Zigbee pro is not new. They may have a newer version but it has been around for years. The main issue with any zigbee chip is its high current draw. You need at least 55mA for receiving data and if you run a mesh network, you cannot use power saving built into the chip. Older chips are not compatible with newer versions even thought they are labeled the same, and there are numerous unexplained problems with them. Unless you are running from the mains and hence don't need to conserve power, give them a miss. Plus they run at 2.4GHz, so you get interference issues. They also don't use a standard pin pitch so you have to make a breakout board or spend extra for SIL sockets (x2). Been there, done that. Sure, if you have unlimited budget you can play with them, but they are not as good as they like to make out. Plus in the EU you are limited to 10dB output, when the pro versions are capable of 100dB.
The chips are known as XBee, the protocol is zigbee. They promise long battery life - probably true if you run off a car battery ! Try running them off AAs or PP3. You need at least 2500MaH to last a few days if they are set up to listen for data. And that includes power saving produced by hacks. Transmit I can make last for 1.5 months, if it is intermittent (ie, on an alarm condition), but the receive always has to be ready, hence the high power requirement.
The series was first envisioned as a radio series and that's where it first appeared, two series on Radio 4 UK. Then the books were released. Then some considerable time later a third series and subsequent crap appeared.
Do yourself a favour, listen to the original 2 series from the radio. After that it's all crap. As for the TV and movie, bah !
"Immensely durable science-fiction comedy that taught us all not to panic.
It may have spawned a BBC TV series, five novels and a biggish-budget movie, but purists still point to the original humble radio series as the real deal when it comes to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mysciencefictionlife/A16383233#inDepth
And when I dared suggest that the Luddites had a point, I was called a troll. The Luddites were right. All our jobs will be replaced by machines. What will we do for a living then ? Smashing the machines wasn't their answer to the problem, it was a statement of frustration. Everybody who wasn't affected ignored the issue and now it's getting closer than ever. I didn't stand up for the machine workers because I wasn't a machine worker, etc etc.
We have to accept that the concept of a "job" has almost run it's course. Everybody here is talking about what job they want after college, or what job they would do if they had the chance again. Stop thinking about jobs, and think about what you want to achieve personally, then any work that gets you closer to that achievement is good. Adaptability is the key, not rigid thinking. "I trained as a biochemist and I'm damned if I'll do anything else" won't feed you or your family. A good working record lasts forever. I don't know of any of the myriad employers I've had who wouldn't take me back in a heartbeat. I do a good job, whatever that job may be. I bring something to the party, commitment, integrity, intelligence, common sense and dedication. Who doesn't want an employee like that ? But they also know that when I have had enough and need a change. I'll be off to pastures new. No hard feelings. I now work for agencies, so switching employers is no problem and I don't get bored in one place. It can be hard but the freedom more than makes up for that.
From what I've seen recently, most employers have trouble getting anybody who can string a few sentences together to place a job advert. Seriously, whatever happened to public image ? I've even seen properly manufactured signs in factories and on the roads spelled wrongly. IMHO, this is because the people doing the job don't care. They are not doing their dream job so fuck it. Well if you can't be bothered to do something simple properly and take pride in your work, why should anybody trust you to do something more important ? So start caring, start standing out as being more attentive to details, however small, and the whole world will benefit, you included. Especially when every word processor of any standing has an inline spell checker that underlines the errors as you go along. Surely you can glance at what you've written before you rush to hit submit ? I've previewed this text 7 times so far, and I've caught several typos without needing the preview at all thanks to the spell checker. But I'm making a serious point, not banging my gums about how I'm going to get rich quick and leave the rest of you for dust. And immigrants, don't forget them. After all, they're superhuman, how can we compete ?
A motor vehicle technicians course runs for 5 years in total. So college is required, just not degrees. And I feel that degrees are over-rated anyway. I know some really dumb people with degrees in esoteric subjects who can hardly tie their own shoe laces. And I know some people with no degree who can turn their hand to almost anything. When you think about it, human beings are designed as generalists anyway. I know there aren't many physical things/processes you could present me with that I couldn't figure out pretty quickly and probably improve within a few weeks. I have no degree, I wasn't interested in proving myself with a bit of paper. Of course it's not about the paper, it's more about the social connections you make while doing it, and that's what's wrong. I'm not in your "club" so you look down on me. Well you can swivel. And making a lot of money is overrated too. Far better to be happy with yourself and have enough than to kill yourself trying to keep up with the joneses, or to buy a worthless piece of consumer junk that needs replacing every 3 years.
I have experience and/or training in car mechanics, machine tooling, carpentry, construction, farming, both livestock and arable, IT, logistics, plumbing, household and industrial electrics, electronic repair, decorating, production (steel, concrete, plastics, electronics), warehousing, metalworking, pottery, forestry, blah blah, blah. Those were just the paying jobs, I have hobbies and interests as well. Scuba diving, canoeing, travel, flying, astronomy, reading, photography, video, music, arguing the toss on/. And I have enjoyed almost every minute of my life. I could quite happily go off into the wild somewhere and build a house, get it powered and supplied with food and water - all with my own hands. And that is priceless. The other great thing is the number of characters I have met and friends I have made throughout all of those disciplines. The stories I could tell... This is my life. And I'm only half way through !
Or I could have spent years at university then the rest of my life climbing the corporate ladder. Hmmm, tough choice.
None of this was aimed at you Mr Chad, I'm just adding some insight. Take the losers who buy those BMWs. They spend thousands on the car, more thousands on servicing and insurance every year, and they sit in the same traffic jam as me in my 17 year old ford that costs ~300 a year to get through the test, and 100 a year in insurance. They think they're something special, but they're just burning money for appearances sake. Or the people with 50" plasmas. I don't have a tv, I have a couple of cards in the (9 year old) pc and watch it on a 19" lcd. But hey, that's up to them. Just ask yourself, what are they actually paying for ? Do they really need it, or is it just a matter of oneupmanship or even blatant consumerism ? Better things to do with my time I'm afraid.
Just this morning on my way to work (weekend rates, gotta be done) at 4.30am I saw both Venus and either the ISS or the wreckage of Iridium 33 in the sky about 60 deg apart. It felt good to even know what those objects were, as other members of the rat race hurried about their business oblivious to the world around them. I have witnessed spectacular meteor showers, and watched total eclipses of the sun and moon. Things that money can't buy (unless you're a billionaire astronaut wannabe). Try to be rich if you want, but not being rich doesn't make you a failure in life, and chasing riches at the cost of so much else is a sad way to live. end
The solution is the same now as it was 20,30,40,50 years ago - don't get caught. Simple really, no major modifications to society needed. Add to that, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime, and you're all set. It's interesting that you feel society isn't maturing right now, because it's your generation that's responsible for that. Lack of literacy, general knowledge, common sense, responsibility and a greatly inflated sense of personal entitlement. The MTV generation are in control - look how well that's turning out.
The best thing the burglar in this story could do is keep his head down and if questioned, admit it, describe his remorse and talk about how he turned his life around. Instead he wants other people to keep quiet about it, strangely pursuing this aim by telling everybody ! If you do something stupid or illegal and get caught, then think that everybody is persecuting you by reporting it, you have demonstrated you have an attitude problem. Once you get that attitude right, no more problem. Kids always think they can "stick it to the man" but they usually find out the hard way that you can't. Once you realise that, then you can get on with your life.
Do you have internet access ? Then publish your own account and let the devil take the hindmost. It pisses me off to see people who whine about freedom of speech issues and never put that freedom to good use. Personally, the only time I have been reported in the newspaper was for doing 86mph in a 70 limit. I don't give a fuck if that shows up on google, and I'm a professional driver.
It amuses me that for all the whining about censorship on this forum, when the censorship would work in your favour, you're all for it ! But of course, that's different.
My dad used to work a 10 hour day, then travel to gigs with his band at night. No govt. money needed. And that was in the late 50's early 60's. Why are budding musicians so specially deserving of my money now ? Maybe it's that sense of entitlement bubbling up again.
Only because YOU think you know better. When in fact you don't. When you grow up you'll realise that. Just the mention of the term "adult world" shows that as yet you haven't.
You realise that science starts from having ideas, reasonable or not ? Only by testing those ideas do you discover the truth. Your attitude seems to be, if you don't know something, then give up. So we should give up on speculation and therefore science ? Was Einstein able to test all his hypotheses ? Some of the stuff he "dreamed up" wasn't verified until well after his death. He should have stuck to the patent office I guess.
Have you ever looked at a clock and it takes seemingly forever for the first second to pass then suddenly it runs at normal speed ? "Now" is a concept that can be stretched apparently. A similar thing can occur in dreams. If you wake up but are still half asleep, and drift back into a dream, you can "experience" hours of action in the dream, but when you open your eyes again, barely 2 minutes have passed. What causes this ?
Anyway, I sense a lot of snobbery in your comment. Ditching an OS for another because the masses are starting to know about it? The users will not be the ones coding.
Snobbery ? When the options get less and less because "ordinary" users don't need or want them, and the interface gets dumbed down because "ordinary" users can't be trusted to think for themselves, it is not snobbery, but preservation of a way of working with a computer that is rapidly being lost to the corporate mantra of "you get these functions and that's all".
The lame adverts on TV for "I'm a PC" just demonstrate this perfectly. Look at me, I can use a toaster. Very good, but you know nothing about designing the toaster or how it works. When linux gets dumbed down to that level, it's time to move on. I'm already pissed off with Fedora removing applications* during updates without replacing them with anything else, or warning that that is going to occur. This is still MY computer, and I'll use it how I like, not according to someone elses rules.
Linux is good because it allows you to make choices, remove those choices and it loses it's raison d'etre.
* There used to be a system monitor application in Fedora 9 that allowed you to add various hardware monitors like cpu temperature etc. I found it useful as I added a second quad core cpu to my system and could see whether the thermal paste was applied correctly. After an update, the application disappeared - no warning, no replacement. Sure I could probably track down a replacement but that's not the point. If after a windows update you found that solitaire had been removed from the games menu you'd be pissed off. That's not an update, that's deliberate interference with your system.
Irrelevant. They are not giving the movies away, they are turning a [very] healthy profit. Their only problem is they are not making as huge a profit as they would like. So don't pretend the studios and all the artists are starving, because they aren't. They just aren't as rich as they would like to be. Sob.
Copyright was designed to protect the work for a limited time so that the artist could make some money. There was no wording that implied obscene profits were due. If there ever exists a movie that doesn't make a profit due to people downloading it, then the producers don't have a market, and they should get out of the business. But yet they are still going - funny that. Any movie that doesn't make a profit probably isn't good enough to warrant one, so instead of bleating about piracy, they should concentrate on making decent content.
When I was a kid, I went to the fair and was intrigued by a sign saying "The amazing rat lady - be amazed". So I paid my money and went in. I found a fat bitch wearing a body stocking eating a snickers bar surrounded by gerbils. If someone had taken a photo and displayed it outside, I would never have paid and gone in. The entertainment industry is a con job, you pay without knowing what you're getting, and there are no refunds. Not anymore. The market is now self correcting.
Of the approximately 1.5 TB of content on my media server, something like 75% is recorded from TV and the rest are DVD rips, of DVDs that I own. Most of those rips were downloaded versions, which I decided I liked, and then went out and bought a hard copy as backup. What is wrong with that ? But the studios like to claim it is an either/or situation, where if a pirate copy exists, they make no money. This is patently false, so they can cry me a river.
Not only that, but a car idling at the lights is using more fuel per revolution than its most efficient mode, whereas a server at idle is using the very least energy it can. A car is most energy efficient when doing 56 mph but a server is not more energy efficient under a 65% load. So epic car analogy fail all round.
When I can plug a carrot into my portable $whatever then it would be useful, until then it has nothing to do with electrical charge, which is what this story is all about.
Yes, and they have done for years. The limiter can be set to anything up to 56 mph (90kph). That odd figure is due to euro laws, HGVs are actually allowed to do 60 mph in the UK (on a motorway). This has the unwelcome result of you being vulnerable to prosecution if you drive down to Dover, then drive in France. If they check your tachograph and it shows you have been driving over 90kph, you get an on the spot fine. Q. If the limiter is set to 56mph, how can you do 60 ? A. Going downhill with a load on you can probably get to 70mph. Fortunately you get a minute before the tacho records an overspeed.
While in some ways I welcome limiters on all vehicles, it is going to be a bloody mess, as there is an art to driving with a limiter which takes time for even a good driver to acquire. Most idiots in cars will never get it, so expect more accidents.
Is PDF a web format ? If not then use a separate app to view them. The browser is not supposed to do everything. I have no plugins for PDF in my linux browser and my experience doesn't suck. Next you'll be wanting MS word to be viewable in the browser. Wanting something, and it being a good idea are sometimes very far removed. She probably wants a pony too, try getting that to run in a browser !
There seems to be no word about this attack working under linux anyway.
Also, if a remote server doesn't boot, how can you say that partitions have been removed ?
Also, have a read of this http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=908#p908
So they brought in a guy to help fix some existing issues with one of the servers, and less than 2 days later all hell breaks loose - sound familiar ? They say they were watching the servers as they were being "hacked", but couldn't get in via ssh. So they were just watching the webpage ? or if they were already in via ssh they didn't check who or last or any other access logs ?
The guy who runs the site sounds like he knows nothing, as he keeps insisting that because one of the servers was fine before the "attack" then there was nothing wrong with it. Yeah right up until my heart attack I was fine doctor !
I am not trying to attack these guys but merely point out the illogical statements they are making, and that there probably was no hack. As far as I can tell, no-one has even been to the site yet, so any talk of missing partitions is bollocks.
There is nothing to suggest "hackers" did this at all, other than a weak assertion by the site owner. Maybe he/they fucked up and don't want to take the blame.
Here is his non-technical explanation:
I want to provide everyone with a non-technical view of what took place yesterday and last night so that some of the rumors that are already starting to spread are corrected.
During the early evening yesterday, we noticed that some alarming things were starting to happen on our servers. The first sign of an issue was that some functionality disappeared on our web server. That progressed to not being able to access the web server via FTP or SSH. Finally, the web/forum server tripped offline. Next the library/email server started to exhibit issues. We went in to reboot it, and that is when it failed entirely. The partitions on both of the servers had been removed. We shut down both servers until we can get a technical member up to our Network Operations Center (NOC), and do a comprehensive inspection of the damage.
I have seen some rumors and speculation already on the various forums in the community, and I would like to make sure that everyone knows the facts. Here are some:
Early in the evening, I sent out a bulk email to all forum members letting them know that we anticipate shutting down the Web/Forum server for a period of time. About a third of the way through the process of sending that email to all 60,000 forum members, the hacker succeeded in bringing the server down. The email was did not get sent to everyone. The reason I sent the email, based on what we knew at that time, was because that a minimum, we would need to shut the web/forum server down to inspect the unit and do repairs. At the time the email was sent, we were unaware that a hack was in progress and that our system would be taken offline entirely. There were no hoaxes involved, as some have asserted.
Well drag me to hell...what does an island nation, sitting well below the equator, need with a space program anyhow.
Well what does any nation sitting well above the equator need one for ? (Merrit Island 28 DEG, 8 min North - Woomera 31 DEG 11 min South) You can get much closer to the equator in Australia than that. Much closer than anywhere in the USA actually. The northern tip of Australia is at roughly 11 DEG South, while the most southerly point of the USA is still at roughly 24 DEG North.
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Not the C, the L - LAN.
Video Lan Client.
Zigbee pro is not new. They may have a newer version but it has been around for years. The main issue with any zigbee chip is its high current draw. You need at least 55mA for receiving data and if you run a mesh network, you cannot use power saving built into the chip. Older chips are not compatible with newer versions even thought they are labeled the same, and there are numerous unexplained problems with them. Unless you are running from the mains and hence don't need to conserve power, give them a miss. Plus they run at 2.4GHz, so you get interference issues. They also don't use a standard pin pitch so you have to make a breakout board or spend extra for SIL sockets (x2). Been there, done that. Sure, if you have unlimited budget you can play with them, but they are not as good as they like to make out. Plus in the EU you are limited to 10dB output, when the pro versions are capable of 100dB.
The chips are known as XBee, the protocol is zigbee. They promise long battery life - probably true if you run off a car battery ! Try running them off AAs or PP3. You need at least 2500MaH to last a few days if they are set up to listen for data. And that includes power saving produced by hacks. Transmit I can make last for 1.5 months, if it is intermittent (ie, on an alarm condition), but the receive always has to be ready, hence the high power requirement.
The series was first envisioned as a radio series and that's where it first appeared, two series on Radio 4 UK. Then the books were released. Then some considerable time later a third series and subsequent crap appeared.
Do yourself a favour, listen to the original 2 series from the radio. After that it's all crap. As for the TV and movie, bah !
"Immensely durable science-fiction comedy that taught us all not to panic.
It may have spawned a BBC TV series, five novels and a biggish-budget movie, but purists still point to the original humble radio series as the real deal when it comes to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mysciencefictionlife/A16383233#inDepth
I remember it well from the first time around.
And when I dared suggest that the Luddites had a point, I was called a troll. The Luddites were right. All our jobs will be replaced by machines. What will we do for a living then ? Smashing the machines wasn't their answer to the problem, it was a statement of frustration. Everybody who wasn't affected ignored the issue and now it's getting closer than ever. I didn't stand up for the machine workers because I wasn't a machine worker, etc etc.
We have to accept that the concept of a "job" has almost run it's course. Everybody here is talking about what job they want after college, or what job they would do if they had the chance again. Stop thinking about jobs, and think about what you want to achieve personally, then any work that gets you closer to that achievement is good. Adaptability is the key, not rigid thinking. "I trained as a biochemist and I'm damned if I'll do anything else" won't feed you or your family. A good working record lasts forever. I don't know of any of the myriad employers I've had who wouldn't take me back in a heartbeat. I do a good job, whatever that job may be. I bring something to the party, commitment, integrity, intelligence, common sense and dedication. Who doesn't want an employee like that ? But they also know that when I have had enough and need a change. I'll be off to pastures new. No hard feelings. I now work for agencies, so switching employers is no problem and I don't get bored in one place. It can be hard but the freedom more than makes up for that.
From what I've seen recently, most employers have trouble getting anybody who can string a few sentences together to place a job advert. Seriously, whatever happened to public image ? I've even seen properly manufactured signs in factories and on the roads spelled wrongly. IMHO, this is because the people doing the job don't care. They are not doing their dream job so fuck it. Well if you can't be bothered to do something simple properly and take pride in your work, why should anybody trust you to do something more important ? So start caring, start standing out as being more attentive to details, however small, and the whole world will benefit, you included. Especially when every word processor of any standing has an inline spell checker that underlines the errors as you go along. Surely you can glance at what you've written before you rush to hit submit ? I've previewed this text 7 times so far, and I've caught several typos without needing the preview at all thanks to the spell checker. But I'm making a serious point, not banging my gums about how I'm going to get rich quick and leave the rest of you for dust. And immigrants, don't forget them. After all, they're superhuman, how can we compete ?
Exactly.
And you deserve everything you get.
A motor vehicle technicians course runs for 5 years in total. So college is required, just not degrees. And I feel that degrees are over-rated anyway. I know some really dumb people with degrees in esoteric subjects who can hardly tie their own shoe laces. And I know some people with no degree who can turn their hand to almost anything.
/. And I have enjoyed almost every minute of my life. I could quite happily go off into the wild somewhere and build a house, get it powered and supplied with food and water - all with my own hands. And that is priceless. The other great thing is the number of characters I have met and friends I have made throughout all of those disciplines. The stories I could tell ...
When you think about it, human beings are designed as generalists anyway. I know there aren't many physical things/processes you could present me with that I couldn't figure out pretty quickly and probably improve within a few weeks. I have no degree, I wasn't interested in proving myself with a bit of paper. Of course it's not about the paper, it's more about the social connections you make while doing it, and that's what's wrong. I'm not in your "club" so you look down on me. Well you can swivel. And making a lot of money is overrated too. Far better to be happy with yourself and have enough than to kill yourself trying to keep up with the joneses, or to buy a worthless piece of consumer junk that needs replacing every 3 years.
I have experience and/or training in car mechanics, machine tooling, carpentry, construction, farming, both livestock and arable, IT, logistics, plumbing, household and industrial electrics, electronic repair, decorating, production (steel, concrete, plastics, electronics), warehousing, metalworking, pottery, forestry, blah blah, blah. Those were just the paying jobs, I have hobbies and interests as well. Scuba diving, canoeing, travel, flying, astronomy, reading, photography, video, music, arguing the toss on
This is my life. And I'm only half way through !
Or I could have spent years at university then the rest of my life climbing the corporate ladder. Hmmm, tough choice.
None of this was aimed at you Mr Chad, I'm just adding some insight. Take the losers who buy those BMWs. They spend thousands on the car, more thousands on servicing and insurance every year, and they sit in the same traffic jam as me in my 17 year old ford that costs ~300 a year to get through the test, and 100 a year in insurance. They think they're something special, but they're just burning money for appearances sake. Or the people with 50" plasmas. I don't have a tv, I have a couple of cards in the (9 year old) pc and watch it on a 19" lcd. But hey, that's up to them. Just ask yourself, what are they actually paying for ? Do they really need it, or is it just a matter of oneupmanship or even blatant consumerism ? Better things to do with my time I'm afraid.
Just this morning on my way to work (weekend rates, gotta be done) at 4.30am I saw both Venus and either the ISS or the wreckage of Iridium 33 in the sky about 60 deg apart. It felt good to even know what those objects were, as other members of the rat race hurried about their business oblivious to the world around them. I have witnessed spectacular meteor showers, and watched total eclipses of the sun and moon. Things that money can't buy (unless you're a billionaire astronaut wannabe). Try to be rich if you want, but not being rich doesn't make you a failure in life, and chasing riches at the cost of so much else is a sad way to live.
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The solution is the same now as it was 20,30,40,50 years ago - don't get caught. Simple really, no major modifications to society needed. Add to that, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime, and you're all set.
It's interesting that you feel society isn't maturing right now, because it's your generation that's responsible for that. Lack of literacy, general knowledge, common sense, responsibility and a greatly inflated sense of personal entitlement. The MTV generation are in control - look how well that's turning out.
The best thing the burglar in this story could do is keep his head down and if questioned, admit it, describe his remorse and talk about how he turned his life around. Instead he wants other people to keep quiet about it, strangely pursuing this aim by telling everybody ! If you do something stupid or illegal and get caught, then think that everybody is persecuting you by reporting it, you have demonstrated you have an attitude problem. Once you get that attitude right, no more problem. Kids always think they can "stick it to the man" but they usually find out the hard way that you can't. Once you realise that, then you can get on with your life.
Do you have internet access ? Then publish your own account and let the devil take the hindmost. It pisses me off to see people who whine about freedom of speech issues and never put that freedom to good use. Personally, the only time I have been reported in the newspaper was for doing 86mph in a 70 limit. I don't give a fuck if that shows up on google, and I'm a professional driver.
It amuses me that for all the whining about censorship on this forum, when the censorship would work in your favour, you're all for it !
But of course, that's different.
My dad used to work a 10 hour day, then travel to gigs with his band at night. No govt. money needed. And that was in the late 50's early 60's. Why are budding musicians so specially deserving of my money now ? Maybe it's that sense of entitlement bubbling up again.
Only because YOU think you know better. When in fact you don't. When you grow up you'll realise that. Just the mention of the term "adult world" shows that as yet you haven't.
You realise that science starts from having ideas, reasonable or not ? Only by testing those ideas do you discover the truth. Your attitude seems to be, if you don't know something, then give up. So we should give up on speculation and therefore science ? Was Einstein able to test all his hypotheses ? Some of the stuff he "dreamed up" wasn't verified until well after his death. He should have stuck to the patent office I guess.
Have you ever looked at a clock and it takes seemingly forever for the first second to pass then suddenly it runs at normal speed ? "Now" is a concept that can be stretched apparently. A similar thing can occur in dreams. If you wake up but are still half asleep, and drift back into a dream, you can "experience" hours of action in the dream, but when you open your eyes again, barely 2 minutes have passed.
What causes this ?
Snobbery ? When the options get less and less because "ordinary" users don't need or want them, and the interface gets dumbed down because "ordinary" users can't be trusted to think for themselves, it is not snobbery, but preservation of a way of working with a computer that is rapidly being lost to the corporate mantra of "you get these functions and that's all".
The lame adverts on TV for "I'm a PC" just demonstrate this perfectly. Look at me, I can use a toaster. Very good, but you know nothing about designing the toaster or how it works. When linux gets dumbed down to that level, it's time to move on. I'm already pissed off with Fedora removing applications* during updates without replacing them with anything else, or warning that that is going to occur. This is still MY computer, and I'll use it how I like, not according to someone elses rules.
Linux is good because it allows you to make choices, remove those choices and it loses it's raison d'etre.
* There used to be a system monitor application in Fedora 9 that allowed you to add various hardware monitors like cpu temperature etc. I found it useful as I added a second quad core cpu to my system and could see whether the thermal paste was applied correctly. After an update, the application disappeared - no warning, no replacement. Sure I could probably track down a replacement but that's not the point. If after a windows update you found that solitaire had been removed from the games menu you'd be pissed off. That's not an update, that's deliberate interference with your system.
Irrelevant. They are not giving the movies away, they are turning a [very] healthy profit. Their only problem is they are not making as huge a profit as they would like. So don't pretend the studios and all the artists are starving, because they aren't. They just aren't as rich as they would like to be. Sob.
Copyright was designed to protect the work for a limited time so that the artist could make some money. There was no wording that implied obscene profits were due. If there ever exists a movie that doesn't make a profit due to people downloading it, then the producers don't have a market, and they should get out of the business. But yet they are still going - funny that. Any movie that doesn't make a profit probably isn't good enough to warrant one, so instead of bleating about piracy, they should concentrate on making decent content.
When I was a kid, I went to the fair and was intrigued by a sign saying "The amazing rat lady - be amazed". So I paid my money and went in. I found a fat bitch wearing a body stocking eating a snickers bar surrounded by gerbils. If someone had taken a photo and displayed it outside, I would never have paid and gone in. The entertainment industry is a con job, you pay without knowing what you're getting, and there are no refunds. Not anymore. The market is now self correcting.
Of the approximately 1.5 TB of content on my media server, something like 75% is recorded from TV and the rest are DVD rips, of DVDs that I own. Most of those rips were downloaded versions, which I decided I liked, and then went out and bought a hard copy as backup. What is wrong with that ? But the studios like to claim it is an either/or situation, where if a pirate copy exists, they make no money. This is patently false, so they can cry me a river.
Not only that, but a car idling at the lights is using more fuel per revolution than its most efficient mode, whereas a server at idle is using the very least energy it can. A car is most energy efficient when doing 56 mph but a server is not more energy efficient under a 65% load. So epic car analogy fail all round.
You should have followed the link you posted. Ok, I said breathe instead of use, but they still consume it.
Why is this insightful ?
When I can plug a carrot into my portable $whatever then it would be useful, until then it has nothing to do with electrical charge, which is what this story is all about.
You know plants breathe oxygen too, right ?
Yes, and they have done for years. The limiter can be set to anything up to 56 mph (90kph). That odd figure is due to euro laws, HGVs are actually allowed to do 60 mph in the UK (on a motorway). This has the unwelcome result of you being vulnerable to prosecution if you drive down to Dover, then drive in France. If they check your tachograph and it shows you have been driving over 90kph, you get an on the spot fine.
Q. If the limiter is set to 56mph, how can you do 60 ?
A. Going downhill with a load on you can probably get to 70mph.
Fortunately you get a minute before the tacho records an overspeed.
While in some ways I welcome limiters on all vehicles, it is going to be a bloody mess, as there is an art to driving with a limiter which takes time for even a good driver to acquire. Most idiots in cars will never get it, so expect more accidents.
Some vehicles I have driven.
Is PDF a web format ? If not then use a separate app to view them. The browser is not supposed to do everything. I have no plugins for PDF in my linux browser and my experience doesn't suck. Next you'll be wanting MS word to be viewable in the browser. Wanting something, and it being a good idea are sometimes very far removed. She probably wants a pony too, try getting that to run in a browser !
There seems to be no word about this attack working under linux anyway.
Also, if a remote server doesn't boot, how can you say that partitions have been removed ?
Also, have a read of this http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=908#p908
So they brought in a guy to help fix some existing issues with one of the servers, and less than 2 days later all hell breaks loose - sound familiar ? They say they were watching the servers as they were being "hacked", but couldn't get in via ssh. So they were just watching the webpage ? or if they were already in via ssh they didn't check who or last or any other access logs ?
The guy who runs the site sounds like he knows nothing, as he keeps insisting that because one of the servers was fine before the "attack" then there was nothing wrong with it. Yeah right up until my heart attack I was fine doctor !
I am not trying to attack these guys but merely point out the illogical statements they are making, and that there probably was no hack. As far as I can tell, no-one has even been to the site yet, so any talk of missing partitions is bollocks.
http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10#p10
Well what does any nation sitting well above the equator need one for ? (Merrit Island 28 DEG, 8 min North - Woomera 31 DEG 11 min South) You can get much closer to the equator in Australia than that. Much closer than anywhere in the USA actually. The northern tip of Australia is at roughly 11 DEG South, while the most southerly point of the USA is still at roughly 24 DEG North.