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YOPY Arrives
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· Score: 2, Informative
I purchased a Zaurus a couple of years ago, as a dev. kit. I was rather disappointed in the design. The screen was nice and the pointer device worked well, but
The keyboard was lacking a number of important keys. No pipe character among others!
The memory model was crappy, and the solution to running out of memory? Randomly kill apps.
Hardware support was of course a bit spotty as well. It seems like a generally complex unit for the "basics." I'm not sure about the latest Linux PDA foray, but I'm rather convinced that a small device is a very different creature, and that Palm was right with their "Simplicity first" approach.
I've seen any number of attempts to get people moving to open source fail. Really, I don't think it comes down to responsibility (legally), because most people just accept a project failing, and very rarely blame the software.
Personally, I chalk it up to mental laziness. Most people will do as little as possible up front, even if it would have saved effort in the long run. Oftentimes the student/researchers are the worst.
It's kinda interesting when you hang around research projects, because the people running the projects tend to look for any way not to pay for software. They're cheap! But, when it comes to open source, they just don't want to deal with it.
It's one of the better reasons that I make sure they pay for their software.;)
One thing often overlooked is the overhead in using these encryption schemes. If you want an access point to handle a hundred clients you need to take the load into account. These APs are designed to run w/ little heat and power usage, not to mention the small clients such as PDAs and scanners.
While this is true in small groups, this does not handle problems when a remote user is setting his headers w/ intent to decieve. The violation is only found if the email address is a valid one and already has a key, which you can confirm to be different from the one on the incoming email.
If the user has set his headers, and generated a key, the key will match the email header. If the email header is valid or not, the key matches. The problem is one of authenticating credencials not just message integrity. In the end, who do you trust?
I seems to me that while encryption is useful, it is the authentication of the remote machine that would be the greatest benefit, which is the problem w/ not having the DNS loop closed.
I would assume that most data theft tens to happen on the machine, not across the network. So that would fall under system security.
The next largest problem is spoofing attacks, w/ the problem of sniffing last.
I do agree that since most of the protocols don't handle security in a very sophsticated way, that this will help strengthen overall security (telnet, pop, imap, you name it.) But since the application can't be sure that the encryption is in place, you would need to rely on an application level security scheme to be sure it's secure.
I had the first version of this unit, and it did seem to collect some dust. It also was very quiet and the ozone had a very pleasing effect.
On the down side:
I had some real mechanical problems with the unit about six months out, even after I sent it in for service.
The unit did not move a lot of air. The newer models seem to have larger fins, which move more air.
That said, I wouldn't dicount the review in CR. Just because there is dust and dirt on the coils doesn't mean that it removes more dust, or even just as much dust as other models. The big selling points are no filters (cheap) and very little power consumption (also cheap).
Actually the real benefit comes in when you want user based restore, especially when it's a distributed site. This allows the user to get an index of what's backup up and scedule a restore w/o any admin. intervention. Some of the more developed systems actually allow a tape pool to act as a longer term storage transparently.
This would be a great idea, and I know a few people working on similar projects.
AOL is not very interested in letting others jump on their protocol at this point. I'd assume that they are saving the functionality for their own coporate suite.
Our "empire", if you could call it that, is an empire of FREEDOM
Oh, puke. What a bunch of self serving crap. Don't tell me -- "Your prayers go out with every Tomahawk, that those innocents who must perish will be welcomed by the Lord." How f***en wonderful.
There's a special place in hell for the holier than thou Bushittes.
Our founding fathers saw a day when the government would get too powerful, too fast. When religous zelotry would warp the sensabilities of their country. They also saw the problems with a party driven system. They just didn't see what happens when the court system abdicates their role and interfers in a fair election.
I use an NVidia card at work, and the drivers came through Dell (from Nvidia), in RPMs. You basically build the binary RPM from the source rpm, and then install the binary RPM after upgrading the kernel. It's really easy and clean.
Nope, sorry. I rant all of the time about the need for more open software, but we're talking hardware here. These are drivers -- low level, device specific interfaces. Graphics is a tight, compeditive market. I think that it's great that they are puting in the resources. If a company wants to provide a binary interface, that is resonable to me.
I tend to agree, I think that it's bad wording, and tends to carry both our own bias and poor reasoning.
I don't think it's trivial, beacuse it guides our thought, even at a sub-conscious level. Perhaps a better word would be "tendancy." Only an individual can have a "desire."
Really, once they went ahead with this whole "hive" setup they stole all of the awsome, unfathomable nature from the Borg. Never mind how the f*&ked up the whole thing with the -- idiodic in my opinion -- series finale of Voyager. Now that was a show that started out great, and turned out pitiful.
These are the problems you get when a company stradles the lines between software/hardware and copyrighted code/free code. I don't think it's a problem of a free version of J2EE, I think it's a problem of J2EE that runs on any platform [read non-SPARC, esp. WinTel].
On the other hand, the fact that JBoss might be using Sun code would be a problem for a truly free implementation.
I'm not sure if you're right, but I gotta love your references!:)
Sun machines use PCI busses, too.
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Gzip on a PCI card
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A little late posting, but I did want to point out that modern Sun machines use PCI buses, and the Enterprise class [4000+] machines have a crap load of bandwidth through their backplanes.
I think it's a little naive to say "Oh, my 1000 hit a day web box, running on a cheap 686 wouldn't benfit from this, so it must suck." Hey, dont get mad! You said it!:P
It seems to me that the H1-B visa was designed to get around the normal quota of green cards. This was needed for tech workers (in many industries) while the market was tight, because the import of talent is not taken into account (much). (The pool of green cards may be taken up by 10,000 plumbers and 2 techs in one particular year.) There should be two general conclusions draw:
Sun has allegedly taken advantage of the H1-B
The H1-B program has certain flaws which make it either obsolete, or poorly targeted.
Question is, what could be done in order to improve H1-B, or is it just defunct in a down-turn market?
I would add another point, which is that a recurring discussion in my family. The US has often done a rather poor job when it came to skilled labor. (I'm taking masons and such here.) The fact is that these skills were killed off during the advent of assembly line production, and the country has imported most of these skill sets ever since.
Computer professionals often have similar "handcrafted" work to be done, does the US handle these skill any better now? Since there are few professional guilds does this skew the argument? Europe has more protection, and a long history of professional organizations and apprenticeship.
How about a little less noise?
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Clear Case Roundup
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· Score: 2, Interesting
It seems like they can design a case that isn't seen, but they can't design a case that isn't heard.
I count five --albeit cool looking --fans in this case! This doesn't include the power supply fan(s) nor the CPU fan. What ever happened to the ideal of the nice quiet machine? Where's all the innovation on shutting the damm thing up?
It reminds me of the first beta-Itanuim machine I saw. The machine had eight fans and spun them up in pairs to avoid pulling too much power. The thing sounded like an airplane taking off, and everyone complained that the temperature in the room kept going up; an eight hundred watt power supply. What a joke.
Looking at the Chicago Card site, it looks exactly like the SmartTrip Card here in DC. Perhaps the problem is that the technonogy is not branded, only the use. We may all be talking about the same thing. (But not the NYC cards, I know that.)
My understanding is that they have been using the iButton smart buttons in Turkey for a while now. This would seem to have the benfit of the security of a contact card, while avoiding the problems of a swipe system.
I always thought the idea of using a iButton ring was rather elegant, since people wear jewelry anyway. I guest the cost factor is too high for each unit though, so it's never caught on. Too bad since some of them Java, and can act as a self contained wallet.
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Hardware support was of course a bit spotty as well. It seems like a generally complex unit for the "basics." I'm not sure about the latest Linux PDA foray, but I'm rather convinced that a small device is a very different creature, and that Palm was right with their "Simplicity first" approach.
Personally, I chalk it up to mental laziness. Most people will do as little as possible up front, even if it would have saved effort in the long run. Oftentimes the student/researchers are the worst.
It's kinda interesting when you hang around research projects, because the people running the projects tend to look for any way not to pay for software. They're cheap! But, when it comes to open source, they just don't want to deal with it.
It's one of the better reasons that I make sure they pay for their software. ;)
One thing often overlooked is the overhead in using these encryption schemes. If you want an access point to handle a hundred clients you need to take the load into account. These APs are designed to run w/ little heat and power usage, not to mention the small clients such as PDAs and scanners.
If the user has set his headers, and generated a key, the key will match the email header. If the email header is valid or not, the key matches. The problem is one of authenticating credencials not just message integrity. In the end, who do you trust?
I would assume that most data theft tens to happen on the machine, not across the network. So that would fall under system security.
The next largest problem is spoofing attacks, w/ the problem of sniffing last.
I do agree that since most of the protocols don't handle security in a very sophsticated way, that this will help strengthen overall security (telnet, pop, imap, you name it.) But since the application can't be sure that the encryption is in place, you would need to rely on an application level security scheme to be sure it's secure.
On the down side:
That said, I wouldn't dicount the review in CR. Just because there is dust and dirt on the coils doesn't mean that it removes more dust, or even just as much dust as other models. The big selling points are no filters (cheap) and very little power consumption (also cheap).
Actually the real benefit comes in when you want user based restore, especially when it's a distributed site. This allows the user to get an index of what's backup up and scedule a restore w/o any admin. intervention. Some of the more developed systems actually allow a tape pool to act as a longer term storage transparently.
AOL is not very interested in letting others jump on their protocol at this point. I'd assume that they are saving the functionality for their own coporate suite.
There's a special place in hell for the holier than thou Bushittes.
Our founding fathers saw a day when the government would get too powerful, too fast. When religous zelotry would warp the sensabilities of their country. They also saw the problems with a party driven system. They just didn't see what happens when the court system abdicates their role and interfers in a fair election.
I use an NVidia card at work, and the drivers came through Dell (from Nvidia), in RPMs. You basically build the binary RPM from the source rpm, and then install the binary RPM after upgrading the kernel. It's really easy and clean.
Nope, sorry. I rant all of the time about the need for more open software, but we're talking hardware here. These are drivers -- low level, device specific interfaces. Graphics is a tight, compeditive market. I think that it's great that they are puting in the resources. If a company wants to provide a binary interface, that is resonable to me.
I don't think it's trivial, beacuse it guides our thought, even at a sub-conscious level. Perhaps a better word would be "tendancy." Only an individual can have a "desire."
Really, once they went ahead with this whole "hive" setup they stole all of the awsome, unfathomable nature from the Borg. Never mind how the f*&ked up the whole thing with the -- idiodic in my opinion -- series finale of Voyager. Now that was a show that started out great, and turned out pitiful.
On the other hand, the fact that JBoss might be using Sun code would be a problem for a truly free implementation.
No it isn't. Every machine that ships with Openboot has a forth interpreter built right in!
That's why we have TV, the great equalizer. So we all can talk like Cleveland.
:P
I'm not sure if you're right, but I gotta love your references! :)
I think it's a little naive to say "Oh, my 1000 hit a day web box, running on a cheap 686 wouldn't benfit from this, so it must suck." Hey, dont get mad! You said it! :P
Mmmm, nostalgia.
1: This reply written in edlin. (Nah, not really.)
Question is, what could be done in order to improve H1-B, or is it just defunct in a down-turn market?
I would add another point, which is that a recurring discussion in my family. The US has often done a rather poor job when it came to skilled labor. (I'm taking masons and such here.) The fact is that these skills were killed off during the advent of assembly line production, and the country has imported most of these skill sets ever since.
Computer professionals often have similar "handcrafted" work to be done, does the US handle these skill any better now? Since there are few professional guilds does this skew the argument? Europe has more protection, and a long history of professional organizations and apprenticeship.
I count five --albeit cool looking --fans in this case! This doesn't include the power supply fan(s) nor the CPU fan. What ever happened to the ideal of the nice quiet machine? Where's all the innovation on shutting the damm thing up?
It reminds me of the first beta-Itanuim machine I saw. The machine had eight fans and spun them up in pairs to avoid pulling too much power. The thing sounded like an airplane taking off, and everyone complained that the temperature in the room kept going up; an eight hundred watt power supply. What a joke.
Nope, the session key changes, the private key is basically "identity", ie. who the server is.
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Looking at the Chicago Card site, it looks exactly like the SmartTrip Card here in DC. Perhaps the problem is that the technonogy is not branded, only the use. We may all be talking about the same thing. (But not the NYC cards, I know that.)
I always thought the idea of using a iButton ring was rather elegant, since people wear jewelry anyway. I guest the cost factor is too high for each unit though, so it's never caught on. Too bad since some of them Java, and can act as a self contained wallet.