I wonder how many Chinese people will manually pointing their DNS lookups at servers outside of China? And whether the Chinese gov't will try to prevent it?
What hardware is installed in the DVRs? If it's a PC-based system, it probably uses PCI-based quad-camera cards, and you might be able to locate Linux drivers for 'em.
They're trying to fight a holding action, much like the RIAA is; and like the RIAA, they're being somewhat successful in keeping their revenue from dropping to zero. Whether it will work in the long run is questionable, but in the short run there's still billions to be made.
Unfortunately, that'll probably only convert an unencoded data stream. I doubt it'll convert encrypted video.
On the other hand, we may be seeing ones that'll do so in the future. They may be difficult to find, and illegal... But all it takes is one person who has one to rip the video and upload it.
While Microsoft's software's behavior is obviously faulty, I can't hold Norton completely faultless, either. The degree to which NAV worms its way into the OS is ridiculous, and of course it'd take a lot of effort to undo the result of damaging the install.
So if you don't know how to code at all, how did you settle on that choice of infrastructure? I suggest you get the coder you hire to tell you what you ought to use to build your site.
...If you were willing to give up the Xbox 360's ability to play online, perhaps even the ability to play games, period, would the box still be useful? Could one install Linux on the HD and use it as a DVR, for instance? Or is the hardware locked up so tightly that, unless you boot using a special trick each and every time, it's not useful?
It actually looks like SATA has a higher potential speed than FC, though it's not designed to act as a bus like FC is. I suspect a machine with a multiple SATA RAID controller will beat the equivalent FC solution, though perhaps with less failover capability.
My colleagues slipstream service packs and critcial hotfixes (i.e. those that can result in ones machine being 0wn3d during the install) into the installation image...
I recommend doing all your installation behind a cheap cable/DSL router; this will block any incoming traffic from reaching the machine. Unless you decide to go surfing around on suspect web sites with the incompletely updated machine, you're pretty much guaranteed not to get 0wn3d.
If you've got a datacenter large enough that energy efficiency is a problem, I recommend you move the whole shebang to a location where energy is more plentiful. Upstate NY, which has plenty of hydroelectric power, would be a good choice. Nowadays, thanks to the internet, you don't have to keep your datacenter next to part of your operation.
If you're working overtime, you'd better be getting paid overtime. If not, get out now. If so, save up. You can last out a few months, and in that time you should be able to save up enough to buffer yourself long enough to find another position.
I purchased some Google at the IPO and decided to hold it long-term. I've been watching it in amazement ever since. As far as I can determine, the reason for Google's dip is because a certain analyst (and a disgraced one, at that) announced that Google was going to drop, and several news outlets picked it up. I'd been watching it closely over this week, wondering whether or not I should bail.
Then I heard the news about Google's resisting that subpoena. That decided me; I'm happy to help support their stock price and maintain my investment indefinitely so long as they maintain their dedication.
Just a note - "connecting the neutral and the ground" does NOT mean you should short the neutral to the ground at the outlet. Doing so would be a good way to melt wires and start fires. Get an electrician to fix the problem.
My personal opinion is that, while I'd rather have a single monitor than the dual 20" display setup I'm using now, that 30" monitor would tend to annoy me because it would be much taller than my current displays and more difficult to scan. I'd much prefer a display with a 2:1 (or wider) width-to-height ratio.
I believe Microsoft's article is reasonable, to a certain extent. They haven't been comparing apples with oranges, but instead are showing that computers running similar application suites behave similarly, whether running on Linux or NT.
The problem with the article isn't that they aren't comparing apples with apples, but that they're ignoring the fact that the oranges exist. If you aren't running desktop apps Linux will run well on small amounts of RAM - even less than the 64MB they quote as the minimum limit - and that similar apps aren't as readily available under the Windows OS.
They're also neglecting to mention that you'd need to spend hundreds to obtain a licensed copy of XP for your legacy hardware, as opposed to downloading a Linux CD image.
Deeper. Putting it outside would be a little noisier, but it would probably still be quieter than stock. The idea is to decouple the vibration of the operating fan from the metal case.
Just change your current system over to linux when you switch to a new box for Windows Vista. What, you expected to be able to run Vista on your old machine? Yeah, right...
Disclaimer: Don't do this unless you're pretty comfortable working with high voltages and large capacitors.
Disassemble the power supply. Unbolt the fan from the side. Reinstall it using longer bolts and a few rubber washers to hold the fan away from the side of the p/s case. Use foam tape to fill the gap between the fan and the case. Your power supply should now be significantly quieter.
Do you really need an electron microscope? I thought this recovery was performed by reading the analog data produced by the drive head and then analyzing the signal looking for the tiny shifts that are the palimpsests from prior writes. I suppose an electron microscope would give more data, and perhaps read back through more write cycles, but I don't think it'd be necessary if you only wanted to read back through one or perhaps two cycles.
I have an alternate explanation. I believe what existed before the guy's experiment was a more-or-less stable "ecology" around those particular keywords. There were probably a number of people paying a premium for a limited number of clicks for those keywords, well above the 10-cent level he was originally paying for. Google probably sorted the higher-paying advertisers onto the best pages and left the dime-a-click ones for others and everyone was more-or-less happy.
Then when the experiment began, it disrupted things. The advertisers who were initially offering a premium found themselves with fewer clicks as their ads were placed on less advantageous pages, or when their ads were displaced entirely. They then changed their own behavior, perhaps by choosing different keywords and/or paying higher rates. This would have cascaded, causing other advertisers to change their behaviors.
The end result would've been a shift in AdWords' performance with those keywords, one that wouldn't easily be reversible, and which could account for the poor performance when the experimenter reduced his bids for clicks.
...but very interesting, and the first thing I'd ask is, if metastatic cancers require this "system" to operate in order to be successful, then why are so many carcinomas malignant? Shouldn't we be seeing a lot more benign growths that require only a simple, surgical extraction? Perhaps this behavior serves a more mundane use and is often already active. Unfortunately that means drugs to inhibit it might produce some very unwelcome side effects.
Step 1: Web publishers in Europe sue search engines to stop them from "stealing" their content.
Step 2: Web publishers in Europe sue search engines to force them to reindex their servers after their customers can no longer find them and their competitors, who were happy to be indexed, get all the traffic.
Step 3: Web publishers in Europe sue search engines to recover for "damages" since the engines are using their intellectual property - despite the fact that the search engines are now forced to use that property by court order.
Step 4: Web publishers in Europe are lined up against the wall and shot as the internet collapses from an excess of stupidity.
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I wonder how many Chinese people will manually pointing their DNS lookups at servers outside of China? And whether the Chinese gov't will try to prevent it?
What hardware is installed in the DVRs? If it's a PC-based system, it probably uses PCI-based quad-camera cards, and you might be able to locate Linux drivers for 'em.
They're trying to fight a holding action, much like the RIAA is; and like the RIAA, they're being somewhat successful in keeping their revenue from dropping to zero. Whether it will work in the long run is questionable, but in the short run there's still billions to be made.
Hollywood hasn't soured on BitTorrent itself, only a bunch of w4r3z tracking sites.
Unfortunately, that'll probably only convert an unencoded data stream. I doubt it'll convert encrypted video.
On the other hand, we may be seeing ones that'll do so in the future. They may be difficult to find, and illegal... But all it takes is one person who has one to rip the video and upload it.
While Microsoft's software's behavior is obviously faulty, I can't hold Norton completely faultless, either. The degree to which NAV worms its way into the OS is ridiculous, and of course it'd take a lot of effort to undo the result of damaging the install.
OTOH, McAfee is even worse in taking over the OS.
You might want to check this other Slashdot story.
So if you don't know how to code at all, how did you settle on that choice of infrastructure? I suggest you get the coder you hire to tell you what you ought to use to build your site.
...If you were willing to give up the Xbox 360's ability to play online, perhaps even the ability to play games, period, would the box still be useful? Could one install Linux on the HD and use it as a DVR, for instance? Or is the hardware locked up so tightly that, unless you boot using a special trick each and every time, it's not useful?
It actually looks like SATA has a higher potential speed than FC, though it's not designed to act as a bus like FC is. I suspect a machine with a multiple SATA RAID controller will beat the equivalent FC solution, though perhaps with less failover capability.
Just to go off on a tangent...
My colleagues slipstream service packs and critcial hotfixes (i.e. those that can result in ones machine being 0wn3d during the install) into the installation image...
I recommend doing all your installation behind a cheap cable/DSL router; this will block any incoming traffic from reaching the machine. Unless you decide to go surfing around on suspect web sites with the incompletely updated machine, you're pretty much guaranteed not to get 0wn3d.
If you've got a datacenter large enough that energy efficiency is a problem, I recommend you move the whole shebang to a location where energy is more plentiful. Upstate NY, which has plenty of hydroelectric power, would be a good choice. Nowadays, thanks to the internet, you don't have to keep your datacenter next to part of your operation.
If you're working overtime, you'd better be getting paid overtime. If not, get out now. If so, save up. You can last out a few months, and in that time you should be able to save up enough to buffer yourself long enough to find another position.
I purchased some Google at the IPO and decided to hold it long-term. I've been watching it in amazement ever since. As far as I can determine, the reason for Google's dip is because a certain analyst (and a disgraced one, at that) announced that Google was going to drop, and several news outlets picked it up. I'd been watching it closely over this week, wondering whether or not I should bail.
Then I heard the news about Google's resisting that subpoena. That decided me; I'm happy to help support their stock price and maintain my investment indefinitely so long as they maintain their dedication.
Just a note - "connecting the neutral and the ground" does NOT mean you should short the neutral to the ground at the outlet. Doing so would be a good way to melt wires and start fires. Get an electrician to fix the problem.
http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/69/Living_In_Bali .html
While Bali is fairly idyllic, apparently there are problems with foreigners being cheated in land sales and with becoming a resident.
General note: If you wish to work and/or live elsewhere, The EscapeArtist is a good resource to plan with.
My personal opinion is that, while I'd rather have a single monitor than the dual 20" display setup I'm using now, that 30" monitor would tend to annoy me because it would be much taller than my current displays and more difficult to scan. I'd much prefer a display with a 2:1 (or wider) width-to-height ratio.
I believe Microsoft's article is reasonable, to a certain extent. They haven't been comparing apples with oranges, but instead are showing that computers running similar application suites behave similarly, whether running on Linux or NT.
The problem with the article isn't that they aren't comparing apples with apples, but that they're ignoring the fact that the oranges exist. If you aren't running desktop apps Linux will run well on small amounts of RAM - even less than the 64MB they quote as the minimum limit - and that similar apps aren't as readily available under the Windows OS.
They're also neglecting to mention that you'd need to spend hundreds to obtain a licensed copy of XP for your legacy hardware, as opposed to downloading a Linux CD image.
Deeper. Putting it outside would be a little noisier, but it would probably still be quieter than stock. The idea is to decouple the vibration of the operating fan from the metal case.
Just change your current system over to linux when you switch to a new box for Windows Vista. What, you expected to be able to run Vista on your old machine? Yeah, right...
Disclaimer: Don't do this unless you're pretty comfortable working with high voltages and large capacitors.
Disassemble the power supply. Unbolt the fan from the side. Reinstall it using longer bolts and a few rubber washers to hold the fan away from the side of the p/s case. Use foam tape to fill the gap between the fan and the case. Your power supply should now be significantly quieter.
Do you really need an electron microscope? I thought this recovery was performed by reading the analog data produced by the drive head and then analyzing the signal looking for the tiny shifts that are the palimpsests from prior writes. I suppose an electron microscope would give more data, and perhaps read back through more write cycles, but I don't think it'd be necessary if you only wanted to read back through one or perhaps two cycles.
I have an alternate explanation. I believe what existed before the guy's experiment was a more-or-less stable "ecology" around those particular keywords. There were probably a number of people paying a premium for a limited number of clicks for those keywords, well above the 10-cent level he was originally paying for. Google probably sorted the higher-paying advertisers onto the best pages and left the dime-a-click ones for others and everyone was more-or-less happy.
Then when the experiment began, it disrupted things. The advertisers who were initially offering a premium found themselves with fewer clicks as their ads were placed on less advantageous pages, or when their ads were displaced entirely. They then changed their own behavior, perhaps by choosing different keywords and/or paying higher rates. This would have cascaded, causing other advertisers to change their behaviors.
The end result would've been a shift in AdWords' performance with those keywords, one that wouldn't easily be reversible, and which could account for the poor performance when the experimenter reduced his bids for clicks.
...but very interesting, and the first thing I'd ask is, if metastatic cancers require this "system" to operate in order to be successful, then why are so many carcinomas malignant? Shouldn't we be seeing a lot more benign growths that require only a simple, surgical extraction? Perhaps this behavior serves a more mundane use and is often already active. Unfortunately that means drugs to inhibit it might produce some very unwelcome side effects.
Step 1: Web publishers in Europe sue search engines to stop them from "stealing" their content.
Step 2: Web publishers in Europe sue search engines to force them to reindex their servers after their customers can no longer find them and their competitors, who were happy to be indexed, get all the traffic.
Step 3: Web publishers in Europe sue search engines to recover for "damages" since the engines are using their intellectual property - despite the fact that the search engines are now forced to use that property by court order.
Step 4: Web publishers in Europe are lined up against the wall and shot as the internet collapses from an excess of stupidity.