I still remember the time I was troubleshooting a backup problem - Netware, several of our largest clients had this problem where SPX would just hang up intermittently. Since backup on Netware used SPX, it was the backup software that hung on top of that, so to the customer, we were the bad guys. I searched through our call-tracking database and noticed a pattern. Every last one of the customers that had this problem were using high-end Compaq servers (Proliants?). We couldn't reproduce the problem in-house, so our coder's couldn't pick it apart. So we *ahem* borrowed a Proliant from IT, blew away NT and installed Novell, and whaddya know? we were able to reproduce the problem. But by that time, we had lost three of these major accounts, and our company was already in the early stages of being slowly digested following a rather unfriendly merger, I moved on. I don't think they ever did solve that problem. It happened with various brands of ethernet cards, so we couldn't pin it down to a specific driver, and we couldn't pin it down to the OS or SPX itself, because it only happened on those Compaq Proliants (in fact, when we replaced the Compaq at one customer site, with a generic off-brand clone, the problem disappeared.).
Nothing torqued me off more than the disk partition crap though. You never knew if repartitioning the disk was going to break something or not. Sometimes you could do that just fine, other times, you'd never boot the machine again. ..
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yeah, the DeskPro case was awesome to work on, the way everything came apart easily, with no tools, everything folded out nicely on hinges. Absolutely fantastic. Almost as nice as some of the Mac's I've worked on. ..
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, the SUV trend notwithstanding. In fact, I think the SUV trend is an American consumer backlash against the econobox trend of the 80's and early 90's, because the economy's been so good, we can afford to run these things now.
But still, these SUV's are not "better vehicles" for the consumer, when compared to the average vehicle the consumer could get back in the 60's and early 70's. They give you a higher vantage point (better visibility), security and crashworthiness (well, they FEEL safer), and the feeling that if there were 3 feet of snow on the ground, you could zip down to the 7-eleven for that super big-gulp and slim-jim. Other than that, they're pointless.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Okay, and in the G4 vs. P III claim, Apple says that the G4 is twice as fast according to Spec (or was it three times? I wasn't paying attention - but I know they're citing Spec now).
So after that, everybody said "well all benchmarks are bullshit, that doesn't mean anything, G4 isn't faster in real-world applications", (never mind all the photoshop benchmarks and stuff).
So what's the deal Spec IS credible now?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Why don't we all comment on how funny this would be if it weren't slashdotted?
(btw - I'd also like to add a "me too" for Quicktime-Linux support. You'd think Linux would be higher on the agenda than *cough* Windows) (no, I mean *barf* Windows).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Morons should have ported the game to OS X, so that by the time they finished it, OS X consumer would be out - and as an added bonus, a Linux port would be a cakewalk, because OS X is really BSD. (okay, close enough).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
There WAS a superior cross-platform 3d API than DirectX. It was called QuickDraw3D.
It was "Steved" in favor of OpenGL.
Ask anyone who used it, it was a great high-level 3d API. It lives on in an Open Source project called QUESA (they're trying to make it live on top of the Mesa OpenGL implimentation).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
That's because it's probably actually going to be 666.6666_, which rounds up to 667. Just like a 99.99999_ MHz chip (33.333_MHz bus tripled), was really sold as a 100MHz.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
No, the original Celery was "crippled" intentionally to make people feel good about paying $4k for a Xeon.
Then when AMD made even more inroads they thought - "shit, this low end (low margin) market SUCKS to sell to, but we gotta for marketshare".
So then they did a quick fix and crippled the Xeon by making one with less on-die cache, and of a form-factor that doesn't fit any multiprocessor motherboards, and then we had the "new" Celeron. Which people quickly figured out that it was really a slightly crippled Xeon, and were able to overclock the shit out of it, and crowbar it into multiprocessor motherboards (with the socket 370 to Slot 2 conversions). It was a quick fix for their failure to segment the market with a cheaper to produce "original" Celeron. They couldn't execute a different design quickly enough, and so they just took their lumps with the overclocking.
Now that AMD threatens their midrange CPUs with Athalon, I'm wondering what shoehorning Intel is going to have to do to compete, and whether consumers will end up with another win. . .
basically, it's intel's fault in the first place for greedily trying to force this artificial market segmentation, where none should exist. It's just a way of sucking money from businesses who can afford it, without sacrificing the marketshare of the consumers/home users who can't.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
My III has only locked once. On Calculator. I was entering a number, not dividing by zero or something like that.
Still, when my boss was showing me his WinCE device, he had to reboot the thing due to crashes twice in a 10 minute period. The second time, he had to pull the batteries.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I don't know about that CAR thing, I think that the overall quality of certain factors with cars has declined greatly since the "japanese invasion".
Now, we have a trend towards smaller, lighter cars, which offer much less protection in collisions. Now we have a trend towards front-wheel drive cars which reduces your control at high speeds (really only matters to racers), and acceleration off the line. Now we have a trend towards smaller engines which are packed with all kinds of electronic equipment and emissions systems, which helps the environment, but reduces overall performance and reliability, and when performance is made up for with more gadgets, reliability suffers, and when more engineering goes in to the reliability issue, you get a much higher cost, not only original purchase price, but also maintenance.
Car owners in the 60's and 70's had things much better. Or will you argue with the tens of thousands of VW enthusiasts who still drive their 60's and 70's era air-cooled rear-engine rear-wheel-drive cars, and get 20-30 miles per gallon?
You can see the same trend sort of taking hold in the intel product line; $4k Xeons with four-pound heatsinks, versus $300 Celerons, which probably cost the same to manufacture (cache-memory considerations aside). A Celeron is like the front-wheel-drive econobox of CPU's. And if intel has their way, the whole chip industry will become the same way.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I'm willing to bet that if tomorrow, AMD said they were working on a 2GHz CPU, intel would announce a 3GHz CPU the next day. They're just playing one-upmanship, which is easy to do with vapor. But in SILICON, AMD still kicks intel's butt today.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
(hm. I wonder if I'll get moderated as offtopic THIS time. . . )
So, does anybody think there might be a retrofit kit available? I'm thinking, pop the case on the Palm III, plug the new chip in, close the case, and. . . well, of course not! the display is still b/w. But what I'm thinking is that this new CPU runs at 33MHz instead of 16. That would be kick ass. Anybody know if that's a possibility?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Microsoft isn't going to "learn" anything. How the hell are they supposed to learn when the current situation HELPS them? It's in their interest to promote technologies like MFC and DirectX, because it locks developoers into the Microsoft platform, and causes people to say, "hey, I wanna play games like Half-Life, so I'm going to buy a PC, not a Mac".
By the way, Linux developers do this too, by releasing binary-only x86 software, and pissing on the LinuxPPC and Linux Alpha markets.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
so this means, Linux will finally get some decent, optimized, quality drivers, and Macs will still be stuck with the same shit ones ATI ships. Hows that for irony?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
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I still remember the time I was troubleshooting a backup problem - Netware, several of our largest clients had this problem where SPX would just hang up intermittently. Since backup on Netware used SPX, it was the backup software that hung on top of that, so to the customer, we were the bad guys. I searched through our call-tracking database and noticed a pattern. Every last one of the customers that had this problem were using high-end Compaq servers (Proliants?). We couldn't reproduce the problem in-house, so our coder's couldn't pick it apart. So we *ahem* borrowed a Proliant from IT, blew away NT and installed Novell, and whaddya know? we were able to reproduce the problem. But by that time, we had lost three of these major accounts, and our company was already in the early stages of being slowly digested following a rather unfriendly merger, I moved on. I don't think they ever did solve that problem. It happened with various brands of ethernet cards, so we couldn't pin it down to a specific driver, and we couldn't pin it down to the OS or SPX itself, because it only happened on those Compaq Proliants (in fact, when we replaced the Compaq at one customer site, with a generic off-brand clone, the problem disappeared.).
Nothing torqued me off more than the disk partition crap though. You never knew if repartitioning the disk was going to break something or not. Sometimes you could do that just fine, other times, you'd never boot the machine again. .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Yeah, the DeskPro case was awesome to work on, the way everything came apart easily, with no tools, everything folded out nicely on hinges. Absolutely fantastic. Almost as nice as some of the Mac's I've worked on. . .
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Well, the SUV trend notwithstanding. In fact, I think the SUV trend is an American consumer backlash against the econobox trend of the 80's and early 90's, because the economy's been so good, we can afford to run these things now.
But still, these SUV's are not "better vehicles" for the consumer, when compared to the average vehicle the consumer could get back in the 60's and early 70's. They give you a higher vantage point (better visibility), security and crashworthiness (well, they FEEL safer), and the feeling that if there were 3 feet of snow on the ground, you could zip down to the 7-eleven for that super big-gulp and slim-jim. Other than that, they're pointless.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Okay, and in the G4 vs. P III claim, Apple says that the G4 is twice as fast according to Spec (or was it three times? I wasn't paying attention - but I know they're citing Spec now).
So after that, everybody said "well all benchmarks are bullshit, that doesn't mean anything, G4 isn't faster in real-world applications",
(never mind all the photoshop benchmarks and stuff).
So what's the deal Spec IS credible now?
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
"Jam Echelon Day" is actually a secret NSA plot to do some load-testing on a recent hardware upgrade.
I wish I had a nickel for every time someone said "Information wants to be free".
Why don't we all comment on how funny this would be if it weren't slashdotted?
(btw - I'd also like to add a "me too" for Quicktime-Linux support. You'd think Linux would be higher on the agenda than *cough* Windows)
(no, I mean *barf* Windows).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Gotta have a color screen!
340 Megs of what else, but pr0n?
(until they install stereo speakers in the thing, then MP3s)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
. . . you mean;
*barf* ATI
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
If it was going to be a bad port, the right thing to do would be to FIX it, and make it a good port.
Instead, they let the bean counters make the decision, and "knifed the baby".
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Morons should have ported the game to OS X, so that by the time they finished it, OS X consumer would be out - and as an added bonus, a Linux port would be a cakewalk, because OS X is really BSD. (okay, close enough).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
There WAS a superior cross-platform 3d API than DirectX. It was called QuickDraw3D.
It was "Steved" in favor of OpenGL.
Ask anyone who used it, it was a great high-level 3d API. It lives on in an Open Source project called QUESA (they're trying to make it live on top of the Mesa OpenGL implimentation).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
That's because it's probably actually going to be 666.6666_, which rounds up to 667. Just like a 99.99999_ MHz chip (33.333_MHz bus tripled), was really sold as a 100MHz.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
No, the original Celery was "crippled" intentionally to make people feel good about paying $4k for a Xeon.
Then when AMD made even more inroads they thought - "shit, this low end (low margin) market SUCKS to sell to, but we gotta for marketshare".
So then they did a quick fix and crippled the Xeon by making one with less on-die cache, and of a form-factor that doesn't fit any multiprocessor motherboards, and then we had the "new" Celeron. Which people quickly figured out that it was really a slightly crippled Xeon, and were able to overclock the shit out of it, and crowbar it into multiprocessor motherboards (with the socket 370 to Slot 2 conversions). It was a quick fix for their failure to segment the market with a cheaper to produce "original" Celeron. They couldn't execute a different design quickly enough, and so they just took their lumps with the overclocking.
Now that AMD threatens their midrange CPUs with Athalon, I'm wondering what shoehorning Intel is going to have to do to compete, and whether consumers will end up with another win. . .
basically, it's intel's fault in the first place for greedily trying to force this artificial market segmentation, where none should exist. It's just a way of sucking money from businesses who can afford it, without sacrificing the marketshare of the consumers/home users who can't.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Well, personally, I'd like a 2GHz chip, just to get Word fired up in a reasonable amount of time.
What's a reasonalble amount of time?
Fast enough so that by the time it comes up, I can still remember why I started it.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
My III has only locked once. On Calculator. I was entering a number, not dividing by zero or something like that.
Still, when my boss was showing me his WinCE device, he had to reboot the thing due to crashes twice in a 10 minute period. The second time, he had to pull the batteries.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"that one of the common complaints against palm-sized pcs was colour :P
:P"
;P
guess some people will have to change their arguments now that a non-ms standard has introduced
colour.
by the way, the proper way to spell colour is colour
So, does that mean that Apple is going to add a floppy drive to the iMac?
by the way, the proper way to spell Limey is L-I-M-E-Y
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I don't know about that CAR thing, I think that the overall quality of certain factors with cars has declined greatly since the "japanese invasion".
Now, we have a trend towards smaller, lighter cars, which offer much less protection in collisions. Now we have a trend towards front-wheel drive cars which reduces your control at high speeds (really only matters to racers), and acceleration off the line. Now we have a trend towards smaller engines which are packed with all kinds of electronic equipment and emissions systems, which helps the environment, but reduces overall performance and reliability, and when performance is made up for with more gadgets, reliability suffers, and when more engineering goes in to the reliability issue, you get a much higher cost, not only original purchase price, but also maintenance.
Car owners in the 60's and 70's had things much better. Or will you argue with the tens of thousands of VW enthusiasts who still drive their 60's and 70's era air-cooled rear-engine rear-wheel-drive cars, and get 20-30 miles per gallon?
You can see the same trend sort of taking hold in the intel product line; $4k Xeons with four-pound heatsinks, versus $300 Celerons, which probably cost the same to manufacture (cache-memory considerations aside). A Celeron is like the front-wheel-drive econobox of CPU's. And if intel has their way, the whole chip industry will become the same way.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I'm willing to bet that if tomorrow, AMD said they were working on a 2GHz CPU, intel would announce a 3GHz CPU the next day. They're just playing one-upmanship, which is easy to do with vapor. But in SILICON, AMD still kicks intel's butt today.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
(hm. I wonder if I'll get moderated as offtopic THIS time. . . )
So, does anybody think there might be a retrofit kit available? I'm thinking, pop the case on the Palm III, plug the new chip in, close the case, and. . . well, of course not! the display is still b/w. But what I'm thinking is that this new CPU runs at 33MHz instead of 16. That would be kick ass. Anybody know if that's a possibility?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
put them all to the sword. Every last man, woman, and child. . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
They didn't have to release a shoddy product. All they had to do was to stick it out and finish the damn project, and not be weenies.
By the way, Photoshop is now built first for Windows, and rewritten for Macintosh. So why does the Windows version still suck?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Microsoft isn't going to "learn" anything. How the hell are they supposed to learn when the current situation HELPS them? It's in their interest to promote technologies like MFC and DirectX, because it locks developoers into the Microsoft platform, and causes people to say, "hey, I wanna play games like Half-Life, so I'm going to buy a PC, not a Mac".
By the way, Linux developers do this too, by releasing binary-only x86 software, and pissing on the LinuxPPC and Linux Alpha markets.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
More accurately, they said they didn't want to spend the money. So in the end, it was a BEAN COUNTER decision.
Hey Steve Jobs, what ya gonna do about THAT? Mac's a second-rate gaming platform. SO FIX IT!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Dream on. NT will someday be 64 bit like Win95 is 32 bit.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
so this means, Linux will finally get some decent, optimized, quality drivers, and Macs will still be stuck with the same shit ones ATI ships. Hows that for irony?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."