With banks there is an option: go to a Credit Union.
With cell phones, there isn't an equivilent of a Credit Union Association. It's a regulated oligarchy. (In the USA, anyone have providers other than TMobile(GSM), Criket(GSM), Sprint (CDMA), Verison(CDMA), Cingular(GSM), AT&T Wireless(GSM)? (I probably forgot one or two, and there are probably a few 'analog' providers around locally.)) The barrier to entry is very high, not only technologically & monitarily, but also beuricratically: the FCC.
I am pretty sure that the FCC would prevent any municipality from starting it's own wireless phone service, as I think there was a case where they did just that.
Do you maintain a Kickstart file & reinstall for every update? Don't think so.
Things like ghost4unix can handle creating images easily, and pushing them out. Updates are handled by emerge (hopefully creating binary packages and testing them yourself before putting them on production servers, just as you should on other distros etc), just as updates to the system installed via kickstart is via rpm (hopefully using something above rpm: apt, urpmi, etc; RPM hell is named that for a reason:).)
Also, that FX-5700 will run faster in Linux than Windows. In general, NVIDIA's hardware runs about 10% faster in Linux than in windows, where there are equivelent setups: eg quake3, ut2003 w/opengl, etc on the same hardware. The same cannot be said for ATI. It has held true for a while, and Linux is much smoother with NVIDIA (has been on all the hardware I have personally tested, heck I can play quake3 if I turn some things down while compiling large things like KDE.)
What is even better is fractals. If you can find it, there was a program called fiasco which could do movies and still images, and it wasn't perfect, but the decode was VERY fast and at really really high compression rates, it still looked good.
It needed some improvements (more searching), and had some faults: around when it came out, it took a 600MHz Alpha (The fastest processor at that time, or darn near it) 24hours for a 30-sec clip, because it used brute force, and the quality was good, and compared to other compression types they all were much larger, and some looked worse. The problem is the difficulty in finding the fractals that will work. Recreating the image is relatively easy.
But honestly, it's not that different from installing a base system and then using the package manager to get pre-selected system options (ala RedHat's Kickstart or Debian) vs an image you make of the same thing (except running some autodetection scripts)
It's not that different from anything except source-based distros.
The courts have explicitly said you can resell bundled software. I think it was a case that involved Gateway (back when it was Gateway 2000) Ticked off some companies that were riding less-than-stellar software on the bundles.
Unfortunately google searches don't have it where I can find it easily.
Do you know of the concept of test systems, which you emerge the RPM or ebuild on then test and finally transfer the package to?
And you have never heard of a utility called ghost?
Not only that, but you can have gentoo build all the packages and keep them around, and then it's a matter of booting a disk and either using a ghost utility, or just installing all the packages built on another system.
And yes, redhat is annoying, because to get features enabled like ldap support for samba you have to edit the spec file (unless it's changed recently), compared to when building the system add "ldap" to the USE flags.
RedHat's security updates are free: in SRPM form, which means you get to compile them, and you can redistribute them.
Why? RedHat decided to make people pay for service, and considered compiled updates part of the service. Fortunately they still follow the "Always Open" part, and you can download all of RedHat Enterprise Linux & build it yourself. (Why someone would do that, and not just run gentoo is beyond me. (Maybe they like messing with RPMS & they annoynce they are to rebuild & install?))
Yeah, it is an issue that should be addressed, but people have already. As many people have pointed out: Corperations are often not very wise. (case in point: Red Hat canceling their desktop version, which has led people to change distributions very quickly)
However, what obligation does Red Hat have to provide those that they don't have a contract with updates? They and Microsoft don't. (Nor does anyone who uses BSD or GPL software: your warranty was where? and your contract was what?) It's just that people who write software or package it tend to not want to have their reputation on security sink to as low as IIS or genuinely want to help others.
Among the stupidist ideas I have heard for a while. Either you get a moral right to pirate Microsoft (isn't that what the tax is for? to pay for your copyright infringing copy?) or you support a company that has screwed up security badly, and even if I don't use it wholy or in part due to the lack of security, you want me to pay?
And you are VERY wrong if you think that piracy will shrink their market share. I personally would be very happy if Microsoft stamped out EVERY pirate version, because their market share would be pretty small. Microsoft grew based on the piracy, and they know it. Now they are reaching the saturation point, and really only now have they started trying to make the pirates pay, because they are no longer contributing to the increase in profits, because the market share is so relatively high. They have known in the past that they can't stomp too hard or they would lose market share, but now they no longer care, and they can pull out the "the soul-stealing demonic copyright infringing people" (or pirates) sympathy/stupid-law-making card out.
I thought about an Agenda: But even worse than the palms of the day was the expandability or rather the lack of it. No extra space could be made other than the 10MB cramfs partition (more like 30MB in 6MB for most images) Not enough space to store things on.
Hardware wise, it was between the palms and the CE devices, and was priced at $250 with a 66MHz MIPS processor when the lowest prices on CE devices was around $400. Not to mention, the battery life kicked ass. A week (honestly) on 2 AA batteries, and it was fast for a PDA.
It was a good little platform. It's still available at $99 see http://www.softfield.com/vr3.html. Unfortunately the only accessory is a 56K modem.
Getting it to work with anything other than 320x240 is apparently a pain. Why? Almost all the Pocket PCs are 320x240, so people code for that size, and windows doesn't scale up well. and according to more than one review, because of this 640x480 on a Windows Pocket PC is just a novelty, and kind of like putting a louder muffler on a car. (Better than the muffler, but still something they aren't marketing the hell out of for a reason: if they do, the backlash will hurt.)
Where did the money to buy Windows for all the servers come from?
I am getting sick and tired of the whole: We bought Windows, but can't be bothered to secure it because were volunteers. Explain where you got the money to buy windows, and then compare what someone working on Linux or one of the BSDs would be willing to help you out for.
It's like the police deciding to junk cars in the middle of the Tames or New York harbor. Yeah they do good work (as most volunteer orgs or emergency services do), but they create problems for everyone else. Zombies that allow crackers to penetrate more systems and/or not get caught. Overall, yeah they are doing good work, but it's NOT an excuse for not being secure & becoming a source for other's infection. Not only because of the people annoyed by more requests to their apache server, but also because they could be the vector by which a worm/trojan/virus gets introduced to another part of the emergency services. I don't mean to be picking on the RNLI, and I don't hear them actually claiming it, just the above poster.
Summary: Grow up, just because you do good work doesn't mean you are some spotless beacon of good for the world, and as long as you do more good than bad it's ok. It isn't.
(512MB(*8B to b))/(12mb/sec )=341.33 (comment on HTML: needs a bloody fraction tag!)
6 minutes, to fully fill it. Do people transfer half a gig of music every time they plug it in? If so, get a hard drive based player. Otherwise: maybe it's annoying the first time, but come on people!
They are 4-unit CPUs then, A core is a fully functional core that could exist & operate without the others, and G5 is not a multi-core CPU. In fact every cpu has been multi-unit for quite a while. And even if you were even correct about that, there are *4* altivec units in an IBM 970 chip. There are 2 Integer units, 2 load/store units 2 FPUs as well as one branch & one conditional as well according to http://de.shuttle.com/athlon64.htm
Correct, The other one, which I was refering to and missed being canceled when the UltraSPARC V was code named "Gemini" which was to US 2 cores on a die as a low end part.
Register article about Gemini and the Mass core kill off
Yep, Makes sense, though it won't be exactly 2x current opteron, they can cut out one of the memory controllers, bus interfaces etc, and either have only one of the cores interface to memory (ala current Opterons if not enough memory installed, which is less efficient for the 2nd core), or they could have a shared bandwidth to memory which can process requests from both (depends on how complex). I suspect AMD will do whichever works better. Intel seems to be having more difficulty with multi-core, as it has been announced for a long time, (as I recall, well before the first non-sample Itanium 1s), they said a multi-core Itanium was on the way.
Also means that only one AGP card can be used (each Opteron can support 1 AGP slot) and it would be nice to have multiple AGP slots (Matrox has priced itself out of the general ballpark, and it's the only one that can do 3 head, and PCI cards either suck compared to AGP cards, or are priced out of the ballpark (or more likely: both), so that would allow 4 monitors on one dual-opteron server.)
Yes, like the power4, and the ultrasparc IV (& another ultrasparc that's 2 US2 cores) These chips have are supposed to have 2 processor cores on a single die.
Right now, that would help AMD a heck of a whole lot more than Intel, because AMD has a MUCH more scalable arch than Intel. (AMD licenced alpha for athlons (32-bit) (dedicated northbridge connection per processor) and copied them for the Opteron (on-chip memory controller, and very fast chip interconnects)) Intel by contrast has a shared memory bandwidth for all it's chips (assume that both Opteron and Itanium have the same base memory bandwidth, for a single chip call it 6.4GB/sec, Assuming it's in the Opteron's own memory (each can have it's own memory) on a dual processor board, each Opteron would have 6.4GB/sec to it's memory, and slighly slower access to the other processor's. Itanium on the other hand shares it's memory bandwidth so each processor has 3.2GB/sec. Scale this up to 4 processors and each Opteron has 6.4GB/sec bandwidth while the Itaniums have 1.6GB/sec bandwidth. Thus why people either cluster Itaniums (with usually a max of 2 processors per node) or have very custom chipsets that emulate what the Opteron does (SGI, and an HP chipset))
Think of it as on chip SMP which is not some virtualization construct as Hyperthreading is.
Thank you, I likely won't purchase it, unless it works well with , but IF it does what it claims to, it so far is the only one which seems to be what I was asking for.
Also provided a way to make an MSI from a non-MSI package, so that may help to some extent. Thank you to everyone so far who has tried to find something like this. It just seems that windows doesn't have the capability to yet do what any linux distro that has emerge or apt like package management can do.
I open the KDE control panel to find these categories:
Appearance & Themes
CD Bake Oven (something I installed, and should remove)
Desktop
Internet & Network
KDE Componets
Peripherals
Power Control
Regional & Accessibility
Security & Privacy
Sound & Multimedia
System Administration
Given that it is sound you are looking for, I don't know about you, but I would chose the "Sound & Multimedia" Option, under which we get:
Audio CDs
CDDB Retrieval
Sound System
System Bell
System Notifications
This one might be slightly confusing, but System Notifications is the only one that makes sense, so I click, I see KDE System Notifications at the top, and "KDE is Starting Up" in the selector window. I uncheck "Play a sound", and that no longer works, now, it's relatively easy to find other things (and overall I think this menu while somewhat complicated, works better, as it allows you to configure applications as well.)
KDE really is usability friendly. If it isn't please discribe an example you DO think is usability friendly, not "Windows" or "MacOS", please discribe it, as was done above.
My point was not that NT was not technically a multi-user system (depending on definitions), but was that everyone seems to still consider it one at heart, and act as if it is.
Could you point some of these programs out? I have searched for them, and honestly can't find them.
And I don't disagree about Norton being overpriced.
That's fine for ONE computer, possibly even easier. (That's debatable, very debatable.) However, it only updates the OS & 1 office suite. If you would be so kind as to tell me about something that allows you to install applications to multiple computers from one on windows that doesn't cost a relatively large amount, such as Norton Ghost (which still requires a fairly complicated install, but fortunately only on one machine)?
SUS again updates only the OS + Office suite, so that doesn't cut it.
I would certainly prefer to wait a few hours for a test machine to compile a package and then be able to deploy it (binary) to all the machines after testing. It's all in the choice of design, Windows is still at heart a single user operating system, Linux, Unix, BSD, etc are all multi-user operating systems, and it is reflected in installs.
Also note that I was refering to the number of packages/programs, the ebuilds also span versions, eg kde has several ebuilds, each for a different version. I don't think anyone really counts multiple versions as different packages. If they do, shame on them!
There really are only a few you can't: the kernel, all others can be upgraded with the possible exception of glibc changing major versions (not minor versions). Or the one? occasion where the gcc people broke compatibility.
We have 3 packages. Which really only need a reboot generally on one (and 2 others in very specfic cases), not to mention: Gentoo has a concept of slots, and I am pretty sure that is used to allow multiple glibc versions to exist, so nothing stops working, just new things get built against the new library. In this case, it takes a bit of extra room, but what do you think the compat-* rpms do?
And lets face it, people are still running systems from before the current versions, so this has been handled already. Not to mention, generally there are more bleeding edge gentoo users than other distros, so bugs get found out fairly rapidly.
It can be done (stage 3 + GRP(Gentoo reference platform))
After that, set use flags, optimizations etc, and then emerge -e world (rebuilds everything except glibc, -e removes every package when calculating dependancies except glibc, and world is all the explictly merged packages.)
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With cell phones, there isn't an equivilent of a Credit Union Association. It's a regulated oligarchy. (In the USA, anyone have providers other than TMobile(GSM), Criket(GSM), Sprint (CDMA), Verison(CDMA), Cingular(GSM), AT&T Wireless(GSM)? (I probably forgot one or two, and there are probably a few 'analog' providers around locally.)) The barrier to entry is very high, not only technologically & monitarily, but also beuricratically: the FCC.
I am pretty sure that the FCC would prevent any municipality from starting it's own wireless phone service, as I think there was a case where they did just that.
Things like ghost4unix can handle creating images easily, and pushing them out. Updates are handled by emerge (hopefully creating binary packages and testing them yourself before putting them on production servers, just as you should on other distros etc), just as updates to the system installed via kickstart is via rpm (hopefully using something above rpm: apt, urpmi, etc; RPM hell is named that for a reason :) .)
Also, that FX-5700 will run faster in Linux than Windows. In general, NVIDIA's hardware runs about 10% faster in Linux than in windows, where there are equivelent setups: eg quake3, ut2003 w/opengl, etc on the same hardware. The same cannot be said for ATI. It has held true for a while, and Linux is much smoother with NVIDIA (has been on all the hardware I have personally tested, heck I can play quake3 if I turn some things down while compiling large things like KDE.)
It needed some improvements (more searching), and had some faults: around when it came out, it took a 600MHz Alpha (The fastest processor at that time, or darn near it) 24hours for a 30-sec clip, because it used brute force, and the quality was good, and compared to other compression types they all were much larger, and some looked worse. The problem is the difficulty in finding the fractals that will work. Recreating the image is relatively easy.
But honestly, it's not that different from installing a base system and then using the package manager to get pre-selected system options (ala RedHat's Kickstart or Debian) vs an image you make of the same thing (except running some autodetection scripts)
It's not that different from anything except source-based distros.
Unfortunately google searches don't have it where I can find it easily.
And you have never heard of a utility called ghost?
Not only that, but you can have gentoo build all the packages and keep them around, and then it's a matter of booting a disk and either using a ghost utility, or just installing all the packages built on another system.
And yes, redhat is annoying, because to get features enabled like ldap support for samba you have to edit the spec file (unless it's changed recently), compared to when building the system add "ldap" to the USE flags.
Why? RedHat decided to make people pay for service, and considered compiled updates part of the service. Fortunately they still follow the "Always Open" part, and you can download all of RedHat Enterprise Linux & build it yourself. (Why someone would do that, and not just run gentoo is beyond me. (Maybe they like messing with RPMS & they annoynce they are to rebuild & install?))
Yeah, it is an issue that should be addressed, but people have already. As many people have pointed out: Corperations are often not very wise. (case in point: Red Hat canceling their desktop version, which has led people to change distributions very quickly)
However, what obligation does Red Hat have to provide those that they don't have a contract with updates? They and Microsoft don't. (Nor does anyone who uses BSD or GPL software: your warranty was where? and your contract was what?) It's just that people who write software or package it tend to not want to have their reputation on security sink to as low as IIS or genuinely want to help others.
And you are VERY wrong if you think that piracy will shrink their market share. I personally would be very happy if Microsoft stamped out EVERY pirate version, because their market share would be pretty small. Microsoft grew based on the piracy, and they know it. Now they are reaching the saturation point, and really only now have they started trying to make the pirates pay, because they are no longer contributing to the increase in profits, because the market share is so relatively high. They have known in the past that they can't stomp too hard or they would lose market share, but now they no longer care, and they can pull out the "the soul-stealing demonic copyright infringing people" (or pirates) sympathy/stupid-law-making card out.
Hardware wise, it was between the palms and the CE devices, and was priced at $250 with a 66MHz MIPS processor when the lowest prices on CE devices was around $400. Not to mention, the battery life kicked ass. A week (honestly) on 2 AA batteries, and it was fast for a PDA.
It was a good little platform. It's still available at $99 see http://www.softfield.com/vr3.html. Unfortunately the only accessory is a 56K modem.
Getting it to work with anything other than 320x240 is apparently a pain. Why? Almost all the Pocket PCs are 320x240, so people code for that size, and windows doesn't scale up well. and according to more than one review, because of this 640x480 on a Windows Pocket PC is just a novelty, and kind of like putting a louder muffler on a car. (Better than the muffler, but still something they aren't marketing the hell out of for a reason: if they do, the backlash will hurt.)
I am getting sick and tired of the whole: We bought Windows, but can't be bothered to secure it because were volunteers. Explain where you got the money to buy windows, and then compare what someone working on Linux or one of the BSDs would be willing to help you out for.
It's like the police deciding to junk cars in the middle of the Tames or New York harbor. Yeah they do good work (as most volunteer orgs or emergency services do), but they create problems for everyone else. Zombies that allow crackers to penetrate more systems and/or not get caught. Overall, yeah they are doing good work, but it's NOT an excuse for not being secure & becoming a source for other's infection. Not only because of the people annoyed by more requests to their apache server, but also because they could be the vector by which a worm/trojan/virus gets introduced to another part of the emergency services. I don't mean to be picking on the RNLI, and I don't hear them actually claiming it, just the above poster.
Summary: Grow up, just because you do good work doesn't mean you are some spotless beacon of good for the world, and as long as you do more good than bad it's ok. It isn't.
I know about MathML, but I think HTML needs it.
6 minutes, to fully fill it. Do people transfer half a gig of music every time they plug it in? If so, get a hard drive based player. Otherwise: maybe it's annoying the first time, but come on people!
They are 4-unit CPUs then, A core is a fully functional core that could exist & operate without the others, and G5 is not a multi-core CPU. In fact every cpu has been multi-unit for quite a while. And even if you were even correct about that, there are *4* altivec units in an IBM 970 chip. There are 2 Integer units, 2 load/store units 2 FPUs as well as one branch & one conditional as well according to http://de.shuttle.com/athlon64.htm
Correct, The other one, which I was refering to and missed being canceled when the UltraSPARC V was code named "Gemini" which was to US 2 cores on a die as a low end part. Register article about Gemini and the Mass core kill off
Also means that only one AGP card can be used (each Opteron can support 1 AGP slot) and it would be nice to have multiple AGP slots (Matrox has priced itself out of the general ballpark, and it's the only one that can do 3 head, and PCI cards either suck compared to AGP cards, or are priced out of the ballpark (or more likely: both), so that would allow 4 monitors on one dual-opteron server.)
Right now, that would help AMD a heck of a whole lot more than Intel, because AMD has a MUCH more scalable arch than Intel. (AMD licenced alpha for athlons (32-bit) (dedicated northbridge connection per processor) and copied them for the Opteron (on-chip memory controller, and very fast chip interconnects)) Intel by contrast has a shared memory bandwidth for all it's chips (assume that both Opteron and Itanium have the same base memory bandwidth, for a single chip call it 6.4GB/sec, Assuming it's in the Opteron's own memory (each can have it's own memory) on a dual processor board, each Opteron would have 6.4GB/sec to it's memory, and slighly slower access to the other processor's. Itanium on the other hand shares it's memory bandwidth so each processor has 3.2GB/sec. Scale this up to 4 processors and each Opteron has 6.4GB/sec bandwidth while the Itaniums have 1.6GB/sec bandwidth. Thus why people either cluster Itaniums (with usually a max of 2 processors per node) or have very custom chipsets that emulate what the Opteron does (SGI, and an HP chipset))
Think of it as on chip SMP which is not some virtualization construct as Hyperthreading is.
Also provided a way to make an MSI from a non-MSI package, so that may help to some extent. Thank you to everyone so far who has tried to find something like this. It just seems that windows doesn't have the capability to yet do what any linux distro that has emerge or apt like package management can do.
Appearance & Themes
CD Bake Oven (something I installed, and should remove)
Desktop
Internet & Network
KDE Componets
Peripherals
Power Control
Regional & Accessibility
Security & Privacy
Sound & Multimedia
System Administration
Given that it is sound you are looking for, I don't know about you, but I would chose the "Sound & Multimedia" Option, under which we get:
Audio CDs
CDDB Retrieval
Sound System
System Bell
System Notifications
This one might be slightly confusing, but System Notifications is the only one that makes sense, so I click, I see KDE System Notifications at the top, and "KDE is Starting Up" in the selector window. I uncheck "Play a sound", and that no longer works, now, it's relatively easy to find other things (and overall I think this menu while somewhat complicated, works better, as it allows you to configure applications as well.)
KDE really is usability friendly. If it isn't please discribe an example you DO think is usability friendly, not "Windows" or "MacOS", please discribe it, as was done above.
Could you point some of these programs out? I have searched for them, and honestly can't find them.
And I don't disagree about Norton being overpriced.
SUS again updates only the OS + Office suite, so that doesn't cut it.
I would certainly prefer to wait a few hours for a test machine to compile a package and then be able to deploy it (binary) to all the machines after testing. It's all in the choice of design, Windows is still at heart a single user operating system, Linux, Unix, BSD, etc are all multi-user operating systems, and it is reflected in installs.
"A total of 6770 packages exist in portage."
Also note that I was refering to the number of packages/programs, the ebuilds also span versions, eg kde has several ebuilds, each for a different version. I don't think anyone really counts multiple versions as different packages. If they do, shame on them!
We have 3 packages. Which really only need a reboot generally on one (and 2 others in very specfic cases), not to mention: Gentoo has a concept of slots, and I am pretty sure that is used to allow multiple glibc versions to exist, so nothing stops working, just new things get built against the new library. In this case, it takes a bit of extra room, but what do you think the compat-* rpms do?
And lets face it, people are still running systems from before the current versions, so this has been handled already. Not to mention, generally there are more bleeding edge gentoo users than other distros, so bugs get found out fairly rapidly.
After that, set use flags, optimizations etc, and then emerge -e world (rebuilds everything except glibc, -e removes every package when calculating dependancies except glibc, and world is all the explictly merged packages.)