I got two of these, $25/ea last month from buy.com . One was bricked on boot (cloudengines has an obvious init coding flaw) and replaced on warrentee. Both now work fine (uptime >3 wks) with original distros (supplemented by ubuntu binaries & libs).
3W power draw (with 1 USB flashdrive). USB is the big advantage over openWRT devices along with lower powerdraw (no superfluous wifi).
First, my sympathies. I know such a situation would tear my heart out. Bonded is bonded. It ain't coming apart easily or painlessly.
Second, it might sound callous/insensitive/... but your wife needs to think about her replacement and the [separate] instructions she needs to give you and your daughters.
I _know_ this is the last thing on your mind, but failing to address this in time will lead to uncertainty and conflict down the road. A time will come... (perhaps several years away)
Finally, don't let anyone tell you "a man cannot do it". I've been a single parent (one son, one daughter) and it isn't easy, but it is do-able. Single moms do raise kids. It actually was tougher when they were younger and I knew I had to be more nurturing than is my natural style. So I was. When they got older (8+) it became progressively easier, and unlike most single moms, I had _NO_ unexpected trouble with them as teenagers. Both are in college now.
If you're a greenie, you'll like this rah-rah study. Maybe you need some re-energization.
However, if you're not, maybe you'd like to know exactly _how_ true numbers have been distorted:
Dollar-wise, the biggest distortion is to consider road maintenence and building as a subsidy. This is slippery, since the substantial fuel taxes were justified and accepted by the voters on the basis they would pay for roads. Most places, the road funds are in surplus and contribute to general revenue, not draw from it.
Another large item in the US, but totally unaccounted is the oxygenated gasoline regulations. In many areas, the (obsolete and ineffective) legal requirement is for gasoline to contain 2% oxygen, earlier met with MTBE (which doesn't biodecompose fast enough) and now met with ethanol. In addition to the $1.50/gal direct subsidy, this legal requirement puts a demand floor under deathanol. How much is it worth? Who knows, but probably a large fraction of the direct subsidy.
Accounting for electricity is tough -- renewables use the same grid, and so anything is common. But renewables have poor reliability characteristics, so regs like equal buy/sell price actually are an uncounted subsidy. They certainly require more standby generation.
If a pool of pre-erased blocks is a good idea, then just turn on one of the fs "secure" options that erases deleted blocks rather than simply marking them unavailable.
I thought TRIM was more about telling the flash controller that nearby blocks were trash so they did not need to be read before an infill write. With matching flash and fs.blocksize, read-before-write is not necessary.
TRIM just seems to be yet another abstruse abstraction layer. Why not just allow filesystems (HPFS, UFS, ext[234]) to have large blocksizes?
Jes, I know the Intel MMU pages are either 4k or 4M. And people like "saving disk" since on average half a blocksize is wasted per file. But 4k is a tiny blocksize, set IIRC for newspools that few use. It only wastes 10 MB on a 5,000 file/dir system. That is not enough!
A 128 kB blocksize to match the hardware bs would "waste" a more reasonable 320 MB. Only 1% of the minimum 32 GB SSD.
Using a sail (airfoil/wing) to go faster than the wind is nothing new. All you need is low drag and a quartering wind (~4 or 8 o'clock). Dead aft does _not_ work. Iceboats reach ~4x windspeed, I believe some catamarins and windsurfers can exceed windspeed even in water.
It is all about apparent wind: as you start up on a tack known to sailors as a broad reach, and you accelerate, the apparent wind shift foreward and you trim your sails to go onto a beam reach. That accelerates further and you trim your sails further (closer to centerline) onto a close reach. Then maybe further to close hauled.
These ain't square riggers, boys! Look at it another way -- when beating (going upwind), you are going faster than the wind because you are going in a net negative direction wrt the wind.
The same concepts can apply with vertical turbines, windmills and power extraction devices. The device merely need to extract energy to cover the drag losses. Again, some lateral wind direction is needed.
Being done in Germany, I expect they simulated the German fleet, ~70% diesel. Even more savings are possible on a ~90% gasoline fleet like the US because gasoline engines have very high idle fuel consumption (0.5 L/L/h) versus diesel engines (0.1 L/L/h). So fuel losses because/while stopped are much more significant.
Both gasoline and diesel have the same braking losses proportional to GVW. Hybrids do not so long as you can stay below their regenerative braking power limit (not easy in traffic). For reacceleration, gasoline engines are not that bad v. diesel -- 230 vs 220 g/kWh near best efficiency points.
Repair work is _not_ "Click Here" or otherwise for n00bs.
If the USB isn't being read right, first check the hardware -- look at the output of `dmesg` under Ubuntu or other Linux. At the bottom there should be recent USB event entries.
Presuming the USB interface isn't fried (no entries), then check the master boot record (MBR) with `fdisk/dev/wherever`. All the USB keys I have seen emulate hard-disks and have the MBR. Quite possibly it has gotten messed up by a MS-Windows virus, improper disconnect or other. Without a correct MBR or superfloppy sig, no OS can interpret the data on the disk.
You can certainly reformat the filesystem once the MBR is fixed, but avoid totally replacing the MBR or otherwise repartitioning unless you know all about flash erase blocksizes and alignment. Ty T'so has a nice discussion for SSD here.
There is [organizationally-dependant almost] as much variation in bosses as there is in workers. However, the things you might find interesting or bothersome in a co-worker change emphasis in a boss.
Two important vectors in a boss are how much are they concerned about pleasing their superiors and how much are they concerned with helping/protecting their people. Look-up versus look-down. They should not be mutually exclusive, but sometimes are.
How you deal with a boss needs to consider who _they_ are, particularly where they are on the look-up and look-down scales.
Well, the iPhone OS software _is_ a monopoly, even if government granted. Most of the anti-trust laws do not concern forming a monopoly, but rather limit extending it. Monopolies are legal. Abusing them is not.
But the definition of monopolist under US law is much more than high market share. The general test is that of pricing power -- if they changed prices, would others follow? Quite possibly in the smartphone market. That makes them a monopolist, there can even be many in a market. All that happens is they must each behave! and particularly not work to extend their monopolies up/downstream.
Of course developers can code in whatever suits their fancy. Like that flash-in-the-pan or the proven stalwart, FORTRAN.
But there is no guarantee it will run -- even in the unlikely event it is bugfree. The device owner many have chosen an OS that has security features to prevent bugfests from running.
A bigger question is whether Apple prevents other OSes from running. That might be an illegal extention of monopoly power.
The attempted sales price (U$0.15/machine, would presumably be negotiated down 0.10-0.12) is ~100x less than users would pay to not be infected, and about 1000x less than it will take to remove the malware. Any person who buys and uses the botnet will generate similar economics.
This is an obvious clear loss to humanity -- the crooks gain _very_ much less than the damage they cause. A negative sum game.
The same might be said of Goldman-Sachs: even without the front-running and counter-dealing, they mispriced risk for short-term gain. They and their ilk (GS was probably one of the least-bad) caused much damage (more to come) without net gain. Their deals were at best zero-sum minus their hefty fees but with huge amounts of hidden risk (which comes home to roost).
So they convicted the nasty BOfH even though the nice city managers slipped up and did something they must not do. Feh! I don't think I trust American courts nor juries.
The real effect of this case is costs. Everyone, particularly those with prosecutors on staff and even moreso those with BMfH will have to pay more to cover this "no-win" risk. I foresee a bunch of IT admin turnover as people Vote with their feet.
Thank you for the clarification. This makes much more sense. Most CEOs are careful about foot-in-mouth disease.
With the [odd] evolution of "expectation of privacy" on the internet, it might very well be that "The Govt" can persecute someone, but not sucessfully prosecute ("fruit of the poisoned vine").
Oh dear, I wish he hadn't said that. I hope he does too. Even quoted a bit out of context (it was possibly a flip tagline), when you direct activities at the biggest datalogger around and have capabilities that most people regard as extremely penetrating, you just do not say anything that might scare people. Bad for business.
Many people do not understand why privacy is a right. As he says "Why worry if you have nothing to hide?" It is not from nothing: One word answer: PREJUDICE. Privacy is basically a right of self defense against prejudice (and malice too, for that matter). We all have good reason to be concerned about the impression we make upon others since they can often make arbitrary decisions that affect our interests.
Of course others have a right to relevant information, but we have a right to control how much beyond we choose to present, and to whom. We do have a right to be treated as individuals. Not products of some correlation -- statistics is _descriptive_, not prescriptive.
ARM has a completely different business model from Intel, AMD and other CPU/GPU manufacturers.
It takes licencing to the max. ARM makes few [no] CPUs anymore and production (and some development) is _licenced_ to others. Including Marvell who was once part of Intel! So they had to work out anti-trust.
The real point will be listening for screaming from the licencees. Otherwise, this looks pretty benign. In fact, the technology flow may be the opposite direction -- instead of Apple restricting ARM, AppleTech might flow to ARM. Licences are often written that way -- the licensor cannot withhold development arbitrarily.
Agreed. Isn't there another element to prove? That the askers had a right to the passwds? There is more than reasonable doubt they did not.
This looks much more like a case of false arrest and malicious prosecution. Childs got under someone powerful's skin (congrats&condolensces!) He has suffered serious damages 500k$ (bailbond) + lawyers (500k$?) plus lost earnings . I foresee a multi 10M$ lawsuit once Childs is acquitted. And given the venom of the City's persuit, they will not settle but get hammered by a verdict they will appeal ad nauseam.
TFA just doesn't read right -- if the iPads have dual Power CPUs, why hobble the machine with emulation that is later removed to give the fantastic jump? New products don't succeed that way.
If the iPads have dual PPCs, then their OS & some key apps would be written for it. Along with an emulator for the [many] iPhone Apps which would probably run noticably slower than on iPhone/iTouch. A dual CPU is _not_ going to cover for ~10x emulation slowdown.
According to the songbird wiki, it is licenced GPL. Even so, they can certainly stop development for Linux and continue it for MS-Win/Mac. They're perfectly entitled to decide where they put their development efforts. (And with bloat, they need it) But they'll have to release the source from these developments to whomever gets binaries and allow them (or others) to port the changes to Linux.
It will be interesting if they try to keep anything secret. If they have taken in any community code/patches, the code is no longer theirs to relicence. Even if they have not, users have adopted Songbird partly on the basis of it being GPL, this gives them standing to sue that derivative works also must get source released. Which Songbird has primised anyways.
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3W power draw (with 1 USB flashdrive). USB is the big advantage over openWRT devices along with lower powerdraw (no superfluous wifi).
First, my sympathies. I know such a situation would tear my heart out. Bonded is bonded. It ain't coming apart easily or painlessly.
Second, it might sound callous/insensitive/... but your wife needs to think about her replacement and the [separate] instructions she needs to give you and your daughters.
I _know_ this is the last thing on your mind, but failing to address this in time will lead to uncertainty and conflict down the road. A time will come ... (perhaps several years away)
Finally, don't let anyone tell you "a man cannot do it". I've been a single parent (one son, one daughter) and it isn't easy, but it is do-able. Single moms do raise kids. It actually was tougher when they were younger and I knew I had to be more nurturing than is my natural style. So I was. When they got older (8+) it became progressively easier, and unlike most single moms, I had _NO_ unexpected trouble with them as teenagers. Both are in college now.
Just how is this "gorilla glass" any different from somewhat common borosilicate glass (Pyrex and other TMs)?
Borosilicate is very nice stuff. Is "gorilla glass" just another tradename?
If you're a greenie, you'll like this rah-rah study. Maybe you need some re-energization.
However, if you're not, maybe you'd like to know exactly _how_ true numbers have been distorted:
Dollar-wise, the biggest distortion is to consider road maintenence and building as a subsidy. This is slippery, since the substantial fuel taxes were justified and accepted by the voters on the basis they would pay for roads. Most places, the road funds are in surplus and contribute to general revenue, not draw from it.
Another large item in the US, but totally unaccounted is the oxygenated gasoline regulations. In many areas, the (obsolete and ineffective) legal requirement is for gasoline to contain 2% oxygen, earlier met with MTBE (which doesn't biodecompose fast enough) and now met with ethanol. In addition to the $1.50/gal direct subsidy, this legal requirement puts a demand floor under deathanol. How much is it worth? Who knows, but probably a large fraction of the direct subsidy.
Accounting for electricity is tough -- renewables use the same grid, and so anything is common. But renewables have poor reliability characteristics, so regs like equal buy/sell price actually are an uncounted subsidy. They certainly require more standby generation.
If a pool of pre-erased blocks is a good idea, then just turn on one of the fs "secure" options that erases deleted blocks rather than simply marking them unavailable.
I thought TRIM was more about telling the flash controller that nearby blocks were trash so they did not need to be read before an infill write. With matching flash and fs.blocksize, read-before-write is not necessary.
I need MS-Windows like a need a hole in my RAM. Which it leaks :)
Jes, I know the Intel MMU pages are either 4k or 4M. And people like "saving disk" since on average half a blocksize is wasted per file. But 4k is a tiny blocksize, set IIRC for newspools that few use. It only wastes 10 MB on a 5,000 file/dir system. That is not enough!
A 128 kB blocksize to match the hardware bs would "waste" a more reasonable 320 MB. Only 1% of the minimum 32 GB SSD.
Normally western counterespionage groups are very reluctant to charge anyone because the trials will leak their methods to their adversaries.
So the FBI would only bring charges this fluffy for some other reason. What are we being distracted from?
Using a sail (airfoil/wing) to go faster than the wind is nothing new. All you need is low drag and a quartering wind (~4 or 8 o'clock). Dead aft does _not_ work. Iceboats reach ~4x windspeed, I believe some catamarins and windsurfers can exceed windspeed even in water.
It is all about apparent wind: as you start up on a tack known to sailors as a broad reach, and you accelerate, the apparent wind shift foreward and you trim your sails to go onto a beam reach. That accelerates further and you trim your sails further (closer to centerline) onto a close reach. Then maybe further to close hauled.
These ain't square riggers, boys! Look at it another way -- when beating (going upwind), you are going faster than the wind because you are going in a net negative direction wrt the wind.
The same concepts can apply with vertical turbines, windmills and power extraction devices. The device merely need to extract energy to cover the drag losses. Again, some lateral wind direction is needed.
Being done in Germany, I expect they simulated the German fleet, ~70% diesel. Even more savings are possible on a ~90% gasoline fleet like the US because gasoline engines have very high idle fuel consumption (0.5 L/L/h) versus diesel engines (0.1 L/L/h). So fuel losses because/while stopped are much more significant.
Both gasoline and diesel have the same braking losses proportional to GVW. Hybrids do not so long as you can stay below their regenerative braking power limit (not easy in traffic). For reacceleration, gasoline engines are not that bad v. diesel -- 230 vs 220 g/kWh near best efficiency points.
Repair work is _not_ "Click Here" or otherwise for n00bs.
If the USB isn't being read right, first check the hardware -- look at the output of `dmesg` under Ubuntu or other Linux. At the bottom there should be recent USB event entries.
Presuming the USB interface isn't fried (no entries), then check the master boot record (MBR) with `fdisk /dev/wherever`. All the USB keys I have seen emulate hard-disks and have the MBR. Quite possibly it has gotten messed up by a MS-Windows virus, improper disconnect or other. Without a correct MBR or superfloppy sig, no OS can interpret the data on the disk.
You can certainly reformat the filesystem once the MBR is fixed, but avoid totally replacing the MBR or otherwise repartitioning unless you know all about flash erase blocksizes and alignment. Ty T'so has a nice discussion for SSD here.
There is [organizationally-dependant almost] as much variation in bosses as there is in workers. However, the things you might find interesting or bothersome in a co-worker change emphasis in a boss.
Two important vectors in a boss are how much are they concerned about pleasing their superiors and how much are they concerned with helping/protecting their people. Look-up versus look-down. They should not be mutually exclusive, but sometimes are.
How you deal with a boss needs to consider who _they_ are, particularly where they are on the look-up and look-down scales.
ADA is good, but I want FORTH & APL !
But the definition of monopolist under US law is much more than high market share. The general test is that of pricing power -- if they changed prices, would others follow? Quite possibly in the smartphone market. That makes them a monopolist, there can even be many in a market. All that happens is they must each behave! and particularly not work to extend their monopolies up/downstream.
Of course developers can code in whatever suits their fancy. Like that flash-in-the-pan or the proven stalwart, FORTRAN.
But there is no guarantee it will run -- even in the unlikely event it is bugfree. The device owner many have chosen an OS that has security features to prevent bugfests from running.
A bigger question is whether Apple prevents other OSes from running. That might be an illegal extention of monopoly power.
The attempted sales price (U$0.15/machine, would presumably be negotiated down 0.10-0.12) is ~100x less than users would pay to not be infected, and about 1000x less than it will take to remove the malware. Any person who buys and uses the botnet will generate similar economics.
This is an obvious clear loss to humanity -- the crooks gain _very_ much less than the damage they cause. A negative sum game.
The same might be said of Goldman-Sachs: even without the front-running and counter-dealing, they mispriced risk for short-term gain. They and their ilk (GS was probably one of the least-bad) caused much damage (more to come) without net gain. Their deals were at best zero-sum minus their hefty fees but with huge amounts of hidden risk (which comes home to roost).
So they convicted the nasty BOfH even though the nice city managers slipped up and did something they must not do. Feh! I don't think I trust American courts nor juries.
The real effect of this case is costs. Everyone, particularly those with prosecutors on staff and even moreso those with BMfH will have to pay more to cover this "no-win" risk. I foresee a bunch of IT admin turnover as people Vote with their feet.
A little coarse but well, McD shouldn't either. Bad for growth and they might stampede.
With the [odd] evolution of "expectation of privacy" on the internet, it might very well be that "The Govt" can persecute someone, but not sucessfully prosecute ("fruit of the poisoned vine").
Oh dear, I wish he hadn't said that. I hope he does too. Even quoted a bit out of context (it was possibly a flip tagline), when you direct activities at the biggest datalogger around and have capabilities that most people regard as extremely penetrating, you just do not say anything that might scare people. Bad for business.
Many people do not understand why privacy is a right. As he says "Why worry if you have nothing to hide?" It is not from nothing: One word answer: PREJUDICE. Privacy is basically a right of self defense against prejudice (and malice too, for that matter). We all have good reason to be concerned about the impression we make upon others since they can often make arbitrary decisions that affect our interests.
Of course others have a right to relevant information, but we have a right to control how much beyond we choose to present, and to whom. We do have a right to be treated as individuals. Not products of some correlation -- statistics is _descriptive_, not prescriptive.
ARM has a completely different business model from Intel, AMD and other CPU/GPU manufacturers.
It takes licencing to the max. ARM makes few [no] CPUs anymore and production (and some development) is _licenced_ to others. Including Marvell who was once part of Intel! So they had to work out anti-trust.
The real point will be listening for screaming from the licencees. Otherwise, this looks pretty benign. In fact, the technology flow may be the opposite direction -- instead of Apple restricting ARM, AppleTech might flow to ARM. Licences are often written that way -- the licensor cannot withhold development arbitrarily.
Agreed. Isn't there another element to prove? That the askers had a right to the passwds? There is more than reasonable doubt they did not.
This looks much more like a case of false arrest and malicious prosecution. Childs got under someone powerful's skin (congrats&condolensces!) He has suffered serious damages 500k$ (bailbond) + lawyers (500k$?) plus lost earnings . I foresee a multi 10M$ lawsuit once Childs is acquitted. And given the venom of the City's persuit, they will not settle but get hammered by a verdict they will appeal ad nauseam.
TFA just doesn't read right -- if the iPads have dual Power CPUs, why hobble the machine with emulation that is later removed to give the fantastic jump? New products don't succeed that way.
If the iPads have dual PPCs, then their OS & some key apps would be written for it. Along with an emulator for the [many] iPhone Apps which would probably run noticably slower than on iPhone/iTouch. A dual CPU is _not_ going to cover for ~10x emulation slowdown.
According to the songbird wiki, it is licenced GPL. Even so, they can certainly stop development for Linux and continue it for MS-Win/Mac. They're perfectly entitled to decide where they put their development efforts. (And with bloat, they need it) But they'll have to release the source from these developments to whomever gets binaries and allow them (or others) to port the changes to Linux.
It will be interesting if they try to keep anything secret. If they have taken in any community code/patches, the code is no longer theirs to relicence. Even if they have not, users have adopted Songbird partly on the basis of it being GPL, this gives them standing to sue that derivative works also must get source released. Which Songbird has primised anyways.