Install Red Hat Enterprise or CentOS and you're covered 7 years for both desktop and server. Fedora, like regular Ubuntu releases, are focused on features rather than longevity. The releases are just branched and branded differently rather than being done inline like Ubuntu. I prefer the Red Hat model, since they start with a feature set frozen from an established release rather than doing a new release with new features. I trust a "dot zero" release of RHEL/CentOS far more than I trust a "dot zero" version of Ubuntu LTS.
The EV-1 was interesting, but not particularly practical. Limited range, limited seating, relatively high cost, primitive battery technology (low lifecycle, poor performance in lower temperatures). And ultimately limited appeal. The waiting list peaked at a whopping five thousand vehicles, and supposedly only fifty of the people who signed on the waiting list actually purchased a vehicle when offered. Even if all five thousand had bought that's still far too few vehicles to make it economically feasible to maintain part production through the lifetime of the vehicle.
On the other hand, GM is expecting to start a full production run of the Volt on their newer E-flex drivetrain starting in 2010.
See also OpenFiler for another option. Linux based, has a slightly different feature set. Supports snapshots, ldap and kerberos auth, which FreeNAS seems to be missing at this time (unless I missed something or the wiki is outdated). Doubtless missing a few things FreeNAS has; e.g. AFS.
There was a long term support project for Fedora once upon a time - the Fedora Legacy project. The reason that dwindled and CentOS has thrived is the short release cycle of Fedora is suited where stability and testing take a back seat to features. Simple as that.
And how the hell is CentOS more a community project than Fedora? The entire goal is to produce an exact replica of Red Hat Enterprise, which has no direct community involvement. Fedora, on the other hand, has more packages maintained by the community than by Red Hat employees.
Show me a webmail client (or hell, even a desktop client) where I can drill down in my mail box searching for a specific message by applying successive filters (e.g. select from boss@myemployer.om, zoom, select with subject "training", zoom, select with date before "Jan-01-2005", zoom, select with date after "Dec-31-2004", zoom). Sure most clients allow you to build search queries like that all at once but I regularly find myself wanting to refine results after doing an initial search.
I've tried a number of different webmail systems - Outlook Web Access, Zimbra, Squirrelmail, Roundcube, Horde, Hastymail, Gmail. They've all struck me as cumbersome and slow, most are also fairly inflexible on top of that. I keep one enabled for casual access to my mail from public kiosks and the like but stick to a mix of (Al)Pine and Evolution otherwise.
Does that mean my setup is right for everyone? Not by a long shot. It just means that for my typical use patterns and requirements webmail is suboptimal.
Other places like the United States. We have a net gain of a few hundred square miles of forest a year. Of course we have a net loss of "old growth" forests, so people who want to demonize our habits focus on that instead.:)
Far too many. The world is rife with uneducated consumers who shop on price (and occasionally advice from incompetent sales people).
Just last week a friend asked why his father's brand new computer was taking so long to start. Turned out he was running Vista on 448MB (64MB of the installed memory was dedicated to integrated video).
On the plus side, it seems that most machines are coming with 1GB minimum these days, even from the big box retailers.
I just don't understand how they could not have for seen this shortage.
They grossly underestimaed sales. Analyst forecasts were way short as well, so it's not like they were alone in that. They introduced a significantly different product marketed to a much wider demographic than the industry addressed previously. I would have been surprised if their projections were correct since it was essentially just an educated guess.
And while it was good for sales and installed base that they didn't suffer the typical depressed sales in the summer months, it also means they lost the opportunity to warehouse additional stock for the holiday season. And because of the lead time required to expand capacity they're pretty much stuck.
I believe that the current plan doesn't actually call for any additional production increases. Additional production wouldn't come online before the holiday anyways and the current production rate of 1.8 million units per month is comfortably ahead of non-holiday sales even discounting that latent demand will decrease over time.
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Actually, no. The Arcade bundle comes with a composite cable, just like the Wii.
It also only includes a 256MB memory card, compared with 512MB built in to the Wii. If you want more you need to buy the hard drive or another (overpriced, proprietary) memory card. Looking on Amazon the cards run $35 for 512MB, while the Wii will take bog standard SD cards (about $10 for 2GB).
And the Wii also includes wireless networking out of the box instead of requiring a $100 adapter.
That being said, it's still a good price. Definitely an attractive option if you're looking for an HD gaming option.
So a Wii with a lot more accessories is in the same price range with a more modestly equipped PS3 or 360. Gotcha.
Not sure why you think that's a typical setup. Of all the people I know with a Wii only one has more than two controllers, and that's because they host gatherings on a regular basis. Price for adding controllers to any other console is going to be similar, so that hardly makes a difference.
Most movies on Blu-ray are MPEG-2 (38.11% vs 35.44% MPEG-4 AVC vs 26.46% VC-1). On HD-DVD, though, it is predominantly VC-1 (86.50% vs 10.12% MPEG-4 AVC vs 3.37% MPEG-2).
(Great that the studios are making such good use of all that extra space on Blu-ray?)
Bet the cables and consumables weren't cheaper though.:) I used to work at Ingram Micro, so I knew what they paid for product; most cables had 1200-2000% markup on them.
I know Slashdot has sets the bar low on what constitutes news, but some asshat director dredging up a conspiracy theory as old as the formats themselves? Please.
Heh... never had the, um, pleasure of being responsible for a VMS box. Last time I used one it was just a hopping point from the local university to the AIX machine my main account was on. Back in the dark days of support I would try to help with almost anything people called about, but was officially only dealt with Solaris, HP/UX, OpenServer and Unixware. Support a mix of Solaris and CentOS now that we've retired the last of our Slackware and Red Hat boxes.
On private machines I've done Slackware, Red Hat, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Debian, SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS. Personally settled on CentOS for servers, Fedora for desktops. I still have a pair of Ultrasparcs running Debian, but I'm migrating off them. Prefer the guaranteed support cycle of CentOS and generally find it easier to spin custom RPMs when I need to.
Definitely agree about the stuff that should Just Work. The perception of quality lies almost solely in the fit and finish rather than the underlying architecture. Most people don't care if their machine stays up for years if it doesn't do what they want.:)
On the other hand it's pretty drastic how much better things are now than a few years ago. Gives me hope for the future.
Wow, I rarely get an actual crash (or lock-up). The majority of the issues I come across (on Dell laptops, which work provides) are broken features - e.g. most things using the older intel driver so my 1400x1050 screen gets driven at 1280x1024 instead (until manually installing and configuring 915resolution or switching to the newer mode-setting driver by hand).
To be fair, I heard Fiesty Fawn was reasonable when done as a fresh install, but the main reason I ventured to Ubuntu land was the primarily the promise of easy version upgrades (and a competent desktop implementation, but I didn't find them to be significantly ahead in that department). With that failing, I had no real motivation to stick with it. Considering how many issues I've heard with Gutsy Gibbon, I don't regret my decision in the slightest.
For the record, I'm not a distro hopping newbie or anything. I've been running Linux on the desktop exclusively for about twelve years now and have been professionally supporting Linux and Unix for about almost a decade now (two years phone support, seven years as an administrator and the past year as an platform engineer).
Ever heard of Google? 98% of employee contributions are to Democrats, and Google's founder has been a frequent contributor to the Democratic party. I think they qualify as successful.
The http prefix only speaks for transport (not content) and the HTML tag doesn't indicate version, so it does fill an actual need. More importantly though, HTML is an SGML application; the document type declaration is a fundamental requirement. If you don't like DOCTYPE you need to go back in time about twenty years and argue with the ISO committee.:)
I gave up on Ubuntu when an upgrade to Fiesty Fawn completely hosed my install (audio, x11, pam and acpi all broken to some degree). The comments from coworkers regarding Gutsy Gibbon don't convince me they've fixed their QA processes. For example: "I would make a snarky comment about linux, but ubuntu is less stable than xp on this laptop." and "Note to self: Never ever ever ever install Ubuntu ever again."
TDMA causes a lot more interferenc. Try putting a cell phone next to a computer speaker sometime; phones using TDMA signalling, such as GSM, will often cause a pulsing buzz, particularly when receiving an incoming call or text message
TDMA has less effective throughput in mobile applications. In order to prevent interference with other users a certain amount of dead air is left between time slots.
The prevailing CDMA standard (CDMA2000) includes high accuracy timing signals, which enables low cost implementation of location services in the form of aGPS. Since GSM lacks this the carriers had to look elsewhere and have largely standardized on U-TDOA, which also provides acurate results but at the cost of deploying "time measurement units" throughout the network.
It should be noted that as of UTMS the GSM air interface has also switched to a CDMA variant (W-CDMA), so some of the advantages don't apply to 3G service. But of the two major GSM carriers only AT&T is offering 3G service and only in major metropolitan areas and some of their major handsets (*cough*iPhone*cough*) only support the "2.5G" EDGE standard.
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Install Red Hat Enterprise or CentOS and you're covered 7 years for both desktop and server. Fedora, like regular Ubuntu releases, are focused on features rather than longevity. The releases are just branched and branded differently rather than being done inline like Ubuntu. I prefer the Red Hat model, since they start with a feature set frozen from an established release rather than doing a new release with new features. I trust a "dot zero" release of RHEL/CentOS far more than I trust a "dot zero" version of Ubuntu LTS.
The EV-1 was interesting, but not particularly practical. Limited range, limited seating, relatively high cost, primitive battery technology (low lifecycle, poor performance in lower temperatures). And ultimately limited appeal. The waiting list peaked at a whopping five thousand vehicles, and supposedly only fifty of the people who signed on the waiting list actually purchased a vehicle when offered. Even if all five thousand had bought that's still far too few vehicles to make it economically feasible to maintain part production through the lifetime of the vehicle.
On the other hand, GM is expecting to start a full production run of the Volt on their newer E-flex drivetrain starting in 2010.
See also OpenFiler for another option. Linux based, has a slightly different feature set. Supports snapshots, ldap and kerberos auth, which FreeNAS seems to be missing at this time (unless I missed something or the wiki is outdated). Doubtless missing a few things FreeNAS has; e.g. AFS.
There was a long term support project for Fedora once upon a time - the Fedora Legacy project. The reason that dwindled and CentOS has thrived is the short release cycle of Fedora is suited where stability and testing take a back seat to features. Simple as that.
And how the hell is CentOS more a community project than Fedora? The entire goal is to produce an exact replica of Red Hat Enterprise, which has no direct community involvement. Fedora, on the other hand, has more packages maintained by the community than by Red Hat employees.
Show me a webmail client (or hell, even a desktop client) where I can drill down in my mail box searching for a specific message by applying successive filters (e.g. select from boss@myemployer.om, zoom, select with subject "training", zoom, select with date before "Jan-01-2005", zoom, select with date after "Dec-31-2004", zoom). Sure most clients allow you to build search queries like that all at once but I regularly find myself wanting to refine results after doing an initial search.
I've tried a number of different webmail systems - Outlook Web Access, Zimbra, Squirrelmail, Roundcube, Horde, Hastymail, Gmail. They've all struck me as cumbersome and slow, most are also fairly inflexible on top of that. I keep one enabled for casual access to my mail from public kiosks and the like but stick to a mix of (Al)Pine and Evolution otherwise.
Does that mean my setup is right for everyone? Not by a long shot. It just means that for my typical use patterns and requirements webmail is suboptimal.
Oh yeah, noone uses vi on Red Hat. *eyeroll*
Um, too completely different goals? Fedora is cutting (sometimes bleeding) edge, CentOS/RHEL is conservative with a long support cycle.
Other places like the United States. We have a net gain of a few hundred square miles of forest a year. Of course we have a net loss of "old growth" forests, so people who want to demonize our habits focus on that instead. :)
Far too many. The world is rife with uneducated consumers who shop on price (and occasionally advice from incompetent sales people).
Just last week a friend asked why his father's brand new computer was taking so long to start. Turned out he was running Vista on 448MB (64MB of the installed memory was dedicated to integrated video).
On the plus side, it seems that most machines are coming with 1GB minimum these days, even from the big box retailers.
I just don't understand how they could not have for seen this shortage.
They grossly underestimaed sales. Analyst forecasts were way short as well, so it's not like they were alone in that. They introduced a significantly different product marketed to a much wider demographic than the industry addressed previously. I would have been surprised if their projections were correct since it was essentially just an educated guess.
And while it was good for sales and installed base that they didn't suffer the typical depressed sales in the summer months, it also means they lost the opportunity to warehouse additional stock for the holiday season. And because of the lead time required to expand capacity they're pretty much stuck.
I believe that the current plan doesn't actually call for any additional production increases. Additional production wouldn't come online before the holiday anyways and the current production rate of 1.8 million units per month is comfortably ahead of non-holiday sales even discounting that latent demand will decrease over time.
Actually, no. The Arcade bundle comes with a composite cable, just like the Wii.
It also only includes a 256MB memory card, compared with 512MB built in to the Wii. If you want more you need to buy the hard drive or another (overpriced, proprietary) memory card. Looking on Amazon the cards run $35 for 512MB, while the Wii will take bog standard SD cards (about $10 for 2GB).
And the Wii also includes wireless networking out of the box instead of requiring a $100 adapter.
That being said, it's still a good price. Definitely an attractive option if you're looking for an HD gaming option.
So a Wii with a lot more accessories is in the same price range with a more modestly equipped PS3 or 360. Gotcha.
Not sure why you think that's a typical setup. Of all the people I know with a Wii only one has more than two controllers, and that's because they host gatherings on a regular basis. Price for adding controllers to any other console is going to be similar, so that hardly makes a difference.
Most movies on Blu-ray are MPEG-2 (38.11% vs 35.44% MPEG-4 AVC vs 26.46% VC-1). On HD-DVD, though, it is predominantly VC-1 (86.50% vs 10.12% MPEG-4 AVC vs 3.37% MPEG-2).
(Great that the studios are making such good use of all that extra space on Blu-ray?)
Bet the cables and consumables weren't cheaper though. :) I used to work at Ingram Micro, so I knew what they paid for product; most cables had 1200-2000% markup on them.
Who's the dummkopf? Egghead's assets were sold to Amazon when it filed bankruptcy. NewEgg has nothing to do with them.
I know Slashdot has sets the bar low on what constitutes news, but some asshat director dredging up a conspiracy theory as old as the formats themselves? Please.
Heh... never had the, um, pleasure of being responsible for a VMS box. Last time I used one it was just a hopping point from the local university to the AIX machine my main account was on. Back in the dark days of support I would try to help with almost anything people called about, but was officially only dealt with Solaris, HP/UX, OpenServer and Unixware. Support a mix of Solaris and CentOS now that we've retired the last of our Slackware and Red Hat boxes.
:)
On private machines I've done Slackware, Red Hat, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Debian, SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS. Personally settled on CentOS for servers, Fedora for desktops. I still have a pair of Ultrasparcs running Debian, but I'm migrating off them. Prefer the guaranteed support cycle of CentOS and generally find it easier to spin custom RPMs when I need to.
Definitely agree about the stuff that should Just Work. The perception of quality lies almost solely in the fit and finish rather than the underlying architecture. Most people don't care if their machine stays up for years if it doesn't do what they want.
On the other hand it's pretty drastic how much better things are now than a few years ago. Gives me hope for the future.
Wow, I rarely get an actual crash (or lock-up). The majority of the issues I come across (on Dell laptops, which work provides) are broken features - e.g. most things using the older intel driver so my 1400x1050 screen gets driven at 1280x1024 instead (until manually installing and configuring 915resolution or switching to the newer mode-setting driver by hand).
To be fair, I heard Fiesty Fawn was reasonable when done as a fresh install, but the main reason I ventured to Ubuntu land was the primarily the promise of easy version upgrades (and a competent desktop implementation, but I didn't find them to be significantly ahead in that department). With that failing, I had no real motivation to stick with it. Considering how many issues I've heard with Gutsy Gibbon, I don't regret my decision in the slightest.
For the record, I'm not a distro hopping newbie or anything. I've been running Linux on the desktop exclusively for about twelve years now and have been professionally supporting Linux and Unix for about almost a decade now (two years phone support, seven years as an administrator and the past year as an platform engineer).
Ever heard of Google? 98% of employee contributions are to Democrats, and Google's founder has been a frequent contributor to the Democratic party. I think they qualify as successful.
The http prefix only speaks for transport (not content) and the HTML tag doesn't indicate version, so it does fill an actual need. More importantly though, HTML is an SGML application; the document type declaration is a fundamental requirement. If you don't like DOCTYPE you need to go back in time about twenty years and argue with the ISO committee. :)
Erm, you do realize DOCTYPE was in original HTML draft published in 1993, before the W3C existed and almost five years before XML existed, right?
I gave up on Ubuntu when an upgrade to Fiesty Fawn completely hosed my install (audio, x11, pam and acpi all broken to some degree). The comments from coworkers regarding Gutsy Gibbon don't convince me they've fixed their QA processes. For example: "I would make a snarky comment about linux, but ubuntu is less stable than xp on this laptop." and "Note to self: Never ever ever ever install Ubuntu ever again."
TDMA causes a lot more interferenc. Try putting a cell phone next to a computer speaker sometime; phones using TDMA signalling, such as GSM, will often cause a pulsing buzz, particularly when receiving an incoming call or text message
TDMA has less effective throughput in mobile applications. In order to prevent interference with other users a certain amount of dead air is left between time slots.
The prevailing CDMA standard (CDMA2000) includes high accuracy timing signals, which enables low cost implementation of location services in the form of aGPS. Since GSM lacks this the carriers had to look elsewhere and have largely standardized on U-TDOA, which also provides acurate results but at the cost of deploying "time measurement units" throughout the network.
It should be noted that as of UTMS the GSM air interface has also switched to a CDMA variant (W-CDMA), so some of the advantages don't apply to 3G service. But of the two major GSM carriers only AT&T is offering 3G service and only in major metropolitan areas and some of their major handsets (*cough*iPhone*cough*) only support the "2.5G" EDGE standard.
Erm, that's an unlikely motivation considering the iPhone wouldn't work on their network (GSM device, CDMA network).
A proprietary phone system used by seven out of twelve major cellular carriers in the United States?