Requiring you uninstall another AV product has nothing to do with eliminating competition. It has to do with them needing to remove a program that will horribly conflict with theirs, since running more than one AV is really bad, and forcing you to do so since you don't know better.
Gentoo has no versions. Perhaps in the future it would be beneficial to actually do some research before placing your foot in your mouth. The gentoo INSTALL DISC has versions...however, that said, it's completely feasible to install gentoo with the 2007 disc and emerge your system to the current stable versions of everything. You will of course have a faster, easier time using a newer installation disc, but gentoo, once installed, has NO VERSION.
Except that rebooting fixed it and it's no longer an issue...
Oh, and when I was trying to run Ubuntu 9.10, even after reading.xsession-errors and looking things up on the internet, I found out that there was NO way to get the screen on my laptop to dim, AT ALL...
Until Linux can do simple things like dim my damn screen, I'll stick with Windows...
How much work are they getting done when the Windows 2000 computers get infected with crap-loads of malware due to unpatched (and never will be patched) security holes?
You fool! You very well might end up scaring the only woman ever seen on Slashdot away like that! Just leave it be, for the love of all that is good and holy!
Most? I'm all for most cable between here and Asia. Blocking China (or all of Asia) via HOSTS is a good idea, but also letting them connect to US servers and hopefully spend money on our crap is also good.
I'd safely say that a $3000 blade will be well over triple the performance of a mac mini, likely more like 10x. That said, the whole "You can cramp LOADS of those things in a small space" idea is pointless, as you just get a few blades and are done. For whatever task you might have used 15 minis for, just replace them with 4 or 5 blades. Same price, and you get actual server hardware. Mac Minis aren't even desktop hardware, they are laptop parts and as such have laptop like reliability and performance.
There is no way in hell a anyone in their right mind would consider making a supercomputer out of these stupid things. If you need that kind of power, just get a rack and a few 1u servers, it will be cheaper, much more powerful, reliable and space-saving.
"Windows 7, apparently a small update to Vista that fixes the most annoying problems, allows no easy path to migrate from Windows XP. Anyone who doesn't want to re-install and re-configure all programs must migrate to Vista first, then to Windows 7, and pay the full price again for two versions, not just one."
Anyone that even bothers with the "upgrade" rather than backing up their data and doing a clean install deserves to have to pay twice.
It wasn't until Windows 7 that I saw anything approaching the 11-12MB/s I saw on NFS. I got the same as you, Vista to vista smb transfers ran around 5-6 MB/s while NFS would get 11-12. Now that I have 7 on my PCs, I can get 10-12MB/s on 7 to 7 transfers, not sure what changed, but it's noticeably faster and no longer much slower than NFS.
I've got an Acer Timeline (9 hours of battery on a 6 cell) and it has a 65 watt power supply. I can tell you for sure that I've monitored its power usage and at idle is is below 10 watts, which comes out to 88 kilowatt hours, or about 9 bucks a year to run at $0.10 a kilowatt hour.
Factor in suspend mode and sleep (when the lid is closed) and it works out to significantly less than even that.
Technet subscriptions are $300-350 for a year, at which point you can download a full copy of pretty much every MS product with no expiration dates (i.e. I'm still using the copy of Server 2008 I downloaded a few months before it was even released).
$350 isn't peanuts, but it's a fair price for XP+Vista+Server 2008+7+Server 2008R2+Office+everything else.
"I think their stupid for spending"...
Before calling someone else stupid, it's best to pass 3rd grade English and learn the difference between they're and their...
No, fuel cells are in no way energy storage. Perhaps you should read about what they are before randomly talking out of your ass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell
Also, when I have tested it, a full charge reports 4 hours, 20 minutes. If I let the laptop idle, playing some MP3s until it dies, it goes WELL past 4 hours 20 minutes. It's likely at 5 hours or maybe more, but still WAY below the 8-9 it gets in 7.
It seems that Linux also somehow things that x volts = dead, when the laptop is perfectly capable of running for a good while after the voltage drops below that voltage. Not sure where or how to calibrate the battery so when it gets to 0% it's really dead, rather than 0% really being more like 20% capacity.
I have an Acer TimeLine. It's all Intel components, Intel CPU, GPU etc. All supported in Linux without any binary drivers.
Windows 7 default install gets 7-8 hours of battery life browsing the internet with Firefox, Wireless G or N.
Ubuntu 9.04 default install, all update, gets 3-4 hours under the exact same conditions.
Things I've noticed and not gotten around to finding a fix for:
The CPU (a core-solo ULV) doesn't seem to clock down, at all (but it's ULV and uses about as much power as an atom, and couldn't account for 4 less hours)
PowerTop tells me to allow my USB to sleep, however the touchpad, SD-card reader, webcam, and a few other components are all attached to USB internally, and won't allow it to sleep.
The screen doesn't dim (tho I easily fixed that with 'xrandr --output LVDS --set BACKLIGHT_CONTROL native)
If it weren't for Windows 7 STILL lacking the ability to open an explorer window displaying the contents of a remote SSH connected computer, I'd just put 7 on it and be done. Putty is garbage, and while I can manage files on my web server with the CLI easily enough, I'm lazy and prefer to do it in Nautilus on Gnome.
Well, that and the fact that Windows xp and older are archaic, and anything newer are all "comprimised" from all the built in DRM and other garbage, so I avoid them at all costs.
HP in fact sells quite a few computers with Linux pre-installed. In fact, my sister just bought one of the HP Mini Mi computers, and bought it configured exactly the same as the Windows version for $50 less.
On a 10.1" screen, Atom processor, low-end Intel graphics machine, exactly WHAT benifit does getting XP have? Certainly not games, as the machine won't play them, not even 5 year old ones, not even close. Does Facebook or Myspace function better in Firefox for windows than it does in Firefox for Linux? Nope. In fact, the opposite is true, as Linux uses less system resources, and thusly has more to use on Firefox.
Oh, yea, you can't install MS Office 2007 on Linux...but why the hell would you install $250+ of office software on a netbook that doesn't even cost $250?? Photoshop, etc all fall under the "why install software costing many times the cost of the hardware on such a low-end machine" category.
It's obvious you don't have a clue what you are talking about here. No ISP gives anyone a 192.168 address, these are private addresses that you use to talk from your PC to your router (or modem, if you are foolish enough to plug directly into it). It goes like this:
Internet Public IP|modem|Private IP PC
There are any number of websites that will kindly show you your external IP if you visit them.
In fact, it's not even possible for a 192.168.xxx.xxx address to be routed over the internet, thus making it literally impossble to have any ISP assign that IP to you as your public/external IP.
1960s means that it has crappy twisted pair copper phone lines, etc. Since he said "building" I assume this is a condo/apartment, which means running all new wiring isn't an option. I've seen buildings where you can hear other people talking on the phone when you pick it up there is so much crosstalk on the lines.
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Requiring you uninstall another AV product has nothing to do with eliminating competition. It has to do with them needing to remove a program that will horribly conflict with theirs, since running more than one AV is really bad, and forcing you to do so since you don't know better.
Gentoo has no versions. Perhaps in the future it would be beneficial to actually do some research before placing your foot in your mouth. The gentoo INSTALL DISC has versions...however, that said, it's completely feasible to install gentoo with the 2007 disc and emerge your system to the current stable versions of everything. You will of course have a faster, easier time using a newer installation disc, but gentoo, once installed, has NO VERSION.
Oh, well please show me where I can buy this discrete card for my laptop please?
Except that rebooting fixed it and it's no longer an issue... Oh, and when I was trying to run Ubuntu 9.10, even after reading .xsession-errors and looking things up on the internet, I found out that there was NO way to get the screen on my laptop to dim, AT ALL...
Until Linux can do simple things like dim my damn screen, I'll stick with Windows...
How much work are they getting done when the Windows 2000 computers get infected with crap-loads of malware due to unpatched (and never will be patched) security holes?
You fool! You very well might end up scaring the only woman ever seen on Slashdot away like that! Just leave it be, for the love of all that is good and holy!
Most? I'm all for most cable between here and Asia. Blocking China (or all of Asia) via HOSTS is a good idea, but also letting them connect to US servers and hopefully spend money on our crap is also good.
I'd safely say that a $3000 blade will be well over triple the performance of a mac mini, likely more like 10x. That said, the whole "You can cramp LOADS of those things in a small space" idea is pointless, as you just get a few blades and are done. For whatever task you might have used 15 minis for, just replace them with 4 or 5 blades. Same price, and you get actual server hardware. Mac Minis aren't even desktop hardware, they are laptop parts and as such have laptop like reliability and performance.
There is no way in hell a anyone in their right mind would consider making a supercomputer out of these stupid things. If you need that kind of power, just get a rack and a few 1u servers, it will be cheaper, much more powerful, reliable and space-saving.
"Windows 7, apparently a small update to Vista that fixes the most annoying problems, allows no easy path to migrate from Windows XP. Anyone who doesn't want to re-install and re-configure all programs must migrate to Vista first, then to Windows 7, and pay the full price again for two versions, not just one." Anyone that even bothers with the "upgrade" rather than backing up their data and doing a clean install deserves to have to pay twice.
It wasn't until Windows 7 that I saw anything approaching the 11-12MB/s I saw on NFS. I got the same as you, Vista to vista smb transfers ran around 5-6 MB/s while NFS would get 11-12. Now that I have 7 on my PCs, I can get 10-12MB/s on 7 to 7 transfers, not sure what changed, but it's noticeably faster and no longer much slower than NFS.
At no point does this person you quoted mention Solaris...
I've got an Acer Timeline (9 hours of battery on a 6 cell) and it has a 65 watt power supply. I can tell you for sure that I've monitored its power usage and at idle is is below 10 watts, which comes out to 88 kilowatt hours, or about 9 bucks a year to run at $0.10 a kilowatt hour. Factor in suspend mode and sleep (when the lid is closed) and it works out to significantly less than even that.
Technet subscriptions are $300-350 for a year, at which point you can download a full copy of pretty much every MS product with no expiration dates (i.e. I'm still using the copy of Server 2008 I downloaded a few months before it was even released). $350 isn't peanuts, but it's a fair price for XP+Vista+Server 2008+7+Server 2008R2+Office+everything else.
"I think their stupid for spending"... Before calling someone else stupid, it's best to pass 3rd grade English and learn the difference between they're and their...
No, fuel cells are in no way energy storage. Perhaps you should read about what they are before randomly talking out of your ass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell
Also, when I have tested it, a full charge reports 4 hours, 20 minutes. If I let the laptop idle, playing some MP3s until it dies, it goes WELL past 4 hours 20 minutes. It's likely at 5 hours or maybe more, but still WAY below the 8-9 it gets in 7. It seems that Linux also somehow things that x volts = dead, when the laptop is perfectly capable of running for a good while after the voltage drops below that voltage. Not sure where or how to calibrate the battery so when it gets to 0% it's really dead, rather than 0% really being more like 20% capacity.
I have an Acer TimeLine. It's all Intel components, Intel CPU, GPU etc. All supported in Linux without any binary drivers. Windows 7 default install gets 7-8 hours of battery life browsing the internet with Firefox, Wireless G or N. Ubuntu 9.04 default install, all update, gets 3-4 hours under the exact same conditions. Things I've noticed and not gotten around to finding a fix for: The CPU (a core-solo ULV) doesn't seem to clock down, at all (but it's ULV and uses about as much power as an atom, and couldn't account for 4 less hours) PowerTop tells me to allow my USB to sleep, however the touchpad, SD-card reader, webcam, and a few other components are all attached to USB internally, and won't allow it to sleep. The screen doesn't dim (tho I easily fixed that with 'xrandr --output LVDS --set BACKLIGHT_CONTROL native) If it weren't for Windows 7 STILL lacking the ability to open an explorer window displaying the contents of a remote SSH connected computer, I'd just put 7 on it and be done. Putty is garbage, and while I can manage files on my web server with the CLI easily enough, I'm lazy and prefer to do it in Nautilus on Gnome. Well, that and the fact that Windows xp and older are archaic, and anything newer are all "comprimised" from all the built in DRM and other garbage, so I avoid them at all costs.
HP in fact sells quite a few computers with Linux pre-installed. In fact, my sister just bought one of the HP Mini Mi computers, and bought it configured exactly the same as the Windows version for $50 less. On a 10.1" screen, Atom processor, low-end Intel graphics machine, exactly WHAT benifit does getting XP have? Certainly not games, as the machine won't play them, not even 5 year old ones, not even close. Does Facebook or Myspace function better in Firefox for windows than it does in Firefox for Linux? Nope. In fact, the opposite is true, as Linux uses less system resources, and thusly has more to use on Firefox. Oh, yea, you can't install MS Office 2007 on Linux...but why the hell would you install $250+ of office software on a netbook that doesn't even cost $250?? Photoshop, etc all fall under the "why install software costing many times the cost of the hardware on such a low-end machine" category.
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It's obvious you don't have a clue what you are talking about here. No ISP gives anyone a 192.168 address, these are private addresses that you use to talk from your PC to your router (or modem, if you are foolish enough to plug directly into it). It goes like this: Internet Public IP|modem|Private IP PC There are any number of websites that will kindly show you your external IP if you visit them. In fact, it's not even possible for a 192.168.xxx.xxx address to be routed over the internet, thus making it literally impossble to have any ISP assign that IP to you as your public/external IP.
1960s means that it has crappy twisted pair copper phone lines, etc. Since he said "building" I assume this is a condo/apartment, which means running all new wiring isn't an option. I've seen buildings where you can hear other people talking on the phone when you pick it up there is so much crosstalk on the lines.