Re: Any one notice the part

Thus this preemptive strike to the commission before the courts get around to ruling that the phone must be banned; if they can get a ruling that Motorola acted in bad faith it'll at least allow Apple to argue that any judgment should be stayed pending the immediate appeal.

Same instruction set

So I'm sure it wouldn't matter what he went with, given that a 12 week project would never encompass NEON or snazzy graphics capabilities. Someone likely had an old test/dev board lying around that he could use, so that's what he built it on.

Every quarter

Every quarter has a pat answer for why they failed or succeeded; at the end of the quarter they just look at the numbers and pick the answer that matches. There's never any kind of attempt at deeper analysis with these kind of conference calls and reports - investors don't even want to hear them, they just want a quick simple answer that makes them feel better that the money will keep rolling in next quarter or that the challenges will be overcome right away.

Real insight is the job of the Register and Anandtech.

Certainly the case here

My Acer lappy486 is nearing 6 years old, with only one hard drive and memory upgrade in all that time (though I did put an engineering sample Merom in it when I bought it); still works great with the latest OSes, plays most games, and of course browses the web. The desktop is only half that age, but same general situation, it just plays movies and occasional games, no need for a 6-core behemoth or 16GB of memory. (Just all the terabytes I can afford.)

At work, I need actual computing power, but I can't justify the outlay at home anymore, not when tablets are much less expensive and fill the niche beautifully.

This is more robust than BBM

But much less secure - if the phone doesn't get a delivery confirmation within a specific time period, 5 minutes I believe, it will send the message over SMS instead. You lose all encryption but you gain total robustness.

Supposedly

That's coming in a Lion update. I'll believe it when I see it, but I'm sure that was meant to be ready by the time iOS 5 was.

Another problem

It doesn't actually give up completely - my phone died and I left it off all weekend, hell I was tired anyway, and when I plugged it back in I had a rain of iMessage AND SMS text pairs. Apparently if it fails to deliver the iMessage within a given time, it does fall back on SMS - but the iMessage stays in queue, ready to contribute to messaging spam.

GPMC is that all in one

And has been since 2004. There are other ones, including gpedit.msc, rsop.msc, but they've been included in GPMC for so long that I almost forgot that there were once other ways to access them. The old ones are just vestiges - aside from gpedit's ability to edit local policies without installing the administration pack.

You misread it

Mahout is the add-on, Cassandra is an alternate data store. In case you're behind the times, yes, Cassandra can be used with Hadoop's MapReduce and other APIs for quite some time now, even though HBase is the most common data store.

Fiber people are used to that

Try using any SFP in another vendor's system, or even an older version in newer kit. Ethernet people are routinely shocked that anyone would still pay for such heavily locked-down equipment.

That's why I see iSCSI a lot more than FCoE, it is NOT quite as "just works" and "plug-and-play", but it's also not as locked into one vendor. Burned once, twice shy. Once there is an actual FCoE standard with cross-industry interop, it will probably surpass iSCSI because it's technically superior, but until then hardly anyone is going to be willing to trust all of their eggs in one vendor's basket.

That's a solved problem

Most tablets now have an attachable keyboard option, some even come with usb ports for your own keyboards & mice, particularly wireless ones. What's not as easy to solve is making them easy to hold for long periods of time without forcing people to adjust to the same compromises as using a laptop comfortably.

WTF are you on about

They already did! Apple pays them millions, possibly tens of millions of dollars a year, for nothing but use of their name. Millions more to carry the Beatles albums. Were you asleep the last ten years or what?

Read carefully

That was in reference to Ubuntu not working, not Windows. He meant have a fully-configured and working free OS, whether it's Ubuntu, Fedora, whatever.

@MacroRodent - don't forget RMS

Richard Stallman has long since proved that he's willing to pursue legal action against GPL violators, no matter how high or low profile they are. He probably wouldn't have the resources to win against Google, but he could certainly force concessions if the matter.

Not over firewire or USB!

Do a little more research next time before you call shenanigans: The Firewire and USB drivers only supported 48-bit addressing up until 10.5, because it's part of the USB 2.0 and Firewire 800 specs! Leopard introduced full 64-bit LBA drivers with USB 3.0 and FW 1600 support, and certain tweaks to its FW 800 drivers to support 64-bit addressing.

eSATA has a similar issue: Many older eSATA cards and mobos only support 48-bit LBA. All newer ones support 64-bit and use the OS SATA drivers, so you get support in 10.2.

Also, there are issues with GPT over Firewire even today, disks larger than 2TB can cause problems on some Macs even on 10.7.

@AC

In some cases they delayed repairs for up to six months at a time, resulting in numerous IT teams learning to do their own capacitor buying and fixing, or buying new machines until they were swapped, even with those next-day service contracts. Not to mention the tremendous amount of wasted time involved in doing basic troubleshooting on each one before they'd send out a tech (later thy did just start sending them right away). That's where the damages come from.

Not necessarily physical

Sounds like the interesting part is that if there's any kind of exploit or buffer overflow in the code, you might be able to use that to flash the firmware remotely, at least enough to add a rootkit. However, it becomes very NIC-specific, with a half-dozen different routines all targeting different versions of different cards.

And yes, event digital certs verified with TPM won't matter if hardware has the ability to fake out every piece of the puzzle.

That's a bizarre conspiracy theory

But more likely, it'll go the same way it has for years: Lots of wailing, a lot of infringement, some high-profile suits, a few patents thrown out, and a moderate amount of research into creating improved processes that aren't under corporate patent protection.

Only RAMdisk can use that much bandwidth

And you're usually better off putting them on extra main memory slots, not PCIe. A single SSD will be quite happy on PCIe 2.0 x1.

What's going to use it?

I think you're a little overly enthusiastic about just how much bandwidth most applications NEED; no component but cpu has been speeding up that fast. Disks certainly haven't; graphics cards barely manage to use all of a 2.0 x16, let alone dual x16 links. This is coming down the pipe now because of 4-port 10GbE cards (and 40/100GbE), which use more than the x4 allotted to most server ports, so the incentive to git-er-done is finally there. Otherwise, main memory is the one and only consumer that could flood the bus, and no one is insane enough to put it on PCIe.

When the real need comes, such as PCIe-over-fiber interconnects between server memory modules, you'll see the next generation come out quicker, but given that the current generation is on the edge of technical feasibility today, it'll be insanely expensive.

Good luck finding a RAID of current SSDs that can flood an x4 RAID card.

@Giles

The steampunk laptops I've seen look nothing like furniture, they're just goofy wooden/metal shells that intentionally call attention to themselves. Given that smartphones have as much power as small supercomputers of a decade ago, you'd think it would be easier to put a standard low-power PC into a fashionable shell, such as the underside of a desk or the headboard of a bed. I guess it's not important enough to most people.

Trouble is, no one wants to look at furniture all day, so using furniture as a screen is out. I keep my PCs and hard drives as hidden inside the furniture as possible, though. Would be nice to meld them together.

True, except...

All of them routinely use 5-platter discs, aside from Samsung, Deathstar never stopped them. Hitachi's first 1TB was 5 platters, Seagate's current 3TB is 5-platters, etc.

Dell is very much a part of HPC

Dell is pretty much identical to HP in the x86 market, don't judge them only by their junk desktops and desktop printers. Remember that it wasn't too many years ago that both HP and Dell were known for superior quality and service, now they're both known for a race to the bottom in price and quality in consumer & small biz, but their server lines & support are almost indistinguishable, and both are gaining traction in the mainframe and HPC biz as well (obviously HP is much longer in mainframes; Dell is throwing an enormous amount of money and freshly-plucked engineering talent at breaking in because the margins are so huge).

Not a Dell fanboi, but know your enemies at least as well as you know your friends.

Funny

How every one of those steps applies to my SLED and RHEL installs as well. Not "activation" but I still have to go find the serial key somewhere whenever I get fed up with an old version or accumulated cruft.

Double the length of the list if you intend to compile your own install and apps, including having to come back and check on it every hour to type the next step, and make it every other month instead of every other year. Believe me, I've been there too many times.

But I understand, it's easy to ignore what you can't gloat about.

Bloaty M$?

Sounded more like bloaty Dead Rising to me. Basic Win7 is only a couple of gigs.

I guess you forget

That he was also the man who created all of that shareholder value in the first place. Without him there likely would have been no Sun Microsystems, at least not for long.

Look at the timetables

Silverlight came out long before HTML5 was nailed down. At the time, there was no consensus on what features would go in or how, the one early implementation had to waste a lot of time cutting and reorganizing features as the spec evolved.

I have that problem

But it's because the RealTek gigabit card I bought is a complete piece of junk. It overheated after being on for a few weeks once (note, my system isn't overclocked and temps are always fine), and since then it sometimes shows up for an hour after booting, but it's always gone by then. I'm stuck on the 100mbps onboard again - kind of pointless upgrading to a gigabit router now.

If you have a realtek card or onboard NIC, get rid of it.

I guess I'll have to pry a crowbar in my wallet and get a server-level card, even though I don't want 90% of the features.

A half dozen called

To report that their internet was down, in my company of 300. A couple after I blasted an email around to everyone to try Bing or Google before calling.

@AC

Why on earth wouldn't a company that presumably has a web site or web-based internal apps test them against the next version, so that it can be made compatible before the final release?

If you get frequent crashes on 3.6.10...

Then you have too many bad plugins or extensions installed. I browse everywhere, and haven't had a crash in months. Start in safe mode, then put the blame where it belongs with some selective enabling.

Can't speak for anyone else

But I've been enormously happy with the improvements in MySQL 5.5 (and 5.6 preview). I've started using 5.5 over the last few months and finally put it into production now that it's RC stage. The number of improvements in each point release are staggering, and add up to a much faster, more reliable, and less disk-gobbling database.

My big downer is that I never know whether Oracle is going to keep the mainline open source or kill it like OpenSolaris. If it turns into a no more previews, no more betas, just closed updates here on out, I'll probably look elsewhere.

Advanced databases

Advanced database support always comes to startup projects as soon as someone's willing to pay for it. In fact, that's probably one of their top line items, everyone wants some combination of postgre, sql server, db2, or oracle support. (Do people still use informix?)