As other people have said already, if you do it that way then you have a risk of data leaking to unencrypted areas of the disk - the files might end up getting written to swap, or copied to/tmp, at which point your encryption is useless.
The ASA don't really seem to care whether an advert is actually telling the truth or not, which makes sense considering they're a self-regulating body of advertisers.
They also let Virgin Media get away with their "only fibre-optic broadband" nonsense, which in fact means "we use fibre-optics at some point along the line, and then switch to copper at about the same point DSL would".
Their frameworks restrict you from developing anything that can only run on a single server.
While most of what you say is true, that particular statement is not. EC2 provides a virtual machine, running the operating system of your choice - anything you could do on your single co-located server, you can do on an EC2 machine.
In this context "cloud computing" is somebody else managing virtual servers for you, and providing an API to add and remove servers from the ones you have running.
I see that as expected behaviour - git add isn't adding a file to version control, it's adding to the current changeset.
I can see how if you're not expecting that, it can be a bit annoying, but I find it less annoying then commiting the wrong code, or worse, broken code.
If you really want it to work how you expect it to, just add an alias so that it always gets the -a flag.
So either you need tape in the sort of quantity that the private user cannot justify, or you're going to have to spring for a hefty RAID and arrange for another one like it as a backup. Offsite if you're lucky, but it's probably just going to be out in your garage/basement/tool shed.
Or you could use a service like S3. If you're really paranoid about Amazon going out of business, or losing your data, pick four different services and back up to all of them.
There's more then one - while they don't provide the same interface, I'm fairly sure Google's cache of the internet could be used to produce the same thing.
What sort of hardware are you running on? Having seen some of the features that Solaris provides (especially ZFS, and Zones), I'd love to set up a server to play with it on, but I have a feeling I'm going to need some sort of exotic hardware to get started.
The point is that if the site is built to standards, you don't have to spend a lot of money making that small number of people happy. Their browser is probably built to render sites as the standards specify, and so it'll probably work anyway.
I build web applications at work, and only have to make it work in Firefox, but because I'm using standards, and think about what I'm doing, I can be fairly confident that it's going to work in most other things as well. I have users happily using my apps in some barely known browsers, without problems.
They might do that in the US. Over here in the UK T-Mobile realise that people would like to use the phones they bought, and will quite happily let you tether it. They even have tech support who are quite willing to just give you the login details if you tell them you know what you're doing.
VoIP might be pushing it, but we do have an operator who actually sell Skype over 3G as a feature on several of their phones.
That does sound quite cool, but it doesn't really solve the problem for your average office worker who just wants to get that file they deleted back.
Providing a GUI for it frees up IT support to do something other then run a bunch of command line scripts to find the older version, and also makes it possible for users to find out that it's even possible to do this.
That's not really a huge failure - it would probably take some time to get used to, but you just adapt the way you communicate if you happen to be in a video conference.
Instead of pointing at someone and saying "you're fired", point (for the benefit of the people in the room), and say "QuantumG, you're fired". It's not really that difficult.
You're (possibly deliberately) misinterpreting they're approach to feature requests.
In general, they're very receptive to feature requests, but they don't implement things for one specific customer. If they get the same request repeatedly, from different customers though, they'll probably do it.
Browse bug lists, download the dev branch and start plugging away?
Yes.
Either that, or add a feature to some software that you've always thought should be there... although you should probably check that it's likely to get accepted first.
I've been told that working on Open Source projects has been a major factor in being hired for most of the jobs I've done.
As the GP said, it shows you have enough passion for the job to do it even if you're not being paid, and it puts code out there that an employer can see. That's a big thing, because hiring a developer without seeing their code is (or should be) the same as hiring an artist without seeing any of their paintings.
If you're using it do word processing instead of Internet access, fair enough, but if I was running your *library* network, I'd be pissed at people deciding to sit around playing Flash games as well.
Being bound to T-Mobile is really not the end of the world, since
Did the world just end there?;)
No... I was going to say that, and then decided otherwise, but had already clicked the preview button, where oddly it didn't appear.
I guess I should finish the sentence now it's out there though!
It's not the end of the world, because in my experience all the providers are much the same, and T-Mobile provide the best prices for my usage.
I'd love to see some competition, but there isn't really any, so I'll just get on with worrying about bigger things then which company provides my crappy customer service;)
Is there one in the UK yet? This article got me looking for release dates again, since I could really do with a new phone, and the only thing I could find was "early November".
Being bound to T-Mobile is really not the end of the world, since
It's even more useful in a large environment - our setup currently monitors 1900 pieces of hardware, each with a few services on them. Without some sort of monitoring system, it would be near impossible to notice if one of those goes down, especially if it's customer hardware which people in the company aren't using.
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+1: Bat-shit crazy
That's possibly the oddest thing I've read on /. in a while - thanks for brightening up my day!
Wow, not only are you drunk and incoherant, you also utterly failed to reply to your own comment.
I recommend you find a doctor to pump your stomach for you.
As other people have said already, if you do it that way then you have a risk of data leaking to unencrypted areas of the disk - the files might end up getting written to swap, or copied to /tmp, at which point your encryption is useless.
The ASA don't really seem to care whether an advert is actually telling the truth or not, which makes sense considering they're a self-regulating body of advertisers.
They also let Virgin Media get away with their "only fibre-optic broadband" nonsense, which in fact means "we use fibre-optics at some point along the line, and then switch to copper at about the same point DSL would".
While most of what you say is true, that particular statement is not. EC2 provides a virtual machine, running the operating system of your choice - anything you could do on your single co-located server, you can do on an EC2 machine.
In this context "cloud computing" is somebody else managing virtual servers for you, and providing an API to add and remove servers from the ones you have running.
I see that as expected behaviour - git add isn't adding a file to version control, it's adding to the current changeset.
I can see how if you're not expecting that, it can be a bit annoying, but I find it less annoying then commiting the wrong code, or worse, broken code.
If you really want it to work how you expect it to, just add an alias so that it always gets the -a flag.
Or you could use a service like S3. If you're really paranoid about Amazon going out of business, or losing your data, pick four different services and back up to all of them.
I really like that it doesn't commit everything unless you explicitly tell it to - I've been bitten by that far too many times with Subversion.
There's more then one - while they don't provide the same interface, I'm fairly sure Google's cache of the internet could be used to produce the same thing.
You might not use Konqueror, but because it's the basis for Webkit, which runs Safari, it makes a lot of sense to test it.
What sort of hardware are you running on? Having seen some of the features that Solaris provides (especially ZFS, and Zones), I'd love to set up a server to play with it on, but I have a feeling I'm going to need some sort of exotic hardware to get started.
The point is that if the site is built to standards, you don't have to spend a lot of money making that small number of people happy. Their browser is probably built to render sites as the standards specify, and so it'll probably work anyway.
I build web applications at work, and only have to make it work in Firefox, but because I'm using standards, and think about what I'm doing, I can be fairly confident that it's going to work in most other things as well. I have users happily using my apps in some barely known browsers, without problems.
They might do that in the US. Over here in the UK T-Mobile realise that people would like to use the phones they bought, and will quite happily let you tether it. They even have tech support who are quite willing to just give you the login details if you tell them you know what you're doing.
VoIP might be pushing it, but we do have an operator who actually sell Skype over 3G as a feature on several of their phones.
That does sound quite cool, but it doesn't really solve the problem for your average office worker who just wants to get that file they deleted back.
Providing a GUI for it frees up IT support to do something other then run a bunch of command line scripts to find the older version, and also makes it possible for users to find out that it's even possible to do this.
They didn't exist - to keep in line with the current release of Windows, they started at 3.0.
That's not really a huge failure - it would probably take some time to get used to, but you just adapt the way you communicate if you happen to be in a video conference.
Instead of pointing at someone and saying "you're fired", point (for the benefit of the people in the room), and say "QuantumG, you're fired". It's not really that difficult.
You're (possibly deliberately) misinterpreting they're approach to feature requests.
In general, they're very receptive to feature requests, but they don't implement things for one specific customer. If they get the same request repeatedly, from different customers though, they'll probably do it.
Yes.
Either that, or add a feature to some software that you've always thought should be there... although you should probably check that it's likely to get accepted first.
I've been told that working on Open Source projects has been a major factor in being hired for most of the jobs I've done.
As the GP said, it shows you have enough passion for the job to do it even if you're not being paid, and it puts code out there that an employer can see. That's a big thing, because hiring a developer without seeing their code is (or should be) the same as hiring an artist without seeing any of their paintings.
Whats the "anything else besides"?
If you're using it do word processing instead of Internet access, fair enough, but if I was running your *library* network, I'd be pissed at people deciding to sit around playing Flash games as well.
No... I was going to say that, and then decided otherwise, but had already clicked the preview button, where oddly it didn't appear.
I guess I should finish the sentence now it's out there though!
It's not the end of the world, because in my experience all the providers are much the same, and T-Mobile provide the best prices for my usage.
I'd love to see some competition, but there isn't really any, so I'll just get on with worrying about bigger things then which company provides my crappy customer service ;)
And a really nice user interface.
It's the fact that just about anyone can work out how to do anything with it that sells iPods, not the external design.
Is there one in the UK yet? This article got me looking for release dates again, since I could really do with a new phone, and the only thing I could find was "early November".
Being bound to T-Mobile is really not the end of the world, since
It's even more useful in a large environment - our setup currently monitors 1900 pieces of hardware, each with a few services on them. Without some sort of monitoring system, it would be near impossible to notice if one of those goes down, especially if it's customer hardware which people in the company aren't using.