Hey, on our Northern Telecom system you can remotely adjust any phone's LCD display contrast from another phone, once you get into the system programming menu.
and it installed and ran very cleanly (once I learned what I was doing;). Used a pentium 133, pentium 200 and a 486/66. Just made a simple empty loop C program to test and it worked as expected. Start a process on the 133 and it was migrated to the 200. Start 2 processes and one would get migrated to the 200, showing up in 'mon' as a load of '2', and the other would run on the 133 as a load of '3'. I had to launch 6 processes before the 486 kicked in with a load of '12' running one process, with the other 5 distributed with 3 on the 200 (6) and 2 on the 133 (also 6). Next I got and tried the parallel make MPMake. A kernel compile using MPMake w/ switch -j3 on the cluster took 18 minutes, while on the 200 alone it took 12:)) Obviously I need more/faster boxes to make the cost of load balancing worthwhile but it basically works as advertised.
When the resulting software product is distributed, its creator must make the entire source code base freely available to everyone, at no additional charge. This viral aspect of the GPL poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it.
Kudo's to the author for the clever linking of GPL with a negative tem like 'viral'. But is there really any serious business that decides to utilize some existing GPL'd codebase and does NOT understand the obligations in doing so? He makes it sound like a business extends existing code for a profitable venture and then suddenly realizes, "Oh God! We have to give up all our hard work!! Damn those OSS zealots!! They tricked us again!!"
Unlike the Msft attitude of "Windoze everywhere" and "why would anyone use anything else" - you don't have to use GPL code. Just write your own from a clean start - or just pay Msft or someone else.
I run ours, and fill it up with 3 heaping scoops of Kirkland 100% Columbian supremo bean dark roast fine grind, 10 cups of water, and program the timer every night.
Is a utility like the 'Netware Migration Tool' that came with NT (which also had a nifty Netware License Violation Feature) , call it "NukeNT" or something. Usage: nukeNT and it finds all file shares, create Samba shares and copy all the files over. Then turn off NT and enjoy the uptime.
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Yada Yada heard it all before - you still need to come back for/more/ therapy to get at zee voot of your problems; that'll be $120. This has come up every recession since the uP was invented and probably bevore.
That's one of their chief weapons - create a lot of doubt (as well as fear and uncertainty) and then collect all the benefits,
and then some extra for good measure.
I head Msft already has an "improved" version in the works involving predatory hawks - your data doesn't get thru any faster but the UI is more attractive and it just naturally interfers with pidgeon carriers, causing packet droppings.
Microsoft would be woefully inneficient in that environment
... 8000 Msft boxen is probably getting to the point where you'd need 3 shifts of McSE's full time just to reboot the damn things - kinda like the days they made computers with so many vacuum tubes that their failure rate caught up with them, and it would barely run before another tube needed replacing.
is no case at all! I mean, you CAN just put a power supply on a table, put the mobo on a thick magazine (I used to use "Compooper Shopper"), put the hard disk on the table top, wire it up and it'll work great. How I used to 'test' and burn in parts for the verified parts pool.
Depends - if someone doesn't take their responsibilities seriously, or have priorities in order it could be a problem - the cost of having lots of paid 'play time' (or OSS R&D I call it) is making sure my mission critical servers, workstations and of course data backups and recovery plans are in good working order - eternal vigilance. That takes maybe an hour, plus maybe a few hours servicing user complaints (this is a little over 50 PC's) - which usually comes to "you'll have to get the boss to spend more $$$ to do that" or a simple reboot, or just sympathize with someone about a Msft oddity, then it's off to d/l OSS and 'playing' with things like, currently, getting a Mosix cluster up on a few old pentiums. Also have to spend some weekend hours doing server maintenance. I've trained my super to not bug me with 'busywork' - I'll make my own damn busywork that also keeps me a sharp, up-to-date sysadmin.
The best hedge against 'disruption' is keep a solid wall between 'production' and the 'test (play) lab' machines.
Maybe RFC 1812 -
"4.2.2.6 Unrecognized Header Options: RFC 791 Section 3.1
A router MUST ignore IP options which it does not recognize."
(caps emphasis theirs, not mine)
There was a/lot/ of culture around canabis - problem is a catch-22, any expression of it gets one ostracised, persecuted, shunned - and for no real good reason! It's a self perpetuating myth - you can't dispell all the falsehoods surrounding canabis because it's been make illegal for false reasons! Like, did you know that once upon a time, tomatoes or 'love apples' were considered poisonious to eat? It took someone to make a dramatic show out of eating one to convince people that it can be a valuable garden vegetable. This is even worse, not only do people constantly spread untruths about something they know nothing about (such as your referances to 'excess use of canabis' - too much alcohol can kill a person (and it's legal remember) but 'too much dope' has no such effect) but you can't demonstrate it's harmlessness cuz of the damn stupid persecution! I can remember a time when "Wildwood Weed" was played on the radio, but the former Rep. Gov. of California during the 60's put an end to all that hippy stuff. I also think when the US banned canabis they were not only giving Dupont artificial fibers a political/financial windfall, but were waging a culture war on the 'lazy Mexican' Marijuana image!
Hmmm, howzabout a radical new-new economic idea called "Supply & Demand" ???? While the cost of/duplicating/ software is so low as to be nearly free, unless you make an artificially scarce supply by enforcing expensive licenses which simutaneously curtains demand (except for pirates) AND generates the revenue needed to grow a business - you are eventually going to run into some kind of supply limits. Those are the costs your going to have to offset somehow, either thru micropayments or donations. All the 'new' economists are re-discovering TANSTAAFL, altho the recent techno advances have drastically reduced distribution costs to where it appeared to be 'free' - what we are now running into is the bottom limits of 'free', becoming disinterested in subsidizing a 'free' service with income from a day job, volunteer work, etc, etc, etc.
the jury is still out if legalization of illegal drugs would result in a similar situation
It was tried - Alcohol Prohibition was a Failure and currently, canabis prohibition IS a failure. No matter how you look at it, the current stigma and treatment of people who like to cut off flowers and smoke them is a crime again humanity and nature. Period. Consider what prohibition gets you: an ounce of pot is worth more than an ounce of GOLD!!! If that isn't an invitation to for criminal element to step in I don't know what is.
If the court is idiot enough to let this go thru, we will have a whole slew of issues to blame on video games: We can sue pubs of driving/racing games for auto accidents, PacMac for my eating disorder, and, on the bright side, Msft for a new liver since they drove me to drink.
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Mr St Law Sir - step out of your image mongering world of advertising and get real for a moment. How many computer system networks have YOU administered lately?
Specifically, in my office of 50+ machines I have a Linux mail server that runs flawlessly, day in, day out, it's perfect. Not very sexy but it gets our business done reliably and pays the bills w/o a lot of pain. However, while I'm trying to find time to put together a cluster out of old parts for future database growth, I'm constantly interrupted by the Windows desktops user having this problem, having that problem - and Windows is full of 'issues' - that's how they keep people on the upgrade treadmill. As a systems engineer I find the Msft products woefully lacking and have become a definite liability for career progress - unless I hire someone (more "cost of ownership") to run around plugging up holes in the dike so I can get on with progressive projects, w/o having to run like the red queen just to maintain the status quo. Other admins, I imagine, rely on Msft flakiness and constant need for attention to justify their existance, keeps them busy, a faux appearance of productivity.
Maybe I'm being an unrealistic cunt but I like *quality* well built, finely tuned machines like German automobiles - however we seem to be stuck with using broken down Yugo's just to keep the Yugo company's cash flow going with incessant service problems - just because investors mistakenly think Msft is a "leading technology company" - what utter bullcrap. Take your fool 'em all consumer mind games and shove it - I just want to work with and sell quality information systems to appreciative customers, w/o Mr vaporware spoiling everything with his crud.
Anyway, the point of this thread was the companies may come and go, but the ideal lives on - just look at the cp/m days - lots of small business stepped up and failed before IBM created the PC mkt with an *open* hw platform and handed Msft a lucrative market on a silver platter. I'm expecting the same thing to happen here. At the end of the day, the paying customer must benefit, otherwise it's a bullshit job.
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Hey, on our Northern Telecom system you can remotely adjust any phone's LCD display contrast from another phone, once you get into the system programming menu.
and it installed and ran very cleanly (once I learned what I was doing ;). Used a pentium 133, pentium 200 and a 486/66. Just made a simple empty loop C program to test and it worked as expected. Start a process on the 133 and it was migrated to the 200. Start 2 processes and one would get migrated to the 200, showing up in 'mon' as a load of '2', and the other would run on the 133 as a load of '3'. I had to launch 6 processes before the 486 kicked in with a load of '12' running one process, with the other 5 distributed with 3 on the 200 (6) and 2 on the 133 (also 6). Next I got and tried the parallel make MPMake. A kernel compile using MPMake w/ switch -j3 on the cluster took 18 minutes, while on the 200 alone it took 12 :)) Obviously I need more/faster boxes to make the cost of load balancing worthwhile but it basically works as advertised.
When the resulting software product is distributed, its creator must make the entire source code base freely available to everyone, at no additional charge. This viral aspect of the GPL poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it.
Kudo's to the author for the clever linking of GPL with a negative tem like 'viral'. But is there really any serious business that decides to utilize some existing GPL'd codebase and does NOT understand the obligations in doing so? He makes it sound like a business extends existing code for a profitable venture and then suddenly realizes, "Oh God! We have to give up all our hard work!! Damn those OSS zealots!! They tricked us again!!"
Unlike the Msft attitude of "Windoze everywhere" and "why would anyone use anything else" - you don't have to use GPL code. Just write your own from a clean start - or just pay Msft or someone else.
In the past 20 years the velocity of that change has accelerated at a seemingly exponential rate,
Xlation: You need to upgrade more often!
Yes, that explains why this leading tech company rolls out stuff that others created 10-12 years ago (LDAP, Kerberos)
I run ours, and fill it up with 3 heaping scoops of Kirkland 100% Columbian supremo bean dark roast fine grind, 10 cups of water, and program the timer every night.
i have to learn something else now. GREAT!
In this biz you're always learning something new - jeez they told us that in electronics school 25 year ago.
Is a utility like the 'Netware Migration Tool' that came with NT (which also had a nifty Netware License Violation Feature) , call it "NukeNT" or something. Usage: nukeNT and it finds all file shares, create Samba shares and copy all the files over. Then turn off NT and enjoy the uptime.
Yada Yada heard it all before - you still need to come back for /more/ therapy to get at zee voot of your problems; that'll be $120. This has come up every recession since the uP was invented and probably bevore.
My free speech (making and selling tickets to movies) -VS- Your free speech (writing and distributing software)
Gawd, what a line up:
RIAA AFM AFTRA AFMA ASCAP BMI ASMP AAP BSA DGA
IDSA NATO NCTA NCAA NFL NHL NMPA PGA PPA SBCA
SAG SIAA WGA and Reed Elsevier, Inc.
So a ham in Europe can use his/her handy talkie to talk to another ham in SanDiego CA - something tells me the Cellular/FCC isn't going to like this.
but let's give them the benefit of the doubt
That's one of their chief weapons - create a lot of doubt (as well as fear and uncertainty) and then collect all the benefits,
and then some extra for good measure.
I head Msft already has an "improved" version in the works involving predatory hawks - your data doesn't get thru any faster but the UI is more attractive and it just naturally interfers with pidgeon carriers, causing packet droppings.
Microsoft would be woefully inneficient in that environment
... 8000 Msft boxen is probably getting to the point where you'd need 3 shifts of McSE's full time just to reboot the damn things - kinda like the days they made computers with so many vacuum tubes that their failure rate caught up with them, and it would barely run before another tube needed replacing.
is no case at all! I mean, you CAN just put a power supply on a table, put the mobo on a thick magazine (I used to use "Compooper Shopper"), put the hard disk on the table top, wire it up and it'll work great. How I used to 'test' and burn in parts for the verified parts pool.
If I read the paper and have the knowledge it contains, does that make ME an illegal circumvention device?
Yes - then they'd have to kill you.
and one of them, Bell Atl^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^hVerizon isn't offering any high speed in my 'hood.
Actually just want to show of my fashionable 'fake reply' sig
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Just showing off fashionable fake replay
Depends - if someone doesn't take their responsibilities seriously, or have priorities in order it could be a problem - the cost of having lots of paid 'play time' (or OSS R&D I call it) is making sure my mission critical servers, workstations and of course data backups and recovery plans are in good working order - eternal vigilance. That takes maybe an hour, plus maybe a few hours servicing user complaints (this is a little over 50 PC's) - which usually comes to "you'll have to get the boss to spend more $$$ to do that" or a simple reboot, or just sympathize with someone about a Msft oddity, then it's off to d/l OSS and 'playing' with things like, currently, getting a Mosix cluster up on a few old pentiums. Also have to spend some weekend hours doing server maintenance. I've trained my super to not bug me with 'busywork' - I'll make my own damn busywork that also keeps me a sharp, up-to-date sysadmin.
The best hedge against 'disruption' is keep a solid wall between 'production' and the 'test (play) lab' machines.
Maybe RFC 1812 - "4.2.2.6 Unrecognized Header Options: RFC 791 Section 3.1 A router MUST ignore IP options which it does not recognize." (caps emphasis theirs, not mine)
There was a /lot/ of culture around canabis - problem is a catch-22, any expression of it gets one ostracised, persecuted, shunned - and for no real good reason! It's a self perpetuating myth - you can't dispell all the falsehoods surrounding canabis because it's been make illegal for false reasons! Like, did you know that once upon a time, tomatoes or 'love apples' were considered poisonious to eat? It took someone to make a dramatic show out of eating one to convince people that it can be a valuable garden vegetable. This is even worse, not only do people constantly spread untruths about something they know nothing about (such as your referances to 'excess use of canabis' - too much alcohol can kill a person (and it's legal remember) but 'too much dope' has no such effect) but you can't demonstrate it's harmlessness cuz of the damn stupid persecution! I can remember a time when "Wildwood Weed" was played on the radio, but the former Rep. Gov. of California during the 60's put an end to all that hippy stuff. I also think when the US banned canabis they were not only giving Dupont artificial fibers a political/financial windfall, but were waging a culture war on the 'lazy Mexican' Marijuana image!
that should be 'curtails' (curtains demand?)
Hmmm, howzabout a radical new-new economic idea called "Supply & Demand" ???? While the cost of /duplicating/ software is so low as to be nearly free, unless you make an artificially scarce supply by enforcing expensive licenses which simutaneously curtains demand (except for pirates) AND generates the revenue needed to grow a business - you are eventually going to run into some kind of supply limits. Those are the costs your going to have to offset somehow, either thru micropayments or donations. All the 'new' economists are re-discovering TANSTAAFL, altho the recent techno advances have drastically reduced distribution costs to where it appeared to be 'free' - what we are now running into is the bottom limits of 'free', becoming disinterested in subsidizing a 'free' service with income from a day job, volunteer work, etc, etc, etc.
the jury is still out if legalization of illegal drugs would result in a similar situation
It was tried - Alcohol Prohibition was a Failure and currently, canabis prohibition IS a failure. No matter how you look at it, the current stigma and treatment of people who like to cut off flowers and smoke them is a crime again humanity and nature. Period. Consider what prohibition gets you: an ounce of pot is worth more than an ounce of GOLD!!! If that isn't an invitation to for criminal element to step in I don't know what is.
If the court is idiot enough to let this go thru, we will have a whole slew of issues to blame on video games: We can sue pubs of driving/racing games for auto accidents, PacMac for my eating disorder, and, on the bright side, Msft for a new liver since they drove me to drink.
Mr St Law Sir - step out of your image mongering world of advertising and get real for a moment. How many computer system networks have YOU administered lately?
Specifically, in my office of 50+ machines I have a Linux mail server that runs flawlessly, day in, day out, it's perfect. Not very sexy but it gets our business done reliably and pays the bills w/o a lot of pain. However, while I'm trying to find time to put together a cluster out of old parts for future database growth, I'm constantly interrupted by the Windows desktops user having this problem, having that problem - and Windows is full of 'issues' - that's how they keep people on the upgrade treadmill. As a systems engineer I find the Msft products woefully lacking and have become a definite liability for career progress - unless I hire someone (more "cost of ownership") to run around plugging up holes in the dike so I can get on with progressive projects, w/o having to run like the red queen just to maintain the status quo. Other admins, I imagine, rely on Msft flakiness and constant need for attention to justify their existance, keeps them busy, a faux appearance of productivity.
Maybe I'm being an unrealistic cunt but I like *quality* well built, finely tuned machines like German automobiles - however we seem to be stuck with using broken down Yugo's just to keep the Yugo company's cash flow going with incessant service problems - just because investors mistakenly think Msft is a "leading technology company" - what utter bullcrap. Take your fool 'em all consumer mind games and shove it - I just want to work with and sell quality information systems to appreciative customers, w/o Mr vaporware spoiling everything with his crud.
Anyway, the point of this thread was the companies may come and go, but the ideal lives on - just look at the cp/m days - lots of small business stepped up and failed before IBM created the PC mkt with an *open* hw platform and handed Msft a lucrative market on a silver platter. I'm expecting the same thing to happen here. At the end of the day, the paying customer must benefit, otherwise it's a bullshit job.