This is an excellent way to disseminate lots of potentially inaccurate or out-of-context information from IRAQ to the rest of the world, without any corroberation on the content.
Pretty cool idea really - let us translate and distribute propoganda ourselves.
Actually - talk to Stac Electronics. They died when their technology was built into windows. (well - the full story is a big longer and includes lots of lawyers, but to quote Wikipaedia:
...After settling the lawsuit with Microsoft, Stac struggled to find its way as a public company...
I think google is still trying to do the right thing. But I trust the government to do what governments the world over do - spy on its citizens, reduce our rights, be more invasive in our lives and so on. Hey if you've got nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear... right?
So I think that no matter what google tries to do or be - they are a gold mine of data. The government tried to get some data in the public eye, and got rebuffed. I believe that they will get whatever they want from google soon, but you wont know. How can you stop a government that can enact a law that means you can be a) held without trial b) that libraries can be forced to hand over your data, and gagged be gagged (sorry about the lame PDF) c) that search and seizure can be enacted without judicial review
And dont forget good ol torture (but hey - it didn't happen on our soil, so its ok. Even if we organised and supported it.
So - I trust google to be as good as they can. But you can't fight the government that makes the rules.
If I were in to conspiracy theories - I'd suspect that this was just a front, and the govt already has plans to use existing laws to simply retrieve the data in the name of anti-terrorism, for the safety of the fatherland (I mean the homeland)...
Chips are readily available for g and that support WPA. Really - imagine walking around the city wearing one a wireless device that is trivially crackable - you are just asking for trouble.
At least with a g chip that supports WPA, you can downgrade to WEP if you *really* want to run around with your pants down.
Given what you are doing - I think you will have or will get a good understanding that having an idea and writing some code is just the first part. Something that is lost on many people here.
Then theres marketing (slashdot seems to do a good job of that), patents, creating revenue, building the business, support, releases, maintenance, bugfixing, delivery, revenue, documentation, white papers, attracting investors... Did I mention revenue? Doing this on a shoestring (which I think is *very* healthy) requires determination and inventiveness.
Great ideas are obvious - once you are told them. The ability to recognise a great idea and take it from idea to reality is a tremendous skill. Its harder than you think. Or to put it another way - just how many million dollar concepts have you turned into reality recently? Hmmmm???
You may be as good a coder as this guy - but he took some great ideas (that you didn't have by the way) and developed them to reality. Interface with OpenID - of course! Sound bites, google maps, etc etc. Obvious now we know.
They say they were "pleased at the success". But I suspect that what happened was that they planned to go 1 mile (they *did* go to the trouble of putting a long cable up, getting FAA approval etc), but they failed and only made 1500ft.
So they spun it as a success because they bet their last lame effort.
They still have some way to go to make 62000 miles.
This, from the same company whose initial file search didn't even look at files from borland (among others). Searching a folder for 'procedure' didn't find any *.pas files - they were ignored.
Ideals of dont do evil wont do you any
good when the government tells you to.
Especially with the Patriot Act in force -
we will never know if information is handed over.
Look - pay is usually ranked #6 or lower of most employees list of criteria for satisfaction. Dont mess with a boring job - quality of like just skyrockets if you are having fun.
How many of your servers are running at 100% CPU?
How about moving them to VIA low power processors - up to 1.3GHz.
I have one of these (1.2GHz) and with 1 large HDD, encoder card, network, DVD etc - it idles at less than 20W and maxes at about 60 (encoding, playback, DVD all going, CPU 100%). Burst power when switched on seems to be about 72. This is less than the processor alone on a high spec box.
This will only work with non-CPU intensive operations. However IO seems to be pretty good on these boxes, so an IO bound server would probably not suffer too greatly using a VIA mobo.
Allsorts of abuses are discovered, perpetrated by
our governments, years after the event when
people core to the event have grown old, died,
and the event itself sort-of fades from relevance.
Same experience here.
We bought something relatively expensive.
When it arrived it was a dud. Didn't even match the photo.
Ebay brushed us off repeatedly. The seller was remarkably relaxed, even though (to us anyway) it was clear fraud. He just denied. I guess he knew that Ebay would do squat.
In the end, we gave up - we are not based in the US and
following this up is hard (I think, deliberately so).
An expensive lesson.
[flame retardant liberally applied] Not to be a microsoft fanboy, but this whole article could have been rewritten as: - Installed XP. - Installed Office. - everything just worked.
For all their ills (and there are quite a few), XP + Office + 2k3 server works very well.
Honestly - this guy spent weeks getting it all to work. He had to: - troll through docs to find out how to get the VPN to connect. - figure out how to get reliable access to the exchange server, and eventually sneak into the server room to turn on a service (just wait till the server admins find out about that one!). Lucky he had the admin password I guess. - install a beta of firefox to get around some CPU issue - undergo a process that is "not... for the faint of heart" to get networking going to the 2k3 server and so on...
He may have meant this article as a compliment to Ubuntu and linux in the corporate environment, but its really a pretty damning statement about the poor state of readiness of linux for the corporate desktop.
BTW - I run Ubuntu on my corp desktop, and it does indeed require contortions.
This chap is asking about the server, not the desktop.
What he wants from a server is:
low power requirements
honkingly big disks
a very fast LAN
great IO bandwidth
Mini-ITX based systems are probably a good choice (I use one for my PVR - the MII 12000). Here are my comments on the MII as a server.
It uses less than 20W at idle, 72 at start (max).
Its cool/quiet.
It only has 2 IDE channels and a max of two PCI cards (using a splitter that permits two PCI cards into the Mini-ITX's single PCI slot). Depending on what other cards you want to plug in, this could be a drawback. Personally I use the IDE channels for a disk and DVD, and plug the other disk into Firewire.
IO bandwidth is so-so
there are issues with DMA on the M and MIIs that via is only just getting around to fixing.
standard Mini-ITX cases are built for small size - many only support a single laptop drive. Those that do support normal HDDs only fit one. You need to either use a non-std case or have a second case for your drives.
The standard power supplies with those cases are usually 60 or 80W. Thats not enough to run a lot of peripherals, with problems most often showing a boot.
As an employer, i would say this is truely awful advice. I like staff with the enthusiasm, determination and interest to extend themselves, especially if it is an area that will advance my company. Even if its not directly related, it still attracts my attention.
No doubt it has defects, but SQL has a strong theoretical underpinning in set theory. This has made it a very durable language and one that scales to sizes probably unimagined by Dr Codd when he outlined its roots in 1970 in his article "A relational model of data for large shared data banks".
Computings needs for well structured access and manipulation of large data sets has been well served by SQL.
A clear replacement has yet to emerge. There are pretenders to the throne, of which Tutorial D is certainly technically nice, XQuery is a mess and ODBMSs (and their query tools) really haven't caught on.
Its just that SQL passes a simple test - its good enough for the job and relatively ubiquitous. And standards do exist (that every major vendor breaks. sigh.).
What is likely to happen is that Microsoft will create a version 'compatible' with firefox, but it will be a second-class citizen.
Compare this with Outlook Web Access - you can run it in 'premier' mode which is a pretty darn good impression of outlook on the web, but sorry - IE only. Or you can run it in standard mode which is ok but klunky and lots doesn't work right (like contacts).
They are not in the business of making anything easy for competitors. Remember that this is the company who made their webpage break when you used Opera to view it.
Slashdot Mirror
but.. but.. but...
its got a cool sliding graph. Look!!!! Wheeeeeeee.
Musta been some cool ajax behind that!
This is an excellent way to disseminate lots of potentially inaccurate or out-of-context information from IRAQ to the rest of the world, without any corroberation on the content.
Pretty cool idea really - let us translate and distribute propoganda ourselves.
They died when their technology was built into windows.
(well - the full story is a big longer and includes lots of lawyers, but to quote Wikipaedia:
I think google is still trying to do the right thing. But I trust the government to do what governments the world over do - spy on its citizens, reduce our rights, be more invasive in our lives and so on. Hey if you've got nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear... right?
So I think that no matter what google tries to do or be - they are a gold mine of data. The government tried to get some data in the public eye, and got rebuffed. I believe that they will get whatever they want from google soon, but you wont know. How can you stop a government that can enact a law that means you can be
a) held without trial
b) that libraries can be forced to hand over your data, and gagged be gagged (sorry about the lame PDF)
c) that search and seizure can be enacted without judicial review
And dont forget good ol torture (but hey - it didn't happen on our soil, so its ok. Even if we organised and supported it.
So - I trust google to be as good as they can. But you can't fight the government that makes the rules.
If I were in to conspiracy theories - I'd suspect that this was just a front, and the govt already has plans to use existing laws to simply retrieve the data in the name of anti-terrorism, for the safety of the fatherland (I mean the homeland)...
Chips are readily available for g and that support WPA. Really - imagine walking around the city wearing one a wireless device that is trivially crackable - you are just asking for trouble.
At least with a g chip that supports WPA, you can downgrade to WEP if you *really* want to run around with your pants down.
Good luck to you.
Given what you are doing - I think you will have or will get a good understanding that having an idea and writing some code is just the first part. Something that is lost on many people here.
Then theres marketing (slashdot seems to do a good job of that), patents, creating revenue, building the business, support, releases, maintenance, bugfixing, delivery, revenue, documentation, white papers, attracting investors... Did I mention revenue? Doing this on a shoestring (which I think is *very* healthy) requires determination and inventiveness.
A S/W engine for Nintendo DS eh?
Great ideas are obvious - once you are told them.
The ability to recognise a great idea and take it
from idea to reality is a tremendous skill. Its harder
than you think. Or to put it another way - just
how many million dollar concepts have you turned into
reality recently? Hmmmm???
You may be as good a coder as this guy - but he took
some great ideas (that you didn't have by the way)
and developed them to reality. Interface with OpenID -
of course! Sound bites, google maps, etc etc.
Obvious now we know.
Any distro with KDE wont run well either.
Linux's advantage is that you can slim it down to
run on old hardware - including old PIIs and whatnot.
So they spun it as a success because they bet their last lame effort.
They still have some way to go to make 62000 miles.
This, from the same company whose initial file search didn't even look at files from borland (among others). Searching a folder for 'procedure' didn't find any *.pas files - they were ignored.
Ideals of dont do evil wont do you any good when the government tells you to. Especially with the Patriot Act in force - we will never know if information is handed over.
1. tell customers and investors that your company will crash unless they buy truckloads of your kit.
2. ???
3. Profit??
No one will buy kit from a company that is going down.
They are history - bet they wont make the year end.
Look - pay is usually ranked #6 or lower of most employees list of criteria for satisfaction. Dont mess with a boring job - quality of like just skyrockets if you are having fun.
What I meant was "How many of them are actually running at 100% CPU? Those that aren't can be replaced...".
If you re-read my comment, lower down you will see:
I have one of these (1.2GHz) and with 1 large HDD, encoder card, network, DVD etc - it idles at less than 20W and maxes at about 60 (encoding, playback, DVD all going, CPU 100%). Burst power when switched on seems to be about 72. This is less than the processor alone on a high spec box.
This will only work with non-CPU intensive operations. However IO seems to be pretty good on these boxes, so an IO bound server would probably not suffer too greatly using a VIA mobo.
All sorts of abuses are discovered, perpetrated by our governments, years after the event when people core to the event have grown old, died, and the event itself sort-of fades from relevance.
Sometimes it leaks out early.
We bought something relatively expensive. When it arrived it was a dud. Didn't even match the photo.
Ebay brushed us off repeatedly. The seller was remarkably relaxed, even though (to us anyway) it was clear fraud. He just denied. I guess he knew that Ebay would do squat.
In the end, we gave up - we are not based in the US and following this up is hard (I think, deliberately so). An expensive lesson.
That's nothing.
They are going for $1500 in NZ if you want one before March next year.
[flame retardant liberally applied]
Not to be a microsoft fanboy, but this whole article could have been rewritten as:
- Installed XP.
- Installed Office.
- everything just worked.
For all their ills (and there are quite a few), XP + Office + 2k3 server works very well.
Honestly - this guy spent weeks getting it all to work. He had to:
- troll through docs to find out how to get the VPN to connect.
- figure out how to get reliable access to the exchange server, and eventually sneak into the server room to turn on a service (just wait till the server admins find out about that one!). Lucky he had the admin password I guess.
- install a beta of firefox to get around some CPU issue
- undergo a process that is "not... for the faint of heart" to get networking going to the 2k3 server
and so on...
He may have meant this article as a compliment to Ubuntu and linux in the corporate environment, but its really a pretty damning statement about the poor state of readiness of linux for the corporate desktop.
BTW - I run Ubuntu on my corp desktop, and it does indeed require contortions.
What he wants from a server is:
Mini-ITX based systems are probably a good choice (I use one for my PVR - the MII 12000). Here are my comments on the MII as a server.
As an employer, i would say this is truely awful advice. I like staff with the enthusiasm, determination and interest to extend themselves, especially if it is an area that will advance my company. Even if its not directly related, it still attracts my attention.
Never believe your education has ever finished.
No doubt it has defects, but SQL has a strong theoretical underpinning in set theory. This has made it a very durable language and one that scales to sizes probably unimagined by Dr Codd when he outlined its roots in 1970 in his article "A relational model of data for large shared data banks".
Computings needs for well structured access and manipulation of large data sets has been well served by SQL.
A clear replacement has yet to emerge. There are pretenders to the throne, of which Tutorial D is certainly technically nice, XQuery is a mess and ODBMSs (and their query tools) really haven't caught on.
Its just that SQL passes a simple test - its good enough for the job and relatively ubiquitous. And standards do exist (that every major vendor breaks. sigh.).
Compare this with Outlook Web Access - you can run it in 'premier' mode which is a pretty darn good impression of outlook on the web, but sorry - IE only. Or you can run it in standard mode which is ok but klunky and lots doesn't work right (like contacts).
They are not in the business of making anything easy for competitors. Remember that this is the company who made their webpage break when you used Opera to view it.
I dont think this is right.
He didn't remove the DRM for access to songs.
He removed the DRM from his computer (effectively
a manual uninstall). They did imply in the document that he was allowed to uninstall it.