Comment Late to the game (Score 1, Informative) 202
HP (and the OP) seem to think that they have something revolutionary here.
Actually, this has been around for over five years already: http://www.chippc.com/thin-clients/jack-pc/
Comment Re:Visual Studio is decent, nothing more (Score 1) 177
Ever have to chase down an issue running PHP with IIS? It used to be a snap with 5. 6 made it more difficult. 7 made it impossible, if you were able to get the non-MS platform to work with it at all.
Funny you should say that. It has never been easier to get PHP running than it is on IIS 7. Two clicks in the Web Platform Installer and you have a working PHP installation. Three more clicks in IIS Manager and you have a working, and pretty well-configured, PHP installation. Need to run two versions of PHP for different sites on the same server? Guess what? It's just a few more clicks. Enable and Disable PHP extensions? One click. Since we updated to IIS 7.5 (Server 2008 R2) from IIS 5 (Server 2K), we have moved several sites running on old LAMP servers over to three Windows Servers and have had no trouble at all with any of the PHP installations or any of the site migrations. It is true that it is now harder to install PHP by hand in IIS - but it makes no sense to do it that way anymore.
Comment Asimov (Score 2) 458
So basically, Asimov was right when he predicted that any interstellar travel would require death. See I, Robot chapter "Escape!" (or short story "Paradoxical Escape") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape!
He was just wrong about whose death it would be.
Comment Re:Captain Obvious says (Score 2) 652
I'm sure it's possible to make a $5000 car that meets all safety and emission requirements,...
Maybe you'd be interested in a Tata Nano.
Comment Re:Captain Obvious says (Score 4, Informative) 652
Most configurations of the Toyota Sienna minivan now have the backup camera standard and the price has not increased significantly from the last model-year that offered it only as an option. This indicates that the price difference in other vehicles is much more of a "convenience charge" than the cost of the system. If it is in every vehicle, there will be no added convenience and therefore nothing to charge for.
Comment More injuries (Score 5, Insightful) 652
Am I the only one who has seen drivers with a rear camera hit something or someone because they looked ONLY at the camera and not at the mirrors or out the windows. I think that when more vehicles come with a standard backup camera, there will be more such incidents, not fewer.
Comment Re:Noticeable improvement (Score 1) 209
I measured average response time for a range of single-client single-connection to 3 clients, 10 connections each.
There were no significant changes to the setup except Apache.
Yes, I know it is entirely unscientific. No, it does not represent real-world traffic for the publicly accessible server. It's still a good indicator of improvement.
Comment Noticeable improvement (Score 4, Interesting) 209
I have been running Release Candidiates of Apache 2.4 for a few months, on an underpowered and overloaded old laptop. The performance improvements over 2.2 on that same computer are really quite noticeable.
Submission + - Toll roads make a comeback? (washingtonpost.com) 1
pointless_hack writes: "Historically, toll roads were all we had. We built the Interstate Highway system to make business more efficient and lower barriers of entry. I expect that only human judgment can keep toll fees fair. Variable rates seem like an invitation to abuse."
Submission + - Mozilla to Warn CAs About Issuing Certs for Intercepting SSL Traffic (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: Mozilla officials are preparing to send a letter to the certificate authorities that are part of its root CA program, warning them that issuing so-called man-in-the-middle certificates for systems that the CA does not actually own won't be tolerated. The message comes on the heels of an incident in which Trustwave, a CA, issued a certificate that enabled a corporate customer to eavesdrop on the SSL-protected sessions of its employees.
Though Mozilla officials have decided not to impose the ultimate penalty of removing Trustwave from its trusted root list, the company is planning to send a letter to all of the CAs in that program, letting them know that the issuance of subordinate certificates for the purpose of eavesdropping on traffic--whether on the company's own network or elsewhere--would not be tolerated.
Though Mozilla officials have decided not to impose the ultimate penalty of removing Trustwave from its trusted root list, the company is planning to send a letter to all of the CAs in that program, letting them know that the issuance of subordinate certificates for the purpose of eavesdropping on traffic--whether on the company's own network or elsewhere--would not be tolerated.
Submission + - Eight dumb tech ideas that might be in the works (foxnews.com)
Velcroman1 writes: Could Facebook bucks replace the dollar? Could Google move out of your TV and into your glasses? Could your next iPhone speaker cost $30,000? Sony, Logitech, Apple and Microsoft make great products. But they also make the occasional boner, something with a confusing interface, a silly design, and a basic purpose in life that frankly perplexes. Indeed, many companies are cooking up inane products and services that might nonetheless see the light of day. Here’s a look at eight of them.
Submission + - Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 11.10 benchmarked (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "In the mother of all grudge matches, Tom’s Hardware has pitched Windows 7 against Ubuntu 11.10 in a dizzying array of benchmarks — and the winner might surprise you. Out of six test categories — Start and stop times, File copy times, Archiving, Multimedia, System, and Gaming — Oneiric Ocelot came out on top in three, while Windows 7 won none. In both Geekbench and HDD-to-HDD copying speeds, Ubuntu obliterated Windows 7 by a 20-30% margin. In other areas, though, Ubuntu's victory is less clear-cut, with Windows being significantly faster at LAME encoding and single-threaded POV-Ray. And then there's gaming, which is another kettle of fish entirely..."
Comment Re:What? (Score 4, Informative) 152
What he wants is CRLs stored on the local machine instead of querying a web service.
Comment Re:So, (Score 5, Funny) 271
The Pogo quote in your sig sums this up better than any other comment on the page.
Submission + - Facebook's $5B IPO: The Next Google? Or Groupon? (wired.com)
MikeatWired writes: It's official: Facebook is finally going public. Given Facebook’s size and popularity — the social network has over 845 million members worldwide — its eight years in existence is actually quite a long time. Over that period, Facebook had unprecedented access to capital, and on sites like SharesPost and SecondMarket, pre-IPO prospectors have been able to purchase and trade shares in the company from employees and other early stakeholders. The company’s relative maturity means that most of the millions — or billions — that could be made from buying public shares have probably already been made. This could mean Facebook’s IPO will meet a fate similar to that of this year’s other high-profile tech IPOs. Both Zynga and Groupon actually sank below their IPO share price — right out of the gate — a sign of failure on Wall Street. 'The tech class of 2011 has underperformed,' said Paul Kedrosky, a prominent financial blogger and senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, in an interview. 'Because of secondary markets, that post-IPO balance happened pre-IPO. My expectation is, Facebook will see a very similar phenomenon.' But Facebook has a history of defying expectations. Federated Media’s John Battelle says that it’s still possible for Facebook’s sheer scale of users to surprise us — for the already-mature global company to continue to grow and change. 'Facebook is an extraordinary cultural phenomenon and a pretty extraordinary company,' Battelle told Wired. 'They have an intensely high-speed culture, which is to their benefit. They’re fast, they’re iterative, they can adapt new features into their platform very quickly. And its leadership certainly doesn’t mind imposing its own sense of what should be normal on its users.' All of this adds up to one formula: 'Facebook is in the midst of becoming something other than what we thought it was.'
