Then, someone at work (I was a co-op student at the time) suggested OS/2. After buying a student copy of that, too, I installed it. I could run two nodes of the BBS at 33.6kbps PLUS compile under Windows, or I could run one node AND use the other modem to connect to the internet via the university, and load up a web browser and do all of that stuff while the DOS BBS continued to run just fine.
My OS/2 moment was formatting a floppy in one DOS box while playing Wing Commander in another. Windows would effectively halt on floppy disk access at that point.
and in a short one, tuck it in to the space between the PCI(e) card (if any) and the MB with a bit of double sticky tape
Yeah. I tried suggesting something like this to a customer recently. Strapping an SSD to a rail with space under it and grabbing power from the unused PCIe power socket with a field-made cable to solve a system performance problem.
People freak out about stuff that's not 100% modular. They went with 'accept the performance problem' over buying more U space or hacking in an SSD. With their eyes wide open.
It's rare that I decide to not take work from a company again, but that one was just too frustrating.
I'm sorry that aerodynamic requirements don't fit your aesthetic views. File a bug report. =)
The correlation isn't that tight. Last time I looked, a Lexus LS4xx had a slightly (0.01 or so) lower coefficient of drag than a Prius.
The Prius *is* aerodynamic, but its looks are also meant to give that impression.
It comes down to fashion, not just engineering. If the Prius wasn't distinctive-looking its ascendancy to 'fashion accessory' status probably would not have happened. So, that's good for Toyota and perhaps good for the environment.
one of the simplest and most basic requests that our country makes of you in exchange for citizenship
Except it's not. It should be. In my jurisdiction, you have to sit through an hour-long video that eviscerates nearly every juror protection and right set forth in the past 200+ years, agree to that, and to follow all orders the judge gives, and then you can be seated on a jury. Even worse, if you know anything about the case or the person you're supposed to volunteer that information and be excused from the case.
That's not how it's supposed to work - it's a mockery of a once-just system.
but in other instances (eg, Microsoft) it's not, or much less so
Does Microsoft take the same sorts of risks it does with corporate protection as it would if Microsoft were a general partnership between Allen, Gates, and Balmer?
Nice - last time I looked there was a requirement for more antenna separation than I could provide, but I should have looked again. I also bought the cradle-type because I'm cheap and was skeptical, but I'm actually glad it forced me to go hands-free.
I think the model you linked would have been worth the extra money, though, for two reasons: 1) my car essentailly has no smooth flat spots to put the stick-on cradle 2) if I don't remember the earpiece for whatever reason I'm stuck.
The cheap one does really work well, but the better model allows more flexibility.
Which is why internal "clouds" have always amused me to no end...
Why is it amusing? There's no difference between an internal cloud and an external cloud, except who runs it. You can even download Rackspace's software to roll your own, if you want to.
You need: spare capacity, arbitrary scaling, on-demand provisioning, and high availability to have a cloud.
Example: you work in a Wall Street bank as a developer. You need 5 new linux 'servers' and 6TB of storage to work out an idea. You submit a ticket to IT on your way out the door for lunch. When you come back they're ready for you and you don't worry about them going down.
Granted, there's current a lot of IT work required to make this happen, most small businesses can't afford it. But you don't go uploading your newest high-velocity trading algorithms to EC2. How much is it worth being the first bank on the exchanges with a new and improved algorithm?
Ah, but they want the customer to pay *them* (the carriers) for the privilege of solving the carriers problem, not some upstart little company who has started selling boosters on Amazon.
You're not kidding. I recently installed a Wilson booster that I got from Amazon, and it's like a whole new world for me.
Usually I had about 5 minutes of signal coverage leaving work, which is only useful for short conversations. On my long Interstate drives I'd lose signal about every 15 minutes, which made drive-time talk unpredictable. And this is on Verizon - no other carriers have close to their signal here.
With the booster, I can have a meaningful conversation on my whole ride home. There are no dead zones on my Interstate drives, so I can whittle down my GTD calls list on the road.
One thing to be aware of is that these things require an earpiece. 2010 is a good year for them - I got a Motorola Bluetooth setup from NewEgg for about $40 and it's actually great. I have a small collection of them from previous years which all suck big time. The only downside is the Motorola unit comes in a monstrous piece of cast aluminum packaging. I guess it's to thwart retail-store theft, but via NewEgg it's environmentally reprehensible.
Anyway, the Wilson booster paid for itself the first week I had it. I have a second one at my office to install in the wife's car this weekend.
Now, if I could only get PagePlus to port our numbers I'd be really happy.
they wish to protect their ancestral homeland, nothing wrong with that
Sure, as long as property rights are respected in the process. Most people wouldn't take kindly to the Manhattan tribe showing up at Mayor Blumeberg's office and laying out their policy plans, disregarding policy rights.
I'm with you on the Team America: World Police thing, though - disrespecting Israel's sovereignty is no way to show it our support.
Maybe somebody will figure out how to use it this time around.
Actually, this might be the right place for it.
We had a big* earthquake here in NH a few months ago about 11:30. A big data-gathering/experience sharing thing broke out on a few friends' comments. Many of our friend circles' overlapped, but there were people on each node that weren't seeing data on the other nodes. We'd worked out a non-explosion event, about where it was centered, about a half hour before the USGS data went up on their site.
I thought: "Oh, so this is what Wave was for!" And then, "oh, and this is why Wave hasn't succeeded - no network effect value."
Yeah, after I posted that comment I saw something about Makerbot and it looks real interesting. A cheap 3D printer, even if it is the equivalent of dot matrix printer from a couple of decades ago.
Literally - we were having trouble with the belt tension on the unit I saw, and after we get it right I pointed out to folks that it was Epson FX-80 tight.
Original report, "it's a missile launch." Subsequent news report, "we talked to a senior defense official on deep background who said it was one of ours and an accidental launch that was disabled in-flight." Official report: Flight 808
OK, so the first reporters were just there, not experts. Fine.
Now, the second news reporter either was lying about the defense official, or the defense official was lying about the launch, or the official story is a lie. One of them has to be false.
The problem here is that I don't see the price dropping as significantly for 3D printers. The Fab@Home printer costs roughly $2k (about 1K GBP, give or take some) and that price has been pretty steady. It also has some strong limitations and most of the stuff created with that printer is mostly plastic stuff or some pastries being done with frosting. The printers that work with metal are still in the tens of thousands of dollars range, and haven't really dropped much in price.
The Makerbot is already at $700. Having played with one last week, I think they can get half of the cost out of that. At $350, I'd probably buy one, just 'cause (I don't have a real use for it now).
Where I think a real opportunity exists is in a local casting shop. Let people play with their plastic parts at home. When they're done and happy with the prototype, send the file to the local caster's and have them make you one out of zinc. Pick it up on the way back from lunch. They'll probably use a plastic machine to make the sand mould.
Remember the days of bringing a Syquest 44 cart to a service bureau to get some color output? Now I have a $400 color laser printer in my office, just for occasional use. But I'd still send out for large-format or photographic work.
Any tips for how to get PagePlus to port a random Verizon phone? I have an LG nv2 which is just perfect for my use cases. I don't care about the cost of their phones but they don't sell a phone I want to use. Mine was bought from some random reseller on eBay with a clear ESN.
How creating artificial new forms of properties is a form of socialism ?
Because they don't really exist. They exist only in the minds of people who buy into a government-controlled society. Contrast with a government servant to society.
Basically the WiFi standards bunch screwed up. So I actually blame them for a lot of the problems. So many years and they still haven't got WiFi to the level of TLS/HTTPS.
My thought as well. My mail server will encrypt opportunistically, no pre-shared key required - the fundamental problems are already solved.
We're not going to fix the standards committee or replace all the gear in the field. Perhaps the better place to focus is on a community-built standard for communicating securely with the access point. For instance, figure out some sort of flag to put into the handshake that can indicate an OpenVPN capability on the access point (or named IP, for bridging access points), and have OpenWRT, DD-WRT, and Tomato support that. Bake it into NetworkManager. Teach OpenVPN how to accept any cert on a given interface, if it can't already.
If it's any good Apple might pick it up for iOS 6 (the combined desktop/mobile version).
No, it's separate files. You can browse it using finder or terminal.
Yeah, that's what I see here on 10.5 as well - at one point I had my rsnapshot backing up a Mac's Time Machine 'latest' tree.
From the other comments here it sounds like 10.6 might have gone with sparse bundles for all of its backups? Maybe to enable encryption?
I dunno, Apple has abandoned my wife's Apple hardware. Her Mini will get turned into a mythfronend when Lion is shipped. Too bad the iLife analogs on Linux are terrible (quite featureful, but the UI's stink).
I won't pretend to understand core coherency under Windows, but if they have one of those network traffic interceptors, conceivably every other thread in a multi-connection webpage load could get scheduled to a different core and get interleaved between scanning and transferring.
Probably smarter just to benchmark it than reason it out.
Or, if they do the standard corporate thing and keep RAM low and swap like mad, the second core can run the memory manager.;)
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this is effectively the "Please Melt Down any Treasures You Find Act of 1996".
My OS/2 moment was formatting a floppy in one DOS box while playing Wing Commander in another. Windows would effectively halt on floppy disk access at that point.
Blocking sites on copyright grounds is one thing
Half of what my friends on Facebook post could be classified as 'copyright violations'. Maybe ISP's should block Facebook.
(you do want to play this game, Facebook, don't you?)
Yeah. I tried suggesting something like this to a customer recently. Strapping an SSD to a rail with space under it and grabbing power from the unused PCIe power socket with a field-made cable to solve a system performance problem.
People freak out about stuff that's not 100% modular. They went with 'accept the performance problem' over buying more U space or hacking in an SSD. With their eyes wide open.
It's rare that I decide to not take work from a company again, but that one was just too frustrating.
I'm sorry that aerodynamic requirements don't fit your aesthetic views. File a bug report. =)
The correlation isn't that tight. Last time I looked, a Lexus LS4xx had a slightly (0.01 or so) lower coefficient of drag than a Prius.
The Prius *is* aerodynamic, but its looks are also meant to give that impression.
It comes down to fashion, not just engineering. If the Prius wasn't distinctive-looking its ascendancy to 'fashion accessory' status probably would not have happened. So, that's good for Toyota and perhaps good for the environment.
one of the simplest and most basic requests that our country makes of you in exchange for citizenship
Except it's not. It should be. In my jurisdiction, you have to sit through an hour-long video that eviscerates nearly every juror protection and right set forth in the past 200+ years, agree to that, and to follow all orders the judge gives, and then you can be seated on a jury. Even worse, if you know anything about the case or the person you're supposed to volunteer that information and be excused from the case.
That's not how it's supposed to work - it's a mockery of a once-just system.
but in other instances (eg, Microsoft) it's not, or much less so
Does Microsoft take the same sorts of risks it does with corporate protection as it would if Microsoft were a general partnership between Allen, Gates, and Balmer?
and a very small antenna that goes inside the car
Nice - last time I looked there was a requirement for more antenna separation than I could provide, but I should have looked again. I also bought the cradle-type because I'm cheap and was skeptical, but I'm actually glad it forced me to go hands-free.
I think the model you linked would have been worth the extra money, though, for two reasons: 1) my car essentailly has no smooth flat spots to put the stick-on cradle 2) if I don't remember the earpiece for whatever reason I'm stuck.
The cheap one does really work well, but the better model allows more flexibility.
Which is why internal "clouds" have always amused me to no end...
Why is it amusing? There's no difference between an internal cloud and an external cloud, except who runs it. You can even download Rackspace's software to roll your own, if you want to.
You need: spare capacity, arbitrary scaling, on-demand provisioning, and high availability to have a cloud.
Example: you work in a Wall Street bank as a developer. You need 5 new linux 'servers' and 6TB of storage to work out an idea. You submit a ticket to IT on your way out the door for lunch. When you come back they're ready for you and you don't worry about them going down.
Granted, there's current a lot of IT work required to make this happen, most small businesses can't afford it. But you don't go uploading your newest high-velocity trading algorithms to EC2. How much is it worth being the first bank on the exchanges with a new and improved algorithm?
Ah, but they want the customer to pay *them* (the carriers) for the privilege of solving the carriers problem, not some upstart little company who has started selling boosters on Amazon.
You're not kidding. I recently installed a Wilson booster that I got from Amazon, and it's like a whole new world for me.
Usually I had about 5 minutes of signal coverage leaving work, which is only useful for short conversations. On my long Interstate drives I'd lose signal about every 15 minutes, which made drive-time talk unpredictable. And this is on Verizon - no other carriers have close to their signal here.
With the booster, I can have a meaningful conversation on my whole ride home. There are no dead zones on my Interstate drives, so I can whittle down my GTD calls list on the road.
One thing to be aware of is that these things require an earpiece. 2010 is a good year for them - I got a Motorola Bluetooth setup from NewEgg for about $40 and it's actually great. I have a small collection of them from previous years which all suck big time. The only downside is the Motorola unit comes in a monstrous piece of cast aluminum packaging. I guess it's to thwart retail-store theft, but via NewEgg it's environmentally reprehensible.
Anyway, the Wilson booster paid for itself the first week I had it. I have a second one at my office to install in the wife's car this weekend.
Now, if I could only get PagePlus to port our numbers I'd be really happy.
And my libertarian friends wonder why I hate both government AND mega-corporations.
That's a non-sequitor, libertarians aren't in favor of government-created monstrosities of any form.
Sure, as long as property rights are respected in the process. Most people wouldn't take kindly to the Manhattan tribe showing up at Mayor Blumeberg's office and laying out their policy plans, disregarding policy rights.
I'm with you on the Team America: World Police thing, though - disrespecting Israel's sovereignty is no way to show it our support.
Never considered this a benefit of keeping my Norelco set on '2'.
Maybe somebody will figure out how to use it this time around.
Actually, this might be the right place for it.
We had a big* earthquake here in NH a few months ago about 11:30. A big data-gathering/experience sharing thing broke out on a few friends' comments. Many of our friend circles' overlapped, but there were people on each node that weren't seeing data on the other nodes. We'd worked out a non-explosion event, about where it was centered, about a half hour before the USGS data went up on their site.
I thought: "Oh, so this is what Wave was for!" And then, "oh, and this is why Wave hasn't succeeded - no network effect value."
* for NH
Yeah, after I posted that comment I saw something about Makerbot and it looks real interesting. A cheap 3D printer, even if it is the equivalent of dot matrix printer from a couple of decades ago.
Literally - we were having trouble with the belt tension on the unit I saw, and after we get it right I pointed out to folks that it was Epson FX-80 tight.
Obfuscate and confuse the issue.
Well, somebody is lying.
Original report, "it's a missile launch."
Subsequent news report, "we talked to a senior defense official on deep background who said it was one of ours and an accidental launch that was disabled in-flight."
Official report: Flight 808
OK, so the first reporters were just there, not experts. Fine.
Now, the second news reporter either was lying about the defense official, or the defense official was lying about the launch, or the official story is a lie. One of them has to be false.
The other point is, there's nothing at all here to show that it's not a jet plume.
Well, there's the GOES data which doesn't seem to fit neatly into the Flight 808 theory.
The problem here is that I don't see the price dropping as significantly for 3D printers. The Fab@Home printer costs roughly $2k (about 1K GBP, give or take some) and that price has been pretty steady. It also has some strong limitations and most of the stuff created with that printer is mostly plastic stuff or some pastries being done with frosting. The printers that work with metal are still in the tens of thousands of dollars range, and haven't really dropped much in price.
The Makerbot is already at $700. Having played with one last week, I think they can get half of the cost out of that. At $350, I'd probably buy one, just 'cause (I don't have a real use for it now).
Where I think a real opportunity exists is in a local casting shop. Let people play with their plastic parts at home. When they're done and happy with the prototype, send the file to the local caster's and have them make you one out of zinc. Pick it up on the way back from lunch. They'll probably use a plastic machine to make the sand mould.
Remember the days of bringing a Syquest 44 cart to a service bureau to get some color output? Now I have a $400 color laser printer in my office, just for occasional use. But I'd still send out for large-format or photographic work.
That's a lot less attractive than a bumper payday from Google.
Or a patent cross-licensing deal which is what Oracle is really after. This makes this Google's best defense.
Remember, there's somebody who can scale databases much better and faster than Oracle.
Any tips for how to get PagePlus to port a random Verizon phone? I have an LG nv2 which is just perfect for my use cases. I don't care about the cost of their phones but they don't sell a phone I want to use. Mine was bought from some random reseller on eBay with a clear ESN.
How creating artificial new forms of properties is a form of socialism ?
Because they don't really exist. They exist only in the minds of people who buy into a government-controlled society. Contrast with a government servant to society.
Basically the WiFi standards bunch screwed up. So I actually blame them for a lot of the problems. So many years and they still haven't got WiFi to the level of TLS/HTTPS.
My thought as well. My mail server will encrypt opportunistically, no pre-shared key required - the fundamental problems are already solved.
We're not going to fix the standards committee or replace all the gear in the field. Perhaps the better place to focus is on a community-built standard for communicating securely with the access point. For instance, figure out some sort of flag to put into the handshake that can indicate an OpenVPN capability on the access point (or named IP, for bridging access points), and have OpenWRT, DD-WRT, and Tomato support that. Bake it into NetworkManager. Teach OpenVPN how to accept any cert on a given interface, if it can't already.
If it's any good Apple might pick it up for iOS 6 (the combined desktop/mobile version).
No, it's separate files. You can browse it using finder or terminal.
Yeah, that's what I see here on 10.5 as well - at one point I had my rsnapshot backing up a Mac's Time Machine 'latest' tree.
From the other comments here it sounds like 10.6 might have gone with sparse bundles for all of its backups? Maybe to enable encryption?
I dunno, Apple has abandoned my wife's Apple hardware. Her Mini will get turned into a mythfronend when Lion is shipped. Too bad the iLife analogs on Linux are terrible (quite featureful, but the UI's stink).
Maybe they run background scans?
I won't pretend to understand core coherency under Windows, but if they have one of those network traffic interceptors, conceivably every other thread in a multi-connection webpage load could get scheduled to a different core and get interleaved between scanning and transferring.
Probably smarter just to benchmark it than reason it out.
Or, if they do the standard corporate thing and keep RAM low and swap like mad, the second core can run the memory manager. ;)
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Almost an anagram of Mos Eisley. Any mesas nearby to shoot the obligatory vista scene?