloke(tm).
She thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.
Note to Microsoft: Never try to out-stubborn a cat... or the EU.
A tourist is wandering down Whitehall and seems to be looking for something. He asks a policeman, "Excuse me, which side is the Foreign Office on?"
The policeman looks confused. "Er, ours I think."
Why do you hate America?
If they're EDS customers already, they probably can't find there arse with both hands and won't care if they're shipped a system which doesn't work, whether it's built on Dell/HP/whatever - Her Majesty's Government, I'm looking at you.
Inconceivable!
Load balancing is where you actually check the load and then make an informed decision about where to allocate the work.
OK, rant over. Now back to your scheduled programming.
Today on Big Brother: Winston finally comes to love Big Brother and then gets shot in the back of the head. The rest of the housemates fight over how to divvy up his possessions.
David is lead on the Czech Honeynet Project - http://www.honeynet.cz/?mmenu=home&smenu_int=0&lang=en&vmetr=1
and $4500 for having to live in Galveston, TX.
400MB HDD at Frys: $300
getting it into orbit: fucking expensive.
dumb slashdot comment entirely missing the point: priceless.
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a windfarm on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the best windfarm in all of Denmark.
Everyone knows it was Philip Morris, the guy who makes the cigarettes.
Next week: RIAA sues little girl, offers to blend pet kitten in part settlement.
(book by Dowd, McDonald, Schuh) is well worth a look: http://taossa.com/index.php/author/mark/
No, it's true. LAX is so crap than 9 out of 10 terrorists prefer to transit SFO instead.
Apparently the National Security Letters are 'F', 'U', 'C', 'K' and 'U'.
1. When moving between buildings in BT Labs, Martlesham Heath (now Adastral Park?) we couldn't keep the same internal phone numbers.
2. That's all.
1. Sell the company stock short
2. Leak
3. Profit !!
(May involve forfeiture of your immortal soul, prison time and other side effects.)
Great! I can carry on casting time_t to a 32 bit integer now, and put in a comment: // we'll all be dead, so don't worry about it.
Where does this leave spamhaus v. e360 though?
Hmmm... where's BadAnalogyGuy when you need him? OK, look, blocking ping is like saying that you've seen a guy killed by an Isuzu truck, so you think you can prevent all fatal accidents by banning Isuzu trucks from the highway.
Ooh, ooh, and turning off all ICMP, hence killing PMTU discovery, is like taking the number off your front door to stop your house getting burgled and then wondering why you aren't receiving as much snail mail as you used to.