So just one more reason why people will leave IE behind... when they find out that there are tons of websites they won't be able to watch videos from in the future.
why do people keep saying -- "anybody concerned with security and privacy will most likely not touch it with a 10-foot pole."
In ANY IaaS SP's architecture its up to the organization that utilizes that IaaS cloud to implement security... just as they would have to do if it was their own datacenter.
If you do a crappy job with firewall, access lists, user accounts/password mgmt etc in the IaaS cloud you would probably do the same crappy job in your own datacenter.
Over just the past few weeks there have been any number of company's that have been hacked... in their own datacenters.
Poor security implementation no matter were its at always is susceptible to failure & breaches.
Now if some company say.. Dropbox... does a poor job implementing their security process/policies on AWS... its not AWS's fault for that it would be DropBox's responsiblity. Those servers in an IaaS are configured BY those customers NOT the IaaS Service Provider.
look at the technology being used in projects like Linux4Afrika.
Although I don't think they are using OLPC they have been doing a great job and really utilizing low cost technology.
And as for Indonesian Web Design education & classes...
It appears from the Directory Indonesian Web Designers) website that they have a growing industry.
Back to OLPC. I think one big problem being solved by OLPC is that in some of these regions are so incredibly large in population. China and India alone have a huge job ahead
to educate the hundreds of millions of children. Let alone continuously educate millions of teachers for those kids. And finally connect the teachers to those kids over such
large geographically dispersed areas.
Any solution to be developed had to be inexpensive enough to scale to vast numbers of children that have to be reached out to.
Will their Internet be the same experience as someone Japan etc. No, probably not.
But perhaps their internet (note the little "i") may allow Teachers to help educate more kids spread over greater geographic areas.
Wireless technologies are big in these areas because they often don't have any existing communications infrastructure.
The ARM processor choice is also great. Very low power.
Here are my thoughts from an end-user in a Fortune 50 company.
Most people don't have any understanding of technology and all they want is:
- ability to type in a message
- ability to send it
- ability to get mail
- ability to read it
- ability to forward it
- ability to filter into separate "boxes" upon reception
- ability to print, cut&paste etc
Whether it occurs on Outlook/Exchange or Gmail or something else wouldn't faze them a bit. A hillarious statement that proves my point:
with nearly 80,000 employees, when an errant email goes out and someone sends a REPLY TO ALL with "Please Unscribe Me "
as the text in their message.
What happens next is the Sunnami... from the technically illiterate (don't get me wrong here, I'm illiterate in areas outside my expertise)
There soon follows hundreds (sometimes several thousand) of duplicates from others asking "Please Unscribe Me"
My point is that in most company's people do not care what technology is used as long as its easy to understand, easy to learn, easy to use. reliability... for email in my opinion is overblown unless you talk about hours a day.
If something is that important... pick up the damn phone and call the person.... geez that's what's wrong with business today.
Most SPs don't have local competition... or at least much of it and because of that consumers are stuck with whatever they can get.
When they can explain how South Korea, Taiwan, Japan etc all have 50-100Mbps edge links to consumers... in the U.S. we seem stuck around 10Mbps. There's really no excuse for this. The SPs already discriminate traffic where/when they can... look at Bittorrent traffic. Comcast and others regularly limit torrent traffic.
If the SPs take it a step further.. what can we expect? Video from Providers NOT affiliated (paying off) your SP may just appear to have crappy video. A VoIP service (skype, etc) may just not have quite the voice quaility it could have because its being QoS throttled by the SP who may have its own voice service.
With limited competition if Net Neutrality doesn't stand then the U.S. is going to fall further and further behind the rest of the world and the rest of our competition.
I've been using several Plug computers from globalscale: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-kit-us.aspx
They've been fairly amazing in what you can do with them. For linux users they are quick and easy to setup.
Mine came with Ubuntu preinstalled so logging in and updating or adding new software from the Ubuntu repositories was simple.
The geek in me took 3 of these, added 3-500G mini-USB drives, and a couple other little low cost gems of technology called Open-Mesh wireless see: https://www.open-mesh.com/store/categories.php?category=Lowest%252dCost-Mesh
3 My Open-Mesh boxes cost..... $45 each
3 Plug computers were.............. $100 each
3 Mini USB 500G drives were.... $110 each
Total ~$750.00
I made one of the plugs my apache server, another the Samba storage and the 3rd for various uses including Ubuntu Desktop I could log into and manage everything from a GUI.
I have all my music/video's in my house coming through these now.
It all fit in a large shoe-box. Total cost was Less than $750. Total power consumption: Less than 35 watts.
The Open-Mesh is managed via a browser and uses Google Map to show/diagram/locate your Open-Mesh network (if it was ever dispersed over a larger area... like a shopping center etc) and it will send you sms and/or email if there is ever a network problem such as congestion, an open-mesh goes offline or down etc
It actually works pretty well. But it showed me how much possibility these little devices have.
2. Canonical is a large, private company which has been around since 2004. If we compare the contributions only since 2004 then Red Hat has still contributed more code than Canonical: to EVERY part of the Linux stack. More egregiously if we compare the large, well-funded Canonical to small start ups like Litl, Collabora and Fluendo even then Canonical fails to contribute as much.
We've come a long way since our launch in 2004. We now have over 350 staff in more than 30 countries, and offices in London, Boston, Taipei, Montreal and the Isle of Man.
Everyone puts these Canonical freeloaders to shame.
You would indeed be wrong if you merely said "Red Hat contributes 16 times as much code". That's ONLY what they contribute to GNOME specifically. They develop the kernel, most of the toolchain for compilation, vast parts of the network stack, fonts,... basically bloody everything AND they do that by adhering to Free Software and SHARING EVERYTHING UPSTREAM where it's easy for any distro to benefit from their work.
canonical ~330-350 employees, ~$35 Mil revenue
red hat ~ 3,300 employees, ~$1 Bil in revenue
people complaining about the ratio's of gnome contributions need to take a look at relative sizes of the company's they are complaining about. if you have 10-15 times the engineers its probably a good bet you are contributing that much more than someone much smaller.
For those wanting to gripe on Canonical I went and looked at relative sizes of the companies and found these numbers
Red Hat - 3,300 employees
~ $1 Bil in revenue
Canonical - 320 employees
~$35 Mil in revenue
So with 10 times the employees its reasonable to think that Red Hat should probably have at least a 10x greater contribution to gnome development.
I read this and initially thought how it might compare to the Plug Computer's I've been using for the past year that use less than 5 watts each and which new models now include multiple USB, multiple eSATA, wifi, bluetooth, 1 Gb ethernet etc for $99. So far the Plug computer's I've used have been terrific in price/performance/features. One system has 3 plugs running linux, internetworked via wifi, total 1.5TB mini usb, LAMP installed serving music/videos to my home for less than 30 watts pwr. Well, I thought it was cool.
When I read this article I initially thought when they mentioned Atom Powered Cloud Computer Server... there was some kind of XEN etc virtualization involved but have not yet found any mention of that so is this more of a large grid of small servers or have they done something to allow the Atom to provide some sort of virtualization.... if not then I think the "cloud" moniker is overblown.. but which would generate buzz. But they did mention the "secret sauce" perhaps that silicon has kvm, xen etc capabilities.
EC2 is designed as an IaaS which lets you the consumer decide how much HA and redundancy you want to implement.
AWS S3 ensures all data is stored redundantly in separately powered, geographically dispersed facilities.
AWS's EC2 supports load-balancing and auto-scaling. Using both of those you can ensure that failure of
any one "instance" is quickly repaired by starting another instance... usually 5-6 minutes. You can and do control which "zones" an instance
starts in so if you want safety you can implement whatever you need level you want.
I doubt major corporations have any better operations than IaaS providers like AWS, RackSpace etc. You plan for the unexpected.
I've helped work on major outages at dozens of fortune 100 companies so I know that no one is immune.
If Oracle builds a "services" consulting group around their inherited Open Source products then they can do as RedHat successfully does and sell
consulting services related to the products.
for Karmic...make sure you "update" as the Release Candidate (RC) was just put up in the last day or so.
Initially with Windows I had only a "generic display" listed and 800x600 display modes.
I am able to get full graphics display modes now after reading Using High Resolution Graphics
I've been using the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala beta for some time and its pretty solid.
I upgraded my Windows Vista Ultimate with Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows told me of about a dozen programs that would no longer work. iTunes would have to be reinstalled/upgraded, etc. And I've yet to get Bluetooth Advanced Audio working... which seems to be broken for quite a few folks. Win 7 doesn't appear to give
any greater performance than Vista did (my observations only).
Ubuntu v9.10 Karmic costs me $0
Windows 7 cost me $219.
I've now using Ubuntu as the Host OS and I'm running Windows 7 as a Guest OS virtualized in KVM... works great and no dual boot any more. If Windows crashes and burns I can just start a new VM.
Initially at least send yourself an email with a detailed description of the idea include drawings etc.
This gives at least some minimal protection by date & time stamping the email and the idea's conception by you.
One of the first things you might want to do is go to the US Patent and Trademark Office web site and use their search tools:
and do a search to see if someone actually has come up with the same or very similar idea.
If you can't find anything then perhaps talk to friends to see if anyone has a reference for a Patent Lawyer you could consult with.
I've feared this since I was 18yrs old... (I'm 56 now)... that they'd figure out how to stop aging about the time I turn 60 or 70 ----- instead of when I was say 33 or 35.... sheeet
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is by far the largest Cloud service in the world. From what I can see using their AWS control console probably 90% of the OS public images used are Linux based.
So... given those Cloud servers implement everything from Web Sites, to Telephony servers, to VoD servers or Audio Podcast servers, etc etc.
How does anyone measure the number of internet users that are utilizing Linux and don't even know it??? All of the thousands of Apache web servers ???
So is someone going to count just the standalone desktop user running XP but who in today's world might be spending 80% of their time using Services and/or applications running on Linux Which is a more real measure of "use".
AWS has near 1 Mil servers, Google the same? Does anyone think they are running Vista... or Windows Server 2003... I don't think so!!
Cable Systems provide internet on a shared media in the neighborhoods. There is often fiber to the local fibernode in a neighborhood which then splits the RF to feed many homes... how many well that depends and is one of the techniques that the Cable MSO (multi-service operators) use to manage bandwidth.
DOCSIS or Data Over Cable Interface Specification is currently at DOCSIS 3.0 which defines how to implement what is generally termed wide-band DOCSIS. With wide-band the cable providers can continue to compete regarding bandwidth offerings with the Telcos who are deploying technologies like FIOS.
However, this also means the Cable MSOs are required to re-engineer their cable plants with different combining/splitting algorithms which may require more fibernodes deployed to some neighborhoods (which would be a capital cost) may more likely be a software exercise.
To see what is possible the best competition is probably with Cablevision in the NY and NJ area which competes against FIOS. Cablevision is working hard to deploy DOCSIS 3.0 wideband and allow greatly increased bandwidth offerings to customers... to compete and keep its NY/NJ customer base from jumping to FIOS.
Cable operators are caught between a rock & a hard place. Their Cable TV and Movie business is their bread & butter. So to protect those they could try to cap their High Speed Internet offerings BUT that could lead to customers leaving the Cable operator's High Speed Internet service... then using their Internet to enable themselves to also drop the Cable MSO's TV/Movie services.
This is a good idea as it eliminates any one entity owning the last mile which is by far the most expensive piece of the network because of the right-of-ways, labor costs.
WiMAX or some derivative may solve that though.
Also, some of the WISP providers that are planning on using the freed up Analog TV frequencies may also come up with some municipal wide wireless coverage.
Whoever mentioned the Telco's will sue... they may but so far they've lost almost all cases against municipalities. Besides its a slippery slope suing the very same government State/City Agencies that give those Telco's/Cable companies the right to provide service in those areas.
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So just one more reason why people will leave IE behind ... when they find out that there are tons of websites they won't be able to watch videos from in the future.
why do people keep saying -- "anybody concerned with security and privacy will most likely not touch it with a 10-foot pole."
... just as they would have to do if it was their own datacenter.
... in their own datacenters.
In ANY IaaS SP's architecture its up to the organization that utilizes that IaaS cloud to implement security
If you do a crappy job with firewall, access lists, user accounts/password mgmt etc in the IaaS cloud you would probably do the same crappy job in your own datacenter.
Over just the past few weeks there have been any number of company's that have been hacked
Poor security implementation no matter were its at always is susceptible to failure & breaches.
Now if some company say.. Dropbox... does a poor job implementing their security process/policies on AWS... its not AWS's fault for that it would be DropBox's responsiblity. Those servers in an IaaS are configured BY those customers NOT the IaaS Service Provider.
??
look at the technology being used in projects like Linux4Afrika. Although I don't think they are using OLPC they have been doing a great job and really utilizing low cost technology.
And as for Indonesian Web Design education & classes...
It appears from the Directory Indonesian Web Designers) website that they have a growing industry.
Back to OLPC. I think one big problem being solved by OLPC is that in some of these regions are so incredibly large in population. China and India alone have a huge job ahead to educate the hundreds of millions of children. Let alone continuously educate millions of teachers for those kids. And finally connect the teachers to those kids over such large geographically dispersed areas.
Any solution to be developed had to be inexpensive enough to scale to vast numbers of children that have to be reached out to.
Will their Internet be the same experience as someone Japan etc. No, probably not.
But perhaps their internet (note the little "i") may allow Teachers to help educate more kids spread over greater geographic areas.
Wireless technologies are big in these areas because they often don't have any existing communications infrastructure.
The ARM processor choice is also great. Very low power.
Here are my thoughts from an end-user in a Fortune 50 company. ... for email in my opinion is overblown unless you talk about hours a day. ... pick up the damn phone and call the person.... geez that's what's wrong with business today.
Most people don't have any understanding of technology and all they want is:
- ability to type in a message
- ability to send it
- ability to get mail
- ability to read it
- ability to forward it
- ability to filter into separate "boxes" upon reception
- ability to print, cut&paste etc
Whether it occurs on Outlook/Exchange or Gmail or something else wouldn't faze them a bit. A hillarious statement that proves my point:
with nearly 80,000 employees, when an errant email goes out and someone sends a REPLY TO ALL with
"Please Unscribe Me "
as the text in their message.
What happens next is the Sunnami... from the technically illiterate (don't get me wrong here, I'm illiterate in areas outside my expertise)
There soon follows hundreds (sometimes several thousand) of duplicates from others asking "Please Unscribe Me"
My point is that in most company's people do not care what technology is used as long as its easy to understand, easy to learn, easy to use.
reliability
If something is that important
Most SPs don't have local competition ... or at least much of it and because of that consumers are stuck with whatever they can get.
When they can explain how South Korea, Taiwan, Japan etc all have 50-100Mbps edge links to consumers... in the U.S. we seem stuck around 10Mbps. There's really no excuse for this.
The SPs already discriminate traffic where/when they can... look at Bittorrent traffic. Comcast and others regularly limit torrent traffic.
If the SPs take it a step further.. what can we expect? Video from Providers NOT affiliated (paying off) your SP may just appear to have crappy video. A VoIP service (skype, etc) may just not have quite the voice quaility it could have because its being QoS throttled by the SP who may have its own voice service.
With limited competition if Net Neutrality doesn't stand then the U.S. is going to fall further and further behind the rest of the world and the rest of our competition.
They've been fairly amazing in what you can do with them. For linux users they are quick and easy to setup.
Mine came with Ubuntu preinstalled so logging in and updating or adding new software from the Ubuntu repositories was simple.
The geek in me took 3 of these, added 3-500G mini-USB drives, and a couple other little low cost gems of technology called Open-Mesh wireless see: https://www.open-mesh.com/store/categories.php?category=Lowest%252dCost-Mesh
I made one of the plugs my apache server, another the Samba storage and the 3rd for various uses including Ubuntu Desktop I could log into and manage everything from a GUI. I have all my music/video's in my house coming through these now. ... like a shopping center etc) and it will send you sms and/or email if there is ever a network problem such as congestion, an open-mesh goes offline or down etc
It all fit in a large shoe-box. Total cost was Less than $750. Total power consumption: Less than 35 watts.
The Open-Mesh is managed via a browser and uses Google Map to show/diagram/locate your Open-Mesh network (if it was ever dispersed over a larger area
It actually works pretty well. But it showed me how much possibility these little devices have.
1. You're conflating Ubuntu and Canonical.
2. Canonical is a large, private company which has been around since 2004. If we compare the contributions only since 2004 then Red Hat has still contributed more code than Canonical: to EVERY part of the Linux stack. More egregiously if we compare the large, well-funded Canonical to small start ups like Litl, Collabora and Fluendo even then Canonical fails to contribute as much.
Everyone puts these Canonical freeloaders to shame.
You would indeed be wrong if you merely said "Red Hat contributes 16 times as much code". That's ONLY what they contribute to GNOME specifically. They develop the kernel, most of the toolchain for compilation, vast parts of the network stack, fonts, ... basically bloody everything AND they do that by adhering to Free Software and SHARING EVERYTHING UPSTREAM where it's easy for any distro to benefit from their work.
canonical ~330-350 employees, ~$35 Mil revenue
red hat ~ 3,300 employees, ~$1 Bil in revenue
people complaining about the ratio's of gnome contributions need to take a look at relative sizes of the company's they are complaining about. if you have 10-15 times the engineers its probably a good bet you are contributing that much more than someone much smaller.
For those wanting to gripe on Canonical I went and looked at relative sizes of the companies and found these numbers
Red Hat - 3,300 employees ~ $1 Bil in revenue
Canonical - 320 employees ~$35 Mil in revenue
So with 10 times the employees its reasonable to think that Red Hat should probably have at least a 10x greater contribution to gnome development.
answered my own question. I looked up the z530 Atom cpu on: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35463 and it DOES support Intel VT technology as a 32 bit processor.
I read this and initially thought how it might compare to the Plug Computer's I've been using for the past year that use less than 5 watts each and which new models now include multiple USB, multiple eSATA, wifi, bluetooth, 1 Gb ethernet etc for $99. So far the Plug computer's I've used have been
terrific in price/performance/features. One system has 3 plugs running linux, internetworked via wifi, total 1.5TB mini usb, LAMP installed serving music/videos to my home for less than 30 watts pwr. Well, I thought it was cool.
When I read this article I initially thought when they mentioned Atom Powered Cloud Computer Server... there was some kind of XEN etc virtualization involved but have not yet found any mention of that so is this more of a large grid of small servers or have they done something to allow the Atom to provide some sort of virtualization.... if not then I think the "cloud" moniker is overblown.. but which would generate buzz. But they did mention the "secret sauce" perhaps that silicon has kvm, xen etc capabilities.
EC2 is designed as an IaaS which lets you the consumer decide how much HA and redundancy you want to implement.
AWS S3 ensures all data is stored redundantly in separately powered, geographically dispersed facilities.
AWS's EC2 supports load-balancing and auto-scaling. Using both of those you can ensure that failure of any one "instance" is quickly repaired by starting another instance... usually 5-6 minutes. You can and do control which "zones" an instance starts in so if you want safety you can implement whatever you need level you want.
I doubt major corporations have any better operations than IaaS providers like AWS, RackSpace etc. You plan for the unexpected.
I've helped work on major outages at dozens of fortune 100 companies so I know that no one is immune.
This is one big reason KVM is so useful.
Why don't you just use kvm and try a new release out in a safe VM environment first ?
If you find everything working to your liking then do the upgrade/install on the host machine.
If Oracle builds a "services" consulting group around their inherited Open Source products then they can do as RedHat successfully does and sell consulting services related to the products.
Vyata builds open source routing. http://www.vyatta.com/products/software_subscriptions.php
Saw Brian Madden's video's recently with the results of their testing/comparison of ICA, RDP, SPICE see: http://media.brianmadden.com/qumranetvids/blogplayerstatic.asp It was very clear that SPICE far outperformed either ICA or RDP.
Take 1 shoebox, 3-500GB mini-USB drives, Open Mesh Wireless, 2 SheevaPlug ARM computers. All of that consumes approx. 30 Watts.
I should have mentioned the secret sauce is the cmd option: –std-vga
for Karmic...make sure you "update" as the Release Candidate (RC) was just put up in the last day or so.
Initially with Windows I had only a "generic display" listed and 800x600 display modes.
I am able to get full graphics display modes now after reading
Using High Resolution Graphics
I've been using the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala beta for some time and its pretty solid. I upgraded my Windows Vista Ultimate with Windows 7 Ultimate. Windows told me of about a dozen programs that would no longer work. iTunes would have to be reinstalled/upgraded, etc. And I've yet to get Bluetooth Advanced Audio working ... which seems to be broken for quite a few folks. Win 7 doesn't appear to give
any greater performance than Vista did (my observations only).
Ubuntu v9.10 Karmic costs me $0
Windows 7 cost me $219.
I've now using Ubuntu as the Host OS and I'm running Windows 7 as a Guest OS virtualized in KVM... works great and no dual boot any more. If Windows crashes and burns I can just start a new VM.
Initially at least send yourself an email with a detailed description of the idea include drawings etc.
This gives at least some minimal protection by date & time stamping the email and the idea's conception by you.
One of the first things you might want to do is go to the US Patent and Trademark Office web site and use their search tools:
http://patft.uspto.gov/
and do a search to see if someone actually has come up with the same or very similar idea.
If you can't find anything then perhaps talk to friends to see if anyone has a reference for a Patent Lawyer you could consult with.
I've feared this since I was 18yrs old... (I'm 56 now) ... that they'd figure out how to stop aging about the time I turn 60 or 70 ----- instead of when I was say 33 or 35 .... sheeet
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is by far the largest Cloud service in the world. From what I can see using their AWS control console probably 90% of the OS public images used are Linux based.
... or Windows Server 2003... I don't think so!!
So... given those Cloud servers implement everything from Web Sites, to Telephony servers, to VoD servers or Audio Podcast servers, etc etc.
How does anyone measure the number of internet users that are utilizing Linux and don't even know it???
All of the thousands of Apache web servers ???
So is someone going to count just the standalone desktop user running XP but who in today's world might be spending 80% of their time using Services and/or applications running on Linux
Which is a more real measure of "use".
AWS has near 1 Mil servers, Google the same? Does anyone think they are running Vista
Almost every cable company is regulated by state/local government commissions - usually a utility commission.
Unless your TWC contract specifically states you cannot use above X amount... as long as you pay your monthly bill they cannot shut off your service!
Report them. Let them lose their franchise with your city and see what they think then.
Cable Systems provide internet on a shared media in the neighborhoods. There is often fiber to the local fibernode in a neighborhood which then splits the RF to feed many homes... how many well that depends and is one of the techniques that the Cable MSO (multi-service operators) use to manage bandwidth.
DOCSIS or Data Over Cable Interface Specification is currently at DOCSIS 3.0 which defines how to implement what is generally termed wide-band DOCSIS. With wide-band the cable providers can continue to compete regarding bandwidth offerings with the Telcos who are deploying technologies like FIOS.
However, this also means the Cable MSOs are required to re-engineer their cable plants with different combining/splitting algorithms which may require more fibernodes deployed to some neighborhoods (which would be a capital cost) may more likely be a software exercise.
To see what is possible the best competition is probably with Cablevision in the NY and NJ area which competes against FIOS. Cablevision is working hard to deploy DOCSIS 3.0 wideband and allow greatly increased bandwidth offerings to customers... to compete and keep its NY/NJ customer base from jumping to FIOS.
Cable operators are caught between a rock & a hard place. Their Cable TV and Movie business is their bread & butter. So to protect those they could try to cap their High Speed Internet offerings BUT that could lead to customers leaving the Cable operator's High Speed Internet service... then using their Internet to enable themselves to also drop the Cable MSO's TV/Movie services.
Age old problem... FAT PIPE or Content Provider.
This is a good idea as it eliminates any one entity owning the last mile which is by far the most expensive piece of the network because of the right-of-ways, labor costs.
WiMAX or some derivative may solve that though.
Also, some of the WISP providers that are planning on using the freed up Analog TV frequencies may also come up with some municipal wide wireless coverage.
Whoever mentioned the Telco's will sue... they may but so far they've lost almost all cases against municipalities. Besides its a slippery slope suing the very same government State/City Agencies that give those Telco's/Cable companies the right to provide service in those areas.