This isn't about Linux kernel not being smart enough, it's about crap SSDs that have horrible performance when TRIM is used during normal operations. So Linux can't use it during normal operations.
Just today I heard about a soccer world championship from years ago. Where a player in the national team of Columbia made a big mistake, they found him dead the next day with 12 bullets in his body.
So it's definitely not only politicians which should be careful it seems.
Developing and testing drivers takes time and money, which needs to be recouped somehow. They also offer support. People at support need proper instructions how to deal with customers and their problems (on Linux).
It's a developer laptop, so most of the time it probably means at least it is a technical customer making the call.
I do see they now sell it in my country too, not just in the US anymore. Kinda cool.
It won't run a completely standard desktop Linux, there is a PPA with some drivers, the source is available.
I think a lot of the source is already upstream though (like Linux kernel driver for the touchpad), the drivers were created by Dell or the part manufacturer.
So now the PPA ends up being mostly backports to the Ubuntu LTS.
Especially as it is 10 billion light years away from us, by the time the gamma rays and light have reach us, whatever was there, might not even exist anymore.
That is just a matter of time, before things more back to your Personal device again.
This is what I'm seeing:
They are using Apache Hadoop and a fast cluster of servers. So what you have is actually an architecture which can run on commodity hardware and open source software. Obviously the hardware that was chosen was optimized for the task. But you too can take OpenStack and deploy Hadoop on that. Their is even a special OpenStack project for that.
So Watson was better than a human at doing certain cognitive tasks.
Now think ahead:
Moore's law will make the same CPU, RAM and storage available to in 10 years on your smartphone, at the price of a smartphone.
You can run your own personal Google Now or Apple Siri, more advanced than they are now, directly on your smartphone, it doesn't need any cloud to monitor and record your life.
Or in other words: in 10 years a smartphone is a device with lots of networking and censoring abilities and smarter than you at a whole bunch of tasks.
I think the world will be a different place than you can imagine right now.
If you ask me: the smartphone platforms really, really, really need to be open platforms.
No it does not, the only proxy that can cache will be a proxy you trust (or preconfigured in your browser by your employer on the computer of your employer).
A big reason HTTP/2.0, like SPDY, only runs over TLS on the public Internet is because of stupid proxy servers that don't understand protocol upgrades. So they encrypt it, which will make the middle box just pass it as is. Then HTTP/2.0 just works.
HTTP/2.0 will be SSL/TLS with verified cert (CA or DNSSEC/DANE doesn't matter from IETF perspective, whatever the browser trusts).
They are debating if they want to allow HTTP/2.0 over SSL/TLS connections with unverified certs which would display as http:/// in the URL bar.
That would be a defense against passive attackers.
The reason they want to wait with allowing for unverified certs is because they expect more people to deploy TLS because of HTTP/2.0 obviously verified trumps unverifed.
The good think about unverified certs as http:/// URLs is that it can be added later.
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There were links in the article to articles about the individual products behind a paywall, I would assume they are more detailed.
I would think someone with Python programming skills and experience with Puppet/Chef should be able to use Ansible or Salt just fine.
I believe most types of battery when charged faster actually degrade faster.
Life fast die fast ;-)
I encounter many Windows systems that don't enable Wake On Lan on almost a daily basis. So I wouldn't be so sure.
The SSD can't treat 0xFF as empty because 0xFF could be part of a file.
This isn't about Linux kernel not being smart enough, it's about crap SSDs that have horrible performance when TRIM is used during normal operations. So Linux can't use it during normal operations.
A free to play game gets 10 times more players and revenue goes up by a factor of 3.
"The profitability tends to go up a lot more than a factor of 3"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_PGkfIdIQ#t=30m43s
Actually, they give away free games (software) as well.
They are a platform, they just want to grow their audience.
If I remember from a presentation by Gabe he said:
You get 10 times more players on a free game and 10% more profit.
It was on one of these talks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_PGkfIdIQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhgOqyZHBIU
I think I got my not and unlikely mixed up :-)
That reminds of Russia.
In Russia they have no problems with reporting a suicide of a person with multiple gunshots to the head.
Or many, many stab wounds.
Possible, but not very highly unlikely that it was suicide.
Just today I heard about a soccer world championship from years ago. Where a player in the national team of Columbia made a big mistake, they found him dead the next day with 12 bullets in his body.
So it's definitely not only politicians which should be careful it seems.
That was years ago, not anymore.
The energy to produce a solar panel went way down. It now takes 1 or 2 years before that energy has been recouped, instead of 10 years or more.
Developing and testing drivers takes time and money, which needs to be recouped somehow. They also offer support. People at support need proper instructions how to deal with customers and their problems (on Linux).
It's a developer laptop, so most of the time it probably means at least it is a technical customer making the call.
I do see they now sell it in my country too, not just in the US anymore. Kinda cool.
Lots of people run multiple VMs on their machine, they just haven't figured out running LXC or even Docker would be a much better idea.
It won't run a completely standard desktop Linux, there is a PPA with some drivers, the source is available.
I think a lot of the source is already upstream though (like Linux kernel driver for the touchpad), the drivers were created by Dell or the part manufacturer.
So now the PPA ends up being mostly backports to the Ubuntu LTS.
You forgot to mention Network Function Virtualization as well.
Yes, that was exactly what I was going to post, this herding robot is just a such a stupid idea.
You know, I'm not even all that worried about these, at least you can see them coming.
The prediction is nanobots will be a lot cheaper and more effective, they can drift on the wind like sand and break down molecules.
Especially as it is 10 billion light years away from us, by the time the gamma rays and light have reach us, whatever was there, might not even exist anymore.
That is just a matter of time, before things more back to your Personal device again.
This is what I'm seeing:
They are using Apache Hadoop and a fast cluster of servers. So what you have is actually an architecture which can run on commodity hardware and open source software. Obviously the hardware that was chosen was optimized for the task. But you too can take OpenStack and deploy Hadoop on that. Their is even a special OpenStack project for that.
So Watson was better than a human at doing certain cognitive tasks.
Now think ahead:
Moore's law will make the same CPU, RAM and storage available to in 10 years on your smartphone, at the price of a smartphone.
You can run your own personal Google Now or Apple Siri, more advanced than they are now, directly on your smartphone, it doesn't need any cloud to monitor and record your life.
Or in other words: in 10 years a smartphone is a device with lots of networking and censoring abilities and smarter than you at a whole bunch of tasks.
I think the world will be a different place than you can imagine right now.
If you ask me: the smartphone platforms really, really, really need to be open platforms.
No it does not, the only proxy that can cache will be a proxy you trust (or preconfigured in your browser by your employer on the computer of your employer).
A big reason HTTP/2.0, like SPDY, only runs over TLS on the public Internet is because of stupid proxy servers that don't understand protocol upgrades. So they encrypt it, which will make the middle box just pass it as is. Then HTTP/2.0 just works.
HTTP/2.0 will be SSL/TLS with verified cert (CA or DNSSEC/DANE doesn't matter from IETF perspective, whatever the browser trusts).
They are debating if they want to allow HTTP/2.0 over SSL/TLS connections with unverified certs which would display as http:/// in the URL bar.
That would be a defense against passive attackers.
The reason they want to wait with allowing for unverified certs is because they expect more people to deploy TLS because of HTTP/2.0 obviously verified trumps unverifed.
The good think about unverified certs as http:/// URLs is that it can be added later.
Don't do that, configure the browser to connect to the trusted proxy. That is how it is supposed to work.
I should mention that the people at the IETF working on HTTP/2.0 say how you should handle a proxy server is:
put the address of the proxy server in the browser/group policy.
Then the browser can connect to the proxy and the proxy can connect to the webserver.
You don't need to do a man-in-the-middle, that is a really stupid method.