Of course we are. This proposal has been written to the specification of the [irrelevant] Christian right who donated loads of money to both major parties. Most in office are still on their payroll.
Theres an option to make SSH establish any subsequent connections on top of an existing one, which solves this issue for SVN. I can't remember what it was though.
The way they do filtering with NuFW is interesting - it can authorize outgoing connections based on the _application_ that is trying to create the connection, by calling back to a PAM module on the client machine. And there are rulesets depending on the logged in user group. Beats forcing everyone to use proxies.
And to clear up, by 'standard server space' they mean 4 x 12RU, they only needed to use one 12RU rack.
From reading the iTWire wire article, I thought the logical solution would be to spin-off the Planet GNOME site to a third party where the ideologies of the FSF don't reach.
Ha! In Australia its the regulation that makes the market competitive. The American's who ran our version of pre-breakup AT&T (Telstra) got very frustrated at not being able to kick their competitors off their network (a former government asset), and left.
The whole issue about an R18+ rating not existing for games in Australia is down to a single person - the Attorney General of South Australia - Michael Atkinson, refusing to sign off on it. All of his counterparts are in support of the R18+ rating.
His argument revolves around people under 18 being able to obtain the game somehow and the game making an 'impression' on them.
A fair argument to some extent (when I was in my teens not too long ago there were a few things online that made an 'impression' on me), but the lack of R18+ rating is making the problem worse.
Unfortunately, his state government seat is a very, very safe seat. If he won't budge until the next election (next year?), I hope some idiot corporation tries to lure him out of government.
Why does America, Canda, Australia, and England not want to keep wup with modern high speed broadband as defined by Japan?
In the Australian case, depending on who your suppliers are, it costs $300/megabit to haul data across the pacific ocean, then an extra $100/megabit if you are on the monopoly telco's (Tel$tra) DSL hardware, so the data limit is understandable.. Luckily in recent years ISPs have started to break the incumbent telco monopoly, lowering costs to around $200/megabit across the pacific, then $10/megabit for DSL.
Some new housing estates do have 100mbit FTTH, in the ones not cabled by the monopoly (Tel$tra), there are 100m plans that are competitive with ADSL2
The good thing about bandwidth caps here is that American style anti-neutrality doesn't fly. Sure, ISPs do unmeter access to their own hosted content (understandable), I haven't heard of deliberate throttling of third party sources, unless you deliberately chose a 'leecher' ISP..
Will the traditional flash file systems (jffs2) etc. still work when we have SSD's interfacing over SATA? USB sticks don't work with it because they 'pretend' to be a hard drive over USB, and same for the SSD's over SATA. jffs wants the flash device (MTD) interface.
Intel employee Matthew Wilcox spoke at linux.conf.au about some kernel performance improvements related to the Intel SSD drives - redundant ATA calls that have been removed, and allowing larger sector sizes under ATA 8, so maybe the authors of this article should look to a recent Linux kernel.
My mind is a bit hazy since the session was on Monday, but the video of that session should come out soon.
He noted that the community had been doing quite a bit of work on mobile Qt/KDE, and didn't rule out moving to it (or anything else), but as it stands Ubuntu Mobile will 'come to market' on various devices with GNOME.
I was at the particular session where David spoke. His comment was more along the lines that mobile GUI's were a fast moving target, and Qt may gain more momentum given Nokia acquired it and made it LGPL. (aside, Nokia is now pushing Qt for Symbian/S60 dev)
The comment regarding screen resolution is that the majority of developers haven't designed their GUI under a low res environment, and given that such resolutions are starting to appear again, some work needs to be done.
I had a 750GB drive with the same characteristics (i.e SD15 firmware) start to die, with the same AWOL on reboot symptoms. Drive was only in use for two months.
I'd wager that all Seagate 7200rpm 3.5" SATA drives bought within the past six months are affected.
They submitted a 13 page 'proposal' at the last minute while (apparently) even the smallest of the bids were throughly detailed.
I bet when each bidder had to front the 'expert panel' on the weekend the panel decided not to waste their time entertaining a 'proposal'. Being a 13-page 'proposal' the lawyers would've had no trouble finding missing bits.
Besides, the process is pretty lame. The goal was to build the exact same proposal that Telstra came out with in 2005 - $4billion AUD for FTTN(which will be obsolete in 10 years anyway), and only do FTTH in brand new developments.
Its been pointed out by the head of another ISP (Internode, who I use) that Telstra could simply build a FiOS-style FTTH network and keep it to themselves, with no strings attached while the older PSTN remains. Keep in mind that Telstra's entire goal throughout this process has been to decimate the competitive environment that exists. There are ADSL2+ plans which offer 100x more value than the proposed wholesale FTTN port price!
Optus is not a model 3G network, nor has its GSM network that preceded it ever been. Posts from current and former Optus employees like this one exhibit this. Back when I was on them a few years back, GPRS latency was regularly in the 600-1000ms range with regular connection timeouts*. Switched to another network, and boom, down to 300ms. My understanding is Optus runs GSM calls at half-rate bandwidth as well.. Definitely noticeable if you answer if you answer an Optus GSM (not 3G) call from a landline.
Telstra's network looks far superior in operation. (Of course, they have also priced their 3G broadband options to keep hordes of users off the network unless they don't have a choice)
* The latency sucked so much that the Treo 600 I was using at the time often froze momentarily while surfing the web with Blazer or AvantGo. Didn't happen as much when I switched networks.
The Xbox and Xbox 360 do not run Windows derivatives. They run a custom operating system which implements a portion of Win32 and DirectX API's.
See Xbox developers post.
I'll stick with my copy of GTA4 for X360. At least I _know_ what I'm getting into DRM-wise and I can sell the game to someone else without any attempt on the part of the game maker to limit my resale right.
Most internet traffic in Australia is to the US. AFAIK the amount of local traffic is 30% at best. This would be including Akamai and other CDN's.
(BTW One ISP recently cited BitTorrent as being 60% of traffic carried)
Our bandwidth caps are dictated by the price of transit to the US, which will fall once competition heats up next year.
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Of course we are. This proposal has been written to the specification of the [irrelevant] Christian right who donated loads of money to both major parties. Most in office are still on their payroll.
Theres an option to make SSH establish any subsequent connections on top of an existing one, which solves this issue for SVN. I can't remember what it was though.
Did this guy even bother writing to MS?
RTFA's
Oh, this guy must be a lawyer. Or someone representing himself.
Watch out for the video release of the presentation, including the deputy principal of the school who was there and did a bit of acting :)
Presentation details
I hear the videos will be out in just over a week
The way they do filtering with NuFW is interesting - it can authorize outgoing connections based on the _application_ that is trying to create the connection, by calling back to a PAM module on the client machine. And there are rulesets depending on the logged in user group. Beats forcing everyone to use proxies.
And to clear up, by 'standard server space' they mean 4 x 12RU, they only needed to use one 12RU rack.
From reading the iTWire wire article, I thought the logical solution would be to spin-off the Planet GNOME site to a third party where the ideologies of the FSF don't reach.
Telstra canned their DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade plan in the last week.
And cable networks only reach a certain set of the population. Spare a thought for the new estates in 'RIM port hell' which genuinely need the NBN.
Ha! In Australia its the regulation that makes the market competitive. The American's who ran our version of pre-breakup AT&T (Telstra) got very frustrated at not being able to kick their competitors off their network (a former government asset), and left.
The whole issue about an R18+ rating not existing for games in Australia is down to a single person - the Attorney General of South Australia - Michael Atkinson, refusing to sign off on it. All of his counterparts are in support of the R18+ rating.
His argument revolves around people under 18 being able to obtain the game somehow and the game making an 'impression' on them.
A fair argument to some extent (when I was in my teens not too long ago there were a few things online that made an 'impression' on me), but the lack of R18+ rating is making the problem worse.
Unfortunately, his state government seat is a very, very safe seat. If he won't budge until the next election (next year?), I hope some idiot corporation tries to lure him out of government.
Why does America, Canda, Australia, and England not want to keep wup with modern high speed broadband as defined by Japan?
In the Australian case, depending on who your suppliers are, it costs $300/megabit to haul data across the pacific ocean, then an extra $100/megabit if you are on the monopoly telco's (Tel$tra) DSL hardware, so the data limit is understandable..
Luckily in recent years ISPs have started to break the incumbent telco monopoly, lowering costs to around $200/megabit across the pacific, then $10/megabit for DSL.
Some new housing estates do have 100mbit FTTH, in the ones not cabled by the monopoly (Tel$tra), there are 100m plans that are competitive with ADSL2
The good thing about bandwidth caps here is that American style anti-neutrality doesn't fly. Sure, ISPs do unmeter access to their own hosted content (understandable), I haven't heard of deliberate throttling of third party sources, unless you deliberately chose a 'leecher' ISP..
Lets just bombard (DoS) IWF with reports for crap - Malware, legit pr0n, infact, any website, especially popular ones.
Actual CP can be reported to police, not lusers.
Will the traditional flash file systems (jffs2) etc. still work when we have SSD's interfacing over SATA? USB sticks don't work with it because they 'pretend' to be a hard drive over USB, and same for the SSD's over SATA. jffs wants the flash device (MTD) interface.
Intel employee Matthew Wilcox spoke at linux.conf.au about some kernel performance improvements related to the Intel SSD drives - redundant ATA calls that have been removed, and allowing larger sector sizes under ATA 8, so maybe the authors of this article should look to a recent Linux kernel.
... sortof. NVIDIA has a 386(!) SoC from the acquisition of ULI.
I'm skeptical about a new entrant like NVIDIA gaining any traction in the x86 market, they would have better luck pushing out their ARM chips.
So, whats the name of this institution so we can fire up the traditional internet educational vigilante mob?
My mind is a bit hazy since the session was on Monday, but the video of that session should come out soon.
He noted that the community had been doing quite a bit of work on mobile Qt/KDE, and didn't rule out moving to it (or anything else), but as it stands Ubuntu Mobile will 'come to market' on various devices with GNOME.
I was at the particular session where David spoke. His comment was more along the lines that mobile GUI's were a fast moving target, and Qt may gain more momentum given Nokia acquired it and made it LGPL. (aside, Nokia is now pushing Qt for Symbian/S60 dev)
The comment regarding screen resolution is that the majority of developers haven't designed their GUI under a low res environment, and given that such resolutions are starting to appear again, some work needs to be done.
I had a 750GB drive with the same characteristics (i.e SD15 firmware) start to die, with the same AWOL on reboot symptoms. Drive was only in use for two months.
I'd wager that all Seagate 7200rpm 3.5" SATA drives bought within the past six months are affected.
I recall hearing about Ronja on /. years ago, and they have deployed it for a wireless net.
Its common knowledge that Windows has an inefficient TCP stack as far as higher speed broadband connections go.
Unblocka and TCP Optimizer are two apps commonly mentioned on the Australian Whirlpool forums.
They submitted a 13 page 'proposal' at the last minute while (apparently) even the smallest of the bids were throughly detailed.
I bet when each bidder had to front the 'expert panel' on the weekend the panel decided not to waste their time entertaining a 'proposal'. Being a 13-page 'proposal' the lawyers would've had no trouble finding missing bits.
Besides, the process is pretty lame. The goal was to build the exact same proposal that Telstra came out with in 2005 - $4billion AUD for FTTN(which will be obsolete in 10 years anyway), and only do FTTH in brand new developments.
Its been pointed out by the head of another ISP (Internode, who I use) that Telstra could simply build a FiOS-style FTTH network and keep it to themselves, with no strings attached while the older PSTN remains. Keep in mind that Telstra's entire goal throughout this process has been to decimate the competitive environment that exists. There are ADSL2+ plans which offer 100x more value than the proposed wholesale FTTN port price!
Parent post inaccurate.
Optus is not a model 3G network, nor has its GSM
network that preceded it ever been. Posts from current and former Optus employees like this one exhibit this. Back when I was on them a few years back, GPRS latency was regularly in the 600-1000ms range with regular connection timeouts*. Switched to another network, and boom, down to 300ms. My understanding is Optus runs GSM calls at half-rate bandwidth as well.. Definitely noticeable if you answer if you answer an Optus GSM (not 3G) call from a landline.
Telstra's network looks far superior in operation. (Of course, they have also priced their 3G broadband options to keep hordes of users off the network unless they don't have a choice)
* The latency sucked so much that the Treo 600 I was using at the time often froze momentarily while surfing the web with Blazer or AvantGo. Didn't happen as much when I switched networks.
The Xbox and Xbox 360 do not run Windows derivatives. They run a custom operating system which implements a portion of Win32 and DirectX API's. See Xbox developers post.
I'll stick with my copy of GTA4 for X360. At least I _know_ what I'm getting into DRM-wise and I can sell the game to someone else without any attempt on the part of the game maker to limit my resale right.
Webminstats is probably the easiest tool I've ever used to monitor a system over the network. Should be fairly easy to add some eye-candy to it.
Most internet traffic in Australia is to the US. AFAIK the amount of local traffic is 30% at best. This would be including Akamai and other CDN's. (BTW One ISP recently cited BitTorrent as being 60% of traffic carried) Our bandwidth caps are dictated by the price of transit to the US, which will fall once competition heats up next year.
I look forward to the PvPGN folks setting Diablo III free.