I don't know about anyone else, but I really respect Rob's answers. I think that we threw a lot of hard questions at him and he answered each one without avoiding the issues. Even the questions which would have just offended many CEO's were answered in a very professional manor. I might have to take a second look at Real, even though I swore several years ago to never install another copy of the Real player.
Someone mod this up. This is an excelent idea because it won't do anything (but cause some grief) to people who did buy the product, but would make all of the files unusable. The only problem that I see is that it takes longer to encrypt a home directory than it does to delete it. That means that someone could kill the process before it encrypted everything. But still, this is a very creative solution, I think.
We're dealing with storage issues right now at work, and what we're doing is buying a server with 8x250 GB SATA drives. We then run the drives in raid 5, so we have 1.75TB of storage space (unformatted). Including computer costs, it's running us about $2.50 per GB, but it's a very beefy 3u server. For backup, we're currently backing up to tape. That costs us under $0.50 per GB with ultrium tapes. For some of our data, we've been backing up to DVD's, but we've pretty much given up on that. In the long run, it's not worth it.
Um...bandwidth between what? Last time I checked a Hard Drive is at least as fast as a 12x DVD drive. PC's use Hard Drives to store game content; XBoxes use DVD drives. How is the fact that it's a console going to help anything?
Have you seen DDR RAM prices lately? Microsoft is trying to cut way down on the price for the new XBox. There's no easy solution for Microsoft because the need for lots of RAM isn't compatible with their need for high resolution gaming.
Who came up with the idea of having all of that CPU and GPU power with only 256mb of ram? Many games are already demanding more ram than that while running on systems that are otherwise half of that. For example, many games are now using 1024x1024 textures (or even 2048) which would mean that the XBox would only have enough ram for 256 textures if nothing else was loaded. I know that ram costs a lot now, but I think this could be a fatal mistake, espcially if they expect people to hook the XBox up to a normal monitor or HDTV.
FreeS/Wan (what Openswan is built off of) was around a long time before the code that is now shipped with the kernel. As for why people haven't resigned to use the (newly) built in IPSec code, I'm not sure. Maybe it's because Openswan is very reliable and is already running on many production servers.
Of course, you'd have to shield all of the rooms and then put an access point in every room that could be shut off. But, as long as we're talking about off the wall solutions, I thought I'd throw it out there.
What's wrong with you? Capturing to RAW (at least on my camera) is pretty useless. Although JPEG does do a little distortion, I've found that most people can't see the difference between a compressed (about 1/2 the size) JPEG and raw on an 8x10 picture. You'd be far better off getting a camera with more megapixels and then getting flash media instead of expensive microdrives.
There is no doubt of that, but I think you might want to also consider a DigiCam instead of a SLR. It is true that with a SLR you can use a variety of professional lenses and get the classic feel of a camera, but high end DigiCams are much more portable. If you intend to go places to get great pictures, a SLR is for you, but if you are going place and want to be able to take good pictures, I think a DigiCam is going to make you happier because you will be able to fit it into a fanny pack or big pocket and the weight won't be overbearing.
My dad has been into photography for over 20 years and is pretty good at it. But he wouldn't even consider getting a SLR digital camera (even though he has a few film SLR) because of the freedom a DigiCam gives him. He can hold the camera above his head to take pictures and can still see what he's taking (he has Nikon Coolpix camera which has a swiveling lcd). He can also take the camera along even if he isn't planning on taking a picture because it's so small and light. I can't stress enough the fact that having a camera that's very convenient to travel with is essential to you using your camera to its full potential.
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I beg to differ. I suspect that the reason why no one's ever bothered suggesting this is that the amount of bandwidth required to download the frame data and upload the rendered frame are prohibitively large. Besides that, the licensing costs for the rendering technology would be enormous, and what film company would want to freely distribute all of the models, textures, and animation that they spent dozens of man-years working on?
I believe that google spreads the data and the processing across the entire cluster. So each machine is storing a little, processing some searches, and possibly even crawling.
Ok, if the input is less than 1/3 of the output, then he just discovered a machine that, if the output was looped to the input, would create infinite energy in theory. That is obviously impossible. It sounds interesting, that input and output ratio is not possible. Just because the guy gives you a reason why it's possible doesn't mean that it's true.
Now I don't really know how much this would help, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but maybe it'd be helpful to work in a normal user account. Most people that I know in the windows world just log in as administrator for daily work, but that seems kind of like working as root in Linux. Now, I understand that user security isn't as strong in Windows, but I wonder if you could lock it down enough that programs wouldn't install without your knowledge.
Besides that, good virus software (we've got McAffe at work and are happy with it), using the firewall capabilities of XP (if you have it), and not using Outlook (if you can) would be good ideas. If you're really paranoid, and know how to configure it well, a Cisco pix box may add a little more security too.
About your issues with firewalls disrupting daily activities on your server, you should look into VPNs. PPTP is very simple to set up, but has problems with man in the middle attacks. IPSec can be a pain to get working with windows, but it is possible. SSL tunnels probably would be the best way to go, and they're not too hard to set up.
I loved Serious Sam for multi-player too. The last Lan party that I actually had fun at we played score-match (a twist on normal death-match) and co-op for hours.
Either it was intended to be a joke or the editor has bought into Apple's marketing. G5's are fast, but they're not the fastest. Saying "It'd make me feel guilty, having that much power in a small package while other people can't even get it in a PC tower" is just plain ignorance. An equivalent statement would be "Having a Pentium 4 would make me feel guilty, having that much power in a small package while other people can't even get it in a Apple computer."
To be honest, if someone gave me a G5, I'd definitely use it. But, if I was given a choice, I'd take an AMD 64bit based PC over a G5.
I would suggest sending an informal e-mail asking if they understand that they're violating the GPL. If that doesn't resolve the problem, the next step might be e-mailing someone at the FSF for advice. If you really serious about it and the FSF can't help you, you may need to get some advice from a lawyer.
Of course, the Passive Aggressive way would be to simply decompile the byte code. Java decompilers are quite excellent at producing almost exactly the same source code as was there to begin with (minus comments). You could then put the GPL license at the top, post a copyright for the work they did. After that, send them a letter telling them that you assisted their efforts at becoming compliant with the GPL. You could even bill them with a consulting fee if you really wanted to get a funny reaction from them. Of course, if you did this, you would almost certainly need to find a good lawyer ahead of time.
Although it would be a big mess, I think it'd be entertaining if someone turned this into a worm that would automatically convert all the computers of the world--or at least RedHat and Mandrake. I wonder if another implication of this is that you could install Mandrake, get it configured with the nice installer, and then convert over to debian. I doubt it would be clean enough to be a real solution, but it'd be cool if it was.
What are you talking about? The only reason the treasury is doing this is to punish everyone for sending their comments in. Any one of us could write a perl script in 20 minutes that would process the data and output it in a usable manor. Either everyone at the treasury is an idiot (possible), or they just decided that they didn't care. Honestly, do you think most of these people will send their comments next time the treasury asks for them? I doubt it.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I really respect Rob's answers. I think that we threw a lot of hard questions at him and he answered each one without avoiding the issues. Even the questions which would have just offended many CEO's were answered in a very professional manor. I might have to take a second look at Real, even though I swore several years ago to never install another copy of the Real player.
Someone mod this up. This is an excelent idea because it won't do anything (but cause some grief) to people who did buy the product, but would make all of the files unusable. The only problem that I see is that it takes longer to encrypt a home directory than it does to delete it. That means that someone could kill the process before it encrypted everything. But still, this is a very creative solution, I think.
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We're dealing with storage issues right now at work, and what we're doing is buying a server with 8x250 GB SATA drives. We then run the drives in raid 5, so we have 1.75TB of storage space (unformatted). Including computer costs, it's running us about $2.50 per GB, but it's a very beefy 3u server. For backup, we're currently backing up to tape. That costs us under $0.50 per GB with ultrium tapes. For some of our data, we've been backing up to DVD's, but we've pretty much given up on that. In the long run, it's not worth it.
Um...bandwidth between what? Last time I checked a Hard Drive is at least as fast as a 12x DVD drive. PC's use Hard Drives to store game content; XBoxes use DVD drives. How is the fact that it's a console going to help anything?
Have you seen DDR RAM prices lately? Microsoft is trying to cut way down on the price for the new XBox. There's no easy solution for Microsoft because the need for lots of RAM isn't compatible with their need for high resolution gaming.
Who came up with the idea of having all of that CPU and GPU power with only 256mb of ram? Many games are already demanding more ram than that while running on systems that are otherwise half of that. For example, many games are now using 1024x1024 textures (or even 2048) which would mean that the XBox would only have enough ram for 256 textures if nothing else was loaded. I know that ram costs a lot now, but I think this could be a fatal mistake, espcially if they expect people to hook the XBox up to a normal monitor or HDTV.
FreeS/Wan (what Openswan is built off of) was around a long time before the code that is now shipped with the kernel. As for why people haven't resigned to use the (newly) built in IPSec code, I'm not sure. Maybe it's because Openswan is very reliable and is already running on many production servers.
Virtual Private Network. Of course 2 seconds on google could have told you that.
Two words: faraday cage
Of course, you'd have to shield all of the rooms and then put an access point in every room that could be shut off. But, as long as we're talking about off the wall solutions, I thought I'd throw it out there.
What's wrong with you? Capturing to RAW (at least on my camera) is pretty useless. Although JPEG does do a little distortion, I've found that most people can't see the difference between a compressed (about 1/2 the size) JPEG and raw on an 8x10 picture. You'd be far better off getting a camera with more megapixels and then getting flash media instead of expensive microdrives.
There is no doubt of that, but I think you might want to also consider a DigiCam instead of a SLR. It is true that with a SLR you can use a variety of professional lenses and get the classic feel of a camera, but high end DigiCams are much more portable. If you intend to go places to get great pictures, a SLR is for you, but if you are going place and want to be able to take good pictures, I think a DigiCam is going to make you happier because you will be able to fit it into a fanny pack or big pocket and the weight won't be overbearing.
My dad has been into photography for over 20 years and is pretty good at it. But he wouldn't even consider getting a SLR digital camera (even though he has a few film SLR) because of the freedom a DigiCam gives him. He can hold the camera above his head to take pictures and can still see what he's taking (he has Nikon Coolpix camera which has a swiveling lcd). He can also take the camera along even if he isn't planning on taking a picture because it's so small and light. I can't stress enough the fact that having a camera that's very convenient to travel with is essential to you using your camera to its full potential.
I beg to differ. I suspect that the reason why no one's ever bothered suggesting this is that the amount of bandwidth required to download the frame data and upload the rendered frame are prohibitively large. Besides that, the licensing costs for the rendering technology would be enormous, and what film company would want to freely distribute all of the models, textures, and animation that they spent dozens of man-years working on?
I believe that google spreads the data and the processing across the entire cluster. So each machine is storing a little, processing some searches, and possibly even crawling.
Ha, let's not kid ourselves....Indiana can't even be compared to Silicon Valley.
On a side note, I go to Purdue and can attest that nearly every square foot of every building has wireless access. It really is very impressive.
Ok, if the input is less than 1/3 of the output, then he just discovered a machine that, if the output was looped to the input, would create infinite energy in theory. That is obviously impossible. It sounds interesting, that input and output ratio is not possible. Just because the guy gives you a reason why it's possible doesn't mean that it's true.
Every device you plug in has the potential to dirty power. I've seen first hand that dirty power can kill electronics slowly but surely.
I don't believe that this is security through obscurity, unless you count firewalls under that category (which they aren't).
Now I don't really know how much this would help, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but maybe it'd be helpful to work in a normal user account. Most people that I know in the windows world just log in as administrator for daily work, but that seems kind of like working as root in Linux. Now, I understand that user security isn't as strong in Windows, but I wonder if you could lock it down enough that programs wouldn't install without your knowledge.
Besides that, good virus software (we've got McAffe at work and are happy with it), using the firewall capabilities of XP (if you have it), and not using Outlook (if you can) would be good ideas. If you're really paranoid, and know how to configure it well, a Cisco pix box may add a little more security too.
About your issues with firewalls disrupting daily activities on your server, you should look into VPNs. PPTP is very simple to set up, but has problems with man in the middle attacks. IPSec can be a pain to get working with windows, but it is possible. SSL tunnels probably would be the best way to go, and they're not too hard to set up.
I loved Serious Sam for multi-player too. The last Lan party that I actually had fun at we played score-match (a twist on normal death-match) and co-op for hours.
Either it was intended to be a joke or the editor has bought into Apple's marketing. G5's are fast, but they're not the fastest. Saying "It'd make me feel guilty, having that much power in a small package while other people can't even get it in a PC tower" is just plain ignorance. An equivalent statement would be "Having a Pentium 4 would make me feel guilty, having that much power in a small package while other people can't even get it in a Apple computer."
To be honest, if someone gave me a G5, I'd definitely use it. But, if I was given a choice, I'd take an AMD 64bit based PC over a G5.
He beat me to it. I use mozilla for all of my Javascript debugging and have found it to work quite well. I don't see a need for any other.
I would suggest sending an informal e-mail asking if they understand that they're violating the GPL. If that doesn't resolve the problem, the next step might be e-mailing someone at the FSF for advice. If you really serious about it and the FSF can't help you, you may need to get some advice from a lawyer.
Of course, the Passive Aggressive way would be to simply decompile the byte code. Java decompilers are quite excellent at producing almost exactly the same source code as was there to begin with (minus comments). You could then put the GPL license at the top, post a copyright for the work they did. After that, send them a letter telling them that you assisted their efforts at becoming compliant with the GPL. You could even bill them with a consulting fee if you really wanted to get a funny reaction from them. Of course, if you did this, you would almost certainly need to find a good lawyer ahead of time.
Although it would be a big mess, I think it'd be entertaining if someone turned this into a worm that would automatically convert all the computers of the world--or at least RedHat and Mandrake. I wonder if another implication of this is that you could install Mandrake, get it configured with the nice installer, and then convert over to debian. I doubt it would be clean enough to be a real solution, but it'd be cool if it was.
What are you talking about? The only reason the treasury is doing this is to punish everyone for sending their comments in. Any one of us could write a perl script in 20 minutes that would process the data and output it in a usable manor. Either everyone at the treasury is an idiot (possible), or they just decided that they didn't care. Honestly, do you think most of these people will send their comments next time the treasury asks for them? I doubt it.