Re: Names
Jita? But don't send any probes there as they might end up stuck in slow time :)
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I ended up signed to it even though I didn't want to be. I forget what happened but I was trying to do something else and was told if I wanted to continue I'd need a Google+ account. I've never been on the site because I think it's a load of twaddle but I've now had three emails telling me about people I might know.
If that's how Google+ is growing then I don't think it counts.
The whole 'Metro' bit is stupid with WS2012. All the server applications are desktop applications so you go out to Metro, click a tile and end up back at the desktop.
On a related note I also wish they'd bring back EMC. The new web based interface is even more klunky and periodically crashes IE. I wouldn't have thought it possible to make a worse UI for Exchange than EMC but amazingly Microsoft seem to have achieved it.
Lol,yeah. However some parts of the world have had gigabit to the home for a while now and still no-one has come up with anything that actually needs it. The most bandwidth hungry application we have at the moment seems to be HDTV and even assuming that terrestrial and satellite convert to IPTV it's still only 10Mb/s for an HD channel.
Furthermore everything is moving toward the cloud. That means expensive resources will be kept within the walls of a data centre. All we'll have is relatively dumb terminals. Given some of the restrictions that MS are trying to impose through the Win8 'Metro' UI the bandwidth requirements are going to shrink even further there.
But you're right. We don't know really.
I think my concern here is why bother? If you have an FTTC enabled cabinet you can already probably get as much as you really need. It's the people stuck on ADSL/ADSL2+ who need the help. As for cost - that's going to depend on the CPs and how they package that for the market. I can't currently see a huge take-up though. That's way more bandwidth than anyone really needs.
> Or have I missed something?
Yes contention. With a leased line you'll continue to miss it :)
You'll also be able to shout at someone and the problem will be fixed. In fact they might not even need to be shouted at - they'll sometimes be on the case before you even pick up the phone.
> If you can, run the car stereo with the Aux input taking music off your phone
Good idea. Unfortunately I want my music to come from my iPod. Not, I hasten to add, that I wanted to own an iPod but when my old Archos packed up it was one of the few devices I could find with a big enough hard disk for my entire music collection and no video playback to push up the cost.
I can't see ITV being pleased. Restricting part of their service to 'freetards'(*) instead of being available to 'people with more money than sense who actually pay to watch TV'(*) doesn't sound very sensible. The BBC might not care but commercial operators live and die by 'bums on seats' and I bet one Sky subscriber is worth several non-subscribers in revenue terms.
(*)I'm in the latter camp in case you're wondering. Not that I watch adverts anyway. I PVR :)
It might. My system is based on a wildcard. So to give a ficticious example:
Set an alias up on the server:
nostril.*.face@notarealdomain.local -> nostril.
In every day use you replace the '*' with the contact's name.
Seems to me that you could extend this passably well. The typical daily maintenance is zero because you don't actually have to create mailboxes. The wildcard lets you just hand out addresses as/when you want. The only maintenance is if/when you add an address to the blacklist.
I'm thinking it might scale up to a few hundred users at least.
My email anti-spam system is still going strong after fifteen years. It's a variant of disposable addressing and grey listing. Every contact gets their own email address to use for me following a basic template. My mail server throws away any incoming mail that doesn't match the template. Everything else goes into my mailbox.
There's a small list of known offenders who also get blasted. Mostly small independent retailers. Which is why I rarely use those these days. The big boys seem better able to keep my data private.
Aside from making me immune to random spam it means I know who an email is supposed to have come from - I don't have to rely on the 'from:' field in the headers which is easily forged. I don't have to use any spam cleaning software and yet I almost never get any spam. If I do get some I can stop it dead by blacklisting the address without affecting anyone else and optional have a rant/quite word with the person who was assigned that address.
The latter doesn't always work though. The publishers of Avast claimed that the unique address I gave them must have been generated in a dictionary attack - despite the fact the server logs showed an otherwise normal day of a dozen random spam mails. I stopped using their product after that.
We're in the middle of it at the moment. This year though our goals and aspirations are apparently not relevant. It appears that they want us to say what we did well and what we'd do better.
I'm a programmer. I wrote code. I hope to..um..write more code?
Oh and one group says it shouldn't take longer than fifteen minutes and another tells me I've not put enough detail in.
Not to mention the wear and tear on cables and sockets.
I do wonder if some people get too hung up on the PI. As a way to learn about hardware it's good and also as a cheap and flexible embedded controller. But for education I'm not so sure. If the objective is to train 'coders' you can do that with software as the article says. I don't really see any value in knowing that the program you wrote is sitting on a circuit board beside the monitor.
We do need people who can do the low level hardware stuff but frankly we don't need very many of them. That's primitive programming (no denigration intended). The real value to the economy is in people who can write applications and that has little to do with hardware on a day-to-day basis. Heck if 'the cloud' really takes off programming will have bugger all to with hardware. I bet in ten year's time most programmers won't even know where the code is running (I feel sad about that but progress is progress).
NB: To the purists/pedants. Yes I know that even 'the cloud' runs on hardware. It's something I've pointed out to people in the past. However a modern day 'programmer' can put in a full day's work for several years without ever having to know anything about the silicon magic.
I liked HPFS. I was a data recovery engineer at the time and HPFS was one of the most damage tolerant file systems around. It was also fast without the need for a huge cache. Surprisingly it was written by Microsoft which gave rise to the joke:
OS/2 was a gold mine. When IBM and Microsoft split MS got the gold and IBM got the shaft :)
I'm not totally convinced by that. There are some pretty fugly and dark corners to the Win32 API. Then there's the backends of SharePoint and Exchange both of which have had to undergo significant changes with new versions suggesting that the Office guys at least aren't much good at forward thinking. And the probable icing on the cake from those guys has to MAPI and friends. Or the whole Exchange communication bit - one release introduces CAS arrays to solve a problem and the next release gets rid of them again.
My thoughts on MS are that they are generally quite poor at design. They really don't seem to be much good at orthogonality.
> every process had its own windows message queue.
We used ccMail for a time back then. It was actually quite a nice idea to have it integrated into the WPS (using the OOP features I mentioned in a previous reply) but when it locked it would lock everything as you say. But I thought the separate message queues was actually introduced by Warp. I know that one of the last version I used had the separate queues and I didn't think I used anything after Warp. Hmmm. Wikipedia says there were different versions of Warp. Warp 3 rings a bell.
Meh. Fading away into foggy recollection as I age. Probably all for the best :)
> So what it boils down to is that OS/2 was more advanced than the competition but too expensive
Pretty much. I remember when Win XP came out everyone crowing about it being a truly 32-bit OS. Yet I'd been using a truly 32-bit OS before even Win 95.
It's something that happens over and over again. I've heard people crowing about C# and Winforms and saying how much better it is than C++ and MFC because it was RAD. Some of us were doing C++/RAD development with Borland builder in the late 90s. Then there's the Betamax/VHS/v2000 sequence.
What it comes down to is that in most cases marketing trumps engineering. This is a lesson everyone reading El Reg should keep in mind. It can grow or wreck your career :)