There are a ton of major mail services which completely disallow dynamic IP pools. In theory, I dislike this practice. In practice, I sympathize with people running professional mail servers.
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If you use and know something, why abandon it for the new and shiny?
Sure, Gmail has some neat features, but Pine is an incredibly mature and flexible program, and damn efficient from a user interaction standpoint once you learn to use it.
(I use a mix of clients depending on what I'm doing - primarily Evolution, followed by Pine, followed by a couple varieties of web mail.)
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I go for the best of all worlds personally - have command line clients, IMAP, POP and web mail all available on my mail server.:)
The C64 didn't have "market punch". The Atari 2600 had a higher peak but didn't sustain sales, whereas the C64 was pushing over two million units a year from 1983 to 1986. In total, they shipped 30 million of the buggers, which tops even the estimates of total unit sales for the 2600. Don't have figures on game sales, but I seriously doubt popular titles were struggling to hit 10,000 units.
To say that the emerging microcomputer market didn't have an impact on the video game industry is a bit naive, considering the firms own market research from the time confirmed the success of advertising campaigns aimed at convincing parents that general purpose computers were a better investment.
ATRAC is lossy, and it compares relatively poorly in a lot of listening tests. For example, in this double blind open participation test, it got the lowest score (the other codecs were AAC, MP3, MPC, OGG Vorbis, and WMA Pro).
Keep in mind that the cores in the Xenon (the XBox 360 CPU) are very very simple - single order execution, limited number of execution units, only 64k L1 cache per CPU, and only 1024k shared between all three cores. In other words, designed to clock high to compensate for relatively low per clock throughput. Puts me in mind of the design philosophy of Intel's NetBurst architecture in the P4.
There's speculation that Broadway will be dual core, which would make a huge difference, and rumour has it it'll feature 2MB of L2.
Red Hat does it for free as well, with their support of the Fedora project.:) In that paragraph I was mostly just pointing out that it's not a trivial amount of work.
There is a very important difference between the average freebie distribution and Red Hat Enterprise though - longevity and stability. With most of the free distributions (Fedora included) you're looking two or three years of updates if you're lucky; with Red Hat Enterprise, you're covered until 2012. And typically Red Hat doesn't just blindy repackage new upstream versions. Instead, they backport important fixes and test the bejeezus out of them.
Obviously they're not the only game in town for that either. Their most prominent competitor in this space is Novell, but that's a pay product as well. The reason CentOS is important is that they mirror those benefits of "enterprise" distributions for those of us who do our support in-house.
No distribution is the right fit for all users, though. No need for one platform to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.:)
If it was really that easy, CentOS wouldn't exist because there would be no value to it. For starters, packaging is no small task - one package may not work with glibc because they don't explicitely include errno.h, another has a broken makefile, another may install its files in weird places and give no option for relocating because their authors are jackasses, another utill uses imake and not make, et cetera, et cetera. Never mind building and verifying dependency chains, backporting security fixes, doing regression checking, integrating it into the platform (e.g. setting up log rotation, lsb compliant init scripts, etc).
Red Hat brings a ton of value to the free software world, not just in the resources that the distribution, but in development as well. They employ a very significant number of kernel developers, gcc developers (remember, they bought Cygnus and inherited most of their employees), gnome developers, et cetera. They've acquired a number of previously propriety software and open sourced them - think GFS and Netscape Enterprise Directory Server (now Fedora Directory Server) for starters.
That's not to say I have any qualms about using CentOS. Red Hat benefits from other projects, other projects benefit from Red Hat. That's the beauty of the free software community.
And if the applications you're installing depend on aspell, you'll need to install them whether it's binary or source. Unless it's an optional dependency and you want to build a version with crippled functionality on purpose for a dubious space saving or performance gain.
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None of the admins here has any problem using sudo. And if someone was caught circumventing security policy, they'd be fired. Period.
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Spotlight debuted in Tiger, which was released April 2005, right? The initial release of deskbar-applet was December 2004. And the indexing and "rich search" backend, Beagle, saw it's first release in June 2004.
s/isn't going to be stupid/isn't necessarily going to be stupid/
There are plenty of people who are plenty stupid enough to do this sort of thing. I knew one person who's documentation for building a web server started with checking out CVS versions of various packages.
Passion of the Christ was part of it, but even subtracting that entirely from 2004s revenue would have $9048M in sales, compared to $8838M in 2005. And if you look at the number of tickets sold, they were the lowest since 1997.
I do think the "drop" is seriously overblown, even taking that into account. Hollywood had an incredible string of years largely because of blockbuster franchises - Star Wars ($1122M), Lord of the Rings ($1033M), Harry Potter ($1118M), Spider Man ($777M), Shrek ($704M), Matrix ($592M), Meet The Parents ($445M), X-Men ($372M), The Mummy ($357, $448 if you count the Scorpion King spinoff), and American Pie ($351M). And strong installments in existing franchises - Austin Powers (only counting the 1999 + 2002 releases - $419M), Men In Black 2 ($250M), Toy Story 2 ($246M), Rush Hour 2 ($226M), Batman Begins ($205M).
And of course a lot of incredibly strong individual releases as well - Passion of the Christ ($371M) as you mentioned, Finding Nemo ($339), Pirates of the Caribbean ($305), Sixth Sense ($293M), The Incredibles ($261M), How the Grinch Stole Christmas ($260M), Monsters Inc. ($255M), Bruce Almighty ($242M), My Big Fat Greek Wedding ($241M), War of the Worlds ($234M), Cast Away ($233M), Signs ($228M). All top fifty movies in terms of revenue.
In 2005 they didn't get two of their biggest earners (Harry Potter and Narnia) out the door until the end of the year. Hardly a surprise they came up short.
Wow, so an group of benchmarks chosen by Intel show that their next generation chip is faster that their competitors current generation chip? Big f@#$ing surprise there.
Call me when there's a third party benchmark of same generation chips.
Do you seriously think eight URLs is a valid sample set? I'd bet my left nut that you could find a half dozen left wing sites they aren't blocking and construct a list "proving" they're biased the other direction.
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There are a ton of major mail services which completely disallow dynamic IP pools. In theory, I dislike this practice. In practice, I sympathize with people running professional mail servers.
If you use and know something, why abandon it for the new and shiny?
Sure, Gmail has some neat features, but Pine is an incredibly mature and flexible program, and damn efficient from a user interaction standpoint once you learn to use it.
(I use a mix of clients depending on what I'm doing - primarily Evolution, followed by Pine, followed by a couple varieties of web mail.)
I go for the best of all worlds personally - have command line clients, IMAP, POP and web mail all available on my mail server. :)
Um... bumping horizontal resolution from 240 to 400 lines with S-VHS? Going digital and high definition with D-VHS?
The C64 didn't have "market punch". The Atari 2600 had a higher peak but didn't sustain sales, whereas the C64 was pushing over two million units a year from 1983 to 1986. In total, they shipped 30 million of the buggers, which tops even the estimates of total unit sales for the 2600. Don't have figures on game sales, but I seriously doubt popular titles were struggling to hit 10,000 units.
To say that the emerging microcomputer market didn't have an impact on the video game industry is a bit naive, considering the firms own market research from the time confirmed the success of advertising campaigns aimed at convincing parents that general purpose computers were a better investment.
Minidisc is ATRAC, not AAC.
ATRAC is lossy, and it compares relatively poorly in a lot of listening tests. For example, in this double blind open participation test, it got the lowest score (the other codecs were AAC, MP3, MPC, OGG Vorbis, and WMA Pro).
Keep in mind that the cores in the Xenon (the XBox 360 CPU) are very very simple - single order execution, limited number of execution units, only 64k L1 cache per CPU, and only 1024k shared between all three cores. In other words, designed to clock high to compensate for relatively low per clock throughput. Puts me in mind of the design philosophy of Intel's NetBurst architecture in the P4.
There's speculation that Broadway will be dual core, which would make a huge difference, and rumour has it it'll feature 2MB of L2.
Work on DR17 was first announced in 2001-08 and didn't even make it into CVS until 2005-05. I'm not going to lay any bets on a release date. :)
I'm impressed you got XP installed on a machine with the same specs as an iBook. I thought Microsoft dropped PPC support after NT4. ;)
Yeah, and there will probably be a beta version out any year now.
Red Hat does it for free as well, with their support of the Fedora project. :) In that paragraph I was mostly just pointing out that it's not a trivial amount of work.
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There is a very important difference between the average freebie distribution and Red Hat Enterprise though - longevity and stability. With most of the free distributions (Fedora included) you're looking two or three years of updates if you're lucky; with Red Hat Enterprise, you're covered until 2012. And typically Red Hat doesn't just blindy repackage new upstream versions. Instead, they backport important fixes and test the bejeezus out of them.
Obviously they're not the only game in town for that either. Their most prominent competitor in this space is Novell, but that's a pay product as well. The reason CentOS is important is that they mirror those benefits of "enterprise" distributions for those of us who do our support in-house.
No distribution is the right fit for all users, though. No need for one platform to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them.
I compare like to like; production release to production release, in this case.
RHEL 4 Update 3 was generally available March 8th, less than two weeks ago.
If it was really that easy, CentOS wouldn't exist because there would be no value to it. For starters, packaging is no small task - one package may not work with glibc because they don't explicitely include errno.h, another has a broken makefile, another may install its files in weird places and give no option for relocating because their authors are jackasses, another utill uses imake and not make, et cetera, et cetera. Never mind building and verifying dependency chains, backporting security fixes, doing regression checking, integrating it into the platform (e.g. setting up log rotation, lsb compliant init scripts, etc).
Red Hat brings a ton of value to the free software world, not just in the resources that the distribution, but in development as well. They employ a very significant number of kernel developers, gcc developers (remember, they bought Cygnus and inherited most of their employees), gnome developers, et cetera. They've acquired a number of previously propriety software and open sourced them - think GFS and Netscape Enterprise Directory Server (now Fedora Directory Server) for starters.
That's not to say I have any qualms about using CentOS. Red Hat benefits from other projects, other projects benefit from Red Hat. That's the beauty of the free software community.
The same reason they use Celerons and Semprons when Pentiums and Athlons are available.
And if the applications you're installing depend on aspell, you'll need to install them whether it's binary or source. Unless it's an optional dependency and you want to build a version with crippled functionality on purpose for a dubious space saving or performance gain.
None of the admins here has any problem using sudo. And if someone was caught circumventing security policy, they'd be fired. Period.
Someone did. The fork has been abandoned already.
Spotlight debuted in Tiger, which was released April 2005, right? The initial release of deskbar-applet was December 2004. And the indexing and "rich search" backend, Beagle, saw it's first release in June 2004.
s/isn't going to be stupid/isn't necessarily going to be stupid/
There are plenty of people who are plenty stupid enough to do this sort of thing. I knew one person who's documentation for building a web server started with checking out CVS versions of various packages.
How is that different from unselecting aspell when installing a binary distribution exactly?
Passion of the Christ was part of it, but even subtracting that entirely from 2004s revenue would have $9048M in sales, compared to $8838M in 2005. And if you look at the number of tickets sold, they were the lowest since 1997.
I do think the "drop" is seriously overblown, even taking that into account. Hollywood had an incredible string of years largely because of blockbuster franchises - Star Wars ($1122M), Lord of the Rings ($1033M), Harry Potter ($1118M), Spider Man ($777M), Shrek ($704M), Matrix ($592M), Meet The Parents ($445M), X-Men ($372M), The Mummy ($357, $448 if you count the Scorpion King spinoff), and American Pie ($351M). And strong installments in existing franchises - Austin Powers (only counting the 1999 + 2002 releases - $419M), Men In Black 2 ($250M), Toy Story 2 ($246M), Rush Hour 2 ($226M), Batman Begins ($205M).
And of course a lot of incredibly strong individual releases as well - Passion of the Christ ($371M) as you mentioned, Finding Nemo ($339), Pirates of the Caribbean ($305), Sixth Sense ($293M), The Incredibles ($261M), How the Grinch Stole Christmas ($260M), Monsters Inc. ($255M), Bruce Almighty ($242M), My Big Fat Greek Wedding ($241M), War of the Worlds ($234M), Cast Away ($233M), Signs ($228M). All top fifty movies in terms of revenue.
In 2005 they didn't get two of their biggest earners (Harry Potter and Narnia) out the door until the end of the year. Hardly a surprise they came up short.
Wow, so an group of benchmarks chosen by Intel show that their next generation chip is faster that their competitors current generation chip? Big f@#$ing surprise there.
Call me when there's a third party benchmark of same generation chips.
Do you seriously think eight URLs is a valid sample set? I'd bet my left nut that you could find a half dozen left wing sites they aren't blocking and construct a list "proving" they're biased the other direction.