I've been running folding@home for nearly a year now, and considering its on a Sempron (socket A) 2500 running FC3 as a home media server, and is also my main desktop and internet access machine, with web serving duties etc. the results aren't too shabby.
It does help to renice the main process to lowest priority though.
if they can charge you that same $10 to play what's on your Tivo at home
And that's where the Orwellian nightmare continues.
What's stopping them from preventing the media being played when the rfid tag doesn't match. Does the whole family need to subscribe in order to watch a movie at home ?
I really can't see me handing control over what I watch to a glorified vcr. I mean, think of the children, really.
I've also heard that medical doctors and lawyers can't watch shows about their professions
Offtopic, but the one thing I always found annoying in the X files, was when somebody was hurt and Scully rushed forward saying "let me through, I'm a medical doctor !"
Now, I'm not pretending that there aren't other kinds of Doctorate out there, but why is it worthy of mention every f***ing time
Are these people used to dudes running up to accident scenes shouting "let me pass, I'm a doctor of philosophy", or "make way, Doctor of fine arts here". It doesn't seem likely, or does it ?
If I had known that, my entire stay would have been spent trying to drink the contents without removing the containers from the mini-bar !
I wonder how they would prove liability against you ? What if you removed a bottle, read the label then put it back ? How would the system know ? I would imagine that a real person had to verify the charges before billing you.
it's the people who are speeding that matters. Can you guarantee that everyone breaking the speed limit has the ability to handle the vehicle properly ? Driving involves quite a lot of common sense, and sadly, these days I see less and less of it.
I am a professional driver, and see this every day. The motorways are full of people who are too scared to use the outside lane when neccessary, but who drive in the centre lane almost obsessively. Consequently, when they come up behind a slower moving vehicle in the centre lane, they brake, causing following traffic to either, brake hard themselves, or, swerve into the outside lane, regardless of the traffic situation. This is what causes pile-ups. I drive for miles on virtually empty motorways sometimes and there are still lines of cars in the centre lane, usually only 20 or 30 feet behind each other. There is another problem with this - when I have to overtake a vehicle in the left hand lane, I have to 'break into' this line of cars somehow. This is difficult when they are only 20 feet apart, so I have to pull out much sooner, and stake my claim before they pull alongside.
I could go on for hours about the bad things that are happening on the roads, but speeding is the least of my worries. My truck has a tachograph, so anytime the police wants to stop me, they can tell instantly whether I've been speeding or not. Why should the car drivers be exempt from this ? Bad driving is the real issue, and nothing much is being done about it. I am fed up with seeing females negotiating junctions with their right hand holding a phone to their left ear and their left hand on the right hand side of the steering wheel. Sometimes the right hand has a piece of food in it as well ! No-one can argue that that behaviour is safe, either for them or others.
In the end, there are too many cars on the road, driven by very basically qualified people. No one forced them into this situation. The free market sold these people cars and the idea of freedom, so they can't really complain that they need a car to get to work, the shops, whatever. It's down to their buying habits that turned villages into dormitories for workers who have to drive 50 miles to work everyday. Either people find alternative ways to work (internet based etc) or live closer to the place of employment.
How long can the country as a whole be held to ransom by the car ? The government can't ban cars outright, but they can make it as difficult (read expensive) as possible to own and operate one.
As a disclaimer, I must add that I ride a GSX1100 suzuki, and so speeding is a virtual certainty, but even then, it is so much harder to find adequate space in which to do so, because of the unpredictability of the other traffic. But as a motorcyclist, I know with painful certainty what a mistake at speed will mean. I have in the past fallen off and hit the road at over 60 mph, and it's not fun believe me. So, hands up all those car drivers who have intimate knowledge of the surface of the road. Apart from motorcyclists / cyclists, there aren't any hands showing. This is where it has gone wrong. Every driver should be aware of the road surface in front of them, the temperature, how wet the road is, what white lines feel like as you go over them. That's where true control comes from, being aware of your surroundings.
Instead, they have the heating up high, the sound turned up, and sit in the middle lane eating and talking on their phones, and hope that no-one gets in their way until they get to work.
I for one won't miss their departure from the environment, and sad to say, they deserve everything they get in the mean time.
Just to keep things in perspective...
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Since the end of 2003 there have only been 63 deaths from 124 cases worldwide
Given that the cause was probably unknown for a while and information was probably not being shared between the affected countries, it could very well be that the mortality rate will fall as more people get infected.
These figures don't show the mortality rate to be rising or falling - just that worldwide, in the last 2 years there have only been 124 cases leading to 63 deaths spread over 4 essentially third world countries. I think throwing the word pandemic around is a bit premature, and yes, sensationalist.
Linux is very close most of the time, but too often it requires mucking about with drivers and whatnot
So as a linux based OEM you get the config right then create a disk image. Why is that so difficult or different from Windows ? Do you think that Dell has people manually installing xp on hundreds of machines ?
It would also give the OEM the oportunity to add extra value to the device later, if, for example, on a Red Hat machine they added their repositories to the yum.conf
They could completely customise the user interface and offer paid services as an extra package.
If it weren't for the fact that it's based on open source, then the shennanegans could be far worse than Microsoft have ever been accused of.
Why are you talking about linux "professionals" being more expensive ? The OEM can have all the angles covered by what they install. No server needed - don't install one, no config files to mess about with. No problem.
Linux is great for a managed environment, and thats what you sell them. Its not like they can just go and break the machine by installing a new screensaver.
Let's face it, we're not in danger of losing our geeky exclusivity in linux, because 99% of the end users will never dare to learn anything about it. And those that do, can be encouraged and helped, even if not charged for the privilege.
Did you ever consider sending a polite notice at any stage, to inform the anti-spyware companies of your programs function ?
Telling them they are not allowed to even look at it is childish and asking for trouble. Besides which, are you saying that there should be no anti-spyware software at all ? Don't you think that the end users might deserve some respect in all this ?
Or are you simply interested in aiding petty sneaks in their privacy invasions.
If you were providing an "upfront" service you would not need to beg other companies to be nice to you. I guess I hope that Sunbelt agrees to declassify your software, at a per installation price, say $1 per machine. How much do you charge again ? Oooh bargain, only £15 for 5 machines.
I guess you pretty much lost your case when you wrote SpyMon will allow you to watchother people's computers as they use them.
It seems to me that the amount of useful material contained in the asteroids would require that we try to capture them rather than send them off on another (probably unstable) orbit.
If we can make them change course at all, we should be sending them into an orbit relatively close to our own, so we have less far to go to harvest the minerals.
Let's face it, we _are_ a virus and we _have_ to get off this planet sometime, or we _will_ face extinction (queue Casablanca theme) maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon.
So, let's start using the freely available resources that the cosmos is kindly sending our way.
It al depends how they sell it really. People buy some scary stuff.
there is a tv advertisement in the uk at the moment, where the actress proudly proclaims that this new anti-aging cream works because it contains glycolic acid. I worked with glycolic acid for around 7 years, and at temperatures of around 80 degrees, the fumes give you brain damage. What are the long term effects of rubbing it in to your skin ? But I guess you'll look young when they bury you. I'm waiting for lead to make a comeback, or mercury. Nothings too good for women these days, when it comes to "beauty". Hell, its even ok to piss yourself in public these days, because they make underwear especially for the purpose. Reminds me of Turtlehead Briefs...
Whats wrong with reading a book ? No battery issues, and you might actually learn something, or heaven forbid talk to a fellow passenger ! Ooh, did I say battery ? One must assume that you will not be using the player while you're actually away, just on the bus, coz you would need the charger otherwise. Do you have a phone ?, does that need a charger ? How much shit are you carrying around just to listen to music you probably already listened to a zillion times.
I drove across the states, 3 times in 2 months, then flew to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Japan, then drove most of the major routes in australia, before flying back to the states and then on to the uk, all within 9 months, and I never once listened to music while I travelled. What could you possibly like so much that you take it with you wherever you go.
As for not having to remember that you forgot to put an album on the player, how would more space help then ? If you don't remember, then its too late - if you forgot, ditto. BTW, I thought work was a place you went to, err, work.
Why do you need a tiny monitor on your mp3 player ? Whats wrong with the abum and track title ?
sounds like you're trying to justify having an expensive toy to yourself.
Exactly, I think thats almost exactly what I said the last time this "story" came up. Each country only has to keep a list of other nations root servers and forward requests. Unless they actively block access to other roots then there is no real difference to the way it is now.
the Internet was developed in the U.S. originally by the U.S. Armed Forces. Americans thought of it first, developed it, and shared the technology. If other countries don't like that, then they are free to develop thier own world wide network.
you're the product, and your eyes are being sold to the advertizers
And this differs from a lot of websites... how ?
The advertising is a small issue compared to the fact that they produce crap, and don't even want you to keep it when you're done. In the 60s and 70s the UK tv networks could rely on huge viewing figures on every weekly showing of Coronation St, but these days, it's on (yeah still!) most nights of the week, with an omnibus edition at the weekend. Now its competing with another hundred channels, it has to spread the advertising more because its worth less.
So as a result, the shows quality suffers (less revenue), and they have to divide and diversify again. When are they going to get the message that we won't and don't have to put up with that anymore. No one here likes those links that lead to sites where there is the start of a proposition on one page, but you have to go through 12 ad filled pages to find out that its all crap, and you've wasted your time.
Are people saying that an hour of their time is only worth 99c ? What most people want is to be entertained... and they are willing to pay over the odds for that, but if you give them a bad deal, then they won't come back. So, charge $25 for a DVD but make it WORTH it.
I know, just for a laugh, how about the main movie producers all go on strike, and bring the country to its knees --- with laughter.
Nah fuck it, I'll just give them my ssh-keys and su password, then they can login at leisure _and_ get root.
More seriously, I had to turn off the ssh daemon on my servers because of the assholes trying to dictionary their way in. They weren't ever going to get in, as I use _only_ key based authentication, but my log files were getting massive by recording all the attempts. There are only so many complaining emails you can send to Italy Japan and China too.
The old adage is true still - If you're not using it, TURN IT OFF.
I'm going to try and wait until AMD M2 motherboards are available for a vaguely sensible price, and move to DDR2 memory with a dualcore Athlon X2... hopefully some time next year -- I reckon that will be the next platform with as much longevity as Socket A gave me.
Yeah right, then they'll design a new graphics card interface, or new network capabilities and the board will still be old.
I wish AMD and the m/board manufacturers would keep using / making socket A. Lots of users don't need the latest hot sh1t, but we have to at least move to 754 just to get a relatively modern processor and pci x. Why ? because all the new graphics are pci x.
Sound familiar ?
and it's not all fashion driven either... add on cards and processors do die from time to time, which is annoying when you know you have to completely replace an almost perfectly working, 4 year old machine, just because 1 removable component has been EOLed by the manufacturer. I thought we are supposed to be saving resources, not forcing the public to throw stuff away just because we got a new one to sell.
Except we're talking about laptops, and not many people I know add internal hardware to their laptops. The vendor is unlikely to sell a laptop that doesn't "just work".
I am, in no way a prodigy, never was, never will be, but I am intelligent. While at high school, I found that lots of the teaching was simple regurgitation of facts, so it was easy to get away with doing f*ck all, all year, then reading the text books from cover to cover just before the exams and passing.
In the end, I didn't even attend classes much, if at all. I discovered that socially, I was better off pretending I wasn't intelligent. Vast reserve of potential friends, less beatings in the schoolyard etc. Consequently, I forgot how to interact with "intelligent" people, and became tuned in at a lower level.
The end result of this is, 20 years later, I am isolated from both groups. The intelligencia treat me like a farm labourer who has read a book, and the manual less educated people tend to steer clear because I know things. some guy at work calls me Stevie Wonder, after his song, He's Misstra Know-It-All.
I can't help knowing things or learning things and I see no reason to keep pretending to be 'stoopid'. The only forward path seems to be more of the same, and I'm not happy with that idea. Unfortunately, with no one of equal or greater intelligence prepared to treat me as I am, I have to go it alone.
The interesting part is, that the original situation still holds - The lower educated have a much better respect for each other and are more social, make firm friends, and stick by you, while the higher-ups just seem so selfish in comparison, it's not funny, or pleasant to watch. I know I'm generalising here, but in the main it's true. I'm in the UK, and people who've graduated university think they are the mutts nutts, and treat the "lower orders" with such contempt, which is quite amusing considering virtually everybody gets to go to uni these days.
Maybe I should learn to speak like an old Etonian, and people might take my brain more seriously.
Or maybe it's the same for everybody, and I'm just whining. Who knows ? I know that when I'm standing in a bar looking blankly at a far wall, people think I'm weird, but if I were to share the complexities of the select case statements return values I'm trying to work out in my head or whether a particular array needs to popped or pushed to get at that particular data I need right now, then they would just look blank and a little unsettled, and move away. So I am one thing in my head and another to the world. </disturbed rant>
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It does help to renice the main process to lowest priority though.
What's stopping them from preventing the media being played when the rfid tag doesn't match. Does the whole family need to subscribe in order to watch a movie at home ?
I really can't see me handing control over what I watch to a glorified vcr. I mean, think of the children, really.
Now, I'm not pretending that there aren't other kinds of Doctorate out there, but why is it worthy of mention every f***ing time
Are these people used to dudes running up to accident scenes shouting "let me pass, I'm a doctor of philosophy", or "make way, Doctor of fine arts here". It doesn't seem likely, or does it ?
I did find this site, which looks useful.
I wonder how they would prove liability against you ?
What if you removed a bottle, read the label then put it back ? How would the system know ? I would imagine that a real person had to verify the charges before billing you.
Uptime is not always a good indicator - managed reboots are fine, and if they are under control, you still get your 99.999%
You will never get 100% happy customers :/
I am a professional driver, and see this every day. The motorways are full of people who are too scared to use the outside lane when neccessary, but who drive in the centre lane almost obsessively. Consequently, when they come up behind a slower moving vehicle in the centre lane, they brake, causing following traffic to either, brake hard themselves, or, swerve into the outside lane, regardless of the traffic situation. This is what causes pile-ups. I drive for miles on virtually empty motorways sometimes and there are still lines of cars in the centre lane, usually only 20 or 30 feet behind each other. There is another problem with this - when I have to overtake a vehicle in the left hand lane, I have to 'break into' this line of cars somehow. This is difficult when they are only 20 feet apart, so I have to pull out much sooner, and stake my claim before they pull alongside.
I could go on for hours about the bad things that are happening on the roads, but speeding is the least of my worries. My truck has a tachograph, so anytime the police wants to stop me, they can tell instantly whether I've been speeding or not. Why should the car drivers be exempt from this ? Bad driving is the real issue, and nothing much is being done about it. I am fed up with seeing females negotiating junctions with their right hand holding a phone to their left ear and their left hand on the right hand side of the steering wheel. Sometimes the right hand has a piece of food in it as well ! No-one can argue that that behaviour is safe, either for them or others.
In the end, there are too many cars on the road, driven by very basically qualified people. No one forced them into this situation. The free market sold these people cars and the idea of freedom, so they can't really complain that they need a car to get to work, the shops, whatever. It's down to their buying habits that turned villages into dormitories for workers who have to drive 50 miles to work everyday. Either people find alternative ways to work (internet based etc) or live closer to the place of employment.
How long can the country as a whole be held to ransom by the car ? The government can't ban cars outright, but they can make it as difficult (read expensive) as possible to own and operate one.
As a disclaimer, I must add that I ride a GSX1100 suzuki, and so speeding is a virtual certainty, but even then, it is so much harder to find adequate space in which to do so, because of the unpredictability of the other traffic. But as a motorcyclist, I know with painful certainty what a mistake at speed will mean. I have in the past fallen off and hit the road at over 60 mph, and it's not fun believe me. So, hands up all those car drivers who have intimate knowledge of the surface of the road. Apart from motorcyclists / cyclists, there aren't any hands showing. This is where it has gone wrong. Every driver should be aware of the road surface in front of them, the temperature, how wet the road is, what white lines feel like as you go over them. That's where true control comes from, being aware of your surroundings.
Instead, they have the heating up high, the sound turned up, and sit in the middle lane eating and talking on their phones, and hope that no-one gets in their way until they get to work.
I for one won't miss their departure from the environment, and sad to say, they deserve everything they get in the mean time.
Given that the cause was probably unknown for a while and information was probably not being shared between the affected countries, it could very well be that the mortality rate will fall as more people get infected.
Cambodia - 4 reported cases : 4 deaths (100%)
Indonesia - 9 reported cases : 5 deaths (56%)
Thailand - 20 reported cases : 13 deaths (65%)
Vietnam - 91 reported cases : 41 deaths (45%)
These figures don't show the mortality rate to be rising or falling - just that worldwide, in the last 2 years there have only been 124 cases leading to 63 deaths spread over 4 essentially third world countries. I think throwing the word pandemic around is a bit premature, and yes, sensationalist.
Source figures.
It would also give the OEM the oportunity to add extra value to the device later, if, for example, on a Red Hat machine they added their repositories to the yum.conf
They could completely customise the user interface and offer paid services as an extra package.
If it weren't for the fact that it's based on open source, then the shennanegans could be far worse than Microsoft have ever been accused of.
Why are you talking about linux "professionals" being more expensive ? The OEM can have all the angles covered by what they install. No server needed - don't install one, no config files to mess about with. No problem.
Linux is great for a managed environment, and thats what you sell them. Its not like they can just go and break the machine by installing a new screensaver.
Let's face it, we're not in danger of losing our geeky exclusivity in linux, because 99% of the end users will never dare to learn anything about it. And those that do, can be encouraged and helped, even if not charged for the privilege.
Telling them they are not allowed to even look at it is childish and asking for trouble. Besides which, are you saying that there should be no anti-spyware software at all ? Don't you think that the end users might deserve some respect in all this ?
Or are you simply interested in aiding petty sneaks in their privacy invasions.
If you were providing an "upfront" service you would not need to beg other companies to be nice to you. I guess I hope that Sunbelt agrees to declassify your software, at a per installation price, say $1 per machine. How much do you charge again ? Oooh bargain, only £15 for 5 machines.
I guess you pretty much lost your case when you wrote SpyMon will allow you to watch other people's computers as they use them.
AMD don't make motherboards. I think you'll find they are referring to the type of chipset.
Oh sorry, I thought you said Bob Martin
If we can make them change course at all, we should be sending them into an orbit relatively close to our own, so we have less far to go to harvest the minerals.
Let's face it, we _are_ a virus and we _have_ to get off this planet sometime, or we _will_ face extinction (queue Casablanca theme) maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon.
So, let's start using the freely available resources that the cosmos is kindly sending our way.
there is a tv advertisement in the uk at the moment, where the actress proudly proclaims that this new anti-aging cream works because it contains glycolic acid. I worked with glycolic acid for around 7 years, and at temperatures of around 80 degrees, the fumes give you brain damage. What are the long term effects of rubbing it in to your skin ? But I guess you'll look young when they bury you. I'm waiting for lead to make a comeback, or mercury. Nothings too good for women these days, when it comes to "beauty". Hell, its even ok to piss yourself in public these days, because they make underwear especially for the purpose. Reminds me of Turtlehead Briefs ...
Whats wrong with reading a book ? No battery issues, and you might actually learn something, or heaven forbid talk to a fellow passenger !
Ooh, did I say battery ? One must assume that you will not be using the player while you're actually away, just on the bus, coz you would need the charger otherwise. Do you have a phone ?, does that need a charger ? How much shit are you carrying around just to listen to music you probably already listened to a zillion times.
I drove across the states, 3 times in 2 months, then flew to New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Japan, then drove most of the major routes in australia, before flying back to the states and then on to the uk, all within 9 months, and I never once listened to music while I travelled. What could you possibly like so much that you take it with you wherever you go.
As for not having to remember that you forgot to put an album on the player, how would more space help then ? If you don't remember, then its too late - if you forgot, ditto. BTW, I thought work was a place you went to, err, work.
Why do you need a tiny monitor on your mp3 player ? Whats wrong with the abum and track title ?
sounds like you're trying to justify having an expensive toy to yourself.
Exactly, I think thats almost exactly what I said the last time this "story" came up. Each country only has to keep a list of other nations root servers and forward requests. Unless they actively block access to other roots then there is no real difference to the way it is now.
The advertising is a small issue compared to the fact that they produce crap, and don't even want you to keep it when you're done. In the 60s and 70s the UK tv networks could rely on huge viewing figures on every weekly showing of Coronation St, but these days, it's on (yeah still!) most nights of the week, with an omnibus edition at the weekend. Now its competing with another hundred channels, it has to spread the advertising more because its worth less.
So as a result, the shows quality suffers (less revenue), and they have to divide and diversify again. When are they going to get the message that we won't and don't have to put up with that anymore. No one here likes those links that lead to sites where there is the start of a proposition on one page, but you have to go through 12 ad filled pages to find out that its all crap, and you've wasted your time.
Are people saying that an hour of their time is only worth 99c ? What most people want is to be entertained... and they are willing to pay over the odds for that, but if you give them a bad deal, then they won't come back. So, charge $25 for a DVD but make it WORTH it.
I know, just for a laugh, how about the main movie producers all go on strike, and bring the country to its knees --- with laughter.
More seriously, I had to turn off the ssh daemon on my servers because of the assholes trying to dictionary their way in. They weren't ever going to get in, as I use _only_ key based authentication, but my log files were getting massive by recording all the attempts. There are only so many complaining emails you can send to Italy Japan and China too.
The old adage is true still - If you're not using it, TURN IT OFF.
I wish AMD and the m/board manufacturers would keep using / making socket A. Lots of users don't need the latest hot sh1t, but we have to at least move to 754 just to get a relatively modern processor and pci x. Why ? because all the new graphics are pci x.
Sound familiar ?
and it's not all fashion driven either... add on cards and processors do die from time to time, which is annoying when you know you have to completely replace an almost perfectly working, 4 year old machine, just because 1 removable component has been EOLed by the manufacturer. I thought we are supposed to be saving resources, not forcing the public to throw stuff away just because we got a new one to sell.
Except we're talking about laptops, and not many people I know add internal hardware to their laptops. The vendor is unlikely to sell a laptop that doesn't "just work".
I am, in no way a prodigy, never was, never will be, but I am intelligent. While at high school, I found that lots of the teaching was simple regurgitation of facts, so it was easy to get away with doing f*ck all, all year, then reading the text books from cover to cover just before the exams and passing.
In the end, I didn't even attend classes much, if at all. I discovered that socially, I was better off pretending I wasn't intelligent. Vast reserve of potential friends, less beatings in the schoolyard etc. Consequently, I forgot how to interact with "intelligent" people, and became tuned in at a lower level.
The end result of this is, 20 years later, I am isolated from both groups. The intelligencia treat me like a farm labourer who has read a book, and the manual less educated people tend to steer clear because I know things. some guy at work calls me Stevie Wonder, after his song, He's Misstra Know-It-All.
I can't help knowing things or learning things and I see no reason to keep pretending to be 'stoopid'. The only forward path seems to be more of the same, and I'm not happy with that idea. Unfortunately, with no one of equal or greater intelligence prepared to treat me as I am, I have to go it alone.
The interesting part is, that the original situation still holds - The lower educated have a much better respect for each other and are more social, make firm friends, and stick by you, while the higher-ups just seem so selfish in comparison, it's not funny, or pleasant to watch. I know I'm generalising here, but in the main it's true. I'm in the UK, and people who've graduated university think they are the mutts nutts, and treat the "lower orders" with such contempt, which is quite amusing considering virtually everybody gets to go to uni these days.
Maybe I should learn to speak like an old Etonian, and people might take my brain more seriously.
Or maybe it's the same for everybody, and I'm just whining. Who knows ? I know that when I'm standing in a bar looking blankly at a far wall, people think I'm weird, but if I were to share the complexities of the select case statements return values I'm trying to work out in my head or whether a particular array needs to popped or pushed to get at that particular data I need right now, then they would just look blank and a little unsettled, and move away. So I am one thing in my head and another to the world. </disturbed rant>
Shouldn't that be iANAL, this is /. after all !
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