it's much harder to find a reason to use Linux even on weaker machines
I would say the truth is that it's better to install Linux first and if for some reason you need Windows, which there are very very few reason then install it second. Linux shows us one thing out of the many improvments it has made, You don't need 10GB of Ram (7 and Vista) to use a computer. Lets not bring up the fact it's 100x more stable and easier to use with better general programs.
I know when I have to design circuits that run off battery we have to be careful to check for signal to battery levels. If a student has to be careful and check then I think a massive company should have to be even more careful.
This is literally my experience with Black Berry's.
At first I had a old 7900, a big blue brick of a BB that worked great, I never had problems with it and it's never crashed or broke.
I move up to a BB curve 8330 and there isn't a day I don't curse the name of Rim. The phone is an electronic brick, it's a horrible phone that never works. My first 8330 had the screen just shatter on it, like totally blow up, Of course the screen is never covered by warranty because Rim knows just how crappy it was built. Being I still had a long contract left I had to buy a new 8330 from Virgin and this phone is even worse. The first problem is the battery life is horrible, it's unacceptable, a full charge yields 10 hours of battery.
The second major problem is the horrible signal strength. Now don't go quoting it's CDMA or a Bell network and it's not Rim's problem the signal is bad. It's 50% Rim's problem and 50% Virgin's problem. If the BB can't get a signal why would it use the battery as an open drain to boost the signal output does that make sense? NO, NO it doesn't, maybe to a first semester electrical or telecommunications engineer but that's about it. Before you go calling me a Troll or Flamebot or what ever else names exist, I'm currently a studying Telecommunications Engineer and I just finished a full Computer Engineering Degree, so I know what I'm talking about with signals.
I'm going to focus on why this is Rim's problem first. It's there duty to make sure if the phone can't find signal it shuts off searching or goes into an INT mode until the phone enters a signal area. I know GSM works this way and I know CDMA can work this way, I do have a full CCNA Cert and a Wireless Networking Cert. The battery should be used on min power when the phone is not in operation. The problem is when the phone is searching for a signal is keeps switching between quiescent current and transient current which will lead to power being wasted.
Rim should take care to make sure this doesn't happen!
How this is Virgin's problem, they should make sure the phones they use work in all expected area's. If I sit by my window I should be getting more then 1 or 2 bars. I would also like to mention the fact that there telecommunication engineers should be one the ball and know this problem exists and either recommend Rim fixes it or fix it themselves by changing the access method to the network. If you can use CDMA you can easily change the network protocol to access on a different basis. It's basic cellular networking studies and practice, If you can use CDMA to access a network you can also use many other network access techniques. If Virgin doesn't take the time to look into this then there just as much responsible as Rim and hence we find the 50% duty shared by both sides.
Those links do a fair job of explaining and backing up the points I made above.
Virgin refuses to look into this problem claiming there not responsible, well I don't know how they can justify that but I haven't given up fighting that problem.
It doesn't stop there, it keeps going and starting Yesterday on the 24th of Feb my BB started just randomly restarting every variable amount of time. I tied to update the firmware, I've tried to remove the battery, I've even tried to reset the BB to default firmware and just screw my settings. Nothing works, I can't figure out anything I haven't done to try and get over this problem. Today the 25th I contacted Virgin telling them this is what happening, of course they blame the battery, then they blame the phone programming and on and on and on.
Okay great, so now look at these links
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8266http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8896
pre-compile them and have fun, it took about 2 seconds to find a way to access the root account which can over turn any lock out on the system, once your in a terminal look around, erase logs and leave, no proof, no suspension.
you can always run a console by either changing the INIT level at boot or writing a simple script to alter it at reboot. Future more you can always bypass the the boot start up and launch a live cd where you would also have access to a terminal.
Wow look what happened, the school got in trouble. Here's how you figure out if the software is installed, on Windows just look in the registry with regedit, on Mac just use the terminal, if you can't do either because you don't know how then log off facebook and get some real skills that will serve you in life.
Isn't it more degrading to women to have them viewed as massive bitch's because certain women feel the need to bitch about everything including the sun. My GF even agrees women get a bad rap because other women feel the need to complain when they could just go along with it. After all have you heard of men complaining that topless men are degrading, of course not, after all were rational.
The more I hear about this story the more insane it gets, this school should be hit a lot harder under the law.
If there really was no way to disable the web cam then fine it's not there fault, but then the question has to come up, How screwed up is the school management to do this?
At this point I can see no defense for the school, there is nothing they can say to rationalize this entire episode let alone explain the reason why. They can try to claim anti this, anti that, Jesus etc........ and all the reason under the sun the US likes to pull, but this is a case of being sick freaks who have no more morality or ethics then any other criminal who just wants a peep show through there chosen type of window.
Well, duh, but if Silly Sally Cheerleader was putting electrical tape over the camera while she changed clothes at home in her bedroom, and in a "totally separate situation" the IT guy found out about her vandalism she would be threatened until she stopped. If she's dumb enough, the IT guy is back to getting an eye-full.
Then she tells the IT guy to fuck off, installs Linux and if the IT guy says anything she goes to the school board and gets him fired. It's not illegal in your home to block a web cam. The school can't say anything about it besides maybe "Please take it off" still she has the right to keep it on period.
So they used web cams to spy in the school and students got accused of taking drugs when eating Mikes and Ike's? Don't people know you should turn off your web cam unless you using it, well it's not expected that someone would spy on you at the same time it's simply good practice to turn it off.
You should be allowed to do what ever you want to your system. Are they going to sue me for putting a mod chip in my Game Cube? Modding my SNES? Even modding my Gameboy. If you paid for the system you can do what you want to it.
I agree 100% with this article, I have 4 GB of Ram in my notebook and when I'm in WIndows 7 my memory consumption is somewhere around 3.5 GB, compared to Linux 2.6.32-r6 (Gentoo) which sits around the 512 MB mark. He's my question, what on earth does Windows need that much memory for? The OS should be taking up the least amount of memory possible to allow a user to run application that actually need the memory.
But if you did something stupid like build a great spot for a terrorist to put that bomb then you should be held responsible. It's the same thing in software, if you take a short cut to safe time / effort and that ends up being what was exploited then your still responsible. What this article is talking about is taking the right steps in the first place to assure you don't have to be the one who wrote the software, that crashed the company, that lost a million dollars all because you didn't want to invest the time.
The fault lies with two parties -- those who wrote the insecure code, and those who are attacking it. I'll start taking responsibility for my own software failures when the justice system starts tracking down these criminals and prosecuting them. Until then, I'll be damned if you're going to lay all the blame on me.
I agree the fault lies with who wrote the code and the attacker but you can't say because some one attacked it it's not your fault it failed. It's your fault it was allowed to fail the way it did and you should be the one held responsible. On the other hand if your software ran on a platform that was exploited and that caused your software to fail then it's not your fault. For instance, if Windows was hacked and that allowed you program to crash then your not the one who's responsible for your software crashing.
But lets be honest, a lot of programmers, including my self, take short cuts to save time and it leads to bugs. The only difference is when my software crashes it only takes out a school computer or the prof needs to restart my program and I will be the one held responsible.
I know I run the same distro but on that same note no two Gentoo installs are exactly the same.
"No two install are exactly the same"
that's right from the Gentoo handbook. If you tune the system and optimize it under the right parameters then your very very likely to get the same performance I do.
The full article even goes as far to say if you use parted to layout the partitions on the drive which I did and you align the partition correctly then your not going to be hit by the same performance problems, at least not all of the performance problems.
Lets also note his kernel is rather old as I'm running the 2.26.32 branch and I have taken the time to use the right linker flags on system compile.
So before you go saying it's not a distro problem, if your running a source distro it can always be a distro problem. There are so many tweaking variable and setting variables that can be different it's hard to compare them on a linear scale.
I could not say it better my self, I'm going to show that post to my prof if it's okay with you. That might be the best way of explaining hardware and software interfacing I've ever heard.
I will tomorrow. Right now I'm not on my desktop. I can easily get 70+ Mb/s write to them I think somewhere around 77.6 Mb/s. As for my partition scheme I used parted and had it properly align the disk.
Sorry that's the best I can do from where I'm, I'll make sure to update the numbers tomorrow. if it will help I'll even post the gparted version I used to partition with.
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it's much harder to find a reason to use Linux even on weaker machines
I would say the truth is that it's better to install Linux first and if for some reason you need Windows, which there are very very few reason then install it second. Linux shows us one thing out of the many improvments it has made, You don't need 10GB of Ram (7 and Vista) to use a computer. Lets not bring up the fact it's 100x more stable and easier to use with better general programs.
I know when I have to design circuits that run off battery we have to be careful to check for signal to battery levels. If a student has to be careful and check then I think a massive company should have to be even more careful.
This is literally my experience with Black Berry's.
At first I had a old 7900, a big blue brick of a BB that worked great, I never had problems with it and it's never crashed or broke.
I move up to a BB curve 8330 and there isn't a day I don't curse the name of Rim. The phone is an electronic brick, it's a horrible phone that never works. My first 8330 had the screen just shatter on it, like totally blow up, Of course the screen is never covered by warranty because Rim knows just how crappy it was built. Being I still had a long contract left I had to buy a new 8330 from Virgin and this phone is even worse. The first problem is the battery life is horrible, it's unacceptable, a full charge yields 10 hours of battery.
The second major problem is the horrible signal strength. Now don't go quoting it's CDMA or a Bell network and it's not Rim's problem the signal is bad. It's 50% Rim's problem and 50% Virgin's problem. If the BB can't get a signal why would it use the battery as an open drain to boost the signal output does that make sense? NO, NO it doesn't, maybe to a first semester electrical or telecommunications engineer but that's about it. Before you go calling me a Troll or Flamebot or what ever else names exist, I'm currently a studying Telecommunications Engineer and I just finished a full Computer Engineering Degree, so I know what I'm talking about with signals.
I'm going to focus on why this is Rim's problem first. It's there duty to make sure if the phone can't find signal it shuts off searching or goes into an INT mode until the phone enters a signal area. I know GSM works this way and I know CDMA can work this way, I do have a full CCNA Cert and a Wireless Networking Cert. The battery should be used on min power when the phone is not in operation. The problem is when the phone is searching for a signal is keeps switching between quiescent current and transient current which will lead to power being wasted. Rim should take care to make sure this doesn't happen!
How this is Virgin's problem, they should make sure the phones they use work in all expected area's. If I sit by my window I should be getting more then 1 or 2 bars. I would also like to mention the fact that there telecommunication engineers should be one the ball and know this problem exists and either recommend Rim fixes it or fix it themselves by changing the access method to the network. If you can use CDMA you can easily change the network protocol to access on a different basis. It's basic cellular networking studies and practice, If you can use CDMA to access a network you can also use many other network access techniques. If Virgin doesn't take the time to look into this then there just as much responsible as Rim and hence we find the 50% duty shared by both sides.
Some referance links if anyone if interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inrush_current http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-dropout_regulator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA
Those links do a fair job of explaining and backing up the points I made above. Virgin refuses to look into this problem claiming there not responsible, well I don't know how they can justify that but I haven't given up fighting that problem.
It doesn't stop there, it keeps going and starting Yesterday on the 24th of Feb my BB started just randomly restarting every variable amount of time. I tied to update the firmware, I've tried to remove the battery, I've even tried to reset the BB to default firmware and just screw my settings. Nothing works, I can't figure out anything I haven't done to try and get over this problem. Today the 25th I contacted Virgin telling them this is what happening, of course they blame the battery, then they blame the phone programming and on and on and on.
Lets cut the bull, the phone wasn't made well, t
Use GC Linux lol
I agree with cloudmaster!!! My point still holds there is a way to access the terminal.
Okay haha why is there Gamecube support?
Okay great, so now look at these links http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8266 http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8896 pre-compile them and have fun, it took about 2 seconds to find a way to access the root account which can over turn any lock out on the system, once your in a terminal look around, erase logs and leave, no proof, no suspension.
you can always run a console by either changing the INIT level at boot or writing a simple script to alter it at reboot. Future more you can always bypass the the boot start up and launch a live cd where you would also have access to a terminal.
Wow look what happened, the school got in trouble. Here's how you figure out if the software is installed, on Windows just look in the registry with regedit, on Mac just use the terminal, if you can't do either because you don't know how then log off facebook and get some real skills that will serve you in life.
Isn't it more degrading to women to have them viewed as massive bitch's because certain women feel the need to bitch about everything including the sun. My GF even agrees women get a bad rap because other women feel the need to complain when they could just go along with it. After all have you heard of men complaining that topless men are degrading, of course not, after all were rational.
The more I hear about this story the more insane it gets, this school should be hit a lot harder under the law.
If there really was no way to disable the web cam then fine it's not there fault, but then the question has to come up, How screwed up is the school management to do this?
At this point I can see no defense for the school, there is nothing they can say to rationalize this entire episode let alone explain the reason why. They can try to claim anti this, anti that, Jesus etc........ and all the reason under the sun the US likes to pull, but this is a case of being sick freaks who have no more morality or ethics then any other criminal who just wants a peep show through there chosen type of window.
Well, duh, but if Silly Sally Cheerleader was putting electrical tape over the camera while she changed clothes at home in her bedroom, and in a "totally separate situation" the IT guy found out about her vandalism she would be threatened until she stopped. If she's dumb enough, the IT guy is back to getting an eye-full.
Then she tells the IT guy to fuck off, installs Linux and if the IT guy says anything she goes to the school board and gets him fired. It's not illegal in your home to block a web cam. The school can't say anything about it besides maybe "Please take it off" still she has the right to keep it on period.
That none of the above, not having your personal right to privacy violated. It the same as the school being a peeping tom, it's illegal.
Not one of these students installed Linux on it lol
So they used web cams to spy in the school and students got accused of taking drugs when eating Mikes and Ike's? Don't people know you should turn off your web cam unless you using it, well it's not expected that someone would spy on you at the same time it's simply good practice to turn it off.
Alright, it's time for Open Source to take one for the team :-)
True but in general Windows software is written worse.
oh probably lol, I'm not saying there aren't ways around the memory usage I just want to point out the fact that the memory is being taken up.
You should be allowed to do what ever you want to your system. Are they going to sue me for putting a mod chip in my Game Cube? Modding my SNES? Even modding my Gameboy. If you paid for the system you can do what you want to it.
I agree 100% with this article, I have 4 GB of Ram in my notebook and when I'm in WIndows 7 my memory consumption is somewhere around 3.5 GB, compared to Linux 2.6.32-r6 (Gentoo) which sits around the 512 MB mark. He's my question, what on earth does Windows need that much memory for? The OS should be taking up the least amount of memory possible to allow a user to run application that actually need the memory.
The fault lies with two parties -- those who wrote the insecure code, and those who are attacking it. I'll start taking responsibility for my own software failures when the justice system starts tracking down these criminals and prosecuting them. Until then, I'll be damned if you're going to lay all the blame on me.
I agree the fault lies with who wrote the code and the attacker but you can't say because some one attacked it it's not your fault it failed. It's your fault it was allowed to fail the way it did and you should be the one held responsible. On the other hand if your software ran on a platform that was exploited and that caused your software to fail then it's not your fault. For instance, if Windows was hacked and that allowed you program to crash then your not the one who's responsible for your software crashing.
But lets be honest, a lot of programmers, including my self, take short cuts to save time and it leads to bugs. The only difference is when my software crashes it only takes out a school computer or the prof needs to restart my program and I will be the one held responsible.
"No two install are exactly the same"
that's right from the Gentoo handbook. If you tune the system and optimize it under the right parameters then your very very likely to get the same performance I do.
The full article even goes as far to say if you use parted to layout the partitions on the drive which I did and you align the partition correctly then your not going to be hit by the same performance problems, at least not all of the performance problems.
Lets also note his kernel is rather old as I'm running the 2.26.32 branch and I have taken the time to use the right linker flags on system compile.
So before you go saying it's not a distro problem, if your running a source distro it can always be a distro problem. There are so many tweaking variable and setting variables that can be different it's hard to compare them on a linear scale.
I could not say it better my self, I'm going to show that post to my prof if it's okay with you. That might be the best way of explaining hardware and software interfacing I've ever heard.
lol my bad ya MB/s
I will tomorrow. Right now I'm not on my desktop. I can easily get 70+ Mb/s write to them I think somewhere around 77.6 Mb/s. As for my partition scheme I used parted and had it properly align the disk.
Sorry that's the best I can do from where I'm, I'll make sure to update the numbers tomorrow. if it will help I'll even post the gparted version I used to partition with.
Until then have a good one.