I have so many friends saying that. I tend to disagree. In general, I also think it's silly to comments on a film saying the book is better, these arts are hardly comparable.
The 3 volumes (plus extensions) huge dune books, I didn't like them. I enjoy reading shorter stories from the same author, but not Dune. That is, to me, a quite over estimated book because of David Lynch brilliant movie. I didn't even finish the 3rd book as it was starting to be really borring.
I 1000% agree with you, David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune was a wonderful piece master, and it's going to be hard to do any better. Yet, we car read that there is a "need" to "delete" it in our minds? Hell no, this wont happen anytime. This pretencious film maker needs a bit of humility, and maybe watch again the David Lynch version.
Please write polar CAP (without S). The south pole ice has been EXPANDING (appart 2 small isolated parts of it).
What's the trend that you are talking about here? The trend for the last decade is a global cooling, and even the IPCC said it. There's no "minor gaffes" but major cover-ups! FACE IT, YOU'VE BEEN FOOLED !
What is this global warming that you are talking about? The earth has been cooling over the past 8 years at least. All this is a scam to enforce a world tax and a world gov. Lucky, they FAILED at the last Copenhagen meeting.
Predicting the weather (or climate) 340 years from now, nobody can do that. It's like telling about the economy in 100 years from now. Who can believe someone claiming such thing? Not me at least.
FYI, the enormous price for maps update is NOT because of companies building the GPS navigation devices, but due to the enormous price of the navigable data themself. For example, a yearly subscription to Navteq is close to 10 million euros...
- My standalone GPS doesn't have traffic data either, but my phone might one day update its software, and it has internet connectivity while my standalone GPS don't and wont EVER have traffic info.
- My camera on my n900 is very good (Carl Zeiss, they say...), and is nearly as good as the standalone camera I bought 2 years ago.
- When I drive, I have a watch on my car. When I don't drive, I can look at my phone, plus I hate wearing a watch.
- What's that document scanner you are talking about???
- I don't play action games (and rarely games at all), and I have a real keyboard, and many other types of sensor (even quake works well using them, a way better than using keys...)
- I have a spare battery so I can swap if it run out of it (yes, one of the reason I'd never get a stupid iPhone...).
What you are asking for is perfectly possible. Back in 2000 / 2001, I was doing this on a small Windows CE device. We were downloading ONCE a "corridor" of electronic maps, with enough data so you could do 3 mistakes and still get back on your track. So, through away your google c**p, its lagging 8 years behind what my colleagues wrote in 2001 !:)
I have been working for a company doing turn by turn navigation, about 9 years ago. At the time, it was really advanced, as we were already doing what is done now, on the phone (win CE)...
Anyway, at the time, and I think it's still truth, Navteq was THE only navigable maps provider. Teleatlas has always been lagging behind. ALL navigation providers are using maps from Navteq, including google, microsoft, etc.
To imagine how big the work of Navteq is, realise that for a city like Paris, there are about 25 street changes that has to be committed every WEEK. For a map size as big as Europe, there was about 20 millions "edge" (eg: navigable street segment, which doesn't include geography between the 2 points between which you navigate before doing a routing decision because you meet another edge). I bet that this number must have increase so much in 9 years. At the time, we were getting about 20 DVD (db2 format) 4 times a year.
My point is, downloading maps in real time as you need them DOES make sense, and this disqualifies an static content standalone devices. The fact that Nokia owns Navteq means that OVI Maps will potentially be updated before any other, which makes it a huge selling point.
Yes, and OVI maps is coming PREINSTALLED on the phone too. What might have fooled the original poster is that Nokia didn't announce an n900 version on their site simply because this is not new, it's been 3 months, since the n900 is out, that it's available for it.
Well, I do care about usability, and I love the way to use my n900, thank you. I would never replace it for a stupid iPhone that by default doesn't even know by default how to do multi-tasking, cut/past, have a root shell, run natively nearly all Linux apps, have instant messaging, etc. etc. etc.
We are talking about REAL FEATURES here, not just something "jeeky". The telepathy integration in the OS is just great. I love being able to call with my cell phone, sip, skype, skype out, google talk, in just a click, on a single contact list entry.
Now, on the more advanced side of things, I am even thinking about dropping the cell phone contract in the favor of an internet only one, because I don't need cell phone calls anymore, and because I'd be happy to use libzrtp. Can you do that with an iPhone? Certainly NOT! And far from it...
Hell even our receptionists are in IT even though all they do is answer the phone.
Well, they are using technology (a receptionists phone), and they do provide information over that technology! So, they really ARE IT people!:)
I swear the below is 100% truth.
About 4 days ago, my wife woke me up because it was pretty late in the morning (as I spent a long night working). As I woke up, still half sleeping, I asked her: "where's the Debian source package?" (even if she doesn't even know what a package is). I insisted and asked many times, as I really wanted to know where it was, not giving much more details. Later she told me she wanted to laugh but tried not to. I can clearly remember that it was being very important to me to know where that "Debian source package" was when being half awaken, although I can also tell that I didn't know what software I was thinking about.
I guess you and me are working a way too much!:) Did such thing happen to you as well?
Who still believe the crap on TV? The so-called terrorist on the last attack went through security check escorted (so he was NOT checked) and didn't even show his passport, according to many witnesses. Nobody believe the official 9/11 version anymore. So why are we getting this "naked scanners" for? This is INSANE, and the insanity is going further and further...
The point is that, when it's going to be 1970 + 2 billion seconds, a lot of computer will fail because of storing dates in an unsigned int (if I'm not mistaking, PHP has issues with it that I could spot, for example), but the vast majority wont understand it. My guess is that we will get into huge trouble because of that. Maybe THAT will be the moment when planes will start falling, because nobody prepared for that.
Sorry, I typed too fast and didn't read the above where you wrote that it was their fault. You are making your point and you are right not to be happy.
There are some servers that have KVM integrated. It's been a LONG TIME that we decided to purchase ONLY this kind of, so our customers can reboot, boot on an ISO over the network (either on the client computer or over a samba share anywhere on the network), or access the physical console over a web client. Sure, the hardware is a little bit more expensive than the average discounted consumer stuff, and then what we rent is more expensive as well. But well... you just get what you pay for.
Oh, and I am NOT talking about these stupid DRAC card from Dell that are really stupid hardware compatible with IE only. I don't think I'd be disclosing any cooking secrets if I disclose the name of Supermicro here... Motherboards price are like half of the one some hosting company pay for a full server. I guess quality of service has a price, and that someone as greedy as you are would never be one of our customers!
Have you ever consider that it could take up to 15 minutes to handle your case to plug a KVM on the server? How much are you expecting a hosting company to invest in the salaries of its technician, when they are supposed to be up serving you 24/7/365? Do you really believe that 35 USD is so much considering the above?
Check with your local ISPs to see if you can get a business account (for a static IP address) and self-host. I'm fortunate enough to have FiOS where I live, and while Verizon is really confused about having a business account at a residence, the headache is worth it. I've got about an hour's worth of UPS at home.
With that, did you install:
Fire detection and prevention (with a gas like FM2000)
A big heavy door to avoid any access
Anti-static electrical installation
An employee that can access your server and replace parts (that you'd have in stock) when you go in holiday
If you didn't then that's not up to the level of ANY decent data center. Plus the cost of electricity AND a dedicated leased line with big bandwidth up and down makes it most of the time not worth the money compared to hosting in a data center, and often very dangerous (electric fire is the most important). Hosting ONE server at home is NEVER economical AND safe (you barely can have one of the 2, and most of the time none of them).
There's something that I don't understand here. If you don't trust the hosting company you are working with, why don't you host with them in the first place? If you believe that when they access your server, there is a risk that they will do something else than trying to solve the issue, then don't host with them. You should be able to trust your web hosting company to the point that you can give them the root on your server. Otherwise, you have made a bad choice, end of the story.
Ultimately, if you really want to keep everything private to the last point, then there's only one way. Get a server from a company that offers an integrated KVM over IP on the dedicated server, and encrypt your partitions. That way, even if they access physically the server, they wont have the passphrase needed to boot it. Of course, the drawback is that if the server reboots for whatever reason (power outage, etc.) then you will have to login in the KVM to type the passphrase, which can be annoying. Hummm... maybe you'll tell me they can try that USB boot so they can read the memory and hack access to the passphrase in the RAM after a quick reboot... But well, I suppose most host would give-up seeing that your partitions are encrypted.
But again, the best solution here is still to be with a trust worthy host were you do not fear to give the root, IMHO.
Now, you just wrote about your host trying to hide the fact that they tried to force themselves in your server. This is clearly being dishonest, and there is a big issue here. That means you CANNOT trust them to tell the truth, and proves that you have to move away. There's no way you should stay with liars.
The fact that big providers are using DKIM shows that it must do some good to their server, so no, it's NOT useless. Also, as an email service provider, I can show you my server logs clearly showing LOADS of spam blocked by dkimproxy or tumgreyspf (which, by the way, I maintain both in Debian, and for a reason...).
Sure, it's not PERFECT, as emails are still going in. But both SPF and DKIM never claimed to be so. They just wanted to avoid people from doing fraud with domain names that they don't own. And both (especially DKIM if you ask me) are doing this job very well.
I personally see DKIM as the evolution of SPF, which is to my view obsolete.
In short: there are much more important reasons for being unhappy about today's laptops than just needing an adapter.
Longer story: I live in Shanghai, and because prices for IBM/Lenovo laptops are nearly twice the price, and that the latest version are coming 6 months later in China, even though they are produced here, I bought a laptop in USA and asked a friend to ship it. That was last year.
As my internal laptop LCD is in 1680x1050, I wanted a quite big external screen so that it could be bigger (I now have one that can do 1920x1080). The fact is that with normal VGA, the picture quality is not worth investing the money of a big screen. So I wanted to use a digital output. That T500 came with a DisplayPort integrated, but no DVI or HDMI.
Unlike others, I didn't mind getting an adapter. I had a look in taobao, to know where to get in in Shanghai. And it took ONE FULL YEAR until I was able to buy a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter (in fact, in the same shop that didn't have it a year ago). No screen with DisplayPort are in the shop either, even right now.
While needing an adapter is not a real issue (only moronic idiots in this site will complain about it, while I believe this is the price to pay for evolution), and I didn't care about the fact it was expensive or not (mine cost me only 85 yuan which is quite cheap), their availability is CAPITAL. My situation was really silly and I hated it. Shipping a computer with a connector on which you cannot connect anything is REAL STUPIDITY. Lucky for people using the mDP, I think that there's quite some adapters around, because it has been a need for Mac users for a long time. So this time, this is really not an issue. The only stupidity here is that this connector doesn't have sound support.
Oh, forgot: thanks to IBM/Lenovo for NOT connecting the sound on that DisplayPort either... maybe the reason is that it would have cost one dollar more? I'd like to know...
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I have so many friends saying that. I tend to disagree. In general, I also think it's silly to comments on a film saying the book is better, these arts are hardly comparable.
The 3 volumes (plus extensions) huge dune books, I didn't like them. I enjoy reading shorter stories from the same author, but not Dune. That is, to me, a quite over estimated book because of David Lynch brilliant movie. I didn't even finish the 3rd book as it was starting to be really borring.
I 1000% agree with you, David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune was a wonderful piece master, and it's going to be hard to do any better. Yet, we car read that there is a "need" to "delete" it in our minds? Hell no, this wont happen anytime. This pretencious film maker needs a bit of humility, and maybe watch again the David Lynch version.
Please write polar CAP (without S). The south pole ice has been EXPANDING (appart 2 small isolated parts of it).
What's the trend that you are talking about here? The trend for the last decade is a global cooling, and even the IPCC said it. There's no "minor gaffes" but major cover-ups! FACE IT, YOU'VE BEEN FOOLED !
What is this global warming that you are talking about? The earth has been cooling over the past 8 years at least. All this is a scam to enforce a world tax and a world gov. Lucky, they FAILED at the last Copenhagen meeting.
Predicting the weather (or climate) 340 years from now, nobody can do that. It's like telling about the economy in 100 years from now. Who can believe someone claiming such thing? Not me at least.
Man, I dumped my e62 (nearly same as the e71) in the favor of an n900. Frankly, Symbian is c**p compared to Maemo.
Slashdot doesn't need real humans walking/driving the road to report direction sign changes to run.
FYI, the enormous price for maps update is NOT because of companies building the GPS navigation devices, but due to the enormous price of the navigable data themself. For example, a yearly subscription to Navteq is close to 10 million euros...
- My standalone GPS doesn't have traffic data either, but my phone might one day update its software, and it has internet connectivity while my standalone GPS don't and wont EVER have traffic info. - My camera on my n900 is very good (Carl Zeiss, they say...), and is nearly as good as the standalone camera I bought 2 years ago. - When I drive, I have a watch on my car. When I don't drive, I can look at my phone, plus I hate wearing a watch. - What's that document scanner you are talking about??? - I don't play action games (and rarely games at all), and I have a real keyboard, and many other types of sensor (even quake works well using them, a way better than using keys...) - I have a spare battery so I can swap if it run out of it (yes, one of the reason I'd never get a stupid iPhone...).
What you are asking for is perfectly possible. Back in 2000 / 2001, I was doing this on a small Windows CE device. We were downloading ONCE a "corridor" of electronic maps, with enough data so you could do 3 mistakes and still get back on your track. So, through away your google c**p, its lagging 8 years behind what my colleagues wrote in 2001 ! :)
I have been working for a company doing turn by turn navigation, about 9 years ago. At the time, it was really advanced, as we were already doing what is done now, on the phone (win CE)...
Anyway, at the time, and I think it's still truth, Navteq was THE only navigable maps provider. Teleatlas has always been lagging behind. ALL navigation providers are using maps from Navteq, including google, microsoft, etc.
To imagine how big the work of Navteq is, realise that for a city like Paris, there are about 25 street changes that has to be committed every WEEK. For a map size as big as Europe, there was about 20 millions "edge" (eg: navigable street segment, which doesn't include geography between the 2 points between which you navigate before doing a routing decision because you meet another edge). I bet that this number must have increase so much in 9 years. At the time, we were getting about 20 DVD (db2 format) 4 times a year.
My point is, downloading maps in real time as you need them DOES make sense, and this disqualifies an static content standalone devices. The fact that Nokia owns Navteq means that OVI Maps will potentially be updated before any other, which makes it a huge selling point.
Yes, and OVI maps is coming PREINSTALLED on the phone too. What might have fooled the original poster is that Nokia didn't announce an n900 version on their site simply because this is not new, it's been 3 months, since the n900 is out, that it's available for it.
Well, I do care about usability, and I love the way to use my n900, thank you. I would never replace it for a stupid iPhone that by default doesn't even know by default how to do multi-tasking, cut/past, have a root shell, run natively nearly all Linux apps, have instant messaging, etc. etc. etc.
We are talking about REAL FEATURES here, not just something "jeeky". The telepathy integration in the OS is just great. I love being able to call with my cell phone, sip, skype, skype out, google talk, in just a click, on a single contact list entry.
Now, on the more advanced side of things, I am even thinking about dropping the cell phone contract in the favor of an internet only one, because I don't need cell phone calls anymore, and because I'd be happy to use libzrtp. Can you do that with an iPhone? Certainly NOT! And far from it...
Hell even our receptionists are in IT even though all they do is answer the phone. :)
Well, they are using technology (a receptionists phone), and they do provide information over that technology! So, they really ARE IT people!
I swear the below is 100% truth.
:) Did such thing happen to you as well?
About 4 days ago, my wife woke me up because it was pretty late in the morning (as I spent a long night working). As I woke up, still half sleeping, I asked her: "where's the Debian source package?" (even if she doesn't even know what a package is). I insisted and asked many times, as I really wanted to know where it was, not giving much more details. Later she told me she wanted to laugh but tried not to. I can clearly remember that it was being very important to me to know where that "Debian source package" was when being half awaken, although I can also tell that I didn't know what software I was thinking about.
I guess you and me are working a way too much!
Who still believe the crap on TV? The so-called terrorist on the last attack went through security check escorted (so he was NOT checked) and didn't even show his passport, according to many witnesses. Nobody believe the official 9/11 version anymore. So why are we getting this "naked scanners" for? This is INSANE, and the insanity is going further and further...
The point is that, when it's going to be 1970 + 2 billion seconds, a lot of computer will fail because of storing dates in an unsigned int (if I'm not mistaking, PHP has issues with it that I could spot, for example), but the vast majority wont understand it. My guess is that we will get into huge trouble because of that. Maybe THAT will be the moment when planes will start falling, because nobody prepared for that.
Just like MS windows. The most popular doesn't make it the best.
Sorry, I typed too fast and didn't read the above where you wrote that it was their fault. You are making your point and you are right not to be happy.
There are some servers that have KVM integrated. It's been a LONG TIME that we decided to purchase ONLY this kind of, so our customers can reboot, boot on an ISO over the network (either on the client computer or over a samba share anywhere on the network), or access the physical console over a web client. Sure, the hardware is a little bit more expensive than the average discounted consumer stuff, and then what we rent is more expensive as well. But well ... you just get what you pay for.
Oh, and I am NOT talking about these stupid DRAC card from Dell that are really stupid hardware compatible with IE only. I don't think I'd be disclosing any cooking secrets if I disclose the name of Supermicro here... Motherboards price are like half of the one some hosting company pay for a full server. I guess quality of service has a price, and that someone as greedy as you are would never be one of our customers!
Have you ever consider that it could take up to 15 minutes to handle your case to plug a KVM on the server? How much are you expecting a hosting company to invest in the salaries of its technician, when they are supposed to be up serving you 24/7/365? Do you really believe that 35 USD is so much considering the above?
With that, did you install:
If you didn't then that's not up to the level of ANY decent data center. Plus the cost of electricity AND a dedicated leased line with big bandwidth up and down makes it most of the time not worth the money compared to hosting in a data center, and often very dangerous (electric fire is the most important). Hosting ONE server at home is NEVER economical AND safe (you barely can have one of the 2, and most of the time none of them).
There's something that I don't understand here. If you don't trust the hosting company you are working with, why don't you host with them in the first place? If you believe that when they access your server, there is a risk that they will do something else than trying to solve the issue, then don't host with them. You should be able to trust your web hosting company to the point that you can give them the root on your server. Otherwise, you have made a bad choice, end of the story.
Ultimately, if you really want to keep everything private to the last point, then there's only one way. Get a server from a company that offers an integrated KVM over IP on the dedicated server, and encrypt your partitions. That way, even if they access physically the server, they wont have the passphrase needed to boot it. Of course, the drawback is that if the server reboots for whatever reason (power outage, etc.) then you will have to login in the KVM to type the passphrase, which can be annoying. Hummm... maybe you'll tell me they can try that USB boot so they can read the memory and hack access to the passphrase in the RAM after a quick reboot... But well, I suppose most host would give-up seeing that your partitions are encrypted.
But again, the best solution here is still to be with a trust worthy host were you do not fear to give the root, IMHO.
Now, you just wrote about your host trying to hide the fact that they tried to force themselves in your server. This is clearly being dishonest, and there is a big issue here. That means you CANNOT trust them to tell the truth, and proves that you have to move away. There's no way you should stay with liars.
Just my 2 cents...
Are you using Debian? If so, can you try my latest package for it, before it's sent to SID and report if it's running well or not? :) http://ftparchive.gplhost.com/debian/pool/lenny/main/d/dkimproxy/
The fact that big providers are using DKIM shows that it must do some good to their server, so no, it's NOT useless. Also, as an email service provider, I can show you my server logs clearly showing LOADS of spam blocked by dkimproxy or tumgreyspf (which, by the way, I maintain both in Debian, and for a reason...).
Sure, it's not PERFECT, as emails are still going in. But both SPF and DKIM never claimed to be so. They just wanted to avoid people from doing fraud with domain names that they don't own. And both (especially DKIM if you ask me) are doing this job very well.
I personally see DKIM as the evolution of SPF, which is to my view obsolete.
In short: there are much more important reasons for being unhappy about today's laptops than just needing an adapter.
Longer story: I live in Shanghai, and because prices for IBM/Lenovo laptops are nearly twice the price, and that the latest version are coming 6 months later in China, even though they are produced here, I bought a laptop in USA and asked a friend to ship it. That was last year.
As my internal laptop LCD is in 1680x1050, I wanted a quite big external screen so that it could be bigger (I now have one that can do 1920x1080). The fact is that with normal VGA, the picture quality is not worth investing the money of a big screen. So I wanted to use a digital output. That T500 came with a DisplayPort integrated, but no DVI or HDMI.
Unlike others, I didn't mind getting an adapter. I had a look in taobao, to know where to get in in Shanghai. And it took ONE FULL YEAR until I was able to buy a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter (in fact, in the same shop that didn't have it a year ago). No screen with DisplayPort are in the shop either, even right now.
While needing an adapter is not a real issue (only moronic idiots in this site will complain about it, while I believe this is the price to pay for evolution), and I didn't care about the fact it was expensive or not (mine cost me only 85 yuan which is quite cheap), their availability is CAPITAL. My situation was really silly and I hated it. Shipping a computer with a connector on which you cannot connect anything is REAL STUPIDITY. Lucky for people using the mDP, I think that there's quite some adapters around, because it has been a need for Mac users for a long time. So this time, this is really not an issue. The only stupidity here is that this connector doesn't have sound support.
Oh, forgot: thanks to IBM/Lenovo for NOT connecting the sound on that DisplayPort either... maybe the reason is that it would have cost one dollar more? I'd like to know...