No, I lost a few hundred meg of all the email and journal entries for a significant portion of my life at the time, including all the correspondence with my wife from when we started dating. Got a problem with that?
Oh, absolutely. And if they'd said that there was a legitimate problem with their backups, sorry we can't recover anything, I would still have been pissed, but at least not felt like they were incompetent fools. It makes you wonder if they knew specifically of illegal material being hosted on their servers and chose to turn a blind eye....
I know they did, because they're the ones who claimed they didn't make ANY backups because then they'd be legally liable for any data they restored. Which was their lame-ass excuse for losing 7 years worth of email and assorted other files when some fool shorted out their hard disk during maintenance, and my reason for finding a new ISP that understood the meaning of responsibility to paying customers.
Out of Memory? We're not talking Gentoo here, where I can strip my kernel down to nothing as I install it to get it to fit.
However, to dismiss "This is broken; it won't even install" as bogus criticism, especially when coming from linux.com is, well, bogus.
No, what is bogus is expecting them to provide an objective analysis of what Sun is doing, given Sun's position as 'persona non grata' amongst the Linux cognoscenti. Furthermore, that's not the whole criticism. How about that shot at a 7 page license--never mind that the GPL in ascii is 6 pages. Such criticisms are clearly motivated by the whole myth that Sun supports the BS that SCO is spreading and anger at Sun for not making java open source.
Check the marketing materials for JDS. Look at what the target audience is. Hint: it's not power users, and it's not meant to be a generic Linux distro. Evaluate JDS based on how it's being targeted, rather than what you want a generic Linux distro to be, and I bet you'll find it fits Sun's claims quite nicely.
The keyboard needs to be equipped with Bluetooth connectivity,
Why? My HT PC uses a NiceTracker ACK-573 keyboard. It's an infrared PS/2 keyboard. Works just fine (with one exception I'll get to momentarily), and has the added bonus that I can program my Universal Remote from it, and use the remote for most functions that don't require me to actually be entering text. Since I run MythTV, I rarely need to enter text, and it saves me having to doink with LIRC.
The one exception to working fine is that the thing eats batteries, even when it's not in use. The solution was pretty simple: run to Radio Shack, get a pushbutton switch, drill a hole in the case and install the switch on the battery terminal. Voila, on-off capability that saves the battery.
Of course a reviewer won't completely fabricate a lie, but tell me: did the reviewer bother checking the marketing claims and target audience for JDS before trying to install? I think not. I can't install SuSE 9.1 on a my 20 Meg RAM 486 box either, but then, I don't try things that aren't targetted by SuSE and then complain that they don't work.
Well, I don't know about that. JDS is targeted to corporate desktop users. The x86 hardware we sell is targeted to "edge servers" aka web servers et. al. and is all rack-mount equipment. At least today.
On the other hand, the chances of a corporate entity rolling out a lot of cutting edge desktops like the power users bitching about this are having problems with is REALLY unlikely. Personally, I'm running JDS 2 on my Sony VAIO PCG-K15 laptop which I just bought three weeks ago, and there were two problems, neither of them particularly difficult. 1) to get video drivers for the ATI 354M ICG card I had to download some mods from SuSE which were not terribly difficult to find (and the default drivers worked, they just didn't give me full color depth and resolution), and 2) to use the Atheron wireless chipset I had to use the madwifi drivers available from sourceforge. I bring up the interfaces manually because the stupid dhcpcd when it tries to run on two interfaces and only one is active, the inactive one stupidly copies the "original" resolv.conf back over after it times out--of course this isn't Sun's fault.
I dunno, these power user "negative" reviews of JDS because it's not the latest and greatest cutting edge stuff just don't seem to get it. JDS is (as far as I can tell anyway) primarily targetted at corporate windows users, not Linux power users.
And of course, I'm just speaking off the top of my head; while I do work for Sun, I am not part of the JDS product groups, nor do I speak in any official capacity for Sun.
And as for that bug...very nice. "Let's tie the 'solution' to this problem to just one of the handful of window systems availble, the one that is the biggest, baddest, most bloaded toad on the block. Oh, and by the way, we're going to use a FILESYSTEM utility of Gnome to do it!" Last time I checked, most of the URI's like telnet and ssh etc are not filesystems.
I didn't ask for another damn manager, I asked for the browser to recognize that telnet:// was a valid URI, and offer me some way to hand it off to the OS. On the other hand, since an OS is not a general purpose URI handling entity, I fail to see how the OS is at fault here.
Ok, so I haven't read the code for Moz 1.4.1.latest.whatever, but I read the code for 1.3 and there was NO FUCKING WAY to do this. The specific code to select an external application is OS specific (for obvious reasons). The "Unix" section of the code was CUT AND PASTED from the windows version (including comments referring to "the registry"), and after the first handful of lines was chopped down to basically "return error" for all cases. It couldn't have possibly worked because it was just a dead stub. I was specifically looking at the code because there were implications in some googling I'd done that there were internal poorly-or-not-at-all documented user.js pref settings that would enable you to select what external app you wanted to telnet with. The fact is, as of 1.3, they simply weren't there.
And don't give me this "linux has no standard registry unless you assume Gnome" crap either. This worked JUST FINE in Netscape 4.X by letting the Netscape preferences be the repository for how it should be handled. There is no reason whatsoever that it couldn't be the same way now. If this works today, it's a VERY recent addition.
When the hell is Mozilla or any of the associated browsers going to support STANDARD URI's like telnet:// or ssh://? Less is NOT more when the behavior works fine in Windows and NOTHING ELSE.
That was to some extent my point. Let's see. The media costs less than a dollar. The case and the paper to print it is less than a dollar in most cases. The band/artist gets less than a dollar. I can hardly see the cover artist getting more than the band.
So the material to make it, and the only artistic input all adds up to less than $5. Yet the thing costs $18? What's your point again?
Fat frickin' chance. Price went down for CD manufacturing. Did the price at Best Buy drop any? No. Are the Insurance companies any more ethical than the RIAA? Hell no.
Yes, today in the country that calls itself the "Land of the Free", where George Bush claims our enemies "hate us for our freedoms", you can go to Federal Prison for helping to set up a web site that the government later decides to outlaw.
Yet another Bushism. Apparently he meant HE hates our freedoms.
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I'm sure an XServe has less concern about fan noise. The Cobalt RAQ I once used has a 1RU form factor, and no fan on the (900MHz) CPU. It made up for that by having a bank of small fans that ran very fast and very loud. You can do that in rack equipment, but you can't generally do the eqivalent thing in a desktop.
They claim to provide "lifestyle" services, things like "discount shoppers club" for various types of shoppers (like health services, etc) and that sort of thing. Which as far s I can tell, never gets you as much discount as the hype implies.
Orbitz may well believe it, and this may well be what they're telling Orbitz, but the fact remains, I and many many other people have been burned by these slimebags. I was one of the lucky ones--I didn't have to fight with them to get my money back. Nonetheless, they did indeed bill my credit card after a single phone contact where I did NOT agree to any of their other garbage. It's not the press reporting being screwed by these people, it's other people.
MWI have been doing this in conjunction with Harris Publishing (aka those idiots who call you up trying to sell you class reunion directories) for a long time. Just WONDERFUL to see Orbitz in bed with them.
It's not the keyboard, it's the lying about it. If she's gonna be duplicitous about a reasonably cheap thing like a keyboard, imagine what it's going to be like when something REALLY important goes wrong when she's involved (not even necessarily her fault).
If you can't rely on someone to be up front on the small stuff, there's no way you should be trusting them with the big stuff. Like a relationship.
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No, I lost a few hundred meg of all the email and journal entries for a significant portion of my life at the time, including all the correspondence with my wife from when we started dating. Got a problem with that?
Oh, absolutely. And if they'd said that there was a legitimate problem with their backups, sorry we can't recover anything, I would still have been pissed, but at least not felt like they were incompetent fools. It makes you wonder if they knew specifically of illegal material being hosted on their servers and chose to turn a blind eye....
I know they did, because they're the ones who claimed they didn't make ANY backups because then they'd be legally liable for any data they restored. Which was their lame-ass excuse for losing 7 years worth of email and assorted other files when some fool shorted out their hard disk during maintenance, and my reason for finding a new ISP that understood the meaning of responsibility to paying customers.
Out of Memory? We're not talking Gentoo here, where I can strip my kernel down to nothing as I install it to get it to fit.
However, to dismiss "This is broken; it won't even install" as bogus criticism, especially when coming from linux.com is, well, bogus.
No, what is bogus is expecting them to provide an objective analysis of what Sun is doing, given Sun's position as 'persona non grata' amongst the Linux cognoscenti. Furthermore, that's not the whole criticism. How about that shot at a 7 page license--never mind that the GPL in ascii is 6 pages. Such criticisms are clearly motivated by the whole myth that Sun supports the BS that SCO is spreading and anger at Sun for not making java open source.
Check the marketing materials for JDS. Look at what the target audience is. Hint: it's not power users, and it's not meant to be a generic Linux distro. Evaluate JDS based on how it's being targeted, rather than what you want a generic Linux distro to be, and I bet you'll find it fits Sun's claims quite nicely.
Why? My HT PC uses a NiceTracker ACK-573 keyboard. It's an infrared PS/2 keyboard. Works just fine (with one exception I'll get to momentarily), and has the added bonus that I can program my Universal Remote from it, and use the remote for most functions that don't require me to actually be entering text. Since I run MythTV, I rarely need to enter text, and it saves me having to doink with LIRC.
The one exception to working fine is that the thing eats batteries, even when it's not in use. The solution was pretty simple: run to Radio Shack, get a pushbutton switch, drill a hole in the case and install the switch on the battery terminal. Voila, on-off capability that saves the battery.
Of course a reviewer won't completely fabricate a lie, but tell me: did the reviewer bother checking the marketing claims and target audience for JDS before trying to install? I think not. I can't install SuSE 9.1 on a my 20 Meg RAM 486 box either, but then, I don't try things that aren't targetted by SuSE and then complain that they don't work.
Or they added a page. People bitching about this being a seven page document need to go check out the SIX pages that a plain text GPL runs for.
On the other hand, the chances of a corporate entity rolling out a lot of cutting edge desktops like the power users bitching about this are having problems with is REALLY unlikely. Personally, I'm running JDS 2 on my Sony VAIO PCG-K15 laptop which I just bought three weeks ago, and there were two problems, neither of them particularly difficult. 1) to get video drivers for the ATI 354M ICG card I had to download some mods from SuSE which were not terribly difficult to find (and the default drivers worked, they just didn't give me full color depth and resolution), and 2) to use the Atheron wireless chipset I had to use the madwifi drivers available from sourceforge. I bring up the interfaces manually because the stupid dhcpcd when it tries to run on two interfaces and only one is active, the inactive one stupidly copies the "original" resolv.conf back over after it times out--of course this isn't Sun's fault.
I dunno, these power user "negative" reviews of JDS because it's not the latest and greatest cutting edge stuff just don't seem to get it. JDS is (as far as I can tell anyway) primarily targetted at corporate windows users, not Linux power users.
And of course, I'm just speaking off the top of my head; while I do work for Sun, I am not part of the JDS product groups, nor do I speak in any official capacity for Sun.
And as for that bug...very nice. "Let's tie the 'solution' to this problem to just one of the handful of window systems availble, the one that is the biggest, baddest, most bloaded toad on the block. Oh, and by the way, we're going to use a FILESYSTEM utility of Gnome to do it!" Last time I checked, most of the URI's like telnet and ssh etc are not filesystems.
I didn't ask for another damn manager, I asked for the browser to recognize that telnet:// was a valid URI, and offer me some way to hand it off to the OS. On the other hand, since an OS is not a general purpose URI handling entity, I fail to see how the OS is at fault here.
And don't give me this "linux has no standard registry unless you assume Gnome" crap either. This worked JUST FINE in Netscape 4.X by letting the Netscape preferences be the repository for how it should be handled. There is no reason whatsoever that it couldn't be the same way now. If this works today, it's a VERY recent addition.
When the hell is Mozilla or any of the associated browsers going to support STANDARD URI's like telnet:// or ssh://? Less is NOT more when the behavior works fine in Windows and NOTHING ELSE.
Again we have the people who insist on explaining the joke the parent made, as if it weren't even there. Will they ever learn?
So the material to make it, and the only artistic input all adds up to less than $5. Yet the thing costs $18? What's your point again?
Fat frickin' chance. Price went down for CD manufacturing. Did the price at Best Buy drop any? No. Are the Insurance companies any more ethical than the RIAA? Hell no.
Yet another Bushism. Apparently he meant HE hates our freedoms.
I'm sure an XServe has less concern about fan noise. The Cobalt RAQ I once used has a 1RU form factor, and no fan on the (900MHz) CPU. It made up for that by having a bank of small fans that ran very fast and very loud. You can do that in rack equipment, but you can't generally do the eqivalent thing in a desktop.
it doesn't have the same punch if I say "most young boys" :-). Besides, it's just a quote of someone else....
They claim to provide "lifestyle" services, things like "discount shoppers club" for various types of shoppers (like health services, etc) and that sort of thing. Which as far s I can tell, never gets you as much discount as the hype implies.
Orbitz may well believe it, and this may well be what they're telling Orbitz, but the fact remains, I and many many other people have been burned by these slimebags. I was one of the lucky ones--I didn't have to fight with them to get my money back. Nonetheless, they did indeed bill my credit card after a single phone contact where I did NOT agree to any of their other garbage. It's not the press reporting being screwed by these people, it's other people.
MWI have been doing this in conjunction with Harris Publishing (aka those idiots who call you up trying to sell you class reunion directories) for a long time. Just WONDERFUL to see Orbitz in bed with them.
If you can't rely on someone to be up front on the small stuff, there's no way you should be trusting them with the big stuff. Like a relationship.
If she was going to try and hide it, you didn't need her anyway.
Which doesn't work either, if the editor had actually tried. There are commas in the URL and babelfish won't accept them.
Radiohead.