I could see that. What we take for "modern living" is not always better than the simpler days your grandfather remembers. There's a reason that books/movies like Swiss Family Robinson have a certain appeal for some of us -- living to live, not to race with your neighbor.
I remember a joke/parable/whatever it's called I heard many years ago. I won't write the whole thing, but it basically involved a New York stock broker talking to a local native fishing on the beach in Mexico for food. The broker asked the guy why he had no ambition and why didn't he work harder, get a job, move around, back stab people, and climb the corporate ladder for the next 40 years. When the native asked him "why?", the guy said "so you can get rich, retire to Mexico and spend your days fishing on the beach."
Sometimes, people already have what they need, but just don't see it.
Reading all of these comments on these 00ber-worms really parallels a book called Zero Day that I'm reading. It's fairly entertaining so far, just in case anyone else is interested in a story revolving around Stuxnet/Duqu type stuff. It's probably old news around here, but anyway...
Yes, because PC doesn't necessarily mean Wintel -- it means Personal Computer as well. One particular flavor of the Personal Computer happens to be the IBM PC, which features the xxx86 architecture. Remember, the concept of a "personal computer" came from the days when the big iron was locked-up in universities and companies, so it was a revolution to make a computer one could own personally, hence the phrase. This "2006" Atmel based computer is very certainly a "personal computer" since you build and own it.
He was 99.99% likely referring to migrating a live VM to another host, not imaging your desktop to another hard drive. In the enterprise, downtime is often not well tolerated (not something I agree 100% but whatever) and live migration (aka VMware VMotion for example) enables you to take a virtualization host and vacate all of the *still running* VMs off to another host when you need to do maintenance or whatever else to the physical hardware. In the case of VMotion, there is a loss of about one ping on the network while the VM execution is cut-over to the new host, but otherwise, all network connections/etc. remain persistent.
It's very handy stuff, but not something someone who's only familiar with home user or individually installed boxes may be familiar with. It's definitely not just using 'dd'.
Here's a guy who's written-up a simple way to hack one of the files using Perl so that TRIM will work on any drive. I would prefer this over the application (see his page for info on why):
Looking at my current queue, I have 106 DVD-only movies, and 60 streaming (streaming may have TV series condensed whereas DVD shows them as multiple entries).
That's not a great ratio IMO and many of the movies on my DVD list are not that "oddball" at all. Things like Leverage, Burn Notice, the new Wall Street, Inception, The Unit, The Social Network, Transformers (new), etc. (and no comments about the quality of the movies listed -- they're in my queue because I haven't seen them...)
Of course, I have a couple dozen educational documentaries and the other 'oddball' stuff which I had in mind when I submitted the head article as well.
Until they can at least get 90% coverage on streaming, I can make the case for still needing the occasional disc. After all, part of the enjoyment I get out of Netflix is *NOT* having to rent only the "top 10 new releases" and other crap like Walletbuster used to be packed with...
If CNN is accurate, that's a 10X increase in their costs, which presumably Netflix would have to pass-on. There's no way that anybody would pay $79.99 for streaming ($7.99 * 10) and the content industry will be like a parasite that gets too greedy and kills the host that feed it...
As a very time-limited player who mostly solos or plays with a couple other friends, I find the fact that 00ber lewt d00dz who play 18 hours per day and run dungeons 100 times over will only be 5-10% better than me refreshing. In every other MMO, my lowly, non-l33t characters are considered worthless and ungroupable because of my "lame n00b equipment". It sounds as though LotRO will remedy that.
Of course, I would expect the power-players and people who do enjoy being 00ber to not like this particular aspect, but I think that leveling the playing field a bit will be good overall. If it's a huge deal for the power players, I suppose they can go back to WoW and run instances a few hundred more times or even go all the way back to EQ for a true hardcore experience.
Congrats airhed. I also kicked the habit a couple of months ago and even uninstalled the game on all machines without backup-up anything (keys/etc.) I just feel *no* desire to fire-up WoW again and waste more time grinding a second job, unlike when I quit EQ years ago and always felt the desire to return (and did several times for brief stints). I did the "grind main up to 60" thing and tried the guild raid thing also, but got tired of repeatedly hitting MC hoping to be one of the 10 people of my class to get one of the 10 item drops. People say it shouldn't be about the items. Yeah right - that's why you run MC dozens of times over and over and over, because it's fun?
Anyway, like you, I still have the discs but at this point, I see dumping them in the trash at some point in the near future. WoW just didn't have the same atmosphere and "lost in the world" that EQ gave me which kept me playing for years.
I've had this happen just now also. I left everything downloading overnight and finally rebooted just now. Things hose-up at the X startup point. I am presented with the semi-ASCII screen about "the xserver could not start" and then it dumps to a normal grey/black console screen where things are echoed, but nothing interpreted. CTRL-C, CTRL-D, ESC, nothing does anything except CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Seems like quite a few people are seeing this. Wonder if anyone has a fix or if I'm just looking at wiping and reinstalling a la Winbloze...
FreeNAS will do RAID (I use mirroring for my recently-built home server). AFAIK, NASLite does not appear to do any form of RAID.
Granted the RAID system in FreeNAS is not the best (uses vinum IIRC) and, in my case, requires me to force the disks "up" after a reboot (an apparently common problem with vinum), it works flawlessly and the goal is to not have to reboot.
The Openfiler looks very cool and full-featured, but it's definitely NOT a small footprint. I was looking to build a machine where the only disks were the storage volumes. Using FreeNAS, I installed to a 128MB CompactFlash card and then have two 120GB drives mirrored for the data. With Openfiler, I would have had to install a third drive to boot the OS.
It doesn't help that the Honda Ridgeline looks like shit. It looks like a slightly less cheezy version of the hideous Chevy Avalanche with that odd slanted cab-to-bed transition/etc.
IMO, the problem with the American cars in the past has been that they design ass looking cars. Who wanted that jelly been Taurus or garbage-truck-like Aztek? Of course, the Honda Element and that Scion xB are atrocious as well, but at least they are clearly targeting the slackers who are into that kind of look (who does that jelly bean Taurus target?)
I think that since Daimler bought Chrysler, their cars have improved in style significantly. They are not *my* taste (I don't like those big in-your-face grills very much) but at least they look nice and will appeal to many people. I have heard that the new 300 with the huge grill represents what the Germans think us Americans want - and it looks like they're right. Personally, I'll take the smooth style of a S-class Benz anyday, but that's just my preference;)
Any chance you could provide a model number for us to check-out? I'm sure it's expensive, probably too expensive for me right now, at least, but I'd like to know what to look for should I win a lottery scratch game or something;^)
We only have one roller rink left in town - which was open in the 80's also. The interesting thing is that it's NEXT DOOR to the only titty-bar in town also. I guess that Dad can drop the kids off at the roller rink and then go oogle a few boobs while he waits.
The problem with plaintext POP passwords is that many ISPs (mine included) do not offer any other option. I wish they would, but they do not.
Thus, I just choose a mail-only password that I use for POP access. I guess a hacker could read my e-mail and maybe even send mail as me, but I've done what I can to minimize the risk of stupidly designed mailservers.
You missed the part about the G5 running cooler than G4 and also, the switch from.13 to.09 processes should help as well. The net effect may be an overall cooler machine which does not sacrifice MHz.
"...their attention to Windows interface standards in implementing their application."
This is why Find is CTRL-F in most Windows apps, but I have to push SHIFT-CTRL-F in Outlook to Find because CTRL-F is "forward"??? Yeah, that's consistent.
You know that people will be camping-out for this for days (the hardcore nerds/dorks). Nothing like sitting wedged between 2 fat dorks who have not bathed for a couple days, especially for a 10 hour marathon.
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That's definitely Waymo money!
I could see that. What we take for "modern living" is not always better than the simpler days your grandfather remembers. There's a reason that books/movies like Swiss Family Robinson have a certain appeal for some of us -- living to live, not to race with your neighbor.
I remember a joke/parable/whatever it's called I heard many years ago. I won't write the whole thing, but it basically involved a New York stock broker talking to a local native fishing on the beach in Mexico for food. The broker asked the guy why he had no ambition and why didn't he work harder, get a job, move around, back stab people, and climb the corporate ladder for the next 40 years. When the native asked him "why?", the guy said "so you can get rich, retire to Mexico and spend your days fishing on the beach."
Sometimes, people already have what they need, but just don't see it.
They aren't that hard to find:
http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=377018
http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=643
http://www.trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=160_TEW-673GRU&cat=137
They just aren't the el cheapo models...
And, that would boost the airline revenue thanks to checked baggage fees! Win! erm... nevermind...
Reading all of these comments on these 00ber-worms really parallels a book called Zero Day that I'm reading. It's fairly entertaining so far, just in case anyone else is interested in a story revolving around Stuxnet/Duqu type stuff. It's probably old news around here, but anyway...
Yes, because PC doesn't necessarily mean Wintel -- it means Personal Computer as well. One particular flavor of the Personal Computer happens to be the IBM PC, which features the xxx86 architecture. Remember, the concept of a "personal computer" came from the days when the big iron was locked-up in universities and companies, so it was a revolution to make a computer one could own personally, hence the phrase. This "2006" Atmel based computer is very certainly a "personal computer" since you build and own it.
BootCamp does work well, but let's not forget the $150+ Winbloze license that's required. That's what's keeping me from installing BC on my new MBA. :(
However, if you have the license/KMS/MAK/whatever to make Winbloze function, I do recommend BC to play games if nothing else.
He was 99.99% likely referring to migrating a live VM to another host, not imaging your desktop to another hard drive. In the enterprise, downtime is often not well tolerated (not something I agree 100% but whatever) and live migration (aka VMware VMotion for example) enables you to take a virtualization host and vacate all of the *still running* VMs off to another host when you need to do maintenance or whatever else to the physical hardware. In the case of VMotion, there is a loss of about one ping on the network while the VM execution is cut-over to the new host, but otherwise, all network connections/etc. remain persistent.
It's very handy stuff, but not something someone who's only familiar with home user or individually installed boxes may be familiar with. It's definitely not just using 'dd'.
Here's a guy who's written-up a simple way to hack one of the files using Perl so that TRIM will work on any drive. I would prefer this over the application (see his page for info on why):
http://digitaldj.net/2011/07/21/trim-enabler-for-lion/
Looking at my current queue, I have 106 DVD-only movies, and 60 streaming (streaming may have TV series condensed whereas DVD shows them as multiple entries).
That's not a great ratio IMO and many of the movies on my DVD list are not that "oddball" at all. Things like Leverage, Burn Notice, the new Wall Street, Inception, The Unit, The Social Network, Transformers (new), etc. (and no comments about the quality of the movies listed -- they're in my queue because I haven't seen them...)
Of course, I have a couple dozen educational documentaries and the other 'oddball' stuff which I had in mind when I submitted the head article as well.
Until they can at least get 90% coverage on streaming, I can make the case for still needing the occasional disc. After all, part of the enjoyment I get out of Netflix is *NOT* having to rent only the "top 10 new releases" and other crap like Walletbuster used to be packed with...
If CNN is accurate, that's a 10X increase in their costs, which presumably Netflix would have to pass-on. There's no way that anybody would pay $79.99 for streaming ($7.99 * 10) and the content industry will be like a parasite that gets too greedy and kills the host that feed it...
As a very time-limited player who mostly solos or plays with a couple other friends, I find the fact that 00ber lewt d00dz who play 18 hours per day and run dungeons 100 times over will only be 5-10% better than me refreshing. In every other MMO, my lowly, non-l33t characters are considered worthless and ungroupable because of my "lame n00b equipment". It sounds as though LotRO will remedy that.
Of course, I would expect the power-players and people who do enjoy being 00ber to not like this particular aspect, but I think that leveling the playing field a bit will be good overall. If it's a huge deal for the power players, I suppose they can go back to WoW and run instances a few hundred more times or even go all the way back to EQ for a true hardcore experience.
Congrats airhed. I also kicked the habit a couple of months ago and even uninstalled the game on all machines without backup-up anything (keys/etc.) I just feel *no* desire to fire-up WoW again and waste more time grinding a second job, unlike when I quit EQ years ago and always felt the desire to return (and did several times for brief stints). I did the "grind main up to 60" thing and tried the guild raid thing also, but got tired of repeatedly hitting MC hoping to be one of the 10 people of my class to get one of the 10 item drops. People say it shouldn't be about the items. Yeah right - that's why you run MC dozens of times over and over and over, because it's fun?
Anyway, like you, I still have the discs but at this point, I see dumping them in the trash at some point in the near future. WoW just didn't have the same atmosphere and "lost in the world" that EQ gave me which kept me playing for years.
I've had this happen just now also. I left everything downloading overnight and finally rebooted just now. Things hose-up at the X startup point. I am presented with the semi-ASCII screen about "the xserver could not start" and then it dumps to a normal grey/black console screen where things are echoed, but nothing interpreted. CTRL-C, CTRL-D, ESC, nothing does anything except CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Seems like quite a few people are seeing this. Wonder if anyone has a fix or if I'm just looking at wiping and reinstalling a la Winbloze...
Probably like this ;^)
FreeNAS will do RAID (I use mirroring for my recently-built home server). AFAIK, NASLite does not appear to do any form of RAID.
Granted the RAID system in FreeNAS is not the best (uses vinum IIRC) and, in my case, requires me to force the disks "up" after a reboot (an apparently common problem with vinum), it works flawlessly and the goal is to not have to reboot.
The Openfiler looks very cool and full-featured, but it's definitely NOT a small footprint. I was looking to build a machine where the only disks were the storage volumes. Using FreeNAS, I installed to a 128MB CompactFlash card and then have two 120GB drives mirrored for the data. With Openfiler, I would have had to install a third drive to boot the OS.
It doesn't help that the Honda Ridgeline looks like shit. It looks like a slightly less cheezy version of the hideous Chevy Avalanche with that odd slanted cab-to-bed transition/etc.
;)
IMO, the problem with the American cars in the past has been that they design ass looking cars. Who wanted that jelly been Taurus or garbage-truck-like Aztek? Of course, the Honda Element and that Scion xB are atrocious as well, but at least they are clearly targeting the slackers who are into that kind of look (who does that jelly bean Taurus target?)
I think that since Daimler bought Chrysler, their cars have improved in style significantly. They are not *my* taste (I don't like those big in-your-face grills very much) but at least they look nice and will appeal to many people. I have heard that the new 300 with the huge grill represents what the Germans think us Americans want - and it looks like they're right. Personally, I'll take the smooth style of a S-class Benz anyday, but that's just my preference
Any chance you could provide a model number for us to check-out? I'm sure it's expensive, probably too expensive for me right now, at least, but I'd like to know what to look for should I win a lottery scratch game or something ;^)
Thanks!
We only have one roller rink left in town - which was open in the 80's also. The interesting thing is that it's NEXT DOOR to the only titty-bar in town also. I guess that Dad can drop the kids off at the roller rink and then go oogle a few boobs while he waits.
The problem with plaintext POP passwords is that many ISPs (mine included) do not offer any other option. I wish they would, but they do not.
Thus, I just choose a mail-only password that I use for POP access. I guess a hacker could read my e-mail and maybe even send mail as me, but I've done what I can to minimize the risk of stupidly designed mailservers.
You missed the part about the G5 running cooler than G4 and also, the switch from .13 to .09 processes should help as well. The net effect may be an overall cooler machine which does not sacrifice MHz.
I think this is the doll that Michael Jackson's toy company produces.
"...their attention to Windows interface standards in implementing their application."
This is why Find is CTRL-F in most Windows apps, but I have to push SHIFT-CTRL-F in Outlook to Find because CTRL-F is "forward"??? Yeah, that's consistent.
You know that people will be camping-out for this for days (the hardcore nerds/dorks). Nothing like sitting wedged between 2 fat dorks who have not bathed for a couple days, especially for a 10 hour marathon.
If anyone is curious, you can see Taco's picture in his column in CPU magazine.