Well, with the rise of the SSD, that's no longer as much of a problem. Case in point - I built a system on the weekend with a 40GB Intel SSD. Pretty much the cheapest "known-good" SSD I could get my hands on (ie TRIM support, good controller) at AUD $172, roughly the price of a 1.5TB spinning rust store - and the system only needs 22GB including apps.
Windows boots from end of POST in about 5 seconds. 5 seconds is not even enough for the TV to turn on (it's a Media Center box). Logon is instant. App start is nigh-on instant (I've never seen Explorer appear seemingly before the Win+E key is released). This is the fastest box I've ever seen, and it's the most basic "value" processor Intel offer - the i3-530, on a cheap Asrock board with cheap RAM (true, there's a slightly cheaper "bargain basement" CPU in the G6950 or something). The whole PC cost AUD800 from a reputable supplier, and I could have bought for $650 if I'd wanted to wait in line for an hour or get abused at the cheaper places.
Now, Intel are aiming to saturate SATA-3 (600MBps) with the next generation(s) of SSD, or so I'm told. Based on what I've seen - it's achievable, at reasonable cost, and it's not only true for sequential read access. So if the IO bottleneck disappears - because the SSD can do 30K, 50K, 100K IO operations per second? Yeah, I think it's reasonable to ask why we wait for the computer.
Not that I think a redesign is necessary for the current architectures - Windows, BSD, Linux all scale nicely to at least 8 or 16 logical CPUs in the server world, so the 4, 6 or 8 on the desktop isn't a huge problem. But in 5 years when we have 32 CPUs on the desktop? Maybe. Or maybe we'll just be using the same apps that only need 1 CPU most of the time, and using the other 20 CPUs for real-time stuff (Real voice control? Motion control and recognition?)
Oh please, this has been coming for years now. Why has it taken so long for the OS designers to get with the program? We've had multi-CPU servers for literally decades.
And they deliberately attacked the problem noted in TMMM - that of communication and ramp-up - by seating everyone in the same room(s). And yes, working on independent problems. And those problems were not already late, in that the schedule had not yet started (TMMM is about adding people to an existing, complex project that is already running and having the communications, ramp-up, skills transfer and other sundry distractions causing an increase in work required that is greater than the increase in available effort).
Stupid, wrong, inflammatory and deliberately misleading headline, and summary, perfect for/. ! Go editors go!
100% more than you want to pay and 50% more than you can afford. Look it's for server platforms not a gamer PC. Hyper-V, ESX, Xen, and other types of parallel systems will benefit. SSH won't.
Actually, Opera has something that would start to enable this. I think it's Opera Unite? It's a web server built into the browser.
There's only one small problem - you still need to have that listening port open, and in Australia (I'm guessing that it's also true elsewhere) most home user connections block 80 inbound - if not at the ISP then at the router. I don't think a FF addon that opened router ports would necessarily be appreciated:D
Apparently I missed the bit where said car dealer has a flashing neon sign and a sales person on the premises of every business you visit over the course of your day. And the weekends. And the 3am run to the 7-Eleven.
Or maybe that car analogy sucked. Where's BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?
While it's true that the server CPU is more than capable of performing the calculations, your analysis misses more than one critical factor.
When writing data to a hardware RAID set (of any sort) the data is sent from main memory across the system bus(es) exactly once, potentially in a single operation.
With software RAID, the total amount of data is more (the parity data, if not multiple copies for RAID 1/10) and this has an impact on memory bandwidth utilisation, northbridge and PCI utilisation and certainly the number of operations issued by the system to the disk controller(s).
Dave562 already pointed out BBWC, which is also transportable to a new server with the disks in the case of an extreme failure, and the increased use of server CPU (and memory, system bus, network and disk) of virtualisation.
Except that the chauffeur does not know there is a cliff there, perhaps because Wiley Coyote has painted a canvas that shows the road continuing around a curve. The computer can't interpret the difference between "Connect to server.good.com port 80" and "Connect to server.bad.com port 80", because that information is not known to the computer at the time of the infection.
I don't know about Bizarro-World where you apparently live, but here in Australia there's no magical 40 hour per week fairy that stops you from working other contracts, jobs or even selling yourself on the street. A bill for 80 hours in 2 weeks is not a guarantee that the person didn't work 100 hours in that period.
No, because Apple is not a monopolist in that space. The fact that they force a browser on the device they sell (Safari) and didn't permit others, for a long time (has anyone seen competing browsers in the app store?) is completely different from Microsoft shipping their browser as part of the OS and the default browser, and permitting the user to install new browsers for the past 14 years.
Yes. You must force people to choose between the one we force you to install and therefore support, and others we force you to make available to the user. While I know this is because they are "a convicted monopolist" it doesn't necessarily make it right. You know, the old two wrongs thing.
Or did you mean a callback into the running app? No, there's no requirement on Windows for an application to define an interface (function) that the OS can call. That's what paging is there for.
For comparison, here in Aus, flavoured milk is often sold in 300, 500, 600 and 1000/2000 (1L, 2L) containers. Coke and Pepsi lines are sold in a 250ml small can, a normal 375ml can, a 300ml small bottle, a 600ml large bottle, and 1.25, 2 and 3 litre bottles.
600ml in particular is very close to your "20 oz" (591ml) bottle - so much so that it would be trivial to label and sell the 600ml version as a 20 oz bottle (woo hoo, 9ml for FREE). Perhaps they already do! And the 375ml can is a natural fit to the 12 oz can you have in Bizarro-World^W^W^W the USA.
In summary the metric units are generally "close enough", with the possible exception of recipes which might need more careful treatment.
Actually, I'd expect a paranoid CS student would be setting the umask to 0077. If you're that paranoid... do you really want other group members (students) reading your code? (Ah, the days when the student server was Hardy and the Staff one Laurel... 500 CS students compiling at the same time on a <60MHz SuperSPARC I was NOT FUN, and those of us who tutored used the staff server instead. Same spec, 3x as fast!)
And since you can't get a umask right, you can hand in your geek card on the way out the door, you imposter you!
Thankfully, in the continuing search for safety, paper will be outlawed in favour of bits and bytes in our new super-safe nerd haven. Oh, won't somebody think of the children^W nerds?
I revisited the page multiple times (Shift+Refresh) and each time I was completely unique, despite the content of the page never changing (at least with respect to the headers shown). Noscript didn't make a difference, I was always unique, despite none of the measures showing this. The most "identifying" piece of information was supposedly the HTTP_ACCEPT header, which specifies "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 gzip en-us,en;q=0.5".
It will also change depending where I am (proxy servers, etc) so it's not me or the browser they're tracking, directly.
Not to mention that looking out for idiot pedestrians, cyclists, motorbikes and other obstacles while driving is de rigeur, while watching for a moonwalking bloke in a black suit is NOT de rigeur when you're effectively asked specifically to ignore the team in black ("How many passes does the team in white make?"). Now if the "did you see" item was a chick on a bicycle, or indeed a damn clown on a unicycle, it might have been relevant.
What? Someone other than a postal worker placing a letter in your (house's) mailbox, addressed to you, is mail fraud? I do not think mail fraud is what you think it is. Did you even read what you wrote, or what you replied to?
What if the person was a postal worker but not a delivery agent?
What if the person was a delivery agent but your house is not on his route?
What if the person was a delivery agent but it's 3 in the morning?
I'm sure all the Bill Gates in the world would love to know that according to you, if they live in, or move to the US, they should change their name to avoid committing mail fraud every time they send an item by post. Does that apply to all duplicate names or just those you happen to like?
You're an idiot (and I must be bored on holiday if I'm responding to ObviousTroll). Next time at least make SOMETHING in your troll plausible!
RMS is for controlling the documents once they are outside the organisation. They're encrypted, and you can't get the key unless the RMS server lets you have it. And only Office can decrypt, and the RMS allows the author to block the ability to do things like edit, print or forward the document to someone else.
Some customers like the idea. When we implement it, rule #1 is "You no longer have sole control of the document". IIRC, there are ways to set RMS up so that internal people always have access - it'd be strange if that was what was broken.
Ahem. Could you please give me some pointers then how one can set a DWORD with value null? Using AD and MMC.
A DWORD is a 32-bit number. How would you like to store that NULL as a number?
Or how about creating those pesky management template files? What's that? Oh...You have to create those manually using some cryptic schema.
Hurr hurr. Those pesky templates! It's a cryptic schema - one that bears more than a passing resemblance to an X configuration file, really (it's about the closest analogue I can think of off the top of my head). It's not that bad. If you do it often you'll have your own files to use as a template. Otherwise, perhaps someone, somewhere will come up with a way to search through thousands of documents written before, on a global network? Nah... never happen.
And what if I want to reset my template to default old values? Oh, I'm sorry... that's not possible.
The template is never changed. Only the policy carries the value. In a proper policy, removing the setting reinstates the default value.
What I'm trying to say, is that AD has it's place. But when you need to do something that microsoft has not thought about, it get's very quickly back to editing regitry, creating scripts and hacking away in general.
If you need AD'like functionality on Linux/bsd whatever, check out cfengine which is a policy based management engine.
And when you admin a Linux, BSD or similar system, and you have to do something new, it "get's (sic) very quickly back to editing configuration files, creating scripts and hacking away in general". CFEngine is (probably, I haven't used it) good; does it come with sane defaults, and you just click some buttons / type a command to get all the OOB configuration applied? And it's done on a regular, hands-off schedule? AD's huge advantage in configuration management is that all this is in-box - and it tries to enforce good practice even without the admin knowing. Installs with sane defaults, and every corporate Windows OS from the last 10 years (2000, XP/2003, Vista/2008, 7/R2) can join the AD and participate in GP.
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Well, with the rise of the SSD, that's no longer as much of a problem. Case in point - I built a system on the weekend with a 40GB Intel SSD. Pretty much the cheapest "known-good" SSD I could get my hands on (ie TRIM support, good controller) at AUD $172, roughly the price of a 1.5TB spinning rust store - and the system only needs 22GB including apps.
Windows boots from end of POST in about 5 seconds. 5 seconds is not even enough for the TV to turn on (it's a Media Center box). Logon is instant. App start is nigh-on instant (I've never seen Explorer appear seemingly before the Win+E key is released). This is the fastest box I've ever seen, and it's the most basic "value" processor Intel offer - the i3-530, on a cheap Asrock board with cheap RAM (true, there's a slightly cheaper "bargain basement" CPU in the G6950 or something). The whole PC cost AUD800 from a reputable supplier, and I could have bought for $650 if I'd wanted to wait in line for an hour or get abused at the cheaper places.
Now, Intel are aiming to saturate SATA-3 (600MBps) with the next generation(s) of SSD, or so I'm told. Based on what I've seen - it's achievable, at reasonable cost, and it's not only true for sequential read access. So if the IO bottleneck disappears - because the SSD can do 30K, 50K, 100K IO operations per second? Yeah, I think it's reasonable to ask why we wait for the computer.
Not that I think a redesign is necessary for the current architectures - Windows, BSD, Linux all scale nicely to at least 8 or 16 logical CPUs in the server world, so the 4, 6 or 8 on the desktop isn't a huge problem. But in 5 years when we have 32 CPUs on the desktop? Maybe. Or maybe we'll just be using the same apps that only need 1 CPU most of the time, and using the other 20 CPUs for real-time stuff (Real voice control? Motion control and recognition?)
Oh please, this has been coming for years now. Why has it taken so long for the OS designers to get with the program? We've had multi-CPU servers for literally decades.
And they deliberately attacked the problem noted in TMMM - that of communication and ramp-up - by seating everyone in the same room(s). And yes, working on independent problems. And those problems were not already late, in that the schedule had not yet started (TMMM is about adding people to an existing, complex project that is already running and having the communications, ramp-up, skills transfer and other sundry distractions causing an increase in work required that is greater than the increase in available effort).
Stupid, wrong, inflammatory and deliberately misleading headline, and summary, perfect for /. ! Go editors go!
100% more than you want to pay and 50% more than you can afford. Look it's for server platforms not a gamer PC. Hyper-V, ESX, Xen, and other types of parallel systems will benefit. SSH won't.
Actually, Opera has something that would start to enable this. I think it's Opera Unite? It's a web server built into the browser.
There's only one small problem - you still need to have that listening port open, and in Australia (I'm guessing that it's also true elsewhere) most home user connections block 80 inbound - if not at the ISP then at the router. I don't think a FF addon that opened router ports would necessarily be appreciated :D
Apparently I missed the bit where said car dealer has a flashing neon sign and a sales person on the premises of every business you visit over the course of your day. And the weekends. And the 3am run to the 7-Eleven.
Or maybe that car analogy sucked. Where's BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?
While it's true that the server CPU is more than capable of performing the calculations, your analysis misses more than one critical factor.
When writing data to a hardware RAID set (of any sort) the data is sent from main memory across the system bus(es) exactly once, potentially in a single operation.
With software RAID, the total amount of data is more (the parity data, if not multiple copies for RAID 1/10) and this has an impact on memory bandwidth utilisation, northbridge and PCI utilisation and certainly the number of operations issued by the system to the disk controller(s).
Dave562 already pointed out BBWC, which is also transportable to a new server with the disks in the case of an extreme failure, and the increased use of server CPU (and memory, system bus, network and disk) of virtualisation.
Of course, then you need to make some sort of ridiculous farm app, but that could be a further source of monetization! :-)
It's already out there as "Viva Pinata" on Xbox 360 and Windows.
Except that the chauffeur does not know there is a cliff there, perhaps because Wiley Coyote has painted a canvas that shows the road continuing around a curve. The computer can't interpret the difference between "Connect to server.good.com port 80" and "Connect to server.bad.com port 80", because that information is not known to the computer at the time of the infection.
I don't know about Bizarro-World where you apparently live, but here in Australia there's no magical 40 hour per week fairy that stops you from working other contracts, jobs or even selling yourself on the street. A bill for 80 hours in 2 weeks is not a guarantee that the person didn't work 100 hours in that period.
No, because Apple is not a monopolist in that space. The fact that they force a browser on the device they sell (Safari) and didn't permit others, for a long time (has anyone seen competing browsers in the app store?) is completely different from Microsoft shipping their browser as part of the OS and the default browser, and permitting the user to install new browsers for the past 14 years.
Oh cry me a river. I'll help you out. It's not like the very first link gives you a viable solution now is it?
Yes. You must force people to choose between the one we force you to install and therefore support, and others we force you to make available to the user. While I know this is because they are "a convicted monopolist" it doesn't necessarily make it right. You know, the old two wrongs thing.
Actually there is. In C it's malloc().
Or did you mean a callback into the running app? No, there's no requirement on Windows for an application to define an interface (function) that the OS can call. That's what paging is there for.
For comparison, here in Aus, flavoured milk is often sold in 300, 500, 600 and 1000/2000 (1L, 2L) containers. Coke and Pepsi lines are sold in a 250ml small can, a normal 375ml can, a 300ml small bottle, a 600ml large bottle, and 1.25, 2 and 3 litre bottles.
600ml in particular is very close to your "20 oz" (591ml) bottle - so much so that it would be trivial to label and sell the 600ml version as a 20 oz bottle (woo hoo, 9ml for FREE). Perhaps they already do! And the 375ml can is a natural fit to the 12 oz can you have in Bizarro-World^W^W^W the USA.
In summary the metric units are generally "close enough", with the possible exception of recipes which might need more careful treatment.
No no - you get inarnated again ...
Actually, I'd expect a paranoid CS student would be setting the umask to 0077. If you're that paranoid ... do you really want other group members (students) reading your code? (Ah, the days when the student server was Hardy and the Staff one Laurel ... 500 CS students compiling at the same time on a <60MHz SuperSPARC I was NOT FUN, and those of us who tutored used the staff server instead. Same spec, 3x as fast!)
And since you can't get a umask right, you can hand in your geek card on the way out the door, you imposter you!
Given you're AC, it seems likely, but ... you must be new here.
Thankfully, in the continuing search for safety, paper will be outlawed in favour of bits and bytes in our new super-safe nerd haven. Oh, won't somebody think of the children^W nerds?
Intel video driver? Turn off the stupid hotkeys for the Intel Display Manager. I think Alt+{Arrow} is what changes the orientation.
Nah it seems broken.
I revisited the page multiple times (Shift+Refresh) and each time I was completely unique, despite the content of the page never changing (at least with respect to the headers shown). Noscript didn't make a difference, I was always unique, despite none of the measures showing this. The most "identifying" piece of information was supposedly the HTTP_ACCEPT header, which specifies "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 gzip en-us,en;q=0.5".
It will also change depending where I am (proxy servers, etc) so it's not me or the browser they're tracking, directly.
Not to mention that looking out for idiot pedestrians, cyclists, motorbikes and other obstacles while driving is de rigeur, while watching for a moonwalking bloke in a black suit is NOT de rigeur when you're effectively asked specifically to ignore the team in black ("How many passes does the team in white make?"). Now if the "did you see" item was a chick on a bicycle, or indeed a damn clown on a unicycle, it might have been relevant.
What? Someone other than a postal worker placing a letter in your (house's) mailbox, addressed to you, is mail fraud? I do not think mail fraud is what you think it is. Did you even read what you wrote, or what you replied to?
What if the person was a postal worker but not a delivery agent?
What if the person was a delivery agent but your house is not on his route?
What if the person was a delivery agent but it's 3 in the morning?
I'm sure all the Bill Gates in the world would love to know that according to you, if they live in, or move to the US, they should change their name to avoid committing mail fraud every time they send an item by post. Does that apply to all duplicate names or just those you happen to like?
You're an idiot (and I must be bored on holiday if I'm responding to ObviousTroll). Next time at least make SOMETHING in your troll plausible!
RMS is for controlling the documents once they are outside the organisation. They're encrypted, and you can't get the key unless the RMS server lets you have it. And only Office can decrypt, and the RMS allows the author to block the ability to do things like edit, print or forward the document to someone else.
Some customers like the idea. When we implement it, rule #1 is "You no longer have sole control of the document". IIRC, there are ways to set RMS up so that internal people always have access - it'd be strange if that was what was broken.
Ahem. Could you please give me some pointers then how one can set a DWORD with value null? Using AD and MMC.
A DWORD is a 32-bit number. How would you like to store that NULL as a number?
Or how about creating those pesky management template files? What's that? Oh...You have to create those manually using some cryptic schema.
Hurr hurr. Those pesky templates! It's a cryptic schema - one that bears more than a passing resemblance to an X configuration file, really (it's about the closest analogue I can think of off the top of my head). It's not that bad. If you do it often you'll have your own files to use as a template. Otherwise, perhaps someone, somewhere will come up with a way to search through thousands of documents written before, on a global network? Nah ... never happen.
And what if I want to reset my template to default old values? Oh, I'm sorry... that's not possible.
The template is never changed. Only the policy carries the value. In a proper policy, removing the setting reinstates the default value.
What I'm trying to say, is that AD has it's place. But when you need to do something that microsoft has not thought about, it get's very quickly back to editing regitry, creating scripts and hacking away in general.
If you need AD'like functionality on Linux/bsd whatever, check out cfengine which is a policy based management engine.
And when you admin a Linux, BSD or similar system, and you have to do something new, it "get's (sic) very quickly back to editing configuration files, creating scripts and hacking away in general". CFEngine is (probably, I haven't used it) good; does it come with sane defaults, and you just click some buttons / type a command to get all the OOB configuration applied? And it's done on a regular, hands-off schedule? AD's huge advantage in configuration management is that all this is in-box - and it tries to enforce good practice even without the admin knowing. Installs with sane defaults, and every corporate Windows OS from the last 10 years (2000, XP/2003, Vista/2008, 7/R2) can join the AD and participate in GP.