You've obviously never managed a large scale server farm. Most backup systems (especially tape backup) choke on lots of small files. We use a two-stage backup process where production servers are cloned online to archive servers which then compress the content into large archives for the TB robots. This makes TB run much faster without loading-down the production servers - we couldn't do the daily backups required by SLA's any other way.
I do agree with you, though, that having to restore an entire Exchange message store offline so you can recover a single user's mail is a PITA. It would have been nicer if each mailbox was its own database - besides making moving mailboxes between message stores or servers much easier, a corrupt DB would affect only one user (not hundreds).
But that $500 device may become a paperweight when the HDCP compliance police (Digital Content Protection, LLC) revoke the DVIMAGIC HDCP key. [emphasis added]
True, it may become a brick at some point but his $1,500+ projector is already a brick so far as HDCP content is concerned. I feel for TheGreatDonkey's plight, but he's only got three options at the moment:
spend a little money on a box like the DVIMAGIC now, gambling that it will give him at least a year or two's good service before it gets revoked by the next crappy incarnation of King Kong, or
go back out and spend another $1,500+ on a HDCP-compliant projector, or
shake his fists at the HDCP content providers, which will gain him nothing.
This is the same kind of risk any early adopter has to face.
It's a paper-folding device installed in your wallet to ease the nano matter-energy transportation of your cash to Bill.
Unfortunately the prototype had a general protection fault which caused someone's pants to be transported to the Gamma quadrant, 70,000 light years from home.
It only takes: (a) one person in the publishing company to take the Quark Express file and export it to.PDF or an eBook format, or (b) one customer to scan the book into an OCR package and save it to.PDF or an eBook format.
Granted, (a) is much less labour intensive, but it's not difficult either way. And (b) is surprisingly common for old technical books which can no longer be purchased either new or second hand (think Amiga and Apple ][ books).
Could somebody please explain to me how a program running on the iPod is suddenly going to become a USB host and then communicate with the (previously) host computer (which could be a Mac, PC clone, or anything with a USB port) to search for files even locally, let alone figure out which network protocols are installed so it can enumerate file servers on the network and the files which they contain.
Most likely this "program" is just an.exe or its equivalent living on the iPod's filesystem which gets run by the host computer to do all the hard work - in other words, this is no different to using any old USB key.
As soon as someone (except me, right here, right now) mentions "Web 2.0" you can pretty well write-off the rest of the conversation as marketing crud. That page mentioned "Web 2.0" twenty one times.
If you can, hook into the TAPI (Telephony API) dll's using APIspy (if you're desparate for a GUI) or some other commandline tool (better for filtering). By examining the inputs and outputs through TAPI you'll probably get a better picture of what's going on than by trying to catch it all in the VS debugger.
It's an out-dated concept which only serves large corporations, and even then, not in a particularly effective way.
Actually patents were originally implemented to protect the little guys from the large corporations. By patenting something you were able to publicly disclose your inventions saying "this is my idea," and not have any disputes about who invented what or when. First in, best dressed.
It's not patents which are broken, it's the f**king lawyers, their nit-picking, their loophole-finding and their extravagant fees.
"For the military, it can offer much better facial recognition," Fischbach said. "Instead of looking at a two-dimensional photo, you're looking at an entire head."
Anyone who's worked on stereoscopic vision (which is all that this is) will tell you this is crap. With a pair of cameras mounted like "eyes" (5-15cm apart) you're still only seeing one side of the object. The depth information is extremely helpful in feature extraction, but you're still only seeing one side of the object.
Carolyn Bartholomew, an internet expert, told the hearing that China was becoming the biggest internet hub in its region, and was exporting filtration technology that allowed other "oppressive regimes, including North Korea and Uzbekistan" to control and use the web for their own ends.
Wait a minute! Didn't I just read last week that the China Network Information Centre is one of Cisco's biggest customers, relying on the filtering technology which they pioneered in the US!? Damn I wish I could find that link again (it must be filtered in Google or something).
And before you suggest running as a non-admin user, don't forget that a lot of programs will not run properly unless you have admin rights.
Yes, but only because of stoopid developers who only run as an Administrators (group) user themselves. Most things don't need any kind of Admin access to run.
Personally, I have had good success with a number of freeware/shareware developers by telling them exactly what breaks about their programs when not running under an Administrators user (sometimes by giving them API call dumps). One guy fixed his Registry problems (trying to open HKLM keys with Read/Write access when he only needed Read-only access) and had a new version available for download that night.
If you can't get your program's developer to fix the problem then I suggest changing to different software.
This is where that onreadystatechange property comes into play. This property allows you to specify a callback method. A callback allows the server to (can you guess?) call back into your Web page's code. It gives a degree of control to the server, as well; when the server finishes a request, it looks in the XMLHttpRequest object and specifically at the onreadystatechange property.
The author of this article obviously doesn't know how XMLHttpRequest works if they think that the remote web server is running code in your browser like this. The callback capability is implemented in the XMLHttpRequest object running browser-side.
Porting old "device drivers" from Win98 certainly isn't a trivial thing to do. In my experience, a number of embedded applications like the one you describe don't even use proper device drivers but do direct hardware access from the core application. Since the HAL on NT-based systems won't let you do this the apps just aren't supported by their vendors on anything newer than 98SE/ME.
Even if they were using proper device drivers, Microsoft (really wanting to encourage developers and vendors to support their new OS's, *cough*) changes the device driver model on every new OS - why would hardware vendors want to support anything more than one or two OS-driver variants?
I hear you asking: OK, so why don't the vendors just open-source their drivers and supply Linux drivers customers can compile themselves for their own embedded solutions? I'd like that, but would you as a hardware vendor want to support it?
Wouldn't it be great if everyone followed standards precisely and without error so that everything was 100% compatible?
One of our ColdFusion-based web sites has tens-of-thousands of authenticated users, but there's one user running MS-IE 5.2.7 (I think) on an old MacOS PPC who can't post a form back to a particular page - the browser sends the POST request, but no form data. It doesn't even have a file-upload element, the page works for everybody else and it would seem she has no problems with any other page on the site.
Should we waste time acquiring an old PPC (we're talking Performa-style here), installing the matching MacOS on it with the Internet-enabler and then trying to find a matching version of MS-IE (which even MS doesn't support any more) to install just to see why this happens? How much would this cost in hardware, software and man-hours? How can you justify it?
There's a point where you must say, "Sorry, unsupported." Where that is for you, only you can say.
Entities like the RIAA and IFPI hire spin doctors (and the media) trying to make the public equate file-sharing with illegal activities. But this isn't necessarily the case.
P2P file-sharing technologies are inreasingly being used for legitimate distribution of many large content objects, simply because it makes more-efficient use of Internet infrastructure: the free-for-download fan series "Star Trek: New Voyages" and World of Warcraft patches are just two examples that come to mind.
I expect there's plenty of Gene Research data and other such things using P2P by now as well.
By far the biggest RFID segment in coming years will be supply chain management," said Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst, in a statement.
Of course what he failed to mention was that within the supply chain management strata there's one segment that can't use RFID - the manufacturers and distributors of RFID. How could you put your own tag on a pallet/box of RFID tags and still use yours to track them?:)
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I know you meant to put that on the Zoomr article...
Courtesy of Boston Dynamics who co-developed the robot with CMU: 6.4MB WMV
You've obviously never managed a large scale server farm. Most backup systems (especially tape backup) choke on lots of small files. We use a two-stage backup process where production servers are cloned online to archive servers which then compress the content into large archives for the TB robots. This makes TB run much faster without loading-down the production servers - we couldn't do the daily backups required by SLA's any other way.
I do agree with you, though, that having to restore an entire Exchange message store offline so you can recover a single user's mail is a PITA. It would have been nicer if each mailbox was its own database - besides making moving mailboxes between message stores or servers much easier, a corrupt DB would affect only one user (not hundreds).
- spend a little money on a box like the DVIMAGIC now, gambling that it will give him at least a year or two's good service before it gets revoked by the next crappy incarnation of King Kong, or
- go back out and spend another $1,500+ on a HDCP-compliant projector, or
- shake his fists at the HDCP content providers, which will gain him nothing.
This is the same kind of risk any early adopter has to face.It's a paper-folding device installed in your wallet to ease the nano matter-energy transportation of your cash to Bill.
Unfortunately the prototype had a general protection fault which caused someone's pants to be transported to the Gamma quadrant, 70,000 light years from home.
C:\>attrib -r -a -s -h C:\*.* /s
And there's plenty of Registry Editors out there besides RegEdit.exe (even RegEdt32.exe ships with Windoze so you can modify Registry ACL's).
Books aren't easy to copy?
.PDF or an eBook format, or .PDF or an eBook format.
It only takes:
(a) one person in the publishing company to take the Quark Express file and export it to
(b) one customer to scan the book into an OCR package and save it to
Granted, (a) is much less labour intensive, but it's not difficult either way. And (b) is surprisingly common for old technical books which can no longer be purchased either new or second hand (think Amiga and Apple ][ books).
You probably want one of these: Spatz-Tech's DVIMAGIC
Oh, *Niagara*... my bad! :)
TFA on CNET must be poorly worded.
Could somebody please explain to me how a program running on the iPod is suddenly going to become a USB host and then communicate with the (previously) host computer (which could be a Mac, PC clone, or anything with a USB port) to search for files even locally, let alone figure out which network protocols are installed so it can enumerate file servers on the network and the files which they contain.
Most likely this "program" is just an .exe or its equivalent living on the iPod's filesystem which gets run by the host computer to do all the hard work - in other words, this is no different to using any old USB key.
If you can't do it something like a Microchip PIC, then try a Xilinx FPGA.
As soon as someone (except me, right here, right now) mentions "Web 2.0" you can pretty well write-off the rest of the conversation as marketing crud. That page mentioned "Web 2.0" twenty one times.
If you can, hook into the TAPI (Telephony API) dll's using APIspy (if you're desparate for a GUI) or some other commandline tool (better for filtering). By examining the inputs and outputs through TAPI you'll probably get a better picture of what's going on than by trying to catch it all in the VS debugger.
At around $20,000 a board, I really hope that one being held in TFA's photo was dead already.
Actually patents were originally implemented to protect the little guys from the large corporations. By patenting something you were able to publicly disclose your inventions saying "this is my idea," and not have any disputes about who invented what or when. First in, best dressed.
It's not patents which are broken, it's the f**king lawyers, their nit-picking, their loophole-finding and their extravagant fees.
Wait a minute! Didn't I just read last week that the China Network Information Centre is one of Cisco's biggest customers, relying on the filtering technology which they pioneered in the US!? Damn I wish I could find that link again (it must be filtered in Google or something).
So nobody remembers Microsoft opening-up Windows source code to the Chinese government while giving nobody else access, only recently relenting by requiring everyone else to pay large sums of money for the same privilege?
Yes, but only because of stoopid developers who only run as an Administrators (group) user themselves. Most things don't need any kind of Admin access to run.
Personally, I have had good success with a number of freeware/shareware developers by telling them exactly what breaks about their programs when not running under an Administrators user (sometimes by giving them API call dumps). One guy fixed his Registry problems (trying to open HKLM keys with Read/Write access when he only needed Read-only access) and had a new version available for download that night.
If you can't get your program's developer to fix the problem then I suggest changing to different software.
Porting old "device drivers" from Win98 certainly isn't a trivial thing to do. In my experience, a number of embedded applications like the one you describe don't even use proper device drivers but do direct hardware access from the core application. Since the HAL on NT-based systems won't let you do this the apps just aren't supported by their vendors on anything newer than 98SE/ME.
Even if they were using proper device drivers, Microsoft (really wanting to encourage developers and vendors to support their new OS's, *cough*) changes the device driver model on every new OS - why would hardware vendors want to support anything more than one or two OS-driver variants?
I hear you asking: OK, so why don't the vendors just open-source their drivers and supply Linux drivers customers can compile themselves for their own embedded solutions? I'd like that, but would you as a hardware vendor want to support it?
Wouldn't it be great if everyone followed standards precisely and without error so that everything was 100% compatible?
One of our ColdFusion-based web sites has tens-of-thousands of authenticated users, but there's one user running MS-IE 5.2.7 (I think) on an old MacOS PPC who can't post a form back to a particular page - the browser sends the POST request, but no form data. It doesn't even have a file-upload element, the page works for everybody else and it would seem she has no problems with any other page on the site.
Should we waste time acquiring an old PPC (we're talking Performa-style here), installing the matching MacOS on it with the Internet-enabler and then trying to find a matching version of MS-IE (which even MS doesn't support any more) to install just to see why this happens? How much would this cost in hardware, software and man-hours? How can you justify it?
There's a point where you must say, "Sorry, unsupported." Where that is for you, only you can say.
Entities like the RIAA and IFPI hire spin doctors (and the media) trying to make the public equate file-sharing with illegal activities. But this isn't necessarily the case.
P2P file-sharing technologies are inreasingly being used for legitimate distribution of many large content objects, simply because it makes more-efficient use of Internet infrastructure: the free-for-download fan series "Star Trek: New Voyages" and World of Warcraft patches are just two examples that come to mind.
I expect there's plenty of Gene Research data and other such things using P2P by now as well.
Oh well, Sony won't be able to claim Prior Art.