Games are a problem under linux, except that I don't have the time...
Then again, I *do* want a Wii... some time in the whenever... I already spend too much of my life sitting in front of a computer, so if I'm going to "play", I want it to be something active.
Oh, I agree 100%... and they tried that. Unfortunately, "2 wrongs don't make a right"... unless you're the cops.
Also, you ARE potentially obstructing some legitimate traffic - emergency vehicles have the right of way, as do regular people, in an emergency (same as funeral processions can go through red lights). Its like anything else in the world... if they want to nail you, they will.
Lets see... I must be doubly evil, since I'm running openSUSE both at home and the office... and don't have a single piece of apple gear.
Sun isn't perfect, and neither are Novell, but they've done some of the major heavy lifting, and we should try to sound bit more appreciative, because we're not perfect either.
Otherwise, we just end up sounding like a bunch of fickle myspace bloggers.
I'd be willing to pay double the Windows version for a native version of SimCity 4 (or even SimCity3 or SimCity2k). No, Wine emulation doesn't count.
Just because we use linux doesn't mean we're not willing to put our money where our mouths are. My library holds almost 200 programming books, and the last I checked, books aren't cheap. Yes, its nice that linux is free (in both senses), but do you really believe that we use linux only because its free? Maybe we also like the lack of vendor lockin, the lack of viruses, etc.
Forget the "correctible" bit if you're thinking laser ablation of the cornea - its not worth it. The results aren't permanent, and as your eyes age, you'll end up needing glasses or contacts anyway, so even if you got hired, by the time they find a mission for you, you will no longer be able to qualify anyway...
This has GOT to be the stupidest thing they've done in a... oops, this is NASA... scratch that last bit.
"I think that you lost most people on the first step (i.e. throw 2 new hard drives into the box). This is not to say that it's not useful for them if it could be setup."
If they can't do it, they can always
ask their kid to do it for them
go on the internet and look for instructions
read the instructions that come with retail hard drives
get a coworker or neighbor to do it for them
pay the store that sells them the drives to install and configure them (they do that, just like they charge to do other brain-dead tasks like installing memory...)
"But it takes a quebecer to tailgate you 3 ft behind your car while doing 60 in a 60 (or 80 in an 80) for an entire 10 minute drive down carling "
Didn't you get the memo - you're supposed to jam on the brakes and raise your middle finger. I'm usually in the right lane - if I get someone who's crowding my tush, I either take my foot off the gas or, if they're really aggresive (flashing their headlights at me) down-shift. Of course, since there's no brake light when you downshift, they "wake up" when they find tiey're suddenly just inches away.
"I so love driving the speed limit in the "fast lane." "
Unfortunately, iirc, I remember reading about people getting ticketed for that - it was a hypocritical move by the OPP, because, lets face it, THEY do the same thing when they want to slow traffic down.
Their argument, which they won in court, was that the left lane is a passing lane only, and that people were "obstructing traffic". Of course we all know that if you're on, say, the Don Valley Parkway in T.O., the Decarie Expressway in MOntreal, or any other over-capacity road, there is no such thing as a "passing lane only."
I just sit in the right lane, going 80-90 km/h in a 100 km/h zone, and enjoy that I'm saving gas, wear and tear, etc.
"Frankly Ottawa would be safer without Quebecer and OPP cars on the road..."
Hey, I resemble that remark, tabernac!
The reason Quebec drivers suck at it so much is because we're used to driving all over the road to avoid all the potholes of doom.
Actually, I agree with you... between the speeding, cutting in and out of traffic, not signalling, (or signalling one way, and going another, or leaving the blinker on for the next 5 exits), the potholes, the craters, the detours, the badly planned road system (okay, it was never planned), the lack of street signs at a lot of intersections...
"Have you ever dealt with a 'typical' user? Half of them have trouble understanding the difference between the internet and Internet Explorer."
And they're the ones who need a RAID1 setup the most - they'll never back things up - they don't know how. Hard disks are so cheap that it doesn't make sense not to do it, and its not like its all that hard to set up... Plus, since each disk is only doing half the reads, and head stroking is much less, both drives will last longer. Plus, your disk cache size is additive, so instead of 16 megs of cache, with 2 drives you've got 32 megs.
For the majority of users, the kernel that comes with their distro of choice will do fine for both server and desktop. If you're running S3 or the Googleplex, then its worth investing time in modding the kernel to YOUR needs, but for most of us, we're better served (pun intended) with what's already out there in the market.
forking the kernel to generic "server" and "desktop" is just stupid. Its more work for nothing.
A PC is not a server and the setup for a PC is not the same as the setup for a server."
[X] All my PCs, whether at home or at work, double as servers, you ignorant clod.
Seriously, in todays' computing environment, I *want* to be able to access my home web/ftp/ssh server. How many times have you said "gee, I have that on my machine at home... wish I could get it..." Or "I really should back this up to my home machine so I can work on it over the weekend" ? Or called someone at home, had them turn on the computer, and then tried to have them navigate to just the file you want, and email it to you?" Screw that. Set up your home box as a desktop AND server. This is the 21st century - get over 20th century unconnected thinking...
As for at work, again, my box doubles as a server. Co-workers have accounts on it, are free to dump stuff on it, etc. It's also nice to be able to run a few wikis off it, for local use, as well as to let others test stuff before we move it to the "real" internal test server. Plus, it assures that there's another copy floating around for when (not if) their hard drive dies (not everyone wants to use the svn server).
A computer operating system without servers is crippleware.
"Sure there's a reason home-lusrs should NOT consider r-a-i-d. RAID does NOT just work. LAN is another example. In fact any admin task that does NOT automagically install & configure has no business on a home-lusr system. Period."
.... riiiiight... and home users only have one computer...
Most people are running lans at home, so your example sucks.
Software RAID 1 is super easy to set up and maintain. Throw 2 new hard drives into the box, create your partitions as type RAID (a couple of clicks), set your mount points (a couple more clicks), and you're done.
After that, it will "just work". Check its health once a week, to be on the safe side, Rotate the drives on a weekly basis with a spare drive, and you have 2-minute backups. (Rebuild te raid on the previous spare drive in the background - its a heck of a lot quicker and easier than backing up using any other method).
Your grandmother probably doesn't have 10 year's worth of email that she doesn't want to lose. And most users don't bother backing up because its too much of a PITA.
Your average user NEEDS a quick and simple backup procedure.
RAID1 is simple to set up, makes the machine run faster (reads are split between the two or more mirrored drives), and backing up is a matter of a minute - you turn the machine off, pull out one drive, insert a new one, reboot and rebuild the RAID in the background).
So, with the addition of a couple of hard drives in removable housings, you have a backup solution that works, is easy enough that even grandma can do it, and also improves your machine's performance.
A lot cheaper than losing everything and re-installing from scratch...
... but only in the sense that it is customized for different purposes - mobile phones, desktops, servers, supercomputing clusters.
Besides, most people's desktops are much more powerful than any server you'd be able to buy years ago. With the cost of cheap disks going down, there's no excuse for even home users to ignore the benfits of such "server" features as raid.
Well, d'uh... If you drill out the rivets, you replace them after:-)
As for the BIOS password reset, most people would assume they made a mistake entering the original password. With the # of passwords, pins, etc... it wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
... and by the time your kids are teens, they really should know enough about the birds and the bees and the pervs in the trees that it shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Being locked out of the computer, they would assume that something went wrong... after all, if you're clueless enough to think you can keep kids from surfing porn,... you're clueless enough to believe that SCO is a good investment.
"SCO is doing this to make Novell into a creditor with respect to the
money SCO owes to Novell."
Won't work. Novell's claim isn't as a creditor. Their claim is "equitable", meaning that SCO is holding theor property ($$$), not that SCO owes them money. When you go bankrupt, anyone who can show that they own property you're holding on to can claim it from the trustee.
This happens a lot with vending machines, for example, when a plant goes bust. The owner proves that the machine is theirs (not leased or anything - it really is theirs), and they then get to pick it up.
Since Novell already has a judgment saying that SCO is guilty of conversion, and the question is "how much", they have a prior claim to the property (money) in question. SCO is dead.
gee, wouldn't it have been easier to just take the power cable off the printer and plug it into the back of the computer, bypassing the one that went into the box with the lamp timer?
People call ANYTHING porn if they think you can fap to it.
True... and by that definition, there's someone who is going fap fap fap while reading this post. Uggh! (I guess that's the CowboyNeal option for this thread:-)
Porn, like everything else, is in the mind of the beholder, and what a person considers purient or lascivious says a lot about who they are. (Of course, the people who scream the loudest against porn probably have the biggest collections...)
"Day 5 after conception I doubt that you can think or feel at that point, but you are certainly a human being at that point by definition because you now have the full 23 pairs of chromosomes in your DNA
"/i>
Pardonez-moi, but that line of thinking is totally f$cked up. You shed skin every day that has the foll 23 pairs of chromosomes. Is it a "human being"? No, its dead skin. What about when you bleed, or accidently chop off a finger - is that a human being? the finger has a full complement of human dna, and pain receptors, etc. Its NOT a human being.
Its not a person. There is NO brain, hence nobody home (similar situation with most bible thumpers). If you want to consider 5 days as a human, then God is the world's biggest abortionist - 20% of all pregnancies self-terminate before the woman is even aware she's pregnant.
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Games are a problem under linux, except that I don't have the time ...
Then again, I *do* want a Wii ... some time in the whenever ... I already spend too much of my life sitting in front of a computer, so if I'm going to "play", I want it to be something active.
Oh, I agree 100% ... and they tried that. Unfortunately, "2 wrongs don't make a right" ... unless you're the cops.
Also, you ARE potentially obstructing some legitimate traffic - emergency vehicles have the right of way, as do regular people, in an emergency (same as funeral processions can go through red lights). Its like anything else in the world ... if they want to nail you, they will.
Lets see ... I must be doubly evil, since I'm running openSUSE both at home and the office ... and don't have a single piece of apple gear.
Sun isn't perfect, and neither are Novell, but they've done some of the major heavy lifting, and we should try to sound bit more appreciative, because we're not perfect either.
Otherwise, we just end up sounding like a bunch of fickle myspace bloggers.
or OfficeWeasel?
Kind of has a ring to it ... sort of like calling Major Frank Burns (M*A*S*H) ferret-face.
I'd be willing to pay double the Windows version for a native version of SimCity 4 (or even SimCity3 or SimCity2k). No, Wine emulation doesn't count.
Just because we use linux doesn't mean we're not willing to put our money where our mouths are. My library holds almost 200 programming books, and the last I checked, books aren't cheap. Yes, its nice that linux is free (in both senses), but do you really believe that we use linux only because its free? Maybe we also like the lack of vendor lockin, the lack of viruses, etc.
I know parents who would gladly send their adult kids on a one-way trip to Mars just to get them the f**k out of the house sometime before they die.
"I've watched every episode of Star Trek, Stargate and Lost in Space. I'm sure that qualifies as experience."
Stargate takes away points. You need stuff with real rocket science, so you'll know what someone means when they say "They've gone plaid!"
Forget the "correctible" bit if you're thinking laser ablation of the cornea - its not worth it. The results aren't permanent, and as your eyes age, you'll end up needing glasses or contacts anyway, so even if you got hired, by the time they find a mission for you, you will no longer be able to qualify anyway ...
This has GOT to be the stupidest thing they've done in a ... oops, this is NASA ... scratch that last bit.
"I think that you lost most people on the first step (i.e. throw 2 new hard drives into the box). This is not to say that it's not useful for them if it could be setup."
If they can't do it, they can always
"But it takes a quebecer to tailgate you 3 ft behind your car while doing 60 in a 60 (or 80 in an 80) for an entire 10 minute drive down carling "
Didn't you get the memo - you're supposed to jam on the brakes and raise your middle finger. I'm usually in the right lane - if I get someone who's crowding my tush, I either take my foot off the gas or, if they're really aggresive (flashing their headlights at me) down-shift. Of course, since there's no brake light when you downshift, they "wake up" when they find tiey're suddenly just inches away.
"I so love driving the speed limit in the "fast lane." "
Unfortunately, iirc, I remember reading about people getting ticketed for that - it was a hypocritical move by the OPP, because, lets face it, THEY do the same thing when they want to slow traffic down.
Their argument, which they won in court, was that the left lane is a passing lane only, and that people were "obstructing traffic". Of course we all know that if you're on, say, the Don Valley Parkway in T.O., the Decarie Expressway in MOntreal, or any other over-capacity road, there is no such thing as a "passing lane only."
I just sit in the right lane, going 80-90 km/h in a 100 km/h zone, and enjoy that I'm saving gas, wear and tear, etc.
"Frankly Ottawa would be safer without Quebecer and OPP cars on the road..."
Hey, I resemble that remark, tabernac!
The reason Quebec drivers suck at it so much is because we're used to driving all over the road to avoid all the potholes of doom.
Actually, I agree with you ... between the speeding, cutting in and out of traffic, not signalling, (or signalling one way, and going another, or leaving the blinker on for the next 5 exits), the potholes, the craters, the detours, the badly planned road system (okay, it was never planned), the lack of street signs at a lot of intersections ...
"Have you ever dealt with a 'typical' user? Half of them have trouble understanding the difference between the internet and Internet Explorer."
And they're the ones who need a RAID1 setup the most - they'll never back things up - they don't know how. Hard disks are so cheap that it doesn't make sense not to do it, and its not like its all that hard to set up ... Plus, since each disk is only doing half the reads, and head stroking is much less, both drives will last longer. Plus, your disk cache size is additive, so instead of 16 megs of cache, with 2 drives you've got 32 megs.
For the majority of users, the kernel that comes with their distro of choice will do fine for both server and desktop. If you're running S3 or the Googleplex, then its worth investing time in modding the kernel to YOUR needs, but for most of us, we're better served (pun intended) with what's already out there in the market.
forking the kernel to generic "server" and "desktop" is just stupid. Its more work for nothing.
"Finally someone is beginning to understand.
A PC is not a server and the setup for a PC is not the same as the setup for a server."
[X] All my PCs, whether at home or at work, double as servers, you ignorant clod.
Seriously, in todays' computing environment, I *want* to be able to access my home web/ftp/ssh server. How many times have you said "gee, I have that on my machine at home ... wish I could get it ..." Or "I really should back this up to my home machine so I can work on it over the weekend" ? Or called someone at home, had them turn on the computer, and then tried to have them navigate to just the file you want, and email it to you?" Screw that. Set up your home box as a desktop AND server. This is the 21st century - get over 20th century unconnected thinking ...
As for at work, again, my box doubles as a server. Co-workers have accounts on it, are free to dump stuff on it, etc. It's also nice to be able to run a few wikis off it, for local use, as well as to let others test stuff before we move it to the "real" internal test server. Plus, it assures that there's another copy floating around for when (not if) their hard drive dies (not everyone wants to use the svn server).
A computer operating system without servers is crippleware.
"Sure there's a reason home-lusrs should NOT consider r-a-i-d. RAID does NOT just work. LAN is another example. In fact any admin task that does NOT automagically install & configure has no business on a home-lusr system. Period."
Most people are running lans at home, so your example sucks.
Software RAID 1 is super easy to set up and maintain. Throw 2 new hard drives into the box, create your partitions as type RAID (a couple of clicks), set your mount points (a couple more clicks), and you're done.
After that, it will "just work". Check its health once a week, to be on the safe side, Rotate the drives on a weekly basis with a spare drive, and you have 2-minute backups. (Rebuild te raid on the previous spare drive in the background - its a heck of a lot quicker and easier than backing up using any other method).
Your grandmother probably doesn't have 10 year's worth of email that she doesn't want to lose. And most users don't bother backing up because its too much of a PITA.
Your average user NEEDS a quick and simple backup procedure.
RAID1 is simple to set up, makes the machine run faster (reads are split between the two or more mirrored drives), and backing up is a matter of a minute - you turn the machine off, pull out one drive, insert a new one, reboot and rebuild the RAID in the background).
So, with the addition of a couple of hard drives in removable housings, you have a backup solution that works, is easy enough that even grandma can do it, and also improves your machine's performance.
A lot cheaper than losing everything and re-installing from scratch ...
Besides, most people's desktops are much more powerful than any server you'd be able to buy years ago. With the cost of cheap disks going down, there's no excuse for even home users to ignore the benfits of such "server" features as raid.
Well, d'uh ... If you drill out the rivets, you replace them after :-)
As for the BIOS password reset, most people would assume they made a mistake entering the original password. With the # of passwords, pins, etc ... it wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
Being locked out of the computer, they would assume that something went wrong ... after all, if you're clueless enough to think you can keep kids from surfing porn, ... you're clueless enough to believe that SCO is a good investment.
"SCO is doing this to make Novell into a creditor with respect to the money SCO owes to Novell."
Won't work. Novell's claim isn't as a creditor. Their claim is "equitable", meaning that SCO is holding theor property ($$$), not that SCO owes them money. When you go bankrupt, anyone who can show that they own property you're holding on to can claim it from the trustee.
This happens a lot with vending machines, for example, when a plant goes bust. The owner proves that the machine is theirs (not leased or anything - it really is theirs), and they then get to pick it up.
Since Novell already has a judgment saying that SCO is guilty of conversion, and the question is "how much", they have a prior claim to the property (money) in question. SCO is dead.
The "lock on case" is trivial to defeat. Worst case scenario - drill out a few rivets.
The "password-protect the bios" ... a 5-minute trip to the web with the motherboard brand, and you can reset the master password.
Locking parent out of computer - priceless.
gee, wouldn't it have been easier to just take the power cable off the printer and plug it into the back of the computer, bypassing the one that went into the box with the lamp timer?
People call ANYTHING porn if they think you can fap to it.
True ... and by that definition, there's someone who is going fap fap fap while reading this post. Uggh! (I guess that's the CowboyNeal option for this thread :-)
Porn, like everything else, is in the mind of the beholder, and what a person considers purient or lascivious says a lot about who they are. (Of course, the people who scream the loudest against porn probably have the biggest collections ...)
"Day 5 after conception I doubt that you can think or feel at that point, but you are certainly a human being at that point by definition because you now have the full 23 pairs of chromosomes in your DNA "/i>
Pardonez-moi, but that line of thinking is totally f$cked up. You shed skin every day that has the foll 23 pairs of chromosomes. Is it a "human being"? No, its dead skin. What about when you bleed, or accidently chop off a finger - is that a human being? the finger has a full complement of human dna, and pain receptors, etc. Its NOT a human being.
Its not a person. There is NO brain, hence nobody home (similar situation with most bible thumpers). If you want to consider 5 days as a human, then God is the world's biggest abortionist - 20% of all pregnancies self-terminate before the woman is even aware she's pregnant.