Do they somehow 'owe' you access to their site? No. They don't.
Just like you, they can make a site that does *whatever they want* with the information supplied.
It's stupid, yes; this is like when they made Windows not work on DRDOS on purpose... they just detected whether or not it was msdos, and then refused to run. IT wasn't based on any real technical reasons.
The DMCA absolutely does not prevent this. It's your hardware. You own it. You aren't stealing their code, or breaking anyones copyright protection system.
Well, firstly... should the kernel developers change the whole system so it's slightly more convenient for you?
Secondly... I dunno what your problem with patches is.. but I've been patching for about 9 years, and had very few problems; and those problems are usually due to some foreign patch I applied previously.
And why do you upgrade your kernel every week? That's rediculous. There is no need for it. There are plenty of stable kernels out there you can use.
Why are you forwarding X connections manually when you are using SSH? SSH does this for you. PLEASE read up on X forwarding in SSH. It's excellent. And secure.
What you are suggesting is not secure at all.
I, for one, would just LOVE to see the ability to actually use a SunRay with a linux server. I don't suppose sun is going to fork over the specs though...
Just think of it. Those awesome SunRay terminals, without the need for a rediculously expensive Sun server.
The handwriting recognition was absolutely SUPERB. At least on the one I used.
Sure.. it made mistakes at first. But you have to tell it about the mistakes... and pretty soon the little newton can regocnize my handwriting even when I couldn't!
I was absolutely amazed at how well the handwriting recognition on it worked.
Law enforcement can now 'dictate' to data communication providers what types of functions their service MUST incoproate, in order to comply with the needs of law enforcement.
How does this NOT equate to the government telling you how to run your business?
Perhaps there is a reason you find it hard to find opposing views. Why? Simple.
When switching to open-source, the first thing to note is that the fact that the source code is available is usually not why you are switching. The fact that the software follows the 'open source' ideology is also not important. Generally, you switch because the software does what you want at a reasonable price.
In this respect, open-source is no different than any other software.
Now.. switching a shop to a DIY shop using open-source tools as opposed to commercial solutions.. that's a bit of a different story. But that's really an idological change as opposed to a software change.
But I admire his making a stand. After all.. he can document his changes however he sees fit.
As for the DMCA... Doesn't it only protect technical control mechanisms that enforce the rights of the authors?
In other words.. a company can't pick 'rot13' as an encryption method, because you can't claim that a rot13 decodes is 'primarily intended to circumvent copy control protection' on a work.. because they have existed for ages and have other, well defined uses.
DECSS, on the other hand, does not. Sure, it can be used in a DVD player.. but other than that, it has no practical applications.
That has absolutely nothing to do with my question.
Load balancing is NOTHING like beowulf.. beowulf is about using appropriate parallel-processing libraries (PVM, etc) to squeeze performance out of a cluster of machines.
As for the machines 'supporting clustering'.. that's an industry buzzword that's not terribly meaningful. ALL operating systems 'support network load balancing' in this respect.
Win2k advanced server & datacenter do NOT automatically cluster anything; clustering is application specific.
My question is whether database servers in particular can be clustered in order to increase performance (some queries to one machine, some to another). My theory is that they generally can't, because, in order to remain coherent, each machine would have to receive all transactions anyway.
(Certianly lookups could be done with replicated databases.. that's not what I mean though.. I mean real transaction processing stuff)
You can run it from any webserver.. it's active-X.. it's client side.
Also, you only need it available once.. you don't have to have it on each terminal server. You don't have to have it on ANY terminal server.. you can stick it wherever it's convenient... and use it to connect to as many terminal servers as you want.
Is it possible to cluster SQL server in order to yield increased performance?
Intuition tells me no, which is why you see so many large database servers.
Yes.. because it's actually compressing the audio data before writing it to disk. IT's deisgned to work at a set speed.
Certainly.. had it not been such a proprietary format, there would have been ways to write faster. Too bad they never sold en-masse a generic computer drive. minidisc holds what.. 256MB? Hell.. they used them for geek data props in the Matrix even..
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Okay... it's rougly the size of a 3.5 inch floppy? A bit smaller? Sounds like the size of a minidisc.
And.. are they marketing it towards computers? Computer drives? Minidisc would have been cool if Sony hadn't scrapped that as well.
And what amazes me about this.. really.. is that
a) MD follows SCMS, so what's the big deal
and
b) Unless you have a deck that actually copies raw MD data from disk to disk (not as common, I think)... digital copies using a digital cable between minidisc players are re-encoded... what comes out on the digital audio cable is like SPDIF or something...
No.. they can't be easily re-set to their true value; otherwise, there would be no point.
It's some noise in the low-order bits to introduce some added error.
It's been removed, as of last January, I thought. It was known as 'selective availability' or 'sa'. See, sometimes GPS MIGHT be really accurate, but not always.
Surveryors, etc, use DGPS (Differential GPS) where they use a GPS receiver at a known, precise location, so they can calculate the error being introduced by the satellites in question so they can get more accurate readings. It works very well.
The main reason that precision readings without DGPS are dangerous, I read, is because of mid-course corrections for ballistic missiles.... you see, to change the target, you change direction halfway through, way up in the air... at the top of your arc. A small margin of error at this level makes a huge margin of error on the ground.
I think it's wrong to assume nobody is interested.
Sure.. they may not be intersted in computers the way some of us geeks are interested in them..
But nowadays.. the Internet has much to offer, whether or not you understand the underlying technology.
Actually, I was reading that, in the US, there is some law.. I forget the name. Something about declaring a state of national emergency. In such a state, the president has power to, well, basically, do anything, and ignore the constitution.
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THose are power-on hours....
They don't take into account jogging, dropping. and heat flucuation.
is to give the raw, unformatted capacity in SI units.
G=1000
So an unformatted 20GB drive has 20,000,000,000 bytes of space before you format it.
Well.. usually, with HD's, the stated size is the unformatted size, or raw size... you always lose a chunk to that.
Secondly.. yes, many say 'Giga=10^9' instead of the binary equivalent... which is not entirely incorrect. Just somewhat misleading.
Not that, in data transmission, kilo=1000.
I can't get to the site right now.
It amazes me that you woudl 'build a custom power supply' and use an inverter. What a waste.
Do they somehow 'owe' you access to their site? No. They don't.
Just like you, they can make a site that does *whatever they want* with the information supplied.
It's stupid, yes; this is like when they made Windows not work on DRDOS on purpose... they just detected whether or not it was msdos, and then refused to run. IT wasn't based on any real technical reasons.
Though Win2k was not an upgrade from win98.. it was an upgrade from NT4 (it's just NT5)
It was win95/98/ME
For those in the 9x chain, XP is quite a leap.. but 2k would have been good too.
The DMCA absolutely does not prevent this. It's your hardware. You own it. You aren't stealing their code, or breaking anyones copyright protection system.
And I ask here because microsoft marketing BS is meaningless.
What does XP offer me that Win2k doesn't? What incentives are there for me to switch?
I certainly understand the incentive for many useres out there to switch.. especially if they are stuck with win98/me...
But seriously. Win2k only came out a short while ago.. and it's quite good.
Well, firstly... should the kernel developers change the whole system so it's slightly more convenient for you?
Secondly... I dunno what your problem with patches is.. but I've been patching for about 9 years, and had very few problems; and those problems are usually due to some foreign patch I applied previously.
And why do you upgrade your kernel every week? That's rediculous. There is no need for it. There are plenty of stable kernels out there you can use.
Why are you forwarding X connections manually when you are using SSH? SSH does this for you. PLEASE read up on X forwarding in SSH. It's excellent. And secure.
What you are suggesting is not secure at all.
I, for one, would just LOVE to see the ability to actually use a SunRay with a linux server. I don't suppose sun is going to fork over the specs though...
Just think of it. Those awesome SunRay terminals, without the need for a rediculously expensive Sun server.
The handwriting recognition was absolutely SUPERB. At least on the one I used.
Sure.. it made mistakes at first. But you have to tell it about the mistakes... and pretty soon the little newton can regocnize my handwriting even when I couldn't!
I was absolutely amazed at how well the handwriting recognition on it worked.
It really is. I'm not joking.
Law enforcement can now 'dictate' to data communication providers what types of functions their service MUST incoproate, in order to comply with the needs of law enforcement.
How does this NOT equate to the government telling you how to run your business?
Perhaps there is a reason you find it hard to find opposing views. Why? Simple.
When switching to open-source, the first thing to note is that the fact that the source code is available is usually not why you are switching. The fact that the software follows the 'open source' ideology is also not important. Generally, you switch because the software does what you want at a reasonable price.
In this respect, open-source is no different than any other software.
Now.. switching a shop to a DIY shop using open-source tools as opposed to commercial solutions.. that's a bit of a different story. But that's really an idological change as opposed to a software change.
But I admire his making a stand. After all.. he can document his changes however he sees fit.
As for the DMCA... Doesn't it only protect technical control mechanisms that enforce the rights of the authors?
In other words.. a company can't pick 'rot13' as an encryption method, because you can't claim that a rot13 decodes is 'primarily intended to circumvent copy control protection' on a work.. because they have existed for ages and have other, well defined uses.
DECSS, on the other hand, does not. Sure, it can be used in a DVD player.. but other than that, it has no practical applications.
That has absolutely nothing to do with my question.
Load balancing is NOTHING like beowulf.. beowulf is about using appropriate parallel-processing libraries (PVM, etc) to squeeze performance out of a cluster of machines.
As for the machines 'supporting clustering'.. that's an industry buzzword that's not terribly meaningful. ALL operating systems 'support network load balancing' in this respect.
Win2k advanced server & datacenter do NOT automatically cluster anything; clustering is application specific.
My question is whether database servers in particular can be clustered in order to increase performance (some queries to one machine, some to another). My theory is that they generally can't, because, in order to remain coherent, each machine would have to receive all transactions anyway.
(Certianly lookups could be done with replicated databases.. that's not what I mean though.. I mean real transaction processing stuff)
You can run it from any webserver.. it's active-X.. it's client side.
Also, you only need it available once.. you don't have to have it on each terminal server. You don't have to have it on ANY terminal server.. you can stick it wherever it's convenient... and use it to connect to as many terminal servers as you want.
Is it possible to cluster SQL server in order to yield increased performance?
Intuition tells me no, which is why you see so many large database servers.
But is it possible at all?
Yes.. because it's actually compressing the audio data before writing it to disk. IT's deisgned to work at a set speed.
Certainly.. had it not been such a proprietary format, there would have been ways to write faster. Too bad they never sold en-masse a generic computer drive. minidisc holds what.. 256MB? Hell.. they used them for geek data props in the Matrix even..
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Okay... it's rougly the size of a 3.5 inch floppy? A bit smaller? Sounds like the size of a minidisc.
And.. are they marketing it towards computers? Computer drives? Minidisc would have been cool if Sony hadn't scrapped that as well.
Because. if you do *anything* not certified by the vendor, the 99.999% agreement is void, and they are not responsible for downtime.
Datacenter is more of a custom solution package than a version of windows. Yes.. it's a version of windows 2000.. but it's really a whole package.
In other words, it's a version of windows used by vendors to create huge custom solutions, usually for databases.
And what amazes me about this.. really.. is that
a) MD follows SCMS, so what's the big deal
and
b) Unless you have a deck that actually copies raw MD data from disk to disk (not as common, I think)... digital copies using a digital cable between minidisc players are re-encoded... what comes out on the digital audio cable is like SPDIF or something...
Minidisc is definately big in europe.
No.. they can't be easily re-set to their true value; otherwise, there would be no point.
It's some noise in the low-order bits to introduce some added error.
It's been removed, as of last January, I thought. It was known as 'selective availability' or 'sa'. See, sometimes GPS MIGHT be really accurate, but not always.
Surveryors, etc, use DGPS (Differential GPS) where they use a GPS receiver at a known, precise location, so they can calculate the error being introduced by the satellites in question so they can get more accurate readings. It works very well.
The main reason that precision readings without DGPS are dangerous, I read, is because of mid-course corrections for ballistic missiles.... you see, to change the target, you change direction halfway through, way up in the air... at the top of your arc. A small margin of error at this level makes a huge margin of error on the ground.
I think it's wrong to assume nobody is interested.
Sure.. they may not be intersted in computers the way some of us geeks are interested in them..
But nowadays.. the Internet has much to offer, whether or not you understand the underlying technology.
Actually, I was reading that, in the US, there is some law.. I forget the name. Something about declaring a state of national emergency. In such a state, the president has power to, well, basically, do anything, and ignore the constitution.