Provide me with evidence and examples of consistent problems with Vista itself that can't be explained by the two things I just mentioned. If you can't do that, you're just trolling.
Okay, I'll bite. We didn't end up moving to Vista at work because of a number of random issues (nothing to do with actual crashing), though there was one that was particularly bizarre. Sometimes, while trying to access files off of a file share on a Vista system, you would be denied access to read/copy/whatever some files. You could have a directory with 10 JPEGs in it. Trying to copy them results in two of them not being copyable. A user local to the machine can read the files, can verify that the files have the exact same permissions as the others, and can reset ownership/auditing/security of all files in the directory, but the files are still inaccessible. We saw this sort of thing all the time, and I saw this exact scenario recently with my roommates Vista Home laptop just last week.
Vista is pretty darn stable now with SP1, and if you want to run 64-bit Windows, it is the most compatible. Heck, I even plan on using Vista x64 when I purchase a new desktop. But don't stand there and tell me there aren't any issues with it when there are people everywhere encountering these bizarre problems. I can live with the issues, but rolling Vista out at the enterprise level would be plain foolish.
The adjustments [chiropractors] do relieve pain but last a couple of weeks to a month at best.
That certainly depends on the situation. When I was in middle school I one day started getting these shooting pains in my back that caused me to double over. My father took me out of school and over to see a chiropractor. They determined that carrying my overloaded backpack on one shoulder was causing my spine to shift slightly, pinching the nerve, causing it to inflame, and become more pinched. They did some things to reduce the swelling, which stopped the pain. Then they told me to not wear the backpack for a while so the spine could realign, and to always use both shoulders while wearing a backpack. Problem was solved, and I've never had it again.
Chiropractic treatments don't work either, and yet I can get those from medical institutions.
Again, this has been tested repeatably.
I'll take a stab at this. I have a mate who's father is a doctor specializing in back injuries. He will at times refer patients to a chiropractor that is not part of the same medical facility and for whom he gets no benefits for referrals. If they didn't work, he wouldn't be referring them.
That said, there are a lot of wacky chiropractors out there. Some are just wacky, and others just do wacky things because people expect it out of them. Others examine xrays, probe muscles, etc to determine the source of the problem, and then suggest appropriate action to the patient. It isn't exactly mystical.
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If you posted the bug number, then it might help cryptoluddite get the issue resolved in his distro.
Because all Linux config files make perfect sense... Seriously though, XML may be verbose, but at least the format is clear. In contrast, ever.conf file has its own peculiar formatting that makes editing an adventure.
And it doesn't matter if the FS clusters are far apart as long as they are close to the SSD's hardware cluster sizes or the SSD intelligently combines them
This is actually a problem. I have two SSDs here that use 64KB blocks internally. Most operating systems don't give you the option to select cluster size while formatting for install. Vista won't even boot on an NTFS partition that doesn't have 4KB clusters. And while the drive is faster when formatted using 64KB clusters, you end up with a lot of wasted space if you are using largely small files.
That is what my results showed, with XFS being a close second. Although, my tests show anomalous results for JFS deleting times, which leads me to believe it's lying when it says it's completed a delete.
Oh, if you're writing a lot of small files, it's about 30 times worse than a 7k250. OCZ is going to face some pretty serious customer loss for putting out such a broken product.
10. Colorful tabs - cute, but not really functional. Might be a nice option though.
Excuse me? Colorful tabs is extremely functional. If I have several tabs whose titles are the same, I can quickly find the one I need by it's color. Optionally you can have tabs for a given domain always be the same color. It helps a lot with quick tab recognition.
Another extension that should be offered by default is Operator. It scrubs pages for microformats and provides quick links to use the information (automatically create a vCard for import into your address book, automatically map a location, etc).
The guy who helps fix the copier when it's jammed? The guy who runs the network cables through the ceiling? The gal who programs the PBX and voicemail system?
Guys do copiers and cables, while gals do phones. I always wondered what the difference between guys and gals was, and now I know.
Thank you. slashdot.org is indeed a waste of time. Now, I'll never be bothered by it again. You have done a good deed and will, I'm sure, soon be punished for it.
In the end, yes. But assuming the 12,000 sq miles of cells were in one large group, what impact would there be in moving that electricity to another region? It is essentially electricity based heat transfer.
Total land area in the US is about 3.5 million square miles. 12,000 sq miles is about 0.3% of the total land area of the US. That's not too bad, though energy consumption would probably be an order of magnitude higher by the time it was built. And I doubt we posses enough rare elements to build that many PV cells.
I'm curious what kind of impact on temperature an array like that would have. Converting the light into electricity instead of it just becoming thermal, and not using steam based power plants.
The only consumer CableCARD computer device is made by ATI and it only works on trusted systems (Windows Media Center in this case). If you want to record encrypted digital channels to a PC, you must use Windows MCE with the ATI tuner.
The HDHomeRun is digital only. To record analog you still need a regular tuner. Setup in MythTV is fairly strait forward, and instructions can be had from the company's website. The bandwidth used for OTA broadcasts are relatively high so you should never try to use HDHomeRun over a wireless bridge.
It is well supported in MythTV, has two tuners, and does hardware encoding to MPEG-2. The external version is the WinTV-PVR-USB2 and should be nearly identical, although I have no direct experience with it.
If you want to stream from backend to frontend over a wireless connection, it largely depends on how high of a bitrate you use for your encodings. It is generally discouraged though as other applications or interference can cause the video to jerk/stutter.
You can use DVB-C capture cards to capture the digital encoding strait from a cable line, if the channel is not encrypted. Where I live, all of the over the air channels are broadcast digitally unencrypted over the cable line. Everything else is encrypted. I could still record the analog channels using a regular analog capture card.
MythTV has always supported live streaming over the network. Wireless might not be able to keep up, but a 100Mbps connection is way more than enough. If you want to capture digital channels, then the simplest option is the HDHomeRun http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun
It is a network attached dual tuner box that will stream the broadcast MPEG-2 data over the network to MythTV. MythTV will then record the stream to disk and/or transmit it to whatever frontends you have.
(Note: MythTV is designed to exist in two parts, the backend which records and streams, and the frontend which decodes/displays. Typically these two parts run on the same computer, but you can have any number of frontends and backends all working together. I've read about organizations using multiple backends to record 10+ channels at one with dozens of frontends to watch. Think of something like a hotel.)
Is there any reason you could not stack several flat versions of this directly on top of each other and then initialize them in sequence? Or do you simply need a way to temporarily insulate the layers from one another to ensure the heat is transferred the correct direction?
I think that if the layers sat in a vacuum then you would only need to shift the layers ever so slightly so that they made contact with one side or not with the other.
Windows 98 will run smoothly on much lower hardware specifications than Windows 2000, and it also takes much less space. Granted you're not going to want to use it without a firewall, you'll have to reboot it regularly, and even thinking about the internet with it's IE would be a disaster. But yes, 98 with a firewall and Opera would be much faster on the OLPC than 2000, and it would be otherwise functionally identical for most purposes.
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Okay, I'll bite. We didn't end up moving to Vista at work because of a number of random issues (nothing to do with actual crashing), though there was one that was particularly bizarre. Sometimes, while trying to access files off of a file share on a Vista system, you would be denied access to read/copy/whatever some files. You could have a directory with 10 JPEGs in it. Trying to copy them results in two of them not being copyable. A user local to the machine can read the files, can verify that the files have the exact same permissions as the others, and can reset ownership/auditing/security of all files in the directory, but the files are still inaccessible. We saw this sort of thing all the time, and I saw this exact scenario recently with my roommates Vista Home laptop just last week.
Vista is pretty darn stable now with SP1, and if you want to run 64-bit Windows, it is the most compatible. Heck, I even plan on using Vista x64 when I purchase a new desktop. But don't stand there and tell me there aren't any issues with it when there are people everywhere encountering these bizarre problems. I can live with the issues, but rolling Vista out at the enterprise level would be plain foolish.
Judging from the interference on my little PC speakers, I'd say that cell phones put out a lot more EM than PCs.
That certainly depends on the situation. When I was in middle school I one day started getting these shooting pains in my back that caused me to double over. My father took me out of school and over to see a chiropractor. They determined that carrying my overloaded backpack on one shoulder was causing my spine to shift slightly, pinching the nerve, causing it to inflame, and become more pinched. They did some things to reduce the swelling, which stopped the pain. Then they told me to not wear the backpack for a while so the spine could realign, and to always use both shoulders while wearing a backpack. Problem was solved, and I've never had it again.
I'll take a stab at this. I have a mate who's father is a doctor specializing in back injuries. He will at times refer patients to a chiropractor that is not part of the same medical facility and for whom he gets no benefits for referrals. If they didn't work, he wouldn't be referring them.
That said, there are a lot of wacky chiropractors out there. Some are just wacky, and others just do wacky things because people expect it out of them. Others examine xrays, probe muscles, etc to determine the source of the problem, and then suggest appropriate action to the patient. It isn't exactly mystical.
If you posted the bug number, then it might help cryptoluddite get the issue resolved in his distro.
He described the statements as "refreshingly straightforward", which they were. Sometimes the more straightforward version also happens to be longer.
Because all Linux config files make perfect sense... Seriously though, XML may be verbose, but at least the format is clear. In contrast, ever .conf file has its own peculiar formatting that makes editing an adventure.
No, you just need to use it on a system with 10 cores.
This is actually a problem. I have two SSDs here that use 64KB blocks internally. Most operating systems don't give you the option to select cluster size while formatting for install. Vista won't even boot on an NTFS partition that doesn't have 4KB clusters. And while the drive is faster when formatted using 64KB clusters, you end up with a lot of wasted space if you are using largely small files.
That is what my results showed, with XFS being a close second. Although, my tests show anomalous results for JFS deleting times, which leads me to believe it's lying when it says it's completed a delete.
You can see my results and methods here:
http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=77577#77577
Oh, if you're writing a lot of small files, it's about 30 times worse than a 7k250. OCZ is going to face some pretty serious customer loss for putting out such a broken product.
No, you're wrong.
Excuse me? Colorful tabs is extremely functional. If I have several tabs whose titles are the same, I can quickly find the one I need by it's color. Optionally you can have tabs for a given domain always be the same color. It helps a lot with quick tab recognition.
Another extension that should be offered by default is Operator. It scrubs pages for microformats and provides quick links to use the information (automatically create a vCard for import into your address book, automatically map a location, etc).
Guys do copiers and cables, while gals do phones. I always wondered what the difference between guys and gals was, and now I know.
I can't tell you how much my knowledge of PERL and *nix has helped in managing our Exchange system... Errr...
There, fixed that for you.
In the end, yes. But assuming the 12,000 sq miles of cells were in one large group, what impact would there be in moving that electricity to another region? It is essentially electricity based heat transfer.
My guess is hooking up solar panels is simple so they can get it online faster and scale when/how they want.
I love math too.
Total land area in the US is about 3.5 million square miles. 12,000 sq miles is about 0.3% of the total land area of the US. That's not too bad, though energy consumption would probably be an order of magnitude higher by the time it was built. And I doubt we posses enough rare elements to build that many PV cells.
I'm curious what kind of impact on temperature an array like that would have. Converting the light into electricity instead of it just becoming thermal, and not using steam based power plants.
The only consumer CableCARD computer device is made by ATI and it only works on trusted systems (Windows Media Center in this case). If you want to record encrypted digital channels to a PC, you must use Windows MCE with the ATI tuner.
The HDHomeRun is digital only. To record analog you still need a regular tuner. Setup in MythTV is fairly strait forward, and instructions can be had from the company's website. The bandwidth used for OTA broadcasts are relatively high so you should never try to use HDHomeRun over a wireless bridge.
For analog, I'd recommend the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500.
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/prods_mcbuilder.html
It is well supported in MythTV, has two tuners, and does hardware encoding to MPEG-2. The external version is the WinTV-PVR-USB2 and should be nearly identical, although I have no direct experience with it.
If you want to stream from backend to frontend over a wireless connection, it largely depends on how high of a bitrate you use for your encodings. It is generally discouraged though as other applications or interference can cause the video to jerk/stutter.
You can use DVB-C capture cards to capture the digital encoding strait from a cable line, if the channel is not encrypted. Where I live, all of the over the air channels are broadcast digitally unencrypted over the cable line. Everything else is encrypted. I could still record the analog channels using a regular analog capture card.
MythTV has always supported live streaming over the network. Wireless might not be able to keep up, but a 100Mbps connection is way more than enough. If you want to capture digital channels, then the simplest option is the HDHomeRun
http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun
It is a network attached dual tuner box that will stream the broadcast MPEG-2 data over the network to MythTV. MythTV will then record the stream to disk and/or transmit it to whatever frontends you have.
(Note: MythTV is designed to exist in two parts, the backend which records and streams, and the frontend which decodes/displays. Typically these two parts run on the same computer, but you can have any number of frontends and backends all working together. I've read about organizations using multiple backends to record 10+ channels at one with dozens of frontends to watch. Think of something like a hotel.)
Is there any reason you could not stack several flat versions of this directly on top of each other and then initialize them in sequence? Or do you simply need a way to temporarily insulate the layers from one another to ensure the heat is transferred the correct direction?
I think that if the layers sat in a vacuum then you would only need to shift the layers ever so slightly so that they made contact with one side or not with the other.
Because the tools are excellent, and it's been a very reliable system for quite some time.
Windows 98 will run smoothly on much lower hardware specifications than Windows 2000, and it also takes much less space. Granted you're not going to want to use it without a firewall, you'll have to reboot it regularly, and even thinking about the internet with it's IE would be a disaster. But yes, 98 with a firewall and Opera would be much faster on the OLPC than 2000, and it would be otherwise functionally identical for most purposes.