Just got one of those today. Though most of my users send a word document with a screen print of a PDF of with a screen print of the output from a command prompt.
OK, it is several servers. An the kick-ass shit is the storage. EMC Symmetrix DMX-3000 and DMX-4. 135TB raw, 45 usable. 3-way split mirrors. Total enterprise class shit. Unfortunately, it is only good to run something like Oracle, and the video cards suck.
I bought a $150 car stereo from Radio Shack about 20 years ago. When the drone pitched the service plan, I was about to tell him what he could do with it when he mentioned it also covered theft. I bought the plan, and sure enough, the damn thing was stolen the day after I installed it. Maybe the drone was in on it, but it seems like a waste of time to drive 10 miles to get a $150 stereo when probably there is a better one down the street. Anyway, Radio Shack covered the stereo but I still did have to eat the $80 for a new window.
My fathers Corolla was affected by the engine oil sludge problem. He purchased it new, had all of the scheduled oil changes and maintenance, and about 15k miles, the engine oil light came on. The dealer said the engine was ruined and said that Toyota wouldn't cover it because he had oil changes done by a mechanic instead of the dealer. He told Toyota what they could do with themselves and had the mechanic clean out the sludge. Since then he has been able to keep it from blowing up by using synthetic oil and changing it every 2500 miles.
My 9 year old Chevy S-10 does seem well engineered. 2 weeks after buying it, I hit black ice and was saved by the anti-lock brakes (standard on S-10s but not most other vehicles at the time). It also saved me recently when a garbage truck backed over it.:( I never had any major problems like the engine oil sludge. The biggest problem I had was a new head gasket ($600), and that was only last year. I have NEVER had any service on the engine other than Jiffy Lube.
Metallica has made the very best album (Ride the Lightning) and the worst (St. Anger). As far as the Napster issue, I can see their point. Basically, when getting ready to release an album back in about 2000, they discovered all of their new songs were available on Napster. Before they even released them! I can imagine the WTF factor for them when they discovered this. So I will give them a pass on this. What I can't give them a pass on is St. Anger which is a total POS.
It seems they have learned both lessons. Death Magnetic was released on Amazon MP3 and it rocks! It is the best Metallica album I have hear in at least 15 years. Pure old-school.
If you like good Metal like Ride the Lightning, Checkout Holy Pain.
I have had 2 CDs explode. Your typical 52x CDROM drive can spin up to 10k RPM. When one lets loose you know it. The first one blew the front cover off the drive and sent shrapnel into the kitchen which wasn't line of of site. The second time, it wasn't as bad and only destroyed the drive. The first one would have blinded me if I had been in front of the drive. If you see a CD with a crack in the center, get rid of it. It is a time bomb.
Now, when I am shopping, I *always* look at the label. If it is made in China (especially by a US company), I look for one made in the US. I may not find one, but I *always* look. I have found that most Stanley tools, 3M tape, and Rubbermaid products are still made in the US. If I have any choice, the US made product always gets my $.
If enough people do this, the companies will take notice.
Thats pretty much what I got, a Dell business laptop with XP and Ubuntu. Except it is not dual boot - Windows runs under Ubuntu as an application with Win4Lin. Ubuntu for all *nix related jobs, as well as all games and browsing. Windows for anything specifically requiring it.
Windows 98 ran in 24M of RAM and took about 500MB of disk space. While Windows 98 was a total POS, it had all of the basic desktop functionality that exists today (TCP stack, HTML engine, USB support, etc).
Think about it. XP (and 2000) was essentially the NT 4.0 kernel with most of the device manager/USB/HTML support from Windows 98. NT 4.0 ran just fine on machines of the Win98 era too. So why do you need a gig of RAM and 5 gig disk space to run XP? And don't get me started about Vista/Win7/Server2008.
It does suck. I know to run the program from a command prompt to get the messages, but what typical user does? We need a function which displays the seg fault message in a dialog, and has a button like "google this error"
Every one of those 96.2% junk emails that hit your 'Cuda gateway has one thing in common: A hyperlink to the spammers website. Every single one. Otherwise, how could anyone be able to buy their v1@9r@? What if your 'Cuda just send an opt-out email to the website for every spam. Imagine that. Slashdotted by their own botnets! Might change the economic equation somewhat.
Spammers wouldn't be able to take down your 'Cuda since there would be thousands of others doing the same thing. They could try to include legitimate sites in the spam to fool the gateway, but a white list of say, the top 10k websites would be pretty easy.
I guess they could have a 1-800 number instead of a link but once again, that changes the economic equation somewhat
The could also try to set up their payment processing on someone else's webserver, but that webserver would probably be slashdotted too as soon as it was pwned (I am assuming the 10k whitelist websites are pretty hard to pwn this way). Any pwned legitimate site would likely be fixed very fast.
Work on 3rd party electronic device compatibility: cameras off the shelf from best buy must work, printers and scanners must work, ipods must work.
A few years ago, I bought an el-cheapo Kodak camera from Best Buy. I took some pictures of my kids, but it didn't have much internal memory, so I needed to transfer them to a computer so I could take more. I plugged it into my Windows 2000 machine, figuring it would Just Work(TM). No dice. No drive letter. Nothing. A half-hour later, after installing 100MB of crap, I could *Finally* transfer the pictures. Just curious, I plugged the camera into my SUSE 10.0 machine. A little dialog box came up, asking me if I wanted to import my photos into F-Spot.
To this day, all of my photo management is on Linux. It Just Works (TM).
Slashdot Mirror
Just got one of those today. Though most of my users send a word document with a screen print of a PDF of with a screen print of the output from a command prompt.
OK, it is several servers. An the kick-ass shit is the storage. EMC Symmetrix DMX-3000 and DMX-4. 135TB raw, 45 usable. 3-way split mirrors. Total enterprise class shit. Unfortunately, it is only good to run something like Oracle, and the video cards suck.
Ah yes, 74-Foxtrot, Ft Ben Harrison in January, 24 below zero during the FTX. Gates Lord Hall and the NCO club. COBOL and JCL. Those were the days....
I bought a $150 car stereo from Radio Shack about 20 years ago. When the drone pitched the service plan, I was about to tell him what he could do with it when he mentioned it also covered theft. I bought the plan, and sure enough, the damn thing was stolen the day after I installed it. Maybe the drone was in on it, but it seems like a waste of time to drive 10 miles to get a $150 stereo when probably there is a better one down the street. Anyway, Radio Shack covered the stereo but I still did have to eat the $80 for a new window.
sudo apt-get install grenade-launcher
I think that recipe was also used by Rocky and Bullwinkle to make Rocket Fuel
My fathers Corolla was affected by the engine oil sludge problem. He purchased it new, had all of the scheduled oil changes and maintenance, and about 15k miles, the engine oil light came on. The dealer said the engine was ruined and said that Toyota wouldn't cover it because he had oil changes done by a mechanic instead of the dealer. He told Toyota what they could do with themselves and had the mechanic clean out the sludge. Since then he has been able to keep it from blowing up by using synthetic oil and changing it every 2500 miles.
My 9 year old Chevy S-10 does seem well engineered. 2 weeks after buying it, I hit black ice and was saved by the anti-lock brakes (standard on S-10s but not most other vehicles at the time). It also saved me recently when a garbage truck backed over it. :( I never had any major problems like the engine oil sludge. The biggest problem I had was a new head gasket ($600), and that was only last year. I have NEVER had any service on the engine other than Jiffy Lube.
Metallica has made the very best album (Ride the Lightning) and the worst (St. Anger). As far as the Napster issue, I can see their point. Basically, when getting ready to release an album back in about 2000, they discovered all of their new songs were available on Napster. Before they even released them! I can imagine the WTF factor for them when they discovered this. So I will give them a pass on this. What I can't give them a pass on is St. Anger which is a total POS.
It seems they have learned both lessons. Death Magnetic was released on Amazon MP3 and it rocks! It is the best Metallica album I have hear in at least 15 years. Pure old-school.
If you like good Metal like Ride the Lightning, Checkout Holy Pain.
I have.... Many times:
"This is totally insecure, but very convenient"
You might want to check out World of Goo. Costs $20, no DRM and even runs Linux!
I have had 2 CDs explode. Your typical 52x CDROM drive can spin up to 10k RPM. When one lets loose you know it. The first one blew the front cover off the drive and sent shrapnel into the kitchen which wasn't line of of site. The second time, it wasn't as bad and only destroyed the drive. The first one would have blinded me if I had been in front of the drive. If you see a CD with a crack in the center, get rid of it. It is a time bomb.
I did.
Now, when I am shopping, I *always* look at the label. If it is made in China (especially by a US company), I look for one made in the US. I may not find one, but I *always* look. I have found that most Stanley tools, 3M tape, and Rubbermaid products are still made in the US. If I have any choice, the US made product always gets my $.
If enough people do this, the companies will take notice.
We still have factories?
Thats pretty much what I got, a Dell business laptop with XP and Ubuntu. Except it is not dual boot - Windows runs under Ubuntu as an application with Win4Lin. Ubuntu for all *nix related jobs, as well as all games and browsing. Windows for anything specifically requiring it.
Windows 98 ran in 24M of RAM and took about 500MB of disk space. While Windows 98 was a total POS, it had all of the basic desktop functionality that exists today (TCP stack, HTML engine, USB support, etc).
Think about it. XP (and 2000) was essentially the NT 4.0 kernel with most of the device manager/USB/HTML support from Windows 98. NT 4.0 ran just fine on machines of the Win98 era too. So why do you need a gig of RAM and 5 gig disk space to run XP? And don't get me started about Vista/Win7/Server2008.
Gentoo runs my hard-core gaming rig. Yes, it drives my hardware just fine. And there is no unnecessary bloat.
Perhaps something like this?"
What a cool script!. I am trying on my computer righ
It is already online. Scanned in nice PDF format files, even runs Linux.
It does suck. I know to run the program from a command prompt to get the messages, but what typical user does? We need a function which displays the seg fault message in a dialog, and has a button like "google this error"
Every one of those 96.2% junk emails that hit your 'Cuda gateway has one thing in common: A hyperlink to the spammers website. Every single one. Otherwise, how could anyone be able to buy their v1@9r@? What if your 'Cuda just send an opt-out email to the website for every spam. Imagine that. Slashdotted by their own botnets! Might change the economic equation somewhat.
Spammers wouldn't be able to take down your 'Cuda since there would be thousands of others doing the same thing. They could try to include legitimate sites in the spam to fool the gateway, but a white list of say, the top 10k websites would be pretty easy.
I guess they could have a 1-800 number instead of a link but once again, that changes the economic equation somewhat
The could also try to set up their payment processing on someone else's webserver, but that webserver would probably be slashdotted too as soon as it was pwned (I am assuming the 10k whitelist websites are pretty hard to pwn this way). Any pwned legitimate site would likely be fixed very fast.
How about "Played for sure"?
Work on 3rd party electronic device compatibility: cameras off the shelf from best buy must work, printers and scanners must work, ipods must work.
A few years ago, I bought an el-cheapo Kodak camera from Best Buy. I took some pictures of my kids, but it didn't have much internal memory, so I needed to transfer them to a computer so I could take more. I plugged it into my Windows 2000 machine, figuring it would Just Work(TM). No dice. No drive letter. Nothing. A half-hour later, after installing 100MB of crap, I could *Finally* transfer the pictures. Just curious, I plugged the camera into my SUSE 10.0 machine. A little dialog box came up, asking me if I wanted to import my photos into F-Spot.
To this day, all of my photo management is on Linux. It Just Works (TM).