I haven't read the EULA, but hopefully adding powder to the milk doesn' t make the powder part of the milk, or indeed violate the license and send me to jail.
In fact, does the EULA actually grant me a license to digest the milk, thereby altering it?
I have 3 apps that I want to back up data for, and that takes 10 minutes there.
My card has 384M free space, and the EXT3 part is only 256M. I need to copy off 7+GB of music etc and reformat. Then I need to put most of it back on, another hour. I really need a 16G Class 6 card.
It will take at least an hour to let apps restore, same as it does after a wipe.
In the real world, it actually takes time, more than I can spare this week and next.
If it really only took 10 minutes, it would have been done 6 months ago.
But your real point is that it doesn't take hours. Oh, yeah. For some of us it will. But not the fault of Cyanogen, or the phone. Too much data to move around to accommodate the a2sd thing.
"Lauren Weinstein has a cautionary blog post about the world we may be entering if this FCC initiative comes to fruition, which concludes: "I have difficulty seeing how this universe can be made to function effectively in the absence of some sort of regulatory regime to ensure transparency and fairness in situations where the Internet access providers themselves are providing their own content that directly competes with content from the external Internet.""
Yes, indeed. There are few parallels.
Eventually, the Cable Internet providers will be compelled, by profit and perceived survival, to either acquire or filter their competitors, the Internet content providers. They will see no choice.
Imagine we still had home delivery of dairy products in America. And imagine the dairies decided to stop delivering product to stores. Just their home delivery.
An imperfect analogy, but it would change the relationship between you and milk. And your dairy.
And you might never know about chocolate milk. Or yogurt.
I snagged a Lenovo X41T a while ago for $120. Had to buy a replacement pen for $45 and got a dock for $23. And I sprung for restore discs that cost me $56, so I'm into it for about $250 all said and done. Meh.
It does need a pen. It is otherwise terrific until the HD breaks, and then I probably will get a CF replacement instead of paying for the special sideways drive...
Just beware, the drives are terribly expensive. Otherwise, these notebooks are pretty tough, and adequate unless you need HD video, which is why you got a flat screen for Christmas, right?
"Google is going HTML5, which removes the need for flash in it's entirety"
This will not automagically convert every Flash site to HTML5 all by it's goodness.
Until Adobe provides Flash for most Android devices, and of course the iPhone, then these devices are not as useful as they might be.
And HTML5 authoring tools are probably not as good as Flash tools, so there will be new Flash development for white a while.
I don't blame Google for the lack of flash on my G1. I blame Adobe for failing two deadlines, and of course my lack of time to sit down and pound Cyanogen into my phone. Which I'm not really into, but I probably will root it this year... Just to shut up the people who tell me the answer is to root.
"I wish I could mod you up one for funny. This "decision" was made at the district level not by committee in a break lounge. Some self rightous pious clown belched out this termination decision. Rather than have the school stand up and say this could and should be a Dsistrict wide project, the Personnel Moron In Charge went on a holy crusade."
Can I mode you up/down for 'Clueless'?
I've done work for many school districts that would have done the same thing. Indeed, I believe that looking further into this, you would find that there was pre-existing policy against such a thing; that is, installing unapproved software.
Reading some recent reports on school personnel being dismissed for accidental downloads of objectionable material, malware infections, etc., I'm a little surprised you would seem to be taking the side of a school staffer installing ANYTHING not necessary.
It's not that SETI isn't a worthwhile project. It may or may not be, I'll reserve judgment on that. It's that the software was not approved, and installing it was inappropriate. He paid the price. I'm beginning to think most of those who are taking his side just don't get it.
One more reason I don't much like working for politically controlled organizations. Which does, I know, rule out a lot of work. It's ok. There's lots more.
Or you could run something to let you look at the ring (Lanalyzer was free, and worked, Ethereal wasn't made yet) and capture the beacon frame. This told you which station (MAC address) was beaconing, and the problem wes between them and the upstream.
Yes, you had to document your network. Some of us call that 'knowing what you are doing'. I called it 'getting past amateur status'.
Of course, I was using Token switches back then also, since CAUs and LAMs were already obsolete. But yes, full-duplex 100Base-T sure could work the wire, if your card was truly compatible. Many weren't...
Token-Ring is even more resiliant at layer 4 than Ethernet. You can approach 99% utilization on Token-Ring (I have on a production LAN for weeks on end) where Ethernet is pretty much congested arount 16%. Don't believe me, ask around.
And until we got 100Base-T, Token-Ring was just plain faster then 10Base-T. I had this fight with an applicaiton developer that claimed that our 16MB Token-Ring was hampering his app's performance. We went to 100Base-T at no small expense (5 blades 48 ports each in a Chipcom/IBM chassis). NO fix. Of course, it was the servers. Or the disk drives. Or the coffee. Whatever.
Alas, Token-Ring is no longer competitive, but no loss. IBM charged too much, and Olicom couldn't keep up. 100MB Token and switching could have worked, but Gigabit Ethernet is more than good enough. Not many LANS have any hardware available to fill that pipe.
Imagine a beacon event at 10GBs. You might see the wires glow...
Yes, I miss Token-Ring. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
It wasn't long ago that phones had lit dials. Battery was the means to light up your Princess phone, and was reliable.
More so than the availability of electricity, phone battery was required because there was no DC service.
In fact, electricity in the US was being delivered in the 1880's, and there were 60,000 or so working telephones inthe US in 1880. Telephones were deployed before and faster than electricty in America, and so battery to operate them would be needed before electricity was even available in most of the US.
Telegraphs predate this, as they were operating long before electricy was distributed.
And early electrical systems could not provide safe power for telephones, so battery was as more a safety issue than a practical one. Indeed, Western Eelctric's and AT&T's primary objections to allowing other manufacturers to provide telephones to US consumers was (ostensibly) safety of and damage to the network. Of course, the real reason was profit, but they made manufacturers meet fairly strict (and properly so) standards for their devices.
Battery was necessary, a choice, and a legacy. But it is useful, and would serve VOIP very well.
I'm actually optimistic, but I've been writing my own docs for stuff I need to make work. And no, I don't share them. I did once, and was taught that perfection is the only acceptable submission. Feh. I don't share so much any more.
Most of Maine suffered a massive ice storm in 1998. I was without power in Souther Maine for 11 days. My sister in Coastal Maine was without power for 17 days.
Verizon succeded in maintaining telephone service wherever there were wires up by swapping batteries in the SLCs and recharging them as needed.I wrote about this here.
Even a VOIP system requires wiring. Battery *could* be provided, since PoE is used successfully, but frankly the telephone company is probably glad to get rid of battery. Hey, if you're devious, this would be a way to take advantage of that battery voltage, another reason for telcos to get out of the DC business. ps- If you're thinking of converting your datacenter to DC voltage, ask the telcos how large-scale DC voltage service works. pps- I wonder how hard it would be to rig a cell phone charger like that? Not too hard, I think.
But VOIP could be supported during power outages. It would take cooperation and better hardware from the telco, and they would need to be prodded. Is the FCC considering this as a solution to lost 911 service in outages? Is the FCC considering this at all?
Me, I think I could keep a VOIP phone going for a while with a decent UPS. A 600VA unit should do for a while. Might be a nice business to get into.
... he may as well have installed Webshots on each machine. Why is this wrong?
- Near-constant background data transfers not related to any business need. This costs bandwidth, and competes with legitimate business needs for bandwidth. School systems do not have infinite bandwidth.
- Excess cycles consumed during idle time, costing power, creating unnecessary heat load, etc. In Arizona, heatload is $$$ flying out the A/C system.
- Unauhorized software, risking compromise and potential data loss without any business need or benefit. If you are going to install software on a machine, in a school environment, you should be prepared to explain why every single application has a genuine business purpose. This causes two subordinate problems:
1. Installing unauthorized software risks damage for non-business-related causes, and cannot be excused. 2. Installing non-business-related software tends to give users the impression that they can also install unnecessary software, which has obvious implications.
However you feel about SETI, this administrator just made a serious error. Sadly, he deserves to be let go. If for no other reason, but his successor will now be scouring the system for other problems, real or imagined. Many hours of unnecessary effort, if his predecessor had just done the right thing in the first place.
Any bets on what the technology committee would have said if he proposed this to them?
ps - I doubt all the machines were left on 24x7, unless this ignat instructed them to do so. Wasteful. Sad.
- The post indicates this is an independent webmaster. - Their client expects 24-hour service.
This is a case of not setting proper expectations.
On the other hand, this is the dilemma of the sole proprieter. I have many friends that work on their own. Those that deliver mission-critical (real or perceived) services find that they are called out at all hours, and suffer because of it. This is their single greatest dis-satisfaction driver, both for them and for their clients.
The only solution I've seen work is for them to get help to share the load. I've done them favors in the past, covering overnights whehn their wives were delivering, for instance, or to give them a day or two off. But this is the road you choose when you go out 'on your own'.
Now, the ones who don't deliver 'mission-critical' services, they set expectations and get time off. Unless they suck, in which case they work forever 'cause they can't get it done any other way. Most of them came to work for me at some point. And left.
The upside for the 'on your own' type? If they are any good, they can make good money, at the expense of no life.
Not a roll of the dice. More like picking the card.
And I feel your pain. I was in 24/7/365 support for 4+ years, and the client was without humor or patience, no matter if the problem was their error or not. Finally they decided to take their IT department in-house. It was music to my ears to hear of the full-timers who whined they got no time off. Turns out I didn't suck after all.
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I haven't read the EULA, but hopefully adding powder to the milk doesn' t make the powder part of the milk, or indeed violate the license and send me to jail.
In fact, does the EULA actually grant me a license to digest the milk, thereby altering it?
Hmmm.
Or they sue Nestle for selling it direct.
Swapping cards under apps2sd must be fun.
I'll get the big one. Hoping to see a 32G card soon. 64 would cost me a kidney
I have 3 apps that I want to back up data for, and that takes 10 minutes there.
My card has 384M free space, and the EXT3 part is only 256M. I need to copy off 7+GB of music etc and reformat. Then I need to put most of it back on, another hour. I really need a 16G Class 6 card.
It will take at least an hour to let apps restore, same as it does after a wipe.
In the real world, it actually takes time, more than I can spare this week and next.
If it really only took 10 minutes, it would have been done 6 months ago.
But your real point is that it doesn't take hours. Oh, yeah. For some of us it will. But not the fault of Cyanogen, or the phone. Too much data to move around to accommodate the a2sd thing.
"Lauren Weinstein has a cautionary blog post about the world we may be entering if this FCC initiative comes to fruition, which concludes: "I have difficulty seeing how this universe can be made to function effectively in the absence of some sort of regulatory regime to ensure transparency and fairness in situations where the Internet access providers themselves are providing their own content that directly competes with content from the external Internet.""
Yes, indeed. There are few parallels.
Eventually, the Cable Internet providers will be compelled, by profit and perceived survival, to either acquire or filter their competitors, the Internet content providers. They will see no choice.
Imagine we still had home delivery of dairy products in America. And imagine the dairies decided to stop delivering product to stores. Just their home delivery.
An imperfect analogy, but it would change the relationship between you and milk. And your dairy.
And you might never know about chocolate milk. Or yogurt.
I snagged a Lenovo X41T a while ago for $120. Had to buy a replacement pen for $45 and got a dock for $23. And I sprung for restore discs that cost me $56, so I'm into it for about $250 all said and done. Meh.
It does need a pen. It is otherwise terrific until the HD breaks, and then I probably will get a CF replacement instead of paying for the special sideways drive...
Just beware, the drives are terribly expensive. Otherwise, these notebooks are pretty tough, and adequate unless you need HD video, which is why you got a flat screen for Christmas, right?
No JooJoo for me. Too $$$
"Google is going HTML5, which removes the need for flash in it's entirety"
This will not automagically convert every Flash site to HTML5 all by it's goodness.
Until Adobe provides Flash for most Android devices, and of course the iPhone, then these devices are not as useful as they might be.
And HTML5 authoring tools are probably not as good as Flash tools, so there will be new Flash development for white a while.
I don't blame Google for the lack of flash on my G1. I blame Adobe for failing two deadlines, and of course my lack of time to sit down and pound Cyanogen into my phone. Which I'm not really into, but I probably will root it this year... Just to shut up the people who tell me the answer is to root.
What PDF that comes with Android on the G1? I got Donut, and PDF reading doesn't happen.
"I wish I could mod you up one for funny. This "decision" was made at the district level not by committee in a break lounge. Some self rightous pious clown belched out this termination decision. Rather than have the school stand up and say this could and should be a Dsistrict wide project, the Personnel Moron In Charge went on a holy crusade."
Can I mode you up/down for 'Clueless'?
I've done work for many school districts that would have done the same thing. Indeed, I believe that looking further into this, you would find that there was pre-existing policy against such a thing; that is, installing unapproved software.
Reading some recent reports on school personnel being dismissed for accidental downloads of objectionable material, malware infections, etc., I'm a little surprised you would seem to be taking the side of a school staffer installing ANYTHING not necessary.
It's not that SETI isn't a worthwhile project. It may or may not be, I'll reserve judgment on that. It's that the software was not approved, and installing it was inappropriate. He paid the price. I'm beginning to think most of those who are taking his side just don't get it.
One more reason I don't much like working for politically controlled organizations. Which does, I know, rule out a lot of work. It's ok. There's lots more.
Nope. Just challenging one /.'r to a visit.
Are you seriously implying that I am that clueless?
You would be mistaken.
You presume facts not in evidence. Might want to visit some of those classrooms first.
Or you could run something to let you look at the ring (Lanalyzer was free, and worked, Ethereal wasn't made yet) and capture the beacon frame. This told you which station (MAC address) was beaconing, and the problem wes between them and the upstream.
Yes, you had to document your network. Some of us call that 'knowing what you are doing'. I called it 'getting past amateur status'.
Of course, I was using Token switches back then also, since CAUs and LAMs were already obsolete. But yes, full-duplex 100Base-T sure could work the wire, if your card was truly compatible. Many weren't...
Token-Ring is even more resiliant at layer 4 than Ethernet. You can approach 99% utilization on Token-Ring (I have on a production LAN for weeks on end) where Ethernet is pretty much congested arount 16%. Don't believe me, ask around.
And until we got 100Base-T, Token-Ring was just plain faster then 10Base-T. I had this fight with an applicaiton developer that claimed that our 16MB Token-Ring was hampering his app's performance. We went to 100Base-T at no small expense (5 blades 48 ports each in a Chipcom/IBM chassis). NO fix. Of course, it was the servers. Or the disk drives. Or the coffee. Whatever.
Alas, Token-Ring is no longer competitive, but no loss. IBM charged too much, and Olicom couldn't keep up. 100MB Token and switching could have worked, but Gigabit Ethernet is more than good enough. Not many LANS have any hardware available to fill that pipe.
Imagine a beacon event at 10GBs. You might see the wires glow...
Yes, I miss Token-Ring. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
It wasn't long ago that phones had lit dials. Battery was the means to light up your Princess phone, and was reliable.
More so than the availability of electricity, phone battery was required because there was no DC service.
In fact, electricity in the US was being delivered in the 1880's, and there were 60,000 or so working telephones inthe US in 1880. Telephones were deployed before and faster than electricty in America, and so battery to operate them would be needed before electricity was even available in most of the US.
Telegraphs predate this, as they were operating long before electricy was distributed.
And early electrical systems could not provide safe power for telephones, so battery was as more a safety issue than a practical one. Indeed, Western Eelctric's and AT&T's primary objections to allowing other manufacturers to provide telephones to US consumers was (ostensibly) safety of and damage to the network. Of course, the real reason was profit, but they made manufacturers meet fairly strict (and properly so) standards for their devices.
Battery was necessary, a choice, and a legacy. But it is useful, and would serve VOIP very well.
So we should party like it's 1999.
That is not progress. More like 'less fail'.
I'm actually optimistic, but I've been writing my own docs for stuff I need to make work. And no, I don't share them. I did once, and was taught that perfection is the only acceptable submission. Feh. I don't share so much any more.
Yes.
The obvious next question: Will it ever get better?
And the Magic 8-Ball says:
"Very Doubtful"
I am not making this up. The Magic 8-Ball has spoken.
Most of Maine suffered a massive ice storm in 1998. I was without power in Souther Maine for 11 days. My sister in Coastal Maine was without power for 17 days.
Verizon succeded in maintaining telephone service wherever there were wires up by swapping batteries in the SLCs and recharging them as needed.I wrote about this here.
Even a VOIP system requires wiring. Battery *could* be provided, since PoE is used successfully, but frankly the telephone company is probably glad to get rid of battery. Hey, if you're devious, this would be a way to take advantage of that battery voltage, another reason for telcos to get out of the DC business. ps- If you're thinking of converting your datacenter to DC voltage, ask the telcos how large-scale DC voltage service works. pps- I wonder how hard it would be to rig a cell phone charger like that? Not too hard, I think.
But VOIP could be supported during power outages. It would take cooperation and better hardware from the telco, and they would need to be prodded. Is the FCC considering this as a solution to lost 911 service in outages? Is the FCC considering this at all?
Me, I think I could keep a VOIP phone going for a while with a decent UPS. A 600VA unit should do for a while. Might be a nice business to get into.
... he may as well have installed Webshots on each machine. Why is this wrong?
- Near-constant background data transfers not related to any business need. This costs bandwidth, and competes with legitimate business needs for bandwidth. School systems do not have infinite bandwidth.
- Excess cycles consumed during idle time, costing power, creating unnecessary heat load, etc. In Arizona, heatload is $$$ flying out the A/C system.
- Unauhorized software, risking compromise and potential data loss without any business need or benefit. If you are going to install software on a machine, in a school environment, you should be prepared to explain why every single application has a genuine business purpose. This causes two subordinate problems:
1. Installing unauthorized software risks damage for non-business-related causes, and cannot be excused.
2. Installing non-business-related software tends to give users the impression that they can also install unnecessary software, which has obvious implications.
However you feel about SETI, this administrator just made a serious error. Sadly, he deserves to be let go. If for no other reason, but his successor will now be scouring the system for other problems, real or imagined. Many hours of unnecessary effort, if his predecessor had just done the right thing in the first place.
Any bets on what the technology committee would have said if he proposed this to them?
ps - I doubt all the machines were left on 24x7, unless this ignat instructed them to do so. Wasteful. Sad.
Pretty much.
I didn't mean Article 10 of the Articles of Confederation.
I wouldn't mind if they made it a violation of the TOS to improperly use its and it's.
And enforce it.
But not very damned likely, and more's the shame.
Its not worth it, man. You just can't fight City Hall if its in charge. And fiber doesn't change it's attitude.
We need a good Article 10 fight. Now.
Washington is out of control, and has been for a while. As good a time as any to make a stand.
And point out that:
- The post indicates this is an independent webmaster.
- Their client expects 24-hour service.
This is a case of not setting proper expectations.
On the other hand, this is the dilemma of the sole proprieter. I have many friends that work on their own. Those that deliver mission-critical (real or perceived) services find that they are called out at all hours, and suffer because of it. This is their single greatest dis-satisfaction driver, both for them and for their clients.
The only solution I've seen work is for them to get help to share the load. I've done them favors in the past, covering overnights whehn their wives were delivering, for instance, or to give them a day or two off. But this is the road you choose when you go out 'on your own'.
Now, the ones who don't deliver 'mission-critical' services, they set expectations and get time off. Unless they suck, in which case they work forever 'cause they can't get it done any other way. Most of them came to work for me at some point. And left.
The upside for the 'on your own' type? If they are any good, they can make good money, at the expense of no life.
Not a roll of the dice. More like picking the card.
And I feel your pain. I was in 24/7/365 support for 4+ years, and the client was without humor or patience, no matter if the problem was their error or not. Finally they decided to take their IT department in-house. It was music to my ears to hear of the full-timers who whined they got no time off. Turns out I didn't suck after all.
You missed it. Apparently. But you also make the same mistake, and don't seem interested in understanding why I think you are wrong.
Of course you doubt it. That's the point.
But you don't seem to know very much about my religion. And neither does Richard Dawkins.
And he should, since he exerts a great deal of effort in denigrating it, and it is not difficult to both understand and test.
But he doesn't. Will you?
He is wrong about my religion.