So this guy tests the Install process, running Firefox and navigating to Youtube, to find out he has to manually install Flash. He then puts the laptop into suspend, with a successful resume. Then he declares OpenSolaris the year of the laptop.
Am I missing something? Any additional unit testing? Benchmarks? Usability? Application availability?
Nice Slashvertisement.
Warning: I use OpenSolaris a lot as well, love it for the sake of some serious faults, but it does its job well. That job is NOT running on a laptop however. Good luck to the poor souls who try to use it as a daily driver.
Stanford, the birthplace of SUN, one of the renowned distributors of a once true and mighty closed and proprietary Unix, that almost fell off the face of the planet in part of it starting to become irrelevant compared to open sourced OS's and systems (Linux, BSD, etc).
The SAME Sun, which has now open sourced almost their ENTIRE IP portfolio in the Open Solaris project, thereby bringing relevancy BACK to Solaris and it's suite of products. The same Sun which utilizes hundreds of code donors to it's projects, and big communities around storage, ZFS, etc.
Closed, commercial systems have a place, and many of them do well, but when markets change, can they change quickly enough? Lessons show us that they cannot change quickly enough. Or do the closed proprietary systems try and change the market the suit their needs?
Look at IBM, HP, Sun, and even Dell now relying on open *nix systems driving huge sales numbers.
The markets have changed, its those who do not follow trends, or fight the trends who become irrelevent.
The open source model will probably change in a decade, or a century and it too will have to change.
The paper is just a way to appeal to stiffley business suit class of people afraid of change.
FWIW, I use Google Apps to host my e-mail, and I have found Google to have horrible support. Instead of fixing the problem, they'll just point you to a loosely moderated Google Groups newsgroup for Google apps, and you'll rarely receive a response, let alone a workable fix for an issue.
You tell me. We ran traces on the program, provided them to Apple, it always showed the quicktime dll's crashing. It would only do it on machines reading from SCSI disks. There would also be horrible audio/video synching issues while only reading from SCSI disks. So whatever quicktime is doing to render audio and video, it has/had an obvious issues with SCSI disks.
This isn't news. Quicktime is a horrible piece of software. I have personaly tested about 50 machines with various SCSI controllers in Windows XP and 2003 which either BSOD in Quicktime, or get horrible audio/video syncing problems. The only commonality was they all used LSI or Adaptec SCSI controllers. Playing off an IDE drive or SATA drive worked fine. We sent bug reports to Apple and Microsoft, ran traces on the programs, and it always came down to Quicktime. Microsoft made a hotfix available that was a workaround, something to do with caching the data to page first, then sending it to quicktime, but it was a slow and dirty hack. Apple said it was the SCSI controllers sending corrupt data, which was rediculous, every single other application, media, worked perfect.
Quicktime shittyness is HARDLY anything new at all.
You're pretty ignorant of the technical merits of the amendments you provided. I can see how you may think that adding SMTP headers is a breach of this amendment, but legalese doesn't have many mechanisms to deal with technical interpretations. You try to write an amendment that deals with high-technology, network/telecom specificaly, that has provisions in place for adding routing data, SMTP headers, and modifying the TTL of a packet:) You're interpretation is a very ignorant one, at best. The amendments are trying to prevent an ISP from unfair practices, such as prioritizing NBC traffic over say, MSN. I is not literaly telling you, that each person can pay a flat rate, and get unlimited bandwidth, for the same price as someone who just uses 1Mbit.
Current incarnations of "tiered bandwidth" are very fair. You want a 10Mbit, commit? You pay $35/Mbit plus loop fees.
Comparing equal treatment of packets to communism/socialism is rediculous.
I dearly hope your post is a troll, as I wrote this treating you as such.
Any sane or intelligent person would understand the amendments as written.
Theyre patent is pretty complete, but only filed in 1990. Unfortunately, I think reclaiming breaking energy with an electric motor was thought of, and used much earlier then that.
You're a fucking moron. A cell phone tech broke your phone, and even after arguing, you -still- paid to have it replaced? Are you fucking stupid? THEY broke it, hold them to the fire and get em to replace it for free. Fuck, if I took my phone in for a firmware update, and it came back not working, you wouldn't see me pay them a penny in a million years.
Goddamn you sound like such a fucking tool, just go fucking kill yourself, and your wife/kids to stop this idiocy.
iAudio has made a cheaper, more full featured player than iRiver and Apple could even dream of. For $250, you get 20gigs, divx, xvid, mp3, wav, wma, wmv, ogg, flac. Color screen, USB host-to-host, USB charging. Line in/out. FM radio, FM recording. Microphone recording. Scheduled recordings, alarms, visualizations. I cant even keep listing the features. Fuck Ipod and Iriver. iAudio has them both beat hands down.
Your paying just a tad more then most dialup providers still charge, and you expect unlimited bandwidth, and mind numbing speeds, with no limitations?
Come on now, I know you guys are smarter then that! Seriously, if a customer paid you $30 a month, and expected unlimited bandwidth, and to turn the other way when you abuse their service? Thats never going to happen.
Come on guys, like 1.5megabit is a sin!
You pay $40 a month, sometimes much less, and still get amazingly fast speeds.
Cable modem users can hardly complain, even when they get 30K a sec downloads.
You pay for a dirt cheap service, and get quite a lot of bandwidth.
This isnt a story.
Qwest doesnt owe these customers any sort of refund. The issue was largely out of Qwest's control, and thefore
should be faulted to the wild nature of the internet.
Although, I dont see why Qwest was hit so hard by this, it does seem a bit odd, a weak infrastructure maybe.
There were public announcements on how to fix the DSL modem crashing problem during the whole Codered crisis, you would
have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to head the encouragements to upgrade the firmware on the Cisco device, or to disable the web interface.
Usefull advice is what you make of it.
I gave him several choices, as well as the choice to try all of the above. If he doesnt want to use that advice then thats perfectly fine.
I think you misunderstand the point of a public discussion. To make a truly helpfull forum, users are usualy discourages from shooting others down, and instead encouraged to offer better, or more helpfull advice.
Please keep in mind no one has the right to call someone else's opinion 'stupid' or 'wrong'.
Keep it clean!
Comparing a vast majority of Linux distros together is like comparing apples and oranges.
Each distro has its major features, enhancements, and drawbacks.
I suggest you get 2-5 distros together, for a new user, I suggest Mandrake, Redhat, Debian, Suse, and possibly Slackware as good comparisons.
Try each for a period of time, then see which one you like best after you try them all.
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So this guy tests the Install process, running Firefox and navigating to Youtube, to find out he has to manually install Flash.
He then puts the laptop into suspend, with a successful resume.
Then he declares OpenSolaris the year of the laptop.
Am I missing something? Any additional unit testing? Benchmarks? Usability? Application availability?
Nice Slashvertisement.
Warning: I use OpenSolaris a lot as well, love it for the sake of some serious faults, but it does its job well. That job is NOT running on a laptop however. Good luck to the poor souls who try to use it as a daily driver.
Stanford, the birthplace of SUN, one of the renowned distributors of a once true and mighty closed and proprietary Unix, that almost fell off the face of the planet in part of it starting to become irrelevant compared to open sourced OS's and systems (Linux, BSD, etc).
The SAME Sun, which has now open sourced almost their ENTIRE IP portfolio in the Open Solaris project, thereby bringing relevancy BACK to Solaris and it's suite of products.
The same Sun which utilizes hundreds of code donors to it's projects, and big communities around storage, ZFS, etc.
Closed, commercial systems have a place, and many of them do well, but when markets change, can they change quickly enough? Lessons show us that they cannot change quickly enough. Or do the closed proprietary systems try and change the market the suit their needs?
Look at IBM, HP, Sun, and even Dell now relying on open *nix systems driving huge sales numbers.
The markets have changed, its those who do not follow trends, or fight the trends who become irrelevent.
The open source model will probably change in a decade, or a century and it too will have to change.
The paper is just a way to appeal to stiffley business suit class of people afraid of change.
I can't believe no other Slashdotters caught this...
Is anyone driving this thing? I mean, fuck... submitter deliberately cited 'sambeckett'
CLUE STICK
Wrong. Easy to add newer faster drives to a pool. (Assuming you use mirror or raidz, you are, aren't you?)
zpool add /dev/newdrive
Wait till resilver finishes.
zpool remove /dev/olddevice
NetApp uses a heavily customized version of FreeBSD, NOT Linux.
Linux would choke under the usage patterns of a NetApp filer.
Didn't anyone notice that Gmail is still in beta?
FWIW, I use Google Apps to host my e-mail, and I have found Google to have horrible support.
Instead of fixing the problem, they'll just point you to a loosely moderated Google Groups newsgroup for Google apps, and you'll rarely receive a response, let alone a workable fix for an issue.
Do no evil? Or do nothing at all?
You tell me. We ran traces on the program, provided them to Apple, it always showed the quicktime dll's crashing. It would only do it on machines reading from SCSI disks.
There would also be horrible audio/video synching issues while only reading from SCSI disks.
So whatever quicktime is doing to render audio and video, it has/had an obvious issues with SCSI disks.
This isn't news. Quicktime is a horrible piece of software. I have personaly tested about 50 machines with various SCSI controllers in Windows XP and 2003 which either BSOD in Quicktime, or get horrible audio/video syncing problems.
The only commonality was they all used LSI or Adaptec SCSI controllers. Playing off an IDE drive or SATA drive worked fine.
We sent bug reports to Apple and Microsoft, ran traces on the programs, and it always came down to Quicktime.
Microsoft made a hotfix available that was a workaround, something to do with caching the data to page first, then sending it to quicktime, but it was a slow and dirty hack.
Apple said it was the SCSI controllers sending corrupt data, which was rediculous, every single other application, media, worked perfect.
Quicktime shittyness is HARDLY anything new at all.
You're pretty ignorant of the technical merits of the amendments you provided. :)
I can see how you may think that adding SMTP headers is a breach of this amendment, but legalese doesn't have many mechanisms to deal with technical interpretations. You try to write an amendment that deals with high-technology, network/telecom specificaly, that has provisions in place for adding routing data, SMTP headers, and modifying the TTL of a packet
You're interpretation is a very ignorant one, at best. The amendments are trying to prevent an ISP from unfair practices, such as prioritizing NBC traffic over say, MSN.
I is not literaly telling you, that each person can pay a flat rate, and get unlimited bandwidth, for the same price as someone who just uses 1Mbit.
Current incarnations of "tiered bandwidth" are very fair.
You want a 10Mbit, commit? You pay $35/Mbit plus loop fees.
Comparing equal treatment of packets to communism/socialism is rediculous.
I dearly hope your post is a troll, as I wrote this treating you as such.
Any sane or intelligent person would understand the amendments as written.
GET OFF THE INTERNET.
Theyre patent is pretty complete, but only filed in 1990.
Unfortunately, I think reclaiming breaking energy with an electric motor was thought of, and used much earlier then that.
I'm going to ravage your mother.
My girlfriend has one of those in the shower, and yells at me when I leave it in the old water :(
Taken from their site:
Buzzwords Compliance: AJAX, Web 2.0, Tagging, RSS
Kiko also has usability in mind:
Be Soothed By Kiko's Pleasant Colors - Pastels are good for the soul.
You're a fucking moron. A cell phone tech broke your phone, and even after arguing, you -still- paid to have it replaced?
Are you fucking stupid? THEY broke it, hold them to the fire and get em to replace it for free.
Fuck, if I took my phone in for a firmware update, and it came back not working, you wouldn't see me pay them a penny in a million years.
Goddamn you sound like such a fucking tool, just go fucking kill yourself, and your wife/kids to stop this idiocy.
iAudio has made a cheaper, more full featured player than iRiver and Apple could even dream of.
For $250, you get 20gigs, divx, xvid, mp3, wav, wma, wmv, ogg, flac.
Color screen, USB host-to-host, USB charging. Line in/out. FM radio, FM recording. Microphone recording.
Scheduled recordings, alarms, visualizations.
I cant even keep listing the features.
Fuck Ipod and Iriver.
iAudio has them both beat hands down.
Glad the shitty IRC network is finaly dying.
The smaller, more dynamic IRC networks have been widdling away at Dalnet for quite some time now.
Yay for Efnet, for enduring through much more crap!
ROFL good one dude!!
You guys have it shitty... I download close to 2gigs a day, and upload another 1.5gigs, daily.
I dont know what I would do if I were to be charged per meg, or gig.
I would most likely have to declare bankruptcy in about 15 days of that.
If there is a threat to our local market (US) then of course we should try to protect it.
Its in the best interests of our companies and government to keep our OWN economy healthy, not someone elses.
If push comes to shove, self comes first, then you worry about others.
Ive said this before, and I'll say it again:
You get what you pay for!
Your paying just a tad more then most dialup providers still charge, and you expect unlimited bandwidth, and mind numbing speeds, with no limitations?
Come on now, I know you guys are smarter then that! Seriously, if a customer paid you $30 a month, and expected unlimited bandwidth, and to turn the other way when you abuse their service? Thats never going to happen.
This isnt even a sotry.
Come on guys, like 1.5megabit is a sin!
You pay $40 a month, sometimes much less, and still get amazingly fast speeds.
Cable modem users can hardly complain, even when they get 30K a sec downloads.
You pay for a dirt cheap service, and get quite a lot of bandwidth.
This isnt a story.
Qwest doesnt owe these customers any sort of refund. The issue was largely out of Qwest's control, and thefore
should be faulted to the wild nature of the internet.
Although, I dont see why Qwest was hit so hard by this, it does seem a bit odd, a weak infrastructure maybe.
There were public announcements on how to fix the DSL modem crashing problem during the whole Codered crisis, you would
have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to head the encouragements to upgrade the firmware on the Cisco device, or to disable the web interface.
Usefull advice is what you make of it.
I gave him several choices, as well as the choice to try all of the above. If he doesnt want to use that advice then thats perfectly fine.
I think you misunderstand the point of a public discussion. To make a truly helpfull forum, users are usualy discourages from shooting others down, and instead encouraged to offer better, or more helpfull advice.
Please keep in mind no one has the right to call someone else's opinion 'stupid' or 'wrong'.
Keep it clean!
Comparing a vast majority of Linux distros together is like comparing apples and oranges.
Each distro has its major features, enhancements, and drawbacks.
I suggest you get 2-5 distros together, for a new user, I suggest Mandrake, Redhat, Debian, Suse, and possibly Slackware as good comparisons.
Try each for a period of time, then see which one you like best after you try them all.