Given the three different powers he would choose to 'cook his brain' with the BlueTooth transmitter not the others. He didn't mean that using BlueTooth would cook his brain.
Actually if you read the New Scientist artictle you can see that that's a lie. What they actually did was bundle 10 FastTcp connetions (one must assume on fast lines) togeather and, fairly unsuprisingly, got speeds 6,000 times fast than a broadband connection... wow... 10 high speed lines are faster than broadband??
This would be more interesting had they actually tested it on a standard 512kbs connection and seen if there was a speed increase. IMO it most likely would not make a huge a difference anyway since alot of the slowdown on a consumer broadband connecting is the connection buffers at your ISP. For a better explanation read the Traffic Shaping HOWTO.
In his answer he said that the bandwidth used for sending data to and from the tracker is only 1/1000 of the bandwidth that is used. The server running the tracker is still going to need a copy of the file to send out also, or else it just doesn't work. That will eat up the bandwidth.
Reiser's points was that if you are the one working to fund the coders then you are the one that is essential - and thus can't take time off. When other people depend apon the money you raise/make then your ability to go "Fuck it all, I'm not going to work today" is lost, in the real world this could be called "an irresponsible attitude".
Just ask anyone who is running a small startup, or a charity or someone who is the only moneymaker for their family, they understand.
(c) why firebird - what's so special about the name?
The logo.
If you look its clearly a phoenix, a firebird is basicly just another way of calling it. It essentially means that they can keep the "same" name even if they've had to change the title for legal reasons.
IMO the Firebird DB project needs to stop being a bunch of whining asses. So its got the same name... Does the DB have the name registered as a trademark? Do you really think that people will get confused and download a browser if they're clearly looking for a DB? Do you really think that people will think "shit! the DB has the same name as a browser, thus it must be crap!". I don't...
Actually I'd say that they have reason to be happy - think of the thousands of slashdoters who have now heard of your Firebird...
The nvidia drivers (NVidia's ones, not the XFree ones) are definatly modular, they come as a kernel module and a GLX module (with a touch of compiling needed...)
xplanet can do this. It can be set up to download cloud images every 3 hours and project them over an image of earth. It can create some stunning results.
Go and look at some of their screenshots, amazing...
1) Should this information be available on the web?
and 2) Is this information being used illegaly?
To the first question I would have to say "Yes" if its publicly available information then it should be made available over the internet. After all, if its publicly available then I can go and find it anyway, it might take 10mins longer but hey... If its publicly available then someone, somewhere, sometime must have decided that it was in the public interest for it to be available.
For the second question. Asking if information is being used illegaly is just stupid IMO. Knowing something that publicly available can't be illegal. OK so publicly available information can be used to do illegal things, but the knowlage of the information isn't illegal its just the action being done that is.
Surely the whole point of the internet was to make your data (be it scientific data, your family tree or your pr0n collection...) publicly available. Complaining that the internet works as it was designed to is just plain stupid!
The Google Cache questions is an interesting one though. Yes the cache will remove data if a site dies (after a certain length of time), but it still does store your data. But is this really a problem? I know people (and read the stories about others on/.) who have managed to delete their ~/www and then recover large chunks of it from the google cache. Is the google cache really any different than someone who just saved a local copy of your page or site anyway?
Anyway IMO it comes down to a very simple choice: Do you want world and dog to see your site? if Yes -> stick it on the net if No -> Protect it with a password, or just as simply DON'T PUT IT ON THE NET
They've offered Video on demand via ADSL for years. Its with a company called Homechoice (used to be Video-Net). I've had it since it was in beta for about three or four years now. It works very very well, good quality streaming, real 'on demand', you can just pick a film from their collection and watch it. Basicly they run an f/o to your local exchange and you get 2.4mbs ADSL connection which holds the video with a standard ADSL splitter/modem. This then goes to a set-top box. They also offer an internet service with it, but only at 115kbs since most of the bandwidth is reserved for the video. For more info check here.
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Nokia seems to be using java already
One of their newest phones (the 6310i) uses it. From the specs:
Phone Features
* Tri-band phone - works in three networks on five continents
* downloadable personal applications via Java(TM) technology
* Support of Java applications download via WAP
IIRC the 9210i does as well....
Not tried either of them (yet) but sounds like it works... nokia also just had a java programming compo for their phones
Well.... OS-X ain't really linux IIRC its based on BSD, also it isn't as nice an interface as windows or KDE/GNOME (IMHO)
I could get my mother (who isn't really a computer literate person) to use GNOME with out too many probs, the only problem would be if I asked her to install it as well. If she could buy a computer with Linux & GNOME & StarOffice (or similar) pre-installed and ready to go then she wouldn't have too many problems getting it to run and using it. At the least she would have no more problems than if I sat her in front of a Windows or OS-X box. And I think she'd rather use a machine which is fast (I've never used OS-X but a lot of things a read about complain that its slow to do quite a few things), reliable, hard to break and doesn't have nausa inducing cutesy icons....
lets be honest... who wouldn't rather support real open-source software rather than a propriatry GUI built on top of open-source and then sold at an interesting profit margin...
I'm not sure exactly where its supposed to fit into the market though... it seems to be a jazzed up WebTV, RePlay and Cable TV box, all in one. But if people already own one or two of those allready why would they buy this?
Although saying that I do like the fact that its Linux Based and it does look nicer than your average Set-Top Box (but the fact that you can't put the TV *on* the box may be a minus) I would almost buy one, but I don't want internet on my TV and I've got a Cable box already with Interactive TV.
Very nice... but I don't think its going to sell that well
Well... I can really see the relevence of your comment...
DivX is used by lots of people for its good compression and high quality, oh and the fact that you can use it with pretty much any video player in Windows or Linux/Unix
While on the other hand QuickTime might be technically better, but its not used as often since you can get decent players or rippers/compressors for it....
So, let me get this straight---you gave out solutions in one term. Next term you assigned the exact same question, and then you were surprised to find someone had found your old solutions? Is this your first year teaching?
I don't think thats the point....
I think he trying to point out how stupid the student is for copying exactly the same answer instead of looking at the solution and tweaking the numbers a bit so that it looks a bit more original
Surely that would make very little sense.
1)If it [swap space] were encrypted then it would place considrable extra load on the CPU especially if its a server that it used alot and thus has to read/write to swap space regulary.
2)If the kernel has to access it then it can't be using very secure encryption and so could be decrypted with a minium of knowlage
The Java and Linux crusade is getting some support from IBM, but let's be realistic and understand they just want to shift some more very expensive boxes - they will drop Java/Linux in a heartbeat depending on what makes money.
Thats odd... I'm sure I've seen IBM pour a large amount of money in to porting linux over to its 390 range servers and its infamous "Love, Peace and Pengiun" adverts that they got in trouble for when they spray painted them on side walks.
IBM also seem to be pushing java a fair amount also, I have got a heap of IBM/Java demo crap at home from shows
I doubt that the CIA/FBI/NSA even uses windows XP for any sort of confidential information. Most like they're still running the nearly bug free Windows NT, or some incarnation of unix.
Last I checked XP was a version of NT, sort of NT 6.
But in any case the NSA is supposed to be working on a secure version of Linux with encrytped filesystems...
Slashdot Mirror
Ummmmm....
I think you somewhat mis-understood the comment.
Given the three different powers he would choose to 'cook his brain' with the BlueTooth transmitter not the others. He didn't mean that using BlueTooth would cook his brain.
Actually if you read the New Scientist artictle you can see that that's a lie. What they actually did was bundle 10 FastTcp connetions (one must assume on fast lines) togeather and, fairly unsuprisingly, got speeds 6,000 times fast than a broadband connection... wow... 10 high speed lines are faster than broadband??
This would be more interesting had they actually tested it on a standard 512kbs connection and seen if there was a speed increase. IMO it most likely would not make a huge a difference anyway since alot of the slowdown on a consumer broadband connecting is the connection buffers at your ISP. For a better explanation read the Traffic Shaping HOWTO.
Thats not what he said.
In his answer he said that the bandwidth used for sending data to and from the tracker is only 1/1000 of the bandwidth that is used. The server running the tracker is still going to need a copy of the file to send out also, or else it just doesn't work. That will eat up the bandwidth.
I think that you are somewhat missing the point.
Reiser's points was that if you are the one working to fund the coders then you are the one that is essential - and thus can't take time off. When other people depend apon the money you raise/make then your ability to go "Fuck it all, I'm not going to work today" is lost, in the real world this could be called "an irresponsible attitude".
Just ask anyone who is running a small startup, or a charity or someone who is the only moneymaker for their family, they understand.
I enforce the law by not putting peoples Social Security Numbers up on my website (in California). Does this make me "Law Enforment Personnel"???
(c) why firebird - what's so special about the name?
The logo.
If you look its clearly a phoenix, a firebird is basicly just another way of calling it. It essentially means that they can keep the "same" name even if they've had to change the title for legal reasons.
IMO the Firebird DB project needs to stop being a bunch of whining asses. So its got the same name... Does the DB have the name registered as a trademark? Do you really think that people will get confused and download a browser if they're clearly looking for a DB? Do you really think that people will think "shit! the DB has the same name as a browser, thus it must be crap!". I don't...
Actually I'd say that they have reason to be happy - think of the thousands of slashdoters who have now heard of your Firebird...
They would seem to be modular.
The nvidia drivers (NVidia's ones, not the XFree ones) are definatly modular, they come as a kernel module and a GLX module (with a touch of compiling needed...)
Maybe we should read the title... "Users conned by Cable Con"
The users, who are trying to screw the cable company, are getting screwed. They are getting screwed because they fell for the "Free Pay-per-View" con.
xplanet can do this. It can be set up to download cloud images every 3 hours and project them over an image of earth. It can create some stunning results.
Go and look at some of their screenshots, amazing...
There's two issues there.
1) Should this information be available on the web?
and 2) Is this information being used illegaly?
To the first question I would have to say "Yes" if its publicly available information then it should be made available over the internet. After all, if its publicly available then I can go and find it anyway, it might take 10mins longer but hey... If its publicly available then someone, somewhere, sometime must have decided that it was in the public interest for it to be available.
For the second question. Asking if information is being used illegaly is just stupid IMO. Knowing something that publicly available can't be illegal. OK so publicly available information can be used to do illegal things, but the knowlage of the information isn't illegal its just the action being done that is.
hmmmm..
/.) who have managed to delete their ~/www and then recover large chunks of it from the google cache. Is the google cache really any different than someone who just saved a local copy of your page or site anyway?
Surely the whole point of the internet was to make your data (be it scientific data, your family tree or your pr0n collection...) publicly available. Complaining that the internet works as it was designed to is just plain stupid!
The Google Cache questions is an interesting one though. Yes the cache will remove data if a site dies (after a certain length of time), but it still does store your data. But is this really a problem? I know people (and read the stories about others on
Anyway IMO it comes down to a very simple choice:
Do you want world and dog to see your site?
if Yes -> stick it on the net
if No -> Protect it with a password, or just as simply DON'T PUT IT ON THE NET
They've offered Video on demand via ADSL for years. Its with a company called Homechoice (used to be Video-Net). I've had it since it was in beta for about three or four years now. It works very very well, good quality streaming, real 'on demand', you can just pick a film from their collection and watch it. Basicly they run an f/o to your local exchange and you get 2.4mbs ADSL connection which holds the video with a standard ADSL splitter/modem. This then goes to a set-top box. They also offer an internet service with it, but only at 115kbs since most of the bandwidth is reserved for the video. For more info check here.
Nokia seems to be using java already
One of their newest phones (the 6310i) uses it. From the specs:
Phone Features
* Tri-band phone - works in three networks on five continents
* downloadable personal applications via Java(TM) technology
* Support of Java applications download via WAP
IIRC the 9210i does as well....
Not tried either of them (yet) but sounds like it works... nokia also just had a java programming compo for their phones
hmmmmm....
Well.... OS-X ain't really linux IIRC its based on BSD, also it isn't as nice an interface as windows or KDE/GNOME (IMHO)
I could get my mother (who isn't really a computer literate person) to use GNOME with out too many probs, the only problem would be if I asked her to install it as well. If she could buy a computer with Linux & GNOME & StarOffice (or similar) pre-installed and ready to go then she wouldn't have too many problems getting it to run and using it. At the least she would have no more problems than if I sat her in front of a Windows or OS-X box. And I think she'd rather use a machine which is fast (I've never used OS-X but a lot of things a read about complain that its slow to do quite a few things), reliable, hard to break and doesn't have nausa inducing cutesy icons....
lets be honest... who wouldn't rather support real open-source software rather than a propriatry GUI built on top of open-source and then sold at an interesting profit margin...
Wow... I want one of these!
I'm not sure exactly where its supposed to fit into the market though... it seems to be a jazzed up WebTV, RePlay and Cable TV box, all in one. But if people already own one or two of those allready why would they buy this?
Although saying that I do like the fact that its Linux Based and it does look nicer than your average Set-Top Box (but the fact that you can't put the TV *on* the box may be a minus) I would almost buy one, but I don't want internet on my TV and I've got a Cable box already with Interactive TV.
Very nice... but I don't think its going to sell that well
Well... I can really see the relevence of your comment...
DivX is used by lots of people for its good compression and high quality, oh and the fact that you can use it with pretty much any video player in Windows or Linux/Unix
While on the other hand QuickTime might be technically better, but its not used as often since you can get decent players or rippers/compressors for it....
Go figure
So, let me get this straight---you gave out solutions in one term. Next term you assigned the exact same question, and then you were surprised to find someone had found your old solutions? Is this your first year teaching? I don't think thats the point....
I think he trying to point out how stupid the student is for copying exactly the same answer instead of looking at the solution and tweaking the numbers a bit so that it looks a bit more original
**disclaimer - I know v. little about OpenBSD**
Surely that would make very little sense.
1)If it [swap space] were encrypted then it would place considrable extra load on the CPU especially if its a server that it used alot and thus has to read/write to swap space regulary.
2)If the kernel has to access it then it can't be using very secure encryption and so could be decrypted with a minium of knowlage
"So many of us are very excited about the .Net. This is probably the next big crusade"
.NET virus....
I'm very excited about the
The Java and Linux crusade is getting some support from IBM, but let's be realistic and understand they just want to shift some more very expensive boxes - they will drop Java/Linux in a heartbeat depending on what makes money.
Thats odd... I'm sure I've seen IBM pour a large amount of money in to porting linux over to its 390 range servers and its infamous "Love, Peace and Pengiun" adverts that they got in trouble for when they spray painted them on side walks.
IBM also seem to be pushing java a fair amount also, I have got a heap of IBM/Java demo crap at home from shows
Hey... don't knock VB
I used VB once - its great for quickly prototyping crap applications.
But then I found C and C++ Building and was happy
If you look the recent article about "A Supercomputer in Every Garage" and follow a link to the KLAT2 project it says that they used GA to work out their network topology...
I'm pretty sure that that counts as a practical use.
ehh... I was thinking of Win 2k as NT 5, so XP would be 6(ish)
I doubt that the CIA/FBI/NSA even uses windows XP for any sort of confidential information. Most like they're still running the nearly bug free Windows NT, or some incarnation of unix.
Last I checked XP was a version of NT, sort of NT 6.
But in any case the NSA is supposed to be working on a secure version of Linux with encrytped filesystems...
There was an article not so long back that said the the lastest version of Maya wasn't being ported to the mac I think...