If it's free, why complaining? Why should a 3rd party giving you a service FOR FREE should behave the way user expect? Shouldn't we expect the free provider to do what it likes, on his own interest? All this doesn't make sense. And that's exactly the same issue with Facebook, Gmail, you name it... And it's not as if buying a domain name plus a small shared hosting was expensive, it's really cheap to do so. I'd say to anyone complaining: you got what you paid for.
Plus saying that they were not encrypted would actually be accurate if the passwords were stored correctly. Encryption implies the ability to decrypt. Password should be stored as a one way Hash, not encrypted. There is quit likely just some misunderstanding of the reporters part.
Do you *seriously* expect any random reporter to understand the difference between encryption and hashing?:)
The above temperature example really shows how much you are used to your native unit. When I read it, I have no clue about it. Truth is, when it comes to temperatures, best is the unit that you are used to. So why changing? Very easy : because Americans are the only 1/20th of the world that have their own unit, and that it's a pain for everyone else. Do you have any idea how many software has been made with F instead of C as default? That should NEVER be the case. It's as simple as that.
I think you never heard of the Napoleon system, with 10 days in a week, 3 weeks in a months, 10 months in a year, and... the remainings as holidays! This is not a joke, this really existed.
Actually,funny that you are talking about cooking cups. Are you talking about a uk standard cup, or about a us standard cup? See how stupid this "unit" is? Apply the same for a barrel of petrol, spoons, whatever, and realize how stupid your argumentation is... Now, consider that we aren't always doing cooking, and that adding 5% of one element might generate an explosion, and you got a vague idea why it's more important than what you think (did you even think?).
As for the "metric gigabyte", that's pure crap, we know it, and no/. reader will endorse it. That's not an argument for or against the metric system.
This table also shows that some organization should give back some pool: if only IBM (/8), Xerox (/8), MIT (/8) and DOD (3x/8) where giving back half of there IP, that would give us nearly a year.
Since when exactly do we have to actually buy IPs from auction sites ? This isn't the way it works dude. APNIC is an association, which you buy a yearly subscription, and with the top boss being elected (elections just happened in fact). You have to show that you really use the IPs you need, and there's no such thing as monetizing the address space.
If you go in Qio Jiang Lu in Shanghai, you can purchase a dozen of this kind of things. The most funny one is the famous 256 GB USB key sold for like 10 bucks on the street. Of course, if that USB key can even be recognized by your computer, and hold few MB, you are lucky. Tourists would blindly buy it, because they think that everything is so cheap in here! When we see those sellers, we just smile.
I fully agree that it may not have been on purpose. The recent history of French laws is full of examples showing how much legislators have no clue about technology. One of them is the recent HADOPI that was supposed to limit file sharing, but which already seem useless to everyone.
Xen isn't a product for your desktop, on that side, it is both hard to use, and a pain. It integrates badly with DHCP, and almost never works with a WiFi card. That isn't why we love Xen. We love it on the server side. For your desktop, you did the right move when using Virtualbox.
Maybe because it's the greatest virtualization technology for servers (see AWS, Openstack, and so on)? Because it's the virtualization of choice for cloud computing, with live migration working like a charm? Or because KVM doesn't offer the kind of functionality one may need, like being able to mount a partition directly in dom0 when you use LVM, and such kind of thing? Because it has great CPU schedulers, and lots of new things for nested virtualization which other products don't have? Or is it because other big companies like Oracle, Intel, Samsung, Fujitsu, or Citrix are working hard with a lot of staff on it? Maybe it's because Xen developers have new Intel hardware before they are out, and could develop things like SRV-IO support before everyone? Take your pick!
By the way, I wonder why you are saying that the pace of Xen development is pathetic. Have a look at the xen-devel list, and see how many patches are sent to the list every day, or read LKML, or see the latest Xen patches upstreamed to kernel.org kernels during the current 2.6.39 merge window, and you might change your mind.
Xen isn't great for desktop, but for servers, there's nothing like it, lots of people know it, and contribute to it.
Which is exactly what happened with Squeeze. In Lenny, 2.6.26 was really an unfortunate choice. But with Squeeze, Debian runs 2.6.32, which almost all modern recent distributions are using as well.
The issue isn't that they don't send back to the kernel for upstreaming (in fact, you are right, they do...). The issue is that, in Debian, we keep patches of the stable kernel as separate files. This includes: bug fixing, new drivers, etc. These are *not* included in the kernel version that the Stable Debian has picked-up. Having patches as separate files in RedHat makes it easy to port them to the Debian kernel, without having to look around in the kernel Git, where there's multiple thousands of entries to look for, with possible fixes that may come later on. Also, some (hardware) vendors send patches to the RedHat kernel with older versions (like, the 2.6.18 kernel, which is still in use in many servers), so they can add them to their specific kernels, and these patches are sometimes very different from the newer kernel release. See how much the WiFi stack changed between 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 for example, and you will understand what I mean (and Debian Lenny is still using 2.6.26, and would need some patches for supporting some WiFi cards like iwlagn for example...).
In sort: yes, patches are upstream. No, this doesn't change the fact that what RedHat is doing is very annoying for others.
I can't tell if it is right or not to purchase IPv4 this way, but I can tell for 100% sure that, if they have these IPs, they must have a technical valid reason to use them, otherwise they will go away. I had to suffer the burden of an IP audit once, and the ARIN asks what is the use of each single IP address. Since then, our software can do such IP usage report with a single click, just in case this happens again. My hope is that MS wont be a special case just because they are a big company...
Maximilian Attems, one of the 5 persons maintaining the Linux kernel in Debian, already stated that he believes it is a bad move, that will make his life more complicated. We are talking here about one of the most open and free distribution in this world, with no company to backup the operation. RedHat can go to hell with there billion USD, they now deserve the disrespect of all the community for their greediness.
Seriously, I tried sipwitch on my laptop, and quickly removed it when I realized that it was often using 100% of my CPU. Bad experience. I hope they will improve, because I, too, need a free software alternative to Skype.
What you are saying above is very interesting. It's even more interesting to realize that my phone (a n900) has the exact behavior that you describe above, because I downloaded some add-on (free) software to do it. I don't care if it connects to the provider network, because I don't have voice in my contract anyway (because if I did, the price would double, so I decided to use 2 phones, one for data, SIP and skype, and the other one for voice only). The fact that I have the feature you are missing might be the reason why I didn't think about it.
As for your 2nd part, amazingly, using WiFi (which is routed through my ADSL) is in fact slower than using 3G. Latencies are bigger, it often does a bad hashed voice with "hole" where the other party can't get what I say, and I suspect that WiFi is using more power than 3G (maybe because WiFi wasn't designed for low consumption?). All that is annoying anyway because of the silly 800 mA/h battery of the n900, and it doesn't invalid what you said. And of course, as everyone knows, I really hope my phone wont break, because I wont ever be able to buy one again, as Nokia decided to work for the dark side...
Thanks for stating the *non*-obvious that I missed.
The issue with tracking where you go isn't the use of free or proprietary software in the cell phone. The tracking is done thanks to the fact that your provider knows what cell tower you are connected to. I don't see how this issue could be solved, even with a fully free software phone.
Does this silly CEO really thinks we are expecting to play the same time of games on a small 3" screen as the one we play on a full HD screen? Come on, this is a different market, and the 2 are non exclusive. Players on big TV with PS3 might in fact play ALSO on their phone. It's not because A.B. is a success that they should spit on everyone else.
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If it's free, why complaining? Why should a 3rd party giving you a service FOR FREE should behave the way user expect? Shouldn't we expect the free provider to do what it likes, on his own interest? All this doesn't make sense. And that's exactly the same issue with Facebook, Gmail, you name it... And it's not as if buying a domain name plus a small shared hosting was expensive, it's really cheap to do so. I'd say to anyone complaining: you got what you paid for.
As described here: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
Plus saying that they were not encrypted would actually be accurate if the passwords were stored correctly. Encryption implies the ability to decrypt. Password should be stored as a one way Hash, not encrypted. There is quit likely just some misunderstanding of the reporters part.
Do you *seriously* expect any random reporter to understand the difference between encryption and hashing? :)
The above temperature example really shows how much you are used to your native unit. When I read it, I have no clue about it. Truth is, when it comes to temperatures, best is the unit that you are used to. So why changing? Very easy : because Americans are the only 1/20th of the world that have their own unit, and that it's a pain for everyone else. Do you have any idea how many software has been made with F instead of C as default? That should NEVER be the case. It's as simple as that.
Everybody knows it: Aliens have always used base 2, because they have 8 fingers. :)
I think you never heard of the Napoleon system, with 10 days in a week, 3 weeks in a months, 10 months in a year, and ... the remainings as holidays! This is not a joke, this really existed.
A standard cup? Guess what - a standard cup.
Actually ,funny that you are talking about cooking cups. Are you talking about a uk standard cup, or about a us standard cup? See how stupid this "unit" is? Apply the same for a barrel of petrol, spoons, whatever, and realize how stupid your argumentation is... Now, consider that we aren't always doing cooking, and that adding 5% of one element might generate an explosion, and you got a vague idea why it's more important than what you think (did you even think?).
/. reader will endorse it. That's not an argument for or against the metric system.
As for the "metric gigabyte", that's pure crap, we know it, and no
This table also shows that some organization should give back some pool: if only IBM (/8), Xerox (/8), MIT (/8) and DOD (3x /8) where giving back half of there IP, that would give us nearly a year.
Since when exactly do we have to actually buy IPs from auction sites ? This isn't the way it works dude. APNIC is an association, which you buy a yearly subscription, and with the top boss being elected (elections just happened in fact). You have to show that you really use the IPs you need, and there's no such thing as monetizing the address space.
If you go in Qio Jiang Lu in Shanghai, you can purchase a dozen of this kind of things. The most funny one is the famous 256 GB USB key sold for like 10 bucks on the street. Of course, if that USB key can even be recognized by your computer, and hold few MB, you are lucky. Tourists would blindly buy it, because they think that everything is so cheap in here! When we see those sellers, we just smile.
Not a bad thing. GANDI is one of the worst providers of this planet, and also very expensive.
I fully agree that it may not have been on purpose. The recent history of French laws is full of examples showing how much legislators have no clue about technology. One of them is the recent HADOPI that was supposed to limit file sharing, but which already seem useless to everyone.
Maybe you should give a go to our DTC and DTC-Xen then? Both are included in Debian and Ubuntu ...
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Xen isn't a product for your desktop, on that side, it is both hard to use, and a pain. It integrates badly with DHCP, and almost never works with a WiFi card. That isn't why we love Xen. We love it on the server side. For your desktop, you did the right move when using Virtualbox.
But isn't a contributor.
Maybe because it's the greatest virtualization technology for servers (see AWS, Openstack, and so on)? Because it's the virtualization of choice for cloud computing, with live migration working like a charm? Or because KVM doesn't offer the kind of functionality one may need, like being able to mount a partition directly in dom0 when you use LVM, and such kind of thing? Because it has great CPU schedulers, and lots of new things for nested virtualization which other products don't have? Or is it because other big companies like Oracle, Intel, Samsung, Fujitsu, or Citrix are working hard with a lot of staff on it? Maybe it's because Xen developers have new Intel hardware before they are out, and could develop things like SRV-IO support before everyone? Take your pick!
By the way, I wonder why you are saying that the pace of Xen development is pathetic. Have a look at the xen-devel list, and see how many patches are sent to the list every day, or read LKML, or see the latest Xen patches upstreamed to kernel.org kernels during the current 2.6.39 merge window, and you might change your mind.
Xen isn't great for desktop, but for servers, there's nothing like it, lots of people know it, and contribute to it.
Which is exactly what happened with Squeeze. In Lenny, 2.6.26 was really an unfortunate choice. But with Squeeze, Debian runs 2.6.32, which almost all modern recent distributions are using as well.
The issue isn't that they don't send back to the kernel for upstreaming (in fact, you are right, they do...). The issue is that, in Debian, we keep patches of the stable kernel as separate files. This includes: bug fixing, new drivers, etc. These are *not* included in the kernel version that the Stable Debian has picked-up. Having patches as separate files in RedHat makes it easy to port them to the Debian kernel, without having to look around in the kernel Git, where there's multiple thousands of entries to look for, with possible fixes that may come later on. Also, some (hardware) vendors send patches to the RedHat kernel with older versions (like, the 2.6.18 kernel, which is still in use in many servers), so they can add them to their specific kernels, and these patches are sometimes very different from the newer kernel release. See how much the WiFi stack changed between 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 for example, and you will understand what I mean (and Debian Lenny is still using 2.6.26, and would need some patches for supporting some WiFi cards like iwlagn for example...).
In sort: yes, patches are upstream. No, this doesn't change the fact that what RedHat is doing is very annoying for others.
I can't tell if it is right or not to purchase IPv4 this way, but I can tell for 100% sure that, if they have these IPs, they must have a technical valid reason to use them, otherwise they will go away. I had to suffer the burden of an IP audit once, and the ARIN asks what is the use of each single IP address. Since then, our software can do such IP usage report with a single click, just in case this happens again. My hope is that MS wont be a special case just because they are a big company...
Maximilian Attems, one of the 5 persons maintaining the Linux kernel in Debian, already stated that he believes it is a bad move, that will make his life more complicated. We are talking here about one of the most open and free distribution in this world, with no company to backup the operation. RedHat can go to hell with there billion USD, they now deserve the disrespect of all the community for their greediness.
Seriously, I tried sipwitch on my laptop, and quickly removed it when I realized that it was often using 100% of my CPU. Bad experience. I hope they will improve, because I, too, need a free software alternative to Skype.
What you are saying above is very interesting. It's even more interesting to realize that my phone (a n900) has the exact behavior that you describe above, because I downloaded some add-on (free) software to do it. I don't care if it connects to the provider network, because I don't have voice in my contract anyway (because if I did, the price would double, so I decided to use 2 phones, one for data, SIP and skype, and the other one for voice only). The fact that I have the feature you are missing might be the reason why I didn't think about it.
As for your 2nd part, amazingly, using WiFi (which is routed through my ADSL) is in fact slower than using 3G. Latencies are bigger, it often does a bad hashed voice with "hole" where the other party can't get what I say, and I suspect that WiFi is using more power than 3G (maybe because WiFi wasn't designed for low consumption?). All that is annoying anyway because of the silly 800 mA/h battery of the n900, and it doesn't invalid what you said. And of course, as everyone knows, I really hope my phone wont break, because I wont ever be able to buy one again, as Nokia decided to work for the dark side...
Thanks for stating the *non*-obvious that I missed.
The issue with tracking where you go isn't the use of free or proprietary software in the cell phone. The tracking is done thanks to the fact that your provider knows what cell tower you are connected to. I don't see how this issue could be solved, even with a fully free software phone.
Are you talking about defender of the crows, on the late 80ies?
Does this silly CEO really thinks we are expecting to play the same time of games on a small 3" screen as the one we play on a full HD screen? Come on, this is a different market, and the 2 are non exclusive. Players on big TV with PS3 might in fact play ALSO on their phone. It's not because A.B. is a success that they should spit on everyone else.