I don't see why you can't just symlink it to/dev/null. If you are going to delete something, delete it already. If you might want to save it, save it. For all the rest (accidental deletion) there are snapshots, versioning systems or backups. The 'Recycle Bin' or 'Trash' is not used properly by anyone because it adds an unnecessary step. I loathe taking out the trash at home and I wish that everything you put there could automatically go wherever it goes when I put it on the curb. Computers are supposed to make stuff easy, not replicate real life.
The thing actually returns the correct data for me, I mean the corrected data, the data the ISP's marketing campaigns say you can get here. According to the site I have the choice between 2 providers (which is correct): 6-10Mbps and 10Mbps-25Mbps.
Here is what the providers have to say about their product:
The 6-10Mbps provider:
High-Speed Internet provides - 44.99 *: Speeds up to 3 Mbps
High-Speed Internet Lite – 768K - 25.99 *: While not as fast, High-Speed Internet Lite still provides downloads up to 8 times faster than dialup.
* With a Price Protection Plan and a $6.99 monthly modem fee.
The 10-25Mbps provider:
Broadband Up To 10 Mbps - 54.95/mo for 12 months Up To 15 Mbps * - 64.90/mo for 12 months
* It's a new technology that allows you to TEMPORARILY experience download speeds that are faster WHEN network capacity is available (emphasis mine)
That's not a requirement. I had an account that wasn't linked to my bank account which worked well. And I closed my account because of the Wikileaks debacle and let them know why. The only reason they want the bank account number is because they want to (or have been given orders to) track who is giving what to who.
Either way, stop supporting PayPal. They don't HAVE to support people's rights but I don't HAVE to give them my business. Google Checkout is still available.
Lol, Toshiba. Recently bought one for somebody in my department that didn't want to shell out more than $800 for a laptop. The thing weighs 9.8 lbs (and is supposed to be carried around) and the power supply weighs 2.4 lbs (4.8 kg) and is roughly the length of the laptop. It's noisy and hot and is less ergonomic than the Media Player Mouse of 2006.
Lenovo/IBM and Acer have some decent business machines but the price once fully dressed with bluetooth, wireless etc. isn't much less than Apple's offers.
Hard drive, RAM and some other things are user-serviceable on most models. The rest is not really modular even in other computers and usually they'll end up replacing the whole unit - almost none of the main manufacturers bother troubleshooting any further than "Hard Drive", "Peripherals" or "Other" problems.
If not, the 1 or 3 year warranty allows you to bring it to any Mac Store, Apple Reseller for on-the-spot repairs or they'll send next-day on-site tech(s) for repair. Alternatively they'll ship you a self-addressed, padded box in the shape of the product with detailed instructions how to ship it (or the parts) back (free UPS or FedEx pick-up).
Dell, HP and the rest require you to buy an expensive Gold/Premium contract to get that type of service and even then work hard against you in order not to have to do too much. And usually you'll end up having to pay for the shipping and then have the audacity to tell you that you shipped it incorrectly and voided your warranty.
For non-USians (we're not dead yet) - is that good or bad, better or worse. And what does it represent. Is it 50/100 on tests? A grade average in school?
If you want a decent computer that you don't have to assemble yourself, you pretty much only have Apple left these days - they're about the same price as counterpart Dell's a little more expensive than the others but less bulky (Toshiba's power supplies are about as large as the laptop for example) and you won't gore yourself when attempting to replace user-serviceable parts (HP, Gateway). I only buy Apple at work even if it's for a Windows computer because of the cheap 3 year on-site service (compared to Dell or HP) and the generally good quality of products. I made the mistake once buying HP for cheap and I had to buy my own video cards because they didn't come with one (why'd you sell a desktop without even an on-board video card is beyond me).
Actually, right now is a really good time to get an IT job. It's only after the bust that the competition comes. The bubble companies need people and the companies feeding into the bubble need people to feed their stuff into the bubble. There is large demand for people to help inept CIO's move their servers into the cloud. There will be large demand to move them back right before the bubble bursts.
So freshen your resume's and get some experience if you have it. If you want to get a stable job, advise against this cloud bubble and reap the benefits in the long term.
They're not all that valuable, they're an investment. My house I just bought for 1/5th the cost to build a new one. Gutting it would cost me more than what's in it as regards to copper, wood and stone. I pay about as much in mortgage, taxes and insurance than the average rent around here. It's an investment for the time I either stop paying mortgage or sell it again. The housing market is murderous around here with houses going within days of being on the market and usually fetching 20k+ more than the estimated values.
Actually, truly legacy scanners and printers do work in Linux and might not work so well with the latest Windows (latest being XP -> 7). SCSI scanners for example are a big one, old PS printers are another one (Windows prints to them but usually messes it up somehow, others get detected as some HP LaserJet version, accept the job and pipe it to the printer version of/dev/null - nothing comes out).
It's the in-between stage of crappy stuff they bought between 1995 and 2001 that's so bad. Those cheap parallel port scanners and early USB scanners that could be bought for $100 in 1998. All types of printers from old typewriter manufacturers that went into the printer business as a last resort to save their business and don't even exist anymore. Some of them only have Windows 95 and 98 drivers and will work up until Windows XP but no further. Those things should've died a long time ago but somehow people still want to use them.
Whatever the cost is to replace those systems is absolutely minimal compared to the yearly cost of Windows licensing. We currently pay $95/license/year as a large institution - in just 3 years you have saved the money to buy some really, really nice group printer, label printer, scanner or even an individual printer.
Welcome to the US. If you're speaking on a phone, you're not talking in private, if you're talking in a room where other people are or have been, you're not talking in private. Better-paid attorneys will actually sweep the rooms regularly for bugs and have external audits performed.
Why you ask? The duty to keep the attorney/client privilege is not on the state but on the attorney so the state could get a warrant (or not if you're DHS/FBI, the Patriot Act cares for it) for the wiretapping of an attorneys office if they could demonstrate (or not) that it could further their case. If a cop 'accidentally' overhears a conversation between an attorney and his client, it can be used or even if it can't be used in court it could be used in questioning and pressuring. The only exception to that is at a prison or a state office where the attorney or client can request a private area to conduct their conversation (again, duty is on the attorney or his client to request such privacy) but most likely they won't carry on a conversation in those settings - the focus would be to get them out of there first without saying too much if possible.
I can barely stream 720p from YouTube. I should be able to stream 1080p H.264 but it can't, takes forever to load. The more I YouTube however, the slower it gets - the first 2-3 (20 minute) videos work well but then they start buffering while if I go to the YouTube benchmark site which works full throttle.
NetFlix and other channels (such as Comedy Central) works well at first but then (after 10 minutes) degrades further until it's no longer watchable on a 26 or 32" display. I've changed routers already thinking it might be something with that and I use different computers and even an iPad with the same results.
This is TWC in NYS, they are definitely throttling even though I don't use the connection a whole lot (maybe 10GB/month). They have the monopoly on cable here and PPV for movies and series which is what they recommend I use instead of the Internet when I complain while another company has the monopoly on DSL.
It isn't really. Make sure you select Cable DOCSIS 3.0 and Fiber to the End User in order to compare broadband as broadband is defined in other countries (Europe, Asia). I don't consider my copper DSL (2Mbps/256k) or Cable (10/1Mbps offered, 3Mbps/512k actual) options here to be very broadband. The only places I do get 10Mbps is against benchmarking sites (very suspiciously it actually goes to 15/3Mbps sometimes on those sites even though the company says it can't go faster than 10).
I use it as an X10 control server (with webserver & PHP), router (10/1Mbit on WAN) and DNS/DHCP server. Works quite well. I don't have storage or wireless on it (I use an Apple Time Machine for that which handles 2.4GHz and 5GHz dual-band, 5GHz gives much less interference from the dozen or so neighbors) but it does quite well and has gigabit port speeds. With 128Mb of RAM and 32Mb of Flash there is plenty.
I think he meant that FC is not routable as the standard IP protocol is unless you buy expensive and proprietary solutions (as you call it, a hack).
iSCSI has the advantage of being able to sustain a packet loss while FCoE can't stand it. FCoE is thus only possible over a small fabric (eg. 1 stack of dedicated switches) while iSCSI can be mixed with other traffic without sustaining any issues. Off course, some people using iSCSI can't sustain any packet losses either (because of latency - eg. streaming video and live video editing) and don't understand that Ethernet is not built for that kind of load - network engineers don't care about packet losses and hope the transport layer will fix them, storage engineers can't have any packet losses and the transport layer relies on it.
That being said, FCoE is similar to ATAoE, never widespread because of it's iSCSI cousin and those that ended up using it, might as well just used a true FC (or Infiniband) fabric.
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I don't know if you have noticed but the XBox is slowly dying. The Kinect was a nice gimmick but how long will that last? The XBox is slowly giving into the PC (thanks to Steam and Blizzard) and even Nintendo because the graphics, overpriced DLC and the games are simply no fun (thanks to EA and the likes regurgitating the same titles over and over). I can't even use it as a media player because it won't read simple network drives, music, movies of any protocol (NFS, SMB, AFP, iTunes, FTP, HTTP,...) unless it runs Windows Media Player.
Exchange is slowly dying as well. It's a pile of crap to manage, requires way too much babysitting and is very, very expensive. Small shops are not signing on to it anymore and somewhat bigger shops are looking to migrate away from it. The only ones still having it are the really big companies that feel they do not have any choice. Sharepoint is the same, a lock-in mechanism but as one of the previous articles brought out, another failure in Microsoft's server storage strategy. If you've ever implemented Sharepoint (I have) you'll know what a miserable failure it is.
Sure the code may be open but the framework, the hardware and SDK behind the whole Kinect is NOT open source in either spirit or word. There is no way to implement the Kinect without blessing or buying from Microsoft or adhering to their patents or whatever limitations they want to apply to the system and software.
The whole SDK expects you to have Visual Studio in order to develop for it. Let me know if there is a truly open source and cross platform implementation of both drivers, hardware and software that I am free to implement in my own package without getting sued.
With millions being added to the US debt in minutes now I wonder how long it will take for foreign countries to stop extending credit. Will it be when the debt to gdp ratio reaches over 100% (it's currently 97%) meaning we have about as much debt as product. US governments at all levels are currently bankrupt and it's companies like Amazon, Google and others that are the only thing that's left of the US, they can basically foreclose and take over the US government unpunished.
There is a difference between when a plan is set in motion and when a plan is being made public or shared with others to get them to join the fight on your side. The presentation was most likely made to get others on board but they were already doing it well before (maybe not documented or in documents we'll never get to see).
It was obvious that there was US pressure against PayPal, Amazon and EveryDNS since Wikileaks hadn't broken any laws (and hasn't yet) and only a few days/weeks later Amazon gets a huge US Government contract for their cloud? The only people publicly complaining was Fox News and the Teabaggers.
Does anybody actually use Adobe for PDF? I have to remember to always throw away the plugins from the library folder after installing any CS version because they don't work with Firefox, crash Safari and generally are very slow compared to Preview - loading a 120MB program to view a PDF is idiotic.
I was talking about the spirit and circumstances in which the constitution was written up. The right for free speech, assembly, making a private army ( and carrying weapons should be a deterrent to massive governments and intrusions into the private life of it's citizenry.
I'm not a native English speaker and have never thoroughly studied the constitution and it's amendments but that's always one of the strong points when it comes to freedoms in America - you have constitutionally established rights to allow you to revolt against the established government and overthrow it. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. So the People (the US citizenry) should be able to establish a regulated militia (privately) to secure (or fight for) a free state (free from oppression by federal and foreign (such as companies) governments) and to do so they have the right to keep and bear (any and all) arms (necessary).
The problem is that it's not entirely legal in the US to format-shift the content you bought leased which is protected with any sort of encryption code (even if it's ROT-13) according to the DMCA. For the rest, QuickTime allows you to convert other digital media with nice presets for AppleTV, iPod Touch etc.
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I don't see why you can't just symlink it to /dev/null. If you are going to delete something, delete it already. If you might want to save it, save it. For all the rest (accidental deletion) there are snapshots, versioning systems or backups. The 'Recycle Bin' or 'Trash' is not used properly by anyone because it adds an unnecessary step. I loathe taking out the trash at home and I wish that everything you put there could automatically go wherever it goes when I put it on the curb. Computers are supposed to make stuff easy, not replicate real life.
The thing actually returns the correct data for me, I mean the corrected data, the data the ISP's marketing campaigns say you can get here. According to the site I have the choice between 2 providers (which is correct): 6-10Mbps and 10Mbps-25Mbps.
Here is what the providers have to say about their product:
The 6-10Mbps provider:
High-Speed Internet provides - 44.99 *:
Speeds up to 3 Mbps
High-Speed Internet Lite – 768K - 25.99 *:
While not as fast, High-Speed Internet Lite still provides downloads up to 8 times faster than dialup.
* With a Price Protection Plan and a $6.99 monthly modem fee.
The 10-25Mbps provider:
Broadband
Up To 10 Mbps - 54.95/mo for 12 months
Up To 15 Mbps * - 64.90/mo for 12 months
* It's a new technology that allows you to TEMPORARILY experience download speeds that are faster WHEN network capacity is available (emphasis mine)
Where is my f'in 25Mbps?
Dilbert explains it to you
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-01-07/
and related
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-09-09/
That's not a requirement. I had an account that wasn't linked to my bank account which worked well. And I closed my account because of the Wikileaks debacle and let them know why. The only reason they want the bank account number is because they want to (or have been given orders to) track who is giving what to who.
Either way, stop supporting PayPal. They don't HAVE to support people's rights but I don't HAVE to give them my business. Google Checkout is still available.
Lol, Toshiba. Recently bought one for somebody in my department that didn't want to shell out more than $800 for a laptop. The thing weighs 9.8 lbs (and is supposed to be carried around) and the power supply weighs 2.4 lbs (4.8 kg) and is roughly the length of the laptop. It's noisy and hot and is less ergonomic than the Media Player Mouse of 2006.
Lenovo/IBM and Acer have some decent business machines but the price once fully dressed with bluetooth, wireless etc. isn't much less than Apple's offers.
Mexicans?
They tuuk uur juubs
Hard drive, RAM and some other things are user-serviceable on most models. The rest is not really modular even in other computers and usually they'll end up replacing the whole unit - almost none of the main manufacturers bother troubleshooting any further than "Hard Drive", "Peripherals" or "Other" problems.
If not, the 1 or 3 year warranty allows you to bring it to any Mac Store, Apple Reseller for on-the-spot repairs or they'll send next-day on-site tech(s) for repair. Alternatively they'll ship you a self-addressed, padded box in the shape of the product with detailed instructions how to ship it (or the parts) back (free UPS or FedEx pick-up).
Dell, HP and the rest require you to buy an expensive Gold/Premium contract to get that type of service and even then work hard against you in order not to have to do too much. And usually you'll end up having to pay for the shipping and then have the audacity to tell you that you shipped it incorrectly and voided your warranty.
For non-USians (we're not dead yet) - is that good or bad, better or worse. And what does it represent. Is it 50/100 on tests? A grade average in school?
If you want a decent computer that you don't have to assemble yourself, you pretty much only have Apple left these days - they're about the same price as counterpart Dell's a little more expensive than the others but less bulky (Toshiba's power supplies are about as large as the laptop for example) and you won't gore yourself when attempting to replace user-serviceable parts (HP, Gateway). I only buy Apple at work even if it's for a Windows computer because of the cheap 3 year on-site service (compared to Dell or HP) and the generally good quality of products. I made the mistake once buying HP for cheap and I had to buy my own video cards because they didn't come with one (why'd you sell a desktop without even an on-board video card is beyond me).
Actually, right now is a really good time to get an IT job. It's only after the bust that the competition comes. The bubble companies need people and the companies feeding into the bubble need people to feed their stuff into the bubble. There is large demand for people to help inept CIO's move their servers into the cloud. There will be large demand to move them back right before the bubble bursts.
So freshen your resume's and get some experience if you have it. If you want to get a stable job, advise against this cloud bubble and reap the benefits in the long term.
They're not all that valuable, they're an investment. My house I just bought for 1/5th the cost to build a new one. Gutting it would cost me more than what's in it as regards to copper, wood and stone. I pay about as much in mortgage, taxes and insurance than the average rent around here. It's an investment for the time I either stop paying mortgage or sell it again. The housing market is murderous around here with houses going within days of being on the market and usually fetching 20k+ more than the estimated values.
Actually, truly legacy scanners and printers do work in Linux and might not work so well with the latest Windows (latest being XP -> 7). SCSI scanners for example are a big one, old PS printers are another one (Windows prints to them but usually messes it up somehow, others get detected as some HP LaserJet version, accept the job and pipe it to the printer version of /dev/null - nothing comes out).
It's the in-between stage of crappy stuff they bought between 1995 and 2001 that's so bad. Those cheap parallel port scanners and early USB scanners that could be bought for $100 in 1998. All types of printers from old typewriter manufacturers that went into the printer business as a last resort to save their business and don't even exist anymore. Some of them only have Windows 95 and 98 drivers and will work up until Windows XP but no further. Those things should've died a long time ago but somehow people still want to use them.
Whatever the cost is to replace those systems is absolutely minimal compared to the yearly cost of Windows licensing. We currently pay $95/license/year as a large institution - in just 3 years you have saved the money to buy some really, really nice group printer, label printer, scanner or even an individual printer.
Welcome to the US. If you're speaking on a phone, you're not talking in private, if you're talking in a room where other people are or have been, you're not talking in private. Better-paid attorneys will actually sweep the rooms regularly for bugs and have external audits performed.
Why you ask? The duty to keep the attorney/client privilege is not on the state but on the attorney so the state could get a warrant (or not if you're DHS/FBI, the Patriot Act cares for it) for the wiretapping of an attorneys office if they could demonstrate (or not) that it could further their case. If a cop 'accidentally' overhears a conversation between an attorney and his client, it can be used or even if it can't be used in court it could be used in questioning and pressuring. The only exception to that is at a prison or a state office where the attorney or client can request a private area to conduct their conversation (again, duty is on the attorney or his client to request such privacy) but most likely they won't carry on a conversation in those settings - the focus would be to get them out of there first without saying too much if possible.
I can barely stream 720p from YouTube. I should be able to stream 1080p H.264 but it can't, takes forever to load. The more I YouTube however, the slower it gets - the first 2-3 (20 minute) videos work well but then they start buffering while if I go to the YouTube benchmark site which works full throttle.
NetFlix and other channels (such as Comedy Central) works well at first but then (after 10 minutes) degrades further until it's no longer watchable on a 26 or 32" display. I've changed routers already thinking it might be something with that and I use different computers and even an iPad with the same results.
This is TWC in NYS, they are definitely throttling even though I don't use the connection a whole lot (maybe 10GB/month). They have the monopoly on cable here and PPV for movies and series which is what they recommend I use instead of the Internet when I complain while another company has the monopoly on DSL.
It isn't really. Make sure you select Cable DOCSIS 3.0 and Fiber to the End User in order to compare broadband as broadband is defined in other countries (Europe, Asia). I don't consider my copper DSL (2Mbps/256k) or Cable (10/1Mbps offered, 3Mbps/512k actual) options here to be very broadband. The only places I do get 10Mbps is against benchmarking sites (very suspiciously it actually goes to 15/3Mbps sometimes on those sites even though the company says it can't go faster than 10).
I use it as an X10 control server (with webserver & PHP), router (10/1Mbit on WAN) and DNS/DHCP server. Works quite well. I don't have storage or wireless on it (I use an Apple Time Machine for that which handles 2.4GHz and 5GHz dual-band, 5GHz gives much less interference from the dozen or so neighbors) but it does quite well and has gigabit port speeds. With 128Mb of RAM and 32Mb of Flash there is plenty.
I think he meant that FC is not routable as the standard IP protocol is unless you buy expensive and proprietary solutions (as you call it, a hack).
iSCSI has the advantage of being able to sustain a packet loss while FCoE can't stand it. FCoE is thus only possible over a small fabric (eg. 1 stack of dedicated switches) while iSCSI can be mixed with other traffic without sustaining any issues. Off course, some people using iSCSI can't sustain any packet losses either (because of latency - eg. streaming video and live video editing) and don't understand that Ethernet is not built for that kind of load - network engineers don't care about packet losses and hope the transport layer will fix them, storage engineers can't have any packet losses and the transport layer relies on it.
That being said, FCoE is similar to ATAoE, never widespread because of it's iSCSI cousin and those that ended up using it, might as well just used a true FC (or Infiniband) fabric.
I don't know if you have noticed but the XBox is slowly dying. The Kinect was a nice gimmick but how long will that last? The XBox is slowly giving into the PC (thanks to Steam and Blizzard) and even Nintendo because the graphics, overpriced DLC and the games are simply no fun (thanks to EA and the likes regurgitating the same titles over and over). I can't even use it as a media player because it won't read simple network drives, music, movies of any protocol (NFS, SMB, AFP, iTunes, FTP, HTTP, ...) unless it runs Windows Media Player.
Exchange is slowly dying as well. It's a pile of crap to manage, requires way too much babysitting and is very, very expensive. Small shops are not signing on to it anymore and somewhat bigger shops are looking to migrate away from it. The only ones still having it are the really big companies that feel they do not have any choice. Sharepoint is the same, a lock-in mechanism but as one of the previous articles brought out, another failure in Microsoft's server storage strategy. If you've ever implemented Sharepoint (I have) you'll know what a miserable failure it is.
Sure the code may be open but the framework, the hardware and SDK behind the whole Kinect is NOT open source in either spirit or word. There is no way to implement the Kinect without blessing or buying from Microsoft or adhering to their patents or whatever limitations they want to apply to the system and software.
The whole SDK expects you to have Visual Studio in order to develop for it. Let me know if there is a truly open source and cross platform implementation of both drivers, hardware and software that I am free to implement in my own package without getting sued.
With millions being added to the US debt in minutes now I wonder how long it will take for foreign countries to stop extending credit. Will it be when the debt to gdp ratio reaches over 100% (it's currently 97%) meaning we have about as much debt as product. US governments at all levels are currently bankrupt and it's companies like Amazon, Google and others that are the only thing that's left of the US, they can basically foreclose and take over the US government unpunished.
There is a difference between when a plan is set in motion and when a plan is being made public or shared with others to get them to join the fight on your side. The presentation was most likely made to get others on board but they were already doing it well before (maybe not documented or in documents we'll never get to see).
It was obvious that there was US pressure against PayPal, Amazon and EveryDNS since Wikileaks hadn't broken any laws (and hasn't yet) and only a few days/weeks later Amazon gets a huge US Government contract for their cloud? The only people publicly complaining was Fox News and the Teabaggers.
Does anybody actually use Adobe for PDF? I have to remember to always throw away the plugins from the library folder after installing any CS version because they don't work with Firefox, crash Safari and generally are very slow compared to Preview - loading a 120MB program to view a PDF is idiotic.
I was talking about the spirit and circumstances in which the constitution was written up. The right for free speech, assembly, making a private army ( and carrying weapons should be a deterrent to massive governments and intrusions into the private life of it's citizenry.
I'm not a native English speaker and have never thoroughly studied the constitution and it's amendments but that's always one of the strong points when it comes to freedoms in America - you have constitutionally established rights to allow you to revolt against the established government and overthrow it. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. So the People (the US citizenry) should be able to establish a regulated militia (privately) to secure (or fight for) a free state (free from oppression by federal and foreign (such as companies) governments) and to do so they have the right to keep and bear (any and all) arms (necessary).
The problem is that it's not entirely legal in the US to format-shift the content you bought leased which is protected with any sort of encryption code (even if it's ROT-13) according to the DMCA. For the rest, QuickTime allows you to convert other digital media with nice presets for AppleTV, iPod Touch etc.
That's very funny because I believe the constitution was written up to allow for sedition and revolution against the established governments.