What do the likes of cisco do about rejects, do they demand that they are all shipped to some authorised destruction center independent of the manufacturer or do they let the manufacturer dispose of them?
Or maybe a back-doored packet forwarding ASIC which ignores all ACLs to filter a particular netblock, like say 203/8 or 202/7, of which large chunks are in China? (or something more specific if you prefer) A hole that wide would be very likely to get noticed and using just your own IP block would be painting a huge bullseye on you if it ever got found out and would prevent you switching ISPs (dodgy operations don't like to stay in one place for long).
Much better to use some kind of code that is fully within your control and unlikely to be generated by accident.
I bet a huge number of small fixes never get properly attributed in the source tree. Unless you contribute enough to a project that someone notices you and adds you to the credits file and that project is among the places scanned you won't be picked up.
the problem is the same with either open source or propietry software. Even if you have audited the software source you simply cannot reasonablly do a thorough audit on every unit of hardware than the software runs on.
The big change was that the free software foundation set in place a set of rules for what was acceptable to thier definition of "free software" and then set about building a system made entirely of such software.
While thier dicking arround with microkernels meant that someone else had to fill (and to thier annoyance got most of the PR) in the kernel the project as a whole can be considered a success. We now have a wide choice of operating system distributions built up entirely or almost entirely out of software that meets thier defintion of free.
Afaict the cost of maintaining free software is borne mostly by two groups.
1: large companies with more money than sense who buy support contracts. 2: people who donate thier time (which may admittedly be sometimes on thier employers tab but even then thier employer may be winning if the time taken to fix it is less than the time spent fighting with a propietry vendor or hacking together a less than ideal workaround would be)
Truthfully, the Open Source and Free Software probably hasn't cost proprietary vendors much at all. The people who want to pay for support contracts and warranties still do so. But most users don't buy support contracts or warranties for thier propietry software either. Maybe they get a bit of support thrown in but in my experiance few use it and bottom tier support cerainly isn't going to actually fix the code for you.
Afaict there are three main reasons for people to buy software 1: they respect copyright 2: they are afraid of the consequences of getting caught pirating 3: they don't want the hassle of trying to work arround anti piracy measures.
I can go into any mcdonalds and be pretty damn sure I can get something that
1: tastes reasonable, not the worlds nicest but perfectly acceptable. 2: will fill me up 3: comes at an acceptable price. 4: won't give me food poisoning.
Sure a local place may be better than mcdonalds, equally it may be terrible. When you are already tired and worn out and in an unfamiliar place do you really want to risk having to eat a horrible meal or spend yet more time and money going somewhere else?
I'm not saying the adpator frame is a stupid descition, I'm saying making the adaptor frame in a way that doesn't allow use in bays with fixed connectors was stupid.
It would surely have been pretty easy to mount the drive slightly further forward allowing for an optional (=opertunity to make more money by selling an optional accessory) connector possition adaptor to be screwed on.
umm the connector looks like a standard one to me and it looks like it is in the same place as on a laptop drive.
The drive+heatsink combo unfortunately puts the connector in a non standard place meaning you can't put it in the hard drive bays of a mac pro or similar. I would consider this a serious design flaw.
a good implementation of raid 1 (many fakeraid cards unfortunately do a terrible job of implementing raid 1:( ) will allow two reads to happen at the same time which can be a huge boon for performance.
If only adding a drive to a typical PC was that simple. My experiance has been more like:
Work out what adaptors/splitters I need to connect power to the drive and finding/purchasing them. Then discover I can't find a supplier for a molex to molex+sata splitter so I will have to use a seperate splitter and adaptor further adding to the wiring tangle.
Find/purchase a data cable.
find out if the bios is set to legacy or AHCI mode (or if it is an old board with a seperate sata controller that uses it's own manufacturer specific drivers).
If it is set to legacy mode I need to figure out which ports are usable and if there is a need to go through the software pain of a transition from legacy mode to AHCI mode.
I need to struggle to manuvre the hard drive through the tangle of cables found in a typical PC case (at least one that has had some hardware work done on it before a couple of times) sometimes it will be so bad that I have to disconnect some of the existing wiring temporerally.
Then finally I can connect the drive up.
Memory also often involves digging through a huge rats nest of cables.
Big brand PCs are usually neat to start with but they usually don't have any extra wiring in place for the spare drive bays so they can easilly turn into rats nests too.
Yeah, cause plugging in the power cable and then connecting the SATA cable to the motherboard is just such a hard task. If only adding a drive to a typical PC was that simple. My experiance has been more like:
Work out what adaptors/splitters I need to connect power to the drive and finding/purchasing them. Then discover I can't find a supplier for a molex to molex+sata splitter so I will have to use a seperate splitter and adaptor further adding to the wiring tangle.
Find/purchase a data cable.
find out if the bios is set to legacy or AHCI mode (or if it is an old board with a seperate sata controller that uses it's own manufacturer specific drivers).
If it is set to legacy mode I need to figure out which ports are usable and if there is a need to go through the software pain of a transition from legacy mode to AHCI mode.
I need to struggle to manuvre the hard drive through the tangle of cables found in a typical PC case (at least one that has had some hardware work done on it before a couple of times) sometimes it will be so bad that I have to disconnect some of the existing wiring temporerally.
I still think it was an idiotic desison though. I can't imagine it would have cost that more to build a connector position adaptor (or at least mountings for an optional connector position adaptor) into the cooler/mounting frame unit.
actually it will but only one of them and only if you don't have the second optical drive.
Just use a 5.25 inch to 3.5 inch adaptor bracket to fit the drive in the second optical drive bay and connect it with a standard sata cable to one of the sata ports on the board (there are two normal sata ports on the mac pros board presumablly put there in case people want to use sata optical drives).
look how many TLDs are controlled by US operations (ok some of those are used by institutions outside the USA but at least 3 aren't) before you go bitching at russia.
Do.su domains still require you to hold a passport from a former soviet country? don't think so.
seems the prices on.su domains have dropped down to the same level as.ru domains too (they used to be a LOT more expensive) which probablly has something to do with this uptake surge.
Maybe things are different in the USA but here in the UK academics are by and large those who want freedom to do research that isn't immediately commercial.
Teaching is something they have to do but thier abilities and attitude regarding teching have no real effect on thier career. Some of them do a good job, some are ok and some are frankly awfull.
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What do the likes of cisco do about rejects, do they demand that they are all shipped to some authorised destruction center independent of the manufacturer or do they let the manufacturer dispose of them?
Or maybe a back-doored packet forwarding ASIC which ignores all ACLs to filter a particular netblock, like say 203/8 or 202/7, of which large chunks are in China? (or something more specific if you prefer)
A hole that wide would be very likely to get noticed and using just your own IP block would be painting a huge bullseye on you if it ever got found out and would prevent you switching ISPs (dodgy operations don't like to stay in one place for long).
Much better to use some kind of code that is fully within your control and unlikely to be generated by accident.
I bet a huge number of small fixes never get properly attributed in the source tree. Unless you contribute enough to a project that someone notices you and adds you to the credits file and that project is among the places scanned you won't be picked up.
the problem is the same with either open source or propietry software. Even if you have audited the software source you simply cannot reasonablly do a thorough audit on every unit of hardware than the software runs on.
The big change was that the free software foundation set in place a set of rules for what was acceptable to thier definition of "free software" and then set about building a system made entirely of such software.
While thier dicking arround with microkernels meant that someone else had to fill (and to thier annoyance got most of the PR) in the kernel the project as a whole can be considered a success. We now have a wide choice of operating system distributions built up entirely or almost entirely out of software that meets thier defintion of free.
Afaict the cost of maintaining free software is borne mostly by two groups.
1: large companies with more money than sense who buy support contracts.
2: people who donate thier time (which may admittedly be sometimes on thier employers tab but even then thier employer may be winning if the time taken to fix it is less than the time spent fighting with a propietry vendor or hacking together a less than ideal workaround would be)
Most ordinary users get a free ride.
Truthfully, the Open Source and Free Software probably hasn't cost proprietary vendors much at all. The people who want to pay for support contracts and warranties still do so.
But most users don't buy support contracts or warranties for thier propietry software either. Maybe they get a bit of support thrown in but in my experiance few use it and bottom tier support cerainly isn't going to actually fix the code for you.
Afaict there are three main reasons for people to buy software
1: they respect copyright
2: they are afraid of the consequences of getting caught pirating
3: they don't want the hassle of trying to work arround anti piracy measures.
can anyone explain this rickrolled thing to me, it looks like a fairly ordinary music video to me (admittedly I got bored before reaching the end).
I can go into any mcdonalds and be pretty damn sure I can get something that
1: tastes reasonable, not the worlds nicest but perfectly acceptable.
2: will fill me up
3: comes at an acceptable price.
4: won't give me food poisoning.
Sure a local place may be better than mcdonalds, equally it may be terrible. When you are already tired and worn out and in an unfamiliar place do you really want to risk having to eat a horrible meal or spend yet more time and money going somewhere else?
it's just whoever happens to have modpoints on the day you post.
I'm not saying the adpator frame is a stupid descition, I'm saying making the adaptor frame in a way that doesn't allow use in bays with fixed connectors was stupid.
It would surely have been pretty easy to mount the drive slightly further forward allowing for an optional (=opertunity to make more money by selling an optional accessory) connector possition adaptor to be screwed on.
quantum tried going back to 5.25 inch a while back (pentium era), the drives were cheap for thier capacity but flopped anyway.
For normal hard drives capacity is going up much faster than speed so I don't think further trading off speed for capacity would appeal to most users.
no they are 2.5 cold canadian inches.
umm the connector looks like a standard one to me and it looks like it is in the same place as on a laptop drive.
The drive+heatsink combo unfortunately puts the connector in a non standard place meaning you can't put it in the hard drive bays of a mac pro or similar. I would consider this a serious design flaw.
a good implementation of raid 1 (many fakeraid cards unfortunately do a terrible job of implementing raid 1 :( ) will allow two reads to happen at the same time which can be a huge boon for performance.
I would have thought that with a good raid controller the effect of raid 1on write performance would be too small to notice.
looking at the pictures from http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=28012 (unfortunately registration is required) it looks like this drive could probablly be fitted with no problems..
If only adding a drive to a typical PC was that simple. My experiance has been more like:
Work out what adaptors/splitters I need to connect power to the drive and finding/purchasing them. Then discover I can't find a supplier for a molex to molex+sata splitter so I will have to use a seperate splitter and adaptor further adding to the wiring tangle.
Find/purchase a data cable.
find out if the bios is set to legacy or AHCI mode (or if it is an old board with a seperate sata controller that uses it's own manufacturer specific drivers).
If it is set to legacy mode I need to figure out which ports are usable and if there is a need to go through the software pain of a transition from legacy mode to AHCI mode.
I need to struggle to manuvre the hard drive through the tangle of cables found in a typical PC case (at least one that has had some hardware work done on it before a couple of times) sometimes it will be so bad that I have to disconnect some of the existing wiring temporerally.
Then finally I can connect the drive up.
Memory also often involves digging through a huge rats nest of cables.
Big brand PCs are usually neat to start with but they usually don't have any extra wiring in place for the spare drive bays so they can easilly turn into rats nests too.
Yeah, cause plugging in the power cable and then connecting the SATA cable to the motherboard is just such a hard task.
If only adding a drive to a typical PC was that simple. My experiance has been more like:
Work out what adaptors/splitters I need to connect power to the drive and finding/purchasing them. Then discover I can't find a supplier for a molex to molex+sata splitter so I will have to use a seperate splitter and adaptor further adding to the wiring tangle.
Find/purchase a data cable.
find out if the bios is set to legacy or AHCI mode (or if it is an old board with a seperate sata controller that uses it's own manufacturer specific drivers).
If it is set to legacy mode I need to figure out which ports are usable and if there is a need to go through the software pain of a transition from legacy mode to AHCI mode.
I need to struggle to manuvre the hard drive through the tangle of cables found in a typical PC case (at least one that has had some hardware work done on it before a couple of times) sometimes it will be so bad that I have to disconnect some of the existing wiring temporerally.
Then finally I can connect the drive up.
Ahh right, that makes sense.
I still think it was an idiotic desison though. I can't imagine it would have cost that more to build a connector position adaptor (or at least mountings for an optional connector position adaptor) into the cooler/mounting frame unit.
actually it will but only one of them and only if you don't have the second optical drive.
Just use a 5.25 inch to 3.5 inch adaptor bracket to fit the drive in the second optical drive bay and connect it with a standard sata cable to one of the sata ports on the board (there are two normal sata ports on the mac pros board presumablly put there in case people want to use sata optical drives).
Afaict while they use 2.5 inch platters the complete drive is 3.5 inch size.
look how many TLDs are controlled by US operations (ok some of those are used by institutions outside the USA but at least 3 aren't) before you go bitching at russia.
Do .su domains still require you to hold a passport from a former soviet country?
.su domains have dropped down to the same level as .ru domains too (they used to be a LOT more expensive) which probablly has something to do with this uptake surge.
don't think so.
seems the prices on
Maybe things are different in the USA but here in the UK academics are by and large those who want freedom to do research that isn't immediately commercial.
Teaching is something they have to do but thier abilities and attitude regarding teching have no real effect on thier career. Some of them do a good job, some are ok and some are frankly awfull.