I was going to post this same thing. Also, if they make it like regular Automatic Updates, it would do the checking, downloading, and installing on its own. In fact, you can adjust it so it only checks and informs you of updates if you are paranoid, or checks and downloads but not installs if you don't want to be annoyed by the "You need to reboot NOW!" messages every 5 minutes while you are in the middle of working. All Microsoft would need to do would be to open up the protocols for the update server and add the ability to let a program add its own automatic update repository and key.
Yes, but even if your hearing is optimal, humans hearing maxes out just a bit above 16 KHz, while bats can hear frequencies up to 40 KHz. I'm sure they can find something between, say, 20 KHz and 40 KHz that bats find irritating and that would be far out of human hearing range.
The effect you are noticing is likely due to declining audible range as we age, and not due to you having superhuman hearing.
NILFS2 is the successor to MILFS2, which was based on the "Mother" specification.
NILFS2 is based on the "Nanny" specification, which means it is younger, firmer, *and* keeps the child nodes quiet when you are not actively updating its data.
Make sure to keep your data in a protected wrapper, or else NILFS2 may start creating new child nodes and degrade to MILFS2.
Take Ubuntu for example - when it works, that's cool. When something breaks, it breaks ugly and you very quickly destroy the illusion of user-friendliness. Suspend/hibernate, for example. Works great for lots of folks, but when it doesn't... you're building custom hibernate scripts, installing kernel mods like Tux on Ice, etc.
That isn't a very good example. When suspend/hibernate does not work in windows, you are pretty much fucked or you need to dig around for a driver that might fix the problem. Is there a user-friendly way to fix that? Or what about when the MSI installer fails and breaks a bunch of things and leaves a bunch of bad registry entries and files, is there a user-friendly way to fix that?
As much as any one vendor will try to make things user-friendly, eventually something will go wrong and someone will need to get their hands dirty.
There is no reason to buy T1 equipment and end up with only 1.544 Mbps. Since this is a single house, I am going to assume that they have nowhere near 11km of wire running through. Most telephone wiring should be Cat3 or greater, and Cat3 is capable of 10 Mbps using 10BASE-T for up to 100 meters. Hell, if they can find the right equipment they can use 100BASE-T4 and run 100 Mbps half-duplex over Cat3 cable. Also, D-Link has ethernet over power devices that get 200 Mbps and run on standard home power outlets.
Shit, even living in a country using broken units(US), I understood that he was referring to 100 meters and not megabits per second.
Cat5 and up are supported for gigabit at up to 100m. However, with gigabit over copper, you are more likely to get errors from interference and crosstalk. Cat5e includes specifications for far-end crosstalk, and Cat6 is even more stringent. However, neither are required, just recommended if doing a new install.
Not only that, but wireless performance degrades as more devices connect. If you are using 1 gigabit switch with enough ports, each port has a gigabit connection. Granted, you are likely not getting more than 50 Mbps for your Internet connection, but if you do media streaming and/or file storage over your LAN, wired is damn near a requirement.
This is true, it is one app that is used sparingly by special ed, but cannot be currently upgraded or removed. VMWare server provided exactly what we needed to get rid of the 7+ year old servers. Also, I've done some testing with XenServer, and the memory overhead of the hypervisor for that seems pretty high. Granted, the VMs themselves run at near-native performance, but it seems to be a pretty significant RAM cost. With only 2 virtual machines, the RAM usage for XenServer itself was hovering between 500 and 600 MB. VMWare server plus the Win2k virtual machine is using less than that right now inside the 2003 R2 server.
One thing I will note is that running several more virtual machines does not seem to significantly increase memory usage by XenServer, so it might be just a matter of scale.
I agree that series of tubes is a decent metaphor for Internet as a whole; however, it does not work well for the problem he was describing:
I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
His argument was that it took several days to send an "Internet" (wtf? I'm gonna guess he meant "email") because of other web services like Youtube clogging up the tubes. AFAIK, Internet backbone traffic has been fine, it is the last mile from ISPs that are bitching that they can't supply enough bandwidth. So, even assuming his staff is doing something retarded like using different email providers (i.e. gmail and hotmail), there is no way that it took 4 days for the email to send between the providers. If it did actually take 4 days from the staff member outbox to Steven's inbox, then the delay was with one of their computers or one of the servers sending the data itself, not the network.
By "pretty much the same size" I am not referring to total area. Imagine if the line on top were extended into the regular square shape instead of a triangle. I am having a hard time thinking of a good way to describe this non-visually.
It looks like the keys are pretty much the same size as what the iphone normally has, but with more dead space between the keys due to using the triangle shaped keys. Your fingers are round, not square, so if you have fat fingers it is easy to hit keys you didn't plan on by accident with the normal keyboard. With this layout, it is a bit more difficult to hit the wrong keys. Circular keys might work the best for this, but then the software needs to calculate round input areas, likely creating significantly higher performance costs. It does double the screen real-estate consumed by dead space, but unless you are typing with a stylus it shouldn't matter on a keyboard that is only out when you need it.
I find no problem with "Sci-Fi" as shorthand. "SyFy", on the other hand is a horrible marketing conception that looks like a pet name for a venereal disease.
Anyway, I'm not going to bitch when someone calls a desktop tower a "CPU", so Bradbury (or whomever made the statement, as the poster was not sure) can go cry about his little pet-peeve in the corner and let everyone else continue to evolve the language.
If you are freelance, you figure out how much time you will save by not developing for IE6. If you are charging by the hour, make a note of that in your estimate for your clients. If you are charging a flat rate for the client, then offer a discount based on how much time you will save. For example, if you save 25% of your time, offer a discount of some amount less than or equal to 25% to your customer for not needing to support IE6.
Tell your boss about this if you are working for a company that develops web applications for other clients.
If you are working for a company and you develop web applications for internal use, then talk to your boss about how much time you will save by not developing for IE6. If you are salary, you will be able to put that time into another project. If you are hourly, that is money savings to them.
If all web developers did so, then yes. However, many will not do this and the rest will lose customers to the ones not following this.
"Well boss, I got a few quotes for that intranet app, and one of them was charging 35% more than everyone else. He claims it is because of our IE6 requirement." "Hah, screw that guy!"
One way around that is for some or many developers offering a discount to drop the IE6 requirement. The developer may have to run at a reduced profit for a while, but eventually companies will start dropping IE6 to save money. This is not fundamentally much different from what you said, so I apologize if this is what you actually meant. I read your post as saying everyone should charge more for IE6 development though.
I just checked and it seems that Microsoft does not require validation for IE7 any longer. They do not prompt for validation to download the IE8 installer, but at only 16 MB it probably phones home to grab the rest during install which is something a Windows pirate would probably not want even if WGA is not required.
IE7 and 8 are not available for Windows 2000, which is still in use in a lot of companies. Also, most larger companies run WSUS to manage update deployment, this means they can selectively block updates that they do not want from being deployed. This includes IE7 and IE8.
I'm sure some of the numbers are from piracy, but if you are smart enough to pirate Windows and evade detection, you are probably smart enough to use a more modern secure browser like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Opera.
One thing we are using VMWare Server for is to get rid of some old, failing Win2k server boxes that we needed for a specific bit of software that wont run on 2003 or higher. The software is too expensive to upgrade for the amount of use it gets, but we cannot get rid of it entirely. So, we took the new 2003 R2 servers and threw VMWare Server on it to run Server 2000 and that app. We may eventually move to ESXi or XENServer, but for now this works just fine and did not disrupt the current functions of the 2003 server.
From bestbuy.com Monster Cable - Ultra Series 800 4' HDMI A/V Cable $99.99
2 feet shorter, and over $93 more expensive. The monoprice cable is CL2 rated so it can be used in walls. I don't even see the Monster cable stating that. Bestbuy.com also has a dynex (I think that is their generic) brand HDMI cable with gold-plated connectors for $39.99 for a 6-footer. Still a ridiculous price but $50 cheaper than the Monster cable.
tl;dr version: People are paying over 15 times more than they should for a cable because it says Monster.
Wordpad handles many text files better as well, and not in a emacs vs nano/pico vs vi way or anything. For example, it might be Cisco using UNIX linebreaks or something, but if I tftp a config file to my workstation and try to open it in Notepad it is entirely broken. Not so in Wordpad. Then again, I find Notepad++ to be a much better text file editor than either, especially when working with a programming or markup language.
Thanks, I thought of this situation while typing my comment, but couldn't think of a good way to state it. In my understanding of the GPL, preventing users from themselves publishing the code and themselves modifying and distributing it would violate the license. It seems akin to forcing the signing of an NDA when distributing GPL code.
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I was going to post this same thing. Also, if they make it like regular Automatic Updates, it would do the checking, downloading, and installing on its own. In fact, you can adjust it so it only checks and informs you of updates if you are paranoid, or checks and downloads but not installs if you don't want to be annoyed by the "You need to reboot NOW!" messages every 5 minutes while you are in the middle of working. All Microsoft would need to do would be to open up the protocols for the update server and add the ability to let a program add its own automatic update repository and key.
Yes, but even if your hearing is optimal, humans hearing maxes out just a bit above 16 KHz, while bats can hear frequencies up to 40 KHz. I'm sure they can find something between, say, 20 KHz and 40 KHz that bats find irritating and that would be far out of human hearing range.
The effect you are noticing is likely due to declining audible range as we age, and not due to you having superhuman hearing.
I must have misunderstood your comment. Sorry about that and thanks for clarifying.
NILFS2 is the successor to MILFS2, which was based on the "Mother" specification.
NILFS2 is based on the "Nanny" specification, which means it is younger, firmer, *and* keeps the child nodes quiet when you are not actively updating its data.
Make sure to keep your data in a protected wrapper, or else NILFS2 may start creating new child nodes and degrade to MILFS2.
Take Ubuntu for example - when it works, that's cool. When something breaks, it breaks ugly and you very quickly destroy the illusion of user-friendliness. Suspend/hibernate, for example. Works great for lots of folks, but when it doesn't... you're building custom hibernate scripts, installing kernel mods like Tux on Ice, etc.
That isn't a very good example. When suspend/hibernate does not work in windows, you are pretty much fucked or you need to dig around for a driver that might fix the problem. Is there a user-friendly way to fix that? Or what about when the MSI installer fails and breaks a bunch of things and leaves a bunch of bad registry entries and files, is there a user-friendly way to fix that?
As much as any one vendor will try to make things user-friendly, eventually something will go wrong and someone will need to get their hands dirty.
You missed a couple steps:
Unscrew wall plate.
Pop off any nearby staples securing the line to a stud.
Attach Cat5e or Cat6 to the other end.
Pull.
Install 8P8C socket ("RJ45").
There is no reason to buy T1 equipment and end up with only 1.544 Mbps. Since this is a single house, I am going to assume that they have nowhere near 11km of wire running through. Most telephone wiring should be Cat3 or greater, and Cat3 is capable of 10 Mbps using 10BASE-T for up to 100 meters. Hell, if they can find the right equipment they can use 100BASE-T4 and run 100 Mbps half-duplex over Cat3 cable. Also, D-Link has ethernet over power devices that get 200 Mbps and run on standard home power outlets.
Shit, even living in a country using broken units(US), I understood that he was referring to 100 meters and not megabits per second.
Cat5 and up are supported for gigabit at up to 100m. However, with gigabit over copper, you are more likely to get errors from interference and crosstalk. Cat5e includes specifications for far-end crosstalk, and Cat6 is even more stringent. However, neither are required, just recommended if doing a new install.
Not only that, but wireless performance degrades as more devices connect. If you are using 1 gigabit switch with enough ports, each port has a gigabit connection. Granted, you are likely not getting more than 50 Mbps for your Internet connection, but if you do media streaming and/or file storage over your LAN, wired is damn near a requirement.
This is true, it is one app that is used sparingly by special ed, but cannot be currently upgraded or removed. VMWare server provided exactly what we needed to get rid of the 7+ year old servers. Also, I've done some testing with XenServer, and the memory overhead of the hypervisor for that seems pretty high. Granted, the VMs themselves run at near-native performance, but it seems to be a pretty significant RAM cost. With only 2 virtual machines, the RAM usage for XenServer itself was hovering between 500 and 600 MB. VMWare server plus the Win2k virtual machine is using less than that right now inside the 2003 R2 server.
One thing I will note is that running several more virtual machines does not seem to significantly increase memory usage by XenServer, so it might be just a matter of scale.
I agree that series of tubes is a decent metaphor for Internet as a whole; however, it does not work well for the problem he was describing:
I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
His argument was that it took several days to send an "Internet" (wtf? I'm gonna guess he meant "email") because of other web services like Youtube clogging up the tubes. AFAIK, Internet backbone traffic has been fine, it is the last mile from ISPs that are bitching that they can't supply enough bandwidth. So, even assuming his staff is doing something retarded like using different email providers (i.e. gmail and hotmail), there is no way that it took 4 days for the email to send between the providers. If it did actually take 4 days from the staff member outbox to Steven's inbox, then the delay was with one of their computers or one of the servers sending the data itself, not the network.
It turns out that I had to slur my speech to get it to understand me.
Sounds like a technology that promotes drinking and driving!
</MADD>
By "pretty much the same size" I am not referring to total area. Imagine if the line on top were extended into the regular square shape instead of a triangle. I am having a hard time thinking of a good way to describe this non-visually.
It looks like the keys are pretty much the same size as what the iphone normally has, but with more dead space between the keys due to using the triangle shaped keys. Your fingers are round, not square, so if you have fat fingers it is easy to hit keys you didn't plan on by accident with the normal keyboard. With this layout, it is a bit more difficult to hit the wrong keys. Circular keys might work the best for this, but then the software needs to calculate round input areas, likely creating significantly higher performance costs. It does double the screen real-estate consumed by dead space, but unless you are typing with a stylus it shouldn't matter on a keyboard that is only out when you need it.
I find no problem with "Sci-Fi" as shorthand. "SyFy", on the other hand is a horrible marketing conception that looks like a pet name for a venereal disease.
Anyway, I'm not going to bitch when someone calls a desktop tower a "CPU", so Bradbury (or whomever made the statement, as the poster was not sure) can go cry about his little pet-peeve in the corner and let everyone else continue to evolve the language.
If you are freelance, you figure out how much time you will save by not developing for IE6. If you are charging by the hour, make a note of that in your estimate for your clients. If you are charging a flat rate for the client, then offer a discount based on how much time you will save. For example, if you save 25% of your time, offer a discount of some amount less than or equal to 25% to your customer for not needing to support IE6.
Tell your boss about this if you are working for a company that develops web applications for other clients.
If you are working for a company and you develop web applications for internal use, then talk to your boss about how much time you will save by not developing for IE6. If you are salary, you will be able to put that time into another project. If you are hourly, that is money savings to them.
If all web developers did so, then yes. However, many will not do this and the rest will lose customers to the ones not following this.
"Well boss, I got a few quotes for that intranet app, and one of them was charging 35% more than everyone else. He claims it is because of our IE6 requirement."
"Hah, screw that guy!"
One way around that is for some or many developers offering a discount to drop the IE6 requirement. The developer may have to run at a reduced profit for a while, but eventually companies will start dropping IE6 to save money. This is not fundamentally much different from what you said, so I apologize if this is what you actually meant. I read your post as saying everyone should charge more for IE6 development though.
I just checked and it seems that Microsoft does not require validation for IE7 any longer. They do not prompt for validation to download the IE8 installer, but at only 16 MB it probably phones home to grab the rest during install which is something a Windows pirate would probably not want even if WGA is not required.
IE7 and 8 are not available for Windows 2000, which is still in use in a lot of companies. Also, most larger companies run WSUS to manage update deployment, this means they can selectively block updates that they do not want from being deployed. This includes IE7 and IE8.
I'm sure some of the numbers are from piracy, but if you are smart enough to pirate Windows and evade detection, you are probably smart enough to use a more modern secure browser like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Opera.
Who modded this troll? I'm thinking it was an offended ActiveX developer.
One thing we are using VMWare Server for is to get rid of some old, failing Win2k server boxes that we needed for a specific bit of software that wont run on 2003 or higher. The software is too expensive to upgrade for the amount of use it gets, but we cannot get rid of it entirely. So, we took the new 2003 R2 servers and threw VMWare Server on it to run Server 2000 and that app. We may eventually move to ESXi or XENServer, but for now this works just fine and did not disrupt the current functions of the 2003 server.
since you can't parallel install IE
Like Obama said: yes we can.
Fixed that for you. Slashdot uses HTML syntax, not BBCode.
Multiple IE is pretty awesome for web development. It is also pretty fun to trounce around the modern web with IE 3.0.
From Monoprice.com:
High Speed HDMI 1.3a Category 2 Certified Cable CL2 Rated (In-Wall Installation) FLAT Cable (24AWG) - 6ft (Gold Plated Connectors)
$6.35
From bestbuy.com
Monster Cable - Ultra Series 800 4' HDMI A/V Cable
$99.99
2 feet shorter, and over $93 more expensive. The monoprice cable is CL2 rated so it can be used in walls. I don't even see the Monster cable stating that. Bestbuy.com also has a dynex (I think that is their generic) brand HDMI cable with gold-plated connectors for $39.99 for a 6-footer. Still a ridiculous price but $50 cheaper than the Monster cable.
tl;dr version: People are paying over 15 times more than they should for a cable because it says Monster.
Wordpad handles many text files better as well, and not in a emacs vs nano/pico vs vi way or anything. For example, it might be Cisco using UNIX linebreaks or something, but if I tftp a config file to my workstation and try to open it in Notepad it is entirely broken. Not so in Wordpad. Then again, I find Notepad++ to be a much better text file editor than either, especially when working with a programming or markup language.
Thanks, I thought of this situation while typing my comment, but couldn't think of a good way to state it. In my understanding of the GPL, preventing users from themselves publishing the code and themselves modifying and distributing it would violate the license. It seems akin to forcing the signing of an NDA when distributing GPL code.