..the Universe had no beginning. Before the Universe was created (has created itself?) there was no time and after it ends, there won't be any time either. If it collapses into a super-mega singularity, time will stop forever inside and since there is no outside point of reference, will seem to be stuck like that forever, even when it ends:-)
(disclaimer: watched too much Star Trek at young age and Big Bang Theory now, no formal physics degree;-) )
Actually you are paying for the right to do it 24/7. If not, then the contract should state what part of 24/7 you are paying for and the user might have the option of choosing the provider that fits him best. How much? Again most of the times it states UNLIMITED. If it's not UNLIMITED then it should say you have xxGB at this speed then it degrades to xxMbps. Just don't sell UNLIMITED 24/7 xxGbps connections and expect the user to know that you really meant LIMITED xx/x less-than-xxGbps because you're too cheap to provide everyone the service you're advertising.
Exactly. I don't understand however why CVS is so easily forgotten. I still use it on a daily basis.
Sure, I've switched to git for my projects, but CVS is so easy to set up, centralized (it's a plus, when you need that), text files in repository and each file is versioned on it's own (it's a plus, when you need that). One great use I've found is put some software into git, manage patches with stgit, while having each individual patch in a CVS repository for patch history. I wouldn't change that for svn.
So what? I still have SP2 machines working just fine. It prints receipts to the customers the same as the first day it was installed. Never patched it. The users working on it are limited and IE is prohibited with the GPO (employees have better work than surf on Facebook). LAN obviously is firewalled, not that this machine (and others similar) need to access the 'net.
The only problem would be, if there was a domain wide virus that somebody would bring in with a laptop. However, that hasn't happened in the past 10 year. In my experience 95% of the "viruses" are crap people install themselves ("DHL sent me this packet, but I can't open the confirmation on my e-mail" "Are you expecting to receive something?" "No...why?"). No patches help that, unless it would patch the user, but then I'd be out of work...
I have Win 98 as a retro machine here...connected to the Internet, running latest w9x supported firefox (3.6 I belive?), no AV (it's just p3-600). It won't get automagically infected as soon as it's turned on...why would it be?
Centos reworked the build process significantly after the 6.0 release. The 6.2 and 6.3 releases were out 14 and 18 days after the upstream release. SL was somewhat behind after that (72d and 48 days respectively). Source: Wikipedia
Of course I'd rather not be touched, but choosing between this and being irradiated in a machine without any real testing I chose the pat-down. Now, I don't like it but I've been poked and groped trying to see Bon Jovi, a basketball game and many other occasions as well as in Paris on my way to the JFK. The pat-down at the JFK wasn't really much different from all the others.
Now what can we do about it? Not much really...while you might get angry at some government agency for touching you at the airport, all that private security at various event will tell you either go with it or go home. And not enough people go home to make a difference. Not many people even question the safety of the backscatter machines, I was the only one I could see opting-out and asking for a pat-down. At the moment I don't really see any other option for my "protests":-). Sure I might stay home, but then nobody will know about it:-).
I opted out at the JFK flying to Paris last month. The TSA agents were very professional, the pat-down wasn't as bad as advertised here sometimes (TBH, I've gotten more invasive pat-downs at some concerts or other public events...not related to airports at all!). They even took and carried all my carry-ons from the x-ray machine to the table so I had plenty of time to put everything together (laptop...) after the pat-down. I hate it when you have to rush, putting on the shoes and belt, storing laptop.... while people are waiting behind you at the carry-on x-ray.
Are we confusing Mbps (megabit per second) and MBps (megabyte per second) a bit? I hardly doubt that ISPs are offering 100MBps (megabytes per second) and up since these speeds would more than saturate gigabit ethernet. On the other hand, 60Mbps (as in 60 megabits per second) can easily be achieved with current generation of SOHO routers, even old WRT-54G could do 30-40Mbps on a good day.
Yes, it is surely important to have routing speed in mind, many of the cheap devices can be insufficient, but Netgear (with it's 680MHz CPU) was tested to achieve 400+Mbps (megabits) LAN-WAN throughput. I'd say that's enough for everyone. Who can transfer half the speed of the gigabit ethernet off the 'net?
I recently had to replace a 15 year old fax machine for a client of ours (we are their IT support) that broke down. I checked a couple of options and was very disappointed. The company has complete VOIP, everyone can phone from either their fancy desk VOIP phone or SIP client on the laptop. The fax machine is connected through the voip-analog converter (the provider wanted to run the fax machine entirely on the analog line, but the analog lines were in really bad shape, data fiber however is fine:-)). There are no fax machines I could find (be supported by the VOIP provider and be reasonably cheap) that do FOIP directly. There is no software that I could find reasonably cheap (free and opensource, sip client is:-)) that would allow the server to function as FOIP client. Their clients send a bunch of faxes so they were really nagging me about fixing their fax machine. I delivered them a nice XeroX WorkCentre multifunction...works like a charm.
Soyuz 1 crashed with Vladimir Komarov on re-entry and Soyuz 11 depressurized during preparations for re-entry. But Soyuz still has a pretty good safety record.
...but where is the trend with address bars going?
Browsers no longer show you the address bar or hide the real address from you. How can you see get parameters in a so called user-friendly address?
You tell people to type the address and they type it in the search engine or some toolbar they have installed. They don't even know where the address bar is...that's real progress. People type facebook in the google search and click the first result...it's a lot faster to type face(...) in the address bar and let autocomplete handle the rest, but no, search engine is obviously much better.
Does anybody remember times, when browsers used to return real http error to the user...you immediately knew if there was a problem with the dns or connection timeout or perhaps 'Page not found'. Now you only get 'There was some problem with the page. Do you want FOO to check and diagnose why the page does not display? Make sure your cable is connected and blahblahblahblah...'. Or even better, it redirects you to some search engine that was installed on the machine. Did you mean to type BAR instead of FOO? You have no idea if you've misspelled the address or the server is not responding or wth is going on.
That's not progress for me, that's stupidity and laziness. Post addresses and zip codes are hard to remember too, but you don't write 'search FOOBAR on google and send it to the first result' on the letter you (snail)mail, do you?
I live in 100% metric world (the heart of Europe). By now, I know an inch is 2.54cm and a foot is roughly 1/3 of a m, but anytime a few of these are involved and mixed in the same sentence I don't have a clue or really even a slightest hint of perspective of how much that really is. I usually just go...yeah 4 yards, 3 feet, 11 inches, whatever. Except when it involves technology.
I know I have a 46" tv (no idea how much in cm that is, unless I calculate it before). I know if I need a 2.5" or 3.5" disk drive. Some clever bureaucrat decided recently that (crude) oil prices have to be quoted in litres. We're probably the only place in the world that has oil prices quoted in litres (crude oil that is, I do buy gas in litres, no idea really how much a gallon is:)). And apparently the same guy decided afterwards that my IT dealer has to sell me a 6.35cm hard disk. WTF?! Where can I put a 6.35cm disk? I was in a place that sells LCD monitors just last week...they had 54cm screens, 59cm screens, 61cm screens, I was so confused I didn't know what to look for...
Yeah, it's a strange world
If you're talking about my Glide patch for DOSBox then I'll have to correct a few things:)
First, the patch is fully crossplatform (at least the dosbox part), but you require Glide support (real card or wrapper) on the host system. Patches have been submitted to OpenGlide that make it work in Linux and OS X. The full setup (DOSBox + OpenGlide) has been tested to work on Windows, Linux and OS X including using Glide (and OpenGL through the 3dfx minidriver) in guest Windows9x (yes, I've played Half-Life inside Dosbox, fully accelerated:)).
Kekko's patch obviously offers true 3Dfx emulation and also works with games that cannot be emulated with a wrapper. But at the moment only has (single threaded) software rendering which is great for testing but unfortunately little use for playing the games.
WNDR3700 is a beast. 680Mhz cpu, dual band wifi, 64MB RAM, USB...it lacks somewhat in flash space (8MB) but still better than current WRT generation (mostly 4MB).
There are a few alternatives based on the same Atheros platform: Buffalo WZR-HP-300NH (2,4 N wifi only, but has 32MB flash), Tp-link devices (very cheap). See here: https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/ar71xx. Plus they have opensource wifi drivers which is always a problem with broadcom devices.
XBMC is an example of an excellent media application. It plays everything you throw at it, supports network shares, hard disk and CD/DVD media. It's really too bad XBOX1 does not have the CPU power to play h264 HD media...
But the banks are not distributing Linux if they run it on their ATMs. And so are not bound by GPL, they don't even need to disclose the source (like Google for example). Therefore there should be no need for this exception.
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..the Universe had no beginning. Before the Universe was created (has created itself?) there was no time and after it ends, there won't be any time either. If it collapses into a super-mega singularity, time will stop forever inside and since there is no outside point of reference, will seem to be stuck like that forever, even when it ends :-)
;-) )
(disclaimer: watched too much Star Trek at young age and Big Bang Theory now, no formal physics degree
Actually you are paying for the right to do it 24/7. If not, then the contract should state what part of 24/7 you are paying for and the user might have the option of choosing the provider that fits him best. How much? Again most of the times it states UNLIMITED. If it's not UNLIMITED then it should say you have xxGB at this speed then it degrades to xxMbps. Just don't sell UNLIMITED 24/7 xxGbps connections and expect the user to know that you really meant LIMITED xx/x less-than-xxGbps because you're too cheap to provide everyone the service you're advertising.
Exactly. I don't understand however why CVS is so easily forgotten. I still use it on a daily basis.
Sure, I've switched to git for my projects, but CVS is so easy to set up, centralized (it's a plus, when you need that), text files in repository and each file is versioned on it's own (it's a plus, when you need that). One great use I've found is put some software into git, manage patches with stgit, while having each individual patch in a CVS repository for patch history. I wouldn't change that for svn.
So what? I still have SP2 machines working just fine. It prints receipts to the customers the same as the first day it was installed. Never patched it. The users working on it are limited and IE is prohibited with the GPO (employees have better work than surf on Facebook). LAN obviously is firewalled, not that this machine (and others similar) need to access the 'net. The only problem would be, if there was a domain wide virus that somebody would bring in with a laptop. However, that hasn't happened in the past 10 year. In my experience 95% of the "viruses" are crap people install themselves ("DHL sent me this packet, but I can't open the confirmation on my e-mail" "Are you expecting to receive something?" "No...why?"). No patches help that, unless it would patch the user, but then I'd be out of work... I have Win 98 as a retro machine here...connected to the Internet, running latest w9x supported firefox (3.6 I belive?), no AV (it's just p3-600). It won't get automagically infected as soon as it's turned on...why would it be?
Centos reworked the build process significantly after the 6.0 release. The 6.2 and 6.3 releases were out 14 and 18 days after the upstream release. SL was somewhat behind after that (72d and 48 days respectively). Source: Wikipedia
Of course I'd rather not be touched, but choosing between this and being irradiated in a machine without any real testing I chose the pat-down. Now, I don't like it but I've been poked and groped trying to see Bon Jovi, a basketball game and many other occasions as well as in Paris on my way to the JFK. The pat-down at the JFK wasn't really much different from all the others.
:-). Sure I might stay home, but then nobody will know about it :-).
Now what can we do about it? Not much really...while you might get angry at some government agency for touching you at the airport, all that private security at various event will tell you either go with it or go home. And not enough people go home to make a difference. Not many people even question the safety of the backscatter machines, I was the only one I could see opting-out and asking for a pat-down. At the moment I don't really see any other option for my "protests"
I opted out at the JFK flying to Paris last month. The TSA agents were very professional, the pat-down wasn't as bad as advertised here sometimes (TBH, I've gotten more invasive pat-downs at some concerts or other public events...not related to airports at all!). They even took and carried all my carry-ons from the x-ray machine to the table so I had plenty of time to put everything together (laptop...) after the pat-down. I hate it when you have to rush, putting on the shoes and belt, storing laptop.... while people are waiting behind you at the carry-on x-ray.
Are we confusing Mbps (megabit per second) and MBps (megabyte per second) a bit? I hardly doubt that ISPs are offering 100MBps (megabytes per second) and up since these speeds would more than saturate gigabit ethernet. On the other hand, 60Mbps (as in 60 megabits per second) can easily be achieved with current generation of SOHO routers, even old WRT-54G could do 30-40Mbps on a good day. Yes, it is surely important to have routing speed in mind, many of the cheap devices can be insufficient, but Netgear (with it's 680MHz CPU) was tested to achieve 400+Mbps (megabits) LAN-WAN throughput. I'd say that's enough for everyone. Who can transfer half the speed of the gigabit ethernet off the 'net?
I recently had to replace a 15 year old fax machine for a client of ours (we are their IT support) that broke down. I checked a couple of options and was very disappointed. The company has complete VOIP, everyone can phone from either their fancy desk VOIP phone or SIP client on the laptop. The fax machine is connected through the voip-analog converter (the provider wanted to run the fax machine entirely on the analog line, but the analog lines were in really bad shape, data fiber however is fine :-)). There are no fax machines I could find (be supported by the VOIP provider and be reasonably cheap) that do FOIP directly. There is no software that I could find reasonably cheap (free and opensource, sip client is :-)) that would allow the server to function as FOIP client. Their clients send a bunch of faxes so they were really nagging me about fixing their fax machine. I delivered them a nice XeroX WorkCentre multifunction...works like a charm.
Soyuz 1 crashed with Vladimir Komarov on re-entry and Soyuz 11 depressurized during preparations for re-entry. But Soyuz still has a pretty good safety record.
...but where is the trend with address bars going?
Browsers no longer show you the address bar or hide the real address from you. How can you see get parameters in a so called user-friendly address?
You tell people to type the address and they type it in the search engine or some toolbar they have installed. They don't even know where the address bar is...that's real progress. People type facebook in the google search and click the first result...it's a lot faster to type face(...) in the address bar and let autocomplete handle the rest, but no, search engine is obviously much better.
Does anybody remember times, when browsers used to return real http error to the user...you immediately knew if there was a problem with the dns or connection timeout or perhaps 'Page not found'. Now you only get 'There was some problem with the page. Do you want FOO to check and diagnose why the page does not display? Make sure your cable is connected and blahblahblahblah...'. Or even better, it redirects you to some search engine that was installed on the machine. Did you mean to type BAR instead of FOO? You have no idea if you've misspelled the address or the server is not responding or wth is going on.
That's not progress for me, that's stupidity and laziness. Post addresses and zip codes are hard to remember too, but you don't write 'search FOOBAR on google and send it to the first result' on the letter you (snail)mail, do you?
I live in 100% metric world (the heart of Europe). By now, I know an inch is 2.54cm and a foot is roughly 1/3 of a m, but anytime a few of these are involved and mixed in the same sentence I don't have a clue or really even a slightest hint of perspective of how much that really is. I usually just go...yeah 4 yards, 3 feet, 11 inches, whatever. Except when it involves technology. I know I have a 46" tv (no idea how much in cm that is, unless I calculate it before). I know if I need a 2.5" or 3.5" disk drive. Some clever bureaucrat decided recently that (crude) oil prices have to be quoted in litres. We're probably the only place in the world that has oil prices quoted in litres (crude oil that is, I do buy gas in litres, no idea really how much a gallon is :)). And apparently the same guy decided afterwards that my IT dealer has to sell me a 6.35cm hard disk. WTF?! Where can I put a 6.35cm disk? I was in a place that sells LCD monitors just last week...they had 54cm screens, 59cm screens, 61cm screens, I was so confused I didn't know what to look for...
Yeah, it's a strange world
If you're talking about my Glide patch for DOSBox then I'll have to correct a few things :) :)).
First, the patch is fully crossplatform (at least the dosbox part), but you require Glide support (real card or wrapper) on the host system. Patches have been submitted to OpenGlide that make it work in Linux and OS X. The full setup (DOSBox + OpenGlide) has been tested to work on Windows, Linux and OS X including using Glide (and OpenGL through the 3dfx minidriver) in guest Windows9x (yes, I've played Half-Life inside Dosbox, fully accelerated
Kekko's patch obviously offers true 3Dfx emulation and also works with games that cannot be emulated with a wrapper. But at the moment only has (single threaded) software rendering which is great for testing but unfortunately little use for playing the games.
WNDR3700 is a beast. 680Mhz cpu, dual band wifi, 64MB RAM, USB...it lacks somewhat in flash space (8MB) but still better than current WRT generation (mostly 4MB). There are a few alternatives based on the same Atheros platform: Buffalo WZR-HP-300NH (2,4 N wifi only, but has 32MB flash), Tp-link devices (very cheap). See here: https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/ar71xx. Plus they have opensource wifi drivers which is always a problem with broadcom devices.
XBMC is an example of an excellent media application. It plays everything you throw at it, supports network shares, hard disk and CD/DVD media. It's really too bad XBOX1 does not have the CPU power to play h264 HD media...
See here http://www.lucasfiles.com/index.php?action=file&id=653 for a fix.
But the banks are not distributing Linux if they run it on their ATMs. And so are not bound by GPL, they don't even need to disclose the source (like Google for example). Therefore there should be no need for this exception.