I dont know what kind of extension sets or sites people are using, but with CustomizeGoogle, NoScript, and ABP, I see no evidence of massive memory usage by FF on OS X 1.4.10 on either Intel or PPC, and I haven't for any of the FF2 releases.
I suspect that there is a problem, since I assume people are not just ranting for no reason (maybe not such a good assumption on/.) but it must be linked to a particular machine configuration or browsing pattern. I don't consider myself a hardcore user, by any means, but I do my share of browing on Youtube, etc. and I leave my browsers running pretty much until an extension update needs a restart. I just have never seen this behavior. The 1.x versions leaked for me pretty consistently on OS X, but FF2 has not show the reported behavior.
Are you running APE? Any other kind of kernel extension?
Yes, it was informative. What's clear is you didn't understand the post (or read it, which is by far more common on/.) He/she wasn't saying anything about anonymity, you are correct on that part; he was saying that the Comcast automated customer-reamer can use the tracker info that is flying into their network to directly identify peers for traffic disruption if that is unencrypted.
The current Sandvine device hasn't reached the level of sophistication to scope torrents on Piratebay, connect to them, collect the peer info, and use that to block traffic, which would work, and probably will happen at some point.
"Microsoft has been keenly focused on power costs in its data center site location efforts. While 5 cents per kilowatt hour is in the midrange of average state-by-state power costs, it is lower than rates found near many major data center markets such as California (9 cents per kWh) or northern New Jersey (11 center per kWh)." Commonwealth Edison also generates around most of its power from nuclear reactors, making the location carbon friendly on that basis.
Sources of Electricity Supplied Percentage of Total for the 12 months ending September 30,2006
Biomass power 1% Coal-fired power 4% Hydro Power 0% Natural gas-fired power 0% Nuclear power 92% Oil-fired power 0% Solar power 0% Wind power 0% Other resources 0% Unknown resources purchased from other companies 3% TOTAL 100%
As noted in some other comments, Chicago also is :
(a) 3rd largest metro area in the US and largest in the Midwest (b) a major rail hub - much fiber was laid on railroad rights of way in the go-go 90s (c) notoriously corrupt, so it's likely Microsoft will receive massive tax subsidies that will reduce its costs
And I've lived in Chicago all my life and can't identify any "rolling blackouts" recently. ComEd had infrastructure problems with ancient cabling in the city proper 10-12 years ago during a very hot summer (as do many older cities). The main issue Chicagoans have with ComEd is with its recently raised residential rates, which were jacked up 20% despite record profits for ComEd and its parent, Exelon. This is thanks to the notoriously corrupt politics of the great state of Illinois as a whole.
There is no "natural economy" favoring the IT guys. I've worked as one, and I know full well the combination of poor social skills combined with high self-regard for their own intelligence/expertise that leads to an arrogant "priesthood" mentality. Additionally, because of their responsibilty for the critical data plumbing of a modern business, the fear of being responsible for failure of what are, frankly, often fragile systems causes a bunker mentality. Their customers, namely the rest of the organization, is viewed as a threat - because anything they do could trigger failure. I've often felt that in many IT groups, the preferred infrastructure for the non-IT personnel would be un unplugged PC in a locked room. In these types of groups, the organization will eventually seize any viable alternative to eliminate the IT group. After all, they are usually relatively expensive staff.
Successful IT organizations know that they are purely a service business. The most important attributes are responsiveness and reliability. If these are not present, they will not survive.
If you're going to come in AC, be ready to jump up and hit like a man. There's acres of open fanboi target in here, and you took a swing at the drapes.
As a public service, took the bait to look this over. Absolutely nothing original here, and the Facebook-like logo is being the worst kind of lame. I wouldn't quit the day job.
I use Gmail constantly - via POP. I never see the web page or the "text jabber client" whatever that is supposed to mean. It's kind of difficult to generalize, since what everyone does is assume that whatever the 20 people they know well do must be what everyone does, since by their own reference that IS "everyone".
In Brazil, Orkut IS social networking. In the Philippines, Friendster remains popular, If it works well enough, the choice of software largely devolves to whatever the group norm is for individuals. At my company, the 'standard' is Yahoo IM, but because I disliked a particular manager who used it as his substitute for interacting with employees, I popularized the use of Skype for IM in my group. This was two years ago, and the division remains to this day.
Good post. Privilege enforcement in hardware is going to be much harder to crack than various obfuscation schemes in software, which in the end are sort of like a spread-spectrum technique to reduce the signal level of your software deficiencies by spreading them out over the address space.
Not quite. Following from recent article at AppleInsider http://www.appleinsider.com/
Snapshots and Windows' Shadow Copy
Time Machine has been frequently compared to Microsoft's Shadow Copy (or Volume Snapshot Service), because both systems involve file backup. In reality, they are not really very similar at all. Microsoft uses the background Shadow Copy service to duplicate files on the same disk. Those shadow copies record a "snapshot" of the file at a given moment in time, and can be accessed by the user using Previous Versions (which shows up in the file properties viewer), or tapped into by an external network backup system. Backing up these "shadow copies" simply prevents the external backup system from running into problems trying to back up live files that may be locked by the user working on them.
The data backup features related to Shadow Copy are only useful if a Windows machine is running in an environment with a server backing them up. Shadow Copy is not in itself a backup system, although it can present a listing of duplicated files that were captured by the shadow copy service. Without a dedicated backup system, Previous Versions only shows local shadows of a file. It does not copy files to an external disk for safekeeping, and its shadow copies can't be browsed through by the user in the file system by date or by query. Shadow Copy is certainly not an easy to use consumer backup solution (nor is intended to be), which is what Time Machine expressly is.
In Windows Vista, Microsoft also tied Shadow Copy into System Restore, which allows users to roll back their entire PC software install to a previous point in time. This is not a backup system either; it's a system wide undo. System Restore is oriented around undoing the problems caused by installing a software title, a Windows software update, an unsigned hardware driver, or some other event that causes problems that need to be rolled back. It doesn't go back and find something lost from the past; it reverts the clock to a previous checkpoint and throws away the future from that point forward. System Restore is not even loosely related to Time Machine in what it does, how it does it, or why it exists.
Good post; it's clear that every new site has to expand until it subsumes all functions of the Internet to maximize the apparent valuation to any deep pocketed and preferably extremely stupid buyer (eBay, are you listening?) In the process of trying to be all thing to all people, it then loses what made it distinctive and useful in the first place.
Wow. HTF did this get mod points?? Guys says straight up he's talking out of his ass, and it gets Insightful??
1) Mac user. WTF was that tacked on comment at the end for? reality check : Mac users know what's up, which is why they use Macs. I know perfectly well what happens when I close a window.
2) And news for you, when you close a window on any platform, it releases the object resources held by that part of the application, whether or not you quit the application. And on Windows, quitting IE by closing a window also doesn't take IE out of memory, Windows caches it to make IE's startup look fast.
3) It's as valid to say that many people don't realize that if they push the power button on the computer, it doesn't actually turn it off. On many laptops, this invokes Standby or Hibernate, which doesn't clean anything up in memory.
4) My wife works in a bank. Nobody, and I mean nobody, turns off a computer. They log out, and there the computer sits, running Windows. So your "general users" are apparently "general users who turn their computers off at the end of the day"; who, I agree, most likely turn their computer off at the end of the day.
So on-topic, I do work in the tech industry, usually have my OS X laptop at around two weeks of uptime, and happily run Firefox 2 with a NoScript and AdBlock for days on end with no crashes. It does leak, and when I decide the system needs the memory I restart, which is the work of all of maybe 15 seconds.
Exactly right. Doesn't even pass a minimal common sense test - $105B/year exceeds the combined profits of the top 5 public oil producers, with combined workforces in excess of 500K people. If that much cash was being injected into the economies of the source countries of most of these cybercrime groups, you would see drastic impacts. There's no way that much money could be absorbed transparently.
The NASA story makes no mention of the fact that this is star is well-known. All they needed to do was say "tail discovered trailing the well-known star Mira".
(In any case, rather be a dipshit or even a troll than AC. Fucktard.)
What a terrible headline and linked article. Mira is a famous red supergiant, the "name-star" of the Mira-class variables. Mira is one of the largest known stars and has been known to astronomers for at least 400 years.
I'm with you, except that in fairness, the trend from 1980-2000 looks pretty much the same as the trend in the 1920-1940 data. The point being that 20 years is too short of a baseline. And in general, given that the climatological history of the planet at macro levels tends to cycle at the fastest at typical intervals of 10k-20k years (interglacials), the debate on this data set seems pretty meaningless to me. With this tiny amount of info, you can make any longterm curve fit.
To me, the clearest issue is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. There's a lot more for a lot longer than has been the case for probably millions of years, and the amount is growing, and it is pretty much agreed by all that this is due to human activity. It is also agreed generally by all that this is a greenhouse gas. The only real question is exactly how does the global system react to a forcing event like that? It seems clear to me that it is likely going to have some reaction; the simplest extrapolation is that it will raise temperatures, but there are of course myriad non-linearities.
However, to dismiss that possibility on the basis of - essentially - a belief that some cabal is creating this debate for the purpose of selling ad time seems absurd on its face.
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I dont know what kind of extension sets or sites people are using, but with CustomizeGoogle, NoScript, and ABP, I see no evidence of massive memory usage by FF on OS X 1.4.10 on either Intel or PPC, and I haven't for any of the FF2 releases.
/.) but it must be linked to a particular machine configuration or browsing pattern. I don't consider myself a hardcore user, by any means, but I do my share of browing on Youtube, etc. and I leave my browsers running pretty much until an extension update needs a restart. I just have never seen this behavior. The 1.x versions leaked for me pretty consistently on OS X, but FF2 has not show the reported behavior.
I suspect that there is a problem, since I assume people are not just ranting for no reason (maybe not such a good assumption on
Are you running APE? Any other kind of kernel extension?
Yes, it was informative. What's clear is you didn't understand the post (or read it, which is by far more common on /.) He/she wasn't saying anything about anonymity, you are correct on that part; he was saying that the Comcast automated customer-reamer can use the tracker info that is flying into their network to directly identify peers for traffic disruption if that is unencrypted.
The current Sandvine device hasn't reached the level of sophistication to scope torrents on Piratebay, connect to them, collect the peer info, and use that to block traffic, which would work, and probably will happen at some point.
From TFA:
"Microsoft has been keenly focused on power costs in its data center site location efforts. While 5 cents per kilowatt hour is in the midrange of average state-by-state power costs, it is lower than rates found near many major data center markets such as California (9 cents per kWh) or northern New Jersey (11 center per kWh)." Commonwealth Edison also generates around most of its power from nuclear reactors, making the location carbon friendly on that basis.
Sources of Electricity Supplied Percentage of Total for the 12 months ending September 30,2006
Biomass power 1%
Coal-fired power 4%
Hydro Power 0%
Natural gas-fired power 0%
Nuclear power 92%
Oil-fired power 0%
Solar power 0%
Wind power 0%
Other resources 0%
Unknown resources purchased from other companies 3%
TOTAL 100%
As noted in some other comments, Chicago also is :
(a) 3rd largest metro area in the US and largest in the Midwest
(b) a major rail hub - much fiber was laid on railroad rights of way in the go-go 90s
(c) notoriously corrupt, so it's likely Microsoft will receive massive tax subsidies that will reduce its costs
And I've lived in Chicago all my life and can't identify any "rolling blackouts" recently. ComEd had infrastructure problems with ancient cabling in the city proper 10-12 years ago during a very hot summer (as do many older cities). The main issue Chicagoans have with ComEd is with its recently raised residential rates, which were jacked up 20% despite record profits for ComEd and its parent, Exelon. This is thanks to the notoriously corrupt politics of the great state of Illinois as a whole.
Coupland. Cheers.
Agreed.
There is no "natural economy" favoring the IT guys. I've worked as one, and I know full well the combination of poor social skills combined with high self-regard for their own intelligence/expertise that leads to an arrogant "priesthood" mentality. Additionally, because of their responsibilty for the critical data plumbing of a modern business, the fear of being responsible for failure of what are, frankly, often fragile systems causes a bunker mentality. Their customers, namely the rest of the organization, is viewed as a threat - because anything they do could trigger failure. I've often felt that in many IT groups, the preferred infrastructure for the non-IT personnel would be un unplugged PC in a locked room. In these types of groups, the organization will eventually seize any viable alternative to eliminate the IT group. After all, they are usually relatively expensive staff.
Successful IT organizations know that they are purely a service business. The most important attributes are responsiveness and reliability. If these are not present, they will not survive.
NOW he feels like he's been completely wasting his time. Thanks so much.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon
Alas, you will have to discover some other law to name unto yourself.
If you're going to come in AC, be ready to jump up and hit like a man. There's acres of open fanboi target in here, and you took a swing at the drapes.
As a public service, took the bait to look this over. Absolutely nothing original here, and the Facebook-like logo is being the worst kind of lame.
I wouldn't quit the day job.
Esp. if you're a vampire. Which is pretty likely on Facebook.
Obviously :rollseyes:
I use Gmail constantly - via POP. I never see the web page or the "text jabber client" whatever that is supposed to mean. It's kind of difficult to generalize, since what everyone does is assume that whatever the 20 people they know well do must be what everyone does, since by their own reference that IS "everyone".
In Brazil, Orkut IS social networking. In the Philippines, Friendster remains popular, If it works well enough, the choice of software largely devolves to whatever the group norm is for individuals. At my company, the 'standard' is Yahoo IM, but because I disliked a particular manager who used it as his substitute for interacting with employees, I popularized the use of Skype for IM in my group. This was two years ago, and the division remains to this day.
Good post. Privilege enforcement in hardware is going to be much harder to crack than various obfuscation schemes in software, which in the end are sort of like a spread-spectrum technique to reduce the signal level of your software deficiencies by spreading them out over the address space.
Time Machine has been frequently compared to Microsoft's Shadow Copy (or Volume Snapshot Service), because both systems involve file backup. In reality, they are not really very similar at all. Microsoft uses the background Shadow Copy service to duplicate files on the same disk. Those shadow copies record a "snapshot" of the file at a given moment in time, and can be accessed by the user using Previous Versions (which shows up in the file properties viewer), or tapped into by an external network backup system. Backing up these "shadow copies" simply prevents the external backup system from running into problems trying to back up live files that may be locked by the user working on them. The data backup features related to Shadow Copy are only useful if a Windows machine is running in an environment with a server backing them up. Shadow Copy is not in itself a backup system, although it can present a listing of duplicated files that were captured by the shadow copy service. Without a dedicated backup system, Previous Versions only shows local shadows of a file. It does not copy files to an external disk for safekeeping, and its shadow copies can't be browsed through by the user in the file system by date or by query. Shadow Copy is certainly not an easy to use consumer backup solution (nor is intended to be), which is what Time Machine expressly is.
In Windows Vista, Microsoft also tied Shadow Copy into System Restore, which allows users to roll back their entire PC software install to a previous point in time. This is not a backup system either; it's a system wide undo. System Restore is oriented around undoing the problems caused by installing a software title, a Windows software update, an unsigned hardware driver, or some other event that causes problems that need to be rolled back. It doesn't go back and find something lost from the past; it reverts the clock to a previous checkpoint and throws away the future from that point forward. System Restore is not even loosely related to Time Machine in what it does, how it does it, or why it exists.
Uh, wtf are you talking about?
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http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w89/pickledpizza/facebook2.jpg
Just brilliant.
Good post; it's clear that every new site has to expand until it subsumes all functions of the Internet to maximize the apparent valuation to any deep pocketed and preferably extremely stupid buyer (eBay, are you listening?) In the process of trying to be all thing to all people, it then loses what made it distinctive and useful in the first place.
That gets AC Post O' The Month. Brilliant.
Wow. HTF did this get mod points?? Guys says straight up he's talking out of his ass, and it gets Insightful??
1) Mac user. WTF was that tacked on comment at the end for? reality check : Mac users know what's up, which is why they use Macs. I know perfectly well what happens when I close a window.
2) And news for you, when you close a window on any platform, it releases the object resources held by that part of the application, whether or not you quit the application. And on Windows, quitting IE by closing a window also doesn't take IE out of memory, Windows caches it to make IE's startup look fast.
3) It's as valid to say that many people don't realize that if they push the power button on the computer, it doesn't actually turn it off. On many laptops, this invokes Standby or Hibernate, which doesn't clean anything up in memory.
4) My wife works in a bank. Nobody, and I mean nobody, turns off a computer. They log out, and there the computer sits, running Windows. So your "general users" are apparently "general users who turn their computers off at the end of the day"; who, I agree, most likely turn their computer off at the end of the day.
So on-topic, I do work in the tech industry, usually have my OS X laptop at around two weeks of uptime, and happily run Firefox 2 with a NoScript and AdBlock for days on end with no crashes. It does leak, and when I decide the system needs the memory I restart, which is the work of all of maybe 15 seconds.
Exactly right. Doesn't even pass a minimal common sense test - $105B/year exceeds the combined profits of the top 5 public oil producers, with combined workforces in excess of 500K people. If that much cash was being injected into the economies of the source countries of most of these cybercrime groups, you would see drastic impacts. There's no way that much money could be absorbed transparently.
"That and no-one in their right mind uses emacs willingly."
:) at the end; your post is otherwise slightly sour in tone, so if it was interjected humor there it didn't come across to me.
I assume you forgot the
If you were making a serious statement, you and RMS only differ in degree.
The NASA story makes no mention of the fact that this is star is well-known. All they needed to do was say "tail discovered trailing the well-known star Mira".
(In any case, rather be a dipshit or even a troll than AC. Fucktard.)
What a terrible headline and linked article. Mira is a famous red supergiant, the "name-star" of the Mira-class variables. Mira is one of the largest known stars and has been known to astronomers for at least 400 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira
We'll see if this gets further than Woz' last hobby.
Z eus/2100-1047_3-6050677.html
http://news.com.com/Wozniak+shuts+down+Wheels+of+
I'm with you, except that in fairness, the trend from 1980-2000 looks pretty much the same as the trend in the 1920-1940 data. The point being that 20 years is too short of a baseline. And in general, given that the climatological history of the planet at macro levels tends to cycle at the fastest at typical intervals of 10k-20k years (interglacials), the debate on this data set seems pretty meaningless to me. With this tiny amount of info, you can make any longterm curve fit.
To me, the clearest issue is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. There's a lot more for a lot longer than has been the case for probably millions of years, and the amount is growing, and it is pretty much agreed by all that this is due to human activity. It is also agreed generally by all that this is a greenhouse gas. The only real question is exactly how does the global system react to a forcing event like that? It seems clear to me that it is likely going to have some reaction; the simplest extrapolation is that it will raise temperatures, but there are of course myriad non-linearities.
However, to dismiss that possibility on the basis of - essentially - a belief that some cabal is creating this debate for the purpose of selling ad time seems absurd on its face.