This is a filesystem, where the developers keep finding major (including fatal) bugs basically every other week. If even the slightest idea of making it the default filesystem in a distribution scheduled for release in 6 months crosses your mind, seek professional help. Now.
The very highest quality 1080p bluray rips have a bitrate of about 18Mbit. Meaning as long as you can handle 2MB/s sequential read speed, you are fine. Double this to 4MB/s for 2 streams. How is 4MB/s supposed to be impressive? Even the worst, cheapest USB flash sticks are capable of over 10MB/s. If Light Peak is supposedly capable of 10Gbit both ways, why on earth is it demoed with this?!
First netbooks had small screens and awesome battery life. Then they made bigger screens, which used more battery. Then they put in larger and larger spinning hard drives, faster processors, and now dual-core?
So we go from a tiny, long-lived netbook to a large (and heavy) powerful and short-lived netbook. Also known as a laptop.
What's next - a high end graphics card so people can play games?
I have one of the early EeePCs - I think it's the 900A - with a 4GB SSD and a 9 inch screen. It runs for at least 5 hours, and depending on the pants I wear it can fit into a cargo pocket. *That's* a netbook.
Since when is a 5 hour battery time in any way impressive? You do realize there are a lot of notebooks out there with 8-12h battery time?
This is so bogus it's not even funny. Well it might work in some retarded 3rd world country, but certainly not where I live.
"For example, during their research, Bailey and DePetrillo scanned a number block in Washington, D.C., and identified a large block of numbers allocated to a defense contractor."
I am sorry, what? How exactly does this scan work? If a defence contractor has it's numbers available in a publically accessible number database, this is probably a lapse in security at said contractor, not some kind of a GSM technology exploit. If you don't want to tell the world that YOU own number 123 4567, don't share this information. DUH. Every operator out there has an option where the subscriber can chose to "keep my number secret and do not share my information with public registries". Your failure to use this option is well, your failure.
"Once they accessed the database, known as the Home Location Register (HLR), the researchers are able to determine which mobile provider a given subscriber uses, and then combine that with the caller ID data, giving them a profile of the subscriber."
I am an operator. What the fuck gives you the idea that YOU can access my HLR? Are you retarded?
Own a pub? A couple of gorillas decide to duke it out, for any number of reasons? HEY! IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR HAVING A PUBLIC PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN DRINK, TALK, OR FIGHT!
You seem to be quite unaware of laws regulating/requiring security measurements in places like a bar that a lot of countries have?
Valve: Bringing video game DRM to Linux. (And I don't care about how much you think Steam is great and wonderful, it's still DRM and it cannot be tolerated.)
So I guess you don't do gaming at all then? Considering basically 99% of all major game releases these days have some kind of DRM and considering Steam itself is probably the most lax and non-intrusive kind of DRM there IS. And contrary to the horrors of things like Ubisoft "persistent online connection required even for singleplayer" DRM, Steam actually offers some great value to the user. I don't ever have to worry about losing my physical media or the cdkey stickers becoming unreadable. With several games that support Steam Cloud, I also dont ever have to worry about backing up my game settings and savegames, because they follow me, roaming profile-style.
until you realize you DIDN'T BUY THE DEVICE, but instead purchased a license to use a device in accordance to a specific agreement. I really really wish it would be a case of "I paid money for this and goods have exchanged hands so I can do whatever I want with it", but in a lot of countries, this simply doesn't hold true.
I assume, then, that I can look at any vulnerability for the past three years and be confident of exploiting it on your systems, because you won't have upgraded past that.
Support. This word doesn't mean what you think it means.
these people are when it comes to understanding how the business software world works. Cutting off support from a software package released 1 year ago? Are you retarded? If a vendor dropped support 2 years into the lifetime of a major software package release we deploy company-wide, we would drop said vendor immideately. 3 year long support is the bare, absolute minimum that is required for a software package for a vendor to get to the table with us. 5+ years and now we are talking.
The only possible sane rationale I can come up with is that ClamAV developers have absolutel no intention whatsoever to aim at anyone besides the hobbyist tinkerer home user segment, because that's the only area where such vendor behaviour can be tolerated and accepted.
A bit over a decade ago. With the rise of online games like Quake/Quake2/Quake3 that gave birth to miriads of tournaments with players playing for real money and other big prizes.
Or actual triangulated physical location. If you are a mobile provider, these things are quite possible, although whether the law enforcement agencies get access to this kind of data depends on the laws of your country.
Or... just used GPS.
Remember, most 3G chipsets do use USB, and the chipsets are identical to the ones used in smartphones (there are only a few big chipset manufacturers out there). Most of them connect via USB - whether it's to your PC, or to the smartphone's main processor. Many of these "USB Sticks" or "Internet Sticks" or whatever are just the phone part of a smartphone ripped out, so they support GPS and all sorts of other phone features...
No, there is no such thing as an USB gprs/3g modem with GPS. It makes no business sense whatsoever for manufacturers of devices to include GPS.
I assumed that internet key was a badly translated Italian phrase for IP address. But your explanation probably makes more sense.
Whereas we call it a USB Modem, in Italy they call it "Internet Key".
Basically, they got his IP address from Facebook, took it to the Mobile Broadband supplier who gave up his billing address.
Or actual triangulated physical location. If you are a mobile provider, these things are quite possible, although whether the law enforcement agencies get access to this kind of data depends on the laws of your country.
Besides, why now? Why not 5 years ago? Why not last year?
Yeah exactly like with Mono. If Microsoft was really wanting to launch a patent assault over mono they would have done it years ago they wouldn't be waiting for some unspecified time in the future to do so. It's the same FUD as the supposed "java trap" that also never materialized and was never going to materialize.
You must be new here, what you describe would be a very bad business model. The good business model is to wait until your patented tech is used by everyone and THEN you sue everyone for infringement. When you tech is new and barely used by anyone, it would be too easy for everyone to just migrate away from it as soon as you started making any kind of threats, but when your tech is deeply entrenched in the industry, you can have everybody by the balls.
If exposure to mobile carrier antenna radio waves was of any danger to public health, there is no way you would be seeing these antennas anywhere near apartment complexes, the FCC or whatever is the appropriate authority is in your country would be all over this. On the contrary, you should be happy that your apartment is going to get some pretty damn good coverage:)
Nope, it's because Microsoft finally got it to work, and polished performance to where Win7 is faster than XP, whereas Vista was slower than XP.
You seem to have really wrong expectations of OS development. If you take any major Linux vendor, for example RedHat or SUSE. Take 3 versions, one released at time of XP, one at time of Vista and one at time of Windows 7. Now try telling me with a straight face that assuming same old hardware, each version has gotten progressively faster.
... it's reliability that's the real issue. SSDs are a great idea in theory, but in practice the only time I tried to build a server around one, taking great care to ensure that as little as possible would ever be ever written to it (e.g. turned off atime, while/var,/temp,/home etc. were located on hard disks), it ended up lasting only about a month.
You had a broken/faulty unit, this can happen with any kind of disk. Even cheap USB flash sticks easily last over a year of the kind of use you describe. Intel X25-M SSDs for example, are specced for 24/7 use with 100gb of data being written to disk EVERY DAY and this is a consumer MLC SSD. Enterprise SLC disks are much more resilient then that (albeit a lot more expensive).
The UI felt a bit unusual at the start, but I actually ended up liking it, felt unique and effective. The application start time is a few seconds slower than the Micro browser that ships with the N900, but page load and rendering speed seems toughly equal. The straightforwardness of installing and configuring AdBlocker felt more integrated and polished in the new Firefox 1.0. However, the Firefox has a major deal-breaker for me, it's broken ZOOM function. You're only limited to a "maximum zoom in" or "maximum zoom out" by doubletapping the screen, you can't pick your desired level of zoom by doing a clockwise/counterclockwise drag movement like in Micro. Ctrl-UP and Ctrl-DOWN were supposed keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out, but these didn't even work at all, the key combinations did nothing (while other shortcuts like Ctrl-L worked normally).
This definately feels like a good start, but it's more of a 0.98 version than a 1.0, it just has a few rough edges and needs some polish.
Disclaimer: I work for the biggest mobile provider in a nordic country.
This is completely normal behaviour for a mobile provider. We are the bit/call/sms delivery pipe. We don't really care at all what device you use on our network as long as its approved by the relevant authorities to be used on the appropriate radio frequencies. If your problem is directly relevant to our network (for example, bad coverage that is consistent across multiple phone models) or our actual services (ringbacktone, mms delivery, answering machine, push email, etc), you call us. If your problem is phonemodel-specific, we can't help, you call the phone manufacturer, even if you happened to purchase the phone at our store. There are literally thousands of phone models out there. To be expecting your operator to help you with with your random phone model and it's specific issues is naive at best.
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This is a filesystem, where the developers keep finding major (including fatal) bugs basically every other week. If even the slightest idea of making it the default filesystem in a distribution scheduled for release in 6 months crosses your mind, seek professional help. Now.
you would have to have a negative growth rate to indicate that netbooks are loosing market share
Market share is not what you think it is.
The very highest quality 1080p bluray rips have a bitrate of about 18Mbit. Meaning as long as you can handle 2MB/s sequential read speed, you are fine. Double this to 4MB/s for 2 streams. How is 4MB/s supposed to be impressive? Even the worst, cheapest USB flash sticks are capable of over 10MB/s. If Light Peak is supposedly capable of 10Gbit both ways, why on earth is it demoed with this?!
First netbooks had small screens and awesome battery life. Then they made bigger screens, which used more battery. Then they put in larger and larger spinning hard drives, faster processors, and now dual-core?
So we go from a tiny, long-lived netbook to a large (and heavy) powerful and short-lived netbook. Also known as a laptop.
What's next - a high end graphics card so people can play games?
I have one of the early EeePCs - I think it's the 900A - with a 4GB SSD and a 9 inch screen. It runs for at least 5 hours, and depending on the pants I wear it can fit into a cargo pocket. *That's* a netbook.
Since when is a 5 hour battery time in any way impressive? You do realize there are a lot of notebooks out there with 8-12h battery time?
The problem with the article is that it can be essentially dissected into this:
"If your phone number is stored in a publically accessible database, along with your real name, people can look it up!"
No shit. And then they threw in a bunch of semi-relevant and a lot of completely bogus technical mumbo-jumbo to make it sound like some breakthrough.
"For example, during their research, Bailey and DePetrillo scanned a number block in Washington, D.C., and identified a large block of numbers allocated to a defense contractor."
I am sorry, what? How exactly does this scan work? If a defence contractor has it's numbers available in a publically accessible number database, this is probably a lapse in security at said contractor, not some kind of a GSM technology exploit. If you don't want to tell the world that YOU own number 123 4567, don't share this information. DUH. Every operator out there has an option where the subscriber can chose to "keep my number secret and do not share my information with public registries". Your failure to use this option is well, your failure.
"Once they accessed the database, known as the Home Location Register (HLR), the researchers are able to determine which mobile provider a given subscriber uses, and then combine that with the caller ID data, giving them a profile of the subscriber."
I am an operator. What the fuck gives you the idea that YOU can access my HLR? Are you retarded?
Own a pub? A couple of gorillas decide to duke it out, for any number of reasons? HEY! IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR HAVING A PUBLIC PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN DRINK, TALK, OR FIGHT!
You seem to be quite unaware of laws regulating/requiring security measurements in places like a bar that a lot of countries have?
Valve: Bringing video game DRM to Linux. (And I don't care about how much you think Steam is great and wonderful, it's still DRM and it cannot be tolerated.)
So I guess you don't do gaming at all then? Considering basically 99% of all major game releases these days have some kind of DRM and considering Steam itself is probably the most lax and non-intrusive kind of DRM there IS. And contrary to the horrors of things like Ubisoft "persistent online connection required even for singleplayer" DRM, Steam actually offers some great value to the user. I don't ever have to worry about losing my physical media or the cdkey stickers becoming unreadable. With several games that support Steam Cloud, I also dont ever have to worry about backing up my game settings and savegames, because they follow me, roaming profile-style.
until you realize you DIDN'T BUY THE DEVICE, but instead purchased a license to use a device in accordance to a specific agreement. I really really wish it would be a case of "I paid money for this and goods have exchanged hands so I can do whatever I want with it", but in a lot of countries, this simply doesn't hold true.
I assume, then, that I can look at any vulnerability for the past three years and be confident of exploiting it on your systems, because you won't have upgraded past that.
Support. This word doesn't mean what you think it means.
these people are when it comes to understanding how the business software world works. Cutting off support from a software package released 1 year ago? Are you retarded? If a vendor dropped support 2 years into the lifetime of a major software package release we deploy company-wide, we would drop said vendor immideately. 3 year long support is the bare, absolute minimum that is required for a software package for a vendor to get to the table with us. 5+ years and now we are talking.
The only possible sane rationale I can come up with is that ClamAV developers have absolutel no intention whatsoever to aim at anyone besides the hobbyist tinkerer home user segment, because that's the only area where such vendor behaviour can be tolerated and accepted.
By your logic, golf and chess aren't sports either. The world begs to differ, however.
A bit over a decade ago. With the rise of online games like Quake/Quake2/Quake3 that gave birth to miriads of tournaments with players playing for real money and other big prizes.
> now ZFS is now production ready on FreeBSD 8
I do not think that means what you think it means.
If ZFS isn't production-ready in FreeBSD 8, it isn't production-ready in Solaris either.
Or... just used GPS.
Remember, most 3G chipsets do use USB, and the chipsets are identical to the ones used in smartphones (there are only a few big chipset manufacturers out there). Most of them connect via USB - whether it's to your PC, or to the smartphone's main processor. Many of these "USB Sticks" or "Internet Sticks" or whatever are just the phone part of a smartphone ripped out, so they support GPS and all sorts of other phone features...
No, there is no such thing as an USB gprs/3g modem with GPS. It makes no business sense whatsoever for manufacturers of devices to include GPS.
Whereas we call it a USB Modem, in Italy they call it "Internet Key".
Basically, they got his IP address from Facebook, took it to the Mobile Broadband supplier who gave up his billing address.
Or actual triangulated physical location. If you are a mobile provider, these things are quite possible, although whether the law enforcement agencies get access to this kind of data depends on the laws of your country.
Besides, why now? Why not 5 years ago? Why not last year?
Yeah exactly like with Mono. If Microsoft was really wanting to launch a patent assault over mono they would have done it years ago they wouldn't be waiting for some unspecified time in the future to do so. It's the same FUD as the supposed "java trap" that also never materialized and was never going to materialize.
You must be new here, what you describe would be a very bad business model. The good business model is to wait until your patented tech is used by everyone and THEN you sue everyone for infringement. When you tech is new and barely used by anyone, it would be too easy for everyone to just migrate away from it as soon as you started making any kind of threats, but when your tech is deeply entrenched in the industry, you can have everybody by the balls.
If exposure to mobile carrier antenna radio waves was of any danger to public health, there is no way you would be seeing these antennas anywhere near apartment complexes, the FCC or whatever is the appropriate authority is in your country would be all over this. On the contrary, you should be happy that your apartment is going to get some pretty damn good coverage :)
Nope, it's because Microsoft finally got it to work, and polished performance to where Win7 is faster than XP, whereas Vista was slower than XP.
You seem to have really wrong expectations of OS development. If you take any major Linux vendor, for example RedHat or SUSE. Take 3 versions, one released at time of XP, one at time of Vista and one at time of Windows 7. Now try telling me with a straight face that assuming same old hardware, each version has gotten progressively faster.
The new OCZ SSDs, while a welcome addition to the market aren't anywhere near "fastest storage".
Crucial RealSSD C300: http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/3118/crucial_realssd_c300_256gb_sata_6gbps_solid_state_disk/index5.html
Fusion-IO: http://storage-news.com/2009/10/29/hothardware-shows-first-benchmarks-for-fusion-io-drive/
... it's reliability that's the real issue. SSDs are a great idea in theory, but in practice the only time I tried to build a server around one, taking great care to ensure that as little as possible would ever be ever written to it (e.g. turned off atime, while /var, /temp, /home etc. were located on hard disks), it ended up lasting only about a month.
You had a broken/faulty unit, this can happen with any kind of disk. Even cheap USB flash sticks easily last over a year of the kind of use you describe. Intel X25-M SSDs for example, are specced for 24/7 use with 100gb of data being written to disk EVERY DAY and this is a consumer MLC SSD. Enterprise SLC disks are much more resilient then that (albeit a lot more expensive).
I thought VAC was pretty decent in preventing cheating in CS and Valve has been banning cheaters left and right?
The UI felt a bit unusual at the start, but I actually ended up liking it, felt unique and effective. The application start time is a few seconds slower than the Micro browser that ships with the N900, but page load and rendering speed seems toughly equal. The straightforwardness of installing and configuring AdBlocker felt more integrated and polished in the new Firefox 1.0. However, the Firefox has a major deal-breaker for me, it's broken ZOOM function. You're only limited to a "maximum zoom in" or "maximum zoom out" by doubletapping the screen, you can't pick your desired level of zoom by doing a clockwise/counterclockwise drag movement like in Micro. Ctrl-UP and Ctrl-DOWN were supposed keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out, but these didn't even work at all, the key combinations did nothing (while other shortcuts like Ctrl-L worked normally). This definately feels like a good start, but it's more of a 0.98 version than a 1.0, it just has a few rough edges and needs some polish.
Even better, instead of just getting a lawyer, get a lawyer AND make original games! Sounds crazy, but seems to work for some...
Disclaimer: I work for the biggest mobile provider in a nordic country. This is completely normal behaviour for a mobile provider. We are the bit/call/sms delivery pipe. We don't really care at all what device you use on our network as long as its approved by the relevant authorities to be used on the appropriate radio frequencies. If your problem is directly relevant to our network (for example, bad coverage that is consistent across multiple phone models) or our actual services (ringbacktone, mms delivery, answering machine, push email, etc), you call us. If your problem is phonemodel-specific, we can't help, you call the phone manufacturer, even if you happened to purchase the phone at our store. There are literally thousands of phone models out there. To be expecting your operator to help you with with your random phone model and it's specific issues is naive at best.