Note this will not keep them from charging high rates for datatraffic, or setting very low caps, and charge lots more if you go over your allotment. Has cost me hundreds of euros per month for several months.
My iPhone appeared to be very uninformative about which apps were the data hungry culprit, and Apple has blocked API's for third-party developers. Also it seems that when you enable sending diagnostics info to apple, crashdumps will be sent AT NIGHT OVER 3G EVEN IF YOU ARE AT HOME ON WIFI!
My Dutch provider KPN was unable to offer any insight into my traffic, and was unable to help me with determining why I was consuming so much traffic.
Many ad-supported apps do not have switches to disable ads-over-3G, my traffic app was eating into my monthly
Overall I have been very disappointed at my iPhone in this respect, and no, I will not switch to Android yet, but this was a serious downer.
What a surprise. So people who can think logical, and analytical, have trouble believing in God(s)? And this is 'shedding important new light on the psychology of religious belief'?
Mmm, you may be right, allthough I don't get all the fuzz about the Mac not having docking ports. I hook up my desktop hardware using USB and the DVI port. This way I get two screens, and the mac keyboard (which has a mouse connected). I can attach floppy, extra hard drives using USB as well.
Buy a MacBook. Install 4Gb, buy Parallels Desktop for $50 or so and you can run every Windows and Linux in a Virtual Machine, and switch between them with Ctrl-Arrow. I recently did this and am very happy with it.
In the mid 80s I did a lot of assembly programming on ACP for KLM. We (125 programmers and me) shared a test system that boasted 128MB RAM and a 100MHz'ish CPU running ACP/TPF. The production system even had double the memory. It could do 100 transactions per second. Touroperators (KLM representatives) all over the world used reservation terminals connected by satellite lines to this mainframe. It definitely was mission critical. But I think the article exaggerates a bit, because internally the story was that the KLM would go broke if the mainframe went down for three consecutive days.
When I was there, C was being tested as an alternative for assembly language, but it was thrown out, because it was too slow, and wasted too many resources.
Mind you: my iPhone has more CPU and much more memory than this mainframe, and thus could easily run the entire worldwide reservation system for an medium sized airline!
Well, I am thoroughly impressed with the humility this guy shows in his replies. 99% of the slashdot posters could learn something from that.
Instead of throwing around unfounded accusations, calling people 'stupid', blowing their own horns even if they are very young and have accomplished nothing worth mentioning in life.
Let's see.. Google already runs tens of thousands of servers. They have stated they need more bandwidth and more power.
Wouldn't it be great if they have a computing box in *every* home, just to extend their computing power? No power bills, no need to buy more hardware?
Give the owners some of the benefits (cached searches, gmail, maybe use it as a PC in some ways, and otherwise use the box for your own purposes.). Interesting thought.
On the 28th of January 2002 the European Parliament and the Council adopted Regulation (EC)178/2002 laying down the General Principles and requirements of Food Law.
The General Food Law mandates tracking and tracing of all food produced in the EU.
And as far as I know the Dutch are leading within Europe.
Re:The ridiculous height of the tax is untrue
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According to the Dutch page you refer to, the tax on blank DVD's lies between 0,50 and 1,00 on a DVD, so that is more than 'a couple of cents'. Who do you work for?
Trying to be devil's advocate: "we currently charge up to 1 for 5 Gbyte on DVD's, but they are not re-used with new music all the time, so we should charge higher for MP3 players. Let say we charge five times as much (we are the devil right?) so in that case we charge 1 per GB, this amounts to an extra tax of 60 for an iPod player. Now what we need to do is pick a price as high as possible, but that is low enough to not outrage the general public."
I am Dutch (have been for 45 years now), and I predict this law *will* make it. Germany, Denmark already have similar taxes on media.
disclaim.future is a standard form supplied by the FSF exactly for these kind of situations. I couldn't find it on their website any more, but google knows where to find it.
I am an employer myself, and did so without any hesitation. If your boss wants to know more about opensource, GPL and the like, encourage him to ask around in his social network.
Well, I run YDL 2.3 on my iBook. Why? After using Dell laptops for a while I gave up. Heavy, not enough battery life, and too many problems with windows.
Now I run my 14" iBook for almost 5 hours on one battery charge (using WiFi all the time), I can compile my own programs (developed for x86), recompile most.rpm files I find on the net, and don't care too much for the Mac user interface.
No no, suppose some search engines or spammer email harvesting robot goes wild on your site, and generates a lot of traffic, who will pay for it? You will.
You can then turn around and sue the person who caused the damage.
The ISP cannot decide in many cases if the extra bandwidth usage is legit or not, so has no business cutting your line.
Suppose you live on a crosspoint of several countries. Your house happens to be located in a dangerous curve on the road. Also for some reason your house looks to some kiddies like it asks to be vandalized.
For these reasons you get a lot of breakin attempts, occasionally a truck crashes through your walls. All this is not only by people from your own country, but from neighbouring countries as well.
You install warning lights and other measures so cars and trucks don't come in crashing. You call the police when kiddies vandalize your home, but they says they can't do anything.
All this costs you a lot of money and headaches.
In real life there are several ways to defend yourself:
taking your own safety measures as can reasonably be expected from a houseowner
get insured for the unexpected
trust the police the catch criminals
trust international law enforcement for border-crossing crimes
Now apply these principles to your hosting server.
Of course you should take every precaution within reason to prevent your server from being hacked (keep it up to date folks)
Get an insurance for unexpected costs. I'll bet insurance companies could do well here
Trust the cops for catching the script kiddies and real criminals. Alas, the police is hopeless understaffed and low on resources for these new crimes. Also legislation is lagging behind
International laws? Don't count on it. Same as above, but worse.
Suppose your house is rented. Is the person renting you the house responsible for every breach? Did he warn you before you signed the contract? Is it his responsability to call you every time some vandals are passing on the road? Or some truck may crash into your home?
Of course your ISP can warn you for every threat that may be coming, but what if there's no warning time? Or he misses a small thing that happens to affect your server bigtime?
Is the ISP really responsible?
We needed C programmers. What we did: pick the 5 most promising candidates. Give them a programming problem that is pretty hard to solve in a day for a mediocre programmer, and give them a day.
Our problem was: write a utility that scans our source tree, printing out all.c and.h files that #included (directly or indirectly) a particular.h file.
See how the resulting code output varies wildly, even though people have comparable CVs.
It worked like a charm, and it was fun. The winner was very good indeed. Later he appeared to be working at home on his own unix kernel, running on an Atari Falcon (it was '90, '91 or so). Linus wasn't the only one, albeit the most successfull;-)
I would be happy to pay for a LWN subscription, but I don't. Why? Because I'm afraid I'll eventually pay a similar amount for every online publication I want to read and that would stack up too much for me. But basically I wouldn't mind paying for the fact I'm an Open Source fan.
My solution: Get together with similar publications (Linuxtoday? Slashdot? Freshmeat? rpmfind? MozillaZine? Apache Week?) Charge a fee as a group. Create a free, outdated (four weeks) version of the sites to show what you're offering. Don't get overboard on the rates. Create student rates. Make it very easy to sign up, and easy for us non-US citizens to transfer the money.
I would personally pay $15 a month for a combined subscription. My company would pay more.
I was nervous at first, but I thought hey, I'll install linux anyway, so what does it matter?
And guess what... I am *very* happy with it. It happily runs Debian for almost 6 (really!) hours before running out of power, it is totally quiet (no fan), it's slick, the airport card antenna is invisible, and stand-by and reactivation are almost instantaneous. And yes, the price is comparable to, even cheaper than 'comparable' Intel laptops.
Look into it, it's the first machine I love to carry around. There's is review here
And I have another issue: I want to run a "reverse proxy" (multiple physical webservers, possibly running different OS's) with name-based virtual hosting. I haven't found a way of doing that [with Apache] yet.
This is a standard form supplied by the FSF exactly for these kind of situations.
I'm myself a PHB and when one of my employees asked me to sign it, I did it without hesitation. You may have some trouble explaning to them the GPL concept, but throwing some Geek buzz-words around (like Linux), and pointing to some NASDAQ successes (RedHat) may help.
And another thing: encourage them to ask around in their social network.
Slashdot Mirror
Note this will not keep them from charging high rates for datatraffic, or setting very low caps, and charge lots more if you go over your allotment. Has cost me hundreds of euros per month for several months.
My iPhone appeared to be very uninformative about which apps were the data hungry culprit, and Apple has blocked API's for third-party developers. Also it seems that when you enable sending diagnostics info to apple, crashdumps will be sent AT NIGHT OVER 3G EVEN IF YOU ARE AT HOME ON WIFI!
My Dutch provider KPN was unable to offer any insight into my traffic, and was unable to help me with determining why I was consuming so much traffic.
Many ad-supported apps do not have switches to disable ads-over-3G, my traffic app was eating into my monthly
Overall I have been very disappointed at my iPhone in this respect, and no, I will not switch to Android yet, but this was a serious downer.
What a surprise. So people who can think logical, and analytical, have trouble believing in God(s)?
And this is 'shedding important new light on the psychology of religious belief'?
I thought you said you like developing software.
Well, not testing software is doing a half-ass job.
Don't you take any pride in what you create?
Mmm, you may be right, allthough I don't get all the fuzz about the Mac not having docking ports. I hook up my desktop hardware using USB and the DVI port. This way I get two screens, and the mac keyboard (which has a mouse connected). I can attach floppy, extra hard drives using USB as well.
Does a docking station really offer so much more?
Buy a MacBook. Install 4Gb, buy Parallels Desktop for $50 or so and you can run every Windows and Linux in a Virtual Machine, and switch between them with Ctrl-Arrow. I recently did this and am very happy with it.
In the mid 80s I did a lot of assembly programming on ACP for KLM. We (125 programmers and me) shared a test system that boasted 128MB RAM and a 100MHz'ish CPU running ACP/TPF. The production system even had double the memory. It could do 100 transactions per second. Touroperators (KLM representatives) all over the world used reservation terminals connected by satellite lines to this mainframe. It definitely was mission critical. But I think the article exaggerates a bit, because internally the story was that the KLM would go broke if the mainframe went down for three consecutive days.
When I was there, C was being tested as an alternative for assembly language, but it was thrown out, because it was too slow, and wasted too many resources.
Mind you: my iPhone has more CPU and much more memory than this mainframe, and thus could easily run the entire worldwide reservation system for an medium sized airline!
Well, I am thoroughly impressed with the humility this guy shows in his replies. 99% of the slashdot posters could learn something from that.
Instead of throwing around unfounded accusations, calling people 'stupid', blowing their own horns even if they are very young and have accomplished nothing worth mentioning in life.
Go read the last paragraph of the interview.
Let's see.. Google already runs tens of thousands of servers. They have stated they need more bandwidth and more power.
Wouldn't it be great if they have a computing box in *every* home, just to extend their computing power? No power bills, no need to buy more hardware?
Give the owners some of the benefits (cached searches, gmail, maybe use it as a PC in some ways, and otherwise use the box for your own purposes.). Interesting thought.
The General Food Law mandates tracking and tracing of all food produced in the EU.
And as far as I know the Dutch are leading within Europe.
According to the Dutch page you refer to, the tax on blank DVD's lies between 0,50 and 1,00 on a DVD, so that is more than 'a couple of cents'. Who do you work for?
Trying to be devil's advocate: "we currently charge up to 1 for 5 Gbyte on DVD's, but they are not re-used with new music all the time, so we should charge higher for MP3 players. Let say we charge five times as much (we are the devil right?) so in that case we charge 1 per GB, this amounts to an extra tax of 60 for an iPod player. Now what we need to do is pick a price as high as possible, but that is low enough to not outrage the general public."
I am Dutch (have been for 45 years now), and I predict this law *will* make it. Germany, Denmark already have similar taxes on media.
disclaim.future is a standard form supplied by the FSF exactly for these kind of situations. I couldn't find it on their website any more, but google knows where to find it.
I am an employer myself, and did so without any hesitation. If your boss wants to know more about opensource, GPL and the like, encourage him to ask around in his social network.
Now I run my 14" iBook for almost 5 hours on one battery charge (using WiFi all the time), I can compile my own programs (developed for x86), recompile most .rpm files I find on the net, and don't care too much for the Mac user interface.
I just love my iBook.
You can then turn around and sue the person who caused the damage.
The ISP cannot decide in many cases if the extra bandwidth usage is legit or not, so has no business cutting your line.
Suppose you live on a crosspoint of several countries. Your house happens to be located in a dangerous curve on the road. Also for some reason your house looks to some kiddies like it asks to be vandalized.
For these reasons you get a lot of breakin attempts, occasionally a truck crashes through your walls. All this is not only by people from your own country, but from neighbouring countries as well.
You install warning lights and other measures so cars and trucks don't come in crashing. You call the police when kiddies vandalize your home, but they says they can't do anything.
All this costs you a lot of money and headaches.
In real life there are several ways to defend yourself:
Now apply these principles to your hosting server.
Suppose your house is rented. Is the person renting you the house responsible for every breach? Did he warn you before you signed the contract? Is it his responsability to call you every time some vandals are passing on the road? Or some truck may crash into your home?
Of course your ISP can warn you for every threat that may be coming, but what if there's no warning time? Or he misses a small thing that happens to affect your server bigtime? Is the ISP really responsible?
Be careful out there...
We needed C programmers. What we did:
.c and .h files that #included (directly or indirectly) a particular .h file.
;-)
pick the 5 most promising candidates. Give them a programming problem that is pretty hard to solve in a day for a mediocre programmer, and give them a day.
Our problem was: write a utility that scans our source tree, printing out all
See how the resulting code output varies wildly, even though people have comparable CVs.
It worked like a charm, and it was fun. The winner was very good indeed. Later he appeared to be working at home on his own unix kernel, running on an Atari Falcon (it was '90, '91 or so). Linus wasn't the only one, albeit the most successfull
I would be happy to pay for a LWN subscription, but I don't. Why? Because I'm afraid I'll eventually pay a similar amount for every online publication I want to read and that would stack up too much for me.
But basically I wouldn't mind paying for the fact I'm an Open Source fan.
My solution: Get together with similar publications (Linuxtoday? Slashdot? Freshmeat? rpmfind? MozillaZine? Apache Week?) Charge a fee as a group. Create a free, outdated (four weeks) version of the sites to show what you're offering. Don't get overboard on the rates. Create student rates. Make it very easy to sign up, and easy for us non-US citizens to transfer the money.
I would personally pay $15 a month for a combined subscription. My company would pay more.
Well,
I was nervous at first, but I thought hey, I'll install linux anyway, so what does it matter?
And guess what... I am *very* happy with it. It happily runs Debian for almost 6 (really!) hours before running out of power, it is totally quiet (no fan), it's slick, the airport card antenna is invisible, and stand-by and reactivation are almost instantaneous. And yes, the price is comparable to, even cheaper than 'comparable' Intel laptops.
Look into it, it's the first machine I love to carry around. There's is review here
Take a look at RealMapping, they really provide a lot of information.
And I have another issue: I want to run a "reverse proxy" (multiple physical webservers, possibly running different OS's) with name-based virtual hosting. I haven't found a way of doing that [with Apache] yet.
NameVirtualHost your_external_ip_address:80
<VirtualHost your_external_ip_address>
ServerName www.yourdomain.com
ProxyRequests on
ProxyPass / http://internal_ip_address/
ProxyPassReverse / http://internal_ip_address/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost your_external_ip_address>
ServerName www.otherdomain.com
ProxyRequests on
ProxyPass / http://other_internal_ip_address/
ProxyPassReverse / http://other_internal_ip_address/
</VirtualHost>
Works for me.
I'm myself a PHB and when one of my employees asked me to sign it, I did it without hesitation. You may have some trouble explaning to them the GPL concept, but throwing some Geek buzz-words around (like Linux), and pointing to some NASDAQ successes (RedHat) may help.
And another thing: encourage them to ask around in their social network.
Good Luck!
This post should be moderated up to 4! This is very sound advice. I am in the business, and it's really true.