Well you have to hand it to Woz in that he does in a way address that with 'ram-dirt'. The yellow pine would be crazy if not suicidal in the northern most states. There are a LOT of materials that make GREAT insulation when recycled (most any Styrofoam). There are plenty of well known ways to save energy that are more common sense then cutting edge. Ground temp heat exchangers, crap load of insulation, proper windows, well planned plumbing, and skylighting to some extent just off of the top of my head. In a way modern society has a sort of paradox in efficiency. Usually only the rich can afford to outfit existing houses or build new super efficient ones. Same way it is typically the poor who are most obese because they're too busy working to survive to exercise and end up eating cheap crappy food.
And this is especially good news for those of us utilizing CLAM. You COULD spend a heap of cash adding on tons of crap to an exchange server and hope that it doesn't implode under the weight... or you could have a postfix mail gateway with Clam AV and some simple spam blocking techniques for only the cost of time and hardware. It's also good in a way that not only do you not get viruses IN, but you can keep them from going out as well. You've obviously got issues at that point, but at least you're not spreading the plague. All thanks to open source goodness.
I think it depends on what you would like to do. As a Posgres fanboy I will be the first to support it. Been absolutely solid and I've gone upgrading from 7.1 each release up to 8.2.4 with hardly a hitch (except the known things to watch for between 7.x and 8.x). However you do pay the price in terms of flexibility. I'm not a DBA I'm an IT manager, and I mainly need a database to "keep shit in". I also only want ONE database (for this task). Sometimes I'd think I'd like to add on a ticket system, or something else. These things are typically MySQL only. I'm not sure what your appliance does, but if it basically only interacts with itself I'd go postgresql all the way. If you want flexibility then you might want to weigh in your options a bit more. More and more things are picking up Postgres support though.
On the flip side, why is there such an excess of not-so-great programmers out there?
While true, you're only looking at one side of the coin. Maybe only a portion thereof. First of all there is a decline in programmers for the same reason that math teachers suck. If I were so smart and good at math I'd be doing something OTHER than being a math teacher. Being a programmer isn't a fun job for most, but even for those who do enjoy it they may recognize that they can get a lot more out of life by doing something else as a career.
Second problem as is often mentioned is that you graduate with a CS degree but no one will hire you without experience. Obviously there is a method to the madness but I've seen this myself with people I graduated with. Eventually they just got sick of the "2 years experience required" garbage and took up something else. We're literally dropping programmers who never got a chance because companies are unwilling to invest in them.
Third problem is the biggest - burnout. In order to become a good program you need experience. A few years at least. So many programmers never make it this far because they get tired of what they do. Either they don't enjoy what they program. They don't get paid enough. They get sick of trying to implement projects with unrealistic time tables, etc. When the average life expectancy of a programmer is around a decade before they move on (a statistic I completely made up), the tier of seniority is very small.
So we put all this together.. Need employees with some sort of experience, won't be around for long, probably medeochre at best when they graduated. Don't want to pay them much... Hey, we can get these people from India! Now we demoralize existing programmers good and bad by having this eternal looming doom hanging over them.
Why do we want to be programmers again? If you're good at programming you're probably smart enough to be good at something else. Can't say I disagree with those with the sense to get out when they can.
But think of it this way. You have this hot girl who is at a hacker conference. Chances are more than a few of them are socially... struggling. So how would YOU impress a girl at a hacker conference? Brag about your exploits of course! Yet I agree that NBC is rather stupid because even by that logic this woman does not fit in. They should have gotten a goth / skater type girl with dreadlocks.
Assuming what you would do is sniffing as opposed to a man in the middle attack. A lot of work has gone into encryption but people seem to forget about the other peices of the puzzle. Where are those DNS packets coming from? Do you accept ICMP redirects? Is your gateway really a router?
I find the headline to be a bit of flame bait. If I have something to type up at home, I open up Kword, type it up, then email it to myself. Next day at work I open it up in OpenOffice and print. Seems like ODF is a huge success to me. I mean would we rather have all of these competing office suites using different proprietary formats? If I decide to use Abiword tomorrow (on my Mac) then I can at least rest assured that if I switch back to KWord I can open up my documents just fine.
I think that was one of the ideas behind office 2007. Most of what we do with office productivity software hasn't really changed that much. So the idea was to improve work flow to make people more productive. The difference between using a clunky badly laid out program and a intuitive efficient program can make a huge difference in how long it takes you to do a task thought the day when you are tied to that application. I won't say office 2007 is that program, but it seems like that was the idea behind it.
Exactly what I was thinking. Which is what makes this rather puzzling to me. You would think that Cisco would be more than happy to hide behind the Linksys brand. Cisco already has a SOLID reputation in the enterprise. Mindshare with grandma, and joe sixpack is seriously irrelevant. Whoever is at the top is obviously not seeing the big picture here.
But what do I know. I think their new logo sucks too.
I think you're onto something, but I don't necessarily think it's their products that are the target. I think what their going for is a sort of "open source is sharing source code", but in a way that disregards all license considerations. Then at some point someone will cry foul and there will be a huge whirlwind trumped up by a few companies having their peepee stepped on. In essence attempting to ensnare a company or two in a minefield then trumpet the dangers of "open source" when the time is right.
I used to think dragging windows was an issue until I used two fixes. Used nvidia drivers that really seem to accelerate things, and enabled the xdamage extension in xorg. If you've ever used Win2k (or XP under some circumstances) with no video driver support (16 color vga) you tend to see almost exactly the same artifacts.
This may or may not be a lot more than a conventional hard drive depending on abuse; in a perfect world, a conventional harddrive would last much longer, but in a laptop, with all the bouncing, the odds are closer to even.
Except when flash wears out you simply can't WRITE to it anymore. You can read fine. Assuming that whatever you were doing last will cause the biggest problem (failure during your last write when the drive "fails"), you can easily just plug the drive in somewhere else and copy your data to your new drive. I'd say that with the durability factor that CF would certainly be the way to go.
I wouldn't hold your breath over dramatic performance gains in the Soekris. It's still a Pentium/MMX processor. Going from Pentium I to Pentium Pro/II architecture yields a big gain at the same speeds, so it's not quite like the days when you went from a Pentium 133 to a Pentium II 300 and noticed a huge difference. The good news is that if you compiled your system for a Pentium/MMX you can just copy it across instead of starting from scratch.
And as these are the people who aren't interested in upgrading, the chances of even capturing much of any marketshare there is slim. Usually these people use the same pc and use the same web browser they always have used and it works good enough. According to the w3counter, even if you captured 100% of the Win98 market (1.47%) and 100% of the WinME market (0.51%), that's not even %2 of a dropping market. Most people using these platforms if they are using Firefox are probably okay with 1.x without support since they're okay with Windows without support. And realistically you might get say 10% of the market share for these. Sounds like a lot of work for 0.20% of any market when they could work on the existing code base to improve it.
An understandable mistake though. I mean when people referr to an OS now they also think of things like MSN Messenger, Safari and a slew of other things which really have nothing to do with being a part of an operating system. People have become accustomed to referring to integrated external applications as being the capabilities of the OS. Probably doesn't help that Microsoft uses Windows + {generic_name} and Apple uses i{generic_name}
This is getting more and more prevalent around the Internet and it's actually getting sort of frustrating to mail admins such as myself. It's not just Hotmail but a lot of mail servers now days. It's annoying because you never get any bounced mail or error receipts, it just goes into a black hole. I understand why nothing is returned since there are so many botnets spamming everyone but just trying to debug simple email has gotten very time consuming. If your server isn't going to deliver the mail then throw an error message during the connection. Is that so hard?
Heh, I've started to tire over the percentage statistics myself but after seeing this headline I feel a bit better. Just yesterday my company had an issue with accessing some vendor's website for various things - it just stopped working after they updated stuff. Turns out whatever update they did broke support in Firefox. They then state that they cannot be bothered to handle web browsers such as Firefox, and that we should use Internet Explorer or Safari.
Safari? I'm not watching the internet stats like a hawk but when has Safari ever broken the 5% barrier!? Every gain may force sites to support firefox. The more support for Firefox, the more pressure on Microsoft to actually fix IE and support standards.
Sort of an interesting question depending upon how you look at it. My modern Athlon64 5000+ uses a lot more power than my pentium 133 ever did, however it would literally take the P133 45 minutes to encode an mp3, while my modern computer can do that in about 30 seconds or less. After my task is done I turn the machine off so which used more power?
That's sort of beside the point though, since you can assume most regular PCs at 1.5Ghz should consume around 60W or so. The VIA C7 is a low power CPU which initially seemed a very good choice for dedicated media boxes but the performance is severely lacking in places. For some people the VIA C7 is alright, but most people would probably be far better off with the cheapest AMD or Intel processors in terms of bang for buck. Not getting into the flaky VIA chipset issues either..
I think that depends on how you interpret the article which is a bit ambiguous. On one hand it says if something delivers a product on time it is a success, and on the other it says if it produced something useful it is a success - which may not be the same thing. I'm also an I.T. manager (or whatever) and I can say that a project isn't necessarily a failure if you are smart enough to back out of it in safety before it becomes a total catastrophe. It also depends on your goals and the article is oriented to actually producing a product, for which not producing a product would be a failure. Most of my "projects" are really feasibility. IT is driven by new technology, and be definition you have little to no experience with it. So of course you need to test it. If your goal is to always at least learn something from the experience then no project is truly a failure, but that depends a lot on your organization and where you sit in the decision making hierarchy.
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Well you have to hand it to Woz in that he does in a way address that with 'ram-dirt'. The yellow pine would be crazy if not suicidal in the northern most states. There are a LOT of materials that make GREAT insulation when recycled (most any Styrofoam). There are plenty of well known ways to save energy that are more common sense then cutting edge. Ground temp heat exchangers, crap load of insulation, proper windows, well planned plumbing, and skylighting to some extent just off of the top of my head. In a way modern society has a sort of paradox in efficiency. Usually only the rich can afford to outfit existing houses or build new super efficient ones. Same way it is typically the poor who are most obese because they're too busy working to survive to exercise and end up eating cheap crappy food.
And this is especially good news for those of us utilizing CLAM. You COULD spend a heap of cash adding on tons of crap to an exchange server and hope that it doesn't implode under the weight... or you could have a postfix mail gateway with Clam AV and some simple spam blocking techniques for only the cost of time and hardware. It's also good in a way that not only do you not get viruses IN, but you can keep them from going out as well. You've obviously got issues at that point, but at least you're not spreading the plague. All thanks to open source goodness.
I think it depends on what you would like to do. As a Posgres fanboy I will be the first to support it. Been absolutely solid and I've gone upgrading from 7.1 each release up to 8.2.4 with hardly a hitch (except the known things to watch for between 7.x and 8.x). However you do pay the price in terms of flexibility. I'm not a DBA I'm an IT manager, and I mainly need a database to "keep shit in". I also only want ONE database (for this task). Sometimes I'd think I'd like to add on a ticket system, or something else. These things are typically MySQL only. I'm not sure what your appliance does, but if it basically only interacts with itself I'd go postgresql all the way. If you want flexibility then you might want to weigh in your options a bit more. More and more things are picking up Postgres support though.
On the flip side, why is there such an excess of not-so-great programmers out there?
While true, you're only looking at one side of the coin. Maybe only a portion thereof. First of all there is a decline in programmers for the same reason that math teachers suck. If I were so smart and good at math I'd be doing something OTHER than being a math teacher. Being a programmer isn't a fun job for most, but even for those who do enjoy it they may recognize that they can get a lot more out of life by doing something else as a career.
Second problem as is often mentioned is that you graduate with a CS degree but no one will hire you without experience. Obviously there is a method to the madness but I've seen this myself with people I graduated with. Eventually they just got sick of the "2 years experience required" garbage and took up something else. We're literally dropping programmers who never got a chance because companies are unwilling to invest in them.
Third problem is the biggest - burnout. In order to become a good program you need experience. A few years at least. So many programmers never make it this far because they get tired of what they do. Either they don't enjoy what they program. They don't get paid enough. They get sick of trying to implement projects with unrealistic time tables, etc. When the average life expectancy of a programmer is around a decade before they move on (a statistic I completely made up), the tier of seniority is very small.
So we put all this together.. Need employees with some sort of experience, won't be around for long, probably medeochre at best when they graduated. Don't want to pay them much... Hey, we can get these people from India! Now we demoralize existing programmers good and bad by having this eternal looming doom hanging over them.
Why do we want to be programmers again? If you're good at programming you're probably smart enough to be good at something else. Can't say I disagree with those with the sense to get out when they can.
I didn't see the turbo button was pushed officer! Honest!
It's typically not very efficient and a resource hog. Has a really crappy config file. FCGI support is garbage.
But think of it this way. You have this hot girl who is at a hacker conference. Chances are more than a few of them are socially ... struggling. So how would YOU impress a girl at a hacker conference? Brag about your exploits of course! Yet I agree that NBC is rather stupid because even by that logic this woman does not fit in. They should have gotten a goth / skater type girl with dreadlocks.
Assuming what you would do is sniffing as opposed to a man in the middle attack. A lot of work has gone into encryption but people seem to forget about the other peices of the puzzle. Where are those DNS packets coming from? Do you accept ICMP redirects? Is your gateway really a router?
http://monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/faq.html
see section on "how do I hijack/sniff https connections?".
I find the headline to be a bit of flame bait. If I have something to type up at home, I open up Kword, type it up, then email it to myself. Next day at work I open it up in OpenOffice and print. Seems like ODF is a huge success to me. I mean would we rather have all of these competing office suites using different proprietary formats? If I decide to use Abiword tomorrow (on my Mac) then I can at least rest assured that if I switch back to KWord I can open up my documents just fine.
I think that was one of the ideas behind office 2007. Most of what we do with office productivity software hasn't really changed that much. So the idea was to improve work flow to make people more productive. The difference between using a clunky badly laid out program and a intuitive efficient program can make a huge difference in how long it takes you to do a task thought the day when you are tied to that application. I won't say office 2007 is that program, but it seems like that was the idea behind it.
Exactly what I was thinking. Which is what makes this rather puzzling to me. You would think that Cisco would be more than happy to hide behind the Linksys brand. Cisco already has a SOLID reputation in the enterprise. Mindshare with grandma, and joe sixpack is seriously irrelevant. Whoever is at the top is obviously not seeing the big picture here.
But what do I know. I think their new logo sucks too.
I think you're onto something, but I don't necessarily think it's their products that are the target. I think what their going for is a sort of "open source is sharing source code", but in a way that disregards all license considerations. Then at some point someone will cry foul and there will be a huge whirlwind trumped up by a few companies having their peepee stepped on. In essence attempting to ensnare a company or two in a minefield then trumpet the dangers of "open source" when the time is right.
That might have to do with how far he had to carry them though.
Tap the screen to turn it on then use voice commands?
I used to think dragging windows was an issue until I used two fixes. Used nvidia drivers that really seem to accelerate things, and enabled the xdamage extension in xorg. If you've ever used Win2k (or XP under some circumstances) with no video driver support (16 color vga) you tend to see almost exactly the same artifacts.
Fuck I'd vote for it. I'll lobby for it if it hisses at Putin =)
This may or may not be a lot more than a conventional hard drive depending on abuse; in a perfect world, a conventional harddrive would last much longer, but in a laptop, with all the bouncing, the odds are closer to even.
Except when flash wears out you simply can't WRITE to it anymore. You can read fine. Assuming that whatever you were doing last will cause the biggest problem (failure during your last write when the drive "fails"), you can easily just plug the drive in somewhere else and copy your data to your new drive. I'd say that with the durability factor that CF would certainly be the way to go.
I wouldn't hold your breath over dramatic performance gains in the Soekris. It's still a Pentium/MMX processor. Going from Pentium I to Pentium Pro/II architecture yields a big gain at the same speeds, so it's not quite like the days when you went from a Pentium 133 to a Pentium II 300 and noticed a huge difference. The good news is that if you compiled your system for a Pentium/MMX you can just copy it across instead of starting from scratch.
And as these are the people who aren't interested in upgrading, the chances of even capturing much of any marketshare there is slim. Usually these people use the same pc and use the same web browser they always have used and it works good enough. According to the w3counter, even if you captured 100% of the Win98 market (1.47%) and 100% of the WinME market (0.51%), that's not even %2 of a dropping market. Most people using these platforms if they are using Firefox are probably okay with 1.x without support since they're okay with Windows without support. And realistically you might get say 10% of the market share for these. Sounds like a lot of work for 0.20% of any market when they could work on the existing code base to improve it.
An understandable mistake though. I mean when people referr to an OS now they also think of things like MSN Messenger, Safari and a slew of other things which really have nothing to do with being a part of an operating system. People have become accustomed to referring to integrated external applications as being the capabilities of the OS. Probably doesn't help that Microsoft uses Windows + {generic_name} and Apple uses i{generic_name}
This is getting more and more prevalent around the Internet and it's actually getting sort of frustrating to mail admins such as myself. It's not just Hotmail but a lot of mail servers now days. It's annoying because you never get any bounced mail or error receipts, it just goes into a black hole. I understand why nothing is returned since there are so many botnets spamming everyone but just trying to debug simple email has gotten very time consuming. If your server isn't going to deliver the mail then throw an error message during the connection. Is that so hard?
Heh, I've started to tire over the percentage statistics myself but after seeing this headline I feel a bit better. Just yesterday my company had an issue with accessing some vendor's website for various things - it just stopped working after they updated stuff. Turns out whatever update they did broke support in Firefox. They then state that they cannot be bothered to handle web browsers such as Firefox, and that we should use Internet Explorer or Safari.
Safari? I'm not watching the internet stats like a hawk but when has Safari ever broken the 5% barrier!? Every gain may force sites to support firefox. The more support for Firefox, the more pressure on Microsoft to actually fix IE and support standards.
How much do 1.5GHz processors normally consume?
Sort of an interesting question depending upon how you look at it. My modern Athlon64 5000+ uses a lot more power than my pentium 133 ever did, however it would literally take the P133 45 minutes to encode an mp3, while my modern computer can do that in about 30 seconds or less. After my task is done I turn the machine off so which used more power?
That's sort of beside the point though, since you can assume most regular PCs at 1.5Ghz should consume around 60W or so. The VIA C7 is a low power CPU which initially seemed a very good choice for dedicated media boxes but the performance is severely lacking in places. For some people the VIA C7 is alright, but most people would probably be far better off with the cheapest AMD or Intel processors in terms of bang for buck. Not getting into the flaky VIA chipset issues either..
I think that depends on how you interpret the article which is a bit ambiguous. On one hand it says if something delivers a product on time it is a success, and on the other it says if it produced something useful it is a success - which may not be the same thing. I'm also an I.T. manager (or whatever) and I can say that a project isn't necessarily a failure if you are smart enough to back out of it in safety before it becomes a total catastrophe. It also depends on your goals and the article is oriented to actually producing a product, for which not producing a product would be a failure. Most of my "projects" are really feasibility. IT is driven by new technology, and be definition you have little to no experience with it. So of course you need to test it. If your goal is to always at least learn something from the experience then no project is truly a failure, but that depends a lot on your organization and where you sit in the decision making hierarchy.
Cool, more stuff to disable. Maybe I can finally put the nail in the coffin for NFS too. My process list is finally getting down there...