That's your problem, my friend. Firefox is very stable. Let me say this: FLASH crashes like shit here. And it's FLASH that causes the most problems for Firefox users. Chrome prevents this by wrapping FLASH in a separate area that gets dumped with it, or something like that.
But for many users, Flash works fine in browsers like Opera...
Thank them for what? MS's contributed drivers are useless to anyone who isn't running MS's own hypervisor and Linux underneath (i.e., MS's customers). They didn't donate this code out of any altruism, only pure self-interest.
Paying Hyper-V users will probably be running SLES or RHEL, and Microsoft provides support for SLES and RHEL in Hyper-V.
And neither distribution will distributing a kernel new enough to have these drivers in the mainline source for a while.
People in the "secure" market have phones. The thing all phones have in common is that they can all be hacked; doesn't matter whether its an IPhone or a BB if someone wants your information, they can get it. It doesn't matter who writes the encryption, there's always someone better who will crack it.
No, the difference is there might be someone who can crack a BlackBerry with encryption enabled, but there's no widely known attack that doesn't require 256-bit AES to be cracked... whereas anyone who wishes to crack an iPhone with encryption enabled can do so without too much trouble.
This still doesn't avoid the problem of kids being labeled - and you have ignored several aspects of learning that this method teaches that are never graded. One everyone is together, the smarter ones help the slower ones. The lessons of patience with those with lesser abilities and the ability to impart knowledge acquired by the more talented among us are essential life skills, without which society would be far poorer.
Bullshit. The *really* smart students will realize that they look better if their classmates do worse, and they will have no interest in helping their fellow students.
In any case, it is not the job of the smart students to teach other students. Schools hire teachers to teach their students.
You are trivializing all of the non-science economy. There are plenty of "geniuses" who do not make publicly known scientific discoveries. They just aren't known as geniuses to the general public.
Well, they are doing it [broadbandreports.com]. And who cares that a 3G phone would solve the problem? They have enough spectrum in 850mhz to run both. There's no compelling reason to degrade the service of the 2G customers.
AT&T has a compelling reason to degrade the service of 2G customers: to move users to 3G. But the linked article is hardly evidence that AT&T are actually ending GSM service on 850 MHz. It is likely that AT&T would inform customers of any future reduction in service in order to get them to buy new 3G phones.
A much newer article (at the bottom of the front page of broadbandreports at this time) states that AT&T is just now enabling 3G on 850 MHz in some markets.
That limitation doesn't matter unless you live in Kansas. In the rolling hills of the East or mountains of the West you are never going to get more than 21 miles away from the base station and still maintain a clear enough line of sight to communicate over that distance.
I've seen it happen, in Ohio and on the Atlantic Ocean. In both cases, my device saw networks from a licensed service area at least 20 mi away, but was unable to register.
I'm curious, though. I know very little about Apple's infrastructure on the iPhone, but I know that most of my Internet access on the Blackberry goes through a central server (BES for companies or BIS for individuals) and that data gets compressed en route.
There really is no special iPhone infrastructure. The device has a connection to the Internet, and requests are not sent through any proxy or processed in any way.
Opera's mobile browser operates on the same basic idea - the "preview" you get of each web page is loaded as a very small and low-res image, then when you click on a section for details you zoom in on that area and it loads more detail.
Opera Mini preprocesses pages. Opera Mobile is actually the full Opera rendering engine on a mobile device.
They are even pulling the same crap with their GSM network -- in many markets they've moved GSM services from 850mhz to 1900mhz to free up spectrum for data services.
AT&T's data services do not use separate channels from the voice services (unlike EV-DO, which is data only and uses separate channels from those used for voice). If they are moving only GSM to 1900 MHz, using a 3G capable phone will solve the problem.
It seems unlikely that AT&T would move GSM to 1900 MHz, because there are still a lot of corporate BlackBerry customers that do not have 3G capable devices.
This is fine and dandy in a dense urban environment -- but in a rural environment the longer range/increased penetration of 850mhz matters a lot more. Because of this you might go to bed having a working cell phone in your house and wake up with a paperweight that only works if you go outdoors.
Switching to WCDMA is advantageous in rural environments. Standard GSM will simply not operate more than 21 mi away from the base station due to timing issues.
Some Windows games have special support for Xbox 360 controllers, I believe mainly those that are also released for the Xbox 360. The controls automatically map and force feedback works in the same way as it does on the Xbox - you just have to load the game. Of course, you need a special adapter to use an Xbox 360 wireless controller on a PC, as these do not use Bluetooth.
I've seen Fallout 3 on a PC and on the Xbox 360. The PC was a unremarkable Core 2 Duo system with a Radeon HD 4670 (which cost $90 back in late 2008). The game was played on a 40" 1080p LCD TV. The PC completely blew the Xbox 360 away, graphics-wise. Although the Xbox 360 can output at 1080p, it renders most games at lower resolutions and then scales. The PC rendered the game at 1080p and at a higher framerate. Even with AA disabled on the PC, the picture was significantly better. The PC was also quieter, used less electricity, loaded the game faster, and (when using suspend to RAM) powered on faster.
Actually they are RAID cards just really cheap ones.
They are using Silicon Image SATA controllers, which do not have hardware RAID. They provide a software RAID implementation as a Windows driver and a BIOS on the card that can configure arrays and boot Windows off of a fake RAID array.
They discussed this was being done in software, and while that is great, you still will have a slowdown with RAID 6. Will it be unbearable? surely not. is it RAID 10? Not a chance, but I think they care more about storage than performance for this.
Given a sufficiently fast CPU, enough RAM, and adequate tuning, they should be able to saturate the available bus bandwidth for each array. Sequential reads should be very close to the total bus bandwidth (same as RAID10), and any write that can avoid read-modify-write can be faster than RAID10.
SATA is currently limited to 3.0 Gbit/sec total per port. I used to use the Silicon Image 3132 PCI-e x1 two-port SATA controller; I found that it was limited to 120 MBytes/sec total per controller.
I upgraded to a PCI-e x8 Silicon Image 3124 with four SATA ports, and now I can get 240 MBytes/sec from each SATA port multiplier. With Linux software RAID6 and five drives on a single port multiplier, sequential reads are close to 240 MBytes/sec and sequential writes reach at least 140 MBytes/sec with ext3. (At that point, ext3's journaling seems to be a limiting factor. If I am measuring correctly, ext3 actually uses *more* CPU time than the RAID6 implementation at these speeds.)
The hardest part will be identifying the bad drives. That is ANOTHER feature that you pay for on expensive disk systems. The controllers will alert you to where the failed drive is, as well as often times alerting the manufacturer of the failure. There have been times I have been called by a vendor to let me know a part and on site engineer was being dispatched for a failure my users were not even aware of yet due to it being off hours (and ops were asleep at the wheel).
I identify failed drives on my software RAID setup by labeling each hotswap tray with the drive's serial number. smartmontools identifies the serial number of the failing or missing drive. Using Linux's/dev/disk/by-id to refer to drives instead of/dev/sd[a-z][a-z]? also helps.
I believe Direct3D already has a software renderer. If not, Direct3D could be rendered via using Wine's Direct3D implementation and a software OpenGL renderer. Issue: this would be slow.
However, VirtualBox, Parallels and VMware seem to implement Direct3D in virtual machines as OpenGL calls passed to the host.
(This is most often noted by people trying to run VMWare images on an NTFS filesystem from a linux host, since suspending and snapshotting the guest take lots of space)
I've had problems using VMware on Linux, apparently caused by lots of RAM (and consequently a large cache), long cache writeback timeouts, and once the timeout was triggered, the cache being filled faster than changes were being written. The VM's physical memory space is apparently implemented via a memory mapped file; the changes to this file would seem to fill up in the cache. During this time, VMware was unable to serve (m)any requests on the VM's virtual disk, causing requests to go unserved for 10+ seconds... enough for the Windows driver for VMware's SCSI device to time out. If the virtual disk contained the system partition, the system would stop running. The file system was ext3 and the disks were certainly fast enough. The problem was solved with some VMware configuration file changes and Linux cache tuning.
This has never happened to me with VMware on Windows hosts, but it's happened on OS X once or twice. I've never been impressed by VMware Server performance on Linux.
The nice thing is that if you need to run VMs on OS X, you can move VMs from VMWare ESXi to VMWare Parallels on the Mac with little effort.
Running virtual machines on top of OS X is not what Sycraft-fu was talking about.
The ability to run Mac OS X virtually without violating the license is extremely limited: only the Server version is permitted to be virtualized, and only on Apple's hardware. This doesn't mean it's not technically possible to run OS X on a VM on non-Apple hardware, but only virtualized OS X Server is supported by VMware and Parallels, and only on the Mac versions of their software.
Yes, they expected it just like they expected people to extend Kerebos Authentication and XML filetypes right back at them. Microsoft embraces and extends OTHERS, they don't GET embraced and extended.
No; Microsoft and Red Hat joined each others' virtualization validation programs. As a result, Red Hat will support Windows server operating systems on Red Hat's virtualization software. This support is a direct result of Red Hat participating in Microsoft's validation program.
The list of vendors participating in Microsoft's program includes other companies, such as VMware, Citrix, Cisco, Oracle, and Sun.
You are making your assumptions on the base that just because you bought a 32-bit version of an application you will automatically receive the 64-bit version of it, free of charge. That is not the case, as even Microsoft doesn't just give their 64-bit OS to those who bought the 32-bit one. To their eyes it's a completely separate product which the customer must pay in order to access.
Microsoft hasn't generated separate 32 and 64-bit product keys for Vista, 2008, or 7, at least for retail/multiple activation keys.
When the CO loses power, you have, at best, 72 hours of service. If you lose the CO, you lose the whole enchilada. With a Cell Phone, I can put it on a car-charger, laptop charger, or primary cell based "emergency" charger and be back up.
If you're not served directly by a CO, you'll lose service even faster. My line is served by a digital loop, and phone service only lasts a couple of outage. (The last outage that lasted that long was in 2003, however.) This will also be true if you have DSL served by a remote terminal.
But if this happened on a brand new model of mac, would everyone scream about breach of privacy, and that they are going back to good old Microsoft products, or would they just assume that it was a feature needed during beta testing, that someone forgot to remove from the shipping product, which is what this sound like.
If testing procedures are so poor that this kind of 'feature' remains enabled in the end-user product, who knows what else might be in there?
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But for many users, Flash works fine in browsers like Opera...
Paying Hyper-V users will probably be running SLES or RHEL, and Microsoft provides support for SLES and RHEL in Hyper-V.
And neither distribution will distributing a kernel new enough to have these drivers in the mainline source for a while.
No, the difference is there might be someone who can crack a BlackBerry with encryption enabled, but there's no widely known attack that doesn't require 256-bit AES to be cracked... whereas anyone who wishes to crack an iPhone with encryption enabled can do so without too much trouble.
But none of the other smartphone platforms have had an exploit quite as bad as the Android's root console bug.
The Linux CIFS Client supports DFS, and Samba can serve DFS.
Bullshit. The *really* smart students will realize that they look better if their classmates do worse, and they will have no interest in helping their fellow students.
In any case, it is not the job of the smart students to teach other students. Schools hire teachers to teach their students.
You are trivializing all of the non-science economy. There are plenty of "geniuses" who do not make publicly known scientific discoveries. They just aren't known as geniuses to the general public.
IQ is, in large part, genetically influenced.
AT&T has a compelling reason to degrade the service of 2G customers: to move users to 3G. But the linked article is hardly evidence that AT&T are actually ending GSM service on 850 MHz. It is likely that AT&T would inform customers of any future reduction in service in order to get them to buy new 3G phones.
A much newer article (at the bottom of the front page of broadbandreports at this time) states that AT&T is just now enabling 3G on 850 MHz in some markets.
I've seen it happen, in Ohio and on the Atlantic Ocean. In both cases, my device saw networks from a licensed service area at least 20 mi away, but was unable to register.
There really is no special iPhone infrastructure. The device has a connection to the Internet, and requests are not sent through any proxy or processed in any way.
Opera Mini preprocesses pages. Opera Mobile is actually the full Opera rendering engine on a mobile device.
AT&T's data services do not use separate channels from the voice services (unlike EV-DO, which is data only and uses separate channels from those used for voice). If they are moving only GSM to 1900 MHz, using a 3G capable phone will solve the problem.
It seems unlikely that AT&T would move GSM to 1900 MHz, because there are still a lot of corporate BlackBerry customers that do not have 3G capable devices.
Switching to WCDMA is advantageous in rural environments. Standard GSM will simply not operate more than 21 mi away from the base station due to timing issues.
RHEL 5.4 includes XFS support. (It also includes ext4, although I believe this is still a "Technical Preview" and not officially supported.)
Some Windows games have special support for Xbox 360 controllers, I believe mainly those that are also released for the Xbox 360. The controls automatically map and force feedback works in the same way as it does on the Xbox - you just have to load the game. Of course, you need a special adapter to use an Xbox 360 wireless controller on a PC, as these do not use Bluetooth.
I've seen Fallout 3 on a PC and on the Xbox 360. The PC was a unremarkable Core 2 Duo system with a Radeon HD 4670 (which cost $90 back in late 2008). The game was played on a 40" 1080p LCD TV. The PC completely blew the Xbox 360 away, graphics-wise. Although the Xbox 360 can output at 1080p, it renders most games at lower resolutions and then scales. The PC rendered the game at 1080p and at a higher framerate. Even with AA disabled on the PC, the picture was significantly better. The PC was also quieter, used less electricity, loaded the game faster, and (when using suspend to RAM) powered on faster.
They are using Silicon Image SATA controllers, which do not have hardware RAID. They provide a software RAID implementation as a Windows driver and a BIOS on the card that can configure arrays and boot Windows off of a fake RAID array.
Given a sufficiently fast CPU, enough RAM, and adequate tuning, they should be able to saturate the available bus bandwidth for each array. Sequential reads should be very close to the total bus bandwidth (same as RAID10), and any write that can avoid read-modify-write can be faster than RAID10.
SATA is currently limited to 3.0 Gbit/sec total per port. I used to use the Silicon Image 3132 PCI-e x1 two-port SATA controller; I found that it was limited to 120 MBytes/sec total per controller.
I upgraded to a PCI-e x8 Silicon Image 3124 with four SATA ports, and now I can get 240 MBytes/sec from each SATA port multiplier. With Linux software RAID6 and five drives on a single port multiplier, sequential reads are close to 240 MBytes/sec and sequential writes reach at least 140 MBytes/sec with ext3. (At that point, ext3's journaling seems to be a limiting factor. If I am measuring correctly, ext3 actually uses *more* CPU time than the RAID6 implementation at these speeds.)
I identify failed drives on my software RAID setup by labeling each hotswap tray with the drive's serial number. smartmontools identifies the serial number of the failing or missing drive. Using Linux's /dev/disk/by-id to refer to drives instead of /dev/sd[a-z][a-z]? also helps.
I believe Direct3D already has a software renderer. If not, Direct3D could be rendered via using Wine's Direct3D implementation and a software OpenGL renderer. Issue: this would be slow.
However, VirtualBox, Parallels and VMware seem to implement Direct3D in virtual machines as OpenGL calls passed to the host.
I've had problems using VMware on Linux, apparently caused by lots of RAM (and consequently a large cache), long cache writeback timeouts, and once the timeout was triggered, the cache being filled faster than changes were being written. The VM's physical memory space is apparently implemented via a memory mapped file; the changes to this file would seem to fill up in the cache. During this time, VMware was unable to serve (m)any requests on the VM's virtual disk, causing requests to go unserved for 10+ seconds... enough for the Windows driver for VMware's SCSI device to time out. If the virtual disk contained the system partition, the system would stop running. The file system was ext3 and the disks were certainly fast enough. The problem was solved with some VMware configuration file changes and Linux cache tuning.
This has never happened to me with VMware on Windows hosts, but it's happened on OS X once or twice. I've never been impressed by VMware Server performance on Linux.
Running virtual machines on top of OS X is not what Sycraft-fu was talking about.
The ability to run Mac OS X virtually without violating the license is extremely limited: only the Server version is permitted to be virtualized, and only on Apple's hardware. This doesn't mean it's not technically possible to run OS X on a VM on non-Apple hardware, but only virtualized OS X Server is supported by VMware and Parallels, and only on the Mac versions of their software.
No; Microsoft and Red Hat joined each others' virtualization validation programs. As a result, Red Hat will support Windows server operating systems on Red Hat's virtualization software. This support is a direct result of Red Hat participating in Microsoft's validation program.
The list of vendors participating in Microsoft's program includes other companies, such as VMware, Citrix, Cisco, Oracle, and Sun.
Microsoft and Red Hat agreed to support each others' operating systems in their virtual environments, so this action is to be expected.
Microsoft hasn't generated separate 32 and 64-bit product keys for Vista, 2008, or 7, at least for retail/multiple activation keys.
If a USB "mouse" doesn't work with a standard HID driver, then there's a problem with the mouse..
If you're not served directly by a CO, you'll lose service even faster. My line is served by a digital loop, and phone service only lasts a couple of outage. (The last outage that lasted that long was in 2003, however.) This will also be true if you have DSL served by a remote terminal.
No; we can choose to have cell phones that can be used to track our positions if they are turned on and registering to a network.
If testing procedures are so poor that this kind of 'feature' remains enabled in the end-user product, who knows what else might be in there?