When possible you could also combine your commute with some excersise. Buy a proper bicycle and cycle the first or last part you'd otherwise do by bus. The advantage is that you'll get more exercise while losing less time, because at least some of that part was lost travel time anyway.
But ofcourse this only works when the route between your house and your work is suitable.
Also, it is not depriving anyone of his freedom of speech, just because Wikimedia doesn't want to publish something doesn't mean you are not still just as free to speak about it as before. Not to mention the fact that freedom of speech is intended to make sure that everybody is able to voice his opinion (and new != opnion) and to make sure everybody is able to check the actions of their government (which doesn't seem to be involved).
Besides, doesn't freedom of speech also mean you're allowed to choose not to say certain things?
And last but not least, the news was not hidden or blocked, it was delayed by 7 months, which of course is an extremely long delay, but it doesn't look like anyone seriously wanted to make sure we'd never know about it.
The graph is correct in starting at 0, but claming to visualize performance per dollar it stail fails because the axes aren't scaled properly.
Their own remark about the graph is "To oversimplify slightly, the best CPU values tend to be located closer to the top and left edges of the plot."
Yet the plot the 0-250% performance on the same space as the $0-$1000 price. This leaves the i7-920, closer to the top-left corner then the baseline X2-6400+, suggesting that (nearly) twice the performance for (nearly) three times the money is somehow more performance per dollar. It also makes the i7-975 look an acceptable option instead of ten times the price for not even three times the performance.
The scale should have been comparable, twice the price and twice the performance should cover the same distance, not four times as much. It's a pity they failed to get this right because it's a very usefull chart otherwise (appart from all the obvious issues with determining the actual numbers).
It matters what patents exist. If it is the position of the FFMpeg authors that the patent license that Google has obtained is actually required for royalty-free distribution, then nobody in the US can redistribute FFMpeg at all.
Fixed.
The FFmpeg stance has allways been that 'they', not being in the US can happily ignore any patent issues, and that anyone in the US should figure out there patent problems on there own. It's, erm, "interesting" to see a big US company use a library which could never have been build in the US...
Or you happily virtualize it but use an actual physical partition to as the 'virtual' harddrive. I'm not entirely sure VMWare server supports this, but Workstation does, and so does VirtualBox. It saves you one filesystem layer (then add a DB able to use raw partitions and lose the other filesystem layer as well).
Just go ahead and buy one then... It's even available from Walmart. Or better yet, buy the Husqvarna Automower which actually is available in a solar power version as the GP suggested. It's been around for quite a few years also, it might actually be older then the Roomba...
That kind of car is actually build regularly by most car manufacturers. The amount of money spend on those cars is often in the same ballpark, or even more. They call it concept cars, and they generally also only explore certain aspects of cars while happily ignoring others.
Thats is not going to be your car for daily use. Minix probably isn't going to be you daily OS anytime soon either, but that no reason not to spend research money on it. The IT industry could do with some more proper research instead of just reinventing the same weels (but this type using XML and HTTP!) all the time.
Hahaha. I'm completely new to this debate (yeah, I know - what a n00b !). Has Tanenbaum ever withdrawn his arguments in the light of experience ? Has he ever thrown up his hands and said "You know, I was just plain wrong. Mea culpa." ?
No, why should he? Because Linux is more popular then minix? I'd guess most people here should start sending Mea Culpa's to Microsoft...
Instead of a fancy web solutions, you could use the script and scriptreplay commands on each system. Do whatever you need to do once on 1 system but record that using script. After that replay the scripts on each of the other systems. You could either manually or automatically log on to each system and start the replay or you could set up a cron job which fetches and replays the script you publish somewhere.
Not very fancy, but it will get the job done, and it will work for more than just updates, you could also use it to e.g. changes setting or add packages. Or basically anything else you can do from a shell in a repeatable way.
Check man 1 script and man 1 scriptreplay for details.
Linux is perfectly capable of asking for a root password in single-user mode (the default in sensible distibutions).
Linux is also perfectly capable of ignoring ctrl+alt+del keystrokes, so you might not even be able to reboot with just access to the keyboard. Actually, there doesn't even need to be a single usermode at all.
So no, access to the keyboard doesn't have to be enough to do anything. Physical access to the machine is a different story, although there is still stuff you can do in that case, to at least make it harder to compromise the system (encrypted disks for example).
Indeed, the potential this has to cross-infect VM is the biggest issue here. It's more then just another way to hide a rootkit, it totally breaks all that added security you where supposed to get through virtualization.
Oh, and it makes running a honeypot on a DQ35 system an extremly bad^H^H^Hinteresting idea;)
Which ofcourse isn't really an option anymore when your talking about a server which is not constantly being monitored by someone close enough to hit the button or for any site with more the a few servers.
It's fine however as boot disk containing static data. You know, the kind of stuff you'd restore from a disk image anyway. If you want fast booting servers, or something to serve your static data really fast this might be an option.
You're probably spot on. But why on earth is this considered to be news on Slashdot? It's not like the whole high speed, high delay problems with tcp are anything new.
They use the public key in the legitimate certificate to hide this "garbage". Consequentially the legitimate certificate is non-functional because the key in the certificate isn't an actual public key to which they know they private key.
So there is another check which would prevent this attack. The CA should verify the public key passed on to them, it would be a lot harder to create a request which would cause a collision. It seems to make sense to check in some way that the public key you are signing does indeed match a private key owned by the entity you are signing it for.
They did, but they did that in their very own fsf way. From the blog post:
We asked them to notify customers about previous violations and inform them about how they can now obtain complete source code; they have refused to do this, along with the other reasonable demands we have made to consider this case settled.
I'm not 100% sure how what to read into this, but it sounds like they expected Cisco to contact each owner of a violating Linksys device. That's just totally impossible, these are consumer devices, there is no way Cisco is going to find out where they ended up. The only way to reach a reasonable percentage of these customers would be a big worldwide 'We, Cisco, are copyright violating bastards' advertising campain. I can understand how they would not like that idea either. And if they other demands where just a 'reasonable' I can understand why there was no settelment.
Still, it seems they kept violating the GPL even after it was explained to them several times. That would mean they knowingly violated the GPL, which perfectly warrents a lawsuit. After 5 years of talking there is no such thing as an honest mistake anymore.
"You are an enabler, you enable people to avoid RTFA:D"
For which we thank you
Because the articles, this one is no exception, would provide the same and more information using far less text. Actually reading the article is a highly inefficient way of wasting time. It's over before you know it, which obviously not the point of wasting time.
If we wanted quick, condensed, reliable information we won't reading slashdot. And yes, this comment could have been just as pointless with far less text.
The project I'm currently working on has taken ~12 man years, and we're just getting started. And that's basically an extension to a range of products that to quite a few livetimes to build. Regardless of the need for different skils working together (which is indeed really important), there is no way you are going to build any significant piece of software on your own. And certainly not if you want to be done before it is outdated.
Sorry but Programming is HARD. you gotta pay a lot for a good programmer. That will not change.
Ah, another thing that will not change. I love have these just come and go...
Salaries are a simple matter of supply and demand. If the supply of good programmers goes up the salaries will go down. It will be a while before there will be plenty off good programmers, but it will change.
Press 12, en/disable Javascript, Java, Plugins, Sound etc. globally, or choose 'Edit site preferences' to change the setting for just the current website...
I will never go back to a browser without mouse gestures. No other browser feature affected my user experience as much as that one. Not even tabs (but perhaps that's because I've often used a separate virtual desktop for the webbrowser).
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When possible you could also combine your commute with some excersise. Buy a proper bicycle and cycle the first or last part you'd otherwise do by bus. The advantage is that you'll get more exercise while losing less time, because at least some of that part was lost travel time anyway.
But ofcourse this only works when the route between your house and your work is suitable.
That basically settles it for me - I won't buy a sony product until things like this stops.
You seriously mean you where still buying stuff from Sony? They've bean in the bussiness and 'total control' for quite a while now...
Better yet, when he retired from his career as a fraud he managed to secure himself of free breakfast, lunch and dinner for the rest of his life.
Also, it is not depriving anyone of his freedom of speech, just because Wikimedia doesn't want to publish something doesn't mean you are not still just as free to speak about it as before. Not to mention the fact that freedom of speech is intended to make sure that everybody is able to voice his opinion (and new != opnion) and to make sure everybody is able to check the actions of their government (which doesn't seem to be involved).
Besides, doesn't freedom of speech also mean you're allowed to choose not to say certain things?
And last but not least, the news was not hidden or blocked, it was delayed by 7 months, which of course is an extremely long delay, but it doesn't look like anyone seriously wanted to make sure we'd never know about it.
The graph is correct in starting at 0, but claming to visualize performance per dollar it stail fails because the axes aren't scaled properly.
Their own remark about the graph is "To oversimplify slightly, the best CPU values tend to be located closer to the top and left edges of the plot."
Yet the plot the 0-250% performance on the same space as the $0-$1000 price. This leaves the i7-920, closer to the top-left corner then the baseline X2-6400+, suggesting that (nearly) twice the performance for (nearly) three times the money is somehow more performance per dollar. It also makes the i7-975 look an acceptable option instead of ten times the price for not even three times the performance.
The scale should have been comparable, twice the price and twice the performance should cover the same distance, not four times as much. It's a pity they failed to get this right because it's a very usefull chart otherwise (appart from all the obvious issues with determining the actual numbers).
It matters what patents exist. If it is the position of the FFMpeg authors that the patent license that Google has obtained is actually required for royalty-free distribution, then nobody in the US can redistribute FFMpeg at all.
Fixed.
The FFmpeg stance has allways been that 'they', not being in the US can happily ignore any patent issues, and that anyone in the US should figure out there patent problems on there own. It's, erm, "interesting" to see a big US company use a library which could never have been build in the US...
Or you happily virtualize it but use an actual physical partition to as the 'virtual' harddrive. I'm not entirely sure VMWare server supports this, but Workstation does, and so does VirtualBox. It saves you one filesystem layer (then add a DB able to use raw partitions and lose the other filesystem layer as well).
Hmm.. Like a Roomba for your lawn. I'd buy one
Just go ahead and buy one then... It's even available from Walmart.
Or better yet, buy the Husqvarna Automower which actually is available in a solar power version as the GP suggested. It's been around for quite a few years also, it might actually be older then the Roomba...
That kind of car is actually build regularly by most car manufacturers. The amount of money spend on those cars is often in the same ballpark, or even more. They call it concept cars, and they generally also only explore certain aspects of cars while happily ignoring others.
Thats is not going to be your car for daily use. Minix probably isn't going to be you daily OS anytime soon either, but that no reason not to spend research money on it. The IT industry could do with some more proper research instead of just reinventing the same weels (but this type using XML and HTTP!) all the time.
Hahaha. I'm completely new to this debate (yeah, I know - what a n00b !). Has Tanenbaum ever withdrawn his arguments in the light of experience ? Has he ever thrown up his hands and said "You know, I was just plain wrong. Mea culpa." ?
No, why should he? Because Linux is more popular then minix? I'd guess most people here should start sending Mea Culpa's to Microsoft...
Instead of a fancy web solutions, you could use the script and scriptreplay commands on each system. Do whatever you need to do once on 1 system but record that using script. After that replay the scripts on each of the other systems. You could either manually or automatically log on to each system and start the replay or you could set up a cron job which fetches and replays the script you publish somewhere.
Not very fancy, but it will get the job done, and it will work for more than just updates, you could also use it to e.g. changes setting or add packages. Or basically anything else you can do from a shell in a repeatable way.
Check man 1 script and man 1 scriptreplay for details.
Linux is perfectly capable of asking for a root password in single-user mode (the default in sensible distibutions).
Linux is also perfectly capable of ignoring ctrl+alt+del keystrokes, so you might not even be able to reboot with just access to the keyboard. Actually, there doesn't even need to be a single usermode at all.
So no, access to the keyboard doesn't have to be enough to do anything. Physical access to the machine is a different story, although there is still stuff you can do in that case, to at least make it harder to compromise the system (encrypted disks for example).
Indeed, the potential this has to cross-infect VM is the biggest issue here. It's more then just another way to hide a rootkit, it totally breaks all that added security you where supposed to get through virtualization. Oh, and it makes running a honeypot on a DQ35 system an extremly bad^H^H^Hinteresting idea ;)
Which ofcourse isn't really an option anymore when your talking about a server which is not constantly being monitored by someone close enough to hit the button or for any site with more the a few servers.
It's fine however as boot disk containing static data. You know, the kind of stuff you'd restore from a disk image anyway. If you want fast booting servers, or something to serve your static data really fast this might be an option.
You're probably spot on. But why on earth is this considered to be news on Slashdot? It's not like the whole high speed, high delay problems with tcp are anything new.
Can you explain the logic behind that???
No...
Who needs DNS when your IP can be 2001:1234::DEAD:BEEF?
They use the public key in the legitimate certificate to hide this "garbage". Consequentially the legitimate certificate is non-functional because the key in the certificate isn't an actual public key to which they know they private key.
So there is another check which would prevent this attack. The CA should verify the public key passed on to them, it would be a lot harder to create a request which would cause a collision. It seems to make sense to check in some way that the public key you are signing does indeed match a private key owned by the entity you are signing it for.
We asked them to notify customers about previous violations and inform them about how they can now obtain complete source code; they have refused to do this, along with the other reasonable demands we have made to consider this case settled.
I'm not 100% sure how what to read into this, but it sounds like they expected Cisco to contact each owner of a violating Linksys device. That's just totally impossible, these are consumer devices, there is no way Cisco is going to find out where they ended up. The only way to reach a reasonable percentage of these customers would be a big worldwide 'We, Cisco, are copyright violating bastards' advertising campain. I can understand how they would not like that idea either. And if they other demands where just a 'reasonable' I can understand why there was no settelment.
Still, it seems they kept violating the GPL even after it was explained to them several times. That would mean they knowingly violated the GPL, which perfectly warrents a lawsuit. After 5 years of talking there is no such thing as an honest mistake anymore.
"You are an enabler, you enable people to avoid RTFA :D"
For which we thank you
Because the articles, this one is no exception, would provide the same and more information using far less text. Actually reading the article is a highly inefficient way of wasting time. It's over before you know it, which obviously not the point of wasting time.
If we wanted quick, condensed, reliable information we won't reading slashdot. And yes, this comment could have been just as pointless with far less text.
The project I'm currently working on has taken ~12 man years, and we're just getting started. And that's basically an extension to a range of products that to quite a few livetimes to build.
Regardless of the need for different skils working together (which is indeed really important), there is no way you are going to build any significant piece of software on your own. And certainly not if you want to be done before it is outdated.
Sorry but Programming is HARD. you gotta pay a lot for a good programmer. That will not change.
Ah, another thing that will not change. I love have these just come and go...
Salaries are a simple matter of supply and demand. If the supply of good programmers goes up the salaries will go down. It will be a while before there will be plenty off good programmers, but it will change.
That's F12 offcourse.
Press 12, en/disable Javascript, Java, Plugins, Sound etc. globally, or choose 'Edit site preferences' to change the setting for just the current website...
I will never go back to a browser without mouse gestures. No other browser feature affected my user experience as much as that one. Not even tabs (but perhaps that's because I've often used a separate virtual desktop for the webbrowser).