if you have a regular file system, where some data is at point X and your new high-end apps just mmap it for usage, it's super easy for the kernel, just copy the data over ata/sata/scsi commands as it comes and goes, nothing is easier and for sure nothing is faster. if you have 1 journal to update in between here and then, it's rather easy to have that one in too.
now if you have a long log what should be where written by whom and why, this just wont work, awesome cool overhead will kick in and you'll be in big trouble.
they are safer, for sure. but no faster. anything besides a direct data copy is slow, period.
if i were you, i'd use the logging file systems only in places where the data isn't storaged on usual hdd-s. because hdd-s are known to have a magnetic head which writes data on a magnetic disc. running over logged data that's all over the place isnt fun for the machinery, it's really painful.
it may however be really fast on a memory card like storage, because there the performance wouldnt depend on a magnet/engine pulling the head around all the time.
actually it doesnt really secure anything, and they still have to search you.
i give you a simple example
* i make a pocket into my jacket, a special pocket that is resistant to acid. * i fill it up with sulfur acid and close the pocket. (with necessary precaucions). * the pocket is covered with melted plastic, that is pretty good at not letting much of anything through * i buy a cigarette lighter and a cigarette. * i buy something that is made from zinc, maybe a pen with a zinc head, if i have to, i will make the zinc head myself.
i pass all the steps in the plane accessing, since nothing explosive has being detected:) the amount of sulfur acid wont be noticed since cars and all burning staff that goes around makes very similar stuff, so there is no real idea if i work in a chemical lab with sulfur, walk much on the street, or have a "invisble" pocket in my jacket. neither do i carry any heavy metal objects, so i pass the metal searching stuff.
i board the plane, sit down in the business class. open my secret pocket and "accidently" drop the zinc head into it... i close up the pocket until enough hydrogen (should be relatively fast). now after some time i light the cigarette , open the picket and if i'm sitting next to a window that cant take the blow, boom, there goes the plane:) just before landing should be pretty good timing... or while you are going low over a bigger city.
anyway, the point of all the story above: you are not secure even if you have mega nano sniffers all over place. be kind to other people, dont invade their homes with your troops and you'll be just fine.
>>:. It was one of those things that ALMOST always worked great for me...
well, almost always just is not good enough, if you are involved in stockmarkets or banking, then failover must work 24/365 and not miss a second. imagine now that you have to answer to your boss who is pretty curiously asking about where is the record of that 10mil$ transaction that "did" happen 5 seconds before the server raid decided to play "flames on" from the fantastic four movie ? do you really think that "i dont know" is even considerable answer ? nope...
what good is a failover if tends to Just Fail sometimes ? (Maybe we should create a JustFail(tm) server/cluster line that is the total opposite of failover systems ?)
it is as good as having an operating system that doesnt operate from time to time (i wont start windows bashing this time,:p)
actually it's quite interesting what is the market of this product ? out of the box, it seems like a regular pc that i can get from any local store over here for the same money:D
yea it's compact and fanless... but on the other hand, it also isnt really that expandable and probably not upgradeable... let's see what do we get for the 299$
Compact, ergonomically designed system case with optional accent colors
Unit dimensions - 5.5" wide x 8.5" deep x 2.5" high - 3 lbs.
AMD Geode(TM) GX processor
4 USB ports - support printers, Flash memory, disk drives, and network adapters
10GB 3.5" internal hard disk
Internal 56K v.92 modem
Stereo headphone/microphone jacks
VGA port - supports resolutions up to 1600x1200 at 85 Hz
Fanless, quiet operation
aint that just the buzz ? for the same price from the local store :
so now.. the last one is extendable by pci cards, will support faster processor and has a cdrw in it and has 4x times the hdd space (and can have a 80gb drive for 5-10$ more).
When a regular joe asks from me, what to buy, i just say that the last item is extendeable and upgradeable, the first is probably not. The joe also usually thinks about using the box after 2 years and maybe doing some replacement/repair works on it.. doesnt sound to good for the PIC.
Ofcourse the amd pic box looks cool, but it's not really meant for 3D gaming and most office users dont need a green box that they can't upgrade. gamers would like it by the look and the portability, but probably running the newest 3d games at 10fps wont really bite it through.
Great idea from amd. But the price is way too high for what it provides.
I think amd should add a windows-less variant of the same box, with a reduced priced ofcourse (if the box would cost 199$ it would be a bit more fair).
And who in $#%^@#$^@@'s name came up with the name PIC ? PIC is a microcontroller, always has been and in the tech people's mind always will be:D. if you call a serious pic16C84 fanatic and tell him that you cant see a website on your pic, he will think you had too much to drink for the night lol.
ps. is the PIC from amd compatible with linux ? when can we see the first mods of that one ? (I wouldnt be sure if all the devices in it support linux... but most probably they do).
out here the temperatures goes down to -30C every winter, so the original gucci jacket is as good as anything you cant print out (i put it simply: you will just freeze to death)
anyway, as for the subject, this is probably the dumbest study claim i have ever seen (it's in high competition with linux being more expensive than windows and whether or not *bsd/barcode/ is dead/dying (and if netcraft confirms it or not))
i have downloaded files, i admit it. i have never even thought about stealing anything from any store. i haven't cheated any exams and mostly likely i wont have to, unless my iq starts to fall quickyl down to the level of windows users.
this is just another attempt to scare the sh*t out of parents and let them forbid downloading music from the net to their kids.
all the time i have been around java, j2se always came bundled with j2re (meaning i have not seen a j2se download that didn't contain j2re, probably because itself depends on it). have they really managed to create a j2se especially for titanium that doesnt have jre in it ? maybe they just dont make the jre package because nobody would need it ?
if nothing else helps, run qemu on it and let qemu run the x86-32 java (actually this idea is even more terrible than it sounds, but it will work.)
ps. first man in the thread, write three letters into your notebook... AMD
#1 56 mbits would be heaven ? nah, i dont really think so:) at first, if 3 users with 56Mbit lines would start to download from a server that sits in a rack behind a 100Mbit ethernet... they would want to pull 56*3=168 Mbits out from the 100Mbit ethernet... so they will just not be able to really use their bandwidth and the server will be jammed.... and for most of users, even 8Mbit is a huge overkill, cause people that dont download movies/cd-images/adult-movies/music each day, mostly have latency issues (they click and the browser doesnt react within a second, waaah) and the larger the bandwidth distributed over several users, the larger the latency (routers & co have their limits). ofcourse a big maximal downloadspeed is great but i dont think that the rest of the network isnt quite ready for it, it might not be such a good idea (most of our country's server hosting providers have 100Mbit ethernet/internet lines for the servers, so 4 british haxors can now jamm my server)
#2 i wonder how they can afford it... the last time i checked the broadband companys themselves have to pay for each mbit they transit, so if they have a nice schoolful of haxxors who download stuff 24/7 then their downloaded/uploaded mbits will cost more than the 24 pounds that are charged... ofcourse some users use less than that... but still, it's still curious
#3 while they're at it, i'd even be lucky to get a 8mbit connection for 24 pounds over here
yeah... it's actually very interesting... phoenix itself was amazingly fast and worked just fine.... why did they have to mess it up with the slow extensions and gui module ?
i still use galeon/epiphany by default, because they are a lot faster than mozilla-firefox... althrough the html rendering engine itself is the same gecko, something is always very wrong and slow in the "mainstream" mozillas...
as for the opera trolls, opera is still quite much off the dhtml stuff (like modifing iframe contents at real time (very very very many online content editors depend on that, mozilla and ie pull it off, opera doesnt)) , and it still has very many issues with plugins under linux x86-32, so dont suggest something that aint comparable yet... aside from that, opera is really fast indeed and also seems to have a solid memory management, so my respect to those writers at opera... but they still have some points that need to be tuned before i could possibly start to use their stuff...
in the meanwhile, someone plz drop that firefox stuff and give us back the blitz fast phoenix, cause whatever is burning on the fox, it doesnt smell good:(
well an order from u.s. court does not help you when the stuff you want to examine isnt in the u.s.:)
anyway i agree with you that really private stuff should go over skype, use smthing better for that (remote calls through computers that are connected through unsecure computers can never be secure, so get real and face it).
as for the paranoia all over this subject... your regular phoneline can be "tapped" with an earphone and 20 second cable cutting work... so any encrpytion at all is a really progress...
and perhaps some article authors should be considering the fact that they are as important as a can of trash for serious hackers, cut down your ego, nobody wants to hear what you are telling over a net phone, go do smth useful.
since when is opening a tcp/ip port a security hole ? it's only a hole when your application listening on the port is buggy and hackable not when the port is opened up lol
if every open port is a serious security hole for you , you should see a doctor. and by the way, if you want your ports to be closed or otherwise specially handled, get a firewall (a simple iptables setup will do), that's what they are for...
you can't rely on applications not opening a port, almost every networking application that has to receive data from unknown external hosts (e.g. your chat friends) opens ports. even msn does it... do you feel hacked now ?
[oops, writing this note just made an outgoing tcp/ip socket] [from my machine, i'm all hacked & cracked now, damn u!]
the authors are afraid that you wont buy their crap if you know how bad the book is, and google shows exactly how bad it is (and by doing this it's saving money for you). and this actually means that they are losing money.
1)google wants to make profit 2)google enabled you to buy stuff that you need 3)authors cant sell you crap
4)authors sue google for ruining their bs selling business.
nevertheless, if i where an author and google would mess up my bs selling scam, i'd sue google too:)
the range always depends on the censor, i'm pretty sure that some adequate h4x0rs can make their scanners work on 2-3cm distance or even more. if you have 10k cash on your account that a thief could "use", he will definetly "bump" into you and probably into some other people too:)
imagine the power of such a scanner in a wall street elevator, you struggle through some people and "pay" a few minutes later while they are struggling for stocks.
seems awfully insecure and i would advise against using this stuff. you could as well have cash hanging out of your pocket.
i guess wrapping it into a tinfoil will make it quite prone to magnetical defects, not sure about that, but when the tinfoil gets magnetically/electronically charged by some external strong magnetic force, it may cause damage to your card in the long run.
actually the laws itself arent lax... the only thing that is lax is protecting the foreign financial interests..:)
C -> China L -> Lawyers of copyright satans.
L: Hi C , we have a problem... C: So do we , but we dont see us bothering you with it, do you ? L: Anyway. there is site of yours that exchanges our copyrighted music and we want to see them in court. C: Are you sure ? L: Ofcourse i'm sure, i flied 10 000 miles with a plane to tell it to you. C: We have to do some research on the issue and see if anything you claim over our good nation here is true. L: Research ? We've got the proof right here, these and those dudes are responsible for it. Arrest Lee Ya and Liu Pao! C: You cant expect a billion numbered nation to be uncapable of doing it's own research and investigation on the matter. L: Well... That was not what i meant. C: But that's what it sounded like, we will let investigate it and report back to you, see you soon. L: So i have to fly back now with no news whatsoever ? C: Yes.
L: Hey C, any news on the copyright matter ? C: What copyright ? L: The music stuff you know... C: Erm... ah that one... well... we're investigating it. L: Has there been any progress what so ever ? C: We cant tell you this sensible information, sorry. L: Cant tell me ? What the $#%^# , i was the one that requested this investigation in the first place. C: Our laws are very strict and we cant tell you, we will let you know when our investigation is over. L: And when do you assume this will be ? C: In about 2 years, 3 years tops... maybe even more but we definetly dont want to go over 5 years. L: , we are from america, you have to respect our power. C: The power of 300 million people vs 1 billion people ? You americans have always been funny:) CiaoBambino, talk to you "soon"
this was just an intro to what will go down. the real filesharing lords will get away, maybe some people will get arrested and killed (but they actually have political crimes against communism and havent even seen a damn pc in their life)
and as calling people arent suspicious enough to you, watch out for the smokers too, thinkgeek has a "spy camera cigarette lighter" for sale for a long time now (link: http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/7886/ ).
aren't people just a bit too paranoid about these things ?
my phone has a camera too but i use it really very rarely (and i probably would something more comfortable to copy documents, wouldn't you ?)
A) you feel lucky when you run an operating system that's kernel is 2-3 years old, uses 2-3 year old programming tricks and is vulnerable to bugs/attacks that have been around for 2-3 years, good for you. i like stuff that is up to date, like the current linux kernel is , having patches for all the stuff that has been discovered until 1-2 months ago (i update my kernel in such intervals on my desktop). i like to have new and fresh ideas available for my programming needs, just as an example , epoll ( a pretty fancy replacement for select() and poll() ), it's enormously faster than anything we had 2-3 years ago with kernel 2.4.x and 2.2.x . and i feel safe when i open my browser not being concerned if a 2 year old into kernel built bitmap parsing algorithm can let a hacker inside my box.
as for isntallers, the dummy installers could also be made for linux, if you have been around enough the gaming world, you probably have seen id software installer for enemyterritory and quake3, they are pretty decent, select directory, click next and there you go. most apps miss this interface because 90% of the linux installers hate such time wasting stuff. apt-get install is much quicker to type and you can have a coffe and donut while it automagically does all by itself
B) if i can avoid it, i dont write any gui stuff at all. gui-s are fancy, sure, but not efficient nor to me nor to my usual software targets. and sometimes when i'm forced to sit behind a windows machine, i miss bash as hell. i cant bash/find/grep/sed and so on unless i have cygwin over there. it's hell. if you are used to get things quickly done without wondering for half an hour where the exact logfile may be where it says why the application XYZ just failed.
C) distro war in the really free linux world is past for a long time already. debian and ubuntu won, the rest as commercial bangers have been cast out. most stuff that you get have also a documentation package with according help files and images. in debian look under/usr/share/doc/. it's usually there, if it aint, do apt-get install -doc. the windows programs that you fail to use, you just uninstall. the linux programs you cant use, you get pissed off and claim that linux is bad. i think you are bad. just my opinion.
ps. i feel very very very happy that 25% of the power of my machine isn't wasted on virus scanning and spyware searching.
---- if you cant handle something, it doesnt mean it's bad, it's just proves that you are nod good enough.
actually i'm disappointed in such a newbie approach from ide fans...
the following talk is about vim, not vi itself... but most machines actually have vim installed today instead of the old original vi
#1 vim has support for plugins, you can write a java debugger plugin for it if you really need to
#2 i have used everything from borlads jbuilder to eclipse and i still adore the command line debugger (yeah it actually works when you learn to use it)
#3 vim starts up under 1 second in my machines, provides me autocompletes, syntax highlights and god knows what more (i have used it for 5 years and i havent probably seen 5% of the plugins for it).
#4 you can run vim over ssh from several host hops away, no lag , no problems.
#5 if you think that an ide requiring 512mb for normal operating speed is ok, then there's something definetly wrong with you. even if you take it this way : plugins 100mb, menu 100mb, editor 100mb (which is a huge overkill for all of them), this still results under 512mb... and eclipse definetly is a hell to run under this 512 limit.
#6 even "pro"-s sometimes need to fix some things right on the real server itself, in order to get timespan for fixing the same stuff in the development server without getting bashed from the bosses. if you depend on vi, you'lle be fine, if you depend on eclipse, u r lucky if you dont get fired for saying "hey, our paypal will be down another 30 minutes until i get eclipse running on my machine"
my advice :
use bash (or any other shell that you like) use make or ant (using autoconf & stuff is up to you) use vim (or... emacs (if you cant do vim, use newb stuff))
and dont depend on anything that requires a visual interface if you are developing stuff that wont stay in your machine.
i have been around these shiny screens & keyboard for 15 years now, spent most of the time compiling or editing code.i have written everything from linux kernel modules up to java applets/servlets/frameworks (including all that comes in between from basic html to perl/php/python). vim is universal, it always works, it's always fast. eclipse is just another ide that comes and goes. and segfaults... (the last build that did it all the time on my debian machine with the sun jdk 1.5.0 , this is not normal)
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ps. as for the author, if you havent figured out what to use yet, you're not a pro, srry.
chair and table producing company doesn't really matter, it must have the right height, colour and not fall apart.
you pc has to have a big clear screen (a good crt still owns), lots of ram (even thou vim doesnt need it, your db server & app server will), and be silent.
and get some isolating earphones that enable you to ignore everything that's going on around you.
dont get married. or you will turn into a shoe salesman instead of a software developer.
imagine that theres a paid hitman that is coming to get you... he could have lots of difficulties questioning people to find out where you live who your grandparents are, where did you last time cross the border etc. now we are saving his time by making it available to him with 1 sql query...
efficient... but do you really would like this to happen ? i dont think so...
anyway, i think that this is actually against human/privacy rights to put his data out far in the open before he/she can even say "mama" for the first time...
on the other hand, we all will end up in a database one day anyway (we are all 'kindof' in the slashdot database, aint we ?:p), so "Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated..."
--- besides, this way you get to search for a girlfriend easilly, just one query with some measures/behaviour notices and you have your date...
come on, you can't seriously think that making a price lower will put you into a case of anti-trust ?
intels anti-trust problem came from the fact that they forced pc makers to use their chips. not any other way around. they didnt lower the cost to anyone, they rised the price for those who sold amd stuff too. this is anti-trust. if they lower the price for all, then it's just fair competition.
but they wont lower the prices and definetly dont want to push amd out of the market. they want to keep the speed/megahertz race going to keep the market alive. if amd would vanish, so would their own market (people dont see a competition, they dont see a reason to upgrade to the next product from the same company if none else is offering anything better).
quite a lot of this extra 600$ still is profit, even after marketing/engineers costs. and most of this profit is probably reserved for the dark age when people are going to wonder if they really want to buy the pentium-25 with it's 333GHz or not....
maybe the will, maybe they will not, it all depends if or not the Windows(r) Pasta(tm) Service Pack 42.1 build 33098 demands such cpu power or not.
erm... using python might be really better in some cases, but you should be reminded that almost every unix box has perl and as maybe a shocking surprise to you, pretty many of them are missing python... for example a minimal debian install has perl but lacks python. i put up most server like machines with pure debian at start, so i have no python until i fetch a program that needs it.
imho the power of python isnt the clear syntax, clear syntax can be written in perl too, some people are just too lazy to do it. python has really good threading and a nice oop model, perl's ithreads are still quite a mess and the variable & oop layer across it is even fuzzier and more difficult to bite through than the h4x0r'5 scripts... this makes large python applications pretty manageable and turns large perl applications often into a mess. althrough the problem with both languages for me is that 3-rd party site packages likes wxwindows/tk/opengl bridge packages are often in broken dependancies and it really can make you swear a lot if you want to upgrade your box and because of 1 dependancy half of the python/perl gui programs wave you bye-bye. cant they really integrate some form of gui that would be python/perl native and work across platforms ? this way i would depend on 'john smith' to get some nice python/perl widget running...
both languages are excellent for writing tiny helper tools for linux (tools that linux is missing a lot for dumb users), C and Java are both overkills for such simple tasks (a nice example of an overkill is a installer that is powered by a java gui, this is inhuman, uses twice the memory and need a bloating jvm to run). but without a really stable and "always being there" gui package these tools break a lot:(
i believe that perl is good in it's own key places, mostly being compact and very portable. in large and multithreaded applications ofcourse python rolls the house in the scripting world.
and for ruby fans, lets wait until the next version rolls out, then we may have a really good spot for that one too:) (idea is good but current implementation does really cut it yet)
use the right tool for the job and for the best practices use strict and warnings in perl, indent your code and avoid regexp hacks where you dont need them.
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Consider the math involved in such "ocean plowing." Nuclear powered submarines can travel as fast as 25 miles per hour. Let's assume that these submarines would be dragging an ocean plowing apparatus that slows the submarine down to 15 miles per hour.
If the ocean plowing apparatus stretched a half mile wide, that means that a single submarine could plow 180 square miles of ocean in any 24 hour period. (The plowed surface area equals 15 miles per hour times 24 hours times 1/2 mile wide.)
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does the word aerodynamics say anything to you ? submarines are shaped like cigar cells for a good reason, so they would have any chance to move at all, if you make the submarine drag-push just about anything, it wont slow down 10mph. it will just stop (in mph measures at least). 1 cubic metre of water still weight 1 ton, if you want to lift it, it takes a lot of power.
however, you can use the submarines to wipe out 6 billion homo sapienses and stop the massive world pollution and save the earth that way... after the nuclear dust has cleared, it will probably be ok pretty fast in terms of universe time.
otherwise than that, we're too late to save the planet anyway, we should start to look for a new outpost and start building some rockets to get us there (that sound pretty familiar from movies, doesnt it ?)
i agree with you, nasa is getting it done, but it could be done cheaper...
ofcourse it seems a bit odd to spare money in areas like space travelling and stuff... but even there money shouldnt be wasted...
i think that private companies doing space flights is a good thing, this will bring nasa "back to earth", at least in the budget dimension.
i'm still hoping they get this space elevator built, so we could get into space much much much cheaper:)
actually if we would buy 200x200km land and build an 200km high triangle like building on it, we would have the "stairs to space"... the only problem is where can we get the material for such an artificial mountain...
nasa won't die (and neither will *bsd and barcodes), no matter if netcraft confirms it.
>>> First of all, water is the major greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
this is a bit wrong, because water never turns into gas, water can be heated up in air to turn into steam, but it never turns into a *gas*. so it can't be a greenhouse gas.
ofcourse it's responsible for the heating effect in the sunlight, we wouldn't be chatting here in slashdot if we had no air with water around us, we'd freeze to death.
but if you define water as a responsible material for heating up earth in the sun, you should add oxygen and nitrogen too and every other thing that you see.
i must admit i was a bit unprecise when i was defining it as a non greenhouse material, because i was trying to define greenhouse stuff as stuff that we produce and that really has some kind of effect (i dont think 6 billion cars producing water would make much difference, especially if you consider the fact that all cars now shoot steam along with co2 out of their tubes too).
now as for the usa fact, usa is only about 5-6% the population of earth, we know that you people drive inhumanly fuel eating cars (and we think its a bit odd). but you should try to look over the border of your "great" country and see that other people use cars that need 6 litres of gas for 100km and a local heat station running 9 months a year produces far more co2 than cars over here for example.
power stations may be more effective, but the still shoot out massive amounts of co2, even the electricity that is used to make me type here is produced by burning the old goold coal. i dont know about you there on the other side of the ocean, but our country definetly uses more electricity and heating per hour in kW than our cars do.
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faster ? did i just miss something ?
if you have a regular file system, where some data is at point X and your new high-end apps just mmap it for usage, it's super easy for the kernel, just copy the data over ata/sata/scsi commands as it comes and goes, nothing is easier and for sure nothing is faster. if you have 1 journal to update in between here and then, it's rather easy to have that one in too.
now if you have a long log what should be where written by whom and why, this just wont work, awesome cool overhead will kick in and you'll be in big trouble.
they are safer, for sure. but no faster. anything besides a direct data copy is slow, period.
if i were you, i'd use the logging file systems only in places where the data isn't storaged on usual hdd-s. because hdd-s are known to have a magnetic head which writes data on a magnetic disc. running over logged data that's all over the place isnt fun for the machinery, it's really painful.
it may however be really fast on a memory card like storage, because there the performance wouldnt depend on a magnet/engine pulling the head around all the time.
actually it doesnt really secure anything, and they still have to search you.
:)
... i close up the pocket until enough hydrogen (should be relatively fast). now after some time i light the cigarette , open the picket and if i'm sitting next to a window that cant take the blow, boom, there goes the plane :) just before landing should be pretty good timing... or while you are going low over a bigger city.
i give you a simple example
* i make a pocket into my jacket, a special pocket that is resistant to acid.
* i fill it up with sulfur acid and close the pocket. (with necessary precaucions).
* the pocket is covered with melted plastic, that is pretty good at not letting much
of anything through
* i buy a cigarette lighter and a cigarette.
* i buy something that is made from zinc, maybe a pen with a zinc head, if i have
to, i will make the zinc head myself.
i pass all the steps in the plane accessing, since nothing explosive has being detected
the amount of sulfur acid wont be noticed since cars and all burning staff that goes around makes very similar stuff, so there is no real idea if i work in a chemical lab with sulfur, walk much on the street, or have a "invisble" pocket in my jacket. neither do i carry any heavy metal objects, so i pass the metal searching stuff.
i board the plane, sit down in the business class. open my secret pocket and "accidently" drop the zinc head into it
anyway, the point of all the story above: you are not secure even if you have mega nano sniffers all over place.
be kind to other people, dont invade their homes with your troops and you'll be just fine.
>> :. It was one of those things that ALMOST always worked great for me...
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:p)
well, almost always just is not good enough, if you are involved in stockmarkets or banking, then failover must work 24/365 and not miss a second. imagine now that you have to answer to your boss who is pretty curiously asking about where is the record of that 10mil$ transaction that "did" happen 5 seconds before the server raid decided to play "flames on" from the fantastic four movie ? do you really think that "i dont know" is even considerable answer ? nope
what good is a failover if tends to Just Fail sometimes ? (Maybe we should create a JustFail(tm) server/cluster line that is the total opposite of failover systems ?)
it is as good as having an operating system that doesnt operate from time to time (i wont start windows bashing this time,
actually it's quite interesting what is the market of this product ? :D
... but on the other hand, it also isnt really that expandable and probably not upgradeable ... let's see what do we get for the 299$
.. the last one is extendable by pci cards, will support faster processor and has a cdrw in it and has 4x times the hdd space (and can have a 80gb drive for 5-10$ more).
.. doesnt sound to good for the PIC.
:D. if you call a serious pic16C84 fanatic and tell him that you cant see a website on your pic, he will think you had too much to drink for the night lol.
... but most probably they do).
out of the box, it seems like a regular pc that i can get from any local store over here for the same money
yea it's compact and fanless
Compact, ergonomically designed system
case with optional accent colors
Unit dimensions
- 5.5" wide x 8.5" deep x 2.5" high
- 3 lbs.
AMD Geode(TM) GX processor
4 USB ports - support printers,
Flash memory, disk drives, and
network adapters
10GB 3.5" internal hard disk
Internal 56K v.92 modem
Stereo headphone/microphone jacks
VGA port - supports resolutions up to
1600x1200 at 85 Hz
Fanless, quiet operation
aint that just the buzz ?
for the same price from the local store :
*AMD Sempron 2500+ 64bit,
*256MB DDR PC2700/333,
*MB SIS760/VIA K8M800 chipset, Int. VGA (free 8xAGP slot) , int. sound card and ethernet card
*HDD 40GB 7200rpm
*CDRW 52x32x52
*Minitower 300W mATX Codegen 1012
*Keyboard, Optical mouse.
so now
When a regular joe asks from me, what to buy, i just say that the last item is extendeable and upgradeable, the first is probably not. The joe also usually thinks about using the box after 2 years and maybe doing some replacement/repair works on it
Ofcourse the amd pic box looks cool, but it's not really meant for 3D gaming and most office users dont need a green box that they can't upgrade. gamers would like it by the look and the portability, but probably running the newest 3d games at 10fps wont really bite it through.
Great idea from amd. But the price is way too high for what it provides.
I think amd should add a windows-less variant of the same box, with a reduced priced ofcourse (if the box would cost 199$ it would be a bit more fair).
And who in $#%^@#$^@@'s name came up with the name PIC ? PIC is a microcontroller, always has been and in the tech people's mind always will be
ps. is the PIC from amd compatible with linux ? when can we see the first mods of that one ? (I wouldnt be sure if all the devices in it support linux
well too bad this item got fixed, otherwise debian machines could just go and click on
:D
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mailto: updateh4x0r@`apt-get update`.hehe.`apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird`.com
and have the latest version that is in their package repository
have fun
out here the temperatures goes down to -30C every winter, so the original gucci jacket is as good as anything you cant print out (i put it simply: you will just freeze to death)
anyway, as for the subject, this is probably the dumbest study claim i have ever seen (it's in high competition with linux being more expensive than windows and whether or not *bsd/barcode/ is dead/dying (and if netcraft confirms it or not))
i have downloaded files, i admit it. i have never even thought about stealing anything from any store. i haven't cheated any exams and mostly likely i wont have to, unless my iq starts to fall quickyl down to the level of windows users.
this is just another attempt to scare the sh*t out of parents and let them forbid downloading music from the net to their kids.
omg dudes ... are you serious ?
... AMD
all the time i have been around java, j2se always came bundled with j2re (meaning i have not seen a j2se download that didn't contain j2re, probably because itself depends on it). have they really managed to create a j2se especially for titanium that doesnt have jre in it ? maybe they just dont make the jre package because nobody would need it ?
if nothing else helps, run qemu on it and let qemu run the x86-32 java (actually this idea is even more terrible than it sounds, but it will work.)
ps. first man in the thread, write three letters into your notebook
#1 56 mbits would be heaven ? nah, i dont really think so :) at first, if 3 users with 56Mbit lines would start to download from a server that sits in a rack behind a 100Mbit ethernet ... they would want to pull 56*3=168 Mbits out from the 100Mbit ethernet ... so they will just not be able to really use their bandwidth and the server will be jammed .... and for most of users, even 8Mbit is a huge overkill, cause people that dont download movies/cd-images/adult-movies/music each day, mostly have latency issues (they click and the browser doesnt react within a second, waaah) and the larger the bandwidth distributed over several users, the larger the latency (routers & co have their limits). ofcourse a big maximal downloadspeed is great but i dont think that the rest of the network isnt quite ready for it, it might not be such a good idea (most of our country's server hosting providers have 100Mbit ethernet/internet lines for the servers, so 4 british haxors can now jamm my server)
... the last time i checked the broadband companys themselves have to pay for each mbit they transit, so if they have a nice schoolful of haxxors who download stuff 24/7 then their downloaded/uploaded mbits will cost more than the 24 pounds that are charged ... ofcourse some users use less than that ... but still, it's still curious
#2 i wonder how they can afford it
#3 while they're at it, i'd even be lucky to get a 8mbit connection for 24 pounds over here
actually, 6 years a shark scenario of this stuff came out already from hollywood
... cause the latter is quite intelligent ...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149261/
and i'm not really sure if sharks are more dangerous than dolphins that are powered with poison darts
yeah ... it's actually very interesting ... phoenix itself was amazingly fast and worked just fine .... why did they have to mess it up with the slow extensions and gui module ?
... althrough the html rendering engine itself is the same gecko, something is always very wrong and slow in the "mainstream" mozillas ...
... aside from that, opera is really fast indeed and also seems to have a solid memory management, so my respect to those writers at opera ... but they still have some points that need to be tuned before i could possibly start to use their stuff ...
:(
i still use galeon/epiphany by default, because they are a lot faster than mozilla-firefox
as for the opera trolls, opera is still quite much off the dhtml stuff (like modifing iframe contents at real time (very very very many online content editors depend on that, mozilla and ie pull it off, opera doesnt)) , and it still has very many issues with plugins under linux x86-32, so dont suggest something that aint comparable yet
in the meanwhile, someone plz drop that firefox stuff and give us back the blitz fast phoenix, cause whatever is burning on the fox, it doesnt smell good
well an order from u.s. court does not help you when the stuff you want to examine isnt in the u.s. :)
... your regular phoneline can be "tapped" with an earphone and 20 second cable cutting work ... so any encrpytion at all is a really progress ...
anyway i agree with you that really private stuff should go over skype, use smthing better for that (remote calls through computers that are connected through unsecure computers can never be secure, so get real and face it).
as for the paranoia all over this subject
and perhaps some article authors should be considering the fact that they are as important as a can of trash for serious hackers, cut down your ego, nobody wants to hear what you are telling over a net phone, go do smth useful.
since when is opening a tcp/ip port a security hole ?
... do you feel hacked now ?
it's only a hole when your application listening on
the port is buggy and hackable not when the port is
opened up lol
if every open port is a serious security hole for you
, you should see a doctor. and by the way, if you want
your ports to be closed or otherwise specially handled,
get a firewall (a simple iptables setup will do), that's
what they are for...
you can't rely on applications not opening a port, almost
every networking application that has to receive data from
unknown external hosts (e.g. your chat friends) opens ports.
even msn does it
[oops, writing this note just made an outgoing tcp/ip socket]
[from my machine, i'm all hacked & cracked now, damn u!]
i think you are looking it from the wrong angle.
:)
the authors are afraid that you wont buy their crap if you know how bad the book is, and google shows exactly how bad it is (and by doing this it's saving money for you). and this actually means that they are losing money.
1)google wants to make profit
2)google enabled you to buy stuff that you need
3)authors cant sell you crap
4)authors sue google for ruining their bs selling business.
nevertheless, if i where an author and google would mess up my bs selling scam, i'd sue google too
luckily for google, i'm just a sw developer.
the range always depends on the censor, i'm pretty sure that some adequate h4x0rs can make their scanners work on 2-3cm distance or even more. if you have 10k cash on your account that a thief could "use", he will definetly "bump" into you and probably into some other people too :)
imagine the power of such a scanner in a wall street elevator, you struggle through some people and "pay" a few minutes later while they are struggling for stocks.
seems awfully insecure and i would advise against using this stuff. you could as well have cash hanging out of your pocket.
i guess wrapping it into a tinfoil will make it quite prone to magnetical defects, not sure about that, but when the tinfoil gets magnetically/electronically charged by some external strong magnetic force, it may cause damage to your card in the long run.
isnt it just easier to stick with the old cards ?
actually the laws itself arent lax ... the only thing that is lax is protecting the foreign financial interests .. :)
... That was not what i meant.
... ... ah that one ... well ... we're investigating it. ... maybe even more but we definetly dont want to go over 5 years. :) CiaoBambino, talk to you "soon"
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C -> China
L -> Lawyers of copyright satans.
L: Hi C , we have a problem...
C: So do we , but we dont see us bothering you with it, do you ?
L: Anyway. there is site of yours that exchanges our copyrighted music and we want to see them in court.
C: Are you sure ?
L: Ofcourse i'm sure, i flied 10 000 miles with a plane to tell it to you.
C: We have to do some research on the issue and see if anything you claim over our good nation here is true.
L: Research ? We've got the proof right here, these and those dudes are responsible for it. Arrest Lee Ya and Liu Pao!
C: You cant expect a billion numbered nation to be uncapable of doing it's own research and investigation on the matter.
L: Well
C: But that's what it sounded like, we will let investigate it and report back to you, see you soon.
L: So i have to fly back now with no news whatsoever ?
C: Yes.
L: Hey C, any news on the copyright matter ?
C: What copyright ?
L: The music stuff you know
C: Erm
L: Has there been any progress what so ever ?
C: We cant tell you this sensible information, sorry.
L: Cant tell me ? What the $#%^# , i was the one that requested this investigation in the first place.
C: Our laws are very strict and we cant tell you, we will let you know when our investigation is over.
L: And when do you assume this will be ?
C: In about 2 years, 3 years tops
L: , we are from america, you have to respect our power.
C: The power of 300 million people vs 1 billion people ? You americans have always been funny
this was just an intro to what will go down. the real filesharing lords will get away, maybe some people will get arrested and killed (but they actually have political crimes against communism and havent even seen a damn pc in their life)
so there you go
yep too late ...
/ ).
and as calling people arent suspicious enough to you, watch out for the smokers too, thinkgeek has a "spy camera cigarette lighter" for sale for a long time now (link: http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/7886
aren't people just a bit too paranoid about these things ?
my phone has a camera too but i use it really very rarely (and i probably would something more comfortable to copy documents, wouldn't you ?)
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A) you feel lucky when you run an operating system that's kernel is 2-3 years old, uses 2-3 year old programming tricks and is vulnerable to bugs/attacks that have been around for 2-3 years, good for you. i like stuff that is up to date, like the current linux kernel is , having patches for all the stuff that has been discovered until 1-2 months ago (i update my kernel in such intervals on my desktop). i like to have new and fresh ideas available for my programming needs, just as an example , epoll ( a pretty fancy replacement for select() and poll() ), it's enormously faster than anything we had 2-3 years ago with kernel 2.4.x and 2.2.x . and i feel safe when i open my browser not being concerned if a 2 year old into kernel built bitmap parsing algorithm can let a hacker inside my box.
/usr/share/doc/. it's usually there, if it aint, do apt-get install -doc. the windows programs that you fail to use, you just uninstall. the linux programs you cant use, you get pissed off and claim that linux is bad. i think you are bad. just my opinion.
as for isntallers, the dummy installers could also be made for linux, if you have been around enough the gaming world, you probably have seen id software installer for enemyterritory and quake3, they are pretty decent, select directory, click next and there you go. most apps miss this interface because 90% of the linux installers hate such time wasting stuff. apt-get install is much quicker to type and you can have a coffe and donut while it automagically does all by itself
B) if i can avoid it, i dont write any gui stuff at all. gui-s are fancy, sure, but not efficient nor to me nor to my usual software targets. and sometimes when i'm forced to sit behind a windows machine, i miss bash as hell. i cant bash/find/grep/sed and so on unless i have cygwin over there. it's hell. if you are used to get things quickly done without wondering for half an hour where the exact logfile may be where it says why the application XYZ just failed.
C) distro war in the really free linux world is past for a long time already. debian and ubuntu won, the rest as commercial bangers have been cast out. most stuff that you get have also a documentation package with according help files and images. in debian look under
ps. i feel very very very happy that 25% of the power of my machine isn't wasted on virus scanning and spyware searching.
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if you cant handle something, it doesnt mean it's bad, it's just proves that you are nod good enough.
actually i'm disappointed in such a newbie approach from ide fans ...
... but most machines actually have vim installed today instead of the old original vi
... and eclipse definetly is a hell to run under this 512 limit.
... emacs (if you cant do vim, use newb stuff))
... (the last build that did it all the time on my debian machine with the sun jdk 1.5.0 , this is not normal)
:)
the following talk is about vim, not vi itself
#1 vim has support for plugins, you can write a java debugger plugin for it if you really need to
#2 i have used everything from borlads jbuilder to eclipse and i still adore the command line debugger (yeah it actually works when you learn to use it)
#3 vim starts up under 1 second in my machines, provides me autocompletes, syntax highlights and god knows what more (i have used it for 5 years and i havent probably seen 5% of the plugins for it).
#4 you can run vim over ssh from several host hops away, no lag , no problems.
#5 if you think that an ide requiring 512mb for normal operating speed is ok, then there's something definetly wrong with you. even if you take it this way : plugins 100mb, menu 100mb, editor 100mb (which is a huge overkill for all of them), this still results under 512mb
#6 even "pro"-s sometimes need to fix some things right on the real server itself, in order to get timespan for fixing the same stuff in the development server without getting bashed from the bosses. if you depend on vi, you'lle be fine, if you depend on eclipse, u r lucky if you dont get fired for saying "hey, our paypal will be down another 30 minutes until i get eclipse running on my machine"
my advice :
use bash (or any other shell that you like)
use make or ant (using autoconf & stuff is up to you)
use vim (or
and dont depend on anything that requires a visual interface if you are developing stuff that wont stay in your machine.
i have been around these shiny screens & keyboard for 15 years now, spent most of the time compiling or editing code.i have written everything from linux kernel modules up to java applets/servlets/frameworks (including all that comes in between from basic html to perl/php/python). vim is universal, it always works, it's always fast. eclipse is just another ide that comes and goes. and segfaults
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ps. as for the author, if you havent figured out what to use yet, you're not a pro, srry.
chair and table producing company doesn't really matter, it must have the right height, colour and not fall apart.
you pc has to have a big clear screen (a good crt still owns), lots of ram (even thou vim doesnt need it, your db server & app server will), and be silent.
and get some isolating earphones that enable you to ignore everything that's going on around you.
dont get married. or you will turn into a shoe salesman instead of a software developer.
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yes i have the vim vs emacs t-shirt
imagine that theres a paid hitman that is coming to get you ... he could have lots of difficulties questioning people to find out where you live who your grandparents are, where did you last time cross the border etc. now we are saving his time by making it available to him with 1 sql query ...
... but do you really would like this to happen ? i dont think so ...
...
:p), so "Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated ..."
...
efficient
anyway, i think that this is actually against human/privacy rights to put his data out far in the open before he/she can even say "mama" for the first time
on the other hand, we all will end up in a database one day anyway (we are all 'kindof' in the slashdot database, aint we ?
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besides, this way you get to search for a girlfriend easilly, just one query with some measures/behaviour notices and you have your date
come on, you can't seriously think that making a price lower will put you into a case of anti-trust ?
....
intels anti-trust problem came from the fact that they forced pc makers to use their chips. not any other way around. they didnt lower the cost to anyone, they rised the price for those who sold amd stuff too. this is anti-trust. if they lower the price for all, then it's just fair competition.
but they wont lower the prices and definetly dont want to push amd out of the market. they want to keep the speed/megahertz race going to keep the market alive. if amd would vanish, so would their own market (people dont see a competition, they dont see a reason to upgrade to the next product from the same company if none else is offering anything better).
quite a lot of this extra 600$ still is profit, even after marketing/engineers costs. and most of this profit is probably reserved for the dark age when people are going to wonder if they really want to buy the pentium-25 with it's 333GHz or not
maybe the will, maybe they will not, it all depends if or not the Windows(r) Pasta(tm) Service Pack 42.1 build 33098 demands such cpu power or not.
erm ... using python might be really better in some cases, but you should be reminded that almost every unix box has perl and as maybe a shocking surprise to you, pretty many of them are missing python ... for example a minimal debian install has perl but lacks python. i put up most server like machines with pure debian at start, so i have no python until i fetch a program that needs it.
... this makes large python applications pretty manageable and turns large perl applications often into a mess. althrough the problem with both languages for me is that 3-rd party site packages likes wxwindows/tk/opengl bridge packages are often in broken dependancies and it really can make you swear a lot if you want to upgrade your box and because of 1 dependancy half of the python/perl gui programs wave you bye-bye. cant they really integrate some form of gui that would be python/perl native and work across platforms ? this way i would depend on 'john smith' to get some nice python/perl widget running ...
:(
:) (idea is good but current implementation does really cut it yet)
imho the power of python isnt the clear syntax, clear syntax can be written in perl too, some people are just too lazy to do it. python has really good threading and a nice oop model, perl's ithreads are still quite a mess and the variable & oop layer across it is even fuzzier and more difficult to bite through than the h4x0r'5 scripts
both languages are excellent for writing tiny helper tools for linux (tools that linux is missing a lot for dumb users), C and Java are both overkills for such simple tasks (a nice example of an overkill is a installer that is powered by a java gui, this is inhuman, uses twice the memory and need a bloating jvm to run). but without a really stable and "always being there" gui package these tools break a lot
i believe that perl is good in it's own key places, mostly being compact and very portable. in large and multithreaded applications ofcourse python rolls the house in the scripting world.
and for ruby fans, lets wait until the next version rolls out, then we may have a really good spot for that one too
use the right tool for the job and for the best practices use strict and warnings in perl, indent your code and avoid regexp hacks where you dont need them.
a) last time i checked, sparc was supported by linux
/* 64 bits are cool, but you gotta use them too to make em worth it :p */
b) can you show me a x86 box that has 64gb of memory ? nope ?
and strikes in hard ....
... after the nuclear dust has cleared, it will probably be ok pretty fast in terms of universe time.
A small quote
--- Consider the math involved in such "ocean plowing." Nuclear powered submarines can travel as fast as 25 miles per hour. Let's assume that these submarines would be dragging an ocean plowing apparatus that slows the submarine down to 15 miles per hour.
If the ocean plowing apparatus stretched a half mile wide, that means that a single submarine could plow 180 square miles of ocean in any 24 hour period. (The plowed surface area equals 15 miles per hour times 24 hours times 1/2 mile wide.)
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does the word aerodynamics say anything to you ? submarines are shaped like cigar cells for a good reason, so they would have any chance to move at all, if you make the submarine drag-push just about anything, it wont slow down 10mph. it will just stop (in mph measures at least). 1 cubic metre of water still weight 1 ton, if you want to lift it, it takes a lot of power.
however, you can use the submarines to wipe out 6 billion homo sapienses and stop the massive world pollution and save the earth that way
otherwise than that, we're too late to save the planet anyway, we should start to look for a new outpost and start building some rockets to get us there (that sound pretty familiar from movies, doesnt it ?)
i agree with you, nasa is getting it done, but it could be done cheaper...
... but even there money shouldnt be wasted ...
:)
... the only problem is where can we get the material for such an artificial mountain ...
ofcourse it seems a bit odd to spare money in areas like space travelling and stuff
i think that private companies doing space flights is a good thing, this will bring nasa "back to earth", at least in the budget dimension.
i'm still hoping they get this space elevator built, so we could get into space much much much cheaper
actually if we would buy 200x200km land and build an 200km high triangle like building on it, we would have the "stairs to space"
nasa won't die (and neither will *bsd and barcodes), no matter if netcraft confirms it.
>>> First of all, water is the major greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
this is a bit wrong, because water never turns into gas, water can be heated up in air to turn into steam, but it never turns into a *gas*. so it can't be a greenhouse gas.
ofcourse it's responsible for the heating effect in the sunlight, we wouldn't be chatting here in slashdot if we had no air with water around us, we'd freeze to death.
but if you define water as a responsible material for heating up earth in the sun, you should add oxygen and nitrogen too and every other thing that you see.
i must admit i was a bit unprecise when i was defining it as a non greenhouse material, because i was trying to define greenhouse stuff as stuff that we produce and that really has some kind of effect (i dont think 6 billion cars producing water would make much difference, especially if you consider the fact that all cars now shoot steam along with co2 out of their tubes too).
now as for the usa fact, usa is only about 5-6% the population of earth, we know that you people drive inhumanly fuel eating cars (and we think its a bit odd). but you should try to look over the border of your "great" country and see that other people use cars that need 6 litres of gas for 100km and a local heat station running 9 months a year produces far more co2 than cars over here for example.
power stations may be more effective, but the still shoot out massive amounts of co2, even the electricity that is used to make me type here is produced by burning the old goold coal. i dont know about you there on the other side of the ocean, but our country definetly uses more electricity and heating per hour in kW than our cars do.