jlawer

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by jlawer 15y ago
If APIs were copyrightable there would be no Wintel machines... IBM would have killed Compaq for daring to build a clean room BIOS. Logically I can't see why an API should get copyright protections. By its definition it is a interface, an
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Doesn't anti-trust regulation stop people ABUSING monopolies rather then forming them? Most of the teeth I've seen in the anti-trust regulation is the ability to break up companies after they have monopolized.
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Cool demo, but the evil me considers connecting it up to the production mailing cluster we have and seeing how it would handle a few hundred messages a second.... I would be interested to know what kind of performance you do get out of this
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by jlawer 15y ago
Client side parsing won't be as reliable as you expect. SMTP bounce codes are notorious for changing on a per domain basis whenever someone feels like it. I work with StrongMail supporting their Email Marketing Platform and their solution i
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by jlawer 15y ago
Sorry but I think you misunderstood me. I am fully aware that your average GPU isn't optimal for this task, however I was imagining that there would still be value in shifting the world load off the primary CPUs. My line of thinking is arou
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by jlawer 15y ago
I suppose the question is if you would need to have multiple cores running simultaneously on the same processing element, or if the fact you have some many processing elements means you can just be inefficent and give each core the role of
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by jlawer 15y ago
Good Point sir.... But I was kind of imagining that you could essentially emulate a single virtual system per "Stream processor" or whatever they are labeling the basic units. I was factoring that they could run a couple of hundred "virtual
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I am fairly sure notch would have one... if he is planning on running this, then I am going to imagine that he is basically going to have massive farms of GPGPUs planned for doing this emulation.
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by jlawer 15y ago
Your best bet is a university text book on computer architecture. The course I took used a decimal based CPU (not binary) and had many other "simplifications" but its probably your best bet, at least unless you want to learn assembly level
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Problem was most of the demos used many many megs of ram as they procedurally generated objects and stored them in memory. The 64k demos were disk size. Assuming memory mapping is used for displays the (128k of ram (64k of words)) is also n
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by jlawer 15y ago
Depending on your requirements either iRedMail (for an out of the box support of virtual domains, etc) or otherwise... just plain simple postfix. Howto Forge has some good tutorials ( http://www.howtoforge.com/howtos/email ). Its all a ques
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by jlawer 15y ago
I know they dedupe on the file level, but I wonder if they are doing block level deduping... as without a big shared storage infrastructure block level deduping becomes pretty hard to serve at high speed from as the reads potentially become
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by jlawer 15y ago
Yeah, I think you would also consider that with a fairly standard equipment lifecycle program you would have 1/3rd to 1/4 of the equipment up for renewal in the next 12 months. Maybe you bring that renewal forward... and maybe you spec some
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by jlawer 15y ago
You want to pull 1,103 server's disks? The compatibility problems you have trying to get data off a disks in a hardware raid make it impractical (do you have the EXACT SAME version hardware revision & firmware; without this you can't gu
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by jlawer 15y ago
The costs of moving that amount of data is crazy. I am surprised the government hasn't seized the hardware, and chucked it in a warehouse. I did some back of an envelope calculations... and its absolutely crazy. Tape would require over 17,0
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by jlawer 15y ago
Sure, I understand that it can happen... but at the end of the day who is the one still standing. Microsoft gets fined, the investors who stuck through the bankruptcy get paid... but the competitor is DEAD. Is it more expensive then buying
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by jlawer 15y ago
The lawsuit will take years while microsoft will make sure the litigants go bankrupt. Unfortunately there primary businesses are based on selling Microsoft Software Services, and while it would almost certainly result in Microsoft being fin
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by jlawer 15y ago
The biggest problem is that clients WANT Microsoft Office. You can offer them something else (Apple iWork, Lotus Symphony, Open Office, LibreOffice, KOffice). It can do everything they need and they will still argue that MS Office is what t
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by jlawer 15y ago
I am unfamiliar with many of the details of US laws, but does signing a special deal to offer a new product with 1 exclusive partner mean you have to offer it to everyone? In the physical world many companies have patented processes that th
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No, but clearly people are wanting Microsoft to take the bait.. This is being backed by the Desktop as a Service providers who want to be able to deploy this. Unlike trademarks to my knowledge there is nothing that devalues their offering b
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The funny thing is the worst thing Microsoft could do to this is ignore them.... That would leave the issue unresolved, exactly what the Desktop as a Service people don't want. I suppose the real question is if Microsoft's position on the d
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The whole concept of not trusting the applications you run is actually fairly recent I would argue less then the past decade. Early security was about not trusting other people, and thus passwords & authentication was developed. Then wi
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by jlawer 15y ago
Depends on the company I got my last job with 1 page (company is a 15-20 head in the agency / digital marketing area). I listed : * Last 2 jobs, listing company, dates of employment & Job Title. * List of Education / Certification (o
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Not the future of computing... the future of small LOB apps written by fred in sales to keep track of things the CRM software doesn't, or tony in logistics to keep track of stuff that isn't covered by the warehouse management system. Like V
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by jlawer 15y ago
That dark and exaggerated sense of humour is common at least amongst Brits, Irish, Aussies & Kiwis. However I wouldn't say it isn't in the US. Most Boston & some New York stand-up comedians I have seen seem to have a similar persona
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As someone who has had professional help to go through what I will only refer to as "the dark patch of my life" I think your over reacting. This might be a cultural thing but as an Aussie, this is viewed as pure exaggeration and has NO conn
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mitmproxy and tcpflow are great for testing web stuff... not so much iscsi...
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The pointers method is used by most commercial mail archival software that I've seen (the kind big companies deploy for SabOX compliance). The problems with Pointers & de-dupe is that at least marketing emails are personalised, each are
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Size is unfortunately completely unimaginable.... A small marketing firm I happen to admin the email servers for... sends 15 million marketing emails per month (all opt-in, CAN-SPAM / Australian Spam Act compliant). This alone is nearly 1.5
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by jlawer 15y ago
While ZFS adds some advantages, if you were going for snap shots and quick deploy with KVM your best bet was to use LVM as a raw device. A quick lvm snapshot + virt-clone + virsh start will let me have a cloned vm up within seconds. Thats n

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