In the UK, Academy Schools and Free Schools are 'freed' from the National Curriculum. The National Curriculum is set by academics and teaching professionals, so obviously has a left-wing bias and the Conservative part of the current coalition government is helping to correct that.
In my country, it already does. It's called "the national curriculum".
The UK also has a national curriculum. The issue here is that 'free schools' and 'academy schools' are not bound to it, even though they're publicly funded. This is part of (IMO) the conservative party agenda to wrest control from Local Authorities, and in my opinion is a Bad Thing. Others disagree. 'Free schools' are set up by concerned parents, 'concerned' companies or agenda-driven religious groups. They're free to teach what they want. This is a small step to curtail the whackiest of them, but I'd rather that government concentrated on improving all schools, not just allowing some to opt-out. As I mentioned, others disagree.
OK, I don't know what shipping to US is (mine was free in UK) but RIGHT HERE is an answer to us supply problem (I'm assuming CPC don't restrict supplies by country). I'd mod you up (got the points) but I've already posted here (plus I guess I wouldn't want to dry up the UK supply!). Happy RPI hacking. Enjoy your made-in-Wales RPI!
I ordered 5 from CPC last week and got them the next morning. This was the bundle with case, debian squeeze on a 4GB SD and PSU, and they're still showing 'in stock'. CPC have always been reliable for me. I've been using them since they were an electronics spares shop in the 80s with a 4-page photocopied stock list. They've grown to a 1000+ page printed catalogue selling just about anything electronic / electric / officy and I can't fault them. They were bought by Farnell at some point in the past decade, but both being northern UK companies that wasn't so painful - they're both great companies to deal with, and I'm very happy about the bringing together of a company I've always liked and a great product in the kind of technology I've championed for a long time.
We'll be using our RPIs as solid-state video looping devices. The commercial offerings in the UK are easily 5x the price, even at the RPI bundle prices ($80) and having used a few in the past, I'm much happier that the RPI solution will work better for us.
I'm late to the story, I know, but the point of this isn't about coffee production - despite the FA. The radio programme that I heard had proper information, and it's about the effect of climate change on wild arabica coffee plants (already endangered). The programme explains why This Is Bad.
I'd probably say RedHat. Unfortunately their desktop isn't quite as nice as Ubuntu's. They do things like run SELinux by default, exclude certain drivers/codecs, and have really ugly fonts!
You say those as if they're bad things (yes, ugly fonts are, but personally I don't see that problem). The drivers/codecs thing are a Free issue, and is religious/principled - I'm sure pure debian exclude them for the same reasons - they're easy to add with extra non-free repos. SELinux is a one-command forever disable if you want to do that. I recommend that you take the half an hour that it takes to understand it and why it's a Good Thing and how to create policies for the non-packaged applications you install that have disallowed actions. When you've got a rooted box or otherwise compromised systems which wouldn't have happened with SELinux set to 'enforcing' (seen it many a time) then that half an hour seems well worth it.
Here's a vote for SOGo - I haven't tried the Outlook integration, but I'd stick to Thunderbird (ESR) and it works well, gives you corporate address book, calendaring with invites etc, swish web calendar/mail and mobile integration across all the usual suspects (athough they recommend some pay-for sync apps, I've managed without quite happily - n900 syncing was more involved but I've got it working). inverse.ca are good to work with if you need commercial support (just a happy customer). We use dovecot & exim for IMAP & MTA, but I'm sure other OSS options are fine. All this does require that you have sysadmin skills to setup, but once installed they're rock solid and there's plenty of documentation - all this works fine with AD integration (for auth, groups, aliases etc).
Having said that, unless you've a committment to OSS, an aversion to client licencing or a requirement for multiple OS support, Exchange will fit the bill, though I've steered clear due to reputation and some (possibly historical by now) limitations or architectural disagreements (do they still use PST files?). For me, and my old-school email-file-storage preference (I wouldn't know where to start on Exchange if somebody asked me to move all emails from a certain address which had an attachment > SIZE to secondary storage every tuesday night) then it's a no-brainer. YMMV.
If you're in broadcast, check out ffmbc a broadcast-oriented ffmpeg fork. My dabbling has been with producing IMX (SMTPE D10) as an archival format for video and film archive digitiziation and although you can cook it up with ffmpeg, ffmbc makes it a doddle. The hard work has been done by the ffmpeg folks, and it's a wonderful tool.
I used ffmpeg for producing a side-by-side video of a reference uncompressed YUV vs samples of MJPEG2000 & MPEG2 at various compression ratios for a double-blind subjective quality assessment together with overlaid captions - took me a day or so going from never having used it before. Think of it as ImageMagick for video, rather than just a transcoding library.
Whilst I'm here, can I give a shout out for mediainfo(Hi Jerome!) as a technical metadata extraction tool for Video (if you're using it in an archival repository, use the mpeg7 or pbcore xml output - almost hidden features). Don't be fooled by the home page screenshot - the linux command line version is where it's at.
I saw it (or the last bits of it), out on the verandah reading slashdot here in West Wales. Only caught it from the corner of my eye, seemed yellow to me and travelling NE-SW, and as I can only see about 15' of the sky between the roof of the verandah and the apple trees next door, it was gone before I looked. I thought it was a particularly bright shooting star (ie, not a notable event), though not much of it until the morning radio news mentioned it.
Yeah, not an interesting contribution, but a datapoint of sorts.
Yes, this was bad. The virus signature in question appears to match any software that does auto-updates (possibly trying to spot phone-home malware?) so it's flagged dozens of software packages and according to what policy you've set, quarantined or deleted the files. This includes the auto-update part of the sophos client. The flood of emails from the sophos enterprise manager package as machines were switched on this morning quickly alerted us that this wasn't good, and just looking at names of the files it was flagging was enough to see that this was a false positive. Cleanup continues.
We've been very happy with sophos enterprise, and I'm staggered that this signature made it out the door - they should have numerous controls in place to ensure this can never happen and I await an explanation for how they failed.
I'm not too impressed by some of the advice given in their cleanup procedure - they advise setting the policy to not scan certain sophos directories - guess where viruses may try to hide in future.
This is an embarassing fubar which will have had a high impact on thousands of enterprises. It'll be interesting to see if Sophos come clean about the circumstances and can be convincing enough about how it's never going to happen again.
And don't forget Snopes, the grandaddy of online truth-telling.
And don't forget that Snopes started out on alt.folklore.urban, the great-grandaddy of truth-telling (and trolling, when it meant something different).
Don't you people get it? The BBC would be more than happy to have paid-for access to their excellent Olympic coverage, but the rights have been carved up all over the world, and the BBC only have rights to play to the UK. Don't moan to them, bitch to the IOC.
Dunno about cycle route corrections, but google had a private track next to my house marked as a road (and would route along it) and I emailed them to point this out, and it was fixed within 24 hours. Just an anecdote.
HP will sell you a decent enough tape library with all slots usable. A LOT cheaper. they all use the same connections and LTO-4/5 tapes except with HP you don't need to pay some ridiculous commission.
As a customer of another tape library company paying licences for the right to use slots in hardware we'd already bought (s'ok, it's a business model) I'd moderated you 'interesting'. Then I went googling for HP Tape Libraries, and got this:
So I guess they're playing the same game. You may be referring to smaller tape libraries, but I don't play in that field. I can't comment on the competitiveness of the licence cost, just thought I'd point that out in case anybody else took your post to mean that HP don't licence slots.
Fair enough (I'm not sure what he was responsible for or when he was brought in to the process), but I would recommend the A&J podcasts, they're pretty orthogonal to his screenwriting/directing, except for the obvious steeped-in-movies (rather than 'film') that they share with Simon Pegg.
"The network switch power consumption wasn't monitored as part of the power monitoring since eventually the cluster will move back to its intended location where it will be tapping an already present 24-port enterprise-grade network switch and thus not lead to any net increase in power draw"
If you're comparing single multicore system per-watt performance with a cluster, you don't get to magic away the power draw of the switches that provide the fabric for communicating between the nodes, even if it's an 'already present' switch.
Joe Cornish was also one of the 2 screenwriters on Adventures of Tintin (meh). But better known in the UK as half of 'Adam & Joe' of TV long past and radio (but not recently). Podcasts here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/adamandjoe
I enjoy the podcasts, and would (selfishly) rather that he returned to radio than futz about in Hollywood. They probably pay better than the BBC, though.
The US did not make the Internet. Quoting from this history [nethistory.info], "The earliest pioneers included a Frenchman, Louis Pouzin, who introduced the idea of data grams and an Englishman, Donald W. Davies, who was one of the inventors of packet-switching.
I realise you're quoting, but just in case there's any confusion, Donald W Davies was a Welshman, not an Englishman
It is possible to carry some extra gasoline in a canister in the trunk, so if I run out, I can pour the gasoline from the canister to the tank. Did that a few times. Even if the canister was empty (or I forgot to bring it with me), I could still go to the nearest gas station on foot, buy the canister if I don't have one, fill it and bring it to my car, pour the gasoline to the tank and drive to the gas station. My dad did that once.
"My dad did that once" - Not to pick on you or anything, but you made that sound mythic, and I feel old.
Might make no difference... The way I'm reading the article, it says "requires European airlines to pass on passenger information", without going into detail about whether that's US-bound flights only, flights within the EU, flights from EU to outside EU (but not US), or even any flight, from/to anywhere, done by an EU-based airline company. It would be good if someone could clear this up.
See the story I posted earlier this month - this is about anybody flying from EU to anywhere that's close to the US (Canada, Cuba). Flying to US or passing through has always been subject to these rules about sending data.
I mean 1000 Gbps is considered normal here, and some of us are running on faster connections, using less energy total to do the same thing.
OK, I'm very late posting here, but are you sure that you're using less energy at 10GB (assuming that's where you're at, ethernet-wise?).
We've just added some 10GBs blades to our cisco main switches and what's stunned us is the upgrade that we've had to do to the chassis PSUs - from 2x3000W to 2x6000W - 10GB copper is massively hungry for power at the other end (in retrosepect we should have forseen that) - are you looking at total cost? 6000W PSUs (2 for redundancy) are $2.2k+ each from Cisco in the UK - the 16-port 10GBs blades don't come cheap either. Cisco aren't the cheapest option, if you've something else I'd be interested in your capital spend (let alone the power cost) per port.
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On the other hand, there has to be a nationalized standard for curriculums. I'm so confused... :-(
That would be sensible, wouldn't it? But see: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum
In the UK, Academy Schools and Free Schools are 'freed' from the National Curriculum. The National Curriculum is set by academics and teaching professionals, so obviously has a left-wing bias and the Conservative part of the current coalition government is helping to correct that.
In my country, it already does. It's called "the national curriculum".
The UK also has a national curriculum. The issue here is that 'free schools' and 'academy schools' are not bound to it, even though they're publicly funded. This is part of (IMO) the conservative party agenda to wrest control from Local Authorities, and in my opinion is a Bad Thing. Others disagree. 'Free schools' are set up by concerned parents, 'concerned' companies or agenda-driven religious groups. They're free to teach what they want. This is a small step to curtail the whackiest of them, but I'd rather that government concentrated on improving all schools, not just allowing some to opt-out. As I mentioned, others disagree.
Academy schools are draining money from better local schools and forcing them to close.
OK, I don't know what shipping to US is (mine was free in UK) but RIGHT HERE is an answer to us supply problem (I'm assuming CPC don't restrict supplies by country). I'd mod you up (got the points) but I've already posted here (plus I guess I wouldn't want to dry up the UK supply!). Happy RPI hacking. Enjoy your made-in-Wales RPI!
I ordered 5 from CPC last week and got them the next morning. This was the bundle with case, debian squeeze on a 4GB SD and PSU, and they're still showing 'in stock'. CPC have always been reliable for me. I've been using them since they were an electronics spares shop in the 80s with a 4-page photocopied stock list. They've grown to a 1000+ page printed catalogue selling just about anything electronic / electric / officy and I can't fault them. They were bought by Farnell at some point in the past decade, but both being northern UK companies that wasn't so painful - they're both great companies to deal with, and I'm very happy about the bringing together of a company I've always liked and a great product in the kind of technology I've championed for a long time.
We'll be using our RPIs as solid-state video looping devices. The commercial offerings in the UK are easily 5x the price, even at the RPI bundle prices ($80) and having used a few in the past, I'm much happier that the RPI solution will work better for us.
I got 5 from CPC (farnell) the morning after I ordered them this week.
I'm late to the story, I know, but the point of this isn't about coffee production - despite the FA. The radio programme that I heard had proper information, and it's about the effect of climate change on wild arabica coffee plants (already endangered). The programme explains why This Is Bad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nq7dd
I'd probably say RedHat. Unfortunately their desktop isn't quite as nice as Ubuntu's. They do things like run SELinux by default, exclude certain drivers/codecs, and have really ugly fonts!
You say those as if they're bad things (yes, ugly fonts are, but personally I don't see that problem). The drivers/codecs thing are a Free issue, and is religious/principled - I'm sure pure debian exclude them for the same reasons - they're easy to add with extra non-free repos. SELinux is a one-command forever disable if you want to do that. I recommend that you take the half an hour that it takes to understand it and why it's a Good Thing and how to create policies for the non-packaged applications you install that have disallowed actions. When you've got a rooted box or otherwise compromised systems which wouldn't have happened with SELinux set to 'enforcing' (seen it many a time) then that half an hour seems well worth it.
Here's a vote for SOGo - I haven't tried the Outlook integration, but I'd stick to Thunderbird (ESR) and it works well, gives you corporate address book, calendaring with invites etc, swish web calendar/mail and mobile integration across all the usual suspects (athough they recommend some pay-for sync apps, I've managed without quite happily - n900 syncing was more involved but I've got it working). inverse.ca are good to work with if you need commercial support (just a happy customer). We use dovecot & exim for IMAP & MTA, but I'm sure other OSS options are fine. All this does require that you have sysadmin skills to setup, but once installed they're rock solid and there's plenty of documentation - all this works fine with AD integration (for auth, groups, aliases etc).
Having said that, unless you've a committment to OSS, an aversion to client licencing or a requirement for multiple OS support, Exchange will fit the bill, though I've steered clear due to reputation and some (possibly historical by now) limitations or architectural disagreements (do they still use PST files?). For me, and my old-school email-file-storage preference (I wouldn't know where to start on Exchange if somebody asked me to move all emails from a certain address which had an attachment > SIZE to secondary storage every tuesday night) then it's a no-brainer. YMMV.
If you're in broadcast, check out ffmbc a broadcast-oriented ffmpeg fork. My dabbling has been with producing IMX (SMTPE D10) as an archival format for video and film archive digitiziation and although you can cook it up with ffmpeg, ffmbc makes it a doddle. The hard work has been done by the ffmpeg folks, and it's a wonderful tool.
I used ffmpeg for producing a side-by-side video of a reference uncompressed YUV vs samples of MJPEG2000 & MPEG2 at various compression ratios for a double-blind subjective quality assessment together with overlaid captions - took me a day or so going from never having used it before. Think of it as ImageMagick for video, rather than just a transcoding library.
Whilst I'm here, can I give a shout out for mediainfo(Hi Jerome!) as a technical metadata extraction tool for Video (if you're using it in an archival repository, use the mpeg7 or pbcore xml output - almost hidden features). Don't be fooled by the home page screenshot - the linux command line version is where it's at.
I saw it (or the last bits of it), out on the verandah reading slashdot here in West Wales. Only caught it from the corner of my eye, seemed yellow to me and travelling NE-SW, and as I can only see about 15' of the sky between the roof of the verandah and the apple trees next door, it was gone before I looked. I thought it was a particularly bright shooting star (ie, not a notable event), though not much of it until the morning radio news mentioned it.
Yeah, not an interesting contribution, but a datapoint of sorts.
Yes, this was bad. The virus signature in question appears to match any software that does auto-updates (possibly trying to spot phone-home malware?) so it's flagged dozens of software packages and according to what policy you've set, quarantined or deleted the files. This includes the auto-update part of the sophos client. The flood of emails from the sophos enterprise manager package as machines were switched on this morning quickly alerted us that this wasn't good, and just looking at names of the files it was flagging was enough to see that this was a false positive. Cleanup continues.
We've been very happy with sophos enterprise, and I'm staggered that this signature made it out the door - they should have numerous controls in place to ensure this can never happen and I await an explanation for how they failed.
I'm not too impressed by some of the advice given in their cleanup procedure - they advise setting the policy to not scan certain sophos directories - guess where viruses may try to hide in future.
This is an embarassing fubar which will have had a high impact on thousands of enterprises. It'll be interesting to see if Sophos come clean about the circumstances and can be convincing enough about how it's never going to happen again.
And don't forget Snopes, the grandaddy of online truth-telling.
And don't forget that Snopes started out on alt.folklore.urban, the great-grandaddy of truth-telling (and trolling, when it meant something different).
Don't you people get it? The BBC would be more than happy to have paid-for access to their excellent Olympic coverage, but the rights have been carved up all over the world, and the BBC only have rights to play to the UK. Don't moan to them, bitch to the IOC.
Dunno about cycle route corrections, but google had a private track next to my house marked as a road (and would route along it) and I emailed them to point this out, and it was fixed within 24 hours. Just an anecdote.
doh! 'smssend n900', not 'smssTend'.
$ sms anna 'coming home soon, do I need to go to the shops?'
I can do that on my n900 - google 'smssTend n900'. I haven't found a way to initiate calls, nor make a pre-recorded call to somebody via cli.
HP will sell you a decent enough tape library with all slots usable. A LOT cheaper. they all use the same connections and LTO-4/5 tapes except with HP you don't need to pay some ridiculous commission.
As a customer of another tape library company paying licences for the right to use slots in hardware we'd already bought (s'ok, it's a business model) I'd moderated you 'interesting'. Then I went googling for HP Tape Libraries, and got this:
http://www.cbccomputers.com/index.php/hp-esl-g3-100-slot-capacity-upgrade-license.html
So I guess they're playing the same game. You may be referring to smaller tape libraries, but I don't play in that field. I can't comment on the competitiveness of the licence cost, just thought I'd point that out in case anybody else took your post to mean that HP don't licence slots.
Me! Me!! I'm still suprised that the phone that does the most for me is a 36-month old doorstop.
I really enjoyed Tintin, for one.
Fair enough (I'm not sure what he was responsible for or when he was brought in to the process), but I would recommend the A&J podcasts, they're pretty orthogonal to his screenwriting/directing, except for the obvious steeped-in-movies (rather than 'film') that they share with Simon Pegg.
I admire the work that went into this, but:
"The network switch power consumption wasn't monitored as part of the power monitoring since eventually the cluster will move back to its intended location where it will be tapping an already present 24-port enterprise-grade network switch and thus not lead to any net increase in power draw"
If you're comparing single multicore system per-watt performance with a cluster, you don't get to magic away the power draw of the switches that provide the fabric for communicating between the nodes, even if it's an 'already present' switch.
Joe Cornish was also one of the 2 screenwriters on Adventures of Tintin (meh). But better known in the UK as half of 'Adam & Joe' of TV long past and radio (but not recently). Podcasts here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/adamandjoe
I enjoy the podcasts, and would (selfishly) rather that he returned to radio than futz about in Hollywood. They probably pay better than the BBC, though.
The US did not make the Internet. Quoting from this history [nethistory.info], "The earliest pioneers included a Frenchman, Louis Pouzin, who introduced the idea of data grams and an Englishman, Donald W. Davies, who was one of the inventors of packet-switching.
I realise you're quoting, but just in case there's any confusion, Donald W Davies was a Welshman, not an Englishman
It is possible to carry some extra gasoline in a canister in the trunk, so if I run out, I can pour the gasoline from the canister to the tank. Did that a few times. Even if the canister was empty (or I forgot to bring it with me), I could still go to the nearest gas station on foot, buy the canister if I don't have one, fill it and bring it to my car, pour the gasoline to the tank and drive to the gas station. My dad did that once.
"My dad did that once" - Not to pick on you or anything, but you made that sound mythic, and I feel old.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/01/0020259/dhs-will-now-vet-uk-air-passengers-to-mexico-canada-cuba
Might make no difference... The way I'm reading the article, it says "requires European airlines to pass on passenger information", without going into detail about whether that's US-bound flights only, flights within the EU, flights from EU to outside EU (but not US), or even any flight, from/to anywhere, done by an EU-based airline company. It would be good if someone could clear this up.
See the story I posted earlier this month - this is about anybody flying from EU to anywhere that's close to the US (Canada, Cuba). Flying to US or passing through has always been subject to these rules about sending data.
I mean 1000 Gbps is considered normal here, and some of us are running on faster connections, using less energy total to do the same thing.
OK, I'm very late posting here, but are you sure that you're using less energy at 10GB (assuming that's where you're at, ethernet-wise?).
We've just added some 10GBs blades to our cisco main switches and what's stunned us is the upgrade that we've had to do to the chassis PSUs - from 2x3000W to 2x6000W - 10GB copper is massively hungry for power at the other end (in retrosepect we should have forseen that) - are you looking at total cost? 6000W PSUs (2 for redundancy) are $2.2k+ each from Cisco in the UK - the 16-port 10GBs blades don't come cheap either. Cisco aren't the cheapest option, if you've something else I'd be interested in your capital spend (let alone the power cost) per port.