Because Apple has decided to escape their niche-market image and go for the big money? Somebody at Apple must have decided they'd sell more Macs this way. And somewhere in the decision process somebody mentioned their cadre of graphic artists would be pissed off, but they said, "eh, fuck em" anyway.
Either that or their "green" initiative took precedence, but that's just a guess. I've never understood glossy screens and I'm not even an artist.
Sun has been a great innovator, but when they were the only game in town they charged obscene prices for their products and services. It helped open the door for Linux and Sun has only itself to blame.
When you walked into a data center ten years ago all you saw were Sun servers. Where I work now I'm hard pressed to find a single Sun box anywhere.
I was also hit by a sudden wave of nostalgia as I recall the old Netscape web-based admin tool that was actually kind of cool next to the Apache by-hand config file editing back in its heyday.
It was real popular with the corporate clients who would never buy anything without a $xx,xxx support contract attached to their little $18,000 250mhz Sun Netras.
In fact now I want to go scour Ebay for an old Netra or SGI Indigo so I can point it out to the kids and rail on about the good old days, right before I yell at them to get off my lawn.
Agree! I'm a former Solaris & Red Hat admin and a network engineer. I've fiddled with computers and Unix for every day of my adult life.
I tried various editions of Red Hat and then Fedora at home and it was always a bit of a hassle. I stared using Ubuntu at around 7.04 and stuck with it because it requires almost no extra effort. If I want to compile my own apps or tune my kernel I'm free to do so - but why would I?
Here's my totally unscientific test from my home office. Vista 32bit vs. Ubuntu 32bit. Done on a dual-boot Thinkpad T61 laptop, 2.0ghz 2gb RAM. Nowhere close to running out of memory, only app running was the browser (plus the normal tray stuff).
I did five tests with each OS/browser and averaged them out, doing the bandwidth.com test.
Figures in kbps. ISP is Comcast cable.
Windows Vista Chrome 1.0.154.43
Down: 18276.6 (avg) / 21522 (max)
Up: 1866.8 (avg) / 1898 (max)
Windows Vista Firefox 3.05
Down: 17357 (avg) / 23820 (max)
Up: 1044.6 (avg) / 1067 (max)
The averages differed wildly but I think network traffic can easily account for this. Since the maximums were all nearly the same I think they're all about the same.
What it doesn't account for is the upload speed, which were very consistent throughout this silly test.
Vista firefox = dismal Vista chrome = much faster Ubuntu firefox = even faster
My old Atari could boot instantly! We could have the same now, except that nobody wants their OS on a chip.
Or do they? My guess is that nobody has put much effort into it. Maybe it's not considered a main selling point.
My machines actually boot pretty quickly. It's the waiting-for-desktop that's slow. Especially on the work laptop where the vendor has preloaded their useless helper apps.
They have a goal to sell their online Office suite and other apps and services, almost all of which are accessed via the browser. What would happen if the next version of I.E. broke some of their apps? They can't afford to be at anybody's mercy.
I've gone through enough power outages to do what you're wanting. This is a good list but I can simplify it a bit.
1. You'll need a transfer switch to connect your generator into your home's wiring. It is possible (but probably illegal) to back-feed your generator into your home. Improper backfeeding will send power back up the line, creating a danger to the line workers.
A transfer switch essentially allows your generator to become the power source to your home while cutting off your city power. You can do this yourself or hire an electrician, it's not real expensive. Here's a simple diagram.
2. Next figure out what size generator to get. There are many calculators out there to guide you. Essentially you add up the wattage of each appliance and buy a generator with about 20% extra.
An example, I have a 3000w generator, it runs 2 fridges, the gas furnace fan, most of the lights, maybe some music. It's very quiet and luggable. We turn off lights when not in use and leave the TV off, but could probably run it.
Depending on how close your neighbors are you might want to check the decibel level of your gen-set. The cheapo ones work great but are very loud.
Mine's doing the same thing. I've used the crap out of the thing for about 18 months and it has worked flawlessly.. until now that is. This is appearing on the support site now.
"Status: Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware. Weâ(TM)re aware of the problem and are working to correct it. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience!"
I got a 120gb iPod for Christmas so I'm watching this fiasco with a smirk. I had hoped to get a few bucks for it on ebay though.
I second this one. It's small, somewhat clackity and built like a tank. The bonus of having a trackpoint mouse on it makes it one of the best keyboards I've ever owned.
Only downsides I can think of is no USB model and no number pad.
I had a BE6 that was, at the time, the baddest-ass overclocking board there was. I got my Celeron to new unfathomed speeds. I eventually gave the machine to a friend as an MP3 host and it was in service until a year ago or so running XP.
If I understand this right, the entire colo's link was taken down because they were hosting spammer servers. Fine and well for us I guess, but what are the chances some other, innocent folks were hosting servers there too?
I host a few web servers at a colo. I have no idea what my neighbors are serving up. If my sites were shut down without notice I'd be pretty unhappy.
I was going to say the same thing. Classmates has been around for a long time and frankly the ship they missed is larger than an aircraft carrier.
Rather than open up a community with free communication, they did what amounts to holding a list of email addresses hostage and trying to charge a monthly fee to access it. Then they bombarded us with spam to sell it.
The people as Classmates.com should be gazing longingly at the pile of cash Facebook & Myspace have acquired in 1/4th the time.
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Then I for one welcome our Alien Overlord. Oh wait, I'm atheist. Shit, now I'm all confused.
They should be watched, that's for sure.
Q: Why is GDrive any different from any other online storage service?
A: It's pretty much the same, but integrated with Google's other services too!
Q: Hey, isn't that Microsoft's line?
A: Nothing to see here! Move along!
Because Apple has decided to escape their niche-market image and go for the big money? Somebody at Apple must have decided they'd sell more Macs this way. And somewhere in the decision process somebody mentioned their cadre of graphic artists would be pissed off, but they said, "eh, fuck em" anyway.
Either that or their "green" initiative took precedence, but that's just a guess. I've never understood glossy screens and I'm not even an artist.
Sun has been a great innovator, but when they were the only game in town they charged obscene prices for their products and services. It helped open the door for Linux and Sun has only itself to blame.
When you walked into a data center ten years ago all you saw were Sun servers. Where I work now I'm hard pressed to find a single Sun box anywhere.
He was fully capable of embarrassing us without saying anything at all.
I was also hit by a sudden wave of nostalgia as I recall the old Netscape web-based admin tool that was actually kind of cool next to the Apache by-hand config file editing back in its heyday.
It was real popular with the corporate clients who would never buy anything without a $xx,xxx support contract attached to their little $18,000 250mhz Sun Netras.
In fact now I want to go scour Ebay for an old Netra or SGI Indigo so I can point it out to the kids and rail on about the good old days, right before I yell at them to get off my lawn.
Agree! I'm a former Solaris & Red Hat admin and a network engineer. I've fiddled with computers and Unix for every day of my adult life.
I tried various editions of Red Hat and then Fedora at home and it was always a bit of a hassle. I stared using Ubuntu at around 7.04 and stuck with it because it requires almost no extra effort. If I want to compile my own apps or tune my kernel I'm free to do so - but why would I?
Here's my totally unscientific test from my home office. Vista 32bit vs. Ubuntu 32bit. Done on a dual-boot Thinkpad T61 laptop, 2.0ghz 2gb RAM. Nowhere close to running out of memory, only app running was the browser (plus the normal tray stuff).
I did five tests with each OS/browser and averaged them out, doing the bandwidth.com test.
Figures in kbps. ISP is Comcast cable.
Windows Vista Chrome 1.0.154.43
Down: 18276.6 (avg) / 21522 (max)
Up: 1866.8 (avg) / 1898 (max)
Windows Vista Firefox 3.05
Down: 17357 (avg) / 23820 (max)
Up: 1044.6 (avg) / 1067 (max)
Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) Firefox 3.05
Down: 15451.6 (avg) / 21742 (max)
Up: 2035.6 (avg) / 2151 (max)
The averages differed wildly but I think network traffic can easily account for this. Since the maximums were all nearly the same I think they're all about the same.
What it doesn't account for is the upload speed, which were very consistent throughout this silly test.
Vista firefox = dismal
Vista chrome = much faster
Ubuntu firefox = even faster
I think it's a very pointed statement about our commitment to providing money to the defense contractor industry.
My old Atari could boot instantly! We could have the same now, except that nobody wants their OS on a chip.
Or do they? My guess is that nobody has put much effort into it. Maybe it's not considered a main selling point.
My machines actually boot pretty quickly. It's the waiting-for-desktop that's slow. Especially on the work laptop where the vendor has preloaded their useless helper apps.
They have a goal to sell their online Office suite and other apps and services, almost all of which are accessed via the browser. What would happen if the next version of I.E. broke some of their apps? They can't afford to be at anybody's mercy.
Because the clever marketing people who 'leaked' the beta do not communicate with the licensing and piracy teams.
I've gone through enough power outages to do what you're wanting. This is a good list but I can simplify it a bit.
1. You'll need a transfer switch to connect your generator into your home's wiring. It is possible (but probably illegal) to back-feed your generator into your home. Improper backfeeding will send power back up the line, creating a danger to the line workers.
A transfer switch essentially allows your generator to become the power source to your home while cutting off your city power. You can do this yourself or hire an electrician, it's not real expensive. Here's a simple diagram.
2. Next figure out what size generator to get. There are many calculators out there to guide you. Essentially you add up the wattage of each appliance and buy a generator with about 20% extra.
An example, I have a 3000w generator, it runs 2 fridges, the gas furnace fan, most of the lights, maybe some music. It's very quiet and luggable. We turn off lights when not in use and leave the TV off, but could probably run it.
Depending on how close your neighbors are you might want to check the decibel level of your gen-set. The cheapo ones work great but are very loud.
Mine's doing the same thing. I've used the crap out of the thing for about 18 months and it has worked flawlessly.. until now that is. This is appearing on the support site now.
"Status: Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware. Weâ(TM)re aware of the problem and are working to correct it. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience!"
I got a 120gb iPod for Christmas so I'm watching this fiasco with a smirk. I had hoped to get a few bucks for it on ebay though.
Oops, that's because mine is the tiny RT3200 (P/N 37L0888). It's not an M-series, my mistake. I still love it though.
I second this one. It's small, somewhat clackity and built like a tank. The bonus of having a trackpoint mouse on it makes it one of the best keyboards I've ever owned.
Only downsides I can think of is no USB model and no number pad.
I had a BE6 that was, at the time, the baddest-ass overclocking board there was. I got my Celeron to new unfathomed speeds. I eventually gave the machine to a friend as an MP3 host and it was in service until a year ago or so running XP.
Somebody needed to deflect attention from America's excesses and take the spotlight for needless waste and overspending. Go Dubai!
Mmmm, I dunno. If this turns out to be true my wife could talk on the phone enough to power the whole grid.
They're buying a big portion of the search market. Believe it or not some people still use Yahoo for search.
Google owns around 70% of the searches on the 'net and climbing.
Yahoo is a very distant 2nd at ~17%.
MSN is around 8%.
These figures are around a year old.
If they have any hope of catching Google they'll need to combine forces, jettison some overhead and then still work like crazy to gain every percent.
Man I still remember when Alta Vista owned Search. Those guys really blew it.
Nokia IPSO, which is certified for Check Point FW-1 and VPN-1 and is based on BSD, is also EAL4.
If I understand this right, the entire colo's link was taken down because they were hosting spammer servers. Fine and well for us I guess, but what are the chances some other, innocent folks were hosting servers there too?
I host a few web servers at a colo. I have no idea what my neighbors are serving up. If my sites were shut down without notice I'd be pretty unhappy.
Bullshit! We can still go to the moon if we outsource the work.
I was going to say the same thing. Classmates has been around for a long time and frankly the ship they missed is larger than an aircraft carrier.
Rather than open up a community with free communication, they did what amounts to holding a list of email addresses hostage and trying to charge a monthly fee to access it. Then they bombarded us with spam to sell it.
The people as Classmates.com should be gazing longingly at the pile of cash Facebook & Myspace have acquired in 1/4th the time.