First off, the parents should have never let them buy the video game. I am not a proponent of the side that says video games make you want to kill. That's not the real issue here. First off, I'd never let my kid play/buy that game. End of story there.
Second, WHY did the kids have access to this rifle? Why was it easy for them to get it and go and start shooting off of a freeway? Guns are nto dangerous unless the people who own them are careless and it sounds like the parents were very careless and they should be the ones to sit and rot in jail or at the very least have the kids taken away for child endangerment. I am not saying the kids should not be punished, but the parentys have to have a hand in this also even unwittingly.
With all that I have said above, it needs to be said.....VIDEO GAMES ARE NOT TRAINING GROUNDS unless your the military and then there is no semblence of realism like there is on a military simulator. Comparing the two is....idiotic.
Now these users may have already read the FAQ but because the FAQ is sometimes wrote by a elitest prick or someone who assumes too much, they are asking the question on the list. People should write documentation like they were writing it for someone who has never seen Linux before and not for someone who is in it everyday. PLUS,if it was not for people wanting to use Linux, you would not HAVE a Linux unless you want to depend on Debian unstable for production and I sure don't. If Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake all die, then all that will be left is Debian and I am sure they won't have their new installer ready by then....of course I could be wrong and it may already be stable (the installer that is). Or if SCO has their way, we may have to wait for HURD to become stable (hah ahhahahahhahhhaaaaa!).
I bought a ScottEVest and I have been immensely happy with the purchase. The only way it looks real geeky is if I am wearing it in the summer with shorts or using it as a vest and even that is not bad. When the sleeves are on it is great. Very non geek. The PAN conduits are a great idea. Almost every pocket has a hole for the pan. Some pockets can be 2 pockets or one pocket depending on your use. My one pocket in the front of the jacket holds both my Walkman (for radio) and my MP3 Player. There's a strip of velcro sealed and it separates the two and prevents them from clanking together. When I want to switch, I pull out the one I want to plug into and pull the plug out of theon still in the pocket, Plug the headphones in, start it and put it back in. I am using regular headphones until I find some COMFORTABLE ear buds. Most buds are either too small or to big. I have found none that are adjustable.
For my GPS, I have a Radio Shack digitraveler and I run it's cable from the pocket near the sholder to the pocket on the front. When I need to use it, all I have to do is pull the iPaq out of the same pocket and plug it in.
There are so MANY pockets that so far most of mine are empty. I have the storage to take almost everything I want with me all of the time except my laptop and I don't always need it. Now all I need is ScotteShorts for the summer!:) It would be VERY hard to make those and have them look non geeky!:)
Now my question for Slashdotters is why are you TRYING to hide taht your a geek? To me, either you are or your not. You can't alter your appearance much to hid eyour tech obsession. That GPS watch just gives it away!:) IN any case, judging from the general public's opinion of the ScottEVest when I was in DC at the International Spy Museum (Very cool place.....check it out if you can...even the store is cool), I'd say she's right. The couple who was in the store in the same section of the store as I was saw the jacket when I was poking at the pockets and such and when I showed them the pan that the guy could hide his earbud for his cellular the WIFE thought it was great! Not just the guy! People want to be able to take their MP3 Player with them but they are leary of belt clips and other accoutrements to hold these. A pocket in a jacket or pair of pants is a much more secure method of carrying around these things. Backpacks all over the place now have holes for the headphone cable to come out of. Until bluetooth comes down to a decent price, cables are the way and some people will STILL want to use the cable because it sounds better or is cheaper. Even then you'd want pockets. Most conventional jackets have like 3 pockets. Only one of those somewhat sealed. People don't want to lug a bag and guys definitely don't want to carry a purse or risk an expensive device flying off the belt clip. The Scottevest and those Levi Dockers with teh extra pockets are very appealing...not just to geeks either. Case in point, the burton amp jacket is just too cool....too bad I don't own a iPod!
FIrst off, a site that isn't kiddie porn being blocked is not the only thing. How in the WORLD are they supposed to keep up with Kiddie Poron perveyors. They are as bad as spammers. Every trick in the spammers book is also in the kiddie porn web master's book. Move ISP's.....multiple ISP's....multiple domains....domains in other countries.....spoofing....
Trying to block anything is near impossible. I wonder...how does Saudi Arabia do this? They have a severely choked inernet pipe thanks to the laws they have in saudi regarding porn and the like. China is also another country with a choked pipe but they concentratr on anti communist web sites and any site they deem detrimental to the ruling government.
I have a Linksys. I love it. The only issues I do have is my Pocket PC's WiFi (two different manufacturers of PPC's had same problem) does not release the DHCP address properly (at least I think....). I occasionally run out of IP's. No big deal...web into the box and release the IP's. My WiFI router is not broadcasting SSID and I am using WEP and MAC address filtering and running a software firewall on the desktop. Not running on the laptop because I only occasionally connect with it and I have not got around to getting the firewall setup since it's connected so rarely and I don't store much thats valuable on it. I'll get it setup one day. Getting around a NAT is not impossible, but it's close enough for my home network.
Take a modified Saturn design, add some tiles or some sort of thermal protection system. Beef up the strictutre with carbon fibers. The end that connects to the capsule can have the heat shield. Have a RCS system that can automatically rotate the stage around and kick off a solid rocket to start it's plunge. It could go pretty damn fast as there's no humans on board. After it's far enough down, pop a parachute out of the rear and float it down to the ocean similar to the SRB's. They could even use LOX and Liquid Hydrogen.
Yes and just because you parachute down does not mean you can't land on terra firma either. That's how the Russia has done it all along. This fact is probably why a few cosmonauts had lost their lives as well!:)
Yes Brianna it is illegal. The RIAA should THINK would Brianna be worth suing? Probably not. She and her parents have no money. I thought it sounded like she lived in HUD housing...I wonder how she got the computer?? Anyway, I ain't saying the RIAA is right in this....what I am saying is how much money do they expect to get in this lets sue hundreds of people thing? It's like the face recognition thing....lets scan everyone and see who we catch. What if a friend instales Kazaa and downloads on your computer and you don't? Crazy.
The submitter says this will make it easier for those who want to do packet radio. You don't need morse to do standard AX.25 packet. It's on the 2m and 70 cm band and a few others that Techs have privledges on. I think what he means to say is use other packet modes like PSK31. PSK31 is a nice mode and can get through noisy band conditions that SSB would be unusable. The government themselves have not been using CW for a while (GW was in office, and was the receiver of the last cw message on a government service. Actually I should say the recipient....he did not decode the message...he had staff for that. CW will live as long as those who love it stay alive, but it will go away.
This is the problem. They should have been prepared for every foreseeable contingency. Sometimes there is no way to fix this. Why was there no MMU or airlock? These should be REQUIRED equipment....for EVERY mission. Be a Boy Scout!:) How many Apollo Astronauts did we loose? 3? This was not even in space...it was on the pad because the idiot who designed the door did not make it so you could get out quickly if you needed too. Apollo 13 had a engineering flaw that caused a O2 tank to explode. The ingenuity of the folks both in orbit and on the ground helped NASA bring these 3 astronauts back. This kind of incident happened again with Columbia. You have to think and try ANYTHING that increases the probability of bringing your crew home. At least you could have said you tried! The NASA culture since Challenger has evolved into one that wants to minimize risks at all costs. This is approach does not allow innovation unless it cuts risk or costs. Ask any astronaut if they'd go up TOMORROW. Almost all would enthusiatically shout YES! No matter whether they fixed the spacecraft or not. Alas, the culture of NASA currently does not let innovation happen if humans are at risk. The culture of business in general does not let this happen either. Space is a frontier. All frontiers that have been conquered in the past were conquered with great risk. Space is no different. Sure, you test the idea before risking a human, but if one test works and you think it's safe and the human who is next in line thinks it is, then what is the problem. I am ALL for making spacetravel safe but it's always going to have risk.
These managers are not realy to blame. Looing at the report, it, to me, is distressing that the money budgeted to NASA over the years has gone DOWN! Way down. The expectations for money spent, especially in times such as these, has gone up. Unfortunately for NASA and lots of others (IS Folks included) when we say we need X amount of days to do this safely or right WE MEAN IT!
Case in point.....where I work we are in the midst of completely replacing a mainframe system with one based on UNIX. They expected to get the whole thing crammed in and working in a year. This is a much more comprehensive system then our current one and you also want to have all of the data you have accumulated in 30+ years of operation. Sure, some data is not needed that long but how would you like to tell the guy who wants to take a programming course who had already been doing it for many years that he had to take College level Algebra again because his record was lost? You don't. But the luddites in other areas think you can BELIEVE what a vendor tells you and be able to get a system converted in a year. A System that took 20 years of development (over time). Not going to happen.
Same thing happens at NASA. They EXPECT the shuttle to do things it was not really intended and to last longer then it was designed to last and this simply can't be done. It can be extended for a time, but that time can't keep moving out. The US needs to put MORE into space as it's the key to knowing where we came from. Space is also going to be the most likely place where our demise would be met. Not knowing what is out there is our drive to go explore. Finding things that are important to know also is a pleasant surprise.
I find it strange that Boeing is looking at capsules again. Maybe it is our answer for keeping things safe? I don't know. One thing that still kind of baffles me is that they have yet to study a replacement for the TPS that has a higher tolerance for impact damage and that has less seams. Are TPS systems for spacecraft still stuck in the 60's? Apparantly they are!
Next week we'll hear from the Weekly World News that the end of the world is near and that Bat Boy is the antichrist. Just going to the link for the Sun posted in this article proves to me it's just like the American version....total crap. Besides, even if it was true, how would you account for no GPS reception and VALID reasons for swerving onto the berm like if you were about to hit someone or someone was going to hit you?
There not. I guess what I should have said is why do all Linux distros say you can't unmount the disk when your current working directory is with in the volume your trying to unmount? I mean yeah it makes sense to me and all of the others, but when oh when will Linux just ask or give you an option to unmount it no matter what. I mean there is force, but why could it not, by default, just unmount it and spit you back to the parent directory of the volume or to your own home directory? Especially on a removable disk? Windows won't let you copy the files with open file handles even though you, as a user, don't care if you get every update to the file. I mean you would not have called for copying it if you did not want to right? I understand enforcing somethings for integrity of the file system but tell the user why...don't just not do it ans leave the user dumbfounded! SO, the actions are not the same, but the way the system works is essentially when looking at these two things. It's doing soemthing without telling the user the why behind it. Yeah yeah I know your geeks and already know, but some folks do not! If Linux truely wants the desktop, it should be able to have an idiot mode to help the user along until they don't need it then it gets shut off.)
This isn't just a Windows thing. Try unmounting a volume from Linux when your current working directory is in what your trying to unmount. Same deal, to me.
I have had many CD's that have worked for 5 + years. These are the ones that I only use every once in a while and are kept in jewel cases. The ones where I just burn like say a driver for a network card on a computer that is not on the network yet or other things sneaker netted over I could care less about. My backup for my data that I really need/want is on my Nomad Zen. But I do have several CD's that are pretty old and the data is fine. These articles are pretty small, so I would not put much faith in them. Now if someone else did a truely scientific stufy on them and found this (charts and all) I could possibly pout more faith in it. To those who thing it should be possible to mistreat a cd and expect it to be readable, you have GOT to be kidding!
Have to agree. Xerox makes the best TRUE network printers. PLus you can't beat having your printout stapled neatly for you. Their muleifunction departmental size ones are great. If you don't need the scanner, faxing and copying functions, try a Docuprint 75. These have a Sun Workstation as a controller (blade 150). It can have MULTIPLE queues and you can set up each drawer with a different kind of paper. They understand PCL, Postscript and thier own language (which is postscript based) called VIPP. With a database mode VIPP job, you can feed the printer a comma delimited file with a couple extra lines tagged at the top to tell Xerox what config it wants and then create a letter with variable data on it. You can also have it check a field and print one paragraph for one state and another for the opposite state. In Line mode, you can take something that normally prints in the bottom of the page and print it at the top. You can take a line that only went out once and duplicate it. VIPP is very powerful and very useful if your modifying a software package's output to fit your forms (Iam doing this now). Plus since VIPP is based on postscript, it's fairly open compared to anything else Xerox did and you can use postscript commands right next to VIPP commands. I don't know if they have a multifunction printer that supports VIPP but I do know that some Xerox Phasers can understand VIPP (Textronix redesigned by Xerox since they bought them) as well. Xerox is unparalleled in TRUE network printing and getting them working in Linux is a snap. Just send PCL or Postscript and you'll do fine!
We had some storms roll through our area in June and some folks in our aarea were out of power for 4 days! 4 DAYS! New York and several other cities are out for MAYBE 24 hours and it's a disaster?? Must we dwell on it? Can't we wait for the final report? This happened THURSDAY and we're STILL hearing about it....
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Now I agree, it was kind of a big deal. Yeah, someone probably screwed up. What good are we as a country if we act like we can't live without power for a day? Every hear of batteries? Ever hear of ice? I mean stores throwing our hundreds of pounds of meat because they did not have the foresight of having a generator? (most stores do around my house). Also, having a back up generator is no good if you don't test it. So make sure you test that cutover....TODAY! And do it every six months. Make sure that generator can fire up when you need it. In any case, yeah, someone screwed up. SHould we dedicate entire shows on it? Nah.
Noone ever said it was crap cuz it doesn't run X named free software. What we are saying is it HAS to run this type of stuff and if it does not, and at a better price point then say IBM, well, it's of no use! Also, just because it can run things like Java does not mean we'll buy it just to run Java code. Why do this when we can run it ontop of another server (Linux or otherwise)? There's no reason to buy a sevrer for this type of job when a older, slower production server that was just repurposed can work just as well. The apps have to be developed. There has not been anything developed to run on these Xserves save serving up desktops and file sharing. Once someone develops a big name product on these, then we'll talk.
First, assuming Smartphone is like any other Microsoft os is stupid. Smartphone is of course based on the same os that runs Windows Mobile 2003. I have NEVER had a blue screen because there's no such thing on the platform. I have never had a crash take the whole device down either. It's much more robust and boots rather fast so a soft reset is bound to not annoy too much (although when your testing some unstable code to make things like a USB to Serial cable work on a Toshiba e740, it's kind of hairy!:) ). Smartphone has been reported to have problems. Non of these are verifiable to the US market because NOONE HAS THESE YET! By the time these are finally available, T-Mobile will end up being king of GPRS in the states because they have a 29.99 unlimited plan (or 19.99 with a voice plan). So your fear of having a several hundered dollar GPRS bill because of a worm is unfounded. BTW, Smartphone and WM 2003 are pretty locked down. No services run that are open all of the time. Sure, e-mail works so port 25 is open, but the e-mail program can't even understand html let alone the outlook virus code stuff. The e-mail client works best with straight text (e-mail should have never ventured into html or ActiveX code either).
And here's the real answer why the Xserve is not selling. Doesn't matter if it's cool...it HAS TO RUN THE APPLICATION! If it can't run PeopleSoft, Oracle and other apps of this nature it's nothing. Plus I have tried running a client for our client server app in virtual pc and it does work....the speed is S...L...O...W! The Mac user inquestion thought it was fine, but I thought how was he going to do any work on it? The CS app is slow as it is (We did not write it....a vendor did), to have it slower then it is on a PC is just nightmarish. This is why the Mac does not sell. I'd Love to netboot Maqcs for the critical areas, but it ain't happpening.
First, don't fix your friends computers. I support no computer that I have not built, bought or reccomended. I won't fix friends computers. This is what PConcall and other businesses are for. I have a life and I have friends....friends who don't take advantage of my to fix every computer related issue they come across.
Second, You said: "And patching all of my servers didn't prevent it!!" and then said "NONE of my work or home machines were affected because they were either already patched or sufficiently hardened so that the vulnerability was already neutralized.". If all of your stuff was patched and it was not stopped, then you missed something there hmm?
Am I supposed to feel sorry for you because you ran your ass ragged? I mean I am so sorry that it happened, but I don't feel for ya bud! YOU are the one who "volunteered" to fix friends computers. Again, I have limits. My priority when I am not at work is spending time with my family. I do have other things, but family thigns come first and family things don't mean hey would you come and fix the virus on my computer. Me friends and family have an understanding about this. I am so sorry yours do not. Oh and I was nto affected and I was patched and I never saw the thing. Personally, I think the thing is being way overblown on the news. I mean how many OTHER days have computers gone down but it wasn't a worm that did it but it was idiocy? How come that does not make the news?
Yeah. Plus there are clauses like not paying for floods and other acts of god...in the US they figure the feds will help them and they are right. Wish that insurance companies would go back to simpler contracts and just pay when there's a loss. Right now it's bilking us out of our money and that ain't right.
Mission critical stuff is always backed up somewhere in the hospital and most hospitals I have been to stored everything ON PAPER as well. When the computer was not up, they used the paper. Patient systems rarely use a computer as well. They may use somethign embedded, but if they do it's not on the network and noone has access to it. Patient records are all that's usually stored on the system (and thats backed up by the chart at the nurses station). The risk of someone actually loosing a life to this is minimal. There more likely to loose a life because of some nurse accidently leaving a metal cart or O2 tank in the MRI facility (this happened....patient was killed) or some other goofy mixup like that.
Amen to that! We have users in other areas with CDPD modems for getting to the internet from off campus yet they spend half the time sitting in their office(the modems). The ones who really need it (the admins) don't get it. Also, the users see ads or the cool box sitting on the shelf and say oooh we must have and they buy it with their budget and we're stuck without a server. I still am not totally clear why the FCC deployed a open WiFi network in DC. Did they need it? No. Do they benefit from it? Possibly. When the person at my work (the president) that can most afford a car of their own gets one provided by the company yet we can't even get a rental car when we go out of town(unless it comes out of OUR pocket), well, that sucks.
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First off, the parents should have never let them buy the video game. I am not a proponent of the side that says video games make you want to kill. That's not the real issue here. First off, I'd never let my kid play/buy that game. End of story there.
Second, WHY did the kids have access to this rifle? Why was it easy for them to get it and go and start shooting off of a freeway? Guns are nto dangerous unless the people who own them are careless and it sounds like the parents were very careless and they should be the ones to sit and rot in jail or at the very least have the kids taken away for child endangerment. I am not saying the kids should not be punished, but the parentys have to have a hand in this also even unwittingly.
With all that I have said above, it needs to be said.....VIDEO GAMES ARE NOT TRAINING GROUNDS unless your the military and then there is no semblence of realism like there is on a military simulator. Comparing the two is....idiotic.
Now these users may have already read the FAQ but because the FAQ is sometimes wrote by a elitest prick or someone who assumes too much, they are asking the question on the list. People should write documentation like they were writing it for someone who has never seen Linux before and not for someone who is in it everyday. PLUS,if it was not for people wanting to use Linux, you would not HAVE a Linux unless you want to depend on Debian unstable for production and I sure don't. If Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake all die, then all that will be left is Debian and I am sure they won't have their new installer ready by then....of course I could be wrong and it may already be stable (the installer that is). Or if SCO has their way, we may have to wait for HURD to become stable (hah ahhahahahhahhhaaaaa!).
I bought a ScottEVest and I have been immensely happy with the purchase. The only way it looks real geeky is if I am wearing it in the summer with shorts or using it as a vest and even that is not bad. When the sleeves are on it is great. Very non geek. The PAN conduits are a great idea. Almost every pocket has a hole for the pan. Some pockets can be 2 pockets or one pocket depending on your use. My one pocket in the front of the jacket holds both my Walkman (for radio) and my MP3 Player. There's a strip of velcro sealed and it separates the two and prevents them from clanking together. When I want to switch, I pull out the one I want to plug into and pull the plug out of theon still in the pocket, Plug the headphones in, start it and put it back in. I am using regular headphones until I find some COMFORTABLE ear buds. Most buds are either too small or to big. I have found none that are adjustable.
:) It would be VERY hard to make those and have them look non geeky! :)
:) IN any case, judging from the general public's opinion of the ScottEVest when I was in DC at the International Spy Museum (Very cool place.....check it out if you can...even the store is cool), I'd say she's right. The couple who was in the store in the same section of the store as I was saw the jacket when I was poking at the pockets and such and when I showed them the pan that the guy could hide his earbud for his cellular the WIFE thought it was great! Not just the guy! People want to be able to take their MP3 Player with them but they are leary of belt clips and other accoutrements to hold these. A pocket in a jacket or pair of pants is a much more secure method of carrying around these things. Backpacks all over the place now have holes for the headphone cable to come out of. Until bluetooth comes down to a decent price, cables are the way and some people will STILL want to use the cable because it sounds better or is cheaper. Even then you'd want pockets. Most conventional jackets have like 3 pockets. Only one of those somewhat sealed. People don't want to lug a bag and guys definitely don't want to carry a purse or risk an expensive device flying off the belt clip. The Scottevest and those Levi Dockers with teh extra pockets are very appealing...not just to geeks either. Case in point, the burton amp jacket is just too cool....too bad I don't own a iPod!
For my GPS, I have a Radio Shack digitraveler and I run it's cable from the pocket near the sholder to the pocket on the front. When I need to use it, all I have to do is pull the iPaq out of the same pocket and plug it in.
There are so MANY pockets that so far most of mine are empty. I have the storage to take almost everything I want with me all of the time except my laptop and I don't always need it. Now all I need is ScotteShorts for the summer!
Now my question for Slashdotters is why are you TRYING to hide taht your a geek? To me, either you are or your not. You can't alter your appearance much to hid eyour tech obsession. That GPS watch just gives it away!
FIrst off, a site that isn't kiddie porn being blocked is not the only thing. How in the WORLD are they supposed to keep up with Kiddie Poron perveyors. They are as bad as spammers. Every trick in the spammers book is also in the kiddie porn web master's book. Move ISP's.....multiple ISP's....multiple domains....domains in other countries.....spoofing....
Trying to block anything is near impossible. I wonder...how does Saudi Arabia do this? They have a severely choked inernet pipe thanks to the laws they have in saudi regarding porn and the like. China is also another country with a choked pipe but they concentratr on anti communist web sites and any site they deem detrimental to the ruling government.
I have a Linksys. I love it. The only issues I do have is my Pocket PC's WiFi (two different manufacturers of PPC's had same problem) does not release the DHCP address properly (at least I think....). I occasionally run out of IP's. No big deal...web into the box and release the IP's. My WiFI router is not broadcasting SSID and I am using WEP and MAC address filtering and running a software firewall on the desktop. Not running on the laptop because I only occasionally connect with it and I have not got around to getting the firewall setup since it's connected so rarely and I don't store much thats valuable on it. I'll get it setup one day. Getting around a NAT is not impossible, but it's close enough for my home network.
Hmm.....my idea.....
Take a modified Saturn design, add some tiles or some sort of thermal protection system. Beef up the strictutre with carbon fibers. The end that connects to the capsule can have the heat shield. Have a RCS system that can automatically rotate the stage around and kick off a solid rocket to start it's plunge. It could go pretty damn fast as there's no humans on board. After it's far enough down, pop a parachute out of the rear and float it down to the ocean similar to the SRB's. They could even use LOX and Liquid Hydrogen.
Yes and just because you parachute down does not mean you can't land on terra firma either. That's how the Russia has done it all along. This fact is probably why a few cosmonauts had lost their lives as well! :)
Yes Brianna it is illegal. The RIAA should THINK would Brianna be worth suing? Probably not. She and her parents have no money. I thought it sounded like she lived in HUD housing...I wonder how she got the computer?? Anyway, I ain't saying the RIAA is right in this....what I am saying is how much money do they expect to get in this lets sue hundreds of people thing? It's like the face recognition thing....lets scan everyone and see who we catch. What if a friend instales Kazaa and downloads on your computer and you don't? Crazy.
The submitter says this will make it easier for those who want to do packet radio. You don't need morse to do standard AX.25 packet. It's on the 2m and 70 cm band and a few others that Techs have privledges on. I think what he means to say is use other packet modes like PSK31. PSK31 is a nice mode and can get through noisy band conditions that SSB would be unusable. The government themselves have not been using CW for a while (GW was in office, and was the receiver of the last cw message on a government service. Actually I should say the recipient....he did not decode the message...he had staff for that. CW will live as long as those who love it stay alive, but it will go away.
This is the problem. They should have been prepared for every foreseeable contingency. Sometimes there is no way to fix this. Why was there no MMU or airlock? These should be REQUIRED equipment....for EVERY mission. Be a Boy Scout! :) How many Apollo Astronauts did we loose? 3? This was not even in space...it was on the pad because the idiot who designed the door did not make it so you could get out quickly if you needed too. Apollo 13 had a engineering flaw that caused a O2 tank to explode. The ingenuity of the folks both in orbit and on the ground helped NASA bring these 3 astronauts back. This kind of incident happened again with Columbia. You have to think and try ANYTHING that increases the probability of bringing your crew home. At least you could have said you tried! The NASA culture since Challenger has evolved into one that wants to minimize risks at all costs. This is approach does not allow innovation unless it cuts risk or costs. Ask any astronaut if they'd go up TOMORROW. Almost all would enthusiatically shout YES! No matter whether they fixed the spacecraft or not. Alas, the culture of NASA currently does not let innovation happen if humans are at risk. The culture of business in general does not let this happen either. Space is a frontier. All frontiers that have been conquered in the past were conquered with great risk. Space is no different. Sure, you test the idea before risking a human, but if one test works and you think it's safe and the human who is next in line thinks it is, then what is the problem. I am ALL for making spacetravel safe but it's always going to have risk.
These managers are not realy to blame. Looing at the report, it, to me, is distressing that the money budgeted to NASA over the years has gone DOWN! Way down. The expectations for money spent, especially in times such as these, has gone up. Unfortunately for NASA and lots of others (IS Folks included) when we say we need X amount of days to do this safely or right WE MEAN IT!
Case in point.....where I work we are in the midst of completely replacing a mainframe system with one based on UNIX. They expected to get the whole thing crammed in and working in a year. This is a much more comprehensive system then our current one and you also want to have all of the data you have accumulated in 30+ years of operation. Sure, some data is not needed that long but how would you like to tell the guy who wants to take a programming course who had already been doing it for many years that he had to take College level Algebra again because his record was lost? You don't. But the luddites in other areas think you can BELIEVE what a vendor tells you and be able to get a system converted in a year. A System that took 20 years of development (over time). Not going to happen.
Same thing happens at NASA. They EXPECT the shuttle to do things it was not really intended and to last longer then it was designed to last and this simply can't be done. It can be extended for a time, but that time can't keep moving out. The US needs to put MORE into space as it's the key to knowing where we came from. Space is also going to be the most likely place where our demise would be met. Not knowing what is out there is our drive to go explore. Finding things that are important to know also is a pleasant surprise.
I find it strange that Boeing is looking at capsules again. Maybe it is our answer for keeping things safe? I don't know. One thing that still kind of baffles me is that they have yet to study a replacement for the TPS that has a higher tolerance for impact damage and that has less seams. Are TPS systems for spacecraft still stuck in the 60's? Apparantly they are!
Next week we'll hear from the Weekly World News that the end of the world is near and that Bat Boy is the antichrist. Just going to the link for the Sun posted in this article proves to me it's just like the American version....total crap. Besides, even if it was true, how would you account for no GPS reception and VALID reasons for swerving onto the berm like if you were about to hit someone or someone was going to hit you?
There not. I guess what I should have said is why do all Linux distros say you can't unmount the disk when your current working directory is with in the volume your trying to unmount? I mean yeah it makes sense to me and all of the others, but when oh when will Linux just ask or give you an option to unmount it no matter what. I mean there is force, but why could it not, by default, just unmount it and spit you back to the parent directory of the volume or to your own home directory? Especially on a removable disk? Windows won't let you copy the files with open file handles even though you, as a user, don't care if you get every update to the file. I mean you would not have called for copying it if you did not want to right? I understand enforcing somethings for integrity of the file system but tell the user why...don't just not do it ans leave the user dumbfounded! SO, the actions are not the same, but the way the system works is essentially when looking at these two things. It's doing soemthing without telling the user the why behind it. Yeah yeah I know your geeks and already know, but some folks do not! If Linux truely wants the desktop, it should be able to have an idiot mode to help the user along until they don't need it then it gets shut off.)
This isn't just a Windows thing. Try unmounting a volume from Linux when your current working directory is in what your trying to unmount. Same deal, to me.
Virtual Desktops are available if you run a powertoy but most users don't need em....contrary to popular linux geek opinion.
I have had many CD's that have worked for 5 + years. These are the ones that I only use every once in a while and are kept in jewel cases. The ones where I just burn like say a driver for a network card on a computer that is not on the network yet or other things sneaker netted over I could care less about. My backup for my data that I really need/want is on my Nomad Zen. But I do have several CD's that are pretty old and the data is fine. These articles are pretty small, so I would not put much faith in them. Now if someone else did a truely scientific stufy on them and found this (charts and all) I could possibly pout more faith in it. To those who thing it should be possible to mistreat a cd and expect it to be readable, you have GOT to be kidding!
Have to agree. Xerox makes the best TRUE network printers. PLus you can't beat having your printout stapled neatly for you. Their muleifunction departmental size ones are great. If you don't need the scanner, faxing and copying functions, try a Docuprint 75. These have a Sun Workstation as a controller (blade 150). It can have MULTIPLE queues and you can set up each drawer with a different kind of paper. They understand PCL, Postscript and thier own language (which is postscript based) called VIPP. With a database mode VIPP job, you can feed the printer a comma delimited file with a couple extra lines tagged at the top to tell Xerox what config it wants and then create a letter with variable data on it. You can also have it check a field and print one paragraph for one state and another for the opposite state. In Line mode, you can take something that normally prints in the bottom of the page and print it at the top. You can take a line that only went out once and duplicate it. VIPP is very powerful and very useful if your modifying a software package's output to fit your forms (Iam doing this now). Plus since VIPP is based on postscript, it's fairly open compared to anything else Xerox did and you can use postscript commands right next to VIPP commands. I don't know if they have a multifunction printer that supports VIPP but I do know that some Xerox Phasers can understand VIPP (Textronix redesigned by Xerox since they bought them) as well. Xerox is unparalleled in TRUE network printing and getting them working in Linux is a snap. Just send PCL or Postscript and you'll do fine!
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We had some storms roll through our area in June and some folks in our aarea were out of power for 4 days! 4 DAYS! New York and several other cities are out for MAYBE 24 hours and it's a disaster?? Must we dwell on it? Can't we wait for the final report? This happened THURSDAY and we're STILL hearing about it....
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Now I agree, it was kind of a big deal. Yeah, someone probably screwed up. What good are we as a country if we act like we can't live without power for a day? Every hear of batteries? Ever hear of ice? I mean stores throwing our hundreds of pounds of meat because they did not have the foresight of having a generator? (most stores do around my house). Also, having a back up generator is no good if you don't test it. So make sure you test that cutover....TODAY! And do it every six months. Make sure that generator can fire up when you need it. In any case, yeah, someone screwed up. SHould we dedicate entire shows on it? Nah.
Noone ever said it was crap cuz it doesn't run X named free software. What we are saying is it HAS to run this type of stuff and if it does not, and at a better price point then say IBM, well, it's of no use! Also, just because it can run things like Java does not mean we'll buy it just to run Java code. Why do this when we can run it ontop of another server (Linux or otherwise)? There's no reason to buy a sevrer for this type of job when a older, slower production server that was just repurposed can work just as well. The apps have to be developed. There has not been anything developed to run on these Xserves save serving up desktops and file sharing. Once someone develops a big name product on these, then we'll talk.
First, assuming Smartphone is like any other Microsoft os is stupid. Smartphone is of course based on the same os that runs Windows Mobile 2003. I have NEVER had a blue screen because there's no such thing on the platform. I have never had a crash take the whole device down either. It's much more robust and boots rather fast so a soft reset is bound to not annoy too much (although when your testing some unstable code to make things like a USB to Serial cable work on a Toshiba e740, it's kind of hairy! :) ). Smartphone has been reported to have problems. Non of these are verifiable to the US market because NOONE HAS THESE YET! By the time these are finally available, T-Mobile will end up being king of GPRS in the states because they have a 29.99 unlimited plan (or 19.99 with a voice plan). So your fear of having a several hundered dollar GPRS bill because of a worm is unfounded. BTW, Smartphone and WM 2003 are pretty locked down. No services run that are open all of the time. Sure, e-mail works so port 25 is open, but the e-mail program can't even understand html let alone the outlook virus code stuff. The e-mail client works best with straight text (e-mail should have never ventured into html or ActiveX code either).
And here's the real answer why the Xserve is not selling. Doesn't matter if it's cool...it HAS TO RUN THE APPLICATION! If it can't run PeopleSoft, Oracle and other apps of this nature it's nothing. Plus I have tried running a client for our client server app in virtual pc and it does work....the speed is S...L...O...W! The Mac user inquestion thought it was fine, but I thought how was he going to do any work on it? The CS app is slow as it is (We did not write it....a vendor did), to have it slower then it is on a PC is just nightmarish. This is why the Mac does not sell. I'd Love to netboot Maqcs for the critical areas, but it ain't happpening.
First, don't fix your friends computers. I support no computer that I have not built, bought or reccomended. I won't fix friends computers. This is what PConcall and other businesses are for. I have a life and I have friends....friends who don't take advantage of my to fix every computer related issue they come across.
Second, You said: "And patching all of my servers didn't prevent it!!" and then said "NONE of my work or home machines were affected because they were either already patched or sufficiently hardened so that the vulnerability was already neutralized.". If all of your stuff was patched and it was not stopped, then you missed something there hmm?
Am I supposed to feel sorry for you because you ran your ass ragged? I mean I am so sorry that it happened, but I don't feel for ya bud! YOU are the one who "volunteered" to fix friends computers. Again, I have limits. My priority when I am not at work is spending time with my family. I do have other things, but family thigns come first and family things don't mean hey would you come and fix the virus on my computer. Me friends and family have an understanding about this. I am so sorry yours do not. Oh and I was nto affected and I was patched and I never saw the thing. Personally, I think the thing is being way overblown on the news. I mean how many OTHER days have computers gone down but it wasn't a worm that did it but it was idiocy? How come that does not make the news?
Yeah. Plus there are clauses like not paying for floods and other acts of god...in the US they figure the feds will help them and they are right. Wish that insurance companies would go back to simpler contracts and just pay when there's a loss. Right now it's bilking us out of our money and that ain't right.
Mission critical stuff is always backed up somewhere in the hospital and most hospitals I have been to stored everything ON PAPER as well. When the computer was not up, they used the paper. Patient systems rarely use a computer as well. They may use somethign embedded, but if they do it's not on the network and noone has access to it. Patient records are all that's usually stored on the system (and thats backed up by the chart at the nurses station). The risk of someone actually loosing a life to this is minimal. There more likely to loose a life because of some nurse accidently leaving a metal cart or O2 tank in the MRI facility (this happened....patient was killed) or some other goofy mixup like that.
Amen to that! We have users in other areas with CDPD modems for getting to the internet from off campus yet they spend half the time sitting in their office(the modems). The ones who really need it (the admins) don't get it. Also, the users see ads or the cool box sitting on the shelf and say oooh we must have and they buy it with their budget and we're stuck without a server. I still am not totally clear why the FCC deployed a open WiFi network in DC. Did they need it? No. Do they benefit from it? Possibly. When the person at my work (the president) that can most afford a car of their own gets one provided by the company yet we can't even get a rental car when we go out of town(unless it comes out of OUR pocket), well, that sucks.