Note that 8GB is "whopping" for an Erricson, yet many people complain 8GB is "paltry" for the iPhone, and a reason to skip buying one... Ofcourse... And do you know why?
Apple i-Products: mainly music devices Sony Ericsson: mainly cellphones
So sticking 8GB on iPhone is paltry compared to the 80GB iPod but sticking 8GB (internally, mind you!) on a cellphone is amazing compared to 40MB standard internal storage which you usually get (that's why most cellphones comes with some kind of memory expansion slot).
I had a similar problem with my parents several years ago (win98se), didn't belive me when I warned them not to run whatever came with the email and/or run wierd things downloaded from the web. So one day (by accident) a virus struck. An oldschool virus (atleast compared to todays more "useful" trojans, etc) which destroyed the MBR and partition tables.
After that day, my problems have become very few and far between.
Now, the moral of this story is: Some people will never understand the importance of security until they've been hit. Sad but true.
Now, I'm not saying that you should infect your family's computer(s), but it's the most effective way to make them think twice.
(For the record, I didn't infect my parent's computer... it was just an unlucky turn of events)
Oups, didn't consider that the US has had HDTV compatible gear for many years. In europe, they are beginning to see the light and over here we mainly see Plasma/LCD/Projectors and that was what I was refering to.
I made an assumption, and as we all know, assumptions are the mother of all fsckups!:)
Anyway, if anyone buying a HDTV set today (or the last year) missed out on HDMI and/or DVI-HDCP, I'm not going to loose any sleep;)
Who, in his/hers right mind bought a set/projector/whatever which is HDTV compatible (and I don't mean 480p, I mean atleast 720p and above) and didn't check for DVI with HDCP or HDMI ?
Come on people, if you're about to fork out a grand or more on a "tv", don't you find it reasonable to check so it's somewhat futureproof? We all knew this would happen sooner or later, I'm just surprised it took this long. If I were MPAA I would have made sure to enforce HDMI/HDCP as soon as a ratified draft was ready.
Not that it really matters, almost noone(?) copied movies from DVD to D-VHS/DVD via component anyway, we all know that it's much easier to do with a PC;)
"Some have reasoned that sales may have slowed recently because of a shortage of new titles in the last month and because users may be illegally copying films from DVDs onto a memory chip the PSPs can read."
Riiiight... So, copying a DVD to a PSP is illegal? Meh! They better get with the program, there is still such a thing as "fair use" (atleast outside the states).
Why should I pay premium for UMD just to get a lowerquality movie with no extras when I just as easily can take my favourite movie, process it and enjoy (well, as much as it can be enjoyed on a small screen with lots of ghosting).
If they had their way, my bought media would be hardlinked with just ONE device, which could only playback to ONE display, requiring the user to buy a copy of the movie for each playback device, and a playback device for each display.
If it ever gets to that stage, I guess it's time to start doing other things than watching bad hollywood flicks.
I don't know about other networks, but the ones in sweden (and Telia in particular, but probably others aswell) give out LAN addresses to their GPRS users, which puts them behind a NAT. Which, inturn, makes any kind of webserving useless (unless it's to other users of the same network, provided that there isn't several NAT's with their own copy of the networkspace).
I found out about this the hard way when investigating in a similar subject. The only way to solve it would be to have your own APN (Access Point Name) which gives out real addresses, and then you'd have to pay the ISP for all traffic on the APN. Not really what you want to do.
It's a shame really, but until we have IPv6 (so everyone and their pet can have a unique IP address) and more secure phones, which is especially important for those which run a "real" os (symbian, pocketpc, etc) I think it will be for the best. The last thing we need now is viruses which run up your GPRS data traffic (since most carriers charge for sent AND received data), it's enough with the SMS viruses IMHO.
Mind you, I wouldn't mind being able to run servers on my phone:) so if it can be worked out, I'd be all for it.
Upon reading the article, I thought, hey, maybe I missed some cool HTPC app which ties everything together as neatly as XBMC or MCE. When following the link (which actually worked... a first for slashdot:)) it's just some guy installing Ubuntu and making the Totem player work with his system.
This did _NOT_ deserve a post on slashdot IMHO (or is Ubuntu that hard to install with full video and music support?)
That's one way of putting it, but that was not what I meant.
The only way to compete with open-source is to be better than it. If your software can outdo the opensource software (say, combining two good features that you desperatly need) then you're more likely to buy it than wait for someone to develop what you need (if it ever gets developed). It's not like everyone are able to add the features they want. Then there is support. Even though opensource is great with patches and new development/features, nothing beats lifting the phone, dailing a number and have someone come in one hour later, fixing whatever problem there was (ideally).
So no, it's not bragging, it's all about outperforming the competition in some way (which goes for both opensource and closedsource). The only difference with open standards is that the end user has a better position to choose and thus push vendors and developers to new limits.
I agree... Rather than compete with different non-interoperable standards, the companies will be forced to compete with better products. Sure, there will be casualities in the beginning, but in the end, it will benefit the endusers in terms of better working software.
As for open-sourcing all software aswell, that will be harder (ie, take longer time) but since the standards are open, they're forced to compete with functionallity and implementation aswell instead of just adding fluff (I heard MS Office 3000 XP Ultra Chrome Edition(tm) will be able to brew coffee for you when it finds the wordrate too slow), otherwise they'll fall behind and users will switch application.
(Hmm... guess I repeated myself somewhat with the last paragraph, ohwell)
My guess is that in two years (or less?), your right to think freely will also be considered a danger as it might be linked to terrorism in some way (as of yet to be discovered)...
You might call this a troll post, but seriously guys (and gals), doesn't anyone in the US Government think rationally anymore? Or is that also somehow an act of terrorism? Sheesh.
While the suit may have some merit, it is odd for them to wait until now to try and halt such a heralded product.
No, it's pure logic. By now, Apple cannot change the name or do anything to avoid it. They'll have to fight it (which takes time and might hinder sales of MacOS X Tiger) or settle.
Clever tactics on TigerDirect, but a truly horrible way of acting. I hope they (as in TIgerDirect) looses the case since they have seen it coming and have had time to act.
I always write a really "nice" letter to the ISP of the intruder, where I explain the problem, and that it is causing my customers trouble and that it eats up valuable bandwidth. I ask them to take action, and if not, that I'll have to proceed further (never been needed once). I send the email from the admin account, sign it with my name + admin at my system and then I attach the logs pertaining the intrusion attempt.
So far, all of these "cease and desist" letters has resulted in action on the ISPs part, and in 50% of the cases, their admins write me back and give me feedback on the problem.
Ofcourse, I don't do this for every attempt (all depending on my mood... atleast nowadays), mostly for the more serious attempts (doing multiple attempts, different attempts, etc).
The worst (or craziest?) attempt yet was by some nut who portscanned the system, port by port from start to finish. I actaully managed to get hold of the owner of the computer system that was scanning me and phoned him. Quite a hilarious experience. Needless to say, the portscanning stopped:)
I've tried both LVM and RAID5, and my conclusion was that LVM sucked performancewise, couldn't fill a 100Mbit pipe (which one drive without LVM does easily). And since noone could explain why this was (even talked to a guy with hardware scsi raid running LVM and he barely got 18MB/s:-/ ) I ended up running RAID5 with 5 drives. Each drive is running as a master on its own IDE channel. The additional IDE channels are provided with 2 Promise FastTrack/133 (or whatever they are called).
The performance on this system is outstanding, writing is done at a sustained 50-60MB/s (yes, megabytes) and reading maxes out the PCI bus completely (tops out at about 80-100MB/s depending on other activity on the PCI bus)
The system is powered by a 2.4Ghz Celeron with 512MB memory.
The only drawback is that it will be a pain to add an additional drive to the system, but thats not really a big issue for me anyway.
Btw, the filesystem on this raidset is Ext3. I've had a diskfailure (old drive that should have been left to its own) since I got it up and running but as long as no more than one drive fails atonce, all is well. Just replace it with a new one, add it to the set and one hour later (or thereabout) all data has been restored to it and the raidset is running at full performance again.
A tip for the hardware that will be running the fileserver. Make sure to cool your drives, this is of outmost importance. No, you don't need screaming 7000rpm fans (I use three 12dB Papst) just make sure that outside air is pulled over the harddrive and expelled in the back of the case. Avoid cases with ventilationholes on the sides. Thermaltake makes (made?) a great case which had airintakes on the front and 6 internal 3.5" bays right behind the intakes (which is the one I use).
Also, you should get a good powersupply. I had some really odd problems before I upgraded to from 300W to 450W.
If I'm not misstaken, TeamSpeak isn't VoIP compliant, nor is Skype (if VoIP = H323).
Skype is more a replacement for your phone (thats why it uses more bandwidth, better sound and quality... also less latency) while teamspeak is more of a voicebased irc, perfect for games, but not something for my parents.
My parents have been running Win2k for a couple of years now, and only once did things go really bad. They got hit by a virus which wiped the drive. But this was actually a good thing (yes, really), since they now adhear to the rule:
If you don't recognize an email sender or understand what the webbrowser wants (forexample, Internet Explorer wanting to install Gator) they either delete the mail or press cancel.
Ofcourse, they run a firewall (Kerio) and antivirus and the system autoupdates itself. And as someone mentioned, running VNC on the box does help when strange things happen.
But the main trick is to "scare" your parents so that they don't open every mail and accept every request from the computer (basically, if you didn't do anything to provoke the request, then it's a bad thing(tm)).
It sounded like the power isn't provided by electricity since it states:
"The UC Berkeley researchers are using an engine that delivers hydraulic power for locomotion and electrical power for the computer. The engine provides the requisite energy needed to power the exoskeleton while affording the ease of refueling in the field."
So I guess battery life isn't such an issue anyway. Also, I think it wouldn't be acceptable since it needs to be useable in the field (ie, medic'n'stuff), and a *beep*Low battery, 5mins left*beep* thingy isn't good if that means several hours of recharging.
Or better yet, take up C++ and contribute to the project.
I wasn't aware that it was possible to contribute, especially since the actual code that does anything worthwhile (ie, the wrapping) is distributed as binary only.
Okay, so my formulation was a bit rough. Didn't mean to downplay the effort made by LinuxAnt. Also, I never said it wasn't free (notice the paranthesis I had around potentially).
Linux is all about choices, and if you like what you get from LinuxAnt, fine, go for it. But if want to tinker and make the world a better place to be (ahem;)) then join the fray.
Also, for the record, I'd like to state that if you had looked closer into the actual way the LinuxAnt module work, you'd find a little file of 67kb named driverloader-<arch>.O which is magically linked with your module, and there is NO SOURCE FOR IT (sorry for the caps, the shift got stuck as yours did). If this is the closed part that you refer to as "they have no control over", then you're wrong, this is the magic do-dah that does the wrapping. This is also their leverage should they decide to charge users money. So no, opensource, they aren't. Atleast no more than nVidia's binary X11 driver.
Btw, another advantage of the ndiswrapper is that there is no webinterface to configure the driver, which, in my book, is a good thing.
Hehe, indeed. I also felt compelled to write them:
Hi!
I'm just curious, does this mean that I will be able to put up a license for
Linux and ask for money for no reason at all?
Until SCO proves that SCO infact has some IP inside the Linux kernel (no,
just saying "yes we have" does not imply any "proof"), I cannot see any
reason for buying a license. It would be similar to buying "protection" from
the mafia.
I wish you the best of luck in this new business/rackett.
/MrWorf - Admin & owner of four linux systems
Guess that their email center is now:
Overflowing with complaints
ignoring most emails containing linux, sco and source
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Apple i-Products: mainly music devices
Sony Ericsson: mainly cellphones
So sticking 8GB on iPhone is paltry compared to the 80GB iPod but sticking 8GB (internally, mind you!) on a cellphone is amazing compared to 40MB standard internal storage which you usually get (that's why most cellphones comes with some kind of memory expansion slot).
...once!
... it was just an unlucky turn of events)
I had a similar problem with my parents several years ago (win98se), didn't belive me when I warned them not to run whatever came with the email and/or run wierd things downloaded from the web. So one day (by accident) a virus struck. An oldschool virus (atleast compared to todays more "useful" trojans, etc) which destroyed the MBR and partition tables.
After that day, my problems have become very few and far between.
Now, the moral of this story is:
Some people will never understand the importance of security until they've been hit. Sad but true.
Now, I'm not saying that you should infect your family's computer(s), but it's the most effective way to make them think twice.
(For the record, I didn't infect my parent's computer
If that's big enough for you.
Google does allow direct submittance of websites (ie, content) just like TPB, so the analogy still holds some water.
Oups, didn't consider that the US has had HDTV compatible gear for many years. In europe, they are beginning to see the light and over here we mainly see Plasma/LCD/Projectors and that was what I was refering to.
:)
;)
I made an assumption, and as we all know, assumptions are the mother of all fsckups!
Anyway, if anyone buying a HDTV set today (or the last year) missed out on HDMI and/or DVI-HDCP, I'm not going to loose any sleep
Who, in his/hers right mind bought a set/projector/whatever which is HDTV compatible (and I don't mean 480p, I mean atleast 720p and above) and didn't check for DVI with HDCP or HDMI ?
;)
Come on people, if you're about to fork out a grand or more on a "tv", don't you find it reasonable to check so it's somewhat futureproof? We all knew this would happen sooner or later, I'm just surprised it took this long. If I were MPAA I would have made sure to enforce HDMI/HDCP as soon as a ratified draft was ready.
Not that it really matters, almost noone(?) copied movies from DVD to D-VHS/DVD via component anyway, we all know that it's much easier to do with a PC
"Some have reasoned that sales may have slowed recently because of a shortage of new titles in the last month and because users may be illegally copying films from DVDs onto a memory chip the PSPs can read."
Riiiight... So, copying a DVD to a PSP is illegal? Meh! They better get with the program, there is still such a thing as "fair use" (atleast outside the states).
Why should I pay premium for UMD just to get a lowerquality movie with no extras when I just as easily can take my favourite movie, process it and enjoy (well, as much as it can be enjoyed on a small screen with lots of ghosting).
If they had their way, my bought media would be hardlinked with just ONE device, which could only playback to ONE display, requiring the user to buy a copy of the movie for each playback device, and a playback device for each display.
If it ever gets to that stage, I guess it's time to start doing other things than watching bad hollywood flicks.
Irritated? Hell yeah! >(
I don't know about other networks, but the ones in sweden (and Telia in particular, but probably others aswell) give out LAN addresses to their GPRS users, which puts them behind a NAT. Which, inturn, makes any kind of webserving useless (unless it's to other users of the same network, provided that there isn't several NAT's with their own copy of the networkspace).
:) so if it can be worked out, I'd be all for it.
I found out about this the hard way when investigating in a similar subject. The only way to solve it would be to have your own APN (Access Point Name) which gives out real addresses, and then you'd have to pay the ISP for all traffic on the APN. Not really what you want to do.
It's a shame really, but until we have IPv6 (so everyone and their pet can have a unique IP address) and more secure phones, which is especially important for those which run a "real" os (symbian, pocketpc, etc) I think it will be for the best. The last thing we need now is viruses which run up your GPRS data traffic (since most carriers charge for sent AND received data), it's enough with the SMS viruses IMHO.
Mind you, I wouldn't mind being able to run servers on my phone
Upon reading the article, I thought, hey, maybe I missed some cool HTPC app which ties everything together as neatly as XBMC or MCE. When following the link (which actually worked... a first for slashdot :)) it's just some guy installing Ubuntu and making the Totem player work with his system.
This did _NOT_ deserve a post on slashdot IMHO (or is Ubuntu that hard to install with full video and music support?)
That's one way of putting it, but that was not what I meant.
The only way to compete with open-source is to be better than it. If your software can outdo the opensource software (say, combining two good features that you desperatly need) then you're more likely to buy it than wait for someone to develop what you need (if it ever gets developed).
It's not like everyone are able to add the features they want. Then there is support. Even though opensource is great with patches and new development/features, nothing beats lifting the phone, dailing a number and have someone come in one hour later, fixing whatever problem there was (ideally).
So no, it's not bragging, it's all about outperforming the competition in some way (which goes for both opensource and closedsource). The only difference with open standards is that the end user has a better position to choose and thus push vendors and developers to new limits.
Indeed
I agree... Rather than compete with different non-interoperable standards, the companies will be forced to compete with better products. Sure, there will be casualities in the beginning, but in the end, it will benefit the endusers in terms of better working software.
As for open-sourcing all software aswell, that will be harder (ie, take longer time) but since the standards are open, they're forced to compete with functionallity and implementation aswell instead of just adding fluff (I heard MS Office 3000 XP Ultra Chrome Edition(tm) will be able to brew coffee for you when it finds the wordrate too slow), otherwise they'll fall behind and users will switch application.
(Hmm... guess I repeated myself somewhat with the last paragraph, ohwell)
My guess is that in two years (or less?), your right to think freely will also be considered a danger as it might be linked to terrorism in some way (as of yet to be discovered)...
You might call this a troll post, but seriously guys (and gals), doesn't anyone in the US Government think rationally anymore? Or is that also somehow an act of terrorism? Sheesh.
No, it's pure logic. By now, Apple cannot change the name or do anything to avoid it. They'll have to fight it (which takes time and might hinder sales of MacOS X Tiger) or settle.
Clever tactics on TigerDirect, but a truly horrible way of acting. I hope they (as in TIgerDirect) looses the case since they have seen it coming and have had time to act.
I always write a really "nice" letter to the ISP of the intruder, where I explain the problem, and that it is causing my customers trouble and that it eats up valuable bandwidth. I ask them to take action, and if not, that I'll have to proceed further (never been needed once). I send the email from the admin account, sign it with my name + admin at my system and then I attach the logs pertaining the intrusion attempt.
... atleast nowadays), mostly for the more serious attempts (doing multiple attempts, different attempts, etc).
:)
So far, all of these "cease and desist" letters has resulted in action on the ISPs part, and in 50% of the cases, their admins write me back and give me feedback on the problem.
Ofcourse, I don't do this for every attempt (all depending on my mood
The worst (or craziest?) attempt yet was by some nut who portscanned the system, port by port from start to finish. I actaully managed to get hold of the owner of the computer system that was scanning me and phoned him. Quite a hilarious experience. Needless to say, the portscanning stopped
I've tried both LVM and RAID5, and my conclusion was that LVM sucked performancewise, couldn't fill a 100Mbit pipe (which one drive without LVM does easily). And since noone could explain why this was (even talked to a guy with hardware scsi raid running LVM and he barely got 18MB/s :-/ ) I ended up running RAID5 with 5 drives. Each drive is running as a master on its own IDE channel. The additional IDE channels are provided with 2 Promise FastTrack/133 (or whatever they are called).
The performance on this system is outstanding, writing is done at a sustained 50-60MB/s (yes, megabytes) and reading maxes out the PCI bus completely (tops out at about 80-100MB/s depending on other activity on the PCI bus)
The system is powered by a 2.4Ghz Celeron with 512MB memory.
The only drawback is that it will be a pain to add an additional drive to the system, but thats not really a big issue for me anyway.
Btw, the filesystem on this raidset is Ext3. I've had a diskfailure (old drive that should have been left to its own) since I got it up and running but as long as no more than one drive fails atonce, all is well. Just replace it with a new one, add it to the set and one hour later (or thereabout) all data has been restored to it and the raidset is running at full performance again.
A tip for the hardware that will be running the fileserver. Make sure to cool your drives, this is of outmost importance. No, you don't need screaming 7000rpm fans (I use three 12dB Papst) just make sure that outside air is pulled over the harddrive and expelled in the back of the case. Avoid cases with ventilationholes on the sides. Thermaltake makes (made?) a great case which had airintakes on the front and 6 internal 3.5" bays right behind the intakes (which is the one I use).
Also, you should get a good powersupply. I had some really odd problems before I upgraded to from 300W to 450W.
Good luck
True, my Volvo S60 cuts the TV display when I start rolling. However, I can still hear the sound. Perfect for traffic jams and shorter trips.
If I'm not misstaken, TeamSpeak isn't VoIP compliant, nor is Skype (if VoIP = H323).
Skype is more a replacement for your phone (thats why it uses more bandwidth, better sound and quality... also less latency) while teamspeak is more of a voicebased irc, perfect for games, but not something for my parents.
Ofcourse, they run a firewall (Kerio) and antivirus and the system autoupdates itself. And as someone mentioned, running VNC on the box does help when strange things happen. But the main trick is to "scare" your parents so that they don't open every mail and accept every request from the computer (basically, if you didn't do anything to provoke the request, then it's a bad thing(tm)).
"The UC Berkeley researchers are using an engine that delivers hydraulic power for locomotion and electrical power for the computer. The engine provides the requisite energy needed to power the exoskeleton while affording the ease of refueling in the field."
So I guess battery life isn't such an issue anyway. Also, I think it wouldn't be acceptable since it needs to be useable in the field (ie, medic'n'stuff), and a *beep*Low battery, 5mins left*beep* thingy isn't good if that means several hours of recharging.
I wasn't aware that it was possible to contribute, especially since the actual code that does anything worthwhile (ie, the wrapping) is distributed as binary only.
Or did you refer to ndiswrapper?
Okay, so my formulation was a bit rough. Didn't mean to downplay the effort made by LinuxAnt. Also, I never said it wasn't free (notice the paranthesis I had around potentially).
;)) then join the fray.
Linux is all about choices, and if you like what you get from LinuxAnt, fine, go for it. But if want to tinker and make the world a better place to be (ahem
Also, for the record, I'd like to state that if you had looked closer into the actual way the LinuxAnt module work, you'd find a little file of 67kb named driverloader-<arch>.O which is magically linked with your module, and there is NO SOURCE FOR IT (sorry for the caps, the shift got stuck as yours did).
If this is the closed part that you refer to as "they have no control over", then you're wrong, this is the magic do-dah that does the wrapping. This is also their leverage should they decide to charge users money. So no, opensource, they aren't. Atleast no more than nVidia's binary X11 driver.
Btw, another advantage of the ndiswrapper is that there is no webinterface to configure the driver, which, in my book, is a good thing.
Why (potentially) pay LinuxAnt for something when you can be a part of helping the community developing it's own equivalent.
.. Works with the broadcom 4301 chipset (for the moment).
Try ndiswrapper
What? This would mean that the DMCA for the first time ever actually would do some good. *shudders*