I've been highly interested in a Gigabyte Brix with the AMD A8-5545. unfortunately, even with a modest sized SSD, and 2GB od RAM, it still works out to $350+ in my local currency.
I'd like one for a new HTPC. Its not a need at this point, so I've been putting it off.
These new units sound like they could work for what I need. Going to keep my eyes open.
From what I've heard from peers, Jack Layton lost because of rumours floating about regarding his health. The fact he made it through the election was rather impressive, considering how far south his health had gone. While I'm sure his right hand man would have done well, that unknown scared a lot of people and they decided to jump on the Harper train.
I personally am of the mind that no matter which way you vote, the government will appear incompetent no matter, because people are always out to blame someone. That, and, well, its politics.
The problem is that when the kernel panics, everything grinds to a stand still. More specifically: hard drive controller/driver. How are you going to write the data if you don't have access to the disks?
This is by design, as the disk controller could br the reason for the lockup, and you would potentially corrupt your entire disk by trying to write to it.
I'm sure its been thought of before, but my first thought is to include a very small chunk of memory on the motherboard, with a stupidly simple api that is designed for dumping kernel panic data into.. where it would stay until, say, 3 reboots or its written over again. I don't design motherboards, so I don't know how feasible this would be... but with Microsofts pull with the manufacturers I'm sure they could make it happen. The problem then, obviously, is it would be locked down to support only Windows, or it would be redesigned across each manufacturer, each one less compatable than the previous.
They updated the Mail app on KitKat a couple months ago, which prompted me to switch to K9 Mail. With a bit of time configuring it to my liking, its been great.
Push notifications are for posers anyway. I always hated the delay between the relay over to push. K9 uses long-lived IMAP connections when the IMAP server supports IMAP IDLE. My email is as fast as IM now.
I own a web hosting business. My company id based in Canada (where I reside), and my servers are located in Canada.
If a European resident decided they wanted to do business with my company, all of a sudden I have to submit to their tax rules. I must collect and submit taxes to their countries government. Obviously I have the choice to decline, and tell the potential customer to go do business elsewhere... but that is bad for business.
I can register with MOSS in the UK, and it will allow me to accomplish this hassle much more easily, but it is still a complete pain in the ass.
There are thousands of different frameworks for various languages to accomplish effectively the same thing with the benefit of using an already established web language (PHP, Node, Python, Java, etc. etc.)
I own a web hosting business. I resell certificates. I keep my prices pretty low ($10CAD for Comodo PositiveSSL, $12CAD for RapidSSL). I do this to try to push the notion that you need to encrypt everything. I'm currently planning to start giving them away with hosting packages, when paid annually.
With that said, I really don't care if technology carries us another direction and I lose those sales. I don't really make much on them anyway ($4-5 per cert).
I really like the idea of DNSSEC and DANE. From my understanding, about the only way around it would be to breach the registries.
I pay for a business account with an online retailer. Said business account provides me with a 2 year exchange on all hard drives (and a bunch of other benefits).
So if the drive fails within 2 years, I send it back to them and they replace it with a similar model, and they pay for the shipping.
If it happens out of the two year scope, I'm better off just buying a new drive than dealing with the hassle of sending it to the manufacturer.
I don't own a shop, nor do I provide IT services. I used to buy A LOT of stuff from them, and decided to start paying the yearly fee.
What are the odd's I would have one of the employee's from the article comment on my little ol' post?
I keep local backups. I've been browsing online, looking for an online backup service that I like, so far not a whole lot of luck. I exclusively run Funtoo Linux on all of my personal and office computers (workstation at home, workstation at office, and laptop). From what I understand, you don't support Linux (yet).
My basic requirements are: - support Linux (one of ssh/scp, rsync, webdav) - preferably data located in Canada
As it stands, I'm better off firing up a VM on one of my servers and backing up to it... but that comes with all the other associated headaches like securing, configuring, maintaining the server.
I know it's a toss up no matter what or when you buy hard drives, so the only thing I have left to guage is price, capacity, and speed (RPM) depending on the intended use.
About a year ago I took a gamble on an SSD for my primary workstation. I bought an ADATA SX900 64GB drive. I had never heard of the brand before. It was ~$120 at the time, and the cheapest for that capacity. I've been looking at getting a 128GB (or so) SSD for my laptop. Prices right now look like I will be getting another ADATA... but I am holding out for Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals to decide.
Oddly enough, over the past 10 years, I've never had a hard drive die in any of my computers while in use. I have a stack of 4 or 5 drives, ranging in capacity from 100GB to 500GB, 3 different different brands, that I'm not using right now. A while back, I plugged one in just to see if it still worked and it didn't. I recently found out it was the hotswap bay that quit working, so as far as I know it still works.
Conversely, I have some servers in a datacenter. Had a drive fail on reboot after a kernel upgrade the other night. Sent a ticket to the DC and they plugged a new one in. Good to go again. In case you're wondering, it has 4x600GB SAS drives in RAID-10.
TL;DR: Buy whatever is cheapest, the odds are always the same.
The difference between a gun and a knife is/very/ significant. For example, with a semi automatic gun, you can take out a lot more people, a lot more quickly. With a knife, that is not so easily accomplished.
I was born, raised, and live in Canada. Our gun laws are incredibly strict. Our gun violence is virtually non-existant (yes, some slip through the cracks, that is expected).
I will admit I am completely biased on this subject, but considering there is more gun violence in most individual US States than there is in my country, I'd say we're doing something right.
I'm not afraid to go for a walk or jog at night. I'm not paraoid about locking my doors at night. I'm not afraid to go to a mall, or public place. I'm not afraid to send my children to school.
All too many Americans are living in fear, and it's mostly due to gun violence.
Here in Saskatchewan, we do not observe Daylight Saving Time. The entire province is really smack dab center between two timezones. A number of years ago our provincial government decided to do away with DST. We are now, effectively, permanently in Central Standard Time.
As a business owner, who deals with clients across North America, I have a lot of people try to correct me when I say our timezone is CST, and they believe it should be CDT. Some people simply cannot comprehend that we don't observe DST.
As an aside, the only argument we have about the time around here is whether we are stuck on CST or MDT.
If there was a truely open, distributed, social platform/framework, I could totally see it being coupled with email accounts. Some email services are paid, some are free. The provider could either have ad supported service, or paid, or both.
The fact you would have a choice in where your data is held, is the important part, though.
OwnCloud is a WebDAV based system. It's inherently bloated, but it works. Setting it up your own web server is a requirement (or purchasing web hosting somewhere, but then the trust/security goes out the window). Google Drive, Dropbox, Onedrive, OwnCloud all require storing your data elsewhere.
BT Sync only syncs data across your devices. It does it really well, utilizing Bittorrent protocols and DHT. It's actually a very useful tool. I use it all the time.
XFCE 4.10 came out in April/2012. I'm honestly worried maybe things have stalled. I use Funtoo(/Gentoo) Linux, so I see from time to time things get updated in the various applications that make up XFCE, but I'm still worried about its future.
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I've been highly interested in a Gigabyte Brix with the AMD A8-5545. unfortunately, even with a modest sized SSD, and 2GB od RAM, it still works out to $350+ in my local currency.
I'd like one for a new HTPC. Its not a need at this point, so I've been putting it off.
These new units sound like they could work for what I need. Going to keep my eyes open.
Just want to point out there is also the pthreads extension (through PECL). See http://pecl.php.net/package/pt... and http://php.net/manual/en/book....
I'm currently building a proof of concept instant messaging platform (server and client) with php, pthreads, and sockets.
I could write it in node.js, but I really like the C-likeness of PHP.
From what I've heard from peers, Jack Layton lost because of rumours floating about regarding his health. The fact he made it through the election was rather impressive, considering how far south his health had gone.
While I'm sure his right hand man would have done well, that unknown scared a lot of people and they decided to jump on the Harper train.
I personally am of the mind that no matter which way you vote, the government will appear incompetent no matter, because people are always out to blame someone. That, and, well, its politics.
The problem is that when the kernel panics, everything grinds to a stand still. More specifically: hard drive controller/driver. How are you going to write the data if you don't have access to the disks?
This is by design, as the disk controller could br the reason for the lockup, and you would potentially corrupt your entire disk by trying to write to it.
I'm sure its been thought of before, but my first thought is to include a very small chunk of memory on the motherboard, with a stupidly simple api that is designed for dumping kernel panic data into.. where it would stay until, say, 3 reboots or its written over again. I don't design motherboards, so I don't know how feasible this would be... but with Microsofts pull with the manufacturers I'm sure they could make it happen. The problem then, obviously, is it would be locked down to support only Windows, or it would be redesigned across each manufacturer, each one less compatable than the previous.
They updated the Mail app on KitKat a couple months ago, which prompted me to switch to K9 Mail. With a bit of time configuring it to my liking, its been great.
Push notifications are for posers anyway. I always hated the delay between the relay over to push. K9 uses long-lived IMAP connections when the IMAP server supports IMAP IDLE. My email is as fast as IM now.
This is so much more than that.
I own a web hosting business. My company id based in Canada (where I reside), and my servers are located in Canada.
If a European resident decided they wanted to do business with my company, all of a sudden I have to submit to their tax rules. I must collect and submit taxes to their countries government. Obviously I have the choice to decline, and tell the potential customer to go do business elsewhere... but that is bad for business.
I can register with MOSS in the UK, and it will allow me to accomplish this hassle much more easily, but it is still a complete pain in the ass.
This is what frameworks are for.
There are thousands of different frameworks for various languages to accomplish effectively the same thing with the benefit of using an already established web language (PHP, Node, Python, Java, etc. etc.)
You have Mac & Cheese, a laptop, and electricity. You're not doing too bad, my friend.
I removed openNTP and installed tlsdate on my systems. I recommend looking into it.
I'm using tlsdate/tlsdated on my Funtoo boxes. :-)
If the fork() commad has been run 1 or more times, you've got a full on rootkit there.
I regularly check the files I download. Most of them are encoded with mplayer/mencoder.
I own a web hosting business. I resell certificates. I keep my prices pretty low ($10CAD for Comodo PositiveSSL, $12CAD for RapidSSL). I do this to try to push the notion that you need to encrypt everything. I'm currently planning to start giving them away with hosting packages, when paid annually.
With that said, I really don't care if technology carries us another direction and I lose those sales. I don't really make much on them anyway ($4-5 per cert).
I really like the idea of DNSSEC and DANE. From my understanding, about the only way around it would be to breach the registries.
I pay for a business account with an online retailer. Said business account provides me with a 2 year exchange on all hard drives (and a bunch of other benefits).
So if the drive fails within 2 years, I send it back to them and they replace it with a similar model, and they pay for the shipping.
If it happens out of the two year scope, I'm better off just buying a new drive than dealing with the hassle of sending it to the manufacturer.
I don't own a shop, nor do I provide IT services. I used to buy A LOT of stuff from them, and decided to start paying the yearly fee.
What are the odd's I would have one of the employee's from the article comment on my little ol' post?
I keep local backups. I've been browsing online, looking for an online backup service that I like, so far not a whole lot of luck. I exclusively run Funtoo Linux on all of my personal and office computers (workstation at home, workstation at office, and laptop). From what I understand, you don't support Linux (yet).
My basic requirements are:
- support Linux (one of ssh/scp, rsync, webdav)
- preferably data located in Canada
As it stands, I'm better off firing up a VM on one of my servers and backing up to it... but that comes with all the other associated headaches like securing, configuring, maintaining the server.
I buy whatever is cheapest.
I know it's a toss up no matter what or when you buy hard drives, so the only thing I have left to guage is price, capacity, and speed (RPM) depending on the intended use.
About a year ago I took a gamble on an SSD for my primary workstation. I bought an ADATA SX900 64GB drive. I had never heard of the brand before. It was ~$120 at the time, and the cheapest for that capacity. I've been looking at getting a 128GB (or so) SSD for my laptop. Prices right now look like I will be getting another ADATA... but I am holding out for Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals to decide.
Oddly enough, over the past 10 years, I've never had a hard drive die in any of my computers while in use. I have a stack of 4 or 5 drives, ranging in capacity from 100GB to 500GB, 3 different different brands, that I'm not using right now. A while back, I plugged one in just to see if it still worked and it didn't. I recently found out it was the hotswap bay that quit working, so as far as I know it still works.
Conversely, I have some servers in a datacenter. Had a drive fail on reboot after a kernel upgrade the other night. Sent a ticket to the DC and they plugged a new one in. Good to go again. In case you're wondering, it has 4x600GB SAS drives in RAID-10.
TL;DR: Buy whatever is cheapest, the odds are always the same.
As long as it's got IPv6 built in.
I don't understand why I still cannot get native IPv6 at home. I can tunnel it, sure, but that's a pain in the ass.
I have a /64 IPv6 block from my datacenter. Why can't I get one at home?
She wants it to look like the TARDIS. :-)
She's more of a Whovian than I.
I'm just not much of a television watcher.
My wife is quite adamant about having the entryway into our bedroom to look like a TARDIS.
The difference between a gun and a knife is /very/ significant. For example, with a semi automatic gun, you can take out a lot more people, a lot more quickly. With a knife, that is not so easily accomplished.
I was born, raised, and live in Canada. Our gun laws are incredibly strict. Our gun violence is virtually non-existant (yes, some slip through the cracks, that is expected).
I will admit I am completely biased on this subject, but considering there is more gun violence in most individual US States than there is in my country, I'd say we're doing something right.
I'm not afraid to go for a walk or jog at night. I'm not paraoid about locking my doors at night. I'm not afraid to go to a mall, or public place. I'm not afraid to send my children to school.
All too many Americans are living in fear, and it's mostly due to gun violence.
Here in Saskatchewan, we do not observe Daylight Saving Time. The entire province is really smack dab center between two timezones. A number of years ago our provincial government decided to do away with DST. We are now, effectively, permanently in Central Standard Time.
As a business owner, who deals with clients across North America, I have a lot of people try to correct me when I say our timezone is CST, and they believe it should be CDT. Some people simply cannot comprehend that we don't observe DST.
As an aside, the only argument we have about the time around here is whether we are stuck on CST or MDT.
If there was a truely open, distributed, social platform/framework, I could totally see it being coupled with email accounts. Some email services are paid, some are free. The provider could either have ad supported service, or paid, or both.
The fact you would have a choice in where your data is held, is the important part, though.
OwnCloud is a WebDAV based system. It's inherently bloated, but it works. Setting it up your own web server is a requirement (or purchasing web hosting somewhere, but then the trust/security goes out the window).
Google Drive, Dropbox, Onedrive, OwnCloud all require storing your data elsewhere.
BT Sync only syncs data across your devices. It does it really well, utilizing Bittorrent protocols and DHT. It's actually a very useful tool. I use it all the time.
I use XFCE as well.
XFCE 4.10 came out in April/2012. I'm honestly worried maybe things have stalled. I use Funtoo(/Gentoo) Linux, so I see from time to time things get updated in the various applications that make up XFCE, but I'm still worried about its future.
Sysvinit+OpenRC is the default on Gentoo.
Alternatively you can use systemd.