Sale is over, but Newegg sold 1TB Hitachi DeskStars, which actually are reliable now (I have some that have been spinning nonstop for 2 years) for $60 apiece. That's around $0.058 per gigabyte before formatting...not bad at all. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145304
Yes, while the regular price is $80, you've always had to get drives when they're on sale if you want a really good deal, anyway. Same actually goes for SSDs.
I wish nVidia would stop being so protective about it's API's and just work with nouveau. If there's a few bits here or there that must remain proprietary, they could release those with a nonfree license and make the rest open...I refuse to use something with no support for a framebuffer console.
Better than being implicated as they search the data that supposedly is no longer yours. What are they going to do, arrest you and beat you with a wrench for the encryption key?
I shouldn't have my taxes go to produce cars that only people like Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher can afford. It doesn't benefit me or the economy in the least.
Aside from having to use a Windows VM on top of Linux for the odd program, there's not any real good reason non-technical people couldn't use Chakra, Debian stable or Suse. All are friendly and aren't nearly as crap-laden as Ubunturd or Mint. There is a free alternative to nearly every Windows app out there, steam is coming, and on top of it all Wine can run most windows apps anyway. There are fewer virii, fewer attack vectors, and the best thing is that it is completely free.
In general, everything Windows can do, Linux can do better, and has likely been doing it longer than Windows. It's also lighter weight, is much better at managing memory and processor usage...run it on your low powered RasPi, your corporate or internet server, and on your giant cluster. When's the last time you heard of anyone running a supercomputer with Windows Server as the OS of choice?
Finally, I'm sick of the Microsoft ad stories and shills. Bugger off!
Everyone knows how big of an abortion Unity is, and aside from that it seems that Shuttlebuntu continually tries to find new and exciting ways to piss of what's left of their userbase. It's all about the pretty, and not about functionality, unless it's to do with gathering userdata and showing ads. I'm sure he probably said something to the effect of "Oh, cloud this cloud that....let's integrate social networks so we can spy on our users and target our ads even better to those who install our OS."
Ubuntu is taking the approach of Microsoft - all pretty crap, little functionality, selling out their users, and so much abstraction that it forces the users to be perpetually ignorant of how their computer actually works. You need SOME basic understanding with Linux, otherwise you'll end up in package dependency hell.
Instead of just following tutorial after tutorial from their wiki and OMGBuntu, why not take a break and learn more about Linux first, so you can set yourself up with a distro that works well and doesn't feel like something that's being funded by governments of the world to try and spy on the people who use linux...like Debian, Archlinux, or really anything that's not run by someone like Shuttleworth.
For all the hours I wasted in dependency hell, for all their ads, changes, time wasting daemons, and the GUIs that coddled me when I was but a n00b, before moving to Archlinux and Debian, I'd say they owe me about $1500...
You couldn't pay me enough to use Ubuntu/Kubuntu or any derivatives thereof, whether done by Canonical or not nowadays.
This is the result of G4, "TV for Lamers" I mean gamers...buying the once great TechTV (prior to that ZDTV), and filling it with games, rap videos, anime, and boobiez with a minute bit of tech thrown in. Of course, we can credit them for causing Leo Laporte to create TWiT and Kevin Rose to create Rev3, however I still miss ZDTV and TechTV myself.
Since he wasn't commercially selling any of these prints, and only providing the blueprints, he wasn't breaking the law. You can legally build a firearm in your home or garage and not serial number it, or require a FFL as long as you don't sell the firearm, with this case the receiver being the firearm.
People have been building AK's for years this way, using "parts kits," which are decommissioned rifles with receivers removed or cut in half. Those parts not being legal firearms, can then be reassembled as long as a certain percentage of the parts are US made. So, bend and temper your own sheet steel receiver, drop in a tapco g1 or g2 trigger group, and use another US part here and there, and you have a 100% legal to own firearm not registered with the government.
It's no different here, and the 3D printer company that took it's device away is obviously playing politics and protecting it's own business here, rather than actually following a law.
Then, it's standard randr calls, and it's easy...oh, and XFCE has had standard dual monitor support for a while now, although it doesn't always place nice with nouveau/randr until you actually setup screen 2 and above as other screens. Otherwise, it just clones the primary's output.
Before it was completely crap, back around v7 or 8. I stuck with it up until trying to dist-upgrade and hosing my system in dependency hell yet again. I also was sick of all the bloated daemons, etc, and wanted to get my hands dirty.
I then grabbed Archlinux, and have been using it consistently ever since. On my servers, I've picked up using Debian Wheezy on my home box and stable everywhere else, and I couldn't be happier with both of them. I also use wheezy to build Nightingale media player, a fork of Songbird for Linux, Mac, Windows and it's dependencies. I am one of the devs, and we could actually use more if you'd like to join - #nightingale on moznet irc or post on our forums.
Whatever the case, I don't understand how openSUSE came after arch for the guy mentioned in the article - it's nowhere near as involved, nor bleeding edge. I also don't trust corporate distros as much. I stick with arch, because it's a good mix of "I don't have to build the world, but could if I wanted or needed to," and "I want to build certain things myself."
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Sale is over, but Newegg sold 1TB Hitachi DeskStars, which actually are reliable now (I have some that have been spinning nonstop for 2 years) for $60 apiece. That's around $0.058 per gigabyte before formatting...not bad at all. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145304
Yes, while the regular price is $80, you've always had to get drives when they're on sale if you want a really good deal, anyway. Same actually goes for SSDs.
I wish nVidia would stop being so protective about it's API's and just work with nouveau. If there's a few bits here or there that must remain proprietary, they could release those with a nonfree license and make the rest open...I refuse to use something with no support for a framebuffer console.
Does it do sequential backups? I've been using duply + duplicity lately.
Better than being implicated as they search the data that supposedly is no longer yours. What are they going to do, arrest you and beat you with a wrench for the encryption key?
Maybe the ISS should start seeding and not just leeching, then.
Yup...and he requires it not be hosted in the US. I'm losing pride in my country on a daily basis.
GPG and LUKS for the win!
Recursively placed truecrypt drives for your financial documents, cat pictures, and whatever else you REALLY don't want them to see.
I shouldn't have my taxes go to produce cars that only people like Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher can afford. It doesn't benefit me or the economy in the least.
Fiskar got stimulus money.
Take your Schizophrenia elsewhere.
If Disney does to Star Wars what it did to Power Rangers, I can only hope for them to quit while Star Wars is still ahead.
Also, they should release the sourcecode to Star Wars Galaxies.
Build one that's a hybrid. Solar during the day, electric turbines powered by jet fuel somehow at night.
Aside from having to use a Windows VM on top of Linux for the odd program, there's not any real good reason non-technical people couldn't use Chakra, Debian stable or Suse. All are friendly and aren't nearly as crap-laden as Ubunturd or Mint. There is a free alternative to nearly every Windows app out there, steam is coming, and on top of it all Wine can run most windows apps anyway. There are fewer virii, fewer attack vectors, and the best thing is that it is completely free.
In general, everything Windows can do, Linux can do better, and has likely been doing it longer than Windows. It's also lighter weight, is much better at managing memory and processor usage...run it on your low powered RasPi, your corporate or internet server, and on your giant cluster. When's the last time you heard of anyone running a supercomputer with Windows Server as the OS of choice?
Finally, I'm sick of the Microsoft ad stories and shills. Bugger off!
This has made my day. Thank you.
Everyone knows how big of an abortion Unity is, and aside from that it seems that Shuttlebuntu continually tries to find new and exciting ways to piss of what's left of their userbase. It's all about the pretty, and not about functionality, unless it's to do with gathering userdata and showing ads. I'm sure he probably said something to the effect of "Oh, cloud this cloud that....let's integrate social networks so we can spy on our users and target our ads even better to those who install our OS."
Ubuntu is taking the approach of Microsoft - all pretty crap, little functionality, selling out their users, and so much abstraction that it forces the users to be perpetually ignorant of how their computer actually works. You need SOME basic understanding with Linux, otherwise you'll end up in package dependency hell.
Instead of just following tutorial after tutorial from their wiki and OMGBuntu, why not take a break and learn more about Linux first, so you can set yourself up with a distro that works well and doesn't feel like something that's being funded by governments of the world to try and spy on the people who use linux...like Debian, Archlinux, or really anything that's not run by someone like Shuttleworth.
I'm hosting my websites and data on AWS MoonBase!
At least for LAMP stacks and other packages, that doesn't matter if you use the dotdeb repos.
For all the hours I wasted in dependency hell, for all their ads, changes, time wasting daemons, and the GUIs that coddled me when I was but a n00b, before moving to Archlinux and Debian, I'd say they owe me about $1500...
You couldn't pay me enough to use Ubuntu/Kubuntu or any derivatives thereof, whether done by Canonical or not nowadays.
You sure it's tens of millions of years? Carbon dating has been found to be possibly inaccurate recently.
It could just be tens or hundreds of thousands...or depending on if you're a Creationist or not, it could be [ n] thousand years.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/31/us/errors-are-feared-in-carbon-dating.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2001/may/10/carbon-clock-could-show-the-wrong-time
Build sensor arrays where needed, no Micro$oft jewelry required...
I just hope we get holograms soon enough to be able to use leap motion sensors with them.
This is the result of G4, "TV for Lamers" I mean gamers...buying the once great TechTV (prior to that ZDTV), and filling it with games, rap videos, anime, and boobiez with a minute bit of tech thrown in. Of course, we can credit them for causing Leo Laporte to create TWiT and Kevin Rose to create Rev3, however I still miss ZDTV and TechTV myself.
Since he wasn't commercially selling any of these prints, and only providing the blueprints, he wasn't breaking the law. You can legally build a firearm in your home or garage and not serial number it, or require a FFL as long as you don't sell the firearm, with this case the receiver being the firearm.
People have been building AK's for years this way, using "parts kits," which are decommissioned rifles with receivers removed or cut in half. Those parts not being legal firearms, can then be reassembled as long as a certain percentage of the parts are US made. So, bend and temper your own sheet steel receiver, drop in a tapco g1 or g2 trigger group, and use another US part here and there, and you have a 100% legal to own firearm not registered with the government.
It's no different here, and the 3D printer company that took it's device away is obviously playing politics and protecting it's own business here, rather than actually following a law.
Use Nouveau - the nvidia blob sucks.
Then, it's standard randr calls, and it's easy...oh, and XFCE has had standard dual monitor support for a while now, although it doesn't always place nice with nouveau/randr until you actually setup screen 2 and above as other screens. Otherwise, it just clones the primary's output.
Before it was completely crap, back around v7 or 8. I stuck with it up until trying to dist-upgrade and hosing my system in dependency hell yet again. I also was sick of all the bloated daemons, etc, and wanted to get my hands dirty.
I then grabbed Archlinux, and have been using it consistently ever since. On my servers, I've picked up using Debian Wheezy on my home box and stable everywhere else, and I couldn't be happier with both of them. I also use wheezy to build Nightingale media player, a fork of Songbird for Linux, Mac, Windows and it's dependencies. I am one of the devs, and we could actually use more if you'd like to join - #nightingale on moznet irc or post on our forums.
Whatever the case, I don't understand how openSUSE came after arch for the guy mentioned in the article - it's nowhere near as involved, nor bleeding edge. I also don't trust corporate distros as much. I stick with arch, because it's a good mix of "I don't have to build the world, but could if I wanted or needed to," and "I want to build certain things myself."
Same with my Nexus, minus the kids part. I use AOKP.