I have no idea - wake me up when an affordable SSD can hold 1TB or so. Until then I'll stick to spinning magnetic media everywhere but maybe my laptop.
I hate to say it, but for the small business market, they should be compared. If you're selling a 2TB redundant storage device to a small business without a huge IT department, then you're competing against what can be built from commodity parts (aka, crap from Newegg + Linux + RAID) because often cost, not performance, is the defining factor.
Well, that makes two of us, then. I also make about $100k/yr and couldn't imagine coughing up hundreds for an iPhone. My 3 year old Razr works just fine, and it was almost free (well, completely subsidized) because I signed up for a 2 year contract (smallest they offered, but still way more minutes than I ever use) at something like $24/month.
For that matter, I also drive a 15 year old car every day (which I do nearly all the work on myself, and now has about 350k miles on it - that said, I have two newer ones - 2004 and 2007 - in the garage at home that mostly sit), have a modest (2000 sq ft) 35 year old house in a working class neighborhood, put away a huge stash of cash of retirement every year, and have absolutely no debt aside from about $70k left on the mortgage. I don't throw money around for appearances - it's not necessary for my career, and if I am going to spend serious cash, it's going to be on something that has pragmatic value in my life. I live simply and within my means - something that befuddles most Americans these days.
Another second for Openfire, but personally I'd combine it with something other than the Spark client (just not my favorite, but if you like it, go for it). I've used it with Pidgin quite successfully, after a little tweaking.
As for security, you can then either use OTR if you want end-to-end security, or just use XMPP over https if you want transport security and want/need the server to be able to see the messages (such as if you work in an environment where logging/archiving is a regulatory requirement)
SSL without a trusted certificate provides NO additional security over communicating in the clear. AT ALL.
Bzzzt, wrong, thanks for playing.
Yes, the man in the middle attack is very real. However, it takes a great deal more work to set up than a simple sniffer, because you have to either capture/block/proxy/rewrite packets so that each side thinks it's speaking with the other, or spoof the DNS somehow.
On the other hand, a simple network sniffer can capture almost everything send in the clear, no special network tricks needed.
Authentication requires encryption. Encryption does not require authentication, but should then be considered somewhere between truly secure and just wide open. Call it a nice-to-have that prevents casual sniffers from picking up passwords to your home server, reading your webmail, and the like.
Your assertion assumes that there are no casual crackers/script kiddies out there who won't immediately escalate to some invasive and rather difficult MITM attack, or that sniffing is not a real danger. I'd argue that 90% of the insidious activity comes from just sniffing cleartext off the wire, and that more sophisticated attacks are significantly rarer. Encrypting the over the wire traffic is a way of mitigating a significant portion of that risk.
Actually it is - Bob (and more generally, the JMRI team) would have lost the rights to their own work.
Just because the other guy tried to take away rights and not the actual codebase is relatively insignificant. The fact is they would have lost rights innately granted to them as creators without agreeing to it or compensation of any sort (and arguably through deceitful means), and that's theft, plain and simple.
Yes, this logic differs from the usual piracy question. In that case, the copyright owner loses no rights, loses no source material, but is deprived of revenue owed. Hardly the same thing. (Though for reference, I'm no pirate either. My MP3 collection all has physical disks to back it up.)
I redeemed both of mine nearly instantly. I figure it's the one government handout I've ever gotten, and I'll be damned if I'm going to miss the opportunity. That was months ago.
I put the first one in about a week ago on my garage TV, since it is football season again. The second one has no intended use, other than to consume shelf space. Consider it a cheap spare in case #1 ever breaks down.
Agreed - for the average consumer, the Blu-Ray DRM mostly "just works". Doesn't mean it's good, doesn't mean I'd accept it in my house, but it isn't a big hassle for the average consumer (yet). Most of them have newer sets with HDMI/HDCP built in.
Adoption is about cost benefit. Hrm, players are expensive, disks are expensive, and the image isn't *that* much better than an upsampled DVD image.
Seriously, I had an early DVD player that I paid nearly $600 for, because it was a substantially better format than VHS and the disks never wore out. I still don't regret that purchase. However, my house is now filled with $60 Phillips players. They're cheap commodity units that do an amazing job (and DivX...)
I've seen Blu-Ray on a 47" screen over an HDMI link, and while I did perceive it as "better", it wasn't better enough. I'm quite happy with DVDs, thanks. If I'm typical of even a small portion of the usual early adopter crowd (and believe me, I'm a "gotta have the latest greatest now" kind of guy when it comes to electronics), then I'd say it's in real trouble with the general consumer base.
Okay, so say some incredibly nasty communicable virus shows up tomorrow. We all go home and hide from each other. When exactly do we get to come out again? It seems that the virus will likely never go away entirely, and as soon as we all come out again, it'll just rip through the population.
Might as well just keep doing what we do, take our losses, let the survivors immune systems adapt, and move on.
My above comment was largely meant to be funny. I vote based on principles and will likely vote Libertarian, largely because I view both mainstream candidates as standing for (and, in many cases, enthusiastically promoting) bigger, more invasive government. That doesn't stop me from thinking he's a rather odd lookin' dude.
Everyone's talking about lawyers and whatnot... what happened to just being polite? I guess lawyers have ruined that too.
Actually, I think you've hit on something there. If you go in with the intent of having a low-key, civil discussion, often times things you would say in the course of those discussions may damage your case if things escalate.
In your case, I'd state that you own it because it is your name, and have used it for X number of years to provide services X, Y, and Z for yourself. That should help establish the legitimacy of your ownership, and may (IANAL) protect you against any trademark issues. Given that, you'd obviously be losing something of value and have a transition cost, and then invite them make a reasonable offer.
Agreed - I'm an eight year Speakeasy customer as well, mainly because of the "no bs" technical support (was so nice to actually talk to someone who understood the technology and was not reading a script) and the ability to run servers.
When I heard about the Best Buy acquisition, the initial response was anger, followed by a tempered "wait and see" attitude. I've had some horrible experiences with BB on sales/extended warranty issues, and was not looking forward to them ruining the only ISP I've ever actually liked.
To their credit, SE hasn't changed much on what they provide. Reliable, fast, and no new surprise ToS amendments. Tech support isn't as great as it used to be (had to call about a line issue some time back), but it's still far from bad. I'd say adequate is a good word for it.
Now, as far as the OP's question: probably about 20 gig up, 30-50 gig down.
So sure, if it's not legal, all the mayor then needs to do is get it declared a state of emergency, declare martial law, and then send out the troops to enforce a mandatory evacuation. It's easier if people comply and get the hell out of there so they don't die.
Why should it be the government's job to forcibly save me, if I were to live there? Seriously, they've warned me in the strongest language possible. At that point, if I want to stay, that should be my choice. Live or die. By the same token, though, I have no expectations that they will come help me if the situation proves more than I can handle. Nor should I - they told me to leave.
Put me up as the libertarian type that strongly believes government should not be able to make me leave my property, no matter what. They have a responsibility to inform and warn, and to provide assistance for those trying to follow their directions, but beyond that, I want them to leave me the hell alone.
Seriously, try Colorado Springs, east of the mountains but west of where the big tornadoes start forming. Aside from being target #1 if nuclear war breaks out, we're pretty safe from any sort of natural disaster.
Yes, but arguably the risk of Rainer blowing up is much, much lower than New Orleans getting wiped out. Rainer has blown up once in the last two centuries. The Gulf Coast gets whacked by a serious hurricane every couple of years.
I agree - seriously, if we have to pay to rebuild NO every couple of years, we really should just re-engineer its flood production systems to be impenetrable. Of course then they'll be so damned ugly that nobody will want to live there, so...
If it is, I'm okay with it. Assault is just against one person, and they'll most likely heal - the destruction of historic artifacts is a crime against society, an affront to all of our heritage. Much like I believe intentional arson against historic structures should be punished by life imprisonment or possibly capital punishment. Then again I'm a historian in my spare time, and I take such things quite seriously considering the number of irreplaceable items we've lost to such pointless acts of stupidity.
Or rather than believing you're given those rights by God, Yahweh, Bubba, or FSM, how about we start with the theory that individuals are all equal and free to do as they please, and that as such, society cannot "grant" you rights because you already come with them all. They can only deny you rights.
I'm an old guard Republican who can't stand what the party has become (religious nutjobs controlling the platform, the huge, possibly illegal and mostly pointless expansion of federal powers under Pres. Shrubby, the massive overspending, messing with science to meet your political goals, etc.), so I jumped ship in 2004 and will probably do it again this year. I'm really more of a Libertarian, but when the Dems start looking like the party of smaller and more responsible government, you know that things are just royally out of whack.
I can't say as Obama lost my vote with the telecom immunity, but he came damn close. Anybody who values our rights that little I simply don't trust to run the country in accordance with the principles on which it was founded - namely the rule of law. However, McCain hasn't done much to prove himself there either, so...
At this point, it's still a toss-up as to who I'll vote for. McCain is at least a palatable alternative, since he's not as closely tied as most current Republicans with the social conservatives that I so despise. The biggest issues for me are fixing our energy mess (work on new transportation fuel alternatives and start seriously supporting nuclear and renewable energy sources) and fixing the tanking economy (propping up the currency, reducing the debt, stabilizing credit markets, etc.) Iraq, while bad, will most likely be bad either way. Get out now and things go to hell, stay there and things go to hell.
However, given that either Obama or McCain will win, I will figure out which I think is the lesser evil and vote that way. No, I will not vote third party. I might as well contribute a vote to determining the outcome rather than just boosting some third party candidate into the low single digit percentages.
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I have no idea - wake me up when an affordable SSD can hold 1TB or so. Until then I'll stick to spinning magnetic media everywhere but maybe my laptop.
I hate to say it, but for the small business market, they should be compared. If you're selling a 2TB redundant storage device to a small business without a huge IT department, then you're competing against what can be built from commodity parts (aka, crap from Newegg + Linux + RAID) because often cost, not performance, is the defining factor.
Or Mel Gibson (actor/fruitcake), or Mel Martinez (US Senator), or...
And I have an ex-girlfriend who goes by "Mel" (real name Amelia) who's probably also going to be annoyed at being mis-identified.
Cuz Jesus is f'ing metal?
Well, that makes two of us, then. I also make about $100k/yr and couldn't imagine coughing up hundreds for an iPhone. My 3 year old Razr works just fine, and it was almost free (well, completely subsidized) because I signed up for a 2 year contract (smallest they offered, but still way more minutes than I ever use) at something like $24/month.
For that matter, I also drive a 15 year old car every day (which I do nearly all the work on myself, and now has about 350k miles on it - that said, I have two newer ones - 2004 and 2007 - in the garage at home that mostly sit), have a modest (2000 sq ft) 35 year old house in a working class neighborhood, put away a huge stash of cash of retirement every year, and have absolutely no debt aside from about $70k left on the mortgage. I don't throw money around for appearances - it's not necessary for my career, and if I am going to spend serious cash, it's going to be on something that has pragmatic value in my life. I live simply and within my means - something that befuddles most Americans these days.
Another second for Openfire, but personally I'd combine it with something other than the Spark client (just not my favorite, but if you like it, go for it). I've used it with Pidgin quite successfully, after a little tweaking.
As for security, you can then either use OTR if you want end-to-end security, or just use XMPP over https if you want transport security and want/need the server to be able to see the messages (such as if you work in an environment where logging/archiving is a regulatory requirement)
SSL without a trusted certificate provides NO additional security over communicating in the clear. AT ALL.
Bzzzt, wrong, thanks for playing.
Yes, the man in the middle attack is very real. However, it takes a great deal more work to set up than a simple sniffer, because you have to either capture/block/proxy/rewrite packets so that each side thinks it's speaking with the other, or spoof the DNS somehow.
On the other hand, a simple network sniffer can capture almost everything send in the clear, no special network tricks needed.
Authentication requires encryption. Encryption does not require authentication, but should then be considered somewhere between truly secure and just wide open. Call it a nice-to-have that prevents casual sniffers from picking up passwords to your home server, reading your webmail, and the like.
Your assertion assumes that there are no casual crackers/script kiddies out there who won't immediately escalate to some invasive and rather difficult MITM attack, or that sniffing is not a real danger. I'd argue that 90% of the insidious activity comes from just sniffing cleartext off the wire, and that more sophisticated attacks are significantly rarer. Encrypting the over the wire traffic is a way of mitigating a significant portion of that risk.
Actually it is - Bob (and more generally, the JMRI team) would have lost the rights to their own work.
Just because the other guy tried to take away rights and not the actual codebase is relatively insignificant. The fact is they would have lost rights innately granted to them as creators without agreeing to it or compensation of any sort (and arguably through deceitful means), and that's theft, plain and simple.
Yes, this logic differs from the usual piracy question. In that case, the copyright owner loses no rights, loses no source material, but is deprived of revenue owed. Hardly the same thing. (Though for reference, I'm no pirate either. My MP3 collection all has physical disks to back it up.)
F@#$, that's my problem. No wonder the Canada I found looks a lot like Mexico.
I redeemed both of mine nearly instantly. I figure it's the one government handout I've ever gotten, and I'll be damned if I'm going to miss the opportunity. That was months ago.
I put the first one in about a week ago on my garage TV, since it is football season again. The second one has no intended use, other than to consume shelf space. Consider it a cheap spare in case #1 ever breaks down.
Agreed - for the average consumer, the Blu-Ray DRM mostly "just works". Doesn't mean it's good, doesn't mean I'd accept it in my house, but it isn't a big hassle for the average consumer (yet). Most of them have newer sets with HDMI/HDCP built in.
Adoption is about cost benefit. Hrm, players are expensive, disks are expensive, and the image isn't *that* much better than an upsampled DVD image.
Seriously, I had an early DVD player that I paid nearly $600 for, because it was a substantially better format than VHS and the disks never wore out. I still don't regret that purchase. However, my house is now filled with $60 Phillips players. They're cheap commodity units that do an amazing job (and DivX...)
I've seen Blu-Ray on a 47" screen over an HDMI link, and while I did perceive it as "better", it wasn't better enough. I'm quite happy with DVDs, thanks. If I'm typical of even a small portion of the usual early adopter crowd (and believe me, I'm a "gotta have the latest greatest now" kind of guy when it comes to electronics), then I'd say it's in real trouble with the general consumer base.
In fact I'd put Sears as the only brick and mortar retailer I actually trust today...
...and wouldn't think of buying hand tools anywhere else. Can't tell you how many ratchets I've gone through over the years.
Okay, so say some incredibly nasty communicable virus shows up tomorrow. We all go home and hide from each other. When exactly do we get to come out again? It seems that the virus will likely never go away entirely, and as soon as we all come out again, it'll just rip through the population.
Might as well just keep doing what we do, take our losses, let the survivors immune systems adapt, and move on.
My above comment was largely meant to be funny. I vote based on principles and will likely vote Libertarian, largely because I view both mainstream candidates as standing for (and, in many cases, enthusiastically promoting) bigger, more invasive government. That doesn't stop me from thinking he's a rather odd lookin' dude.
Actually I was thinking he looked like a cross between Mel Brooks and a used car salesman.
(And I'm a strongly-libertarian-leaning ex-Republican... Can't imagine what non Libs think of this guy.)
Everyone's talking about lawyers and whatnot... what happened to just being polite? I guess lawyers have ruined that too.
Actually, I think you've hit on something there. If you go in with the intent of having a low-key, civil discussion, often times things you would say in the course of those discussions may damage your case if things escalate.
In your case, I'd state that you own it because it is your name, and have used it for X number of years to provide services X, Y, and Z for yourself. That should help establish the legitimacy of your ownership, and may (IANAL) protect you against any trademark issues. Given that, you'd obviously be losing something of value and have a transition cost, and then invite them make a reasonable offer.
patent's seems to include things like CDMA2000, DVB-T and something about DRM.
Cool, all stuff I don't want for a change. Troll on! (And my apologies to my European friends, who may actually want DVB-T.)
Agreed - I'm an eight year Speakeasy customer as well, mainly because of the "no bs" technical support (was so nice to actually talk to someone who understood the technology and was not reading a script) and the ability to run servers.
When I heard about the Best Buy acquisition, the initial response was anger, followed by a tempered "wait and see" attitude. I've had some horrible experiences with BB on sales/extended warranty issues, and was not looking forward to them ruining the only ISP I've ever actually liked.
To their credit, SE hasn't changed much on what they provide. Reliable, fast, and no new surprise ToS amendments. Tech support isn't as great as it used to be (had to call about a line issue some time back), but it's still far from bad. I'd say adequate is a good word for it.
Now, as far as the OP's question: probably about 20 gig up, 30-50 gig down.
So sure, if it's not legal, all the mayor then needs to do is get it declared a state of emergency, declare martial law, and then send out the troops to enforce a mandatory evacuation. It's easier if people comply and get the hell out of there so they don't die.
Why should it be the government's job to forcibly save me, if I were to live there? Seriously, they've warned me in the strongest language possible. At that point, if I want to stay, that should be my choice. Live or die. By the same token, though, I have no expectations that they will come help me if the situation proves more than I can handle. Nor should I - they told me to leave.
Put me up as the libertarian type that strongly believes government should not be able to make me leave my property, no matter what. They have a responsibility to inform and warn, and to provide assistance for those trying to follow their directions, but beyond that, I want them to leave me the hell alone.
Seriously, try Colorado Springs, east of the mountains but west of where the big tornadoes start forming. Aside from being target #1 if nuclear war breaks out, we're pretty safe from any sort of natural disaster.
Yes, but arguably the risk of Rainer blowing up is much, much lower than New Orleans getting wiped out. Rainer has blown up once in the last two centuries. The Gulf Coast gets whacked by a serious hurricane every couple of years.
I agree - seriously, if we have to pay to rebuild NO every couple of years, we really should just re-engineer its flood production systems to be impenetrable. Of course then they'll be so damned ugly that nobody will want to live there, so...
If it is, I'm okay with it. Assault is just against one person, and they'll most likely heal - the destruction of historic artifacts is a crime against society, an affront to all of our heritage. Much like I believe intentional arson against historic structures should be punished by life imprisonment or possibly capital punishment. Then again I'm a historian in my spare time, and I take such things quite seriously considering the number of irreplaceable items we've lost to such pointless acts of stupidity.
Or rather than believing you're given those rights by God, Yahweh, Bubba, or FSM, how about we start with the theory that individuals are all equal and free to do as they please, and that as such, society cannot "grant" you rights because you already come with them all. They can only deny you rights.
I'm an old guard Republican who can't stand what the party has become (religious nutjobs controlling the platform, the huge, possibly illegal and mostly pointless expansion of federal powers under Pres. Shrubby, the massive overspending, messing with science to meet your political goals, etc.), so I jumped ship in 2004 and will probably do it again this year. I'm really more of a Libertarian, but when the Dems start looking like the party of smaller and more responsible government, you know that things are just royally out of whack.
I can't say as Obama lost my vote with the telecom immunity, but he came damn close. Anybody who values our rights that little I simply don't trust to run the country in accordance with the principles on which it was founded - namely the rule of law. However, McCain hasn't done much to prove himself there either, so...
At this point, it's still a toss-up as to who I'll vote for. McCain is at least a palatable alternative, since he's not as closely tied as most current Republicans with the social conservatives that I so despise. The biggest issues for me are fixing our energy mess (work on new transportation fuel alternatives and start seriously supporting nuclear and renewable energy sources) and fixing the tanking economy (propping up the currency, reducing the debt, stabilizing credit markets, etc.) Iraq, while bad, will most likely be bad either way. Get out now and things go to hell, stay there and things go to hell.
However, given that either Obama or McCain will win, I will figure out which I think is the lesser evil and vote that way. No, I will not vote third party. I might as well contribute a vote to determining the outcome rather than just boosting some third party candidate into the low single digit percentages.