Right. And while you are at it, put up razor wire around your yard, a new steel door on the front of your house and bar on the windows.
If someone breaks into my house, I'll bust their lip (or call the cops, depending on my mood and their size, skills, and armaments), same goes for my net. I leave my garage unlocked for convenience and I leave my network unlocked for the same reason.
You steal from me and I'll bust your lip.
[I do lock my office and my office wireless network, but they are not monitored like my home.]
No. There is not realistic competition to an application provider for a feature change. I think VMWare should have a built in VNCserver. Who can I pay for that feature other than VMWare?
The process for an application change in the proprietary world and open world is the same:
1. request the change 2. wait (possibly send money) 3. test 4. deploy
The problem with the proprietary model is there is only one organization that is capable of modifying the application for you, then they set the price instead of a fair market price.
s/domestic/consumer/g
For me domestic means in the US; consumer means not a business. For instance domestic sales mean to selling to US entities, not consumer sales.
Joe
[Way off topic, but interesting, no?:-))]
My kids doctor has made multiple house calls to drop of meds and answers questions when we see her at dinner.
All the local doctors behave as you describe, but they work through a large hospital that's has the dumbest billing system. A single check up resulted in 4 different bills: the doctor, the doctor's office lab, the hospital's lab, the the 5 minute meet with the doctor to be told "all systems go".
Any telecommuters looking to relocate to a town like this should check out Winchester, IN. Breakfast at the local counter is $2.69 (this morning was a chease omlet, hash browns, toast and coffee). The corner fountain closes at 5 pm, but the theater is open late on Thursday through Saturday.
Joe
Fix your browser then.
The wildcard match is more like every name you ever look up in the phone book exists, but most of them have the same number and address, which is a answering machine with advertisements indicating that you have the wrong number.
Joe
I don't run XFree86 on my servers. Some of my servers don't even have video cards.
The thing is, I could do more isolation between apps if devices used by one wouldn't crash the other.
Joe
How about, while we are at it, moving some of the drivers to user space to improve stability? I realize that there would be a performce penalty, but in most cases, I relish stability over performance.... I can buy performance.
Joe
Huh? A 1960's car would not drive for 55,000 miles with zero problems like my 2000 has. I think the engine electronics are at least part of that reliability. New International trucks use an ESC for everything from emergency light control to boom control. Due to many fewer physical modifications, reliability is expected to increase. (no more fire engine company splicing truck company wires to make the headlight blink)
Or are you talking about safety. Air bags have quite a bit of electronics associated with them.
Joe
I live here
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=16&x=5 2&y=347&z=16&w=1
If you can't get there knowing where (i.e. third house west of 100 W by 500 N is the third house west of the intersection 1 mile west of town and 5 miles north of town) then you are an idiot.:-)
Then again, I always get lost navigating cities for just that reason.
Joe
In the big picture, who cares that a book lasts for centuries. I care that the information lasts for ever.
Keep the data on live networked file systems and have a maintenance process.
- When drives go bad replace them
- Keep short term backups incase of catastrophic or human failures
- keep hardware up to date
The data from my file systems circa 1991 are still alive, because I continue to keep multiple copies on networks so it is easy to "rsync".
(The 20 MB drive I was using in 1991 is dead by the way, so is the machine, its predicessor, and its predicessor. The next two are still alive, but not my primary machine. See, I have migrated my data with the technology.)
Supporting a secondary market supports the primary market. You are now just sharing the cost of the CD with the original owner. If the primary buyer can count on a secondary market, then the original realized cost is less.
Joe
I wont be testing it until allmods compiles; anything less is a complete waste of my time. I'll report bugs, but I'm not going to modify the kernel, just so I can run a buggy kernel and be told that I put the bugs in there. I have enough instability on my machine.
I'm in a country where I don't expect physical violence when someone threatens "I guarantee you won't like what we're cooking up next". It was a bit of sarcasm.
Then again, relative to parts of Europe (explicite genocide), Africa and Asia, our respect for the individual has limited our violence. (Native Americans died off pretty quickly here, but I don't think that it was the will of the majority. It is "our" fault anyway.) Forced annexation isn't violent, otherwise Indianapolis and Fort Wayne are in a lot of trouble. Forced eemigration can be violent. Which European and Asian powers have we ever instigated violence against?
Having weapons is not violent. You can't argue that ESR having guns makes him a nut by claiming that the US is violent and has nukes. StackOverflowError
I'm also from a part of the country where I don't expect unjustified physical violence like a drive by shooting or mugging (partly because lots of folks carry guns and a mugger will get shot in the back).
I personally have never encountered "gang violence like drive-by shootings, muggings, armed robbery, thrill-killing, killing of people because they are in a neighbourhood with the wrong skin pigmentation, domestic and foreign terrorism". An interesting page of statics can be found at http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvinco.html On a larger scale, the FBI sums up our recent terror attacks as
Terrorist events in this country have included the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, the U. S Capitol, Mobil Oil's corporate headquarters in New York City, and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. More recently, both World Trade Center Buildings and the Pentagon were the targets of a well-planned terrorist attack involving the use of commercial aircraft as flying bombs.
So, over the last 20 years or so, we have less than 3,000 deaths due to terrorism. Last year alone, we lost 43,000 people to auto accidents. Yes. I am more afraid of driving down the street than being killed by a terrorist. duh.
How many "gun nuts" do you know? Everyone I know who is a gun nerd, knows enough to only point the barrel at something they intend on shooting/killing. You must be a democrat.
Can you refer me to something that Eric has shot out of rage?
It's like characterizing all hackers as virus writing 18 year olds living in their parents basement. Most programmer, even with bad tempers don't write viruses; why should a gun nut with a bad temper be considered violent?
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Right. And while you are at it, put up razor wire around your yard, a new steel door on the front of your house and bar on the windows.
If someone breaks into my house, I'll bust their lip (or call the cops, depending on my mood and their size, skills, and armaments), same goes for my net. I leave my garage unlocked for convenience and I leave my network unlocked for the same reason.
You steal from me and I'll bust your lip.
[I do lock my office and my office wireless network, but they are not monitored like my home.]
Joe
No. There is not realistic competition to an application provider for a feature change. I think VMWare should have a built in VNCserver. Who can I pay for that feature other than VMWare?
Joe
The process for an application change in the proprietary world and open world is the same:
1. request the change
2. wait (possibly send money)
3. test
4. deploy
The problem with the proprietary model is there is only one organization that is capable of modifying the application for you, then they set the price instead of a fair market price.
Joe
s/domestic/consumer/g For me domestic means in the US; consumer means not a business. For instance domestic sales mean to selling to US entities, not consumer sales. Joe
Purchase an HP and install RedHat. Attach it to an IBM via a cisco router. Etc. Joe
I would have, but I would have used ndb instead of nfs. You could then proxy over a secure connection. It would have also fixed their swap problem.
Joe
[Way off topic, but interesting, no? :-))]
My kids doctor has made multiple house calls to drop of meds and answers questions when we see her at dinner.
All the local doctors behave as you describe, but they work through a large hospital that's has the dumbest billing system. A single check up resulted in 4 different bills: the doctor, the doctor's office lab, the hospital's lab, the the 5 minute meet with the doctor to be told "all systems go".
Any telecommuters looking to relocate to a town like this should check out Winchester, IN. Breakfast at the local counter is $2.69 (this morning was a chease omlet, hash browns, toast and coffee). The corner fountain closes at 5 pm, but the theater is open late on Thursday through Saturday.
Joe
Fix your browser then. The wildcard match is more like every name you ever look up in the phone book exists, but most of them have the same number and address, which is a answering machine with advertisements indicating that you have the wrong number. Joe
I don't run XFree86 on my servers. Some of my servers don't even have video cards. The thing is, I could do more isolation between apps if devices used by one wouldn't crash the other. Joe
I agree, but can you site example OS's that do this? What do the generic device APIs look like? Joe
How about, while we are at it, moving some of the drivers to user space to improve stability? I realize that there would be a performce penalty, but in most cases, I relish stability over performance.... I can buy performance. Joe
Huh? A 1960's car would not drive for 55,000 miles with zero problems like my 2000 has. I think the engine electronics are at least part of that reliability. New International trucks use an ESC for everything from emergency light control to boom control. Due to many fewer physical modifications, reliability is expected to increase. (no more fire engine company splicing truck company wires to make the headlight blink) Or are you talking about safety. Air bags have quite a bit of electronics associated with them. Joe
All the sudden I feel the need to drink a 7-up.
I live here http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=16&x=5 2&y=347&z=16&w=1
If you can't get there knowing where (i.e. third house west of 100 W by 500 N is the third house west of the intersection 1 mile west of town and 5 miles north of town) then you are an idiot. :-)
Then again, I always get lost navigating cities for just that reason.
Joe
Man... who are you crashing our discussion board never having read Cryptomonicon?! :-))
Joe
What about statically linked releases? Joe
In the big picture, who cares that a book lasts for centuries. I care that the information lasts for ever.
Keep the data on live networked file systems and have a maintenance process.
- When drives go bad replace them
- Keep short term backups incase of catastrophic or human failures
- keep hardware up to date
The data from my file systems circa 1991 are still alive, because I continue to keep multiple copies on networks so it is easy to "rsync".
(The 20 MB drive I was using in 1991 is dead by the way, so is the machine, its predicessor, and its predicessor. The next two are still alive, but not my primary machine. See, I have migrated my data with the technology.)
Joe
Supporting a secondary market supports the primary market. You are now just sharing the cost of the CD with the original owner. If the primary buyer can count on a secondary market, then the original realized cost is less. Joe
Not unless you anticipate the question and build the indexes, otherwise it is just like a find/grep, a full text search.
Joe
The same way that a Ferrari is a copy of a Ford. Linux used parts of Minix for development, but only loosely "copied" Unix (definitely not Minix).
Joe
Sure, but today's programming styles (OO) encourage dynamic memory allocation and non batch oriented processing which are CPU hungery. Joe
That's the problem. It doesn't compile!
I wont be testing it until allmods compiles; anything less is a complete waste of my time. I'll report bugs, but I'm not going to modify the kernel, just so I can run a buggy kernel and be told that I put the bugs in there. I have enough instability on my machine.
Joe
Greece? I forgot about Vietnam. How about Korea? I don't remember them invading us either.
Then again, relative to parts of Europe (explicite genocide), Africa and Asia, our respect for the individual has limited our violence. (Native Americans died off pretty quickly here, but I don't think that it was the will of the majority. It is "our" fault anyway.) Forced annexation isn't violent, otherwise Indianapolis and Fort Wayne are in a lot of trouble. Forced eemigration can be violent. Which European and Asian powers have we ever instigated violence against?
Having weapons is not violent. You can't argue that ESR having guns makes him a nut by claiming that the US is violent and has nukes. StackOverflowError
I'm also from a part of the country where I don't expect unjustified physical violence like a drive by shooting or mugging (partly because lots of folks carry guns and a mugger will get shot in the back).
I personally have never encountered "gang violence like drive-by shootings, muggings, armed robbery, thrill-killing, killing of people because they are in a neighbourhood with the wrong skin pigmentation, domestic and foreign terrorism". An interesting page of statics can be found at http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvinco.html
On a larger scale, the FBI sums up our recent terror attacks as
So, over the last 20 years or so, we have less than 3,000 deaths due to terrorism. Last year alone, we lost 43,000 people to auto accidents. Yes. I am more afraid of driving down the street than being killed by a terrorist. duh.
Joe
How many "gun nuts" do you know? Everyone I know who is a gun nerd, knows enough to only point the barrel at something they intend on shooting/killing. You must be a democrat.
Can you refer me to something that Eric has shot out of rage?
It's like characterizing all hackers as virus writing 18 year olds living in their parents basement. Most programmer, even with bad tempers don't write viruses; why should a gun nut with a bad temper be considered violent?
Joe