The Publishing industry has been mostly Macintosh oriented for a long time. I work for a large metropolitan newspaper, and we really love the new G5's, and the stability and ease of management offered by OS X. We used to have quite a few file servers that ran on Windows with Extreme Z-IP for appletalk file sharing. Now, we've migrated all of them to OS X with Samba for Windows sharing.
Actually, it is very easy to distort what someone says when they are saying it right into the camera. Just show the individual parts of the interview that support your argument, and leave everything else out. Also leave out any interview where the entire thing is counter to your argument. Just because you see a snippet of an interview, don't think that it in any way reflects the entire interview. Interview questions themselves can be used to make people say things that, in another context, look bad.
I haven't seen the Bush Administration's movie in my local theaters, so I can't comment on that.
Nothing at all is wrong with editorials. I work for a newspaper, we love editorials. It's just when you present an editorial as a documentary that you are being dishonest. If he came out and said "This is my opinion, this is how I see things." then the movie would be just fine.
He never even asked if they had children of age to go to Iraq? That wouldn't have fit his propoganda. If someone approaches you about sending your 3 year old to Iraq, of course you're going to walk off shaking your head. He didn't mention Ashcroft's son who spent time in Iraq. He didn't mention Joseph Biden's son who spent time in Iraq. He didn't mention anything that contradicted his opinion in any way. This was definitely not a documentary, it was an editorial.
Actually, I was getting ~ 20k/sec. Not very fast at all. What I figured out was that my DSL doesn't like when I'm uploading at maximum. I don't know the technical reasons, but there you have it. Since at max I can upload at about 20k/sec, I used the --max_upload_rate switch and capped my uploads to 15K. Doing so, I was able to increase my download rate from 20k/sec to 160k/sec, and still share the files almost as efficiently as before.
Yeah, I'm allowing the ports through... I think you're on the right track about throttling uploads. I believe if my upload rate is too high, it kills my download. Although, looking at it now, I'm getting far better transfer than I've ever gotten via BitTorrent, I'm up to like 75k/sec. I certainly can't complain about that. Don't know why it's been much slower in the past.
My DSL must just suck. This is about all I ever get from a torrent. I get 100k from FTPs and HTTPs fairly regularly, but not from torrents. I wonder if there's some sort of throttle because I'm uploading simultaneously.
file: slackware-10.0-iso size: 682,819,837 (651.2 MB) dest:/vol2/BitTorrent/slackware-10.0-iso status: finishing in 12:20:30 (2.4%) speed: 25.5 KB/s down - 24.9 KB/s up totals: 15.8 MB down - 17.9 MB up
Actually, when you create a tunnel and route the traffic through it, you don't have to route the gui traffic. You can run the gui locally and just route the messages. So, it's exactly the same bandwidth, and there are no multiple gui clients running over the ssh. As for not starting x, that's certainly a personal preference. I have a fairly fast machine, so I just let it run gdm right from boot. I spend a lot of time in xterms, but having multiple xterms visible simultaneously is, for me, more convenient than having to switch from shell to shell with screen. At any rate, that's the beauty of Linux. There's more than one way to do it.
Why not use that same ssh session to create a tunnel to that box on the outside of the firewall? Then you can run any number of graphical clients securely. That's what I do. Our network admin also logs IM traffic, so my friends and I just meet up on a private IRC server. I set my work box to create an ssh tunnel to the irc server through my machine at home. All the network guys see is streams of encrypted text, and I get to use Xchat.
Agreed. The schools don't have the resources to hire professsional IT staffs. That's why they rely on companies such as this one to tell them exactly what they need for their school. If the company tells them they need thousands of times more than they really do, who are they to argue? It's like when the mechanic tells me that my car needs a new Framis Wheel. "Geez." I say, "Obviously can't drive without a Framis Wheel."
Mod parent up. PuTTY rocks. I set my dad up with it so he can create a tunnel through my firewall and access his MySQL table graphically. He can also bring up a full X session through a PuTTY tunnel thanks to Cygwin's excellent Windows X server.
Nope, old building. We'd have to put in raised flooring to put in floor mount network jacks. This is an office for "creative" types. Artists and writers and such, they can't work with their computers against a wall. Not enough Feng Shui or whatever.
We're putting in a number of repeaters overhead, and only going to roll it out to one department as a guinea pig. We don't know if it'll be able to stand up to the load they put on their machines, but we should be starting the test very soon.
We are actually in the process of migrating offices to WiFi. The reason is that we have several departments that like to redesign their work areas on a regular basis. We've got fibres and cat5 running everywhere. Whenever someone wants to move their computer 15 feet, they have to place a request with Networking to move the fibre. We're spending entirely too much time and money on this sort of thing, but for some reason our higher ups tell us "If they want to reorganize, you need to support them." Once we go wireless, let 'em move their computers wherever they want.
I guess it's just because I have a fairly high speed computer with a nice big monitor, but I never log in to my Linux box except through the GUI. I'm old school as well, and prefer to do the majority of my work in xterms, but with the GUI, I can have several xterms open simultaneously, and between them very rapidly, keeping them all visible. So, for example, you can have a program you're developing running in one window spitting out output, and have inputs to it in another window.
If I had a slower computer, or a smaller monitor, I would probalby not use X. I also don't use X on firewalls or mail servers or systems such as that that I don't log on to directly ver often. But with the speed of modern desktops, spending a few cycles for a nice Gnome screen doesn't really slow me down at all.
That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. We've got one older Dual G5 in our department, and we've only locked it hard once, but it can be done. It didn't sound like Apple to overlook such an obvious weakness.
From the article:
Mac OS X dynamically adjusts the flow of the fluid and the speed of the fans based on temperature.
Can this be right? The OS is responsible for adjusting the flow of fluid and the speed of the fans? What if the OS crashes? Granted, OS X is pretty stable, but stuff happens. Can this lead to an OS crash taking out your hardware?
I agree that the average user doesn't want to look at the source code. I'm a Linux user, and I never look at the source code to my OS. However, I get so sick of the support argument. Have you ever actually called Microsoft Support? They're horrible. I've never had any solution come from Microsoft support. The last time I called Microsoft Support for assistance with a Services for Macintosh problem, they recommended that I don't use Microsoft's Services for Macintosh, and instead use a Mac product called 'Dave.' For this advice, they charged us an astounding hourly rate.
Also, the average user does not keep things running smoothly. The average user is so completely ridden with adware/spyware that their computers are hardly usable at all.
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The Publishing industry has been mostly Macintosh oriented for a long time. I work for a large metropolitan newspaper, and we really love the new G5's, and the stability and ease of management offered by OS X. We used to have quite a few file servers that ran on Windows with Extreme Z-IP for appletalk file sharing. Now, we've migrated all of them to OS X with Samba for Windows sharing.
Actually, it is very easy to distort what someone says when they are saying it right into the camera. Just show the individual parts of the interview that support your argument, and leave everything else out. Also leave out any interview where the entire thing is counter to your argument. Just because you see a snippet of an interview, don't think that it in any way reflects the entire interview. Interview questions themselves can be used to make people say things that, in another context, look bad.
I haven't seen the Bush Administration's movie in my local theaters, so I can't comment on that.
Nothing at all is wrong with editorials. I work for a newspaper, we love editorials. It's just when you present an editorial as a documentary that you are being dishonest. If he came out and said "This is my opinion, this is how I see things." then the movie would be just fine.
He never even asked if they had children of age to go to Iraq? That wouldn't have fit his propoganda. If someone approaches you about sending your 3 year old to Iraq, of course you're going to walk off shaking your head. He didn't mention Ashcroft's son who spent time in Iraq. He didn't mention Joseph Biden's son who spent time in Iraq. He didn't mention anything that contradicted his opinion in any way. This was definitely not a documentary, it was an editorial.
Actually, I was getting ~ 20k/sec. Not very fast at all. What I figured out was that my DSL doesn't like when I'm uploading at maximum. I don't know the technical reasons, but there you have it. Since at max I can upload at about 20k/sec, I used the --max_upload_rate switch and capped my uploads to 15K. Doing so, I was able to increase my download rate from 20k/sec to 160k/sec, and still share the files almost as efficiently as before.
I should think not! And, just as someone who is stuck on a DSL connection, I'd like to personally thank you for the 17.2 GB!
Yeah, I'm allowing the ports through... I think you're on the right track about throttling uploads. I believe if my upload rate is too high, it kills my download. Although, looking at it now, I'm getting far better transfer than I've ever gotten via BitTorrent, I'm up to like 75k/sec. I certainly can't complain about that. Don't know why it's been much slower in the past.
Actually, when you create a tunnel and route the traffic through it, you don't have to route the gui traffic. You can run the gui locally and just route the messages. So, it's exactly the same bandwidth, and there are no multiple gui clients running over the ssh. As for not starting x, that's certainly a personal preference. I have a fairly fast machine, so I just let it run gdm right from boot. I spend a lot of time in xterms, but having multiple xterms visible simultaneously is, for me, more convenient than having to switch from shell to shell with screen. At any rate, that's the beauty of Linux. There's more than one way to do it.
Why not use that same ssh session to create a tunnel to that box on the outside of the firewall? Then you can run any number of graphical clients securely. That's what I do. Our network admin also logs IM traffic, so my friends and I just meet up on a private IRC server. I set my work box to create an ssh tunnel to the irc server through my machine at home. All the network guys see is streams of encrypted text, and I get to use Xchat.
Agreed. The schools don't have the resources to hire professsional IT staffs. That's why they rely on companies such as this one to tell them exactly what they need for their school. If the company tells them they need thousands of times more than they really do, who are they to argue? It's like when the mechanic tells me that my car needs a new Framis Wheel. "Geez." I say, "Obviously can't drive without a Framis Wheel."
Oh, all of them!
As the systems manager for a large metropolitan newspaper, I heartily thank you for your comment! Now if only more people believed as you do...
Mod parent up. PuTTY rocks. I set my dad up with it so he can create a tunnel through my firewall and access his MySQL table graphically. He can also bring up a full X session through a PuTTY tunnel thanks to Cygwin's excellent Windows X server.
Oh no. I used to run Warcraft on my old VT220. It was all amber, and rendered in ASCII. And those sound effects, man, those were cool...
Nope, old building. We'd have to put in raised flooring to put in floor mount network jacks. This is an office for "creative" types. Artists and writers and such, they can't work with their computers against a wall. Not enough Feng Shui or whatever.
We're putting in a number of repeaters overhead, and only going to roll it out to one department as a guinea pig. We don't know if it'll be able to stand up to the load they put on their machines, but we should be starting the test very soon.
We are actually in the process of migrating offices to WiFi. The reason is that we have several departments that like to redesign their work areas on a regular basis. We've got fibres and cat5 running everywhere. Whenever someone wants to move their computer 15 feet, they have to place a request with Networking to move the fibre. We're spending entirely too much time and money on this sort of thing, but for some reason our higher ups tell us "If they want to reorganize, you need to support them." Once we go wireless, let 'em move their computers wherever they want.
Fedora does, at least in their latest Core release.
I don't understand the "disdain for GUIs" comment, personally. I'm a very happy Slackware/GUI user, have been for years.
You've obviously never listened to Charlotte radio.
I guess it's just because I have a fairly high speed computer with a nice big monitor, but I never log in to my Linux box except through the GUI. I'm old school as well, and prefer to do the majority of my work in xterms, but with the GUI, I can have several xterms open simultaneously, and between them very rapidly, keeping them all visible. So, for example, you can have a program you're developing running in one window spitting out output, and have inputs to it in another window.
If I had a slower computer, or a smaller monitor, I would probalby not use X. I also don't use X on firewalls or mail servers or systems such as that that I don't log on to directly ver often. But with the speed of modern desktops, spending a few cycles for a nice Gnome screen doesn't really slow me down at all.
That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. We've got one older Dual G5 in our department, and we've only locked it hard once, but it can be done. It didn't sound like Apple to overlook such an obvious weakness.
From the article:
Mac OS X dynamically adjusts the flow of the fluid and the speed of the fans based on temperature.
Can this be right? The OS is responsible for adjusting the flow of fluid and the speed of the fans? What if the OS crashes? Granted, OS X is pretty stable, but stuff happens. Can this lead to an OS crash taking out your hardware?
Give it time. I've had mine for about 12 years, and I get tons. DSPAM handles it all, so I never have to look at it.
I agree that the average user doesn't want to look at the source code. I'm a Linux user, and I never look at the source code to my OS. However, I get so sick of the support argument. Have you ever actually called Microsoft Support? They're horrible. I've never had any solution come from Microsoft support. The last time I called Microsoft Support for assistance with a Services for Macintosh problem, they recommended that I don't use Microsoft's Services for Macintosh, and instead use a Mac product called 'Dave.' For this advice, they charged us an astounding hourly rate.
Also, the average user does not keep things running smoothly. The average user is so completely ridden with adware/spyware that their computers are hardly usable at all.