Though, the registry setting is still not officially supported. Did you even read the link you mentioned in your post? The entry WAS officially supported for RISC architecture systems way back. From your link:
2001-07-09: I got a reply from someone in Microsoft's Base Kernel Team who got interested in RealTimeIsUniversal and they had a look at the relevant parts of the NT kernel source code. The RealTimeIsUniversal flag is there (a leftover from the days when NT still ran on RISC machines with UTC RTCs), but its implementation seems now incomplete and it is currently not covered by Microsoft's documentation and regression test suite, therefore using it is not recommended at this time. You may also want to try the following link and check out the results: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Amicros oft.com+RealTimeIsUniversal
/etc/init.d is not a "tool",/sbin/init is the tool. Use of/etc/init.d is dependent on the particular variant of Unix/Linux and for that matter how the sysadmin has modified/written/etc/inittab.
While I agree with the philosophy of of your post, the real world has a slightly different opinion. Let's take an example:
1) You have 1200 Solaris production systems running various levels of Solaris, 7 through 10. You have an identical test environment, same 1200 severs running exactly the same version of everything. Add to this 700 odd UAT systems and about 500 dev systems. So now we are looking at 3600 servers. Now it's time to throw some bureaucracy into the mix.
2) Patches must be TESTED in the development environment first - 2 days of effort to go through the standard patch test suite for all 500 servers.
3) After successfully testing in DEV, it's off to the UAT world. Little more in-depth test suite and more change management crap. 3 days to get through UAT provided you do not have an issue with scheduling.
4) Great, now we can move on to the PTE (Production Test Environment). First and foremost, your change window is from 08:00 until 22:00 Monday. If you want a change to this window, it gets escalated through 4 levels of management on our side and, lucky us, 5 levels on the client side. The testing here is more extensive than in the actual Prod environment. First, a baseline performance test must be completed (2 hours). The patch is applied and tested. Depending on the systems, this can be time consuming (think clustered systems and ALL of the failover scenarios must be tested). Now to make sure the patch didn't screw anything up, run another perf baseline (2 hours).
5) After the patch has been in-place for at least 72 hours, it can be applied to Prod. Oh, your change window for Prod is 03:00 to 07:00 every other Sunday. Want to change either the window or the 72 hour cooling off period, it's now 5 levels of management on our side and the same 5 on the client side along with sign off from the CIO and one senior/executive VP on the client side. And the same testing with the exception of performance baselining must be completed. This includes all of the failover scenarios for clusters.
Oh and don't forget to add somewhere between 60 and 80 hours of work documenting the WHOLE process and answering moronic questions in meetings.
Yeah, that quote caught my eye along with:
Asked why HID hasn't addressed the issue in more recent proximity card systems, after knowledge of RFID threats became common, Carroll said that doing so would cause "major upheaval" among customers. .
I can just picture this attitude at work:
ME: Hey Boss, big security whole in our servers. We will have to start patching immediately. Might take several days.
MANAGER: No, it's too much work for your team and it will upset the users. Go home, sleep well and we can look at this later.
Next day... DIRECTOR: Let me introduce your new manager....
Show me a judge who handles sensitive court correspondence by e-mail and I'll show you a judge I dearly want to smack in the face really, really hard. I would agree, any officer of the court (lawyers included) emailing anything court/case related should be bludgeoned with a large gavel.
Speaking from personal experience, I have had several communications from lawyers via email. Unfortunately, some of them contained sensitive/personal information. After a couple of attempts at educating the lawyer, I finally gave up. Basically, I said "Stop sending me fucking emails. Either call me, fax it to me, or snail-mail it."
Overall email is a pretty scary thing from a privacy perspective.
Unless I am mistaken, the United States has one of the most restrictive trade embargoes in place with regards to Cuba. It makes one wonder just how all of this software and the PC's it runs on actually made it into to Cuba. And before anyone jumps all over this and says it's other countries that sell to Cuba, you may want actually check the link above. Microsoft, Intel and a few others can easily be held accountable for the actions of wholly and/or partially owned subsidiaries.
I have to agree...very sad but very true. On the bright side, China doesn't really seem to to take too much shit and India could be in a similar position in 15 to 20 years.
Then maybe you would like to explain the US totally ignoring softwood lumber rulings from WTO. When will you Americans learn you cannot have it both ways.
Obviously FTP would also qualify as "anonymous use" and logging to/. would qualify as a use of a pseudonym (I can assure you, my parents did not name me xsbellx).
And if you would read TFA, you would see that the AUP preceded TOR by about 10 years so it would quite an accomplishment (Kerskin like) to either explicitly allow or prevent Tor. Rather like coming up with a policy for SSL and HTTP in 1981.
While you may not "return" your software to Microsoft like you would with a rental, Microsoft OWNS the software and as such gets to determine how, where and when you get to use THEIR software. They do this for the same reasons you outlined for the restrictions on rental vehicles, to MAXIMIZE profit.
And by the way, there are alternatives to a PC with Windows, just depends on what you willing to live with and without.
Please go to front of the class and write the following on the blackboard 100 times:
YOU DO NOT BUY SOFTWARE. YOU BUY A LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE.
As for cars, a much better analogy would be to look at restrictions placed on your use of a rental vehicle. Things like, you agree NOT to drive it out of the country, not use it for illegal purposes, not to exceed manufacturers rated load capacity and several other things that you would be free to do it you had PURCHASED the vehicle.
You could just actually read up on the technology, you know. I could but nattering back and forth on/. is SO much more fun.
Because seek times are much faster on Flash than on the drive. OK, seek times are faster but so what, that is only PART of the equation. Bus speed, OS overhead dealing with the bus in question, the actual read and write speed of the media all contribute to the overall performance level of the media being used. Are you saying that you have a flash card/USB thumb drive that offers better read/write performance than a SATA drive? If you do, please provide some benchmarks.
Large sequential reads come directly from the drive, and small random reads are cached. Pardon? Are you saying it is faster to read a file with random sized reads from random parts of the file than it is to read it sequentially?
Yes, it does, as soon as you realise the flash drive isn't being used as virtual memory, but as a read caching mechanism for the hard disk.
Not trying to start a flame war/major argument, but that statement doesn't quite make sense. Why would you want to cache something (data on the hard drive) that can be read natively at a somewhere between 40 and 70MB/s to a medium that I have never seen work any faster that about 18 MB/s on reads? Oh and don't forget to factor in much slower writes and limited a limited number of writes to the medium.
Now if the flash memory is used as a "blow-off valve" for situations where the OS becomes so resource starved that it or the user must resort to such tactics, I would have to call into question the ability of the OS to manage its resources.
Also, what the hell does that scale work from exactly?! You may want to check this link
The story I was taught in school was similar to the descriptions provided on Wiki but a little different. 0 was set as the lowest temperature Fahrenheit could create in his lab (salt/water/ice mixture). The boiling point of water was measured and the difference was divided into 180 equal units (degrees).
BTW, quick conversions: When you know Celcius and want to know Fahrenheit double it and add 30. When you know Fahrenheit and want to know Celcius, Subtract 15 and divide by two. NOTE: These are only a rough approximation.
Nice phrase "trivial amount of effort" but what does it mean?
Should I simply tell the person the are drunk and should not drive? Should I call the person a cab and offer to pay for it? In both of these examples, a very plausible outcome would be the drunk saying something like "Stick it in your ear" and driving off. Am I off the "hook" at this point?
Perhaps I could prevent the person from driving by disabling their vehicle or physically taking possession of their car keys? Either of these two suggestions could and most likely would result in CRIMINAL (not civil) prosecution.
Perhaps, I could wait until the person started driving then call 911 to report an impaired driver. But then what happens when the driver is involved in an accident prior to the police responding or in the few seconds while providing details to the 911 operator? I know, I should have called the police before the party and informed them of possibility of drunk drivers and requested they setup some sort of spot check/roadblock on the street.
It's time to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. If you go to a party and knowingly consume alcohol or some other intoxicant, YOU are the one who did it. No one did it to you. Be an ADULT and accept the consequence of YOUR actions if you choose to drive.
The same is true when dealing with child molesters and YOUR children. If I had a nickel for every time my parents told me not to talk to strangers or get in their car or take candy from a stranger, I would not have to work now. For my children, the same common sense was applied with the addition of, "NO PERSONAL DETAILS ON THE INTERNET" and "NO MEETING ANYONE ON THE INTERNET".
The "gross negligence" you speak of is NOT on the part of AIM, MSN, IRC, Yahoo Chat, MySpace or any other similar site but on the part of parents and guardians who have given their children a remarkable tool but not taught them how to use it. Sitting a child in front of a computer connected to the Internet without educating them on its use is no different then giving that same child keys to your car or letting him/her play with a table saw.
You obviously have NO experience in the construction trade. For that matter I guess you have very little experience with things moving as a result of frost. Things burried several decades ago can easily move several feet
There is NO contractor in the world that would accept the responsiblity and/or liablity of locating utility assets (gas, telecom, water, electric and so forth). Each utility provider will dispatch specially trained and equipped technicians to perform this service. The "locater" must be accurate within certain tolerances or the utility assumes the liablity associated with any distruption/repairs including contractor's equipment that was damaged.
Speaking from experience, I have seen a 60 inch water main broken (locator was wrong), a large telecom cable (something insane like 5,000 pairs) running to a 72 story office building (excavator problem) and countless single line telecom cables (just trying to find the damn things using a shovel but electrical tape works wonders).
The short answer is, you can have all the centralized documentation/maps whatever that you want but no contractor will ever put a shovel into the ground until the utilities come on-site and say "You can dig here but not there".
I am currenlty using an Compaq/HP NC4000 for work and built in Atheros WiFi adapter works fine. Speed and reliablity are as good, if not better than Windows. Configuration was handled very nicely by YaST. Works fine with Kismet and a few other similar utilities and is compable the our VPN requirements.
Additional techincal crap: lscpi -v 0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00e5
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 5
Memory at a0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
lsmod (trimmed of excess crap): ath_pci ath_rate_onoe wlan ath_hal wlan_wep
uname -a Linux XXXX 2.6.11.4-21.9-default #1 Fri Aug 19 11:58:59 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Three travelling salesmen are stuck in a small town due a road being washed out. The town is rather small and has only one hotel. The three salesmen arrive at the hotel at the same time and all are interested in renting a room. Unfortuantely there is only one room available. The desk clerk says the room is $30.00 for the night and if they each pay $10.00 they can share the room. The salesmen agree this is the only reasonable option so they each pay $10.00.
A short time later the desk clerk realizes he made a mistake and over-charged the salesmen. He calls the bellhop over and says, "I overcharged those three guys in room 9, I should ahve only charged them $25.00 for the night. Please take the gentlemen $5.00 and offer my appologies". The bellhop takes the $5.00 and starts heading for room 9.
On the way, the bellhop realizes it will difficult to split $5.00 between the three gentlemen. Not being the most honest person around, the bellhop decides to pocket $2.00 and return $3.00 to the gentlemen in the room.
Now the salesmen have each paid a total for $27.00 for the room ($10.00 ((the origianl amount paid)) minus $1.00 ((the dollar returned to each by the bellhop)) times 3). The bellhop has kept $2.00. $27.00 plus $2.00 is $29.00.
You are quite correct, I should have kept my mouth shut in the first place, sorry about that. But now that I have opened it, I might as well say my peace.
It is quite interesting to compare the "founded on individual rights" statement with the actual history of the United States and I am not trying to say Canada is any better in this regard. Both countries have a rich tradition of trampling the "individual rights" of their own citizens.
Having re-read the original post, you are quite correct, the authour was specifically stating the United States was the only country FOUNDED on individual rights. I mistakenly interpreted that statement to mean that no countries enshrined individual rights.
Yes, Canada was late coming to the party in terms of when rights were guaranteed but at least we arrived and we brought along some rather interesting party favours.
P.S.
Thanks very much for delving into some Canadian history, I hope you found it somewhat interesting. It really is sad when one neghbour knows so little of the other.
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Did you even read the link you mentioned in your post? The entry WAS officially supported for RISC architecture systems way back. From your link: 2001-07-09: I got a reply from someone in Microsoft's Base Kernel Team who got interested in RealTimeIsUniversal and they had a look at the relevant parts of the NT kernel source code. The RealTimeIsUniversal flag is there (a leftover from the days when NT still ran on RISC machines with UTC RTCs), but its implementation seems now incomplete and it is currently not covered by Microsoft's documentation and regression test suite, therefore using it is not recommended at this time. You may also want to try the following link and check out the results:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Amicro
/etc/init.d is not a "tool", /sbin/init is the tool. Use of /etc/init.d is dependent on the particular variant of Unix/Linux and for that matter how the sysadmin has modified/written /etc/inittab.
While I agree with the philosophy of of your post, the real world has a slightly different opinion. Let's take an example:
1) You have 1200 Solaris production systems running various levels of Solaris, 7 through 10. You have an identical test environment, same 1200 severs running exactly the same version of everything. Add to this 700 odd UAT systems and about 500 dev systems. So now we are looking at 3600 servers. Now it's time to throw some bureaucracy into the mix.
2) Patches must be TESTED in the development environment first - 2 days of effort to go through the standard patch test suite for all 500 servers.
3) After successfully testing in DEV, it's off to the UAT world. Little more in-depth test suite and more change management crap. 3 days to get through UAT provided you do not have an issue with scheduling.
4) Great, now we can move on to the PTE (Production Test Environment). First and foremost, your change window is from 08:00 until 22:00 Monday. If you want a change to this window, it gets escalated through 4 levels of management on our side and, lucky us, 5 levels on the client side. The testing here is more extensive than in the actual Prod environment. First, a baseline performance test must be completed (2 hours). The patch is applied and tested. Depending on the systems, this can be time consuming (think clustered systems and ALL of the failover scenarios must be tested). Now to make sure the patch didn't screw anything up, run another perf baseline (2 hours).
5) After the patch has been in-place for at least 72 hours, it can be applied to Prod. Oh, your change window for Prod is 03:00 to 07:00 every other Sunday. Want to change either the window or the 72 hour cooling off period, it's now 5 levels of management on our side and the same 5 on the client side along with sign off from the CIO and one senior/executive VP on the client side. And the same testing with the exception of performance baselining must be completed. This includes all of the failover scenarios for clusters.
Oh and don't forget to add somewhere between 60 and 80 hours of work documenting the WHOLE process and answering moronic questions in meetings.
Thankfully I get paid OT for this sort of shit.
I can just picture this attitude at work:
ME: Hey Boss, big security whole in our servers. We will have to start patching immediately. Might take several days.
MANAGER: No, it's too much work for your team and it will upset the users. Go home, sleep well and we can look at this later.
Next day...
DIRECTOR: Let me introduce your new manager....
Speaking from personal experience, I have had several communications from lawyers via email. Unfortunately, some of them contained sensitive/personal information. After a couple of attempts at educating the lawyer, I finally gave up. Basically, I said "Stop sending me fucking emails. Either call me, fax it to me, or snail-mail it."
Overall email is a pretty scary thing from a privacy perspective.
Unless I am mistaken, the United States has one of the most restrictive trade embargoes in place with regards to Cuba. It makes one wonder just how all of this software and the PC's it runs on actually made it into to Cuba. And before anyone jumps all over this and says it's other countries that sell to Cuba, you may want actually check the link above. Microsoft, Intel and a few others can easily be held accountable for the actions of wholly and/or partially owned subsidiaries.
I have to agree...very sad but very true. On the bright side, China doesn't really seem to to take too much shit and India could be in a similar position in 15 to 20 years.
Then maybe you would like to explain the US totally ignoring softwood lumber rulings from WTO. When will you Americans learn you cannot have it both ways.
Obviously FTP would also qualify as "anonymous use" and logging to /. would qualify as a use of a pseudonym (I can assure you, my parents did not name me xsbellx).
And if you would read TFA, you would see that the AUP preceded TOR by about 10 years so it would quite an accomplishment (Kerskin like) to either explicitly allow or prevent Tor. Rather like coming up with a policy for SSL and HTTP in 1981.
One more time...Software is LICENSED not BOUGHT.
While you may not "return" your software to Microsoft like you would with a rental, Microsoft OWNS the software and as such gets to determine how, where and when you get to use THEIR software. They do this for the same reasons you outlined for the restrictions on rental vehicles, to MAXIMIZE profit.
And by the way, there are alternatives to a PC with Windows, just depends on what you willing to live with and without.
Please go to front of the class and write the following on the blackboard 100 times:
YOU DO NOT BUY SOFTWARE. YOU BUY A LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE.
As for cars, a much better analogy would be to look at restrictions placed on your use of a rental vehicle. Things like, you agree NOT to drive it out of the country, not use it for illegal purposes, not to exceed manufacturers rated load capacity and several other things that you would be free to do it you had PURCHASED the vehicle.
Yes, it does, as soon as you realise the flash drive isn't being used as virtual memory, but as a read caching mechanism for the hard disk.
Not trying to start a flame war/major argument, but that statement doesn't quite make sense. Why would you want to cache something (data on the hard drive) that can be read natively at a somewhere between 40 and 70MB/s to a medium that I have never seen work any faster that about 18 MB/s on reads? Oh and don't forget to factor in much slower writes and limited a limited number of writes to the medium.
Now if the flash memory is used as a "blow-off valve" for situations where the OS becomes so resource starved that it or the user must resort to such tactics, I would have to call into question the ability of the OS to manage its resources.
The story I was taught in school was similar to the descriptions provided on Wiki but a little different. 0 was set as the lowest temperature Fahrenheit could create in his lab (salt/water/ice mixture). The boiling point of water was measured and the difference was divided into 180 equal units (degrees).
BTW, quick conversions: When you know Celcius and want to know Fahrenheit double it and add 30. When you know Fahrenheit and want to know Celcius, Subtract 15 and divide by two. NOTE: These are only a rough approximation.
That's funny. Here in Canada, we call that the American screwdriver.
;)
Just remember, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Nice phrase "trivial amount of effort" but what does it mean?
Should I simply tell the person the are drunk and should not drive? Should I call the person a cab and offer to pay for it? In both of these examples, a very plausible outcome would be the drunk saying something like "Stick it in your ear" and driving off. Am I off the "hook" at this point?
Perhaps I could prevent the person from driving by disabling their vehicle or physically taking possession of their car keys? Either of these two suggestions could and most likely would result in CRIMINAL (not civil) prosecution.
Perhaps, I could wait until the person started driving then call 911 to report an impaired driver. But then what happens when the driver is involved in an accident prior to the police responding or in the few seconds while providing details to the 911 operator? I know, I should have called the police before the party and informed them of possibility of drunk drivers and requested they setup some sort of spot check/roadblock on the street.
It's time to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. If you go to a party and knowingly consume alcohol or some other intoxicant, YOU are the one who did it. No one did it to you. Be an ADULT and accept the consequence of YOUR actions if you choose to drive.
The same is true when dealing with child molesters and YOUR children. If I had a nickel for every time my parents told me not to talk to strangers or get in their car or take candy from a stranger, I would not have to work now. For my children, the same common sense was applied with the addition of, "NO PERSONAL DETAILS ON THE INTERNET" and "NO MEETING ANYONE ON THE INTERNET".
The "gross negligence" you speak of is NOT on the part of AIM, MSN, IRC, Yahoo Chat, MySpace or any other similar site but on the part of parents and guardians who have given their children a remarkable tool but not taught them how to use it. Sitting a child in front of a computer connected to the Internet without educating them on its use is no different then giving that same child keys to your car or letting him/her play with a table saw.
Sitting right in front of me, in the original box, are:
14 OS2/ Warp V3 Install floppies
4 OS2/ Warp V3 Display Driver floppies
3 OS2/ Warp V3 Printer Driver floppies
16 OS2/ Warp Bonus Pack floppies
1 OS2/ Warp Demonstration floppy
NOTE: Floppies are 3.5" 1.44MB.
After converting square metres to square feet, the price would appear similar although slightly higher. For example:
1 m^2 = 10.764 ft^2
$20.00/ft^2/year = $1.858/m^2/year = $22.296/m^2/month
The joys of metric and imperial measurement.
You obviously have NO experience in the construction trade. For that matter I guess you have very little experience with things moving as a result of frost. Things burried several decades ago can easily move several feet
There is NO contractor in the world that would accept the responsiblity and/or liablity of locating utility assets (gas, telecom, water, electric and so forth). Each utility provider will dispatch specially trained and equipped technicians to perform this service. The "locater" must be accurate within certain tolerances or the utility assumes the liablity associated with any distruption/repairs including contractor's equipment that was damaged.
Speaking from experience, I have seen a 60 inch water main broken (locator was wrong), a large telecom cable (something insane like 5,000 pairs) running to a 72 story office building (excavator problem) and countless single line telecom cables (just trying to find the damn things using a shovel but electrical tape works wonders).
The short answer is, you can have all the centralized documentation/maps whatever that you want but no contractor will ever put a shovel into the ground until the utilities come on-site and say "You can dig here but not there".
I am currenlty using an Compaq/HP NC4000 for work and built in Atheros WiFi adapter works fine. Speed and reliablity are as good, if not better than Windows. Configuration was handled very nicely by YaST. Works fine with Kismet and a few other similar utilities and is compable the our VPN requirements.
Additional techincal crap:
lscpi -v
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 00e5
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 5
Memory at a0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
lsmod (trimmed of excess crap):
ath_pci
ath_rate_onoe
wlan
ath_hal
wlan_wep
uname -a
Linux XXXX 2.6.11.4-21.9-default #1 Fri Aug 19 11:58:59 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Slightly customized kernel based on Suse 9.3
The Mod's obviously have a broken funny bone. Or perhaps sprained beyond the ability to recognize sarcasm.
Just curious, ever had a cold?
U DA MAN!!!!
Three travelling salesmen are stuck in a small town due a road being washed out. The town is rather small and has only one hotel. The three salesmen arrive at the hotel at the same time and all are interested in renting a room. Unfortuantely there is only one room available. The desk clerk says the room is $30.00 for the night and if they each pay $10.00 they can share the room. The salesmen agree this is the only reasonable option so they each pay $10.00.
A short time later the desk clerk realizes he made a mistake and over-charged the salesmen. He calls the bellhop over and says, "I overcharged those three guys in room 9, I should ahve only charged them $25.00 for the night. Please take the gentlemen $5.00 and offer my appologies". The bellhop takes the $5.00 and starts heading for room 9.
On the way, the bellhop realizes it will difficult to split $5.00 between the three gentlemen. Not being the most honest person around, the bellhop decides to pocket $2.00 and return $3.00 to the gentlemen in the room.
Now the salesmen have each paid a total for $27.00 for the room ($10.00 ((the origianl amount paid)) minus $1.00 ((the dollar returned to each by the bellhop)) times 3). The bellhop has kept $2.00. $27.00 plus $2.00 is $29.00.
Where is the missing dollar?
You are quite correct, I should have kept my mouth shut in the first place, sorry about that. But now that I have opened it, I might as well say my peace.
It is quite interesting to compare the "founded on individual rights" statement with the actual history of the United States and I am not trying to say Canada is any better in this regard. Both countries have a rich tradition of trampling the "individual rights" of their own citizens.
Having re-read the original post, you are quite correct, the authour was specifically stating the United States was the only country FOUNDED on individual rights. I mistakenly interpreted that statement to mean that no countries enshrined individual rights.
Yes, Canada was late coming to the party in terms of when rights were guaranteed but at least we arrived and we brought along some rather interesting party favours.
P.S.
Thanks very much for delving into some Canadian history, I hope you found it somewhat interesting. It really is sad when one neghbour knows so little of the other.