I don't think they are distributing their code so are not in violation of the GPL, you may have their code on your computer but you cannot make use of it. It's more like you have provided them with CPU and ISP resources so let's hope you have the source code to all the GPL stuff you have distributed to them.
I just started a contract at a large chip manufacturer (thousands of engineers). Windows laptops everywhere but the real engineering design happens in X VNC sessions running fvwm2 (grotty fonts but the window management just works).
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As an ex ARC employee this would have been good news a few years ago. ARM are the dominant embedded CPU core vendor but that will only last as long as their IP is freely and cheaply licensed. If that changes expect Tensilica, TI, MIPS et al to start looking a lot more attractive.
When I was a kid I was taught to write decimal points in the middle of the line, not on the bottom like a full-stop. Can we invent a new character for the decimal point. I have two keys on my keyboard with dots on them though I've never pressed the one on the numeric keypad. I propose we get rid of some useless ASCII character and use that for decimal point. How about 0x7f (DEL)? Have you ever wanted to print out DEL?
Most people are right handed but some are left handed. Most people prefer light background and others like me prefer dark. You may be the same. Unfortunately most of the web is pretty much hardcoded to have blinding white backgrounds so after years of slogging through style-sheets and app-defaults I gave up and used the sledghammer approach. I now run everything in a VNC server and use a hacked vncviewer to render the world in reverse video. I'm happy and the patch is here http://www.vnc.cz/pipermail/vnc-list/2006-January/053794.html. I'm thinking of moving to Xvfb with a hacked x11vnc as that might give a more up to date X-server and will work with Windows viewers.
I see lots of posts about bandwidth, which is fine if you're planning to use this service to copy large quantities of data, but for any other use latency is more important.
This won't be much use for me if it makes the latency of my VPN connection to my employer so slow that typing into VNC becomes useless. At the moment I get ~20ms ping times from home to work (somewhere in the UK to somewhere else in the UK) and typing via VNC over a VPN is just as good as if I were at work. I've had times when the latency went up and it rapidly becomes impossible to type at normal speed because you can't correct your mistakes as you go.
Has anyone got any figures for latency for this ISP?
I've gone better, I run diskless so there's no disk noise. Even so it's not silent, I can hear a very quiet hiss when the system is busy. I guess it's the power supply caps or something.
I've never been online in my life, the computer that receives email for me is online constantly and I occasionally wander up to it and check emails. As for pressing some buttons to say I'm here or not, forget it, nor is keyboard activity an indicator of interruptability.
Google for "the register" and pigopolist and you'll find that the probable author of this article is in San Fransico. Granted that doesn't mean the author is not British but I can't imagine any self respecting Brit living in San Fransicso for any length of tine. After all why lose all that culture without getting better weather?
I've got a M10000 in a TranquilPC case and it is lovely when booting diskless, almost silent apart from a very quiet hiss when the screen repaints.
But it's not stable and I think it's a hardware bug that VIA cannot patch. After a while (varying randomly from 10 minutes to 2 days) it will hang, sometimes with the hard drive light on. There's a massive thread on the VIA LInux forums at http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid= 28&threadid=60131&enterthread=y that's been going for years and VIA have not responded very well.
On the other hand I have a p4-itx board as a server with a Celeron 2GHz with one big Zalman fan and heatsink and that's rock solid so I'm using that as a desktop while I save up for Mac-mini.
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I don't think they are distributing their code so are not in violation of the GPL, you may have their code on your computer but you cannot make use of it. It's more like you have provided them with CPU and ISP resources so let's hope you have the source code to all the GPL stuff you have distributed to them.
Lets hope the RIAA lawyers don't realize that Amazon will be de-duping this data.
I just started a contract at a large chip manufacturer (thousands of engineers). Windows laptops everywhere but the real engineering design happens in X VNC sessions running fvwm2 (grotty fonts but the window management just works).
on second thoughts: FaceJet which will bring on Facebook, Easyjet and the porn industry.
they should call themselves EasyBook.
So did I. Thanks!
As an ex ARC employee this would have been good news a few years ago. ARM are the dominant embedded CPU core vendor but that will only last as long as their IP is freely and cheaply licensed. If that changes expect Tensilica, TI, MIPS et al to start looking a lot more attractive.
> do you think they won't give the police access to this information to help track criminals?
No, they'll give it to the police to track anyone they want, and probably sell it to Google/TomTom/whoever for data mining.
And download it to a laptop and leave it on a train.
When I was a kid I was taught to write decimal points in the middle of the line, not on the bottom like a full-stop. Can we invent a new character for the decimal point. I have two keys on my keyboard with dots on them though I've never pressed the one on the numeric keypad. I propose we get rid of some useless ASCII character and use that for decimal point. How about 0x7f (DEL)? Have you ever wanted to print out DEL?
We've just had the dullest August on record, and I don't mean we've still got Gordon Brown.
Most people are right handed but some are left handed. Most people prefer light background and others like me prefer dark. You may be the same. Unfortunately most of the web is pretty much hardcoded to have blinding white backgrounds so after years of slogging through style-sheets and app-defaults I gave up and used the sledghammer approach. I now run everything in a VNC server and use a hacked vncviewer to render the world in reverse video. I'm happy and the patch is here http://www.vnc.cz/pipermail/vnc-list/2006-January/053794.html. I'm thinking of moving to Xvfb with a hacked x11vnc as that might give a more up to date X-server and will work with Windows viewers.
Is there nothing they won't tag onto and arrive late with an improved version of?
I'm not going to touch it until SP1.
Let's hope that SCOX are still around when this gets released so they can sue Microsoft for stealing their IP.
Oh I give up, how the fuck do you think you got to where you are. Just give your money away and retire.
I bought it, and it was a hassle to go through their site. It's now on ebay.co.uk as it's not my cup of tea. £0.33 if you're interested (bargain!).
Indeed, Amazon's own head office address works nicely.
"it turns out that Asia is really big"
Wow, you're right. I just Googled Asia and it's bigger than the US!
I see lots of posts about bandwidth, which is fine if you're planning to use this service to copy large quantities of data, but for any other use latency is more important.
This won't be much use for me if it makes the latency of my VPN connection to my employer so slow that typing into VNC becomes useless. At the moment I get ~20ms ping times from home to work (somewhere in the UK to somewhere else in the UK) and typing via VNC over a VPN is just as good as if I were at work. I've had times when the latency went up and it rapidly becomes impossible to type at normal speed because you can't correct your mistakes as you go.
Has anyone got any figures for latency for this ISP?
I've gone better, I run diskless so there's no disk noise. Even so it's not silent, I can hear a very quiet hiss when the system is busy. I guess it's the power supply caps or something.
I've never been online in my life, the computer that receives email for me is online constantly and I occasionally wander up to it and check emails. As for pressing some buttons to say I'm here or not, forget it, nor is keyboard activity an indicator of interruptability.
Google for "the register" and pigopolist and you'll find that the probable author of this article is in San Fransico. Granted that doesn't mean the author is not British but I can't imagine any self respecting Brit living in San Fransicso for any length of tine. After all why lose all that culture without getting better weather?
You need a bag of bling first, then as many tins of SPAM as you can carry, nice to have a bycycle too.
I've got a M10000 in a TranquilPC case and it is lovely when booting diskless, almost silent apart from a very quiet hiss when the screen repaints.
= 28&threadid=60131&enterthread=y that's been going for years and VIA have not responded very well.
But it's not stable and I think it's a hardware bug that VIA cannot patch. After a while (varying randomly from 10 minutes to 2 days) it will hang, sometimes with the hard drive light on. There's a massive thread on the VIA LInux forums at http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid
On the other hand I have a p4-itx board as a server with a Celeron 2GHz with one big Zalman fan and heatsink and that's rock solid so I'm using that as a desktop while I save up for Mac-mini.
What kind of superhero are you? Don't you know it's you who should be wearing the sequins.
Never, ever, turn down an opportunity to wear sequins.