my team recently had to install an Xserve. I'm glad it was the only one, the rack-mount kit was out of the dark ages, it was pretty primitive. We'd naively expected Apple to have looked at other manufacturers and learned something. Ok, with practise it would have been quicker, but it took far longer than it should have done.
In contrast, we have older Dell 2950 servers and the newer R710 model, the former were quite easy to rackmount - simply snap the rails in - but the latter are even easier. Two of us racked up 36 fully-loaded servers including unboxing in a few hours, it'd have taken far far longer had we been using Xserves. Actually, no it wouldn't, we'd have simply used shelves or something.
Also, we can slide the Dells out on their rails, with the cable management arm ensuring the server remains powered-up and connected, unlike the Apple machine.
I thought the long tail was significantly discredited a while ago. Lets check google. hmm, not entirely. however, the guy who wrote it keeps coming up with new ideas which get a lot of attention and even praise before cooler heads actually think about it properly. The FT took a look at Chris Anderson's book freemium and, well, read John Gapper and his follow-up questions.
if I found an unauthorised GPS tag/tracker on my car, would I be OK to put it up for sale on ebay?
Me, being a geek, I'd probably hack some interesting tracks into it (can probably download tracks off the internet of people's holidays) including one that would spell out F*** Y** when overlayed on a map.
we have an NC10 at work to be used by the on-call staff member (3G integrated which replaces bluetooth).
I benchmarked it using SiSoft Sandra and it performed pretty well, the disk was actually pretty good - as good as my Toshiba Tecra M9, and the CPU is plenty good enough for web, email, skype, openvpn & ssh. It runs ubuntu netbook remix very well, just need to check the intel/xorg driver is loaded not vesa.
If it had a higher res screen I'd replace my ageing Sony TX2 with one at the drop of a hat!
here's a novel idea: use a lanyard. a lot of phones come with them but people are too lazy/stupid to bother. in some countries they use cellphones like medallions!
actually, Nokia learned a lot of lessons from the 770, N800 and N810 when buying hardware to ensure that drivers for hardware weren't proprietary/closed, so the new device will be a lot more open than the old one. Go check out MER (http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer_Blueprint) for a community effort to have a completely OSS maemo derivative.
agreed, it'd cost far more than $1M per year to fund the smallest "blue-sky" research team consisting of only maybe two to-flight people and a research team in a small lab, meaning a commitment of over 10 M before you might expect even a vaguely commercial proposition
To people like Microsoft, HP and IBM this is loose change they can find down the back of their sofas, but it'd be pretty hard to get a start-up off the ground doing something with absolutely no guarantee of relevant or useful results.
Working in a start-up where we have to keep the VCs happy, to keep the money flowing, means we have to be quite focussed on the targets, and there's not a big scope for inventing new and imaginative technologies. Whilst we have to spend quite a lot on hardware (servers and networking) and datacentres, the dominant cost is worker's salaries, so wildly speculative activities aren't good for personal survival;-)
you'd have to buy the whole CD even if you only want one track
what I do is to buy the whole album, rip the track I want, then destroy the bit of the CD which contains the track and return it to the shop for a partial refund.
:-D
top paying the monthly change, or can't connect/authenticate to the mother ship, then no content for you.
this sort-of already happened, and not with some lame-ass small company - yahoo - ever heard of them?
Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it
and MSN were going to do it too: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys.
Ok, these weren't live-only streaming operations, but it's only a few steps from:
stage1: the music player stores music encrypted, plays offline. You need supplier's servers to be online if you want to re-download or port to a new device
stage2: the music player stores music encrypted, ONLY plays when online to contact the key server to validated
stage3: music player only streams encrypted music
I inherited a pretty big collection of classical music from my uncle, some of which are vinyl records many tens of years old, some even old shellac ones. I can still play them. He also had a big CD collection, I can play them too, although a few are a bit touch and go as the substrate has deteriorated somewhat.
He also had electronic typewriters, only some of which are functional, and various manuscripts stored on floppies for them, mostly unreadable.
Before I die, I'm gonna have all my photos and writings transcribed to papyrus and buried in urns near the Dead Sea, so that in 2000 years time they can be dug up by archeologists and studied and marvelled at. Even my "-1 Offtopic" slashdot posts:-D
I'm sure there will be a way round this. make the radio station itself run on a shoestring budget, and have the profits made by a controlling organisation - since after all they pay a percentage of revenue, just ensure the revenue is tiny!
I chose S60 as a generic term for a smartphone, as being an obvious rival to apple and therefore a simple and obvious illustration that iphone users sing praises to Apple about some feature that apple magicked up and apparently never existed before and yet is nothing new.
damn, an expert, using both a hammer AND a screwdriver at the SAME TIME!!
me, I've only mastered the hammer, but when I do my masters in engineering I hope to be able to use screwdrivers and when in my PhD use them simultaneously.
Slashdot Mirror
way way back, IBM did some stuff with Java and agents... http://wapedia.mobi/en/Aglets
I prefer to get my operating systems for free!
Ubuntu is available free of charge and we can send you a CD of the latest version (9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)) with no extra cost
my team recently had to install an Xserve. I'm glad it was the only one, the rack-mount kit was out of the dark ages, it was pretty primitive. We'd naively expected Apple to have looked at other manufacturers and learned something. Ok, with practise it would have been quicker, but it took far longer than it should have done.
In contrast, we have older Dell 2950 servers and the newer R710 model, the former were quite easy to rackmount - simply snap the rails in - but the latter are even easier. Two of us racked up 36 fully-loaded servers including unboxing in a few hours, it'd have taken far far longer had we been using Xserves. Actually, no it wouldn't, we'd have simply used shelves or something.
Also, we can slide the Dells out on their rails, with the cable management arm ensuring the server remains powered-up and connected, unlike the Apple machine.
I thought the long tail was significantly discredited a while ago. Lets check google. hmm, not entirely. however, the guy who wrote it keeps coming up with new ideas which get a lot of attention and even praise before cooler heads actually think about it properly. The FT took a look at Chris Anderson's book freemium and, well, read John Gapper and his follow-up questions.
if I found an unauthorised GPS tag/tracker on my car, would I be OK to put it up for sale on ebay?
Me, being a geek, I'd probably hack some interesting tracks into it (can probably download tracks off the internet of people's holidays) including one that would spell out F*** Y** when overlayed on a map.
we have an NC10 at work to be used by the on-call staff member (3G integrated which replaces bluetooth).
I benchmarked it using SiSoft Sandra and it performed pretty well, the disk was actually pretty good - as good as my Toshiba Tecra M9, and the CPU is plenty good enough for web, email, skype, openvpn & ssh. It runs ubuntu netbook remix very well, just need to check the intel/xorg driver is loaded not vesa.
If it had a higher res screen I'd replace my ageing Sony TX2 with one at the drop of a hat!
OK, get an watch phone, these have voice dialling, and with a bluetooth headset you can pretend to be a borg.
here's a novel idea: use a lanyard. a lot of phones come with them but people are too lazy/stupid to bother. in some countries they use cellphones like medallions!
actually, Nokia learned a lot of lessons from the 770, N800 and N810 when buying hardware to ensure that drivers for hardware weren't proprietary/closed, so the new device will be a lot more open than the old one. Go check out MER (http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer_Blueprint) for a community effort to have a completely OSS maemo derivative.
but you can install linux on a dead badger! http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml
you can also run rdesktop client too. where have you been for the last N years?
that's the combination of my luggage, you insensitive clod!
agreed, it'd cost far more than $1M per year to fund the smallest "blue-sky" research team consisting of only maybe two to-flight people and a research team in a small lab, meaning a commitment of over 10 M before you might expect even a vaguely commercial proposition
;-)
To people like Microsoft, HP and IBM this is loose change they can find down the back of their sofas, but it'd be pretty hard to get a start-up off the ground doing something with absolutely no guarantee of relevant or useful results.
Working in a start-up where we have to keep the VCs happy, to keep the money flowing, means we have to be quite focussed on the targets, and there's not a big scope for inventing new and imaginative technologies. Whilst we have to spend quite a lot on hardware (servers and networking) and datacentres, the dominant cost is worker's salaries, so wildly speculative activities aren't good for personal survival
you'd have to buy the whole CD even if you only want one track
:-D
what I do is to buy the whole album, rip the track I want, then destroy the bit of the CD which contains the track and return it to the shop for a partial refund.
top paying the monthly change, or can't connect/authenticate to the mother ship, then no content for you.
this sort-of already happened, and not with some lame-ass small company - yahoo - ever heard of them? Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it
and MSN were going to do it too: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys.
Ok, these weren't live-only streaming operations, but it's only a few steps from:
stage1: the music player stores music encrypted, plays offline. You need supplier's servers to be online if you want to re-download or port to a new device
stage2: the music player stores music encrypted, ONLY plays when online to contact the key server to validated
stage3: music player only streams encrypted music
oblig XKCD - steal this music
I inherited a pretty big collection of classical music from my uncle, some of which are vinyl records many tens of years old, some even old shellac ones. I can still play them. He also had a big CD collection, I can play them too, although a few are a bit touch and go as the substrate has deteriorated somewhat.
:-D
He also had electronic typewriters, only some of which are functional, and various manuscripts stored on floppies for them, mostly unreadable.
Before I die, I'm gonna have all my photos and writings transcribed to papyrus and buried in urns near the Dead Sea, so that in 2000 years time they can be dug up by archeologists and studied and marvelled at. Even my "-1 Offtopic" slashdot posts
I note that play.com also sells downloads at a higher bit-rate (320k) than amazon (256k). I have no affiliation with them.
oblig xkcd reference
the scars won't heal till you stop!
or even the slightly cheesy z4ck which uses a Sharp Zaurus as the key hacking device.
I'm sure there will be a way round this. make the radio station itself run on a shoestring budget, and have the profits made by a controlling organisation - since after all they pay a percentage of revenue, just ensure the revenue is tiny!
surely it's about time the OSS movement learned how to do HollyWood Accounting
I recommend the de-moroniser
I chose S60 as a generic term for a smartphone, as being an obvious rival to apple and therefore a simple and obvious illustration that iphone users sing praises to Apple about some feature that apple magicked up and apparently never existed before and yet is nothing new.
damn, an expert, using both a hammer AND a screwdriver at the SAME TIME!!
me, I've only mastered the hammer, but when I do my masters in engineering I hope to be able to use screwdrivers and when in my PhD use them simultaneously.