SmartOS is pretty amazing. You can create virtual environments that share a kernel space, meaning that YOUR os is running directly on the hardware, making it _extremely_ fast with almost no overhead. The file system (ZFS) is also 'shared' using zones and pools so there's almost no cost there either. Migration a vm between SmartOS hosts is also a pretty amazing thing. And finally, DTrace allows you to figure out exactly why something is slow... There's a huge library of DTrace scripts available on the internet too.
SmartOS has it's roots in Solaris, so it's a little different than Linux, but for the most part anyone with Unix experience can figure it out.
My my... how times have changed. See back in my day, the vendor walked uphill, both ways, to tell us about the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt of the security using some filthy open source project strung together by a rag tag team of hippies.
You know what would really make our roads safe? If we had a way to measure and issue citations for following distance. All other problems, speeding, cornering too fast, switching lanes without blinkers, intoxication, blah blah all come down to that you could injure someone else while performing a driving maneuver.
Lets say all cars had a system that prevented you from driving within 100 yards of other cars. It wouldn't matter if the car in front/behind of you was intoxicated, speeding, stopping, swerving or all the above, you could just AVOID them and the only person injured would be the violator. Such a device is impractical/impossible, but beating it into people that they need to leaving space between cars might make a small difference.
Oh and.05? Revenue stream. Don't stand for this crap.
Ok honestly, what has Oracle done with MySQL that has been so bad? They've been pretty good stewards. MySQL 5.6 came out and even included full text search for InnoDB. I'm pleased with the product and it's progress.
This smells like the Jenkins/Hudson gayness... All these projects are forking because of big bad Oracle, before Oracle has even done anything. Good god, the open source community is LUCKY to have a corporation that is willing to sink dollars into an open source project. If that means giving up a little control, I'm cool with that. If they try some bullshit, we can fork it. Stop the friggen whining until then. You cry wolf enough times and the community isn't going to be there when you really do need them.
So I have a brilliant friggen plan. How about the circle jerk of founders in the SkySQL project go to Oracle and offer and olive branch? There would be rainbows and unicorns and one code base. Wouldn't that be best for the community?
And not just a little bit of elitism thrown in for good measure; a lot of these guys really do think you're too stupid to use XHTML. As I was once told by Hickson: if you're using XHTML and you think things are working properly, you're wrong. You just haven't yet discovered how.
Yes and no. XHTML removes the "how to parse" question. It only leaves the "how to render" question.
HTML5 is the response by a bunch of whiners that normal xhtml is "too hard." Yes it's too hard to remember to close your tags. It's too hard to remember to put quotes around attributes. Why are humans checking your syntax? Have the danged computer check your syntax.
"Pave the cowpaths" is an excuse to appease a bunch of zealots that are hellbent on pushing their personal preferences and egos into a standard rather than designing something that is quick/easy to parse and universally render across platforms. It's only going to get worse as the standard is never completed over the next decade.
XML serialization of HTML sucks. It's verbose, and it's ugly. But it's effective because it's well defined and it leaves very little room for interpretation.
Honestly, I'd like to see two standards. One, is XHTML5 Strict that follows the XML serialization. This will be left to the big boys who have real work to do. The other standard would be an extension to MarkDown to allow CSS customization with classes and ids. This would allow the path the cowpaths crowd to get things down as fast as possible and keep the verbosity of XML out of their way.
Myself and many other TWC customers can't stream 1080p off Youtube reliable, even on their '50mbps' tier. If you're in one of the areas that is exclusively served by TWC, file and FCC complaint about it. We need to turn up the heat on these companies and they'll finally buckle and give us what we want.
Just saying, this was the most depressing thing I've read on Slashdot in awhile. I know it happens to couples, but I guess I was lucky my parents stuck it out.
The RF portion of the standards is well designed (take LTE with orthogonal multiplexing for example). However, the systems and switching part is waaay to complex. Telco providers are buried under mountains of technical debt... Even the systems part of LTE is complex: the American implementations from Sprint and Verizon are not be compatible because they cherry picked what parts they felt like implementing.
Yah that happens to best of us... sorry to hear that. Priming sugar has to be measured by weight, carefully boiled, and mixed into the freshly fermented beer. It's delicate process that can go wrong in a ton of ways.
Do you have a kegging system? If so, try forced carbonation. Google for more information, but here's the basic process: Chill your beer. Purge/Burp the keg several times to get a C02 atmosphere. Set your regulator to 30psi. Slosh the beer a few times. Leave for 12 hours. Set to final pressure (usually 8-12psi, depending on your beer style). Leave for 5 days. Enjoy carbonated beer.
I don't have a lot of good info on pressurized fermenting other than what I've read on homebrewtalk. They technique I've read is to watch the gravity carefully. As it comes close to the final gravity (~3 days before end of fermentation), you let it build ~10-15psi of pressure. I've tried mechanical valves meant for air compressors with no luck. I think an electronic system with an emergency mechanical backup would be a good design.
I'd be interested in multiple control points... I've started to do pressurized fermentation once the gravity of the beer of approaches the final gravity. This carbonates the beer without a secondary fermentation, and reduces risk of introducing oxygen and contamination into the beer. If the system could electronically monitor specific gravity then seal the airlock, but blow off any excess over 10psi... would be awesome!
Nuclear power is incredibly important... in 1000 years, do you really think we're going to power the world with windmills? And while we need a body like the NRC as a safety watchdog, they need to be a lot more efficient. Keeping 60 year old nuclear plants open because new designs take eons to approve is callous and stupid.
And honestly, proliferation should be a NRC concern. Give that to the DHS, they have nothing better to do.
Until China cares about the environment, anything we do in the USA is a drop in the bucket. Besides... a light bulb ban??? Really that's all congress is up to these days?
Ok, the greenie morons in the USA needs to quit thinking this is their fault. China and India are the main problem... Take a look at this pic from Hangzhou, CN from about 2 years back: ImageShack.us The spire on the hill is 3/4mile away from where I was sitting. No it's not foggy, that's just how polluted it is ALL THE TIME over there. If you truly are an environmentalist, voting for Obama isn't going to save the planet. America has already won this battle.... but since climate science is now in mainstream pop culture, no one actually wants to travel overseas to do the hard work to save the environment.
Samsung has incredible hardware. The Galaxy series of phones have all been quite remarkable. Their OLED technology puts out color gamut that makes Plasma TVs look like they were painted with pastel watercolors.
Their software has always blown. Every tried to use GPS on a samsung phone? How about USB mass storage mode? How about SVoice? How about waiting 2 years for ICS to come out on a device? How about USB Host mode on CDMA models? List goes on... They cut so many corners on software to get it out the door.
They try so hard to be like Apple... they've smoked Apple on the hardware side, but the lack of quality on their software side just completely spoils their phones. So when a 0 day flaw pops up that allows one to completely take over a phone, it doesn't surprise me. Results like this usually correlate with high software engineer turnover with low management turnover, which should points to a solution: fire the management.
In other news though, I laughed at Person of Interest where the main character hacked other peoples phones by holding them together. Now I'm drinking my cup of shut up tea.
If 35lbs is that huge... wouldn't have made more sense to pay the pilots to lose weight? After all, it is illegal to operate any electronic device below 10,000 feet for "SAFETY REASONS." From what I hear, operation of such devices causes the planes to just explode. Forgetting to put your phone in airplane mode == KABOOM!
Or perhaps this "no electronic devices" crap really wasn't about safety in the first place.
How many speeding tickets have you received? How many following too close? The former is fairly easy to enforce, but really is "Safety theater." Your car is just as safe at 85mph as 25mph. You cover more ground at 85mph, and order to have a good reaction time, you need distance from the cars in front of you.
So is 85mph a good idea? Probably not, considering Cities and Counties are more concerned with revenue from speed fines than actual safety measures like braking distance. If safe following distances were actually enforced, you could have 150mph with no problems.
Sorry, I was wrong. Current generation CortexA9 processors support up to 4gb _per process_ using some virtualization tricks. Cortex A15 has 40bit addressing, supporting up 1TB of ram per process. A15 processors are just being released right now...
Actually, I believe current generation ARM processors address memory using 40bits, not 32bits. I'm trying to dig up a reference though, I could be dreaming this up.
Exactly! Just look at how well our current regulations work in the oil, auto, loan, and investment industries to understand why intense regulation is the key to success!
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SmartOS is pretty amazing. You can create virtual environments that share a kernel space, meaning that YOUR os is running directly on the hardware, making it _extremely_ fast with almost no overhead. The file system (ZFS) is also 'shared' using zones and pools so there's almost no cost there either. Migration a vm between SmartOS hosts is also a pretty amazing thing. And finally, DTrace allows you to figure out exactly why something is slow... There's a huge library of DTrace scripts available on the internet too.
SmartOS has it's roots in Solaris, so it's a little different than Linux, but for the most part anyone with Unix experience can figure it out.
My my... how times have changed. See back in my day, the vendor walked uphill, both ways, to tell us about the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt of the security using some filthy open source project strung together by a rag tag team of hippies.
COBOL is basically assembly... very easy to compile to efficient code.
However I disagree that COBOL scales cheaply or efficiently. You could practically build a datacenter for the price of IBM's mainframes.
You know what would really make our roads safe? If we had a way to measure and issue citations for following distance. All other problems, speeding, cornering too fast, switching lanes without blinkers, intoxication, blah blah all come down to that you could injure someone else while performing a driving maneuver.
.05? Revenue stream. Don't stand for this crap.
Lets say all cars had a system that prevented you from driving within 100 yards of other cars. It wouldn't matter if the car in front/behind of you was intoxicated, speeding, stopping, swerving or all the above, you could just AVOID them and the only person injured would be the violator. Such a device is impractical/impossible, but beating it into people that they need to leaving space between cars might make a small difference.
Oh and
You are a terrible terrible programmer and you deserve to be caned by a band of angry Thai policemen.
Ok honestly, what has Oracle done with MySQL that has been so bad? They've been pretty good stewards. MySQL 5.6 came out and even included full text search for InnoDB. I'm pleased with the product and it's progress.
This smells like the Jenkins/Hudson gayness... All these projects are forking because of big bad Oracle, before Oracle has even done anything. Good god, the open source community is LUCKY to have a corporation that is willing to sink dollars into an open source project. If that means giving up a little control, I'm cool with that. If they try some bullshit, we can fork it. Stop the friggen whining until then. You cry wolf enough times and the community isn't going to be there when you really do need them.
So I have a brilliant friggen plan. How about the circle jerk of founders in the SkySQL project go to Oracle and offer and olive branch? There would be rainbows and unicorns and one code base. Wouldn't that be best for the community?
And not just a little bit of elitism thrown in for good measure; a lot of these guys really do think you're too stupid to use XHTML. As I was once told by Hickson: if you're using XHTML and you think things are working properly, you're wrong. You just haven't yet discovered how.
Yes and no. XHTML removes the "how to parse" question. It only leaves the "how to render" question.
How then do you propose enhancement of markdown then to produce visually appealing designs?
HTML5 is the response by a bunch of whiners that normal xhtml is "too hard." Yes it's too hard to remember to close your tags. It's too hard to remember to put quotes around attributes. Why are humans checking your syntax? Have the danged computer check your syntax.
"Pave the cowpaths" is an excuse to appease a bunch of zealots that are hellbent on pushing their personal preferences and egos into a standard rather than designing something that is quick/easy to parse and universally render across platforms. It's only going to get worse as the standard is never completed over the next decade.
XML serialization of HTML sucks. It's verbose, and it's ugly. But it's effective because it's well defined and it leaves very little room for interpretation.
Honestly, I'd like to see two standards. One, is XHTML5 Strict that follows the XML serialization. This will be left to the big boys who have real work to do. The other standard would be an extension to MarkDown to allow CSS customization with classes and ids. This would allow the path the cowpaths crowd to get things down as fast as possible and keep the verbosity of XML out of their way.
Myself and many other TWC customers can't stream 1080p off Youtube reliable, even on their '50mbps' tier. If you're in one of the areas that is exclusively served by TWC, file and FCC complaint about it. We need to turn up the heat on these companies and they'll finally buckle and give us what we want.
How does this keep schools safer?
Just saying, this was the most depressing thing I've read on Slashdot in awhile. I know it happens to couples, but I guess I was lucky my parents stuck it out.
I think the best example of inter-networking is worldwide GSM actually. You can take a GSM phone all over Europe and roam just fine.
The RF portion of the standards is well designed (take LTE with orthogonal multiplexing for example). However, the systems and switching part is waaay to complex. Telco providers are buried under mountains of technical debt... Even the systems part of LTE is complex: the American implementations from Sprint and Verizon are not be compatible because they cherry picked what parts they felt like implementing.
Yah that happens to best of us... sorry to hear that. Priming sugar has to be measured by weight, carefully boiled, and mixed into the freshly fermented beer. It's delicate process that can go wrong in a ton of ways.
Do you have a kegging system? If so, try forced carbonation. Google for more information, but here's the basic process: Chill your beer. Purge/Burp the keg several times to get a C02 atmosphere. Set your regulator to 30psi. Slosh the beer a few times. Leave for 12 hours. Set to final pressure (usually 8-12psi, depending on your beer style). Leave for 5 days. Enjoy carbonated beer.
I don't have a lot of good info on pressurized fermenting other than what I've read on homebrewtalk. They technique I've read is to watch the gravity carefully. As it comes close to the final gravity (~3 days before end of fermentation), you let it build ~10-15psi of pressure. I've tried mechanical valves meant for air compressors with no luck. I think an electronic system with an emergency mechanical backup would be a good design.
I'd be interested in multiple control points... I've started to do pressurized fermentation once the gravity of the beer of approaches the final gravity. This carbonates the beer without a secondary fermentation, and reduces risk of introducing oxygen and contamination into the beer. If the system could electronically monitor specific gravity then seal the airlock, but blow off any excess over 10psi... would be awesome!
Nuclear power is incredibly important... in 1000 years, do you really think we're going to power the world with windmills? And while we need a body like the NRC as a safety watchdog, they need to be a lot more efficient. Keeping 60 year old nuclear plants open because new designs take eons to approve is callous and stupid.
And honestly, proliferation should be a NRC concern. Give that to the DHS, they have nothing better to do.
Until China cares about the environment, anything we do in the USA is a drop in the bucket. Besides... a light bulb ban??? Really that's all congress is up to these days?
Ok, the greenie morons in the USA needs to quit thinking this is their fault. China and India are the main problem... Take a look at this pic from Hangzhou, CN from about 2 years back: ImageShack.us The spire on the hill is 3/4mile away from where I was sitting. No it's not foggy, that's just how polluted it is ALL THE TIME over there. If you truly are an environmentalist, voting for Obama isn't going to save the planet. America has already won this battle.... but since climate science is now in mainstream pop culture, no one actually wants to travel overseas to do the hard work to save the environment.
Samsung has incredible hardware. The Galaxy series of phones have all been quite remarkable. Their OLED technology puts out color gamut that makes Plasma TVs look like they were painted with pastel watercolors.
Their software has always blown. Every tried to use GPS on a samsung phone? How about USB mass storage mode? How about SVoice? How about waiting 2 years for ICS to come out on a device? How about USB Host mode on CDMA models? List goes on... They cut so many corners on software to get it out the door.
They try so hard to be like Apple... they've smoked Apple on the hardware side, but the lack of quality on their software side just completely spoils their phones. So when a 0 day flaw pops up that allows one to completely take over a phone, it doesn't surprise me. Results like this usually correlate with high software engineer turnover with low management turnover, which should points to a solution: fire the management.
In other news though, I laughed at Person of Interest where the main character hacked other peoples phones by holding them together. Now I'm drinking my cup of shut up tea.
Samsung(R): Amazing Hardware, Shitty Software (TM)
If 35lbs is that huge... wouldn't have made more sense to pay the pilots to lose weight? After all, it is illegal to operate any electronic device below 10,000 feet for "SAFETY REASONS." From what I hear, operation of such devices causes the planes to just explode. Forgetting to put your phone in airplane mode == KABOOM!
Or perhaps this "no electronic devices" crap really wasn't about safety in the first place.
How many speeding tickets have you received? How many following too close? The former is fairly easy to enforce, but really is "Safety theater." Your car is just as safe at 85mph as 25mph. You cover more ground at 85mph, and order to have a good reaction time, you need distance from the cars in front of you.
So is 85mph a good idea? Probably not, considering Cities and Counties are more concerned with revenue from speed fines than actual safety measures like braking distance. If safe following distances were actually enforced, you could have 150mph with no problems.
Sorry, I was wrong. Current generation CortexA9 processors support up to 4gb _per process_ using some virtualization tricks. Cortex A15 has 40bit addressing, supporting up 1TB of ram per process. A15 processors are just being released right now...
Actually, I believe current generation ARM processors address memory using 40bits, not 32bits. I'm trying to dig up a reference though, I could be dreaming this up.
Exactly! Just look at how well our current regulations work in the oil, auto, loan, and investment industries to understand why intense regulation is the key to success!