I have fought with SAMBA on Ubuntu 8.04 server and I cant get it going faster than 10-11MB/sec when copying to/from Windows XP....Someone once told me SAMBA will always be slow but I don't believe that to be true.
Alternatively, if you don't need all the Win network support that SAMBA provides, you can install ext2ifs on the XP boxes and enjoy easy and fast access to your *nix volumes. Works well for me. Caution: Security issues...
I've always wondered if the organisations that 'lose' data such as SS#s are diligent in warning potential victims of identity theft etc.
Totally ignorent in this area - perhaps someone here could clarify. What, if any, are the obligations of an organisation that holds sensitive data about you to inform you of it's potential or real loss?
Seems that this is a start, but it's still 'passive'. Some kind of active warning system would be better... After all, if someone's stolen my bank details and passwords, I'd really like to know, fast.
You're right. I'd love a Tesla, but spending over $100K on a small 2-seater with limited range and no gas backup is not an option for me. Nor is it for most people. It's basically a semi hand-built car with all of the non-electric/electronic engineering done by Lotus. (It's 90% an Elise).
So yeah, they don't know shit about car engineering, let alone volume production.
Still want want though...
As for the Chinese car, good luck with the crash test.
"Last week, Warner Music Group proposed a voluntary blanket licensing scheme for universities. The proposal would add a fee to student tuition to permit music file sharing in schools."
And then, via another link;
"The rest of the details are still to be determined, including whether it would be a mandatory fee for all students, or an opt-in fee (complete with continued lawsuits for those who fail to pay?). It's also not clear what the fee would be, although those familiar with the talks suggest less than $5 per student per month... "
Sounds more like a pragmatic solution and better than criminalizing your potential customers via dubious legal processes, such as this one.
Oh how we bitched and mocked about the iPhone V1, (me included). Locked down, no 3G, GPS... 'Geeks' users I know were all disppointed by their purchases.
But the market is not geeks; it's my wife, teenage kids and other technical 'don't care' or illiterates - I think the iPod is poor value, (and don't get me started on iTunes) - but they all rejected the (cheaper, more functional) mp3/4 players I offered them and wanted iPods. (Although they do prefer MediaMonkey to iTunes).
So the market did not listen to us geeks, and bought a shitload. As Apple knew. They were in no rush for 3G, because they knew they could still sell a bundle, and still keep something back for the next generation to boost demand further. Wonder what the saturation point will be? What's the next compelling updgrade?
The Apple advance continues, based around smart brand marketing and ease of use. Lessons for linux there, eh? Geeks may prefer BSD, Red Hat or whatever, but Ubuntu shows where it needs to go. When/if it gets like OSX then it finally will be the 'year of linux on the desktop'.
Oh do mod up! Shame that you feel obliged to post AC.
You can quite quickly and easily replace XP+Office with something like Ubuntu and OpenOffice, though. Really not a bad substitute and easy to do, (I've done it for several people). Even the driver support and installation is getting much better.
'Others simply asked the FCC not to take on such a major project as the transition between analog and digital television transmissions looms.'
Why is this a 'major project'? And just what the heck has digital TV got to do with free wifi?
Also, from one of the links.
'Cell phone companies, in particular Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile, oppose the proposal, saying it will create interference, among other concerns. T-Mobile paid about $4.2 billion for an adjacent piece of spectrum.
The FCC has said its engineers examined the issue and found no technical interference issues.'
I suggest that the 'interference' that T-Mobile and others are worried about is the interference that this would create in them charging shitloads of money for internet access via their existing mobile networks.
Shame - apart from perhaps boosting the USA's dismal record in internet access, just image what widely available free Internet access could do. Think what GPS did...
I'm sure that ways could be found to ensure that network builders and operators could still get a decent ROI. Business users, for example, would still be prepared to pay extra for guaranteed voice/data coverage and added-value services.
On reading the article, the box has 30 thousand cores, of much the vast majority are AMD Opterons in Sun boxes. No mention of how/in what you'd program this to actually put the GPUs to good use.
Yup, that's what I understand too - unless you have an unfeasibly long gun, the required acceleration is pretty much gonna destroy anything you put in it...
People who don't know, or who refuse to accept that things are 'imposible'. They're the ones who drive progress. Think the Wright brothers, Einstein or better still Michelangelo, who imagined flying machines and submarines that were only inviable because the necessary technology (engineering & materials) were not available.
After all, geosync orbits were thought up by first by a scifi writer...but to your point, Arthur C. Clarke did have a good grasp of Physics...
Well, as often the/. tagline is rather full of hyperpole. FTA:
'Seth Bloom, an AT&T spokesperson, confirmed to Ars Technica that the company "has no plans to standardize on one platform for our smart devices. But we have said that we see potential benefit in standardizing our low-end devices on a single mobile OS, though we have not finalized our plans to do so." '
So, you'll get probably get a crippled/slow device with the ability to expensively download crap 'approved' by AT&T. I'll pass.
Nothing in the article on it being a Lear for sure, but they probably just picked something more or less at random. Here's a link to their website with more on the escape pod:
Nice to see the escape module. Bearing in mind that even NASA - and the Russians, Chinese etc. - have had some spectactular & sad blow-ups, it would seem likely that some of these less well resourced attempts will have the same. Shame there was not one in the shuttle - I seem to remember it was in the original proposal?
Neat idea also to tow the thing up, therefore avoiding the need for a special launch aircraft like Rutan's designs. Still, he did get there first, and this thing's only on paper...
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I have fought with SAMBA on Ubuntu 8.04 server and I cant get it going faster than 10-11MB/sec when copying to/from Windows XP. ...Someone once told me SAMBA will always be slow but I don't believe that to be true.
Well, for SAMBA tuning, try (pdf):
http://tinyurl.com/5rfjvu
Alternatively, if you don't need all the Win network support that SAMBA provides, you can install ext2ifs on the XP boxes and enjoy easy and fast access to your *nix volumes. Works well for me. Caution: Security issues...
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
Thanks for the link - looks sweet.
Good to see that they put the two wheels at the right end for a trike - at the front.
On the 'reservation' page, there's no mention of price, though. Just a 500$ deposit.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but hold your fire, grammer nazis - of course it should be "its".
I've always wondered if the organisations that 'lose' data such as SS#s are diligent in warning potential victims of identity theft etc.
Totally ignorent in this area - perhaps someone here could clarify. What, if any, are the obligations of an organisation that holds sensitive data about you to inform you of it's potential or real loss?
Seems that this is a start, but it's still 'passive'. Some kind of active warning system would be better... After all, if someone's stolen my bank details and passwords, I'd really like to know, fast.
You're right. I'd love a Tesla, but spending over $100K on a small 2-seater with limited range and no gas backup is not an option for me. Nor is it for most people. It's basically a semi hand-built car with all of the non-electric/electronic engineering done by Lotus. (It's 90% an Elise).
So yeah, they don't know shit about car engineering, let alone volume production.
Still want want though...
As for the Chinese car, good luck with the crash test.
"Last week, Warner Music Group proposed a voluntary blanket licensing scheme for universities. The proposal would add a fee to student tuition to permit music file sharing in schools."
And then, via another link;
"The rest of the details are still to be determined, including whether it would be a mandatory fee for all students, or an opt-in fee (complete with continued lawsuits for those who fail to pay?). It's also not clear what the fee would be, although those familiar with the talks suggest less than $5 per student per month... "
Sounds more like a pragmatic solution and better than criminalizing your potential customers via dubious legal processes, such as this one.
Oh how we bitched and mocked about the iPhone V1, (me included). Locked down, no 3G, GPS... 'Geeks' users I know were all disppointed by their purchases.
But the market is not geeks; it's my wife, teenage kids and other technical 'don't care' or illiterates - I think the iPod is poor value, (and don't get me started on iTunes) - but they all rejected the (cheaper, more functional) mp3/4 players I offered them and wanted iPods. (Although they do prefer MediaMonkey to iTunes).
So the market did not listen to us geeks, and bought a shitload. As Apple knew. They were in no rush for 3G, because they knew they could still sell a bundle, and still keep something back for the next generation to boost demand further. Wonder what the saturation point will be? What's the next compelling updgrade?
The Apple advance continues, based around smart brand marketing and ease of use. Lessons for linux there, eh? Geeks may prefer BSD, Red Hat or whatever, but Ubuntu shows where it needs to go. When/if it gets like OSX then it finally will be the 'year of linux on the desktop'.
Oh do mod up! Shame that you feel obliged to post AC.
You can quite quickly and easily replace XP+Office with something like Ubuntu and OpenOffice, though. Really not a bad substitute and easy to do, (I've done it for several people). Even the driver support and installation is getting much better.
Good luck with that one, dude ;-)
Does Microsoft charge them more for XP? (Which would be illogical for older software).
Surely they don't prtend that it costs more to dump one image to a drive rather than another?
Costs more because of diver support? Nope, Dell don't write the drivers...
So, I'm confused as to how they can justify this.
Mind you, not surprising from a company that charges the same for a PC with Linux as it does for Vista....
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The USA has the largest number of internet-connected people, but is #16 in per-capita.
See
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/int_bro_acc_percap-internet-broadband-access-per-capita
'Others simply asked the FCC not to take on such a major project as the transition between analog and digital television transmissions looms.'
Why is this a 'major project'? And just what the heck has digital TV got to do with free wifi?
Also, from one of the links.
'Cell phone companies, in particular Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile, oppose the proposal, saying it will create interference, among other concerns. T-Mobile paid about $4.2 billion for an adjacent piece of spectrum.
The FCC has said its engineers examined the issue and found no technical interference issues.'
I suggest that the 'interference' that T-Mobile and others are worried about is the interference that this would create in them charging shitloads of money for internet access via their existing mobile networks.
Shame - apart from perhaps boosting the USA's dismal record in internet access, just image what widely available free Internet access could do. Think what GPS did...
I'm sure that ways could be found to ensure that network builders and operators could still get a decent ROI. Business users, for example, would still be prepared to pay extra for guaranteed voice/data coverage and added-value services.
Amen. Even more necessary to use Ubuntu-eee with the lower-end EEEs.
The big problem here is whether you'll be allowed to buy
a mini notebook with 1GB and a 120-160 MB hard disk without Windows.
You're right, but Asus put a pretty big thin end of the wedge in the door with the Eee (not a typo, just a sily name) range of tiny PCs with Linux.
Of course, the higher-end ones then became available with windows...
On reading the article, the box has 30 thousand cores, of much the vast majority are AMD Opterons in Sun boxes. No mention of how/in what you'd program this to actually put the GPUs to good use.
Yup, that's what I understand too - unless you have an unfeasibly long gun, the required acceleration is pretty much gonna destroy anything you put in it...
People who don't know, or who refuse to accept that things are 'imposible'. They're the ones who drive progress. Think the Wright brothers, Einstein or better still Michelangelo, who imagined flying machines and submarines that were only inviable because the necessary technology (engineering & materials) were not available.
After all, geosync orbits were thought up by first by a scifi writer...but to your point, Arthur C. Clarke did have a good grasp of Physics...
Escaping from dying spacecraft is rather harder than it looks.
Never thought it looked easy, although Sigourney Weaver managed it...
More seriously, thanks for the post, and also to 128...interesting
Well, as often the /. tagline is rather full of hyperpole. FTA:
'Seth Bloom, an AT&T spokesperson, confirmed to Ars Technica that the company "has no plans to standardize on one platform for our smart devices. But we have said that we see potential benefit in standardizing our low-end devices on a single mobile OS, though we have not finalized our plans to do so." '
So, you'll get probably get a crippled/slow device with the ability to expensively download crap 'approved' by AT&T. I'll pass.
Nothing in the article on it being a Lear for sure, but they probably just picked something more or less at random. Here's a link to their website with more on the escape pod:
http://www.taascompany.com/slide1.html
Looks like they've got a patent, which surprises me since there's plenty of prior art...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_pod
Right! Funny. AC has a point - I got a slow cooker with a ceramic lining...
And just read the artcile, which is OK, and certainly better than most of the user-submitted comments with their own insightful (ahem) judgements.
Ah yes, I know this is /. and no I'm not new here...
Mind you, nothing in the article that most people here will not already know... /end grumpy rant
Funny - looks a little like the original Learjet.
Nice to see the escape module. Bearing in mind that even NASA - and the Russians, Chinese etc. - have had some spectactular & sad blow-ups, it would seem likely that some of these less well resourced attempts will have the same. Shame there was not one in the shuttle - I seem to remember it was in the original proposal?
Neat idea also to tow the thing up, therefore avoiding the need for a special launch aircraft like Rutan's designs. Still, he did get there first, and this thing's only on paper...
Three kinds of people watch football:
1) Dumb kids
2) Closet homosexuals
3) Leering perverts
I'm not dumb and I'm not a homosexual, so I'm a leering perv.
See how easy it was to summarize your wordy post?
That was funnier than the original post - mod up!