Eum... How on earth do you dualboot Windows with OS X? =-/
OS X can't run on x86 hardware. Windows can't run on Mac hardware.
Unless you're speaking about dualbooting Windows with a Gnu/Darwin system. But that's something completly different from OS X.
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We all have our prejudices... For some it is that all the suits thinks about is making money and swindle their employees. For some it is that geeks don't want to make money.
On this particular subject, my prejudice is this: Anyone working in the field of computers, electronics or something related and who actually wear a suit or a tie at work are incompetent.
This is probably not true, but so far it has been correct regarding the people I came across during the five years I was working in that field...
Well... I don't work there anymore. Am a student now. But we used to get a little money and maybe a shirt or something like that. As a goodbye gift when I quit I got a bottle of fine singlemalt whiskey and a sweater with a small company logo on it. Actually a really nice gift.
I don't think this will affect you very much unless you actually listen to mainstream RIAA approved music. The smaller independent recordcompanies probably won't try to alienate their small base of customers by doing idiotic stuff like this.:-)
"People aren't buying our records! What whould we do?" "Hey, I've got an idea. Let make everyone hate our guts!"
Otherwise, they'll just have to stop relying on making them smaller and instead come up with smarter ways of using what they've got.:-) Doing smart design instead of going for high frequency. Smart programming instead of hoping for insanely faster cpu's.
That tapes go unusable are often due to storing them in a unhealty environment. If you take the trouble to contact the manufakturer of you specific brand of tape, they can usually advise you about what temperature, dustlevels and air moisture levels they should be stored in. I've had no trouble recovering data from 4 - 5 year old backups that's been stored correctly.
The correct way of making sure about long term backups is to build/rent a storagearea with a controlled climate within those recommendations. Another thing to keep in mind is magnetic fields. It might, for an example, be a bad idea to store them on a shelf made out of metal, in a room close to the local transformationstation (if you've got one inside your building that is) or the electrical feed for you building. You also have to make sure that the fireextinguising system you use won't damage the tapes if something should happen.
And, of course, keep at least a few of your tapes in a remote location from your regular tapes. You never know. Even if that place is separate from you servers you might still catch a fire, break in, earthquake, crazy terrorist pilot or waterleakage at that location.
Some of this would also apply for storing your ancient backupequipment, cd's, dvd's and harddrives. But I don't understand why some people say that it would be safer to backup to SCSI disks...:-/ I thought the biggest difference was in the electronics, not in the mechanical parts of the drive. Hmm... Though, you *would* expect to get higher quality mechanism when buying a 10x as expensive disk.:-)
On the other hand, I can go online i a forum, claim to be an, say, AT&T techie and say some really stupid stuff. Most people can't/won't check if what I'm claiming is true or not. Just as most people doesn't verify the accuracy of information they dig up on the internet.
But I can agree with you to some extent. Back when I was working as a technician for a broadband-company, I would gladly help people out but I would never say that I worked for that company though. In part because I'm not actually representing my employer when I'm not working and therefore has no business saying that "I'm a company X techie". In part because if people know I'm from that company, I will get targeted with complaints about their service and stupid questions that I'm not allowed to answer. (Like: What equipment do you use, what servers, what security, etc. Only idiots and fools would answer that kind of questions. Especially if they've been boosting about where they work.)
But as long as I don't say where I work or tell people stuff that I shouldn't reveal, I see no reason for my employer to forbid me to help or fire me for it.
Those bastards where helping the customers! Of course they should be fired. Can't have serviceminded employees. That would be good for company reputation.
So... What we need right now is a distributed client to search for the ISO of a Linux 5.6 based distribution so that we can replace windows on the desktop. =-)
> "Yes, a trillion digits does seem a bit like overkill."
No! More is *always* better. We know this from software version numbering. That's why Redhat 8 obviously is better than Linux 2.4 and Windows 2000 beats everything else! =-)
I've got a mild case of tinitus, my loudspeakers and stereo are in the $500 class and there's a street about 60 meters away from my windows. This combined makes anything above 160kbit/s average VBR mp3's a waste of space.;-) Most of the time, I can't even tell the difference between 128kbit cbr and 160kbit vbr, due to all the sounds around me. I envy those who's actually got a listening environment that enables them to take pleasure in the extra quality you get from listening to cd's instead.
Also, I do most of my listening in my car. Now *there's* a place where you won't need high quality sound. Unless you listen while parked, engine off, away from any traffic.:-)
The only time I sometimes wish I had ripped in higher quality is when I listen with my headphones somewhere quiet.:-(
By the way, most of my music is ripped from my own cd's. I mostly steal music when I can't find the cd, or I have to import it at great expense to get it. For some reason, very few musicstores has got the music I like. Some can't even order it.
People in general must listen to weird music...:-/
Eum... Security checkpoint? On a train? I have *never* had a security check while traveling via bus, train, underground, boat or any other public transportation. In any country... But I live in "the rest of the world" and doesn't have to use a unit-converter to understand km/h, so maybe I'll be safe anyway.:-/
Anyway, even if someone would choose to bomb one train every year, which sounds a bit unlikely to me, it would still be a lot safer than going by car. (And I mostly go by car. That doesn't make it any safer... I drive like an idiot.;-)
Well... Yes, actually. Make a program for smart people and only smart people will be able to figure out how to use it. And how many out there are smart? Let's face it. Most users aren't. So to get a large userbase of "ordinary" users, you have to design your software for them.
But, of course... You'll probably loose the smart users to other software.;-)
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Hehe. Yeah.
But what will Intel do when we start using Carats instead of Megaherts to measure speed? =-)
Didn't think about that...
But will it run on mac hardware? =-/
(McHardware... Sounds like a new McDonalds burger... With a piece of rock instead of the meat.)
Apart from the wind, there's also the visual part or the ride. Acually flying around high in the air in gutwrenching turns.
But I guess they could compensate a *little* by mounting a 60" plasma screen right infront of the seats too and play a 3d rolercoaster ride on it. =-)
Eum...
How on earth do you dualboot Windows with OS X? =-/
OS X can't run on x86 hardware.
Windows can't run on Mac hardware.
Unless you're speaking about dualbooting Windows with a Gnu/Darwin system.
But that's something completly different from OS X.
We all have our prejudices...
For some it is that all the suits thinks about is making money and swindle their employees.
For some it is that geeks don't want to make money.
On this particular subject, my prejudice is this:
Anyone working in the field of computers, electronics or something related and who actually wear a suit or a tie at work are incompetent.
This is probably not true, but so far it has been correct regarding the people I came across during the five years I was working in that field...
Well... I don't work there anymore. Am a student now.
But we used to get a little money and maybe a shirt or something like that.
As a goodbye gift when I quit I got a bottle of fine singlemalt whiskey and a sweater with a small company logo on it.
Actually a really nice gift.
I don't think this will affect you very much unless you actually listen to mainstream RIAA approved music. :-)
The smaller independent recordcompanies probably won't try to alienate their small base of customers by doing idiotic stuff like this.
"People aren't buying our records! What whould we do?"
"Hey, I've got an idea. Let make everyone hate our guts!"
Thanks...
I'll check it out.
(Never needed a gui designer before, can't think of a reason for me to need it now.)
Kill them!
That'll teach them a lesson!
While we're at it, lets kill the spammers and the people doing popup advertising too.
So...
Will we be using "MS JBuilder" in the future, or will we be forced to use something like "Visual J"? *horror*
Hmm...
Are there any good (read: as good as jbuilder) open and/or free IDE's that'll run in Windows?
Of course not!
They haven't got any cool intel cpu.
Everybody knows that you need their cpu's to enhance the internet experiance.
Mattssons law: The amount of proccessors in a computer will double every 18'th month.
Otherwise, they'll just have to stop relying on making them smaller and instead come up with smarter ways of using what they've got. :-)
Doing smart design instead of going for high frequency.
Smart programming instead of hoping for insanely faster cpu's.
That tapes go unusable are often due to storing them in a unhealty environment.
:-/ :-)
If you take the trouble to contact the manufakturer of you specific brand of tape, they can usually advise you about what temperature, dustlevels and air moisture levels they should be stored in.
I've had no trouble recovering data from 4 - 5 year old backups that's been stored correctly.
The correct way of making sure about long term backups is to build/rent a storagearea with a controlled climate within those recommendations.
Another thing to keep in mind is magnetic fields.
It might, for an example, be a bad idea to store them on a shelf made out of metal, in a room close to the local transformationstation (if you've got one inside your building that is) or the electrical feed for you building.
You also have to make sure that the fireextinguising system you use won't damage the tapes if something should happen.
And, of course, keep at least a few of your tapes in a remote location from your regular tapes.
You never know. Even if that place is separate from you servers you might still catch a fire, break in, earthquake, crazy terrorist pilot or waterleakage at that location.
Some of this would also apply for storing your ancient backupequipment, cd's, dvd's and harddrives.
But I don't understand why some people say that it would be safer to backup to SCSI disks...
I thought the biggest difference was in the electronics, not in the mechanical parts of the drive.
Hmm... Though, you *would* expect to get higher quality mechanism when buying a 10x as expensive disk.
This post is getting long... I'll be quit now.
On the other hand, I can go online i a forum, claim to be an, say, AT&T techie and say some really stupid stuff.
Most people can't/won't check if what I'm claiming is true or not.
Just as most people doesn't verify the accuracy of information they dig up on the internet.
But I can agree with you to some extent.
Back when I was working as a technician for a broadband-company, I would gladly help people out but I would never say that I worked for that company though.
In part because I'm not actually representing my employer when I'm not working and therefore has no business saying that "I'm a company X techie".
In part because if people know I'm from that company, I will get targeted with complaints about their service and stupid questions that I'm not allowed to answer.
(Like: What equipment do you use, what servers, what security, etc. Only idiots and fools would answer that kind of questions. Especially if they've been boosting about where they work.)
But as long as I don't say where I work or tell people stuff that I shouldn't reveal, I see no reason for my employer to forbid me to help or fire me for it.
Read my sig. ;-)
Those bastards where helping the customers!
Of course they should be fired.
Can't have serviceminded employees. That would be good for company reputation.
Everyone needs a hobby...
So...
What we need right now is a distributed client to search for the ISO of a Linux 5.6 based distribution so that we can replace windows on the desktop. =-)
> "Yes, a trillion digits does seem a bit like overkill."
No! More is *always* better.
We know this from software version numbering.
That's why Redhat 8 obviously is better than Linux 2.4 and Windows 2000 beats everything else! =-)
I've got a mild case of tinitus, my loudspeakers and stereo are in the $500 class and there's a street about 60 meters away from my windows. ;-)
:-)
:-(
:-/
This combined makes anything above 160kbit/s average VBR mp3's a waste of space.
Most of the time, I can't even tell the difference between 128kbit cbr and 160kbit vbr, due to all the sounds around me.
I envy those who's actually got a listening environment that enables them to take pleasure in the extra quality you get from listening to cd's instead.
Also, I do most of my listening in my car.
Now *there's* a place where you won't need high quality sound.
Unless you listen while parked, engine off, away from any traffic.
The only time I sometimes wish I had ripped in higher quality is when I listen with my headphones somewhere quiet.
By the way, most of my music is ripped from my own cd's.
I mostly steal music when I can't find the cd, or I have to import it at great expense to get it.
For some reason, very few musicstores has got the music I like. Some can't even order it.
People in general must listen to weird music...
Eum...
XP?
You're talking about that there MajkroSåft software, aren't you?
Well... At least they're not doing anything idiotic, like developing nukes... ...
Waaaait just a minut!
They have nukes!!!
IDIOTS!!!
GRRR!!!
Eum... :-/
;-)
Security checkpoint? On a train?
I have *never* had a security check while traveling via bus, train, underground, boat or any other public transportation. In any country...
But I live in "the rest of the world" and doesn't have to use a unit-converter to understand km/h, so maybe I'll be safe anyway.
Anyway, even if someone would choose to bomb one train every year, which sounds a bit unlikely to me, it would still be a lot safer than going by car.
(And I mostly go by car. That doesn't make it any safer... I drive like an idiot.
Well... Yes, actually.
;-)
Make a program for smart people and only smart people will be able to figure out how to use it.
And how many out there are smart?
Let's face it. Most users aren't.
So to get a large userbase of "ordinary" users, you have to design your software for them.
But, of course... You'll probably loose the smart users to other software.