Personally, I agree that this is fairly pointless speculation.
I'd love one machine to fit all roles, and I hope it happens. But Apple are currently shipping a very small number of hacked-together Intel macs to a very select group (not quite select enough unfortuantely it seems).
The production macs will probably be based on a totally different main board, and may not even have a PC BIOS (more likely to revert to Open Firwmare I would have thought).
It is *very* conceivable that Apple will dleiberately prevent the machines from running Windows using some of the "trusted computing" hardware at their disposal.
After all - who wants to be responsible for supporting hardware running Windows? Not Apple, I bet.
Actually boxen *is* a word. It is the German for "boxes".
Most languages contain a variety of words taken from other languages, and that people understand and are comfortable with the word "boxen", if people like it, why not use it?
Mabye the use of words like this heralds the age of the internet language, where we all learn to speak something that's a mixture of the major Germanic languages. who knows?:)
No, I'm afraid that law is down to the idiot Blair. Like the ID cards they want us to have and that no-one wants, and aren't even technically feasible:-) Today though he did us proud.
The reason that was the only point I picked you up on, was that I can barely bring myself to bother to reply to you, because I know you are probably just attention seeking.
Come to the UK for a few weeks, you're quite welcome so long as you shut up while you are here, walk round London. Leave the racism behind though don't bring it with you.
You will realise that the Muslims in London are just another part of the society. Race and religion are less important in London than anywhere else in the world, and we (the British majority) are proud of it.
While you are here, listen to BBC Radio 4. You might start to wonder if they really are that biased (at least not toward the government).
And finally, we have idiots just as much as any other nation. I wonder how many of the posters at jihadwatch.org were among their number.
Over here we spell "colonized" as colonised. If your tragic lack of knowledge about the state of British society hadn't given you away, that would have.
NO NO NO. Islam is a decent, honourable religion. If you judge Islam for this you had better judge Christianity for the crusades. I'm not, but many of my fellow Brits are Muslim - and they are just as important part of our country as ANY other citizens. I really don't want to see pointless stupid comments like that. They are not what we need or want right now. Please shut up.
Pretty much anything I say here will be rightly marked redundant - it's all been said above, but as a British citizen I feel I want to publish my view somewhere.
I went through a couple of the affected stations on Tuesday, almost exactly 48 hours before the bombs went off. I can tell you from first hand experience that there is no-one on the tube in London at that time that deserves to be hurt, and also that there are a lot of muslims using the tube in London.
There are people reading the paper, looking at a book, listening to an iPod, or staring out a window. They are human, and they are innocent.
We stood by our friends the US, and for that we have paid. If we have to, we will stand by the US again.
Anyone that thinks that blowing us up will change our minds does not understand who we are. This will not change us. This will not terrorise us. World war 2 did not beat us. The IRA bombing us for years did not break us.
We will do three things. We will clear up. We will grieve quietly, and then we will carry on, the same as before. They gain nothing, and they certainly do not terrorise us.
Thanks very much to everyone that has posted friendly messages, I'm sure I can speak for the majority of British/. readers when I say they are appreciated.
I'll finish with a quote from BBC news - it's paraphrased I'm afraid, but it's this: "The emergency services exuded an air of control and professionalism that sucked the terror from terrorism". I think in Britain today we can be very proud, of all our countrymen in London, and especially of our Emergency services. I hope that you folks abroad will agree.
Thank you - I think a lot of us brits feel that is exactly how we would want our reaction to be perceived. We aren't going to dignify this attack by letting this change us. We will clear up, and move on.
Actually I think my idea works fine for the mailing list model. You can sign the message and send it. Remote systems will accept it. The whole point of mailing lists is that you are juse sending the same message with multiple RCPT To:'s anyway.
We are left open to the same problems as AOL have with their reporting system, but, hopefully the wouldn't make quite such an ass of it.
I think you missed my point there.
The system would certify the sender nor recipient of e-mails, and would provide nothing other than certifying your e-mail from address and your name, stuff that you send with an e-mail anyway.
As for the certifying organisation, the UN would seem appropriate. In case you didn't notice, I'm in the UK...
BTW - more than 50% of SPAM actually does originate in the US. To be fair this isn't surprising given how much SPAM is sent via trojaned windows boxes and the high online population in the US.
The problem here is laziness. So many of us, me included, rather than just unsubscribing from opt-in lists, hit the junk button in our mail client.
On my mac that's harmless. When an AOL user does it and the client reports home, it causes chaos.
And it takes *forver* to get off these lists. I run a mail forwarding service for some local companies, Yahoo decided I was sending SPAM (I wasn't, but SPAM was being sent to the people I was forwarding mail for). I had to fill in the same form describing my "mailing list policy" three times, each time explaining I don't have a list and therefore don't need a policy.....
Current anti spam systems are self defeating. We need something better. SPS is NOT it - http://www.spfsucks.com/ - Domain Keys is better, but really I think we need something better than SMTP.
My suggested way forward would be that to be accepted by an e-mail system the mail *must* be signed with the identity of the sender, and their public key listed with a CA. Then before your server accepted the mail you could verify the sender, and SPAMmers could have their certs revoked quite quickly. Would probbaly need to be a government organisaiton though - don't want veriswine doing it.
Fifth Gear (a UK TV program) recently did a crash test between a remote-control-rigged smart car and a concrete barrier at 70mph, then did the same with an Opel/Vauxhal Corsa (GM's European mini car).
The Smart Car did as well as the Corsa - the occupant wouldn't have been squished, but in both cases the g-force would probably have killed them. The thing about the Smart though is the crumple zones are very small, so although the body stays rigid, there is less to absorb the force, so, unscientifically, I would imagine that the car would stop anything up to twice as quickly (half the crumple zone length...) meaning twice the G-Force, and half the chance to live.
As for looking cool - well over here in Britain I think most of us got bored quickly... especially with those people that insisted on having cow skin print Smarts:-S
Interesting. China is often seen as being the secretive control-obsessed state, yet America has had this capability for years, and the Chinese are only getting it now AND they are being open about their intentions.
The problem with Nuclear Power is that Nuke stations put out a given level of power, and don't really like to change their output.
In the UK the famout example is that when there is a commercial break in "Coronation Street" the total electricity demand in the UK shoots up as people switch on their kettles all at the same time.
fossil plants on the other hand can easily ramp up and down the levels of power they create.
So in the UK we tend to have most of the power supplied by big Nuclear plants like Seizewell B which is a pretty new high tech PWR (Pressurised Water Reactor) plant.
In addition to that we have a lot of older bigger fossil plants. These are constantly running and putting out a fair amount of power to top up the capacity (we don'thave enough nucelar) but also they can ramp up and down for demand.
Then we have small modern fossil plants - such as a certain plant in Yorkshire. This is a CCGT (Combined Cycle Gas Turbine) station - it basically is a Jet Engine running off gas turning the generator - but the exhaust from the jet is also used to make steam which also drives the generator - imrproving efficincey. This station can ramp up and down as often as required, and a lot of the time might not even be running.
The next level down is little diesel generators that are scattered round the country.
The advantage of this setup is obvious - cheap consistent power from Nuclear, with the ability to meet demand spikes quickly when they arise. Also, if the grid ever went down completely, the diesle generators can start without geid power, the CCGT's can use that power to come up, and the nuclears can start from that.
So nuclear on it's own is not a solution.
The comment handling in SlashCode has always been a lot heavier to handle than the news pages. I think there is probbaly a lot more processing involved.
I wonder how well optimised the SQL queires are and what the backend technology is - is it still MySQL? - UPADTEs and INSERTs are often going to be slower than SELECTs, but it may be worse if they are using MySQL in replicated mode with one master server to send all the updates too and a few slaves to do selects from. Though I guess that's unlikley with the load they get. Do they use MySQL Cluster?
If you want to get your music off an iPod on OS X, just mount it as a drive, cd/Volumes/whateverit'scalled ls -la in it, cd to the hidden Music directory, then run something vaguely like
It only helps if you have a very parallel application that is enormously heavier on CPU cycles than on disk or anything else - there aren't many like that.
Also, I think it's quite funny that blogs.sun.com seems to have been slashdotted...
Slashdot Mirror
In my experience, the number one tip for linux performance tuning is "man elvtune". I've seen it work miracles.
I stand corrected. In some ways I see it as a shame though, as a Sun admin I'm quite fond of OF.
Personally, I agree that this is fairly pointless speculation. I'd love one machine to fit all roles, and I hope it happens. But Apple are currently shipping a very small number of hacked-together Intel macs to a very select group (not quite select enough unfortuantely it seems). The production macs will probably be based on a totally different main board, and may not even have a PC BIOS (more likely to revert to Open Firwmare I would have thought). It is *very* conceivable that Apple will dleiberately prevent the machines from running Windows using some of the "trusted computing" hardware at their disposal. After all - who wants to be responsible for supporting hardware running Windows? Not Apple, I bet.
Actually boxen *is* a word. It is the German for "boxes".
:)
Most languages contain a variety of words taken from other languages, and that people understand and are comfortable with the word "boxen", if people like it, why not use it?
Mabye the use of words like this heralds the age of the internet language, where we all learn to speak something that's a mixture of the major Germanic languages. who knows?
No, I'm afraid that law is down to the idiot Blair. Like the ID cards they want us to have and that no-one wants, and aren't even technically feasible :-) Today though he did us proud.
The reason that was the only point I picked you up on, was that I can barely bring myself to bother to reply to you, because I know you are probably just attention seeking.
Come to the UK for a few weeks, you're quite welcome so long as you shut up while you are here, walk round London. Leave the racism behind though don't bring it with you.
You will realise that the Muslims in London are just another part of the society. Race and religion are less important in London than anywhere else in the world, and we (the British majority) are proud of it.
While you are here, listen to BBC Radio 4. You might start to wonder if they really are that biased (at least not toward the government).
And finally, we have idiots just as much as any other nation. I wonder how many of the posters at jihadwatch.org were among their number.
If they want us to change, they should talk to us. We will listen.
Over here we spell "colonized" as colonised. If your tragic lack of knowledge about the state of British society hadn't given you away, that would have.
NO NO NO. Islam is a decent, honourable religion. If you judge Islam for this you had better judge Christianity for the crusades. I'm not, but many of my fellow Brits are Muslim - and they are just as important part of our country as ANY other citizens. I really don't want to see pointless stupid comments like that. They are not what we need or want right now. Please shut up.
Pretty much anything I say here will be rightly marked redundant - it's all been said above, but as a British citizen I feel I want to publish my view somewhere.
/. readers when I say they are appreciated.
I went through a couple of the affected stations on Tuesday, almost exactly 48 hours before the bombs went off. I can tell you from first hand experience that there is no-one on the tube in London at that time that deserves to be hurt, and also that there are a lot of muslims using the tube in London.
There are people reading the paper, looking at a book, listening to an iPod, or staring out a window. They are human, and they are innocent.
We stood by our friends the US, and for that we have paid. If we have to, we will stand by the US again.
Anyone that thinks that blowing us up will change our minds does not understand who we are. This will not change us. This will not terrorise us. World war 2 did not beat us. The IRA bombing us for years did not break us.
We will do three things. We will clear up. We will grieve quietly, and then we will carry on, the same as before. They gain nothing, and they certainly do not terrorise us.
Thanks very much to everyone that has posted friendly messages, I'm sure I can speak for the majority of British
I'll finish with a quote from BBC news - it's paraphrased I'm afraid, but it's this: "The emergency services exuded an air of control and professionalism that sucked the terror from terrorism". I think in Britain today we can be very proud, of all our countrymen in London, and especially of our Emergency services. I hope that you folks abroad will agree.
Thank you - I think a lot of us brits feel that is exactly how we would want our reaction to be perceived. We aren't going to dignify this attack by letting this change us. We will clear up, and move on.
A new colleague of mine was offered the job only on the condition that he remove his lip piercing.
To be fair, in general as managed service providers we *are* a service industry, one which costs a lot of money.
It's not unreasonable for us to be asked to be smart and presentable. If your lawyer had piercings, how would you feel?
Actually I think my idea works fine for the mailing list model. You can sign the message and send it. Remote systems will accept it. The whole point of mailing lists is that you are juse sending the same message with multiple RCPT To:'s anyway. We are left open to the same problems as AOL have with their reporting system, but, hopefully the wouldn't make quite such an ass of it.
I think you missed my point there. The system would certify the sender nor recipient of e-mails, and would provide nothing other than certifying your e-mail from address and your name, stuff that you send with an e-mail anyway. As for the certifying organisation, the UN would seem appropriate. In case you didn't notice, I'm in the UK... BTW - more than 50% of SPAM actually does originate in the US. To be fair this isn't surprising given how much SPAM is sent via trojaned windows boxes and the high online population in the US.
The problem here is laziness. So many of us, me included, rather than just unsubscribing from opt-in lists, hit the junk button in our mail client. On my mac that's harmless. When an AOL user does it and the client reports home, it causes chaos. And it takes *forver* to get off these lists. I run a mail forwarding service for some local companies, Yahoo decided I was sending SPAM (I wasn't, but SPAM was being sent to the people I was forwarding mail for). I had to fill in the same form describing my "mailing list policy" three times, each time explaining I don't have a list and therefore don't need a policy..... Current anti spam systems are self defeating. We need something better. SPS is NOT it - http://www.spfsucks.com/ - Domain Keys is better, but really I think we need something better than SMTP. My suggested way forward would be that to be accepted by an e-mail system the mail *must* be signed with the identity of the sender, and their public key listed with a CA. Then before your server accepted the mail you could verify the sender, and SPAMmers could have their certs revoked quite quickly. Would probbaly need to be a government organisaiton though - don't want veriswine doing it.
The ForFour is just a jazzed-up Mitsubishi Colt for more money with less kit, IIRC.
Fifth Gear (a UK TV program) recently did a crash test between a remote-control-rigged smart car and a concrete barrier at 70mph, then did the same with an Opel/Vauxhal Corsa (GM's European mini car).
:-S
The Smart Car did as well as the Corsa - the occupant wouldn't have been squished, but in both cases the g-force would probably have killed them. The thing about the Smart though is the crumple zones are very small, so although the body stays rigid, there is less to absorb the force, so, unscientifically, I would imagine that the car would stop anything up to twice as quickly (half the crumple zone length...) meaning twice the G-Force, and half the chance to live.
As for looking cool - well over here in Britain I think most of us got bored quickly... especially with those people that insisted on having cow skin print Smarts
We'll sort it out next election :p
Actually I've just stopped drawing a dividing line. As far as I can tell here in the UK now we are just another state, with Blair the governor.
Interesting. China is often seen as being the secretive control-obsessed state, yet America has had this capability for years, and the Chinese are only getting it now AND they are being open about their intentions.
The problem with Nuclear Power is that Nuke stations put out a given level of power, and don't really like to change their output. In the UK the famout example is that when there is a commercial break in "Coronation Street" the total electricity demand in the UK shoots up as people switch on their kettles all at the same time. fossil plants on the other hand can easily ramp up and down the levels of power they create. So in the UK we tend to have most of the power supplied by big Nuclear plants like Seizewell B which is a pretty new high tech PWR (Pressurised Water Reactor) plant. In addition to that we have a lot of older bigger fossil plants. These are constantly running and putting out a fair amount of power to top up the capacity (we don'thave enough nucelar) but also they can ramp up and down for demand. Then we have small modern fossil plants - such as a certain plant in Yorkshire. This is a CCGT (Combined Cycle Gas Turbine) station - it basically is a Jet Engine running off gas turning the generator - but the exhaust from the jet is also used to make steam which also drives the generator - imrproving efficincey. This station can ramp up and down as often as required, and a lot of the time might not even be running. The next level down is little diesel generators that are scattered round the country. The advantage of this setup is obvious - cheap consistent power from Nuclear, with the ability to meet demand spikes quickly when they arise. Also, if the grid ever went down completely, the diesle generators can start without geid power, the CCGT's can use that power to come up, and the nuclears can start from that. So nuclear on it's own is not a solution.
The comment handling in SlashCode has always been a lot heavier to handle than the news pages. I think there is probbaly a lot more processing involved. I wonder how well optimised the SQL queires are and what the backend technology is - is it still MySQL? - UPADTEs and INSERTs are often going to be slower than SELECTs, but it may be worse if they are using MySQL in replicated mode with one master server to send all the updates too and a few slaves to do selects from. Though I guess that's unlikley with the load they get. Do they use MySQL Cluster?
..I bet he dosen't feel SoBig now.
If you want to get your music off an iPod on OS X, just mount it as a drive, cd /Volumes/whateverit'scalled ls -la in it, cd to the hidden Music directory, then run something vaguely like
mkdir ~/Desktop/files ; find . -name '*.m4a' -print0 | xargs -0 -J % cp % ~/Desktop/files
It's hardly a great secret. Unless they broke this in the new version of iTunes too?
Also, I think it's quite funny that blogs.sun.com seems to have been slashdotted...
I don't think that networks allow DNS because it is harmless, but because it is necessary, that's an important distinction.