Vacuum tube guitar amps, anyone? There's a thriving community that includes not only kits but community driven, open source design of new amps as well as groups that clone the classics.
I highly recommend the AX84 community, with its thriving forum, good starter docs, and excellent users, There's a lot more docs on the way, and a ton of collective wisdom. You can learn a lot of low level electronic theory and practice there. There are other great communities including 18watt.com and solid state forums out there for effects, etc. There are a bunch of computer geeks and other EEs and similar types at AX84, and in the lounge anything is fair game, including topics such as htis one-- which has come up before!
Whether RH or CentOS, plenty of commercial and research facilities run the same version of EL on desktops and compute server farms. It makes tools support much easier.
They got a fair number of complaints about this in beta. As far as I can tell from searching their site, they pretty much blew it off. I certainly couldn't find anything helpful WRT resolving this, other than "upgrade, dude".
An upgrade cycle is a major effort in an environment like ours, requiring testing with dozens of EDA tools and a variety of desktop apps. An upgrade that breaks a vendor tool or even access to critical docs, or that requires us to rebuild tools, modify user configs, etc, impacts schedules in a negative way, which means major headaches for everyone. 150+ desktops, 150+ compute farm systems. And don't even get me started on fixes that require users to restart X or reboot. High powered engineers working 80 hour weeks, some running things that require hours to set up? You have no clue what you're talking about when you blithely suggest upgrading.
And switching is not an option. Our app vendors support their apps on very few OSes. Typically one or two versions of EL and one or two SUSe. That's it. Ubuntu and Fedora aren't even in the picture.
When we upgraded most of the company from EL3 to EL4, we lost about a week. That's extremely expensive.
One of the strengths of Firefox for some time has been that right out of the box, the binary just ran on lots of Linux versions. With FF3 (starting with betas) they broke this.
A non-trivial portion of the commercial and research Linux user base has to stick with EL4 or a source rebuild from CentOS, Scientific Linux or whatever because of third party tool support requirements. And not everybody wants to upgrade their OS just because a new browser is out.
FF3 requires a pretty new library (libpangocairo 1.0). I spent an hour trying to come up with it this afternoon for my 100+ users. No luck so far.
The firefox team really let us down big time. We've been anxiously awaiting this release because it's supposed to solve the memory bloat problems (several of us here have to restart the browser several times a week because it's consumed insane amounts of RAM).
If you really don't want to just swap out the guts, I bought one off ebay several years ago. Mine happened to be from Berkeley Communications, but any high volume refurbisher or reseller with a clean record who resells good, working gear, probably has a deal for you.
I was part of the original cddb free database project. Gracenote dropped me an email one day notifying me they had wiped it all off my server, thanking me for helping out the internet, and promising me a gift for my troubles. No gift ever showed up, nor did email queries about the state of things get answered.
So they made sure I didn't trust them out of the box.
Some of us were never enamored with MS. Their original Basic was OK, but that was about the closest thing to a positive thought I ever had about them. By the time the IBM PC was released with MS-DOS, I despised them.
Given that the parents are both responsible and liable for their daughter, the original poster is in error in trying to keep the parents out of the equation.
Anyone who knows identical twins very well at all could have told you this.
I married one. From the day I met them, I have had no trouble telling them apart, even the one time her sister tried to fool me as a practical joke.
I suppose it's good to know the details; knowledge is generally good. But the announcement that identical twins aren't is right up there with "Politician caught lying!" My immediate thought is "Wow! Really! Who knew?"
How many times have they promised to not integrate something into their OS or other products to support third party vendors, and within a year put the third parties out of business with new, integrated features? The first example I always think of is the TCP/IP stack[1] but there are lots and lots of others.
[1] Most people today probably assume MS invented it, but for a long time they refused to support it, prefering other network stacks.
My wife's mom still had her dial phone from the 40s. Under the old contract, so long as she kept making the monthly payments, they had to sell her rotary service. There were only a few dozen people left in that county with rotaries when her mom finally had to go to a nursing home a few years ago- drove the phone company nuts having to keep gear to support it. Phone worked til the day it went away, after surviving six teenagers and their friends.
I had this one transistor radio in the 60s that was indestructable. Wish I'd kept it, but I gave it away. Dunno how many times that thing came off my bike going anywhere from 10 to 25MPH, and still worked. I bet the same guy did the case for the Gameboy.
Finally, I have several Kalamazoo tube amps from the 60s. Worst case they needed new filter caps and tubes; a couple still have everything original, and still sound great no matter what guitar is plugged into them. I've seen old Gibsons and Fenders from the 50s still going strong with next to no maintenance. Some have fallen off a truck more than a few times.
But... we bought several Gameboys right after they came out for my two kids and me. They're each on their third owners (hand me down network), still get played with all the time, and still work great.
Within my house, which used to be out in the country surrounded by fields, there are no less than five new housing developments that sprung up in the last year
...then they should just be shot[2]. Or strung up. Or drug behind horses til dead. Whatever. Good old fashioned wild west justice.[1]
[1] Sorry for the syntax; there's a national comma shortage. [2] And if they are then it's an awfully expensive way to make that point for everyone else.
It has plenty of flaws. But since it's unusable for a lot of people, it's pretty invulnerable for them.
We refuse to use it here because the flaws we found made it way too expensive in time to maintain. They weren't what we think of as vulnerabilities, in that there was no likelihood of a security breach. It just plain didn't work right.
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Vacuum tube guitar amps, anyone? There's a thriving community that includes not only kits but community driven, open source design of new amps as well as groups that clone the classics.
I highly recommend the AX84 community, with its thriving forum, good starter docs, and excellent users, There's a lot more docs on the way, and a ton of collective wisdom. You can learn a lot of low level electronic theory and practice there. There are other great communities including 18watt.com and solid state forums out there for effects, etc. There are a bunch of computer geeks and other EEs and similar types at AX84, and in the lounge anything is fair game, including topics such as htis one-- which has come up before!
http://www.ax84.com/ - Tell 'em Harrison Ford Prefect sent ya.
Finally, the USN NEETS series mentioned in another response gets a lot of traction at AX84 as well.
Whether RH or CentOS, plenty of commercial and research facilities run the same version of EL on desktops and compute server farms. It makes tools support much easier.
They got a fair number of complaints about this in beta. As far as I can tell from searching their site, they pretty much blew it off. I certainly couldn't find anything helpful WRT resolving this, other than "upgrade, dude".
An upgrade cycle is a major effort in an environment like ours, requiring testing with dozens of EDA tools and a variety of desktop apps. An upgrade that breaks a vendor tool or even access to critical docs, or that requires us to rebuild tools, modify user configs, etc, impacts schedules in a negative way, which means major headaches for everyone. 150+ desktops, 150+ compute farm systems. And don't even get me started on fixes that require users to restart X or reboot. High powered engineers working 80 hour weeks, some running things that require hours to set up? You have no clue what you're talking about when you blithely suggest upgrading.
And switching is not an option. Our app vendors support their apps on very few OSes. Typically one or two versions of EL and one or two SUSe. That's it. Ubuntu and Fedora aren't even in the picture.
When we upgraded most of the company from EL3 to EL4, we lost about a week. That's extremely expensive.
The RPMs for the version required by FF3 are only available for FC7 and newer. EL4 is based on FC3. In the world of stable OSes, that's pretty new.
One of the strengths of Firefox for some time has been that right out of the box, the binary just ran on lots of Linux versions. With FF3 (starting with betas) they broke this.
A non-trivial portion of the commercial and research Linux user base has to stick with EL4 or a source rebuild from CentOS, Scientific Linux or whatever because of third party tool support requirements. And not everybody wants to upgrade their OS just because a new browser is out.
FF3 requires a pretty new library (libpangocairo 1.0). I spent an hour trying to come up with it this afternoon for my 100+ users. No luck so far.
The firefox team really let us down big time. We've been anxiously awaiting this release because it's supposed to solve the memory bloat problems (several of us here have to restart the browser several times a week because it's consumed insane amounts of RAM).
It's U2 several decades later. Haven't you noticed Bono's aged a bit?
1) Granted the bacteria student status
2) Gave them all accounts on PSUVM
3) turned them loose on the internet
If you really don't want to just swap out the guts, I bought one off ebay several years ago. Mine happened to be from Berkeley Communications, but any high volume refurbisher or reseller with a clean record who resells good, working gear, probably has a deal for you.
I was part of the original cddb free database project. Gracenote dropped me an email one day notifying me they had wiped it all off my server, thanking me for helping out the internet, and promising me a gift for my troubles. No gift ever showed up, nor did email queries about the state of things get answered.
So they made sure I didn't trust them out of the box.
They require internet safety belts, internet air bags, and internet car seats!
Some of us were never enamored with MS. Their original Basic was OK, but that was about the closest thing to a positive thought I ever had about them. By the time the IBM PC was released with MS-DOS, I despised them.
Given that the parents are both responsible and liable for their daughter, the original poster is in error in trying to keep the parents out of the equation.
Anyone who knows identical twins very well at all could have told you this.
I married one. From the day I met them, I have had no trouble telling them apart, even the one time her sister tried to fool me as a practical joke.
I suppose it's good to know the details; knowledge is generally good. But the announcement that identical twins aren't is right up there with "Politician caught lying!" My immediate thought is "Wow! Really! Who knew?"
...kept a promise?
How many times have they promised to not integrate something into their OS or other products to support third party vendors, and within a year put the third parties out of business with new, integrated features? The first example I always think of is the TCP/IP stack[1] but there are lots and lots of others.
[1] Most people today probably assume MS invented it, but for a long time they refused to support it, prefering other network stacks.
Bring back public stoning. Or at least public stocks and flogging. A lot of this kind of crap would disappear after the second televised act.
...that the Dark Side created the universe.
Did you know a Miles O'Neal from the early days of X? If so, feel free to drop me a line at MEO at RRU dot COM. Or even if you didn't, what the heck!
My wife's mom still had her dial phone from the 40s. Under the old contract, so long as she kept making the monthly payments, they had to sell her rotary service. There were only a few dozen people left in that county with rotaries when her mom finally had to go to a nursing home a few years ago- drove the phone company nuts having to keep gear to support it. Phone worked til the day it went away, after surviving six teenagers and their friends.
I had this one transistor radio in the 60s that was indestructable. Wish I'd kept it, but I gave it away. Dunno how many times that thing came off my bike going anywhere from 10 to 25MPH, and still worked. I bet the same guy did the case for the Gameboy.
Finally, I have several Kalamazoo tube amps from the 60s. Worst case they needed new filter caps and tubes; a couple still have everything original, and still sound great no matter what guitar is plugged into them. I've seen old Gibsons and Fenders from the 50s still going strong with next to no maintenance. Some have fallen off a truck more than a few times.
But... we bought several Gameboys right after they came out for my two kids and me. They're each on their third owners (hand me down network), still get played with all the time, and still work great.
Within my house, which used to be out in the country surrounded by fields, there are no less than five new housing developments that sprung up in the last year
Unless those are Lego housing developments...
...demonizing those you disagree with. Are you making a religion of it?
Maybe it applies. Maybe they're just showing off because they know they're being watched.
The act of observation, and all that.
I don't want freaking ads.
Just charge me a fair price, pay the artists, and get out of my way so I can play the music I bought.
Idiots.
...then they should just be shot[2]. Or strung up. Or drug behind horses til dead. Whatever. Good old fashioned wild west justice.[1]
[1] Sorry for the syntax; there's a national comma shortage.
[2] And if they are then it's an awfully expensive way to make that point for everyone else.
It has plenty of flaws. But since it's unusable for a lot of people, it's pretty invulnerable for them.
We refuse to use it here because the flaws we found made it way too expensive in time to maintain. They weren't what we think of as vulnerabilities, in that there was no likelihood of a security breach. It just plain didn't work right.
Yeah! How about green Hummers for the three most energy efficient employees? Woohoo!