sprint doesn't have this problem, it is very trivial for anyone with a clue to send new files to their sprint phone. all you need is the pcs vision service.
incorrect, as soon as it logs in you will be redirected to http://mail.google.com/mail/ then you have to manually enter the https and you will have an encrypted session again. its fine if you always keep your browser window open, you can always jump back to it. but if your cookie expires or you close the window, its the same process again.
Ugh ignore the crap spewn from most of the replies here. They are probably freshman/sophomore students who are doing "scientific tests" from their linux box plugged into a router in their dorm room. As an ex-employee of a major university (17,000+ students), I can tell you that it was not uncommon for us to pull 48Mbit/sec from other Internet2 hosts. From major service providers we'd usually pull somewhere around 16-20Mbit/sec. On a normal day we saw 15% utilization of our OC-3 connection. I2Hub, kazaa, and the like caught us off guard and raised our utilization to over 40%. Needless to say, the university president was not happy at shelling out extra money for additional bandwidth. This introduced each dormitory to a nice pipe of 10Mbit/sec with abusive users sent warnings and then losing their dormitory network access.
Now we have had major research projects go on where we have a solid 70Mbps transfer going with Cornell or some other major university for a week or so. In the name of research, its great. Sharing copywrited material? I think not. I made it a habit to send a stern warning to users about the implications of using p2p clients. When they did not heed my warning shots, I usually got them taken down on academic charges (its a bitch when you get kicked out of school for sharing the latest Britney Spear's album).
And for an idea of our infrastructure, we had fiber running between every building, 1000BaseT connections everywhere in the university (with the exception of dorms, which we had purposely limited to 100Mbit between rooms), Fiber between our SANs and major servers, and Infiband interconnect for our 224 node Linux clusters. Speed is definitely not an issue with universities, their budgets for hardware are insane (like a $1 million grant for computer equipment alone in one of their new buildings)
I'm sure there are other readers here who actually work for major networks who can share their stories as well.
um, rm old libc, copy over new libc (making sure copy is a statically linked binary). viola, new libc in place. now say app A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,and K are still using old libc (computers 101: an OS copies the app and associated libraries to memory, then executes, so we're still linked to an old libc stored in memory). you need to kill and restart these applications in order to reload a runtime linked library. now if your app dynamically loads libraries (libdl), a simple signal may instruct the application to reload its libraries. however unless you know the behavior of the application, you're better off restarting it. this is why when a major library is updated, it is safer to just reboot the box. i will pick security over uptime, this isn't the 80s anymore
at my last job any IT staff personel could walk up to anyone's computer and reboot it at their will (and expect a serious flogging the following day). i made my staff lock their machines at any time they were absent from their desk, even if they step out for a second. to make things more interesting, i told my staff that if they saw an unlocked computer they had free reign on it (as long as it didn't affect our production network or systems). this gave my staff an understanding of real security in our field (we also allowed our employees to hack each other if they didn't patch their systems). in the end, our system was secure for the most part (my boss made us do some dumb things like assign every device a public ip address (including our avaya phone system) and enable remote desktop to every windows machine.. needless to say they were hit pretty hard with a wave of compromised machines right as i left) and no one complained about working in a "war room"
would you submit your site to slashdot when you already know you can't handle a slashdotting? Seriously, he submitted the article then writes on his site "here comes the slashdotting, come back later".
VNC can do the same thing. X11 was a great idea when it was first conceived, but the design is now its limiting factor. Take a look at appserver from AtheOS/Syllable, that uses a similiar client/server model which is easily hackable to display on a remote machine. It does not suffer the bottlenecks of X11.
The point you are missing is that you can refuse to take a breathalizer and you are automatically guilty of being drunk. I'm sorry that is against my rights. I do not want my privacy violated because i'm driving down a major road. So if I say no, I do not wish to be tested and my time wasted, I lose my drivers license.
Then, how does a police officer's word mean more than a citizen's? If there is no other evidence except the officer saying "i smelled beer all over the car", you can lose your license. A bit draconian, don't you think?
I am not in favor of driving drunk, but just like the PATRIOT act, the government gave themselves too much power to combat drunk driving.
I dual booted my dell laptop (inspiron 1100) with xp pro and fedora so I could do dev work on both platforms without as much trouble.
You are a developer, you are not the average Windows user that thinks voodoo magic happens in the big black (or white) box next to their monitor. Open your eyes and look at the other 90% of computer users out there. A 10% market share will not make any major company support linux.
And I bet you prefer your mac over linux. Seriously, I will not go to my computer illiterate family members and say install Linux for any reason. Its not READY for a computer illiterate person to use. You're taking a huge collection of unfinished applications, packaging it together and sending it out the door. Granted you have a few fully supported distros, but lets get serious again.. will my computer illiterate family member really want to pay $more-than-dell's-tech-support?
I've said this 5 years ago, and it still holds true today. Linux is where Windows 95 was when it first came out:
You have a kernel that needs to boot and initialize all of its drivers first, then X11 is loaded (sound like a familiar microsoft product combo?).
You still have X11 in the picture
You do not have a rock solid GUI (sorry KDE and GNOME crap out way more under load than a similiarly configured windows 2000/xp system)
You do not have a uniform feel across every application out there. My GTK app will look different from my KDE app. Hopefully the tango project (iirc) will solve this
Little to No eye-candy (come on, who wanted to run out and buy mac os x when you saw its expose features:-)
Support is lacking. If you don't believe me, take a look at a few KDE apps (quite a few programs have sections in their help pages that say "This is not complete yet" or something similiar)
You still have X11 in the picture
Now at the same time, there are a few things that have became better over the last 5 years. Useful apps that used to only exist on windows now exist for linux and unix. Support is better than it was 5 years ago. Driver support is better than it was 5 years ago.
This article is just someone's fustration with Linux and they are trying to make it seem like there is some weird voodoo alliance against Linux. Wrong. Wrong! Linux is still maturing and will eventually be a decent contender to Windows*. Unfortunately, pressing a key combination that will cause a laptop to reboot without warning, giving up part of your computer and accepting it, and lack of software support does not mean the evil corporate world is trying to kill Linux. It sounds like Linux is not ready to compete with Windows and thus companies are not ready to make a full jump to support Linux.
Before I get flamed, I leave you with this: Who remembers getting desktop support for hardware they bought back in '92.. it was like pulling teeth because it required a phd for an average person to understand. Linux is in the same position.
*Assuming another OS does not beat it there first (hint: get rid of X11)
windows and beos can startup way faster than linux/bsd + kde. this is due to the design of each os. not to mention kde has tons of cruft which can slow down any fast computer (for fun, i installed kde on a ml370 and it didn't fair much better than kde 2.x on my old compaq proliant).
almost. ~95/96 was DOS4GW, the defacto standard 32bit loader for dos that all games used (yay DJGPP) to break out of 16bit dos (think windows 3.1/95 starting from dos). this was when miles and i think scitech were the popular audio and video drivers that a lot of major developers used (why reinvent the wheel?).
~85/86 where the dos bootdisk games, such as Pacman, Tapper, Kings Quest 1, and Styx. these games actually were their own os, since they had to handle keyboard interrupts, draw graphics to a video adapter (cga,ega anyone?:). i never figured out if there was a common library that developers used to build off of. if anyone is familiar with these games, please enlighten me
the sad thing is, they stole the article summary word for word from the site and still spelt it incorrectly. what the hell are the slashdot editors doing when they read these submissions?
and that is a completely misinformed statement. the toolbars have changed slightly over the years, the menus have also changed slightly in the fact that new features have been added or old features have been removed. the edit/view/table/etc. menus and all its contents in word 2003 are practically the same as word 6.0.
i know this for a fact because my mom has been training adults and small businesses in windows and office since 1995. i did a good amount of her bitchwork (editing and printing copies of her manuals, assisting her students, etc) until i moved out. 10 years later, i'm getting questions on how to do autoformatting tricks, table manipulation, or other office tasks and i'm able to do them easily even though the last version of office i did practical work with was office 97 (and 2000 for a brief stint).
this also gives me a very biased view. i did sit down for awhile with staroffice and openoffice; but the fact that i couldn't swap documents with certain people because i didn't use word is a v-e-r-y compelling reason to not use them. unfortunately a lot of corporations (my father's included) insist on using macros for a lot of things. you can get around some of them with word, but some excel spreadsheets you can't. and don't get me started on access..
people forget why word had a hard time beating wordperfect. because everyone knew wordperfect and didn't want to relearn a new product (back in the dos days). office tookover because they had a much nicer interface when windows came out and wordperfect still stayed in dos land. star/openoffice is going to need to tote 100% compatability with word and give a word compatability chart to explain how to do the same tasks in SO/OO. until this happens, no one (average joe) is going to want to sit down and figure it out.
unfortunately all of my run-ins with hard drivin was the stand up cabinet that didn't have any kind of feedback on the wheel. and honestly, the time they gave you was enough to hit one checkpoint which further added to my fustration. maybe the sitdown arcade game may have been better...
i've found ferrari's f355's simulator to be the best so far (the sticky wall problem is enough to make you a better driver). that requires using a clutch and has three screens (although its useless since there is no handbrake and no simple way to kick out the tailend.. why else would you want the additional screens:)
thats a really old game, it reminds me more of Hard Drivin', the first polygon based racing game by atari. there was no real feedback to let you know when your tires were getting ready to slip. if you were going even a hair too fast, you'd slide off the road and lose precious time. gosh, thinking about it is renewing my hatred in the game, but making me want to play it right now
i was thinking the same.. all it is is freebsd with kde and x11 preconfigured. that is it. i was hoping for a radical login screen or a completely graphical boot loader. bah.
A+ for effor though, i may see if i can help on this project.. i've had a really wicked idea for a new os based off of freebsd and this may very well be the starting point.
do you want to talk about the change in the virtual memory system during a minor version release in linux too? i'll tell you that made me shy away from linux completely. and again i don't think microsoft ever had a problem with OSS in general.. they were speaking negatively of GPL (hello, they used BSD's code in windows).
i mean, we can sit here on old topics but lets face it, both microsoft and linux have their dark sides and their good sides. hopefully now the licensing arms war is on the decline and we (the user/consumer) can expect better interoperability. unless this bill hilf guy was talking out of his ass, then things may be better in the future
as of lately, what open standards has microsoft broke?
Are you serious? This is precisely why this article exists. Admins that don't know what they are doing setup a blatently insecure network (why would you even consider d-link for the magnitude of your project). Then you have the admin asking on slashdot for solutions (hint: usenet has been around since 1987 and provides many more technically adept contributers than slashdot). What hotel do you work for? I would like to know so I make sure I never stay there in the future
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sprint doesn't have this problem, it is very trivial for anyone with a clue to send new files to their sprint phone. all you need is the pcs vision service.
why a memory card when you can get much cheaper memory storage.
i stand corrected, i always goto https://google.com/mail which automagically redirects to http://mail.google.com/mail. should have previewed my post first!
incorrect, as soon as it logs in you will be redirected to http://mail.google.com/mail/ then you have to manually enter the https and you will have an encrypted session again. its fine if you always keep your browser window open, you can always jump back to it. but if your cookie expires or you close the window, its the same process again.
trust me, i do it every day at work.
Ugh ignore the crap spewn from most of the replies here. They are probably freshman/sophomore students who are doing "scientific tests" from their linux box plugged into a router in their dorm room. As an ex-employee of a major university (17,000+ students), I can tell you that it was not uncommon for us to pull 48Mbit/sec from other Internet2 hosts. From major service providers we'd usually pull somewhere around 16-20Mbit/sec. On a normal day we saw 15% utilization of our OC-3 connection. I2Hub, kazaa, and the like caught us off guard and raised our utilization to over 40%. Needless to say, the university president was not happy at shelling out extra money for additional bandwidth. This introduced each dormitory to a nice pipe of 10Mbit/sec with abusive users sent warnings and then losing their dormitory network access.
Now we have had major research projects go on where we have a solid 70Mbps transfer going with Cornell or some other major university for a week or so. In the name of research, its great. Sharing copywrited material? I think not. I made it a habit to send a stern warning to users about the implications of using p2p clients. When they did not heed my warning shots, I usually got them taken down on academic charges (its a bitch when you get kicked out of school for sharing the latest Britney Spear's album).
And for an idea of our infrastructure, we had fiber running between every building, 1000BaseT connections everywhere in the university (with the exception of dorms, which we had purposely limited to 100Mbit between rooms), Fiber between our SANs and major servers, and Infiband interconnect for our 224 node Linux clusters. Speed is definitely not an issue with universities, their budgets for hardware are insane (like a $1 million grant for computer equipment alone in one of their new buildings)
I'm sure there are other readers here who actually work for major networks who can share their stories as well.
um, rm old libc, copy over new libc (making sure copy is a statically linked binary). viola, new libc in place. now say app A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,and K are still using old libc (computers 101: an OS copies the app and associated libraries to memory, then executes, so we're still linked to an old libc stored in memory). you need to kill and restart these applications in order to reload a runtime linked library. now if your app dynamically loads libraries (libdl), a simple signal may instruct the application to reload its libraries. however unless you know the behavior of the application, you're better off restarting it. this is why when a major library is updated, it is safer to just reboot the box. i will pick security over uptime, this isn't the 80s anymore
*replace libc with any dynamically loaded library
at my last job any IT staff personel could walk up to anyone's computer and reboot it at their will (and expect a serious flogging the following day). i made my staff lock their machines at any time they were absent from their desk, even if they step out for a second. to make things more interesting, i told my staff that if they saw an unlocked computer they had free reign on it (as long as it didn't affect our production network or systems). this gave my staff an understanding of real security in our field (we also allowed our employees to hack each other if they didn't patch their systems). in the end, our system was secure for the most part (my boss made us do some dumb things like assign every device a public ip address (including our avaya phone system) and enable remote desktop to every windows machine.. needless to say they were hit pretty hard with a wave of compromised machines right as i left) and no one complained about working in a "war room"
would you submit your site to slashdot when you already know you can't handle a slashdotting? Seriously, he submitted the article then writes on his site "here comes the slashdotting, come back later".
Just my $0.02
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VNC can do the same thing. X11 was a great idea when it was first conceived, but the design is now its limiting factor. Take a look at appserver from AtheOS/Syllable, that uses a similiar client/server model which is easily hackable to display on a remote machine. It does not suffer the bottlenecks of X11.
The point you are missing is that you can refuse to take a breathalizer and you are automatically guilty of being drunk. I'm sorry that is against my rights. I do not want my privacy violated because i'm driving down a major road. So if I say no, I do not wish to be tested and my time wasted, I lose my drivers license.
Then, how does a police officer's word mean more than a citizen's? If there is no other evidence except the officer saying "i smelled beer all over the car", you can lose your license. A bit draconian, don't you think?
I am not in favor of driving drunk, but just like the PATRIOT act, the government gave themselves too much power to combat drunk driving.
I dual booted my dell laptop (inspiron 1100) with xp pro and fedora so I could do dev work on both platforms without as much trouble.
You are a developer, you are not the average Windows user that thinks voodoo magic happens in the big black (or white) box next to their monitor. Open your eyes and look at the other 90% of computer users out there. A 10% market share will not make any major company support linux.
I've said this 5 years ago, and it still holds true today. Linux is where Windows 95 was when it first came out:
Now at the same time, there are a few things that have became better over the last 5 years. Useful apps that used to only exist on windows now exist for linux and unix. Support is better than it was 5 years ago. Driver support is better than it was 5 years ago.
This article is just someone's fustration with Linux and they are trying to make it seem like there is some weird voodoo alliance against Linux. Wrong. Wrong! Linux is still maturing and will eventually be a decent contender to Windows*. Unfortunately, pressing a key combination that will cause a laptop to reboot without warning, giving up part of your computer and accepting it, and lack of software support does not mean the evil corporate world is trying to kill Linux. It sounds like Linux is not ready to compete with Windows and thus companies are not ready to make a full jump to support Linux.
Before I get flamed, I leave you with this: Who remembers getting desktop support for hardware they bought back in '92.. it was like pulling teeth because it required a phd for an average person to understand. Linux is in the same position.
*Assuming another OS does not beat it there first (hint: get rid of X11)
windows and beos can startup way faster than linux/bsd + kde. this is due to the design of each os. not to mention kde has tons of cruft which can slow down any fast computer (for fun, i installed kde on a ml370 and it didn't fair much better than kde 2.x on my old compaq proliant).
almost. ~95/96 was DOS4GW, the defacto standard 32bit loader for dos that all games used (yay DJGPP) to break out of 16bit dos (think windows 3.1/95 starting from dos). this was when miles and i think scitech were the popular audio and video drivers that a lot of major developers used (why reinvent the wheel?).
:). i never figured out if there was a common library that developers used to build off of. if anyone is familiar with these games, please enlighten me
~85/86 where the dos bootdisk games, such as Pacman, Tapper, Kings Quest 1, and Styx. these games actually were their own os, since they had to handle keyboard interrupts, draw graphics to a video adapter (cga,ega anyone?
the sad thing is, they stole the article summary word for word from the site and still spelt it incorrectly. what the hell are the slashdot editors doing when they read these submissions?
and that is a completely misinformed statement. the toolbars have changed slightly over the years, the menus have also changed slightly in the fact that new features have been added or old features have been removed. the edit/view/table/etc. menus and all its contents in word 2003 are practically the same as word 6.0.
i know this for a fact because my mom has been training adults and small businesses in windows and office since 1995. i did a good amount of her bitchwork (editing and printing copies of her manuals, assisting her students, etc) until i moved out. 10 years later, i'm getting questions on how to do autoformatting tricks, table manipulation, or other office tasks and i'm able to do them easily even though the last version of office i did practical work with was office 97 (and 2000 for a brief stint).
this also gives me a very biased view. i did sit down for awhile with staroffice and openoffice; but the fact that i couldn't swap documents with certain people because i didn't use word is a v-e-r-y compelling reason to not use them. unfortunately a lot of corporations (my father's included) insist on using macros for a lot of things. you can get around some of them with word, but some excel spreadsheets you can't. and don't get me started on access..
people forget why word had a hard time beating wordperfect. because everyone knew wordperfect and didn't want to relearn a new product (back in the dos days). office tookover because they had a much nicer interface when windows came out and wordperfect still stayed in dos land. star/openoffice is going to need to tote 100% compatability with word and give a word compatability chart to explain how to do the same tasks in SO/OO. until this happens, no one (average joe) is going to want to sit down and figure it out.
is this the first 'i hate google' comment? are more to come? stay tuned folks..
unfortunately all of my run-ins with hard drivin was the stand up cabinet that didn't have any kind of feedback on the wheel. and honestly, the time they gave you was enough to hit one checkpoint which further added to my fustration. maybe the sitdown arcade game may have been better...
:)
i've found ferrari's f355's simulator to be the best so far (the sticky wall problem is enough to make you a better driver). that requires using a clutch and has three screens (although its useless since there is no handbrake and no simple way to kick out the tailend.. why else would you want the additional screens
thats a really old game, it reminds me more of Hard Drivin', the first polygon based racing game by atari. there was no real feedback to let you know when your tires were getting ready to slip. if you were going even a hair too fast, you'd slide off the road and lose precious time. gosh, thinking about it is renewing my hatred in the game, but making me want to play it right now
i was thinking the same.. all it is is freebsd with kde and x11 preconfigured. that is it. i was hoping for a radical login screen or a completely graphical boot loader. bah.
A+ for effor though, i may see if i can help on this project.. i've had a really wicked idea for a new os based off of freebsd and this may very well be the starting point.
do you want to talk about the change in the virtual memory system during a minor version release in linux too? i'll tell you that made me shy away from linux completely. and again i don't think microsoft ever had a problem with OSS in general.. they were speaking negatively of GPL (hello, they used BSD's code in windows).
i mean, we can sit here on old topics but lets face it, both microsoft and linux have their dark sides and their good sides. hopefully now the licensing arms war is on the decline and we (the user/consumer) can expect better interoperability. unless this bill hilf guy was talking out of his ass, then things may be better in the future
as of lately, what open standards has microsoft broke?
Are you serious? This is precisely why this article exists. Admins that don't know what they are doing setup a blatently insecure network (why would you even consider d-link for the magnitude of your project). Then you have the admin asking on slashdot for solutions (hint: usenet has been around since 1987 and provides many more technically adept contributers than slashdot). What hotel do you work for? I would like to know so I make sure I never stay there in the future
And we have just identified the script kiddies. If you want it to be free, write it yourself