There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."
I'm actually setting up the technology side of a new company and we're going 100% GNU/Linux. Granted, the more specific you're requirements get, the fewer the choices.
However, For GL, CRM, ERP, MRP, etc., I have chosen to go with TinyERP (or OpenERP now, I guess). It consists of a server app that accesses a PostgreSQL DB and a Python/GTK client.
It's free, but if you want support, you can pay for it. It kicks the living feces out of the MRP in use at a previous employer and is 80% less expensive - even with full support. Not only that, but there is an add-on web application to access all of the functionality through an AJAX interface.
The fact is that for most general business tasks, there are at least a couple options. You just need to look. Anyways, check out TinyERP, I'm sure you'll dig it.
Here's a response to somebody asking about certain "likenesses" of human organs on youtube:
In principle we want to let the Shapeways designers be as free as they want to be. We do not want to censor you in any way.
So we will definitely allow you to print out your models.
The only issue that we have is that we by no means want to be seen as an adult site by NetNanny, other parental controls and internet filters. We also would not want to offend any one individiual. So just to be on the safe side we would ask you to make your models 'private'.
Even if the offshore drilling is allowed it will be many years before we see any benefit from it
Bullshit! President Bush released the executive ban and the price fell $6 same day! It's been slowly dropping with the mere talk of drilling. When we actually start it will fall hard before we see one drop.
No-one cares if you criminalise lower class/unemployed/homeless/poor people. [...] Criminalise people who are successful, have nice houses, jobs, and are otherwise highly respectable, and you have a potential storm on your hands.
I'm calling bullshit.
How many times has congress held hearings into the "criminal" nature of Big Oil, Big Drug, Big Whatever; and the only people that care are those on the stand, while those in the lower and middle classes cheer on in visceral hatred for those in the higher classes.
The truth is in fact the opposite of your post. People are always willing to screw those on top, just to "make it fair". Why do you think it is that the top 50% of wage earners pay 97% of the tax revenue in America?
Its because it is socially acceptable to penalize the upper classes and give stuff away to the lower class. Therefore, it wouldn't make sense that this is some grand scheme to screw the lower classes because no one would notice. Rather this is a grand scheme by these r-tards to further expand the government by any means necessary (and get a few kickbacks from the lobbyists while their at it).
Aluminum foil is great for heat dissipation. I have to agree, my head remains very cool during the summer months and I don't have to worry about the government stealing my thoughts either!
Electrons go from negative to positive, but since some jackass got it wrong at the beginning we affectionately refer to current as "the flow of positive charge". In fact, there are better reasons for base 2 kilobytes than the current direction convention.
In EE 101 you learn that this is how it's done and to quit bitching about it. Same applies here, since the beginning kilobyte has meant 1024 bytes, mega - 1024^2, and so on. However, for quite some time, hard drive manufacturers have sold hard drives in base ten.
If you don't know enough about this industry's sales gimmicks and conventions, you probably aren't going to miss those few extra bytes (until some properties window tells you about it).
The analogy you've presented is not accurate. You are comparing two different machines (human and PS3) meant for two very different tasks. Even so, if you set up a robot with a pen and paper to render a scene, it would take a while too. This is not a processor problem, it's an IO bottleneck due to your skills of an artist. Your brain can render that image just fine, in fact it can do it at a much higher resolution for a wider field of view.
When it comes to raw processing speed, the human brain kicks the living shit out of anything we have today, or will ever have in my opinion. The fact is, your eyes and brain work together to render those images as fast as the PS3 can spit them out. In addition, your brain is also processing all the peripheral information required to let you know something is flying at your head when you beat your buddy in a game, or that your hot pockets are getting done in the microwave.
In other words:
While today's digital hardware is extremely impressive, it is clear that the human retina's real-time performance goes
unchallenged. Actually, to simulate 10 milliseconds (one hundredth of a second) of the complete processing of even a
single nerve cell from the retina would require the solution of about 500 simultaneous nonlinear differential equations 100 times and would take at least several minutes of processing time on a Cray supercomputer. Keeping in mind that there are 10 million or more such cells interacting with each other in complex ways, it would take a minimum of 100 years of Cray time to simulate what takes place in your eye many times every second.
~John Stevens, Byte magazine (April 1985)
Sure, 32 bit integer manipulation is a little slow on a human, but for real-time sensory processing and precise reactions an F1 Driver, Baseball Player or [whatever] would be hard to beat.
The way I see all types of "insurances" (e.g. Backups) are that you are not paying IN CASE something happens, you are really just paying Murphy through a third party to prevent such mishaps.
I can't say I tried this distro (or read TFA for that matter), but I've been on ubuntu for the last 3 years and I don't see any reason to switch. The main reason is the documentation. At this point I could probably be compiling custom kernels and installing all my software from source with every configuration tweaked out, but I need to get some work done. Ubuntu is my choice because of it's large user base, period.
With that comes a lot of people trying to do a lot of things. And chances are that someone already tried to do what I am, and they wrote about it to boot.
The more documentation and fewer hardware issues there are, combined with alternative or ports to those high demand apps, the faster people will be dropping winturd in the circular filing cabinet.
This is my experience - from all XP to Penguin Paradise
The first time I installed linux (I forget which dist.) was about 6 years ago (2002 or 3). I hadn't done any research and 6 hours after selecting WAY to many packages, my only computer was staring at me with - at the time - a very unfamiliar and daunting '$> _'. It had been a long time since I had used dos, and I was expecting a graphical interface. I freaked out and reinstalled windows.
2 years later, I bought a SUSE disc from Fry's with the infinite wisdom of "I paid for it, it's got to work". I installed it on my only computer, a laptop. Not quite. The dual boot operation failed and I was unable to boot XP. The Suse installation didn't like my graphics card and I had a psychedelic plaid desktop. I freaked out and reinstalled windows.
In late 2005, I got a job and became the web admin. After realizing that we had a T1 and a static address, I thought, "man, this would be perfect for a LAMP server". So, I did my research. I not only looked at howto's for installing a LAMP server, but also did every google search again with 'problem' added to see what to expect as problems. Then I did some research on hardware compatability, and bought a cheapo P3 motherboard off ebay for $25 and tested the process. It worked. I showed my boss and he was awesome enough to buy a decent server for me to manage and serve our website in-house.
Presently, I own about 3 desktops and 2 laptops and run a server at home and administrate the server at work (which now has email, ftp, svn, and samba services running as well). They all run Linux. I am no uber-admin, but that bash prompt is now a very pleasant site after using XP all day at work.
In other words: I felt your pain. That laptop I set up Suse on had an ATI graphics card, but the next time I bought a computer, I checked out it's compatibility - even though I didn't install Linux on it until a year later, I planned ahead. In fact I'm writing this on that computer. I've never had a compatibility issue on it.
The point is, I'm not going to tell you that you should figure it out and make it work or quit complaining. Just don't give up and keep it in the back of your mind. The next time you go to buy a computer, just take the time to find one that seems compatible - even if you don't plan on installing right away. That way the next time you try out linux, you'll be pleasantly surprised instead of predictably disappointed by your hardware.
Let's just pass a law, or whatever, that as soon as all this stuff gets invented 1,000's of years in future, somebody has to travel back to this coming weekend and divulge the secrets of this new technology.
I dropped the default OS on my eee about 4 hours after opening it up. I loaded Ubuntu 7.10 on there. After enabling Compiz in some conf file (it's disabled by default for that intel chipset), I had almost every efect. The ones that don't work well are the blur effects.
And even with Compiz enabled it's zippier than xp on my 1.5GHz 2gb Thinkpad r61 (YMMV).
The performance isn't the issue here, it's people that cannot be bothered to learn something new - even if it saves them money.
/etc (Extended Tool Chest) is the directory that holds the configuration files for the system. The sub-directory init.d is where the initialization and termination scripts and binaries are linked to. The Apache deamon is linked to from this subdirectory, as is Samba, SSH server and any other process that starts automagically.
I know that when I need to start, stop or restart a service, I will find it in/etc/init.d/
I have been using linux for about a year now, and Ubuntu for about 6 months. This makes sense to me, maybe it's because I took the time to familiarize myself with the basics of the new operating system I was diving into (e.g. The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard[wikipedia] or the init.d man page).
It's amazing how far a little research can go. I've spent a lot of time with google, wikipedia and books, but I can say now that I'm getting there.
I know where comments like this come from, I was there a few months ago. I decided to take the plunge, but did so with some information to back me up and an attitude that I would find the answers. Before you complain that something is intuitive, take a look at the logic behind it, maybe it's your intuition that needs modification.
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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers."
- Richard Feynman
I'm actually setting up the technology side of a new company and we're going 100% GNU/Linux. Granted, the more specific you're requirements get, the fewer the choices.
However, For GL, CRM, ERP, MRP, etc., I have chosen to go with TinyERP (or OpenERP now, I guess). It consists of a server app that accesses a PostgreSQL DB and a Python/GTK client.
It's free, but if you want support, you can pay for it. It kicks the living feces out of the MRP in use at a previous employer and is 80% less expensive - even with full support. Not only that, but there is an add-on web application to access all of the functionality through an AJAX interface.
The fact is that for most general business tasks, there are at least a couple options. You just need to look. Anyways, check out TinyERP, I'm sure you'll dig it.
In principle we want to let the Shapeways designers be as free as they want to be. We do not want to censor you in any way.
So we will definitely allow you to print out your models.
The only issue that we have is that we by no means want to be seen as an adult site by NetNanny, other parental controls and internet filters. We also would not want to offend any one individiual. So just to be on the safe side we would ask you to make your models 'private'.
Even if the offshore drilling is allowed it will be many years before we see any benefit from it
Bullshit! President Bush released the executive ban and the price fell $6 same day! It's been slowly dropping with the mere talk of drilling. When we actually start it will fall hard before we see one drop.
All this thanks to those "evil futures markets".
Tin Foil.
Doesn't work.
You just end up cooking whatever is inside (eg popcorn), just ask Chris Knight.
No-one cares if you criminalise lower class/unemployed/homeless/poor people. [...] Criminalise people who are successful, have nice houses, jobs, and are otherwise highly respectable, and you have a potential storm on your hands.
I'm calling bullshit.
How many times has congress held hearings into the "criminal" nature of Big Oil, Big Drug, Big Whatever; and the only people that care are those on the stand, while those in the lower and middle classes cheer on in visceral hatred for those in the higher classes.
The truth is in fact the opposite of your post. People are always willing to screw those on top, just to "make it fair". Why do you think it is that the top 50% of wage earners pay 97% of the tax revenue in America?
Its because it is socially acceptable to penalize the upper classes and give stuff away to the lower class. Therefore, it wouldn't make sense that this is some grand scheme to screw the lower classes because no one would notice. Rather this is a grand scheme by these r-tards to further expand the government by any means necessary (and get a few kickbacks from the lobbyists while their at it).
if($pages>1)
{
$link = PRINT_VIEW;
}
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9108799
My thought was that, depending on price and availability sans-HD, it would make a great thin client...
How stupid of you to list your IP!
I've entered it into the queue and in a few moments, my botnet will begin a DoS atta
Hey! That's my luggage combination!
-1, Troll for Parent? Are you serious? Its a freakin' Southpark quote!
Come on guys...
I hope you don't mind that I stole that for my sig...
Electrons go from negative to positive, but since some jackass got it wrong at the beginning we affectionately refer to current as "the flow of positive charge". In fact, there are better reasons for base 2 kilobytes than the current direction convention.
In EE 101 you learn that this is how it's done and to quit bitching about it. Same applies here, since the beginning kilobyte has meant 1024 bytes, mega - 1024^2, and so on. However, for quite some time, hard drive manufacturers have sold hard drives in base ten.
If you don't know enough about this industry's sales gimmicks and conventions, you probably aren't going to miss those few extra bytes (until some properties window tells you about it).
Nor coincidence...
The analogy you've presented is not accurate. You are comparing two different machines (human and PS3) meant for two very different tasks. Even so, if you set up a robot with a pen and paper to render a scene, it would take a while too. This is not a processor problem, it's an IO bottleneck due to your skills of an artist. Your brain can render that image just fine, in fact it can do it at a much higher resolution for a wider field of view.
When it comes to raw processing speed, the human brain kicks the living shit out of anything we have today, or will ever have in my opinion. The fact is, your eyes and brain work together to render those images as fast as the PS3 can spit them out. In addition, your brain is also processing all the peripheral information required to let you know something is flying at your head when you beat your buddy in a game, or that your hot pockets are getting done in the microwave.
In other words:
Sure, 32 bit integer manipulation is a little slow on a human, but for real-time sensory processing and precise reactions an F1 Driver, Baseball Player or [whatever] would be hard to beat.
The way I see all types of "insurances" (e.g. Backups) are that you are not paying IN CASE something happens, you are really just paying Murphy through a third party to prevent such mishaps.
Second that.
I can't say I tried this distro (or read TFA for that matter), but I've been on ubuntu for the last 3 years and I don't see any reason to switch. The main reason is the documentation. At this point I could probably be compiling custom kernels and installing all my software from source with every configuration tweaked out, but I need to get some work done. Ubuntu is my choice because of it's large user base, period.
With that comes a lot of people trying to do a lot of things. And chances are that someone already tried to do what I am, and they wrote about it to boot.
The more documentation and fewer hardware issues there are, combined with alternative or ports to those high demand apps, the faster people will be dropping winturd in the circular filing cabinet.
This is my experience - from all XP to Penguin Paradise
The first time I installed linux (I forget which dist.) was about 6 years ago (2002 or 3). I hadn't done any research and 6 hours after selecting WAY to many packages, my only computer was staring at me with - at the time - a very unfamiliar and daunting '$> _'. It had been a long time since I had used dos, and I was expecting a graphical interface. I freaked out and reinstalled windows.
2 years later, I bought a SUSE disc from Fry's with the infinite wisdom of "I paid for it, it's got to work". I installed it on my only computer, a laptop. Not quite. The dual boot operation failed and I was unable to boot XP. The Suse installation didn't like my graphics card and I had a psychedelic plaid desktop. I freaked out and reinstalled windows.
In late 2005, I got a job and became the web admin. After realizing that we had a T1 and a static address, I thought, "man, this would be perfect for a LAMP server". So, I did my research . I not only looked at howto's for installing a LAMP server, but also did every google search again with 'problem' added to see what to expect as problems. Then I did some research on hardware compatability, and bought a cheapo P3 motherboard off ebay for $25 and tested the process. It worked. I showed my boss and he was awesome enough to buy a decent server for me to manage and serve our website in-house.
Presently, I own about 3 desktops and 2 laptops and run a server at home and administrate the server at work (which now has email, ftp, svn, and samba services running as well). They all run Linux. I am no uber-admin, but that bash prompt is now a very pleasant site after using XP all day at work.
In other words: I felt your pain. That laptop I set up Suse on had an ATI graphics card, but the next time I bought a computer, I checked out it's compatibility - even though I didn't install Linux on it until a year later, I planned ahead. In fact I'm writing this on that computer. I've never had a compatibility issue on it.
The point is, I'm not going to tell you that you should figure it out and make it work or quit complaining. Just don't give up and keep it in the back of your mind. The next time you go to buy a computer, just take the time to find one that seems compatible - even if you don't plan on installing right away. That way the next time you try out linux, you'll be pleasantly surprised instead of predictably disappointed by your hardware.
Just my two cents anyways
Let's just pass a law, or whatever, that as soon as all this stuff gets invented 1,000's of years in future, somebody has to travel back to this coming weekend and divulge the secrets of this new technology.
I dropped the default OS on my eee about 4 hours after opening it up. I loaded Ubuntu 7.10 on there. After enabling Compiz in some conf file (it's disabled by default for that intel chipset), I had almost every efect. The ones that don't work well are the blur effects.
And even with Compiz enabled it's zippier than xp on my 1.5GHz 2gb Thinkpad r61 (YMMV).
The performance isn't the issue here, it's people that cannot be bothered to learn something new - even if it saves them money.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Has any one tried running android on a Neo1973?
That would take a real genius
/etc (Extended Tool Chest) is the directory that holds the configuration files for the system. The sub-directory init.d is where the initialization and termination scripts and binaries are linked to. The Apache deamon is linked to from this subdirectory, as is Samba, SSH server and any other process that starts automagically.
I know that when I need to start, stop or restart a service, I will find it in /etc/init.d/
I have been using linux for about a year now, and Ubuntu for about 6 months. This makes sense to me, maybe it's because I took the time to familiarize myself with the basics of the new operating system I was diving into (e.g. The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard[wikipedia] or the init.d man page).
It's amazing how far a little research can go. I've spent a lot of time with google, wikipedia and books, but I can say now that I'm getting there.
I know where comments like this come from, I was there a few months ago. I decided to take the plunge, but did so with some information to back me up and an attitude that I would find the answers. Before you complain that something is intuitive, take a look at the logic behind it, maybe it's your intuition that needs modification.