Doesn't slashdotting a government webserver fall into some sort of terrorism bucket? The BATF will be at the/. door any minute with tanks! Run away!!!!!!!
At work we have a compute farm that includes both Solaris and Linux. How many of each we run is based on the software requiements to do our work, of course.
Overall, Linux does a great job. But we experience odd lockups we can't easily track down. The only alternatives seem to be pulling software developers from their real work to debug the kernel, or paying fat licensing fees to one of the Enterprise class Linux vendors. At that point, Linux is suddenly in the same arena as Sun, WRT price. Of course, there's always the option of simply replacing the hardware; it is fairly cheap compare to Sun hardware. Now there's a green thought. 8^/
And for the monkey's edification, some of us do care about library compatibility. I've certainly run into issues.
And for the record, I haven't been able to get my sound card at home to work on Linux ever since I moved into the 2.4 kernel space.
Linux is a good thing. But so is Solaris. And "Use the source, Luke" is the wrong answer for the average end user-- even the average technical end user. It reminds me of why I picked Linux over BSD almost a decade ago. ``Just write your own damned driver and quit whining.''
If I start hearing much more of that, I'll start looking for an alternative to Linux in a heartbeat-- and I'm referring to the compute farm at work as well as this system at home.
And an excellent use of new tech to further DIY old tech (with innovation, even!) is the AX84 tube amp guitar project. There are projects of all sizes, an excellent discussion board, and links to lots of goodies. http://www.ax84.com/ Everything from raw schematics to kits.
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I agree. One of my daughters recently bought a Compaq because it was cheap at WalMart. With a 2.xGHz Celeron, DVD player, a slow disk drive, and... 128MB of RAM. For Windows XP.
BZZZZT!!!
The thing was a dog even before it started picking up MalWare. (Yes, she should have asked for help in the decision. Any parent can come up with several of the reasons she didn't!)
OTOH, at home, we have recently upgraded from a 133MHz Pentium cheesey desktop and a 200MHz Dell server to a pair of 400 MHz AMDs with the Dell server becoming just a file server. Running Linux, used for the same things she uses at her house (email, research, web stuff, basic office apps), we run rings around her. I'm buying my daughter more RAM as a present, but even so, we'll run almost as fast in most apps, but the 400s cost a total of $70 for 3 (my son bought one, too) at a company surplus equipment sale.
My son also has a 400MHz Windows system for games. He fusses about it some, but hasn't been motivated to work to buy a better one, and it even plays most of the games he cares about, using a decent graphics card (that cost more than the 3 400s 8^).
Would I love to have a blazingly fast system? Sure, I get to use those at work, and I love it! But right now, that would be a stupid budgetary decision. The 400s are good enough for now.
My port of X11 doesn't count? I was especially proud of the frame buffer optimaztions; I haven't seen anyone else run ico this fast on a Teletype 33 KSR...
Oh, well. I'll publish the speed in xstones when the benchmark finishes running in a couple of years.
Every one of these industry moguls wants to be the Emperor of the Universe. They hate the way things are now, think they have the answers, and they want the power and the money.
The great thing is, just like in Star Wars, *we're letting them do it*.
Don't like it? Join the rebellion now. I made a vow not to buy any more big RIAA-approved CDs until the insanity stopped, and I haven't. Used and indie CDs? No problem. But it takes more than that (they just blame it on piracy). Write your government representatives (ussuming you live somewhere you have representation). Refuse to support the Empire. There's lots we can do.
Well, Burning Man (BM? yuck) would be a great place to test out solar powered VoiP. Other parts of the country (much of the SE comes to mind) that wouldn't work so well. Too many cloudy days.
But I really don't care how they power it - solar, pedal while you talk. gerbils, nukes... I just love the idea of functional phone booths where a phone booth should not be. If it can be completely wireless, so much the better!
And finally, I think Solar VoiP would make a great band name. Feel free toe use it so long as I get some credit!
Pretty much everything after his second book was too long.
But, yeah, one can learn a lot from Clancy books. When Sum of All Fears came out, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the physics of the device and explosion, but did wonder whether it made it sound too easy, and would encourage terrorists and other high powered thugs to try their hand at it.
Now about that crater... how big is it? Is it too big to have been the personal destruct device of a Predator?
Since you didn't read the article, why are you asking the question? The testing looked pretty thorough to me, and the analysis was reasonable.
And for the record, I know a number of AMD freaks. None of them are pro-AMD because of the Windows vs Linux thing. A few of them are anti-Intel, but some of them use Windows.
So at least among those I know who voice an opinion, your thesis rings false.
What's next? Han reproving Luke and Leia for not showing "compassion and understanding" for the imperials and DV? Will Han get in touch with his feminine side and start wearing pastels? Maybe he could dump those evil blasters and carry microwave popcorn or puppy food in his holsters...
Han's not only a scoundrel, but he's a smart guy, and in the rough world he lives in, you better know when to shoot first, or you die. Anything else is just STOOPID. Greedo was going to shoot; Han was smart enough not to let him.
I guess next Lucas will start making the authors of all the books rewrite them to make Han a nicer guy.
Every major OSS project I've had any involvement with (from little things to big stuff like X and GIMP) has had good people on it looking at architectural issues and security. I'm sure there are pure and mostly hacker OSS projects, but most of what goes anywhere isn't from that pool.
Is it just me, or is the post surprisingly bereft of unique details?
Neither. I mean, it's you, but it's not just you.
The details are there; you just can't remember them:
ZFS, the dynamic new file system in Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), will make you forget everything you thought you knew about file systems.
When did this occur? A couple of years ago, there were some bad caps on the market after an employee stole *part* of the dielectric formula when he left one cap company for another. The new company used his process/formula without knowing it was incomplete, an dthe result was bad caps on boards from quite a few vendors.
I don't recall whether the vendor was found culpable, or just the employee.
Let's try an experiment. You and I each get $1,000 to buy clothing for our chosen destinations. You hike through the molten lava fields into the active volcano and back out (ha!), and I'll hike the equivalent distance across any part of the south polar shelf. Who's going to be alive when the helicopter comes back?
My first thought on seeing the map was where the really important sites are - like buried space ships with frozen, morphing monsters and underground pyramids full of aliens. Any fool can take out a secret Nazi base...
The rest states that Sun has to give Microsoft legal aid in bringing lawsuits against users of Open Office. Also, Microsoft will pay Sun a confidential sum for its troubles for providing that legal aid.
So, MS can sue Sun for using OO, and require Sun to help MS sue Sun, but then MS has to pay Sun for such aid???
That series of stories could be almost as entertaining as te SCO Follies!
The trad news media has already gotten completely away from actually reporting news; they focus solely on making up news, editorializing, scare tactics, depression inducement, and happy happy joy joy stuff.
I was afraid/. was going to fall behind the times, and stick with actually reporting news. But thankfully, the editorial board appears to have gotten together and come up with something as cutting edge as the old school guys-- infinite loops of old news (or "olds").
Or is it just Alzheimers?
Either way, the result is a trend in recycling (always a good thing, yay!); I predict that within 3 weeks the percentage of recycled stories to worthless "news" will be about the same as Firefox usage to IE usage.
Not to compare the current/. to IE or anything.
Yeah, this is offtopic. But so is running so many reruns on an alleged news site.
Slashdot Mirror
Doesn't slashdotting a government webserver fall into some sort of terrorism bucket? The BATF will be at the /. door any minute with tanks! Run away!!!!!!!
At work we have a compute farm that includes both Solaris and Linux. How many of each we run is based on the software requiements to do our work, of course.
Overall, Linux does a great job. But we experience odd lockups we can't easily track down. The only alternatives seem to be pulling software developers from their real work to debug the kernel, or paying fat licensing fees to one of the Enterprise class Linux vendors. At that point, Linux is suddenly in the same arena as Sun, WRT price. Of course, there's always the option of simply replacing the hardware; it is fairly cheap compare to Sun hardware. Now there's a green thought. 8^/
And for the monkey's edification, some of us do care about library compatibility. I've certainly run into issues.
And for the record, I haven't been able to get my sound card at home to work on Linux ever since I moved into the 2.4 kernel space.
Linux is a good thing. But so is Solaris. And "Use the source, Luke" is the wrong answer for the average end user-- even the average technical end user. It reminds me of why I picked Linux over BSD almost a decade ago. ``Just write your own damned driver and quit whining.''
If I start hearing much more of that, I'll start looking for an alternative to Linux in a heartbeat-- and I'm referring to the compute farm at work as well as this system at home.
And an excellent use of new tech to further DIY old tech (with innovation, even!) is the AX84 tube amp guitar project. There are projects of all sizes, an excellent discussion board, and links to lots of goodies. http://www.ax84.com/ Everything from raw schematics to kits.
I agree. One of my daughters recently bought a Compaq because it was cheap at WalMart. With a 2.xGHz Celeron, DVD player, a slow disk drive, and... 128MB of RAM. For Windows XP.
BZZZZT!!!
The thing was a dog even before it started picking up MalWare. (Yes, she should have asked for help in the decision. Any parent can come up with several of the reasons she didn't!)
OTOH, at home, we have recently upgraded from a 133MHz Pentium cheesey desktop and a 200MHz Dell server to a pair of 400 MHz AMDs with the Dell server becoming just a file server. Running Linux, used for the same things she uses at her house (email, research, web stuff, basic office apps), we run rings around her. I'm buying my daughter more RAM as a present, but even so, we'll run almost as fast in most apps, but the 400s cost a total of $70 for 3 (my son bought one, too) at a company surplus equipment sale.
My son also has a 400MHz Windows system for games. He fusses about it some, but hasn't been motivated to work to buy a better one, and it even plays most of the games he cares about, using a decent graphics card (that cost more than the 3 400s 8^).
Would I love to have a blazingly fast system? Sure, I get to use those at work, and I love it! But right now, that would be a stupid budgetary decision. The 400s are good enough for now.
My port of X11 doesn't count? I was especially proud of the frame buffer optimaztions; I haven't seen anyone else run ico this fast on a Teletype 33 KSR...
Oh, well. I'll publish the speed in xstones when the benchmark finishes running in a couple of years.
Emperor Palpatine, is that you?
Every one of these industry moguls wants to be the Emperor of the Universe. They hate the way things are now, think they have the answers, and they want the power and the money.
The great thing is, just like in Star Wars, *we're
letting them do it*.
Don't like it? Join the rebellion now. I made a vow not to buy any more big RIAA-approved CDs until the insanity stopped, and I haven't. Used and indie CDs? No problem. But it takes more than that (they just blame it on piracy). Write your government representatives (ussuming you live somewhere you have representation). Refuse to support the Empire. There's lots we can do.
No, everything would be powered by the idling gasoline motor in the powered couch and chair. This is Burning Man, after all.
I'm sure working for the US gov't is high on Brad's list. I hear it's every Canadian's dream!
Well, Burning Man (BM? yuck) would be a great place to test out solar powered VoiP. Other parts of the country (much of the SE comes to mind) that wouldn't work so well. Too many cloudy days.
But I really don't care how they power it - solar, pedal while you talk. gerbils, nukes... I just love the idea of functional phone booths where a phone booth should not be. If it can be completely wireless, so much the better!
And finally, I think Solar VoiP would make a great band name. Feel free toe use it so long as I get some credit!
Pretty much everything after his second book was too long.
But, yeah, one can learn a lot from Clancy books. When Sum of All Fears came out, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the physics of the device and explosion, but did wonder whether it made it sound too easy, and would encourage terrorists and other high powered thugs to try their hand at it.
Now about that crater... how big is it? Is it too big to have been the personal destruct device of a Predator?
This is great news.
Just pick a federal regulator and fire them. Then rehire them plus 150 people needing jobs. Repeat until we have 100% employment.
Bonus question: Can we repeat past 100% employment? Would that create new people, or just add to existing salaries, or what?
Since you didn't read the article, why are you asking the question? The testing looked pretty thorough to me, and the analysis was reasonable.
And for the record, I know a number of AMD freaks. None of them are pro-AMD because of the Windows vs Linux thing. A few of them are anti-Intel, but some of them use Windows.
So at least among those I know who voice an opinion, your thesis rings false.
TI agree that some people want different instead of better, but certainly not all.
And the fact is that (some of) the old handsets are more ergonomic; they just fit the purpose perfectly.
This is no way mitigates the fact that some folks want different or "cool".
Most choices that people look at as mutually exclusive (exclusive or) turn out to be either/or (inclusive or). This is one of them.
He's being a jerk about this and abusing the power he has thanks to copyrights.
....
... He insists on changing them because he can..."
He's an egomaniac
In short:
To summarize, he's becoming Palpatine.
Han shoots first, damnit.
Amdn, and boy howdy.
What's next? Han reproving Luke and Leia for not showing "compassion and understanding" for the imperials and DV? Will Han get in touch with his feminine side and start wearing pastels? Maybe he could dump those evil blasters and carry microwave popcorn or puppy food in his holsters...
Han's not only a scoundrel, but he's a smart guy, and in the rough world he lives in, you better know when to shoot first, or you die. Anything else is just STOOPID. Greedo was going to shoot; Han was smart enough not to let him.
I guess next Lucas will start making the authors of all the books rewrite them to make Han a nicer guy.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
How about this?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the DVD player, sitting down with George Lucas, and hitting him?"
The man needs a reality slap!
Every major OSS project I've had any involvement with (from little things to big stuff like X and GIMP) has had good people on it looking at architectural issues and security. I'm sure there are pure and mostly hacker OSS projects, but most of what goes anywhere isn't from that pool.
Is it just me, or is the post surprisingly bereft of unique details?
Neither. I mean, it's you, but it's not just you.
The details are there; you just can't remember them:
ZFS, the dynamic new file system in Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), will make you forget everything you thought you knew about file systems.
I'll see you a [fs and raise you a ~fs!
And when the spinach battery runs low, you just pour on some olive oil, and it gets excited enough to keep going until you fin dmore spinach!
When did this occur? A couple of years ago, there were some bad caps on the market after an employee stole *part* of the dielectric formula when he left one cap company for another. The new company used his process/formula without knowing it was incomplete, an dthe result was bad caps on boards from quite a few vendors.
I don't recall whether the vendor was found culpable, or just the employee.
I know it was covered on slashdot...
Let's try an experiment. You and I each get
$1,000 to buy clothing for our chosen destinations. You hike through the molten lava fields into the active volcano and back out (ha!), and I'll hike the equivalent distance across any part of the south polar shelf. Who's going to be alive when the helicopter comes back?
My first thought on seeing the map was where the really important sites are - like buried space ships with frozen, morphing monsters and underground pyramids full of aliens. Any fool can take out a secret Nazi base...
Part of the analysis reads:
The rest states that Sun has to give Microsoft legal aid in bringing lawsuits against users of Open Office. Also, Microsoft will pay Sun a confidential sum for its troubles for providing that legal aid.
So, MS can sue Sun for using OO, and require Sun to help MS sue Sun, but then MS has to pay Sun for such aid???
That series of stories could be almost as entertaining as te SCO Follies!
What a relief!!!
/. was going to fall behind the times, and stick with actually reporting news. But thankfully, the editorial board appears to have gotten together and come up with something as cutting edge as the old school guys-- infinite loops of old news (or "olds").
/. to IE or anything.
The trad news media has already gotten completely away from actually reporting news; they focus solely on making up news, editorializing, scare tactics, depression inducement, and happy happy joy joy stuff.
I was afraid
Or is it just Alzheimers?
Either way, the result is a trend in recycling (always a good thing, yay!); I predict that within 3 weeks the percentage of recycled stories to worthless "news" will be about the same as Firefox usage to IE usage.
Not to compare the current
Yeah, this is offtopic. But so is running so many reruns on an alleged news site.