I use it a well and use Dropbox (looking for something safer to replace it) to keep my database synced among a bunch of machines PasswordSafe has the best password generators you can specify exactly what are the rules you want for each site
If history has any lesion for us it is that when a company decides to build a statement building it frequently coincides with the decline of the company. Mr. Cringley talked about this few months back http://www.cringely.com/2010/12/edifice-complex/
I have ASUS UL80VT and have had it for over a month, it promised 10 hours, I have used in the office whole day without charging, that is email, web, coding, jabber, and meetings using WiFi, my guess is I used the computer for about 6 hours, and 3 hours standing idle/sleeping and there was still some juice left and I got 2 hours at home out of the same charge, that is close enough to 10 hours for me, this was in power saver mode. I like the switching between the two graphics chips, works like a charm, for most applications there is no need for the fast one. I have got about 5 hours of game playing in on battery with the fast graphics on. My only issue with the machine is that I do not care for the "mouse" buttons, but a USB mouse solved that problem when lots of clicking is needed.
In short I like this machine a lot and highly recommend it.
To many NASA == "White collar welfare program" but that is too strong, many of the things that are done in space are good. The bad things in IMHO are ISS (waste of money for no good reason) and "Mission to Mars" (a joke)
The dollars/euros/rubles should be spent on basic research, global climate monitoring, long range simple probes, better launch capability.
NASA for budgeting reasons designs new programs to be cheap to launch but expensive to operate as it is easier to get funding for existing programs than new ones, it this issue was addressed then the cost of each NASA mission could be reduced. Unfortunately this is not in the interest of the politicians or the contractors that benefit from the man hungry operation centers.
Someone should fix that and the traffic would have gone back up to normal load:-)
Here is my list of sites that I was able to reach using native IPv6 using IE worked:
ipv6.google.com
www.ripe.net
www.apnic.net
www.stupi.net
www.arin.net
www.icann.org
www.nlnetlabs.nl
Failed foillowing sites did not work
www.cisco.net/com
www.microsoft.com
www.speakeasy.net
slashdot.org
news.bbc.co.uk
www.mbl.is
www.cnn.com
www.comcast.com/net
news.com.com
www.ibm.com
The laws were passed by lawmakers bribed by telco's. (campain contribution == bribe)
Last year I started bringing my laptop to the community swimming pool so I could keep an eye on my kids and still do some work. There was an open network close by and I used it. People asked me if I had internet access, and liked the idea of being able to mix pleasure and work. So this year the pool installed a wireless access point and got its own internet line. Lots of people took advantage of this during the summer. (low cost market research)
I fix my neighbors computers and in return have access to their wireless network. I have my own but it is slower so when I need to do big downloads I do it over their network. (this is payment in kind)
I have 2 wireless networks in my house one open one closed, the only abuse I have seen on my network was neighbors kid trying to access porn that was blocked on his home network. Can't say I blame him, I mentioned to him that I had noticed his use and seeing him turn bright red was worth it.
On number of occations I have used other people's networks to check e-mail or catch up on news, I never try to do anything bandwith consuming as that is not polite to do without asking. Once a friend bought a wireless router for their house and had me set it up for them without broadcasting the Network ID. Next time I was over (few months later) they where complaining that the wireless network was slow and unreliable, after checking things out I discovered that they where using a neighbors network not their own because they clicked on the first network that popped up.
If you leave your network open and broadcast your Network ID, it is a statement that you allow responsible sharing of the network.
Or simply people do not remember which site is supposed to have picture and what picture. I have login's at over 100 sites and can not recall what half of them looked like last time I used them.
Rumor is false, with hardware accelerator.com can be signed in about 1 hour on a fast AMD system. The distribution of the zone is a bigger issue, but most of the time only fragments of the zone would be signed at the same time.
Few reasons: new process, difficult to simulate, difficult to test, shortage of people. In short high risk project. But given Intel has it's back to the wall, maybe they will give one of their design groups a green light to expriment, like they did with Centrino. If they get this right an Async processor can run quite a bit faster. Does anyone know if Async processors are expected to use more or less power than equivalent regular processor ?
PGPLabs became involved when it hired one of the original NSA people that worked on this project.
I worked at NAILabs and ran couple of NSA sponsored projects there. The funds are coming out R? departments (R == Research). The
only strings attached to these projects are performance related such as making progress, regular status updates, and make results public in source code and/or papers.
NSA has two main missions evesdropping on the world AND PROTECTING US Gov. computer systems and in the second role this project makes lots of sense.
My take is that NSA realizes they have a bad image and are trying to do more DARPA like projects to improve the image. There is nothing sinister about NSA involvement. It is only about a year ago that NSA allowed press releases of projects like this one.
DNSSEC and IPv6 are independant but complementary.
DNSSEC allows the authentication of DNS data.
IPv6 uses composite addreses (A6 records) thus it is imporant to be able to authenticate all the A6 records used to compose the 128 bit address.
A good short introduction to DNSSEC,it is little bit out off date as
the DNSSEC standards have changed.
I attended the debate and the only signifcant issue that is not covered in above post was a late discussion on the cost patents on high tech. High tech companies (like the one I work for) have to have people waste time on filing for patents, think if any off their idea's is patentable. Then wast time on paying inside and outside lawyers to prepare and file the patents.
On top of that many companies have patent incentive plans (read bonus $$$$) and managers
get patent quota.
Managment talks about patents as MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) if we have lots of them
noone will be able to sue us as we will find some that they are infringing on.
One of the morals that I took from the debate is that we (high tech people) must keep better records on ideas. It does not matter how the idea's are expressed, in source code, e-mail, news or IRC, as prior art is the best destroyer of stupid/simple patents.
The main problem is to prove that
1. When was the idea generated
2. You and who else was involved
Some of your cooworkers will be tempted to file pattents of your ideas to get the bonus or to meet their pattent quota.
Moral:
Archive all your e-mail
Archive all IRC sessions
Archive all source code (use CVS every day to keep track of when code was written).
Keep logs of phone calls.
Keep old web pages
Patents have a role but like anthing that is controled by lawyers, they set the rules.
ps: The applause in the meeting was either by the suits or the techies never by both groups.
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I use it a well and use Dropbox (looking for something safer to replace it) to keep my database synced among a bunch of machines
PasswordSafe has the best password generators you can specify exactly what are the rules you want for each site
If history has any lesion for us it is that when a company decides to build a statement building it frequently coincides with the decline of the company. Mr. Cringley talked about this few months back
http://www.cringely.com/2010/12/edifice-complex/
I have ASUS UL80VT and have had it for over a month, it promised 10 hours, I have used in the office whole
day without charging, that is email, web, coding, jabber, and meetings using WiFi, my guess is I used the
computer for about 6 hours, and 3 hours standing idle/sleeping and there was still some juice left and I got
2 hours at home out of the same charge, that is close enough to 10 hours for me, this was in power saver mode.
I like the switching between the two graphics chips, works like a charm, for most applications there is no
need for the fast one.
I have got about 5 hours of game playing in on battery with the fast graphics on.
My only issue with the machine is that I do not care for the "mouse" buttons, but a USB mouse
solved that problem when lots of clicking is needed.
In short I like this machine a lot and highly recommend it.
To many NASA == "White collar welfare program" but that is too strong, many of the things that are done in space are good. The bad things in IMHO are ISS (waste of money for no good reason) and "Mission to Mars" (a joke)
The dollars/euros/rubles should be spent on basic research, global climate monitoring, long range simple probes, better launch capability.
NASA for budgeting reasons designs new programs to be cheap to launch but expensive to operate as it is easier to get funding for existing programs than new ones, it this issue was addressed
then the cost of each NASA mission could be reduced. Unfortunately this is not in the interest of the politicians or the contractors that benefit from the man hungry operation centers.
Someone should fix that and the traffic would have gone back up to normal load :-)
Here is my list of sites that I was able to reach using native IPv6
using IE worked:
ipv6.google.com
www.ripe.net
www.apnic.net
www.stupi.net
www.arin.net
www.icann.org
www.nlnetlabs.nl
Failed foillowing sites did not work
www.cisco.net/com
www.microsoft.com
www.speakeasy.net
slashdot.org
news.bbc.co.uk
www.mbl.is
www.cnn.com
www.comcast.com/net
news.com.com
www.ibm.com
The laws were passed by lawmakers bribed by telco's. (campain contribution == bribe)
Last year I started bringing my laptop to the community swimming pool so I could keep
an eye on my kids and still do some work. There was an open network close by and
I used it. People asked me if I had internet access, and liked the idea of being able
to mix pleasure and work. So this year the pool installed a wireless access point and
got its own internet line. Lots of people took advantage of this during the summer.
(low cost market research)
I fix my neighbors computers and in return have access to their wireless network.
I have my own but it is slower so when I need to do big downloads I do it over their
network. (this is payment in kind)
I have 2 wireless networks in my house one open one closed, the only abuse I have seen
on my network was neighbors kid trying to access porn that was blocked on his
home network. Can't say I blame him, I mentioned to him that I had noticed his
use and seeing him turn bright red was worth it.
On number of occations I have used other people's networks to check e-mail or catch up
on news, I never try to do anything bandwith consuming as that is not polite to do without
asking. Once a friend bought a wireless router for their house and had me set it up
for them without broadcasting the Network ID.
Next time I was over (few months later) they where complaining that the
wireless network was slow and unreliable, after checking things out I discovered that
they where using a neighbors network not their own because they clicked on the first
network that popped up.
If you leave your network open and broadcast your Network ID, it is a statement that
you allow responsible sharing of the network.
Or simply people do not remember which site is supposed to have picture and what picture. I have login's at over 100 sites and can not recall what half of them
looked like last time I used them.
Rumor is false, with hardware accelerator .com can be signed in
about 1 hour on a fast AMD system.
The distribution of the zone is a bigger issue, but most of the time only fragments of the zone would be signed at the same time.
Few reasons: new process, difficult to simulate, difficult to test, shortage of people.
In short high risk project. But given Intel has it's back to the wall, maybe they will give one of their design groups a green light to expriment, like they did with Centrino.
If they get this right an Async processor can run quite a bit faster.
Does anyone know if Async processors are expected to use more or less power than equivalent regular processor ?
I (and probably others) complained and this has been fixed.
PGPLabs became involved when it hired one of the original NSA people that worked on this project.
I worked at NAILabs and ran couple of NSA sponsored projects there. The funds are coming out R? departments (R == Research). The only strings attached to these projects are performance related such as making progress, regular status updates, and make results public in source code and/or papers.
NSA has two main missions evesdropping on the world AND PROTECTING US Gov. computer systems and in the second role this project makes lots of sense.
My take is that NSA realizes they have a bad image and are trying to do more DARPA like projects to improve the image. There is nothing sinister about NSA involvement. It is only about a year ago that NSA allowed press releases of projects like this one.
DNSSEC and IPv6 are independant but complementary. DNSSEC allows the authentication of DNS data. IPv6 uses composite addreses (A6 records) thus it is imporant to be able to authenticate all the A6 records used to compose the 128 bit address.
A good short introduction to DNSSEC,it is little bit out off date as the DNSSEC standards have changed.
I attended the debate and the only signifcant issue that is not covered in above post was a late discussion on the cost patents on high tech. High tech companies (like the one I work for) have to have people waste time on filing for patents, think if any off their idea's is patentable. Then wast time on paying inside and outside lawyers to prepare and file the patents.
On top of that many companies have patent incentive plans (read bonus $$$$) and managers
get patent quota.
Managment talks about patents as MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) if we have lots of them
noone will be able to sue us as we will find some that they are infringing on.
One of the morals that I took from the debate is that we (high tech people) must keep better records on ideas. It does not matter how the idea's are expressed, in source code, e-mail, news or IRC, as prior art is the best destroyer of stupid/simple patents.
The main problem is to prove that
1. When was the idea generated
2. You and who else was involved
Some of your cooworkers will be tempted to file pattents of your ideas to get the bonus or to meet their pattent quota.
Moral:
Archive all your e-mail
Archive all IRC sessions
Archive all source code (use CVS every day to keep track of when code was written).
Keep logs of phone calls.
Keep old web pages
Patents have a role but like anthing that is controled by lawyers, they set the rules.
ps: The applause in the meeting was either by the suits or the techies never by both groups.