around file years ago, i deployed several routers implemented as a VIA mini-itx board running linux, busybox and OpenVPN on a small IDE flashdisk.
didn't tell the users how to turn it off, or anything. fully plug-and-play once i configured for their network.
only once i had to change one because a power supply failure destroyed the mainboard. i hadn't received a single problem call for 3 years. i checked a few months ago, and only two units have been retired because the clients changed locations.
The speed of an electron is pretty darn slow (on the order of inches per hour, IIRC)
that's for thermal electrons, for ballistic ones it's quite a bit higher. of course, i don't think any of these materials is a good ballistic medium at room temperatures.
i guess you don't remember UUCP? yep, that was a store-and-forward protocol, which evolved into a 'network of networks' working to get e-mail and netnews before the Internet.
the point is that intellectual creations, according to the US founders, does not belong to any individual. not even the author. it's inherently a legacy for the whole mankind.
but, of course, there has to be financial incentives and recognition to foster the creation of such works. that's what copyrights, patents and trademarks are: different ways to formalise and protect by law a time-limited monopoly on the use and profit of creations.
that's why it's so dangerous to talk about 'intellectual property'. it leads to these assumptions where you actually own them.
I've used them for small jobs. with rsync it's great for backups; but the WebDAV access isn't as good.
i think it's somewhat cheaper than Amazon's S3, but don't know how well compares to other services.
The best part is it's terms of service. it's short, and each paragraph is followed by a translation from legalese to english. they really inspire trust.
As a peruvian, i have to say this is a real disgrace.
It's not about Linux vs. Microsoft, it's about spreading ignorance.
Here most (educated) people think that when you can't open a PowerPoint document, it's because one machine was a Pentium 4 and the other was a Core Duo.
Why? how could a rational being reach that conclusion? that's because when you buy a computer, you don't even ask for windows. it's an invisible part of the computer, so when they see different icons and menus (win2000 vs. XP, vs Vista), they think it's because one is newer, and the specs said "Pentium 4" or Core2, or wathever.
the ubiquity, monoculture of windows makes it totally invisible, because people think it's part of the computer, just as critical as the hard driver, or those other part they don't know what they do.
exposing people to a different system, opens minds in a way that no course can. suddenly they find that a 'start' menu isn't the only way, and e-mail doesn't mean hotmail. and internet isn't the blue 'e', and.... that crashes, viruses and spyware aren't intrinsic parts of computing experience
keywords being 'soley for the purpose of displaying,distributing and promoting your blog'.
interesting point. the closest to this in google's ToS is "This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services"; which could be interpreted similarly since for a well meaning lawyer, "the services" might be "your blog/album/mail/etc"...
but who has ever heard of a well meaning lawyer?
i for one don't care about those ToS'es, but would be very nice if Google improved this specific sentence.
AFAIK, Gears SQLite storage API predates HTML5 local storage API; but on late builds, they're adding an HTML5-compatible API. I guess integrating those would let the web developer choose which one to use and access the same storage. see proposal here: http://code.google.com/p/gears/wiki/Database2API
I guess when they did the Gears-WebKit integration they had to choose what to do. obviously they wouldn't want to remove Gears SQLite API, but which one to use for HTML5? their own unfinished one, or webkit's one? in the end, i guess tweaking webkit's implementation to use the same storage as Gears would be the best of both, but seems that for now they just disabled it in hope of 'doing it better' later. remember it's a very first release yet.
I'd be happier if Google had chosen Firefox's engine instead of Webkit. You might wonder why...it's because Apple tried to play "hard ball" with the KHTML developers whose product Apple based Webkit on. I just do not trust Apple.
AFAICT, WebKit isn't driven by Apple anymore. people from the original KHTML and from Qt (now at nokia) are doing great things on the shared codebase. neither of those groups have any (obvious) vested interests in doing sneaky things to your browser.
Also, any 'bad' things would be easier to do on the app level, not the rendering engine level. so no difference in 'trustfullness' by using WebKit or Gecko.
heat pollution has to be taken seriously, nobody wants to destroy ecosystems left and right.
that said, the advantage of dumping waste heat into the oceans instead of the atmosphere has at least two advantages to ecologists (an several more to engineers):
1: the oceans are a MUCH bigger heat sink than the atmosphere. any given quantity of waste heat is (in the big picture) less significant to the oceans than to the atmosphere.
2: water carries heat a lot faster than air, making it harder to significantly overheat an area, especially if you tap into a stable body of water circulation.
a massive use of tidal energy doesn't cool the oceans, the effect would be slowing earth's rotation. i don't know how to calculate the effect; but i would bet even turning all of the world's energy production to tidal wouldn't have any effect perceptible without atomic clocks and quasar-based astrometry.
Ext3 in my experience is just plain inferior to ReiserFS. Recovery and formatting are both slow as death. Like the OP I have yet to suffer any data loss on a ReiserFS since way back in the early days when it first came out. Ext3 seems pretty reliable as well, but the slow recovery times are annoying and once in a while it seems like a whole filesystem just plain becomes irretrievably corrupted. OTOH it does demand less CPU overhead. Rarely a BIG issue, but can be with HTPC type systems.
my experience is totally different. with big filesystems (1-4TB), doing a full copy or rsync from one to the other completes in nearly the same amount of time, but if either source or destination was ReiserFS (or worse, both) other accesses to any other filesystem on that machine get terribly slow. also, just mounting a Reiser FS over a few hundred Gigs (cleanly unmounted) is a multi-minute task, while on ext3 it's instantaneous.
one possible explanation might be that ReiserFS (3.6, at least) uses the BKL (big kernel lock), which is a huge obstacle to real scalability. there's currently a lot of work in the kernel to remove last uses of that... who knows what that could mean for ReiserFS support?
Overall though I don't think you have a lot of choice. XFS or JFS might be perfectly good solutions, not really had a need to mess with either of them myself so I can't comment. Obviously ReiserFS looks like it has about reached the end and that pretty much leaves Ext3 as the only man left standing in the ring at this point. Cheer up, it works well enough, you'll just have to live without the shrink functionality...;).
my experience with XFS roughly matches that of the OP: it's great when everything works ok, but it assumes good hardware. if you get any hardware failure, all bets are off. of course no FS does any warranty in that case; but i've never been lost any data with either Ext3 or Reiser because of hardware glitches (of course, a failing driver without a RAID did lose (some) data... no miracles there). with XFS, i started losing files almost everytime i pulled the cord (testing equipement). even if i have UPSs and automatic shutdown, and battery backed caches... i still don't feel it's as reliable as XFS demands to let me sleep.
i've almost finished migrating all important data vaults out of ReiserFS to Ext3, both for fear of lack of support, and for performance. i do miss the easily resizing of ReiserFS; but ext2online does manage the online expand/offline shrink.
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i'm trying it in the only windows machines i have at home: a 700Mhz P3 laptop with 256MB RAM and XP SP2. it's slightly faster than FF3, and a lot better than FF2 on this machine.
maybe on bigger machines it will use lots of RAM, but on limited machines its really good
Feedback is really important, but maybe it can be faked.
when i first tried an early iPod (on a store) i wasn't sure if the wheel physically turned or not. it took me several seconds to realize it was only because of the audio feedback, and that wasn't through the earphones, but on a small piezo speaker on the device itself.
it would be interesting to add a small vibrator under a 'screen keyboard', to and have it do a slight 'tick' on each keypress. your fingers would definitely get it, so maybe it would help with the typing experience.
I knew that Java and Javascript weren't functionally similar, but the impression I've had since their inception was that Java was supposed to be the powerful, fast language, while javascript was only suitable for running a few lines of code for, say, running something locally via an insecure web browser.
Java and JavaScript were implemented roughly at the same time by two different teams on different companies (Sun and Netscape), i don't think either knew about the other. At the end JavaScript was renamed to make it 'hip', since Java was all the rage, and Sun allowed that in exchange of getting Java included in the browser.
IOW, there wasn't any "this is for that, that other is for this". both languages were trying to take over the world; but being engineers, they knew that no language can be all things to all people, and choice is good
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around file years ago, i deployed several routers implemented as a VIA mini-itx board running linux, busybox and OpenVPN on a small IDE flashdisk.
didn't tell the users how to turn it off, or anything. fully plug-and-play once i configured for their network.
only once i had to change one because a power supply failure destroyed the mainboard. i hadn't received a single problem call for 3 years. i checked a few months ago, and only two units have been retired because the clients changed locations.
via does do some quality hardware.
those 'extra bits' are called 'salt', and this scheme is widely used with 'shared secret' validations; but won't work here.
using your words: the applicant doesn't know A, so can't apply the extra bits to verify.
seems to have zero utility to me.
less than zero, since in some browsers it's even hard to disable. (konqueror!!!)
Who here really lets any password manager save any password they care about?
I do. And I bet at least one other person does.
then you're getting what you asked for.
trust no one with your passwords.
let the cookies keep you logged in /. and other non-sensitive accounts.
for everything else, use your own passwords and type them with your own fingers.
The speed of an electron is pretty darn slow (on the order of inches per hour, IIRC)
that's for thermal electrons, for ballistic ones it's quite a bit higher. of course, i don't think any of these materials is a good ballistic medium at room temperatures.
photons, by definition, have zero rest mass.
but they are rarely at rest
this might be the only xkcd strip that i really, _really_ don't get.
And how does V8 (a mix between a JIT and a compiler) compares against LuaJIT?
it's enlightening to see how the clean design of Lua allows a small team to get so much better results than what the best minds can do with JS...
why do you assume e-mail means TCP/IP?
i guess you don't remember UUCP? yep, that was a store-and-forward protocol, which evolved into a 'network of networks' working to get e-mail and netnews before the Internet.
the point is that intellectual creations, according to the US founders, does not belong to any individual. not even the author. it's inherently a legacy for the whole mankind.
but, of course, there has to be financial incentives and recognition to foster the creation of such works. that's what copyrights, patents and trademarks are: different ways to formalise and protect by law a time-limited monopoly on the use and profit of creations.
that's why it's so dangerous to talk about 'intellectual property'. it leads to these assumptions where you actually own them.
if you want to truly own an idea, don't share it.
I've used them for small jobs. with rsync it's great for backups; but the WebDAV access isn't as good.
i think it's somewhat cheaper than Amazon's S3, but don't know how well compares to other services.
The best part is it's terms of service. it's short, and each paragraph is followed by a translation from legalese to english. they really inspire trust.
Then we only have to wait for evolution to create lifeforms able to breath tailpipe fumes, eat garbage and use radioactive wastes instead of sunlight.
hum... doesn't seem too different from cockroaches...
As a peruvian, i have to say this is a real disgrace.
It's not about Linux vs. Microsoft, it's about spreading ignorance.
Here most (educated) people think that when you can't open a PowerPoint document, it's because one machine was a Pentium 4 and the other was a Core Duo.
Why? how could a rational being reach that conclusion? that's because when you buy a computer, you don't even ask for windows. it's an invisible part of the computer, so when they see different icons and menus (win2000 vs. XP, vs Vista), they think it's because one is newer, and the specs said "Pentium 4" or Core2, or wathever.
the ubiquity, monoculture of windows makes it totally invisible, because people think it's part of the computer, just as critical as the hard driver, or those other part they don't know what they do.
exposing people to a different system, opens minds in a way that no course can. suddenly they find that a 'start' menu isn't the only way, and e-mail doesn't mean hotmail. and internet isn't the blue 'e', and.... that crashes, viruses and spyware aren't intrinsic parts of computing experience
No other VM/virtualization software I've used so far exhibits this strange "clock skew" behavior.
they all had it at some time or another. most are solved now, however
Do you mean to say that OS-X breaks convention by using non-standard keyboard shortcuts?
just remember that MacOS predates what you call 'standard'
keywords being 'soley for the purpose of displaying,distributing and promoting your blog'.
interesting point. the closest to this in google's ToS is "This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services"; which could be interpreted similarly since for a well meaning lawyer, "the services" might be "your blog/album/mail/etc"...
but who has ever heard of a well meaning lawyer?
i for one don't care about those ToS'es, but would be very nice if Google improved this specific sentence.
AFAIK, Gears SQLite storage API predates HTML5 local storage API; but on late builds, they're adding an HTML5-compatible API. I guess integrating those would let the web developer choose which one to use and access the same storage. see proposal here: http://code.google.com/p/gears/wiki/Database2API
I guess when they did the Gears-WebKit integration they had to choose what to do. obviously they wouldn't want to remove Gears SQLite API, but which one to use for HTML5? their own unfinished one, or webkit's one? in the end, i guess tweaking webkit's implementation to use the same storage as Gears would be the best of both, but seems that for now they just disabled it in hope of 'doing it better' later. remember it's a very first release yet.
I'd be happier if Google had chosen Firefox's engine instead of Webkit. You might wonder why...it's because Apple tried to play "hard ball" with the KHTML developers whose product Apple based Webkit on. I just do not trust Apple.
AFAICT, WebKit isn't driven by Apple anymore. people from the original KHTML and from Qt (now at nokia) are doing great things on the shared codebase. neither of those groups have any (obvious) vested interests in doing sneaky things to your browser.
Also, any 'bad' things would be easier to do on the app level, not the rendering engine level. so no difference in 'trustfullness' by using WebKit or Gecko.
heat pollution has to be taken seriously, nobody wants to destroy ecosystems left and right.
that said, the advantage of dumping waste heat into the oceans instead of the atmosphere has at least two advantages to ecologists (an several more to engineers):
1: the oceans are a MUCH bigger heat sink than the atmosphere. any given quantity of waste heat is (in the big picture) less significant to the oceans than to the atmosphere.
2: water carries heat a lot faster than air, making it harder to significantly overheat an area, especially if you tap into a stable body of water circulation.
tidal power isn't thermal energy.
a massive use of tidal energy doesn't cool the oceans, the effect would be slowing earth's rotation. i don't know how to calculate the effect; but i would bet even turning all of the world's energy production to tidal wouldn't have any effect perceptible without atomic clocks and quasar-based astrometry.
Ext3 in my experience is just plain inferior to ReiserFS. Recovery and formatting are both slow as death. Like the OP I have yet to suffer any data loss on a ReiserFS since way back in the early days when it first came out. Ext3 seems pretty reliable as well, but the slow recovery times are annoying and once in a while it seems like a whole filesystem just plain becomes irretrievably corrupted. OTOH it does demand less CPU overhead. Rarely a BIG issue, but can be with HTPC type systems.
my experience is totally different. with big filesystems (1-4TB), doing a full copy or rsync from one to the other completes in nearly the same amount of time, but if either source or destination was ReiserFS (or worse, both) other accesses to any other filesystem on that machine get terribly slow. also, just mounting a Reiser FS over a few hundred Gigs (cleanly unmounted) is a multi-minute task, while on ext3 it's instantaneous.
one possible explanation might be that ReiserFS (3.6, at least) uses the BKL (big kernel lock), which is a huge obstacle to real scalability. there's currently a lot of work in the kernel to remove last uses of that... who knows what that could mean for ReiserFS support?
Overall though I don't think you have a lot of choice. XFS or JFS might be perfectly good solutions, not really had a need to mess with either of them myself so I can't comment. Obviously ReiserFS looks like it has about reached the end and that pretty much leaves Ext3 as the only man left standing in the ring at this point. Cheer up, it works well enough, you'll just have to live without the shrink functionality... ;).
my experience with XFS roughly matches that of the OP: it's great when everything works ok, but it assumes good hardware. if you get any hardware failure, all bets are off. of course no FS does any warranty in that case; but i've never been lost any data with either Ext3 or Reiser because of hardware glitches (of course, a failing driver without a RAID did lose (some) data... no miracles there). with XFS, i started losing files almost everytime i pulled the cord (testing equipement). even if i have UPSs and automatic shutdown, and battery backed caches... i still don't feel it's as reliable as XFS demands to let me sleep.
i've almost finished migrating all important data vaults out of ReiserFS to Ext3, both for fear of lack of support, and for performance. i do miss the easily resizing of ReiserFS; but ext2online does manage the online expand/offline shrink.
i'm trying it in the only windows machines i have at home: a 700Mhz P3 laptop with 256MB RAM and XP SP2. it's slightly faster than FF3, and a lot better than FF2 on this machine.
maybe on bigger machines it will use lots of RAM, but on limited machines its really good
Feedback is really important, but maybe it can be faked.
when i first tried an early iPod (on a store) i wasn't sure if the wheel physically turned or not. it took me several seconds to realize it was only because of the audio feedback, and that wasn't through the earphones, but on a small piezo speaker on the device itself.
it would be interesting to add a small vibrator under a 'screen keyboard', to and have it do a slight 'tick' on each keypress. your fingers would definitely get it, so maybe it would help with the typing experience.
I knew that Java and Javascript weren't functionally similar, but the impression I've had since their inception was that Java was supposed to be the powerful, fast language, while javascript was only suitable for running a few lines of code for, say, running something locally via an insecure web browser.
Java and JavaScript were implemented roughly at the same time by two different teams on different companies (Sun and Netscape), i don't think either knew about the other. At the end JavaScript was renamed to make it 'hip', since Java was all the rage, and Sun allowed that in exchange of getting Java included in the browser.
IOW, there wasn't any "this is for that, that other is for this". both languages were trying to take over the world; but being engineers, they knew that no language can be all things to all people, and choice is good