If there is a possibility of creating a passive system over and active system, I would go with the passive system.
Part of the problem is that buildings aren't always designed with their geography or climate in mind. One solution I have seen for passive cooling of a building is a Wind Catcher ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher ). Also, depending on geography you could add natural plants to help provide shade. None of this sounds as sexy as a high-tech AC unit, but it is probably much more cost effective and lower maintenance.
I am not sure what solutions there are for existing buildings, but I would be interested in hearing about some.
If you have to uncooperative programmers that can't work in a team, then this programming competition could work, but be ready for increased chance of burn out. In general though getting these two programmers working together is probably the best of action. There is a lot to be said for bouncing ideas off each other and motivating each other.
Which source file is responsible? It would be nice to add this to the Linux side, but I am not sure beyond the announcement part, what else is involved in the "sleep proxy service" to get it working.
Yup, but I am not sure how much testing or development attention this has received. The contributor did indicate he had only tested with a VM, so it would be cool if other people could help contribute some of their time to getting this working.
Ok, not quite the 80's but haven't they heard of WOL or vPro? Since they were part of both you would think so...
I don't know about vPro, but their solution probably makes use of WoL at some level. What is important in these "Wake on Demand" solutions is not needing to know about the MAC address and instead having "proxy" doing the waking when you try accessing the PC via its IP address.
It really does not matter who is the first. What matters is that these solutions are made available, since avoiding leaving PCs fully powered "just in case" I might want to log in from the VPN on a weekend is not a great use of energy. Both solutions at the core use WoL (Wake on LAN) or WoW (Wake on Wireless), but a separate entity holds the mapping table between the host's name, IP address and MAC address, acting as a proxy - the exact details probably vary a bit.
At the same time it would be nice to see these solutions added to other operating systems, such as Linux, and routers. My vote goes for Apple's "Wake on Demand" solution, because it works with mDNS which is available on Linux in the form of Avahi. The next thing to have are routers supporting this. It would be great to see OpenWRT adding this feature, just to show the commercial hardware manufacturers that someone else other than Apple is able to make a router which works with this.
Has anyone been able to make Linux work using Apple's "Wake on Demand" and Apple Airport? - I tried myself without much luck - there must be something I am missing.
The NYT Editor needs to get into the 21st century. A post to Twitter is a "Tweet".
So what is a post to Slashdot? A "slash" as in "I just read a slash on Slashdot" or "I am just slashing to Slashdot"? While I fully appreciate evolving a language, keeping a certain universality helps to communicate better.
All my computers at home are Macs and I have been using them long before they were "cool". At the same time I believe strongly in allowing people to use whatever system they feel happiest with, whether it is out of preference or budget. In this regards no school should be dictating what system a student should be using.
I can understand why they may want to standardise (support reasons, amongst others), but they should be focusing on what type of software and data formats the students should be using. For example if its for word-processor documents, then PDFs and word documents should be suitable; if it is for presentations, then PDFs and power point documents. I mention these as examples because they can either be generated from most applications (print to PDF) or can be handled by multiple applications: Microsoft Office, Open Office, iWorks, Google Documents, etc. The goal should be data format standardisation. If there some obscure application needed for a job, then the school be willing to provide the necessary equipment, even if it is in a class or lab - this they appear to be doing.
I can just imagine restrictions being put on the type of games you can play, in the case of "In AIR LAN Parties", due to players being too aggressive and shouting this sort of thing shouted across the cabin: "You destroyed my f*@cking base, now I am going to drop a bomb on yours and kill everyone... haha all your base are mine muahahaa.".
I still don't get why people think this "cloud" thing is a step forward, given it means less privacy, less control, less reliability, and requires constant net access, not to mention shifting terms of service and the like. And for what? Cross-device access? I can see this being good for some people but I'll pass.
The real advantage is delegating the task of managing all this to something else, along with the responsibility. If you want what you are looking for, then as you say you need to take responsibility for your own data, but accept a workload comes with it.
I think you're missing the point. Geographically aware DNS is used to send you to your nearest deployment of an application. Deciding after you've arrived is too late.
Well depending on the protocol, you could just be redirected to the closest by other means. For example, an http server could redirect to another server by name.
We recently ran into issues of trying to rely on the DNS server for establishing geographic location, when we realised that the DNS server making the address look up could be five servers upstream of the actual client and each of them with their own caching rules.
The real issue, is that DNS lookups aren't expecting to look for a geographic record. If DNS entries could be registered with geographic locations, then the choice could be left up to the client computer on which is the best to choose and then fall back down the of alternative entries when one doesn't respond. The same could be done by the DNS server if the client were to declare its geographic locations to the server, but the former approach reduces privacy issues.
Does anyone hear use it on their computer, I sincerely do not get why anyone would (unless they changes it radically since the last time I used it).
I do, but the computer I am using it on (Mac mini) is designated as an HTPC, and home file server. The computer is plugged into my TV and I use a Logitech Harmony remote for controlling it. I did recently get a wireless keyboard for dealing with the things the remote couldn't handle.
People tend to start off with basic expectations of their HTPC, and then end up piling on what they want to do with it. Sure you could have a separate media server and have a thin client connected to your TV, but in many cases having one small computer fill both tasks is actually and simpler set up.
While I use a Mac mini, other solutions I have looked at are the Shuttle X27D and the Dell Inspiron Zino.
In case you are interested there is whole community dedicated to the Mac mini, whether using MacOS X, Windows or Linux: http://www.123macmini.com/ - you can also check out the gallery to see some of the HTPC setups.
For automated development tasks I would go with "continuous build systems", such as Cruise Control (I mention it since I use this). Cruise Control comes in both Java and.Net varieties. The best thing to do is to decide what sort of development environment you have and choose the best tools to support them. I can't say how well Cruise will fit into an environment where C/C++ is the intended language, so if anyone has alternatives to suggest please mention them.
While I do mention these are target for building applications, many of these solutions include support for the unit testing phase of your projects.
So if we consider lost hours playing Google Pac Man; lost hours reading the Rescue-Time article about lost time by Google Pac Man; lost hours reading and reacting to the/. post about the Rescue-Time article able lost time by Google Pac Man, how many hours have now been lost?
Oh, just to make things more fun, consider how much more lost time we could create by finding what the potential lost time not accounted for is and what the resulting lost time of that task is. Oh and is that time taxable and is the lost time, really lost?
Potential lost time we should be charging Google may tend to infinity if we aren't careful. Anyone for a class action suit;)
I sense a disturbing lack of acceptance of Mr. Brown's statements.
Are you all so cynical?
Whatever gives you that idea? Can't you see/. readers are faithful believers of the Holy Book of Brown, not daring what the holy scriptures have to offer?;)
If my destination is the USA, then I will put up with the crap, since I don't have much of a choice. On the other hand, if I fly from Canada to anywhere else I do my best to avoid flying through the states, since I always feel harassed by USA airport security. Sure, they have a job to do, but there are surely better ways of going about it? In certain cases they make nightclub bouncers seem darn right friendly.
The other thing that gets me is when I return to Canada via the USA, is the lack of international transit. Double immigration sucks, especially when I am not even planning on leaving the airport state-side. When you have spent 7 hours on a flight, do you think anyone looks innocent?
As an IT professional I have already got an IPv6 network set up, but I am using 6to4, which is far from ideal, since the subnet prefix changes all the time. I had bought the Apple Airport Extreme, to establish a tunnel to a Sixxs PoP, but due to a bug in PPPoE mode this is not possible - this bug has been present for two years and Apple has made no sign that they will fix it.
I have looked to non-Apple routers (for home use) for IPv6 support but I haven't found any that work out of the box. Between routers that don't support IPv6 and ISPs who are failing to jump on the IPv6 bandwagon, we are in a sorry state. For the IT professionals amongst you who are still denying the need for IPv6, well there is only so long you can keep your fingers in your ears. If you are responsible for your company's network, then you had better understand the impact and work that the the IPv6 migration will have. For example what hardware is upgradable to support IPv6 snd what needs to be replaced? You should also involve this in your purchasing of new hardware, otherwise you may find yourself replacing it sooner than expected.
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For Flash heavy sites, will the time it takes for the Flash to load be taken into account? Or how about sites slowed down by all the external ads?
If there is a possibility of creating a passive system over and active system, I would go with the passive system.
Part of the problem is that buildings aren't always designed with their geography or climate in mind. One solution I have seen for passive cooling of a building is a Wind Catcher ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher ). Also, depending on geography you could add natural plants to help provide shade. None of this sounds as sexy as a high-tech AC unit, but it is probably much more cost effective and lower maintenance.
I am not sure what solutions there are for existing buildings, but I would be interested in hearing about some.
If you have to uncooperative programmers that can't work in a team, then this programming competition could work, but be ready for increased chance of burn out. In general though getting these two programmers working together is probably the best of action. There is a lot to be said for bouncing ideas off each other and motivating each other.
Which source file is responsible? It would be nice to add this to the Linux side, but I am not sure beyond the announcement part, what else is involved in the "sleep proxy service" to get it working.
Evidently, it's already in the works.
Yup, but I am not sure how much testing or development attention this has received. The contributor did indicate he had only tested with a VM, so it would be cool if other people could help contribute some of their time to getting this working.
Ok, not quite the 80's but haven't they heard of WOL or vPro? Since they were part of both you would think so...
I don't know about vPro, but their solution probably makes use of WoL at some level. What is important in these "Wake on Demand" solutions is not needing to know about the MAC address and instead having "proxy" doing the waking when you try accessing the PC via its IP address.
It really does not matter who is the first. What matters is that these solutions are made available, since avoiding leaving PCs fully powered "just in case" I might want to log in from the VPN on a weekend is not a great use of energy. Both solutions at the core use WoL (Wake on LAN) or WoW (Wake on Wireless), but a separate entity holds the mapping table between the host's name, IP address and MAC address, acting as a proxy - the exact details probably vary a bit.
At the same time it would be nice to see these solutions added to other operating systems, such as Linux, and routers. My vote goes for Apple's "Wake on Demand" solution, because it works with mDNS which is available on Linux in the form of Avahi. The next thing to have are routers supporting this. It would be great to see OpenWRT adding this feature, just to show the commercial hardware manufacturers that someone else other than Apple is able to make a router which works with this.
Has anyone been able to make Linux work using Apple's "Wake on Demand" and Apple Airport? - I tried myself without much luck - there must be something I am missing.
The NYT Editor needs to get into the 21st century. A post to Twitter is a "Tweet".
So what is a post to Slashdot? A "slash" as in "I just read a slash on Slashdot" or "I am just slashing to Slashdot"? While I fully appreciate evolving a language, keeping a certain universality helps to communicate better.
All my computers at home are Macs and I have been using them long before they were "cool". At the same time I believe strongly in allowing people to use whatever system they feel happiest with, whether it is out of preference or budget. In this regards no school should be dictating what system a student should be using.
I can understand why they may want to standardise (support reasons, amongst others), but they should be focusing on what type of software and data formats the students should be using. For example if its for word-processor documents, then PDFs and word documents should be suitable; if it is for presentations, then PDFs and power point documents. I mention these as examples because they can either be generated from most applications (print to PDF) or can be handled by multiple applications: Microsoft Office, Open Office, iWorks, Google Documents, etc. The goal should be data format standardisation. If there some obscure application needed for a job, then the school be willing to provide the necessary equipment, even if it is in a class or lab - this they appear to be doing.
Here is the relevant tech note for the "Video Decode Acceleration Framework" on MacOS X: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2010/tn2267.html
I imagine some evil git sitting in a secret base with his pinky to he mouth laughing out "$1.5 trillion dollars".
Okay, this is a better effort: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmXHvGZiSY
I think we have just found the entrance to middle earth. Does anyone see any dinosaurs or dragons down there?
I can just imagine restrictions being put on the type of games you can play, in the case of "In AIR LAN Parties", due to players being too aggressive and shouting this sort of thing shouted across the cabin: "You destroyed my f*@cking base, now I am going to drop a bomb on yours and kill everyone ... haha all your base are mine muahahaa.".
I still don't get why people think this "cloud" thing is a step forward, given it means less privacy, less control, less reliability, and requires constant net access, not to mention shifting terms of service and the like. And for what? Cross-device access? I can see this being good for some people but I'll pass.
The real advantage is delegating the task of managing all this to something else, along with the responsibility. If you want what you are looking for, then as you say you need to take responsibility for your own data, but accept a workload comes with it.
I think you're missing the point. Geographically aware DNS is used to send you to your nearest deployment of an application. Deciding after you've arrived is too late.
Well depending on the protocol, you could just be redirected to the closest by other means. For example, an http server could redirect to another server by name.
We recently ran into issues of trying to rely on the DNS server for establishing geographic location, when we realised that the DNS server making the address look up could be five servers upstream of the actual client and each of them with their own caching rules.
The real issue, is that DNS lookups aren't expecting to look for a geographic record. If DNS entries could be registered with geographic locations, then the choice could be left up to the client computer on which is the best to choose and then fall back down the of alternative entries when one doesn't respond. The same could be done by the DNS server if the client were to declare its geographic locations to the server, but the former approach reduces privacy issues.
Does anyone hear use it on their computer, I sincerely do not get why anyone would (unless they changes it radically since the last time I used it).
I do, but the computer I am using it on (Mac mini) is designated as an HTPC, and home file server. The computer is plugged into my TV and I use a Logitech Harmony remote for controlling it. I did recently get a wireless keyboard for dealing with the things the remote couldn't handle.
People tend to start off with basic expectations of their HTPC, and then end up piling on what they want to do with it. Sure you could have a separate media server and have a thin client connected to your TV, but in many cases having one small computer fill both tasks is actually and simpler set up.
While I use a Mac mini, other solutions I have looked at are the Shuttle X27D and the Dell Inspiron Zino.
In case you are interested there is whole community dedicated to the Mac mini, whether using MacOS X, Windows or Linux: http://www.123macmini.com/ - you can also check out the gallery to see some of the HTPC setups.
For automated development tasks I would go with "continuous build systems", such as Cruise Control (I mention it since I use this). Cruise Control comes in both Java and .Net varieties. The best thing to do is to decide what sort of development environment you have and choose the best tools to support them. I can't say how well Cruise will fit into an environment where C/C++ is the intended language, so if anyone has alternatives to suggest please mention them.
While I do mention these are target for building applications, many of these solutions include support for the unit testing phase of your projects.
So if we consider lost hours playing Google Pac Man; lost hours reading the Rescue-Time article about lost time by Google Pac Man; lost hours reading and reacting to the /. post about the Rescue-Time article able lost time by Google Pac Man, how many hours have now been lost?
Oh, just to make things more fun, consider how much more lost time we could create by finding what the potential lost time not accounted for is and what the resulting lost time of that task is. Oh and is that time taxable and is the lost time, really lost?
Potential lost time we should be charging Google may tend to infinity if we aren't careful. Anyone for a class action suit ;)
I sense a disturbing lack of acceptance of Mr. Brown's statements.
Are you all so cynical?
Whatever gives you that idea? Can't you see /. readers are faithful believers of the Holy Book of Brown, not daring what the holy scriptures have to offer? ;)
In that case, it is a shame they did not do the sounds using HTML5. It would be nice to a reworked version using HTML Audio.
For the day /. supports unicode :)
There's no problem with Comcast at all, as long as your internet activities don't reach beyond e-mail and browsing a few web pages every day.
I like to put it other words: there is no problem with Comcast, as long as you weren't planning on doing anything useful.
If my destination is the USA, then I will put up with the crap, since I don't have much of a choice. On the other hand, if I fly from Canada to anywhere else I do my best to avoid flying through the states, since I always feel harassed by USA airport security. Sure, they have a job to do, but there are surely better ways of going about it? In certain cases they make nightclub bouncers seem darn right friendly.
The other thing that gets me is when I return to Canada via the USA, is the lack of international transit. Double immigration sucks, especially when I am not even planning on leaving the airport state-side. When you have spent 7 hours on a flight, do you think anyone looks innocent?
As an IT professional I have already got an IPv6 network set up, but I am using 6to4, which is far from ideal, since the subnet prefix changes all the time. I had bought the Apple Airport Extreme, to establish a tunnel to a Sixxs PoP, but due to a bug in PPPoE mode this is not possible - this bug has been present for two years and Apple has made no sign that they will fix it.
I have looked to non-Apple routers (for home use) for IPv6 support but I haven't found any that work out of the box. Between routers that don't support IPv6 and ISPs who are failing to jump on the IPv6 bandwagon, we are in a sorry state. For the IT professionals amongst you who are still denying the need for IPv6, well there is only so long you can keep your fingers in your ears. If you are responsible for your company's network, then you had better understand the impact and work that the the IPv6 migration will have. For example what hardware is upgradable to support IPv6 snd what needs to be replaced? You should also involve this in your purchasing of new hardware, otherwise you may find yourself replacing it sooner than expected.
I wasn't sure myself, so I decided to check it out:
- According to the Meriam Webster Dyke is the British spelling of Dike: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dyke .
- The Oxford Dictionary agrees: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/dyke_1?view=uk , though the same spelling can also mean lesbian: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/dyke_2?view=uk
So, depending where you are either spelling will do.