Those are some lazy excuses, not real reasons. For example, OSX runs UTC on the CMOS clock, but users never notice, and old applications didn't break (too much).
The real reasons are these: 1. Microsoft would be consistently wrong rather than correct and break things. 2. GetSystemTime() returns UTC. In the past, it didn't know about UTC. And many programmers who used it didn't either. See 1.
I use tuffmail.com. They do all the tricks, grey listing, etc, and its only $38/year for 1Gig of space. I really like their filtering at mx level configuration also. It has cut down my spam *drastically*. I'll never setup a home e-mail server again.
Where can I get more information on energy efficient housing? What should I look for exactly? (you mentioned a few, but I would like to learn more details) I'll be in the housing market soon.
Digital towers have only a very limited range. Cellular signals travel about 5 mile radius, PCS signals about half that. And most transmission antennas are directional, with strong signals pointing in the direction of the road, so someplace 5 miles perpendicular to a well traveled highway, with no on-site cell tower, will get your level of service.
Ask your local real estate agent. Someone commented asking a trucker for coverage, but usually highways are very well covered, even by the worst providers because it is easier to towers very near highways. Your local real estate agent will have traveled all over your area, and probably would even be able to tell you which service doesn't work in what particular neighborhood.
Here is an example of flag waving patriotism gone wrong. The idea sounds good--make a new license free standard for domestic manufacturers, but they never considered who'll publish in the new format. None of the American movie studios will publish without strict DRM and region control, and I doubt Chinese domestic publishers and pirates would care to embrace a new, uncertain format. And to have a dual-format player (DVD+EVD), the manufacturer has to pay the license anyway.
It doesn't matter, eventually linux will be the same.
I have a 500MHz Pentium III laptop I use, which was fine with Windows 2000. After they EOL'ed it, I switched to Linux. I am currently running Xubuntu (Ubuntu with Xfce), but as even Firefox and Thunderbird are getting bloated, it's sluggish. I even maxed out the ram (576MB), which helped a little, but I'm going to have to replace it soon.
Any suggestions on laptops with decent linux driver support that wouldn't crap out after 3 years? I'm spoiled by these old Thinkpads.
Hey, it's a microsoft product! Version 1 will be dreadful, 2 will be better but no one will care, but 3 will dominate the market. Who wants to take my bet?
With Republicans being in the pockets of media giants who wanted DMCA, and YouTube (aka Google) succumbing instead of fighting for our fair use rights, I would say you are supposed direct all of your anger to the Retardicans.
Noise canceling headphones won't protect your hearing. I recommend those ear-buds that actually seal your ear canal, like SHURE, or Etymotic ones. Even Sony makes those now. They block out outside noise pretty well, you can still have your music, and protects your hearing to boot (if you don't play it too loudly, that is).
Due to different technologies, it is *much* easier to overlay EVDO on CDMA2000 systems than it is to overlay UMTS on GSM systems. That is why in the US all the CDMA2000 carriers (Verizon, Alltell, sprint?) are adding 3G (>1megabit) capable services quickly (broadband access, video clips). In fact, Verizon broadband is readily available in most metropolitan areas (my business friends love it). GSM carriers will be slower, with only Cingular having enough radio spectrum to deploy UMTS (W-CDMA, different from CDMA2000. Typical tech jargon, ok?), and T-mobile not in the game at all.
HSDPA doesn't change the bandwidth crunch for these GSM carriers at all. They still need to buy more spectrum. So in the mean time, expect Verizon to stay as the dominant broadband cellular carrier. Of course, WiMAX and VOIP could kill them off anyways.
Most of the key management problems have actually been solved. PGP disk for a long time had the ability to encrypt using multiple keys, fraction keys (eg. 3 out of 5 must have their keys to open), key expiration, etc.
The real problem is convenience. People don't like to use secure passphrases each time they turn on their computer. How many people actually used the BIOS password feature?
An easier thing would be to use some identification based (USB fob, fingerprint scanner) access, but the acceptance rate of those are very small.
Unless security is important to them personally, people just don't care. (checking under my keyboard for the root password for all the machines at work)
Humans have altered the environment extensively throughout our existence. An alien species visiting us 5000 years ago would have noticed all the farming, extensive irrigation, not to mention a pyramid or two sticking out. Without humanity, would Earth be as interesting?
The whole "they tell you what to think" rap, eh, not so much. I've listened to Howard for years, and point blank, it's entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less.... they tend to call things what they are.
Did you think that up yourself, or did Howard tell you that "they call things what they are."? (grin)
I think your solution is pretty good, but
Backup should protect you from all of the following:
1. Hardware failure: Oops, I just spilled juice all over the motherboard, and shorted the HDD.
2. Accidents: Oops, I just deleted a file.
3. Accident discovery: Oops, I deleted a file a week ago, that I didn't mean to.
4. Accident discovery2: Damn, I need the file I deleted 6 months ago.
5. Once restored, the file should have all the exact time stamps it did when it was backed up.
A REAL backup should let you recover from all of the above.
If you are going to talk about dump, you can't leave out why dump is the best. From the FreeBSD Handbook:
17.12.7 Which Backup Program Is Best?
dump(8) Period. Elizabeth D. Zwicky torture tested all the backup programs discussed here. The clear choice for preserving all your data and all the peculiarities of UNIX file systems is dump. Elizabeth created file systems containing a large variety of unusual conditions (and some not so unusual ones) and tested each program by doing a backup and restore of those file systems. The peculiarities included: files with holes, files with holes and a block of nulls, files with funny characters in their names, unreadable and unwritable files, devices, files that change size during the backup, files that are created/deleted during the backup and more. She presented the results at LISA V in Oct. 1991. See torture-testing Backup and Archive Programs.
I find dump to be the best backup tool for unix systems. One disadvantage is that it deals with whole file systems, which means things have to be partitioned intelligently before hand. I think that's actually a Good Thing (TM).
No it doesn't. Forking for freedom has never had long term negative effects on the survival or decrease in usage of the software. Usually forking ends up growing the market, as new forks are embraced by new groups (netscape, OpenBSD, Xorg, etc etc).
This article should be labeled "-1 troll". It's almost as bad as asking "GWB, a good president, or a great president".
That voice is no longer a cash cow. Bits are now bits, and cable can also provide voice service just as well. Besides, landline voice is going the way of the dodo, thanks to cellular.
Only way phone companies can survive is to leverage their terrestrial infrastructure, and compete directly with cable companies providing cable TV and internet. But because of lack of investment on their part for the past few decades, they are scrambling to either rebuild (=fiber, Verizon), or squeeze out a few more years on copper (=DSL, SBC, ATT, Qwest, etc). But in the end, in order to compete with cable for HDTV (~20Mbits x #channels), they *have* to lay out fiber. Anything less than 1Gbit line to the home couldn't compete with cable.
No, like others have said, this technology is a stop-gap measure before full fiber deployment.
The researcher is selling his new technique to extend copper life. Verizon has bit the bullet and is building out FTTH, but other carriers (namely AT&T, former SBC) is being more cautious and taking it slower, with Ftt-curb. With this new technique, they can bring some improvements, but if you consider the bandwidth requirement for HD TV (~15Mbps x number of channels), eventually fiber will win out.
Remember, the cost of getting fiber to the home is not in the materials or the equipment, but the rising cost of labor to dig earth and install end points. The longer AT&T and others wait, won't make it any cheaper for them to deploy fiber. They are just afraid taking such a big investment all at once, and depress stock prices (like Verizon).
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Those are some lazy excuses, not real reasons. For example, OSX runs UTC on the CMOS clock, but users never notice, and old applications didn't break (too much).
The real reasons are these:
1. Microsoft would be consistently wrong rather than correct and break things.
2. GetSystemTime() returns UTC. In the past, it didn't know about UTC. And many programmers who used it didn't either. See 1.
I use tuffmail.com. They do all the tricks, grey listing, etc, and its only $38/year for 1Gig of space. I really like their filtering at mx level configuration also. It has cut down my spam *drastically*. I'll never setup a home e-mail server again.
Where can I get more information on energy efficient housing? What should I look for exactly? (you mentioned a few, but I would like to learn more details) I'll be in the housing market soon.
Digital towers have only a very limited range. Cellular signals travel about 5 mile radius, PCS signals about half that. And most transmission antennas are directional, with strong signals pointing in the direction of the road, so someplace 5 miles perpendicular to a well traveled highway, with no on-site cell tower, will get your level of service.
Ask your local real estate agent. Someone commented asking a trucker for coverage, but usually highways are very well covered, even by the worst providers because it is easier to towers very near highways. Your local real estate agent will have traveled all over your area, and probably would even be able to tell you which service doesn't work in what particular neighborhood.
shhhhh.. Don't leak this one... Remember Hotmail anyone?
Here is an example of flag waving patriotism gone wrong. The idea sounds good--make a new license free standard for domestic manufacturers, but they never considered who'll publish in the new format. None of the American movie studios will publish without strict DRM and region control, and I doubt Chinese domestic publishers and pirates would care to embrace a new, uncertain format. And to have a dual-format player (DVD+EVD), the manufacturer has to pay the license anyway.
It doesn't matter, eventually linux will be the same.
I have a 500MHz Pentium III laptop I use, which was fine with Windows 2000. After they EOL'ed it, I switched to Linux. I am currently running Xubuntu (Ubuntu with Xfce), but as even Firefox and Thunderbird are getting bloated, it's sluggish. I even maxed out the ram (576MB), which helped a little, but I'm going to have to replace it soon.
Any suggestions on laptops with decent linux driver support that wouldn't crap out after 3 years? I'm spoiled by these old Thinkpads.
Hey, it's a microsoft product! Version 1 will be dreadful, 2 will be better but no one will care, but 3 will dominate the market. Who wants to take my bet?
Quite frankly there is nothing in Iraq worth even one American life.
How about one Iraqi life?
With Republicans being in the pockets of media giants who wanted DMCA, and YouTube (aka Google) succumbing instead of fighting for our fair use rights, I would say you are supposed direct all of your anger to the Retardicans.
Noise canceling headphones won't protect your hearing. I recommend those ear-buds that actually seal your ear canal, like SHURE, or Etymotic ones. Even Sony makes those now. They block out outside noise pretty well, you can still have your music, and protects your hearing to boot (if you don't play it too loudly, that is).
Due to different technologies, it is *much* easier to overlay EVDO on CDMA2000 systems than it is to overlay UMTS on GSM systems. That is why in the US all the CDMA2000 carriers (Verizon, Alltell, sprint?) are adding 3G (>1megabit) capable services quickly (broadband access, video clips). In fact, Verizon broadband is readily available in most metropolitan areas (my business friends love it). GSM carriers will be slower, with only Cingular having enough radio spectrum to deploy UMTS (W-CDMA, different from CDMA2000. Typical tech jargon, ok?), and T-mobile not in the game at all.
HSDPA doesn't change the bandwidth crunch for these GSM carriers at all. They still need to buy more spectrum. So in the mean time, expect Verizon to stay as the dominant broadband cellular carrier. Of course, WiMAX and VOIP could kill them off anyways.
I really like your sig. Go retardicans!
It's not even in beta yet, but the video looks *very* cool.
http://iscrybe.com/cal/index.html
Most of the key management problems have actually been solved. PGP disk for a long time had the ability to encrypt using multiple keys, fraction keys (eg. 3 out of 5 must have their keys to open), key expiration, etc.
The real problem is convenience. People don't like to use secure passphrases each time they turn on their computer. How many people actually used the BIOS password feature? An easier thing would be to use some identification based (USB fob, fingerprint scanner) access, but the acceptance rate of those are very small.
Unless security is important to them personally, people just don't care. (checking under my keyboard for the root password for all the machines at work)
Humans have altered the environment extensively throughout our existence. An alien species visiting us 5000 years ago would have noticed all the farming, extensive irrigation, not to mention a pyramid or two sticking out. Without humanity, would Earth be as interesting?
The whole "they tell you what to think" rap, eh, not so much. I've listened to Howard for years, and point blank, it's entertainment. Nothing more, nothing less. ...
they tend to call things what they are.
Did you think that up yourself, or did Howard tell you that "they call things what they are."? (grin)
Disclaimer: I authored an article related to it.
Then please link to the article. I would like to know about it.
I think your solution is pretty good, but Backup should protect you from all of the following:
1. Hardware failure: Oops, I just spilled juice all over the motherboard, and shorted the HDD.
2. Accidents: Oops, I just deleted a file.
3. Accident discovery: Oops, I deleted a file a week ago, that I didn't mean to.
4. Accident discovery2: Damn, I need the file I deleted 6 months ago.
5. Once restored, the file should have all the exact time stamps it did when it was backed up.
A REAL backup should let you recover from all of the above.
I find dump to be the best backup tool for unix systems. One disadvantage is that it deals with whole file systems, which means things have to be partitioned intelligently before hand. I think that's actually a Good Thing (TM).
No it doesn't. Forking for freedom has never had long term negative effects on the survival or decrease in usage of the software. Usually forking ends up growing the market, as new forks are embraced by new groups (netscape, OpenBSD, Xorg, etc etc).
This article should be labeled "-1 troll". It's almost as bad as asking "GWB, a good president, or a great president".
That voice is no longer a cash cow. Bits are now bits, and cable can also provide voice service just as well. Besides, landline voice is going the way of the dodo, thanks to cellular.
Only way phone companies can survive is to leverage their terrestrial infrastructure, and compete directly with cable companies providing cable TV and internet. But because of lack of investment on their part for the past few decades, they are scrambling to either rebuild (=fiber, Verizon), or squeeze out a few more years on copper (=DSL, SBC, ATT, Qwest, etc). But in the end, in order to compete with cable for HDTV (~20Mbits x #channels), they *have* to lay out fiber. Anything less than 1Gbit line to the home couldn't compete with cable.
No, like others have said, this technology is a stop-gap measure before full fiber deployment.
The researcher is selling his new technique to extend copper life. Verizon has bit the bullet and is building out FTTH, but other carriers (namely AT&T, former SBC) is being more cautious and taking it slower, with Ftt-curb. With this new technique, they can bring some improvements, but if you consider the bandwidth requirement for HD TV (~15Mbps x number of channels), eventually fiber will win out.
Remember, the cost of getting fiber to the home is not in the materials or the equipment, but the rising cost of labor to dig earth and install end points. The longer AT&T and others wait, won't make it any cheaper for them to deploy fiber. They are just afraid taking such a big investment all at once, and depress stock prices (like Verizon).
They are estimating 550 Tons (0.5 kilotons), which is the smallest "milestone" nuclear tests so far.e :Milestone_nuclear_explosions
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