Well, I was writing a response on my current box, which is running OS X (beige g3), and it crashed with a kernel panic. And this is on a pretty clean install of OS X, just done a couple days ago, patched up to 10.2.8 . Yeah, the box is old, but it runs other OSes without a hitch with the same exact hardware configuration. I'm not impressed at all with OS X, regardless of how pretty some of its apps are.
I was told the same thing about OS X. Got a G3 to run it, see if I liked it, found the thing to be buggier than windows 95, incredibly bloated, with apps using far more deskspace and cpu than would seem sensible, and totally unflexible as far as look and feel go. Yes, there are $30 shareware apps that'll fix the appearance flaws, and yes, they are flaws, but why the should I spend $30 for something that should be built into the OS?
I guess it's really dependent on the feature set. At the 1.6Ghz or 1.8Ghz proc speed, one can get an Opteron/A64 for a hell of a lot cheaper than the same clocked G5. Really, AMD's top end is the only part that's overpriced, the slower procs are pretty much just as good, and don't require selling your first born son.
Also, from the experience I've had, OS X is ugly, bloated and buggy. I'll stick with x86, thank you.
Stay tuned. Next year, she will also be donating. I am thinking MBLA or one of those Nazi groups who deny that the Holocaust ever occurred. I am sure she would love to be on their mailing lists.
Now, while agree that what she did wasn't exactly of the best form, were you to encourage either of those groups of asshats in some sort of tit for tat sibling rivalry, I will personally hunt you down and pin you to the ground so your sister can kick your ass.
However, as the donation was made in your name, I imagine that technically, you can use the amount of the donation as a tax write-off. Though I'm not an accountant, so don't take my word as gospel.
I'll trade ya this christmas CD with songs from groups I never heard of for them. Plus, I'll even send you back footage on what you do with whiskey flavored condoms;3
Well, for me, clothes is bad because my relatives have no sense of my personal style. Usually I get some crap article of clothing that I wouldn't be caught dead wearing. I much, much prefer heading out and buying my own clothes, though lately, my purchases have seemed to been more out of necessity than actual desire...
It only makes sense. Might as well refine the cloning process on an "expendable" species, where a failed clone means little to nothing, than spend portions of a finite lifespan trying to clone a threatened or endangered species. You work most of the bugs out of cloning a similar animal, and you have a much easier time cloning a rare animal, if the process is viable.
Actually, there were Pentium overdrive chips for the 486, however, they were slower than a regular pentium owing to the fact that it only had a 32 bit external data bus. Though Evergreen's solution, was as you said, a very fast modified 486-based processor.
IIRC, there was another varient where the second CPU sat on top of the first CPU (and disabled it), but I can't recall for sure.
Such a chip existed, but it was for upgrading older systems, like the 286 to a 486. Obviously because other parts of the chipset weren't as fast, the performance wasn't the same as a true mobo swap, but it was good enough for some people. Such upgrades usually used the 486slc2 chip. Information on these chips, much like the chips themselves, is a bit hard to find, but I remember a bit of temptation to get one back in the day.
But there's a difference. Those products you just mentioned by and large cost less than $50. The iPod costs $300-$500, and for that price range, you're bloody certain I'm getting something I can do something as minor as changing the battery in it.
But the difference is is that digital camera makers have a few brain cells in their head, and realize that batteries die, and it would be a good thing to make it so that batteries can be replaced. Apple, in contrast, seemingly went out of their way to make the battery as hard as possible to replace. That's what people are getting upset about.
The problem with this theory is that it hinges on a corporation as large as SCO being fairly incompetent. SCO knows they're an enemy, and probably have hundreds of attacks on their webserver daily. Thus, it stands to reason that they should have a backup webserver waiting. Maybe last year's server that they've outgrown, maybe a spare server, regardless, a server that they can throw in while they do a postmortem on the current server. Yes, there would be downtime, but at most a few hours while they make sure everything is functioning at least well enough to serve up a static version of the site.
Additionally, it's improbable that SCO would lose a lot of data in the event of a webserver crash. Most likely, SCO has a development webserver that they do all their testing beforehand -- any developer, programming or web, will tell you it's stupid to do development work on a live server.
I'll agree with you that this is a coverup, but from the reports from elsewhere, this looks more like Darl et al covering up the fact that they have no evidence, and in fact, are probably going to be spending some time behind bars before all this is done.
...Although those specifications aren't directly comparable to the 2.4-GHz clock speeds of the dual Intel Pentium 4 Xeon processors...
The old machines were RISC boxes which were pretty damn quick on a Mhz per Mhz basis. While I wouldn't classify them as fast, they're definitely not 24 times slower. Given the clock cycle efficiency of the processors, I'd imagine that all things considered, the new boxes probably have at best ~20-30 times the raw computing power. Now, add things like disk speeds, memory speeds, bus speeds, and other things that haven't increased at the same rate as processor speeds, and things start making more sense. Add in the fact that startup of applications is probably a fairly serial process, a dual processor machine probably won't help that much in that portion of execution time metrics.
So? It works even though NVidia didn't compile it for you. That was your original gripe.
Only if you're running the x86 architecture. If you're running a different architecture, say, PowerPC, then the nVidia binary driver simply won't work.
Or even an installer for win32. (there's an unofficial installer btw)
I'm willing to wager that it's already in progress. The last few nightlies of Thunderbird (which has gotten a lot faster and even more awesome in the past few weeks) have been built with a windows installer, so I imagine that focus will be shifted to Firebird soon enough. IIRC, one of the things in the firebird/thunderbird/sunbird project was to streamline the installer as well, just give the crew a release or two to polish it up.
Sounds like a scheduling/latency issue. Try renicing X to run at -5, or upgrade to a test version of kernel 2.6, where a lot of the latency/sluggish feel of X in general will be mitigated, if not disappear completely.
the United Republic of Cali does have closed borders, right?
As a matter of fact, california does have "closed" borders. You drive in from Nevada or from Arizona -- can't say for certain about Oregon -- you'll stop and have to ask the agricultural inspectors if you're bringing in any fruits or vegetables. I imagine that they'll simply add a query about genetically modified pisceans. I imagine these zebrafish will probably simply become much like ferrets; "illegal" but no one pays much heed unless the owner is an asshat.
Of course, I'm of the opinion that we're not using nearly enough genetic manipulation unless I can have/become one of these;3.
I'm too lazy to google right now, but apparently from what I understand, it's actually medically possible right now for a male to get pregnant. All you would really need to do is to carefully administer the hormones to approximate a pregnant woman, but such hormonal modifications have been done for decades now. It would be dangerous, and would definitely need to be delivered by a caesarian section, but google for extra-uterine pregnancies and you'll see that female parts aren't needed, though it is definitely a good idea to have the girly bits in place, because otherwise the pregnancies become pretty dangerous.
It's obvious that this is obviously another case of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" corrupting the minds and tongues of today's youth. They had a "most excellent" adventure, and this guy has a most ultimate xbox mod. Course, I think that my 6 year old nephew could probably design a better case mod, and I'm pretty certain that my 9 month old nephew could come close...but that's just my opinion.
Ah, but certain wms, like the one built into kde, and IIRC, windowmaker, allow you to name desktops. So, instead of calling wondering which desktop is which, you can break down your desktops into logical tasks -- have eclipse and a few xterms on your compiling desktop, your email program and calendar on your time management, and your pr0n and IRC windows on your *ahem* desktop;3. Really, though, I think the best solution may be a combination of the two approaches, having an all windows mode, yet having multiple desktops to take care of logical groupings. Seems to me to be a win-win.
Ah, but is it truly innovative? Much of the functionality of expose has been around for years, albeit not in an all-in once package like expose. I remember back in the windows 3.1 days, there was an option to tile all open windows, and one of the XP powertoys gives a miniature snapshot of the window you're about to tab to upon hitting the task switching command. Yes, apple deserves kudos for putting the pieces together, but they weren't the inventor of those pieces. Everybody steals from everybody in the computer biz -- innovation is usually just a matter of extending someone else's ideas and adding a small twist to it.
That's only true until such requirements are widespread enough to warrant people developing a workaround. As long as there's one link out there that is not controlled, then it's possible to work around it. I imagine that once TCPA becomes prevalent enough, there will be workaround drivers, etc that will provide the challenge/response mechanisms of TCPA without the DRM bullshit.
I'm talking about security. GUI-related ports are security holes just waiting to be exploited.
It's trivial to firewall off those ports, y'know. 2 minutes of googling, plugging the relevant ruleset into your router/firewall, and bam, you don't have to worry about some kiddy's tool 0wning you via X.
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Well, I was writing a response on my current box, which is running OS X (beige g3), and it crashed with a kernel panic. And this is on a pretty clean install of OS X, just done a couple days ago, patched up to 10.2.8 . Yeah, the box is old, but it runs other OSes without a hitch with the same exact hardware configuration. I'm not impressed at all with OS X, regardless of how pretty some of its apps are.
I was told the same thing about OS X. Got a G3 to run it, see if I liked it, found the thing to be buggier than windows 95, incredibly bloated, with apps using far more deskspace and cpu than would seem sensible, and totally unflexible as far as look and feel go. Yes, there are $30 shareware apps that'll fix the appearance flaws, and yes, they are flaws, but why the should I spend $30 for something that should be built into the OS?
Also, from the experience I've had, OS X is ugly, bloated and buggy. I'll stick with x86, thank you.
Now, while agree that what she did wasn't exactly of the best form, were you to encourage either of those groups of asshats in some sort of tit for tat sibling rivalry, I will personally hunt you down and pin you to the ground so your sister can kick your ass.
However, as the donation was made in your name, I imagine that technically, you can use the amount of the donation as a tax write-off. Though I'm not an accountant, so don't take my word as gospel.
I'll trade ya this christmas CD with songs from groups I never heard of for them. Plus, I'll even send you back footage on what you do with whiskey flavored condoms ;3
Well, for me, clothes is bad because my relatives have no sense of my personal style. Usually I get some crap article of clothing that I wouldn't be caught dead wearing. I much, much prefer heading out and buying my own clothes, though lately, my purchases have seemed to been more out of necessity than actual desire...
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It only makes sense. Might as well refine the cloning process on an "expendable" species, where a failed clone means little to nothing, than spend portions of a finite lifespan trying to clone a threatened or endangered species. You work most of the bugs out of cloning a similar animal, and you have a much easier time cloning a rare animal, if the process is viable.
Actually, there were Pentium overdrive chips for the 486, however, they were slower than a regular pentium owing to the fact that it only had a 32 bit external data bus. Though Evergreen's solution, was as you said, a very fast modified 486-based processor.
But there's a difference. Those products you just mentioned by and large cost less than $50. The iPod costs $300-$500, and for that price range, you're bloody certain I'm getting something I can do something as minor as changing the battery in it.
But the difference is is that digital camera makers have a few brain cells in their head, and realize that batteries die, and it would be a good thing to make it so that batteries can be replaced. Apple, in contrast, seemingly went out of their way to make the battery as hard as possible to replace. That's what people are getting upset about.
Additionally, it's improbable that SCO would lose a lot of data in the event of a webserver crash. Most likely, SCO has a development webserver that they do all their testing beforehand -- any developer, programming or web, will tell you it's stupid to do development work on a live server.
I'll agree with you that this is a coverup, but from the reports from elsewhere, this looks more like Darl et al covering up the fact that they have no evidence, and in fact, are probably going to be spending some time behind bars before all this is done.
The old machines were RISC boxes which were pretty damn quick on a Mhz per Mhz basis. While I wouldn't classify them as fast, they're definitely not 24 times slower. Given the clock cycle efficiency of the processors, I'd imagine that all things considered, the new boxes probably have at best ~20-30 times the raw computing power. Now, add things like disk speeds, memory speeds, bus speeds, and other things that haven't increased at the same rate as processor speeds, and things start making more sense. Add in the fact that startup of applications is probably a fairly serial process, a dual processor machine probably won't help that much in that portion of execution time metrics.
I'm willing to wager that it's already in progress. The last few nightlies of Thunderbird (which has gotten a lot faster and even more awesome in the past few weeks) have been built with a windows installer, so I imagine that focus will be shifted to Firebird soon enough. IIRC, one of the things in the firebird/thunderbird/sunbird project was to streamline the installer as well, just give the crew a release or two to polish it up.
Sounds like a scheduling/latency issue. Try renicing X to run at -5, or upgrade to a test version of kernel 2.6, where a lot of the latency/sluggish feel of X in general will be mitigated, if not disappear completely.
As a matter of fact, california does have "closed" borders. You drive in from Nevada or from Arizona -- can't say for certain about Oregon -- you'll stop and have to ask the agricultural inspectors if you're bringing in any fruits or vegetables. I imagine that they'll simply add a query about genetically modified pisceans. I imagine these zebrafish will probably simply become much like ferrets; "illegal" but no one pays much heed unless the owner is an asshat.
Of course, I'm of the opinion that we're not using nearly enough genetic manipulation unless I can have/become one of these ;3.
I'm too lazy to google right now, but apparently from what I understand, it's actually medically possible right now for a male to get pregnant. All you would really need to do is to carefully administer the hormones to approximate a pregnant woman, but such hormonal modifications have been done for decades now. It would be dangerous, and would definitely need to be delivered by a caesarian section, but google for extra-uterine pregnancies and you'll see that female parts aren't needed, though it is definitely a good idea to have the girly bits in place, because otherwise the pregnancies become pretty dangerous.
It's obvious that this is obviously another case of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" corrupting the minds and tongues of today's youth. They had a "most excellent" adventure, and this guy has a most ultimate xbox mod. Course, I think that my 6 year old nephew could probably design a better case mod, and I'm pretty certain that my 9 month old nephew could come close...but that's just my opinion.
Ah, but certain wms, like the one built into kde, and IIRC, windowmaker, allow you to name desktops. So, instead of calling wondering which desktop is which, you can break down your desktops into logical tasks -- have eclipse and a few xterms on your compiling desktop, your email program and calendar on your time management, and your pr0n and IRC windows on your *ahem* desktop ;3. Really, though, I think the best solution may be a combination of the two approaches, having an all windows mode, yet having multiple desktops to take care of logical groupings. Seems to me to be a win-win.
Ah, but is it truly innovative? Much of the functionality of expose has been around for years, albeit not in an all-in once package like expose. I remember back in the windows 3.1 days, there was an option to tile all open windows, and one of the XP powertoys gives a miniature snapshot of the window you're about to tab to upon hitting the task switching command. Yes, apple deserves kudos for putting the pieces together, but they weren't the inventor of those pieces. Everybody steals from everybody in the computer biz -- innovation is usually just a matter of extending someone else's ideas and adding a small twist to it.
That's only true until such requirements are widespread enough to warrant people developing a workaround. As long as there's one link out there that is not controlled, then it's possible to work around it. I imagine that once TCPA becomes prevalent enough, there will be workaround drivers, etc that will provide the challenge/response mechanisms of TCPA without the DRM bullshit.
I think parent was griping about the craptacular proprietariness of the movies, not the relative quality of said files.