Where did the submitter get their information from for saying that it's one of the most widely used mail servers ? I suppose if you "widen" your limits a fair way it could come in as being moderately popular.
Sendmail, Postfix, Exchange... sure, they're up there in the high levels.
Anyhow, would love to see a site/page showing the breakdown of mail servers around the net.
Just want I've been wanting, something that's super light/portable but has enough facilities to let me reconnect to the world and/or do service work, throw it in the brief case or the car. Price is a nice change too (usually expect things like this to be 2~4x the price).
Really, I have about half a dozen webcams here which I cannot use, alas I only have one of each so it sort of kills any gain for me to send them the webcam so they can develop the driver (Great, another webcam supported but not in my set of cams:( ).
What's dreadfully bad about webcams is that even with the same model number/name you can end up with a completely different bridge or sensor chip inside either due to a revision change or locality, really, it's pot luck at best.
As for wifi cards, it's really more of a situation where a few of the current drivers are incredibly fickle - perhaps it's the nature of the beast? I've got a RT2400 type card which if it doesn't get its setup parameters within ~2 seconds of the module being loaded it utterly refuses to accept anything else until a complete restart. Things like that make me feel like I'm playing in Windows again.
This would be great for a lot of situations where you're using solar power to manage devices and want a WWW frontend or such. Could run this on a 10W ($100) panel without too much trouble.
In theory with triple core, each processor is only 1 step away from the other processor (consider a triangular setup). With Quad core or greater there's either more bussing or more delays.
Without seeing further details I sincerely doubt that these are quad-core chips with one dud core. I suspect AMD has actually used their technical brains here and given us the fastest non-(overly)complex multi core setup.
Of course, if it's the bean counters in charge, then it's possible it's a failed quad core (though I still have doubts).
Well, that pretty much summed up everything I could have said. The first few times I encountered people who insisted they paid 100% price for each and every licence completely shocked me - of course, that was a long time ago and I'm more than happy to have them roll up for more sales:D
I have to agree here - I'm also a software developer (commercial and OpenSource), the time/effort/money you put into coding up protection systems probably will outweigh your 'savings'. Unless you're an extremely widespread/popular package you'll probably find that piracy/copying tends to do you more good than not (more exposure).
One side step around pirating though is to provide some sort of updates facilities which then allows you to close the loop on knowing who's got your software installed. Make the update service known, don't try to hide it or be sneaky about it, turn it into a honest feature.
At some point the flow of money will have to converge in a meaningful way, that should help picking up a few scalps. Of course, it's probably going to be like beheading a hydra. Welcome to the net-mafia.
As a side issue, how hard is it for an ISP to see an IP sending out the typical spam mail and closing off that IP/client.
Perhaps now is a good time to push for better adoption of SPF (though surely RMX would have been faster to implement?)
More parts to breakdown and cause a system failure.
I appreciate what they're doing here - for sure there's going to be a market, though I personally would be happier with passive solutions or better yet, a nice big fat FRAM drive:)
> Not long from now we'll have more efficient electric motors
Currently, brushless (3 phase) digitally controlled motors are already in the high 95~98%+ level at 'optimal' RPM, dropping into the 80% area when running at less than optimal RPM. Incremental gains from improved stator materials, smoother bearings/sleeves, more efficient drivers (MOSFET/IGBT) will come but for the most part you're already looking at technology that is extremely efficient.
Some things I'd really like to see are;
1. a good energy storage system (4~10x the energy density of lithium polymer would be nice)
2. replacing linear voltage regulators with switchmode regulators (linear regulators burn off excess voltage as heat, horribly wasteful, switchmode is 95%+ efficient)
3. low cost microturbines (1m dia or less) to fit onto households.....mmm... looks like I've got myself some projects this weekend;):D
I was nodding my head in agreement. Writing installers for your apps often takes longer than the app itself (or they're larger!), so yes, (also a C developer myself) being able to test the install, roll-back, try again... brilliant stuff.
As a software developer, being able to take snapshots, clone, pause, rewind (via snapshots) and backup makes VM'ing worth the cost in CPU/performance.
It's proved so useful that I'm sincerely considering doing the same for my actual WWW server so that if at any given time things go -bad- on the device I can just either roll back or transparently transfer to another machine, the latter, due to the (mostly) hardware agnostic nature of the VM setup makes disaster recovery just that much simpler (sure, you still have to setup the host but at least it's a simpler process than redoing every tiny little trinket again).
>No, you won't. You want to *use* gcc, not distribute it. The GPL explicitely states that it deals with the redistribution of the program and it puts no restriction on its use. If you want to distribute GCC itsels, then the GPL restricts you. If you distribute code compiled with GCC, the GPL has nothing to do with you.
Great, that solves that then (since I won't be redistributing GCC at all, merely the binaries it generates).
>It seems to me that in the civil rights/privacy/witch-hunt departments we're getting a lead on the mothership:-(
Indeed. the whole Haneef situation, terrorist or not has been a colossal mess. Makes me somewhat happier to be living out here in the outback, not much though:\
Call all /. lawers (or not)
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I'm a single-person software business, I don't hold any patents, I release by far a majority of my code under the BSD revised licence.
I -do- however have a portion of code that I keep locked up for a commercial application, if I start using a GPL v3 GCC will I be putting myself into peril?
Incidently, I'm not in the US, but well... sort of, I'm in Australia, which is almost as good as another US state *sigh*.
Indeed. I ran myself to the ground during the dot-com bubble era and when I finished after late 2000 I was like "What the hell was all that for?". Now I enjoy country living with a simple house, car, furnishings and food (like to grow my own food actually where I can). Already too many of my friends have either died or manifested bad medical conditions because of the excess work strains, forget it, I want to enjoy life. I still do IT work but it's on my own terms and usually mixed in with other far more enjoyable businesses like model-aircraft flying:)
I did the same... switched from Slackware -> Ubuntu. I still use SW for servers that I don't want to revisit in a long time (or FreeBSD).
Anyhow, also had the same problem, GNOME/Metacity was just painful. I switched back to Fluxbox and all was good. If you don't want to go as far as Fluxbox, try XFCE.
It's all relative. It's a royal pain (for me) when I'm only wanting to shoot 2~3 shots and transfer them up, check them... perhaps go do another 2~3 shots of another thing. Not to mention the wear/tear on the reader, slots, hinges, plastic etc, of course, you're assuming that my work flow is the same as yours perhaps and if it's not perhaps it SHOULD be?
Justification of a price is relative. We all have things in our lives that are worth more or we're willing to pay a lot more for than others.... let's see, $100 IBM M keyboards (what!? just use a normal one), $400 gfx cards for another 3fps performance, mag wheels, low profile tyres, rear wings, how about cellphones with a myriad of 'features' which one has to find uses for just to 'justify'.
Get over it people, for some people $60~$70 extra is small change to pay for making life easier in an aspect of life that one finds annoying when spread over the life of the device.
Now, I'm going to go play around with my network cabling because this new fangled wireless stuff is just a waste of money for people who are too lazy to plug it in.
Biggest hate I have with cameras is having to move that card in/out, not to mention stupid events like racing off with the camera without remembering to put the card back into the cam *sigh*, or forgetting to umount the 'drive' etc etc, so yes, a tiny $100 for 2GB is well and truly worth the gains (for me).
A lot of the problem with these systems is that they're intractable... no sooner do you think you've smoothed everything off and sealed the source code does someone get a bright idea of making the system worth with another area of your business.
It sort of goes like this;
Let's aquire online orders via a form - it's easy, into a database and print it out...
Oh, let's make it adjust stock levels too, and check to ensure there's enough stock,
How about we tie it in with accounts a bit more
Let's make it pull in our suppliers too and have it automatically reorder low stock items
I know, make it easier and have it tie in the service department as well and then we can manage returns/repairs via it...... and so it keeps going on and on...
Eventually the coffee machine should get included:D
Let's see, we've got the pr0n market going to HD-DVD (though why on earth you'd want HD-DVD for pr0n I don't know)... and now we have Walmart pushing it like this, seems like BluRay is going to be reduced to the "has beens" bin... again. Technically it may have been a superior format (?) but once again Sony shows the way to destroy what could have been a promising format.
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Must have been all the people in their forums bitching that their interface needed to be more "GIMP" like ;)
So... qmail is like the 'dark matter' of the internet - people postulate it's there but we can't directly detect it ;)
Where did the submitter get their information from for saying that it's one of the most widely used mail servers ? I suppose if you "widen" your limits a fair way it could come in as being moderately popular.
Sendmail, Postfix, Exchange... sure, they're up there in the high levels.
Anyhow, would love to see a site/page showing the breakdown of mail servers around the net.
Just want I've been wanting, something that's super light/portable but has enough facilities to let me reconnect to the world and/or do service work, throw it in the brief case or the car. Price is a nice change too (usually expect things like this to be 2~4x the price).
Really, I have about half a dozen webcams here which I cannot use, alas I only have one of each so it sort of kills any gain for me to send them the webcam so they can develop the driver (Great, another webcam supported but not in my set of cams :( ).
What's dreadfully bad about webcams is that even with the same model number/name you can end up with a completely different bridge or sensor chip inside either due to a revision change or locality, really, it's pot luck at best.
As for wifi cards, it's really more of a situation where a few of the current drivers are incredibly fickle - perhaps it's the nature of the beast? I've got a RT2400 type card which if it doesn't get its setup parameters within ~2 seconds of the module being loaded it utterly refuses to accept anything else until a complete restart. Things like that make me feel like I'm playing in Windows again.
This would be great for a lot of situations where you're using solar power to manage devices and want a WWW frontend or such. Could run this on a 10W ($100) panel without too much trouble.
Got schematic of this device?
In theory with triple core, each processor is only 1 step away from the other processor (consider a triangular setup). With Quad core or greater there's either more bussing or more delays.
Without seeing further details I sincerely doubt that these are quad-core chips with one dud core. I suspect AMD has actually used their technical brains here and given us the fastest non-(overly)complex multi core setup.
Of course, if it's the bean counters in charge, then it's possible it's a failed quad core (though I still have doubts).
Well, that pretty much summed up everything I could have said. The first few times I encountered people who insisted they paid 100% price for each and every licence completely shocked me - of course, that was a long time ago and I'm more than happy to have them roll up for more sales :D
Well done.
I have to agree here - I'm also a software developer (commercial and OpenSource), the time/effort/money you put into coding up protection systems probably will outweigh your 'savings'. Unless you're an extremely widespread/popular package you'll probably find that piracy/copying tends to do you more good than not (more exposure).
One side step around pirating though is to provide some sort of updates facilities which then allows you to close the loop on knowing who's got your software installed. Make the update service known, don't try to hide it or be sneaky about it, turn it into a honest feature.
At some point the flow of money will have to converge in a meaningful way, that should help picking up a few scalps. Of course, it's probably going to be like beheading a hydra. Welcome to the net-mafia.
As a side issue, how hard is it for an ISP to see an IP sending out the typical spam mail and closing off that IP/client.
Perhaps now is a good time to push for better adoption of SPF (though surely RMX would have been faster to implement?)
Consider MS with IE and then Mozilla with Firefox.
MS Word vs WordPerfect 5.1
What about Linux, itself was probably considered "too late" or such at the time "Everything's been invented/done".
What about when Redhat was top dog - who'd have thought that Ubuntu would come along and change a lot of things.
The point is, it's [almost] never too late, just sometimes you have a harder job ahead of you.
More parts to breakdown and cause a system failure.
:)
I appreciate what they're doing here - for sure there's going to be a market, though I personally would be happier with passive solutions or better yet, a nice big fat FRAM drive
> Not long from now we'll have more efficient electric motors
Currently, brushless (3 phase) digitally controlled motors are already in the high 95~98%+ level at 'optimal' RPM, dropping into the 80% area when running at less than optimal RPM. Incremental gains from improved stator materials, smoother bearings/sleeves, more efficient drivers (MOSFET/IGBT) will come but for the most part you're already looking at technology that is extremely efficient.
Some things I'd really like to see are;
1. a good energy storage system (4~10x the energy density of lithium polymer would be nice)
2. replacing linear voltage regulators with switchmode regulators (linear regulators burn off excess voltage as heat, horribly wasteful, switchmode is 95%+ efficient)
3. low cost microturbines (1m dia or less) to fit onto households.
I was nodding my head in agreement. Writing installers for your apps often takes longer than the app itself (or they're larger!), so yes, (also a C developer myself) being able to test the install, roll-back, try again... brilliant stuff.
As a software developer, being able to take snapshots, clone, pause, rewind (via snapshots) and backup makes VM'ing worth the cost in CPU/performance.
It's proved so useful that I'm sincerely considering doing the same for my actual WWW server so that if at any given time things go -bad- on the device I can just either roll back or transparently transfer to another machine, the latter, due to the (mostly) hardware agnostic nature of the VM setup makes disaster recovery just that much simpler (sure, you still have to setup the host but at least it's a simpler process than redoing every tiny little trinket again).
>No, you won't. You want to *use* gcc, not distribute it. The GPL explicitely states that it deals with the redistribution of the program and it puts no restriction on its use. If you want to distribute GCC itsels, then the GPL restricts you. If you distribute code compiled with GCC, the GPL has nothing to do with you.
:-(
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Great, that solves that then (since I won't be redistributing GCC at all, merely the binaries it generates).
>It seems to me that in the civil rights/privacy/witch-hunt departments we're getting a lead on the mothership
Indeed. the whole Haneef situation, terrorist or not has been a colossal mess. Makes me somewhat happier to be living out here in the outback, not much though
I'm a single-person software business, I don't hold any patents, I release by far a majority of my code under the BSD revised licence.
I -do- however have a portion of code that I keep locked up for a commercial application, if I start using a GPL v3 GCC will I be putting myself into peril?
Incidently, I'm not in the US, but well... sort of, I'm in Australia, which is almost as good as another US state *sigh*.
Indeed. I ran myself to the ground during the dot-com bubble era and when I finished after late 2000 I was like "What the hell was all that for?". Now I enjoy country living with a simple house, car, furnishings and food (like to grow my own food actually where I can). Already too many of my friends have either died or manifested bad medical conditions because of the excess work strains, forget it, I want to enjoy life. I still do IT work but it's on my own terms and usually mixed in with other far more enjoyable businesses like model-aircraft flying :)
I did the same ... switched from Slackware -> Ubuntu. I still use SW for servers that I don't want to revisit in a long time (or FreeBSD).
Anyhow, also had the same problem, GNOME/Metacity was just painful. I switched back to Fluxbox and all was good. If you don't want to go as far as Fluxbox, try XFCE.
It's all relative. It's a royal pain (for me) when I'm only wanting to shoot 2~3 shots and transfer them up, check them... perhaps go do another 2~3 shots of another thing. Not to mention the wear/tear on the reader, slots, hinges, plastic etc, of course, you're assuming that my work flow is the same as yours perhaps and if it's not perhaps it SHOULD be?
Justification of a price is relative. We all have things in our lives that are worth more or we're willing to pay a lot more for than others.... let's see, $100 IBM M keyboards (what!? just use a normal one), $400 gfx cards for another 3fps performance, mag wheels, low profile tyres, rear wings, how about cellphones with a myriad of 'features' which one has to find uses for just to 'justify'.
Get over it people, for some people $60~$70 extra is small change to pay for making life easier in an aspect of life that one finds annoying when spread over the life of the device.
Now, I'm going to go play around with my network cabling because this new fangled wireless stuff is just a waste of money for people who are too lazy to plug it in.
Biggest hate I have with cameras is having to move that card in/out, not to mention stupid events like racing off with the camera without remembering to put the card back into the cam *sigh*, or forgetting to umount the 'drive' etc etc, so yes, a tiny $100 for 2GB is well and truly worth the gains (for me).
Oh damn, that made me laugh out loud. Bravo, most certainly a very common conversation.
(I'm a software developer and yet it still humored me).
A lot of the problem with these systems is that they're intractable... no sooner do you think you've smoothed everything off and sealed the source code does someone get a bright idea of making the system worth with another area of your business.
...
... and so it keeps going on and on...
:D
It sort of goes like this;
Let's aquire online orders via a form - it's easy, into a database and print it out
Oh, let's make it adjust stock levels too, and check to ensure there's enough stock,
How about we tie it in with accounts a bit more
Let's make it pull in our suppliers too and have it automatically reorder low stock items
I know, make it easier and have it tie in the service department as well and then we can manage returns/repairs via it...
Eventually the coffee machine should get included
Let's see, we've got the pr0n market going to HD-DVD (though why on earth you'd want HD-DVD for pr0n I don't know)... and now we have Walmart pushing it like this, seems like BluRay is going to be reduced to the "has beens" bin ... again. Technically it may have been a superior format (?) but once again Sony shows the way to destroy what could have been a promising format.