You overestimate the average consumer's ability to care about things such as being able to run software from anywhere.
I'm more worried about what happens with all the software I purchased if I decide to try Android or Maemo after my iPhone. I could give it to a friend, but I can't. I'm surprised nobody talks about this, but in a year or two I assume a lot of people will. I am quite happy with the iPhone, but I'm not sure I want to continue using as much money on apps after this crossed my mind.
I hear our dba's complain about replication too. We run services on both mysql and postgresql and from what I gathered it was far more difficult and error prone to configure the replication for complex posgresql databases (defining per table?).
It doesn't matter what medical conditions he has, it doesn't matter WHY he was doing it, he hacked government servers.
That would kind of depend on the country you are living in. As far as I'm aware at least here in Finland WHY you did something will aways affect the judgment you end up getting. Sometimes your conditions can get you a smaller judgment, sometimes your motivation will affect it, sometimes lack of regret will make things worse.
I'm kind of assuming this is ONE of the reasons why different crimes have such a large scale between the minimum and maximum punishment.
I also don't know how important it should be here (especially since the UK and US are in quite close cooperation), but he did not hack his own governments servers, they where a foreign nations governments servers.
The question is maybe more of what your responsibility is when you know somebody is at this moment using the fishing line to kill people. If you had a button you could press that would make the murder weapon vanish, should you just shrug as you won't be prosecuted anyway?
But if you rent him a fishing line the situation might be different. Once he returns it you would be in possession of a murder weapon. Which part of your internet connection did the ISP sell to you?
Make darknets / honeypots to detect your customers trying to infect other hosts on your network(s). You are saying there is no point trying to fight infected machines that are part of bot nets because if you succeed in taking them down they will further improve the design of the botnet? And the alternative is?
You don't call $500 a month for full rate adsl an issue? As mentioned above, 24/1 adsl with no caps and a 2 year contract can be had for 9,90€ first year and 19,90 second year here in Finland. And I'm fairly sure the companies will still be making a profit as long as they don't need to spend a lot of setting up the connection (that is, connecting your apartment to the dslam does not require somebody coming over to the apartments switching board). I do understand your point about connectivity to the rest of the world and it's definitely valid, but it does seem it's not your only issue. While your isp's will end up paying more for transit, it can't be close to [b]that[/b] much more (since the isp's here in Finland with 5 million population are not any bigger then yours).
No offence, but having 128Kb up with 7Mb down is still pretty sad. I guess somebody has calculated that the Ack's just manage with that rate, but how do you develop pictures from your digicam? Take them to the store with a dvd? I do have to admit I did verify the connection my friend had from the ISP's web pages, but did not check out what the competition was offering (I was just there on vacation and struggling to use VPN to do some work).
Anyway, just for comparison, here in Finland you can get a 24/1 ADSL (no caps) with a 2 year contract for 9,90€ first year and 19,90€ second year. Personally I pay under 50€/month for an uncapped 100/10Mb fiber which has worked at advertised speeds every time I tried.
I spent a month in NZ at a friends house a year ago, and the internet connections where like we had in Finland 10 years ago... Or even worse. They had an ADSL connection limited to 1Mb/s down (and very slow up) with a 2GB monthly limit. After the limit is full it would throttle down to 5KB/s for the rest of the month. The price of the connection was more then I payed for a full rate (8/1) ADSL back at home, with no caps. I guess if this was somewhere far in the countryside I could understand it, but it was in one of the better areas of Auckland!
I do have to admit, that internet connections were far more expensive in Finland too until they made a law forcing telco's to rent out the last mile with pricing based on the true expenses rather to what they feel like. This brought a lot of competition that ended up lowering prices by about half in all areas worth competing in. You still have areas in the country side where the only company offering ADSL is the "old telco" of the area, but that's just because there really is no money to be made. In most of the country the situation improved dramatically, and looking how the government has originally subsidized building the infrastructure I feel the decision was a good one. You can't count on telco's bringing down prices of internet connections, or speeding them up by much.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/354
"Hownetworks" is pretty cool, but you will still be left with the problem of creating a very sterile environment. If you try teaching somebody by watching live traffic in an office or school network there will be so much noise that it will probably confuse the students. I tried looking for an updated version of the app, but could not find one...
That was my first thought too. Then somebody mentioned that the US has a limit for oil (or energy) companies liability in cases like this of 75 million dollars? If that's true, it's quite logical that there would be no big financial (apart from PR) reasons for the company to spend a lot of money beforehand researching solutions for an unlikely incident such as this.
I've been involved in risk and business impact assesments, and the first rule of thumb is to never use more money to counter a risk then the worst case would cost if the risk realizes. By limiting the liability you ensure it's not worth it for the companies to develop expensive solutions for situations like this.
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You don't need to mount it as ext2, just make the filesystem with “mke2fs -t ext4 -O ^has_journal/dev/sdXX”. However I'm not fully convinced that is needed with a modern fast SSD that supports trim combined with an operating system that also supports trim.
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Seems Fedora 13 has 2.6.9.33 kernel? Trim support by default? I have been curious to try Fedora for a while and have a new workstation (with ssd) coming in a week or so. Maybe I should try this instead of 10.4.
I agree, a major change is needed to make Linux more convincing. I vote the next kernel be numbered 10.2.35. This should prove to everyone that Linux is mature, and ready for the desktop.
I'd still rather vote for the party I like, that's the point of voting. On minimum if the party you like a little understands people are voting elsewhere BECAUSE of their prior action they might clean up their act. However your attitude will ensure they never face those hard decisions.
Now I'm not from the US, so what I think does not really matter that much. Where I live we have three big parties and two or three smaller ones that also make a difference. However despite voting for almost 20 years, my candidates have never actually been chosen. Should I vote some asshole into the government just because he's the best I can get through? Would everybody doing that just ensure we never end up having people in the government who have a clue?
The fact that nobody I ever voted got elected occasionally has me feeling that my vote really does not matter. However I feel that if I was not expressing my real feelings with my vote then it REALLY would not make a difference. I might as well stop voting.
That's not the point, cellphones can have a ton of megapixels but with their tiny lens setup the image will be garbage no matter how fine grained the sensor is. This isn't about getting more megapixels, it's about getting digital images out of expensive old cameras with very expensive lens setups.
You did not hear? Nokia is going to make SLR camera's obsolete with their future cell phone cameras!
Yup. I lived in Lebanon for 5 years. Visited Syria twice, Jordania once, Egypt twice... Met a lot of nice people, and no extremists. I'm not saying there where none, just that you can live there for years as a blond foreigner and never see them.
Yup, somehow the two days sounds very optimistic... And I have tickets to go on a romantic vacation without the kids in 5 days time. Now I don't know if we can leave - or get back. I guess that's life.
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You overestimate the average consumer's ability to care about things such as being able to run software from anywhere.
I'm more worried about what happens with all the software I purchased if I decide to try Android or Maemo after my iPhone. I could give it to a friend, but I can't. I'm surprised nobody talks about this, but in a year or two I assume a lot of people will. I am quite happy with the iPhone, but I'm not sure I want to continue using as much money on apps after this crossed my mind.
I hear our dba's complain about replication too. We run services on both mysql and postgresql and from what I gathered it was far more difficult and error prone to configure the replication for complex posgresql databases (defining per table?).
It doesn't matter what medical conditions he has, it doesn't matter WHY he was doing it, he hacked government servers.
That would kind of depend on the country you are living in. As far as I'm aware at least here in Finland WHY you did something will aways affect the judgment you end up getting. Sometimes your conditions can get you a smaller judgment, sometimes your motivation will affect it, sometimes lack of regret will make things worse.
I'm kind of assuming this is ONE of the reasons why different crimes have such a large scale between the minimum and maximum punishment.
I also don't know how important it should be here (especially since the UK and US are in quite close cooperation), but he did not hack his own governments servers, they where a foreign nations governments servers.
The question is maybe more of what your responsibility is when you know somebody is at this moment using the fishing line to kill people. If you had a button you could press that would make the murder weapon vanish, should you just shrug as you won't be prosecuted anyway?
But if you rent him a fishing line the situation might be different. Once he returns it you would be in possession of a murder weapon. Which part of your internet connection did the ISP sell to you?
Make darknets / honeypots to detect your customers trying to infect other hosts on your network(s). You are saying there is no point trying to fight infected machines that are part of bot nets because if you succeed in taking them down they will further improve the design of the botnet? And the alternative is?
We do have our own share of problems regarding our government. I would definitely not call them smart. :D
You don't call $500 a month for full rate adsl an issue? As mentioned above, 24/1 adsl with no caps and a 2 year contract can be had for 9,90€ first year and 19,90 second year here in Finland. And I'm fairly sure the companies will still be making a profit as long as they don't need to spend a lot of setting up the connection (that is, connecting your apartment to the dslam does not require somebody coming over to the apartments switching board). I do understand your point about connectivity to the rest of the world and it's definitely valid, but it does seem it's not your only issue. While your isp's will end up paying more for transit, it can't be close to [b]that[/b] much more (since the isp's here in Finland with 5 million population are not any bigger then yours).
No offence, but having 128Kb up with 7Mb down is still pretty sad. I guess somebody has calculated that the Ack's just manage with that rate, but how do you develop pictures from your digicam? Take them to the store with a dvd? I do have to admit I did verify the connection my friend had from the ISP's web pages, but did not check out what the competition was offering (I was just there on vacation and struggling to use VPN to do some work).
Anyway, just for comparison, here in Finland you can get a 24/1 ADSL (no caps) with a 2 year contract for 9,90€ first year and 19,90€ second year. Personally I pay under 50€/month for an uncapped 100/10Mb fiber which has worked at advertised speeds every time I tried.
I spent a month in NZ at a friends house a year ago, and the internet connections where like we had in Finland 10 years ago... Or even worse. They had an ADSL connection limited to 1Mb/s down (and very slow up) with a 2GB monthly limit. After the limit is full it would throttle down to 5KB/s for the rest of the month. The price of the connection was more then I payed for a full rate (8/1) ADSL back at home, with no caps. I guess if this was somewhere far in the countryside I could understand it, but it was in one of the better areas of Auckland!
I do have to admit, that internet connections were far more expensive in Finland too until they made a law forcing telco's to rent out the last mile with pricing based on the true expenses rather to what they feel like. This brought a lot of competition that ended up lowering prices by about half in all areas worth competing in. You still have areas in the country side where the only company offering ADSL is the "old telco" of the area, but that's just because there really is no money to be made. In most of the country the situation improved dramatically, and looking how the government has originally subsidized building the infrastructure I feel the decision was a good one. You can't count on telco's bringing down prices of internet connections, or speeding them up by much.
http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/354 "Hownetworks" is pretty cool, but you will still be left with the problem of creating a very sterile environment. If you try teaching somebody by watching live traffic in an office or school network there will be so much noise that it will probably confuse the students. I tried looking for an updated version of the app, but could not find one...
Or even knowledge on what cpu it will run with...
I rarely miss multitasking on my iPhone, but Skype is the app that really reminds me how important it would be.
That was my first thought too. Then somebody mentioned that the US has a limit for oil (or energy) companies liability in cases like this of 75 million dollars? If that's true, it's quite logical that there would be no big financial (apart from PR) reasons for the company to spend a lot of money beforehand researching solutions for an unlikely incident such as this.
I've been involved in risk and business impact assesments, and the first rule of thumb is to never use more money to counter a risk then the worst case would cost if the risk realizes. By limiting the liability you ensure it's not worth it for the companies to develop expensive solutions for situations like this.
You don't need to mount it as ext2, just make the filesystem with “mke2fs -t ext4 -O ^has_journal /dev/sdXX”. However I'm not fully convinced that is needed with a modern fast SSD that supports trim combined with an operating system that also supports trim.
Here are some measurements: http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/01/ssds-journaling-and-noatimerelatime/ though it's not perfect as they are measuring transferred megabytes which is not a good indicator of IO's.
They could just send you random results!
Seems Fedora 13 has 2.6.9.33 kernel? Trim support by default? I have been curious to try Fedora for a while and have a new workstation (with ssd) coming in a week or so. Maybe I should try this instead of 10.4.
Allowing using any devices and supporting them is not the same thing.
I agree, a major change is needed to make Linux more convincing. I vote the next kernel be numbered 10.2.35. This should prove to everyone that Linux is mature, and ready for the desktop.
I'd still rather vote for the party I like, that's the point of voting. On minimum if the party you like a little understands people are voting elsewhere BECAUSE of their prior action they might clean up their act. However your attitude will ensure they never face those hard decisions.
Now I'm not from the US, so what I think does not really matter that much. Where I live we have three big parties and two or three smaller ones that also make a difference. However despite voting for almost 20 years, my candidates have never actually been chosen. Should I vote some asshole into the government just because he's the best I can get through? Would everybody doing that just ensure we never end up having people in the government who have a clue?
The fact that nobody I ever voted got elected occasionally has me feeling that my vote really does not matter. However I feel that if I was not expressing my real feelings with my vote then it REALLY would not make a difference. I might as well stop voting.
That's not the point, cellphones can have a ton of megapixels but with their tiny lens setup the image will be garbage no matter how fine grained the sensor is. This isn't about getting more megapixels, it's about getting digital images out of expensive old cameras with very expensive lens setups.
You did not hear? Nokia is going to make SLR camera's obsolete with their future cell phone cameras!
(Yes, yes, I have a feeling mr. Vanjoki is not much of a photographer) http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE63J15F20100420
Yup. I lived in Lebanon for 5 years. Visited Syria twice, Jordania once, Egypt twice... Met a lot of nice people, and no extremists. I'm not saying there where none, just that you can live there for years as a blond foreigner and never see them.
Yup, somehow the two days sounds very optimistic... And I have tickets to go on a romantic vacation without the kids in 5 days time. Now I don't know if we can leave - or get back. I guess that's life.
FUCK THIS SHIT, and fuck all the Apple astroturfers like Paska just below.
As it happens Paska stands for shit in my native language (Finnish). :)
Apple doesn't even have the #1 spot in smartphone manufacturers, I don't know where you get "monopoly" from. Maybe you're just an idiot.
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Sorry, next time I'll include sarcasm tags so idiots responding won't think I'm an idiot.