If I had moderator points, I would so mod you up. It's so true.. I have an original Radeon and it sucks, it was all advertised as DirectX 8 and stuff, but then Microsoft went and fucked them over on the API with the pixel shaders and shit, so it's broken on my card and doesn't work right in DX. Yay Microsoft!
Now 8.1 is coming out, and the Geforce is screwed because it has Pixel Shader 1.4 in 8.1 which the R8500 supports but the GF3 doesn't (AFAIK).. among other things (higher-order surfaces/TruForm, etc.).
Would you still be this attached to it if it happened in London? Tokyo? What if all of Japan just sunk into the water without warning? Do you REALLY think everyone would be as attached to it as they are? No. They're attached to it because it happened in the U.S. and it's unprecedented. Shit like this happens daily in some countries, huge losses of innocent civilian lives. I find the fact that you are so disgusted about this, and not about that horribly disturbing. You aren't mourning the dead at all, (unless maybe you somehow knew some people affected by it), you're mourning the loss of our feeling of invulnerability.
Most P4 speeds already don't perform any better than lower-clocked P3's. remember when they came out and the 1GHz P3 spanked a 1.4GHz P4 and often a 1.5GHz one too? And then they benchmarked the Athlon against it and then re-benched.. and benched again.. and again.. and always the same results.. that the P4 just plain sucks. At 1.4GHz, the Athlon should easily take on the 1.7GHz P4. or 1.8.. or whatever the hell marketing says it's at today. We know those numbers mean crap anyway.
With SDR SDRAM, the P4 is essentially useless. I have no idea why Intel is bothering to make it use this. Especially before the DDR ones. MAYBE at the same time, for people who want P4 for no reason other than marketing and bragging rights (who needs to know what kind of ram you have), but certainly don't release it beforehand.. ugh.
People are wowed by gigahertz and press releases. More so by ghz. Intel's leading there, though we all know it means crap. However, with the Itanium, it's a new model, 64-bit processor. That breaks compatibility with everything else, so everything need to bre recompiled. This isn't so bad, for open source applications. Most Open Source OS's support IA-64, and the compilers can build for it. However, good luck seeing windows on any of these until XP comes out. If it does. Then you'll have to convince closed source people to recompile. Much harder. Of course, it's meant to be a server chip, so maybe all people writing server software for windows will recompile. Yea. Sure.
I just wanted to set you straight, that's the purpose, is the 64bit computing, and insane registers and EPIC and stuff like that. I think Sledgehammer will be a better solution though.
He specifically SAID MacOS or Solaris. "Macintosh and Unix" Chris, read his post.
That being said, They're shitty versions at best.. there's some comment that the mac version is more compliant with standards, and I liked the interface, but they're always versions behind the windows one.
If you use anything other than these three operating systems, and likely just Windows (As, if you read the article, the alternative to using netscape-style EMDBEDded applets is.NET XML applets), since the other two probably won't support.NET properly.
Maybe DirectX 8 is around for developers to play with and being expanded on, but that doesnt mean it's constant. I know ATI got fucked on the shaders since the spec changed in DX8 from what it was agreed on, so the Radeon didn't support them properly. Thanks Microsoft. Now, we have to wait until DirectX 8.1 is available (with Windows XP, or until it's backported) until we can get any new extensions. They might be quick to add stuff in there, however.. OpenGL lets you add your own stuff in there, providing better optimized, more specialized access to your hardware, and it's available when you want/need it, not when/if microsoft decides you want/need it.
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240mb/day? jeez, I download more than that EVERY DAY on my cable modem. Hell, I probably download at least twice that, some times 5x that or more.
I was thinking about this, it wouldn't hold up. Self defense is a defense against yourself when there's clear and present danger. You weren't being affected by the scan, so there's no danger, and therefore this defense won't hold up.
and he completely ignores things like all the online RPG's, yet mentions the sims and black and white, then comments on how there's nothing that provides much different game play. Wtf.
Uhm. Half-Life is a seperate engine completely from Quake 1. Counter Strike and Blue Shift are mods for the half-life engine. The half-life engine is lightyears beyond quake 1.
Wow, that URL looks strangely familiar.. It's almost like I'd seen it somewhere before. Oh yea, in the article itself. Were you going for 'Informative', 'Insightful', 'Funny', or just 'Plain Fucking Stupid'..
I never said you should block, it's very good that you haven't. Most places I'm sure would have, and in fact i wouldn't mind paying more to get a cool provider like you. I was jsut pointing it out. You're also handling code red the proper way, which just raises my opinion of you even more, keep it up:)
whee, arguing both sides. Because public webservers don't let you do what you want. Most sites I design require PHP and MySQL. Good luck finding a free server that offers that. Or even an inexpensive one. i've found one, but to add MySQL support to the account, makes it cost 10x more than without a database support.
True. Compare the costs though, like you said. Commodity bullshit. Buy pure, name-brand stuff to put in to match the price of a mac, and you're pretty damn sure to have good compatibility. Or even part of the cost of a mac. Unfortunately, you do get what you pay for in most instances. Mac's integration of hardware with each other is easy, there's a limited supply everything has to be compatible with. BeOS is different, it's software. But yes, it's damned good:)
They want to sell people to their business plans, which they offer for that specific reason. if you run a server besides for personal use, they want you to pay more so they can make more money on the business services. That's the argument when you mention you're already upload capped.
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It's funny, it wouldn't be too hard to identify code red infectable machines. Anyone infectable is infected already I'm sure, and with code red 2, which acts in a very specific manner. Monitor and figure out which computers are generating local arp requests in the order of a couple ever minute.. boom, suspected code red. Narrows down the list a bit, then a quick scan for/scripts/root.exe on the list, confirms it, and either an email, a phone call, or cut off their service COMPLETELY. Fuck the certain ports shit, cut it off completely. when they call up, talk them through removing it. if they can't (whyt he fuck are they running IIS then? oh well), then have them pay to have someone remove it FOR THEM, then activate the service again. In fact, charge them double labor fees for being retarded in the first place. Simple solution. Especially if it's in the TOS that they can't run servers anyway. DOn't screw the people who knew what they were doing, set it up right, didn't get infected, and aren't transfering a ton (the real reason servers are banned. that and to push them to business accounts..)
cheap bytes. friends with internet connections. Cost of ownership of linux shouldn't be compared. you don't need all 6 cd's, mandrake has everything most people need in a server (and much much more that shouldn't be there) on 2 cds. Let's see.. cheap bytes, 98, 3 years, what was it.. $60 for the upgrade? $90? i can't remember).. you'd have to upgrade linux every 3 month for it to cost more. and pay for the cds at $5 each time.
And certainly you can't claim windows 9x is for a serious environment. It crashes much more often than NT does, so let's compare NT prices.. Just the operating system (no Office software, which most linux distros come with) costs, to upgrade... i think $180 from NT4 -> 2000? NT4 came between 95 and 98, so let's say it came out in 96. I'm too lazy to look it up. 4 years.. you'd have to upgrade linux every 4 years is 48 months, 180/5 = 36 upgrades, so you'd have to upgrade more than once every 1 and 1/3rd months. No distro comes out that often, and there's certainly no need to upgrade that often. upgrade when you have to, not when the newest is out.
There goes one of your arguments.
As much as this mentality is that which caused code red in the first place, most distros come with an easy update feature. Easy setup of packages and settings. Etc. Plus, updates can be SCHEDULED. So if code red v10 comes out and it infects apache, linux would automatically download it during it's monthly upgrade course. Bye bye code red v10, no need for an anti-virus, just smart planning. Yes, some people wouldn't want this, and they'd turn it off (it should be on by default just for clueless people). Of course, they'd be the ones who are smart enough to upgrade manually, and they're the select few you speak of. Best of both worlds.
Linux supports other file systems. As the root filesystem. Enough said.
Any time linux has crashed on me, it's been my fault, and i've known why. If you run a stable kernel with stable packages supporting it and stable servers, it's rock solid, and I've never had a problem that wasn't caused by my own stupidity.
The learning curve required is going down at a phenomenal rate. It used to be bad. With Mandrake (I only keep mentioning it cuz it's the one I use.) it's insanely easy to never see a command prompt, and to configure everything quickly and easily. The setup has been compared to windows, and been found to be easier and more intuitive. Get up to date.
Let's see.. I guess IBM, Dreamworks (or was it Pixar, I don't remember), many, many servers, etc. out there are wrong, and you're right? Linux can't scale, tell that to IBM and Dreamworks. Linux isn't stable, tell that to the servers with year long uptimes. Linux doesn't adhere to standards. Ok, maybe you got me there on some things. But wasn't linux the first to have a fully compliant tcp/ip network stack? That's a standard. It's not POSIX certified (At least last I knew) because that costs money to get, but it's adherent I believe. What standards does it not adhere to?
Please come up with more arguments, this is fun. I'm not even a linux guru, in fact, i'm quite a newbie. I just play around w/ it occasionally. Nice trolling tho.
check your server setup. I believe for the second form the browser uses it's own information to make up the URL to pull on the server. for the ones that are referenced from root, it uses the hostname the server provides. i.e. people connect to my server as ****.cjb.net, and it appears that way until they're sent to a page referenced as a /.. then it appears as ****.nycap.rr.com (the reverse DNS of my IP, so they might have gotten it from that, but I believe it's because that's what my hostname is in linux, and therefore that's what apache uses as it's server host name variable.)
nice name, i thought it was taco for a bit, but the user # was too high.. took a sec to catch what you did.
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*cough*Pentium 30*cough*
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there are tons of sites that sell nonstandard cases. Aimed at niche markets. Why don't they make one of these (besides apple's lawyers)?
Or at least something cool, they all look the same except for a bit of color splashed on, and always the same swoop down and look retarded type too. Add a handle, make it look NICE, etc.. very hard to find.
It's like sports cars. There's no reason my 86 ford escort should LOOK like the piece of junk it is. how much more does a bit of curved metal (or nowadays, plastic) cost them? I'm sure it isn't that much more than the nice BOX shape that most cars have had up until recently. Why do cars that suck have to LOOK like they suck? (and no, i'm not going to say the same thing about computers, because altho I see benchs that say the G4 kicks x86 ass, I have no personal experience, and am quite fond of my athlon.)
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If I had moderator points, I would so mod you up. It's so true.. I have an original Radeon and it sucks, it was all advertised as DirectX 8 and stuff, but then Microsoft went and fucked them over on the API with the pixel shaders and shit, so it's broken on my card and doesn't work right in DX. Yay Microsoft!
Now 8.1 is coming out, and the Geforce is screwed because it has Pixel Shader 1.4 in 8.1 which the R8500 supports but the GF3 doesn't (AFAIK).. among other things (higher-order surfaces/TruForm, etc.).
Would you still be this attached to it if it happened in London? Tokyo? What if all of Japan just sunk into the water without warning? Do you REALLY think everyone would be as attached to it as they are? No. They're attached to it because it happened in the U.S. and it's unprecedented. Shit like this happens daily in some countries, huge losses of innocent civilian lives. I find the fact that you are so disgusted about this, and not about that horribly disturbing. You aren't mourning the dead at all, (unless maybe you somehow knew some people affected by it), you're mourning the loss of our feeling of invulnerability.
Most P4 speeds already don't perform any better than lower-clocked P3's. remember when they came out and the 1GHz P3 spanked a 1.4GHz P4 and often a 1.5GHz one too? And then they benchmarked the Athlon against it and then re-benched.. and benched again.. and again.. and always the same results.. that the P4 just plain sucks. At 1.4GHz, the Athlon should easily take on the 1.7GHz P4. or 1.8.. or whatever the hell marketing says it's at today. We know those numbers mean crap anyway.
With SDR SDRAM, the P4 is essentially useless. I have no idea why Intel is bothering to make it use this. Especially before the DDR ones. MAYBE at the same time, for people who want P4 for no reason other than marketing and bragging rights (who needs to know what kind of ram you have), but certainly don't release it beforehand.. ugh.
People are wowed by gigahertz and press releases. More so by ghz. Intel's leading there, though we all know it means crap. However, with the Itanium, it's a new model, 64-bit processor. That breaks compatibility with everything else, so everything need to bre recompiled. This isn't so bad, for open source applications. Most Open Source OS's support IA-64, and the compilers can build for it. However, good luck seeing windows on any of these until XP comes out. If it does. Then you'll have to convince closed source people to recompile. Much harder. Of course, it's meant to be a server chip, so maybe all people writing server software for windows will recompile. Yea. Sure.
I just wanted to set you straight, that's the purpose, is the 64bit computing, and insane registers and EPIC and stuff like that. I think Sledgehammer will be a better solution though.
The PPro, P2, Celeron, P3, and varities of each have been essentially the same chip. The P4 is a new model.
He specifically SAID MacOS or Solaris. "Macintosh and Unix" Chris, read his post.
.NET XML applets), since the other two probably won't support .NET properly.
That being said, They're shitty versions at best.. there's some comment that the mac version is more compliant with standards, and I liked the interface, but they're always versions behind the windows one.
If you use anything other than these three operating systems, and likely just Windows (As, if you read the article, the alternative to using netscape-style EMDBEDded applets is
Maybe DirectX 8 is around for developers to play with and being expanded on, but that doesnt mean it's constant. I know ATI got fucked on the shaders since the spec changed in DX8 from what it was agreed on, so the Radeon didn't support them properly. Thanks Microsoft. Now, we have to wait until DirectX 8.1 is available (with Windows XP, or until it's backported) until we can get any new extensions. They might be quick to add stuff in there, however.. OpenGL lets you add your own stuff in there, providing better optimized, more specialized access to your hardware, and it's available when you want/need it, not when/if microsoft decides you want/need it.
240mb/day? jeez, I download more than that EVERY DAY on my cable modem. Hell, I probably download at least twice that, some times 5x that or more.
I was thinking about this, it wouldn't hold up. Self defense is a defense against yourself when there's clear and present danger. You weren't being affected by the scan, so there's no danger, and therefore this defense won't hold up.
and he completely ignores things like all the online RPG's, yet mentions the sims and black and white, then comments on how there's nothing that provides much different game play. Wtf.
"read the fucking article, dickwad." YES, it was anodized. AND it was an alloy, diesigned ot be hard to ignite.
Uhm. Half-Life is a seperate engine completely from Quake 1. Counter Strike and Blue Shift are mods for the half-life engine. The half-life engine is lightyears beyond quake 1.
I found it hillarious that microsoft was hit by it. Also, I was hit by a computer network security consulting website. yeaa..
Wow, that URL looks strangely familiar.. It's almost like I'd seen it somewhere before. Oh yea, in the article itself. Were you going for 'Informative', 'Insightful', 'Funny', or just 'Plain Fucking Stupid' ..
I swear, we need a 'Karma Whore' moderation.
I never said you should block, it's very good that you haven't. Most places I'm sure would have, and in fact i wouldn't mind paying more to get a cool provider like you. I was jsut pointing it out. You're also handling code red the proper way, which just raises my opinion of you even more, keep it up :)
whee, arguing both sides. Because public webservers don't let you do what you want. Most sites I design require PHP and MySQL. Good luck finding a free server that offers that. Or even an inexpensive one. i've found one, but to add MySQL support to the account, makes it cost 10x more than without a database support.
True. Compare the costs though, like you said. Commodity bullshit. Buy pure, name-brand stuff to put in to match the price of a mac, and you're pretty damn sure to have good compatibility. Or even part of the cost of a mac. Unfortunately, you do get what you pay for in most instances. Mac's integration of hardware with each other is easy, there's a limited supply everything has to be compatible with. BeOS is different, it's software. But yes, it's damned good :)
They want to sell people to their business plans, which they offer for that specific reason. if you run a server besides for personal use, they want you to pay more so they can make more money on the business services. That's the argument when you mention you're already upload capped.
It's funny, it wouldn't be too hard to identify code red infectable machines. Anyone infectable is infected already I'm sure, and with code red 2, which acts in a very specific manner. Monitor and figure out which computers are generating local arp requests in the order of a couple ever minute.. boom, suspected code red. Narrows down the list a bit, then a quick scan for /scripts/root.exe on the list, confirms it, and either an email, a phone call, or cut off their service COMPLETELY. Fuck the certain ports shit, cut it off completely. when they call up, talk them through removing it. if they can't (whyt he fuck are they running IIS then? oh well), then have them pay to have someone remove it FOR THEM, then activate the service again. In fact, charge them double labor fees for being retarded in the first place. Simple solution. Especially if it's in the TOS that they can't run servers anyway. DOn't screw the people who knew what they were doing, set it up right, didn't get infected, and aren't transfering a ton (the real reason servers are banned. that and to push them to business accounts..)
Notice they're also one of the most heavily hit by Code Red (1 and 2).
cheap bytes. friends with internet connections. Cost of ownership of linux shouldn't be compared. you don't need all 6 cd's, mandrake has everything most people need in a server (and much much more that shouldn't be there) on 2 cds. Let's see.. cheap bytes, 98, 3 years, what was it.. $60 for the upgrade? $90? i can't remember) .. you'd have to upgrade linux every 3 month for it to cost more. and pay for the cds at $5 each time.
... i think $180 from NT4 -> 2000? NT4 came between 95 and 98, so let's say it came out in 96. I'm too lazy to look it up. 4 years.. you'd have to upgrade linux every 4 years is 48 months, 180/5 = 36 upgrades, so you'd have to upgrade more than once every 1 and 1/3rd months. No distro comes out that often, and there's certainly no need to upgrade that often. upgrade when you have to, not when the newest is out.
And certainly you can't claim windows 9x is for a serious environment. It crashes much more often than NT does, so let's compare NT prices.. Just the operating system (no Office software, which most linux distros come with) costs, to upgrade
There goes one of your arguments.
As much as this mentality is that which caused code red in the first place, most distros come with an easy update feature. Easy setup of packages and settings. Etc. Plus, updates can be SCHEDULED. So if code red v10 comes out and it infects apache, linux would automatically download it during it's monthly upgrade course. Bye bye code red v10, no need for an anti-virus, just smart planning. Yes, some people wouldn't want this, and they'd turn it off (it should be on by default just for clueless people). Of course, they'd be the ones who are smart enough to upgrade manually, and they're the select few you speak of. Best of both worlds.
Linux supports other file systems. As the root filesystem. Enough said.
Any time linux has crashed on me, it's been my fault, and i've known why. If you run a stable kernel with stable packages supporting it and stable servers, it's rock solid, and I've never had a problem that wasn't caused by my own stupidity.
The learning curve required is going down at a phenomenal rate. It used to be bad. With Mandrake (I only keep mentioning it cuz it's the one I use.) it's insanely easy to never see a command prompt, and to configure everything quickly and easily. The setup has been compared to windows, and been found to be easier and more intuitive. Get up to date.
Let's see.. I guess IBM, Dreamworks (or was it Pixar, I don't remember), many, many servers, etc. out there are wrong, and you're right? Linux can't scale, tell that to IBM and Dreamworks. Linux isn't stable, tell that to the servers with year long uptimes. Linux doesn't adhere to standards. Ok, maybe you got me there on some things. But wasn't linux the first to have a fully compliant tcp/ip network stack? That's a standard. It's not POSIX certified (At least last I knew) because that costs money to get, but it's adherent I believe. What standards does it not adhere to?
Please come up with more arguments, this is fun. I'm not even a linux guru, in fact, i'm quite a newbie. I just play around w/ it occasionally. Nice trolling tho.
check your server setup. I believe for the second form the browser uses it's own information to make up the URL to pull on the server. for the ones that are referenced from root, it uses the hostname the server provides. i.e. people connect to my server as ****.cjb.net, and it appears that way until they're sent to a page referenced as a / .. then it appears as ****.nycap.rr.com (the reverse DNS of my IP, so they might have gotten it from that, but I believe it's because that's what my hostname is in linux, and therefore that's what apache uses as it's server host name variable.)
nice name, i thought it was taco for a bit, but the user # was too high.. took a sec to catch what you did.
*cough*Pentium 30*cough*
300 = CCC
there are tons of sites that sell nonstandard cases. Aimed at niche markets. Why don't they make one of these (besides apple's lawyers)?
Or at least something cool, they all look the same except for a bit of color splashed on, and always the same swoop down and look retarded type too. Add a handle, make it look NICE, etc.. very hard to find.
It's like sports cars. There's no reason my 86 ford escort should LOOK like the piece of junk it is. how much more does a bit of curved metal (or nowadays, plastic) cost them? I'm sure it isn't that much more than the nice BOX shape that most cars have had up until recently. Why do cars that suck have to LOOK like they suck? (and no, i'm not going to say the same thing about computers, because altho I see benchs that say the G4 kicks x86 ass, I have no personal experience, and am quite fond of my athlon.)