So Steve Jobs says that they will fight for the iphone leadership no matter what, that apple would go "nuclear", using patents if needed, sue google partners and the partners and google would stay still, paying the money to apple without doing anything? MS go after google partners for stupid patents, some claimed to hit the linux kernel (and never show up proof ), trying to get money from every android... and google would stay still without doing anything? At least google dont like patents, but its a weapon and a good counter-attack weapon. Apple and MS sued everyone to limit and crash some money, its obvious that those partners and google would strike back. Its time now... apple is losing in several patent fights, MS cashed many dollars from google partners, time for google to cash some of that money "back", using exactly the same weapons they were so eager to use.
Patent fight is nuclear war, in the end, no one really wins. Money that could be spend in advancing the technology is spend in lawyers
use a top or even the ps xua. the VSZ is the virtual memory request by the app... its the RAM that the app MIGHT need and so its reserved (but most of the times, only a small part is used). The RSS is the resident memory, its the amount of RAM actually used by the app and not in swap.
If you have no swap, you have all the virtual memory mapped to the real RAM, even if its never touched by the app. If you have swap, that unused area is virtually "remapped" to the swap and only stays in RAM the actual application memory
$ ps xua|grep "firefox\|RSS" USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND dleite 9361 4.9 12.9 2280832 1048048 pts/26 Sl+ Nov08 409:43./firefox
So in my case, 2.2GB of VSZ and 1GB of RSS... as i have swap, those 1.2GB of unused memory is mapped to the swap (without any IO) and not wasting RAM
"live cds run just fine without swap."
Yes, they waste ram and usually dont stay up for many hours/days, so the kernel swap problem would be hard to hit. but also remember that most liveCD will use the HD swap (or give the options to use it) if they find it
Remember that all windows 8 ARM based devices are REQUIRED to lock the boot to signed binaries... on the X86 is "just" recommended. I dont know if the FSF/redhat/ubuntu boot loader can work on ARM (as usually the boot is limited by the cpu and firmware)... it might be a while until you can run other OS on MS surface.
You know that you should have ALWAYS some swap enabled... even if its just 100MB (1GB should be better). The linux kernel have some entries that fail if there no swap enabled, even if you have free memory and no need for swap, that might create weird problems.
Also, swap is good for big apps like chrome, firefox, java, etc, where the apps requests several GB of RAM, but will just use a small part of that. Without swap you will lose all that unused RAM, with swap that unused RAM is mapped to the swap (without any IO or delay, so its a win-win)
Also, tmpfs can be mapped to the swap if you would ever need to free RAM (i know, you believe that you will never need this, but just in case...)
actually i just configured a brother label printer a few days ago and worked fine with the brother drivers
but its all the same story.. ask the hardware/software vendors for linux support... If there is no support, dont buy from then any more. just like you dont buy apple only hardware/software to "connect to"/"use in" a windows, dont buy window only hardware/software if you plan to use linux.
If you dont like all this, if you require all that windows lock-in... then stay in windows... some people still also use DOS and Macintosh System [7-9]
The nokia drowned itself in analysis, QA tests and bureaucracy. They were the top player and drag their feet releasing products with big innovations (they were all stored ready to be used slowly, so each phone could last longer and increase the revenue). They were also maximizing the symbian live and no one had the courage to let him go and die. Then apple blackberry and the iphone show up, with many things they had internally, but didnt released. Symbian core was a nightmare to expand and meego hadnt enough developers to finish the outstanding issues, nor a clean plan and objective (many internally saw it just as a playground for new ideas).
Blackberry should have warned nokia about incoming trouble, they ignore it... iphone arrived and destroyed their top market. Android arrived later and they still couldn't release something as good as this late player... they were still trying to improve the dead-end symbian. Everyone on nokia knew that but again, no one had the courage to kill it.
A new vision was needed...... the top management and shareholders choose Elop!! he publicly killed symbian for the market, while all his products were all still symbian based, he choose to try a radical switch to zombie windows phone and abandon all its internal assets and meego and choose to ignore android as temporary solution to fill the hole left by symbian. All this was accepted by the top management and shareholders.
The rest of the story you can see it now, but all this to say:
the nokia failure was not from the bottom folks and engineers, but the top management and shareholders... they got lazy and blind to the reality
If they take CO2, H20 and solar energy to produce sugar that in turns is transformed in to ethanol, they just "re-invented" the photosynthesis and then alcoholic fermentation.
Now lets see if they do it efficiently... It usually takes a long time, use huge amounts of space (call it farms, forests, etc) and then the industrial process of producing the ethanol...
the.org was there because of "openoffice" is a trademark of a Netherlands company and its valid in the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemborg)... adding the.org you have a different trademark.
Now, its Apache OpenOffice, so you drop the.org and add the Apache, its probably enough to workaround this...but INAL!
I agree, this is a bad analysis from the Bennett Haselton. He is looking this from the wrong angle.
As his mailling list is about open-proxies, some spammers are in his list and after getting the new address for open-proxies, they started to use then (only 2 it seems). After spamhaus got spam from those IPs they blocked the IPs and sent the usual emails to the abuse@ ip owners and dns registers (and possible too dns owners). Afilias got the abuse@ report, checked the username and blocked all domains of the same username/shipping order.
Spamhaus then received the removal request (probably it says "you must have resolves the open proxy problem"), remove the IPs/domains, Afilias follow the trend.
The solution for all this problem is: PLEASE, BLOCK port 25 from your open proxies, its only used to SPAM people.
If your proxies cant deliver email, they will not be blocked by RBL. They dont care about http proxies.
As for "some emails are blocked", its usual, its probably related by the ISP/mail server used or the Bayesian filter, but its unrelated with fact of the content of the email is a open proxy ip.
Finally, spamhaus "zero errors" clain is marketing, but comparing with many other RBL, its close to that... if really spam was sent via the open proxy, then their claim about "zero errors" is still true...
So relax, there is nothing to see here, other than badly configures open proxies (again block port 25 and probably also submission - smtp with authentication on port 587/tcp )
1-NVIDIA have a unfair competitive edge because it doesn't support ANY effort with GPL drivers, unlike Intel and AMD. Intel choose to support only open drivers, AMD choose to support both open drivers and closed source ones. Please note that AMD also have the same problem with their closed source driver, but they don't care that much because the open drive is set to replace the closed one when it gets good enough.
2-NVIDIA want to rebuild their drive to use unique and powerful GPL-only kernel features and by doing so they lose the argument that their driver unique, that is the same in windows and linux and allowed by the Linux drivers GPL exclusion
3-NVIDIA put itself in that position, they are (ab)using the linux kernel for years and even after the other players joined the open development, they choose to keep ignoring the open requests. Now they are in "locked in a corner" with no escape plan. They are attacked by many, even Linus give then the finger... they are losing the idea of being a linux friendly company and after losing that, it would be very hard to get it back. Their market share is in risk of decreasing due the lack of a open drive as the rival open drivers get better and better each month and their proprietary drive gets performance problems, lack of new features and get harder and harder to support new kernels and Xorg releases (and wayland support)... ironically, their best hope of escaping this dead trap is the people they ignored for years, the nouveau developers. Their late and incomplete open drive may save Nvidia years of development to try to catch up the other open drivers
4-GPL is GOOD for the users. GPL is also good hardware makers, but just in long term. In short term point of view its a investment with little return, but when you lack open drivers, you close a door that might also close important business opportunities in the future. If some users dont care about the license, they are about easy of use and features. No matter how good are the closed drivers, they will always catching up the kernel and X11 development and in the end drop features and older hardware to save then from a never ending cycle. Again, on short term, the user may have good closed drivers, but in long term they will have non-working or limited closed driver.
5-Hardware builders should work in getting better hardware. If their "competitive edge" is limited to software, they are set to lose that edge as time fly away
6-Not all agree, but they should: "Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither" - Benjamin Franklin Short term solution that impair long term problems is always a problem, specially when there is a good long term solution.
All tools can today use the AD, at worst case just enable the unix template in the AD... Of course tools from MS work best with other tools from MS... just like tools from Apple works best with other tools from Apple... that doesnt mean that other cant do that, you just have to define what you need and seek tools with that. And no, that tool to backup exchange mailstores will not play nicely with any exchange alternative... define services needs, not tools... if in the end exchange is the only option, so be it! And good luck!:)
You have postpath, it's a exchange drop-in server that is not exchange (only low level exchange tools fail)... sadly cisco acquired then and turn then in to SAAS... maybe openchange.org will someday reach the same level...
then you have many alternatives... but please forget outlook, as outlook only works well with exchange, exchange only works well with outlook and trying then to work well with other tools usually is a ticket for trouble-land
here are some alternatives: atmail kerio connect clarkconnect zimbra axigen SOGo hyperoffice communigate citadel
all depends of what you need and what you know/have (resources, time knowledge, etc)
For most exchange people, zimbra and communigate are the first ones to try
Just because you use outlook, doesnt mean that there arent any other email clients. Exchange just exists because people have MS Office installed and use outlook. Change the email client and you will see that exchange is expensive, redundant and hard to live with.
Outlook only works well with exchange, exchange only works well with outlook. There is a universe outside!:)
Windows drivers for all that hardware isn't also the best thing, many of those hardware stop working when vista was released, even worst will be with windows 8. only recente/new hardware have drivers, old hardware that dont have included drivers in windows you are totally F****
If your hardware driver is in linux, its perfect, if it's not, it's probably a big problem
we will see if they really do release useful documentation or if this is just smoke and mirrors to try to limit the damage from Linus comments.
I suspect its just a marketing stunt to try to damage control their android clients (that is why they will release info only about the tegra chip), if not they would also announce the release of docs for the other cards (even if small parts, 2D only).
Even for damage control, they took away too long, people that didnt knew/cared about nvidia open source position, learn from on of the top leaders that NVIDIA sucks, and if a leader points to a major problem, everyone looks at it.
Even if this is really a new policy, they still have a long way to help the 3D development and catch up the Intel and AMD.
Not until NVIDIA really supports the Linux and other open source OS with open drivers and documentations i will buy another nvidia card, nor recommend it... even in tablets (ARM have many closed parts, but at least MALI 400 have already a open drive in the forge)
Steam users are gamers and so have more recent computers (that came with windows7) and/or like to ride the latest versions (kids always like to brag about their hardware and software)
typical windows XP users are people that know nothing or near that about computers, people that got their computers years ago and they are still working. they dont need a faster computer and XP is what they know/have at hand to use. XP is still lighter than windows7 (comparing a old XP install ful of trash against a new and clean windows7 install isn't valid compare)
hey, if you want to stay in ipv4, go for it, use a 10.0.0.0/8 for your internal network, use NAT, etc.
Now if you want to use a routable, public IPv4 class in your internal network, then you MUST migrate to IPv6. Not only you are laughing to all Asia countries with lack of IPv4 (and in a few months, several world locations) but in several months/few years you will to redo all that work to enable IPv6. They will spend more money doing twice. But hey, people are lazy and many thinks that "its not my money", so they dont care....
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There are OTHER pdf readers, most of then with plugin support ... no need to use a buggy and insecure acrobat reader
http://dev8d.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/02/25/reprap-the-self-replicating-3d-printer/
yes, it still dont print the chips and boards, but we will get there :)
So Steve Jobs says that they will fight for the iphone leadership no matter what, that apple would go "nuclear", using patents if needed, sue google partners and the partners and google would stay still, paying the money to apple without doing anything? MS go after google partners for stupid patents, some claimed to hit the linux kernel (and never show up proof ), trying to get money from every android... and google would stay still without doing anything?
At least google dont like patents, but its a weapon and a good counter-attack weapon. Apple and MS sued everyone to limit and crash some money, its obvious that those partners and google would strike back. Its time now... apple is losing in several patent fights, MS cashed many dollars from google partners, time for google to cash some of that money "back", using exactly the same weapons they were so eager to use.
Patent fight is nuclear war, in the end, no one really wins. Money that could be spend in advancing the technology is spend in lawyers
raspberry pi!
It have good support and will have it for long time (unlike most of this "clones" ).
For a mail server it's powerful enough
not $49 , its $59 now and has been for some time .
when the indiegogo started, it costed only $19
Virtual memory != Resident memory
use a top or even the ps xua. the VSZ is the virtual memory request by the app... its the RAM that the app MIGHT need and so its reserved (but most of the times, only a small part is used). The RSS is the resident memory, its the amount of RAM actually used by the app and not in swap.
If you have no swap, you have all the virtual memory mapped to the real RAM, even if its never touched by the app. If you have swap, that unused area is virtually "remapped" to the swap and only stays in RAM the actual application memory
$ ps xua|grep "firefox\|RSS" ./firefox
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
dleite 9361 4.9 12.9 2280832 1048048 pts/26 Sl+ Nov08 409:43
So in my case, 2.2GB of VSZ and 1GB of RSS... as i have swap, those 1.2GB of unused memory is mapped to the swap (without any IO) and not wasting RAM
"live cds run just fine without swap."
Yes, they waste ram and usually dont stay up for many hours/days, so the kernel swap problem would be hard to hit. but also remember that most liveCD will use the HD swap (or give the options to use it) if they find it
Remember that all windows 8 ARM based devices are REQUIRED to lock the boot to signed binaries... on the X86 is "just" recommended.
I dont know if the FSF/redhat/ubuntu boot loader can work on ARM (as usually the boot is limited by the cpu and firmware)... it might be a while until you can run other OS on MS surface.
You know that you should have ALWAYS some swap enabled... even if its just 100MB (1GB should be better). The linux kernel have some entries that fail if there no swap enabled, even if you have free memory and no need for swap, that might create weird problems.
Also, swap is good for big apps like chrome, firefox, java, etc, where the apps requests several GB of RAM, but will just use a small part of that. Without swap you will lose all that unused RAM, with swap that unused RAM is mapped to the swap (without any IO or delay, so its a win-win)
Also, tmpfs can be mapped to the swap if you would ever need to free RAM (i know, you believe that you will never need this, but just in case...)
So please, add some swap! :)
- Brother label printer
actually i just configured a brother label printer a few days ago and worked fine with the brother drivers
but its all the same story.. ask the hardware/software vendors for linux support... If there is no support, dont buy from then any more. just like you dont buy apple only hardware/software to "connect to"/"use in" a windows, dont buy window only hardware/software if you plan to use linux.
If you dont like all this, if you require all that windows lock-in ... then stay in windows... some people still also use DOS and Macintosh System [7-9]
The nokia drowned itself in analysis, QA tests and bureaucracy. They were the top player and drag their feet releasing products with big innovations (they were all stored ready to be used slowly, so each phone could last longer and increase the revenue). They were also maximizing the symbian live and no one had the courage to let him go and die. Then apple blackberry and the iphone show up, with many things they had internally, but didnt released. Symbian core was a nightmare to expand and meego hadnt enough developers to finish the outstanding issues, nor a clean plan and objective (many internally saw it just as a playground for new ideas).
Blackberry should have warned nokia about incoming trouble, they ignore it... iphone arrived and destroyed their top market. Android arrived later and they still couldn't release something as good as this late player... they were still trying to improve the dead-end symbian. Everyone on nokia knew that but again, no one had the courage to kill it.
A new vision was needed... ... the top management and shareholders choose Elop!! he publicly killed symbian for the market, while all his products were all still symbian based, he choose to try a radical switch to zombie windows phone and abandon all its internal assets and meego and choose to ignore android as temporary solution to fill the hole left by symbian. All this was accepted by the top management and shareholders.
The rest of the story you can see it now, but all this to say:
the nokia failure was not from the bottom folks and engineers, but the top management and shareholders... they got lazy and blind to the reality
If they take CO2, H20 and solar energy to produce sugar that in turns is transformed in to ethanol, they just "re-invented" the photosynthesis and then alcoholic fermentation.
Now lets see if they do it efficiently... It usually takes a long time, use huge amounts of space (call it farms, forests, etc) and then the industrial process of producing the ethanol...
the .org was there because of "openoffice" is a trademark of a Netherlands company and its valid in the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemborg)... adding the .org you have a different trademark.
Now, its Apache OpenOffice, so you drop the .org and add the Apache, its probably enough to workaround this ...but INAL!
I agree, this is a bad analysis from the Bennett Haselton. He is looking this from the wrong angle.
As his mailling list is about open-proxies, some spammers are in his list and after getting the new address for open-proxies, they started to use then (only 2 it seems). After spamhaus got spam from those IPs they blocked the IPs and sent the usual emails to the abuse@ ip owners and dns registers (and possible too dns owners).
Afilias got the abuse@ report, checked the username and blocked all domains of the same username/shipping order.
Spamhaus then received the removal request (probably it says "you must have resolves the open proxy problem"), remove the IPs/domains, Afilias follow the trend.
The solution for all this problem is: PLEASE, BLOCK port 25 from your open proxies, its only used to SPAM people.
If your proxies cant deliver email, they will not be blocked by RBL. They dont care about http proxies.
As for "some emails are blocked", its usual, its probably related by the ISP/mail server used or the Bayesian filter, but its unrelated with fact of the content of the email is a open proxy ip.
Finally, spamhaus "zero errors" clain is marketing, but comparing with many other RBL, its close to that... if really spam was sent via the open proxy, then their claim about "zero errors" is still true...
So relax, there is nothing to see here, other than badly configures open proxies (again block port 25 and probably also submission - smtp with authentication on port 587/tcp )
sex without condom is only "sexual crime" in Sweden
1-NVIDIA have a unfair competitive edge because it doesn't support ANY effort with GPL drivers, unlike Intel and AMD. Intel choose to support only open drivers, AMD choose to support both open drivers and closed source ones. Please note that AMD also have the same problem with their closed source driver, but they don't care that much because the open drive is set to replace the closed one when it gets good enough.
2-NVIDIA want to rebuild their drive to use unique and powerful GPL-only kernel features and by doing so they lose the argument that their driver unique, that is the same in windows and linux and allowed by the Linux drivers GPL exclusion
3-NVIDIA put itself in that position, they are (ab)using the linux kernel for years and even after the other players joined the open development, they choose to keep ignoring the open requests. Now they are in "locked in a corner" with no escape plan. They are attacked by many, even Linus give then the finger... they are losing the idea of being a linux friendly company and after losing that, it would be very hard to get it back. Their market share is in risk of decreasing due the lack of a open drive as the rival open drivers get better and better each month and their proprietary drive gets performance problems, lack of new features and get harder and harder to support new kernels and Xorg releases (and wayland support)... ironically, their best hope of escaping this dead trap is the people they ignored for years, the nouveau developers. Their late and incomplete open drive may save Nvidia years of development to try to catch up the other open drivers
4-GPL is GOOD for the users. GPL is also good hardware makers, but just in long term. In short term point of view its a investment with little return, but when you lack open drivers, you close a door that might also close important business opportunities in the future. If some users dont care about the license, they are about easy of use and features. No matter how good are the closed drivers, they will always catching up the kernel and X11 development and in the end drop features and older hardware to save then from a never ending cycle. Again, on short term, the user may have good closed drivers, but in long term they will have non-working or limited closed driver.
5-Hardware builders should work in getting better hardware. If their "competitive edge" is limited to software, they are set to lose that edge as time fly away
6-Not all agree, but they should: "Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither" - Benjamin Franklin
Short term solution that impair long term problems is always a problem, specially when there is a good long term solution.
Dont worry, they dropped the 3.7 from the version... just imagine that its version 3.7.16 :)
see this post
All tools can today use the AD, at worst case just enable the unix template in the AD... :)
Of course tools from MS work best with other tools from MS... just like tools from Apple works best with other tools from Apple... that doesnt mean that other cant do that, you just have to define what you need and seek tools with that. And no, that tool to backup exchange mailstores will not play nicely with any exchange alternative... define services needs, not tools... if in the end exchange is the only option, so be it! And good luck!
You have postpath, it's a exchange drop-in server that is not exchange (only low level exchange tools fail) ... sadly cisco acquired then and turn then in to SAAS... maybe openchange.org will someday reach the same level...
then you have many alternatives... but please forget outlook, as outlook only works well with exchange, exchange only works well with outlook and trying then to work well with other tools usually is a ticket for trouble-land
here are some alternatives:
atmail
kerio connect
clarkconnect
zimbra
axigen
SOGo
hyperoffice
communigate
citadel
all depends of what you need and what you know/have (resources, time knowledge, etc)
For most exchange people, zimbra and communigate are the first ones to try
Just because you use outlook, doesnt mean that there arent any other email clients. Exchange just exists because people have MS Office installed and use outlook. Change the email client and you will see that exchange is expensive, redundant and hard to live with.
Outlook only works well with exchange, exchange only works well with outlook. There is a universe outside! :)
OOHHH GOD!!
WHY, but WHY people still use that exchange garbage!! With so many exchange replacements, so many webmails, so many SAAS alternatives... WHY!?
At least they pay the (heavy) price for it! (money, work hours, never ending troubles)
Windows drivers for all that hardware isn't also the best thing, many of those hardware stop working when vista was released, even worst will be with windows 8.
only recente/new hardware have drivers, old hardware that dont have included drivers in windows you are totally F****
If your hardware driver is in linux, its perfect, if it's not, it's probably a big problem
Alcohol?! olive/peanuts/whatever-biologic oil?
they put pressure (and increase the price) in the food production, but i still think its better than petrol
we will see if they really do release useful documentation or if this is just smoke and mirrors to try to limit the damage from Linus comments.
I suspect its just a marketing stunt to try to damage control their android clients (that is why they will release info only about the tegra chip), if not they would also announce the release of docs for the other cards (even if small parts, 2D only).
Even for damage control, they took away too long, people that didnt knew/cared about nvidia open source position, learn from on of the top leaders that NVIDIA sucks, and if a leader points to a major problem, everyone looks at it.
Even if this is really a new policy, they still have a long way to help the 3D development and catch up the Intel and AMD.
Not until NVIDIA really supports the Linux and other open source OS with open drivers and documentations i will buy another nvidia card, nor recommend it... even in tablets (ARM have many closed parts, but at least MALI 400 have already a open drive in the forge)
Steam users are gamers and so have more recent computers (that came with windows7) and/or like to ride the latest versions (kids always like to brag about their hardware and software)
typical windows XP users are people that know nothing or near that about computers, people that got their computers years ago and they are still working. they dont need a faster computer and XP is what they know/have at hand to use. XP is still lighter than windows7 (comparing a old XP install ful of trash against a new and clean windows7 install isn't valid compare)
hey, if you want to stay in ipv4, go for it, use a 10.0.0.0/8 for your internal network, use NAT, etc.
Now if you want to use a routable, public IPv4 class in your internal network, then you MUST migrate to IPv6. Not only you are laughing to all Asia countries with lack of IPv4 (and in a few months, several world locations) but in several months/few years you will to redo all that work to enable IPv6. They will spend more money doing twice. But hey, people are lazy and many thinks that "its not my money", so they dont care....