Thats $100 for a very nice network-shared drive (1/2 GB of data, with 10 GB transfer/month limit), web hosting, email hosting, and VERY nice synchronization.
Its the synchronization and the large network-backed-up shared disk which is why I decided to pay $100 for the service: Being able to maintain universal calendaring etc across several systems is useful.
Who writes an evil backdoor, which dates back to Win3.1 days (when you didn't NEED an evil back door, and Windows had no clue what this Internet thing was about), and then DOCUMENTS it?
Lest we forget that Wine also proved vulnerable, and it was a clean-reimplementation of the specs!
Its not just the speed (and the speed could be better: there's the dynamic translation technology Apple is using, and which is WHY Microsoft bought VirtualPC in the first place), but the controllability. VMWare has much better networking control, eg its trivial to set up VW (windows) VM (linux IDS) Outside world. You can't do that on Virtual PC!
I have VirtualPC on my mac here. It SUCKS. Apart from the glacially slow speed (to be expected, although they probably aren't doing a very good job of binary translation), the options and controllability are FAR less than VMWare Workstation. I've also used VMware (both Workstation and ESX server).
Wait for VMWare-MacTel, it will be far better than the Borg's entry: far more controllable and more powerful, with better features.
The more I think about it, the more it smells like a scam: Yet another "New Source of Energy" fraud to capture investors.Anyone with a slight clue about chemistry or physics immediately sees that this is just a classic voltaic cell, using the tree and dirt as the electrolyte.
Thus I wonder if this might be a deliberate scam to bilk some investors. At least they weren't claiming a perpetual motion machine.
A nice "do it at home" experiment to get the same results (copper and aluminum voltaic cell) using your own body rather than a tree as the electrolyte.
The guy sounds like a clueless dweeb, he just created a classic battery with different anode and cathode (Al and Cu in his case, forget which would be which) in an electrolyte (the tree/dirt).
My guess is that iss no different from the classic lemon battery, just replacing the galvanized (zinc-coated) nail with an aluminum nail.
How is "Baron von Puttyngton versus the Cancerous M.C. Escher Maze of Cheese" NOT the wackiest game? Instead, it gets the loser "second place" of dinner at Il Fornio. I'd MUCH rather have the XBox 360.
Worse, in fact. There are SEVERAL ways, all well known, which could leverage this exploit to compromise millions of hosts in a matter of hours.
The unofficial patch is 100% necessary. This is BAD folks.
And if the evil people are smart, they'd have a very VERY nasty suprise come monday, when most people are still not patched and M$ hasn't released the official patch yet.
"Killer Instinct" or whatever the crappy fox crime drama is did the same plot a week ago (Yeah, I watched it. I was flying on JetBlue and was curious about this particular POS. It was craptacular).
Expect this same "Viloent crime spree videogame inspires real killers" to pop up in Law and Order next.
Since spyware WITH a proper EULA has been held to be in violation by the FTC, and since this EULA doesn't really mention the rootkit's difficulty of removal, this might be litigatable.
Of course, Mark Russinovich did (inadvertantly) dissasemble content protected by the EULA.
True, Pamela Jones is a bit secretive, and a bit more of a free-software zealot than is really a good idea (I'm more of a BSD-liscence kinda guy.), but as a journalist, she is a hell of a lot better than Maureen O'Gara.
Having actually READ Groklaw on a regular basis, as well as O'Gara's tripe, its clear that PJ is the journalist while O'Gara is the shill.
It is unfortunate some of the zealots who DOS'ed Sys-con, but as an allegedly journalistic site, they showed a distinct lack of editorial intelligence in having O'Gara write for them. Sys-con probably would have been better served by the journalistic skills of Jason Blair.
The "dedicated" commercial companies are probably paying a lot less.
They are effectively leasing a cluster computer (leasing has tax advantages), and probably their rates are much closer to the real value:
EG, a 2core 2cpu SunFire X4100 is $7500. Lease probably amounts to ~1/3rd of that plus a little extra (lets say $800/cpu-year). Power for the beast is ~600W, so 150W/cpu. At $.20/KWh (includes cooling and reliability), thats ~$250/cpu-year. Lets add $100/cpu-year for the physical location and maintinence, that totals out to $1150/cpu-year.
So Sun probably charges these dedicated customers more like $1150-$1500/cpu-year (perhaps a little more than what they'd pay to build the cluster themselves, but they save hastle factor and having to find space). But this is VASTLY less than sun's retail price charge of $8760/cpu-year.
Sun just wants about 5x what the market rate is for a CPU-year.
And these commercial companies are probably paying a LOT less:
They are effectively leasing a cluster computer (leasing has tax advantages), and probably their rates are much closer to the real value:
EG, a 2core 2cpu SunFire X4100 is $7500. Lease probably amounts to ~1/3rd of that plus a little extra (lets say $800/cpu-year). Power for the beast is ~600W, so 150W/cpu. At $.20/KWh (includes cooling and reliability), thats ~$250/cpu-year. Lets add $100/cpu-year for the physical location and maintinence, that totals out to $1150/cpu-year.
So Sun probably charges these dedicated customers more like $1150-$1500/cpu-year (perhaps a little more than what they'd pay to build the cluster themselves, but they save hastle factor and having to find space). But this is VASTLY less than sun's retail price charge of $8760/cpu-year.
If you have tasks that can be done on compute farms, computer farms and clusters have gotten relatively easy to manage and deploy and are CHEAP.
Sun's charge of what, $1/CPU-hour is just way way way out of line compared with what you can build yourself (using dual core, dual processor athlons from Sun, for example), if you have any consistant demand.
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Thats $100 for a very nice network-shared drive (1/2 GB of data, with 10 GB transfer/month limit), web hosting, email hosting, and VERY nice synchronization.
Its the synchronization and the large network-backed-up shared disk which is why I decided to pay $100 for the service: Being able to maintain universal calendaring etc across several systems is useful.
Nope, see the WINE patch. Wine's code is independent.
It was documented enough somewhere than Wine suffers too...2 006-January/002806.html
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/
Who writes an evil backdoor, which dates back to Win3.1 days (when you didn't NEED an evil back door, and Windows had no clue what this Internet thing was about), and then DOCUMENTS it?
Lest we forget that Wine also proved vulnerable, and it was a clean-reimplementation of the specs!
What input range does it take? Is it suitable for automotive use?
Its not just the speed (and the speed could be better: there's the dynamic translation technology Apple is using, and which is WHY Microsoft bought VirtualPC in the first place), but the controllability. VMWare has much better networking control, eg its trivial to set up VW (windows) VM (linux IDS) Outside world. You can't do that on Virtual PC!
According to the Xen mailing list, the first Core Duos have VT disabled:
s /2006-01/msg00448.html.
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-user
So no Xen on the first MacTels (probably).
I have VirtualPC on my mac here. It SUCKS. Apart from the glacially slow speed (to be expected, although they probably aren't doing a very good job of binary translation), the options and controllability are FAR less than VMWare Workstation. I've also used VMware (both Workstation and ESX server).
Wait for VMWare-MacTel, it will be far better than the Borg's entry: far more controllable and more powerful, with better features.
More interesting: When will Apple have IntelMac's with VT (virtualization) support enabled?
Once that happens, you could run Xen in the Mac to run windows in a VM.
It's unclear whether the first Core Duo parts support VT, and whether the firmware on the MacBooks/IMacs support it as well.
The more I think about it, the more it smells like a scam: Yet another "New Source of Energy" fraud to capture investors.Anyone with a slight clue about chemistry or physics immediately sees that this is just a classic voltaic cell, using the tree and dirt as the electrolyte.
Thus I wonder if this might be a deliberate scam to bilk some investors. At least they weren't claiming a perpetual motion machine.
A nice "do it at home" experiment to get the same results (copper and aluminum voltaic cell) using your own body rather than a tree as the electrolyte.
My guess is that iss no different from the classic lemon battery, just replacing the galvanized (zinc-coated) nail with an aluminum nail.
This IS DOA: How good are the BoobBouncePhysics this time around?
How is "Baron von Puttyngton versus the Cancerous M.C. Escher Maze of Cheese" NOT the wackiest game? Instead, it gets the loser "second place" of dinner at Il Fornio. I'd MUCH rather have the XBox 360.
Is it time for more Infinium Pump & Dump already?
Worse, in fact. There are SEVERAL ways, all well known, which could leverage this exploit to compromise millions of hosts in a matter of hours.
The unofficial patch is 100% necessary. This is BAD folks.
And if the evil people are smart, they'd have a very VERY nasty suprise come monday, when most people are still not patched and M$ hasn't released the official patch yet.
Sounds like snake oil, similar to http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/snak eoil_resear.html
Sounds like such bad Sci-Fi that he could become a writer for Threshold.
"Killer Instinct" or whatever the crappy fox crime drama is did the same plot a week ago (Yeah, I watched it. I was flying on JetBlue and was curious about this particular POS. It was craptacular).
Expect this same "Viloent crime spree videogame inspires real killers" to pop up in Law and Order next.
Since spyware WITH a proper EULA has been held to be in violation by the FTC, and since this EULA doesn't really mention the rootkit's difficulty of removal, this might be litigatable.
Of course, Mark Russinovich did (inadvertantly) dissasemble content protected by the EULA.
PJ's First runin with Mr Lyons. Could this be why he had the "Who is PJ" sidebar? Anyone care to ask Forbes Editor to explain?
True, Pamela Jones is a bit secretive, and a bit more of a free-software zealot than is really a good idea (I'm more of a BSD-liscence kinda guy.), but as a journalist, she is a hell of a lot better than Maureen O'Gara.
Having actually READ Groklaw on a regular basis, as well as O'Gara's tripe, its clear that PJ is the journalist while O'Gara is the shill.
It is unfortunate some of the zealots who DOS'ed Sys-con, but as an allegedly journalistic site, they showed a distinct lack of editorial intelligence in having O'Gara write for them. Sys-con probably would have been better served by the journalistic skills of Jason Blair.
The "dedicated" commercial companies are probably paying a lot less.
They are effectively leasing a cluster computer (leasing has tax advantages), and probably their rates are much closer to the real value:
EG, a 2core 2cpu SunFire X4100 is $7500. Lease probably amounts to ~1/3rd of that plus a little extra (lets say $800/cpu-year). Power for the beast is ~600W, so 150W/cpu. At $.20/KWh (includes cooling and reliability), thats ~$250/cpu-year. Lets add $100/cpu-year for the physical location and maintinence, that totals out to $1150/cpu-year.
So Sun probably charges these dedicated customers more like $1150-$1500/cpu-year (perhaps a little more than what they'd pay to build the cluster themselves, but they save hastle factor and having to find space). But this is VASTLY less than sun's retail price charge of $8760/cpu-year.
Sun just wants about 5x what the market rate is for a CPU-year.
And these commercial companies are probably paying a LOT less:
They are effectively leasing a cluster computer (leasing has tax advantages), and probably their rates are much closer to the real value:
EG, a 2core 2cpu SunFire X4100 is $7500. Lease probably amounts to ~1/3rd of that plus a little extra (lets say $800/cpu-year). Power for the beast is ~600W, so 150W/cpu. At $.20/KWh (includes cooling and reliability), thats ~$250/cpu-year. Lets add $100/cpu-year for the physical location and maintinence, that totals out to $1150/cpu-year.
So Sun probably charges these dedicated customers more like $1150-$1500/cpu-year (perhaps a little more than what they'd pay to build the cluster themselves, but they save hastle factor and having to find space). But this is VASTLY less than sun's retail price charge of $8760/cpu-year.
If you have tasks that can be done on compute farms, computer farms and clusters have gotten relatively easy to manage and deploy and are CHEAP.
Sun's charge of what, $1/CPU-hour is just way way way out of line compared with what you can build yourself (using dual core, dual processor athlons from Sun, for example), if you have any consistant demand.