1. I do not find it hard to believe. Vel Satis is fully electronic automatic transmission with keyless entry and ignition. You cannot switch to neutral if the computer is bust. You cannot turn off the engine either. And if it has already been allowed to accelerate to 120mph the handbrake (dunno if it even has one) and the breaks will not do shit. 2. It is what you get from integrating non-vital and vital circuits to save costs. Dunno if the Vel Satis uses similar electronics, but the recent Citroen and Peugeot (the other two french makes) run using a single integrated on-board computer that controls everything from wipers to engine. To add insult to injury it is a low end crap running Windows CE. It is quite noticeable - their speed displays are fully digital and it takes them 2+ seconds to update between reading (as of Citroen C2). Enough to lose your license in some of the UK speed camera happy areas. That is besides that it is an el-cheapo passive LCD which cannot be read if you have polaroid sunglasses or if the sun is behind you (Citroen C2 and C3 at least). 3. This case is an example why you should not buy an automatic and a keyless entry until proper cars are available. In fact I would rather have my speedo analogue as well (it takes less time for human brain to read an analogue dial compared to a digital number).
People underestimate the efficiency of a modern bicycle. Speaking out experience from the times when I was 20+ kg heavier then now:-)
You can convert arse to muscle.
Lose belly - no.
Lose weight - no (at least at realistic commuting distances). You need at least 40 minutes one way pedaling flat out to start losing weight. In other words 8-9 miles with hills and traffic. 10+ miles on flat terrain.
There's really no other way to study the effect of global warming without using some sort of simulation,
Incorrect. Study history.
During 800-1100 the Northern hemisphere was a degree or two higher then now. As a result the Gulfstream was weaker to the point where:
0.5-1m sustained winter snowcover in Britain was normal. Summer temperatures were sustained 27+ with a relatively dry climate and wheat was the main crop.
There was a number of winters at the height of this period where the bay of Venice, the Bosphorus, most of the Black Sea as well as the north of the Adriatic froze.
At the same time at the height of the period the entire Central America went into a 30+ year deadly draught which lead to the fall of the Maya civilization.
Similarly tree ring records from the same period show extremely wet and relatively colder conditions in Texas.
Iceland was mostly ice (as on the label).
So on, so fourth.
If you compare this with the current climate model for what will global warming bring you will see that it matches 100%.
I hate to say that, but this shape was the only design which anyone on earth could do at the time. Insufficient computing capability. Plain and simple.
Example XB-70. Similar? Strikingly. Arrow. Similar? Vulcan. Similar? Quite. We can continue with many other craft by other design houses both soviet and western.
The fact is - Tu144 was initially designed with a very interesting "ozhivalnoe" wingshape. A full scale prototype was flown (you can find pictures of it in many books on aerodynamics and aircraft history and design) and it was decided to fall back to the well known, tested and proven though inefficient shape because some stability problems remained unresolved and Mark Galai (Tu chief test pilot) did not sign off the testing.
Nowdays someone with the computing resources of Boeing may in fact make the original design work as it was promissing to be considerably better in terms of both fuel efficiency and landing/takeoff speeds (which in term means less noise).
There is a very interesting novel by a french Sci Fi writer who had that idea. If I recall correctly it is by Gérard Klein.
The idea is that there is a barrier between stars which cannot be traversed unless the body has a critical mass above a threshold which is close to the moon mass. To add insult to injury the barrier alters randomly the destination of hyperspace jumps as well. As a result the first 27 interstellar expeditions end up at random star systems around the solar one when trying to return. And the solar system inhabitants run into them when fleeing from the exploding sun by moving the entire earth (as a method to circumvent the barrier).
It is a pity that most of his works are not translated into English. His stuff is definitely close to the level of Zelazny or Shekley and way beyond the utter garbage produced by the likes of Timothy Zan and Stephen Donaldson.
Buy a dog. Legal, but lethal. In order of preference here are some legal ones (allowed even in countries with fairly stringent laws):
1. Russian version of German Shepard also known as Eastern European Shephard. Looks same as the Western standard, but there is no upper size limit, adults are usually 10cm+ taller then average "normal" German Shepard. If trained correctly will kill or restrain. Your choice.
2. Moskow Guard dog AKA moskovskaia storogevaia. Ugly lethal beast. Or lethal ugly beast anyway you like it. Bread to guard. Kills intruders (oops forgot, you asked to keep them alive).
3. Russian wolfhound. AKA Borzoi. While being one of the most beautiful dogs out there it is also an ultimate killing machine. Can run at 30+mph and I have seen how one of these slaughtered a pitbull in under 30 seconds. Once again. Intruders do not stand a lot of chances. One problem - you need to take it for a 5mile walk/run every day or it will die from heart and joint problems. It was born to run.
There are quite a few others of course. Even "fireplace rugs" like a newfoundland or St Bernard can be a fairly good deterrent. And they are less likely to kill your wife or kid by mistake compared to a gun of any shape of form.
Well... From one perspective you have a point. From another one you don't.
Germans did not win the war on the eastern front by military means. At the military level they were getting their arse kicked. Brusililov breakthrough, Moonzund, etc.
What they did is to demonstrate that it does not matter how many battles you can win if you manage to finance a suitable muppet to take power in the opposing country for you. The Brest-Litovsk was the condition for Lenin to get the financial support he got as well as the condition for the "heroic journey in a sealed vagon". Just check how did Lenin get through from Switherland to Sweden.
So I say we buy a suitable Kim-Chen Lenin and put him in charge of North Korea. The German WWI example shows that it is a considerably better approach compared to nuking them until they glow.
Yes, but they can (dunno if they do) bolt down your location using the cable modem MAC which they can cross-reference versus their registration database. If this is the case these numbers are not globally portable. You cannot just take your phone and go somewhere else.
The author of the article is not b***ing about local services like this. He is b***ing about Vonage and other supposedly global portable services. Well, all I can say - tough luck. In fact Vonage should NOT be trying to do anything with 911. It should bounce the call.
Banks are nearly 100% sybase turf. You cannot get a job in a bank as a SA or developer if you do not know it.
While at it, the people who will be interested in it will be the people who want to get into that sector and need a toy to play. The demand for sybase skills outstrips supply around 10 to 1. Sybase is releasing it for only one reason - so that PHBs do not start considering alternative databases because of lack of staff.
Otherwise at least for me it is in the "not interesting" category until it gets a decent working DBI module compatible with the most recent version.
There is a good saying - if you steal one penny you are a thief. If you steal one billion you are a banker.
Similarly, what is unacceptable for a mom and pop garage shop ISP is perfectly acceptable for a Tier 1 or a larger Tier 2 ISP. If they decide to make a business from hosting SPAMmers (and some do) there are very few means to fight them.
unquestioned leader in quality server hardware and software
Unquestionable leader my arse. Last time I dealt with a Sun order of any significance was 3 years ago (and there is no fscking way in hell I will ever buy from them again after that). Out of 120+ 1U netras 10%+ were dead on arrival, 10% more dead within warranty. Even Hassans corner shop does better. That is besides the fact that ALI 1536 as a peripheral and IDE controller is NOT selfrespecting server hardware. It does not even qualify for a desktop PC PileOfShit. Same for quite a few other elements of the last server design I had to deal with (and decided that I am not ever buying from them ever again). Sun has been going down as quality not in the last few years. It has been going down since 1997 at least. The last machine with decent hardware they shipped was the first Ultrasparc II. Everything after that is down, down and down compared to the competition.
Who cares about the bycicle face retard. The more interesting entry is at No 5. Mark Twain is still pissing off idiots as well as 100 years ago. Interesting that it is Finn, not Letters from Earth (which are not challenged, they are outright banned in quite a few American libraries).
Nope. The only person to blame for HP software is HP. Ever tried to run Openview on HPUX instead of Solaris? Ever tried to run their server monitoring agents (the HP ones, not the ones that they inherited from Compaq)? So on, so fourth...
It is. But not a hard disk. It is presented to the system as a standard writeable DVD drive. As a result it has to use UDF filesystem which does not have write support in 2.4. You can still read them on unmolested 2.4, you cannot write to them.
It was merged for a while in 2.4.27-pre and rcX, but Marcello rolled back the patch in the last release candidate. So you will have to wait for 2.4.28 or use 2.6.7.
Free and Net support UDF. Looking at the source code in 5_2_RELENG one of the first lines is VFS_SET(udf_vfsops, udf, VFCF_READONLY); so they cannot write to it. Disclaimer - I have not tried it, this is based on 15 seconds looking at the source. Based on that they can read, but cannot write to it. I suggest you look at the CVS for CURRENT if there is write support.
Do not care about Open. Have stopped caring 3 years ago and have lived happily ever after.
Crap price per G, crap performance, not suitable for the job. The question was not about iPod avertisement solicitation. The question was about portable storage solution and at the moment there is only one answer that is reasonable as far as price/performance is concerned. It is Iomega Rev
35G capacity
Fully supported without extra drivers on Linux 2.6.5+, Windows 2K and XP and MacOS X. 2.4 requires the write-DVD patches. Anything you write is also 100% portable because it uses UDF filesystem which prevents the relevant OSes from doing silly OS specific things
The cartridges are around 30£ (40$). which smacks iPod, removable harddrives and flash silly
The device is about the size of an external 2.5" hard drive enclosure so you can carry the device around instead of having one at home and one at work.
Blazing fast. Blazing fast to the point where I am seriously considering it as a suitable drive for network backups in a small to medium size office. It has roughly the same price as a DLT tape per cartridge, 5 times lower price per drive, 10 times the speed and the cartridges are only a fraction of the size. Add to that years worth of shelf life compared to months for an average tape...
So let the iPod do what it does best - play music. It is not a good personal storage solution.
Unfortunately it is still subject to interpretation: http://www.stand.org.uk/ripnotes/#keys. In fact your knowledge that the software uses strong encryption and does not store keys usable for nearly anyones perusal may be used against you.
The name Lada was used for VAZ export versions because someone realized that the original car name - Zhiguli means the same in French as La Puta in Spanish.
The name Sharan in Bulgarian, Serbian, etc means Carp. In other words, something cheap, fat and sluggish. No wander it is the worst selling VW group car in Bulgaria.
And that is just one of the reasons I have banned it as a network admin and will not use it.
In fact, if the letter of law is followed strictly it is already illegal in the UK (quite likely in other countries as well). UK laws mandate that you must be capable of supplying keys for any of your encrypted communications so that police can retroactively decrypt anything encrypted by you. It is called the RIP act. Thanks god, it does not yet have approved guidelines for enforcement as the initial proposal got shot down in flames because it was allowing even the post offices and local counsils to issue requests for keys... Bless his Blunketness for the jolly good idea...
Skype session keys generation and key exchange mechanisms are not documented. In fact they are not publically available so the actual security is a big unknown. Anyway, if the police asks you for the keys you can only say Ugh... and swallow the corresponding 2 year jail sentence. So they are entitled to jail you for using it already at least in one EU country.
Not quite. Just a logical result of joining security databases. This in turn means that EFK and others were listed in at least one security database as people to watch. Which means that the spirit of McCarthy is alive and kicking and has been for all these years. This also explains why the had such a problem removing themselves.
Did you read the post? At all? I said from my experience and I meant it. That was the conversation when I tried to discuss blocking it. I tried to explain and discuss for fscking 12 months. I got nowhere and was overruled in this fashion for 11 months +. End of the day. I had enough and left. That was 8+ years ago. I have been happy ever since not working on academented networks. Judging from this antarctic idiocy the situation has not changed a bit.
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You are mistaking GM for all cars.
It is only the idiots at GM who do 22cm plus clutch travel. These are actual numbers from my old Vauxhall Astra.
French cars are under 16cm, Some japanese have clutch travel as low as 8 cm. No wear and tear.
Speaking out of experience - had non-stop knee problems with the Astra. No problems even on 5 hour drives with the new Daihatsu.
1. I do not find it hard to believe. Vel Satis is fully electronic automatic transmission with keyless entry and ignition. You cannot switch to neutral if the computer is bust. You cannot turn off the engine either. And if it has already been allowed to accelerate to 120mph the handbrake (dunno if it even has one) and the breaks will not do shit.
2. It is what you get from integrating non-vital and vital circuits to save costs. Dunno if the Vel Satis uses similar electronics, but the recent Citroen and Peugeot (the other two french makes) run using a single integrated on-board computer that controls everything from wipers to engine. To add insult to injury it is a low end crap running Windows CE. It is quite noticeable - their speed displays are fully digital and it takes them 2+ seconds to update between reading (as of Citroen C2). Enough to lose your license in some of the UK speed camera happy areas. That is besides that it is an el-cheapo passive LCD which cannot be read if you have polaroid sunglasses or if the sun is behind you (Citroen C2 and C3 at least).
3. This case is an example why you should not buy an automatic and a keyless entry until proper cars are available. In fact I would rather have my speedo analogue as well (it takes less time for human brain to read an analogue dial compared to a digital number).
You can convert arse to muscle.
Lose belly - no.
Lose weight - no (at least at realistic commuting distances). You need at least 40 minutes one way pedaling flat out to start losing weight. In other words 8-9 miles with hills and traffic. 10+ miles on flat terrain.
Incorrect. Study history.
During 800-1100 the Northern hemisphere was a degree or two higher then now. As a result the Gulfstream was weaker to the point where:
0.5-1m sustained winter snowcover in Britain was normal. Summer temperatures were sustained 27+ with a relatively dry climate and wheat was the main crop.
There was a number of winters at the height of this period where the bay of Venice, the Bosphorus, most of the Black Sea as well as the north of the Adriatic froze.
At the same time at the height of the period the entire Central America went into a 30+ year deadly draught which lead to the fall of the Maya civilization.
Similarly tree ring records from the same period show extremely wet and relatively colder conditions in Texas.
Iceland was mostly ice (as on the label).
So on, so fourth. If you compare this with the current climate model for what will global warming bring you will see that it matches 100%.
I hate to say that, but this shape was the only design which anyone on earth could do at the time. Insufficient computing capability. Plain and simple.
Example XB-70. Similar? Strikingly. Arrow. Similar? Vulcan. Similar? Quite. We can continue with many other craft by other design houses both soviet and western.
The fact is - Tu144 was initially designed with a very interesting "ozhivalnoe" wingshape. A full scale prototype was flown (you can find pictures of it in many books on aerodynamics and aircraft history and design) and it was decided to fall back to the well known, tested and proven though inefficient shape because some stability problems remained unresolved and Mark Galai (Tu chief test pilot) did not sign off the testing.
Nowdays someone with the computing resources of Boeing may in fact make the original design work as it was promissing to be considerably better in terms of both fuel efficiency and landing/takeoff speeds (which in term means less noise).
Not funny. Insightful. Think of the rtt-s and window scaling and 20bits per minute...
Nope you do not. Details in the article - note the senator names.
There is a very interesting novel by a french Sci Fi writer who had that idea. If I recall correctly it is by Gérard Klein.
The idea is that there is a barrier between stars which cannot be traversed unless the body has a critical mass above a threshold which is close to the moon mass. To add insult to injury the barrier alters randomly the destination of hyperspace jumps as well. As a result the first 27 interstellar expeditions end up at random star systems around the solar one when trying to return. And the solar system inhabitants run into them when fleeing from the exploding sun by moving the entire earth (as a method to circumvent the barrier).
It is a pity that most of his works are not translated into English. His stuff is definitely close to the level of Zelazny or Shekley and way beyond the utter garbage produced by the likes of Timothy Zan and Stephen Donaldson.
Buy a dog. Legal, but lethal. In order of preference here are some legal ones (allowed even in countries with fairly stringent laws):
1. Russian version of German Shepard also known as Eastern European Shephard. Looks same as the Western standard, but there is no upper size limit, adults are usually 10cm+ taller then average "normal" German Shepard. If trained correctly will kill or restrain. Your choice.
2. Moskow Guard dog AKA moskovskaia storogevaia. Ugly lethal beast. Or lethal ugly beast anyway you like it. Bread to guard. Kills intruders (oops forgot, you asked to keep them alive).
3. Russian wolfhound. AKA Borzoi. While being one of the most beautiful dogs out there it is also an ultimate killing machine. Can run at 30+mph and I have seen how one of these slaughtered a pitbull in under 30 seconds. Once again. Intruders do not stand a lot of chances. One problem - you need to take it for a 5mile walk/run every day or it will die from heart and joint problems. It was born to run.
There are quite a few others of course. Even "fireplace rugs" like a newfoundland or St Bernard can be a fairly good deterrent. And they are less likely to kill your wife or kid by mistake compared to a gun of any shape of form.
Well... From one perspective you have a point. From another one you don't.
Germans did not win the war on the eastern front by military means. At the military level they were getting their arse kicked. Brusililov breakthrough, Moonzund, etc.
What they did is to demonstrate that it does not matter how many battles you can win if you manage to finance a suitable muppet to take power in the opposing country for you. The Brest-Litovsk was the condition for Lenin to get the financial support he got as well as the condition for the "heroic journey in a sealed vagon". Just check how did Lenin get through from Switherland to Sweden.
So I say we buy a suitable Kim-Chen Lenin and put him in charge of North Korea. The German WWI example shows that it is a considerably better approach compared to nuking them until they glow.
Yes, but they can (dunno if they do) bolt down your location using the cable modem MAC which they can cross-reference versus their registration database. If this is the case these numbers are not globally portable. You cannot just take your phone and go somewhere else.
The author of the article is not b***ing about local services like this. He is b***ing about Vonage and other supposedly global portable services. Well, all I can say - tough luck. In fact Vonage should NOT be trying to do anything with 911. It should bounce the call.
Banks are nearly 100% sybase turf. You cannot get a job in a bank as a SA or developer if you do not know it.
While at it, the people who will be interested in it will be the people who want to get into that sector and need a toy to play. The demand for sybase skills outstrips supply around 10 to 1. Sybase is releasing it for only one reason - so that PHBs do not start considering alternative databases because of lack of staff.
Otherwise at least for me it is in the "not interesting" category until it gets a decent working DBI module compatible with the most recent version.
There is a good saying - if you steal one penny you are a thief. If you steal one billion you are a banker.
Similarly, what is unacceptable for a mom and pop garage shop ISP is perfectly acceptable for a Tier 1 or a larger Tier 2 ISP. If they decide to make a business from hosting SPAMmers (and some do) there are very few means to fight them.
Unquestionable leader my arse. Last time I dealt with a Sun order of any significance was 3 years ago (and there is no fscking way in hell I will ever buy from them again after that). Out of 120+ 1U netras 10%+ were dead on arrival, 10% more dead within warranty. Even Hassans corner shop does better. That is besides the fact that ALI 1536 as a peripheral and IDE controller is NOT selfrespecting server hardware. It does not even qualify for a desktop PC PileOfShit. Same for quite a few other elements of the last server design I had to deal with (and decided that I am not ever buying from them ever again). Sun has been going down as quality not in the last few years. It has been going down since 1997 at least. The last machine with decent hardware they shipped was the first Ultrasparc II. Everything after that is down, down and down compared to the competition.
Who cares about the bycicle face retard. The more interesting entry is at No 5. Mark Twain is still pissing off idiots as well as 100 years ago. Interesting that it is Finn, not Letters from Earth (which are not challenged, they are outright banned in quite a few American libraries).
Nope. The only person to blame for HP software is HP. Ever tried to run Openview on HPUX instead of Solaris? Ever tried to run their server monitoring agents (the HP ones, not the ones that they inherited from Compaq)? So on, so fourth...
It is. But not a hard disk. It is presented to the system as a standard writeable DVD drive. As a result it has to use UDF filesystem which does not have write support in 2.4. You can still read them on unmolested 2.4, you cannot write to them.
It was merged for a while in 2.4.27-pre and rcX, but Marcello rolled back the patch in the last release candidate. So you will have to wait for 2.4.28 or use 2.6.7.
Free and Net support UDF. Looking at the source code in 5_2_RELENG one of the first lines is VFS_SET(udf_vfsops, udf, VFCF_READONLY); so they cannot write to it. Disclaimer - I have not tried it, this is based on 15 seconds looking at the source. Based on that they can read, but cannot write to it. I suggest you look at the CVS for CURRENT if there is write support.
Do not care about Open. Have stopped caring 3 years ago and have lived happily ever after.
Can we have a +1 Flamebait and +1 Troll moderations please.... Please... Please...
- 35G capacity
- Fully supported without extra drivers on Linux 2.6.5+, Windows 2K and XP and MacOS X. 2.4 requires the write-DVD patches. Anything you write is also 100% portable because it uses UDF filesystem which prevents the relevant OSes from doing silly OS specific things
- The cartridges are around 30£ (40$). which smacks iPod, removable harddrives and flash silly
- The device is about the size of an external 2.5" hard drive enclosure so you can carry the device around instead of having one at home and one at work.
- Blazing fast. Blazing fast to the point where I am seriously considering it as a suitable drive for network backups in a small to medium size office. It has roughly the same price as a DLT tape per cartridge, 5 times lower price per drive, 10 times the speed and the cartridges are only a fraction of the size. Add to that years worth of shelf life compared to months for an average tape...
So let the iPod do what it does best - play music. It is not a good personal storage solution.Unfortunately it is still subject to interpretation: http://www.stand.org.uk/ripnotes/#keys. In fact your knowledge that the software uses strong encryption and does not store keys usable for nearly anyones perusal may be used against you.
It is not unique.
The name Lada was used for VAZ export versions because someone realized that the original car name - Zhiguli means the same in French as La Puta in Spanish.
The name Sharan in Bulgarian, Serbian, etc means Carp. In other words, something cheap, fat and sluggish. No wander it is the worst selling VW group car in Bulgaria.
So on, so fourth.
And that is just one of the reasons I have banned it as a network admin and will not use it.
In fact, if the letter of law is followed strictly it is already illegal in the UK (quite likely in other countries as well). UK laws mandate that you must be capable of supplying keys for any of your encrypted communications so that police can retroactively decrypt anything encrypted by you. It is called the RIP act. Thanks god, it does not yet have approved guidelines for enforcement as the initial proposal got shot down in flames because it was allowing even the post offices and local counsils to issue requests for keys... Bless his Blunketness for the jolly good idea...
Skype session keys generation and key exchange mechanisms are not documented. In fact they are not publically available so the actual security is a big unknown. Anyway, if the police asks you for the keys you can only say Ugh... and swallow the corresponding 2 year jail sentence. So they are entitled to jail you for using it already at least in one EU country.
Not quite. Just a logical result of joining security databases. This in turn means that EFK and others were listed in at least one security database as people to watch. Which means that the spirit of McCarthy is alive and kicking and has been for all these years. This also explains why the had such a problem removing themselves.
Did you read the post?
At all?
I said from my experience and I meant it.
That was the conversation when I tried to discuss blocking it. I tried to explain and discuss for fscking 12 months. I got nowhere and was overruled in this fashion for 11 months +.
End of the day. I had enough and left. That was 8+ years ago. I have been happy ever since not working on academented networks.
Judging from this antarctic idiocy the situation has not changed a bit.
Seconded, go switch from perl to anything else