I wonder if that's because suddenly companies are trying to save money by moving to open source software? And this is a pre-emptive response by the people who have the most to lose?
As far as I can tell this is just a client application connecting to the VMWare View server, which is some kind of Citrix-like remote desktop server and remains proprietary. So no big deal, it appears.
Correct; I would suspect this is a way to get their client included in the main repositories of popular Linux distros. But if effect, it seems like little more than an RDP-type client, which already exist. (Sun's Virtualbox non-OSS edition provides connections to the virtual machine via the RDP protocol, so you don't even need a 'client' since most OSes already come with one)
The judge's information was posted, then removed by the editors shortly after as per indymedia's policy. The police wanted logs so as to track down who posted it. Indymedia explicitly does not keep logs to protect whistleblowers. So the police seize the server. Yes, this was designed with the possibility of servers being seized in mind. That still doesn't make it a good thing.
And the main issue with a centralised official distribution is that when the distro's server/s get hacked, everyone running that distribution is very vulnerable for a royal 0wning. Hasn't happened on a large scale yet, and you'd be hoping that security.ubuntu.com (and it's ilk) would be very secure, but things break from time to time...
At least there's a GPL version of virtualbox. Lacks a few of the fancier features, but nothing that couldn't be added on by hungry programmers. And even without those features it's still does virtualization (the core of what a vm app should do)
The power supply is running, but with a very low power draw. Modern power supplies and machines (ATX) require a tiny 5V supply to the motherboard at all times, due to the power switch being low voltage rather than the high voltage switch in AT power supplies. The bonus is that you can turn the machine on via an alarm, or WoL (or wake on something else, e.g. a remote control such as in an HTPC). Actually, you could probably power a wake-on-alarm via the button cell battery that keeps the clock ticking, but you'd still need the 5V on the motherboard. Standby power uses about 0.5-4 watts. Not ideal, but that's pretty small.
As for setting the wakeup time, some BIOSes have it in the BIOS set up, some don't. But in addition to that there is the ACPI wakeup mode - the computer writes the time to wake up into the NVRAM. I don't know if windows supports it, but linux certainly does.
More seriously, it shouldn't matter too much; a good programmer will pick up a new paradigm when it's needed. Less good programmers will just keep going in whatever they've learnt.
Yeah, let the free market work it out (wait - isn't the market already quite free and unregulated when it comes to media?)
The other alternative is to control or regulate the media, something I'm sure the Republican party would love to do, but probably sits against their core principles (assuming they have any left).
The Italians have got it right - they elected as President the man (Berlusconi) who controls most of the country's media - can't see anything like this happening over there.
Most of the time I can't hear the fans in my media box as it's running cool enough not to spin them up very fast (high load in the middle of summer is an exception).
But I get a high-pitched whine from the HD's spinning vibrating the entire case (which acts like an amplifier of sorts). If you're old enough I spose you wouldn't hear it. But being the spring chicken I am, I can hear it. By decoupling the HD from the case by suspending it in elastic it completely silences the box.
Regarding software, 5 years is a *VERY* long term.
For home computer users, yes. Not for businesses.
Compared to microsoft? Server 2003: EOL 2010.
Besides which, you're forgetting this is linux we're talking about. Support runs out? You can open the hood and support it yourself (or pay someone else to do so). It's not like ubuntu would turn down paid support beyond the 5 year lifecycle of an LTS release.
BackupPC might do what you're after. From the blurb:
high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs BackupPC is disk based and not tape based. This particularity allows features not found in any other backup solution:
* Clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk I/O.
Identical files across multiple backups of the same or different PC are
stored only once (using hard links), resulting in substantial savings
in disk storage and disk writes.
* Optional compression provides additional reductions in storage.
CPU impact of compression is low since only new files (those not already
in the pool) need to be compressed.
* A powerful http/cgi user interface allows administrators to view log files,
configuration, current status and allows users to initiate and cancel
backups and browse and restore files from backups very quickly.
* No client-side software is needed. On WinXX the smb protocol is used.
On linux or unix clients, rsync or tar (over ssh/rsh/nfs) can be used
* Flexible restore options. Single files can be downloaded from any backup
directly from the CGI interface. Zip or Tar archives for selected files
or directories can also be downloaded from the CGI interface.
* BackupPC supports mobile environments where laptops are only intermittently
connected to the network and have dynamic IP addresses (DHCP).
* Flexible configuration parameters allow multiple backups to be performed
in parallel.
* and more to discover in the manual...
I'd be guessing the [insert favourite law enforcement agency TLA here] would be able to recover (at least some of) the data. The thing is, it is _good_ for them to think that overwriting with zeros kills the data without possibility of recovery. Just makes their job of recovering it easier than if overwritten multiple times with random data.
Well, I tried exactly that - installed FF3 under wine, then downloaded the photosynth installer, which installed fine. Unfortunately, then you go to the photosynth page and firefox crashes:(
I have taught students (at the upper end of the schooling system) who couldn't read. Yes, we were making efforts to teach them to read, but at the same time, they were interested in a lot of things, and _wanted to know and learn_ stuff. They just couldn't access it. If something like this acts as a bridge for these sorts of kids to stay engaged at school, then that's just brilliant.
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Kickbacks. Give em kickbacks. Lots of kicks in the back. That would be (the very beginnings of) some poetic justice.
I wonder if that's because suddenly companies are trying to save money by moving to open source software? And this is a pre-emptive response by the people who have the most to lose?
Like it or not Flash is everywhere
Flash is not on the iPhone. Hasn't really stopped people buying those up.
As far as I can tell this is just a client application connecting to the VMWare View server, which is some kind of Citrix-like remote desktop server and remains proprietary. So no big deal, it appears.
Correct; I would suspect this is a way to get their client included in the main repositories of popular Linux distros. But if effect, it seems like little more than an RDP-type client, which already exist. (Sun's Virtualbox non-OSS edition provides connections to the virtual machine via the RDP protocol, so you don't even need a 'client' since most OSes already come with one)
In the case of firefox extensions in apt-based distros, true you can't uninstall the extensions through the browser, but you can disable them.
The judge's information was posted, then removed by the editors shortly after as per indymedia's policy. The police wanted logs so as to track down who posted it. Indymedia explicitly does not keep logs to protect whistleblowers. So the police seize the server. Yes, this was designed with the possibility of servers being seized in mind. That still doesn't make it a good thing.
And you, sir, are worse than Hitler.
And the main issue with a centralised official distribution is that when the distro's server/s get hacked, everyone running that distribution is very vulnerable for a royal 0wning. Hasn't happened on a large scale yet, and you'd be hoping that security.ubuntu.com (and it's ilk) would be very secure, but things break from time to time...
At least there's a GPL version of virtualbox. Lacks a few of the fancier features, but nothing that couldn't be added on by hungry programmers. And even without those features it's still does virtualization (the core of what a vm app should do)
Even the thought of office stationery in relation to Microsoft brings back those horrible nightmares...
The power supply is running, but with a very low power draw. Modern power supplies and machines (ATX) require a tiny 5V supply to the motherboard at all times, due to the power switch being low voltage rather than the high voltage switch in AT power supplies. The bonus is that you can turn the machine on via an alarm, or WoL (or wake on something else, e.g. a remote control such as in an HTPC). Actually, you could probably power a wake-on-alarm via the button cell battery that keeps the clock ticking, but you'd still need the 5V on the motherboard. Standby power uses about 0.5-4 watts. Not ideal, but that's pretty small.
As for setting the wakeup time, some BIOSes have it in the BIOS set up, some don't. But in addition to that there is the ACPI wakeup mode - the computer writes the time to wake up into the NVRAM. I don't know if windows supports it, but linux certainly does.
LISP: http://xkcd.com/224/
More seriously, it shouldn't matter too much; a good programmer will pick up a new paradigm when it's needed. Less good programmers will just keep going in whatever they've learnt.
If only you can get bittorrent classified as a weapon, then it might be constitutionally protected
http://xkcd.com/504/
Though, alas, only in the US.
Yeah, let the free market work it out (wait - isn't the market already quite free and unregulated when it comes to media?)
The other alternative is to control or regulate the media, something I'm sure the Republican party would love to do, but probably sits against their core principles (assuming they have any left).
The Italians have got it right - they elected as President the man (Berlusconi) who controls most of the country's media - can't see anything like this happening over there.
Most of the time I can't hear the fans in my media box as it's running cool enough not to spin them up very fast (high load in the middle of summer is an exception).
But I get a high-pitched whine from the HD's spinning vibrating the entire case (which acts like an amplifier of sorts). If you're old enough I spose you wouldn't hear it. But being the spring chicken I am, I can hear it. By decoupling the HD from the case by suspending it in elastic it completely silences the box.
For home computer users, yes. Not for businesses.
Compared to microsoft? Server 2003: EOL 2010.
Besides which, you're forgetting this is linux we're talking about. Support runs out? You can open the hood and support it yourself (or pay someone else to do so). It's not like ubuntu would turn down paid support beyond the 5 year lifecycle of an LTS release.
BackupPC might do what you're after. From the blurb:
high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up PCs
BackupPC is disk based and not tape based. This particularity allows
features not found in any other backup solution:
* Clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk I/O.
Identical files across multiple backups of the same or different PC are
stored only once (using hard links), resulting in substantial savings
in disk storage and disk writes.
* Optional compression provides additional reductions in storage.
CPU impact of compression is low since only new files (those not already
in the pool) need to be compressed.
* A powerful http/cgi user interface allows administrators to view log files,
configuration, current status and allows users to initiate and cancel
backups and browse and restore files from backups very quickly.
* No client-side software is needed. On WinXX the smb protocol is used.
On linux or unix clients, rsync or tar (over ssh/rsh/nfs) can be used
* Flexible restore options. Single files can be downloaded from any backup
directly from the CGI interface. Zip or Tar archives for selected files
or directories can also be downloaded from the CGI interface.
* BackupPC supports mobile environments where laptops are only intermittently
connected to the network and have dynamic IP addresses (DHCP).
* Flexible configuration parameters allow multiple backups to be performed
in parallel.
* and more to discover in the manual...
Yeah; I was just thinking that - but since its a "computer" that is making the calls everyone will believe it since "computers" are infallible.
I call shenanigans.
I'd be guessing the [insert favourite law enforcement agency TLA here] would be able to recover (at least some of) the data. The thing is, it is _good_ for them to think that overwriting with zeros kills the data without possibility of recovery. Just makes their job of recovering it easier than if overwritten multiple times with random data.
Well, I tried exactly that - installed FF3 under wine, then downloaded the photosynth installer, which installed fine. Unfortunately, then you go to the photosynth page and firefox crashes :(
(I think you're being funny here, but for the record) 1973 was the year of the first call on a mobile phone.
but does it run.. oh, wait, yes it does.
I have taught students (at the upper end of the schooling system) who couldn't read. Yes, we were making efforts to teach them to read, but at the same time, they were interested in a lot of things, and _wanted to know and learn_ stuff. They just couldn't access it. If something like this acts as a bridge for these sorts of kids to stay engaged at school, then that's just brilliant.
rtfa; you can still get through with any laptop bag; these just supposedly make it faster as you don't have to remove your lappy from the bag.
No. The point of SSL is to hide what you are saying from other people. SSL is for encryption, not validation.