Great that the A8 has finally met the luxury of a truck.
I thought close to the same thing myself, since I was pretty sure there was a Dodge commercial about theirs years ago. According to TFA, this is the first as a 'factory' option. Chrysler's apparently is a dealer-install, and if you google for 'chevrolet hotspot' one of the first links is the original announcement that states theirs is a dealer accessory as well.
[...]enabling passengers to connect to the vehicle's network without affecting the battery life of their connected devices.
Can someone explain this? or is it just marketing bs? As far as I know, the battery life of the devices that are connected to some access point or router is not affected by the nature of the router. The fact it uses low power components is important for the car's battery (or fuel consumption), not for the attached device! Or am I missing something?
Did they maybe include an inverter in the option group? -- note: I didn't read the article
... snipped... Dell always had very competitive prices; but not wildly different from comparable stuff from HP and friends. Either Dell's supply chain management absolutely sucked goats through capillary tubing, or some of their competitors must have had similar slush funds to work with.
I can't speak for the likes of the acers and gateways of the world, but the likes of IBM and HP have other slush funds to draw off of.
Example, at work we run iSeries for SAP. I just talked to our team lead about the replacement to our current *DEV* system due in December. It's 300Kish, which is a scant million dollars less than the previous system, which is about the same as the prod system that will be replaced 6 months later. We are installing a $400K disk system from IBM in the next few weeks. They rebadge NetApps as 'nSeries'. Their pSeries is the same as an iSeries and a 4-way box is like 50K the way we just built one... to run TSM. I'd bet the same goes for HP with their HP-UX hardware.
Long story short, they have a high end business to supplement their income where the desktop is either low margin, or just to keep you 'IBM Blue' or whatever they call a HP shop. Dell is still Dell in the server room, affordable from top to bottom, until you get into the EMC stuff.
Mac/Apple lovers are generally loyal to the bitter end, like devoted followers of most products and can look past most faults. For someone that wants an iPhone, there is nothing else that will produce an iPhone but the real thing, and service level be damned. Besides that, the rumor mill abounds that AT&T's exclusivity is almost over.
Android users come from a more diverse population who are probably not loyal to any one thing but want good 'product' in a smart phone but have no tying factor to the platform. If all you want is what you perceive to be a good smart phone you have many options, one of which is also the iPhone. You may not even know that the next cool phone being advertised is an Android based product since they mask it pretty well. I personally have never had a cell phone I would buy the next generation of, including my Blackberry Storm, but that's a different story since work says that I shall have a blackberry of some variety.
These are not imagined or made up problems. Our DR plan is based on the theory that our corporate office has become a crater or is completely inaccessible.
In such conditions, we travel 200 miles with our box of TAPES and restore the business. In any of these times, our roads may suck and you may have to take an alternate route over roads you didn't plan on that suck worse. I've been over many miles with adequately packed servers and have often lost a disk on the road. How many times do you come across a bump or vibration that will kill a disk but a tape wouldn't care? The answer is probably really large... lets start with twice on every bridge you have to cross for example.
What do you do when you can't get back home for another copy in bad conditions? We can go back to the previous day, but you risk having dubious transaction history. Why risk it?
Note that our future plan involves high speed data lines and instant-on backups from a few hours ago, but we're a year away from that and our DR plan was hatched when a 100Mb MPLS circuit cost as much as the GDP of a small nation.
/Agree, pay for the game and whatever hardware it takes specifically for the game.
Buying the game could be analogous to paying for the gym membership and buying the Wii to building the gym. And besides, there's a fairly good chance that any random person already has a Wii.
There are also thousands of acres that nobody ever sees except for the 20 people that live there. My parents are in that area and if they weren't at the end of the grid I guarantee that they would put 20 or 30 turbines on their land on the top of a hill 10 miles from the nearest highway, and behind the huge hill right next to that highway.
Sure it is interesting. Lots of times you can't adequately simulate 'real world conditions' in an office LAN or even with consumer grade connectivity.
Example: At my job we operate a work-at-home business that transmits essentially a voip phone call from various locations of a certain restaurant chain to the worker's home over two dsl lines, but without the luxury of being able to 'redial'. The only DSL we can actually get in our office is too close to our datacenter (under 5 hops) to adequately simulate natural conditions.
We need to be able to make our solution able to cope with crappy lines and the only way to do that is by artifically generating latency. We had been using this old tech: http://www-x.antd.nist.gov/nistnet/index.html but it is unmaintained now and while it runs well, finding a suitable distro to run it on is troublesome in the event our nist box ever kills itself or should another such dismal fate befalls it. This type of thing would be much better albeit w/o the pretty gui;)
I'll definately be looking into the tc command more, I had examined it the last time I needed the test but somebody finally located the working nist box before I could get too deep in the man page.
Are they perhaps trying to postpone the trial long enough so that the class has finished it's term and the 'defense team' has moved on to a new subject?
Great, now when their connection suddenly decides to make OpenVPN tunnels flicker at exactly 5:30 it will only take me 1 second for the tunnel to realize it's down instead of the usual 10. Or when they suddenly turn on the firewall in their PieceOfCrap modem killing all of our normal internet bound traffic, but somehow allowing ipsec tunnels to work, those tunnels will work really fast!
Microsoft actually makes a key change tool, although I'm sure it obeys some restrictions while the ones from don't. If you've ever had to deal with the volume licensing support folks, they can occasionally be real people and give you all sorts of tricks and such to make your life easier when dealing with license compliance.
The first is relating to IP packet TTL, or hopcount. That is, how many routers can this packet cross before its discarded, as OP states. This is only valid on the layer in question (3 I think) and applies only to packets. The goal here is to short circuit router loops and also bring some semblance of speed in that if a conversation gets translated to too many networks, it will simply die.
The second thing you state is an application level TTL, not at all related to the first. TTL WRT DNS is how long you'll answer questions out of your cache before you go ask the authoritative server for a new answer to the same question. I believe it also has an effect on slave DNS boxes in that they will ask the master of the zone for a full update when the TTL expires, regardless of whether or not someone is asking a question about it.
What kind of crack are you smoking? Seriously? I'm downloading it right now with the bittorrent rpm available on pbone which was easily found on the first page of a google search for "bittorrent fedora rpm"
Re:why can't i just use a second mouse?
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You may have worked in CAD a lot, but not in 3D space like Pro/E or SolidWorks. People who use these, and I know a lot of them swear by them once they learn them.
The device allows you true 3d manipulation. You use the ball by twisting, pushing/pulling to the left/right/front back, and then by lifting and depressing the entire ball/puck/whatever this thing uses. When you add a couple buttons at the fingertips around the ball you've got a hella powerful interface.
It's crazy how useful these are, I'm only a sysadmin, but after seeing one on an engineers desk I loaded up a model and began spinning it around like crazy. When you see how much time these guys spend getting something into a position so they can see something or hit a part, it shows why it's worth $600.
You get 4 directions with a mouse, you get 8 with the ball. And more buttons than you can shake a stylus at.
You actually get people? I just got a recording that I had to talk back to... read 5 numbers, it repeats them, you say go on... lather, rinse, repeat.
blech
Re:Everyone here who actually used Kylix, speak up
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When you run kylix wine is in the process list... what more do you have to say...
Everyone here who actually used Kylix, speak up
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... right, pretty quiet here. Everyone here wines about the fact that Delphi sucks, which it may very well but the fact of the matter is that the latest version of Kylix was also for C++.
That being said though, kylix sucked so hard that it could bring a bowling ball through a garden hose. Something about an environment that runs wine in the background just doesn't seem right. Sure it can help you make a cross compiling app but at what cost? Mainly the fact that Borland IDEs in general are just a little bit more buggy than you come to expect now days. We're not talking VB6 on win98 buggy, where you have to save every debug because it just 'may' crash the machine, but I hardly have a day using Builder where it doesn't die at least once.
So if that is the case, then IBM should never have owned the RCU/NUMA stuff anyway, it should have been transferred to SCO at the time of the sale of Sequent to IBM. Sounds a lot like the Cisco stuff, you can buy the hardware, but you don't get a license to the software on it because that's nontransferrable.
Right back at you, cute statement, since we're talking trucks here, keep on task. I live where it occasionally gets -20 in the winter, and you CAN start your truck, but it won't like you much for a half hour.
Your winter mix fuel stays liquid longer than you think if you get stuff that expects it to be that cold.
You HAVE to plug your engine in from the time you shut it off till you want to move again and then your engine will start, but you better not plan on driving for a half hour while it comes back to life. It's not smart to shut your truck off unless you have a knipco (one of those jet engine looking heaters) to blast under the hood for the next two days or a good heated shop.
Ummm, that's 40M, not 4M, which means that each person averaged about 100K in cost, and since we all know it costs about Salary x 1.5 for a company to keep someone employed after all the bennies, extra overhead, that's about 67K.
Is that good where these people are(were) at? I dunno...
... It's a new story, and one that actually confirms that they ARE using AMD for something. The first one was saying 'don't count on it, but it might happen'.
So it's only a dupe in general topic, but if that's a true dupe, then everything that says 'New hole found in MS software' should also be a dupe.
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Great that the A8 has finally met the luxury of a truck.
I thought close to the same thing myself, since I was pretty sure there was a Dodge commercial about theirs years ago. According to TFA, this is the first as a 'factory' option. Chrysler's apparently is a dealer-install, and if you google for 'chevrolet hotspot' one of the first links is the original announcement that states theirs is a dealer accessory as well.
[...]enabling passengers to connect to the vehicle's network without affecting the battery life of their connected devices.
Can someone explain this? or is it just marketing bs? As far as I know, the battery life of the devices that are connected to some access point or router is not affected by the nature of the router. The fact it uses low power components is important for the car's battery (or fuel consumption), not for the attached device! Or am I missing something?
Did they maybe include an inverter in the option group?
-- note: I didn't read the article
Dell always had very competitive prices; but not wildly different from comparable stuff from HP and friends. Either Dell's supply chain management absolutely sucked goats through capillary tubing, or some of their competitors must have had similar slush funds to work with.
I can't speak for the likes of the acers and gateways of the world, but the likes of IBM and HP have other slush funds to draw off of.
Example, at work we run iSeries for SAP. I just talked to our team lead about the replacement to our current *DEV* system due in December. It's 300Kish, which is a scant million dollars less than the previous system, which is about the same as the prod system that will be replaced 6 months later. We are installing a $400K disk system from IBM in the next few weeks. They rebadge NetApps as 'nSeries'. Their pSeries is the same as an iSeries and a 4-way box is like 50K the way we just built one... to run TSM. I'd bet the same goes for HP with their HP-UX hardware.
Long story short, they have a high end business to supplement their income where the desktop is either low margin, or just to keep you 'IBM Blue' or whatever they call a HP shop. Dell is still Dell in the server room, affordable from top to bottom, until you get into the EMC stuff.
Mac/Apple lovers are generally loyal to the bitter end, like devoted followers of most products and can look past most faults. For someone that wants an iPhone, there is nothing else that will produce an iPhone but the real thing, and service level be damned. Besides that, the rumor mill abounds that AT&T's exclusivity is almost over.
Android users come from a more diverse population who are probably not loyal to any one thing but want good 'product' in a smart phone but have no tying factor to the platform. If all you want is what you perceive to be a good smart phone you have many options, one of which is also the iPhone. You may not even know that the next cool phone being advertised is an Android based product since they mask it pretty well. I personally have never had a cell phone I would buy the next generation of, including my Blackberry Storm, but that's a different story since work says that I shall have a blackberry of some variety.
These are not imagined or made up problems. Our DR plan is based on the theory that our corporate office has become a crater or is completely inaccessible.
In such conditions, we travel 200 miles with our box of TAPES and restore the business. In any of these times, our roads may suck and you may have to take an alternate route over roads you didn't plan on that suck worse. I've been over many miles with adequately packed servers and have often lost a disk on the road. How many times do you come across a bump or vibration that will kill a disk but a tape wouldn't care? The answer is probably really large... lets start with twice on every bridge you have to cross for example.
What do you do when you can't get back home for another copy in bad conditions? We can go back to the previous day, but you risk having dubious transaction history. Why risk it?
Note that our future plan involves high speed data lines and instant-on backups from a few hours ago, but we're a year away from that and our DR plan was hatched when a 100Mb MPLS circuit cost as much as the GDP of a small nation.
/Agree, pay for the game and whatever hardware it takes specifically for the game.
Buying the game could be analogous to paying for the gym membership and buying the Wii to building the gym. And besides, there's a fairly good chance that any random person already has a Wii.
There are also thousands of acres that nobody ever sees except for the 20 people that live there. My parents are in that area and if they weren't at the end of the grid I guarantee that they would put 20 or 30 turbines on their land on the top of a hill 10 miles from the nearest highway, and behind the huge hill right next to that highway.
Sure it is interesting. Lots of times you can't adequately simulate 'real world conditions' in an office LAN or even with consumer grade connectivity.
Example: At my job we operate a work-at-home business that transmits essentially a voip phone call from various locations of a certain restaurant chain to the worker's home over two dsl lines, but without the luxury of being able to 'redial'. The only DSL we can actually get in our office is too close to our datacenter (under 5 hops) to adequately simulate natural conditions.
We need to be able to make our solution able to cope with crappy lines and the only way to do that is by artifically generating latency. We had been using this old tech: http://www-x.antd.nist.gov/nistnet/index.html but it is unmaintained now and while it runs well, finding a suitable distro to run it on is troublesome in the event our nist box ever kills itself or should another such dismal fate befalls it. This type of thing would be much better albeit w/o the pretty gui ;)
I'll definately be looking into the tc command more, I had examined it the last time I needed the test but somebody finally located the working nist box before I could get too deep in the man page.
Are they perhaps trying to postpone the trial long enough so that the class has finished it's term and the 'defense team' has moved on to a new subject?
Great, now when their connection suddenly decides to make OpenVPN tunnels flicker at exactly 5:30 it will only take me 1 second for the tunnel to realize it's down instead of the usual 10. Or when they suddenly turn on the firewall in their PieceOfCrap modem killing all of our normal internet bound traffic, but somehow allowing ipsec tunnels to work, those tunnels will work really fast!
Sounds like a Comcraptic plan indeed!
Pick your poison: ... ... ...
Problem Exists
Possible Error
Probable Error
I'm sure you could come up with more, but those are the 'official' entries as I've heard them.
Microsoft actually makes a key change tool, although I'm sure it obeys some restrictions while the ones from don't. If you've ever had to deal with the volume licensing support folks, they can occasionally be real people and give you all sorts of tricks and such to make your life easier when dealing with license compliance.
These are unrealted topics...
The first is relating to IP packet TTL, or hopcount. That is, how many routers can this packet cross before its discarded, as OP states. This is only valid on the layer in question (3 I think) and applies only to packets. The goal here is to short circuit router loops and also bring some semblance of speed in that if a conversation gets translated to too many networks, it will simply die.
The second thing you state is an application level TTL, not at all related to the first. TTL WRT DNS is how long you'll answer questions out of your cache before you go ask the authoritative server for a new answer to the same question. I believe it also has an effect on slave DNS boxes in that they will ask the master of the zone for a full update when the TTL expires, regardless of whether or not someone is asking a question about it.
Actually it was the other way around, at least in Slashdot world the Kernel announcement came before the SCO one.
I guess we really know now who is stealing from whom.
What kind of crack are you smoking? Seriously? I'm downloading it right now with the bittorrent rpm available on pbone which was easily found on the first page of a google search for "bittorrent fedora rpm"
You may have worked in CAD a lot, but not in 3D space like Pro/E or SolidWorks. People who use these, and I know a lot of them swear by them once they learn them.
The device allows you true 3d manipulation. You use the ball by twisting, pushing/pulling to the left/right/front back, and then by lifting and depressing the entire ball/puck/whatever this thing uses. When you add a couple buttons at the fingertips around the ball you've got a hella powerful interface.
It's crazy how useful these are, I'm only a sysadmin, but after seeing one on an engineers desk I loaded up a model and began spinning it around like crazy. When you see how much time these guys spend getting something into a position so they can see something or hit a part, it shows why it's worth $600.
You get 4 directions with a mouse, you get 8 with the ball. And more buttons than you can shake a stylus at.
You actually get people? I just got a recording that I had to talk back to... read 5 numbers, it repeats them, you say go on... lather, rinse, repeat.
blech
When you run kylix wine is in the process list... what more do you have to say...
... right, pretty quiet here. Everyone here wines about the fact that Delphi sucks, which it may very well but the fact of the matter is that the latest version of Kylix was also for C++.
That being said though, kylix sucked so hard that it could bring a bowling ball through a garden hose. Something about an environment that runs wine in the background just doesn't seem right. Sure it can help you make a cross compiling app but at what cost? Mainly the fact that Borland IDEs in general are just a little bit more buggy than you come to expect now days. We're not talking VB6 on win98 buggy, where you have to save every debug because it just 'may' crash the machine, but I hardly have a day using Builder where it doesn't die at least once.
Exactly... you don't throw the Jack Daniels company in jail if minors get drunk, you book their parents for contributing
So if that is the case, then IBM should never have owned the RCU/NUMA stuff anyway, it should have been transferred to SCO at the time of the sale of Sequent to IBM. Sounds a lot like the Cisco stuff, you can buy the hardware, but you don't get a license to the software on it because that's nontransferrable.
So who's at fault now? I dunno
Right back at you, cute statement, since we're talking trucks here, keep on task. I live where it occasionally gets -20 in the winter, and you CAN start your truck, but it won't like you much for a half hour.
Your winter mix fuel stays liquid longer than you think if you get stuff that expects it to be that cold.
You HAVE to plug your engine in from the time you shut it off till you want to move again and then your engine will start, but you better not plan on driving for a half hour while it comes back to life. It's not smart to shut your truck off unless you have a knipco (one of those jet engine looking heaters) to blast under the hood for the next two days or a good heated shop.
Ummm, that's 40M, not 4M, which means that each person averaged about 100K in cost, and since we all know it costs about Salary x 1.5 for a company to keep someone employed after all the bennies, extra overhead, that's about 67K.
Is that good where these people are(were) at? I dunno...
... It's a new story, and one that actually confirms that they ARE using AMD for something. The first one was saying 'don't count on it, but it might happen'.
So it's only a dupe in general topic, but if that's a true dupe, then everything that says 'New hole found in MS software' should also be a dupe.
So does support not mean anything to anyone? That's part of the paying for the RHN subscription.