Why is there still no pinless pairing in Android 4.2?
Does that mean something different than not needing a PIN to pair? I just paired my wife's Motorola Froyo phone with a headset last night and it didn't need a PIN.
Gigabit ethernet is a really good thing if you have a file server in your LAN
yeah, but if you count up the 90th percentile, people use wireless AP's to connect their laptops to their cable or DSL connection to reach servers where the total link speed is less than real-world 802.11g performance. And Backfire will work just fine for that. Internet connection speeds aren't much different than they were in 2002 for most people; a 200MHz MIPS is plenty to handle 7Mbps.
I have a wndr3700v2 running Attitude Adjustment with wpad and luci-ssl installed, but that's me.
There is at least one exception: I was trying to help my folks get out from behind their double-NAT situation on FiOS and realized that the TV gets routed through IP, so the packet processing speed of their 54g will be insufficient, so I needed to turn back on that one. BTW, what a massive pain FiOS is to use your own router.
oh, no kidding. Either my information is way out of date or the presentation I went to a couple years back was wrong (side-loading was one of the 'design goals' outlined at the time). I might check out dm-cache after all - thanks!
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Honestly I think there have been more interesting developments along the way in 3.x than there were from 2.4 -> 2.6.
I totally agree, but it's also fair to say that the efforts towards correctness from 2.4 to 2.6 have enabled the feature work happening in 3.x. I was just reading through the Xen commit about the feature to hot-plug new memory and CPU devices, and it's really so dependent on linux being able to say, "oh, you have a new memory module? OK, fine." which wasn't always the case.
And now for the flame-inducing observation: I think that through much of the 2000's, the BSD folks had a more mature and correct operating system to build on and that allowed them to add new features (e.g. pf, jails, zfs, dtrace) in an easier and faster way and we greatly benefited from that during that time period. Sure, linux had more drivers, but there was a fair bit of ugly kernel code to be faced. As of some point in the past couple years, linux has caught up, and now most of the really interesting new stuff (e.g. user namespaces) is probably going to be on linux, as that's where the momentum is. It'll probably be another three years before this becomes really obvious. Certainly there are still parts of linux with ugliness that need some TLC - I'm just talking about an inflection point, not an endpoint.
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Thanks for the link. I chased down the dm-cache stuff a bit, looking at it vs. bcache, which we'll see in June, probably. The primary differences seem to be that dm-cache is a bit more generic and easier to work with and it allows some manual allocation of the different types of disk data to be cached, while bcache seems to be targeting SSD's specifically, with wear-leveling sensitive write patterns, use of TRIM, and in-kernel code to validate the cache drives for preventing stupid user tricks.
EnhanceIO might also be targeting 3.10, which is a descendant of flashcache, which uses the layered device approach, while dm-cache and bcache are side-loaded. EnhanceIO uses udev rather than in-kernel code to prevent the stupid user tricks. I got the sense that 3.10 was possible for EnhanceIO but not as certain as bcache.
I'm current using flashcache on my non-ZFS systems; it looks like I'll be waiting for 3.10 and use bcache for my next upgrade.
I guess I missed your point in your whole anti gov't rant. On this one, it's the only thing they still manage well - considering all the players.
Not sure where you live, but in America, the standard diet is absolutely abysmal, and guided mostly by subsidies for the most unhealthy types of foods and trade embargoes against some of the alternatives. Meanwhile, they mandate absurd ideas that take away arable land from crops and drive up the cost of food, while prohibiting labelling of GMO foods and appointing agribusiness apparatchiks to the highest regulatory offices.
heh, I was thinking exactly the same thing - glowing spider plants could be put all over a house/hut/office plaza. Don't feel like watering it for a couple weeks? No problem.
According to the article it acidifies soils which the author finds good for areas with alkaline soils. And he says that some areas of Afghanistan have alkaline soils. Fine, but unless Afghanistan is unlike the rest of the world, some areas will have alkaline soils and some have acidic soils. I happen to have acidic soils on my farm and would never use a fertilizer that would further decrease the pH. We have plenty of iron in the soils here already too.
The cost increase may be low, but they cannot argue that with the added materials and logistics, the cost will be the same in places that already have ammonium nitrate fertilizers in use. Perhaps where their crony governments force farmers to buy calcium carbonate fertilizer it would be cost neutral.
But until hunger is eliminated in the world and all the world has healthy food to eat, governments have no business increasing the cost of food. Far more than 180 have died due to malnutrition since the Murrah building. Governments could trying sticking to courts, police and defense if they want to minimize the incidence of terrorism. And maybe help out with world hunger if they just can't stand sitting on their hands.
That's, like, your opinion man. If you were running a cartel or a monopoly propped up by the Copyright Clause and the thugs in SWAT gear who enforce it, you'd feel differently.
That and the argument seems to be, "we can't imagine what our race will look like in a thousand years, so we can assume these positive things about life from other planets."
I guess an honest, "we have no idea" article doesn't get many clicks.
Microsoft killed Nokia because it wanted to kill Nokia. That was obvious as it was happening.
I'm not a fan of their technology at all, but they do know how to make money quite well and there's no reason to believe that their financial managers are incompetent or irresponsible with their own interests.
So instead of using some random erasing tool, use the ATA SECURE ERASE command. That explicitly erases all data, including sectors included in the G-list.
If you trust the firmware and if you know your drive will support it.
I asked Segate, as an "industry partner" for a list of their drive model numbers that implement ATA Secure Erase (for a linux tool to do better erasing). They flatly refused to disclose that information.
Does that also mean (to be consistent) that earlier works don't get the federal copyright term extensions, so anyone can use (say) Mickey Mouse?
A court can easily decide these cases through careful construction of a three part test:
1) Does the interpretation give benefits to a corporation that is a large campaign contributor? 2) Does the interpretation give benefits to a corporation that is a large campaign contributor? 3) Does the interpretation give benefits to a corporation that is a large campaign contributor?
Usually, this sort of thing is called "regulation". Pretty common really. Most countries have laws.
You're right - I got the gist wrong from the summary. They're definitely talking about controlling businesses, not running it themselves. That's economic fascism when it implements a preference ("so that they are not going to see things they shouldn't"). If it prevents crime, that's an exercise of police power. 'Regulation' can cover both and many other feedback mechanisms, so it's non-specific in this regard.
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That's not at all in the spirit of patent law. The purpose was
"The purpose was" is now irrelevant. The patent law now serves the interests of those who own the government just as they wish it to be.
c.f. "You said they'd be left at the city under my supervision! "
I had it on my phone in February. Maybe nobody is updating the website. Google Play.
Why is there still no pinless pairing in Android 4.2?
Does that mean something different than not needing a PIN to pair? I just paired my wife's Motorola Froyo phone with a headset last night and it didn't need a PIN.
Tell me - why do you not donate to one of the charities that helps these people? (who, of course, deserve help as our brothers)
Right there in the release note, folks - if you have a 54G, use Backfire.
Newer hardware gets better kernels.
Next story.
Gigabit ethernet is a really good thing if you have a file server in your LAN
yeah, but if you count up the 90th percentile, people use wireless AP's to connect their laptops to their cable or DSL connection to reach servers where the total link speed is less than real-world 802.11g performance. And Backfire will work just fine for that. Internet connection speeds aren't much different than they were in 2002 for most people; a 200MHz MIPS is plenty to handle 7Mbps.
I have a wndr3700v2 running Attitude Adjustment with wpad and luci-ssl installed, but that's me.
There is at least one exception: I was trying to help my folks get out from behind their double-NAT situation on FiOS and realized that the TV gets routed through IP, so the packet processing speed of their 54g will be insufficient, so I needed to turn back on that one. BTW, what a massive pain FiOS is to use your own router.
haha, exactly (I've been running ZFS ever since).
bcache can't be side-loaded though
oh, no kidding. Either my information is way out of date or the presentation I went to a couple years back was wrong (side-loading was one of the 'design goals' outlined at the time). I might check out dm-cache after all - thanks!
Honestly I think there have been more interesting developments along the way in 3.x than there were from 2.4 -> 2.6.
I totally agree, but it's also fair to say that the efforts towards correctness from 2.4 to 2.6 have enabled the feature work happening in 3.x. I was just reading through the Xen commit about the feature to hot-plug new memory and CPU devices, and it's really so dependent on linux being able to say, "oh, you have a new memory module? OK, fine." which wasn't always the case.
And now for the flame-inducing observation: I think that through much of the 2000's, the BSD folks had a more mature and correct operating system to build on and that allowed them to add new features (e.g. pf, jails, zfs, dtrace) in an easier and faster way and we greatly benefited from that during that time period. Sure, linux had more drivers, but there was a fair bit of ugly kernel code to be faced. As of some point in the past couple years, linux has caught up, and now most of the really interesting new stuff (e.g. user namespaces) is probably going to be on linux, as that's where the momentum is. It'll probably be another three years before this becomes really obvious. Certainly there are still parts of linux with ugliness that need some TLC - I'm just talking about an inflection point, not an endpoint.
Thanks for the link. I chased down the dm-cache stuff a bit, looking at it vs. bcache, which we'll see in June, probably. The primary differences seem to be that dm-cache is a bit more generic and easier to work with and it allows some manual allocation of the different types of disk data to be cached, while bcache seems to be targeting SSD's specifically, with wear-leveling sensitive write patterns, use of TRIM, and in-kernel code to validate the cache drives for preventing stupid user tricks.
EnhanceIO might also be targeting 3.10, which is a descendant of flashcache, which uses the layered device approach, while dm-cache and bcache are side-loaded. EnhanceIO uses udev rather than in-kernel code to prevent the stupid user tricks. I got the sense that 3.10 was possible for EnhanceIO but not as certain as bcache.
I'm current using flashcache on my non-ZFS systems; it looks like I'll be waiting for 3.10 and use bcache for my next upgrade.
BTRFS, a filesystem, now supports Raid 5 and 6 without using the software-raid layer in the kernel
[link to the "rampant-layering-violations" rant about ZFS from several years ago]...
I guess I missed your point in your whole anti gov't rant. On this one, it's the only thing they still manage well - considering all the players.
Not sure where you live, but in America, the standard diet is absolutely abysmal, and guided mostly by subsidies for the most unhealthy types of foods and trade embargoes against some of the alternatives. Meanwhile, they mandate absurd ideas that take away arable land from crops and drive up the cost of food, while prohibiting labelling of GMO foods and appointing agribusiness apparatchiks to the highest regulatory offices.
Surprisingly, there's a "Morningstar Christian Bookstore" near where I go for "big-city" shopping.
They've been there a while, so probably nobody knows/cares.
heh, I was thinking exactly the same thing - glowing spider plants could be put all over a house/hut/office plaza. Don't feel like watering it for a couple weeks? No problem.
According to the article it acidifies soils which the author finds good for areas with alkaline soils. And he says that some areas of Afghanistan have alkaline soils. Fine, but unless Afghanistan is unlike the rest of the world, some areas will have alkaline soils and some have acidic soils. I happen to have acidic soils on my farm and would never use a fertilizer that would further decrease the pH. We have plenty of iron in the soils here already too.
The cost increase may be low, but they cannot argue that with the added materials and logistics, the cost will be the same in places that already have ammonium nitrate fertilizers in use. Perhaps where their crony governments force farmers to buy calcium carbonate fertilizer it would be cost neutral.
But until hunger is eliminated in the world and all the world has healthy food to eat, governments have no business increasing the cost of food. Far more than 180 have died due to malnutrition since the Murrah building. Governments could trying sticking to courts, police and defense if they want to minimize the incidence of terrorism. And maybe help out with world hunger if they just can't stand sitting on their hands.
Anything positive about DRM? Sadly, no.
That's, like, your opinion man. If you were running a cartel or a monopoly propped up by the Copyright Clause and the thugs in SWAT gear who enforce it, you'd feel differently.
That and the argument seems to be, "we can't imagine what our race will look like in a thousand years, so we can assume these positive things about life from other planets."
I guess an honest, "we have no idea" article doesn't get many clicks.
Microsoft killed Nokia because it wanted to kill Nokia. That was obvious as it was happening.
I'm not a fan of their technology at all, but they do know how to make money quite well and there's no reason to believe that their financial managers are incompetent or irresponsible with their own interests.
So instead of using some random erasing tool, use the ATA SECURE ERASE command. That explicitly erases all data, including sectors included in the G-list.
If you trust the firmware and if you know your drive will support it.
I asked Segate, as an "industry partner" for a list of their drive model numbers that implement ATA Secure Erase (for a linux tool to do better erasing). They flatly refused to disclose that information.
Don't worry, it'll get attached as an eleventh-hour amendment to a bill funding childrens' hospitals the evening before summer recess.
It's Oracle. They'll re-license ZFS just as soon as it's no longer profitable for them not to.
Does that also mean (to be consistent) that earlier works don't get the federal copyright term extensions, so anyone can use (say) Mickey Mouse?
A court can easily decide these cases through careful construction of a three part test:
1) Does the interpretation give benefits to a corporation that is a large campaign contributor?
2) Does the interpretation give benefits to a corporation that is a large campaign contributor?
3) Does the interpretation give benefits to a corporation that is a large campaign contributor?
Only a certifiable lunatic
The sociopaths are giving the lunatics a bad name!
Usually, this sort of thing is called "regulation". Pretty common really. Most countries have laws.
You're right - I got the gist wrong from the summary. They're definitely talking about controlling businesses, not running it themselves. That's economic fascism when it implements a preference ("so that they are not going to see things they shouldn't"). If it prevents crime, that's an exercise of police power. 'Regulation' can cover both and many other feedback mechanisms, so it's non-specific in this regard.
No, there is no such difference.
One is a preference, the other comes at the end of a gun barrel.