What magical internet law dictates having a web server at hostname.com? And what other law dictates hostname.com resolve to an ip address? If anything, they are being pendantic, not sloppy.
Though, for largely historical reasons, having an A record (that points to a SMTP server) is considered A Good Thing. (For example, if for some reason MX lookup fails, postfix will, optionally I think, look up the A record instead. Some other MTAs have this behavior too).
I would guess that it's because having a software-based queuing and caching system is more flexible. For example, if you want to optimize operating system startup, then you need some way to specify that the operating system is what you want in the flash memory, instead of some other data.
You could easily have a drive that appears to the OS as two drives; one "drive" would always write to NAND, while the other would be the real disk, with any free space on the NAND part being used as the persistent cache. It would be trivial to use the NAND "drive" for OS startup files, or a swap file, or a database log - just type in the right drive letter to use for those files when configuring your OS or database!
Still, it wouldn't really matter except for startup files, since they don't get used often but impact the startup time heavily. For all other uses, a simple cacheing algorithm that makes sure the most-read blocks stay in NAND (and uses NAND for writes) would be effective. It would figure out that if you're writing a lot to a certain file, then that's what it needs to put in NAND. If your database log file isn't the most heavily used file on your filesystem, your problems aren't with the database.
Or if you've got a laptop, you maybe want to cache writes to the flash if you're using the battery, but write directly to the disk if you're hooked up to the mains. Since the operating system knows about this but the drive doesn't, the operating system needs to control the drive.
You mean; write to NAND when on battery, use main-memory RAM cacheing when on mains. It would still be better to use NAND on mains; mains isn't 100% reliable. In fact, when on battery, at least the OS has an idea as to when the inevitable power failure will occur, so it can choose to flush the cache in time! Not cacheing at all slows things down intolerably, so NAND to the rescue! In fact, on-disk-NAND-for-write-behinds is an even better idea for mains-connected computers than for laptops. Laptops would benefit equally from read-cache on NAND, so the disk doesn't have to spin up too much during normal use (though, for read-cache you could just plug in some more RAM - which is cheaper).
(Hybrid) NAND drives are a real boon to high throughput/volume, highly-transactional systems, like database(log)s, persisten message-queues, etc. That's why NAND drives are being sold right now to places to (massively) speed up their databases.
Non-transparent configuration (other than the fact that you'd be configuring the database logs, or the queues, to be written to a non-default drive letter) really don't add much.
The OS doesn't need to know. It just sees another disk, that maybe a bit faster.
There is an exception. The OS needs to know in case the user is wont to misconfigure the machine (for example, by enabling write-behind cacheing, even though the drive has a nice big fat NAND write cache of its own!). That's why windows needs to add support. Those users don't need to be confused by having another drive letter, or by having to set an arcane, hidden option that would make non-hybrid drives slower.
The 3210 was a pretty decent phone (you couldn't beat the price at the time, as well), but a 6210/6310 has longer (stand-by) battery life, and weighs a lot less.
I currently have an XDA2(/MDA2/qtek 2020) which is a full blown windowsCE PDA with built-in mobile phone (GPS/GPRS), but I'm thinking about getting me a simple phone to replace it. The PDA functions I don't use that often (except satnav); and as a phone it isn't great. It also keeps crashing..
The 3210 has 2 faults (1 of which the 6210 corrects); it's heavy and it's not a clamshell.
I wonder what "bugs that can corrupt a machine's memory space, memory leaks, buffer overruns and crashes" have been uncovered by looking at the source code of closed source softw... oh. wait. no source. heh.
This might well mean that open source software will, at some point in the future, be considered more secure and well-written than comparable commercial closed source software even by government or PHBs.
You have to wonder about the difference in "errors per thousand lines of codes" metric though. Does one project use int a; a = 5; and the other int a=5; ?
How the hell is it not appropriate to publish? It's the government doing wrong, spending taxpayers' money and some company basically screwing the most sacred of a democracy's proceduries; the elections! That should be a matter of public record, sensitivities to "trade secrets" be damned! There are no privacy implications, no military secrets, this should be very basic, unprotected, public records-stuff, not just subject to FOIA, but accesible to basically every joe schmoe from the public.
The very fact that he's being prosecuted by the government for revealing "secrets" about the elections is proof that you cannot trust any branch of government as a whistle blower to Diebold.
I like the way this analyst is thinking! Steve Jobs buys a soda "Apple to claim stake in Pepsico!", Steve Jobs steps into a pharmacy to get some painkillers; "Apple poised to take over Merck!"..
I'll make some predictions of my own; "Larry Ellison to use underwear!" "Michael Dell poised to drink overpriced bottled water!" "Bill Gates to live in house with hot&cold running water, roof!"
Can't you bill them for the amount? Plus consultancy fees for time lost calling their reps? And if they don't pay, send a collection agency? (This is a serious question, any legal buffs?)
This is what the DMCA is for. Just send google a takedown notice, and the search results are gone. The DMCA (safe harbor) is also (together with fair use) what allows google to index the web in the first place, without too much fear for repercussions.
The author blames many of the problems on instant or near-instant communications stating that the slang developed is essentially eroding our ability to formulate coherent thoughts in writing when called upon to do so.
What does that mean? Youngsters don't have coherent thoughts? Or, they're able to formulate incoherent thoughts, but not their thoughts that are coherent? You probably meant "to formulate thoughts in writing coherently" or even "in coherent writing". And "essentially eroding"? As opposed to eroding (our ability etc.) in a non-essential, unimportant way? Or did you mean "in essence, the claim is that.."? It's also curious how the young folk, apparently, are quite capable of writing well when they're not called upon to do so. They can do it if they want, but not when it's asked of them? Sounds like they're faking it. But what do you expect in a world where "slang" (vocabulary) "erodes" our abilities! In the topsy-turvy word where an abstraction like "non-standard vocabulary" can "erode", well, another abstraction, anything is possible! It almost makes up for the fact that "instant or near-instant communications" have been around since Adam and Eve, so their presence is not really a variable. (Probably you meant electronic, written, instant communication.)
Lay off the AIM for a bit; you'll find you don't feel as much need to sound pompous in other media.
Why can't I enable networking and disable the filesharing by stopping the service that makes the SMB ports listen?
Actually, you can. The listen service is called "server" and the client is called "workstation" (you might also need "computer browser" and "tcp/ip netbios helper" and "print spooler").
Stop telling me "access denied" when I'm the fracking system admin. I really hate that. Processes can't be killed, services can't be stopped, files can't be deleted, etc because "Access denied". Kill the damn process if I tell you to.
You can mark unkillable services as "disabled", that way at least they won't come up after a reboot. I find sysinternals' tools to be very helpful in killing processes and handles.
Still sucks, but at least you have a workaround (sometimes)
Unlike XJFReiFS 2.3.1.5, DVDs will be readable in 50 years time.
So, do you actually have any 50 year old DVDs that you can still read? Or are you just hilariously naive and optimistic?
So, what do you guess the likelihood is that a filesystem supported by * millions of home-cinemas * millions of PCs and macs, including windows, linux, mac-ox, unix, etc. * millions of playstation-2's that's being used by a whole lot of people to archive stuff, not even counting the millions of discs sold with content already on them.. will be readable in 50 years, as compared to some obscure filesystems that only work on some systems and that you usually have to compile from source code?
Hmmm...
I'll take my chances and go with UDF+ISO9660. I mean.. It's ever so slightly less hilariously naive and optimistic than the other options by a factor of, oh, a million or somthing.
I'm well under 40 (or 30 for that matter) and I can't play racing games worth shit, precisely because the controls, well, suck. There's no tactile feedback, no way to indicate you want to go left "just a little" besides pressing the key for a millisecond, it plain, outright, sucks. It has nothing to do with age or skill or even learning.
Like you said, the game itself is simple. He's not asking about XP points and manna, he's asking about the controls. Driving a car with playstation controls instead of a steering wheel, paddles and a stickshift (if applicable) is not intuitive.
For all my WORM disks, I use either ISO 9660 or ISO 9660/UDF bridge format. Yeah, I simply burn CD-Rs or DVDs. DVDs have the nice property of being easily stored off-site. And files are in nice large contiguous block so even if the filesystem dies you can still recover a lot. Unlike XJFReiFS 2.3.1.5, DVDs will be readable in 50 years time. And if you need to burn really large files, just use, well, zip. And perhaps some par2 files.
Though, seriously, they're coming up with a UDF variant for hard drives too.
Sony was selling the UMDs for 20 bucks stand alone. So consumers can spend 25 bucks for a DVD and UMD, meaning that DVD costs 5 bucks. It makes more sense if you look at it from that perspective.
That's how Sony thinks..
The problem is.. Sony was NOT selling the UMDs for 20 bucks stand alone. Who wants those?
It's like saying, look, we can give you a swift kick in the groin for 20 bucks.. A DVD for 15 bucks.. OR.. a swift kick in the groin AND a DVD, for just $25! That way your DVD only costs $5! What a bargain, eh? Gotta have that! Especially if you already own a groin.
As long as a contract is well understood by both parties and voluntarilty entered into, it's fine.
For existing customers, it's a simple bait-and-switch tactic. Offer one thing, deliver the other.
For new customers (or those who are actually informed of the choice and consciously agree with it) the new contract is basically, well, not understood. A contract is a promise to do something in return for something else. The something else is clear; you have to pay netflix money. And in return? Well, they won't say you will get anything. Not guaranteed.
Of course, people were already getting delays, so what's changed isn't what you're getting. But it's the fact netflix doesn't say they want to even make the effort anymore. They promise... nothing.
That's not a contract. That's a lottery.
Seeing as they're called "netflix" and not "loan-a-dvd lottery co." I'd say they're trying to pull a fast one.
It would be fairly simple to build a p2p broadcast client that operated like bittorrent (so as to eliminate the need for a single server to serve bandwidth to everyone).
Simpler than building something like that would be to just use peercast. A peer to peer audio streaming program designed to eliminate the need for a single server to serve bandwidth to everyone.
(Amusingly another reply to the parent post is some-one pointing out how this can never work. What I'd call 'management material' there..)
In many cases, government jobs are already required to be advertised widely, and candidates must be considered on the basis of their qualifications. This means, that if you have your golfing buddy in mind for the job, all you have to do is make sure the qualifications listed match his (and only his) profile. Now, if applicants have to conform to the qualifications 100% this is a much, much easier process. Imagine a wanted ad like "senior business consultant with 13 years experience in federal auditing blahblah and a minimum of 3, but no more that 4 weeks of experience in an abbatoir", or whatever crappy holiday job the schmuck had.
Of course, if you do want to give a lot of people a shot, you just state "requirements: carbon based lifeform, literacy" and "the following are a plus:......"
So, really, this helps the government hiring cheats.
The more interesting fact in this article (IMHO) is that, apparently, you can get an MBA in marketing. What the fuck is that all about? Sure, MBAs are as close to diplomas from non-accredited "universities" "based on you life experience" as they can get without attracting interest from the law as it is, but to hand them out even to marketingdroids.. *shudder*..
(Of course, any one with an MBA in marketing should understand that the fact that you're getting an MBA in marketing devalues the MBA instantly, so really, they should fail straight away for even daring to apply).
They didn't have access to the phones. They just altered the programming in the phone exchange.
From the article: Roussopoulos said the surveillance was carried out through spy software installed in the central system of Vodafone, the mobile telephony provider that served the targets.
A game console that's coming out in 2006 will have "on-line" capabilities? Really?! I'm shocked! They'll try to be better than their main competitor? You don't say!
That's like saying Ford will be coming out with a car that has airbags! Or the pepsi company launching a new "soft" "drink" that is carbonated! And they're saying it will taste better than coke or fanta.. I'm so excited!
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What magical internet law dictates having a web server at hostname.com? And what other law dictates hostname.com resolve to an ip address? If anything, they are being pendantic, not sloppy.
Though, for largely historical reasons, having an A record (that points to a SMTP server) is considered A Good Thing. (For example, if for some reason MX lookup fails, postfix will, optionally I think, look up the A record instead. Some other MTAs have this behavior too).
I would guess that it's because having a software-based queuing and caching system is more flexible. For example, if you want to optimize operating system startup, then you need some way to specify that the operating system is what you want in the flash memory, instead of some other data.
You could easily have a drive that appears to the OS as two drives; one "drive" would always write to NAND, while the other would be the real disk, with any free space on the NAND part being used as the persistent cache. It would be trivial to use the NAND "drive" for OS startup files, or a swap file, or a database log - just type in the right drive letter to use for those files when configuring your OS or database!
Still, it wouldn't really matter except for startup files, since they don't get used often but impact the startup time heavily. For all other uses, a simple cacheing algorithm that makes sure the most-read blocks stay in NAND (and uses NAND for writes) would be effective. It would figure out that if you're writing a lot to a certain file, then that's what it needs to put in NAND. If your database log file isn't the most heavily used file on your filesystem, your problems aren't with the database.
Or if you've got a laptop, you maybe want to cache writes to the flash if you're using the battery, but write directly to the disk if you're hooked up to the mains. Since the operating system knows about this but the drive doesn't, the operating system needs to control the drive.
You mean; write to NAND when on battery, use main-memory RAM cacheing when on mains. It would still be better to use NAND on mains; mains isn't 100% reliable. In fact, when on battery, at least the OS has an idea as to when the inevitable power failure will occur, so it can choose to flush the cache in time! Not cacheing at all slows things down intolerably, so NAND to the rescue! In fact, on-disk-NAND-for-write-behinds is an even better idea for mains-connected computers than for laptops. Laptops would benefit equally from read-cache on NAND, so the disk doesn't have to spin up too much during normal use (though, for read-cache you could just plug in some more RAM - which is cheaper).
(Hybrid) NAND drives are a real boon to high throughput/volume, highly-transactional systems, like database(log)s, persisten message-queues, etc. That's why NAND drives are being sold right now to places to (massively) speed up their databases.
Non-transparent configuration (other than the fact that you'd be configuring the database logs, or the queues, to be written to a non-default drive letter) really don't add much.
The OS doesn't need to know. It just sees another disk, that maybe a bit faster.
There is an exception. The OS needs to know in case the user is wont to misconfigure the machine (for example, by enabling write-behind cacheing, even though the drive has a nice big fat NAND write cache of its own!). That's why windows needs to add support. Those users don't need to be confused by having another drive letter, or by having to set an arcane, hidden option that would make non-hybrid drives slower.
The 3210 was a pretty decent phone (you couldn't beat the price at the time, as well), but a 6210/6310 has longer (stand-by) battery life, and weighs a lot less.
I currently have an XDA2(/MDA2/qtek 2020) which is a full blown windowsCE PDA with built-in mobile phone (GPS/GPRS), but I'm thinking about getting me a simple phone to replace it. The PDA functions I don't use that often (except satnav); and as a phone it isn't great. It also keeps crashing..
The 3210 has 2 faults (1 of which the 6210 corrects); it's heavy and it's not a clamshell.
is good for the gander?
I wonder what "bugs that can corrupt a machine's memory space, memory leaks, buffer overruns and crashes" have been uncovered by looking at the source code of closed source softw... oh. wait. no source. heh.
This might well mean that open source software will, at some point in the future, be considered more secure and well-written than comparable commercial closed source software even by government or PHBs.
You have to wonder about the difference in "errors per thousand lines of codes" metric though. Does one project use
int a;
a = 5;
and the other
int a=5;
?
How the hell is it not appropriate to publish? It's the government doing wrong, spending taxpayers' money and some company basically screwing the most sacred of a democracy's proceduries; the elections! That should be a matter of public record, sensitivities to "trade secrets" be damned! There are no privacy implications, no military secrets, this should be very basic, unprotected, public records-stuff, not just subject to FOIA, but accesible to basically every joe schmoe from the public.
The very fact that he's being prosecuted by the government for revealing "secrets" about the elections is proof that you cannot trust any branch of government as a whistle blower to Diebold.
I like the way this analyst is thinking!
Steve Jobs buys a soda "Apple to claim stake in Pepsico!", Steve Jobs steps into a pharmacy to get some painkillers; "Apple poised to take over Merck!"..
I'll make some predictions of my own;
"Larry Ellison to use underwear!"
"Michael Dell poised to drink overpriced bottled water!"
"Bill Gates to live in house with hot&cold running water, roof!"
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Can't you bill them for the amount? Plus consultancy fees for time lost calling their reps? And if they don't pay, send a collection agency? (This is a serious question, any legal buffs?)
This is what the DMCA is for. Just send google a takedown notice, and the search results are gone. The DMCA (safe harbor) is also (together with fair use) what allows google to index the web in the first place, without too much fear for repercussions.
I fucking hate the word "usage." Nobody uses it correctly, if there is a single correct use. Usually, the use "usage" when they mean "use."
Well, I think we all mean what some-one means when that word is used. The new meaning is in such wide usageness..
The author blames many of the problems on instant or near-instant communications stating that the slang developed is essentially eroding our ability to formulate coherent thoughts in writing when called upon to do so.
What does that mean? Youngsters don't have coherent thoughts? Or, they're able to formulate incoherent thoughts, but not their thoughts that are coherent?
You probably meant "to formulate thoughts in writing coherently" or even "in coherent writing". And "essentially eroding"? As opposed to eroding (our ability etc.) in a non-essential, unimportant way? Or did you mean "in essence, the claim is that.."? It's also curious how the young folk, apparently, are quite capable of writing well when they're not called upon to do so. They can do it if they want, but not when it's asked of them? Sounds like they're faking it. But what do you expect in a world where "slang" (vocabulary) "erodes" our abilities! In the topsy-turvy word where an abstraction like "non-standard vocabulary" can "erode", well, another abstraction, anything is possible! It almost makes up for the fact that "instant or near-instant communications" have been around since Adam and Eve, so their presence is not really a variable. (Probably you meant electronic, written, instant communication.)
Lay off the AIM for a bit; you'll find you don't feel as much need to sound pompous in other media.
Why can't I enable networking and disable the filesharing by stopping the service that makes the SMB ports listen?
Actually, you can. The listen service is called "server" and the client is called "workstation" (you might also need "computer browser" and "tcp/ip netbios helper" and "print spooler").
Stop telling me "access denied" when I'm the fracking system admin. I really hate that. Processes can't be killed, services can't be stopped, files can't be deleted, etc because "Access denied". Kill the damn process if I tell you to.
You can mark unkillable services as "disabled", that way at least they won't come up after a reboot. I find sysinternals' tools to be very helpful in killing processes and handles.
Still sucks, but at least you have a workaround (sometimes)
Unlike XJFReiFS 2.3.1.5, DVDs will be readable in 50 years time.
So, do you actually have any 50 year old DVDs that you can still read? Or are you just hilariously naive and optimistic?
So, what do you guess the likelihood is that a filesystem supported by
* millions of home-cinemas
* millions of PCs and macs, including windows, linux, mac-ox, unix, etc.
* millions of playstation-2's
that's being used by a whole lot of people to archive stuff, not even counting the millions of discs sold with content already on them..
will be readable in 50 years, as compared to some obscure filesystems that only work on some systems and that you usually have to compile from source code?
Hmmm...
I'll take my chances and go with UDF+ISO9660. I mean.. It's ever so slightly less hilariously naive and optimistic than the other options by a factor of, oh, a million or somthing.
Seeing as some one else posted voltron getting served, wake me up when they make transformers breakdance
I'm well under 40 (or 30 for that matter) and I can't play racing games worth shit, precisely because the controls, well, suck. There's no tactile feedback, no way to indicate you want to go left "just a little" besides pressing the key for a millisecond, it plain, outright, sucks. It has nothing to do with age or skill or even learning.
Like you said, the game itself is simple. He's not asking about XP points and manna, he's asking about the controls. Driving a car with playstation controls instead of a steering wheel, paddles and a stickshift (if applicable) is not intuitive.
For all my WORM disks, I use either ISO 9660 or ISO 9660/UDF bridge format.
Yeah, I simply burn CD-Rs or DVDs. DVDs have the nice property of being easily stored off-site. And files are in nice large contiguous block so even if the filesystem dies you can still recover a lot. Unlike XJFReiFS 2.3.1.5, DVDs will be readable in 50 years time.
And if you need to burn really large files, just use, well, zip. And perhaps some par2 files.
Though, seriously, they're coming up with a UDF variant for hard drives too.
Sony was selling the UMDs for 20 bucks stand alone. So consumers can spend 25 bucks for a DVD and UMD, meaning that DVD costs 5 bucks. It makes more sense if you look at it from that perspective.
That's how Sony thinks..
The problem is.. Sony was NOT selling the UMDs for 20 bucks stand alone. Who wants those?
It's like saying, look, we can give you a swift kick in the groin for 20 bucks.. A DVD for 15 bucks.. OR.. a swift kick in the groin AND a DVD, for just $25! That way your DVD only costs $5! What a bargain, eh? Gotta have that! Especially if you already own a groin.
As long as a contract is well understood by both parties and voluntarilty entered into, it's fine.
For existing customers, it's a simple bait-and-switch tactic. Offer one thing, deliver the other.
For new customers (or those who are actually informed of the choice and consciously agree with it) the new contract is basically, well, not understood. A contract is a promise to do something in return for something else. The something else is clear; you have to pay netflix money. And in return? Well, they won't say you will get anything. Not guaranteed.
Of course, people were already getting delays, so what's changed isn't what you're getting. But it's the fact netflix doesn't say they want to even make the effort anymore. They promise... nothing.
That's not a contract. That's a lottery.
Seeing as they're called "netflix" and not "loan-a-dvd lottery co." I'd say they're trying to pull a fast one.
It would be fairly simple to build a p2p broadcast client that operated like bittorrent (so as to eliminate the need for a single server to serve bandwidth to everyone).
Simpler than building something like that would be to just use peercast. A peer to peer audio streaming program designed to eliminate the need for a single server to serve bandwidth to everyone.
(Amusingly another reply to the parent post is some-one pointing out how this can never work. What I'd call 'management material' there..)
In many cases, government jobs are already required to be advertised widely, and candidates must be considered on the basis of their qualifications. This means, that if you have your golfing buddy in mind for the job, all you have to do is make sure the qualifications listed match his (and only his) profile. Now, if applicants have to conform to the qualifications 100% this is a much, much easier process. Imagine a wanted ad like "senior business consultant with 13 years experience in federal auditing blahblah and a minimum of 3, but no more that 4 weeks of experience in an abbatoir", or whatever crappy holiday job the schmuck had.
......"
Of course, if you do want to give a lot of people a shot, you just state "requirements: carbon based lifeform, literacy" and "the following are a plus:
So, really, this helps the government hiring cheats.
this scuttlemonkey cat posts how many times a day? and this is the first vaguely interesting thing I've seen out of him... played out as it is...
How about you get an account and log in so you can have the balls to stand behind what you say.
That's fighting talk! But why are you posting under this "gomaze" pseudonym, scuttlemonkey?
The more interesting fact in this article (IMHO) is that, apparently, you can get an MBA in marketing. What the fuck is that all about? Sure, MBAs are as close to diplomas from non-accredited "universities" "based on you life experience" as they can get without attracting interest from the law as it is, but to hand them out even to marketingdroids.. *shudder*..
(Of course, any one with an MBA in marketing should understand that the fact that you're getting an MBA in marketing devalues the MBA instantly, so really, they should fail straight away for even daring to apply).
They didn't have access to the phones. They just altered the programming in the phone exchange.
From the article:
Roussopoulos said the surveillance was carried out through spy software installed in the central system of Vodafone, the mobile telephony provider that served the targets.
A game console that's coming out in 2006 will have "on-line" capabilities? Really?! I'm shocked! They'll try to be better than their main competitor? You don't say!
That's like saying Ford will be coming out with a car that has airbags! Or the pepsi company launching a new "soft" "drink" that is carbonated! And they're saying it will taste better than coke or fanta.. I'm so excited!