"RAR compression operations are typically slower than compressing the same data with ZIP, but a much better rate of compression is achieved whenever the data can still be compressed further."
Pfft what world do you live in... we dont get to choose which OS we use today... everywhere you turn you are forced to use M$... it takes real will power to reject MS!
Situation 1:Using windows is like smoking was 50 years ago, everyone smoked and if you decided that you didnt want to smoke, everyone around you would try and get you to smoke, everywhere provided for smokers but there were no non-smoking areas...
Situation 2: 10/15 years ago you had a choice if you wanted to smoke there were smoking and non-smoking areas everywhere, you could choose to smoke if u wanted or not and it didnt affect anything other than you...
Situation 3: Today it has gone the other way most people dont smoke and fewer and fewer restraunts have smoking areas people who smoke are encouraged not to and arent..
I dont smoke and im not encouraging the use but it does show a good example of what i mean about not having real choice...
At the moment we are in about Situation 1.2 when it comes to the desktop... Fortunatly when it comes to servers we are about 1.8:)
Varying the twist rate only helps when u have several cables together ( Think 4 or 5 cables in a conduit ). Basically it just reduces the chance that 2 cables next to each other are going to have exactly the same twist rate.
In other words it reduces cross-talk between cables:)
As for your second argument regarding portability issues with Java, they're no more prominent than the issues with C, etc... since they're rooted in OS constructs, more than language barriers... the X: drive on windows, vs. the / root structure on unix platforms... All that asside, the cross platform issues in.Net and Java are nothing compared to the issues in GUI frameworks for cross platform development to begin with...
That was my point... java is no more cross-platform compatable than C++ !
Oh and btw, anyone who claims that java is good because you can run it on every OS has never written more than a few lines... any real java program falls into the "if this OS do this" problem meaning that you have to write the program for every OS you want to support and may as well have written the same thing in c/c++ and compiled for the supported OS's resulting in smaller (file and memory size) and faster programs.
Why you would pick a Proprietary language over a language defined by a public standard is beyond me!
I think it was summed up best by Noel on Linux Today:
"[Laura DiDio] has no clue about writing code. Not a single bit at all... For goodness sake this person has only a B.A. in communication degree. She writes magazine articles not code..."
That one line sums up Laura DiDio perfectly, she doesnt have any qualifications in IT, she should go do what she has the training and abilities to do... Write reports on supernatural occurances and alien abductions for supermarket tabloids...
Yeah, I know all the marketing hype but from what I have seen java has been pain when it comes to... well... anything! Interoperability between operating systems doesnt work like its suppose to and often in order for a program to run each supported os has to have huge chunks of code rewriten with if this os do this if this os do that...
and i dont know what your smoking but any thing written in Assembly will be faster smoother and smaller than the best java code period.
Personally i would rather recompile C code everytime i wanted to use it and optimise it for the specific system i wanted than use the steaming pile of cr&p known as java.
Well they knew that the Komodo dragon had an extremely strong immune system capable of killing most things, along time ago yet they still havent been able to use that to help anyone... so its likely that this is still a long way off...
We could tell them to write it in java instead of C/Assembly, that way it will propagate slower as the files will be larger, the code will use more memory and there will be more processing overhead...:)
Since the feds could just walk into your isp and demand that all traffic going to and from you be logged, why do they need to screw with our hardware installing global backdoors for hackers and viruses alike!
In other words they already have this access, why fuck with the CPE!
OK so 46% of video is in microsoft formats, but probally not using microsoft codecs...
AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a microsoft format but the audio codec most commonly used is mp3 and the most common video codec used is DivX / XviD. From a technical point of view 46% of video probally is in microsoft formats but the amount of microsoft video formats containing microsoft codecs is probally very low!
the problem isnt with using md5 because its well known (thats like saying windows is more secure than linux because you cant see the windows source) the problem is in the process used any hash would have had the same problems
So Basically all layer 1/2 broadband devices affected by this, will now have all the extra processing overhead and cost the same as a layer 4 broadband device...as all the extra stuff will have to go in just for the the FEDs to have their precious backdoor...
you can kiss your cheap, low latency broadband connection goodbye!
This is not the first time that an ISP has blocked something they don't agree with, for example
They block port 25 because they don't want customers accessing external emailservers (yes I hate spam too, but blocking ports is just DUMB)
Now they block websites they don't want people accessing ( i.e. union pages )
They sometimes block port 6881 ( and other p2p ports ) as they don't want customers using excessive bandwidth, so they prevent bit torrent and the like from operating correctly.
Personally I think that all of the above constitue the ISP limiting your freedom of speech or civil rights...
I mean, would you allow your ISP to prevent you having certain conversations with people ( blocking ports ) or prevent you from talking to certain people all together ( blocking sites ).
ISPs don't provide a service they only provide ACCESS to a service they don't own - the Internet
Another analogy would be if when you used a toll road, you were only permitted to go certain places, once you got off the toll road?? or that you couldn't do certain things like send your mail?
Netgear FSM7326P - 24+2port POE one of the first large POE switches (yes i know, cisco, but they are mega bucks)
Grandstream GXP2000's for everyone:)
APC 1500XL UPS - runs all of the above during a power outage
That setup has worked perfectly during our frequent poweroutages ( we have one about every month for about 45min ) If POE hadnt been avaiable we wouldnt have even been able to consider converting to VOIP!
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Rar kicked ass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR Need i say more?
Pfft what world do you live in... we dont get to choose which OS we use today... everywhere you turn you are forced to use M$... it takes real will power to reject MS!
:)
Situation 1:Using windows is like smoking was 50 years ago, everyone smoked and if you decided that you didnt want to smoke, everyone around you would try and get you to smoke, everywhere provided for smokers but there were no non-smoking areas...
Situation 2: 10/15 years ago you had a choice if you wanted to smoke there were smoking and non-smoking areas everywhere, you could choose to smoke if u wanted or not and it didnt affect anything other than you...
Situation 3: Today it has gone the other way most people dont smoke and fewer and fewer restraunts have smoking areas people who smoke are encouraged not to and arent..
I dont smoke and im not encouraging the use but it does show a good example of what i mean about not having real choice...
At the moment we are in about Situation 1.2 when it comes to the desktop... Fortunatly when it comes to servers we are about 1.8
if the equipment lasts 10 years and it means that instead of requiring 2 lifegaurds to watch a pool you only need 1 person to do actual life saving
2 people x 20,000 per year for 10 years = 400,000
pisidon + 1 person x 20,000 per year for 10 years = 265,000
Varying the twist rate only helps when u have several cables together ( Think 4 or 5 cables in a conduit ). Basically it just reduces the chance that 2 cables next to each other are going to have exactly the same twist rate.
:)
In other words it reduces cross-talk between cables
gammar - yeah, and slashdot needs a gammar and speel checker
As for your second argument regarding portability issues with Java, they're no more prominent than the issues with C, etc... since they're rooted in OS constructs, more than language barriers... the X: drive on windows, vs. the / root structure on unix platforms... All that asside, the cross platform issues in .Net and Java are nothing compared to the issues in GUI frameworks for cross platform development to begin with...
That was my point... java is no more cross-platform compatable than C++ !
Java and .NET Suck for one reason and one reason only... They are Proprietary!
.NET is owned by Micro$oft and therefore using their code requires using their dlls or runtime compilers etc/ ch5.html#s-license-concerns
Java is owned by Sun and
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq
Oh and btw, anyone who claims that java is good because you can run it on every OS has never written more than a few lines...
any real java program falls into the "if this OS do this" problem meaning that you have to write the program for every OS you want to support and may as well have written the same thing in c/c++ and compiled for the supported OS's resulting in smaller (file and memory size) and faster programs.
Why you would pick a Proprietary language over a language defined by a public standard is beyond me!
Robber0: Hey man, check out this thing!
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Robber1: What the hell is it...
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Oh the Irony
I think it was summed up best by Noel on Linux Today:
"[Laura DiDio] has no clue about writing code. Not a single bit at all... For goodness sake this person has only a B.A. in communication degree. She writes magazine articles not code..."
That one line sums up Laura DiDio perfectly, she doesnt have any qualifications in IT, she should go do what she has the training and abilities to do... Write reports on supernatural occurances and alien abductions for supermarket tabloids...
Yeah, I know all the marketing hype but from what I have seen java has been pain when it comes to... well... anything! Interoperability between operating systems doesnt work like its suppose to and often in order for a program to run each supported os has to have huge chunks of code rewriten with if this os do this if this os do that...
and i dont know what your smoking but any thing written in Assembly will be faster smoother and smaller than the best java code period.
Personally i would rather recompile C code everytime i wanted to use it and optimise it for the specific system i wanted than use the steaming pile of cr&p known as java.
Well they knew that the Komodo dragon had an extremely strong immune system capable of killing most things, along time ago yet they still havent been able to use that to help anyone... so its likely that this is still a long way off...
yeah and this backdoor would give them what kind of advantage...
We could tell them to write it in java instead of C/Assembly, that way it will propagate slower as the files will be larger, the code will use more memory and there will be more processing overhead... :)
Im sorry but how is that relavent to them tapping VoIP?
Since the feds could just walk into your isp and demand that all traffic going to and from you be logged, why do they need to screw with our hardware installing global backdoors for hackers and viruses alike!
In other words they already have this access, why fuck with the CPE!
OK so 46% of video is in microsoft formats, but probally not using microsoft codecs...
AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a microsoft format but the audio codec most commonly used is mp3 and the most common video codec used is DivX / XviD.
From a technical point of view 46% of video probally is in microsoft formats but the amount of microsoft video formats containing microsoft codecs is probally very low!
the problem isnt with using md5 because its well known (thats like saying windows is more secure than linux because you cant see the windows source) the problem is in the process used any hash would have had the same problems
So Basically all layer 1/2 broadband devices affected by this, will now have all the extra processing overhead and cost the same as a layer 4 broadband device...as all the extra stuff will have to go in just for the the FEDs to have their precious backdoor...
you can kiss your cheap, low latency broadband connection goodbye!
This is not the first time that an ISP has blocked something they don't agree with, for example
They block port 25 because they don't want customers accessing external emailservers (yes I hate spam too, but blocking ports is just DUMB)
Now they block websites they don't want people accessing ( i.e. union pages )
They sometimes block port 6881 ( and other p2p ports ) as they don't want customers using excessive bandwidth, so they prevent bit torrent and the like from operating correctly.
Personally I think that all of the above constitue the ISP limiting your freedom of speech or civil rights...
I mean, would you allow your ISP to prevent you having certain conversations with people ( blocking ports ) or prevent you from talking to certain people all together ( blocking sites ).
ISPs don't provide a service they only provide ACCESS to a service they don't own - the Internet
Another analogy would be if when you used a toll road, you were only permitted to go certain places, once you got off the toll road?? or that you couldn't do certain things like send your mail?
Well son freedom is something that we used to have before the PATRIOT act was passed...
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No they would only need to build GPS equipment into VoIP equipment capable of roaming...
:)
VoIP equipment that is unable to roam could have a fixed gps location.
on closer examination...
NOT A DUPE
previous was just hacking into the NSLU2 and adding services... this is actually installing a whole new OS
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/ 18/031228&tid=222&tid=198&tid=156&tid=1
mind you it is a dupe from last year :P
- Dell SC800 - running Debian with Asterisk
- TDM400P - In the Dell server
- Netgear FSM7326P - 24+2port POE one of the first large POE switches (yes i know, cisco, but they are mega bucks)
- Grandstream GXP2000's for everyone
:)
- APC 1500XL UPS - runs all of the above during a power outage
That setup has worked perfectly during our frequent poweroutages ( we have one about every month for about 45min )If POE hadnt been avaiable we wouldnt have even been able to consider converting to VOIP!
Not sure what i mean?
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