If you become a seed for a popular file, you can peg your upload bandwidth. If your upload bandwidth is fairly small (Most users probably still have 1.5/384 or even 512/128 in the US), and you are trying to download something at the same time with TCP (HTTP, FTP, etc), the upload will clobber a lot of the ACKs that the download session is trying to send, and the download bandwidth will get clobbered as well.
You can work around this with QoS to some extent. Some cheap-ass DSL routers might now or soon even support a scheme where ACKs are prioritized over everything else.
I have a wonderful book from the 60s, "700 Science Experiments for Everyone", originally published as "UNESCO Source Book for Science Teaching." It was wonderful gems like "How to Make an Electric Toaster" ("Your problem is to find a convenient was to mount 5 metres (no less!) of nichrome wire in a space no larger than a slide of bread."), and cutting apart old torch batteries to get the carbon rods to make an arc light, connected directly to the mains via a rheostat made from wire-wound rocks immersed in salt water. Not to mention DIY test tubes, alcohol lamps, etc.
Or, you can grow up to be a lawyer, or someone who scrubs toilets for lawyers.
PG&E was very close to rolling out the capability for nearly everyone in California to look at their power usage in near-real time online, but public hysteria over the "RF" generated by smart meters has halted rollout in many locations.
The recent gas line explosion really has called out the pitchfork and torches types, so I except most other locations in the US to have this a lot sooner than California.
Of course PG&E really wants the capablity to charge us double on the hottest days, but they would also like to be able to offer reduced rates if you charge an electric vehicle at night. Right now, if you have an EV you have to put in on a separate meter to get cheaper nighttime electricity for it.
I dunno about your country, but we've streamlined all that stuff in the US. Here, you whine about your legal problem on TV, some special-interest lawyer takes your case on contigency, the TV news and Slashdot ridicule the police, courts, and lawyers, and then you get your dog back.
"Unbreakable" is really just RHEL with a fairly useful GUI for Xen strapped on along with a big giant phallus to impress CIO types.
Which makes it no more or less "unbreakable" than anything else out there, including the billions of hosts running everything else that are vulnerable to CVE-2010-308.
Because people in technical fields who don't have a grip on reality are dangerous to the profession. What if the next time someone found a bug in your code your management required you to sacrifice a goat as the means to fixing it and then shipped it anyway ?
It's the inverse (?) of “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I've only driven into Las Vegas and Minden from California.
**Every single time** I have driven into Las Vegas it's taken 3 hours to get into town from the state line because some ass clown has rear ended a bunch of slower cars at 90 mph somewhere outside of town and the NHP are busy cleaning up the mess.
As for the 2-lane roads in the rest of the state, feel free to take a nap while going 90 and pray some geezer rancher with a trailer full of livestock doesn't pull out 1/4mil in front of you.
Don't forget the full ESPN package. In HD, games look awesome on a 20 x 35 - foot screen.
Just to be on the safe side, make a big screen shot of an all-nodes-green Net Manager layout or whatever you use, and keep an image viewer running with that image handy. (I had a previous employer that actually did put up a screen shot of all-OK Net View or whatever, for VIP visits.)
Heck, I've been using Perl for 20+ years and I'm still confused by what '=' means. For all I know it's been overloaded into the equalsignderefpointeraddinstantiationer operator.
I do have a friend who painted his bike fluorescent pink to discourage theft. That was as far as he went with the "gay" motif, though. The bike has not been stolen yet.
Actually, my old road bike is "flamingo" colored. It's a fairly common color for a bike, and I have yellow handlebar tape, which makes it look pretty spiffy but not unusual.
Bottom line is pink is a much less common color for a car than a bike. You could paint your car international orange, too, so, like, whatever.
Give me just one example of sensitive data that gas escaped from a major cloud service (Google, Amazon, etc), and I'll give you 10 more examples of data that has escaped from an incompetent IT organization's in house systems. Do *your* in house systems allow you to configure ALL your user's desktops and laptops to be completely disposable, with no other software necessary than a recent version of Firefox or Chrome? Never had a DBA accidentally botch a transaction, do your users never accidentally delete email, never had a spearphishing attempt slip though your spamassassin filters? Never put off a software upgrade because your users were to busy for downtime? Never had a backup fail?
Let's just admit it's all the politics of control, which is fine. Personally, I'd rather not do the shit work of reading log files, restoring lost email and files, forgotten passwords, and cleaning up the mess when a user gets phished.
Actually, a good question. I don't think color perception degrades with age. Ability to focus does. So those blobs of color still look as good as they did in the.....
The problem with slides is you need a projector or a scanner to show them to people. A projector will fade your slides (even stable Kodachrome) if you show them more than a few times. I can tell which slides in my library I projected a lot, and which stayed in the box.
And eventually you won't be able to buy 35mm slide scanners anymore, although I suppose there will always be services around that will be able to scan them in
I don't think digital media will become inaccessible because DVDs will "fade". It's pretty easy to migrate bits from a doomed media format to another. Rather, it's that the file formats change. I even avoid RAW files: the formats are proprietary, the software has lots of annoying dependencies, are you ready to maintain a box with the last 10 years' version of GTK+ around so the stuff will compile? I keep the highest resolution JPEGs that I can (and don't rewrite them), figuring JPEGs will probably be around the longest amount of time.
Why can't manufacturers make a digital camera that writes files in open TIFF formats?
The problem with slides is that the dynamic range, especially of Kodachrome, surpassed that of prints, so the prints were crappy looking. You had two choices:
1) Make a contrast-reducing mask, used along with an internegative, for a "type-C" print, the same kind of print made from negative stock. Of course the intermediate processes reduced the fidelity of the resulting print, but if you went to a good lab the results were pretty good and very pricey.
2) Use Cibachrome or some positive process print. Ciba prints always looks murky and strange to me (I can immediately spot them in a gallery). Other positive process prints had unstable dyes, at least until the 80s or so. I can still tell my positive process, direct-from-slide prints from my Type C ones.
A third alternative was to scan them in. This was easy when you worked for National Geographic:-) For us mere mortals, decent sub-$5K slide scanners didn't really exist until about five years ago.
Still, I shot nothing but slides (when I shot color and not BW), and used nothing but Kodachome if I could. All my Kodachrome slides, dating back to the 70s, look as good now as the day they came back from the lab.
.. but my guess is that the Western "R"'s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather is the Devanagari "R".
There will be no encouragement to force you to link them, because places like my university, that uses Google Apps, will definitely want to control authentication to our stuff, and let you do whatever you want with your own.
There's already a useful page with radio buttons, when Apps get confused about what you are trying to connect to, it pops this page up and asks which account you are trying to connect with.
Amen to that, up to a point. The difference between people with and without degrees is substantial. It's not correlated with how many years ago they got their degree or if it was even in something technical.
The one exception to this has been military veterans. If a college degree counts for +10, recent military service counts +11. I suppose it has something to do with having people who yell at you until you do things they way they are supposed to be done, a luxury I cannot indulge in.
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If you become a seed for a popular file, you can peg your upload bandwidth. If your upload bandwidth is fairly small (Most users probably still have 1.5/384 or even 512/128 in the US), and you are trying to download something at the same time with TCP (HTTP, FTP, etc), the upload will clobber a lot of the ACKs that the download session is trying to send, and the download bandwidth will get clobbered as well.
You can work around this with QoS to some extent. Some cheap-ass DSL routers might now or soon even support a scheme where ACKs are prioritized over everything else.
"First they came for the snakes,
but I didn't eat because I don't eat Tylenol-laced frozen mice...."
Oh wait, thought this was Y.R.O. ... nevermind.
I have a wonderful book from the 60s, "700 Science Experiments for Everyone", originally published as "UNESCO Source Book for Science Teaching." It was wonderful gems like "How to Make an Electric Toaster" ("Your problem is to find a convenient was to mount 5 metres (no less!) of nichrome wire in a space no larger than a slide of bread."), and cutting apart old torch batteries to get the carbon rods to make an arc light, connected directly to the mains via a rheostat made from wire-wound rocks immersed in salt water. Not to mention DIY test tubes, alcohol lamps, etc.
Or, you can grow up to be a lawyer, or someone who scrubs toilets for lawyers.
PG&E was very close to rolling out the capability for nearly everyone in California to look at their power usage in near-real time online, but public hysteria over the "RF" generated by smart meters has halted rollout in many locations.
The recent gas line explosion really has called out the pitchfork and torches types, so I except most other locations in the US to have this a lot sooner than California.
Of course PG&E really wants the capablity to charge us double on the hottest days, but they would also like to be able to offer reduced rates if you charge an electric vehicle at night. Right now, if you have an EV you have to put in on a separate meter to get cheaper nighttime electricity for it.
I dunno about your country, but we've streamlined all that stuff in the US. Here, you whine about your legal problem on TV, some special-interest lawyer takes your case on contigency, the TV news and Slashdot ridicule the police, courts, and lawyers, and then you get your dog back.
In their FAQ, Google states "the statistics primarily cover requests in criminal matters".
However, we don't let that interfere with our paranoia, or else the Terrorists win.
"Unbreakable" is really just RHEL with a fairly useful GUI for Xen strapped on along with a big giant phallus to impress CIO types.
Which makes it no more or less "unbreakable" than anything else out there, including the billions of hosts running everything else that are vulnerable to CVE-2010-308.
Linus can get rid of the "Calvin Pissing on La Migra" sticker on his rear window. Or cover up "la Migra" with a BSD Devil.
http://vehiclevinyls.com/estore/html/page-view.asp?menuid=4106&gotorec=40
Because people in technical fields who don't have a grip on reality are dangerous to the profession. What if the next time someone found a bug in your code your management required you to sacrifice a goat as the means to fixing it and then shipped it anyway ?
It's the inverse (?) of “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I've only driven into Las Vegas and Minden from California.
**Every single time** I have driven into Las Vegas it's taken 3 hours to get into town from the state line because some ass clown has rear ended a bunch of slower cars at 90 mph somewhere outside of town and the NHP are busy cleaning up the mess.
As for the 2-lane roads in the rest of the state, feel free to take a nap while going 90 and pray some geezer rancher with a trailer full of livestock doesn't pull out 1/4mil in front of you.
Don't forget the full ESPN package. In HD, games look awesome on a 20 x 35 - foot screen.
Just to be on the safe side, make a big screen shot of an all-nodes-green Net Manager layout or whatever you use, and keep an image viewer running with that image handy. (I had a previous employer that actually did put up a screen shot of all-OK Net View or whatever, for VIP visits.)
Heck, I've been using Perl for 20+ years and I'm still confused by what '=' means. For all I know it's been overloaded into the equalsignderefpointeraddinstantiationer operator.
I do have a friend who painted his bike fluorescent pink to discourage theft. That was as far as he went with the "gay" motif, though. The bike has not been stolen yet.
Actually, my old road bike is "flamingo" colored. It's a fairly common color for a bike, and I have yellow handlebar tape, which makes it look pretty spiffy but not unusual.
Bottom line is pink is a much less common color for a car than a bike. You could paint your car international orange, too, so, like, whatever.
Give me just one example of sensitive data that gas escaped from a major cloud service (Google, Amazon, etc), and I'll give you 10 more examples of data that has escaped from an incompetent IT organization's in house systems. Do *your* in house systems allow you to configure ALL your user's desktops and laptops to be completely disposable, with no other software necessary than a recent version of Firefox or Chrome? Never had a DBA accidentally botch a transaction, do your users never accidentally delete email, never had a spearphishing attempt slip though your spamassassin filters? Never put off a software upgrade because your users were to busy for downtime? Never had a backup fail?
Let's just admit it's all the politics of control, which is fine. Personally, I'd rather not do the shit work of reading log files, restoring lost email and files, forgotten passwords, and cleaning up the mess when a user gets phished.
If will be a long time before development of the horseless carriage will overtake the technology of my steam-powered ornithopter!
Ha !
Actually, a good question. I don't think color perception degrades with age. Ability to focus does. So those blobs of color still look as good as they did in the .....
The problem with slides is you need a projector or a scanner to show them to people. A projector will fade your slides (even stable Kodachrome) if you show them more than a few times. I can tell which slides in my library I projected a lot, and which stayed in the box.
And eventually you won't be able to buy 35mm slide scanners anymore, although I suppose there will always be services around that will be able to scan them in
I don't think digital media will become inaccessible because DVDs will "fade". It's pretty easy to migrate bits from a doomed media format to another. Rather, it's that the file formats change. I even avoid RAW files: the formats are proprietary, the software has lots of annoying dependencies, are you ready to maintain a box with the last 10 years' version of GTK+ around so the stuff will compile? I keep the highest resolution JPEGs that I can (and don't rewrite them), figuring JPEGs will probably be around the longest amount of time.
Why can't manufacturers make a digital camera that writes files in open TIFF formats?
The problem with slides is that the dynamic range, especially of Kodachrome, surpassed that of prints, so the prints were crappy looking. You had two choices:
1) Make a contrast-reducing mask, used along with an internegative, for a "type-C" print, the same kind of print made from negative stock. Of course the intermediate processes reduced the fidelity of the resulting print, but if you went to a good lab the results were pretty good and very pricey.
2) Use Cibachrome or some positive process print. Ciba prints always looks murky and strange to me (I can immediately spot them in a gallery). Other positive process prints had unstable dyes, at least until the 80s or so. I can still tell my positive process, direct-from-slide prints from my Type C ones.
A third alternative was to scan them in. This was easy when you worked for National Geographic :-) For us mere mortals, decent sub-$5K slide scanners didn't really exist until about five years ago.
Still, I shot nothing but slides (when I shot color and not BW), and used nothing but Kodachome if I could. All my Kodachrome slides, dating back to the 70s, look as good now as the day they came back from the lab.
And that's my ancestors are NOT known as "Bruce the Bridge Builder", "Bruce the Fence Builder" ....
.. but my guess is that the Western "R"'s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather is the Devanagari "R".
And at the same time it is based on a Western "R" with the vertical bar removed.
Clever!
There will be no encouragement to force you to link them, because places like my university, that uses Google Apps, will definitely want to control authentication to our stuff, and let you do whatever you want with your own.
There's already a useful page with radio buttons, when Apps get confused about what you are trying to connect to, it pops this page up and asks which account you are trying to connect with.
Amen to that, up to a point. The difference between people with and without degrees is substantial. It's not correlated with how many years ago they got their degree or if it was even in something technical.
The one exception to this has been military veterans. If a college degree counts for +10, recent military service counts +11. I suppose it has something to do with having people who yell at you until you do things they way they are supposed to be done, a luxury I cannot indulge in.
I'll let the NSA put spyware on some of my computers, *if* they let me target a Tomahawk missile at my least-favorite spammer once or twice a year.
When you're as paranoid, you're never alone since they are always out to get you.