Either way the odds of MSFT being able to make Bing/Yahoo the only game in town is pretty much 0%
I wouldn't bet money on that. All Microsoft has to do is make Bing the default search on IE (which they will do, of course). Unless Bing is spectacularly bad, very few people will take the effort to switch, and that'll be it, for Google.
Even the little old ladies know what "Google it" means
True, but when you want to "xerox" a piece of paper, do you require a Xerox brand copier, or will any old copier do?
I actually called my ISP last week and asked if I could get an IPv6 address. They told me Cisco said they won't have to worry about it for at least a couple of years, so they (my ISP) haven't even started thinking about it, yet. I guess they're going to wait until the last IPv4 addresses run out and have a mad rush to assign IPv6 addresses. That'll be fun...
If he's only passing 80Mb/s through to his upstream, then hey, go with Linux. If he's passing 800Mb/s, then he needs serious equipment and shouldn't even consider going with a PC based Linux machine.
I'll agree with you, in principle, but not on the numbers. You can get a decent machine (~2GHz, dual-core, 4GB memory) for less than $1000, today. I'd be surprised if that couldn't handle at least 3-4 gigabits, total throughput. Heck, I'm using a 10-year-old, 350Mhz, Pentium 2 workstation as our Internet router, here at work, and the latency it adds to ping times isn't measurable.
smaller process nodes also produce faster transistors
I was thinking the same thing. In fact, I'd be inclined to believe that, since the resulting chip would be so small, you could actually get it up to a higher clock speed than a current CPU. However, you wouldn't be able to interface it with anything, because you'd never get I/O signals at that frequency off-chip, without ruining them. You'd need to have at least some memory and some type of I/O controller on the same chip, to make it work.
It's probably too late to post this, but seriously? This is Slashdot. Half the people here are trekkers, and you couldn't name Jeffrey Hunter? While I'll admit he wasn't at the same level as, say, Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino, he was certainly on par with people like James Garner or Clint Eastwood - or at least he would have been, had he not died young.
Honestly, I'd bet almost all of you can name the actress who played the green chick, in "Whom Gods Destroy". At least Hunter could act, which is more than you can say for William Shatner.
That sounds like a pretty good solution, but I have to ask: is it multi-user? I'd like to have a unified database of passwords that all our IT people can access, but not all IT people should have access to all passwords. Sure, everyone could have their own database, but if we did that, everyone's database would have to be updated every time there's a password change.
superconductors... will stop working in a moderately strong magnetic field.
If that's the case, I have to wonder about the guys, above, suggesting we should use these for power lines. All you'd need is a kid with a couple of hard drive magnets to bring down a whole power grid. All they'd have to do is tie the magnets together, throw them up to the power line (so they wrap around), and the resistance of that portion of the line would become non-zero. Then, the hundreds of amps of current flowing through that portion of the cable would heat it up (possibly enough to make it explode), melt it, and effectively cut the cable.
It wouldn't be the same. The War against the First Ones only happens once in the entire span of the universe.
Why couldn't they do one set a few thousand years in the future, where there's another up-and-coming race, and we become the "First Ones", or at least the Shadows/Vorlons. It would basically be the same story, from a different perspective. History repeats itself.
I've been to the one in Bozeman. It looks cheesy on the outside, since it's in a strip mall, but it's actually pretty cool. It's also more a museum of information technology, than a computer museum (since it starts out with stone tablets), though they do have a lot of old computer equipment.
Surprisingly, the coolest part isn't the computer equipment; it's the Gutenburg press. They actually have original stock (paper) that, unlike most museums, they allow you to touch. Very cool.
No, for a direct clock speed comparison, those are correct. However, a modern PC processor can do things like a 64-bit integer multiply in a single instruction (and I'm fairly sure a single cycle). The 6502 would require tens (possibly hundreds) of instructions for that type of operation, more for division, and significantly more for floating point. It would depend on the application, so you couldn't quote a single number, but a modern PC is much more than 1117x faster than a 6502.
No offense (since I'm sure you're not the one who made the decision), but when are companies going to stop using VPNs that use odd protocols, like GRE? We use OpenVPN, here. It works great, and only requires UDP, so I can NAT and tunnel it anywhere I want.
Try not to select a solution that stores the files in a database
If you do that, it becomes problematic to back it up. We've got around 10 million documents, taking up about a terabyte, and it takes roughly 4 days to back it up. (We only have to do that once a year, thanks to incrementals, but it's still a pain.) Lots of small files will kill your backup performance, every time.
I'll agree with you, there. I still have a functional DynaMO 640. At the time I bought it, ZIP drives were all the rage, even though the DynaMO held nearly 3 times as much data, for about twice the price. They were also about as fast as a slow hard drive (at the time), while ZIP drives were quite a bit slower.
Sadly, the quality of a product is not nearly as important as the quality of its marketing.
Or create 2 internets - one for windows users, and one for people with a clue.
Actually, I think the best idea is to start fining people, when their computers are found in a botnet. Start the fine small, say $10, then double it for every subsequent occurrence until it gets to $160, or even $320. Once it starts hitting them in their pocketbook, people will either start learning what it takes to secure Windows, or they'll switch to something more secure. Either way, it's a win for Internet security.
If you don't mind me asking, which package are those companies using? It sounds like it's the same as mine. If not, I'd be inclined to believe most claims processing software is garbage. Ours certainly is, even though it's known for being the best available.
Personally, I think it's time we started fining people, when their computers are found in a botnet. Start small at, say, $10, then double it for each subsequent violation, until it reaches $160, or even $320. Then, Microsoft will either have to fix the problem, or people will start using more secure operating systems. Either way, it's a win for the Internet.
Maybe they weren't designed to last that long, but they do, anyway. There are plenty of Apple IIs and TRS-80's out there, still running just fine. I have a 30+-year-old computer, myself, that still works. Granted, it's not 50 years, but it's getting pretty close.
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I wouldn't bet money on that. All Microsoft has to do is make Bing the default search on IE (which they will do, of course). Unless Bing is spectacularly bad, very few people will take the effort to switch, and that'll be it, for Google.
True, but when you want to "xerox" a piece of paper, do you require a Xerox brand copier, or will any old copier do?
Yeah, I still like Civ II the best. After that, the gameplay got too complicated.
Now if I could just get it running on my Vista or Linux machines...
I actually called my ISP last week and asked if I could get an IPv6 address. They told me Cisco said they won't have to worry about it for at least a couple of years, so they (my ISP) haven't even started thinking about it, yet. I guess they're going to wait until the last IPv4 addresses run out and have a mad rush to assign IPv6 addresses. That'll be fun...
I hear this about VS a lot. As someone who has never used it, let me ask, what is it, specifically, about VS that's so great?
I'll agree with you, in principle, but not on the numbers. You can get a decent machine (~2GHz, dual-core, 4GB memory) for less than $1000, today. I'd be surprised if that couldn't handle at least 3-4 gigabits, total throughput. Heck, I'm using a 10-year-old, 350Mhz, Pentium 2 workstation as our Internet router, here at work, and the latency it adds to ping times isn't measurable.
smaller process nodes also produce faster transistors
I was thinking the same thing. In fact, I'd be inclined to believe that, since the resulting chip would be so small, you could actually get it up to a higher clock speed than a current CPU. However, you wouldn't be able to interface it with anything, because you'd never get I/O signals at that frequency off-chip, without ruining them. You'd need to have at least some memory and some type of I/O controller on the same chip, to make it work.
It's probably too late to post this, but seriously? This is Slashdot. Half the people here are trekkers, and you couldn't name Jeffrey Hunter? While I'll admit he wasn't at the same level as, say, Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino, he was certainly on par with people like James Garner or Clint Eastwood - or at least he would have been, had he not died young.
Honestly, I'd bet almost all of you can name the actress who played the green chick, in "Whom Gods Destroy". At least Hunter could act, which is more than you can say for William Shatner.
That sounds like a pretty good solution, but I have to ask: is it multi-user? I'd like to have a unified database of passwords that all our IT people can access, but not all IT people should have access to all passwords. Sure, everyone could have their own database, but if we did that, everyone's database would have to be updated every time there's a password change.
superconductors ... will stop working in a moderately strong magnetic field.
If that's the case, I have to wonder about the guys, above, suggesting we should use these for power lines. All you'd need is a kid with a couple of hard drive magnets to bring down a whole power grid. All they'd have to do is tie the magnets together, throw them up to the power line (so they wrap around), and the resistance of that portion of the line would become non-zero. Then, the hundreds of amps of current flowing through that portion of the cable would heat it up (possibly enough to make it explode), melt it, and effectively cut the cable.
Sounds like a good idea to me!
It wouldn't be the same. The War against the First Ones only happens once in the entire span of the universe.
Why couldn't they do one set a few thousand years in the future, where there's another up-and-coming race, and we become the "First Ones", or at least the Shadows/Vorlons. It would basically be the same story, from a different perspective. History repeats itself.
I'd like to thank the OpenBSD project, as well, but I'd also like to point out a few issues.
OpenSSH still won't work with certificates signed by a CA.
OpenSSH doesn't allow an unencrypted connection (after authentication). Not all CPUs can encrypt/decrypt at 1Gbps.
OpenSSH doesn't work - as advertised - with an exclamation point in a "Match" statement.
Other than that, OpenSSH is possibly one of the most capable and reliable pieces of software I've ever had the privilege to use.
I have mod points, right now, but there isn't a mod for "-1, moron".
There's one still open in Bozeman, Montana.
I've been to the one in Bozeman. It looks cheesy on the outside, since it's in a strip mall, but it's actually pretty cool. It's also more a museum of information technology, than a computer museum (since it starts out with stone tablets), though they do have a lot of old computer equipment.
Surprisingly, the coolest part isn't the computer equipment; it's the Gutenburg press. They actually have original stock (paper) that, unlike most museums, they allow you to touch. Very cool.
Darn it! My mod points just expired.
I'll bet those are off by a fair bit as well.
No, for a direct clock speed comparison, those are correct. However, a modern PC processor can do things like a 64-bit integer multiply in a single instruction (and I'm fairly sure a single cycle). The 6502 would require tens (possibly hundreds) of instructions for that type of operation, more for division, and significantly more for floating point. It would depend on the application, so you couldn't quote a single number, but a modern PC is much more than 1117x faster than a 6502.
No offense (since I'm sure you're not the one who made the decision), but when are companies going to stop using VPNs that use odd protocols, like GRE? We use OpenVPN, here. It works great, and only requires UDP, so I can NAT and tunnel it anywhere I want.
Try not to select a solution that stores the files in a database
If you do that, it becomes problematic to back it up. We've got around 10 million documents, taking up about a terabyte, and it takes roughly 4 days to back it up. (We only have to do that once a year, thanks to incrementals, but it's still a pain.) Lots of small files will kill your backup performance, every time.
I hope you have a lot of donors, because you'll need every one to pay for Raiser's Edge.
MO drives were awesome
I'll agree with you, there. I still have a functional DynaMO 640. At the time I bought it, ZIP drives were all the rage, even though the DynaMO held nearly 3 times as much data, for about twice the price. They were also about as fast as a slow hard drive (at the time), while ZIP drives were quite a bit slower.
Sadly, the quality of a product is not nearly as important as the quality of its marketing.
You think this is funny, but I'm not laughing.
Neither am I. I have friends who are visually impaired, and this will make it impossible for them to use the Kindle, at all.
If anyone's interested, there's a petition you can sign, which will hopefully convince Amazon to change their minds at http://www.readingrights.org/.
Or create 2 internets - one for windows users, and one for people with a clue.
Actually, I think the best idea is to start fining people, when their computers are found in a botnet. Start the fine small, say $10, then double it for every subsequent occurrence until it gets to $160, or even $320. Once it starts hitting them in their pocketbook, people will either start learning what it takes to secure Windows, or they'll switch to something more secure. Either way, it's a win for Internet security.
Wow, I wouldn't have though there were so many languages that way. The system we use was written in a similar language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/B
I know there are several dialects of BASIC out there, with database extensions, too, but they all (like Databus) use ISAM files.
If you don't mind me asking, which package are those companies using? It sounds like it's the same as mine. If not, I'd be inclined to believe most claims processing software is garbage. Ours certainly is, even though it's known for being the best available.
Personally, I think it's time we started fining people, when their computers are found in a botnet. Start small at, say, $10, then double it for each subsequent violation, until it reaches $160, or even $320. Then, Microsoft will either have to fix the problem, or people will start using more secure operating systems. Either way, it's a win for the Internet.
Maybe they weren't designed to last that long, but they do, anyway. There are plenty of Apple IIs and TRS-80's out there, still running just fine. I have a 30+-year-old computer, myself, that still works. Granted, it's not 50 years, but it's getting pretty close.