I do my own taxes, and I'm neither an idiot or a liar. You, AC, are quite the asshole for suggesting that without having any facts whatsoever to back it up. I keep my tax records. There is nothing on my state-40 or associated forms about Use Tax. Nothing at all. And yet, my state's tax website tells me I have to pay it.
Like you'll even see this since you posted as a coward.
What we really need are stronger advertising laws. Force them to simplify the advertisement so they can't give you X when they say "We'll give you X*5". If they can't provide 12Mbps, then DON'T ADVERTISE IT... and putting some stupid cop out clause in small print doesn't count. The only reason they are in this spot is they were allowed to get away with boasting about these high download speeds that they couldn't actually deliver. If they had to compete with real numbers we would all be better off, even the providers.
I have a mutual fund that includes MS stock and I expect them to use all legal means possible to reduce their expenses.
Legal does not mean ethical. So you're saying you don't care what they do, as long as your mutual fund goes up a few points. This is whats wrong with the system: People are selfish. You can only create so many laws, and there is an army of high-paid lawyers who pick though those laws and find the loopholes, which are there because the law was written by said high-paid lawyers. Until people actually start to care about the ethics nothing is ever going to change for the better. Unfortunately people will not start caring until the bad ethics bite THEM, at which time they will scream their whiny little hearts out about it. But it will be too late, because the system only cares about making money and it already took all theirs.
You're in the wrong place. You won't find a high percentage of adult, intelligent people here, and those that are are not very vocal. Maybe a long, long time ago, but no more. As someone else already said Slashdot != Linux Community.
"AT&T says that the majority of the nearly $18 billion it will spend this year on its networks will be diverted into upgrades and expansions to meet the surging demands on the 3G network."
A quick Google search shows that the basic kernel for all versions of Ubuntu has been tickless since 7.10. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-server710 I know my system (karmic) does. You can check with: $ grep CONFIG_NO_HZ/boot/config-`uname -r` CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
Two servers, DRBD, & Heartbeat. Or, you know... just keep a backup. Even if your server is unrecoverable, which is very rare, you can restore your home directory to the client from the backup.
We did something close to this, actually. We run Linux on all our workstations (with NFS shared home directorys). Then we run VirtualBox with immutable hard drive images. Every time Windows is closed, all the changes made to the system are thrown out. All documents are stored on the server. When new software or updates are needed, the administrator can run the VM with a changeable disk.
Now we're almost completely weaned off of Windows. The VM's are hardly ever used.
When running Linux, open up a terminal and run this: echo -n "Does my cpu support virtualizaiton? "; if `cat/proc/cpuinfo | grep -q svm || cat/proc/cpuinfo | grep -q vmx`; then echo Yes; else echo No; fi
Another issue you may have is if your system has the virtualization functions disabled in BIOS. Some laptops do this, and have no way to turn them on. My Dell D820 works fine.
Heh... It's funny. I'm remembering the Subaru Outback (built in the USA[1]) commercials with Paul Hogan, and my Pontiac GTO was built in Australia[2].
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Outback "All American Outbacks are built at the Lafayette, Indiana location." [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_GTO#Revival "produced by GM's Holden subsidiary in the suburb of Elizabeth, South Australia."
OK, every once in a while I see these kinds of posts. I really don't know what to say. I've been using Linux for more then 10 years. I've installed it on pc's from 386's to modern multicore servers with 4x cpus. I've got an office full of workstations running Kubuntu that are used every day, some 24x7x365. In all these years, and the hundreds of pc's I've installed some version of Linux on, I have NEVER, EVER seen ANYTHING like what this and some other posts mention. I've seen the install crap out in the middle due to a bad cd burn. I've seen incompatible hardware. I've seen qwerks with some chipsets that required a custom boot parameter to work. But this wholesale failure I have never seen. Ever.
Or did you manage to usefully run X11 on a 486 PC with 8 MB of RAM?
Yes. And before that it was a 386sx 16mhz. Worked fine. With X. And a web server running in the background, serving over dialup w/ static IP. Uphill. Both ways!
I'm serious about everything but the uphill both ways thing. I used that thing every day for at least a year. I don't remember it being slow, but I imagine it would seem so today.
There is a way to fix that issue with Windows on a 2nd drive. you basically tell grub to swap the drive mapping between them when booting windows, like this: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0)
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I do my own taxes, and I'm neither an idiot or a liar. You, AC, are quite the asshole for suggesting that without having any facts whatsoever to back it up. I keep my tax records. There is nothing on my state-40 or associated forms about Use Tax. Nothing at all. And yet, my state's tax website tells me I have to pay it.
Like you'll even see this since you posted as a coward.
I honestly had never heard of Use Tax. A quick Google search reveals that I am a criminal.
Fan-friken-tastic...
What we really need are stronger advertising laws. Force them to simplify the advertisement so they can't give you X when they say "We'll give you X*5". If they can't provide 12Mbps, then DON'T ADVERTISE IT... and putting some stupid cop out clause in small print doesn't count. The only reason they are in this spot is they were allowed to get away with boasting about these high download speeds that they couldn't actually deliver. If they had to compete with real numbers we would all be better off, even the providers.
1.6Ghz Atom. 1Gig of ram 2Gig of flash.
Oh look! Facebook!
hmmm.... need a HAM to Asterisk bridge...
I'm going to look into that.
I have a mutual fund that includes MS stock and I expect them to use all legal means possible to reduce their expenses.
Legal does not mean ethical. So you're saying you don't care what they do, as long as your mutual fund goes up a few points. This is whats wrong with the system: People are selfish. You can only create so many laws, and there is an army of high-paid lawyers who pick though those laws and find the loopholes, which are there because the law was written by said high-paid lawyers. Until people actually start to care about the ethics nothing is ever going to change for the better. Unfortunately people will not start caring until the bad ethics bite THEM, at which time they will scream their whiny little hearts out about it. But it will be too late, because the system only cares about making money and it already took all theirs.
You're in the wrong place. You won't find a high percentage of adult, intelligent people here, and those that are are not very vocal. Maybe a long, long time ago, but no more. As someone else already said Slashdot != Linux Community.
"AT&T says that the majority of the nearly $18 billion it will spend this year on its networks will be diverted into upgrades and expansions to meet the surging demands on the 3G network."
As opposed to what? Hookers and Blow?
A quick Google search shows that the basic kernel for all versions of Ubuntu has been tickless since 7.10. /boot/config-`uname -r`
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-server710
I know my system (karmic) does. You can check with:
$ grep CONFIG_NO_HZ
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y
Do GTK and QT provide APIs for database access, network connectivity, HTML rendering, etc? No...
YES. Qt does all those things and much more. It is NOT just a widget library.
You linked to Digg instead of the actual announcement. WhyTF did you do that?!
Here is the announcement
What if Dropbox's datacenter burns down?
Two servers, DRBD, & Heartbeat. Or, you know... just keep a backup. Even if your server is unrecoverable, which is very rare, you can restore your home directory to the client from the backup.
We did something close to this, actually. We run Linux on all our workstations (with NFS shared home directorys). Then we run VirtualBox with immutable hard drive images. Every time Windows is closed, all the changes made to the system are thrown out. All documents are stored on the server. When new software or updates are needed, the administrator can run the VM with a changeable disk.
Now we're almost completely weaned off of Windows. The VM's are hardly ever used.
... that maybe if everyone could see how small we really are, more would have a sense of humility then do now.
When running Linux, open up a terminal and run this: /proc/cpuinfo | grep -q svm || cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -q vmx`; then echo Yes; else echo No; fi
echo -n "Does my cpu support virtualizaiton? "; if `cat
Another issue you may have is if your system has the virtualization functions disabled in BIOS. Some laptops do this, and have no way to turn them on. My Dell D820 works fine.
Hey! Thanks for that! I missed that new option when I upgraded to 4.2.
Shadowserver wrote that the flaw could be exploited on systems running Microsoft's Windows XP SP3.
Yawn...
Heh... It's funny. I'm remembering the Subaru Outback (built in the USA[1]) commercials with Paul Hogan, and my Pontiac GTO was built in Australia[2].
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Outback "All American Outbacks are built at the Lafayette, Indiana location."
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_GTO#Revival "produced by GM's Holden subsidiary in the suburb of Elizabeth, South Australia."
Hey now... don't diss the Fiero (Pontiac, BTW...) :)
I love that car.
OK, every once in a while I see these kinds of posts. I really don't know what to say.
I've been using Linux for more then 10 years. I've installed it on pc's from 386's to modern multicore servers with 4x cpus. I've got an office full of workstations running Kubuntu that are used every day, some 24x7x365. In all these years, and the hundreds of pc's I've installed some version of Linux on, I have NEVER, EVER seen ANYTHING like what this and some other posts mention. I've seen the install crap out in the middle due to a bad cd burn. I've seen incompatible hardware. I've seen qwerks with some chipsets that required a custom boot parameter to work. But this wholesale failure I have never seen. Ever.
Or did you manage to usefully run X11 on a 486 PC with 8 MB of RAM?
Yes. And before that it was a 386sx 16mhz. Worked fine. With X. And a web server running in the background, serving over dialup w/ static IP. Uphill. Both ways!
I'm serious about everything but the uphill both ways thing. I used that thing every day for at least a year. I don't remember it being slow, but I imagine it would seem so today.
They hate competition.
There is a way to fix that issue with Windows on a 2nd drive. you basically tell grub to swap the drive mapping between them when booting windows, like this:
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
More details: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-384174.html
About half way down.
Take a look at Citadel. It does Groupdav, Kolab1, and a few others as well. Calendar, Contacts, and Email. And it's 100% GPL.