When I tried yum it seemed to be horribly slow (at least in terms of working out what it should do in response to my command, i'm not sure about actual package install times).Unfortunately this kind of thing is rather hard to quantify (and also sadly apt doesn't seem anywhere near as fast as it used to be)
Also the quality of the packaing seems poor. Once I accidently removed my desktop on a redhat box and I never managed to get gdm to work afterwards. I suspected a missing dependency but with no usable errors it was impossible to figure out what.
The other big thing that gets me about fedora at least is the sheer bloat. The last release that came on CDs needed three of them to do a default desktop install and that was several releases ago. Nowadays they don't even bother making CDs. Contrast that to debian and ubuntu who both manage to get a usable desktop install from a single install.
An Intel CPU should never show up in North Korea, for example. But given that intel CPUs are sold over the counter with no verification in many countries worldwide the US government doesn't have much hope in stopping them getting there.
export controls may work for military or large industrial or scientific products but they don't have a hope for anything sold over the counter to consumers.
I see a bigger issue in buisness networks. Many places rely heavilly on windows file and print sharing so blocking it complely is not an option and iirc the basic browse/name resoloution system tends to get upset if you try and do any kind of firewalling.
One infected machine behind the firewall could easilly reak havok.
1: upgrade to a new version of windows (IIRC microsofts lifecycle policy says there will be at least two years between the release of windows 7 and the end of security updates for XP) 2: switch to another OS 3: stick with XP and work to reduce your exposure by other means 3a: use a software firewall to severely restrict what if any machines can connect to file and print sharing on your machine 3b: don't serve files or printers off windows client machines, give that job to a dedicated box running a supported version of windows or linux. 3c: Use a virus checker (not perfect but good as a second line of defense if something bad does get onto a "trusted" machine somehow.
And as such I would expect most people selling machines with pirate copies of windows/using pirate copies to do reinstalls for people to leave automatic updates completely disabled.
Yeah, the trouble is they made windows genuine advantage notifications a "critical" update and worse if you are in semi-automatic mode, decline it and tell it not to show it again it will reappear when they do a new version of it.
So those who want to avoid getting it rammed in thier face that they are running "pirate" windows can't use fully automatic updates and if they use semi-automatic updates they have to check for wga in the list every time.
The people this is good for is smaller sites. Afaict most users will already have an account from at least one openID provider. Therefore people will be able to log into your small site without having to create yet another ID.
It probablly depends on where you live. Here in the UK every bank/building society operated ATM i've seen takes the card whole (and if it thinks it's stolen it WILL NOT give it back).
I'm not sure what the situation is with private ATMs since i've only used one once (they charge for withdrawls so only the stupid and the desperate are likely to use them).
Making something take one percent longer doesn't seem significant and probablly won't even be noticed in most testing. But do that a hundred times and your performance is worse than halved.
Package managers help a bit but they alone are not the answer, I can easilly make a RPM or DEB or MSI that leaves cruft arround after it is removed,
A major reason linux distros don't suffer from bad uninstallation as much as windows does is because most linux users get most of thier software through the distro. This is a double edged sword, on the plus side it means the distro does quality control and integration testing. On the negative side it means if you want recent versions of software it is hard to avoid frequently upgrading your entire operating system.
Maybe that'll work for china and other countries which try to control thier citizens internet access, but I imagine it would be much harder to enforce elsewhere.
Also even in places like china will websites really want to cut themselves off from people who have an internet connection that doesn't use a chineese ISPs dns servers (say because they work for a foriegn company and all thier traffic goes through a VPN)?
Basic osciliscopes can be picked up secondhand pretty cheap either off ebay or at places like HAM meetups as more and more people are upgrading to a digital storage oscilliscope (DSO). I'm not sure if anyone makes them new anymore.
Most scopes are dual trace. I would avoid single trace scopes because you can't compare imput and output with them. Four trace and above scopes tend to be expensive (i've never actually seen a three trace in person or for sale, I think I may have seen one in a marketing pic once but it may have been a four channel with one of the channels turned off).
Check the max freqency, if all you plan to do is play with audio frequency and lower circuits any scope is fine but if you want to do microcontroller work then you need something faster.
If you plan to do any digital/microcontroller work I would strongly reccomend a DSO. There are some cheap chineese DSOs on the market now that are only a few hundred dollars. The max frequency on them isn't great but it's just about high enough for working with pics and similar.
PC based scopes are another option, i've never liked the things myself though.
Well there is the cost of getting there in the first place. Also I highly doubt that a mars colony will be self sufficiant for a LONG time so someone will have to pay for resupply missions too.
The chances that your RAID will have a double failure causing your data to be lost are just about the same as the chances that your RAID will have a single failure and your tape backup also has a failure. The thing is even if you belive that double disk failures in a raid are unlikely there are many other threats to data that raid DOES NOT protect from. For example
* Accidental deletion * theft or destruction (e.g. by fire) of all the drives in the array * PSU failure killing the controllers on all the drives in the array at once. (this one is probablly recoverable but not without a lot of pain)
And a sensible tape backup strategy won't reuse the same tape for every backup. It will cycle the tapes so that at any time there is always at least one tape and prefferablly more offsite.
If people were intelligent enough, they would realize that the carriers make up for the subsidies in hidden fees over the years. But you are paying the same subscription whether you take the subsidised phone or not. So not taking the subsidised phone and buying a phone elsewhere essentially means you are paying twice.
The devices that simply have circuit boards and cables can possiblly be saved by disassembly followed by thourough cleaning (I wouldn't worry too much about the cleaning agent damaging the boards, PCB assemblies are pretty tough generally just get the boards rinsed and dried thouroughly before reassembly). I wouldn't hold out much hope for cleaning the TV without destroying it though.
1: how much extra will a roadable airplane cost compared to a normal one? 2: how much will this cost to insure (i'm betting a lot, particularlly for fully comprehensive cover) 3: how long will it take to convert between airplane and car modes?
In summary will it really be cheaper and/or more conviniant than hiring a car at your destination airport?
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When I tried yum it seemed to be horribly slow (at least in terms of working out what it should do in response to my command, i'm not sure about actual package install times).Unfortunately this kind of thing is rather hard to quantify (and also sadly apt doesn't seem anywhere near as fast as it used to be)
Also the quality of the packaing seems poor. Once I accidently removed my desktop on a redhat box and I never managed to get gdm to work afterwards. I suspected a missing dependency but with no usable errors it was impossible to figure out what.
The other big thing that gets me about fedora at least is the sheer bloat. The last release that came on CDs needed three of them to do a default desktop install and that was several releases ago. Nowadays they don't even bother making CDs. Contrast that to debian and ubuntu who both manage to get a usable desktop install from a single install.
I always thought the money came from taking royalties on every game released for the platform.
An Intel CPU should never show up in North Korea, for example.
But given that intel CPUs are sold over the counter with no verification in many countries worldwide the US government doesn't have much hope in stopping them getting there.
export controls may work for military or large industrial or scientific products but they don't have a hope for anything sold over the counter to consumers.
I see a bigger issue in buisness networks. Many places rely heavilly on windows file and print sharing so blocking it complely is not an option and iirc the basic browse/name resoloution system tends to get upset if you try and do any kind of firewalling.
One infected machine behind the firewall could easilly reak havok.
1: upgrade to a new version of windows (IIRC microsofts lifecycle policy says there will be at least two years between the release of windows 7 and the end of security updates for XP)
2: switch to another OS
3: stick with XP and work to reduce your exposure by other means
3a: use a software firewall to severely restrict what if any machines can connect to file and print sharing on your machine
3b: don't serve files or printers off windows client machines, give that job to a dedicated box running a supported version of windows or linux.
3c: Use a virus checker (not perfect but good as a second line of defense if something bad does get onto a "trusted" machine somehow.
And as such I would expect most people selling machines with pirate copies of windows/using pirate copies to do reinstalls for people to leave automatic updates completely disabled.
Yeah, the trouble is they made windows genuine advantage notifications a "critical" update and worse if you are in semi-automatic mode, decline it and tell it not to show it again it will reappear when they do a new version of it.
So those who want to avoid getting it rammed in thier face that they are running "pirate" windows can't use fully automatic updates and if they use semi-automatic updates they have to check for wga in the list every time.
The people this is good for is smaller sites. Afaict most users will already have an account from at least one openID provider. Therefore people will be able to log into your small site without having to create yet another ID.
The site is supposed to redirect your browser to your provider for you to perform the actual login.
Of course you do have to pay attention to what site you are giving your password to......................
It probablly depends on where you live. Here in the UK every bank/building society operated ATM i've seen takes the card whole (and if it thinks it's stolen it WILL NOT give it back).
I'm not sure what the situation is with private ATMs since i've only used one once (they charge for withdrawls so only the stupid and the desperate are likely to use them).
Ubuntu Server 7.04
You do realise that release stopped getting security updates 10 days ago right?
depends if it is in airplane mode or car mode.
I thought it was usually the merchant who got screwed............
software gets slow a percent or so at a time.
Making something take one percent longer doesn't seem significant and probablly won't even be noticed in most testing. But do that a hundred times and your performance is worse than halved.
Package managers help a bit but they alone are not the answer, I can easilly make a RPM or DEB or MSI that leaves cruft arround after it is removed,
A major reason linux distros don't suffer from bad uninstallation as much as windows does is because most linux users get most of thier software through the distro. This is a double edged sword, on the plus side it means the distro does quality control and integration testing. On the negative side it means if you want recent versions of software it is hard to avoid frequently upgrading your entire operating system.
Maybe that'll work for china and other countries which try to control thier citizens internet access, but I imagine it would be much harder to enforce elsewhere.
Also even in places like china will websites really want to cut themselves off from people who have an internet connection that doesn't use a chineese ISPs dns servers (say because they work for a foriegn company and all thier traffic goes through a VPN)?
according to RFC2026 the following TLDs are officially reserved .test .example .invalid .localhost
personally I'd put a second network card in my PC and put it on a private network.
Do they provide restore media?
What is your budget?
Basic osciliscopes can be picked up secondhand pretty cheap either off ebay or at places like HAM meetups as more and more people are upgrading to a digital storage oscilliscope (DSO). I'm not sure if anyone makes them new anymore.
Most scopes are dual trace. I would avoid single trace scopes because you can't compare imput and output with them. Four trace and above scopes tend to be expensive (i've never actually seen a three trace in person or for sale, I think I may have seen one in a marketing pic once but it may have been a four channel with one of the channels turned off).
Check the max freqency, if all you plan to do is play with audio frequency and lower circuits any scope is fine but if you want to do microcontroller work then you need something faster.
If you plan to do any digital/microcontroller work I would strongly reccomend a DSO. There are some cheap chineese DSOs on the market now that are only a few hundred dollars. The max frequency on them isn't great but it's just about high enough for working with pics and similar.
PC based scopes are another option, i've never liked the things myself though.
Well there is the cost of getting there in the first place. Also I highly doubt that a mars colony will be self sufficiant for a LONG time so someone will have to pay for resupply missions too.
The chances that your RAID will have a double failure causing your data to be lost are just about the same as the chances that your RAID will have a single failure and your tape backup also has a failure.
The thing is even if you belive that double disk failures in a raid are unlikely there are many other threats to data that raid DOES NOT protect from. For example
* Accidental deletion
* theft or destruction (e.g. by fire) of all the drives in the array
* PSU failure killing the controllers on all the drives in the array at once. (this one is probablly recoverable but not without a lot of pain)
And a sensible tape backup strategy won't reuse the same tape for every backup. It will cycle the tapes so that at any time there is always at least one tape and prefferablly more offsite.
If people were intelligent enough, they would realize that the carriers make up for the subsidies in hidden fees over the years.
But you are paying the same subscription whether you take the subsidised phone or not. So not taking the subsidised phone and buying a phone elsewhere essentially means you are paying twice.
The devices that simply have circuit boards and cables can possiblly be saved by disassembly followed by thourough cleaning (I wouldn't worry too much about the cleaning agent damaging the boards, PCB assemblies are pretty tough generally just get the boards rinsed and dried thouroughly before reassembly). I wouldn't hold out much hope for cleaning the TV without destroying it though.
The big questions are
1: how much extra will a roadable airplane cost compared to a normal one?
2: how much will this cost to insure (i'm betting a lot, particularlly for fully comprehensive cover)
3: how long will it take to convert between airplane and car modes?
In summary will it really be cheaper and/or more conviniant than hiring a car at your destination airport?
Right, what is missing is a "new 9x", something to bring us most of the benifits of 64 bit without the huge compatibility issues of going pure 64 bit.