Yah, the world could live w/o North America. And the galaxy could live without humans on earth and so on and so on.
Sure, it would suck for those of us who live here if there were no North America, but we're not the center of the universe. As much as I like the Linux kernel, it too is just a smaller piece of the bigger picture.
I've written stuff for a lot of big projects - where sometimes billions o' bucks are at stake - and here are a few things I've learned while building email services, travel portals, procurement systems, and various other web-based apps.
Big complicated systems are crazy things to work on. There's no way I'd try to do any of the same stuff in any other language. Regardless of how I think of Sun, Java is here to stay. Remember, there is a bigger company that has a lot invested in Java as well as Linux - hint, starts with a I, a B, and an M.
Perl, C, Python, Php, VB, ASP (shudders), C# - I've used them all as well. I think C is great and I like Perl too. I have some friends that do some amazing stuff with Perl. But these same friends also worked with me on big projects - mosthave compsci degrees - and we all agree that the Java route was the best bang for the buck.
Try working with millions of transactions, that *must* work, in C or Perl or god forbid, VB. It's just too much of a pain in the ass and I dunno if I'd put my paycheck on the line for that. For other things, like small online stores, Php can be cool. I have one for my mom and I'm quite pleased with it.
I guess it just comes down to your experience and I've always been interested in computer languages and stick with the ones I like and stay away from the ones that burned me.
Hyperthreaded cpus show up as 2 in Lin and Win, so there should be a clear cut application for this type of 'marketecture'. Either it is or it's not and since it does show up as 2 cpus, then I don't mind if it's disabled for benchmarks.
That said tho, the benchmarks are not taking full advantage of the cpu, so yah, that's screwy.
On the top of it, I don't mind the skew because, at least, it's not some Windows dominion marketing deal. But in the honest scheme of things in the galaxy, yah, that's pretty lame of Apple to pull that shit.
Will it prevent me from buying a still phat 64-bit (tho I honestly won't use the 64-bits) OS super system? No. But remember, it's not just the cpu but also the bus/hyper transport, the faster DDR and busting the 4GB memory barrier. Regargless of the fudging, I still think this is a great machine. Linux will stay on my servers while OS X will stay on my desktops.
it's all about singles. There's a lot of times I buy 1 record that has one strong track and one not so strong track on it. Sometimes I buy a pack that has 3 records and half or even all are good. But that's kinda a different thing if you're buying it to play it for someone else.
I'm still for the whole band-makes-an-album-thing, but with the popularity of dance/dj stuff, single songs will become more and more in demand. It's what people want. And frankly, most artists are not capable of producing even 20 kick ass tracks over their entire career. Shit, some don't even make that many at all!
This whole experience of buying, finding, and listening to music is and has been changing for a while. The ones (the producers) that won't roll with what the people want to buy, will have their little niche, but (hopefully) not the astronomical profits as of late.
Pretty much all Rush albums pre-Grace Under Pressure;) Sepultura - Beneath the remains, Roots (!) Chemical Bros - Dig your own hole (elec, but still kicks!) Failure - Fantastic planet (!) Sonic Youth - Evol, Daydream nation, DIrty (!), Sister, Goo Polvo - Shapes (whacky, not very heavy) Filter - Title of record Helmet - any Hum - You'd prefer and astronaut, Electra 2000
I dunno what else. But yah, these def don't suck, so says I.
until Mary Bono - wife to the late Sonny Bono, who was the father of the blessed Copyright Extension Act - get's into office. Out with Hillary and in with Mary who called the RIAA her 'ideal job'.
I've listened to Radiohead for a *long* time and to see them jumping on the bandwagon with Madonna and the likes has bummed me out.
Look, yah, they probably get paid less, but if they're such artists then they should realize that people will still buy the cd for the art. Why should, for arts sake, it be any different if I downloaded the entire album vs. song by song? Or is it the whole 'you-get-the-cd-art' argument? Regardless, this specific issues doesn't really seem about art but obviously more about money.
And frankly, I hold people's art and opinions and thoughts all together. If someone made a totally political song and then went out and did the opposite, I'd think that's pretty lame. I'm not gonna necessairly write Radiohead off as a suck band now, but this statement will definitely call into question how I veiw them and their art.
I think the single song download has to stay alive - it's a way to keep artists in check. If an artist is really a kick ass artist, then everything they put out should be interesting. But if they're so-so, then why put up with the crap you don't like? This, if anything, should help the artist since labels want them to pump out as much crap as possible so they can sell as much and profit as much. The individual tune will let the 'consumer'/fan/whatever hold the power to actually say what they will and will not buy.
It's common knowledge the record industry is one step short of a crime syndicate (others may disagree). If artists are bitching about not making enough money, then disband and reband under a different name with an indie or some other label that will give you a bigger cut - bands do it all the time. There are plenty of people who still love the art and still make money and still have integrity. When the likes of Madonna and Linkin Park start whining about cash, then that's when my 'fuck-off' light goes on... *shrugs*
I have a PB G4 1ghz and I love it. I've relegated my Athlon 2ghz, and Dual Athlon MP 1.2ghz to dev servers and my PB is great as my main and only non-server box.
If it's any measure, my PB plays Starcraft just as well as my old 900mhz P3. My average work day on my PB looks something like this (across 4 desktops & 2 monitors:D):
1a: Emacs 1b: 1 iTerm with multiple tabs 2a: Safari and Camino 2b: 1 iTerm, multiple tabs (1 usually running a Tomcat server), Konfabulator with >= 2 widgets, either iTunes or Audion 3a: Either VirtualPC or OmniGraffle Pro 3b: Photoshop 7 4a: Mac mail
This is my average load on a PB w/1GB ram. Nothing ever gets really slow. My dialogs on one page don't just suck cuz Photoshop is open somewhere else. Also, I have Postgresql & Mysql running as servers in the background.
I've worked with various Windoze and Linux (mostly Linux) boxen over the years and my PB actually holds its own - when I'm developing - just as well as the others. So if you're in the market for a G4 1ghz, I don't think you'll be let down. I would, however, depending on what you're doing, get at least 512MB ram, preferrably 1GB since ram is so cheap now.
An interesting note about the 12" & 17" PBs. They both have DDR, which speeds things up a lot. I tried out a 12" (G4 867mhz) and noticed it was almost or about as fast as my 15" - because of the ATA-100 drive and DDR 266. The 17" was definitely faster due to the ATA-100 and DDR 333. All in all tho, my 15" is in no way a slug. The whole PC megahertz thing is pretty lame, unless you like to watch how many milliseconds this window draws faster than the other. In an OS like WIndows where many things are quirky, this becomes an issue. Unlike Mac, where things work well together - a byproduct of which is you end up just getting more work done. </bias>
Also, Warcraft 3 at 1024x768 32bit ran fine without any major slow downs. However, I would like my Virtual PC to run a little faster, so I'll probably sell my G4 and get a G5.
Oh, and one other last thing, if you look at a lot of mobile laptops - comparable to the 12" PB - theere's a lot still running at < 1ghz speeds. They're starting to come up, but there's still plenty of P3 and Transmeta chips below the 1ghz barrier.
Yah, aren't MDs 12-bit, AAC 22khz audio? The compression works really well and for the average consumer, they won't notice the diff. But, obviously, if your into your frequencies, then you will notice a loss of dynamics.
Well, ok, maybe in the bigger consumer arean but I've done some pro studio audio and up until the past few years, if you wanted high end quality audio, you did it on a Mac. ProTools et.al, all debuted on the Mac. In fact, my friends studio - of which over the years we tried converting to Windoze multitrack - went back to a Mac and churned out better sounding projects.
There are many uses in non-consumer audio for optical i/o. I mean, shit, my cheap little Shuttle Spacewalker has a coinnector card for optical audio. For them to include it now is obviously smart since we know they're also targeting more musicians (specifically dj's) now as well as graphics people.
Frankly, this guys 'impossible' post is a lot of bullshit for many reasons listed above and throughout.
I now must find a way to ditch my PB G4 1ghz. G5, here I come! *drools*
I use my cell exclusively for voice. So when I needed static IPs for my servers, and thusly DSL, I called up the good 'ol local monopoly, er, I mean, phone provider here in nyc - Verizon - and it was a whopping $19 for me to just have a line. I told the Verizon lady, no caller id, no long distance, no nothing - there will never be a phone hoooked up to it.
Turns out, the Verizon charge is about $9 and the other $10 are taxes. But still, it's a rip. That means if every citizen in nyc has a land line, there's gonna be at least $100,000,000 in tax revenue. A month! How about a tax break on that?
Most people do not dislike billy because of his vast oceans of cast, but rather the methods he employed to get the cash. I'm amazed that this is continually overlooked.
m$ has left a trail of corpses of other vendors over the years that they've pummled into insignificance: novell, lotus, word perfect, borland, dr. dos, etc...
there's no way in hell i'm gonna feel bad for gates. and i'm also not going to treat his philanthropy as some 'awakening' to the humanitarian plight. this guy is directly and indirectly responsible for probably ruining as many peoples lives as he is helping. his and m$' biz tactics are deplorable yet smiled upon by various other biz people because the name of the game is to win uber alles!
frankly i might start to believe that most of his motives don't have some back door clause to m$ when there are contracts and such - in writing - that specify that there is free money to charities with no strings attached and the software and computers come with signed documents stating that the charity/school/whatever will have free, unlimited upgrades for as long as either m$ or the particular institution exists. and they're free to sell any of the stuff they want at any time without and bullshit reprocussions.
bill and m$ are kings of lock in. at some point, they've done it to everyone that's used any of their products. why should i think that his philanthropy is much different and ultimately doesn't benefit him in the form of various tax breaks (ya know, if you have a shitload of money and don't get rid of a percentage of it via charities/donations, then u end up owning a bunch of taxes).
for me, this guy's got a long way to go to wash away the mud. his company is still as predatory and unethical as before. and while i'm glad there are entities out there receiving money - from ripped off customers i might add -, i'm still suspect that there is some hidden.... something. time will tell and i'm not giving the guy anything that he hasn't given anyone else.
Well the reason you never hear about votes favoring dems is because they are not bent on trying to control every aspect of political life in order to bring the bible to law.
There's enough documented evidence throughout history that shows how vicious the right is and how they'll stop at nothing to impose their morality on everyone else.
You're a fool if you think the 2000 vote was legal and constitutional. In fact, the constitution has little relevance in the u.s. today. It only stands in the way of the right wing to bring down separation of church and state. Your idea of democracy is not democracy at all, it's just theocracy in disguise. The right controls the oval office, the senate, the house and most of the highest court appointments - so much for checks and balances. But hey, we can salute the flag, sing songs together in govt. office, and gee wiz, aren't those little muslim kids cute when they pray in school?
As far as the liberal media, two things. 1. If you report anything not favoring lies and coverup, it's liberal. 2. Every popular tv and radio show (ala ross & tucker) have these neanderthal's foaming at the mouth with hate and disgust for anyone who is not a rich, white christian and doesn't blindly wrap themselves in the flag and say 'ok'.
Yah, you guys have done a great job fucking everything up. Let's see, in about 25 years, going down the neocon road, we'll be on par with those countries in the middle east now that we continue to bash as not being 'freedom lovers'.
Arg. How many people read the patent!? Or at least the abstract?
The relevant snippet says (I've added emphasis): A system for facilitating ONLINE searches suggests query autocompletion strings... ...suggested strings are based on specific attributes of the particular database access system being searched.
WTF does this have to do with Mozilla or any orther client side app!??! Nothing! It is possible that this might be interpreted as searching a local application db for auto completions, but that's a stretch.
Look, we all know Amaz0n is a web based system, not a local system. So put away all the lame postings about autocompletion in browsers, shells, etc! You won't find prior art there. It must be found at the online db server level.
The strongest prior art case for this is a search engine BEFORE the patent was filed, which was 4/18/2000 - anything before that date can prob knock this one out.
And to further my rant, I find it apalling that anyone complaining about Amaz0n and their bullshit would still use their service. I'm sure there are plenty people out there who still do. It's actually a little difficult on holidays and birthdays to send people stuff online if you're boycotting Amz0n, but it's doable. I know, I've been doing it for quite some time and even pressuring my friends and relatives to do the same.
If you're strictly an end user who has nothing to do with online commerce, then this will never matter to you. However if, like me, you deal in the web commerce world, Amaz0n represents the biggest threat since m$. They are not your friend. They will try to patent every single idea they can get their hands on. The only way to stand against this is with your pocketbook and your voice. Use them both or suffer the consequences later down the line.
there are a few parts of ep 3 where my girlfriend and i roll on the floor laughing because the acting/writing is soooooo bad.
the first one is where anakin says something like "i hate sand, it's rough, it's coarse and it gets all over the place; not like you, your soft and smooth..."
the second part is when amidala falls out of the fighter towards the end when they're chasing dooku. when the shot returns and a trooper approaches to ask her if she's alright she's like "uhhhhh, yah....". and then all the sudden it's like, DOING, time for action.
surely this are trivial annoyances or whatever, but they are just the tip of the suckage compared to 4-6; 5, obviously being the best.
i've said this before, but when lucas came out at some mpaa meeting saying that the likes of kazaa would hurt blockbuster directors/writers/etc and would force them to not write anymore big movies i was like, fine, so be it. with scripts and writing that bad, i'll stick with the indie flicks.
star wars and lucas have passed their day. i dont really expect anything good from ep 3, unfortunately.
Right, this will be seen as the same as the college kidz that got slapped with the recent lawsuit by the RIAA for developing a local search engine on their campus. all this did was index files and provide links to material. It did not store the files, but this did not stop the RIAA from going after them. The SpyMac server, and others, basically do the same thing.
It's safe to say that if you do anything similar to this and it's public, then your gonna get served by the RIAA at some point; which is their whole goal.
There were already some posts about this here a few days back.
I did try some other sites listed in those posts and I have to say that this is balancing on the dangerous zone. I could see the RIAA going after this specifically for that fact that there is little difference (if any), as far as they're concerned, with users 'broadcasting' stuff via iTunes vs. any other streamer.
I will not be suprised to see a few things happen:
1. all these public iTunes sharing sites will be shut down (or at least the biggest ones) via RIAA court orders 2. most of these public iTunes sites will simply turn off due to bandwidth limitations 3. Apple with either disable this feature in an update or publicly state that it is not meant for public sharing. Or some statement to that affect
That said, coupled with Rendezvous on a local lan, this is a pretty kick ass feature.:)
So a few things come up just reading the docs on this:
1. A Controller. It looks as tho a single controller is used by the clients to communicate to the various RAID'd dbs. I'm sure there can be multiple controllers since there would be little point to make some db's redundant, yet the access to them not. Still looking into this.
2. And also, it looks as tho the default port is 1099 - RMI. If you have, for a web app, your EJBs and web app local to that containter, that might not be a problem. However, I happen to have my EJB server on its own box and this might very well cause probs. I think it said you could specify our own ports, but I haven't seen any examples in the docs yet of this being the case. Also, still looking.
A few other things exist as well which are in the docs as known limitations: * XAConnections * Blobs * batch updates * callable statements
These could be serious issues for some. My last project used CLOBs/BLOBs, batch updates and callable statements, so this would rule that out. Of course, all the db stuff was strictly tied to Oracle, so I think that would rule this all regardless.;)
All in all tho, this looks like a good start. As my current project progresses, clustered dbs will become more and more of an issue. I've looked into some other projects out there for Postgres, but nothing yet really satisfactory. I think this is a good step in the right direction - for Java developers. It'll be interesting to watch.
Wow, so it's either assembly or nuthin, huh? That's kinda lame. Granted, it's very valuable to know the diff between a stack and a heap, but that's not the end all of everything.
And frankly, after leading teams, the last thing you should do is fire people on it. I would suggest letting go of clueless managers and real payroll hogs. Then teach/mentor your jr. level programmers. I dunno, being l33t like that actually will hurt a project more than help.
Also, Step 9.5 should be refactor, test, repeat 9, since that's ususally how it goes.
So Frontline has a great 52 min show on this exact thing - viewable on line! (Personally, I copy out the links in the html and watch it in RealPlayer or Quicktime, but whatever suits ya..) It's called Cyberwar. Interviews with white house/govt types along with a cracker and an M$ guy. It's got more of a 'war' slant, but nonetheless, pretty relevant. Check it out here
Why all the effort? There have already been a couple of reviews out on 9 and it looks like it's nothing more than a little gloss over what can be had with 8. And frankly, 8 is ok, but I'm feeling my relationship is over with RedHat.
I have been slowly, over the past year or so, warming up more and more to Gentoo. Today, in fact, I'm re-installing one of my home servers with Gentoo 1.4 because I just want it the way I want it. Gentoo is shaping up to be a great distro and if you love the days of getting your hands dirty in the depth of things, then you should give it a whirl. Altho it may not be worth it to everyone, there is something to be said about a blazingly fast distro that's tailored to your machine.
Plus, portage smokes rpm - in fact, the BSD ports was one thing I really missed with Linux. Now, it's the best of both worlds.
- only works if you have some sort of ATX type case
- with any sort of non-gui mgmt tools, this becomes irrelavent
that said, it's a neat idea for a web page article, but this would never fly for the typical mgmt of servers that i've seen. and, i prefer non-gui tools because gui tools tend to slow and a pain in the ass to deal with.
I 'came back' to Amazon after a length boycott during the O'Reilly/Bezos 'solution to patents' days. However, it seems that Bezos doesn't really care about being a good software neighbor anymore. Thusly the only thing I (and others) can do is to definitely hit 'em where it hurts most - the pocketbook. I will never again (or until Bezos gives up all patents, or the patent office does something wonderful and amazing, like nullifying all software patents - fat chance!) buy anything from Amazon and make sure my friends and relatives do the same. I just deleted all my whish list and other various pieces of info.
I agree, this is getting utterly ridiculous and Bezos is turning into a real cancer (if I may just throw that term around) on the Internet community.
As far as greed being good for a capitalist society, it's actually only good for a few. Hmmm, sounds like so many kings, queens, and dictators throughout history.
Has anyone looked at the prices from the story? I could not find a $25 FC drive anywhere. Cheapest was $120. So, yah, $240 for 2 drives, that kinda blows the under $250 out of the water.
Anyway, being a 'mac head' and a 'linux head' and a 'computer head' in general, I don't necessairly get the orig posters issue. Apple does a lot of cool things. And some things just happen to hit the Mac market before the PC market. Big deal. Why not bitch about Billy G. then?
My work has been setting up a FCA for the past three weeks using Linux and there have been some major problems. They have a fat array with 32 15k rpm U320 drives hooked up to a IBM x440 via 4 HBAs. The interesting thing is that no distro they've tried can transfer faster than Windoze due to Linux kernel and driver issues. I was a little shoked. The x440 has 8 Xeons w/hyperthreading. The more cpus that are enabled, the more the performance degrades. The sysadmin says he thinks it has something to do with single-threaded io calls in all Linux kernels - the more cpus try to access io, the more threads that get blocked. Me and the other sysadmin - Gentoo 'heads' - start scratching our heads wondering what all the Linux 'Enterprise' stuff is that everyone is talking about. And yes, these components were all given the 'good to go' stamp by all their manufacturers. Since the prob is with the kernel itself, this is kinda major.
So, these things are cool, but there are definitely reasons for and against having them. I doubt you could build anything useful for under $400-$500 and they're really only going to shine in a server or workstation environment whith sustained io. It's nice to have these things as proof of concept at home (hell, I have all kinds of weird servers and drives and such), but when you start talking about a production environment in the enterprise, it takes on a whole new ball of wax.
I still think the XServe is interesting, however, I'm not too thrilled about ATA drives. Guess that was for cost tho. Go mac heads!
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Yah, the world could live w/o North America. And the galaxy could live without humans on earth and so on and so on.
Sure, it would suck for those of us who live here if there were no North America, but we're not the center of the universe. As much as I like the Linux kernel, it too is just a smaller piece of the bigger picture.
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I've written stuff for a lot of big projects - where sometimes billions o' bucks are at stake - and here are a few things I've learned while building email services, travel portals, procurement systems, and various other web-based apps.
Big complicated systems are crazy things to work on. There's no way I'd try to do any of the same stuff in any other language. Regardless of how I think of Sun, Java is here to stay. Remember, there is a bigger company that has a lot invested in Java as well as Linux - hint, starts with a I, a B, and an M.
Perl, C, Python, Php, VB, ASP (shudders), C# - I've used them all as well. I think C is great and I like Perl too. I have some friends that do some amazing stuff with Perl. But these same friends also worked with me on big projects - mosthave compsci degrees - and we all agree that the Java route was the best bang for the buck.
Try working with millions of transactions, that *must* work, in C or Perl or god forbid, VB. It's just too much of a pain in the ass and I dunno if I'd put my paycheck on the line for that. For other things, like small online stores, Php can be cool. I have one for my mom and I'm quite pleased with it.
I guess it just comes down to your experience and I've always been interested in computer languages and stick with the ones I like and stay away from the ones that burned me.
Hyperthreaded cpus show up as 2 in Lin and Win, so there should be a clear cut application for this type of 'marketecture'. Either it is or it's not and since it does show up as 2 cpus, then I don't mind if it's disabled for benchmarks.
That said tho, the benchmarks are not taking full advantage of the cpu, so yah, that's screwy.
On the top of it, I don't mind the skew because, at least, it's not some Windows dominion marketing deal. But in the honest scheme of things in the galaxy, yah, that's pretty lame of Apple to pull that shit.
Will it prevent me from buying a still phat 64-bit (tho I honestly won't use the 64-bits) OS super system? No. But remember, it's not just the cpu but also the bus/hyper transport, the faster DDR and busting the 4GB memory barrier. Regargless of the fudging, I still think this is a great machine. Linux will stay on my servers while OS X will stay on my desktops.
it's all about singles. There's a lot of times I buy 1 record that has one strong track and one not so strong track on it. Sometimes I buy a pack that has 3 records and half or even all are good. But that's kinda a different thing if you're buying it to play it for someone else.
I'm still for the whole band-makes-an-album-thing, but with the popularity of dance/dj stuff, single songs will become more and more in demand. It's what people want. And frankly, most artists are not capable of producing even 20 kick ass tracks over their entire career. Shit, some don't even make that many at all!
This whole experience of buying, finding, and listening to music is and has been changing for a while. The ones (the producers) that won't roll with what the people want to buy, will have their little niche, but (hopefully) not the astronomical profits as of late.
Pretty much all Rush albums pre-Grace Under Pressure ;)
Sepultura - Beneath the remains, Roots (!)
Chemical Bros - Dig your own hole (elec, but still kicks!)
Failure - Fantastic planet (!)
Sonic Youth - Evol, Daydream nation, DIrty (!), Sister, Goo
Polvo - Shapes (whacky, not very heavy)
Filter - Title of record
Helmet - any
Hum - You'd prefer and astronaut, Electra 2000
I dunno what else. But yah, these def don't suck, so says I.
until Mary Bono - wife to the late Sonny Bono, who was the father of the blessed Copyright Extension Act - get's into office. Out with Hillary and in with Mary who called the RIAA her 'ideal job'.
Jesus, what a family legacy..
I've listened to Radiohead for a *long* time and to see them jumping on the bandwagon with Madonna and the likes has bummed me out.
Look, yah, they probably get paid less, but if they're such artists then they should realize that people will still buy the cd for the art. Why should, for arts sake, it be any different if I downloaded the entire album vs. song by song? Or is it the whole 'you-get-the-cd-art' argument? Regardless, this specific issues doesn't really seem about art but obviously more about money.
And frankly, I hold people's art and opinions and thoughts all together. If someone made a totally political song and then went out and did the opposite, I'd think that's pretty lame. I'm not gonna necessairly write Radiohead off as a suck band now, but this statement will definitely call into question how I veiw them and their art.
I think the single song download has to stay alive - it's a way to keep artists in check. If an artist is really a kick ass artist, then everything they put out should be interesting. But if they're so-so, then why put up with the crap you don't like? This, if anything, should help the artist since labels want them to pump out as much crap as possible so they can sell as much and profit as much. The individual tune will let the 'consumer'/fan/whatever hold the power to actually say what they will and will not buy.
It's common knowledge the record industry is one step short of a crime syndicate (others may disagree). If artists are bitching about not making enough money, then disband and reband under a different name with an indie or some other label that will give you a bigger cut - bands do it all the time. There are plenty of people who still love the art and still make money and still have integrity. When the likes of Madonna and Linkin Park start whining about cash, then that's when my 'fuck-off' light goes on... *shrugs*
I have a PB G4 1ghz and I love it. I've relegated my Athlon 2ghz, and Dual Athlon MP 1.2ghz to dev servers and my PB is great as my main and only non-server box.
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If it's any measure, my PB plays Starcraft just as well as my old 900mhz P3. My average work day on my PB looks something like this (across 4 desktops & 2 monitors
1a: Emacs
1b: 1 iTerm with multiple tabs
2a: Safari and Camino
2b: 1 iTerm, multiple tabs (1 usually running a Tomcat server), Konfabulator with >= 2 widgets, either iTunes or Audion
3a: Either VirtualPC or OmniGraffle Pro
3b: Photoshop 7
4a: Mac mail
This is my average load on a PB w/1GB ram. Nothing ever gets really slow. My dialogs on one page don't just suck cuz Photoshop is open somewhere else. Also, I have Postgresql & Mysql running as servers in the background.
I've worked with various Windoze and Linux (mostly Linux) boxen over the years and my PB actually holds its own - when I'm developing - just as well as the others. So if you're in the market for a G4 1ghz, I don't think you'll be let down. I would, however, depending on what you're doing, get at least 512MB ram, preferrably 1GB since ram is so cheap now.
An interesting note about the 12" & 17" PBs. They both have DDR, which speeds things up a lot. I tried out a 12" (G4 867mhz) and noticed it was almost or about as fast as my 15" - because of the ATA-100 drive and DDR 266. The 17" was definitely faster due to the ATA-100 and DDR 333. All in all tho, my 15" is in no way a slug. The whole PC megahertz thing is pretty lame, unless you like to watch how many milliseconds this window draws faster than the other. In an OS like WIndows where many things are quirky, this becomes an issue. Unlike Mac, where things work well together - a byproduct of which is you end up just getting more work done. </bias>
Also, Warcraft 3 at 1024x768 32bit ran fine without any major slow downs. However, I would like my Virtual PC to run a little faster, so I'll probably sell my G4 and get a G5.
Oh, and one other last thing, if you look at a lot of mobile laptops - comparable to the 12" PB - theere's a lot still running at < 1ghz speeds. They're starting to come up, but there's still plenty of P3 and Transmeta chips below the 1ghz barrier.
Yah, aren't MDs 12-bit, AAC 22khz audio? The compression works really well and for the average consumer, they won't notice the diff. But, obviously, if your into your frequencies, then you will notice a loss of dynamics.
Well, ok, maybe in the bigger consumer arean but I've done some pro studio audio and up until the past few years, if you wanted high end quality audio, you did it on a Mac. ProTools et.al, all debuted on the Mac. In fact, my friends studio - of which over the years we tried converting to Windoze multitrack - went back to a Mac and churned out better sounding projects.
There are many uses in non-consumer audio for optical i/o. I mean, shit, my cheap little Shuttle Spacewalker has a coinnector card for optical audio. For them to include it now is obviously smart since we know they're also targeting more musicians (specifically dj's) now as well as graphics people.
Frankly, this guys 'impossible' post is a lot of bullshit for many reasons listed above and throughout.
I now must find a way to ditch my PB G4 1ghz. G5, here I come! *drools*
I use my cell exclusively for voice. So when I needed static IPs for my servers, and thusly DSL, I called up the good 'ol local monopoly, er, I mean, phone provider here in nyc - Verizon - and it was a whopping $19 for me to just have a line. I told the Verizon lady, no caller id, no long distance, no nothing - there will never be a phone hoooked up to it.
Turns out, the Verizon charge is about $9 and the other $10 are taxes. But still, it's a rip. That means if every citizen in nyc has a land line, there's gonna be at least $100,000,000 in tax revenue. A month! How about a tax break on that?
Most people do not dislike billy because of his vast oceans of cast, but rather the methods he employed to get the cash. I'm amazed that this is continually overlooked.
m$ has left a trail of corpses of other vendors over the years that they've pummled into insignificance: novell, lotus, word perfect, borland, dr. dos, etc...
there's no way in hell i'm gonna feel bad for gates. and i'm also not going to treat his philanthropy as some 'awakening' to the humanitarian plight. this guy is directly and indirectly responsible for probably ruining as many peoples lives as he is helping. his and m$' biz tactics are deplorable yet smiled upon by various other biz people because the name of the game is to win uber alles!
frankly i might start to believe that most of his motives don't have some back door clause to m$ when there are contracts and such - in writing - that specify that there is free money to charities with no strings attached and the software and computers come with signed documents stating that the charity/school/whatever will have free, unlimited upgrades for as long as either m$ or the particular institution exists. and they're free to sell any of the stuff they want at any time without and bullshit reprocussions.
bill and m$ are kings of lock in. at some point, they've done it to everyone that's used any of their products. why should i think that his philanthropy is much different and ultimately doesn't benefit him in the form of various tax breaks (ya know, if you have a shitload of money and don't get rid of a percentage of it via charities/donations, then u end up owning a bunch of taxes).
for me, this guy's got a long way to go to wash away the mud. his company is still as predatory and unethical as before. and while i'm glad there are entities out there receiving money - from ripped off customers i might add -, i'm still suspect that there is some hidden.... something. time will tell and i'm not giving the guy anything that he hasn't given anyone else.
Well the reason you never hear about votes favoring dems is because they are not bent on trying to control every aspect of political life in order to bring the bible to law.
There's enough documented evidence throughout history that shows how vicious the right is and how they'll stop at nothing to impose their morality on everyone else.
You're a fool if you think the 2000 vote was legal and constitutional. In fact, the constitution has little relevance in the u.s. today. It only stands in the way of the right wing to bring down separation of church and state. Your idea of democracy is not democracy at all, it's just theocracy in disguise. The right controls the oval office, the senate, the house and most of the highest court appointments - so much for checks and balances. But hey, we can salute the flag, sing songs together in govt. office, and gee wiz, aren't those little muslim kids cute when they pray in school?
As far as the liberal media, two things.
1. If you report anything not favoring lies and coverup, it's liberal.
2. Every popular tv and radio show (ala ross & tucker) have these neanderthal's foaming at the mouth with hate and disgust for anyone who is not a rich, white christian and doesn't blindly wrap themselves in the flag and say 'ok'.
Yah, you guys have done a great job fucking everything up. Let's see, in about 25 years, going down the neocon road, we'll be on par with those countries in the middle east now that we continue to bash as not being 'freedom lovers'.
Arg. How many people read the patent!? Or at least the abstract?
...suggested strings are based on specific attributes of the particular database access system being searched.
The relevant snippet says (I've added emphasis):
A system for facilitating ONLINE searches suggests query autocompletion strings...
WTF does this have to do with Mozilla or any orther client side app!??! Nothing! It is possible that this might be interpreted as searching a local application db for auto completions, but that's a stretch.
Look, we all know Amaz0n is a web based system, not a local system. So put away all the lame postings about autocompletion in browsers, shells, etc! You won't find prior art there. It must be found at the online db server level.
The strongest prior art case for this is a search engine BEFORE the patent was filed, which was 4/18/2000 - anything before that date can prob knock this one out.
And to further my rant, I find it apalling that anyone complaining about Amaz0n and their bullshit would still use their service. I'm sure there are plenty people out there who still do. It's actually a little difficult on holidays and birthdays to send people stuff online if you're boycotting Amz0n, but it's doable. I know, I've been doing it for quite some time and even pressuring my friends and relatives to do the same.
If you're strictly an end user who has nothing to do with online commerce, then this will never matter to you. However if, like me, you deal in the web commerce world, Amaz0n represents the biggest threat since m$. They are not your friend. They will try to patent every single idea they can get their hands on. The only way to stand against this is with your pocketbook and your voice. Use them both or suffer the consequences later down the line.
there are a few parts of ep 3 where my girlfriend and i roll on the floor laughing because the acting/writing is soooooo bad.
the first one is where anakin says something like "i hate sand, it's rough, it's coarse and it gets all over the place; not like you, your soft and smooth..."
the second part is when amidala falls out of the fighter towards the end when they're chasing dooku. when the shot returns and a trooper approaches to ask her if she's alright she's like "uhhhhh, yah....". and then all the sudden it's like, DOING, time for action.
surely this are trivial annoyances or whatever, but they are just the tip of the suckage compared to 4-6; 5, obviously being the best.
i've said this before, but when lucas came out at some mpaa meeting saying that the likes of kazaa would hurt blockbuster directors/writers/etc and would force them to not write anymore big movies i was like, fine, so be it. with scripts and writing that bad, i'll stick with the indie flicks.
star wars and lucas have passed their day. i dont really expect anything good from ep 3, unfortunately.
Right, this will be seen as the same as the college kidz that got slapped with the recent lawsuit by the RIAA for developing a local search engine on their campus. all this did was index files and provide links to material. It did not store the files, but this did not stop the RIAA from going after them. The SpyMac server, and others, basically do the same thing.
It's safe to say that if you do anything similar to this and it's public, then your gonna get served by the RIAA at some point; which is their whole goal.
There were already some posts about this here a few days back.
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I did try some other sites listed in those posts and I have to say that this is balancing on the dangerous zone. I could see the RIAA going after this specifically for that fact that there is little difference (if any), as far as they're concerned, with users 'broadcasting' stuff via iTunes vs. any other streamer.
I will not be suprised to see a few things happen:
1. all these public iTunes sharing sites will be shut down (or at least the biggest ones) via RIAA court orders
2. most of these public iTunes sites will simply turn off due to bandwidth limitations
3. Apple with either disable this feature in an update or publicly state that it is not meant for public sharing. Or some statement to that affect
That said, coupled with Rendezvous on a local lan, this is a pretty kick ass feature.
So a few things come up just reading the docs on this:
;)
1. A Controller. It looks as tho a single controller is used by the clients to communicate to the various RAID'd dbs. I'm sure there can be multiple controllers since there would be little point to make some db's redundant, yet the access to them not. Still looking into this.
2. And also, it looks as tho the default port is 1099 - RMI. If you have, for a web app, your EJBs and web app local to that containter, that might not be a problem. However, I happen to have my EJB server on its own box and this might very well cause probs. I think it said you could specify our own ports, but I haven't seen any examples in the docs yet of this being the case. Also, still looking.
A few other things exist as well which are in the docs as known limitations:
* XAConnections
* Blobs
* batch updates
* callable statements
These could be serious issues for some. My last project used CLOBs/BLOBs, batch updates and callable statements, so this would rule that out. Of course, all the db stuff was strictly tied to Oracle, so I think that would rule this all regardless.
All in all tho, this looks like a good start. As my current project progresses, clustered dbs will become more and more of an issue. I've looked into some other projects out there for Postgres, but nothing yet really satisfactory. I think this is a good step in the right direction - for Java developers. It'll be interesting to watch.
Wow, so it's either assembly or nuthin, huh? That's kinda lame. Granted, it's very valuable to know the diff between a stack and a heap, but that's not the end all of everything.
And frankly, after leading teams, the last thing you should do is fire people on it. I would suggest letting go of clueless managers and real payroll hogs. Then teach/mentor your jr. level programmers. I dunno, being l33t like that actually will hurt a project more than help.
Also, Step 9.5 should be refactor, test, repeat 9, since that's ususally how it goes.
So Frontline has a great 52 min show on this exact thing - viewable on line! (Personally, I copy out the links in the html and watch it in RealPlayer or Quicktime, but whatever suits ya..) It's called Cyberwar. Interviews with white house/govt types along with a cracker and an M$ guy. It's got more of a 'war' slant, but nonetheless, pretty relevant. Check it out here
Ah, gotta love Frontline..
Why all the effort? There have already been a couple of reviews out on 9 and it looks like it's nothing more than a little gloss over what can be had with 8. And frankly, 8 is ok, but I'm feeling my relationship is over with RedHat.
I have been slowly, over the past year or so, warming up more and more to Gentoo. Today, in fact, I'm re-installing one of my home servers with Gentoo 1.4 because I just want it the way I want it. Gentoo is shaping up to be a great distro and if you love the days of getting your hands dirty in the depth of things, then you should give it a whirl. Altho it may not be worth it to everyone, there is something to be said about a blazingly fast distro that's tailored to your machine.
Plus, portage smokes rpm - in fact, the BSD ports was one thing I really missed with Linux. Now, it's the best of both worlds.
- this does not scale well for > 1 server.
- only works if you have some sort of ATX type case
- with any sort of non-gui mgmt tools, this becomes irrelavent
that said, it's a neat idea for a web page article, but this would never fly for the typical mgmt of servers that i've seen. and, i prefer non-gui tools because gui tools tend to slow and a pain in the ass to deal with.
I 'came back' to Amazon after a length boycott during the O'Reilly/Bezos 'solution to patents' days. However, it seems that Bezos doesn't really care about being a good software neighbor anymore. Thusly the only thing I (and others) can do is to definitely hit 'em where it hurts most - the pocketbook. I will never again (or until Bezos gives up all patents, or the patent office does something wonderful and amazing, like nullifying all software patents - fat chance!) buy anything from Amazon and make sure my friends and relatives do the same. I just deleted all my whish list and other various pieces of info.
I agree, this is getting utterly ridiculous and Bezos is turning into a real cancer (if I may just throw that term around) on the Internet community.
As far as greed being good for a capitalist society, it's actually only good for a few. Hmmm, sounds like so many kings, queens, and dictators throughout history.
Has anyone looked at the prices from the story? I could not find a $25 FC drive anywhere. Cheapest was $120. So, yah, $240 for 2 drives, that kinda blows the under $250 out of the water.
Anyway, being a 'mac head' and a 'linux head' and a 'computer head' in general, I don't necessairly get the orig posters issue. Apple does a lot of cool things. And some things just happen to hit the Mac market before the PC market. Big deal. Why not bitch about Billy G. then?
My work has been setting up a FCA for the past three weeks using Linux and there have been some major problems. They have a fat array with 32 15k rpm U320 drives hooked up to a IBM x440 via 4 HBAs. The interesting thing is that no distro they've tried can transfer faster than Windoze due to Linux kernel and driver issues. I was a little shoked. The x440 has 8 Xeons w/hyperthreading. The more cpus that are enabled, the more the performance degrades. The sysadmin says he thinks it has something to do with single-threaded io calls in all Linux kernels - the more cpus try to access io, the more threads that get blocked. Me and the other sysadmin - Gentoo 'heads' - start scratching our heads wondering what all the Linux 'Enterprise' stuff is that everyone is talking about. And yes, these components were all given the 'good to go' stamp by all their manufacturers. Since the prob is with the kernel itself, this is kinda major.
So, these things are cool, but there are definitely reasons for and against having them. I doubt you could build anything useful for under $400-$500 and they're really only going to shine in a server or workstation environment whith sustained io. It's nice to have these things as proof of concept at home (hell, I have all kinds of weird servers and drives and such), but when you start talking about a production environment in the enterprise, it takes on a whole new ball of wax.
I still think the XServe is interesting, however, I'm not too thrilled about ATA drives. Guess that was for cost tho. Go mac heads!
argh! spelling...