Voting machine: You've made your decision then? Me: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. Voting machine: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect. Me: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I? Voting machine: Australia. Me: Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me. ... Me: Argggg!
Good point, these are not Pacific Rim parts-in-a-box clones. These are DL585s. Hot-swapping redundant power supplies, redundant ROM, ECC memory and redundant NICs. These are the boxes that you're supposed to only power-up once, they should run forever.
If you're going to run them hot, it's best to have them outside because when all those fans go high, it's enough to wake the dead.
Yeah, just like all their ATM machines keep spitting out the wrong amount of cash and messing up peoples bank accounts. /sarcasm
We're talking about a company that has thousands of little machines installed all over the county, used 24/7, that hardly ever miss a beat. Yet some people actually believe this company simply didn't have the expertise to code a vote tabulator properly?
Who ever thinks the voting machine fiasco is anything but deliberate is a real Pollyanna.
I feel sorry for McCain because he is so out of touch with current tech. I mean he really does believe that computers have wind-up cranks just like the Victrola in his parlor. So let's help his campaign out and come with some tech-savy ways they could improve their status on the tubes.
Admittedly, I'm not very good with this stuff because I've only read about things like this in books. I mean I've never really done any of these things myself.
1. Use thousands of kited domains and set up fake blogs all extolling his virtues. 2. DOS Obama's site. 3. Google-bombs. 4. Mechanical Turk the right Wikipedia pages.
Vista's customer-hostile emphasis on digital rights management... caused its downfall. IT managers won't stand for that...
Thank you Bruce. I've been saying this since a year before Vista even shipped. Folks complain about a lot of different things in Vista (some of it fairly, I think) but I see most of those "features" as mere pains-in-the-ass that I could begrudgingly live with. What really gets me and why I won't be installing Vista on any servers or desktops at work is the DRM. To me it's reminiscent of the campaign slogan from a few years ago - "It's the DRM Stupid!"
As far as the Apache/MS thing is concerned I thought IIS was mostly used on parked domains, so it's like who cares what they do? But what if Microsoft extended this idea to the desktop O/S? Start with the distro of their liking and build their own UI on top of it. Isn't that what so many of us have been hoping for?
Poor, poor Ramji. I feel so sorry for him. Getting his head cut off and all. Boo Hoo. TFA is pure Microsoft FUD. Yeah, Microsoft is trying to get along with Open Source. Sure.
Microsoft wants to kill Open Source and don't ever forget that.
Hey Ramji, after all your employer has done to promote Open Source like backing SCO and buying off ISO, why don't you just crawl under a rock someplace and quit wasting our air. Just go cash that big check and live in some kind of peace and harmony with your bought-off ass.
Yeah, I had a heart attack recently. You could say I'm from the older SlashDot demographic. 52, not over-weight, just sitting my ass in front of the screen for too many years and some fair amount of heredity. Oh, did I mention smoking?
IANAMP. I Am Not A Medical Professional. But I have learned a lot from the Rehab people.
A. Don't try to do it on your own. Solicit the help of the trained professionals. They know what they are doing just like you know your computer shit. Get my drift?
B. They will tell you to watch your heart-rate. 220 minus your age times 70%, 80% and 90% gives you a range of values to work towards - don't exceed the 90% mark. It's important to get the heart pumping once in a while as it helps to keep your circulatory system operating at it's peak efficiency, but it's also possible to over-do it.
Having a heart attack doesn't necessarily have to change your life, but it could. Maybe for the better as in my case. It's up to you.
Find a nice gym close by and take advantage of their assessment program. Don't wait until it's too late like I did.
The power companies are not just going to let us all start paying them less. Oh they might not notice when it's just you dropping your monthly payment by 85%. But let us install your kind of set up on a majority of the homes in the U.S. and you bet your green ass they will notice and they won't sit for it one second.
We won't see any serious effort to "solarize" the U.S. in the manner you describe until the power companies find a way to get a piece of the action.
I'm not saying that it's right or that it should be this way. I'm just saying it's a reality that has to be reckoned with.
What's on your corp. servers is nothing compared to whats on your coworkers home machines. Try fixing a few of those for a while and you'll quickly develop an intense desire for eye bleach.
In 20 years of working on corp. machines I never encountered what practically jumps out at you when you work on home machines. Now I just tell people my employer won't allow me to work on coworkers home machines.
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In light of the election results, Halliburton has decided to go "legit". In today's episode the part of Moe Greene will be played by the USPTO.
Remember kids, this is Mojave we're talking about. Wake me up when they pull the tilt bit.
You are saying they have removed the Tilt Bit?
If the USA had ANY sense of self preservation we wouldn't have elected Bush - twice.
Voting machine: You've made your decision then?
...
Me: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
Voting machine: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Me: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?
Voting machine: Australia.
Me: Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Me: Argggg!
Yes, according to Wikipeidia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dorn#Hobbies
But it's seldom seen due to the cloaking device.
You don't need a "For Dummies ..." to learn COBOL, it's very simple.
I thought it was hard but that was because the punch cards kept getting bent.
I currently have a child attending U. of Wisc. (/== private). Double your $40,000 and you're getting close. Ignoring her Starbucks card of course.
A.) What was it again that Ayers was convicted of? And what was his sentence?
B.) Here is Bill Ayers CV: http://cryptome.org/ayers-vita.doc - It's 49 pages long. Sounds like he might be a good person to know.
When one of these things has a serious set of boobs.
So the bottom line is that the Abu Dhabi Government is buying AMD?
Good point, these are not Pacific Rim parts-in-a-box clones. These are DL585s. Hot-swapping redundant power supplies, redundant ROM, ECC memory and redundant NICs. These are the boxes that you're supposed to only power-up once, they should run forever.
If you're going to run them hot, it's best to have them outside because when all those fans go high, it's enough to wake the dead.
Nice practice you got there Ray. 'Be a shame if anything happened to it.
Your use of this "offensive" word has deemed you to be a disagreeable person and as such you should be excluded from polite discourse.
Yeah, just like all their ATM machines keep spitting out the wrong amount of cash and messing up peoples bank accounts.
/sarcasm
We're talking about a company that has thousands of little machines installed all over the county, used 24/7, that hardly ever miss a beat. Yet some people actually believe this company simply didn't have the expertise to code a vote tabulator properly?
Who ever thinks the voting machine fiasco is anything but deliberate is a real Pollyanna.
I feel sorry for McCain because he is so out of touch with current tech. I mean he really does believe that computers have wind-up cranks just like the Victrola in his parlor. So let's help his campaign out and come with some tech-savy ways they could improve their status on the tubes.
Admittedly, I'm not very good with this stuff because I've only read about things like this in books. I mean I've never really done any of these things myself.
1. Use thousands of kited domains and set up fake blogs all extolling his virtues.
2. DOS Obama's site.
3. Google-bombs.
4. Mechanical Turk the right Wikipedia pages.
This is going to be a good one.
Excuse me, got to get some popcorn.
and that mouse is worth millions^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ga-zillions to its corporate masters
There, fixed that for ya.
Vista's customer-hostile emphasis on digital rights management ... caused its downfall. IT managers won't stand for that ...
Thank you Bruce. I've been saying this since a year before Vista even shipped. Folks complain about a lot of different things in Vista (some of it fairly, I think) but I see most of those "features" as mere pains-in-the-ass that I could begrudgingly live with. What really gets me and why I won't be installing Vista on any servers or desktops at work is the DRM. To me it's reminiscent of the campaign slogan from a few years ago - "It's the DRM Stupid!"
As far as the Apache/MS thing is concerned I thought IIS was mostly used on parked domains, so it's like who cares what they do? But what if Microsoft extended this idea to the desktop O/S? Start with the distro of their liking and build their own UI on top of it. Isn't that what so many of us have been hoping for?
Poor, poor Ramji. I feel so sorry for him. Getting his head cut off and all. Boo Hoo. TFA is pure Microsoft FUD. Yeah, Microsoft is trying to get along with Open Source. Sure.
Microsoft wants to kill Open Source and don't ever forget that.
Hey Ramji, after all your employer has done to promote Open Source like backing SCO and buying off ISO, why don't you just crawl under a rock someplace and quit wasting our air. Just go cash that big check and live in some kind of peace and harmony with your bought-off ass.
Yeah, I had a heart attack recently. You could say I'm from the older SlashDot demographic. 52, not over-weight, just sitting my ass in front of the screen for too many years and some fair amount of heredity. Oh, did I mention smoking?
IANAMP. I Am Not A Medical Professional. But I have learned a lot from the Rehab people.
A. Don't try to do it on your own. Solicit the help of the trained professionals. They know what they are doing just like you know your computer shit. Get my drift?
B. They will tell you to watch your heart-rate. 220 minus your age times 70%, 80% and 90% gives you a range of values to work towards - don't exceed the 90% mark. It's important to get the heart pumping once in a while as it helps to keep your circulatory system operating at it's peak efficiency, but it's also possible to over-do it.
Having a heart attack doesn't necessarily have to change your life, but it could. Maybe for the better as in my case. It's up to you.
Find a nice gym close by and take advantage of their assessment program. Don't wait until it's too late like I did.
Now, Get off my lawn you youngins!
Ray,
You rock! Great article!
I'm not worthy.
I'm not worthy.
Seriously, I sent the link to both my friends!
t.
The power companies are not just going to let us all start paying them less. Oh they might not notice when it's just you dropping your monthly payment by 85%. But let us install your kind of set up on a majority of the homes in the U.S. and you bet your green ass they will notice and they won't sit for it one second.
We won't see any serious effort to "solarize" the U.S. in the manner you describe until the power companies find a way to get a piece of the action.
I'm not saying that it's right or that it should be this way. I'm just saying it's a reality that has to be reckoned with.
What's on your corp. servers is nothing compared to whats on your coworkers home machines. Try fixing a few of those for a while and you'll quickly develop an intense desire for eye bleach.
In 20 years of working on corp. machines I never encountered what practically jumps out at you when you work on home machines. Now I just tell people my employer won't allow me to work on coworkers home machines.
Now where have I heard that name before?