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Yeah, I haven't used VIM much; however, a while back I needed an easy way to edit config files on some WinXP Pro computers that I manage remotely. VIM was the first text editor that I could find that would work over the Microsoft Telnet Service (via VPN). I still don't know the interface that well, but there are a million or so cheatsheets on the web to get the basics going.
I won't be surprised to find Microsoft cutting deals like this with other major sites. A lot of people don't know how terrible search engines were before Google -- results were ridiculous, I'd expect to shift through 4 pages of irrelevant or minor hits on AltaVista to get something moderately useful. Google was flat out better and it deserved to become #1. However, it's not entirely clear that it's results are that much better anymore. It will be far easier for Microsoft to steal search engine share now and take the wind out of Google's advertising revenues rather than later when web based apps actually are useful.
MS is in a relatively good place, it takes weeks and months (optimistically!) to migrate a business from Windows or Office to Linux or OpenOffice. To migrate from Google.com to MSN.com for web searches? Maybe 10 seconds.
It might be worthwhile to get ahead of the situation and drop Google a quick note and tell them to suspend your account for a while -- it's MUCH better than getting banned from Adsense. At a 40% click through rate, Google WILL notice.
I was going to mention GFI as well. I've used it at a small office with Exchange 2000. The paid version does baynesian and what not, once the trial expires, you get to "keep" the DNS blacklist feature. Whitelist support was pretty good too.
To end SPAM, it seems like it's safer for internet users in general if some of us volunteer to automatically load those SPAM URL's. I.e. DDOS. Someone needs to hack up a cute little tray application to grab URLs from a central site and grab them a few thousand times... it won't end spam directly, but it might (finally) make the economics poor.
Unfortunately, a lot of folks are still stuck on 800x600. I found some stats a month or two ago when I was reworking a website and wanted to know what was safe to target. According to that page, about 16% of people are still on 800x600 -- I have no idea how they gather the data or how accurate it is. For a website that is aimed at non-technical users, it's probably too early to ignore 800x600 usability.
Simply stretching the article content area isn't necessarily that great either, IMHO, the relatively short articles that are common on news sites don't read that well when they are very wide and only a few lines long.... and there aren't any good solutions (other than Javascript or I guess Flash) for doing newspaper like columns.
The cost of an automobile factory is comparable to the cost of an ocean oil drilling platform or those freaky oil sands developments here in Canada. Big Oil is plenty used to billion dollar investments. Besides, they could always contract out manufacturing.
There hasn't been a financial incentive for companies to explore for uranium for the last two decades. Prices have been very low - partly because there were no new reactors built, and partly due to a lot of decomissioned (mostly Russian) warheads that were dilluted to power plant specs. Now that prices for uranium have doubled or trippled over the last couple years, there has been a surge in new exploration companies. I'm pretty sure that supplies will last a lot longer than whatever estimates have been made in the past. The same thing applied to oil, we've been running out of oil for 50 years now. Besides, uranium isn't the only source of radioactives - IIRC, breeder reactors producting plutonium can boost reserves by a factor or three.
No one gets fired for buying IBM gear. However, you can get fired for buying Lenovo. Who wants to be the guy who has to explain to higher-ups that "really it's the same quality as IBM" when something goes wrong? Brand name matters. Do Hyundais sell as easily as Hondas or Fords?
Besides that, in theory you can kick up a fuss and threaten to sue IBM and you'll know that IBM has the funds to make things right in order to protect their brand. Lenovo has no brand equity to speak of in North America. Do they really care if you spam 100 blogs and forums with negative comments about your defective laptop? Who knows. It's certainly not guaranteed.
I guess somewhere down the line MySQL users will be pressured to move off of innodb onto this Solid DB. (At which point, we might see some community backlash and a big controversial fork where the community makes a GPL-only version of MySQL to maintain InnoDB support -- which would please Oracle greatly.)
I hope the MySQL has gotten something in paper that will make sure that this is the last time that users have to migrate. Sure, they can claim that a migration will be seamless, but who's going to be foolhardy enough to risk their data on a transition like this without significant testing?
Actually, now that I think about it, I don't know if it is reasonable to expect users to switch "just" so that MySQL will be able to sell commercial licenses to their drivers and what not. The switch to InnoDB took years (and it's probably still ongoing for many users), but in return, those who switched got a lot of new features that made it worthwhile (probably). This time around, there is not much of an incentive for end users -- assuming that the feature sets will be roughly comparable between InnoDB and Solid.
I think my ISP was one of the first major ISPs in North America to traffic shape upstream traffic. In general, they don't worry too much about total bandwidth consumed. My current traffic limit, 60GB/mo, is much higher than I have ever used in a month, and I'm probably in the top 5-10% of bandwidth users - there's a limit to how much video someone can watch in a day!
However, my ISP hates Bittorrent and other P2P uploads with a vengeance - I'm throttled to about 15KB/s upstream for BT compared to 2-3x that for regular HTTP and FTP transfers. Since cable is shared, and total upstream is significantly lower than total downstream, P2P has to be throttled or the entire network segment will move at a crawl. The ADSL guys don't have that problem. If you clog up your ADSL upstream, you only affect your own connection. Once the traffic is at the network centers, ADSL and cable are relatively similar -- big pipes to centralized locations are relatively cheap.
No, I don't like it; however, for ~$40/mo, it's a fair deal and I can't be bothered to switch.
IIRC, Kyoto is all about the carbon output. With respect to old computers, Kyoto would have only made the situation worse. Since China and India are exempt from Kyoto, even more old gear would be sent there so that the CO2 generated from recyling the metal wouldn't have to be monitored, counted, or paid for as it would (in theory) in the West.
Not that it really matters, IMHO, it's only a matter of time before Kyoto is officially declared dead. Here in Canada we're hopelessly behind our goal, the only way to meet our target would be to buy a billion dollars of CO2 credits from Russia -- which would have exactly zero impact on CO2 emmissions because Russia's CO2 credit surplus is due to a timing fluke relating to their collapsing economy in the post-Cold War period.
With China, India, and most other developing countries exempt from Kyoto, (and to a lesser extent, the USA opting out) there's very little incentive for those who have signed on to actually do anything. Plus, the costs of meeting the targets through technology (e.g. hybrids, or new power plants, or home upgrades) are enormous.
RTFA folks, the Dell guy in the article is not claiming that Dell inventied WiFi, x86-64 or anything like that. They're claiming that by virtue of their throwing their weight behind a technology, they can be the catalyst to make standards actually be useful. In many ways I tend to agree. It's pretty clear to me that Dell has huge sway over Intel these days. Against MSFT? I'm not too sure.
I run a quiet phpBB for forum support of some websites of mine. For the last few months SPAM has outnumbered real posts by a large margin. I tried a CAPTA module (I think it was the built in one) and it did next to nothing - they aren't programs, the posts are from humans who have (low paying) jobs to post links on message boards.
I had reasonable success by limiting posts to people who have verified their email address -- I think that that was also a feature of a recent phpBB update.
But the spam still outnumbered posts, so in the last two weeks I've added these two phpBB mods:
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/4878 - this mod checks each registration IP address against the dns blacklists. I think that it improved the situation, but it didn't stop the problem out right, and I still had to clean up the board once in a while.
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/6208 - this mod gives a really easy way to delete a user and all of their posts at once. It's not a fix, but it's turned out to be the best solution. It only takes a few seconds to undo the damage from any one individual, no matter how many spam posts that they have made. A person could spend 20 minutes registering and posting 20 messages and I have to spend 20 seconds nuking the account and all it's posts. It's a fair trade, and I get some small satisfaction in that!
I've got a small phpBB bulletin board setup to support some of my websites. For the last 4 or 5 months I've been using a CAPTCHA. It has done almost nothing to reduce SPAM because most of the spammers are from people in "cheap labour" areas who get paid to post. I assume that there's some sort of exchange market out there where people can hire people to make posts for pennies a piece. I don't know how they would track performance, but I assume that they've got that figured out.
True, you currently can't run Windows in Xen; however, both AMD and Intel will be offering updated processors with enhanced virtualization instructions that will allow Xen (and other VMs) to run Windows in a VM much more easily. So, IMHO, both VMWare and Virtual Server are trying to be proactive here and entrench themselves before the $0 VM from Xen becomes a real option.
Of all the bits of software in Windows, perhaps the IE should be at the top of the list for migrating to.net managed code. It seems to be the most problematic (not necessarily because of code quality, but because it's a big juicy target for hackers).
The article specifically mentions Dell boxes, I wonder what features are available for whitebox servers. I guess it would depend on the motherboard features?
Bumping this up makes sense; however, I wonder if 4KB (KiB?) is a bit low. I know that hard drive sizes have gone up way more than 8x. Let's see, I started with a 20MB drive in an XT. My desktop downstairs has a 200GB drive. So, that's about 10,000 times bigger. Intuitively, a 8x bump in sector size seems a bit small. Wouldn't something like 16KB be useful for a few extra years?
Some of the Netcraft numbers are based on the number of domains hosted by a platform or web server. By paying off GoDaddy.com for parked domains they will get a large boost in Netcraft numbers for IIS and Windows Server. Sure the domains don't reflect 'productive' websites; but they still count. Not a bad plan.
From GoDaddy's point of view, it's a no brainer. Who doesn't want money? Besides, there isn't even any evil involved in this one.
I think it's worth emphasizing that it is more than just copying the "feel" of RHEL. Centros aims to be binary compatible with the comparable RHEL release. I.e. every RPM that can be installed on RHEL can be installed on a Centros box. This is incredibly useful for situations where you want the long-life that Red Hat guarantees with RHEL, but can't or won't pay for it.
FWIW, I first learned about Centros when it came with my VPS account. It's been good to me so far.
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Yeah, I haven't used VIM much; however, a while back I needed an easy way to edit config files on some WinXP Pro computers that I manage remotely. VIM was the first text editor that I could find that would work over the Microsoft Telnet Service (via VPN). I still don't know the interface that well, but there are a million or so cheatsheets on the web to get the basics going.
I won't be surprised to find Microsoft cutting deals like this with other major sites. A lot of people don't know how terrible search engines were before Google -- results were ridiculous, I'd expect to shift through 4 pages of irrelevant or minor hits on AltaVista to get something moderately useful. Google was flat out better and it deserved to become #1. However, it's not entirely clear that it's results are that much better anymore. It will be far easier for Microsoft to steal search engine share now and take the wind out of Google's advertising revenues rather than later when web based apps actually are useful.
MS is in a relatively good place, it takes weeks and months (optimistically!) to migrate a business from Windows or Office to Linux or OpenOffice. To migrate from Google.com to MSN.com for web searches? Maybe 10 seconds.
It might be worthwhile to get ahead of the situation and drop Google a quick note and tell them to suspend your account for a while -- it's MUCH better than getting banned from Adsense. At a 40% click through rate, Google WILL notice.
I was going to mention GFI as well. I've used it at a small office with Exchange 2000. The paid version does baynesian and what not, once the trial expires, you get to "keep" the DNS blacklist feature. Whitelist support was pretty good too.
To end SPAM, it seems like it's safer for internet users in general if some of us volunteer to automatically load those SPAM URL's. I.e. DDOS. Someone needs to hack up a cute little tray application to grab URLs from a central site and grab them a few thousand times... it won't end spam directly, but it might (finally) make the economics poor.
depending on where you draw the line as SFW...
Unfortunately, a lot of folks are still stuck on 800x600. I found some stats a month or two ago when I was reworking a website and wanted to know what was safe to target. According to that page, about 16% of people are still on 800x600 -- I have no idea how they gather the data or how accurate it is. For a website that is aimed at non-technical users, it's probably too early to ignore 800x600 usability.
Simply stretching the article content area isn't necessarily that great either, IMHO, the relatively short articles that are common on news sites don't read that well when they are very wide and only a few lines long.... and there aren't any good solutions (other than Javascript or I guess Flash) for doing newspaper like columns.
Uh... yeah, those passwords look easy enough to remember.
Heck, I forgot my 4 digit alarm code about 6 months ago... and you want me to remember how to "spell" glid-Tev-Pos-EIGHT???
The cost of an automobile factory is comparable to the cost of an ocean oil drilling platform or those freaky oil sands developments here in Canada. Big Oil is plenty used to billion dollar investments. Besides, they could always contract out manufacturing.
There hasn't been a financial incentive for companies to explore for uranium for the last two decades. Prices have been very low - partly because there were no new reactors built, and partly due to a lot of decomissioned (mostly Russian) warheads that were dilluted to power plant specs. Now that prices for uranium have doubled or trippled over the last couple years, there has been a surge in new exploration companies. I'm pretty sure that supplies will last a lot longer than whatever estimates have been made in the past. The same thing applied to oil, we've been running out of oil for 50 years now. Besides, uranium isn't the only source of radioactives - IIRC, breeder reactors producting plutonium can boost reserves by a factor or three.
No one gets fired for buying IBM gear. However, you can get fired for buying Lenovo. Who wants to be the guy who has to explain to higher-ups that "really it's the same quality as IBM" when something goes wrong? Brand name matters. Do Hyundais sell as easily as Hondas or Fords?
Besides that, in theory you can kick up a fuss and threaten to sue IBM and you'll know that IBM has the funds to make things right in order to protect their brand. Lenovo has no brand equity to speak of in North America. Do they really care if you spam 100 blogs and forums with negative comments about your defective laptop? Who knows. It's certainly not guaranteed.
I guess somewhere down the line MySQL users will be pressured to move off of innodb onto this Solid DB. (At which point, we might see some community backlash and a big controversial fork where the community makes a GPL-only version of MySQL to maintain InnoDB support -- which would please Oracle greatly.)
I hope the MySQL has gotten something in paper that will make sure that this is the last time that users have to migrate. Sure, they can claim that a migration will be seamless, but who's going to be foolhardy enough to risk their data on a transition like this without significant testing?
Actually, now that I think about it, I don't know if it is reasonable to expect users to switch "just" so that MySQL will be able to sell commercial licenses to their drivers and what not. The switch to InnoDB took years (and it's probably still ongoing for many users), but in return, those who switched got a lot of new features that made it worthwhile (probably). This time around, there is not much of an incentive for end users -- assuming that the feature sets will be roughly comparable between InnoDB and Solid.
I think my ISP was one of the first major ISPs in North America to traffic shape upstream traffic. In general, they don't worry too much about total bandwidth consumed. My current traffic limit, 60GB/mo, is much higher than I have ever used in a month, and I'm probably in the top 5-10% of bandwidth users - there's a limit to how much video someone can watch in a day!
However, my ISP hates Bittorrent and other P2P uploads with a vengeance - I'm throttled to about 15KB/s upstream for BT compared to 2-3x that for regular HTTP and FTP transfers. Since cable is shared, and total upstream is significantly lower than total downstream, P2P has to be throttled or the entire network segment will move at a crawl. The ADSL guys don't have that problem. If you clog up your ADSL upstream, you only affect your own connection. Once the traffic is at the network centers, ADSL and cable are relatively similar -- big pipes to centralized locations are relatively cheap.
No, I don't like it; however, for ~$40/mo, it's a fair deal and I can't be bothered to switch.
IIRC, Kyoto is all about the carbon output. With respect to old computers, Kyoto would have only made the situation worse. Since China and India are exempt from Kyoto, even more old gear would be sent there so that the CO2 generated from recyling the metal wouldn't have to be monitored, counted, or paid for as it would (in theory) in the West.
Not that it really matters, IMHO, it's only a matter of time before Kyoto is officially declared dead. Here in Canada we're hopelessly behind our goal, the only way to meet our target would be to buy a billion dollars of CO2 credits from Russia -- which would have exactly zero impact on CO2 emmissions because Russia's CO2 credit surplus is due to a timing fluke relating to their collapsing economy in the post-Cold War period.
With China, India, and most other developing countries exempt from Kyoto, (and to a lesser extent, the USA opting out) there's very little incentive for those who have signed on to actually do anything. Plus, the costs of meeting the targets through technology (e.g. hybrids, or new power plants, or home upgrades) are enormous.
RTFA folks, the Dell guy in the article is not claiming that Dell inventied WiFi, x86-64 or anything like that. They're claiming that by virtue of their throwing their weight behind a technology, they can be the catalyst to make standards actually be useful. In many ways I tend to agree. It's pretty clear to me that Dell has huge sway over Intel these days. Against MSFT? I'm not too sure.
I run a quiet phpBB for forum support of some websites of mine. For the last few months SPAM has outnumbered real posts by a large margin. I tried a CAPTA module (I think it was the built in one) and it did next to nothing - they aren't programs, the posts are from humans who have (low paying) jobs to post links on message boards.
I had reasonable success by limiting posts to people who have verified their email address -- I think that that was also a feature of a recent phpBB update.
But the spam still outnumbered posts, so in the last two weeks I've added these two phpBB mods:
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/4878 - this mod checks each registration IP address against the dns blacklists. I think that it improved the situation, but it didn't stop the problem out right, and I still had to clean up the board once in a while.
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/6208 - this mod gives a really easy way to delete a user and all of their posts at once. It's not a fix, but it's turned out to be the best solution. It only takes a few seconds to undo the damage from any one individual, no matter how many spam posts that they have made. A person could spend 20 minutes registering and posting 20 messages and I have to spend 20 seconds nuking the account and all it's posts. It's a fair trade, and I get some small satisfaction in that!
I've got a small phpBB bulletin board setup to support some of my websites. For the last 4 or 5 months I've been using a CAPTCHA. It has done almost nothing to reduce SPAM because most of the spammers are from people in "cheap labour" areas who get paid to post. I assume that there's some sort of exchange market out there where people can hire people to make posts for pennies a piece. I don't know how they would track performance, but I assume that they've got that figured out.
True, you currently can't run Windows in Xen; however, both AMD and Intel will be offering updated processors with enhanced virtualization instructions that will allow Xen (and other VMs) to run Windows in a VM much more easily. So, IMHO, both VMWare and Virtual Server are trying to be proactive here and entrench themselves before the $0 VM from Xen becomes a real option.
Host absolutely seamless desktops for thin clients. Sure Citrix works OK for office and web, but it will choke on video and media over ADSL/Cable.
Of all the bits of software in Windows, perhaps the IE should be at the top of the list for migrating to .net managed code. It seems to be the most problematic (not necessarily because of code quality, but because it's a big juicy target for hackers).
The article specifically mentions Dell boxes, I wonder what features are available for whitebox servers. I guess it would depend on the motherboard features?
Bumping this up makes sense; however, I wonder if 4KB (KiB?) is a bit low. I know that hard drive sizes have gone up way more than 8x. Let's see, I started with a 20MB drive in an XT. My desktop downstairs has a 200GB drive. So, that's about 10,000 times bigger. Intuitively, a 8x bump in sector size seems a bit small. Wouldn't something like 16KB be useful for a few extra years?
Well, if they have to crash the plane, so be it. Maybe they can finance it by selling the publicity rights to someone...
Some of the Netcraft numbers are based on the number of domains hosted by a platform or web server. By paying off GoDaddy.com for parked domains they will get a large boost in Netcraft numbers for IIS and Windows Server. Sure the domains don't reflect 'productive' websites; but they still count. Not a bad plan.
From GoDaddy's point of view, it's a no brainer. Who doesn't want money? Besides, there isn't even any evil involved in this one.
I think it's worth emphasizing that it is more than just copying the "feel" of RHEL. Centros aims to be binary compatible with the comparable RHEL release. I.e. every RPM that can be installed on RHEL can be installed on a Centros box. This is incredibly useful for situations where you want the long-life that Red Hat guarantees with RHEL, but can't or won't pay for it. FWIW, I first learned about Centros when it came with my VPS account. It's been good to me so far.