Since ipv6 is supposed to address many of the security issues inherent in ipv4, should there be more of an industry push to adopt it quicker? OR having many years now since ipv6 was drafted, have we learned more about the types of attacks/tactics, and therefore should ipv6 be updated. Seems like now would be the time to do it since ipv6 still has not been adopted and changes could be made without too much disruption or cost (time or money).
OK, the summary says no external licensing fees (though I don't see anywhere on the site itself that makes that claim), but then you do see this statement:
"VP6 is available for commercial licensing. Note that custom engineering services may be required to integrate VP6 into your application."
So I wonder if it's going to be one of those things where almost anything will require "custom engineering services" and they'll just get you there. Maybe they just won't publish an api doc, thereby requiring their services no matter what;)
It's a very expensive product geared towards the professional. What the RIAA would REALLY hate would be an iPod with SPDIF inputs and the ability to connect to other iPods via firewire. You could then connect your cd player directly to your iPod and then transfer directly from iPod to iPod, all without leaving the digital domain and with no lossy compression.
Not necessarily, again, in a "typical" setting where a machine is being used as a file server, the overwhelming odds are that the clients are Windoze based. So while it may be "biased", it probably better reflects reality.
..they're running SAMBA. For balance I think they should test Windows 2003 throughput of NFS...they're running SAMBA. For balance I think they should test Windows 2003 throughput of NFS.
No, not really. SAMBA is a valid requirement since in most instances the clients accessing the server will be Windoze. Any hope of "real world" testing would take this into account. The reverse is not true however, the odds of a Win2k3 server serving up a bunch of non Windoze machines is pretty slim (and pity the person who has to rely on NFS for any kind of performance).
AMD is the slut of microprocessor companies. They're making small deals left right and center, because that's the only way they have to dethrone Intel. By picking up the scraps
Say what? Name a microprocessor company that doesn't have a diverse line of semiconductor products. Hell IBM makes PPC chips, helps AMD with their production of Athlon chips, makes embedded chips, makes their own x86 clone, makes POWER chips, DACs, and lord knows what else as they're one of the largest fabs out there. Intel makes/made ethernet chips, 802.11 chips, ARM, bubble memory, x86, etc. Motorola makes chips for cell phones, embedded processors, PPC, 68k (coldfire et.al), DSP, etc. How on earth is AMD any different?
Hate to break it to the Mac-crowd... but those of us who has stuck to the open 'standard' that the ordinary* PC is has been able to do this for years
Oh really, and we all though that this was something innovative!?!
Of course we know that. No one claimed that this was something new, just something that is more novel for the Mac. Can you piece something together cheaper that'll run faster around an x86 mobo, of course, no kidding. Again, not the point. It's a hobbiest system for those who are interested in Macs. If you have no interest in Mac systems then there is nothing here that will interest you.
I'm sure this will end up being the 30th post about this but, Des Moines? I guess the Des Moines tourist board lobbied hard to get GnomeDex. It probably came down to a choice between Des Moines, Bryan Texas, and "that little town outside of Salt Lake that no one can pronounce". I guess they are offering attendees all the corn they can eat and a free plastic pig snout? Is the conference being held in the back of a general store? Cheap rates at the Motel 6 Des Moines?
Web server management, user account managment service startup, firewall managment, hardware configuration all can be configured using BASH and PERL on *Nix.
You can do basic stuff like "net start w3svc", most any part of iis can be controlled through vbscript (adding users, virtual domains, etc), I don't know if a PERL lib is available, but it certainly could be. What hardware configuration do you refer to?
Even though those utilities have been ported to Win2K, they cannot perform the same functionality on an operating system that hides 75% of it's operation from all users.
First, this is completely false. You can access a HUGE amount of the OS via any scriptable language that can do COM calls. If Win2K was so closed, it wouldn't be so damned easy to write virus's for it. Plus, the things you mentioned above (web server/firewall mgmt) have nothing to do with the OS.
Hmm, it looks like Sony is slowly, very slowly, starting to release some of the toys that they promised when they first released the memory stick interface. IIRC they were touting the ability to add functionality like tuners and radios way back then. But we've only really seen memory. Also don't forget about the Clie's, this would be a really cool addition to them as well.
Speaking of Clie, how about this, you add one of these tuners to the Clie and voila, you have a portable PVR. Of course you couldn't record too much, but if they increased the memory enough, you might be able to record that 30min show that you are missing because of that meeting or class or whatever.
I'm still not sure how this service is going to make a lot of money.
Well obviously $30mil in profit is nothing to sneeze at. Plus for Apple we're talking about an adjunct to their primary business. I know some others are talking about "replacing" the current model, but Apple would be more than happy to have a reliable $30mil coming in every year.
But one aspect you're missing is, how many more ipods are being sold because of this? How many more Mac "switchers"/converts are being created now? This is just another way for Apple to create market share for themselves by adding value to computers, taking them beyond just generic tools and making them useful for more people (other than surfing of course). Plus, it gets them in bed with the entertainment industry even more. With Steve's association with Pixar and therefore Disney, the next obvious step would be some type of video distribution. I'm not talking general purpose VOD, nope, I'm talking things like kids shows and cartoons, where the demand for high resolutions (and therefore bandwidth) isn't nearly as much as more adult fare.
So overall you can't look at this as a thing upon itself. It is merely part of the bigger picture that Apple to drawing to keep itself significant in the market. Kudos to them.
Before there was a software industry, software was effectively free from hardware manufacturers
Apples and oranges. The whole reason the software could be "given" away was that the two were sold as a package. People bought "systems" and "solutions" and a "cheap" system was six figures. Plus then the cost of software was easily subsidized by the hardware and support costs. You're referring to a completely different model and you can't compare that to the pc and current software.
But Bill Gates and the industry has become entrenched to the point that the notion of software one doesn't have to pay for seems novel.
The software industry was well entrenched even without Bill's help. Plus, one ALWAYS pays. Except for people who are working on "commercial" OSS, what do these programmers working on "other" OSS projects do to pay the bills. The vast majority of them write software that costs money. A "free" software market can't support itself, it is way to resource intensive. It has to be buoyed by something.
"And hindsight suggests that the idea of free software was more significant than any specific product."
I assume he means that the concept of "open software" is more significant than any particular open project, not that it is more significant than any particular software, period (open/free or not). If it's the latter, I'd have to disagree. Singular apps like VisiCalc, WordStar, Lotus 123, dBase, Windows, PhotoShop et al helped to create what the software industry is now, which in turn has helped to create an environment in which open software could even exist.
These wrist phones are not an attempt to "show the future" as such. They serve three purposes.
First they are tech showcases for the manufacturers. They get to show off how cool of a phone they can produce. Look how small, oooh, look at the color screens, ahhh, polyphonic ring tones and internet, geeee.
Second they are for the gadget/fashion statement crowd. These folks want the latest and greatest and they want to look cool. Utility, functionality, and ergonomics be damned.
And thirdly, and maybe most important, they bring bodies into the stores so the retailers can push their other more "mundane" wears. "Hey, lets go check out that cool wrist phone" is what they want the telcos want to hear. When you get in the door, they'll sell you that new Nokia, or that hands free kit, or that led antenna, etc.
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we stop worrying about sticking more data on CDRs and DVDs and start creating INEXPENSIVE (free) software for DVD authoring?
Get yourself a Mac my friend and your problems would be solved. Yeah yeah, Macs are expensive, yadda yadda. But this is a perfect example of the "expense" of a computer goes far beyond it's original sticker price. While Joe Blow is fretting about spending all that extra money to get the burner and software and fretting with getting everything to be happy, Joe Mac is happily burning their home movies on DVD, though Joe Blow can happily play Quake at 1Mfps while waiting.
I leave my home network open on purpose. If passerby's want to check they're email or something be my guest. I use Linux and Mac OS X I fear not the script kiddy;)
Then I hope you don't live in New Hampshire. With the burden of securing networks falling upon the network owner, and the propensity of the law to look unfavourably at those who "facilitate" illegal behaviour (think bars and party hosts in relation to drunk driving), I would think that it would very well be worth applying some amount of security, no matter how token, just to CYA.
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If we only bought computer products that worked without flaws we'd still be using typewriters right now.
Maybe I missed it but there info is pretty sparse on how they handle updates (i.e. adds/deletes/updates). Does it do two phase commit so if I'm stripping data and one of the updates fail then everything fails? If they are replicating, will they automatically update replication servers if they are down at the time of the update? If one of the databases in the RAIDb doesn't support online backups and it's backing up, what will their system do? After all, this would be the true grunt work, without these features then what they have isn't a big deal at all. Does anyone have more info?
Right now the phone will only work in travel mode when you are connected to your own companies network. The next step would be to have a vpn client embedded in the phone, this way it can be used anywhere there is a wifi signal.
Take a look at the kernel APIs, and compare them with OS/2--someone went through with a HUGE search-and-replace to change all the names in OS/2's "Control Program" library.
NT's and OS/2's api's are actually quite different, and certainly nothing as close as simply doing a search and replace. There is certainly similarities given their heritage. The OS/2 api's are more like a significantly cleaner and better thought out Win32 api (which it actually is). Just as an example, though they both offer threads and semaphores, they handle them in different ways.
(In OS/2, all those routines started with Dos... Can you see OS/2's history here?)
I hope you're not referring to the Dos prefix being linked to DOS as in MS-DOS, because if you are, then that would be incorrect. The Dos prefix simply meant that those routines are related to Disk Operating System calls and have nothing to do with DOS. Just as the Win calls have nothing to do with Windows the operating system, but the generic concept of windowing.
There's a reason why there wasn't an NT 1 or an NT 2... and why OS/2 Warp 3 and Warp 4 have internal versions of 2.3 and 2.4
Well the reason why there wasn't an NT1 or 2 is because Microsoft wanted to keep the Windows numbering consistant. Notice that there also was not an NT 3.0, it started with 3.1, which was the currently shipping version of Windows at the time. Microsoft then switched the 16bit Windows over to the year names (Windows 95) but kept the numbering on NT until Windows 2000. As for OS/2, I understood the reason for the internal numbers to be that 1.x was 16bit OS/2 and 2.x was the 32bit. That's why the OS/2 versions went from 2.0, 2.1, Warp 3, Warp 4. Also, don't forget that _NT_ was supposed to be OS/2 3.0 before the rift.
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From the site:
VIA EPIA V, 800MHz Motherboard
Regular price: $115.00
Sale price: $112.00
At savings like that, buy two, or four. Start that beowulf cluster NOW!
That's 10 years old, except, wait! The internals of Windows NT are based on VMS
NT is NOT "based" on VMS. David Cutler lead the design of both and they are sure to share similarities because of it, but one is not BASED on the other and to say that NT is some "clone" of VMS is flat wrong.
BTW--Linux is not a clone of the original 20 year-old OS. It's a MODERN Unix clone. It's based on POSIX standards which is actually quite a bit newer.
But to choose to stop your own logic with this one. POSIX is based on trying to unite SystemV with BSD! Not only that but POSIX itself was started up around 1985, still almost 20 years ago.
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Since ipv6 is supposed to address many of the security issues inherent in ipv4, should there be more of an industry push to adopt it quicker? OR having many years now since ipv6 was drafted, have we learned more about the types of attacks/tactics, and therefore should ipv6 be updated. Seems like now would be the time to do it since ipv6 still has not been adopted and changes could be made without too much disruption or cost (time or money).
OK, the summary says no external licensing fees (though I don't see anywhere on the site itself that makes that claim), but then you do see this statement:
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"VP6 is available for commercial licensing. Note that custom engineering services may be required to integrate VP6 into your application."
So I wonder if it's going to be one of those things where almost anything will require "custom engineering services" and they'll just get you there. Maybe they just won't publish an api doc, thereby requiring their services no matter what
It's a very expensive product geared towards the professional. What the RIAA would REALLY hate would be an iPod with SPDIF inputs and the ability to connect to other iPods via firewire. You could then connect your cd player directly to your iPod and then transfer directly from iPod to iPod, all without leaving the digital domain and with no lossy compression.
Couldn't life be based upon a different liquid than water?
beer
A different solid than carbon?
pizza
Not necessarily, again, in a "typical" setting where a machine is being used as a file server, the overwhelming odds are that the clients are Windoze based. So while it may be "biased", it probably better reflects reality.
..they're running SAMBA. For balance I think they should test Windows 2003 throughput of NFS...they're running SAMBA. For balance I think they should test Windows 2003 throughput of NFS.
No, not really. SAMBA is a valid requirement since in most instances the clients accessing the server will be Windoze. Any hope of "real world" testing would take this into account. The reverse is not true however, the odds of a Win2k3 server serving up a bunch of non Windoze machines is pretty slim (and pity the person who has to rely on NFS for any kind of performance).
AMD is the slut of microprocessor companies. They're making small deals left right and center, because that's the only way they have to dethrone Intel. By picking up the scraps
Say what? Name a microprocessor company that doesn't have a diverse line of semiconductor products. Hell IBM makes PPC chips, helps AMD with their production of Athlon chips, makes embedded chips, makes their own x86 clone, makes POWER chips, DACs, and lord knows what else as they're one of the largest fabs out there. Intel makes/made ethernet chips, 802.11 chips, ARM, bubble memory, x86, etc. Motorola makes chips for cell phones, embedded processors, PPC, 68k (coldfire et.al), DSP, etc. How on earth is AMD any different?
Hate to break it to the Mac-crowd... but those of us who has stuck to the open 'standard' that the ordinary* PC is has been able to do this for years
Oh really, and we all though that this was something innovative!?!
Of course we know that. No one claimed that this was something new, just something that is more novel for the Mac. Can you piece something together cheaper that'll run faster around an x86 mobo, of course, no kidding. Again, not the point. It's a hobbiest system for those who are interested in Macs. If you have no interest in Mac systems then there is nothing here that will interest you.
I'm sure this will end up being the 30th post about this but, Des Moines? I guess the Des Moines tourist board lobbied hard to get GnomeDex. It probably came down to a choice between Des Moines, Bryan Texas, and "that little town outside of Salt Lake that no one can pronounce". I guess they are offering attendees all the corn they can eat and a free plastic pig snout? Is the conference being held in the back of a general store? Cheap rates at the Motel 6 Des Moines?
Web server management, user account managment service startup, firewall managment, hardware configuration all can be configured using BASH and PERL on *Nix.
You can do basic stuff like "net start w3svc", most any part of iis can be controlled through vbscript (adding users, virtual domains, etc), I don't know if a PERL lib is available, but it certainly could be. What hardware configuration do you refer to?
Even though those utilities have been ported to Win2K, they cannot perform the same functionality on an operating system that hides 75% of it's operation from all users.
First, this is completely false. You can access a HUGE amount of the OS via any scriptable language that can do COM calls. If Win2K was so closed, it wouldn't be so damned easy to write virus's for it. Plus, the things you mentioned above (web server/firewall mgmt) have nothing to do with the OS.
Hmm, it looks like Sony is slowly, very slowly, starting to release some of the toys that they promised when they first released the memory stick interface. IIRC they were touting the ability to add functionality like tuners and radios way back then. But we've only really seen memory. Also don't forget about the Clie's, this would be a really cool addition to them as well.
Speaking of Clie, how about this, you add one of these tuners to the Clie and voila, you have a portable PVR. Of course you couldn't record too much, but if they increased the memory enough, you might be able to record that 30min show that you are missing because of that meeting or class or whatever.
I'm still not sure how this service is going to make a lot of money.
Well obviously $30mil in profit is nothing to sneeze at. Plus for Apple we're talking about an adjunct to their primary business. I know some others are talking about "replacing" the current model, but Apple would be more than happy to have a reliable $30mil coming in every year.
But one aspect you're missing is, how many more ipods are being sold because of this? How many more Mac "switchers"/converts are being created now? This is just another way for Apple to create market share for themselves by adding value to computers, taking them beyond just generic tools and making them useful for more people (other than surfing of course). Plus, it gets them in bed with the entertainment industry even more. With Steve's association with Pixar and therefore Disney, the next obvious step would be some type of video distribution. I'm not talking general purpose VOD, nope, I'm talking things like kids shows and cartoons, where the demand for high resolutions (and therefore bandwidth) isn't nearly as much as more adult fare.
So overall you can't look at this as a thing upon itself. It is merely part of the bigger picture that Apple to drawing to keep itself significant in the market. Kudos to them.
Before there was a software industry, software was effectively free from hardware manufacturers
Apples and oranges. The whole reason the software could be "given" away was that the two were sold as a package. People bought "systems" and "solutions" and a "cheap" system was six figures. Plus then the cost of software was easily subsidized by the hardware and support costs. You're referring to a completely different model and you can't compare that to the pc and current software.
But Bill Gates and the industry has become entrenched to the point that the notion of software one doesn't have to pay for seems novel.
The software industry was well entrenched even without Bill's help. Plus, one ALWAYS pays. Except for people who are working on "commercial" OSS, what do these programmers working on "other" OSS projects do to pay the bills. The vast majority of them write software that costs money. A "free" software market can't support itself, it is way to resource intensive. It has to be buoyed by something.
"And hindsight suggests that the idea of free software was more significant than any specific product."
I assume he means that the concept of "open software" is more significant than any particular open project, not that it is more significant than any particular software, period (open/free or not). If it's the latter, I'd have to disagree. Singular apps like VisiCalc, WordStar, Lotus 123, dBase, Windows, PhotoShop et al helped to create what the software industry is now, which in turn has helped to create an environment in which open software could even exist.
These wrist phones are not an attempt to "show the future" as such. They serve three purposes.
First they are tech showcases for the manufacturers. They get to show off how cool of a phone they can produce. Look how small, oooh, look at the color screens, ahhh, polyphonic ring tones and internet, geeee.
Second they are for the gadget/fashion statement crowd. These folks want the latest and greatest and they want to look cool. Utility, functionality, and ergonomics be damned.
And thirdly, and maybe most important, they bring bodies into the stores so the retailers can push their other more "mundane" wears. "Hey, lets go check out that cool wrist phone" is what they want the telcos want to hear. When you get in the door, they'll sell you that new Nokia, or that hands free kit, or that led antenna, etc.
we stop worrying about sticking more data on CDRs and DVDs and start creating INEXPENSIVE (free) software for DVD authoring?
Get yourself a Mac my friend and your problems would be solved. Yeah yeah, Macs are expensive, yadda yadda. But this is a perfect example of the "expense" of a computer goes far beyond it's original sticker price. While Joe Blow is fretting about spending all that extra money to get the burner and software and fretting with getting everything to be happy, Joe Mac is happily burning their home movies on DVD, though Joe Blow can happily play Quake at 1Mfps while waiting.
I leave my home network open on purpose. If passerby's want to check they're email or something be my guest. I use Linux and Mac OS X I fear not the script kiddy ;)
Then I hope you don't live in New Hampshire. With the burden of securing networks falling upon the network owner, and the propensity of the law to look unfavourably at those who "facilitate" illegal behaviour (think bars and party hosts in relation to drunk driving), I would think that it would very well be worth applying some amount of security, no matter how token, just to CYA.
If we only bought computer products that worked without flaws we'd still be using typewriters right now.
Maybe I missed it but there info is pretty sparse on how they handle updates (i.e. adds/deletes/updates). Does it do two phase commit so if I'm stripping data and one of the updates fail then everything fails? If they are replicating, will they automatically update replication servers if they are down at the time of the update? If one of the databases in the RAIDb doesn't support online backups and it's backing up, what will their system do? After all, this would be the true grunt work, without these features then what they have isn't a big deal at all. Does anyone have more info?
Right now the phone will only work in travel mode when you are connected to your own companies network. The next step would be to have a vpn client embedded in the phone, this way it can be used anywhere there is a wifi signal.
Take a look at the kernel APIs, and compare them with OS/2--someone went through with a HUGE search-and-replace to change all the names in OS/2's "Control Program" library.
NT's and OS/2's api's are actually quite different, and certainly nothing as close as simply doing a search and replace. There is certainly similarities given their heritage. The OS/2 api's are more like a significantly cleaner and better thought out Win32 api (which it actually is). Just as an example, though they both offer threads and semaphores, they handle them in different ways.
(In OS/2, all those routines started with Dos... Can you see OS/2's history here?)
I hope you're not referring to the Dos prefix being linked to DOS as in MS-DOS, because if you are, then that would be incorrect. The Dos prefix simply meant that those routines are related to Disk Operating System calls and have nothing to do with DOS. Just as the Win calls have nothing to do with Windows the operating system, but the generic concept of windowing.
There's a reason why there wasn't an NT 1 or an NT 2... and why OS/2 Warp 3 and Warp 4 have internal versions of 2.3 and 2.4
Well the reason why there wasn't an NT1 or 2 is because Microsoft wanted to keep the Windows numbering consistant. Notice that there also was not an NT 3.0, it started with 3.1, which was the currently shipping version of Windows at the time. Microsoft then switched the 16bit Windows over to the year names (Windows 95) but kept the numbering on NT until Windows 2000. As for OS/2, I understood the reason for the internal numbers to be that 1.x was 16bit OS/2 and 2.x was the 32bit. That's why the OS/2 versions went from 2.0, 2.1, Warp 3, Warp 4. Also, don't forget that _NT_ was supposed to be OS/2 3.0 before the rift.
From the site:
VIA EPIA V, 800MHz Motherboard
Regular price: $115.00
Sale price: $112.00
At savings like that, buy two, or four. Start that beowulf cluster NOW!
That's 10 years old, except, wait! The internals of Windows NT are based on VMS
NT is NOT "based" on VMS. David Cutler lead the design of both and they are sure to share similarities because of it, but one is not BASED on the other and to say that NT is some "clone" of VMS is flat wrong.
BTW--Linux is not a clone of the original 20 year-old OS. It's a MODERN Unix clone. It's based on POSIX standards which is actually quite a bit newer.
But to choose to stop your own logic with this one. POSIX is based on trying to unite SystemV with BSD! Not only that but POSIX itself was started up around 1985, still almost 20 years ago.
Even if the entire OS shipped with no GUI, how much of the software you want would work with it?
If it's a server than LOTS of stuff. IIS, SQLServer, MSMQ, etc works just fine without a gui attached to the app. We're not talking desktop here.
On the other hand, they've already done it (sort of), look at the .NET CLI
.NET, CLI stands for "Common Language Infrastructure", NOT "command line interface". Two totally unrelated concepts.
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