How about "I've been actively involved in the CentOS community for the past several months. As most of you know I've become disinterested in WBEL." being right on the front page of http://www.whiteboxlinux.net/?
Seriously. Hard drives seem to have been stuck at 200 to 250 GB, with about 300 GB tops, for the last year or so.
Eh? Hitatchi released a 400GB drive in March. Seagate shipped one in November. Maxtor is lagging a bit behind with their top capacity being 300GB (thought with a 16MB cache), and Western Digital tops out at 320GB.
Really... Interesting how most industry analysts have been saying for years that plumetting entry level prices are largely responsible for growth of the PC market.
Find me a credible source that explains why the major manufacturers have been clamouring to underbid one another for years, how a budget machine manufacturer managed to become the third largest computer manufacturer in five years, and why the white box (largely budget) market is so large (~ 44% of worldwide desktop shipments).
Even if we posit people are likely to spend more than bare entry level (assuming they have that option), a lot of people are going to forego an eMac with no add-ons for a Dell with an LCD screen, DVD burner, double the disk space, faster processor, and a free printer to boot. And yes, there is a signifigant segment of both the realized and, more importantly, potential market that won't or simply can't budget $800 or more for a computer. Or, as trends seem to be indicating, will opt for an entry level laptop instead.
An entry level PC is just dandy for a lot of people's needs. Both of my primary machines are actually slower than a current entry level desktop would be by virtue of their age (4+ years on both) and I'm not feeling any real pressure to upgrade just yet.
Does it suprise anyone that people who have $250 to blow on a top end music player are more likely to have spare money to blow on "premium" hardware?
I don't see this as heralding any sort of mass exodus to Apple hardware; just a indication that they're reaching their target market - electronics enthusiasts with large discretionary income. The bulk of the market will continue to be "value" shoppers who will pass over both the iPod and Apple in general because they're too spendy.
Considering it's more than twice the cost of an entry level Dell with comparable specs, yes. It always amazes me how many people are so sheltered they don't get that even a $350 PC counts as a major purchase for a lot of people, and blowing an extra $450 for a different machine that doesn't really do more (and in many cases does less, because a fair amount of software is unavailable) is needless extravagance at best.
You can get an true online UPS in the $500USD range, but typical equipment isn't going to be so sensitive as to require that. A line interactive UPS is fine for a machine if you didn't put in a cheap power supply.
(Though the range on the APC is pretty damn wide. If memory serves Tripp Lite, Best Power, and a couple other manufacturers are much less permissive.)
Phooey. I bought my keyboard for $5 years ago. According to the date on the back, it's over twelve years old and still has excellent tactile response - and infinitely better than crap you spend $15 a pop on.
Of course you're not! It was a regular on USA Up All Night. (The painful part wasn't the bad movies - it was Gilbert Gottfried. It was such a relief when Rhonda Shear took over.)
I was assuming that if you've had the account long enough to get sick of spam that there would be a mail folder already, so you'd either need to delete it and THEN do the command you gave, or just pass the force flag so it'll delete the mail folder and replace it with the symlink.:)
I evaluated SA as a possible filtering solution where I work, and it was a full order of magnitude slower than bogofilter even with every test disabled. And that *is* running spamc/spamd. Without the daemon it was even worse.
So it may be a nice solution for people who are running it on a small scale, for large installations (e.g. we get over six million SMTP connections a day) it requires a lot more hardware thrown at it.
It'd probably take SuSE longer to polish a whole desktop environment (because face it, historically, SuSE's releases of GNOME have been pretty shoddy, they've even released it straight from gnome.org at times) than Ximian to make Evolution blend in a little better with KDE (Evolution/KDE integration isn't horrible.. since a lot of Evolution users, in fact, use KDE)
Novell already bought a polished GNOME desktop though. Ximian does more than just Evolution, ya know.
Not to mention that Linux performs better on the "low end" (read 2 to 4 CPU) configurations that dominate the computer market. Is "enterprise scalability" important? Yes, very very much so, but only in a tiny tiny fragment of the enterprise market.
You know, this claim is oft repeated, but I've never seen a single statistic backing it up.
I won't claim that it's flat out untrue, since I don't have statistics available either. On the other hand, if there *were* solid statistics backing it up, I would expect Apple (and Mac fans or zealots) to be more forthcoming with them.
The feature list says that the query set is restricted to SQL99 and Oracle *could* be used. However, if you download the code they point to in the CVS repository, it links to libpq, and not a generic library like libgda.:)
I suppose its possible they're working on a generic backend, but a grep of the repository makes no mention of anything but Postgres that I could see.
Let's all standardize on Gnome and Metacity. Oh, you mean some people prefer KDE? Or IceWM? Oh well, nice thought...
I really wish people would get it through their f*@!ing heads that no matter how eloquently you argue that a single implementation would be a good thing, it simply won't happen until everybody agrees on what the best one is, which will never ever happen. Ever. Period.
Even if one of the two primary desktops for *nix (i.e. Gnome and KDE) ever becomes prominant over the other, it's not going to stop people from programming in marginal toolkits (e.g. FLTK) if that's what suits them. And prominance isn't going to come from someone saying "oh, we should really standardize"; it's going to come from inertia, as one becomes definitively more popular (either among users or developers).
But, hey, don't let that stop people from making themselves feel smart by pointing out the obvious.
Because some people have older machines that take several days to compile large subsystems such as Gnome and KDE?
Because some people run dozens or hundreds of machine with identical configurations, so compiling the same package on every single machine is pointless?
Because companies prefer working against a known build of a piece of software for support reasons?
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How about "I've been actively involved in the CentOS community for the past several months. As most of you know I've become disinterested in WBEL." being right on the front page of http://www.whiteboxlinux.net/?
PC EZ-Bake Oven
Or you could use a grill pan.
Seriously. Hard drives seem to have been stuck at 200 to 250 GB, with about 300 GB tops, for the last year or so.
Eh? Hitatchi released a 400GB drive in March. Seagate shipped one in November. Maxtor is lagging a bit behind with their top capacity being 300GB (thought with a 16MB cache), and Western Digital tops out at 320GB.
And they changed their load balancers to give priority to paid users months ago. (Rather than keeping a seperate pool.)
The figure I quoted was for the US market. Try again. You might want to provide a cite, rather than just conjecture.
Really... Interesting how most industry analysts have been saying for years that plumetting entry level prices are largely responsible for growth of the PC market.
Find me a credible source that explains why the major manufacturers have been clamouring to underbid one another for years, how a budget machine manufacturer managed to become the third largest computer manufacturer in five years, and why the white box (largely budget) market is so large (~ 44% of worldwide desktop shipments).
Even if we posit people are likely to spend more than bare entry level (assuming they have that option), a lot of people are going to forego an eMac with no add-ons for a Dell with an LCD screen, DVD burner, double the disk space, faster processor, and a free printer to boot. And yes, there is a signifigant segment of both the realized and, more importantly, potential market that won't or simply can't budget $800 or more for a computer. Or, as trends seem to be indicating, will opt for an entry level laptop instead.
An entry level PC is just dandy for a lot of people's needs. Both of my primary machines are actually slower than a current entry level desktop would be by virtue of their age (4+ years on both) and I'm not feeling any real pressure to upgrade just yet.
The latest figures on average desktop price is $721, up from $705 in January 2003, but still below the cost of even the cheapest model Apple offers.
Does it suprise anyone that people who have $250 to blow on a top end music player are more likely to have spare money to blow on "premium" hardware?
I don't see this as heralding any sort of mass exodus to Apple hardware; just a indication that they're reaching their target market - electronics enthusiasts with large discretionary income. The bulk of the market will continue to be "value" shoppers who will pass over both the iPod and Apple in general because they're too spendy.
Considering it's more than twice the cost of an entry level Dell with comparable specs, yes. It always amazes me how many people are so sheltered they don't get that even a $350 PC counts as a major purchase for a lot of people, and blowing an extra $450 for a different machine that doesn't really do more (and in many cases does less, because a fair amount of software is unavailable) is needless extravagance at best.
You can get an true online UPS in the $500USD range, but typical equipment isn't going to be so sensitive as to require that. A line interactive UPS is fine for a machine if you didn't put in a cheap power supply.
(Though the range on the APC is pretty damn wide. If memory serves Tripp Lite, Best Power, and a couple other manufacturers are much less permissive.)
Phooey. I bought my keyboard for $5 years ago. According to the date on the back, it's over twelve years old and still has excellent tactile response - and infinitely better than crap you spend $15 a pop on.
Of course you're not! It was a regular on USA Up All Night. (The painful part wasn't the bad movies - it was Gilbert Gottfried. It was such a relief when Rhonda Shear took over.)
I was assuming that if you've had the account long enough to get sick of spam that there would be a mail folder already, so you'd either need to delete it and THEN do the command you gave, or just pass the force flag so it'll delete the mail folder and replace it with the symlink. :)
I evaluated SA as a possible filtering solution where I work, and it was a full order of magnitude slower than bogofilter even with every test disabled. And that *is* running spamc/spamd. Without the daemon it was even worse.
So it may be a nice solution for people who are running it on a small scale, for large installations (e.g. we get over six million SMTP connections a day) it requires a lot more hardware thrown at it.
That's great until you get: ln: /var/spool/mail/toomuchnoise: File exists
I think what you *really* want is:
ln -sf /dev/null /var/spool/mail/$USER
Novell already bought a polished GNOME desktop though. Ximian does more than just Evolution, ya know.
Solaris is far more scalable than Linux
Solaris also sucks hairy moose cock on Intel.
Not to mention that Linux performs better on the "low end" (read 2 to 4 CPU) configurations that dominate the computer market. Is "enterprise scalability" important? Yes, very very much so, but only in a tiny tiny fragment of the enterprise market.
You know, this claim is oft repeated, but I've never seen a single statistic backing it up.
I won't claim that it's flat out untrue, since I don't have statistics available either. On the other hand, if there *were* solid statistics backing it up, I would expect Apple (and Mac fans or zealots) to be more forthcoming with them.
The feature list says that the query set is restricted to SQL99 and Oracle *could* be used. However, if you download the code they point to in the CVS repository, it links to libpq, and not a generic library like libgda. :)
I suppose its possible they're working on a generic backend, but a grep of the repository makes no mention of anything but Postgres that I could see.
It seems silly to tie the implementation to a single database, when gnome-db is fast approaching 1.0.
Let's all standardize on Gnome and Metacity. Oh, you mean some people prefer KDE? Or IceWM? Oh well, nice thought...
I really wish people would get it through their f*@!ing heads that no matter how eloquently you argue that a single implementation would be a good thing, it simply won't happen until everybody agrees on what the best one is, which will never ever happen. Ever. Period.
Even if one of the two primary desktops for *nix (i.e. Gnome and KDE) ever becomes prominant over the other, it's not going to stop people from programming in marginal toolkits (e.g. FLTK) if that's what suits them. And prominance isn't going to come from someone saying "oh, we should really standardize"; it's going to come from inertia, as one becomes definitively more popular (either among users or developers).
But, hey, don't let that stop people from making themselves feel smart by pointing out the obvious.
Because some people have older machines that take several days to compile large subsystems such as Gnome and KDE?
Because some people run dozens or hundreds of machine with identical configurations, so compiling the same package on every single machine is pointless?
Because companies prefer working against a known build of a piece of software for support reasons?
Source distributions are far from a panacea.
Odd how I've got over a million user's e-mail on ext3 partitions without any data loss or performance issues...