A UI should be consistent. Just because you probably won't need to do something doesn't mean it shouldn't be easy.
If they can integrate that kind of thing into TweakUI and/or the Properties panel, why not just integrate it totally so you can drag and drop something? It's not like Windows doesn't already have enough special-cases built in already, this would just be one more into the directory moving code.
Why, yes, Mr. Customer, we are very familiar with computer security and specialize in using products developed by the National Security Agency. If it's good enough for the NSA, don't you think it is good enough for your business?
Somewhat like Magic Lantern? Or was that some other USGov organization?
I'm not so sure I want to trust "government-level" security these days...
2. Why do you want monitors with built-in USB hubs? I don't find them that useful, especially nowadays most pre-built systems now have USB connectors in front of the system case.
Ever used a KVM switch? Like to keep your machine somewhere besides on top of your desk or next to your feet? Connectivity away from the machine is a godsend. If I had Apple moved FireWire into their ADC connectors, I'd be ecstatic. I'd get a G-whatever right then and there. I could have the computer out of the way, with a single cable running from it to my desktop. Then, the monitor would be the center of my actual experience as a user. I could plug my keyboard into it and chain my mouse off it. I could hae a FireWire CD recorder on the desktop. I'd still have ports to spare for devices I wanted to use that weren't part of my normal setup. Hook the DV-cam up without going near the PC. Connect a game pad for the occasional emulated game. Unplug and put back in the drawer when done.
The closest you can get to this experience now is with a USB hub and FireWire hub on your desk. It's not as simple as it could be.
It will be widely available when IPv6 becomes standard, I assume. That is the first IP version to really support multicasting as an integral part of the protocol.
Actually, the advantages are significant. If you can take care of all yoru redundancy in one machine, go for it.
Notice all the computers that have hot-swap hard drive arrays. The exact same logic applies.
Oh, and about electrocution - unless you droll a lot or stuck yoru hand into th epower supply, you aren't getting electrocuted. The most voltage you'll ever see exposed to the computer as a whole is 12V. The high voltages are all relegated to the power supply.
In my experience, Linux is much more capable when it somes to minimalist or embedded tasks. With a machine that could swap NICs and memory on the fly, you could have a high-reliability router/smart switch without paying Cisco an arm and a leg.
You got my hopes up, only to find this is for future enterprise hardware.
I want hot-swap PCI now. The memory swapping would be good in the case of a failed DIMM or two. The processor swapping...well, I'll just admit that wouldn't work too well in a uniprocessor computer.
Since I really doubt memory connectors are grounded properly to handle hot-swapping, that leaves PCI as the only one that's remotely feasible with today's computers. I know Solaris SPARC has it, what about x86?
Hot-swap PCI could be a really nifty feature on x86 machines. Especially for net guys like me who move NICs around all the time...
You can't do that. Is the PnP hole a Kernel bug? No? Well then you can't count it. Compare apples to oranges, please. Yeah.
Maybe compare the default Red Hat installation to the default XP installation...but never compare a kernel (a complex, but tiny piece opf software) to an entire operating system.
The majority of Windows holes are no tlow-level OS holes, but from other applications.
Are you not paying attention to the above post? Be aware, however, that if you run your cat5 cable within 6 inches (safe margin) of electrical sources, you will see interference and will experience performance problems. I'm not sure what your electrical people are doing
So, the person was talking about electricity mains - 110V~ current, not the decidedly non-destructive phone lines. The comment was merely pointing out that phone lines are usually terminated near power. Nonetheless, phone installers usually keep the line away from power for the same reason you'll want to keep your 'net (video, etc.) away from it.
I suppose I just kinda realized that: I don't question teh computer, because I understand it on some level. Same with the TV. I know what it can do and what it can't do; I don't fear it will malfunction and make me sterile or something.
Those people that don't understand such things...I dunno if I'll ever understand them. After all, it's my fascination in such things that drives me to understand them. I simply can't fathom using something without at least some interest in why it works the way it does.
I think people are missing the *real* comparison here, the classic cars to computers. What's great is it rorks really well here.
Think of cars in the 70s. They were all and mechanical and made of many discrete parts. So were computers. You could get the plans to an Apple I and build your own computer out of many ICs.
Now, you buy a car and it's made out fewer, more integrated parts. Same with your computer. There are still standardized interfaces, however. You can get a new video card, you just can't build your own motherboard. You can get a new car radio, but it's a bit more difficult to tweak the ignition timing.
Think of it as a natural progression of the technology. *Everything* is getting more integrated and digital these days. It's not a concerted effort to make hacking a car/computer harder, it's an effort to make them cheaper to make and more efficient.
Really, what would AT&T have to gain now? E@H is losing 50% or better of their user base in three months. They have lost a huge amount of money, and all AT&T would gain out of such a deal would be some additional infrastructure. So what? They're already well on their way to supporting all their users that used to be on @Home with their current infrastructure.
Not to mention the political side of it - Excite cut AT&T off, while the other companies remained connected. Pissing off a big company like that is not they way to convince them you're worthy of doing business with.
True, but if you heat up your computer too much, it starts to have issues. In general, your components will fail a lon time before the case - the only time I've seen the opposite take place is when a computer survives a fire.
Oates said he uses his computer for games, and that the computer discs police found were blanks used to record music.
I suppose it's possible. I've never heard a database piped to/dev/audio, though I suppose it could be done. Weirder things have happened;) Really, why do people try lame-ass excuses like that? It's like having your wife walk in on you cheating, and you saying "Oh, I was just giving her a massage." "Riiiight. With your tongue?"
If anything, it shows how technically inept this guy was. If he was a/.-er, he would have stashed the data in GPG-encrypted form, on a two-session disc. The first session, a few audio tracks. "See? It's just an audio disc, this is my old garage band."
As was said, it's accelerated by *some* drivers, but not all. have a 3dfx card? you're screwed. Furthermore, it's only accelerated by nVidia cards to a point. If you take a 1024x768x32 transparent window and drag it around on your 1280x960 screen, it will be DOG SLOW. Your little ICQ window, on the other hand, will feel quite snappy.
Finally, this is old news. I had a freeware app - that DIDN'T require VB runtimes - do this a year ago. Stardock had a program to benchmark this last summer even. (www.xpbench.com) It's not news, it's not even that interesting. The poster makes it seem like this has never been done before, when all this is is a little utility for 2000/XP that increases functionality a bit.
It's not like Mac OS X hasn't had transparency for over a year now (counting the betas.)
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A UI should be consistent. Just because you probably won't need to do something doesn't mean it shouldn't be easy.
If they can integrate that kind of thing into TweakUI and/or the Properties panel, why not just integrate it totally so you can drag and drop something? It's not like Windows doesn't already have enough special-cases built in already, this would just be one more into the directory moving code.
Laugh all you want, we run some iPlanet/NSEnt servers at work, and they're pretty darn stable...
Why, yes, Mr. Customer, we are very familiar with computer security and specialize in using products developed by the National Security Agency. If it's good enough for the NSA, don't you think it is good enough for your business?
Somewhat like Magic Lantern? Or was that some other USGov organization?
I'm not so sure I want to trust "government-level" security these days...
How do you move something?
Why, you just drag and drop.
It won't let me.
Oh, that'e because you're moving a "special" folder. Get properties on it and change its location from there.
Stupid! Stupid!
2. Why do you want monitors with built-in USB hubs? I don't find them that useful, especially nowadays most pre-built systems now have USB connectors in front of the system case.
Ever used a KVM switch? Like to keep your machine somewhere besides on top of your desk or next to your feet? Connectivity away from the machine is a godsend. If I had Apple moved FireWire into their ADC connectors, I'd be ecstatic. I'd get a G-whatever right then and there. I could have the computer out of the way, with a single cable running from it to my desktop. Then, the monitor would be the center of my actual experience as a user. I could plug my keyboard into it and chain my mouse off it. I could hae a FireWire CD recorder on the desktop. I'd still have ports to spare for devices I wanted to use that weren't part of my normal setup. Hook the DV-cam up without going near the PC. Connect a game pad for the occasional emulated game. Unplug and put back in the drawer when done.
The closest you can get to this experience now is with a USB hub and FireWire hub on your desk. It's not as simple as it could be.
It will be widely available when IPv6 becomes standard, I assume. That is the first IP version to really support multicasting as an integral part of the protocol.
Here. ;)
Not technically true either...Make is part of the dev tools - install that, and you get all the fun command line tools *and* Project Builder.
I have no idea how the original poster managed to get the dev tools without make, probably just an honest mistake.
Actually, the advantages are significant. If you can take care of all yoru redundancy in one machine, go for it.
Notice all the computers that have hot-swap hard drive arrays. The exact same logic applies.
Oh, and about electrocution - unless you droll a lot or stuck yoru hand into th epower supply, you aren't getting electrocuted. The most voltage you'll ever see exposed to the computer as a whole is 12V. The high voltages are all relegated to the power supply.
Quick, set a timer to see how long it takes until someone drools and says the magic words:
Beowulf cluster
What the hell use is a timer when you already uttered those same words!?
What does Linux offer me that Solaris doesn't?
In my experience, Linux is much more capable when it somes to minimalist or embedded tasks. With a machine that could swap NICs and memory on the fly, you could have a high-reliability router/smart switch without paying Cisco an arm and a leg.
You got my hopes up, only to find this is for future enterprise hardware.
I want hot-swap PCI now. The memory swapping would be good in the case of a failed DIMM or two. The processor swapping...well, I'll just admit that wouldn't work too well in a uniprocessor computer.
Since I really doubt memory connectors are grounded properly to handle hot-swapping, that leaves PCI as the only one that's remotely feasible with today's computers. I know Solaris SPARC has it, what about x86?
Hot-swap PCI could be a really nifty feature on x86 machines. Especially for net guys like me who move NICs around all the time...
Fuckin' A.
You can't do that. Is the PnP hole a Kernel bug? No? Well then you can't count it. Compare apples to oranges, please. Yeah.
Maybe compare the default Red Hat installation to the default XP installation...but never compare a kernel (a complex, but tiny piece opf software) to an entire operating system.
The majority of Windows holes are no tlow-level OS holes, but from other applications.
Just because a bulding is abandoned and scheduled to be torn down does NOT make it condemned...
Are you not paying attention to the above post?
Be aware, however, that if you run your cat5 cable within 6 inches (safe margin) of electrical sources, you will see interference and will experience performance problems. I'm not sure what your electrical people are doing
So, the person was talking about electricity mains - 110V~ current, not the decidedly non-destructive phone lines. The comment was merely pointing out that phone lines are usually terminated near power. Nonetheless, phone installers usually keep the line away from power for the same reason you'll want to keep your 'net (video, etc.) away from it.
I suppose I just kinda realized that: I don't question teh computer, because I understand it on some level. Same with the TV. I know what it can do and what it can't do; I don't fear it will malfunction and make me sterile or something.
Those people that don't understand such things...I dunno if I'll ever understand them. After all, it's my fascination in such things that drives me to understand them. I simply can't fathom using something without at least some interest in why it works the way it does.
I think people are missing the *real* comparison here, the classic cars to computers. What's great is it rorks really well here.
Think of cars in the 70s. They were all and mechanical and made of many discrete parts. So were computers. You could get the plans to an Apple I and build your own computer out of many ICs.
Now, you buy a car and it's made out fewer, more integrated parts. Same with your computer. There are still standardized interfaces, however. You can get a new video card, you just can't build your own motherboard. You can get a new car radio, but it's a bit more difficult to tweak the ignition timing.
Think of it as a natural progression of the technology. *Everything* is getting more integrated and digital these days. It's not a concerted effort to make hacking a car/computer harder, it's an effort to make them cheaper to make and more efficient.
Really, what would AT&T have to gain now? E@H is losing 50% or better of their user base in three months. They have lost a huge amount of money, and all AT&T would gain out of such a deal would be some additional infrastructure. So what? They're already well on their way to supporting all their users that used to be on @Home with their current infrastructure.
Not to mention the political side of it - Excite cut AT&T off, while the other companies remained connected. Pissing off a big company like that is not they way to convince them you're worthy of doing business with.
What? Who said anything about any "NSA?"
What is this "government" thing you speak of?
Technically, it was the NSA, but whatever ;)
(KARMA WHORE!)
True, but if you heat up your computer too much, it starts to have issues. In general, your components will fail a lon time before the case - the only time I've seen the opposite take place is when a computer survives a fire.
I absolutely adore the idea of TV-to-video overlay over an independent bus, and technically it should be possible, but I doubt it would work out.
...unless the breakout box's bridge chip is super-intelligent and knows to keep traffic off the main bus, which I suppose it could be...
I recognize the quote in your .sig.
.sigs, but oh well.
Yes, it's lame to reply to
YAY SPACE GHOST!
(I'm entirely too happy about that, and will now go to sleep.)
Oates said he uses his computer for games, and that the computer discs police found were blanks used to record music.
/dev/audio, though I suppose it could be done. Weirder things have happened ;) Really, why do people try lame-ass excuses like that? It's like having your wife walk in on you cheating, and you saying "Oh, I was just giving her a massage." "Riiiight. With your tongue?"
/.-er, he would have stashed the data in GPG-encrypted form, on a two-session disc. The first session, a few audio tracks. "See? It's just an audio disc, this is my old garage band."
I suppose it's possible. I've never heard a database piped to
If anything, it shows how technically inept this guy was. If he was a
As was said, it's accelerated by *some* drivers, but not all. have a 3dfx card? you're screwed. Furthermore, it's only accelerated by nVidia cards to a point. If you take a 1024x768x32 transparent window and drag it around on your 1280x960 screen, it will be DOG SLOW. Your little ICQ window, on the other hand, will feel quite snappy.
Finally, this is old news. I had a freeware app - that DIDN'T require VB runtimes - do this a year ago. Stardock had a program to benchmark this last summer even. (www.xpbench.com) It's not news, it's not even that interesting. The poster makes it seem like this has never been done before, when all this is is a little utility for 2000/XP that increases functionality a bit.
It's not like Mac OS X hasn't had transparency for over a year now (counting the betas.)