Why are people (and headlines) are blaming it all on the corporations?
It's not like they have any choice, even if they're Microsoft. In China, don't even dream about doing any business of any kind without kissing some royal government A$$.
On the bright side, a good kisser can become extremely wealthy. Our president (Iceland) recently went over there with a few businessmen to visit their president and did billions' worth of plugging. You wouldn't believe the headlines we're seeing about Icelanders doing good business in China.
To completely eliminate a polarized image, you use a film with polarization perpendicular to the image. Any less than 90 and you'll be seeing traces of the other image. Hence, only two separate images can be viewed simultaniously using that technique. That makes a great, cheap 3D ciname (LCD projected images are polarized anyway) but doesn't help if you need more than two images.
Because I work on various computers in various parts of town, they don't make good organizing tools. A reminder in some organizing app on some computer will probably not reach me when it's due. On the other hand, I always have the phone on me. My age-old Nokia mobile phone has a reminder feature that I normally use for appointments and such.
As for todo lists, I normally store my todo.txt in the project directory (normally a website's DocumentRoot). I've never seen an organizing tool do the job as quickly and efficiently as a good old text editor.
Notable features of todo.txt: - Keep multiple TODO lists conveniently organized in a single file or keep them separated. - Quickly add, edit, remove and prioritize items on your lists. - Fits nicely with standard backup routines - no additional configuration required! - Zero learning curve! Just use your favorite text editor!
This is "normal free market activity" in the sense that government shouldn't do anything about it, as opposed to violence, where the government should intervene.
Of course, there's nothing "normal" about compmany A making lousy software, company B using that lousy software to sneak in even worse software and company C charging big bucks for cleaning up the whole mess.
It's just that it's up to us, the geeks, to fix it.
Yep. They can sit comfortably on the trophy shelf alongside the huge antivirus, spyware removal and data recovery industries.
Microsoft sure has a unique way of helping the economy.
(On a serious sidenote, though, many governments actually use similar methods to reduce unemployment. Every economist in the world knows it doesn't work, but politicians like it.)
Many administrators prefer out-of-the-box solutions. There are good reasons for that. Their simplicity makes them secure, because there are fewer opportunities for mistakes. This is a completely valid point that should always be taken into account when choosing a load balancer.
That said, Linux Virtual Server is relatively easy to set up (for your average unix sysadmin), very reliable, fast and scalable. It is not inherently slower, less reliable or more dependent on moving parts than any hardware solution. If you prefer no moving parts, run LVS on a solid state machine. Don't judge it by the hardware others choose to run it on.
With keepalived, eliminating the obvious "single point of failure" is no problem at all and various scripts have been written to facilitate LVS cluster management. We all know that any piece of hardware will eventually fail, be it from Intel, Western Digital or Cisco. Therefore, redundancy is usually a better bet than "reliable" hardware.
When your LVS box gets heavily loaded (meaning that you did something wrong, used hardware from the early nineties or got slashdotted), you can upgrade it at will. Replacing your 1.5GHz Intel chip with a 3.0GHz one should be a lot cheaper than buying a new Cisco box.
And one last point: Having a full-fledged OS running on the frontline can be convenient and may allow for better hardware utilisation. For example your LVS box might run a realserver itself, or other services that have nothing to do with the cluster. Scalability means being able to scale down as well as up.
Microsoft has that SPOF too, they're just calling it a router.
Keepalived lets you set up two separate load balancer boxes for redundancy. When your primary fails, the secondary takes over and sends you an email about it. Everyone else will never know.
I don't think they meant it to be used with protocols like nfs and smb/cifs. This kind of load balancing performs very well with "simple" tcp-based protocols, ones that make a socket connection, exchange some data, and then close it.
Therefore, it's been used with great success for HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP and so on.
"Should this agency strive to be good example for the rest of the country and protect against extreme hackers?"
No. It's not their job. If the institution has to exist, it should outsource the IT stuff.
When they founded the US government, they weren't trying to make a good example about computer security. They were trying to protect human rights. Let's stick to that. Everything else should be up to free enterprise.
Which makes business sense because it makes us interested in Google.
When they score geek points, geeks want to work for them. That way, they get the best people for the lowest price.
Geeks are also the have a major influence on other people's online behaviour. Did your mother try out all the other search engines before deciding that google was the best?
Libertarian movements like these are popping up in Europe as well. In Iceland (my home country), a libertarian party will be an option for voters in the next congressional elections in 2007. I know who I'll be voting for.
Governments, in general, are getting way too big. Their power over their citizens is overwhelming and we need to stand up and do something about it.
Step 1: Constitution
If this step is done right it should protect citizens from the government, each other and outside forces.
Step 2: Law enforcement and homeland security
Write laws dictating how those constitutional rights will be protected and how this will be financed. Execute the plan.
Step 3: Sit back and relax
Any law passed after this will only increase the power of the government to harm the citizens. A perfect constitution would, in theory, prevent this from happening.
Like the subject reads, this is just Government in theory. Government in practice always seems to fail miserably at all three steps and wind up with so much legislation that no single person could understand it all.
A company's worth has absolutely nothing to do with income. Its worth on an open market tells you how much _profit_ the market players expect from it in the future.
If Big Corporation Ltd. spends 50 billion to make 42.45 billion while Small Corporation spends 1 billion to make 4 billion, which one is worth more? Even better: What if Small Corporation is expected to grow exponentially without much added cost?
Had I been asked earlier today, I would have thought Time Warner was orders of magnitude bigger than Google.
Were you all aware of Google's worth before this article?
"It is thought that it could be Sony who have served this notice, as it is rumoured that he broke their new copyright protection within 72 hours of its release."
When you've been truly owned like that, you're just gonna have to shut up and take it. No matter how much you nag the authorities and publish carefully crafted press releases, you've still been owned.
In surveillance applications, replace those four flashes with infrared illuminators (to avoid desturbing the subject) and you just might find some serious uses for this technology.
- Video-based object counter (used for counting people in malls, cars in parking places and more) that will never detect two people/cars/products as one.
- Motion detection that ignores computer monitors and TV's.
- [Serious privacy issues ahead] Facial recognition using surveillance cameras might get a lot easier if you could get the outlines of the whole face to start with.
Imagine a blog hosted at home, and the owner posts a home-made movie.
Before Torrent: Little traffic means nothing to worry about. Lots of traffic (link from some big site) means the movie has to go.
Using Torrent: Little traffic still means nothing to worry about. Lots of traffic makes the problem even smaller, as you suddenly and automatically have thousands of mirrors.
Slashdot Mirror
Why are people (and headlines) are blaming it all on the corporations? It's not like they have any choice, even if they're Microsoft. In China, don't even dream about doing any business of any kind without kissing some royal government A$$. On the bright side, a good kisser can become extremely wealthy. Our president (Iceland) recently went over there with a few businessmen to visit their president and did billions' worth of plugging. You wouldn't believe the headlines we're seeing about Icelanders doing good business in China.
To completely eliminate a polarized image, you use a film with polarization perpendicular to the image. Any less than 90 and you'll be seeing traces of the other image. Hence, only two separate images can be viewed simultaniously using that technique. That makes a great, cheap 3D ciname (LCD projected images are polarized anyway) but doesn't help if you need more than two images.
Perhaps to keep the whole thing together and provide minimal protection, in case it bumps into another amateur radio space-suit?
"The preamp has landed on the moon. End of transmission."
Because I work on various computers in various parts of town, they don't make good organizing tools. A reminder in some organizing app on some computer will probably not reach me when it's due. On the other hand, I always have the phone on me. My age-old Nokia mobile phone has a reminder feature that I normally use for appointments and such.
As for todo lists, I normally store my todo.txt in the project directory (normally a website's DocumentRoot). I've never seen an organizing tool do the job as quickly and efficiently as a good old text editor.
Notable features of todo.txt:
- Keep multiple TODO lists conveniently organized in a single file or keep them separated.
- Quickly add, edit, remove and prioritize items on your lists.
- Fits nicely with standard backup routines - no additional configuration required!
- Zero learning curve! Just use your favorite text editor!
This is "normal free market activity" in the sense that government shouldn't do anything about it, as opposed to violence, where the government should intervene.
Of course, there's nothing "normal" about compmany A making lousy software, company B using that lousy software to sneak in even worse software and company C charging big bucks for cleaning up the whole mess.
It's just that it's up to us, the geeks, to fix it.
Yep. They can sit comfortably on the trophy shelf alongside the huge antivirus, spyware removal and data recovery industries.
Microsoft sure has a unique way of helping the economy.
(On a serious sidenote, though, many governments actually use similar methods to reduce unemployment. Every economist in the world knows it doesn't work, but politicians like it.)
The price of your hours spent trying to get rid of that annoying adware from your mother's WinXP box:
6.1 cents.
Many administrators prefer out-of-the-box solutions. There are good reasons for that. Their simplicity makes them secure, because there are fewer opportunities for mistakes. This is a completely valid point that should always be taken into account when choosing a load balancer.
That said, Linux Virtual Server is relatively easy to set up (for your average unix sysadmin), very reliable, fast and scalable. It is not inherently slower, less reliable or more dependent on moving parts than any hardware solution. If you prefer no moving parts, run LVS on a solid state machine. Don't judge it by the hardware others choose to run it on.
With keepalived, eliminating the obvious "single point of failure" is no problem at all and various scripts have been written to facilitate LVS cluster management. We all know that any piece of hardware will eventually fail, be it from Intel, Western Digital or Cisco. Therefore, redundancy is usually a better bet than "reliable" hardware.
When your LVS box gets heavily loaded (meaning that you did something wrong, used hardware from the early nineties or got slashdotted), you can upgrade it at will. Replacing your 1.5GHz Intel chip with a 3.0GHz one should be a lot cheaper than buying a new Cisco box.
And one last point: Having a full-fledged OS running on the frontline can be convenient and may allow for better hardware utilisation. For example your LVS box might run a realserver itself, or other services that have nothing to do with the cluster. Scalability means being able to scale down as well as up.
Microsoft has that SPOF too, they're just calling it a router. Keepalived lets you set up two separate load balancer boxes for redundancy. When your primary fails, the secondary takes over and sends you an email about it. Everyone else will never know.
I don't think they meant it to be used with protocols like nfs and smb/cifs. This kind of load balancing performs very well with "simple" tcp-based protocols, ones that make a socket connection, exchange some data, and then close it.
Therefore, it's been used with great success for HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP and so on.
"Should this agency strive to be good example for the rest of the country and protect against extreme hackers?"
No. It's not their job. If the institution has to exist, it should outsource the IT stuff.
When they founded the US government, they weren't trying to make a good example about computer security. They were trying to protect human rights. Let's stick to that. Everything else should be up to free enterprise.
To score geek points. They need them.
Which makes business sense because it makes us interested in Google.
When they score geek points, geeks want to work for them. That way, they get the best people for the lowest price.
Geeks are also the have a major influence on other people's online behaviour. Did your mother try out all the other search engines before deciding that google was the best?
I was gonna say Doom 2. Damn, I'm old.
Libertarian movements like these are popping up in Europe as well. In Iceland (my home country), a libertarian party will be an option for voters in the next congressional elections in 2007. I know who I'll be voting for.
Governments, in general, are getting way too big. Their power over their citizens is overwhelming and we need to stand up and do something about it.
Americans: Join that movement!
Step 1: Constitution
If this step is done right it should protect citizens from the government, each other and outside forces.
Step 2: Law enforcement and homeland security
Write laws dictating how those constitutional rights will be protected and how this will be financed. Execute the plan.
Step 3: Sit back and relax
Any law passed after this will only increase the power of the government to harm the citizens. A perfect constitution would, in theory, prevent this from happening.
Like the subject reads, this is just Government in theory. Government in practice always seems to fail miserably at all three steps and wind up with so much legislation that no single person could understand it all.
A company's worth has absolutely nothing to do with income. Its worth on an open market tells you how much _profit_ the market players expect from it in the future. If Big Corporation Ltd. spends 50 billion to make 42.45 billion while Small Corporation spends 1 billion to make 4 billion, which one is worth more? Even better: What if Small Corporation is expected to grow exponentially without much added cost?
Had I been asked earlier today, I would have thought Time Warner was orders of magnitude bigger than Google. Were you all aware of Google's worth before this article?
Will they still be asking us to kindly turn off all cell phones and other radio emitting devices?
When you've been truly owned like that, you're just gonna have to shut up and take it. No matter how much you nag the authorities and publish carefully crafted press releases, you've still been owned.
Sure, very handy indeed. And imagine, the rest of us had to google it :D
Amazing innovation? The guy just re-invented the wheel!
Don't get me wrong, re-inventing the wheel is my favorite pasttime activity, but this guy has taken it beyond all limits.
That's what I thought. But downtime is, of course, Microsoft's speciality.
In surveillance applications, replace those four flashes with infrared illuminators (to avoid desturbing the subject) and you just might find some serious uses for this technology. - Video-based object counter (used for counting people in malls, cars in parking places and more) that will never detect two people/cars/products as one. - Motion detection that ignores computer monitors and TV's. - [Serious privacy issues ahead] Facial recognition using surveillance cameras might get a lot easier if you could get the outlines of the whole face to start with.
Imagine a blog hosted at home, and the owner posts a home-made movie.
Before Torrent: Little traffic means nothing to worry about. Lots of traffic (link from some big site) means the movie has to go.
Using Torrent: Little traffic still means nothing to worry about. Lots of traffic makes the problem even smaller, as you suddenly and automatically have thousands of mirrors.