Posts by Aremmes 76 posts • joined 11 Dec 2007
"GNU Emacs began life in the 1970s and is currently at version 25, which means it averages two releases to Vim's one, but still definitely on the slow side."
Actually, GNU Emacs is technically still at version 1 -- the 25 is the minor version number. It is said that RMS will release version 2 when the first stable version of GNU Hurd comes out.
"The main limitation of NAT is 16 bit ports. If port addresses were expanded to 32 bits, we'd probably be fine with IPv4 pretty much forever."
For larger networks you can set up source NAT pools, so that connections are spread over a number of IP addresses instead of a single NAT address (e.g., the NAT router), thus avoiding the 16-bit port number limit. Cisco has supported this since when NAT became a thing.
"BIND users, get patching."
A public service announcement from the Ministry of Redundancy and Reiteration.
Perfectly cromulent Texas speak there, I'm afraid.
Given that they went with Plan B, can't we just call her the "RRS The 'B' Ark" then?
"They brag about thousands of cores and billions of transistors but the 2.5W really means most of those cores and transistors are not doing anything most of the time."
Just like how we only use 10% of our brain at any given time.
"Boaty McBoatface" does seem to have a certain tinny quality to it, unlike, say, "Glamorgan." Or, "Atlantic Conveyor." Or "Teignmouth Electron." Nice, solid woody names those.
Now I'm thinking of vuvuzelas protruding from all sides of a server rack, blaring a deafening racket whenever a cat licks its crotch and triggers the intrusion detection system. Why must you do this to me?!?
I thought of the CKD format on IBM mainframes, where a program can instruct the storage device to locate a record by key and transfer it to a buffer in memory without CPU intervention.
I don't know what "high-dimensional molecular structure" means either, but given the source I bet it involves giant robots in space.
If they put the hinge on the long side (the only thing I wished the Nokia N900 had) and give it a QWERTY keypad, I'm sold.
"Most Spaniards I'm guesing they will pronounce WhatsApp either "WASAP" or "WARSAP""
I can tell you that when speaking Spanish anything that introduces pauses into the syllable timing will get summarily dropped. Hence, "wasap" instead of "watsap". Spanish makes little use of syllable final consonants outside of "m", "n" and "s", and even then has a preference for ending syllables with vowels -- e.g., notice the aspirated final "r"s and "s"s in Caribbean Spanish.
Third-party software vendors have something to do with it, I'm afraid. Where I work we have a big "enterprise application suite" -- ERP stuff. It's a big nasty hodgepodge of PL/SQL, Pro*C, Pro*COBOL, Java, Forms, and other things that should be declared Not Safe For Work, very tightly integrated with the database and associated Oracle stack products. Unsurprisingly, the vendor certifies it compatible only with Oracle, and will not support its use with anything else -- I think they might even consider the use of another database product a violation of the contract or some other equally ludicrous claim. Fortunately, I'm not a DBA, nor do I want to be one.
Only on a beautiful day, when they're not skipping from three all the way to fourteen.
So, essentially, they've put transputers on a DIMM. Maybe they can retarget occam-pi to it too.
Someone already made a medium-format pinhole camera OUT OF PAPER.
http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/48-pentax-645d-medium-format/193169-paper-pentax-67-a.html
You can't get any lower tech than that.
In my experience, those who can hardly make ends meet yet still buy smartphones and pay the extended replacement warranty will be the ones to fork the $20 for this new service. The rich will just direct an employee to pick it up for them.
Ouch. It's hard to go past a single rack with just two 15-amp circuits (per the standard NEMA 5-15 mains outlet rating). Data centers here usually go for dual 30-amp circuits, sometimes at 120V (with L5-30 outlets), or preferably 240V (L6-30) to reduce power losses.
It saddens me that none of the proposed backronyms features recursion, like, say, "Abend Button Escapes Near Doom". What ever happened to that fine geek custom?
Of course it can be extended to speed: an object onto which a roundhouse kick of one Norris of force has been applied flies at a terminal speed of one Chuck.
Each of those two has more native speakers than Cherokee (16,400 per the wikis) and use a Latin alphabet. Quechua also has the privilege of being an official language in two countries.
There was a movie (and novel) following the same concept, "The Mosquito Coast," with Harrison Ford: genius gets tired of life at home, bails out, moves to Belize, and things work out well for a short time before turning nasty.
It sounds like another product from the strategy boutique. "Caminar" means "to walk" in Spanish, so "kaminario" sort of sounds like it's going for a walk. Probably right before being knocked unconscious and being put on the cart.
An aluminium baseball bat will produce a thoroughly satisfying *PING* when impacted upon a miscreant's head.
http://bit.ly/ON0jFs
Evidently this is Japan's latest games console, designed specifically for playing shiritori.
Bird In Hand, PA (near Blue Ball, Intercourse, and Paradise)
http://g.co/maps/cvjzf
These towns are deep in Amish country.
So, they could put Jason Alexander up for an audition, and he wouldn't have to wear his new hairpiece for it.
Cray did something like that at least twice already. The XD1 uses ASICs to extend HyperTransport into a switched fabric to link 144 processors together into a single system image. The XT3 and successors connect the CPUs to the SeaStar interconnect via HyperTransport.
The processors can connect to each other without any glue logic but that consumes HT links quickly. One can only add so much to the die and packaging before it gets too expensive.
As a Spanish-speaking geek who can't read "WebOS" without thinking of baggy appendages, I'veIthoIght of perhaps starting a new tech company to make a WebOS-based gadget named Plantain. The marketing copy would write itself: "Taste the power of the Plantain, powered by WebOS."
Lexmark X2600, HP CLJ Pro 100, Samsung SCX-4826FN, Konica Minolta 1690MF, Brother MFC 9010CN... Just a random pick list from the first page of a search at CDW.com.
Try harder next time.
They're probably ninjas, and are able to perform "specific activities" too quickly for the average human eye to even notice.
"So come on HP shareholders - sounds like easy way to get your 20% market loss back"
You know that won't happen; even Fiorina was able to steamroll them into the ground.
To slow down, you turn the spacecraft 180° to point the engine in the direction of travel halfway through the trip and apply the same thrust. There's a video of this particular flight plan somewhere on the 'net.
Software gets copyright protection - why should it have patent protection at the same time? It's the only human invention to be covered by both copyright law and patent law, and it's not even a tangible product.
At last Google is at least acknowledging the search spam problem. Now, will they do something about the keyword search spam sites and the shopping spam sites that I keep getting in my search results? Take care of that, Google, and you'll have gotten rid of most of the spam results that I've faced.
So the requirements say that a method to asymmetrically authenticate a message is needed. There are several digital signature algorithms available, many within reach of a Google search. What do we do? We'll ignore decades of crypto research and invent our own signing algorithm, of course.
Thing is, the odds of encountering a South African anywhere between the Rockies and the Appalachians are so low that most people won't be able to tell a real SA accent from a fake one. Those same people wouldn't be able to distinguish between English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, or Australian accents either, for that matter.
Real SCSI, as the Lord intended it to be, uses the target (i.e., the peripheral device) to drive the transaction. Apple's SCSI as implemented in the Mac Plus, on the other hand, uses the initiator (i.e., the controller) for that function. Granted, the SCSI standard was still in development, but IIRC the roles of initiator and target were well understood back then.
"What small or medium company is going to set up a greenfield Fibre Channel SAN these days, when iSCSI is rampaging around?"
Given that it is cheaper and easier to buy a pair of Qlogic SANbox switches and set up zoning, than to buy a pair of decent wire-speed Ethernet switches and dick around with STP/QoS/trunking/VLANs/etc. to obtain equivalent performance, I'd say that any company that can crunch numbers without developing haemorrhoids would see the benefits of going the FC way.
"Si non sopporta il calore, vattene dalla cucina."
Nobody will miss him.
"... purged of hole that was under attack"
And here I thought that there was a Paris Hilton angle to this article.
I see this more as a competitor to LifeSize's Passport, which does only $720p and currently goes for $2k, but can do Skype video calls as well as H.323/SIP, is smaller, and doesn't require you to pay a pizzo. Either way, people aren't going to pay for HD video calls when free webcam video calls are "good enough," same as how MP3s, pirated DVDs, fast food, and Coors Light are "good enough."
-- "We might see an importation of the EVA software environment onto the 3PAR platform, giving it an EVA personality."
Given that the SOP for upgrading an EVA is to use Continuous Access to migrate LUNs, I'd hope that HP would only add the minimum amount of logic necessary to make a 3PAR system participate in CA, instead of porting that pile of cobwebs and dust that is XCS.
-- "But the 3PAR architecture can be, and probably will be, pushed up-scale and down-scale, overlapping the mid-range EVA's capabilities more and more."
What would that make of the Dot Hill-sourced MSAs then? Those always looked like a temporary solution while HP could find something else that they could maintain in-house.
Bulletproof XP array coming up!
http://tinyurl.com/5zjsq8
If you've ever watched " Super Dimension Fortress Macross," you'd already know the answer: make the building into a giant flying robot. That'd take care of the aiming bit.
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