Except with companies like verizon that lock the phones from taking any non verizon firmware with encryption schemes and hashes. And some times like the moto v3 razor that needed to be downgraded before it could be unlocked.
I hated the fact i was tied to the verizon ui , but I loaded alltel firmware on my e815 and lost my net access but the rest works fine. Which is a god send to me. The stupid im setup was to annoying. I don't know if the LG Voyager I ordered for me and my wife will be locked down. But hopefully there will be some hacks.
Oh no way. Like where I work? My servers get hammered daily from our internal network because these idiots still have 60 updates to go before they bring all the windows desktops up to the current cycle.
My poor Solaris and Mysql logs get to look like an ebook when they are put into a pdf for examining. I got tired of requesting a security audit, so I can request a patch maintenance window. Went to the CIO and set it straight what can happen and he let me patch. Only 6 months after ! Damn slow moving corporate machines are not just MS based any more.
Came witht he new laptop I bought , and $139 for an Xp license to run it is insane ? Not to mention the need for legit windows for work and not a pirated copy ?
Talked with vmware , these boxes should not be virtualized , they were suprised we managed to get the speed we did. Now I get to bring it to management and get the manager who tried to get them virtualized a nice little rip for not being technical enough to understand.
I ordered the nic's and the switch is already equipped to handle SAN traffic or so says Cisco. Also ordered more spindles. 8 more to really take the load off them. Hopefully we don't get any lock collisions like we experienced last week.
Im maxing out quad core single xeon server with 8 gigs of ram at the moment. I have narrowed it down to virtualization , even with ESX and 1 db using 2 cores and 4 gigs ram in the x64 environment it seems to hit a wall with the 2 db sets on a single box.
Even with the dual xeon setup and maxing out at 16 gigs of ram , vmware and xen can't hold a screw to the single solaris platform with mysql. Because we use it for heavy data from research I need to be able to sustain at least 300 MB on all 16 spindles. When I virtualize it's almost like I run out of i/o on the scsi chain. I can sustain 190 at most.
Might be time to move the db's off to a SAN with 10 gig ethernet. Just use a virtualized box with a couple other low use services and make them local to the location with replication of the sans to synch each db.
BTW it's true management just wants to use virtualization because its a buzz word. Thats how I got into this mess.
This is a reason why piracy is becoming such a problem.
Not only is it cheaper to download it off the net some where (pick your favorite source) the people who rip the content rip out the drm which makes it just easier to use. No worries about licenses , no worries about 2 services destroying each other, no worries about changing hardware and having to repurchase half your library because one service uses it and the other doesn't.
These companies just don't realize that drm is draconian. Multi Os platforms and easy to use video content that will play any where is what the future should hold. instead they try ad put a strangle hold on the content and tell us we can only use it on windows , and maybe if your lucky a mac. Basically telling me what OS and what hardware I should run by placing system requirements on the content , meanwhile on a Linux or Solaris box, I don't need anywhere near those resources to watch a downloaded movie.
Draconian restrictions were also used at the fall of the roman empire. I think we (the US) is really shooting ourselves in the foot with these restrictions.
And Yes I have seen these errors on my wifes Vista computer. God how I'd love to strip out vista and install ubuntu or fedora for her. Im tired of cleaning out windows systems !
Do you see performance loss on the virtualized SQL db ? Are they actively used db's ? I see many people taking huge performance hits as well.
I run 60 servers and there are 15 mysql servers on Solaris that I can't virtualize , even running Sun version of Xen I take huge performance losses when moved into production. I ended up just using 12 as read dbs and 3 as writes that replicate down to solve the problem but also had to move them off virtualization.
I thought the same at first , after a couple of my co workers showed me how well and easy silver light is , it got a little of my attention. I dislike it because it is a microsoft product , but it is pretty sleek at the moment. When 2.0 comes they said it will have better language options.
I really don't like Ms but I do like silver light , especially their promise of it running well on linux and well on every platform. Java at times can get heavy and slow down even the biggest servers.
Cingular and T mobile currently have in place already to assist in e911 location awareness. It triangulates with the use of as many towers and antenna's as it can based on signal levels to each locating modulation unit to give you the location of where you are. Not very accurate in heavily developed cities where skyscrapers block a majority of the signal.
Worked with them before , I went to work at Sun , pretty cool tech.
It's a shame that they chose to use it to provide a service that the iphone really should have already had. Seams like they are trying to give people an app they get a revenue stream from instead of letting you use other available 3rd party apps where they don't profit.
As a sys admin , and code patcher , I love unix and linux , and I know many will really hate me for this , but I write Solaris code in windows !
As a developer I can't find a linux "development studio" quite like i can with Visual studio , I am not perfect and some times typo , VS is there to help me along the way and with some custom plugins it makes even auto completing the code easier , giving me faster patch times and even more uniformity to my patches.
Any suggestions for a C and C++ studio that can help us poor lonely developers along the way ? Would be nice if it automatically generated make files too:) I use plugins for VS to build them and they often need editing by hand.
Well , when it comes from the RIAA it has to be true. Right ? RIGHT !!!!!
They are only counting windows computers that visited a certain site , and let a site run a certain scan. Oh yeah I can see the accuracy of this.
Did they include frostwire, for us linux users or for mac users ? If so how did their "scan" run on a mac or linux box if it is an active x control.
I hate when the RIAA starts spouting fud like this. If limewire had this amount of penetration it would say 2 things. 1 More people will go to limewire/frostwire for better content , and 2 with their pay for an app model they would be close to Microsoft size and could buy their way out of almost anything.
Me thinks someone over at pcpitstop or the RIAA need to be sent to rehab after the bender that let them believe this is true.
I have to agree , playing with ZFS at Sun was really quite interesting , seeing what can be done and still be recoverable made me quite honestly take note of the abilities of the file system.
ZFS is going to make quite a big impact , and Microsoft will have to take note and build in support, most big business will be swapping to ZFS and since that is where Microsoft's bread and butter is coming from they will have to add support for it sooner or later. With it's list of features it will have a home on the Microsoft server line and sooner then they think or they face loosing ground.
Linux in the bug business sector is relegated to servers at the moment and not many desktops. With ZFS support linux will close the server gap even more in big business and maybe some of the desktop gap.
I like the idea of ZFS and the revolution in storage it should bring , lets hope it doesn't get tied up in court until Microsoft can come out with a file system that has it's features and strengths but is completely closed off from the OSS community.
But... But... But... It's got a cool name like netgear , isn't that my friend , worth 30% ? To know your getting high quality netgear products at a highly jacked up price !
Maybe we just found out the cost of netgear packaging ! Don't make money on the product make it on the packaging ! BRILLIANT !!!
I see the future of radio ending up just like tv is now. Many will go to satellite (payed service) people will still listen to regular channels. Just will only do so when good content is on. Maybe they will get lucky and if the XM/Sirius merger is allowed to go through , they can get some of thier channels on the satellite feeds with their content.
The RIAA needs to realize the world has drasticlly changed since thier inception. and since they are milking satellite companies the same way it's only fair they hit broadcasters on terrestrial radio the same way.
I can whole heartedly say as a ameature(?) digital music producer , I want to see the RIAA disappear. Or have only them taking money for radio plays. 2 pennies to the artist and a penny to the writer. I am sure the amount of money collected will grow for bands. Bahh let the RIAA as a whole or who ever is collecting take a flat fee of $300 a month for collecting and sending out the fee's. We don't need 5 groups dipping in the pot.
No ! Good looking hookers and good blow isn't cheap.
How do I know ? Well my friend . these nose bleeds and the oozing sores on my genitalia tell the story of... err I don't want to remember , I think it was Micheal Jackson when I was a little boy. Or Micheal Vick errr Ron Mexico beat me to the hookers !
Well to be honest , I could post pictures of what I used to do. I averaged 16 hour days and drove more then 600 miles a day hauling around cell phone gear. Not the lightest gear in the world. And it was all over the north east , in all weather , because people can't be with out cell service especially in bad weather.
And I owned a big truck because 4x4 + heavy loads up "roads" that by definition should not even be named. Ever go up a 5 miles service road to cell sites in 13 inches of snow ? Fun stuff , no car is going to get you there.
Now I don't work there so I drive a Honda Cr-V and the only reason I got that was because we see storms of 12 or more inches some times and I need to be at work , I work for a DOD contracted company and we maintain some of the servers that keep people safe all over the world. So I can't have a vehicle that gets stuck in 7 inches of snow like we had here thursday.
Including my state , they fly and break windows , they let us have little studs which they claim are good enough. And we can not use chains. At least in the metro boston area.
Also on a side not i live in a town of 75000 and they never plow until after the snow has stopped or 12 hours, yes we are a poor city in the midst of all this huge building and expensive land calamity.
Also it was sarcasm , I forgot to use the newly invented sarcasm tags.
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Great I fell off the damn desk and broke my arm. Guess I can get used to the on handed find and peck method of coding.
Except with companies like verizon that lock the phones from taking any non verizon firmware with encryption schemes and hashes. And some times like the moto v3 razor that needed to be downgraded before it could be unlocked.
I hated the fact i was tied to the verizon ui , but I loaded alltel firmware on my e815 and lost my net access but the rest works fine. Which is a god send to me. The stupid im setup was to annoying. I don't know if the LG Voyager I ordered for me and my wife will be locked down. But hopefully there will be some hacks.
Oh no way. Like where I work? My servers get hammered daily from our internal network because these idiots still have 60 updates to go before they bring all the windows desktops up to the current cycle.
My poor Solaris and Mysql logs get to look like an ebook when they are put into a pdf for examining. I got tired of requesting a security audit, so I can request a patch maintenance window. Went to the CIO and set it straight what can happen and he let me patch. Only 6 months after ! Damn slow moving corporate machines are not just MS based any more.
Yes they do !
My friend who is an It professional helped me remove Vista from my laptop.
See it works on so many levels.
Came witht he new laptop I bought , and $139 for an Xp license to run it is insane ? Not to mention the need for legit windows for work and not a pirated copy ?
Very nice read , thank you.
Talked with vmware , these boxes should not be virtualized , they were suprised we managed to get the speed we did. Now I get to bring it to management and get the manager who tried to get them virtualized a nice little rip for not being technical enough to understand.
I ordered the nic's and the switch is already equipped to handle SAN traffic or so says Cisco. Also ordered more spindles. 8 more to really take the load off them. Hopefully we don't get any lock collisions like we experienced last week.
Im maxing out quad core single xeon server with 8 gigs of ram at the moment. I have narrowed it down to virtualization , even with ESX and 1 db using 2 cores and 4 gigs ram in the x64 environment it seems to hit a wall with the 2 db sets on a single box.
Even with the dual xeon setup and maxing out at 16 gigs of ram , vmware and xen can't hold a screw to the single solaris platform with mysql. Because we use it for heavy data from research I need to be able to sustain at least 300 MB on all 16 spindles. When I virtualize it's almost like I run out of i/o on the scsi chain. I can sustain 190 at most.
Might be time to move the db's off to a SAN with 10 gig ethernet. Just use a virtualized box with a couple other low use services and make them local to the location with replication of the sans to synch each db.
BTW it's true management just wants to use virtualization because its a buzz word. Thats how I got into this mess.
This is a reason why piracy is becoming such a problem.
Not only is it cheaper to download it off the net some where (pick your favorite source) the people who rip the content rip out the drm which makes it just easier to use. No worries about licenses , no worries about 2 services destroying each other, no worries about changing hardware and having to repurchase half your library because one service uses it and the other doesn't.
These companies just don't realize that drm is draconian. Multi Os platforms and easy to use video content that will play any where is what the future should hold. instead they try ad put a strangle hold on the content and tell us we can only use it on windows , and maybe if your lucky a mac. Basically telling me what OS and what hardware I should run by placing system requirements on the content , meanwhile on a Linux or Solaris box, I don't need anywhere near those resources to watch a downloaded movie.
Draconian restrictions were also used at the fall of the roman empire. I think we (the US) is really shooting ourselves in the foot with these restrictions.
And Yes I have seen these errors on my wifes Vista computer. God how I'd love to strip out vista and install ubuntu or fedora for her. Im tired of cleaning out windows systems !
Do you see performance loss on the virtualized SQL db ? Are they actively used db's ? I see many people taking huge performance hits as well.
I run 60 servers and there are 15 mysql servers on Solaris that I can't virtualize , even running Sun version of Xen I take huge performance losses when moved into production. I ended up just using 12 as read dbs and 3 as writes that replicate down to solve the problem but also had to move them off virtualization.
I thought the same at first , after a couple of my co workers showed me how well and easy silver light is , it got a little of my attention. I dislike it because it is a microsoft product , but it is pretty sleek at the moment. When 2.0 comes they said it will have better language options.
I really don't like Ms but I do like silver light , especially their promise of it running well on linux and well on every platform. Java at times can get heavy and slow down even the biggest servers.
Some one mod off topic please , minicity troll again
Hey as an IT worker Im all for this , less competition for my job :)
Well it uses the truenorth system. http://www.trueposition.com/.
Cingular and T mobile currently have in place already to assist in e911 location awareness. It triangulates with the use of as many towers and antenna's as it can based on signal levels to each locating modulation unit to give you the location of where you are. Not very accurate in heavily developed cities where skyscrapers block a majority of the signal.
Worked with them before , I went to work at Sun , pretty cool tech.
It's a shame that they chose to use it to provide a service that the iphone really should have already had. Seams like they are trying to give people an app they get a revenue stream from instead of letting you use other available 3rd party apps where they don't profit.
Man that joke flew right over your head.
I was wondering what the managers here were giving us to keep us going. hmmm more powdered donuts please!
As a sys admin , and code patcher , I love unix and linux , and I know many will really hate me for this , but I write Solaris code in windows !
:) I use plugins for VS to build them and they often need editing by hand.
:)
As a developer I can't find a linux "development studio" quite like i can with Visual studio , I am not perfect and some times typo , VS is there to help me along the way and with some custom plugins it makes even auto completing the code easier , giving me faster patch times and even more uniformity to my patches.
Any suggestions for a C and C++ studio that can help us poor lonely developers along the way ? Would be nice if it automatically generated make files too
Yeah I know im going to be sacrificed for this
So your some sort of gaming god now ? Tuxracer in full 3d glory isn't enough for you.
bahh Windows fanboi !
Tuxracer WITH BINARY DRIVERS FTW !!!
Well , when it comes from the RIAA it has to be true. Right ? RIGHT !!!!!
They are only counting windows computers that visited a certain site , and let a site run a certain scan. Oh yeah I can see the accuracy of this.
Did they include frostwire, for us linux users or for mac users ? If so how did their "scan" run on a mac or linux box if it is an active x control.
I hate when the RIAA starts spouting fud like this. If limewire had this amount of penetration it would say 2 things. 1 More people will go to limewire/frostwire for better content , and 2 with their pay for an app model they would be close to Microsoft size and could buy their way out of almost anything.
Me thinks someone over at pcpitstop or the RIAA need to be sent to rehab after the bender that let them believe this is true.
simple typo firefox spell check missed it
I have to agree , playing with ZFS at Sun was really quite interesting , seeing what can be done and still be recoverable made me quite honestly take note of the abilities of the file system.
ZFS is going to make quite a big impact , and Microsoft will have to take note and build in support, most big business will be swapping to ZFS and since that is where Microsoft's bread and butter is coming from they will have to add support for it sooner or later. With it's list of features it will have a home on the Microsoft server line and sooner then they think or they face loosing ground.
Linux in the bug business sector is relegated to servers at the moment and not many desktops. With ZFS support linux will close the server gap even more in big business and maybe some of the desktop gap.
I like the idea of ZFS and the revolution in storage it should bring , lets hope it doesn't get tied up in court until Microsoft can come out with a file system that has it's features and strengths but is completely closed off from the OSS community.
But... But... But... It's got a cool name like netgear , isn't that my friend , worth 30% ? To know your getting high quality netgear products at a highly jacked up price !
Maybe we just found out the cost of netgear packaging ! Don't make money on the product make it on the packaging ! BRILLIANT !!!
Does the Rule out Hughe Grant ?
And this is a bad thing how ?
I see the future of radio ending up just like tv is now. Many will go to satellite (payed service) people will still listen to regular channels. Just will only do so when good content is on. Maybe they will get lucky and if the XM/Sirius merger is allowed to go through , they can get some of thier channels on the satellite feeds with their content.
The RIAA needs to realize the world has drasticlly changed since thier inception. and since they are milking satellite companies the same way it's only fair they hit broadcasters on terrestrial radio the same way.
I can whole heartedly say as a ameature(?) digital music producer , I want to see the RIAA disappear. Or have only them taking money for radio plays. 2 pennies to the artist and a penny to the writer. I am sure the amount of money collected will grow for bands. Bahh let the RIAA as a whole or who ever is collecting take a flat fee of $300 a month for collecting and sending out the fee's. We don't need 5 groups dipping in the pot.
No ! Good looking hookers and good blow isn't cheap.
... err I don't want to remember , I think it was Micheal Jackson when I was a little boy. Or Micheal Vick errr Ron Mexico beat me to the hookers !
How do I know ? Well my friend . these nose bleeds and the oozing sores on my genitalia tell the story of
Well to be honest , I could post pictures of what I used to do. I averaged 16 hour days and drove more then 600 miles a day hauling around cell phone gear. Not the lightest gear in the world. And it was all over the north east , in all weather , because people can't be with out cell service especially in bad weather.
And I owned a big truck because 4x4 + heavy loads up "roads" that by definition should not even be named. Ever go up a 5 miles service road to cell sites in 13 inches of snow ? Fun stuff , no car is going to get you there.
Now I don't work there so I drive a Honda Cr-V and the only reason I got that was because we see storms of 12 or more inches some times and I need to be at work , I work for a DOD contracted company and we maintain some of the servers that keep people safe all over the world. So I can't have a vehicle that gets stuck in 7 inches of snow like we had here thursday.
Including my state , they fly and break windows , they let us have little studs which they claim are good enough. And we can not use chains. At least in the metro boston area.
Also on a side not i live in a town of 75000 and they never plow until after the snow has stopped or 12 hours, yes we are a poor city in the midst of all this huge building and expensive land calamity.
Also it was sarcasm , I forgot to use the newly invented sarcasm tags.