I really wanted to like Ubuntu One. I was even okay with the crappy windows client, but I need to use several distributions of Linux. I couldn't get it to install at all on CentOS, or other derived OS's..
Seriously.. I can't imagine what happens to bandwith when multiple people at the same ISP or office all stream the same live video at the same time.. (I think IPV6 multicast could be one of the truly bright stars pushing IPv6 adoption..)
And when's the last time you edited photos, video, or audio with a CLI?
a few months ago, I had to resize and convert to a different format thousands of pictures in a large set of directories. It was a 2 line CLI script (thanks imagemagick! that took about 3 min to run. If I had to click File->open->browse to location->okay followed by all the other clicks, I would still be working on it.
My canon point and shoot records video in a horribly uncompressed Motion JPEG format. I added a script* to the right click menu in nautilus (again, about 2 lines), and now, it will search all avi files in that directory I run it from, and pass them through ffmpeg to convert to X264 videos that are about 1/10th the size.
*in case anyone else can use it (although getting x264 working in ffmpeg in ubuntu is harder) for file in `ls *.avi`; do echo "Converting $file"; ffmpeg -i $file -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ac 2 -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -crf 24 -threads 0 `basename $file.avi`.mp4; done/code
You are worried about a $600 phone investment.. That is about 1/5th of the price.. You are paying almost $1200 a year for service!! holy crap! You are paying as much a month for a phone (well more, if you factor in the cost of the phone) as other people pay for digital cable + internet with fast speeds, and lots and lots of channels! And the telecom's have you saying "mere" in reference to your price... thats why I have been unable to justify getting a smart phone.. I have my wife and I on a plan that we can't use all of for $65/month for BOTH of us! (US Cellular) with free incoming calls and texts.. I pay $60 a month for my home internet connection (expensive rural wireless), i'll be damned if I pay half of that amount for another internet connection that is slower, and capped, and usable only by a single device.. (and then if I get it, she'll want it too!!)
I installed Oracle Linux 6 this week to test. Besides the blinding red color of everything, I was a bit annoyed to see how many times I saw the word "RedHat" in the installer and the boot process.. I mean, if your going to rebrand it, then freaking re-brand it!
one of the nice little features of the ActiveSync protocol used for syncing email from Exchange, is you can force removable device encryption. Many mobile devices support it. In fact, the Ipad and Iphone support Internal Device Encryption.. It would be trivial to extend that to the removable devices.
I think giving your employer your passwords is a brilliant idea..
Well you see your honor, I am not the only one that could have done that.. I had to surrender my account information to my employer, the state, in order to be employed. Any state employee could have accessed that information.
especially ugly if you have more than one admin for a machine, such as a night crew or something.. In fact, I think it might be against a few rules on accountability for certain situations.. they do not want to hear: "Hey guys, who was running as root last thursday at 3pm?"
exactly.. its just bits on the network.. the security guys should be concentrating on all hosts being untrusted.. Far too often I have seen nastiness happen because someone plugged a personal laptop into the company network behind their lovely well maintained and managed at the front end of the network.
You should give it a try. Its especially handy when searching network drives. If the server has indexing running, it will hand off the search to the remote server, and you'll get the results back instantly.
Probably less than it would cost to put in an extra lane in each direction on the highways. Probably much less.
People like to forget just how much the interstate highway system cost the US.. It almost never happened, because the amount was so ridiculously high.
Same thing with airports.. How much are they spending on adding some runways to Ohare? I think I saw 4 billion dollars. the plane is faster, you are right. But not by much. Its 790 miles from Chicago to NY. Most planes are about 2 hours. But you have to be at the airport at least 60 min before. it can take 20-30 min to get your checked bags, etc.
Throw in a short stop in Cleavland, and maybe, just maybe route a bit further through Philly, and you can add an hour to the train ride, but also drop off and pick up people on the way.
We have an interstate system that is crumbling and falling apart. We have congestion near major cities that can't be fixed by adding another lane. (a recent study said it would take $billions to add a lane to each side of I405 around Seattle, take 15-20 years, and would not relieve any congestion) We have airports so busy that any bad weather and things back up for DAYS.
For medium distances, Rail would be faster than planes, btw. And safer, and carry many more people.
A train between NY and Chicago going 250MPH could haul 1000 people between the two much faster, safer, and much cheaper than either airplanes or cars.
Cause its so easy to ram a train into a skyscraper? C'mon.. these are electric trains.. you cut the power, the thing stops.
Seriously.. how do you figure that? i've boarded trains 2 min after arriving at the station.
And keep in mind, its easy and cheap to add another car to the back of the train to haul more people.. Add another plane, and you get even more congestion at the airport.
Every single Congresscritter threatens to cancel funding for amtrak, unless, well maybe they'll consider keeping it around if they just stop at this liitle town of 3000 people both times per day.
Chicago to Seattle is 48 hours. it has something like 44 stops. Just how many major cities can you count? Take out 20 stops, and you just cut at least 10 hours off the trip.
Most of the newest DD-WRT firmware doesn't have IPv6 support anymore (at least not on my wrt54g).. Reading the forums, it was removed to make room for other features. Annoying, since there is support for all sorts of crap in there.
Most Likely, Qwest is implementing a Toredo or 6to4 server. They are mostly transparent, and used as a bridge between the two stacks. The functionality is built in to Linux, OSx, and Windows 7 and vista.
We have Several Laserjets at work that are a few years old now, and can handle IPv6. Sure, cable modems, printers, and other gear targeted towards the home users is usually crap sold for the cheapest amount, but if you buy real equipment from the last few years, IPv6 is more than likely supported.
I agree with what your saying, but that only really works if you have a closed system.. IE, if your adding people every month, then the people at the 95th percent mark might not people the same people above 95 the next month, as there will be new people that come in, and don't understand how the bandwith is limited.
I live in a subdivision in farmland in Wisconsin. (about 8 miles from Madison) The Local Cable company has no service here.. (cables go to about a mile down the road).. Telco laughs at us.. (litterally.. because of the way the roads are, and that our CO is in the next town over, were 40,000 cable feet away) The state public utilities commission won't do anything to help or encourage, because even though there are about 100 houses out here that really, really want it, their records show that there is already Broadband Service in our zip code.. (that cable line a mile down the road).. Charter said a few years ago they would only bring cable down here if EVERY SINGLE house signed a 2 year agreement..
I've actually been thinking of looking into getting access to a fiber thats about 2 miles away, and setting up a Wimax tower to server my neighborhood, but it is EXTREMELY difficult to get any pricing on equipment to some rough estimates on the number crunching. There are a couple of other neighborhoods nearby, it might just break even..
You are right on the boat analogy, but this will be sealed, which means every X years, your going to have to go drop a new one in place, take the old one back, open it up, re-fuel, refurbish, and then put back out. So really, it would be like rebuilding the boat every 10 years or so, including a new hull (since in this case, the hull and keel are dirt cheap)..
Come to think of it, thats about the same as some of my friends boats...
Anyway people make a conscious choice - they can live near a city with all the various services but the view sucks, or the country where services are few but the scenery is beautiful.
Try replacing "Services" with Mail. Or "roads". Then, think about where your food you eat comes from, and the natural resources you need to live. (yeah, I know, china, but think back 15 years)
Then, think about how much of a difference internet can make in rural areas. Low priced goods can be purchased. Things that aren't even available in the small town stores. Information can be spread much more cheaply. Less trips to the store saves a fortune on gas, etc.
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I really wanted to like Ubuntu One. I was even okay with the crappy windows client, but I need to use several distributions of Linux. I couldn't get it to install at all on CentOS, or other derived OS's..
Seriously.. I can't imagine what happens to bandwith when multiple people at the same ISP or office all stream the same live video at the same time.. (I think IPV6 multicast could be one of the truly bright stars pushing IPv6 adoption..)
because in a few years, they will both be running LTE ?
Facebook publicly says they use CentOS. They also have a large Mirror for lots of different Open Source tools: https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/
And when's the last time you edited photos, video, or audio with a CLI?
a few months ago, I had to resize and convert to a different format thousands of pictures in a large set of directories. It was a 2 line CLI script (thanks imagemagick! that took about 3 min to run. If I had to click File->open->browse to location->okay followed by all the other clicks, I would still be working on it.
My canon point and shoot records video in a horribly uncompressed Motion JPEG format. I added a script* to the right click menu in nautilus (again, about 2 lines), and now, it will search all avi files in that directory I run it from, and pass them through ffmpeg to convert to X264 videos that are about 1/10th the size.
*in case anyone else can use it (although getting x264 working in ffmpeg in ubuntu is harder) .avi`.mp4; done/code
for file in `ls *.avi`; do echo "Converting $file"; ffmpeg -i $file -acodec libfaac -ab 128k -ac 2 -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -crf 24 -threads 0 `basename $file
You are worried about a $600 phone investment.. That is about 1/5th of the price.. You are paying almost $1200 a year for service!! holy crap! You are paying as much a month for a phone (well more, if you factor in the cost of the phone) as other people pay for digital cable + internet with fast speeds, and lots and lots of channels! And the telecom's have you saying "mere" in reference to your price... thats why I have been unable to justify getting a smart phone.. I have my wife and I on a plan that we can't use all of for $65/month for BOTH of us! (US Cellular) with free incoming calls and texts.. I pay $60 a month for my home internet connection (expensive rural wireless), i'll be damned if I pay half of that amount for another internet connection that is slower, and capped, and usable only by a single device.. (and then if I get it, she'll want it too!!)
I installed Oracle Linux 6 this week to test. Besides the blinding red color of everything, I was a bit annoyed to see how many times I saw the word "RedHat" in the installer and the boot process.. I mean, if your going to rebrand it, then freaking re-brand it!
one of the nice little features of the ActiveSync protocol used for syncing email from Exchange, is you can force removable device encryption. Many mobile devices support it. In fact, the Ipad and Iphone support Internal Device Encryption.. It would be trivial to extend that to the removable devices.
I think giving your employer your passwords is a brilliant idea..
Well you see your honor, I am not the only one that could have done that.. I had to surrender my account information to my employer, the state, in order to be employed. Any state employee could have accessed that information.
especially ugly if you have more than one admin for a machine, such as a night crew or something.. In fact, I think it might be against a few rules on accountability for certain situations.. they do not want to hear:
"Hey guys, who was running as root last thursday at 3pm?"
exactly.. its just bits on the network.. the security guys should be concentrating on all hosts being untrusted.. Far too often I have seen nastiness happen because someone plugged a personal laptop into the company network behind their lovely well maintained and managed at the front end of the network.
the built in search in windows 7 is actually a drastic improvement over what used to be. It will work with thunderbird as well: http://superuser.com/questions/80848/how-to-have-windows-7-index-thunderbird-3-messages
You should give it a try. Its especially handy when searching network drives. If the server has indexing running, it will hand off the search to the remote server, and you'll get the results back instantly.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Looks like were at part 3 now.
Probably less than it would cost to put in an extra lane in each direction on the highways. Probably much less.
People like to forget just how much the interstate highway system cost the US.. It almost never happened, because the amount was so ridiculously high.
Same thing with airports.. How much are they spending on adding some runways to Ohare? I think I saw 4 billion dollars. the plane is faster, you are right. But not by much. Its 790 miles from Chicago to NY. Most planes are about 2 hours. But you have to be at the airport at least 60 min before. it can take 20-30 min to get your checked bags, etc.
Throw in a short stop in Cleavland, and maybe, just maybe route a bit further through Philly, and you can add an hour to the train ride, but also drop off and pick up people on the way.
We have an interstate system that is crumbling and falling apart. We have congestion near major cities that can't be fixed by adding another lane. (a recent study said it would take $billions to add a lane to each side of I405 around Seattle, take 15-20 years, and would not relieve any congestion) We have airports so busy that any bad weather and things back up for DAYS.
For medium distances, Rail would be faster than planes, btw. And safer, and carry many more people.
A train between NY and Chicago going 250MPH could haul 1000 people between the two much faster, safer, and much cheaper than either airplanes or cars.
Cause its so easy to ram a train into a skyscraper? C'mon.. these are electric trains.. you cut the power, the thing stops.
Seriously.. how do you figure that? i've boarded trains 2 min after arriving at the station.
And keep in mind, its easy and cheap to add another car to the back of the train to haul more people.. Add another plane, and you get even more congestion at the airport.
Every single Congresscritter threatens to cancel funding for amtrak, unless, well maybe they'll consider keeping it around if they just stop at this liitle town of 3000 people both times per day.
Chicago to Seattle is 48 hours. it has something like 44 stops. Just how many major cities can you count? Take out 20 stops, and you just cut at least 10 hours off the trip.
Most of the newest DD-WRT firmware doesn't have IPv6 support anymore (at least not on my wrt54g).. Reading the forums, it was removed to make room for other features. Annoying, since there is support for all sorts of crap in there.
Most Likely, Qwest is implementing a Toredo or 6to4 server. They are mostly transparent, and used as a bridge between the two stacks. The functionality is built in to Linux, OSx, and Windows 7 and vista.
We have Several Laserjets at work that are a few years old now, and can handle IPv6. Sure, cable modems, printers, and other gear targeted towards the home users is usually crap sold for the cheapest amount, but if you buy real equipment from the last few years, IPv6 is more than likely supported.
I agree with what your saying, but that only really works if you have a closed system.. IE, if your adding people every month, then the people at the 95th percent mark might not people the same people above 95 the next month, as there will be new people that come in, and don't understand how the bandwith is limited.
I live in a subdivision in farmland in Wisconsin. (about 8 miles from Madison) The Local Cable company has no service here.. (cables go to about a mile down the road).. Telco laughs at us.. (litterally.. because of the way the roads are, and that our CO is in the next town over, were 40,000 cable feet away) The state public utilities commission won't do anything to help or encourage, because even though there are about 100 houses out here that really, really want it, their records show that there is already Broadband Service in our zip code.. (that cable line a mile down the road).. Charter said a few years ago they would only bring cable down here if EVERY SINGLE house signed a 2 year agreement..
I've actually been thinking of looking into getting access to a fiber thats about 2 miles away, and setting up a Wimax tower to server my neighborhood, but it is EXTREMELY difficult to get any pricing on equipment to some rough estimates on the number crunching. There are a couple of other neighborhoods nearby, it might just break even..
And how do you propose to get that to South America and the US?
You are right on the boat analogy, but this will be sealed, which means every X years, your going to have to go drop a new one in place, take the old one back, open it up, re-fuel, refurbish, and then put back out. So really, it would be like rebuilding the boat every 10 years or so, including a new hull (since in this case, the hull and keel are dirt cheap)..
Come to think of it, thats about the same as some of my friends boats...
Anyway people make a conscious choice - they can live near a city with all the various services but the view sucks, or the country where services are few but the scenery is beautiful.
Try replacing "Services" with Mail. Or "roads". Then, think about where your food you eat comes from, and the natural resources you need to live. (yeah, I know, china, but think back 15 years)
Then, think about how much of a difference internet can make in rural areas. Low priced goods can be purchased. Things that aren't even available in the small town stores. Information can be spread much more cheaply. Less trips to the store saves a fortune on gas, etc.