Um, they were in RTP 10 years ago, but now they are in 2 buildings on Centennial Campus. Centennial is in fact an NCSU campus, and it's definitely not 30 miles down the road from main campus...it's right across Western.
I can see their building from my building, where I work for NCSU.
Also, yes, this does have quite an impact on our usage of Linux here at NCSU. Engineering students are required to take (or place out of) a linux-based basic computing course (E115 if I recall correctly), and Linux is supported everywhere there's an sysadmin who knows what's going on (which is NOT everywhere on campus - there are a bunch of people who aren't willing to learn Linux to support the users in their departments who want to use it). However, if you can't get support from your local sysadmin, you can often go to other resources on campus to get help.
As a couple other people have said, Kickstart is probably your best option. I work at NCSU and we have a bunch of linux machines. When we need to upgrade or reinstall, we just take a boot cd, pop it in, and let it go. It grabs all the configuration and install files off our kickstart server and goes to town. When it's done, the system reboots and sits at a login screen, no other config required. It's a beautiful thing.
And now that I have posted my claim, my friend (who owns the other half) fully intend to pursue our rights as owners of all space and bill Gregory Nemitz for $19.99 in travel fees (toll) through our space. The proceeds will, of course, be donated directly to NASA.
Are there any lawyers out there who think that this guy is stupid and are willing to support us in our endevor to use his own logic against him (for free, of course)?
I claim property rights to one-half of the currently unclaimed Known (and Unknown) Universe (or Universes). I am now publishing this claim to a widely available and public registry of information - the Slashdot forums.
Most interesting one I've ever heard of...get a blowtorch and melt an even ring in the middle so it droops down, let it cool, and you have a flower pot. It even has a hole in the middle for drainage.:)
I'm sure it takes a while to perfect the art of flower-pot-making, but hey...we all have plenty to practice on, right?
Personally I love the little blue LED...though it would probably get on my nerves if I had to look at it at length. I have a set of ACS-54s that I use at home and think are fine, but at work we have both a set of the Creative Labs 5.1s and the Z-340s out for demo and the Z-340s just sound better throughout the store. I haven't noticed any particular lack of midrange in our set, but I'll give it a listen next time I go in and re-evaluate my opinion.
Logitech. That's all I have to say right now. Their speakers are great for the price. If you want a 2.1 set, the 340s are great, and it only goes up from there, and they're affordable. Some sites have even rated the 560s (I think that's the right model number) as good as the Klipsch speaker sets which retail for a few $100 more. I've only listened to the 340s for any length of time, but for their size they're very nice speakers, with very good range and a nice wide cone of sweetspotness. So, depending on what type of setup you want, I'd recommend the Logitech series corresponding to it. Have fun!
If you have a Mac that requires an OS reinstall every 3 months - you either are on crack or you have some kind of defective hardware that's corrupting your install. For me, a reinstall of a MacOS has always been sometime after a new version comes out, and that's a painless process. Upgrading MacOS has never sucked too much. And it's not as though I don't use (and abuse!) my computers, and it's not as though I don't have multiple OSes...I have an XP box (2.4B P4) for gaming, an iBook (OS X) for my class note taking (tetex is good for Calc notes), and a RH 7.3 server (1.4 T-bird)(note: don't give me shit about using Redhat, I go to NC State University, and I *like* the people who work at Redhat - I know them on a personal basis. And besides, I don't think Redhat sucks). So yeah. I reinstall Windows much much much more often than I reinstall anything else. I do admit that I fuck with my XP box more often, but rarely do I do things that break it - it usually ends up being something I would never think would break the OS - like installing a program, using it a little bit, desciding that I don't like it, and unistalling it... that's not something that should hose an OS. And I know that's not completely Window's fault, but at least partially. I don't have a fucked up OS on my iBook, no matter how much I muck around with the insides (and I do, a lot...fink opens new doors:).
The 2400+s are selling poorly, iirc, because you can hardly find them anywhere. There are few enough in the supply channel at this point that they can't help but sell poorly - there's just not enough volume to start with. So yeah, they are..but that's AMD's fault (*cough paper launch cough*), not because people don't want them...people *always* want faster stuff for less money, it's why the computer market is as big as it is. I see a lot of evidence for this - I'm a computer salesperson. Whee.
Apple has been moving more and more toward a "standard" platform since the time of the G3s. Doesn't mean people won't make it moreso. People already make G4 mobos that MacOS will install on, but it's more expensive to buy them & a proc than a standard PC mobo/proc. People *will* make it cheaper on x86, because there are more companies that have been doing it longer on the PC market than on the Mac market. So no, I'm not completely ignorant. My prediction is that it would be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to roll your own PC that MacOS would work on (assuming that they ported) than any other arch. Of course, I could be wrong, but I thought slashdot was all about the opinionated vocal minority doing what we do best - vocalizing our opinions?:P
For one, this has been rumored countless times before. Has it happened? No. Here's why.
One: Apple's revenue comes from it's hardware sales. If people can go out and buy plain vanilla PCs and install MacOS on them for significantly cheaper than they can buy a Mac, Apple's income will drop a great deal.
Two: As others have said, Apple's been with IBM and Mot. for a Very Long Time (tm). There have been rumors equally as valid as this one about apple developing it's *own* chip for fabbing at IBM (a company, unlike Mot., who can actually get decent yields).
Three: Again, as others have said, it's more probable that Apple will go with IBM's next-gen 64-bit desktop CPU. IBM makes good chips. They're not big in the desktop market, but the Power4 has been a big server chip for a while now, and with good reason. It was one of the first dual-chip-on-die procs that actually made public usage (afik), and did a large amount of ass-whipping.
To conclude: Apple going x86 would be stupid. Have a nice day.
I know one of the guys who writes PGP. Last I talked to him, he was writing the Palm version. I heard today about this thing from his wife, and as far as I know, there are only 8 developers left working on PGP. I dunno if that makes you folks appriciate why it doesn't work on WinXP or not, but I felt like I should stick up for my friend (since he's a mentor and all:P).
I'm in highschool and I resent being classified with MCSEs...Please, consider the fact that you could insult us up-and-comming-geeks by saying that we're on the same level as those...uhm..."engineers".:P
Being a Mac guy to start with (hey, I was raised that way, don't hold it against me. blame my parents), I'm definantly gonna run MacOSX over any Linux version out there, *as soon as I get the hardware to run it*. If OSX were not so close to done, I would dualboot Yellerdog and 9.1, but hey. I only gotta wait till March. I think the hardware's the key. How many companies are gonna spend the money to overhaul all their hardware to bring it up to Mac OSX spec? Linux runs on anything, as it's designed to. Mac OSX runs on G3s and G4s with 128 MB of Ram, as it's designed to. Again, how many companies are gonna go and buy G3s or G4s (which cost more than your average PC, I mean....Maxed out G4 - $15,000...maxed out PC - ~$8,000. Thats a big freakin difference) just to switch to Mac OSX? How many CONSUMERS will? Sure, some might, but not enough to give Linux any trouble. Most of the people I've talked to say that they might get a Mac to try it out again, because of OS X, but not that they'd stop using other OSs.
I don't think OSX is gonna do anything but pique intrest in Linux, and vise versa. "Oh, you've always run Linux, but you like Macs for some reason? Try OS X. Close enough." "Oh, you like OS X, but you want to use PC parts? Try Linux with X. Close enough."
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Um, they were in RTP 10 years ago, but now they are in 2 buildings on Centennial Campus. Centennial is in fact an NCSU campus, and it's definitely not 30 miles down the road from main campus...it's right across Western.
I can see their building from my building, where I work for NCSU.
Also, yes, this does have quite an impact on our usage of Linux here at NCSU. Engineering students are required to take (or place out of) a linux-based basic computing course (E115 if I recall correctly), and Linux is supported everywhere there's an sysadmin who knows what's going on (which is NOT everywhere on campus - there are a bunch of people who aren't willing to learn Linux to support the users in their departments who want to use it). However, if you can't get support from your local sysadmin, you can often go to other resources on campus to get help.
At IBM we like to measure things in "Libraries of Congress per second", or perhaps "747s of phonebooks per second". ;)
This is actually based on Cell 2 or as IBM marketing likes to say it "Cell eXtreme"!
Cell 1 (the Playstation chip) didn't have the double precision floating performance to achieve the petaflop mark; Cell 2 is far better on that front.
Yay for 1350. Go us. :)
I thought IBM was already producing Cell processors? Why is Sony needing to outsource when they're not even doing the production work as it is?
Apparently it couldn't stop bullets.
A true XCOM, in the style of UFO and TFTD. None of that shooter stuff, turn/squad based strategy FTW.
As a couple other people have said, Kickstart is probably your best option. I work at NCSU and we have a bunch of linux machines. When we need to upgrade or reinstall, we just take a boot cd, pop it in, and let it go. It grabs all the configuration and install files off our kickstart server and goes to town. When it's done, the system reboots and sits at a login screen, no other config required. It's a beautiful thing.
And now that I have posted my claim, my friend (who owns the other half) fully intend to pursue our rights as owners of all space and bill Gregory Nemitz for $19.99 in travel fees (toll) through our space. The proceeds will, of course, be donated directly to NASA.
Are there any lawyers out there who think that this guy is stupid and are willing to support us in our endevor to use his own logic against him (for free, of course)?
If so, please email me at thalin@darkhaven2.org.
I claim property rights to one-half of the currently unclaimed Known (and Unknown) Universe (or Universes). I am now publishing this claim to a widely available and public registry of information - the Slashdot forums.
Thank you, and have a nice day.
Most interesting one I've ever heard of...get a blowtorch and melt an even ring in the middle so it droops down, let it cool, and you have a flower pot. It even has a hole in the middle for drainage. :)
I'm sure it takes a while to perfect the art of flower-pot-making, but hey...we all have plenty to practice on, right?
Personally I love the little blue LED...though it would probably get on my nerves if I had to look at it at length. I have a set of ACS-54s that I use at home and think are fine, but at work we have both a set of the Creative Labs 5.1s and the Z-340s out for demo and the Z-340s just sound better throughout the store. I haven't noticed any particular lack of midrange in our set, but I'll give it a listen next time I go in and re-evaluate my opinion.
Logitech. That's all I have to say right now. Their speakers are great for the price. If you want a 2.1 set, the 340s are great, and it only goes up from there, and they're affordable. Some sites have even rated the 560s (I think that's the right model number) as good as the Klipsch speaker sets which retail for a few $100 more. I've only listened to the 340s for any length of time, but for their size they're very nice speakers, with very good range and a nice wide cone of sweetspotness. So, depending on what type of setup you want, I'd recommend the Logitech series corresponding to it. Have fun!
If you have a Mac that requires an OS reinstall every 3 months - you either are on crack or you have some kind of defective hardware that's corrupting your install. For me, a reinstall of a MacOS has always been sometime after a new version comes out, and that's a painless process. Upgrading MacOS has never sucked too much. And it's not as though I don't use (and abuse!) my computers, and it's not as though I don't have multiple OSes...I have an XP box (2.4B P4) for gaming, an iBook (OS X) for my class note taking (tetex is good for Calc notes), and a RH 7.3 server (1.4 T-bird)(note: don't give me shit about using Redhat, I go to NC State University, and I *like* the people who work at Redhat - I know them on a personal basis. And besides, I don't think Redhat sucks). So yeah. I reinstall Windows much much much more often than I reinstall anything else. I do admit that I fuck with my XP box more often, but rarely do I do things that break it - it usually ends up being something I would never think would break the OS - like installing a program, using it a little bit, desciding that I don't like it, and unistalling it... that's not something that should hose an OS. And I know that's not completely Window's fault, but at least partially. I don't have a fucked up OS on my iBook, no matter how much I muck around with the insides (and I do, a lot...fink opens new doors :).
The 2400+s are selling poorly, iirc, because you can hardly find them anywhere. There are few enough in the supply channel at this point that they can't help but sell poorly - there's just not enough volume to start with. So yeah, they are..but that's AMD's fault (*cough paper launch cough*), not because people don't want them...people *always* want faster stuff for less money, it's why the computer market is as big as it is. I see a lot of evidence for this - I'm a computer salesperson. Whee.
Apple has been moving more and more toward a "standard" platform since the time of the G3s. Doesn't mean people won't make it moreso. People already make G4 mobos that MacOS will install on, but it's more expensive to buy them & a proc than a standard PC mobo/proc. People *will* make it cheaper on x86, because there are more companies that have been doing it longer on the PC market than on the Mac market. So no, I'm not completely ignorant. My prediction is that it would be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to roll your own PC that MacOS would work on (assuming that they ported) than any other arch. Of course, I could be wrong, but I thought slashdot was all about the opinionated vocal minority doing what we do best - vocalizing our opinions? :P
For one, this has been rumored countless times before. Has it happened? No. Here's why.
One: Apple's revenue comes from it's hardware sales. If people can go out and buy plain vanilla PCs and install MacOS on them for significantly cheaper than they can buy a Mac, Apple's income will drop a great deal.
Two: As others have said, Apple's been with IBM and Mot. for a Very Long Time (tm). There have been rumors equally as valid as this one about apple developing it's *own* chip for fabbing at IBM (a company, unlike Mot., who can actually get decent yields).
Three: Again, as others have said, it's more probable that Apple will go with IBM's next-gen 64-bit desktop CPU. IBM makes good chips. They're not big in the desktop market, but the Power4 has been a big server chip for a while now, and with good reason. It was one of the first dual-chip-on-die procs that actually made public usage (afik), and did a large amount of ass-whipping.
To conclude: Apple going x86 would be stupid.
Have a nice day.
I know one of the guys who writes PGP. Last I talked to him, he was writing the Palm version. I heard today about this thing from his wife, and as far as I know, there are only 8 developers left working on PGP. I dunno if that makes you folks appriciate why it doesn't work on WinXP or not, but I felt like I should stick up for my friend (since he's a mentor and all :P).
Alright then.
I'm in highschool and I resent being classified with MCSEs...Please, consider the fact that you could insult us up-and-comming-geeks by saying that we're on the same level as those...uhm..."engineers". :P
Cheers
Being a Mac guy to start with (hey, I was raised that way, don't hold it against me. blame my parents), I'm definantly gonna run MacOSX over any Linux version out there, *as soon as I get the hardware to run it*. If OSX were not so close to done, I would dualboot Yellerdog and 9.1, but hey. I only gotta wait till March. I think the hardware's the key. How many companies are gonna spend the money to overhaul all their hardware to bring it up to Mac OSX spec? Linux runs on anything, as it's designed to. Mac OSX runs on G3s and G4s with 128 MB of Ram, as it's designed to. Again, how many companies are gonna go and buy G3s or G4s (which cost more than your average PC, I mean....Maxed out G4 - $15,000...maxed out PC - ~$8,000. Thats a big freakin difference) just to switch to Mac OSX? How many CONSUMERS will? Sure, some might, but not enough to give Linux any trouble. Most of the people I've talked to say that they might get a Mac to try it out again, because of OS X, but not that they'd stop using other OSs.
I don't think OSX is gonna do anything but pique intrest in Linux, and vise versa. "Oh, you've always run Linux, but you like Macs for some reason? Try OS X. Close enough." "Oh, you like OS X, but you want to use PC parts? Try Linux with X. Close enough."