Comment Slow news day? (Score 1) 219
Slow news day?
Comment Users Ditch Australia's Largest ISP (Score -1, Redundant) 173
"Users of Australia's largest ISP, BigPond, have decided to ditch it. The users posted a terse update on the service's website, citing reasons of low popularity and the existence of better services. BigPond customers were not impressed, given that the ISP is infamous in Australia for its high prices and relatively low monthly quotas of bandwidth (many users are on 10gb or 25gb per month plans) and for canceling a download service, downloads from which did not count towards their monthly limits."
Comment Re:yes (Score 0) 349
A virtualized development environment is brilliant!
A few years ago we bought a large spec Dell server:
PowerEdge 2950 with dual quad-core Xeons
At present we have (just) 16Gb of RAM
We use 6 750Gb SATA 7200PRM drives in a RAID6 configuration.
This server runs VMware ESX 3.5
Today you could get even more powerful CPUs now and load up much more RAM. VMware 4.0 would probably also perform better
Each developer has a Windows Server 2003 virtual machine.
The server is housed in a datacenter in The Netherlands, we access the virtual infra via VPN and RDP (Microsoft's remote deskop protocol).
I'm developing from Sweden, a colleague works in Belgium.
I often don't even realise that I'm working remotely, only when I try to run Google Maps in a browser does it break down...
So don't tell me virtualisation is only for servers not for workstations.
P2P and P2P Links Ruled Legal In Spain 265
Nieriko writes After three years of arduous litigation, Jesus Guerra Calderon, owner of both a small bar and the P2P link webpage 'elrincondejesus.com' has beaten the SGAE (something like the Spanish version of the RIAA). The historic ruling states not only the legality of link webpages, but also the legality of P2P file-sharing networks. Quoting the judge: 'P2P Networks as mere data transmision networks between individual internet users, do not breach any rights protected by the Intellectual Property Law.' Downloading a file (from a P2P network) for private use is perfectly legal as long as there is no lucrative or collective use of the downloaded copy."
Comment DRM is impossible (Score 0) 182
When will those trying to concoct DRM schemes realise that DRM in an open environment is impossible?
You can't give someone something and at the same time not give them something.
You can't stream media to a PC and at the same time restrict what will be done with it (unless they can control all other variables, which they can't as soon as the data leaves the server).
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