Our current technology and science will look *very* medieval to any observer in a few hundred years;)
I do not claim that we will ever get away with actually violating any laws of physics. I do, however, believe that our understanding of said laws will get better and better over time and what seemed impossible before (with the old understanding) could become possible.
I always find it quite amusing when people claim "X" is impossible due to fundamental laws of physics (ie: "FTL travel is impossible").
In the years to come, I'm absolutely positive that we will find ways to work around many physical limitations and refine our understanding of the universe as a whole.
So saying $X is impossible is just plain silly because it completely ignores human curiosity, ingenuity and time (which works in our favor)
In that case Alt+SysRq+r switches your keyboard into
"raw" mode which lets you usually change into a VT via Ctrl+Alt+1 to recover your system manually.
Now? Well, it was rather decent when you could still find full episodes of popular series on it.
Beat reading the newspaper during lunch break at any case.
I'm appalled at how people downplay the effect of rm -rf ~ . A Linux install can be reinstalled in a couple hours, but the important documents people have usually aren't backed up at all, and are therefore much more valuable than the contents of/usr or/etc. While I do agree that a rm -rf ~ is pretty bad and basically screws up your box just as bad as a rm -rf/ would have done, I somehow can't seem to feel pity for all these morons who do not back up their important stuff to an external media.
If you didn't back it up, it wasn't that important in the first place, right?
In my experience the Q6600 runs rather cool at max-load and default frequency of 2.4GHz.
So cool in fact that I can overclock mine to 3.4GHz on air with a good cooler.
Suspend-to-RAM is obviously a no-go on a laptop with encrypted drives, but hibernate is supported by
at least dm-crypt quite well. I use it every day since a few month now.
The only thing you notice is that hibernating takes a lot longer with an encrypted swap partition but that's it.
Resume is only possible if you can unlock the partition(s) after power-on via password or key.
In *smart* phones maybe, but certainly not in normal cellphones. VGA resolution with the usual small screen-size of todays mobiles would result in 400-500DPI displays. I would think that would be a) bloody expensive b) a complete waste as normal mobiles don't have any real use for such a high-quality display anyway. Smartphones are obviously an entirely different beast
A bricked device either to be sent in to the vendor for repairs, or,as an alternative, can only be revived via special debugging hardware by people with god-like skills in a certain areas.
A blown OS is not, and never ever will be a brick. Get your terminology straight for once.
Wikipedia explains rather nicely the nature of real "brick".
If you can get it to work again via routine tasks (like reinstalling the OS on HDD)
it is technically not a brick. A "bricked" Mac would almost always require you to send in the machine to the manufacturer to unbrick.
OpenMoko and the 1973 will fail just as the Greenphone did. There is no leadership behind the project, no vision, just a bunch of well-intentioned geeks who want to make something cool. With no cohesive plan, though, the Neo1973 will never succeed.
iPhone is still "it" for those of us who want a powerful *NIX-based cellphone -- even if we have to fight Steve Jobs tooth and nail for it.
FIC (a multi-billion-dollar Asian company) is behind OpenMoko and the Neo1973. I know some of the OpenMoko employees via IRC (and even from before they joined OM) and I know they do have indeed a "Vision", and a mighty cool one at that.
Mark my words: The Neo1973 is not the last gadget we will see from the OpenMoko folks, they have mid- to long-term strategies.
Also they are set to build a truly open phone with OSS drivers for every component (excluding the GSM modem of course).
The next revision of the Neo1973 (codename GTA02) will seriously kick ass with hardware accelerated video, generous on-board storage, accelerators (think wii remote) and - finally - WIFI.
While the IPhone has the coolness factor, the Neo1973 in its current form is already way more open (customizable kernel, rootfs and even bootloader), way more hackable (debug board / console and JTAG access is available and documented, people are already compiling their own distributions for the phone (that is how QTOPIA made their images for Neo1973 in the first place btw)).
It would require a terrific effort to bring the IPhone even close to the Neo1973 in terms of hackability.
The Storm worm uses P2P (edonkey IIRC) for command and control. Using your logic, if you're willing to block/restrict/throttle SMTP because of spam and virus infested clients, should they not also block/restrict/throttle P2P to prevent the same thing?
Um no. It would be good if they would kick storm-infested clients off the net or
block everything except http(s) and ftp until they fix their machines. But that should only be done to clients who were identified to be infected, no every customer of that ISP.
DOCSIS is a shared service. You can only saturate so much bandwidth onto a line at once. Your 10 Mbit (or whatever) connection is for peak service, not constant throughput.
I'm really no expert in ISP network topology. Not at all actually.
What I can say is that I'm paying for an 18MBit (A)DSL line and I have that bandwidth available to me around the clock (when the other side supports that speed of course).
Also my ISP does not filter any ports. They do, however, kick and / or warn customers with infected machines.
I really can't comment on your paragraph about max user per channel and stuff, I'm not that deep into the matter I'm afraid but it sure sounds convincing;)
The fact remains: When other - way smaller - ISPs can handle P2P traffic and still offer high-speed connections w/o any noticeable impact to their customers connection, than this multi-billion-dollar ISP Comcast should be able to get their bloody act together as well.
[...]
So, obviously you're going to want to prioritize certain traffic. Similarly, you're going to want what people use interactively to have good throughput (ie, websites). At the bottom of the list is the traffic that isn't latency dependent, has nobody sitting there waiting to use it and that consumes the most bandwidth in relation to every other user on the network.
Sounds like traffic shaping / QoS to me, which is fine of course. But shaping P2P traffic to have the lowest priority (how it should be), and thus have the largest latency, shouldn't affect the overall throughput on a not-maxed-out line too much. QoS is fine and makes sense for a lot of stuff. Killing off connections by sending resets however is just plain blocking traffic, no QoS involved at all.
You might be able to put 100 people who generally just browse the web and read email on one channel. Put 8 P2P users on their own channel and they'll all complain. 2 or 3 frequent P2P users might wreck the experience of the other 50 people on the same channel. So, where is the happy medium? Isn't that the question. Exactly where is "oversold their pipes?"
If you sell 10 customers a 10Mbit downlink connection but you can only provide 50Mbit on your side to the internet, then you have oversold your capacity. No user-juggling will help you here, there just isn't enough bandwidth to satisfy all of these 10 customers. The worse your overselling, the worse your "P2P" problem.
You can always price out a T2 instead of complaining about your cable service so you don't have an oversold pipe. Of course, you don't want to pay full price for the level of service that you want, you expect all those web surfing dolts to subsidize you.
Overselling is normal practice. Every ISP on earth is overselling its bandwidth, it's just common sense. You only run into problems when you do it too much.
[...]
I just think you're being hypocritical for bitching they should block one service while leaving your pet service unthrottled
I am in favor of blocking SMTP as it is of no use what-so-ever for Joe Sixpack but has a huge negative impact on SPAM distribution - at least that is the theory =)
Also I am in favor of kicking infected clients off the net completely (or block the hell out of them!) until they get their machines fixed.
Because blocking / restricting SMTP and throttling / blocking virus infected clients is actually a good thing and a service
to the internet community.
Filtering (or throttling into uselessness) a protocol to lower the overall bandwidth consumption is only done because the ISP in question oversold their pipes too much and is not investing enough money into upgrading and maintaining their networks.
It is done to cover up greed and is an anti-service to their customers and the internet at large.
Leaving this criminal "Unlimited" bullshit completely aside of course.
I've also heard it described as meaning "near" as in "close in space" rather than "nearly", though I can't find a reference for that derivation off hand... I do know that it is an often used technical term. If I think of the "near" as in "proximity" I can actually make some sense of it.
Maybe if you weren't such a fucking jerk in your post, he may have been more constructive in his. I don't think my original post was that bad and it wasn't my intention to insult someone.
I spoke my mind (as in "freedom of speech", you know)
In any case, I at least have the guts to post under my nickname, Mr "Anonymous Coward".
Did you know that swearing a lot makes you look like a 13yo teenager w/ a double-digit IQ in the eyes of most intelligent readers?
"Ah well, as you may have guessed, English is not my native language. "
That is UNpossible. The rest of what you typed (grammatically) is much better than what MOST of the the Slashdot crowd does. Thank you for that, I appreciate it;)
Ah well, as you may have guessed, English is not my native language. A constructive response on your part would have included the correct word. If you are playing the grammar Nazi, at least do it right.
As to George Carlin, yes he said something along these lines in one of his acts. But as he only speaks out what intelligent thinking beings already knew a long time before he made a joke about it, I don't really see a need to quote him there. This "near miss" doubletalk nonsense is pissing me off for a long time, even before I saw the first GC piece on youtube.
FWIW, in the same piece he discusses a few more doubletalk'ish words. Once can't really give him credit for pointing out the obvious.
I have seen a near miss; with collision avoided only by my radio call.
No you haven't. You have seen a near hit. A collusion is a near miss.
Please do not use doubletalk; words designed to make bad things sound better. Thank you.
I'm going to guess it was a starndard format with the file extension changed.
If that would have been the case, Nautilus (Ubuntu = Gnome by default IIRC) would have popped open a security warning about
a file-type vs file-extension mismatch.
You'd be able to choose the correct application manually via the right-click menu in that case.
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Our current technology and science will look *very* medieval to any observer in a few hundred years ;)
I do not claim that we will ever get away with actually violating any laws of physics. I do, however, believe that our understanding of said laws will get better and better over time and what seemed impossible before (with the old understanding) could become possible.
I always find it quite amusing when people claim "X" is impossible due to fundamental laws of physics (ie: "FTL travel is impossible"). In the years to come, I'm absolutely positive that we will find ways to work around many physical limitations and refine our understanding of the universe as a whole. So saying $X is impossible is just plain silly because it completely ignores human curiosity, ingenuity and time (which works in our favor)
In that case Alt+SysRq+r switches your keyboard into "raw" mode which lets you usually change into a VT via Ctrl+Alt+1 to recover your system manually.
Now? Well, it was rather decent when you could still find full episodes of popular series on it. Beat reading the newspaper during lunch break at any case.
Is anyone else getting slight parsing errors while reading the above? This made my brain almost coredump....
If you didn't back it up, it wasn't that important in the first place, right?
In my experience the Q6600 runs rather cool at max-load and default frequency of 2.4GHz. So cool in fact that I can overclock mine to 3.4GHz on air with a good cooler.
cd $some-directory
prompt
mget *
Looks pretty efficient to me...
Suspend-to-RAM is obviously a no-go on a laptop with encrypted drives, but hibernate is supported by at least dm-crypt quite well. I use it every day since a few month now. The only thing you notice is that hibernating takes a lot longer with an encrypted swap partition but that's it. Resume is only possible if you can unlock the partition(s) after power-on via password or key.
Just to clarify: OpenMoko is the name of the Linux distribution, FreeRunner and Neo1973 are the devices this distribution is being developed for.
In *smart* phones maybe, but certainly not in normal cellphones. VGA resolution with the usual small screen-size of todays mobiles would result in 400-500DPI displays. I would think that would be a) bloody expensive b) a complete waste as normal mobiles don't have any real use for such a high-quality display anyway. Smartphones are obviously an entirely different beast
A bricked device either to be sent in to the vendor for repairs, or ,as an alternative, can only be revived via special debugging hardware by people with god-like skills in a certain areas.
A blown OS is not, and never ever will be a brick. Get your terminology straight for once. Wikipedia explains rather nicely the nature of real "brick".
If you can get it to work again via routine tasks (like reinstalling the OS on HDD) it is technically not a brick. A "bricked" Mac would almost always require you to send in the machine to the manufacturer to unbrick.
iPhone is still "it" for those of us who want a powerful *NIX-based cellphone -- even if we have to fight Steve Jobs tooth and nail for it.
FIC (a multi-billion-dollar Asian company) is behind OpenMoko and the Neo1973. I know some of the OpenMoko employees via IRC (and even from before they joined OM) and I know they do have indeed a "Vision", and a mighty cool one at that.
Mark my words: The Neo1973 is not the last gadget we will see from the OpenMoko folks, they have mid- to long-term strategies. Also they are set to build a truly open phone with OSS drivers for every component (excluding the GSM modem of course). The next revision of the Neo1973 (codename GTA02) will seriously kick ass with hardware accelerated video, generous on-board storage, accelerators (think wii remote) and - finally - WIFI.
While the IPhone has the coolness factor, the Neo1973 in its current form is already way more open (customizable kernel, rootfs and even bootloader), way more hackable (debug board / console and JTAG access is available and documented, people are already compiling their own distributions for the phone (that is how QTOPIA made their images for Neo1973 in the first place btw)).
It would require a terrific effort to bring the IPhone even close to the Neo1973 in terms of hackability.
The Storm worm uses P2P (edonkey IIRC) for command and control. Using your logic, if you're willing to block/restrict/throttle SMTP because of spam and virus infested clients, should they not also block/restrict/throttle P2P to prevent the same thing?
Um no. It would be good if they would kick storm-infested clients off the net or block everything except http(s) and ftp until they fix their machines. But that should only be done to clients who were identified to be infected, no every customer of that ISP.
DOCSIS is a shared service. You can only saturate so much bandwidth onto a line at once. Your 10 Mbit (or whatever) connection is for peak service, not constant throughput.
I'm really no expert in ISP network topology. Not at all actually. What I can say is that I'm paying for an 18MBit (A)DSL line and I have that bandwidth available to me around the clock (when the other side supports that speed of course).
;)
Also my ISP does not filter any ports. They do, however, kick and / or warn customers with infected machines.
I really can't comment on your paragraph about max user per channel and stuff, I'm not that deep into the matter I'm afraid but it sure sounds convincing
The fact remains: When other - way smaller - ISPs can handle P2P traffic and still offer high-speed connections w/o any noticeable impact to their customers connection, than this multi-billion-dollar ISP Comcast should be able to get their bloody act together as well.
[...] So, obviously you're going to want to prioritize certain traffic. Similarly, you're going to want what people use interactively to have good throughput (ie, websites). At the bottom of the list is the traffic that isn't latency dependent, has nobody sitting there waiting to use it and that consumes the most bandwidth in relation to every other user on the network.
Sounds like traffic shaping / QoS to me, which is fine of course. But shaping P2P traffic to have the lowest priority (how it should be), and thus have the largest latency, shouldn't affect the overall throughput on a not-maxed-out line too much. QoS is fine and makes sense for a lot of stuff. Killing off connections by sending resets however is just plain blocking traffic, no QoS involved at all.
You might be able to put 100 people who generally just browse the web and read email on one channel. Put 8 P2P users on their own channel and they'll all complain. 2 or 3 frequent P2P users might wreck the experience of the other 50 people on the same channel. So, where is the happy medium? Isn't that the question. Exactly where is "oversold their pipes?"
If you sell 10 customers a 10Mbit downlink connection but you can only provide 50Mbit on your side to the internet, then you have oversold your capacity. No user-juggling will help you here, there just isn't enough bandwidth to satisfy all of these 10 customers. The worse your overselling, the worse your "P2P" problem.
You can always price out a T2 instead of complaining about your cable service so you don't have an oversold pipe. Of course, you don't want to pay full price for the level of service that you want, you expect all those web surfing dolts to subsidize you.
Overselling is normal practice. Every ISP on earth is overselling its bandwidth, it's just common sense. You only run into problems when you do it too much.
[...] I just think you're being hypocritical for bitching they should block one service while leaving your pet service unthrottled
I am in favor of blocking SMTP as it is of no use what-so-ever for Joe Sixpack but has a huge negative impact on SPAM distribution - at least that is the theory =)
Also I am in favor of kicking infected clients off the net completely (or block the hell out of them!) until they get their machines fixed.
and then complaining you aren't g
Because blocking / restricting SMTP and throttling / blocking virus infected clients is actually a good thing and a service to the internet community.
Filtering (or throttling into uselessness) a protocol to lower the overall bandwidth consumption is only done because the ISP in question oversold their pipes too much and is not investing enough money into upgrading and maintaining their networks.
It is done to cover up greed and is an anti-service to their customers and the internet at large.
Leaving this criminal "Unlimited" bullshit completely aside of course.
In any case, I at least have the guts to post under my nickname, Mr "Anonymous Coward".
Did you know that swearing a lot makes you look like a 13yo teenager w/ a double-digit IQ in the eyes of most intelligent readers?
Although I was not the one to point out the incorrect usage, the word you are looking for is collision - it refers to when to objects impact.
Collusion refers to a business practice involving pricing that is illegal in the U.S., but is not uncommon.
Hope this helps.
That was helpful indeed, thank you.
That is UNpossible. The rest of what you typed (grammatically) is much better than what MOST of the the Slashdot crowd does. Thank you for that, I appreciate it
You keep on using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Please do not use doubletalk; words designed to make bad things sound better
Please don't quote someone (George Carlin) without citing them. Thank you.
Ah well, as you may have guessed, English is not my native language. A constructive response on your part would have included the correct word. If you are playing the grammar Nazi, at least do it right.
As to George Carlin, yes he said something along these lines in one of his acts. But as he only speaks out what intelligent thinking beings already knew a long time before he made a joke about it, I don't really see a need to quote him there. This "near miss" doubletalk nonsense is pissing me off for a long time, even before I saw the first GC piece on youtube.
FWIW, in the same piece he discusses a few more doubletalk'ish words. Once can't really give him credit for pointing out the obvious.
No you haven't. You have seen a near hit. A collusion is a near miss.
Please do not use doubletalk; words designed to make bad things sound better. Thank you.
You'd be able to choose the correct application manually via the right-click menu in that case.
Not only in geography by the looks of it
SCNR
Very nice shot, thank you!