No, that's ridiculous... If you buy a game from a store and the case is empty, you can see pretty quickly and if you open it before you leave the store they really have no choice but to replace or refund the product... How you determine that a small piece of data has simply been copied on the other hand.
So don't use jabberd2, use ejabberd or wildfire or any one of the other servers... The jabber protocol was created because there was no existing openly documented protocol for instant messaging. And because it's an open protocol there's more than one server that implements it. It's not like a proprietary protocol where you are forced to use the software supplied by the creator of the protocol.
Multi platform maybe, but doesn't run on all the platforms i might want it to... I want to be able to have a client on my cellphone, unless skype makes an official one for each type of phone... Then there's these really cheap mips based laptops from china, for which there is no skype client...
Yes, Core2 seems to have much better SSE units than the AMD chips, but this only really manifests itself when running code optimized to use SSE... And that's usually hand optimized assembly, as compilers aren't generally good at generating SSE code yet.
John the ripper SSE2 mode on a core2 is 2-3 times faster than the generic compile... John the ripper SSE2 mode on an AMD (tested on a quad core phenom and dual core opterons) is slightly slower than the generic compile with gcc 4.3 and -O3.
The core2 beats a similarly clocked phenom by a significant margin on the sse2 code (2.3ghz cores, 2200k vs 1600k per core) but the AMD is considerably quicker running the gcc compiled code
The big question is, how much of the code you run is optimised for the SSE units found in modern processors, and how much of it uses it at all? How much of the precompiled software you download is compiled to run on a 386, and thus makes no use whatsoever of modern processor features?
Perhaps Google or one of the other companies offering IM services could step forward and contribute code to Pidgin... It should be easier than maintaining their own client, and bring good cross platform support. Also with Pidgin's seperation between frontend client and backend library, many other clients could benefit too, like Adium.
That's an issue with the individual server, you're not forced to use jabberd when there are several alternatives available. I think the original jabberd was only intended as a reference platform... I believe it can also authenticate against external sources like ldap anyway.
Add Asterisk to that list, as of 1.4.x i have Asterisk linked into gtalk...
There are also some flash based video conferencing apps which should work on any platform supporting flash.
It would be interesting to know which of these jingle supporting clients work on which platforms. Also, are there any SIP clients with video support (i believe the sip standard includes video support).
If you work in an office, then sure it would be quite hard to get away with spending hours a day on sex lines without being noticed... On the other hand, this guy was a phone tech, so he could well have spent lots of time in telephone exchanges on his own, or working at the end of street line boxes again on his own, and travelling between various sites...
It's the same for the eee 901, claimed battery life is 5 hours for linux and 8 for xp... But they did use different measuring tools. People need to do some independent reviews of doing equivalent tasks.
I think his problem has a lot to do with the data stores being held in a proprietary format, and the only tools capable of working with the format had bugs rendering them unable to recover the corruption.
Sure, with any database there's a risk of corruption, but if the format is known it's much easier to recover data. Thats one of the advantages of unix maildirs, the filesystem is very well understood, there are plenty of tools to repair various kinds of filesystems and its always possible to single out specific items.
Does anyone else remember the "The london stock exchange chose windows 2003 for reliability, they didn't choose linux" ad banners that used to run all over the place, including slashdot if i remember? Funny how it's all come crashing down...
"The london stock exchange chose windows, but after 7 hours of downtime wishes they had chosen linux".
Drive manufacturers do that to make their product sound better than it really is, it's all marketing. You may not like it, but kilo and giga have always had such values in computing because computers operate using binary, 10 binary bits gives 1024 possible values. It would be quite ridiculous to use 1000 and whatever nasty kludges were necessary to achieve that.
I could easily watch a full length movie on my mbp using battery, especially if its copied to the hard drive rather than having to keep the dvd reader spinning... Unless your watching HD quality movies, the CPU will be running at just a couple of percent of one core, so the system will clock it down to the lowest rate it supports, and the GPU won't be doing much either. Most of the power will be drawn by the screen, and the newer ones with lcd backlights seem to draw somewhat less power here too.
So do their figures represent "how long the battery will last before it runs out of power" or "how long the battery will last before it catches fire" ?
As i understand it, OS/2 still costs money to obtain... So there's very little incentive for a hobbyist programmer to obtain a copy just to play with... The only people using it, will be those who are stuck with it for legacy reasons, it won't gather any new users. There are several niche open source OS's out there, and there's no barrier to stop people downloading them to try (i regularly download new builds of AROS, Reactos, Syllable etc)
Incidentally, ICQ by using numeric identifiers is incredibly prone to spam, i still maintain an ICQ number and i get flooded with spam, most of which is russian.
Yeah, if you're using PAYG you really should just buy a local sim when you arrive... There's even vending machines in some airports which will sell them to you.
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I will sell you a license to drive any of my 10 ferraris, you can drive them whenever you want for the one off fee of $2000...
smallprint: i reserve the right to cancel your license at any time for any reason.
smallerprint: you will never actually get to drive a ferrari, because the above right will be exercised as soon as we have your money.
No, that's ridiculous...
If you buy a game from a store and the case is empty, you can see pretty quickly and if you open it before you leave the store they really have no choice but to replace or refund the product...
How you determine that a small piece of data has simply been copied on the other hand.
So don't use jabberd2, use ejabberd or wildfire or any one of the other servers...
The jabber protocol was created because there was no existing openly documented protocol for instant messaging. And because it's an open protocol there's more than one server that implements it. It's not like a proprietary protocol where you are forced to use the software supplied by the creator of the protocol.
Multi platform maybe, but doesn't run on all the platforms i might want it to...
I want to be able to have a client on my cellphone, unless skype makes an official one for each type of phone...
Then there's these really cheap mips based laptops from china, for which there is no skype client...
Yes, Core2 seems to have much better SSE units than the AMD chips, but this only really manifests itself when running code optimized to use SSE... And that's usually hand optimized assembly, as compilers aren't generally good at generating SSE code yet.
John the ripper SSE2 mode on a core2 is 2-3 times faster than the generic compile...
John the ripper SSE2 mode on an AMD (tested on a quad core phenom and dual core opterons) is slightly slower than the generic compile with gcc 4.3 and -O3.
The core2 beats a similarly clocked phenom by a significant margin on the sse2 code (2.3ghz cores, 2200k vs 1600k per core) but the AMD is considerably quicker running the gcc compiled code
The big question is, how much of the code you run is optimised for the SSE units found in modern processors, and how much of it uses it at all? How much of the precompiled software you download is compiled to run on a 386, and thus makes no use whatsoever of modern processor features?
Perhaps Google or one of the other companies offering IM services could step forward and contribute code to Pidgin...
It should be easier than maintaining their own client, and bring good cross platform support. Also with Pidgin's seperation between frontend client and backend library, many other clients could benefit too, like Adium.
That's an issue with the individual server, you're not forced to use jabberd when there are several alternatives available. I think the original jabberd was only intended as a reference platform... I believe it can also authenticate against external sources like ldap anyway.
Add Asterisk to that list, as of 1.4.x i have Asterisk linked into gtalk...
There are also some flash based video conferencing apps which should work on any platform supporting flash.
It would be interesting to know which of these jingle supporting clients work on which platforms. Also, are there any SIP clients with video support (i believe the sip standard includes video support).
Proprietary binary only client that relies on a proprietary third party service, don't like the idea of that...
They must have a really big comms room.
from TFA:
Yes, Verizon probably do have very big comms rooms, and lots of them too.
Did he work in an office? If he was a phone tech he could have been on the road, or working unattended in comms rooms...
If you work in an office, then sure it would be quite hard to get away with spending hours a day on sex lines without being noticed...
On the other hand, this guy was a phone tech, so he could well have spent lots of time in telephone exchanges on his own, or working at the end of street line boxes again on his own, and travelling between various sites...
The laptop is dolphin friendly too, and does not contain any genetically modified products.
It's the same for the eee 901, claimed battery life is 5 hours for linux and 8 for xp... But they did use different measuring tools.
People need to do some independent reviews of doing equivalent tasks.
Yeah, i've encountered similar problems with Reiser, that's why it's good to have a choice of filesystems.
I think his problem has a lot to do with the data stores being held in a proprietary format, and the only tools capable of working with the format had bugs rendering them unable to recover the corruption.
Sure, with any database there's a risk of corruption, but if the format is known it's much easier to recover data. Thats one of the advantages of unix maildirs, the filesystem is very well understood, there are plenty of tools to repair various kinds of filesystems and its always possible to single out specific items.
Does anyone else remember the "The london stock exchange chose windows 2003 for reliability, they didn't choose linux" ad banners that used to run all over the place, including slashdot if i remember?
Funny how it's all come crashing down...
"The london stock exchange chose windows, but after 7 hours of downtime wishes they had chosen linux".
Drive manufacturers do that to make their product sound better than it really is, it's all marketing.
You may not like it, but kilo and giga have always had such values in computing because computers operate using binary, 10 binary bits gives 1024 possible values. It would be quite ridiculous to use 1000 and whatever nasty kludges were necessary to achieve that.
You can turn off the backlight and still see the screen, depending on lighting conditions... You save a lot of power that way.
I could easily watch a full length movie on my mbp using battery, especially if its copied to the hard drive rather than having to keep the dvd reader spinning...
Unless your watching HD quality movies, the CPU will be running at just a couple of percent of one core, so the system will clock it down to the lowest rate it supports, and the GPU won't be doing much either. Most of the power will be drawn by the screen, and the newer ones with lcd backlights seem to draw somewhat less power here too.
So do their figures represent "how long the battery will last before it runs out of power" or "how long the battery will last before it catches fire" ?
As i understand it, OS/2 still costs money to obtain...
So there's very little incentive for a hobbyist programmer to obtain a copy just to play with... The only people using it, will be those who are stuck with it for legacy reasons, it won't gather any new users.
There are several niche open source OS's out there, and there's no barrier to stop people downloading them to try (i regularly download new builds of AROS, Reactos, Syllable etc)
If a company becomes successful in one country, sooner or later they will want to expand out of their borders seeking new potential business.
I believe livejournal also supports XMPP...
Incidentally, ICQ by using numeric identifiers is incredibly prone to spam, i still maintain an ICQ number and i get flooded with spam, most of which is russian.
Yeah, if you're using PAYG you really should just buy a local sim when you arrive... There's even vending machines in some airports which will sell them to you.