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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2010/119/Security-Lessons-Linux-WAP/(tagID)/337

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2011/127/Security-Lessons-Bufferbloat/%28kategorie%29/0

In this article, I’m not going to talk about an emerging technology (don’t get me wrong, I love new technology) but about something even more interesting: An emergent behavior that was never expected: bufferbloat.

Bufferbloat is not a recent phenomenon; however, it has only recently been uncovered and understood, and developers will likely be grappling with it for some time. Additionally, this problem, if left unchecked, will make the Internet painfully slow to use, greatly reducing the availability of services. Remember, availability is one of the three legs of the AIC triad (along with integrity and confidentiality).

So when people say "congestion causes slow networks" they are quite often right, but not for the reasons they think they are. Case in point: my Cablemodem ping times to www.seifried.org are nice and fast, until I saturate my uplink (with even just a single upload stream) at which point the latency increases to one second (in a semi-linear fashion over a few seconds, you can almost hear all the buffers getting filled up along the way).

Linux Magazine (at least the US version) has been gone for a couple years now. I’m guessing that the OP meant to write Linux Journal, which recently went digital?
AFAIK, the only remaining US print magazines, other than the ones associated with professional organizations, are:

Linux Pro Magazine
Ubuntu User
Admin magazine

These three have digital (PDF, DRM-free) and print subscriptions.

Disclaimer I'm the author. I covered this in my June 2011 column: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2011/127/Security-Lessons-Bufferbloat/%28kategorie%29/0 direct link to the PDF http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/127/058-059_kurt.pdf. In a nutshell: my link latency at home is usually ~50ms to seifried.org, but with one single outbound file transfer to saturate my uplink ping times go to over 1000ms (1 second) reliably (which completely breaks VOIP/games/etc.).

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Apple's contention that it only be run on Apple-built machines relates to its interpretation of copyright law, which if the Library of Congress' last ruling regarding jailbroken mobiles is any indication, it'll get its brushed aluminum backside handed to it shortly.

I fail to see how that ruling has any connection to running OS X on non-Apple branded hardware at all. If Apple was preventing you from running an OS other than OS X on Apple hardware then I could see it. On the other hand this article seems to be quite applicable.

It is currently. But it doesn't have to be, because (like tolan-b said) it is mainly an app framework that runs on top of an existing OS.

1. kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64
2. ntp-4.2.4p7-2.fc11.x86_64
3. openssl-0.9.8k-5.fc11.x86_64
4. openssh-5.2p1-2.fc11.x86_64

Ok that was just a few and it appears that Fedora 11 is a bit behind considering that this distro is fairly cutting edge and IMHO not appropriate for current enterprise usage. The DoD people who suggest really bleeding edge releases appear to have a crystal ball which must tell them that that these releases are fine for their use especially in light of the so called following 2.6.30 kernel exploit . Woops! I think resumes need to be typed up :)

Interesting...

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/VirtualBox-3.0-No-More-Booting-Windows

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualization-3d-support-vmware.html

3D acceleration using DirectX in VMs isn't nearly as mature as you suggest, but VMs running games on par with PCs is a lot closer than I realized. Overall I don't see it being any more convenient than dual booting but it could be very useful for making virtual "retro boxes" for playing older games, and "portable" gaming machines (custom Linux LiveCD with VM host + Windows VM stored on flash drive).

All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

If you're using IE I guess you might be left out in the cold, but IE users will be used to that by now.

Intentionally breaking compatibility with IE would be an excellent way to ensure the project bombs and fades away as a footnote. Another excellent way to ensure failure would be to support _only_ web apps or apps written to Chrome's API. Sorry, but people expect a computer to work like a computer, and that means support a full range of applications, not just web apps. Well so far, what have we got, a blog post and rebranding Linux as Chrome? Remember Java desktop, how's that working for Sun? Advice to Sundar Pichai and friends: if you want the open source community on board, burying the community's own "trademarks" in favor of your own is not a good start. Second bit of advice: if you can't run Openoffice on it, it's a toy. So better start figuring out how to do that, or at least make it easy for the community to do it for you. Third nugget is, be careful who you allow to represent Google to the community

Google search for various Theora vs H.264 comparisons.

Because you provide no URLs, I'll assume that you mean the top ten Google results from http://www.google.com/search?q=various+Theora+vs+H.264+comparisons, as viewed in the United States. One of the results states: "the Theora version doesn't have quite the color saturation and contrast balance of the H.264 version but they're really not that far apart. Overall, I think I again prefer the H.264 version". Another implies that Theora doesn't scale to high resolutions: "Theora does have a major weakness with regards to HD video: the maximum motion vector length is only 16 pixels." Another result implied that Google would rather pay the royalties than the bandwidth.

This Story states that the video shows a 'test' version of the model, and that the production version will be as per the manufacturer's site. Who knows? Not me.