Just got mine delivered a few weeks ago with products from Bticino (http://www.bticino.com/).
They provide services such as:
- Temperature adjustment (2 zones, from floor heating)
- Light control (individual/all)
- Window shutters control (individual/all)
- Instant power readings (light and regular)
- Power consumption graphs/stats
- RJ45 plugs compatible with phone/internet with space reserved for your internet box
- Heating/cooling scenarios
- Reachable via smartphone app
As an unexpected bonus, all light switch have small LEDs embedded -- green when in use, orange when off. It makes it easier to find them in the complete dark.
So far it's been working quite well. You can easily monitor your power consumption patterns and adjust it to catch the high/low cost periods of the electricity provider.
... but I keep my Firefox up and use hundreds of tabs/day (opening/closing),
In the end, the memory leaks of FF6.0.x just made me switch to Chrome. I would eventually plateau around 2.2GB of RAM (peak 2.5GB) with few tabs open, system crawling down to slow pace, *seconds* of waiting before a click makes FF react at all, Flash video pausing every 12s or so. PDF viewing freezing all tabs. Unusable.
I'll give FF7 a try though.It's "only" at 600MB right now (1GB peak) with the same usage pattern.
All the Data Centers I have been working at (USA and Singapore) had some kind of lounge/relaxing room with games, food vending machines, coffees, meeting rooms you can rent, showers, etc. Maybe they just forgot to mention it to their existing customers? Or maybe Equinix (not my company) is doing a better job at taking care of their customers? And they're still aiming at 30% yearly ROE, I can't see where a few dedicated rooms would hurt the bottom line so much.
I am a French Engineer (so, although I haven't been back to my country for a while, it's still handy) and the French educational system will make sure you study at least 2 more foreign languages plus Greek or Latin optionally.
11 years of German -> never used it, German speak good English
7 years of English -> use it every day
5 years of Japanese -> ended up working between Europe and Japan for years
2 years of Latin -> I liked it for a while but really can't see the added value except teach you a bit of history and high strict grammar rules
Today Mandarin might be a better choice but getting a decent level of Japanese doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.
My Canadian-Vietnamese friend married a Japanese woman, his 2 kids are already speaking English, Vietnamese, French and Japanese at home. They're currently taking Mandarin lessons. They're 6 and 8. The next generation will be scary smart with languages!
Probably because it's considered extremely rude to talk out loud on your phone in Japan. It's frowned upon (almost forbidden) to take or make phone calls in public transportation and, for private calls, all Japanese will exit their office and call from outside (just like you would go outside for smoking).
As a result, they are the masters of constant "quick-typing for quick-Email-messaging" from/to friends, all the time. It's quiet, it's in line with canonic politeness, it's the current standard for communication in public places.
"SEGA was seriously wounded, but the soul still burns..."
And, yes, I still have my DC sitting around my video projector and, oh boy, Capcom vs SNK Millennium Fight 2000 is still tons of fun with 2 arcade sticks!
I briefly had a Gamecube (that I sold after finishing Zelda). Passed on PS2, passed on XBOX, passed on PSP, passed on DS, passed on XBOX 360, passed on PS3.
... and also by SPAM spiders sneaking around for Email addresses!
I didn't want to change my contact information with additional FORM submit with visual challenge, but still wanted to leave a direct Email link obviously placed on page for quick contact/feedback.
Since I modified the mailto: with some tricky/sliced javascript Document.Write() I don't have a single SPAM coming from a semi-hidden address, which is still looking -- for the regular human visitors -- like the classic "Contact us" Email link.
Isn't the BSA directly supported/financed by Microsoft?
If not true today, it was at some point.
When newly created several years back, BSA France started a campaign of FUD aimed at small companies, to "help" them acquire legal licenses. They kindly provided a phone number to reach them ASAP in case the threat was causing loss of sleep, unstoppable shaking and headaches.
The voice on the phone would pick up the phone with a "Microsoft France, bonjour."
Pretty obvious to me... Microsoft forcing people to buy license would be seen as a very awkward way of fight your own possible customers. Putting a different name with some plausible responsibilities (BSA, BS agency?) and legal power, dissociated from Microsoft, would probably help improve PR.
Note that the Taiwan Press Release is completely wrong i many ways:
SHA-1 encryption does not include MD5
SHA-1 is not an encryption algorithm, it's a one-way hash algorithm
Wang only cracked hash algorithms, "big names" like AES, RSA or ECC are still safe to use
etc...
Grain of salt, grain of salt...
But I can understand that the concept of "Chinese hacker cracking internet" helps selling otherwise already disclosed news! Journalistic usage of FUD probably.
I guess most "Street Fighter"-based fans would agree with you!
At the (at that time) bi-annual TKGS (Tokyo Game Show), the CAPCOM championship would oppose players on Capcom vs. SNK playing network linked systems. Each would have the choice of either playing DreamCast or PlayStation 2. 100% of them chose the DC because they blamed the PS2 for "slightly freezing from time to time" thus completely killing the carefully executed and time 24 buttons combinations triple-combo-of-death at the worst time!
Yes, slightly confused just because people keep referring to ePassport as RFID (passive memory chip with limited cpu commands, anti-cloning functions, etc.) The idea was to take these inexpensive micro-memory chips and wire an antenna to them for traceability... but ePassport are _not_ RFID!
ePassport are made from contactless microchips which are more like a little computer with contactless capabilities. DES, 3DES, AES, RSA, SHA, etc. are all inboard. Please take a look at the ISO 14443 specification. The first round of commands in contactless are called "anticollision" and do not disclose anything about the nationality of the owner.
Then you need to get challenged/challenge the card to establish a secure channel for communication. This is done using a key linked to your passport which is simply... the information you get when you swipe the MRZ (Machine Readable Zone, the digits/letters below your picture) at the aiport. It means that to get access to your personal information on the chip you *already have to show your passport opened*.
There is no way I can guess you nationality by probing your passport if it's protected by the BAC (Basic Access Control) simple protocol. Some early passports were not though (like Belgium). For the past few months, all passports are now BAC-protected.
This kind of problematic already occured in the past... for Open Source development on Amiga Platform.
The Workbench 2.04 and later (especially 3.0 and 3.1) included the concept of "Catalogs file". Each catalog had a CT file (plain ascii to be edited through a System tool) and CD file for "compiled language description".
When releasing a software, you had to first think of putting all text strings in a separate file, even for the "standard" English release. The file was to be stored in a Locale/Language/English/ folder.
Later, anybody could get the CT file to modify it, compile it again and get a new language done... or un-compile the CD file and modify it manually too.
This was quite easy to implement and the need for international translators rose. Most of the time, someone would offer freely to translate a software and post the Catalog file on Aminet. But how coordinate 10 translations at the same time?
Thus was created the Amiga Translators Organization whose responsability was to offer free translation for Freeware tools and Open Sources projects. A few commercial games and Professional tools were also done (I did some of the last Amiga Games and GFX Tools for French).
I'm sure this could be done again today for a plateform independent translation process...
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Just got mine delivered a few weeks ago with products from Bticino (http://www.bticino.com/).
They provide services such as:
- Temperature adjustment (2 zones, from floor heating)
- Light control (individual/all)
- Window shutters control (individual/all)
- Instant power readings (light and regular)
- Power consumption graphs/stats
- RJ45 plugs compatible with phone/internet with space reserved for your internet box
- Heating/cooling scenarios
- Reachable via smartphone app
As an unexpected bonus, all light switch have small LEDs embedded -- green when in use, orange when off. It makes it easier to find them in the complete dark.
So far it's been working quite well. You can easily monitor your power consumption patterns and adjust it to catch the high/low cost periods of the electricity provider.
MERDE !
... shutting down all domains that have a non-responsive/non-working abuse@ handler in their whois?
I'm tired of Korean/Chinese/Pakistanese/South America spam sources these days. Is there a way to get a rather complete list of IP blocks per country?
I do not have business with these countries, the net impact on my activities would be close to 0.
... but I keep my Firefox up and use hundreds of tabs/day (opening/closing),
In the end, the memory leaks of FF6.0.x just made me switch to Chrome. I would eventually plateau around 2.2GB of RAM (peak 2.5GB) with few tabs open, system crawling down to slow pace, *seconds* of waiting before a click makes FF react at all, Flash video pausing every 12s or so. PDF viewing freezing all tabs. Unusable.
I'll give FF7 a try though.It's "only" at 600MB right now (1GB peak) with the same usage pattern.
All the Data Centers I have been working at (USA and Singapore) had some kind of lounge/relaxing room with games, food vending machines, coffees, meeting rooms you can rent, showers, etc. Maybe they just forgot to mention it to their existing customers? Or maybe Equinix (not my company) is doing a better job at taking care of their customers? And they're still aiming at 30% yearly ROE, I can't see where a few dedicated rooms would hurt the bottom line so much.
I am a French Engineer (so, although I haven't been back to my country for a while, it's still handy) and the French educational system will make sure you study at least 2 more foreign languages plus Greek or Latin optionally.
11 years of German -> never used it, German speak good English
7 years of English -> use it every day
5 years of Japanese -> ended up working between Europe and Japan for years
2 years of Latin -> I liked it for a while but really can't see the added value except teach you a bit of history and high strict grammar rules
Today Mandarin might be a better choice but getting a decent level of Japanese doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.
My Canadian-Vietnamese friend married a Japanese woman, his 2 kids are already speaking English, Vietnamese, French and Japanese at home. They're currently taking Mandarin lessons. They're 6 and 8. The next generation will be scary smart with languages!
J.
Probably because it's considered extremely rude to talk out loud on your phone in Japan. It's frowned upon (almost forbidden) to take or make phone calls in public transportation and, for private calls, all Japanese will exit their office and call from outside (just like you would go outside for smoking).
As a result, they are the masters of constant "quick-typing for quick-Email-messaging" from/to friends, all the time. It's quiet, it's in line with canonic politeness, it's the current standard for communication in public places.
Regards,
Julien
Confirmed, this is old news.
The French company is Varioptic SA.
Rgds,
Julien
Actually the correct line says:
"SEGA was seriously wounded, but the soul still burns..."
And, yes, I still have my DC sitting around my video projector and, oh boy, Capcom vs SNK Millennium Fight 2000 is still tons of fun with 2 arcade sticks!
I briefly had a Gamecube (that I sold after finishing Zelda).
Passed on PS2, passed on XBOX, passed on PSP, passed on DS, passed on XBOX 360, passed on PS3.
But seriously considering the Wii now.
Rgds,
Julien
... and also by SPAM spiders sneaking around for Email addresses!
I didn't want to change my contact information with additional FORM submit with visual challenge, but still wanted to leave a direct Email link obviously placed on page for quick contact/feedback.
Since I modified the mailto: with some tricky/sliced javascript Document.Write() I don't have a single SPAM coming from a semi-hidden address, which is still looking -- for the regular human visitors -- like the classic "Contact us" Email link.
I certainly hope this won't change in the future!
Rgds,
Julien
Next natural question would probably be "Will it blend?".
:-)
The good Doctor Asimov would probably be happy, his positronic brains are one step closer!
Rgds,
Julien
Isn't the BSA directly supported/financed by Microsoft?
If not true today, it was at some point.
When newly created several years back, BSA France started a campaign of FUD aimed at small companies, to "help" them acquire legal licenses. They kindly provided a phone number to reach them ASAP in case the threat was causing loss of sleep, unstoppable shaking and headaches.
The voice on the phone would pick up the phone with a "Microsoft France, bonjour."
Pretty obvious to me... Microsoft forcing people to buy license would be seen as a very awkward way of fight your own possible customers. Putting a different name with some plausible responsibilities (BSA, BS agency?) and legal power, dissociated from Microsoft, would probably help improve PR.
Rgds,
Julien
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-2/
Note that the Taiwan Press Release is completely wrong i many ways:
Grain of salt, grain of salt...
But I can understand that the concept of "Chinese hacker cracking internet" helps selling otherwise already disclosed news! Journalistic usage of FUD probably.
Regards,
Julien
I guess most "Street Fighter"-based fans would agree with you!
At the (at that time) bi-annual TKGS (Tokyo Game Show), the CAPCOM championship would oppose players on Capcom vs. SNK playing network linked systems. Each would have the choice of either playing DreamCast or PlayStation 2. 100% of them chose the DC because they blamed the PS2 for "slightly freezing from time to time" thus completely killing the carefully executed and time 24 buttons combinations triple-combo-of-death at the worst time!
Julien
Yes, slightly confused just because people keep referring to ePassport as RFID (passive memory chip with limited cpu commands, anti-cloning functions, etc.) The idea was to take these inexpensive micro-memory chips and wire an antenna to them for traceability... but ePassport are _not_ RFID!
ePassport are made from contactless microchips which are more like a little computer with contactless capabilities. DES, 3DES, AES, RSA, SHA, etc. are all inboard. Please take a look at the ISO 14443 specification. The first round of commands in contactless are called "anticollision" and do not disclose anything about the nationality of the owner.
Then you need to get challenged/challenge the card to establish a secure channel for communication. This is done using a key linked to your passport which is simply... the information you get when you swipe the MRZ (Machine Readable Zone, the digits/letters below your picture) at the aiport. It means that to get access to your personal information on the chip you *already have to show your passport opened*.
There is no way I can guess you nationality by probing your passport if it's protected by the BAC (Basic Access Control) simple protocol. Some early passports were not though (like Belgium). For the past few months, all passports are now BAC-protected.
Found this website. It's not "toothing" but "proxidating" which is quite similar in concept.
http://www.proxidating.com/index.php?code_pays=UK
Choose your flavor! (Symbian or JAVA)
Julien
One is on eBay currently (not my auction), just for your information:
Pippin with full pictures
Rgds,
Julien
This kind of problematic already occured in the past... for Open Source development on Amiga Platform.
The Workbench 2.04 and later (especially 3.0 and 3.1) included the concept of "Catalogs file". Each catalog had a CT file (plain ascii to be edited through a System tool) and CD file for "compiled language description".
When releasing a software, you had to first think of putting all text strings in a separate file, even for the "standard" English release. The file was to be stored in a Locale/Language/English/ folder.
Later, anybody could get the CT file to modify it, compile it again and get a new language done... or un-compile the CD file and modify it manually too.
This was quite easy to implement and the need for international translators rose. Most of the time, someone would offer freely to translate a software and post the Catalog file on Aminet. But how coordinate 10 translations at the same time?
Thus was created the Amiga Translators Organization whose responsability was to offer free translation for Freeware tools and Open Sources projects. A few commercial games and Professional tools were also done (I did some of the last Amiga Games and GFX Tools for French).
I'm sure this could be done again today for a plateform independent translation process...
Rgds, Julien