There are other big issues. The OLPC boots in seconds, and is extremely efficient in terms of power, and massively avoids all the gewgaws Microsoft mandates as "features" for its software. This is deadly to new markets for them, so Microsoft and Intel are engaging in a normally illegal practice called "dumping". This is using the money from your more profitable markets to sell your goods, below cost, to drive a competitor without such deep pockets out of the business.
The practice is most easily done by a monopoly to prevent competitors from entering the market. We see it extensively in the diamond market, we see it by Microsoft in China to block Linux releases, and we've seen it in new markets by Intel. So there's no surprise here.
It's a really unfortunate question, founded in the philosophical claptrap trying to pretend "the universe exists only because I'm looking: If I can't see it, I can pretend it doesn't matter, so I just won't look."
The approach is often used on personal odors, crooked teeth, receding hairlines, expanding waistliines, wrinkles, urban blight, inflation, that pile of dirty socks in the bathroom, and unwashed dishes, and is an unfortunate form of wishful thinking with similar results in physics as it has in personal hygiene.
Oh, no, assume that there's a limited power output. Chopping through a human body is a whole level of power output different than chopping through a thick wall of reinforced metal.
What's interesting is the way that reaching the limits of power output doesn't deflect or block the blade. My working description is that it's it's a magnetically bound plasma. The material exposed to it vaporizes and the blade can pass through the gas, but try to pass through metal and you get fascinating magnetic interactions with the field.
I thought the Ewoks happened because using Wookies would have been way, way too expensive?
It's hard to maintain any splendid series, especially through a "prequel". What made Star Wars jump the shark was that it's basic story was told, and Lucas now had far, far more control to do stupid things, including:
> Reprising the death-star fight buty with Anakin at the controls. > Repeating every cheesy line from the first movies. > A refusal to admit that having Rasta and Charlie Chan white man pretending to Chinese accent aliens was amazingly racist. > Deliberately trying to de-mystify and de-religionize the Force by inventing bacteria with psychic power.
Frankly, they should have glued Lucas's hands to his chair to keep him from writing plot or dialogue, and let the authors of the animated Clone Wars cartoons write the plots. Those were actually far superior.
If you think that's necessary, I urge you to look up the PCAP software and how it can be used to monitor the traffic to arbitrary MAC addresses on your network unless your switches are very sophisticated and very carefully programmed.
Or even easier, if we blocked all Flash unless people authorize it specifically for specific sites. That will not only save a lot of wasted bandwidth, but it will slap down the badly designed dancing bear websites so common to, oh my let's see: Football teams like this man's?
I already bought the disk, they got their money. Ripping it myself versus using someone else's rip of it doesn't affect their profit directly.
Spending 10 minutes of my time ripping and reburning with all the subtlely different DVD formats out there is a complete waste of my time, and means buying or finding the ripper tools, installing them locally on whatever machine I have running, etc. I can install bittorrent in 2 minutes, start a bittorrent in a minute, walk away, and come back later without it interfering with other load sensitive operations, and I can do it on a machine without a DVD drive (which I've done).
Why waste my time and energy finding and using the latest DRM disabling software, region stripping tools, or pulling the excessive promotions off the start of the DVD when I can just grab what someone else has done? The artist got my money, or as much as he's going to get fromi me buying it.
Ahh. This makes much more sense. I'd mod you up if I had the points available. I did resent the implication that I wasn't familiar with "real data centers". I've been involved in plenty of work in centers that are very "real" indeed, thank you, and in what you refer to as "ghetto" operations.
I am also sick of spaghetti. The avoidance of spaghetti, alone, is a reason to pick consistent hardware manufacturers and spend the extra $500/server to get good Dell or HP systems instead of pizza boxes, and be able to rackmount them well and cable them consistently so you don't have to invent a new airflow solution for every half-rack of equipment. And if I see one more system with a side-vent or top-vent or other cutesy airflow solution that I have to stuff into a rack of normal servers, I'll scream.
By the way, for your crash cart fun and games, I've gotten extremely fond of using virtualization on an over-powered server to provide me with remote console access to the guest domain, without having to rely on the local manpower or expensive remote KVM's. You might look into it, now that it's become integral to so many distributions.
RIAA didn't help: neither did the MPAA. I'm frustrated that I can't get the movies I want, on-line, for the "region" I want. And I'm frustrated that my movies are encumbered with 10 minutes of mandatory FBI warnings, promotions for products or movies I don't want to see at a volume higher than anything else on the media, and other debris at a complete waste of my time for a DVD that I paid for.
Go buy a children's movie DVD of an educational movie, like a Sesame Street video, and see just how much undesired merchandising interferes with the beginning of the show. Then go grab a PiratesBay copy of the same show, *which you already paid for on the DVD*, and tell me it doesn't make sense to reburn and use the P2P shared version instead. I've pulled stunts like that, and don't feel at all guilty about it.
I could live without software copyrights. The difficulty of writing software entirely from scratch, without accidentally re-using familiar stanzas of code or what would in a sensible world be "fair use" components is quite awkward, and the absurdities of modern copyright law make decent forks quite problematic. So Richard Stallman's approach, and that of the GPL, make some weird sense. Use copyright as copyleft, to enforce that the material remain avaialable for modification and development.
Much of the rest of it is similar to the "legalize pot" argument. The laws are so stringent that they can't sanely be followed, and have generated a criminal class who simply don't see the offenses as being anywhere as serious as implied by the law. And the police frankly can't be bothered with the silly stuff. So we wind up with PirateBay and the like, which I admit I'll use to replace DRM encumbered content that I actually already bought. (Virus check it first, of course!)
Do any of you remember Alec Moffett's "crack" program? It would pre-scan large tables of likely passwords, and pre-generate the encrypted passwords, *with the salts* to compare against the encrypted password table. The first few passes would catch nearly 10% of most passwords on a large site.
Doing this kind of scanning is similar: salting helps reduce the likelihood of previous publication by quite a bit, but it only takes a publication of a "crack" style table of popular passwords to threaten a noticeable percentage of your site's passwords.
Oh, I've done plenty of work in operations centers. This includes co-location sites where getting the operations center staff to competently unrack, swap the component, and put the system back in the rack is very awkward indeed, and I've had to go do it myself in spite of the explicit contract I've faxed them spelling out their responsibilities in black and white.
Hauling a machine all the way back to the "operations center" to do the work is often awkward to say the least, so you do the maintenance on the floor next to the rack, or ideally on a cart with a monitor/keyboard console on it and a toolbox. The space for that is precious in a "portable" data center.
Facilities vary. Facitlities get expanded. Density of machines, and their power consumption, gets increased without much warning, and yes, people realize they've wound up with an airflow blockage or a hotspot, and they put in after-installation ductwork or fans to redirect the airflow, or add portable cooling units with ductwork to the air vents or windows, and I've added such units myself to small data spaces. You see, "real" data centers also have to deal with these other two real factors, called "change" and "expense". And pre-building in enough spare capacity to deal with unforeseen changes in density and layout is hideously expensive.
A pre-fab data center like this deals with it differently: it's useful to help avoid "ghetto" operations, as you describe them, to have a pre-built module with well-defined characteristics. It's how servers are built, with modular components and pre-set characteristics. Unfortunately, once it's in place, that "ghetto-izaton" is going to proceed quite quickly. And it makes sense to realize where the limitations are going to occur: space, especially maintenance space, is likely to be one of them.
I checked out some code: it was in 1.4.0, but not in 1.3.0, so I assume it started with 1.4.x. We should all be using that now anyway, except people stuck with a "7-year" support model such as RHEL releases who cannot be convinced to do such upgrades from non-RHEL repositories.
You've obviously never played it on a system with only 500 Meg of RAM. The level changing, and it *is* level changing between episodes, can take quite a lot of time on an underwhelming PC. Like HL1, there are numerous points with physically distinct geographies. These are usually linked by some location where you can only pass it one way, such as a steep drop into water or a doorway which is no longer open when you pass it, or an elevator that only goes one way.
Or perhaps he agrees with Theo de Raadt and other BSD license users that you should be able to lock away your own locally developed software bits and not share? I disagree with their licensing, but the model does have some followers.
Of course, when they get caught with their fingers in the cookie jar, as an OpenBSD got caught importing the GPL licensed Broadcom drivers and refused to cooperate with dual licensing, they can get quite upset about anyone *else* not simply handing over their toys to put in the OpenBSD toychest.
Well, good. That certainly wasn't present in the 1.3 releases. I don't have a Mac to work with at the moment: can you double check and verify that it doesn't keep a copy of the password in.subversion/ ?
No, the equipment is not identical. With the limited space and resources of a portable data center, and the lack of maneuvering room for operations like relocating racks or having a bank of projector screens to monitor large arrays of systems, you have to be very careful in what you install and why. And cooling has to be managed very carefully, along with power consumption: you can't simply put in another fan to route the cool air where you want, and you don't have floor space to disassemble equipment on site the way you would in a more standard environment.
This approach is like buying blade computers instead of 1U "pizza boxes", you sacrifice some flexibility for an overall management interface, less space, and ease of installation or replacement. If you've got a movie company that needs a render-farm while you're doing Star Wars 37, and you only need the data center for the six months of final compilation, this could work much better for you than using some off-site processing center.
Almost all of this is used for advertising and unnecessary dancing bears. If you want to see the difference, use a good quality text-only browser such as Lynx and see what your bandwidth and memory usage are.
You can't just say "oohhh, they make 500 Gig drives, I'll just slap those in and double my capacity!" The larger drives tend to take more power, and a modest consumer grade external box will have a rather limited power supply: they do cost money.
Please look at the power requirements before you corrupt your drives or worse, plug it into the raft of devices plugged into an overloaded wall jack and pop your fuses or start a fire.
In a public facing network, fine. Put a chador over your head so no one can gaze over your beauty and court you. But on an internal network, it's extremely useful to allow zone transfers for gathering the list of active servers and DHCP clients for network monitoring reasons, without the pain of also managing keys.
Yes, and money is only a concept, therefore unimportant to real life.
Let me offer you a hint from the real world: private investigators can, and will, root through your garbage and find out fascinating things about your medical history, your social life, and your work history. Contacting your bank and informing them that you are the guy who runs a pirate site might make it a bit awkward to get a mortgage.
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There are other big issues. The OLPC boots in seconds, and is extremely efficient in terms of power, and massively avoids all the gewgaws Microsoft mandates as "features" for its software. This is deadly to new markets for them, so Microsoft and Intel are engaging in a normally illegal practice called "dumping". This is using the money from your more profitable markets to sell your goods, below cost, to drive a competitor without such deep pockets out of the business.
The practice is most easily done by a monopoly to prevent competitors from entering the market. We see it extensively in the diamond market, we see it by Microsoft in China to block Linux releases, and we've seen it in new markets by Intel. So there's no surprise here.
It's a really unfortunate question, founded in the philosophical claptrap trying to pretend "the universe exists only because I'm looking: If I can't see it, I can pretend it doesn't matter, so I just won't look."
The approach is often used on personal odors, crooked teeth, receding hairlines, expanding waistliines, wrinkles, urban blight, inflation, that pile of dirty socks in the bathroom, and unwashed dishes, and is an unfortunate form of wishful thinking with similar results in physics as it has in personal hygiene.
Oh, no, assume that there's a limited power output. Chopping through a human body is a whole level of power output different than chopping through a thick wall of reinforced metal.
What's interesting is the way that reaching the limits of power output doesn't deflect or block the blade. My working description is that it's it's a magnetically bound plasma. The material exposed to it vaporizes and the blade can pass through the gas, but try to pass through metal and you get fascinating magnetic interactions with the field.
I thought the Ewoks happened because using Wookies would have been way, way too expensive?
It's hard to maintain any splendid series, especially through a "prequel". What made Star Wars jump the shark was that it's basic story was told, and Lucas now had far, far more control to do stupid things, including:
> Reprising the death-star fight buty with Anakin at the controls.
> Repeating every cheesy line from the first movies.
> A refusal to admit that having Rasta and Charlie Chan white man pretending to Chinese accent aliens was amazingly racist.
> Deliberately trying to de-mystify and de-religionize the Force by inventing bacteria with psychic power.
Frankly, they should have glued Lucas's hands to his chair to keep him from writing plot or dialogue, and let the authors of the animated Clone Wars cartoons write the plots. Those were actually far superior.
If you think that's necessary, I urge you to look up the PCAP software and how it can be used to monitor the traffic to arbitrary MAC addresses on your network unless your switches are very sophisticated and very carefully programmed.
Or even easier, if we blocked all Flash unless people authorize it specifically for specific sites. That will not only save a lot of wasted bandwidth, but it will slap down the badly designed dancing bear websites so common to, oh my let's see: Football teams like this man's?
I already bought the disk, they got their money. Ripping it myself versus using someone else's rip of it doesn't affect their profit directly.
Spending 10 minutes of my time ripping and reburning with all the subtlely different DVD formats out there is a complete waste of my time, and means buying or finding the ripper tools, installing them locally on whatever machine I have running, etc. I can install bittorrent in 2 minutes, start a bittorrent in a minute, walk away, and come back later without it interfering with other load sensitive operations, and I can do it on a machine without a DVD drive (which I've done).
Why waste my time and energy finding and using the latest DRM disabling software, region stripping tools, or pulling the excessive promotions off the start of the DVD when I can just grab what someone else has done? The artist got my money, or as much as he's going to get fromi me buying it.
Ahh. This makes much more sense. I'd mod you up if I had the points available. I did resent the implication that I wasn't familiar with "real data centers". I've been involved in plenty of work in centers that are very "real" indeed, thank you, and in what you refer to as "ghetto" operations.
I am also sick of spaghetti. The avoidance of spaghetti, alone, is a reason to pick consistent hardware manufacturers and spend the extra $500/server to get good Dell or HP systems instead of pizza boxes, and be able to rackmount them well and cable them consistently so you don't have to invent a new airflow solution for every half-rack of equipment. And if I see one more system with a side-vent or top-vent or other cutesy airflow solution that I have to stuff into a rack of normal servers, I'll scream.
By the way, for your crash cart fun and games, I've gotten extremely fond of using virtualization on an over-powered server to provide me with remote console access to the guest domain, without having to rely on the local manpower or expensive remote KVM's. You might look into it, now that it's become integral to so many distributions.
RIAA didn't help: neither did the MPAA. I'm frustrated that I can't get the movies I want, on-line, for the "region" I want. And I'm frustrated that my movies are encumbered with 10 minutes of mandatory FBI warnings, promotions for products or movies I don't want to see at a volume higher than anything else on the media, and other debris at a complete waste of my time for a DVD that I paid for.
Go buy a children's movie DVD of an educational movie, like a Sesame Street video, and see just how much undesired merchandising interferes with the beginning of the show. Then go grab a PiratesBay copy of the same show, *which you already paid for on the DVD*, and tell me it doesn't make sense to reburn and use the P2P shared version instead. I've pulled stunts like that, and don't feel at all guilty about it.
I could live without software copyrights. The difficulty of writing software entirely from scratch, without accidentally re-using familiar stanzas of code or what would in a sensible world be "fair use" components is quite awkward, and the absurdities of modern copyright law make decent forks quite problematic. So Richard Stallman's approach, and that of the GPL, make some weird sense. Use copyright as copyleft, to enforce that the material remain avaialable for modification and development.
Much of the rest of it is similar to the "legalize pot" argument. The laws are so stringent that they can't sanely be followed, and have generated a criminal class who simply don't see the offenses as being anywhere as serious as implied by the law. And the police frankly can't be bothered with the silly stuff. So we wind up with PirateBay and the like, which I admit I'll use to replace DRM encumbered content that I actually already bought. (Virus check it first, of course!)
Do any of you remember Alec Moffett's "crack" program? It would pre-scan large tables of likely passwords, and pre-generate the encrypted passwords, *with the salts* to compare against the encrypted password table. The first few passes would catch nearly 10% of most passwords on a large site.
Doing this kind of scanning is similar: salting helps reduce the likelihood of previous publication by quite a bit, but it only takes a publication of a "crack" style table of popular passwords to threaten a noticeable percentage of your site's passwords.
Oh, I've done plenty of work in operations centers. This includes co-location sites where getting the operations center staff to competently unrack, swap the component, and put the system back in the rack is very awkward indeed, and I've had to go do it myself in spite of the explicit contract I've faxed them spelling out their responsibilities in black and white.
Hauling a machine all the way back to the "operations center" to do the work is often awkward to say the least, so you do the maintenance on the floor next to the rack, or ideally on a cart with a monitor/keyboard console on it and a toolbox. The space for that is precious in a "portable" data center.
Facilities vary. Facitlities get expanded. Density of machines, and their power consumption, gets increased without much warning, and yes, people realize they've wound up with an airflow blockage or a hotspot, and they put in after-installation ductwork or fans to redirect the airflow, or add portable cooling units with ductwork to the air vents or windows, and I've added such units myself to small data spaces. You see, "real" data centers also have to deal with these other two real factors, called "change" and "expense". And pre-building in enough spare capacity to deal with unforeseen changes in density and layout is hideously expensive.
A pre-fab data center like this deals with it differently: it's useful to help avoid "ghetto" operations, as you describe them, to have a pre-built module with well-defined characteristics. It's how servers are built, with modular components and pre-set characteristics. Unfortunately, once it's in place, that "ghetto-izaton" is going to proceed quite quickly. And it makes sense to realize where the limitations are going to occur: space, especially maintenance space, is likely to be one of them.
I checked out some code: it was in 1.4.0, but not in 1.3.0, so I assume it started with 1.4.x. We should all be using that now anyway, except people stuck with a "7-year" support model such as RHEL releases who cannot be convinced to do such upgrades from non-RHEL repositories.
You've obviously never played it on a system with only 500 Meg of RAM. The level changing, and it *is* level changing between episodes, can take quite a lot of time on an underwhelming PC. Like HL1, there are numerous points with physically distinct geographies. These are usually linked by some location where you can only pass it one way, such as a steep drop into water or a doorway which is no longer open when you pass it, or an elevator that only goes one way.
Or perhaps he agrees with Theo de Raadt and other BSD license users that you should be able to lock away your own locally developed software bits and not share? I disagree with their licensing, but the model does have some followers.
Of course, when they get caught with their fingers in the cookie jar, as an OpenBSD got caught importing the GPL licensed Broadcom drivers and refused to cooperate with dual licensing, they can get quite upset about anyone *else* not simply handing over their toys to put in the OpenBSD toychest.
Well, good. That certainly wasn't present in the 1.3 releases. I don't have a Mac to work with at the moment: can you double check and verify that it doesn't keep a copy of the password in .subversion/ ?
No, the equipment is not identical. With the limited space and resources of a portable data center, and the lack of maneuvering room for operations like relocating racks or having a bank of projector screens to monitor large arrays of systems, you have to be very careful in what you install and why. And cooling has to be managed very carefully, along with power consumption: you can't simply put in another fan to route the cool air where you want, and you don't have floor space to disassemble equipment on site the way you would in a more standard environment.
This approach is like buying blade computers instead of 1U "pizza boxes", you sacrifice some flexibility for an overall management interface, less space, and ease of installation or replacement. If you've got a movie company that needs a render-farm while you're doing Star Wars 37, and you only need the data center for the six months of final compilation, this could work much better for you than using some off-site processing center.
Almost all of this is used for advertising and unnecessary dancing bears. If you want to see the difference, use a good quality text-only browser such as Lynx and see what your bandwidth and memory usage are.
Good. Just don't update it next year to a 2 TB without checking the power specs.
You can't just say "oohhh, they make 500 Gig drives, I'll just slap those in and double my capacity!" The larger drives tend to take more power, and a modest consumer grade external box will have a rather limited power supply: they do cost money.
Please look at the power requirements before you corrupt your drives or worse, plug it into the raft of devices plugged into an overloaded wall jack and pop your fuses or start a fire.
In a public facing network, fine. Put a chador over your head so no one can gaze over your beauty and court you. But on an internal network, it's extremely useful to allow zone transfers for gathering the list of active servers and DHCP clients for network monitoring reasons, without the pain of also managing keys.
That symbol was pronounced "Gimmick".
If you consider that the first SMS-like technology was telegraph, I don't think Prince is quite that old.
Yes, and money is only a concept, therefore unimportant to real life.
Let me offer you a hint from the real world: private investigators can, and will, root through your garbage and find out fascinating things about your medical history, your social life, and your work history. Contacting your bank and informing them that you are the guy who runs a pirate site might make it a bit awkward to get a mortgage.