This way my mother can find out I'm at a strib club, and won't ask me any inconvenient and embarrising questions when I get home because she will be too embarrised.
This is not like Windows-Linux, where there is a steep learning curve.
Mozilla (or Phoenix) is a slick alternative with an almost zero learning curve to pick up the same level as IE. It also takes almost no time to learn features _that aren't in IE anyway_ that help you see the internet in a much more useful way (ad blocking etc).
No one is forced to use IE with very few exceptions:
People who have it mandated at work, but that's work's problem not yours - they could change too. People on dialup who have a very slow net connection - but they probably have it on a dial up CD. People who use it's integrated rendering engine for OE/HTML email - but you can change that easily too. People who _must_ access IE only websites - but there are very few of these any more, and you can always use IE just for these to lower your exposure. Microsoft Zelots who refuse to believe that Free software can be any good - but they deserve everything they get.
In my dowm room I draw about 20A continuously, and no one notices. I have 8 power sockets (extended with UPS and 4 power strips).
However in the old rooms, the infrastructure can only handle 5A per room, and the whole flat (6 people) only gets 25A. Someone turns on a hair dryer and everything trips off:o)
Call to MS X-Box support...
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My XBox DVD Rom drive is broken. <MS> Ok, no problem sir, we can replace it - is your warranty still valid? <owner> Well, it's in date... <MS> Have you done anything like adding a new hard disk sir? <owner> Errr, no... not as such... just some small comsmetic changes in fact. <MS> Stickers? Those are covered. <owner> Not exactly. <MS> Paint? I think we can live with that. <owner> Well, I sort of ripped it apart and made a new case for it. <MS> ?! <owner> Which glows. But thats not why it's broken! I never went near the DVD with the hammer when I was taking the case apart. <MS> !! <owner> Hey, when you take it back for repair, you will be careful not to scratch the pexi glass right? Or break the soldering on the new LEDs. <click - call terminated>
And they have asked not to be linked to on slashdot... guess that's why you posted it as an anonymous coward!
From the website:
(One immediate problem will be bandwidth. The Beauregard Parish Library is a small parish (county) library in rural Louisiana with a single lowly T-1 connection to the world. Even with BitTorrent, serving up six or seven full ISO images will get insane very fast if the word spreads very far. So PLEASE! For the love of all that is Good, Holy, Just and generally pleasing to the Great Penguin, DO NOT SUBMIT THIS PAGE TO SLASHDOT!!)
The Google mirror is here for the curious who want to view the site without killing their bandwidth.
Also there's multi display folk. Sure, I could plug another monitor into my laptop, but then the displays won't be the same and one will be a (inferior) laptop display.
I have three large identical high viewing angle TFTs on my desk (that cost less than half of just one of those laptops) - just couldn't easily be done around a laptop based setup.
The ideal solution would be one where you have three cables running to your house... from three different companies, each carrying power, data and voice. (Rather than one cable from each from a monopoly supplier.)
That way you would get good competition and double redundancy! Not going to happen in my lifetime though.
EADS is a European defense company, based in Germany (DASA) and Spain (CASA). I think it owns things in Italy as well.
It does not include BAE SYSTEMS (UK) although BAE did work with Aerospatiale (FR, not part of EADS either) on Concorde 1 and also with EADS and Alenia on Eurofighter.
A 777 cannot be flown with all the computers out. It has a digital full authority flight control and engine management system - no power, no control. There is no mechanical reversion system.
This is why each engine has 1 main (120kVA) generator and 2 (20kVA frequency wild) backup generators. Flight systems power can also be drawn from the APU (120kVA) or the RAT (5kVA). If all those go, you are fucked - the plane can't even be glided into landing. Fortunatly, that's a very low probability event.
(4 backup systems would always be the minimum on any civillian airliner by the way, only the military get to cut corners here.)
At the moment the wireless security that ships with routers is inherently insecure, but some places seem to thin it's necessary.
I have already been castigated by the university for running a WiFi node that doesn't conform to their requirements (WEP is disabled) - even though it's ad hoc, there is no DHCP, each host on the wireless net only accepts ssh connections from hosts with known IPs and mac addresses and oubound routing (from connections terminated with ssh against into an authed socks proxy) is stictly controlled. Turning on WEP too would drop speeds to a useless level for little extra benefit.
Maybe new standards will change this, but for now the media should really stop focusing on WEP as the be all and end all of security to the detriment of people competent enough to handle it themselves in a better fashion.
Reading this document has given me a new respect for the X developers.
You can use a modern X server to talk to an X client on a 1990s vintage machine with no problems at all, yet X is pretty fast on modern machines, has pretty good 3D support and is being updated to add more and more eye candy all the time - without breaking backwards compatibility.
Their aims may not be the same as the ones you think they should have for your own use, but when compared against their aims they are doing very well indeed, and should be recognised for that.
Low level xlib (ie, generic level) support for X session movement from machine to machine.
This sounds a bit like screen implimented for X - you can take apps to work and back again without shutting them down, and keep apps running whilst restarting an X server. (With a bit of luck it will support echoing one app to mutliple windows as well.) It also allows for graceful app shutdown when an X server dies.
Up until now I have been using VNC to do this, but adding it directly into xlib should make it a good deal less clunky. Way to go guys.
Will show up as _4_ processors to the OS! (2 cores both doing SMT.)
This means that in a (say) 512 processor box the OS will have to handle 2048 processors efficiently. That's placing a lot of control in the hands of the software designers, and a lot of money in the hands of the companies that license per processor.
On the other hand, UNIX is getting pretty efficnelt at scaling to large systems, perhaps it (and by extension Linux thanks to SGI and IBM) will be able to handle it with no problems. One thread per processor on a desktop system might prove to be quite efficient:o)
It's a commonly repeated manta that you can't understand something until you have broken it. The BusinessWeek article suggests that frequently being able to apply this principle to Linux is what moves it forwards.
I disagree. On that basis Outlook Express would be the best e-mail client on the planet. Hell, the thing's been broken for over a decade now.
Do a nice thing for the community, get your site nuked by a slashdotting:\
Can't we stick with posting links to SCO? They deserve this kind of treatment, whilst theKompany are pretty cool. (Especially if you own a Zaurus - tkcRom rocks.)
It's always promising to see a vindication of the open source model - and that is what this is.
Companies get what they want (the ability to cut development time and costs with prewritten code they can easily adapt).
Consumers get what they want (a web browser that works at no cost).
Hackers get what they want (a web browser they can hack, where their efforts will be recognised not cause a lawsuit).
Developers get what they want (income from doing something cool).
It's a win win solution, unlike closed development models. No one looses out at all, except the companies that exist to be the middle man. But even they don't loose out, as the shareholders can take their capital and deploy it where it is more worthwhile for the economy, which is the corner stone of capitalism. No more duplicated effort, creating the same product over and over, which by definition can never meet the requirements of all interested parties. Superb!
Ever since they started selling broken CDs, my 'to rip' pile is twice as high - as my flatmates can't rip them easily with Windows, they just toss it to me to do with grip/cdparanoia on Linux.
So now instead of them just ripping their own to put on their MP3 player, I usually end up keeping a copy of the good stuff too. DRM actually increases piracy, at least in this flat!
These people get paid well, but they do have to work their butt off for it.
There is little to no job security, and benefits have to be paid for out of your cut.
A good agent gets about 5% of a sale (10% if they represent buyer and seller - hard to pull off). Sure, that's $300k on an average house in Concord, Mass - but of that money 40-60% (depending on volume) goes to the office. That leaves ~$150k which represents anything up to a year of uncertainty and hard work dealing with really hard to please clients. (Naturally people in the $3m price range are bitchy perfectionists.)
You face the prospect of your listings getting yanked or poached at any time up to the last second, and investements in things like brocures and out of state listings (many thousands of dollars for really big properties) getting smoked. You need excellent people skills to deal with customers (and other brokers), and you need to be available 24 hours a day, even on weekends and holidays.
An aquaintance of mine managed to close a $9m house last year acting for the buyer and seller - and yeah, everyone was jelous of her. It certainly was a big pay day, but it reperesented a lot of work that could easily have ended up getting her nothing at all. Highly paid? When you get lucky... but it's compensation for the risk and talent involved.
The last time a virus inconvenienced me was back when I brought an ex-display A5000 with a collection of 200 viruses on it (according to the virus checker - never did get them all I think).
However, I get haraased by viruses on a daily basis... as part of my free geek tech support that people assume I run. In my opinion I wish viruses would totally trash hard disks as then I could just tell people to buy a Mac or install Linux for them instead rather than being forced to clean up - a long and painful process on Windows.
I don't suffer from a virus menace, I suffer from a stupid user menace, made worse by the fact that they don't knoe enough not to choose a crippled operating system.
A pocket nuclear fusion reactor is an invention, a biplane made out of recycled cheese is an invention, a new kind of breaking system for cars is an invention.
iTunes is a store. It happens to be on the internet. That's not an invention, no matter how well executed it is.
Slashdot Mirror
This way my mother can find out I'm at a strib club, and won't ask me any inconvenient and embarrising questions when I get home because she will be too embarrised.
This is not like Windows-Linux, where there is a steep learning curve.
Mozilla (or Phoenix) is a slick alternative with an almost zero learning curve to pick up the same level as IE. It also takes almost no time to learn features _that aren't in IE anyway_ that help you see the internet in a much more useful way (ad blocking etc).
No one is forced to use IE with very few exceptions:
People who have it mandated at work, but that's work's problem not yours - they could change too.
People on dialup who have a very slow net connection - but they probably have it on a dial up CD.
People who use it's integrated rendering engine for OE/HTML email - but you can change that easily too.
People who _must_ access IE only websites - but there are very few of these any more, and you can always use IE just for these to lower your exposure.
Microsoft Zelots who refuse to believe that Free software can be any good - but they deserve everything they get.
In my dowm room I draw about 20A continuously, and no one notices. I have 8 power sockets (extended with UPS and 4 power strips).
:o)
However in the old rooms, the infrastructure can only handle 5A per room, and the whole flat (6 people) only gets 25A. Someone turns on a hair dryer and everything trips off
My XBox DVD Rom drive is broken.
<MS> Ok, no problem sir, we can replace it - is your warranty still valid?
<owner> Well, it's in date...
<MS> Have you done anything like adding a new hard disk sir?
<owner> Errr, no... not as such... just some small comsmetic changes in fact.
<MS> Stickers? Those are covered.
<owner> Not exactly.
<MS> Paint? I think we can live with that.
<owner> Well, I sort of ripped it apart and made a new case for it.
<MS> ?!
<owner> Which glows. But thats not why it's broken! I never went near the DVD with the hammer when I was taking the case apart.
<MS> !!
<owner> Hey, when you take it back for repair, you will be careful not to scratch the pexi glass right? Or break the soldering on the new LEDs.
<click - call terminated>
Do they have a packet saying 'can you hear me now'?
And they have asked not to be linked to on slashdot... guess that's why you posted it as an anonymous coward!
From the website:
(One immediate problem will be bandwidth. The Beauregard Parish Library is a small parish (county) library in rural Louisiana with a single lowly T-1 connection to the world. Even with BitTorrent, serving up six or seven full ISO images will get insane very fast if the word spreads very far. So PLEASE! For the love of all that is Good, Holy, Just and generally pleasing to the Great Penguin, DO NOT SUBMIT THIS PAGE TO SLASHDOT!!)
The Google mirror is here for the curious who want to view the site without killing their bandwidth.
Also there's multi display folk. Sure, I could plug another monitor into my laptop, but then the displays won't be the same and one will be a (inferior) laptop display.
I have three large identical high viewing angle TFTs on my desk (that cost less than half of just one of those laptops) - just couldn't easily be done around a laptop based setup.
The ideal solution would be one where you have three cables running to your house... from three different companies, each carrying power, data and voice. (Rather than one cable from each from a monopoly supplier.)
That way you would get good competition and double redundancy! Not going to happen in my lifetime though.
EADS is a European defense company, based in Germany (DASA) and Spain (CASA). I think it owns things in Italy as well.
It does not include BAE SYSTEMS (UK) although BAE did work with Aerospatiale (FR, not part of EADS either) on Concorde 1 and also with EADS and Alenia on Eurofighter.
A 777 cannot be flown with all the computers out. It has a digital full authority flight control and engine management system - no power, no control. There is no mechanical reversion system.
This is why each engine has 1 main (120kVA) generator and 2 (20kVA frequency wild) backup generators. Flight systems power can also be drawn from the APU (120kVA) or the RAT (5kVA). If all those go, you are fucked - the plane can't even be glided into landing. Fortunatly, that's a very low probability event.
(4 backup systems would always be the minimum on any civillian airliner by the way, only the military get to cut corners here.)
I think you have forgotten the Harrier. Built under license, yes, (from BAE SYSTEMS) but still built by Boeing.
At the moment the wireless security that ships with routers is inherently insecure, but some places seem to thin it's necessary.
I have already been castigated by the university for running a WiFi node that doesn't conform to their requirements (WEP is disabled) - even though it's ad hoc, there is no DHCP, each host on the wireless net only accepts ssh connections from hosts with known IPs and mac addresses and oubound routing (from connections terminated with ssh against into an authed socks proxy) is stictly controlled. Turning on WEP too would drop speeds to a useless level for little extra benefit.
Maybe new standards will change this, but for now the media should really stop focusing on WEP as the be all and end all of security to the detriment of people competent enough to handle it themselves in a better fashion.
Reading this document has given me a new respect for the X developers.
You can use a modern X server to talk to an X client on a 1990s vintage machine with no problems at all, yet X is pretty fast on modern machines, has pretty good 3D support and is being updated to add more and more eye candy all the time - without breaking backwards compatibility.
Their aims may not be the same as the ones you think they should have for your own use, but when compared against their aims they are doing very well indeed, and should be recognised for that.
Low level xlib (ie, generic level) support for X session movement from machine to machine.
This sounds a bit like screen implimented for X - you can take apps to work and back again without shutting them down, and keep apps running whilst restarting an X server. (With a bit of luck it will support echoing one app to mutliple windows as well.) It also allows for graceful app shutdown when an X server dies.
Up until now I have been using VNC to do this, but adding it directly into xlib should make it a good deal less clunky. Way to go guys.
Will show up as _4_ processors to the OS! (2 cores both doing SMT.)
:o)
This means that in a (say) 512 processor box the OS will have to handle 2048 processors efficiently. That's placing a lot of control in the hands of the software designers, and a lot of money in the hands of the companies that license per processor.
On the other hand, UNIX is getting pretty efficnelt at scaling to large systems, perhaps it (and by extension Linux thanks to SGI and IBM) will be able to handle it with no problems. One thread per processor on a desktop system might prove to be quite efficient
And the 3700 is even faster than the 3700, so what's so special about it?
If it's faster than itself, then with some handy infinite recursion you can prove it's infinatly fast!
Sounds pretty special to me.
Stewie was played by Rick Myal (sp?) who is a Brit.
He was also Eddy in the (excellent) Bottom that ran for any years on the BBC. Something to get off DC and no mistake.
It's a commonly repeated manta that you can't understand something until you have broken it. The BusinessWeek article suggests that frequently being able to apply this principle to Linux is what moves it forwards.
I disagree. On that basis Outlook Express would be the best e-mail client on the planet. Hell, the thing's been broken for over a decade now.
Are these available in the U.S.? The last time encrypted cell phones made the news there were no plans of selling them in the U.S.
Amazon.com
People who brought these also purchased:
900Mhz GSM network to run them on. $1,000,000.
Do a nice thing for the community, get your site nuked by a slashdotting :\
Can't we stick with posting links to SCO? They deserve this kind of treatment, whilst theKompany are pretty cool. (Especially if you own a Zaurus - tkcRom rocks.)
It's always promising to see a vindication of the open source model - and that is what this is.
Companies get what they want (the ability to cut development time and costs with prewritten code they can easily adapt).
Consumers get what they want (a web browser that works at no cost).
Hackers get what they want (a web browser they can hack, where their efforts will be recognised not cause a lawsuit).
Developers get what they want (income from doing something cool).
It's a win win solution, unlike closed development models. No one looses out at all, except the companies that exist to be the middle man. But even they don't loose out, as the shareholders can take their capital and deploy it where it is more worthwhile for the economy, which is the corner stone of capitalism. No more duplicated effort, creating the same product over and over, which by definition can never meet the requirements of all interested parties. Superb!
Ever since they started selling broken CDs, my 'to rip' pile is twice as high - as my flatmates can't rip them easily with Windows, they just toss it to me to do with grip/cdparanoia on Linux.
So now instead of them just ripping their own to put on their MP3 player, I usually end up keeping a copy of the good stuff too. DRM actually increases piracy, at least in this flat!
These people get paid well, but they do have to work their butt off for it.
There is little to no job security, and benefits have to be paid for out of your cut.
A good agent gets about 5% of a sale (10% if they represent buyer and seller - hard to pull off). Sure, that's $300k on an average house in Concord, Mass - but of that money 40-60% (depending on volume) goes to the office. That leaves ~$150k which represents anything up to a year of uncertainty and hard work dealing with really hard to please clients. (Naturally people in the $3m price range are bitchy perfectionists.)
You face the prospect of your listings getting yanked or poached at any time up to the last second, and investements in things like brocures and out of state listings (many thousands of dollars for really big properties) getting smoked. You need excellent people skills to deal with customers (and other brokers), and you need to be available 24 hours a day, even on weekends and holidays.
An aquaintance of mine managed to close a $9m house last year acting for the buyer and seller - and yeah, everyone was jelous of her. It certainly was a big pay day, but it reperesented a lot of work that could easily have ended up getting her nothing at all. Highly paid? When you get lucky... but it's compensation for the risk and talent involved.
The last time a virus inconvenienced me was back when I brought an ex-display A5000 with a collection of 200 viruses on it (according to the virus checker - never did get them all I think).
However, I get haraased by viruses on a daily basis... as part of my free geek tech support that people assume I run. In my opinion I wish viruses would totally trash hard disks as then I could just tell people to buy a Mac or install Linux for them instead rather than being forced to clean up - a long and painful process on Windows.
I don't suffer from a virus menace, I suffer from a stupid user menace, made worse by the fact that they don't knoe enough not to choose a crippled operating system.
A pocket nuclear fusion reactor is an invention, a biplane made out of recycled cheese is an invention, a new kind of breaking system for cars is an invention.
iTunes is a store. It happens to be on the internet. That's not an invention, no matter how well executed it is.