Portage will remind you that it has an update and you should install it after you `emerge --sync`. Updating portage should be the first thing you do before you `emerge -NDu world`
The second thing that you should do before any system wide update is fetch all the packages that you need, i.e. `emerge -NDuf world`.
If you are updating libraries that the updating tools are dependent on, you don't want it stopping midway through the update complaining it can't download packages. (Had a teeny issue with SSL being updated before wget, so wget broke... and of course left me with no way to download - everything ssl dependent was broken!)
Because they can compete with open source drivers. Otherwise, why would Microsoft fear Red Hat and Novell?
C'mon, we all know the likelihood of them doing that is slim to none. There's nothing pressuring them to do this. Last I checked, NVidia doesn't have open source drivers either.
As the poster above you indicated, the video card industry is pretty secretive. The chances of them opening the spec and revealing their "trade secrets" are extremely slim to none. Unless something else happens in the industry where they will have to follow suit they won't open the spec.
Even if they do open the spec, it sure wouldn't be for their most recent cards. It'll be for cards that were sold several years ago, so they can protect their designs.
I have no idea how those eye tracking missile systems work either, but it may be (at least I would hope) checking the target as the missile travels as well. As it gets closer, it can take new readings and track more accurately.
One thing I can't explain is how the military uses eye tracking to aim missiles -- it seems like that system would run into the same problems.
I would think that targeting buildings wouldn't need accuracy down to a millimeter. The targets are much bigger - with dialog buttons you're trying to target something that's maybe 2cm wide x 1cm tall.
While having the PC reboot on its own is not exactly intended behaviour, there might be some ways around it.
I don't know about personal PCs, but on a domain you can set WSUS to reboot the PCs at a programmed time after an update if needed - this way it won't shut off while you're in the middle of something. I've set a policy on our domain that PCs reboot after midnight following an update.
I don't use Windows at home at all, so I can't just browse through Group Policy to see if it has something similar for machines not on a domain.
Sony also backs the player as a quality company--the chances of a system failure are low because Sony makes quality equipment.
When I read this, I laughed. Maybe in the 80s and early 90s Sony made quality equipment. My cousin gave up after his 3rd PS/2 died and bought an xbox. A coworker bought a Sony TV that shakes the floor when you turn it on (not to mention being really LOUD... and Sony says this is normal! The degauss is not supposed to be that loud!) My Sony Projection TV kicks my UPS for my computer (in a different room, different circuit) into battery mode whenever I turn it on! My Panasonic TV doesn't do that. I'm just waiting for the projection to die so I can get something else. It was built in 1998 or so, so I was hoping I got one that wasn't crap, I guess I wasn't lucky.:|
3) You are buying an OEM PC in which case you'll pay the Vistatax, paying no more than you would have for XP.
I've been hunting around for a laptop lately... and I have noticed one thing: the models with Vista are more expensive than their non-Vista counterparts. We're talking the same model here, and a $50-$100 difference. So I wonder about this statement.
And it's probably no coincidence that the XP models are suddenly no longer available (although they should be soon again.) Meh.
Next to impossible? Really how much has PC hardware changed in the last few years? I'm sure there are any number of places selling that stuff.
It was a Compaq. The cost to get parts from them was more than enough to replace his computer with an OEM copy of Windows. I did check for parts for it at online/local retailers and there were no listings for CPUs/mobos. The only thing I could get was RAM, and that was the only thing that tested fine. We're talking technology from 1998 here.:P
I certainly didn't want to have to deal with it. There comes a point (time or cost) where it's better to buy a replacement than dick around with old hardware.
Don't get me wrong, my slowest computer still in use is a Pentium1 - 200Mhz.
Running an old version of Windows that's not supported on old hardware is an invitation for problems. The hardware in that Duron was actually failing and it took some convincing to get the 70 year old guy to replace it. He didn't seem to understand that 1. There is no support for Windows ME anymore and 2. Finding replacement hardware to fix his PC was next to impossible.
Most people in the market for a new PC aren't going to know the difference between XP and Vista. A lot of the older generation also think that a PC is a one-time buy. They aren't going to go shopping for a new computer every few years. One of the older folks I do some work for (finally) decided to replace his aging Duron 733 from 7 or so years ago. I still know quite a few older folks with PCs older than that.
There isn't any reason for this share of the market to upgrade. Sure, they can advertise all they want; people still aren't going to buy it. It won't make a difference. My Mom wanted a new laptop and I told her to get it with XP as she uses some custom software... I didn't want to have to do compatibility testing on old software.
Not everyone will just jump on a new OS. Those that have likely have been burned once and will wait it out a bit. Once the buggy drivers are fixed, and your average cheap PC (sub-$500) can run Vista at a reasonable speed (currently Vista is slow on these PCs), then likely there will be more of a shift toward Vista.
Another big hit for Microsoft was the refusal of government and related agencies to use Vista. At some point they will allow it, but not anytime soon.
In a few years Vista may be mainstream, but it won't get there anytime soon. I didn't allow XP where I worked until a year and a half ago. Windows 2000 suited us just fine.
I had a different problem on startup with v1.5. No matter what I did, I couldn't get Thunderbird to check more than one account on startup. After a couple of weeks of not getting new mail, I manually started the send/receive process and got a ton. I checked the account properties and "Check for new mail on startup" was selected for all of my accounts. New features are okay, but I wonder if this was fixed. (Or is it just something wrong with the configuration?)
DLP projectors can have lightbulbs that go up to 8000 watts.. you definitely don't need to turn the lights out for that.
Sure, but I wonder how expensive they are and how long they last. I would imagine with a brighter bulb the lifespan would be shorter... and also wouldn't that affect the quality of the picture itself? I suppose once you reach a certain brightness with the projector it would wash colour out? Speculating here. Of course that's silly to compare against a $100k TV, but replacing bulbs in projectors isn't my thing (especially when they cost $200-$400 where I am.) Which is another reason why I didn't buy one. The third reason is my room doesn't have the length needed to use a projector.
You could buy a Texas instruments DLP projector (the types you'll find in new digital movie theaters) for that price, not to mention the size of the screen would be capable of being much larger than 103"..
Sure, if you want to sit in a darkened room to watch TV. With a plasma screen this large, watching in a well lit room wouldn't be a problem. This is the reason why I didn't choose a projector for my living room.
I've never owned 15+ copies of any other CD at once. Not that I was TRYING to own 15+ copies of the AOL CD; it just somehow happened. Between mass mailing, and copies included with every computer publication my mom brought home in the 90's, they just sort of accumulated.
Anyone remember when they sent 3.5" floppy disks? At least if they sent you a dozen in the mail you could format them and not have to buy media. Maybe someone should persuade them to start using CD-RWs...
Someone else mentioned here already that Shaw on the west coast does this as well. They do have varying rates from 10GB/month - 150GB/month for home users. Some of their prices are pretty scary though.
What usually is the problem is a few people per node that decide to leave their p2p on at full tilt 24/7. I for one do not have a problem with paying for monthly throughput (if I could get a reasonably priced 150GB package from Shaw I would) as I know I won't go over it. Other articles said in the US that some ISP was just cutting people off. Why? Make it clear what the caps are, and then throttle all traffic down if they go over the monthly limit. The problem for this to work is that they would have to have several bandwidth packages ranging for individual needs. Instead of just saying "you can do 100GB, but not with p2p" give the consumer a choice of package with no restrictions on the line. It's not perfect, and most ISPs are just too damn lazy to upgrade/change to deal with it.
They still have the same amount of ground clearance, they still have the same size wheels, et cetera.
Bulls**t. Vista has what? 5 Editions? So 5 cars in the analogy? Not the same. They don't have the same tires/wheels/engines/road clearance. Otherwise they wouldn't have Home Basic. It's the most crippled one feature-wise.
Cars DO have different characteristics depending on what road they are on. Why do you think handling is one of the points in car reviews? Hmm? You can't take a sports car up the mountain, it'll fall apart. It _can't_ do it. Normal cars with normal ride height can go up the mountain roads. There's usually a few areas (at least around here) that a sports car can't pass, where a normal car or truck can.
Honestly, this likely doesn't relate that well, but you have 5 Vista cars:
-Home Basic (some rusty old truck from the 80s)
-Home Premium (a slightly newer truck)
-Business (an older car)
-Enterprise (a newer car)
-Ultimate (a sports car)
Now, a someone newer machine barely meeting the minimum requirements is a mountain. Which ones are likely going to work? Ultimate won't, period. The others will probably work just fine but struggle.
Honestly, I don't care about Microsoft's advertising. All that's going to happen is they are going to slap a disclaimer in fine print saying it'll run Home Basic only with no Aero interface (or does Home Basic even have the Aero interface?)
Just wish they would let you have XP instead of Vista if you wanted.
You'll have to wait a few months, then you'll get your choice of XP back. Since the US govt announced "No Vista, period." the manufacturers are going to be preinstalling XP once again.
I was at a LG roadshow (non-public) and I know for sure that they will have the choice of XP on Vista on their laptops in a couple months, stating that the government won't buy if it comes with Vista. Ouch for Microsoft.:)
There is no direct automotive metaphor here because the cars don't have different characteristics depending on what kind of road you put them on, although some are more suited for some types of roads than others. Don't try to make an automotive metaphor if you don't understand cars.
I would say you don't understand cars either; this is precisely the reason that some cars are to be run on the track only. These track cars are designed specifically for the track and not run on the street as they would be unsafe.
Cars definitely have different characteristics depending on what road they are on. This is why you don't take sports cars mountain climbing, as one example.
Instead of changing an hour twice a year, why don't we change the clocks permanently by a half hour? It would be so much better if we didn't have to constantly screw up everyone's sleep patterns. Meet at the halfway point and call it done already.
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They should charge birds for violating their airspace too. They've had a free ride in their airspace for a long time.
The second thing that you should do before any system wide update is fetch all the packages that you need, i.e. `emerge -NDuf world`.
If you are updating libraries that the updating tools are dependent on, you don't want it stopping midway through the update complaining it can't download packages. (Had a teeny issue with SSL being updated before wget, so wget broke... and of course left me with no way to download - everything ssl dependent was broken!)
C'mon, we all know the likelihood of them doing that is slim to none. There's nothing pressuring them to do this. Last I checked, NVidia doesn't have open source drivers either.
As the poster above you indicated, the video card industry is pretty secretive. The chances of them opening the spec and revealing their "trade secrets" are extremely slim to none. Unless something else happens in the industry where they will have to follow suit they won't open the spec.
Even if they do open the spec, it sure wouldn't be for their most recent cards. It'll be for cards that were sold several years ago, so they can protect their designs.
Right now they can compete with binary drivers.
I'd wager a guess they're going to fix the binary drivers only.
Why would they open a spec when they can compete with the binary drivers?
I have no idea how those eye tracking missile systems work either, but it may be (at least I would hope) checking the target as the missile travels as well. As it gets closer, it can take new readings and track more accurately.
I would think that targeting buildings wouldn't need accuracy down to a millimeter. The targets are much bigger - with dialog buttons you're trying to target something that's maybe 2cm wide x 1cm tall.
While having the PC reboot on its own is not exactly intended behaviour, there might be some ways around it.
I don't know about personal PCs, but on a domain you can set WSUS to reboot the PCs at a programmed time after an update if needed - this way it won't shut off while you're in the middle of something. I've set a policy on our domain that PCs reboot after midnight following an update.
I don't use Windows at home at all, so I can't just browse through Group Policy to see if it has something similar for machines not on a domain.
When I read this, I laughed. Maybe in the 80s and early 90s Sony made quality equipment. My cousin gave up after his 3rd PS/2 died and bought an xbox. A coworker bought a Sony TV that shakes the floor when you turn it on (not to mention being really LOUD... and Sony says this is normal! The degauss is not supposed to be that loud!) My Sony Projection TV kicks my UPS for my computer (in a different room, different circuit) into battery mode whenever I turn it on! My Panasonic TV doesn't do that. I'm just waiting for the projection to die so I can get something else. It was built in 1998 or so, so I was hoping I got one that wasn't crap, I guess I wasn't lucky.
I've been hunting around for a laptop lately... and I have noticed one thing: the models with Vista are more expensive than their non-Vista counterparts. We're talking the same model here, and a $50-$100 difference. So I wonder about this statement.
And it's probably no coincidence that the XP models are suddenly no longer available (although they should be soon again.) Meh.
It was a Compaq. The cost to get parts from them was more than enough to replace his computer with an OEM copy of Windows. I did check for parts for it at online/local retailers and there were no listings for CPUs/mobos. The only thing I could get was RAM, and that was the only thing that tested fine. We're talking technology from 1998 here.
I certainly didn't want to have to deal with it. There comes a point (time or cost) where it's better to buy a replacement than dick around with old hardware.
Don't get me wrong, my slowest computer still in use is a Pentium1 - 200Mhz.
Running an old version of Windows that's not supported on old hardware is an invitation for problems. The hardware in that Duron was actually failing and it took some convincing to get the 70 year old guy to replace it. He didn't seem to understand that 1. There is no support for Windows ME anymore and 2. Finding replacement hardware to fix his PC was next to impossible.
Most people in the market for a new PC aren't going to know the difference between XP and Vista. A lot of the older generation also think that a PC is a one-time buy. They aren't going to go shopping for a new computer every few years. One of the older folks I do some work for (finally) decided to replace his aging Duron 733 from 7 or so years ago. I still know quite a few older folks with PCs older than that.
There isn't any reason for this share of the market to upgrade. Sure, they can advertise all they want; people still aren't going to buy it. It won't make a difference. My Mom wanted a new laptop and I told her to get it with XP as she uses some custom software... I didn't want to have to do compatibility testing on old software.
Not everyone will just jump on a new OS. Those that have likely have been burned once and will wait it out a bit. Once the buggy drivers are fixed, and your average cheap PC (sub-$500) can run Vista at a reasonable speed (currently Vista is slow on these PCs), then likely there will be more of a shift toward Vista.
Another big hit for Microsoft was the refusal of government and related agencies to use Vista. At some point they will allow it, but not anytime soon.
In a few years Vista may be mainstream, but it won't get there anytime soon. I didn't allow XP where I worked until a year and a half ago. Windows 2000 suited us just fine.
I've been told LG laptops will be available with XP as an option in a month or so.
By their middle names, of course!
I had a different problem on startup with v1.5. No matter what I did, I couldn't get Thunderbird to check more than one account on startup. After a couple of weeks of not getting new mail, I manually started the send/receive process and got a ton. I checked the account properties and "Check for new mail on startup" was selected for all of my accounts. New features are okay, but I wonder if this was fixed. (Or is it just something wrong with the configuration?)
When I get spam messages I wish I could set them on fire... someone granted my wish!
Sure, but I wonder how expensive they are and how long they last. I would imagine with a brighter bulb the lifespan would be shorter... and also wouldn't that affect the quality of the picture itself? I suppose once you reach a certain brightness with the projector it would wash colour out? Speculating here. Of course that's silly to compare against a $100k TV, but replacing bulbs in projectors isn't my thing (especially when they cost $200-$400 where I am.) Which is another reason why I didn't buy one. The third reason is my room doesn't have the length needed to use a projector.
Sure, if you want to sit in a darkened room to watch TV. With a plasma screen this large, watching in a well lit room wouldn't be a problem. This is the reason why I didn't choose a projector for my living room.
Anyone remember when they sent 3.5" floppy disks? At least if they sent you a dozen in the mail you could format them and not have to buy media. Maybe someone should persuade them to start using CD-RWs...
Someone else mentioned here already that Shaw on the west coast does this as well. They do have varying rates from 10GB/month - 150GB/month for home users. Some of their prices are pretty scary though.
What usually is the problem is a few people per node that decide to leave their p2p on at full tilt 24/7. I for one do not have a problem with paying for monthly throughput (if I could get a reasonably priced 150GB package from Shaw I would) as I know I won't go over it. Other articles said in the US that some ISP was just cutting people off. Why? Make it clear what the caps are, and then throttle all traffic down if they go over the monthly limit. The problem for this to work is that they would have to have several bandwidth packages ranging for individual needs. Instead of just saying "you can do 100GB, but not with p2p" give the consumer a choice of package with no restrictions on the line. It's not perfect, and most ISPs are just too damn lazy to upgrade/change to deal with it.
Wait, we're supposed to turn off the appliances? Damn, I'd turn off my computers if I could find them!
Bulls**t. Vista has what? 5 Editions? So 5 cars in the analogy? Not the same. They don't have the same tires/wheels/engines/road clearance. Otherwise they wouldn't have Home Basic. It's the most crippled one feature-wise.
Cars DO have different characteristics depending on what road they are on. Why do you think handling is one of the points in car reviews? Hmm? You can't take a sports car up the mountain, it'll fall apart. It _can't_ do it. Normal cars with normal ride height can go up the mountain roads. There's usually a few areas (at least around here) that a sports car can't pass, where a normal car or truck can.
Honestly, this likely doesn't relate that well, but you have 5 Vista cars:
-Home Basic (some rusty old truck from the 80s)
-Home Premium (a slightly newer truck)
-Business (an older car)
-Enterprise (a newer car)
-Ultimate (a sports car)
Now, a someone newer machine barely meeting the minimum requirements is a mountain. Which ones are likely going to work? Ultimate won't, period. The others will probably work just fine but struggle.
Honestly, I don't care about Microsoft's advertising. All that's going to happen is they are going to slap a disclaimer in fine print saying it'll run Home Basic only with no Aero interface (or does Home Basic even have the Aero interface?)
You'll have to wait a few months, then you'll get your choice of XP back. Since the US govt announced "No Vista, period." the manufacturers are going to be preinstalling XP once again.
I was at a LG roadshow (non-public) and I know for sure that they will have the choice of XP on Vista on their laptops in a couple months, stating that the government won't buy if it comes with Vista. Ouch for Microsoft.
I would say you don't understand cars either; this is precisely the reason that some cars are to be run on the track only. These track cars are designed specifically for the track and not run on the street as they would be unsafe.
Cars definitely have different characteristics depending on what road they are on. This is why you don't take sports cars mountain climbing, as one example.
Instead of changing an hour twice a year, why don't we change the clocks permanently by a half hour? It would be so much better if we didn't have to constantly screw up everyone's sleep patterns. Meet at the halfway point and call it done already.