there has been an article in slashdot i read earlier (if someone could retrieve it, please post it:)
it is about putting a list of smtp outbound (aside from the current inbound) servers in the dns zone file for a domain (something like mxout records.) when another server receives it, it will verify the dns if the server sending is indeed "authorized" by the company for that domain. this will prevent spoofing. the server rejects messages that come from a different server with a different ip address.
if you are using bayesian filtering, it will lower the score if it comes from an authorized server.
on another point, since smtp is a widely used protocol, maybe new commands may be added in it instead of replacing it. right now there are already authentication options for sending mail and this is a good way of validating a sender if they are "authorized" to use the mail server.
probably more effective way of combating spam (if that will be the main concern) is to be able to do multiple techniques together (bayesian, reverse dns resolution, blackhole lists):)
i just would like to ask if there is anyone there that they can guarantee 100% that the code in linux does not interfere with any patents or licensing issues? how about famous open source programs such as apache?
i have seen people defending but it is more of a reasoning that since linux is open source, then codes are likely not to interfere with other ip issues. i have not seen a post here that has wrote with a certainty that codes do not interefere with ip issues. just more comments on fud, and lawsuits, etc.
i am just opening my eyes, what if there are some codes that interfere with other ip issues? what will the community do (aside from making updates and removing codes.) this will damage the open source model big time as companies will not be 100% sure that what they are using does not violate any patents and such.
though majority of articles points to the price advantage, these countries provide good people (*disclaimer* - i am living in one of the countries mentioned.) though people may not know, companies are starting to put their r&d in these countries (most do not even know where products have been developed and you'll be surprised where it started from.)
aside from the lower price good quality labor, there is also better manufacturing for products that need to.
good and bad? i don't know the short, medium, and long term effects. well find out soon.
i have things in my mind, though i am not a programmer, i do technical and management at the same time:) (and we are a team)
1. treat people with respect. they'll treat you and your company with respect back. 2. don't overwork the employees. though at times, they will really need to do a lot of things for days and days, treat them to a small out of town trip even for one night. makes everyone relax and forget work. 3. managers should mingle with the employees more. see their status and talk to them. avoid asking techies to make paper work (i'm sure a lot of you don't want to spend a day typing a report.) 4. as a team member, try to delegate tasks. this will avoid conflicts. 5. there should be a "war room" where everyone can put in their ideas and be seen or listened. 6. try to put an incentive program to the employees. it doesn't need to be expensive. a simple recognition award will do. 7. management should be a little flexible with time. they should try to understand if people will be needing an 8-5 shift (like secretaries) or a flexible shift (like programmers.) allow breaks during work. if the time shifts for different employees are different, everyone should be required to keep their mobile phones on. 8. employees should be set up as team based and not on a hierarchical manner. each member of the mean is responsible for the success of all. whether it is a manager, secretary, programmer, technician, they will be treated almost equally. 9. teams should be allowed to set their own goals. for example, a technical group decides that there is an increased number of support calls for a particular problem. they will find ways to solve it. (they do things on their own without having someone to tell them too - you don't want people to order you around do you?) 10. your team should go out from time to time, after office for some recreational activities. 11. don't order around other people (see related item # 9.) although there may times when a particular task needs to be done. these may be exceptions, but for basic stuff, try to ask. 12. find ways of making people do things at work not because of money but because they are challenged with what they are doing. for example, try to challenge your employees from time to time to do a difficult task. remember that they should find ways to grow. work should not be monotonous day in and out.
there are more. basically try to think that the employees are the company similarly the church is to the people and not the physical structure. employees are people - they are not robots to which management orders them around (see item # 1.)
i have with me for a few weeks now and i can say it is quite cool. i always wanted to buy a digital cam and want to get organized and of course the undispensable mobile phone. having all of that at the same time is not really a good idea. i think it is a good thing for se to release a phone. it is the 2nd generation from r380 for them to release a smart phone and i believe that they still do not have real competition along that segment. maybe we'll have a next release, probably i'll upgrade.:)
well good thing, i have loaded tons of apps and games in my phone. good thing there is opera.:) and tried edoom (the resolution is quite good, comparing to my old pc, i say the processor speed is around 486sx. putty so i can ssh devices from my phone. and probably i can get those remote access apps so i can remote my computer from the phone. other good things, see the feature list. and i am happy i am now more organized than before and i have one centralized repository of all info.
given the new software, it doesn't seem to crash anymore. i think my old nokia hangs more often that this one.
downside, i had to replace the phone a couple of times because of dead pixels and camera problems. but still worth it (got it for a bargain at around 55% off the street price.):) i hope it doesn't happen to you.
well remove the keypad entirely because a friend of mine had problems with the keypad in his r380. a lesson to learn.
there is no themes on the phone so you'll practically have the same color and volume settings that you change manually. the sms alert cannot be changed (but i managed to hack into the phone and changed to alert to a beeping sound - the old traditional ericsson sms alerts.):)
the battery doesn't last that long (2-3 days for me.) but you can charge it any time without affecting battery performance (as stated in the manual.)
the phone is quite heavier than the usual and a little bulky, but what the heck it is the around the same as the nokia 7650. so it is not that worse either. but i've got no complain because i love the big screen.
there is no predictive text input. i just find this odd because of such a high tech phone, it is not added (are they relying on third party for this?)
that's all i am able to think about. generally, i'll give it 9.5 of 10. quite impressive. it lived up to my expectations more than a year ago when i first found out se was going to release one. (i just hope it has some features of the new t610 - the 64k color screen and the 32 voice sound (it makes me awe that it can match my old sound blaster awe32.) buy it if you want to have features more than a phone. if you are still the old traditional person, then this is not the right one for you.:)
i work for a university somewhere outside of the us. we have a ds3 connection that is usage based. currently, we just limit the number of terminals that can be connected including the applications that the students are able to use (they won't be able to install and run 3rd party apps) so they can only browse and stream media files. this is working well with us. however, this restrictiveness reduces the applications that can be run. these terminals are connected to a high speed connection. then again we have a low speed link where all "other" computers get their connection (e1), when we monitor the traffic, majority are not acadmic related (sad to say.) but heck i don't care about them if they find it slow, that the amount you pay and that's what you get, unless you pay a big chunk of your tuition for internet use (in our country bandwidth costs us around 3x-4x that of bandwidth in the us so it is expensive.)
i suggest though that since students have already paid a certain amount in their tuition, they would get a free pipe. let's say that the total amount of payment can buy you 10mb/s of bandwidth/month, then all users can use that much bandwidth. if it slows down, it is their problem since that is the payment they made in the tuition. you can set up a billing system for them to use the remaining bandwidth (let say 35mb/s for a ds3) but they are billed for each byte they sent.
academic departments that need to have bandwidth dedicated to them should get either the approval of the university for them to get it for "free" or the department will be using their own funding for their bandwidth use.
it solves on all sides. you pay a flat fee, you get a flat unlimited bandwidth use. as per qos, there are no guarantees. you can have "premium" services where you can provide more bandwidth and better qos.
as the saying goes, there is no such thing as free lunch.:)
i think one thing the scsi and fc has to their advantage is aside from the bandwidth, they can afford to have bigger IOPS (I/O Operations per second.) So, having lots of read and write request causes lots of IOPS and may reduce the performance even though the HDD can still handle the load.
also, i believe (though you may contest at me) that SATA is to FC (serial) while ATA is to SCSI (parallel.)
but still, as an it manager, i would want to have a piece of mind that the hard drive i am buying is being tested and i can forget about the drives for 5 years until such time there are bigger and faster drives at our disposal.:)
from what i have read from now, it seems that some readers are looking at the itanium 2 as a chip for consumer. in this case, it might never be. some comments just seem to be flamebait.
the itanium series is designed with special applications in mind including scientific work and datamining applications. keep in mind that 9mb of cache may be too big for the typical application but for those high end where you would want to let say analyize an entire database and get statistics to determine trends, then you might want to think again. faring the cpu even with a higher clock rate but with a small cache won't keep up with the competition.
i would be pleased to see an amd opteron chip with at least 3mb cache in the market (maybe i can think about getting one of them.)
with competition, i believe there are just three right now, with ibm's power, and sun's ultrasparc to make the rest. this is for the high end arena.
and of course, the processor is just a variable to the equation. in the enterprise arena, you must need a good platform. that is it should be very scalable (with hundrends of processors in a system and upgradability) and reliable (with 99.999% uptime and hot swap components including cpu, memory, i/o cards, etc.). intel has good tools and partners for these and amd will take some time to catch up (but i believe they would.)
intel has some good plans for itanium including the dual-core cpu and even the same pin compatibility (although it doesn't mean it can be fitted into the old ones.) the thing is, intel is already gearing a battle in the enterprise arena. with its resources, it will be able to deliver quite better products in the future.
i believe intel has lots of technologies lying around that we do not even know. of course, currently, you will not put all your cards. wait for some threat and put it down one by one.
with the latest results, intel is doing well financially compared to a greater loss for amd. their new hammer line will be a saving factor for them (question still to be answered this year - and i'm excited about this.) and i'm sure intel already has a pentium 4 running at 5ghz lurking around their labs. they are just waiting for the new processor before we start a new ghz revolution.:)
from a show i watched from discovery channel, the purpose of today's devastating weather phenomenon such as hurricane and typhoon is to distribute the heat around the earth. suppressing this may cause undesirable effects.
but it would also be beneficial to avoid these calamities (especially in my tropical country) to avoid flooding and increase food output.
linux is becoming like windows. and maybe in the future, linux people may simply keep following what microsoft is doing with windows.
so this only shows us two things (or maybe more depending on the person), microsoft is better so it is just normal to copy from microsoft (so microsoft indeed is innovating) or one thing to increase the adoption of linux is to make it like windows (for user friendliness and ease of migration.)
then what the hell do we need linux for? microsoft will always be a step ahead the linux in that field.
i am not undermining the efforts of the group, they are good.
but i think we should see new things coming from the community. the thing i have observed from previous years here at slashdot is that there are lots of projects being made that copies ones from commercial software (aside from microsoft.) so i don't see any innovation.
the thing is, i (this is my opinion) only see linux as a free alternative to commercial software and not because it is better (of course many people will argue me about this.) i have no reason to change (maybe expect when i'm broke) because i do not find it to be very superior compared to commercial software.
but i think it is about time that i see a different way of doing things. since linux is different to begin with, i think the community should develop better apps. think of having different concepts that goes beyond features that are different with commercial software. i must admit this is difficult but i believe that when everybody do this, i will see linux in every computer years from now. but if copying ideas will promulgate, it may just meet its demise.
i am speaking from a consumer perspective. think of what does linux have to offer different and better compared to the others. you will see a significant advantage to that. i believe there are already good projects among the developers. i am just waiting for them to become ripe.
i believe that directx is geared towards the consumer. like you said, it is more than just video but also network, sound, and input.
opengl, on the other hand, is geared for professional applications especially 3d. look at the pro graphic cards like firegl and quadro, they are supporting opengl. and most pro apps like maya, softimage, and lightwave require opengl and do not support the regular consumer video cards even though it may be faster and supports directx.
so i don't think that directx and opengl are closely matched. they are made for different applications and each is doing very well in their respective fields.
i think the new release of hammer lines will be very difficult for amd. intel is one step ahead. if you see right now, they are already announcing next generation product lines in all fronts. like banias in cpu, ultra low voltage and integrated chips for small devices, extremely high speed chips for network devices.
i believe intel has shifted its focus in the battle of the desktop cpus. while amd is just playing catch up, intel now is already looking at what consumers will benefit from. maybe intel has realized that the speed today is an overkill for majority of today's needs. they are just speeding up their chips to keep up with moore's law.
but look at their products, right now, they are focusing on making things smaller, lightweight, ultra low power consumption, low heat devices, integration. the future is not on desktop computers requiring very high speed cpu but mobile devices such as phones, pda, tablets, etc. intel will be a clear winner (if only i have humongous money so i can buy intel stocks at discount.)
they have good engineers that produce good results. right now, they are already producing better chipsets for their server product lines, maybe a few years, they will no longer rely on broadcom's serverworks.
they are also picking up on their storage chips. from all the raid controllers in the market, i hardly see a card that does not have an intel 960 i2o processor or their new ixp processors.
their network and communication is very dynamic. like introducing 10gigabit products today (even with the downturn of telecoms.) enabling encryption and decription at 10gb/s is no joke. maybe a few years from now, we will see intel as chips in those network gear from cisco, et al.
they are now focusing on wireless integration. few years from now, capacitors and resistors will be in a silicon chip. it is the future, and they are very lucky to realize that. when the economy recovers, intel will clearly be a winner.
and for the server, i would want to say this. i believe amd will produce good cpu. but that is just half of the story, amd is not emphasizing any good chipsets/system to come with it including support pci-x at 133mhz with hotplug slots, interleaved memory with chipkill(tm), good server management, good integration.
(as one who decides what to purchase in a server,) amd must make a lot of effort before i will take them seriously. their cpu is not enough for me to get their system, yet.
let's just wait and see, but i see that intel will always be a step ahead. now for amd, the challenge is to be at par or even be ahead of intel.
as i was scrolling along, i saw a show in discovery channel about the eye.
there is this new very simple device, that is still under clinical testing that allows the replacement of the retina with the use of an organic material.
since you are talking about ntsc video. this is film quality. why do you think that film has not yet been replaced as of the moment?
film is uncompressed. film has a resolution of 4096x4096 pixels.
so if you do the math before:
4096 * 4096 * 1.5 * 12000 = 301,989,888,000 bytes
if you are not going to remove any information and treat it as an rgb image:
4096 * 4096 * 4 * 12000 = 805,306,368,000 bytes
it will be very difficult to get that much information with the current conventional hardware compared to creating a film capture with a mirror/prism in the middle rotating, which is much more affordable.
i guess you can just transfer the film afterwards to digital format using lots of film scanners. this will still be affordable compared to building a system that would withstand that data transfer rates.
if you are going for the 300gbytes, you will need around 1,500 2Gb FC disk array to capture that amount of data (that is if each array will sustain 2Gb/sec.) and how are you going to distribute the data to the array in the first place?
although i am not yet graduating, i find that the academic environment is pretty much better than the corporate life.
i am planning to be a teacher someday.:)
i think if you are considering going back to the academic life, you should be motivated because you want to teach students - share your own talents to them. the best achievement is one day, the students will be successful and you are just sitting on the sofa seeing them - it's because you are able to make them better people.
at the same time, you might think of engaging in your own company, come on! why go behind your boss when you can be the boss yourself. but i think you should look at it from the perspective of improving and helping others instead of earning money. believe me, money just flows in and i don't think about it. (i am doing part time consulting work.)
i can't contribute much but you must find what your heart is looking for.:)
first is the transmission of audio/video specifically hdtv. an uncompressed hdtv 1080i transmission will use up 1.5gbps (a single ge is not enough to transmit.) so it takes only 6 transmissions to saturate the bandwidth.
second, the main function of 10ge right now is for long haul transmission. 10ge is a very cheap way of increasing the data transfer in a single fiber without the expensive sonet/sdh multiplexers. you can simply rent a dark fiber from your telco and buy a 10ge kit and walla! create your own 10ge man. note that a typical oc192/stm64 9.6gbps is very much expensive to deploy.
third, intel has already released a 10ge server adapter!!! (i don't remember the url, just search it through their website.) with the advent of pci-x 64bit/133mhz, infiniband 4x, you can plug it in and deliver 10ge from the server. (that is you must have a really fast hdd farm.)
fourth, 10ge will fall to the desktop in probably 8 years time. so probably right now, they are working on 40ge or 100ge (if they keep the 10x multiplier thing.)
and fifth, 10ge will enable you to download all the porn and mp3 in a jiffy!:)
i just find it weird for the community to really compare the new hammer with the p4 product line of intel. if the main reason behind the hammer is to directly compete in the server line, then it should be the hammer vs itanium2 vs sparc vs pa-risc vs alpha vs powerpc. if you are going to compare it with p4, a professional will not even take you seriously.
why use a some low form benchmark. although i understand that the current systems are in prototype, the benchmark should reflect something of the server world including but not limited to tpc, spec, etc. i would really love seeing the performance of hammer in a oracle/sql/db2 or other database benchmark. i would love seeing the hammer handling ssl transactions and others.
with regards to amd using x86 with compatibility to 32bit, would it be dumb if you would run some non native applications? this means that amd anticipates that companies will not optimize their software to run on pure 64bit platform. this may be an indication that the initial design is not intended for the server product line. running 64bit does not make you compete in the server arena!!!!! the server market is a very different ball game compared to the consumer - cpu is not the prime reason.
and x86 is obsolete. it is not the efficient out there so it is time for a major change in the hardware world.
most of the oxygen that we breathe comes from the algea in the ocean and not from the trees. according to discovery, it provides half of what we breathe. impressive isn't it?
the most problem with these type of scenario is not the technical side but the financial side of it.
the most important to the success of any system is an efficient billing system (and staff.) in a small scenario, this will be very costly but i do suggest outsourcing these billing requirements to companies.
on the technical side, there are many ways of doing it. if you are living in a dense area, you can easily install cables around and run ethernet all over reducing the cost. for sparse area like a village, you can opt for a fiber optic installation (rather costly in the equipment,) or do wireless bridge transmission. make selected users a hub with a colocated equipment in them that connects nearby homes. you can go to a point in arrange with your local telco (that is if they are very friendly), to lay local loops to each and colocate facilities in them.
i have followed broadband activities for the past years. while most consumers want lower prices, it is not feasible to provide a low price with high quality of service - as the saying goes "you get what you pay for"
let us look at the typical scenario, in setting up any broadband network, the best price is estimated to be around $100 or even more in order for the service to be profitable and theoretically good. look at the following costs involved: bandwidth to the internet (this should be redundant and high speed); technical support (call center equipment, people); local loop (hfc network and copper lines - they should be redundant); transmission network (atm, cmts, dslam, routers, switches, mux, daccs, etc - they should be redundant as well); customer premise equipment (dsl/cable modems - which really cost a lot and not paid for by the user). When you sum that up, getting very fast for paying only $40 won't get you anywhere.
my advice to people doing this thing (and i hope they do read it):
1. it is best to charge usage based billing - could be bytes transferred, average bits, percentile. no more bandwidth limitations, this maximizes the network 2. it is about time that the americans get to know prepaid system. by purchasing credits in advance, the consumer does not have to worry about overspending and budget 3. with regards to fraud, this always happen. however, the problem may be overcomed by using multiple policies of block/allow access including but not limited to mac address/ip address combinations, mac & ip addresses and port info. this can also be overcome in subscriber management systems by implementing technologies such as vpn and pppoe. although they may not be good for the advanced user (and there should be a separate plan for them). 4. the billing system should be very strict. automatic disconnections with certain overdue. regular usage computation for charges.
in my country (philippines), i do not really understand how the telcos are able to earn. the problem with us is that we have a reliable service (like we can get connected with the service for months without any interruption - that is for my dsl connection and my former cable provider) but we have slow internet access - due to congestion because the bandwidth costs here is 3x more than in the US.
well i hope you people stop complaining and build? your own network (as what we are doing here by trying to rent dark fiber and running gigabit ethernet around.
in microsoft's website, if you subscribe to their's software assurance membership licensing and you have licenses for 1,500 computers, microsoft gives you their source code of windows 2000 and xp.
i hope that they do filter the sites that come from the different registrars. at the same time, when their system detects the default webpage (like apache), it should not be included in the stats.
one thing than can disrupt the results is to add any sites that end in.ph. the registrar in our country resolves any domains ending in.ph. if it is not registered, it says a message where you can buy it. this can seriously distory stats as i can keep on adding sites using any domain name.
the direction of the video industry will be very different.
in the future, you will no longer need those mjpeg cards as hardware codecs as well as to generate real time effects.
the new way of doing it is using 1394 to interface with dv devices. the fast cpu nowadays can do more realtime effects simultaneously than the cpu in the hardware cards include.
for the professional world, they will be using sdi to do hdtv uncompressed. so buying expensive specialized hardware is no longer needed.
just a note. avid is the industry standard in video editing software and systems. with their latest release of avid expressdv 3.0, it practically beats all competiting consumer products to the dust.
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there has been an article in slashdot i read earlier (if someone could retrieve it, please post it :)
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it is about putting a list of smtp outbound (aside from the current inbound) servers in the dns zone file for a domain (something like mxout records.) when another server receives it, it will verify the dns if the server sending is indeed "authorized" by the company for that domain. this will prevent spoofing. the server rejects messages that come from a different server with a different ip address.
if you are using bayesian filtering, it will lower the score if it comes from an authorized server.
on another point, since smtp is a widely used protocol, maybe new commands may be added in it instead of replacing it. right now there are already authentication options for sending mail and this is a good way of validating a sender if they are "authorized" to use the mail server.
probably more effective way of combating spam (if that will be the main concern) is to be able to do multiple techniques together (bayesian, reverse dns resolution, blackhole lists)
i just would like to ask if there is anyone there that they can guarantee 100% that the code in linux does not interfere with any patents or licensing issues? how about famous open source programs such as apache?
i have seen people defending but it is more of a reasoning that since linux is open source, then codes are likely not to interfere with other ip issues. i have not seen a post here that has wrote with a certainty that codes do not interefere with ip issues. just more comments on fud, and lawsuits, etc.
i am just opening my eyes, what if there are some codes that interfere with other ip issues? what will the community do (aside from making updates and removing codes.) this will damage the open source model big time as companies will not be 100% sure that what they are using does not violate any patents and such.
though majority of articles points to the price advantage, these countries provide good people (*disclaimer* - i am living in one of the countries mentioned.) though people may not know, companies are starting to put their r&d in these countries (most do not even know where products have been developed and you'll be surprised where it started from.)
aside from the lower price good quality labor, there is also better manufacturing for products that need to.
good and bad? i don't know the short, medium, and long term effects. well find out soon.
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i have things in my mind, though i am not a programmer, i do technical and management at the same time :) (and we are a team)
:)
1. treat people with respect. they'll treat you and your company with respect back.
2. don't overwork the employees. though at times, they will really need to do a lot of things for days and days, treat them to a small out of town trip even for one night. makes everyone relax and forget work.
3. managers should mingle with the employees more. see their status and talk to them. avoid asking techies to make paper work (i'm sure a lot of you don't want to spend a day typing a report.)
4. as a team member, try to delegate tasks. this will avoid conflicts.
5. there should be a "war room" where everyone can put in their ideas and be seen or listened.
6. try to put an incentive program to the employees. it doesn't need to be expensive. a simple recognition award will do.
7. management should be a little flexible with time. they should try to understand if people will be needing an 8-5 shift (like secretaries) or a flexible shift (like programmers.) allow breaks during work. if the time shifts for different employees are different, everyone should be required to keep their mobile phones on.
8. employees should be set up as team based and not on a hierarchical manner. each member of the mean is responsible for the success of all. whether it is a manager, secretary, programmer, technician, they will be treated almost equally.
9. teams should be allowed to set their own goals. for example, a technical group decides that there is an increased number of support calls for a particular problem. they will find ways to solve it. (they do things on their own without having someone to tell them too - you don't want people to order you around do you?)
10. your team should go out from time to time, after office for some recreational activities.
11. don't order around other people (see related item # 9.) although there may times when a particular task needs to be done. these may be exceptions, but for basic stuff, try to ask.
12. find ways of making people do things at work not because of money but because they are challenged with what they are doing. for example, try to challenge your employees from time to time to do a difficult task. remember that they should find ways to grow. work should not be monotonous day in and out.
there are more. basically try to think that the employees are the company similarly the church is to the people and not the physical structure. employees are people - they are not robots to which management orders them around (see item # 1.)
johnlaw
p.s. read my signature. i hope you have that job.
i have with me for a few weeks now and i can say it is quite cool. i always wanted to buy a digital cam and want to get organized and of course the undispensable mobile phone. having all of that at the same time is not really a good idea. i think it is a good thing for se to release a phone. it is the 2nd generation from r380 for them to release a smart phone and i believe that they still do not have real competition along that segment. maybe we'll have a next release, probably i'll upgrade. :)
:) and tried edoom (the resolution is quite good, comparing to my old pc, i say the processor speed is around 486sx. putty so i can ssh devices from my phone. and probably i can get those remote access apps so i can remote my computer from the phone. other good things, see the feature list. and i am happy i am now more organized than before and i have one centralized repository of all info.
:) i hope it doesn't happen to you.
:)
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well good thing, i have loaded tons of apps and games in my phone. good thing there is opera.
given the new software, it doesn't seem to crash anymore. i think my old nokia hangs more often that this one.
downside, i had to replace the phone a couple of times because of dead pixels and camera problems. but still worth it (got it for a bargain at around 55% off the street price.)
well remove the keypad entirely because a friend of mine had problems with the keypad in his r380. a lesson to learn.
there is no themes on the phone so you'll practically have the same color and volume settings that you change manually. the sms alert cannot be changed (but i managed to hack into the phone and changed to alert to a beeping sound - the old traditional ericsson sms alerts.)
the battery doesn't last that long (2-3 days for me.) but you can charge it any time without affecting battery performance (as stated in the manual.)
the phone is quite heavier than the usual and a little bulky, but what the heck it is the around the same as the nokia 7650. so it is not that worse either. but i've got no complain because i love the big screen.
there is no predictive text input. i just find this odd because of such a high tech phone, it is not added (are they relying on third party for this?)
that's all i am able to think about. generally, i'll give it 9.5 of 10. quite impressive. it lived up to my expectations more than a year ago when i first found out se was going to release one. (i just hope it has some features of the new t610 - the 64k color screen and the 32 voice sound (it makes me awe that it can match my old sound blaster awe32.) buy it if you want to have features more than a phone. if you are still the old traditional person, then this is not the right one for you.
i work for a university somewhere outside of the us. we have a ds3 connection that is usage based. currently, we just limit the number of terminals that can be connected including the applications that the students are able to use (they won't be able to install and run 3rd party apps) so they can only browse and stream media files. this is working well with us. however, this restrictiveness reduces the applications that can be run. these terminals are connected to a high speed connection. then again we have a low speed link where all "other" computers get their connection (e1), when we monitor the traffic, majority are not acadmic related (sad to say.) but heck i don't care about them if they find it slow, that the amount you pay and that's what you get, unless you pay a big chunk of your tuition for internet use (in our country bandwidth costs us around 3x-4x that of bandwidth in the us so it is expensive.)
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i suggest though that since students have already paid a certain amount in their tuition, they would get a free pipe. let's say that the total amount of payment can buy you 10mb/s of bandwidth/month, then all users can use that much bandwidth. if it slows down, it is their problem since that is the payment they made in the tuition. you can set up a billing system for them to use the remaining bandwidth (let say 35mb/s for a ds3) but they are billed for each byte they sent.
academic departments that need to have bandwidth dedicated to them should get either the approval of the university for them to get it for "free" or the department will be using their own funding for their bandwidth use.
it solves on all sides. you pay a flat fee, you get a flat unlimited bandwidth use. as per qos, there are no guarantees. you can have "premium" services where you can provide more bandwidth and better qos.
as the saying goes, there is no such thing as free lunch.
i think one thing the scsi and fc has to their advantage is aside from the bandwidth, they can afford to have bigger IOPS (I/O Operations per second.) So, having lots of read and write request causes lots of IOPS and may reduce the performance even though the HDD can still handle the load.
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also, i believe (though you may contest at me) that SATA is to FC (serial) while ATA is to SCSI (parallel.)
but still, as an it manager, i would want to have a piece of mind that the hard drive i am buying is being tested and i can forget about the drives for 5 years until such time there are bigger and faster drives at our disposal.
from what i have read from now, it seems that some readers are looking at the itanium 2 as a chip for consumer. in this case, it might never be. some comments just seem to be flamebait.
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the itanium series is designed with special applications in mind including scientific work and datamining applications. keep in mind that 9mb of cache may be too big for the typical application but for those high end where you would want to let say analyize an entire database and get statistics to determine trends, then you might want to think again. faring the cpu even with a higher clock rate but with a small cache won't keep up with the competition.
i would be pleased to see an amd opteron chip with at least 3mb cache in the market (maybe i can think about getting one of them.)
with competition, i believe there are just three right now, with ibm's power, and sun's ultrasparc to make the rest. this is for the high end arena.
and of course, the processor is just a variable to the equation. in the enterprise arena, you must need a good platform. that is it should be very scalable (with hundrends of processors in a system and upgradability) and reliable (with 99.999% uptime and hot swap components including cpu, memory, i/o cards, etc.). intel has good tools and partners for these and amd will take some time to catch up (but i believe they would.)
intel has some good plans for itanium including the dual-core cpu and even the same pin compatibility (although it doesn't mean it can be fitted into the old ones.) the thing is, intel is already gearing a battle in the enterprise arena. with its resources, it will be able to deliver quite better products in the future.
i believe intel has lots of technologies lying around that we do not even know. of course, currently, you will not put all your cards. wait for some threat and put it down one by one.
with the latest results, intel is doing well financially compared to a greater loss for amd. their new hammer line will be a saving factor for them (question still to be answered this year - and i'm excited about this.) and i'm sure intel already has a pentium 4 running at 5ghz lurking around their labs. they are just waiting for the new processor before we start a new ghz revolution.
from the article: "RealNetworks offers comparable pricing to that of Microsoft's with its Helix DNA Audio and Video."
So I am not quite sure that they are only complaining with Microsoft and not with Real?
So this just shows that Microsoft is competing with another product? Or MPEG-LA is just charging too much? Or is this just with DRM?
from a show i watched from discovery channel, the purpose of today's devastating weather phenomenon such as hurricane and typhoon is to distribute the heat around the earth. suppressing this may cause undesirable effects.
but it would also be beneficial to avoid these calamities (especially in my tropical country) to avoid flooding and increase food output.
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linux is becoming like windows. and maybe in the future, linux people may simply keep following what microsoft is doing with windows.
so this only shows us two things (or maybe more depending on the person), microsoft is better so it is just normal to copy from microsoft (so microsoft indeed is innovating) or one thing to increase the adoption of linux is to make it like windows (for user friendliness and ease of migration.)
then what the hell do we need linux for? microsoft will always be a step ahead the linux in that field.
i am not undermining the efforts of the group, they are good.
but i think we should see new things coming from the community. the thing i have observed from previous years here at slashdot is that there are lots of projects being made that copies ones from commercial software (aside from microsoft.) so i don't see any innovation.
the thing is, i (this is my opinion) only see linux as a free alternative to commercial software and not because it is better (of course many people will argue me about this.) i have no reason to change (maybe expect when i'm broke) because i do not find it to be very superior compared to commercial software.
but i think it is about time that i see a different way of doing things. since linux is different to begin with, i think the community should develop better apps. think of having different concepts that goes beyond features that are different with commercial software. i must admit this is difficult but i believe that when everybody do this, i will see linux in every computer years from now. but if copying ideas will promulgate, it may just meet its demise.
i am speaking from a consumer perspective. think of what does linux have to offer different and better compared to the others. you will see a significant advantage to that. i believe there are already good projects among the developers. i am just waiting for them to become ripe.
i believe that directx is geared towards the consumer. like you said, it is more than just video but also network, sound, and input.
opengl, on the other hand, is geared for professional applications especially 3d. look at the pro graphic cards like firegl and quadro, they are supporting opengl. and most pro apps like maya, softimage, and lightwave require opengl and do not support the regular consumer video cards even though it may be faster and supports directx.
so i don't think that directx and opengl are closely matched. they are made for different applications and each is doing very well in their respective fields.
i think the new release of hammer lines will be very difficult for amd. intel is one step ahead. if you see right now, they are already announcing next generation product lines in all fronts. like banias in cpu, ultra low voltage and integrated chips for small devices, extremely high speed chips for network devices.
i believe intel has shifted its focus in the battle of the desktop cpus. while amd is just playing catch up, intel now is already looking at what consumers will benefit from. maybe intel has realized that the speed today is an overkill for majority of today's needs. they are just speeding up their chips to keep up with moore's law.
but look at their products, right now, they are focusing on making things smaller, lightweight, ultra low power consumption, low heat devices, integration. the future is not on desktop computers requiring very high speed cpu but mobile devices such as phones, pda, tablets, etc. intel will be a clear winner (if only i have humongous money so i can buy intel stocks at discount.)
they have good engineers that produce good results. right now, they are already producing better chipsets for their server product lines, maybe a few years, they will no longer rely on broadcom's serverworks.
they are also picking up on their storage chips. from all the raid controllers in the market, i hardly see a card that does not have an intel 960 i2o processor or their new ixp processors.
their network and communication is very dynamic. like introducing 10gigabit products today (even with the downturn of telecoms.) enabling encryption and decription at 10gb/s is no joke. maybe a few years from now, we will see intel as chips in those network gear from cisco, et al.
they are now focusing on wireless integration. few years from now, capacitors and resistors will be in a silicon chip. it is the future, and they are very lucky to realize that. when the economy recovers, intel will clearly be a winner.
and for the server, i would want to say this. i believe amd will produce good cpu. but that is just half of the story, amd is not emphasizing any good chipsets/system to come with it including support pci-x at 133mhz with hotplug slots, interleaved memory with chipkill(tm), good server management, good integration.
(as one who decides what to purchase in a server,) amd must make a lot of effort before i will take them seriously. their cpu is not enough for me to get their system, yet.
let's just wait and see, but i see that intel will always be a step ahead. now for amd, the challenge is to be at par or even be ahead of intel.
as i was scrolling along, i saw a show in discovery channel about the eye.
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there is this new very simple device, that is still under clinical testing that allows the replacement of the retina with the use of an organic material.
no chips!
maybe someone could elaborate on this.
i guess you will need to store it differently.
since you are talking about ntsc video. this is film quality. why do you think that film has not yet been replaced as of the moment?
film is uncompressed. film has a resolution of 4096x4096 pixels.
so if you do the math before:
4096 * 4096 * 1.5 * 12000 = 301,989,888,000 bytes
if you are not going to remove any information and treat it as an rgb image:
4096 * 4096 * 4 * 12000 = 805,306,368,000 bytes
it will be very difficult to get that much information with the current conventional hardware compared to creating a film capture with a mirror/prism in the middle rotating, which is much more affordable.
i guess you can just transfer the film afterwards to digital format using lots of film scanners. this will still be affordable compared to building a system that would withstand that data transfer rates.
if you are going for the 300gbytes, you will need around 1,500 2Gb FC disk array to capture that amount of data (that is if each array will sustain 2Gb/sec.) and how are you going to distribute the data to the array in the first place?
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although i am not yet graduating, i find that the academic environment is pretty much better than the corporate life.
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i am planning to be a teacher someday.
i think if you are considering going back to the academic life, you should be motivated because you want to teach students - share your own talents to them. the best achievement is one day, the students will be successful and you are just sitting on the sofa seeing them - it's because you are able to make them better people.
at the same time, you might think of engaging in your own company, come on! why go behind your boss when you can be the boss yourself. but i think you should look at it from the perspective of improving and helping others instead of earning money. believe me, money just flows in and i don't think about it. (i am doing part time consulting work.)
i can't contribute much but you must find what your heart is looking for.
there are numerous applications for this.
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first is the transmission of audio/video specifically hdtv. an uncompressed hdtv 1080i transmission will use up 1.5gbps (a single ge is not enough to transmit.) so it takes only 6 transmissions to saturate the bandwidth.
second, the main function of 10ge right now is for long haul transmission. 10ge is a very cheap way of increasing the data transfer in a single fiber without the expensive sonet/sdh multiplexers. you can simply rent a dark fiber from your telco and buy a 10ge kit and walla! create your own 10ge man. note that a typical oc192/stm64 9.6gbps is very much expensive to deploy.
third, intel has already released a 10ge server adapter!!! (i don't remember the url, just search it through their website.) with the advent of pci-x 64bit/133mhz, infiniband 4x, you can plug it in and deliver 10ge from the server. (that is you must have a really fast hdd farm.)
fourth, 10ge will fall to the desktop in probably 8 years time. so probably right now, they are working on 40ge or 100ge (if they keep the 10x multiplier thing.)
and fifth, 10ge will enable you to download all the porn and mp3 in a jiffy!
i just find it weird for the community to really compare the new hammer with the p4 product line of intel. if the main reason behind the hammer is to directly compete in the server line, then it should be the hammer vs itanium2 vs sparc vs pa-risc vs alpha vs powerpc. if you are going to compare it with p4, a professional will not even take you seriously.
why use a some low form benchmark. although i understand that the current systems are in prototype, the benchmark should reflect something of the server world including but not limited to tpc, spec, etc. i would really love seeing the performance of hammer in a oracle/sql/db2 or other database benchmark. i would love seeing the hammer handling ssl transactions and others.
with regards to amd using x86 with compatibility to 32bit, would it be dumb if you would run some non native applications? this means that amd anticipates that companies will not optimize their software to run on pure 64bit platform. this may be an indication that the initial design is not intended for the server product line. running 64bit does not make you compete in the server arena!!!!! the server market is a very different ball game compared to the consumer - cpu is not the prime reason.
and x86 is obsolete. it is not the efficient out there so it is time for a major change in the hardware world.
most of the oxygen that we breathe comes from the algea in the ocean and not from the trees. according to discovery, it provides half of what we breathe. impressive isn't it?
the most problem with these type of scenario is not the technical side but the financial side of it.
the most important to the success of any system is an efficient billing system (and staff.) in a small scenario, this will be very costly but i do suggest outsourcing these billing requirements to companies.
on the technical side, there are many ways of doing it. if you are living in a dense area, you can easily install cables around and run ethernet all over reducing the cost. for sparse area like a village, you can opt for a fiber optic installation (rather costly in the equipment,) or do wireless bridge transmission. make selected users a hub with a colocated equipment in them that connects nearby homes. you can go to a point in arrange with your local telco (that is if they are very friendly), to lay local loops to each and colocate facilities in them.
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i have followed broadband activities for the past years. while most consumers want lower prices, it is not feasible to provide a low price with high quality of service - as the saying goes "you get what you pay for"
let us look at the typical scenario, in setting up any broadband network, the best price is estimated to be around $100 or even more in order for the service to be profitable and theoretically good. look at the following costs involved: bandwidth to the internet (this should be redundant and high speed); technical support (call center equipment, people); local loop (hfc network and copper lines - they should be redundant); transmission network (atm, cmts, dslam, routers, switches, mux, daccs, etc - they should be redundant as well); customer premise equipment (dsl/cable modems - which really cost a lot and not paid for by the user). When you sum that up, getting very fast for paying only $40 won't get you anywhere.
my advice to people doing this thing (and i hope they do read it):
1. it is best to charge usage based billing - could be bytes transferred, average bits, percentile. no more bandwidth limitations, this maximizes the network
2. it is about time that the americans get to know prepaid system. by purchasing credits in advance, the consumer does not have to worry about overspending and budget
3. with regards to fraud, this always happen. however, the problem may be overcomed by using multiple policies of block/allow access including but not limited to mac address/ip address combinations, mac & ip addresses and port info. this can also be overcome in subscriber management systems by implementing technologies such as vpn and pppoe. although they may not be good for the advanced user (and there should be a separate plan for them).
4. the billing system should be very strict. automatic disconnections with certain overdue. regular usage computation for charges.
in my country (philippines), i do not really understand how the telcos are able to earn. the problem with us is that we have a reliable service (like we can get connected with the service for months without any interruption - that is for my dsl connection and my former cable provider) but we have slow internet access - due to congestion because the bandwidth costs here is 3x more than in the US.
well i hope you people stop complaining and build? your own network (as what we are doing here by trying to rent dark fiber and running gigabit ethernet around.
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in microsoft's website, if you subscribe to their's software assurance membership licensing and you have licenses for 1,500 computers, microsoft gives you their source code of windows 2000 and xp.
the details is here [microsoft.com].
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i hope that they do filter the sites that come from the different registrars. at the same time, when their system detects the default webpage (like apache), it should not be included in the stats.
.ph. the registrar in our country resolves any domains ending in .ph. if it is not registered, it says a message where you can buy it. this can seriously distory stats as i can keep on adding sites using any domain name.
one thing than can disrupt the results is to add any sites that end in
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the direction of the video industry will be very different.
in the future, you will no longer need those mjpeg cards as hardware codecs as well as to generate real time effects.
the new way of doing it is using 1394 to interface with dv devices. the fast cpu nowadays can do more realtime effects simultaneously than the cpu in the hardware cards include.
for the professional world, they will be using sdi to do hdtv uncompressed. so buying expensive specialized hardware is no longer needed.
just a note. avid is the industry standard in video editing software and systems. with their latest release of avid expressdv 3.0, it practically beats all competiting consumer products to the dust.
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johnlaw