as to raid5, i thought the more disks you had in the array the more could fail with your data left intact so if you have 4 disks in your array (the minimum for raid 5) if 1 fails then your data is OK, if you have 50, lets say 5 can fail (i don't know the exact math)
>Except the less you buy, the more the industry claims that those losses are due to piracy. It's a never ending cycle. Pretty sad isn't it, its not due to the fact Hollywood is only capable of pumping crap movie after crap movie out
>They just don't get it. If it's viewable, it's hackable--period. omg don't say that, they will start selling us films we cant watch to combat piracy
the packets have already been introduced into your PC by the time their routed, which leaves you open to an attack
i wouldn't exactly call this a "hardware" firewall - yes the USB key does the processing, but it requires the PC and software to transfer the network data to the USB key, whats the difference between routing it to hardware, or routing it to your process ? except now you have an added layer of crap in the way
And for reference, you can install an "entire" firewall on a USB stick, there are many Linux firewalls - IPCop, Smoothwall... etc - although it requires a little work to get them on USB sticks, its not impossible, and then you actually have a true hardware Linux firewall
The whole thing is pointless because the parents will just buy the games for the underage kids anyway - so either way their gonna get the game, but if jack Thompson succeeds hes just gonna piss off a lot of regular people
i thought having one of these services used was against exam board rules any ?
i know where i go to school they put your essay into a computer and that scans it and determines a plagiarism %
if the % is too high, your paper will be checked out
Aren't these services going to be violating the same rules ? therefore, the company's shouldn't really exist because anyone who uses them will probably get disqualified from their grade anyway.... So Google banning them isn't the end of the world because the company's shouldn't exist because you should be able to use them
its about time, i mean MS is already delaying UEFI because vista doesn't support it - although Linux is capable of running it, and does on server motherboards
I don't even know why vista has a 32 bit version, most people who upgrade have to upgrade their computer, and anything these days is 64bit anyway, so why have 2 versions of vista, of which vista 64bit is getting crappy driver support so its useless anyway
Also, by the time MS release their next OS 32bit wont support enough ram so they need 64bit anyway for the terabytes of ram the next OS will need
Most of the Linux servers, will have admins (because their in data centers) who are focused on keeping it secure, there are firewalls in place to make sure the network is secure
Now most windows machines are on home user's PCs, home users don't understand security, they plug their routers in and 1/2 are too incapable to even set WEP on their wireless
So which is the easier target ? the machine that is not kept secure, the PC which is not maintained, the PC which the user doesn't understand how to operate
I mean - jeez windows.com is hosted on IIS - how many times have you see the windows.com site hacked ?
The Skill:OS ratio is also different for Linux, most Linux users are skilled, but most windows users are not (and then there are those that think they are)
Now although i agree that Linux is in fact more secure, because the kernel itself is built to be used in a multi-user environment, so it has to be, Linux was designed to work on networks, windowz was more designed to work for a single user
i installed ubuntu on my mothers computer, if there is someone who is computer illiterate - its her
IE. if it doesn't work, click every button
Now i told her to tell me any problems she had, and after the first week i just had to alter the java settings a bit
She has no problems with it at all, all she needs is the Internet (with java) and office (well word processing, but shes familiar with office) and ubuntu does all of that perfectly fine - and she gets along with it OK
If a computer illiterate person like her can use ubuntu, your average n00b shouldn't have a problem, installing software is a small issue, but the synaptic package manager is pretty good - as long as your a high level user
they did for a reason though, 1 is that it is in fact more simple, if you have a class of people that have never seen a programming language, and they find "print "hello"" difficult, imagine trying to put them onto something like C++
Next is the fact, that a lot of our project needed to be done in access (well you could program it all if you want) which means using VBA - its pretty easy to get vba going if you have done VB6
Now i'm not saying VB is great, but personally i think its definitely acceptable, and if your not making professional grade programs, who cares, and also a lot of the concepts are easier in VB, for loops, if statements, etc - because they look very much like the English way of writing it
As for GOTO, I'm still not sure what the huge problem is, OK i can technically do without it, but sometimes it is easier to do a goto then it is to make a whole function (which IMO could break the flow of the program even more) - hell even assembler relies upon GOTO, and in some assembler your stuck with line numbers and not labels
But lets say if i > 5 then : goto bypass i=i+1 bypass:
OK i could have made a routine, and this is an EXTREMLY simplified example of what I'm talking out, but to miss a couple of lines, gotos are good... in a way Also in doing error checking seems to require gotos (in access)
>TV is dying due to the 20+ minutes of commercials per hour. >And these are the same 4 commercials repeated throughout the same hour. >Even good commercials are repeated to a point where they become annoying like the worst commercials. So true
I know there have been quite a few ad's i have liked the first time i saw them, but by the time you've seen then 20 times in 1 day, it wears off very fast
And the 20 Min's per hour is ridiculous, (mostly on sky) your paying for the service, and yet you get almost double the ad's as the free channels (ITV / C4 - in the UK)
that was one large problem i faced when trying to move to Linux
i have dual head, just getting 1 screen to work can be a pain, but 2 is a nightmare
there are even tools around trying to help you get dual head, though that only works if the drivers are working properly
Honestly, ATM i wouldn't care if ATI drivers were open source, but ffs make them work AMD - of course open source means people can mess around with them, and then we are much more likely to get working drivers for all distributions
>My only real complaint is the crappy *nix support by ATI for their cards! ARRGH! I agree 100% lol
i spent a good 2-3 days trying to move my desktop over to ubuntu, in the end i had to give up because trying to get the X1900XT working in ubuntu marginally worked, but not to an acceptable level where i could really use my PC
so just use the synaptic package manager, its hardly rocket science
the synaptic package manager is just a nice GUI to the apt-get command line - and people can pick and choose which they want
>Figuring out how to install Wine is far easier than getting it configured properly to run your apps. sadly i have to agree, although cedega and crossover office do very nice jobs of the apps they support in my experience
TBH i think this is a good idea, why should dell install a boatload of rubbish on your PC, the same goes for windows, you can install it yourself if you want, that's why its a PERSONAL computer
also - although wine is good, it is no alternative to windows yet, its still not simple and easy to use, and its not 100% there, but if you are moving over its definitely a nice way to keep your favorite windows apps going (if they work)
>You can get an el-cheapo (and you don't need better for that usage) 5-port gigabit switch for $30 Yeah an el cheapo one, i picked up a 36 port network switch for £35 (36 10/100 ports, 2 gigabit fibre ports) off ebay, even an 8 port managed network switch is £hundreds
>Last, but not least, there are no routers for gigabit Ethernet Not exactly true, if you use a Linux router (or something like that) then it only takes a gigabit Ethernet card, but in my experience you have most troubles with drivers for any gigabit card, and then if you want to make full use of it it needs to be a PCI-E Ethernet card, which are also expensive (because you need 1 for the modem and 1 for your network, which is like 250 MBps max - which would max out the PCI bus)
Hold on, if its 150Mbps - and your running on Ethernet (might as well forget USB)
your gonna need gigabit networking, at least connected to the modem, otherwise your gonna lose 1/3 of your connecting because the Ethernet cant keep up
Not forgetting gigabit kit is still quite expensive (routers, switches, cat6 cabling - if you must use it)
Personally i find i do a lot of coding when i have little else to do, but i do find it fun to do:)
Its also a good way to spend your time, getting in some practise, and more often then not trying to solve a problem, its a good challenge
And when you have finished, you have added a bit more knowledge to your codebase, you know how to do something new, and you have a (usually) useful tool for your trouble
Sure i may do coding when I'm bored (and i wouldn't say this is limited to "open source" in any way) but its a good way to spend otherwise wasted time - hell you may even do something really useful that people will thank you for
As you said, when a car passes its wake effects you
Whether you are there or not, the wake exists, normally it just dissipates around the car - wasted energy
If they put these by the side of the road that energy can be utilised, how is that going to cause drag, your already pushing the air around you, the drag is already happening, their just using that to make energy
I don't see this causing additional drag at all
Lets compare this to solar energy, the light hits the ground, that energy is wasted, put a solar panel in the way and you generate power, but there are no more solar rays to do this, your just harnessing otherwise wasted energy
Though i believe that it would make more sense to put up some solar panels, rather then spend all this money on roadworks and stuff to harness the air that's being pushed by a car....
>I'm not a physicist, but won't the turbines cause a drag effect on the cars, resulting in the cars burning more fuel? Is so, aren't they just moving the problem from one place to >another? There's no such thing as free energy, right?
No it wouldn't cause drag on the cars
the cars are already pushing a wall of air, ATM that wall of air just dissipates after a while, the barrier would take that wall of air and convert it to some power
So in fact, its actually making the cars more efficient, as the wasted energy that is normally lost through drag is being utilised now
the government doesn't want to introduce eVoting because it means they lose control, if we can vote online for who governs us, what stops most important decisions from being made with an eVote
What about if the entire British populous is able to vote about where we go to war with whoever T-Blair decides is the next big threat
that's why we wont see the eVote for some time to come
you can practically gather from the summary, without even RTFA that this is talking about google's financial database, which is most likely used to find out how Google is doing, nothing to do with the services Google offer the public
hes probably complaining because you said "xbox or xbox360" - the xbox is marginally newer then the PS2, but Ive always felt the PS2 had much better unique titles (titles not on the PC)
So really, the context of your post does not say "current generation" at all because your talking about old hardware (hardware in the leagues of the PS2)
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it probably wouldnt be a good demonstration if it crashed though ...
are you talking about Raid 1+0 / 0+1 ?
as to raid5, i thought the more disks you had in the array the more could fail with your data left intact
so if you have 4 disks in your array (the minimum for raid 5) if 1 fails then your data is OK, if you have 50, lets say 5 can fail (i don't know the exact math)
>Except the less you buy, the more the industry claims that those losses are due to piracy. It's a never ending cycle.
Pretty sad isn't it, its not due to the fact Hollywood is only capable of pumping crap movie after crap movie out
>They just don't get it. If it's viewable, it's hackable--period.
omg don't say that, they will start selling us films we cant watch to combat piracy
exactly what i was thinking
... etc - although it requires a little work to get them on USB sticks, its not impossible, and then you actually have a true hardware Linux firewall
the packets have already been introduced into your PC by the time their routed, which leaves you open to an attack
i wouldn't exactly call this a "hardware" firewall - yes the USB key does the processing, but it requires the PC and software to transfer the network data to the USB key, whats the difference between routing it to hardware, or routing it to your process ? except now you have an added layer of crap in the way
And for reference, you can install an "entire" firewall on a USB stick, there are many Linux firewalls - IPCop, Smoothwall
The whole thing is pointless because the parents will just buy the games for the underage kids anyway - so either way their gonna get the game, but if jack Thompson succeeds hes just gonna piss off a lot of regular people
He should just give up now and die in a hole
i thought having one of these services used was against exam board rules any ?
....
i know where i go to school they put your essay into a computer and that scans it and determines a plagiarism %
if the % is too high, your paper will be checked out
Aren't these services going to be violating the same rules ? therefore, the company's shouldn't really exist because anyone who uses them will probably get disqualified from their grade anyway
So Google banning them isn't the end of the world because the company's shouldn't exist because you should be able to use them
its about time, i mean MS is already delaying UEFI because vista doesn't support it - although Linux is capable of running it, and does on server motherboards
I don't even know why vista has a 32 bit version, most people who upgrade have to upgrade their computer, and anything these days is 64bit anyway, so why have 2 versions of vista, of which vista 64bit is getting crappy driver support so its useless anyway
Also, by the time MS release their next OS 32bit wont support enough ram so they need 64bit anyway for the terabytes of ram the next OS will need
your argument is marginally flawed
Most of the Linux servers, will have admins (because their in data centers) who are focused on keeping it secure, there are firewalls in place to make sure the network is secure
Now most windows machines are on home user's PCs, home users don't understand security, they plug their routers in and 1/2 are too incapable to even set WEP on their wireless
So which is the easier target ? the machine that is not kept secure, the PC which is not maintained, the PC which the user doesn't understand how to operate
I mean - jeez windows.com is hosted on IIS - how many times have you see the windows.com site hacked ?
The Skill:OS ratio is also different for Linux, most Linux users are skilled, but most windows users are not (and then there are those that think they are)
Now although i agree that Linux is in fact more secure, because the kernel itself is built to be used in a multi-user environment, so it has to be, Linux was designed to work on networks, windowz was more designed to work for a single user
i installed ubuntu on my mothers computer, if there is someone who is computer illiterate - its her
IE. if it doesn't work, click every button
Now i told her to tell me any problems she had, and after the first week i just had to alter the java settings a bit
She has no problems with it at all, all she needs is the Internet (with java) and office (well word processing, but shes familiar with office) and ubuntu does all of that perfectly fine - and she gets along with it OK
If a computer illiterate person like her can use ubuntu, your average n00b shouldn't have a problem, installing software is a small issue, but the synaptic package manager is pretty good - as long as your a high level user
At my school they taught us VB6
... in a way
they did for a reason though, 1 is that it is in fact more simple, if you have a class of people that have never seen a programming language, and they find "print "hello"" difficult, imagine trying to put them onto something like C++
Next is the fact, that a lot of our project needed to be done in access (well you could program it all if you want) which means using VBA - its pretty easy to get vba going if you have done VB6
Now i'm not saying VB is great, but personally i think its definitely acceptable, and if your not making professional grade programs, who cares, and also a lot of the concepts are easier in VB, for loops, if statements, etc - because they look very much like the English way of writing it
As for GOTO, I'm still not sure what the huge problem is, OK i can technically do without it, but sometimes it is easier to do a goto then it is to make a whole function (which IMO could break the flow of the program even more) - hell even assembler relies upon GOTO, and in some assembler your stuck with line numbers and not labels
But lets say
if i > 5 then : goto bypass
i=i+1
bypass:
OK i could have made a routine, and this is an EXTREMLY simplified example of what I'm talking out, but to miss a couple of lines, gotos are good
Also in doing error checking seems to require gotos (in access)
I don't particularly have a problem with sites that don't work 100%
but the thing that really cheeses me off, is the fact so many web Dev's don't put any way of contacting them on the site
So even if you wanted to tell them how their site didn't work, you cant because they didn't put any contact details on
>TV is dying due to the 20+ minutes of commercials per hour.
>And these are the same 4 commercials repeated throughout the same hour.
>Even good commercials are repeated to a point where they become annoying like the worst commercials.
So true
I know there have been quite a few ad's i have liked the first time i saw them, but by the time you've seen then 20 times in 1 day, it wears off very fast
And the 20 Min's per hour is ridiculous, (mostly on sky) your paying for the service, and yet you get almost double the ad's as the free channels (ITV / C4 - in the UK)
that was one large problem i faced when trying to move to Linux
i have dual head, just getting 1 screen to work can be a pain, but 2 is a nightmare
there are even tools around trying to help you get dual head, though that only works if the drivers are working properly
Honestly, ATM i wouldn't care if ATI drivers were open source, but ffs make them work AMD - of course open source means people can mess around with them, and then we are much more likely to get working drivers for all distributions
90% of all statistics are made up on the spot, 80% of all people know that
>My only real complaint is the crappy *nix support by ATI for their cards! ARRGH!
I agree 100% lol
i spent a good 2-3 days trying to move my desktop over to ubuntu, in the end i had to give up because trying to get the X1900XT working in ubuntu marginally worked, but not to an acceptable level where i could really use my PC
so just use the synaptic package manager, its hardly rocket science
the synaptic package manager is just a nice GUI to the apt-get command line - and people can pick and choose which they want
>Figuring out how to install Wine is far easier than getting it configured properly to run your apps.
sadly i have to agree, although cedega and crossover office do very nice jobs of the apps they support in my experience
sudo apt-get install wine
seriously - whats so hard about that ?
TBH i think this is a good idea, why should dell install a boatload of rubbish on your PC, the same goes for windows, you can install it yourself if you want, that's why its a PERSONAL computer
also - although wine is good, it is no alternative to windows yet, its still not simple and easy to use, and its not 100% there, but if you are moving over its definitely a nice way to keep your favorite windows apps going (if they work)
>You can get an el-cheapo (and you don't need better for that usage) 5-port gigabit switch for $30
Yeah an el cheapo one, i picked up a 36 port network switch for £35 (36 10/100 ports, 2 gigabit fibre ports) off ebay, even an 8 port managed network switch is £hundreds
>Last, but not least, there are no routers for gigabit Ethernet
Not exactly true, if you use a Linux router (or something like that) then it only takes a gigabit Ethernet card, but in my experience you have most troubles with drivers for any gigabit card, and then if you want to make full use of it it needs to be a PCI-E Ethernet card, which are also expensive (because you need 1 for the modem and 1 for your network, which is like 250 MBps max - which would max out the PCI bus)
Hold on, if its 150Mbps - and your running on Ethernet (might as well forget USB)
your gonna need gigabit networking, at least connected to the modem, otherwise your gonna lose 1/3 of your connecting because the Ethernet cant keep up
Not forgetting gigabit kit is still quite expensive (routers, switches, cat6 cabling - if you must use it)
Personally i find i do a lot of coding when i have little else to do, but i do find it fun to do :)
Its also a good way to spend your time, getting in some practise, and more often then not trying to solve a problem, its a good challenge
And when you have finished, you have added a bit more knowledge to your codebase, you know how to do something new, and you have a (usually) useful tool for your trouble
Sure i may do coding when I'm bored (and i wouldn't say this is limited to "open source" in any way) but its a good way to spend otherwise wasted time - hell you may even do something really useful that people will thank you for
As you said, when a car passes its wake effects you
....
Whether you are there or not, the wake exists, normally it just dissipates around the car - wasted energy
If they put these by the side of the road that energy can be utilised, how is that going to cause drag, your already pushing the air around you, the drag is already happening, their just using that to make energy
I don't see this causing additional drag at all
Lets compare this to solar energy, the light hits the ground, that energy is wasted, put a solar panel in the way and you generate power, but there are no more solar rays to do this, your just harnessing otherwise wasted energy
Though i believe that it would make more sense to put up some solar panels, rather then spend all this money on roadworks and stuff to harness the air that's being pushed by a car
>I'm not a physicist, but won't the turbines cause a drag effect on the cars, resulting in the cars burning more fuel? Is so, aren't they just moving the problem from one place to
>another? There's no such thing as free energy, right?
No it wouldn't cause drag on the cars
the cars are already pushing a wall of air, ATM that wall of air just dissipates after a while, the barrier would take that wall of air and convert it to some power
So in fact, its actually making the cars more efficient, as the wasted energy that is normally lost through drag is being utilised now
just have an ID like the postal vote
the government doesn't want to introduce eVoting because it means they lose control, if we can vote online for who governs us, what stops most important decisions from being made with an eVote
What about if the entire British populous is able to vote about where we go to war with whoever T-Blair decides is the next big threat
that's why we wont see the eVote for some time to come
you can practically gather from the summary, without even RTFA that this is talking about google's financial database, which is most likely used to find out how Google is doing, nothing to do with the services Google offer the public
hes probably complaining because you said "xbox or xbox360" - the xbox is marginally newer then the PS2, but Ive always felt the PS2 had much better unique titles (titles not on the PC)
So really, the context of your post does not say "current generation" at all because your talking about old hardware (hardware in the leagues of the PS2)