There is a theory on the formation of government which basicly states that induviduals give up freedom for order and government (now if I only remembered who said that). The United States is one nation which has halfway broken this rule. Yes, our freedom is restricted, but, in most cases, it is to protect the freedom of others. As RMS and the poster stated, I'm fine with giving up a little freedom in order to protect lives, there is a limit to what I will tolerate. Having the government examine my life with a fine tooth comb is not one of them. That government does not represent me anylonger.
I have 2 Macs (if you don't count the IIcx or Quadra), a 7500/100 and a 7300/180. The 7500, well, sucked:) The biggest problem with it was the processor, too slow, and it won't take the 604e from the 7300 for some reason. The 7500 otherwise was nice (video capture! ISDN modem! Ethernet!). I still use my 7300 in day to day things (running 8.6, 48MB of RAM - 16MB of which was gutted from the 7500:)). I can't really complain about it. It was a very well built machine.
Here I agree. I love my Palm (IIIxe). I have it in my shirt pocket, and its taken its fair share of falls (the highest being 12+ ft, I was scaling a fence). It cost me some $150 at a developer price, and it does everything I need. If I want more functionality, I go for a laptop. My basic feeling is that a Palm is USEFUL, whereas a WinCE device is a TOY. An expensive and cumbersome toy at that.
My particular keyboard is about 7 years old. It has the "Packard Bell" logo on it. Its had the gloss from the oil on your fingers removed with a few runs of sandpaper. Its fairly dirty. Can this keyboard be replicated? Probably not. Plus, my computer is mounted so looking to my left shows the back of it (its in a "stack" of 2 computers sitting next to each other, raised off the floor by an old Mac Quadra). The front of computers are boring anyway. I can be semi-relaxed for now!
Most people overlook the Acer laptops. I've found them rather featureful and light, although I haven't tried running Linux on one yet. I particulary like the smartcard feature of some of the laptops. While this won't prevent people from walking away with it, it does provide an extra level of security. Firewire, USB, modem, Ethernet (some have 802.11 built in), they pack a lot of stuff in a very slim package. And considering Acer is a big manufacturer of laptop LCDs, they tend to be well warrantied and a step ahead of other laptop manufacturers.
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Its interesting that you mention Warren Spector. Deus Ex (which is an excellent game) carries many themes from previous works of his (e.g., the Illuminati).
Video is a market where you can throw endless computing time at it. Apple has been making big strides in this area (iMovie, Final Cut Pro, DVD Authoring Studio, iDVD). These applications are pretty worthless to run on a 400 MHz G3, and they can really utilize the latest and greatest G4 series processors. Apple, despite its small market share, still maintains a leading edge on the video front which the PC platform isn't able to compete with.
There is a standard, but it works mainly in triangles (as other shape systems won't be supported in other packages). Its called DXF (warning: DXF files can get very big!)
Actualy, I do have several clean VCRs. Two are old (GE and Toshiba ~ 1993), and one new (200) JVC "editing" VCR which do not have any macrovision circuitry. But its still analog:(
To fully understand the impact of today's society, we must wit another 50 years. Light bulbs were amazing when they were produced, but how many people had one in there house and used it to its full potential? The same goes for computers. They're "amazing" for the commonfolk, but when will it integrate and become second nature in their lives?
Some of the biggest technologies will most likely include e-mail and the web. Yes, the web is far too over-hyped, but it does offer a very large net of knowledge. 50 years ago, you could walk into a library and find a small assortment of knowledge, but if they didn't have what you were looking for, you were up a creek unless you had a lot of time on your hands. The web changes that (or more correctly, will). Simple things like forums or mailing list archives of accumulated knowledge will be the most useful, but thats only my prediction. (Those things are new inventions. A central repsoitory of conversation has never before been attempted. If any conversations were ever recorded in any way (meeting minutes, etc), they were usualy stuffed in a big filing cabinet and never were shared).
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There was once a very good piece at perl.com about teaching COBOL coders how to write Perl. While some things have changed, and many things have gotten "easier," the author did point out how many things in CS don't change. Its worth the read if you can find it again.
The Register article only mentioned the hard drives themselves - nothing about the hard disk controllers. If I read it right, the extensions placed into the ATA protocol are designed so only autorized data can be stored and forwarded - and it sounds like something will have to decrypt it somewhere, the question is where? Whats next, encrypted memory controllers (Salesperson: sure, memory throughput is down but you'll love the security features. Intelligent consumer: How slow? Salesperson: (sheepish) Umm...10Kb/s
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So, these drives will only work with new controllers, and considering the technology to use this feature is proprietary, some major players won't jump in (VIA amoung others).
This whole encryption thing sounds like it belongs in the filesystem, NOT the access protocol. What about backwards compatibility? Throughput? There are too many problems with this whole proposal. Yes, its very scary. Its evil. It should be taken outside and shot. We should have hard disk bon-fires (get those welding torches!) if it passes. Will it pass? If the ANSI commitee has any brains - it won't. But get the word out - this is bad.
When I tried getting at it, no luck:) No response from the server, no ICMP ping reply, nothing:) I don't think we should exploit a pre-release version of Win2k, but crash it when it is released (if ever). Don't tell Microsoft about its weaknesses, let them release a buggy product:)
There have been many posts on this already, but here is my two cents.
I'm not completley expierienced with making mail servers which are THAT big, but I can guarantee you Exchange will not handle it. You're looking for a FreeBSD machine, dual, maybe quad, processor, RAM galore (> 512), and, of course, the hard drive space to go with it.
For the SMTP agent, look at qmail, or if you're gutty, sendmail. You might look at a third party software package for this.
For the POP3/IMAP4 agent, look into UW-IMAP4. I've had it work with over 100 users on a single dinky Pentium 166 w/32 MB of RAM running FreeBSD.
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There is a theory on the formation of government which basicly states that induviduals give up freedom for order and government (now if I only remembered who said that). The United States is one nation which has halfway broken this rule. Yes, our freedom is restricted, but, in most cases, it is to protect the freedom of others. As RMS and the poster stated, I'm fine with giving up a little freedom in order to protect lives, there is a limit to what I will tolerate. Having the government examine my life with a fine tooth comb is not one of them. That government does not represent me anylonger.
I have 2 Macs (if you don't count the IIcx or Quadra), a 7500/100 and a 7300/180. The 7500, well, sucked :) The biggest problem with it was the processor, too slow, and it won't take the 604e from the 7300 for some reason. The 7500 otherwise was nice (video capture! ISDN modem! Ethernet!). I still use my 7300 in day to day things (running 8.6, 48MB of RAM - 16MB of which was gutted from the 7500 :)). I can't really complain about it. It was a very well built machine.
Here I agree. I love my Palm (IIIxe). I have it in my shirt pocket, and its taken its fair share of falls (the highest being 12+ ft, I was scaling a fence). It cost me some $150 at a developer price, and it does everything I need. If I want more functionality, I go for a laptop. My basic feeling is that a Palm is USEFUL, whereas a WinCE device is a TOY. An expensive and cumbersome toy at that.
My particular keyboard is about 7 years old. It has the "Packard Bell" logo on it. Its had the gloss from the oil on your fingers removed with a few runs of sandpaper. Its fairly dirty. Can this keyboard be replicated? Probably not. Plus, my computer is mounted so looking to my left shows the back of it (its in a "stack" of 2 computers sitting next to each other, raised off the floor by an old Mac Quadra). The front of computers are boring anyway. I can be semi-relaxed for now!
Most people overlook the Acer laptops. I've found them rather featureful and light, although I haven't tried running Linux on one yet. I particulary like the smartcard feature of some of the laptops. While this won't prevent people from walking away with it, it does provide an extra level of security. Firewire, USB, modem, Ethernet (some have 802.11 built in), they pack a lot of stuff in a very slim package. And considering Acer is a big manufacturer of laptop LCDs, they tend to be well warrantied and a step ahead of other laptop manufacturers.
Its interesting that you mention Warren Spector. Deus Ex (which is an excellent game) carries many themes from previous works of his (e.g., the Illuminati).
Video is a market where you can throw endless computing time at it. Apple has been making big strides in this area (iMovie, Final Cut Pro, DVD Authoring Studio, iDVD). These applications are pretty worthless to run on a 400 MHz G3, and they can really utilize the latest and greatest G4 series processors. Apple, despite its small market share, still maintains a leading edge on the video front which the PC platform isn't able to compete with.
There is a standard, but it works mainly in triangles (as other shape systems won't be supported in other packages). Its called DXF (warning: DXF files can get very big!)
Actualy, I do have several clean VCRs. Two are old (GE and Toshiba ~ 1993), and one new (200) JVC "editing" VCR which do not have any macrovision circuitry. But its still analog :(
To fully understand the impact of today's society, we must wit another 50 years. Light bulbs were amazing when they were produced, but how many people had one in there house and used it to its full potential? The same goes for computers. They're "amazing" for the commonfolk, but when will it integrate and become second nature in their lives?
Some of the biggest technologies will most likely include e-mail and the web. Yes, the web is far too over-hyped, but it does offer a very large net of knowledge. 50 years ago, you could walk into a library and find a small assortment of knowledge, but if they didn't have what you were looking for, you were up a creek unless you had a lot of time on your hands. The web changes that (or more correctly, will). Simple things like forums or mailing list archives of accumulated knowledge will be the most useful, but thats only my prediction. (Those things are new inventions. A central repsoitory of conversation has never before been attempted. If any conversations were ever recorded in any way (meeting minutes, etc), they were usualy stuffed in a big filing cabinet and never were shared).
There was once a very good piece at perl.com about teaching COBOL coders how to write Perl. While some things have changed, and many things have gotten "easier," the author did point out how many things in CS don't change. Its worth the read if you can find it again.
Intelligent consumer: How slow?
Salesperson: (sheepish) Umm...10Kb/s )
So, these drives will only work with new controllers, and considering the technology to use this feature is proprietary, some major players won't jump in (VIA amoung others).
This whole encryption thing sounds like it belongs in the filesystem, NOT the access protocol. What about backwards compatibility? Throughput? There are too many problems with this whole proposal. Yes, its very scary. Its evil. It should be taken outside and shot. We should have hard disk bon-fires (get those welding torches!) if it passes. Will it pass? If the ANSI commitee has any brains - it won't. But get the word out - this is bad.
Well, thanks for using IRM :)
When I tried getting at it, no luck :) No response from the server, no ICMP ping reply, nothing :) I don't think we should exploit a pre-release version of Win2k, but crash it when it is released (if ever). Don't tell Microsoft about its weaknesses, let them release a buggy product :)
There have been many posts on this already, but here is my two cents.
I'm not completley expierienced with making mail servers which are THAT big, but I can guarantee you Exchange will not handle it. You're looking for a FreeBSD machine, dual, maybe quad, processor, RAM galore (> 512), and, of course, the hard drive space to go with it.
For the SMTP agent, look at qmail, or if you're gutty, sendmail. You might look at a third party software package for this.
For the POP3/IMAP4 agent, look into UW-IMAP4. I've had it work with over 100 users on a single dinky Pentium 166 w/32 MB of RAM running FreeBSD.