If you want smaller drives to speed up rebuild times then, erm, buy smaller drives? You can get ~70Gb 10Krpm and 15Krpm drives fairly readily - much smaller than the 500-to-2000-Gb monsters and faster too. You can still buy ~80Gb PATA drives too, I've seen them when shopping for larger models, though you only save a couple of peanuts compared to the cost of 250+Gb units.
If you can't afford those but still don't want 500+Gb drives because they take too long to rebuild if the array is compromised and needs a rebuild, and management won't let you buy bog standard 160Gb (or smaller) drives as they only cost 20% less than 750Gb units without the speed benefits of the high cost 15Krpm ones, how about using software RAID and only using the first part of the drive? Easily done with Linux's software RAID (partition the drives with a single 100Gb (for example) partition, and RAID that instead of the full drive) and I'm sure just as easy with other OSs. You'll get speed bonuses too: you'll be using the fastest part of the drive in terms of bulk transfer speed (most spinning drives are arranged such that the earlier tracks have higher data density) and you'll have lower latency on average as the heads will never need to move the full diameter of the platter. And you've got the rest of the drive space to expand onto if needed later. Or maybe you could hide your porn stash there.
But they have fixed 2003, including the pre-any-service-pack builds which IIRC have pretty much the same stack as XP.
I wonder if Asus will mention this issue to the customers who took an XP netbook instead of an alternative because the marketing bumpf had "better with Windows" plastered on it...
Anyone know why Apple would allow one and not the other? Does Mono not multitask or something?
No one has said that they would. The article itself states:
Mono is associated with the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public) license used for distributing free and open source software, Novell with MonoKit is distributing Mono under commercial terms. The LGPL requires that users can replace an LGPL library with their own version of a library, a conflict with App Store requirements, according to Novell.
This would be the reason that default firewall configurations should not allow any outgoing connections until the admin explicitly turns them on. Except perhaps on the standard HTTP and HTTPS ports as these are commonly used for downloading security updates upon initial install, and the DNS ports as these are needed by pretty much everything.
There is SFTP. But I don't know many providers that offer it. I avoid FTP in all cases and use SSH and SSHFS to talk to and transfer files to and from my servers.
I also use Linux on my home machines (including my laptop).
SSHFS will most likely be using SFTP, or SCP. While you could do the work that SSHFS does with clever redirection of stdin and stdout it would be more complex and error prone than just using SFTP or SCP which are both usually implemented as subsystems of SSH and are provided by many SSH servers unless explicitly turned off (so if your provider gives you SSH access, that chances you have SFTP and SCP access too are high).
This 6 monitor trick still does the very crappy "one giant rectangular display" mode, and the game developers still just support a single viewport. Driving games and FPSes would double in immersion if you could actually look around to see your surroundings, and have movement off to the sides catch your peripheral view, while still moving in a different direction.
While you wouldn't exactly call it "supporting the feature" you can get this sort of behaviour from some modern games. Many game engines allow you to tweak the field of vision so if you have a game that runs on three+ monitors you could try hack that to give a much full field and arrange the monitors appropriately around you. It would no doubt be perfect, but it would be better than nothing.
On its own is isn't massively scary, but if the exploit can be triggered by a non-privileged user then it could be used in conjunction with many other types of attack to create a DoS. If someone (or some automated malicious code) exploits a hole in your public facing mail/web/what-ever server to gain access to run arbitrary code then they could DoS any machines not shielded from the hacked machine (which may only be that machine itself, but that is still one machine that can be taken offline).
There is also the disgruntled employee to consider, and in any large organization there is usually at least one of them. If the DoS vector is not easily tracked back to the source then they can take down a bunch of machines just to cause hassle and unless they take down every machine that can access except their own you may have a hard time finding clues.
What if you take it as "cache", one that survives reboots,
The big thing I see here isn't surviving intentional reboots for efficiency - i.e. stuff cached pre-boot woudl still be available without spinning-disk read post boot. For that matter I'd be wary of such a feature (it would need to be well implemented and very well tested to deal with odd circumstances like disk connections being rearranged physically between shutdown and restart).
The two big advantages here are standard cache/buffer behaviour during active system use, and written data surviving an unexpected power outage so it can be written when power returns, reducing the chance of data corruption in such circumstances (many high-spec RAID controllers use battery-backed DRAM for this sort of thing).
We are protecting all the users against the 1% of the user base who abuse our network.
Hang on a minute. That 1% are abusing the network, which presumably is against the terms of service or some such. A logical person would suggest that they could protect the 99% of their users who are not abusive by kicking off the 1% that are? Like kicking the loud drunk of the train for the good of the other passengers (and the train).
Instead this ISP is punishing all the users on your network that use youtube or what-ever other popular site (which chances are is a fair majority of their users) while leaving the 1% unpunished (or, at least, no more punished than the remaining 99%).
The "X% of abusive users" excuse is complete crap. They know it. We know it. They just hope the majority of their userbase aren't clueful.
In general though, you're absolutely spot on, I'll never forget that velociraptor that politely waited for the hunter to get out his witty remark, "Oh you're a clever girl" before attacking. Goofy.
That was to allow time for a little gloat. It is the brighter-than-the-average-dino equivalent to monologuing. Though the 'raptor showed some restraint so got away with it, where most monologuing evil types go over the top and give the victim an easy out while they are distracted.
You could just unscrew the drive cases to get in at the platters. Admittedly some drives make this difficult with deliberately shawn screw heads, but most don't.
Usually it is a few screws on the top (including at least one under the labels), a few to get the controller board off, and another couple under there. Once you have the case open there may be a few more screws to take out so you can remove the heads and platters.
You now have a set of platters that will shatter easily if that is your want and some rare earth magnets for shits and giggles.
It is harder with 2.5" drives than 3.5", though only because most peopel don't have the neaded Torx4/5/6 screw driver heads handy.
I've never seen them become impatient and cross during red light - like humans do.
I've actually seen a dog wait when humans go ahead on red. And not a guide dog either (which you would wait for a signal from their charge who will in turn wait for the audible signal many lights give or some other clue).
I couldn't tell you what signal the animal was waiting for (it may have been reacting to the fact that not all the humans walked before getting the green signal, or it may have been aware of the meaning of the light positions) but it certainly seemed to know when the correct time to cross was and wasn't.
I don't want anymore "Fat free" foods that aren't fat free.
A lot of food adverts over here have started claiming "virtually fat free". They don't state how they are defining "virtually" in these instances though.
Err, that was the GP's point. 70's Starbuck objectified women.
And then thre ws the whole "women flying vipers, we can't do that!" episode which IIRC ended with a patronizing "didn't they do well" and was never mentioned again.
The way EVE works is that you can trade ISK only for game time and not the other way around. So you buy game time from CCP and then trade it with another player.
That player cannot sell that game time for actual money.
That is assuming the trade is done entirely in-game. What is to stop the player giving the ISK to another player in game in exchange for real money (or other useful commodity) paid by some other means?
The way I look at it is that basically you're working for 12-15 hours and the pay you get is $30, which isn't exactly impressive if you compare it with other jobs (i.e. if you take a weekend job every other week and use that money to buy play time.)
$30 isn't much to you or I, but for a currently unemployed someone in a poverty sticken nation who happens to have cheap/free access to a 'net connection and the game by some means, it might be a worthwhile investment of time otherwise spent doing nothing.
Isn't that why the Affero GPL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License) was created ?
No, IIRC. That was created to close the hosted application "hole" whereby no compiled GPL-covered code is ever sent to the user (just the code's output is) so the users right to have access the source code to any binary covered by the standard GPL becomes void.
They probably don't send/receive internal email from anywhere, no. At least not directly. Someone needed to send what could be considered an internal (internal to the department/unit/what-ever) mail from an external location would do so via a sufficiently paranoid VPN setup.
Potentially. But how are you going to let people know the information is available there? If you are broadcasting the information back down then people will need to be listening on the right frequencies as your sat passes over as you are not going to have a transmitter powerful enough to drown out a common frequency use by other transmissions.
And that is ignoring the fact that the orbit is not going to be anything like geostationary so there will only be specific time windows when your target audience have give "line of sight" to pick up your information. You won't find a mass audience with the right equipment (probably expensive equipment) pointed the right way at the right time, especially under a regime where being found to have possession of such equipment without correct license to do so may net you and your family a severe case if lead poisoning.
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If you want smaller drives to speed up rebuild times then, erm, buy smaller drives? You can get ~70Gb 10Krpm and 15Krpm drives fairly readily - much smaller than the 500-to-2000-Gb monsters and faster too. You can still buy ~80Gb PATA drives too, I've seen them when shopping for larger models, though you only save a couple of peanuts compared to the cost of 250+Gb units.
If you can't afford those but still don't want 500+Gb drives because they take too long to rebuild if the array is compromised and needs a rebuild, and management won't let you buy bog standard 160Gb (or smaller) drives as they only cost 20% less than 750Gb units without the speed benefits of the high cost 15Krpm ones, how about using software RAID and only using the first part of the drive? Easily done with Linux's software RAID (partition the drives with a single 100Gb (for example) partition, and RAID that instead of the full drive) and I'm sure just as easy with other OSs. You'll get speed bonuses too: you'll be using the fastest part of the drive in terms of bulk transfer speed (most spinning drives are arranged such that the earlier tracks have higher data density) and you'll have lower latency on average as the heads will never need to move the full diameter of the platter. And you've got the rest of the drive space to expand onto if needed later. Or maybe you could hide your porn stash there.
That's because significantly more work was put in to it then a simple recompile. Which was the whole point of the GP.
Try again. The Debian build system probably creates the Arm architecture releases from much the same sources as x64, i386, mips, ..., ..., ...
Ubuntu could do similar, to go back the grand-grandparent posts point, and you might find they already have: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/arm
But they have fixed 2003, including the pre-any-service-pack builds which IIRC have pretty much the same stack as XP.
I wonder if Asus will mention this issue to the customers who took an XP netbook instead of an alternative because the marketing bumpf had "better with Windows" plastered on it...
Anyone know why Apple would allow one and not the other? Does Mono not multitask or something?
No one has said that they would. The article itself states:
Mono is associated with the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public) license used for distributing free and open source software, Novell with MonoKit is distributing Mono under commercial terms. The LGPL requires that users can replace an LGPL library with their own version of a library, a conflict with App Store requirements, according to Novell.
This would be the reason that default firewall configurations should not allow any outgoing connections until the admin explicitly turns them on. Except perhaps on the standard HTTP and HTTPS ports as these are commonly used for downloading security updates upon initial install, and the DNS ports as these are needed by pretty much everything.
There is SFTP. But I don't know many providers that offer it. I avoid FTP in all cases and use SSH and SSHFS to talk to and transfer files to and from my servers.
I also use Linux on my home machines (including my laptop).
SSHFS will most likely be using SFTP, or SCP. While you could do the work that SSHFS does with clever redirection of stdin and stdout it would be more complex and error prone than just using SFTP or SCP which are both usually implemented as subsystems of SSH and are provided by many SSH servers unless explicitly turned off (so if your provider gives you SSH access, that chances you have SFTP and SCP access too are high).
This 6 monitor trick still does the very crappy "one giant rectangular display" mode, and the game developers still just support a single viewport. Driving games and FPSes would double in immersion if you could actually look around to see your surroundings, and have movement off to the sides catch your peripheral view, while still moving in a different direction.
While you wouldn't exactly call it "supporting the feature" you can get this sort of behaviour from some modern games. Many game engines allow you to tweak the field of vision so if you have a game that runs on three+ monitors you could try hack that to give a much full field and arrange the monitors appropriately around you. It would no doubt be perfect, but it would be better than nothing.
On its own is isn't massively scary, but if the exploit can be triggered by a non-privileged user then it could be used in conjunction with many other types of attack to create a DoS. If someone (or some automated malicious code) exploits a hole in your public facing mail/web/what-ever server to gain access to run arbitrary code then they could DoS any machines not shielded from the hacked machine (which may only be that machine itself, but that is still one machine that can be taken offline). There is also the disgruntled employee to consider, and in any large organization there is usually at least one of them. If the DoS vector is not easily tracked back to the source then they can take down a bunch of machines just to cause hassle and unless they take down every machine that can access except their own you may have a hard time finding clues.
What if you take it as "cache", one that survives reboots,
The big thing I see here isn't surviving intentional reboots for efficiency - i.e. stuff cached pre-boot woudl still be available without spinning-disk read post boot. For that matter I'd be wary of such a feature (it would need to be well implemented and very well tested to deal with odd circumstances like disk connections being rearranged physically between shutdown and restart).
The two big advantages here are standard cache/buffer behaviour during active system use, and written data surviving an unexpected power outage so it can be written when power returns, reducing the chance of data corruption in such circumstances (many high-spec RAID controllers use battery-backed DRAM for this sort of thing).
We are protecting all the users against the 1% of the user base who abuse our network.
Hang on a minute. That 1% are abusing the network, which presumably is against the terms of service or some such. A logical person would suggest that they could protect the 99% of their users who are not abusive by kicking off the 1% that are? Like kicking the loud drunk of the train for the good of the other passengers (and the train).
Instead this ISP is punishing all the users on your network that use youtube or what-ever other popular site (which chances are is a fair majority of their users) while leaving the 1% unpunished (or, at least, no more punished than the remaining 99%).
The "X% of abusive users" excuse is complete crap. They know it. We know it. They just hope the majority of their userbase aren't clueful.
In general though, you're absolutely spot on, I'll never forget that velociraptor that politely waited for the hunter to get out his witty remark, "Oh you're a clever girl" before attacking. Goofy.
That was to allow time for a little gloat. It is the brighter-than-the-average-dino equivalent to monologuing. Though the 'raptor showed some restraint so got away with it, where most monologuing evil types go over the top and give the victim an easy out while they are distracted.
How's it gonna help those of us that download more than 2 gigabytes of porn^Wlinux distros at a time?
The summary states that the storage is provided by an SD card. If the reader copes with SDHC then you could potentially chuck 32Gb in there.
Don't forget that for decades it has been the other way around - the European versions has been more expensive than the US version.
Yes, but things aren't really unfair unless Americans are getting the raw end of the deal.
You could just unscrew the drive cases to get in at the platters. Admittedly some drives make this difficult with deliberately shawn screw heads, but most don't.
Usually it is a few screws on the top (including at least one under the labels), a few to get the controller board off, and another couple under there. Once you have the case open there may be a few more screws to take out so you can remove the heads and platters.
You now have a set of platters that will shatter easily if that is your want and some rare earth magnets for shits and giggles.
It is harder with 2.5" drives than 3.5", though only because most peopel don't have the neaded Torx4/5/6 screw driver heads handy.
I've never seen them become impatient and cross during red light - like humans do.
I've actually seen a dog wait when humans go ahead on red. And not a guide dog either (which you would wait for a signal from their charge who will in turn wait for the audible signal many lights give or some other clue).
I couldn't tell you what signal the animal was waiting for (it may have been reacting to the fact that not all the humans walked before getting the green signal, or it may have been aware of the meaning of the light positions) but it certainly seemed to know when the correct time to cross was and wasn't.
I don't want anymore "Fat free" foods that aren't fat free.
A lot of food adverts over here have started claiming "virtually fat free". They don't state how they are defining "virtually" in these instances though.
70's Starbuck was male.
Err, that was the GP's point. 70's Starbuck objectified women.
And then thre ws the whole "women flying vipers, we can't do that!" episode which IIRC ended with a patronizing "didn't they do well" and was never mentioned again.
The way EVE works is that you can trade ISK only for game time and not the other way around. So you buy game time from CCP and then trade it with another player.
That player cannot sell that game time for actual money.
That is assuming the trade is done entirely in-game. What is to stop the player giving the ISK to another player in game in exchange for real money (or other useful commodity) paid by some other means?
The way I look at it is that basically you're working for 12-15 hours and the pay you get is $30, which isn't exactly impressive if you compare it with other jobs (i.e. if you take a weekend job every other week and use that money to buy play time.)
$30 isn't much to you or I, but for a currently unemployed someone in a poverty sticken nation who happens to have cheap/free access to a 'net connection and the game by some means, it might be a worthwhile investment of time otherwise spent doing nothing.
Isn't that why the Affero GPL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License) was created ?
No, IIRC. That was created to close the hosted application "hole" whereby no compiled GPL-covered code is ever sent to the user (just the code's output is) so the users right to have access the source code to any binary covered by the standard GPL becomes void.
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I think you'll find that is spelt with an "a".
They probably don't send/receive internal email from anywhere, no. At least not directly. Someone needed to send what could be considered an internal (internal to the department/unit/what-ever) mail from an external location would do so via a sufficiently paranoid VPN setup.
Like most such in-depth reviews, this one is spread across 10 pages.
Not with the AutoPager extension installed it doesn't.
Potentially. But how are you going to let people know the information is available there? If you are broadcasting the information back down then people will need to be listening on the right frequencies as your sat passes over as you are not going to have a transmitter powerful enough to drown out a common frequency use by other transmissions.
And that is ignoring the fact that the orbit is not going to be anything like geostationary so there will only be specific time windows when your target audience have give "line of sight" to pick up your information. You won't find a mass audience with the right equipment (probably expensive equipment) pointed the right way at the right time, especially under a regime where being found to have possession of such equipment without correct license to do so may net you and your family a severe case if lead poisoning.