I thought that net neutrality wasn't about that at all: it was about ISPs not being allowed to prevent consumers from accessing content over the internet. E.g. not being allowed to watch CNN live on their website unless one has signed on to a cable plan.
He divorced in 2013, but has 2 daughters from that marriage. Relations w/ one of them seems estranged. One of them is married into the family of a co-owner of Rossiya Bank, and is estimated to be worth $2B, so wouldn't need daddy's money. Dunno about the other.
I like iPhones (I know, unpopulat opinion on Slashdot). I bought an iPhone 7 specifically because I'm not going to buy a phone with facial recognition built in at the lowest levels. This will probably be my last iPhone.
I think facial recognition is already there. My photos library had a ton of pictures of me & my relatives, and the Photo app bunched all the similar ones together - those of me, my son, my sister, niece & so on - and prompted me to identify who is who. Really scary! The other thing both Microsoft and Apple do - create new albums whenever they feel like it.
But this will probably be my last iPhone as well. Unlike previous iDevices I have, I got this one w/ 128GB of storage, so I'm unlikely to run out in the next few years. I don't like some of the 'improvements' they are contemplating, such as getting rid of the home button. I do have 3 new Apple toys - the iPhone 7, an iPad Mini 4 (again w/ 128GB storage) and an iPod Nano (w/ 16GB storage). Not likely to replace them anytime soon.
I really wish I could! Yesterday, I was transfering music b/w iTunes on my PC, and my iPod nano. It was a pain: maybe it's easier on a mac. But when I wanted to delete certain songs from the iPod, I couldn't: I had to 'delete' it from my laptop, and then sync the iPod to the laptop w/o transfering the songs I wanted to delete, and only in that convoluted way did it work. Say what you will about Windows, but when I want to transfer songs from my laptop to my Lumia, all I have to do is drag and drop files from my music folder to the SD card, and that's it!
For a platform whose central theme is ease of use, iTunes is horribly convoluted. Particularly when editing the contents of the about-to-be-killed iPod shuffle and nano, which can't get music into them any other way!
What happened to, or what is the status of, Internet2? That high speed network available to just universities & research institutions?
About the long hauls, can't the physical infrasturcture simply be reused, w/ the control logic at the various termination points being modified as needed? IPv6 seems to be a good starting point, although I'd change it to make the internet more hierarchic, so that routing becomes more logical rather than a lookup of routing tables. To achieve that, I'd make the global prefix completely routable on 64 bits, and have the lower half of the address split b/w the subnet address and the host address. Autoconfiguration would still be around, but there would be no need to keep it at 64-bits, since uniqueness is in any case not guaranteed. No subnet of any imaginable type will have anything even close to 4 billion, so having subnet sizes of >32 bits are meaningless. It also allows for more structure in subnet addressing, rather than have to buy/16 or/24 or/32 from the RIRs.
They all have their own flavour and they all steal from each other with gay abandon.
What exactly does 'steal' mean here? Do they incorporate each other's code w/o giving them due credit? That would be the only violation of any BSD license, afaict. Otherwise, the BSD license explicitly allows anybody to take any code and use it in anything else, including changing the license: the only thing that must be done is the original author should be properly credited.
Doesn't Cisco sell Layer 3 switches? That would eliminate the need for switch AND router. Also, if one uses IPv6, that should make eliminating switches even easier
Changing languages isn't the answer. Security bugs can happen in any language. The design of systemd and the way they handle development is the problem. It's a bad architecture. The Linux user community is screaming this at the top of their lungs yet systemd is infecting almost every major distro.
Besides, from the Rust discussion the other day, Rust is a high level language. If one wants to write an init system, shouldn't it be written in a language close to the CPU, such as C/C++ or Assembly?
Actually, that BSDi code was shared to the public - sans 6 files that were re-written to exclude any AT&T/USL code. That version was known as 386 BSD. It got forked to FreeBSD and NetBSD, and NetBSD had a major fork to OpenBSD. There have been several minor forks of FreeBSD since.
Actually no! Tarantella was acquired by Sun shortly after it spun off SCO, and it didn't have the OSs - it had some utilities like IIRC OpenVision and some NFS like software.
Xinuos was the successor company to SCO, Inc, after it filed Chapter 7. They inherited whatever legacy assets SCO had, as well as any customers, but started w/ a FreeBSD fork for enterprises. No idea whether their management has anything in common w/ that of SCO, Inc.
An interesting aspect of this is that Xinuos, as the successor to SCO* - the company that inherited UnixWare and w/ it System V Unix IP, has decided to fork off FreeBSD - a BSD project - instead of continuing on System V. That really demonstrates that the System V branch of Unix is for all practical purposes dead. Xinuos just does support work on the legacy SCO Unixes, but beyond that, drives companies towards FreeBSD. Oracle just supports Solaris on legacy SPARC hardware, but otherwise, pushes Oracle Linux. All the other Unixes that were based on System V are dead.
Why aren't you going w/ the version that comes w/ FreeBSD 11 or even 10? Who's asking you to use the bleeding edge versions? Is there something major that's there on FreeBSD 12 that's not yet there on 11 that's listed in the above summary?
TrueOS comes w/ Lumina, which is very similar to your standard Windows XP like experience, plus some extra features that make it great. If I had Linux, I'd have gone w/ Razor-qt or LX/QT, rather than GNOME 3 or KDE 4/5
I use Windows 10 w/ Classic Shell, which restores the Windows 7 look to the interface. In fact, I get a wide choice - can make it look like Windows 8, Windows 7, Aero, Windows XP, and have tried out quite a number of them.
What's the point of typing in a letter, while handwriting the envelope? An envelope, for you millennials out there, is a paper case in which one can put letters, write the destination address on the front, put a stamp on it (which is a Post Office issued marker to indicate that the service has been paid for) and then drop it in a dropbox near your mailbox or take it to the post office and post it there. This is how it was done before email got as widely adapted as it is today
Did OS X at some point completely replace XNU i.e. underlying Mach 3.0 kernel w/ FreeBSD? I thought that OS X is Mach kernel + FreeBSD userland. Or is it something else?
Precisely! I had an iPod Touch that wouldn't upgrade beyond iOS 4.3. Every app in it was fine. Only problem: if I went to the app store, there was no app there that would still run on this device.
On GMail, I find their interface good enough. Only annoyance is the promotional mails that I get, but thankfully, they're not completely junk mail of the type I used to get on Yahoo! mail.
Photos - agree w/ you on that one. There are a whole lot of music videos that I have, as well as family photos & videos. There is no way to separate them. This is an issue common to both Google & Microsoft. The apps ought to be able to distinguish - maybe by folder location - whether a video is that of Black 'n Blue and should be opened by my music app, or whether it's that of my family and should be opened by Photos. As an aside, Android has too many redundant apps: I just don't see the point of having both Photos and Gallery. Photos are better and enough.
Hangouts - in my last job, I used since that's what the company used. It was primarily used as a messenger, as well as for video conferencing and screen sharing - the latter can't be done on WhatsApp, which is not a business application. One could use Skype the same way. Android's answer to FaceTime is Duo, but like I mentioned yesterday, I doubt that Android guys will be downloading FaceTime or that Apple users will be downloading Duo.
Calendar - for work purposes, I used Outlook, so I'd access it from there, and do the copying through Outlook.
That's what I thought. When I worked in the flash memory industry 10 years ago, Samsung used to be one of the fabs for one of my previous employers, and another of my employers would procure pSRAM, DRAM and NAND flash from them.
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Are Northern Irish now less hostile towards being governed by a Catholic Dublin?
I thought that net neutrality wasn't about that at all: it was about ISPs not being allowed to prevent consumers from accessing content over the internet. E.g. not being allowed to watch CNN live on their website unless one has signed on to a cable plan.
He divorced in 2013, but has 2 daughters from that marriage. Relations w/ one of them seems estranged. One of them is married into the family of a co-owner of Rossiya Bank, and is estimated to be worth $2B, so wouldn't need daddy's money. Dunno about the other.
I like iPhones (I know, unpopulat opinion on Slashdot). I bought an iPhone 7 specifically because I'm not going to buy a phone with facial recognition built in at the lowest levels. This will probably be my last iPhone.
I think facial recognition is already there. My photos library had a ton of pictures of me & my relatives, and the Photo app bunched all the similar ones together - those of me, my son, my sister, niece & so on - and prompted me to identify who is who. Really scary! The other thing both Microsoft and Apple do - create new albums whenever they feel like it.
But this will probably be my last iPhone as well. Unlike previous iDevices I have, I got this one w/ 128GB of storage, so I'm unlikely to run out in the next few years. I don't like some of the 'improvements' they are contemplating, such as getting rid of the home button. I do have 3 new Apple toys - the iPhone 7, an iPad Mini 4 (again w/ 128GB storage) and an iPod Nano (w/ 16GB storage). Not likely to replace them anytime soon.
I really wish I could! Yesterday, I was transfering music b/w iTunes on my PC, and my iPod nano. It was a pain: maybe it's easier on a mac. But when I wanted to delete certain songs from the iPod, I couldn't: I had to 'delete' it from my laptop, and then sync the iPod to the laptop w/o transfering the songs I wanted to delete, and only in that convoluted way did it work. Say what you will about Windows, but when I want to transfer songs from my laptop to my Lumia, all I have to do is drag and drop files from my music folder to the SD card, and that's it!
For a platform whose central theme is ease of use, iTunes is horribly convoluted. Particularly when editing the contents of the about-to-be-killed iPod shuffle and nano, which can't get music into them any other way!
What happened to, or what is the status of, Internet2? That high speed network available to just universities & research institutions?
About the long hauls, can't the physical infrasturcture simply be reused, w/ the control logic at the various termination points being modified as needed? IPv6 seems to be a good starting point, although I'd change it to make the internet more hierarchic, so that routing becomes more logical rather than a lookup of routing tables. To achieve that, I'd make the global prefix completely routable on 64 bits, and have the lower half of the address split b/w the subnet address and the host address. Autoconfiguration would still be around, but there would be no need to keep it at 64-bits, since uniqueness is in any case not guaranteed. No subnet of any imaginable type will have anything even close to 4 billion, so having subnet sizes of >32 bits are meaningless. It also allows for more structure in subnet addressing, rather than have to buy /16 or /24 or /32 from the RIRs.
Desktop BSD has been dead for a while. Did it ever get resurrected?
They all have their own flavour and they all steal from each other with gay abandon.
What exactly does 'steal' mean here? Do they incorporate each other's code w/o giving them due credit? That would be the only violation of any BSD license, afaict. Otherwise, the BSD license explicitly allows anybody to take any code and use it in anything else, including changing the license: the only thing that must be done is the original author should be properly credited.
And that's made even better by TrueOS's PBI utility
Did he ever do anything in Unix? I thought that his antivirus package was Windows only
Doesn't Cisco sell Layer 3 switches? That would eliminate the need for switch AND router. Also, if one uses IPv6, that should make eliminating switches even easier
Even FreeBSD is owned by iXsystems, ain't it?
Changing languages isn't the answer. Security bugs can happen in any language. The design of systemd and the way they handle development is the problem. It's a bad architecture. The Linux user community is screaming this at the top of their lungs yet systemd is infecting almost every major distro.
Besides, from the Rust discussion the other day, Rust is a high level language. If one wants to write an init system, shouldn't it be written in a language close to the CPU, such as C/C++ or Assembly?
Actually, that BSDi code was shared to the public - sans 6 files that were re-written to exclude any AT&T/USL code. That version was known as 386 BSD. It got forked to FreeBSD and NetBSD, and NetBSD had a major fork to OpenBSD. There have been several minor forks of FreeBSD since.
Actually no! Tarantella was acquired by Sun shortly after it spun off SCO, and it didn't have the OSs - it had some utilities like IIRC OpenVision and some NFS like software.
Xinuos was the successor company to SCO, Inc, after it filed Chapter 7. They inherited whatever legacy assets SCO had, as well as any customers, but started w/ a FreeBSD fork for enterprises. No idea whether their management has anything in common w/ that of SCO, Inc.
An interesting aspect of this is that Xinuos, as the successor to SCO* - the company that inherited UnixWare and w/ it System V Unix IP, has decided to fork off FreeBSD - a BSD project - instead of continuing on System V. That really demonstrates that the System V branch of Unix is for all practical purposes dead. Xinuos just does support work on the legacy SCO Unixes, but beyond that, drives companies towards FreeBSD. Oracle just supports Solaris on legacy SPARC hardware, but otherwise, pushes Oracle Linux. All the other Unixes that were based on System V are dead.
Is iXsystems a private or a publicly traded company?
Why aren't you going w/ the version that comes w/ FreeBSD 11 or even 10? Who's asking you to use the bleeding edge versions? Is there something major that's there on FreeBSD 12 that's not yet there on 11 that's listed in the above summary?
Don't use Linux, but do use TrueOS and Windows 10
TrueOS comes w/ Lumina, which is very similar to your standard Windows XP like experience, plus some extra features that make it great. If I had Linux, I'd have gone w/ Razor-qt or LX/QT, rather than GNOME 3 or KDE 4/5
I use Windows 10 w/ Classic Shell, which restores the Windows 7 look to the interface. In fact, I get a wide choice - can make it look like Windows 8, Windows 7, Aero, Windows XP, and have tried out quite a number of them.
What's the point of typing in a letter, while handwriting the envelope? An envelope, for you millennials out there, is a paper case in which one can put letters, write the destination address on the front, put a stamp on it (which is a Post Office issued marker to indicate that the service has been paid for) and then drop it in a dropbox near your mailbox or take it to the post office and post it there. This is how it was done before email got as widely adapted as it is today
Did OS X at some point completely replace XNU i.e. underlying Mach 3.0 kernel w/ FreeBSD? I thought that OS X is Mach kernel + FreeBSD userland. Or is it something else?
Precisely! I had an iPod Touch that wouldn't upgrade beyond iOS 4.3. Every app in it was fine. Only problem: if I went to the app store, there was no app there that would still run on this device.
What does WebOS or the other things this guy has done have to do w/ either Windows 8 or GNOME?
On GMail, I find their interface good enough. Only annoyance is the promotional mails that I get, but thankfully, they're not completely junk mail of the type I used to get on Yahoo! mail.
Photos - agree w/ you on that one. There are a whole lot of music videos that I have, as well as family photos & videos. There is no way to separate them. This is an issue common to both Google & Microsoft. The apps ought to be able to distinguish - maybe by folder location - whether a video is that of Black 'n Blue and should be opened by my music app, or whether it's that of my family and should be opened by Photos. As an aside, Android has too many redundant apps: I just don't see the point of having both Photos and Gallery. Photos are better and enough.
Hangouts - in my last job, I used since that's what the company used. It was primarily used as a messenger, as well as for video conferencing and screen sharing - the latter can't be done on WhatsApp, which is not a business application. One could use Skype the same way. Android's answer to FaceTime is Duo, but like I mentioned yesterday, I doubt that Android guys will be downloading FaceTime or that Apple users will be downloading Duo.
Calendar - for work purposes, I used Outlook, so I'd access it from there, and do the copying through Outlook.
That's what I thought. When I worked in the flash memory industry 10 years ago, Samsung used to be one of the fabs for one of my previous employers, and another of my employers would procure pSRAM, DRAM and NAND flash from them.