In that case you should be able to set the static IP right on the printer. Make sure the IP you set is on the same subnet as the rest of your machines but outside of the DHCP server's scope. On most home routers, setting an IP with the last digit as less than 100 will accomplish this.
You could set a static IP on your printer. Alternatively you could set a static DHCP lease on your DHCP server so the printer always gets the same IP address. Why the hell would you would have a print queue set to an IP that changes is beyond comprehension.
The other problem is that Telephone/Cable/Fiber providers have a natural monopoly on the market. It's not economically viable (even in a totally free market) for 3 different companies to start stringing fiber (or even grid power for that matter) to everyones homes. The massive start-up costs favor whatever companies happened to run service to a given area first. Until wireless technologies get better--more bandwidth, no/higher caps, etc...--a little government regulation will go a long way.
What "government model" is everyone getting their panties in a bunch over? A properly written net neutrality law wouldn't form a great big socialist government-run ISP, it would be a set of guidelines outlining how the existing private ISPs are allowed to route traffic.
I don't recall the words "server" or "24x7x365 operation" in my previous post. Since you seemed to miss my point entirely, I'll spell it out again--only slowly and more loudly this time.
Swap space is useful on Linux LAPTOPS, TABLETS and sometimes even DESKTOPS/WORKSTATIONS for suspend to disk.
The one good use for a 1:1 memory to disk ratio now days is suspend to disk. If you don't have enough swap space available and you try to suspend, it doesn't work.
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S.
Another possibility is that, like iPads, Star Trek PADDs could not multitask well or have multiple windows showing at the same time. The piles of PADDs may be an easier way to have a whole bunch of reference materials open and available at the same time.
Emissions are the down side of carb setups. Personally, I've never had a problem with the smell of gasoline on any of my carbureted cars. Unless you are flooding it out when trying to start it there should be little to no gas smell at all.
And if you say you'd rather have carburettors anyway, you've clearly never owned a carburetted vehicle for any length of time. Ultimately, data is good, and more sensors means more data.
Diesel engines do not have carburetors. Mechanically injected diesels have been around for many years and do not need sensors to run well.
In a gasoline engine I would prefer a carburetor to multi-point fuel injection any day. For the price of one or two sensors I could replace the entire carburetor. I've been driving carbureted cars for years and will gladly take the trade-off of more difficult starting in the winter (it gets to -40F fairly often here) to the complexity and extra cost associated with a multi-point FI setup. If/when my car starts running like crap the list of possible culprits is quite small--spark plugs, wires, distributor cap/rotor or the carb is out of adjustment. If all of those things fail at once it will take less than $40 and one hour to fix. On a multi-point EFI car the first thing to do is plug it in to a diagnostic computer and half the time it's still a crap shoot. Several hundred dollars worth of sensors later you may or may not be back to normal. As a compromise, I don't think throttle body injection is a terrible way to go. It only needs a couple of sensors (O2, knock and throttle position sensors) and that keeps maintenance costs to a minimum. It also allows for easier starting, more power, better mileage and a much better chance of meeting environmental regulations.
I would take it a step further and remove power steering too. Depending on the weight of the car I would possibly forgo power brakes as well. My ideal car would be rear wheel drive with a live rear axle for simplicity, strength and ease of maintenance. Rear suspension would be simple leaf springs. The hood would open by tilting away from the windshield and would be easily removable. The fenders would lift up with the hood for easy access to the suspension and steering components. Simplicity and ease of maintenance would be my primary objectives. Less complication (chaff) leads to less points of failure. I wish modern cars would be designed with this in mind.
Don't worry, the rest of the world knows that the US of A doesn't give a shit about anyone else other than themselves. If history hasn't proven that I don't know what will.
Don't worry, all of Europe knows that the US was being totally selfish when they bailed the Allies out of WWI and again in WWII. It was again out of selfishness that they helped form NATO to prevent the USSR from expanding westward. Selfishness led them to start (continue) the Vietnam war by bailing the French out of the First Indochina War. Again, it was America's selfishness that caused them to assist their Kuwaiti allies in Operation Desert Storm. If the major conflicts the US was involved in in the 20th century hasn't proven America's selfishness, I don't know what will.
You deserved to fail. The deliverable was specified as a zipped jbuilder project. It's irrelevant the reasons for that.
You are correct in that I did deserve the failing grade. It was a mistake that I learned from and did not make again. However, the reason the zipped jbuilder project was required is the point of the anecdote in the first place.
This reminds me of my "Intro to Java" college programming class. At one point the professor failed me on an assignment because she couldn't figure out how to open a.java file. Her response when I complained was "It says in the syllabus that you must turn in assignments as zipped jbuilder projects." This same teacher attempted to teach Java 1.4 to the class using a Java 1.5 textbook. She would not switch to 1.5 because Jbuilder uses it's own internal JDK and there wasn't a version of Jbuilder that supported 1.5 yet. Apparently she couldn't figure out Eclipse, Netbeans or a simple text editor. After the first 2 class periods she abandoned the book completely and gave us photocopies of the relevant parts of the previous edition. I was not happy about spending the money on that text--although it hasn't been a terrible reference since then so now I would say it was worth it.
I know this is a "My anecdote vs. yours" thing, but I've used standard power supplies in dozens of Dell machines over the years including several Optiplex GX 270's. In most cases I had to modify the case--drill mounting holes or cut the opening bigger for cooling fan or power plug clearance--but I never ran in to a situation where the wiring was different. In fact, I worked in a dell shop and was certified to work on dells when this GX270 fiasco was going on. They sent me a free power supply tester that was pretty much identical to this one except it had a dell logo. I used that tester on many standard power supplies and the LEDs for the voltages on the 20/24 pin connector worked exactly the same way. It's worth noting that all of the GX270s I worked on were the tower form factor. I know they used different boards in the desktop form factor machines so I don't have evidence either way there.
And before you mod me troll, know that this is exactly what Linux (and plenty of other OSS) looks like to a non-geek user.
If I had mod points, I would mod you as a troll. Why? Most of your post is wildly inaccurate and quite irrelevant to the given topic. Since I don't have mod points, I'm going to break this post in to smaller, more digestible chunks for the fun of it.
An OSS Facebook will have hundreds of competing distros
Why would you have a "distribution" of a website? I have yet to see a website that included a bunch of bundled applications to... OK, I forgot about Google but you get the point.
several dozen kernel forks
Kernel forks, really? A website would have several dozen kernel forks? Do you know what a kernel is? Since you compare this hypothetical OSS facebook to Linux, how many forks of the Linux kernel are there? Distributions and kernel devs may apply their own patchset, but I have not seen one case where they actually forked. They always pull from and modify Linus's tree at the next release.
New users wishing to convert over from commercial Facebook will be told "Well, first you have to decide if you want to go with a RTH, KJG, RTY, or TTTY desktop interface
More realistically they will be told to go to www.ossfacebookreplacement.com (the name probably will be that crappy though.)
then you need to pick a client from this list which you can download from this obscure irc channel; then you need to config it to your router and find the drivers for your system; and you might also need to download and install Java, Greasemonkey, and a compiler to create binaries for your particular OS" and presented with a long list of bug fixes in lieu of a user manual.
Now, it appears that you are spewing technical-sounding terms in a pathetic attempt to look like you know what the hell you are talking about. Downloading software from an IRC channel? Configuring a router to visit a website? Downloading drivers to visit a website?
And before you mod me troll, know that this is exactly what Linux (and plenty of other OSS) looks like to a non-geek user.
To the average, non-geek user, Linux looks like Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, or Linux Mint. It just works out of the box and sets sane defaults. If the user is interested he or she can do things like pick a desktop interface. They also come with documentation and an official support forum (Proprietary OS's generally come with neither in my experience.) Other OSS projects look like Firefox, VLC, Chrome, Thunderbird, Songbird, Pidgin and many other OSS projects that non-geeks use every day.
I could see this being modded as funny, but +5 insightful? WTF is wrong with the mods today?
Why? If it's not worth saving, why archive it?
My workflow is very similar, although I do have a couple of folders where I store a few dozen emails that I may need in the future.
From wikipedia: WebKit was originally derived by Apple Inc. from the Konqueror browser’s KHTML software library for use as the engine of Mac OS X’s Safari web browser and has now been further developed by individuals from the KDE project, Apple Inc., Nokia, Google, Bitstream, Torch Mobile and others.
Heck, their biggest competitor in their fastest-growing market is basing their entire web experience on Apple's browser engine, so it doesn't seem like Apple is too worried about competition there.
A couple of problems with this statement:
It's not Apple's browser engine, it's the community's. Just because Apple is a major member of that community does not mean they own the project. If anything, it's KDE's browser engine since they wrote KHTML in the first place.
KHTML is LGPL licensed. Because of this, any fork has to be compatible with the LGPL. This resulted in Webcore and the javascript portions of Webkit being LGPL licensed and the rest BSD licensed.
Whether they want to or not, Apple has no say in whether Google or anyone else can use KHTML/Webkit in a competing product. It wasn't a conscious decision to allow Android to use Webkit.
My parents have been running Ubuntu for the past 4 years. Early on there were a couple of issues with flash and pulseaudio, but the last 3 years have been (software) trouble free.
While I agree with most of what you said, I think Photoshop is a terrible example of a commercial package that a lot of users have. I don't know a single "average" user who has shelled out the $650 for a Photoshop license. (I do, however, know a few above-average users who have a pirated copy.) Most average users in my experience use something like Picassa (which has a Linux version) or don't bother to edit their photos at all.
The laptops and tablets are all using Fujitsu or Toshiba drives. I know at least some of the Fujitsu-branded drives are actually made by Toshiba. The desktops are all running 80Gb Seagates. Most of our offices are between 1100 and 1200ft.
I don't know where you get your numbers. My expirence is that for normal users most modern disk drives will fail within two years and for heavy users or laptops you have six months to a year.
I don't know where you get these numbers, but where work--around 6000 laptops/tablets and 4000 desktops--I'd say the failure rate in the first 3 years (they are on a 3-year replacement cycle) is about 3%. The only reason it's that high is a batch of tablets we got recently had bad drives installed when they were shipped. Other than that, have a higher failure rate in wireless network cards than hard drives.
In the last 2 years at home I've had two drive failures. The first failure was caused by the platters in the drive coming loose (don't ask me how) and the vibrations caused the external enclosure to walk off the desk. The second was my fault--I dropped it 4 feet on to a cement floor. My 6-mo-old SSD has not had any problems and I'm still in awe at the life it breathed in to the computer I installed it in.
Does it? What's jailbreaking then? Honda certainly won't support you putting an espresso machine on your dashboard after you bought the car either... Why should apple support you fucking around with the OS and installing all kinds of random crap they haven't verified works on it?
Honda may not support the expresso machine, but they will continue to support the drivetrain. Apple could allow more apps in the app store and leave the support of those apps to their developers. I guess the reality distortion field got in the way of recognizing other options.
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In that case you should be able to set the static IP right on the printer. Make sure the IP you set is on the same subnet as the rest of your machines but outside of the DHCP server's scope. On most home routers, setting an IP with the last digit as less than 100 will accomplish this.
You could set a static IP on your printer. Alternatively you could set a static DHCP lease on your DHCP server so the printer always gets the same IP address. Why the hell would you would have a print queue set to an IP that changes is beyond comprehension.
The other problem is that Telephone/Cable/Fiber providers have a natural monopoly on the market. It's not economically viable (even in a totally free market) for 3 different companies to start stringing fiber (or even grid power for that matter) to everyones homes. The massive start-up costs favor whatever companies happened to run service to a given area first. Until wireless technologies get better--more bandwidth, no/higher caps, etc...--a little government regulation will go a long way.
What "government model" is everyone getting their panties in a bunch over? A properly written net neutrality law wouldn't form a great big socialist government-run ISP, it would be a set of guidelines outlining how the existing private ISPs are allowed to route traffic.
I don't recall the words "server" or "24x7x365 operation" in my previous post. Since you seemed to miss my point entirely, I'll spell it out again--only slowly and more loudly this time.
Swap space is useful on Linux LAPTOPS, TABLETS and sometimes even DESKTOPS/WORKSTATIONS for suspend to disk.
The one good use for a 1:1 memory to disk ratio now days is suspend to disk. If you don't have enough swap space available and you try to suspend, it doesn't work.
why the hell is this news in the slashdot?? how is this WORLD (not USA) news worthy?
Apparently you didn't RTFM. From the linked FAQ:
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S.
Another possibility is that, like iPads, Star Trek PADDs could not multitask well or have multiple windows showing at the same time. The piles of PADDs may be an easier way to have a whole bunch of reference materials open and available at the same time.
Emissions are the down side of carb setups. Personally, I've never had a problem with the smell of gasoline on any of my carbureted cars. Unless you are flooding it out when trying to start it there should be little to no gas smell at all.
Good luck with the efi bike.
And if you say you'd rather have carburettors anyway, you've clearly never owned a carburetted vehicle for any length of time. Ultimately, data is good, and more sensors means more data.
Diesel engines do not have carburetors. Mechanically injected diesels have been around for many years and do not need sensors to run well.
In a gasoline engine I would prefer a carburetor to multi-point fuel injection any day. For the price of one or two sensors I could replace the entire carburetor. I've been driving carbureted cars for years and will gladly take the trade-off of more difficult starting in the winter (it gets to -40F fairly often here) to the complexity and extra cost associated with a multi-point FI setup. If/when my car starts running like crap the list of possible culprits is quite small--spark plugs, wires, distributor cap/rotor or the carb is out of adjustment. If all of those things fail at once it will take less than $40 and one hour to fix. On a multi-point EFI car the first thing to do is plug it in to a diagnostic computer and half the time it's still a crap shoot. Several hundred dollars worth of sensors later you may or may not be back to normal. As a compromise, I don't think throttle body injection is a terrible way to go. It only needs a couple of sensors (O2, knock and throttle position sensors) and that keeps maintenance costs to a minimum. It also allows for easier starting, more power, better mileage and a much better chance of meeting environmental regulations.
I would take it a step further and remove power steering too. Depending on the weight of the car I would possibly forgo power brakes as well. My ideal car would be rear wheel drive with a live rear axle for simplicity, strength and ease of maintenance. Rear suspension would be simple leaf springs. The hood would open by tilting away from the windshield and would be easily removable. The fenders would lift up with the hood for easy access to the suspension and steering components. Simplicity and ease of maintenance would be my primary objectives. Less complication (chaff) leads to less points of failure. I wish modern cars would be designed with this in mind.
Don't worry, the rest of the world knows that the US of A doesn't give a shit about anyone else other than themselves. If history hasn't proven that I don't know what will.
Don't worry, all of Europe knows that the US was being totally selfish when they bailed the Allies out of WWI and again in WWII. It was again out of selfishness that they helped form NATO to prevent the USSR from expanding westward. Selfishness led them to start (continue) the Vietnam war by bailing the French out of the First Indochina War. Again, it was America's selfishness that caused them to assist their Kuwaiti allies in Operation Desert Storm. If the major conflicts the US was involved in in the 20th century hasn't proven America's selfishness, I don't know what will.
You deserved to fail. The deliverable was specified as a zipped jbuilder project. It's irrelevant the reasons for that.
You are correct in that I did deserve the failing grade. It was a mistake that I learned from and did not make again. However, the reason the zipped jbuilder project was required is the point of the anecdote in the first place.
This reminds me of my "Intro to Java" college programming class. At one point the professor failed me on an assignment because she couldn't figure out how to open a .java file. Her response when I complained was "It says in the syllabus that you must turn in assignments as zipped jbuilder projects." This same teacher attempted to teach Java 1.4 to the class using a Java 1.5 textbook. She would not switch to 1.5 because Jbuilder uses it's own internal JDK and there wasn't a version of Jbuilder that supported 1.5 yet. Apparently she couldn't figure out Eclipse, Netbeans or a simple text editor. After the first 2 class periods she abandoned the book completely and gave us photocopies of the relevant parts of the previous edition. I was not happy about spending the money on that text--although it hasn't been a terrible reference since then so now I would say it was worth it.
I know this is a "My anecdote vs. yours" thing, but I've used standard power supplies in dozens of Dell machines over the years including several Optiplex GX 270's. In most cases I had to modify the case--drill mounting holes or cut the opening bigger for cooling fan or power plug clearance--but I never ran in to a situation where the wiring was different. In fact, I worked in a dell shop and was certified to work on dells when this GX270 fiasco was going on. They sent me a free power supply tester that was pretty much identical to this one except it had a dell logo. I used that tester on many standard power supplies and the LEDs for the voltages on the 20/24 pin connector worked exactly the same way. It's worth noting that all of the GX270s I worked on were the tower form factor. I know they used different boards in the desktop form factor machines so I don't have evidence either way there.
Where's my goddamn flying car then?
Right here. I got a pretty good look at this at the EAA Airventure in Oshkosh WI last weekend. Pretty neat stuff.
And before you mod me troll, know that this is exactly what Linux (and plenty of other OSS) looks like to a non-geek user.
If I had mod points, I would mod you as a troll. Why? Most of your post is wildly inaccurate and quite irrelevant to the given topic. Since I don't have mod points, I'm going to break this post in to smaller, more digestible chunks for the fun of it.
An OSS Facebook will have hundreds of competing distros
Why would you have a "distribution" of a website? I have yet to see a website that included a bunch of bundled applications to... OK, I forgot about Google but you get the point.
several dozen kernel forks
Kernel forks, really? A website would have several dozen kernel forks? Do you know what a kernel is? Since you compare this hypothetical OSS facebook to Linux, how many forks of the Linux kernel are there? Distributions and kernel devs may apply their own patchset, but I have not seen one case where they actually forked. They always pull from and modify Linus's tree at the next release.
New users wishing to convert over from commercial Facebook will be told "Well, first you have to decide if you want to go with a RTH, KJG, RTY, or TTTY desktop interface
More realistically they will be told to go to www.ossfacebookreplacement.com (the name probably will be that crappy though.)
then you need to pick a client from this list which you can download from this obscure irc channel; then you need to config it to your router and find the drivers for your system; and you might also need to download and install Java, Greasemonkey, and a compiler to create binaries for your particular OS" and presented with a long list of bug fixes in lieu of a user manual.
Now, it appears that you are spewing technical-sounding terms in a pathetic attempt to look like you know what the hell you are talking about. Downloading software from an IRC channel? Configuring a router to visit a website? Downloading drivers to visit a website?
And before you mod me troll, know that this is exactly what Linux (and plenty of other OSS) looks like to a non-geek user.
To the average, non-geek user, Linux looks like Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, or Linux Mint. It just works out of the box and sets sane defaults. If the user is interested he or she can do things like pick a desktop interface. They also come with documentation and an official support forum (Proprietary OS's generally come with neither in my experience.) Other OSS projects look like Firefox, VLC, Chrome, Thunderbird, Songbird, Pidgin and many other OSS projects that non-geeks use every day.
I could see this being modded as funny, but +5 insightful? WTF is wrong with the mods today?
Why? If it's not worth saving, why archive it? My workflow is very similar, although I do have a couple of folders where I store a few dozen emails that I may need in the future.
Heck, their biggest competitor in their fastest-growing market is basing their entire web experience on Apple's browser engine, so it doesn't seem like Apple is too worried about competition there.
A couple of problems with this statement:
My parents have been running Ubuntu for the past 4 years. Early on there were a couple of issues with flash and pulseaudio, but the last 3 years have been (software) trouble free.
While I agree with most of what you said, I think Photoshop is a terrible example of a commercial package that a lot of users have. I don't know a single "average" user who has shelled out the $650 for a Photoshop license. (I do, however, know a few above-average users who have a pirated copy.) Most average users in my experience use something like Picassa (which has a Linux version) or don't bother to edit their photos at all.
Actually, you should be moderated offtopic for pointing them out in this story.
The laptops and tablets are all using Fujitsu or Toshiba drives. I know at least some of the Fujitsu-branded drives are actually made by Toshiba. The desktops are all running 80Gb Seagates. Most of our offices are between 1100 and 1200ft.
I don't know where you get your numbers. My expirence is that for normal users most modern disk drives will fail within two years and for heavy users or laptops you have six months to a year.
I don't know where you get these numbers, but where work--around 6000 laptops/tablets and 4000 desktops--I'd say the failure rate in the first 3 years (they are on a 3-year replacement cycle) is about 3%. The only reason it's that high is a batch of tablets we got recently had bad drives installed when they were shipped. Other than that, have a higher failure rate in wireless network cards than hard drives.
In the last 2 years at home I've had two drive failures. The first failure was caused by the platters in the drive coming loose (don't ask me how) and the vibrations caused the external enclosure to walk off the desk. The second was my fault--I dropped it 4 feet on to a cement floor. My 6-mo-old SSD has not had any problems and I'm still in awe at the life it breathed in to the computer I installed it in.
Does it? What's jailbreaking then? Honda certainly won't support you putting an espresso machine on your dashboard after you bought the car either... Why should apple support you fucking around with the OS and installing all kinds of random crap they haven't verified works on it?
Honda may not support the expresso machine, but they will continue to support the drivetrain. Apple could allow more apps in the app store and leave the support of those apps to their developers. I guess the reality distortion field got in the way of recognizing other options.