God damn, that was so not worth the RTFA. I have adblock+ running and there were still more crap panes than individual characters in the article proper. I'll think twice before venturing to craputerworld next time. From the "no shit, Sherlock" dept. would be more appropriate. That article, besides being a waste of time, was so junior admin.
Most admins have already figured out that; 1) don't put all your "eggs" into one virtual "basket", 2) spread the virts across multiple NICs and keep the global(or master) server's NIC separate, 3) use VIPs and clusters to load balance across similar virtual instances on separate physical h/w to keep unexpected downtime in check, 4) don't load up too many dissimilar virts into a single physical server, 5) learn the new environment in dev/qa and do your homework on the new commands and resource/user capping features, and 6) read more/. and less computerworld. WTF, bring something new to the table. That was just weak.
Not a frickin' PS3 though. This crap points me straight in the direction of the Xbox360. I hate M$ as much as the next guy, but the original Xbox was done very well and had some very compelling games. I have 2 PS2s a PSP and 3 or more original PSXen, but no more from Sony please. I've got just about every handheld and console ever made, except for most Nintendo ones and the Vectrex, and am glad I've slowed down my console spending these past few years. The PSP was *very* promising, but Sony *blew* it by locking down their system from the homebrew developers. This lame PS3 Second-Life ripoff just proves to me further that Sony is out of touch with gamers and the game industry in general. Too little, too late. They should open the PSP OS to anyone who can code to it. Period. PS3? When it hits the $99 price point I may get one to play Linux on, but so far this is so underwhelming I can't decide whether to yawn or crap. Sony took a very wrong turn during the PSP and they show no signs of circling back to correct it. They used to be the top dog, now their eating Wii and Xbox360 scraps.
1) They are preparing (hopefully) for support for whatever Linux distros are going to be made available. Not that anyone is going to call and actually *need* support for their Linux box, other then a defective hardware component. But the perception to them will be; "how do we support a non-Windows system?" A hardware *only* support structure would be just fine here, but their thinking too much in the box. [sic] "People *might* call with actually Linux config questions" and they'll not be ready to handle even a small amount of support in that space.
2) They have the 'n' series for the consumer channel, and for years they've had OSless systems available on the business side of things. The problem is the consumer side and I'll bet a dollar to a donut that Microsquat is climbing up their collective assen to "not support anything but Windows, or OSless boxen for consumers. Period."
I had another one, but I forget now. I'm installing my new Sun Ultra 25 desktop and really could care less about the Dell at this point. 8^) Woot!
It's going to be in the back, right next the the little empty patch of plastic that you can drill out and mount your home-soldered reset switch to! You'll have to pop out the cart to plug in your C64 serial port adapter though, so you can connect to your 300baud modem and then to the World Wide BBS. Quantum Link, here I come!!!
True, all true. Back when I was an Apple IT employee (90-93) we started migrating the internal mail system from the god-awful Apple-Link (AKA Crapple-Link) to the distributed mail systems running on our own hardware. The better one was a product call QuickMail, and the other was Microsoft Mail (before it was re-engineered as Exchange). I've never admined an Exchange server, but MSmail was a giant pain in the ass to take care of, so most of the engineering dept went with the easier to manage, and more reliable QuickMail. I think I even have my QM client install floppy. Good times!
My reason was: it was 1999, and I knew nothing other than Star Office (and it was not very good) and I needed Word to send my resume to stupid recruiters. Somehow they found text documents to hard to deal with. Dummies! I didn't see Clippy, but they had a little animated Mac along with the other characters for the help/annoyance feature.
Other than patching, I would never upgrade from the original Office v.X, especially now that the ODF is beginning to gain traction in the marketplace. Proprietary doc formats should all go away. Next time I go job searching I'll spend extra time "educating" the recruiters on the need for them to support open docs.
I'm wondering if there's an emphasis on security measures relating to web-app dev. I'll have to pop by the bookstore and thumb through.
Need to do that anyway, as my last O'Rly book (JavaScript Definitive Guide) has a split in the binding and does not have the nice "stay open" binding like some of the other newer titles. I really need to hold the books in had to see if it has binding issues, Amazon is not up to speed in that respect yet.;)
Mee Too! I've never downloaded any cool, free MP3s yet, but I'd like to. Can I settle in advance, then copy the living crap out of my soon to be new favorite P2P service? How much is that going to set me back to begin with? This may become a viable new distribution model!
Bingo! There's more than one way to download pr0n, and you're average kid knows this. When we got my stepson a new mobile phone, the first thing he did, other than download javaStripPoker was to download pr0n. I knew about it, as any tech savvy parent should (mom had no clue, which is typical of those xtian pinheads), but I did not bust him on it. I would have done the same thing myself, so why ruin his fun? Anyway, I digress.
If you're going to buy your kids some technology, you might want to learn something about it and participate, rather than bitch about it and ruin it for everyone else. Or, just don't buy it in the first place.
Enough of these lazy, asshole pseudo-parents who can't manage the technologies they gleefully purchase for their brats without any knowledge of the capabilities. Go to hell you xtian, botnet mules! Not that any of them know about our/. sanctuary of techy goodness. If you do, then; mission accomplished. And let me reiterate; go straight to HELL, do not pass Go. Asshats.
And how! I'll just keep using my crappy cingular RAZR (lame frickin' GUI, and a whopping 5mb of user space in a pretty clamshell, whoo hooo, at least I can run gmail/goomap and miniOpera 3) until I can get a iPhone. Also, hacking into someone's voicemail box on T-mobile is not only a pain in the ass, it's expensive as their 866message number is a toll call for me. HA! Thanks for the warning about T-Mobile though, I can safely avoid them like the plague.
Worse than that... think of the glut of ignorant, wanna-be cops in the job market when they layoff those "camera watchers". The bottom of the barrel is going to get larger and larger...
And widescreen video iPod to boot! The $500-600 price point is right where I expect it to be, as I was pricing new high-end Palm compatibles a few years ago, and the nice Sony ones (when they still made them) were all BT/WiFi/widescreen and/or twistscreen and guess what? Priced at $500-$700 for the really nice ones with the better screens and networking. The "unopen" aspect of the iPhone environment bothers me a bit, I'd rather have something open like Palm, but I'm also thinking of making the purchase; 1) I'm already on AT&Cingular, 2) my contract ends on my RAZR in April, 3) I've been waiting for the widescreen video iPod already ('bout damn time, I'd say), 3) the RAZR is okay, but it suffers greatly from a poorly designed UI and way too little user memory, 4) I believe it might become a more open platform in the future (however, I have next to nothing to base this on).
Good enough for me, but then I'm not the typical Walmart shopping, late adopter type waiting for the price to drop to ~$300.
Cash strapped? Just get some RAMDoubler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix and you'll be set, my friend! Only 1GB of RAM, now you have 2GB! It's magic, I tell you!
"Disk compression is nice, let's compress our RAM and really slow things down!!!":P
Radio is a dead medium. When was the last time you listened to the radio in your car, other than to be a host for your iPod? And when you did, did you leave the fscking commercials on? I think not. Let's review the list of places to listen to audio based entertainment in order of popularity and/or relevance:
1) MP3s and other compressed digital audio, iPod 2) Satellite Radio/Cable digital audio channels. and with no commercials! 3) low-power, local FM radio broadcast for iPod to connect to ancient stereo 4) CDs. hey they still sell them, don't they? 5) Magnetic tape. DAT/Cassette 6) Paper tape 7) Vinyl Albums 8) Sounds from the ass of a dead bear when it's carcass begins to out-gas from excessive bloating 9) Commercial Broadcast Radio
Regular DVD5/DVD9 format, by a landslide! When you can *only* purchase a title on either BR or HD formats, and *not* on DVD5/9, *then* we can decide a winner. Until then Sony should rethink it's policy of preventing hackability in their products... I'm looking right at the PSP, Sony. You shmucks.
From the same idiots who brought you the overpriced, under performing "Memory Stick"! I've got a Memory Stick for them...;)
To me, they did beat MS. They have a better product. Closed it was. Now it's open. What are you bitching about? Mac OS 7? When Microsoft ditches the lame NT kernel and starts producing an OS with some security against the hordes, please wake me?
"Control Freaks", or end to end development? You be the judge. Second thought, please don't!
If you want a good example of "control freak"edness, try and buy a Linux desktop or laptop from Dell, Gateway, Lenovowhatever, Acer... you can with some, but the choices a FEW and they are not on the front page, and you can't get any system with something OTHER THAN MICROSOFT VISTA. Period. Tell me about these "control freaks" as you say? Tell me of this earth thing they call kissing? Oops, had Star Trek on too loud.
You got that backwards. Apple pioneered most of the early technologies and ideas that helped Microsoft create windows, then Microsoft out-marketed Apple and made a big success of their product by force. Not by having a superior product. Without Apple, we'd all be using DOS 20.x and the mousepad would have never existed. For sure, Apple has much slicker and fancier marketing than MS, but to say they are a similar evil force is stretching it quite a bit. For instance, MS has to go through hardware vendors to get their complete product out, whereas Apple does everything soup to nuts. This vendor relationship chain is where most of the "funny" business goes on. Intel is not immune either, as witnessed by the recent lawsuit involving kickbacks to Dell. Need I mention the monopoly case with many states and our government?
So, to sum up; Microsoft uses heavy-handed marketing to make sure their vendors do not start offering any competing products to theirs, if there's a competitor they can't beat they buy them and bury the product or bloat it with so many features your toolbar looks like iconic vomit. Or, how about IE vs. Netscape? Get the picture? On the other hand, Apple goes out of their way to engineer ease of use into many powerful products, all on their own terms. They run their own stores, yet you can still buy Apple products from non-Apple stores. Totally dissimilar strategies. People seek out Apple products, Microsoft products are either forced on you (at work), or by there being NO OTHER CHOICE when you go to the various MS/PC vendors. You can pick any MP3 player, and just about any music download service. Most people choose an iPod and to purchase DRMed tunes from iTunes. There are alternatives, (YOU HAVE A CHOICE NOW), but they mostly suck ass. Ever heard of napster? Neither have I. Ever heard of the Zune? haha.
Apple didn't get to the top of the MP3 heap by undercutting their R&D costs and taking losses to drive penetration, or bullying their vendors. Macs are a much better product, in relation to the other proprietary OS choice; XP/Vista. The fact you can still buy a Mac tells me this is true. If the Mac was too expensive (price/performance), or lacked the ability to do anything an XP/Vista box can, they'd be gone. Technologically speaking, Microsoft has a much bigger job of porting their OS to literally hundreds of dissimilar pieces of hardware, and the fact they can release anything at all is a testament to their strive for dominance in the marketplace. But to lump in Apple with Microsoft as a business predator and non-innovator is ludicrous and sounds like the ravings of someone not in the computer industry... what's that? Rolling Stone?!?!? Oh crap, why bother?
Exactly. This is not an Apple Press Release, it's just a slow news day at itworld and they needed something to generate pageviews. They say to say "thank you" to everyone who went there to read it, rather than feast on the/. dissemination.
You can bet a dollar to a donut that Apple will indeed release and support all their key Win apps in due time. Personally, I'm waiting for Vista Pro SP3 before I take the plunge.;)
But, come ON! More goofy laws enacted by the same state that made pinball machines illegal during the 60s. I'm moving to NY so they can protect me from myself! I sound dangerous. Besides, anyone who continually fusses with their tech while walking thru intersections deserves to be run over. The next of kin can now use their iPod. Problem solved. Next!
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God damn, that was so not worth the RTFA. I have adblock+ running and there were still more crap panes than individual characters in the article proper. I'll think twice before venturing to craputerworld next time. From the "no shit, Sherlock" dept. would be more appropriate. That article, besides being a waste of time, was so junior admin.
/. and less computerworld. WTF, bring something new to the table. That was just weak.
Most admins have already figured out that; 1) don't put all your "eggs" into one virtual "basket", 2) spread the virts across multiple NICs and keep the global(or master) server's NIC separate, 3) use VIPs and clusters to load balance across similar virtual instances on separate physical h/w to keep unexpected downtime in check, 4) don't load up too many dissimilar virts into a single physical server, 5) learn the new environment in dev/qa and do your homework on the new commands and resource/user capping features, and 6) read more
Not a frickin' PS3 though. This crap points me straight in the direction of the Xbox360. I hate M$ as much as the next guy, but the original Xbox was done very well and had some very compelling games. I have 2 PS2s a PSP and 3 or more original PSXen, but no more from Sony please. I've got just about every handheld and console ever made, except for most Nintendo ones and the Vectrex, and am glad I've slowed down my console spending these past few years. The PSP was *very* promising, but Sony *blew* it by locking down their system from the homebrew developers. This lame PS3 Second-Life ripoff just proves to me further that Sony is out of touch with gamers and the game industry in general. Too little, too late. They should open the PSP OS to anyone who can code to it. Period. PS3? When it hits the $99 price point I may get one to play Linux on, but so far this is so underwhelming I can't decide whether to yawn or crap. Sony took a very wrong turn during the PSP and they show no signs of circling back to correct it. They used to be the top dog, now their eating Wii and Xbox360 scraps.
1) They are preparing (hopefully) for support for whatever Linux distros are going to be made available. Not that anyone is going to call and actually *need* support for their Linux box, other then a defective hardware component. But the perception to them will be; "how do we support a non-Windows system?" A hardware *only* support structure would be just fine here, but their thinking too much in the box. [sic] "People *might* call with actually Linux config questions" and they'll not be ready to handle even a small amount of support in that space.
2) They have the 'n' series for the consumer channel, and for years they've had OSless systems available on the business side of things. The problem is the consumer side and I'll bet a dollar to a donut that Microsquat is climbing up their collective assen to "not support anything but Windows, or OSless boxen for consumers. Period."
I had another one, but I forget now. I'm installing my new Sun Ultra 25 desktop and really could care less about the Dell at this point. 8^) Woot!
It's going to be in the back, right next the the little empty patch of plastic that you can drill out and mount your home-soldered reset switch to! You'll have to pop out the cart to plug in your C64 serial port adapter though, so you can connect to your 300baud modem and then to the World Wide BBS. Quantum Link, here I come!!!
True, all true. Back when I was an Apple IT employee (90-93) we started migrating the internal mail system from the god-awful Apple-Link (AKA Crapple-Link) to the distributed mail systems running on our own hardware. The better one was a product call QuickMail, and the other was Microsoft Mail (before it was re-engineered as Exchange). I've never admined an Exchange server, but MSmail was a giant pain in the ass to take care of, so most of the engineering dept went with the easier to manage, and more reliable QuickMail. I think I even have my QM client install floppy. Good times!
My reason was: it was 1999, and I knew nothing other than Star Office (and it was not very good) and I needed Word to send my resume to stupid recruiters. Somehow they found text documents to hard to deal with. Dummies! I didn't see Clippy, but they had a little animated Mac along with the other characters for the help/annoyance feature.
Other than patching, I would never upgrade from the original Office v.X, especially now that the ODF is beginning to gain traction in the marketplace. Proprietary doc formats should all go away. Next time I go job searching I'll spend extra time "educating" the recruiters on the need for them to support open docs.
But... can they tell when I'm just going to give up and use a hand calculator or 'bc'?
Nah, online voting will be super sweet and have a KILLER GUI... just let me whip up a wicked secure CGI script for that! ;)
Yes, it was posted last week... It's still very interesting though.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02
I'm wondering if there's an emphasis on security measures relating to web-app dev. I'll have to pop by the bookstore and thumb through.
;)
Need to do that anyway, as my last O'Rly book (JavaScript Definitive Guide) has a split in the binding and does not have the nice "stay open" binding like some of the other newer titles. I really need to hold the books in had to see if it has binding issues, Amazon is not up to speed in that respect yet.
Mee Too! I've never downloaded any cool, free MP3s yet, but I'd like to. Can I settle in advance, then copy the living crap out of my soon to be new favorite P2P service? How much is that going to set me back to begin with? This may become a viable new distribution model!
Bingo! There's more than one way to download pr0n, and you're average kid knows this. When we got my stepson a new mobile phone, the first thing he did, other than download javaStripPoker was to download pr0n. I knew about it, as any tech savvy parent should (mom had no clue, which is typical of those xtian pinheads), but I did not bust him on it. I would have done the same thing myself, so why ruin his fun? Anyway, I digress.
/. sanctuary of techy goodness. If you do, then; mission accomplished. And let me reiterate; go straight to HELL, do not pass Go. Asshats.
If you're going to buy your kids some technology, you might want to learn something about it and participate, rather than bitch about it and ruin it for everyone else. Or, just don't buy it in the first place.
Enough of these lazy, asshole pseudo-parents who can't manage the technologies they gleefully purchase for their brats without any knowledge of the capabilities. Go to hell you xtian, botnet mules! Not that any of them know about our
And how! I'll just keep using my crappy cingular RAZR (lame frickin' GUI, and a whopping 5mb of user space in a pretty clamshell, whoo hooo, at least I can run gmail/goomap and miniOpera 3) until I can get a iPhone. Also, hacking into someone's voicemail box on T-mobile is not only a pain in the ass, it's expensive as their 866message number is a toll call for me. HA! Thanks for the warning about T-Mobile though, I can safely avoid them like the plague.
T-Mobile you are teh suck!
Worse than that... think of the glut of ignorant, wanna-be cops in the job market when they layoff those "camera watchers". The bottom of the barrel is going to get larger and larger...
:) or from a *very* loud car stereo...
holy crap, I can't wait for this to come to my area! There's hacking afoot...
Good times.
And widescreen video iPod to boot! The $500-600 price point is right where I expect it to be, as I was pricing new high-end Palm compatibles a few years ago, and the nice Sony ones (when they still made them) were all BT/WiFi/widescreen and/or twistscreen and guess what? Priced at $500-$700 for the really nice ones with the better screens and networking. The "unopen" aspect of the iPhone environment bothers me a bit, I'd rather have something open like Palm, but I'm also thinking of making the purchase; 1) I'm already on AT&Cingular, 2) my contract ends on my RAZR in April, 3) I've been waiting for the widescreen video iPod already ('bout damn time, I'd say), 3) the RAZR is okay, but it suffers greatly from a poorly designed UI and way too little user memory, 4) I believe it might become a more open platform in the future (however, I have next to nothing to base this on).
Good enough for me, but then I'm not the typical Walmart shopping, late adopter type waiting for the price to drop to ~$300.
Cash strapped? Just get some RAMDoubler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix and you'll be set, my friend! Only 1GB of RAM, now you have 2GB! It's magic, I tell you!
:P
"Disk compression is nice, let's compress our RAM and really slow things down!!!"
Radio is a dead medium. When was the last time you listened to the radio in your car, other than to be a host for your iPod? And when you did, did you leave the fscking commercials on? I think not. Let's review the list of places to listen to audio based entertainment in order of popularity and/or relevance:
1) MP3s and other compressed digital audio, iPod
2) Satellite Radio/Cable digital audio channels. and with no commercials!
3) low-power, local FM radio broadcast for iPod to connect to ancient stereo
4) CDs. hey they still sell them, don't they?
5) Magnetic tape. DAT/Cassette
6) Paper tape
7) Vinyl Albums
8) Sounds from the ass of a dead bear when it's carcass begins to out-gas from excessive bloating
9) Commercial Broadcast Radio
Regular DVD5/DVD9 format, by a landslide! When you can *only* purchase a title on either BR or HD formats, and *not* on DVD5/9, *then* we can decide a winner. Until then Sony should rethink it's policy of preventing hackability in their products... I'm looking right at the PSP, Sony. You shmucks.
;)
From the same idiots who brought you the overpriced, under performing "Memory Stick"! I've got a Memory Stick for them...
To me, they did beat MS. They have a better product. Closed it was. Now it's open. What are you bitching about? Mac OS 7? When Microsoft ditches the lame NT kernel and starts producing an OS with some security against the hordes, please wake me?
"Control Freaks", or end to end development? You be the judge. Second thought, please don't!
If you want a good example of "control freak"edness, try and buy a Linux desktop or laptop from Dell, Gateway, Lenovowhatever, Acer... you can with some, but the choices a FEW and they are not on the front page, and you can't get any system with something OTHER THAN MICROSOFT VISTA. Period. Tell me about these "control freaks" as you say? Tell me of this earth thing they call kissing? Oops, had Star Trek on too loud.
Thanks for playing, please get a clue.
You got that backwards. Apple pioneered most of the early technologies and ideas that helped Microsoft create windows, then Microsoft out-marketed Apple and made a big success of their product by force. Not by having a superior product. Without Apple, we'd all be using DOS 20.x and the mousepad would have never existed. For sure, Apple has much slicker and fancier marketing than MS, but to say they are a similar evil force is stretching it quite a bit. For instance, MS has to go through hardware vendors to get their complete product out, whereas Apple does everything soup to nuts. This vendor relationship chain is where most of the "funny" business goes on. Intel is not immune either, as witnessed by the recent lawsuit involving kickbacks to Dell. Need I mention the monopoly case with many states and our government?
So, to sum up; Microsoft uses heavy-handed marketing to make sure their vendors do not start offering any competing products to theirs, if there's a competitor they can't beat they buy them and bury the product or bloat it with so many features your toolbar looks like iconic vomit. Or, how about IE vs. Netscape? Get the picture? On the other hand, Apple goes out of their way to engineer ease of use into many powerful products, all on their own terms. They run their own stores, yet you can still buy Apple products from non-Apple stores. Totally dissimilar strategies. People seek out Apple products, Microsoft products are either forced on you (at work), or by there being NO OTHER CHOICE when you go to the various MS/PC vendors. You can pick any MP3 player, and just about any music download service. Most people choose an iPod and to purchase DRMed tunes from iTunes. There are alternatives, (YOU HAVE A CHOICE NOW), but they mostly suck ass. Ever heard of napster? Neither have I. Ever heard of the Zune? haha.
Apple didn't get to the top of the MP3 heap by undercutting their R&D costs and taking losses to drive penetration, or bullying their vendors. Macs are a much better product, in relation to the other proprietary OS choice; XP/Vista. The fact you can still buy a Mac tells me this is true. If the Mac was too expensive (price/performance), or lacked the ability to do anything an XP/Vista box can, they'd be gone. Technologically speaking, Microsoft has a much bigger job of porting their OS to literally hundreds of dissimilar pieces of hardware, and the fact they can release anything at all is a testament to their strive for dominance in the marketplace. But to lump in Apple with Microsoft as a business predator and non-innovator is ludicrous and sounds like the ravings of someone not in the computer industry... what's that? Rolling Stone?!?!? Oh crap, why bother?
Exactly. This is not an Apple Press Release, it's just a slow news day at itworld and they needed something to generate pageviews. They say to say "thank you" to everyone who went there to read it, rather than feast on the /. dissemination.
;)
You can bet a dollar to a donut that Apple will indeed release and support all their key Win apps in due time. Personally, I'm waiting for Vista Pro SP3 before I take the plunge.
And you forgot the "I, for one, welcome our Quantum Computing Overlords."
Besides, this thing won't get traction until we get some Quantum Pr0n to process on it. Seriously, everyone calm down.
But, come ON! More goofy laws enacted by the same state that made pinball machines illegal during the 60s. I'm moving to NY so they can protect me from myself! I sound dangerous. Besides, anyone who continually fusses with their tech while walking thru intersections deserves to be run over. The next of kin can now use their iPod. Problem solved. Next!
Must be a slow law year.
she was walking all alone
down the street in the alley
her name was sally
she never saw it
when she was hit by space junk
Just get some orange space suits and send up some prisoners to clean up.
Problem solved. Next!