Check out http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html - it's the future vision whitepaper for ReiserFS. I think that it would be neat for more people to rethink data indexing and metadata strategies at the operating system level. Lets think more about breaking our data into chunks and associating metadata with those chunks. For example, a consider a database stored in a file. Why shouldn't the operating system know about those chunks so that more apps can see them? Why can't I use the same or similar access control mechanisms for those chunks, etc?
Sorry for this kind of off topic post, but the word 'metadata' triggered the memory of that paper.:)
New mail notification on exchange is done using UDP packets.
Log gate implementation
on
Water Computing
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
I wonder if it would be possible to create such gates that function on water pressure changes. It's quite quick to propigate a wave through water. I'm talking about pressurizing water inside of the system, and then inducing shock waves from your inputs. Could you make gates that trigger on those pressure changes? You could probably get quite a few bps (by creating shock waves in the water) I wonder if you could just use plain old speakers to generate sound waves... I wonder what the attenuation characteristics of water are.
That's a bit of bull shit. It could be said that they already have near universal exposure since they all have telephone numbers. Having your music on the Internet does not make people notice you; marketing is still a very important utility that the record companies still provide.
Personally, I'm exposed to music primarily through my friends, but also listen to radio shows and sometimes music TV stations. I find that when I find a single that I like, I download it, and don't pay for it. However, when I find an artist who is really neat, I'll buy their CD, even if it costs 30 dollars or so. I find the
Here's what I think applies to most consumers of music:
o If they like an artist's work, they'll shell out cash o If they are checking out artists (sampling their music), they will pay a few cents per song, but the cost of managing the transaction would be prohibitive (not necessarily financially, but in a pain in the ass sense) o If they want a single, they'll pay about a dollar, but the cost of such a transaction is still probably prohibitive.
So, realistically, fans will shell out cash, but people who are casual listeners will only shell out cash if there is no pain in the ass factor. If record companies can make music available at a low cost (money) and reduce the pain in the ass factor to below the GNUTella/Kazaa level (good download speeds, good quality, etc), people will pay.
We already have laws to deal with copyright violation. We don't need more laws (we didn't need the DMCA). If they sued a few thousand joe downloaders (and of course settled out of court for a few hundred bucks each), people would hear about it and be afraid of using kazaa. Lots of kids (warez kiddies) would still use it, but their parents would be afraid and give them shit. At least, that's what mine would have done (and did, when I was 15, and trading warez, perhaps?)
Product certicications are usually based on high level process requirements - not details/features in products. This means that while process may have been followed, all problems may not have been caught. The certification producer, and the certified entity will market the certification to people, but people should really try to be aware of what it takes to be certified and to understand the field before interpreting the meaning of a cert. Usually certifications miss very important details in an attempt to be a broad catch all and it's difficult to understand what is missed without having been there. At the very least, people should be seeking commentary from people who HAVE been there but no longer have a vested interest (to taint an opinion)
Also, unless you have achieved a particular certification, I don't think that you're qualified to comment as to its real meaning. How do you have any clue as to what it means unless you know what you've learned from it, and how you've grown in order to achieve it? Even then, people tend to lie to themselves.
Certificiations are not meaningless. But they certainly don't mean competence. Compentence is NOT knowledge. For example... I recently worked with a man, who was CISSP certified who had no clue. Someone posted a usenet article asking what a firewall deny, outgoing, to port 4000 was probably caused by (complete with destination IP, etc)... he thought that it was a trojan (this was "here's a question, go think about it for a while" type question, not a "GIVE ME AN ANSWER NOW!" question). Now, if you don't recognise port 4000, you could always reverse DNS the IP and find that the target host was icq.mirabilis.com. This is just one example - so don't just say "he was lazy and didn't invest the time in figuring it out. The man also claimed to have written White Rabbit, played with Jefferson Airplane (on stage), invented robots that could climb stairs and learn rooms by name and that he flys to Greece in the summer in a bomber (he says that its his uncle's and that it costs ~2k in gas). Obviously, he was fired, but he had a CISSP (fairly big security compentence certification).
Now, if this post sounds non-sensical, please, understand that I am currently a bit drunk, and may not be making a lot of sense.:) Thanks.
While that is true, they likely have more knoweledge to base an opinion on than the poster. That would be true, if at the very least, the geologist had read the explanation given by those studying the 'ice blocks'.
But geologist Roger Buick of the University of Washington in Seattle told the same publication that a model created by Martinez-Frias and his team showing ice can form on a clear day was an "important advance in that it thoroughly documents and provides an explanation for a spectacular phenomenon"
It's probably more useful to support clustering at a lower level and treat the two machines as one. This would be especially feasable if you had some sort of trunked Gig ethernet connection between the two machines.
Is a good pair of headphones not an option? Also, lets realize that most office improvements could be made in the field of 'talking to eachother', not surroundsound:) Not much MS can do but make our computers crash more to facilitate more communication face to face:)
This is not much different from any downloaded system update. Kernel.org anyone? Sure, you have the opportunity to check signatures, but few desktop users would bother. Bigger distribution tools don't often even do a good job at verification - I don't believe that apt-get even does it (I do love apt-get, however). Most users will take the risk and trust install.oeone.com, for better or worse. Windows users download shareware constantly - people don't seem to have a problem trusting joe-blow server for non-mission-critical machines:)
X class flares happen quite often, especially around the peak of the solar cycle (which we are currently moving away from). Often, they are not earth directed and do not cause anything so nice as aurora (even if they do cause blackouts on some frequencies). Keep an eye on spaceweather.com and notice how often these things occur. The flare referenced in the article was probably the one that occured on Friday from sunspot 95 and did not appear to be earth directed (it occured while SS95 was just comming into vision). I'm surprised that this flare got on the front page, since there have been larger ones recently (I can't recall exactly when - obviously, its effects were small enough).
Hah! I have actually read some EULAs, and many state that you may KEEP your CD as a backup, not make a copy of your CD as a backup, unless the original media is required in order to actually use the software. Arguably, you may make a backup copy of something like Office or Windows, as they often ask for the CD to support new things (especially office now adays).
Relevant spot from W98 license:
After installation of one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT pursuant to this EULA, you may keep the original media on which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was provided by Microsoft solely for backup or archival purposes. If the original media is required to use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on the COMPUTER, you may make one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT solely for backup or archival purposes. Except as expressly provided in this EULA, you may not otherwise make copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or the printed materials accompanying the SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
It's too bad that the LSB people havn't yet taken on packaging issues. They've effectively chickened out by just recommending RPM. The best features of RPM, DEB and the BSD ports system should be reflected in a new packaging format for people to work towards using. Not only should this format be recommended by the LSB, but the LSB should define policies for the use of the format - package name and version formats, dependencies and package alias names, source package handling, non-official packages, etc. This really is necessary to get distribution of commercial software on Linux; testing for and supporting distribution differences is just too expensive for most companies. This is not to say that everyone supporting RPM won't help, but rather that policies are needed to really make it work, and that we may as well get a more optimal package management system happening:)
They may do something like certify the key in the CPU to be trusted by Microsoft or something like that. Palladium would be shipped with MS's public key, and so would try to validate the the CPU's key. You could maybe get around this by copying the CPU key of a trusted CPU or something, but, then they could tie it to some hardware factor, that you'd have to emulate as well.
On two individual occasions, I have seen groups of three satellites moving in formation across the sky. It gives the appearance of a large, slow moving triangle. The first time that I saw it, I thought that it was a UFO. In the news paper a few days later, it was reported that many people had seen it, and that satellite tracking facilities had verified it to be a grouping of satellites. The second time that I saw it, I could tell that it was moving across the sky at about the same rate that satellites do. Friends, on other occasions, have also seen these triangular satellite groupings.
This is not to say that all triangular UFOs are just satellites traveling in formation, but it is a possibility.
The kernel should cache the data in memory; after the first request for each file, speeds should be as good as a hard disk. Of course, in practicality, there may be some reason for the CD to be accessed, adding massive slow downs once in a while.
There's always acl.bestbits.at for Linux ACL support. Also, RSBAC (rsbac.org) patches allow Linux to support more fine grained and advanced authorization mechanisms than Windows does.
Slashdot Mirror
If you can't sell your licenses, how did Bluelight buy them when it bought KMart? Or was KMart always part of Bluelight?
Check out http://www.namesys.com/whitepaper.html - it's the future vision whitepaper for ReiserFS. I think that it would be neat for more people to rethink data indexing and metadata strategies at the operating system level. Lets think more about breaking our data into chunks and associating metadata with those chunks. For example, a consider a database stored in a file. Why shouldn't the operating system know about those chunks so that more apps can see them? Why can't I use the same or similar access control mechanisms for those chunks, etc?
:)
Sorry for this kind of off topic post, but the word 'metadata' triggered the memory of that paper.
I'm reminded of the signs posted at the front of buses, "Do not speak to the driver while the bus is in motion."
New mail notification on exchange is done using UDP packets.
I wonder if it would be possible to create such gates that function on water pressure changes. It's quite quick to propigate a wave through water. I'm talking about pressurizing water inside of the system, and then inducing shock waves from your inputs. Could you make gates that trigger on those pressure changes? You could probably get quite a few bps (by creating shock waves in the water) I wonder if you could just use plain old speakers to generate sound waves... I wonder what the attenuation characteristics of water are.
That's a bit of bull shit. It could be said that they already have near universal exposure since they all have telephone numbers. Having your music on the Internet does not make people notice you; marketing is still a very important utility that the record companies still provide.
Personally, I'm exposed to music primarily through my friends, but also listen to radio shows and sometimes music TV stations. I find that when I find a single that I like, I download it, and don't pay for it. However, when I find an artist who is really neat, I'll buy their CD, even if it costs 30 dollars or so. I find the
Here's what I think applies to most consumers of music:
o If they like an artist's work, they'll shell out cash
o If they are checking out artists (sampling their music), they will pay a few cents per song, but the cost of managing the transaction would be prohibitive (not necessarily financially, but in a pain in the ass sense)
o If they want a single, they'll pay about a dollar, but the cost of such a transaction is still probably prohibitive.
So, realistically, fans will shell out cash, but people who are casual listeners will only shell out cash if there is no pain in the ass factor. If record companies can make music available at a low cost (money) and reduce the pain in the ass factor to below the GNUTella/Kazaa level (good download speeds, good quality, etc), people will pay.
We already have laws to deal with copyright violation. We don't need more laws (we didn't need the DMCA). If they sued a few thousand joe downloaders (and of course settled out of court for a few hundred bucks each), people would hear about it and be afraid of using kazaa. Lots of kids (warez kiddies) would still use it, but their parents would be afraid and give them shit. At least, that's what mine would have done (and did, when I was 15, and trading warez, perhaps?)
Product certicications are usually based on high level process requirements - not details/features in products. This means that while process may have been followed, all problems may not have been caught. The certification producer, and the certified entity will market the certification to people, but people should really try to be aware of what it takes to be certified and to understand the field before interpreting the meaning of a cert. Usually certifications miss very important details in an attempt to be a broad catch all and it's difficult to understand what is missed without having been there. At the very least, people should be seeking commentary from people who HAVE been there but no longer have a vested interest (to taint an opinion)
:) Thanks.
Also, unless you have achieved a particular certification, I don't think that you're qualified to comment as to its real meaning. How do you have any clue as to what it means unless you know what you've learned from it, and how you've grown in order to achieve it? Even then, people tend to lie to themselves.
Certificiations are not meaningless. But they certainly don't mean competence. Compentence is NOT knowledge. For example... I recently worked with a man, who was CISSP certified who had no clue. Someone posted a usenet article asking what a firewall deny, outgoing, to port 4000 was probably caused by (complete with destination IP, etc)... he thought that it was a trojan (this was "here's a question, go think about it for a while" type question, not a "GIVE ME AN ANSWER NOW!" question). Now, if you don't recognise port 4000, you could always reverse DNS the IP and find that the target host was icq.mirabilis.com. This is just one example - so don't just say "he was lazy and didn't invest the time in figuring it out. The man also claimed to have written White Rabbit, played with Jefferson Airplane (on stage), invented robots that could climb stairs and learn rooms by name and that he flys to Greece in the summer in a bomber (he says that its his uncle's and that it costs ~2k in gas). Obviously, he was fired, but he had a CISSP (fairly big security compentence certification).
Now, if this post sounds non-sensical, please, understand that I am currently a bit drunk, and may not be making a lot of sense.
While that is true, they likely have more knoweledge to base an opinion on than the poster. That would be true, if at the very least, the geologist had read the explanation given by those studying the 'ice blocks'.
But geologist Roger Buick of the University of Washington in Seattle told the same publication that a model created by Martinez-Frias and his team showing ice can form on a clear day was an "important advance in that it thoroughly documents and provides an explanation for a spectacular phenomenon"
It's probably more useful to support clustering at a lower level and treat the two machines as one. This would be especially feasable if you had some sort of trunked Gig ethernet connection between the two machines.
Mat.
Is a good pair of headphones not an option? Also, lets realize that most office improvements could be made in the field of 'talking to eachother', not surroundsound :) Not much MS can do but make our computers crash more to facilitate more communication face to face :)
I'm just trying to say that many desktop users put as much trust in most servers they download from.
This is not much different from any downloaded system update. Kernel.org anyone? Sure, you have the opportunity to check signatures, but few desktop users would bother. Bigger distribution tools don't often even do a good job at verification - I don't believe that apt-get even does it (I do love apt-get, however). Most users will take the risk and trust install.oeone.com, for better or worse. Windows users download shareware constantly - people don't seem to have a problem trusting joe-blow server for non-mission-critical machines :)
X class flares happen quite often, especially around the peak of the solar cycle (which we are currently moving away from). Often, they are not earth directed and do not cause anything so nice as aurora (even if they do cause blackouts on some frequencies). Keep an eye on spaceweather.com and notice how often these things occur. The flare referenced in the article was probably the one that occured on Friday from sunspot 95 and did not appear to be earth directed (it occured while SS95 was just comming into vision). I'm surprised that this flare got on the front page, since there have been larger ones recently (I can't recall exactly when - obviously, its effects were small enough).
Hah! I have actually read some EULAs, and many state that you may KEEP your CD as a backup, not make a copy of your CD as a backup, unless the original media is required in order to actually use the software. Arguably, you may make a backup copy of something like Office or Windows, as they often ask for the CD to support new things (especially office now adays).
Relevant spot from W98 license:
After installation of one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT pursuant to this EULA, you may keep the original media on which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was provided by Microsoft solely for backup or archival purposes. If the original media is required to use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on the COMPUTER, you may make one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT solely for backup or archival purposes. Except as expressly provided in this EULA, you may not otherwise make copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or the printed materials accompanying the SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
(from http://nl.linux.org/geldterug/license.html)
It's too bad that the LSB people havn't yet taken on packaging issues. They've effectively chickened out by just recommending RPM. The best features of RPM, DEB and the BSD ports system should be reflected in a new packaging format for people to work towards using. Not only should this format be recommended by the LSB, but the LSB should define policies for the use of the format - package name and version formats, dependencies and package alias names, source package handling, non-official packages, etc. This really is necessary to get distribution of commercial software on Linux; testing for and supporting distribution differences is just too expensive for most companies. This is not to say that everyone supporting RPM won't help, but rather that policies are needed to really make it work, and that we may as well get a more optimal package management system happening :)
They may do something like certify the key in the CPU to be trusted by Microsoft or something like that. Palladium would be shipped with MS's public key, and so would try to validate the the CPU's key. You could maybe get around this by copying the CPU key of a trusted CPU or something, but, then they could tie it to some hardware factor, that you'd have to emulate as well.
What are the wierdest things that you've eaten? Did you enjoy them? If you were to eat them again, what ideas for preparation do you have?
:)
Thanks for the show, the book, and all of the hard work that you've put into both. You've helped my interest in cooking and food science to grow.
On two individual occasions, I have seen groups of three satellites moving in formation across the sky. It gives the appearance of a large, slow moving triangle. The first time that I saw it, I thought that it was a UFO. In the news paper a few days later, it was reported that many people had seen it, and that satellite tracking facilities had verified it to be a grouping of satellites. The second time that I saw it, I could tell that it was moving across the sky at about the same rate that satellites do. Friends, on other occasions, have also seen these triangular satellite groupings.
This is not to say that all triangular UFOs are just satellites traveling in formation, but it is a possibility.
The kernel should cache the data in memory; after the first request for each file, speeds should be as good as a hard disk. Of course, in practicality, there may be some reason for the CD to be accessed, adding massive slow downs once in a while.
There's always acl.bestbits.at for Linux ACL support. Also, RSBAC (rsbac.org) patches allow Linux to support more fine grained and advanced authorization mechanisms than Windows does.
I noticed Enron on that map. I wonder if they're still connected :)
It would also be nice to see RSBAC (rsbac.org) included as well - this kernel patch provides very powerful authorization mechanisms for Linux.
Couldn't you just add a DNS suffix to the system for new.net and achieve the same thing?
Some things, like libpcap still have a 2gb limit, even on new kernels.