I regularly fly with Virgin Atlantic, and their new 787s have a fantastic wifi service courtesy of T-Mobile. I worked a problem during a recent flight from London to DC spending the entire flight remotely logged-in to remote applications over Citrix XenApp. Latency was poor (you cannae change the laws of physics) but consistent and throughput was perfectly fine.
The cost? £15 for unlimited data for whole the flight. Even better, on my second trip I discovered the service is included in my monthly iPass Mobile Connect subscription, so my incremental cost was zero!
I understand they're using ka-band satellites with approximately 70Mbps per channel. I guess they can always run multiple links if usage takes-off.
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in the early '70s had an anticipated lifetime of 1015 years; those in the centers today are now at least 10 years past this estimate.
I'm not surprised they're failing if they're at least 1025 years old!!
Seriously, though, this is the kind of situation that really scares me. Rarely is such a problem solved with money alone -- a project of this scale and importance needs to be supported by the best.
The IT industry is characterised by too many enthusiasts and too few professionals.
When you elect to share your music library within iTunes 4 a pop-up is displayed:
Reminder: Sharing music is for personal use only
I don't know the legal definition of "personal use" but in these terms I would consider it to be about limiting streaming in much the same way you would limit distribution of your purchased CD collection.
I really like this feature and I thank Apple for treating its customers like grown-ups. I'd hate for abuse to force them into dropping it.
Here is a link to IBM's PowerPC 970 announcement from Dec 2002. Note the references to AltiVec and the acknowledgement of the trademark belonging to Motorola.
The UK is pretty well represented by some effective opt-out services. I believe that only the telephone preference service is legally enforced, but since mail is centralised at the Post Office the MPS is quite effective, too.
'fraid not. The DVR-103 is a consumer writer that only supports "general use" media. This prevents it writing to the area of the disc that would normally contain the region coding and copy protection information.
Therefore a bit copy would actually be incomplete resulting in players unable to access the encoded contents (i.e. the movie).
This restriction is designed into all consumer writers specifically to prevent bit copying. You would need to decode the contents first (e.g. DeCSS).
Consumer DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW are all "general use" formats. This means that you cannot write to the area of the disk that would normally contain copy protection and region codes. This limitation is designed into the player and media.
This is to prevent straight bit copying of encoded discs. It also prevents these drives from being used to master DVDs for mass duplication. You can buy DVD-R solutions that do not have this limitation. They cost six times as much and the media is specialist, therefore much more expensive.
There are ways of decoding DVD movies such that they could be written to general use media and played back on consumer DVD players. It is just straight copying that would fail.
The recommend hardware at my company puts the PPC at the top of the food chain for databases.
Low end is Intel with SQL Server
Medium is Sun with Oracle
High end is IBM RS/6000 with DB2
IBM RS/6000 servers are PPC based systems that run IBM AIX (UNIX). The main reason the using these at the high end is the cost per transaction. Sun was our high end choice until the latest generation of IBM PPC servers started to offer more bang for our buck.
At the low end, PPC systems are just too damned expensive to consider! Since AIX is effectively free when you buy RS/6000, there are no savings to be had running Linux.
The difference is that the estimated 64k Windows bugs were actual problems in a released product. BugZilla is a development tracking tool that includes bugs and feature requests in its count.
Let us wait and see how many of the 100,000+ records are still open when mozilla is finally released as 1.0.
I knew one manager who wanted to disable SSH and go back to telnet/ftp because of the SSH1 deattack vulnerability! Let us keep these things in perspective.
With anonymous posting, how do we protect ourselves from lies that others would seek to spread about us?
IMHO, anonymous comments should have less protection from censorship/moderation. How else could I persuade an ISP to remove defamatory material from their site, when no-one is willing to defend it?
The same fuss was never made about European VCRs that can play back NTSC tapes on PAL TVs. I guess that is the difference between open and closed standards.
When will they bow down gracefully and let me watch the DVD I purchased regardless of my location.
Modem users already benefit from compression across the PPP connection.
The issue is a server one. Compression would be fine for sites based on static HTML where the compressed pages could be cached. Sites that generate pages on-the-fly (e.g./.) would be hit hard. Imagine a site getting millions of hits a day that had to stop and compress each page before it was sent.
You could be left waiting - we have all seen it. Most people put it down to poor connectivity, but quite often it is a processing bottleneck on a busy server.
When the web was lots of static pages and images, and bandwidth was scarce, compression made sense.
With the current over-supply of domestic bandwidth and the move to database-driven, customised web sites, is it worth spending CPU cycles compressing small data files on-the-fly?
Most popular websites don't suffer from poor connectivity -- they suffer from too little back-end grunt.
I pointed my boss at this article to explain why I leave my phone on voicemail whilst programming. Some the best bugs have been created whilst trying to program and talk on the phone.
He didn't listen. I just hope they never need to launch anything that contains my guidance control software.
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I regularly fly with Virgin Atlantic, and their new 787s have a fantastic wifi service courtesy of T-Mobile. I worked a problem during a recent flight from London to DC spending the entire flight remotely logged-in to remote applications over Citrix XenApp. Latency was poor (you cannae change the laws of physics) but consistent and throughput was perfectly fine.
The cost? £15 for unlimited data for whole the flight. Even better, on my second trip I discovered the service is included in my monthly iPass Mobile Connect subscription, so my incremental cost was zero!
I understand they're using ka-band satellites with approximately 70Mbps per channel. I guess they can always run multiple links if usage takes-off.
No-one reads, except... Harry Potter book sales exceed magical 250 million
I'm not surprised they're failing if they're at least 1025 years old!!
Seriously, though, this is the kind of situation that really scares me. Rarely is such a problem solved with money alone -- a project of this scale and importance needs to be supported by the best.
The IT industry is characterised by too many enthusiasts and too few professionals.
- Reminder: Sharing music is for personal use only
I don't know the legal definition of "personal use" but in these terms I would consider it to be about limiting streaming in much the same way you would limit distribution of your purchased CD collection.I really like this feature and I thank Apple for treating its customers like grown-ups. I'd hate for abuse to force them into dropping it.
http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/newsle tter/dec2002/newproductfocus2.html
An interesting read. Enjoy!
Telephone: Telephone Preference Service
E-mail: E-mail Preference Service
Fax: Fax Preference Service
Snail mail: Mail Preference Service
'fraid not. The DVR-103 is a consumer writer that only supports "general use" media. This prevents it writing to the area of the disc that would normally contain the region coding and copy protection information.
Therefore a bit copy would actually be incomplete resulting in players unable to access the encoded contents (i.e. the movie).
This restriction is designed into all consumer writers specifically to prevent bit copying. You would need to decode the contents first (e.g. DeCSS).
Consumer DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW are all "general use" formats. This means that you cannot write to the area of the disk that would normally contain copy protection and region codes. This limitation is designed into the player and media.
This is to prevent straight bit copying of encoded discs. It also prevents these drives from being used to master DVDs for mass duplication. You can buy DVD-R solutions that do not have this limitation. They cost six times as much and the media is specialist, therefore much more expensive.
There are ways of decoding DVD movies such that they could be written to general use media and played back on consumer DVD players. It is just straight copying that would fail.
There is a very good reason for specifying a license on this kind of release. The press do not hesitate to take a single quote out of context.
By requiring the text be presented it its complete form, RMS is protecting himself from being misquoted.
Low end is Intel with SQL Server
Medium is Sun with Oracle
High end is IBM RS/6000 with DB2
IBM RS/6000 servers are PPC based systems that run IBM AIX (UNIX). The main reason the using these at the high end is the cost per transaction. Sun was our high end choice until the latest generation of IBM PPC servers started to offer more bang for our buck.
At the low end, PPC systems are just too damned expensive to consider! Since AIX is effectively free when you buy RS/6000, there are no savings to be had running Linux.
The difference is that the estimated 64k Windows bugs were actual problems in a released product. BugZilla is a development tracking tool that includes bugs and feature requests in its count.
Let us wait and see how many of the 100,000+ records are still open when mozilla is finally released as 1.0.
If you are this paranoid then you would already be using public key authentication.
I knew one manager who wanted to disable SSH and go back to telnet/ftp because of the SSH1 deattack vulnerability! Let us keep these things in perspective.
I read a review of the Pioneer A03 DVD-RW a couple of months ago. (Google's Cache of the page)
The review stated that most new DVD-ROM drives and DVD video players can read these DVD-R disks. A few can also read the DVD-RW standard.
I know what I want for Christmas!
IMHO, anonymous comments should have less protection from censorship/moderation. How else could I persuade an ISP to remove defamatory material from their site, when no-one is willing to defend it?
When will they bow down gracefully and let me watch the DVD I purchased regardless of my location.
The issue is a server one. Compression would be fine for sites based on static HTML where the compressed pages could be cached. Sites that generate pages on-the-fly (e.g. /.) would be hit hard. Imagine a site getting millions of hits a day that had to stop and compress each page before it was sent.
You could be left waiting - we have all seen it. Most people put it down to poor connectivity, but quite often it is a processing bottleneck on a busy server.
Allowing for 2.5m hits/day, based on your figure for an 800mhz P3:
2,500,000 hits * 0.009 seconds = 22,500 seconds
= 375 minutes
= 6 hours 15 minutes
Real problems come when there are a glut of users (e.g. lunchtime).
Compression sounds good from a client perspective, but each client is additional work for the server.
With the current over-supply of domestic bandwidth and the move to database-driven, customised web sites, is it worth spending CPU cycles compressing small data files on-the-fly?
Most popular websites don't suffer from poor connectivity -- they suffer from too little back-end grunt.
He didn't listen. I just hope they never need to launch anything that contains my guidance control software.
Follow the lead of the mobile telecoms industry: take a crud phone and add an awful PIM.
May not do the job, but it sure helps keep the trousers up.
Could WINE be ported to Darwin?
Then the answer is yes but it would only actually work under Darwin for Intel and would require quite some effort
If the question means:
Could WINE run under MacOS X on my PPC?
Then the answer is no -- unless you want to run it under an OS running inside an x86 emulator!