Careful downloading those, you will hit your ISP cap The images (hi-res) average around 60mb each. 16 images which should be roughly 1GB. What ISP cap do you have?!
Wow they took a 400,000 by 13,000 pixel image and compressed it to a 200x200 jpeg to wow us net folks, stellar. Yeah I RTFA in the hope to find a link to an original image. But it's just a stupid press release.
At least people read yours--I'll be lucky to get moderated at all. Oh how I long for even a modest +3. Up or down or out, it doesn't matter, as long as in the end it equals +3. Have a bit of sympathy for our unimaginative anonymous cowards out there!
I think a better solution for him would be to use a proxy (like Squid) to cache the update files. Indeed. But that costs hours of work and considerable expertise - not easily generalized to most office situations.
As it stands now, if you run Linux, you are. officially at least, unsupported as they only officially support Windows and Macintosh.
But honestly, who cares about that. Nowadays the support of the ISP effectively ends at the router, if they supplied it (or it's a model they support). I know AOL had stupid software you had to install etc., but that's not the case in the vast majority.
Back in the days of dial-up internet where you had to set up your modem, your winsock application, proxies, etc...etc.. they had experts who knew how to do things for a specific OS (too bad if you had mac in those days - go to a apple-specific ISP!), but now it's not really relevant.
Also - if you've got 10 machines running the same OS, wouldn't it be worth setting up an internal mirror / patch distribution server so you only need to pull the data down your internet pipe once?
Yes and no. It's an elegant idea, but it might still be too much work for many smallish offices (10 computers is not really very big) to have to implement maintain something like that. Certainly worth doing if you DO have restrictions on bandwidth.
I believe, also, that some ISP's are offering one-off upgrades to a higher bandwidth plan (pay the higher bandwidth plan's price for one month then revert to your usual) for times when you exceed your allocated GB's for whatever reason.
I also download the occasional Linux distro, and a Fedora or Windows update can be over 200 MB
In Australia the plans are usually for bandwidth/month, so you pay according to line speed, GB/month etc, but it's fairly uncommon (except for wireless broadband) to be charged for excess usage (they just drop the speed to something painful like 64kbps).
Many of the ISP's have unmetered content, such as local mirrors for major linux distro's, file repositories and some entertainment related stuff. So, for example, all the Ubuntu updates for our computers are not metered - in some circumstances that's VERY useful (eg: an office with 10 computers).
But Australia's internet is a horrible state of affairs generally - just putting in our experience here FWIW.
Maybe not. IANAC (I am not a cryptographer) but my limited understanding of things is that quantom computing is not the be-all-and-end-all of encryption. It is possible to develop encryption algorithms that run on conventional processors which are resistant to what quantum computers are probably going to be capable of doing with numbers.
I don't have the vocabulary to go beyond that at this time of day but a while back while almost-blind-drunk I had one of those moments of clarity and it all made sense.
I cannot imagine in their wildest dreams that they would try again. There are probably animated films in japan depicting the kind of repetitive self flagelation that Toshiba is demonstrating. Probably illegal in most countries too.
While that may be the real issue here, and worthy of prolonged discussion, Lou Dobbs jokes are infinitely easier.;-) Tell that to.. uhm.. some other guy uhm.. ok ok you win!
LOL. In this context (legal action against a website which has a multinational presence), it is becoming more and more apparent that governments don't care where the website comes from. Sure there still are nominal borders but it's not like you can throw rubbish over the neighbour's fence and get away with it so easily on the Internet.
more genetic variation means more resistance to the weakness of monoculture Well I for one will be the first to welcome our new superior-banana-being overlords, if they ever happen to evolve.
Not only would they be "fully articulated" in the bedroom they would also be "sensitive enough" to pick up flowers & wine beforehand. So this is a huge grope forward, not a huge leap forward as the title suggests.
Slashdot Mirror
Here are some hi-res images - found them finally.
But they are very nice computers indeed. I want one!
But honestly, who cares about that. Nowadays the support of the ISP effectively ends at the router, if they supplied it (or it's a model they support). I know AOL had stupid software you had to install etc., but that's not the case in the vast majority.
Back in the days of dial-up internet where you had to set up your modem, your winsock application, proxies, etc...etc.. they had experts who knew how to do things for a specific OS (too bad if you had mac in those days - go to a apple-specific ISP!), but now it's not really relevant.
Yes and no. It's an elegant idea, but it might still be too much work for many smallish offices (10 computers is not really very big) to have to implement maintain something like that. Certainly worth doing if you DO have restrictions on bandwidth.
I believe, also, that some ISP's are offering one-off upgrades to a higher bandwidth plan (pay the higher bandwidth plan's price for one month then revert to your usual) for times when you exceed your allocated GB's for whatever reason.
In Australia the plans are usually for bandwidth/month, so you pay according to line speed, GB/month etc, but it's fairly uncommon (except for wireless broadband) to be charged for excess usage (they just drop the speed to something painful like 64kbps).
Many of the ISP's have unmetered content, such as local mirrors for major linux distro's, file repositories and some entertainment related stuff. So, for example, all the Ubuntu updates for our computers are not metered - in some circumstances that's VERY useful (eg: an office with 10 computers).
But Australia's internet is a horrible state of affairs generally - just putting in our experience here FWIW.
Maybe not. IANAC (I am not a cryptographer) but my limited understanding of things is that quantom computing is not the be-all-and-end-all of encryption. It is possible to develop encryption algorithms that run on conventional processors which are resistant to what quantum computers are probably going to be capable of doing with numbers.
I don't have the vocabulary to go beyond that at this time of day but a while back while almost-blind-drunk I had one of those moments of clarity and it all made sense.
Which is why we should be happy/sad/elated/positive/thoughtful about RedOffice?
Did I miss something here?