I went looking for replacements for Evernote today after receiving their "heads up" email about the 2-device limit. I had old Android phones and my Windows PC as devices, which were unnecessary. I pared down my device list to just the Android phone and iPad, and am going to use the web service for Evernote instead of the Chrome app.
All in all, I don't think it's a big deal. Evernote needs to make money to survive, and they're still providing a free service in a reasonable way.
Having been in telecom for over a decade, I can attest to the fact that network reliability is closely related to the amount of change activity taking place in the network.
Precisely, this. If we really dig into the cause of this, I think it would take us back to the premise behind a comic I saw recently. Can't find it now, but basically there were 2 panes: one from the past with the mother asking the child if she was nice to her teacher today, and the second with the mother of today asking her child if the teacher was nice to her today. All that can be expected from a parent/teacher conference about how bad your child is doing or behaving is confrontation.
These test results are quite surprising to me, as the packages I receive from UPS are typically battered and have damaged corners, whereas those from FedEx are typically well-treated. I even had UPS call me once to tell me that a package, which I had taken care to tape really well, had come open during shipment, and was apparently in such a state of acceleration that the contents were strewn about, so they wanted to ask me what was in the box.
Well the artist thing is really just a concession; I don't believe you have to have a Mac to do anything artful (as implied in my original reply by the quoting of the word "necessary"). Art is but an excuse to buy into Apple's marketing.
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I love Apple's mobile products, I just don't see the point in buying their laptop/desktop machines unless you are an artist. Even then, it's becoming a bit of a stretch of the word "necessary" to have an OS X machine. Their Windows counterparts are just incredibly cheaper and more compatible with devices and other computers around them, usually. 7 is a very good OS, IMO.
Quite honestly, I'm beginning to believe the longer before any sort of legislation on Net Neutrality is passed, the better. It's going to be a real mess once the ignorant Congress and the predatory corporations involved are done with it all.
I don't see this as being as much of a direct problem for residential users. What I find disturbing are the comments being made by telco CEOs in an obvious attempt to lay a framework for legislation. Gems like:
"We have to make sure that they [application providers] don't sit on our network and chew up bandwidth," Seidenberg (Verizon CEO) said. "We need to pay for the pipe."
"Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it," says Whitacre. (AT&T CEO) "So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?"
So, if you have any knowledge of the complexity of the Internet, you already know that Google and other hosts out there are already paying for service. You and I, on the other end of a TCP/IP connection, are already paying for our service. Who, exactly, is "sitting on the network, chewing up bandwidth" or "using the pipes for free?" Currently, it's the same for any other protocol being used on the Internet. Both parties are paying for service, on whatever scale they use it. Peering arrangements are made between ISPs to ensure they can mutually provide for their users.
The real issue here is that these companies have seen just how much money they can milk out of a 3G-capable cell phone, and they want to extend that plunder to what they know is going to be the ultimate service of the next 100 years as people drop cable and home phone service for Hulu and VoIP.
Wait, wait, wait a minute...who said anything about unlimited bandwidth? I don't know about you, but the only 2 competing ISPs in my area have "invisible" bandwidth limits, which can be found, but are not openly available to the customer.
Can we not just agree that the backbones need to be engineered with a tighter grid with much more bandwidth?
Bandwidth for residential users is not nearly as aggressively deployed as bandwidth for financial institutions is.
Hopefully they have worked out the multitude of bugs with the Wind and Netbook Remix. I have no power button in the UI, power management has a bug with the brightness function keys, no display for turbo mode, wireless adapter disabled on bootup sometimes and function key to enable it won't work, eats battery like Pac Man on a bender...
Unfortunately, I'd rather just boot to XP on my Wind for most tasks.
WHS is basically just JBOD; I don't feel safe with it. When I was in the beta, they didn't explain exactly where or how files were stored, just that if you weren't using the full capacity of the array, that they were redundantly stored across drives. I like to be able to mount drives under linux to recover files if the OS crashes.
"I spent one week and $1,500 recovering critical files after my son crashed my computer playing video games. I learned my lesson the hard way and now back up everything with Mozy. If my hard drive crashes again, Iâ(TM)m ready."
Not true, 2-fiber BLSR has just as many fibers in use as a UPSR, and there is no advantage to either one. In a UPSR (let's say OC48), there are 48 STS1 channels available on both the inner and outer rings. The terminating nodes determine which side of the ring to grab a signal from. Channels can be selected from one or both sides of the ring simultaneously.
In a 2-fiber BLSR, you only have the ability to switch the entire OC48 line, but you can run "extra traffic" in the protect channels. Generally half the working channels are normally running in one direction, half the other. During a line switch, only the working channels are run along the active line. Extra traffic is squelched for the duration of the switch.
In a 4-fiber BLSR, you gain the ability to span switch between 2 nodes rather than having to switch the entire ring, but ring switching is available if both your spans between nodes fail. You can also run extra traffic on them.
The latest trend in optical networking is G.709. Most of the time different types of SONET or Ethernet payloads are encapsulated in a G.709 wrapper for transmission across the network. These are generally 1+1 unidirectionally switched.
Exactly, they would have had to known which cables were both the work and protect loops. Definitely suggests insider or former employee. It would have been extremely serendipitous for a random saboteur to have caused such an outage.
Windows 7's voice interpreter is already pretty good; imagine touch with voice. It would be awesome to bundle up my keyboard and mouse and put them away forever, but it seems a few years off still.
I'm very surprised with how complete it is on the MSI Wind U100. The only thing not working right off the bat is the built-in webcam, which I don't use anyway. Also, Nautilus isn't able to connect to my Windows shares when I simply click on them, so I'll have to figure out why. I suspect either Nautilus isn't calling smbclient right or Windows 7's CIFS has compatibility issues with smbclient.
I really don't like this trend, myself. Where are the repositories? Are they different than the default distro's? If I update/patch anything, is it going to break some proprietary software the netbook maker decided to make a dependency for a bunch of other stuff? I could go on and on, but I would really prefer that something like Ubuntu Netbook Remix used by all the netbook manufacturers, without a lot of hackery that kills my ability to update and install new software from the repos.
Linux has a long way to go for the common man. People buy computers with Windows or OSX installed, not linux. If they get linux accidentally, as we already saw with netbooks, they return it. There is so much easy-to-install software available for Windows, the methods while using it are familiar, they're heavily entrenched with the OEMs (and corrupt enough to fight with them over linux if need be), have a lot of money to spend on advertising and legal fees, etc, etc, etc. Moms, dads, and grandparents are never, ever going to download an Ubuntu ISO and try to install it. Why not instead focus on what linux IS good at? For instance, a while back I needed to serve up subdomains that had SSL security enabled for each one on the same IP address. IIS does this with a little metabase hackery, but Apache is completely incapable of it. Keep Windows down in the server market. There aren't any really stand-out "Small Business Server" equivalent distros, either, which is especially maddening considering most small businesses would love a free, stable OS for the services they take for granted.
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I went looking for replacements for Evernote today after receiving their "heads up" email about the 2-device limit. I had old Android phones and my Windows PC as devices, which were unnecessary. I pared down my device list to just the Android phone and iPad, and am going to use the web service for Evernote instead of the Chrome app. All in all, I don't think it's a big deal. Evernote needs to make money to survive, and they're still providing a free service in a reasonable way.
Just another free service building a user base to cash in on later.
Having been in telecom for over a decade, I can attest to the fact that network reliability is closely related to the amount of change activity taking place in the network.
Thanks for all your hard work! Enjoy your freedom, while it lasts!
Aren't the products and services they took over for naught without the patents behind them? I don't quite understand how this works.
Precisely, this. If we really dig into the cause of this, I think it would take us back to the premise behind a comic I saw recently. Can't find it now, but basically there were 2 panes: one from the past with the mother asking the child if she was nice to her teacher today, and the second with the mother of today asking her child if the teacher was nice to her today. All that can be expected from a parent/teacher conference about how bad your child is doing or behaving is confrontation.
These test results are quite surprising to me, as the packages I receive from UPS are typically battered and have damaged corners, whereas those from FedEx are typically well-treated. I even had UPS call me once to tell me that a package, which I had taken care to tape really well, had come open during shipment, and was apparently in such a state of acceleration that the contents were strewn about, so they wanted to ask me what was in the box.
Well the artist thing is really just a concession; I don't believe you have to have a Mac to do anything artful (as implied in my original reply by the quoting of the word "necessary"). Art is but an excuse to buy into Apple's marketing.
I love Apple's mobile products, I just don't see the point in buying their laptop/desktop machines unless you are an artist. Even then, it's becoming a bit of a stretch of the word "necessary" to have an OS X machine. Their Windows counterparts are just incredibly cheaper and more compatible with devices and other computers around them, usually. 7 is a very good OS, IMO.
Quite honestly, I'm beginning to believe the longer before any sort of legislation on Net Neutrality is passed, the better. It's going to be a real mess once the ignorant Congress and the predatory corporations involved are done with it all.
I don't see this as being as much of a direct problem for residential users. What I find disturbing are the comments being made by telco CEOs in an obvious attempt to lay a framework for legislation. Gems like:
"We have to make sure that they [application providers] don't sit on our network and chew up bandwidth," Seidenberg (Verizon CEO) said. "We need to pay for the pipe."
"Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it," says Whitacre. (AT&T CEO) "So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?"
So, if you have any knowledge of the complexity of the Internet, you already know that Google and other hosts out there are already paying for service. You and I, on the other end of a TCP/IP connection, are already paying for our service. Who, exactly, is "sitting on the network, chewing up bandwidth" or "using the pipes for free?" Currently, it's the same for any other protocol being used on the Internet. Both parties are paying for service, on whatever scale they use it. Peering arrangements are made between ISPs to ensure they can mutually provide for their users.
The real issue here is that these companies have seen just how much money they can milk out of a 3G-capable cell phone, and they want to extend that plunder to what they know is going to be the ultimate service of the next 100 years as people drop cable and home phone service for Hulu and VoIP.
Stockholm Syndrome?
Wait, wait, wait a minute...who said anything about unlimited bandwidth? I don't know about you, but the only 2 competing ISPs in my area have "invisible" bandwidth limits, which can be found, but are not openly available to the customer.
Can we not just agree that the backbones need to be engineered with a tighter grid with much more bandwidth?
Bandwidth for residential users is not nearly as aggressively deployed as bandwidth for financial institutions is.
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How much for the Slashdot / Reddit / Gmail / Gaming Bandwidth package? Just planning ahead...
Hopefully they have worked out the multitude of bugs with the Wind and Netbook Remix. I have no power button in the UI, power management has a bug with the brightness function keys, no display for turbo mode, wireless adapter disabled on bootup sometimes and function key to enable it won't work, eats battery like Pac Man on a bender...
Unfortunately, I'd rather just boot to XP on my Wind for most tasks.
I feel oddly guilty now, having downloaded the Crysis demo just last night to punish my new video card.
It goes everywhere, it's small/lightweight, 3G coverage, and has great battery life.
WHS is basically just JBOD; I don't feel safe with it. When I was in the beta, they didn't explain exactly where or how files were stored, just that if you weren't using the full capacity of the array, that they were redundantly stored across drives. I like to be able to mount drives under linux to recover files if the OS crashes.
"I spent one week and $1,500 recovering critical files after my son crashed my computer playing video games. I learned my lesson the hard way and now back up everything with Mozy. If my hard drive crashes again, Iâ(TM)m ready."
Not true, 2-fiber BLSR has just as many fibers in use as a UPSR, and there is no advantage to either one. In a UPSR (let's say OC48), there are 48 STS1 channels available on both the inner and outer rings. The terminating nodes determine which side of the ring to grab a signal from. Channels can be selected from one or both sides of the ring simultaneously.
In a 2-fiber BLSR, you only have the ability to switch the entire OC48 line, but you can run "extra traffic" in the protect channels. Generally half the working channels are normally running in one direction, half the other. During a line switch, only the working channels are run along the active line. Extra traffic is squelched for the duration of the switch.
In a 4-fiber BLSR, you gain the ability to span switch between 2 nodes rather than having to switch the entire ring, but ring switching is available if both your spans between nodes fail. You can also run extra traffic on them.
The latest trend in optical networking is G.709. Most of the time different types of SONET or Ethernet payloads are encapsulated in a G.709 wrapper for transmission across the network. These are generally 1+1 unidirectionally switched.
Exactly, they would have had to known which cables were both the work and protect loops. Definitely suggests insider or former employee. It would have been extremely serendipitous for a random saboteur to have caused such an outage.
Windows 7's voice interpreter is already pretty good; imagine touch with voice. It would be awesome to bundle up my keyboard and mouse and put them away forever, but it seems a few years off still.
I'm very surprised with how complete it is on the MSI Wind U100. The only thing not working right off the bat is the built-in webcam, which I don't use anyway. Also, Nautilus isn't able to connect to my Windows shares when I simply click on them, so I'll have to figure out why. I suspect either Nautilus isn't calling smbclient right or Windows 7's CIFS has compatibility issues with smbclient.
Other than that, suspend works, wireless works, Bluetooth works...and not just works, but works easily with a couple of clicks, which is seldom true for linux distributions. I installed it from a USB flash drive: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.04/beta/ubuntu-9.04-beta-netbook-remix-i386.img
I really don't like this trend, myself. Where are the repositories? Are they different than the default distro's? If I update/patch anything, is it going to break some proprietary software the netbook maker decided to make a dependency for a bunch of other stuff? I could go on and on, but I would really prefer that something like Ubuntu Netbook Remix used by all the netbook manufacturers, without a lot of hackery that kills my ability to update and install new software from the repos.
Linux has a long way to go for the common man. People buy computers with Windows or OSX installed, not linux. If they get linux accidentally, as we already saw with netbooks, they return it. There is so much easy-to-install software available for Windows, the methods while using it are familiar, they're heavily entrenched with the OEMs (and corrupt enough to fight with them over linux if need be), have a lot of money to spend on advertising and legal fees, etc, etc, etc. Moms, dads, and grandparents are never, ever going to download an Ubuntu ISO and try to install it. Why not instead focus on what linux IS good at? For instance, a while back I needed to serve up subdomains that had SSL security enabled for each one on the same IP address. IIS does this with a little metabase hackery, but Apache is completely incapable of it. Keep Windows down in the server market. There aren't any really stand-out "Small Business Server" equivalent distros, either, which is especially maddening considering most small businesses would love a free, stable OS for the services they take for granted.