Every Pentium 4 ever shipped has it. All Intel chipsets for Pentium 4 have it as well.
Same for Pentium 4 derived Xeons.
Same for Via though it really starts to play from Nehemia core upwards. That is if you are interested in dropping your power consumption from 7W to 1W.
Same for Opteron, but there is no proper SMP support in most motherboards. Dunno about Duron. Do not smoke that...
I run it on everything even servers. Drops idle power consumption by up to 75-80W per CPU.
Well... Someone modded this as funny. Wrong... It is the first comment so far I have seen on this article that comes anywhere near being insightfull.
The secret of stable system design is designing from failure. Designing and implementing defensively. If you want to design an ultrastable system you start with the failure analysis for every component, following with failure analysis of modules and the entire thing as it grows.
This in the world of C++ (and C for that matter) quite often means checking paranoiacally everything everywhere for NULLs before doing anything about it.
Designing and writing from failure means that every system or library call should be assumed to fail first and all failures handled cleanly. This may be quite painfull because it usually requires the development of special tools like wrappers around malloc, file calls, etc that return error conditions which are nearly impossible to achieve on a live system.
Only after all codepaths for "bad" results have been handled, the actual "normal" codepaths should be written. This unfortunately is not the way code is written in 99% of the shops out there. Most design and implement from success first and add failure handling later.
Just ask in your shop: "Where is our memalloc wrapper that simulates a failed memory allocation? I need to link versus it to do some testing to see how our app handles NULLs in a few places". The usual answer you will get is "Ugh? WTF you are talking about Dude... We do not smoke that stuff here... Just go and write the code you have been assigned to write..."
I have always thought that this guy has a point. Now it is scientifically proven.
Time to buy some of the Y2006 demotivators
http://www.despair.com/.
Yess... The Dreamer above my desk definitely looks like the best way towards success...
While I do not care a lot about content I do care about system integrity and security. These can be managed using DRM as well. On a non-DRM system there is always a doubt that something in the lower layers have been compromised.
While DRM will not eliminate the doubts about an executable or a module completely, it makes the creation of a system where integrity starts from the hardware platform and goes all the way to the user interface much easier. As a result, if used correctly and in conjunction with proper hardware support it will lead to more secure systems.
In a few years even the fridges will start asking for an IP. Getting working security in a world like this without DRM all the way to the hardware level is a utopia. Utopias are nice, provided that you do not have to live in them. In that case they quickly start to suck.
I agree with Linux on this one. DRM interfaces in the Linux kernel and userspace are beneficial for the overall security and development of the system. Removing them for purely political reasons is outright stupid.
If you are not a commercial entity - good for you.
If you are a commercial entity - you should have been using a VOIP PBX for that. In some cases you will be even legally obliged to do so to have a track of who, what and how (and record the call if necessary).
By the way - the original article on Slashdot is about "Does your employer ban skype". It is about company and usage of Skype (and alternatives) in a company. So you are not proving a point by providing an example which does not deal with usage in a company.
Also, the original article is about one of the institutes connected to the DFN which AFAIK has circa class B public network (old academic allocation). OC3+ multiple connectivity most likely. Classsic place for a supernode location for all freeloaders to use bandwidth payed by someone else. I can understand them forbidding it. In fact if I was their head of IT I would have prohibited it long ago. They are not a subcontractor of Skype to provide VOIP for half of Germany (and surrounding countries).
Nope - barbarians. The lowest level of armed unit in Civilisation is the "warrior" which looks like an Indian. If the barbarians do not develop very far they will look like that. This is usually the case on a small map.
On a large map you can see anything. The highest non-revolt generated unit I have seen was a SAM. If you get a revolt you can get anything, even fusion tanks and space planes.
Double Disclaimer - so am I. So I actually know the difference between the meaning of Zhid and Evrei in the Russian language. I would prefer not to go into them.
Regarding security & compliance, that is a matter of *WHAT* conversations are recommended to use skype and what conversations are prohibited from using it.
So what exactly are your technical means to check that with Skype? Can you please enlighten us the unfettered and ignorant sysadmins out there?
Regarding network/QoS, if you're running a decent network, skype traffic even with quite a few simultaneous calls is pretty minimal.
Really? Once everyone in a company of 200 employees starts using Skype you get momemts with 24+ streams going across the firewall and back. Ever heard of Erlang and capacity calculations?
Regarding telephony - yeah, you can't for example call the fire department using skype so you can't take away the employee's phones; but that's a simple matter of teaching them what to use the phone for.
So how about the most trivial of trivial tasks in a company - the secretary picking up the boss calls or having a hunt group that circles the support department looking for someone available?
I may be an amusing troll as you say, but I have sat under that bloody sysadmin bridge for a very long time. So I actually know what I am doing and tend to put my money where my mouth is.
Well when boss is on the road you give him a softphone extension on the company PBX with all the PBX features, voicemail, calling plan, secretary (most importantly).
Requires some competence in the sysadmin I guess. Especially to make it work reliably and all the time. QoS on low bandwidth links is a pain in the arse.
Alternatively, if you are incompetent you give him Skype which has none of that. And both of you enjoy it until he sees another boss which has a competent sysadmin.
And that is the day when you say bye-bye to your bonus.
As far as eating traffic if you only freeload (no local P2P supernodes) it eats 10-20% less traffic compared to an OpenVPN or IPSEC tunnel with a G729 call with VAD turned on. So if it is only one conversation Skype is more economical. Problem is elsewhere. If there are multiple conversations between people from the same company they traverse the company NAT to the sometimes different supernodes as relays and back. This is what wastes bandwidth.
On top of that Skype especially in a NAT environment is horrible to QoS. If you are obliged to provide a working VOIP environment this is the worst possible protocol. There is no protocol spec, there is no documentation, there is no way to keep state, there is no way to kill specific conversations to keep within bandwidth limits, so on so fourth.
To add to that, in a company environment it is important to have the VOIP integrate cleanly with the company directory, possibly CRM, voicemail, etc. You do not get anything even close with Skype. You get that from any VOIP PBX. Even Asterisk has that on offer. On top of that in many cases you are obliged to keep at least call records for compliance (if not the entire conversations). Nothing like that with Skype.
It is a good toy for the end-user masses. It should be banned in a company. If a company allows Skype this means that the sysadmin has no clue on all of the following counts - security, compliance, telephony, network/QoS.
I would disagree with the wikipedia article about the "beneficial" bit. Eucariots require sugars for many things besides energy production. For example proteins cannot be used prior to them being glycosilated. Temperature control in mammals is largely dependant on short circuiting glycolisis and glyconeogenesis, so on so fourth. This all needs sugars.
Ketones are not going to give you anything of this.
Any Russian speaker will start laughing hysterically the moment he sees the name...
Frankly, this sounds like a far fetched antisemitic joke someone tried to pull out. Making a silly complain to someone who is likely to make this widely known and signing it the word antisemites in Russia use as a derogatory name for jews.
The person who did it is most likely laughing hysterically know seeing that it has made Slashdot.
One of the main reasons for caffeine giving you a wake-up call is that it forces the liver to hydrolise glycogen into glucose. So you if you are drinking a caffeinated drink your blood sugar level will rise regardless of the sugar level of the drink. This will give your brain food as brain can consume only glucose (nothing else can traverse the hematoencephalic barrier). As a result you wake up.
In fact, I have found high-sugar containing fruit like grapes to be nearly as effective as a whole jug of expresso when waking me up. If I do not wake up by the end of the second expresso jug I usually munch down half a kilogram of grapes. That does it and usually does not stick on the "rubber ring" the way junk food does.
"According to the local laws, regulations and policy, some search results are not shown."
As someone who has grown up in a country which was behind the Iron Curtain I can tell you that this is more effective in seeding discontent than showing the results. I am rolling on the floor laughing if this is the consession made by Google to the Chinese. The Party has scored an own goal. Several times. I am still laughing... This definitely made my day...
You can buy a virtual machine under plex from these guys http://www.memset.com/ for 15£ which is less than 30$. That is on proper hardware with RAID1 disk susbsystem.
If you are not into some heavy duty PHP or apache-perl stuff the resources on the virtual machine will be more than enough.
I have yet to dip into the swap on mine which runs my mail relay and web for the time being.
Cellular protocol stacks are expensive. The intellectual property rights for the essential bits of a phone which make it a phone are around 30$.
This leaves less then 70$ for the rest. While it may be possible in a few years this is highly unlikely with today's technology. The 100$ laptop which IMO is also too far fetched is much more likely to be successful.
If both perps are using wireless phones as the ones referred in the article this is likely to be unfeasible. This is why law enforcement requires lawful intercept capabilities in the actual network equipment, not end-user terminals. And with skype it is not getting it for the time being.
Your link is correct. Greenland when the Vikings discovered it used to be what is written on the label - GREEN. Similarly, Iceland was what is written on the label ICE. At the same time Europe suffered a mini-ice age (8th-11th century). In the 11th century the bay of Venice froze twice, the may of Monaco once, the Bosphorus more then 7 times and the North end of the black sea was frozen on casual basis. Vikings went south and west in the 8th century not because they were bored living a very good life in Norway. They did so because it became very very cold there.
Are ya going to enjoy Texas becoming the prime hurricane landing site?
If the models are to be believed gulfstream should weaken as the northern hemisphere warms up. At the moment the Gulfstream drains all that accumulated energy from the Carribean.
Now, has anyone thought what exactly would happen if this energy is not drained any longer?
So, if any of the forecasts are to be believed all those petrol installations along the cost as well as Houston, Galveston, etc are dead meat.
First of all it is not even close to being as cold as 1978. It was -47 in Moscow on New Years eve that winter.
Second, the last several summers have been the hottest on record as well with record numbers of forest fires, etc.
If the current model for global warming is to be believed the gulfstream should weaken which will lead to continentalisation of the climate in Europe. Colder winters and hotter summers. So far it more or less matches the picture. In fact it is expected to get worse. In the worst case scenario ahref=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/32 66833.stmrel=url2html-28816http://news.bbc.co.uk/2 /hi/science/nature/3266833.stm> the north sea is expected to start to freeze every winter with average winter temperatures in Northern Europe plummeting to sub -25.
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Every Pentium 4 ever shipped has it. All Intel chipsets for Pentium 4 have it as well.
Same for Pentium 4 derived Xeons.
Same for Via though it really starts to play from Nehemia core upwards. That is if you are interested in dropping your power consumption from 7W to 1W.
Same for Opteron, but there is no proper SMP support in most motherboards. Dunno about Duron. Do not smoke that...
I run it on everything even servers. Drops idle power consumption by up to 75-80W per CPU.
The secret of stable system design is designing from failure. Designing and implementing defensively. If you want to design an ultrastable system you start with the failure analysis for every component, following with failure analysis of modules and the entire thing as it grows.
This in the world of C++ (and C for that matter) quite often means checking paranoiacally everything everywhere for NULLs before doing anything about it.
Designing and writing from failure means that every system or library call should be assumed to fail first and all failures handled cleanly. This may be quite painfull because it usually requires the development of special tools like wrappers around malloc, file calls, etc that return error conditions which are nearly impossible to achieve on a live system.
Only after all codepaths for "bad" results have been handled, the actual "normal" codepaths should be written. This unfortunately is not the way code is written in 99% of the shops out there. Most design and implement from success first and add failure handling later.
Just ask in your shop: "Where is our memalloc wrapper that simulates a failed memory allocation? I need to link versus it to do some testing to see how our app handles NULLs in a few places". The usual answer you will get is "Ugh? WTF you are talking about Dude... We do not smoke that stuff here... Just go and write the code you have been assigned to write..."
And the results are quite bloody obvious.
I have always thought that this guy has a point. Now it is scientifically proven. Time to buy some of the Y2006 demotivators http://www.despair.com/. Yess... The Dreamer above my desk definitely looks like the best way towards success...
While I do not care a lot about content I do care about system integrity and security. These can be managed using DRM as well. On a non-DRM system there is always a doubt that something in the lower layers have been compromised.
While DRM will not eliminate the doubts about an executable or a module completely, it makes the creation of a system where integrity starts from the hardware platform and goes all the way to the user interface much easier. As a result, if used correctly and in conjunction with proper hardware support it will lead to more secure systems.
In a few years even the fridges will start asking for an IP. Getting working security in a world like this without DRM all the way to the hardware level is a utopia. Utopias are nice, provided that you do not have to live in them. In that case they quickly start to suck.
I agree with Linux on this one. DRM interfaces in the Linux kernel and userspace are beneficial for the overall security and development of the system. Removing them for purely political reasons is outright stupid.
If you are a commercial entity - you should have been using a VOIP PBX for that. In some cases you will be even legally obliged to do so to have a track of who, what and how (and record the call if necessary).
By the way - the original article on Slashdot is about "Does your employer ban skype". It is about company and usage of Skype (and alternatives) in a company. So you are not proving a point by providing an example which does not deal with usage in a company.
Also, the original article is about one of the institutes connected to the DFN which AFAIK has circa class B public network (old academic allocation). OC3+ multiple connectivity most likely. Classsic place for a supernode location for all freeloaders to use bandwidth payed by someone else. I can understand them forbidding it. In fact if I was their head of IT I would have prohibited it long ago. They are not a subcontractor of Skype to provide VOIP for half of Germany (and surrounding countries).
Er...
There is a very good Bulgarian saying which basically translates into english as: "Are you trying to threaten a dog with a salami smacking?"
Nope - barbarians. The lowest level of armed unit in Civilisation is the "warrior" which looks like an Indian. If the barbarians do not develop very far they will look like that. This is usually the case on a small map.
On a large map you can see anything. The highest non-revolt generated unit I have seen was a SAM. If you get a revolt you can get anything, even fusion tanks and space planes.
IIRC, Ghengis Khan invasion of Europe coincided with a plague pandemic. Not as major one as the Black Death, but a pretty nasty one indeed.
Double Disclaimer - so am I. So I actually know the difference between the meaning of Zhid and Evrei in the Russian language. I would prefer not to go into them.
So what exactly are your technical means to check that with Skype? Can you please enlighten us the unfettered and ignorant sysadmins out there?
Regarding network/QoS, if you're running a decent network, skype traffic even with quite a few simultaneous calls is pretty minimal.
Really? Once everyone in a company of 200 employees starts using Skype you get momemts with 24+ streams going across the firewall and back. Ever heard of Erlang and capacity calculations?
Regarding telephony - yeah, you can't for example call the fire department using skype so you can't take away the employee's phones; but that's a simple matter of teaching them what to use the phone for.
So how about the most trivial of trivial tasks in a company - the secretary picking up the boss calls or having a hunt group that circles the support department looking for someone available?
I may be an amusing troll as you say, but I have sat under that bloody sysadmin bridge for a very long time. So I actually know what I am doing and tend to put my money where my mouth is.
Well when boss is on the road you give him a softphone extension on the company PBX with all the PBX features, voicemail, calling plan, secretary (most importantly).
Requires some competence in the sysadmin I guess. Especially to make it work reliably and all the time. QoS on low bandwidth links is a pain in the arse.
Alternatively, if you are incompetent you give him Skype which has none of that. And both of you enjoy it until he sees another boss which has a competent sysadmin.
And that is the day when you say bye-bye to your bonus.
Well...
As far as eating traffic if you only freeload (no local P2P supernodes) it eats 10-20% less traffic compared to an OpenVPN or IPSEC tunnel with a G729 call with VAD turned on. So if it is only one conversation Skype is more economical. Problem is elsewhere. If there are multiple conversations between people from the same company they traverse the company NAT to the sometimes different supernodes as relays and back. This is what wastes bandwidth.
On top of that Skype especially in a NAT environment is horrible to QoS. If you are obliged to provide a working VOIP environment this is the worst possible protocol. There is no protocol spec, there is no documentation, there is no way to keep state, there is no way to kill specific conversations to keep within bandwidth limits, so on so fourth.
To add to that, in a company environment it is important to have the VOIP integrate cleanly with the company directory, possibly CRM, voicemail, etc. You do not get anything even close with Skype. You get that from any VOIP PBX. Even Asterisk has that on offer. On top of that in many cases you are obliged to keep at least call records for compliance (if not the entire conversations). Nothing like that with Skype.
It is a good toy for the end-user masses. It should be banned in a company. If a company allows Skype this means that the sysadmin has no clue on all of the following counts - security, compliance, telephony, network/QoS.
I would disagree with the wikipedia article about the "beneficial" bit. Eucariots require sugars for many things besides energy production. For example proteins cannot be used prior to them being glycosilated. Temperature control in mammals is largely dependant on short circuiting glycolisis and glyconeogenesis, so on so fourth. This all needs sugars.
Ketones are not going to give you anything of this.
Considering his name extremely odd.
Any Russian speaker will start laughing hysterically the moment he sees the name...
Frankly, this sounds like a far fetched antisemitic joke someone tried to pull out. Making a silly complain to someone who is likely to make this widely known and signing it the word antisemites in Russia use as a derogatory name for jews.
The person who did it is most likely laughing hysterically know seeing that it has made Slashdot.
This will not help you.
One of the main reasons for caffeine giving you a wake-up call is that it forces the liver to hydrolise glycogen into glucose. So you if you are drinking a caffeinated drink your blood sugar level will rise regardless of the sugar level of the drink. This will give your brain food as brain can consume only glucose (nothing else can traverse the hematoencephalic barrier). As a result you wake up.
In fact, I have found high-sugar containing fruit like grapes to be nearly as effective as a whole jug of expresso when waking me up. If I do not wake up by the end of the second expresso jug I usually munch down half a kilogram of grapes. That does it and usually does not stick on the "rubber ring" the way junk food does.
As someone who has grown up in a country which was behind the Iron Curtain I can tell you that this is more effective in seeding discontent than showing the results. I am rolling on the floor laughing if this is the consession made by Google to the Chinese. The Party has scored an own goal. Several times. I am still laughing... This definitely made my day...
Less actually.
You can buy a virtual machine under plex from these guys http://www.memset.com/ for 15£ which is less than 30$. That is on proper hardware with RAID1 disk susbsystem.
If you are not into some heavy duty PHP or apache-perl stuff the resources on the virtual machine will be more than enough.
I have yet to dip into the swap on mine which runs my mail relay and web for the time being.
Seconded.
Cellular protocol stacks are expensive. The intellectual property rights for the essential bits of a phone which make it a phone are around 30$.
This leaves less then 70$ for the rest. While it may be possible in a few years this is highly unlikely with today's technology. The 100$ laptop which IMO is also too far fetched is much more likely to be successful.
Nope. Average speed of the jetstream over the Northern USA at 20km altitude is above 50mph so the 1 day sounds quite real.
If both perps are using wireless phones as the ones referred in the article this is likely to be unfeasible. This is why law enforcement requires lawful intercept capabilities in the actual network equipment, not end-user terminals. And with skype it is not getting it for the time being.
So if Greenland gets greener and warmer...
Seconded.
I recall seeing this as far back as 2001 and that article actually had some proper scientific data behind it.
Damn... Forgot which magazine was it published in...
Are ya going to enjoy Texas becoming the prime hurricane landing site?
If the models are to be believed gulfstream should weaken as the northern hemisphere warms up. At the moment the Gulfstream drains all that accumulated energy from the Carribean.
Now, has anyone thought what exactly would happen if this energy is not drained any longer?
So, if any of the forecasts are to be believed all those petrol installations along the cost as well as Houston, Galveston, etc are dead meat.
First of all it is not even close to being as cold as 1978. It was -47 in Moscow on New Years eve that winter.
2 66833.stmrel=url2html-28816http://news.bbc.co.uk/2 /hi/science/nature/3266833.stm> the north sea is expected to start to freeze every winter with average winter temperatures in Northern Europe plummeting to sub -25.
Second, the last several summers have been the hottest on record as well with record numbers of forest fires, etc.
If the current model for global warming is to be believed the gulfstream should weaken which will lead to continentalisation of the climate in Europe. Colder winters and hotter summers. So far it more or less matches the picture. In fact it is expected to get worse. In the worst case scenario ahref=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3
There are plenty and this virus has even compiled a detailed list of them as it reports every single infection back to a master site.
What is really annoying is that LURQH are keeping the infection list secret. It would have made a wonderful blacklist for an antispam system.