Ubuntu's Cloud-Init Promotes Customization in the Cloud
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Ubuntu?s Cloud-Init Promotes Customization in the Cloud
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Introduction to RAID
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CA Court Rules Smartphones Can Be Searched Without A Warrant
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CA Court Rules Smartphones Can Be Searched Without A Warrant
CA Court Rules Smartphones Can Be Searched Without A Warrant
Jan 6, 2011, 16 :02 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (1008 reads)
(Other stories by Ms. Smith)
[ Thanks to Petem for this link. ]
"The California Supreme Court ruled that police can search a suspect?s cell-phone text messages without a warrant, based on past cases where cigarette packs can be searched. A smartphone stores vast amounts of personal data, not even in the same realm as a pack of smokes. In this electronic age, the government moves America closer to a creepy police state."
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Google Linux search suggestions
Google continues to incremental improvements to make the Web search and therefore instant search in 2010 added. For better or worse the accompanying search suggestions can be disabled. This list is intended to save time, but there are also some notes on what other people are looking for.
There's something about the approach I used my Google's search suggestion data clearly unscientific. I have a new installation in a VM use Google, but perhaps what I would have started learning, sought to influence the subsequent proposals. I also left out some more mundane or irrelevant results.
What actually beat the proposals? I'm not sure. What is the algorithm are your usual narrow Dicklippiger even in the Google devs. The only thing that is certain is that this is what Google algorithm thinks that people be expected to continue.
To find the most obvious thing is "Linux" (without quotation marks), and suggestions of "Mint", "Commands", "search" and "Distribution" resulted in.
The first one surprised me a little like mint by far that is most popular Linux distribution. A little go further and actually typing "Mint", produced "debian", "Vs Ubuntu", "Download", would expect one each in accordance with what "Forums", "9" and "10",. Note that I have more than Tickle four proposals contained in the search box by an extra space to produce the keywords to some alternatives could. If necessary, add an "s" as a plural marker, some additional results produced.
Find me also confused. It is quite common, but I was surprised that it was one of the four proposals. I suspect that Googlesuche adds a random factor or considered account of current trends, when the proposals are designed. Sure enough, results nine of the first ten for this combination, in connection with the activity to find out about Linux, rather than the command.
After the distro branch produces generally expected results "Comparison", "Chooser", "List" and "Comparison 2010". I'll be the keyword "Chooser" in the future to consider for SEO optimization.
Adding Ubuntu produces no real surprises. Always looking for controversy tried I add the term "Problem" with a few small variations. This excavated "with NVIDIA", "Booting", "suspend", "with wireless", "Installation", "Flash" and "flash Ubuntu problems". Input "Ubuntu-driver" produced "Wireless", "for wireless card", "for the Dell" and "hp".
Always a bit more specific, I tried "Linux chrome". The proposals were "flash", "Java", "Pdf", "Plugins folder". Once again the importance of flash support for most users emphasized the results.
How about some Linux people? Search for Mark Shuttleworth produced "Blog" "Unity" and "Girlfriend", "twitter". I have two suggestions for the final result. First, in the past Shutteworth one scored some interesting but vague comments about lifestyle aspirations, the challenge of traditional, family oriented goals in life for men. Secondly, it is relatively young, he is successful, and he has traveled in space. No doubt, must have asked a lonely she geek many if it is available. As expected, produces a search nothing under my own name like.
Richard Stallman's place in the history of open source software is safe, but he draws fans and critics alike. Google suggests that people who interested can consider tightening their search parameters by adding "is an idiot", "Xkcd", "Swords" or "Quotes". People want quotes from the great man, although some think he is an idiot. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to find the xkcd and "Swords" connection.
Linus Torvalds? Yawn, yawn. "Quotes", "Blog", "C++" and "Biography" are proposals. On the one hand, search masses of people not to evidence, he an idiot, but then nobody wants know whether he has a girlfriend. She is the breaks, Linus...
______________________UK based free writer Michael Reed http://www.unmusic.co.uk/ technology, retro computing, geek culture and gender politics writes. His byline has appeared in several technology publications.
Introduction to RAID
[ Thanks to bryanjrichard for this link. ]
"One of the most common techniques to improve either data reliability or data performance (or both) is called RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks). The concept was developed in 1977 by David Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy Katz as a way to use several inexpensive disks to create a single disk from the perspective of the OS while also achieving enhanced reliability or performance or both.
"Before anyone erupts and says that RAID does not stand for ?Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks?, let me start by stating that was the original definition. Over time, the definition has become more commonly known as ?Redundant Array of Independent Disks? perhaps so the word ?inexpensive? isn?t associated with RAID controllers or disks. Personally I use the original definition but regardless, either definition means that the disks are independent of one another. Feel free to use either definition since it won?t change the content of this article. Now, back to our discussion of RAID."
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Behind the cloud Redux
Cloud computing is the hot buzz phrase. But as both Shawn powers and I have no new technology, or even a new implementation of new technology computing cloud is highlighted. But that doesn't mean that it is well understood, either by those who design or are the ones who yells it, then follow the yellow brick road (or the latest edition of PC week). As several anonymous (and not so anonymous) commentators have said, it is only hardware, some good data links and some intelligent coding much more to cloud computing.
Because cloud computing means different things to different people (and at different times of the day), we must be on our terms and conditions clearly. Our friends at Wikipedia define cloud computing as:
Cloud computing Internet-based computing, with shared servers provide resources, software and data to computers and other devices on demand...
This definition works well enough for me, so let us examine it a little deeper. By definition everything Internet based tends not to have associated with a physical or geographical location. For example, when I go the Linux Journal website, I'm not thinking about, Houston, Texas, where the magazine officially. In fact, because actually Houston I think a few of us life, at the Linux Journal page as not everywhere. This is further underlined by the variety of comments from around the world to our musings.
Also, if you are a Googlesuche, an example of cloud computing, you are more likely to the beat to one server cluster is (IP-based), data center than locally on your physical location when they are, will occur to your servers in California (and I assume server in a data center in California you). Two examples - search yields and generic Web sites talking - pretty harmless data. It does not really where the servers are located, and there are no large crushing legal issues in reference to.
But if, for example, the Federal Government (we use the US one since that's where I am, but any Federal Government has the same set of questions) or more importantly, your company, decide, is it on cloud computing, then you can go as IT professionals we must not only part of the process, but we need questions, the tough questions at the beginning, not the day before the switch is thrown.
Cloud computing matters location. And also property. Lawyers must be included. And much careful planning. Here are some things to note: who owns the cloud, you're going to use? Are contracting with a third party for storage or build it from scratch. If local law enforcement show up with an application, the sophisticated data pass, who is responsible for turning this data? When? Under the laws of the State (or country)? Who owns the data paths? Is traffic shaping? How does it all nodes in the cloud? If you work for an international company, response is to say Singapore? Answer it in Virginia or the United Kingdom identical his target? Who is he that is responsible. Can uploaded data (the same in different countries or be downloaded)? (If you think the answer is Yes, you must be really secure and your data view.) (There are a lot of things that cannot be exported.) Is's your data-sharing disk with someone data? There is a chance that someone else, your data with (or without) your knowledge and exposure data, when this happens? And then there are the usual kind of service level agreement questions regarding access, up time, backup and recovery, password, password recovery, management statistics and the other daily minutia, you need it most to keep running.
Behind the cloud is still only computer - not the big and all powerful Oz-(Daten,_Datenverbindungen_und_uns_IT_Profis) but it is certainly much more, that you must consider before you there.
