Wrong. For counting bits or bytes, it's 1024, not 1000, dammit.
And for the common usage... yes, the 1MB T1 I have does support 1048576 bytes per second if you count packet headers. The ADSL I got I home is usually more like 4KB/s, so I can't tell you if they use 1024 or 1000 in their marketing material:p
Oh, wait. I would forget: add gathering marketing data. They'll learn what are the most commonly mistyped domain names, so they can typosquat them for some extra dough.
Perhaps a person could change your name to something AMERICAN like McVeigh, Nichols or even Kaczynski. That should keep the feds off your back, right? You may be unaware of this, but Kaczynski indeed is a terrorist. A near-exact copy of Bush, just a president of a smaller country.
Our (Polish) monkey behaves just the same as your (USian) monkey. An extremist christian, who does everything he can to diminish the constitution, lies a lot but can't even do it properly.
But, our monkey has a clone. The clone just got picked as the new Prime Minister.
Do I misunderstand, or is there are real advantage on running product X in one VM and product Y in another (or even second instance of product X). What is the advantage of that scenario over simply running X and Y (or two X) on the same box. If the answer is that the software doesn't properly handle binding to particular IPs or that it requires exclusive access to a single file, then the software is crap.
Security. Modularization. Having one part falling down not take down everything else.
For example, in my setup there are two servers:
* the old one: mysql, postgres, apache * the new one: Xen
* pound (reverse http proxy)
* postgres
* mysql, apache
* subversion+backups
+ viewvc running as a different user with read-only access to the repositories
* a VM hosted for someone else
When I break the dev apache, the production one stays up. When apache goes down, subversion stays up. When any of my VMs go down, the one hosted for someone else stays; and the other way around.
And when someone pwns anything other than the dom0 (which runs just Xen and ntpd), they took over just that single part.
Sure, I could run everything without virtualisation. But I don't think I have to say why I prefer the way I've chosen.
And you can't claim that Citrix is a good product. Slapping a GUI on a server and "network efficiency" don't belong in the same sentence.
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Ok... I'm happy for the record companies to have a choice, either:
A: I buy a DVD, and I own it... I can copy it, put it on my hard drive and if I lose it I have to buy a new one. B: I buy the rights to play the DVD... I can't copy it, however if I lose it I can walk into a store and take another one free.
[...] If I ever get nabbed for some stupid DMCA law, I'm going to very publicly sell my several thousand dollars of purchased DVDs to pay for some of my defence.
You assume that you have any rights to whatever you bought/licensed. The whole point of DMCA-like laws is to deny you these very rights. Including the right to resell your purchased DVDs. Just wait for the (mandatory) DRM.
Except, Adblock assumes an opt-out principle. For flash, I would want opt-in: 99.9% of all Flash is trash.
Also, note that a missed graphical ad is just a bit of visual annoyance. A missed piece of Flash is a major slowdown, tries to take over the browser, and generally is a major pain in the ass.
The selling point of Flash is that it's multi-platform but that's not really the case.
The selling point of Flash are web ads, and this is exactly the reason to not install it, ever.
Even with FlashBlock around, I simply don't care enough about Homestarr to stomach the wasted screen space on like 1/3 of pages. And with flashovers, FlashBlock doesn't shove Flash deep enough.
It's 256K or 384K only during the night and early day. Between 14:00 and 23:00, it's more like 4K -- with pings of 4K ms, too.
I have Speakeasy's 6M/768k plan, and it's always 6M/768.
There are ISPs who are better and ISPs who are worse. I'm not a leftpondian, but the opinions about them I hear here on/. are full of praise for everything but the price.
If you want to see how bad it can be, visit Poland. Except for big cities, we suffer from a single monopolistic ISP which is the Mother of All Oversellers.
Their tech support is pretty good, too. My plan has 8 IPs, but I couldn't activate them on the web form. I sent them an e-mail at 11:00PM on a Friday night (yes, yes, setting up routers is what I do for fun on Friday night...), and in 15 minutes they were active and I had a message in my mailbox saying so.
Now you're shitting me. Tech support, actual tech support? That can't be! Oh, wait... you said you're not in Poland.
Anyway, even though sadly I lost contact with the reason for whom I would move to the US, if I ever make it, it sounds like the choice of an ISP is pretty obvious. Even though they're expensive.
Uh... because a T1 is 1.5Mbit both directions. Your 4Mbit line may be 4Mbit download, but its upload speed is likely... what, 256K? 384K?
It's 256K or 384K only during the night and early day. Between 14:00 and 23:00, it's more like 4K -- with pings of 4K ms, too.
While you pay through the nose for a T1, it does serve the nominal speed all the time it's up. And even if it goes down, it tends to get fixed in minutes, as opposed to hours or days.
If you need to serve anything heavier than DNS, you'll want a faster upload speed than that. Hence the need for T1s and larger symmetrical UPLOAD pipes.
I'm afraid that to serve even that DNS, you can't have any downstream traffic, too. For "consumer" lines, the ISPs use insane queue lengths that pretty much kill your ability to shape that bandwidth. Thus, you can expect the latency to go to hell. Of course, this doesn't matter for a toy website, and bigger companies will have their own datacenters with a fat pipe, but for a small business that has data that is too sensitive to go into a colo, a T1 or the like is a must.
Heck, I run a NTP pool server with a tiny fraction of the bandwidth, and the latency stays reasonable even under heavy load.
2) Provide direct links for the most likely platforms. Sadly this means Windows. On the front page. In huge fonts. (Just do it)
Or, just check if the platform can be guessed from UserAgent. In a good majority of cases, it can. For example, all Internet Exploders > 5 mean it's Windows (or wine, and thus a clueful user).
Just because a majority of the mindless part of the society fails to understand a word, the word doesn't change its meaning.
In short, yes, it does. It doesn't make people "mindless" just because they don't snap to attention and fit their language around your rigid little definition just to make you feel better.
Only if you assume that the language-using society is a homogenous pool. You see, when our beloved GWB says "science", he has something completely different on mind than you and me. When I say "differential", you and me understand this as a term with a certain meaning, useful in a wide range of tasks; many people understand it as something restricted to "maths" only, while for the vast majority it's just unnatural mumbo jumbo. But, now I sound like a megalomaniac, using "you and me" as "superior beings"; this is true only to a degree. A gardener knows a lot more about gardening than us, and he is superior in that regard. Also, note that the gardener will use a number of terms which, in his mind, mean something completely different from what we think they do. And, just because people who have no idea what a certain gardening term means, does this imply that the word changed its sense to what laymen think?
You come off as one of those angry, anti-social UNIX types
Well, and how exactly does your post contradict what I said? I mean that donating Windows licenses to schools has a negative value, and it can be used to produce as much paper worth as you want. For no cost but blank CDs, paper and printing costs.
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Wrong. For counting bits or bytes, it's 1024, not 1000, dammit.
:p
And for the common usage... yes, the 1MB T1 I have does support 1048576 bytes per second if you count packet headers. The ADSL I got I home is usually more like 4KB/s, so I can't tell you if they use 1024 or 1000 in their marketing material
name at least one thing in which IE7 is better than Firefox
("it supports ActiveX" doesn't count)
Oh, wait. I would forget: add gathering marketing data. They'll learn what are the most commonly mistyped domain names, so they can typosquat them for some extra dough.
Suspecting abuse in a SiteFinder-like system? You must be joking...
Two words: censorship and advertising. Isn't this everything we want?
Beh, even the new DHTML Slashdot's interface does the same, whenever you expand any comments that are below your threshold.
Not to mention a crapload of other pages.
Perhaps a person could change your name to something AMERICAN like McVeigh, Nichols or even Kaczynski. That should keep the feds off your back, right?
You may be unaware of this, but Kaczynski indeed is a terrorist. A near-exact copy of Bush, just a president of a smaller country.
Our (Polish) monkey behaves just the same as your (USian) monkey. An extremist christian, who does everything he can to diminish the constitution, lies a lot but can't even do it properly.
But, our monkey has a clone. The clone just got picked as the new Prime Minister.
We're afraid. Very afraid.
Security. Modularization. Having one part falling down not take down everything else.
For example, in my setup there are two servers:
* the old one: mysql, postgres, apache
* the new one: Xen
* pound (reverse http proxy)
* postgres
* mysql, apache
* subversion+backups
+ viewvc running as a different user with read-only access to the repositories
* a VM hosted for someone else
When I break the dev apache, the production one stays up. When apache goes down, subversion stays up. When any of my VMs go down, the one hosted for someone else stays; and the other way around.
And when someone pwns anything other than the dom0 (which runs just Xen and ntpd), they took over just that single part.
Sure, I could run everything without virtualisation. But I don't think I have to say why I prefer the way I've chosen.
And you can't claim that Citrix is a good product. Slapping a GUI on a server and "network efficiency" don't belong in the same sentence.
Having the same authors as Kazaa, the mother of all p2p spyware, they pretty much promise to DO EVIL.
I really didn't expect we'll live until the days when an evil totalitarian regime will be in some regards better than the US.
On the other hand, it may be a good idea to attach a generator to G. Washington's, T. Jefferson's and co coffins. Just think of the free energy!
The only
And where are they now?
I wouldn't trust "circular indents" in a tossed about laptop. And what's the solution?
The force that holds the Universe together.
Duct tape.
(well, well, I would actually use some crappy adhesive tape instead of the spacecraft-grade variety, but you got the idea)
Do you mean, working around WGA would cost you more than $300 worth of time?
Except, Adblock assumes an opt-out principle. For flash, I would want opt-in: 99.9% of all Flash is trash.
Also, note that a missed graphical ad is just a bit of visual annoyance. A missed piece of Flash is a major slowdown, tries to take over the browser, and generally is a major pain in the ass.
Even with FlashBlock around, I simply don't care enough about Homestarr to stomach the wasted screen space on like 1/3 of pages. And with flashovers, FlashBlock doesn't shove Flash deep enough.
Let it rot.
Oh, wait... you said you're not in Poland.
Anyway, even though sadly I lost contact with the reason for whom I would move to the US, if I ever make it, it sounds like the choice of an ISP is pretty obvious. Even though they're expensive.
While you pay through the nose for a T1, it does serve the nominal speed all the time it's up. And even if it goes down, it tends to get fixed in minutes, as opposed to hours or days.
I'm afraid that to serve even that DNS, you can't have any downstream traffic, too. For "consumer" lines, the ISPs use insane queue lengths that pretty much kill your ability to shape that bandwidth. Thus, you can expect the latency to go to hell. Of course, this doesn't matter for a toy website, and bigger companies will have their own datacenters with a fat pipe, but for a small business that has data that is too sensitive to go into a colo, a T1 or the like is a must.Heck, I run a NTP pool server with a tiny fraction of the bandwidth, and the latency stays reasonable even under heavy load.
But, now I sound like a megalomaniac, using "you and me" as "superior beings"; this is true only to a degree. A gardener knows a lot more about gardening than us, and he is superior in that regard. Also, note that the gardener will use a number of terms which, in his mind, mean something completely different from what we think they do. And, just because people who have no idea what a certain gardening term means, does this imply that the word changed its sense to what laymen think?
Uhm, because I am?
Of course, but don't forget that the same term can have completely different meanings for different parts of the society.
Well, and how exactly does your post contradict what I said? I mean that donating Windows licenses to schools has a negative value, and it can be used to produce as much paper worth as you want. For no cost but blank CDs, paper and printing costs.