..the GP specifically said that it was *THE OFFICE* buying the PC.
Why would your employer pony up for an expensive Mac just so you can dual boot to get your OSX joyride when you take it home? They don't give a crap about that. They are buying the PC for you to do work on, if that work requires Windows, then they'll get you a Windows PC. End Of Story.
So, you're saying that people's offices are going to buy them expensive Macs and install Windows on them, so that when they take their laptops home they can use OSX?
Or are you saying people are going to bring their home PCs into work and plug them into the corperate net without the office caring about it?
Your argument makes no sense whatsoever. If the computer was bought by the offfice for office work, they aren't going to buy you a MAc unless you can do your work on a Mac. If it is your home PC/laptop you can't use it at the office anyway, at least not at any office with a decent security policy.
I have files in/var/log that are modified at least 5000 times a day. That's only 200 days wth a million writes.
Granted, load balencing takes care of some of this, but I don't see how you could have any logging whatsoever on your laptop with a drive like this. And for those of us who use laptops for development, heavy logging is a necessity.
I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars for a drive guarenteed to fail in a year.
As usual, this Google service is very US-centric. Too bad lots of US investors also invest overseas.
I tried to import my portfolio from Yahoo! finance - "We will support international symbols shortly"
Well, considering that I have been waiting for my Google Homepage to support them for about 8 months now, I wonder how long "shortly" will be.
Simmilar problems exist trying to add weather on the Google homepage, even if you know the international airport code for the area, it will get you nowhere. Works fine on My Yahoo!.
Just so you know... nothing in that video is using AJAX. Every thing you change re-posts the form and causes the page to reload. It is just going really fast because he is running it un his local machine.
Also you can do that kind of WYSIWYG editing in JSP/Eclipse, it's not constrained to ASP.Net development.
In summary, nothing new in that video. Now, I can't find the video on Atlas anywhere, but that could be interesting, depending how well it integrates. Personally, I already use JSON-RPC for my AJAX stuff, so it integrates with Java pretty well to begin with.
If you have no where to copy the data then clearly you also have no backups in which case the data clearly isn't worth a lot to you anyway
Ever think that maybe I don't have a secure location to keep these backups?
If you're backing up encrypted data in an unencrypted form, you'd better be moving it off site to some very secure location. In my case I can't really justify any kind of budget for this @ my house.
If you're talking about backing up the *encrypted* data, then it's all moot since it would not have helped me anyway.
It's easy to say this when it isn't you with the problem.
You will just have to trust me when I say that I tried every single method at my disposal, every combination I could figure out of kernel / cryptoloop, to try to decrypt this data. I even tried reverse-enginerring the source to the decryption modules myself to try to get some kind of a command-line thing going.
All I can figure is I was using some weird odd combination of cryptoloop and kernel thay should not have worked, but did. Then I lost it all.
As for "I really can't understand continuing with something marked deprecated anyway " - again that's easy to say, but hard to avoid in practice, when you have nowhere to copy the data to in order to change the parition, and no time to do it in.
I pity someone else who I found on a forum who was in my exact same situation, and had a 600 GB RAID array they could not access
Needless to say, I an *NEVER EVER* using linux kernel encryption again. If I do this again, I will use TrueCrypt or some other third-party level encryption which can be decrypted from the commandline if need be, so I can burn the needed utilities to a backup CD.
I had a parition (approx 80 GB of data) encrypted via loop-AES in kernel 2.4. After the upgrade to kernel 2.6, I found I was unable to mount the partition correctly, unless I specified a depricated option when building the crypto loop tools.
After doing so, I mounted the parition and everything proceeded normally...
That is until a few months later when I upgraded my system again. Suddenly my parition was unreadable, and the previous option did not work in cryptoloop anymore. I posted for weeks on boards and IRC channels trying to decrypt this data, but no one could help me.
So in the end I gave up on it.
After that nightmare I am never using kernel-level decryptuon again. The fact that the routines lie in the kernel, but the utilities in userspace, makes for a maitence nightmare when you end up upgrading one but the other. From now on all my encryption options will be userspace *only*.
With high definition writable media appearing already, will the price drop soon enough to help me overcome the real obstacle to backing up my exsisting commercial DVDs, cost of single media large enough to hold them that is playable in a player?
Dual layer DVD-Rs have been around for years and can be bought for less then a buck each when you grab a good sale, which is way less than the cost of a commerical DVD (at least any DVD *worth* backing up, and not out of the Walmart 99 cent bin).
Besides, who the fudge backs up DVDs on optical media anymore? Get an Xbox for a hundred bux, a 300 GB HD for another hundred, install XBMC, and archive them to hard drive. You'll save a ton on medial in the long run, and it's much more convient.
I love mythbusters too, but if you really think Kari and Scotti are hot, you gotta get out more.
They're not ugly, average sure, but far from a "hottie" classification.
The complaint accuses Google, as the dominant provider of Web searches, of violating KinderStart's constitutional right to free speech by blocking search engine results showing Web site content and other communications.
Google is a private company. It has no obligation to endorse Kinderstart's company than any others.
Like I have said before, the constituion gives you a right to freedom of speech, it does not guarentee you an audience. Saying Google should be forced to index Kinderstart *at all*, let alone that it should enfoce some ranking formula, would be akin to saying that a library should be forced to hold a certain book, or that a televsion station be forced to air a certain show.
Don't like the shows on a network? Change the channel. Don't like the results Google provides? Use another engine. It's not like they have a monopoly on web searching.
Anyone else notice that movie previews are becoming less and less reflective of the actual movie?
For example, take the recent film Jarhead. Anyone who saw the preview of that, with it's thumping "Jesus Walks" soundtrack and huge explosions, would probably be expecting to see a Blackhawk Down style action-oriented war film. Anyone who saw it knows this is *far from the truth*. While it was a great movie, it was absolutely nothing like it was portrayed in the preview.
This is just one example. I can think of other times where the same film was made to look like an action movie in one preview, and a romantic comedy in another.
It's kind of sad that nowadays you really have no idea what the premise of the film is until you go see it, or look it up on a trusted review site. All it takes is for you to be burned once this way before you become cynical about films at the theatre altogether.
To me, owning a computer without Internet access would be like owning a one passenger car without a trunk. Sure, you can still use it, but it makes it's usefulness extremely limited.
Even the smartcar has a passenger seat and minimal trunk space to carry groceries and whatnot. Imagine a car that could *only* drive you around. To me, that's like a computer without the Internet.
I'd argue that the "proof is in the pudding", so to speak: when I can get those friends of mine who practically live in their MMO of choice out into the "real world", I often feel like the non-smoker at a table of smokers when all the chatter about their guild/weapon/whizz-bang-spell-of-the-day starts.
How do you think a non-coder feels when sitting at a table full of programmers?
How do you think a non-jock feels sitting in a sports bar with a bunch of pigskin freaks?
It's all a matter of context. When people with common interests socialize they tend to gravitate towards what they have in common. If you have other commonalities with some of them then not others, you can try steering the conversation that way, but just remember that when you do that, you will be leaving other people feeling the way you do now.
Just buy an external IDE enclosure for $15 bucks anywhere. You can pop a 320 GB drive in that for a fraction of the price of this thing. Plus it is upgradeable.
If you want a smaller drive just do as above but with a 2.5" laptop drive enclosure.
He was a subscriber to a service from a service provider, and that service was cut off. In this case the service is WOW, in the other case, it is cable tv.
Cutting one show from cable while keeping your access would be like cutting access to one realm of WOW while keeping your account open.
I mean, WoW is just a game. It has no real importance other than it employees some people at Blizzard. It amazes me that people take these things so seriously. This guy should be thanking Blizzard for saving him 300 Euros a year.
So, if the only cable company that services your area unilaterally cut off your access for owning a VCR, I could say to you I mean, it is just TV. It has no real importance other than it employees some people in Hollywood. It amazes me that people take these things so seriously. This guy should be thanking Time Warner for saving him 800 dollars a year.
See the difference? Cause I don't. It's all entertainment, none of it has any "importance", unless you are the one using it, has a subscription to it, and has enjoyed it for a long time and has found it an enjoyable way to pass the time.
Start looking at the world from a broader perspective. What you enjoy and consider normal is not the be-all-end-all in your city, country, or planet.
It's called a gamesupposed to be a waste of time. If it wasn't a waste of time then it would be called "work" or "chores", because other than work, chores, eating, and sleeping, everything you do in life is a "waste of time", since it's only purpose is to entertain you.
To each his own, I don't care if you don't like MMORPGs, but you don't have to try to belittle those who do.
Right after he has apparently slid down a flagpole (a strong reference to receiving anal sex), he finds himself in the proverbial sewers, already feeling a deep low from his initial hits wearing off. But after more anal sex, he is high in the mountains, which psychedelically appear as gigantic mushrooms, an obvious result of his hallucinatory state. And then, after even more anal sex, he finds himself in a castle, but it is of his own imagination, built up of his drug-induced isolation, for at the end he thinks he has confronted the kingpin Koopa, but he quickly finds that it is but another hallucination, merely a pusher goomba, though he only discovers this after, in a drug-crazed rage, he kills this apparition of his nemesis.
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..the GP specifically said that it was *THE OFFICE* buying the PC.
Why would your employer pony up for an expensive Mac just so you can dual boot to get your OSX joyride when you take it home? They don't give a crap about that. They are buying the PC for you to do work on, if that work requires Windows, then they'll get you a Windows PC. End Of Story.
So, you're saying that people's offices are going to buy them expensive Macs and install Windows on them, so that when they take their laptops home they can use OSX?
Or are you saying people are going to bring their home PCs into work and plug them into the corperate net without the office caring about it?
Your argument makes no sense whatsoever. If the computer was bought by the offfice for office work, they aren't going to buy you a MAc unless you can do your work on a Mac. If it is your home PC/laptop you can't use it at the office anyway, at least not at any office with a decent security policy.
This one appears to be an officially released alpha.
I have files in /var/log that are modified at least 5000 times a day. That's only 200 days wth a million writes.
Granted, load balencing takes care of some of this, but I don't see how you could have any logging whatsoever on your laptop with a drive like this. And for those of us who use laptops for development, heavy logging is a necessity.
I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars for a drive guarenteed to fail in a year.
As usual, this Google service is very US-centric. Too bad lots of US investors also invest overseas.
I tried to import my portfolio from Yahoo! finance - "We will support international symbols shortly"
Well, considering that I have been waiting for my Google Homepage to support them for about 8 months now, I wonder how long "shortly" will be.
Simmilar problems exist trying to add weather on the Google homepage, even if you know the international airport code for the area, it will get you nowhere. Works fine on My Yahoo!.
Just so you know... nothing in that video is using AJAX. Every thing you change re-posts the form and causes the page to reload. It is just going really fast because he is running it un his local machine.
Also you can do that kind of WYSIWYG editing in JSP/Eclipse, it's not constrained to ASP.Net development.
In summary, nothing new in that video. Now, I can't find the video on Atlas anywhere, but that could be interesting, depending how well it integrates. Personally, I already use JSON-RPC for my AJAX stuff, so it integrates with Java pretty well to begin with.
If you have no where to copy the data then clearly you also have no backups in which case the data clearly isn't worth a lot to you anyway
Ever think that maybe I don't have a secure location to keep these backups?If you're backing up encrypted data in an unencrypted form, you'd better be moving it off site to some very secure location. In my case I can't really justify any kind of budget for this @ my house.
If you're talking about backing up the *encrypted* data, then it's all moot since it would not have helped me anyway.
It's easy to say this when it isn't you with the problem.
You will just have to trust me when I say that I tried every single method at my disposal, every combination I could figure out of kernel / cryptoloop, to try to decrypt this data. I even tried reverse-enginerring the source to the decryption modules myself to try to get some kind of a command-line thing going.
All I can figure is I was using some weird odd combination of cryptoloop and kernel thay should not have worked, but did. Then I lost it all.
As for "I really can't understand continuing with something marked deprecated anyway " - again that's easy to say, but hard to avoid in practice, when you have nowhere to copy the data to in order to change the parition, and no time to do it in.
I pity someone else who I found on a forum who was in my exact same situation, and had a 600 GB RAID array they could not access
Needless to say, I an *NEVER EVER* using linux kernel encryption again. If I do this again, I will use TrueCrypt or some other third-party level encryption which can be decrypted from the commandline if need be, so I can burn the needed utilities to a backup CD.
I had a parition (approx 80 GB of data) encrypted via loop-AES in kernel 2.4. After the upgrade to kernel 2.6, I found I was unable to mount the partition correctly, unless I specified a depricated option when building the crypto loop tools.
After doing so, I mounted the parition and everything proceeded normally...
That is until a few months later when I upgraded my system again. Suddenly my parition was unreadable, and the previous option did not work in cryptoloop anymore. I posted for weeks on boards and IRC channels trying to decrypt this data, but no one could help me.
So in the end I gave up on it.
After that nightmare I am never using kernel-level decryptuon again. The fact that the routines lie in the kernel, but the utilities in userspace, makes for a maitence nightmare when you end up upgrading one but the other. From now on all my encryption options will be userspace *only*.
With high definition writable media appearing already, will the price drop soon enough to help me overcome the real obstacle to backing up my exsisting commercial DVDs, cost of single media large enough to hold them that is playable in a player?
Dual layer DVD-Rs have been around for years and can be bought for less then a buck each when you grab a good sale, which is way less than the cost of a commerical DVD (at least any DVD *worth* backing up, and not out of the Walmart 99 cent bin).
Besides, who the fudge backs up DVDs on optical media anymore? Get an Xbox for a hundred bux, a 300 GB HD for another hundred, install XBMC, and archive them to hard drive. You'll save a ton on medial in the long run, and it's much more convient.
I have had at leat 4 local news feeds on my http://my.yahoo.com/ page for the past 3 years.
Jesus, someone needs to get a clue here.
Really good move, I reccomend it.
I love mythbusters too, but if you really think Kari and Scotti are hot, you gotta get out more. They're not ugly, average sure, but far from a "hottie" classification.
The complaint accuses Google, as the dominant provider of Web searches, of violating KinderStart's constitutional right to free speech by blocking search engine results showing Web site content and other communications.
Google is a private company. It has no obligation to endorse Kinderstart's company than any others.
Like I have said before, the constituion gives you a right to freedom of speech, it does not guarentee you an audience. Saying Google should be forced to index Kinderstart *at all*, let alone that it should enfoce some ranking formula, would be akin to saying that a library should be forced to hold a certain book, or that a televsion station be forced to air a certain show.
Don't like the shows on a network? Change the channel. Don't like the results Google provides? Use another engine. It's not like they have a monopoly on web searching.
Wake me up when someone lets me run Windows binaries *inside* Intel OSX. That is the achievement.
... but the entertainment industry in general.
Anyone else notice that movie previews are becoming less and less reflective of the actual movie?
For example, take the recent film Jarhead. Anyone who saw the preview of that, with it's thumping "Jesus Walks" soundtrack and huge explosions, would probably be expecting to see a Blackhawk Down style action-oriented war film. Anyone who saw it knows this is *far from the truth*. While it was a great movie, it was absolutely nothing like it was portrayed in the preview.
This is just one example. I can think of other times where the same film was made to look like an action movie in one preview, and a romantic comedy in another.
It's kind of sad that nowadays you really have no idea what the premise of the film is until you go see it, or look it up on a trusted review site. All it takes is for you to be burned once this way before you become cynical about films at the theatre altogether.
I see nowhere in the announcement that NC Soft plans to charge a monthly fee in adition to having advertisements.
Seeing how they *already* have a very popular MMORPG without a monthly fee (Guild Wars), I don't think it is a stretch to think this one won't either.
To me, owning a computer without Internet access would be like owning a one passenger car without a trunk. Sure, you can still use it, but it makes it's usefulness extremely limited.
Even the smartcar has a passenger seat and minimal trunk space to carry groceries and whatnot. Imagine a car that could *only* drive you around. To me, that's like a computer without the Internet.
I'd argue that the "proof is in the pudding", so to speak: when I can get those friends of mine who practically live in their MMO of choice out into the "real world", I often feel like the non-smoker at a table of smokers when all the chatter about their guild/weapon/whizz-bang-spell-of-the-day starts.
How do you think a non-coder feels when sitting at a table full of programmers?
How do you think a non-jock feels sitting in a sports bar with a bunch of pigskin freaks?
It's all a matter of context. When people with common interests socialize they tend to gravitate towards what they have in common. If you have other commonalities with some of them then not others, you can try steering the conversation that way, but just remember that when you do that, you will be leaving other people feeling the way you do now.
What you find enjoyable != what others find enjoyable.
I find Quake and all other FPS shooters mind-numbingly boring. You'd literally have to pay me to play that crap.
Just buy an external IDE enclosure for $15 bucks anywhere. You can pop a 320 GB drive in that for a fraction of the price of this thing. Plus it is upgradeable.
If you want a smaller drive just do as above but with a 2.5" laptop drive enclosure.
He was a subscriber to a service from a service provider, and that service was cut off. In this case the service is WOW, in the other case, it is cable tv.
Cutting one show from cable while keeping your access would be like cutting access to one realm of WOW while keeping your account open.
I mean, WoW is just a game. It has no real importance other than it employees some people at Blizzard. It amazes me that people take these things so seriously. This guy should be thanking Blizzard for saving him 300 Euros a year.
So, if the only cable company that services your area unilaterally cut off your access for owning a VCR, I could say to you I mean, it is just TV. It has no real importance other than it employees some people in Hollywood. It amazes me that people take these things so seriously. This guy should be thanking Time Warner for saving him 800 dollars a year.
See the difference? Cause I don't. It's all entertainment, none of it has any "importance", unless you are the one using it, has a subscription to it, and has enjoyed it for a long time and has found it an enjoyable way to pass the time.
Start looking at the world from a broader perspective. What you enjoy and consider normal is not the be-all-end-all in your city, country, or planet.
It's called a gamesupposed to be a waste of time. If it wasn't a waste of time then it would be called "work" or "chores", because other than work, chores, eating, and sleeping, everything you do in life is a "waste of time", since it's only purpose is to entertain you.
To each his own, I don't care if you don't like MMORPGs, but you don't have to try to belittle those who do.
Right after he has apparently slid down a flagpole (a strong reference to receiving anal sex), he finds himself in the proverbial sewers, already feeling a deep low from his initial hits wearing off. But after more anal sex, he is high in the mountains, which psychedelically appear as gigantic mushrooms, an obvious result of his hallucinatory state. And then, after even more anal sex, he finds himself in a castle, but it is of his own imagination, built up of his drug-induced isolation, for at the end he thinks he has confronted the kingpin Koopa, but he quickly finds that it is but another hallucination, merely a pusher goomba, though he only discovers this after, in a drug-crazed rage, he kills this apparition of his nemesis.
That made my day. Thanks to the GP :)