Also I think proponents of IPv6 also tend to overlook the value of DNS.
1) The addresses are now ridiculously long.
I'm confused - first you say that IPv6 proponents "overlook" the value of DNS, meaning that they don't understand its significance. Perhaps you meant to say the opposite - "overstate," perhaps?
2) There's not supposed to be any such thing as NAT (which also means your practice of always having your inside router be x.1 now gets more complex)
Why would this have to be any different? Instead of getting a single or small block of IPs from your ISP, you'll get an entire subnet (or two, or 256). You can keep your router at.1 (or:1) if you'd like.
3) Many things that don't REALLY need addresses are now going to get them, because we have so many, so lets just go crazy.
While it opens up the opportunity to give more devices their own addresses, it doesn't require it. If you're like me and you don't want your fridge to have an IP address, then don't buy a network-capable fridge. However, for those that want networked fridges (or companies that want a large network of sensors in their factory without having to deal with private IP routing hell), they'll have the option.
To recap, many minor devices will all have a very-long, unique address, and each will be difficult to fit into brain-space alone, let alone together. This scenario only works in a fully-DHCP world, which is fine for some, but I'll keep my static IPv4 for as long as possible, thanks.
I'm confused - how does DHCP help us to not have to remember IP addresses? As discussed above, that's the job of DNS. If anything, DHCP makes it a bit harder, since then dynamic DNS is usually required as well.
It is true that IPv6 was not designed with old-school networking geeks in mind - I share your concern about IPv6 addresses being difficult to remember. However, it will be a huge help for actual (non-amateur) network admins, as well as home users (where autoconfiguration will make everything as seamless - if not moreso - than it is now).
The funny thing is, after posting this, our connection (a $100/month Comcast Business line) was down for the majority of the afternoon. Their support was very responsive, though.
About a month ago, I had to make a bunch of tech support calls to my now former ISP for my business connection. A couple of years ago when I established the account, they asked me to create one of these, but this one was rather unusual in that I could choose any question I pleased. I chose "why should this type of 'security' never be used?" with the answer being "inadequate security." I had to answer that question over the phone about fifteen times over the course of a month, which took a little bit of the pain out of dealing with the incompetence at this ISP. Only a couple of the reps I spoke with seemed to get the joke, or (very likely) most of them didn't care.
The organic farm I'm a member of (CSA program) is very efficient with their land use. They use traditional methods such as crop rotation and diversification to ensure high productivity. From what I understand, their yield per acre is on par with industrial agriculture.
Where they can't hope to compete is yield-per-worker - but that's part of the point. We end up paying about the same as buying from the store (no middle-men), but it would definitely be more expensive if the distribution methods were similar. However, I'd much rather pay for human labor (especially when such labor is well-paid and treated well, as is the case with our farm) than for chemicals and large corporations' profits.
Don't get me started on industrial "organic," however...
Every spring, we lose a couple of laptops, one or two wireless nodes, and a wireless camera or two. It's always after a storm and it's never the wired equipment.
It sounds to me like you need a wireless surge protector. I'm sure Monster Cable makes one.
OTOH, the AUX & ipod input probably cost $1 each. I don't understand why every car built after 2005 doesn't have those.
The reason that not all cars have this feature is so that people pay hundreds or thousands of $$$ for the trim package that includes said feature.
Case in point: My wife and I recently purchased a 2009 Honda Civic. We settled on the mid-level LX version. Two features we wanted but couldn't get without spending lots of money: variable-speed intermittent wipers (available on the EX and higher - extra $1400 or so) and heated side mirrors (only available on the EX-L, which includes leather, sunroof, alloy wheels, etc. - another couple thousand $$).
The variable-speed intermittent wipers would have been practically free for them to include in every model - different programming in the central computer (probably just a boolean hasVariableIntermittentWipers value somewhere) and maybe an additional control on the wiper stalk. By not including them on the low- and mid-range trim packages, however, that simple feature had us second-guessing our choice of trim package. The heated mirrors would add a little to their cost, but it is possible to build a car with cloth seats, an intact roof, and heated mirrors.
The Toyota Corollas we looked at were even worse - we couldn't get a manual transmission unless we went with the "sporty" S trim package ("sporty Corolla" is even more oxymoronic than "spory Civic") or the extremely bare-bones trim package that was missing lots of things that we wanted (even a radio, IIRC). Toyota also lost any chance of a sale from us when their web site allowed us to build a car like we wanted, only to be told at the dealer that the car we built on the web site couldn't be built in real life, and that we should go to the "targeted to your demographic" Scion brand to get customize-ability, which appear to be more along in the vein of removable faceplates on cell phones than options that matter to us.
I share your sentiment with Palm's last few generations. I currently own a Tungsten E|2 and a Zire 72, with the Zire acting as a backup. The fact that I even need a backup PDA is a shame, but the Tungsten is simply not reliable.
Here's a list of things that have gone wrong with the Tungsten:
1. Power button stopped working (I installed software that allows me to remap another button as a power button - the fact that this software is available says how prevalent this issue is, going all the way back to the original Pilots) 2. Internal speaker doesn't work (headphones do work) 3. Wildly inaccurate battery meter (yes, I've calibrated it - multiple times) 4. The screen emits a high-pitched whine 5. The OS is buggy, including filesystem corruption issues 6. Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), where the device refuses to power up
There is a person by the name of Chris Short that repairs Palms for reasonable rates, and I sent him mine a year ago. He fixed #'s 1, 4, and 6 (#2 hadn't materialized yet) and replaced the battery (which led to much better run times but no solution for #3). The power button has since failed again.
Even with all of these problems, however, I'm still planning to buy another Palm when my current ones crap out. I'm no a masochist; instead, I appreciate the history that led to the Palm OS platform - early Palms were fairly simple PIMs, rather than full-fledged computers. Every OS revision, while adding features, stayed true to that pedigree. While my Tungsten has many significant flaws, it is still a much better organizer than just about anything else on the market.
I hope that Palm stays true to their roots with this new OS release. If so, I'll definitely consider their offerings, while trying to stomach the idea of giving more money to a company that sold a seriously flawed device with only a 90-day warranty.
Or you could use a newer JVM. With the exception of a few well-documented issues, Java code written for any previous platform version is fully upward-compatible, both binary (byte-code) and source, to any newer release. That sounds like about as close to WORA as you can get.
Or were you thinking of running new code on an old JVM? If so... why?
What kind of UPS does that? If the batteries are already charged, what would it be doing with the power that's not consumed by the devices - does it also act as a space-heater?
The ratings for UPS's - and any other power supply - are peak loads, if the UPS is being used at 100% capacity.
I can guarantee to you it does. How does it draw stuff on the screen, allocate memory, access the network etc. if it doesn't interact with OS provided libraries?
What do those functions have to do with "active scripting?"
And since you said that, I'm sure you're not qualified to talk about security exploits.
You have no evidence. Just assumption. Yet, you're "sure."
Sounds a lot like a religious zealot, actually.
Okay, consider me sufficiently chastised. "Sure" was too strong. My assumption, however was not based on security knowledge, but on user-ignorance knowledge. Do you think the average reporter (even one that writes primarily about technology) knows the difference between a browser and a rendering engine? And, even assuming that the reporter does, that (s)he would expect readers to also be able to understand such a distinction?
This feat was achieved by taking advantage of the way that Internet Explorer (and other browsers) handle active scripting in the Operating System. (emphasis added)
What kind of "active scripting" is this? I can guarantee you that Firefox's JavaScript interpreter doesn't use OS-provided libraries to run the code - that would make cross-platform consistency impossible.
I'm sure that by "other browsers," the author of the article means browsers like Maxthon that are simply wrappers around IE. It's the same thing as saying that a bug in the Gecko rendering engine affects Galeon as well as Firefox. Many people (the article author included, apparently) can't distinguish between completely separate browsers and browsers that share 90% of the same code-base.
Explain why the price of oil dropped quite a bit the same day the Bush rescinded the executive ban on drilling then?
"I don't know if we fully deserve the credit, but I do think that it was important to send a signal to the market that we are serious about moving forward." -White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, July 23
My NV-based HP laptop does that too. The weird thing is, it does it whenever it tries to turn the LCD off for power-saving. The CRT that is attached powers down fine. I'm able to resurrect it by hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a virtual terminal, then ALT-F7 to get back to X.
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Is it true? Who knows. I've never bothered to go find out because I simply don't code that much anymore. But it does get repeated quite a bit.
I haven't taken the time to look for studies or to do a scientific comparison myself, but I do know this: I haven't had a performance issue that was Java-related in quite a few years now. Even on my six-year-old notebook, a Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046 with a 800 mhz Transmeta Crusoe (it was slow even for 2002), Eclipse runs about as good as Firefox 3 does (translation: they both are barely usable). On any moderately decent hardware, Java apps run very well; even load times are no longer an issue.
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Also I think proponents of IPv6 also tend to overlook the value of DNS.
1) The addresses are now ridiculously long.
I'm confused - first you say that IPv6 proponents "overlook" the value of DNS, meaning that they don't understand its significance. Perhaps you meant to say the opposite - "overstate," perhaps?
2) There's not supposed to be any such thing as NAT (which also means your practice of always having your inside router be x.1 now gets more complex)
Why would this have to be any different? Instead of getting a single or small block of IPs from your ISP, you'll get an entire subnet (or two, or 256). You can keep your router at .1 (or :1) if you'd like.
3) Many things that don't REALLY need addresses are now going to get them, because we have so many, so lets just go crazy.
While it opens up the opportunity to give more devices their own addresses, it doesn't require it. If you're like me and you don't want your fridge to have an IP address, then don't buy a network-capable fridge. However, for those that want networked fridges (or companies that want a large network of sensors in their factory without having to deal with private IP routing hell), they'll have the option.
To recap, many minor devices will all have a very-long, unique address, and each will be difficult to fit into brain-space alone, let alone together. This scenario only works in a fully-DHCP world, which is fine for some, but I'll keep my static IPv4 for as long as possible, thanks.
I'm confused - how does DHCP help us to not have to remember IP addresses? As discussed above, that's the job of DNS. If anything, DHCP makes it a bit harder, since then dynamic DNS is usually required as well.
It is true that IPv6 was not designed with old-school networking geeks in mind - I share your concern about IPv6 addresses being difficult to remember. However, it will be a huge help for actual (non-amateur) network admins, as well as home users (where autoconfiguration will make everything as seamless - if not moreso - than it is now).
The funny thing is, after posting this, our connection (a $100/month Comcast Business line) was down for the majority of the afternoon. Their support was very responsive, though.
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm glad that I'm a Comcast customer!
(Please excuse me while I go wash out my mouth with soap)
About a month ago, I had to make a bunch of tech support calls to my now former ISP for my business connection. A couple of years ago when I established the account, they asked me to create one of these, but this one was rather unusual in that I could choose any question I pleased. I chose "why should this type of 'security' never be used?" with the answer being "inadequate security." I had to answer that question over the phone about fifteen times over the course of a month, which took a little bit of the pain out of dealing with the incompetence at this ISP. Only a couple of the reps I spoke with seemed to get the joke, or (very likely) most of them didn't care.
The organic farm I'm a member of (CSA program) is very efficient with their land use. They use traditional methods such as crop rotation and diversification to ensure high productivity. From what I understand, their yield per acre is on par with industrial agriculture.
Where they can't hope to compete is yield-per-worker - but that's part of the point. We end up paying about the same as buying from the store (no middle-men), but it would definitely be more expensive if the distribution methods were similar. However, I'd much rather pay for human labor (especially when such labor is well-paid and treated well, as is the case with our farm) than for chemicals and large corporations' profits.
Don't get me started on industrial "organic," however...
Every spring, we lose a couple of laptops, one or two wireless nodes, and a wireless camera or two. It's always after a storm and it's never the wired equipment.
It sounds to me like you need a wireless surge protector. I'm sure Monster Cable makes one.
OTOH, the AUX & ipod input probably cost $1 each. I don't understand why every car built after 2005 doesn't have those.
The reason that not all cars have this feature is so that people pay hundreds or thousands of $$$ for the trim package that includes said feature.
Case in point: My wife and I recently purchased a 2009 Honda Civic. We settled on the mid-level LX version. Two features we wanted but couldn't get without spending lots of money: variable-speed intermittent wipers (available on the EX and higher - extra $1400 or so) and heated side mirrors (only available on the EX-L, which includes leather, sunroof, alloy wheels, etc. - another couple thousand $$).
The variable-speed intermittent wipers would have been practically free for them to include in every model - different programming in the central computer (probably just a boolean hasVariableIntermittentWipers value somewhere) and maybe an additional control on the wiper stalk. By not including them on the low- and mid-range trim packages, however, that simple feature had us second-guessing our choice of trim package. The heated mirrors would add a little to their cost, but it is possible to build a car with cloth seats, an intact roof, and heated mirrors.
The Toyota Corollas we looked at were even worse - we couldn't get a manual transmission unless we went with the "sporty" S trim package ("sporty Corolla" is even more oxymoronic than "spory Civic") or the extremely bare-bones trim package that was missing lots of things that we wanted (even a radio, IIRC). Toyota also lost any chance of a sale from us when their web site allowed us to build a car like we wanted, only to be told at the dealer that the car we built on the web site couldn't be built in real life, and that we should go to the "targeted to your demographic" Scion brand to get customize-ability, which appear to be more along in the vein of removable faceplates on cell phones than options that matter to us.
This corresponds to the energy output of 220 plasma televisions of 340 watts each.
Where can I buy these energy-producing televisions?
I share your sentiment with Palm's last few generations. I currently own a Tungsten E|2 and a Zire 72, with the Zire acting as a backup. The fact that I even need a backup PDA is a shame, but the Tungsten is simply not reliable.
Here's a list of things that have gone wrong with the Tungsten:
1. Power button stopped working (I installed software that allows me to remap another button as a power button - the fact that this software is available says how prevalent this issue is, going all the way back to the original Pilots)
2. Internal speaker doesn't work (headphones do work)
3. Wildly inaccurate battery meter (yes, I've calibrated it - multiple times)
4. The screen emits a high-pitched whine
5. The OS is buggy, including filesystem corruption issues
6. Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS), where the device refuses to power up
There is a person by the name of Chris Short that repairs Palms for reasonable rates, and I sent him mine a year ago. He fixed #'s 1, 4, and 6 (#2 hadn't materialized yet) and replaced the battery (which led to much better run times but no solution for #3). The power button has since failed again.
Even with all of these problems, however, I'm still planning to buy another Palm when my current ones crap out. I'm no a masochist; instead, I appreciate the history that led to the Palm OS platform - early Palms were fairly simple PIMs, rather than full-fledged computers. Every OS revision, while adding features, stayed true to that pedigree. While my Tungsten has many significant flaws, it is still a much better organizer than just about anything else on the market.
I hope that Palm stays true to their roots with this new OS release. If so, I'll definitely consider their offerings, while trying to stomach the idea of giving more money to a company that sold a seriously flawed device with only a 90-day warranty.
Sorry? It's the change we need!
No; it's the change you deserve.
Or you could use a newer JVM. With the exception of a few well-documented issues, Java code written for any previous platform version is fully upward-compatible, both binary (byte-code) and source, to any newer release. That sounds like about as close to WORA as you can get.
Or were you thinking of running new code on an old JVM? If so... why?
What kind of UPS does that? If the batteries are already charged, what would it be doing with the power that's not consumed by the devices - does it also act as a space-heater?
The ratings for UPS's - and any other power supply - are peak loads, if the UPS is being used at 100% capacity.
What good is HD for a debate?
You probably need to install the intermediate CA.
What browser are you using? I've never observed this problem (mainly using Firefox 3 on Ubuntu 8.04).
StartSSL offers free certificates, and their root cert is included with Firefox.
i just left a meeting and was in need of punching a proverbial wall.
i apologize. you were the wall.
No problem - a wall on an Internet forum is probably one of the best ones to punch.<g>
Also, you did have a point (regardless of the tone in which it was presented).
I can guarantee to you it does. How does it draw stuff on the screen, allocate memory, access the network etc. if it doesn't interact with OS provided libraries?
What do those functions have to do with "active scripting?"
"I'm sure"
And since you said that, I'm sure you're not qualified to talk about security exploits.
You have no evidence. Just assumption. Yet, you're "sure."
Sounds a lot like a religious zealot, actually.
Okay, consider me sufficiently chastised. "Sure" was too strong. My assumption, however was not based on security knowledge, but on user-ignorance knowledge. Do you think the average reporter (even one that writes primarily about technology) knows the difference between a browser and a rendering engine? And, even assuming that the reporter does, that (s)he would expect readers to also be able to understand such a distinction?
This feat was achieved by taking advantage of the way that Internet Explorer (and other browsers) handle active scripting in the Operating System. (emphasis added)
What kind of "active scripting" is this? I can guarantee you that Firefox's JavaScript interpreter doesn't use OS-provided libraries to run the code - that would make cross-platform consistency impossible.
I'm sure that by "other browsers," the author of the article means browsers like Maxthon that are simply wrappers around IE. It's the same thing as saying that a bug in the Gecko rendering engine affects Galeon as well as Firefox. Many people (the article author included, apparently) can't distinguish between completely separate browsers and browsers that share 90% of the same code-base.
What if they have to maintain someone else's Perl?
Friends don't let friends code Perl, either.
Explain why the price of oil dropped quite a bit the same day the Bush rescinded the executive ban on drilling then?
"I don't know if we fully deserve the credit, but I do think that it was important to send a signal to the market that we are serious about moving forward."
-White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, July 23
The reports I've heard cite decreased demand.
My NV-based HP laptop does that too. The weird thing is, it does it whenever it tries to turn the LCD off for power-saving. The CRT that is attached powers down fine. I'm able to resurrect it by hitting CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a virtual terminal, then ALT-F7 to get back to X.
I found this file rather amusing:
We are currently in the process of writing a new FAQ due to some recent changes in licensing policy. Questions concerning commercial licensing of NCSAMosaic should be directed to mosaic@spyglass.com
Questions concerning the copyright on NCSAMosaic should be directed to: mgoode@ncsa.uiuc.edu
A new, up-to-date FAQ will be appearing here shortly.
-David Mitchell
08/24/94
Is it true? Who knows. I've never bothered to go find out because I simply don't code that much anymore. But it does get repeated quite a bit.
I haven't taken the time to look for studies or to do a scientific comparison myself, but I do know this: I haven't had a performance issue that was Java-related in quite a few years now. Even on my six-year-old notebook, a Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046 with a 800 mhz Transmeta Crusoe (it was slow even for 2002), Eclipse runs about as good as Firefox 3 does (translation: they both are barely usable). On any moderately decent hardware, Java apps run very well; even load times are no longer an issue.