Hmm. I have a multi-media keyboard too with a volume "wheel". It's very quick - a fast spin from full to zero or zero to full takes place in just a about a quarter of a second. This wheel has little "detent" feel which each click is a button press. There seems to be 17 steps, so each event is taking around 14ms, and that's to update mixer volume, the OSD pop-up, and the panel icon. I see no issues here.
Perhaps you have a configuration problem, a really slow computer, etc...
BTW, Windows on the same machine feels about the same - no noticable difference.
it IS the industry standard for image manipulation for professionals and deserves to be so
Deserves to be? Why? Are you getting paid by adobe to say this or something?
Competition is good. Maybe adobe will improve their product or bring it's price point down to be a little more reasonable. If Photoshop features and function is being replaced by something that is free, the monetary value of PS will erode. Adobe will have no choice but to make PS better and WORTH paying big bucks for.
Linux is sure making MS start to run scared. If they don't continue to make windows better, it will die. MS has also seen this with Firefox and has now stated that there may be an upgrade to IE after all. Once Gimp has CMYK and CM, Photoshop's "edge" will be Very small. If PS doesn't improve and offer much more than Gimp, will it Still "deserve" to be THE standard?
For web graphics, PS offers little advantage over Gimp today.
If anyone likes IE better than firefox, then it wasn't installed right with a minimum of the adblock and tabbed browsing preferences extensions. Add in the UA selector and view in IE and you are set.
As for D-link, I had a bad experience with them about 10 years ago. Like Gateway and Lexmark, they are on my permenant Do Not Buy Ever list due to horrible support and crappy product. When people ask what they should get, I give lists of what I know is good and well supported, and a list of brands to avoid. A NIC card should be flawless. A broadband router should be damn good - not just "ain't half bad."
I agree with this too. I had been working for months in a dual-head setup with a very nice iiyamas 21" CRT and an inexpensive 19" Xerox LCD (which had the almost exactly the same viewable size for some reason.) I found myself mainly working on the LCD - it looked sharper, had better contrast, etc. Of course the LCD's generate much less heat, have no CRT "whine", and use less power. I dumped the CRT and got another Xerox LCD and am Very happy I made that choice. I gave the CRT away. Damn thing weighed about 80 pounds too...
Seems to me that Gates has a vested interest in seeing technology evolve that reduces spam. It costs MS serious money just for Bill's account alone.
Why then did MS basically kill sender-ID with draconian licensing terms? Seems that this is the kind of technology that they would WANT out there being used by everyone. It's pretty clear that the MS legal department has way too much influence.
Yes, you have some wealthy people driving hummers around. However, a Prius is frickin A expensive too! Much more so than a regular car.
No, in California, if you are poor you can drive a POS car belching smog, and don't have to fix it. If your car is older than 25 years or so, then it's a "classic" and you don't have to pass smog checks. There are no safety inspections because that would hurt the poor.
California's laws and regulations dealing with vehicles are insane. Frankly California in general is really fucked up which is why I left. Everyone that had a clue saw California's tax problem comming long before it was announced.
If you REALLY RTFA, this is about malware / viruses (there is no such word as virii) that require human intervention - the nasty stuff that idiots click on due to simplistic social engineering. This is not about malware that (for example) go in via the RPC hole or other vulnerability.
The POINT is that copycat versions may be caught by looking at how the original works and what it does in general rather than some kind of binary pattern match like the current generation of AV does.
Many of the AV vendors claim that they have code that can detect mutated versions of malware, but in practice they never do.
While that is true to a certain extent, I have found that schools frequently do not provide the right kinds of training. When you go for a BS in CS, you generally come out with a broad range of skills, but not enough depth in any one area to be very useful in a real job. I'll never forget a fellow CS grad that asked me what an interrupt was. How the F did you graduate dude??? When I was going to school, C was only available as independant study (which I took) and you were told that "If you want a job in business, you need cobol." After graduation, I seriously questioned the true value of that very expensive piece of paper.
Back to business: you generally have a limited budget. While we have a couple interns, we still need skilled people NOW. We can't afford (from both a budget and time perspective) to train everyone in basic programming.
System Administration is worse than programming. I just cant find anyone with decent "basic" skills, much less someone mid-level. Maybe it's because kids these days think games are more important than anything else (which would explain the goofy "Linux needs games in order to succeed on the desktop" crap we hearing.) I can't afford to have some newbie screwing with my network / systems. Been there, done that, had the major downtime.
In my area, we had a guy that raped a 6 year old girl get 2 years, when it should have been life. Another guy that killed someone by running over him with a snowmobile (hit and run, leaving the guy he hit to freeze to death) got 6 months. A woman who wroute a couple bad checks and no prior history got 4 years.
There is a serious problem with sentancing. Criminals with serious offences are getting off light while more minor offences receive serious jail time. I have a problem with this.
In this particular case though, I feel the spammer received an appropriate sentence - maybe a little lighter that I would prefer, but better that the usual nothing.
Please... Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Look at the simple facts. A map of results by county shows that the majority of the country really does lean conservative. Larger cities have a higher proportion of social-services users, larger gay communities, blacks, etc. which are definately liberal voter bases. The populatio of those larger cities can overwhelm the rest of the state. Look at the senate races too - the repulicans picked up a number of seats. Look at the gay-marriage initiative - all states that had that on the ballet favored banning it.
It's tough being a fiscal conservative with a liberal social bias. We look for the moderate candidates which can't seem to win the primaries. You end up with a far, far, far left candidate and a mid-right with lots of faults. You leave the voting booth feeling unclean no matter who you voted for.
People claiming large-scale voter fraud by the republicans are just angry and don't have REAL facts to back it up. I suggest using that anger to make things better. Make sure we have auditable voting with a paper trail. Get involved with politics on the local level (and not just as a cheerleader - get involved with your community) where you can have the biggest impact.
My thoughts, the Republicans stole the election via Diebold and other online voting machines
Riiiight... Time to get that tin-foil hat adjusted.
No, this is just a simple case of total incompetance by the voting machine manufacturer. First for having such a silly limit, second for poor programming that didn't just lock the machine from further voting, third for not having a paper audit trail. I would expect a few lawsuits from this.
Unfortunately for us, the people that are actually approving and buying these machines have zero technical skills / knowledge. It's like my mom buying a PC. She has no idea which is better: a Walmart Microtel or an IBM Intellistation. She doesn't know what questions to ask.
This is a case where congress should create a commision of well respected experts to draft recommended requirements that local government can refer to when making buying decisions.
Yep. They started outsourcing their scanning engines too, and now you can't get programming info anymore. HP has some severe issues, much like Sun, except HP has a profitable Compaq server line and Printers. Everything else is in trouble. By going with CE, they have ensured that their product is a "me-too" ho-hum product.
Well, that's nice. You will need a lot of it. Have you priced Oracle lately? Unless you are a fairly good sized company, don't expect it to be affordable for use on a high-volume web site. A small cluster running on $50K worth of hardware was around a million dollars last time I got a quote. Sorry, I can do one HELL of a lot of development to work around any limitations based on missing features in mysql for that money. That list of missing features is shrinking rapidly with each new release.
RedHat supports Oracle because their enterprise customers want it. Concluding that postgres sucks based on this very simple and unrelated information is bizzare. Have you considered that enterprise customers may have applications based on Oracle that they don't dersire to port?
Oracle makes it's money on enterprise / government accounts. That's fine - good for them. There are however 100 times more smaller businesses that can't possibly afford oracle and where mysql/postgres works just fine. Businesses have very large and complex applications running on open source DB's such as MySQL and Postgres. Your comment insinuating that mysql is only good for very simplistic web apps is just goofy. I think you are the one that needs to accept reality. Yes, Oracle is very nice, has tons of features, and is enterprise class. This does not mean that all other databases suck.
I read something recently (past month or so) where some MS bigwig was claiming that they wouldn't be able to secure Windows for another 10 years. (anyone have a link?)
MS has several hurdles. First, they REALLY need to choose security over percieved "ease of use" / "features". Settings should be set "secure" by default instead of insecure.
Second, backwards compatibility needs to be sacraficed. Driver model, Win32 API, Registry, etc. Windows still contains bad Windows 1.0 design decisions. These were kept to make porting easy. Designs that were appropriate for non-networked or closed-networked environments just don't work well in the internet-connected world. Windows has proven that trying to tack security on after the fact just doesn't work. It has to be designed in.
Finally, MS needs to stop allowing companies to use the Windows logo on products that don't follow acceptable practices. General applications / games / etc. that require that they be run as administrator or with an account that has admin need to be fixed. Applications that install all sorts of crap and DLL's all over the place instead of contained in their own directories / registry areas need to be shunned.
I could go on, but it's rather pointless. While MS has made some inroads to better security, I do not personally believe that they are truely commited to it.
"Meanwhile, the US postal service inspectorate said it was highly unlikely that 58,000 pieces of mail had just disappeared."
I think it's VERY likely that the USPS lost the stuff. I recently sent a priority mail package to my brother and it took over 3 weeks to travel 300 miles. Every single day, I get random mail that was delivered to the wrong address. Some of the addresses are even for different zip codes!!! This is not mail carrier dependant - we've had over a dozen different mail carriers over the past year alone. If I need something delivered reliably, I use FedEx or UPS, or at a minumum use "delivery confirmation."
Nice troll. That's like saying: "if you CAN drive your car into a tree, then that's a very serious design flaw." There is no way that you can design a general purpose OS that is immune to "operator head-gap errors." Believe me: I can easily screw up Windowsi, MacOS, any flavor of Unix, etc. to the point where they won't boot by going in and playing with the registry, system settings, driver resources, etc.
The only way you can prevent this is to prevent the tinkering in the first place, which is what all the appliance type systems do. Even then, you can always pop the hood and start reflashing the eproms, etc. rendering the device non-functional.
Linux runs on Many different architecturs and supports THOUSANDS of different devices. Because you have the ability to cross-compile and include / exclude support for just about anything, it's trivial to create a non-functional kernel. This is NOT a design flaw.
Back to the topic at hand... It would be very cool to include hardware / device detection and auto-compile all the different modules / support needed to run on any particular platform, even optimizing for the local processor. Furthermore, you do this via netboot / PXE as well as a boot CD. I dont know what capabilities tinycc has for optimization - probably none, but that may be something that could be added.
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Considering how delayed longhorn is, it may be out sooner.
Hmm. I have a multi-media keyboard too with a volume "wheel". It's very quick - a fast spin from full to zero or zero to full takes place in just a about a quarter of a second. This wheel has little "detent" feel which each click is a button press. There seems to be 17 steps, so each event is taking around 14ms, and that's to update mixer volume, the OSD pop-up, and the panel icon. I see no issues here.
Perhaps you have a configuration problem, a really slow computer, etc...
BTW, Windows on the same machine feels about the same - no noticable difference.
What prey tell is wrong with Photoshop,
Price, lack of freedom...
it IS the industry standard for image manipulation for professionals and deserves to be so
Deserves to be? Why? Are you getting paid by adobe to say this or something?
Competition is good. Maybe adobe will improve their product or bring it's price point down to be a little more reasonable. If Photoshop features and function is being replaced by something that is free, the monetary value of PS will erode. Adobe will have no choice but to make PS better and WORTH paying big bucks for.
Linux is sure making MS start to run scared. If they don't continue to make windows better, it will die. MS has also seen this with Firefox and has now stated that there may be an upgrade to IE after all. Once Gimp has CMYK and CM, Photoshop's "edge" will be Very small. If PS doesn't improve and offer much more than Gimp, will it Still "deserve" to be THE standard?
For web graphics, PS offers little advantage over Gimp today.
If anyone likes IE better than firefox, then it wasn't installed right with a minimum of the adblock and tabbed browsing preferences extensions. Add in the UA selector and view in IE and you are set.
As for D-link, I had a bad experience with them about 10 years ago. Like Gateway and Lexmark, they are on my permenant Do Not Buy Ever list due to horrible support and crappy product. When people ask what they should get, I give lists of what I know is good and well supported, and a list of brands to avoid. A NIC card should be flawless. A broadband router should be damn good - not just "ain't half bad."
Why would he want to downgrade to a PC? If you want games, just get a game console...
I agree with this too. I had been working for months in a dual-head setup with a very nice iiyamas 21" CRT and an inexpensive 19" Xerox LCD (which had the almost exactly the same viewable size for some reason.) I found myself mainly working on the LCD - it looked sharper, had better contrast, etc. Of course the LCD's generate much less heat, have no CRT "whine", and use less power. I dumped the CRT and got another Xerox LCD and am Very happy I made that choice. I gave the CRT away. Damn thing weighed about 80 pounds too...
Seems to me that Gates has a vested interest in seeing technology evolve that reduces spam. It costs MS serious money just for Bill's account alone.
Why then did MS basically kill sender-ID with draconian licensing terms? Seems that this is the kind of technology that they would WANT out there being used by everyone. It's pretty clear that the MS legal department has way too much influence.
You have never been to California have you?
Yes, you have some wealthy people driving hummers around. However, a Prius is frickin A expensive too! Much more so than a regular car.
No, in California, if you are poor you can drive a POS car belching smog, and don't have to fix it. If your car is older than 25 years or so, then it's a "classic" and you don't have to pass smog checks. There are no safety inspections because that would hurt the poor.
California's laws and regulations dealing with vehicles are insane. Frankly California in general is really fucked up which is why I left. Everyone that had a clue saw California's tax problem comming long before it was announced.
Um, I see all sorts of comments that it's a virus.
If you REALLY RTFA, this is about malware / viruses (there is no such word as virii) that require human intervention - the nasty stuff that idiots click on due to simplistic social engineering. This is not about malware that (for example) go in via the RPC hole or other vulnerability.
The POINT is that copycat versions may be caught by looking at how the original works and what it does in general rather than some kind of binary pattern match like the current generation of AV does.
Many of the AV vendors claim that they have code that can detect mutated versions of malware, but in practice they never do.
While that is true to a certain extent, I have found that schools frequently do not provide the right kinds of training. When you go for a BS in CS, you generally come out with a broad range of skills, but not enough depth in any one area to be very useful in a real job. I'll never forget a fellow CS grad that asked me what an interrupt was. How the F did you graduate dude??? When I was going to school, C was only available as independant study (which I took) and you were told that "If you want a job in business, you need cobol." After graduation, I seriously questioned the true value of that very expensive piece of paper.
Back to business: you generally have a limited budget. While we have a couple interns, we still need skilled people NOW. We can't afford (from both a budget and time perspective) to train everyone in basic programming.
System Administration is worse than programming. I just cant find anyone with decent "basic" skills, much less someone mid-level. Maybe it's because kids these days think games are more important than anything else (which would explain the goofy "Linux needs games in order to succeed on the desktop" crap we hearing.) I can't afford to have some newbie screwing with my network / systems. Been there, done that, had the major downtime.
In my area, we had a guy that raped a 6 year old girl get 2 years, when it should have been life. Another guy that killed someone by running over him with a snowmobile (hit and run, leaving the guy he hit to freeze to death) got 6 months. A woman who wroute a couple bad checks and no prior history got 4 years.
There is a serious problem with sentancing. Criminals with serious offences are getting off light while more minor offences receive serious jail time. I have a problem with this.
In this particular case though, I feel the spammer received an appropriate sentence - maybe a little lighter that I would prefer, but better that the usual nothing.
Easy solution: the portion of the land used for agriculture would be exempt or taxed at a much lower rate.
Not that I like the idea of a national property tax or anything...
Please... Lies, damn lies, and statistics. Look at the simple facts. A map of results by county shows that the majority of the country really does lean conservative. Larger cities have a higher proportion of social-services users, larger gay communities, blacks, etc. which are definately liberal voter bases. The populatio of those larger cities can overwhelm the rest of the state. Look at the senate races too - the repulicans picked up a number of seats. Look at the gay-marriage initiative - all states that had that on the ballet favored banning it.
It's tough being a fiscal conservative with a liberal social bias. We look for the moderate candidates which can't seem to win the primaries. You end up with a far, far, far left candidate and a mid-right with lots of faults. You leave the voting booth feeling unclean no matter who you voted for.
People claiming large-scale voter fraud by the republicans are just angry and don't have REAL facts to back it up. I suggest using that anger to make things better. Make sure we have auditable voting with a paper trail. Get involved with politics on the local level (and not just as a cheerleader - get involved with your community) where you can have the biggest impact.
... It flashed a warning... It should have been a stop-all lock-down error. Sheer incompetance.
My thoughts, the Republicans stole the election via Diebold and other online voting machines
Riiiight... Time to get that tin-foil hat adjusted.
No, this is just a simple case of total incompetance by the voting machine manufacturer. First for having such a silly limit, second for poor programming that didn't just lock the machine from further voting, third for not having a paper audit trail. I would expect a few lawsuits from this.
Unfortunately for us, the people that are actually approving and buying these machines have zero technical skills / knowledge. It's like my mom buying a PC. She has no idea which is better: a Walmart Microtel or an IBM Intellistation. She doesn't know what questions to ask.
This is a case where congress should create a commision of well respected experts to draft recommended requirements that local government can refer to when making buying decisions.
Yep. They started outsourcing their scanning engines too, and now you can't get programming info anymore. HP has some severe issues, much like Sun, except HP has a profitable Compaq server line and Printers. Everything else is in trouble. By going with CE, they have ensured that their product is a "me-too" ho-hum product.
if i have "Money" i would anyday buy Oracle
Well, that's nice. You will need a lot of it. Have you priced Oracle lately? Unless you are a fairly good sized company, don't expect it to be affordable for use on a high-volume web site. A small cluster running on $50K worth of hardware was around a million dollars last time I got a quote. Sorry, I can do one HELL of a lot of development to work around any limitations based on missing features in mysql for that money. That list of missing features is shrinking rapidly with each new release.
RedHat supports Oracle because their enterprise customers want it. Concluding that postgres sucks based on this very simple and unrelated information is bizzare. Have you considered that enterprise customers may have applications based on Oracle that they don't dersire to port?
Oracle makes it's money on enterprise / government accounts. That's fine - good for them. There are however 100 times more smaller businesses that can't possibly afford oracle and where mysql/postgres works just fine. Businesses have very large and complex applications running on open source DB's such as MySQL and Postgres. Your comment insinuating that mysql is only good for very simplistic web apps is just goofy. I think you are the one that needs to accept reality. Yes, Oracle is very nice, has tons of features, and is enterprise class. This does not mean that all other databases suck.
Awwww Now there ya go. Now we need the Chewbacca defense.
It's not just the cost locking down windows, it's the damage caused by malware, spyware, etc. The productivity and business lost.
Obviously MS doesn't know what the T stands for either, which is why they always leave out the massive costs of dealing with Windows insecurity.
I read something recently (past month or so) where some MS bigwig was claiming that they wouldn't be able to secure Windows for another 10 years. (anyone have a link?)
MS has several hurdles. First, they REALLY need to choose security over percieved "ease of use" / "features". Settings should be set "secure" by default instead of insecure.
Second, backwards compatibility needs to be sacraficed. Driver model, Win32 API, Registry, etc. Windows still contains bad Windows 1.0 design decisions. These were kept to make porting easy. Designs that were appropriate for non-networked or closed-networked environments just don't work well in the internet-connected world. Windows has proven that trying to tack security on after the fact just doesn't work. It has to be designed in.
Finally, MS needs to stop allowing companies to use the Windows logo on products that don't follow acceptable practices. General applications / games / etc. that require that they be run as administrator or with an account that has admin need to be fixed. Applications that install all sorts of crap and DLL's all over the place instead of contained in their own directories / registry areas need to be shunned.
I could go on, but it's rather pointless. While MS has made some inroads to better security, I do not personally believe that they are truely commited to it.
"Meanwhile, the US postal service inspectorate said it was highly unlikely that 58,000 pieces of mail had just disappeared."
I think it's VERY likely that the USPS lost the stuff. I recently sent a priority mail package to my brother and it took over 3 weeks to travel 300 miles. Every single day, I get random mail that was delivered to the wrong address. Some of the addresses are even for different zip codes!!! This is not mail carrier dependant - we've had over a dozen different mail carriers over the past year alone. If I need something delivered reliably, I use FedEx or UPS, or at a minumum use "delivery confirmation."
Nice troll. That's like saying: "if you CAN drive your car into a tree, then that's a very serious design flaw." There is no way that you can design a general purpose OS that is immune to "operator head-gap errors." Believe me: I can easily screw up Windowsi, MacOS, any flavor of Unix, etc. to the point where they won't boot by going in and playing with the registry, system settings, driver resources, etc.
The only way you can prevent this is to prevent the tinkering in the first place, which is what all the appliance type systems do. Even then, you can always pop the hood and start reflashing the eproms, etc. rendering the device non-functional.
Linux runs on Many different architecturs and supports THOUSANDS of different devices. Because you have the ability to cross-compile and include / exclude support for just about anything, it's trivial to create a non-functional kernel. This is NOT a design flaw.
Back to the topic at hand... It would be very cool to include hardware / device detection and auto-compile all the different modules / support needed to run on any particular platform, even optimizing for the local processor. Furthermore, you do this via netboot / PXE as well as a boot CD. I dont know what capabilities tinycc has for optimization - probably none, but that may be something that could be added.
Is that the mode that redirects you to belkin ads randomly?
:-)
sorry, couldn't resist