Right.. Not like the FAA is trying to move to a new way of tracking planes using GPS or anything.. (http://www.faa.gov/nextgen/implementation/programs/adsb/) Or that Alaska Air already uses it on all its planes..
I use thunderbird at home, but the lack of cardDav support is really starting to annoy me, along with the fact that every time it gets an update, the version of lightning that I have to install seems to get worse.
How can I have imap, and caldav, to sync my mail and calendars (even if the calendars are buggy as hell) and no way to sync my contacts? is this still 1998?
I do the same.. but lately, been wondering how long my (very good) keepassX password would last against these GPU beasts..:) Giving the computing growth of GPU's, i'm sure its not safe for nearly as long as I think it is.
Zarafa! I have migrated two companies now. Works exceptionally well. It uses outlook, so end users don't even realize they are not on exchange anymore. (course, webmail, or any imap/ical client work as well)
I remember the days of very, very slimmed down DOS boot disks to make your games run faster than they did with a bigger OS running on them. I often think of Linux in this context
They thought they had it, but realized they were not converting the units correctly. One group was using MebiBytes, and the other was using MegaBytes..
I like that virtualbox is available on multiple platforms.. Makes it much more likely to "play" with things when I can do it anywhere. it is also very, very easy to export with other common formats.
Wonder what the cost difference is between those two.. If you're putting it in a low cost device, a difference in price can be rather significant.. (ie, do I spend $30 more on each CPU, or go with the cheaper CPU, and $20 worth of extra battery)..
Oh, wait.. one is out in production. another has no firm release date.. So a brand new, not yet actually in use chip is faster, and uses less power than one that has been around a while.. Fascinating...
That is a ton of "man hours" for the police to track someone down for stealing a $100 device. In most states, they can't prove the current holder of the phone stole it, so the best they can do is confiscate the stolen goods. By making them not work at all, it should make the market for stolen phones dry up..
I think the point is more to prevent the phone from being resold on craigslist and the like. I don't think they care how it got stolen. Last time an article came up on slashdot about it, only the account owner could list the phone as stolen, and only the account owner could unlist it.
Then I guess I would be glad they were built several DECADES after the ones in Japan. I also guess I would be glad that the generators are located above the floodplain. Then, I would be glad that the spent fuel isn't stored with the reactor, but in another building. Lastly, I think I would be glad that after Fukishama, enough attention has probably been paid to the very, very, very unlikely event that they could probably get emergency generators air-lifted in by the US military in a big hurry, if they were required.
They do have their swift storage subsystem, but it is not block storage, its object storage. it is, however, replicated, and highly available..
On their website, http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-storage/ they also mention ceph, nexenta, netapp, and SolidFire (never heard of the last one).. I didn't think Gluster was block storage, however.. I thought it was just file...
No, things are not more dangerous. Today, kids are statistically safer than they were in the 60's.. But, we now have 24-hour news that needs to fill time... Lookup the book "Free Range Kids".. You are 20 times more likely to kill your own child while driving, than to have a stranger take off with them. Yet parents still, every day, pile little junior into the SUV to drive 1 mile to school.. (placing a child in a car is the single worst thing you can ever do for their safety, apparently)
That is my single biggest complaint with WIndows.. On my Linux systems, I run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" or "yum update" I run it once.
With my windows 7 SP1 disks, (thankfully I have a local WSUS server) Install 28 updates. Reboot. install 73 updates, reboot, install 4 updates (hey, almost done) reboot, install 12 more updates (wait, what?!) reboot. Notice something in the non-critical list, add that, then 4 more updates.
Then, I get to go either look for the newest version of everything, and install, or open thunderbird, help->about-> update. Firefox, same thing. flash, java, etc.
Umm.. my credit union gives me the same protection for my debit as my credit for loss. but ONLY for usage as a credit card. I pretty much don't do debit transactions anymore with it anyways, I just get my spending money in cash at the start of the month from the bank teller..
Maybe on the client side.. But having to build and maintain a server just for you phones to talk to your exchange server is a bit silly. Everyone else has moved to activesync. Encryption, forced security poicies, etc. (which BES has too, and used to be its strengths) but is now built into exchange, zarafa, gmail (and their apps hosted email) and other email servers.
Not to mention that weird "all your data goes to our servers in Canada first" thing.
But the software industry has been telling us for years, that if we stop the thieves from thieving, they will go on and just buy the software through the proper channels.. Surely, these thieves will just give up, and go buy phones at a local store, right??
BAN anonymous calls or otherwise hiding their numbers and identities. I can't think of a single legitimate reason why a call should be anonymous.
If someone in your family has a medical issue they are not ready to talk to you about, they might disagree
REQUIRE carriers to supply valid CID information or otherwise allow calls to be identified.
My company has many offices. Each office that calls out, sends the CID of the main number (unless the line is marked to over-ride that with a DID). This is pretty much standard in any kind of support center, etc.
That main number is not owned by the phone companies in the local office areas. In fact, because of VOIP, even their DID numbers come into our main office, when outgoing (using least cost routing) might go out any office.
How on earth is the phone company going to verify any of that?
Now.. If there was a way to dial a number after one of these calls, that would use the OTHER number information that the phone system uses (but never sends to the client device) that would be handy. I know where I used to work at a Uni, if someone called in a bomb threat, there was a number to call (like *##) that flagged all the data at the central office and preserved it. This is the same number info 911 uses. I couldn't find out what the number was, but the police could take the time, date, and number they dialed, and go to the phone company and get the information on that flagged call.
Everyone knows how big of an abortion Unity is, and aside from that it seems that Shuttlebuntu continually tries to find new and exciting ways to piss of what's left of their userbase. It's all about the pretty, and not about functionality, unless it's to do with gathering userdata and showing ads.
Actually, many of us that actually like to get work done like Unity. I'm sorry if you're too stuck in your ways.. I like hitting my super key, starting to type "fire" and then hit enter to have it load firefox. To me, it much faster than taking my hand off my keyboard, using the mouse to go to some point on the screen, and click through menu's. (that is sooo windows 95!!) I also like that it only took a few times to realize when I type Calc I prefer Calculator instead of OpenOffice Calc.
I also like the side tabs, which are much more functional than along the bottom like the old gnome, especially since everything is widescreen now, and vertical space is precious.
You are welcome to use crunchbang (to be fair, I like Crunchbang too), Lubuntu, Xubuntu, KUbuntu, Fedora, Slackware, etc.. if you prefer.. but making a giant generalization about how EVERYONE KNOWS its bad is just plain wrong. For those that have taken the time to learn it, it can actually improve your workflow.
So, you (and Alan Cox) can be complete dicks about this and hold the Linux desktop and Linux embedded devices with decent drivers back for years because nobody bothers to support such a tiny market with open source drivers, or you can allow proprietary graphics card manufacturers to keep their hold on graphics drivers for a few years and keep the vast majority of users happy because they have a device that works well enough (even though it doesn't have open source graphics drivers) UNTIL the community develops open source drivers themselves.
So then Valve must be a bunch of Idiots.. http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/08/31/1551230/valve-finds-open-source-drivers-to-be-great Apparently, those dumb-asses seem to think that having access to the drivers makes it easier to find bottlenecks, performance issues, etc, and to improve the drivers at the same time. In fact, their Blog mentions this several times. If only they just understood the closed source model..
Those kinds of warranties are very, very common. Or, they will send a tech out to your location, to diagnose and fix the problem for you. Stop buying consumer equipment, and get a business model. Sure, its not as shiny, but actually, some of them aren't too bad.
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Right.. Not like the FAA is trying to move to a new way of tracking planes using GPS or anything.. (http://www.faa.gov/nextgen/implementation/programs/adsb/) Or that Alaska Air already uses it on all its planes..
I use thunderbird at home, but the lack of cardDav support is really starting to annoy me, along with the fact that every time it gets an update, the version of lightning that I have to install seems to get worse.
How can I have imap, and caldav, to sync my mail and calendars (even if the calendars are buggy as hell) and no way to sync my contacts? is this still 1998?
I do the same.. but lately, been wondering how long my (very good) keepassX password would last against these GPU beasts.. :) Giving the computing growth of GPU's, i'm sure its not safe for nearly as long as I think it is.
Zarafa! I have migrated two companies now. Works exceptionally well. It uses outlook, so end users don't even realize they are not on exchange anymore. (course, webmail, or any imap/ical client work as well)
I remember the days of very, very slimmed down DOS boot disks to make your games run faster than they did with a bigger OS running on them. I often think of Linux in this context
They thought they had it, but realized they were not converting the units correctly. One group was using MebiBytes, and the other was using MegaBytes..
I like that virtualbox is available on multiple platforms.. Makes it much more likely to "play" with things when I can do it anywhere. it is also very, very easy to export with other common formats.
Wonder what the cost difference is between those two.. If you're putting it in a low cost device, a difference in price can be rather significant.. (ie, do I spend $30 more on each CPU, or go with the cheaper CPU, and $20 worth of extra battery)..
Oh, wait.. one is out in production. another has no firm release date.. So a brand new, not yet actually in use chip is faster, and uses less power than one that has been around a while.. Fascinating...
I think he was referring to annually.. which would be a around 300kwh a month.
That is a ton of "man hours" for the police to track someone down for stealing a $100 device. In most states, they can't prove the current holder of the phone stole it, so the best they can do is confiscate the stolen goods. By making them not work at all, it should make the market for stolen phones dry up..
I think the point is more to prevent the phone from being resold on craigslist and the like. I don't think they care how it got stolen. Last time an article came up on slashdot about it, only the account owner could list the phone as stolen, and only the account owner could unlist it.
Hahaha! good luck.. New York forgets there is a rest of the state, let alone anything past Philly..
Then I guess I would be glad they were built several DECADES after the ones in Japan. I also guess I would be glad that the generators are located above the floodplain. Then, I would be glad that the spent fuel isn't stored with the reactor, but in another building. Lastly, I think I would be glad that after Fukishama, enough attention has probably been paid to the very, very, very unlikely event that they could probably get emergency generators air-lifted in by the US military in a big hurry, if they were required.
They do have their swift storage subsystem, but it is not block storage, its object storage. it is, however, replicated, and highly available..
On their website, http://www.openstack.org/software/openstack-storage/ they also mention ceph, nexenta, netapp, and SolidFire (never heard of the last one).. I didn't think Gluster was block storage, however.. I thought it was just file...
No, things are not more dangerous. Today, kids are statistically safer than they were in the 60's.. But, we now have 24-hour news that needs to fill time... Lookup the book "Free Range Kids".. You are 20 times more likely to kill your own child while driving, than to have a stranger take off with them. Yet parents still, every day, pile little junior into the SUV to drive 1 mile to school.. (placing a child in a car is the single worst thing you can ever do for their safety, apparently)
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children flat out says "stranger danger" is wrong, and very dangerous to teach kids: http://us.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2034
That is my single biggest complaint with WIndows.. On my Linux systems, I run "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" or "yum update" I run it once.
With my windows 7 SP1 disks, (thankfully I have a local WSUS server) Install 28 updates. Reboot. install 73 updates, reboot, install 4 updates (hey, almost done) reboot, install 12 more updates (wait, what?!) reboot. Notice something in the non-critical list, add that, then 4 more updates.
Then, I get to go either look for the newest version of everything, and install, or open thunderbird, help->about-> update. Firefox, same thing. flash, java, etc.
Umm.. my credit union gives me the same protection for my debit as my credit for loss. but ONLY for usage as a credit card. I pretty much don't do debit transactions anymore with it anyways, I just get my spending money in cash at the start of the month from the bank teller..
I was thinking more like "we have a large single point of failure" like when all BB services worldwide were down for hours a year or two ago :)
If only they had a "Network of networks" that they could send data to, route to the correct endpoint, and that could survive outages...
Maybe on the client side.. But having to build and maintain a server just for you phones to talk to your exchange server is a bit silly. Everyone else has moved to activesync. Encryption, forced security poicies, etc. (which BES has too, and used to be its strengths) but is now built into exchange, zarafa, gmail (and their apps hosted email) and other email servers.
Not to mention that weird "all your data goes to our servers in Canada first" thing.
But the software industry has been telling us for years, that if we stop the thieves from thieving, they will go on and just buy the software through the proper channels.. Surely, these thieves will just give up, and go buy phones at a local store, right??
BAN anonymous calls or otherwise hiding their numbers and identities. I can't think of a single legitimate reason why a call should be anonymous.
If someone in your family has a medical issue they are not ready to talk to you about, they might disagree
REQUIRE carriers to supply valid CID information or otherwise allow calls to be identified.
My company has many offices. Each office that calls out, sends the CID of the main number (unless the line is marked to over-ride that with a DID). This is pretty much standard in any kind of support center, etc.
That main number is not owned by the phone companies in the local office areas. In fact, because of VOIP, even their DID numbers come into our main office, when outgoing (using least cost routing) might go out any office.
How on earth is the phone company going to verify any of that?
Now.. If there was a way to dial a number after one of these calls, that would use the OTHER number information that the phone system uses (but never sends to the client device) that would be handy. I know where I used to work at a Uni, if someone called in a bomb threat, there was a number to call (like *##) that flagged all the data at the central office and preserved it. This is the same number info 911 uses. I couldn't find out what the number was, but the police could take the time, date, and number they dialed, and go to the phone company and get the information on that flagged call.
Everyone knows how big of an abortion Unity is, and aside from that it seems that Shuttlebuntu continually tries to find new and exciting ways to piss of what's left of their userbase. It's all about the pretty, and not about functionality, unless it's to do with gathering userdata and showing ads.
Actually, many of us that actually like to get work done like Unity. I'm sorry if you're too stuck in your ways.. I like hitting my super key, starting to type "fire" and then hit enter to have it load firefox. To me, it much faster than taking my hand off my keyboard, using the mouse to go to some point on the screen, and click through menu's. (that is sooo windows 95!!) I also like that it only took a few times to realize when I type Calc I prefer Calculator instead of OpenOffice Calc.
I also like the side tabs, which are much more functional than along the bottom like the old gnome, especially since everything is widescreen now, and vertical space is precious.
You are welcome to use crunchbang (to be fair, I like Crunchbang too), Lubuntu, Xubuntu, KUbuntu, Fedora, Slackware, etc.. if you prefer.. but making a giant generalization about how EVERYONE KNOWS its bad is just plain wrong. For those that have taken the time to learn it, it can actually improve your workflow.
So, you (and Alan Cox) can be complete dicks about this and hold the Linux desktop and Linux embedded devices with decent drivers back for years because nobody bothers to support such a tiny market with open source drivers, or you can allow proprietary graphics card manufacturers to keep their hold on graphics drivers for a few years and keep the vast majority of users happy because they have a device that works well enough (even though it doesn't have open source graphics drivers) UNTIL the community develops open source drivers themselves.
So then Valve must be a bunch of Idiots.. http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/08/31/1551230/valve-finds-open-source-drivers-to-be-great Apparently, those dumb-asses seem to think that having access to the drivers makes it easier to find bottlenecks, performance issues, etc, and to improve the drivers at the same time. In fact, their Blog mentions this several times. If only they just understood the closed source model..
To be fair, the DOJ blocked them from buying sourcefire (the commercial part of Snort) for that very reason in 2006: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6399/1
Those kinds of warranties are very, very common. Or, they will send a tech out to your location, to diagnose and fix the problem for you. Stop buying consumer equipment, and get a business model. Sure, its not as shiny, but actually, some of them aren't too bad.