What is the latency (ping, lag) like for these Cell services. Is it sufficient for low-latency applications, such as SSH sessions, online gaming, etc.
I recently used a Satellite internet connection, and while the speed was fine (4-600Kbps), the latency was easily 400-1000ms. Typical ping for my home DSL connection is under 100ms.
Someone edited my story and added sensationalist quotes I could swear I didn't include. Oh, and added a link to Boing Boing, which was pretty pointless, given I linked to an actual newspaper.
Your submission is in the firehose queue, if you want to compare the differences:
I agree this could be provided cheaper, but you underestimated the solar power requirements by a long shot.
The solar panel suggested in your link is an 18-watt ($175) solar panel, and is inadequate to charge the 60-Ah battery included with the Xantrex Xpower 1500 Powerpack. A complete charge would take several days of full sun.
The Lenovo & Dell packages include a 110-watt solar panel, which sells for about $6-700 dollars at Real Goods or Mr. Solar.
For $1500, you could by a decent laptop for $1000, and then assemble your fun $300 solar/battery kit.
And this practice will remain 'theory' for quite a while. CEOs, salespeople and consultants promote these magic code-generating systems, but have you ever seen one actually work?
Is it possible to create specification which is so good, that you could feed it into a interpreter/compiler, and the compiler 'automagically' pumps out quality code? If you're going to write a spec in such detail, might as well write the spec *in* a programming language.
I've seen a dozen attempts at these automated systems in web environments over since 2002, and nobody has body has ever gotten close to a working product-- the end result is unworkable *and* expensive. The projects have all either been scrapped, or required extensive cleanup (which creates a demand for *more* programmers, engineers, etc). The business looses. The only people who win out are the consultants who sold the software.
The devil is in the details. No specification is perfect, and specs always miss out on important details. Programmers and engineers are the people who take a flawed specification and create a workable product.
These systems will work eventually, but the solution is still in the distant future.
Software engineers and software analysts are *highly skilled* positions that require experience in addition to at least a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Software Project Management.
It's different at different organizations. Some of these job titles never made sense.
In my experience 'System Analyst' is often used as a a generic job title, something like 'System Operator'. Analysts are often at the low end of the totem pole, have less computer experience then the 'Programmers', and are towards the bottom of the pay scale. 'System Analysts' often support the other technical groups, but have little computer experience. 'System Analyst' is often used as one of those 'foot in the door' positions so that people can start learning technical or project management skills. After several years experience, an Analyst is promoted to 'System Administrator', 'System Engineer', QA Engineer, 'Product Manager', etc.
But then again, I know 'System Analysts' consultants who have the ear of the CEO, but again--- but few of them be 'highly skilled' in an engineering sense. They have good communication skills, which is why they can effectively present ideas to the management team.
Pretty cool though. It's nice to have a familiar interface for a Serial console.
Hyperterminal is miserable. It always seems to say 'Connected', even if the serial cable is the wrong kind, or the cable is split, or the serial port is disabled. What exactly is it 'Connected' to?
Penelope is the open source version of Eudora. This extension adds changes to the Thunderbird UI to provide a familiar UI for Eudora users. Many of the Eudora shortcuts are also supported including functionality not offered in Thunderbird.
Penelope is an Add-on to Thunderbird which implements some a Eudora User Interface and some Eudora features.
What about novices who are attempting this for the first time?
Many novices edit/etc/apt/sources.list because it is suggested or required in a HOWTO or other documentation. Plenty of novices want software which is only available in universe. They don't necessarily understand the format of sources.list.
It's not officially dropped everywhere, and the version number isn't listed in several critical locations. For example,/etc/apt/sources.list and doesn't mention anything about 7.04. Instead, it lists this the nickname:
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
Is 'feisty' the same thing as '7.04'. I guess so. But how are new users supposed to figure this out. Why doesn't '/etc/issue.net' say "Ubuntu 7.04 - Feisty Fawn" or something similar?
Because the usage is inconstant. One person may say "I'm using Feisty". Someone else may say, "I'm using 7.10". To the casual user, there is no obvious relationship or distinction between the two names.
And really, some people talk about 7.04 and 7.10 as if they are different major releases. But the numbering scheme suggests that 7.10 is only a minor release. And the two releases have different 'Code names', which makes it seem like there is a major difference between the two. That's confusing.
The Make team speaks pretty openly about their success-- the magazine was doing so well they are giddy with excitement. I don't remember specifics, but in Make's first year of (2005-2006), they subscription numbers was several times greater then their original projections. And I just renewed for another year.
SysAdmin magazine died for other reasons. Personally, I sent in 3 subscription cards to SysAdmin Magazine, tried to subscribe at Linuxworld, etc. I never received a response, bill or magazine.
I think the symbol was already taken. APPL used to be the NASDAQ symbol for Appel Pete Corp. I don't know the timeline, but perhaps Appel Pete Corp registered the symbol long ago, before Apple had a chance.
According to Google Finance, no one else is using APPL.
Yahoo Finance, Forbes & Marketwatch list APPL. I find that Google Finance lacks a good deal of historical and obscure information. OOoo... a point for Yahoo;)
It's all gimmick. I'll take 2001 over this ultraviolent crap any day.
I saw the website and thought "Cool, a low-budget independent sci-fi movie-- the Sun is dying, and this crew needs to try & re-ignite the sun." There aren't many independent sci-fi movies, and I was briefly excited by this movie. I watched the trailer for about 20 seconds before turning it off-- yuck. Man, what a disappointment.
It seems like the point of the movie is to watch each character die. There might be a sci-fi "plot" hidden in the movie somewhere, but I certainly didn't see it in the trailer or anywhere else.
This sort of thing is a pounding issue. In fact, this sort of activity has been trampled in the last few months, not tripled. It's truthy. I saw that on TV somewhere.
Does this mean backup generators have failed or is the fault somewhere outside the datacenter?
Apparently not all floors were affected , which probably means that the generators kicked in, but the power distribution failed down the line.
Time to start shopping.
The irony is--- where are you going to go? How many N+1 datacenters are in driving distance of San Francisco? 365Main was supposed to be one of the best datacenters in terms of power.
After this embarrassment and the wrath of large customers, 365Main might clean up their systems, fix the problems and offer true power-failover.
After all, how many Datacenters test 100% of their power-failover systems?
I warned these idiots eight months ago during my review that the datacenter had outgrown its generator capacity.
According to the San Francisco Facility Data Sheet, 365Main has "Ten 2.1-megawatt Hitec Continuous Power Systems ("CPS") designed to N+1 redundancy", "Three 20,000 gallon double-lined fuel tanks", and non-interruptible power-circuits up the wazoo.
They should be able to survive a multi-day power outage. At conferences, 365Main sales people talk about how the datacenter could remain self-sufficient if a dirty-bomb exploded in the neighborhood--- meaning no fuel or water trucks for days, few staff may enter or leave the facility, etc.
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How was the ping (latency) compared to DSL/Cable?
What is the latency (ping, lag) like for these Cell services. Is it sufficient for low-latency applications, such as SSH sessions, online gaming, etc.
I recently used a Satellite internet connection, and while the speed was fine (4-600Kbps), the latency was easily 400-1000ms. Typical ping for my home DSL connection is under 100ms.
Someone edited my story and added sensationalist quotes I could swear I didn't include. Oh, and added a link to Boing Boing, which was pretty pointless, given I linked to an actual newspaper.
Your submission is in the firehose queue, if you want to compare the differences:
http://it.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?id=297119&op=view
I agree this could be provided cheaper, but you underestimated the solar power requirements by a long shot.
The solar panel suggested in your link is an 18-watt ($175) solar panel, and is inadequate to charge the 60-Ah battery included with the Xantrex Xpower 1500 Powerpack. A complete charge would take several days of full sun.
The Lenovo & Dell packages include a 110-watt solar panel, which sells for about $6-700 dollars at Real Goods or Mr. Solar.
For $1500, you could by a decent laptop for $1000, and then assemble your fun $300 solar/battery kit.
Doesn't fair use mean you don't pay for content? Where is all this money coming from?
Hey man, every time some yahoo walks down the street singing "Free Bird, our national value is improved by $0.10. Don't knock it!
And this practice will remain 'theory' for quite a while. CEOs, salespeople and consultants promote these magic code-generating systems, but have you ever seen one actually work?
Is it possible to create specification which is so good, that you could feed it into a interpreter/compiler, and the compiler 'automagically' pumps out quality code? If you're going to write a spec in such detail, might as well write the spec *in* a programming language.
I've seen a dozen attempts at these automated systems in web environments over since 2002, and nobody has body has ever gotten close to a working product-- the end result is unworkable *and* expensive. The projects have all either been scrapped, or required extensive cleanup (which creates a demand for *more* programmers, engineers, etc). The business looses. The only people who win out are the consultants who sold the software.
The devil is in the details. No specification is perfect, and specs always miss out on important details. Programmers and engineers are the people who take a flawed specification and create a workable product.
These systems will work eventually, but the solution is still in the distant future.
Software engineers and software analysts are *highly skilled* positions that require experience in addition to at least a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Software Project Management.
It's different at different organizations. Some of these job titles never made sense.
In my experience 'System Analyst' is often used as a a generic job title, something like 'System Operator'. Analysts are often at the low end of the totem pole, have less computer experience then the 'Programmers', and are towards the bottom of the pay scale. 'System Analysts' often support the other technical groups, but have little computer experience. 'System Analyst' is often used as one of those 'foot in the door' positions so that people can start learning technical or project management skills. After several years experience, an Analyst is promoted to 'System Administrator', 'System Engineer', QA Engineer, 'Product Manager', etc.
But then again, I know 'System Analysts' consultants who have the ear of the CEO, but again--- but few of them be 'highly skilled' in an engineering sense. They have good communication skills, which is why they can effectively present ideas to the management team.
Serial support came out in .59 : http://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce /2007/000014.html
Pretty cool though. It's nice to have a familiar interface for a Serial console.
Hyperterminal is miserable. It always seems to say 'Connected', even if the serial cable is the wrong kind, or the cable is split, or the serial port is disabled. What exactly is it 'Connected' to?
The Penelope Addion Page has a little more information:
Penelope is the open source version of Eudora. This extension adds changes to the Thunderbird UI to provide a familiar UI for Eudora users. Many of the Eudora shortcuts are also supported including functionality not offered in Thunderbird.
Penelope is an Add-on to Thunderbird which implements some a Eudora User Interface and some Eudora features.
What about novices who are attempting this for the first time?
/etc/apt/sources.list because it is suggested or required in a HOWTO or other documentation. Plenty of novices want software which is only available in universe. They don't necessarily understand the format of sources.list.
Many novices edit
It's not officially dropped everywhere, and the version number isn't listed in several critical locations. For example,
Is 'feisty' the same thing as '7.04'. I guess so. But how are new users supposed to figure this out. Why doesn't '/etc/issue.net' say "Ubuntu 7.04 - Feisty Fawn" or something similar?
Because the usage is inconstant. One person may say "I'm using Feisty". Someone else may say, "I'm using 7.10". To the casual user, there is no obvious relationship or distinction between the two names.
And really, some people talk about 7.04 and 7.10 as if they are different major releases. But the numbering scheme suggests that 7.10 is only a minor release. And the two releases have different 'Code names', which makes it seem like there is a major difference between the two. That's confusing.
If the research is funded by the public, didn't we already pay to see it?
Ah, but you didn't pay for the results. Results costs extra. Good results cost even more.
The model is dying so all special interest magazines are feeling the pinch.
MAKE Magazine seems to be doing quite well.
The Make team speaks pretty openly about their success-- the magazine was doing so well they are giddy with excitement. I don't remember specifics, but in Make's first year of (2005-2006), they subscription numbers was several times greater then their original projections. And I just renewed for another year.
SysAdmin magazine died for other reasons. Personally, I sent in 3 subscription cards to SysAdmin Magazine, tried to subscribe at Linuxworld, etc. I never received a response, bill or magazine.
And, APPL is the symbol for "Appell Petroleum Corporation".
And all newsfeeds Appell Petroleum Corporation are filled with news about Apple, Inc. This shows that "APPL" is a common typo for "AAPL".
I think the symbol was already taken. APPL used to be the NASDAQ symbol for Appel Pete Corp. I don't know the timeline, but perhaps Appel Pete Corp registered the symbol long ago, before Apple had a chance.
;)
According to Google Finance, no one else is using APPL.
Yahoo Finance, Forbes & Marketwatch list APPL. I find that Google Finance lacks a good deal of historical and obscure information. OOoo... a point for Yahoo
All 15 ounce books? I have no idea how many movies that would be?
I don't know, how much does a dead horse weigh?
(This humor intended to complement the tag 'outofnewideas')
wait until you scrape your knee on the battlefield and you need some disinfectant.
Yeah, I did that. It hurt.
Although I was 6 years old and I guess it was a playground... but we pretended it was a battlefield.
And it really hurt when the school nurse put the stuff on my knee. So yeah, it was a battlefield.
Conveniently, we also pretended to be the Bionic Man.
Of course. Trees get in the way of the telephone poles. ATT seeks revenge.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a flame war on Kerneltrap..."
It's all gimmick. I'll take 2001 over this ultraviolent crap any day.
I saw the website and thought "Cool, a low-budget independent sci-fi movie-- the Sun is dying, and this crew needs to try & re-ignite the sun." There aren't many independent sci-fi movies, and I was briefly excited by this movie. I watched the trailer for about 20 seconds before turning it off-- yuck. Man, what a disappointment.
It seems like the point of the movie is to watch each character die. There might be a sci-fi "plot" hidden in the movie somewhere, but I certainly didn't see it in the trailer or anywhere else.
this sort of activity has tripled in the last six months.
Clearly you are referring to the Elephants.
This sort of thing is a pounding issue. In fact, this sort of activity has been trampled in the last few months, not tripled. It's truthy. I saw that on TV somewhere.
Can't Linden Labs just print more Linden$, and offer Linden$ as a condolence?
How does inflation work in Second Life anyways?
Does this mean backup generators have failed or is the fault somewhere outside the datacenter?
Apparently not all floors were affected , which probably means that the generators kicked in, but the power distribution failed down the line.
Time to start shopping.
The irony is--- where are you going to go? How many N+1 datacenters are in driving distance of San Francisco? 365Main was supposed to be one of the best datacenters in terms of power.
After this embarrassment and the wrath of large customers, 365Main might clean up their systems, fix the problems and offer true power-failover.
After all, how many Datacenters test 100% of their power-failover systems?
I warned these idiots eight months ago during my review that the datacenter had outgrown its generator capacity.
According to the San Francisco Facility Data Sheet, 365Main has "Ten 2.1-megawatt Hitec Continuous Power Systems ("CPS") designed to N+1 redundancy", "Three 20,000 gallon double-lined fuel tanks", and non-interruptible power-circuits up the wazoo.
They should be able to survive a multi-day power outage. At conferences, 365Main sales people talk about how the datacenter could remain self-sufficient if a dirty-bomb exploded in the neighborhood--- meaning no fuel or water trucks for days, few staff may enter or leave the facility, etc.