I started with BASIC on a Commodore 16, moved to a 128 with 64 mode. With a basic introduction to it, I taught myself machine language for the 6510 using a chip reference book.
Then I started working on the IBM clone computers at work. I would definitely say that had I gone as in depth with an IBM clone rather than a Commodore 64, I would have been better prepared for coding on 80386's.
If you are talking about learning a GUI, several of us here switched to Mac OS X. That was about a month long learning curve, and over a year later I still don't know all the shortcuts I know in Windows.
Yea, it does make a difference what you learn on. Our schools were on Mac's a few years back. Now they run Vista on Dell. While I love the Mac, it's not what my kinds need to be learning in school.
I would like to know many is "many"???? Are we talking 20 people?
Did the paper actively seek out people to add to this "many" count by saying polling with misleading questions?
Sounds like a case of people bitching just to bitch, which people love to do. I pay for XMRadio so I can listen to Foxnews. But NO, I can't stream it through the online XMRadio player, and I have to pay an extra $3/mo to even stream XM on my iPhone. Wahh. Yet Fox News is free to stream through iTunes under radio stations. This seems like a much more interesting story than, OMG, a new paper published one article online which was not in print.
So here is what I imagine. You know how a generator works, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_generator Spinning copper wire around a shaft generating a current. And something has to spin the shaft.
With this, the idea is that the generator is something resonating. e.g. It is just moving back and forth. So you make these very small, and put them inline with a battery. If you come within a resonate field, your batteries are automatically charged.
There is a lot of waste. It's never going to be as energy efficient to plug one of field generators into a wall to charge up, versus an electrical cord. However, what if you use other power sources? Solar for example. Plug in a resonate field generator into a solar source, and have it generate this field all day long. You come home, leave your cell phone and Laptop unused on your desk, and by morning it is charged. That's the idea, at least. Baby first steps.
I own an Blu-Ray. Yet I still purchase and rent DVDs. Yes, the picture quality is great on Blu-Ray. But it's a pain in the rear making it work. The local rental store charges more, and the disks are a lot more to purchase.
I hook up the Blu-Ray to my HD TV, and some of the time HDCP gives some error, causing me to reboot Blu-Ray and watch all the commercials yet again. Or the Blu-Ray starts skipping frames. I don't care about the quality when the frame rate drops to 15FPS. That is really nasty to watch.
Blu-Ray probably is the future. This Christmas, players will likely be in the $90 range. It will likely be the hot Christmas gift. As the prices drop over the next 5 years, it will begin to replace DVDs, and DVD's will go the way of VHS. This just takes time as prices fall.
As an owner of an Asus EEE BOX 206 with an ATI HD video card, I could only agree that it would suite the needs of most users if Adobe would get up off their but and create decent GPU offloading capabilities into Flash.
The EEE has an Atom and draws 19W max. It plays DVD's just fine. Not being able to stream YouTube or HULU really sucks, though.
I question if producing 8 different chip sets is as cost effective is perhaps producing three? The more quantity you can produce of a single chip, the cheaper manufacturing becomes, right?
Once this is out, Tether your iPhone to your work PC via USB or Bluetooth. Create a connection through the iPhone to the Internet. (With T-Mobile phones you can alread do this, but it's so expensive.)
Most companies do URL filtering at the gateway. With tethering you bypass such filtering restrictions.
In the USA; If I browse adult stuff at work on works PC and Internet connection, work can be held libel. If I browse adult stuff on the iPhone at work using my own Internet connect, it is less likely that work can be held libel.
But what if I provide my own wireless Internet connection and bypass the filters work has in place?
I speak as one who does the filtering, not one who is trying to bypass them.
The funny thing is that all these commercials say as long as I have cable, I am ok. But is that really true if the rural cable operator is taking the analog OTA feed and sending it through the cable?
Our local OTA analog stations are broadcasting a scroll stating that since I can see the scroll, I am not on digital and will be cut off during the transition. My HDTV on these channels in digital do not have the scroll. My cable does.
I wonder how many cable operators are going to be displaying an empty analog channel come the cutoff?
I can't image this would be the case. Either there will be an option right on the desktop or upon first run where the user selects between Opera, Safari, or IE (I doubt Firefox or Chrome.) OR there will be an easy way to add/remove programs and add IE. And you can probably still teach them to add the address bar to explorer and type in a web address, watching explorer magically turn into Internet Explorer.
This doesn't affect anyone outside the EU so it doesn't affect me.
This is something that should seriously be open sourced. Sure, there are open source projects out there, but they are poorly updated.
Of all the work done on all the open source projects, it would be nice to see this going. Once you get the engine working, I'm sure there are enough viruses which the community would submit.
For the record, I do use Clamwin among others. I am aware the parent company that recently bought ClamAV is working on a real time scanner. And also that it misses things that my Nod32 or Symantec ESS will pick up. I am also aware of openantivirus.org and the fact that it's pattern files are from 2004.
Perhaps some of us need to fork and combine these and work with Virus Total to come up with some open source commercial real time AV?
It says so right on their common myths page; https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pciscc_ten_common_myths.pdf Quote "Successful completion of a system scan or assesssment for PCI is but a snapshot in time. Security exploits are non-stop and get stronger every day, which is why PCI compliance efforts must be a continuous process of assessment and remediation to ensure safety of cardholder data."
It's a very good PDF to read. Now if the auditor said they were PCI Compliant and there was something obvious he negligently overlooked, that would be another thing. But PCI does not mean you can not have a data breech. You can never be 100% protected from that. What if someone came in, put a gun to a privileged employees head, said give me all your data or he dies? Will PCI stop him?
vMotion is very noticeable. Some things fail when it happens. Zenworks 6.5 is an example.
With Xen, we setup a VNC mirror. EG the guest was VNC Viewing itself. We were moving a window around and then we moved the guest from Xen server 1 to 2 (we have iSCSI BTW.) There was a noticeable affect that lasted for less than a second, but then we were on XEN #2.
It's nice to see VMWare getting this feature right with vSphere.
>>And what's -really- the difference between a server going down locally that affects you and a server going down globally that affects you? Nothing.
Actually, I disagree. There is a difference. If it's local and I own it, I have to fix it. If it's outsourced and Google owns it, I sit back and let Google fix it. Which is nice.
ThePlanet.com had a bad switch install a few days ago which brought down part of our cloud. Our website was down, as was our access to Google DNS gave an IP down there for Google. If you look at the last year, the cloud solution has had a better uptime than what I was providing computing in planned maintenance, patching, updates and all.
It was nice to leave at 5pm, knowing ThePlanet would fix the switch and get us back up. And they did. It's a lot easier to gripe about the cloud being down and sit back, than to manage and fix your own local servers switches and such. When you get to managing hundreds of servers, it becomes time to know what to outsource.
For the most part, I like OO's interface. Especially now that the Mac port doesn't rely upon X. The biggest gripe I have is that there are no menu options to start the video games hidden in OO.
So if they are building an enormous database of inspections, what is to stop other countries from utilizing this data?
For example, say I am sharing a political document on Limewire. I have a large production PDF with my political causes in it. My country might not be doing the spying that the UK is doing, however if someone from the UK pulls my PDF, then all my information would be in this large database, right? Even if I select protocol encryption, that has no benefit here.
My example is probably a poor one, however one gets the idea of what this means.
So here is the deal. In the US I am responsible for the action users on my company Internet and Computers do. If someone hits an adult site, or even something simple as a tasteless joke can get me in trouble. If someone sneaks content onto a work PC, I am responsible. That is USA Law and/or case law.
So the category anonymous Internet is blocked.
So if the US gets behind bypass technology such as this, where do I sit? If a person on my network bypasses my Internet filtering by using sanction USA bypass technology and puts illegal/questionable content on his PC and a co worker is offend, who is legally responsible? I am, of course.
So you have many PB of data to archive. Things you must store for a very long time, and can never loose without legal and severe monitory repercussions.
Do you store this on a HDD array? So what if a virus wipes it out? So you have to keep a backup on tape. So how do you do that? Make a full backup once a week, incremental? That's a lot of duplicate backup.
The solution is to store the data on optical disks. Many can be configured to write to two disks at the same time. You write to one which stays in the jukebox and another that gets ejected and took to a secure off site location.
Now, using WORM, you don't have to worry about a virus. Never have I seen a virus infection destroy the erasable directory of a WORM disk which is all it could do. You don't have to worry about backing the data up.
I use to love TigerDirect, but then they got bought up. Systemax owns them, along with CompUSA, Global Computer, CircuitCity, and many others ( http://www.systemax.com/shop.html )
NewEgg has been great, but the prices are not as good as they once were. They previously were always the price leader. Now I am finding Amazon.com is often cheaper after S/H.
Currently, if Dell sells it I buy it from them. Many items can be had for 40%-85% off. Software can often be bought at 85% off if you ask correctly. I find Dell is the easiest to ask this of.
How much energy is produced? I'd imagine not a lot. How much does it weigh? Does it cost more in fuel to lug these around than they can produce? You'd need one at the exhaust, one at the engine, one at the brakes..
Is this another deal where I spend $1000 and get 5w/hour?
I recently replaced my Surfcontrol product. I reviewed around 20 different products and had live demos of several.
Every single product had a way to re-categorize sites. Each provided a way to "allow" access to a site, regardless of the category.
I don't understand how this "cannot be fixed."
I'm currently running on a very restrictive network which has the iPrism, 8e6, and Websense filters all in place at the same time. Each of the article's listed websites are not blocked. ATAH, HRC, GLAAD, none of them.
Regardless that it is anonymous, in the end I am the one responsible for what my node does.
What we really need to move towards is a disconnected Mesh network, where I am not providing Internet Access. My AP connects up with X other AP's in the area and we create a mesh. That's the network. Starts out small, like the Internet did. Eventually everyone ends up on the mesh network, too. I can access CNN because it's got a mesh address. My traffic flows from my AP through perhaps hundreds others to get to CNN wirelessly.
True, today's speeds would impair this. Caching needs to be worked out. But this is where, IMO, the future is. No ISP fees. I pay for my AP and I'm online. I have a 1TB HDD cache. Content I get is SHA1'd and cached for others making the same request.
This would allow anonymous access. We just need to build it. Seems something that could be built into DDWRT to me.
Um, we have 100Mb to the Internet. That connection is via fiber. We pay based on bandwidth used, and sever that up.
All ISPs over subscribe their service. That is how the service can be made so affordable. If all users were to use 20% of their bandwidth non-stop, that would fill up most ISPs entire bandwidth.
They are like pipes in this regard. If everyone turned their water on full blast all the time, there would be trouble. If everyone left their unlimited M2M cell phones on all the time, trouble.
That's just reality. Personally, I think ISPs would benefit from smart QoSing as well as developing some new caching routines. Chrome has some caching extensions. P2P has ISP caching capabilities. Take those who are your top 5% and lower their priority. Let them have pipe if it's available.
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I started with BASIC on a Commodore 16, moved to a 128 with 64 mode. With a basic introduction to it, I taught myself machine language for the 6510 using a chip reference book.
Then I started working on the IBM clone computers at work. I would definitely say that had I gone as in depth with an IBM clone rather than a Commodore 64, I would have been better prepared for coding on 80386's.
If you are talking about learning a GUI, several of us here switched to Mac OS X. That was about a month long learning curve, and over a year later I still don't know all the shortcuts I know in Windows.
Yea, it does make a difference what you learn on. Our schools were on Mac's a few years back. Now they run Vista on Dell. While I love the Mac, it's not what my kinds need to be learning in school.
I would like to know many is "many"???? Are we talking 20 people?
Did the paper actively seek out people to add to this "many" count by saying polling with misleading questions?
Sounds like a case of people bitching just to bitch, which people love to do. I pay for XMRadio so I can listen to Foxnews. But NO, I can't stream it through the online XMRadio player, and I have to pay an extra $3/mo to even stream XM on my iPhone. Wahh. Yet Fox News is free to stream through iTunes under radio stations. This seems like a much more interesting story than, OMG, a new paper published one article online which was not in print.
So here is what I imagine. You know how a generator works, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_generator Spinning copper wire around a shaft generating a current. And something has to spin the shaft.
With this, the idea is that the generator is something resonating. e.g. It is just moving back and forth. So you make these very small, and put them inline with a battery. If you come within a resonate field, your batteries are automatically charged.
There is a lot of waste. It's never going to be as energy efficient to plug one of field generators into a wall to charge up, versus an electrical cord. However, what if you use other power sources? Solar for example. Plug in a resonate field generator into a solar source, and have it generate this field all day long. You come home, leave your cell phone and Laptop unused on your desk, and by morning it is charged. That's the idea, at least. Baby first steps.
I own an Blu-Ray. Yet I still purchase and rent DVDs. Yes, the picture quality is great on Blu-Ray. But it's a pain in the rear making it work. The local rental store charges more, and the disks are a lot more to purchase.
I hook up the Blu-Ray to my HD TV, and some of the time HDCP gives some error, causing me to reboot Blu-Ray and watch all the commercials yet again. Or the Blu-Ray starts skipping frames. I don't care about the quality when the frame rate drops to 15FPS. That is really nasty to watch.
Blu-Ray probably is the future. This Christmas, players will likely be in the $90 range. It will likely be the hot Christmas gift. As the prices drop over the next 5 years, it will begin to replace DVDs, and DVD's will go the way of VHS. This just takes time as prices fall.
Maybe that's the point. You can always fire them for falsification on the application later on if the person doesn't work out.
Thank you. Now I don't feel so bad paying double for my MacBook Pro than what a better equipped Dell XPS costs.
As an owner of an Asus EEE BOX 206 with an ATI HD video card, I could only agree that it would suite the needs of most users if Adobe would get up off their but and create decent GPU offloading capabilities into Flash.
The EEE has an Atom and draws 19W max. It plays DVD's just fine. Not being able to stream YouTube or HULU really sucks, though.
I question if producing 8 different chip sets is as cost effective is perhaps producing three? The more quantity you can produce of a single chip, the cheaper manufacturing becomes, right?
Once this is out, Tether your iPhone to your work PC via USB or Bluetooth. Create a connection through the iPhone to the Internet. (With T-Mobile phones you can alread do this, but it's so expensive.)
Most companies do URL filtering at the gateway. With tethering you bypass such filtering restrictions.
In the USA;
If I browse adult stuff at work on works PC and Internet connection, work can be held libel.
If I browse adult stuff on the iPhone at work using my own Internet connect, it is less likely that work can be held libel.
But what if I provide my own wireless Internet connection and bypass the filters work has in place?
I speak as one who does the filtering, not one who is trying to bypass them.
The funny thing is that all these commercials say as long as I have cable, I am ok. But is that really true if the rural cable operator is taking the analog OTA feed and sending it through the cable?
Our local OTA analog stations are broadcasting a scroll stating that since I can see the scroll, I am not on digital and will be cut off during the transition. My HDTV on these channels in digital do not have the scroll. My cable does.
I wonder how many cable operators are going to be displaying an empty analog channel come the cutoff?
I can't image this would be the case. Either there will be an option right on the desktop or upon first run where the user selects between Opera, Safari, or IE (I doubt Firefox or Chrome.) OR there will be an easy way to add/remove programs and add IE. And you can probably still teach them to add the address bar to explorer and type in a web address, watching explorer magically turn into Internet Explorer.
This doesn't affect anyone outside the EU so it doesn't affect me.
This is something that should seriously be open sourced. Sure, there are open source projects out there, but they are poorly updated.
Of all the work done on all the open source projects, it would be nice to see this going. Once you get the engine working, I'm sure there are enough viruses which the community would submit.
For the record, I do use Clamwin among others. I am aware the parent company that recently bought ClamAV is working on a real time scanner. And also that it misses things that my Nod32 or Symantec ESS will pick up. I am also aware of openantivirus.org and the fact that it's pattern files are from 2004.
Perhaps some of us need to fork and combine these and work with Virus Total to come up with some open source commercial real time AV?
PCI in itself doesn't guarantee 100% safety.
It says so right on their common myths page;
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pciscc_ten_common_myths.pdf
Quote "Successful completion of a system scan or assesssment for PCI is but a snapshot in time.
Security exploits are non-stop and get stronger every day, which is why PCI compliance efforts
must be a continuous process of assessment and remediation to ensure safety of cardholder
data."
It's a very good PDF to read. Now if the auditor said they were PCI Compliant and there was something obvious he negligently overlooked, that would be another thing. But PCI does not mean you can not have a data breech. You can never be 100% protected from that. What if someone came in, put a gun to a privileged employees head, said give me all your data or he dies? Will PCI stop him?
DIGI has been selling these devices for years. Others did before them;
http://www.digi.com/products/cellulargateways/
When you have a remote office out in the middle of no where and you need Internet, sometimes this is the only option. This or VSAT/DirecWay.
We have both vMotion and XEN.
vMotion is very noticeable. Some things fail when it happens. Zenworks 6.5 is an example.
With Xen, we setup a VNC mirror. EG the guest was VNC Viewing itself. We were moving a window around and then we moved the guest from Xen server 1 to 2 (we have iSCSI BTW.) There was a noticeable affect that lasted for less than a second, but then we were on XEN #2.
It's nice to see VMWare getting this feature right with vSphere.
>>And what's -really- the difference between a server going down locally that affects you and a server going down globally that affects you? Nothing.
Actually, I disagree. There is a difference. If it's local and I own it, I have to fix it. If it's outsourced and Google owns it, I sit back and let Google fix it. Which is nice.
ThePlanet.com had a bad switch install a few days ago which brought down part of our cloud. Our website was down, as was our access to Google DNS gave an IP down there for Google. If you look at the last year, the cloud solution has had a better uptime than what I was providing computing in planned maintenance, patching, updates and all.
It was nice to leave at 5pm, knowing ThePlanet would fix the switch and get us back up. And they did. It's a lot easier to gripe about the cloud being down and sit back, than to manage and fix your own local servers switches and such. When you get to managing hundreds of servers, it becomes time to know what to outsource.
For the most part, I like OO's interface. Especially now that the Mac port doesn't rely upon X. The biggest gripe I have is that there are no menu options to start the video games hidden in OO.
So if they are building an enormous database of inspections, what is to stop other countries from utilizing this data?
For example, say I am sharing a political document on Limewire. I have a large production PDF with my political causes in it. My country might not be doing the spying that the UK is doing, however if someone from the UK pulls my PDF, then all my information would be in this large database, right? Even if I select protocol encryption, that has no benefit here.
My example is probably a poor one, however one gets the idea of what this means.
So here is the deal. In the US I am responsible for the action users on my company Internet and Computers do. If someone hits an adult site, or even something simple as a tasteless joke can get me in trouble. If someone sneaks content onto a work PC, I am responsible. That is USA Law and/or case law.
So the category anonymous Internet is blocked.
So if the US gets behind bypass technology such as this, where do I sit? If a person on my network bypasses my Internet filtering by using sanction USA bypass technology and puts illegal/questionable content on his PC and a co worker is offend, who is legally responsible? I am, of course.
Time to place that buy order for Bose, as they have their active noise canceling head sets.
So you have many PB of data to archive. Things you must store for a very long time, and can never loose without legal and severe monitory repercussions.
Do you store this on a HDD array? So what if a virus wipes it out? So you have to keep a backup on tape. So how do you do that? Make a full backup once a week, incremental? That's a lot of duplicate backup.
The solution is to store the data on optical disks. Many can be configured to write to two disks at the same time. You write to one which stays in the jukebox and another that gets ejected and took to a secure off site location.
Now, using WORM, you don't have to worry about a virus. Never have I seen a virus infection destroy the erasable directory of a WORM disk which is all it could do. You don't have to worry about backing the data up.
That's why we do it.
I use to love TigerDirect, but then they got bought up. Systemax owns them, along with CompUSA, Global Computer, CircuitCity, and many others ( http://www.systemax.com/shop.html )
NewEgg has been great, but the prices are not as good as they once were. They previously were always the price leader. Now I am finding Amazon.com is often cheaper after S/H.
Currently, if Dell sells it I buy it from them. Many items can be had for 40%-85% off. Software can often be bought at 85% off if you ask correctly. I find Dell is the easiest to ask this of.
How much energy is produced? I'd imagine not a lot. How much does it weigh? Does it cost more in fuel to lug these around than they can produce? You'd need one at the exhaust, one at the engine, one at the brakes..
Is this another deal where I spend $1000 and get 5w/hour?
I recently replaced my Surfcontrol product. I reviewed around 20 different products and had live demos of several.
Every single product had a way to re-categorize sites. Each provided a way to "allow" access to a site, regardless of the category.
I don't understand how this "cannot be fixed."
I'm currently running on a very restrictive network which has the iPrism, 8e6, and Websense filters all in place at the same time. Each of the article's listed websites are not blocked. ATAH, HRC, GLAAD, none of them.
Regardless that it is anonymous, in the end I am the one responsible for what my node does.
What we really need to move towards is a disconnected Mesh network, where I am not providing Internet Access. My AP connects up with X other AP's in the area and we create a mesh. That's the network. Starts out small, like the Internet did. Eventually everyone ends up on the mesh network, too. I can access CNN because it's got a mesh address. My traffic flows from my AP through perhaps hundreds others to get to CNN wirelessly.
True, today's speeds would impair this. Caching needs to be worked out. But this is where, IMO, the future is. No ISP fees. I pay for my AP and I'm online. I have a 1TB HDD cache. Content I get is SHA1'd and cached for others making the same request.
This would allow anonymous access. We just need to build it. Seems something that could be built into DDWRT to me.
Um, we have 100Mb to the Internet. That connection is via fiber. We pay based on bandwidth used, and sever that up.
All ISPs over subscribe their service. That is how the service can be made so affordable. If all users were to use 20% of their bandwidth non-stop, that would fill up most ISPs entire bandwidth.
They are like pipes in this regard. If everyone turned their water on full blast all the time, there would be trouble. If everyone left their unlimited M2M cell phones on all the time, trouble.
That's just reality. Personally, I think ISPs would benefit from smart QoSing as well as developing some new caching routines. Chrome has some caching extensions. P2P has ISP caching capabilities. Take those who are your top 5% and lower their priority. Let them have pipe if it's available.