Wrong. In the US, there are 4 timezones in the lower 48 states:
Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific, going from GMT-5 to GMT-8. When you add in Alaska and Hawaii, there are two more, Alaska and Hawaii-Aleutian, I don't even want to get into the timezones of the US Territories.
it becomes evident that Mr. Smallwood has plenty of time on his hands to file lawsuits. This seems to put the lie to his claim that he is unable to function.
Because I've heard the exact same thing from people who actually believe it and have done it at their job. It is a comment made by a young, inexperienced person (I can't call them an administrator) who doesn't have the experience to understand the problems with doing this.
I used to compile kernels, but stopped. There is no way that I, as a single administrator, can perform all the necessary testing to assure that there aren't any kernel problems. So now I don't, but now I get 100% uptime instead. I prefer the uptime to the performance.
Huh? You are running unreleased kernels, you _admit_ that you have "data corruptions issues" and you claim "rock stable"?
What idiot runs beta kernels on production servers? I'm glad you aren't working for me, because I'd fire your ass for doing this.
Production servers are NOT the place to run beta kernels.
And you are complaining because your company is going with Windows "because of a few outages"? How do you know that it wasn't a kernel bug triggered by that hardware configuration? Your laptop has different hardware than your servers, you simply cannot assume that since it runs fine on your laptop that it will also be fine on the server.
People like you annoy me. "Most performance" does NOT equal good business. The most important thing to a business is total reliability. Play with the new stuff on a test system, not on a production system
Childs was stupid. But, he knowingly withheld the information from his superiors.
His bosses were stupid. The IT department was stupid.
Being stupid is not against the law, but what Childs did was (as determined by the jury).
4 months of testimony cannot be boiled down to a 15 minute interview, let alone a 2 page article on a web site.
You are all quibbling about the term "Denial of Service". In this case, he denied access to the network to people who might have needed it. As a result, he forced the city to incur significant expenses in shutting down their VPN and reissuing passwords to everyone.
This whole thing should have been handled differently. Given how it was, and Childs actions, I will have to listen to the jury because they were the ones who sat through the 4 months of testimony
So why do you continue with Ubuntu? Not to knock Ubuntu, but have you ever tried some of the others? Fedora comes to mind, as well as Suse.
There are over 2000 different Linux distributions, so obviously someone will fault me for not mentioning their favorite. But my point still stands, if you have troubles all the time, try another.
Ummm, no. It all depends on where the router is, how high it is, and what is in the way.
For example, if you put the transmitter on the top floor of a 2 1/2 story house (attic), that wifi signal can be seen up to 1/2 mile away.
I remember one time when I was in California, on a hillside overlooking a city. My laptop was able to see over 2 dozen networks, and this was with a laptop with a poor antenna.
You have a skewed idea of how things are "supposed" to work. In _your_ mind, it may be supposed to work one way. But the whole idea of "social networking" is that it is PUBLIC. It is supposed to work however each user uses it. This also includes REPEATING what is read on one site on other sites.
I'm sorry if it doesn't work the way _you_ intended to use it.
You don't need a tape library. Just get a single tape drive, and you will be able to store everything on 3-6 tapes. Yes, you will have to swap tapes by hand, but it is a lot cheaper.
LTO-4 stores 800 gig per tape, uncompressed. If you let the tape drive do the compression, you might even be able to get away with one or two tapes. Tapes are inexpensive, and are designed for long term storage.
Which current working directory? Don't forget that is Unix/Linux you can have many terminals open, each in a different directory. So how is OO going to know which terminal to use?
I think they made a decision which works. Besides, in many other programs on Linux, they behave the same way. Think of it as if you are cd'ing to a directory when you open a file. In this case, it is working as you ask.
The following article Linux Watch details a couple of old SCO systems which did the same thing.
Now, before you slam SCO, remember that before 1995 SCO wasn't "The SCO Group" which is infamous for the lawsuit. Back then SCO make some damn fine systems. I had a 80286 system running 32 users for one customer, at a time when Microsoft said it was impossible. That was running SCO Xenix, which was the first good Unix port to the PC.
The net isn't everywhere. Sometimes people use the computer/netbook in places where there is no network access. So what is going to happen in these cases? It sounds like to me that those people will be SOL, unless they were savvy enough to have installed OpenOffice themselves.
I use Ubuntu professionally, as well as CentOS & Fedora. By constantly changing the application mix they will discourage people from using Ubuntu because of future incompatibilities.
In the first place, the Patriot missiles were only partially successful. Since they weren't intended for the purpose of defending large areas, that is acceptable, and they've been improved since them. But the Patriot missiles are a short range defense.
There have been previous successful tests. A simple google search turned up the following:
First off, let me say that I use Ubuntu 9.10 on my system at work. I am also running CentOS on servers, various Ubuntu on servers and a couple of Fedora systems. As you can see, I have experience with all of them.
So why is this review useless? Because they are testing development systems, which are not optimized, have loads of debugging flags set, and essentially are not ready for prime time. Of course it may be running slower!
IMHO, you should ignore benchmarks until the release candidates, at least. I generally ignore benchmarks on unreleased systems. I do, however, like to read and learn about new features which may be present in early releases.
I always hear and see people who throw out, get rid of, and replace perfectly good, working equipment, just because it isn't the newest and latest.
Where I'm working right now, they are aware of this. We are building and using systems built on the older, slower Celeron technology, becuase it's inexpensive, has a proven track record, and simply does the job. Sure, a faster system will do the job faster. But what's the difference between getting the job done in 1 second vs a half second?
So rather than ask for it back, why doesn't he offer to buy it back for the same amount that he was paid for it?
This sounds too much like like greed to me.
The choices on the petition are laughable as well. MySQL is already GPL. If Oracle does try to kill it, there is nothing to stop another company from forking it (aren't there several forks already) and providing commercial support & development. Asking Oracle to do work on it, and then release that work for free, is also stupid. Oracle is a company which wants to make money. Why should they develop competition to their main product and then release it for free?
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Wrong. In the US, there are 4 timezones in the lower 48 states:
Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific, going from GMT-5 to GMT-8. When you add in Alaska and Hawaii, there are two more, Alaska and Hawaii-Aleutian, I don't even want to get into the timezones of the US Territories.
Actually, if you would read the entire blog, there is a good photograph of the final airplane design, except without the fancy printing.
For those who are link-challenged, here is a link to the blog entry:
http://projectspaceplanes.com/post/1222772296/weve-finally-decided-on-the-space-plane-design-to
and this is a link to a picture of the airplane itself:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9mhq6XVFB1qdcoh8o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1297285744&Signature=Hvs3kCBFGFbuQYaDS2iMFyR%2BH7k%3D
They aren't melting the snow, although that is one of the side effects. They are using the engines to blow the snow away.
There actually isn't any need for NAT with IPV6. Each public address will have 64000 addresses available to do the equivilent of nat'ing.
All you need to do is download the freeware program: PC-deCrapifier, which does a wonderful job of cleaning up your new computer
When you do the following google search:
craig smallwood honolulu
it becomes evident that Mr. Smallwood has plenty of time on his hands to file lawsuits. This seems to put the lie to his claim that he is unable to function.
Because I've heard the exact same thing from people who actually believe it and have done it at their job. It is a comment made by a young, inexperienced person (I can't call them an administrator) who doesn't have the experience to understand the problems with doing this.
I used to compile kernels, but stopped. There is no way that I, as a single administrator, can perform all the necessary testing to assure that there aren't any kernel problems. So now I don't, but now I get 100% uptime instead. I prefer the uptime to the performance.
Huh? You are running unreleased kernels, you _admit_ that you have "data corruptions issues" and you claim "rock stable"?
What idiot runs beta kernels on production servers? I'm glad you aren't working for me, because I'd fire your ass for doing this.
Production servers are NOT the place to run beta kernels.
And you are complaining because your company is going with Windows "because of a few outages"? How do you know that it wasn't a kernel bug triggered by that hardware configuration? Your laptop has different hardware than your servers, you simply cannot assume that since it runs fine on your laptop that it will also be fine on the server.
People like you annoy me. "Most performance" does NOT equal good business. The most important thing to a business is total reliability. Play with the new stuff on a test system, not on a production system
Childs was stupid. But, he knowingly withheld the information from his superiors.
His bosses were stupid. The IT department was stupid.
Being stupid is not against the law, but what Childs did was (as determined by the jury).
4 months of testimony cannot be boiled down to a 15 minute interview, let alone a 2 page article on a web site.
You are all quibbling about the term "Denial of Service". In this case, he denied access to the network to people who might have needed it. As a result, he forced the city to incur significant expenses in shutting down their VPN and reissuing passwords to everyone.
This whole thing should have been handled differently. Given how it was, and Childs actions, I will have to listen to the jury because they were the ones who sat through the 4 months of testimony
So why do you continue with Ubuntu? Not to knock Ubuntu, but have you ever tried some of the others? Fedora comes to mind, as well as Suse.
There are over 2000 different Linux distributions, so obviously someone will fault me for not mentioning their favorite. But my point still stands, if you have troubles all the time, try another.
Ummm, no. It all depends on where the router is, how high it is, and what is in the way.
For example, if you put the transmitter on the top floor of a 2 1/2 story house (attic), that wifi signal can be seen up to 1/2 mile away.
I remember one time when I was in California, on a hillside overlooking a city. My laptop was able to see over 2 dozen networks, and this was with a laptop with a poor antenna.
You have a skewed idea of how things are "supposed" to work. In _your_ mind, it may be supposed to work one way. But the whole idea of "social networking" is that it is PUBLIC. It is supposed to work however each user uses it. This also includes REPEATING what is read on one site on other sites.
I'm sorry if it doesn't work the way _you_ intended to use it.
What you didn't realize is that those "customer survey" calls are usually a hidden marketing call. They have to follow a script, it isn't her fault.
You don't need a tape library. Just get a single tape drive, and you will be able to store everything on 3-6 tapes. Yes, you will have to swap tapes by hand, but it is a lot cheaper.
LTO-4 stores 800 gig per tape, uncompressed. If you let the tape drive do the compression, you might even be able to get away with one or two tapes. Tapes are inexpensive, and are designed for long term storage.
If I could moderate now, this would get a +1 Funny
Which current working directory? Don't forget that is Unix/Linux you can have many terminals open, each in a different directory. So how is OO going to know which terminal to use?
I think they made a decision which works. Besides, in many other programs on Linux, they behave the same way. Think of it as if you are cd'ing to a directory when you open a file. In this case, it is working as you ask.
The following article Linux Watch details a couple of old SCO systems which did the same thing.
Now, before you slam SCO, remember that before 1995 SCO wasn't "The SCO Group" which is infamous for the lawsuit. Back then SCO make some damn fine systems. I had a 80286 system running 32 users for one customer, at a time when Microsoft said it was impossible. That was running SCO Xenix, which was the first good Unix port to the PC.
The net isn't everywhere. Sometimes people use the computer/netbook in places where there is no network access. So what is going to happen in these cases? It sounds like to me that those people will be SOL, unless they were savvy enough to have installed OpenOffice themselves.
I use Ubuntu professionally, as well as CentOS & Fedora. By constantly changing the application mix they will discourage people from using Ubuntu because of future incompatibilities.
Actually, you're wrong.
In the first place, the Patriot missiles were only partially successful. Since they weren't intended for the purpose of defending large areas, that is acceptable, and they've been improved since them. But the Patriot missiles are a short range defense.
There have been previous successful tests. A simple google search turned up the following:
Reuters
Military Defense Agency
Heritage Foundation
Even if they have less than 50%, if they have the largest block then in all likelyhood they will still retain control.
First off, let me say that I use Ubuntu 9.10 on my system at work. I am also running CentOS on servers, various Ubuntu on servers and a couple of Fedora systems. As you can see, I have experience with all of them.
So why is this review useless? Because they are testing development systems, which are not optimized, have loads of debugging flags set, and essentially are not ready for prime time. Of course it may be running slower!
IMHO, you should ignore benchmarks until the release candidates, at least. I generally ignore benchmarks on unreleased systems. I do, however, like to read and learn about new features which may be present in early releases.
I always hear and see people who throw out, get rid of, and replace perfectly good, working equipment, just because it isn't the newest and latest.
Where I'm working right now, they are aware of this. We are building and using systems built on the older, slower Celeron technology, becuase it's inexpensive, has a proven track record, and simply does the job. Sure, a faster system will do the job faster. But what's the difference between getting the job done in 1 second vs a half second?
I agree. I was expecting to read some outrageously funny/sad endings, but these were all.....blah
I don't insult the dead, but sometimes, the manner in which they die can be sadly amusing.
So rather than ask for it back, why doesn't he offer to buy it back for the same amount that he was paid for it?
This sounds too much like like greed to me.
The choices on the petition are laughable as well. MySQL is already GPL. If Oracle does try to kill it, there is nothing to stop another company from forking it (aren't there several forks already) and providing commercial support & development. Asking Oracle to do work on it, and then release that work for free, is also stupid. Oracle is a company which wants to make money. Why should they develop competition to their main product and then release it for free?