Use an accelerated FF build from a third party. Official Firefox builds on Linux are less optimized than their windows counterparts since they don't come with PGO etc.
You can't even prove with 100% certainty that managed applications don't have security bugs. The last three security audits that I got to read all had to do with breakins using web apps written in managed code. Care to take a guess how they found them? The boxes were spewing spam like crazy.
Just because you don't know how to use non garbage collected memory does not mean that functions that don't use it should be phased out. Garbage collection trades safety for flexibility and if you remove the flexibility you will find a whole class of programs that would be a lot less efficient. These days there is a lot of work being put into making things like NULL pointer bugs and memory overflows simply crash instead of allowing a backdoor into the system and for some programmers crashing vs running slow is a good trade off
I need those functions to do my job since I write network based apps that require memory reuse and pointers to be able to process data as quickly as possible.and I've seen the results when some of our competition has attempted to do my job with garbage collected languages. (generally 3x the hardware requirements, 5x if they used java)
It is the same in Canada and it's why Microsoft tells their MCSEs to not actually spell out the title since calling yourself an "Engineer" after a 6 month course is actually illegal.
There are worst things out there than SORBS. There is a certain mail trust tool that blocks any auto blocks any ip with a negative spam to real percentage until the score returns to positive. Whatever genius thought that auto kill system up forgot that you can't detect when the spam to real email percentage improves if you never accept email from the sender.
I prefer having passwords that are easy to remember for me but look like complete gibberish to anyone else reading them.
I take a line from a song and use the first letter of each word as my password and throw a memorable number after it.
I can remember that with no problem but unless you know what song I used,what line and what number your not going to guess it. Dictionary attacks won't grab it and neither will dictionary. On that topic.. setting the password to your name in l33t is NOT secure. I've had 8 different people assign me the exact same password on their respective systems.
There is a point where someone can be educated but inexperienced. I see it all of the time from recent graduates who think they know how everything should work but have no actual idea how things work in the real world and then demand that everyone else change everything RIGHT NOW to suit how they think things should work.
When I worked on a survey crew I could always spot a new graduate engineer: their plans were fantastic, everything perfectly drawn and lines all parallel or right angles but failed to take into account that very expensive things would need to move to accommodate the plan such as roads, hills etc. A more experienced person's plans would have the drawing slightly less "perfect" while fulfilling the appropriate requirements but at half the cost to implement.
Communism is a fantastic example. In theory it's a completely fair economic system that benefits everyone equally. In reality it's fantastic ideals fall flat when faced with the most basic traits of human nature.
It's all the classic education vs experience debate. It's not education that's bad. It's educated people that ignore reality that's bad.
On the other hand, I've met people with no education and no experience who think they know how things should work anyways.
The protocol changes will probably not help you if your overflowing your router's NAT table. Try reducing your max peers, it's a trick I've used on some of the cheaper routers to avoid choking everything (including the bittorrent) Some Zyxel modems with custom telco firmware (thank you telefonica) require a max peers setting as low as 30.
The kind of outfit that never wanted the operations. Microsoft wanted experienced cellphone people but didn't discover until after they purchased Danger that they couldn't move the developers to other products until after the Sidekick was delivered.
I think this is the most valid point of the whole debate. I remember hating it in school when they would have a bit push to protect X minority/ perpetual victim group because the problem was never the person who need protection and the people who picked on them simply moved on to someone else.
At some point people need to realize that the problem is the bullies and we tolerate far too much in the FOSS world. I understand that technical environments can be brutal but attacking anything other than the code quality, format or it's license should be considered off limits.
Imagine how much easier life would be for everyone if we started taking action against people who feel the need to abuse others.
I am a legit user and I get burned burned by WGA all of the time. Ever try explaining to a customer why replacing the motherboard on their Acer means buying a new copy of windows?
Ever want to boot your windows partition from inside a Virtual machine? You can't WGA will detect the hardware changes and want to reauth.. boot back into windows directly? oops.
The problem with WGA is that it screws over legit users while doing very little to actually stop piracy.
Congratulations your right on the money. My last phone from Telus disabled file transfers over USB meaning that pictures taken on the phone had to be emailed to me for a fee rather than just transferred for free. Thankfully Bitpim fixed that for me with the Motorola equivalent of a registry change. This isn't at all about reducing use of resources, it's about maximizing the use of resources that the phone company can bill you for.
Ext4 is hardly exemplary of a production file system and has known performance bottlenecks that seem to never get fixed. What it does have is good backwards compatibility with ext2 and ext3. ReiserFS, XFS, BFS would all have done better on that benchmark.
Servers get rebooted a lot during setup or when something goes wrong.
Take your average Dell server for instance: setup raid controller then reboot. Setup DRAC card then reboot again. That's two reboots before I am even installing the OS.
Last month I had a third party addon for Linux Lock the machine solid(thanks Dell). Boot.. locks again. Reboot into single mode to remove addon start scripts. Reboot.. missed a script. Reboot into single mode.. etc etc etc When it's all up and running make sure the other rc scripts are back in place and reboot again just so I know there isn't a surprise waiting for me the next time I need to work on the server.
The problem isn't outage it's admin time staring at a booting machine.
Thin clients are a desktop with minimal local storage so they still need good graphic performance and assuming the thin client thing works out this time(the idea gets trotted out every decade or so) none of the desktop work is wasted if Linux gets used as a thin client.
Top flight or no vendors often combine tag teams of manipulative sales reps and over payed technical advisers and if you get in their way they are very good at making you look stupid.
This happened to me a few years ago when the company I worked for payed $5 000 a month plus capacity plus usage using a complicated formula for a 10 mb fiber connection to a large Telecom. One day I realized we could just buy a rack from the hosting company one floor below us and run a cat5 cable and reduce our fees to $500 a month plus usage. When I mentioned this to management the telecom provider send the tag team over to do everything they could to make me look stupid. They questioned whether the company could survive the downtime and pointed out how much more money they spend on infrastructure than the smaller company (they were 80% above capacity). And pointing out that they were a billion dollar organization that would never go anywhere while the smaller company could disappear any day. Ironically two months later the larger company went bankrupt so they ended up making the change anyways and the smaller company is still turning a profit.
The fact that there are usually a couple of layers between the spam and the credit card purchase makes 3 difficult in the best case and it doesn't help that you are advocating a massively exploitable "guilty until proven innocent" system.
Want to put someone out of business? Spam their product for them and under your rules the bank must shut their account down and now they are stuck trying to prove their innocence and get their accounts back online leading a downtime of weeks at best and years at worst.
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Use an accelerated FF build from a third party. Official Firefox builds on Linux are less optimized than their windows counterparts since they don't come with PGO etc.
Sounds like a NAT table overflow on a cheap router.
You can't even prove with 100% certainty that managed applications don't have security bugs. The last three security audits that I got to read all had to do with breakins using web apps written in managed code. Care to take a guess how they found them? The boxes were spewing spam like crazy.
Just because you don't know how to use non garbage collected memory does not mean that functions that don't use it should be phased out. Garbage collection trades safety for flexibility and if you remove the flexibility you will find a whole class of programs that would be a lot less efficient. These days there is a lot of work being put into making things like NULL pointer bugs and memory overflows simply crash instead of allowing a backdoor into the system and for some programmers crashing vs running slow is a good trade off
I need those functions to do my job since I write network based apps that require memory reuse and pointers to be able to process data as quickly as possible.and I've seen the results when some of our competition has attempted to do my job with garbage collected languages. (generally 3x the hardware requirements, 5x if they used java)
Not everything is a desktop application.
It is the same in Canada and it's why Microsoft tells their MCSEs to not actually spell out the title since calling yourself an "Engineer" after a 6 month course is actually illegal.
There are worst things out there than SORBS. There is a certain mail trust tool that blocks any auto blocks any ip with a negative spam to real percentage until the score returns to positive. Whatever genius thought that auto kill system up forgot that you can't detect when the spam to real email percentage improves if you never accept email from the sender.
I prefer having passwords that are easy to remember for me but look like complete gibberish to anyone else reading them.
I take a line from a song and use the first letter of each word as my password and throw a memorable number after it.
I can remember that with no problem but unless you know what song I used,what line and what number your not going to guess it. Dictionary attacks won't grab it and neither will dictionary. On that topic.. setting the password to your name in l33t is NOT secure. I've had 8 different people assign me the exact same password on their respective systems.
There is a point where someone can be educated but inexperienced. I see it all of the time from recent graduates who think they know how everything should work but have no actual idea how things work in the real world and then demand that everyone else change everything RIGHT NOW to suit how they think things should work.
When I worked on a survey crew I could always spot a new graduate engineer: their plans were fantastic, everything perfectly drawn and lines all parallel or right angles but failed to take into account that very expensive things would need to move to accommodate the plan such as roads, hills etc. A more experienced person's plans would have the drawing slightly less "perfect" while fulfilling the appropriate requirements but at half the cost to implement.
Communism is a fantastic example. In theory it's a completely fair economic system that benefits everyone equally. In reality it's fantastic ideals fall flat when faced with the most basic traits of human nature.
It's all the classic education vs experience debate. It's not education that's bad. It's educated people that ignore reality that's bad.
On the other hand, I've met people with no education and no experience who think they know how things should work anyways.
The protocol changes will probably not help you if your overflowing your router's NAT table. Try reducing your max peers, it's a trick I've used on some of the cheaper routers to avoid choking everything (including the bittorrent) Some Zyxel modems with custom telco firmware (thank you telefonica) require a max peers setting as low as 30.
They do both really. I can't tell you how nasty "porn access software" can be to remove sometimes.
The kind of outfit that never wanted the operations. Microsoft wanted experienced cellphone people but didn't discover until after they purchased Danger that they couldn't move the developers to other products until after the Sidekick was delivered.
After working in that industry I disagree. Even some of the larger sites I've worked for have had some pretty hideous security practices.
I think this is the most valid point of the whole debate. I remember hating it in school when they would have a bit push to protect X minority/ perpetual victim group because the problem was never the person who need protection and the people who picked on them simply moved on to someone else.
At some point people need to realize that the problem is the bullies and we tolerate far too much in the FOSS world. I understand that technical environments can be brutal but attacking anything other than the code quality, format or it's license should be considered off limits.
Imagine how much easier life would be for everyone if we started taking action against people who feel the need to abuse others.
They were burning the straw as waste already so the change is that they use the heat to do something useful.
I am a legit user and I get burned burned by WGA all of the time. Ever try explaining to a customer why replacing the motherboard on their Acer means buying a new copy of windows?
Ever want to boot your windows partition from inside a Virtual machine? You can't WGA will detect the hardware changes and want to reauth.. boot back into windows directly? oops.
The problem with WGA is that it screws over legit users while doing very little to actually stop piracy.
Congratulations your right on the money. My last phone from Telus disabled file transfers over USB meaning that pictures taken on the phone had to be emailed to me for a fee rather than just transferred for free. Thankfully Bitpim fixed that for me with the Motorola equivalent of a registry change. This isn't at all about reducing use of resources, it's about maximizing the use of resources that the phone company can bill you for.
Ext4 is hardly exemplary of a production file system and has known performance bottlenecks that seem to never get fixed. What it does have is good backwards compatibility with ext2 and ext3. ReiserFS, XFS, BFS would all have done better on that benchmark.
The sad thing is that on a lower end server equipped with SAS drives drive spinup times are not the primary problem.
Most of the time I spend waiting is for each add in card to post and then prompt me to see if I want to configure something.
Servers get rebooted a lot during setup or when something goes wrong.
Take your average Dell server for instance: setup raid controller then reboot. Setup DRAC card then reboot again. That's two reboots before I am even installing the OS.
Last month I had a third party addon for Linux Lock the machine solid(thanks Dell). Boot.. locks again. Reboot into single mode to remove addon start scripts. Reboot.. missed a script. Reboot into single mode.. etc etc etc
When it's all up and running make sure the other rc scripts are back in place and reboot again just so I know there isn't a surprise waiting for me the next time I need to work on the server.
The problem isn't outage it's admin time staring at a booting machine.
I wonder when they will get around to to doing this on servers. I have some that are pushing 5 minutes before the OS even loads.
Thin clients are a desktop with minimal local storage so they still need good graphic performance and assuming the thin client thing works out this time(the idea gets trotted out every decade or so) none of the desktop work is wasted if Linux gets used as a thin client.
Top flight or no vendors often combine tag teams of manipulative sales reps and over payed technical advisers and if you get in their way they are very good at making you look stupid.
This happened to me a few years ago when the company I worked for payed $5 000 a month plus capacity plus usage using a complicated formula for a 10 mb fiber connection to a large Telecom. One day I realized we could just buy a rack from the hosting company one floor below us and run a cat5 cable and reduce our fees to $500 a month plus usage. When I mentioned this to management the telecom provider send the tag team over to do everything they could to make me look stupid. They questioned whether the company could survive the downtime and pointed out how much more money they spend on infrastructure than the smaller company (they were 80% above capacity). And pointing out that they were a billion dollar organization that would never go anywhere while the smaller company could disappear any day. Ironically two months later the larger company went bankrupt so they ended up making the change anyways and the smaller company is still turning a profit.
It happened right about the time IBM, SGI and Oracle started pouring massive resources into the Linux kernel's disk and VM subsystems.
It looks like the CECT G1 will work on AT&T but not TMobile if your info is correct. They report that they work on: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz .
Upside: the phone is cheap ($105 - $130) and comes unlocked.
downside: no Wifi or GPS.
The fact that there are usually a couple of layers between the spam and the credit card purchase makes 3 difficult in the best case and it doesn't help that you are advocating a massively exploitable "guilty until proven innocent" system.
Want to put someone out of business? Spam their product for them and under your rules the bank must shut their account down and now they are stuck trying to prove their innocence and get their accounts back online leading a downtime of weeks at best and years at worst.