Dunno what you're smoking but it seems to be pretty strong stuff.
Second, they imply that you should set up your whole system as RAID-0 [since they come with only two disk controllers].
Most of the mobo raid solutions have 4 ide controllers (each of which supports 2 disks) half of them controlled by RAID chipset and another half by motherboard chipset, that would be maximum of 8 disks, four of which can be in raid.
Bit never ones might come with 2 regular ide controllers on chipset and few SATA RAID controllers, only allowing 2-drive raid, but there's still 4 non-raid drives.
No need to put your whole system as a RAID in either scenario.
Or, if you're talking about something else, would you mind to clarify a bit?
Happens all the time lately... Reload does cure it (sometimes it happens more than one time in a row however, requiring n reload attempts to get the damn page).
Well, since our fictional God didn't write the Bible himself but instead contracted bunch of various crackpots to do it for him, that point is kind of moot, since they've been dead for lot longer than 90 years.
I myself am guilty of promoting complexities. Since I know how to set up NFS and Samba and Apache and Shoutcast, I would just use one of these tools on my own Linux boxes to accomplish the same thing with XMMS or X11AMP or even mpg321 with a cgi php4 script front-end with apache and the mp3 meta-data extracted into a PostgreSQL table for faster searches. All the tools are there, and as a programmer, I find it fun to implement these kinds of things - and I HAVE spent time doing this for my own system.
Well. There you have it. Most of Linux users are geeks and programmers of at least some skill. They want to twiddle around and quite a few probably prefer the malleability of those solutions to maybe bit easier but inflexible software.
And because they are mostly developing for THEMSELVES, not for Joe Users, that's what you end up getting.
Winamp has builtin search as "jump to song". Hit "j" and start typing, almost as nice as gecko's type-ahead find... It's quite a bit more limited than iTunes search but nevertheless I find it more convenient because a) it doesn't require me to use a %#%#&:n mouse first to get into the search box and another doubleclick to actually select song from that result list. And if it's minimized it requires even more mouse-only commands to get into library mode and then back to non-clutter.
It's also damn slow, song-change takes measurable amount of time (around a second) on 2400+, it's instant on winamp.
And it doesn't know to minimize completely to system tray, here I have yet another useless window cluttering my always-too-full taskbar & alt-tab list.
This is supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread? Not impressed... not impressed at all.
Where did you get that number? It's actually under half of that.
virtual.finland.fi claims 17 ppl/km^2.
Calculating by 338 000km^2 and 5.2M people it's 15.4 people per square kilometer, 10% of the total area is lakes so if they're only talking about land area 17 is quite near.
Ehm, you do realize that all mp3, ogg, aac etc. players (like iTunes) already do that said decompression, and have all circuits for it without huge battery packs, right?
Besides, car stereos and home stereos that were supposed to do the playing (and thus decompression) in his nice scenario have plenty of oomph available. Either straight from wall socket or relatively huge 60Ah'ish car battery that is constantly charged.
What's your point? That just means the Opteron is a versatile chip.
Primarily server chip or no server chip it nevertheless does very well in workstation/desktop computers, and does so at price point comparable to G5 systems, so there's no need to bitch and whine about marketing terms when the Real World is out there.
I have very little experience of Linux myself. I have it installed under VMWARE (Suse), running KDE. I do consider myself to literate but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to change screen resolutions. How is granny supposed to do it?
Dunno about SuSe or KDE, but RedHat and GNOME 2.x+ both offer nice windows-ish screen resolution changer thingie.
Mozilla with Quick Launch enabled loads WAY faster than FB without. Sure, it's somewhat unfair comparison, and hogs up memory, but hey, nobody told them to exclude that from Firebird (yes, I know it can be turned on but it's not in a GUI etc.)
The charger in new logitech models is combined into the (radio|bt)-receiver, so you're going to drag it with you anyway unless you're going somewhere where you already have another compatible device waiting.
Too bad they are so damn expensive, not many people are going to shell out hundred bucks/euros for a mere mouse. Myself included.
That Logitech bt mouse looks darn neat, and is probably very good, and that recharging station is a fine touch (no more battery changes), but it's expensive.
After all, it's $100, for a mouse, are they INSANE or what?
Also, Evil Empires BT mouse isn't the latest and finest in (Wireless) Intellimouse Explorer series but bit older version. No idea if they are going to update it.
Of course it could be, if implemented correctly but Google version at least sniffs the country from domain (*.fi -> Finnish), or perhaps wherever the IP block is registered.
Just tried, removed all google cookies and confirmed I had nothing but english and us-english in languages, Finnish. Retried with Finnish now in list but put it last in order so it should be only given if English page is not found, still Finnish.
Because they get that proxy service from another company and have no power over how it's implemented.
It's not like they wouldn't use windows version if there was someone offering it (after all, even if it's worse or more expensive there's the PR win over FUD-spreaders like you).
iMac keyboard is absolutely HORRIBLE. And that "mouse" doesn't even deserve to be mentioned... I wonder how they managed to sell even one iMac with such crappy input devices.
Yeah, it's SO DAMN IMPRESSIVE to reinvent the wheel instead of actually being smart and noticing that there are already quite good wheels out there that just need a bit of tweaking.
In China they just roll out the backup rocket and hope it doesn't happen again.
Which is good. Anything so radically new and difficult as space flight, especially manned space flight, is going to make some losses. That's tough, but it's something you just have to accept.
We'd still be living in a jungle in africa if we'd stopped exploring the world for a year whenever someone doing it died.
Wish it'd do currency conversions as well, nifty for quick price check for all those geeky gadgets floating around in all those stupid countries that aren't using euros yet...
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Dunno what you're smoking but it seems to be pretty strong stuff.
Second, they imply that you should set up your whole system as RAID-0 [since they come with only two disk controllers].
Most of the mobo raid solutions have 4 ide controllers (each of which supports 2 disks) half of them controlled by RAID chipset and another half by motherboard chipset, that would be maximum of 8 disks, four of which can be in raid.
Bit never ones might come with 2 regular ide controllers on chipset and few SATA RAID controllers, only allowing 2-drive raid, but there's still 4 non-raid drives.
No need to put your whole system as a RAID in either scenario.
Or, if you're talking about something else, would you mind to clarify a bit?
Happens all the time lately... Reload does cure it (sometimes it happens more than one time in a row however, requiring n reload attempts to get the damn page).
Annoying nevertheless.
Well, since our fictional God didn't write the Bible himself but instead contracted bunch of various crackpots to do it for him, that point is kind of moot, since they've been dead for lot longer than 90 years.
I myself am guilty of promoting complexities. Since I know how to set up NFS and Samba and Apache and Shoutcast, I would just use one of these tools on my own Linux boxes to accomplish the same thing with XMMS or X11AMP or even mpg321 with a cgi php4 script front-end with apache and the mp3 meta-data extracted into a PostgreSQL table for faster searches. All the tools are there, and as a programmer, I find it fun to implement these kinds of things - and I HAVE spent time doing this for my own system.
Well. There you have it. Most of Linux users are geeks and programmers of at least some skill. They want to twiddle around and quite a few probably prefer the malleability of those solutions to maybe bit easier but inflexible software.
And because they are mostly developing for THEMSELVES, not for Joe Users, that's what you end up getting.
Interface would be quite decent if it wasn't nearly 100% MOUSE ONLY.
Some of us really do dislike being forced to grab that rodent for every simple thing.
Winamp has builtin search as "jump to song". Hit "j" and start typing, almost as nice as gecko's type-ahead find... It's quite a bit more limited than iTunes search but nevertheless I find it more convenient because a) it doesn't require me to use a %#%#&:n mouse first to get into the search box and another doubleclick to actually select song from that result list. And if it's minimized it requires even more mouse-only commands to get into library mode and then back to non-clutter.
It's also damn slow, song-change takes measurable amount of time (around a second) on 2400+, it's instant on winamp.
And it doesn't know to minimize completely to system tray, here I have yet another useless window cluttering my always-too-full taskbar & alt-tab list.
This is supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread? Not impressed... not impressed at all.
Well, if AMD is in the fantasy land, then Apple is in the very same fantasy land.
You see, there is no 64 bit OS X for G5 any more than there is 64 bit Windows for Athlon64's and Opterons.
Where did you get that number? It's actually under half of that.
virtual.finland.fi claims 17 ppl/km^2.
Calculating by 338 000km^2 and 5.2M people it's 15.4 people per square kilometer, 10% of the total area is lakes so if they're only talking about land area 17 is quite near.
Ehm, you do realize that all mp3, ogg, aac etc. players (like iTunes) already do that said decompression, and have all circuits for it without huge battery packs, right?
Besides, car stereos and home stereos that were supposed to do the playing (and thus decompression) in his nice scenario have plenty of oomph available. Either straight from wall socket or relatively huge 60Ah'ish car battery that is constantly charged.
Wow. An intelligent post.
But what the hell are you doing on Slashdot?
What's your point? That just means the Opteron is a versatile chip.
Primarily server chip or no server chip it nevertheless does very well in workstation/desktop computers, and does so at price point comparable to G5 systems, so there's no need to bitch and whine about marketing terms when the Real World is out there.
I have very little experience of Linux myself. I have it installed under VMWARE (Suse), running KDE. I do consider myself to literate but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to change screen resolutions. How is granny supposed to do it?
Dunno about SuSe or KDE, but RedHat and GNOME 2.x+ both offer nice windows-ish screen resolution changer thingie.
Mozilla with Quick Launch enabled loads WAY faster than FB without. Sure, it's somewhat unfair comparison, and hogs up memory, but hey, nobody told them to exclude that from Firebird (yes, I know it can be turned on but it's not in a GUI etc.)
The charger in new logitech models is combined into the (radio|bt)-receiver, so you're going to drag it with you anyway unless you're going somewhere where you already have another compatible device waiting.
Too bad they are so damn expensive, not many people are going to shell out hundred bucks/euros for a mere mouse. Myself included.
That Logitech bt mouse looks darn neat, and is probably very good, and that recharging station is a fine touch (no more battery changes), but it's expensive.
After all, it's $100, for a mouse, are they INSANE or what?
Also, Evil Empires BT mouse isn't the latest and finest in (Wireless) Intellimouse Explorer series but bit older version. No idea if they are going to update it.
No, it's not.
Of course it could be, if implemented correctly but Google version at least sniffs the country from domain (*.fi -> Finnish), or perhaps wherever the IP block is registered.
Just tried, removed all google cookies and confirmed I had nothing but english and us-english in languages, Finnish. Retried with Finnish now in list but put it last in order so it should be only given if English page is not found, still Finnish.
Well, the RPC service crashes as a result of a buffer underrun that allows the worm into the machine and windows notices that and reboots.
So even if the worm doesn't tell windows to reboot, further infection attempts will cause a boot.
It would work on worms using holes that don't cause crashes, though.
Because they get that proxy service from another company and have no power over how it's implemented.
It's not like they wouldn't use windows version if there was someone offering it (after all, even if it's worse or more expensive there's the PR win over FUD-spreaders like you).
WHAT?
iMac keyboard is absolutely HORRIBLE. And that "mouse" doesn't even deserve to be mentioned... I wonder how they managed to sell even one iMac with such crappy input devices.
Yeah, it's SO DAMN IMPRESSIVE to reinvent the wheel instead of actually being smart and noticing that there are already quite good wheels out there that just need a bit of tweaking.
Oh, wait.
Real IRC networks (you know, internet relay chat) aren't under any kind of bombardment, or going anywhere.
Stupid "warez" networks are, and GOOD RIDDANCE.
You're right..
I could've swore that it doesn't, was it like this from the beginning or is this a later addition?
In China they just roll out the backup rocket and hope it doesn't happen again.
Which is good. Anything so radically new and difficult as space flight, especially manned space flight, is going to make some losses. That's tough, but it's something you just have to accept.
We'd still be living in a jungle in africa if we'd stopped exploring the world for a year whenever someone doing it died.
Wish it'd do currency conversions as well, nifty for quick price check for all those geeky gadgets floating around in all those stupid countries that aren't using euros yet...
Google does not, and has never supported OR keyword. Probably never will.