I would mod you up if I had points. NAT64 is the way to go as a long-term strategy for clients, and dual-stack as a short-term solution.
Even most direct-connect software will work fine connecting an IPv6 host to an IPv4 host. Most software will try negotiating both ways before giving up. The only people who will be broken are clients on IPv4 hosts, using NAT, without UPnP. Otherwise IPv6 hosts should be able to connect to IPv4 hosts fine for direct file transfers.
If you want to run a server on IPv6, you would be SOL for those who don't have IPv6 capabilities, but then again, if you're running a server, you probably should be running on business plan (most ISPs have clauses saying "you can't run servers" on residential plans).
There are a few places here in upstate NY that sell non-ethanol blends. The bigger gas stations (Mobile, Shell, Sunoco, Hess, Getty) don't have non-ethanol blends, but almost all the mom-and-pop gas stations carry non-ethanol blends. It's more expensive (about 25% more), but paying more for a few gallons here and there so the lawn mower doesn't get damaged is worth it.
My high school had 3 "Comp Sci" courses, this was 6 years ago. Two were semester courses, one was a year long course.
The first course was basically intro to HTML and JavaScript. We had to create some simple webpages, and write some code that did simple things like mouseovers and onclick events. At the end of the semester (last two weeks) the teacher gave a crash course in Java. Enough to write a hello world class, and do some simple math.
The second course was a typical computer science 201 class, in Java. We had to do basic problem solving.
The third course, which was a year long, was Data Structures and Algorithms. You had to take at least the second course as a prerequisite to take this class (you could skip the first one with a waiver from the math department). It covered the basic stuff, sorting algorithms, trees, linked lists, hash maps, pointers, memory management, etc. This one was a real comp sci course, a bit abbreviated compared to a college level version, but a comp sci course nevertheless. I'm pretty sure that school still has that course (it's still listed on their website).
So I would say SOME schools know what computer science is.
When you see "unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage for $4.99/month" shared hosting providers, do you think you're going to be able to create a file sharing service on their servers, and not be terminated?
In the same token, do you think a dedicated hosting provider who does the same thing with their bandwidth is going to let you do the same thing? Of course not.
I think anybody who is in that industry by now should realize that if you actually try to use all of your oversold bandwidth month over month, they're going to terminate you for it. How many more years is it going to take people to realize the "too good to be true" is just that - too good to be true?
This is a non-story. If you're with SimpleCDN, I would be looking at other providers right now, as they apparently have no clue what they are doing. If they actually had a clue, they would have realized that using over-sold bandwidth would probably get them thrown off the network eventually. They would have invested in backup servers on other networks, and when that gravy train ran out and the plug was pulled, their blog post would be more along the lines of "thanks for the fish".
You make it sounds like if everybody invested money, everybody would be 10x richer? Where do you think all this extra money comes from, trees?
Maybe the problem is "investing" really doesn't create as many jobs as you think it does, but instead moves money around between other "investors", and only a tiny tiny amount of that goes to VC loans and things which theoretically would create jobs.
If you "invested" $1M in Exxon stock, how many jobs do you think you're creating? 1? 2? 100? 1000? Let me try another number, zero.
I know of only one sure way to create more jobs. Hire more people. This investing crap is just moving the money around in a big circle jerk with the people at the top. You have to be naive if you believe any significant portion of that money invested "trickles down" to the working class.
I couldn't get past the windowing themes. Everything had super-rounded corners and had a shiny chrome look, and the icon sets were ugly and sin. My window manager should get out of the way, not be distracting.
I know I could theoretically customize it, but when I go under Google images for "KDE" every screenshot has the ugly as sin, distracting desktop icons and window borders. When I look at Google images for "Gnome desktop" ("gnome" brings up the garden variety), most of the screenshots use Clearlooks themes, while not the most attractive, it's not distracting.
I like the taskbar on the side. Netbooks are all widescreen nowadays, and vertical real estate is more important to me than horizontal on a widescreen monitor. Either I lose 40 of 1366 pixels, or 40 of 786 pixels... 3% vs 5% of my screen real estate. Big difference.
The same problem exists with Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10 with Unity. If you turn off the borderless option in chrome, it works as a workaround for the double window controls. The setting is in the chrome options on the first or 2nd page, I don't have it open right now. It's no longer "borderless" but the extra window controls are gone.
Yeah but you know that now its been mentioned in/. some teenage code monkey who has yet to face the dream shattering realities of the modern I.T. world will give it a damn good go.
In fact i'm watching the FFMPEG repository for a patch to encode to SMS in 3....2...1...
You're the idiot, you didn't even read the parent's post. Is reading comprehension a problem for you? Come on, troll harder.
Nowhere is the parent suggesting that tearing down other people's houses is legal. He's suggesting that criminals don't give two shits about the law. Apparently you can't read between the lines, idiot.
By the way, you are supposed to capitalize the first letter of every sentence, and "I" is spelled with a capital I. I know it's really hard to reach the shift key with your fat, hot dog fingers, but you should make the effort. Maybe you'll lose some weight and get down to nice "healthy" 400 lbs. one of these days.
When Shuttleworth talks about the Ubuntu Software Center, it makes me thing he's talking about daily updates to user software. So software like OpenOffice, Firefox/Chromium, Pidgin/Empathy, GIMP, etc would get version updates between releases. I don't see this as being a bad thing. I'm sure they can make this work without creating problems. They already have a mechanism for this, it's the -updates repository, they just need to iterate at a faster pace.
I assume they're not stupid enough to actually attempt stuff like updating the kernel, X11, servers (httpd, mysql, samba, cups), compile tools, libraries, etc between releases. Users who don't want this behavior would only need to remove the -updates repository (you shouldn't be using this repository anyways if you're that paranoid). -security would still be available for those who only want the security updates (ie Enterprise)
I watched a video where a news reporter claimed he followed the missle for 10 minutes in a helicopter. Do you know how long that is? The missile would be half way to China by then. I doubt his helicopter could go that fast.
That in itself should have turned some heads "gee wiz I'm following this thing in a freakin helicopter, it can't be going that fast.
The sole reason they changed the name to SyFy was so they could put the drivel on the channel.
"We're no longer SciFi, we're cool, we're hip, we're Sifee. We air hip new shows for the new generation involving ghosts and wrestling."
If they wanted to do science fiction shows they wouldn't have changed the name. Mark my words, five years from now they won't be airing any new scifi shows, since it's evidently clear the managers of the network don't want their network to be scifi shows anymore.
If ionicing userland applications over system applications fixes this issue on the desktop then developers should fix the packages to do it by default.
If it wasn't for the need for IPv6, his 8 year old gear would be still working. Sure, if it breaks, or need to upgrade capacity, replace it with new IPv6 gear, but if it's not broke, replacing it mostly unnecessary.
But, the kernel is worth the upgrade - along with some other userspace requirements that go hand-in-hand with the kernel.
For example, the (newer?) Xorg for using newer features from the graphics/drm drivers etc.
If you're running 10.04, none of your applications will know how to use any of these new Xorg features. They won't know they exist
The newer kernel gives you:
o. more h/w support (drivers moved from staging into mainline)
My hardware already works if I'm already running 10.04. Why would I need more hardware support?
o. newer filesystems (ceph anyone?)
Why does my desktop need ceph? Ext4 is plenty good for a desktop. If I'm running a server, why would I be changing the configuration of a production machine? Am I really going to be upgrading everything to ceph?
o. newer archs (tile is now included in mainline)
Whoo, now I can upgrade my x86-64 to a tile processor! This is the feature I needed!
- just to name a few reasons.
Granted I haven't checked what all is actually bundled, but if you can live with manually updating the kernel and the bits that go along with it, you can definitely stick with 10.04LTS provided you're not on paid support from Canonical which might get voided if you change the kernel.
As time passes by, the distro is bound to get into equilibrium - at which point, we can't expect major changes.
NONE of these reasons compel me to upgrade 10.04 a 10.10 on an already working, functional system. The only good reason would be if your hardware wasn't supported in the older kernel, but I'm assuming you wouldn't be using Ubuntu if your hardware wasn't supported.
The only thing left to care about is userspace changes, but it sounds like the userspace changes are minor.
Console games are licensed, PC games are not. I don't know how much it costs to publish a game for the Xbox360/PS3/Wii, but it's more than zero. Publishing a game for the PC costs nothing in licensing fees.
No... I'm saying he was directly talking about pirating windows, without actually saying so. That's what subtext means. It also leaves you a way to say "I never said that!"
I guess we won't know for sure unless he tells us exactly what he meant.
Generally Blizzard starts distributing patches a day or two in advance (big patches are generally distributed at least a week in advance), so everybody has time to download the file. Using torrents helps distribute load away from Blizzard servers on patch days, reducing their bandwidth costs. If they didn't do this, they'd have to invest a lot more money on bandwidth, most of it which would go unused, since their bandwidth usage isn't very constant, they have big spikes on patch days, and it decreases during the rest of the week.
I've also used Blizzard downloader to download SC, D2, SC2, WoW (and patches) off of Battle.net, and it saturated my connection (1MBps+) fairly quickly without ever disabling peer to peer bandwidth. Sounds like the problem isn't BitTorrent, and is somewhere on your end.
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Put a password on it, and change the password each time you upload. The checksum will change, guaranteed.
Look at his keybinds, I bet he's a dancer.
I would mod you up if I had points. NAT64 is the way to go as a long-term strategy for clients, and dual-stack as a short-term solution.
Even most direct-connect software will work fine connecting an IPv6 host to an IPv4 host. Most software will try negotiating both ways before giving up. The only people who will be broken are clients on IPv4 hosts, using NAT, without UPnP. Otherwise IPv6 hosts should be able to connect to IPv4 hosts fine for direct file transfers.
If you want to run a server on IPv6, you would be SOL for those who don't have IPv6 capabilities, but then again, if you're running a server, you probably should be running on business plan (most ISPs have clauses saying "you can't run servers" on residential plans).
P2P for the most part should be fine with NAT64.
There are a few places here in upstate NY that sell non-ethanol blends. The bigger gas stations (Mobile, Shell, Sunoco, Hess, Getty) don't have non-ethanol blends, but almost all the mom-and-pop gas stations carry non-ethanol blends. It's more expensive (about 25% more), but paying more for a few gallons here and there so the lawn mower doesn't get damaged is worth it.
My high school had 3 "Comp Sci" courses, this was 6 years ago. Two were semester courses, one was a year long course.
The first course was basically intro to HTML and JavaScript. We had to create some simple webpages, and write some code that did simple things like mouseovers and onclick events. At the end of the semester (last two weeks) the teacher gave a crash course in Java. Enough to write a hello world class, and do some simple math.
The second course was a typical computer science 201 class, in Java. We had to do basic problem solving.
The third course, which was a year long, was Data Structures and Algorithms. You had to take at least the second course as a prerequisite to take this class (you could skip the first one with a waiver from the math department). It covered the basic stuff, sorting algorithms, trees, linked lists, hash maps, pointers, memory management, etc. This one was a real comp sci course, a bit abbreviated compared to a college level version, but a comp sci course nevertheless. I'm pretty sure that school still has that course (it's still listed on their website).
So I would say SOME schools know what computer science is.
I read this story and I'm honestly not shocked.
When you see "unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage for $4.99/month" shared hosting providers, do you think you're going to be able to create a file sharing service on their servers, and not be terminated?
In the same token, do you think a dedicated hosting provider who does the same thing with their bandwidth is going to let you do the same thing? Of course not.
I think anybody who is in that industry by now should realize that if you actually try to use all of your oversold bandwidth month over month, they're going to terminate you for it. How many more years is it going to take people to realize the "too good to be true" is just that - too good to be true?
This is a non-story. If you're with SimpleCDN, I would be looking at other providers right now, as they apparently have no clue what they are doing. If they actually had a clue, they would have realized that using over-sold bandwidth would probably get them thrown off the network eventually. They would have invested in backup servers on other networks, and when that gravy train ran out and the plug was pulled, their blog post would be more along the lines of "thanks for the fish".
You make it sounds like if everybody invested money, everybody would be 10x richer? Where do you think all this extra money comes from, trees?
Maybe the problem is "investing" really doesn't create as many jobs as you think it does, but instead moves money around between other "investors", and only a tiny tiny amount of that goes to VC loans and things which theoretically would create jobs.
If you "invested" $1M in Exxon stock, how many jobs do you think you're creating? 1? 2? 100? 1000? Let me try another number, zero.
I know of only one sure way to create more jobs. Hire more people. This investing crap is just moving the money around in a big circle jerk with the people at the top. You have to be naive if you believe any significant portion of that money invested "trickles down" to the working class.
I couldn't get past the windowing themes. Everything had super-rounded corners and had a shiny chrome look, and the icon sets were ugly and sin. My window manager should get out of the way, not be distracting.
I know I could theoretically customize it, but when I go under Google images for "KDE" every screenshot has the ugly as sin, distracting desktop icons and window borders. When I look at Google images for "Gnome desktop" ("gnome" brings up the garden variety), most of the screenshots use Clearlooks themes, while not the most attractive, it's not distracting.
I like the taskbar on the side. Netbooks are all widescreen nowadays, and vertical real estate is more important to me than horizontal on a widescreen monitor. Either I lose 40 of 1366 pixels, or 40 of 786 pixels... 3% vs 5% of my screen real estate. Big difference.
The same problem exists with Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10 with Unity. If you turn off the borderless option in chrome, it works as a workaround for the double window controls. The setting is in the chrome options on the first or 2nd page, I don't have it open right now. It's no longer "borderless" but the extra window controls are gone.
Yeah but you know that now its been mentioned in /. some teenage code monkey who has yet to face the dream shattering realities of the modern I.T. world will give it a damn good go.
In fact i'm watching the FFMPEG repository for a patch to encode to SMS in 3....2...1...
This idea was already posted here on /. a few months ago
Why fact-check and do actual journalism, when you can lie and be lazy, and make more money!
You're the idiot, you didn't even read the parent's post. Is reading comprehension a problem for you? Come on, troll harder.
Nowhere is the parent suggesting that tearing down other people's houses is legal. He's suggesting that criminals don't give two shits about the law. Apparently you can't read between the lines, idiot.
By the way, you are supposed to capitalize the first letter of every sentence, and "I" is spelled with a capital I. I know it's really hard to reach the shift key with your fat, hot dog fingers, but you should make the effort. Maybe you'll lose some weight and get down to nice "healthy" 400 lbs. one of these days.
When Shuttleworth talks about the Ubuntu Software Center, it makes me thing he's talking about daily updates to user software. So software like OpenOffice, Firefox/Chromium, Pidgin/Empathy, GIMP, etc would get version updates between releases. I don't see this as being a bad thing. I'm sure they can make this work without creating problems. They already have a mechanism for this, it's the -updates repository, they just need to iterate at a faster pace.
I assume they're not stupid enough to actually attempt stuff like updating the kernel, X11, servers (httpd, mysql, samba, cups), compile tools, libraries, etc between releases. Users who don't want this behavior would only need to remove the -updates repository (you shouldn't be using this repository anyways if you're that paranoid). -security would still be available for those who only want the security updates (ie Enterprise)
Will 01189998819991197253 get the same love and care? I want to make sure my, better looking, emergency services are just as prepared.
I watched a video where a news reporter claimed he followed the missle for 10 minutes in a helicopter. Do you know how long that is? The missile would be half way to China by then. I doubt his helicopter could go that fast.
That in itself should have turned some heads "gee wiz I'm following this thing in a freakin helicopter, it can't be going that fast.
The sole reason they changed the name to SyFy was so they could put the drivel on the channel.
"We're no longer SciFi, we're cool, we're hip, we're Sifee. We air hip new shows for the new generation involving ghosts and wrestling."
If they wanted to do science fiction shows they wouldn't have changed the name. Mark my words, five years from now they won't be airing any new scifi shows, since it's evidently clear the managers of the network don't want their network to be scifi shows anymore.
If ionicing userland applications over system applications fixes this issue on the desktop then developers should fix the packages to do it by default.
If it wasn't for the need for IPv6, his 8 year old gear would be still working. Sure, if it breaks, or need to upgrade capacity, replace it with new IPv6 gear, but if it's not broke, replacing it mostly unnecessary.
That used to be a serious problem with ext3 filesystems, but fsck works much faster on ext4 filesystems.
Yes, the user-space changes seem irrelevant.
But, the kernel is worth the upgrade - along with some other userspace requirements that go hand-in-hand with the kernel.
For example, the (newer?) Xorg for using newer features from the graphics/drm drivers etc.
If you're running 10.04, none of your applications will know how to use any of these new Xorg features. They won't know they exist
The newer kernel gives you:
o. more h/w support (drivers moved from staging into mainline)
My hardware already works if I'm already running 10.04. Why would I need more hardware support?
o. newer filesystems (ceph anyone?)
Why does my desktop need ceph? Ext4 is plenty good for a desktop. If I'm running a server, why would I be changing the configuration of a production machine? Am I really going to be upgrading everything to ceph?
o. newer archs (tile is now included in mainline)
Whoo, now I can upgrade my x86-64 to a tile processor! This is the feature I needed!
- just to name a few reasons.
Granted I haven't checked what all is actually bundled, but if you can live with manually updating the kernel and the bits that go along with it, you can definitely stick with 10.04LTS provided you're not on paid support from Canonical which might get voided if you change the kernel.
As time passes by, the distro is bound to get into equilibrium - at which point, we can't expect major changes.
NONE of these reasons compel me to upgrade 10.04 a 10.10 on an already working, functional system. The only good reason would be if your hardware wasn't supported in the older kernel, but I'm assuming you wouldn't be using Ubuntu if your hardware wasn't supported.
The only thing left to care about is userspace changes, but it sounds like the userspace changes are minor.
Console games are licensed, PC games are not. I don't know how much it costs to publish a game for the Xbox360/PS3/Wii, but it's more than zero. Publishing a game for the PC costs nothing in licensing fees.
That's a problem with their router configuration. Use QoS to cap your upload speeds to 90-95% of your max upload speed and this problem goes away.
No... I'm saying he was directly talking about pirating windows, without actually saying so. That's what subtext means. It also leaves you a way to say "I never said that!"
I guess we won't know for sure unless he tells us exactly what he meant.
Wouldn't that be indirectly talking about it?
Generally Blizzard starts distributing patches a day or two in advance (big patches are generally distributed at least a week in advance), so everybody has time to download the file. Using torrents helps distribute load away from Blizzard servers on patch days, reducing their bandwidth costs. If they didn't do this, they'd have to invest a lot more money on bandwidth, most of it which would go unused, since their bandwidth usage isn't very constant, they have big spikes on patch days, and it decreases during the rest of the week.
I've also used Blizzard downloader to download SC, D2, SC2, WoW (and patches) off of Battle.net, and it saturated my connection (1MBps+) fairly quickly without ever disabling peer to peer bandwidth. Sounds like the problem isn't BitTorrent, and is somewhere on your end.