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Comment What I learned about such situations (Score 1) 385

The easiest way is to just wipe the data and then forget about it.

You might also look for any clue about original owner and inform him about it. And of course wipe the data.

Just to help you in deciding I would like to share two stories of mine.

I have once found a USB stick. I checked it out and found who is its owner. He was glad that I returned it to him and paid me for it.

Another one is about external HDD I had. It died one day. But I had some data that was not in any backup. So I opened it and put the drive itself in computer. I have downloaded data and wiped disk. Then I put it back into its enclosure and returned it back. It was not simple as WD external disks have security sealed screws and some plastic locks. But after getting disk out of enclosure, then it was very easy to get data out.

Comment How about in larger installation (Score -1, Redundant) 410

It might be interesting, how the results will look like in larger installation with more rows of panels or more trees of panels. Given size of the tree I would expect more shadows at the tree model affecting results.

As noted by others, the tree is using more panels than flat installation. So it will be more expensive, more demanding on material resources and so on.

Comment Re:He just used more solar cells (Score 1) 410

I bet there's another ten on the other side.

I doubt that. He mentions in his article

I made a second model that was based on how man-made solar panel arrays are designed.

Also if you look on the graphs that you can see peek values are higher on tree model than at "classic" model. So he has more panels on the tree or has significantly crippled standard configuration.

But there is one interesting thing on the tree design. It is more even distribution of the power during a day.

Comment Re:No the biggest problem is IPv4 devices (Score 1) 167

And what good is enterprise system if SOHO customers can't reach their IPv4-hosted web sites?

As you can probably see, the key to success in transition to IPv6 is dualstack for services, not for users.

If we will have all websites and VPN's and other services available via both IPv4 and IPv6, then there is no problem if users are on IPv4 or IPv6. They will just choose whatever is available from their ISP. And as more and more users will be IPv6 only, then content providers who stick to IPv4 only will fade out.

Just check with web/server hosting in your region to see how many of them already provide IPv6 connectivity. The content providers are those who should act now. Users will simply follow.

Comment Re:Comparing high end to low end (Score 1) 322

To be fair, you can still plug a modern Ethernet card into a 10Mbps Ethernet network and it will work;

You can't. Ethernet cabling also evolved during its lifetime. In the early stage it was using different cables with different connectors. Even your PS/2 keyboard can be connected to your USB port using reduction. But I don't know about any reduction from BNC to 8P8C. In this Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet you can find photo of ethernet card with both connectors.

Comment Re:...opaque language is the norm. (Score 1) 374

Your thinking is exactly what brought these guys into troubles. Just because some big company wrote some paper doesn't mean they are right and in line with your interest. Yes, most of the terms of such agreements are not negotiable, but some are. The great difference in having someone else to see the agreement or at least have a quiet time to study it yourself is that you know the risks and can evaluate them. Even if it might mean that you loose the deal. Sometimes it is better than bad deal. Your attorney is crap. He just failed on small threat from bank employee. He should list the pros and cons of the agreement and let the client to decide whether to sign or not. Or, eventually negotiate what changes are possible.

Comment Re:Nobody cares! Except maybe you. (Score 2) 243

It is not necessary to have all users switched to IPv6. What we need is to have websites available over IPv6 so users who don't have access to IPv4 can access them. Then we can slowly start migrating end-users to IPv6 without worrying about loosing functionality. And this is where today's experiment is aimed. It is test if transition can be done without hacks like naming website ipv6.example.com instead of www.example.com as we are used to with IPv4.

What you tell to your users to be interested in IPv6?
Do you tell them here it is and if you want, you can run it? Or you tell them that when using IPv6, they will get public IP and their skype connection will be better as it will not need to use public relays?
Yes it also depends on the fact whether you actualy give your users public IP address or not. Those who are already behind NAT know what I am talking about.

Comment Re:Great logic there Lou (Score 1) 290

No the problem is different. They are not going to switch to IPv6. They will support both IPv4 and IPv6. But there are some clients that prefer IPv6 for DNS queries while they don't have any connectivity over IPv6 to outer world. The quick and simple solution will be to disable IPv6 on those clients.

Getting it in your plumbing analogy. Water company says we can double pressure if you want. And you ask them to double pressure while your current plumbing is not able to handle it. But you still could ask them not to and they will be OK with it.

Comment It is not always games what to blame (Score 1) 306

It might be interesting to see the study carried other way round. How many people with mental problems can turn into game addict. As it is said in the article "While these kids were more likely to have behavioral problems to begin with" there were already mental problems. But yes uncontrolled gaming made it worse or maybe just helped the problem to stand out. Same is true with anything you can imagine. Alcohol, cigarettes, food, ... Should we ban these? No, we put some restrictions on availability of some of them depending on how much damage it can cause. Some of them are completely uncontrolled.

Parents should watch their kids if they don't have any problems. Not just checking if they have cold. Sometimes starting to play too much might be just indication that there is something wrong with kid's surrounding. Either in school or anywhere else. What you think will happen when kid is bullied? It will start avoiding people and eventually finds that playing games is much more satisfactory than playing with "friends".

And sometimes it is just big misunderstanding. As it was in movie Role Models.

Comment Lifehacker has more detailed info about it (Score 1) 185

As a coincidence I just read post on lifehacker on same topic. It contains more insight into problem. They say that different parts of brain are involved when reading harder to read text and thus resulting in better understanding or remembering of written. http://lifehacker.com/5733692/harder-to-read-fonts-may-improve-learning

Comment Re:Dual-stack mode (Score 1) 247

Why are people so persistent with attempts to bring NAT to IPv6?
If you want DHCP functionality in your home network, then you have autoconfiguration in IPv6 and all your devices will get IPv6 address in the same way as DHCP assigned IPv4 addresses. If you have any device that supports IPv4 only, then you need to run your network dualstack to ensure that it can connect to its target.
And to your complaint about length of IPv6 address. You don't have to stick with autoconfiguration. You can assign pretty any IP address you like based on prefix you get from your provider. So you can still have [your prefix]::1 address. On the other hand with ULA adresses (FC00::/7) you should use random generated interface identifier part of the address that makes it more random than static public IP addresses, where you will quickly get familiar with your prefix. And as you noted you will never reach public internet with that IP address.
But in all cases it is much easier to use computer names and forget about IP addresses.

Comment Re:Dual-stack mode (Score 1) 247

Yes, they will continue to run it in dual-stack. But instead of current practice where you need to enter ipv6.google.com you will just simply type www.google.com and will reach them via IPv6. It is similar for other sites. You, who are like me stuck in IPv4 space mark June 8 in your calendars. As it might be day when you might not reach some resources on internet. It is due to fact how DNS will be resolved. Your computer will ask for IP addres and will get AAAA record but you don't have IPv6 connectivity so you will not connect. In better case it will fall back to IPv4.

Comment Re:Why trust the OS? (Score 1) 298

So why e.g. MS SQL Server does it exactly as GP wrote?
Also you can use much better algorithm for data aging than OS. You know your data and you know what is better to keep and what to let go to secondary storage.
But yes for applications where massive swapping is expected the strategy described might be useful.
I was always wondering if there couldn't be something similar done for code by compilers. So if you have application, that is swapped out and looping in wait loop, then this loop will ideally fit into very small memory footprint and leave RAM for better use of active processes.

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