And any number presented only has a meaning if it's applicable to the problem you have.
If you have a problem that scales well to TPC-C it may be useless to go by Linpack numbers to find the solution you are after. And the other way around.
However both Linux and Windows are originally designed for hardware with few processor cores. This means that to fully utilize many cores it's necessary to actually rethink the whole OS strategy.
Many security issues that have appeared since both operating systems were conceived are also something to address. But it's not easy to break into the area of operating systems unless you have a very specialized solution.
Both Linux and Windows are giants on the market - even if Linux isn't on desktops to the same extent as Windows it's found in many other devices everywhere from mobile phones , routers up to extreme supercomputers. Aside from what I did note before - Linux is usually the weapon of choice on supercomputers because it's very adaptable. However it may not utilize the full potential of a supercomputer.
Baud is modulation changes per second, and in each modulation change there may be a representation of one or more bits which means that the modem may be 1200 baud but you got 9600 bps out of it due to the modulation (phase and amplitude of tone)
And the old Telebit Trailblazer modems with PEP protocol - they were fantastic in crappy conditions. Multi-carrier technology so that even if there were interference at least a few got through anyway and the only effect was that the bandwidth was quenched. Things to do datacom over barbed wire with!:)
Eh? 300bps acoustic coupler using a Z80 based computer with 16k RAM and a tape recorder as secondary storage device.
That was interesting times.
And hacking on an ASR33 teletype with a paper roll and punch tape. Been there done that... Errors preserved permanently on the input device (paper roll). Earplugs were recommended.
For GSM there are already quad band phones, so it's no big deal.
The only catch is the use of a more or less nation-specific system in the US that makes things bad for international travelers. The "technology and frequency" talk is mostly bullshit. And FCC should get their act together and make sure that frequencies are allocated for mobile phone systems in a way that matches what other countries runs.
So Telcos are essentially bullshitting their customers and making sure that they do lock them up into their own cage. For international travelers with Quad-band phones the alternatives are T-Mobile or AT&T right now. There may be other players too offering services that matches other countries.
There is still room for improvement of the internal combustion engine, one is variable compression.
However - a very limiting factor is that consumers aren't willing to pay for the technology, especially in the US where gasoline is dead cheap compared to many other places in the world.
Just look at technologies that have been created earlier - the Alvar Engine (variable compression with a small piston that rotates phase-adjusted to the camshaft, and is actually a assymetrical counter-piston engine), Smokey Yunick's Hot Vapor engine (heating the fuel beyond boiling point before injection) etc.
Diesel engines are also one of the more fuel efficient engines around at the moment. Efficiency up to 55%.
But what really consumes fuel in many cases is the stop&go traffic in cities. Even a short term accumulation of energy in a capacitor bank would help to keep that down. And vehicle weight is also an important factor. Aerodynamic drag is of course important, but only at highway speeds. In a city you can do fine with a shoe box.
So the future for cars is probably a combination of solutions.
IE might have had a better response with version 8 if they just hadn't started to mess around with those startup questions and halting the installation to ask stupid questions.
I can't find any reason to actually provide Microsoft with my web usage statistics, so when they ask for it I always answer NO, and that is something that puts me off too - because that means that they do track people on the web in unclear ways. And when I answer NO, it also means that most other security-minded persons will do the same thing. The result is that it's only the unaware, noobs and fools that they get statistics from - which also explains why it seems like their software seems to be more and more adapted for dummies for every generation.
But setting up a wireless access point connected only to a local server would probably do a lot better. Use a "cantenna" to direct the access point covering area to a given location and it will be trickier to triangulate. Even better if you can bounce the radio waves against something using the "cantenna".
It would be an excellent information drop point for everyone in covert operations. Add a steganographed picture of something innocent - or maybe not so innocent like a pr0n image and you can propagate your information.
And large businesses - they play by their own rules. Just because they are fighting on one front doesn't mean that they do fight on another. Some of the fighting is just to get publicity and free marketing.
The big issue here is that they have made unfriendly moves against the open source community in several small steps. Most obvious is the OpenOffice part where they made it uncomfortable and finally ejected some part of the members of that community.
Effectively this means that they are showing a dark side and very little understanding of the value of a community around some of their products that are at least content if not happy.
Open source is actually one of the few cases where you can eat the cake and still have it at the same time.
And what Linux really does is to replace the old Unix servers in the data centers and it's also nibbling away at services provided by Microsoft servers.
The slow mode for Microsoft on the desktop is more due to the lack of major productivity software packages. OpenOffice exists, but it's not easy for it to compete with products from Microsoft for a variety of reasons.
The somewhat quirky look&feel on the Linux desktop is also contributing. For an experienced user this is just a small problem, but for the general user some of the quirkiness is a major obstacle.
Still makes me happy that I don't do Facebook, it seems like FB is one of the greatest threats to privacy these days. Governments use it to track their citizens etc.
And now when there are protocols like SMTPS and also TLS on SMTP as well as IMAPS and POP3S the loggings will only provide information that a certain IP was connected to a specific mail server and no indication at all of what the mail headers were.
Those of us working in tech also knows that the precision of the logs may not be the best. Clocks between servers may drift unless NTP is used (and not everyone configures that), logging info for DHCP may be incomplete, and many network cards offers the ability to change the MAC address rendering the ability to match a certain client with a certain action a bit tricky.
And if the hotels are going to have to register themselves as ISP:s will they also need to be telecom operators? Hotels have provided phone service to their guests for decades now.
Still - you have a lot of waste when producing the fuel, don't forget that. The large amount of waste that nobody speaks of is created during the mining and enrichment processes. It may be low active but toxic anyway.
Don't forget that even nuclear power do produce a large amount of emissions and waste. If you include the whole process from mining, transport, enrichment and then the waste produced by the process you will end up in a situation where you find that you have a relatively dirty process.
And building a reactor takes a huge amount of material, advanced alloys and extra thick concrete to keep radiation on the inside. The control equipment is also very expensive due to all failsafes. The designs also have to be enhanced in a newly built reactor compared to what was in previous generations of reactors in order to contain any spills if they do occur. This will both affect the construction cost - making the construction more expensive, but also the operational cost making it more expensive to run the reactor.
Some of us actually remembers Harrisburg and Chernobyl, both are indications of things that can go wrong. There are other examples too that can be found in A Review of Criticality Accidents.
Most of the accidents are caused by neglect and ignorance but a nuclear failure is causing trouble for a long time since it contaminates the area affected for so long. It's a question of decades and the contaminants are often invisible. Oil spills are visible to the naked eye and are of course not good either but the time that they are really causing any dangers is short compared to nuclear spills.
Just make sure that when you set up SIP also add a firewall filter to limit the number of clients able to access the service. Even if you can't dedicate an address it would help a lot to limit the attack possibilities by only opening for a certain subnet into the server.
And for roaming users a VPN tunnel should be the way to go to be able to access the SIP account.
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And any number presented only has a meaning if it's applicable to the problem you have.
If you have a problem that scales well to TPC-C it may be useless to go by Linpack numbers to find the solution you are after. And the other way around.
However both Linux and Windows are originally designed for hardware with few processor cores. This means that to fully utilize many cores it's necessary to actually rethink the whole OS strategy.
Many security issues that have appeared since both operating systems were conceived are also something to address. But it's not easy to break into the area of operating systems unless you have a very specialized solution.
Both Linux and Windows are giants on the market - even if Linux isn't on desktops to the same extent as Windows it's found in many other devices everywhere from mobile phones , routers up to extreme supercomputers. Aside from what I did note before - Linux is usually the weapon of choice on supercomputers because it's very adaptable. However it may not utilize the full potential of a supercomputer.
To continue:
Baud != bps.
Baud is modulation changes per second, and in each modulation change there may be a representation of one or more bits which means that the modem may be 1200 baud but you got 9600 bps out of it due to the modulation (phase and amplitude of tone)
And the old Telebit Trailblazer modems with PEP protocol - they were fantastic in crappy conditions. Multi-carrier technology so that even if there were interference at least a few got through anyway and the only effect was that the bandwidth was quenched. Things to do datacom over barbed wire with! :)
Eh? 300bps acoustic coupler using a Z80 based computer with 16k RAM and a tape recorder as secondary storage device.
That was interesting times.
And hacking on an ASR33 teletype with a paper roll and punch tape. Been there done that... Errors preserved permanently on the input device (paper roll). Earplugs were recommended.
Unfortunately not so with mobile phones where the systems came into development and usage to a larger extent a lot earlier outside the US.
Japan and Scandinavia were very early when it came to automated commercial networks available to "everyone" and with international roaming.
And the first automated mobile phone system was launched in 1960.
However the business model in the US for mobile phones did also hamper their propagation.
For GSM there are already quad band phones, so it's no big deal.
The only catch is the use of a more or less nation-specific system in the US that makes things bad for international travelers. The "technology and frequency" talk is mostly bullshit. And FCC should get their act together and make sure that frequencies are allocated for mobile phone systems in a way that matches what other countries runs.
So Telcos are essentially bullshitting their customers and making sure that they do lock them up into their own cage. For international travelers with Quad-band phones the alternatives are T-Mobile or AT&T right now. There may be other players too offering services that matches other countries.
Drug the passengers to unconsciousness and transport them in small containers.
But that doesn't help against someone that has made a bomb out of themself and with a timing device inside the body.
And what about the measurements - if this is going to work internationally they need to specify in metric measurements.
Only until either you or Netflix pay for extra bandwidth.
But it may be a good idea for ISP:s to consider caching services for the more common streaming services like Netflix.
Which is why I wrote "up to".
It also do provide a goal for land vehicle manufacturers to reach for.
There is still room for improvement of the internal combustion engine, one is variable compression.
However - a very limiting factor is that consumers aren't willing to pay for the technology, especially in the US where gasoline is dead cheap compared to many other places in the world.
Just look at technologies that have been created earlier - the Alvar Engine (variable compression with a small piston that rotates phase-adjusted to the camshaft, and is actually a assymetrical counter-piston engine), Smokey Yunick's Hot Vapor engine (heating the fuel beyond boiling point before injection) etc.
Diesel engines are also one of the more fuel efficient engines around at the moment. Efficiency up to 55%.
But what really consumes fuel in many cases is the stop&go traffic in cities. Even a short term accumulation of energy in a capacitor bank would help to keep that down. And vehicle weight is also an important factor. Aerodynamic drag is of course important, but only at highway speeds. In a city you can do fine with a shoe box.
So the future for cars is probably a combination of solutions.
IE might have had a better response with version 8 if they just hadn't started to mess around with those startup questions and halting the installation to ask stupid questions.
I can't find any reason to actually provide Microsoft with my web usage statistics, so when they ask for it I always answer NO, and that is something that puts me off too - because that means that they do track people on the web in unclear ways. And when I answer NO, it also means that most other security-minded persons will do the same thing. The result is that it's only the unaware, noobs and fools that they get statistics from - which also explains why it seems like their software seems to be more and more adapted for dummies for every generation.
You forgot the obligatory Admiral Ackbar. ;)
But setting up a wireless access point connected only to a local server would probably do a lot better. Use a "cantenna" to direct the access point covering area to a given location and it will be trickier to triangulate. Even better if you can bounce the radio waves against something using the "cantenna".
It would be an excellent information drop point for everyone in covert operations. Add a steganographed picture of something innocent - or maybe not so innocent like a pr0n image and you can propagate your information.
Qt isn't a programming language by itself, you will need a language to actually use it.
Never underestimate the power of money.
And large businesses - they play by their own rules. Just because they are fighting on one front doesn't mean that they do fight on another. Some of the fighting is just to get publicity and free marketing.
And then the question is - move to WHAT?
C# is too windows-oriented to really be useful, but maybe this will be a revival for Ada?
However - it's more likely that a spoof of Java called something else will spring up.
The big issue here is that they have made unfriendly moves against the open source community in several small steps. Most obvious is the OpenOffice part where they made it uncomfortable and finally ejected some part of the members of that community.
Effectively this means that they are showing a dark side and very little understanding of the value of a community around some of their products that are at least content if not happy.
Open source is actually one of the few cases where you can eat the cake and still have it at the same time.
And what Linux really does is to replace the old Unix servers in the data centers and it's also nibbling away at services provided by Microsoft servers.
The slow mode for Microsoft on the desktop is more due to the lack of major productivity software packages. OpenOffice exists, but it's not easy for it to compete with products from Microsoft for a variety of reasons.
The somewhat quirky look&feel on the Linux desktop is also contributing. For an experienced user this is just a small problem, but for the general user some of the quirkiness is a major obstacle.
Still makes me happy that I don't do Facebook, it seems like FB is one of the greatest threats to privacy these days. Governments use it to track their citizens etc.
What a pain in the butt it would be for Brad Pitt trying to copy something with his name on with a copier configured for Swedish.
Pitt == Dick...
And now when there are protocols like SMTPS and also TLS on SMTP as well as IMAPS and POP3S the loggings will only provide information that a certain IP was connected to a specific mail server and no indication at all of what the mail headers were.
Those of us working in tech also knows that the precision of the logs may not be the best. Clocks between servers may drift unless NTP is used (and not everyone configures that), logging info for DHCP may be incomplete, and many network cards offers the ability to change the MAC address rendering the ability to match a certain client with a certain action a bit tricky.
And if the hotels are going to have to register themselves as ISP:s will they also need to be telecom operators? Hotels have provided phone service to their guests for decades now.
And it was also triggered by a human error.
Stupidity will always take care of any kind of existing or non-existing security measures.
Still - you have a lot of waste when producing the fuel, don't forget that. The large amount of waste that nobody speaks of is created during the mining and enrichment processes. It may be low active but toxic anyway.
Don't forget that even nuclear power do produce a large amount of emissions and waste. If you include the whole process from mining, transport, enrichment and then the waste produced by the process you will end up in a situation where you find that you have a relatively dirty process.
And building a reactor takes a huge amount of material, advanced alloys and extra thick concrete to keep radiation on the inside. The control equipment is also very expensive due to all failsafes. The designs also have to be enhanced in a newly built reactor compared to what was in previous generations of reactors in order to contain any spills if they do occur. This will both affect the construction cost - making the construction more expensive, but also the operational cost making it more expensive to run the reactor.
Some of us actually remembers Harrisburg and Chernobyl, both are indications of things that can go wrong. There are other examples too that can be found in A Review of
Criticality Accidents.
Most of the accidents are caused by neglect and ignorance but a nuclear failure is causing trouble for a long time since it contaminates the area affected for so long. It's a question of decades and the contaminants are often invisible. Oil spills are visible to the naked eye and are of course not good either but the time that they are really causing any dangers is short compared to nuclear spills.
Just make sure that when you set up SIP also add a firewall filter to limit the number of clients able to access the service. Even if you can't dedicate an address it would help a lot to limit the attack possibilities by only opening for a certain subnet into the server.
And for roaming users a VPN tunnel should be the way to go to be able to access the SIP account.
And don't use your car when going places. Use a bicycle - it's a tad harder to place a tracker on a bicycle without someone noticing it.
And bicycles can be used on a lot of trails too.