Of course, the whole "malware" argument is only a concern if you're running in an insecure Windows environment
<humor mode="sarcasm">Because there have never been in history any user-mode accessible root exploits for any competing systems ever. Zarendist Linux is absolutely known to be hole free.</humor>
I will definitely give the poster props for a nice MSFT bash - but perhaps you are being a bit pollyanna in your analysis. And if you posted it, there are surely those who believe it, and if they put that theory into practice, they also have an exposure to malware. (cough, cough)Morris Worm(cough).
That is interesting (that your users were confused by using a network file share, but found the thumb drives intuitive.)
Is it the fact that there is a physical artifact that makes the idea of "your files are going here" easier to map into their worldview?
UI Designers Take Note. This might be on the test.
I think it was a pretty low-level barb at the GNOME community from someone who prefers the "other" religion. And his quote, "I find myself far more productive in KDE than in GNOME these days." makes me think that he might actually move back and forth between the two camps based on the current feature-to-wart ratio.
Neither GNOME nor KDE are perfect. You pick the featureset that coincides with your personal philosophy or needs or free help-desk fount.
For years, when Unix newbies asked me, "What should I run, *BSD, or Linux, or... " I would always answer the same: "Find a nearby knowledgable friend, and run what s/he is running. The ability to get advice from someone who has done it is orders of magnitude more significant than the fine details of OS internals.
Spot-beam satellite (i.e. DirecTV's offering, the British company whose name escapes me) is not available anywhere there is an uninhibited view of the sky. If you look at the contour maps for those products, you will see they are pretty tightly focused on their target market. I suspect it's even more of a problem on the uplink side -- those systems are running with really tight link budgets, and I don't think you're going to get an acceptable uplink BER if your antenna is 10dB off boresite.
While there are VSAT products that are available virtually anywhere, they are orders of magnitude more expensive. (For E1 speed in, say, Nigeria, figure $45K US per month, plus hardware costs in the several-kilobuck range.)
There is also an Intelsat data product, that last time I checked was about USD $7 per minute for DS0. A subrate option was available (9.6k) for about USD 2 per minute.
Forcing you to listen to my audiospam instead of XM: Priceless
The satellite might have a few dB of advantage considering relative power, but I think the EIRP of those birds is pretty low... certainly less than +50dBm... so even if I'm using a true QRPppppp (say one milliwatt) transmitter, I've still got 67 dB on the satellite
The one nearest my house has an entire pod of 20 PCS dedicated to Counterstrike, in a separate room. From about 4PM on, it is mobbed and there is a waiting list. It costs 10 pesos (about 90 US cents) per hour.
because we all know in the event of a majour natural disaster the first thing we all want is cell phone coverage back:-)
Communication actually is the first service that is needed after a natural disaster. It just turns out that cellular service gives the best bang-for-buck in terms of communication capability.
One can assume that if I subscribe to the LKML, I wish to receive it. If I find my spamfilter (be it CRM or SA or bogofilter or camram or... ) is dropping list messages in the bitbucket, then one person (me) has to repair one configuration (mine).
I think large legitimate lists don't care if the subscribers whitelist correctly.
You caught me -- I was being disingenuous -- I was trying to make exactly the same point you were making: Just because something is outside your experience does not make it intrinsically more difficult, and just because something is INSIDE your experience does not make it intrinsically easier.
Curiously, in the last year I have actually started using
Windows for the first time.
It has been the most difficult platform I have ever had to
administer. Setting up even trivial network configurations is near
impossible, with seemingly endless screens to move through, and very
poor documentation.
Tasks that are trivial under Unix, have thus far eluded me. I still
don't know how to set up DNS under Win2K.
Doesn't that sound like precisely the Why $FREE_UNIX_SYSTEM Can
Never Succeed on the Desktop Argument? I am sure that Windows is
no harder to administer than Unix. But I have fifteen years of Unix
adminning experience, and zero Windows experience. To people who grew
up on PC-DOS and Wintel, it is as intuitive for them as
dd is to me.
So, for everything that matters to me (writing, email, network
infrastructure) I use the Sun. For everything that is trivial and fun
(websurfing, chat) I use the Winblows box.
The first thing I thought on reading this headline was, Where does
the heat that used to be dissipated in the user go?
It appears that there is a textured surface on the pad, one might
assume to allow
SOME airflow. However, the reviewer was using it wrong:
Early on I realized that I was actually testing these LapPads wrong
when I visited the LapLogic web site and happened to see a picture of
one of the pads in use. The bottom of the laptop is supposed to rest
on the grippy surface, no the colored canvas surface.
(Of course, any hardware that uses the operator as a heat-sink is
ASKING to lose.)
The jail sentence is the maximum allowed under the law,
due to Carmack's prior felony conviction for fraud in a federal case
involving fake money orders, McCarthy said.
And from another article...
Carmack is accused of stealing credit cards and identities to
fraudulently buy 343 EarthLink accounts to send shady and unwanted
e-mail for such things as herbal therapy. Prosecutors said they do not
yet know how he acquired the credit card information. He is also
accused of banking fraud and other illegal activities arising from his
spam operation, which authorities believe he operated on his own.
But your honor, I was trying to run an HONEST business of
stealing peopele's time and identitiy! Now I'll have to go back to
mail fraud!
I hope he enjoys his term in state pound-me-up-the-ass prison.
This is the only thing that will curtail the (domestic) spam
problem. Harsh, painful prison sentences.
The jail sentence is the maximum allowed under the law,
due to Carmack's prior felony conviction for fraud in a federal case
involving fake money orders, McCarthy said.
And from another article...
Carmack is accused of stealing credit cards and identities to
fraudulently buy 343 EarthLink accounts to send shady and unwanted
e-mail for such things as herbal therapy. Prosecutors said they do not
yet know how he acquired the credit card information. He is also
accused of banking fraud and other illegal activities arising from his
spam operation, which authorities believe he operated on his own.
But your honor, I was trying to run an HONEST business of
stealing peopele's time and identitiy! Now I'll have to go back to
mail fraud!
I hope he enjoys his term in state pound-me-up-the-ass prison.
This is the only thing that will curtail the (domestic) spam
problem. Harsh, painful prison sentences.
It seems clear from the review that the application stack in the Roku is not ready for prime time, but that is not really the fault of Linux.
Other embedded-Linux applications have successfully made boot-time a non-issue.
Unfortunately, in an embedded application, the presentation is monolithic -- it either works or it doesn't. So, this is going to seriously adversely affect the image of Linux in Set-top-box applications.
open source software doesn't seem to employ very many people
Actually, that is false. OSS employs many people who make good livings writing both open and closed source software, standing on the shoulders of Open Source projects. Administering systems running OSS (Even OSS that runs on non-OSS platforms), or running their non-technology business using OSS
Just because very few peopele have FSF or Redhat or Your Pet OS Project at the top of their paycheck does not mean that OSS is not a force in the global economy.
A receiver sensitivity number, without specifying test conditions, is really meaningless. Vendor A could specify a signal of -80 dBm for a BER of 10**-6, while vendor B could specify -90dBm for a BER of 10**-3. Without both numbers, a purchaser cannot make an informed decision. (This is all moot if there is a standard published test condition, perhaps as part of the 802.11 standard, which I should read, but that smacks of RTFA)
Wbat I would love to see is Eb/N0 figures for the uncoded stream, the coding gain, and noise figure for the RX front end. I'll go look at Nationals website -- I am sure there are some app notes for the PRISM chipsets.
5 dB of additional gain at one end will give you 77% more range, all other things being equal. Adding 5dB at EACH end, and you have tripled the distance
Or, it can give you a nice punch through vegetation loss
Does anybody have reliable (or empirically determined) Eb/N0 and NF figures for popular WiFi hardware, for doing real link budgets?
Well, they probably aren't counting the millions of joules per hectare of sunlight falling on the soybean plants in the "energy put into growing the soybeans and turning the soy oil into biodiesel".
Well, that is why I said 'like'... because of those current faults in the rental universe
Clearly the zipcar and flexcar people have The Right Idea, and I wish them much success.
Curiously, I supspect they might do better to target precisely the need-an-SUV-at-Megalomart crowd.
I know one of the Lumber-yard-warehouse stores - OSH, I think, or maybe the other one - has subsidized trucks that you can rent for nearly free to take home your bulky purchases. Very clever
The fundamental problem with the car-centric society of my homeland
is: Nearly pessimum resource utilization at every step of the way.
First, I assume for the moment that we are not going to undo fifty
years of urban planning overnight, and that private cars (or car-like
transporters) are going to be a sine qua non for the time being.
Every day, a commuter needs to get himself and his briefcase from
domicile to place-of-employ.
Once a week, the entire family unit wants to travel together to Funfunparkland.
Once a month you need to carry a SUV-full of groceries home from the
Megalomart.
Having one least-common-denominator vehicle for all of these purposes
(e.g. the Suburban Assault Vehicle), is a poor use of resources - to
use some tortured computer analogy, it is as if you burn a DVD-R with
three words on it, every time you want to use a post-it.
I think something like the Toyota PM would be more readily accepted by
commuters if there were in place a more economically feasible way to
acquire a larger vehicle for ad-hoc short-term missions. Something
like, but not exactly like, the current rental market.
When I lived in Mountain View, CA - there was "Rent A Heap, Cheap"
that had - well - cheap heaps of car... They would rent you a mid-80s
station wagon for something like 25 bucks a day, unlimited mileage (or
nearly unlimited) including tax and insurance. Commuting via
motorcycle, I was easily able to save enough in operating-cost,
fixed cost, and depreciation to rent the wagon for those
once-in-a-while times when having something bigger than a motorcycle
was needed.
The saddest part with Toyota's gadget: It appears too much a toy, and
they will have terrible image problems. The/. collective-consciousnless will call it 'gay'. (Not to mention the
risks involved with someone 0wn3ring your car and driving you off a
cliff!)
The point I was making, in addition to the parent poster was, a blanket Nobody should be running a mail server at home statment is prima facie false. There may be very good reasons -- such as "wanting to have email".
For what it's worth, I am very happy with my broadband vendor, both on price and performance, and they sell me a pipe in which I transport bits. No application layer services, no restrictions, no bullshit.
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Maybe Charlton Heston would balk, but the FAA did not. Federal Air Marshall Program
<humor mode="sarcasm">Because there have never been in history any user-mode accessible root exploits for any competing systems ever. Zarendist Linux is absolutely known to be hole free.</humor>
I will definitely give the poster props for a nice MSFT bash - but perhaps you are being a bit pollyanna in your analysis. And if you posted it, there are surely those who believe it, and if they put that theory into practice, they also have an exposure to malware. (cough, cough)Morris Worm(cough).
That is interesting (that your users were confused by using a network file share, but found the thumb drives intuitive.)
Is it the fact that there is a physical artifact that makes the idea of "your files are going here" easier to map into their worldview? UI Designers Take Note. This might be on the test.
I think it was a pretty low-level barb at the GNOME community from someone who prefers the "other" religion. And his quote, "I find myself far more productive in KDE than in GNOME these days." makes me think that he might actually move back and forth between the two camps based on the current feature-to-wart ratio.
Neither GNOME nor KDE are perfect. You pick the featureset that coincides with your personal philosophy or needs or free help-desk fount.
For years, when Unix newbies asked me, "What should I run, *BSD, or Linux, or ... " I would always answer the same: "Find a nearby knowledgable friend, and run what s/he is running. The ability to get advice from someone who has done it is orders of magnitude more significant than the fine details of OS internals.
Spot-beam satellite (i.e. DirecTV's offering, the British company whose name escapes me) is not available anywhere there is an uninhibited view of the sky. If you look at the contour maps for those products, you will see they are pretty tightly focused on their target market. I suspect it's even more of a problem on the uplink side -- those systems are running with really tight link budgets, and I don't think you're going to get an acceptable uplink BER if your antenna is 10dB off boresite.
While there are VSAT products that are available virtually anywhere, they are orders of magnitude more expensive. (For E1 speed in, say, Nigeria, figure $45K US per month, plus hardware costs in the several-kilobuck range.)
There is also an Intelsat data product, that last time I checked was about USD $7 per minute for DS0. A subrate option was available (9.6k) for about USD 2 per minute.
Power budget analysis:
The satellite might have a few dB of advantage considering relative power, but I think the EIRP of those birds is pretty low ... certainly less than +50dBm ... so even if I'm using a true QRPppppp (say one milliwatt) transmitter, I've still got 67 dB on the satellite
The one nearest my house has an entire pod of 20 PCS dedicated to Counterstrike, in a separate room. From about 4PM on, it is mobbed and there is a waiting list. It costs 10 pesos (about 90 US cents) per hour.
Excellent idea except for the problem that make universe takes a really long time to compile.
Communication actually is the first service that is needed after a natural disaster. It just turns out that cellular service gives the best bang-for-buck in terms of communication capability.
The cost of calling customers back is trivial compared to the cost of having a person there to call you. The problem with callback is phone-tag.
One can assume that if I subscribe to the LKML, I wish to receive it. If I find my spamfilter (be it CRM or SA or bogofilter or camram or ... ) is dropping list messages in the bitbucket, then one person (me) has to repair one configuration (mine).
I think large legitimate lists don't care if the subscribers whitelist correctly.
You caught me -- I was being disingenuous -- I was trying to make exactly the same point you were making: Just because something is outside your experience does not make it intrinsically more difficult, and just because something is INSIDE your experience does not make it intrinsically easier.
Curiously, in the last year I have actually started using Windows for the first time.
It has been the most difficult platform I have ever had to administer. Setting up even trivial network configurations is near impossible, with seemingly endless screens to move through, and very poor documentation.
Tasks that are trivial under Unix, have thus far eluded me. I still don't know how to set up DNS under Win2K.
Doesn't that sound like precisely the Why $FREE_UNIX_SYSTEM Can Never Succeed on the Desktop Argument? I am sure that Windows is no harder to administer than Unix. But I have fifteen years of Unix adminning experience, and zero Windows experience. To people who grew up on PC-DOS and Wintel, it is as intuitive for them as dd is to me.
So, for everything that matters to me (writing, email, network infrastructure) I use the Sun. For everything that is trivial and fun (websurfing, chat) I use the Winblows box.
The first thing I thought on reading this headline was, Where does the heat that used to be dissipated in the user go?
It appears that there is a textured surface on the pad, one might assume to allow SOME airflow. However, the reviewer was using it wrong:
(Of course, any hardware that uses the operator as a heat-sink is ASKING to lose.)
And from another article ...
But your honor, I was trying to run an HONEST business of stealing peopele's time and identitiy! Now I'll have to go back to mail fraud!
I hope he enjoys his term in state pound-me-up-the-ass prison. This is the only thing that will curtail the (domestic) spam problem. Harsh, painful prison sentences.
And from another article ...
But your honor, I was trying to run an HONEST business of stealing peopele's time and identitiy! Now I'll have to go back to mail fraud!
I hope he enjoys his term in state pound-me-up-the-ass prison. This is the only thing that will curtail the (domestic) spam problem. Harsh, painful prison sentences.
It seems clear from the review that the application stack in the Roku is not ready for prime time, but that is not really the fault of Linux.
Other embedded-Linux applications have successfully made boot-time a non-issue.
Unfortunately, in an embedded application, the presentation is monolithic -- it either works or it doesn't. So, this is going to seriously adversely affect the image of Linux in Set-top-box applications.
Actually, that is false. OSS employs many people who make good livings writing both open and closed source software, standing on the shoulders of Open Source projects. Administering systems running OSS (Even OSS that runs on non-OSS platforms), or running their non-technology business using OSS
Just because very few peopele have FSF or Redhat or Your Pet OS Project at the top of their paycheck does not mean that OSS is not a force in the global economy.
You mean wire nuts is not a good connector technology for wideband 2GHz singals?
Cue all the people with the anecdotal, "well, I used nothing but a piece of snot as a feedline, and I was able to work EME on X-band" stories.
Interesting table, although lacking in meat.
A receiver sensitivity number, without specifying test conditions, is really meaningless. Vendor A could specify a signal of -80 dBm for a BER of 10**-6, while vendor B could specify -90dBm for a BER of 10**-3. Without both numbers, a purchaser cannot make an informed decision. (This is all moot if there is a standard published test condition, perhaps as part of the 802.11 standard, which I should read, but that smacks of RTFA)
Wbat I would love to see is Eb/N0 figures for the uncoded stream, the coding gain, and noise figure for the RX front end. I'll go look at Nationals website -- I am sure there are some app notes for the PRISM chipsets.
5 dB of additional gain at one end will give you 77% more range, all other things being equal. Adding 5dB at EACH end, and you have tripled the distance
Or, it can give you a nice punch through vegetation loss
Does anybody have reliable (or empirically determined) Eb/N0 and NF figures for popular WiFi hardware, for doing real link budgets?
Well, they probably aren't counting the millions of joules per hectare of sunlight falling on the soybean plants in the "energy put into growing the soybeans and turning the soy oil into biodiesel".
Well, that is why I said 'like' ... because of those current faults in the rental universe
Clearly the zipcar and flexcar people have The Right Idea, and I wish them much success.
Curiously, I supspect they might do better to target precisely the need-an-SUV-at-Megalomart crowd.
I know one of the Lumber-yard-warehouse stores - OSH, I think, or maybe the other one - has subsidized trucks that you can rent for nearly free to take home your bulky purchases. Very clever
The fundamental problem with the car-centric society of my homeland is: Nearly pessimum resource utilization at every step of the way.
First, I assume for the moment that we are not going to undo fifty years of urban planning overnight, and that private cars (or car-like transporters) are going to be a sine qua non for the time being.
Every day, a commuter needs to get himself and his briefcase from domicile to place-of-employ. Once a week, the entire family unit wants to travel together to Funfunparkland. Once a month you need to carry a SUV-full of groceries home from the Megalomart.
Having one least-common-denominator vehicle for all of these purposes (e.g. the Suburban Assault Vehicle), is a poor use of resources - to use some tortured computer analogy, it is as if you burn a DVD-R with three words on it, every time you want to use a post-it.
I think something like the Toyota PM would be more readily accepted by commuters if there were in place a more economically feasible way to acquire a larger vehicle for ad-hoc short-term missions. Something like, but not exactly like, the current rental market.
When I lived in Mountain View, CA - there was "Rent A Heap, Cheap" that had - well - cheap heaps of car ... They would rent you a mid-80s
station wagon for something like 25 bucks a day, unlimited mileage (or
nearly unlimited) including tax and insurance. Commuting via
motorcycle, I was easily able to save enough in operating-cost,
fixed cost, and depreciation to rent the wagon for those
once-in-a-while times when having something bigger than a motorcycle
was needed.
The saddest part with Toyota's gadget: It appears too much a toy, and they will have terrible image problems. The /. collective-consciousnless will call it 'gay'. (Not to mention the
risks involved with someone 0wn3ring your car and driving you off a
cliff!)
The point I was making, in addition to the parent poster was, a blanket Nobody should be running a mail server at home statment is prima facie false. There may be very good reasons -- such as "wanting to have email".
For what it's worth, I am very happy with my broadband vendor, both on price and performance, and they sell me a pipe in which I transport bits. No application layer services, no restrictions, no bullshit.