Re: Languages? Its not just that

I disagree. Skilled professionals can adapt and learn new languages really quickly. If you're an expert at T-SQL I find it ridiculous to think that you won't be able to write in ms-sql or oracle-sql, as dirty as it would make you feel while doing it. Ditto for programming languages. Languages are tools after all.

Skilled workers use many tools and are comfortable picking up something new and running with it. And good companies actively seek people like this.

Re: Business, meh.

The disadvantage is you need available and fast PCIe channels to use them. Servers do come with spare 8x PCIe slots, desktop motherboards do not and those that do cost a premium.

+1 for using a meta-distribution like Arch or Gentoo

I learned more about Linux just by installing Gentoo once than by spending years working with existing Linux systems.

Re: Handy Tip

Don't try installing Windows period if you already have a dual boot system.

It has been standard practice for Windows to blow away the bootloader and re-partition the entire drive for as long as there have been Windows installs.

If you have dual boot and need to install Windows you need to install to a separate drive which is not your normal boot drive (unless you don't mind re-installing your bootloader)

Re: After spending 3 years doing home callouts

'Unlimited data between 12-Midnight and 6AM'

Which would make it not unlimited.

Sky on the other hand truly do have unlimited data on their fibre products.

Re: Forks, Spoons and Knives.

http://openindiana.org/

The point of your post is what exactly? Misinformation? Openindiana is open source, based on the last open source release of open solaris, which of course no longer exists.

Solaris 10 is a separate proprietary product which was never open source but Sun previously did not charge for.

Re: Dreamland @Brah

There's a difference between buying a DVD, which does have rudimentary DRM which can be easily circumvented, and buying a digital only copy of a file on a remote locker service.

Now having vendor and platform specific hooks for DRM in a supposedly open market standard.. how the hell does that benefit _anyone_ except existing walled garden services?

We all should oppose it because it goes against what the W3C and open standards are for. And for the record, you're the one that mentioned open source and linux.

Re: Dreamland

You do understand that there's no one forcing people to actually pull out their wallet and buy DRM laden shite, do you?

That's what it comes down to, some people will blindly 'buy' stuff they don't really own, others refuse to. Whether or not it is there is meaningless, look at Google Video (absence thereof)

What was your broadband speed 5 or 10 years ago? Were you able to do the things you do now on that speed?

I hope that answers your question.

Some simple maths suggests that a 20GB game would take you at least 11hours to download. Don't do much gaming then I take it (I'm talking Steam here, not torrents).

Your 4Mb/s connection is not really enough to do HD streaming either (720p and above, not iplayer 'HD').

Nor will it be enough to do things that we can't do yet because the vast majority of people don't have superfast broadband, like we didn't have any kind of movie streaming before most people started getting broadband.

WD Live with custom firmware does, yes, through openvpn. Pictured WD Live in article (latest version) cannot have custom firmware though.

Seriously, what the hell is your point? Copyright infridgement is already illegal.

I hope the original comment was meant to be sarcastic.

The IDC figures are a joke, sure, and yes Microsoft is in no danger of going away anytime soon as long as it has large corporations throwing cash at it with their site licenses.

That still doesn't make Azure in any way shape or form a good idea. Want to run Linux? The next thing on your mind should not be Ï'll go to Microsoft and run it on their Azure'.

Gen 3

Note that you can't install custom firmware on gen 3 WD Live boxes so if you want things like nfs automounting/exporting, samba share support, external drive etc you still need to get the older gen 2. Gen 3 is WDBGXT0000NBK (pictured in article).

Until blinkbox goes away taking your "purchases" with it. Frankly, purchases tied to accounts is simply not sustainable. Pretty soon you're going to have 5 different accounts all with different purchases that you never owned in the first place.

I'd rather get a dvd, at least I won't have to worry about not being able to watch it a few years down the line and can still rip to non DRM'd up the pooper files that do, really, play everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yvEYKRF5IA

Just be careful with the turbo bass

Perspective

People, please. For the record SELinux has been part of the main linux kernel tree for _years_ and has been gone through with the proverbial fine toothed comb. If you think SELinux has a backdoor then you're saying all linux kernel versions since 2.6 that it was integrated have a backdoor.

Nevermind that the NSA are not even involved in maintaining it anymore, since it was added to mainline.

And anyway, SELinux is an implentation of a mandatory access control architecture, it doesnt even touch any parts of linux that _could_ be used to make a backdoor.

Be paranoid but at least base the paranoia on some element of truth.

History lessons

Then I guess you don't recall how long it took to get correct writable ntfs support in linux. Sure, people will eventually reverse engineer it. Eventually.

That doesn't make much sense since Cairo is still Cairo in greek, not "Chairo".

Yes, but then your secure passphrase is rejected because it has no symbols nor numbers in it, you become exasperated and use a less secure password :)

Re: Arm laptops

Indeed, they are still missing. Doesn't help that the last time Asus said they'd release an arm laptop(ces 2009) they had a joint presentation with Microsoft and Intel the very next day going on about how commited they all are to each other and what not.

I suspect the reason we still cant buy arm laptops is not a technical one.

Please let me give you money in exchange for an arm laptop?

I disagree. I have found myself implementing APIs for all internal infastructure related services for the past 4-5 years now. The reason for that is because it makes it easier to integrate all these services together, enabling much easier automation.

Not talking about web services but, as an example, F5 provide a SOAP based API to administer their load balancers. Yes, it's a web based API run on top of apache. But that doesn't matter, what matters is how you use it and the fact that just by having a web based API you have created an interface that is both cross platform and language agnostic, enabling anyone to use it.

If you write some internal service that enables a team to do something, either automation of a task or access to infastructure or something, why not make an API for that service so that other teams and, crucially, other services can leverage it however they see fit without caring about the actual implementation details, what language it's built in or OS it's running or whatever.

To clear this up for you - if a download is 'free' and you have to pay if you want to continue using it after 90 days then it's not really free.